WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:04.839 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:11.759 six forty. 3 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:14.800 So there's the state slug. And then California is also 4 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:19.039 going to designate the dungeness crab as the state crustacean. 5 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:20.600 Yeah, now you please. 6 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:23.640 You don't want to conflate the dungeness crab with the 7 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:27.120 crabs that you got in your youth when you were 8 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:28.160 dating the wrong person. 9 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:30.760 I just want to point that out. This is the 10 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:35.359 dungeness crab. Thank you, Bill, They're okay. 11 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:41.439 And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's 12 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:42.240 Bill Handle. 13 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:49.560 All right, it is a humpday, August twenty eight. 14 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:55.240 We've got a whole lot to talk about today. First 15 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:59.079 of all, quick hello to the morning crowd. Amy, Good morning, 16 00:00:59.359 --> 00:00:59.840 Good morning. 17 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.280 You know, I try to listen to as much of 18 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.400 wake up call as I can. Unfortunately, I'm you know, 19 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:10.560 reading the stuff that I'm getting from Anne and I'm 20 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:13.480 looking at the news. But uh, the little bits and 21 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:18.359 pieces I get, I have to tell you, I get little. 22 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:21.680 Bits and piece bits and pieces. Uh are you really? 23 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:22.719 I really can't. 24 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:26.439 Tell uh how that works. So anyway, I just wanted 25 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:29.560 to point that out that I haven't listened to it 26 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.799 and what the hell you say? No, no, And then 27 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.879 I am going to point out how cold on how 28 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:39.640 good your newscasts are, in which they are absolutely superb, 29 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:44.000 and if that translates, which I don't know because I don't. 30 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:46.719 Listen to Wake Up Call, You're doing a phenomenal job. 31 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:52.359 That was a compliment. Thank you, You're welcome. That was 32 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:56.640 a handle compliment. I know what I'm doing is giving. 33 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:59.840 Her kudos for something I have no idea if she 34 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:04.159 deserves kudos or not. Thanks, You're welcome, You're welcome. But 35 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:08.319 I know your ratings are phenomenal, So that helps. That 36 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:10.159 does help, all right. 37 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:14.159 So there's a good morning to Amy. Let's start with that. Neil, 38 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:14.639 good morning. 39 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:16.800 I don't want any part of this. 40 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:19.319 Do you have anything nice to say to Neil this morning? 41 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:22.560 I don't want it. Give it all to Cono. 42 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:32.319 I'm good, this is not the host con O. 43 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:32.840 Good morning. 44 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:36.479 Good morning, though, and good morning, good morning. 45 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.479 I've shared lead the story about when Neil and I 46 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:41.080 go out in the one time he tried to buy 47 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:41.719 lunch for me. 48 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:47.360 Have I I've shared that with you because I don't remember. 49 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:51.800 Okay, So I've got a rule in my life that 50 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:56.319 whoever makes the most money pays for lunch, and I 51 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:58.560 have friends who make more money than I do. We've 52 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:00.199 had friends who made more money I do, and I 53 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:01.639 have no problem. I just hand in the check. 54 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:03.719 Here you go. Couldn't care less. 55 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:09.520 So Neil we would have lunch early on when he 56 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:12.080 became my intern, or after he was working at the station. 57 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.120 So one day we're having lunch and I go to 58 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:20.240 the restroom and I ask the female waitress person for 59 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.919 the bill, and she says it's already been taken care of. 60 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:30.039 And I looked at Neil and I said, what happened? 61 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:30.199 Here? 62 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:31.599 He goes, I took care of the bill because you 63 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:34.439 take me to lunch. And I said to him, Neil, 64 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:38.000 let me point something out. Okay, if you think I 65 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:39.520 am grateful for this, you are not. 66 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:40.280 I am not. 67 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:45.159 As a matter of fact, my esteem for you has 68 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.280 dropped several points and none of this is appreciated. Just 69 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:51.639 wanted to let you know that's how much I appreciate 70 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:56.360 you buying lunch. Ever since then, if I'm with Neil 71 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:59.719 at a meal and that bill in that little bill 72 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:03.439 past thing either leather or a little you know, whatever 73 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:07.719 that they put it in comes in front of Neil. 74 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:12.120 He throws it to me like a frisbee. I mean, 75 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:14.479 I have to duck to get out of the way. 76 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:18.079 What do they call those? Uh huh yeah, I'm trying. 