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ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle, and good morning everybody. Bill Handle
here on Tuesday morning, July sixteenth. Oh, so I thought yesterday was
a big day as we talked about what happened on Saturday night and last night
the RNC opened up the Republican National Convention. And I had said this,
I said, football pool, how big would the bandage be on Donald Trump's
ear? Turned out it was a Maxi pad. Oh, it wasn't that
big. It was pretty big. It was a good point. You know,
anybody else would have had one of those flesh colored band aids on the
wound. By the way, that's not me, well it is me making
fun of it. But and I'm gonna talk more about this. This was
the most brilliantly staged national convention we've ever had. And you have to give
all the credit for that one on Donald Trump. This is his stuff,
this is what he does better than anybody else, and he's a showman.
And but he pulled it off brilliantly walking into the convention hall and what's his
face singing I'm proud to be an American. Yeah, I mean, just
brilliant, brilliantly done. And I'm gonna talk more about that. Also,
he teared up, He literally teared up. Son did as well, Yeah,
Son did. But I've never seen Donald Trump tear up in all the
years, and it was appropriate for him to do so. I mean,
the guy two nights before came that close to dying. Here's a man who
he could have been dead two nights before, came as close to dying being
killed as you can get. And you could see and then the accolades in
the audience. I mean it was more than even Chris Wallace, who's been
covering these conventions forever, I've never seen anything like it. But I said
that was going to happen. I mean, Donald Trump to these people is
a deity. This is no longer he is not a political figure. He
is not He is this short of God to these people. And it's true.
It's just it's extraordinary what he has done. As I said, two
hundred years from now, you know whether you think this is a good president
or bad president. And history will tell us because and it takes decades and
decades for historians to really look at this, never in within fifty or sixty
years. But I will tell you he will be considered the most unique president.
Maybe Teddy Roosevelt was considered, but I don't think even on the same
level. I really don't. All right, hello to one and all.
Neil, good morning, good morning, Willie Wolf, Yes, and good
morning, good morning. Uh yes, Amy, Well, Hi Bill,
Hi, Kno. Hello. So the a sound like the yeah you find
your dead Neil next week, Neil, you're gone, right, You're on
vacation, Yes, sir, Wait a second, you were just gone yesterday.
Oh No, I was done yesterday because I was filling in for Tim
Conway Jr. Excuses excuse, Yeah, yeah, to work. He's our
you too, He's our utility go to guy, which is exactly what I
did prior to the Morning Show a little. I would fill in for everybody,
and that's just the way it works. So who's uh, and who's
coming in? Is it Fred coming in on next week? Do we know?
I'm not sure yet, Okay, I think it might be Petros.
Haven't gottensation either one. I mean, is going to be a I me,
yeah, we could do that. It'll just be It'll just be audio
of being going oh Bill, now, now now. So it's going to
be a combination. I'll ask Petros about some singular play that happens, and
he'll tell me what the player had for lunch. And because it's you,
yeah, being pretty much always food with me pretty much. All right.
Oh, we have so much to cover today, that's for sure. Republican
nominee for president interesting guy. JD fans to say the least. Boy has
he turned around? I mean he was a Trump hater and vicious attacks on
Trump. That's changed, didn't a good chunk of the Republican Party. Not
like Trump at the beginning? Oh yeah, I mean he was like a
never Trump. Oh absolutely absolutely. We have just so much going on today,
all right, So let's do it and we start first hour as we
always do, handle on the news with Ammy King, Neil and me lead
Sorry JD Vance, Ohio Senator. Is Trump's running mate. It was announced
yesterday, you know, in Dvance found out twenty minutes before Trump announces it
on True Social. Isn't that crazy? It was almost like a game show.
