WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:04.120 You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:06.839 Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:11.960 Ladies and gentlemen, here's Wayne Resnick. 4 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:16.640 Kf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 5 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:18.760 Good Morning, It is the Bill Handle Show. He's back 6 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:24.440 from vacation on Monday. Apologies to Mike Myers, who won't 7 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:29.320 be getting those Sweet Sweet Wayne's World theme royalties after 8 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:35.039 this Friday because I will be retiring from radio. So 9 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:41.679 you're listening to the final three? Wayne Resnick hosted what 10 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:42.479 do you ever recall them? 11 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:44.240 Shifts? All right? Good bungled? 12 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:47.399 It could have been great, could have been a great statement. 13 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:52.920 Ended up garbage? What does that sound like? Good morning, MICHELLEQ. 14 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:58.200 Sometimes I say things listen normally. I've been a person 15 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.200 who yells and screams when a host says something that's 16 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.959 only for the benefit of the other people. 17 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.239 In the studio and excluding you. 18 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:13.239 The most important person in a radio station is not 19 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:16.719 in a radio station. The most important person for a 20 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:20.439 radio station is you listening. And I've been the first 21 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:22.400 one to point the finger and tell people not to 22 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:27.680 do it and force them to explain themselves. However, from 23 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.920 now through Friday, I'm probably say a few things that 24 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:31.680 are for the band. 25 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:37.599 So good morning, Michelle Cube, good morning, and Michael. 26 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:40.879 Monks is here in for Amy King. Happy new Year 27 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:43.719 to you, and good morning also morning, Happy new year 28 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:48.480 to you. Happy pending retirement. Say you very much. Now, 29 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:53.599 thank you. Now, even though I've been doing this for 30 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.840 thirty three years, you. 31 00:01:57.760 --> 00:01:59.040 Can still have a new. 32 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:04.400 Experience in life, because I'm pretty sure sam Zia in 33 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.199 for Kono. We have never worked a shift together before, 34 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:08.560 have we? 35 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:09.879 I don't think so. 36 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:10.080 No. 37 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:12.520 We've passed each other in the hallways once in a while, 38 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:13.960 but that yeah, this is the first time. 39 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:19.360 Well that's all right, Hey you haven't you haven't worked 40 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:20.879 with me yet. Maybe by the end of the shift 41 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:27.800 you'll be glad. All right, everybody. The big story of 42 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:31.039 the day is unfortunately one of those stories that I 43 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:36.520 don't like to talk about, just so you know. However, 44 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.960 people are entitled to know when things happen and what happens. 45 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:45.360 So we're gonna start handle on the news and we're 46 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:50.000 gonna try to give you what we need to but 47 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.000 no more than that. It's uh, here we go, Michael 48 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:55.159 Monks and me handle on the news. 49 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:57.400 This is the lead story. 50 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:05.360 It absolutely there was somebody drove a car into a 51 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:09.719 crowd of people celebrating New Year's in New Orleans and 52 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.680 then got out of the car after hitting many many people, 53 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.800 got out of the car and started firing a gun 54 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:24.360 and he was engaged then in a shootout with police. 55 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:28.439 And the aftermath of all of this is that at 56 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:34.800 least ten people are dead and thirty others possibly more 57 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:42.199 at this point injured, two police officers injured, and the 58 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:50.000 perpetrator dead, apparently at the hands of police during that shootout. 59 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:56.159 This was a car with Texas license plates. Witnesses reported 60 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:59.520 that it was clear that this was deliberate. You have 61 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:04.719 had situations where a car plows into people. Remember it 62 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:08.400 was the Santa Monica Farmer's Market, I believe, and a 63 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:10.599 car plowed through a bunch of people, But that was 64 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:14.680 not intentional. That was some old guy, and I forgot 65 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:16.959 if he had a medical incident when it happened or 66 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.279 he just it was super old guy driving. But he 67 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:23.199 was not trying to do anything wrong. And it was 68 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:26.879 a tragedy. And this is somebody who wanted to cause 69 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:30.120 a tragedy. We don't know anything yet about who it is. 70 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:36.000 We certainly don't know anything about why specifically. The FBI 71 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:42.800 is now involved in the investigation. There's been some reports 72 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:47.240 that they also found at least one improvised explosive device 73 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:51.279 in the French quarter. That's something we're gonna want to 74 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:55.480 fill in with some more information as it comes in. 75 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:58.240 And there is a press conference coming up. They had 76 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.360 one press conference, and I'm told I'm not gonna lie 77 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:05.560 I didn't hear the press conference because I was reading 78 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.800 all the other stuff for the show. But I'm told 79 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:09.800 by Michelle Cube that this is one of the rare 80 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:14.240 press conferences where they came out and they just started 81 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:18.680 giving information and they didn't waste everybody's time with five 82 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:25.160 to ten minutes of glad handing. So only because I 83 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:30.360 was told they don't waste our time with their press conferences. 