February 21, 2025 • 24 mins
(Friday 02/21/25)
IT’S FOODIE FRIDAY! Food enthusiast and host of ‘The Fork Report’ on KFI Neil Saavedra joins Bill to talk about bird flu causing egg prices to soar, but not the price of chicken oddly rnough.The show closes with ‘Ask Handel Anything.’
IT’S FOODIE FRIDAY! Food enthusiast and host of ‘The Fork Report’ on KFI Neil Saavedra joins Bill to talk about bird flu causing egg prices to soar, but not the price of chicken oddly rnough.The show closes with ‘Ask Handel Anything.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yes, it is a Friday, February twenty. First, it's a
Foody Friday at A twenty. We do it for Foody
Friday with Neil and I have a very deep, deep
question that I have for Neil starting the segment. Not
going to share it with you. This is a tease,
see to get you to listen. It is a question
of great import. Also, looking at some of the news,
(00:32):
the Senate yesterday confirmed Cash Patel is FBI director. Of
course they did, because it really doesn't matter if Cash
Pattel is a lunatic and hates the FBI more so
than any FBI director that I can ever remember. But
for example, he wants to clean out closed down FBI headquarters.
(00:54):
That's what he said in Washington, d C. And that
is the.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Hoover Building, right you bet, j Edgar Hoover.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Building, and he wants to change it to what is
historically correct, and that's the j Edgar transvestite building.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
A little bit of historical background for you. So let
me move to matter of fact. Let me move the
administration on what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
The response to Trump being elected I've never seen anything
like in all of the years that I've been looking
at presidential elections. And one of the responses and people
are I mean, people are more engaged in what this
election is about on both sides.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And you have to only look around and not live under.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
A rock to realize that the people that hate him
really hate him, that people that love him really love him.
And one of the offshoots, one of the chapters of
all of this is a number of people who say
they are leaving the United States because of Trump and
are actually leaving now. The reality is a lot of
(02:04):
celebrities say they are leaving. They said they're leaving the
first time around, and they're now saying they leave. They're
lead definitely leaving this time around. A few have left.
Eva Longoria has left, a few others have bailed out.
But for the most part, everybody says I'm leaving, I'm leaving,
I'm leaving. Don't but let me tell you what is
(02:24):
going on, And that doesn't matter those celebrities. Doesn't matter
if some film star leaves, Okay, fine, great, now, let
me tell you what is happening. February eighth, the German
news magazine Dershpiegel very well regarded report of the max
Planck Society, one of the world's top scientific research institution,
(02:46):
is experiencing a major uptick in application from American scientists,
a brain drain. The president of the Society regards the
US as a quote talent new talent pool.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Time.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
When the Trump administration is cutting billions and funding, for example,
to the National Institutes of Help, scientists are leaving scientists
who either work for the government or work for institutions
that are funded in grants by the government. That is
a problem, because that is a real brain drain. Now
(03:23):
is that happening. Well, at this point, all we have
is a huge uptick of applications and inquiries. By the way,
the max Planck Society, here's a bit of historical irony
for you. The max Planck Society has been around in
Germany for well over one hundred years, if not earlier,
(03:44):
and it was from the max Planck Society that still
existed in the Third Reich under Nazism, that German scientists
left Germany to come to the United States, including Albert Einstein.
You know that the majority of scientists who created the
atomic bomb were German scientists who had come because of emigration.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
They had to get the hell out. Now their lives
were at stake.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Here, of course, lives are not at stake, but you're
also seeing people searching for terms like dual citizenship. You
had significant spikes on election day in inauguration day. And
let me tell you what's going on personally. I am
applying for citizenship for Poland. Now does that mean I'm
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leaving the United States?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Now?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I've always wanted to live in Italy for several months
a year, of which I'm going to do. But I
am going to be a Polish citizen. I'm going to
be the butt of every poll out joke you've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
In your life.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Because I want a EU passport so I can zip
and live wherever I want over in Europe. I don't
have to worry about American visus because Americans are not
going to do well over, not for a while. And
so if I have a European passport, of which Poland
is a member of the U, I'm home.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Free American passports.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I don't know right now, you know it's it's gonna
be rough, uh for those of us who have one,
and I probably matter of fact, I'm gonna probably use
my Brazilian passport when I travel around, even though there
are visa requirements. I think it's just just different Americans.
