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for a while. It was they bought new furniture, and we're talking about
how the arms and the legs were so expensive. What do you mean the
arm? How about the rest of it? When the arms of the legs
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Bill Handle, and this is KFI AM six forty. Good morning everybody.
It is a on Wednesday with one and all in the morning. Neo,
good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf and and Goo morning morning Bill,
Okay, Amy, good morning, Hello, Hello, and we're glad you're
back. And then next week you are off vacationing going to family in Oregon.
Didn't did not know you came from Oregon until you told me you're going
to see family in Oregon. Boy, I figure that one out. Thank
you, you're quick. Yeah, damn right. And Cono good morning morning
Bill, Yeah, yep. And was the news. I'm watching NBC right
now and the story is is Paris ready for the Olympics. We're getting there.
You don't have a question about the Olympics because they change and add events
every Olympics. You know that that they time change, interest change, and
I think there was a push. Remember Calvera's county, Calaveras County. Yes,
the big frog jumping right now? Do you think that they're gonna the
French are gonna have a frog jumping contest and the losers get cooked up and
they serve them at a delicacy of frog legs. Huh yeah, it's more
about the frog. What are they gonna Yeah, the French will jump because
they it's a derogatory term for French. Oh yeah, very much is Oh
yes, enough to where there may be emails and U if we had an
HR department, department, I would be hauled in for frog. Huh uh
huh, yeah, I did not know. Look it up. Okay,
look it up. Derogatory term French people. Yep, national flag of France.
It's white. Okay, we can do a lot with that. I
could hear Cono laughing down the hall. He's the only one that laughs.
Cono is the only one that laughs at this stuff. It's good. The
white flag goes good. Yeah, okay, he's mak you. Yeah,
I've been with you for thirty years, that's true. And then some of
the races, half of them you're running forwards, and then the other half
of the races. Hey, it's a fune go ahead. They had a
ship in the odorant for all the people coming from other countries. Yeah all
that, Yeah, okay, fair enough. It is a Wednesday, Doctor
JIMKINI is coming aboard at eight thirties. He always does. But we have
a lot of stuff to cover. Let's do it. It's time for Handle
on the news with Amy and Neil and me lead story. Wow fireworks illegal
fireworks every year it's out there where La County it's not legal. Ventura County
is legal. You know. When I was a kid, we would drive
right over county lines and pick up fireworks, you know, the sparklers and
all that stuff. Well, there was a bust in gardena seventy five tons
wow of fireworks. And I'm talking about some big fireworks, professional fireworks.
I don't think there were a lot of sparklers in there. No, I'm
talking about the kind that shoot up in the sky and they explode and do
the colors and stuff, and those people have to be licensed to do that.
That's as tough as getting a prescription for an opioid today. Yeah,
you can always tell what your neighborhood is like if you hear a lot of
fireworks. I hear a lot of fireworks my neighborhood, and it doesn't matter
what. And there's always a story about some kid getting his hand blown off
every year, and then there's a story there that the kid can't hitchhike anymore,
and it's horrible. He passed as someone else, pick his nose.
Sad story. Amy, Oh you're done. Okay, she's all. I'm
out, she quit. I am completely done. Yeah. Julian Massage is
a free man. The Wiki leaks founder has walked free for the first time
in twelve years. A US judge on the Northern Mariana Islands, because he
didn't want to have anything done on actual you know, on the on the
mainland, took his plea of releasing secret US documents and then sentenced him to
served time and released him. And now he's back in Australia. You know,
I kind of surprise. I think it was a big express for a
lot of people. Yeah, it was a plea bargain and it's one count.
I mean there was there was some big charges against him, one hundred
and seventy five years worth. Yeah, and look at the difference between the
time was Daniel Ellsberg and when he released the Pentagon papers, and now you
have a songe different time, different place. You know, it's just a
whole mentality of for his Elsberg is a hero, a hero for releasing those
Pentagon papers, which, by the way, is the same thing releasing classified
documents about US involvement militarily. All right, Gosh, if we only had
more money to throw out the problem. A homeless man went on a violent
rampage in Santa Monica State Beach. He attacked three women, and one of
them he even tried to drown in the Pacific Ocean. The attack occurred on
Monday morning, just north of San Monica Pier and south of the California incline
that we all know and love. Of course, this guy just needs housing.