It was almost like the Oscars America where they go, why know the
runner up? Yeah, he's just still. And it came out that way
too, because as we're I was watching CNN and Fox yesterday and they were
like, oh, Marco Rubio just got the call, he's out. Oh,
Doug Bergham got the call he's no longer in the running, and all
of them. Well, I only saw the Doug Bergman interview where it was
no, I'm not disappointed. No, Vance is the perfect choice. No
I am. I'm the governor and I'm going to stay the governor. It's
the best job. You know. It's almost like it's almost as if if
he were asked, he would say, no, I'm really busy. Well
not quite. Yeah, I didn't want it anyway. Yeah, a lot
going on. Wouldn't it be fun if they actually said, you know what,
I'm ticked, I really wanted the job. I know, God forbid
anybody being honest. Vance is an interesting choice. We're gonna talk more about
him later on he's an interesting guy. Yeah, he is a very interesting
guy. Married to a Hindu. I just by the way woman and they
had a Hindu ceremony. I just saw her for the first time. Yeah.
I would like to say good for him. Did you see Uh?
I don't know if you saw pictures of their wedding. It was a Hindu
ceremony. Uh. The uh the clergy The clergyman had eight arms. It
was just fascinating. Okay, anybody else hearing crickets not, it's just me.
Okay, geez man Ah, it's a visual Yeah, yeah, Hey,
it's not over yet. So the judge in Florida yesterday dismissed the classified
documents case against Trump, but the special counsel, who the judge said was
unconstitutionally appointed to the case, uh, is appealing and the DOJ said,
Yep, go ahead. I think the appeal is going to fly. It
was such a long shot argument in front of the judge that the Trump team
didn't even bring it up in all of the other cases in a special prosecutor
case there's two of them going on, and didn't bring it up in the
first one. It was a last minute hail Mary and the judge bought it.
But then again, this judge, Aileen Cannon, has been so pro
Trump across the board. Trump is the teff law and candidate slash president slash
future president. I mean he cannot lose in court. Well, he's lost
in the stormy Daniels travel. That's unimportant. This is but lost versus gain.
Oh yeah, I mean his gain is just and then of course,
I mean, thank goodness that he survived. It was Van van Jones yesterday
on CNN who I like. I mean, the guy is brilliant in terms
of his analy analysis, super liberal, and he said something that I thought
was absolutely great. He goes, I don't want Trump to win, but
I also don't want him in the hospital or dead. And I thought a
good way of putting it was a very good way of putting it. Yeah,
I thought that was excellent. I'm going to talk more about this,
by the way, at at seven thirty the case. Oh, Judge Cannon,
Yeah, yeah, what happened? All right? Elon Musk, who
said that he wasn't going to back either of the candidates, has said that
now he plans to commit around forty five million a month to a new super
political action committee a pack back backing former president Donald truck. This is astronomical
money. He had not endorsed Trump until the assassination attempt, and then literally
within minutes he endorses Trump. I thought it came a little bit before that.
No, I think it came after that. Well, I will tell
you this. The interesting thing is when you put these dollars in mind that
big Hally would charit, not charity, but a fundraiser. Yeah, for
Biden was thirty million. Yeah that they raised for that night forty five million
yere kick Keep in mind a month, yeah, a month, forty five
million dollars a month over the next four months. I mean, this is
astronomical money. I don't think anybody has given this much money ever in the
history of presidential policy. That's ugly Truck money. Oh man, it is.
It is serious money. And so he even was one hundred and seventy
one hundred and eighty million dollars. Come on, I mean, you know,
how does anybody afford that? Well, I'll tell you why, because
Elon Musks were two hundred and forty five billion dollars as of today, the
richest man on the planet. Before we go on, I want to tell
you a story. We were at Neil and I were at the Anaheim White
House for their bast Still Day amazing. It was great dinner, amaze and
a couple of videos that I did there, which I'm not going to tell
you about because there's so much fun, and I'm i'll post some stuff to
Neil is going to put them up. And I don't know if you were
there when this this woman comes up to me and she said, I build
you recognize me. I go, no, she goes, I was a
surrogate mother for you twenty six years ago. Oh the woman in Green.
Yes she had. She did it twice for the same couple. No,
she did for two different couples, twins both times. And I was moved.
I was moved. Not as moved as I was with the smoked salmon,
which was particularly good, but still very your priorities. So that was
pretty neat. I mean that, do you know that I've had in my
career? In story he had twenty five hundred kids? Wow, thank god
they're not yours. Yeah, I will tell you. You and I were
talking about it that night, and I was blown away when we all did
the math that your first kid is forty four or yeah, forty four years
old. Now that's and the first kid I did for a gay couple.
