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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, here's Wayne Resnick.
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Speaker 1: Good Morning, It is the Bill Handle Show. He's back
Speaker 1: from vacation on Monday. Apologies to Mike Myers, who won't
Speaker 1: be getting those Sweet Sweet Wayne's World theme royalties after
Speaker 1: this Friday because I will be retiring from radio. So
Speaker 1: you're listening to the final three? Wayne Resnick hosted what
Speaker 1: do you ever recall them?
Speaker 2: Shifts? All right? Good bungled?
Speaker 1: It could have been great, could have been a great statement.
Speaker 2: Ended up garbage? What does that sound like? Good morning, MICHELLEQ.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I say things listen normally. I've been a person
Speaker 1: who yells and screams when a host says something that's
Speaker 1: only for the benefit of the other people.
Speaker 2: In the studio and excluding you.
Speaker 1: The most important person in a radio station is not
Speaker 1: in a radio station. The most important person for a
Speaker 1: radio station is you listening. And I've been the first
Speaker 1: one to point the finger and tell people not to
Speaker 1: do it and force them to explain themselves. However, from
Speaker 1: now through Friday, I'm probably say a few things that
Speaker 1: are for the band.
Speaker 2: So good morning, Michelle Cube, good morning, and Michael.
Speaker 1: Monks is here in for Amy King. Happy new Year
Speaker 1: to you, and good morning also morning, Happy new year
Speaker 1: to you. Happy pending retirement. Say you very much. Now,
Speaker 1: thank you. Now, even though I've been doing this for
Speaker 1: thirty three years, you.
Speaker 2: Can still have a new.
Speaker 1: Experience in life, because I'm pretty sure sam Zia in
Speaker 1: for Kono. We have never worked a shift together before,
Speaker 1: have we?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: We've passed each other in the hallways once in a while,
Speaker 4: but that yeah, this is the first time.
Speaker 1: Well that's all right, Hey you haven't you haven't worked
Speaker 1: with me yet. Maybe by the end of the shift
Speaker 1: you'll be glad. All right, everybody. The big story of
Speaker 1: the day is unfortunately one of those stories that I
Speaker 1: don't like to talk about, just so you know. However,
Speaker 1: people are entitled to know when things happen and what happens.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna start handle on the news and we're
Speaker 1: gonna try to give you what we need to but
Speaker 1: no more than that. It's uh, here we go, Michael
Speaker 1: Monks and me handle on the news.
Speaker 2: This is the lead story.
Speaker 1: It absolutely there was somebody drove a car into a
Speaker 1: crowd of people celebrating New Year's in New Orleans and
Speaker 1: then got out of the car after hitting many many people,
Speaker 1: got out of the car and started firing a gun
Speaker 1: and he was engaged then in a shootout with police.
Speaker 1: And the aftermath of all of this is that at
Speaker 1: least ten people are dead and thirty others possibly more
Speaker 1: at this point injured, two police officers injured, and the
Speaker 1: perpetrator dead, apparently at the hands of police during that shootout.
Speaker 1: This was a car with Texas license plates. Witnesses reported
Speaker 1: that it was clear that this was deliberate. You have
Speaker 1: had situations where a car plows into people. Remember it
Speaker 1: was the Santa Monica Farmer's Market, I believe, and a
Speaker 1: car plowed through a bunch of people, But that was
Speaker 1: not intentional. That was some old guy, and I forgot
Speaker 1: if he had a medical incident when it happened or
Speaker 1: he just it was super old guy driving. But he
Speaker 1: was not trying to do anything wrong. And it was
Speaker 1: a tragedy. And this is somebody who wanted to cause
Speaker 1: a tragedy. We don't know anything yet about who it is.
Speaker 1: We certainly don't know anything about why specifically. The FBI
Speaker 1: is now involved in the investigation. There's been some reports
Speaker 1: that they also found at least one improvised explosive device
Speaker 1: in the French quarter. That's something we're gonna want to
Speaker 1: fill in with some more information as it comes in.
Speaker 1: And there is a press conference coming up. They had
Speaker 1: one press conference, and I'm told I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 1: I didn't hear the press conference because I was reading
Speaker 1: all the other stuff for the show. But I'm told
Speaker 1: by Michelle Cube that this is one of the rare
Speaker 1: press conferences where they came out and they just started
Speaker 1: giving information and they didn't waste everybody's time with five
Speaker 1: to ten minutes of glad handing. So only because I
Speaker 1: was told they don't waste our time with their press conferences.
