August 4, 2025 • 33 mins
(August 04,2025)
Amy King & Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump defends firing labor statistics chief after weak jobs report. Gov. Greg Abbott threatens Texas House Democrats with removal from office for fleeing state. Hamas says it will allow aid for hostages if Israel halts airstrikes, opens permanent humanitarian corridors. DOJ is walking back the White House’s goal to arrest 3,000 illegal immigrants per day.
Amy King & Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump defends firing labor statistics chief after weak jobs report. Gov. Greg Abbott threatens Texas House Democrats with removal from office for fleeing state. Hamas says it will allow aid for hostages if Israel halts airstrikes, opens permanent humanitarian corridors. DOJ is walking back the White House’s goal to arrest 3,000 illegal immigrants per day.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KPI AM six forty, the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iheartradiop We attack everybody on
this show, although I don't do much about Amy, who
is basically a wet Protestant white person who eats lettuce
sandwiches with mayonnaise on wonderbread.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Aside from the wonderbread, You're right, of course, she's so white.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
She refers to Gary Hoffman as a person of color.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Now and now.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Handle on the news, Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle
all right, Monday morning.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Everybody hand all year on this the board. And yet
we have one more week to go, and then I
don't know how many weeks until Christmas, and then we
have another year.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You know, my philosophy has always been you go to work,
you retire, will you.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Wake up go to work or tired than you die?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And we're all we're well on our way, please, I
am okay, Hello to the crowd.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Here Amy, good.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Oh, we are dressed like Barbie this morning, very picky,
Hey Barbie, yeah, very barbie ish okay.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
And Will good morning, good morning Bill okay. And I'm
just wearing black like Neil and Cono. Yeah, yeah, you
guys are we're all going to a funeral.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Huh apparently welcome we're hoping.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, thank you, oh well said we're I'm ninety seconds
into the show.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Thank you, morning al.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Good morning, Willie Wolf, How sir, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I had an okay weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
My daughter came over and her roommate came over and
spent the weekend with us.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
And it was fun nice having her there here, okay.
And there's Cono, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
By the way, it really wasn't nice. Having her here
is a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And and good morning, good morning. There we are, Okay,
let me see what's new. Everybody have a decent weekend? Yes, okay, fine,
everybody's nodding, all right, all.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Right, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And you sound depressed today. Yeah, the schedule blows.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, that pretty well says it all, doesn't it. Monday? Yeah,
Morning Morning Drive is a tough gig. It really is.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And to be fair to Anne and probably has the
hardest producing job on the station by a very long shot.
Not only is it the hours, but also in terms
of the amount of work.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
She does for the show.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Most hosts do the vast majority of their own work
in setting up the segments and dealing who they want
to talk to.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I do virtually nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, that's about right.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I do virtually nothing. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You know, I've never I've never mowed a lawn in
my life. I've never changed a tire in my life. Really, yeah,
honest to god, I just started taking out the trash.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I go, what is this BS about? Lindsey's forcing me.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
To take out the trash? I am completely asked she should.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh God, this is why you hire somebody to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Bill, Yes, I could. The problem is is I'd have
to hire someone just to take out the trash, and
that's not easy to do.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And so I went next door.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
There's there's a thirteen year old kid next door that
I asked he would take out the trash. He goes, no, No,
talk to the kid that I've asked to take out
the trash, but I think he's pretty busy. Okay, anything
else going on? No, no, no, got some news though.
It's that kind of weekend, and let's do it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Guys. You know, I'm a little bit I need some
more coffee, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Oh well, don't let us keep you yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
No, my coffee cup is empty, so I'll do it
during the next break. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's signed for a handle on the news with Amy
Neil and me lead story. Take this job and hovy
well after. I think it was Friday that President Trump
fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Following that week jobs report.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
He defended his decision to fire the head of Bureau
of Labor Statistics. He posted that fired BLS Commissioner Erica
mcintarf or make him yeah, whatever her name is, mccontra,
I don't know if that's pronounced correctly. Had the biggest
miscalculation in over fifty years, and did the same thing
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just before the election when she lifted the numbers for
jobs to an all time high. I then won the
election anyway, and then she readjusted the numbers downwards, calling
it a mistake of almost one million jobs. She did
it again with another massive correction. A couple of things
going on with this number.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
One.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
They do correct The Bureau of Labor Statistics does come
back and correct numbers. There's expected numbers, and they come
back and say these are the actual numbers. That happens
all the time. Number two, this smells like and I
buy it, is to shoot the messenger if the numbers
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are not in on your side, as in this case
with the president, the problem is the head of the.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's the issue, because we really had tremendous employment. We
didn't have less than expectations. It's just a lie. My
question is what's going to happen next month and the
month after that if the numbers drop, Because there's all
kinds of indications that numbers are dropping at this point.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
So we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And he's going to be putting in someone who of
course is on his side. And maybe and I don't
know if this is true or not. This is speculation,
and I have no idea. There are plenty of Democrats
and detractors of Donald Trump who will say he will
determine what the numbers are. He will simply say, the
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numbers are good, you are working. I mean, it already
is happening with Congress. He tells Congress, he tells Mike
Johnson what he wants.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
That's a given. Mike Johnson has.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Admitted that what does somebody in that position do once
they leave the White House.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Oh, they teach the lecture.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean, you know, former head of You know, this
bureau is one big, big player when it comes to
the world of economics.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And this is an economist.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I mean, this is someone who is a statistician and
just you have to be having insane credentials to do
this job. All right, So we'll see what happens right now.
It's just it's right now is just political theater. Well,
other than she lost her job and someone's going to
be replacing her. The next couple of months are going
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to be really interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Okay, get back here or else. That is the word
from Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He has said that he
would attempt to have Democrats from the House removed from
office if they don't get back to Austin to work
to pass the proposed new congressional maps put together by
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the Republicans. More than fifty Democrats left the state yesterday afternoon.
