May 6, 2025 • 28 mins
(May 06,2025)
Heather and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. LAFD union president Freddy Escobar suspended, accused of ‘’financial malpractice.’ Trump administration to pay $1,000 to self-deporting undocumented immigrants. Hepatitis-A outbreak declared in L.A. County. What you need to know. President Trump to meet with Canadian PM Mark Carney over trade dispute. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: First day of jury selection concludes.
Heather and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. LAFD union president Freddy Escobar suspended, accused of ‘’financial malpractice.’ Trump administration to pay $1,000 to self-deporting undocumented immigrants. Hepatitis-A outbreak declared in L.A. County. What you need to know. President Trump to meet with Canadian PM Mark Carney over trade dispute. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: First day of jury selection concludes.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
The first Grand Theft Auto.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Will you play a character that you go and have
sex with a hooker You're not happy with what her
sexual proclivities were, and you beat her up. You beat
up a hooker who has not put out the way
you wanted to put out.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
That's Grand Theft Auto. Cono. You know this is that true.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Know about beating hookers? Cono, you're from the.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Ie and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
KFI AM six forty morning. Everybody handle morning, crew. It
is a Taco Tuesday. It is May the day after
Sinco Tobaio the sixth.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And let us say hello to one and all.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Will Cole Strever will start with you, Will I like
I kind of like that shirt. Yeah, you look like
a sort of a lesbian who has come to work
and just put her clothes on, you know, flannel shirt,
you know, stout boots. You know it's not.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
A flannel shirt. It's a button up short.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It looks thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I don't think I've ever heard that before.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It looked like, ah, it looked you know, you know,
there's the lesbian costume. You know, the flannel, you know
the stout shoes. Uh, you know, the very short nails. There,
there's a whole look there, I've just defended every gay
woman in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I unders direct your calls to bill handle dot com.
Yeah I know.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Uh yeah, well that happens to not be my email,
and it never ever will be given out. I don't
think I even have an email at KFI do I kneel?
And do I have an email? I think it's just
at Bill Handle show. And I think you read them
all right, yes, okay, good one.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
No one gets you help, but it presses delete all
pretty much.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah. Do we actually do you actually respond to any
of them coming in?
Speaker 6 (02:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Okay, excellent, good morning Anne, Hello, and then Neil, good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Good morning, Willie Wolf. You know I respond to some
of the talkbacks sometimes.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh do you Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
If there's a question or something I can help with,
I try to.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Inevitably, it's the same question, is he really a dick?
And you always say yes.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I put about twelve calls on and then I just
go and turn them all on at the same time
and say he's sorry, and then hang.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Out do you know?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I asked Anne what the other day legitimately, and I said,
you know, people do hate me around the building and
she said.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And then I asked what the percentages are? Did you say,
like fifty percent of the people who genuinely hate me
around the building.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I think it's higher than that.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, do you think so high?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Okay, Wow, that's fantastic, Heather.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You don't know me well enough yet to hate me,
do you?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
But I don't think I would anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Oh yeah, he was on the fence.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Hey, I want to point something out before we get
started with today. And of course there's tons of news
and that is as as everyone knows. Neil has been
helping me. First of all, talk about my new Big
Green Egg because I went cooking. He has it and
uses it all the time. It's this barbecue kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Uh, it's what do they call it? A Komodo cooker
like you cook Komota.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Dragons dragon exactly? Yeah, whatever the hell that kind of
cooker is.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But it's the Big Green Egg.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Loving him learn all these times.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And so I tried the brisket first one a couple
of days ago. The brisket it turned out to be
a hockey pucket. It should be tender, tender, And then
Neil said, try something easier, chicken.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So you know what I did yesterday, Neil?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I went to Costco and bought a five dollar chicken
and it was one of the best things. That's the
best deal and it's one of the most delicious chickens
I've ever had.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Did you cook? Did you cooked it yourself? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
God, no, I just bought chicken. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh, you're going to do great.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
So next time, what you do is you take it
out of the plastic, you put it on the grill,
you take a picture so you can post it on
social media, and then you take it off and you
eat it.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh it's a good idea. It's a good idea.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You will go.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
How did he get that rotisseriy chicken on his big
green egg?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yes, that doesn't have a rotisseri So I am.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Making a chicken salad today. I can't wait now.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And we're about to start our our contest for you,
you five of you plus a guest to join us,
and I think it's June seventh, and we'll tell you
how to do it June seven. Are getting very excited
about that because we are giving away an evening at
the Anaheim White House with all of us, and it's
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going to be pretty terrific stuff. I know, if you've
never been to Anaheim White House, you're in for a
huge treat as far as the food is concerned. And
it'll be all of us there, Heather, They're not you,
the people that are regulars here. Will I have to
reluctantly invite because he is part of, you know, our
(05:28):
borning crew.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
All right, I like to change my answer from the
top of the show if I can.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I thought, you see I'm working on each other.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, no, because you know will Is, we used to
have people in airplanes and we don't anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well we actually we do, but that's it's a different model.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So Will Is now in the studio pretending he is
in a plane.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yes, moves his hand around.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And pretends he's in an airplane like you do with
a two year role, and you're trying to feed him
with a spoon.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
We do pa that sounder that that makes it sound
like there's some kind of helicopter.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, we should do or be honest and say Will
Coleschreiber Kfi on the ground.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
We can do that too.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
There it is right there.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, that's the flying.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, I have flown many times on this show, but
that has a lot to do with what I've ingested
that morning. Okay, I think we're ready to go, don't you. Yeah, yes,
let's do it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
By the way, Heather, as far as June seventh, I
wasn't kidding.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Let's let's do it.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Guys, it's time for handle on the news with Heather.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Who you probably won't be seeing June seventh.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Never get you know, Heather, Because I'm doing so much
of it, I now am shamed into inviting you.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
You know, well I'm not coming because I'm good. Thank goodness,
you're off the hook.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Than It's like the you know I've told you about
my elevator philosophy of life. Will you haven't heard it?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And Heather?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You haven't heard of my elevator philosophy of life. Here
it is, You're in an elevator. Someone is running as
the doors are closing, is running to get on the elevator.
