WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:05.480 You're listening to KFI AM six forty. The bill handles show on demand on 2 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:13.519 the iHeartRadio app Alec Baldwin opening statements and there had to be two film sets 3 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:19.559 here. And I have one big question. The prosecution argued that he aimed 4 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:26.480 the gun at Helena Hutchins, cinematographer and killed her. And you don't aim 5 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:32.880 a gun at anybody. That is a cardinal, inviolate rule. And he 6 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:36.759 did leaving out the fact. And I don't know if this is the case 7 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:40.560 or not. I've always assumed this he was aiming at the camera because he 8 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:46.960 was rehearsing a shot where he's supposed to aim right at the camera. Now 9 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:55.200 she left that out completely, And I didn't hear the defense say anything other 10 00:00:55.240 --> 00:01:00.479 than he's not responsible. He was told it was a cold gun. How 11 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:06.359 can you expect an actor to check? And if it was aiming at the 12 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:11.640 camera, which he was supposed to do, then I think there's no issue. 13 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:15.400 Now, if he did aim at her, just you know, basically 14 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:22.920 playing around or rehearsing and aiming at her, then the argument is he breached 15 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:27.959 a fundamental rule of firearms that's aiming at a human being. Therefore, the 16 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:37.879 gun shot and therefore someone was killed in its involuntary manslaughter. So also it 17 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:42.120 didn't help him. And when he went on that interview with George Stephanopoulos ABC, 18 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.920 and he insisted he didn't pull the trigger, and of course said the 19 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:47.560 gun went to the FBI, who said, oh, yeah, someone pulled 20 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:51.599 this trigger. There's no way without a pulling a trigger. So it's not 21 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:57.519 that clear cut. All right, let's move on. Who's a big boy 22 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:07.280 President Biden? Biden of course facing a lot of scrutiny since the debate with 23 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:09.800 President or former President Trump a couple of weeks ago. So he today is 24 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:15.120 going to be having a press conference and they're literally calling it the big boy 25 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:21.080 press conference. It came up during the White House meeting a couple of days 26 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:23.560 ago, the White House Press briefing, and they said, is he going 27 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:25.520 to do a big boy press conference? And cringe. Jean Pierre said, 28 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:29.159 yes, he's going to do a big boy press conference. And then I 29 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.800 heard John Kirby say he was going to do a big boy press conference yesterday 30 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:37.000 just because he's going to take questions. Yeah, it's actually his first press 31 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:43.479 conference since last November. Wow, that just seems weird that seems odd. 32 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:49.400 I know not when it comes to Joe Biden, his handlers, his consultants 33 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:54.759 are saying, his advisors are saying they've kept him on a short leash, 34 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:00.080 that they're after the debacle. And by the way, for months before that, 35 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:05.960 no one really paid attention until the debate. He gave five minute interviews 36 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:09.599 three minute where he would just blurt out yes or no. Now. I 37 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:13.680 kind of like the yes or no. Hey, mister president, are you 38 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.840 going to do this? Yeah or no? I like that sure, But 39 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:23.560 when he's asked to expand and he says yes again and doesn't want to get 40 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:28.639 that gets a little problematic. All right, let's take a break and we'll 41 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:36.039 zip through these stories. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 42 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:40.199 six forty Back we go more Handle on the News with Amy Neil and Me. 43 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.000 Peter Welch, Democratic senator called on US President Joe Biden to ditch his 44 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:53.520 reelection bid. And this kind of topped a pretty brutal day yesterday that had 45 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:59.599 tons of mounting pressure from high profile actor and donor George Clooney, who just 46 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:04.479 had a whopping thirty million dollars you know, hosted that money raising event, 47 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:10.759 and then you had the party heavyweight, Nancy Pelosi not wanting to respond. 