August 7, 2025 • 31 mins
(August 07, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump’s tariffs take effect today. President Trump and Putin to meet in coming days, Kremlin aide says. A sergeant is accused of shooting 5 soldiers in his unit at Fort Stewart. Homeowners say Army Corps. Botched L.A. fire cleanup, agency documents concur. Boil water notice issues for portions of L.A. County. United Airlines flights resume after it resolves technology glitch.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump’s tariffs take effect today. President Trump and Putin to meet in coming days, Kremlin aide says. A sergeant is accused of shooting 5 soldiers in his unit at Fort Stewart. Homeowners say Army Corps. Botched L.A. fire cleanup, agency documents concur. Boil water notice issues for portions of L.A. County. United Airlines flights resume after it resolves technology glitch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So he named self chair of the Kennedy Center. Now
he names himself chair of the Federal Task.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Force on the Olympic Security. Olympic.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This morning, he's scheduled to sign an executive order, and
that is ordering that he not only run, but will
win the marathon by executive order.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Okay, and now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Good morning everybody. Bill Handle here, it's a Thursday. A
You know, we don't have a name for Thursday yet.
We've got one Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Uh yeah, did we just start with miserable Monday? Amy,
you came up, You came up with that. Sure, she
very good for Amy on that line. So we have
to come up with she.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Was just being honesty, she was, Yeah, she was.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Uh, so we've got to come up with Thursday. And
let's do a contest. I'll tell you what. Why don't
you those of you out in radio land, uh, write
in email us and if we choose, if we choose
your description, you will get absolutely nothing, as we to us.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, yeah, well, Bill, they can mail it.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yeah, if you folks in radio land go a hard
facts that too, or not to mention you do this
every every couple of months you go on this kick.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, I do. And I just have this vision of
people driving down the road worrying about work and stuff,
and then all the sudden point there's no day for Thursday.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Okay, I don't get quite that excited, but close anyway.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
About having him do it on the talk back and
then we can play them they do. They call in
and they say, how about thyroid Thursday?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's hardy? Thursday is hard? Thursday is hard. It's like
do a you know, write or recite a poem with
words that that rhyme with orange.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
You can't do it? Sure I can? She was a orange?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh good morning, good morning Neil, Hello, Yes, and good morning,
good morning, and Amy miserable Monday, Amy, good morning, Bill,
good morning Knoll. Okay, and then we have the tattoo
jew who is with us? Who is working part at you?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Good morning?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It's thirsty Thursday. Yeah. Well, we went through that a
little bit and it didn't seem to stick.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Now we do that in Australia.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Thursday is a drinking night.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, but so is Monday.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Come on and speak English. Come on, Wow, I'm still
in Australia.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Amy, You guys drink more than it's beer. It's uh,
what is it that you drink Foster's?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Is that your No, we do not drink Foster's. How
dare you?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
That's Canadian?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
No, it is Austria. It was bought by Belgium music.
It's the worst beer ever. We do not drink Fosters
in Australia, not since like nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
There you go, I'm so hipped everything. Sure, yeah, she's
already done with you. She's been training here for two weeks.
She's already sick and will good morning, good morning, thoroughly Thursday.
It's thoroughly Thursday. That's kind of stupid too, all right, yeah,
(03:59):
thyroid Thursday.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It is no, that's for people a thyroid problems. Come on, yeah,
put on a lot of weight, oh, Neil, or take
thyroid issues.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You know what I'm gonna do, Bill, Every time you
make that crack, I'm going to start playing the talkbacks
about people wanting you to retire so I can take over.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's like me, okay, guys, uh, let's do a rabbit.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, I'm in studio.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Sometimes I'm at home, and when I'm in studio, for
some reason, we go completely berserk. All right, you guys
ready to do it? We we Here we go, It's
time for handle On the news, Amy Neil and Me
lead story.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Trumpet on this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Some take, Well, the tariffs are kicking in, and what
President Trump said, of course, it's going to be a big,
beautiful economy, and the other countries are going to be paying. Uh,
these terrorists. First of all, that's not true. We're going
to pay for these tariffs. I love the fact that
other countries are paying for these tariffs. When I just
(05:07):
wrote a check to the US government for tariffs. Explain
that to me. How other companies are other countries are
paying for that, and we're we're looking at prices. We'll
see they haven't yet kicked in, and they will. I
mean tariffs by definition increased prices.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Are you saying that they're not working at all? They're
working to people looking to invest more. So I'm not
arguing that. I'm not arguing that.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
All I'm saying is all these investments are years in
the making. For Apple to invest another another one hundred
billion dollars on top of the five hundred billion that
they've already committed. How long do you think it takes
to build a factory that manufacturers especially chips.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
How long do you think it takes to build a
fast train that will go from Modesto to San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, that's that's that's something else. But when you look
at UH, tariffs happen immediately. I mean today President's eyes,
tariff's going to be today. And so Navidia has committed
to chip manufacturing. Freedo Lay has committed to US building
a lot of factories for its chips.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
That's joke. Let's move on. When you have to tell
somebody it's really not well, you didn't respond. Well, it's
like like on your wedding nights, you go, that's a penis.
If you have to tell somebody it's not here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
On my wedding night, what I heard is scoot over,
where's the penis?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Okay, moving moved over. Alfredo is sleeping with us tonight.
All right, let's let's move on. Enough of that.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
The big dogs sitting down to talk. Apparently, US President
Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin have agreed to meet
in the coming days. That is from the Kremlin. It
Trump saying that there was a good chance that he
could meet with Putin and Zelenski together in person very
(07:08):
soon to talk about ending the war in Ukraine. Trump's
deadline for Russia to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine
technically expires tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, how many times you think we're gonna hear the
word yet out of Putin as negotiations continue. Putin is
as good as Donald Trump, but is defined as the
great negotiator, and he's very good. I mean, he has
done in certain instance as a hell of a job.