Speaker 1: When that press conference happens, if it happens before nine
Speaker 1: o'clock our time, we will dip into it and see
Speaker 1: what new information they may have for us on this terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible event.
Speaker 2: Terrible.
Speaker 5: They say the guy was hell bent on carnage. That
Speaker 5: was a quote from the official and the mayor has
Speaker 5: called it a terrorist attack, So just a terrible thing
Speaker 5: to happen in the French Quarter, in iconic location in America,
Speaker 5: but obviously especially important to New Orleans, where there's a
Speaker 5: big football game today, so big crowds down there celebrating
Speaker 5: the new year, and one of the quarterfinals for the
Speaker 5: college football Playoff is also taking place there, so a
Speaker 5: lot of visitors were probably in that area. Meanwhile, in
Speaker 5: Times Square in New York, as New Year's Day was approaching,
Speaker 5: the weather didn't really cooperate. And you know, in the
Speaker 5: New York LA rivalry, Wayne New York claims a lot
Speaker 5: of victories, but one thing they just can't ever beat
Speaker 5: LA on is the weather.
Speaker 2: We would never have this kind of problem on a
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: No, we only have record dryness and drought and red
Speaker 1: flag warnings.
Speaker 2: That's what we have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to say, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: clear that we're the winners necessarily because they got rained on.
Speaker 2: Oh, we're the winners.
Speaker 5: They've got a better park, they've got a better transit system,
Speaker 5: they've got more walkable neighborhoods.
Speaker 2: You know, but man, they'll never beat our weather ever.
Speaker 5: So yeah, a lot of rainy scenes there in Times Square, right,
Speaker 5: dry boy.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it rained on Times Square revelers.
Speaker 1: Where by the way, as a side note, it's not
Speaker 1: in this story. Somebody paid sixty eight thousand dollars for
Speaker 1: a table at the Applebee's so they could sit at
Speaker 1: the Applebee's in Times Square and look at the festivities
Speaker 1: and not stand out on the rainy sidewalk with the commoners.
Speaker 5: There's one time a year where Applebee's, America's favorite neighbor,
Speaker 5: is the hottest seed in Manhattan.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hey, so the rose Parade is happening today and it's
Speaker 1: not going to be rained on, and there will be
Speaker 1: a milestone moment in this parade.
Speaker 2: When you see the float.
Speaker 1: From the Loch Kenyata flint Ridge Tournament of Roses Association,
Speaker 1: you will notice a few things.
Speaker 2: You will notice that it has a space theme.
Speaker 1: It is called Rover Rendezvous, and it has a depiction
Speaker 1: of a rover on the planet Mars, on the surface
Speaker 1: of Mars. You will also notice apparently there's some weird
Speaker 1: alien creatures there that appear to be coming out of
Speaker 1: the surface of Mars.
Speaker 2: But there's something.
Speaker 1: About it you will not notice that is historical and revolutionary,
Speaker 1: and that is that float, unlike all the other ones
Speaker 1: that you will see today. That float is using eighty
Speaker 1: five percent electric power. It has but a single combustion engine,
Speaker 1: whereas all the other floats all of their power comes
Speaker 1: from combustion engines.
Speaker 2: That's kind of here, you go, let's get a little fat.
Speaker 1: I mean, they should move, they should, they should move
Speaker 1: towards that. Somebody's proven, somebody's proven you can make great
Speaker 1: strides and having these floats run on electric power.
Speaker 2: So maybe next year we'll see a lot more of it.
Speaker 1: You want to know another car, Yes, right after I
Speaker 1: make this observation, because once in a while, if you
Speaker 1: if you're down there at the parade, once in a while,
Speaker 1: you will get a face full of you know that
Speaker 1: when the when it belches, when a float belches, some
Speaker 1: exhaust and that wouldn't happen otherwise.
Speaker 2: Yes, what's another fun fact.
Speaker 3: There are thirty nine floats in the Rose Parade. Twenty
Speaker 3: one of them are covered in flowers that come from Columbia,
Speaker 3: that are grown on this beautiful mountain in Columbia over
Speaker 3: like six thousand feet you know whatever it's and it's
Speaker 3: been like that since the Rose Parade started.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, Columbia is the outsized contributor of flowers to
Speaker 1: the Rose Parade. They're the they are to Rose Parade
Speaker 1: flowers what California is to almonds. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: some news from Michael Munk said, we will continue handle
Speaker 1: on the news. This is the Bill Handles Show, KFI
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Speaker 1: Bill handle Show. And he's back from vacation on Monday.
