October 23, 2025 • 22 mins
(October 23, 2025)
The five major changes Trump is making to the White House. Huntington Beach has become a MAGA city. The murky underworld where the Louvre thieves hope to hawk their stolen goods. The Pentagon introduces new right-wing press corps after media walkout.
The five major changes Trump is making to the White House. Huntington Beach has become a MAGA city. The murky underworld where the Louvre thieves hope to hawk their stolen goods. The Pentagon introduces new right-wing press corps after media walkout.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. He's that your manage guy.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Us listening to the bill Handle show KFI AM six
forty bill Handle on a Thursday, October twenty third, the
twenty third day of the governmental shutdown. And that is
for many many hundreds of thousands of federal employees, maybe millions,
(00:31):
those paychecks are not coming in. Friday is the next
major paycheck, and that is going to be cut. I
mean they're not going to receive it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
By the way, coming up at eight eight o'clock this
morning is Joel Larsgard How to Money, which we do
every Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
In less than a year, the President has remade the
White House physically significantly. So the old Office is now
decorated top to bottom in gold. The President really enjoys gold.
The Rose Garden lawn is paved over.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Sorry about that. Let me get that. I'm silent.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
There we are the rose gardens. The grass area in
front of the rose garden is now paved over. And
what the President did is he put these tables with
umbrellas that you could sit around. He went to the
Costco food court a few weeks ago and decided that's
(01:37):
a good idea. And of course the big ballroom project
is moving ahead. So the big one is the East
Wing ballroom, and this is ninety thousand square feet, which
is going to virtually double the footprint of the White
House itself. And the President says it's necessary to host
(01:58):
large event for world lead and there is no venue
that can hold that many people in the White House.
He said it was going to cost more than two
hundred million to build. Will hold nine hundred ninety nine people.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It won't.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It still will hold seven hundred change. And mister Trump
has said that personal contributions and private donations will cover
the bill, and I believe that not taxpayers are foreign
contributors that I yet. And the proposed design looks an
awful light a lot, an awful lot like the Grand
Ballroom at Trump's mar Alago, very very similar, and so
(02:40):
big changes are coming. So the rose garden, now, the
rose garden is a garden of roses.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
But what it does.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The roses circle this green lawn where the reporters were
sitting usually and they set up chairs, and of course
they would scream at the president who gave press conferences
right there at the portico of the White House, so
that basically is done as a green area. Also, the
(03:10):
president recently hosted a dinner for Republican lawmakers and it
is now the Rose Garden Club where lawmakers Republicans can
hang out. You look at the Oval Office, portraits are
now framed in gold, the mirrors are framed in gold.
There's golden inlays, and the presidential seal of the office
(03:34):
is now covered in gold leaf.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And the historic items from the White House collection and
the fireplace mantle all in gold. Now presidents make changes
to the Oval Office constantly. Every new president makes some change.
Usually they're pretty subtle. Even President Trump in his first
term made it pretty sub For example, the seal on
(04:03):
the floor, they put new carpeting down.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The seal is bigger or smaller.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The flags usually it's the American flag behind the president.
He has a dozen flags, not only the presidential seal,
the flag of America, but also flags from virtually every
Armed services branch that we have.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And I'll tell you what my favorite one is. Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Also the cabinet room of course golden inlays and trump
and trim added to the walls. The mantle is decorated
with gold items. Now the fun one, the one I
like the absolute most is in September, the President unveiled
the Presidential Walk of Fame on the West Colonnade. That's
(04:48):
the main walkway between the residents and the West Wing.
We've often seen presidents walking down that colonide Colonnade from
the residence to the Oval Office, and that is iconic
and along that wall it used to be.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Basically a wall.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
What the President has done, which I think is pretty neat,
is he has put portraits of every single president in
chronological order, framed of course in gold, and gold inlays
above the portraits and they go right across of all
the presidents except Joe Biden's portrait.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
There isn't a portrait of Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
There is a photograph of an auto pen that President
Biden is accused of, rightly so, of signing his name,
and it's his signature, but it's done. It's a device
that signs his signature thirteen fifteen times. Looks like a
Rule Goldberg device that virtually every president has used. The
(05:58):
President not only signs major pieces of legislation and executive order.
