December 1, 2025 • 23 mins
(December 01, 2025)
U.S. halts asylum decisions after shooting of National Guard. AI is changing how we shop for the holidays. The biggest problem with air travel…. Pajamas. American consumers lose patience with high car prices.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Bill Handle here on a December one, Monday Tomorrow Pastathon.
We do it every year at the Anaheim White House
in Anaheim Chef Bruno's restaurant, and it's the charity Katerina's
Club to feed the kids now twenty five thousand meals
a week and without you, we can't do it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So tomorrow, come on by any time of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We're broadcasting all day there in Anaheim at the White
House dot Buy say hello, I have a bagel, real
jew bagel and cream cheese and pastriest.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
C love to see you there.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay, the shooting of these two, these two service members,
National Guard members in Washington, d C. One of which
unfortunately died by this Afghani national and the politics of
this have become extraordinary. First of all, this guy was
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granted asylum this year under the Trump administration. Came in
on an asylum decision or requested asylum. And just here
are the politics, okay, is that the Trump administration granted
the asylum. The Biden administration let him in. I think
(01:20):
it was twenty twenty two under a program that Biden
has that people, especially in Afghanistan who worked for the
CIA in this case should be brought in because they
were our allies and they're going to be killed by
the Taliban if we bring up.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
We don't bring him in.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So we asked for asylum, and so the attacks are crazy.
The administration is saying that it was Biden who allowed
him in. The detractors of the administration are saying, but
you granted him asylum.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You know what, I'm not hearing.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And by the way, the Trump administration is saying nothing
about the granting of the asylum, only that Biden let
him in, and the other side goes the other way.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You know what I'm not hearing.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And I think it's an easy, fairly easy defense for
the Biden for the Trump administration to make, and that
is it was Biden that did the vetting, the allowance
of this guy, this twenty nine year old Afghani Afghani national,
the vetting and the decision was made at under the
(02:24):
Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
All we did was okay it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We took the information, we took the vetting, and we
granted the asylum based on that past decision. What we
did is procedural. I'm not hearing that, and for me,
that's a real defense. But that seems to be this
beside the point. And here's what the administration said, and
here's the part this controversial, controversial. All Afghani nationals coming
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into this country done, those granted asylum, granting of any
visa has done. The ones that are here vetted and
who have been granted or the asylum is pending, and
there's a huge backlog that has to be looked at,
and those are going to be looked at and quite
possibly be denied because the administration the US can deny
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visas that have already been issued.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
One Afghani.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Killing two killing a serviceman member, as horrific as that is,
that indicates that Afghani's in and of themselves are a
dangerous group of people. And we now have seventy six
thousand of these people from Afghanistan who are looking at
their visas being revoked, who are in the United States,
which again the government can do, and none of them
(03:46):
will be allowed in. And so let me give you
an example. That's one out of seventy six thousand. Right now,
there are two hundred and seventy seven thousand students from
China on student visas, which the administration, any administration, can
revoke instantly. What happens if one Chinese national kills a
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police officer? Does that mean that all these visas are revoked?
Now there are some differences. One is we're talking student
visa versus asylum visas. But the point is made and
why is that the case? Well, because Afghanistan is not China.
(04:29):
Keep in mind that we allow students from Saudi Arabia.
I mean, there's no issue because Saudi Arabia is a
true ally of the United States in that part of
the world.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You know the nine to eleven crowd.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know those terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, And so
do you stop all Saudis from coming in? Of course not,
because this is just totally rent with politics here. And further,
the administration said We're going to look at visas of
all kinds coming in from poor nations. They stopped that,
(05:05):
by the way, And I don't know what a poor
nation is at this point. I know Afghanistan is a
poor nation. Pursuahich what the administration is saying. And so
this isn't a complete uproar because what point do you
say even having granted asylum, the administration is trying to
revoke that, or said it is going to revoke that,
and of course that's going to go to the courts.
(05:27):
Who knows if that's going to be upheld or not.
