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comes back? What next Wednesday? So Samy and I looks like right now
just ourselves for this week. Boy, am I excited? Woo hoo.
That's exactly it. We're back to Handle on the news with Amy and me
and we're excited beyond words. Okay, and now Handle on the news ladies
and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle, and good morning everybody. Bill Handle here.
Yesterday starting the show was very very high excitement level. So I'm trying
to get it up as quickly as I can right now in terms of my
excitement level. Kono, is there a pill for this to get it up
for a show? Blue? It's blue, Little kill Blue. No,
you can't do that because if you're sitting under a desk, man, the
pain is just unbelievable. You just cannot do it. Okay. Amy's already
shaking her head as is, and and we're starting. We didn't we what
two seconds in the show and I've already gone there. It's going to be
a day. It's going to be a day. All right, Hello,
hey Cono, good morning? What was up? Was up? Okay?
What's up? And Amy? Good morning, good morning, good morning,
and good morning Hello Bill. Again, a lot going on today. It's
a Wednesday, it's a day, July twenty fourth, but the first hour
is just Amy and Moir because Neil is coming back next Wednesday. And Amy
once again the heat spell. Is it break today? Nope? Okay,
thank you, No, that was our weather report was Actually that's why you
get paid the big bucks around here. Okay, you're ready to do it?
Yeah, handle on the news. Me and Amy lead story, Soman
rolling and President Joe Biden is going to address the nation from the Oval Office,
one of those very serious my fellow Americans, from the Oval Office,
which is abite as serious as he gets. And he is explaining why he's
bailing out. And we all know why he's bailing out. Now the question
is what is he Is he going to go beyond? I have listened to
my advisors and senior members of the administration and the party saying I have no
path to winning the election. Does he even go there? Uh? He
certainly won't mention his age that he won't do. I don't think he will.
I'm gonna coming up at eight twenty to do a segment based on what
he is going to say tonight about retirement into your seventies and eighties and why
it is so damn difficult and a personal story. Not that I'm retiring,
but I have a very close friend of mine who has this issue or had
this issue. So Richard Nixon when he resigned in nineteen seventy three, he
did not say it's because I am about to be charged with a felony and
I am about to be impeached and tossed out of office as president. He
said, I no longer have a political base in Congress. Okay, Yeah,
which is a croc everybody knows that. And also keep in mind that
President Biden's allies, all of them who have asked him to leave, from
George Clooney to Nancy Pelosi to Hakim Jeffries, I don't think once they mentioned
to him it's because you are old, or it's because you no longer have
the acuity or the cognitive abilities to actually run this country. It's because you
don't have a path to win against Donald Trump. That's it. So we'll
see how far he goes tonight. It's going to be very very interesting to
see how far he takes it because well we're talking about it. There's a
whole thing about people in their seventy and eighties and how difficult it is to
retire, just to bail and you know, unless you're digging ditches or you
know, pulling wire like my dad did. He was electrician, and you
know, he retired and I think sixty five is as normal. He was
looking forward to it. So we had a lot to talk about throughout the
rest of the show. Okay, the fighting could cease soon. US and
Israeli officials are showing increased optimism about the prospects of a ceasefire and a hostage
deal being agreed to that would end or at least pause the war in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin n Yahoo is delivering a high speaks, high stakes
speech to Congress this afternoon, and then he's going to meet with Biden and
Vice President Harris tomorrow and apparently is going to meet with Trump too down Florida.
Yeah, because first of all, the very close allies Biden and Nataenna,
who don't get a log very well, certainly Trump and Nintaya who does.
Because Trump is such a firm, firm believer on the Israeli side.
And Nao who is you know the fact he's coming a little bit at the
table. I'll tell you what he has to give up. He has to
give up the premise that Hamas is going to disappear. That is what's going
to wipe out Hamas. It will not happen. It will not. And
with that you can move backwards. And does Hamas want a ceasefire? You
know, I have my doubts. I think Hamas is willing to have all
of Gaza become just a pile of rubble as long as they stay in power.
So we'll see what happens. Tell you one thing, if there is
any kind of peace deal, Nittagna, who is out on his ass,
hands off, says Trump. The Trump campaign has filed a complain with the
Federal Election Commission arguing that money raised for President Biden's reelection campaign can't be transferred
over to Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign. And of course it's only because they're
concerned about federal law. It's not because they don't want ninety one million dollars
transferred over to BI to Kamala Harris. Actually, I don't know where they're
going to go because Harris, she was on the ticket. It is the
same ticket with Biden simply bailing out. I don't think it has changed legally,
and so we'll see what happens on that, because the last thing the
Trump campaign wants is ninety one million dollars going to Harris, which means if
that's the case, you're talking almost two hundred million million dollars going into her
campaign. And Musk remember the forty five million dollar per month that he was
giving. Never mind, I really didn't mean forty five million. What I
really meant is forty five dollars. It wasn't that low. But he did
back off the forty five million dollars a month. He said what's being reported
in the media is simply not true. Yes, it's except that he didn't
refute it. I'll tell you when it came out, he didn't immediately refute
it. So you're saying that now that Kamala is taking over as the Democratic
nominee, he's backing off. No, No, I think he is.
