March 17, 2025 • 30 mins
(Monday 03/17/25)
Amy King and Chris Merrill for Handel on the News.
The Trump administration has deported hundreds of immigrants despite a court order. A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Malibu area. Matt Richtman from Illinois became the first American man to win the Los Angeles Marathon in 31 years. Oil prices have risen following a U.S. attack on the Houthis and optimistic economic prospects in China. Pyrotechnics have been blamed for a fire that tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia, resulting in the deaths of 59 people. A Peruvian fisherman has been found alive after being lost at sea for 95 days. The Insurance Commissioner has "provisionally" accepted State Farm's 22% emergency rate hike. "Ted Lasso" is, believe it or not, returning for Season 4. Altoona police arrested Luigi Mangione and cleverly provided him with a snack to obtain his DNA. Jay Leno is supporting a California bill that would relax smog test requirements for classic cars.
Amy King and Chris Merrill for Handel on the News.
The Trump administration has deported hundreds of immigrants despite a court order. A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Malibu area. Matt Richtman from Illinois became the first American man to win the Los Angeles Marathon in 31 years. Oil prices have risen following a U.S. attack on the Houthis and optimistic economic prospects in China. Pyrotechnics have been blamed for a fire that tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia, resulting in the deaths of 59 people. A Peruvian fisherman has been found alive after being lost at sea for 95 days. The Insurance Commissioner has "provisionally" accepted State Farm's 22% emergency rate hike. "Ted Lasso" is, believe it or not, returning for Season 4. Altoona police arrested Luigi Mangione and cleverly provided him with a snack to obtain his DNA. Jay Leno is supporting a California bill that would relax smog test requirements for classic cars.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KFI AM six forty, the Bill Handles show
on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
App and now Handle on the news.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Ladies and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle. This is the
most flattering thing anybody's ever said about. Very nice, Happy
Saint Patrick's Day. What could be the last of all
Saint Patrick's Days as we know it?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Did you know that? To Amy King? Happy Saint Patrick's Day?
Speaker 5 (00:33):
I do Saint patricks Day? But why could it be
the last? We know it?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
This is all it? Why the terriff war? That's it.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
No more Saint Patrick's Day, No more Guinness Bears, no
more Jamison, no more Bailey's Irish cream, which may or
may not be in my coffee this morning, because who's
gonna pay twenty five dollars for a Guinness when you
could get domestic beer for a lot less for about
(01:00):
fifty That's more than that. That's right, So that'll be it.
This is it, This is the last Saint Patrick's Day.
Might as well welcome the snakes back into England. Here
they come all because of the terraform.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Uh do you know that there there are no snakes
in Ireland?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah? Did I say England. I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Oh did you say England?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
No, okay, it's early, it's Monday, and I'll give a crap.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
H Do you know why there are no snakes in Ireland?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Because it's an island.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It's St Patrick. That's why.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
No, there are no snakes.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
But the legend is that Saint Patrick banished them. It's
symbolic of driving out pagan practices.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Not real, it's not literal.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I like to think of him as like the pied
Piper of Ireland. Yep. Now maybe you've got some sort of.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Literary interpretation of the snakes being Pagan's are some nonsense.
But the reason that there are no snakes in I
is because of the Saint Patrick, who is not otherwise
you're a heathen.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Okay, all right, so we're off to.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
A good start.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
We are.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I got I've got my list of fifty fun facts
that I was using on wake up call.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Oh my god, I know what I'm talking about here.
I googled it.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
And you're wearing the green and everything else, the one green.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Thing I have in my closet.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Very good? All right? Are we ready to do this? H?
Marillan handle on the news.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Sure, all right up.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
First, all we got is it a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You heard Ammy King talking about this during Wake Up
called Trump administration transferring hundreds of immigrants to l Salvador,
even as a federal judge said, don't do that now.
Trump invoked the eighteenth century Wartime Declaration saying that the
Venezuelan gang members were war criminals. And so, as a
US district judge told the Trump administration, now, you can't
(02:57):
do that because you didn't declare war and this isn't
a war time thing, they said, quick, get him on
the plane, get him over international waters, and then the
judge can't say anything, according to the Salvadorian president, who
then tweeted, because that's what we do now, he said,
and I'm quoting Oopsie too late. So the Salvadorian president
(03:20):
is a Trump ally. He agreed to house the three
hundred immigrants for a year. How much does it cost
us to house three hundred immigrants for one year in
El Salvador is six million dollars, So we got that
going for us. Marco Rubio negotiated an earlier deal to
house the immigrants for six million.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
What a steal, he said.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
We sent over two hundred and fifty alien enemy members
of am I saying this right trend de Aragua, which
sounded fancy, didn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Nice job, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
El Salvador has agreed to hold those and what Marco
Rubio said is hold them in their vain, very good
jails at a fair price.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
That will also save our taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
So off they go over the sea using the Alien
Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight. The last time we
use that was for Japanese American internment camps, so that
always goes over. Really well, American history of using this
act is it's really shown that we've learned a lot
in the last two hundred and fifty years. The ACLU
(04:27):
filed the lawsuit which led to the temporary restraining order
which restrained nothing. ACLU was asking the government whether the
removals to El Salvador were in defiance of the court,
and of course the Trump administration says, nope, they were
already over the air, and the court doesn't have jurisdiction
over us. So they are deciding what rules they want
to follow, and they're basically acting a little bit like teenagers.
(04:53):
Imagine that your parents say you can't go out for
the night. And so you go and you grab dad's
keys and you jump in car, and then you head
to your your friend's party. And then your parents call
you and they say, we told you that you can't
go to that party and you can't use the car,
and you say, I'm already in the car and I'm
already on the way, so you can't really stop me now.
So that's what we've done there.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
It is off to you feeling a little shaky this morning.
Maybe it's because there was an earthquake. Magnitude three point nine.
Earthquake shook the Malibu area last night, hit at eight seventeen.
It was a I mentioned three point nine about eight
miles northeast of Westlake Village, nine miles north of a
Thousand Oaks felt in Thousand Oaks, Montabello, Carson Moore Park,
(05:38):
cam Mario. Someone wrote on Facebook that they felt it
in Long Beach. This was the third Sunday in a
row that an earthquake has struck Ellie County.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
So maybe it's becoming a weekly thing. Oh okay, no damage,
your injuries.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Kind of like setting clocks, sort of a reminder everybody,
just get on it. Do you ever run into that
guy that can feel in an earthquake, doesn't matter where
it is, they go, did you feel it? I worked
with a guy in San Diego that was like that,
we could have an earthquake that would hit in Berego
Springs and he'd come in and go I felt that one,
and you go it was like a two point one
(06:14):
eighty miles away, and he's like, ah, I'm pretty sure
I felt that. No, there's always that guy though. I
could feel it. I could feel it. Did you have
marathon fever over the weekend?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
You know I did not? Yeah, I mean either, but
twenty six thousand people did?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I know?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Good for them, But I mean what we got like
ten million people in the metro area and twenty six thousand.
