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USA. I mean, it was just so obnoxious. People are going,
come on, you want to keep the politics out of it this time
USA Trump. There was one Joe Biden cart, but it was broken down
and the wheels were off flat. It kept going in circles. Yeah,
and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle.
Good morning, everybody. You go handle here. It is a Tuesday morning,
July nine. A few things were happening. We're gonna talk about the
Alec Baldwin trial starts today and I'll talk about that at seven a m.
We have Tech talk with Rich Burrow and some news about the heat. Hey,
the heat. Now it's time to say hello, Hello, Okay,
let's just move on. Morning Amy, Good morning, Bille uh Neil,
good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf. I think I found my new
ringtone for you when you call me? Is the USC true? Yeah?
I was referring to a golf cart parade on July fourth that I was at
and just this obnoxious woman screaming, uh these political pro Trump statements he got.
Come on, you know, this is for everybody today or it's July
fourth. You know, you think people with divergent political views can enjoy this
today without politics? No impossible. Okay, there's Michelle, Good morning,
Michelle in for this week, good morning and out on vacation, and Cono
Morning, Cono Morning Bill. Okay, and uh, Neil, I just
sort of missed as you were coming on. You were talking about the view
somehow Cono testicles, baseball hat what was what was that about? Listen.
If there was a job and I could get paid for busting Cono's balls on
a daily basis, I would put in an application. It is the It
is like a sport to me. So the first thing I do is I
bust his chops in the morning and he goes good morning to you, Neil.
And now actually he flipped you the bird this morning. Yeah. Yeah,
but I love him. I love him like a brother man, of
course. Yeah. Yeah, naturally he could be my brother. I don't
know. My dad wore white pat and leather shoes in the seventies, and
I hear that's a sign of having kids you don't know about look it up.
Yeah, okay, yeah, I know. I'm here, I'm here.
I'm just trying to process that, all right? Uh, hot today,
oh man, and you know heat wave and there's lots of news about
that one. And then an elevator story and that that rests right into my
heart. You know, elevators and me. It's like bagels. There's just
something about them, you know that just I love and I'll explain that a
little. Well, they might be the whole reason for the housing crisis.
That's right, that's right, They're like elevators might be the whole reason.
Welcome for that story. Yeah, no, it's gonna be a it's a
fun story. I don't know if I put it together. Eight thirty.
We're going to do that. No, I'm not. No, we're doing
that at eight fifty. Sorry, yeah, fade fifty. Michelle got that
one. All right? What what why? You guys ready to do it?
Yep? Yep. Let's do a handle on the news on this Tuesday
morning with Amy and Neil and me lead story. Okay, this was big
news and I think it was. The New York Times reported that a specialist
in Parkinson's disease had been to the White House eight times in eight months,
and all of a sudden, once again, here's Biden and his ability to
govern. And now the talk is Parkinson disease. And that was he was
playing rock paper scissors and it didn't come off well and it was shaking,
and then all of a sudden, now this thing exploded and they started looking
at it. Rule number one, don't play rock paper scissors when you're running
for president. It just doesn't look good. In the meantime, the White
House said, and wouldn't say why this doctor was showing up, but that's
what the problem is. When you have gene whatever, what is it?
What is it? Uh So, when she refused to confirm or elaborate on
this doctor's visit the other day, that just causes problems. And then she
did that like outrage. I'm offended. You'd ask that that be respectful.
Yeah, me agree that that's always hiding when you become the victim. Normally,
it is nobody's business what your medical issues are, unless you're president of
the United States. If you had business, you know your taxes mean less
to me than your health, and we you know so. So the point
is that he has been examined by a neurologist every year when he gets his
annual Barack Obama had people or had this specialist show up several times during his
administration and Trump. Uh we found out last last night when does reas thing.
No, but I sure would have liked the press the Press secretary to
expand on that. She did say he is not being treated for Parkinson's.
He is not taking any medication now for Parkinson's. I got the idea that
if I would have felt much better if she had said he does not have
Parkinson's. Yeah. See that's the thing. So what if he ends up
getting voted back in and he ends up having Parkinson's, then it's like,
well, all you can do is this. The White House is going to
mandate that any camera that is video him has one of those stabilizer devices.
You know, they should put it on him. Yeah, they just there's
no way they can do a static camera shot on him. They're going to
have a steady camp for the president. They're gonna have to. Yeah.
