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That's great. And how long have we been working together? Three years. Three years. Oh, you both start at the same time? Well, I started on the show before her. Okay. But only by a couple months. Got it. All right. So I get the two confused. Always, always. You were over it for a while. Yeah, and then I'm back. Yeah, Neil, you don't. No, thank God, I'm the only one with an end. We've only known each other for 32 years or whatever. Yeah, that's true. Great story of how we met, but I can't really go into that. Things have changed. Things have changed. Yeah, I used to get away with a lot more around. Yeah, no kidding. Absolutely. There was a time. There was a time. Although we're getting back to where we were. No, I mean. No. We're getting closer to where we were. There was a time a couple of years ago where one letter could, oh, my God, we're in trouble. We're in trouble. You can't deal with it. And now it's a lot of... You referred to your producer as the Grand Teton's. I don't know that that's going to fly anymore. That's exactly my point. That is exactly my point. And that was Michelle. who is, she walks hunched over, you know, she looks like she has scoliosis, but really is a weight gravity issue. All right, Will, good morning. Good morning, Bill. Okay, and then there's Ann. Oh, I have to share with you guys something. I am now, and no one ever thought this would happen. I am now doing yoga. Stretchy. Gross. Yoga. No, it's not. I have, it's only women in the class. And there are some women that, you know, just, it's amazing how. Do you wear your juju lemons? I do not. I cannot touch my toes. There's no way. I can get, I can get literally past my knees when I go down and stretch. And anything on one leg or one knee, I'm done. I topple over. But it's, I'm going to do yoga. Actually, I already started yoga. I started yoga with you. My friend who actually is the lead lawyer and handle on the law.com, Mark, has become a pretty close friend. And every Sunday, we yoga it up. And you just described what sounds like a fainting goat. When you kneel. Pretty close. You got to keep in mind, I've been through all of these with you when you worked out all the time. I'm still working out. Oh, that was many, many years ago. But I do work out. I do work out. I do work out. I walk. I work out. I yoga. And I supposedly theoretically look, should lose weight. Except last night, for example, I had pork egg rolls from. Smart and final. Great stuff. That sounds good. Oh, it's fabulous. Air fry him. Ooh, so good.

All right. Said hello to the crowd. Let me see. We got, I was going to go to No Kingsden March, the rally on Saturday. But I'm done. I've done one of those rallies. Feeney done. So as we start handle on the news on this Monday morning March 30th with Neil and Amy and me, that is our lead story. You'll be back like before. I will fight the fight and win the war for your love. God, I love that musical, don't you? Hamilton is so good. And the king is just one of the best characters. He's so funny. So great. Da-da-da-da. Yeah, he really is. That's great. I went to Lynn Manuel, Luis Garcia Rodriguez. I always mispronounce his name. No. No. And he was doing an event, and I went there to do for school kids. And you could go up and get a picture. And so I went up and got a photo app. And then as I went to meet him, I said, hey, I'm a local talk show host. And I was about to then say, I'd love to have you on the show. As soon as I said, I'm a local talk show host, they said, yeah, that's great, that's great. And then pushed me out of the way. People were going, it was so humiliating. I can't begin to tell you. It sounded like I was just bragging. Okay. Anyway, 8 million people. And I'm going to do more about that at 7 o'clock because that had more than a little bit of import, to say the least. Yeah, you saw them walk when I was heading into the station. You saw people walking around. I know there were some issues and stuff, but I like seeing, you know, non-confrontational protests. And I saw all kinds of people walking around. Yeah, L.A. was the basically I think the only city where there was some confrontation with the police. Yeah, because you probably get people that aren't, you know, that just are rabble rousers. Yeah, no, you do. They were throwing concrete chunks at police officers. Yeah, in L.A. I from understand there weren't any place else where there was that. Did Orange County have a large, larger showing this time around than last time? I heard that Orange County had a good showing this time. All right. Well, we'll talk more about that at 7 o'clock. Iran says it is ready. Iran's parliament speaker has warned the U.S. against any form of ground invasion, threatening to set American troops as he put it on fire and step up attacks on U.S. allies. The parliament speaker said Iranian forces are waiting for the arrival of American troops on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever. Well, we won the war in the first hour. And then it became, it's going to take two to four weeks. Now it's going to be another two to four weeks, Marco Rubio said. And then we did attack Iraq. We have a 15-point peace plan that are already in place that we're negotiating. Iran says you're crazy. It's bouncing all over the place. And American troops are hitting the Mideast. And so everybody is sweating bullets.

