You're listening to k I Am six forty the Bill Handles show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Wayne Resnick. All right,
everybody, it's time for the July fifth tradition. Look at your hands,
Heather Brooker. Yes, how many fingers including thumbs do you have today on
July fifth? So far I got all ten? Oh fantastic. Now let
us go to producer and Hi, good morning, I made. Did you
retain all your digits? Yeah, they're all intact, very well. Oh
my god, that's fantastic. And running the bar this morning, Robin Barreto
made. I don't know how many. Here's the thing I've never I have
not had opportunity to meet you. So it's possible before yesterday you didn't have
all ten fingers and thumbs. But assuming you did, do you still have
ten? I promise I still have ten? Okay, Oh, you promise.
It's not You're not in trouble. I don't know if you don't.
This brings up a very interesting thing because the hiring of Robin here is so
excellent running the board has created a problem in the building. Are you aware
of this? Yes, I'm aware. Of this. You know what I'm
talking about, Heather, I do. You have, of course, the
same first name as our boss, Robin Bertolucci, the program director. So
now sometimes people will go, oh, here, oh, Robin's coming,
not just the first name, but Robin B. They both have the yeah,
makes it even worse. Although people don't usually say Robin be is coming.
Well, I mean, if you're like typing in an email, that's
oh, okay, table that just for a second, okay, because that's
a separate problem. And I'm not trying. We love you, Robin BM.
But sometimes now people will go, oh, something Robin. And of
course, and this is nothing against Robin Bertolucci. This is against just having
a boss across the board in general. And also, let's be honest.
You want to be honest for a second, and working in an industry where
people disappear, do you know what I'm saying? Radio is an industry where
you can be here and doing great and be gone five seconds later. That's
just a nature. It's the nature of the business. So it's kind of
like a dictatorship in that regard where people just get disappeared. So anytime you
hear Robin, right, we think boss and even though I Robin Berdolucci,
boss means clenching in areas of the body. So do you, Robin,
do you notice sometimes when you walk into a room that the people who are
already in the room breathe a sigh of relief that it's you. I think
so, but so far Conway and Mo call me little Robin. Oh see,
they're already tying you, yep to the boss in this way. Now.
The other thing, Heather, you brought up having someone whose first name
is Robin and the beginning of their last name is a bee. You're right
when you go to type an email, what is your fear? I'm afraid
I'm gonna send something inappropriate or send something maybe accidentally to the boss that was
intended for the other Robin. And I work with Robin a lot on the
board operator Robin a lot on the weekends, So I have to pause and
double check because I'm sure Robin Bertolucci does not want to get all of my
emails that I send with updates and you know, pre records and all that.
She doesn't want to say it. Yeah, I had to watch that
yesterday, the first time I've had to email Robin this Robin Robin for this
morning, because I don't think Robin Bertolucci, the PD of the station,
really cares that there's a sounder for the seven to fifty segment now luckily.
So the main thing is this, So the main detriment to you, Robin,
is that people will not send you dirty memes or salacious gossip or like
bitchin and moaning about whatever's happening, for fear they will accidentally send it to
our boss. So you are missing out on some Have you gotten any emails
that were accidentally intended for the program director? Yeah? I figured you had.
Yeah, of course I have. Yeah, give us the dirt you
heard. What are people complaining about? It's just mostly like stuff that has
nothing to do with me. It has to do with like a boss kind
of thing. And I'm like, why do I get this? And I'm
like, yeah, it's probably not for me meeting. The meeting at ten
has been moved to ten thirty, that kind of stuff. Yeah, all
right, Well, anyway, good morning, everybody. Let us start today's
handle on the News with Heather Brooker and me and our lead story. Biden
says, Oh, the ease into it. That's nice, that's all right,
a little dramatic pause before the before the sleepy time music. I say
sleepy time music. Because President Joe Biden did have a meeting with some governors
at the White House Democratic Governors, and he said he's got a plan,
you know, to be more vigorous on the campaign trail and try to make
up for his debate performance, and that is he will stop scheduling events after
eight pm so he can get more sleep. Same Biden, Same, Yeah.
I'm like, dude, you're staying up later than me. What is
happening here? Anyway? That's now. This is you know, there was
no official White House press release about this. This is some people were at
the meeting and he said that apparently, and they all ran to the press
to say, oh my, hey said he's gonna stop doing stuff at eight.
