March 3, 2026 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I am six forty bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It is a Tuesday morning, March the third coming up
at the bottom of the hour retro radio where actually
you call in like it used to be in the
old radio times, and I'll explain that that it's a
lot of fun and we end up talking to each
other and probably screaming. Also, if you haven't listened to
any of the segments, or you've missed some segments, please
(00:38):
tune in via podcast, which we podcast the show and
all the segments. For example, I talked about a little
a fair amount about the attack it's going on the
latest and that's started at seven o'clock the seventh through
the seven twenty seven to thirty period. Okay, Now, when
we talk about America, we are the land of immigrants.
(01:01):
That's I amm. Well, we're becoming the land of immigrants.
Em we're becoming a land of immigration. That means people leaving.
So last year something happened that hasn't happened since the
Great Depression. More people moved out of the US than
(01:24):
moved in. Now the Trump administration is saying that's the
best thing going that's better than slice spread.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Why is that because this.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Is fulfillment of the promise to ramp up deportation and
restrict new visas. And we are better off with fewer
people because look at the people that are coming in.
We don't want these people. We want Norwegians. He actually
said that Norwegians because so I don't know. Maybe they're
white and they speak English. Hey, that's just me, just
(01:59):
me thinking it through. Okay, just me guessing that's the case.
American citizens are leaving their own record numbers. Forget about
the Norwegians, and what Americans are doing is moving them
and their families to countries they find more affordable and safer.
And so where's the data, Well, there's data from fifty countries.
(02:22):
Residents permits, foreign home purchases, student enrollments. Metrics from those
fifty countries show that Americans are voting with their feet
and moving out of the country. So the American dream
is not here. American dream is overseas. For many people.
You go to Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, more Americans are snapping
(02:45):
up apartments that new arrivals complain they mostly hear their
own language, they hear English, not Portuguese. One out of
every fifteen resident in Dublin, they have a grand canal
dock area, pretty trendy of it. Out of every fifteen
born in the United States, more than one hundred thousand
young students enrolled abroad for more affordable university degree. I
(03:09):
happen to know one of those students that is moving
overseas and she has applied to a university in Abertay,
the University of Abertay in Dundee, Scotland. This is my daughter, Barbara,
who is applying for and will be accepted to the
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University of Abertay in Dundee.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Where is Dundee.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Dundee is in the northern part of Scotland where the
weather during the winter is just delightful. So you're a
choice to either go to, for example, the French Riviera,
maybe Cancun, maybe anywhere on the Yucatan peninsula, or you
can go to Dundee, Scotland in the middle of winter
(04:00):
where the average well, let me put it this way,
they don't run their freezers in the winter. They just
put the meat outside the door. Saves them a lot
of money. But isn't there a boy out there? She
likes there's that too. Yeah, there's that too. She's not
following the boy, She's following the university. She actually is
going to school because she found the majors that she wants.
(04:23):
She's a criminal justice major. They happen to have at
the University of Abertay, one of the best programs in
criminal justice in the UK. And a huge number of
students about fifteen percent are American. That's a lot of
foreign students. And why Well, it certainly isn't because of
the tuition, because foreign students pay a bucket of money.
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So the other thing are the politics of all of
this one of the reasons that these people have And
by the way, this is survey from countries.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is not just me extrapolating.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Is these commentators who have looked at this the surveys
have labeled this wave, particular wave of American immigrants leaving
the country.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
The Donald Dash. And why is that?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, numbers have certainly spiked under President Trump's second term,
but the phenomena has been building for years. We do
not know exactly how many people are leaving before because
of the president being the president. I know of people
who are planning to leave in my immediate circle of friends. Well,
(05:40):
I don't have any friends, and Lindsay's immediate circle of friends,
there are several who heretofore would not have left.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
They're bailing.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And Lindsay herself is so upset about what's going on
that when I start watching the news and the word
down shows up, she's out the door. She's in another room.
That's how fundamentally she thinks about what's going on. And
(06:10):
so why are people moving? For moving and have been
for years? Well, remote work has helped mounting living costs,
has cost a fortune to live here, particularly in southern California,
an appetite for foreign lifestyles, and we are talking about
moving to Italy, as you know, when I retire, as
a matter of fact, early next year. Guess who's jumping
on an airplane and going to Italy to find out
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how it works and spending a couple of months. None
other than Lindsay. And I'm going to be all by
myself with the dogs. That's going to be fine. In
the meantime, the Trump administration is deporting hundreds of thousands
of illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
We know that, So that is part of the exodus.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And I'm going to quote now from the president, we
are attracting countless ultra high net worth foreigners. Countless. There
are so many, we can't even count them. And they're
shelling out one million dollars for a Trump Gold card,
a Trump card to come and settle the United States.