I mean he signs stuff declarations that Congress has passed,
for example, pardons. The President signed fourteen hundred pardons. You
think he signed fourteen hundred pieces of paper. No, he
(06:19):
used an auto pen. But that photograph of an autopen
what it does is tell us volumes about what the
President thinks of Joe Biden, maybe figuring rightly so in
his mind, that Joe Biden should never have been president,
that this is a yuts against Joe Biden. You used
(06:41):
an auto pen, Well, everybody does. I find that absolutely fascinating.
And then I can't wait for the East Wing ballroom. Oh,
the East Wing no longer exists. You're gonna list You're
gonna have just the East Ballroom connected to the White House,
all right now. Huntington Beach. I've talked about this for
(07:01):
a bunch of years. It used to be surf City, USA.
That was it, songs about it, and it was just
this idyllic place. So what happened, Well, it's gone from this.
Ronald Reagan called Orange County in general, a place where
good Republicans go to talk to die any minute.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
As a compliment.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, in recent years, Huntington Beach used to be the
hippie beatside, Sir for Haven now has drawn national intention
for leaning so dramatically to the right. It's a conservative
majority city council and has pulled right leaning policies into action.
So it's they've done it more so than any other city.
(07:47):
And now we're looking at this oasis of conservatism within
surrounding liberal areas. Now, at one point, at Honeyson Beach
had a Democratic led city council, but in twenty twenty three,
some unknown conservatives backed by the already seated Republican members,
(08:11):
ousted the last remaining Democrats. It is all conservative and
by the way, as Democrats are bitching and moaning about this,
they were elected. It wasn't a rigged election. It was
an election. So the all Republican group dubbed themselves the
(08:31):
Magnificent seven Wow, and they hit the ground running, trying
to ban children's books by arguing that it's porn, pushing
to prohibit flying the Pride flag at government buildings, opposing
vaccine mask mandates, dissolving watchdog committees formed in the aftermath
(08:53):
of white supremac hate crimes in the nineties, and the
mayor Pat Burns elected to the council in twenty two,
twenty two summed it up as it's a middle class town.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Basically, we just.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Want to live our lives with as little as government
control as possible. And if you ask a former member,
a Democrat, Dan Kalmak, he said, it's all about housing.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's where it all started.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Kalmuk said safety and crime have always been issues as
long as he can remember.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The fights were always over housing.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Huntington Beach Republican mayor describes the city as a beacon
of hope in the.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Fight for local control. I think that's fair to describe
it that way.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And he has to firm against the state Housing Law,
which mandates that every city keep up with state requirements
for adding housing, and Huntington Beach just doesn't do it,
so the state is suing the city.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
One of my favorite parts about this has to do
with the Community Parent Advisory Council to monitor books in
the Huntington Beach Public Library, and the city council in
twenty twenty three, when it became super conservative, created this
council to monitor the books, specifically books that conservatives deem
(10:16):
pornographic because they discuss puberty or themes of queer identity
and it was a five hour public comment period, and
then now you had residents holding posters leave our kids alone,
And of course it was contentious as hell. Now city
council women and this, I love this. Gracie van Dermark said,
(10:37):
it's not puberty or potty training books I'm teaching. I'm
talking about books that teach miners how to perform sex acts.
And among those books is one titled Grandpa's Pride, which
chronicles the story of a queer grandparent. And she said
the book is inappropriate because it shows the grandpa kissing
(11:00):
while he ISPs dressed in bdsm attire. Now, I said,
come on, I mean, you know that's really pushing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It, right. I mean, you can you know, so maybe.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
He's dressed a little weird, but bdsm attire, I mean
that's going pretty far in describing it. So I asked
and to pull a photograph of that page.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Sure enough, it's bdsm attire. There is no issue.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
They are right and as open as I am about
any kind of censorship in schools, I gotta tell you,
if I have a third or fifth or seventh grader,
I don't want grandpa dressed up like he's going to
a BDS clumb Club. I mean, there he is. It
is absolutely outrageous. The stockings up, but mid th with
(12:00):
a garter belt and I mean just all of it.
Grandpa a BDS m aficionado. All right, So that's the
fun part of the story. By the way, forget about
the politics of it. I don't care about the politics.
