August 22, 2025 • 31 mins
7:05 - California voters support Newsom's redistricting plan, polls show.
7:20 - Cracker Barrel's new logo draws ridicule for being "woke..."
7:35 - Vacationing in Death Valley... ok, but why??
7:50 - Trump admin to vet 55 million foreigners with US Visas.
7:20 - Cracker Barrel's new logo draws ridicule for being "woke..."
7:35 - Vacationing in Death Valley... ok, but why??
7:50 - Trump admin to vet 55 million foreigners with US Visas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings k I AM six forty the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f I Handle here
on a hot Friday morning, August twenty two. Hey, a
quick word about Pageant of the Masters. And every year
I go there. And if you ever have not gone
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to the pageant, So Laguna Beach, boy, is it worth
going to?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's totally unique.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
There's no show like it, no performance anywhere on the planet.
And you've got another week. The costs are very reasonable
and look it up. What an evening you'll have. That's
the Pageant of the Masters. Well worth looking just ah,
it's spectacular.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Now, let me tell you what's going on politically here
in California.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And man, this is such a mess, all right. What
happened in Texas.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's all started in Texas where the legislature decided that
redistricting was going to happen. Now, every ten years, there's
a census mandated by the Constitution, and based on the census,
a population where people live where they've moved to the
legislature's redistrict. And what they do is they draw these
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durist districts up and if it's a Republican legislature, they
draw it up so the Republicans get an advantage. The
way they do that is, let's say you have a
group of Democrats, a Democratic stronghold, and then around it
you have districts that are swing districts go either way.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So the line is drawn where all of those.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Swing districts move over to the Democratic district so it
votes Democratic, leaving the other ones Republican. That is jerry mandry.
So it happens every ten years and both sides do it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
What Texas has done is in the middle of that
ten year period they're redistricting. And that's upon the direction
of the President, who told the legislature I want you
to do this. And of course it's a Republican dominated
legislature in Texas, and you don't say no to Trump
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ever under any circumstances. So they created those five new
districts that became Republican districts. That and this is Congress.
This is not the state. The state mandates it. The
state's the lens that draw up the districts. But we're
talking Congress. And if you have five new Republican Congress
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people and there is only a four member majority. The
Republicans had at another five. So California. Newsom goes, okay,
and California, of course is a totally democratic state, says, okay,
you're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
We're gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Now. The problem with California is that a little more
south ound side of fifteen, basically south of hearing something
in my ear there there we go. Uh. The problem
in California is that the legislature doesn't do it. It's
an independent commission that does it because of, uh, the
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political leaning. So they said, Okay, we want it to
be fair, we don't want either side to have the advantage,
so we'll have this independent commission do this, which is nonpartisan. Uh.
That is a disadvantage to California because Texas, the legislature
does it, which is totally political. In California the independent
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commission does it, which is not political.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
So what Newsom said is we're changing that. You guys
do it. We're doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And so what he did is, well, actually, what the
state legislature did is change the rules, and the rules
mean that on the ballot we in the state of
California can change it, allowing us to do exactly what
Texas does and create new Democratic seats. Well, the Republicans
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are going crazy, as you can imagine, and that is
it's illegal what California is doing because they're ignoring the law.
It's an independent commission. It's going to cost too much
money for an election. It's not fair. Literally, lawsuits. The
people of the state of California haven't had a chance.
There weren't hearings to determine if the law should be
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or it should be put on the ballot or not.
I mean coming up with reason after reason after reason.
Matter of fact, one of the cases was just dismissed
by the California Supreme Court. It's going to happen. I mean,
there's no question. It's going to be on the ballot.
We know that that's already a given. Now the issue
becomes how many people are going to vote in favor
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of it. You would think, because it's California, it would
be overwhelming in favor of of this, In favor of
this ballot measure. I'm certainly voting in favor of it,
and not because I am a Democrat, which I am not.
I'm not a Republican. I am an affiliated and have
been ever since I started voting.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's just if Texas.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Can do it, then why can't California do it? And
some of the arguments from Democrats that are saying no,
you can't do it, things like two wrongs don't make
a right, therefore you shouldn't do it and join the
wrong side.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Boy, that works, doesn't it politically speaking?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Then the other arguments, as I've said, you didn't have hearings,
it's illegal. The people of the state of California haven't
had a chance to look at it.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You want to know something. It's on the ballot. What
does that mean.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It means that the people of the state of California
will be deciding, don't give me, it's illegal what California
is doing.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
California is following the law.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
If the law allows, and by the way, law has
always been there, if it allows a proposition to be
put on a ballot and people vote on it, that's legal.
So you have the Republicans screaming it's illegal, you can't
do it any reason whatsoever. Of course, you really think
that Republicans care about whether California has had a chance
to vet this, whether there was or was not hearings,
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whether the going on the ballot in November is fair.
Come on, give me a break. Now, it's all about
whether or not those five seats are going to go democratic.
What floors me on this one is how many people
are going to vote against it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's not a given at all.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
This thing may lose, which stuns me, it really does.
