April 7, 2025 • 23 mins
(April 07,2025)
Bill’s new wife Lyndsay joins the show. Israeli military changes account of Gaza paramedics’ killing after video of attack. Foreign tourists are taking Trump at his word. A Texas firm is pushing revive drilling off Santa Barbara.
Bill’s new wife Lyndsay joins the show. Israeli military changes account of Gaza paramedics’ killing after video of attack. Foreign tourists are taking Trump at his word. A Texas firm is pushing revive drilling off Santa Barbara.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, everybody. It is a Monday morning, April seventh.
Now you know, I've been gone, and I've been gone
for three weeks, and I went on vacation. Actually I
went to get married. Actually I went on a honeymoon.
Actually I did all of that. And for those of
you that are interested at all, and there a few
you can go to at Bill Handle show on the
(00:28):
Instagram page, and we posted some stuff up there and
a link to Lindsay's page. Lindsay who happens to be
my new spouse, and I thought I would introduce her
to you, you people out in radio land KFI listeners.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I know how obnoxious that sounds. Yeah, I got it, Neil.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You have to say it, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado. Misses, well,
you know, not missus Handle, but Lindsey.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I'm feeling pretty woke today. I'm feeling pretty woke.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah. So Lindsay is now part of the family. She
actually has been for years.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Lindsay and I, well, let me put it this way.
I've been separated from now my ex for over five years,
six years, and so this is not new. But so, Lindsay,
here's a question that a lot of people would ask.
And I've been ruminating about this.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Why I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I have absolutely no idea what I just got myself into.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But yeah, you do, Actually you do know because you've
known me for a long time. Lindsay is kind of
an interesting person. She is, if you can believe it,
more out there than I am. Listening to her laugh
and Neil will certainly give credence to that story.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
When she laughs, she literally roars, which is what I
love so much about her.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
The unfortunate thing is that she laughs at your jokes.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But that's the important thing. I mean, if you guys
do it's only Kono that does.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, I happen to find you pretty damn funny.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So, Lindsay, a little bit of your background. You know,
I know you're pretty young. I've meant we had to
wait until you graduated high school.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I can't wait to start college.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, So a little bit about who you are, what
your background is, so people have an idea of who
you are.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I mean, I guess the bottom line is I started
a marketing agency about twenty five years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And worked for myself. I have a podcast.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I fell in love with you. I actually fell in
love with your brain. I didn't even know what you
looked like. And then I went to a sleep number
event and I still stuck around after that and it
just kind of kept going from there. But yeah, I've
just I've been just constantly working my whole life. That's
basically what I've been doing. And now I get to
travel with you and spend my life with you doing
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the most ridiculous things together. But one of the things
that I certainly do love about the two of us
is we have every opportunity to laugh that we possibly can't.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of laughing goes on now.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
We're both incredibly depraved, which is also super helpful.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Very important the other people that don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
But for those of you that don't know and think
that Neil is a pretty serious guy, Neil is one
of the most depraved human beings that I've ever met
a whole time.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I'm not deved, depraved, completely depraved, completely depraved. I just
think that the concept's funny, but I wouldn't do it.
There's a difference.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's the difference between having sex with the chicken feather
or the entire chicken.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I'm humored. I've humored by all things.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
What I am humored by all things?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
In any case, One of the things that I did
follo in love with Lindsay about is work ethic and
then I talk an awful lot about that. And when
I did meet her, I mean she was at it
eighteen hours a day and sometimes seven days a week,
and I went, wow, you know, we don't have much
of that going on today anymore, especially among teenagers, of
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which she's very very close to.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Thanks for getting me sick, Neil, by the way, guess
that one, Guss.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Let me tell you something. You got sick on your
own because everyone that got sick got better. You went
to the hospital and all that go home.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yes, So okay, you'll hear me talk.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You'll hear Neil. You'll hear that's 's talk a lot
about Lindsay. By the way, just a quick plug for
her podcast. Why not, she's very I thought i'd plug
it and you hear about it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The pain game ready part of the family. Yeah, you get,
I get the horror for you.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And so if you have an issue with chronic pain
or know someone who does.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Go to the Pain Game podcast.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And anything else we want to add. Neil, you were
the best man.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
You were there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh, you can go to at Bill Handle show and
we have some videos of what happened some folk.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And then there's a link to Lindsay's.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Page, of which there is because she's the social media person.
I mean, she just lives on social media, that's her thing.
