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Speaker 2: So there's the state slug. And then California is also
Speaker 2: going to designate the dungeness crab as the state crustacean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now you please.
Speaker 4: You don't want to conflate the dungeness crab with the
Speaker 4: crabs that you got in your youth when you were
Speaker 4: dating the wrong person.
Speaker 3: I just want to point that out. This is the
Speaker 3: dungeness crab. Thank you, Bill, They're okay.
Speaker 1: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Speaker 1: Bill Handle.
Speaker 4: All right, it is a humpday, August twenty eight.
Speaker 3: We've got a whole lot to talk about today. First
Speaker 3: of all, quick hello to the morning crowd. Amy, Good morning,
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 4: You know, I try to listen to as much of
Speaker 4: wake up call as I can. Unfortunately, I'm you know,
Speaker 4: reading the stuff that I'm getting from Anne and I'm
Speaker 4: looking at the news. But uh, the little bits and
Speaker 4: pieces I get, I have to tell you, I get little.
Speaker 3: Bits and piece bits and pieces. Uh are you really?
Speaker 3: I really can't.
Speaker 4: Tell uh how that works. So anyway, I just wanted
Speaker 4: to point that out that I haven't listened to it
Speaker 4: and what the hell you say? No, no, And then
Speaker 4: I am going to point out how cold on how
Speaker 4: good your newscasts are, in which they are absolutely superb,
Speaker 4: and if that translates, which I don't know because I don't.
Speaker 3: Listen to Wake Up Call, You're doing a phenomenal job.
Speaker 3: That was a compliment. Thank you, You're welcome. That was
Speaker 3: a handle compliment. I know what I'm doing is giving.
Speaker 4: Her kudos for something I have no idea if she
Speaker 4: deserves kudos or not. Thanks, You're welcome, You're welcome. But
Speaker 4: I know your ratings are phenomenal, So that helps. That
Speaker 4: does help, all right.
Speaker 3: So there's a good morning to Amy. Let's start with that. Neil,
Speaker 3: good morning.
Speaker 5: I don't want any part of this.
Speaker 2: Do you have anything nice to say to Neil this morning?
Speaker 5: I don't want it. Give it all to Cono.
Speaker 6: I'm good, this is not the host con O.
Speaker 4: Good morning.
Speaker 5: Good morning, though, and good morning, good morning.
Speaker 4: I've shared lead the story about when Neil and I
Speaker 4: go out in the one time he tried to buy
Speaker 4: lunch for me.
Speaker 3: Have I I've shared that with you because I don't remember.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I've got a rule in my life that
Speaker 4: whoever makes the most money pays for lunch, and I
Speaker 4: have friends who make more money than I do. We've
Speaker 4: had friends who made more money I do, and I
Speaker 4: have no problem. I just hand in the check.
Speaker 3: Here you go. Couldn't care less.
Speaker 4: So Neil we would have lunch early on when he
Speaker 4: became my intern, or after he was working at the station.
Speaker 4: So one day we're having lunch and I go to
Speaker 4: the restroom and I ask the female waitress person for
Speaker 4: the bill, and she says it's already been taken care of.
Speaker 4: And I looked at Neil and I said, what happened?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 4: He goes, I took care of the bill because you
Speaker 4: take me to lunch. And I said to him, Neil,
Speaker 4: let me point something out. Okay, if you think I
Speaker 4: am grateful for this, you are not.
Speaker 3: I am not.
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, my esteem for you has
Speaker 4: dropped several points and none of this is appreciated. Just
Speaker 4: wanted to let you know that's how much I appreciate
Speaker 4: you buying lunch. Ever since then, if I'm with Neil
Speaker 4: at a meal and that bill in that little bill
Speaker 4: past thing either leather or a little you know, whatever
Speaker 4: that they put it in comes in front of Neil.
Speaker 4: He throws it to me like a frisbee. I mean,
Speaker 4: I have to duck to get out of the way.
Speaker 3: What do they call those? Uh huh yeah, I'm trying.
Speaker 5: To touch it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you you're very good about that.
Speaker 5: The folio that.
Speaker 4: The yeah, the folio and sometimes they're made leather a
Speaker 4: lot and clipboards.
Speaker 3: That's it. The other day I had one.
