June 5, 2026 • 21 mins
(June 05, 2026)
Immigrants built America’s biggest startups, President Trump’s Visa policies might halt any new potential ones. WWJD… not what would Jesus do? But ‘what would Jesus drink?’… welcome wo the world of ‘Christian energy beverages.’ 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.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It is a Friday morning, June fifth.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
At the bottom of the hour, it is ask candle
anything or we have a rip roaring good time embarrassing
me And that's the whole purpose. A story about immigration.
And this is out of the San Francisco Chronicle. A kid,
a guy by now a man named Alex Galago, grew
up in Columbia, a small mountain city, and he came
(00:31):
the United States because of the armed conflict in the
eighties and nineties. So he immigrated to Stamford, Connecticut, and
when he was fourteen, or when he was fourteen, on
a green card sponsored by his dad, didn't speak a.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Word of English.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Today he's a CEO and founder of a billion dollar startup.
This is a red Panda, one of many immigrant startup
founders in the Bay Area. The new study just came
out by a non part in research organization, National Foundation
for American Policy, show that fifty nine percent of Unicorn
(01:07):
companies Unicorn companies are privately held startups with valuations over
a billion dollars, fifty nine percent of them have an
immigrant founder or co founder.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
In the Bay area.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Those startups, which are home to almost half of the
unicorns in the country, sixty nine percent have an immigrant founder,
and the list includes some companies you may know SpaceX
founded by South African immigrant Elon Musk, Anthropic founded by
(01:46):
a couple of Brits, and you've got Stripe co founded
by Irish born brothers. And the research indicates that more
open immigration policies will produce more startups, including cutting edge
companies that transform industries, sati satisfied customers, employ Americans. In
(02:10):
Vidia is one of the companies. Intel another company by
immigrants that have come here. Howard Lutnik, Commerce Secretary of
the Trump administration, has called the H one B visa.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
The H one B visa. Used to cost a.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Few hundred dollars for a company to bring in a
furn or a foreign immigrant that highly skilled because the
company tried but couldn't find enough skilled labor, so they
brought in overseas people. Now it's gone from a few
hundred dollars to one hundred thousand dollars visa application fee
(02:49):
one hundred thousand dollars, which means only major major companies
can do this. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has called the
H one B visa a scale that lets foreign workers
take American jobs. Wow, yeah, for sure, because we don't
(03:11):
like immigrants, no matter how much and how valuable they
are to this country. And a quick story about what
happened to my family as an immigrant. Obviously not a startup,
obviously not very wealthy. I grew up in a middle
class home and my parents or my dad, had applied
to come to America in nineteen forty five, right after
(03:34):
World War Two. He had fought in the war and
was a spoke perfect Italian, spoke a bunch of languages,
so he was an interpreter for the Italian government in
the courts, and he applied to come to the United States.
There was a quota system. It took him eleven years
to come to the United States, and the application followed
(03:55):
him to Brazil, where I was born. And they tell
me the story of finally their application had come through,
and in those days, you would go to the consulate.
In this case it was the consulate American consulate in
sam Paulo to get your green card, and they came
into the United States with the green card and became
(04:19):
US citizens.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
The moment they could.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I mean, there was no issue of them becoming American citizens,
and they said that the immigration officer who issued that
green card said to them, you're the kind of people
America wants and needs. This is the American dream, and
we welcome you. My dad was an electrical engineer. My
(04:44):
mother was a dentist. My dad couldn't use his engineering
degree because all of his records disappeared during the war
when he was a university student, and he didn't speak
one word of English. My mom was a dentist in Brazil,
of states with him.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Didn't speak a word of.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
English, and she was a dentist and in those days,
there wasn't these dental boards or medical boards where you
could come in and test into your profession didn't exist,
so she couldn't practice dentistry, and so she ended up
being a laboratory technologist. And till the moment they died,
(05:25):
they never regretted coming to this country. Ever, today there
wouldn't be a chance of them coming in. And a
lot of people are arguing that the policy today of immigrants,
we think of immigrants as illegal immigrants crossing the border,
and the argument that the administration is saying we only
(05:49):
want We don't want illegal immigrants. We want immigrants that
have skills that come over here. Legally, you can't, it
doesn't exist. Okay, you've heard the phrase, well, I certainly have.
What would Jesus do? I mean that is sort of
a given A question now is what would Jesus drink?