What do you have on your page?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well, I mean I've got more stuff about the wedding
and other pictures of people that were there. I didn't
want to bombard your page with wedding stuff, so if
you want to.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
See more about it and what we.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Were up to, I'm going to be adding some more
stuff over the next couple of days too.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But it was pretty spectacular and we're.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Very fortunate and grateful for the people.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
That came out and came to Italy.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And the stories keep coming in and they just get
better and better by the minute.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, it was a very religious, slash hilarious slash insane ceremony.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I will tell you, as beautiful as everything was. And
I knew early on that Lindsay sang. What I didn't
know is that she studied opera, and one of the
highlights for me, genuinely is.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That she sang.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It was a recording as she sang of Maria and oh.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, you know what we should do that can Well
we're not we don't have enough time to do it
right now.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
No, no, no, no, but yeah, that's one thing that
people was moving.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I even asked her for a copy so we could
use it on the Jesus Show. It really is an
incredible rendition.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Uh yeah, now she has that kind of a voice.
We should actually play it at some point. Uh you know,
I don't know how technically we would do it, but
it's I.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Have tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
When I first listened to her saying Avam Maria, I
came so close to becoming a Christian.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I can't even begin to tell you that. It was
really close. And then I pronounce.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's hard us around me.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Yeah, oh yeah, all right, Uh Lindsey, welcome to the family,
and you welcome to my family, and you and I
to your family. Things all right, you got it, all right,
coming up, Take care, we'll talk a little bit later.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Take care, God blessed, God speed, gez shoot me.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, I know it's absolutely disgusting. All right, let's get
a little serious. Unfortunately for all parties involved. For the
Palestinians they have the very bad luck to have Hamas
running the show, and for the Israelis they have the
very bad luck to have Netanyahu in his cabinet running
the show. And whenever there is an atrocity that is acute,
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that's one of the parties accusing the other one.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Of of course, there is.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Either an out route denial or we'll look into it
and then it disappears. And that's the case with an
attack that Israel conducted on an ambulance and a group
of aid workers, and Israel says that, okay, here's what happened.
Maybe in an ambulance, but there were no sirens going,
there were no flashing lights, and we saw this vehicle
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approaching Israeli soldiers suspiciously, and when people got out of
the vehicle, we figure they were attacked king the Israeli soldiers.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So we let loose.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Now, the Palestinians who were in the car and UN
workers who were there said, oh no, there were plenty
of lights going on.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Everybody knew the ambulance was marked.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
People did get out of the car to save or
to recover some bodies that had been killed before Israel
said no, that's not true. The UN says, yes, that's true.
Well videos just come out.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Guess what, the UN and the Palestinians are absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Correct, totally contradictory to what Israel has said.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And now how do they respond? Will investigate it? That's it?
Is anything going to come out of that investigation? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And here is the bottom line on a much bigger picture.
Because Israel is accused of using starvation as a weapon
of war, lack of food, and by the way, I completely.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Agree that that is happening. That is a war crime.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Hamas is accused of committing its atrocities as war criminals.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And unfortunately, as I said as I opened this segment,
what up was that Israelis have the very bad luck
to have Netanyahu and Palestinians have the very bad luck.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
To have Hamas.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Why well, because Israel is prepared to wipe out Gaza
to get back the hostages, literally wipe it out. Fifty
thousand Palestinians have died. Probably a third are Hamas militant,
so those don't count as far as I'm concerned. But
let's say thirty five thousand, over thirty thousand men, women,
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children who are completely innocent have been killed, and eighty
percent of Gaza has been destroyed. Israel is prepared to
destroy one hundred percent of Gaza and kill another fifty
thousand if necessary, civilians to get the hostages back.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Is that simple?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Hamas, who I think is even worse about this, is
willing to let one hundred thousand Palestinians die and is
willing to have Gaza be turned into a wasteland.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Most of Gaza looks like Hiroshima does right after the war,
right after the bomb was dropped.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And to Hamas, it really doesn't matter. Hamas is not
giving up its power. It does not care how many
people die. If it was the other way around. I
think Israel cares far more about its citizens than Hamas
does about its citizens. But that still doesn't mean that
the atrocities are going on and they're both uh, they're
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they're they're both smashing each other, that that's what they're doing.
I mean, they're just going, you know, cheek to cheek,
jowl to jowl and headbutting each other, and no one's moving.
