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Speaker 2: AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Friday. Boy,
Speaker 2: we're having a lot of fun this morning on a Friday,
Speaker 2: October tenth. Some of the stories we're looking at. The
Speaker 2: government shutdown still going on, extending to next week, and
Speaker 2: it doesn't look like the Republicans and the Democrats are
Speaker 2: anywhere close.
Speaker 3: And of course the Nobel Prize.
Speaker 2: The big news about the Nobel Prize, it didn't go
Speaker 2: to President Trump. Now the big news where President Trump
Speaker 2: may very well get the Nobel Peace Price. And whether
Speaker 2: he deserves a peace prize or not, he has given
Speaker 2: a lot of credit and should be given a lot
Speaker 2: of credit for peace breaking out in the Mideast because
Speaker 2: the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has taken effect. Hamas
Speaker 2: has agreed, Israel has agreed that a ceasefire is in place.
Speaker 2: The Israeli army has pulled back, not all the way,
Speaker 2: but has pulled back to some extent.
Speaker 3: The bombing has stopped. Aid is being let in.
Speaker 2: The crossings have been opened up for aid, of which
Speaker 2: humanitarian aid, of which the gaz Indians desperately, desperately need,
Speaker 2: and all of the hostages are being returned, which is
Speaker 2: kind of a shocker that Hamas would do that because
Speaker 2: that's the only ammunition they had. I mean, they weren't
Speaker 2: going to win any war with Israel. As you can look,
Speaker 2: Israel is one of the top military forces in the world.
Speaker 2: And what do they have in Gaza? You know what
Speaker 2: does Hamas have nothing? And so Hamas their plan was
Speaker 2: to take it, which they have and hope the entire
Speaker 2: world turns against against Israel, which was happening. And Trump
Speaker 2: gets in there because Trump has he is the eight
Speaker 2: hundred pound gorilla and says, really simply, you know, don't
Speaker 2: care what the world says, don't care if Israel considered
Speaker 2: a pariah state.
Speaker 3: Here's what's happening. Hamas.
Speaker 2: Either you go ahead and come to the table, or
Speaker 2: I let Netayahu in the Israeli army finish this up
Speaker 2: and wipe out what's ever left of Gaza. And at
Speaker 2: some point Hamas realizes, oh, they still want to govern,
Speaker 2: there'll be nothing to govern, and so this comes. It's
Speaker 2: going to come in increments. You've got to cease fire
Speaker 2: going on right now, Israel partial pullback. The crossings have
Speaker 2: opened up for humanitarian aid. That's the initial phase, phase two,
Speaker 2: which is going to be more difficult, but I still
Speaker 2: think there'll be discussions about it, and there has to
Speaker 2: be is does Hamas stay in power, do they still
Speaker 2: govern the Gaza and demilitarize? In other words, there will
Speaker 2: be no weapons at all. And so I tell you
Speaker 2: what I think is going to happen. If I had
Speaker 2: to guess, there'll be some kind of an agreement between
Speaker 2: Israel and Hamas. If Hamas is crazy enough to launch
Speaker 2: another attack, there will be nothing left of Gaza. And
Speaker 2: the problem CAMAS is going to have is do they
Speaker 2: control everybody in Gaza? Of course not, there are splinter groups.
Speaker 2: There will still be tons of terrorists who have nothing
Speaker 2: to lose as far as they figure these martyrs, that
Speaker 2: will go ahead and attack Israel. And that is not
Speaker 2: good news. Not for Hamas. It will be more difficult
Speaker 2: for Israel because there is a lot of dissension, a
Speaker 2: lot of attacks on the military and the intelligence that
Speaker 2: the attack happened in the first place. October seventh, a
Speaker 2: lot of failures. Heads are rolling and so Israel is
Speaker 2: going to be much much or careful about their border
Speaker 2: and it's going to be very difficult for a terrorist
Speaker 2: to get across. But if it does, God God helped Gaza,
Speaker 2: you know. And now is Israel the Paria state. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well that's going to disappear very quickly. So the peace
Speaker 2: plan that the President produced, this twenty point peace plan,
Speaker 2: which is pro Israel. By the way, there's no question
Speaker 2: we know where Trump stands on this. He is pro
Speaker 2: Israeli's pro Israel. Hamas literally had no choice, all right.
