September 24, 2025 • 24 mins
(Sept 24, 2025)
Amy King joins Neil Saavedra, who is in for Bill while he is out on vacation, for Handel on the News. Jimmy Kimmel returns with tears and talks free speech. Zelenskyy praises ‘well-informed’ Trump after president’s Russia war pivot. Typhoon Ragasa: Powerful storm hurtles past Hong Kong, Macao and slams into southern China, after killing at least 17 in Taiwan. L.A. won’t lay off any city workers this year, mayor says.
Amy King joins Neil Saavedra, who is in for Bill while he is out on vacation, for Handel on the News. Jimmy Kimmel returns with tears and talks free speech. Zelenskyy praises ‘well-informed’ Trump after president’s Russia war pivot. Typhoon Ragasa: Powerful storm hurtles past Hong Kong, Macao and slams into southern China, after killing at least 17 in Taiwan. L.A. won’t lay off any city workers this year, mayor says.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's not Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
No Kono. I'm not going to start the show crying.
I'm not doing it. It's just not who I am.
I want to appear Straw KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. There's a guy on Channel
(00:46):
four right now doing a stand up a reporter or something,
and he has a very ill fitted suit on. I'm
sorry to point that out, sir, but you're on television
KFI'M six forty. It is the Bill Handles Show, Neil's
Fader in the Morning crew with you. Look at this,
you want to do it. Let's do it, guys. Hump dy, Mike, Mike,
(01:10):
Mike Handle does it? People love it? They tune in, No,
they tune in for it. And then he talks about
a Geico commercial from one hundred and eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It was a good one.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, happy to be with you this Wednesday. Been an
interesting week to say the least. We'll get into Handle
on the news in a moment. Let's say hello to Kono.
How you doing, buddy, I'm good did you watch Jimmy
Kimmel last night? No? No, you didn't let me finish?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oh sorry, okay finish.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, so things are good. He has and a lot
of people don't give him credit for this, the amount
of times he has cried on the air. He has
single handedly solved the drought in California. God bless I kid,
I'm a crier. I'll say it. I'll admit it. Get
that from my mom. A good Hallmark commercial, I'm out.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Does Jimmy Kimmel cry a lot on his show?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, but they're legitimate readings. I mean, I think his
son was sick, and you know, the entire world looking
at him yesterday in the middle of a you know,
censorship debate that can be pretty intense. I think I
might shed a tear. Cono doesn't because he's a robot.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
People, and we get beat up where I grew up at.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That'll do it. Well, Good morning, Cono. Nice to see you, pal,
Good to see you too. Well, Yam, how are you, sir?
Good morning Neiliam, neiljam yes Neliam, I love it is
Neil short for anything? No? No, okay, just wondered, I
mean my full name. I can't say on the air.
(02:51):
Uh yeah, Neil, I was I've told you this. I
was named after Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Neil Edwin Savedra.
Really I didn't know. Okay, Yeah, so Katie Perry and
I are both kind of astronauts, okay, sort of.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
How's how's the traffic out there this morning? It's getting worse?
It was. It seemed worse than yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
It's yeah, this morning you're driving in. It seemed busy.
But yeah, we went for about a half an hour
there with no res and then boom boom boom. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
How many middle fingers on the drive in?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
From from me or to me?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Either? Oh? None this time because it's stark. They can't
even see it anyway, dude.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Amy K King, Yes, how's it?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's good?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah? Wow? Did you boycott Disney through all this? Uh?
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I just renewed my past I watched Leelow and Stitch
and just did a review on it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't do boycotts.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't do boycotts, and I'll explain why a little
bit later in the show. There's a story just again
why I'm not a partisan. Why I don't belong to
either party, and I personally think only politicians should belong
to a party because they have to to get money.
Other than that, But everything's good, Amy, Yes.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Are you getting nervous about what jumping off a building?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
No? But it is weird because normally you look at
your Amy and I are going to repel down the
Hilton in Universal City on Friday, and you do look
at your week and go, hey, what's coming up this week?
