Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty.
Speaker 2: The item doesn't come out, so you kick the vending
Speaker 2: machine and all of a sudden it malfunctions and all
Speaker 2: this stuff.
Speaker 3: Comes pouring out.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, you know people have actually been arrested and
Speaker 2: have gotten ten to twenty years for taking keny bars.
Speaker 3: From machines like that. Wow, I just made that up.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's Bill excessive for what you described.
Speaker 1: Yes, and now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Here's Bill Handle. All right, Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2: Yep, it is now a Thursday, September fifth, just getting
Speaker 2: over the cold. I've been blowing my nose all morning
Speaker 2: and all day yesterday. So what we're gonna do, Kono
Speaker 2: is as I try to turn off the microphone, when
Speaker 2: I you know, rip up some snot, it goes all
Speaker 2: over the screen and the microphone. Make sure you get that, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll leave your mic on. Yeah, yeah, like yesterday when
Speaker 2: you caught me just as I was coughying and coughing up.
Speaker 2: You know this phlim by the way, I've always wondered, Well,
Speaker 2: let me first say hello, and I'm going to ask
Speaker 2: the question.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Kno, Good morning Bill, and Wayne, good morning Bill.
Speaker 4: We'll have the engineers come in and set up an
Speaker 4: X Y stereo pair of Neimann microphones specifically to capture
Speaker 4: your snot sounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Amy, there you are, Hi. We have to
Speaker 2: do the camera a little bit.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: She's in the other room and we all look at monitors.
Speaker 2: I have to explain that all the time, and there
Speaker 2: is Ann good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So with that, I want to ask a question. How
Speaker 2: many of you like oysters in this crowd? Wayne says no, Anne, No, Amy.
Speaker 5: They're okay, but I mean they're not like a go
Speaker 5: to for me.
Speaker 2: Okay and Konokno.
Speaker 3: Do you know what an oyster is? Kno, pretty sophisticated stuff.
Speaker 2: They're not like you don't have oyster nuggets, for example,
Speaker 2: at McDonald's. Okay, So usually to people that it's an
Speaker 2: acquired taste. But I've always wondered, and the oysters are expensive.
Speaker 2: Why would you ever pay for an oyster when all
Speaker 2: you need to do is.
Speaker 3: Have a cold? You're so gross? Stop it. You are
Speaker 3: pretty gross. I have a question.
Speaker 4: Do you feel that oysters Do you feel that oysters
Speaker 4: are more that it's an acquired taste, or that oysters
Speaker 4: are an acquired texture.
Speaker 3: It's both.
Speaker 2: I mean they're pretty, yeah, they're pretty slimy and going
Speaker 2: down your throat and they're alive when they do it,
Speaker 2: so you can feel them moving around going down your throat,
Speaker 2: you know, the little tentacles coming out of the oyster.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, what do you know? Some people try
Speaker 3: to eat breakfast to the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know how people put fruit on their yogurt
Speaker 2: in the cereal some people put oysters.
Speaker 3: Oh man, oyster crunch.
Speaker 4: Okay, are you trying to turn the show into a
Speaker 4: resource for anorexics?
Speaker 2: I know, I'm trying to turn the show into foody Thursday.
Speaker 2: I should do this with Neil, who we are not
Speaker 2: going to have tomorrow, and he would only have them
Speaker 2: all this week because Wayne is filling in for.
Speaker 3: Neil this week, and so now.
Speaker 4: Because Neil is filling in for Gary and Shannon, that's correct.
Speaker 4: With marloteis that is also correct. So we're doing the
Speaker 4: bounce around as well. I happened during the summer because
Speaker 4: everybody goes on vacation during the summer and they have
Speaker 4: to figure out who's going to do what And it's
Speaker 4: you know, it really shows on the air. You can't,
Speaker 4: you know it really does. And also the other thing
Speaker 4: is shows on the air.
Speaker 2: This is one of those jobs where if you're working
Speaker 2: in an office job, or you're working as a plumber
Speaker 2: or whatever. I mean, you can be a little bit
Speaker 2: off and you skate on that one.
