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Speaker 3: Sly and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 3: here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. Bill Handle here with the morning crew.
Speaker 1: And I was listening to that little promo drop. You
Speaker 1: know what, I'm pretty impressed with myself sometimes, my vast
Speaker 1: and de knowledge of the entitle, entire world of technology.
Speaker 1: So much for that I think I got a virus.
Speaker 1: My zoom is not working, by the way, I can't
Speaker 1: actually see you guys. And because I think I picked
Speaker 1: up a virus, Neil, what do you mean?
Speaker 2: Where is Neil?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Here's what I'm gonna do. Yeah. Oh that's great.
Speaker 1: So Neil is out and I'm out. Well, so Neil
Speaker 1: like THEIH but COO's not there either. Oh good, I
Speaker 1: feel better.
Speaker 2: I feel's not there and we don't need to be on.
Speaker 1: I know this is very so we're going blind. That's
Speaker 1: all right. You know this is radio. You really don't
Speaker 1: have to see anybody. And it was this morning I said,
Speaker 1: this thing is gone and I did. It was some
Speaker 1: pop up virus that happened or some hack and I
Speaker 1: started to go through it. Neil said, you were you
Speaker 1: watching porn? Is that what it? And you got hacked?
Speaker 1: And I said, how'd you know? And it goes because
Speaker 1: I know you Bill. Actually I was not watching porn.
Speaker 1: I was going through one of those click I don't
Speaker 1: buy anything on that, but you know where they now
Speaker 1: kind of thing you go through it and mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: So I got half click b yeah, yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: believe what the cast of such and such looks like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it. You know. So because I
Speaker 1: you know, I read the papers. I was up early
Speaker 1: this morning and went through all of them and anyway,
Speaker 1: so see, I thought I was okay if I don't
Speaker 1: actually buy anything, but I guess not.
Speaker 4: Do you have access to your email?
Speaker 1: Wait? I mean do I no? I don't do it
Speaker 1: through the computer. I go through my phone on the email.
Speaker 1: I haven't yet learned how to do it on the computer.
Speaker 1: Lindsay is working on it.
Speaker 4: You haven't learned how to do email on your computer?
Speaker 1: No, I use my phone. I do not use The
Speaker 1: only thing I use the computer for, seriously is the
Speaker 1: papers in the morning, and everything else goes through my phone.
Speaker 1: And I have an iPad, so I'll do that. But
Speaker 1: I even read on my phone. You know, all my
Speaker 1: kindle stuff doom on your Oh you know, I don't
Speaker 1: even know where my iPad is. I should set up
Speaker 1: the iPad zoom, you know what. I'll Uh, Lindsay will
Speaker 1: be down in an hour, and you know what, m
Speaker 1: I'll have my Yeah, you'll be able to see year
Speaker 1: old mom call you.
Speaker 2: She should be able to walk it through it.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, you know what? And I asked Lindsey,
Speaker 1: and I ask you to Neil, and everybody goes, is it?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Two things? Number one? Is it because I'm just stupid?
Speaker 1: Hold on before you say anything? Uh? And I asked
Speaker 1: Lindsay and other people, is it because I'm just stupid?
Speaker 1: And she answers and says, no, Bill is just you
Speaker 1: don't concentrate, you don't focus, and frankly, you're just not
Speaker 1: that interested because it's always done for you. Okay, so
Speaker 1: that is Lindsay's answer. So Neil, let me ask you.
Speaker 1: Is it because I'm just stupid?
Speaker 2: No? I agree with Lindsay one.
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you were gonna say, yes, that's precisely
Speaker 1: what it is. Bill. It's because you're stupid one.
Speaker 2: And you're not a stupid guy too. I know you
Speaker 2: well enough.
Speaker 3: You're not if you're not interested it enough to take
Speaker 3: the brain power to memorize it, so you just go
Speaker 3: it's not important because I know you. I've seen you
Speaker 3: take in all kinds of information. You just don't want
Speaker 3: to do it or care to do it.
Speaker 4: But I disagree with that.
Speaker 1: You think yes, because I think yes, because, thank you, Ann,
Speaker 1: you're so concerned about waking her up I am every morning.