At this point, hopefully the bullets don't fly. But we'll see what happens over the next two minutes. And then after that, five minutes later, something else. Okay, let's move on. I start going crazy. Okay. Oil prices, man. I think it was $6.50.60 or whatever it was that I saw per gallon. Oil prices climbed yesterday. You got Tehran warning against the U.S. ground invasion. As Handel just pointed out, President Donald Trump going back and forth, back and forth. So Brent Crude, the global benchmark, rose 2.4. 7% to $107.92 dollars and per barrel and crude raised 2.94% to 102.57 per barrel. So we're already starting to see it. I mean, those prices are, I actually drove around and I'm not that guy. I don't drive around for prices. I want to go get what I need to and then leave. But I actually drove around because it's so damn expensive right now. Yesterday I filled up Lindsay's car $130. She drives a Sherman tank. She does not, but it doesn't matter. That's a massive car. I paid $6.60 for gas. And that's at an inexpensive gas station. That's not a name brand. It's a cheapo, creepo, famous name brand, Abraham Lincoln Gas or George Washington, famous name. And so it was, it's getting in $130. $130 for a tank of gas. What does she get 15, 15 miles a gallon? Not 18. She gets maybe 18, you know, or, you know, maybe 18 city, 22 highway. I mean, it's a, she has a, it's just a V8 and it's big. But still, you know, it's, it's still crazy. I'll tell you, really feeling it is, um, Kono, because he drives such a distance. And he's getting nailed. Okay. Busting the blockade, an oil tanker, the Anatoli Koloadkin, could soon discharge.

It's oil at Matanzas port in Cuba. This is three months after Cuba's last oil import. The U.S. will allow the tanker full of crude oil to reach Cuba, apparently. Ship tracking data showed that the Russian flagged tanker was just off the eastern tip of Cuba yesterday. Trump said on Air Force One yesterday that he's okay with the tanker getting through because, as he put it, the people of Cuba need to survive. Then why the blockade in the first place? Why have, why would you have Venezuela stop all of oil transport to Cuba, which is happening, except for this one, which is being allowed through while the embargo is happening? And sanctioning Russia and why Russian oil is going. It's a problem. It's a problem. With all your questions, reasonable, logical questions. I know. Just there isn't, there isn't much logic there. Oh, CNN is reporting, by the way, that there has been regime change in Iran, that it has happened. And the United States is now talking to the new regime. Okay. The sun's out? I got me. The Sunnstein. Oh, God, it's great. It really is. It really is. I love it. All right, moving on. All right. So back in 2024, August 2nd, 2024, there was this massive. I don't know, fight, breakout in the Central California women's facility in Chowchilla. Inmates were tear gassed, beaten, and according to a complaint filed there in federal court against the state's prison system, you had 41 staff members that... you know, just went nuts. And you have that they violated, they violated police or policy and they all face disciplinary actions. You had termination transfers to other positions, salary reductions, and the California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation reached a $1.9 million settlement. with 13 female inmates. I don't know why I can't talk. You and me, Amy, have the same thing this morning, apparently. Yeah, it's beautiful, isn't it? So anyway, so the incident went down. They said that it was war zone level violence. And so these 13 have been paid between 50,000 and. $200,000 based on their injuries. Now, obviously, $1.9 million out of the... Seemed low. Corrections. Nothing. It's pocket change because this is a multi-billion dollar agency. But I think it...