Speaker 4: They put a clipboard on it, you know, a little
Speaker 4: clipboard and you get the thing that looks like a
Speaker 4: mouth trap to hold everything together. Okay, that's it. Uh
Speaker 4: just yeah, it's a great story. It's one of my
Speaker 4: great stories. Which if you if I ever add that
Speaker 4: to my podcast, you will that will be the last
Speaker 4: time you ever listened to a podcast of mine, which,
Speaker 4: by the way, is up and running the Bill Handle
Speaker 4: Show podcast. Yesterday it's Tuesdays and Thursdays. Yesterday was I
Speaker 4: explained to you how far back your dog goes, and
Speaker 4: I'm talking about genetically and mankind and dogs.
Speaker 3: Okay, you guys ready to do it?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 3: We got a lot going on today, So pardon.
Speaker 5: Neil, nothing, move along.
Speaker 4: Okay, fair enough, all right, let's do it.
Speaker 3: It's time for Handle on.
Speaker 4: The News with Amy King, Neil and moa lea.
Speaker 3: Story, and boy it is a lead story.
Speaker 4: Yesterday, a superseding indictment against former President Trump by special
Speaker 4: counsel Jack Smith. I'm going to get much more into
Speaker 4: this at seven am. But superseding indictments are indictments that
Speaker 4: are superseding, strangely enough, and what they do is either
Speaker 4: amplify or are added to a current indictment, which any
Speaker 4: prosecutor can do. That is something that is just done.
Speaker 4: And if you remember, the Supreme Court said that the
Speaker 4: president has absolute immunity when he is acting in his
Speaker 4: official capacity, and the Trump administration, the former president's lawyers
Speaker 4: had argued.
Speaker 3: That everything he does is official capacity.
Speaker 4: Everything even Trump said anything I do as president, I'm
Speaker 4: immune from any kind of prosecution. Well, the court delineated
Speaker 4: official actions versus non official action. So what Jack Smith says,
Speaker 4: he took the same set of facts and split him apart,
Speaker 4: reduced a few of them, and said the four counts,
Speaker 4: we're looking at what he did as a candidate, not
Speaker 4: an official act. Trying to overturn an election is not
Speaker 4: something that is a national issue. It is well, it's
Speaker 4: not a issue of national security, it's not official as
Speaker 4: to what a president does.
Speaker 3: He did it as a candidate.
Speaker 4: So anyway, I'll talk more about that at seven am,
Speaker 4: because there's a lot on that one.
Speaker 3: It's a big deal, to say the least.
Speaker 2: Here's another big deal. Time for a sit down. Vice
Speaker 2: President Harris has finally agreed to do a sit down interviews.
Speaker 2: Do it alone. No, she's gonna have her vice presidential candidate,
Speaker 2: Tim Walls by her side. It's going to happen tomorrow
Speaker 2: night at six on CNN. Dana Bash is the interviewer.
Speaker 2: She hasn't done a formal interview or a press conference
Speaker 2: since she announced that she was running for president more
Speaker 2: than a month ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's getting a lot of grief for that. Have
Speaker 4: you noticed while Trump and Vance are separately doing their rallies,
Speaker 4: she doesn't move without Walls. Those two are together. I
Speaker 4: think there can join twins.
Speaker 6: I think it's weird that she needs him in an interview.
Speaker 6: I think it's weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's rather strange.
Speaker 4: Now there's a reason for it, because maybe she doesn't
Speaker 4: do too well in one on ones, or maybe she
Speaker 4: does see her and also he is such a likable,
Speaker 4: folksy kind of guy. You just like him, and he's
Speaker 4: the only one up on a national ticket that is
Speaker 4: just that nice of a guy that you want to
Speaker 4: hang with him. His likability factor is tremendous. Her likability
Speaker 4: factor is not now not as bad as Hillary Clinton,
Speaker 4: her likability factor was down in the toilet, and Donald
Speaker 4: Trump's likability factor is not.
Speaker 3: Very high either.
Speaker 4: So I think he is the best weapon that her
Speaker 4: campaign has, and.
Speaker 3: I can see the political motive of that, but a
Speaker 3: lot of.
Speaker 4: Criticisms saying, hey, you really need him at every step
Speaker 4: of the way.
Speaker 6: Family Hail's rescue of Israeli hostage from Hamas tunnel in Gaza.
Speaker 6: Those tunnels that people say don't exist apparently do exist.