I can't imagine one Democrat voting against this, not one
giving up Congression seats to Texas, so Texas maintains or
make sure that the majority of the seats in Congress
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stay Republican. Also, Newsom, who is gaining some traction here,
has put his entire political career on this issue.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
The other thing he's doing, which is.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Kind of fun, is he's taking a page right out
of Donald Trump's playbook. Donald Trump trolls. You know, he's
just sad, horrible fifth rate talents. You know, he does
all of this stuff. Newsom is doing exactly the same
thing now and it's gaining traction as moronic as it sounds.
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And one of the things you can't argue with what's
going on with President Trump one way or the other,
it is not presidential what he is doing posting well,
Newsom is joining the fray, doing exactly what President Trump is.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Do you know what's happening?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's working, and he's using this as a presidential run
and of course he quote hasn't decided yet whether he's
going to run for president, right, Yeah, who are we kidding? Okay,
a little bit of politics here and what's woke? What
isn't woke? And branding of products? You know, corporations are
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now right there on the list of politics, and we'll
talk about that coming up. It's a hell of a
story to say the least, and then ask handle anything
at eight thirty, which is always fine, KF I am
six forty handle here. No Neil, Neil back on Monday.
No Kono Kono is back on Monday. Sam filling in
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for Kono. No one filling in for Neil? Oh, yes,
Samy and I are filling in for Neil as we
continue on.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Uh, this is crazy. I mean it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The politics have gotten so nuts. So let me tell
you what cracker Barrel has done. And by the way,
it stock tumbled yesterday because it's facing a backlash over
its new logo that criticize that critics are saying is woke.
Donald Trump Junior wrote on x WTF caps, what's wrong
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with at cracker barrel woke, okay, And he quoted another
account that accused the company of scrapping a beloved American
aesthetic esthetic and replacing it with sterile, soulless branding.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And it has become a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So the company unveils the streamline logo, and it said
the new look was rooted even more to the barrel
shape and the wordmark that started it all. Notably missing
was the image of that man in against a wooden
barrel in overalls. Oh my god, this iconic. How dare
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you do that? You've changed the logo, You've taken away
the guy next to the barrel, and that's woke.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Explain that to me.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
By the way, that guy next to the barrel right
has been around for what one hundred years?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
One hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
No, nineteen seventy seven is when the guy with the
barrel showed up. So within forty eight hours that redesign
now just exploded online. Now I had told you earlier
that Gavin Newsom is following the playbook of Donald Trump
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in terms of going online and doing what Trump does.
So here's what Gavin Newsom wrote online. This is on
X yesterday. It's all caps. What is wrong with Cracker Barrel?
Keep your beautiful logo. The new one looks like cheap
velveta cheese from Walmart, the place for groceries and then
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parentheses an old fashioned term meaning groceries, and he writes
fix it asap. Woke is dead. Thank you for your
attention to this matter. He's jumping right in and making
fun of those that are screaming that it is woke.
By the way, the company says, the values haven't changed,
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the heart and soul of Cracker Barrel hasn't changed. This
is the fifth logo changed since nineteen sixty nine. There
have been five of them, and all of a sudden,
this one has become woke.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
When did Cracker Barrel and their cheese and their other
gizmos cracker crackers? Obviously? What else do they sell at
Cracker Barrel? They have restaurants, don't they. I know they
have those meat sticks and they have eight million different
crackers and cheeses. And I've only been to the kiosks
in the malls. I've never been to a Cracker Barrel restaurant.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So isn't it like a home cooking kind of potatoes
and gravy and.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh yeah, and biscuits and gravy and deliciousness.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Not for those who are on a diet. It's delicious
like Southern comfort food. Okay, that means I have to
try it.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
So according to the company's blog, that logo featuring the
old timer wearing overalls next to the barrel was first
drafted on the back of a nap in five decades
they go decades go by a Nashville designer, and it
was meant to create a feeling of nostalgia. Okay, and
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they're wondering, where is this woke? How is it that
we're attack the restaurant themselves are being revamped. A marketing
professor at the University of Pennsylvania got but name of
Americus read great name, said, the negative attention means, first
of all, means Cracker Barrel's efforts has failed, largely failed,
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because companies walk a.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Fine line when they redesign.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Logos, and the goal is just noticeable difference and not
to change too much because it can fail. However, how
does that become wokeism? That one I don't get back
In twenty twenty two, Cracker Barrel faced much the same
thing because it started offering meat alternatives and its conservative
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customer base went crazy, and all of a sudden, Cracker
Barrel is super liberal because it's offering meat alternatives. Really,
there is a customer base that doesn't want meat and
wants almost fake kind of sort of meat made out
of plants, and that is a decision to go woke.
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Bud Light remember that story that was only a couple
of years ago. Bud Light was America's top selling beer
and it partnered with transgender actress Dylan mulvaney, and this
was online, and that started an outcry and a boycott
from a conservative base. Angry customers filling themselves destroying cans
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of bud Light with firearms and construction equipment. Come on, guys,
when does this stop? It's getting worse and worse. So
CD sales took a major hit, such a major hit
that bud Light became America's number.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Two selling beard beer.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Beard that I just say, Beard, I did number two
selling beer.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Don't laugh.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Okay, well you do stupid stuff too, and read said,
lessons can be learned from the episode.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I just did the episode yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
We talked about Target and how Target lost lost its
message completely. It was one of the first companies and
a major company that was involved in DEI and consumer
rights as well, in the vein of LGBTQ rights, minority rights.