77 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:18.680 To touch it. 78 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:20.680 Yeah, no, you you're very good about that. 79 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:21.920 The folio that. 80 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:25.079 The yeah, the folio and sometimes they're made leather a 81 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:26.959 lot and clipboards. 82 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:28.240 That's it. The other day I had one. 83 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.199 They put a clipboard on it, you know, a little 84 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:33.240 clipboard and you get the thing that looks like a 85 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:36.800 mouth trap to hold everything together. Okay, that's it. Uh 86 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:39.600 just yeah, it's a great story. It's one of my 87 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:43.199 great stories. Which if you if I ever add that 88 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.040 to my podcast, you will that will be the last 89 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:48.800 time you ever listened to a podcast of mine, which, 90 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:51.560 by the way, is up and running the Bill Handle 91 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:55.720 Show podcast. Yesterday it's Tuesdays and Thursdays. Yesterday was I 92 00:04:55.839 --> 00:05:00.120 explained to you how far back your dog goes, and 93 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:04.560 I'm talking about genetically and mankind and dogs. 94 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:06.040 Okay, you guys ready to do it? 95 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:06.839 Yep? 96 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:09.839 We got a lot going on today, So pardon. 97 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:11.920 Neil, nothing, move along. 98 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:17.360 Okay, fair enough, all right, let's do it. 99 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:18.360 It's time for Handle on. 100 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:22.480 The News with Amy King, Neil and moa lea. 101 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:26.240 Story, and boy it is a lead story. 102 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:32.680 Yesterday, a superseding indictment against former President Trump by special 103 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:35.480 counsel Jack Smith. I'm going to get much more into 104 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:38.959 this at seven am. But superseding indictments are indictments that 105 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.720 are superseding, strangely enough, and what they do is either 106 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:47.600 amplify or are added to a current indictment, which any 107 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:50.560 prosecutor can do. That is something that is just done. 108 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.000 And if you remember, the Supreme Court said that the 109 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:57.839 president has absolute immunity when he is acting in his 110 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:04.639 official capacity, and the Trump administration, the former president's lawyers 111 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:05.360 had argued. 112 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:07.480 That everything he does is official capacity. 113 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:11.680 Everything even Trump said anything I do as president, I'm 114 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:15.720 immune from any kind of prosecution. Well, the court delineated 115 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.399 official actions versus non official action. So what Jack Smith says, 116 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:22.439 he took the same set of facts and split him apart, 117 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:26.839 reduced a few of them, and said the four counts, 118 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.279 we're looking at what he did as a candidate, not 119 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.920 an official act. Trying to overturn an election is not 120 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:38.600 something that is a national issue. It is well, it's 121 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:43.040 not a issue of national security, it's not official as 122 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:44.000 to what a president does. 123 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:45.120 He did it as a candidate. 124 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:48.560 So anyway, I'll talk more about that at seven am, 125 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:49.800 because there's a lot on that one. 126 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:51.279 It's a big deal, to say the least. 127 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:54.639 Here's another big deal. Time for a sit down. Vice 128 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:59.759 President Harris has finally agreed to do a sit down interviews. 129 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.639 Do it alone. No, she's gonna have her vice presidential candidate, 130 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:06.680 Tim Walls by her side. It's going to happen tomorrow 131 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:10.279 night at six on CNN. Dana Bash is the interviewer. 132 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:14.199 She hasn't done a formal interview or a press conference 133 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:16.600 since she announced that she was running for president more 134 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:17.319 than a month ago. 135 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:19.240 Yeah, she's getting a lot of grief for that. Have 136 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:23.959 you noticed while Trump and Vance are separately doing their rallies, 137 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:29.480 she doesn't move without Walls. Those two are together. I 138 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:30.920 think there can join twins. 