It's all licked mustard, all right. So it wasn't American
that won the LA Marathon, first one to do so
in more than thirty years, second largest field in race history.
It was what's the guy's name, Matt Richmond or is
(06:57):
it Rickman?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I think it's Illinois? Okay, did you hear this? It
was only the second time he'd ever run a marathon.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, and I think he cheated. Yeah, I'm gonna be
the first to say it. I'm probably not supposed to
say that, but I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, I think he did.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I think you just skipped a leg of it.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, probably stopped, got some starbucks, came as everybody was
headed back.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
That's what I would have done.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
His time two minutes, excuse me, two hours, seven minutes,
fifty six seconds.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Pretty quick. That put him, uh full three minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Two minutes and fifty nine seconds for you that want
to at me, full three minutes ahead of the Kenyon.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
So I don't know. We just have some uh.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Some savant marathon or who's hanging out on the sidelines
and just decides it's going to jump in and then.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Win the thing.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Wouldn't you think that this guy would have been running
long distance in high school and track and would have
continued to follow and then probably long distance running in
college or.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Something of the sort. It wouldn't be his second marathon. Ever.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Something fishy is going on. I'm calling my shot right now.
Something fishy is going on with this. You want to believe,
but I'm too much of a realist. Something fishy is
going on. I got nothing else to say about that.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
How about congratulations to Savannah Barry from Bakersfield. She was
third in the women's race.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh well that's great, right, Yeah, I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
We never do well, US doesn't do well in running.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And she finished third behind an Ethiopian and a Kenyan.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yes, so hers is legit, yep.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Okay because the guy won, Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, And nobody beats the Kenyans or the Ethiopians and marathons, okay,
especially in their second one. And he just got off
the couch and decided to run the marathon. No, I
don't buy it.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Okay, We're gonna play a little of you get this,
we get that. Negotiators working to end the Rush Ukraine
War say they have talked about dividing up certain assets.
President Trump said he plans to speak to Russia's President
Putin on Tuesday. The Kremlin has confirmed that. Trump said,
(09:14):
I think we're doing pretty well with Russia, and so
we'll see if we have something to announce, maybe by tuesday.
And he made his comments on board Air Force one
while he was just flying back to mar A Lago.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Mm hmm. So what does that mean, Jimmy King?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Does that mean that we're we're just going through in
divvying up Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
That's a pretty good deal.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I mean, we didn't have to fire a single a
shot and we're gonna end up with half of Ukraine?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Is that what I'm hearing from this?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I don't think we get Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh, we're gonna get their minerals one way or another.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I think we're going to get their minerals.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
We are going to get their minerals. That's exactly what's
gonna happen. Ukraine didn't want the deal. Zelensky leaves the
White House and Trump says, Okay, I'm gonna go talk
to Putin.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
We'll figure out who gets what in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Putin Cannavili ports We're gonna take the minrows and the
Ukrainians canna have the dirt. That's what's gonna happen. You watch,
you watch we are we are divvying up Ukraine, and
everybody's gonna go in and just grab what they want.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It's a pillaging that's happening right now.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
You watch. It's marked my words. I'm a real bitter
turd this morning, aren't I?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Why are you so grumpy of Saint Patrick's day? Supposed
to be happy? Magically delicious and all that.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Back to Marillan Handle on the news. Right, I'm not
missing anything, am I?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
No, you got it Ben A while since I can
a been a while since I've sat.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
In this chair. We've got a storm system.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
If you have never experienced or tornado or heard the
sirens go off, it's a hell of a lot of fun, unless,
of course, it hits you. Powerful storm system tearing across
the United States pois to move offshore into the Atlantic
on Monday, devastation left in its weight. Thirty nine people
eyed and storm related incidents, including Missouri, which had the
highest death toll, followed by Kansas, most of Alabama severely impact.
(11:08):
At least three died in Alabama. So this continues to
rip around. And then we had the tornado and Pico
rivera last week, right, So that was a that was
an EF zero.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
It was still like I think it was eighty five
mile per hour wins, knocked down a bunch of trees
and that kind of stuff, but nothing nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
In Arkansas they hit an EF F four wins in
an EF four peak at one hundred and seventy miles
an hour, So take your take your eighty five that
we had in Pico and then double that that's what.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
They had going on. Holy cow, those are EF fours.
I love this.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
One hundred and seventy mile per hour winds has killed
dozens of people, and I love the writing that we
get from CNN. Tornadoes have EF four strength are labeled
as violent and can be devastating.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Thanks CNN, that's very helpful.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I Without that sentence, I never would have known that
the EF four tornado that killed everybody and knocked over
trees and devastated houses and through cars like they were
softballs was a violence.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
So thank you c Well done on that one.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Don't miss.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
With the US, US airstrikes have bombarded Yemen, targeting and
taking out several leaders of the Iranian backed Hooties. White
House National Security Advisor Mike Walls says that this was
an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Hoothy leaders and
(12:34):
took them out. The difference here is one going after
the Houthi leadership and two holding Iran responsible. He says,
Iran should be on notice.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
So does this mean that we are headed to war
with Iran.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
It feels like somebody's itching for war, and we start
attacking in Yemen. And this is so important because the
Arabian Peninsula, of course is Uh is so key to
the shipping lane through the Red Sea and then ultimately
up through the canal in Egypt and the Suez Canal there,
which of course became blocked and a couple of years ago,
(13:11):
and when that became blocked, we know what that did
to supply chains and everything else.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Became a real mess. So now we seem to be.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Itching to fight with Iran, and we say, well, we're
gonna stop Iran from having nuclear weapons. Somebody should put
a deal in place. It stops Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Somebody should have done this years ago. And so I
guess we're working on that now and letting know, letting
Iran know that hell will rain down upon you like
(13:39):
nothing you have ever seen before. I don't know if
anybody who has ever seen hell rain out before, but
if they have, then this will be more hell raining
down than they've ever seen before.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
It'll be hell rain times two is what we're looking for.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Meanwhile, oil prices in the United States, I guess what
they're gonna do after we start attacking things in the
Middle East, Just give it a shot. What do you
think is gonna happen to oil prices when we pick
fights in the Middle East?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Will come as a shock to you. They went up Yep, the.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
United States vowing to keep attacking Yemen's huties until the
Irano Line Group ends the assault on shipping Chinese economic
data fueling hopes of higher demand for oil as well.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And so what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That means Brent futures up sixty three cents, up over
seventy one dollars a barrel. US Texas crewed futures up
sixty two cents. That's up the too sixty seven to
eighty a barrel. So if you thought gas prices were expensive,
now you're gonna remember this as the good old days.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I am really on just a role of just pessimism today,
aren't I. This is not this is not Don't let
me do Monday mornings anymore, guys, Just don't me doing. Yeah,
I'm just grumpy as I'll get out here. Holy cow,
I'll doom and gloom. I don't want to think you
had anything else to say about that oil is going
up no, we started attacking.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Oil goes up.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Okay, speaking of doom and gloomy twisters aren't the only killers.
