October 10, 2025 • 23 mins
(October 10, 2025)
Ceasefire between Israel and Hamas takes effect in Gaza, Israeli military says. No Nobel Peace Prize for President Trump… most controversial winners in the past. That’s no schnitzel! You can’t use real meat terms for vegan foods. Bosses are cutting costs, just not the private jet.
Ceasefire between Israel and Hamas takes effect in Gaza, Israeli military says. No Nobel Peace Prize for President Trump… most controversial winners in the past. That’s no schnitzel! You can’t use real meat terms for vegan foods. Bosses are cutting costs, just not the private jet.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Friday. Boy,
we're having a lot of fun this morning on a Friday,
October tenth. Some of the stories we're looking at. The
government shutdown still going on, extending to next week, and
it doesn't look like the Republicans and the Democrats are
anywhere close.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
And of course the Nobel Prize.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The big news about the Nobel Prize, it didn't go
to President Trump. Now the big news where President Trump
may very well get the Nobel Peace Price. And whether
he deserves a peace prize or not, he has given
a lot of credit and should be given a lot
of credit for peace breaking out in the Mideast because
(00:47):
the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has taken effect. Hamas
has agreed, Israel has agreed that a ceasefire is in place.
The Israeli army has pulled back, not all the way,
but has pulled back to some extent.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The bombing has stopped. Aid is being let in.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
The crossings have been opened up for aid, of which
humanitarian aid, of which the gaz Indians desperately, desperately need,
and all of the hostages are being returned, which is
kind of a shocker that Hamas would do that because
(01:31):
that's the only ammunition they had. I mean, they weren't
going to win any war with Israel. As you can look,
Israel is one of the top military forces in the world.
And what do they have in Gaza? You know what
does Hamas have nothing? And so Hamas their plan was
to take it, which they have and hope the entire
(01:52):
world turns against against Israel, which was happening. And Trump
gets in there because Trump has he is the eight
hundred pound gorilla and says, really simply, you know, don't
care what the world says, don't care if Israel considered
a pariah state.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Here's what's happening. Hamas.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Either you go ahead and come to the table, or
I let Netayahu in the Israeli army finish this up
and wipe out what's ever left of Gaza. And at
some point Hamas realizes, oh, they still want to govern,
there'll be nothing to govern, and so this comes. It's
(02:32):
going to come in increments. You've got to cease fire
going on right now, Israel partial pullback. The crossings have
opened up for humanitarian aid. That's the initial phase, phase two,
which is going to be more difficult, but I still
think there'll be discussions about it, and there has to
be is does Hamas stay in power, do they still
(02:55):
govern the Gaza and demilitarize? In other words, there will
be no weapons at all. And so I tell you
what I think is going to happen. If I had
to guess, there'll be some kind of an agreement between
Israel and Hamas. If Hamas is crazy enough to launch
(03:17):
another attack, there will be nothing left of Gaza. And
the problem CAMAS is going to have is do they
control everybody in Gaza? Of course not, there are splinter groups.
There will still be tons of terrorists who have nothing
to lose as far as they figure these martyrs, that
will go ahead and attack Israel. And that is not
(03:38):
good news. Not for Hamas. It will be more difficult
for Israel because there is a lot of dissension, a
lot of attacks on the military and the intelligence that
the attack happened in the first place. October seventh, a
lot of failures. Heads are rolling and so Israel is
going to be much much or careful about their border
(04:02):
and it's going to be very difficult for a terrorist
to get across. But if it does, God God helped Gaza,
you know. And now is Israel the Paria state. Yeah,
well that's going to disappear very quickly. So the peace
plan that the President produced, this twenty point peace plan,
which is pro Israel. By the way, there's no question
(04:24):
we know where Trump stands on this. He is pro
Israeli's pro Israel. Hamas literally had no choice, all right.
The Nobel Peace Prize that's been up in the air
to it's this year, it has become huge news. Usually
the Nobel Peace Prize comes out and it's always some
obscure person that you've never heard of. Have been a
(04:47):
few where you have you know, major like peace accords
between Israel. When Egypt, for example, recognized Israel the first
state to recognize Israel, first Arab state. Nobel Prize was
given into Siddat and was given to his heart rubbing
I thought was legitimate. You had Jimmy Carter receive the
(05:08):
Nobel Prize for legitimate president, no question about it. For
presidents have received it. A lot of talk about President
Trump receiving the Peace Prize because he has just asked
him negotiated eight different piece agreements between countries you've never
heard of. You know, there's sort of up in the
(05:31):
air on that one because some of them are still
fighting each other.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
He goes into those countries and he grabs them by
the piece.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yes, and he makes it in any case.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So he has been pushing for the Peace Prize, and
on top of that because he's let's just say, he
loves to be put up on pedestals. If you have
listened to remember that cabinet meeting where they went around
that table and every single cab member, Oh, mister President,
(06:01):
it is such an honor. You are such a great president.