I'm going to be sliding into Saturday. I'm going to
be out at Morongo doing the show, and I'm like,
what else do I got to do?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I have to jump off a building on Friday. Yeah,
I'm just going to do it. But I was explaining
to Matthew, it's a different experience for a two hundred
and sixty pounds man with man parts. Explain what man
parts are to Kno, but they when you're in that harness,
it's my experience is different than your experience, is what
(05:01):
I'm saying, Amy. So I'm not looking forward to that. Okay, Well,
and Matthew, how are you? Oh my god, Matthew, did
I surprise you?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Ok?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Thanks buddy, No, it's fine, it's great to have you
as always. All right. I love Matthew. He is he
is so good at what he does, like so buttoned
up that he's not like some producers come in and
they're like, I'm going to be a talk shows. Matthew's like,
what can I do? Let's get the show, Let's do this,
And you asked him to get on the air, and
(05:40):
he's like, no, I okay. I like that. Matthew. You're dedicated.
Thank you, thank you. Handle on the news lead story,
Come on. Jimmy Kimmel returns emotional monologue defending free speech
(06:02):
as he should. Great line though he started he cracked
a joke at the open. He says, who had a
weirder forty eight hours? Me? Or the CEO of Tailanol.
That's a great line. That is a great line. But
he's back, and I believe rightly. So Now do I
believe that there was actual censorship? I don't. I just
(06:29):
didn't like the proximity of what the FCC, the head
of the FCC, and what Trump said, and I think
better safe than sorry, you don't say those things as
president or as the head of the FCC. So, but
do I really think that they didn't know. I think
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that what happened is that you had affiliates that have
the right to say, no, we're not airing that. We
don't want to air it. It goes against our views.
And that was next Star Media in Sinclair Broadcast Group,
and I think that became the problem, and Disney didn't
think it through all the way. Maybe a little knee
jerk there, but I didn't go for all that I'm
(07:13):
canceling and all this. I just don't do that. I
didn't do it when Gina Carano was taken off the Mandalorian,
which I hated. That was so blatantly against conservative view
it was ridiculous. Pedro Pascal, who I adore, said something
very similar and didn't get nailed. So Jimmy's back. Good
(07:35):
on him again. I said it before, I'll say it again.
I do not think he's a bad guy. I think
he's got a big heart, and I think he has
his own views. I think he goes after Trump too much.
I get bored with that, and he looks he comes
across his smugs sometimes, but I think he genuinely cares,
and I think he's a very talented and funny guy.
(07:56):
I don't like when Trump comes out and you know that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
He has no talent. Yeah, that sounded more like Arnold Schwartzenegger's.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Let us say, you know, I I don't think Kimmel
is funny at all now when because all he does
is focus on Trumpet's and like all late night hosts do,
and it's always been funny, and they've always poked fun
of it fun at them, and it's supposed to be funny.
But I do think that Kimmy Kimmel's stuff is so
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mean spirited now.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I mean, he it's too much and.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
He's not funny. It just means he's not funny to
you because of them. Yeah, but and I get that.
I will say Johnny Carson was the best Johnny Carson.
He didn't. It makes you too important? You know. I
don't feel important bey this mic. I respect it. I
respect that I have people's ears. I'm trying to share
(08:52):
my point of view or thoughts on things, but I'm
not trying to make people believe like I believe. I
just want to share maybe some in sites that have
helped or that I think are interesting, that's all. Yeah,
But I'm not trying to bend anybody to my will,
I will tell you that Trump definitely has a pretty
severe case of Kimmel derangement syndrome.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
To me ooh, KTS.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, KTS heavy, KDS.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Well, TDS and KTS.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But I will tell you when you come out and
say he's no talent, it's fake. It's all this stuff.
That's That's exactly the vitriol that you hear about Trump
that turns me off to.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
So there you go, all right, do we have a
new bromance beginning? So on the sidelines of the United
Nations General Assembly meeting yesterday, Ukrainian President Zelensky sat down
with President Trump and after that Zelensky praised his productive
(09:50):
meeting with Trump. Shortly after the meeting, Trump wrote on
social media, after getting to know and fully understand the
Ukraine Russia military and economic situation, and after seeing the
economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with
the support of the European Union, is in a position
to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its
(10:11):
original form, which is a huge shift from what he's
been saying about. You know, Ukraine, You're going to have
to give up some land, We're going to have to
do some swap, and now he's basically saying, I think
you can win. I think you can get your country back.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I think he likes the mind games to mess with everybody.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Well, I think he's ticked because Putin's not playing, and
I think he thought he had a better relationship with Putin.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well that's the thing about you know, the devil isn't
going man. I love Satanists. He's like punks. That's this
way it works. He knows who he is. Nearly two
million people out there in southern China been evacuated right now.
