WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:06.240 You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio 2 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:12.560 app. And this is KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Tuesday 3 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:17.760 morning, July nine, still looking at Hurricane Barrel, now a tropical storm 4 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:25.480 wreaking havoc, certainly as it goes up through the Mid States, mid part 5 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:29.120 of the United States. And here's another bit of news, Guests, what 6 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:36.399 starts today. The Alec Baldwin trial for that shooting on the Rust set Rust, 7 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:39.600 by the way, is finished. They went ahead and finished it a 8 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:43.640 few months ago. So that's done. And of course we all remember, 9 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:49.960 I mean this was news national news that exploded October twenty one, twenty twenty 10 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:54.439 one. Okay, it's coming up to three years. So on the set 11 00:00:54.479 --> 00:01:02.159 in New Mexico, Alec Baldwin points a gun at the camera. Well, 12 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:07.519 sitting behind the camera is cinematographer, right, Helena Hutchins, And the gun 13 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:12.640 was live, there was live ammunition. He shoots it, hits her in 14 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:21.560 the chest and kills her. And then this became enormous news. Was Alec 15 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:26.680 Baldwin at fault. Then you have the armor, you have the assistant director 16 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:34.439 because Alec Baldwin was told the gun was cold, and that means that there 17 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:40.079 was no live ammunition in the gun. Theoretically he was told there's no live 18 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:47.079 ammunition. Turned out there was live ammunition and somehow it got into the gun. 19 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:53.200 We still don't know how we do know that there was live ammunition in 20 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:59.079 the cart there is. From what I understand, the gun is placed in 21 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:05.159 a locked cage on wheels and the armor has to go in check the gun, 22 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:09.479 load the gun with blanks, and so you have the armor responsible and 23 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:16.280 then you have a redundancy where the assistant director also has to check out the 24 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:21.680 gun to see if it is live. So what ends up happening. Well, 25 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:30.360 here's the uproar. Alec Baldwin is accused of involuntary manslaughter pointing a loaded 26 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:36.599 weapon at someone well, which is against the law. Of course, his 27 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:42.879 defense is, hell, I didn't know it was live. Are you actually 28 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:49.919 going to accuse me of not checking when I have two people on the set. 29 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.080 So why is Alec Baldwin getting nailed? Because I questioned it and I 30 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:59.639 still question it. So what happened? Why is he getting nailed? Public 31 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:04.360 pressure? Sure for one thing. A bunch of high stakes, legal maneuvering. 32 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:12.080 That's another one and pure hubris on Alec Baldwin's part, because he actually 33 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:21.039 shot three people that day, one Helena Hutchins, who was killed, the 34 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:24.560 other one the assistant director who was standing behind and who was wounded. And 35 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:30.159 what is not particularly known very well is he also shot himself in the foot 36 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:38.560 and why what did he do? Well weeks after the shooting, he goes 37 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:46.400 on ABC and has an interview with George Stephanopoulos stepanop Pulis Stephanot pull Yeah, 38 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:53.840 the great guy, George Stephanopolis and says, I didn't pull the trigger the 39 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:55.360 gun. How do you say that in Greek? By the way, the 40 00:03:55.479 --> 00:04:02.719 gun just unloaded by itself. Well, because of such high profile of the 41 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:09.039 case, it goes to the FBI for investigation where they go through it with 42 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:13.319 a fine tooth comb and they say the trigger was pulled. Of course it 43 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.439 was pulled. There was no other way for the gun to go off if 44 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.439 the trigger wasn't pulled. That very gun, and Alec Baldwin said, I 45 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:23.800 never pulled the trigger. Okay, caught in that one, and that doesn't 46 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:28.959 help his case. So where did he shoot himself in the foot? What 47 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:34.120 kind of idiot is he He goes and does an interview, and no lawyer 48 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:39.680 in the world would let him do an interview. Hey, if anybody asks 49 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:46.000 you about what happened, you shut up. I have no comment. Don't 50 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:49.040 think that's hubris of an actor to think like I can pull this off. 51 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:53.839 I can, Yeah, I can. I can sell this like I sell 52 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:59.399 That's exactly correct, that's exactly You're not talking about a semi automatic modern weapon. 