139 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:35.000 I think it's weird that she needs him in an interview. 140 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:37.439 I think it's weird. 141 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:38.959 Yeah, I think it's rather strange. 142 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.000 Now there's a reason for it, because maybe she doesn't 143 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.560 do too well in one on ones, or maybe she 144 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:51.519 does see her and also he is such a likable, 145 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:55.959 folksy kind of guy. You just like him, and he's 146 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:58.079 the only one up on a national ticket that is 147 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.000 just that nice of a guy that you want to 148 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:04.399 hang with him. His likability factor is tremendous. Her likability 149 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:09.040 factor is not now not as bad as Hillary Clinton, 150 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:13.480 her likability factor was down in the toilet, and Donald 151 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:15.319 Trump's likability factor is not. 152 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:16.160 Very high either. 153 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.680 So I think he is the best weapon that her 154 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:22.639 campaign has, and. 155 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:26.120 I can see the political motive of that, but a 156 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:26.560 lot of. 157 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:29.680 Criticisms saying, hey, you really need him at every step 158 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.960 of the way. 159 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:37.759 Family Hail's rescue of Israeli hostage from Hamas tunnel in Gaza. 160 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:41.320 Those tunnels that people say don't exist apparently do exist. 161 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:46.440 For Han al Kadi. He's fifty two. He's a Bedouin 162 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:51.279 Israeli citizen from or a hot in southern Israel who 163 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:56.159 has been held hostage since the beginning October seventh. He's 164 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:59.279 now in stable medical condition after being rescued from this 165 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:06.480 tunnel in southern Gaza. Very complex operation. They say, ol 166 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:11.320 Kadi is the eighth hostage to be rescued alive in 167 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.399 Gods by the Israeli military. 168 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:15.039 You have very few and far between them. 169 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:16.960 So now the Israelis are saying there are one hundred 170 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.799 and nine hostages, of which they have no idea how 171 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:23.240 many are dead, and certainly Hamas is not saying. 172 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.399 And that guy said that he told his rescuers that 173 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:29.080 he was originally held with a group of people in 174 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:31.960 the tunnels and that he saw at least one of 175 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:33.399 the hostages die in front of him. 176 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:34.919 Wow. 177 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:38.440 And when they found him, he wasn't with his captor. 178 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:41.440 No, he was by himself. He was by himself. 179 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:45.559 And the kind of intelligence that Israel the Israeli forces get, 180 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.639 it's pretty impressive. I mean, they're going it looks like 181 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:51.039 any but anybody who's in the tunnel that goes out 182 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.960 of the tunnel is in real danger of the Israeli 183 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:58.519 and Israeli attack or assassination attempt, which is why Raya 184 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.919 Sinwar stays in the tunnels. 185 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:04.759 That's what the reporting has been. 186 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:07.159 And it makes yeah, I believe that because that's the 187 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:08.840 safest place for him for sure. 188 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:12.519 Okay, Well forget saving the planet. Republican officials in twenty 189 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:15.080 four States have asked the Supreme Court to halt a 190 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:19.120 Biden administration effort to reduce emissions of methane gas. The 191 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.240 States are asking the High Court to pause an Environmental 192 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:25.120 Protection Agency rule that went into effect earlier this year, 193 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:29.360 and that the agency estimates will cut methane emissions from 194 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:33.159 oil and gas operations by nearly eighty percent through twenty 195 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:33.679 thirty eight. 196 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:37.399 Yeah, and you've got the environmentalists that are going, hey, 197 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:39.279 take a look at what's going on in the world. 198 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:41.000 Okay, just take a look. 199 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:45.120 You're not hearing climate change is a hoax anymore. That's 200 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:47.240 sort of off the table, all right. So that's one 201 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:52.679 view from the Republicans that the environmentalists and the Democrats say, 202 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:55.000 you guys are crazy, You're destroying the planet. The other 203 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.159 side of it is, hey, we have to keep people working. 