Speaker 1: Wayne Resnik's sitting in and I have just experienced the
Speaker 1: biggest tragedy that one can experience when working in radio.
Speaker 1: And the tragedy is when you have to come back
Speaker 1: from the break before your k cup has fully brewed,
Speaker 1: and you have to abandon it and leave it. Oh no,
Speaker 1: And it will obviously be room temperature by the end
Speaker 1: of this segment, Man oh Man.
Speaker 2: Something you'll never have to worry about again when you retire.
Speaker 2: That's a good point.
Speaker 1: You think that people who got rained on in Times
Speaker 1: Square for New Year's Eve are bummed?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into some handle on the news
Speaker 1: with Mike and me.
Speaker 2: And you know what, you were pooh poohing the rain
Speaker 2: in New York. But maybe it would be helpful.
Speaker 5: Right now, it couldn't hurt because goodness knows, we brag
Speaker 5: about it never raining in southern California, but that's not
Speaker 5: a good thing when we're always on fire. We had
Speaker 5: another fire this morning in Pacific Palisades. It started just
Speaker 5: after midnight, and it grew relatively fast, from about three
Speaker 5: or four acres to eight or nine acres.
Speaker 2: But the firefighters did a good job.
Speaker 5: They got on this thing really really quickly. In both
Speaker 5: La City Fire and La County Fire were attacking this
Speaker 5: thing from the air, and now they think they have
Speaker 5: stopped the forward progress of it. So that's good news,
Speaker 5: because this is a fire in the Pacific Palisades that
Speaker 5: really could have threatened some homes there. They never got
Speaker 5: to the point of evacuating anybody or sending out those
Speaker 5: kinds of warnings.
Speaker 2: But not that far from where people live, all right.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, a little farther away in Puerto Rico, imagine New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve with no power. Now imagine it being almost everybody.
Speaker 2: In your territory.
Speaker 1: A massive blackout hit a so much of Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: Power is still out for most of the affected people.
Speaker 1: They are bringing people back online at a respectable clip.
Speaker 1: But when that many people lose, when hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of people lose power, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1: They restored the first restoration was forty four thousand, seven
Speaker 1: hundred customers, and that's three percent.
Speaker 2: Of how many people are affected.
Speaker 1: They're getting people on if they keep the same pace,
Speaker 1: because two hours later they were up to seventy three thousand.
Speaker 1: Let's say they can keep getting thirty three thirty five
Speaker 1: thousand people every two hours online, It's going to take
Speaker 1: them a long time to restore power. And it's not
Speaker 1: like they've enjoyed a problem free power grid until now.
Speaker 1: Because wasn't it just in August that Ernesto hit it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tropical storm er Nesto hit Puerto Rico and like half
Speaker 1: of Puerto Rico lost their power.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that just this August? Yeah? Was this so actually last?
Speaker 2: Well last year?
Speaker 1: But because it's only been this year for one day, See,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be getting that wrong, or I'll be getting
Speaker 1: that wrong for a little bit. I'm gonna say this
Speaker 1: year when technically it was twenty twenty four, But wasn't
Speaker 1: it just it's still last August? Though yes, it's still
Speaker 1: the most recent August that this happened to those poor people.
Speaker 2: All right, well, I hope they can get it up
Speaker 2: as soon as possible. So I think Michelle has set
Speaker 2: me up here.
Speaker 5: She must have known I was going to brag about
Speaker 5: La Weather, and then I get all these weather stories
Speaker 5: that show that things are not great here just just
Speaker 5: because it's warm and nice in the winter time. So
Speaker 5: apparently this was the driest, the second driest period in
Speaker 5: history for law angels. I know that I was going
Speaker 5: through bottles of lotion, and apparently it's also due to Lanina,
Speaker 5: and you know, we had historic rainfall. But in spite
Speaker 5: of all of that, the second driest period in history,
Speaker 5: they blame on that weather phenomena La Nina. And what
Speaker 5: my understanding is from the National Weather Service, anytime that
Speaker 5: we have a La Nina event, these are trade winds
Speaker 5: that are stronger than usual and they push more warm
Speaker 5: water toward Asia and off the west coast of the US,
Speaker 5: which is US California, there's an increase in upwelling, which
Speaker 5: brings cold, nutrient rich water to the surface, and those
Speaker 5: cold waters, in turn in the Pacific, push the jet
Speaker 5: stream north and tend to lead to drought.