53 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.920 You're talking to about an old gun that with probably a nine pound pull 54 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:08.759 on it, that's not going to be drapped. Is I think it is 55 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:15.199 an actual gun and it fires, and it's a big honkin bullet, and 56 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:19.120 it kills Helena Hutchins. And his argument, by the way, he's being 57 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:24.399 charged with involuntary manslaughter. He can get years in prison. So a couple 58 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:28.319 of things that don't help him. One it's Alec Baldwin. Two, of 59 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:32.319 course Helena Hutchins was killed, but he's the producer of the film. And 60 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:38.360 it's the buck stops here philosophy, and it has been alleged and no one 61 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:43.160 is refuting it. Alec Baldwin as the producer low budget film that he's the 62 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.800 one that I'm sure financed, if not all of it, part of it. 63 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:51.879 On the set, all kinds of safety requirements were ignored, They rushed 64 00:05:53.040 --> 00:06:00.519 the production. Safety issues were overlooked, and so this entire per option of 65 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:03.199 what happens, and the jury is going to have to look if he is 66 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:10.360 responsible. I don't get it. How he can be charged with manslaughter is 67 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:15.360 beyond my comprehension. He is told it is a cold gun, he aims 68 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:19.920 at the camera. He doesn't aim at Helena Hutchins. It's not like she 69 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:25.399 was standing ten feet away and he aims at her and pulls the trigger. 70 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:30.160 Even though it was a rehearsal, it wasn't during actual filming. And I 71 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:35.240 don't know if that's important or not, But the bottom line is I think 72 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:43.399 his defense is absolute. I have people on the set who tell me that 73 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:49.600 gun is cold. If you convict me, what you're saying is every actor 74 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:57.319 who is handed a gun has to check to see if the ammunition is live 75 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:01.360 or not. Okay, how do you do that? Literally? Do you 76 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:05.600 stop shooting now? Neil? You have pointed out earlier that today you don't 77 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:10.839 have to even have a shot. You can literally point the gun at anybody 78 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:15.959 or at the camera and you put in the sound, which they do anyway, 79 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:20.439 and CGI and show the blast and the firing. Oh yeah, flash 80 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:26.199 of fire, smoke and the mental flash. So it's so the fact that 81 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:29.000 he did it, maybe it's a lot cheaper, which I'm sure because there's 82 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.680 no CGI involved. Well, here's the thing, though, you're never if 83 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:36.560 someone's behind that camera, you're never My understanding, and I have a friends 84 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:42.240 and family in the industry, is it never gets pointed at someone? Well, 85 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:44.759 how do you do that? Wait a second, If you are shooting 86 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:47.800 at the camera to show them a shot, they do a mirror. They 87 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:53.720 do it so that they are never ever pointing it, or that the camera 88 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:58.120 person or the cinematographer is not behind the camera at the time. All right, 89 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:01.240 So the shift is that they shoot it off to the side. Okay, 90 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.639 I understand that. Okay, assuming that's correct, Assuming that's correct, 91 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:13.279 who is responsible for that? Is it the cinematographer who handles the camera? 92 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:18.120 Is it the director? Is it the assistant director or the or the star 93 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.120 in this case, or the producer, because that's where the buck stops. 94 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.439 You have a star and the producer. I would think that because he's the 95 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:28.839 one who hires the director. Yeah, basically the boss of everybody. Well, 96 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:35.639 he's also but not only is he being blamed overall, he's being blamed 97 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:41.320 specifically for that gunshot. And that's where I think I believe he's going to 98 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:43.200 win. But the case starts today. It's going to be eight days and 99 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.759 in front of a jury. Jury selection starts today, and we'll see what 100 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:50.320 pans out. All right, For the first time, there is a report 101 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:56.639 that has just been