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And then Trump takes office and it backs away from
that completely as a political move because that's woke, and
we're not going to be woke. Well, there's a boycott
going on with Target, and Target is losing sales big time.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Now. It was already going downhill, as Amy.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Pointed out yesterday, which is true, but this exacerbated the
whole issue. And so you have Target offending the conservatives,
offending the liberals, offending everybody, and it has not been
successful in walking the line. And here is the takeaway
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is that cracker Barrel just has to stay put.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
That's it. Just leave it alone, don't respond, just move ahead.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
It keeps the same message that it has forever, and
if it changes its logo every twenty years, keep on
changing the logo and people can call it woke all they.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Want, and just move forward.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Whatever you do, according to the marketing experts, do not
spin one way or the other, and respond to whatever
the political climate is at that time. When it's time
to be liberal, you go liberal. What it's time to
be conservative, you go conservative. That is not the way
to do it. Just stick to your message. And I
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had listened and I brought this up yesterday. I had
listened to a market analyst talk about Patagonia. Patagonia is
one of the most politically liberal companies that exist, and
it has been from day one, and it's not changing,
it's keeping its base. As a matter of fact, I
don't think conservatives even get pissed off at it because
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they haven't changed. They've always been there. They're not going
anti woke or woke. They're just following their line and
keeping their message. Cracker Barrel change their logo and it
is wokeism. Okay, why not. Here's a vacation spot for you.
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It's a little hot here, right. How about going to
a place where it's one hundred and twenty five deg
for a vacation.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And I'll share that with you when we come back.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
KFI AM sixty. It is a hot Friday, August twenty two,
A couple of stories. We are looking at Gaza City
and parts of Gaza have now been officially declared a
famine zone. A global group of experts announced that today
later on well our time this morning, just famine has hit.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Israel keeps on denying there is no famine.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, just look at the video. I've got people dying there.
Are they saying that it's all photoshop? No, they're just
saying it doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Let's move to a little bit of a lighter topic,
and that has to do with a place where over
a million people come to visit.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's a park and it's Death Valley.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
It's the lowest, driest, hottest national park in America, and
actually it's maybe the lowest, try as hottest place in
the world. And people come and around two hundred and
fifty thousand of the more than one million people who
do visit. Now I understand that during the winter it's
kind of nice. Well a quarter of the one million
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people who come come in June, July, and August.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Now are they crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And the hotter it gets, the more people come. So
the popularity of the park coincides with rising temperatures. Seven
of the ten hottest summers in the park have occurred
in the last ten years. Last July, the park had
temperatures of one hundred and twenty five.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Degrees or higher for nine days in a row.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Well, the good news is that this summer it hasn't
been anywhere near as hot. It's one hundred and twenty
four degrees is the hottest it has been. And Matthew Lamar,
who is a park ranger, he goes occasionally we get
visitors who are a little surprised by one one hundred
and twenty degrees. Actually feels like I lived in Las
Vegas a few years ago for a year during the summer,
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Las Vegas can hit one hundred and ten one hundred
and fifteen, and Lamar says, people are kind of surprised
what this feels like. The way I describe it, you
walk outside the front door and it's like someone has
a hair dryer at full blast at the highest heat,
and it hits you right in the face as you
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open the front door. And that's at one hundred and fifteen,
not one hundred and twenty five. And he said most
summer visitors do have a safe experience, but they have
to follow the park safety protocols, minimize time in the
elements you can't be more than ten minutes away from
an air conditioned car at any time, Drink at least
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a gallon a day, eat salty snacks, and make sure.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
You don't leave the paved roads.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Lamar said, if you're going to live in a hot place,
you might as well live in one of the hottest
places on the planet. I mean, you got to have
some bragging rights. One of the fun fun factoids that
I got from this is that the deadliest trail there
at the park is called Golden Canyon because it has
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a deceptive length and sloping walls, and there is zero shade,
and it has the highest number of fatalities. Now, according
to the park, one person dies from heat related illness
every other year, although there were four last year. You know,
the deadliest national parks that we have in the United States,
the Grand Canyon and Lake Mead, have far more deaths,
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but the stories are great. Out of Death Canyon, one
guy returning from a hike drove his car over a
twenty foot ledge. He had no idea where he was going.
Another one walked barefoot on the sand dunes. Can you
imagine what the souls of his feet were life like?
And here's the other problem. When injuries do occur, the
nearest hospital with a trauma center is two hours and
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fifteen minutes away in Las Vegas, and there are signs
at the trailheads, including red signs that announced extreme heat
danger and that's in eight languages, and most tourists were
ignoring them. So they added a three foot tall a
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frame sign that in huge capital letters bold bold bold,
that says heat kills. And then right below that is
the image of a helicopter with a slash through it.