Speaker 6: For Han al Kadi. He's fifty two. He's a Bedouin
Speaker 6: Israeli citizen from or a hot in southern Israel who
Speaker 6: has been held hostage since the beginning October seventh. He's
Speaker 6: now in stable medical condition after being rescued from this
Speaker 6: tunnel in southern Gaza. Very complex operation. They say, ol
Speaker 6: Kadi is the eighth hostage to be rescued alive in
Speaker 6: Gods by the Israeli military.
Speaker 3: You have very few and far between them.
Speaker 4: So now the Israelis are saying there are one hundred
Speaker 4: and nine hostages, of which they have no idea how
Speaker 4: many are dead, and certainly Hamas is not saying.
Speaker 2: And that guy said that he told his rescuers that
Speaker 2: he was originally held with a group of people in
Speaker 2: the tunnels and that he saw at least one of
Speaker 2: the hostages die in front of him.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: And when they found him, he wasn't with his captor.
Speaker 3: No, he was by himself. He was by himself.
Speaker 4: And the kind of intelligence that Israel the Israeli forces get,
Speaker 4: it's pretty impressive. I mean, they're going it looks like
Speaker 4: any but anybody who's in the tunnel that goes out
Speaker 4: of the tunnel is in real danger of the Israeli
Speaker 4: and Israeli attack or assassination attempt, which is why Raya
Speaker 4: Sinwar stays in the tunnels.
Speaker 3: That's what the reporting has been.
Speaker 4: And it makes yeah, I believe that because that's the
Speaker 4: safest place for him for sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well forget saving the planet. Republican officials in twenty
Speaker 2: four States have asked the Supreme Court to halt a
Speaker 2: Biden administration effort to reduce emissions of methane gas. The
Speaker 2: States are asking the High Court to pause an Environmental
Speaker 2: Protection Agency rule that went into effect earlier this year,
Speaker 2: and that the agency estimates will cut methane emissions from
Speaker 2: oil and gas operations by nearly eighty percent through twenty
Speaker 2: thirty eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you've got the environmentalists that are going, hey,
Speaker 4: take a look at what's going on in the world.
Speaker 3: Okay, just take a look.
Speaker 4: You're not hearing climate change is a hoax anymore. That's
Speaker 4: sort of off the table, all right. So that's one
Speaker 4: view from the Republicans that the environmentalists and the Democrats say,
Speaker 4: you guys are crazy, You're destroying the planet. The other
Speaker 4: side of it is, hey, we have to keep people working.
Speaker 4: You know, look how many hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 4: will work in the fossil fuel industries, the power plants,
Speaker 4: the oil industry, the oil patch, and so what do
Speaker 4: you do with that? So under a Harris administration, it
Speaker 4: will see very strong laws in terms of the.
Speaker 3: Strength the EPA has.
Speaker 4: Under a Trump administration, it's exactly the opposite. And you
Speaker 4: get to guess which way it goes, which side you're on?
Speaker 4: Have you seen? And I watch the national news every night.
Speaker 4: In addition, to everything I read. I don't know the
Speaker 4: last time I looked at a story over the last
Speaker 4: week and weeks where there hasn't been a major story
Speaker 4: about climate change, either its massive flooding rains beyond belief
Speaker 4: or its heat spells that are hitting the country. I mean,
Speaker 4: is it is tough. I mean, climate change is upon us,
Speaker 4: and now what do.
Speaker 3: We deal with it?
Speaker 4: The good news is is by the time it makes
Speaker 4: it unlivable, I'll be dead.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: Let my kids, my grand kids worry about it.
Speaker 6: Oh, I think that's all something for us to hope for.
Speaker 6: Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced on truth Social
Speaker 6: of Course that he has reached an agreement to participate
Speaker 6: in the September tenth debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 6: So the rules basically are going to be the same
Speaker 6: as the CNN debate. That means, you know, he says,
Speaker 6: it's works for everyone. That means the muted mics and
Speaker 6: everything that we saw last time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was reading about this and listening to
Speaker 4: the pundits, and this is a win for him. And
Speaker 4: here is the thinking on the Trump part, or at
Speaker 4: least the Trump advisors, is a non muted, a non
Speaker 4: muted press conference means that he isn't going to interrupt
Speaker 4: every two seconds like he did with Hillary, like he
Speaker 4: did with Joe Biden, and what the Harris folks want
Speaker 4: to do is have him do that. So he looks
Speaker 4: kind of out of control, and his folks are saying no,
Speaker 4: because if he cannot overreact, then he comes off more presidential.