You go, oh oh, and you start punching the panel,
not the button, the panel so the doors continue to
close or you punch the close button.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And here's what happens. Number one, no one gets in the.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Elevator to screw up your ride up to grab a
floor before you want to get up there, and you
get the credit for trying to open the door.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's a win win. If they don't get on, they
think you're helping them. It doesn't get better.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Okay, great analogy.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay, here it is. I'll let's do it, guys.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Time for handle on the news on this Taco Tuesday
with Heather Brooker, Neil and Me lead Starry Fire. Yeah,
there's some doings at the LA Fire Department, the union
that represents the firefighters. The president, Freddie Escobar, has been suspended.
(08:12):
Why because he's accused of spending two hundred and sixty
five thousand dollars without receipts. Now at this point, is
the accusation that he put that money in his pocket?
I don't think so, but let me say the accusation
is out there. Two hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. Now,
(08:33):
the former secretary of the union, Adam Walkler Walker Walker,
transferred money from a union fund directly into his personal account.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Is what the accusation is.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And then the former Treasurer Domingo Albaton also accused of
spending hundreds of thousands of dollars without sharing receipts.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So big doings.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
So they just do it dive investigation with Latin forensics.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You know, it could be that he just didn't have
proper receipts. You know, the money was not.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Two hundred and fifty thousand, two hundred and sixty five thousand,
maybe it was one purchase.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Yeah, it just says there's not proper documentation, doesn't say
he did anything nefarious.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's correct, all right.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
The Trump administration announces yesterday they're going to be paying
a thousand bucks for illegal immigrants who want to self
undocumented immigrants who want to self deport. DHS Secretary Christy
Noam says self deportation is quote the safest way to leave.
I think we actually run a commercial or spot from
her saying that encouraging people to go on the app
(09:40):
and oh I didn't know that, Yeah, where I've heard
it several times where she says encouraging people to log
onto their newly redesigned CBP app register to self deport.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
So I'm going to do this more at seven o'clock
and how this program works and why it theoretically and
it maybe save money and people. And the only issue
is what kind of food do they get on the airplane?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
All right?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
That's how are they getting reimbursed?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Like?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
How are we are? We just like the people who
are how are they getting paid when they go on
the app? Do they enter like their bank information and
the government just like.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
They get paid in cash. I don't think they im
yuessing And I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
What else could they do?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
They're being deported, they're leaving, they don't have uh, they
have bank accounts.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
But if we don't make good on it, we don't
pay them, are they going to come back? Like there's
no recourse for them if we don't pay them.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
There probably isn't a recourse for them. But the optics
it would not be terrific. Yeah, it all in vouchers
for drinks on the baby.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah it could be all right, let's move on.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Los Angeles County has declared a community wide outbreak of
hepatitis A yay yeah hey el ay el, a very
highly contagious viral disease cause problems with liver even death.
And unfortunately this is not hitting the people you think
it would. We have such a high homeless contingent here
(11:12):
in LA that those are usually the folks that hit this.
But now we're getting people who haven't traveled recently, who
aren't homeless or use illicit drugs, which are common factors,
and they're seeing a rise in this. Seven deaths have
been linked to the now thirteen month old outbreak, so
(11:33):
they're looking into this.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, how contagious as hepatitis A without transference of blood
and stuff, I mean, just breathing in the same room.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's very I can't either, I have to ask Jim.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
At this point, it says it can be contracted by
unknowingly ingesting contaminated food and drink and it you know,
so if somebody has equal matter on their hands or
a cut or anything like that at your you know,
not to be too gross early in the morning, but
it can be very contagious.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Is that part of your stand up routine?
Speaker 6 (12:03):
By the ones? And then I got.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Good for you as a guy with the drum that
goes good times, Good times. Ice House Saturday night. We'll
see you there, all right. Trump's trade war with Canada.