Apparently they headed to Illinois, and by leaving the state,
the Texas House does not have enough for a quorum.
They don't have enough people there to vote to pass legislation.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
An Abbott said, we're going to arrest you when they
come back. I mean that they have to be They
cannot leave the state just to not vote.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That is against the law. And he is going crazy.
And what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What's the vote about redistricting to make more Republican districts,
which can be done?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And how do you do that?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You take a large group of Democrats who are part
of Republican areas, who sort of swing areas, move them
all into one district, which is a one democratic district,
leaving the other ones with enough Republicans to swing the district.
The other way is that legal? Well, there's a court fight,
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but it's unheard of. Usually redistricting happens every ten years.
Now they're calling it a midterm redistricting. They're saying, we're
going to do it right now. And you know why
they're going to do it right now because Donald Trump
called for it, and he told the state legislatures you,
I want you to redo this, and of course they
immediately said, of course, mister President, even if it's basically
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unheard of. And what's going to happen as a result
of that is you're going to see democratic legislatures probably
do the same thing we talked about this last week.
Governor Newsom wants to do this. The problem is is
that in blue states they have a sign and voted
into law independent district makers who have nothing to do
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with the legislature, and therefore they're unbiased and they're not
allowed to go one way or the other.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And what Newsom is going to do he has.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
To hold a special election to overturn that law to
do the exact jerrymandering that Texas is doing. You can't
play by the rules anymore. Those days are gone. You
can't because you can't anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Politics has been playing by the rules this old time. No.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
No, but politics has been playing somewhat by the rules, somewhat. No.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I don't think so. No, I don't think so. I
don't think so.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Presidents of state have stayed away, for example, on interest rates,
leaving the FEDS to do what they do. Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
The head of the.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Real labor statistics was independent, couldn't be touched.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
A president would never deal with that.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
The DOJ would have some kind of a firewall there,
the FBI would have some kind of a firewall there.
That those days are completely gone. Uh, it's just gotten
to the point where and by the way, it's going
to happen on the Democratic side, where nothing will ever
be passed. That's all nothing. It will be complete total
grid luck.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
The only thing that.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Will ever happen is executive actions will happen. Whatever president
comes into into power.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
That's it. We're going on toilet boys and girls, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Oh, this is a sad one. Lonnie Anderson known for
that very theme we just heard. Late seventies, I think
into the eighties, Tevy sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. She died
on Sunday at seventy nine. She had a prolonged illness.
We don't know much more than that. She's a wife, mother, grandmother,
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and she you know, she had primetime any Emmy nominations.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, yeah, no, she was clothes Yeah. What a comedian
she was.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
By the way, the show WKRP in Cincinnati was, as
you know, a fanity show avanted a fantasy show. It
was not based on reality because WKRP was actually a
successful AM station.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Okay, moving out in the seventies, there were many successful
AM stations talking about modern day.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, thank you for the history lesson I apprec well.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They actually had talented people on the airback then too.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Okayma, I wonder if you really do hate me, and
I answer in the affirmative, I'm sorry, Amy.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Go right ahead, keep it on.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Hamas is back down a bit, but not really.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Uh. Hamas released a video showing one of the hostages
absolutely emaciated and apparently having to dig his own grave.
And so now Hamas is saying, well, it will coordinate
with the Red Cross to deliver aid to the hostages
it's holding in Gaza, but only if Israel stops all
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the air strikes and opens permanent humanitarian corridors.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
A couple things about that.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
First of all, I cannot believe the stupidity of Hamas.
Cannot believe how stupid they are in releasing videos theeds
emaciated he may say it, nurse and digging their own graves, which,
by the way, there's plenty of Holocaust video of that
going on. You would think that they would treat those
hostages like gold, because that's the ammunition they have. It's
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like taking your ammunition and destroying it. And the world
now is reacting in horror as to what happened. You
had where the world was totally in favor of Hamas
and what Israel was doing as a war crime. And
now you now you have a spin going the other way.
And so I just I just don't get their stupidity.
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It's beyond comprehension. In the meantime, you've got Nantai Yahu
saying he's going to expand the military program on the incursions,
the fight in Gaza, and Hamas, I think, for the
first time, has said, you stop fighting, not you pull out,
not you stop the work, you stop fighting and allow
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humanitarian aid. And if Israel were smart, it would allow
unfettered humanitarian a to pour in. And they're not going
to do it. And Hamas is stupid and they're morons
on both sides. And you have look look at the
suffering that is going on. Sixty thousand Palestinians have died.
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Now a third of them are militants. So I don't
give you know, no one gives a rats about them.
But the rest and from what I understand, they're the
number of militants who have died is call it twelve
fifteen thousand Hamas fighters. They have been replaced, they really
haven't been They haven't lost now their military ability has
been decimated. But the rest of it, God, there's no
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easy answer here. You've got two sides that are totally
intransigent and transigent. Okay, moving on, that's depressing.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
COVID nineteen transmissions normally wrap up here in the United
States or ramp up rather, you know, in summertime, right,
we always expect that, and it seems that they're holding
pretty steady. We won't see what happens this month until
this month takes place, of course, But there's a worry
that nobody really knows do you get the vaccine again,
(15:16):
do you get a booster? Do you what do you do?