You go to France, not so much anymore, but the
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French used to hate Americans.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
There's still a little bit of disdain. So it's it's
a different world. It is.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'll talk to you from Italy. Aliva, derci baby, Okay,
maybe not?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It is time for Foody Friday with Neil Sabedra and
me coming up right after this segment. It's asked handle anything,
which is always fine, all right, Neil, Yes, we do
Foody Friday. I have a very deep philosophical question. Oh boy,
since birds are killing us now right, well, it's or
(06:11):
we're we're on pandemic. Yeah yeah, So what's going to
kill us first? The chicken or the egg?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh boy, that's what you want to lead with. Oh,
I don't know, I don't know. I do know that
one of the questions that I've been asked a lot
lately is how come egg prices are going up? One
of the reasons is the Avian flu. The second is
just you know, economic inflation right now, and that's where
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we are. But the the avian flu has been a
huge part of it. You know that they have to
proactively kill a lot of egg laying hens because of
concern about the avian So if one gets it, then
to protect other parts of the flock, they actually have
(07:05):
to destroy it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Going back to my joke, which turns only out to
be half a joke, is actually yes.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Sometimes a quarter of a joke.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You would think that because of the culling of the flocks,
I mean the destruction of.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Entire flocks, millions, millions, Why.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Aren't the the chickens that are used, you know, the
cooking chickens, eating chickens, Why aren't they affected like the eggs?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, there are two types of chickens. So the hens
that lay the eggs are egg laying hens. The other
chickens that we eat or you're going to get your
rotisserie chicken, and those prices aren't going through the roof
or anything. They are roasters. They're two different chickens. And
not only are they two different chickens, but they are
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raised differently as well. So the hen laying or the
egg laying hens tend to be in migrant they're in
tighter quarters, they're older because you're using them for longer.
You're not killing them for meat. Now you're killing off
the roaster chickens at a young age six eight weeks
whatever it is, and so they're not living long enough
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to often catch this. Plus they're not in the migratory
paths of certain birds that are carrying the disease over,
so it's not hitting them. It hits them a little bit,
but it doesn't hit them to the degree, so it's
not passed along to us in any way, shape or form,
because they're not being destroyed the same way. So you
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can still go out and get chicken or you know,
we had the Super Bowl, people were going out get
chicken wings. Totally different situation. The birds that the hens
that are laying the eggs are around much longer. They're
in different quarters and they come across other birds depending
on where they are. And you know what's nuts. I mean,
(09:02):
we're down to I don't know, one hundred million egg
laying birds right now or something. We almost have to
have one egg laying chicken per person in the United
States to be at.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
The normal rationship.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's three times.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But isn't that insane? Like it takes that's about what
it is. It's somewhere around three hundred and let's say
eighteen three hundred and twenty million hens, and we're around
one hundred and some odd million ring.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But you know you're right. For example, you still get
the rotistary chicken.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
We talked about that earlier this morning at Costco, and
the other day I was at Costco because I'm always
at Costco, and I know you buy a rotissary chicken,
it's still five bucks and they.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Give you a thermometer they throw it in.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It is well, that's a lost leader of course for them,
of course, but it is. People do get confused when
they say, well, aren't we killing off the chickens? And
how come we're able to get decent prices When you
look at eggs.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We just paid.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Nine dollars or something for eggs at the local grocery
store for a dozen eggs.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, it's pretty crazy. That's nine bucks. What should they
be considering inflation.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Around three dollars? I think three fifty? Yeah, I mean
that that could still be Yeah, that would probably be
about the norm, maybe maybe even a little lower. They
can be very inexpensive when we are in complete balance.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So how long does it take to bring back the
flocks to the point where we hit normal production?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You know there, I've seen different and read different different
timelines as to what it would take. But we're definitely
not going to turn it around overnight. I mean you're
looking at I was reading about someone breaking down how
a lot of people want to start their own little
(11:13):
egg farms in their in their backyard. A lot of
people are doing that, and they're even saying don't buy
an adult chicken or hand to raise them from chicks,
to control their environment and how they're raised in all
of those things. So it does take to get to
maturity to start laying eggs does take some times, and
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of course you know that's part of the egg laying
processes as well. They're just not eating them, they're fertilizing them.