Speaker 3: It's just crazy because at the beginning of the year
Speaker 3: we had all of that rain, like that crazy rain.
Speaker 2: We're like, oh my god, there's so much rain, there's
Speaker 2: so much rain.
Speaker 3: But then between May and December we get like no rain,
Speaker 3: and now all of a sudden dripe.
Speaker 5: It's so dry. Is this why I have to constantly
Speaker 5: put on this hand salve?
Speaker 2: Is it in the air? Do I feel that? Or
Speaker 2: am I just old?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: The relative humidity is extremely low right now? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the only people who don't need who don't need
Speaker 1: lotion right now are people who do nothing but drink.
Speaker 2: Olive oil all day. Nice. Other than that, you're gonna
Speaker 2: need it right now, all right.
Speaker 1: Metro bus drivers are protected from people attacking them by
Speaker 1: protective barriers. Metro has finalized the installation of these barriers.
Speaker 1: So now that means every single bus has the shatter
Speaker 1: resistant or I think shatter proof actually tempered glass and
Speaker 1: steel barriers. Now here's the thing I don't understand. We
Speaker 1: knew there was a problem, right Remember every day there
Speaker 1: was a story about somebody attacked the bus. They get punched,
Speaker 1: they get grabbed, people throw things at them, They get
Speaker 1: spit on, so they put this stuff in.
Speaker 2: And never mind.
Speaker 1: By the way, when I say there's something I don't understand,
Speaker 1: I figured it out because I'm dumb. But I what
Speaker 1: I have is short term dumbness, and then I get
Speaker 1: I get normal again. They're saying these things are already
Speaker 1: helping on buses equipped with the barriers. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm back to not understanding it. On buses equipped with
Speaker 1: the barriers. From April to September of twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: last year, technically, drivers were fifty eight percent less likely
Speaker 1: to be assaulted.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't that be one hundred percent?
Speaker 1: Would if and when I said I didn't understand it
Speaker 1: it was this, Then I thought, oh, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a period of time where not every bus had one.
Speaker 1: So if they mean overall in their system, drivers were
Speaker 1: fifty eight percent less likely because let's say fifty eight
Speaker 1: percent of the buses had barriers.
Speaker 2: Oh that makes sense.
Speaker 1: But now they're saying on buses with the barriers, maybe
Speaker 1: it's maybe who it's the article that's written.
Speaker 2: I think it might be you have a.
Speaker 1: Barrier like that. How are you getting assaulted? They did reply.
Speaker 5: I attended the metro board meeting that discussed some of
Speaker 5: these stats a little while ago before they completed this project,
Speaker 5: and they did note that, you know, since they started
Speaker 5: this project that this salts were down, the spitting was down.
Speaker 5: It's crazy to think how many spitting incidents there were.
Speaker 5: But yes, I think the phrasing of the stats in
Speaker 5: the context of yesterday's news that they've got them on
Speaker 5: all the buses now made it a little confusing because
Speaker 5: I did a double take at that when it came
Speaker 5: across the wire as well.
Speaker 1: Or they're or they're considering maybe people are still pounding
Speaker 1: on the thing or spitting on the thing. The drivers okay,
Speaker 1: but they're still considering that an assault. It could be
Speaker 1: that would you say this, Metro, just Metro, listen to
Speaker 1: me right now. Get in your car, drive to thirty
Speaker 1: four hundred West Olive Avenue at Burbank, figure out how
Speaker 1: to get in the building. Michelle, go down and wait
Speaker 1: in front of the building on the outside, so that
Speaker 1: when they drive, when Metro drives up, you bring them
Speaker 1: up there so I can ask them what the hell
Speaker 1: they mean?
Speaker 2: I will go wait, thank you.
Speaker 5: Just don't assault them, Okay, they're trying to get past this,
Speaker 5: so don't take your anger out on them. They're just
Speaker 5: hard working people.
Speaker 1: Let's get some news from Michael Monks and we'll continue
Speaker 1: Handle on the news right here on KFI AM six
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Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 6: six four.