Well I do, because I hate censorship of any kind.
(12:21):
But Grandpa, you know what they did. They someone took
a picture of my grandfather and use that as a
model for this page in this book. And as my
grandpa used to say, my grandfather used to say in
(12:41):
his very accented English, don't knock it till you've tried it. Actually,
that's not true at all. My grandfather isn't around and
hasn't been since the forties. All right, Now, a moment
or two about the Louver theft of those extraordinary gems.
(13:02):
I mean, these are the Crown Jewels of France. Eight
pieces that form part of the Crown Jewels stolen, as
we know it became international news. Stolen from the Louver
Museum by the thieves. This is not a unique situation.
There's been a rash of gold related thefts across Europe
(13:22):
over the past couple of years, and the experts are saying,
if no massive reward is being given for a quick
ransom or a chance that the investigators find out immediately,
which is now getting going away very quickly, it looks
like they are going to sell these gems to black
(13:45):
market jewelers. And how are they going to do that,
because you know, everybody knows what these crown jewels look like,
so they're not going to be displayed any place.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Is someone going to buy them just to keep them
in a drawl?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Are because some very wealthy collector says, I just want
to look at them occasionally.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
What's probably going to happen, according to the experts is
those jewels, those that jewelry set is going to be
broken up, the gold melted, and the diamonds and emeralds
and other precious jewels are going to be sold individually.
And the big ones, these large emeralds and large diamonds,
(14:32):
which real experts say, no, that belongs to that set.
I mean they can recognize this. Those diamonds are just recut.
I mean they'll be smaller certainly, but they still are
going to have immense value.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And that seems to be the problem.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Now that doesn't happen with paintings because everybody knows what
a painting looks like. The world art the world the
art well, the art world knows exactly when something is stolen,
what is stolen, and there's a registry of stolen art
doesn't exist with gems and very difficult to track down
(15:13):
unless they're intact, and at this point, very few people
think that they're intact. That by now they have gone
all over the world and France is a real investigation
in France, how can they do this? Well, they took
that furniture mover thing that lifts furniture up. It's a
(15:34):
hydraulic device like a cherry picker. I guess that they
brought up to the second story.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Do you know why they have to do it with that?
And it's like not that suspicious because the doorways and
stuff in France are a lot smaller. So apparently when
they bring furniture up they have to take it in
through the windows. Well they weren't.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
No one questioned it, and they actually break one of
the windows and go into.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
The gallery while people were there.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
This is Sunday morning at nine point thirty and there
were guards there, there was people going through, and they
smashed the glass and they're only there for a couple
of minutes. Grab the jewelry, went outside, went down ladders,
got on scooters, and they were gone. Now there are
two there are two thoughts going through this. One is
these are professional guys that did it so quickly that
(16:25):
only people who case the place knew exactly what they're doing,
got the materials, got that furniture loader.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Others are saying, you know, these guys were amateurs.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
They left tons of DNA, they left the vest, they
left the ladders, and so we either they're professional or
they're not professional. But it doesn't even matter. Those jewels
are basically gone. Also, you would think that these cabinets
that house this quality of jewels would be very thick,
(17:00):
the glass that you can't even smash through with a sledgehammer,
wouldn't you think that?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Nope? Nope.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Turns out security and major museums around the world is
so lax that some experts are surprised that's not happening.
More often so the French. They're out and these were
all Napoleonic stuff. I mean, these were you know, new
people and Napoleon gave these two, uh you, what's your face? Eugene?
(17:30):
Whatever the hell his wife's name is. I'm very bad
at French names.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Eugene.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
That was it. It was Eugene. Okay, Amy's laughing. Okay,
now here is something that is not a joke. And
this is what happened at the Pentagon under Pete Hegsith.