Speaker 3: You can get a pass because no one really notices
Speaker 3: if you are one percent off on the air.
Speaker 2: Instantly everybody knows it. It's like we wear our heart
Speaker 2: on our sleeve. We wear our pants over our No,
Speaker 2: not when you're broadcasting, because you're under a desk. You're
Speaker 2: most of you are under a desk. But it's a
Speaker 2: little inside baseball about broadcasting. Okay, we're behind the mic,
Speaker 2: not in front of the camera.
Speaker 3: We got it.
Speaker 4: Okay, thanks, But isn't that this But isn't that actually
Speaker 4: the same?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Because because being behind the mic means you are in
Speaker 4: the public, you're in the public's ears, and if you're
Speaker 4: in front of the camera.
Speaker 3: You're in the public's eyes. I think it's more. I
Speaker 3: think it's more geographical. This has become too philosophical for.
Speaker 2: Way, way, way way too philosophical, all right, and by
Speaker 2: the way. That's the other reason I'm so damn loud.
Speaker 2: How far do you have to pod me down? Cono,
Speaker 2: I mean all the way to the very bottom right
Speaker 2: when I talk.
Speaker 3: When I am yeah, it's you're a pretty low guy.
Speaker 2: And the reason I'm so loud is because I don't
Speaker 2: understand the technology. So I know that we're reaching people,
Speaker 2: for example at North San Diego County and in Ventura,
Speaker 2: which is miles and miles away, so I have to
Speaker 2: yell so they can hear me. I don't quite understand
Speaker 2: how you talk into a microphone and somehow.
Speaker 3: They hear you a one hundred miles away.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, are Amy are you just good morning
Speaker 2: to you because I've already forgotten right?
Speaker 5: Yes you did?
Speaker 6: Okay, that's how memorable I am to you?
Speaker 2: I am, no, No, it's it's how much I admire
Speaker 2: Joe Biden that I want to emulate him as much
Speaker 2: as I humanly can.
Speaker 3: Good job, Thank you so much. All right, guys, are
Speaker 3: you ready to do it?
Speaker 2: Ye? Handle on the news on a Thursday morning with Amy,
Speaker 2: Wayne and Me lead story.
Speaker 3: Come on another one.
Speaker 2: So yesterday I was I think I was tuning into
Speaker 2: CNN or something driving and of course broke They broke
Speaker 2: in with another shooting in Georgia. Four people killed, two students,
Speaker 2: two teachers. A fourteen year old student came in, wanted
Speaker 2: to come, he left, came back to the school, had
Speaker 2: a gun with him, an assault type weapon, and he
Speaker 2: just started shooting up. NU was that eight people wounded,
Speaker 2: Nine people wounded, they're going to survive, thank goodness. And
Speaker 2: four killed. And there's a whole story behind that. But
Speaker 2: my favorite part of this story, if you want to
Speaker 2: call it my favorite part, is how our presidential candidates
Speaker 2: are responding. All right, we start with Donald Trump. If
Speaker 2: he gets elected, he is going to heal the world.
Speaker 2: That was his response, and also talked about the depravity.
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris said, this must stop. Okay, that is specific
Speaker 2: as hell. Thank you very much. How about either of you?
Speaker 2: How about some answers. And the problem is there are
Speaker 2: no answers. We're already past critical mass.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 2: There are too many guns out there with their thirty
Speaker 2: million assault type weapons.
Speaker 3: And it's even if we were to have one hundred
Speaker 3: percent gun control and make guns illegal. Now we're already
Speaker 3: past that.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to talk more about what happened because
Speaker 2: there are some there are some sidebar stories to this one,
Speaker 2: like they knew this kid was at all kinds, there
Speaker 2: was a huge issue, but they didn't have enough evidence
Speaker 2: last year to nail him. And they already knew he
Speaker 2: was a threat. He had already threatened the school. So
Speaker 2: we'll talk a little bit about that. Another horrific story.