You are the best president that ever lived. I mean,
it was just insane. Marco Rubio just talked about the
peace plan that was put into place that Trump did,
by the way, and should get credit for It's mister President,
this couldn't have been done without you. No president in
the history of the world would ever been able to
do this. I mean, on and on and on, and
(06:24):
you should get the Nobel Prize. As a matter of fact,
I've nominated you. Netanyahu has nominated you. President of Pakistan
has nominated you, and he didn't get it. But then again,
you know, we don't know how much in advance the
Peace Prize has actually decided on. So who got it
this year? Maria Cordina Masha though you ever heard of her,
(06:46):
of course not. You never hear people who win these things.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And she is.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
An activist in Venezuela and promotes is promoting democratic rights
because it is a dictatorship in Venezuela. Maduro is the dictator,
and she is out there and is the loyal opposition
tries to overturn this dictatorship and set up a democracy,
(07:16):
and it's dangerous for her. Now the good news for her,
she's been elected the National Assembly and she has such
a high profile figure that Maduro wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Be able to do anything to her.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Unlike other activists in Venezuela, a lot of them have disappeared.
So this year, three hundred and thirty eight candidates were
up for the Nobel Prize, two hundred and forty four
individuals and ninety four organizations which were never able to
be eligible. When Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize because
(07:51):
he invented dynamite, Dino might and was devastated by the
kind of damage you could do he set up.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
The Nobel Prize.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So the Peace Prize, well, peace prize, well almost immediate,
but organizations were not allowed, and a few have won.
Borders with Dodgers without Borders won the Peace Prize, and
Amnesty International won the Peace Prize. And so Trump is
really pushing really hard. Is he going to get it?
(08:21):
You know, I got to tell you he may very
well deserve it. Now who has gotten the Peace Prize? Well,
there was an Ethiopian Prime minister, Abia Ahmed was awarded
in twenty nineteen because he broke her to peace deal
with Eritrea, a neighboring country, and that ended a decade
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long military stalemate that was twenty nineteen and twenty twenty.
His country went ahead and attacked the Eritrea the next year.
So the Nobel committee said, what, maybe we made a
mistake on that one. Not such a good deal. My
favorite one is Barack Obama. He won the Nobel Peace
(09:03):
Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and
cooperation between peoples. Not anything specific, but basically you're a
great guy. And what did he do he got elected
and what did he win the Nobel Peace Prize? For
he got elected, and even members of the committee came
(09:26):
back later and said, you know what, maybe that wasn't
such a good idea. Yes, Sir era Fat he was
the leader of the Palestinian National Authority in Gaza. He
won the nineteen ninety four Nobel Peace Prize with Yaskok
Abbian Shimon Perez, who is the Foreign Minister of Israel,
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because they negotiated the first part of the Oslo Accords
the year before.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Now this lasting piece, and of course war was not
affected by that. It kept ongoing.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Just a key. It goes on and on some of
these weird, weird awards that sometimes are legitimate in the
sense that everybody agrees, and sometimes no one has any
idea why. The Literature Prize is always a weird one,
knowing it's some Peruvian poet who lives in a cave
(10:19):
in the Peruvian mountains.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That's usually who wins it.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And Salomon Rushi I think got the Nobel Prize for literature. Americans,
it was Steinbeck, John Steinbeck won it. I think saal
Bello won it. So there have been some Americans and
probably the I think the most interesting Nobel Prize for
literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, and a songwriter has
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never been awarded that. And I think the lyrics for
Bob Dylan are just unbelievable. I'm a big fan of
Bob Dylan and he's the only Nobel Prize winner that
I know of who refused to go to the ceremony.