(07:09):
Do we know the number of Trump Gold cards that
have been sold? I don't, but number's probably out there.
And so in twenty twenty five, the loss of one
hundred and fifty thousand people, and it looks like that
number is going to increase in twenty twenty six. According
to Brookings Institute, a think tank that is pretty well
(07:30):
known for its thinking in the tank because think tanks
think in tanks, which is why the sale of tanks
to think tanks are very high.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Not just a little aside I.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Would in the US saw six hundred and sixty seventy
five deportations, six hundred and seventy five deportations, two point
two million self deportations last year according to Homeland Security,
and we don't know how many live how many people
live outside of the United States. How many Americans currently
(08:07):
are living outside the US estimated four to nine million.
The State Department estimates one point six million just in Mexico,
and this was twenty twenty two when the last numbers
were available, and they're saying that that number has grown
substantially since twenty twenty two, and in nearly all of
(08:27):
the European Union, they're twenty seven member states. The number
of Americans all of the twenty seven European Union states,
the number of Americans arriving to live and work is
at a record high and rising. The total living in
Portugal has jumped five hundred percent since the COVID pandemic.
(08:47):
But Lisbon used to be a very cheap, great place
to live. And one of the benefits of the huge
number of Americans that are moving is you really don't
even have to speak the language. I mean, that's been
the case in Mexico for years and years. There are Mexicans,
there are American communities a fifty thousand people, and you
could literally live in these communities not speaking a word
(09:09):
of Spanish and get everything you need. And that is
quickly becoming the case in countries around the world. Well,
in the past ten years, the number of Americans doubled
in Spain, doubled in the Netherlands, more than doubled in the.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Czech Czech Republic.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Last year more Americans moved to Germany than Germans moved
to America. Same is true in Ireland and the US government,
and this one is kind of surprising, has a month's
long backlog of Americans asking to renown, renounce their citizenship,
either to get a foreign passport or to avoid taxation.
(09:52):
You can avoid You can avoid American taxation by simply
denounce that your American citizenship. If you are still an
American citizen. The federal government, the IRS, does not care.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Where you live.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You can literally live at the North Pole and if
you're earning money, you are paying US taxes if you
are a US citizen. If you are not and you
live overseas, you're not paying US taxes, even if you
live in the United States. But it has to be
for a certain number of months. You can't go over
(10:27):
a certain number of months, and a lot of people are.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Doing that now.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Some countries demand that citizenship be renowned renounced.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
The United States was that way.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
My parents gave up their Brazilian citizenship because American law
for them to become American citizens at that time, they
had to renounce all other citizenships.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I did not have to.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So I am an American citizen as well as a
Brazilian citizen because I became an American as a result
of being a minor. The other thing is America used
to have a law that says, if you serve in
a foreign country, a foreign army, you lose your citizenship.
The problem was, for example, at the beginning of World
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War Two, the Italian boys who lived in New York
forget about it, would go visit family and this was
prior to the war and would be drafted into the
Italian Army and lose their citizenship. When I was eighteen
and I went to Brazil for a visit, I walked
through a passport control and they said, congratulations, you are
(11:36):
now a member of the Brazilian Army. I said, what
the hell are you talking about the Brazilian army. Yep,
you were born in Brazil. You are a Brazilian citizen.
You're eighteen years old, and we have conscription Ola, except
they don't say ola, bongia nice, have a good day,
(11:58):
And so I got out of it. They were very
very they were understanding, they understood my position, and I
bribed them. Thank god. It was so corrupt. One hundred
dollars that I got out of it. That's how desperate
they were. And then my family was so angry with
me because they said I could have done it for
(12:19):
fifty dollars, where it just would have been a waiver
at the border.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
All right, and now it is time for retro radio.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Retro radio where you call in eight hundred five two
zero one five three four and it goes.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
We harken back to the days when.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The show was all about you calling in and the
history of it starting the sixties. I remember when I
started listening to talk radio early mid sixties, the question
was always should we get out of Vietnam? And then
occasionally it would be open lines, where you can talk
about anything you want and we conversed, and people actually
used to listen to that for some crazy ass reason.