Israel says, we want our hostages back. We're willing to
wipe you out. Hamas says, we're not giving you the
hostages because we're not willing to give up power that
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Israel demands, and we don't care. Power is more important
to us than our civilians. Israel says. Our claim that
you have to have no power, you have to leave
Gaza is more important to us than the entire population
of Gaza.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And if we have to wipe them all out, we'll
wipe them out. We don't care.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And that's the problem that's going on, and it is
horrific and it's not getting any better. It's heartbreaking, it
really is. And for someone who is as pro Israel
as I am, not only because of my religious background,
but because I have friends that are in Israel, obviously
(11:45):
I read a lot of history about it, and Israel
is a pretty incredible place all I have.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
To tell you.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You know, Israel coming out of the ashes of the Holocaust,
where six million died during the war simply because they
were Jewish during World War Two, you would think that
a country that came out of that would have a
very different view of tolerance.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Not a chance.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Israelis are as racist as everybody. I mean, that doesn't change.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You don't want to be in You do not want.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
To be in an Arab oblivia in Israel, you talk
about second class citizen one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
All right, what's going on in the world of tourism.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well, we've been talking this morning about where the stock
market is going in is now down seven hundred points,
and it's just the economies are reeling. And we're talking
about companies, sectors, countries that we don't know where they're
going economically. But I'll tell you one industry that we
know that's been going on since day one of the
Trump administration, and that's the tourism industry.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And foreign tourists.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Are not coming to the United States as often as
they did, as much as they did, spending any kind
of the money they did. They just don't want to
come here. And the United States used to be the
one of the great places to visit in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Not so much anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
There's a story out of The Atlantic in which they
interviewed the owner of A B and B an old
orchard Peach, Maine. A lot of Canadian visitors about forty
of the industry. There a tourist industry is Canadians not anymore.
They've just stopped coming. Trudeau last month said then Prime
(13:32):
Minister Justin Trudeau said, Canadians are hurt, Canadians are angry.
We're gonna choose not to go on vacation in Florida
or Old Orchard Beach or wherever.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Why.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, because Donald Trump has made it very clear, the
entire administration that's saying we don't like foreigners. It's that simple,
very much introspective, very much America for isolationism, even jingoism,
if you want to go that far. And that's just
a different philosophy. We are not under the Trump administration.
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Under the Trump philosophy, we are not internationalists anymore. The
world was heading towards and a lot of people were
not unhappy about this, and international economy and inter well,
in Europe, quote, the internationalist government is there, you know,
the European Union, it's the European Parliament has more power
than individual parliaments and congresses in each country. And let
(14:34):
me tell you, can you imagine that that we as
Americans would be looking at, let's say, a Northern Hemisphere
organization would have more power over us than our own
congress and that's what's going on in Europe with the
European market. And there are twenty eight countries and they
all have to be under the auspices of one parliament,
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not individuals. And this is where Trump is going the
other way. He says, no, no, we're not going to do that.
We're America. We're on our own, we stand on our
own two feet. We're not part of this internationalist business. Well,
that translates into and we're not particularly interested in you
or you guys coming here. And look at the requirements
that are now in place, much tougher. Matter of fact,
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you've got the UK, for example, has told its travelers
coming to the United States, watch out, we can't guarantee anything.
Be aware of much more restriction, many more restrictions. These
are advisories that are coming into travelers coming in the
United States from all over the world.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And we're talking about allies. We're not talking about crazy people.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
We're talking about Germans, Italians, Brits that are being told
it's going to be a lot rougher. Do you know
the UN with its workers, they're telling the UN workers
carry your ID, copies of your past sports and copies
of your visas to show the authorities that.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Was unhurt before.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It just didn't happen, And it's happening more and more,
and the tourism is, the tourism trade is getting nailed.
I don't know how many people in the tourism trade
voted for Donald Trump, but I'm willing to bet as
they're filing for bankruptcy, they may be saying, maybe that
wasn't such a good idea.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
And we don't even know where the fallout was going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So I come back from Italy and I'm walking through
passport control.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And the.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Passport officers, the Customs and Border patrol guy at the
stand where you go through, you show your passport and
you have the big flag Welcome to America. He looks
at me and he said, hey, welcome back to America.
