WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:04.160 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:11.400 am six forty. 3 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:13.039 You know, we're not getting much information. 4 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:17.719 About the guy who hold on, I'm gonna sneeze, hang on. 5 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:20.000 Please stand bye for the sneeze off. 6 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:22.679 And I turned off the microphone. Usually I sneeze right. 7 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:23.600 It was a big boy. 8 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:27.320 Oh god, this mic sock is dripping. 9 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:33.640 Now and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, 10 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:35.200 here's Bill Handle. 11 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:41.880 Yeah that was fairly disgusting. Oh by that? 12 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:49.399 Yeah, you know, well, first fall, good morning, and as usual, 13 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:52.039 we have a ton to talk about. Good morning, Neil, 14 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:56.920 Good morning, Willie Wolf, Taco Tuesday. Behind you, that's great, Amy, 15 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:00.439 Good morning, Hi Bill, and there you are. Kno, there 16 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:05.640 I am, and certainly last, but certainly least. Okay, Now 17 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:11.079 why ex why? Because I want to show you what 18 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:14.280 a great heart I have. Now I am watching a 19 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:18.519 TV show on Hulu. I've mentioned this before, uh, And 20 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:22.480 it's called The Righteous Gemstones and it's a takeoff on 21 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:28.200 a televangelist family and John Goodman is in it and 22 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:30.760 Danny McBride, who is completely. 23 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:31.799 Insane, it's his show. 24 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:35.200 And I have to tell you it is impossible to 25 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:41.319 offend me. Impossible, and it is as close to that 26 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:47.519 as it can get in terms of sheer depravity. And 27 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:51.120 very rarely do I. 28 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:55.519 Watch a scene that I go, wow, WHOA. 29 00:01:56.760 --> 00:02:01.000 Enjoying it enormously, But it's got to tell you, just 30 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:02.120 having the time of my life. 31 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:06.120 Depravity at a level that I find astounding. 32 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:10.599 Anyway, it's October one already and the holiday season is 33 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:14.560 upon us. Neil was talking to and prior to the show, 34 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:17.680 they're already bringing out their Halloween. 35 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:23.960 Their decorations. And I didn't know. I know, Neil goes 36 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:24.840 balls to the wall. 37 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:31.400 What Neil does to his place on Halloween is incredible. 38 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:35.159 And I didn't know you went that far that you 39 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:36.400 really do a big thing. 40 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:39.719 Yeah, yeah, yeah, she has really great ideas and she 41 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:42.680 was going, we went there and we're pulling stuff out too. 42 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:43.879 I did not know that either. 43 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:45.000 Oh yeah we are. 44 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:48.560 Just we start planning. We've been working on some custom 45 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:49.960 stuff for about a month now. 46 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:51.800 I love it. 47 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:56.719 Yeah, I hate Halloween. I hate it. I hate people coming. 48 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:00.560 Well, first of all, in my neighborhood, knowing the door, 49 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:03.039 I have the lights off in the porch and a 50 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:06.319 big sign that says registered sex offender lives here. Kids 51 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:10.319 do not get anywhere near my house. It's a complete 52 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:11.159 pain in the ass. 53 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.520 Well, in your defense, that's a legal issue. You have 54 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:15.680 to put that sign ass. 55 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:19.840 Actually I don't because while the accusations are out there, 56 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:23.280 I am not a convicted felon. 57 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:26.560 Okay, just want to let you know. It's get away 58 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:27.240 from this topic. 59 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:28.599 That's horrible. 60 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:32.280 Okay, that's just people confused you for a jack a lanning. 61 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:32.719 Uh. 62 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:34.599 Yeah, no, it's just it's just to make sure that 63 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:37.000 kids don't come to the door. I hate that, you 64 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:37.599 know why. 65 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:41.439 It's the best of the ass here, you know, or 66 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:43.199 dentist lives here is another one. 67 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:44.599 Leave me alone, get out. 68 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:48.280 Uh. The only thing that's the only thing that's worthwhile. 