He is a I think a genuine hero when he
(17:56):
was in the service. I think he was the second
lieutenant and received medals for heroism.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
So he's the real deal. But no management credentials at all.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Any secretary of Defense or secretary of war now and
there is And the argument is that the main stream media
outlets are biased, and oh buy that. I think they
do slightly go to the left. Not all of them,
but I think a lot of them do. And his
position is that those are wild leftists and it's fake
(18:29):
news at ABC and CBS and the major networks and
news out outlets, and he says those are left wing
fake news outlets. And what he has done is he
has told the press credential to the Pentagon, you clear
(18:50):
with me questions that you can ask. You can't go
and ask questions you can't go behind the scenes. You
can't go to sources unless I've cleared those questions. Okay,
And so in a manner of screw you, most major
news outlets have turned in their credentials, not interested in
(19:12):
dealing with that. Even Newsmax and Fox News said we
don't want any part of that. So what Headseeth has
done the Defense Department is they have put in new
media outlets and independent journalists who, in fact, will be
fair and balanced. Where we Americans are going to get
(19:33):
real news. We're gonna get balanced news. We're not going
to get news that is one side or the other.
Organizations like bloggers, right wing organizations. How about Lindell TV,
Mike Lindell's organization, Mister my Pillow, you think he's right wing?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Not at all? Real America's voice.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, Gateway Pundit, post Millennial Human Events, national polls.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You never heard of these.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Because these are bloggers, these are sites. They're not broadcast sites.
Not that that matters. I think I believe the Internet
information is valuable. But Mike Lindell, Lindell TV, that's not
fake news. All the conspiracy theories that they've come up with,
(20:33):
that's real news. It's what ABC and CBS is reporting
that's fake and that's the problem, and it's being portrayed
by the Pentagon that the Lindell's of this world are
telling the truth and the ABC's of this world are
lying to you. What's up is down, what's down is up?
(20:56):
And this one scares me. You know what I did.
I went to the No King's rally on Saturday for
the first time in my life, first time in my
life I've ever gone to a demonstration. And my placard
I think we put it up on the uh Instagram
site at Bill Handle show and there's my placard.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I'm holding it up. Freedom of the.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Press, you know, I don't mind. You have a couple
of right wing excuse me, news outlets and bloggers, et cetera,
did share that.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
You literally choked on it when you said right wing.
No I was choking anyway. No, No, I just have
I just have a heart.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And by the way, I'd feel the same way if
it was left wing, I really would. I'd feel the
same way if all the right wing news outlets were
precluded and only the leftists were.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It's just not right. It's it's not right.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So anyway, thank you for pointing out that I choked
on that making making a political state eight out of
my coughing.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Thank you, Amy. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
That's why you're on the show. This is why I
love you so much being on the show. Kf I
am sixty.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
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Speaker 2 (22:14):
Catch my show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
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You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. He's that your manage guy.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Us listening to the bill Handle show KFI AM six
forty bill Handle on a Thursday, October twenty third, the
twenty third day of the governmental shutdown. And that is
for many many hundreds of thousands of federal employees, maybe millions,
(00:31):
those paychecks are not coming in. Friday is the next
major paycheck, and that is going to be cut. I
mean they're not going to receive it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
By the way, coming up at eight eight o'clock this
morning is Joel Larsgard How to Money, which we do
every Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
In less than a year, the President has remade the
White House physically significantly. So the old Office is now
decorated top to bottom in gold. The President really enjoys gold.
The Rose Garden lawn is paved over.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Sorry about that. Let me get that. I'm silent.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
There we are the rose gardens. The grass area in
front of the rose garden is now paved over. And
what the President did is he put these tables with
umbrellas that you could sit around. He went to the
Costco food court a few weeks ago and decided that's
(01:37):
a good idea. And of course the big ballroom project
is moving ahead. So the big one is the East
Wing ballroom, and this is ninety thousand square feet, which
is going to virtually double the footprint of the White
House itself. And the President says it's necessary to host
(01:58):
large event for world lead and there is no venue
that can hold that many people in the White House.
He said it was going to cost more than two
hundred million to build. Will hold nine hundred ninety nine people.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It won't.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It still will hold seven hundred change. And mister Trump
has said that personal contributions and private donations will cover
the bill, and I believe that not taxpayers are foreign
contributors that I yet. And the proposed design looks an
awful light a lot, an awful lot like the Grand
Ballroom at Trump's mar Alago, very very similar, and so
(02:40):
big changes are coming. So the rose garden, now, the
rose garden is a garden of roses.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
But what it does.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The roses circle this green lawn where the reporters were
sitting usually and they set up chairs, and of course
they would scream at the president who gave press conferences
right there at the portico of the White House, so
that basically is done as a green area. Also, the
(03:10):
president recently hosted a dinner for Republican lawmakers and it
is now the Rose Garden Club where lawmakers Republicans can
hang out. You look at the Oval Office, portraits are
now framed in gold, the mirrors are framed in gold.