(06:10):
There are drink brands out there such as yahweh a
drink or Praise Energy that the owners say they're raising
awareness for Christianity, and well, they're treating Jesus like an
uncopyrighted Mickey Mouse. You can't copyright Jesus now at this point.
And if you've noticed the trend, every celebrity, every influencer,
(06:32):
appears to be chasing the same prize. We are in
the era of celebrity beverages. There is no more high
end celebrity out there than Jesus. And you don't have
to pay for the rights. There are no copyrights. Copyright
laws have long since gone. Kim Kardashian has Update Energy drinks.
(06:56):
John Andhank Green have the Awesome Coffee Club. Blake Lively
sells sparkling grapefruit juice. Even Danny DeVito is the face
of Lemonceello well, why are beverages these drinks so endorsable? Well,
this is a great article by the way. They came
out of the Guardian in England. We're not willing to
(07:19):
trust Hulk Hogan over dinner plans, but how to quick
boost during the day, Why not? How about a slam
a can of Hogan. Energy drinks are profitable, low risk
and especially right for celebrity endorsements. So it's become one
(07:39):
of the easiest, most popular markets for influencers and celebrities
to dip into. Okay, so now the mega celeb of
all time is in the beverage game. Beverage companies have
enlisted his aid his drink if you will all right,
Jesus actually is somewhat of a branding problem. First of all,
(08:04):
too many people haven't actually heard the message. And according
to the creator of Yahweh Drink, God put it in
our hearts to specifically preach the gospel through an energy drink.
So he said that Christ has been putting energy drinks
on people's hearts lately, but not so much in their kitchen.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
According to the owner here, the main mission is brand awareness.
There's blessed berry heavy medicinal notes probably not the strongest missionary.
Matter of fact, the aftertaste is not terrific. It's like
(08:50):
Jehovah witnesses Evan evangelicizing at your door. Even after your said, hey,
I'm not interested, I'm agnostic, it doesn't stop them. There
is a Christian energy drink. It's recommend preaching peach from
a company called a GAP, and it tastes like peach,
(09:15):
you know, for fans of Christ dying for our sins.
Yahweh has zero calories. A gape has ten.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Not all of the Gate flavors are as good as
preaching peach. Yeah, the very one is much much better.
And each case of a Gape comes with a single
sleeve cardboard gift box difined designed for use you can
use directly for evangelism.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Evangelicalism? Is that right? And a Gate costs forty dollars
for a twenty pack. That's a little pricey to say
the least. Now, with no.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Depiction of g on the can, you've got the flavor
gospel gummy tastes like a gummy worm.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's very strong. I like that, huh? All right?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
For gv N the number four GVN for it sounds
like a license plate, doesn't it look like it?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
For given?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
There's also Praise Energy and the mascot is Zion the Lion,
and it's a cartoon lion on the can sporting and
I Love Jesus T shirt and high top sneakers. There's
Air Lion that's h G I R Lion and also
(10:42):
is a cartoon lion with I Love Jesus T shirt
and high top sneak sneakers. And so are these brands
helping raise awareness for Christianity or are they just grabbing
a megastar? You don't have to pay any royals to
you too. It turns out that Jesus really does enjoy
(11:03):
a near universal brand recognition. So in some cases you
have Jesus a picture of Jesus on the can. Others
you just happen to have a well. In one case,
a gave is just the name of Gavi and then
a Christian phrase or a quote from the gospel. There's
(11:24):
also a company, a Jewish company that all they have
is a dollar sign on the can, and that's easy
to figure out. There's a an Irish one that shows
people leaving a bar completely drunk. I can go forever
on this one. I can literally go forever on this.
(11:46):
And I'm not even going to go into the Korean
drink because now I'm not going to go there. I
get it, I get it. Can't do that understood. Everybody's
shaking their heads. Wonder what's on the can on that one? Huh? Okay,
it is time for ask Candle anything, and how do
we do it? Every week during the week, you go
to the iHeartRadio app during the show and you click
(12:09):
onto the Bill Handle show and there I am, or
there the show is, and you click onto the microphone
or record your questions, and it's all about embarrassing me.
So let's start cone question number one.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Hey Bill, good morning. I've been listening to you for decades.
I've heard a lot of very good crews that you've had.
This crew is by far my favorite of all. And
my question is how do they how are they chosen? Like,
how do you end up with Neil and Amy and
(12:43):
Cono And is that any part of your decision or
doing or is that all arranged for you?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
So you can say they are the chosen people, where
in actually, in actuality, I'm the only one that's part
of the Chosen people. No, No, I have nothing to
say about it. I have veto power, but that's it.
