March 13, 2025 • 31 mins
(March 13, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Senate Democrats say they will reject GOP’s funding bill as shutdown draws near. Swatting call draws heavy police presence at Loma Linda Hospital, report of armed suspect unfounded. EPA administrator announces huge rollback of environmental regulations. A Tariff pile-on threatens to escalate a global trade war. CarMax rampage left one paralyzed, records say. Company outlines chilling event. Concerning H5N1 bird flu mutation appears in dairy cows.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Senate Democrats say they will reject GOP’s funding bill as shutdown draws near. Swatting call draws heavy police presence at Loma Linda Hospital, report of armed suspect unfounded. EPA administrator announces huge rollback of environmental regulations. A Tariff pile-on threatens to escalate a global trade war. CarMax rampage left one paralyzed, records say. Company outlines chilling event. Concerning H5N1 bird flu mutation appears in dairy cows.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to kf I Am six forty the Bill
Handle Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps and on
behalf of Neil and Amy and Me and Will and
Ann and Kono. Thank you so much for tuning in.
(00:22):
And I just can't believe I said that. I'm clearly
running a temperature. So I humbly apologize for giving you
that load of crap.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle. There you go.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I just turned my studio mike on. Yeah, we got
an interesting situation. I'm at home, my home studio, and
the internet is down, so or the internet is clicking
or just going in and out.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm freezing everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So that kept you from turning on the mic.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's the technology. It's the on off
switch that's driving me crazy. No, you turn it on,
you're on the air. You turn it off, you're not.
I'm still trying to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I have said many times I don't understand cell phones.
To me, a telephone without a wire to the wall,
I just don't get.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Go out on a high note, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, boy, you.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Can tell I'm well, but I'm the generation that didn't
grow up with computers. So I don't think, for example,
I don't think in terms of, you know, photographing a
document and sending it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I just don't think about that. It just doesn't in
my mind.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Light with a switch and turning on.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know now, the light with the switch I get
because I grew up with that. But I remember when
the first computer. I wasn't very old, but when the
first computer was on Popular Mechanics, and it was the little.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Home set that you built.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You bought the parts and you built this little, tiny, crappy,
no monitor or anything computer. That was the beginning of
the computer rates. I remember Atari's I do remember IBM.
I mean I was around computers.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Where they are. It was there there before I was.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You know, IBM actually created well, the first computer actually
was created during World War Two. Alan Turning invented the
machine that broke the No, there you go, you're out,
that broke the Yeah, that's right, and that's it was
called the Turning Machine. Great movie with Benedict Cumberbund, very
(02:47):
very strong, cumber bed Yeah whatever, you know, he's just good.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I know, that's awesome. Yeah, he really is. In any case.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
That was, and the IBM computers in those days were
and they weren't very powerful relative today. I mean, you've
got a lot more power in a wristwatch and an
Apple fit. But they whole rooms and they used to
put they put him in the middle of the floors
of the executive suite and it was glass walls, and
(03:18):
the operators were these guys in white lab coats.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And it was really secretive and it was really high end.
Big difference today. Okay, did I just digress?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh no, I don't. I've never heard you gress.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Good morning, my connection, my internet connection. Don't you love technology?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And I have a static eyepiece. I even though what
a static ip It's okay, static iPad dress.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So there.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, good morning, that was what nothing?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Good morning, Neil, Good morning, Willie, Wolf and Amy.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Good morning, Good morning, Bill and con No.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I can't see any of you guys. By the way,
so we looked yesterday. I'm running blind.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I look super hot, by the way.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That's yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
On radio, we all look super Actually on radio, Neil
looks thin.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What does that tell you?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
The microphone takes away thirty pounds.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Uh yeah, all right, joined from browser here. All right,
we're gonna try it again, and Cono good morning, and
Will good morning. And I think I hit everybody, didn't I? Yeah,
all right, pretty much? Let me see what's going on.
We got a lot to cover today. Oh, tomorrow's my
last day for a while. Thanks, I'm off and running
(04:44):
to Italy. How unusual for a couple of weeks, two
and a half weeks, And and I don't know who's
filling in on this show for the next two weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's a surprise. Oh, come on, we have surprise because
no one knows yet.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
No, no, no, we have Chris, maryl fright, have Mo
Kelly filling in? Okay, and we have Neil Yeah, yeah,
all right, so it runs the Gamut yep, Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Chris Merrill, who occasionally fills in not part of KFI,
but it has been a fill in for years and years.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He has I think Disney does a show in San Diego.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
No, he has a show in another state. If I
recall from San Diego.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Because the studio.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's modern radio, because you can have studios in different parts.
What is it, Kevin and Bean, We're in different cities
for years and years and years.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
He also does a show here on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh, they pick up a show, so I assume much
a syndicated show.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
No Chris, No, Chris is local. When he does the
show here.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh, I didn't know that, it goes to, well what
does that tell you? Yeah, how long has that been
going on?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
To my embarrassment, Well, it changes on occasion what.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He becomes a woman and then he goes back to
being a man.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Wow, Okay, tomorrow tomorrow, you say so at the end
of the show tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, I'm out the door. I'm out the door.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
And and you know how to unlock it.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Open it if it says push, push, if it says Paul,
Paul right.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And by the way, I'm gonna announce, and I haven't
because I've kept it fairly quiet, because I'm heading into
a little bit of my life being private because it's
been open.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's been an open book for thirty one years. It
will be thirty two years in July that I've been
not talking to you out there in radio land.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Gotta love that phrase.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I'm I'm going to Italy to get married.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
They're here, Nope, Nope, over in Italy yep. And it's
gonna be a lot of fun. It's gonna be a
lot of fun because it's gonna be an outrageous one
it is.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
We'll put some pictures up. I think.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
All right, guys, you ready to do it because we
have a ton of news even though I have no Internet.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay, I can't see you. I can't see you. Guys.