84 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:34.240 When that press conference happens, if it happens before nine 85 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:37.680 o'clock our time, we will dip into it and see 86 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:41.000 what new information they may have for us on this terrible, 87 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:42.240 terrible event. 88 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:43.560 Terrible. 89 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.120 They say the guy was hell bent on carnage. That 90 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:47.839 was a quote from the official and the mayor has 91 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:50.879 called it a terrorist attack, So just a terrible thing 92 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:54.079 to happen in the French Quarter, in iconic location in America, 93 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:56.680 but obviously especially important to New Orleans, where there's a 94 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:59.000 big football game today, so big crowds down there celebrating 95 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.720 the new year, and one of the quarterfinals for the 96 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.399 college football Playoff is also taking place there, so a 97 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:07.680 lot of visitors were probably in that area. Meanwhile, in 98 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:12.560 Times Square in New York, as New Year's Day was approaching, 99 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:16.199 the weather didn't really cooperate. And you know, in the 100 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:20.000 New York LA rivalry, Wayne New York claims a lot 101 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.279 of victories, but one thing they just can't ever beat 102 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:24.000 LA on is the weather. 103 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:25.680 We would never have this kind of problem on a 104 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:26.319 New Year's Eve. 105 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:32.879 No, we only have record dryness and drought and red 106 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:33.879 flag warnings. 107 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:34.720 That's what we have. 108 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:37.680 Yeah, I just want to say, I don't think it's 109 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:41.399 clear that we're the winners necessarily because they got rained on. 110 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:43.040 Oh, we're the winners. 111 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:48.600 They've got a better park, they've got a better transit system, 112 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:50.439 they've got more walkable neighborhoods. 113 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:53.879 You know, but man, they'll never beat our weather ever. 114 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:58.319 So yeah, a lot of rainy scenes there in Times Square, right, 115 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.800 dry boy. 116 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.519 Anyway, it rained on Times Square revelers. 117 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:06.959 Where by the way, as a side note, it's not 118 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:17.000 in this story. Somebody paid sixty eight thousand dollars for 119 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:21.480 a table at the Applebee's so they could sit at 120 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:25.439 the Applebee's in Times Square and look at the festivities 121 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:29.160 and not stand out on the rainy sidewalk with the commoners. 122 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:33.120 There's one time a year where Applebee's, America's favorite neighbor, 123 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:34.680 is the hottest seed in Manhattan. 124 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:37.040 Yeah. 125 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.439 Hey, so the rose Parade is happening today and it's 126 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:43.480 not going to be rained on, and there will be 127 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:46.399 a milestone moment in this parade. 128 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.199 When you see the float. 129 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:55.480 From the Loch Kenyata flint Ridge Tournament of Roses Association, 130 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:58.480 you will notice a few things. 131 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.120 You will notice that it has a space theme. 132 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:06.240 It is called Rover Rendezvous, and it has a depiction 133 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.360 of a rover on the planet Mars, on the surface 134 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:13.240 of Mars. You will also notice apparently there's some weird 135 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.639 alien creatures there that appear to be coming out of 136 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:18.079 the surface of Mars. 137 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:19.600 But there's something. 138 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:24.959 About it you will not notice that is historical and revolutionary, 139 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:27.759 and that is that float, unlike all the other ones 140 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.439 that you will see today. That float is using eighty 141 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:38.320 five percent electric power. It has but a single combustion engine, 142 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:41.919 whereas all the other floats all of their power comes 143 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:43.639 from combustion engines. 144 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.440 That's kind of here, you go, let's get a little fat. 145 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:52.159 I mean, they should move, they should, they should move 146 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:57.159 towards that. Somebody's proven, somebody's proven you can make great 147 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:00.480 strides and having these floats run on electric power. 148 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:03.480 So maybe next year we'll see a lot more of it. 149 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:08.279 You want to know another car, Yes, right after I 150 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:11.399 make this observation, because once in a while, if you 151 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.440 if you're down there at the parade, once in a while, 152 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:16.960 you will get a face full of you know that 153 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:20.399 when the when it belches, when a float belches, some 154 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:22.840 exhaust and that wouldn't happen otherwise. 