And that there's uncertainty about when the updated COVID vaccines
will even become available. So I think there's a lot
of confusion. But for right now, the numbers seem to
be less than they were last year.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah. Well kay.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
The Kaiser Family Foundation, which is regarded as one of
the top, if not the top foundation the Studies of Stuff,
says their service as most adults in the US do
not plan on getting the COVID vaccine this fall, I
sure as hall am going.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
To Okay, So the new administration is doing away with
another from the old administration. The Department of Veterans Affairs
is proposing to end certain abortion services for veterans. The
department said it's looking to revoke access to abortions and
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counseling for vets and the beneficiaries of the Civilian Health
and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs now
under the Biden administration. The current the department provides access
to abortions when a pregnant veterans life or health is
at risk, if the pregnancy was carried to term, or
if it was the result of rape or incest. The
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proposed rule would only allow abortions in cases where a
physician certifies the life of the mother would be endangered
if the fetus was garried to term.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Wow, not that the fetus is probably not going to survive,
which babies are. When they do amnocentesis, you can tell
if a baby is going to survive and has a
if its birth has had no chance of surviving. But
also rapid incest forcing a woman to go forward and
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have an abortion, I mean, this is hey, it's it's
a it's a new world of politics. And yeah, the
VA is saying this is all those other ones unneeded.
If a child is born of incest or a woman
is forced to deliver, it's the abortion is unneeded. And
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the same thing if the child is to be born
with some severe anomaly, for example tas acts or sickle
cell anameia, particularly tas acts, it's a it is a
terminal illness kids are born with. They generally don't survive
beyond two three four years of age. And the pain
is incredible, but you know, got to have them born.
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Sometimes it drives me completely nuts. Okay, let's take a break.
We'll come back. We got a little bit more of
God's news and then we'll get into a lot of fun.
As our society is falling apart today there's a society
is falling apart day.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, well it's a Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
You know, I'm saying myself, you sound like John Cobalt
when there's a Democrat in office.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Or a Republican or anybody elected to office with Cobalt,
all right, not a happy person, No, he's not a
happy person.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
All right. So, as we talked about earlier, some video,
some propaganda videos showing two emanciate emaciated Israeli captives were
released and people are just protesting and obviously affected by
these visuals. So now the net Yahoo is asking the
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Red Cross to help hostages in Gaza. You know, you've
got families that are concerned about the war expanding. So
just Sunday yesterday, International Red Cross in Israel is going
to the occupied territories and they're appalled. Everyone's appalled by
these videos.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, and those, by the way, you you could be
interpreted that the hostages were released, the video was released, and.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
The video not the hostages.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And it's interesting that Netta, who is asking the Red
Cross to help the hostages, not asking the Red Cross
to help the Palestinians in Gaza who are starving. I
don't see any major move about helping them out.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
You know what's interesting on that note is that the
militant group Hamas obviously is saying that the emancipated state
or emaciated sorry, the state is a reflected reflection of
the situation itself getting worse. Yet, hostages that have been
released previously have looked similar, gaunt and the like.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
So like that these guys the video you saw the
look they look like concentration camp victims. That the when
the concentration camps were freed, when the end of the war,
and it is I'll.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Tell you one thing, if you ever saw.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Have you noticed that the Hamas fighters look very well fed?
You know, they all look pretty healthy, don't they. Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'm sure yeah, Hamas is eating every day.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, you see those guys in the uniforms and the
black scarves that they're wearing, the face masks.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Okay, a bit of a tit for tat. The EU
is tripling entry fees for US. You may have heard
about the United States introducing a new two hundred and
fifty dollars visa integrity fee for international visas well. The
European Union has recently announced that it is raising its
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European Travel Information and Authorization system, called the ETIAS fee,
from seven euros to twenty euros. It's only about twenty
three bucks. The fee will apply to non European Union
nationals from visa free countries, So that means the US,
the UK, Canada, Japan and others should be up and
running by late next year.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah, let's look at the numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
US charges two hundred and fifty dollars for this? Was
it European travel information? In other words, arguing it's not
just a we'll get a charge two hundred and fifty dollars,
it's to really promote that the other's countries really looking
at visa and those that are trying to get in
the United States because they're not doing enough to secure US.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
So we're hitting them with two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Europe is coming back at twenty euros, less than ten percent.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You would think it'd be tit for tat and it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
And I think this says a lot about how important
it is to these countries, American tourism and Japanese tourism,
and how it's so critical in the United States. It's
not that critical for us in terms of tourism. I
think we are affected less. For example, France is a
number one, the number one location in the world that
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people go to and they don't charge anything to get in. Yeah,
well now it's going to be Now it's going to
be twenty twenty three euros because France is part of
the EU. Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, So we had to put because we just recently
went and we had to pay for the ETA to
get into the UK, but didn't have to pay anything
to get into France.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Well that's all changing because this is now the European Union.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Twenty three bucks.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yeah, that's not much.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Two hundred and fifty dollars, that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
All right. President Donald Trump told he sentate Democratic leader
Chuck Schumer he can go.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
To hell in capital letters, no less.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah, he was basically shouting, he's basically shouting, what's going on. Well,
they have their August their month long August recess, but
there's a deal hovering to advance dozens of President Trump's nominees,
and so he's pissed.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Yeah, well, this is where we go, this is where
we come to.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
As I said earlier, Democrats refuse to accept the Republican
president's nominees. Republicans refuse to accept the Democratic president's nominees.
No one will accept anybody else's nominees of the opposing party.
The only way the president is going to get some
of his people in is either appointing them as acting
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cabinet members or appointees or theirs during recess. He can
do it, and they last for a year. But as
far as being confirmed, ah, those days are over. And
it doesn't matter what the credentials are on either side.
Great credentials, it doesn't matter, and rotten credentials. Somehow, somehow,
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politically they get through. This is so just off the wall.
It's gotten crazy. It's gotten completely crazy. It's insane.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Maybe sites were said a bit too high or what.