204 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:00.000 You know, look how many hundreds of thousands of people 205 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.039 will work in the fossil fuel industries, the power plants, 206 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:07.600 the oil industry, the oil patch, and so what do 207 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:12.159 you do with that? So under a Harris administration, it 208 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:16.000 will see very strong laws in terms of the. 209 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:17.919 Strength the EPA has. 210 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:23.279 Under a Trump administration, it's exactly the opposite. And you 211 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:26.320 get to guess which way it goes, which side you're on? 212 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:29.480 Have you seen? And I watch the national news every night. 213 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.320 In addition, to everything I read. I don't know the 214 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.120 last time I looked at a story over the last 215 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.120 week and weeks where there hasn't been a major story 216 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:44.279 about climate change, either its massive flooding rains beyond belief 217 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:47.360 or its heat spells that are hitting the country. I mean, 218 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:51.320 is it is tough. I mean, climate change is upon us, 219 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:52.000 and now what do. 220 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:52.679 We deal with it? 221 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:55.639 The good news is is by the time it makes 222 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:57.039 it unlivable, I'll be dead. 223 00:11:58.840 --> 00:11:59.000 Now. 224 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:00.960 Let my kids, my grand kids worry about it. 225 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:05.559 Oh, I think that's all something for us to hope for. 226 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.120 Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced on truth Social 227 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:12.200 of Course that he has reached an agreement to participate 228 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:16.080 in the September tenth debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. 229 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.240 So the rules basically are going to be the same 230 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:22.919 as the CNN debate. That means, you know, he says, 231 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:25.639 it's works for everyone. That means the muted mics and 232 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:27.120 everything that we saw last time. 233 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:31.720 Yeah, And I was reading about this and listening to 234 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:36.600 the pundits, and this is a win for him. And 235 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:40.840 here is the thinking on the Trump part, or at 236 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:45.000 least the Trump advisors, is a non muted, a non 237 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:50.440 muted press conference means that he isn't going to interrupt 238 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:52.320 every two seconds like he did with Hillary, like he 239 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:56.039 did with Joe Biden, and what the Harris folks want 240 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.279 to do is have him do that. So he looks 241 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:02.720 kind of out of control, and his folks are saying no, 242 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:09.799 because if he cannot overreact, then he comes off more presidential. 243 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:10.759 As opposed to a wild man. 244 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.960 So it's basically, we want to control our guy, and 245 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:16.279 that means a muted mic. 246 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:18.159 I thought that was very interesting. 247 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.679 And by the way, I think that's true because Donald 248 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:25.320 Trump does veer off and get very personal and he does. 249 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.720 You know, every time Joe Biden would say something, Donald 250 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.519 Trump would go Nope, not true, nope, nope, nope. In 251 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:37.080 the original debate, the muted debate, well, obviously Joe Biden, 252 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:40.120 you can't even compare the two because he imploded. So 253 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:44.679 that's we're even hearing that. Donald Trump, if you look 254 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:47.399 at it, didn't do very well in the campaign, didn't 255 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:49.360 do very well in the debate. Now you can argue 256 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:54.200 yes or no, but Joe Biden was so disastrous the 257 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:55.600 comparison can't even be made. 258 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:00.559 Well, you said not a day is by that we 259 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:03.600 don't do a story about climate change. The ocean's overflowing. 260 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:09.720 UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez issued a global SOS. It's 261 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:15.960 a save our Seas. The Global SOS was issued while 262 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.159 he was on the Pacific island nation of Tonga. There's 263 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:23.159 a plea out to the world to massively increase finance 264 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:27.799 and support for vulnerable countries. Says the ocean is overflowing 265 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:32.159 and rising seas or a crisis entirely of humanities. 266 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:39.120 Making Meanwhile, surfs UP US officials awarded California nearly one 267 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:42.039 hundred and fifty million for the construction of more than 268 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:47.639 nine thousand and two hundred electric vehicle the vehicle charging units. 