Speaker 2: The Nobel Peace Prize that's been up in the air
Speaker 2: to it's this year, it has become huge news. Usually
Speaker 2: the Nobel Peace Prize comes out and it's always some
Speaker 2: obscure person that you've never heard of. Have been a
Speaker 2: few where you have you know, major like peace accords
Speaker 2: between Israel. When Egypt, for example, recognized Israel the first
Speaker 2: state to recognize Israel, first Arab state. Nobel Prize was
Speaker 2: given into Siddat and was given to his heart rubbing
Speaker 2: I thought was legitimate. You had Jimmy Carter receive the
Speaker 2: Nobel Prize for legitimate president, no question about it. For
Speaker 2: presidents have received it. A lot of talk about President
Speaker 2: Trump receiving the Peace Prize because he has just asked
Speaker 2: him negotiated eight different piece agreements between countries you've never
Speaker 2: heard of. You know, there's sort of up in the
Speaker 2: air on that one because some of them are still
Speaker 2: fighting each other.
Speaker 1: He goes into those countries and he grabs them by
Speaker 1: the piece.
Speaker 3: Yes, and he makes it in any case.
Speaker 2: So he has been pushing for the Peace Prize, and
Speaker 2: on top of that because he's let's just say, he
Speaker 2: loves to be put up on pedestals. If you have
Speaker 2: listened to remember that cabinet meeting where they went around
Speaker 2: that table and every single cab member, Oh, mister President,
Speaker 2: it is such an honor. You are such a great president.
Speaker 2: You are the best president that ever lived. I mean,
Speaker 2: it was just insane. Marco Rubio just talked about the
Speaker 2: peace plan that was put into place that Trump did,
Speaker 2: by the way, and should get credit for It's mister President,
Speaker 2: this couldn't have been done without you. No president in
Speaker 2: the history of the world would ever been able to
Speaker 2: do this. I mean, on and on and on, and
Speaker 2: you should get the Nobel Prize. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: I've nominated you. Netanyahu has nominated you. President of Pakistan
Speaker 2: has nominated you, and he didn't get it. But then again,
Speaker 2: you know, we don't know how much in advance the
Speaker 2: Peace Prize has actually decided on. So who got it
Speaker 2: this year? Maria Cordina Masha though you ever heard of her,
Speaker 2: of course not. You never hear people who win these things.
Speaker 3: And she is.
Speaker 2: An activist in Venezuela and promotes is promoting democratic rights
Speaker 2: because it is a dictatorship in Venezuela. Maduro is the dictator,
Speaker 2: and she is out there and is the loyal opposition
Speaker 2: tries to overturn this dictatorship and set up a democracy,
Speaker 2: and it's dangerous for her. Now the good news for her,
Speaker 2: she's been elected the National Assembly and she has such
Speaker 2: a high profile figure that Maduro wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Be able to do anything to her.
Speaker 2: Unlike other activists in Venezuela, a lot of them have disappeared.
Speaker 2: So this year, three hundred and thirty eight candidates were
Speaker 2: up for the Nobel Prize, two hundred and forty four
Speaker 2: individuals and ninety four organizations which were never able to
Speaker 2: be eligible. When Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize because
Speaker 2: he invented dynamite, Dino might and was devastated by the
Speaker 2: kind of damage you could do he set up.
Speaker 3: The Nobel Prize.
Speaker 2: So the Peace Prize, well, peace prize, well almost immediate,
Speaker 2: but organizations were not allowed, and a few have won.
Speaker 2: Borders with Dodgers without Borders won the Peace Prize, and
Speaker 2: Amnesty International won the Peace Prize. And so Trump is
Speaker 2: really pushing really hard. Is he going to get it?
Speaker 2: You know, I got to tell you he may very
Speaker 2: well deserve it. Now who has gotten the Peace Prize? Well,
Speaker 2: there was an Ethiopian Prime minister, Abia Ahmed was awarded
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen because he broke her to peace deal
Speaker 2: with Eritrea, a neighboring country, and that ended a decade
Speaker 2: long military stalemate that was twenty nineteen and twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: His country went ahead and attacked the Eritrea the next year.
Speaker 2: So the Nobel committee said, what, maybe we made a
Speaker 2: mistake on that one. Not such a good deal. My
Speaker 2: favorite one is Barack Obama. He won the Nobel Peace
Speaker 2: Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and
Speaker 2: cooperation between peoples. Not anything specific, but basically you're a
Speaker 2: great guy. And what did he do he got elected
Speaker 2: and what did he win the Nobel Peace Prize? For
Speaker 2: he got elected, and even members of the committee came
Speaker 2: back later and said, you know what, maybe that wasn't
Speaker 2: such a good idea. Yes, Sir era Fat he was
Speaker 2: the leader of the Palestinian National Authority in Gaza. He
Speaker 2: won the nineteen ninety four Nobel Peace Prize with Yaskok
Speaker 2: Abbian Shimon Perez, who is the Foreign Minister of Israel,
Speaker 2: because they negotiated the first part of the Oslo Accords
Speaker 2: the year before.