It's kind of, you know, kind of blowing up in
his face, that's what they're saying. Anyway, Prime Minister Canadian
Prime Minister Mark Carney is going to be visiting the
(12:27):
President this morning. As a matter of fact. That meeting
should be getting underway any moment now, and so a
lot of people are saying it's going to be a
little contentious obviously because of the tariffs and the you know,
the war of words that's been happening back and forth
between the US and one of our closest allies. So
it'll be interesting to see what comes out of this
meeting today.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, the President said, we don't need Canada, as you know,
so they're going to suffer more than we are.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And well, I mean, we may not need care Canada.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Unfortunately, thirty percent of all of our lumber used in
the country is from Canada. You have steel, you have aluminum,
you have energy, particularly the Northeast.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It's it's a hit. I mean, there's no question. For
Canada it's a hit.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But for the United States it is being downplayed that
it's not going to be that big a deal.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
For us. Just wait, you'll see it's.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Going to be a big trade wars or a big
deal across the board.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Everybody suffers three forty nine billion dollars now we got
from Canada.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
That's a lot of maple syrup. All right.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
A seventy year old fella drove through Jennifer Anderson's closed fence,
causing a big scare to the celebrity and our security
team as they all the security guards rushed held the
man prone until police arrived. This was in a bel
air home, no reason. They think that it might have
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been an attempted burglary, but they haven't really given a
whole lot of information. It's possible that the guy's love
life was doa It could be.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And you know, she has a reputation for uh, very good.
She has a reputation for living very moderately, you know that.
So when they did the story, I first thought that
somehow they mistook her house for a hotel and.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Nope, that was her house. There it is.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
It got through the first level of motes and yeah,
you know full not just a security guard, a secure team.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
The friends money, Oh yeah, it's astronomical.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Imagine so well, even the.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Last few years.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
The last few years, it was a million dollar an
episode for each of them. And how many episodes did
they do? Twenty two episodes each per season, So there's
twenty two million dollars per year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And
well it depends on whether they own syndication rights or
not or part of the syndication.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And I guess is yeah, they probably.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Did million and partly Andiston gets twenty million annually right
now for syndication, just syndication.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Frienends, not on their movies or anything.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Handle you should do a sitcom called No Friends.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
That's very good. That's actually very good. Okay, that may
be line de jure, that could be not bad.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
That's young all right. So Israel launched an airstrike in
Yemen last night, just one day after a hooty attack
on Tel Aviv over the weekend. The group fired a
ballistic missile in the area of Ben Garyon airport. And
they're ramping up their attacks over there, just ahead of
Trump's visits. So some getting a little getting even more dangerous,
(15:53):
more scary over there.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
You know, I don't know why anybody goes up against Israel.
So they shoot a ballistic missile, it lands on airport grounds,
doesn't hit the runway or any buildings or anything. And
Israel was unable to shoot it down. And now what happens, Well,
Israel comes back and hits dozens of who they targets, buildings, camps,
(16:24):
killing a bunch of people. You know, Okay, go up
against Israel. Hey, Hamas did a great job, didn't that.
Boy were they clever? And what they did? October seventh,
Look what happened to Gaza? All right, Oh, here's a story.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Neil, don't fly into Newark, man, what a mess. Tons
of delays, but some scary stuff. So air traffic controllers
lost communication with aircraft at Newark Liberty International Airport in
New Jersey. Hundreds of delays for more than a week,
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and some of them are making special government leave for
traumatic situations to recover from stress. So you've got like
a complete breakdown. They couldn't see here or talk to
the planes. This happened on Monday, April twenty eight. National
Air Traffic Controllers Association came out and said, listen, this
(17:19):
is a mess. We've got outdated equipment, this system completely failed,
and now you've got five FAA employees taking forty five
days of leave.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So yeah, that's a big story.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I'm doing that at seven to twenty because there's a
lot of spins on this one, one of them being
a new national holiday Don't Talk to the Planes day.
But that was only out maybe thirty seconds or a minute,
But that in itself.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Seconds or a minute when it comes to airtime.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
With people with people with the planes landing and taking off.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, that's a little bit. That is a little bit.
That's a little bit tough.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
All right. So jockey Junior Alvarado is facing fines for
excessive use of the whip in the Kentucky Derby. Apparently
you cannot use the crop more than six times, and
he used it at least seven times, so he is
facing some fines there.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You know, I know people that would look at the
story in a whole different way with a whips.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
I kind of feel like you were going to go there,
and then I'm like, nah, okay, he went there. Yeah,
I went there, set up a tent and all of that.
President Trump still Monday, you.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Know, one strike, you know it's and he said, you
know I wasn't paying attention. Yeah, I mean, this is
the Kentucky Derby. I'm ahead of everybody. And he's accused
of one whipping too much, one use of the whip
too many from six to seven, and he's going to
get nailed ten percent of his earnings. And he picked
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up thirty one thousand, and so that would be he
would pay thirty one thousand out of the three hundred
and ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
That's not a bad dollar.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
For winning the Kentucky Derby. Yeah, but it's also pretty
rarefied air.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
But also you would think that he's you know, because
he's a professional. You would know you'd be in control
and know how do you would think?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
So, Yeah, that's the exact thought I had, Heather, was
your a professional?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
That's what you do? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Now did with a horse naing and basically in horse
language asking for more.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
It doesn't say in this article. I'll look into that,
all right.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
President Trump said yesterday he had nothing to do with
that depiction of him as the pope that was shared
on the White House social media. I don't know about that,
he said, I had nothing to do with it. And
it's funny because you got to love the way he
looks at things. He said, hey, come on, Because people
were asking the media's asking him about, you know, the
(19:59):
cath Licks and all that stuff, and he said they
can't take a joke. And reporters, he thought it was
the Catholics, you mean, the fake news the loved it.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah, that's the thing that's fun The Catholics loved that,
you know. In reality is I think it was more
of a joke than anything else. And do I think
he posted it, Who the hell knows. But it's almost like, well,
the Catholics loved it, like Mormons loved the Book of Mormon.
