September 16, 2025 • 28 mins
Amy King hosts your Tuesday morning Wake Up Call. ABC News White House correspondent opens the show talking about Trump’s second State visit highlighting and renewing the special relationship between the US and the UK. ABC News national reporter Jim Ryan speaks on gasoline taking a smaller bite out of our paychecks. Bloomberg Media’s Courtney Donohoe shares the latest in business and Wall Street. The show closes with the host of ‘How to Money’ on KFI Joel Larsgaard talking about new iPhone debt, health insurance, and American’s reliance on social security.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Absolutely no intention of listening to this show with Neil hosting.
That's our hope because we just bad mouthew the whole time.
That's excellent. All Right, We're done, guys, that's it. Catch
you in a couple of weeks and uh.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm gone, and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's not Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What's his problem? I believe that too. That energy was real. Brother.
On Friday, he was done. I didn't even talk to
him before he left. Good Morning KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Bill Handle is out.
The morning crew is here. I'm Neil Savedra. Happy to
(00:57):
be hanging out a lot of news. It was heaviness,
I know. And I was at for the Fork Report.
I was at the Manhattan Beach Food and Wine Festival,
and I got to tell you it was so nice
to just see a lot of cool chefs that I
haven't seen a long time, some pr people that I
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am fond of and have relationships with, and like seeing
just connecting with people that had nothing to do with nothing,
which is how I like to keep it on the
Fork Report, but man, it was I hope you had
a weekend with family and connections and stuff like that.
But it is Monday. There is a lot to get
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to and we will do that moments from now. Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
King, Good morning mister Savedra.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Amy King and I on the twenty sixth of this
here month, are once again going over the Edge for
the Union Rescue Mission. If you would like to support us,
doesn't matter which one of us you support. We are
Team came and except for Amy, who you don't know
this about Amy, Apparently she's a hyper competitive.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I just want to beat you.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh well, I just want us to win with money, Yes,
that is my goal. But you can go to RM
dot org, slash o t E for Over the Edge
and look for the KFI team and you can donate,
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and we'd love that. You can donate anything to the cause.
They are great. They get no government money, and you
know it's not like they're getting government money too. They're
sustained by you. They do have partnerships with the City
of LA and things like that, but they are they
are what you give. I am a monthly donor to
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them because I was so impressed by them. But you
can check that out and we'll be we'll literally be
repelling down the side of the.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
The Hilton Universal City.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, Hilton Universal City, which is a beautiful hotel by
the way, and just overlooking it's a kind of two
hundred and fifty feet something.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's got a beautiful pool.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, that I may end in.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, we're repelling down that side of the building. You
can see it from the one on one freeway. Yeah,
it's pretty fascinating. So check that out at r M
dot org slash o t E and look for the
KFI team if you want to join us and go
over with us on that Friday, the twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It's a thousand bucks. You donate one thousand bucks, you
can go over. We'll even wait for you if you want,
and you can go over with us.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And I will tell you it's it is a bit terrifying.
It is so exhilarating. It it is like it's really
high up on that list of Wow, this was an amazing,
amazing experience, and it's for such a good cause. Like
you said again, Uh, it's for a group that is
actually helping people get off the streets, not just throwing
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money out, and.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
They have to sober up, and they have to learn
skills and they have to it's really a neat program.
It's faith based. I like that about it. And it's
just a very strong system they put together of love
and discipline and working together. So that's very cool. Good
morning to you. Good morning, Cono, Good morning Neil. Don't
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spice it up or anything. Just keep it. I know,
I know you're excited. I'm here. I get that, but
I like that you're trying to keep it. Thank you.
No John, tell you no, no, no, no, no, keep it. Listen.
I get what's going on. I see it on your face.
It's like a little puppy dog. Yeah, hey, hey will.
(04:55):
Nice to see you above. Good morning. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Problems on the ninety one on the four or five?
Uh something going on on the sixty some weird street
in the I E that people go name is that? Okay?
Good and Anne the Queen.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Hi, Good morning, my queen Queen Anne.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Happy Monday. Anne and I have already had a show.
We're tinking we have talked about everything tape.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I know I could hear you the whole time during
wake Up Call driver.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We'd be listening to wake Up Call, but all it
is is Blama, bama, b this just did blah blah
blah blah blah. Amy's on the town because she needs
the money. Blah blah blah blah blah. I love wake
Up Call, you know that. I always compliment you on it.
It's part of my morning routine.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Except today, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Because I'm in here and I'm a bastard. All right,
let's do some news lead story, y'all. Absolutely nothing. Secretary
of State Marco Rubio is in Jerusalem, Jay Ruth Salem.
He is there today talking with Prime Minister Benjamin net Yahoo.