And it's scary stuff, you know. You know what the
first thing I thought of when I heard about this
and the removal of these visas, how far does this go?
I'm a naturalized US citizen. I was not born in
the US. And if a naturalized US citizen commits some
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horrific crime, does that mean all of us are being
looked at? I don't know the answer to that. You know,
wouldn't that be a while? Can you imagine me doing
this show from.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Some Paulo Brazil come a by the way, I want you?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Uh and uh Neil come of ustead through the wing
boom boom boone. But it was what I said, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so uh as as I'm joking around, Uh it is
is it a question of overreach? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I think so. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Is it a question of uh highly vetting these people
where the administration said that the vetting didn't take place, well, uh,
the folks on the other side are saying this was
these guys were heavily vetted before being allowed in. And
also the administration saying this was a terrorist act. Don't
know yet if it was, it could be just a
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guy who wasn't politics, just hated any kind of police
force that mean terrorists.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
If I go and shoot a cop, is that a
terrorist act? Or is it just I'm shooting a cop?
As horrible as that is. And I'm a big of
the death penalty.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I think anybody that shoots a police officer in the
line of duty should be zapped, done finished, not even
lethal injection, because that's not nearly entertaining enough.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So the politics is this.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Is going to go on and on, and we're going
to see something that appears to be fairly certainly not trivial,
but fairly simple, which I think this is a simple
case of straight out murder against a police officer.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Does it go.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
To knock out visas for every afghany two hundred seventy
six thousand of them. Do you redo the vetting process
when it's argued that it's the vetting is already being
done rigorously.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I do know that I'm carrying my naturalization papers around
that I know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I'm carrying mine too, and I don't even have them.
Yeah that's true. Well you have a passport, don't you.
I do, but it says carry eve Cono on it. Yeah,
there you go, carry that one around all right.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Okay, a story about AI and how AI is changing
how we shop for the holidays and what does that mean? Well,
you got the major retailers and tech companies are offering
sort of updated, new AI tools and time for the
shopping season, and it's about giving consumers US guys an
(08:28):
easier gift buying experience and themselves an augmented share of
online spending.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well, Walmart, Amazon, Google, and what they're doing, among us
others is providing personalized product recommendation, tracking prices, and placing
orders through unscripted conversations with customers. You, for example, look
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at an item and you know your credit card is
already on file with even one of these AI providers,
and you're asking. You're saying, I work with or I
have a child and I want to give a reasonable present,
and the conversation starts.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You know, how close are you? What? What are their hobbies?
What you know?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
How how important is it? That they engage in their sports.
Do you want to help them out? And then boom,
the products are all there ready to go. So what
I did is I asked, what is a reasonable bonus
for employees that's us if I want to give a bonus,
If I were to give a bonus and chat GPT
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in this case, a reasonable bonus depends on the role, industry,
company sized performance expectation. But here are some solid realistic
benchmarks on hourly entry level employees. One hundred to five
hundred dollars flat holiday business ha, like that's gonna happen.
(10:13):
Two to five percent of annual pay for performance. Now
do mid level employees? Do we have any mid level
employees that work.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
On this show?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't think so, because this is I'm asking for
my If I were to give a holiday bonus, this
would be it. Mid level employees five to ten percent
of annual salary. Come on, guys, literally, you're gonna do that?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Okay, oh, let me ask, Let me ask. All right,
this transcribing. I'm just starting to use chat GPT, hate chat.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Never mind. Okay, so much for that. And anyway, there's
a software come a salesforce.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
One of the biggest software companies out there that talks
about sales estimated that AI would influence seventy three billion
dollars twenty two percent of all global sales in.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
One way or the other. Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
AI, And that's from the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, which is
last week through Monday after the holidays. Seventy three billion
dollars or twenty two percent.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
And that's way way up.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well, it's another reason how and why you've got AI
getting involved in everything, anything, and real quickly before we bail,
I'm going to do a little survey, Amy, what do
you use AI for?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
When I Google search it it kind of automatically does
it right now?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
But other than that, I'm still too scared of it. Okay,
And do you use AI putting shows together that sort
of thing? No? I don't use it for work at all.