48 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:15.800 Well, yeah she was. It was unequivocal with her, but the big 49 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:18.399 player but she has been like no, heeah or and everything. So, 50 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:24.560 and the big player here is George Clooney. He's a massive player in the 51 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:29.079 Democratic Party, raises a ton of money, pretty close to Biden. And 52 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:34.959 he said, you save democracy in twenty twenty save democracy again in twenty twenty 53 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:41.560 four, get out. That is a tough one to stomic. And he 54 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:46.199 also said that he all the Senators, all the congressmen, and all the 55 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:47.680 governors that he has talked to. And you said, he's a pretty big 56 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:50.720 player as far as fundraiser, so he probably knows all these people. Oh 57 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:55.360 you have said privately, they too think that he should get out, but 58 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.279 they won't say it publicly. Yeah, and Biden's not going to get out. 59 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:04.279 So okay, let's guess, now, how big of a landslide is 60 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:10.759 Trump going to have in the election if it's Trump, unless something happens to 61 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:18.240 Trump, unless they find he's had sex with five more porno queens simultaneously. 62 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:23.399 Oh no, his ratings go up on that one, all right, let's 63 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:29.000 just move line. Safety is our top priority. We've heard that before, 64 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:33.360 but that is the word from the new Metro board chair. Mayor Bass used 65 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:39.720 to be the chair. She handed it over to County Supervisor Jenis Hahn yesterday 66 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:45.639 during their State of the Metro meeting. They say that ridership has gone up 67 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.439 every month for the last eighteen months, which means they're getting nearly a million 68 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:55.319 people on the Metro system each day. That's coming in spite of the fights 69 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:59.079 and the deadly stabbings and the attacks that have happened on board the trains. 70 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:01.199 And that's why Han of saying, hey, we're going to make these things 71 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:03.879 safer, and she says one of the ways they're going to do that is 72 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:09.519 she's going to ride the trains and then report back on what she sees. 73 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.519 So we're gonna have a dead mayor. That's for starters, not a mayor. 74 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.759 County supervisor. Oh, county supervisor. All right, fair enough. 75 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:21.600 And then of course you have seen this incredible run up, the competition that 76 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:30.360 Morgues are having wanning the contract with the Metro. You see where that goes? 77 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:33.199 Yeah, okay, they just they're putting instead of putting security there, 78 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.639 they're putting the morgue closer, Yeah to Metro. You know what, it 79 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:41.759 is interesting that the mayor kind of pushed it off on someone else, not 80 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.639 wanting her name tied to it directly. Yeah, that's yeah, that makes 81 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.720 sense politically, doesn't it. Yeah, it's like, hey, I trust 82 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:53.439 you, you do it. I wonder if she hates Han. It's like, 83 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:57.040 you do it all right. Every day, dozens of people line up 84 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:03.160 outside this nonprofit here in Los Angeles called Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles and they pick 85 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:08.839 up crack pipes, other drug paraphernilia and then they light it up right there 86 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:13.920 on the skid row sidewalk. And a video has come out and you could 87 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:20.639 see drug dealers literally profiting from selling drugs to the very people Homeless Healthcare LA 88 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:25.879 is supposed to be helping. And there's this person who's connected to the nonprofit 89 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:31.199 who has seen fist bumping a drug dealer before entering the building, and it's 90 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:38.839 just kind of what people are referring to as a taxpayer funded crackhouse. Now, 91 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:44.879 let me ask, is this video of one person doing this or do 92 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:48.959 they have videos of several or many people, Because if you have one person, 93 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:54.040 they videoed it, Okay, you fire that person and you're kind of 94 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:59.199 gun, kind of gone done, and tell you then your argument, Oh 95 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:03.240 look what's happening. Unless everybody knew it, they just came out there and 96 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.720 said, we just threw the camera up there and look at this. But 97 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.040 well, I don't know. To me, like they've been going after this 98 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:15.000 place for a while, local business leaders in the like in that area, 99 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:20.319 So I don't know that it's a they. If somebody got it on video, 100 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:24.279 they got it on video because they have an issue with it. Yeah, 101 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.000 exactly. And I'm wondering if this really was a problem, I would 102 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:33.000 want more than one video of one person doing this. I think one video 103 