Speaker 3: Now this lasting piece, and of course war was not
Speaker 3: affected by that. It kept ongoing.
Speaker 2: Just a key. It goes on and on some of
Speaker 2: these weird, weird awards that sometimes are legitimate in the
Speaker 2: sense that everybody agrees, and sometimes no one has any
Speaker 2: idea why. The Literature Prize is always a weird one,
Speaker 2: knowing it's some Peruvian poet who lives in a cave
Speaker 2: in the Peruvian mountains.
Speaker 3: That's usually who wins it.
Speaker 2: And Salomon Rushi I think got the Nobel Prize for literature. Americans,
Speaker 2: it was Steinbeck, John Steinbeck won it. I think saal
Speaker 2: Bello won it. So there have been some Americans and
Speaker 2: probably the I think the most interesting Nobel Prize for
Speaker 2: literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, and a songwriter has
Speaker 2: never been awarded that. And I think the lyrics for
Speaker 2: Bob Dylan are just unbelievable. I'm a big fan of
Speaker 2: Bob Dylan and he's the only Nobel Prize winner that
Speaker 2: I know of who refused to go to the ceremony.
Speaker 2: No thanks, just not interested. And if you don't pick
Speaker 2: up the Nobel Prize, it's a use.
Speaker 3: It or lose it. You don't get it.
Speaker 2: So, from what I understand, he showed, he showed up
Speaker 2: the next day, just went to the counter and said,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm here to pick up the Nobel Prize,
Speaker 2: thank you very much, and they handed it to him
Speaker 2: and it's it's worth a million bucks. Did you know
Speaker 2: that at one point there was no taxes on the
Speaker 2: Nobel Prize. Part of the Nobel Prize was it was
Speaker 2: not taxed. That went away.
Speaker 3: It is taxed. Now, Okay, that's no Schnitzel. The Hell's
Speaker 3: wrong with you?
Speaker 2: A story out of Europe and effectively it's uh, that's
Speaker 2: no Schnitzel. Veggie Schnitzel vegan brought worst plant based steak right,
Speaker 2: probably going to be off the menu soon. And this
Speaker 2: is in Germany because that's the big one, but it's
Speaker 2: across the European Union. On Wednesday, European part voted to
Speaker 2: ban the use of meat related terms for these plant
Speaker 2: based products, arguing that shoppers should never mistake tofu for
Speaker 2: tender wine. And a majority of conservative lawmakers back the
Speaker 2: move and still have to have the UEU vote on it.
Speaker 2: And this is an initiative that started by the Europe's
Speaker 2: all of Europe's centrist right wing political party.
Speaker 1: You don't want to miss tender of meat. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: mis tendering, Yeah, that's it's pronoun.
Speaker 2: Seline Ima, the support of the bill, said, it's about
Speaker 2: transparency and clarity for the consumer and recognition for the
Speaker 2: work of our farmers.
Speaker 3: Really it's about farmers.
Speaker 2: So the plan would reserve meaty terms just steak, schnitzel, sausage,
Speaker 2: burger for animal based products, you can't use the word meat.
Speaker 2: And it really has to do with broadening the improving
Speaker 2: farmer's bargaining power and supermarkets. And in Germany, birthplace of
Speaker 2: the Bratwurst, meat consumption is altously gone right way down
Speaker 2: and plant based alternatives those are booming because Germany is
Speaker 2: now sort of the health and environmental and ethical kind
Speaker 2: of leaders.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but those plant based things are usually hyper processed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a taste like a sauceage, right, but they're what
Speaker 1: they're saying is forget about the word meat. The Chancellor
Speaker 1: of Germany, Frederick Mertz at a he was in a
Speaker 1: television show. He's being interviewed, and he actually broke into song,
Speaker 1: which is weird.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, a worst is a worst, of course, of course.
Speaker 3: Well actually, fred Mertz.
Speaker 2: Oh well but well then worst will never burst with you.
Speaker 2: We'll give you the answer that you endursed. Just talk
Speaker 2: to mister fred Rick. Oh I had to go there.
Speaker 1: That was the worst, a worse?