Here's the thing I get, Like George W. Bush went to bed
at nine, and Barack Obama, if I remember correctly, there were several
times where they would do like a day in the Life of a whatever,
and he would stop working and make dinner at like six thirty. So if
Joe Biden has in fact been working after eight all the time, it's not
I think unreasonable that he should cool it a little bit. Yeah, because
he is. He is eighty one. And by the way, at seven
thirty, we're going to get into why we know politicians are old. We
know that all you got to do is look at them. Turn on c
SPAN, look at a session of Congress and you can see that politicians are
overwhelmingly old. But why at seven thirty you will get the answer to that
conundrum. And anyway, Biden's got a bedtime, Ugh, lucky, all
right. White House now says also that President Biden was seen by his doctor
in the days after the debate. But the discrepancy here is that they initially
said that he had just like a brief check. Are they saying that he
was a brie checked, not a physical. When people were pressing the White
House spokeswoman, they were asking her if he'd had any other medical exams and
she said no. So the initial reply was that no, he hasn't been
seen by a doctor. And now they're sort of walking it back and going,
well, actually, yes, he was seen by a doctor in a
brief check, but it wasn't a full physical. It was just them checking
on his cold. They should all just be even if somebody asked a direct
question about did he have a neurological exam? They should just be replying with
his accomplishments and his plans. You don't think they should respond to any questions
about his health at all. No, it's ridiculous, just like it was.
It was similarly ridiculous. Remember when Donald Trump got COVID and you had
the same thing going on, which is, we weren't getting the kind of
information that we wanted, and we wanted to know every minute, who's he
seeing, what are the doctors saying, how that is it? Is he
on a ventilator? Kenny walk? Can he talk? And they were not
constantly updating us with that kind of granular information either. So this isn't a
partisan thing. This is more like, ultimately, our concern is who do
we want to be our president? So I need to hear things that help
me decide who I want to be our president. Don't you feel like though
knowing his state of his cognitive abilities would factor into that and how you feel
about no wouldn't at all? No, Because what's really what you get here
is with a president, you elect a philosophy and you are electing a series
of policies, and if that person then the day of inauguration, like right
at twelve oh two pm, falls over and dies. Then you have a
vice president who takes over and you still have the same policies and philosophies.
That's what I'm saying. The person is not as important as the collection of
philosophies and policies. We need that to be. That's just what people should
be thinking of, and that I mean, depending on your view of the
world, one is going to be a better choice than the other, for
sure. That is a beautiful reminder that I think everybody on both sides,
all sides of the aisle, need to remember. You're voting for the whole
person, the whole You're voting for the ideas. You're not voting for the
body. You're not voting for the flesh sack, You're voting for the ideas.
Yes. Well, look, if either of the campaigns want to hire
me at a lucrative rate, I'll be happy to advise them. You're listening
to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six forty. Let's continue Handle on
the news with me and Heather Brooker and an update on Herhurricane burrel Oh that's
my update to do about that. I thought I was tossing. Well,
it continues its path of destruction, making landfall on the Yukatan Peninsula in Mexico.
It is down from a high of a category five to a category two,
which is still very dangerous. So the beaches are closed. They have
thousands of troops there to help as the storm hits, and as what usually
happens, it'll be a day, day and a half before you get an
update on how much damage there is in a place where the hurricane passed through.
Nobody's ready five minutes later to tell you how many buildings have been destroyed,
and that kind of thing. So time Burl is dying down slowly and
stubbornly. All right, So big news over in the UK. After fourteen
years of Conservative rule, the Labor Party is now looks like the Labor Party
is now going to be in control in the UK. Prime Minister Rishi sunak
As conceded to defeat. He was beat by Labor Party leader Kir Starmer,
and I guess now they also the Labor Party has four hundred and ten seats
and the Conservative drop to one thirty one. And Sue next said in his
concession speech, the British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight. There is
much to learn and reflect on and I take responsibility for the loss, all
right. They won't learn anything because if you get your hat handed to you
like this. The Conservative Party was in power for fourteen years, we have
this snap election, which would have had to have happened in the next few
months no matter what. It was just done a little bit early, and
the balance of power tips to the other philosophy and tips pretty I mean,
this is an exit poll that you cited about Labor ending up with four hundred
and ten seats, But any way you slice it, it's a big shift.