And this is when we couldn't even admit that gay couples having kids for gay
couples was even allowed. I mean, you know, I thought I'd go
to prison for that. Didn't you write the law I did? But that
kid is forty two years old, so I mean, it's hard to believe.
And now no longer in surrogacy, and I'm staying with the most important
job on the planet, harassing you. Neil. It's it's an honor.
It is an honor, an honor. Huh. Okay, back we go
more handle on the news with Amy Neil and me. It's kind of like
a don't ask, don't tell policy. But Governor Newsom has signed a bill
into law that bans school districts from requiring staff to notify parents and if their
child starts identifying as a different gender, changes his or her pronouns, that
kind of thing. I don't quite understand this. I understand that kids having
privacy, but how do parents not know yet at the same time the kid
in school is identifying as the other sex. Let's say you have a young
boy mom and dad don't know when he comes down for dinner. In address,
I mean, I don't. Practically speaking, I don't understand. I
understand the political aspects of this. And by the way, this is a
political statement more than any practical statement. Well, I'll tell you one.
I mean, this is not even in the same stratosphere. But when I
was a young punk rocker, my parents didn't let me dress a certain way,
and I would leave the house looking one way. Of course, I
knids do that all the time, and that was an expression of who I
was. That No, understand this is different. There is such a difference
between gender identification and dressing. I remember Barbara who would cont for a couple
of times changing clothes. I go, what, we're going to make some
extra money down on Santa Monica Boulevard. Is that what you plan on doing?
Woh, Father of the Year, You're done? Not dit it out
of your system. I'm done, okay. The impacts of human caused climate
change, that's an interesting way. I don't know that I've ever read.
Oh this is CNN. Never mind. The impacts of human caused climate change
are so overwhelming they're actually messing with time. According to New research. Now,
it's small matter of milliseconds a day, but with high tech equipment and
everything like that, that is important when you're dealing with computers, when you're
dealing with all kinds of high tech. I mean milliseconds a day. I
mean, this will have just tremendous influence in next I don't know, two
point three billion years in terms of actually having an effect. And by then
the Earth is going to be spinning so fast we're all going to fly right
off. That's right, absolutely, because it's getting that. Yes, it's
definitely speeding up. I mean we're going to hell in a hand basket quickly.
The world will be fine, will be dead. Yeah, nothing's happening.
The Earth is going to be fine. Now. The world has the
ability of being very resilient. The planet is very resilient. Ten billion what
would it the equivalent of the asteroid or whatever that hit sixty five How old?
The universe is fourteen billion years old, so I guess the Earth is
in the range of that's something to ask, Well, sixty five million years
ago an asteroid or something hit the Earth and the dinosaurs gold. Yeah,
yeah, but that is the equivalent I think of ten million atomic bombs,
So I think it's gonna be just fine. Hey, sirih oh Man,
how old is the Earth? Four point five billion? We're both wrong?
Well, no, you were both wrong. I never made that. I
never said ten billion. No you said ten billion? Amy? Did it
say billien billion? I swis, do not draw me into this. I
said ten million atomic bombs. I think is what I was trying to say.
And I think that might even be incorrect. Hey, Siri, Oh,
for the love of Pete, what is the equivalent of ten million atomic
bombs? Your mom? I have no idea what you're talking about. Okay,
Uh, that's Siri by the way, all right, let's move on.
That is the only girl that we'll talk to you, and that's the
only reason why you keep asking her questions, all right, Amy? Yeah,
COVID's going down the drain, literally, because that's where they're measuring COVID
levels. National virus measurements in sewage have reached high levels for the first time
the summer. Coronavirus levels in California's wastewater are now estimated to be slightly are
actually significantly higher than they were last summer. So that's how they tell Now,
I guess ye, they test the sewage. Now, how about you
walking in with one hundred and four temperature. No, no, we're gonna
test the sewage. Well that's a you're not gonna go test. Everybody test
their poop. It's easier, It's easier, all right. During the Republican
National Convention in Milwaukee, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who you know,
has had a bumpy relationship, to say the least, with Trump, he
faced booze from the crowd as he cast Kentucky's delegate votes for US. And
look at what he did. He was one of the biggest criticizers of Trump
during the January sixth running of the Capitol, and he stood up and he
blamed Donald Trump not for the actual attack, but he said Donald Trump did
act did not act appropriately. It was appropriately, It was a derelict in
duty, et cetera. He ended up endorsing Trump, Okay, outright.