And I said to him, no, speaking to English, that
was not a good move. And I'll tell you why,
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because I would think he would normally laugh.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
He did not laugh.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He just gave me a look that I instantly said, Okay,
maybe that.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Wasn't such a good idea.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
So I said, just joking, thank you, I'm thrilled to
be back. And then I started humming the Star Spangled
Banner under my breath, and he realized that was just
an idiot joke I made, and he just let me
through two things that I am now coming to the conclusion.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
This is advice that Handle has giving you. Two pieces
of advice that I think you should pay attention to.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
One coming into this country and joking about not speaking
English or somehow connection to any reference that you shouldn't
be here. Nope, that's done. And the other one, never
do film reviews at a TSA checkpoint. When you refer
to a movie as a bomb, never ever say that.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Okay, we're done with that.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Now. When I end talking about what happened back in
nineteen sixty nine, I mean that goes aways back. But
if you remember, or you look at any of the history,
look at YouTube videos, you will see what happened in
Santa Barbara was that catastrophic oil spill, and that really started.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
The modern environmental movement.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And out of that came the California Coastal Act, and
that is known as well, it's the Granddaddy of all
environmental acts, and it just kickstarted the whole thing all right.
Then you had in twenty fifteen another major spill in
that area, and effectively everything was just shut down because
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Santa Barbara, boy, it's a beautiful coastline, and it was
a mess. It was almost not quite as bad, but
it was obviously much closer to home than the xun Valdis.
And Saint William what is it Port Williams? Sound Saint Williams?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I forget Prince William, that was it?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Prince Princess saying, you know, Prince William sound up in Alaska.
I mean this was right here and it took years
to clean it up and zillions of dollars. Well, let
me tell you what's happening right now. There is a
company called Sable Oil. It's a Texas company, and it
owns that pipeline. Those oil derecks, there's three of them,
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oil platforms of which they're not functioning, and they want
to bring them back, and the Coastal Commission is saying, no,
you can't do it, and they're saying too bad, And
they're going ahead and fixing the infrastructure and they're repaying
or repairing whatever pipeline that is an existence to begin bringing.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oil back up. They figure about twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Thousand barrels a day coming out of there, so it's
not huge, but enough to certainly keep it going. And
the Coastal Commission is saying no, and they're saying, we
don't care. Now there's some Yeah, there are some little
bits of laws and regulations involved, but there's a basic
philosophy here. The Coastal Commission had said no, but the
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County of Santa Barbara had said yes. So they're fighting
back and forth, and Sable is arguing, we're not building anything.
We're simply repairing what's already there and bringing it back,
so we're not building anything new. So there are some
intricacies involved there, because there's always little bits and pieces
of the puzzle that have to be looked at. But
here's the big story, and that is the Coastal Commission,
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which has no enforcement powers whatsoever. These are federal waters
in which a lease has been granted. And you now
have a government and administration that started a presidency with drill,
baby drill, and this is just going to be another
example of a complete turnaround where this administration is going
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one hundred and eighty degrees in a different direction than
the previous admitute. Under Biden, you had tough environmental controls.
You had tough in not only just controls, but you
had laws being passed, you.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Had enforcement of environmental rules. Now that's gone the other way.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
And what we're going to see in Santa Barbara is
not so much new drilling but the starting up again
of an existing pipeline that they're saying, all we're doing
is fixing it up. And the issue is now what happens?
Coastal Commission says no. And usually everybody pays attention to
the Coastal Commission. I mean it's you know.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
They levy fines and companies pay them.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
They say you can't drill here, and companies pay attention
to that. Well, Sable is saying you can go pound sand.
Does the Coastal Commission have the Coastal Commission Police that
they can call out, you know, dripping with seaweed, these
guys and the uniforms, And no, they don't. And it's
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almost one of those things, like the Supreme Court, if
one of the issues involved with the Trump administration is
does the administration have the ability to just ignore the
courts just ignore it. It's made that argument in many
cases that it has unbridled power in various cases so
far it has, and I think it will continue to
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pay attention to court decisions it has so far, but
are arguing in all these lawsuits it has the ability
to say no, that the courts don't have.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
The ability to say yes or no.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And I think the same argument is going here where
you have this oil company saying we don't care what
the Coastal Commission says. Now there's a technical argument saying, well,
we already have a permit and we're not building a
new and so there's some leeway there. But the premise,
the basic premise is can a company, a government say no.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
To the courts? We'll see, won't we All.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Right, we're done, guys, We're back again tomorrow. Gary and
Shannon are next at ten o'clock. They're talking about what's
happening in Mammoth with a hunt of virus. And as
Neil pointed out earlier, this is not the Yenta virus
in which affects old Jewish women in Florida. This is
the Hunt virus that Gene Heckman's wife died of, and
(23:27):
it's here in California, it's in Mammoth. All of that,
all right, catch you tomorrow, everybody once again, back in
the saddle again. This is KFI Am sixty. You've been
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, everybody. It is a Monday morning, April seventh.