(07:36):
Nothing compares to Putin. He talks a reasonable game. It
looks like he's coming to the table. He wants peace.
None of that is true. That's happened.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
There's the difference between an actual dictator. Yeah, I don't
want to be. I mean, just as that's the reality.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Putin would love to be a dictator that Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Oh boy, you know what a personal smuggled gun, claims
of racism, a dui, and all kinds of craziness. Yesterday morning,
as as five soldiers were wounded in that attack at
Fort Stewart, Huntry Hunter Army Field airfield there, and what
(08:24):
a situation you have. Sergeant Cornelius Radford, who's twenty eight
years old, he was an automated logistics sergeant from Jacksonville, Florida.
He's the one who did the shooting. His father says
it's hard for him to process. He didn't notice anything
unusual about his son. Never had any mental issues other
(08:46):
than I guess dealt with some depression sadly over the
loss of his mother. But the handgun that he used
yesterday was his own. It wasn't GI it wasn't a
government weapon, and so he would have had to smuggle
it on. You know, I've been on these basis bases
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and the gun control is actually pretty insane for a
place where you know, they.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
They test you, I mean, they check you going in.
The other thing is that the other soldiers tackled him, Yes,
brought him to the ground at point and he was
arrested as opposed to being shot up.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And they say that absolutely more damage would have been
done if not for the bravery of those those that
tackled them.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
The cleanup is done, or is it.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
More than eight hundred complaints have been submitted to the
US Army Corps of Engineers hotline that is dedicated to
its debris removal efforts for the fires in LA and
about a third of those complaints alleged that federal crews
either didn't thoroughly remove wildfire debris or didn't follow protocols.
(09:58):
A lot of the victims playing that the remediation was
mostly confined to each building's footprint, which left a lot
of the property not cleared out. They were saying that
they left behind debris, car parts, fire damaged home foundations, trees,
contaminated pool water, and more.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
At seven o'clock, I'm going to do that because I
might give you the other side of this, because sometimes
there is another side. Let's say all the time, there's
another side, and I want to dive into that. By
the way, that's not to say that the Army Corps
engineer didn't screw the pooch on this, but there is
a side that I'm going to argue on behalf of
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the Army Corps.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Okay, moment on as you were talking about earlier, boiling
water notice has gone out to parts of LA, so
this has to do with it. They have this ten
million gallon tank and they were working on the valve
control water flow on it and apparently failed to reopen
when they were doing this maintenance. It was pretty routine,
they said, but has caused a hell of a lot
(11:02):
of problems Porter Ranch, Granada Hills following this valve failure
during the pump station repair. So now you've got the LEDWP,
you've got State Water Resources Control Board issuing this a
boiled water notice. So I guess it warns residents that
are north of Rinaldi Street or the one to eighteen Freeway,
(11:23):
whichever is further and west of Valboa Boulevard to boil
their tap water or use bottled water. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
By the way, the folks that Life Source are actually
getting the blame for this and upping their marketing in area.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
No, yes, I don't know that that's true, but I
would say it does argue for having your own home,
full house filter system. They also eight hundred geeze. They
do have additional free bottled water going on from seven
am to seven pm and different sites including a north Ridge,
(11:59):
Granada Hills and the like, So look out for those.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
This guys weren't so friendly last night. United Airlines says
glitch led to the grounding of its flights all of
them for a few hours, causing major delays. They say
that it's been resolved, but they're expecting residual delays. Ground
stops were at several major United hubs, including Newark, Denver, Houston,
(12:28):
and Chicago. They say that it was related to its
unimatic system. That's the system that houses information about each
flight that has sped to other systems, and it includes
things like calculating weight and balance and tracking flight times.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, when they these planes fly, the amount of calculations
that has to be done as to weight, how much
are they bringing up, how much fuel relative to what
is being carried, the weight of cargo as well as passengers,
the the distance, as Amy just said, also how high
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up the airplane is, how high is the airport. Because
you have Denver at five thousand feet, you have la
at basically sea level, and that's very different. And it
used to be that was a great job. People that
had that job. That was a very high tech job,
which they longer they do not have. Have you noticed
how many airplane incidences there are with motors going out
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and close calls and people aboard airplanes going crazy and
they have to be tackled by passengers I mean, it's
one story after another. Am I missing something that there
has been a huge increase of that.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No, it seems that way at least, whether it's news
driven or not. But I will tell you that we
have less people going into parts of the military. A
lot of these airline pilots and the light came out
of the military, so did the texts, and you know,
everything changes.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Air traffic controllers and that's a mess that is going on.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
With those all right. This is a sad but one
of those deep dives into the January firestorms that we
had here in the Los Angeles area. So we know
that thousands of homes were destroyed and thirty one people
died in those La County fires. We're just devastating. We
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all know that eaten palisades, But what we didn't think
about is all of the things that come from that
air quality, A lack of ability to get to normal
appointments because your life has been upended. So they're looking
at it. The Journal of American Medicine Association are looking
at estimates that the county experienced four hundred and forty
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more deaths than typically expected in those areas between January
fifth and February one. So now they're looking at that
that those other out side health exposures or influences may
have caused more deaths than just the immediacy of the
fires themselves. So it's insane. So they're looking at it
(15:12):
could be four hundred people that died because of the
fire that would not have Yeah, and that insane. It's
a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Too, although relative to the population of Los Angeles or
you know, the La Metro, but still that is a
significant number to wonder about.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
We may already have a tool to fight Alzheimer's. Researchers
at Harvard Medical Schools say they have found a key
that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease
in brain aging. It's lithium. Lithium is best known to
be used as a mood stabilizer given to people who
have bipolar disorder and depression. But now, for the first time,
(15:54):
researchers have shown that lithium is naturally present present in
the body in small amounts that sells need it to
function normally, like vitamin C or iron, so it also
appears to play a critical role in maintaining brain.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Health and lithium has been used forever. You look at
the old time mental institutions and you see these zombies
walking around where they're basically not reacting to anything. Lithium
to calm everybody down.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
How does it make you feel? You know, it doesn't
do a lot for me.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
They tried it, and it's some people react differently than others.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Sure chemistry, body chemistry, Yeah, pretty much nets Spring insecticide
even deploying drones to fight this mosquito born illness, this virus.