Speaker 2: Horrific story. At least I'm not hearing thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard that one from too many politicians because
Speaker 2: that gets a little old too quickly, doesn't it. And
Speaker 2: I think I think Trump's and Harris's comments, while they
Speaker 2: mean nothing in the small picture, they mean everything in
Speaker 2: the big picture, and it shows how emasculated politicians and
Speaker 2: just how we are as.
Speaker 3: A society when it comes to gun violence. It's crazy,
Speaker 3: all right. More about that coming up at seven o'clock.
Speaker 5: Talk about a wild ride.
Speaker 6: So, a guy who was accused of fatally crashing into
Speaker 6: another motorist as he was trying to flee from an
Speaker 6: officer with the CHP has escaped from a hospital where
Speaker 6: he was taken after the crash.
Speaker 5: The good news is he's been caught.
Speaker 6: But back up to yesterday afternoon, the guy was driving
Speaker 6: white jeep Cherokee. He was speeding along the fifteen. They
Speaker 6: pulled him over. He took off and then he crashed
Speaker 6: into another car at the intersection of Beach and Cherry Avenues.
Speaker 6: The driver of the Ford Mustang was killed. The driver
Speaker 6: of the white jeep Cherokee then took off. Then they
Speaker 6: found him, caught him, took him to the hospital, detained him,
Speaker 6: and then he took off from the hospital. But they
Speaker 6: caught him. Oh good, Yeah, they caught him about twelve
Speaker 6: thirty this morning. All right, Bill, you already addressed this.
Speaker 6: Former President Trump had a Fox News town hall. Sean
Speaker 6: Hannity brought up the shooting in Georgia, and Trump said
Speaker 6: the part about he will heal the world.
Speaker 3: He said, it's a.
Speaker 4: Sick and angry world for a lot of reasons, and
Speaker 4: we're going to make it better.
Speaker 3: We're going to heal our world.
Speaker 4: He also said, we're going to get rid of all
Speaker 4: these wars that are starting all over the place because
Speaker 4: of incompetence. That's why they're wars, because people are bad
Speaker 4: at their jobs.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I guess uh, pretty general, we're hopefully going to do
Speaker 2: very well. We have an election coming up we're going
Speaker 2: to be I think we're going to be very well set.
Speaker 3: Up to do a great job.
Speaker 2: You know that statement. I don't have a problem with you.
Speaker 2: It's I'm going to do a great job. We're set
Speaker 2: up to do a great job. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: That's nice and generic, and it's the problem we expect
Speaker 2: candidates to say when they mean absolutely nothing or they're
Speaker 2: trying to promote themselves.
Speaker 3: But you know, we're going to heal our world. That's
Speaker 3: a little bit too much.
Speaker 2: And all the wars, as you said, are because of
Speaker 2: our incompetence, I don't think so. I think there are
Speaker 2: a few wars that have nothing to do with our competence.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Putin invading Ukraine, Hamas attacking Israel with a terrorist attack
Speaker 2: on October seventh, what's happening in Sudan?
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Now, well, i'll talk more about that, because there's there's
Speaker 2: a world to that that we don't have time. And
Speaker 2: I'm going to get off my soapbox here.
Speaker 5: Let's get you ready to rumble.
Speaker 6: Vice President Harris and former President Trump, at least their campaigns,
Speaker 6: have agreed to the ground rules for their presidential debate,
Speaker 6: which happens a week from today. It'll be held in Philadelphia,
Speaker 6: and they're basically going to use the same rules that
Speaker 6: they had laid out for the planned Trump Biden debate,
Speaker 6: same rules that they used in June.
Speaker 5: And the big.
Speaker 6: Issue was whether to change the rule on muted microphones,
Speaker 6: which they did for that first debate, and then Harris's
Speaker 6: campaign said now we want the microphones on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because and I'm going to quote.
Speaker 2: This is the Harris campaign saying the muted microphones will
Speaker 2: serve to shield Donald Trump from direct exchanges with the
Speaker 2: vice president, which, by the way, is a complete croc.
Speaker 2: It's real simple.
Speaker 3: Why she wants the mics to be unmuted.
