Israel Rejects Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan | Cal Tech’s ‘Fraud Squad’

Bill, why is my eye twitching? Does this mean I'm in perimenopause? Where's my phone? Juliana, maybe we can ask an actual human. Yes, because I have questions. And I bet you do too. Like, is it normal to sleep in separate bedrooms? We do that. And I still need to know why my poop's been green. We've got actual people answering these exact questions. Listen to Bill and Juliana. The podcast. On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast. When teenager Joy Morgan discovered the religious group Israel United in Christ, she believed she'd found the truth. Many believe she found a cult. Then she disappeared. The new podcast, The Missing Sister, explores her story, the family she left, and the religious group she found. You know when you get that feeding, I'm like, I don't want to be here. I want to get out. I want to go ahead now. All episodes available now to Bench. Listen to The Missing Sister on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. When Democrats are messing up, I say it. When Republicans are messing up, I say it. I'm S.E. Cup, a journalist and political commentator. And on my podcast, off the cup, I help you make sense of the often nonsensical news. I do this on cable news too, but on my podcast, I can really let loose and be my honest, unfiltered self. I just want to talk about something that happened this week because it's so bonkers. So stupid. Such. Incredibly bad politics. We have to talk about it. Come for the hot takes. Stay for the sanity. Listen to Off the Cup on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. New school year, same beautiful mess. Good Mom's Bad Choices is back to talk back to school. Realness. The guilt, the giggles, and the choices no other show is brave enough to admit. Mom Life is calling, and I have my last motherfucking volleyball tournament. of Irie's club team volleyball and I can't wait for the to be over because I don't like participating and having to drive far distances. Shout out to the moms and my mom who made it happen. Listen to Good Mom's Bad Choices from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.

KFI AM 640, Bill Handel here. On a Monday morning, August 10, some of the stories we are looking at, Iran has laid out a list of demands. It says the U.S. must fulfill before the straight opens up. And the United States, President Trump has taken a different tack completely. It's no longer military. It's now economic. And here's a bit of news. Mattel is making a Whitney Houston version of the doll. And it features Whitney in the outfits she wore when you see the video, I want to dance with somebody. Now, they've made the doll waterproof because you play with the doll in the bathtub. Huh? Okay. Plenty, Neil. Absolutely plenty. I hope you get hit by a bus. And then, oh, then I hire myself. to represent me. Okay, moving on to the next topic, and that is this morning, when I was talking about inflation, Amy posited the fact, which is true, that egg prices have dropped. And inflation has not only not hit egg prices, but they are low, low, low. And by the way, that is great news. For me, for example, why? Because I only eat eggs. I don't eat meat. I don't eat vegetables. I don't eat any kind of protein. I certainly don't use dairy or eat any kind of dairy product. I only have eggs. So that is good news for me and those of you that only have eggs. Well, the reality is there's a lot more to groceries. And they have gone up and also utilities gone up. And unfortunately, a lot of Americans, this is a new study by Omniscend, an e-marketing, e-commerce marketing platform. And it says real simple, more people are borrowing money to pay for groceries, borrowing money to pay for groceries. Higher prices have changed how consumers feel about brands they once liked. A majority of these respondents said they believe brands are using inflation as an excuse to raise prices more than necessary. That is a different conversation. Half blamed politicians for rising food costs. A thousand consumers in this survey. 30% said they used a credit card to pay for essentials. That is tough. Groceries, gas, utilities, medical bills. In the past three months, knowing they're not going to be paying off their bill. 20% said they barter from friends or family. 18% use buy now, pay later products. 17% say they had to use savings meant for something else. The reality is inflation has done some very serious damage to the way we live. We just don't live the same. Now, Biden's last year or second year, third year in, inflation was at 9% and it made buying very costly. And that's one of the big reasons that he lost the election to President Trump. Well, inflation is here and it's baked in.