There's golden inlays, and the presidential seal of the office
(03:34):
is now covered in gold leaf.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And the historic items from the White House collection and
the fireplace mantle all in gold. Now presidents make changes
to the Oval Office constantly. Every new president makes some change.
Usually they're pretty subtle. Even President Trump in his first
term made it pretty sub For example, the seal on
(04:03):
the floor, they put new carpeting down.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The seal is bigger or smaller.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The flags usually it's the American flag behind the president.
He has a dozen flags, not only the presidential seal,
the flag of America, but also flags from virtually every
Armed services branch that we have.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And I'll tell you what my favorite one is. Oh.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Also the cabinet room of course golden inlays and trump
and trim added to the walls. The mantle is decorated
with gold items. Now the fun one, the one I
like the absolute most is in September, the President unveiled
the Presidential Walk of Fame on the West Colonnade. That's
(04:48):
the main walkway between the residents and the West Wing.
We've often seen presidents walking down that colonide Colonnade from
the residence to the Oval Office, and that is iconic
and along that wall it used to be.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Basically a wall.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
What the President has done, which I think is pretty neat,
is he has put portraits of every single president in
chronological order, framed of course in gold, and gold inlays
above the portraits and they go right across of all
the presidents except Joe Biden's portrait.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
There isn't a portrait of Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
There is a photograph of an auto pen that President
Biden is accused of, rightly so, of signing his name,
and it's his signature, but it's done. It's a device
that signs his signature thirteen fifteen times. Looks like a
Rule Goldberg device that virtually every president has used. The
(05:58):
President not only signs major pieces of legislation and executive order.
I mean he signs stuff declarations that Congress has passed,
for example, pardons. The President signed fourteen hundred pardons. You
think he signed fourteen hundred pieces of paper. No, he
(06:19):
used an auto pen. But that photograph of an autopen
what it does is tell us volumes about what the
President thinks of Joe Biden, maybe figuring rightly so in
his mind, that Joe Biden should never have been president,
that this is a yuts against Joe Biden. You used
(06:41):
an auto pen, Well, everybody does. I find that absolutely fascinating.
And then I can't wait for the East Wing ballroom. Oh,
the East Wing no longer exists. You're gonna list You're
gonna have just the East Ballroom connected to the White House,
all right now. Huntington Beach. I've talked about this for
(07:01):
a bunch of years. It used to be surf City, USA.
That was it, songs about it, and it was just
this idyllic place. So what happened, Well, it's gone from this.
Ronald Reagan called Orange County in general, a place where
good Republicans go to talk to die any minute.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
As a compliment.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, in recent years, Huntington Beach used to be the
hippie beatside, Sir for Haven now has drawn national intention
for leaning so dramatically to the right. It's a conservative
majority city council and has pulled right leaning policies into action.
So it's they've done it more so than any other city.
(07:47):
And now we're looking at this oasis of conservatism within
surrounding liberal areas. Now, at one point, at Honeyson Beach
had a Democratic led city council, but in twenty twenty three,
some unknown conservatives backed by the already seated Republican members,
(08:11):
ousted the last remaining Democrats. It is all conservative and
by the way, as Democrats are bitching and moaning about this,
they were elected. It wasn't a rigged election. It was
an election. So the all Republican group dubbed themselves the
(08:31):
Magnificent seven Wow, and they hit the ground running, trying
to ban children's books by arguing that it's porn, pushing
to prohibit flying the Pride flag at government buildings, opposing
vaccine mask mandates, dissolving watchdog committees formed in the aftermath
(08:53):
of white supremac hate crimes in the nineties, and the
mayor Pat Burns elected to the council in twenty two,
twenty two summed it up as it's a middle class town.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Basically, we just.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Want to live our lives with as little as government
control as possible. And if you ask a former member,
a Democrat, Dan Kalmak, he said, it's all about housing.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's where it all started.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Kalmuk said safety and crime have always been issues as
long as he can remember.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The fights were always over housing.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Huntington Beach Republican mayor describes the city as a beacon
of hope in the.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Fight for local control. I think that's fair to describe
it that way.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And he has to firm against the state Housing Law,
which mandates that every city keep up with state requirements
for adding housing, and Huntington Beach just doesn't do it,
so the state is suing the city.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
One of my favorite parts about this has to do
with the Community Parent Advisory Council to monitor books in
the Huntington Beach Public Library, and the city council in
twenty twenty three, when it became super conservative, created this
council to monitor the books, specifically books that conservatives deem
(10:16):
pornographic because they discuss puberty or themes of queer identity
and it was a five hour public comment period, and
then now you had residents holding posters leave our kids alone,
And of course it was contentious as hell. Now city
council women and this, I love this. Gracie van Dermark said,
(10:37):
it's not puberty or potty training books I'm teaching. I'm
talking about books that teach miners how to perform sex acts.