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You know, there are a lot of things going on
in the Israel and Gaza war. I don't think anybody's
a fan of net Yahoo, even if you think that
Israel was just in responding to October seventh. But these
talks are getting very sensitive because the war on Gaza
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is growing, not shrinking like it should be, and international
support is growing for the Palestinian state, meaning the two
state solution. And so you've got mister Trump who's getting
impatient because he wanted the end. He said there was
going to be an end to the war, and it's
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going to be interesting to see as to where they're
a great ally, a massive ally in that part of
the world, and it's going to be interesting to see
how that plays out.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Uncooperative, that is how the twenty two year old suspect
in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is being
described by the Governor of Utah. Spencer Cox says, well,
the twenty two year old isn't cooperating. Family, friends and
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acquaintances of the suspect are. They've been talking quite a bit,
and then he said, we can confirm again that according
to family and people they've been interviewing, Tyler Robinson comes
from a conservative family, but his ideology was very different
than his family, and there's been a lot of talk
that it's gotten very stepped up in the last couple
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of years.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, I was talking with an earlier and I said,
either he killed him because he was too conservative, or
killed him because he wasn't conservative enough. But there's not
a whole lot in between there, and everybody no one
wants them, No one wants him on their team, so
everybody's kind of pushing him back. He looks more like you, No,
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he looks more like you. Guys, well, he looks more
like you. Nobody wants him on his team because he
assassinated a guy a little much. All right, hours, if
I remember correctly, just hours handful of hours after the
killing of conservative activists Charlie Kirk, FBI director Cash Patel
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declared that they had the subject right. We even saw
pictures of an older man, white hair on his knees,
and that was the first thing, but it was not
the shooter. Then there was a second man who had
been detained but quickly released, and so a lot of confusion.
(09:03):
And I remember you had it coming out from the
FBI director, and I think we were, you know, talking
about this as going on, and An's like, hey, but
FBI director just put this out. However, the Utah officials
are saying the gunman remains at large, and we were
trying to iron those things out, as you know, stuff
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was going on and details were coming out and things
like that. So it seems now that Patel is going
to approach Congress and Congressional oversight hearings this week with
a bunch of questions about the investigation and doubts on
whether why it was so wobbly, and you know, I
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know he was very anxious to come out and say
we got him. Most of us know that it was
more of a handed over. I think the father was involved.
I think a minister was involved. There may be another
person too. I think there was maybe a roommate or
someone that might have been involved in that too. But
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that's where it stands now, and a lot of questions
he will have to answer in the upcoming weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Just say no to Russia. President Trump says he thinks
that the Russia Ukraine war would end a lot sooner
if NATO countries would just stop buying oil from Russia
and put tariffs on China because of its purchases of
Russian oil. So Trump posted on his social media that
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NATO's commitment to winning the war has been far less
than one hundred percent. Since twenty twenty three, NATO member
Turkey has been the third largest buyer of Russian oil,
behind China and India.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
All right, we know the story of President Donald Trump
wanting to release Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from her position.
He's been attempting to fire her for some time, alleging
that she must misrepresented it a misrepresented a property as
her primary residence. Well, it seems that new evidence is
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coming out or evidence is coming out that says to
the contrary. Apparently she did describe the property as a
vacation or second home on the documents that would counter
those claims. The documents suggests that Cook's lender even may
have been aware that the condo wasn't intended as a
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primary residence. So she's contesting rightly. So if this is
the case, Trump attempting to fire her, which is a
big battle now over federal the FED independence there as
Handel has talked about many times before that the organization
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was it's supposed to be independent. But he's got a
beef with her.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Sure, very much needed mayacuppa, maya kupa apology. I'm sorry?
Why did I screw up? Huh? Fox News host has
apologized after he basically said homeless people who refuse help
should be executed. Brian Killmead made his comments on September tenth,
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which just happened to be earlier in the day from
the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated, So they had
been talking on their show about the murder of that
Ukrainian refugee, the woman in North Carolina who was stabbed
to death on a bus by a obviously mentally ill
homeless man, and one of the co hosts said that
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mentally ill and homeless people should be more aggressively detained
and forcibly treated and then kill mead added or voluntary
injection or something. Just kill him. He called it a
very callous remark and apologized over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
They didn't get rid of him. Yep, Oh, that seems
like a pretty intense thing, right, don't kill him. Put
them to work. Everybody likes to work, all right. This
is a story that's been coming out. Of course, the
Emmys were last night, so eyes on Hollywood yet again.
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But Paramount is coming out and denouncing a pledge signed
by people actors like Mark Ruffalo. That doesn't surprise me.
Emma Stone, that sort of surprised me, and more than
four thousand other Hollywood talent that are saying they vow
to boycott Israeli film institutions amid the Middle Eastern War
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going on and the military campaign in Gaza. So you
have Joaquin Phoenix Phoenix as well Amy lou Wood, a
bunch of these folks. The I'm just I'm just not
sure as what's being why this is being done, and
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I want to kind of parse it a little bit more.