Speaker 3: As opposed to a wild man.
Speaker 4: So it's basically, we want to control our guy, and
Speaker 4: that means a muted mic.
Speaker 3: I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 4: And by the way, I think that's true because Donald
Speaker 4: Trump does veer off and get very personal and he does.
Speaker 4: You know, every time Joe Biden would say something, Donald
Speaker 4: Trump would go Nope, not true, nope, nope, nope. In
Speaker 4: the original debate, the muted debate, well, obviously Joe Biden,
Speaker 4: you can't even compare the two because he imploded. So
Speaker 4: that's we're even hearing that. Donald Trump, if you look
Speaker 4: at it, didn't do very well in the campaign, didn't
Speaker 4: do very well in the debate. Now you can argue
Speaker 4: yes or no, but Joe Biden was so disastrous the
Speaker 4: comparison can't even be made.
Speaker 2: Well, you said not a day is by that we
Speaker 2: don't do a story about climate change. The ocean's overflowing.
Speaker 2: UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez issued a global SOS. It's
Speaker 2: a save our Seas. The Global SOS was issued while
Speaker 2: he was on the Pacific island nation of Tonga. There's
Speaker 2: a plea out to the world to massively increase finance
Speaker 2: and support for vulnerable countries. Says the ocean is overflowing
Speaker 2: and rising seas or a crisis entirely of humanities.
Speaker 6: Making Meanwhile, surfs UP US officials awarded California nearly one
Speaker 6: hundred and fifty million for the construction of more than
Speaker 6: nine thousand and two hundred electric vehicle the vehicle charging units.
Speaker 6: This is all in an attempt to make zero mission
Speaker 6: cars attractive to wider range drivers. You've heard handled talked
Speaker 6: about this many times on the air, that that range
Speaker 6: anxiety and everything else, that it's time to put your
Speaker 6: money where your mouth is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's a evs were had exploded in
Speaker 4: popularity and sales. I mean they were going like crazy,
Speaker 4: especially here in California, not only because we're drivers and
Speaker 4: we're usually ahead of the curve, but also because of
Speaker 4: the emissions and the two twenty thirty five standard that
Speaker 4: we are supposed to be completely fossil fuel free terms
Speaker 4: of energy, we need alternative energy. Put all that together
Speaker 4: and EV's make all the sense in the world. And
Speaker 4: I bought one promise charging stations. EV sales have actually
Speaker 4: slowed because of charging stations, and I was talking to
Speaker 4: one of the BMW guys saying, until charging stations become prolific,
Speaker 4: sales are not going to go. Even though it makes
Speaker 4: tremendous sense to buy an EV. I mean the cost
Speaker 4: of there's no cost of fuel, minuscule electricity costs, and
Speaker 4: so I mean we need charging stations.
Speaker 3: When I do my commercials.
Speaker 4: For Walter's Wholesale Electric, which I do every day, what's
Speaker 4: the first thing I say, not enough EV charging stations.
Speaker 3: There aren't enough.
Speaker 5: Did the government step in with gas stations.
Speaker 4: No, but I don't think the I don't think it
Speaker 4: needed to. If you look at the infrastructure, it was organic.
Speaker 4: Gas stations were always there from the very beginning. Well,
Speaker 4: it used to be you buy cans of gas early
Speaker 4: on from your pharmacy and you put it in and
Speaker 4: then gas stations started, but it was all organic. This
Speaker 4: is a very different animal. For example, the government really
Speaker 4: got involved in the development of nuclear weapons, and that
Speaker 4: wasn't done in small batches by individual entrepreneurs. Sometimes the
Speaker 4: government has to get involved.
Speaker 3: Sometimes not.
Speaker 2: Another day, another delay. SpaceX has delayed its latest mission,
Speaker 2: and that is the Polaris Dawn mission, which was supposed
Speaker 2: to launch for civilians into space. They were going to
Speaker 2: go to Earth's Van Allen radiation belts, which apparently is
Speaker 2: lower th orbit to do some spacewalks that it would
Speaker 2: be the first time a civilian would do a spacewalk,
Speaker 2: but they said we have to push it back because
Speaker 2: they're expecting the weather to be bad when the crew
Speaker 2: is scheduled to return, not for the takeoff for the return.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going to have Rod Pyle with this coming
Speaker 4: up at seven thirty to talk about this. In a
Speaker 4: couple of other instances where SpaceX, I think Elon mus
Speaker 4: going to be the become the hero on this one.