issued ninety two pages by the state insurance Department, California 102 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:01.639 State Insurance Department. This was a bill that was passed in twenty twenty two 103 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:09.720 that mandates the state to come out with a report and just tell us what 104 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:16.320 it costs, not necessarily the deaths, but the actual cost in terms of 105 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:24.919 insurance, in terms of infrastructure costs. So the fourth of July holiday was 106 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:31.759 the hottest fourth of July on record, the holiday and the insurance department looked 107 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:39.039 at it. Matter of fact, they compared the seven extreme heat events in 108 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:43.440 the state from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty two, and we know that it 109 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.600 took the lives of hundreds of people, and it's getting worse. We had 110 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:54.159 massive new records. Palm Springs hit what one hundred and twenty something. Death 111 00:09:54.240 --> 00:10:00.639 Valley hit one hundred and twenty eight. There was one death. Cyclist was 112 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:07.399 traveling along Death Valley and oh, one hundred and twenty eight temperature heat killed 113 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:11.240 them. Well, what a shocker that is. And we have what Phoenix 114 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:18.840 had record highs. Las Vegas hit one eighteen. My best friend lives in 115 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:26.840 Las Vegas and all he admitted it was hot. Thank you, savill always 116 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.320 accept the heat. He's okay with it, not when it's one hundred and 117 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:37.840 eighteen degrees. So these events had a total economic impact of seven point seven 118 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:48.279 billion dollars of lost wages, productivity, agricultural manufacturing disruptions, power outages, 119 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:52.639 infrastructure damage, and a whole lot more. And on top of that, 120 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:58.679 we've had five of the deadliest wildfires in the history of California, I think 121 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:03.720 in the last ten years. So we're moving very quickly to every record being 122 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:11.200 broken. The death toll from the extreme heat events identified by the Insurance Department 123 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:15.559 estimated nearly four hundred and sixty in It is first of a kind report, 124 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:24.679 and here is a major issue. Heat waves of this magnitude are not considered 125 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:31.960 natural disasters per FEMA, per the United States, per the insurance companies, 126 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:41.200 floods are, earthquakes are. Certainly hurricanes are not. Heat waves, and 127 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:46.960 heat waves kill more people than any other natural occurrence in the country. And 128 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:52.600 so there's an argument saying, listen, you have to put heat waves on 129 00:11:54.639 --> 00:12:01.279 the list of natural disasters. It's called the silent killer because it's not as 130 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:07.919 if someone drowns or as swept away, or a building or a piece of 131 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:13.360 furniture falls on them during the course of an earthquake, or a road that 132 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.039 falls on them. If you remember, in a north Ridge quake, there 133 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:20.720 was a cop who flew off of an overpass he was driving and the whole 134 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:26.200 thing collapsed under him. And in Reseda during one of the earthquakes, the 135 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:31.039 entire office or the entire apartment building just pancaked. It wasn't built, it 136 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:35.519 was built to code, but it was old and the whole thing came down. 137 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:41.679 So the argument is we have to look at heat waves and give them 138 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:48.559 numbers. What category is the heat wave? Much like we give earthquakes a 139 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:54.320 number on the Richter scale, we give hurricanes number category four category five. 140 00:12:54.600 --> 00:13:00.679 Heat waves should go from well I don't know. One to ten, but 141 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:03.600 I don't know. Maybe it's one to five. I don't know. You 142 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:09.919 have to talk to the experts on that one. Who delineated. And the 143 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:18.519 insurance companies don't cover heat waves? They don't and people die. Now the 144 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:24.200 argument is, how does insurance cover a heat wave? Do you insure yourself 145 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:28.559 if you don't have air conditioning? Well, if you can afford air conditioning, 146 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.519 you assure as hell it can afford insurance. But here's the problem. 