I use personals.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Oh interesting, because it's you know, working.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I did some things about working this morning, and I've
already forgotten completely what they were. You know, what I
should do is what can you do to help you remember?
Let me see if I can do that too. Here
we go, Hey, chat, what is a good way to
help memory.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Transcribing? Here we go? Here, we go.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I had it talked to me, but I don't know
how to do that. Here's simple, use space repetition. Okay,
I do that. I repeat everything fourteen times right, review
information at increasing intervals. I don't say don't use AI
because AI serves as your memory.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh that's no, it doesn't. It's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Write things down by hand. That's all I know. I
don't type. Use the memory palace technique. Imagine a familiar place,
your house, place items you want inside to remember it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Actors and memory champion champions swear by this. Teach the
info of someone else, support your brain physically, remove distractions.
Use little memory tricks like, for example, to memorize what
Neil says, I use the word boring, repetitive, useless information.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I use Alzheimer's forgetful, used to be, has been, things
like that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know, we should have an AI off between the
two of us. Well, Monday morning, December one, and coming
up by tomorrow, I'm going to remind you about this
is our fifteenth annual KFI Pasta Thon, so we start
to stop talking about it.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
It's Giving Tuesday, and we are going to be at
the Anaheim White House that we KFI all of us,
all of the broadcasters.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's on Anaheim Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's about a Katerina's Club now providing more than twenty
five thousand meals every week to kids in need, and
without you, it just doesn't happen. It's that simple. And
please come out tomorrow. And here's a couple of ways
that you can donate. Any Wendy's restaurant in Southern California.
Donate five dollars or more, get a pook A coupon
book worth far more than that, any of the eleven
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Southern California Wildfork Foods location, and just say KFI Pastathon.
It's all you have to say, and fifteen percent of
the purchase will be donated at Katerina's Club. You must
say KFI Pastathon at checkout. You cannot say bill is
an ass, you cannot say handle is a dick.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You cannot do that. You have to say pastathon at checkout.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
We're not going to make any money, yes that's true,
and you can come tomorrow. We'd love to have you
come tomorrow and donate. There also covering also collecting pasta
and sauce, which we do every year. Last year we
raised I don't know what one hundred well, yeah, one
hundred pounds of pasta and sauce plus one point three
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million dollars is extraordinary. There's also a giving machine charity
kiosk around. There are four locations in southern California, Hunt
and Beach Pier, Tyler Mall and Riverside, San Clementy Outlets,
Old Town San Diego. And these are kios where you
literally just donate. You put in your card and there
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are four charities to choose from, and we're asking you
to give to Katerina's Club. Not that the other charities
aren't valuable charities and do good work.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Katerina's Club is the one we ask you to go to.
And we're all going to be there except for Kno
and come on by, say hello. It starts at five
o'clock and you will see a copy which we always
bring up, a big copy. We'll put it on an
easel of my contract, the addendum, and it talks about
real jew bagels because I insist on that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And they'll be cream cheese, and they'll be pastries, etc.
And you're gonna come by and see see the broadcast
and we're going from five am to eight pm tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I always look forward to it because I really get
it in it. I really get into it with listeners.
There will also be arms security there. You will see Dana,
who is our arms security, who will be standing next
to me quite often. If you come up to me
a couple of things. If you're shaking hands, do it
very very slowly, otherwise Dana will shoot you. Also if
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you say anything that is particularly offensive to me. I
turned to Dana, I go shoot them in the heart.