And the economist, the White House, can say all day long, inflation is down, inflation is down. Don't worry about it. Things are cheaper for you. Well, okay, then why are you using credit cards to pay for groceries? When you add in fuel costs, medical bills that are going like crazy, families are forced to choose between carrying balances or going without those essentials. Nearly one in five adults paid for groceries with savings. One in 20 bought groceries with cash from a payday advance loan. That's 5%. And when it came to credit cards, nearly 35% of adults ages 18 to 64 paid by credit card and paid that bill in full. That's 35%. That's when you really are smart about using credit cards if you can pay them in full. But 20%, paid less than the full balance, but always paid the minimum. Another 9% didn't always make the minimum payments. More than 1 and 4, 25% working age adults use credit cards to purchase food for their families and experienced repayment challenges. They can't pay it back. Wow. I gotta tell you, that's tough stuff. It really is. Now, some of the heaviest rates of credit card usage, the survey showed, were people with a highest income bracket. And I think that that stat is ridiculous because I pay virtually for everything with credit cards. But I pay it off the end of the month and the benefits of using a credit card to pay for everything. If you can pay it off, far better. I get miles, which is why, you know, my travel expenses, I run my business through credit cards. So I get a ton of miles. And I pay my bill. And I'm lucky to do so because I have a good job and I live under my means. And there aren't many people that have that kind of relationship with the economy and they have that kind of lifestyle. And the shame of it is, is it is getting more expensive to live by the day. Now, wages have gone up. No question about it. So when you go to the grocery store next, as you're putting meat on the counter, just tell yourself, wages have gone up. My wages have gone up. Therefore, this meat, which is now $3 a pound more than it was last year or $2 a pound more, it really doesn't mean much because my wages have more than made up for that. Go ahead and do that for me. And we're living at a time when people using credit cards and borrowing money to eat is... beyond me in a country like the United States. Yeah, but you also have people that are living way above their means in vehicles that cost $700 a month to pay for and multiple cell phones and cable and all these things that I didn't grow up with because we couldn't afford them. Understood. But we always have food. Okay.

Nothing is going to happen until Hamas disarms. Hamas is saying nothing is going to happen until Israel withdraws. And there it is. They're stuck between a hard place and a rock and a hard place. And that is the first point, by the way, that is not being met. So... Benjamin Netanyahu said, we are now discussing this with Americans. They have ideas, some of which are acceptable, some are not, and we know how to stand up to these things. Man, he has just come down hard against the president on this issue. As long as I'm Prime Minister, no Palestinian state will be established, not in Gaza, not in the West Bank. And Benjamin Netanyahu has some real issues on this because elections coming up in October. And Israel is pretty unified against Hamas. Not the Palestinian state, mind you, against Hamas. Why? Because of October 7th. And Hamas has never given up its charter, its view that Israel must be destroyed. It is still there. And Israel says, as long as Hamas thinks that, they disarm or we just continue. And October 7th will never happen again. At the end of July, Trump announced what he described as a historic agreement to secure the disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza. Nope. Not true. And this was months after the president first announced a U.S. brokered ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. Very tenuous, for the most part, not true. And here's why. Hamas is only going to go through with the deal if Israel halt the strikes in Gaza and pulls troop back to the yellow line. The yellow line is well in Gaza that Israel has established. I mean, Israel controls 30, maybe 50% of Gaza at this point. And Hamas controls the rest of it. And at this point... Nothing is moving except that Gaza is still being attacked by Israel. Israel's position is since Hamas embeds itself into civilian locations. Because they can't go to open war with Israel. I mean, they'd be slaughtered. So they embed themselves. Israel, on the other hand, is not paying particular attention. Israel has stopped humanitarian aid from coming in. Israel has made life as miserable for Palestinians as humanly possible.

Well, no, Israel does send out flyers and does have cell phone announcements. We're about to bomb this building, that building, this neighborhood, get the hell out. And Israel is moving Palestinians all over the place. We're going to take out this area. And then where you've moved, you're going to take out that area, move again. And there are some Palestinians that have moved probably a dozen times to get away from. from Israeli forces. And Gaza right now is relying almost 100% on humanitarian aid. There is no economy. Fuel is almost non-existent. It's miserable. And the problem is that Palestinians can't rise up against Hamas. Can you imagine what would happen if the West Bank and Gaza were to come to peace with Israel? If they had a Martin Luther King, if they had a Gandhi, if they had a Nelson Mandela, and they had true peace, Israel would help them build an economy because Israelis are really good about building economies. Look at Tel Aviv. That's a world-class city. Them Jews, pretty smart people. You got to give it to them. Yeah. Them Palestinians are also very smart, by the way. They traditionally, before craziness started, were in the Arab world. They were the professionals. And all over in the Mideast, Palestinians would come in and be the technocrats. and would be the managers and the professionals. Boy, those days are gone. Now, let me tell you what's going on at Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, one of the premier tech schools in the U.S. Caltech, MIT, I mean, this is the top of the heap. They have created a team to vet every single student's application. Why? Well, they're receiving anonymous accusations of dishonest submissions. In other words, there's a good chance if your kid is applying to Caltech. Your kid is a liar, a cheat. Okay? And that's not anecdotal. That's probably a medical fact. Your kid is a liar, a cheat. And this team checks transcripts, certificates, signatures, uses a video interview program to verify applicants' research claims. So it's not just using AI, by the way, to help out. It is straight out lying. It's that simple. And so it's the fraud squad. And why? Well, because Caltech admits less than 4% of the applicants of incoming classes. And Caltech created this team two years ago because so many accusations were coming in. And so this four-person team inspects every admitted student's app, taking nothing for granted, scouring the Internet to confirm obscurities, contact competition officials, high school counselors. And these applications have become more competitive.