So it's NATO's diamond anniversary. So President Biden is hosting NATO for meetings this
week. They start today go for the next three days in DC. It's
the seventy fifth anniversary of NATO. They are apparently going to focus on ways
to reassure Ukraine, then NATO supports it and its efforts against Russia. And
there's a somewhat of a misunderstanding about NATO. NATO is not going to get
into the war in Ukraine. As a matter of fact, it can't under
the NATO regulations. It does go, it doesn't go into war. It
only defends the Now, what is it? Thirty two members that are part
of NATO, and it was originally started what nineteen forty eight it started?
How many members were there? I think there were five or eight. But
anyway, so NATO's pretty important. The only person that really doesn't like NATO
is President Trump, although to give him credit, the US was paying far
more than it's our fair share of the cost of NATO, and the other
countries just weren't putting up the way they're supposed to per the treaty. But
that's his attitude towards the financial side, not a NATO as a concept.
I don't think. I don't think he's ever said NATO per se there's anything
wrong with it. If memory serves, it was all about the money,
and he did light the fire under their ass and didn't start and he got
them to start paying what is supposed to be paid. Okay, one more
before you take a break. Tropical Storm Barrel unleashed some severe weather, obviously
to southeast Texas just yesterday, flooding highways, closing oil ports, canceling more
than thirteen hundred flights, knocking out power to two point seven million dollars or
seven two point seven million homes and businesses, and on top of all that,
killing at least four people. Yeah, it's a bad one. And
this is just the start. It's the earliest of a major tropical storm or
hurricane that has come this early in the season. This strength, this does
not bode well, it really doesn't. We're in for a rough time heat
wave. Well, all kinds of records were set in the last few days,
and Amy, we're looking at more records set this week, aren't we.
Yep, it's going to be hot. Thank you. That's our weather
person, Amy, who started it as a weather Let me go look outside,
Bill, Yeah, it's hot, So we can take the heat here
in SoCal But in Oregon it's a different story. So far. During Oregon's
heat wave, which is similar to ours, they're seeing temperatures over one hundred
degrees at least five deaths have been reported since Friday. Yeah, it's gonna
get worse. It's gonna get worse. Seven twenty. I'm doing a story
on the heat wave, but not necessarily. The number of people that are
dying will die, do die, But just the cost of heat is becoming
astronomical. We'll be doing that later one. All right, So California's power
grid, Oh brownouts, no brownouts, don't use your air conditioner, and
now use your air conditioner. So California endures this historic record setting heat wave,
the power grid managers are reassuring the public that supply can meet the demand
and go ahead and keep the air conditioners running, even though they always tell
us that we need to save. They haven't issued any flex alert. No
they haven't. And you know why, why because so many people have solar
systems in their house and you don't need electricity, or you need far less
during the day when it's hotter than hell, because your solar system is for
u seing electricity. That's it. Or I think that or that government Newsome
got mocked so bad for saying that he wants everybody to get ev cars when
we can't even withstand regular use of our power. I think that's more emissions
than anything else. But and you can look this one up. I don't
think there's been a power plant built in thirty years. Oh no, that's
an oil refinery. I don't remember the last time a power plant was built
because of solar. Because we are using less and less. What is it
thirty percent of California's energy is now produced by So this is just an about
face. It seems very I don't know, No, I can't. I
have a great idea. No, you know, it's getting hotter. We
know that Palm springs one hundred and twenty four degrees on Saturday. Is that
insanity? Yet at the same time, we've had heat waves that were far
less than we're in the middle of now, and we've had brownouts. The
rolling brown outs are the rolling blackouts. And I think it's because and I'm
just guessing here, but I think it's a good educated guests because of solar.
For example, I put in my Persian palace had a solar system.
Literally the first phone call I made, or one of the first when I
bought my new place west to Sunlux. I know, Ding, ding Ding,
It's well, how's that for a promo, but there was no way
I was not going to have a solar system. And I like your conditioning,
so there good keeps you from stinking. Yeah, California doctor, if
you remember you skipped me? Did you? No? It is Amy.