Uh they which which uh, the the play, the musical.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Excellent, by the way, the Book of Mormon.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, it's it's absolutely spectacular and it's it is good.
And Mormons, all the Mormons that I've ever talked to,
really do like it because it is funny. Uh, it
is not done with any malice whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, Yeah, it's just wonderful. Trump.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You know, he's looked at a little bit differently among
various groups. And the funny I'll tell you what was funny,
not so much that was put up. You know, I
think it was more of a joke even with him.
It's the Catholics loved it. And if you see what's
happening in Italy and around the world. The reaction is
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just insane.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
If you look at social media.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Yeah people are upset. Yeah, well it's me. Secretary of
Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered significant cuts through the highest
ranks of the US military. He signed a memo that
was well, it basically says he must reduce the number
of four star generals and admirals by at least twenty percent.
(21:39):
So he is they're cutting back over there.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Oh yeah, they're cleaning it up. I mean they're sweeping
it up, not necessarily cleaning it up. And the DEI
and the story goes beyond that, and that is that
you have minorities, A disproportionate number of women have been fired.
The chief of staff is have was fired who happens
(22:03):
to be African American. And there is obviously an allegation
of racism involved. And here is I think why I
don't think it's racism per se, I really don't. It's
the philosophy is that if you are a minority, you
are there because of a DEI program.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And that's the tough one.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And it was one of those situations where I once
went to a very high end doctor and I remember
what I had some It was a heart thing, and
I went to a cardiologist who happened to be African American,
and we just started talking. I always asked, where'd you
go to medical school? I always ask the doctors, and
I say, do you speak Spanish when you were in
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medical school in Guadalajara. I do that as a matter
of course. And he was saying how much he resented
affirmative action programs because he came out of Harvard Med
and near the top of his class, and he hated
the fact that it was that people assumed it was
(23:05):
an affertive affirmative action program that he came out of.
And I think the assumption among these very highly placed
individuals that they are there because of DEI, which I
think is a croc. For the most part, you don't
get to that level of management and that high level
(23:26):
in the military with a DEI program. And it's like
Colin Powell, come on, guys, you know he got there
because of a DEI program when he was head of
the Joint Chiefs and then he became Secretary of State.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
All right, well, Trump is in the news again. Trump
administration unveiled news steps to target federal funding to have
it university. They announced with yesterday they're cutting off all
new federal research grants.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Big move from.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
The administration, their latest effort to demand political policy changes
from the elite university. This is a major clash going
on there, they say, and they being The Education Secretary
of Linda McMahon, says that Harvard is in consistent violations
of its own legal duties in every way. She said,
(24:17):
Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations. It's
ethical and fiduciary duties, it's transparency responsibilities, and any semblance
of academic rigor.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
So now that gets interesting because I don't know what
that means any of that. It's pretty vague, and I
guess according to the Trump administration, it's one of those
will decide what academic rigor is, and if you don't
make it on our level, we're cutting off all the funding.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Harvard is not backing down.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And the two big issues, I mean, this is all
crap ola, but the two big issues DEI programs and
the other one anti semitism, allowing anti semitism on campus
and allowing professors to basically propound anti semitism and so
(25:09):
Harvard is saying, Nope, you're not going to tell us
what to do. In terms of funding, they're saying the
government saying, no funding, no money. And Harvard gets a
fortune ten times more than almost any other school in
terms of grants, and so Harvard is just won't back down.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
So what's the DEI stuff? Is that a federal law
now that you can't do that and are no, No, Well,
you know what you can't do is discriminate. And what
the administration is.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Saying, by definition DEI is discriminating effectively against white people.
That if you are pushing programs that give women, minorities,
gay people, any kind of preference, which de programs do,
by definition, the administration is saying, this is racistem We're
(26:00):
not going to let it happen. The rest of it
is kind of crap ol. You're not meeting rigorous standards. Really,
Harvard not meeting rigorous academic standards.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Give me a break. It's it's all that. And they're suing.
I mean, Harvard is suing.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
They're saying, you're discriminating against us because the administration not
only once the DEI program has disappear, but also once
all of its academic uh uh, it's uh uh, it's
what sort of I'm looking for requirements overseen by the government.
The government is saying. The administration is saying, we want
you to report to us and we will tell you
(26:36):
what's appropriate and what's not.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Harvard's saying, not a chance, no way.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
What did the Department of Education do if not look
at the curriculum of schools?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Because I don't think the Department of Education can look.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
At the curriculum of schools.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
What do they do the launch program?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Not really they do in federal they do in federal programs.
But these are you know, these are medical grants. These
are research grants. And the Department of Education, as long
as it's around, is saying we don't like you with
the DEI programs. You don't let's let us oversee your
educational process.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
We're gonna cut off medical.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Research grants which have nothing to do with what is
going on in the teaching area. All right, guys, we
are done Feenne and coming up.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You don't go back.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
You don't want Heather to do storyline? I know I was.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Waiting for it. This is the banger at the end
of the show. We need to kick her.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Now go ahead, all right, go ahead, all.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Right, listen. I know you're all excited. Rihanna is having
another baby. And she made the reveal and made the
announcement last night at the met Gala in New York.