It has not yet happened, but it should. Neil will
be there telling Dana to shoot in my direction, and
you can just say hello, Okay, back we go, and
their bids are there. Go to KFI AM six forty
(17:04):
dot com slash pastapon and.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
We'll see how much people bid for stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh and Angel Martinez, she has the Nazi sandals all
right now travel when I have. And this actually happened
to me, and I was stunned. So my family went
I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Remember where we went, to Las Vegas or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And my daughter Pamela shows up in pajamas to get
on the airplane. Pajamas right. I go to her apartment
and she is going to go to the store. Dad,
I'm going to go to the store. She doesn't get
out of her pajamas to go. I go, what the
hell is that about? Well, that translates directly into pajamas
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on airplanes, and what the hell's happened?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Look at how crazy it is.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Look at any view any film back in the fifties
and in the forties and thirties, you'll notice that the
men all wore ties and coats, and they wore hats,
and the women wore dresses, and it was considered something
very special to fly.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
The food was actually pretty good.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
The chairs were nice size, the seats, there was a
leg room. If I'm going back to Brazil decades ago,
and what they have in Brazil is something called Punche Area,
which is called the Skybridge, and it's all the airlines
sharing flights from some Polo to Rio and it didn't
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matter what airline you were on. It was one hour
and it's about an hour flight get LA to San Francisco,
for example. The seats were as big as recliner seats,
and they had curtains on the windows.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And literally, I mean you had all the room in
the world you.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Think flying has changed, You think so. So there is
a story in the Atlantic where a flying buff, a
guy who writes about flying. He's known as one of
the experts, and he says, you know how we fix it, says,
the crazy flying that we do is not the fact
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that you're jammed in there like sardines, or they give
you pretzels on a transatlantic flight, or everybody's dressed like pigs.
You're crammed into these flights, and the stewardesses, both male
and female stewardesses, are charging.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You, are treating you like you are one.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Of a thousand people. You know what the answer is,
We go back to dressing up. We go back to
wearing a coat and tie and wearing dresses. They didn't
have overhead bins in those days. What they did is
they had nets above the seats where all you could
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put is a coat and a hat in there. And today,
of course, you have overhead bins where you put all
of your luggage in. It's a very different way of flying.
So what happens, I'm going to extrapolate this, So, what
happens when you take the flying experience that is horrible.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And you dress up.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And you go ahead and dress in a coat and
tie and dresses depending on your sexual orientation.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And you know what ends up happening.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
You're still crammed like crazy, like sardines. You can't move
your seat seat, there is no pitch, you have no
leg room, there is no food. You get on and
off the airplane. You're waiting for hours and hours.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
However, you are well dressed. That's important.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And so the argument is if you go back to
being dressed the way they used to dress.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
And that's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
When I went and I took that flight from some
Paulo to Rio, and I'm talking about when I was very,
very young.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It was I think in the early sixties, people did
dress up. They did.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It was a very different kind of experience. It used
to be that going on airplanes, taking a flight was
an experience as opposed to being a horrible experience, which
it used to be.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
So we go back to those days. I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Do I have you Neil, do you have a suit
other than the suit you wore at my wedding?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Do you even own a suit?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I own about eight suits and three tuxedos.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Oh, come on, no, I do I have.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
A skinny tuxiedo, which is my expensive one.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
What do you use?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I have a.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And then I have a fat tuxiedo. What do you well?
Now it's it.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And then you have to get an extra large, extra
extra large taxedo because the fat taxedo doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So why do you have all those suits and tuxedos?
What is that about?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
The tuxedos are because I am C and I host
things and I invited to speak at a lot of
cool things. And then the suits are I used to
love wearing suits. It's not as fun when you're fat.
But I have four suits that fit me now, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
When I AMC events also asked to speak at events,
I always ask for the lectern you know you speak from.
I always ask for one that is it's not on
spindles so you can't see so behind it. And the
reason I do that is so I can continue to
wear shorts, which I do at those.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Only hiring suit. Pardon you have a blue suit. Actually
that's not true. I have three suits.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Wow, I own three suits now some of them are
twenty five years old, no kidding, So anyway, why is that?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
We're done with that? And Neil we're nearly.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Made the same year as your wife.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, ah Neil, Neil Neil.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
By the way, if you come tomorrow to Pastathon and
you think this goes on between us on the air,
you should hear what happens between That's the kind of
stuff that the FCC would take us off the air
in about two seconds.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
All right, KFI am sixty. You've been listening to the
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Speaker 2 (23:34):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Bill Handle here on a December one, Monday Tomorrow Pastathon.