So I think in the eight o'clock hour we'll break
that down more today and look at what they're doing
and why and what they could possibly hope to achieve.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
With that up, we got a fumball. UCLA is fired
with relatively new head coach Deshaun Foster following an OH
to three start to the season, including a thirty five
to ten lost to New Mexico on Friday. Deshaun Foster
lasted just fifteen games as the head coach of the
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Bruins and just five wins, So it was, you know,
storybook rise to head coach from his alma mater, but
it ended abruptly over the weekend. Tim Skipper, who was
the former Fresno State interim coach and was brought in
as a special assistant before this season, is going to
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serve as the interim head coach for the remainder of
the season while they look for a new one.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I always find it injuris interesting when someone starts a
job and it goes south real quickly.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Like this one.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Did. Yeah, I guess. I mean you have a good
day and a bad day, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's too bad too, because it was you know, like
he's going back to his alma mater and he's going
to coach his team, but apparently there was some question
about his qualifications as he had not coached before, and
to put him in charge of a team like UCLA.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
What are you laughing at?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Cono'cl there? It's hilarious. They lost to New Mexico and
their UCLA. I didn't even know New Mexico had a team,
but not many people did until this past weekend. Say,
who beat Ucla?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Okay? Well, and USC fans are just as happy as ever.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, you gotta be a hater there.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Because USC hates UCLA. Okay, yeah, it's kind of a thing. Yep, alrighty.
Some good news and some bad news.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You have Los Angeles County releasing their final findings when
it comes to all that soil and the samples taken
from Palisades and Alta Dina. In regards to the fires,
they're still looking at the soil. You know, you get
heavy metals and things like that. When things burn, it
can go bad quickly. I mean if you've ever seen
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like tires burn and things like that, or car firefighters
will tell you like a car, you know, factory things
like that. There is so much that is burning that
is bad for you. So of course they're doing due
diligence fingers crossed looking at the soil, and it seems
that the Public Health Department says the soil and Palisades
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and the fire that burned there and that zone there
came back clean, no significant findings above their the threshold
they have as far as safety is concerned. Unfortunately, for
the eat and fire they're in Altadena. That burn zone
they had at least ten areas that tested positive for lead.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Which makes sense because you've got all those older homes.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Oh of course, I mean the Monday that's it, you
know we have. That's an excellent point, Amy, because you know,
our home is over one hundred years old, and you
it's weird the rules like if you're painting over something,
you're okay. However, if you scrape down to the wood
or do any of that, it becomes a different situation
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because of the lead in the paint. You know, that's
how we you know, people like Handle who grew up
with lead paint, probably licked the walls. Explains a lot.
But now we know better not good for you. So
that sucks that they're in in Altadena. They're still worrying
and concerned about those things. Everybody just wants to get
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things as back to normal as they possibly can.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well support before he declared socialist is stacking up. New
York Governor Kathy Hokeel has endorsed the Democratic Mayor's candidate
zoron Mam Donnie. She said he is the leader who
is focused on making New York City affordable despite their disagreements.
So he won the primary over earlier this year, and
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now it looks like he's going to be running against
either Cuomo or Sliwa or Adams. Not clear if anybody's
going to drop out, but it's going to put some pressure.
With having Hokel endorse put some pressure on others who
have not yet said whether they would endorse Mon Donnie,
and that would be notably House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
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and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both who are from Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How do you make New York more affordable? I mean
it's insane. The prices are insane. There but how do
you what switch do you flip to make that happen?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I don't know. It's it's interesting, like because if you
ever watch the like The Selling New York or even
the Many Many Rentals, I can't remember the name of
the show, but it's like a you know, a one
hundred square foot apartment that people live in. It's crazy
because it's so expensive. But what do you do? You
freeze rents, lower rents, but then what do you do
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if the buildings can't pay their bills?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, I'm curious about that. I mean, it's a lovely notion,
but I don't know how you do that.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Maybe it's all stakes soilized or something. But in Manhattan
it'd be It'd be trillions of dollars to subsidize buildings,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You couldn't, Yeah, you couldn't. Not there.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I don't know how it would work.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
All right, The is you've heard Amy talking about on
the news. The city of Los Angeles said that it's
canceling this year's deadlies went those parade due to concerns
about immigration raids. Now that they're not aware of any,
so there's no federal enforcement activity targeting the parade that
they're aware of, but it's you know, it's a massive
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outdoor event and they're just abundance of cough caution type stuff.
It's held in November on the second normally. I'm not
sure where it is out there, if they do it
all the actual day or not. But they said the
cancelation is a result of those concerns, so they just,
you know, it's a lot going on. I know that
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there are a lot of activities, it being Latino Heritage
Month and all of that, but there are there were
some events this weekend that went on at city Hall
and beyond.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
And just a quick clarification, it was the city of
Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You're not Los Angeles, didn't didn't I say Long Beach?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Well I did say Long Beach, But I said there
are some activities going on in La Fight Fight.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Maybe that's it. I just wanted to make the clarification.