You can go commando for all you know. You can
do what I do.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You know, And that's half the time all see each other.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, but not below the waist. So that's.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
And telling on me.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I know you see there you go. Oh God, I
love this. People are wondering what's going on. Okay, let's
do it, guys. Time for handle on the news on
this very rainy Thursday, March thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Let's do it. Neil and Amy and me lead.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Story, I say, And it looks like the Senate is
going to say no to that governmental funding bill that
the Republicans passed through Congress precisely what President Trump wanted,
and the Speaker Mike Johnson put it through straight party
lines basically, and the Senate is saying no.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
The Senate Democrats have a lot more control over what
goes on by the virtue of the Senate and filibuster rules, etc.
And they're saying no because they're saying, look what happened
the Republicans that they created the bill. There was no
democratic input at all in the House. So tomorrow night
the government either goes on with a vote and the
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Senate and House somehow come to an agreement, or the
government shuts down. We'll see who it gets to blame
this time around. Usually the Republicans get the blame.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Got a hoax at the hospital.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
There was a report last night of someone with a
gun at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, prompted a massive
police response.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Some of the hospital had to be locked down.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Sheriff Shannons and San Bernardino County said the guy called
nine to one one said he was at the hospital
with an AR fifteen and a bomb, was hearing voices
and the voices were telling him basically to shoot the
place up. So huge response. People inside were told to
hide or stay and fight, and just a scary, scary time.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Turns out it was a hoax. They're saying it's a
swatting call.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Now this is in a hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, right, And I've always thought that something along these lines,
school hospital, et cetera. Whoever does this, when they're caught
should get twenty five years to life and then be
thrown in the general population, and the words should go
out the guy's a child molester and let him deal
with what's going on there.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It is that serious. I mean, you've got that this
is a children's hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I mean, come on, guys, really, and it's probably a misdemeanor.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You know, we're a low level felony.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right, let's go ahead and take a break and
go through some of these fall and I think we
have time for one more for the break.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Promising to drive a dagger through the heart of the
climate change religion, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zelden just
yesterday outline plans for a very aggressive rollback of environmental regulations,
so arguing that you know, deregulation plan would create an
(10:25):
environment where businesses can thrive. This keeps this is a
similar argument for all of these layoffs and everything. Infrastructure
can be built, all these different things.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But until then, yeah, this is and this has to
do with climate change.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Doesn't believe the climate change is even here.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's gone from a hoax to okay, it's here, but
it's not man made to Okay, it's here, but it's
not an existent exit essential.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, not too threat. And so the.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Bottom line is climate change doesn't affect us and we're
not going to deal with it. And industry is far
more important, especially the energy industry and fossil fuels are
here to go. As the President said, it's time to drill, baby, drill,
and that's where we're going. That's what's happening for the
next four years. And climate change is going to get worse.
(11:18):
But it's already there.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I mean, you know, we've.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Gone right into critical mass. I don't know why people
keep on saying scientists, Oh, we can still stop the swing. Okay,
so we're heading towards Army Geddon instead at eighty five
miles an hour, we slow it down to sixty five
miles an hour.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Okay, great, we've got tit for Tat tariffs, a new
round of tariffs has been launched aluminum and steel that
went into effect yesterday, and so then the European Union
responded saying we're going to roll out twenty eight billion
dollars in retaliatory tariffs next month on products including bourbon
(11:56):
that hits, home genes and agricultural products. Britain's trade secretary
said his country would keep all options on the table.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I'll tell you we're about to enter a trade war.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And when President Trump said he's going to shake up
the government, man, he was serious. Now, the only thing
is day one prices were going to be dropped.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
By the first year, they're going to go in half.
Well not quite, it's going to go the other way.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
So now the President has said, Okay, we're going to
have a slight amount of time, a small amount of
time while we adjust. That's a big difference from prices
are going to be dropping.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
They're not. All right, let's move on. Can were talking
to a lot more about this go ahead.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
It's a crazy, crazy story.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
If you saw the footage of this customer at the
CarMax they're in Inglewood suddenly and erradically turned and reversed
his SUV into the dealership showroom just on Saturday afternoon.
Suspected driver twenty five year old Andrew Jesus Arroyo. He
injured an employee, several customers and it was I just
(13:09):
utter chaos. So the vehicle ended up speeding away. Royo
turned himself into the authorities. The Englewood Police said eight
people were injured in the chaos, Two were taking trauma
centers with critical injuries, and one person is left paralyzed. Oh,
and they said that he was unhappy with what they
(13:33):
offered him for his vehicle, which is strange because CarMax
does a good jobs with them. Yeah they yah.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I've sold Carmacks a couple of times and they're great.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
So I don't know if there was a secondary episode
or something going on, but scary, it was.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Pretty chaotic.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
Did you say, Neil that he went to get a quote? Yes, okay,
all right, sorry, I was distracted.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
No, not a problem.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Okay, that's my job, by the way. Oh, okay, being distracted.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
So the virus is doing what viruses do, and it's mutating.
We're talking about the H five N one bird flu virus.
Scientists sounding alarms. There's a genetic mutation recently identified in
four dairy cow herds, nearly a year after we got
our first cases of H five N one bird flu.
(14:29):
This one is believed to have been located in San
Bernardino County.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
They're saying that they're worried about it because it's associated
with increased mammal to mammal transmission and also a more
severe disease.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
All right, so we know that in the bird population,
particularly which affects us hens and eggs, which is why
egg prices have just exploded.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Hundreds of millions of.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Birds I have been destroyed when this thing goes ahead
and transfers to human beings like what COVID did. How
many hundreds of millions of Americans you think are gonna
have to be destroyed to stop this from going?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well? Are we chicking? Kno?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Before he comes in in the morning. Didn't that take
place in San Burdu.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That's county. It's a big county.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
What city do you live in?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Cono?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Oh? So Lomlna is not Methland. That's uh the other cities.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Right, Yeah, that's more like Fontana, Hemmett.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Fontana's looking great these days.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Do we have listeners in Fontana?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I'm sure yes?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Okay, so I can't. I can't refer to it as
Fontucky the way a lot of people do.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I will tell you if you've driven through uh Fontana.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I have, and I did it very quickly.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I might add both in terms of fear and turn
of being high on meth.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I think it's quite lovely. Well, there's I've never been.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Actually, I think I went once to the racetrack. Wasn't
there a really great racetrack in Fontana? And is it
still around?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
What kind of racetrack are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
The kind of car Nascar? I went once there or
some event. It wasn't cars, it was you know, something there.