Maybe the numbers were just made up. But Stephen Miller,
as you might remember, said hey, we're going to get
three thousand or more illegal immigrants per day. But when
a federal judge pressed for details about that number last week,
the administration denied that any such quota existed. Now, the
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denial came out during that lawsuit that alleges the intense
pressure to rack up arrests has led ICE to do
illegal sweeps in California, And right now the ninth US
Circuit Court of Appeals said, now we're not going to
stay that that rule is going to hold. So that's
all playing out. But now DHS is saying that neither
ICE leadership nor its field offices have been directed to
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meet any numerical quota or target for arrest, detentions, removals,
field encounters, or any other operational activities that isoor its
components undertake in the course of enforcing federal immigration law.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
How many times did we hear three thousand a day?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Dozens and dozens and dozens of times did the administration
ever say no, Stephen Miller, who is the top I think,
the top advisor of the president in this regard.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
That's never ever been refuted.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It's three thousand and three thousand and three thousand and
all of a sudden, Now, oh no, no, we never
had a plan. Now, the DOJ attorney, this guy, Yakov Roth,
said that that quota was anonymous reports in newspapers. That's
where it came from, not for Miller, even though Miller
said it over and over again the way way wait,
when he talked of anonymous newspapers, where do those come from?
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Didn't mention the word Miller at all. What's up and down?
What's left is right?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know, I've got to stop saying it doesn't stop.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
There's just no way around it. I spend too much time.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Okay, we've been hearing for gosh, my year or more
about companies wanting their people to come back in the office.
If you remember, seven months ago, we heard AT and
T was doing the same thing, calling workers back. They
wanted them back five days a week. While CEO John
Stanky that's his name, set out a message to employees
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and you got to come back and they did one
of those polls you know where they asked them how
they felt about this, and there were obviously some that
shared their thoughts. They said things are are fine the
way they they are and all this, and he says,
that's not going to do it. Basically said get on
board or get out our future and the company attitude
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is going this way and if you're not a part
of that, then bye. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
This was a survey that was not internally and seventy
nine percent of respondent said they felt committed and engaged
with their work. Who is not going to say they're
committed and engaged even though you're not committed and engaged.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Well, he wants to be committed engaged in the office.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yes, that's true. Oh here's a story.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Kind of an unwitting stowaway. So a woman has been
child has been charged with child neglect in New Zealand
after a two year old was discovered, thankfully alive, in
a suitcase in the luggage compartment on a bus. The
child was found when the bus made a routine stop
in a town about fifty miles northwest of Auckland. The
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driver noticed the suitcase was moving. After a passenger asked
to open the luggage compartment. The driver opened the suitcase
found the girl. The woman arrested twenty seven years old.
She's been charged with ill treatment or neglect of a child.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
You think, yeah, and wouldn't two year olds get the
bus ticket for free?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
That's what I that's immediately what I got.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I can understand you. I can understand putting the kid
in the suitcase. If you had to buy a ticket,
I understand that, I get it. But if it's a
free ticket, what's the upside here?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Piece and quiet? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, this is how Kono travels, so I've put him
in a suitcase and keeps the cost down. This story sucks,
but you got some wing nut went to Zimbabwe trophy
hunter and apparently shot a lion that was collared the
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Oxford Oxford University was doing a study, so this animal
had a research caller on it sponsored by Africa Geographic
and someone shot them.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, now, lions get shot, but not when they're collared
and being studied. And that the.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Line was in a safety area and it looks like
they used bait to lure them out of the safety
area and shoot. Now, I'm not a fan of big
game hunting. If you want to hunt to eat and
you're going to eat it, knock your stuff out. But
big game hunting to me is purposeless. And but this
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particular animals.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
But think of this.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
First of all, animals do have to be cold, there's
no question. And so that is legitis. That's different. And
what they do in Zimbabwe and other countries is they
allow the calling be done by big game hunters, the
great white hunters. So you know, all of them having
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incredibly small penises, which is why they have these huge
guns a year and it tells us thousands, maybe hundreds
of thousands of dollars. It goes to conservation. Uh in
these countries.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I get all of that that it could be a necessity.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
But yeah, this is this is a yeah, this is
there's also rules and regulations here.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yeah, it is pretty offensive.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Olon Speaking of offensive, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has
gotten involved in a rather bizarre exchange on X replying
to a post by a guy, Morgan McMichael, who's an
anti LGBTQ and flute influencer with ties apparently to far
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right groups. So McMichael asked, why do liberal white women
hate what people so much. And then apparently Elong responded
and said they've been programmed to do so by their
teachers and the media. And then this guy continues to
go on and says, not Musk, but this other guy. Uh, doctor,
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insensitive doctor, insensitive jerk apparently is his name. Women are
built to be traded to another tribe or captured and
slide seamlessly into their new culture. And that he rans
on a little bit more, and Musk apparently reposted that
I want to ask you question, what is wrong with
that premise?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Oh, I'm trying to figure out, you know, I really
dive into that talking about Musk, and I know we're
out of time. It's being reported now that Tesla has
just given Musk thirty billion dollars of Tesla stock the board.
Not that Musk it doesn't already have an insane number
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of stock, but this is additional that's being given to him.
That's when you really control a company big time. By
the way, that quote and I and I you know
what I said is you know there's nothing wrong with
that quote.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Of course, there's plenty wrong with that coat quote. Maybe
just to clarify, well.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Ease your wife owns you.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Nobody leaves what you said.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And she hates me because I'm white. That's well, I'm
not really white. I'm technically white. Okay, moving on, how
are you technically white? Because I sort of have white skin,
but I'm not Protestant and I'm not you.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I'm not white bread, mayonnaise and lettuce sandwich.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Have to be a wasp to be white? Yeah you do, Oh,
yes you do.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I am not white bread, Lennet let us and mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Oh that's right, you're not. You're not white bread. You're
everything else, yes, wholely bread. Yeah, you've got of course,
you have to be a Protestant.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
You have to be a wasp.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
You have to.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
You're not white.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Well yeah, you clear not white with a Hispanic background,
you know, Latino background. Okay, we can get into that
later on, but we won't. KFI AM six point forty.
