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the school prevails for a couple of reasons. First of all, there are
only two genders, men and real men. That's how we start, okay.
For example, real men do not go to musicals, even though I
push them all the time. And now Handle on the news, ladies and
gentlemen, here's Bill Handle. Well, it is a Wednesday, Juneteenth,
June nineteen, twenty twenty four, and we are going to talk about and
celebrate Juneteenth today. It's really interesting. I'll give you a little bit of
history behind that, and it's going to be a hot one today. First
of all, let me introduce or say hello to the crowd. If I
can, Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf and if Neil,
I wish we could see this, but you can't. Kneel's on computer
screen as everybody is talking to each other, because that's what we do now.
And behind them, he puts up the graphics, which you can do.
And uh, as many times there is there's the camel in the office
going Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. Why because
today is hump Day? And then we celebrate hump Day every Wednesday, which
is always a joy. It's very important holiday in uh my world. There's
litters, New Year's, there's July fourth hump Day. A little commercial for
me these days. I mean, I was out doing my hump Day shopping,
getting my hump Day tree, and it's just like the hustling bustle I'm
not into anymore. Yeah. So when you go to stores that have hump
Day sales, are they dumping humps? Is it a ump? Is it
a hump dump? Just be careful on the ones that have been reboxed.
You do not want to reuse hump Okay, fair enough, anyway, there
you are. We'll do that. We'll make milk it until all of us
get really sick of that. Good morning Cono, Good morning Bill. All
right, there we go, and the lovely Amy, Good morning Amy,
Good morning Bill. Oh it's black with pearls. Is do I have that
right? No? Oh? I bling? Oh bling. It's a sparkly
necklace. It is sparkly, you know, pretend necklaces. When we were
broken into at the house with those Chilean gangs that I've talked about so many
times, they go up to the second floor with the ladder and clean out
all of the jewelry because everything is kept upstairs virtually, and that everybody keeps
their jewelry et cetter and the upstairs master closet. All we had was bling.
Let me tell you how pissed off those guys were when they left and
tried to pawn off the jewelry, which was complete garbage. That's not to
say that what you're brying his garbage, but that is well. Let me
ask you this. Do you remember how much you paid for that lovely necklace?
My friend gave it to me, but I think it was it was
like a hundred bucks. Oh even that's very much. Okay, I mean
you mean you're telling me that the fourteen carrot's worth of diamonds that you have
around there aren't real. I know you can't tell, but no they're not.
You're right, And good morning, good morning Bill. All right,
we're ready to go, guys. And how hot is it going to be
today? Because and you keep up on this stuff, how hot is it
going to be today? Yeah? How hot is it going to be?
Yeah? Ninety ninety Okay, I'm in Wolden Hills. It's always really hot.
Yeah, it is, and north Ridge is really hot, and so
you know, welcome to Los Angeles heat dome. Over the rest of the
country, they are dying there. I mean he probably literally is. We're
going to go into the news this morning. You've got a heat dome where
it's in the nineties. Records are going to be broken all over East coast
cities and it's hot and humid. So kono, are you ready to it's
a schitz out there, and related to describing the East Coast, which is
a schwitz, but here it's hot, but it's not a schwitz. He's
looking, he's looking, looking, looking for it's fitz. Watch. Okay,
we're gonna be doing that this morning as we talk about the weather.
All right, Schwitz being boys and girls, uh too sweat. Schwitz actually
is a steam room in Yiddish, but it's also a verb. It is
a verb that not only do you sit in a schwitz, but you also
schwitz. We s fitz you schwitz, you will schwitz schwitz. We have
schwitz. Oh you can't. We have schwatz. No, no, that's
only for males. And it's not schwatz, it's schwantz. We have schwantz.
Now if a group of males are saying, we have swans, then
you have to do the plural we have swans's. You know what. I'll
give you adish lessons later later on. There's swanks gonna be out there.
Yeah, that's out in the east coast. Okay, is it a pride
of Schwanz's, that's very good. It is it a pod a murder of
well that that could be a crush of Schwans's depending on where you put your
swans, if it's in place. So at some point we'll do schwans rama.