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:39.799 should start an investigation. I think that's legitimate, all right, But even 104 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.159 the rumors that are flying around, I mean, there should be investigations of 105 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.480 all these places anyway, because there's taxpayer dollars, dollars and how much do 106 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.600 they actually sell crack four at these centers? Is it a discount to the 107 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.720 homeless? Is it a regular? Is it what the market would bear? 108 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:07.039 This guy barely made it out alive. John Kyle Moore was doing a fifty 109 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:13.440 mile run from his home in June Lake up over the Sierra Nevada down to 110 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:18.720 the Yosemite Valley and he's just very very close to the finish line when he 111 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:24.039 says he felt some sharpness on his shoulder, followed by a powerful shove that 112 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:28.200 sent him stumbling into the dark, because by the time he was done, 113 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.159 it was nighttime. And then he said he turned around and about one hundred 114 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:35.159 feet away there were a bunch of people shining headlamps in his direction, shouting 115 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:41.440 bear, and that's when he saw it, a large black bear. Apparently 116 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:46.120 he had a little crash with him and knocked a bag of garbage out of 117 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:48.200 the bear's mouth, which didn't make the bear very happy, so the bear 118 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:54.159 started coming at him. But then he started yelling, slapping his running poles 119 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:56.919 on the pavement, and then the people who were nearby started shouting and banging 120 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:00.799 pots and pans, and it scared the bear off. And he's he's a 121 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:03.440 little bit injured, he had some cuts and stuff, but he's okay. 122 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:07.840 Amy, when you're running a fifty mile run and you run into a bear, 123 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:11.799 isn't this God telling you maybe you don't want to do these runs. 124 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:18.519 That's exactly why I don't run, Bill it's a religious thing. It's a 125 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:22.480 sign from God. Yes, it's crazy though that he's okay because man, 126 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:28.039 a bear encounter like that, although bears don't kill people in yosemity, at 127 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:31.240 least they kill people kill people. Yes, I know, but you know 128 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:35.360 it's not like a grizzly bear, which he probably would have been dead if 129 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:37.759 it was a grizzly Yeah, okay, black bears. Okay, why you 130 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:43.639 shouldn't, Well, you can't African American bear? Is that fair to say? 131 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:50.080 Really? Okay? Let's yeah, Well you got to be politically correct. 132 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.559 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I am six forty back 133 00:10:54.600 --> 00:11:00.159 we go more Handle on the news with Amy and Neil and me. You 134 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:05.799 got your hurricane in my frontal boundary that's passing. The combination of remnants of 135 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:13.399 Hurricane Barrel and this passing frontal boundary is going to cause this dual severe weather 136 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:20.840 risk for the Northeast and it's going to bring this rare tornado threat thingy along 137 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:26.399 with the chance of significant flooding through at least this morning. Yeah. Where 138 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.519 when's the last time there has been a tornado next to Buffalo, New York? 139 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:35.000 I can't remember the last time. Yeah, and you come from that 140 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.679 area, Yes, I come from south of that area. Okay, But 141 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.679 you pay attention to what's going on because when they do the weather reports, 142 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.480 don't they always talk about what's going on upstate? Oh yeah, it's very 143 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:54.279 rare for that to be issued. I've never heard it. Baby baby, 144 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:03.879 Baby, there's This baby is being considered a miracle baby in Louisiana because it 145 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:11.799 survived two days during some stormy weather before a truck driver spotted the one year 146 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.720 old crawling along the side of the road. The baby was found after his 147 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:22.480 four year old brother was found dead and his mother was arrested. Was that 148 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:28.759 happened in Mississippi? Can you imagine a mother abandoning her kid's a four year 149 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:33.840 old and a baby by the side of the road. Yeah, and this 150 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:37.799 also is in the South. I mean, I don't think she's ever going 151 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.000 to see the outside of cell a jail cell again, nor should she. 152 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.279 Wow. Well, and I don't think she only abandoned because the four year 153 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:52.799 old was his body was found in a lake. Oh yeah, that's hard 154 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:54.519 to stomach. I mean, I don't get that. I really don't. 155 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:07.120 Alexandria, Okay, Cassio Cortes and a group of House progressives yesterday introduced introduced 156 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:13.759 to articles of impeachment against conservative Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. 