Fifty nine people were killed and one hundred and fifty
five others were hurt when a fire broke out in
a nightclub in North Macedonia. Happened at the Pulse nightclub
over the weekend early morning hours of Sunday. Everybody killed
(15:24):
just between sixteen and twenty four years old. Of course
it was a nightclub. This has happened before. It looks
like pyrotechnics used for lighting effects on stage at the
concert is what started the fire that quickly spread to
the entire club and filled it with thick smoke and
fifty nine people killed.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
There are a couple of things about this that are horrific.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
First of all, we've had nightclub disasters like this in
the United States and it's.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Devastating, horrible.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I don't want to take anything away from the pain
that the people they are feeling. Okay, also have to
think this, if I were to ask, if I were
to pull Americans and I were to say on what
continent is Macedonia, how many would get it right? Not
even like near what other country? Just on what continent
(16:16):
is Macedonia? How many do you think we get it?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Right?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Not many?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Not many? No, not many?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Is it on Africa? I don't know where it is?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Okay, I mean I wasn't going to call you out,
but I genuinely had.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
To google it.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Okay, yep, No, it squeezed between Bulgaria and Albania. It
is just north of Greece, so it is a European country. Yep, yep,
there it is. Who there you go.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I didn't want to south of Kosovo.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yes, I was not going to call you out. I'm
happy with letting everybody know what a boob I am.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
But my geography is back in my high school brain.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I would have thought I would have gassed Africa too.
That would have been it would have been yeah, north Macedonia. Yep,
just north of Greece. Now we know, which is why
again we don't even know where it is, which is
why so few Americans are even going to pay attention.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
To that, which is keep out because is really a
bad one.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
It is a terrible one. All right.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
We've got the Peruvian fishermen. Why would Peruvian fishermen be
in the news. You will find out.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
In Peruvian Fishermen News, digging into the Peruvian Fisherman Weekly,
there was a Peruvian fisherman who evidently didn't make it
back when he was supposed to, and he was just
floating in the Pacific Ocean for ninety five days.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Three months at sea, he was lost.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Maximo Castro, sixty one years old, set off on his
fishing boat in December. Bad weather caused him to stray
off his course lose direction. He was found March eleventh
by an Ecuadorian fishing boat in the waters off the
coast of northern Peru.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Heavily dehydrated. You think in critical condition, they said.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
After his rescue, he told media in a tearful interview
that he managed to survive by drinking rain water that
he collected on the boat and eating insects, birds, and
a turtle. He went fifteen days without eating. How long
would you go before you decided I'm gonna have to
eat something?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
The turtle maybe forever?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh see, turtle would have been the first one i'd grabbed. Yeah, okay,
they just feel like they're a lot slower. It would
have been harder for me to catch a bird, I think,
but he caught birds somehow fish.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I don't know why you didn't fish fishing gear? You would?
How do you? How are you a fisherman with no
fishing gear?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Oh well there's that. Huh Yeah, see now I would
eat the sushi.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Maybe he's just a really, really bad fisherman.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Peru's worst fisherman found alive after floating at sea for
ninety five days, living on insects, birds and turtle. Why
didn't you eat fish? He was asked, Never thought of it,
replied Castro made that up. So anyway, he's back sixty
one years old. Would a gen zer have survived ninety
five days at sea?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Anybody? Anybody? Not even a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
It's your chance to bag on a younger generation if
you want. Just go ahead. Yeah no, they would. Oh
my god, my style signal has gone. This would be
so many clicks if I could TikTok this, but they didn't. Okay,
Off to you, Amy.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Your home insurance looks like it's going to go up.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
We had been hearing about this, but State Farm asked
for that twenty two percent rate hike because of the
devastation from the wildfires and their their higher cost and
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Laura has provisionally accepted the.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Request for the twenty two percent rate hike.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
He said it'll be fully approved only if the company
can justify it with data in a public hearing.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
That's happening. Happening in April.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Laura also said, hey, State Farm, you gotta quit stopping
the renewals, and also wants an infusion of five hundred
million dollars from its parent company to help stabilize finances.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Uh huh, yet, did you see the condition that they
have to put on this is that I love this.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
They're gonna get their twenty two percent rate.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Hike only if the company can justify it with data
in a public hearing. Well, of course they're gonna justify it.
They're gonna come out, they're gonna take their lumps, and
what's gonna happen is we're gonna shame State Farm. They're
gonna get their twenty two percent rate hike. Your home
insurance rates are gonna go up, but only after there's
(20:41):
a couple of hours that we get to.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Shame State Farm. That's it.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Shame.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
He's making them do the walk of shame.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Shame, shame, shame.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
And this is after there was that surreptitiously recorded exec
from State Farm that said, yeah, I mean, we're gonna
tell them twenty two percent rate hike and they don't
get it. We're gonna tell them that we're gonna drop
a bunch of drop a bunch of policies. They basically
admitted privately. Of course they aren'tother being recorded that it's
all a game that they're playing.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
It's all a game.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
We're gonna get our rate hike, and all we have
to do is threaten to drop insurance. The state doesn't
have any leverage because that fair plan is totally broke,
and so State Farm goes, all right, I'll tell you what, Yeah,
you give us our twenty two percent rate hike, and
we'll hang on and not drop anybody for a year.