I mean, he's a strong endorser supporter of Trump. He never took that
back. He never said I was wrong. Now you have Republicans that are
saying, not only was Donald Trump not wrong, he was right. He
is uh. He asked patriots to change what was an illegal, unconstitutional election.
So you have those who are in prison are patriots or hostages, and
if Trump gets elected vast vast majority. I mentioned this last night filling in
for Tim Conway Junior, that if that is your mentality, then you could
have someone on the left say that Donald Trump is such a threat to democracy.
Oh absolutely that it was right what that wing nut did on that.
Yeah, there are people. Oh no, you should have seen Instagram.
I mean I was checking out Instagram. I mean it exploded with liberals saying,
oh my god, he missed. What a shame. I mean a
lot of that, a lot of that going down. There's something really wrong
with us. Oh, there is something so wrong it's ridiculous. Now,
is Trump going to pardon all of the hostages. No. I think there
are one or two that have been convicted of attacking police officers and harming them
with their own weapons. I think those people may not be pardoned because Trump
did say I'm not going to pardon all of them. I'll look at it
on a case by case basis, but the general premise is that they are
patriots who overran the election. I mean, it's tough, You're right,
I mean, it's just it's a different world last night. Well, we'll
talk more about the convention later on, because last night, I mean,
I was watching another planet that the one I live on. All right.
Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab is going to gradually wind down its operations in the
US and says it's going to lay off all its US based employees after the
Department of Commerce announced a ban on the firm selling its products in the States.
They say that after two decades of operations in the US, the company
has carefully examined and evaluated the impact of the US legal requirements and made this
sad difficult decision as business opportunities in the country are no longer viable. Yeah.
Too close to the Russian government, So Russian company and Putent controls everything.
But that's no big deal. I mean, this is not that big
a company four hundred million people in two hundred and forty thousand companies around the
world. Eh, yeah, could be bigger. It's tiny, yeah,
tiny ah. This is this is big, big stuff, all right.
Macy's, Macy's not Macy's management ended talks with private investors. This was a
you know, they were attempting to take over the company, but Macy says,
you know what, We're going to pursue our own turnaround strategy, strategy
and remain remake the chain as a whole. But they want to do it
themselves rather than just selling it out right to someone else. Yeah. And
by the way, that's up in the air, because we may see it
go one way, or we may see it go another way. That wait,
what we may may see it go one way, we may see it
go another way. Let me explain that to you. I wasn't so lazy.
Had get up and slap your face right now. Okay, So,
speaking of up in the air in the not so friendly skies, United Airlines
has issued an apology to Hall of Fame running back Terrell Davis. He was
detained and questioned following a flight from Denver to the John Wayne Airport. Here's
what Terrell Davis says happened. He said that he was on a flight with
his wife, his two sons, and a daughter. He says his son
asked a flight attendant for a cup of ice. The flight attendant didn't respond
on so Terrell Davis says he tapped the flight attendant to get his attention.
The flight attendant yelled, don't hit me and ran off toward the front of
the cabin. And then nothing happened until the plane landed. And that's when
Terrell Davis says that FBI agents and other law enforcement agents got on board,
handcuffed him and escorted him off the plane. Yeah, and he told his
story, which was corroborated by the people sitting around him. And United is
apologizing left, right and center, as they should. And we don't know
the flight attendant's name rightly, so because I think the flight attendant would be
killed suddenly. Football McGee was the name of the flight attendant. Yeah,
And so if this flight attendant is not fired, I mean instantly, I
would be shocked. All right, We're going to get some audio on this
in a second. But country singer I'd never heard of her before England d
and Dress was the talk of social media yesterday. She delivered a memorable version
of the national anthem before the MLB home run derby at Globe Life Field in
Arleeington, Texas. Now she is apparently an accomplished singer songwriter. You couldn't
tell, but this dethroned Fergie from twenty eighteen in her NBA All Star Game
song. So let's give it a listen. Yes, very strong? Wow,
what ofless? Okay, now I have a question. Oh my lord,
was that booing or were people just stunned? I think it's a little
bit all the above. That that's the first time I heard that. I
had read, I'd seen that that it took place, and I saw pictures.