He wakes up in the morning and what he does a Elon Musk style.
Musk style is just point a purchase, you know, when you're in the
checkout line and you see that pack a gum and all a sudden you wanted
or that little bag. That's what he does with multi billion dollar corporations.
Wakes up, you know, I think I'll buy Twitter today, won't do
any analysis, and then finds out later we paid forty four billion dollars for
a company that's worth twenty five billion dollars on its best day. So hey,
here's forty five billion dollars a month. Oh what did I just say?
Okay, So I don't know what it's going to be, but you're
right, it sure ain't going to be forty five million dollars a month.
Score one for the kids. Standardized test scores in the LA school system have
shown gains in all tested grade levels in math and English. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo
was excited about that part of the announcement yesterday, but the other part was
that a majority of students still remain below the state's grade level standards. Did
you go to public school? Yeh, by the way, where not in
southern California? Right up in Oregon? Okay? And public school okay,
Conell public School of course. Okay. And I went to public school LA
Unified as a matter of fact, which is the poster child of the worst
school district in the country. Was it always bad? No? No,
I actually came out and this is a concept that LA Unified hasn't seen for
a while. I actually came out literate and it was a pretty good education.
And then I went to up the ladder, all in state schools until
law school, where I went to a private law school. And back then
proficiency was very different than today's level of proficiency. It has gone down,
down, down where proficiency is. Well, let me put it this way.
Today, if you can get out of a third grade and sign your
name beyond just putting an X on the paper, you're doing better. You're
much more proficient. It is not easy. It is to get people.
And there's a bunch of reasons. I'm not saying it's LA Unified. It
has become basically ungovernable. So many students English is the second language and they
have to teach at the lower common denominator or in terms of teaching English and
you know, teaching math, which when you have people coming over the border,
those kids do not have that skill set. They don't have the schools,
they don't have that in Mexico like they do here. So anyway,
I guess that's good news, except we have to look at it. Well,
it's even less than the prior pandemic. It's moving up, which is
good news, but incrementally cracking down to keep the kids safe. Cend A
majority leader Chuck Schumer, has announced that the Senate will vote on the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act and the Kids Online Safety Act. It's supposed to help
make social media companies take more responsibility in shielding children from harmful material on social
media platform Yeah, we're starting to understand how devastatingly horrible social media can be.
And that is body shaming and bullying, and it's as rough as it
was just in school being bullied and I was bullied by the way because I
was overweight. It is not fun. And today who is that gal?
And I remember that case? Remember when she convinced that kid to jump off
the building and kill himself. A few years ago through the internet, they
were having chats back and forth and you are useless, No one likes you.
Everybody wants you dead, over and over and over again. Well,
this will theoretically stop it and force the major platforms to look for it and
guard against that, which I don't know how they're going to do, but
it's a duty of care standard for social media video platforms, and so it's
a question of algorithms. And of course who's against it, well, first
of all the tech industry, of course, the American Civil Liberties Union.
If you want to kill yourself, you have every right to kill yourself,
go ahead and jump off buildings. So that's any interference with first amen rights.
The ACLU is as crazy as that as the gun advocates are with the
Second Amendment. Just a little over the top both sides, Okay. The
two time mayor of LA wants to become the governor of CA. Former Los
Angeles Mayor Antonio via Ragosa has announced his twenty twenty six run for the governor's
office in California. He's been out of elected office since he left city hall
in twenty thirteen. He emphasized his ability to work with both Democrats and Republicans
while he was the mayor and when he served as Speaker of the California Assembly,
and on his record of balancing budgets and enhancing public safety and education.
Yeah, well that's the good side. As he's touting there are some other
aspects on the other side. I'm going to talk about that at seven o'clock
because I think he's got better than just a good chance. I think he's
going to make it. And i'll tell you why, coming up at seven
am one because while Alex Lane it at seven o'clock. Okay, time to
slow your role. In Anaheim, the city of Anaheim is lowering speed limits
all over the city. One hundred and sixty nine sections of road are going
to have their speed limits go down, most of them by five miles per
hour, some by ten miles per hour, and one by Disneyland's going down
fifteen miles per hour from forty to twenty five miles per hour. And the
reasons they're doing this, according to the city, is that they did this
study and they were watching how people are already driving, and they said that
about eighty five percent of the people driving around Anaheim are already driving those lower
slow speeds. So they say they're just making it official. Yeah, Now
here's the irony of this, because Anaheim is one of those cities you want
to get through as quickly as possible because that's Anaheim. And for those of
you that live in Anaheim. Yes, I am completely insulting you like I
do. Why would I leave you out of the mix? Exactly. Yeah,
Kamala Harris loves Freedom, and obviously Beyonce loves Kamala Harris. So Vice
President Harris made her big entrance for her first official visit to her campaign headquarters
on Monday evening and she walked out to Beyonce's Freedom and then her team got
approval from Beyonce's reps to use Freedom throughout her presidential campaign if she's nominated.