Amy you want to help?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Might pronounce this chitcha gunga.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Chit chi gunga. It's a That is the coolest name
I've ever isn't it?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Is it? It's the name of a football team in
Kenya Chicken chicken gungya.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What is it again?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Chicken gunya chicken gunya?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Hey, we love I eat that, I know express it's
right next to the beef with product. That's not what
I meant. All right, It's infected thousands of people. They
got about seven thousand cases or so, and it continues
to grow and and this is how they're fighting it.
I mean, you've got, like I said, Spring in sect
(17:26):
decide you're gonna guess that they're using nets, but also
looking at deploying these drones to fight all of this.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
All right, next week, next Wednesday, we have to ask
Jim about this. Yeah, yeah, Chacha gunga, chichigunga. Well, also dingay,
which is another one that's sound. It's a lot of fun. Doungay.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, it's all these chicken. Don't you dare curse at me,
young lady, if you didn't remember you're in America.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, Trump's getting another bite of apples pie ooh.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
President Trump and Tim Cook, apple CEO, announced yesterday at
the White House that Apple is going to invest another
one hundred billion dollars in the US.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He had previously announced what five hundred billion?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
The announcement came after mister Cook presented mister Trump President
Trump with a twenty four carrot gold gift.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
What is that? Would it be a twenty twenty carrot
twenty four carried gold phone, You would think it would.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Be, well, it's supposed. I'm looking for the description of it.
It was described earlier as a gold and glass gift.
But and he said that they're going to create Apple's
American manufacturing program focused on bringing more of the company's
supply chain and manufacturing to the US.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Can you imagine what those phones are going to cost
because you have people one thousand dollars. Yeah, no, they
cost one thousand dollars. Now they are going to be
really expensive. Keep in mind American workers at major companies
like Apple, what do they make twenty five thirty thirty
five dollars an hour with benefits?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
China, it's two dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
An hour, three dollars an hour for these guys who
assemble these men and women who assemble these phones, and
we're the benefits. Well, it's a communist society, so medical
care is free, et cetera. But you know, I don't
know if i'd go to China for surgery. So it's
going to Is it going to hire workers? Yeah, over
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four years? But are we going to pay the price?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And that's being left out of the formula. Is it's
good to have workers here, it's good to build factories here.
But when was it just a few weeks ago they
talked about phones. We're going to go with the thirty
five hundred dollars. Now, I think that is hyperbolic. We're
probably knocking on the door now. Just was the folding
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phone now at almost two grand. Yeah, and it's going
to be really expensive. I mean, i'd say, and we're
not hearing that from the administration. People won't get those
types of phones.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
They will go down. So therefore, and in Newsome, we'll
just raise it the bmium or the base wage to
eleven dy billion an hour. And well, this is going
to be flipping burgers and everybody wins.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, this is going Where are they going to put this? Uh,
they're certainly not going to put in California.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
No, it's Arizona, Utah and two other states.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay, all right, So smelling salts. Have you ever used
smelling salts?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
They're nuts, Yeah, really are nuts. Yeah. They will wake
your ass up. Yeah. We used to joke around with
them anyways, to choke around with them, Yeah, we would
wake Oh what are you going to do? You take
them for? They used to have them in your your
(20:57):
medical aid boxes at work and stuff like that. You
take them home, Wake up a buddy. AnyWho. They also
are used for other stuff too well. NFL, you know,
has used on the sidelines at least You've had a
lot of players think that they give you that sudden
jolt a little bit of alertness and energy and stuff
like that. Well, for then you had a ban on them,
(21:22):
and now I guess you can use them. They can't
be provided by the team. Explain that to me.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You can have them there, Well, what do you do?
Bring them in your pocket? And then but no employee
from the NFL can provide them. I don't get this,
but I guess you could bring your own.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So this memo went out to players yesterday saying that
the band that the league informed teams about on Tuesday
only prohibits team employees from distributing these smelling salts.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Now, who else is on the field other than team employees. Well,
you've got press that's on the field. So you've got
to camera people and sound people and directors and technicians.
They can reach into their pocket and whip out the
smelling salts and give it to the players.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
This is just not wanting any blood on their hands.
I imagine it says prohibits player's use of these substances,
but it doesn't declare that they can't use it. It
just restricts clubs from providing or supporting them in any form.
I don't know how that looks if you got to
have your bag, oh, smelling salts on you when you
walk in. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I don't know the answer to that, but it's just
one of those weird stories. You go, Okay, now where
does this go?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Oh? Well, I'll tell you where this one goes.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Amy Toyota's taken a huge hit. Toyota has announced that
it's expecting its profits to take a hit of nearly
ten billion dollars because of the Trump tariffs that are
on cars imported into the US. It's the highest estimate
of any of the big automakers. GM is saying four
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to five billion and their profits will go down. Ford's
expecting a three billion dollar hit, but Toyota is the
most and it also had to cut its forecast for
the year. It's it's a profit forecast by sixteen percent.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
So now this is part one of the Trump plan,
which he wanted and makes sense saying that foreign companies
are going to pay more or they're certainly less, make
less money, and American companies will make more money. Has
GM made more money? And by the way, that's not rhetorical.