(21:34):
But come April of next year, we're gonna do this
dance again. They're gonna say, oh, well, you know, we
had that new fire. There'll be something else, something else
will burn. We had that new fire. Oh you know
that fire over the summer, and when that fire hit, well,
you know we're gonna have to raise those rates.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Again. We just can't afford it.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You can't keep going back to our parent company for
another five hundred million, I mean five hundred million here,
five hundred million there. It really starts to add up
what this dance is going to play out. You watch
how this plays out. How frustrated I am? Why am
I so grumpy today? Amy King? I should not be
this grumpy too early?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
But you know it's Monday, all right, we're gonna give it.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
We're gonna give it a case on the Monday.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So you're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF
I am six forty are we?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Are we moving on here? Did you?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Yes? I usually wait till Handle introduces that he's doing
Handle on the News, which is Meryl for Handle on.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Meryl on the News on Handle on the News.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Yes, okay, I've got this has got to cheer you up,
cast a cheer and all of you.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
It has to cheer you up. Ted Lasso is coming.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Back, in my humble opinion, best show on TV in years,
and they announced that season four is on the way.
They didn't say exactly when or exactly who's going to
be back, but Jason sideikis of course, Yeah, so did
confirm it and he's going to come back. And if
(23:03):
you remember the end of season three when when Rebecca
was presented with an idea to start up a women's
soccer team.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yeah, her and Keeley, right, they were going to do
the women's team.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yeah, So apparently he's going to coach it because at
the end of season three he went back to the States.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Oh that's right. He wanted to be by his son
and all that stuff. Right.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yeah, Okay, so I know that that Sideikis was on
with the Kelsey Brothers on their podcast and he was
talking about this and they asked him will it be
in the United States and he said, you're asking too many.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Questions and down on that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
So we don't know if it's back here or if
he is going back there. But my understanding is that
Brett Goldstein is going to come back as an executive producer.
You would assume that he would be back on the
show as well. That is the guy that plays Roy
Kent on the program.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
He better be back on the shows.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
How do you not love it? Hannah Wattingham, I believe
is coming back.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
They haven't confirmed. They haven't confirmed a lot of them.
There's just lots of rumbling, but.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I'm guessing, okay, because I'm all from you know what
I love the most about ted Lasso because I agree
with you, one of the best shows.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I'm gonna put it up.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
There in the UH probably the top five shows in
the last ten years. And we had We've had some
pretty decent programming as the streamers were kind of fighting
for the last ten years, so there's been decent programming.
I've said before, I think Apple puts out really good stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Their quality over quantity.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
So many the others, the Netflix and the Hulu's and
the Disneys and the Paramounts and all these others, they're
they're throwing out as much as they can, and there's
some gems in there, don't get me wrong, but they're
throwing out a ton of quantity, whereas Apple goes, let's
do quality. So you end up with severance, and you
end up with slow horses, and you end up with
UH for all Mankind and UH in ted Lasso. So
(24:57):
really great stuff. What I found the most in interesting
about ted Lasso. And you feel free to disagree if
you want, but so many shows that we think of
as being really really good are kind of gritty, and
there seems to be almost a it's a very real tone,
but it's always people dealing with a certain darkness, whereas
(25:18):
ted Lasso deals with his demons. But you feel better
at the end of the show. You don't feel exhausted
like when I watch The Bear. I'm exhausted at the
end of an episode, right, I am worn out ted Lasso.
I just I can't wait to see more of this guy.
I can't wait to see more of these people and
the things that they're dealing with and the foils and
(25:38):
all that other stuff.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
I love it, Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
And what I love to about it is there is
an over overarching sense of kindness. Yeah, that you just
don't get in so many shows. Like there's shows that
we love like Succession, Yeah, fabulous show.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Hated every single character.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
All horrible people, and you never left like feeling good
about mankind. And I always felt good about mankind at
the end of a ted Lasso.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I agree. I agree one hundred percent. What I loved
about it the most. El Tuna, Pennsylvania. I guess the
police pulled a fast one on Luigi MENGIONI. That's the
dude you remember him. He shot the United Healthcare Exact.
So they arrested him at the McDonald's. If you'll recall
the story, he shot the EXAC and took off and
then they tracked him down. They found him at this McDonald's.
(26:26):
I think one of the McDonald's workers called him in.
Didn't get a raise, but called him in just the same.
So what happened was when the cops arrested him, they
were trying to get his DNA, and so cops did
the very copy thing and they said, okay, listen, you know,
we're gonna sit down, we're gonna have a talk here,
We're gonna be a while.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Can I get you something to eat? You want a
little snack, you want to drink.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
And he's like, okay, because dumb, and so he accepted
the snack the snack and then they said thank you
very much, and then they took the snack bag and
they pulled his.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
DNA off of it. So it used to be that
you had the right to remain silent. Now you have
the right to remain hungry.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
If ever you're being questioned by the police, don't give
them your your styrofoam coffee cup, don't accept any soda
from them, and if you do get a snack, put
that bag right in your pocket. Don't throw the bag
in the trash because they're gonna get.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Your DNA off. That is advice from me, not a lawyer,
because I am not a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
So but I've watched a lot of legal dramas, so
safe to say my advice is probably probably pretty sound.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Thanks Law and Order.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Putting a little star power behind a bill is Jay Leno.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
It's Senate Bill seven twelve. Stay.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Senator Shannon Grove from Bakersfield says they're trying to bring
back the old rolling exemption for a thirty five year
exemption to exclude classic cars. So the smog check exemption
is for car modelsineteen seventy five and older. That's been
in place since two thousand and five. But under the
new proposal, any car thirty five or older would be exempted.
(28:10):
But only bona fide classics ensured as classic cars would
get the exemption, not cars used for regular transportation.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Okay, so if I'm driving Grandma's Delta eighty eight from
nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
As my daily driver, I would not get the exemption.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
That is that's my understanding.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Oh all right, I don't know how I feel about this.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
They've dubbed it Leno's law.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
All right, help me through this. I understand why Leno
supports that he.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Loves classic cars and he's got one hundred of them.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I get it, and I'm not
bagging on the guy at all.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
But now, let's see thirty five years older. Do the
math for me.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Does that mean nineteen ninety Okay, nineteen ninety was thirty
five years ago?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
We put this law in place though in the eighties, right,
or did we put it in place that the standards
nine was two thous and five is when we put
the classic car exemption into place.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
The slug check exemption, which has been in place since
two thousand and five.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Okay, So my point is is that we had if
you remember, I didn't grow up in southern California, but
what I knew of Southern California I got from my
elementary school education. And I recall them telling us about
how you can't see your hand in front of your
face in Los Angeles because the smog is so bad,
not really exaggerating that. Then showed us photos of you know,
(29:30):
when the smog kind of sits on top of everything
and how bad it was in the eighties. Yes, So
now we're saying that those cars that were from the
eighties that were causing a great deal of that, that's
going to be cool as long as you're ensuring them properly.