Now you know, I've been gone, and I've been gone
for three weeks, and I went on vacation. Actually I
went to get married. Actually I went on a honeymoon.
Actually I did all of that. And for those of
you that are interested at all, and there a few
you can go to at Bill Handle show on the
(00:28):
Instagram page, and we posted some stuff up there and
a link to Lindsay's page. Lindsay who happens to be
my new spouse, and I thought I would introduce her
to you, you people out in radio land KFI listeners.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I know how obnoxious that sounds. Yeah, I got it, Neil.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You have to say it, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado. Misses, well,
you know, not missus Handle, but Lindsey.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I'm feeling pretty woke today. I'm feeling pretty woke.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah. So Lindsay is now part of the family. She
actually has been for years.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Lindsay and I, well, let me put it this way.
I've been separated from now my ex for over five years,
six years, and so this is not new. But so, Lindsay,
here's a question that a lot of people would ask.
And I've been ruminating about this.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Why I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I have absolutely no idea what I just got myself into.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But yeah, you do, Actually you do know because you've
known me for a long time. Lindsay is kind of
an interesting person. She is, if you can believe it,
more out there than I am. Listening to her laugh
and Neil will certainly give credence to that story.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
When she laughs, she literally roars, which is what I
love so much about her.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
The unfortunate thing is that she laughs at your jokes.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But that's the important thing. I mean, if you guys
do it's only Kono that does.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, I happen to find you pretty damn funny.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So, Lindsay, a little bit of your background. You know,
I know you're pretty young. I've meant we had to
wait until you graduated high school.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I can't wait to start college.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, So a little bit about who you are, what
your background is, so people have an idea of who
you are.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I mean, I guess the bottom line is I started
a marketing agency about twenty five years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And worked for myself. I have a podcast.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I fell in love with you. I actually fell in
love with your brain. I didn't even know what you
looked like. And then I went to a sleep number
event and I still stuck around after that and it
just kind of kept going from there. But yeah, I've
just I've been just constantly working my whole life. That's
basically what I've been doing. And now I get to
travel with you and spend my life with you doing
(02:51):
the most ridiculous things together. But one of the things
that I certainly do love about the two of us
is we have every opportunity to laugh that we possibly can't.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of laughing goes on now.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
We're both incredibly depraved, which is also super helpful.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Very important the other people that don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
But for those of you that don't know and think
that Neil is a pretty serious guy, Neil is one
of the most depraved human beings that I've ever met
a whole time.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I'm not deved, depraved, completely depraved, completely depraved. I just
think that the concept's funny, but I wouldn't do it.
There's a difference.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's the difference between having sex with the chicken feather
or the entire chicken.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I'm humored. I've humored by all things.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
What I am humored by all things?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
In any case, One of the things that I did
follo in love with Lindsay about is work ethic and
then I talk an awful lot about that. And when
I did meet her, I mean she was at it
eighteen hours a day and sometimes seven days a week,
and I went, wow, you know, we don't have much
of that going on today anymore, especially among teenagers, of
(04:01):
which she's very very close to.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Thanks for getting me sick, Neil, by the way, guess
that one, Guss.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Let me tell you something. You got sick on your
own because everyone that got sick got better. You went
to the hospital and all that go home.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yes, So okay, you'll hear me talk.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You'll hear Neil. You'll hear that's 's talk a lot
about Lindsay. By the way, just a quick plug for
her podcast. Why not, she's very I thought i'd plug
it and you hear about it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The pain game ready part of the family. Yeah, you get,
I get the horror for you.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And so if you have an issue with chronic pain
or know someone who does.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Go to the Pain Game podcast.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And anything else we want to add. Neil, you were
the best man.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
You were there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh, you can go to at Bill Handle show and
we have some videos of what happened some folk.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And then there's a link to Lindsay's.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Page, of which there is because she's the social media person.
I mean, she just lives on social media, that's her thing.