(23:39):
I'm asking the question, how's GM and Ford? How are
they doing as American companies in terms of sales. And
I don't know the answer to that, but you have
to you have to combine the two. You can't just
say Toyota is losing its shirt without why is it
losing its shirt? Well, because tariffs are kicked in, But
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what does that mean? Uh? The cars are either more
expensive here, which I can't imagine they're not. I'd like
to see that. And would you look that up? Are
the price of cars up.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Currently? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Like right now, like today, Like if I wanted to
go out and buy a Toyota Corolla.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Uh, that's that strikes me as your jam What a Corolla? Yeah? Yeah,
that's Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Actually I like Toyotas. They're really good cars. My entire
family has Toyotas except me. You know, I drive the
car that's so expensive. You can't even believe how much
it costs. It's a house on wheels at that it's
pretty expensive. It is Potessionally. I just like the way
it drives, you know, that's it. Just I just like
to drive.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I think BMW's are magnificent cars. But I had I
had a three Series because you don't need anything. You
still get all the lovely things in it. Oh, you
get the drive. Yeah, you get that's so that's what
the cand You don't know how to use anything other
than the steering wheel and choose that it's over engineer
never ever understood how to use it. That is still
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it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And I've had a BMW for twenty five years, not
the same one. It's just way over engineer. But the drive,
it's just and you can get that in a three series?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
All right? And did you get figures? Yes?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I did.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
It seems that, Yes, the prices are up, but it's
currently influenced by a combination of factors including tariffs. Okay,
so COVID.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Auto maker's response to it, and.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Okay, fair enough, all right, so the COVID didn't mess
with it. The politicians that overreacted to COVID are.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
The ones that because the cars did not get COVID.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah they don't. Oh, I didn't know that, well, cars
over sixty Oh okay, I.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Didn't know that cars didn't get COVID. I thought everybody
got COVID.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
All right, Washington, DC, in the sights of Trump and
his law enforcement because he wants to make everything nice
and now he wants to make the District of Columbia
safe and beautiful. So at an executive order really is
looking at law enforcement. There different things, quality of life, nuisance,
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public safety laws. Strictly enforcing all these things assault, battery,
larcenary graffiti, public intoxication, which is probably mostly politicians, but
he still wants to enforce this and he's saying that
he'll even bring in the National Guard, Yeah, which.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Is lovely when National Guard is brought in for any problem.
Now in the District of Columbia, is it different, Yes,
it is. That's exactly the point. Legally, the District of
Columbia is sort of a high bred city. It is
its own city, elects its own mayor, but the federal
government is hugely involved because it's not a state, it
(26:57):
is the capital, so it really is strangths state of mind.
It is a state of mind Washington, so it'll be
interesting there, but I guess.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
And then there was you know, you've had some officials
that staffer over the weekend that was assaulted in Yeah,
with one.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It's one staffer was assaulted because there weren't any government
employees assaulted any place else in the country yesterday with
three point one or three point two government employees or
two point three, whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
It is you'd like more assaults.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
No, just a question of numbers. And here is I
think the point bringing in the National Guard, bringing the
Marines or whatever is an optical issue. It is simply optics.
And this president really enjoys optics more so than any
other president. So, I mean, do you really need federal presidence?
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We're talking about federal police, federal law enforcement as opposed
to local police enforcement.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Oh no, they're talking about you're talking about the FEDS
across the bord FBI.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I was talking about pulling it in all the stops. Yeah,
and again lots of news. Do you really need no
federal troops there? I don't think so. Oh here's another
Trump story.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
First they came down, now they're going back up. The
Trump administration has announced plans to reinstall two Confederate modern monuments.
Of course, they were taken down knockdown in the wake
of the George Floyd protests. I don't know that they
were all knocked down. Some were just removed. But they
are going to restore and reinstall a statue of Confederate
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military officer Albert Pike in Washington, d C. And then
Defense Secretary Pete HeiG Seth also announced that another Confederate
Confederate memorial is going to return to Arlington National Cemetery
in Virginia.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Now look at the way this is described. I don't
know if this is true or not, but this story
looks like he's coming out of CNN and this sculpture
and this is according to the cemetery, and this is
what CNN is referring to. The figures on the monument
include a black woman depicted as a mammy. Now you
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can't get more racist than that. Well, you know what
confuses me about the Confederate flag and these statues. What
you want to put them in a museum? Knock yourself out.
But they were an enemy of the state, they lost
the war. They and why they are glorified.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
In any way other than historically historic accuracy and putting
them in a museum.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It depends on who wins. Because the founding fathers were
an enemy of the state. I get had they been caught,
they all would have been hanged. But they didn't win.
The South best didn't win, and so we write the history.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
And to me flying a Confederate flag and I really
I've been to the South, but to me that is
still you know, we separated from England, separated.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Well, actually we declare our independence.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yes, I get how it worked mechanically, but I'm saying
to me, that is still an enemy flag of the
United States as we stand today. And some people viewed
that way, and some people do not.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
You go to the South and they are actually, I
think more loyal to the concept of Confederacy than even
the Union.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I mean, there are plenty of people there who view
the primary cause and focus of slavery is slavery. Then
to me, that speaks only to the racism and the
you know, the imperative split and divide of that from
our countries, not from our history. It's going to be there,
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but it was the ugliest part of our history. And
oh yeah, slavery is the original sin sin of this.