A little hung up on that part of it. Little
hung up on the other hand, I also think if
you're doing a classic car show and you have, you know,
(29:51):
like an eighty five Camaro, that's cool car. I want
that to be able to go to the car show.
So I'm torn. If I were a lawmaker, I would
be a bit torn on this one. Help guide me, Amy,
what am I missing?
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I think you got it.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Thank you for that guidance, exactly what I wanted. The
Democrats are in total disarray. We'll tell you just how
bad things are for them right now. The direction that
they maybe could go is nuts.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
App and now Handle on the news.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Ladies and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle. This is the
most flattering thing anybody's ever said about. Very nice, Happy
Saint Patrick's Day. What could be the last of all
Saint Patrick's Days as we know it?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Did you know that? To Amy King? Happy Saint Patrick's Day?
Speaker 5 (00:33):
I do Saint patricks Day? But why could it be
the last? We know it?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
This is all it? Why the terriff war? That's it.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
No more Saint Patrick's Day, No more Guinness Bears, no
more Jamison, no more Bailey's Irish cream, which may or
may not be in my coffee this morning, because who's
gonna pay twenty five dollars for a Guinness when you
could get domestic beer for a lot less for about
(01:00):
fifty That's more than that. That's right, So that'll be it.
This is it, This is the last Saint Patrick's Day.
Might as well welcome the snakes back into England. Here
they come all because of the terraform.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Uh do you know that there there are no snakes
in Ireland?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah? Did I say England. I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Oh did you say England?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
No, okay, it's early, it's Monday, and I'll give a crap.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
H Do you know why there are no snakes in Ireland?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Because it's an island.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It's St Patrick. That's why.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
No, there are no snakes.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
But the legend is that Saint Patrick banished them. It's
symbolic of driving out pagan practices.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Not real, it's not literal.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I like to think of him as like the pied
Piper of Ireland. Yep. Now maybe you've got some sort of.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Literary interpretation of the snakes being Pagan's are some nonsense.
But the reason that there are no snakes in I
is because of the Saint Patrick, who is not otherwise
you're a heathen.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Okay, all right, so we're off to.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
A good start.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
We are.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I got I've got my list of fifty fun facts
that I was using on wake up call.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Oh my god, I know what I'm talking about here.
I googled it.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
And you're wearing the green and everything else, the one green.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Thing I have in my closet.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Very good? All right? Are we ready to do this? H?
Marillan handle on the news.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Sure, all right up.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
First, all we got is it a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You heard Ammy King talking about this during Wake Up
called Trump administration transferring hundreds of immigrants to l Salvador,
even as a federal judge said, don't do that now.
Trump invoked the eighteenth century Wartime Declaration saying that the
Venezuelan gang members were war criminals. And so, as a
US district judge told the Trump administration, now, you can't
(02:57):
do that because you didn't declare war and this isn't
a war time thing, they said, quick, get him on
the plane, get him over international waters, and then the
judge can't say anything, according to the Salvadorian president, who
then tweeted, because that's what we do now, he said,
and I'm quoting Oopsie too late. So the Salvadorian president
(03:20):
is a Trump ally. He agreed to house the three
hundred immigrants for a year. How much does it cost
us to house three hundred immigrants for one year in
El Salvador is six million dollars, So we got that
going for us. Marco Rubio negotiated an earlier deal to
house the immigrants for six million.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
What a steal, he said.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
We sent over two hundred and fifty alien enemy members
of am I saying this right trend de Aragua, which
sounded fancy, didn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Nice job, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
El Salvador has agreed to hold those and what Marco
Rubio said is hold them in their vain, very good
jails at a fair price.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
That will also save our taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
So off they go over the sea using the Alien
Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight. The last time we
use that was for Japanese American internment camps, so that
always goes over. Really well, American history of using this
act is it's really shown that we've learned a lot
in the last two hundred and fifty years. The ACLU
(04:27):
filed the lawsuit which led to the temporary restraining order
which restrained nothing. ACLU was asking the government whether the
removals to El Salvador were in defiance of the court,
and of course the Trump administration says, nope, they were
already over the air, and the court doesn't have jurisdiction
over us. So they are deciding what rules they want
to follow, and they're basically acting a little bit like teenagers.
(04:53):
Imagine that your parents say you can't go out for
the night. And so you go and you grab dad's
keys and you jump in car, and then you head
to your your friend's party. And then your parents call
you and they say, we told you that you can't
go to that party and you can't use the car,
and you say, I'm already in the car and I'm
already on the way, so you can't really stop me now.
So that's what we've done there.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
It is off to you feeling a little shaky this morning.
Maybe it's because there was an earthquake. Magnitude three point nine.
Earthquake shook the Malibu area last night, hit at eight seventeen.
It was a I mentioned three point nine about eight
miles northeast of Westlake Village, nine miles north of a
Thousand Oaks felt in Thousand Oaks, Montabello, Carson Moore Park,
(05:38):
cam Mario. Someone wrote on Facebook that they felt it
in Long Beach. This was the third Sunday in a
row that an earthquake has struck Ellie County.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
So maybe it's becoming a weekly thing. Oh okay, no damage,
your injuries.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Kind of like setting clocks, sort of a reminder everybody,
just get on it. Do you ever run into that
guy that can feel in an earthquake, doesn't matter where
it is, they go, did you feel it? I worked
with a guy in San Diego that was like that,
we could have an earthquake that would hit in Berego
Springs and he'd come in and go I felt that one,
and you go it was like a two point one
(06:14):
eighty miles away, and he's like, ah, I'm pretty sure
I felt that. No, there's always that guy though. I
could feel it. I could feel it. Did you have
marathon fever over the weekend?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
You know I did not? Yeah, I mean either, but
twenty six thousand people did?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I know?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Good for them, But I mean what we got like
ten million people in the metro area and twenty six thousand.
It's all licked mustard, all right. So it wasn't American
that won the LA Marathon, first one to do so
in more than thirty years, second largest field in race history.