157 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:16.960 So probably not going to go anywhere, but it's just a waste enough. 158 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:22.399 It's a waste of time. What it does is completely take away any credibility 159 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:28.120 that AOC and the other the squad has. It's it's like Marjorie Taylor Green 160 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:35.759 introducing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden ten minutes after he was sworn in for 161 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:41.799 real, and now you have this crap. They can't get impeached for this? 162 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:48.240 Please? What happenstrategy? It stupid, It dies, It dies in 163 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:52.000 santry, it's it moves over to the Judiciary Committee and it dies instantly. 164 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:56.799 It's I mean she can demand hearings, but I mean complete waste of time. 165 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:03.080 So I you know, do I understand your super liberal your left wing 166 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:09.000 introduced stuff that makes sense or you want to push even if it's not going 167 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:11.919 to go any place, or maybe a bill that may pass. This is 168 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.879 just completely stupid. It's just it's a political statement. It really is. 169 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.840 Doesn't it open the door? Uh, for more and more of this kind 170 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:28.399 of on the Only the crazies do stuff like this, So this just maybe 171 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.159 it's her saying, well, you've got the far right doing this, We 172 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:37.200 want to do it too. I don't. That's the problem is everybody wants 173 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:43.000 to jump in and take out someone who they disagree just beyond stupid. Uh, 174 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:50.720 Rudy just can't catch a break. A judge is now considering dismissing Rudy 175 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:56.720 Giuliani's request for bankruptcy protection. Why because, for apparently for months, the 176 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:01.480 former mayor of New York has been ignoring court filings and evating questions about his 177 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.879 fin finances. So if the judge does dismiss the case, then it would 178 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:11.519 allow creditors to pursue foreclosures or just grab everything. Lawsuits grab everything he has. 179 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:15.679 He's going to have nothing when this is finished. And you know how 180 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:20.960 crazy Juliani is, right, It's obvious that he is nuts. I've shared 181 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.039 this with you before, but I'm going to share it again. I know 182 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:31.120 someone who knows someone who is very close to Juliani. Okay, this is 183 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:35.120 not I know you know. I know someone who knows someone that will crack 184 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:41.639 your knees with a baseball bat like Michelle does. But this is absolutely real. 185 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:46.879 I mean, the connection here is is true. Okay, information is 186 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:52.399 accurate. And I asked, is he as nuts as he comes off? 187 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:58.279 And I was told he is far more nuts than that. I mean, 188 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:03.279 the guy is barking mad, But how did he fall? So I don't 189 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:07.120 know, And I asked that question, and I said, how do you 190 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:11.879 do that? America America's mayor probably one of the best prosecutors US attorneys in 191 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:17.279 the in the United States. He almost single handedly brought them mafia down in 192 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:21.879 New York. I mean, that's no small trick. He got caught up 193 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:27.000 in Trump's orbit, and when you're caught up in Trump's orbit, you just 194 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:33.080 spin and you tend to lose all control. And that says more about the 195 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:40.600 charisma that Trump has, that he's he has that kind of power where he's 196 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:45.000 able to do that with people. I mean, it's it's really astounding. 197 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:48.240 So anyway, the judge is probably going to say no to the bankruptcy because 198 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:52.440 he lied and he wouldn't give the information, and he obfuscated and he delayed 199 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:56.600 and he wouldn't give enough information. So they just says no, thank you. 200 00:16:56.600 --> 00:17:00.720 You're not going to be discharging bankruptcy. You owe everybody everything. And 201 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:07.720 so he's going down. Also, he had a show on iHeart you know 202 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:11.519 that, syndicated by Premieer Radio. Lost that gone, Yeah, it's gone. 203 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:15.599 The guy is he's not making much of a living. There are little 204 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:19.880 bits and pieces where he's asked to speak, but those are disappearing very quickly. 