You know, the red circle with a slash through it
in the middle was a helicopter. You go, what does
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that mean? I mean, come on, well, when you are
in that much trouble and dying from heatstroke and you
have to go to the nearest hospital trauma center, which
is in Las Vegas, a couple of hours away, they
bring in the helicopter. Helicopters can't fly in temperatures of
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one hundred and eighteen degrees and above. So the bottom
line is you are going to die for the most
part if it's serious enough. Man, really death Valley, right,
and would you go no, Amy, would.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You go to death Valley? Yeah? No, thank you, thank you?
Will would you go, no, thanks, you'd lose weight. Oh
oh wow.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, coming up. I know it's wonderful that Will is
now on our show. You know that, don't you. You
make life so wonderful, Will, Okay, Coming up, the Trump
administration is vetting foreigners, foreigners with US visas and trying
to vet. Or says it's going to vet all fifty
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five million of them. That's coming up KFI AM six
forty handle hot Friday morning, August twenty to Neil listen
here today, But I want to invite you to join
Neil and to join me. Actually, I'm joining Neil and
would like you to come along for his broadcast on Saturday.
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I think it's September sixth, if I'm not mistaken, and
we'll be at the Wild Fork, and I.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Remember where we're going to be. I think Laguna is
that where we are?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And I'm trying to This isn't even written down, so
I'm trying to remember, and I have absolutely no memory.
But you can go to our website and it'll be
all over the place, and you're invited to join us
for the broadcast. I will be there, eating like a slob,
and it's easy. Anybody can show up and we'd love
to have.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You there for sure. Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oh. In one of the big stories, some of the
big stories we are covering, and that is Chipoli is
now it's partnering with zip Line drone delivery company and
flying orders to customers. Only available right now in the
greater Dallas area, but that's going to be kind of
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neat that drones will be delivering your food and certainly
your medicines, and that's going to be happening big time
in the future. One of the things about the Trump
administration is that they walk the walk. One thing about
Donald Trump man he is there's no hidden agenda, none
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at all. He says what he means, means what he says,
and does exactly what he promised to do and was
elected on that basis. And one of those things, one
of the big big issues for President Trump, of course,
is the issue of illegal immigration. And originally it was
just to go after the bad guys, and that is,
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if you had an illegal migrant that was a felon
or had even been arrested on a major criminal charge,
boom gone, we are deporting him. We are deporting you.
If you happen to fall into that category fair enough,
and now that's been expanded a whole lot to where
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anybody who is here illegally is out of danger of
being picked up. I shared earlier that our gardener and
if we're not getting the same amount of work, and
he said he's half his people are gone. Same thing
with our contractor doing the remodel. We live next to
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about a quarter of a mile. Half a mile away,
there's a major street and it leads to a dump
down way down there. And the other day I was
picked going on in the major street and there were
ice trucks with the It was amazing that I saw
there were six of them lined up. Man, I've never
seen that before ever. So here is the latest, and
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that is fifty five million people who have visas of
some kind or another, student visas, work visas, tourist visas,
fifty five million of them around the world are now
going to be vetted. They are going to be vetted
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not to come into the country, but to be tossed
and to make sure they don't come in. And how
are they going to figure fifty five million people? Then
the question is how do you vet fifty five million people? Now,
my question has always been to how much does President
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Trump really believe that illegal migrants are that much of
a danger to the United States or how much of
it is a political theater And optically for his magabase,
this couldn't be better because for some reason, one of
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the greatest dangers that has ever existed in this country
is illegal migration. The President has said that illegal migration
is one of the biggest or the biggest danger we
have ever faced.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And of course, if you.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Extrapolate on that one greater danger than Pearl Harbor when
we were attacked, or the Civil War, or even the
Revolutionary War, where our founding fathers would have been hanged
by the Brits for treason had the US which became
the country that became the US the colonies had it
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lost the war. But illegal migration is the most important part. Also,
six thousand student visas have now been yanked, and what
they're doing, what the President and the administration is doing,
is now checking for any activities anti Semitism. So if
there's a student here who talks about being pro hamas
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anti israel I think even talk about the starvation that
is going on, that's clearly anti Israel, and that is
against the philosophy of this administration. I'll tell you who
loves this administration is the Israeli hardliners, nets and Ya,
who considers Donald Trump the greatest friend Israel has ever had.
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And that's true, That's basically true. I can't wait fifty
five million people being vetted. And the other side of
or on the same side of the coin, is that
the number of migrants crossing the border has never been lower.
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The administration has succeeded in doing exactly what it said
it was going to do and wanted to do. And
that's cut migration, certainly a legal migration from crossing the
border hugely successful. All right, coming up, if you are fat,
and I mean really fat, I mean four hundred pounds
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fat or bigger. I used to fly Southwest because they
were terrific, because they were the.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Pro fat airline. Well not anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And I'll tell you what's going on with Southwest and
that at the bottom of the hour at a thirty
it's ask Handle anything. This is KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty
You're listenings k I AM six forty the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f I Handle here
on a hot Friday morning, August twenty two. Hey, a
quick word about Pageant of the Masters. And every year
I go there. And if you ever have not gone
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to the pageant, So Laguna Beach, boy, is it worth
going to?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's totally unique.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
There's no show like it, no performance anywhere on the planet.