(12:58):
So I want to go back and visit those days,
and we're gonna do that right now, retro radio open
lines eight hundred five two zero one five three four
eight hundred five two zero one five three four, and
you can say whatever the hell you want. Now, if
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you're incredibly stupid, yes, please call in. If you are
in a straight jacket and you have to, I don't
know how you hold the phone, but please call in
if you're on serious medication. That's a winner too. Okay,
So I completely forgot the name my screener. My screening
program is down, so huh, I'm sorry, Niri. Okay, this
(13:43):
is Kono having to give me the names because my
screen my screen program is down.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Niri, Hello, Niri, welcome to retro radio. What do you
want to talk about?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I'm Aronian I fullid to run nine years ago, came
to the United States and I just wanted to say
that I think America. I think I thank Israel for
attacking Iran, Iran's regime and making the freedom for Iran,
you know, for it to become real and we can't
(14:15):
have freedom finally, hopefully and.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
As much as I appreciate and I couldn't agree with
you more about Iran? What freedom are we talking about?
Do you think that the leadership who MAYI and his followers,
he's gone? You think the people of Iran are going
to be free?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Now?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Well, first of all, let me correct you, because I've
been listening to every day. It's how many? Maybe it
was the first one?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, I know, yeah, okay, hominy, Okay, that's where we
say another name for Grits in Iran haminy I get that.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Okay, yes, So the freedom is just going to be
to get rid of the IRGC and you know, the
dictatorship and just have just yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Good luck. Okay, we'll see. I think you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I don't think there's gonna be freedom anytime soon until
the people over run, until the r s c C,
until the Revolutionary Guard join uh, the the opposition joining
the revolution against the Iranian hierarchy.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
But anyways, thanks for the call. Uh, I just uh,
I can't even make fun of her. I mean, you know,
what do you say?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
You know?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That was just a legitimate call. No more legitimate calls.
I'm sick of those, okay.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Next caller, Devin, Hello, Devin, welcome.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Bill?
Speaker 6 (15:34):
And the crew? Is such an honor pleasure to be
on with you. So I'm gonna go ahead and start
off by saying I was neither a Trump supporter or fan,
but the times in the world, Uh, these times are
we We We needed a leader in the White House,
We needed a president who had the kahones. Do I
agree with him going into Iran? Not only do I
(15:55):
agree with the President and US going into Iran. I
agree with US going into Venezuela, strengthening the western hemisphere,
locking up the gasoline forest. He's trying to get these
prices lowered. So yes, I agree.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay, good enough and certainly getting prices gasoline price is
lower by attacking Iran. Great, that's gonna work. But okay,
that's just fair enough. This is what our listeners are saying.
We knew one more before with the break? Do you say, Henry, Mary?
Close enough?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Mary, Hi, Hi, good morning.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
I just wanted to say that I support President Trump.
I am. I was sporting what is Mexico.
Speaker 10 (16:46):
I became a.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
US citizen in seventy six, and I know sometimes he
stay stuff that he shooting, he does a little bill
handled like you do. Man. No matter what he does,
nothing people are so against him. I do believe in the.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
You know that team?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, no, I get it. Let me ask some Mary.
Do you you were born in what is so you're
clearly Hispanic?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Probably Do you do you carry your citizenship papers with you,
your passport naturalization papers.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I suggest you do.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I suggest you do because it's going to be a
very very interesting time had by one and all okay,
thanks Mary, Okay, we got them so far.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That's enough. That's enough, that's enough. All right. This is
why you know I can't hang up.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I have cono having an hang up because my screener
is and I love hanging up on people.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
This is mister patients at work.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You should listen to Handle on the Law on Saturday
if you want patients. Okay, okay, we're gonna finish up
retro radio, which I really enjoy. Retro radio radio is
all about you calling in and I comment, which never happens. Now,
if you listen to the Saturday Show, what happens when
I don't get phone calls or not enough phone calls
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and we don't have enough phone calls right now?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
This is what happens.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Baby, shot, mommy shut do do do do mommy?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Shot it do now.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
This will go on for several minutes until a phone
call comes in.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Have you ever seen the movie Mars Attacks.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
This is listening to this for more than five minutes,
your head actually explodes, and strangely enough, the phone calls
do come in because people can't stand this. You can
listen to the Saturday Show on podcasts if you don't
tune in to the Legal show.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Do Doo Do Do? Okay, we do have phone calls up. Chris. Hello, Chris,
Welcome to retro Radio. What can I do for you?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Bio?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
Do you think they attacked Iran? The United States in
Israel to Benjamin Analu? When Trump can remain in power?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I think not only can they? Yes? Yeah, no, I understand.