Come Onnie, how are you gonna threaten me? Well, Amy
won't be here tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
No, I'm not handle Okay, don't ever correct me. No,
I want to be corrected. I'm not a very smart person.
I just sit here and look pretty.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Sure you are. Well. The publisher isn't rolling with AI.
The publisher of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter has
sued Google, alleging that the AI summaries that show up
when you Google something now are illegally using the Rolling
Stone and Hollywood Reporters reporting and it's dropping their online traffic.
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Penske Media, first major US news company to challenge Google
and its parent company in court, says they're damaging their business.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Interesting, so when you go, you can set Google to
have the AI summary or whatever, and so when people
are looking up news or something or looking into certain
topics that it's kind of summarizing what the Role Stones
and the Hollywood Reporter does.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, they're saying that they're affected by it. So like
you're saying, how many Emmys has Noah Wyley been nominated for?
Which is five? Because I know because I googled it.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
We're going to have Heather Brooker join us a little
bit later at eight thirty two. By the way, she
was out there at the Emmys, and she'll give us
all that scoop.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah. But so when you google that, you get a
little Google summary or like an AI summary saying, oh,
you know, this was his first Emmy. He's been nominated
five times. Blah blah blah blah blah. So the Hollywood
reporter is saying Google is using their i AI and
grabbing information from their sources, and they're reporting.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It doesn't give a credit or doesn't give the articles
down below. I always thought that it summarizes and then
points you to the articles in what I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Maybe it doesn't always do that.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That's interesting. Yeah, that is another weird tick in the
hole AI. You know, summarizing things. Yeah, that's it's got
to pull the information from somewhere. But how do they
know that it's ex Well, it's unless it gives the
credit and says Rolling Stone says, well.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And here's the other thing. There there is a little
uh little paper clip a paper clip, I don't know,
it's something next to it when it says there's a
click through place where you can go see the article.
Like you said, it does, yeah, give it attribution. So
then what's their beat?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I don't know, but that's how I that's how I've
seen it because I always like to go to the source.
So anyways to check.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
AI because a lot of times it's still wrong.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You know, life gets dangerous in the loopholes, and we
have a lot of loopholes in America that lets things
like this drug I guess get into the hands of
different people. You've got health officials warning about deadly dangers
or at least the potential of them with a synthetic
uh cratum ratum. I barely know them. It's a compound.
(24:03):
After this compound, it was linked to three recent fatal
overdoses in La County. Now, this is how they break
it down. You have three otherwise healthy adults there between
the ages of eighteen and forty, and you know, everything
else was normal about their bodies and their health for
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their age, right, and they died and they apparently took
this compound. Where do you get this compound? While the
synthetic version can be found in smoke shops and gas stations.
So if you're not buying ConA, what are those herbal
erection pills you get there at the convenience store? Isolute
(24:54):
you or I don't know anyways, they have them right
next to those things. You can get this and I
guess it has stimulant like effects. Low doses, higher doses
have opiate like effects. Now, if you need opioids, you
have to have like ten doctors signed for something. I mean,
you get thailanol now, I don't care what. You can
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come back from surgery and you're getting thailand A nobody
wants to give you that. Apparently alcohol enhances this. This
is a derivative. The original is a derivative from a
tree that's native in South East Asia. And they've known
about it for a long time. But people say that
it's like this cure all for chronic pain anxiety. But
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people can get hooked on it. And I thought, this
is like at convenience stores and stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Russia appears to be pushing the envelope again. Romania has
condemned Moscow's irresponsible actions, as it put it, after saying
that Russia sent a drone over into Romanian airspace during
an attack on neighboring Ukraine. The Russian drone used in
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attacks on Ukraine entered Romanian airspace at six oh five
pm local time on Saturday, according to Romania's Defense Ministry.
Of course, this came just a few days after Poland
shot down Russian drones that had violated its airspace earlier
this last week.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Just pushing instead of poking the bear, the boat the
bear is poking everybody, just seeing how we respond, how
the rest of the world responds. I'm pretty sure it
won't get better. All right. Appeals Court Federal Appeals Court
ruled just last week, at the end of the week,
the Trump administration can end legal protections for around four
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hundred and thirty thousand migrants. And these are folks from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela.
And I guess this was something this Biden era of
policies here, but this was like a pathway for people
to live in the United States and they had to
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work for two years through this authorization program. So what
I don't understand is it seems this particular group did
everything that was asked of them by the government to
find a path to citizenship, you know. And early on
we were told that bad people, criminals and rapists and
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all this were the ones that were going to be
tossed out. Now the the net seems to be getting
larger and larger and larger. All right, that's it for
Handle on the news much to get to today, So
stick around. This is KFI heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch my
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Absolutely no intention of listening to this show with Neil hosting.