69 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:50.719 I always thought to give kids or a Halloween are 70 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:52.840 the apples with the razor blades in him? And I 71 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:55.560 found out that that is an urban myth that no 72 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:56.759 one has actually done that. 73 00:03:57.639 --> 00:03:59.479 No, tell me how disappointing that is. 74 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.719 But don't hear. It's like we have family over. 75 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:06.120 We sit in the on the front porch with the 76 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:08.199 fire pit going and the decoration. 77 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:09.840 You have a front you have a fire pit in 78 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:10.520 the front porch. 79 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:12.599 Yeah? 80 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:18.040 Wow, you mean wow? A fire pit on their front porch. 81 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:22.560 All right, And I'd like to take this moment to 82 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:25.000 say thanks to Outdoor Elegance and Laverne. 83 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:28.160 Right off of the two, I find it. 84 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:33.160 And I am definitely going to use my ongoing joke 85 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:37.279 for West Medical the venicel procedure to get rid of 86 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:40.879 the vericos veins, and I will make fun of anybody 87 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:42.279 who has vericos veins. 88 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:44.079 And you can go to a. 89 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:47.439 Halloween party in a swimsuit dressed as a roadmap. 90 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:50.720 And it's always very strong. Okay. 91 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:56.560 I think we have covered pretty much everything. Ceeo apples 92 00:04:56.199 --> 00:05:01.879 with razors in them, we got that, we have signs 93 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:02.959 that say you're registered. 94 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:05.800 What very gross veins? We talked about that. 95 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:09.079 Yeah, oh that's very strong too. All right, guys, let's 96 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:09.360 do it. 97 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:12.120 Okay, it's time for by the way, for those people 98 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:15.720 that really think I am that level of jerkiness. 99 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.759 Neil, what's what's the truth on that? 100 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:21.120 Oh no, you're much worse. 101 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:25.079 Okay, And you know me, come on, I come off 102 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.959 like a jerk, but really, deep down inside I'm a jerk. 103 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:29.639 I'm more of that. Cono. 104 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:34.000 We haven't really talked very much, and Amy, you have suspicions. 105 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:38.199 Right, yeah, let's sleep it hit that. 106 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:40.839 We haven't talked much. But yes, you are jerky, Yeah, 107 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:41.240 thank you. 108 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:42.720 So there you go. 109 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:44.920 I'm the only one who has a job now. 110 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:48.279 I love I love this show. 111 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.399 Okay, let's do it, guys, it's time for Handle on 112 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:54.480 the news with Amy and Neil and me Lee. 113 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:59.199 Story. Well, we sort of knew for the last few 114 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:00.399 days this is going on. Happened. 115 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:05.920 Israel has launched an offensive into Lebanon ground forces and 116 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.079 this is first time since two thousand and six that 117 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:12.079 Israel has gone in And I don't understand Lebanon. Well, 118 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:17.240 I understand Hisbela, but Hisbola is not Lebanon. Hezwela is 119 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:21.040 part of Lebanon. You look at south Lebanon, that area 120 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.160 is his bola controlled. You go north of that, it's 121 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.560 not particularly controlled. And you've got the citizens of Lebanon going, 122 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:30.439 what the hell are we doing? Because here it is 123 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:37.319 hisbola attacking Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, 124 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:41.959 they went to war because hey, these guys went to war, 125 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:43.720 therefore we're going to go to war. 126 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.600 That's gonna be a really good choice. 127 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:51.360 Israel took out the entire hierarchy of Hebela, including Israala, 128 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:55.120 their leader for thirty years, and they're the higher management, 129 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:55.600 if you will. 130 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:58.839 And it's I don't know where they're going. 131 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:03.240 And this Lebanon or Hesbelah, which heretofore had a reputation 132 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:06.680 of being a really strong military force. If anybody can, 133 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.720 anybody can stand up to Israeli be his blah. 134 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.319 No, no, you don't go to war with Israel. 135 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:17.279 So Bill in this circumstance is a little different. So 136 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:26.199 Gaza a smaller area UH and all controlled by Kamas, Yeah, 137 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:30.120 by Jumas. Now you go to Lebanon, and as you're saying, 138 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.439 the southernmost part is but two thirds, let's say, is 139 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:39.040 not right. So can that two thirds put pressure on 140 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:39.800 those not? 141 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:40.000 Really? 