No thanks, just not interested. And if you don't pick
up the Nobel Prize, it's a use.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
It or lose it. You don't get it.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So, from what I understand, he showed, he showed up
the next day, just went to the counter and said,
you know, I'm here to pick up the Nobel Prize,
thank you very much, and they handed it to him
and it's it's worth a million bucks. Did you know
that at one point there was no taxes on the
Nobel Prize. Part of the Nobel Prize was it was
not taxed. That went away.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It is taxed. Now, Okay, that's no Schnitzel. The Hell's
wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
A story out of Europe and effectively it's uh, that's
no Schnitzel. Veggie Schnitzel vegan brought worst plant based steak right,
probably going to be off the menu soon. And this
is in Germany because that's the big one, but it's
across the European Union. On Wednesday, European part voted to
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ban the use of meat related terms for these plant
based products, arguing that shoppers should never mistake tofu for
tender wine. And a majority of conservative lawmakers back the
move and still have to have the UEU vote on it.
And this is an initiative that started by the Europe's
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all of Europe's centrist right wing political party.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You don't want to miss tender of meat. Yeah, that
mis tendering, Yeah, that's it's pronoun.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Seline Ima, the support of the bill, said, it's about
transparency and clarity for the consumer and recognition for the
work of our farmers.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Really it's about farmers.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
So the plan would reserve meaty terms just steak, schnitzel, sausage,
burger for animal based products, you can't use the word meat.
And it really has to do with broadening the improving
farmer's bargaining power and supermarkets. And in Germany, birthplace of
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the Bratwurst, meat consumption is altously gone right way down
and plant based alternatives those are booming because Germany is
now sort of the health and environmental and ethical kind
of leaders.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, but those plant based things are usually hyper processed. Yeah,
it's a taste like a sauceage, right, but they're what
they're saying is forget about the word meat. The Chancellor
of Germany, Frederick Mertz at a he was in a
television show. He's being interviewed, and he actually broke into song,
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which is weird.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Just yeah, a worst is a worst, of course, of course.
Well actually, fred Mertz.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Oh well but well then worst will never burst with you.
We'll give you the answer that you endursed. Just talk
to mister fred Rick. Oh I had to go there.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
That was the worst, a worse?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, worst is a worst? Oh god, so oh Neil,
we should do this now. There was a twenty twenty
survey by the European Consumer Organization. Sixty eight percent of
consumers aren't confused by the terms like veggie burger as
long as it's clear that it's plant based. Sixty eight
(14:30):
percent are not confused. What does that mean? What number
of that means that are confused? You're talking sixty eight
or not really weird? Germany's Consumer Protection organization there brachen
Chernets sally agreed nobody accidentally buys Tofu sausages because they
(14:52):
think they're beef sausages.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
No chance.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know who's opposing the band Burger King that's there
on meat is there? Supermarkets aldi sud and little are there,
and so it's going to be gone uh strong backing
from the traditionalists. By the way, in Germany meat it's
a meat country, meets a matter of identity and it's
(15:18):
already a big part of it. So now negotiations are
going to be among the member states of the U
and it really is a big deal for farmers and
meat producers.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Where were we when we were in north of France
borders with Germany and we had that schnitzel, that restaurant
that where were we? I know there was the German
town there that Adolf Hitler plots. No, well, I don't remember,
(15:53):
but the but the schnitzel was unbelievable. I mean it
covered the entire plate and they do that in Vienna
to you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Where where we there.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I don't know, I don't remember. But it's a region
the ala Alae Lorraine, yeah, yeah, which is German speaking,
is right next to Germany Alsace Lorraine, Yes, And that
has been going bouncing back and forth, but right on
the border. Great, yeah, yeah, schnitzel, schnitzel. All right, Uh
(16:25):
we are now I wont schnitze okay, okay. Uh a question,
what is rich? How do you define rich?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Bill Handle? Uh? Yeah, my second thought, you know what?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yes I am, and I'll explain why I consider myself rich.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I think you're going to agree with this, Amy. What
is rich to you? Demiro?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That is funny, That is funny. I have to tell you.
I wish I had thought of that. I hate when
someone is more clever than me. Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
And what is rich? When you can do what you want? Okay? Yeah,
all right, that's close, Neil. What is rich to you?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Rich to me is living the lifestyle that you enjoy
and not worrying about that.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You know, that is as cold.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It doesn't matter how big of a That's exactly what
I'm saying. If I could live the way I live
forever right now, I would feel rich.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That is my definition of rich is that if you
quit working tomorrow or this afternoon, your lifestyle doesn't change,
whether it's thirty thousand dollars a year or three hundred
thousand dollars a year if you just keep on going
and you don't have to cut back, you are rich.