Speaker 1: KFIM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's
Speaker 1: the Bill Hendel Show, and he's back from vacation on Monday.
Speaker 1: Wayne Resmiks sitting in. We're doing Handle on the news
Speaker 1: for you, Michael Monks and me. And I'm surprised it
Speaker 1: took them this long.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Ukraine ending its supply of Russian gas to Europe.
Speaker 5: This was making good on a promise that it said
Speaker 5: it would do. It would stop transporting Russian gas to
Speaker 5: Europe through its territory, and that deal that it had
Speaker 5: with Moscow went away on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: I don't know what this means.
Speaker 5: I'm not a geopolitical expert on Eastern Europe, and we
Speaker 5: know that we've got a new president coming into this country.
Speaker 5: You might have different feelings about that situation, but what
Speaker 5: does this mean for Europe?
Speaker 2: What does it mean for Ukraine?
Speaker 5: What does it mean for Russia and maybe most importantly,
Speaker 5: what does it mean for that ongoing conflict there. Ukraine
Speaker 5: will now face the loss of some eight hundred million
Speaker 5: dollars a year in transit fees. So they're costing themselves,
Speaker 5: I guess a bit.
Speaker 1: But they're costing they're costing Russia more because gas Prom
Speaker 1: will which is the Russian gas Russian government owned gas concern,
Speaker 1: will lose five billion dollars in gas sales.
Speaker 2: Europe will be fine.
Speaker 1: There's enough non Russian origin gas that can come into
Speaker 1: Europe from alternative routes, so it's not going to be
Speaker 1: a crisis for Europe. What I'm saying to you is
Speaker 1: a long time ago they had a deal, we'll move
Speaker 1: your gas through Ukraine and you'll pay us, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll get a cut. And then Russia attacked them and
Speaker 1: has been bombing them and all this time when we've
Speaker 1: seen although notice we're not paying that much attention anymore,
Speaker 1: certainly not on a daily basis to this war, but
Speaker 1: it's still a war going on. But even during the
Speaker 1: time when every day they bomb and they did this,
Speaker 1: and they were still honoring their agreement with the company
Speaker 1: that is bombing the crap out of them.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know to whether to.
Speaker 1: Admire them or you know, slap Zelenski upside the head
Speaker 1: for being a weirdo about it.
Speaker 5: So now we're beating up metro drivers and international leaders. Wayne,
Speaker 5: you gotta long this before you leave. Put him on
Speaker 5: a metro bus and I can't get at him. All Right,
Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
Speaker 1: Finally, sheesh man, I've been screaming about this for you know, Michelle,
Speaker 1: how long I've been screaming about the California didn't have
Speaker 1: a state crustacean or an official state slug or an
Speaker 1: official state seashell.
Speaker 2: I remember remember during the O. J.
Speaker 1: Simpson trial, and I would come on the air and
Speaker 1: refuse to talk about what was happening at the trial
Speaker 1: because I went on hours long ranch that we did
Speaker 1: didn't have a state slug. Well, finally we do, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, Governor Gavin whoso signed laws and as of today,
Speaker 1: California's official state crustacean is the dungeonis crab, the official.
Speaker 7: State slug of California is the Banana slug, and the
Speaker 7: official state sea show of California is the black abaloney.
Speaker 1: These are all fine choices. I have no complaints. Yes,
Speaker 1: good job everybody picking those things. You know, the banana
Speaker 1: slug obviously because you see Santa Cruz's mascot is a
Speaker 1: banana slug named Sammy the Slug, so we know that
Speaker 1: he kind of There was no way the banana slug
Speaker 1: was not gonna win the slug contest, the slugfest, if
Speaker 1: you will, to become the state slug.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't know the competition.
Speaker 1: The dungeon is crab lobby must have really greased some palms.
Speaker 1: And the black abalony. That's Have you ever seen a
Speaker 1: black cabalony shell? They're gorgeous. No, I've never seen gorgeous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're very pretty. And you're just looking at a photo
Speaker 1: of one. Yeah, yeah, I'd like to have one.
Speaker 2: Wish one? Would you rather eat? No, I'm not eating
Speaker 2: any oh oh of these? The crab.
Speaker 5: You have to eat the crab, right, you don't think
Speaker 5: the bananas banana slug and you can.
Speaker 1: And if you try to eat a shell, it's not
Speaker 1: it's not that the abalony is some kind of official
Speaker 1: state animal. The muscle part of it, the shell is
Speaker 1: the official shell.