That's our hope because we just bad mouthew the whole time.
That's excellent. All Right, We're done, guys, that's it. Catch
you in a couple of weeks and uh.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm gone, and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's not Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What's his problem? I believe that too. That energy was real. Brother.
On Friday, he was done. I didn't even talk to
him before he left. Good Morning KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Bill Handle is out.
The morning crew is here. I'm Neil Savedra. Happy to
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be hanging out a lot of news. It was heaviness,
I know. And I was at for the Fork Report.
I was at the Manhattan Beach Food and Wine Festival,
and I got to tell you it was so nice
to just see a lot of cool chefs that I
haven't seen a long time, some pr people that I
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am fond of and have relationships with, and like seeing
just connecting with people that had nothing to do with nothing,
which is how I like to keep it on the
Fork Report, but man, it was I hope you had
a weekend with family and connections and stuff like that.
But it is Monday. There is a lot to get
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to and we will do that moments from now. Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
King, Good morning mister Savedra.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Amy King and I on the twenty sixth of this
here month, are once again going over the Edge for
the Union Rescue Mission. If you would like to support us,
doesn't matter which one of us you support. We are
Team came and except for Amy, who you don't know
this about Amy, Apparently she's a hyper competitive.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I just want to beat you.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh well, I just want us to win with money, Yes,
that is my goal. But you can go to RM
dot org, slash o t E for Over the Edge
and look for the KFI team and you can donate,
(02:34):
and we'd love that. You can donate anything to the cause.
They are great. They get no government money, and you
know it's not like they're getting government money too. They're
sustained by you. They do have partnerships with the City
of LA and things like that, but they are they
are what you give. I am a monthly donor to
(02:56):
them because I was so impressed by them. But you
can check that out and we'll be we'll literally be
repelling down the side of the.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
The Hilton Universal City.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, Hilton Universal City, which is a beautiful hotel by
the way, and just overlooking it's a kind of two
hundred and fifty feet something.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's got a beautiful pool.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, that I may end in.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, we're repelling down that side of the building. You
can see it from the one on one freeway. Yeah,
it's pretty fascinating. So check that out at r M
dot org slash o t E and look for the
KFI team if you want to join us and go
over with us on that Friday, the twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It's a thousand bucks. You donate one thousand bucks, you
can go over. We'll even wait for you if you want,
and you can go over with us.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And I will tell you it's it is a bit terrifying.
It is so exhilarating. It it is like it's really
high up on that list of Wow, this was an amazing,
amazing experience, and it's for such a good cause. Like
you said again, Uh, it's for a group that is
actually helping people get off the streets, not just throwing
(04:10):
money out, and.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
They have to sober up, and they have to learn
skills and they have to it's really a neat program.
It's faith based. I like that about it. And it's
just a very strong system they put together of love
and discipline and working together. So that's very cool. Good
morning to you. Good morning, Cono, Good morning Neil. Don't
(04:31):
spice it up or anything. Just keep it. I know,
I know you're excited. I'm here. I get that, but
I like that you're trying to keep it. Thank you.
No John, tell you no, no, no, no, no, keep it. Listen.
I get what's going on. I see it on your face.
It's like a little puppy dog. Yeah, hey, hey will.
(04:55):
Nice to see you above. Good morning. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Problems on the ninety one on the four or five?
Uh something going on on the sixty some weird street
in the I E that people go name is that? Okay?
Good and Anne the Queen.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Hi, Good morning, my queen Queen Anne.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Happy Monday. Anne and I have already had a show.
We're tinking we have talked about everything tape.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I know I could hear you the whole time during
wake Up Call driver.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We'd be listening to wake Up Call, but all it
is is Blama, bama, b this just did blah blah
blah blah blah. Amy's on the town because she needs
the money. Blah blah blah blah blah. I love wake
Up Call, you know that. I always compliment you on it.
It's part of my morning routine.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Except today, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Because I'm in here and I'm a bastard. All right,
let's do some news lead story, y'all. Absolutely nothing. Secretary
of State Marco Rubio is in Jerusalem, Jay Ruth Salem.
He is there today talking with Prime Minister Benjamin net Yahoo.