Speaker 2: She wants Trump to interrupt her, to fly off the handle,
Speaker 2: to look like he's out of control. That's what she wants,
Speaker 2: and the format doesn't allow that to happen. And she
Speaker 2: is sorely disappointed because that would have been a huge
Speaker 2: thing in her favor. So now she says, I'm at
Speaker 2: a disadvantage because I can't talk directly to the former president.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, now, now now they just took away he's
Speaker 2: wild and crazy and interrupting you. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, are we gonna actually have a real debate?
Speaker 3: Oh wow. That's a shocker, isn't it.
Speaker 2: So we'll see whether we are or not. I'm just
Speaker 2: I'm just hoping for the attacks, the personal attacks. I mean,
Speaker 2: I can't that's the part that's entertaining. Yeah, I really
Speaker 2: enjoy those.
Speaker 4: Well, that indictment that the Department of Justice unveiled accusing
Speaker 4: two employees of RT, which is the media arm of
Speaker 4: the Kremlin, of funneling about ten million dollars to a
Speaker 4: company here in the United States, and that company then
Speaker 4: used it to put up all kinds of videos from
Speaker 4: these conservative internet pundit people like Tim Poole and Benny Johnson.
Speaker 4: And this is illegal because you're violating the Foreign Asians
Speaker 4: Registration Act, which is what the charges are based on.
Speaker 4: And they say they had this money from Russia, got
Speaker 4: laundered through a bunch of shell companies, went to this
Speaker 4: company that's only named in the indictment as Company number one.
Speaker 3: But now we know the name.
Speaker 4: Of the company, and it's a place called Tenant Media
Speaker 4: in Tennessee that's accepting all this money and then setting
Speaker 4: up all of this Russian propaganda to screw up our election.
Speaker 2: And I'll do more about that at a thirty. Because
Speaker 2: there's a lot of levels to this one.
Speaker 3: I think it's important that both Tim Poole and Benny
Speaker 3: Johnson say that they.
Speaker 2: Are victims of what is going on. Yes, so we
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean they wouldn't know that. I mean
Speaker 2: they're dealing with a company in Tennessee. They would not
Speaker 2: know where the money's coming from.
Speaker 3: I can believe that. But yeah, but let me ask
Speaker 3: you something.
Speaker 4: And may want to get into this again, I don't know,
Speaker 4: So one thing would be in on it and the
Speaker 4: other thing would be As they say, we are victims,
Speaker 4: But doesn't that mean they are dupes and that people
Speaker 4: sat around a table in Russia and said, oh, look
Speaker 4: at this guy, Tim Bable.
Speaker 3: He's a dumb ass. He'll be a useful idiot to us.
Speaker 3: But let me ask this.
Speaker 2: Okay, they are so conservative and so pro Trump, what
Speaker 2: do they say when there is no interference?
Speaker 3: And what do they put up?
Speaker 2: It's gonna be much harsher than what Russia is putting out.
Speaker 2: So I don't know quite what this is about.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I can see one part of it where Russia's putting
Speaker 2: this out to make Russia look better that I can see.
Speaker 2: But as far as the political interference, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'll talk more about that at eight thirty.
Speaker 6: Will you get the shot if you have to pay
Speaker 6: a big junk of cash, that's the big question. Now
Speaker 6: that the latest batch of COVID shots have been released
Speaker 6: and ready for people to be vaccinated, but if you
Speaker 6: don't have health insurance, you're going to have to pay
Speaker 6: up to two hundred dollars for the shots because the program,
Speaker 6: the federal program that covered the cost of the vaccines
Speaker 6: has a run out of money.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You see, we're so used to the government spending money
Speaker 2: on s and all manner things. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I'm not arguing that the money shouldn't have been for COVID.
Speaker 2: I give credit to both President Trump, former President Trump,
Speaker 2: who just went balls to the wall to find the vaccine,
Speaker 2: and then President Biden who then took that and moved
Speaker 2: it up another level to get everybody vaccinated and to
Speaker 2: make it all happen. So they both did pretty well,
Speaker 2: I think, and there's some exceptions there. But government's going
Speaker 2: to say we're done, We're out of money on this one.