147 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:35.840 What if your air conditioning breaks? You can buy home insurance that fixes your 148 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:43.320 air conditioning. If you have a power outage and someone dies, let's say 149 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:50.159 is shocked or a piece of equipment blows up because of the utility doing something 150 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:54.519 wrong with the power, you have power surges, you can make a claim 151 00:13:54.120 --> 00:14:00.480 someone dies because of a heat wave. Nope, insurance companies don't cover that. 152 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.159 I mean your life insurance will cover it. And as always in the 153 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:15.399 report, who gets nailed Hispanic Black Pacific Islanders, people that are poor, 154 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:22.360 the elderly, who are most susceptible. Of course, there isn't a story 155 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:31.759 I do that doesn't include and who gets hurt the most Hispanics, Blacks, 156 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:39.039 poor people always the case. So the argument for making these heat waves a 157 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:43.799 natural occurrence, a disaster, a coverable occurrence, Well, that argument I 158 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:48.480 think is gaining legs big ones. All Right, Joe Biden is in a 159 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:54.360 little bit of trouble after that disastrous debate. Was it last week or the 160 00:14:54.399 --> 00:15:00.679 week before? Now are we all? So we're wow week and a half 161 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:05.480 out of the speech that a lot of people think to completely destroy his candidacy, 162 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:11.960 as I do. And so what is he doing to somehow rehabilitate himself 163 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.639 in the mind of the Democratic Party hierarchy, in the minds of voters, 164 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:24.080 in the mind of just Democrats, both national and state officials. Well, 165 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:31.879 what he's doing is having interviews, having rallies. So I'm going to take 166 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.679 you back to nineteen fifty two, and this is a fun part of history 167 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:41.480 I want to share with you. Dwight Eisenhower was running for president, and 168 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:46.360 in a very rare run for president, he was offered the presidency or the 169 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:52.120 candidacy of both the Democrats and the Republicans, and he chose the Republicans, 170 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:58.360 and he chose as his running mate this relatively little known at that time, 171 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:04.279 senator from California Nition, a senator maybe just was in the house, and 172 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:11.000 he was known and Nixon was known as the Communist fighter and was absolutely disgusting 173 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:18.639 in going after the communists. He was more a Joe McCarthy congressperson than anyone 174 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.679 else. So he is now running for he's chosen as the vice presidential candidate. 175 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:30.799 And he got into trouble because there was a report that came out that 176 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:36.919 a fund had been raised to help pay his expenses by eighteen thousand dollars, 177 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:40.840 and he was making in the three thousand dollars range. And he got into 178 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:45.440 trouble and all of a sudden people were looking at hey, eighteen thousand dollars 179 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:52.639 was raised by contributors to help Nixon. And Nixon was about to lose the 180 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:57.799 vice presidential candidacy. Dwight Eisenhower was about to bounce him from the ticket. 181 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:03.240 So what ni And did. This is a brilliant move, is he came 182 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:07.680 up with a speech that he was going to do to the American people nineteen 183 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:12.519 fifty two radio and television, an extraordinarily brilliant move. And he went on 184 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:18.880 TV. He bought half an hour of primetime TV where the Republican National Committee 185 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:23.680 did, and he talked about that fund. He talked about that money, 186 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:29.359 and he said, this was for expenses only. I didn't take a dime 187 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.119 of that money. If you look at the expense sheet, the most of 188 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:37.640 it was for mail, a lot of it was for travel, and not 189 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:42.079 a dime went to me for personal expenses. And this was the famous checker 190 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:45.480 speech. And I'll tell you why it's called checker checkers. So he's in 191 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:49.039 front of a television camera. He does it here in Los Angeles, and 192 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:53.319 does it at a sound stage and Pat Nixon, his wife, is off 193 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:56.240 to the corner and the camera occasionally pans to her, and there she is 194 00:17:56.279 --> 00:18:03.119 completely stricken by what's going on. And he says, I didn't do it. 195 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:07.759 I didn't take any personal funds. My wife doesn't have a mink coat. 196 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:17.079 She has a good Republican cloth coat. And he was as Richard Nixon 197 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:25.039 was pleading, he was defensive. He did admit to one thing, and 198 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:30.000 he said, there was one thing that I did take one of my supporters. 