Speaker 2: I'm not eating a shell, So you're going for that crab.
Speaker 1: Kiss Well, let's why are you even confirming my choice
Speaker 1: like that? There's any other possible answer I had to tell.
Speaker 2: Ever, none of them.
Speaker 1: I guess somebody might say I don't eat it, any
Speaker 1: of them because I'm vegan or something.
Speaker 2: I detected a little insincerity, that's all.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm lying that I would eat the crab and
Speaker 1: not a slug. I'm lying about it, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: seeing it in my mind. I'm like, man, I would
Speaker 1: be all over eating that slug. I'd be throwing that
Speaker 1: slug on that traeger. I'd be marinating that slug and
Speaker 1: basting that slug. And that's what I'm thinking in my head.
Speaker 1: That's what you think. And then I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I better say crab. I better say crab. It sounds
Speaker 1: like something somebody who would eat a slug would say. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't appreciate your accusations, and I don't appreciate your insinuations.
Speaker 1: If they're not accusations, they're either accusations or insinuations.
Speaker 2: Will you agree with that? I will?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I don't appreciate whichever one they are. I
Speaker 1: don't appreciate them, and now your punishment is to have
Speaker 1: to tell us about a monkey in a car.
Speaker 2: Let's get down to that monkey business.
Speaker 5: Speaking of bananas, this spider monkey was found in a
Speaker 5: Rolls Royce on a highway here in California.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Madera County, a Rolls Royce. So picture
Speaker 1: who's driver's license was suspended?
Speaker 5: Exactly, Yeah, the driver the spider monkey was no longer
Speaker 5: allowed to drive anywhere. Let's establish the fact that you
Speaker 5: are not allowed to have a pet spider monkey in
Speaker 5: the state of California. I have asked before, and now
Speaker 5: it's been confirmed by this news. You cannot have a
Speaker 5: spider monkey in the state of California.
Speaker 2: But if you are rich enough, I guess to driver
Speaker 2: Rolls Royce, you.
Speaker 5: Can perhaps find back doors into certain cages and walk
Speaker 5: away with a pet. So this guy driving this Rolls
Speaker 5: Royce is pulled over for drunk driving, and inside the
Speaker 5: fancy car, the California Highway Patrol officer finds a spider monkey.
Speaker 5: Be so cute, believe to be only a month old.
Speaker 1: He's so cute and and wearing a one We're looking adorable.
Speaker 2: So cute, and I think there.
Speaker 1: Was Is this correct or not? Please if I'm wrong?
Speaker 1: There also was some marijuana in.
Speaker 3: The Yes, this story doesn't say it, but I did
Speaker 3: see another story that did say yes.
Speaker 2: There was.
Speaker 1: Actually it does say it. There possession. He was arrested
Speaker 1: for DUI. There's a possession.
Speaker 2: Yes, Well, you know, when you get to Rolls.
Speaker 1: Royce Ghost driving level in your life, you're not like
Speaker 1: the rest of us.
Speaker 2: Not much that car costs. Do you know how much
Speaker 2: of that monkey call Rose Royce Ghost. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'd never have one, so I should, I know.
Speaker 3: And seventy thousand dollars at the low part of it.
Speaker 2: That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean if you're if you would never I would
Speaker 1: never want to be driving around in a car that expensive,
Speaker 1: which must mean that expensive to repair. God forbid there's
Speaker 1: an accident. Why would I want that pressure all the time.
Speaker 1: By the way, I just want to say something because
Speaker 1: you know, we're ragging on this guy for breaking the
Speaker 1: law because you're not supposed to have a spider monkey pet.
Speaker 1: But what if it turns out the spider monkey is
Speaker 1: his employee?
Speaker 2: Oh? Is that illegal?
Speaker 4: It's a month that sounds like it's violating some laws.
Speaker 1: You're gonna you're gonna, you're gonna miss You're gonna miss this.
Speaker 2: Mind what happened to the monkey? Like, what did they did?
Speaker 2: They they had to give it to uh impounded. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but they gave him to a zoo.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I was gonna say he didn't just like
Speaker 3: go to animal control.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, okay, no, all right. If he
Speaker 1: was an employee, yes, you correctly called it, Monks. If
Speaker 1: if he was an employee, he would be entitled to
Speaker 1: a higher minimum wage now, which we will get the
Speaker 1: details of after some news.