We do it every year at the Anaheim White House
in Anaheim Chef Bruno's restaurant, and it's the charity Katerina's
Club to feed the kids now twenty five thousand meals
a week and without you, we can't do it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So tomorrow, come on by any time of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We're broadcasting all day there in Anaheim at the White
House dot Buy say hello, I have a bagel, real
jew bagel and cream cheese and pastriest.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
C love to see you there.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay, the shooting of these two, these two service members,
National Guard members in Washington, d C. One of which
unfortunately died by this Afghani national and the politics of
this have become extraordinary. First of all, this guy was
(00:59):
granted asylum this year under the Trump administration. Came in
on an asylum decision or requested asylum. And just here
are the politics, okay, is that the Trump administration granted
the asylum. The Biden administration let him in. I think
(01:20):
it was twenty twenty two under a program that Biden
has that people, especially in Afghanistan who worked for the
CIA in this case should be brought in because they
were our allies and they're going to be killed by
the Taliban if we bring up.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
We don't bring him in.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So we asked for asylum, and so the attacks are crazy.
The administration is saying that it was Biden who allowed
him in. The detractors of the administration are saying, but
you granted him asylum.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You know what, I'm not hearing.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And by the way, the Trump administration is saying nothing
about the granting of the asylum, only that Biden let
him in, and the other side goes the other way.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You know what I'm not hearing.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And I think it's an easy, fairly easy defense for
the Biden for the Trump administration to make, and that
is it was Biden that did the vetting, the allowance
of this guy, this twenty nine year old Afghani Afghani national,
the vetting and the decision was made at under the
(02:24):
Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
All we did was okay it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We took the information, we took the vetting, and we
granted the asylum based on that past decision. What we
did is procedural. I'm not hearing that, and for me,
that's a real defense. But that seems to be this
beside the point. And here's what the administration said, and
here's the part this controversial, controversial. All Afghani nationals coming
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into this country done, those granted asylum, granting of any
visa has done. The ones that are here vetted and
who have been granted or the asylum is pending, and
there's a huge backlog that has to be looked at,
and those are going to be looked at and quite
possibly be denied because the administration the US can deny
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visas that have already been issued.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
One Afghani.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Killing two killing a serviceman member, as horrific as that is,
that indicates that Afghani's in and of themselves are a
dangerous group of people. And we now have seventy six
thousand of these people from Afghanistan who are looking at
their visas being revoked, who are in the United States,
which again the government can do, and none of them
(03:46):
will be allowed in. And so let me give you
an example. That's one out of seventy six thousand. Right now,
there are two hundred and seventy seven thousand students from
China on student visas, which the administration, any administration, can
revoke instantly. What happens if one Chinese national kills a
(04:07):
police officer? Does that mean that all these visas are revoked?
Now there are some differences. One is we're talking student
visa versus asylum visas. But the point is made and
why is that the case? Well, because Afghanistan is not China.
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Keep in mind that we allow students from Saudi Arabia.
I mean, there's no issue because Saudi Arabia is a
true ally of the United States in that part of
the world.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You know the nine to eleven crowd.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know those terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, And so
do you stop all Saudis from coming in? Of course not,
because this is just totally rent with politics here. And further,
the administration said We're going to look at visas of
all kinds coming in from poor nations. They stopped that,
(05:05):
by the way, And I don't know what a poor
nation is at this point. I know Afghanistan is a
poor nation. Pursuahich what the administration is saying. And so
this isn't a complete uproar because what point do you
say even having granted asylum, the administration is trying to
revoke that, or said it is going to revoke that,
and of course that's going to go to the courts.
(05:27):
Who knows if that's going to be upheld or not.
And it's scary stuff, you know. You know what the
first thing I thought of when I heard about this
and the removal of these visas, how far does this go?