And you're right, this is the best crew I've ever had. Okay, guys,
that's the last time I'm going to say that we're
(13:13):
done after this.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's crue.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Something really quick interesting about Anne because I hired Anne.
Anne is somebody that I interviewed several years before, and
we didn't have a position for her at the time.
But when I interviewed her, I said to myself, if
I ever need a producer for Handle, she's the one
I'm gonna call.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Her.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Resume stayed on my desk for several years.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
They did, and finally, yeah, finally she lost her other
job and Michelle sent a letter offering the job to her.
But dumpsters at the back of restaurants don't have addresses unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, next question, Bill, are you sure you're not getting
yoga class? Come confused with yogurt class? Jo wondering about that. Yeah, well,
I don't like yogurt and yoga. I had a yoga class.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yes, I actually had the yoga teacher come to my
house because when I'm in class, I can't begin to
deal with it. And it's the hardest thing I've ever done.
My God, I hate yoga. And when I go to
the yoga class at the gym, it's these people that
you know, they can bend themselves into all kinds of
(14:26):
different knots, which I don't understand. It drives me completely crazy,
but very clever yogurt class instead of yoga class. Clearly,
you make a living making up these little phrases, don't you. Okay,
next question.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Hey, good morning, Bill. I have a question for you.
I'm just about your age, and I sit quite a
bit and I drive a lot too well. Last year
I grew a large external hemorrhoid about the size and
shape of an almond. So my question is do you
ever get hemorrhoids? And can you share the experience with us?
That's it?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Oh, very nice, that's not a personal question at all,
And the answer is yes. As a matter of fact,
I've had two of them for many years that I've
actually named. I regard them as pets, and they're Haimi
and Raymundo is what they are, and they pop up
(15:20):
occasionally and I say, hello, pets.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You know that's what I do.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
That's the most disgusting question I think I've had in
a very very long time. I just want to point
that out.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay, one more.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Bill click question.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Do you ever catch yourself using your radio voice in
real life and then you realize people are quietly judging you.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I don't have a radio voice.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
My voice is my voice, all right, So guys on
the show, do I have a radio voice?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Nope, you do not. You're very loud, I am, I'm
very loud. Yeah. Hey, Bill, So it seems like you
don't really like our president.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
I'm a Trump. If anybody on the planet could be
the president, who.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Would you pick?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Oh? Good question, by the way, very good question. Well,
a couple of people that are no longer around that
I'd rather have as president. Charles Manson, for example, is
one of them.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Alive?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Oh, they have to be around. I you know, who
would I pick? Former presidents? I would probably pick Teddy
Roosevelt or that he's not around anymore. I like Barack Obama.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Twenty second Amendment. You have to do it, you can't
break the rules. Well, no, Teddy Roosevelt, that I did
not break the rules. You're saying you have Obama. You
can't have Obama. That's true. No, that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Do you know what talk about all I can talk
about who I like for the next election.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
And I happen to like Pete Boudagic.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Not that he'll ever get elected because we're not ready
for a gay president in this country. But that's who
i'd like. But that's a very good question. I haven't
really thought about who would I like to be president?
You know, uh, maybe Putin? Yeah, No, probably not Mary. Okay, yeah, Putin.
(17:15):
That's right. He's not a native worn American, that's right.
He would have to be naturalized. I can't be president
otherwise I would choose me because I'm not a native
born American either.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Okay, Moving on, Bill, you own a business where you
sell cookwaar and you import from China. Trump put a
tariff on that, and I think you had to pay
a big tariff. But then the judge said that tariff
is no good. Did you get any money back from
the no tariff?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
How do you think other businesses are doing with the
tariffs that Trump laid out?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, the application is already the second that the court
ruled that the tariffs were illegal. Our application went in
because we were hit with tariffs for over one hundred percent,
and so it cost us a money, so we'll see
what happens. And I think there are hundreds of thousands
of businesses at this point that have already applied for
(18:07):
relief from the tariffs. I mean there's a lot of it.
They figure out what one hundred and seventy billion dollars,
So yeah, it hit pretty hard.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It did.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Hey Bill, with this movie Disclosure Day coming out about aliens.