And you've got another week. The costs are very reasonable
and look it up. What an evening you'll have. That's
the Pageant of the Masters. Well worth looking just ah,
it's spectacular.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Now, let me tell you what's going on politically here
in California.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And man, this is such a mess, all right. What
happened in Texas.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's all started in Texas where the legislature decided that
redistricting was going to happen. Now, every ten years, there's
a census mandated by the Constitution, and based on the census,
a population where people live where they've moved to the
legislature's redistrict. And what they do is they draw these
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durist districts up and if it's a Republican legislature, they
draw it up so the Republicans get an advantage. The
way they do that is, let's say you have a
group of Democrats, a Democratic stronghold, and then around it
you have districts that are swing districts go either way.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So the line is drawn where all of those.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Swing districts move over to the Democratic district so it
votes Democratic, leaving the other ones Republican. That is jerry mandry.
So it happens every ten years and both sides do it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
What Texas has done is in the middle of that
ten year period they're redistricting. And that's upon the direction
of the President, who told the legislature I want you
to do this. And of course it's a Republican dominated
legislature in Texas, and you don't say no to Trump
(02:22):
ever under any circumstances. So they created those five new
districts that became Republican districts. That and this is Congress.
This is not the state. The state mandates it. The
state's the lens that draw up the districts. But we're
talking Congress. And if you have five new Republican Congress
(02:46):
people and there is only a four member majority. The
Republicans had at another five. So California. Newsom goes, okay,
and California, of course is a totally democratic state, says, okay,
you're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
We're gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Now. The problem with California is that a little more
south ound side of fifteen, basically south of hearing something
in my ear there there we go. Uh. The problem
in California is that the legislature doesn't do it. It's
an independent commission that does it because of, uh, the
(03:23):
political leaning. So they said, Okay, we want it to
be fair, we don't want either side to have the advantage,
so we'll have this independent commission do this, which is nonpartisan. Uh.
That is a disadvantage to California because Texas, the legislature
does it, which is totally political. In California the independent
(03:43):
commission does it, which is not political.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
So what Newsom said is we're changing that. You guys
do it. We're doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And so what he did is, well, actually, what the
state legislature did is change the rules, and the rules
mean that on the ballot we in the state of
California can change it, allowing us to do exactly what
Texas does and create new Democratic seats. Well, the Republicans
(04:12):
are going crazy, as you can imagine, and that is
it's illegal what California is doing because they're ignoring the law.
It's an independent commission. It's going to cost too much
money for an election. It's not fair. Literally, lawsuits. The
people of the state of California haven't had a chance.
There weren't hearings to determine if the law should be
(04:33):
or it should be put on the ballot or not.
I mean coming up with reason after reason after reason.
Matter of fact, one of the cases was just dismissed
by the California Supreme Court. It's going to happen. I mean,
there's no question. It's going to be on the ballot.
We know that that's already a given. Now the issue
becomes how many people are going to vote in favor
(04:54):
of it. You would think, because it's California, it would
be overwhelming in favor of of this, In favor of
this ballot measure. I'm certainly voting in favor of it,
and not because I am a Democrat, which I am not.
I'm not a Republican. I am an affiliated and have
been ever since I started voting.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's just if Texas.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Can do it, then why can't California do it? And
some of the arguments from Democrats that are saying no,
you can't do it, things like two wrongs don't make
a right, therefore you shouldn't do it and join the
wrong side.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Boy, that works, doesn't it politically speaking?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Then the other arguments, as I've said, you didn't have hearings,
it's illegal. The people of the state of California haven't
had a chance to look at it.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You want to know something. It's on the ballot. What
does that mean.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It means that the people of the state of California
will be deciding, don't give me, it's illegal what California
is doing.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
California is following the law.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
If the law allows, and by the way, law has
always been there, if it allows a proposition to be
put on a ballot and people vote on it, that's legal.
So you have the Republicans screaming it's illegal, you can't
do it any reason whatsoever. Of course, you really think
that Republicans care about whether California has had a chance
to vet this, whether there was or was not hearings,
(06:26):
whether the going on the ballot in November is fair.
Come on, give me a break. Now, it's all about
whether or not those five seats are going to go democratic.
What floors me on this one is how many people
are going to vote against it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's not a given at all.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
This thing may lose, which stuns me, it really does.
I can't imagine one Democrat voting against this, not one
giving up Congression seats to Texas, so Texas maintains or
make sure that the majority of the seats in Congress
(07:08):
stay Republican. Also, Newsom, who is gaining some traction here,
has put his entire political career on this issue.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
The other thing he's doing, which is.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Kind of fun, is he's taking a page right out
of Donald Trump's playbook. Donald Trump trolls. You know, he's
just sad, horrible fifth rate talents. You know, he does
all of this stuff. Newsom is doing exactly the same
thing now and it's gaining traction as moronic as it sounds.