So he said, he's going to learn. Well, what you would
learn is maybe you should moderate your positions, just like if you had a
very left or liberal government in power for a long time and then you had
a massive shift, same thing. Maybe you guys should moderate your positions.
And of course if politicians and parties learned from these swings, what would happen
is the parties would be closer together than they are farther apart. In there
there'd be smaller differences kind of like it used to be. We had a
period in this country where the two parties were not like we're way the f
over here, well where totally way over here where you can't even see us.
It wasn't like that. It was more like, hey, we're over
here. Well, we're over here, we're close to guess what, We're
close enough we can talk to each other. Now it's like we're so far
over here we can't even hear you. Was that like the eighties and nineties,
because I don't. Sometimes I reminisce about what a great time that was,
But I don't know if I have this idyllic view of it in my
mind because that's when I grew up, was in the eighties and nineties.
But it certainly didn't feel quite so like every day was a catastrophic like we're
heading towards the end of our country feeling. We've always had the high.
The high rhetoric with name call, I mean name calling and personal with tax
goes back all the way to the beginning of the country in politics. But
there's there's a difference between we should structure these tax cuts in this way,
No, we should struck sure them in this way. That's a little bit
different. Then we should kill women for having abortions. No, we should
pay for every woman to have an abortion, even if they don't want one.
Like you can be yelling about something, but you're still not that far
apart anyway. So no, he's not. They're not gonna learn any And
you know what, man, if we're still here doing this in five years,
it will be it'll be a story about how there was a bit a
snap election and the Conservatives took back all the seats. Yeah. Hesbilah launched
a big rocket and drone attack against Israel that led to Israel, of course,
intercepting most of those incomings and scrambling fighter jets which go so fast that
there were sonic booms going on over the area. So if you were in
your apartment in bay Rude having coffee, you know you got a rude awakening
from the sonic booms. At least now as of right now, Israel is
saying no injuries, and they're also they're they're not saying anything about whether there's
been like property damage. They are saying that some shrapnel uh started some fires.
So this is the way it tends to go over there where Hezbollah launches
a bunch of stuff and then most of it does not hit anything relevant.
But this is not I mean, we don't. Who needs this now?
Yeah? That was some by the way, Heather, We are definitely gonna
win a Marconi Award and a Peabody Award for this broadcast because and and and
I don't mean to sound arrogant. You will be riding my coattails when we
get this award, because this award will be based on the absolutely razor sharp
analysis that I just gave. I E. Who needs this now? I
look forward to that. Yeah, start writing your acceptance speech. Wheo.
Oh wait, you know what, I may not be able to do the
rest of the show. My phone is already ringing. I see here on
the caller ID the Rand Corporations calling me. I suspect I'm going to be
hit up by the Brookings Institution and a bunch of other think tanks after that
brilliant insight of mine. Well remember us, little people, please, I
will try. You're listening to Bill Handle on Demand from KFI AM six forty
department store. Nieman Marcus will be bought by their rival Sachs Fifth Avenue,
along with along with another company which we will just will save the reveal on
that point. It's actually the parent company of Sacks Fifth Avenue, which is
called HBC. It's a two point sixty five billion dollar deal and it's gonna
result in the creation of a new company called SAX Global. And the head
honcho over there at HBC, Richard Baker, said, and this seems interesting
to me. So SAX is gonna buy Niman Marcus, and he says they
will not close any stores or online businesses, they will not reduce services in
any way, even though you know, you've got cities where you've got a
SAX and then down the road you've got a Neiman Marcus, and it kind
of seems like why would you keep both of them open? No layoffs,
is what he's talking about. Like nobody's no harm, no foul. He's
probably saying that partly because he knows the FTC is going to take a look
at this deal to see whether they think it's kosher or not. Now you
want, you want to do the big reveal for the other the other company
that's part of this deal that's gonna take over a minority stake in SAX Global.
Do you want to say it? Amazon? Amazon? Man, They
have endless tentacles Amazon does. If they're gonna be a part owner, they
will provide technology and logistical expertise, which means I'm guessing there'll be a big
push to increase online commerce, which I love online commerce. I love it.