We could just get him home, yeah, maybe with a spot in
it. Oh and he's a sex offender too. Oh well, now there
you are, so let's give it. I hope he goes to that new
high rise with all the amenities at six dollars, formally known as skid row
because we can't call it that anymore. No, they call it barely hills.
Yeah, so that's they're remarketing. Yeah. More election results have rolled
in. Who knew yesterday was an election day in several states. Republican Representative
Lauren Bobert has come out victorious over five GOP opponents in the primary election for
her new Colorado district. In her victory party in northern Colorado, she wore
a mega hat and Donald Trump branded sneakers. Oh, she's the one who
bought them and called for unified GOP and building bridges with other Republicans. That
means that's MAGA talk for if you're not joining the Donald Trump bandwagon, you
are a trader. Oh is that what that is? Oh? You bet,
you bet. She to celebrate, went straight to the theater and started
making out with somebody in the seats. That's so yeah, lovely all right.
President Biden's proclamation, if you remember, issued where he said he was
going to temporarily suspend the entry of certain non citizens across the southern border.
It's been in effect for about three weeks now, and of course it's still
early, but the border patrols seven day encounter average that's what they call when
they meet up with someone not supposed to be here, has decreased by more
than and the number is low enough to where everybody who is claiming asylum is
going to get an asylum hearing. Yeah, so it's kind of a If
it works, it's a problem, right. If it doesn't work, it's
Yeah, it was over twenty five hundred people that weren't allowed to weren't just
just weren't allowed to claim asylum. They were hit under the twenty four Night
under right, and we're talking about people who have crossed the border illegally,
between border crossings legal ones, you know, like Tija Wan and all that.
It's completely and incidantly it's interesting that he has done by executive order this
and this can be undone by any president because he had this is such pandering,
because he had first fought everything in terms of curtailing the border, and
the Republicans were going crazy and rightly so, and he said, okay,
okay, you got it. Okay, we'll we'll do a pipartisan deal where
we're stick the border. And Donald Trump said, no, you don't do
that. And the Republicans immediately turned around, and you're gonna hear tomorrow night,
border border border border didn't do anything? Yes, Oh no, did
plenty. Joe Biden is h he's going to try to take the credit for
this, and it's pandering. It's one pandering that he's doing it. At
this point. I hope they fight. I hope they physically fight tomorrow.
Oh, Biden, Biden is done. You know, he's a big guy,
No Trump. Trump's like six four six' three. I was with
you when I met him, alongside you. He's a big guy, like
two hundred and seventy pounds. Okay, I take his tiny little hand.
Yeah, and he grabbed you right, and he grabbed you by the he
said, okay, let's just let's just move on. Not looking good for
Gerskovic. Evan Gerskovic, who was the first American journalist to be arrested on
espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War, is on trial. He made
an appearance in a Russian courtroom today. He was in that glass cage.
It shows him with his head shaved. It's a closed door thing, so
you can't have a lot of people in there. He was arrested reporting for
the Wall Street Journal in twenty twenty two, and then they later accused him
of spying for the CIA. Yeah, he's in trouble. Ninety nine percent
of people get tried in Russia get convicted. His only chance, I mean,
he will get convicted and do some will get a serious jail sentence because
he's accused of espionage, which of course he's quote already guilty. I mean
that's established. His only chance of getting out is to do an exchange prisoner
exchange. Why would you even go to Russia? Good, very good point
for anything, very good point. And it was a reporting trip. He
had just been hired by the Wall Street Journal, and he went to the
city of Ika Terenburg. By the way, you know what that you know,
ikon Terrenberg is where the Romanovs saw Alexander, I mean sar Nicholas and
Alexander were killed. That's where they were assassinated. Did you know that?