142 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:44.439 His law is now Hisbollah is a terrorist organization, also 143 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:50.759 a governmental organization, also a military organization UH supported supply 144 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:54.600 trained by Iran. The Lebanese army, even though it's there, 145 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.680 really has noose, say, the Lebanese government, even though it 146 00:07:57.720 --> 00:07:59.839 is there, really has no say for the south. 147 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:03.120 Of behooved them to have them gone? What has weillah 148 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:07.160 the northern part of Lebanon? Would it behoove them to 149 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:08.480 have has belood gone. 150 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:10.839 Oh absolutely, there wouldn't be war. 151 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:14.680 You know, Lebanon at one part, at one point was 152 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.839 known as the Paris of the Middle East. It was 153 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:23.360 an expounding city, boulevards and it was just incredible. And 154 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:25.279 of course that all went to hell in a handbasket 155 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.399 because hey, we got to get rid of those damn Israelis. 156 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:29.240 But here's the problem. 157 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:33.720 Those damn Israelis aren't moving, and they're prepared to go 158 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:34.519 to war with. 159 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:36.720 Anybody that figures are going to move. 160 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:43.000 So the attacks on Israel happened the day after October seventh. 161 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:47.240 October eighth is when the missile started launching to Israel 162 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:50.200 from Lebanon, up to one hundred a day, and Israel 163 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:51.120 just said, we're done. 164 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:54.720 That's enough. Boom, here we go. Now the missiles will 165 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:55.360 keep on going. 166 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:59.639 But Israel has Iron Dome, and Israel has these anti 167 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.600 missiles missiles that are supplied by the United States as 168 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:06.960 well as their own domestically produced at anti missile systems. 169 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:08.960 And it's let me. 170 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:12.159 Tell you, if they really go full blast to war, 171 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.240 I mean, it's gonna be horrible for Israel, but ain't 172 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:17.879 gonna be good for hesbal law not as bad as 173 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:19.799 it is for Hamas. Look at Hamas. I mean, it's 174 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:24.679 going to turn into an insurgent sort of a gorilla organization. 175 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:27.480 You know, just let's attack here and there. It's not 176 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:29.639 gonna it certainly isn't what it was. All right, let's 177 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:31.639 go ahead and take a break and we'll probably talk 178 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:32.919 more about this later on. 179 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:36.080 Let me see, Yeah, that is the seven twenty. 180 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:40.440 In this corner, Tim Walls, and in this corner jd Vance. 181 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.200 They're going to meet tonight for their probably only vice 182 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:45.919 presidential debate. We're going to air it here on KFI 183 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:49.480 starting at six o'clock, simulcasting it with CBS. Polls have 184 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:53.799 shown that Vice President Harris and former President Trump are 185 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:58.120 locked in a close race, giving added weight to anything 186 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.240 that might sway voters on the margin, including the impression 187 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.639 left by the vice presidential candidates. 188 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:06.000 Yeah, usually they have almost no influence. 189 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:09.000 Now, well, a tiny bit of influence is now a 190 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.240 lot of influence. And coming up at seven o'clock, I'm 191 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:15.200 going to talk about what we know is going to happen, 192 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:19.159 what might happen, and then hopefully they take us for 193 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:22.720 a loop tonight where it's not anticipated where either of 194 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:24.000 them will go. 195 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:26.480 So I'll talk more about that at seven o'clock. 196 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:32.080 All right, after making landfall in Florida's Big Bend region 197 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:37.159 Thursday night last week, major category four hurricane when it hit, 198 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:43.840 Helene has caused massive storm surges, wind damage. They got 199 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:48.200 a lot of flooding inland, massive swath through the south 200 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:54.200 there and strongest hurricane make landfall in Big Bend region 201 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.480 on record, one hundred and forty mile per hour wins. 202 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:01.600 Just one hundred and thirty two people have been killed 203 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:07.120 in six states, so Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, 204 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:08.080 and Virginia. 