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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, isn't gonna work, all of it,
all of it. And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's Bill Handle, and yeah, good morning, everybody. Bill Handle
here on Thursday morning, June twentieth. I think today is Solstice day,
is it? It is one fifty this afternoon. It's officially summer. And
so there we go. And so today there will be international coverage of people
with no life dancing around Stonehenge with stolen robes from hotel rooms and doing whatever
chance they do. And that's going to be very exciting today. And Stonehenge
will be bright orange. Yes, it will be. Stop oil people,
guys. I have a quick favor to ask of you. My frittatas are
going to burn. They're in the toaster oven. So I'm going to just
leave for thirty This is, by the way, legit, this is not
shtick. I've got to go to the toaster oven and turn it off because
they are going to burn for real, please, So just hang I'll be
back in a minute. I got to talk amongst ourselves. Yeah, I
just talk amongst yourself for a minute. I'll be back in less than a
minute. Okay. So it is the first day of summer. It arrives
at one point fifty and we have fourteen hours and twenty one minutes of daylight
today. Wow. What am I going to do with it all? I
don't know. Most of the time for me because I have the weird sleep
schedule. I've got the curtains drawn so I don't see it. I'm going
to put solar panels on my head and absorb the energy. I like it.
That's a nice idea. You know what's funny is Handel says when he's
got to go get his breakfast, he goes, this isn't shtick. Not
one of us or anyone listening wouldever think that handle would make jokes about food.
Okay, sorry about that? Are they good? Yeah? Yeah?
If I didn't turn it off prime, well it's a long you know,
my toast rubbin, and I turn it on for too long. Uh,
and it would have continued to cook in the studio. I even keep put
a toast rubin in the studio. Why not because uh I needed the stuff
comes straight from the freezer. Has seen the microwave to defrost and it's it's
very complicated. So anyway, let me go back to good morning everybody.
We're done with for tod to talk. Uh uh goodboarding. Don't you hate
when the show gets like in the way of all the things you have gone
on? Hate it that this show gets in the way of my morning?
Get that you have no idea? What a pain in the ass that is?
Uh, Neil, good morning, Yes, indeed, good morning,
Willie Wolf, Yes, Cono, good morning, good morning. I don't
know what if for is. By the way, Oh well, these are
many for Tata's a lot they're like, yeah, they're like a kishe Uh,
this is a costco Uh of course, it's a costco product. And
what it is in this case it's egg whites and the a lot of little
vegetables in it. I'm sorry we moved on from the ftana. Sorry,
oh, he asked, I know, he as good morning. You know
what a forada is I do It's like a kish without a without a crust.
Yeah, that's basically that's exactly what it is. Well put just like
in this case, it's just egg whites. It works well. Okay,
Uh, I think we're ready to go. We've got enough Fortana talk toaster,
rub and talk oh solstice talk, which actually is important. And I
hope that they catch those asses, uh, the ones that spray paint on
Stone Hinge. Uh. And there what is there? What is the premise
of they're doing what they did their Uh? What are they objecting to?
Too much oil being used? And the druids that built it just used so
much. It wasn't the Druids that built it. By the way, it's
no way thousands of years before the Druids. They have no idea who put
Stonehenge up. The pre dr the pre Druids, they weren't, were they
Drewish? That's very good. No, they don't know who. They actually
don't know who built Stone Hinge. I mean a pre date. It goes
thousands of years back way before Druids city. Okay, let's do it.
You're ready, guys. And I love the solstice because it's the longest day
of the year. And as you said, Amy, it goes downhill after
this. It's a little extra longer. I happened to love when summertime comes
up. And then when we go to go back to daylight savings time,
No, we go back to standard time after we do daylight savings, and
man, it is so depressing. And then it gets early dark and it's
just I love it because your speedo comes out, the old handle hammock gets
put on, and you get ready for the summer, and you comb your
back and you're all ready to my legs are getting a little creepy. I
just looked in the mirror and it's pretty depressing. You know, you sort
of hit your nineties and hundred. I only feel ninety and moisturizes. No,
I yeah, I've got to do something about that. Moisture eyes.
Buddy, Yeah, I've got to do something. Oh no, we'll cover
you in it. Yeah, okay, yeah, nicely said. Okay,
got your cover, buddy, Let's do it. Let's do it. Weird
morning, weird morning for TI to talk and all the rest of it.
Okay, handle on the news, Amy, Neil and me lead story.