And among those books is one titled Grandpa's Pride, which
chronicles the story of a queer grandparent. And she said
the book is inappropriate because it shows the grandpa kissing
(11:00):
while he ISPs dressed in bdsm attire. Now, I said,
come on, I mean, you know that's really pushing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It, right. I mean, you can you know, so maybe.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
He's dressed a little weird, but bdsm attire, I mean
that's going pretty far in describing it. So I asked
and to pull a photograph of that page.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Sure enough, it's bdsm attire. There is no issue.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
They are right and as open as I am about
any kind of censorship in schools, I gotta tell you,
if I have a third or fifth or seventh grader,
I don't want grandpa dressed up like he's going to
a BDS clumb Club. I mean, there he is. It
is absolutely outrageous. The stockings up, but mid th with
(12:00):
a garter belt and I mean just all of it.
Grandpa a BDS m aficionado. All right, So that's the
fun part of the story. By the way, forget about
the politics of it. I don't care about the politics.
Well I do, because I hate censorship of any kind.
(12:21):
But Grandpa, you know what they did. They someone took
a picture of my grandfather and use that as a
model for this page in this book. And as my
grandpa used to say, my grandfather used to say in
(12:41):
his very accented English, don't knock it till you've tried it. Actually,
that's not true at all. My grandfather isn't around and
hasn't been since the forties. All right, Now, a moment
or two about the Louver theft of those extraordinary gems.
(13:02):
I mean, these are the Crown Jewels of France. Eight
pieces that form part of the Crown Jewels stolen, as
we know it became international news. Stolen from the Louver
Museum by the thieves. This is not a unique situation.
There's been a rash of gold related thefts across Europe
(13:22):
over the past couple of years, and the experts are saying,
if no massive reward is being given for a quick
ransom or a chance that the investigators find out immediately,
which is now getting going away very quickly, it looks
like they are going to sell these gems to black
(13:45):
market jewelers. And how are they going to do that,
because you know, everybody knows what these crown jewels look like,
so they're not going to be displayed any place.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Is someone going to buy them just to keep them
in a drawl?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Are because some very wealthy collector says, I just want
to look at them occasionally.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
What's probably going to happen, according to the experts is
those jewels, those that jewelry set is going to be
broken up, the gold melted, and the diamonds and emeralds
and other precious jewels are going to be sold individually.
And the big ones, these large emeralds and large diamonds,
(14:32):
which real experts say, no, that belongs to that set.
I mean they can recognize this. Those diamonds are just recut.
I mean they'll be smaller certainly, but they still are
going to have immense value.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And that seems to be the problem.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Now that doesn't happen with paintings because everybody knows what
a painting looks like. The world art the world the
art well, the art world knows exactly when something is stolen,
what is stolen, and there's a registry of stolen art
doesn't exist with gems and very difficult to track down
(15:13):
unless they're intact, and at this point, very few people
think that they're intact. That by now they have gone
all over the world and France is a real investigation
in France, how can they do this? Well, they took
that furniture mover thing that lifts furniture up. It's a
(15:34):
hydraulic device like a cherry picker. I guess that they
brought up to the second story.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Do you know why they have to do it with that?