You have that powerful typhoon rather as it comes towards
(10:56):
that incredibly densely populated coast. Typhoon Ragasa, very powerful, very
very problematic. A few days ago was the strongest storm
on Earth so far this year. And they're protecting themselves,
barreling through remote islands in the Philippines and mountain regions
(11:20):
of Taiwan.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh, we got escalator gate.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
So at the UN yesterday, Trump did his speech and
he went off script, duh, One because his teleprompter was broken,
and two because he said that his escalator broke. So
he said during his remarks, all I got from the
(11:46):
United Nations was an escalator that on the way up
stopped right in the middle, and then he said, hey,
if Malani and I weren't in great shape, we wouldn't
have made it to the top.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
So the UN comes back and says it was a
videographer from the US delegation that ran ahead of the
president and triggered the stop mechanism at the top of
the escalator.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, now, Caroline Levitt.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Was that to get a picture, like they specifically kicked
it off so that they could take a.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
No, Well, it's so.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
What it sounds like is that the UN is saying
that one of the photographers with the US delegation ran
ahead of the president and for whatever reason somehow tripped
a stop mechanism to make sure that you don't get
like sucked into the escalator. That's what the UN is saying.
But then White House spokesperson Caroline Levett is saying, oh, no,
we want an investigation. And that's because the Times of
(12:42):
London published an article saying that UN staffers had joked
that they may switch the escalator off while the President
was on it.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Why, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I think it's just a big nothing, is it?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
True that he was staying there in the middle, going great, hell, Hell,
that's galater. We're stuck in here forever. This is horrible.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
No, they walked up the escalator and they were fine.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
And then again the teleprompter was broke broken, and I
think it started up about halfway through his speech.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Could you imagine if the teleprompter broke on Obama? Holy hell,
be silent? Or Biden, well, I don't know about Biden.
Biden was like he just kind of wandered corn, Pop's
a bad dude, mister president. That's not on there? Or okay,
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LA won't lay off any city workers this year. This
smells to me, this is real. This is Karen Bass
is digging to find something. She is ineffectual and the worst.
I'm not saying this as a person. I don't know
where as a person, but she is the worst La
mayor in my lifetime period. And we've had some doozies.
(14:11):
We've had some doozies. And I don't understand. You know,
five months ago you had Mayor Karen Bass saying that
more than sixteen hundred city workers might have to be
laid off to close a one billion dollar budget shortfall.
Then all of a sudden. Yesterday, she stood at city
(14:32):
Hall with union leaders for a photo op and announced
that her administration had averted the layoff. Some people said
it couldn't be done. But I'm so glad to stand
here today and say that we have proved naysayers wrong. Okay,
(14:54):
where'd you get the money from?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Yeah, if you're not cutting the jobs, where did you cut?
That was a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's a lot. I'd love to see the math on
that me too.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
All Right.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Ryan Ruth says he's not violent, but then he stabbed himself.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh that's a contradiction.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Jury found Ryan Ruth guilty of attempting to assassinate President
Trump on his golf course in Florida last year. The
verdict was read after about two hours of deliberations, and
then Ruth apparently tried to stab himself in the neck
with a pen. He was facing five counts, including attempted
assassination of a major presidential candidate, assault on a federal officer,
(15:36):
and multiple firearms offensives. He represented himself in the trial
and he'll be sentenced in December.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I bet you there are some attorneys that want to
kill their clients at the end of a case. It's
just weird that they're the same person.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, since he acted as his own afferent.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And that's just goes to show you it's not political.
Crazy people do things like this. They'll be crazy on
the left and crazy on the right, but they're just
crazy when you try and attempt to assassinate someone.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And then yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
So we go from from Jimmy Kimmel and the possibility
the appear I'll say the appearance, not even the possibility,
the appearance of censorship, because I don't think it actually
was censorship. I think it was the appearance of censorship,
which I had a problem with, to actual censorship. So
those who saw their YouTube videos other content banned during
(16:34):
COVID nineteen and the twenty twenty election were invited back
to the platform just yesterday a huge apology basically from
the company that said the censorship was because of the
Biden administration and using pressure tactics. So let me say
(16:55):
to anybody, to all those Hollywood people we're talking about,
and this is why I don't do any sort of boycotts.
I can't remember ever doing a boycott. Now are there
times where I won't spend my money somewhere just because
I'm like, I'll find another company. That's fine. But I
(17:16):
don't do like boycott's of Disney because they you know,
Disney is a business.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
And it's fun to go to Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
No, and I love their products, you know, but listen,
I didn't boycott them when they got rid of Gina Carano,
who I adore. I think, Oh, there's a good action
movie for you. By the way, Matthew, her first movie,
her first big movie, is a great action film. But
(17:44):
I didn't do it then when she got taken off
Mandalorian that I wasn't gonna do it for Jimmy Kimmel.