Speaker 4: I would think that it would be important for you
Speaker 4: to learn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not that concerned about it. No, No, I
Speaker 1: talk about it. I'm concerned about it, but I'm clearly
Speaker 1: not that concerned about it. I'm telling okay. But by
Speaker 1: the way, no surprise here anyway, Good morning, everybody. Let
Speaker 1: me go through it and see our clickbait work this morning.
Speaker 1: All right, since I can't see you, we're gonna play radio. Okay,
Speaker 1: Will are you there? Morning?
Speaker 2: Bill?
Speaker 1: Good morning? And I can't see you, though I know
Speaker 1: no one can see anybody.
Speaker 2: I can see Amy and I can see Anne.
Speaker 4: I think we went over this, Will, were you not listening?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 1: What's that kids? Game? I can see you, you can't
Speaker 1: see me kind of thing? Anyway, So there's Amy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people go, oh, there you go. We can't see me.
Speaker 1: All right, Amy, good morning and you're there, Kno, good morning.
Speaker 2: Good morning?
Speaker 1: And Amy, Amy and Neil is there. And so we're
Speaker 1: all going together on this. Today is Juneteenth, which is
Speaker 1: I think it is a national holiday? Is it not?
Speaker 1: Banks are closed, federal offices are closed.
Speaker 4: Declared a holiday in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: And do we we do not celebrate June teenth here
Speaker 1: at the station. It is not a day off officially,
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 4: I think it is?
Speaker 1: It really is?
Speaker 4: It is? Wow, what's a federal holiday?
Speaker 1: What are we doing here?
Speaker 4: Well, it doesn't count for us us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: You can't just shut the doors of a radio station.
Speaker 3: Where are they going to get this kind of quality program?
Speaker 4: Oh? Was that out loud?
Speaker 1: You know, when you say this kind of quality programming,
Speaker 1: I'm going to agree with you, Neil, But let's take
Speaker 1: it in looking at another way. The only reason our
Speaker 1: show is considered good is because everybody else is so bad.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. Talk radio is so horrific around the
Speaker 1: country that we're actually considered excellent. If you look at
Speaker 1: as in a vacuum, Eh, not so much. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: let's do it. It is time for Handle on the
Speaker 1: news with Amy, Neil and me lead story. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Lakers have been sold, at least the Bus family has
Speaker 1: sold the Lakers, and I think they had what sixty
Speaker 1: six percent of the team, which of course gives them
Speaker 1: complete control. Sold it at evaluation of ten billion dollars.
Speaker 1: At six point six billion dollars, Genie Buss is one
Speaker 1: happy young lady. Jerry Buss bought the Lakers in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine for sixty seven million dollars, which included the
Speaker 1: Kings and the Forum. And uh, what is that in
Speaker 1: cauld Someone look that up. What is sixty seven and
Speaker 1: a half million dollars in nineteen seventy nine worth today?
Speaker 1: I would ask Siri that, but I'm not going.
Speaker 2: To it's gotta be worth at least sixty eight million.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know there's a there's some figure there because
Speaker 1: I think I want to make a point here, and
Speaker 1: you are you looking this up?
Speaker 4: I'm looking at up.
Speaker 1: Okay, do dude? Sixty seven million dollars nineteen seventy nine dollars?
Speaker 1: Was it today?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I did sixty seven?
Speaker 2: This better be a great point.
Speaker 1: This better be a great one because it didn't go quickly,
Speaker 1: did it?
Speaker 4: Hold on?
Speaker 1: Hold on, my god?
Speaker 4: Kill eight?
Speaker 5: Ohkay, it's very the one two hundred and ninety seven
Speaker 5: million today, Okay, two.
Speaker 1: Hundred and ninety seven million dollars in today's dollars is
Speaker 1: what it went for. That was the Lakers and the
Speaker 1: Kings and the Forum.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: You think there's been a bit of inflation over inflation.
Speaker 1: There's inflation and then there is real inflation in terms
Speaker 1: of the value of sports teams. By the way, at
Speaker 1: ten billion dollars, I think it's the biggest sale in
Speaker 1: the history of sports for a single team. It is, okay,
Speaker 1: fair enough, all right, So moving on. The guy who
Speaker 1: bought it, what's his name, Mark Walter, Mark Waltzers, that's it.