Okay, guys, is it time for handle on the news? Good
start, good start today. Amy, you're learning Yiddish, right, there'll
be Yiddish lessons. We actually should do a oh, you know what and
uh at some point a segment on Yiddish. Yiddish words you need to know
because they're really good. Now. Arabic curses, by the way, are
far better. They're the best in the word world, you know. For
example, may you take a camel dung smear on your mustache and smell it
for a week? That is actually a curse in Arabic? How do you
beat that? It's more poetic in the original language, but actually it is
so Arabic is a very poetic language to begin with. There's a lot of
well, you know, all right, I was just thinking and it's not
gonna work. It wasn't gonna work. Okay, work all of it,
all of it, the thinking, that's right, the saying all of it.
Okay, guys, let's do it. Handle on the news, Amy
Neil and me lead story those. Oh yeah, Putin is in North Korea
and they signed a break through partnership and I'm going to talk more about that
at eight o'clock. Uh, to give you an idea of how Putin is
a good guy and attacking Ukraine. But a little bit of a little bit
of reality here as to countries don't care about individual rights and human rights.
They really don't, including the United States, even though we say it.
And I'll explain that a little bit later. And the deal that Putin and
Kim struck, and that's coming up at eight o'clock. So Matt Gates is
back in the spotlight. Remember it was a big deal for a while and
then it kind of went away. Well it's back again. The House Ethics
Committee says it is expanding its investigation into Representative Matt Gates to include additional allegations
that the lawmaker from Florida tried to obstruct the investigation as it looks into accusations
of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, and more. The investigation has been
going on for three years. Yeah, the DOJ drop charges, by the
way, the weaponized DOJ drop charges. And now it's the weaponized House of
Representative even though they're controlled Republican Republicans control it. This is the weaponization of
insert name of any agency or elective body here, and it's gone crazy.
The guy's the sleeves. He really is. He is. He's a big,
big talker against Democrats, against Biden, I mean huge. He was
responsible for kicking Kevin McCarthy out of the speakership. He led that move and
he won that one. And Mike Johnson they've left that one alone because you
know how many how many speakers do they throw out? How many speakers?
As Gates going to toss for exactly the same thing, by the way,
So Matt Gates, I hope he gets nailed, nailed. He'll only assuming
all of that is correct, he'll just be censured. You know, bad
boys slap on the wrist. That's what happens, all right. Boeing CEO
Dave Calhoun spent two two hours yesterday trying to persuade largely very very skeptical senators
that all the issues going with the aircraft maker that they are committed to safety
since a pair of deadly crashes about six years ago. He also denied any
widespread accusations that Boeing retaliates against whistle blowers or employees who bring up safety concerns.
Yeah, and the chair of the committee nailed him both sides screaming at
him. He denied. He just said, Nope, we don't have that
kind of a culture. Yes, we're straightening things out. And it was
just they weren't even on the same planet. By the way, this is
where the phrase you've heard it before. It blew the doors off that argument.
Nice well played, sir, Thank you, turning up the heat.
Israel has worned hes be Law of the prospect of an all out war after
the Lebanese militant group published a nine minute video. It was apparently taken by
a drone and it shows Israeli military and civilian locations in several cities around Israel,
and foreign Minister Israel Katz says, we're getting very close to the moment
of deciding to change the rules of the game against Hesbola and Lebanon. Yeah,
I don't quite understand what the Hesbala is doing. Israel's fully prepared to
do a to front war. I mean, they will fight with Hesbelah and
Kamas. They've had plenty of two front wars, and they will decimate southern
Lebanon. Now it's going to be more of a fight because they have the
sophisticated missiles. Iran has backed them up and it's fairly easy to get this
stuff into southern Lebanon. But there if they're prepared to literally have Southern Lebanon
look like Gaza, okay. And then of course Israel has the bomb.
You know that. It's believed that they have two hundred nuclear way weapons and
they're never going to go down without blowing up a bunch of Arab cities.