But this action is actual censorship. This is actual damage
to the First Amendment. And if anyone could you imagine
Hollywood coming out and boycott and Google getting rid of
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their pixel phones or whatever. This is actual censorship, documented,
actual censorship, and you won't hear crap about it. Jimmy
Kimmel had the appearance, and that was enough for me
to stand with Jimmy. But this is actual censorship from
the Biden administration, and you won't hear people talking about
(18:27):
it except here one more Amy, Well.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
This is awkward.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, Jesse.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
These people dump those Disney Plus memberships and subscription because
of the whole Kimmel suspension, Disney has announced its hiking
prices or its streaming services.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
So starting October twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
First, thank you for your support.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Those of us who are left are going to pay more.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, did you see the meme that said it had
the Disney Plus logo and then after the plus it
said two dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Well, two dollars is how much the basic plan is
going to go up from nine ninety nine to eleven
ninety nine. The ad free tier will go up by
three dollars to eighteen ninety nine. Hulu and ESPN also
doing some increases. Disney is saying these hikes were part
of the company's normal business process. Of course, Disney came
(19:24):
under fire because it pulled Kimmel off the air, and
everybody lost their minds and started canceling. Well, then Disney
announced yesterday that it would reinstate Kimmel. He was on
last night, and now mega media commentators are losing their
minds and raging against Disney for putting Kimmel back on
the air.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh that's let's all collect our thoughts, shall we.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Right, But it'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Let's not do all that.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That's just let's not do it.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
But it'll be interesting to see if a lot of
people cancel their subscription because he's.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Back, and then the birth and then the prices go
up again. Trump and his rant about Jimmy Kimmel is
the birth of the Kimmel derangement syndrome. So it is
going to spread. I can already see Kono getting itchy. No,
I have kids. If I cancel Bluey, my god, there
(20:19):
is your your all. They could take away my guns,
my freedom of speech, my freedom of religion. But that
those kids need Blue Louie. Yeah, yeah, I get it.
I get it all right. Come on, Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, uh,
you know, championing the creation of an independent commission to
(20:40):
draw California's congressional districts. Now he's coming back to state voters.
I saw him a TV a bunch, and I think
he's on a spot too about this opposing the November
ballot measure by state Democrats to boost their party's ranks
in Congress. I know this is in respect to what
took place in Texas, but this committee opposing Proposition fifty,
(21:06):
which I oppose as well. Personally, if you're playing the
home game is going to replace districts drawn by an
independent commission with ones crafted by partisans, that's problematic. It
just we're playing a game, and I don't like. I
don't like the game playing because they're playing with us. Yes, Amy,
(21:26):
I think.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
It's interesting too that how you can get away with
wording things a certain way, and watching this the ads
that are for this, I haven't seen the Schwarzenegger ads,
but I was watching the newsome ads and he said
it preserves the independent Redistricting Commission, and I was like,
(21:49):
how do they say that? It's probably because it goes
back into effect in twenty thirty, but what it does
is suspends the voter approved independent commission.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And I was like, how can he say that?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Well, they all do, I know.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
But it's just so interesting to me that with the
with the way that you can word craft it and
really misrepresent it, because.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
They all are that way. Every proposition, everything always is.
So if you know Handle says this too, it's opposite
day always when you read those propositions and how they're written. Always,
you know, the killing children proposition, this preserves the life
of children that don't get killed.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah, I'm always amazed by that and how you can
just blatantly say something that is not either isn't true
on its face or is you know, a very creative
way of saying it.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So it does. It probably does.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Preserve the Independent Commission in six years.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I respect the strategy of it. I'm a strategist. I
like that. I respect that you're going, hey, listen, we're
gonna play this for that. But it does annoy me
that it's like, hey, don't play with the people of California.
If you're if you're a Democrat or you're a Republican,
you are serving the people of your state or your country,
(23:17):
not just your own. And I believe that for Trump,
and I believe that for Newsome.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Oh absolutely for both across.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So Arnold Schwarzenegger get in the chap of gait all right.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Secret Service saves seales service. So this is an interesting thing.