(07:42):
And one of the things you can't argue with what's
going on with President Trump one way or the other,
it is not presidential what he is doing posting well,
Newsom is joining the fray, doing exactly what President Trump is.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Do you know what's happening?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's working, and he's using this as a presidential run
and of course he quote hasn't decided yet whether he's
going to run for president, right, Yeah, who are we kidding? Okay,
a little bit of politics here and what's woke? What
isn't woke? And branding of products? You know, corporations are
(08:26):
now right there on the list of politics, and we'll
talk about that coming up. It's a hell of a
story to say the least, and then ask handle anything
at eight thirty, which is always fine, KF I am
six forty handle here. No Neil, Neil back on Monday.
No Kono Kono is back on Monday. Sam filling in
(08:50):
for Kono. No one filling in for Neil? Oh, yes,
Samy and I are filling in for Neil as we
continue on.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Uh, this is crazy. I mean it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The politics have gotten so nuts. So let me tell
you what cracker Barrel has done. And by the way,
it stock tumbled yesterday because it's facing a backlash over
its new logo that criticize that critics are saying is woke.
Donald Trump Junior wrote on x WTF caps, what's wrong
(09:29):
with at cracker barrel woke, okay, And he quoted another
account that accused the company of scrapping a beloved American
aesthetic esthetic and replacing it with sterile, soulless branding.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And it has become a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So the company unveils the streamline logo, and it said
the new look was rooted even more to the barrel
shape and the wordmark that started it all. Notably missing
was the image of that man in against a wooden
barrel in overalls. Oh my god, this iconic. How dare
(10:16):
you do that? You've changed the logo, You've taken away
the guy next to the barrel, and that's woke.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Explain that to me.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
By the way, that guy next to the barrel right
has been around for what one hundred years?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
One hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
No, nineteen seventy seven is when the guy with the
barrel showed up. So within forty eight hours that redesign
now just exploded online. Now I had told you earlier
that Gavin Newsom is following the playbook of Donald Trump
(11:02):
in terms of going online and doing what Trump does.
So here's what Gavin Newsom wrote online. This is on
X yesterday. It's all caps. What is wrong with Cracker Barrel?
Keep your beautiful logo. The new one looks like cheap
velveta cheese from Walmart, the place for groceries and then
(11:25):
parentheses an old fashioned term meaning groceries, and he writes
fix it asap. Woke is dead. Thank you for your
attention to this matter. He's jumping right in and making
fun of those that are screaming that it is woke.
By the way, the company says, the values haven't changed,
(11:47):
the heart and soul of Cracker Barrel hasn't changed. This
is the fifth logo changed since nineteen sixty nine. There
have been five of them, and all of a sudden,
this one has become woke.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
When did Cracker Barrel and their cheese and their other
gizmos cracker crackers? Obviously? What else do they sell at
Cracker Barrel? They have restaurants, don't they. I know they
have those meat sticks and they have eight million different
crackers and cheeses. And I've only been to the kiosks
in the malls. I've never been to a Cracker Barrel restaurant.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So isn't it like a home cooking kind of potatoes
and gravy and.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh yeah, and biscuits and gravy and deliciousness.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Not for those who are on a diet. It's delicious
like Southern comfort food. Okay, that means I have to
try it.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
So according to the company's blog, that logo featuring the
old timer wearing overalls next to the barrel was first
drafted on the back of a nap in five decades
they go decades go by a Nashville designer, and it
was meant to create a feeling of nostalgia. Okay, and
(13:07):
they're wondering, where is this woke? How is it that
we're attack the restaurant themselves are being revamped. A marketing
professor at the University of Pennsylvania got but name of
Americus read great name, said, the negative attention means, first
of all, means Cracker Barrel's efforts has failed, largely failed,
(13:29):
because companies walk a.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Fine line when they redesign.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Logos, and the goal is just noticeable difference and not
to change too much because it can fail. However, how
does that become wokeism? That one I don't get back
In twenty twenty two, Cracker Barrel faced much the same
thing because it started offering meat alternatives and its conservative
(13:58):
customer base went crazy, and all of a sudden, Cracker
Barrel is super liberal because it's offering meat alternatives. Really,
there is a customer base that doesn't want meat and
wants almost fake kind of sort of meat made out
of plants, and that is a decision to go woke.
(14:24):
Bud Light remember that story that was only a couple
of years ago. Bud Light was America's top selling beer
and it partnered with transgender actress Dylan mulvaney, and this
was online, and that started an outcry and a boycott
from a conservative base. Angry customers filling themselves destroying cans
(14:47):
of bud Light with firearms and construction equipment. Come on, guys,
when does this stop? It's getting worse and worse. So
CD sales took a major hit, such a major hit
that bud Light became America's number.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Two selling beard beer.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Beard that I just say, Beard, I did number two
selling beer.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Don't laugh.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Okay, well you do stupid stuff too, and read said,
lessons can be learned from the episode.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I just did the episode yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
We talked about Target and how Target lost lost its
message completely. It was one of the first companies and
a major company that was involved in DEI and consumer
rights as well, in the vein of LGBTQ rights, minority rights.