155 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:24.720 Yes, what's another fun fact. 156 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.360 There are thirty nine floats in the Rose Parade. Twenty 157 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:31.919 one of them are covered in flowers that come from Columbia, 158 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:36.080 that are grown on this beautiful mountain in Columbia over 159 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:39.080 like six thousand feet you know whatever it's and it's 160 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:41.840 been like that since the Rose Parade started. 161 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:48.480 Well, yes, Columbia is the outsized contributor of flowers to 162 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:53.840 the Rose Parade. They're the they are to Rose Parade 163 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:59.120 flowers what California is to almonds. All right, let's get 164 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:01.360 some news from Michael Munk said, we will continue handle 165 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:04.080 on the news. This is the Bill Handles Show, KFI 166 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:08.240 AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app KFI 167 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:12.679 AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio apps, The 168 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:15.720 Bill handle Show. And he's back from vacation on Monday. 169 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.960 Wayne Resnik's sitting in and I have just experienced the 170 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.240 biggest tragedy that one can experience when working in radio. 171 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:26.399 And the tragedy is when you have to come back 172 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:32.200 from the break before your k cup has fully brewed, 173 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.759 and you have to abandon it and leave it. Oh no, 174 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:40.440 And it will obviously be room temperature by the end 175 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:44.519 of this segment, Man oh Man. 176 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:47.200 Something you'll never have to worry about again when you retire. 177 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:49.000 That's a good point. 178 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:52.600 You think that people who got rained on in Times 179 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:54.919 Square for New Year's Eve are bummed? 180 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:56.000 Please? 181 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:59.159 All right, let's get into some handle on the news 182 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:01.440 with Mike and me. 183 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:04.919 And you know what, you were pooh poohing the rain 184 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:07.320 in New York. But maybe it would be helpful. 185 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:11.639 Right now, it couldn't hurt because goodness knows, we brag 186 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:14.840 about it never raining in southern California, but that's not 187 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:16.759 a good thing when we're always on fire. We had 188 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:19.960 another fire this morning in Pacific Palisades. It started just 189 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:24.720 after midnight, and it grew relatively fast, from about three 190 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:27.000 or four acres to eight or nine acres. 191 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:28.919 But the firefighters did a good job. 192 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.519 They got on this thing really really quickly. In both 193 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:34.480 La City Fire and La County Fire were attacking this 194 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:36.600 thing from the air, and now they think they have 195 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:40.039 stopped the forward progress of it. So that's good news, 196 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:42.360 because this is a fire in the Pacific Palisades that 197 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:45.120 really could have threatened some homes there. They never got 198 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:47.600 to the point of evacuating anybody or sending out those 199 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:48.360 kinds of warnings. 200 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:53.039 But not that far from where people live, all right. 201 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:57.320 Meanwhile, a little farther away in Puerto Rico, imagine New 202 00:11:57.399 --> 00:12:05.159 Year's Eve with no power. Now imagine it being almost everybody. 203 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:06.200 In your territory. 204 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:10.879 A massive blackout hit a so much of Puerto Rico. 205 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:14.519 Power is still out for most of the affected people. 206 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:18.440 They are bringing people back online at a respectable clip. 207 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:21.399 But when that many people lose, when hundreds of thousands 208 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:25.639 of people lose power, what are you going to do? 209 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:32.000 They restored the first restoration was forty four thousand, seven 210 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:36.080 hundred customers, and that's three percent. 211 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:39.360 Of how many people are affected. 212 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:42.720 They're getting people on if they keep the same pace, 213 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:45.240 because two hours later they were up to seventy three thousand. 214 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:48.440 Let's say they can keep getting thirty three thirty five 215 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:51.720 thousand people every two hours online, It's going to take 216 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:55.279 them a long time to restore power. And it's not 217 00:12:55.600 --> 00:13:02.399 like they've enjoyed a problem free power grid until now. 218 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:09.240 Because wasn't it just in August that Ernesto hit it? Yeah, 219 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:12.120 Tropical storm er Nesto hit Puerto Rico and like half 220 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:14.480 of Puerto Rico lost their power. 221 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:19.279 Wasn't that just this August? Yeah? Was this so actually last? 222 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:20.480 Well last year? 223 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:23.360 But because it's only been this year for one day, See, 224 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:25.960 we're gonna be getting that wrong, or I'll be getting 225 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:27.720 that wrong for a little bit. I'm gonna say this 226 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:30.919 year when technically it was twenty twenty four, But wasn't 227 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:34.080 it just it's still last August? Though yes, it's still 228 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:38.320 the most recent August that this happened to those poor people. 