The Secret Service in New York City has rated different
locations and found SIM farms active SIM farms at abandoned
apartment buildings. They discovered three hundred SIM servers over one
(23:53):
hundred thousand SIM cards. And they said that though that
would be able to send out thirty million, thirty million
text messages per minute, which could completely disrupt the cell
cell phone system, block emergency communications, all kinds of things
if they actually did that, So it's sort of like
(24:15):
a cyber attack on your cell phones. They said this
network had the potential to disable cell phone towers and
essentially shut down the cellular network in New York City,
but Secret Service stopped it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
All right. That is Handle on the news.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
No Kono. I'm not going to start the show crying.
I'm not doing it. It's just not who I am.
I want to appear Straw KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. There's a guy on Channel
(00:46):
four right now doing a stand up a reporter or something,
and he has a very ill fitted suit on. I'm
sorry to point that out, sir, but you're on television
KFI'M six forty. It is the Bill Handles Show, Neil's
Fader in the Morning crew with you. Look at this,
you want to do it. Let's do it, guys. Hump dy, Mike, Mike,
(01:10):
Mike Handle does it? People love it? They tune in, No,
they tune in for it. And then he talks about
a Geico commercial from one hundred and eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It was a good one.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, happy to be with you this Wednesday. Been an
interesting week to say the least. We'll get into Handle
on the news in a moment. Let's say hello to Kono.
How you doing, buddy, I'm good did you watch Jimmy
Kimmel last night? No? No, you didn't let me finish?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oh sorry, okay finish.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, so things are good. He has and a lot
of people don't give him credit for this, the amount
of times he has cried on the air. He has
single handedly solved the drought in California. God bless I kid,
I'm a crier. I'll say it. I'll admit it. Get
that from my mom. A good Hallmark commercial, I'm out.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Does Jimmy Kimmel cry a lot on his show?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, but they're legitimate readings. I mean, I think his
son was sick, and you know, the entire world looking
at him yesterday in the middle of a you know,
censorship debate that can be pretty intense. I think I
might shed a tear. Cono doesn't because he's a robot.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
People, and we get beat up where I grew up at.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That'll do it. Well, Good morning, Cono. Nice to see you, pal,
Good to see you too. Well, Yam, how are you, sir?
Good morning Neiliam, neiljam yes Neliam, I love it is
Neil short for anything? No? No, okay, just wondered, I
mean my full name. I can't say on the air.
(02:51):
Uh yeah, Neil, I was I've told you this. I
was named after Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Neil Edwin Savedra.
Really I didn't know. Okay, Yeah, so Katie Perry and
I are both kind of astronauts, okay, sort of.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
How's how's the traffic out there this morning? It's getting worse?
It was. It seemed worse than yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
It's yeah, this morning you're driving in. It seemed busy.
But yeah, we went for about a half an hour
there with no res and then boom boom boom. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
How many middle fingers on the drive in?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
From from me or to me?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Either? Oh? None this time because it's stark. They can't
even see it anyway, dude.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Amy K King, Yes, how's it?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's good?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah? Wow? Did you boycott Disney through all this? Uh?
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I just renewed my past I watched Leelow and Stitch
and just did a review on it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't do boycotts.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't do boycotts, and I'll explain why a little
bit later in the show. There's a story just again
why I'm not a partisan. Why I don't belong to
either party, and I personally think only politicians should belong
to a party because they have to to get money.
Other than that, But everything's good, Amy, Yes.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Are you getting nervous about what jumping off a building?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
No? But it is weird because normally you look at
your Amy and I are going to repel down the
Hilton in Universal City on Friday, and you do look
at your week and go, hey, what's coming up this week?
I'm going to be sliding into Saturday. I'm going to
be out at Morongo doing the show, and I'm like,
what else do I got to do?
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I have to jump off a building on Friday. Yeah,
I'm just going to do it. But I was explaining
to Matthew, it's a different experience for a two hundred
and sixty pounds man with man parts. Explain what man
parts are to Kno, but they when you're in that harness,
it's my experience is different than your experience, is what
(05:01):
I'm saying, Amy. So I'm not looking forward to that. Okay, Well,
and Matthew, how are you? Oh my god, Matthew, did
I surprise you?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Ok?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Thanks buddy, No, it's fine, it's great to have you
as always. All right. I love Matthew. He is he
is so good at what he does, like so buttoned
up that he's not like some producers come in and
they're like, I'm going to be a talk shows. Matthew's like,
what can I do? Let's get the show, Let's do this,
And you asked him to get on the air, and
(05:40):
he's like, no, I okay. I like that. Matthew. You're dedicated.