(15:47):
And then Trump takes office and it backs away from
that completely as a political move because that's woke, and
we're not going to be woke. Well, there's a boycott
going on with Target, and Target is losing sales big time.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Now. It was already going downhill, as Amy.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Pointed out yesterday, which is true, but this exacerbated the
whole issue. And so you have Target offending the conservatives,
offending the liberals, offending everybody, and it has not been
successful in walking the line. And here is the takeaway
(16:24):
is that cracker Barrel just has to stay put.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
That's it. Just leave it alone, don't respond, just move ahead.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
It keeps the same message that it has forever, and
if it changes its logo every twenty years, keep on
changing the logo and people can call it woke all they.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Want, and just move forward.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Whatever you do, according to the marketing experts, do not
spin one way or the other, and respond to whatever
the political climate is at that time. When it's time
to be liberal, you go liberal. What it's time to
be conservative, you go conservative. That is not the way
to do it. Just stick to your message. And I
(17:11):
had listened and I brought this up yesterday. I had
listened to a market analyst talk about Patagonia. Patagonia is
one of the most politically liberal companies that exist, and
it has been from day one, and it's not changing,
it's keeping its base. As a matter of fact, I
don't think conservatives even get pissed off at it because
(17:32):
they haven't changed. They've always been there. They're not going
anti woke or woke. They're just following their line and
keeping their message. Cracker Barrel change their logo and it
is wokeism. Okay, why not. Here's a vacation spot for you.
(17:55):
It's a little hot here, right. How about going to
a place where it's one hundred and twenty five deg
for a vacation.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And I'll share that with you when we come back.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
KFI AM sixty. It is a hot Friday, August twenty two,
A couple of stories. We are looking at Gaza City
and parts of Gaza have now been officially declared a
famine zone. A global group of experts announced that today
later on well our time this morning, just famine has hit.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Israel keeps on denying there is no famine.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, just look at the video. I've got people dying there.
Are they saying that it's all photoshop? No, they're just
saying it doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Let's move to a little bit of a lighter topic,
and that has to do with a place where over
a million people come to visit.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's a park and it's Death Valley.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
It's the lowest, driest, hottest national park in America, and
actually it's maybe the lowest, try as hottest place in
the world. And people come and around two hundred and
fifty thousand of the more than one million people who
do visit. Now I understand that during the winter it's
kind of nice. Well a quarter of the one million
(19:28):
people who come come in June, July, and August.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Now are they crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And the hotter it gets, the more people come. So
the popularity of the park coincides with rising temperatures. Seven
of the ten hottest summers in the park have occurred
in the last ten years. Last July, the park had
temperatures of one hundred and twenty five.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Degrees or higher for nine days in a row.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Well, the good news is that this summer it hasn't
been anywhere near as hot. It's one hundred and twenty
four degrees is the hottest it has been. And Matthew Lamar,
who is a park ranger, he goes occasionally we get
visitors who are a little surprised by one one hundred
and twenty degrees. Actually feels like I lived in Las
Vegas a few years ago for a year during the summer,
(20:29):
Las Vegas can hit one hundred and ten one hundred
and fifteen, and Lamar says, people are kind of surprised
what this feels like. The way I describe it, you
walk outside the front door and it's like someone has
a hair dryer at full blast at the highest heat,
and it hits you right in the face as you
(20:50):
open the front door. And that's at one hundred and fifteen,
not one hundred and twenty five. And he said most
summer visitors do have a safe experience, but they have
to follow the park safety protocols, minimize time in the
elements you can't be more than ten minutes away from
an air conditioned car at any time, Drink at least
(21:10):
a gallon a day, eat salty snacks, and make sure.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
You don't leave the paved roads.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Lamar said, if you're going to live in a hot place,
you might as well live in one of the hottest
places on the planet. I mean, you got to have
some bragging rights. One of the fun fun factoids that
I got from this is that the deadliest trail there
at the park is called Golden Canyon because it has
(21:45):
a deceptive length and sloping walls, and there is zero shade,
and it has the highest number of fatalities. Now, according
to the park, one person dies from heat related illness
every other year, although there were four last year. You know,
the deadliest national parks that we have in the United States,
the Grand Canyon and Lake Mead, have far more deaths,
(22:11):
but the stories are great. Out of Death Canyon, one
guy returning from a hike drove his car over a
twenty foot ledge. He had no idea where he was going.
Another one walked barefoot on the sand dunes. Can you
imagine what the souls of his feet were life like?
And here's the other problem. When injuries do occur, the
nearest hospital with a trauma center is two hours and
(22:33):
fifteen minutes away in Las Vegas, and there are signs
at the trailheads, including red signs that announced extreme heat
danger and that's in eight languages, and most tourists were
ignoring them. So they added a three foot tall a
(22:56):
frame sign that in huge capital letters bold bold bold,
that says heat kills. And then right below that is
the image of a helicopter with a slash through it.