I remember what it was.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
All right, let's move on, sure.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
The Ninth Court, a circuit court of appeals, has ruled
that more than sixteen hundred sexual assault cases against Uber
will be allowed to continue before a single San Francisco judge.
This is a move that has massive, far reaching implications
for the right healing app.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
And others.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I mean, this kind of can go across any home
sharing type platforms.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, the walking services. Yeah, they haven't screened enough. They
haven't vetted enough. Now, the legal part of this is
interesting because the I said we're going to take all
sixteen hundred and consolidate and put them into one case.
What Uber is saying, Oh no, they're stopping it, saying no,
we want to separate every case, and that means sixteen
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hundred individual cases. They all get their own lawyers. But
it's a good thing for them that they have to
get their own lawyer as opposed to a mass representation
or a mass lawsuit, because each case could be heard
on its own merits rather than in one clearing house proceeding.
So we're doing you a favor by saying we don't consolidate,
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because that's what we really care about you as plaintiffs
suing us. That's the most important thing is protecting you.
Doesn't sound like a lot about the pharmaceutical industries. We
want to raise prices to help you. That's why we're
against any regulation.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
To do sixteen hundred cases.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Now, they would all do it on contingency, but it
would be crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, and this makes sense. It's the same argument. It's
the same argument.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's effectively going to be a class action suit or
you have do that.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Though, Bill, I mean, how do you say that sixteen
hundred individuals are.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Because it's all guilty or all not guilty.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Because you're arguing it's a question of damages and it's
a consolidation.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Otherwise it is. And that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And if someone if it hasn't happened, then no one
shows if someone is innocent, there are no damages.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
If one of the sixteen hundred is yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh yeah, I mean that's because everybody has to show damages.
There will be if it was a class action, there
will be a series of awards all the way from
really egregious actions. It just speeds up the court. It
stops sixteen hundred individual lawsuits. And most cases they won't
go to court. Most cases there won't be a lawyer
(18:45):
and there will be no representation. And that's why the consolidation,
and in this case, Uber is saying we're.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Going to help you by you not having a lawyer.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
It's crazy Sonny and Butch not coming home early or
maybe not, or maybe they're back to their original delayed return,
not quite clear on.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
That, or maybe it will never come home.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Oh no, they're coming home. They were planning on coming
home at the end of March. So there was this
big holea balloo to get them get up there and
get them back, and so they tried to launch a
SpaceX rocket up to the International Space Station yesterday. They
had to scrub that. NASA said, it's not because of
anything with the spacecraft.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
It's fine.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
It had to do with some hydraulics that control the
clamps that hold the rocket uplight. So they upright, So
they scrubbed the launch that was supposed to happen yesterday.
Now it could happen on Friday. And then when they
come home, they'll be coming home with our buddy Nick Haig,
then Space Force guardian and NASA astronaut that that has
(19:43):
has become a friend of the radio station.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, actually a friend of yours. You talk to them
all the time.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Yeah, Well, I tried to get another interview with him
before they came home, but they said, no, he doesn't
have time. And it's because of stuff like this that
Colonel Haget told us. They plan for everything to go wrong,
so they're ready for it, and they're just and they're
always working on contingency.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
So now they're just adjusting again.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
But how can you for that small of a turnaround,
how can you plan for them being up there for
months and months and months.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Well, there's there's enough provisions up there, and they get
shipments with supplieslies and all that stuff, and they've got
so many experiments that they can do.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, they do stuff. It's it's legit. I mean it's
they make the most out of it. Yeah, and it's
not like it's wasted time.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
And when Colonel Hagu went up, he was supposed to
go up with four people, but they changed the mission
and they just went up with two so that it
wouldn't be too crowded when they were up there.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah. And there's a long wait to come back.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I mean it's if it's not planned for astronauts to
come back at a certain time and they don't make it,
then the wait is very long.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It's like the southern border. It's very, very difficult to
get in.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Oh, there's an analogy for you. Let's move on.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Sure, more regulations and rollbacks and everything else going on
right now. The FCC is planning a new effort to
roll back regulations on the tech. I can hear you
by the way, hand a hand all.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
He took his headphones up. You can hear you.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Handle We can hear you folk it there you go. Well,
your mic is still on. How did how did Lindsey sleep?
For Christ's sake?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
If I didn't ask, I just I just mentioned that
the I was able to reboot the internet, and I
was proud of the fast Okay, I'm just she walked
in the door, and I'm just saying I'm proud of myself.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I've never been able to do that. I become a techno, maving.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Very focused regulation on tech.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Oh yeah, we're doing news, aren't weans? Yeah? Okay, thanks?