It was what's the guy's name, Matt Richmond or is
(06:57):
it Rickman?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I think it's Illinois? Okay, did you hear this? It
was only the second time he'd ever run a marathon.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, and I think he cheated. Yeah, I'm gonna be
the first to say it. I'm probably not supposed to
say that, but I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, I think he did.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I think you just skipped a leg of it.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, probably stopped, got some starbucks, came as everybody was
headed back.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
That's what I would have done.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
His time two minutes, excuse me, two hours, seven minutes,
fifty six seconds.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Pretty quick. That put him, uh full three minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Two minutes and fifty nine seconds for you that want
to at me, full three minutes ahead of the Kenyon.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
So I don't know. We just have some uh.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Some savant marathon or who's hanging out on the sidelines
and just decides it's going to jump in and then.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Win the thing.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Wouldn't you think that this guy would have been running
long distance in high school and track and would have
continued to follow and then probably long distance running in
college or.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Something of the sort. It wouldn't be his second marathon. Ever.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Something fishy is going on. I'm calling my shot right now.
Something fishy is going on with this. You want to believe,
but I'm too much of a realist. Something fishy is
going on. I got nothing else to say about that.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
How about congratulations to Savannah Barry from Bakersfield. She was
third in the women's race.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh well that's great, right, Yeah, I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
We never do well, US doesn't do well in running.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And she finished third behind an Ethiopian and a Kenyan.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Yes, so hers is legit, yep.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Okay because the guy won, Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, And nobody beats the Kenyans or the Ethiopians and marathons, okay,
especially in their second one. And he just got off
the couch and decided to run the marathon. No, I
don't buy it.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Okay, We're gonna play a little of you get this,
we get that. Negotiators working to end the Rush Ukraine
War say they have talked about dividing up certain assets.
President Trump said he plans to speak to Russia's President
Putin on Tuesday. The Kremlin has confirmed that. Trump said,
(09:14):
I think we're doing pretty well with Russia, and so
we'll see if we have something to announce, maybe by tuesday.
And he made his comments on board Air Force one
while he was just flying back to mar A Lago.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Mm hmm. So what does that mean, Jimmy King?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Does that mean that we're we're just going through in
divvying up Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
That's a pretty good deal.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I mean, we didn't have to fire a single a
shot and we're gonna end up with half of Ukraine?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Is that what I'm hearing from this?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I don't think we get Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh, we're gonna get their minerals one way or another.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I think we're going to get their minerals.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
We are going to get their minerals. That's exactly what's
gonna happen. Ukraine didn't want the deal. Zelensky leaves the
White House and Trump says, Okay, I'm gonna go talk
to Putin.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
We'll figure out who gets what in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Putin Cannavili ports We're gonna take the minrows and the
Ukrainians canna have the dirt. That's what's gonna happen. You watch,
you watch we are we are divvying up Ukraine, and
everybody's gonna go in and just grab what they want.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It's a pillaging that's happening right now.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
You watch. It's marked my words. I'm a real bitter
turd this morning, aren't I?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Why are you so grumpy of Saint Patrick's day? Supposed
to be happy? Magically delicious and all that.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Back to Marillan Handle on the news. Right, I'm not
missing anything, am I?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
No, you got it Ben A while since I can
a been a while since I've sat.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
In this chair. We've got a storm system.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
If you have never experienced or tornado or heard the
sirens go off, it's a hell of a lot of fun, unless,
of course, it hits you. Powerful storm system tearing across
the United States pois to move offshore into the Atlantic
on Monday, devastation left in its weight. Thirty nine people
eyed and storm related incidents, including Missouri, which had the
highest death toll, followed by Kansas, most of Alabama severely impact.
(11:08):
At least three died in Alabama. So this continues to
rip around. And then we had the tornado and Pico
rivera last week, right, So that was a that was
an EF zero.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
It was still like I think it was eighty five
mile per hour wins, knocked down a bunch of trees
and that kind of stuff, but nothing nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
In Arkansas they hit an EF F four wins in
an EF four peak at one hundred and seventy miles
an hour, So take your take your eighty five that
we had in Pico and then double that that's what.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
They had going on. Holy cow, those are EF fours.
I love this.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
One hundred and seventy mile per hour winds has killed
dozens of people, and I love the writing that we
get from CNN. Tornadoes have EF four strength are labeled
as violent and can be devastating.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Thanks CNN, that's very helpful.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I Without that sentence, I never would have known that
the EF four tornado that killed everybody and knocked over
trees and devastated houses and through cars like they were
softballs was a violence.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
So thank you c Well done on that one.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Don't miss.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
With the US, US airstrikes have bombarded Yemen, targeting and
taking out several leaders of the Iranian backed Hooties. White
House National Security Advisor Mike Walls says that this was
an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Hoothy leaders and
(12:34):
took them out. The difference here is one going after
the Houthi leadership and two holding Iran responsible. He says,
Iran should be on notice.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
So does this mean that we are headed to war
with Iran.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
It feels like somebody's itching for war, and we start
attacking in Yemen. And this is so important because the
Arabian Peninsula, of course is Uh is so key to
the shipping lane through the Red Sea and then ultimately
up through the canal in Egypt and the Suez Canal there,
which of course became blocked and a couple of years ago,
(13:11):
and when that became blocked, we know what that did
to supply chains and everything else.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Became a real mess. So now we seem to be.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Itching to fight with Iran, and we say, well, we're
gonna stop Iran from having nuclear weapons. Somebody should put
a deal in place. It stops Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Somebody should have done this years ago. And so I
guess we're working on that now and letting know, letting
Iran know that hell will rain down upon you like
(13:39):
nothing you have ever seen before. I don't know if
anybody who has ever seen hell rain out before, but
if they have, then this will be more hell raining
down than they've ever seen before.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
It'll be hell rain times two is what we're looking for.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Meanwhile, oil prices in the United States, I guess what
they're gonna do after we start attacking things in the
Middle East, Just give it a shot. What do you
think is gonna happen to oil prices when we pick
fights in the Middle East?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Will come as a shock to you. They went up Yep, the.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
United States vowing to keep attacking Yemen's huties until the
Irano Line Group ends the assault on shipping Chinese economic
data fueling hopes of higher demand for oil as well.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And so what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That means Brent futures up sixty three cents, up over
seventy one dollars a barrel. US Texas crewed futures up
sixty two cents. That's up the too sixty seven to
eighty a barrel. So if you thought gas prices were expensive,
now you're gonna remember this as the good old days.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I am really on just a role of just pessimism today,
aren't I. This is not this is not Don't let
me do Monday mornings anymore, guys, Just don't me doing. Yeah,
I'm just grumpy as I'll get out here. Holy cow,
I'll doom and gloom. I don't want to think you
had anything else to say about that oil is going
up no, we started attacking.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Oil goes up.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Okay, speaking of doom and gloomy twisters aren't the only killers.