I don't want to miss this one because I think whoever did this should be
zip tied themselves. A dog, a beautiful German shepherd, was found in
a remote area of Malibu Crete Canyon. It had zip ties over its muzzle
and around its neck, so a pair of rock climbers found it last Wednesday,
was about two hundred feet off the trail. They were able to get
to the dog and the dog turned out to be friendly, so they got
the zip ties off and then called animal control in and so they've rescued the
dog. He's being taken care of. He's seven years old. And the
saddest part of this is not that these jerks did this to this dog,
as the dog could be very sick. It may have lymphoma, but they
said that if it is, if it does, they have the resources to
treat it. So it's not up for adoption or anything yet. But the
dog's been rest as bad as it is. Abandoning a dog, and that
is horrific. Zip tying its muzzle so it can't drink if it finds water,
can't eat, and we'll simply yeah, it can't do anything. I
mean, it is just horrific. That is that should be twenty five to
life. Well, it's you know, it's frustrating that this poor dog is
zip tied and you're walking around with no zip ties and a good point and
some pictures. Yeah, well it is. It's a sweet ermon dog.
You can treat a shepherd. Yeah, it looks like a shepherd, maybe
a shepherd mixed, beautiful about seven year old dog. And they don't have
it up for adoption. I would imagine that we will get follow ups on
this and will like, well, if it is to be brought up for
adoption now, there'll be hundreds of people lined up to grab it simply because
of the publicity. Absolutely good California doctor who drove as Tesla and his family
off at two hundred and fifty foot cliff tried to kill them. We'll undergo
two years of mental health treatment in a diversion program rather than getting nailed for
attempted murder, which is what the DA put up there. The San Mateo
County DA back in January twenty twenty three is when this took place, if
you remember, so, I don't know why they don't just put them in
a tent with the rest of the crazy people. Yeah. Well, first
of all, Michelle, I'm getting really tired of these families, these drivers
driving off a cliff to kill everybody in the car. That's it. I
don't want any more of those stories today. I'm up to hear with those
now. It's kind of unusual. You would think, how mentally ill does
this guy have to be, as you pointed out, Neil to drive off
the cliff with him inside the car because he wanted to kill everybody. And
I don't even think his wife wanted to press charges. If I'm not mistaken,
Amy, you remember this story. I think his wife was on his
side, and well, not on the side in terms of driving over the
cliff, but in terms of his mental illness, in terms of his abilities
just to think straight. And the judge obviously bought that. Yeah, yeah,
I mean trying to kill your family, you know? Is that worth
two years of mental health treatment? And then it's dismissed through a diversion program.
I mean, you can't practice medicine anymore, and he can't smoke marijuana.
I guess that's part of it. Drink alcohol or even see his wife
and kids for those two years. Yeah, I it baffles me. Yeah
it is. It is baffling. Time to head back to face the music.
A French court has ruled that a guy from Saratoga, California, who
was accused of sexually assaulting a college student in Pennsylvania back in twenty thirteen and
then lady later sending her a message on Facebook saying so I raped you,
can be extradited to the US. The guy's name is Ian Cleary. He's
thirty one. They found him in northeastern France after searching for him for three
years, and he's been held. He wanted to fight extradition, but the
French court said, nope, you got to go back to the US.
Yeah, here's the genius who admits raping someone on Facebook. I mean there
is there's a Darwin winner on that one. I mean he should actually be
extradited for stupid, the crime of stupid, because he has hit that level.
Good news. Huh, So I raped you, he writes, but
I'll never do it again. Okay, we can take one more, all
right. Federal judge in Alaska resigned for his what would normally be a lifetime
appointment after an internal investigation concluded he created a hostile work environment for his law
clerk. I did law clerks rather plural, and engaged in an inappropriate sexual
relationship with one of them after her clerk clerkship ended. And apparently he encouraged
his law clerks to rape people based on their sexual desirability. He belittled or
ostracized clerks who tried to talk him out of his inappropriate cash. This is
like working for handle. Yeah, yeah, right. So two issues on
this one. One is the allegation or simply it's the statement that he was
stripping a law clerk after she left the clerkship. Who cares about that?
And I'm consenting adults. He's no longer she's no longer subordinate, so they
have a relationship. It's the hostile work environment. I think that did it.
It's the way he treated his staff, and that you can't do.
He can't. Nope. And by the way, by the way, if
he had, he could not be removed unless he's impeached. You know that,
don't you it's a lifetime appointment, but he resigned. Chuck Schumer is
working on a workaround. The Senate majority leader says he and other Democrats are
going to work to advance legislation to strip former President Trump of the immunity he
was granted under last week's Supreme Court ruling. I guess it was a week
and a half ago. That protects the president's official acts from criminal prosecution.