Well well as I the Supreme Court is expanding religious freedom even in public places,
and it's going to hear this case I guarantee you, because Louisiana court
rooms have now required are now required by law to display the Ten Commandments in
all classrooms from kindergarten straight up to the university level for any school that gets
any kind of state aid, which means certainly all the public schools, I
mean that's a given, but also schools, private schools and colleges particularly that
get money from the students, get money from the state in terms of loans
or grants. And it's pretty all reaching, it really is, because you've
got a situation separation of church and state, and it is they want the
government involved. The Conservatives when it comes to the Ten Commandment and religion,
the government must be involved. Of course, when it comes to Second Amendment,
the government cannot be involved. When it comes to abortion, the government
must be involved. So kind of interesting, isn't it. By the way,
the other side, same thing, just reverse, just a mirror image,
all right, So that's going to be a big one. So the
UN is using the word extermination now. The Human Rights Office said that the
scale of Palestinian civilian losses amounted to extermination. Report from the UN said it
focused on six attacks that resulted in mass casualties and destroyed civilian infrastructure and infrastructure.
It said Israeli forces may have systematically violated the principles of distinction, proportionality,
and precaution, and that may be the case. Where the argument is
is going too far and they're not doing enough to segregate their attack to try
to keep casualties to a minimum. All of that, I agree. Extermination.
Let's talk about extermination, the purpose of wiping out a people for absolutely
no military gain. Nazis with Jews, Turks with Armenians, Chinese with Awigurs.
The point is to wipe those people out off the map. You don't
want to use the word extermination because what that does is dilute the true horrific
crime of extermination. The argument here is Israel is not This is no there's
no military reason to attack those homes and those businesses and those hospitals. It
doesn't exist. They're just doing it for the hell of it, like the
Nazis did. It wiped out the Jews. As a matter of philosophy,
governmental philosophy, no risk. So this assumes the fact that there is no
Hamas it doesn't exist, Israel has no justification for attacking Hamas. None,
it's just a straight extermination. Come on, guys, you know, really
saying there's too many grenades, not enough snipers kind of thing like, isn't
there a more pinpoint accurate way. Well, that's what they're saying, Israel
and Israel, that's what. And I don't know. I'm a military guy,
but although I play one on radio, I mean, the point is,
what do you do when your enemy embeds itself into the civilian population.
The only way not to kill a bunch of civilians when you're attacking enemy within
that population is to simply not attacks it. War's over, Hamas continues on.
Hamas continues to invade Israel and commit its terrorist acts as and it has
promised to do over and over again. And the answer is for Israel to
simply not go after Humas because they're in the population. Boy, that's how
you win every war. Now, just embed in the population and the other
side cannot attack you. Well, it's like that in the day to day.
You know, cops are trying to get the bad guys, but they
can't just torch an entire city block to do it. It's a little bit
different. You don't have an entire people getting together to wipe out a neighborhood.
They don't do that. You don't get even gang members go down the
street and say, let's take out that part of the city of Los Angeles
and just torch it. That doesn't happen. These are individual events. Anyway,
I could go on and on, and by the way, I'm not
arguing at all that Israel is in the wrong in many many ways. But
please don't use the word extermination and genocide. Don't do that. With warplanes
and drones above, Israeli tanks have advanced deeper into the western part of Gaza
Strip city of Raffa yesterday and killing eight people in the process. This is
according to Palestinian medics and residents. Have you noticed that Israel says it is
not going to make a massive campaign against Rafa and our president has said that's
a line that can't be crossed. We can't have a major, major campaign
into Rafa where they can't. It's the cut. It's the thousand cuts that
are going in death by a thousand cuts. They're doing it and pretending they're
not doing it, and the US is pretending they're not doing it. In
the meantime, it's walking like a duck and talking like a duck. So
once again, those poor civilians are just getting nailed, nailed. It's horrific.
Taken up sides soul. South Korea on Thursday condemned an agreement that was
reached between Russia and North Korea because Putin went to North Korea and visited Kim
Jong un. They basically said that in the event of war, each country
would come into the defense of the other. That's to say that Ukraine and
Russia are not at war. So does that mean that North Korea has to
enter the war? Well, it has to some extent because it's providing tons
and tons of arms to Russia. So I guess that's not war, or
maybe it's if the other side starts the war and not Russia. Yeah,
I'm assuming this all means boots on the ground or an attack by aircraft or
artillery coming from North Korea. That's a hell of a jump from North Korea
to Ukraine. But hey, that's the deal they cut and South Korea saying,
okay, we're now supplying arms to Ukraine. Before that, it was
only humanitarian aid. South Korea wanted to say the hell out of it,
we'll give you food, we'll give you medicine. We're not going to give
you arms. Now they're changing there too. It's really boiling down to this
god awful mess, this Ukrainian war. But you know what it is,
the world is falling suit of the United States, where everyone has to pick
a side on something. No one can look at things reasonably. It's like,
if you're on their side, then I'm against you, and vice pers
hang on. I mean, you still have Switzerland, still of other countries.