Oh Trump we're going for a third term? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
First of all, not only do I think that Netta
Yahoo and our president are in bed together. I think
they do strange things in bed together, and that is
going to come out in the news. And a third term,
my friend, unless the Constitution changes, it ain't gonna happen.
(19:32):
So the answer is no, no.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
But I think he's going to remain in office how
and they're going to not have APU due to war.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Never happened, never happened in the history of that Ied States.
But a lot never happened. Okay, that's your opinion, and
it's a dumb one. I'll grant you. But that's okay. Okay,
who's up next?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Patrick? Hello? Patrick, Retro Radio.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Hey, Bill, how's it going. So? I think, well, I'm
pretty against us going to war with Iran. I think
the US has a terrible track record of military intervention,
especially as it relates the regime change. The US itself
is responsible for the current political situation in Iran. We're
the ones who tried to put in a puplic government
(20:18):
that would be favorable to the oil companies and it backfired.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Well, that was a long long time ago when that
happened in Iran specifically. But yeah, that was with the
Shaw and that was the fifties maybe, and then the
overthrow was the Iranian people themselves in nineteen seventy nine
with who many coming in. But okay, you think we
(20:44):
should not go into Iran?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Correct?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I mean I think the echoes of that, you know,
are kind of right.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Well, okay, fair enough, Okay, we're done. Who's up next? Morris? Hello, Morris, welcome.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
I believe America is doing the right thing. Iran is
a nuclear of cancer. When you develop plutonium and uranium
to make a nuclear bomb is like giving a gun
to a crazy individual. He goes down the street shooting.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Okay, let me do the other side. I got it.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
No, I understand. You know you made your point. Now
let me throw it back at you. Iran isn't just
developing or enriching uranium for a nuclear bomb.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's for peaceful purposes.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
It's for our research, it's for energy, even though they're
sitting on one of the biggest swamps and lakes of
oil anywhere in the world. So that's a point. By
the way, I agree with you. I think their development
of the uranium and their ballistic missile program and the
fact they hate us and his death to the Satans,
(21:53):
death to America constantly since nineteen seventy nine. Yeah, Okay,
you and I are on the same page. Okay, next caller, Mark, Yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Hey Bill, I'd like to know all these people have
been calling saying I support Israel and I support Iran.
Are they willing to take their sons and daughters to
their recruitment center and sign them up to go fight
in the war.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Of course not, But then again, it's boots on the ground.
And the trick is, do you think that attacking Iran,
and this is a you globally attacking Iran is in
fact a defending of American interests and you're fighting for
your country. And if the United States the government can
(22:39):
somehow convince the America that that Iran is a threat
to our security and what we're doing is protecting our borders.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Then the answer will.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Be yes as of right now. No, it's a good call,
by the way, good question. Okay, we're done, guys, Now
we're done.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
We're done. Nice talking to you. We'll do this again
real soon. There are conversation.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Well that's what I do, is conversation. Why because I
have enormous amount of patience. That's my middle name, by
the way, patience.
Speaker 9 (23:14):
I just wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
That's the way I work.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I think we have to retro radio again, maybe next
week because it works. I'll talk to Ann and figure
out if this works or not. Now we are done
and coming up, but Gary and Shannon, I'm sure going to.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Be hearing what's going on with the war in Iran.
Plenty happening.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
And tomorrow we're back, same place, same station with Will
and Amy at five am wake up call, and then
Neil and I from six to nine, and then of
course Kno and Ann, who make absolutely no money. Oh
that's everybody on the show right. Uh, Okay, everybody's looking
at me because I have a most Favored nation clause
(23:58):
in my contract. You know what that means every time
you get a raise, I get a raise, and that's
across the board.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So I hope you guys all get raises. We're done.