I'm a naturalized US citizen. I was not born in
the US. And if a naturalized US citizen commits some
(05:48):
horrific crime, does that mean all of us are being
looked at? I don't know the answer to that. You know,
wouldn't that be a while? Can you imagine me doing
this show from.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Some Paulo Brazil come a by the way, I want you?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Uh and uh Neil come of ustead through the wing
boom boom boone. But it was what I said, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so uh as as I'm joking around, Uh it is
is it a question of overreach? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I think so. Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Is it a question of uh highly vetting these people
where the administration said that the vetting didn't take place, well, uh,
the folks on the other side are saying this was
these guys were heavily vetted before being allowed in. And
also the administration saying this was a terrorist act. Don't
know yet if it was, it could be just a
(06:46):
guy who wasn't politics, just hated any kind of police
force that mean terrorists.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
If I go and shoot a cop, is that a
terrorist act? Or is it just I'm shooting a cop?
As horrible as that is. And I'm a big of
the death penalty.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I think anybody that shoots a police officer in the
line of duty should be zapped, done finished, not even
lethal injection, because that's not nearly entertaining enough.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So the politics is this.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Is going to go on and on, and we're going
to see something that appears to be fairly certainly not trivial,
but fairly simple, which I think this is a simple
case of straight out murder against a police officer.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Does it go.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
To knock out visas for every afghany two hundred seventy
six thousand of them. Do you redo the vetting process
when it's argued that it's the vetting is already being
done rigorously.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I do know that I'm carrying my naturalization papers around
that I know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I'm carrying mine too, and I don't even have them.
Yeah that's true. Well you have a passport, don't you.
I do, but it says carry eve Cono on it. Yeah,
there you go, carry that one around all right.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Okay, a story about AI and how AI is changing
how we shop for the holidays and what does that mean? Well,
you got the major retailers and tech companies are offering
sort of updated, new AI tools and time for the
shopping season, and it's about giving consumers US guys an
(08:28):
easier gift buying experience and themselves an augmented share of
online spending.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well, Walmart, Amazon, Google, and what they're doing, among us
others is providing personalized product recommendation, tracking prices, and placing
orders through unscripted conversations with customers. You, for example, look
(08:59):
at an item and you know your credit card is
already on file with even one of these AI providers,
and you're asking. You're saying, I work with or I
have a child and I want to give a reasonable present,
and the conversation starts.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You know, how close are you? What? What are their hobbies?
What you know?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
How how important is it? That they engage in their sports.
Do you want to help them out? And then boom,
the products are all there ready to go. So what
I did is I asked, what is a reasonable bonus
for employees that's us if I want to give a bonus,
If I were to give a bonus and chat GPT
(09:50):
in this case, a reasonable bonus depends on the role, industry,
company sized performance expectation. But here are some solid realistic
benchmarks on hourly entry level employees. One hundred to five
hundred dollars flat holiday business ha, like that's gonna happen.
(10:13):
Two to five percent of annual pay for performance. Now
do mid level employees? Do we have any mid level
employees that work.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
On this show?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't think so, because this is I'm asking for
my If I were to give a holiday bonus, this
would be it. Mid level employees five to ten percent
of annual salary. Come on, guys, literally, you're gonna do that?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Okay, oh, let me ask, Let me ask. All right,
this transcribing. I'm just starting to use chat GPT, hate chat.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Never mind. Okay, so much for that. And anyway, there's
a software come a salesforce.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
One of the biggest software companies out there that talks
about sales estimated that AI would influence seventy three billion
dollars twenty two percent of all global sales in.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
One way or the other. Wow.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
AI, And that's from the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, which is
last week through Monday after the holidays. Seventy three billion
dollars or twenty two percent.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
And that's way way up.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well, it's another reason how and why you've got AI
getting involved in everything, anything, and real quickly before we bail,
I'm going to do a little survey, Amy, what do
you use AI for?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
When I Google search it it kind of automatically does
it right now?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
But other than that, I'm still too scared of it. Okay,
And do you use AI putting shows together that sort
of thing? No? I don't use it for work at all.