And it's like not that suspicious because the doorways and
stuff in France are a lot smaller. So apparently when
they bring furniture up they have to take it in
through the windows. Well they weren't.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
No one questioned it, and they actually break one of
the windows and go into.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
The gallery while people were there.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
This is Sunday morning at nine point thirty and there
were guards there, there was people going through, and they
smashed the glass and they're only there for a couple
of minutes. Grab the jewelry, went outside, went down ladders,
got on scooters, and they were gone. Now there are
two there are two thoughts going through this. One is
these are professional guys that did it so quickly that
(16:25):
only people who case the place knew exactly what they're doing,
got the materials, got that furniture loader.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Others are saying, you know, these guys were amateurs.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
They left tons of DNA, they left the vest, they
left the ladders, and so we either they're professional or
they're not professional. But it doesn't even matter. Those jewels
are basically gone. Also, you would think that these cabinets
that house this quality of jewels would be very thick,
(17:00):
the glass that you can't even smash through with a sledgehammer,
wouldn't you think that?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Nope? Nope.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Turns out security and major museums around the world is
so lax that some experts are surprised that's not happening.
More often so the French. They're out and these were
all Napoleonic stuff. I mean, these were you know, new
people and Napoleon gave these two, uh you, what's your face? Eugene?
(17:30):
Whatever the hell his wife's name is. I'm very bad
at French names.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Eugene.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
That was it. It was Eugene. Okay, Amy's laughing. Okay,
now here is something that is not a joke. And
this is what happened at the Pentagon under Pete Hegsith.
He is a I think a genuine hero when he
(17:56):
was in the service. I think he was the second
lieutenant and received medals for heroism.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
So he's the real deal. But no management credentials at all.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Any secretary of Defense or secretary of war now and
there is And the argument is that the main stream media
outlets are biased, and oh buy that. I think they
do slightly go to the left. Not all of them,
but I think a lot of them do. And his
position is that those are wild leftists and it's fake
(18:29):
news at ABC and CBS and the major networks and
news out outlets, and he says those are left wing
fake news outlets. And what he has done is he
has told the press credential to the Pentagon, you clear
(18:50):
with me questions that you can ask. You can't go
and ask questions you can't go behind the scenes. You
can't go to sources unless I've cleared those questions. Okay,
And so in a manner of screw you, most major
news outlets have turned in their credentials, not interested in
(19:12):
dealing with that. Even Newsmax and Fox News said we
don't want any part of that. So what Headseeth has
done the Defense Department is they have put in new
media outlets and independent journalists who, in fact, will be
fair and balanced. Where we Americans are going to get
(19:33):
real news. We're gonna get balanced news. We're not going
to get news that is one side or the other.
Organizations like bloggers, right wing organizations. How about Lindell TV,
Mike Lindell's organization, Mister my Pillow, you think he's right wing?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Not at all? Real America's voice.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, Gateway Pundit, post Millennial Human Events, national polls.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You never heard of these.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Because these are bloggers, these are sites. They're not broadcast sites.
Not that that matters. I think I believe the Internet
information is valuable. But Mike Lindell, Lindell TV, that's not
fake news. All the conspiracy theories that they've come up with,
(20:33):
that's real news. It's what ABC and CBS is reporting
that's fake and that's the problem, and it's being portrayed
by the Pentagon that the Lindell's of this world are
telling the truth and the ABC's of this world are
lying to you. What's up is down, what's down is up?
(20:56):
And this one scares me. You know what I did.
I went to the No King's rally on Saturday for
the first time in my life, first time in my
life I've ever gone to a demonstration. And my placard
I think we put it up on the uh Instagram
site at Bill Handle show and there's my placard.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I'm holding it up. Freedom of the.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Press, you know, I don't mind. You have a couple
of right wing excuse me, news outlets and bloggers, et cetera,
did share that.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
You literally choked on it when you said right wing.
No I was choking anyway. No, No, I just have
I just have a heart.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And by the way, I'd feel the same way if
it was left wing, I really would. I'd feel the
same way if all the right wing news outlets were
precluded and only the leftists were.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It's just not right. It's it's not right.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So anyway, thank you for pointing out that I choked
on that making making a political state eight out of
my coughing.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Thank you, Amy. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
That's why you're on the show. This is why I
love you so much being on the show. Kf I
am sixty.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
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