Speaker 2: Yeah, worst is a worst? Oh god, so oh Neil,
Speaker 2: we should do this now. There was a twenty twenty
Speaker 2: survey by the European Consumer Organization. Sixty eight percent of
Speaker 2: consumers aren't confused by the terms like veggie burger as
Speaker 2: long as it's clear that it's plant based. Sixty eight
Speaker 2: percent are not confused. What does that mean? What number
Speaker 2: of that means that are confused? You're talking sixty eight
Speaker 2: or not really weird? Germany's Consumer Protection organization there brachen
Speaker 2: Chernets sally agreed nobody accidentally buys Tofu sausages because they
Speaker 2: think they're beef sausages.
Speaker 3: No chance.
Speaker 2: You know who's opposing the band Burger King that's there
Speaker 2: on meat is there? Supermarkets aldi sud and little are there,
Speaker 2: and so it's going to be gone uh strong backing
Speaker 2: from the traditionalists. By the way, in Germany meat it's
Speaker 2: a meat country, meets a matter of identity and it's
Speaker 2: already a big part of it. So now negotiations are
Speaker 2: going to be among the member states of the U
Speaker 2: and it really is a big deal for farmers and
Speaker 2: meat producers.
Speaker 1: Where were we when we were in north of France
Speaker 1: borders with Germany and we had that schnitzel, that restaurant
Speaker 1: that where were we? I know there was the German
Speaker 1: town there that Adolf Hitler plots. No, well, I don't remember,
Speaker 1: but the but the schnitzel was unbelievable. I mean it
Speaker 1: covered the entire plate and they do that in Vienna
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 3: Where where we there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't remember. But it's a region
Speaker 1: the ala Alae Lorraine, yeah, yeah, which is German speaking,
Speaker 1: is right next to Germany Alsace Lorraine, Yes, And that
Speaker 1: has been going bouncing back and forth, but right on
Speaker 1: the border. Great, yeah, yeah, schnitzel, schnitzel. All right, Uh
Speaker 1: we are now I wont schnitze okay, okay. Uh a question,
Speaker 1: what is rich? How do you define rich?
Speaker 3: Bill Handle? Uh? Yeah, my second thought, you know what?
Speaker 2: Yes I am, and I'll explain why I consider myself rich.
Speaker 3: I think you're going to agree with this, Amy. What
Speaker 3: is rich to you? Demiro?
Speaker 2: That is funny, That is funny. I have to tell you.
Speaker 2: I wish I had thought of that. I hate when
Speaker 2: someone is more clever than me. Uh.
Speaker 3: And what is rich? When you can do what you want? Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, that's close, Neil. What is rich to you?
Speaker 1: Rich to me is living the lifestyle that you enjoy
Speaker 1: and not worrying about that.
Speaker 3: You know, that is as cold.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how big of a That's exactly what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. If I could live the way I live
Speaker 1: forever right now, I would feel rich.
Speaker 2: That is my definition of rich is that if you
Speaker 2: quit working tomorrow or this afternoon, your lifestyle doesn't change,
Speaker 2: whether it's thirty thousand dollars a year or three hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars a year if you just keep on going
Speaker 2: and you don't have to cut back, you are rich.
Speaker 2: And I am rich because I live under my means,
Speaker 2: always have my entire life.
Speaker 1: So do we feel like that if I lost my
Speaker 1: job that you would probably keep that up forever?
Speaker 3: Not difficult? Right?
Speaker 2: That makes you rich? Con Oh, you'll never feel that way.
Speaker 2: I just want to let you know that.
Speaker 3: My dear rich is getting married in a castle. Oh
Speaker 3: there is? Okay, so that's my idea in a foreign land.
Speaker 3: All my house has been built.
Speaker 1: Now would an elevator being put in and randomly having fireworks?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: And it's my third marriage.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Second, well, I'm talking about on the books legally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's the first One's weird, I do it.
Speaker 3: I'll give you that. In any case, what is your
Speaker 3: fourth one gonna be?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Well, I will tell you that my fourth wife hasn't
Speaker 2: been born yet.
Speaker 3: Ew roast dude, thank you? You you know what? Isn't it?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What did Einstein say about World War three? He said, Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know about world War three, but world War
Speaker 1: four will be fought with sticks and stones. And then
Speaker 1: that's how I feel about your next marriage. I don't
Speaker 1: know when your third wife will come, but I will,
Speaker 1: but I know you'll be broke.
Speaker 3: Okay, a quick point.