269 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.679 This is all in an attempt to make zero mission 270 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:55.639 cars attractive to wider range drivers. You've heard handled talked 271 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:58.720 about this many times on the air, that that range 272 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:02.000 anxiety and everything else, that it's time to put your 273 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:03.159 money where your mouth is. 274 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:08.200 Yeah, I mean that's a evs were had exploded in 275 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:10.960 popularity and sales. I mean they were going like crazy, 276 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:16.120 especially here in California, not only because we're drivers and 277 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:20.159 we're usually ahead of the curve, but also because of 278 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:25.519 the emissions and the two twenty thirty five standard that 279 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:29.639 we are supposed to be completely fossil fuel free terms 280 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:32.799 of energy, we need alternative energy. Put all that together 281 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:35.519 and EV's make all the sense in the world. And 282 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.759 I bought one promise charging stations. EV sales have actually 283 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:44.279 slowed because of charging stations, and I was talking to 284 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:51.240 one of the BMW guys saying, until charging stations become prolific, 285 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:53.879 sales are not going to go. Even though it makes 286 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:56.159 tremendous sense to buy an EV. I mean the cost 287 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:00.559 of there's no cost of fuel, minuscule electricity costs, and 288 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:03.919 so I mean we need charging stations. 289 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.799 When I do my commercials. 290 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:09.360 For Walter's Wholesale Electric, which I do every day, what's 291 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.080 the first thing I say, not enough EV charging stations. 292 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:13.320 There aren't enough. 293 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:17.720 Did the government step in with gas stations. 294 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:26.440 No, but I don't think the I don't think it 295 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.200 needed to. If you look at the infrastructure, it was organic. 296 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:34.039 Gas stations were always there from the very beginning. Well, 297 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:37.840 it used to be you buy cans of gas early 298 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.159 on from your pharmacy and you put it in and 299 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:43.399 then gas stations started, but it was all organic. This 300 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:48.039 is a very different animal. For example, the government really 301 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:52.120 got involved in the development of nuclear weapons, and that 302 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:57.120 wasn't done in small batches by individual entrepreneurs. Sometimes the 303 00:16:57.159 --> 00:16:58.360 government has to get involved. 304 00:16:58.399 --> 00:16:59.000 Sometimes not. 305 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:08.440 Another day, another delay. SpaceX has delayed its latest mission, 306 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:12.480 and that is the Polaris Dawn mission, which was supposed 307 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:18.119 to launch for civilians into space. They were going to 308 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.640 go to Earth's Van Allen radiation belts, which apparently is 309 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:25.440 lower th orbit to do some spacewalks that it would 310 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.319 be the first time a civilian would do a spacewalk, 311 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.920 but they said we have to push it back because 312 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:33.920 they're expecting the weather to be bad when the crew 313 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:36.839 is scheduled to return, not for the takeoff for the return. 314 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:39.359 Yeah, we're going to have Rod Pyle with this coming 315 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:41.400 up at seven thirty to talk about this. In a 316 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:45.359 couple of other instances where SpaceX, I think Elon mus 317 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:47.960 going to be the become the hero on this one. 318 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:50.000 So that's up at seven thirty. 319 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:57.680 Disbarred celebrity lawyer Tom Giraldi was Girardi. Girardi sorry, was 320 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:01.880 convicted yesterday of inbezid tens of millions of dollars from 321 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:05.480 his clients. So you got several people that had severe 322 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:11.759 physical injuries, families of people killed in accident. He's generally 323 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:12.920 a pretty horrible person. 324 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:15.960 Yeah, he's a bad guy because not only did he 325 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:20.759 embezzle trust funds money that he received in settlements and 326 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:25.200 jury awards, but the people he took them from, burn victims, 327 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:29.200 people who are elderly, people who had lost family and 328 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:32.160 got settlements, he took it. He just took their money. 329 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.079 I mean tens of millions over all these years. And 330 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:38.160 I mean you talk about a facade he's put on 331 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:43.440 his wife was what one of the stars of Wives 332 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:47.519 of Beverly Hills, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. 333 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:49.119 Yeah, like I watched that place. 334 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:50.920 He's even been on a couple of times. 