For the most part, the Western Bloc is on one side. But
South America, you know, Southeast Asia, Africa, you know that kind
it doesn't really care, but the important countries. That's not to say that
Africa is not as important as the Western world, but it is to say
Africa is not as important as the rest of the world. And it is,
you know, I mean, this war is it might escalate. I'm
hoping not. I'm hoping not, because this thing could really go crazy.
I'll tell you where it's going to go crazy. If Putin unloads, if
he decides it's going to happen and he unloads a tactical nuclear weapon. You
know, the small guys, the kind that the Supreme Court will rule that
an American citizen can actually have because it's a Second Amendment right to have small
grade tactical nuclear weapons. Yeah, but you have to have a CCW for
it. You have to be able to conceal and carry your tactical nuclear weapons.
Yeah, they're not that easy to conceal. Although a very good good
friend of mine, Chuck Lovers, who comes on all the time during fires.
He is a retired captain a cal Fire and he retired firefighter with cal
Fire and he during his stint in Europe was he carried tactical nuclear weapons in
a backpack. There was a whole division of army members who carried those tactical
weapons and backpacks. Wow. Yeah, you know to put on bridges to
put in areas small low grade nuclear weapons in backpacks. Now when you have
a lunch. They also have artillery shells that have tactical nuclear weapons they're tipped
with that never used. Yeah, go up to him and pet him on
the back, yeah, he respond. So hundreds of people have died,
thousands have been treated for heat stroke while performing the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage.
Pilgrimage rather to Mecca extreme heat. You're talking about one hundred and twenty degrees
excuse me fahrenheit. So super hot. Yeah, oh, Saudi Arabia is
super hot to begin with. But you've got global warming, global climate change
and one hundred and twenty degrees And they're out there and they circle what does
a stone called the Kubla stone, that big monolithic stone where Mohammed I think
went to heaven. Anyway, they throw stones at it by the millions.
You see those pictures. I'm trying to get to what's the name of that
stone? Here we go? Sorry about this, guys, but I'm really
intrigued here. Squirrel, No, it's not a squirrel. That would not
be the name. Siri, Hey, sirih, what is the name of
the massive stone at the center of the Arkansas tradition? Wrong? Curling stones?
Now the stone the blackstone? Thank you because it is black. Thank
you for looking that up. But what is it called? An Arabic?
That's what I wan? Al Hajar al aswad. The stone is called al
Jazar alha Swan. No, okay, well, curling stone is not where
millions of people go around it. No, that's the Winter Olympics that is
correct. So much for conservation. The world has consumed record amounts of coal,
oil, and gas in the last year. The growth in fossil fuels
drove a two point one percent increase in energy related emissions last year, according
to a report published today, shattering climate scientists hopes that global energy emissions may
have peaked. But wait a minute, is an alternative energy growing like crazy?
Yes it is, but Amy, as you have said, the use
of fossil fuels is growing more. And this is you know, yesterday we
talked about this. I am not looking forward to my kids, and well,
I am looking forward to my kids and grandkids because I don't have to
deal with this. But it's going to be a rough world climate wise,
very rough world. A Senate committee approved a bill that would require women to
register for the selective services. But this bill at this point is far from
becoming law. It's got to be approved by both the chambers of Congress,
signed by the President, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But
we're moving in that direction where women would be able to be drafted. Should
we be in that circumstance? Yeah, And that makes sense because women are
in virtually every single arm of the arm services. And there is at this
point very little difference between men and women. I mean some biological differences,
but other than that, I wouldn't say that. Oh is that I can't
even say there are biological differences. Can I say there's different plumbing. You're
like that kid that wore that shirt saying there were two genders? Can I
say women have podunkas and men have chances? Am I allowed to say that?
I don't. Actually you mean you mean like the but like no,
it depends on who refers to ish. Yeah, no, it's really not.