I use personals.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Oh interesting, because it's you know, working.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I did some things about working this morning, and I've
already forgotten completely what they were. You know, what I
should do is what can you do to help you remember?
Let me see if I can do that too. Here
we go, Hey, chat, what is a good way to
help memory.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Transcribing? Here we go? Here, we go.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I had it talked to me, but I don't know
how to do that. Here's simple, use space repetition. Okay,
I do that. I repeat everything fourteen times right, review
information at increasing intervals. I don't say don't use AI
because AI serves as your memory.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh that's no, it doesn't. It's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Write things down by hand. That's all I know. I
don't type. Use the memory palace technique. Imagine a familiar place,
your house, place items you want inside to remember it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Actors and memory champion champions swear by this. Teach the
info of someone else, support your brain physically, remove distractions.
Use little memory tricks like, for example, to memorize what
Neil says, I use the word boring, repetitive, useless information.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I use Alzheimer's forgetful, used to be, has been, things
like that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know, we should have an AI off between the
two of us. Well, Monday morning, December one, and coming
up by tomorrow, I'm going to remind you about this
is our fifteenth annual KFI Pasta Thon, so we start
to stop talking about it.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
It's Giving Tuesday, and we are going to be at
the Anaheim White House that we KFI all of us,
all of the broadcasters.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's on Anaheim Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's about a Katerina's Club now providing more than twenty
five thousand meals every week to kids in need, and
without you, it just doesn't happen. It's that simple. And
please come out tomorrow. And here's a couple of ways
that you can donate. Any Wendy's restaurant in Southern California.
Donate five dollars or more, get a pook A coupon
book worth far more than that, any of the eleven
(14:24):
Southern California Wildfork Foods location, and just say KFI Pastathon.
It's all you have to say, and fifteen percent of
the purchase will be donated at Katerina's Club. You must
say KFI Pastathon at checkout. You cannot say bill is
an ass, you cannot say handle is a dick.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You cannot do that. You have to say pastathon at checkout.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
We're not going to make any money, yes that's true,
and you can come tomorrow. We'd love to have you
come tomorrow and donate. There also covering also collecting pasta
and sauce, which we do every year. Last year we
raised I don't know what one hundred well, yeah, one
hundred pounds of pasta and sauce plus one point three
(15:11):
million dollars is extraordinary. There's also a giving machine charity
kiosk around. There are four locations in southern California, Hunt
and Beach Pier, Tyler Mall and Riverside, San Clementy Outlets,
Old Town San Diego. And these are kios where you
literally just donate. You put in your card and there
(15:34):
are four charities to choose from, and we're asking you
to give to Katerina's Club. Not that the other charities
aren't valuable charities and do good work.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Katerina's Club is the one we ask you to go to.
And we're all going to be there except for Kno
and come on by, say hello. It starts at five
o'clock and you will see a copy which we always
bring up, a big copy. We'll put it on an
easel of my contract, the addendum, and it talks about
real jew bagels because I insist on that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And they'll be cream cheese, and they'll be pastries, etc.
And you're gonna come by and see see the broadcast
and we're going from five am to eight pm tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I always look forward to it because I really get
it in it. I really get into it with listeners.
There will also be arms security there. You will see Dana,
who is our arms security, who will be standing next
to me quite often. If you come up to me
a couple of things. If you're shaking hands, do it
very very slowly, otherwise Dana will shoot you. Also if
(16:43):
you say anything that is particularly offensive to me. I
turned to Dana, I go shoot them in the heart.