Now Congress can do that, they can overrive the Supreme Court. Well,
it's the Supreme Court interprets what immunity is, and it's the unofficial versus official
really isn't in the language of the Constitution. And if Congress says this is
basically by the way the court, Supreme Court kicked it back down to the
lower court to determine with whether what the president did was official or unofficial.
So it can happen. It's not going to but it can happen. I
mean, what makes that really scary this decision by the Supreme Court is when
dealing with deciding what's unofficial and what is official, you can't bring evidence in,
for example, as to motive. That can't be considered. So you
know, it was more than a parrot victory for Trump. I mean,
he got away with this one. That's the Teflon president, he truly is.
He's not the president. He was the Teflon president. He is now
the Teflon and he will be the Teflon president when he runs or when I
think he's going to win. If I had Democrats keep trying to keep Joe
Biden in, that's the problem. We shall see. They have no choice.
Unfortunately, you know what, you can walk around the Trump will walk
around the White House going I officially hate you and winking at people. Yeah.
If I were, if I were an advisor for Trump, I just
say, lay low, no more crazy accusations. Just lay low. I
don't have to do anything. Let Joe Biden win the election for you,
which I think would happen. Okay, right, Uh. A one billion
dollar gift to John Hopskins Hopkins University from billionaire Mike Bloomberg will make a medic
school medical school free for most students and increase financial aid for those enrolled in
nursing, public health, other graduate programs. And this just I am changing
my name legally to John's Hopkins Medicals. I mean, this is a big
deal. It's already been done once for I think the new I think NYU
Medical School if they have one done by a multi zillionaire. And this is
not just here is a billion dollars for scholarships. Here's a billion dollars of
which the interest or the investment off the billion dollars is paying for all of
these students. I mean it is lifetime. There's enough money there to pay
for tuition for all of the students forever. Yes, Amy, I have
a question. Yes, So does that mean that Bloomberg is going to have
all of that money given back to him because of the White House's plan to
erase student debt? No, it's there because this means that students will not
have student debt. Okay, this just says free medical school. Now,
getting into Hopkins is hard enough, it's one of the top medical schools in
the country. How hard do you think it's going to go in now because
there's no tuition? But anyways, Bloomberg, he's a billionaire Bloomberg News former
mayor of New York, so that a good guy. He doesn't have to
keep it. So, I mean he's a multi billionaire, but pretty impressive
to say the least. Okay, good luck if you want to buy a
home. Speaking of big dollars, buying home in La and Orange Counties cost
ten times more than what you typically make in a year. That's nice.
That's double what it was in nineteen eighty. By the way, LA and
Orange County metro areas had the fourth highest price income ratio out of the three
hundred metro areas listed on a new report. Yeah, look at how much
money you need someone putting down three point five down payment. You know,
I would think it's twenty percent and that's the way to get the best.
But you put down three and a half percent down payment. I'm assuming there
are programs that do that. You'd have to earn four hundred and twenty thousand
dollars a year for a median priced home. Four hundred and twenty thousand dollars
a year income. How is that for insanity? Unless you live in San
Jose. San Jose, it's a little bit better. You need five hundred
and sixty six thousand dollars annually to be able to afford a medium priced median
priced home, and that's using the thirty percent. Well, I think it's
just to afford it much less. The pretcent percent rule, which says that
you should only use or should only pay thirty percent of your income for rent
or mortgage, and that's been thrown out the window. People pay a lot
more than that, all right. California will impose permanent water restrictions for the
first time in history, after the state's Water Resources Control Board approved this incredibly
long debated policy. So, yeah, they're gonna not just individual households or
businesses, retail water suppliers will now be required to reduce their water use by
close to thirty percent over the next fifteen years. Yeah, we're not going
to be asked to do that, no mandate, and we just won't have
enough water to keep it going full blast because we're not gonna be able to
get the water. It'll be a thirty percent cut. So I think we're
going to go back to you can't water your lawns, you can't wash your
cars, you can't use water to clean your driveway. Yeah, in your
case, Neil, you are saving the environment by not showering. So there's
get ready, get ready for that. Shut up, Kono's laughing. You
stack the ass, you stink. We don't even know what's under that hat.