Speaker 1: Who is really heavily involved in sports. He's one of
Speaker 1: the players with not one of the players, one of
Speaker 1: the financial players with the Dodgers, and he has a
Speaker 1: bunch of other interests. So it's going to go into
Speaker 1: good hands.
Speaker 4: For sure, Israel says Iran will pay.
Speaker 5: Israel's Defense minister has warned that the Israeli military would
Speaker 5: be intensifying strikes on strategic targets in Iran after an
Speaker 5: Iranian missile got through last night and hit the largest
Speaker 5: hospital in southern Israel. No one was killed, but about
Speaker 5: forty people were injured, he said. The Defence minister said
Speaker 5: that the stepped up attacks would remove the threats to
Speaker 5: the state of Israel and destabilize the Ayatola's regime in Iran.
Speaker 1: Israel at this point can do whatever it wants from
Speaker 1: the air. It has complete air superiority and the anti
Speaker 1: air defenses have been for the most part taken out,
Speaker 1: so now it's just a question of choosing where it's
Speaker 1: going to hit, and Israel is kicking back. It could
Speaker 1: take out an entire oil infrastructure, It could wipe out
Speaker 1: every bit of revenue making facility that Iran has. Problem is,
Speaker 1: of course, that means oil, and then the world market
Speaker 1: for oil is all scrambled, which is already is, and
Speaker 1: so it is kind of a mess. But I think
Speaker 1: the line was drawn the largest hospital in southern Israel.
Speaker 1: Was that a mistake? Was it not? Was it targeted? Probably?
Speaker 1: So you're not going to tell you. At some point
Speaker 1: these people have to realize maybe it's not such a
Speaker 1: good idea to get into it with Israel, because Israel
Speaker 1: is not going to be restrained anymore. I ask the
Speaker 1: folks in Gaza how great an idea it was to
Speaker 1: attack on the other side of the border and kill
Speaker 1: those twelve hundred Israelis. Boy, that worked out for them,
Speaker 1: didn't it. And now Iran and it's so important for
Speaker 1: Ron to build a nuclear weapon that they're prepared to
Speaker 1: wipe out his country for it. I don't get it,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 3: All right, Senate Democrats, along with at least one House Republican,
Speaker 3: are getting increasingly concerned that President Trump is considering striking
Speaker 3: I Ran without seeking authorization from Congress, or in their concerns,
Speaker 3: even filling them in on what plans or thoughts he has.
Speaker 1: Notice the point you made here a Senate I mean
Speaker 1: House Democrats and one Republican have introduced a measure to
Speaker 1: force congressional approval. Constitution is really clear. Only Congress has
Speaker 1: the right to declare war. That's it. Nobody else. It's
Speaker 1: right there in the Constitution. In the meantime, Congress is
Speaker 1: abrogated completely its ability or its power to declare war.
Speaker 1: President can do whatever the hell he wants now as
Speaker 1: far as Congress is concerned. That seems to be the case.
Speaker 1: And here are all the Republicans. As I said before,
Speaker 1: everybody's lining up. You know, no declaration of war. I
Speaker 1: will do what I want to do. It's that simple.
Speaker 1: I don't even have to tell you I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: doing it. This is the President talking to Congress, and
Speaker 1: everybody except one Republican at this point says, that's right,
Speaker 1: mister President, that's right. You do whatever you want. You
Speaker 1: declare war, you don't declare war. You tell us, you
Speaker 1: don't tell us whatever you want. We're backing it up.
Speaker 1: As Mike Johnson said, Congress is there for the sole
Speaker 1: purpose of furthering Donald Trump's agenda. So he's going to
Speaker 1: he doesn't even know what he's going to do, he
Speaker 1: said on Air Force One. I'll decide I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm going to do it. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I am going to do it or not going to
Speaker 1: do it, but I'll make the decision.
Speaker 2: Well, is that war or I mean, what can.