If they offered you to take a ride on the
spaceship and go to their planet but you couldn't come
back and it's only you and a handful of reporters,
would you go.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I'm going to try to list what are the ten
most stupid questions that I have been asked on handle
on ask handle anything, And that's pretty close to the
top one.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
If what I go? Okay? Next question, I don't remember
hearing Clark Howard on your show lately, so just wondering
if you've cut ties with him or what's up.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Thanks Clark Howard, by the way, who a lot of
people don't know, is a consumer reporter, probably the top
consumer reporter in the country. No, he just decided he
was not going to do uh this this interview. It
was just too much in his way. And no, we're
still very very good friends, and I talked to him
on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
And I've got.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Great Clark Howard stories that I've shared many times. But
I won't now, Good.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Marning, Billy, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Just wondering. I'm a big fan of start.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
On, hold on, hold on. We do not call me billy. Okay,
I'm not a billy. I'm not a Willie. Okay, I
am either William or Bill. Okay, let's do the question.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Good Marning Billy, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Just wondering.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I'm a big fan of Costco, like you, but I
find myself taking a lot of stuff back. Do you
ever take anything back? I mean, it's truly easy. I
take the stuff back.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
There it's been four or five years, agold.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Do you take stuff back?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
And there is?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Your wife takes stuff back. And also I send a
lot of stuff back to Amazon. That's just me. Let
me go, okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Costco returns constantly. Here's a little secret that I've discovered.
You can get one of their rotisserie chickens for five
dollars and you can eat half of it and return
the other half and they'll refund your money, but you
didn't know that. Yes, and Amazon, by the way, that's
not true Amazon. Yes, the returns are constant in my house.
(20:38):
I mean, if there aren't two or three boxes from
Amazon on the porch, first of all, two or three
boxes is a light day. So yes, to Costco. Yeah,
I've returned virtually everything to Costco generally not food obviously,
but I buy my clothes at Costco. And the problem
is you can't try the clothes on. So I try
different sizes and I wear to Xcel or an Excel
(21:01):
and it depends on how it's cut, and the same
thing with pants, and.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So Okay, there we go. That was a much question.
Not bad.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
So we've had questions all the way from complete utter
idiocy into some pretty decent questions.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Okay, we're done, guys. That's it. All right.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It's Friday, which means Gary and Shannon are up next
and tomorrow morning Handle on the Law, and we're all
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(21:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
It is a Friday morning, June fifth.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
At the bottom of the hour, it is ask candle
anything or we have a rip roaring good time embarrassing
me And that's the whole purpose. A story about immigration.
And this is out of the San Francisco Chronicle. A kid,
a guy by now a man named Alex Galago, grew
up in Columbia, a small mountain city, and he came
(00:31):
the United States because of the armed conflict in the
eighties and nineties. So he immigrated to Stamford, Connecticut, and
when he was fourteen, or when he was fourteen, on
a green card sponsored by his dad, didn't speak a.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Word of English.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Today he's a CEO and founder of a billion dollar startup.
This is a red Panda, one of many immigrant startup
founders in the Bay Area. The new study just came
out by a non part in research organization, National Foundation
for American Policy, show that fifty nine percent of Unicorn
(01:07):
companies Unicorn companies are privately held startups with valuations over
a billion dollars, fifty nine percent of them have an
immigrant founder or co founder.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
In the Bay area.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Those startups, which are home to almost half of the
unicorns in the country, sixty nine percent have an immigrant founder,
and the list includes some companies you may know SpaceX
founded by South African immigrant Elon Musk, Anthropic founded by
(01:46):
a couple of Brits, and you've got Stripe co founded
by Irish born brothers. And the research indicates that more
open immigration policies will produce more startups, including cutting edge
companies that transform industries, sati satisfied customers, employ Americans. In
(02:10):
Vidia is one of the companies. Intel another company by
immigrants that have come here. Howard Lutnik, Commerce Secretary of
the Trump administration, has called the H one B visa.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
The H one B visa. Used to cost a.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Few hundred dollars for a company to bring in a
furn or a foreign immigrant that highly skilled because the
company tried but couldn't find enough skilled labor, so they
brought in overseas people. Now it's gone from a few
hundred dollars to one hundred thousand dollars visa application fee
(02:49):
one hundred thousand dollars, which means only major major companies
can do this. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has called the
H one B visa a scale that lets foreign workers
take American jobs. Wow, yeah, for sure, because we don't
(03:11):
like immigrants, no matter how much and how valuable they
are to this country. And a quick story about what
happened to my family as an immigrant. Obviously not a startup,
obviously not very wealthy. I grew up in a middle
class home and my parents or my dad, had applied
to come to America in nineteen forty five, right after
(03:34):
World War Two. He had fought in the war and
was a spoke perfect Italian, spoke a bunch of languages,
so he was an interpreter for the Italian government in
the courts, and he applied to come to the United States.