She was dressed in a Mark Jacob's pinstripe and revealed
her baby bumps. So congratulations to Rihanna.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Thank you. Jeez. I feel better.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Hey, and let's change the show and do every segment
until the end of the show on Rihanna. On Rihanna
revealing her third pregnancy, I think it's that big a deal.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Okay, good, I've got some more information. It was a
Trump cleansing of the palette. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
All right, we're done, guys, now we're done. This is
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The first Grand Theft Auto.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Will you play a character that you go and have
sex with a hooker You're not happy with what her
sexual proclivities were, and you beat her up. You beat
up a hooker who has not put out the way
you wanted to put out.
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That's Grand Theft Auto. Cono. You know this is that true.
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Know about beating hookers? Cono, you're from the.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Ie and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
KFI AM six forty morning. Everybody handle morning, crew. It
is a Taco Tuesday. It is May the day after
Sinco Tobaio the sixth.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And let us say hello to one and all.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Will Cole Strever will start with you, Will I like
I kind of like that shirt. Yeah, you look like
a sort of a lesbian who has come to work
and just put her clothes on, you know, flannel shirt,
you know, stout boots. You know it's not.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
A flannel shirt. It's a button up short.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It looks thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I don't think I've ever heard that before.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It looked like, ah, it looked you know, you know,
there's the lesbian costume. You know, the flannel, you know
the stout shoes. Uh, you know, the very short nails. There,
there's a whole look there, I've just defended every gay
woman in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I unders direct your calls to bill handle dot com.
Yeah I know.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Uh yeah, well that happens to not be my email,
and it never ever will be given out. I don't
think I even have an email at KFI do I kneel?
And do I have an email? I think it's just
at Bill Handle show. And I think you read them
all right, yes, okay, good one.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
No one gets you help, but it presses delete all
pretty much.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah. Do we actually do you actually respond to any
of them coming in?
Speaker 6 (02:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Okay, excellent, good morning Anne, Hello, and then Neil, good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Good morning, Willie Wolf. You know I respond to some
of the talkbacks sometimes.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh do you Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
If there's a question or something I can help with,
I try to.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Inevitably, it's the same question, is he really a dick?
And you always say yes.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I put about twelve calls on and then I just
go and turn them all on at the same time
and say he's sorry, and then hang.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Out do you know?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I asked Anne what the other day legitimately, and I said,
you know, people do hate me around the building and
she said.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And then I asked what the percentages are? Did you say,
like fifty percent of the people who genuinely hate me
around the building.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I think it's higher than that.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, do you think so high?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Okay, Wow, that's fantastic, Heather.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You don't know me well enough yet to hate me,
do you?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
But I don't think I would anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Oh yeah, he was on the fence.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Hey, I want to point something out before we get
started with today. And of course there's tons of news
and that is as as everyone knows. Neil has been
helping me. First of all, talk about my new Big
Green Egg because I went cooking. He has it and
uses it all the time. It's this barbecue kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Uh, it's what do they call it? A Komodo cooker
like you cook Komota.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Dragons dragon exactly? Yeah, whatever the hell that kind of
cooker is.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But it's the Big Green Egg.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Loving him learn all these times.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And so I tried the brisket first one a couple
of days ago. The brisket it turned out to be
a hockey pucket. It should be tender, tender, And then
Neil said, try something easier, chicken.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So you know what I did yesterday, Neil?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I went to Costco and bought a five dollar chicken
and it was one of the best things. That's the
best deal and it's one of the most delicious chickens
I've ever had.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Did you cook? Did you cooked it yourself? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
God, no, I just bought chicken. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh, you're going to do great.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
So next time, what you do is you take it
out of the plastic, you put it on the grill,
you take a picture so you can post it on
social media, and then you take it off and you
eat it.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh it's a good idea. It's a good idea.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You will go.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
How did he get that rotisseriy chicken on his big
green egg?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yes, that doesn't have a rotisseri So I am.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Making a chicken salad today. I can't wait now.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And we're about to start our our contest for you,
you five of you plus a guest to join us,
and I think it's June seventh, and we'll tell you
how to do it June seven. Are getting very excited
about that because we are giving away an evening at
the Anaheim White House with all of us, and it's
(05:08):
going to be pretty terrific stuff. I know, if you've
never been to Anaheim White House, you're in for a
huge treat as far as the food is concerned. And
it'll be all of us there, Heather, They're not you,
the people that are regulars here. Will I have to
reluctantly invite because he is part of, you know, our
(05:28):
borning crew.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
All right, I like to change my answer from the
top of the show if I can.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I thought, you see I'm working on each other.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, no, because you know will Is, we used to
have people in airplanes and we don't anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well we actually we do, but that's it's a different model.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So Will Is now in the studio pretending he is
in a plane.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yes, moves his hand around.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And pretends he's in an airplane like you do with
a two year role, and you're trying to feed him
with a spoon.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
We do pa that sounder that that makes it sound
like there's some kind of helicopter.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, we should do or be honest and say Will
Coleschreiber Kfi on the ground.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
We can do that too.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
There it is right there.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, that's the flying.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, I have flown many times on this show, but
that has a lot to do with what I've ingested
that morning. Okay, I think we're ready to go, don't you. Yeah, yes,
let's do it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
By the way, Heather, as far as June seventh, I
wasn't kidding.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Let's let's do it.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Guys, it's time for handle on the news with Heather.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Who you probably won't be seeing June seventh.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Never get you know, Heather, Because I'm doing so much
of it, I now am shamed into inviting you.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
You know, well I'm not coming because I'm good. Thank goodness,
you're off the hook.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Than It's like the you know I've told you about
my elevator philosophy of life. Will you haven't heard it?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And Heather?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You haven't heard of my elevator philosophy of life. Here
it is, You're in an elevator. Someone is running as
the doors are closing, is running to get on the elevator.