Speaker 1: That's the problem? What is war? Well, there's a formal
Speaker 1: declaration of war under Congress. Last time there was a
Speaker 1: formal declaration of war was de Sebr eight, nineteen forty one,
Speaker 1: when Congress did declare war. The rest of the time,
Speaker 1: it's been the War Powers Act. There have been various
Speaker 1: abrogations of power. The President has a lot to say,
Speaker 1: but Congress saying, hey, at least come to us, you know,
Speaker 1: we like some kind of consultation. And the president's basically
Speaker 1: saying absolutely not. I'll decide, and the Republican members of
Speaker 1: Congress are backing him up. As I've said many times,
Speaker 1: and this one really pisses me off. If the President
Speaker 1: were to call for the dissolution of Congress saying Congress
Speaker 1: in itself is getting in the way of my administration
Speaker 1: and what I want to do for the country, you
Speaker 1: would have many Republicans literally vote themselves out of office.
Speaker 1: I'm convinced of that.
Speaker 3: Convinced I believe I am one hundred percent convinced that
Speaker 3: you are one hundred percent convinced of that that's true.
Speaker 1: Well said, anyway, we'll see what happens in the end.
Speaker 1: And by the way, it's not just Donald Trump Lyndon
Speaker 1: Johnson with the Gulf of Tonkin resolution we wait into Vietnam.
Speaker 1: That was in Congress. After the fact, he got Congress
Speaker 1: to back him up, and then we had the war
Speaker 1: powers resolutions passed. But for the most part, you know,
Speaker 1: the president has gotten unbright not just this president, but
Speaker 1: the president has gotten unbridled powers. I don't think the
Speaker 1: founding fathers ever considered this kind of power their president has. Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on.
Speaker 5: US officials say students have to go public with their
Speaker 5: social media. Foreign students applying for student visas in the
Speaker 5: US will be required to unlock their social media profiles
Speaker 5: so that US diplomats can review their online activity. The
Speaker 5: State Department said this new guidance will kick in. It
Speaker 5: directs US diplomats to do an online presence review to
Speaker 5: look for what it says, are any indications of hostility
Speaker 5: towards the citizens, culture, government institutions, or founding principles of
Speaker 5: the US question.
Speaker 1: Does that include, for example, going on grinder and advertising
Speaker 1: yourself as tool O Tool.
Speaker 2: Are you still using that name?
Speaker 1: No, because no one believes it, you know, but Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a date Buns of Steel. I think
Speaker 1: it may just be political. What do you think, guys?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: Never happened that has ever happened before. But you know,
Speaker 1: you know there is a method of that madness. Do
Speaker 1: we want to look at this is someone asking for
Speaker 1: the privilege of coming into the United States foreign students.
Speaker 1: There's no right here? Okay, no, no, can't. Are you
Speaker 1: I have a right to do that? That doesn't exist? Okay,
Speaker 1: we want to look at what you have done on
Speaker 1: social media? I mean already looking at background anyway. I
Speaker 1: mean they do background checks. I have no problem with
Speaker 1: this none. Then the issue is how far do you
Speaker 1: go merely criticizing the United States? Is that enough to say? No,
Speaker 1: the basic premise I agree with. But the interpretation the
Speaker 1: devil is in the details here, or the details are
Speaker 1: in the devil? Or the devil are the details or
Speaker 1: details you are? I am? Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: So, despite Bill's belief that there are no cracks in
Speaker 3: the MAGA movement, there are some concerns that usually displays
Speaker 3: a very tight and unified look, especially on attacking the left.
Speaker 3: But Israel's military assault on Iran has splintered this group
Speaker 3: and President Donald Trump's coalition. There is rival actions fight
Speaker 3: over the true meaning of an America First foreign policy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're split. There's no question, do you The
Speaker 1: President has said no intervention in foreign wars. Well, bombing
Speaker 1: Iran with that bunker buster is intervention. The problem is
Speaker 1: who believes America First and how it's defined. I want
Speaker 1: you to notice something what you left out. No one
Speaker 1: in the MAGA movement is disagreeing with the president being
Speaker 1: able to make that decision. He has the ability to
Speaker 1: make that decision. Arbitrarily, they're saying it's the wrong decision.
Speaker 1: We don't agree. And then you've got Tucker Carlson on
Speaker 1: the other side of Lindsey Graham. I mean, just it's
Speaker 1: really up in the air on this one. How isolationists
Speaker 1: do we want this country to be? Well, it's President
Speaker 1: Trump's call, of course, but you know he ran on
Speaker 1: we stay out of foreign wars. Same thing. You know,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened with the drow Wilson when he
Speaker 1: ran in nineteen sixteen, stay out of foreign wars of
Speaker 1: FDR in nineteen thirty six, we are I'm not going
Speaker 1: to send young men to war. Otherwise he would have
Speaker 1: lost the election.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but at what point does it become an American interest?