And and when you have a shortage, now you're using
some of those eggs to create more.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You are you using less eggs in your life? I am?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I am?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, I mean we go. I've got an eight year
old boy, so and I love eggs. I think eggs
are a cheap, easy protein and you know, and they're tasty,
so but yeah, I eat a little less eggs these days,
just you know, but we we still keep them in
the house.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
They're still there, all right, Neil, Oh, tomorrow you do
the Fork Report.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yes, I'm broadcasting live tomorrow from Morongo Casino Resort and
Spa there in Cabazon. It will be good fun, yep.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And I'm not going to share with you. But Neil
and I are in the midst of putting together a
broadcast together that we have never done.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And I'm talking about yeah that one. Okay, okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
What a tease?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What a tease?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I can tease myself anything I can't fine handle.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Here we in Friday, last two segments with ask Me
Anything or ask handle Anything. And we do this every
Friday now and we record questions during the week and
Cono plays them.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I have not heard these questions.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Case of first impressionment is we say in the legal
field and I get to answer them spontaneously and usually
well you'll hear Cono. Why don't we start and give
everybody a taste of asininity? Is that now a verb
to asinine?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
All right? Hey, Bill, just wondering what was the most.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Pivotal moment in your life that really shaped you into
the man you are?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Today.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
My circumcision, I was eight days old and I still
remember the cutting off of the schwantz. By the way,
just a quick little bit of information for you. Do
you know that you rarely see Jewish alcoholics very rarely.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And you know why. I'll tell you why. There's a
reason for it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Because when a baby is circumcised, usually a male baby,
the moil, the guy who does a circumcision, usually a rabbi,
gets the kid drunk, literally gets the kid drunk. You
dip you a little rag or a little bit of
cloth into a into some wine, and the kid suckles
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on it because kids do. That kid is high, and
then there goes the slice. And so here's what happens.
And this is subconsciously because you really don't remember. Subconsciously,
it's alcohol schaunts being cut, alcohol schaunts being cut. That
was a pivotal moment in my life. Let me tell you, God,
(14:34):
I remember that took off too much. Actually, okay, let's
move on.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Hey, Bill, is it true that you have a little
satchel of jew gold around your neck?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Just carrious you anti Semite?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
You know what, I'm the only one that can make
fun of Jews. Okay, that that one's done. God, I
hit anti Semitism, except when I'm doing it.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
What if he was a Jewish guy.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Then he's self loathing you the way I am. Then
that's legitimate. Then okay, moving on, Bill, I.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Have a question for you. What do you listen to
on your way home? Do you listen to KFI? Or
do you ever listen to KFI going or coming from home?
And will you listen to them on your way home
when you move? And if you listen to music, what
kind of music do you like?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Oh, it's a good question.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
First of all, I already am in my new home,
so I'll tell you what I default to.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't listen to a lot of music.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Sometimes I don't listen to a lot of talk radio because, frankly,
I think that all of us are miserable. Had if
I was the program director, i'd fire everybody and put
me on probation. Frankly at this station, because I hear that.
I hear a lot, and so I'm involved. You know what,
I do listen to a lot of hard news. In
(15:55):
case you haven't guessed you yet, I'm a hard news junkie,
and so I'll listen on the way. I listen to CNN.
I'll listen to Fox. I'll listen to BBC. I read
the newspaper every morning, so I do that a lot.
But I do Channel Surf. Whenever I want to feel
complete hatred towards everybody, I will tune into John COLEBLT.
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When I want to hear sports that I don't understand
at all, I'll listen to Gary and Shannon. But and
then music I will listen to. I like Beatles, that
sort of thing. The two stations I listen to and Sirious,
the Blend and whatever the other one is that plays
my kind of mellow music, because I'm a mellow kind
(16:38):
of guy. Okay, on see, I don't say I'm telling
you I have not heard these questions.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
And that's what makes this so much fun. All right,
cono one more before the break.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Hi, Bill, this is Joan, and I'm headed to Orange
County in April, and I'm going to go to the
Anaheim White House on your major suggestions, since your daughter
got married there, so I wanted to know what I
should order there.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Good question.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
I would take your advice and hope that you can
offer good Joan.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
All right, Joan, I hope you don't die before April.
You sound like you're one hundred and forty, which I
get a lot of that handle on the law and
what to order an Anaheim White House, I'll tell you what.
Virtually everything is good and that's and I'm not kidding. Okay,
they have a lost of Ravioli that you will die for.