I do now, sir okay, I just thought i'd throw that out at
you. I think it's Kershkovitch. By the way, I thought it was
Gerskovich too, but then ABC's guy called him Griskovich. Earlier today, so
I'm not one hundred percent sure on the pronunciation of that. It's not like
it's not like they can't make a mistake either. It's not true. It's
not just us. Yeah, Okay, Somewhere over there they're going, well,
I heard Amy King from KFI pronounce it this one. Yeah, I
know. Yeah. Have you noticed that we bring ABC reporters here. I
don't know the last time, as you said, a KFI reporter is on
national news over there. I don't know how that works. Actually, I
think I think we're I think it's some kind of deal we've cut, that
we can put some kind of affiliate deal that we cut that we can use
ABC reporters. Fascinating. Yeah, shall I proceed? Yeah. Authorities with
the Azuza Police Department are saying that new video of the controversial twenty twenty one
arrest. If you remember, this was of the top aid to Los Angeles
County District Attorney George Gascon that they say this video is vindication for their police
offerers and the police officers' actions. This was stupid, So this comes out.
They didn't the cops did not have body cameras on, but apparently this
wing nut and I say that because it's my opinion. He was the LADA
chief of staff, Joseph dingas Amy king anything on that ani Anigas He was
accused of public intoxication. He was taken into custody back in December of twenty
twenty one. He was with his fiance who was driving and was also detained
on suspen suspicion of driving well intoxicated. Well, the city just settled for
ten grand. Yeah, but that's that doesn't mean they didn't. No,
No, they said, hey, it's just cheaper than going to trial.
But apparently he was saying things like, hey, this conversation is over,
don't answer her any questions to his fiancee, and he's like, trust me.
He said, you pulled over the wrong person. Things like check check
our license and who the registration is and not to see it's it's you pull
over the wrong person. It's you've pulled over the wrong person. You've made
a mistake. This one is you've pulled over the wrong person. Look who
you're screwing with. Yeah, and you can't do that. And the cops
were totally professional, yep, and so what I and this guy sounds like
a deep bag just like his boss. But what I the way I like
to spin this is everybody go to Azusa. It's a lovely foothill town.
Go to Azusa and spend lots of money, eat there, do things so
that they make that ten grand back. I uh, well, it said
you try to use that line. You you stopped the wrong person when I
was with a copy and then the cops said that, now you're the one
that blew through the stop sign. Okay, you know what what do you
say to that car? Do you know who I am? No? No,
I've been stopped by a cop who's a KFI fan. And uh,
you know, because I've been pro cop my entire broadcast career. I mean,
I'm so pro cop that I've been let go. It's it's just for
that very reason, right, yeah, yeah, it's one of your most
redeeming. KFI is known as a very pro cop station. You know,
where there's individuals I don't know you can say KFI. I don't think it.
I don't think anybody has been anti cop. There are plenty of who's
anti cop. I never understand, I'm sorry, go to some organizations defund
the police. I don't understand that dismantle the police. Come on, there
are plenty organizations should be able. If you believe that, you should be
able to wear a shirt or something, so cops don't have to do anything,
have anything to do with you. If you're being pummeled on the street,
they can go sorry, yeah, you've got the defund d on you
getting rid of one tax to put in another. I love this. The
Ala County Board of Supervisors is voted unanimously to let voters decide on a sales
tax hike to fund affordable housing and homeless services. Yeah, and it's going
to pass. Oh great, we never met a tax we don't like.
Yeah, so this one's going to get rid of the existing quarter sent sales
tax that pays for homeless services and replace it with a basically permanent half cent
sales tax. Yeah. This was the quarter cent has had a sunset clause.
It was going to go away in twenty twenty seven. So this one
says no. You know what happens with these taxes all the time is that
they sunset out and then we vote in it. There was that one tax.