199 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:32.880 We went to the airport. There was a package waiting for us, 200 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:37.440 and it turned out to be a crate, and inside the crate with a 201 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:45.000 little black and white dog who had heard Pat Nixon during one of the speeches 202 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:51.839 or one of her rallies, say my daughter wants a dog. So there 203 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:57.240 is this black and white dog, and his six year old Tricia named it 204 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:03.720 Checkers. And he said, that's one thing I am going to keep. 205 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:08.359 I am going to keep Checkers. The kids, like all kids, love 206 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:12.079 the dog, and I just want to say this right now, regardless of 207 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:18.319 what they say about it, We're going to keep Checkers. Therein lies the 208 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:23.839 famous Checkers speech. His reputation turned around immediately. It was one of the 209 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:34.039 most successful comebacks rehabilitations that have existed in modern politics. Dwight Eisenhower after hearing 210 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:38.960 the speech, I got together and reporters heard Dwight Eisenhower, who had originally 211 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.519 said, you know, I'm going to dump you, he said, that's 212 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:48.039 my boy. And Nixon went on to become vice president, ran against JFK, 213 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:53.759 lost that race, came back in nineteen sixty eight, and became president 214 00:19:53.839 --> 00:20:02.000 in another extraordinary comeback. And we look back at the that speech, at 215 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:06.599 that comeback, and is it gonna happen? Can it happen with Joe Biden? 216 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:11.440 No, Joe Biden already has his dogs, So that's a problem. 217 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:18.559 That's the start. Joe Biden buying national television would do nothing because he has 218 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:25.480 all the national television coverage he wants the president. The president coughs and it's 219 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:32.640 reported. So while it helped Richard Nixon, it saved his political career. 220 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:38.200 Will the performance of Joe Biden a week and a half ago in the debate 221 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:45.599 help him? No? Doesn't he wish that someone gave him a dog? 222 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:51.039 We're keeping although someone giving him a dog? Is that a violation of a 223 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:56.440 campaign contribution? Personal contribution? Not going into the campaign? Here's a dog 224 00:20:56.559 --> 00:21:00.960 unless the campaign owns the dog? What and loans the dog to the Biden 225 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:04.920 family. I think that would be within the campaign laws. What if it's 226 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:10.039 a seeing eye dog, that's different, that's different. I think that. 227 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:11.759 No, No, I don't think so. I think Joe Biden has to 228 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:18.960 buy the dog. He can't accept the gift of a dog. Didn't his 229 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:21.640 dogs like bite the crap out of the sea? Yeah, that's yeah. 230 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:25.759 The dogs. Yeah, the dogs ate a couple of Secret Service people to 231 00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:29.359 the point, and I mean really ate them to the point where the dog 232 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:34.160 had to be well, had to be sent away to I was gonna say 233 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:38.119 dog Heaven, but that's not the case. Sent away to Doggyville, wherever 234 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:42.599 presidents send their doggies to some kind of boarding facility. All right, now, 235 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:47.039 I don't know if you have noticed, but there has been a huge 236 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:52.680 increase in street performers. You know, they're playing guitar or saxophone or violin 237 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:59.720 or dancing around and there's always a can in front where people put tips. 238 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:06.359 Now, I've always called street performers beggars, that's my name for them. 239 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:11.799 But why are we seeing more and more of them? I'll tell you why. 240 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:19.160 Because you've got malls, you've got cities where people that go to these 241 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:26.559 places aren't going anymore. I mean particularly malls and places of businesses, and 242 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:32.519 places of business have to do something to bring people in, and so they're 243 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:38.440 becoming places where destination places and great street performers out there, and so you're 244 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:41.640 seeing a lot more. By the way, these guys can make up to 245 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:47.079 one hundred dollars an hour they're being hired. There's a Wall Street Journal story 246 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:55.079 about a Martini Shakers who goes across the South and plays little gigs and got 247 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:57.839 hired. And when I talk about little gigs, barn Raisings, Hog Killings 248 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:07.799 South. That's a little gig, but got hired by a business district and 249 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:14.960 I think it was one of the Southern cities, if I'm not mistaken, 250 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:18.000 Jacksonville or one of those cities. It gets paid one hundred dollars an hour 251 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:26.759 for being out there and gets the tips because it's fun to see street performers. 