Okay, women have nether regions and both have nether regions. We don't
have nether regions. Women have nether regions. You sound like a modern day
kid being taught in modern day biology. Okay, fair enough. Well,
they have different parts, but they're not different parts. There's two, but
there's not two genders. There are different parts. There are there is,
you know, between men and women. There's a vast difference. Just look
that one up. Look that one up. Okay, Just a real quick
statement here, okay, Number one that now it's automatic that men are register
for the draft. When I had to register for the draft, I had
to register for the draft. And this was I was at the far end
of the Vietnam War, just about to end, and I had to register
and it was it was crazy. And then the draft board that I dealt
with was the toughest draft board in the country. It was on Colfax in
North Hollywood and they would not let anybody off the hook. I mean literally
everybody got draft. You go in and ask for this spensation. You'd ask
to be relieved from being in the arm Service. People would come in with
one leg and the board would say, you can still hop. And in
those days, homosexuality was considered one of the basis for not letting you in
the service. You could walk in with a two to two and a boa
around your neck and they would not let you out. Like Clinger. Uh
yeah, yeah, literally like Clinger. They just said no, you couldn't
do it. It was uh it was pretty terrible. Oh bad teeth,
by the way. Also, if you had a real tooth problem, I
mean they had dentists, but if you had horrible teeth, there were guys.
I mean it's frightened as hell to go to Vietnam who would have a
dentist through their mouth, so it meets the criterion of teeth being bad enough
to where they wouldn't be drafted. Those were the days. Now it's automatic.
You're actually registered for the draft automatically. People don't know that, but
every guy as soon as he hits eighteen is registered for the draft, which
we don't have anymore because we don't have conscription. But that was a policy,
not by law. We don't have conscription. Wait, isn't it a
felony not to Yeah? Yep. And there were people that burnt their lit
fire their draft cards because you were issued a draft card. Also, now,
if you were smart, you did this from Vancouver, British Columbia,
if you did it in the States, I mean, people went to jail
for that, just burning their draft card. Didn't women go to amy?
Didn't women go to jail for burning their bras? I don't know why.
Okay, why would you have your draft card and your bra It's a very
good point. Okay, this is a lot to follow. Yeah, let's
move on. Okay. We got some prehistoric vandals environmental protesters spray painted Stonehenge
with orange paint. Of course, as Bill mentioned earlier, it happened the
day before the huge crowds gathered for the Summer Solstice. Video posted on x
shows the Just Stop Oil protesters spraying the landmark. They used fire extinguishers to
do it. And what do they want? They are demanding the incoming government
in Britain sign up to a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by
twenty thirty. I don't think this is going to help advance their cost.
Yeah, aren't fire singlacers oil based? No, but the paint inside them
maybe? Yeah? Yeah, just wondering how many, by the way,
how many druids show up? Who are druids for the day? Zillions?
How many real druids are out there? I don't know, There's not many.
There's some wickens and stuff. Yeah, wickens don't show up. It's
yeah. I wonder if their shirts were polyester when they went there too.
Oh, good point all the byproducts if you take away all the oil bio
products. No, you're actually right. Did they drive there? You know,
tires, fuel olive their or go on an asphalt street? Well,
I mean they have very little choice not to go on asphalt street. Well,
all right, let's do one more before we take a break. Okay,
two thousand year old Roman funeralary funerary urn unearthed in southern Spain and been
shown to contain the oldest wine ever found still in its liquid form. So
you had these folks doing a home renovation. They found this mausoleum of sorts
had an urn in it, and when they opened it up, it actually
had liquid about just a little over a gallon worth of this reddish liquid.
They did chemical analysis, sent it to the local school. I believe that
they did a chemical analysis of it and found out that was white wine.
And for some reason it had been preserved in a way that was still in
its liquid form white wine. You didn't keep it, Yeah, you think
it turned? You think it turned. Someone that tasted it said it was
a little quirky, a little quirky. Dorees at white wine. It only
lasts for like three years. Yeah, they don't last very long. So
it has earned its place in the pantheon of very nice the bad puns.
We don't stop, do we. Airplanes may not be air tight. At
least two major airlines have worn pilots that if a bird hits one of the
engines on a owing seven thirty seven Max the cabin could become filled with smoke.
They've sent out a warning to Southwest and American and then it just sort
of got the light of day recently because they sent out the warning in February
said there's a bird strike, expect to see problems. We'll expect to see
smoke in the cabins. But this is an accommodation to people bring raw meat
aboard the airplane and you can smoke the meat that did not work. Its
Southwest air Line will now be serving peaking duck on a raar cade's but up
okay. So the other thing that I thought was interesting about this story is
they said, hey, we tested these and the engines are okay for bird
strikes. But then there actually were bird strikes and they said, oh well,
those those birds that hit were bigger than the ones that were required to
certify. So have you ever seen the test? Have you ever seen the
test of the birds strike tests which they have to do under FAA rules.