(06:17):
You know, there are a lot of things going on
in the Israel and Gaza war. I don't think anybody's
a fan of net Yahoo, even if you think that
Israel was just in responding to October seventh. But these
talks are getting very sensitive because the war on Gaza
(06:39):
is growing, not shrinking like it should be, and international
support is growing for the Palestinian state, meaning the two
state solution. And so you've got mister Trump who's getting
impatient because he wanted the end. He said there was
going to be an end to the war, and it's
(07:02):
going to be interesting to see as to where they're
a great ally, a massive ally in that part of
the world, and it's going to be interesting to see
how that plays out.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Uncooperative, that is how the twenty two year old suspect
in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is being
described by the Governor of Utah. Spencer Cox says, well,
the twenty two year old isn't cooperating. Family, friends and
(07:32):
acquaintances of the suspect are. They've been talking quite a bit,
and then he said, we can confirm again that according
to family and people they've been interviewing, Tyler Robinson comes
from a conservative family, but his ideology was very different
than his family, and there's been a lot of talk
that it's gotten very stepped up in the last couple
(07:55):
of years.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, I was talking with an earlier and I said,
either he killed him because he was too conservative, or
killed him because he wasn't conservative enough. But there's not
a whole lot in between there, and everybody no one
wants them, No one wants him on their team, so
everybody's kind of pushing him back. He looks more like you, No,
(08:17):
he looks more like you. Guys, well, he looks more
like you. Nobody wants him on his team because he
assassinated a guy a little much. All right, hours, if
I remember correctly, just hours handful of hours after the
killing of conservative activists Charlie Kirk, FBI director Cash Patel
(08:41):
declared that they had the subject right. We even saw
pictures of an older man, white hair on his knees,
and that was the first thing, but it was not
the shooter. Then there was a second man who had
been detained but quickly released, and so a lot of confusion.
(09:03):
And I remember you had it coming out from the
FBI director, and I think we were, you know, talking
about this as going on, and An's like, hey, but
FBI director just put this out. However, the Utah officials
are saying the gunman remains at large, and we were
trying to iron those things out, as you know, stuff
(09:23):
was going on and details were coming out and things
like that. So it seems now that Patel is going
to approach Congress and Congressional oversight hearings this week with
a bunch of questions about the investigation and doubts on
whether why it was so wobbly, and you know, I
(09:45):
know he was very anxious to come out and say
we got him. Most of us know that it was
more of a handed over. I think the father was involved.
I think a minister was involved. There may be another
person too. I think there was maybe a roommate or
someone that might have been involved in that too. But
(10:07):
that's where it stands now, and a lot of questions
he will have to answer in the upcoming weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Just say no to Russia. President Trump says he thinks
that the Russia Ukraine war would end a lot sooner
if NATO countries would just stop buying oil from Russia
and put tariffs on China because of its purchases of
Russian oil. So Trump posted on his social media that
(10:35):
NATO's commitment to winning the war has been far less
than one hundred percent. Since twenty twenty three, NATO member
Turkey has been the third largest buyer of Russian oil,
behind China and India.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
All right, we know the story of President Donald Trump
wanting to release Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from her position.
He's been attempting to fire her for some time, alleging
that she must misrepresented it a misrepresented a property as
her primary residence. Well, it seems that new evidence is
(11:12):
coming out or evidence is coming out that says to
the contrary. Apparently she did describe the property as a
vacation or second home on the documents that would counter
those claims. The documents suggests that Cook's lender even may
have been aware that the condo wasn't intended as a
(11:33):
primary residence. So she's contesting rightly. So if this is
the case, Trump attempting to fire her, which is a
big battle now over federal the FED independence there as
Handel has talked about many times before that the organization
(11:53):
was it's supposed to be independent. But he's got a
beef with her.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Sure, very much needed mayacuppa, maya kupa apology. I'm sorry?
Why did I screw up? Huh? Fox News host has
apologized after he basically said homeless people who refuse help
should be executed. Brian Killmead made his comments on September tenth,
(12:22):
which just happened to be earlier in the day from
the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated, So they had
been talking on their show about the murder of that
Ukrainian refugee, the woman in North Carolina who was stabbed
to death on a bus by a obviously mentally ill
homeless man, and one of the co hosts said that
(12:44):
mentally ill and homeless people should be more aggressively detained
and forcibly treated and then kill mead added or voluntary
injection or something. Just kill him. He called it a
very callous remark and apologized over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
They didn't get rid of him. Yep, Oh, that seems
like a pretty intense thing, right, don't kill him. Put
them to work. Everybody likes to work, all right. This
is a story that's been coming out. Of course, the
Emmys were last night, so eyes on Hollywood yet again.
(13:22):
But Paramount is coming out and denouncing a pledge signed
by people actors like Mark Ruffalo. That doesn't surprise me.
Emma Stone, that sort of surprised me, and more than
four thousand other Hollywood talent that are saying they vow
to boycott Israeli film institutions amid the Middle Eastern War
(13:43):
going on and the military campaign in Gaza. So you
have Joaquin Phoenix Phoenix as well Amy lou Wood, a
bunch of these folks. The I'm just I'm just not
sure as what's being why this is being done, and
(14:05):
I want to kind of parse it a little bit more.