Speaker 2: And I think a lot of it has to do
Speaker 2: with it's simply politics. Republicans are saying it's too much money.
Speaker 2: Democrats are saying there's not enough money. We should inoculate everybody,
Speaker 2: and that's your insurance you have. Okay, I'm a kaiser,
Speaker 2: So I'm going to just walk in the door and
Speaker 2: right there in the lobby I can get a flu
Speaker 2: shot or a COVID shot and then make it real easy.
Speaker 2: And usually I walk in and actually also get a
Speaker 2: penicillin shot.
Speaker 3: But I'm not going to tell you why, because that
Speaker 3: is a that's a different topic. Boy, you don't need
Speaker 3: to tell us.
Speaker 2: Okay, why don't we move on? Let me put it this, No,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go there.
Speaker 3: No, let's move on. Your first instinct, for once was
Speaker 3: the best instinct.
Speaker 4: Finally, Liz Cheney, former representative Republican from Wyoming, has officially
Speaker 4: endorsed Kamala Harris for president. She was speaking at Duke University,
Speaker 4: Sanford School of Public Policy, and she said, it's interesting
Speaker 4: because I'm kind of reading.
Speaker 3: Between the lines.
Speaker 4: It's not that she spent so much time talking about
Speaker 4: how great Kamala Harris is. It's she spent time talking
Speaker 4: about how dangerous she thinks Donald Trump is.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the issue because if you look
Speaker 2: at Liz Cheney's politics, she is conservative, I mean right
Speaker 2: down the line. I mean opposes everything that Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: believes in and the platform of Kamala Harris. But she
Speaker 2: says overriding all of that is the danger of Donald Trump. Remember,
Speaker 2: she lost her seat because she was anti Trump. Where
Speaker 2: the few Republicans they primaried her out, I mean like
Speaker 2: sixty five seventy percent overwhelming, and.
Speaker 3: By the way, good for her.
Speaker 2: She actually has balls, maybe not physically, but she actually
Speaker 2: has balls that she's willing to put her belief in
Speaker 2: America beyond her electability.
Speaker 3: She knew she was going to lose her seat, but
Speaker 3: it didn't matter.
Speaker 2: How many Republicans do you think are backing up Trump
Speaker 2: who really don't like him and are simply want to
Speaker 2: get reelected, that's more important than anything else.
Speaker 3: A lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Liz Cheney is one of the very very few
Speaker 2: who have gone the other way. So it's just now,
Speaker 2: what kind of influence does she have.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Certainly nothing among the MAGA crowd, certain nothing among the
Speaker 2: true fundamental Republicans.
Speaker 3: But maybe throughing some independence in there. I don't know. Hey, Amy,
Speaker 3: will you take us now from Balls to Walls? Oolally nice?
Speaker 6: Yes, So you can pick your friends, but you can't
Speaker 6: pick your relatives.
Speaker 5: Tim Walls is finding that out.
Speaker 6: An image of eight of his relatives wearing Walls Is
Speaker 6: for Trump shirts standing in front of a Trump twenty
Speaker 6: four flag that also reads take America Back has been
Speaker 6: posted on x Apparently the guy who posted it had
Speaker 6: permission from the family. So it's not like it's Walls's
Speaker 6: brother or something, which Trump said last night when he
Speaker 6: did his town hall. It's Walls's great uncle's grandfather's brother
Speaker 6: or something like that. It's a distant relative.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but of course that changes completely where it's all
Speaker 2: of a sudden his brother. And so is it a
Speaker 2: shocker that you've got somebody who is second removed, for example,
Speaker 2: going the other way politically? Yeah, Okay, of course everybody's
Speaker 2: gonna make a big deal out of this.
Speaker 5: Well here's the addendum to that too.
Speaker 6: Walls's actual brother, Yeah, came out and said he's not
Speaker 6: going to make any political endorsements, and he hads posted
Speaker 6: on Facebook before the post criticizing Harris.