205 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:23.759 I'm going to tell you he has to learn. Do you want to 206 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:33.880 supersize that order? French fries in FARSI? Yeah? Are you ready to 207 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:37.559 take a break? Oh sure, I was all right five minutes ago. 208 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:44.240 Okay, we're coming back. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf 209 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:47.839 I AM six forty. So about a year ago, a President Biden vowed 210 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:52.480 to provide F sixteen jet fighters to Ukraine, if you remember so. A 211 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:57.880 year later, first planes are being delivered, boosting Kiev's capability to shoot down 212 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:06.920 Russian missiles and attack its ground forces. Not more to be said NATO, 213 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:11.799 the United States because Russia is at this point prevailing and no one wants that 214 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:17.880 to happen. So they're gonna give arms, no no boots on the ground 215 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:22.799 yet from anybody other than Ukrainian soldiers. And then the question is if Ukraine 216 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:27.680 literally starts losing this thing big time and it has to give up land and 217 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:33.799 sue for peace, what happens there If it's close to Ukraine losing it all, 218 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:41.799 does NATO jump in? Don't know the answer to that. Don't mess 219 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:48.720 with Putin because now a Russian court has ordered the arrest of the widow of 220 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:55.359 Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalni. Of course, he died in prison not too 221 00:18:55.640 --> 00:19:00.279 long ago, and his wife is Julia Navagna. She he is living outside 222 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:06.839 of Russia, so she will be arrested as she returns home to Russia anytime 223 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:11.440 soon. Navoli came back right because they had the worn out for him. 224 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:14.680 He could have just stayed away, and he came back. Well, he 225 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:18.400 was the chief opponent, and this is a guy who knew he was going 226 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:21.920 to go down, I mean, and he still came back. And he 227 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:26.400 died in prison, and they keep on upping the sentence. You appeal and 228 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:30.839 the appeals court gives you more, more years, and then more years. 229 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:34.839 So anyway, everybody knows Putin killed him. Everybody does. But so what 230 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:38.759 you know now? What you don't say anything? Against Putin inside of Russia. 231 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:45.039 It's a leak totalitarian government. Now he's basically Kim Jong Uin wearing a 232 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:55.240 Russian mask. Oh there's some horrible handle. Oh oh no, all right. 233 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:59.880 Costco is hiking its membership fee for the first time since twenty seventeen. 234 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:03.480 Now it's membership fee will go up by five bucks in the US and Canada 235 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:08.039 is of September. First. That increases, you know, from sixty bucks 236 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:12.039 to sixty five bucks. But if you have the executive membership, which I'm 237 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:17.480 assuming you do and I do, as do I, it'll increase from one 238 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:22.640 thirty a year, no, two more up to one thirty from one twenty. 239 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:26.400 You know, just go ahead and charge us more for the hot dog 240 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:30.079 and the coke already and they won't and they won't. But yeah, but 241 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:33.599 see it doesn't seed anything because they just raise everything else. Yeah. These 242 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:41.880 increases incidentally, five bucks and ten bucks annually a quarter of a billion dollars 243 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:45.880 bottom line goes straight up. Oh so, and it's nothing like if you 244 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:49.519 get the membership and you get the Costco visa card, you get money back. 245 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:53.680 Oh yeah, and here money back every so now with that which I 246 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:56.680 do have, both and you know, I make a pretty good living. 247 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:03.279 Okay, that's uh, everyone understanding in the bathroom. Yeah, And so 248 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:07.160 eighty percent of my disposable income I spend at Costco. So what ends up 249 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:12.400 happening is if you spend enough and you get money back. This is the 250 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:18.279 biggest bargain in the world, and I get back the maximum you're allowed to 251 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:22.079 get back. Of course I spend much more than that, but it's a 252 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:26.680 win win, I'll tell you. But still hiking the prices. Oh, 253 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:32.599 by the way, quick aside, do you see this plate? Oh boy, 254 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:37.279 it is Costco for tatas. That's what they for. That's what they 255 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:41.680 look like. The red stuff is tapatia sauce on top of it. So 256 