They do seafood. Cono just went and what you ConA?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
What you order?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Did the buscatinii buukatini?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That's Michelle? Hey, come on, come on.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I have a suggestion the paper Dolly Bowlin aise.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, that's excellent, very good.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, and Michelle knows her stuff, being being an Italian.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Forget about it.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Also, the Secret Service drink was really good.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I don't beverage for over twenty one.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, I don't drink, so I'm.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Telling you that other people that do drink. Yeah, secret Service, Okay,
get it is it's at the White House.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh, it's called the Secret Service. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So they do great pastas. They also have to have
great steaks too. Even though it's northern, a lot of
northern Italian and Bruno is self taught.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
He has not had one cooking class in his entire life.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
His mama taught him.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, his mama taught him. Yeah, he did that right.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Okay, Bill.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Considering the price of eggs in southern California, my friends
and I are discussing and I need your economic advice.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Do you think the when the.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Market recovers from bird flu, if the prices will ever
go back to a dollar.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Ninety nine for a dozen eggs? Help?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
We need your advice.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
No idea, got nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Next question, Bill, if you had a free trip on
that cruise ship with.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Colbert, would you go Cobalt? Would I go?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You have no idea how much money I would pay
not to go with John Cobalt.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It's astronomical.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I have actually traveled with John Cobalt, and I don't
know how many years ago. That must have been twenty
five thirty years ago. I'm still in therapy over that,
by the way.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
Next question, I really enjoyed your podcast, and I was
sad that you decided not to do it anymore. But
I was wondering more about your mom's side of the
family and how she came to Brazil.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh that's a very good Oh, that's a good question.
She came to Brazil because my grandmother. Now she came
my mom went to Brazil and she came as an infant,
my grandma who came from Poland. She was a victim
of the Pigrims who that were going this Nazi Germany.
Jewish people didn't do very well in Poland, especially it
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was always Russia Pole and it went back and forth
unzer Zar Nicholas, both the first and the second. They
just weren't treated well, and there were programs. The Cossacks
came around, they just started killing everybody, and so she
got the hell out, which is why interesting. I mean,
that gives me another offshoot. Good that let me write
into the next little segment that I want to give
you a little bit of history. The reason that in
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the Jewish religion, your Judaism, someone's being Jewish flows from
the mother, not from the father. From the mother is
historically because Jewish women were raped so many times.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Over the course of history.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
As these programs come through that you could delineate easily
a child from the mother you knew came from a
Jewish person. With the father you had no idea because
of these crazy Cossacks and these military guys who would
come in pillage and rape. I mean, it's a horrific story,
but there it is. Don't know if that's true or not,
(21:06):
but it sure sounds great. I think that is true,
by the way. Yeah, I mean I think that is.
Is that apocryphal?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Not really? All right?
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Next question George Northridge. You know, Bill, I know that
sometimes you can come across as a pretty harsh person
in your opinions, And I'm just curious, Bill, have you
ever been in a situation where, you know, if you
expressed your opinion and you've angered that said person or
person so much that they just got.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Up and whooped you.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh that's a good question too, by the way, Georgia,
thanks for asking that question. Ironically enough, George Northridge lives
in Woodland Hills. I don't know if you knew that.
Has anybody gotten up and whooped me? No, they've gotten
up and left me. But you know, I'm a pretty
big guy. I mean I was six ' one and
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you know, way in two hundred and while I used
to wig up to three hundred pounds, but no, it's now.
I used to be six to one. You know how
when you get older you tend to shrink. I used
to be six to one I'm five foot four now,
I mean, there just is incredible shrinkage going on.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
All right.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I think we're gonna finish it up with that because
we have a good time. I had by all. Also,
at some point some one will ask me, and maybe
I'll share with you next time, and I'll ask myself
of all the questions I've gotten on Hand Along the Law.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I keep in mind, let me tell you how long
Hand Along the Law has.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Been on the air since nineteen eighty five, Okay, I
mean that's approaching a long time. I think next week
I'm going to share with you the best phone call
I have ever had in all of the years that
I have been doing Handle on the Law.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
All right, guys, we are done.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Coming up. It's Gary and Shannon at twelve thirty this
morning or this afternoon. Actor comedian TJ. Miller will be
their guest. I am back well tomorrow eight to eleven
on Handle on the Laws, you know, following Dean Dean
Sharp House Whisper afternoon two to five, Well Rich tomurrow
after me, and then Neil two to five with the
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Folk Report, And so Monday it all comes back again.