This is KFI AM six point forty. You've been listening
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Speaker 3 (24:14):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
I am six forty bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It is a Tuesday morning, March the third coming up
at the bottom of the hour retro radio where actually
you call in like it used to be in the
old radio times, and I'll explain that that it's a
lot of fun and we end up talking to each
other and probably screaming. Also, if you haven't listened to
any of the segments, or you've missed some segments, please
(00:38):
tune in via podcast, which we podcast the show and
all the segments. For example, I talked about a little
a fair amount about the attack it's going on the
latest and that's started at seven o'clock the seventh through
the seven twenty seven to thirty period. Okay, Now, when
we talk about America, we are the land of immigrants.
(01:01):
That's I amm. Well, we're becoming the land of immigrants.
Em we're becoming a land of immigration. That means people leaving.
So last year something happened that hasn't happened since the
Great Depression. More people moved out of the US than
(01:24):
moved in. Now the Trump administration is saying that's the
best thing going that's better than slice spread.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Why is that because this.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Is fulfillment of the promise to ramp up deportation and
restrict new visas. And we are better off with fewer
people because look at the people that are coming in.
We don't want these people. We want Norwegians. He actually
said that Norwegians because so I don't know. Maybe they're
white and they speak English. Hey, that's just me, just
(01:59):
me thinking it through. Okay, just me guessing that's the case.
American citizens are leaving their own record numbers. Forget about
the Norwegians, and what Americans are doing is moving them
and their families to countries they find more affordable and safer.
And so where's the data, Well, there's data from fifty countries.
(02:22):
Residents permits, foreign home purchases, student enrollments. Metrics from those
fifty countries show that Americans are voting with their feet
and moving out of the country. So the American dream
is not here. American dream is overseas. For many people.
You go to Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, more Americans are snapping
(02:45):
up apartments that new arrivals complain they mostly hear their
own language, they hear English, not Portuguese. One out of
every fifteen resident in Dublin, they have a grand canal
dock area, pretty trendy of it. Out of every fifteen
born in the United States, more than one hundred thousand
young students enrolled abroad for more affordable university degree. I
(03:09):
happen to know one of those students that is moving
overseas and she has applied to a university in Abertay,
the University of Abertay in Dundee, Scotland. This is my daughter, Barbara,
who is applying for and will be accepted to the
(03:31):
University of Abertay in Dundee.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Where is Dundee.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Dundee is in the northern part of Scotland where the
weather during the winter is just delightful. So you're a
choice to either go to, for example, the French Riviera,
maybe Cancun, maybe anywhere on the Yucatan peninsula, or you
can go to Dundee, Scotland in the middle of winter
(04:00):
where the average well, let me put it this way,
they don't run their freezers in the winter. They just
put the meat outside the door. Saves them a lot
of money. But isn't there a boy out there? She
likes there's that too. Yeah, there's that too. She's not
following the boy, She's following the university. She actually is
going to school because she found the majors that she wants.
(04:23):
She's a criminal justice major. They happen to have at
the University of Abertay, one of the best programs in
criminal justice in the UK. And a huge number of
students about fifteen percent are American. That's a lot of
foreign students. And why Well, it certainly isn't because of
the tuition, because foreign students pay a bucket of money.
(04:48):
So the other thing are the politics of all of
this one of the reasons that these people have And
by the way, this is survey from countries.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is not just me extrapolating.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Is these commentators who have looked at this the surveys
have labeled this wave, particular wave of American immigrants leaving
the country.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
The Donald Dash. And why is that?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Well, numbers have certainly spiked under President Trump's second term,
but the phenomena has been building for years. We do
not know exactly how many people are leaving before because
of the president being the president. I know of people
who are planning to leave in my immediate circle of friends. Well,
(05:40):
I don't have any friends, and Lindsay's immediate circle of friends,
there are several who heretofore would not have left.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
They're bailing.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And Lindsay herself is so upset about what's going on
that when I start watching the news and the word
down shows up, she's out the door. She's in another room.
That's how fundamentally she thinks about what's going on. And
(06:10):
so why are people moving? For moving and have been
for years? Well, remote work has helped mounting living costs,
has cost a fortune to live here, particularly in southern California,
an appetite for foreign lifestyles, and we are talking about
moving to Italy, as you know, when I retire, as
a matter of fact, early next year. Guess who's jumping
on an airplane and going to Italy to find out
(06:31):
how it works and spending a couple of months. None
other than Lindsay. And I'm going to be all by
myself with the dogs. That's going to be fine. In
the meantime, the Trump administration is deporting hundreds of thousands
of illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
We know that, So that is part of the exodus.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And I'm going to quote now from the president, we
are attracting countless ultra high net worth foreigners. Countless. There
are so many, we can't even count them. And they're
shelling out one million dollars for a Trump Gold card,
a Trump card to come and settle the United States.