And I am rich because I live under my means,
(17:42):
always have my entire life.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So do we feel like that if I lost my
job that you would probably keep that up forever?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Not difficult? Right?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
That makes you rich? Con Oh, you'll never feel that way.
I just want to let you know that.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
My dear rich is getting married in a castle. Oh
there is? Okay, so that's my idea in a foreign land.
All my house has been built.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Now would an elevator being put in and randomly having fireworks?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And it's my third marriage.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Second, well, I'm talking about on the books legally. Yeah,
but that's the first One's weird, I do it.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'll give you that. In any case, what is your
fourth one gonna be?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, I will tell you that my fourth wife hasn't
been born yet.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Ew roast dude, thank you? You you know what? Isn't it?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Like?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What did Einstein say about World War three? He said, Uh,
I don't know about world War three, but world War
four will be fought with sticks and stones. And then
that's how I feel about your next marriage. I don't
know when your third wife will come, but I will,
but I know you'll be broke.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Okay, a quick point.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
My first one was a very technical, not real marriage,
which I will get into at some point, and Neils
just making fun of me. The other part of being rich,
and this one is it doesn't matter where you are
on the scale, and we're talking about an upper level,
is when you have jet money, that is rich. That's vulgar,
(19:21):
that is rich. When you have jet money. Now we're
talking some serious money. And Rush Limplaw had jet money.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
You bet he did. You bet he had jet money.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
So a Wall Street Journal article just came out that
these companies, the major companies, are cutting down like crazy,
and except in two areas, the CEOs are still getting
tens of millions of dollars. They have not cut down
on those. And private jet money is still there. These
CEOs are flying more private jets than they ever have before.
(19:55):
And there's two arguments for that, one of which makes
a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
A matter of fact, they both make sense.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
One is security is especially after the CEO of United
Health was assassinated and the threats going against these people
going into an airport first class, it doesn't even matter
that's a risk if they know who you are, because well,
CEOs are not well loved. And the other one, which
makes a lot of sense, is sitting around in an airport.
(20:25):
You don't get that much work done going in a
private plane that has, for example, a small conference table
and you sit with the executives.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You work.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It is it can be in office.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And so what these major corporations are doing is they
are increasing the use of private jets. Great story about
Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg gets one dollar a year. It's all
he pulls from Facebook or Meta. He just doesn't get
much money. However, what he does is spend hundreds of thousands,
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if not millions of dollars a year and gets even
better than that. He owns the jet and he leases
it to the company which then flies him basically all
over the world. And much like Air Force one, air
Force one when it is used for private flying. When
the president flies, for example, to one of his golf
(21:21):
courses to play golf that is not official, he has
to pay for Air Force one. Needless to say, he
gets a great deal. And what a cost to move
the president around. We'll never even know because that is
a secret budget item. We're never going to know what
it costs to keep the Air Force one fleet going.
(21:41):
But it's for private flight. And the same thing goes
with corporations. Incidentally, for private flying, if it's a publicly
traded company, the CEO or whatever executive has to pay,
and obviously they pay just a fraction of the cost.
And so this is why the president whenever he flies,
(22:04):
always goes to some factory uh and does a speech
or opens up some supermarket or whatever he does to
make it an official governmental function.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't need anything fancy in life, but man, it
sure would be nice to be able to fly whenever
you wanted and not deal with the hassle of flying,
like just like you're driving a car.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
That's just the way it goes.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I don't you know, I don't need a bigger house.
I don't need any of that shop.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Maybe jet money is absolutely spectacular, and uh, you know,
the actually I was able to fly, it was really
privileged to do this. When I uh was inducted in
the Radio Hall of Fame, the CEO of our company,
Bob Pittman UH took us to Chicago where it was
(22:54):
on the corporate plane. Oh Man, I.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Flew with you. Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You're very kind and generously. Yeah, well there, let me
tell you, we giggled, yeah, if you ever do that.
And this was on iHeart and they were kind enough
because they thought that was a big deal and it
was pretty but anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It was a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah, but it was. The flight was the most fun part.
And we stayed at the Trump the Trump Hotel in Chicago.