Bruh uh. Yeah, but you know what, they never they never
take away something and give it back. That's the reality. So they want
you know, when it comes to water, that's not true because they'll come
in with a policy of water restrictions and then they'll turn it around like we
had when it was huge rains we had and water restrictions were off. And
then when they're when it's really drought land and we don't have any water,
they do that. You'll see that going up. Did you change anything at
the Persian Palace? No? Yeah, well you know what we had to
us little people had to and I went to DG. I went to zero
scaping, we went to succulence. We've done all that multiple times, and
all it does is cost us a crap ton of money. Well, okay,
let's do this. I put in artificial grass, so I have mil
grass, which they're looking at outlawing, by the way, right with my
new place. All it's artificial combination, artificial grass, cacti or actually its
cactuses or cacti, and succulents like you say, and no baths or showers
for weeks at a time. Well they call them succulents for a reason because
they suck as outdoor decoration in less and landscaping unless you live in possibly I
think they're beautiful, but that's besides. They can be beautiful, but it's
just not grass. No, it's not busy at the beach, baby,
lifeguards didn't have a lot of time to just sit around and soak up the
sun. Over the long holiday weekend, five thousand, six hundred and twenty
rescues were logged at beaches in Orange County between July fourth and the seventh.
That makes it the busiest Fourth of July weekend in the past decade. In
Laguna Beach, which is just seven and a half mile stretch of coastline,
lifeguards made a total of twenty two hundred and seventy eight rescues. Twelve hundred
of those were to get people out of rip currents. So when lifeguards have
to take breaks by law, they just let people drown. Sarah, come
on, stay out of the water. And if you're an idiot, you
know, thank you for helping us with our gene pool. Just cotten rip
tides and they tell you riptides stay out of the water and people go in
the water, come on, or get eaten by a shark. That's also
good too. Oh did you see that shark bite from last week? Did
you guys talk about that as like, oh yeah, that whole chunk of
that person's leg was just God. I did a story about how rare shark
bites are, and the next day there were four of them off of one
beach in Florida. Okay, we're not going to do these are extremely rare
stories anymore. Well, yeah, that's the way. The shark lights are
very rare. Yeah. Rapidly expanding and accelerating, complex of complex of landslides.
They are on the southern east, southeastern rather tip of Pelos Verdes Peninsula.
Not only reecavoc causing problems to homes, roads, utilities, all of
that. We heard about Wayfarer's chapel had to be abandoned at least temporarily.
But it's creating a new beach. Have you seen a picture of the new
beach. Boy, this is a beach you'd want to go to. Lots
of rocks. Yeah, it is horrible, but you know it happens.
So in the meantime, on the other side Pacific Coast Highway, the entire
hillside is coming down and destroying the highway. But you get one hundred and
fifty feet of this new rocky. You can't walk on a beach, so
I guess that's still beachfront property. Yeah, yeah, you'd want that in
front of your house. Okay, okay, let's see. If you love
California, you just might love this. You can tune in now to twenty
four to seven live stream of hul Hauser's visiting series. It's on PBS Southern
California's YouTube channel. Now. If you're not familiar with heul Hauser, he
was a public TV producer. Died back in twenty thirteen. I am not
familiar with him because, oh no, you have to do now. You
have to look at this. No, I know, I mean I'm good
looking for you have there? I mean it is Wow, that's an avocado
eating dolls. Yeah, that's a man. That's Hulhuser. He's quite a
piece, but hugely, hugely popular. Remember when I had that horrible,
god awful television show, the worst show television show in the history of mankind.
The soundstage was right next to hulhuser sound stage where he did a lot
of his work, I mean inside work. Of course, it was all
location shooting for him or ninety five percent, and it was He's done a
lot of it California Goal. And he takes these little stories of people.
For example, you've got the oldest avocado tree in California. Gosh, that's
an old tree. He would put places on the map. Tali ran down
the street from us here in Burbank. Boom shaka laga. All right,
we'll end with this diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases jump nearly twenty four percent among
seniars ages sixty five and older during the pandemic, so says this study.
And yes, syphilis was a big one, followed by Donna Rhea. Have
you have you seen those well, have you seen those retirement communities? Yeah?
I mean their stoop Land is one of them. Oh yeah, very
impressive. Okay, we're done, guys. Just a real quick personal shout
out a miss ya Ethel. I'm thinking about your baby. KFI AM six
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