205 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:09.440 Just horrific. 206 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:12.159 And we don't even know how many are still going 207 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:13.639 to be popping up dead. 208 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.919 Don't they say like a thousand plus people or a lot. 209 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:18.639 Of well it's not I don't think it'll be a thousand, 210 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:21.679 Maybe it will, but hundreds because they can't even get 211 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:24.840 to some of those areas. It's as bad as we anticipated, 212 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.159 and we're reporting prior to it hitting. 213 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:31.000 And it's worse inland than actually on the coast what 214 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:34.240 they're talking about, like Asheville, North Carolina. Just if you 215 00:11:34.279 --> 00:11:36.519 look at the pictures from it, parts of that town 216 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:38.240 are literally flattened. 217 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:40.480 It's just a solid debris field. 218 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.879 And it got hit particularly hard because it was four 219 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:45.000 hundred miles inland. 220 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:46.120 They didn't expect that. 221 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:51.879 Yeah, it's it's a real outlier, aberrational storm and unfortunately 222 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:52.799 in the wrong direction. 223 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:58.159 Put your money where your mouth is. 224 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:02.399 President Trump went on to uh check out some of 225 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:08.360 the hurricane damage yesterday, and then uh launched a GoFundMe page, 226 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:10.480 and they've raised a million dollars. 227 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.320 Of course that's I had, you know, a penny in 228 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:15.039 the bucket. What's the now. 229 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:17.879 I know, obviously they're gonna it's gonna be billions to 230 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:19.960 take care of all that. But still, I mean, it's 231 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.440 it's it's a start. I mean, it helps. And he 232 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:26.320 got most of it from his donors. 233 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:28.159 His political allies, which is still a great thing. 234 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.600 A fun story is, as he was announcing it, he 235 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:37.320 had said that Governor Kemp I did couldn't reach the 236 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:41.519 White House, and is Kemp Georgia. 237 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.639 I think he is, right Camp is the Governor Georgia? 238 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:49.000 Yeah, right, Okay, So Donald Trump said that Kim's trying 239 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:51.120 to reach the President and the President. 240 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:52.440 Refuses to talk to him. 241 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.519 Right, two hours later, Kemp gives a press conference. I 242 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:03.799 talked to the President yesterday completely made up. I wonder 243 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:05.720 if Fans is going to do any of that tonight. 244 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:09.399 Well, he said he will. I can't wait. He said. 245 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:14.360 If I have to make up stories to get people's 246 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:17.159 concentration on our problems in the country, I will make 247 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:23.320 up stories. So he's doubled down. We've got children. Wait, no, 248 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.480 we have pets being eaten. Here's here is We're gonna 249 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:30.279 do a football pool? Does he say that Haitian eat children, 250 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:31.639 neighbors kids? 251 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:33.960 So yes or no? 252 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:34.639 I say yes? 253 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:38.200 What are you telling me that our country is not 254 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:43.360 being overrun by bigfoots? Not saying because if you're telling 255 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:44.240 me that, yeah. 256 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:45.559 I know, I understand. Anyway. 257 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.600 I just it's just my my diatribe against Trump. I 258 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:52.240 take every opportunity, you know, and there you go, and 259 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:54.440 I'm giving lots of opportunity, just having a great time, 260 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:58.279 all right. And by the way, if Fans rips into 261 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.919 Walls tonight with and makes a point, I'm gonna bring 262 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:05.480 it up. I'm absolutely gonna bring it up. You know, 263 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:11.759 I'm not completely delusional. Maybe okay, if. 264 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:13.399 I as Walls, I'd go JD. You've got a little 265 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:15.440 you got a little cat on the on the corner 266 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:17.759 of your mouth. Yeah, you got a little dog. Yeah, 267 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:21.080 all right, Well it happened. We talked about this yesterday, 268 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:25.200 but it happened. Nearly fifty thousand members of the International 269 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:29.759 Longshoreman's Association are on strike. Yea, though this is going 270 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:32.159 to wipe out so much it's going to choke off 271 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:36.399 the flow of you know, basically the nation's imports and exports. 