Amy wake up call. She's from five to six. The
rest of us are well. Neil and I joined from
six to nine, and then Anne. I think Ann comes
back today. Michelle. Michelle's been with me for well, she
was a producer of this show for almost twenty six
years or twenty six years. Let me tell you, when
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we look at each other, how disgusted we are with
each other.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
We went at it way too long.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
And Cono, that's kind of just how everyone looks at you.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I know, they thank you very much, Cono. You know,
Cono one time actually used to be intimidated by me.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yes, it is a Friday, February twenty. First, it's a
Foody Friday at A twenty. We do it for Foody
Friday with Neil and I have a very deep, deep
question that I have for Neil starting the segment. Not
going to share it with you. This is a tease,
see to get you to listen. It is a question
of great import. Also, looking at some of the news,
(00:32):
the Senate yesterday confirmed Cash Patel is FBI director. Of
course they did, because it really doesn't matter if Cash
Pattel is a lunatic and hates the FBI more so
than any FBI director that I can ever remember. But
for example, he wants to clean out closed down FBI headquarters.
(00:54):
That's what he said in Washington, d C. And that
is the.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Hoover Building, right you bet, j Edgar Hoover.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Building, and he wants to change it to what is
historically correct, and that's the j Edgar transvestite building.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
A little bit of historical background for you. So let
me move to matter of fact. Let me move the
administration on what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
The response to Trump being elected I've never seen anything
like in all of the years that I've been looking
at presidential elections. And one of the responses and people
are I mean, people are more engaged in what this
election is about on both sides.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And you have to only look around and not live under.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
A rock to realize that the people that hate him
really hate him, that people that love him really love him.
And one of the offshoots, one of the chapters of
all of this is a number of people who say
they are leaving the United States because of Trump and
are actually leaving now. The reality is a lot of
(02:04):
celebrities say they are leaving. They said they're leaving the
first time around, and they're now saying they leave. They're
lead definitely leaving this time around. A few have left.
Eva Longoria has left, a few others have bailed out.
But for the most part, everybody says I'm leaving, I'm leaving,
I'm leaving. Don't but let me tell you what is
(02:24):
going on, And that doesn't matter those celebrities. Doesn't matter
if some film star leaves, Okay, fine, great, now, let
me tell you what is happening. February eighth, the German
news magazine Dershpiegel very well regarded report of the max
Planck Society, one of the world's top scientific research institution,
(02:46):
is experiencing a major uptick in application from American scientists,
a brain drain. The president of the Society regards the
US as a quote talent new talent pool.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Time.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
When the Trump administration is cutting billions and funding, for example,
to the National Institutes of Help, scientists are leaving scientists
who either work for the government or work for institutions
that are funded in grants by the government. That is
a problem, because that is a real brain drain. Now
(03:23):
is that happening. Well, at this point, all we have
is a huge uptick of applications and inquiries. By the way,
the max Planck Society, here's a bit of historical irony
for you. The max Planck Society has been around in
Germany for well over one hundred years, if not earlier,
(03:44):
and it was from the max Planck Society that still
existed in the Third Reich under Nazism, that German scientists
left Germany to come to the United States, including Albert Einstein.
You know that the majority of scientists who created the
atomic bomb were German scientists who had come because of emigration.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
They had to get the hell out. Now their lives
were at stake.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Here, of course, lives are not at stake, but you're
also seeing people searching for terms like dual citizenship. You
had significant spikes on election day in inauguration day. And
let me tell you what's going on personally. I am
applying for citizenship for Poland. Now does that mean I'm
(04:36):
leaving the United States?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Now?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I've always wanted to live in Italy for several months
a year, of which I'm going to do. But I
am going to be a Polish citizen. I'm going to
be the butt of every poll out joke you've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
In your life.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Because I want a EU passport so I can zip
and live wherever I want over in Europe. I don't
have to worry about American visus because Americans are not
going to do well over, not for a while. And
so if I have a European passport, of which Poland
is a member of the U, I'm home.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Free American passports.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I don't know right now, you know it's it's gonna
be rough, uh for those of us who have one,
and I probably matter of fact, I'm gonna probably use
my Brazilian passport when I travel around, even though there
are visa requirements. I think it's just just different Americans.