You go, oh oh, and you start punching the panel,
not the button, the panel so the doors continue to
close or you punch the close button.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And here's what happens. Number one, no one gets in the.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Elevator to screw up your ride up to grab a
floor before you want to get up there, and you
get the credit for trying to open the door.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's a win win. If they don't get on, they
think you're helping them. It doesn't get better.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Okay, great analogy.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay, here it is. I'll let's do it, guys.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Time for handle on the news on this Taco Tuesday
with Heather Brooker, Neil and Me lead Starry Fire. Yeah,
there's some doings at the LA Fire Department, the union
that represents the firefighters. The president, Freddie Escobar, has been suspended.
(08:12):
Why because he's accused of spending two hundred and sixty
five thousand dollars without receipts. Now at this point, is
the accusation that he put that money in his pocket?
I don't think so, but let me say the accusation
is out there. Two hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. Now,
(08:33):
the former secretary of the union, Adam Walkler Walker Walker,
transferred money from a union fund directly into his personal account.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Is what the accusation is.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And then the former Treasurer Domingo Albaton also accused of
spending hundreds of thousands of dollars without sharing receipts.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So big doings.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
So they just do it dive investigation with Latin forensics.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You know, it could be that he just didn't have
proper receipts. You know, the money was not.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Two hundred and fifty thousand, two hundred and sixty five thousand,
maybe it was one purchase.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Yeah, it just says there's not proper documentation, doesn't say
he did anything nefarious.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's correct, all right.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
The Trump administration announces yesterday they're going to be paying
a thousand bucks for illegal immigrants who want to self
undocumented immigrants who want to self deport. DHS Secretary Christy
Noam says self deportation is quote the safest way to leave.
I think we actually run a commercial or spot from
her saying that encouraging people to go on the app
(09:40):
and oh I didn't know that, Yeah, where I've heard
it several times where she says encouraging people to log
onto their newly redesigned CBP app register to self deport.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
So I'm going to do this more at seven o'clock
and how this program works and why it theoretically and
it maybe save money and people. And the only issue
is what kind of food do they get on the airplane?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
All right?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
That's how are they getting reimbursed?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Like?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
How are we are? We just like the people who
are how are they getting paid when they go on
the app? Do they enter like their bank information and
the government just like.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
They get paid in cash. I don't think they im
yuessing And I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
What else could they do?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
They're being deported, they're leaving, they don't have uh, they
have bank accounts.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
But if we don't make good on it, we don't
pay them, are they going to come back? Like there's
no recourse for them if we don't pay them.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
There probably isn't a recourse for them. But the optics
it would not be terrific. Yeah, it all in vouchers
for drinks on the baby.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah it could be all right, let's move on.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Los Angeles County has declared a community wide outbreak of
hepatitis A yay yeah hey el ay el, a very
highly contagious viral disease cause problems with liver even death.
And unfortunately this is not hitting the people you think
it would. We have such a high homeless contingent here
(11:12):
in LA that those are usually the folks that hit this.
But now we're getting people who haven't traveled recently, who
aren't homeless or use illicit drugs, which are common factors,
and they're seeing a rise in this. Seven deaths have
been linked to the now thirteen month old outbreak, so
(11:33):
they're looking into this.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, how contagious as hepatitis A without transference of blood
and stuff, I mean, just breathing in the same room.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's very I can't either, I have to ask Jim.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
At this point, it says it can be contracted by
unknowingly ingesting contaminated food and drink and it you know,
so if somebody has equal matter on their hands or
a cut or anything like that at your you know,
not to be too gross early in the morning, but
it can be very contagious.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Is that part of your stand up routine?
Speaker 6 (12:03):
By the ones? And then I got.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Good for you as a guy with the drum that
goes good times, Good times. Ice House Saturday night. We'll
see you there, all right. Trump's trade war with Canada.
It's kind of, you know, kind of blowing up in
his face, that's what they're saying. Anyway, Prime Minister Canadian
Prime Minister Mark Carney is going to be visiting the
(12:27):
President this morning. As a matter of fact. That meeting
should be getting underway any moment now, and so a
lot of people are saying it's going to be a
little contentious obviously because of the tariffs and the you know,
the war of words that's been happening back and forth
between the US and one of our closest allies. So
it'll be interesting to see what comes out of this
meeting today.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, the President said, we don't need Canada, as you know,
so they're going to suffer more than we are.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And well, I mean, we may not need care Canada.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Unfortunately, thirty percent of all of our lumber used in
the country is from Canada. You have steel, you have aluminum,
you have energy, particularly the Northeast.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It's it's a hit. I mean, there's no question. For
Canada it's a hit.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But for the United States it is being downplayed that
it's not going to be that big a deal.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
For us. Just wait, you'll see it's.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Going to be a big trade wars or a big
deal across the board.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Everybody suffers three forty nine billion dollars now we got
from Canada.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
That's a lot of maple syrup. All right.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
A seventy year old fella drove through Jennifer Anderson's closed fence,
causing a big scare to the celebrity and our security
team as they all the security guards rushed held the
man prone until police arrived. This was in a bel
air home, no reason. They think that it might have
(13:59):
been an attempted burglary, but they haven't really given a
whole lot of information. It's possible that the guy's love
life was doa It could be.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And you know, she has a reputation for uh, very good.