There was a quota system. It took him eleven years
to come to the United States, and the application followed
(03:55):
him to Brazil, where I was born. And they tell
me the story of finally their application had come through,
and in those days, you would go to the consulate.
In this case it was the consulate American consulate in
sam Paulo to get your green card, and they came
into the United States with the green card and became
(04:19):
US citizens.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
The moment they could.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I mean, there was no issue of them becoming American citizens,
and they said that the immigration officer who issued that
green card said to them, you're the kind of people
America wants and needs. This is the American dream, and
we welcome you. My dad was an electrical engineer. My
(04:44):
mother was a dentist. My dad couldn't use his engineering
degree because all of his records disappeared during the war
when he was a university student, and he didn't speak
one word of English. My mom was a dentist in Brazil,
of states with him.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Didn't speak a word of.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
English, and she was a dentist and in those days,
there wasn't these dental boards or medical boards where you
could come in and test into your profession didn't exist,
so she couldn't practice dentistry, and so she ended up
being a laboratory technologist. And till the moment they died,
(05:25):
they never regretted coming to this country. Ever, today there
wouldn't be a chance of them coming in. And a
lot of people are arguing that the policy today of immigrants,
we think of immigrants as illegal immigrants crossing the border,
and the argument that the administration is saying we only
(05:49):
want We don't want illegal immigrants. We want immigrants that
have skills that come over here. Legally, you can't, it
doesn't exist. Okay, you've heard the phrase, well, I certainly have.
What would Jesus do? I mean that is sort of
a given A question now is what would Jesus drink?
(06:10):
There are drink brands out there such as yahweh a
drink or Praise Energy that the owners say they're raising
awareness for Christianity, and well, they're treating Jesus like an
uncopyrighted Mickey Mouse. You can't copyright Jesus now at this point.
And if you've noticed the trend, every celebrity, every influencer,
(06:32):
appears to be chasing the same prize. We are in
the era of celebrity beverages. There is no more high
end celebrity out there than Jesus. And you don't have
to pay for the rights. There are no copyrights. Copyright
laws have long since gone. Kim Kardashian has Update Energy drinks.
(06:56):
John Andhank Green have the Awesome Coffee Club. Blake Lively
sells sparkling grapefruit juice. Even Danny DeVito is the face
of Lemonceello well, why are beverages these drinks so endorsable? Well,
this is a great article by the way. They came
out of the Guardian in England. We're not willing to
(07:19):
trust Hulk Hogan over dinner plans, but how to quick
boost during the day, Why not? How about a slam
a can of Hogan. Energy drinks are profitable, low risk
and especially right for celebrity endorsements. So it's become one
(07:39):
of the easiest, most popular markets for influencers and celebrities
to dip into. Okay, so now the mega celeb of
all time is in the beverage game. Beverage companies have
enlisted his aid his drink if you will all right,
Jesus actually is somewhat of a branding problem. First of all,
(08:04):
too many people haven't actually heard the message. And according
to the creator of Yahweh Drink, God put it in
our hearts to specifically preach the gospel through an energy drink.
So he said that Christ has been putting energy drinks
on people's hearts lately, but not so much in their kitchen.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
According to the owner here, the main mission is brand awareness.
There's blessed berry heavy medicinal notes probably not the strongest missionary.
Matter of fact, the aftertaste is not terrific. It's like
(08:50):
Jehovah witnesses Evan evangelicizing at your door. Even after your said, hey,
I'm not interested, I'm agnostic, it doesn't stop them. There
is a Christian energy drink. It's recommend preaching peach from
a company called a GAP, and it tastes like peach,
(09:15):
you know, for fans of Christ dying for our sins.
Yahweh has zero calories. A gape has ten.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Not all of the Gate flavors are as good as
preaching peach. Yeah, the very one is much much better.