You know, we would want to commemorate that on the
level of a statue in public places because.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
The voters in the South put this government into place.
So the Confederate flag is a big deal. Also, lack
of teeth is a huge issue in people. Every dentist
has a Confederate flag on his or her building. It's
very important to those people. Okay, we're done. Fair enough,
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
So he named self chair of the Kennedy Center. Now
he names himself chair of the Federal Task.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Force on the Olympic Security. Olympic.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This morning, he's scheduled to sign an executive order, and
that is ordering that he not only run, but will
win the marathon by executive order.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Okay, and now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Good morning everybody. Bill Handle here, it's a Thursday. A
You know, we don't have a name for Thursday yet.
We've got one Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Uh yeah, did we just start with miserable Monday? Amy,
you came up, You came up with that. Sure, she
very good for Amy on that line. So we have
to come up with she.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Was just being honesty, she was, Yeah, she was.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Uh, so we've got to come up with Thursday. And
let's do a contest. I'll tell you what. Why don't
you those of you out in radio land, uh, write
in email us and if we choose, if we choose
your description, you will get absolutely nothing, as we to us.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, yeah, well, Bill, they can mail it.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yeah, if you folks in radio land go a hard
facts that too, or not to mention you do this
every every couple of months you go on this kick.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, I do. And I just have this vision of
people driving down the road worrying about work and stuff,
and then all the sudden point there's no day for Thursday.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Okay, I don't get quite that excited, but close anyway.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
About having him do it on the talk back and
then we can play them they do. They call in
and they say, how about thyroid Thursday?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's hardy? Thursday is hard? Thursday is hard. It's like
do a you know, write or recite a poem with
words that that rhyme with orange.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
You can't do it? Sure I can? She was a orange?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh good morning, good morning Neil, Hello, Yes, and good morning,
good morning, and Amy miserable Monday, Amy, good morning, Bill,
good morning Knoll. Okay, and then we have the tattoo
jew who is with us? Who is working part at you?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Good morning?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It's thirsty Thursday. Yeah. Well, we went through that a
little bit and it didn't seem to stick.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Now we do that in Australia.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Thursday is a drinking night.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, but so is Monday.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Come on and speak English. Come on, Wow, I'm still
in Australia.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Amy, You guys drink more than it's beer. It's uh,
what is it that you drink Foster's?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Is that your No, we do not drink Foster's. How
dare you?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
That's Canadian?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
No, it is Austria. It was bought by Belgium music.
It's the worst beer ever. We do not drink Fosters
in Australia, not since like nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
There you go, I'm so hipped everything. Sure, yeah, she's
already done with you. She's been training here for two weeks.
She's already sick and will good morning, good morning, thoroughly Thursday.
It's thoroughly Thursday. That's kind of stupid too, all right, yeah,
(03:59):
thyroid Thursday.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It is no, that's for people a thyroid problems. Come on, yeah,
put on a lot of weight, oh, Neil, or take
thyroid issues.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You know what I'm gonna do, Bill, Every time you
make that crack, I'm going to start playing the talkbacks
about people wanting you to retire so I can take over.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's like me, okay, guys, uh, let's do a rabbit.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, I'm in studio.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Sometimes I'm at home, and when I'm in studio, for
some reason, we go completely berserk. All right, you guys
ready to do it? We we Here we go, It's
time for handle On the news, Amy Neil and Me
lead story.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Trumpet on this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Some take, Well, the tariffs are kicking in, and what
President Trump said, of course, it's going to be a big,
beautiful economy, and the other countries are going to be paying. Uh,
these terrorists. First of all, that's not true. We're going
to pay for these tariffs. I love the fact that
other countries are paying for these tariffs. When I just
(05:07):
wrote a check to the US government for tariffs. Explain
that to me. How other companies are other countries are
paying for that, and we're we're looking at prices. We'll
see they haven't yet kicked in, and they will. I
mean tariffs by definition increased prices.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Are you saying that they're not working at all? They're
working to people looking to invest more. So I'm not
arguing that. I'm not arguing that.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
All I'm saying is all these investments are years in
the making. For Apple to invest another another one hundred
billion dollars on top of the five hundred billion that
they've already committed. How long do you think it takes
to build a factory that manufacturers especially chips.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
How long do you think it takes to build a
fast train that will go from Modesto to San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, that's that's that's something else. But when you look
at UH, tariffs happen immediately. I mean today President's eyes,
tariff's going to be today. And so Navidia has committed
to chip manufacturing. Freedo Lay has committed to US building
a lot of factories for its chips.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
That's joke. Let's move on. When you have to tell
somebody it's really not well, you didn't respond. Well, it's
like like on your wedding nights, you go, that's a penis.
If you have to tell somebody it's not here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
On my wedding night, what I heard is scoot over,
where's the penis?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Okay, moving moved over. Alfredo is sleeping with us tonight.
All right, let's let's move on. Enough of that.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
The big dogs sitting down to talk. Apparently, US President
Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin have agreed to meet
in the coming days. That is from the Kremlin. It
Trump saying that there was a good chance that he
could meet with Putin and Zelenski together in person very
(07:08):
soon to talk about ending the war in Ukraine. Trump's
deadline for Russia to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine
technically expires tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, how many times you think we're gonna hear the
word yet out of Putin as negotiations continue. Putin is
as good as Donald Trump, but is defined as the
great negotiator, and he's very good. I mean, he has
done in certain instance as a hell of a job.
(07:36):
Nothing compares to Putin. He talks a reasonable game. It
looks like he's coming to the table. He wants peace.