So I think in the eight o'clock hour we'll break
that down more today and look at what they're doing
and why and what they could possibly hope to achieve.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
With that up, we got a fumball. UCLA is fired
with relatively new head coach Deshaun Foster following an OH
to three start to the season, including a thirty five
to ten lost to New Mexico on Friday. Deshaun Foster
lasted just fifteen games as the head coach of the
(14:36):
Bruins and just five wins, So it was, you know,
storybook rise to head coach from his alma mater, but
it ended abruptly over the weekend. Tim Skipper, who was
the former Fresno State interim coach and was brought in
as a special assistant before this season, is going to
(15:00):
serve as the interim head coach for the remainder of
the season while they look for a new one.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I always find it injuris interesting when someone starts a
job and it goes south real quickly.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Like this one.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Did. Yeah, I guess. I mean you have a good
day and a bad day, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's too bad too, because it was you know, like
he's going back to his alma mater and he's going
to coach his team, but apparently there was some question
about his qualifications as he had not coached before, and
to put him in charge of a team like UCLA.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
What are you laughing at?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Cono'cl there? It's hilarious. They lost to New Mexico and
their UCLA. I didn't even know New Mexico had a team,
but not many people did until this past weekend. Say,
who beat Ucla?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Okay? Well, and USC fans are just as happy as ever.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, you gotta be a hater there.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Because USC hates UCLA. Okay, yeah, it's kind of a thing. Yep, alrighty.
Some good news and some bad news.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You have Los Angeles County releasing their final findings when
it comes to all that soil and the samples taken
from Palisades and Alta Dina. In regards to the fires,
they're still looking at the soil. You know, you get
heavy metals and things like that. When things burn, it
can go bad quickly. I mean if you've ever seen
(16:29):
like tires burn and things like that, or car firefighters
will tell you like a car, you know, factory things
like that. There is so much that is burning that
is bad for you. So of course they're doing due
diligence fingers crossed looking at the soil, and it seems
that the Public Health Department says the soil and Palisades
(16:49):
and the fire that burned there and that zone there
came back clean, no significant findings above their the threshold
they have as far as safety is concerned. Unfortunately, for
the eat and fire they're in Altadena. That burn zone
they had at least ten areas that tested positive for lead.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Which makes sense because you've got all those older homes.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Oh of course, I mean the Monday that's it, you
know we have. That's an excellent point, Amy, because you know,
our home is over one hundred years old, and you
it's weird the rules like if you're painting over something,
you're okay. However, if you scrape down to the wood
or do any of that, it becomes a different situation
(17:34):
because of the lead in the paint. You know, that's
how we you know, people like Handle who grew up
with lead paint, probably licked the walls. Explains a lot.
But now we know better not good for you. So
that sucks that they're in in Altadena. They're still worrying
and concerned about those things. Everybody just wants to get
(17:55):
things as back to normal as they possibly can.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well support before he declared socialist is stacking up. New
York Governor Kathy Hokeel has endorsed the Democratic Mayor's candidate
zoron Mam Donnie. She said he is the leader who
is focused on making New York City affordable despite their disagreements.
So he won the primary over earlier this year, and
(18:25):
now it looks like he's going to be running against
either Cuomo or Sliwa or Adams. Not clear if anybody's
going to drop out, but it's going to put some pressure.
With having Hokel endorse put some pressure on others who
have not yet said whether they would endorse Mon Donnie,
and that would be notably House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
(18:48):
and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both who are from Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How do you make New York more affordable? I mean
it's insane. The prices are insane. There but how do
you what switch do you flip to make that happen?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I don't know. It's it's interesting, like because if you
ever watch the like The Selling New York or even
the Many Many Rentals, I can't remember the name of
the show, but it's like a you know, a one
hundred square foot apartment that people live in. It's crazy
because it's so expensive. But what do you do? You
freeze rents, lower rents, but then what do you do
(19:25):
if the buildings can't pay their bills?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, I'm curious about that. I mean, it's a lovely notion,
but I don't know how you do that.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Maybe it's all stakes soilized or something. But in Manhattan
it'd be It'd be trillions of dollars to subsidize buildings,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You couldn't, Yeah, you couldn't. Not there.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I don't know how it would work.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
All right, The is you've heard Amy talking about on
the news. The city of Los Angeles said that it's
canceling this year's deadlies went those parade due to concerns
about immigration raids. Now that they're not aware of any,
so there's no federal enforcement activity targeting the parade that
they're aware of, but it's you know, it's a massive
(20:09):
outdoor event and they're just abundance of cough caution type stuff.
It's held in November on the second normally. I'm not
sure where it is out there, if they do it
all the actual day or not. But they said the
cancelation is a result of those concerns, so they just,
you know, it's a lot going on. I know that
(20:29):
there are a lot of activities, it being Latino Heritage
Month and all of that, but there are there were
some events this weekend that went on at city Hall
and beyond.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
And just a quick clarification, it was the city of
Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You're not Los Angeles, didn't didn't I say Long Beach?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Well I did say Long Beach, But I said there
are some activities going on in La Fight Fight.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Maybe that's it. I just wanted to make the clarification.