229 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:41.440 All right, well, I hope they can get it up 230 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:44.799 as soon as possible. So I think Michelle has set 231 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:45.200 me up here. 232 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:46.600 She must have known I was going to brag about 233 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:49.039 La Weather, and then I get all these weather stories 234 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:51.279 that show that things are not great here just just 235 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:54.080 because it's warm and nice in the winter time. So 236 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:58.279 apparently this was the driest, the second driest period in 237 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:02.000 history for law angels. I know that I was going 238 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:08.080 through bottles of lotion, and apparently it's also due to Lanina, 239 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:12.360 and you know, we had historic rainfall. But in spite 240 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:16.960 of all of that, the second driest period in history, 241 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:21.240 they blame on that weather phenomena La Nina. And what 242 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:24.080 my understanding is from the National Weather Service, anytime that 243 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:27.320 we have a La Nina event, these are trade winds 244 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:32.759 that are stronger than usual and they push more warm 245 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:37.279 water toward Asia and off the west coast of the US, 246 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:41.360 which is US California, there's an increase in upwelling, which 247 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:45.159 brings cold, nutrient rich water to the surface, and those 248 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:48.720 cold waters, in turn in the Pacific, push the jet 249 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:51.320 stream north and tend to lead to drought. 250 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:53.759 It's just crazy because at the beginning of the year 251 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:55.919 we had all of that rain, like that crazy rain. 252 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:57.519 We're like, oh my god, there's so much rain, there's 253 00:14:57.519 --> 00:14:58.000 so much rain. 254 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:01.279 But then between May and December we get like no rain, 255 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:03.279 and now all of a sudden dripe. 256 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:06.519 It's so dry. Is this why I have to constantly 257 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:07.759 put on this hand salve? 258 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:09.879 Is it in the air? Do I feel that? Or 259 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:10.639 am I just old? 260 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:12.039 No? 261 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:17.120 The relative humidity is extremely low right now? Yeah, I 262 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:19.399 mean the only people who don't need who don't need 263 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:23.320 lotion right now are people who do nothing but drink. 264 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:27.639 Olive oil all day. Nice. Other than that, you're gonna 265 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:29.759 need it right now, all right. 266 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:34.200 Metro bus drivers are protected from people attacking them by 267 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:39.559 protective barriers. Metro has finalized the installation of these barriers. 268 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:44.360 So now that means every single bus has the shatter 269 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:49.279 resistant or I think shatter proof actually tempered glass and 270 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:55.519 steel barriers. Now here's the thing I don't understand. We 271 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:57.679 knew there was a problem, right Remember every day there 272 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:01.000 was a story about somebody attacked the bus. They get punched, 273 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:03.519 they get grabbed, people throw things at them, They get 274 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:06.039 spit on, so they put this stuff in. 275 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:09.200 And never mind. 276 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:11.399 By the way, when I say there's something I don't understand, 277 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:14.480 I figured it out because I'm dumb. But I what 278 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.720 I have is short term dumbness, and then I get 279 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:23.080 I get normal again. They're saying these things are already 280 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:28.720 helping on buses equipped with the barriers. No, no, no, 281 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:32.360 I'm back to not understanding it. On buses equipped with 282 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:37.360 the barriers. From April to September of twenty twenty four 283 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:43.919 last year, technically, drivers were fifty eight percent less likely 284 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:45.879 to be assaulted. 285 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:50.799 Shouldn't that be one hundred percent? 286 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:55.759 Would if and when I said I didn't understand it 287 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:58.799 it was this, Then I thought, oh, you know, there's 288 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:01.600 a period of time where not every bus had one. 289 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:08.119 So if they mean overall in their system, drivers were 290 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:10.920 fifty eight percent less likely because let's say fifty eight 291 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:12.799 percent of the buses had barriers. 292 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:14.160 Oh that makes sense. 293 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:19.680 But now they're saying on buses with the barriers, maybe 294 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.039 it's maybe who it's the article that's written. 295 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:23.799 I think it might be you have a. 296 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:27.160 Barrier like that. How are you getting assaulted? They did reply. 