You go to France, not so much anymore, but the
(05:30):
French used to hate Americans.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
There's still a little bit of disdain. So it's it's
a different world. It is.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'll talk to you from Italy. Aliva, derci baby, Okay,
maybe not?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It is time for Foody Friday with Neil Sabedra and
me coming up right after this segment. It's asked handle anything,
which is always fine, all right, Neil, Yes, we do
Foody Friday. I have a very deep philosophical question. Oh boy,
since birds are killing us now right, well, it's or
(06:11):
we're we're on pandemic. Yeah yeah, So what's going to
kill us first? The chicken or the egg?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Oh boy, that's what you want to lead with. Oh,
I don't know, I don't know. I do know that
one of the questions that I've been asked a lot
lately is how come egg prices are going up? One
of the reasons is the Avian flu. The second is
just you know, economic inflation right now, and that's where
(06:44):
we are. But the the avian flu has been a
huge part of it. You know that they have to
proactively kill a lot of egg laying hens because of
concern about the avian So if one gets it, then
to protect other parts of the flock, they actually have
(07:05):
to destroy it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Going back to my joke, which turns only out to
be half a joke, is actually yes.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Sometimes a quarter of a joke.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You would think that because of the culling of the flocks,
I mean the destruction of.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Entire flocks, millions, millions, Why.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Aren't the the chickens that are used, you know, the
cooking chickens, eating chickens, Why aren't they affected like the eggs?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, there are two types of chickens. So the hens
that lay the eggs are egg laying hens. The other
chickens that we eat or you're going to get your
rotisserie chicken, and those prices aren't going through the roof
or anything. They are roasters. They're two different chickens. And
not only are they two different chickens, but they are
(07:55):
raised differently as well. So the hen laying or the
egg laying hens tend to be in migrant they're in
tighter quarters, they're older because you're using them for longer.
You're not killing them for meat. Now you're killing off
the roaster chickens at a young age six eight weeks
whatever it is, and so they're not living long enough
(08:20):
to often catch this. Plus they're not in the migratory
paths of certain birds that are carrying the disease over,
so it's not hitting them. It hits them a little bit,
but it doesn't hit them to the degree, so it's
not passed along to us in any way, shape or form,
because they're not being destroyed the same way. So you
(08:40):
can still go out and get chicken or you know,
we had the Super Bowl, people were going out get
chicken wings. Totally different situation. The birds that the hens
that are laying the eggs are around much longer. They're
in different quarters and they come across other birds depending
on where they are. And you know what's nuts. I mean,
(09:02):
we're down to I don't know, one hundred million egg
laying birds right now or something. We almost have to
have one egg laying chicken per person in the United
States to be at.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
The normal rationship.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's three times.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But isn't that insane? Like it takes that's about what
it is. It's somewhere around three hundred and let's say
eighteen three hundred and twenty million hens, and we're around
one hundred and some odd million ring.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But you know you're right. For example, you still get
the rotistary chicken.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
We talked about that earlier this morning at Costco, and
the other day I was at Costco because I'm always
at Costco, and I know you buy a rotissary chicken,
it's still five bucks and they.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Give you a thermometer they throw it in.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It is well, that's a lost leader of course for them,
of course, but it is. People do get confused when
they say, well, aren't we killing off the chickens? And
how come we're able to get decent prices When you
look at eggs.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
We just paid.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Nine dollars or something for eggs at the local grocery
store for a dozen eggs.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, it's pretty crazy. That's nine bucks. What should they
be considering inflation.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Around three dollars? I think three fifty? Yeah, I mean
that that could still be Yeah, that would probably be
about the norm, maybe maybe even a little lower. They
can be very inexpensive when we are in complete balance.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So how long does it take to bring back the
flocks to the point where we hit normal production?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You know there, I've seen different and read different different
timelines as to what it would take. But we're definitely
not going to turn it around overnight. I mean you're
looking at I was reading about someone breaking down how
a lot of people want to start their own little
(11:13):
egg farms in their in their backyard. A lot of
people are doing that, and they're even saying don't buy
an adult chicken or hand to raise them from chicks,
to control their environment and how they're raised in all
of those things. So it does take to get to
maturity to start laying eggs does take some times, and
(11:34):
of course you know that's part of the egg laying
processes as well. They're just not eating them, they're fertilizing them.