Fifty nine people were killed and one hundred and fifty
five others were hurt when a fire broke out in
a nightclub in North Macedonia. Happened at the Pulse nightclub
over the weekend early morning hours of Sunday. Everybody killed
(15:24):
just between sixteen and twenty four years old. Of course
it was a nightclub. This has happened before. It looks
like pyrotechnics used for lighting effects on stage at the
concert is what started the fire that quickly spread to
the entire club and filled it with thick smoke and
fifty nine people killed.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
There are a couple of things about this that are horrific.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
First of all, we've had nightclub disasters like this in
the United States and it's.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Devastating, horrible.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I don't want to take anything away from the pain
that the people they are feeling. Okay, also have to
think this, if I were to ask, if I were
to pull Americans and I were to say on what
continent is Macedonia, how many would get it right? Not
even like near what other country? Just on what continent
(16:16):
is Macedonia? How many do you think we get it?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Right?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Not many?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Not many? No, not many?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Is it on Africa? I don't know where it is?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Okay, I mean I wasn't going to call you out,
but I genuinely had.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
To google it.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Okay, yep, No, it squeezed between Bulgaria and Albania. It
is just north of Greece, so it is a European country. Yep, yep,
there it is. Who there you go.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I didn't want to south of Kosovo.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yes, I was not going to call you out. I'm
happy with letting everybody know what a boob I am.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
But my geography is back in my high school brain.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I would have thought I would have gassed Africa too.
That would have been it would have been yeah, north Macedonia. Yep,
just north of Greece. Now we know, which is why
again we don't even know where it is, which is
why so few Americans are even going to pay attention.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
To that, which is keep out because is really a
bad one.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
It is a terrible one. All right.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
We've got the Peruvian fishermen. Why would Peruvian fishermen be
in the news. You will find out.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
In Peruvian Fishermen News, digging into the Peruvian Fisherman Weekly,
there was a Peruvian fisherman who evidently didn't make it
back when he was supposed to, and he was just
floating in the Pacific Ocean for ninety five days.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Three months at sea, he was lost.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Maximo Castro, sixty one years old, set off on his
fishing boat in December. Bad weather caused him to stray
off his course lose direction. He was found March eleventh
by an Ecuadorian fishing boat in the waters off the
coast of northern Peru.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Heavily dehydrated. You think in critical condition, they said.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
After his rescue, he told media in a tearful interview
that he managed to survive by drinking rain water that
he collected on the boat and eating insects, birds, and
a turtle. He went fifteen days without eating. How long
would you go before you decided I'm gonna have to
eat something?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
The turtle maybe forever?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh see, turtle would have been the first one i'd grabbed. Yeah, okay,
they just feel like they're a lot slower. It would
have been harder for me to catch a bird, I think,
but he caught birds somehow fish.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I don't know why you didn't fish fishing gear? You would?
How do you? How are you a fisherman with no
fishing gear?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Oh well there's that. Huh Yeah, see now I would
eat the sushi.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Maybe he's just a really, really bad fisherman.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Peru's worst fisherman found alive after floating at sea for
ninety five days, living on insects, birds and turtle. Why
didn't you eat fish? He was asked, Never thought of it,
replied Castro made that up. So anyway, he's back sixty
one years old. Would a gen zer have survived ninety
five days at sea?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Anybody? Anybody? Not even a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
It's your chance to bag on a younger generation if
you want. Just go ahead. Yeah no, they would. Oh
my god, my style signal has gone. This would be
so many clicks if I could TikTok this, but they didn't. Okay,
Off to you, Amy.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Your home insurance looks like it's going to go up.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
We had been hearing about this, but State Farm asked
for that twenty two percent rate hike because of the
devastation from the wildfires and their their higher cost and
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Laura has provisionally accepted the.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Request for the twenty two percent rate hike.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
He said it'll be fully approved only if the company
can justify it with data in a public hearing.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
That's happening. Happening in April.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Laura also said, hey, State Farm, you gotta quit stopping
the renewals, and also wants an infusion of five hundred
million dollars from its parent company to help stabilize finances.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Uh huh, yet, did you see the condition that they
have to put on this is that I love this.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
They're gonna get their twenty two percent rate.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Hike only if the company can justify it with data
in a public hearing. Well, of course they're gonna justify it.
They're gonna come out, they're gonna take their lumps, and
what's gonna happen is we're gonna shame State Farm. They're
gonna get their twenty two percent rate hike. Your home
insurance rates are gonna go up, but only after there's
(20:41):
a couple of hours that we get to.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Shame State Farm. That's it.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Shame.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
He's making them do the walk of shame.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Shame, shame, shame.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
And this is after there was that surreptitiously recorded exec
from State Farm that said, yeah, I mean, we're gonna
tell them twenty two percent rate hike and they don't
get it. We're gonna tell them that we're gonna drop
a bunch of drop a bunch of policies. They basically
admitted privately. Of course they aren'tother being recorded that it's
all a game that they're playing.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
It's all a game.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
We're gonna get our rate hike, and all we have
to do is threaten to drop insurance. The state doesn't
have any leverage because that fair plan is totally broke,
and so State Farm goes, all right, I'll tell you what, Yeah,
you give us our twenty two percent rate hike, and
we'll hang on and not drop anybody for a year.
(21:34):
But come April of next year, we're gonna do this
dance again. They're gonna say, oh, well, you know, we
had that new fire. There'll be something else, something else
will burn. We had that new fire. Oh you know
that fire over the summer, and when that fire hit, well,
you know we're gonna have to raise those rates.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Again. We just can't afford it.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You can't keep going back to our parent company for
another five hundred million, I mean five hundred million here,
five hundred million there. It really starts to add up
what this dance is going to play out. You watch
how this plays out. How frustrated I am? Why am
I so grumpy today? Amy King? I should not be
this grumpy too early?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
But you know it's Monday, all right, we're gonna give it.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
We're gonna give it a case on the Monday.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So you're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF
I am six forty are we?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Are we moving on here? Did you?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Yes? I usually wait till Handle introduces that he's doing
Handle on the News, which is Meryl for Handle on.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Meryl on the News on Handle on the News.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Yes, okay, I've got this has got to cheer you up,
cast a cheer and all of you.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
It has to cheer you up. Ted Lasso is coming.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Back, in my humble opinion, best show on TV in years,
and they announced that season four is on the way.