I remember that, and it is one of the best
run hotels I have ever been in in my life.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Love them or hate him. That guy knows how to
run that hotel. Was like this service, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Incredible, incredible. All right, guys, let's check in with Amy. Nope,
we'll check in with Amy later on after I know
what the hell I'm talking about, Buddy, thank you when
I finally figured all the fame. But yeah, okay, this
is KFI AM six forty.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Friday. Boy,
we're having a lot of fun this morning on a Friday,
October tenth. Some of the stories we're looking at. The
government shutdown still going on, extending to next week, and
it doesn't look like the Republicans and the Democrats are
anywhere close.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
And of course the Nobel Prize.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The big news about the Nobel Prize, it didn't go
to President Trump. Now the big news where President Trump
may very well get the Nobel Peace Price. And whether
he deserves a peace prize or not, he has given
a lot of credit and should be given a lot
of credit for peace breaking out in the Mideast because
(00:47):
the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has taken effect. Hamas
has agreed, Israel has agreed that a ceasefire is in place.
The Israeli army has pulled back, not all the way,
but has pulled back to some extent.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The bombing has stopped. Aid is being let in.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
The crossings have been opened up for aid, of which
humanitarian aid, of which the gaz Indians desperately, desperately need,
and all of the hostages are being returned, which is
kind of a shocker that Hamas would do that because
(01:31):
that's the only ammunition they had. I mean, they weren't
going to win any war with Israel. As you can look,
Israel is one of the top military forces in the world.
And what do they have in Gaza? You know what
does Hamas have nothing? And so Hamas their plan was
to take it, which they have and hope the entire
(01:52):
world turns against against Israel, which was happening. And Trump
gets in there because Trump has he is the eight
hundred pound gorilla and says, really simply, you know, don't
care what the world says, don't care if Israel considered
a pariah state.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Here's what's happening. Hamas.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Either you go ahead and come to the table, or
I let Netayahu in the Israeli army finish this up
and wipe out what's ever left of Gaza. And at
some point Hamas realizes, oh, they still want to govern,
there'll be nothing to govern, and so this comes. It's
(02:32):
going to come in increments. You've got to cease fire
going on right now, Israel partial pullback. The crossings have
opened up for humanitarian aid. That's the initial phase, phase two,
which is going to be more difficult, but I still
think there'll be discussions about it, and there has to
be is does Hamas stay in power, do they still
(02:55):
govern the Gaza and demilitarize? In other words, there will
be no weapons at all. And so I tell you
what I think is going to happen. If I had
to guess, there'll be some kind of an agreement between
Israel and Hamas. If Hamas is crazy enough to launch
(03:17):
another attack, there will be nothing left of Gaza. And
the problem CAMAS is going to have is do they
control everybody in Gaza? Of course not, there are splinter groups.
There will still be tons of terrorists who have nothing
to lose as far as they figure these martyrs, that
will go ahead and attack Israel. And that is not
(03:38):
good news. Not for Hamas. It will be more difficult
for Israel because there is a lot of dissension, a
lot of attacks on the military and the intelligence that
the attack happened in the first place. October seventh, a
lot of failures. Heads are rolling and so Israel is
going to be much much or careful about their border
(04:02):
and it's going to be very difficult for a terrorist
to get across. But if it does, God God helped Gaza,
you know. And now is Israel the Paria state. Yeah,
well that's going to disappear very quickly. So the peace
plan that the President produced, this twenty point peace plan,
which is pro Israel. By the way, there's no question
(04:24):
we know where Trump stands on this. He is pro
Israeli's pro Israel. Hamas literally had no choice, all right.
The Nobel Peace Prize that's been up in the air
to it's this year, it has become huge news. Usually
the Nobel Peace Prize comes out and it's always some
obscure person that you've never heard of. Have been a
(04:47):
few where you have you know, major like peace accords
between Israel. When Egypt, for example, recognized Israel the first
state to recognize Israel, first Arab state. Nobel Prize was
given into Siddat and was given to his heart rubbing
I thought was legitimate. You had Jimmy Carter receive the
(05:08):
Nobel Prize for legitimate president, no question about it. For
presidents have received it. A lot of talk about President
Trump receiving the Peace Prize because he has just asked
him negotiated eight different piece agreements between countries you've never
heard of. You know, there's sort of up in the
(05:31):
air on that one because some of them are still
fighting each other.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
He goes into those countries and he grabs them by
the piece.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yes, and he makes it in any case.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So he has been pushing for the Peace Prize, and
on top of that because he's let's just say, he
loves to be put up on pedestals. If you have
listened to remember that cabinet meeting where they went around
that table and every single cab member, Oh, mister President,
(06:01):
it is such an honor. You are such a great president.