And and when you have a shortage, now you're using
some of those eggs to create more.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You are you using less eggs in your life? I am?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I am?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, I mean we go. I've got an eight year
old boy, so and I love eggs. I think eggs
are a cheap, easy protein and you know, and they're tasty,
so but yeah, I eat a little less eggs these days,
just you know, but we we still keep them in
the house.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
They're still there, all right, Neil, Oh, tomorrow you do
the Fork Report.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yes, I'm broadcasting live tomorrow from Morongo Casino Resort and
Spa there in Cabazon. It will be good fun, yep.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And I'm not going to share with you. But Neil
and I are in the midst of putting together a
broadcast together that we have never done.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
And I'm talking about yeah that one. Okay, okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
What a tease?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What a tease?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I can tease myself anything I can't fine handle.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Here we in Friday, last two segments with ask Me
Anything or ask handle Anything. And we do this every
Friday now and we record questions during the week and
Cono plays them.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I have not heard these questions.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Case of first impressionment is we say in the legal
field and I get to answer them spontaneously and usually
well you'll hear Cono. Why don't we start and give
everybody a taste of asininity? Is that now a verb
to asinine?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
All right? Hey, Bill, just wondering what was the most.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Pivotal moment in your life that really shaped you into
the man you are?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Today.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
My circumcision, I was eight days old and I still
remember the cutting off of the schwantz. By the way,
just a quick little bit of information for you. Do
you know that you rarely see Jewish alcoholics very rarely.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And you know why. I'll tell you why. There's a
reason for it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Because when a baby is circumcised, usually a male baby,
the moil, the guy who does a circumcision, usually a rabbi,
gets the kid drunk, literally gets the kid drunk. You
dip you a little rag or a little bit of
cloth into a into some wine, and the kid suckles
(14:12):
on it because kids do. That kid is high, and
then there goes the slice. And so here's what happens.
And this is subconsciously because you really don't remember. Subconsciously,
it's alcohol schaunts being cut, alcohol schaunts being cut. That
was a pivotal moment in my life. Let me tell you, God,
(14:34):
I remember that took off too much. Actually, okay, let's
move on.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Hey, Bill, is it true that you have a little
satchel of jew gold around your neck?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Just carrious you anti Semite?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
You know what, I'm the only one that can make
fun of Jews. Okay, that that one's done. God, I
hit anti Semitism, except when I'm doing it.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
What if he was a Jewish guy.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Then he's self loathing you the way I am. Then
that's legitimate. Then okay, moving on, Bill, I.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Have a question for you. What do you listen to
on your way home? Do you listen to KFI? Or
do you ever listen to KFI going or coming from home?
And will you listen to them on your way home
when you move? And if you listen to music, what
kind of music do you like?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Oh, it's a good question.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
First of all, I already am in my new home,
so I'll tell you what I default to.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I don't listen to a lot of music.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Sometimes I don't listen to a lot of talk radio because, frankly,
I think that all of us are miserable. Had if
I was the program director, i'd fire everybody and put
me on probation. Frankly at this station, because I hear that.
I hear a lot, and so I'm involved. You know what,
I do listen to a lot of hard news. In
(15:55):
case you haven't guessed you yet, I'm a hard news junkie,
and so I'll listen on the way. I listen to CNN.
I'll listen to Fox. I'll listen to BBC. I read
the newspaper every morning, so I do that a lot.
But I do Channel Surf. Whenever I want to feel
complete hatred towards everybody, I will tune into John COLEBLT.
(16:16):
When I want to hear sports that I don't understand
at all, I'll listen to Gary and Shannon. But and
then music I will listen to. I like Beatles, that
sort of thing. The two stations I listen to and Sirious,
the Blend and whatever the other one is that plays
my kind of mellow music, because I'm a mellow kind
(16:38):
of guy. Okay, on see, I don't say I'm telling
you I have not heard these questions.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
And that's what makes this so much fun. All right,
cono one more before the break.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Hi, Bill, this is Joan, and I'm headed to Orange
County in April, and I'm going to go to the
Anaheim White House on your major suggestions, since your daughter
got married there, so I wanted to know what I
should order there.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Good question.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
I would take your advice and hope that you can
offer good Joan.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
All right, Joan, I hope you don't die before April.
You sound like you're one hundred and forty, which I
get a lot of that handle on the law and
what to order an Anaheim White House, I'll tell you what.
Virtually everything is good and that's and I'm not kidding. Okay,
they have a lost of Ravioli that you will die for.