272 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:40.200 This is a massive throw away and it's going to 273 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:44.679 be they're saying the most disruptive work stoppage in decades 274 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:45.759 here in the United States. 275 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.639 You know what the demand is from the longshoreman's workers. 276 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.279 Part of the demand seventy seven percent increase in pay 277 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.720 over the next four years. Seventy seven percent. 278 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:58.279 Wasn't that your last contract? 279 00:14:58.960 --> 00:14:59.320 Yeah? 280 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:05.080 The way, yeah, you bet, you bet. All we've done 281 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:06.440 for years is take haircuts. 282 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:09.159 But then, you know, it's it's business. And I get that. 283 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:12.559 I don't resent that, because you know, radio today is 284 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:14.480 different than it was five years ago or ten years ago. 285 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:18.519 But the point is they're being offered fifty percent over 286 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:23.559 four years, and they're demanding seventy seven percent and you 287 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:27.120 can't bring automation in. You have to limit the automation 288 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:30.879 that comes into the ports to keep workers going and alive. 289 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:34.039 Do you think, well they're arguing all of this, they're 290 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:36.559 actually loading the automation in behind them. 291 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.960 No, oh god, no. Now it all has to be 292 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:44.440 bargained for collectively. And the problem is is that the 293 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:48.639 DOC workers have unbelievable power. 294 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:50.519 I don't even know what the union gets. 295 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.200 We should look that up and what is base pay 296 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:57.120 and any one of those ports of the Longshoreman's Union. 297 00:15:58.039 --> 00:15:59.159 LAY just talked to. 298 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:03.360 Jim Ryan about this with ABC and he said they 299 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:06.200 start at like eighty thousand, eighty one thousand, and they 300 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:09.120 based on seniority and all that stuff, they can make 301 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:10.120 up to two hundred thousand. 302 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:10.559 Already. 303 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.200 That's a union worker. You talk about a powerful union. 304 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:16.879 And it used to be you know Steve Adores and 305 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:18.080 the longshoreman. 306 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:22.240 It used to be a really tough, tough job where you. 307 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:25.480 Get these swinging cranes and those cargo nets that would 308 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.440 go into the hold. Let me tell you what they 309 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:31.759 do now is they go into the ship, they drive 310 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:34.840 the cars off into a parking lot, A golf cart 311 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:37.200 picks them up, drives back. 312 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:38.919 To the ship, They pick up the. 313 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:42.559 Next car, drive it to the lot, and go back 314 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:45.600 and forth and get paid a couple hundred thousand dollars 315 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.799 a year, and they want a seventy seven percent increase 316 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:52.360 over the next four years. There aren't as many of 317 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:54.120 them because you know, you got those big containers and 318 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:55.039 the guys up there. 319 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:57.559 Here's the problem. When you have those guys. 320 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:02.879 Up two hundred feet and they're controlling those massive cranes 321 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:07.519 that lift the containers where they pee. 322 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:12.480 That has always been a problem. You want to take 323 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:12.839 a break. 324 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:15.960 It's weird how your brain works, or it doesn't. I 325 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:17.079 guess as the case may be. 326 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:19.960 Well, Charlie has done his last tussle. 327 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:25.400 Pete Rose, the seventeen time All Star who said multiple 328 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.039 Major League Baseball records during a twenty four year career 329 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:32.599 that began in nineteen sixty three, has died in nineteen 330 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:36.880 eighty nine. He voluntarily accepted a lifetime ban from baseball 331 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:39.920 because of accusations he gambled on games while playing for 332 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.319 and managing the Reds, and even was alleged to have 333 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:44.480 beat on his own team. 334 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:49.599 He was a gambler on of just ex biblical proportions. 335 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.160 He would gamble on anything. He was that crazy. 