They throw chickens, obviously dead chickens like the kind you get the supermarket,
that are defeathered, and they which I don't understand why they should put feathers
on them, but they throw these chickens into these engines, and it's really
interesting. And of course on the other side there are people from Kentucky Fried
Chicken holding buckets up because you know, they don't have to cut them up.
But still it's and by the way, I'm not kidding, they really
do throw chickens into these engines. Why don't they put feathers or keep the
federal because I saw it where they just go to the supermarket and buy chickens
because someone and Peter probably complained, Yeah, probably. So if you're throwing
a dead chicken in there and because it's so hot and it chops him up,
you know that's not bad. You know, Neil, you've talked about
ground chicken before. It's healthy for you a little while if it goes through
the engine. Okay, But still I think they should throw a full pig
through there, just in case you vote for Trump once. Oh yeah,
excellent, Hello, Neil, you're right all right? Rough crowd. Los
Angeles City Council committee yesterday actually on Tuesday, back to an effort to remodel
the downtown Convention Center. Of course, we've got the twenty twenty eight Olympics
coming up, so they're saying this might be a good time for a fifty
four four million dollar pre construction work for the aging center. But it's pretty
aggressive when you think that twenty twenty eight is just around the corner. Have
you been to the convention center? S not very impressive new nineteen seventy one.
You go to the convention Center, for example, even Anaheim is one
hundred times better. Of course, Las Vegas has dozens of convention centers.
Every major hotel is beautiful. Ours is a little dull and look very it
is. Well, it's old. It's old, it's dated like Rex the
Wonder Horse. Yeah right, this isn't this isn't old. This is new.
It's a high rise for the homeless. The grand opening was held yesterday
in skid Row, two hundred and seventy eight units and the price about six
hundred thousand dollars per unit. Yeah. I'm going to do more about this
coming up at the next segment at seven o'clock. And by the way,
I agree with Mayor Bass who has said this skid row should not be called
skid row because of stigmatize and these people are part of the community. And
there's one little flaw here, one little flaw that I want to share with
you. By the way, skid row. The reason they got skid row
is that these people just don't watch their underwear. Okay, let's move on.
Gross. So Ferrari's jumping in the EV laying. I suppose they're going,
hey, how about we build one of these evs. We can charge
half a million dollars for it. Come on, save up. You know
it's Ferrari. You know they don't make many of them, and there's a
very limited number of Ferrari buyers in the world, and there is a waiting
list to buy through Ferrari because it's one of the few cars that actually go
up in value. I think the most expensive car that has ever been sold
at auction was a Ferrari. And I'm talking about nineteen sixties or my ad
late nineteen sixties, nineteen seventies, because they're so limited. By the way,
that's the base model that doesn't have any of the included features or the
person like wheels. Yeah. No, it's actually just the logo. Yeah,
the logo. You have to pay for the rest of the car later.
Here is an interesting story, Amy, Yeah, go ahead, Oh
I want yeah, I want to make a point about this story. Okay,
so you can have Queen for a king's ransom. The Queen Music Catalog
is being acquired by Sony Music. They're going to pay about one point two
seven billion dollars. It's US money, it's a billion pounds. There was
one other group that was very close in the bidding, but they dropped out
when the bidding hit nine hundred million dollars. So we're talking about Bohemian Rhapsody.
Another one bites the dust. You're my best friend. We are the
champions, of course. Now here's the point I want to make is the
Beatles catalog was sold for far less money. The Bob Dylan catalog was just
sold for three hundred billion dollars. And the comparison is, look at the
body of work Dylan and the Beatles have. This is a limited body of
work. I mean, the hits are like insane, insane, But I
find it interesting that you've got relatively few songs compared to the body of work.
I mean, over decades of what happened with the Beatles and Bob Dylan.
And either it's inflation that has hit big time, or you don't need
that many songs to get a billion dollars for your publishing rights, ownership rights.
I bet you these songs though, for commercials, movies and the Yeah,
that's true, much more than even the Beatles. I don't think so.
I think the beat Well, I don't know. Maybe maybe I will
tell you. I'll tell you this, Bill. No one has spent this
much on a queen since you went to Thailand? Am I right? Yeah?
Well said, okay, yeah, all right, yeah, I'm out
there. Nobody there you are. It's been that kind of a morning,
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