I forget what it was, but it was it was going to sunset
out and the payment and then it was it had to do something with teachers,
and I when you run anything about teachers, I mean they run ads
like crazy. And it was I remember the TV commercials in that you were
paying X dollars that were going to sunset out the next year. And the
vote was to make it permanent. And the way it was advertised, you
will not pay one penny more in taxes. That's why you want to do
this. Well that's true, but the point is it's permanent now, so
it's uh, we got permanent. You make my head hurt. I know,
just that whole thing. It is just asinine because they get their fix,
their their mainlining money, that's exactly, and then they don't want to
go back. And it's forgart. I'm looking throughout all the news going on
in the TV saying that some homeless guy is trying to drown a woman in
Santa Monica. Yeah, well that's an off, that's a one off,
but on off. Well, drowning someone in Santa Monica, attacking somebody,
not attacking attacking well because water was involved in Now it's the number of homeless
who actually attack someone. I mean it's there, but it's not It is
growing but it's not all in the thousands. We're not seeing that. We
are seeing in the thousands the increase of homeless that we're seeing. By the
way, I'm talking at seven o'clock. Newsome in a state of the state.
What do you spend half the time talking about the homeless? Matter of
fact, he lives in the governor's mansion. He's asked the legislature to make
the governor's mansion a tent, of course, and his winery all the grapes
they can ask, Oh, that would be a great campground. Man,
Come with me to the French laundry, all right. The entire Bakersfield chapter
of Hell's Angels biker gang has been arrested on suspicion of crimes including kidnapping,
robbery, and assault, according to the Kern County Sheriff's office. And when
they served eight search warrants, they seize twenty five guns, ammunition, high
capacity magazines which are illegal, of course, and gang paraphernalia. Thank god,
we have those tough gun laws so bad people like this live up.
Wait, No, well, I think it's I don't think it's the hand
capacity magazines that really is the problem here. I think it's the fact that
they're Hell's Angels and they're being accused of kidnapping. Yeah, well, that's
what bad people do. We should have laws against bad people. We do
have laws against what. Shoot, we also have laws against bad people that
throw hand grenades. What. Well, that should solve it. A cadebra.
Genie Plus is magically changing at both Disneyland and Disney World. They've had
this thing called Genie Plus for the last couple of years, and you pay
for the service and you basically get to skip a lot of the lines.
So instead of like an hour and a half, you wait like fifteen minutes,
bit you pay twenty five bucks for the day. Well, they're changing
that because apparently nobody knows what the heck it is or how it works.
So Genie Plus will be known as Lightning Lane Multi Passes. Ah, and
do you think they're going to raise prices on that? Just just sort of
asking. They haven't said if they're going to raise the prices on that,
but I think it's a good clarification for them. Under city is confusing.
It takes a little hard all right. Let me ask that question again to
the two Disneyland freaks here in the audience. Do you let me reask that.
Do you think they're going to raise prices on that again? Maybe?
No, I'm okay with that, of course you are. I'll take it.
Yeahs, I'll give a quarter percent tax hike on it. Neil and
Amy's entire disposable income goes to Disneyland tickets. No, it also goes to
Star Wars stuff, Mickey Mouse stuff, a couple of Walt Disney photos.
All right, Michael Phelps, legendary olympian, we all know who he is.
He is ripping the World Anti Doping Agency and described it as inconsistent and
that these rules, these anti doping rules, are causing more frustration and especially
with the clean athletes because they want a fair competition and they're not getting it
now. Chinese, of course, because the US is serious about anti doping,
as is the Chinese, except the other way. So what is this
particular try meta Remember when it used to be the Russians. Yeah, except
the Russians are out of the Olympics this time around, So now it's Chinese
tri metazidine. It's a drug that gives you a very long lasting erection.
It really just a guess I was I was impressed that you knew the name.
And then when you said that, I go, that makes that that
tracks that he'd know what that is. No, they don't. I don't
know what it does. But it's some sort of performance enthancing exactly. It
gives you long lasting erections. Okay, this might be too soon. A
firefighter has an attachment issue, but it's it's good news though, because his
ear has been reattached. Okay, So a firefighter is one of eleven firefighters
who were injured the other day in an explosion at a homeless camp near Encino,
and this one it took off his ear, burned his face, but
they have surgically reattached it. The firefighter was upgraded to stable condition. And
then really, so it's all good news. It's going to be okay.