Thank you, thank you. Handle on the news lead story,
Come on. Jimmy Kimmel returns emotional monologue defending free speech
(06:02):
as he should. Great line though he started he cracked
a joke at the open. He says, who had a
weirder forty eight hours? Me? Or the CEO of Tailanol.
That's a great line. That is a great line. But
he's back, and I believe rightly. So Now do I
believe that there was actual censorship? I don't. I just
(06:29):
didn't like the proximity of what the FCC, the head
of the FCC, and what Trump said, and I think
better safe than sorry, you don't say those things as
president or as the head of the FCC. So, but
do I really think that they didn't know. I think
(06:50):
that what happened is that you had affiliates that have
the right to say, no, we're not airing that. We
don't want to air it. It goes against our views.
And that was next Star Media in Sinclair Broadcast Group,
and I think that became the problem, and Disney didn't
think it through all the way. Maybe a little knee
jerk there, but I didn't go for all that I'm
(07:13):
canceling and all this. I just don't do that. I
didn't do it when Gina Carano was taken off the Mandalorian,
which I hated. That was so blatantly against conservative view
it was ridiculous. Pedro Pascal, who I adore, said something
very similar and didn't get nailed. So Jimmy's back. Good
(07:35):
on him again. I said it before, I'll say it again.
I do not think he's a bad guy. I think
he's got a big heart, and I think he has
his own views. I think he goes after Trump too much.
I get bored with that, and he looks he comes
across his smugs sometimes, but I think he genuinely cares,
and I think he's a very talented and funny guy.
(07:56):
I don't like when Trump comes out and you know that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
He has no talent. Yeah, that sounded more like Arnold Schwartzenegger's.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Let us say, you know, I I don't think Kimmel
is funny at all now when because all he does
is focus on Trumpet's and like all late night hosts do,
and it's always been funny, and they've always poked fun
of it fun at them, and it's supposed to be funny.
But I do think that Kimmy Kimmel's stuff is so
(08:26):
mean spirited now.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I mean, he it's too much and.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
He's not funny. It just means he's not funny to
you because of them. Yeah, but and I get that.
I will say Johnny Carson was the best Johnny Carson.
He didn't. It makes you too important? You know. I
don't feel important bey this mic. I respect it. I
respect that I have people's ears. I'm trying to share
(08:52):
my point of view or thoughts on things, but I'm
not trying to make people believe like I believe. I
just want to share maybe some in sites that have
helped or that I think are interesting, that's all. Yeah,
But I'm not trying to bend anybody to my will,
I will tell you that Trump definitely has a pretty
severe case of Kimmel derangement syndrome.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
To me ooh, KTS.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, KTS heavy, KDS.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Well, TDS and KTS.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But I will tell you when you come out and
say he's no talent, it's fake. It's all this stuff.
That's That's exactly the vitriol that you hear about Trump
that turns me off to.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
So there you go, all right, do we have a
new bromance beginning? So on the sidelines of the United
Nations General Assembly meeting yesterday, Ukrainian President Zelensky sat down
with President Trump and after that Zelensky praised his productive
(09:50):
meeting with Trump. Shortly after the meeting, Trump wrote on
social media, after getting to know and fully understand the
Ukraine Russia military and economic situation, and after seeing the
economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with
the support of the European Union, is in a position
to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its
(10:11):
original form, which is a huge shift from what he's
been saying about. You know, Ukraine, You're going to have
to give up some land, We're going to have to
do some swap, and now he's basically saying, I think
you can win. I think you can get your country back.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I think he likes the mind games to mess with everybody.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Well, I think he's ticked because Putin's not playing, and
I think he thought he had a better relationship with Putin.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well that's the thing about you know, the devil isn't
going man. I love Satanists. He's like punks. That's this
way it works. He knows who he is. Nearly two
million people out there in southern China been evacuated right now.