What do you have on your page?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well, I mean I've got more stuff about the wedding
and other pictures of people that were there. I didn't
want to bombard your page with wedding stuff, so if
you want to.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
See more about it and what we.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Were up to, I'm going to be adding some more
stuff over the next couple of days too.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But it was pretty spectacular and we're.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Very fortunate and grateful for the people.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
That came out and came to Italy.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And the stories keep coming in and they just get
better and better by the minute.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, it was a very religious, slash hilarious slash insane ceremony.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I will tell you, as beautiful as everything was. And
I knew early on that Lindsay sang. What I didn't
know is that she studied opera, and one of the
highlights for me, genuinely is.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That she sang.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
It was a recording as she sang of Maria and oh.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, you know what we should do that can Well
we're not we don't have enough time to do it
right now.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
No, no, no, no, but yeah, that's one thing that
people was moving.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I even asked her for a copy so we could
use it on the Jesus Show. It really is an
incredible rendition.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Uh yeah, now she has that kind of a voice.
We should actually play it at some point. Uh you know,
I don't know how technically we would do it, but
it's I.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Have tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
When I first listened to her saying Avam Maria, I
came so close to becoming a Christian.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I can't even begin to tell you that. It was
really close. And then I pronounce.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's hard us around me.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Yeah, oh yeah, all right, Uh Lindsey, welcome to the family,
and you welcome to my family, and you and I
to your family. Things all right, you got it, all right,
coming up, Take care, we'll talk a little bit later.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Take care, God blessed, God speed, gez shoot me.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, I know it's absolutely disgusting. All right, let's get
a little serious. Unfortunately for all parties involved. For the
Palestinians they have the very bad luck to have Hamas
running the show, and for the Israelis they have the
very bad luck to have Netanyahu in his cabinet running
the show. And whenever there is an atrocity that is acute,
(07:26):
that's one of the parties accusing the other one.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Of of course, there is.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Either an out route denial or we'll look into it
and then it disappears. And that's the case with an
attack that Israel conducted on an ambulance and a group
of aid workers, and Israel says that, okay, here's what happened.
Maybe in an ambulance, but there were no sirens going,
there were no flashing lights, and we saw this vehicle
(07:54):
approaching Israeli soldiers suspiciously, and when people got out of
the vehicle, we figure they were attacked king the Israeli soldiers.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So we let loose.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Now, the Palestinians who were in the car and UN
workers who were there said, oh no, there were plenty
of lights going on.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Everybody knew the ambulance was marked.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
People did get out of the car to save or
to recover some bodies that had been killed before Israel
said no, that's not true. The UN says, yes, that's true.
Well videos just come out.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Guess what, the UN and the Palestinians are absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Correct, totally contradictory to what Israel has said.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And now how do they respond? Will investigate it? That's it?
Is anything going to come out of that investigation? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And here is the bottom line on a much bigger picture.
Because Israel is accused of using starvation as a weapon
of war, lack of food, and by the way, I completely.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Agree that that is happening. That is a war crime.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Hamas is accused of committing its atrocities as war criminals.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And unfortunately, as I said as I opened this segment,
what up was that Israelis have the very bad luck
to have Netanyahu and Palestinians have the very bad luck.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
To have Hamas.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Why well, because Israel is prepared to wipe out Gaza
to get back the hostages, literally wipe it out. Fifty
thousand Palestinians have died. Probably a third are Hamas militant,
so those don't count as far as I'm concerned. But
let's say thirty five thousand, over thirty thousand men, women,
(09:40):
children who are completely innocent have been killed, and eighty
percent of Gaza has been destroyed. Israel is prepared to
destroy one hundred percent of Gaza and kill another fifty
thousand if necessary, civilians to get the hostages back.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Is that simple?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Hamas, who I think is even worse about this, is
willing to let one hundred thousand Palestinians die and is
willing to have Gaza be turned into a wasteland.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Most of Gaza looks like Hiroshima does right after the war,
right after the bomb was dropped.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And to Hamas, it really doesn't matter. Hamas is not
giving up its power. It does not care how many
people die. If it was the other way around. I
think Israel cares far more about its citizens than Hamas
does about its citizens. But that still doesn't mean that
the atrocities are going on and they're both uh, they're
(10:41):
they're they're both smashing each other, that that's what they're doing.
I mean, they're just going, you know, cheek to cheek,
jowl to jowl and headbutting each other, and no one's moving.