Speaker 1: That's exactly That's exactly it. And that's that's a good point.
Speaker 1: You know, at what point do you turn over? Is
Speaker 1: Iran having a nuclear weapon? Is that enough of a
Speaker 1: danger that we have to go in? I happen to
Speaker 1: think it is. And if Trump does a hit and
Speaker 1: bombs Iran, I think he's right on this one. I mean,
Speaker 1: I agree with him. The only issue is, you know, politically,
Speaker 1: since I'm not a big fan of Trump, I don't
Speaker 1: care about him turning his back on me and you know,
Speaker 1: going back on what he said was going to happen.
Speaker 1: But presidents do that all over the time. I mean
Speaker 1: they I mean, for God's sake, they promised one thing,
Speaker 1: they do something else. So this isn't new. There's just
Speaker 1: the Maga folks are the only thing that they just
Speaker 1: don't know where to turn on this one. This is
Speaker 1: the first real rift in Maga.
Speaker 4: Did she get away with murder?
Speaker 5: A jury has found Karen Reid not guilty of second
Speaker 5: degree murder in manslaughter in the twenty twenty two death
Speaker 5: of her police officer boyfriend in Boston. The same jury
Speaker 5: also found her guilty of charge of dui after deliberating
Speaker 5: for at least twenty two hours. Outside the courtroom, cheers
Speaker 5: could be heard from the crowd as the verdict was read.
Speaker 5: Reed's lawyers had long asserted that she was framed by
Speaker 5: police after she dropped John O'Keefe off at a party
Speaker 5: at the home of another officer that night in I
Speaker 5: believe it was a January evening. Prosecutors said that the
Speaker 5: forty five year old Reed hit O'Keefe with her SUV
Speaker 5: before driving away and basically leaving him to die, but
Speaker 5: the defense said he was killed inside the home and
Speaker 5: later dragged outside business.
Speaker 1: Remind you of the OJK the argument the police set
Speaker 1: up OJ and the hundreds in OJ's case, the thousands,
Speaker 1: that we're waiting outside for the jury decision. Okay, we're done.
Speaker 1: The answer is yes, right, Yes, he was a y.
Speaker 2: The buzz everything was yes.
Speaker 1: That was a speed chase, well slow speed chase in
Speaker 1: which she ran him over. That's pretty slow speed. She
Speaker 1: didn't speed to do that. All right, we're done.
Speaker 3: So here's something a little new. The National Transportation Safety
Speaker 3: Board has issued a very rare safety bulletin that's incredibly
Speaker 3: urgent warning of potential problems with the jet engines of
Speaker 3: the Boeing seven thirty seven Max aircraft. So we got
Speaker 3: that going for us, which is nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that the Max has a problem, doesn't it. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, have you looked at the title
Speaker 1: of the report. They've never done this before, and it
Speaker 1: just starts with you are going to die and then
Speaker 1: it goes on why the kind of yes, this is
Speaker 1: the problem. This is what the engines CFM International and
Speaker 1: Boeing together. CFM is one of the companies that makes engines.
Speaker 1: You also have General Electric, you also have Rolls Royce
Speaker 1: that makes engines for these puppies.
Speaker 3: Well, the interesting thing here is not only are they
Speaker 3: say that the airplanes may be equipped with affected engines,
Speaker 3: you know, so I'm assuming that might be something mechanical,
Speaker 3: but they also recommend modifications to the software for the engines,
Speaker 3: which is a double hit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a mess. Oh talking about a mess.
Speaker 4: Amy epic fail for starship.
Speaker 5: Starship thirty six is getting ready for its tenth test
Speaker 5: flight from Texas when there was what they call a
Speaker 5: catastrophic failure. Starship the rocket exploded during a routine test
Speaker 5: in Texas last night. That's it happened at that Star
Speaker 5: based launch facility shortly after eleven o'class last night, and
Speaker 5: they had video of it and shows this big old
Speaker 5: rocket on the launch arm. There's a flash like a
Speaker 5: little pop of smoke, and then and the whole thing
Speaker 5: just erupts and explodes in huge flames.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They're originally scheduling this for July fourth, this test, but
Speaker 1: they did it early. And what happened to them?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, more great news.