She has a reputation for living very moderately, you know that.
So when they did the story, I first thought that
somehow they mistook her house for a hotel and.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Nope, that was her house. There it is.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
It got through the first level of motes and yeah,
you know full not just a security guard, a secure team.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
The friends money, Oh yeah, it's astronomical.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Imagine so well, even the.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Last few years.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
The last few years, it was a million dollar an
episode for each of them. And how many episodes did
they do? Twenty two episodes each per season, So there's
twenty two million dollars per year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And
well it depends on whether they own syndication rights or
not or part of the syndication.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And I guess is yeah, they probably.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Did million and partly Andiston gets twenty million annually right
now for syndication, just syndication.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Frienends, not on their movies or anything.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Handle you should do a sitcom called No Friends.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
That's very good. That's actually very good. Okay, that may
be line de jure, that could be not bad.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
That's young all right. So Israel launched an airstrike in
Yemen last night, just one day after a hooty attack
on Tel Aviv over the weekend. The group fired a
ballistic missile in the area of Ben Garyon airport. And
they're ramping up their attacks over there, just ahead of
Trump's visits. So some getting a little getting even more dangerous,
(15:53):
more scary over there.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
You know, I don't know why anybody goes up against Israel.
So they shoot a ballistic missile, it lands on airport grounds,
doesn't hit the runway or any buildings or anything. And
Israel was unable to shoot it down. And now what happens, Well,
Israel comes back and hits dozens of who they targets, buildings, camps,
(16:24):
killing a bunch of people. You know, Okay, go up
against Israel. Hey, Hamas did a great job, didn't that.
Boy were they clever? And what they did? October seventh,
Look what happened to Gaza? All right, Oh, here's a story.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Neil, don't fly into Newark, man, what a mess. Tons
of delays, but some scary stuff. So air traffic controllers
lost communication with aircraft at Newark Liberty International Airport in
New Jersey. Hundreds of delays for more than a week,
(16:58):
and some of them are making special government leave for
traumatic situations to recover from stress. So you've got like
a complete breakdown. They couldn't see here or talk to
the planes. This happened on Monday, April twenty eight. National
Air Traffic Controllers Association came out and said, listen, this
(17:19):
is a mess. We've got outdated equipment, this system completely failed,
and now you've got five FAA employees taking forty five
days of leave.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So yeah, that's a big story.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I'm doing that at seven to twenty because there's a
lot of spins on this one, one of them being
a new national holiday Don't Talk to the Planes day.
But that was only out maybe thirty seconds or a minute,
But that in itself.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Seconds or a minute when it comes to airtime.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
With people with people with the planes landing and taking off.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, that's a little bit. That is a little bit.
That's a little bit tough.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
All right. So jockey Junior Alvarado is facing fines for
excessive use of the whip in the Kentucky Derby. Apparently
you cannot use the crop more than six times, and
he used it at least seven times, so he is
facing some fines there.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You know, I know people that would look at the
story in a whole different way with a whips.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
I kind of feel like you were going to go there,
and then I'm like, nah, okay, he went there. Yeah,
I went there, set up a tent and all of that.
President Trump still Monday, you.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Know, one strike, you know it's and he said, you
know I wasn't paying attention. Yeah, I mean, this is
the Kentucky Derby. I'm ahead of everybody. And he's accused
of one whipping too much, one use of the whip
too many from six to seven, and he's going to
get nailed ten percent of his earnings. And he picked
(18:59):
up thirty one thousand, and so that would be he
would pay thirty one thousand out of the three hundred
and ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
That's not a bad dollar.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
For winning the Kentucky Derby. Yeah, but it's also pretty
rarefied air.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
But also you would think that he's you know, because
he's a professional. You would know you'd be in control
and know how do you would think?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
So, Yeah, that's the exact thought I had, Heather, was
your a professional?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
That's what you do? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Now did with a horse naing and basically in horse
language asking for more.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
It doesn't say in this article. I'll look into that,
all right.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
President Trump said yesterday he had nothing to do with
that depiction of him as the pope that was shared
on the White House social media. I don't know about that,
he said, I had nothing to do with it. And
it's funny because you got to love the way he
looks at things. He said, hey, come on, Because people
were asking the media's asking him about, you know, the
(19:59):
cath Licks and all that stuff, and he said they
can't take a joke. And reporters, he thought it was
the Catholics, you mean, the fake news the loved it.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah, that's the thing that's fun The Catholics loved that,
you know. In reality is I think it was more
of a joke than anything else. And do I think
he posted it, Who the hell knows. But it's almost like, well,
the Catholics loved it, like Mormons loved the Book of Mormon.
Uh they which which uh, the the play, the musical.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Excellent, by the way, the Book of Mormon.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, it's it's absolutely spectacular and it's it is good.