and certainly more complex. Some have, well, some request long list of accolades. That's what Caltech does. They want to see research, competitions, awards, independent projects. The bottom line to get into Caltech or MIT, and this is a Caltech story with this fraud squad, you basically have to have already won the Nobel Peace Prize or the Nobel Prize in physics to get in. I mean, you've got to be that good. And you have to be a world-class violin player, a violin, yes, you have to be a violin student and chair number one. And so a lot of schools review applications for accuracy, but this one dig so much deeper. Caltech system. First of all, it doesn't charge incoming students an enrollment deposit. Usually schools charge like a $100 fee and people just pay up. Caltech doesn't. So it's getting plenty of applicants. And so the fraud squad has to go to work. The applicants in many cases misrepresent themselves. It's that bottom line. Caltech needed to investigate these. And Director of Admissions at University of Illinois, Sarah McKinsey, said they have seen so many essays generated by Chat GPT, and they are dealing with them. They have to figure out ways. So they use AI to figure out... AI being used. And pretty soon, since people are very smart about using AI to overcome the AI that checks their AI applications, they are now developing AI to check on the AI that checks on the application because AI is always ahead of the game. And so they evaluate video interviews. Might flag a candidate who submitted research that required advanced math. Back we go to the Nobel Prize. If the student's transcript indicates they didn't take a higher level course, yet they admit advanced math courses, it really is an investigation. Then it's outreach. Now, in a few cases, it turns out that a student has taught himself or themselves advanced math. How do you figure that one out? Talk to their mentor or a counselor at school. And admission officers have described their numerous times where a seemingly far-fetched application proved absolutely true. But when they do see that, they are completely odd. Bottom of the line, you cheat, you cheat, you cheat. There is someone who worked here at KFI who has moved to Spain and has asked for a recommendation letter, which I wrote. And here's what most people do with the recommendation letters. You write something up, I'll sign it. And I looked at it and I said, wow, this is terrific. I got to tell you, this is really good.

I didn't know you could, you know, write this so good. He goes, this chat, GPT. There's no question I couldn't write anything this good. Welcome to the world of AI checking on AI programs that check on AI programs. And I think we're going to go back and forward probably half a dozen times on that. What's the bottom line? Your kid is cheating. Your kid is a liar. and your kid is trying to get in a much better school. At least my kids were very honest about it. When they applied for junior college, the junior college said, you got to finish high school guys. You know, there's no way around this. All right. A story of the LA Time just came out with, and it has to do with dealing with not so much the homeless, but the affordability of homes. And here is what the story is, and it's come out from the city, that there are 20,000 lots that are empty. And the city is saying, let's use those lots. Excuse me, the big cough. Let's use those lots to build to help with the issue of affordability. More people can get homes. And these vacant lots can be transformed, small lots, into, quote, thoughtfully designed gentle density housing, duplexes, fourplexes, townhomes, and can be sold at more reasonable prices than the single family home, which is very, very difficult to buy these days. Frankly, I don't know how someone in their 20s could ever afford a house. My kids scream at me saying, Dad, it's your fault that I'll never be able to afford a house. Well, it's not my fault. It's when I bought first started buying, I was able to afford houses. And then I would sell and move up and sell and move up. Can't do that anymore. Just can't do that. And so the city is saying, let's use those and we're going to offer money and tax breaks and we want to make it happen. Now, I don't know what percentage of 20,000 lots can, in fact, be turned into housing. But as I said, this whole issue of homelessness and affordability is... incremental at best in terms of dealing with it. There's not going to be one magic bullet. There's not going to be one all-encompassing way of dealing with it. It has to be incremental. It has to be very, well, it is very, very expensive. And it's just a question of where assets... and where the city is going to move its money. There's never enough money for anything the city does. Why is that? Because whenever income rises, and a lot of this is based on California, it's all based on income tax. The city is based on revenue for taxes and businesses moving in and businesses increasing. Well, that's great when there's money coming in. And all these entitlement programs, they're still there when the economy goes south.