You are the best president that ever lived. I mean,
it was just insane. Marco Rubio just talked about the
peace plan that was put into place that Trump did,
by the way, and should get credit for It's mister President,
this couldn't have been done without you. No president in
the history of the world would ever been able to
do this. I mean, on and on and on, and
(06:24):
you should get the Nobel Prize. As a matter of fact,
I've nominated you. Netanyahu has nominated you. President of Pakistan
has nominated you, and he didn't get it. But then again,
you know, we don't know how much in advance the
Peace Prize has actually decided on. So who got it
this year? Maria Cordina Masha though you ever heard of her,
(06:46):
of course not. You never hear people who win these things.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And she is.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
An activist in Venezuela and promotes is promoting democratic rights
because it is a dictatorship in Venezuela. Maduro is the dictator,
and she is out there and is the loyal opposition
tries to overturn this dictatorship and set up a democracy,
(07:16):
and it's dangerous for her. Now the good news for her,
she's been elected the National Assembly and she has such
a high profile figure that Maduro wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Be able to do anything to her.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Unlike other activists in Venezuela, a lot of them have disappeared.
So this year, three hundred and thirty eight candidates were
up for the Nobel Prize, two hundred and forty four
individuals and ninety four organizations which were never able to
be eligible. When Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize because
(07:51):
he invented dynamite, Dino might and was devastated by the
kind of damage you could do he set up.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
The Nobel Prize.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So the Peace Prize, well, peace prize, well almost immediate,
but organizations were not allowed, and a few have won.
Borders with Dodgers without Borders won the Peace Prize, and
Amnesty International won the Peace Prize. And so Trump is
really pushing really hard. Is he going to get it?
(08:21):
You know, I got to tell you he may very
well deserve it. Now who has gotten the Peace Prize? Well,
there was an Ethiopian Prime minister, Abia Ahmed was awarded
in twenty nineteen because he broke her to peace deal
with Eritrea, a neighboring country, and that ended a decade
(08:41):
long military stalemate that was twenty nineteen and twenty twenty.
His country went ahead and attacked the Eritrea the next year.
So the Nobel committee said, what, maybe we made a
mistake on that one. Not such a good deal. My
favorite one is Barack Obama. He won the Nobel Peace
(09:03):
Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and
cooperation between peoples. Not anything specific, but basically you're a
great guy. And what did he do he got elected
and what did he win the Nobel Peace Prize? For
he got elected, and even members of the committee came
(09:26):
back later and said, you know what, maybe that wasn't
such a good idea. Yes, Sir era Fat he was
the leader of the Palestinian National Authority in Gaza. He
won the nineteen ninety four Nobel Peace Prize with Yaskok
Abbian Shimon Perez, who is the Foreign Minister of Israel,
(09:46):
because they negotiated the first part of the Oslo Accords
the year before.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Now this lasting piece, and of course war was not
affected by that. It kept ongoing.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Just a key. It goes on and on some of
these weird, weird awards that sometimes are legitimate in the
sense that everybody agrees, and sometimes no one has any
idea why. The Literature Prize is always a weird one,
knowing it's some Peruvian poet who lives in a cave
(10:19):
in the Peruvian mountains.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That's usually who wins it.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And Salomon Rushi I think got the Nobel Prize for literature. Americans,
it was Steinbeck, John Steinbeck won it. I think saal
Bello won it. So there have been some Americans and
probably the I think the most interesting Nobel Prize for
literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, and a songwriter has
(10:43):
never been awarded that. And I think the lyrics for
Bob Dylan are just unbelievable. I'm a big fan of
Bob Dylan and he's the only Nobel Prize winner that
I know of who refused to go to the ceremony.