(07:09):
Do we know the number of Trump Gold cards that
have been sold? I don't, but number's probably out there.
And so in twenty twenty five, the loss of one
hundred and fifty thousand people, and it looks like that
number is going to increase in twenty twenty six. According
to Brookings Institute, a think tank that is pretty well
(07:30):
known for its thinking in the tank because think tanks
think in tanks, which is why the sale of tanks
to think tanks are very high.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Not just a little aside I.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Would in the US saw six hundred and sixty seventy
five deportations, six hundred and seventy five deportations, two point
two million self deportations last year according to Homeland Security,
and we don't know how many live how many people
live outside of the United States. How many Americans currently
(08:07):
are living outside the US estimated four to nine million.
The State Department estimates one point six million just in Mexico,
and this was twenty twenty two when the last numbers
were available, and they're saying that that number has grown
substantially since twenty twenty two, and in nearly all of
(08:27):
the European Union, they're twenty seven member states. The number
of Americans all of the twenty seven European Union states,
the number of Americans arriving to live and work is
at a record high and rising. The total living in
Portugal has jumped five hundred percent since the COVID pandemic.
(08:47):
But Lisbon used to be a very cheap, great place
to live. And one of the benefits of the huge
number of Americans that are moving is you really don't
even have to speak the language. I mean, that's been
the case in Mexico for years and years. There are Mexicans,
there are American communities a fifty thousand people, and you
could literally live in these communities not speaking a word
(09:09):
of Spanish and get everything you need. And that is
quickly becoming the case in countries around the world. Well,
in the past ten years, the number of Americans doubled
in Spain, doubled in the Netherlands, more than doubled in the.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Czech Czech Republic.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Last year more Americans moved to Germany than Germans moved
to America. Same is true in Ireland and the US government,
and this one is kind of surprising, has a month's
long backlog of Americans asking to renown, renounce their citizenship,
either to get a foreign passport or to avoid taxation.
(09:52):
You can avoid You can avoid American taxation by simply
denounce that your American citizenship. If you are still an
American citizen. The federal government, the IRS, does not care.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Where you live.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You can literally live at the North Pole and if
you're earning money, you are paying US taxes if you
are a US citizen. If you are not and you
live overseas, you're not paying US taxes, even if you
live in the United States. But it has to be
for a certain number of months. You can't go over
(10:27):
a certain number of months, and a lot of people are.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Doing that now.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Some countries demand that citizenship be renowned renounced.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
The United States was that way.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
My parents gave up their Brazilian citizenship because American law
for them to become American citizens at that time, they
had to renounce all other citizenships.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I did not have to.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So I am an American citizen as well as a
Brazilian citizen because I became an American as a result
of being a minor. The other thing is America used
to have a law that says, if you serve in
a foreign country, a foreign army, you lose your citizenship.
The problem was, for example, at the beginning of World
(11:12):
War Two, the Italian boys who lived in New York
forget about it, would go visit family and this was
prior to the war and would be drafted into the
Italian Army and lose their citizenship. When I was eighteen
and I went to Brazil for a visit, I walked
through a passport control and they said, congratulations, you are
(11:36):
now a member of the Brazilian Army. I said, what
the hell are you talking about the Brazilian army. Yep,
you were born in Brazil. You are a Brazilian citizen.
You're eighteen years old, and we have conscription Ola, except
they don't say ola, bongia nice, have a good day,
(11:58):
And so I got out of it. They were very
very they were understanding, they understood my position, and I
bribed them. Thank god. It was so corrupt. One hundred
dollars that I got out of it. That's how desperate
they were. And then my family was so angry with
me because they said I could have done it for
(12:19):
fifty dollars, where it just would have been a waiver
at the border.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
All right, and now it is time for retro radio.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Retro radio where you call in eight hundred five two
zero one five three four and it goes.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
We harken back to the days when.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The show was all about you calling in and the
history of it starting the sixties. I remember when I
started listening to talk radio early mid sixties, the question
was always should we get out of Vietnam? And then
occasionally it would be open lines, where you can talk
about anything you want and we conversed, and people actually
used to listen to that for some crazy ass reason.