That's God bless her Rose Roseanne Bart what I first of all, the
national anthem, star Spangled Banners impossible to sing. It's just Whitney Houston.
No, it's it's you can't sing it. Well, you have Irving Berlin
who wrote America the Beautiful, which is a lovely song written by an American.
Uh, and it's not the national anthem. And so now it's star
Spangled Banner, which was an English drinking song in the English pubs. Yep.
But most of our songs are not are modified, not the Irving Berlin
songs. That's an original, but there are a lot of that were that
were drinking, you know, English drinking songs. That a kind of I
don't know if you remember in the sixties at the Olympics, Russia did not
have a national anthem for many many many years. So as the Olympics,
the flags go up and the national anthem of the country wins goes up at
the Olympics, you know, on a banner or whatever. It would be
silent. When Russia had its national anthem, it had no national anthem.
So the polup Burero said, we're writing one for next year, for the
next Olympics, and they came up with one. Lusha is and the Hatikva,
which is the Israeli national anthem, which is very easy to sing.
By the way, is that was written I think in the late forties,
early fifties. So you know, national anthems do change. I think they
go back to the founding of a country. Well when was ours written?
Well, I don't know when to put the song, but this is the
basis of the Franciscott Key poem, you know, the bombs bursting in era
he was talking I think it was eighteen thirties, eighteen forties, so I
was talking about the War of eighteen twelve. That was a poem that he
wrote that then those words were put to this English drinking song of which some
kind, which song of ours is basically God Save the Queen. Uh we
don't have God, no, no, but we have a song where the
music is the same. Oh yeah, that is my country to the Yeah
yeah, my country tis if he is based on the English God Save the
Queen so tune. Yeah, So why why wouldn't they the United States adopt
an American uh songwriter with a song that says everything about America and it's easy
to sing where people can sing it like that's Roseen bar Yeah I know that
was great too, with a grab of the crotch at the end. That
was impressive. If they both sound like somebody trying to skin a cat,
but when you sing it, it sounds well anyway. So there's a move
afoot to have the Irving Berlin America, the Irving Berlin's America the beautiful.
You just like him because he does show tunes, that's true. Just you
know, you're absolutely right. He was the master of show tunes before Learner
and Low. I mean he was early days he Irving and his brother.
All right. So here's a weird little twist of fate. The investment giant
Blackrock has pulled an ad that had Thomas Crooks in it. That's the guy
who took the shot at former President Trump. In twenty twenty two, Blackrock
ran an ad featuring a teacher from Bethel Park High School in which several unpaid
students briefly appeared in the background, and that included Thomas Matthew Crooks. What
are the odds? What are the odds? You know? What this reminds
me of is when they were doing a documentary about the Beatles, gonna be
a docu drama or whatever, and one of the lead roles, an actor
by the name of Mark I think David Chapman or Mark Chapman, got the
role, and then they realized that's the name of the guy who killed John
Lennon. Oops, no thanks, we're pulling this one. In much like
this, we have a video that shows this guy. Oops, we're pulling
this one. Of course, they didn't do on purpose. What else could
they do? You're right, what are the odds? It's one of those
bizarre odds. You remember who was it, Adrian van dud Komfa who was
ad Dition? Yeah, great guy, Yeah, great guy. And I
saw him in front of the Mona Lisa at the loof when I was traveling,
just random, just randomly, and I'm right behind him and I recognize
him, and I'm saying, hey, buddy, you're in the way.
And he turned to look at me, going what kind of an ass is
doing that to me? And you wave it's me as He's like, oh
great, you just ruined the trip knowing you're here. Speaking of Disney,
the Splash Mountain wildly popular ride at Disneyland, and I was never a fan
personally, but Anyo Disney spent one hundred and forty two million turning Splash Mountain
into Tiana's Bayou Adventure, both at Disneyland and Walt Disney World in Florida.