It's your favorite thing. I don't know if it's my favorite thing,
but it's it's if I was, you know, rewriting the sound of music
and rewriting that song, my favorite things, it'd be in there. Yes,
So I'm not against online commerce, but I do think when you get
to this level of retail Sacks and Nemen and burg dor Burgdorf, Bloomingdale's,
Bloomies. If you're in the know, you know, if you're a regular,
you call it Bloomies. I think it's an important part of the whole
experience that you go in there, and how nice it is and how nice
everybody there is. I'm just curious to know what is going to change with
the customer experience, like what you're talking about, because these are high end
stores like your Burgdorfs, your Neema Marcus. Those are high end stores where
people are dropping thousands of dollars on designer clothes. If you're adding an Amazon
element in there, it suddenly loses a little bit of its luster, you
know, and people maybe you know, I'm curious to see if they're going
to maintain that luxury standard for those high end stores. I know. I
don't know that the Amazon influence is gonna be visible in the stores. I
think Amazon's gonna be behind. Well, you think you're gonna day go into
Neman Marcus and you can just grab whatever you want and walk out because Amazon
will have all those cameras set up like they do with their Amazon Ghost stores.
Oh gosh, Hey, which of these four is the fanciest of the
stores in your opinion? Neiman Marcus Sacks, Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Bloomingdale's.
I would say, for me, Bergdorf has a feel of like there's just
for the brand name alone, and what I know, I don't shop at
any of the stores. I'm a J. C. Pennigal Like that's my
jam Walmart hit me up, I would say to me, just in terms
of like brand recognition and what feels more like luxury is Burgdorf Goodman for me,
Like I've never been in a Burgdorf and I feel like I could not
buy anything in there. I bought some towels once at a Bloomingdale's. That's
my that's my that's my luxury retail story. Is I splurged out of Bloomingdale's.
But I'll tell you what it is. Wow, because first of all,
they're not as crowded obviously because they're self selecting. So I had this
woman was like my my towel, valet for the whole transaction, your towel,
all my questions, showing me different things, explaining everything. This is
Egyptian ringspun cotton. Its absorbent properties are slightly less than this, but it's
more it's softer over here. These these are designed in Portugal. Wow,
Like there's a job. There is a job for a person. Their entire
job is to know everything about luxury bathtouse. That's what I'm saying. We'll
see how that luxury high end service changes are speaking of, like new things.
Japan's getting some stuff. Yeah, So the US military is now sending
dozens of its du As fighter jets over to Japan. It's part of a
ten billion dollar upgrade of its forces in the country. And I've read through,
you know, some of this information, and I don't fully understand why
they're doing that. Other than just I guess more military power because they can
do we need more stuff in Japan. Are we just to be prepared?
I don't know. Well, you know that not too far away from Japan.
You got that North Korea. Yes, yeah, and you got North
Korea being nice, nice with Russia. That's the only thing I can think
of is why they would want to beef up that presence in Japan. God,
I don't think we're necessarily going here Japan. Here are all these planes.
Do what you want with them. This is part of a joint This
is part of our joint relationship with Japan. And what I think what we're
really doing is staging these fighters over there. Yes, hey, Japan,
would you like to why don't you have these on your vacant lots and kate?
Because if we need to really go crazy, it's better if they're already
over there, because you know, we have I mean, we consider their
military bases to be it's not that we consider them to be our military basis,
but they kind of are. It's like this, Let's say you have
a house that you own and I'm a renter, right, I have a
key. I can come in there right anytime, I'm allowed to walk around,
do stuff, use the kitchen. It's kind of like that, or
maybe it's not. Somebody from the Defense Department can give us an email and
tell me I have no understanding of the relationship in Japan and our military.
Get Oh, we'll save this story. Oh boy, all right, oh
boy, more Olympic doping controversy. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from
KFI AM six forty. We got a doping scandal, everybody. It's the
Chinese swimmers. Apparently, right before the last Olympics in Tokyo, twenty three
Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance. Yet we're allowed to compete anyway.
What happened is they tested for this it's a heart medication that you're not
supposed to take because I guess if you're healthy and you take it, it
gives you some kind of advantage. And then the Chinese official said, oh,
probably the food got contaminated. Okay, how interesting that the food got
contaminated just for these twenty three swimmers with a specific drug that is known to
be misused. Okay, but guess what the World Anti Doping Agency said?
Oh all right, well then fine, someone was paid off. Yeah,
so here's what happened. Do you know that in the United States we have
a law that allows us to investigate doping conspiracies even if they didn't happen in
the United States? Really? Yes? And using that law, A House
committee asked the Justice Department back in May to look into this, and now
apparently they have subpoena the head of the international body that governs swimming, World
Aquatics and their top administrator, Brent Nowicki, has been subpoena to testify.