336 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:56.400 I met Pete Rose a few times. Here is an 337 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.039 interesting story. Wow if you find it interesting. Across the 338 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:04.680 street from Premiere Radio was a restaurant sicily restaurant where 339 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:06.839 he used to eat out all the time. And I 340 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:08.279 was friends with the owner and he was friends with 341 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:10.240 the owner, so we started running into each other. The 342 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:13.519 first time I met Pitt Pete Rose, I was introduced 343 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:15.519 to him by Jamie Bill. 344 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:16.799 This is Pete Pete Bill. 345 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:18.960 He looked at me. I put my hand out to 346 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:20.559 shake hands. He looked at me, and he goes, I 347 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:23.720 was robbed. I should be in the Hall of Fame swear. 348 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:28.319 That's how he started conversations. And then he wore those 349 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:31.720 Elton John glasses for the latter part of his life. 350 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:35.400 And you know how he made a living signing baseballs 351 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:39.119 and bats. That is how he made a living. He 352 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:41.359 would go to these shows and literally. 353 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:43.519 Sign baseballs for the kids. I made a good living 354 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:45.319 at it too, because he was You. 355 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:50.559 Can find baseballs that say I'm sorry, I gambled, seriously 356 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:52.640 say you would sign them. 357 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:53.160 I'm sorry. 358 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:54.839 I mean it's just interesting guy. 359 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:58.160 But one of the goal time great ballplayers that you 360 00:18:58.200 --> 00:18:59.519 can't take away from him. 361 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:02.920 Employees at this sucks. 362 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:08.200 The Department of Veterans Affairs apparently improperly accessed medical files 363 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:11.880 of Senator j D Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, 364 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.359 and that just sucks, you know. So Washington Post, which 365 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:18.240 first report of the incident, said at least a dozen 366 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:21.759 employees access the records, and we've gotten to the point 367 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:25.079 where we don't care about anything but our own views 368 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:27.759 or having insights that other people don't. 369 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:30.440 Now they haven't those records have not been released publicly, 370 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:33.400 but you know a lot of people have those private ones. 371 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:35.880 You know, they were looking at them privately. 372 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:40.359 It just sucks that you've so artisan or anything like 373 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:41.160 this secks. 374 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:47.799 So they get out to vote. Message apparently is working. 375 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:50.799 Hundreds of thousands of new voters have signed up to 376 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:54.920 gas ballots in the November election, and they're looking at 377 00:19:55.440 --> 00:20:00.240 key battleground states where the races are very close. The 378 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:03.640 number of registered voters in those seven states is up 379 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:08.240 compared to the twenty twenty presidential contest. North Carolina nearly 380 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:12.480 a half million more registered voters in Michigan, three hundred 381 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:17.119 and fifty thousand more in Arizona. That's also up, so 382 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:19.200 interesting people are registering. 383 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:21.720 I mean, keep in mind when you talk about hundreds 384 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:25.480 of thousands of new registered voters. Biden won Georgia by 385 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:30.079 eleven thousand votes, that's it. 386 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:34.960 Michigan it was well, no, Michigan. It was a healthy win. 387 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:40.160 But Nevada was just a smidge in favor of Biden. 388 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:42.960 So this is a big, big deal. 389 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:47.440 Now the issue is whether the new voters, the new registrants, 390 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:51.640 are Democratic or republic My guess is they tend to 391 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:54.519 swing Democrat. I don't know why, but I just sort 392 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:56.799 of have that feeling. But I'll tell you where it 393 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:01.920 may hit is the Taylor Swift move her endorsing Kamala 394 00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:06.519 Harris and telling Swifties to register and vote. That may 395 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:10.640 have some influence. Don't know, there's you know, there are 396 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:15.319 way too many angles to this one. There are too 397 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:18.279 many facets to this election. It is fascinating up in 398 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:21.640 the air. Which way is it going to go? And 399 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:25.640 I don't know the answer to that obviously, Literally I 400 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:28.359 could not tell you. Usually I go, yeah, well, well 401 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:30.440