Speaker 3: So that's up at seven thirty.
Speaker 6: Disbarred celebrity lawyer Tom Giraldi was Girardi. Girardi sorry, was
Speaker 6: convicted yesterday of inbezid tens of millions of dollars from
Speaker 6: his clients. So you got several people that had severe
Speaker 6: physical injuries, families of people killed in accident. He's generally
Speaker 6: a pretty horrible person.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a bad guy because not only did he
Speaker 4: embezzle trust funds money that he received in settlements and
Speaker 4: jury awards, but the people he took them from, burn victims,
Speaker 4: people who are elderly, people who had lost family and
Speaker 4: got settlements, he took it. He just took their money.
Speaker 4: I mean tens of millions over all these years. And
Speaker 4: I mean you talk about a facade he's put on
Speaker 4: his wife was what one of the stars of Wives
Speaker 4: of Beverly Hills, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I watched that place.
Speaker 5: He's even been on a couple of times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has.
Speaker 4: And it's just I mean private jets and vacations and
Speaker 4: all that, all with stuff.
Speaker 5: Stole from the poor and gave to the rich.
Speaker 3: Looking himself right.
Speaker 4: And he was also involved in the Pacific Gaston Electric lawsuit,
Speaker 4: the Erin Brockovich lawsuit that led to a three hundred
Speaker 4: and thirty three million dollar settlement which he was going
Speaker 4: to get. He would have got, I mean legitimately would
Speaker 4: get one hundred million dollars on that thirty percent of
Speaker 4: a settlement.
Speaker 3: I mean, because that's the retainer.
Speaker 4: So in any case he was it was disbarred a
Speaker 4: couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: Now, how do I know him because.
Speaker 4: He was one of the chief sponsors of the Lawyer's
Speaker 4: Philharmonic that I amc every year, and he was always there,
Speaker 4: and there'd be the the green room and we would
Speaker 4: talk and just I mean, it's an acquaintance. I'm not
Speaker 4: going to say he's a friend. But every time I
Speaker 4: would go there and Girardi was there, I noticed that
Speaker 4: I was pickpocketed. I never put the two together. This
Speaker 4: helps enormously for me to understand what happened.
Speaker 6: I will tell you just heads up, he probably won't
Speaker 6: be showing up for a few years.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to go to prison. I
Speaker 3: don't think.
Speaker 4: I think he is old, decrepit. He is suffering from dementia.
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, he got his trial delayed
Speaker 4: because of dementia. He lives in an assistant facility, assistant
Speaker 4: living facility. And what makes it even weird, this guy
Speaker 4: who has spent stolen tens of millions, stolen tens of millions,
Speaker 4: and has spent a fortune he has a public defender
Speaker 4: representing him. He doesn't even have a lawyer. He can't
Speaker 4: afford a lawyer, and so he'll end up in complete dementia.
Speaker 4: And originally he had asked for a dismissal based on
Speaker 4: inability to participate in his trial, which is a constitutional requirement.
Speaker 4: You have to be able to participate and understand what
Speaker 4: you're doing. And he got out of that and a
Speaker 4: judge reinstated.
Speaker 3: His ability to participate, and so.
Speaker 4: And his defense is the doggate the homework being his
Speaker 4: partner who stole all the money and he really didn't
Speaker 4: know sure.
Speaker 2: So Mexico's matt edis. Mexico's President Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador
Speaker 2: has halted diplomatic relations with the US and Canadian embassies
Speaker 2: after their ambassador's criticized Obrador's proposal to have judges elected
Speaker 2: by popular vote. Lopez Obrador says the pause is with
Speaker 2: the embassies, though it's not with the whole country, and
Speaker 2: he said relations will be re established once the diplomats
Speaker 2: are respectful of the independence of Mexico, of the sovereignty
Speaker 2: of Mexico.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this one's interesting because pulling your ambassadors out and
Speaker 4: basically saying no, no embassy can be at work. Sort
Speaker 4: of kind of is diplomatic relations being cut off? But
Speaker 4: he's saying no, it's only the embassies themselves. I guess
Speaker 4: the buildings themselves, those who work in the embassy.
Speaker 3: One's kind of weird.