And the economy goes up and down constantly. Every time there's a contract that's up with city employees, raises have to be given. Maintenance, which is deferred over and over again, well, at some point it has to come, the can no longer being kicked down the road. And so there it is. According to Emmanuel, I have no idea what his last name is. I couldn't pronounce it if he stuck to get into my head. Affordable home ownership is a big hole in the market. And if we do this right, and this is, he's part of this organization called City Lab. It's a nonprofit that deals with this. If we do this right, hopefully this is going to be the first step in making affordable homes affordable. Well, okay. They have these little homes. Remember what are those tiny villages that are being built where you have a person and it's basically a plywood box with a roof on it and you get to live in that, which is better than living on the street. There's many countries where that is the only choice they have to live in. Yeah, but we're in the United States, aren't we? And we theoretically are. You think we're an exception? Yeah. Does that make us exceptional? Makes us exceptionally unable to be fair to everybody. No, I think we get judged different because we are exceptional. Yes, we are. We are. You go to South Sudan or Yemen tonight for their dinner. The only thing on the menu is sand. And it's just a different country. We're done. That's it. Come back tomorrow and we start all over again. And Gary and Shannon are up next. And it's wake-up call in the morning with Will and Amy. Neil and I are here. And that always, Kono and produce and create this award-winning show. And what awards have this show has a show gotten? Precisely. Okay, we'll see you tomorrow. 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. We've all been there. We've had seasons that have shaken everything. The question is, what remains when the shaking stops? Hi, I'm Gary Valenciano. And on my podcast, Unshaken with Gary V, I sit down with amazing personalities and we talk about the seasons that nearly broke them, the lows that carried them to their highs. Listen to Unshaken with Gary V on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Bill, why is my eye twitching? Does this mean I'm in perimenopause? Maybe I have adult ADHD. I need to look this up. Where's my phone? Juliana, your phone is hot to the touch. I think it's asking you for a break. You know what? Maybe I should just ask chat GPT. Or maybe we can ask an actual human. Yes, like a couple sex therapist. Whoa, that escalated quickly, but...

Okay. Because I have questions. We have questions. And I bet everyone has questions. Like, is it normal to sleep in separate bedrooms? We do that. How about this one? Is bribing your kids bad parenting or just negotiating? Oh, and I still do need to know why was my poop green that one time? Hypothetically, right? Okay, well, instead of letting the internet guess, we've got actual people answering these exact questions. And laughing with us has got to be better than spending three hours down a rabbit hole online. Listen to Bill and Juliana. The podcast. On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. In 2015, teenager Joy Morgan discovered strangely compelling YouTube sermons from the religious group Israel United in Christ, or IUIC. Her initial curiosity developed into devotion. She distanced herself from friends and family, embraced new identity, immersed herself in the IUIC, and believed she'd found the truth. IUC is the best family that I've ever had. In fact, she had found what many called a cult. And on Boxing Day 2018, Joy disappeared forever. In the new six-part investigative podcast, The Missing Sister, Charlie Brinkhurst Cuff and Freiturn explore Joy's story, the family she left, and the religious group she found. You know when you get that a feed, I'm like, I don't want to be here. I want to get out. I want to go ahead now. It's a story about truth, lies, a young woman yearning to belong and a family still waiting for answers. All episodes available now to binge. Listen to The Missing Sister on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea. This season, we've got some awesome guests ready to dole out advice. Guests like Tiffany Haddish. Kind of slide into people's DMs. I like Bumble. Also, girl, farmers only.com. At state sales, funerals, auctions are usually good. There's a lot of good men there. Grocery stores near gyms. Darcy Cardin. I remember being like, I know this is good advice, but like, I really don't want to do that. So you didn't take her advice? I didn't take her advice. Are you still friends with that woman? No. She actually was kind of toxic. Neil deGrasse Tyson. I spent my whole life looking up. I was a geek kid. I had a telescope at age 12. So you didn't have sex for a long time. Sherry O'Terry. Were you a soap opera person? Young and restless. Okay. Well, first of all, you should know it's the young and the restless. I can't even believe you're mispronouncing the title. Some of us abbreviated because we've been so weird for so many years. T.S. Madison. Are you into Pali?