What ultimately will this mean though for this upcoming Olympics? Do we know it
might put some pressure on the Anti doping agency in the Olympic officials to not
have such a casual attitude if athletes aren't test positive. Maybe I don't really
honestly. You know, I walk out my door and I look at the
world and I go, all right, what are all the problems that we
have? And the fact that some athletes might be able to participate in the
Olympics even though they broke the doping rules is so far down on that list.
Yeah, but that's what's going on. Probably it's also a way you
can distract people. I guess it's like, look, look at what we're
doing. We're doing this thing about doping, and then you start thinking about
doping and should athletes be allowed to dope. There's a whole school of thought
that says there shouldn't be any restrictions on performance enhancing drugs. I how much
I want to take them? Take them? I want how much money this
committee that researches doping allegations around the world, how much are we spending on
that that could be used for oh, the World Anti Doping Agency? Yeah,
I don't know. You know what, let me ask you a question
now now, and it's they have successfully distracted us, because now we're talking
about whether athletes should be actually just be allowed to use whatever they want.
If you take certain substances, the idea is you're getting an unfair advantage.
Of course, you're only getting an unfair advantage because it's against the rules,
and most athletes follow the rules. Okay, what if you practice more that
gives you an unfair advantage over an athlete who practices less. What if you
have a better coach, What if you have better access to things like physical
therapy and MRIs? How equal are we gonna make it I mean, it's
ever going to be perfectly equal because of all the factors that you just mentioned,
you know, coaches, time for training, just people's own physical limitations
or abilities. So you're never going to have a completely equal playing field,
which is what makes the Olympics so exciting because everybody's coming in at varying degrees
of training and Olympic ability, and then you get to see who, at
that moment in time was the best of the best. Yeah. See,
now maybe you do you remember this because I only have the vegus of detail
of it, But there was somebody was proposing a separate sports league to have
Olympic style games where there were no doping rules. This was actually proposed for
somebody just like let them go crazy with us. Just whatever you want to
do, and then you guys all compete with each other, just a bunch
of coked up like shot putters. You're welcome for that image, America.
All right, I want to get to the story, Waine. I'm very
excited about this. I don't know why. I've never heard of anything like
this before. Former Acre at K COW and KCBS has fired filed a five
million dollar lawsuit claiming he was fired because he was white. Jeff Vaughn is
he's with the conservative group American Legal First. He says that he's suing them
for anti white demon's discrimination. He worked there for eight years and says he
was never given a reason for his firing, but believes it was obvious because
he was fired because he is an older, white, heterosexual male four protected
statusies. Yeah, right, age, race, sexual orientation, sex.
Well, all right, I mean, listen, there have been successful lawsuits
like this, and we don't know the details of how he came to not
work there anymore. You will have to see how it works out. I'm
sure will be getting updates since it's local. Yeah, I mean, really,
I've never heard anything like this happening in LA. But I do believe
that things like this do happen in LA. As someone who has worked in
many television stations here in Los Angeles, I do believe that there might be
some validity to his claim. Well, we will have to see. Give
me one second, because we can do one more story and all right,
this is random and fun and is not going to upset anybody. Heather,
if you would go to story fourteen, all right, in which you will
tell us now about an amazing discovery regarding the hippopotamus. You guys, hippopotamuses,
hippopotami, hippos. I don't know why I said that they can fly,
they can get airborne. Okay, wait, not fly get airborne.
Let me clarify. There is apparently a new study that shows are some new
research has found they have been able to lift all four limbs off the ground
when they move quickly, so when they're running super fast, they're actually kind
of getting airborne a little bit in mid stride, in between I guess,
in between steps, yeah, whatever we want to call them. Yeah,
like when you see a lion running and or like you know those kinds of
animals. They you see them kind of lift their all four legs off the
ground. And I guess people never think that hippos can do that, but
I guess they can. Good for them. Yeah, all right, that
is on the news. Now, Well, we got more animal news coming
up later in the show with heavy petting, including uh, which animal groups
are run by the ladies? You know, we think of men running the
world, right, but what about the lady animals? But before we do
that, we're gonna get some news from Heather Brooker. And then when we
come back, I'm going to proposition you. You've been listening to The Bill
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