Speaker 4: Also his argument, and you know, you've got American diplomatic personnel,
Speaker 4: including Canadian are telling Mexico here's the way you should
Speaker 4: do it. You should not have popular election of judges.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, who the hell are you? This is our country.
Speaker 3: So I can see him being pissed off. And of course,
Speaker 3: I mean his.
Speaker 4: Administration just sucks big time.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 6: For years, the Paralympians with tattoos, you know, the Olympic rings.
Speaker 6: We saw a lot of that during the Olympics this year,
Speaker 6: the Summer Olympics this year. They had to cover them
Speaker 6: up completely for competition or they would face penalties from
Speaker 6: the International Paralympic Committee, and that included disqualification. But ahead
Speaker 6: of the twenty twenty four Paralympics, which start next week
Speaker 6: in Paris, they suddenly have, you know, with zero explanation,
Speaker 6: reversed course and are dropping the rule.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, well think about this. Doesn't that make a
Speaker 4: lot of sense. First of all, any athlete who goes
Speaker 4: to the Olympics that is tatted is going to have
Speaker 4: the Olympic rings on. I mean, there's no way. It's
Speaker 4: too great an honor and too great a statement not
Speaker 4: to make with the Olympics the Olympic rings. And now
Speaker 4: I have a question, is it only have to do
Speaker 4: with the Olympic rings themselves that weren't allowed? And I
Speaker 4: don't know the answer to this because it is the Paralympics,
Speaker 4: and they I think they have a different logo, don't they.
Speaker 3: They don't. It's the same logo.
Speaker 4: All right, that's what a on set.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, the big guns have arrived to fight fires.
Speaker 2: We got to see one thirty Hercules. California is the
Speaker 2: first state in the nation to own, operate, and deploy
Speaker 2: its own big air tank cur toify wildfires. We're going
Speaker 2: to be getting a total of seven of them. They're
Speaker 2: being retrofitted. The Hercules is capable of flying faster and
Speaker 2: further than any other aircraft in Calfire's arsenal, with a
Speaker 2: range of eight hundred miles and a payload of four
Speaker 2: thousand gallons of fire retardant.
Speaker 4: Now this is Calfire's fleet. There are private fleets out there.
Speaker 4: For example, there's a seven forty seven that flies around
Speaker 4: out there that fights fires, as well as a DC
Speaker 4: ten that's out there. If you've seen those things at work.
Speaker 4: But this is CalFire and they're using more and more
Speaker 4: aircraft because that seems to be obviously the way to
Speaker 4: go with a lot of it has to do with
Speaker 4: they now have the ability to put retardant on the
Speaker 4: ground at night because of the technology, which they used
Speaker 4: to not be able to do. And I got to
Speaker 4: tell you, those pilots are I mean insane. You're flying
Speaker 4: around at like four hundred feet and the thermals that
Speaker 4: come off of fire, I mean, can you imagine the
Speaker 4: kind of turbulence that comes off these massive wildfires and
Speaker 4: then they are four hundred five hundred feet which is
Speaker 4: why occasionally and the aircraft.
Speaker 3: Are all old.
Speaker 4: I mean these are refurbished, it's not like their new aircraft,
Speaker 4: and some of them are really old. And occasionally you
Speaker 4: read about a couple of them auguring into the ground,
Speaker 4: start diving and then all of a sudden the wings
Speaker 4: come off. That is very problematic, not good for the pilots.
Speaker 6: You know, what the crazy thing is to me losing
Speaker 6: them all that weight? No, that all that weight at
Speaker 6: one time, you know, when they're dumping. Yeah, whether it's
Speaker 6: the fast edge, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: And that's another issue of how difficult it is to
Speaker 4: fly those things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very impressive pilots.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Now I want to point something out is we have one, two,
Speaker 4: three stories left to go, which means there is no
Speaker 4: chance in hell that we are not going to have
Speaker 4: time left over at the end of the segment, because
Speaker 4: we're going to run out of stories before we run
Speaker 4: out of time, and that doesn't happen very often. So
Speaker 4: Ann and Neil and Amy start coming up with jokes
Speaker 4: if you would please, that we can end the show with. Okay,
Speaker 4: and they have to be fairly clean, or in the
Speaker 4: hour with they have to be fairly clean. So let's
Speaker 4: go ahead and do the stories, and then we'll jump
Speaker 4: into how we are going to spin and how we're
Speaker 4: going to opf ascute and convolute and try to figure
Speaker 4: out how we spend the rest of the hour handle
Speaker 4: on the news with Amy, Neil and me.