talks to the problem that the corrections department has. And remember the sheriff's department where the sheriff's department was accused of engaging effectively in gladiator fighting. And they would bet the sheriffs would bet on inmates and who was going to win these fights. I mean, they've got some problems. They really do. Inmates are not treated well. And I wonder how they do in other states. You know, are they treated any better in other states? And I don't know at that point. You'd have to look that up. But maybe that's a perk of the job. Maybe. It's like, ah, the pay's not great, but all the beating you want. Yeah. Still, I see at the airport. Borders are Tom Homan says immigration and customs enforcement agents are going to still be at airports until TSA officers are able to resume normal operations. Of course, ICE was called in like last week to help assist with non-screening procedures because of all the TSAs. agents that had been calling out during the partial government shutdown. Holman says if less TSA agents come back, that means we'll keep more ICE agents there. So he basically said they'll be there as long as they're needed. You know, it's interesting that what Holman said in ICE, and that is those ICE agents are there to help, not necessarily to arrest illegal aliens. That's not what they're there for at all. Well, that's what Holman said, although the president said they are there for that. But Holman said they're not, and they're there to help. And a couple things that actually they do help. One is crowd control, which I don't think you need. People are, you know, pretty good about that. I haven't seen any riots break out. But also, they were confirming tickets and ID like you have to have at those TSA stations going in. before you go in through security and before you go in through, well, before you go in through the X-ray machine. And that kind of made sense where that job, all you're doing is confirming that. And then I'm looking at that and I said, okay, I'll buy that. And then, you know, those few ice agents that were on all four sniffing at people's crotches, that one I understand was probably over the top. Gross. Okay. Thank you. All right. So it's not what you say and it's not what you do. It's how you react, apparently. You've got the president going back and forth yet still sending troops, the arrival of 2,500 Marines and another 2,500 sailors keeping the number of American troops in the mid-east region over 50,000. We have about 40,000 American troops scattered around bases and ships and all kinds of things in that region. including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, Jim Jordan, all those areas anyways, but it's boosted by about 10 grand right now.

All righty. So the $4 charge on your statement, any statement might be an issue. Keep an eye out for those small charges. Why? They might be somebody attempting, somebody that got your information, attempting to see if they can use it. So rather than putting a big number on. They do these small little charges. They're very easy to ignore. Yeah, you don't pay attention to them. You know, so I learned this that when you, you know, send something during via Venmo or something, check first by sending a dollar, right? You send a dollar and if the person receives it, then you can send the rest. Well, this is kind of similar in the sense that they do a $4 thing on there. If nobody responds, they know that it's active. They know that they can put money on there and then they can do more. It's called ghost tapping. And it's these consumer alerts that the Better Business Bureau are putting out right now about this and that these small payments can be triggered without you actively making a purchase. It could be digitally. It's an easy fix, too. Just look at your statement. Yeah. Even check your statement daily. All you have to, literally you can look at it every day. I tend to. I tend to peruse it and check what's going on there. And I've caught a couple things, but they're usually like $100 or something. Nothing sweet about this story. Nestle says 12 tons, which is 413,793 candy bars of Kit Kat has been stolen. Haven't seen it. Yep. So the truck left its production site in Italy earlier this week. It was on its way to Poland, and it never arrived. The missing candy bars could enter unofficial sales channels across European markets. The company says, but if that happens, all those products can be traced because they have a unique batch code on the bars. And they may have a tough time finding these. In Italy, they're manufactured in Italy, so they slipped right through. Oh, boy. Really? A grease joke? Yeah. An Italians' grease joke. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I speak fluent handle. Could you imagine, though? They say these are all, uh, have codes on them. I want you to pay me in Nestle's Kit Kat, but I'm one of unmarked. Oh, they're good. And people like Kit Katz. Oh, I love Kit Katz. The evidence is disappearing quickly. Yeah, there you are. Okay. See, that's cute. See, that is just cute. That isn't racist. Wow. Depraved. What? It's not scatological. It's... Amy is none of those things normally. No. I was just pointing out, Amy is the rock of reasonableness here. Oh my gosh. He's so giddy about your upcoming date, Amy, to Disneyland. Yes.

Look at it. Amy and I are going. I've been the first time in like 30 years. If he tries to hold your hand. Yeah, I'm very, I'm actually very excited about going with Amy. It's going to be a lot of fun. Kono and I were just talking. If we didn't do radio, we are going to get into illegal arms dealing. But now it looks like maybe not a good idea. A U.S. Marine formally stationed at Camp Pendleton. is now in federal custody charged with stealing weapons of war and trying to sell them, including, as you heard Amy talking about, a shoulder-fired missile system. So he was going to resell them in Arizona. What does that say about Arizona? And what does that say? Who's going to use a missile, a shoulder-fired missile? Don't judge people. What are you going to use it for? Second Amendment, bro. Yeah, I just don't. I, you know, I understand weapons, long guns. I understand certainly handguns. I get all that. But, bro, it's in the Constitution, bro. Yeah, I just, man, I just don't understand what you do with that one. And I really don't. The authorities described all the items as strictly controlled and dangerous. Sounds like it. Yeah. A deputy has died. Very sad. An L.A. County Sheriff's deputy suffered some sort of a medical emergency during the 26 Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup relay race. It was happening over the weekend. 30-year-old Levi Vargas died from his injuries. He'd been with the department since I believe 2015, worked at the San Dimas Sheriff's Office. Yeah, I have a question. The relay rates is Challenge Cup relay. How long is the distance that an individual runner runs? Do you have any idea? I don't know. It's 120 miles. So how long is each leg? Yeah. His dad was a cop. Yeah, he was more of the, let's hand out water and make sure they don't pass out. No. He stayed in the car. Yeah, I just wondered how that is, you know. Well, there's 20 legs and they range from a little over six miles to over 10 miles. So they're different lengths. Okay, so that's not, you know, it's not Iron Man or anything. You want to run 10 miles? That's Iron Man to Me. Yeah. Well, let me tell you, Iron Man to me is leaving the show afterwards. And as I said, work out and going to the gym. And then my afternoon job, which is the best job of all. Walking over the couch and watching TV. Stopping only to, my water break is going into the refrigerator or the freezer and grabbing some kind of a Costco burrito.