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Aside from the wonderbread, You're right, of course, she's so white.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
She refers to Gary Hoffman as a person of color.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Now and now.
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Handle on the news, Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle
all right, Monday morning.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Everybody hand all year on this the board. And yet
we have one more week to go, and then I
don't know how many weeks until Christmas, and then we
have another year.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You know, my philosophy has always been you go to work,
you retire, will you.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Wake up go to work or tired than you die?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And we're all we're well on our way, please, I
am okay, Hello to the crowd.
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Here Amy, good.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Oh, we are dressed like Barbie this morning, very picky,
Hey Barbie, yeah, very barbie ish okay.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
And Will good morning, good morning Bill okay. And I'm
just wearing black like Neil and Cono. Yeah, yeah, you
guys are we're all going to a funeral.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Huh apparently welcome we're hoping.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, thank you, oh well said we're I'm ninety seconds
into the show.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Thank you, morning al.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Good morning, Willie Wolf, How sir, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I had an okay weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
My daughter came over and her roommate came over and
spent the weekend with us.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
And it was fun nice having her there here, okay.
And there's Cono, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
By the way, it really wasn't nice. Having her here
is a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And and good morning, good morning. There we are, Okay,
let me see what's new. Everybody have a decent weekend? Yes, okay, fine,
everybody's nodding, all right, all.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Right, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
And you sound depressed today. Yeah, the schedule blows.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, that pretty well says it all, doesn't it. Monday? Yeah,
Morning Morning Drive is a tough gig. It really is.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And to be fair to Anne and probably has the
hardest producing job on the station by a very long shot.
Not only is it the hours, but also in terms
of the amount of work.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
She does for the show.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Most hosts do the vast majority of their own work
in setting up the segments and dealing who they want
to talk to.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I do virtually nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, that's about right.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I do virtually nothing. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You know, I've never I've never mowed a lawn in
my life. I've never changed a tire in my life. Really, yeah,
honest to god, I just started taking out the trash.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I go, what is this BS about? Lindsey's forcing me.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
To take out the trash? I am completely asked she should.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh God, this is why you hire somebody to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Bill, Yes, I could. The problem is is I'd have
to hire someone just to take out the trash, and
that's not easy to do.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And so I went next door.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
There's there's a thirteen year old kid next door that
I asked he would take out the trash. He goes, no, No,
talk to the kid that I've asked to take out
the trash, but I think he's pretty busy. Okay, anything
else going on? No, no, no, got some news though.
It's that kind of weekend, and let's do it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Guys. You know, I'm a little bit I need some
more coffee, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Oh well, don't let us keep you yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
No, my coffee cup is empty, so I'll do it
during the next break. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's signed for a handle on the news with Amy
Neil and me lead story. Take this job and hovy
well after. I think it was Friday that President Trump
fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Following that week jobs report.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
He defended his decision to fire the head of Bureau
of Labor Statistics. He posted that fired BLS Commissioner Erica
mcintarf or make him yeah, whatever her name is, mccontra,
I don't know if that's pronounced correctly. Had the biggest
miscalculation in over fifty years, and did the same thing
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just before the election when she lifted the numbers for
jobs to an all time high. I then won the
election anyway, and then she readjusted the numbers downwards, calling
it a mistake of almost one million jobs. She did
it again with another massive correction. A couple of things
going on with this number.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
One.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
They do correct The Bureau of Labor Statistics does come
back and correct numbers. There's expected numbers, and they come
back and say these are the actual numbers. That happens
all the time. Number two, this smells like and I
buy it, is to shoot the messenger if the numbers
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are not in on your side, as in this case
with the president, the problem is the head of the.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's the issue, because we really had tremendous employment. We
didn't have less than expectations. It's just a lie. My
question is what's going to happen next month and the
month after that if the numbers drop, Because there's all
kinds of indications that numbers are dropping at this point.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
So we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And he's going to be putting in someone who of
course is on his side. And maybe and I don't
know if this is true or not. This is speculation,
and I have no idea. There are plenty of Democrats
and detractors of Donald Trump who will say he will
determine what the numbers are. He will simply say, the
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numbers are good, you are working. I mean, it already
is happening with Congress. He tells Congress, he tells Mike
Johnson what he wants.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
That's a given. Mike Johnson has.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Admitted that what does somebody in that position do once
they leave the White House.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Oh, they teach the lecture.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean, you know, former head of You know, this
bureau is one big, big player when it comes to
the world of economics.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And this is an economist.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I mean, this is someone who is a statistician and
just you have to be having insane credentials to do
this job. All right, So we'll see what happens right now.
It's just it's right now is just political theater. Well,
other than she lost her job and someone's going to
be replacing her. The next couple of months are going
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to be really interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Okay, get back here or else. That is the word
from Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He has said that he
would attempt to have Democrats from the House removed from
office if they don't get back to Austin to work
to pass the proposed new congressional maps put together by
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the Republicans. More than fifty Democrats left the state yesterday afternoon.
Apparently they headed to Illinois, and by leaving the state,
the Texas House does not have enough for a quorum.
They don't have enough people there to vote to pass legislation.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
An Abbott said, we're going to arrest you when they
come back. I mean that they have to be They
cannot leave the state just to not vote.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That is against the law. And he is going crazy.