335 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:51.920 Yeah, he has. 336 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:55.279 And it's just I mean private jets and vacations and 337 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:56.720 all that, all with stuff. 338 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:58.400 Stole from the poor and gave to the rich. 339 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:00.160 Looking himself right. 340 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:05.160 And he was also involved in the Pacific Gaston Electric lawsuit, 341 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:09.559 the Erin Brockovich lawsuit that led to a three hundred 342 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:12.559 and thirty three million dollar settlement which he was going 343 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:14.559 to get. He would have got, I mean legitimately would 344 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:16.680 get one hundred million dollars on that thirty percent of 345 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:17.240 a settlement. 346 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:18.640 I mean, because that's the retainer. 347 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.200 So in any case he was it was disbarred a 348 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:23.000 couple of years ago. 349 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:26.440 Now, how do I know him because. 350 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:29.720 He was one of the chief sponsors of the Lawyer's 351 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:34.319 Philharmonic that I amc every year, and he was always there, 352 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:37.759 and there'd be the the green room and we would 353 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:40.440 talk and just I mean, it's an acquaintance. I'm not 354 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:43.839 going to say he's a friend. But every time I 355 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:46.720 would go there and Girardi was there, I noticed that 356 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:51.039 I was pickpocketed. I never put the two together. This 357 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:54.680 helps enormously for me to understand what happened. 358 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:57.799 I will tell you just heads up, he probably won't 359 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:00.359 be showing up for a few years. 360 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:04.400 I don't think he's going to go to prison. I 361 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:04.880 don't think. 362 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:08.839 I think he is old, decrepit. He is suffering from dementia. 363 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:10.799 As a matter of fact, he got his trial delayed 364 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:15.039 because of dementia. He lives in an assistant facility, assistant 365 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:18.279 living facility. And what makes it even weird, this guy 366 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:23.000 who has spent stolen tens of millions, stolen tens of millions, 367 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:26.000 and has spent a fortune he has a public defender 368 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:28.640 representing him. He doesn't even have a lawyer. He can't 369 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:34.240 afford a lawyer, and so he'll end up in complete dementia. 370 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:39.640 And originally he had asked for a dismissal based on 371 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:45.279 inability to participate in his trial, which is a constitutional requirement. 372 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:48.119 You have to be able to participate and understand what 373 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:49.759 you're doing. And he got out of that and a 374 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:51.799 judge reinstated. 375 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:53.720 His ability to participate, and so. 376 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:01.319 And his defense is the doggate the homework being his 377 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:04.200 partner who stole all the money and he really didn't 378 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:05.039 know sure. 379 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:13.200 So Mexico's matt edis. Mexico's President Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador 380 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:18.640 has halted diplomatic relations with the US and Canadian embassies 381 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:24.319 after their ambassador's criticized Obrador's proposal to have judges elected 382 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:29.000 by popular vote. Lopez Obrador says the pause is with 383 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:32.119 the embassies, though it's not with the whole country, and 384 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:35.119 he said relations will be re established once the diplomats 385 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:39.000 are respectful of the independence of Mexico, of the sovereignty 386 00:21:39.599 --> 00:21:40.599 of Mexico. 387 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:45.200 Yeah, this one's interesting because pulling your ambassadors out and 388 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:48.880 basically saying no, no embassy can be at work. Sort 389 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.559 of kind of is diplomatic relations being cut off? But 390 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:57.039 he's saying no, it's only the embassies themselves. I guess 391 00:21:57.079 --> 00:21:59.720 the buildings themselves, those who work in the embassy. 392 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:00.759 One's kind of weird. 393 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:09.039 Also his argument, and you know, you've got American diplomatic personnel, 394 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:14.559 including Canadian are telling Mexico here's the way you should 395 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:18.599 do it. You should not have popular election of judges. 396 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:22.079 Excuse me, who the hell are you? This is our country. 397 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:28.119 So I can see him being pissed off. And of course, 398 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:29.200 I mean his. 399 00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:33.319 Administration just sucks big time. 400 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:36.279 All right. 401 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:41.160