252 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:34.119 Robin Williams started as street performer in San Francisco, and you've got cert 253 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:40.480 to Slay started as street performances and look where that's gone. And if you 254 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:44.920 go up to I get Peer thirty nine in San Francisco, which always has 255 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:48.000 a street performer in front of this little mall area, this little strip area 256 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:53.119 with a bunch of restaurants. I once saw saw a guy juggle chain saws 257 00:23:55.039 --> 00:24:00.960 three chainsaws. Now, juggling a chainsaw or three of them is no easy 258 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:07.279 trick. How about chainsaws that are working that we're on and he was juggling 259 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:14.240 them. I mean that's pretty impressive. Now it's you've got street performers saying 260 00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:17.880 there's a you know, there's an issue. Sometimes I don't get many tips. 261 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:22.000 One street performer that was interviewed by the Wall street Journal said, I 262 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:29.319 have seen people steel tips that were in my tip jar. I mean, 263 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:32.640 come on, you know, I mean there's disgusting, and there's disgusting, 264 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:36.119 and why would you do that in front of a steep performer? I mean, 265 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:40.519 I can see if you're doing in front of a blind performer that works, 266 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:45.000 but you know, it's it's just not that easy to do. So 267 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:49.680 this is a kind of performance that you're going to see more and more all 268 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:52.480 the time. Now, is there a downside? Yeah, you only get 269 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:57.799 a couple hours, So we get a couple one hundred dollars a week or 270 00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:03.480 every few days because they tend to rotate them. Also, I wonder what 271 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:08.759 the the initial interview is all about, Right, the cattle call you out 272 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:12.160 there to perform, I guess in front of a group of people and the 273 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:18.160 city fathers or people that run them all, and you perform. And what's 274 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:23.640 the weirdest one you've ever seen? Mine? Is that juggling of the chainsaws? 275 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:33.799 Neil Michelle Amy. I had a friend who did that. I had 276 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:38.440 a friend who was a street performers. Yeah, did all knives, all 277 00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:41.839 kinds of things, yeah, knives or but you know, I've seen bowling 278 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:48.359 balls. I've seen fire batons. Yeah yeah, but that's it. I've 279 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:51.960 seen some really good ones. Mine's are a big one. I mean tell 280 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:56.400 you, I like the guys who look like statues. Oh yeah, those 281 00:25:56.480 --> 00:26:02.880 oh yeah, and then they scare you. Yeah. Oh, you know 282 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:06.960 that. It's a street performance when in front of a statue there's a tip 283 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.599 jar or a cane, which usually regular. You should do that. We 284 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:15.880 should go buy a real statue and just put a tip jar in front of 285 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:19.319 it and make a couple of bucks. That makes sense, I look it 286 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:25.160 up at the end of the day. I was at City Walk Universal City 287 00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:29.119 Walk the other day with the family, and they hire performers to come out 288 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:32.759 and play music and it's lovely. They're usually just a singer with a guitar 289 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:36.240 or maybe a keyboard or you know where. You can find a ton of 290 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:41.880 street performers in the London underground, in the subway. Yeah, at all 291 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.160 the stations. And that's by the way, you auditioned for that. These 292 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:49.720 are good musicians, and they don't it's not like they set up. It's 293 00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:55.960 almost a permit process. And there are some really terrific musicians that do that. 294 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:59.759 There are also some terrible ones. That's a lot of fun. Heckling 295 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:04.519 a street performer. That is great stuff. All Right, we're done. 296 00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:11.039 This is KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You've been 297 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:15.000 listening to the Bill Handle Show. 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