Moving on.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
A bunch of craft going on in Washington.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That's it, FCC. Did you mention that?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay, under the new FCC.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Rules, this show off the air.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I know, well, under deregulation, I can do this and
not get nailed for it.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You'll be able to do anything.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
They basically want the public's comments on every rule, regulation,
or guidance document that the FCC should eliminate for the
purposes of alleviating unnecessarily you know, the regulation burdens is
what they're looking at in all of these things across
the fort.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
So does that mean we're gonna be able to say
the seven words?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Uh? Yeah, no, no, no necessarily seven words.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
But this show will be able to be uh scatological, depraved, racist?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Oh wait a minute, aren't we that already?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
We Yeah, it's the Royal Wei's if we are, it's
the Royal wi.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
It's when the king goes we are not amused.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
I see, okay, Uh, officials are not amused about this guy.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
What you wanted this for? Who knows?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
But federal investigators with a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
offering a reward up to twenty thousand dollars to get
information that to find the guy who cut off the
head of a sea lion on Christmas Day. It happened
at Doran Regional Park north of San Francisco. A park
staff member apparently had spotted a sea lion. It was
(23:22):
already dead and washed ashore, which happens sometimes. So then
somebody saw a guy use a black eight inch knife
to remove the sea lion's head. He put it in
a clear plastic bag and rode away on a bicycle.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
M that's kind of bizarre.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
It's illegal too.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I think the story here is that federal investigators with
noah will not have a job next week, so no
one has to worry about it. You can cut the
heads off all the dead sea lions you want. No harm,
no foul, Oh, no harm, because is already dead and
it's not a bird that works.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
No harm, no foul.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
All that is holy.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Okay, why don't we move on let's not move on.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Why don't we stop right there for this segment and
then we're going to come back and I'll try to
think of something even more clever because it hasn't worked
out too well.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
This morning.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I made a desert desert diorama with my eight year
old boy yesterday. That was much easier than dealing with you.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Well, it is time, you know, it is time to
move on.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
President Donald Trump has retaliation on his mind, apparently against
a prominent Democratic link law firm, and a judge ruled
yesterday that it is slightly unconstitutional. So the US District
Judge Beryl Howell blocked the Trump administration from enforcing central
provisions of an executive order that seek to punish the
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law firm.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Is it Perkins COI? Yeah, I e.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
By barring its attorneys from federal agencies or even entering
federal buildings.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, no, it's not wild.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
So not only can you not deal with any federal agency,
right a plaintiff, for example, suing the Department of Transportation. Nope,
not gonna let you do it. And you can't even
walk in the federal building. Yeah, it's a little bit tough. Now,
that's just short of going to the state bar saying,
and the federal government wants you to disbar these attorneys
(25:30):
because they have sued the Trump administration. But I mean, remember, yeah,
retaliation is coming big time, coming up across the board retribution.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Orange County amy protections for kids of yet to be
deported parents.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
They're preparing for it.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Orange County supervisors have approved a resolution to get ready for.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
A possible surge and children.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Left without guardians because of immigration enforcement. The supervisor, let's see,
Supervisor Vincente Sarmiento, said the reason for the resolution was
because they were getting inquiries from school officials about what
was being done to plan for a potential increase in
the number of kids who are left without their parents
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if the parents get deported.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
And he's yeah, the one, the one supervisor voted against
the resolution, asked how many kids were actually separated, how
many kids were abandoned.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And in the past ten years due to deportation?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
None, Okay, Well, it's one of those things where the
court asks And I went through that in the appeals
court on a sperm sperm donation law that I was
fighting constitutionally, and the court asked me. The appeals court
said how many people were actually precluded as a result
of this law that you're arguing is unconstitutional. Well none, Okay,
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why don't you come back when someone actually has been affected?
And that's what this situation is. Makes sense, But this
is a resolution, not a court case. So resolution passed,
all right, the eternal eternal? Hey, pretty much.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
The Internal Revenue Service ordered most of it's approximately twenty
thousand customer service employees back to the office this week.
You know, they've been doing the hybrid and the remote
work and all that stuff for a long time. There's
just one problem. The IRS didn't have enough desks to
seat them all. So they kind of went and said,
(27:41):
never mind, we'll postpone this until further notice. So it
basically came back and either they've hired more in that time,
or they got rid of some of the desk space.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Whatever it was, there was no place to sit.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, this is one where I don't understand the Trump administration.
Under Biden, the number of IRS agents and employees grew
from eighty thousand to twenty twenty one to one hundred
thousand today. And Trump is cutting, cutting, cutting, and wants
to reduce the IRS as well as all the other
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governmental agencies. This is the agency that collects money for
the government. And considering that the Republicans want to cut expenses,
there's two ways.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Of doing it.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Either you get more money in revenue goes up, or
you make it less expensive to operate. Well, this one
is it's going to create more revenue. And they're saying, no,
wait a minute, the IRS. So I truly don't understand
this one. This is not a political issue. I just
don't get this one.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
He doesn't need the IRS. He's got Musk Musky's.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
But that's cutting But I get it, But that's cutting expenses.
Musk is not about generating more revenue. It is about
cutting expenses. Okay, that's doge. But the IRS brings money in.
It's like any business if you will, and that is
you can have more money one of two waights. You
cut expenses or you get more money, or a combination
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of the two.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I don't get why the IRS isn't given as literally
as much power and as many agents, as much resources
that it needs to collect money.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You know, the scoff laws.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
They figure hundreds of billions of dollars is left on
the table.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
All right, I just that part. I just don't understand
and we're done.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Oh, we don't get to do the hardest steel guy.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Let's do the hardest steel guy.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
So, an Australian man lived for one hundred days with
an artificial titanium heart while he waited for a donor transplant.
This is the longest period of time that someone has
lived with this technology. He became the first person ever
to leave a hospital with a titanium heart, and that
it kept him alive until he got his heart last month.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Now, let me okay, let me go back into the
history the first heart. The first patient to have an
artificial heart was a guy named Barney Clark and that
was nineteen eighty two. He lasted over a hundred He
lasted longer than that and then he ended up dying.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So you know, the technology is better.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But the one hundred and twelve days, the trigg is
how much longer would it have lasted waiting for a heart.
And they didn't say, well, you know, we have a
heart for you, but let's figure out how long you
can last before you die on this one.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
So we don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And you're right about the technology it's a titanium which
hadn't been used before.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
But it was oh, it was one hundred and twelve days.