And what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What's the vote about redistricting to make more Republican districts,
which can be done?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And how do you do that?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You take a large group of Democrats who are part
of Republican areas, who sort of swing areas, move them
all into one district, which is a one democratic district,
leaving the other ones with enough Republicans to swing the district.
The other way is that legal? Well, there's a court fight,
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but it's unheard of. Usually redistricting happens every ten years.
Now they're calling it a midterm redistricting. They're saying, we're
going to do it right now. And you know why
they're going to do it right now because Donald Trump
called for it, and he told the state legislatures you,
I want you to redo this, and of course they
immediately said, of course, mister President, even if it's basically
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unheard of. And what's going to happen as a result
of that is you're going to see democratic legislatures probably
do the same thing we talked about this last week.
Governor Newsom wants to do this. The problem is is
that in blue states they have a sign and voted
into law independent district makers who have nothing to do
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with the legislature, and therefore they're unbiased and they're not
allowed to go one way or the other.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And what Newsom is going to do he has.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
To hold a special election to overturn that law to
do the exact jerrymandering that Texas is doing. You can't
play by the rules anymore. Those days are gone. You
can't because you can't anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Politics has been playing by the rules this old time. No.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
No, but politics has been playing somewhat by the rules, somewhat. No.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I don't think so. No, I don't think so. I
don't think so.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Presidents of state have stayed away, for example, on interest rates,
leaving the FEDS to do what they do. Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
The head of the.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Real labor statistics was independent, couldn't be touched.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
A president would never deal with that.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
The DOJ would have some kind of a firewall there,
the FBI would have some kind of a firewall there.
That those days are completely gone. Uh, it's just gotten
to the point where and by the way, it's going
to happen on the Democratic side, where nothing will ever
be passed. That's all nothing. It will be complete total
grid luck.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
The only thing that.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Will ever happen is executive actions will happen. Whatever president
comes into into power.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
That's it. We're going on toilet boys and girls, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Oh, this is a sad one. Lonnie Anderson known for
that very theme we just heard. Late seventies, I think
into the eighties, Tevy sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. She died
on Sunday at seventy nine. She had a prolonged illness.
We don't know much more than that. She's a wife, mother, grandmother,
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and she you know, she had primetime any Emmy nominations.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, yeah, no, she was clothes Yeah. What a comedian
she was.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
By the way, the show WKRP in Cincinnati was, as
you know, a fanity show avanted a fantasy show. It
was not based on reality because WKRP was actually a
successful AM station.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Okay, moving out in the seventies, there were many successful
AM stations talking about modern day.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, thank you for the history lesson I apprec well.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They actually had talented people on the airback then too.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Okayma, I wonder if you really do hate me, and
I answer in the affirmative, I'm sorry, Amy.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Go right ahead, keep it on.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Hamas is back down a bit, but not really.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Uh. Hamas released a video showing one of the hostages
absolutely emaciated and apparently having to dig his own grave.
And so now Hamas is saying, well, it will coordinate
with the Red Cross to deliver aid to the hostages
it's holding in Gaza, but only if Israel stops all
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the air strikes and opens permanent humanitarian corridors.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
A couple things about that.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
First of all, I cannot believe the stupidity of Hamas.
Cannot believe how stupid they are in releasing videos theeds
emaciated he may say it, nurse and digging their own graves, which,
by the way, there's plenty of Holocaust video of that
going on. You would think that they would treat those
hostages like gold, because that's the ammunition they have. It's
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like taking your ammunition and destroying it. And the world
now is reacting in horror as to what happened. You
had where the world was totally in favor of Hamas
and what Israel was doing as a war crime. And
now you now you have a spin going the other way.
And so I just I just don't get their stupidity.
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It's beyond comprehension. In the meantime, you've got Nantai Yahu
saying he's going to expand the military program on the incursions,
the fight in Gaza, and Hamas, I think, for the
first time, has said, you stop fighting, not you pull out,
not you stop the work, you stop fighting and allow
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humanitarian aid. And if Israel were smart, it would allow
unfettered humanitarian a to pour in. And they're not going
to do it. And Hamas is stupid and they're morons
on both sides. And you have look look at the
suffering that is going on. Sixty thousand Palestinians have died.
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Now a third of them are militants. So I don't
give you know, no one gives a rats about them.
But the rest and from what I understand, they're the
number of militants who have died is call it twelve
fifteen thousand Hamas fighters. They have been replaced, they really
haven't been They haven't lost now their military ability has
been decimated. But the rest of it, God, there's no
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easy answer here. You've got two sides that are totally
intransigent and transigent. Okay, moving on, that's depressing.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
COVID nineteen transmissions normally wrap up here in the United
States or ramp up rather, you know, in summertime, right,
we always expect that, and it seems that they're holding
pretty steady. We won't see what happens this month until
this month takes place, of course, But there's a worry
that nobody really knows do you get the vaccine again,
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do you get a booster? Do you what do you do?
And that there's uncertainty about when the updated COVID vaccines
will even become available. So I think there's a lot
of confusion. But for right now, the numbers seem to
be less than they were last year.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah. Well kay.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
The Kaiser Family Foundation, which is regarded as one of
the top, if not the top foundation the Studies of Stuff,
says their service as most adults in the US do
not plan on getting the COVID vaccine this fall, I
sure as hall am going.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
To Okay, So the new administration is doing away with
another from the old administration. The Department of Veterans Affairs
is proposing to end certain abortion services for veterans. The
department said it's looking to revoke access to abortions and
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counseling for vets and the beneficiaries of the Civilian Health
and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs now
under the Biden administration. The current the department provides access
to abortions when a pregnant veterans life or health is
at risk, if the pregnancy was carried to term, or
if it was the result of rape or incest. The
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proposed rule would only allow abortions in cases where a
physician certifies the life of the mother would be endangered
if the fetus was garried to term.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Wow, not that the fetus is probably not going to survive,
which babies are. When they do amnocentesis, you can tell
if a baby is going to survive and has a
if its birth has had no chance of surviving. But
also rapid incest forcing a woman to go forward and
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have an abortion, I mean, this is hey, it's it's
a it's a new world of politics. And yeah, the
VA is saying this is all those other ones unneeded.