No thanks, just not interested. And if you don't pick
up the Nobel Prize, it's a use.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
It or lose it. You don't get it.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So, from what I understand, he showed, he showed up
the next day, just went to the counter and said,
you know, I'm here to pick up the Nobel Prize,
thank you very much, and they handed it to him
and it's it's worth a million bucks. Did you know
that at one point there was no taxes on the
Nobel Prize. Part of the Nobel Prize was it was
not taxed. That went away.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It is taxed. Now, Okay, that's no Schnitzel. The Hell's
wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
A story out of Europe and effectively it's uh, that's
no Schnitzel. Veggie Schnitzel vegan brought worst plant based steak right,
probably going to be off the menu soon. And this
is in Germany because that's the big one, but it's
across the European Union. On Wednesday, European part voted to
(12:00):
ban the use of meat related terms for these plant
based products, arguing that shoppers should never mistake tofu for
tender wine. And a majority of conservative lawmakers back the
move and still have to have the UEU vote on it.
And this is an initiative that started by the Europe's
(12:24):
all of Europe's centrist right wing political party.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You don't want to miss tender of meat. Yeah, that
mis tendering, Yeah, that's it's pronoun.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Seline Ima, the support of the bill, said, it's about
transparency and clarity for the consumer and recognition for the
work of our farmers.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Really it's about farmers.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
So the plan would reserve meaty terms just steak, schnitzel, sausage,
burger for animal based products, you can't use the word meat.
And it really has to do with broadening the improving
farmer's bargaining power and supermarkets. And in Germany, birthplace of
(13:05):
the Bratwurst, meat consumption is altously gone right way down
and plant based alternatives those are booming because Germany is
now sort of the health and environmental and ethical kind
of leaders.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, but those plant based things are usually hyper processed. Yeah,
it's a taste like a sauceage, right, but they're what
they're saying is forget about the word meat. The Chancellor
of Germany, Frederick Mertz at a he was in a
television show. He's being interviewed, and he actually broke into song,
(13:42):
which is weird.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Just yeah, a worst is a worst, of course, of course.
Well actually, fred Mertz.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Oh well but well then worst will never burst with you.
We'll give you the answer that you endursed. Just talk
to mister fred Rick. Oh I had to go there.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
That was the worst, a worse?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, worst is a worst? Oh god, so oh Neil,
we should do this now. There was a twenty twenty
survey by the European Consumer Organization. Sixty eight percent of
consumers aren't confused by the terms like veggie burger as
long as it's clear that it's plant based. Sixty eight
(14:30):
percent are not confused. What does that mean? What number
of that means that are confused? You're talking sixty eight
or not really weird? Germany's Consumer Protection organization there brachen
Chernets sally agreed nobody accidentally buys Tofu sausages because they
(14:52):
think they're beef sausages.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
No chance.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know who's opposing the band Burger King that's there
on meat is there? Supermarkets aldi sud and little are there,
and so it's going to be gone uh strong backing
from the traditionalists. By the way, in Germany meat it's
a meat country, meets a matter of identity and it's
(15:18):
already a big part of it. So now negotiations are
going to be among the member states of the U
and it really is a big deal for farmers and
meat producers.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Where were we when we were in north of France
borders with Germany and we had that schnitzel, that restaurant
that where were we? I know there was the German
town there that Adolf Hitler plots. No, well, I don't remember,
(15:53):
but the but the schnitzel was unbelievable. I mean it
covered the entire plate and they do that in Vienna
to you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Where where we there.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I don't know, I don't remember. But it's a region
the ala Alae Lorraine, yeah, yeah, which is German speaking,
is right next to Germany Alsace Lorraine, Yes, And that
has been going bouncing back and forth, but right on
the border. Great, yeah, yeah, schnitzel, schnitzel. All right, Uh
(16:25):
we are now I wont schnitze okay, okay. Uh a question,
what is rich? How do you define rich?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Bill Handle? Uh? Yeah, my second thought, you know what?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yes I am, and I'll explain why I consider myself rich.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I think you're going to agree with this, Amy. What
is rich to you? Demiro?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That is funny, That is funny. I have to tell you.
I wish I had thought of that. I hate when
someone is more clever than me. Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
And what is rich? When you can do what you want? Okay? Yeah,
all right, that's close, Neil. What is rich to you?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Rich to me is living the lifestyle that you enjoy
and not worrying about that.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You know, that is as cold.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It doesn't matter how big of a That's exactly what
I'm saying. If I could live the way I live
forever right now, I would feel rich.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That is my definition of rich is that if you
quit working tomorrow or this afternoon, your lifestyle doesn't change,
whether it's thirty thousand dollars a year or three hundred
thousand dollars a year if you just keep on going
and you don't have to cut back, you are rich.