I think that Barney Clark lasted with the first artificial
heart before popping off.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
And that was like a plastic or composite of something that.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
It was the Jarvik, something hard. I don't have paper mache,
and just a bunch of stuff. I don't know what
it was made out of.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
That would have been.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, I wouldn't have lasted that long, but you could
do all kinds of fun shapes with it in different colors.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Okay, we're done, guys.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yeah whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So anyway, and this is kind of an interesting heart
because there are really no valves or there's only one.
So okay, KF I am six forty. You've been listening
to the Bill Handle Show. Catch My Show Monday through Friday,
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And I just can't believe I said that. I'm clearly
running a temperature. So I humbly apologize for giving you
that load of crap.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle. There you go.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I just turned my studio mike on. Yeah, we got
an interesting situation. I'm at home, my home studio, and
the internet is down, so or the internet is clicking
or just going in and out.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm freezing everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So that kept you from turning on the mic.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's the technology. It's the on off
switch that's driving me crazy. No, you turn it on,
you're on the air. You turn it off, you're not.
I'm still trying to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I have said many times I don't understand cell phones.
To me, a telephone without a wire to the wall,
I just don't get.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Go out on a high note, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, boy, you.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Can tell I'm well, but I'm the generation that didn't
grow up with computers. So I don't think, for example,
I don't think in terms of, you know, photographing a
document and sending it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I just don't think about that. It just doesn't in
my mind.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Light with a switch and turning on.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know now, the light with the switch I get
because I grew up with that. But I remember when
the first computer. I wasn't very old, but when the
first computer was on Popular Mechanics, and it was the little.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Home set that you built.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You bought the parts and you built this little, tiny, crappy,
no monitor or anything computer. That was the beginning of
the computer rates. I remember Atari's I do remember IBM.
I mean I was around computers.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Where they are. It was there there before I was.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You know, IBM actually created well, the first computer actually
was created during World War Two. Alan Turning invented the
machine that broke the No, there you go, you're out,
that broke the Yeah, that's right, and that's it was
called the Turning Machine. Great movie with Benedict Cumberbund, very
(02:47):
very strong, cumber bed Yeah whatever, you know, he's just good.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I know, that's awesome. Yeah, he really is. In any case.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
That was, and the IBM computers in those days were
and they weren't very powerful relative today. I mean, you've
got a lot more power in a wristwatch and an
Apple fit. But they whole rooms and they used to
put they put him in the middle of the floors
of the executive suite and it was glass walls, and
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the operators were these guys in white lab coats.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And it was really secretive and it was really high end.
Big difference today. Okay, did I just digress?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh no, I don't. I've never heard you gress.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Good morning, my connection, my internet connection. Don't you love technology?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And I have a static eyepiece. I even though what
a static ip It's okay, static iPad dress.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So there.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, good morning, that was what nothing?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Good morning, Neil, Good morning, Willie, Wolf and Amy.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Good morning, Good morning, Bill and con No.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I can't see any of you guys. By the way,
so we looked yesterday. I'm running blind.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I look super hot, by the way.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That's yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
On radio, we all look super Actually on radio, Neil
looks thin.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What does that tell you?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
The microphone takes away thirty pounds.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Uh yeah, all right, joined from browser here. All right,
we're gonna try it again, and Cono good morning, and
Will good morning. And I think I hit everybody, didn't I? Yeah,
all right, pretty much? Let me see what's going on.
We got a lot to cover today. Oh, tomorrow's my
last day for a while. Thanks, I'm off and running
(04:44):
to Italy. How unusual for a couple of weeks, two
and a half weeks, And and I don't know who's
filling in on this show for the next two weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's a surprise. Oh, come on, we have surprise because
no one knows yet.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
No, no, no, we have Chris, maryl fright, have Mo
Kelly filling in? Okay, and we have Neil Yeah, yeah,
all right, so it runs the Gamut yep, Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Chris Merrill, who occasionally fills in not part of KFI,
but it has been a fill in for years and years.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He has I think Disney does a show in San Diego.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
No, he has a show in another state. If I
recall from San Diego.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Because the studio.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's modern radio, because you can have studios in different parts.
What is it, Kevin and Bean, We're in different cities
for years and years and years.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
He also does a show here on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh, they pick up a show, so I assume much
a syndicated show.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
No Chris, No, Chris is local. When he does the
show here.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh, I didn't know that, it goes to, well what
does that tell you? Yeah, how long has that been
going on?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
To my embarrassment, Well, it changes on occasion what.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
He becomes a woman and then he goes back to
being a man.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Wow, Okay, tomorrow tomorrow, you say so at the end
of the show tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, I'm out the door. I'm out the door.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
And and you know how to unlock it.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Open it if it says push, push, if it says Paul,
Paul right.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And by the way, I'm gonna announce, and I haven't
because I've kept it fairly quiet, because I'm heading into
a little bit of my life being private because it's
been open.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's been an open book for thirty one years. It
will be thirty two years in July that I've been
not talking to you out there in radio land.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Gotta love that phrase.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I'm I'm going to Italy to get married.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
They're here, Nope, Nope, over in Italy yep. And it's
gonna be a lot of fun. It's gonna be a
lot of fun because it's gonna be an outrageous one
it is.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
We'll put some pictures up. I think.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
All right, guys, you ready to do it because we
have a ton of news even though I have no Internet.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay, I can't see you. I can't see you. Guys.
You can go commando for all you know. You can
do what I do.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You know, And that's half the time all see each other.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, but not below the waist. So that's.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
And telling on me.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I know you see there you go. Oh God, I
love this. People are wondering what's going on. Okay, let's
do it, guys. Time for handle on the news on
this very rainy Thursday, March thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Let's do it. Neil and Amy and me lead.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Story, I say, And it looks like the Senate is
going to say no to that governmental funding bill that
the Republicans passed through Congress precisely what President Trump wanted,
and the Speaker Mike Johnson put it through straight party
lines basically, and the Senate is saying no.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
The Senate Democrats have a lot more control over what
goes on by the virtue of the Senate and filibuster rules, etc.