If a child is born of incest or a woman
is forced to deliver, it's the abortion is unneeded. And
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the same thing if the child is to be born
with some severe anomaly, for example tas acts or sickle
cell anameia, particularly tas acts, it's a it is a
terminal illness kids are born with. They generally don't survive
beyond two three four years of age. And the pain
is incredible, but you know, got to have them born.
(17:52):
Sometimes it drives me completely nuts. Okay, let's take a break.
We'll come back. We got a little bit more of
God's news and then we'll get into a lot of fun.
As our society is falling apart today there's a society
is falling apart day.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, well it's a Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
You know, I'm saying myself, you sound like John Cobalt
when there's a Democrat in office.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Or a Republican or anybody elected to office with Cobalt,
all right, not a happy person, No, he's not a
happy person.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
All right. So, as we talked about earlier, some video,
some propaganda videos showing two emanciate emaciated Israeli captives were
released and people are just protesting and obviously affected by
these visuals. So now the net Yahoo is asking the
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Red Cross to help hostages in Gaza. You know, you've
got families that are concerned about the war expanding. So
just Sunday yesterday, International Red Cross in Israel is going
to the occupied territories and they're appalled. Everyone's appalled by
these videos.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, and those, by the way, you you could be
interpreted that the hostages were released, the video was released, and.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
The video not the hostages.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And it's interesting that Netta, who is asking the Red
Cross to help the hostages, not asking the Red Cross
to help the Palestinians in Gaza who are starving. I
don't see any major move about helping them out.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
You know what's interesting on that note is that the
militant group Hamas obviously is saying that the emancipated state
or emaciated sorry, the state is a reflected reflection of
the situation itself getting worse. Yet, hostages that have been
released previously have looked similar, gaunt and the like.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
So like that these guys the video you saw the
look they look like concentration camp victims. That the when
the concentration camps were freed, when the end of the war,
and it is I'll.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Tell you one thing, if you ever saw.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Have you noticed that the Hamas fighters look very well fed?
You know, they all look pretty healthy, don't they. Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'm sure yeah, Hamas is eating every day.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, you see those guys in the uniforms and the
black scarves that they're wearing, the face masks.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Okay, a bit of a tit for tat. The EU
is tripling entry fees for US. You may have heard
about the United States introducing a new two hundred and
fifty dollars visa integrity fee for international visas well. The
European Union has recently announced that it is raising its
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European Travel Information and Authorization system, called the ETIAS fee,
from seven euros to twenty euros. It's only about twenty
three bucks. The fee will apply to non European Union
nationals from visa free countries, So that means the US,
the UK, Canada, Japan and others should be up and
running by late next year.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah, let's look at the numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
US charges two hundred and fifty dollars for this? Was
it European travel information? In other words, arguing it's not
just a we'll get a charge two hundred and fifty dollars,
it's to really promote that the other's countries really looking
at visa and those that are trying to get in
the United States because they're not doing enough to secure US.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
So we're hitting them with two hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Europe is coming back at twenty euros, less than ten percent.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You would think it'd be tit for tat and it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
And I think this says a lot about how important
it is to these countries, American tourism and Japanese tourism,
and how it's so critical in the United States. It's
not that critical for us in terms of tourism. I
think we are affected less. For example, France is a
number one, the number one location in the world that
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people go to and they don't charge anything to get in. Yeah,
well now it's going to be Now it's going to
be twenty twenty three euros because France is part of
the EU. Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, So we had to put because we just recently
went and we had to pay for the ETA to
get into the UK, but didn't have to pay anything
to get into France.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Well that's all changing because this is now the European Union.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Twenty three bucks.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yeah, that's not much.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Two hundred and fifty dollars, that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
All right. President Donald Trump told he sentate Democratic leader
Chuck Schumer he can go.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
To hell in capital letters, no less.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah, he was basically shouting, he's basically shouting, what's going on. Well,
they have their August their month long August recess, but
there's a deal hovering to advance dozens of President Trump's nominees,
and so he's pissed.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Yeah, well, this is where we go, this is where
we come to.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
As I said earlier, Democrats refuse to accept the Republican
president's nominees. Republicans refuse to accept the Democratic president's nominees.
No one will accept anybody else's nominees of the opposing party.
The only way the president is going to get some
of his people in is either appointing them as acting
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cabinet members or appointees or theirs during recess. He can
do it, and they last for a year. But as
far as being confirmed, ah, those days are over. And
it doesn't matter what the credentials are on either side.
Great credentials, it doesn't matter, and rotten credentials. Somehow, somehow,
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politically they get through. This is so just off the wall.
It's gotten crazy. It's gotten completely crazy. It's insane.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Maybe sites were said a bit too high or what.