Israel says, we want our hostages back. We're willing to
wipe you out. Hamas says, we're not giving you the
hostages because we're not willing to give up power that
(11:03):
Israel demands, and we don't care. Power is more important
to us than our civilians. Israel says. Our claim that
you have to have no power, you have to leave
Gaza is more important to us than the entire population
of Gaza.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And if we have to wipe them all out, we'll
wipe them out. We don't care.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And that's the problem that's going on, and it is
horrific and it's not getting any better. It's heartbreaking, it
really is. And for someone who is as pro Israel
as I am, not only because of my religious background,
but because I have friends that are in Israel, obviously
(11:45):
I read a lot of history about it, and Israel
is a pretty incredible place all I have.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
To tell you.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You know, Israel coming out of the ashes of the Holocaust,
where six million died during the war simply because they
were Jewish during World War Two, you would think that
a country that came out of that would have a
very different view of tolerance.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Not a chance.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Israelis are as racist as everybody. I mean, that doesn't change.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You don't want to be in You do not want.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
To be in an Arab oblivia in Israel, you talk
about second class citizen one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
All right, what's going on in the world of tourism.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well, we've been talking this morning about where the stock
market is going in is now down seven hundred points,
and it's just the economies are reeling. And we're talking
about companies, sectors, countries that we don't know where they're
going economically. But I'll tell you one industry that we
know that's been going on since day one of the
Trump administration, and that's the tourism industry.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And foreign tourists.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Are not coming to the United States as often as
they did, as much as they did, spending any kind
of the money they did. They just don't want to
come here. And the United States used to be the
one of the great places to visit in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Not so much anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
There's a story out of The Atlantic in which they
interviewed the owner of A B and B an old
orchard Peach, Maine. A lot of Canadian visitors about forty
of the industry. There a tourist industry is Canadians not anymore.
They've just stopped coming. Trudeau last month said then Prime
(13:32):
Minister Justin Trudeau said, Canadians are hurt, Canadians are angry.
We're gonna choose not to go on vacation in Florida
or Old Orchard Beach or wherever.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Why.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, because Donald Trump has made it very clear, the
entire administration that's saying we don't like foreigners. It's that simple,
very much introspective, very much America for isolationism, even jingoism,
if you want to go that far. And that's just
a different philosophy. We are not under the Trump administration.
(14:08):
Under the Trump philosophy, we are not internationalists anymore. The
world was heading towards and a lot of people were
not unhappy about this, and international economy and inter well,
in Europe, quote, the internationalist government is there, you know,
the European Union, it's the European Parliament has more power
than individual parliaments and congresses in each country. And let
(14:34):
me tell you, can you imagine that that we as
Americans would be looking at, let's say, a Northern Hemisphere
organization would have more power over us than our own
congress and that's what's going on in Europe with the
European market. And there are twenty eight countries and they
all have to be under the auspices of one parliament,
(14:56):
not individuals. And this is where Trump is going the
other way. He says, no, no, we're not going to do that.
We're America. We're on our own, we stand on our
own two feet. We're not part of this internationalist business. Well,
that translates into and we're not particularly interested in you
or you guys coming here. And look at the requirements
that are now in place, much tougher. Matter of fact,
(15:18):
you've got the UK, for example, has told its travelers
coming to the United States, watch out, we can't guarantee anything.
Be aware of much more restriction, many more restrictions. These
are advisories that are coming into travelers coming in the
United States from all over the world.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And we're talking about allies. We're not talking about crazy people.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
We're talking about Germans, Italians, Brits that are being told
it's going to be a lot rougher. Do you know
the UN with its workers, they're telling the UN workers
carry your ID, copies of your past sports and copies
of your visas to show the authorities that.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Was unhurt before.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It just didn't happen, And it's happening more and more,
and the tourism is, the tourism trade is getting nailed.
I don't know how many people in the tourism trade
voted for Donald Trump, but I'm willing to bet as
they're filing for bankruptcy, they may be saying, maybe that
wasn't such a good idea.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
And we don't even know where the fallout was going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So I come back from Italy and I'm walking through
passport control.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And the.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Passport officers, the Customs and Border patrol guy at the
stand where you go through, you show your passport and
you have the big flag Welcome to America. He looks
at me and he said, hey, welcome back to America.