Now, I compare this to Donald Trump using music from Fleetwood Mac and Fleetwood
Mac went Burr Zirk when Donald Trump was using their music. So it's just
a little bit different, to say the least. I think all of the
songs that Trump plays that people go berserk, Yeah they do. And well
a couple of songs, you know when they did karaoke versions of songs,
and the Trump campaign Joe Biden is a crook. O'biden is complete crap.
You know, It's just all they do is change the lyrics. So we'll
see again. You know what, music, I'm proud, I'm proud to
be an American. That's a big one. For Trump. That is Lee
Greenwood? Yeah, yeah, Lee who wrote that? Did Lee Greenwood actually
write that song? I think he did. But it's a great song.
It is a great song and it's perfect for political rallies, I mean,
just perfect. LAPD is going to be packing in Paris. So Los Angeles
police officers are deployed to the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics and it's not a
ton of them, but we've got a small group. And the LAPD had
to convince the French government to temporarily suspend its law against overseas police officers being
armed in the country so they can carry their weapons as they patrol. Well,
yeah, I think I think the law is when we can look this
up, France has pretty heavy control, as of all of Europe does,
and the only people that are allowed to carry arms is a police law enforcement
in the country and LAPD this is not law enforcement in France now, they
are not sworn officers in France. So the government of France, and I
don't know if it's France, Yeah, I think it's a national law and
so you'll see the LAPD. Okay, I'm glad they're going to be packing.
I think that's a good idea. And by the way, Greenwood did
write Proud to be in American great song, great song. Okay, guess
who's going to be running around France. Snoop's going to be one of the
final torch bearers of the Olympic Flame ahead of the opening ceremonies in Paris on
Friday. Snoop Dog's going to carry the torch through the neighborhood of Centenese in
the final stop of the Olympic Flames journey before it gets to the Eiffel Tower.
Yeah, that's kind of neat. I think it's number one. Snoop
Dog, who is an iconic figure here in America, and the French who
understand that he is a great figure. And I don't know if you know
hip hop is played in France. I have no idea. I wonder what
French hip hop is about. Oh, wouldn't that be great to figure that
one out. But anyway, great news for Snoop. I love this idea.
Yeah, and he's also going to be doing like reports for NBC.
I know that's crazy. And he is in negotians and negotiations right now to
buy Pakistan. You know that, don't you? He has a chunk of
money. Yes he does, Yes, he does. All right, Well,
there's a movie called Cocaine Bear. Could Cocaine Shark be next? Shark's
living off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for cocaine. The sharks are
in the waters off the city of Rio dejian Aio. Cocaine was found in
both their livers and their muscle tesh tissue. They tested thirteen specimens and they
picked these particular sharks because they live in a small area of coastal waters where
they're exposed to significant contaminant discharges. Now, I want to bring something to
the table here, Having been a coke addict, you know, more than
a few years ago, and I even went into drug rehab. So coke
was my thing, and by the way, it's been decades. Just want
to let you know, except sometimes when I'm excited, but that's besides the
point. And I have a lot of energy, so I have, you
know, some expertise coming to the table on this story. And the first
thing that I thought about is how do you get a shark to snort cocaine?
I mean, think about that for a moment, that nostril thing that
you need is. You know, that's sort of important. So Amy Ann
do a little bit of re search. How do sharks snort cocaine? Actually,
the cocaine gets into the sharks system from the sewage discharges from humans who
use the drug and the illegal laboratories that produce it. Well, let me
tell you, any sharks that were around southern California back in the eighties were
swimming around and pretty excited every time I went to the bathroom. Okay,
you can lock up your spot in sports history. The locker used by Kobe
Bryant for most of his career while he played at Staples Centers being auctioned off
by Sotheby's. It's on the auction block from now until August second. You
can go to their website if you're interested in making a bid for it,
and sootheby says there's a good chance it's going to go for more than a
million dollars. Yeah, just to give you an idea of sports memorabilia is
insane. And of course Kobe, who would have insane memorabilia anyway, After
he died in that horrible helicopter crash, the value his stuff just exploded,
So I wouldn't be surprised if it got a million dollars at all. And
if that's not enough for you, there's also Michael Jordan's shorts from his final
game, Reggie Jackson's Yankees jacket, and one of Raphael and Nadal's used rackets
from the two thousand and six French Open and Wimbledon. Yeah, all alive
and still can garner insane amounts of money, especially Michael jackson shorts. Not
Jackson, Michael his shorts. Now we're not talking his underwear shorts, right,
no talk, it's the shorts he were in his final game. Oh
okay, because you know they want used the jerseys, et cetera. You
know that, Oh that would be interesting. Hey, I want to suggest
real quickly before we go on if we have the time, and that is
a documentary that I've seen. I think it's on Netflix called The Golden Touch
g O. L d N. This is the guy who whatever is named
Golden and he runs a sports memorabilia company, probably the largest in the world,
and sell sports memorabilia. To give you an idea of what that is
about, that is worth seeing. It is an extraordinary documentary and it's just
it's it's just insane. The value of stuff. Michael Jordan's like the first
tennis shoes that he wore in some championship game over two million dollars. I
mean, it's just it's beyond comprehension. All Right, I think we're done,
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