Maybe the numbers were just made up. But Stephen Miller,
as you might remember, said hey, we're going to get
three thousand or more illegal immigrants per day. But when
a federal judge pressed for details about that number last week,
the administration denied that any such quota existed. Now, the
(24:47):
denial came out during that lawsuit that alleges the intense
pressure to rack up arrests has led ICE to do
illegal sweeps in California, And right now the ninth US
Circuit Court of Appeals said, now we're not going to
stay that that rule is going to hold. So that's
all playing out. But now DHS is saying that neither
ICE leadership nor its field offices have been directed to
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meet any numerical quota or target for arrest, detentions, removals,
field encounters, or any other operational activities that isoor its
components undertake in the course of enforcing federal immigration law.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
How many times did we hear three thousand a day?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Dozens and dozens and dozens of times did the administration
ever say no, Stephen Miller, who is the top I think,
the top advisor of the president in this regard.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
That's never ever been refuted.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It's three thousand and three thousand and three thousand and
all of a sudden, Now, oh no, no, we never
had a plan. Now, the DOJ attorney, this guy, Yakov Roth,
said that that quota was anonymous reports in newspapers. That's
where it came from, not for Miller, even though Miller
said it over and over again the way way wait,
when he talked of anonymous newspapers, where do those come from?
(26:04):
Didn't mention the word Miller at all. What's up and down?
What's left is right?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know, I've got to stop saying it doesn't stop.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
There's just no way around it. I spend too much time.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Okay, we've been hearing for gosh, my year or more
about companies wanting their people to come back in the office.
If you remember, seven months ago, we heard AT and
T was doing the same thing, calling workers back. They
wanted them back five days a week. While CEO John
Stanky that's his name, set out a message to employees
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and you got to come back and they did one
of those polls you know where they asked them how
they felt about this, and there were obviously some that
shared their thoughts. They said things are are fine the
way they they are and all this, and he says,
that's not going to do it. Basically said get on
board or get out our future and the company attitude
(27:08):
is going this way and if you're not a part
of that, then bye. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
This was a survey that was not internally and seventy
nine percent of respondent said they felt committed and engaged
with their work. Who is not going to say they're
committed and engaged even though you're not committed and engaged.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Well, he wants to be committed engaged in the office.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yes, that's true. Oh here's a story.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Kind of an unwitting stowaway. So a woman has been
child has been charged with child neglect in New Zealand
after a two year old was discovered, thankfully alive, in
a suitcase in the luggage compartment on a bus. The
child was found when the bus made a routine stop
in a town about fifty miles northwest of Auckland. The
(28:03):
driver noticed the suitcase was moving. After a passenger asked
to open the luggage compartment. The driver opened the suitcase
found the girl. The woman arrested twenty seven years old.
She's been charged with ill treatment or neglect of a child.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
You think, yeah, and wouldn't two year olds get the
bus ticket for free?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
That's what I that's immediately what I got.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I can understand you. I can understand putting the kid
in the suitcase. If you had to buy a ticket,
I understand that, I get it. But if it's a
free ticket, what's the upside here?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Piece and quiet? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, this is how Kono travels, so I've put him
in a suitcase and keeps the cost down. This story sucks,
but you got some wing nut went to Zimbabwe trophy
hunter and apparently shot a lion that was collared the
(29:05):
Oxford Oxford University was doing a study, so this animal
had a research caller on it sponsored by Africa Geographic
and someone shot them.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, now, lions get shot, but not when they're collared
and being studied. And that the.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Line was in a safety area and it looks like
they used bait to lure them out of the safety
area and shoot. Now, I'm not a fan of big
game hunting. If you want to hunt to eat and
you're going to eat it, knock your stuff out. But
big game hunting to me is purposeless. And but this
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particular animals.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
But think of this.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
First of all, animals do have to be cold, there's
no question. And so that is legitis. That's different. And
what they do in Zimbabwe and other countries is they
allow the calling be done by big game hunters, the
great white hunters. So you know, all of them having
(30:12):
incredibly small penises, which is why they have these huge
guns a year and it tells us thousands, maybe hundreds
of thousands of dollars. It goes to conservation. Uh in
these countries.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I get all of that that it could be a necessity.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
But yeah, this is this is a yeah, this is
there's also rules and regulations here.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yeah, it is pretty offensive.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Olon Speaking of offensive, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has
gotten involved in a rather bizarre exchange on X replying
to a post by a guy, Morgan McMichael, who's an
anti LGBTQ and flute influencer with ties apparently to far
(30:54):
right groups. So McMichael asked, why do liberal white women
hate what people so much. And then apparently Elong responded
and said they've been programmed to do so by their
teachers and the media. And then this guy continues to
go on and says, not Musk, but this other guy. Uh, doctor,
(31:18):
insensitive doctor, insensitive jerk apparently is his name. Women are
built to be traded to another tribe or captured and
slide seamlessly into their new culture. And that he rans
on a little bit more, and Musk apparently reposted that
I want to ask you question, what is wrong with
that premise?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Oh, I'm trying to figure out, you know, I really
dive into that talking about Musk, and I know we're
out of time. It's being reported now that Tesla has
just given Musk thirty billion dollars of Tesla stock the board.
Not that Musk it doesn't already have an insane number
(31:58):
of stock, but this is additional that's being given to him.
That's when you really control a company big time. By
the way, that quote and I and I you know
what I said is you know there's nothing wrong with
that quote.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Of course, there's plenty wrong with that coat quote. Maybe
just to clarify, well.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Ease your wife owns you.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Nobody leaves what you said.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And she hates me because I'm white. That's well, I'm
not really white. I'm technically white. Okay, moving on, how
are you technically white? Because I sort of have white skin,
but I'm not Protestant and I'm not you.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I'm not white bread, mayonnaise and lettuce sandwich.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Have to be a wasp to be white? Yeah you do, Oh,
yes you do.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I am not white bread, Lennet let us and mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Oh that's right, you're not. You're not white bread. You're
everything else, yes, wholely bread. Yeah, you've got of course,
you have to be a Protestant.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
You have to be a wasp.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
You have to.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
You're not white.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Well yeah, you clear not white with a Hispanic background,
you know, Latino background. Okay, we can get into that
later on, but we won't. KFI AM six point forty.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
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