The early stuff that I've seen of the animatronics is insane, except that when
you look at social media, this is what New York Times where it came
from, this story. This one is KTLA okay, and that's KTL the
local version, but it comes out of a national story. They looked at
social media eight hundred and eleven thousand views, eleven thousand likes, forty five
thousand dislikes of that ride. So I don't know, Well, you're going
to go on it? Have you been on it? You have a people
are not open yet it, yeah, but people are stupid. They just
don't like when there's change, because they're going to see it. You're going
to have some people seeing that this is about being woke one hundred and four.
It is, yeah, well yeah, because it was brayer rabbit.
The theme in Splash Mountain, which you look at it in context, is
uh was okay at the time and is completely racist now. For example,
minstrel shows in blackface, right, well, it's turned the last century.
Uh, you know that was not considered particularly racist. I mean it was
just part and parcel of what it was. And of course today you look
at it back to the N word. You don't use the N word constantly.
Abraham Lincoln would tell jokes using the N word as a as a constant.
It's it's you have to look at it in historical context. By the
way, I'm not defending it. I was about to ask, no,
no, no, I'm not defending about to ask I'm not. But we
don't look at anything in his sortical context at all. If it was if
it's racist now, and it wasn't racist all those years ago. You know,
women not being allowed to vote, We look at that today as gets
unbelievable. Well before nineteen twenty, within the context people, and yeah,
other than the suffer jette movement. Yeah that makes sense. You know,
women voting, What the hell is that about? So anyway, I'm not
defending, but I'm saying they got rid of it, and to your point,
maybe it is. It is getting rid of something that now you cannot
have. So I just wanted to point that out. Yeah, they were
moved rape from the rape and pillaging of the Pirates song, that's true,
or the man of it, yeah, or the or you got the pirate
chasing that woman around and around and read yeah, and yeah, that's right.
And so they changed it to the woman chasing the guy, which is
somehow better. Yeah. So I don't know that there's anything better about this.
But Whoopi Goldberg said her mom was a big fan of Disney Parks,
so after her mom died, Whoopy took her ashes and spread them around Walt
Disney World. But you can't do remember wait, we did it. It's
a small world at Disneyland. It's not legal. No, no, no,
it's not legal. Yeah, you know what, I did a podcast
on it. You know what would be better, I'll come out soon.
They should just make a place for it and say you can do it here
like a big hole. And they said, this is the ash hole here,
and what they should do is put the old animatronic figures that used to
be it's a small world down there and sing about the ashes going down and
so the code. I did a whole podcast on this thing, and it
is I don't know when it's coming out because today is day two of my
podcast or day one of my podcast. This week. Every Tuesday and Thursday,
I drive a podcast at nine o'clock right after the show, and you
can go to the iHeartRadio app. It's still only on the iHeartRadio app.
We're moving it to the other platforms and hopefully by next week. And I'm
talking about a din An emergency podcast. I'm talking about what happened, the
assassination attempt and the aftermath, and I just I dive into it a little
bit deeper, and that's available on the iHeartRadio app, Bill handle Pod Bill
Handles Show podcast. Okay, but you did a podcast about this about the
cleanup, Yeah, I just know. Not. Yes, I did it
about not just the cleanup, about burials across the board. And this is
one of the weirdest one people distributing the ashes, and it happens all the
time. I bet yeah. And if it's on a ride, they have
to shut it down because it's considered an environmental it's considered an environmental issue.
How can you can mess with the Yeah, it's a bo it's considered a
bio hazard. Here's what I'd like to do. How is that a bio
has I don't know. Ashes, I don't know, but I'll tell you
it's fun is going into my fireplace and getting a ziplock bag full of ashes
and spreading them around Disneyland so they have to clean it up and just shut
down rides. That's fun. I leave my disney Land alone. Everybody.
Don't do that. Bill, Come on, that's entertainment. That's a ride.
I'm going to try and spread you all over someplace and I can just
imagine you going, I'm not dead. Yes, all right, we are
done. By the way, guys, WHOOPI Goldberg admits it, which is
kind of weird. Okay, we are done. This is KFI AM six
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