They didn't say exactly when or exactly who's going to
be back, but Jason sideikis of course, Yeah, so did
confirm it and he's going to come back. And if
(23:03):
you remember the end of season three when when Rebecca
was presented with an idea to start up a women's
soccer team.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yeah, her and Keeley, right, they were going to do
the women's team.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yeah, So apparently he's going to coach it because at
the end of season three he went back to the States.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Oh that's right. He wanted to be by his son
and all that stuff. Right.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yeah, Okay, so I know that that Sideikis was on
with the Kelsey Brothers on their podcast and he was
talking about this and they asked him will it be
in the United States and he said, you're asking too many.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Questions and down on that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
So we don't know if it's back here or if
he is going back there. But my understanding is that
Brett Goldstein is going to come back as an executive producer.
You would assume that he would be back on the
show as well. That is the guy that plays Roy
Kent on the program.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
He better be back on the shows.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
How do you not love it? Hannah Wattingham, I believe
is coming back.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
They haven't confirmed. They haven't confirmed a lot of them.
There's just lots of rumbling, but.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I'm guessing, okay, because I'm all from you know what
I love the most about ted Lasso because I agree
with you, one of the best shows.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I'm gonna put it up.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
There in the UH probably the top five shows in
the last ten years. And we had We've had some
pretty decent programming as the streamers were kind of fighting
for the last ten years, so there's been decent programming.
I've said before, I think Apple puts out really good stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Their quality over quantity.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
So many the others, the Netflix and the Hulu's and
the Disneys and the Paramounts and all these others, they're
they're throwing out as much as they can, and there's
some gems in there, don't get me wrong, but they're
throwing out a ton of quantity, whereas Apple goes, let's
do quality. So you end up with severance, and you
end up with slow horses, and you end up with
UH for all Mankind and UH in ted Lasso. So
(24:57):
really great stuff. What I found the most in interesting
about ted Lasso. And you feel free to disagree if
you want, but so many shows that we think of
as being really really good are kind of gritty, and
there seems to be almost a it's a very real tone,
but it's always people dealing with a certain darkness, whereas
(25:18):
ted Lasso deals with his demons. But you feel better
at the end of the show. You don't feel exhausted
like when I watch The Bear. I'm exhausted at the
end of an episode, right, I am worn out ted Lasso.
I just I can't wait to see more of this guy.
I can't wait to see more of these people and
the things that they're dealing with and the foils and
(25:38):
all that other stuff.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
I love it, Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
And what I love to about it is there is
an over overarching sense of kindness. Yeah, that you just
don't get in so many shows. Like there's shows that
we love like Succession, Yeah, fabulous show.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Hated every single character.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
All horrible people, and you never left like feeling good
about mankind. And I always felt good about mankind at
the end of a ted Lasso.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I agree. I agree one hundred percent. What I loved
about it the most. El Tuna, Pennsylvania. I guess the
police pulled a fast one on Luigi MENGIONI. That's the
dude you remember him. He shot the United Healthcare Exact.
So they arrested him at the McDonald's. If you'll recall
the story, he shot the EXAC and took off and
then they tracked him down. They found him at this McDonald's.
(26:26):
I think one of the McDonald's workers called him in.
Didn't get a raise, but called him in just the same.
So what happened was when the cops arrested him, they
were trying to get his DNA, and so cops did
the very copy thing and they said, okay, listen, you know,
we're gonna sit down, we're gonna have a talk here,
We're gonna be a while.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Can I get you something to eat? You want a
little snack, you want to drink.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
And he's like, okay, because dumb, and so he accepted
the snack the snack and then they said thank you
very much, and then they took the snack bag and
they pulled his.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
DNA off of it. So it used to be that
you had the right to remain silent. Now you have
the right to remain hungry.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
If ever you're being questioned by the police, don't give
them your your styrofoam coffee cup, don't accept any soda
from them, and if you do get a snack, put
that bag right in your pocket. Don't throw the bag
in the trash because they're gonna get.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Your DNA off. That is advice from me, not a lawyer,
because I am not a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
So but I've watched a lot of legal dramas, so
safe to say my advice is probably probably pretty sound.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Thanks Law and Order.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Putting a little star power behind a bill is Jay Leno.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
It's Senate Bill seven twelve. Stay.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Senator Shannon Grove from Bakersfield says they're trying to bring
back the old rolling exemption for a thirty five year
exemption to exclude classic cars. So the smog check exemption
is for car modelsineteen seventy five and older. That's been
in place since two thousand and five. But under the
new proposal, any car thirty five or older would be exempted.
(28:10):
But only bona fide classics ensured as classic cars would
get the exemption, not cars used for regular transportation.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Okay, so if I'm driving Grandma's Delta eighty eight from
nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
As my daily driver, I would not get the exemption.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
That is that's my understanding.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Oh all right, I don't know how I feel about this.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
They've dubbed it Leno's law.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
All right, help me through this. I understand why Leno
supports that he.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Loves classic cars and he's got one hundred of them.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I get it, and I'm not
bagging on the guy at all.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
But now, let's see thirty five years older. Do the
math for me.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Does that mean nineteen ninety Okay, nineteen ninety was thirty
five years ago?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
We put this law in place though in the eighties, right,
or did we put it in place that the standards
nine was two thous and five is when we put
the classic car exemption into place.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
The slug check exemption, which has been in place since
two thousand and five.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Okay, So my point is is that we had if
you remember, I didn't grow up in southern California, but
what I knew of Southern California I got from my
elementary school education. And I recall them telling us about
how you can't see your hand in front of your
face in Los Angeles because the smog is so bad,
not really exaggerating that. Then showed us photos of you know,
(29:30):
when the smog kind of sits on top of everything
and how bad it was in the eighties. Yes, So
now we're saying that those cars that were from the
eighties that were causing a great deal of that, that's
going to be cool as long as you're ensuring them properly.
A little hung up on that part of it. Little
hung up on the other hand, I also think if
you're doing a classic car show and you have, you know,
(29:51):
like an eighty five Camaro, that's cool car. I want
that to be able to go to the car show.
So I'm torn. If I were a lawmaker, I would
be a bit torn on this one. Help guide me, Amy,
what am I missing?
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I think you got it.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Thank you for that guidance, exactly what I wanted. The
Democrats are in total disarray. We'll tell you just how
bad things are for them right now. The direction that
they maybe could go is nuts.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
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