They just won't. Israel only has to lose one time and it ceases to
become Israel with its neighbors. And by the way, his Bellaw is ramping
this up with attacks and this latest one simply for solidarity with the Palestinians for
no other reason none. Israel has no ambitions in Lebanon. It just wants
to be left alone up there. There's the border, and so far because
of the attacks they have evacuated the entire northern part of Israel. Is going
to be an all out war. Well, I mean, if you're in
a country, do you fight Israel. Hamas certainly made that choice. Boy,
that worked out well for them, didn't it. Okay, we'll see,
we'll see. It's getting closer and closer. Speaking of it's really Prime
Minister Jamin netnaho Was has claimed rather that the United States is withholding weapons and
imploied that this was slowing Israel's offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafa.
And there's obviously that's where the fighting is going on now, and there's already
this dire humanitarian situation for Palestinians there. Yeah. And by the way,
the withholding of weapons actually did happen because Ukraine and Israel were packaged together.
Congress did not vote. It took a while for Congress to vote. Ukraine
and then connected to Israel and the United States saying the only thing we've withheld
are those two thousand pound bombs that take out blocks of people. And Netta
ya who is straight out blaming Biden. I mean they're getting into it,
the two of them, and we'll see what happens with that way. Matter
of fact, Neta nyahho. He's very very careful not to go too far.
For example, in his last speech he said, I don't want to
mention names Biden, and I want to make sure that we have a decent
relationship Biden, and that we don't we don't get to the point where Israel
and United States are completely at odds. Biden, so very subtle, thank
you. Yeah, he is Biden his time, Oh, very strong.
The pier is in peril. You know that two hundred and thirty million dollars
temporary peer the US military built. It was supposed to become an offloading point
for aid to get into Gaza. It's basically failed. It's yeah, been
a month and it's been in service only about ten days. It broke apart
in rough seas. It was detached to avoid damage, and now it's been
paused for security concerns as well. Yeah, two hundred and thirty million dollars
did nothing nothing. It is basically the biggest pool float that has ever been
built. The good news is Timu has return policies, so we'll see if
we can get that back. Yeah yeah, and it never did. It
was supposed to be a stop gap anyway. The only way to really bring
aid into Gaza is via the points, the various transition points. There's Rafa
and there's a couple in northern California. They have to be opened up the
border crossings, and they have Israel is allowing. You know, Israel is
a very very interesting philosophy. Here is that people were starving in Gaza,
and I believe that Israel is allowing just enough aid so it's not outright starvation.
It's just a little bit over the line of starvation. And that is
pretty cynical. But I think Natagna, who is that cynical? I think
he will allow hundreds of thousands of people right into fa emminent to keep his
position as Prime minister. Sad news yesterday. Willie Mays, the iconic Hall
of Fame center fielder known for the greatest all around baseball player of all time,
he died yesterday. And you know the he was ninety three years old,
so it's not like it was a short life, but a huge representative
of baseball and a what would you call that baseball? No, no,
a leegend, yes, well, absolutely a legend. Yes, I was
thinking of an ambassador. He is the word I was looking for that just
you know, phenomenal, phenomenal athlete, just phenomenal and you can and I
don't know what the quality of his life was towards the end, but certainly,
as you describe it, this is a life well lived, clearly and
iconic and certainly a legend. And what did you play? Baseball? Basketball?
Baseball? Thank you very much. Show me the money. US prosecutors
have announced a major breakthrough in a crackdown against Chinese money laundering networks they say
are working with Mexican drug cartels. They filed charges against twenty four people tied
to a scheme to launder more than fifty million dollars in drugs. Yeah,
this is Mexico and the cartels and some Americans out of la and it is
just a lot of money. This drug business is become international. You ever
thought that Mexico and Chinese cartels would hook up with Chinese and Americans to get
this moving? Boy, this is complicated. Stuff hasn't it always been international.
No, I don't think like this. I don't think the cartels.
I think they acted on their own with mules and trucks. That's my understanding.
I may be wrong about that, but it shows the tentacles of this
stuff. By the way, when they bust one of these, how many
have let how are through? How many do they miss? Maybe they bust
one out of ten. It's and it takes years to figure this out.