And they're saying no because they're saying, look what happened
the Republicans that they created the bill. There was no
democratic input at all in the House. So tomorrow night
the government either goes on with a vote and the
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Senate and House somehow come to an agreement, or the
government shuts down. We'll see who it gets to blame
this time around. Usually the Republicans get the blame.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Got a hoax at the hospital.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
There was a report last night of someone with a
gun at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, prompted a massive
police response.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Some of the hospital had to be locked down.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Sheriff Shannons and San Bernardino County said the guy called
nine to one one said he was at the hospital
with an AR fifteen and a bomb, was hearing voices
and the voices were telling him basically to shoot the
place up. So huge response. People inside were told to
hide or stay and fight, and just a scary, scary time.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Turns out it was a hoax. They're saying it's a
swatting call.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Now this is in a hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, right, And I've always thought that something along these lines,
school hospital, et cetera. Whoever does this, when they're caught
should get twenty five years to life and then be
thrown in the general population, and the words should go
out the guy's a child molester and let him deal
with what's going on there.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It is that serious. I mean, you've got that this
is a children's hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I mean, come on, guys, really, and it's probably a misdemeanor.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You know, we're a low level felony.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right, let's go ahead and take a break and
go through some of these fall and I think we
have time for one more for the break.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Promising to drive a dagger through the heart of the
climate change religion, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zelden just
yesterday outline plans for a very aggressive rollback of environmental regulations,
so arguing that you know, deregulation plan would create an
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environment where businesses can thrive. This keeps this is a
similar argument for all of these layoffs and everything. Infrastructure
can be built, all these different things.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But until then, yeah, this is and this has to
do with climate change.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Doesn't believe the climate change is even here.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's gone from a hoax to okay, it's here, but
it's not man made to Okay, it's here, but it's
not an existent exit essential.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, not too threat. And so the.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Bottom line is climate change doesn't affect us and we're
not going to deal with it. And industry is far
more important, especially the energy industry and fossil fuels are
here to go. As the President said, it's time to drill, baby, drill,
and that's where we're going. That's what's happening for the
next four years. And climate change is going to get worse.
(11:18):
But it's already there.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I mean, you know, we've.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Gone right into critical mass. I don't know why people
keep on saying scientists, Oh, we can still stop the swing. Okay,
so we're heading towards Army Geddon instead at eighty five
miles an hour, we slow it down to sixty five
miles an hour.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Okay, great, we've got tit for Tat tariffs, a new
round of tariffs has been launched aluminum and steel that
went into effect yesterday, and so then the European Union
responded saying we're going to roll out twenty eight billion
dollars in retaliatory tariffs next month on products including bourbon
(11:56):
that hits, home genes and agricultural products. Britain's trade secretary
said his country would keep all options on the table.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I'll tell you we're about to enter a trade war.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And when President Trump said he's going to shake up
the government, man, he was serious. Now, the only thing
is day one prices were going to be dropped.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
By the first year, they're going to go in half.
Well not quite, it's going to go the other way.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
So now the President has said, Okay, we're going to
have a slight amount of time, a small amount of
time while we adjust. That's a big difference from prices
are going to be dropping.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
They're not. All right, let's move on. Can were talking
to a lot more about this go ahead.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
It's a crazy, crazy story.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
If you saw the footage of this customer at the
CarMax they're in Inglewood suddenly and erradically turned and reversed
his SUV into the dealership showroom just on Saturday afternoon.
Suspected driver twenty five year old Andrew Jesus Arroyo. He
injured an employee, several customers and it was I just
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utter chaos. So the vehicle ended up speeding away. Royo
turned himself into the authorities. The Englewood Police said eight
people were injured in the chaos, Two were taking trauma
centers with critical injuries, and one person is left paralyzed. Oh,
and they said that he was unhappy with what they
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offered him for his vehicle, which is strange because CarMax
does a good jobs with them. Yeah they yah.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I've sold Carmacks a couple of times and they're great.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
So I don't know if there was a secondary episode
or something going on, but scary, it was.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Pretty chaotic.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
Did you say, Neil that he went to get a quote? Yes, okay,
all right, sorry, I was distracted.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
No, not a problem.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Okay, that's my job, by the way. Oh, okay, being distracted.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
So the virus is doing what viruses do, and it's mutating.
We're talking about the H five N one bird flu virus.
Scientists sounding alarms. There's a genetic mutation recently identified in
four dairy cow herds, nearly a year after we got
our first cases of H five N one bird flu.
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This one is believed to have been located in San
Bernardino County.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
They're saying that they're worried about it because it's associated
with increased mammal to mammal transmission and also a more
severe disease.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
All right, so we know that in the bird population,
particularly which affects us hens and eggs, which is why
egg prices have just exploded.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Hundreds of millions of.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Birds I have been destroyed when this thing goes ahead
and transfers to human beings like what COVID did. How
many hundreds of millions of Americans you think are gonna
have to be destroyed to stop this from going?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well? Are we chicking? Kno?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Before he comes in in the morning. Didn't that take
place in San Burdu.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That's county. It's a big county.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
What city do you live in?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Cono?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Oh? So Lomlna is not Methland. That's uh the other cities.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Right, Yeah, that's more like Fontana, Hemmett.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Fontana's looking great these days.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Do we have listeners in Fontana?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I'm sure yes?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Okay, so I can't. I can't refer to it as
Fontucky the way a lot of people do.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I will tell you if you've driven through uh Fontana.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I have, and I did it very quickly.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I might add both in terms of fear and turn
of being high on meth.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I think it's quite lovely. Well, there's I've never been.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Actually, I think I went once to the racetrack. Wasn't
there a really great racetrack in Fontana? And is it
still around?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
What kind of racetrack are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
The kind of car Nascar? I went once there or
some event. It wasn't cars, it was you know, something there.