And I am rich because I live under my means,
(17:42):
always have my entire life.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So do we feel like that if I lost my
job that you would probably keep that up forever?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Not difficult? Right?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
That makes you rich? Con Oh, you'll never feel that way.
I just want to let you know that.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
My dear rich is getting married in a castle. Oh
there is? Okay, so that's my idea in a foreign land.
All my house has been built.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Now would an elevator being put in and randomly having fireworks?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And it's my third marriage.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Second, well, I'm talking about on the books legally. Yeah,
but that's the first One's weird, I do it.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'll give you that. In any case, what is your
fourth one gonna be?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, I will tell you that my fourth wife hasn't
been born yet.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Ew roast dude, thank you? You you know what? Isn't it?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Like?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What did Einstein say about World War three? He said, Uh,
I don't know about world War three, but world War
four will be fought with sticks and stones. And then
that's how I feel about your next marriage. I don't
know when your third wife will come, but I will,
but I know you'll be broke.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Okay, a quick point.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
My first one was a very technical, not real marriage,
which I will get into at some point, and Neils
just making fun of me. The other part of being rich,
and this one is it doesn't matter where you are
on the scale, and we're talking about an upper level,
is when you have jet money, that is rich. That's vulgar,
(19:21):
that is rich. When you have jet money. Now we're
talking some serious money. And Rush Limplaw had jet money.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
You bet he did. You bet he had jet money.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
So a Wall Street Journal article just came out that
these companies, the major companies, are cutting down like crazy,
and except in two areas, the CEOs are still getting
tens of millions of dollars. They have not cut down
on those. And private jet money is still there. These
CEOs are flying more private jets than they ever have before.
(19:55):
And there's two arguments for that, one of which makes
a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
A matter of fact, they both make sense.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
One is security is especially after the CEO of United
Health was assassinated and the threats going against these people
going into an airport first class, it doesn't even matter
that's a risk if they know who you are, because well,
CEOs are not well loved. And the other one, which
makes a lot of sense, is sitting around in an airport.
(20:25):
You don't get that much work done going in a
private plane that has, for example, a small conference table
and you sit with the executives.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You work.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It is it can be in office.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And so what these major corporations are doing is they
are increasing the use of private jets. Great story about
Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg gets one dollar a year. It's all
he pulls from Facebook or Meta. He just doesn't get
much money. However, what he does is spend hundreds of thousands,
(21:00):
if not millions of dollars a year and gets even
better than that. He owns the jet and he leases
it to the company which then flies him basically all
over the world. And much like Air Force one, air
Force one when it is used for private flying. When
the president flies, for example, to one of his golf
(21:21):
courses to play golf that is not official, he has
to pay for Air Force one. Needless to say, he
gets a great deal. And what a cost to move
the president around. We'll never even know because that is
a secret budget item. We're never going to know what
it costs to keep the Air Force one fleet going.
(21:41):
But it's for private flight. And the same thing goes
with corporations. Incidentally, for private flying, if it's a publicly
traded company, the CEO or whatever executive has to pay,
and obviously they pay just a fraction of the cost.
And so this is why the president whenever he flies,
(22:04):
always goes to some factory uh and does a speech
or opens up some supermarket or whatever he does to
make it an official governmental function.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't need anything fancy in life, but man, it
sure would be nice to be able to fly whenever
you wanted and not deal with the hassle of flying,
like just like you're driving a car.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
That's just the way it goes.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I don't you know, I don't need a bigger house.
I don't need any of that shop.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Maybe jet money is absolutely spectacular, and uh, you know,
the actually I was able to fly, it was really
privileged to do this. When I uh was inducted in
the Radio Hall of Fame, the CEO of our company,
Bob Pittman UH took us to Chicago where it was
(22:54):
on the corporate plane. Oh Man, I.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Flew with you. Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You're very kind and generously. Yeah, well there, let me
tell you, we giggled, yeah, if you ever do that.
And this was on iHeart and they were kind enough
because they thought that was a big deal and it
was pretty but anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It was a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah, but it was. The flight was the most fun part.
And we stayed at the Trump the Trump Hotel in Chicago.
I remember that, and it is one of the best
run hotels I have ever been in in my life.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Love them or hate him. That guy knows how to
run that hotel. Was like this service, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Incredible, incredible. All right, guys, let's check in with Amy. Nope,
we'll check in with Amy later on after I know
what the hell I'm talking about, Buddy, thank you when
I finally figured all the fame. But yeah, okay, this
is KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
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