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:48.079 I'm almost out, and I'm going today to Costco and I am buying a 257 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:52.079 palletful of fritatas you can make them. I'm home by the dozen for about 258 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.440 a tenth of the price. I don't care. I don't care. You 259 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:06.400 lost him at home. Yeah. Another discount retailer is in trouble. Big 260 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:08.960 Lots Is. It's going to close up to forty stores this year and may 261 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:12.759 have to declare bankruptcy. It had a net loss of two hundred and five 262 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:18.440 million dollars in the quarter ending May fourth of this year, Big Lots stock 263 00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:23.160 is down eighty four percent. Yes, it has to be going under because 264 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:27.599 here they are eight hundred million dollars a year. If this continues on loss 265 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:33.599 company. Unless you're one of the massive, massive, multi billion dollar companies 266 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:37.240 that can sustain something like that, you can't. Wasn't the Big Luck guy, 267 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:41.000 the guy who said he was going to try to bail out the ninety 268 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:45.480 nine cent only stores. I don't know. I could swear it was there, 269 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.680 I don't know, sort of familiar, but every time you walk into 270 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:52.160 Big Lots it looks like a hurricane went through it. Yeah, that's true. 271 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:55.240 Met Yeah, it does. It does. They don't do a good 272 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:59.960 job of merchandising. Yes, so when they buy things, they buy second 273 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:03.440 and they buy the great prices, and then they come and they bring it 274 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:07.599 in the store, and they bring in it with a skiploader and just pile 275 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:10.200 of stuff in the middle of the store and go here you look for it. 276 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:12.759 Yeah, they're going to bulldoze them all and they're going to call them 277 00:23:12.759 --> 00:23:17.599 big parking lots. Yeah. I like big Lots. Oh, and it's 278 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:22.279 pick and save. That's gonna bail off the ninety nine cents. I thought 279 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:25.599 Pick and Save became big lots, that's right. I don't think they had 280 00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:30.480 a problem in the store because they originally it was called Pickpockets and Save and 281 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:33.880 they changed it. Let's move on. That was just stupid. Their stuff 282 00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:37.759 was up, yeah, which was good. Okay. The California home prices 283 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:44.480 what are rising nearly eight percent? This is in June from a year earlier, 284 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:49.920 marking the fourth straight month values hidden all time high. It gets crazier 285 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:56.319 and crazier and fewer and fewer people are able to buy those homes because of 286 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.960 the mortgage rates. I mean, you talk about a market that is skewed 287 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:06.680 food and this is going to go on for years because there aren't enough homes 288 00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:11.039 being built. They can't get permits. No, there's not enough land. 289 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:17.079 As a matter of fact, I have a great fun topic coming up at 290 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:22.640 when is that oh seven point thirty and some numbers are going to be stunning 291 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:29.039 relative to housing here in southern California. You know, we hosted essentially a 292 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:34.279 PTA meeting for my son's school here of which my wife is a president or 293 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:40.119 something like that, and I was talking to some of the parents who own 294 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:42.799 homes here, and we all agreed we couldn't buy our own homes. Oh 295 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:48.839 no, I don't think I could afford the Persian Palace today. It's no. 296 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:52.400 I mean I built it twenty five years ago, and even then I 297 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:56.759 thought it was expensive to build. And that's after stealing most of the building 298 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.599 materials and still from other laws. Yes, pretty much, you can do. 299 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:04.640 You know they don't guard those construction sites very well. They do now, 300 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:10.039 Yeah, because because of me. Yeah, Okay, we're done, 301 00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:15.359 guys with Handle on the news. Coming up, California's solar problem, A 302 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:21.000 huge solar problem we have here and what is the problem. Too much solar 303 00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:26.720 energy being produced and the changes with utilities, and I'll explain, and what's 304 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:30.880 the answer. I'll tell you it's more money across the board for us, 305 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:34.559 of course, it is southern California and houses. And we'll be back with 306 00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:38.079 that. You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. 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