Speaker 3: Medicare, Social and Social Security are you know, the whole
Speaker 3: go broke date when it's all going to implode on itself.
Speaker 3: They're pushed up. That date is pushed up due to
Speaker 3: rising healthcare costs. So yeah, so we have that looking forward.
Speaker 3: There's the date is twenty thirty six, No what it
Speaker 3: was now it's twenty thirty three, So a couple of years.
Speaker 3: Maybe the next year we'll get another three years shaved
Speaker 3: off it.
Speaker 2: So on and so on and so on.
Speaker 1: And I've talked about this before because it's a little
Speaker 1: bit complicated. Social Security was originally designed to supplement retirement,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately a lot of people rely solely on Social
Speaker 1: Security and the number of people that are working to
Speaker 1: pay those that are retire because that's the model. The
Speaker 1: number of people working are fewer, people retiring are more
Speaker 1: and lasting longer, and they're not dying, and so they've
Speaker 1: been playing with it. Soci Security taxes now are pretty
Speaker 1: high that both the employer and the employee pay and
Speaker 1: retirement has been extended. It was sixty five and it
Speaker 1: became sixty six. Now it's sixty seven. But it's still
Speaker 1: going to run out of money. Running out of money
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it goes broke. It just means it'll be
Speaker 1: cut by twenty percent for a while. And so it's
Speaker 1: twenty thirty three for Medicare and Social Security twenty thirty four.
Speaker 1: And it's going to coincide. You watch here is a
Speaker 1: financial prognostication. This is going to coincide with the value
Speaker 1: of Dumpsters are going to go through the roof just
Speaker 1: about this time.
Speaker 5: Maybe they should have done this before the surge. California
Speaker 5: Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation so that between May twenty
Speaker 5: ninth and June twelfth, there were two homicides, eight unexpected
Speaker 5: deaths including possible overdoses, three attempted murders on peace officers,
Speaker 5: and nine on inmates. There were a total of three
Speaker 5: riots and about one hundred and seventy inmates participated in
Speaker 5: those riots. That was just between May twenty ninth and
Speaker 5: June twelfth. So in response to that surge of violence,
Speaker 5: prison authorities have done contraband enforcement sweeps at more than
Speaker 5: twenty correctional facilities around California, including at the La County facility.
Speaker 1: How many prisoners are there in California state prisoners one
Speaker 1: hundred and something thousand, if not more.
Speaker 2: The summer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these numbers are pretty pretty small relative to those
Speaker 1: but ninety four thousand prisoners and so we have fifty
Speaker 1: three improvised weapons.
Speaker 3: I thought you would think, sixty six cell phones, twenty
Speaker 3: four syringes, one hundred and fifty five illictit items. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, Gosh, these stories keep getting worse and worse.
Speaker 3: Dozens of pets in need of adoption were flown from
Speaker 3: Riverside County.
Speaker 2: To other shelters across the country.
Speaker 3: That's good news, but the bad news is that we
Speaker 3: continue to have an issue with pets that need homes.
Speaker 3: This is a life saving push to reduce the overcrowding
Speaker 3: that we keep hearing about and give these pets a
Speaker 3: second chance. I mean, technically, I don't think there is anything.
Speaker 3: You know, we call them no kill shelters, but they're
Speaker 3: just going to move these animals around if nobody Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean no kill shelters. They still kill the animals, but
Speaker 1: they kill the animals that are old, that are sick.
Speaker 1: And it's a thing is going on, which is kind
Speaker 1: of neat. First of all, virtually everybody gets a shelter dog.
Speaker 1: It used to be rare that people got shelter dogs.
Speaker 1: Now that it's very it's now it's rare when people
Speaker 1: don't get a shelter dog. Also, there's a thing about
Speaker 1: people adopting older, older pets in other words, basically bringing
Speaker 1: home to die and keeping them, you know, retired pets
Speaker 1: that are old, and it's just it's wonderful to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your new wife did that.