Speaker 2: My first one was a very technical, not real marriage,
Speaker 2: which I will get into at some point, and Neils
Speaker 2: just making fun of me. The other part of being rich,
Speaker 2: and this one is it doesn't matter where you are
Speaker 2: on the scale, and we're talking about an upper level,
Speaker 2: is when you have jet money, that is rich. That's vulgar,
Speaker 2: that is rich. When you have jet money. Now we're
Speaker 2: talking some serious money. And Rush Limplaw had jet money.
Speaker 3: You bet he did. You bet he had jet money.
Speaker 2: So a Wall Street Journal article just came out that
Speaker 2: these companies, the major companies, are cutting down like crazy,
Speaker 2: and except in two areas, the CEOs are still getting
Speaker 2: tens of millions of dollars. They have not cut down
Speaker 2: on those. And private jet money is still there. These
Speaker 2: CEOs are flying more private jets than they ever have before.
Speaker 2: And there's two arguments for that, one of which makes
Speaker 2: a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: A matter of fact, they both make sense.
Speaker 2: One is security is especially after the CEO of United
Speaker 2: Health was assassinated and the threats going against these people
Speaker 2: going into an airport first class, it doesn't even matter
Speaker 2: that's a risk if they know who you are, because well,
Speaker 2: CEOs are not well loved. And the other one, which
Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense, is sitting around in an airport.
Speaker 2: You don't get that much work done going in a
Speaker 2: private plane that has, for example, a small conference table
Speaker 2: and you sit with the executives.
Speaker 1: You work.
Speaker 3: It is it can be in office.
Speaker 2: And so what these major corporations are doing is they
Speaker 2: are increasing the use of private jets. Great story about
Speaker 2: Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg gets one dollar a year. It's all
Speaker 2: he pulls from Facebook or Meta. He just doesn't get
Speaker 2: much money. However, what he does is spend hundreds of thousands,
Speaker 2: if not millions of dollars a year and gets even
Speaker 2: better than that. He owns the jet and he leases
Speaker 2: it to the company which then flies him basically all
Speaker 2: over the world. And much like Air Force one, air
Speaker 2: Force one when it is used for private flying. When
Speaker 2: the president flies, for example, to one of his golf
Speaker 2: courses to play golf that is not official, he has
Speaker 2: to pay for Air Force one. Needless to say, he
Speaker 2: gets a great deal. And what a cost to move
Speaker 2: the president around. We'll never even know because that is
Speaker 2: a secret budget item. We're never going to know what
Speaker 2: it costs to keep the Air Force one fleet going.
Speaker 2: But it's for private flight. And the same thing goes
Speaker 2: with corporations. Incidentally, for private flying, if it's a publicly
Speaker 2: traded company, the CEO or whatever executive has to pay,
Speaker 2: and obviously they pay just a fraction of the cost.
Speaker 2: And so this is why the president whenever he flies,
Speaker 2: always goes to some factory uh and does a speech
Speaker 2: or opens up some supermarket or whatever he does to
Speaker 2: make it an official governmental function.
Speaker 1: I don't need anything fancy in life, but man, it
Speaker 1: sure would be nice to be able to fly whenever
Speaker 1: you wanted and not deal with the hassle of flying,
Speaker 1: like just like you're driving a car.
Speaker 3: That's just the way it goes.
Speaker 1: I don't you know, I don't need a bigger house.
Speaker 1: I don't need any of that shop.
Speaker 2: Maybe jet money is absolutely spectacular, and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: the actually I was able to fly, it was really
Speaker 2: privileged to do this. When I uh was inducted in
Speaker 2: the Radio Hall of Fame, the CEO of our company,
Speaker 2: Bob Pittman UH took us to Chicago where it was
Speaker 2: on the corporate plane. Oh Man, I.
Speaker 3: Flew with you. Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 2: You're very kind and generously. Yeah, well there, let me
Speaker 2: tell you, we giggled, yeah, if you ever do that.
Speaker 2: And this was on iHeart and they were kind enough
Speaker 2: because they thought that was a big deal and it
Speaker 2: was pretty but anyway.
Speaker 1: It was a huge deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was. The flight was the most fun part.
Speaker 2: And we stayed at the Trump the Trump Hotel in Chicago.
Speaker 2: I remember that, and it is one of the best
Speaker 2: run hotels I have ever been in in my life.
Speaker 1: Love them or hate him. That guy knows how to
Speaker 1: run that hotel. Was like this service, it's.
Speaker 2: Incredible, incredible. All right, guys, let's check in with Amy. Nope,
Speaker 2: we'll check in with Amy later on after I know
Speaker 2: what the hell I'm talking about, Buddy, thank you when
Speaker 2: I finally figured all the fame. But yeah, okay, this
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