(12:58):
So I want to go back and visit those days,
and we're gonna do that right now, retro radio open
lines eight hundred five two zero one five three four
eight hundred five two zero one five three four, and
you can say whatever the hell you want. Now, if
(13:19):
you're incredibly stupid, yes, please call in. If you are
in a straight jacket and you have to, I don't
know how you hold the phone, but please call in
if you're on serious medication. That's a winner too. Okay,
So I completely forgot the name my screener. My screening
program is down, so huh, I'm sorry, Niri. Okay, this
(13:43):
is Kono having to give me the names because my
screen my screen program is down.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Niri, Hello, Niri, welcome to retro radio. What do you
want to talk about?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I'm Aronian I fullid to run nine years ago, came
to the United States and I just wanted to say
that I think America. I think I thank Israel for
attacking Iran, Iran's regime and making the freedom for Iran,
you know, for it to become real and we can't
(14:15):
have freedom finally, hopefully and.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
As much as I appreciate and I couldn't agree with
you more about Iran? What freedom are we talking about?
Do you think that the leadership who MAYI and his followers,
he's gone? You think the people of Iran are going
to be free?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Now?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Well, first of all, let me correct you, because I've
been listening to every day. It's how many? Maybe it
was the first one?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, I know, yeah, okay, hominy, Okay, that's where we
say another name for Grits in Iran haminy I get that.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Okay, yes, So the freedom is just going to be
to get rid of the IRGC and you know, the
dictatorship and just have just yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Good luck. Okay, we'll see. I think you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I don't think there's gonna be freedom anytime soon until
the people over run, until the r s c C,
until the Revolutionary Guard join uh, the the opposition joining
the revolution against the Iranian hierarchy.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
But anyways, thanks for the call. Uh, I just uh,
I can't even make fun of her. I mean, you know,
what do you say?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
You know?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That was just a legitimate call. No more legitimate calls.
I'm sick of those, okay.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Next caller, Devin, Hello, Devin, welcome.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Bill?
Speaker 6 (15:34):
And the crew? Is such an honor pleasure to be
on with you. So I'm gonna go ahead and start
off by saying I was neither a Trump supporter or fan,
but the times in the world, Uh, these times are
we We We needed a leader in the White House,
We needed a president who had the kahones. Do I
agree with him going into Iran? Not only do I
(15:55):
agree with the President and US going into Iran. I
agree with US going into Venezuela, strengthening the western hemisphere,
locking up the gasoline forest. He's trying to get these
prices lowered. So yes, I agree.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay, good enough and certainly getting prices gasoline price is
lower by attacking Iran. Great, that's gonna work. But okay,
that's just fair enough. This is what our listeners are saying.
We knew one more before with the break? Do you say, Henry, Mary?
Close enough?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Mary, Hi, Hi, good morning.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
I just wanted to say that I support President Trump.
I am. I was sporting what is Mexico.
Speaker 10 (16:46):
I became a.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
US citizen in seventy six, and I know sometimes he
stay stuff that he shooting, he does a little bill
handled like you do. Man. No matter what he does,
nothing people are so against him. I do believe in the.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
You know that team?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, no, I get it. Let me ask some Mary.
Do you you were born in what is so you're
clearly Hispanic?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Probably Do you do you carry your citizenship papers with you,
your passport naturalization papers.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I suggest you do.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I suggest you do because it's going to be a
very very interesting time had by one and all okay,
thanks Mary, Okay, we got them so far.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That's enough. That's enough, that's enough. All right. This is
why you know I can't hang up.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I have cono having an hang up because my screener
is and I love hanging up on people.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
This is mister patients at work.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You should listen to Handle on the Law on Saturday
if you want patients. Okay, okay, we're gonna finish up
retro radio, which I really enjoy. Retro radio radio is
all about you calling in and I comment, which never happens. Now,
if you listen to the Saturday Show, what happens when
I don't get phone calls or not enough phone calls
(18:05):
and we don't have enough phone calls right now?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
This is what happens.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Baby, shot, mommy shut do do do do mommy?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Shot it do now.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
This will go on for several minutes until a phone
call comes in.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Have you ever seen the movie Mars Attacks.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
This is listening to this for more than five minutes,
your head actually explodes, and strangely enough, the phone calls
do come in because people can't stand this. You can
listen to the Saturday Show on podcasts if you don't
tune in to the Legal show.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Do Doo Do Do? Okay, we do have phone calls up. Chris. Hello, Chris,
Welcome to retro Radio. What can I do for you?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Bio?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
Do you think they attacked Iran? The United States in
Israel to Benjamin Analu? When Trump can remain in power?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I think not only can they? Yes? Yeah, no, I understand.