You know, the red circle with a slash through it
in the middle was a helicopter. You go, what does
(23:18):
that mean? I mean, come on, well, when you are
in that much trouble and dying from heatstroke and you
have to go to the nearest hospital trauma center, which
is in Las Vegas, a couple of hours away, they
bring in the helicopter. Helicopters can't fly in temperatures of
(23:42):
one hundred and eighteen degrees and above. So the bottom
line is you are going to die for the most
part if it's serious enough. Man, really death Valley, right,
and would you go no, Amy, would.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You go to death Valley? Yeah? No, thank you, thank you?
Will would you go, no, thanks, you'd lose weight. Oh
oh wow.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, coming up. I know it's wonderful that Will is
now on our show. You know that, don't you. You
make life so wonderful, Will, Okay, Coming up, the Trump
administration is vetting foreigners, foreigners with US visas and trying
to vet. Or says it's going to vet all fifty
(24:35):
five million of them. That's coming up KFI AM six
forty handle hot Friday morning, August twenty to Neil listen
here today, But I want to invite you to join
Neil and to join me. Actually, I'm joining Neil and
would like you to come along for his broadcast on Saturday.
(24:57):
I think it's September sixth, if I'm not mistaken, and
we'll be at the Wild Fork, and I.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Remember where we're going to be. I think Laguna is
that where we are?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And I'm trying to This isn't even written down, so
I'm trying to remember, and I have absolutely no memory.
But you can go to our website and it'll be
all over the place, and you're invited to join us
for the broadcast. I will be there, eating like a slob,
and it's easy. Anybody can show up and we'd love
to have.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You there for sure. Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oh. In one of the big stories, some of the
big stories we are covering, and that is Chipoli is
now it's partnering with zip Line drone delivery company and
flying orders to customers. Only available right now in the
greater Dallas area, but that's going to be kind of
(25:50):
neat that drones will be delivering your food and certainly
your medicines, and that's going to be happening big time
in the future. One of the things about the Trump
administration is that they walk the walk. One thing about
Donald Trump man he is there's no hidden agenda, none
(26:11):
at all. He says what he means, means what he says,
and does exactly what he promised to do and was
elected on that basis. And one of those things, one
of the big big issues for President Trump, of course,
is the issue of illegal immigration. And originally it was
just to go after the bad guys, and that is,
(26:33):
if you had an illegal migrant that was a felon
or had even been arrested on a major criminal charge,
boom gone, we are deporting him. We are deporting you.
If you happen to fall into that category fair enough,
and now that's been expanded a whole lot to where
(26:56):
anybody who is here illegally is out of danger of
being picked up. I shared earlier that our gardener and
if we're not getting the same amount of work, and
he said he's half his people are gone. Same thing
with our contractor doing the remodel. We live next to
(27:19):
about a quarter of a mile. Half a mile away,
there's a major street and it leads to a dump
down way down there. And the other day I was
picked going on in the major street and there were
ice trucks with the It was amazing that I saw
there were six of them lined up. Man, I've never
seen that before ever. So here is the latest, and
(27:45):
that is fifty five million people who have visas of
some kind or another, student visas, work visas, tourist visas,
fifty five million of them around the world are now
going to be vetted. They are going to be vetted
(28:08):
not to come into the country, but to be tossed
and to make sure they don't come in. And how
are they going to figure fifty five million people? Then
the question is how do you vet fifty five million people? Now,
my question has always been to how much does President
(28:28):
Trump really believe that illegal migrants are that much of
a danger to the United States or how much of
it is a political theater And optically for his magabase,
this couldn't be better because for some reason, one of
(28:49):
the greatest dangers that has ever existed in this country
is illegal migration. The President has said that illegal migration
is one of the biggest or the biggest danger we
have ever faced.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And of course, if you.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Extrapolate on that one greater danger than Pearl Harbor when
we were attacked, or the Civil War, or even the
Revolutionary War, where our founding fathers would have been hanged
by the Brits for treason had the US which became
the country that became the US the colonies had it
(29:28):
lost the war. But illegal migration is the most important part. Also,
six thousand student visas have now been yanked, and what
they're doing, what the President and the administration is doing,
is now checking for any activities anti Semitism. So if
there's a student here who talks about being pro hamas
(29:51):
anti israel I think even talk about the starvation that
is going on, that's clearly anti Israel, and that is
against the philosophy of this administration. I'll tell you who
loves this administration is the Israeli hardliners, nets and Ya,
who considers Donald Trump the greatest friend Israel has ever had.
(30:14):
And that's true, That's basically true. I can't wait fifty
five million people being vetted. And the other side of
or on the same side of the coin, is that
the number of migrants crossing the border has never been lower.
(30:35):
The administration has succeeded in doing exactly what it said
it was going to do and wanted to do. And
that's cut migration, certainly a legal migration from crossing the
border hugely successful. All right, coming up, if you are fat,
and I mean really fat, I mean four hundred pounds
(30:58):
fat or bigger. I used to fly Southwest because they
were terrific, because they were the.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Pro fat airline. Well not anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And I'll tell you what's going on with Southwest and
that at the bottom of the hour at a thirty
it's ask Handle anything. This is KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
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