It has not yet happened, but it should. Neil will
be there telling Dana to shoot in my direction, and
you can just say hello, Okay, back we go, and
their bids are there. Go to KFI AM six forty
(17:04):
dot com slash pastapon and.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
We'll see how much people bid for stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh and Angel Martinez, she has the Nazi sandals all
right now travel when I have. And this actually happened
to me, and I was stunned. So my family went
I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Remember where we went, to Las Vegas or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And my daughter Pamela shows up in pajamas to get
on the airplane. Pajamas right. I go to her apartment
and she is going to go to the store. Dad,
I'm going to go to the store. She doesn't get
out of her pajamas to go. I go, what the
hell is that about? Well, that translates directly into pajamas
(17:50):
on airplanes, and what the hell's happened?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Look at how crazy it is.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Look at any view any film back in the fifties
and in the forties and thirties, you'll notice that the
men all wore ties and coats, and they wore hats,
and the women wore dresses, and it was considered something
very special to fly.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
The food was actually pretty good.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
The chairs were nice size, the seats, there was a
leg room. If I'm going back to Brazil decades ago,
and what they have in Brazil is something called Punche Area,
which is called the Skybridge, and it's all the airlines
sharing flights from some Polo to Rio and it didn't
(18:43):
matter what airline you were on. It was one hour
and it's about an hour flight get LA to San Francisco,
for example. The seats were as big as recliner seats,
and they had curtains on the windows.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And literally, I mean you had all the room in
the world you.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Think flying has changed, You think so. So there is
a story in the Atlantic where a flying buff, a
guy who writes about flying. He's known as one of
the experts, and he says, you know how we fix it, says,
the crazy flying that we do is not the fact
(19:28):
that you're jammed in there like sardines, or they give
you pretzels on a transatlantic flight, or everybody's dressed like pigs.
You're crammed into these flights, and the stewardesses, both male
and female stewardesses, are charging.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You, are treating you like you are one.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Of a thousand people. You know what the answer is,
We go back to dressing up. We go back to
wearing a coat and tie and wearing dresses. They didn't
have overhead bins in those days. What they did is
they had nets above the seats where all you could
(20:10):
put is a coat and a hat in there. And today,
of course, you have overhead bins where you put all
of your luggage in. It's a very different way of flying.
So what happens, I'm going to extrapolate this, So, what
happens when you take the flying experience that is horrible.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And you dress up.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And you go ahead and dress in a coat and
tie and dresses depending on your sexual orientation.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And you know what ends up happening.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
You're still crammed like crazy, like sardines. You can't move
your seat seat, there is no pitch, you have no
leg room, there is no food. You get on and
off the airplane. You're waiting for hours and hours.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
However, you are well dressed. That's important.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And so the argument is if you go back to
being dressed the way they used to dress.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
And that's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
When I went and I took that flight from some
Paulo to Rio, and I'm talking about when I was very,
very young.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It was I think in the early sixties, people did
dress up. They did.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It was a very different kind of experience. It used
to be that going on airplanes, taking a flight was
an experience as opposed to being a horrible experience, which
it used to be.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
So we go back to those days. I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Do I have you Neil, do you have a suit
other than the suit you wore at my wedding?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Do you even own a suit?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I own about eight suits and three tuxedos.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Oh, come on, no, I do I have.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
A skinny tuxiedo, which is my expensive one.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
What do you use?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I have a.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And then I have a fat tuxiedo. What do you well?
Now it's it.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And then you have to get an extra large, extra
extra large taxedo because the fat taxedo doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So why do you have all those suits and tuxedos?
What is that about?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
The tuxedos are because I am C and I host
things and I invited to speak at a lot of
cool things. And then the suits are I used to
love wearing suits. It's not as fun when you're fat.
But I have four suits that fit me now, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
When I AMC events also asked to speak at events,
I always ask for the lectern you know you speak from.
I always ask for one that is it's not on
spindles so you can't see so behind it. And the
reason I do that is so I can continue to
wear shorts, which I do at those.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Only hiring suit. Pardon you have a blue suit. Actually
that's not true. I have three suits.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Wow, I own three suits now some of them are
twenty five years old, no kidding, So anyway, why is that?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
We're done with that? And Neil we're nearly.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Made the same year as your wife.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, ah Neil, Neil Neil.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
By the way, if you come tomorrow to Pastathon and
you think this goes on between us on the air,
you should hear what happens between That's the kind of
stuff that the FCC would take us off the air
in about two seconds.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
All right, KFI am sixty. You've been listening to the
Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Catch my Show Monday through Friday six am to nine am,
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