None of that is true. That's happened.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
There's the difference between an actual dictator. Yeah, I don't
want to be. I mean, just as that's the reality.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Putin would love to be a dictator that Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Oh boy, you know what a personal smuggled gun, claims
of racism, a dui, and all kinds of craziness. Yesterday morning,
as as five soldiers were wounded in that attack at
Fort Stewart, Huntry Hunter Army Field airfield there, and what
(08:24):
a situation you have. Sergeant Cornelius Radford, who's twenty eight
years old, he was an automated logistics sergeant from Jacksonville, Florida.
He's the one who did the shooting. His father says
it's hard for him to process. He didn't notice anything
unusual about his son. Never had any mental issues other
(08:46):
than I guess dealt with some depression sadly over the
loss of his mother. But the handgun that he used
yesterday was his own. It wasn't GI it wasn't a
government weapon, and so he would have had to smuggle
it on. You know, I've been on these basis bases
(09:08):
and the gun control is actually pretty insane for a
place where you know, they.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
They test you, I mean, they check you going in.
The other thing is that the other soldiers tackled him, Yes,
brought him to the ground at point and he was
arrested as opposed to being shot up.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And they say that absolutely more damage would have been
done if not for the bravery of those those that
tackled them.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
The cleanup is done, or is it.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
More than eight hundred complaints have been submitted to the
US Army Corps of Engineers hotline that is dedicated to
its debris removal efforts for the fires in LA and
about a third of those complaints alleged that federal crews
either didn't thoroughly remove wildfire debris or didn't follow protocols.
(09:58):
A lot of the victims playing that the remediation was
mostly confined to each building's footprint, which left a lot
of the property not cleared out. They were saying that
they left behind debris, car parts, fire damaged home foundations, trees,
contaminated pool water, and more.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
At seven o'clock, I'm going to do that because I
might give you the other side of this, because sometimes
there is another side. Let's say all the time, there's
another side, and I want to dive into that. By
the way, that's not to say that the Army Corps
engineer didn't screw the pooch on this, but there is
a side that I'm going to argue on behalf of
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the Army Corps.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Okay, moment on as you were talking about earlier, boiling
water notice has gone out to parts of LA, so
this has to do with it. They have this ten
million gallon tank and they were working on the valve
control water flow on it and apparently failed to reopen
when they were doing this maintenance. It was pretty routine,
they said, but has caused a hell of a lot
(11:02):
of problems Porter Ranch, Granada Hills following this valve failure
during the pump station repair. So now you've got the LEDWP,
you've got State Water Resources Control Board issuing this a
boiled water notice. So I guess it warns residents that
are north of Rinaldi Street or the one to eighteen Freeway,
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whichever is further and west of Valboa Boulevard to boil
their tap water or use bottled water. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
By the way, the folks that Life Source are actually
getting the blame for this and upping their marketing in area.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
No, yes, I don't know that that's true, but I
would say it does argue for having your own home,
full house filter system. They also eight hundred geeze. They
do have additional free bottled water going on from seven
am to seven pm and different sites including a north Ridge,
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Granada Hills and the like, So look out for those.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
This guys weren't so friendly last night. United Airlines says
glitch led to the grounding of its flights all of
them for a few hours, causing major delays. They say
that it's been resolved, but they're expecting residual delays. Ground
stops were at several major United hubs, including Newark, Denver, Houston,
(12:28):
and Chicago. They say that it was related to its
unimatic system. That's the system that houses information about each
flight that has sped to other systems, and it includes
things like calculating weight and balance and tracking flight times.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, when they these planes fly, the amount of calculations
that has to be done as to weight, how much
are they bringing up, how much fuel relative to what
is being carried, the weight of cargo as well as passengers,
the the distance, as Amy just said, also how high
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up the airplane is, how high is the airport. Because
you have Denver at five thousand feet, you have la
at basically sea level, and that's very different. And it
used to be that was a great job. People that
had that job. That was a very high tech job,
which they longer they do not have. Have you noticed
how many airplane incidences there are with motors going out
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and close calls and people aboard airplanes going crazy and
they have to be tackled by passengers I mean, it's
one story after another. Am I missing something that there
has been a huge increase of that.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No, it seems that way at least, whether it's news
driven or not. But I will tell you that we
have less people going into parts of the military. A
lot of these airline pilots and the light came out
of the military, so did the texts, and you know,
everything changes.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Air traffic controllers and that's a mess that is going on.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
With those all right. This is a sad but one
of those deep dives into the January firestorms that we
had here in the Los Angeles area. So we know
that thousands of homes were destroyed and thirty one people
died in those La County fires. We're just devastating. We
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all know that eaten palisades, But what we didn't think
about is all of the things that come from that
air quality, A lack of ability to get to normal
appointments because your life has been upended. So they're looking
at it. The Journal of American Medicine Association are looking
at estimates that the county experienced four hundred and forty
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more deaths than typically expected in those areas between January
fifth and February one. So now they're looking at that
that those other out side health exposures or influences may
have caused more deaths than just the immediacy of the
fires themselves. So it's insane. So they're looking at it
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could be four hundred people that died because of the
fire that would not have Yeah, and that insane. It's
a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Too, although relative to the population of Los Angeles or
you know, the La Metro, but still that is a
significant number to wonder about.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
We may already have a tool to fight Alzheimer's. Researchers
at Harvard Medical Schools say they have found a key
that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease
in brain aging. It's lithium. Lithium is best known to
be used as a mood stabilizer given to people who
have bipolar disorder and depression. But now, for the first time,
(15:54):
researchers have shown that lithium is naturally present present in
the body in small amounts that sells need it to
function normally, like vitamin C or iron, so it also
appears to play a critical role in maintaining brain.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Health and lithium has been used forever. You look at
the old time mental institutions and you see these zombies
walking around where they're basically not reacting to anything. Lithium
to calm everybody down.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
How does it make you feel? You know, it doesn't
do a lot for me.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
They tried it, and it's some people react differently than others.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Sure chemistry, body chemistry, Yeah, pretty much nets Spring insecticide
even deploying drones to fight this mosquito born illness, this virus.