I remember what it was.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
All right, let's move on, sure.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
The Ninth Court, a circuit court of appeals, has ruled
that more than sixteen hundred sexual assault cases against Uber
will be allowed to continue before a single San Francisco judge.
This is a move that has massive, far reaching implications
for the right healing app.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
And others.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I mean, this kind of can go across any home
sharing type platforms.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, the walking services. Yeah, they haven't screened enough. They
haven't vetted enough. Now, the legal part of this is
interesting because the I said we're going to take all
sixteen hundred and consolidate and put them into one case.
What Uber is saying, Oh no, they're stopping it, saying no,
we want to separate every case, and that means sixteen
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hundred individual cases. They all get their own lawyers. But
it's a good thing for them that they have to
get their own lawyer as opposed to a mass representation
or a mass lawsuit, because each case could be heard
on its own merits rather than in one clearing house proceeding.
So we're doing you a favor by saying we don't consolidate,
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because that's what we really care about you as plaintiffs
suing us. That's the most important thing is protecting you.
Doesn't sound like a lot about the pharmaceutical industries. We
want to raise prices to help you. That's why we're
against any regulation.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
To do sixteen hundred cases.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Now, they would all do it on contingency, but it
would be crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, and this makes sense. It's the same argument. It's
the same argument.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's effectively going to be a class action suit or
you have do that.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Though, Bill, I mean, how do you say that sixteen
hundred individuals are.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Because it's all guilty or all not guilty.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Because you're arguing it's a question of damages and it's
a consolidation.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Otherwise it is. And that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And if someone if it hasn't happened, then no one
shows if someone is innocent, there are no damages.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
If one of the sixteen hundred is yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh yeah, I mean that's because everybody has to show damages.
There will be if it was a class action, there
will be a series of awards all the way from
really egregious actions. It just speeds up the court. It
stops sixteen hundred individual lawsuits. And most cases they won't
go to court. Most cases there won't be a lawyer
(18:45):
and there will be no representation. And that's why the consolidation,
and in this case, Uber is saying we're.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Going to help you by you not having a lawyer.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
It's crazy Sonny and Butch not coming home early or
maybe not, or maybe they're back to their original delayed return,
not quite clear on.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
That, or maybe it will never come home.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Oh no, they're coming home. They were planning on coming
home at the end of March. So there was this
big holea balloo to get them get up there and
get them back, and so they tried to launch a
SpaceX rocket up to the International Space Station yesterday. They
had to scrub that. NASA said, it's not because of
anything with the spacecraft.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
It's fine.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
It had to do with some hydraulics that control the
clamps that hold the rocket uplight. So they upright, So
they scrubbed the launch that was supposed to happen yesterday.
Now it could happen on Friday. And then when they
come home, they'll be coming home with our buddy Nick Haig,
then Space Force guardian and NASA astronaut that that has
(19:43):
has become a friend of the radio station.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, actually a friend of yours. You talk to them
all the time.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Yeah, Well, I tried to get another interview with him
before they came home, but they said, no, he doesn't
have time. And it's because of stuff like this that
Colonel Haget told us. They plan for everything to go wrong,
so they're ready for it, and they're just and they're
always working on contingency.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
So now they're just adjusting again.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
But how can you for that small of a turnaround,
how can you plan for them being up there for
months and months and months.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Well, there's there's enough provisions up there, and they get
shipments with supplieslies and all that stuff, and they've got
so many experiments that they can do.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, they do stuff. It's it's legit. I mean it's
they make the most out of it. Yeah, and it's
not like it's wasted time.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
And when Colonel Hagu went up, he was supposed to
go up with four people, but they changed the mission
and they just went up with two so that it
wouldn't be too crowded when they were up there.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah. And there's a long wait to come back.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I mean it's if it's not planned for astronauts to
come back at a certain time and they don't make it,
then the wait is very long.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It's like the southern border. It's very, very difficult to
get in.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Oh, there's an analogy for you. Let's move on.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Sure, more regulations and rollbacks and everything else going on
right now. The FCC is planning a new effort to
roll back regulations on the tech. I can hear you
by the way, hand a hand all.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
He took his headphones up. You can hear you.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Handle We can hear you folk it there you go. Well,
your mic is still on. How did how did Lindsey sleep?
For Christ's sake?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
If I didn't ask, I just I just mentioned that
the I was able to reboot the internet, and I
was proud of the fast Okay, I'm just she walked
in the door, and I'm just saying I'm proud of myself.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I've never been able to do that. I become a techno, maving.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Very focused regulation on tech.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Oh yeah, we're doing news, aren't weans? Yeah? Okay, thanks?