Speaker 2: You know that is a stronger story that I would
Speaker 2: go with. And the story is even Walls's brother won't
Speaker 2: won't support him.
Speaker 3: Oh, that that is legitimate.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So Walls's brother said that his brother was not
Speaker 6: the type of character you want making decisions about your future.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, but do you have that's powerful stuff. That
Speaker 2: is what the Trump campaign context.
Speaker 4: The person he was talking to, he put it on
Speaker 4: Facebook and somebody asked him, what do you mean by this?
Speaker 4: He's not the type of character and do you know
Speaker 4: what his response was? This, this is one hundred percent true.
Speaker 4: His response was a story about how when they were
Speaker 4: kids and would go on family vacations in the car,
Speaker 4: that Tim Walls would get car sick and vomit in
Speaker 4: the car. And that was his response to why doesn't
Speaker 4: he have the kind of character well to be in office.
Speaker 5: That might be part of it.
Speaker 6: But he also said he used Facebook, which wasn't the
Speaker 6: right platform to do that. But I will say I
Speaker 6: don't agree with his policies and probably doesn't agree with
Speaker 6: Gonna tell.
Speaker 2: You that's powerful stuff and that's legitimate. You can't argue
Speaker 2: against it. This is his great great you know, his
Speaker 2: great uncle. You know, that's kind of a crock. But
Speaker 2: I think both sides are missing the point many many,
Speaker 2: many ways. This is a weird presidential I have to
Speaker 2: tell you, I'm gonna have a great time through this
Speaker 2: season for the next couple of months.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, yesterday, the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass,
Speaker 4: said that she will finally pick the city's next police
Speaker 4: chief by the end of this month. So she still
Speaker 4: has over three weeks to decide who will be the
Speaker 4: next LAPD chief, and breaking long term tradition, but staying
Speaker 4: in step with her predecessor, Eric Arcetti, she is refusing.
Speaker 3: Maybe refusing is too strong.
Speaker 4: She is declining to reveal who the candidates are, right,
Speaker 4: she will not let.
Speaker 3: Us know who's on the short list. We know everybody
Speaker 3: over six feet tall, it's not.
Speaker 4: The police Commission interviewed all the finalists and sent their
Speaker 4: recommendations over to her.
Speaker 3: They also are keeping mum.
Speaker 4: Huh about who who the candidates are, so it'll just
Speaker 4: be it'll be a surprise, and then it'll be somebody
Speaker 4: that you may not even have considered was being considered,
Speaker 4: Like could be you Bill?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm going to be the police chief.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. I don't even do you.
Speaker 3: Have to I don't even think you have to be
Speaker 3: a cop to be the police chief.
Speaker 4: I think you don't have to be to be appointed.
Speaker 4: I think then you would you would go through some
Speaker 4: kind of certification.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think the mayor of Points, Kansas City Council overided.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I don't think you have to
Speaker 2: be a cop. You know, for example, there is only
Speaker 2: one position in the judiciary where you don't have to
Speaker 2: be a judge. Only one place that you can be
Speaker 2: a judge without having a law degree or being.
Speaker 3: A judge, or not being a lawyer. You know what that.
Speaker 2: Is the Supreme Court of the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: You do not have to be a lawyer. You don't
Speaker 3: have to be anything.
Speaker 2: And we had some Supreme Court justice who meet that
Speaker 2: standard several times not being anything.
Speaker 6: Amy So Paris is not ready to say adieux to
Speaker 6: the Olympic rings. The mayor of Paris and Hidalgo has
Speaker 6: announced plans to keep the Olympic rings up as a
Speaker 6: permanent fixture on the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 3: Come on, really, she.
Speaker 6: Says, I want the spirit of celebration to remain. She says,
Speaker 6: as the mayor of Paris. It's her decision or the
Speaker 6: descendants of Gustave Eiffel, the engineer who designed the tower,
Speaker 6: say it was not intended as an advertising platform.
Speaker 5: It shouldn't stay there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess if they don't, if they don't keep
Speaker 4: touting the Olympics, nobody will have a reason to want
Speaker 4: to go to Paris.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean that just I can see during the Olympics
Speaker 2: you have the rings. I get that, But permanently the
Speaker 2: next mayor will take it off.