Speaker 2: From Michael Monks. This is the Bill Handle Show. Kf
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Speaker 1: is the Bill Handle Show. He's on vacation, he's back
Speaker 1: on Monday. Wayne Resnik's sitting in until nine o'clock. Michelle,
Speaker 1: the email you just forward forwarded to me.
Speaker 2: Woof, woof.
Speaker 1: And we're doing handle on the news. We're doing handle
Speaker 1: on the news with Michael Monks and me. And the
Speaker 1: minimum wage in California is now sixteen fifty an hour
Speaker 1: all across the state.
Speaker 2: Yes, even you Shasta County.
Speaker 1: But of course there are some municipalities in the state
Speaker 1: that mandate an even hire minimum wage, and so for
Speaker 1: people in those cities, this doesn't make any difference. Like
Speaker 1: right here in Los Angeles, we're in Burbank, but still
Speaker 1: right here in Los Angeles minimum wages seventeen twenty eight
Speaker 1: an hour. In La County, the unincorporated parts, the minimum
Speaker 1: wage is seventeen twenty seven.
Speaker 2: You cheap skates.
Speaker 1: Malibu at seventeen twenty seven. Pasadena it's seventeen fifty. Let's
Speaker 1: flip all the cards. West Hollywood is the place to
Speaker 1: have a minimum wage job because starting today, the minimum
Speaker 1: wage in West Hollywood is nineteen dollars and sixty five
Speaker 1: cents an hour.
Speaker 2: Wow. That's that's wow. That's good. I didn't really prevary
Speaker 2: so much, well.
Speaker 1: Because municipalities can set their their own minimum wage as
Speaker 1: long as it's higher than the prevailing state minimum wage,
Speaker 1: which also can be set by the state as long
Speaker 1: as it's higher the same or higher than the prevailing
Speaker 1: federal minimum wage.
Speaker 2: Got it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And if you are only making minimum wage, it's
Speaker 5: not as easy to afford the tolls. Am I right now?
Speaker 5: If you get a that was see. That was my
Speaker 5: attempt to do one of Wayne's teaser or transitions.
Speaker 2: Are you are you the hold on? I'm not going
Speaker 2: to be southering end to replace you, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Are you the are you the MC right now? Or
Speaker 1: are you the feature act? I think I'm the filler act?
Speaker 1: When things go how long into this how long into
Speaker 1: this evening? At the improv are.
Speaker 2: We my boats?
Speaker 5: Hie, I'm gonna straighten that up and get it ready
Speaker 5: and get the old baton out and I'll twirl that
Speaker 5: for a while for our audience. Trolling a baton on
Speaker 5: the radio is very good content. By the way, Let's
Speaker 5: talk about a scam involving tolls in northern California. We
Speaker 5: all know these scams are getting more and more sophisticated.
Speaker 5: It used to be harder for older people to recognize
Speaker 5: an email or a phone call as fraudulent, but now
Speaker 5: it doesn't seem to matter.
Speaker 2: I mean, they look real.
Speaker 5: They come to you as a text message, they come
Speaker 5: in your mail, your your physical mail, your email, and
Speaker 5: now there's a text message claiming that you owe an
Speaker 5: outstanding amount of money for a toll road that you
Speaker 5: drove on, and it is apparently a phishing scam. That's
Speaker 5: a pH shing and the sample looks like please pay
Speaker 5: the Fast Track Laying toll on November twenty one, twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four, to avoid penalties and ensure you get your
Speaker 5: driver's license. You can pay at that It gives you
Speaker 5: a link. So when you click on that link, that's
Speaker 5: when you find yourself in trouble. Now the toll operators.
Speaker 5: I'll say, this is not coming from us, but man,
Speaker 5: every time you turn around there's a new scam that
Speaker 5: looks believable and.
Speaker 1: Scary, except that the number it comes from has like
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventeen digits in it.
Speaker 2: Or the language.
Speaker 5: Maybe the language is a little off, the punctuation and
Speaker 5: all of that, but I think we've all gotten so
Speaker 5: bad with language through our text messaging and all that
Speaker 5: it's really hard to recognize. And really they can mirror
Speaker 5: some phone numbers. I once got a call from a
Speaker 5: local sheriff back home in Kentucky that I had to
Speaker 5: do a lot of calling around and searching before I
Speaker 5: was confident that I had not actually been contacted by
Speaker 5: the sheriff's department.