Moving on.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
A bunch of craft going on in Washington.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
That's it, FCC. Did you mention that?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay, under the new FCC.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Rules, this show off the air.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I know, well, under deregulation, I can do this and
not get nailed for it.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You'll be able to do anything.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
They basically want the public's comments on every rule, regulation,
or guidance document that the FCC should eliminate for the
purposes of alleviating unnecessarily you know, the regulation burdens is
what they're looking at in all of these things across
the fort.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
So does that mean we're gonna be able to say
the seven words?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Uh? Yeah, no, no, no necessarily seven words.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
But this show will be able to be uh scatological, depraved, racist?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Oh wait a minute, aren't we that already?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
We Yeah, it's the Royal Wei's if we are, it's
the Royal wi.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
It's when the king goes we are not amused.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
I see, okay, Uh, officials are not amused about this guy.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
What you wanted this for? Who knows?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
But federal investigators with a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
offering a reward up to twenty thousand dollars to get
information that to find the guy who cut off the
head of a sea lion on Christmas Day. It happened
at Doran Regional Park north of San Francisco. A park
staff member apparently had spotted a sea lion. It was
(23:22):
already dead and washed ashore, which happens sometimes. So then
somebody saw a guy use a black eight inch knife
to remove the sea lion's head. He put it in
a clear plastic bag and rode away on a bicycle.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
M that's kind of bizarre.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
It's illegal too.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I think the story here is that federal investigators with
noah will not have a job next week, so no
one has to worry about it. You can cut the
heads off all the dead sea lions you want. No harm,
no foul, Oh, no harm, because is already dead and
it's not a bird that works.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
No harm, no foul.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
All that is holy.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Okay, why don't we move on let's not move on.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Why don't we stop right there for this segment and
then we're going to come back and I'll try to
think of something even more clever because it hasn't worked
out too well.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
This morning.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I made a desert desert diorama with my eight year
old boy yesterday. That was much easier than dealing with you.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Well, it is time, you know, it is time to
move on.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
President Donald Trump has retaliation on his mind, apparently against
a prominent Democratic link law firm, and a judge ruled
yesterday that it is slightly unconstitutional. So the US District
Judge Beryl Howell blocked the Trump administration from enforcing central
provisions of an executive order that seek to punish the
(24:57):
law firm.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Is it Perkins COI? Yeah, I e.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
By barring its attorneys from federal agencies or even entering
federal buildings.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, no, it's not wild.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
So not only can you not deal with any federal agency,
right a plaintiff, for example, suing the Department of Transportation. Nope,
not gonna let you do it. And you can't even
walk in the federal building. Yeah, it's a little bit tough. Now,
that's just short of going to the state bar saying,
and the federal government wants you to disbar these attorneys
(25:30):
because they have sued the Trump administration. But I mean, remember, yeah,
retaliation is coming big time, coming up across the board retribution.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Orange County amy protections for kids of yet to be
deported parents.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
They're preparing for it.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Orange County supervisors have approved a resolution to get ready for.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
A possible surge and children.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Left without guardians because of immigration enforcement. The supervisor, let's see,
Supervisor Vincente Sarmiento, said the reason for the resolution was
because they were getting inquiries from school officials about what
was being done to plan for a potential increase in
the number of kids who are left without their parents
(26:19):
if the parents get deported.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
And he's yeah, the one, the one supervisor voted against
the resolution, asked how many kids were actually separated, how
many kids were abandoned.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And in the past ten years due to deportation?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
None, Okay, Well, it's one of those things where the
court asks And I went through that in the appeals
court on a sperm sperm donation law that I was
fighting constitutionally, and the court asked me. The appeals court
said how many people were actually precluded as a result
of this law that you're arguing is unconstitutional. Well none, Okay,
(27:02):
why don't you come back when someone actually has been affected?
And that's what this situation is. Makes sense, But this
is a resolution, not a court case. So resolution passed,
all right, the eternal eternal? Hey, pretty much.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
The Internal Revenue Service ordered most of it's approximately twenty
thousand customer service employees back to the office this week.
You know, they've been doing the hybrid and the remote
work and all that stuff for a long time. There's
just one problem. The IRS didn't have enough desks to
seat them all. So they kind of went and said,
(27:41):
never mind, we'll postpone this until further notice. So it
basically came back and either they've hired more in that time,
or they got rid of some of the desk space.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Whatever it was, there was no place to sit.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, this is one where I don't understand the Trump administration.
Under Biden, the number of IRS agents and employees grew
from eighty thousand to twenty twenty one to one hundred
thousand today. And Trump is cutting, cutting, cutting, and wants
to reduce the IRS as well as all the other
(28:15):
governmental agencies. This is the agency that collects money for
the government. And considering that the Republicans want to cut expenses,
there's two ways.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Of doing it.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Either you get more money in revenue goes up, or
you make it less expensive to operate. Well, this one
is it's going to create more revenue. And they're saying, no,
wait a minute, the IRS. So I truly don't understand
this one. This is not a political issue. I just
don't get this one.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
He doesn't need the IRS. He's got Musk Musky's.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
But that's cutting But I get it, But that's cutting expenses.
Musk is not about generating more revenue. It is about
cutting expenses. Okay, that's doge. But the IRS brings money in.
It's like any business if you will, and that is
you can have more money one of two waights. You
cut expenses or you get more money, or a combination
(29:14):
of the two.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I don't get why the IRS isn't given as literally
as much power and as many agents, as much resources
that it needs to collect money.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You know, the scoff laws.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
They figure hundreds of billions of dollars is left on
the table.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
All right, I just that part. I just don't understand
and we're done.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Oh, we don't get to do the hardest steel guy.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Let's do the hardest steel guy.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
So, an Australian man lived for one hundred days with
an artificial titanium heart while he waited for a donor transplant.
This is the longest period of time that someone has
lived with this technology. He became the first person ever
to leave a hospital with a titanium heart, and that
it kept him alive until he got his heart last month.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Now, let me okay, let me go back into the
history the first heart. The first patient to have an
artificial heart was a guy named Barney Clark and that
was nineteen eighty two. He lasted over a hundred He
lasted longer than that and then he ended up dying.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So you know, the technology is better.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But the one hundred and twelve days, the trigg is
how much longer would it have lasted waiting for a heart.
And they didn't say, well, you know, we have a
heart for you, but let's figure out how long you
can last before you die on this one.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
So we don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And you're right about the technology it's a titanium which
hadn't been used before.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
But it was oh, it was one hundred and twelve days.
I think that Barney Clark lasted with the first artificial
heart before popping off.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
And that was like a plastic or composite of something that.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
It was the Jarvik, something hard. I don't have paper mache,
and just a bunch of stuff. I don't know what
it was made out of.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
That would have been.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, I wouldn't have lasted that long, but you could
do all kinds of fun shapes with it in different colors.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Okay, we're done, guys.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yeah whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So anyway, and this is kind of an interesting heart
because there are really no valves or there's only one.
So okay, KF I am six forty. You've been listening
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