They do seafood. Cono just went and what you ConA?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
What you order?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Did the buscatinii buukatini?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That's Michelle? Hey, come on, come on.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I have a suggestion the paper Dolly Bowlin aise.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, that's excellent, very good.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, and Michelle knows her stuff, being being an Italian.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Forget about it.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Also, the Secret Service drink was really good.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I don't beverage for over twenty one.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, I don't drink, so I'm.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Telling you that other people that do drink. Yeah, secret Service, Okay,
get it is it's at the White House.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh, it's called the Secret Service. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So they do great pastas. They also have to have
great steaks too. Even though it's northern, a lot of
northern Italian and Bruno is self taught.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
He has not had one cooking class in his entire life.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
His mama taught him.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, his mama taught him. Yeah, he did that right.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Okay, Bill.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Considering the price of eggs in southern California, my friends
and I are discussing and I need your economic advice.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Do you think the when the.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Market recovers from bird flu, if the prices will ever
go back to a dollar.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Ninety nine for a dozen eggs? Help?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
We need your advice.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
No idea, got nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Next question, Bill, if you had a free trip on
that cruise ship with.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Colbert, would you go Cobalt? Would I go?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You have no idea how much money I would pay
not to go with John Cobalt.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It's astronomical.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I have actually traveled with John Cobalt, and I don't
know how many years ago. That must have been twenty
five thirty years ago. I'm still in therapy over that,
by the way.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
Next question, I really enjoyed your podcast, and I was
sad that you decided not to do it anymore. But
I was wondering more about your mom's side of the
family and how she came to Brazil.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh that's a very good Oh, that's a good question.
She came to Brazil because my grandmother. Now she came
my mom went to Brazil and she came as an infant,
my grandma who came from Poland. She was a victim
of the Pigrims who that were going this Nazi Germany.
Jewish people didn't do very well in Poland, especially it
(20:05):
was always Russia Pole and it went back and forth
unzer Zar Nicholas, both the first and the second. They
just weren't treated well, and there were programs. The Cossacks
came around, they just started killing everybody, and so she
got the hell out, which is why interesting. I mean,
that gives me another offshoot. Good that let me write
into the next little segment that I want to give
you a little bit of history. The reason that in
(20:27):
the Jewish religion, your Judaism, someone's being Jewish flows from
the mother, not from the father. From the mother is
historically because Jewish women were raped so many times.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Over the course of history.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
As these programs come through that you could delineate easily
a child from the mother you knew came from a
Jewish person. With the father you had no idea because
of these crazy Cossacks and these military guys who would
come in pillage and rape. I mean, it's a horrific story,
but there it is. Don't know if that's true or not,
(21:06):
but it sure sounds great. I think that is true,
by the way. Yeah, I mean I think that is.
Is that apocryphal?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Not really? All right?
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Next question George Northridge. You know, Bill, I know that
sometimes you can come across as a pretty harsh person
in your opinions, And I'm just curious, Bill, have you
ever been in a situation where, you know, if you
expressed your opinion and you've angered that said person or
person so much that they just got.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Up and whooped you.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh that's a good question too, by the way, Georgia,
thanks for asking that question. Ironically enough, George Northridge lives
in Woodland Hills. I don't know if you knew that.
Has anybody gotten up and whooped me? No, they've gotten
up and left me. But you know, I'm a pretty
big guy. I mean I was six ' one and
(21:57):
you know, way in two hundred and while I used
to wig up to three hundred pounds, but no, it's now.
I used to be six to one. You know how
when you get older you tend to shrink. I used
to be six to one I'm five foot four now,
I mean, there just is incredible shrinkage going on.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
All right.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I think we're gonna finish it up with that because
we have a good time. I had by all. Also,
at some point some one will ask me, and maybe
I'll share with you next time, and I'll ask myself
of all the questions I've gotten on Hand Along the Law.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I keep in mind, let me tell you how long
Hand Along the Law has.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Been on the air since nineteen eighty five, Okay, I
mean that's approaching a long time. I think next week
I'm going to share with you the best phone call
I have ever had in all of the years that
I have been doing Handle on the Law.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
All right, guys, we are done.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Coming up. It's Gary and Shannon at twelve thirty this
morning or this afternoon. Actor comedian TJ. Miller will be
their guest. I am back well tomorrow eight to eleven
on Handle on the Laws, you know, following Dean Dean
Sharp House Whisper afternoon two to five, Well Rich tomurrow
after me, and then Neil two to five with the
(23:19):
Folk Report, And so Monday it all comes back again.
Amy wake up call. She's from five to six. The
rest of us are well. Neil and I joined from
six to nine, and then Anne. I think Ann comes
back today. Michelle. Michelle's been with me for well, she
was a producer of this show for almost twenty six
years or twenty six years. Let me tell you, when
(23:40):
we look at each other, how disgusted we are with
each other.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
We went at it way too long.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
And Cono, that's kind of just how everyone looks at you.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I know, they thank you very much, Cono. You know,
Cono one time actually used to be intimidated by me.
You know, it's it is a horrific concept. Handle and
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