Amy you want to help?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Might pronounce this chitcha gunga.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Chit chi gunga. It's a That is the coolest name
I've ever isn't it?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Is it? It's the name of a football team in
Kenya Chicken chicken gungya.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What is it again?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Chicken gunya chicken gunya?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Hey, we love I eat that, I know express it's
right next to the beef with product. That's not what
I meant. All right, It's infected thousands of people. They
got about seven thousand cases or so, and it continues
to grow and and this is how they're fighting it.
I mean, you've got, like I said, Spring in sect
(17:26):
decide you're gonna guess that they're using nets, but also
looking at deploying these drones to fight all of this.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
All right, next week, next Wednesday, we have to ask
Jim about this. Yeah, yeah, Chacha gunga, chichigunga. Well, also dingay,
which is another one that's sound. It's a lot of fun. Doungay.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, it's all these chicken. Don't you dare curse at me,
young lady, if you didn't remember you're in America.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, Trump's getting another bite of apples pie ooh.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
President Trump and Tim Cook, apple CEO, announced yesterday at
the White House that Apple is going to invest another
one hundred billion dollars in the US.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He had previously announced what five hundred billion?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
The announcement came after mister Cook presented mister Trump President
Trump with a twenty four carrot gold gift.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
What is that? Would it be a twenty twenty carrot
twenty four carried gold phone, You would think it would.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Be, well, it's supposed. I'm looking for the description of it.
It was described earlier as a gold and glass gift.
But and he said that they're going to create Apple's
American manufacturing program focused on bringing more of the company's
supply chain and manufacturing to the US.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Can you imagine what those phones are going to cost
because you have people one thousand dollars. Yeah, no, they
cost one thousand dollars. Now they are going to be
really expensive. Keep in mind American workers at major companies
like Apple, what do they make twenty five thirty thirty
five dollars an hour with benefits?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
China, it's two dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
An hour, three dollars an hour for these guys who
assemble these men and women who assemble these phones, and
we're the benefits. Well, it's a communist society, so medical
care is free, et cetera. But you know, I don't
know if i'd go to China for surgery. So it's
going to Is it going to hire workers? Yeah, over
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four years? But are we going to pay the price?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And that's being left out of the formula. Is it's
good to have workers here, it's good to build factories here.
But when was it just a few weeks ago they
talked about phones. We're going to go with the thirty
five hundred dollars. Now, I think that is hyperbolic. We're
probably knocking on the door now. Just was the folding
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phone now at almost two grand. Yeah, and it's going
to be really expensive. I mean, i'd say, and we're
not hearing that from the administration. People won't get those
types of phones.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
They will go down. So therefore, and in Newsome, we'll
just raise it the bmium or the base wage to
eleven dy billion an hour. And well, this is going
to be flipping burgers and everybody wins.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, this is going Where are they going to put this? Uh,
they're certainly not going to put in California.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
No, it's Arizona, Utah and two other states.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay, all right, So smelling salts. Have you ever used
smelling salts?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
They're nuts, Yeah, really are nuts. Yeah. They will wake
your ass up. Yeah. We used to joke around with
them anyways, to choke around with them, Yeah, we would
wake Oh what are you going to do? You take
them for? They used to have them in your your
(20:57):
medical aid boxes at work and stuff like that. You
take them home, Wake up a buddy. AnyWho. They also
are used for other stuff too well. NFL, you know,
has used on the sidelines at least You've had a
lot of players think that they give you that sudden
jolt a little bit of alertness and energy and stuff
like that. Well, for then you had a ban on them,
(21:22):
and now I guess you can use them. They can't
be provided by the team. Explain that to me.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You can have them there, Well, what do you do?
Bring them in your pocket? And then but no employee
from the NFL can provide them. I don't get this,
but I guess you could bring your own.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So this memo went out to players yesterday saying that
the band that the league informed teams about on Tuesday
only prohibits team employees from distributing these smelling salts.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Now, who else is on the field other than team employees. Well,
you've got press that's on the field. So you've got
to camera people and sound people and directors and technicians.
They can reach into their pocket and whip out the
smelling salts and give it to the players.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
This is just not wanting any blood on their hands.
I imagine it says prohibits player's use of these substances,
but it doesn't declare that they can't use it. It
just restricts clubs from providing or supporting them in any form.
I don't know how that looks if you got to
have your bag, oh, smelling salts on you when you
walk in. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I don't know the answer to that, but it's just
one of those weird stories. You go, Okay, now where
does this go?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Oh? Well, I'll tell you where this one goes.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Amy Toyota's taken a huge hit. Toyota has announced that
it's expecting its profits to take a hit of nearly
ten billion dollars because of the Trump tariffs that are
on cars imported into the US. It's the highest estimate
of any of the big automakers. GM is saying four
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to five billion and their profits will go down. Ford's
expecting a three billion dollar hit, but Toyota is the
most and it also had to cut its forecast for
the year. It's it's a profit forecast by sixteen percent.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
So now this is part one of the Trump plan,
which he wanted and makes sense saying that foreign companies
are going to pay more or they're certainly less, make
less money, and American companies will make more money. Has
GM made more money? And by the way, that's not rhetorical.