No, no, I don't think so. No, I could have told you no on that. Girl, why do you not? It's a polly. Just based on what she's wearing and the way her hair is styled. She is not in a polly. Anna Ferris, Dave Franco, Madeline Klein, Hannah Gadsby, Adam Scott, Wanda Sykes, and more. Listen to Dear Chelsea on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We've all been there. We've had seasons that have shaken everything. The question is, what remains when the shaking stops? Hi, I'm Gary Valenciano. And on my podcast, Unshaken with Gary V, I sit down with amazing personalities and we talk about the seasons that nearly broke them, the lows that carried them to their highs. Listen to Unshaken with Gary V on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Bill, why is my eye twitching? Does this mean I'm in perimenopause? Maybe I have adult ADHD. I need to look this up. Where's my phone? Juliana, your phone is hot to the touch. I think it's asking you for a break. You know what? Maybe I should just ask chat GPT. Or maybe we can ask an actual human. Yes, like a couple sex therapist. Whoa, that escalated quickly, but... Okay. Because I have questions. We have questions. And I bet everyone has questions. Like, is it normal to sleep in separate bedrooms? We do that. How about this one? Is bribing your kids bad parenting or just negotiating? Oh, and I still do need to know why was my poop green that one time? Hypothetically, right? Okay, well, instead of letting the internet guess, we've got actual people answering these exact questions. And laughing with us has got to be better than spending three hours down a rabbit hole online. Listen to Bill and Juliana. The podcast. On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hi, my love. Starting your day can be tough. You wake up, maybe hit snooze, and then scroll on your phone for a while, checking your emails, all before even giving yourself the chance to really open your eyes and breathe. And I want to help you break that cycle. My name is Ryan Bari Weiss, and for the past 15 years, I've been an emotional intelligence coach and spiritual guide, and I'm here to share with you my new podcast, Waking Up with Ryan. Waking Up with Ryan is a daily audio video podcast to interrupt the inertia of your fear, your ego, and judgment. Here to help you connect with yourself before the noise of the day takes over. So let's start our days together with a moment of calm, a moment of reflection and meditation, a moment that's just for you. Listen to Waking Up with Ryan on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea. This season, we've got some awesome guests ready to dole out advice. Guests like Tiffany Haddish. Kind of slide into people's DMs. I like Bumble. Also, girl, farmers only.com. At state sales, funerals, auctions are usually good. There's a lot of good men there. Grocery stores near gyms. Darcy Cardin. I remember being like, I know this is good advice, but like, I really don't want to do that. So you didn't take her advice? I didn't take her advice. Are you still friends with that woman?

No. She actually was kind of toxic. Neil deGrasse Tyson. I spent my whole life looking up. I was a geek kid. I had a telescope at age 12. So you didn't have sex for a long time. Sherry O'Terry. Were you a soap opera person? Young and restless. Okay. Well, first of all, you should know it's the young and the restless. I can't even believe you're mispronouncing the title. Some of us abbreviated because we've been so weird for so many years. T.S. Madison. Are you into Polly? No, no, I don't think so. No, I could have told you no on that. Girl, why do you not? It's a polly. Just based on what she's wearing and the way her hair is styled. She is not in a polly. Anna Ferris, Dave Franco, Madeline Klein, Hannah Gadsby, Adam Scott, Wanda Sykes, and more. Listen to Dear Chelsea on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What does Drew Barrymore reach for at home? A Minky Couture blanket, the ultra-soft throw that stops you mid-sentence. Featuredress on her show and loved in real life, Minky Couture wraps you in premium plush fabric, signature stretch, and award-winning craftsmanship. The blanket that turns every couch into your favorite seat in the house. Drew Barrymore's Blanket, only at Minky Couture. Shop now at minky Couture.com. That's Minky, M-I-N-K-Y, C-O-U-R-E.com. Bill, why is my eye twitching? Does this mean I'm in perimenopause? Where's my phone? Juliana, maybe we can ask an actual human. Yes, because I have questions. And I bet you do too. Like, is it normal to sleep in separate bedrooms? We do that. And I still need to know why my poop's been green. We've got actual people answering these exact questions. Listen to Bill and Juliana. The podcast. On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast.

When teenager Joy Morgan discovered the religious group Israel United in Christ, she believed she'd found the truth. Many believe she found a cult. Then she disappeared. The new podcast, The Missing Sister, explores her story, the family she left, and the religious group she found. You know when you get that feeling where you just, I don't want to be here. I want to get out. I want to go ahead now. All episodes available now to Bench. Listen to The Missing Sister on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. When Democrats are messing up, I say it. When Republicans are messing up, I say it. I'm S.E. Cup, a journalist and political commentator. And on my podcast, off the cup, I help you make sense of the often nonsensical news. I do this on cable news, too. But on my podcast, I can really let loose and be my honest, unfiltered self. I just want to talk about something that happened this week because it's so bonkers. So stupid. Such. incredibly bad politics. We have to talk about it. Come for the hot takes, stay for the sanity. Listen to Off the Cup on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.