And each case of a Gape comes with a single
sleeve cardboard gift box difined designed for use you can
use directly for evangelism.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Evangelicalism? Is that right? And a Gate costs forty dollars
for a twenty pack. That's a little pricey to say
the least. Now, with no.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Depiction of g on the can, you've got the flavor
gospel gummy tastes like a gummy worm.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's very strong. I like that, huh? All right?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
For gv N the number four GVN for it sounds
like a license plate, doesn't it look like it?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
For given?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
There's also Praise Energy and the mascot is Zion the Lion,
and it's a cartoon lion on the can sporting and
I Love Jesus T shirt and high top sneakers. There's
Air Lion that's h G I R Lion and also
(10:42):
is a cartoon lion with I Love Jesus T shirt
and high top sneak sneakers. And so are these brands
helping raise awareness for Christianity or are they just grabbing
a megastar? You don't have to pay any royals to
you too. It turns out that Jesus really does enjoy
(11:03):
a near universal brand recognition. So in some cases you
have Jesus a picture of Jesus on the can. Others
you just happen to have a well. In one case,
a gave is just the name of Gavi and then
a Christian phrase or a quote from the gospel. There's
(11:24):
also a company, a Jewish company that all they have
is a dollar sign on the can, and that's easy
to figure out. There's a an Irish one that shows
people leaving a bar completely drunk. I can go forever
on this one. I can literally go forever on this.
(11:46):
And I'm not even going to go into the Korean
drink because now I'm not going to go there. I
get it, I get it. Can't do that understood. Everybody's
shaking their heads. Wonder what's on the can on that one? Huh? Okay,
it is time for ask Candle anything, and how do
we do it? Every week during the week, you go
to the iHeartRadio app during the show and you click
(12:09):
onto the Bill Handle show and there I am, or
there the show is, and you click onto the microphone
or record your questions, and it's all about embarrassing me.
So let's start cone question number one.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Hey Bill, good morning. I've been listening to you for decades.
I've heard a lot of very good crews that you've had.
This crew is by far my favorite of all. And
my question is how do they how are they chosen? Like,
how do you end up with Neil and Amy and
(12:43):
Cono And is that any part of your decision or
doing or is that all arranged for you?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
So you can say they are the chosen people, where
in actually, in actuality, I'm the only one that's part
of the Chosen people. No, No, I have nothing to
say about it. I have veto power, but that's it.
And you're right, this is the best crew I've ever had. Okay, guys,
that's the last time I'm going to say that we're
(13:13):
done after this.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That's crue.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Something really quick interesting about Anne because I hired Anne.
Anne is somebody that I interviewed several years before, and
we didn't have a position for her at the time.
But when I interviewed her, I said to myself, if
I ever need a producer for Handle, she's the one
I'm gonna call.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Her.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Resume stayed on my desk for several years.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
They did, and finally, yeah, finally she lost her other
job and Michelle sent a letter offering the job to her.
But dumpsters at the back of restaurants don't have addresses unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, next question, Bill, are you sure you're not getting
yoga class? Come confused with yogurt class? Jo wondering about that. Yeah, well,
I don't like yogurt and yoga. I had a yoga class.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yes, I actually had the yoga teacher come to my
house because when I'm in class, I can't begin to
deal with it. And it's the hardest thing I've ever done.
My God, I hate yoga. And when I go to
the yoga class at the gym, it's these people that
you know, they can bend themselves into all kinds of
(14:26):
different knots, which I don't understand. It drives me completely crazy,
but very clever yogurt class instead of yoga class. Clearly,
you make a living making up these little phrases, don't you. Okay,
next question.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Hey, good morning, Bill. I have a question for you.
I'm just about your age, and I sit quite a
bit and I drive a lot too well. Last year
I grew a large external hemorrhoid about the size and
shape of an almond. So my question is do you
ever get hemorrhoids? And can you share the experience with us?