(23:39):
I'm asking the question, how's GM and Ford? How are
they doing as American companies in terms of sales. And
I don't know the answer to that, but you have
to you have to combine the two. You can't just
say Toyota is losing its shirt without why is it
losing its shirt? Well, because tariffs are kicked in, But
(24:00):
what does that mean? Uh? The cars are either more
expensive here, which I can't imagine they're not. I'd like
to see that. And would you look that up? Are
the price of cars up.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Currently? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Like right now, like today, Like if I wanted to
go out and buy a Toyota Corolla.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Uh, that's that strikes me as your jam What a Corolla? Yeah? Yeah,
that's Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Actually I like Toyotas. They're really good cars. My entire
family has Toyotas except me. You know, I drive the
car that's so expensive. You can't even believe how much
it costs. It's a house on wheels at that it's
pretty expensive. It is Potessionally. I just like the way
it drives, you know, that's it. Just I just like
to drive.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I think BMW's are magnificent cars. But I had I
had a three Series because you don't need anything. You
still get all the lovely things in it. Oh, you
get the drive. Yeah, you get that's so that's what
the cand You don't know how to use anything other
than the steering wheel and choose that it's over engineer
never ever understood how to use it. That is still
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it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And I've had a BMW for twenty five years, not
the same one. It's just way over engineer. But the drive,
it's just and you can get that in a three series?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
All right? And did you get figures? Yes?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I did.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
It seems that, Yes, the prices are up, but it's
currently influenced by a combination of factors including tariffs. Okay,
so COVID.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Auto maker's response to it, and.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Okay, fair enough, all right, so the COVID didn't mess
with it. The politicians that overreacted to COVID are.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
The ones that because the cars did not get COVID.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah they don't. Oh, I didn't know that, well, cars
over sixty Oh okay, I.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Didn't know that cars didn't get COVID. I thought everybody
got COVID.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
All right, Washington, DC, in the sights of Trump and
his law enforcement because he wants to make everything nice
and now he wants to make the District of Columbia
safe and beautiful. So at an executive order really is
looking at law enforcement. There different things, quality of life, nuisance,
(26:18):
public safety laws. Strictly enforcing all these things assault, battery,
larcenary graffiti, public intoxication, which is probably mostly politicians, but
he still wants to enforce this and he's saying that
he'll even bring in the National Guard, Yeah, which.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Is lovely when National Guard is brought in for any problem.
Now in the District of Columbia, is it different, Yes,
it is. That's exactly the point. Legally, the District of
Columbia is sort of a high bred city. It is
its own city, elects its own mayor, but the federal
government is hugely involved because it's not a state, it
(26:57):
is the capital, so it really is strangths state of mind.
It is a state of mind Washington, so it'll be
interesting there, but I guess.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
And then there was you know, you've had some officials
that staffer over the weekend that was assaulted in Yeah,
with one.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It's one staffer was assaulted because there weren't any government
employees assaulted any place else in the country yesterday with
three point one or three point two government employees or
two point three, whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
It is you'd like more assaults.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
No, just a question of numbers. And here is I
think the point bringing in the National Guard, bringing the
Marines or whatever is an optical issue. It is simply optics.
And this president really enjoys optics more so than any
other president. So, I mean, do you really need federal presidence?
(27:51):
We're talking about federal police, federal law enforcement as opposed
to local police enforcement.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Oh no, they're talking about you're talking about the FEDS
across the bord FBI.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I was talking about pulling it in all the stops. Yeah,
and again lots of news. Do you really need no
federal troops there? I don't think so. Oh here's another
Trump story.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
First they came down, now they're going back up. The
Trump administration has announced plans to reinstall two Confederate modern monuments.
Of course, they were taken down knockdown in the wake
of the George Floyd protests. I don't know that they
were all knocked down. Some were just removed. But they
are going to restore and reinstall a statue of Confederate
(28:36):
military officer Albert Pike in Washington, d C. And then
Defense Secretary Pete HeiG Seth also announced that another Confederate
Confederate memorial is going to return to Arlington National Cemetery
in Virginia.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Now look at the way this is described. I don't
know if this is true or not, but this story
looks like he's coming out of CNN and this sculpture
and this is according to the cemetery, and this is
what CNN is referring to. The figures on the monument
include a black woman depicted as a mammy. Now you
(29:12):
can't get more racist than that. Well, you know what
confuses me about the Confederate flag and these statues. What
you want to put them in a museum? Knock yourself out.
But they were an enemy of the state, they lost
the war. They and why they are glorified.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
In any way other than historically historic accuracy and putting
them in a museum.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It depends on who wins. Because the founding fathers were
an enemy of the state. I get had they been caught,
they all would have been hanged. But they didn't win.
The South best didn't win, and so we write the history.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
And to me flying a Confederate flag and I really
I've been to the South, but to me that is
still you know, we separated from England, separated.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Well, actually we declare our independence.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yes, I get how it worked mechanically, but I'm saying
to me, that is still an enemy flag of the
United States as we stand today. And some people viewed
that way, and some people do not.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
You go to the South and they are actually, I
think more loyal to the concept of Confederacy than even
the Union.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I mean, there are plenty of people there who view
the primary cause and focus of slavery is slavery. Then
to me, that speaks only to the racism and the
you know, the imperative split and divide of that from
our countries, not from our history. It's going to be there,
(30:49):
but it was the ugliest part of our history. And
oh yeah, slavery is the original sin sin of this.
You know, we would want to commemorate that on the
level of a statue in public places because.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
The voters in the South put this government into place.
So the Confederate flag is a big deal. Also, lack
of teeth is a huge issue in people. Every dentist
has a Confederate flag on his or her building. It's
very important to those people. Okay, we're done. Fair enough,
(31:29):
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