Speaker 6: I want to convolute, of course, root and toot and convolute, Hey,
Speaker 6: don't touch that.
Speaker 3: Oops.
Speaker 5: The Daisy.
Speaker 6: A four year old boy accidentally smashed a bronze age
Speaker 6: jar at an archaeological museum in Haifa, Israel. And so
Speaker 6: in this particular museum, they have some of the artifacts
Speaker 6: just as they are naturally on a stand. And I
Speaker 6: know that sounds crazy, but it's kind of a beautiful
Speaker 6: sentiment wrapped in glass or anything like that. This artifact
Speaker 6: was over thirty five hundred years old. It's on display
Speaker 6: without that glass near the institution's entrance. And their belief
Speaker 6: is they they want I guess the original curator or
Speaker 6: builder of the museum said that they want some of
Speaker 6: these artifacts to be accessible. But his father said that
Speaker 6: his son had just pulled the jar lightly and then
Speaker 6: he saw it at the kid's feet, and he's like,
Speaker 6: oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yes, they're going to keep on.
Speaker 4: They're going to keep on allowing first of all kids
Speaker 4: in the museum and still no protection for these artifacts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll figure.
Speaker 2: I wonder how much they're going to be talking about Taylor.
Speaker 2: The Kelsey brothers, Jason and Travis have signed a podcast
Speaker 2: deal with Amazon's Wondery and for the brothers it's worth
Speaker 2: more than one hundred million dollars. They they do their
Speaker 2: New Heights podcast. They've been doing it since twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: but now they've signed the deal with Wondery, which is
Speaker 2: an Amazon company, just in time for the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four to twenty five NFL season. It's a three year deal.
Speaker 2: Wondery gets exclusive light rights to all the episodes. They
Speaker 2: say that New Heights has brought hilarious, relevant commentary and
Speaker 2: interviews and unprecedented insider access to the NFL season and
Speaker 2: professional sports, and they're thrilled to be part of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's still going to be available on all
Speaker 4: the platforms out there. He's just going to go on
Speaker 4: Amazon first and they'll be ad free.
Speaker 3: So I guess that's worthwhile.
Speaker 4: How many Downstrea was very popular before, and do we
Speaker 4: know how many downloads? This thing has to have an
Speaker 4: astronomical listenership. You know, you don't get one hundred million
Speaker 4: dollars just for the potential of making money.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't work here. Your jealousy, of course, is jealousy.
Speaker 6: Of course never gave a rats ass about downloads until
Speaker 6: his own podcast.
Speaker 3: That's absolutely true.
Speaker 4: And for the record, I and the number of listeners
Speaker 4: has just exploded on my podcast. I want to thank
Speaker 4: all nine of you that have become listeners, and it
Speaker 4: is growing like crazy. If you look at the graph,
Speaker 4: by next week, it'll be probably fifteen sixteen people. Well
Speaker 4: might as well pitch the podcast. The podcast dropping Tuesday
Speaker 4: and Thursday. Thank you for that, Neil good segue.
Speaker 3: It's the Bill Handle.
Speaker 4: Show podcast and it started Tuesday and Thursday nine o'clock
Speaker 4: we drop it.
Speaker 3: And the one that dropped.
Speaker 4: Yesterday is the History of Dogs, Your dog and how
Speaker 4: your dog came into your home and your life.
Speaker 3: But man, it started a long time ago. Very interesting stuff. Okay, oh,
Speaker 3: we're actually gonna make it last story.
Speaker 5: Mark Zuckerberg, you all know him.
Speaker 6: He's the chairman and CEO of the social media company Meta.
Speaker 6: They deal with Facebook and gram all of that.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 6: He said in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee
Speaker 6: on Monday this week that his teams were pressured by
Speaker 6: the Biden White House to censor some content around COVID nineteen,
Speaker 6: even things that were humor or satire. He also said
Speaker 6: that the FBI warned his company about potential Russian disinformation
Speaker 6: around Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian firm Barisma affecting the
Speaker 6: twenty twenty election, and he said that he regrets all
Speaker 6: of this.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, well we actually made it. We
Speaker 4: did a pretty good job. No, we didn't have to
Speaker 4: put in the jokes, did we.
Speaker 3: All right?
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