Yeah, a couple of things. We remember when we had said this,
or I had said this is a propane tank that went up it was a
hand grenade. Yeah, I mean that's kind of because you're a freaking wild
West. You do anything you want if you're homeless. Yeah, that's a
good point. And and by the way, let's give him more money.
Yeah, and he needs a you can tell which way we go on this
show our politics and they have to do a second surgery because the first time
around they put it the ear on backwards. Okay, wow, well God
bless him to be okay. Yeah, and for defending a fire that probably
had no reason being lit in the first place. All right, FDA warns
this is like reverse world right here. FDA warrens maker Sarah Lee and Intimate's
not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't. Yeah, now that's interesting.
So normally you have the you know, don't. Yeah, they're life
say they don't. They don't include things that people can be allergic to,
like peanuts, Yeah, leave that out. But they're saying these have allergens
in them when they don't. And now they're not. They're not accusing them
specifically of any wrongdoing, but just saying miss branded mother misbranding to help people.
So I you know, I'm looking through the story and I'm trying to
find is this just a c y A is this just to cover you know
this the just like, hey, just say everything has allergens and maybe yeah,
yeah this, uh, these foods are made in this equipment that makes
everything because that's legit and of course it's legit, so you're you're absolutely right.
Mess with Sarah Lee and Intimate's. Man, yeah, this is a
I didn't know this. This is a Mexican food giant that owns Intimates and
Sarah Lee meanbo Yeah, and they own what else do they own? Oh?
They make They also the or Wee they owned. You know, they're
wonderful Artisano bread that is Oh my god, bread is so Thomas's English muffins.
I had one this morning. Oh, very a quick one about Thomas's
English muffins. They're like six bucks a pack in the supermarket. Costco.
You get four of them for nine dollars for eight ninety nine four packs of
Thomas's. Yes, wow, go to Costco. That's the best deal in
the world. What a shocker. Okay, how much did they pay for
that? They paid nothing because they don't need to because they've gotten me.
So the war is not yet over between credit card companies and retailers because a
judge overseeing a thirty billion dollar preliminary settlement between MasterCard, Visa and retailers rejected
the deal. So the deal was that the retailer would have the fees reduced
because you know, every time you run your card. The retailers get charged
a fee to use master Card and Visa, so it was going to lower
that, but the settlement was rejected. Yeah, which is weird. And
by the way, the lowering of and they had agreed to this to point
zero four percentage, down from like two percent or as high as four percent,
that's cute. No, no, no, no, They were going
to reduce it by point zero four percentage for a minimum three years and point
zero four which you think is ridiculous with companies this side size, that's more
than the GDP of Pakistan, just that point zero four percent. So I
think this story is about how massive master Card and Visa are, and it's
the retailers. You're right, two percent up to four percent they charge the
retailers, these companies. It's a lot of money. Yeah, like some
a lot of places that you go won't take an American Express. That's because
it's the best higher. Yeah, charges hire fees, very expensive, all
right. Yesterday, the La County Board of Supervisors called for the creation of
a five million dollar pilot program aimed at helping low income residents eliminate medical debts.
So this would target essentially the county's lowest income with ye. So that's
a very interesting question because medical debt just affects so many people it does what's
horrific. Yeah. Number one cause of bankruptcy is medical debt. And there's
all kinds of issues as to credit ratings because of medical debt. But this
is a pilot program where the county. If you live in Los Angeles,
you are now paying for the medical debt for poor people. I also say,
poor people who only drive cars that are fifteen years old, they are
really nailed up. I think the county should buy them new cars because they're
poor people. It's hey, at some point, being poor is being poor.
Yeah, but it okay, But wait a second, because if they're
poor with a fifteen, you know, year old car or poor, you
have a problem with it. But if they're dirt poor and on the streets,
you think we should throw whatever money we can at it. Oh,
I don't think I'm just saying I think the homeless is a big problem.
By the way, I'm just trying to understand your spectrum of poorness. And
you know, there's an answer to poverty. There's an answer in dealing to
poor people. Get rich, that'll straighten all of it out. And on
this day, his hot crew two times larger. Okay, we are done.
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