Speaker 3: You know. Even if this stay's on, the next mayor
Speaker 3: is going to go, We're gone good.
Speaker 2: You know. Hey, why don't we celebrate when the Nazis
Speaker 2: were in power in Paris and put up the giant swastika?
Speaker 3: What do you think about that? Guys?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, because I guess now they're not proud
Speaker 4: of that, but they're proud of the Olympics that they
Speaker 4: had it. Okay, But like lots of cities have had
Speaker 4: the Olympics. I don't know if that's really touting yourself
Speaker 4: we hosted an Olympics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, doesn't the coliseum still have rings on it someplace
Speaker 2: inscribed in the granite?
Speaker 4: It might, but that's an actual sporting event venue venue.
Speaker 3: We're sporting events were held in Olympic events were held.
Speaker 4: It's they had a stadium in Paris, and she wanted
Speaker 4: to leave the rings up. Nobody, Nobody would be upset.
Speaker 4: That's none of our business, right, Well yeah, but.
Speaker 3: It just it's just lame, you know.
Speaker 2: And you look at the Eiffel Tower and it just
Speaker 2: screams Paris, and all of a sudden you have the
Speaker 2: Olympic rings on there, and then I think you have
Speaker 2: various companies just starts bidding for billboard space on there.
Speaker 2: When when Paris needs when the city really needs some money, right,
Speaker 2: you know, Sam sung the phone that everybody uses, So
Speaker 2: try I think that would work out beautifully.
Speaker 3: At least at least the city gets money from that.
Speaker 3: It's a good point. Well, they got money from the Olympics. Theoretically,
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 4: Taking my cues from a country where chain smoking and
Speaker 4: adultery are compulsory.
Speaker 3: That's very good.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Do you want to do the break or you want
Speaker 3: to do one more? So let's do one more? All right? So?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: On the ballot in November in California will be Proposition six,
Speaker 4: which will amend the constitution to eliminate slavery, because did
Speaker 4: you know that slavery is allowed under the California constitution
Speaker 4: if it is.
Speaker 3: A punishment for a crime.
Speaker 4: That is why you can have forced prison labor working
Speaker 4: for less than a dollar an hour.
Speaker 3: They want to stop that.
Speaker 4: And the reason that's the reason to do is they
Speaker 4: don't want prisoners to be forced to work with their own.
Speaker 3: Where in California are prisoners forced to work?
Speaker 2: I thought it was all voluntary that if you want
Speaker 2: to work, here you go and I in prisoners from
Speaker 2: what I understand, line up to do that because it
Speaker 2: kills the day they make.
Speaker 3: Their eight cents an hour or whatever.
Speaker 2: But it just added helps in terms of getting out earlier,
Speaker 2: and you got credits for all that.
Speaker 3: In terms of time, Where are they forced to work? There?
Speaker 4: There is require there's required work duties in many of
Speaker 4: these facilities, especially like in the kitchen for example. Okay,
Speaker 4: and so now would all it would be what you're
Speaker 4: talking about. You would volunteer to work, you would get
Speaker 4: credits towards release, you would get paid more than they're
Speaker 4: getting paid now. But here's one of the problems. Will
Speaker 4: they have to pay minimum wage? Well, they have to
Speaker 4: go from paying fifty cents an hour to paying minimum
Speaker 4: wage not even.
Speaker 3: Close to fifty cents an hour.
Speaker 2: I mean it's some jobs, yeah, I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: like nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. It's a good question. Will they
Speaker 3: be forced to pay minimum wage.
Speaker 2: Which really screws the state up one point five billion
Speaker 2: dollars are saying per year.
Speaker 6: All right, Brazil's president is basically calling Elon Musk a rich,
Speaker 6: spoiled brat. So for the Brazilian president says the world
Speaker 6: is not obliged to put up with billionaire Elon Musk's
Speaker 6: far right anything goes agenda because of his immense wealth.