Speaker 2: Even the phone number looked real. What did you do well.
Speaker 5: You know, being in the news business, you have some
Speaker 5: sources inside of these departments. So I was able to
Speaker 5: at least call some people I knew, but they were
Speaker 5: telling me, you know, you got to come down and
Speaker 5: deal with this court thing. And the number when I
Speaker 5: googled the number that popped up on my phone, it
Speaker 5: absolutely was the Kenton County Sheriff's office. And so that
Speaker 5: was that's when I knew things had taken a turn,
Speaker 5: because it had gotten me.
Speaker 2: And I'm ungettable. Well apparently not.
Speaker 1: Based on this story you just told us five seconds
Speaker 1: ago you slug eating soob.
Speaker 2: Hey, look listen, the.
Speaker 1: FAA, drone companies and drone enthusiasts all agree, you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to shoot down drones.
Speaker 2: Don't do it. It's a crime.
Speaker 1: Now, the latest person to publicly put out this warning
Speaker 1: to people is Stephen Katz, who's the vice president of
Speaker 1: Flying Lion, which is the biggest drone service in LA.
Speaker 1: He's saying, absolutely, do not shoot down drones. Here's here's
Speaker 1: the thing. So if you shoot at a drone, as
Speaker 1: far as the FEDS are concerned, this is the same
Speaker 1: seriousness of a crime as if you shot at a
Speaker 1: passenger aircraft.
Speaker 2: To share. You understand. Yes, it's the same statute.
Speaker 1: So it's a big deal. And what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: say is it's a big deal. It's not some namby
Speaker 1: pamby little law like you shot at a done five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars fine, No, no, no, no no, it's big, big,
Speaker 1: big trouble for you.
Speaker 2: Can I think rocky think this is coming up? Can
Speaker 2: I throw rocks at it?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Can I throw a stick?
Speaker 6: Poke it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I'm not joking. One of somebody was flying.
Speaker 4: A drone outside of my my apartment and it came
Speaker 4: down over the balcony like they were trying to spy
Speaker 4: on and I wanted to open the window and smack
Speaker 4: it with the broomstick and took off.
Speaker 2: I would have been in trouble.
Speaker 1: Well, I think, to be honest, I don't think the
Speaker 1: FEDS would come after you for throwing a rock or
Speaker 1: a stick at it, but you could still be liable
Speaker 1: for damage to the drone. Here are the here's a
Speaker 1: list of things you are allowed to do to a drone.
Speaker 1: Flip it off, give it a withering glare, shoe it away,
Speaker 1: do the yeah, do the handwave to go away, hide
Speaker 1: from it, so it cannot see you, thus thwarting its point.
Speaker 1: And in certain cases, in certain parts of La County,
Speaker 1: you are allowed to take a sharpie and draw a
Speaker 1: funny must stash on it, and that's about it.
Speaker 2: Can your spider monkey fly it? No, you can't throw
Speaker 2: a blanket over it. You know, if it comes.
Speaker 1: If it comes, if it were to come onto your
Speaker 1: private property, you do have more leeway. Okay, But what
Speaker 1: this is all happening because of the drone sightings in
Speaker 1: New Jersey and here in California.
Speaker 2: That's what this is really all about.
Speaker 1: So people are seeing drones like over there, if they're
Speaker 1: not on their property. You can't be shooting guns because
Speaker 1: people were like bam. And of course the kind of
Speaker 1: person who would shoot a gun at a drone is
Speaker 1: invariably the kind of person who is not good enough
Speaker 1: with a gun to hit a drone.
Speaker 2: All right, that is handle on the news cut.
Speaker 1: I feel like there was something I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: and then we got sidetracked with all of this droneness.
Speaker 2: That's all right.
Speaker 1: If it comes to me at any point in time,
Speaker 1: I'll just stop what I'm talking about and say it.
Speaker 2: But I won't. But I won't explain it.
Speaker 1: I'll just stop and say some tangential thing and then
Speaker 1: go back.
Speaker 2: To the topic. So stay tuned, Why don't you I
Speaker 2: Herd book.
Speaker 1: He's gonna take bes on at what point during the
Speaker 1: show this happens, that's what should happen. What's the odds
Speaker 1: and what what? What is Vegas saying? Seven twenty two
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