You have that powerful typhoon rather as it comes towards
(10:56):
that incredibly densely populated coast. Typhoon Ragasa, very powerful, very
very problematic. A few days ago was the strongest storm
on Earth so far this year. And they're protecting themselves,
barreling through remote islands in the Philippines and mountain regions
(11:20):
of Taiwan.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh, we got escalator gate.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
So at the UN yesterday, Trump did his speech and
he went off script, duh, One because his teleprompter was broken,
and two because he said that his escalator broke. So
he said during his remarks, all I got from the
(11:46):
United Nations was an escalator that on the way up
stopped right in the middle, and then he said, hey,
if Malani and I weren't in great shape, we wouldn't
have made it to the top.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
So the UN comes back and says it was a
videographer from the US delegation that ran ahead of the
president and triggered the stop mechanism at the top of
the escalator.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, now, Caroline Levitt.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Was that to get a picture, like they specifically kicked
it off so that they could take a.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
No, Well, it's so.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
What it sounds like is that the UN is saying
that one of the photographers with the US delegation ran
ahead of the president and for whatever reason somehow tripped
a stop mechanism to make sure that you don't get
like sucked into the escalator. That's what the UN is saying.
But then White House spokesperson Caroline Levett is saying, oh, no,
we want an investigation. And that's because the Times of
(12:42):
London published an article saying that UN staffers had joked
that they may switch the escalator off while the President
was on it.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Why, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I think it's just a big nothing, is it?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
True that he was staying there in the middle, going great, hell, Hell,
that's galater. We're stuck in here forever. This is horrible.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
No, they walked up the escalator and they were fine.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
And then again the teleprompter was broke broken, and I
think it started up about halfway through his speech.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Could you imagine if the teleprompter broke on Obama? Holy hell,
be silent? Or Biden, well, I don't know about Biden.
Biden was like he just kind of wandered corn, Pop's
a bad dude, mister president. That's not on there? Or okay,
(13:45):
LA won't lay off any city workers this year. This
smells to me, this is real. This is Karen Bass
is digging to find something. She is ineffectual and the worst.
I'm not saying this as a person. I don't know
where as a person, but she is the worst La
mayor in my lifetime period. And we've had some doozies.
(14:11):
We've had some doozies. And I don't understand. You know,
five months ago you had Mayor Karen Bass saying that
more than sixteen hundred city workers might have to be
laid off to close a one billion dollar budget shortfall.
Then all of a sudden. Yesterday, she stood at city
(14:32):
Hall with union leaders for a photo op and announced
that her administration had averted the layoff. Some people said
it couldn't be done. But I'm so glad to stand
here today and say that we have proved naysayers wrong. Okay,
(14:54):
where'd you get the money from?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Yeah, if you're not cutting the jobs, where did you cut?
That was a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's a lot. I'd love to see the math on
that me too.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
All Right.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Ryan Ruth says he's not violent, but then he stabbed himself.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh that's a contradiction.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Jury found Ryan Ruth guilty of attempting to assassinate President
Trump on his golf course in Florida last year. The
verdict was read after about two hours of deliberations, and
then Ruth apparently tried to stab himself in the neck
with a pen. He was facing five counts, including attempted
assassination of a major presidential candidate, assault on a federal officer,
(15:36):
and multiple firearms offensives. He represented himself in the trial
and he'll be sentenced in December.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I bet you there are some attorneys that want to
kill their clients at the end of a case. It's
just weird that they're the same person.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, since he acted as his own afferent.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And that's just goes to show you it's not political.
Crazy people do things like this. They'll be crazy on
the left and crazy on the right, but they're just
crazy when you try and attempt to assassinate someone.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And then yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
So we go from from Jimmy Kimmel and the possibility
the appear I'll say the appearance, not even the possibility,
the appearance of censorship, because I don't think it actually
was censorship. I think it was the appearance of censorship,
which I had a problem with, to actual censorship. So
those who saw their YouTube videos other content banned during
(16:34):
COVID nineteen and the twenty twenty election were invited back
to the platform just yesterday a huge apology basically from
the company that said the censorship was because of the
Biden administration and using pressure tactics. So let me say
(16:55):
to anybody, to all those Hollywood people we're talking about,
and this is why I don't do any sort of boycotts.
I can't remember ever doing a boycott. Now are there
times where I won't spend my money somewhere just because
I'm like, I'll find another company. That's fine. But I
(17:16):
don't do like boycott's of Disney because they you know,
Disney is a business.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
And it's fun to go to Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
No, and I love their products, you know, but listen,
I didn't boycott them when they got rid of Gina Carano,
who I adore. I think, Oh, there's a good action
movie for you. By the way, Matthew, her first movie,
her first big movie, is a great action film. But
(17:44):
I didn't do it then when she got taken off
Mandalorian that I wasn't gonna do it for Jimmy Kimmel.