Come Onnie, how are you gonna threaten me? Well, Amy
won't be here tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
No, I'm not handle Okay, don't ever correct me. No,
I want to be corrected. I'm not a very smart person.
I just sit here and look pretty.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Sure you are. Well. The publisher isn't rolling with AI.
The publisher of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter has
sued Google, alleging that the AI summaries that show up
when you Google something now are illegally using the Rolling
Stone and Hollywood Reporters reporting and it's dropping their online traffic.
(21:38):
Penske Media, first major US news company to challenge Google
and its parent company in court, says they're damaging their business.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Interesting, so when you go, you can set Google to
have the AI summary or whatever, and so when people
are looking up news or something or looking into certain
topics that it's kind of summarizing what the Role Stones
and the Hollywood Reporter does.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, they're saying that they're affected by it. So like
you're saying, how many Emmys has Noah Wyley been nominated for?
Which is five? Because I know because I googled it.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
We're going to have Heather Brooker join us a little
bit later at eight thirty two. By the way, she
was out there at the Emmys, and she'll give us
all that scoop.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah. But so when you google that, you get a
little Google summary or like an AI summary saying, oh,
you know, this was his first Emmy. He's been nominated
five times. Blah blah blah blah blah. So the Hollywood
reporter is saying Google is using their i AI and
grabbing information from their sources, and they're reporting.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It doesn't give a credit or doesn't give the articles
down below. I always thought that it summarizes and then
points you to the articles in what I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Maybe it doesn't always do that.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That's interesting. Yeah, that is another weird tick in the
hole AI. You know, summarizing things. Yeah, that's it's got
to pull the information from somewhere. But how do they
know that it's ex Well, it's unless it gives the
credit and says Rolling Stone says, well.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And here's the other thing. There there is a little
uh little paper clip a paper clip, I don't know,
it's something next to it when it says there's a
click through place where you can go see the article.
Like you said, it does, yeah, give it attribution. So
then what's their beat?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I don't know, but that's how I that's how I've
seen it because I always like to go to the source.
So anyways to check.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
AI because a lot of times it's still wrong.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You know, life gets dangerous in the loopholes, and we
have a lot of loopholes in America that lets things
like this drug I guess get into the hands of
different people. You've got health officials warning about deadly dangers
or at least the potential of them with a synthetic
uh cratum ratum. I barely know them. It's a compound.
(24:03):
After this compound, it was linked to three recent fatal
overdoses in La County. Now, this is how they break
it down. You have three otherwise healthy adults there between
the ages of eighteen and forty, and you know, everything
else was normal about their bodies and their health for
(24:25):
their age, right, and they died and they apparently took
this compound. Where do you get this compound? While the
synthetic version can be found in smoke shops and gas stations.
So if you're not buying ConA, what are those herbal
erection pills you get there at the convenience store? Isolute
(24:54):
you or I don't know anyways, they have them right
next to those things. You can get this and I
guess it has stimulant like effects. Low doses, higher doses
have opiate like effects. Now, if you need opioids, you
have to have like ten doctors signed for something. I mean,
you get thailanol now, I don't care what. You can
(25:17):
come back from surgery and you're getting thailand A nobody
wants to give you that. Apparently alcohol enhances this. This
is a derivative. The original is a derivative from a
tree that's native in South East Asia. And they've known
about it for a long time. But people say that
it's like this cure all for chronic pain anxiety. But
(25:43):
people can get hooked on it. And I thought, this
is like at convenience stores and stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Russia appears to be pushing the envelope again. Romania has
condemned Moscow's irresponsible actions, as it put it, after saying
that Russia sent a drone over into Romanian airspace during
an attack on neighboring Ukraine. The Russian drone used in
(26:11):
attacks on Ukraine entered Romanian airspace at six oh five
pm local time on Saturday, according to Romania's Defense Ministry.
Of course, this came just a few days after Poland
shot down Russian drones that had violated its airspace earlier
this last week.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Just pushing instead of poking the bear, the boat the
bear is poking everybody, just seeing how we respond, how
the rest of the world responds. I'm pretty sure it
won't get better. All right. Appeals Court Federal Appeals Court
ruled just last week, at the end of the week,
the Trump administration can end legal protections for around four
(26:48):
hundred and thirty thousand migrants. And these are folks from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela.
And I guess this was something this Biden era of
policies here, but this was like a pathway for people
to live in the United States and they had to
(27:09):
work for two years through this authorization program. So what
I don't understand is it seems this particular group did
everything that was asked of them by the government to
find a path to citizenship, you know. And early on
we were told that bad people, criminals and rapists and
(27:32):
all this were the ones that were going to be
tossed out. Now the the net seems to be getting
larger and larger and larger. All right, that's it for
Handle on the news much to get to today, So
stick around. This is KFI heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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