Speaker 1: Actually we have, We've had nothing but shelter dogs. This
Speaker 1: is the first time around. Yeah, this is the first. Oh,
Speaker 1: very nice. I'm sorry I misunderstood. I completely sweet. You're right,
Speaker 1: she has adopted an older Yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, she got a rescue all right, good, yeah,
Speaker 3: nicely said.
Speaker 4: Let's all learn together, shall we.
Speaker 5: Wild Rivers Water Park is joining a global initiative to
Speaker 5: fight childhood drowning. They're hosting the world's largest swimming lesson.
Speaker 5: It's happening a week from today, June twenty sixth. The
Speaker 5: event is themed Mission Possible Swim Lessons Save Lives. Did
Speaker 5: you know that drowning remains one of the leading causes
Speaker 5: of death for children between one and four years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is around the world. This is great.
Speaker 1: I was talking. Matter of fact, I was talking to
Speaker 1: Neil about Max swimming and Max is a very strong
Speaker 1: swimmer to having been taught to swim early on. I
Speaker 1: taught my kids to swim when they were really small.
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing for those of you people that
Speaker 1: are teaching kids to swim and if you don't, if
Speaker 1: you have a swimming pool and you don't, you're crazy.
Speaker 1: Is I threw my kids into the pool with all
Speaker 1: of their clothes on and they didn't know that it
Speaker 1: was happening. Now, granted they're still in therapy over that,
Speaker 1: but let me tell you why I did that because
Speaker 1: when kids fall into pools, they don't do it in
Speaker 1: their swimsuits. They do it with their clothes and their
Speaker 1: shoes on, and they panic. So this one is. And
Speaker 1: then I told them afterwards, and I was talking to
Speaker 1: them about it, and they did fine. Oh Graham, maybe
Speaker 1: not so fine when they held their head underwater for
Speaker 1: a while because they were doing such.
Speaker 2: A I thought, you threw your credit cards in there,
Speaker 2: and they win.
Speaker 1: No, I never throw my credit cards. Are you kidding?
Speaker 1: If I had to, if it was catching question of
Speaker 1: saving my credit cards or my kids, where do you
Speaker 1: think that would go?
Speaker 3: I will tell you though, God bless my wife, who's
Speaker 3: a great swimmer herself, for doing that. Early on six
Speaker 3: months he was swimming under water and you can't do
Speaker 3: That's one of the things that one of the best
Speaker 3: things you can do for your kids at an early
Speaker 3: age is kidding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they forget, But they just forget. You have
Speaker 1: to be You got to keep it going.
Speaker 3: And you know what, look at your If you don't
Speaker 3: have the money, talk to your local why. A lot
Speaker 3: of them have these programs where it's either a very
Speaker 3: minimum amount of mon or free subsidized or something. So
Speaker 3: check that out, all right, Los Angeles sou sorry about that.
Speaker 3: Los Angeles Zoo just hatched ten healthy California condor chicks.
Speaker 2: That's huge. You remember when they were on their way out?
Speaker 1: Oh I think there were I think there were less
Speaker 1: than a dozen or six that existed on the planet,
Speaker 1: and they were here in California because they are native
Speaker 1: to California and indigenous, and they are so hideously ugly.
Speaker 1: They are gorgeous, by the way, They're just so ugly.
Speaker 1: And now they're making a comeback. We're still talking in
Speaker 1: the range of only two or three hundred do I
Speaker 1: have that right, amy, that are still around, and unfortunately
Speaker 1: they're dying in the wild because they run into power poles,
Speaker 1: power lines, et cetera. I mean, at the lowest ab
Speaker 1: I think it was less than a dozen that were left.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they were on the brink.
Speaker 1: Yes, literally on the edge.
Speaker 5: They're currently more than three hundred and forty free flying
Speaker 5: California condors in the wild. Total population is estimated to
Speaker 5: be about five sixty.
Speaker 4: That includes those in captivity.
Speaker 1: Now can you imagine only five hundred and sixty existing
Speaker 1: animals that are left? And it was down to and
Speaker 1: it was down to under a dozen. I mean it
Speaker 1: was pretty scary. And they're magnificent birds, I mean utterly magnificent. Ugly,
Speaker 1: but utterly magnificent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, these guys aren't nearly as cute as my egletz.
Speaker 1: No, they are not. And they have wingspans they're like
Speaker 1: six feet I mean they're big, big birds. All right, Amy, No,
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