They put hundreds of investigators on this and police, and they get one a
couple of years. Usually they're investigating this. Steve Gregory has talked about this
quite often. All right, well, you got to imagine the cartels have
their hands in just about everything but avocados, mangoes. Maybe. The United
States government has suspended inspections of avocados and mangoes in the Mexican state of Michoacan
due to security concerns after one of the inspectors got a threatening message. So
they're out, they're gone, And as the inspector left, he turns to
the cartel and says, hey, don't have the fruitfly traps hit you in
the ass. I'm out of here. Well, the weird thing is,
we do get a lot from Mexico, but we do provide. We have
a lot of avocados here, we just don't have them year round as Mexico
does. However, some of them were already en root and so they're on
their way. And then some come from Jalisco, I believe, but you
know, so Oruarez, It'salisco, Jalisco. So we'll still get some Mexican
avocados. You'll see them just dispatch. I think they walked away from and
said we're going to leave before we miss our heads. Yeah, hands,
feet, yeah, penises, Yeah, pretty much. Last week it was
tornadoes. This week it's heat and now here come the hurricanes. A tropical
storm warning is in effect, not a hurricane yet for parts of South Texas
and northeastern Mexico. It's the first tropical storm thread of the year. It's
going to or it's expected to unload torrential rainfall and raise the flood threat not
just in the US but also in parts of Mexico and Central America. Yeah,
early, early for a tropical storm threat. And I don't know if
how much news you watch, Obviously I watch a lot of it, especially
in the national news. For the last how many weeks is the lead story.
The storms and the weather. It's getting tough, it really is.
So the droughts are going to be drowdier, hurricanes are going to be stronger,
they're going to come earlier, they're going to be more of them,
and there are the weather people are saying be prepared for a rough rough season.
Well, already the heat dome records were broken and this early at the
same time, So welcome to climate change. All right. This is a
story that I think we're gonna need to see more unfold because it seems bizarre.
You got a nineteen year old USC student by the name of Ivan Diego's
he was idd as the murder suspect in this stabbling stabbing of a homeless man
on Greek Row who apparently was breaking in to his car or someone's car,
and he approached him. There were maybe two other guys as well, so
it looks like three people approached him. One said they had a gun,
he pulled out a knife and stabbed him. And now he is They they
booked him for murder. And here's my question, A two million dollar bail,
Yeah, I mean I don't even know they actively Yeah, effectively,
there's no bail there, you know, two million dollar bail to a guy
this young or anybody. He doesn't have a pile of money. Here's my
question. I don't know the answer to this either. Maybe I'll call a
handle on the law and ask myself on Saturday. And that is simply saying
I have a gun. Is that enough to argue self defense when a crime
is being committed? I don't know the answer to that. Did he reach
for a waistband? Did he reach behind him? And if he did,
he just say I have a gun. This is when I'm going to trust
somebody other than me, not going to wait. I will tell you Saturday
morning. The answer excellent, I asked myself. By the way, as
more the description comes out of the event, he did not leave the scene
and he totally cooperated law enforcement. So slow down or else. A bill
that would pave the way for speed cameras to be put in high risk areas
in Malibu have cleared a hurdle. Senate Bill twelve ninety seven has passed out
of the State Assemblies Transportation Committee. So basically they're saying that these speed cameras
were going through Malibu can be a pretty dangerous thing. They've shown a forty
one percent reduction in fatal or incapacitating injuries in other areas of the state.
Yeah, it's crazy, the speeding. I mean, we've all experienced that.
Yesterday, I was both on the street and the freeway getting to the
freeway, and both on the street and on the freeway, and I must
have seen four different incidences where you've got guys. Usually it's guys going through
weaving through traffic and like one hundred miles an hour. They think that it's
almost like stunt people being filmed doing that, and it is so crazy.