And I said to him, no, speaking to English, that
was not a good move. And I'll tell you why,
(16:53):
because I would think he would normally laugh.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
He did not laugh.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He just gave me a look that I instantly said, Okay,
maybe that.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Wasn't such a good idea.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
So I said, just joking, thank you, I'm thrilled to
be back. And then I started humming the Star Spangled
Banner under my breath, and he realized that was just
an idiot joke I made, and he just let me
through two things that I am now coming to the conclusion.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
This is advice that Handle has giving you. Two pieces
of advice that I think you should pay attention to.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
One coming into this country and joking about not speaking
English or somehow connection to any reference that you shouldn't
be here. Nope, that's done. And the other one, never
do film reviews at a TSA checkpoint. When you refer
to a movie as a bomb, never ever say that.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Okay, we're done with that.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Now. When I end talking about what happened back in
nineteen sixty nine, I mean that goes aways back. But
if you remember, or you look at any of the history,
look at YouTube videos, you will see what happened in
Santa Barbara was that catastrophic oil spill, and that really started.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
The modern environmental movement.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And out of that came the California Coastal Act, and
that is known as well, it's the Granddaddy of all
environmental acts, and it just kickstarted the whole thing all right.
Then you had in twenty fifteen another major spill in
that area, and effectively everything was just shut down because
(18:43):
Santa Barbara, boy, it's a beautiful coastline, and it was
a mess. It was almost not quite as bad, but
it was obviously much closer to home than the xun Valdis.
And Saint William what is it Port Williams? Sound Saint Williams?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I forget Prince William, that was it?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Prince Princess saying, you know, Prince William sound up in Alaska.
I mean this was right here and it took years
to clean it up and zillions of dollars. Well, let
me tell you what's happening right now. There is a
company called Sable Oil. It's a Texas company, and it
owns that pipeline. Those oil derecks, there's three of them,
(19:24):
oil platforms of which they're not functioning, and they want
to bring them back, and the Coastal Commission is saying, no,
you can't do it, and they're saying too bad, And
they're going ahead and fixing the infrastructure and they're repaying
or repairing whatever pipeline that is an existence to begin bringing.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oil back up. They figure about twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Thousand barrels a day coming out of there, so it's
not huge, but enough to certainly keep it going. And
the Coastal Commission is saying no, and they're saying, we
don't care. Now there's some Yeah, there are some little
bits of laws and regulations involved, but there's a basic
philosophy here. The Coastal Commission had said no, but the
(20:11):
County of Santa Barbara had said yes. So they're fighting
back and forth, and Sable is arguing, we're not building anything.
We're simply repairing what's already there and bringing it back,
so we're not building anything new. So there are some
intricacies involved there, because there's always little bits and pieces
of the puzzle that have to be looked at. But
here's the big story, and that is the Coastal Commission,
(20:32):
which has no enforcement powers whatsoever. These are federal waters
in which a lease has been granted. And you now
have a government and administration that started a presidency with drill,
baby drill, and this is just going to be another
example of a complete turnaround where this administration is going
(20:55):
one hundred and eighty degrees in a different direction than
the previous admitute. Under Biden, you had tough environmental controls.
You had tough in not only just controls, but you
had laws being passed, you.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Had enforcement of environmental rules. Now that's gone the other way.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
And what we're going to see in Santa Barbara is
not so much new drilling but the starting up again
of an existing pipeline that they're saying, all we're doing
is fixing it up. And the issue is now what happens?
Coastal Commission says no. And usually everybody pays attention to
the Coastal Commission. I mean it's you know.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
They levy fines and companies pay them.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
They say you can't drill here, and companies pay attention
to that. Well, Sable is saying you can go pound sand.
Does the Coastal Commission have the Coastal Commission Police that
they can call out, you know, dripping with seaweed, these
guys and the uniforms, And no, they don't. And it's
(21:59):
almost one of those things, like the Supreme Court, if
one of the issues involved with the Trump administration is
does the administration have the ability to just ignore the
courts just ignore it. It's made that argument in many
cases that it has unbridled power in various cases so
far it has, and I think it will continue to
(22:21):
pay attention to court decisions it has so far, but
are arguing in all these lawsuits it has the ability
to say no, that the courts don't have.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
The ability to say yes or no.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And I think the same argument is going here where
you have this oil company saying we don't care what
the Coastal Commission says. Now there's a technical argument saying, well,
we already have a permit and we're not building a
new and so there's some leeway there. But the premise,
the basic premise is can a company, a government say no.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
To the courts? We'll see, won't we All.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Right, we're done, guys, We're back again tomorrow. Gary and
Shannon are next at ten o'clock. They're talking about what's
happening in Mammoth with a hunt of virus. And as
Neil pointed out earlier, this is not the Yenta virus
in which affects old Jewish women in Florida. This is
the Hunt virus that Gene Heckman's wife died of, and
(23:27):
it's here in California, it's in Mammoth. All of that,
all right, catch you tomorrow, everybody once again, back in
the saddle again. This is KFI Am sixty. You've been
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