Okay, moving on. All right, the church of the holy sepulchre, what I refer to it often as the holy speculation, it's believed that's where Christ was crucified. It is... I don't know, there's debate about all that stuff. But anyways, it is shared between multiple leaders, church leaders, because of its significance. So this was the first time in centuries that Israel blocked Jerusalem's Catholic cardinal from marking Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. And this, you know, obviously sparked a bunch out crying internationally. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reversed it for the remainder of Holy Week. Yeah, it turned around. That is not a good political move at all. Well, it's done. He's saying because of the war and all this stuff. So what? You know, you can bring lots and lots of security. Have you ever been to the Church of Holy Sepulchre? Yes. Absolutely. Okay. And you notice that there is a spot and it's, you know, it's like a star thing in the ground where Jesus was. No, you're confusing. Oh, I'm just in the birthplace. This is where, yeah, okay, I'm sorry. I am confusing because I'm very confused. In any case, as Neil said, there is some controversy. Let me tell you what actually happened. Okay, and I think this is more true than not. Someone pointed to a spot and said, there. That looks good. And then out of that came exactly the spot where Jesus was crucified. There's at least three different locations that they believe to be Calgary or Galgapha. Well, you know, how many churches... have a splinter or a tiny bit of wood from the cloth. Oh, yeah. There's enough there to fill three lumber yards. Yeah, it's like, you know, not to mention Christ wasn't the only one crucified by the Romans. Okay, we'll do one more. Amy, I think we'll finish it up with you. Okay, loaded tortillas. California has become the first state to require food makers to add.

folic acid, which is a crucial vitamin, to corn masa flour used to make tortillas and other traditional Mexican foods. It's a long delayed move aimed at reducing Hispanic infants disproportionately high rates of serious health conditions called neural tube effects. There's Andrea Lopez, who's now 44, lost her child to this birth defect. She says, is such a small effort for such a tremendous impact. Yeah, here's the question. It's already required in wheat and white bread, cereals, pastas. How was this missed? How did, you know, how do you exclude this? When all the other products have this folic acid in it, now they're making up the deficit. All right, we're done, guys. That's it. Coming up, the No Kings rallies, and it was, well, they're getting bigger and bigger, and I'll share a little bit of the information with you on that. This is KFI AM 640. You've been listening to The Bill Handel Show, catch my show Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and anytime on demand on the IHeart Radio app. Summer weather can be relentless, the heat, the humidity, long, hot days that leave you ready for cooling, relaxing relief. Karoloha bamboo sheets are naturally cooling, breathable, and luxuriously soft, letting you enjoy a sleep experience that feels better and recharges you every night. This season, discover why Kariloha is proud to partner with the National Exima Association in celebrating comfort that's gentle on skin. Sleep cooler, comelier, and cleaner with Karaloha bamboo. Visit Karaloha.com. That's C-A-R-I-L-O-H-A.com. Karoloha. Same summer. Just softer. Hey, everybody. I'm Tarika Foster Brasby. What's up, y'all? I'm your girl Cheryl Eric Swalwell. When you tune in to a new episode of our podcast levels to this, you're definitely going to get some spicy WNBA analysis. I see a lot of men who get into the space because now it's a hot product. And that grinds my gears to dust. But then the conversation goes on and levels up beyond basketball. It's been really, really cool seeing kind of these women. just really step into their power off the court and understand that they aren't basketball, right? And they're not asking for permission? Because on levels to this, the game is always the starting point, but we're more than just hoops. And the real conversation is what we actually breathe. This is Levels to This, the podcast about all the levels of stuff that women go through. Listen to Levels to This with Shrews Soops and Tarika Foster Brasby on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

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