Speaker 6: And his remarks come after Brazil blocked X in the
Speaker 6: country said nope, can't you can't do X, which of
Speaker 6: course used to be Twitter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the X has gone from Brazil and it's
Speaker 2: a huge market for X.
Speaker 3: The president, this is an interesting guy.
Speaker 2: Luisi Nacio Lula da Silvie is known as Lula.
Speaker 3: He is, first of all, he went through the ranks
Speaker 3: of labor.
Speaker 2: He has a third grade education, and he became the
Speaker 2: president of Brazil, and then he went to prison for corruption.
Speaker 2: And then he got out of prison where the Supreme
Speaker 2: Court overturned his conviction on what we would consider a technicality.
Speaker 2: Then he gets elected president again. So he is now
Speaker 2: the president, replacing Bossigneiro, who considered himself and actually can't.
Speaker 2: He campaigned as the Trump of South America. I mean,
Speaker 2: Brazil is a very interesting place politically, to say the least.
Speaker 4: All right, Bill, put on your do they have a
Speaker 4: case hat for a second, if you don't mind. A
Speaker 4: Michigan judge has ordered Robert F. Kennedy Junior to remain
Speaker 4: on the ballot in that state. Kennedy wanted to get off,
Speaker 4: as you know, he's on an offensive to get off
Speaker 4: the ballot in all the states where it would hurt
Speaker 4: Trump and stay on the ballots in all the states
Speaker 4: where it would help Trump.
Speaker 3: And the judge said no.
Speaker 4: And when I saw this headline, I thought, Ooh, I
Speaker 4: wonder how stupid Rfk's request was, and that the law
Speaker 4: must be super clear here, you know, and what a
Speaker 4: dummy his lawyers are. And then I saw the opinion.
Speaker 4: So Bill, tell me if this sounds like a good
Speaker 4: judicial opinion. The reason the judge gave for not letting
Speaker 4: him come off the ballot is that elections.
Speaker 3: I'm quoting. Elections are not just games.
Speaker 4: The Secretary of State is not obligated to honor the
Speaker 4: whims of candidates for public office, and that his request
Speaker 4: to withdraw hurts his own party, the natural law party,
Speaker 4: because then they would have no candidate on the ballot.
Speaker 4: Does that sound to you like this is a legally
Speaker 4: compelled result or the judge just went at I don't
Speaker 4: really feel like giving you.
Speaker 3: What you want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's exactly the case. Now, if the
Speaker 2: ballot has already been printed, there's no issue. But if
Speaker 2: the ballot has not yet been printed, why can't a
Speaker 2: candidate say I'm no longer a candidate, get my name off.
Speaker 2: Why don't you have the ability to do that if
Speaker 2: there's time to remove your name. It's a specious argument
Speaker 2: that is being made by the judge in saying his
Speaker 2: name should be on it because he was once a
Speaker 2: candidate no longer is that's the same argument the Republicans
Speaker 2: are saying about Kamala Harris, and that is her nomination
Speaker 2: is unconstitutional because she didn't win any primaries. So I
Speaker 2: guess Joe Biden should stay on. He doesn't have the
Speaker 2: right to say I'm no longer a candidate. Both arguments
Speaker 2: are completely crazy.
Speaker 3: That's no. I think, yeah, it's not. It's yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's going to be appealed instantly, and I
Speaker 2: think that's the appeals court is going to say, now
Speaker 2: he has the right to say, my name is off
Speaker 2: the ballot, I'm done.
Speaker 3: So that's my legal viewing that yours.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that seems like a bad reason to deny him
Speaker 4: what he wants in this particular instance. But it almost
Speaker 4: sounds like he's saying, this is you're engaging in a
Speaker 4: kind of election interference and I'm not gonna be part
Speaker 4: of that.
Speaker 2: The politics of it is the judge was originally appointed
Speaker 2: by Gretchen Whitmer, who happens to be, you know, Democrat
Speaker 2: and fairly liberal. So there's some politics, a lot of
Speaker 2: accusations here. All right, we're done, guys. This is KFI
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