But this action is actual censorship. This is actual damage
to the First Amendment. And if anyone could you imagine
Hollywood coming out and boycott and Google getting rid of
(18:06):
their pixel phones or whatever. This is actual censorship, documented,
actual censorship, and you won't hear crap about it. Jimmy
Kimmel had the appearance, and that was enough for me
to stand with Jimmy. But this is actual censorship from
the Biden administration, and you won't hear people talking about
(18:27):
it except here one more Amy, Well.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
This is awkward.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, Jesse.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
These people dump those Disney Plus memberships and subscription because
of the whole Kimmel suspension, Disney has announced its hiking
prices or its streaming services.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
So starting October twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
First, thank you for your support.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Those of us who are left are going to pay more.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, did you see the meme that said it had
the Disney Plus logo and then after the plus it
said two dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Well, two dollars is how much the basic plan is
going to go up from nine ninety nine to eleven
ninety nine. The ad free tier will go up by
three dollars to eighteen ninety nine. Hulu and ESPN also
doing some increases. Disney is saying these hikes were part
of the company's normal business process. Of course, Disney came
(19:24):
under fire because it pulled Kimmel off the air, and
everybody lost their minds and started canceling. Well, then Disney
announced yesterday that it would reinstate Kimmel. He was on
last night, and now mega media commentators are losing their
minds and raging against Disney for putting Kimmel back on
the air.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh that's let's all collect our thoughts, shall we.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Right, But it'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Let's not do all that.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That's just let's not do it.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
But it'll be interesting to see if a lot of
people cancel their subscription because he's.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Back, and then the birth and then the prices go
up again. Trump and his rant about Jimmy Kimmel is
the birth of the Kimmel derangement syndrome. So it is
going to spread. I can already see Kono getting itchy. No,
I have kids. If I cancel Bluey, my god, there
(20:19):
is your your all. They could take away my guns,
my freedom of speech, my freedom of religion. But that
those kids need Blue Louie. Yeah, yeah, I get it.
I get it all right. Come on, Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, uh,
you know, championing the creation of an independent commission to
(20:40):
draw California's congressional districts. Now he's coming back to state voters.
I saw him a TV a bunch, and I think
he's on a spot too about this opposing the November
ballot measure by state Democrats to boost their party's ranks
in Congress. I know this is in respect to what
took place in Texas, but this committee opposing Proposition fifty,
(21:06):
which I oppose as well. Personally, if you're playing the
home game is going to replace districts drawn by an
independent commission with ones crafted by partisans, that's problematic. It
just we're playing a game, and I don't like. I
don't like the game playing because they're playing with us. Yes, Amy,
(21:26):
I think.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
It's interesting too that how you can get away with
wording things a certain way, and watching this the ads
that are for this, I haven't seen the Schwarzenegger ads,
but I was watching the newsome ads and he said
it preserves the independent Redistricting Commission, and I was like,
(21:49):
how do they say that? It's probably because it goes
back into effect in twenty thirty, but what it does
is suspends the voter approved independent commission.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And I was like, how can he say that?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Well, they all do, I know.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
But it's just so interesting to me that with the
with the way that you can word craft it and
really misrepresent it, because.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
They all are that way. Every proposition, everything always is.
So if you know Handle says this too, it's opposite
day always when you read those propositions and how they're written. Always,
you know, the killing children proposition, this preserves the life
of children that don't get killed.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah, I'm always amazed by that and how you can
just blatantly say something that is not either isn't true
on its face or is you know, a very creative
way of saying it.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So it does. It probably does.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Preserve the Independent Commission in six years.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I respect the strategy of it. I'm a strategist. I
like that. I respect that you're going, hey, listen, we're
gonna play this for that. But it does annoy me
that it's like, hey, don't play with the people of California.
If you're if you're a Democrat or you're a Republican,
you are serving the people of your state or your country,
(23:17):
not just your own. And I believe that for Trump,
and I believe that for Newsome.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Oh absolutely for both across.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
So Arnold Schwarzenegger get in the chap of gait all right.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Secret Service saves seales service. So this is an interesting thing.
The Secret Service in New York City has rated different
locations and found SIM farms active SIM farms at abandoned
apartment buildings. They discovered three hundred SIM servers over one
(23:53):
hundred thousand SIM cards. And they said that though that
would be able to send out thirty million, thirty million
text messages per minute, which could completely disrupt the cell
cell phone system, block emergency communications, all kinds of things
if they actually did that, So it's sort of like
(24:15):
a cyber attack on your cell phones. They said this
network had the potential to disable cell phone towers and
essentially shut down the cellular network in New York City,
but Secret Service stopped it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
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