Oh Trump we're going for a third term? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
First of all, not only do I think that Netta
Yahoo and our president are in bed together. I think
they do strange things in bed together, and that is
going to come out in the news. And a third term,
my friend, unless the Constitution changes, it ain't gonna happen.
(19:32):
So the answer is no, no.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
But I think he's going to remain in office how
and they're going to not have APU due to war.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Never happened, never happened in the history of that Ied States.
But a lot never happened. Okay, that's your opinion, and
it's a dumb one. I'll grant you. But that's okay. Okay,
who's up next?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Patrick? Hello? Patrick, Retro Radio.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Hey, Bill, how's it going. So? I think, well, I'm
pretty against us going to war with Iran. I think
the US has a terrible track record of military intervention,
especially as it relates the regime change. The US itself
is responsible for the current political situation in Iran. We're
the ones who tried to put in a puplic government
(20:18):
that would be favorable to the oil companies and it backfired.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Well, that was a long long time ago when that
happened in Iran specifically. But yeah, that was with the
Shaw and that was the fifties maybe, and then the
overthrow was the Iranian people themselves in nineteen seventy nine
with who many coming in. But okay, you think we
(20:44):
should not go into Iran?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Correct?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I mean I think the echoes of that, you know,
are kind of right.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Well, okay, fair enough, Okay, we're done. Who's up next? Morris? Hello, Morris, welcome.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
I believe America is doing the right thing. Iran is
a nuclear of cancer. When you develop plutonium and uranium
to make a nuclear bomb is like giving a gun
to a crazy individual. He goes down the street shooting.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Okay, let me do the other side. I got it.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
No, I understand. You know you made your point. Now
let me throw it back at you. Iran isn't just
developing or enriching uranium for a nuclear bomb.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's for peaceful purposes.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
It's for our research, it's for energy, even though they're
sitting on one of the biggest swamps and lakes of
oil anywhere in the world. So that's a point. By
the way, I agree with you. I think their development
of the uranium and their ballistic missile program and the
fact they hate us and his death to the Satans,
(21:53):
death to America constantly since nineteen seventy nine. Yeah, Okay,
you and I are on the same page. Okay, next caller, Mark, Yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Hey Bill, I'd like to know all these people have
been calling saying I support Israel and I support Iran.
Are they willing to take their sons and daughters to
their recruitment center and sign them up to go fight
in the war.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Of course not, But then again, it's boots on the ground.
And the trick is, do you think that attacking Iran,
and this is a you globally attacking Iran is in
fact a defending of American interests and you're fighting for
your country. And if the United States the government can
(22:39):
somehow convince the America that that Iran is a threat
to our security and what we're doing is protecting our borders.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Then the answer will.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Be yes as of right now. No, it's a good call,
by the way, good question. Okay, we're done, guys, Now
we're done.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
We're done. Nice talking to you. We'll do this again
real soon. There are conversation.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Well that's what I do, is conversation. Why because I
have enormous amount of patience. That's my middle name, by
the way, patience.
Speaker 9 (23:14):
I just wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
That's the way I work.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I think we have to retro radio again, maybe next
week because it works. I'll talk to Ann and figure
out if this works or not. Now we are done
and coming up, but Gary and Shannon, I'm sure going to.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Be hearing what's going on with the war in Iran.
Plenty happening.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
And tomorrow we're back, same place, same station with Will
and Amy at five am wake up call, and then
Neil and I from six to nine, and then of
course Kno and Ann, who make absolutely no money. Oh
that's everybody on the show right. Uh, Okay, everybody's looking
at me because I have a most Favored nation clause
(23:58):
in my contract. You know what that means every time
you get a raise, I get a raise, and that's
across the board.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So I hope you guys all get raises. We're done.
This is KFI AM six point forty. You've been listening
to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Catch my Show Monday through Friday six am to nine am,
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