That's it?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Oh, very nice, that's not a personal question at all,
And the answer is yes. As a matter of fact,
I've had two of them for many years that I've
actually named. I regard them as pets, and they're Haimi
and Raymundo is what they are, and they pop up
(15:20):
occasionally and I say, hello, pets.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You know that's what I do.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
That's the most disgusting question I think I've had in
a very very long time. I just want to point
that out.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay, one more.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Bill click question.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Do you ever catch yourself using your radio voice in
real life and then you realize people are quietly judging you.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I don't have a radio voice.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
My voice is my voice, all right, So guys on
the show, do I have a radio voice?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Nope, you do not. You're very loud, I am, I'm
very loud. Yeah. Hey, Bill, So it seems like you
don't really like our president.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
I'm a Trump. If anybody on the planet could be
the president, who.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Would you pick?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Oh? Good question, by the way, very good question. Well,
a couple of people that are no longer around that
I'd rather have as president. Charles Manson, for example, is
one of them.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Alive?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Oh, they have to be around. I you know, who
would I pick? Former presidents? I would probably pick Teddy
Roosevelt or that he's not around anymore. I like Barack Obama.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Twenty second Amendment. You have to do it, you can't
break the rules. Well, no, Teddy Roosevelt, that I did
not break the rules. You're saying you have Obama. You
can't have Obama. That's true. No, that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Do you know what talk about all I can talk
about who I like for the next election.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
And I happen to like Pete Boudagic.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Not that he'll ever get elected because we're not ready
for a gay president in this country. But that's who
i'd like. But that's a very good question. I haven't
really thought about who would I like to be president?
You know, uh, maybe Putin? Yeah, No, probably not Mary. Okay, yeah, Putin.
(17:15):
That's right. He's not a native worn American, that's right.
He would have to be naturalized. I can't be president
otherwise I would choose me because I'm not a native
born American either.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Okay, Moving on, Bill, you own a business where you
sell cookwaar and you import from China. Trump put a
tariff on that, and I think you had to pay
a big tariff. But then the judge said that tariff
is no good. Did you get any money back from
the no tariff?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
How do you think other businesses are doing with the
tariffs that Trump laid out?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, the application is already the second that the court
ruled that the tariffs were illegal. Our application went in
because we were hit with tariffs for over one hundred percent,
and so it cost us a money, so we'll see
what happens. And I think there are hundreds of thousands
of businesses at this point that have already applied for
(18:07):
relief from the tariffs. I mean there's a lot of it.
They figure out what one hundred and seventy billion dollars,
So yeah, it hit pretty hard.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It did.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Hey Bill, with this movie Disclosure Day coming out about aliens.
If they offered you to take a ride on the
spaceship and go to their planet but you couldn't come
back and it's only you and a handful of reporters,
would you go.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I'm going to try to list what are the ten
most stupid questions that I have been asked on handle
on ask handle anything, And that's pretty close to the
top one.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
If what I go? Okay? Next question, I don't remember
hearing Clark Howard on your show lately, so just wondering
if you've cut ties with him or what's up.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Thanks Clark Howard, by the way, who a lot of
people don't know, is a consumer reporter, probably the top
consumer reporter in the country. No, he just decided he
was not going to do uh this this interview. It
was just too much in his way. And no, we're
still very very good friends, and I talked to him
on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
And I've got.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Great Clark Howard stories that I've shared many times. But
I won't now, Good.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Marning, Billy, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Just wondering. I'm a big fan of start.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
On, hold on, hold on. We do not call me billy. Okay,
I'm not a billy. I'm not a Willie. Okay, I
am either William or Bill. Okay, let's do the question.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Good Marning Billy, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Just wondering.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I'm a big fan of Costco, like you, but I
find myself taking a lot of stuff back. Do you
ever take anything back? I mean, it's truly easy. I
take the stuff back.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
There it's been four or five years, agold.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Do you take stuff back?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
And there is?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Your wife takes stuff back. And also I send a
lot of stuff back to Amazon. That's just me. Let
me go, okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Costco returns constantly. Here's a little secret that I've discovered.
You can get one of their rotisserie chickens for five
dollars and you can eat half of it and return
the other half and they'll refund your money, but you
didn't know that. Yes, and Amazon, by the way, that's
not true Amazon. Yes, the returns are constant in my house.
(20:38):
I mean, if there aren't two or three boxes from
Amazon on the porch, first of all, two or three
boxes is a light day. So yes, to Costco. Yeah,
I've returned virtually everything to Costco generally not food obviously,
but I buy my clothes at Costco. And the problem
is you can't try the clothes on. So I try
different sizes and I wear to Xcel or an Excel
(21:01):
and it depends on how it's cut, and the same
thing with pants, and.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So Okay, there we go. That was a much question.
Not bad.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
So we've had questions all the way from complete utter
idiocy into some pretty decent questions.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Okay, we're done, guys. That's it. All right.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It's Friday, which means Gary and Shannon are up next
and tomorrow morning Handle on the Law, and we're all
back exactly the same as today. We'll be back, same
same time, same station, KFI AM sixty. You've been listening
to the Bill Handle Show Catch My Show Monday through
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