And Mormons, all the Mormons that I've ever talked to,
really do like it because it is funny. Uh, it
is not done with any malice whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, Yeah, it's just wonderful. Trump.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You know, he's looked at a little bit differently among
various groups. And the funny I'll tell you what was funny,
not so much that was put up. You know, I
think it was more of a joke even with him.
It's the Catholics loved it. And if you see what's
happening in Italy and around the world. The reaction is
(21:13):
just insane.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
If you look at social media.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Yeah people are upset. Yeah, well it's me. Secretary of
Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered significant cuts through the highest
ranks of the US military. He signed a memo that
was well, it basically says he must reduce the number
of four star generals and admirals by at least twenty percent.
(21:39):
So he is they're cutting back over there.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Oh yeah, they're cleaning it up. I mean they're sweeping
it up, not necessarily cleaning it up. And the DEI
and the story goes beyond that, and that is that
you have minorities, A disproportionate number of women have been fired.
The chief of staff is have was fired who happens
(22:03):
to be African American. And there is obviously an allegation
of racism involved. And here is I think why I
don't think it's racism per se, I really don't. It's
the philosophy is that if you are a minority, you
are there because of a DEI program.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And that's the tough one.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And it was one of those situations where I once
went to a very high end doctor and I remember
what I had some It was a heart thing, and
I went to a cardiologist who happened to be African American,
and we just started talking. I always asked, where'd you
go to medical school? I always ask the doctors, and
I say, do you speak Spanish when you were in
(22:45):
medical school in Guadalajara. I do that as a matter
of course. And he was saying how much he resented
affirmative action programs because he came out of Harvard Med
and near the top of his class, and he hated
the fact that it was that people assumed it was
(23:05):
an affertive affirmative action program that he came out of.
And I think the assumption among these very highly placed
individuals that they are there because of DEI, which I
think is a croc. For the most part, you don't
get to that level of management and that high level
(23:26):
in the military with a DEI program. And it's like
Colin Powell, come on, guys, you know he got there
because of a DEI program when he was head of
the Joint Chiefs and then he became Secretary of State.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
All right, well, Trump is in the news again. Trump
administration unveiled news steps to target federal funding to have
it university. They announced with yesterday they're cutting off all
new federal research grants.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Big move from.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
The administration, their latest effort to demand political policy changes
from the elite university. This is a major clash going
on there, they say, and they being The Education Secretary
of Linda McMahon, says that Harvard is in consistent violations
of its own legal duties in every way. She said,
(24:17):
Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations. It's
ethical and fiduciary duties, it's transparency responsibilities, and any semblance
of academic rigor.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
So now that gets interesting because I don't know what
that means any of that. It's pretty vague, and I
guess according to the Trump administration, it's one of those
will decide what academic rigor is, and if you don't
make it on our level, we're cutting off all the funding.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Harvard is not backing down.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And the two big issues, I mean, this is all
crap ola, but the two big issues DEI programs and
the other one anti semitism, allowing anti semitism on campus
and allowing professors to basically propound anti semitism and so
(25:09):
Harvard is saying, Nope, you're not going to tell us
what to do. In terms of funding, they're saying the
government saying, no funding, no money. And Harvard gets a
fortune ten times more than almost any other school in
terms of grants, and so Harvard is just won't back down.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
So what's the DEI stuff? Is that a federal law
now that you can't do that and are no, No, Well,
you know what you can't do is discriminate. And what
the administration is.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Saying, by definition DEI is discriminating effectively against white people.
That if you are pushing programs that give women, minorities,
gay people, any kind of preference, which de programs do,
by definition, the administration is saying, this is racistem We're
(26:00):
not going to let it happen. The rest of it
is kind of crap ol. You're not meeting rigorous standards. Really,
Harvard not meeting rigorous academic standards.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Give me a break. It's it's all that. And they're suing.
I mean, Harvard is suing.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
They're saying, you're discriminating against us because the administration not
only once the DEI program has disappear, but also once
all of its academic uh uh, it's uh uh, it's
what sort of I'm looking for requirements overseen by the government.
The government is saying. The administration is saying, we want
you to report to us and we will tell you
(26:36):
what's appropriate and what's not.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Harvard's saying, not a chance, no way.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
What did the Department of Education do if not look
at the curriculum of schools?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Because I don't think the Department of Education can look.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
At the curriculum of schools.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
What do they do the launch program?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Not really they do in federal they do in federal programs.
But these are you know, these are medical grants. These
are research grants. And the Department of Education, as long
as it's around, is saying we don't like you with
the DEI programs. You don't let's let us oversee your
educational process.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
We're gonna cut off medical.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Research grants which have nothing to do with what is
going on in the teaching area. All right, guys, we
are done Feenne and coming up.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
You don't go back.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
You don't want Heather to do storyline? I know I was.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Waiting for it. This is the banger at the end
of the show. We need to kick her.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Now go ahead, all right, go ahead, all.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Right, listen. I know you're all excited. Rihanna is having
another baby. And she made the reveal and made the
announcement last night at the met Gala in New York.
She was dressed in a Mark Jacob's pinstripe and revealed
her baby bumps. So congratulations to Rihanna.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Thank you. Jeez. I feel better.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Hey, and let's change the show and do every segment
until the end of the show on Rihanna. On Rihanna
revealing her third pregnancy, I think it's that big a deal.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Okay, good, I've got some more information. It was a
Trump cleansing of the palette. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
All right, we're done, guys, now we're done. This is
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