And at one point there was a cop that I saw back maybe a block
just ignored it or didn't see it. No one gets tagged. When's the
last time you saw a speeder going that crazy? Who was tagged by the
police, don't know? A quick reminder This weekend, this Saturday night at
the Walt Disney Concert Hall, it's the LA Lawyers Philharmonic judges and lawyers who
are in the Philharmonic. Gary Green, who is a lawyer, a practicing
lawyer, is the head of the orchestra and it's oh, it's always great
fun. I'm the MC so you see me in a tuxedo. Once a
year I make a complete ass out of myself as always. And it's this
Saturday, June twenty two at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. And it is
a terrific show with legal voices, the choir too, and it's show tunes
and pop music, classical music. I mean, you put it all together,
it's going to be pretty neat. And you can go to La Lawyersphil
dot org for tickets La Lawyersphil dot org for tickets. And by the way,
after the show, you know, come up and say hello to me,
because I won't be there. I'm going to be long gone. I'm
just not interested in saying hello to you. Okay, excuse me, let's
do it. Let's finish that pandle on the news on this Wednesday morning,
Amy, Neil and me. Alrighty. So when you're driving down the road,
you last thing you want is I don't know, you know, steam
coming out of your engine or maybe a flat tire. Imagine going to space
and having malfunctioning thrusters, a series of helium links leaks. Not a good
thing. So now, which company, Neil, oh, let me look
this up. Bill, Let's oh Boeing Boeing in their star Liner. Thanks
for asking. Two veteran astronauts will extend their stay on the International Space Station.
We warn them, don't go, but they are. They've got the
groundwork people trying to figure out or better understand, as they say, the
issues of the Boeing built spacecraft that carried them. Tom, And I know
it's a different division division, yes, but you do got a wonder Yeah,
And how do you know there was a helium leak inside? Because they
I told us that's why. That is not where the leap was built.
No, I know that it would be funny if it was. I had
to do a helium balloon joke. Hello, grandchedule. Yeah, this is
kind of like a I don't know, to you and me, it'd be
like a five dollars fine. But Amazon's been fined five point nine million dollars
for allegedly violating California's warehouse quota law. And of course Prime members get stuff
fast, and employees say sometimes that speed comes at a cost to them.
And Amazon's been investigated at two San Bernardino County Amazon warehouses. A total of
fifty nine thousand violations were found from October twenty three to March of twenty four.
Yeah, five point nine million dollars. That literally is the money you
find between the cushions on your couch and your couch. For Amazon. My
daughter's roommate, Pamela's roommate, she worked, she now works in tech for
Amazon, and she was in the warehouse and she goes, that's a tough
job. It is not easy being a warehouse worker. What were some of
the violations to quota? Basically quota systems you have to do X number of
boxes from what I understand, X number of boxes in a given amount of
time. And that's why she said it's not easy. It's a tough job.
But promotions, they're pretty good about promotions. Their pay is pretty good.
So a lot of people line up to work at Amazon. You know
what, fifty boxes a minute has been your quota, but we're giving you
a promotion. Now you need to do sixty five. That's true. Now,
it's like it's like, iHeart, they give you a promotion by giving
you a different total. I mean a different title, I mean no money,
nothing. You're doing exactly the same job, but now you're a vice
president in charge of nothing. I assumed a couple of positions when people were
let go, well, now you do it, right, how much money
you get extra? Nothing? Yeah, yeah, exactly, But at least
I have my hair. That's true, all right. Navidia is now the
new Wall Street Darling artificial intelligence poster child is now the most valuable company in
the world, taking the crown from Microsoft. Yeah, they go back and
forth, and this is very important. Navidia's three point three four trillion cap.
Microsoft is now three point three two trillion cap. Apple way back in
third at three point twenty seven trillion dollar cap and depending on the vagaries of
the stock market, a difference between morning and night. And clearly this is
simply bragging rights. But it's kind of nice to be the number one,
the most valuable company on the planet. And you know this this coming.
Nvidia started what twenty five years ago, Microsoft started fifty years ago. I
mean, you have GM started in the early nineteen twenties, you have Westinghouse
started into in the late eighteen hundreds. I mean this goes to show you
how important tech is and how tech has just it rules the world. Now,
oh ai is going to permeate everything, so it already has. Yeah,
there's already no way. Yeah, it's crazy and we'll be out of
a job soon. You know, you're going to get an AI talk show
host who will not be stopping midway to chew on a bagel. It just
won't be happening. Well, what fun is that? It isn't it is?
We'll have to program it to do that. It's true because that seems
to work, right somehow, the more bagels the better, the higher the
ratings. There's a direct correlation. By the way, there is a mathematical
correlation bagels equals ratings. All right, guys, someone's going colon hashtag insert
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