297 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:30.759 I attended the metro board meeting that discussed some of 298 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.880 these stats a little while ago before they completed this project, 299 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:36.839 and they did note that, you know, since they started 300 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.680 this project that this salts were down, the spitting was down. 301 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:42.440 It's crazy to think how many spitting incidents there were. 302 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:46.200 But yes, I think the phrasing of the stats in 303 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:48.880 the context of yesterday's news that they've got them on 304 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:51.480 all the buses now made it a little confusing because 305 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:53.119 I did a double take at that when it came 306 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:54.240 across the wire as well. 307 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:57.720 Or they're or they're considering maybe people are still pounding 308 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:02.480 on the thing or spitting on the thing. The drivers okay, 309 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:05.039 but they're still considering that an assault. It could be 310 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:10.160 that would you say this, Metro, just Metro, listen to 311 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:15.400 me right now. Get in your car, drive to thirty 312 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:20.240 four hundred West Olive Avenue at Burbank, figure out how 313 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:23.240 to get in the building. Michelle, go down and wait 314 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:26.200 in front of the building on the outside, so that 315 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.720 when they drive, when Metro drives up, you bring them 316 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:35.160 up there so I can ask them what the hell 317 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:35.839 they mean? 318 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:39.000 I will go wait, thank you. 319 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:41.839 Just don't assault them, Okay, they're trying to get past this, 320 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:43.640 so don't take your anger out on them. They're just 321 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:44.559 hard working people. 322 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:47.880 Let's get some news from Michael Monks and we'll continue 323 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:51.279 Handle on the news right here on KFI AM six 324 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:54.599 forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 325 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:59.559 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 326 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:00.160 six four. 327 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:05.880 KFIM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's 328 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:09.920 the Bill Hendel Show, and he's back from vacation on Monday. 329 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:13.240 Wayne Resmiks sitting in. We're doing Handle on the news 330 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:18.480 for you, Michael Monks and me. And I'm surprised it 331 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:19.480 took them this long. 332 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:25.400 Yeah, Ukraine ending its supply of Russian gas to Europe. 333 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:28.400 This was making good on a promise that it said 334 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:30.759 it would do. It would stop transporting Russian gas to 335 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:33.880 Europe through its territory, and that deal that it had 336 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:36.640 with Moscow went away on Wednesday. 337 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:37.799 I don't know what this means. 338 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:42.079 I'm not a geopolitical expert on Eastern Europe, and we 339 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:44.400 know that we've got a new president coming into this country. 340 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:47.720 You might have different feelings about that situation, but what 341 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:49.599 does this mean for Europe? 342 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:50.960 What does it mean for Ukraine? 343 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.720 What does it mean for Russia and maybe most importantly, 344 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:58.319 what does it mean for that ongoing conflict there. Ukraine 345 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:02.039 will now face the loss of some eight hundred million 346 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:06.680 dollars a year in transit fees. So they're costing themselves, 347 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:08.359 I guess a bit. 348 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:12.720 But they're costing they're costing Russia more because gas Prom 349 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:17.519 will which is the Russian gas Russian government owned gas concern, 350 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:22.759 will lose five billion dollars in gas sales. 351 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:24.240 Europe will be fine. 352 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:29.519 There's enough non Russian origin gas that can come into 353 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.880 Europe from alternative routes, so it's not going to be 354 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:36.000 a crisis for Europe. What I'm saying to you is 355 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:39.440 a long time ago they had a deal, we'll move 356 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:42.200 your gas through Ukraine and you'll pay us, you know, 357 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:46.440 we'll get a cut. And then Russia attacked them and 358 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:50.319 has been bombing them and all this time when we've 359 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:53.160 seen although notice we're not paying that much attention anymore, 360 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:56.200 certainly not on a daily basis to this war, but 361 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:58.559 it's still a war going on. But even during the 362 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:01.039 time when every day they bomb and they did this, 363 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:06.599 and they were still honoring their agreement with the company 364 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:09.160 that is bombing the crap out of them. 365 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:13.640 I don't know. I don't know to whether to. 366 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:19.240 Admire them or you know, slap Zelenski upside the head 367 00:21:19.799 --> 00:21:21.279 for being a weirdo about it. 368 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:25.759 So now we're beating up metro drivers and international leaders. Wayne, 369 00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:28.359 you gotta long this before you leave. Put him on 370 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:31.200 a metro bus and I can't get at him. All Right, 371 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:32.880 ladies and gentlemen, here we go. 372 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:39.279 Finally, sheesh man, I've been screaming about this for you know, Michelle, 373 00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:42.480 how long I've been screaming about the California didn't have 374 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:46.319 a state crustacean or an official state slug or an 375 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:48.880 official state seashell. 376 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:50.559 I remember remember during the O. J. 377 00:21:50.680 --> 00:21:53.559 Simpson trial, and I would come on the air and 378 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:56.160 refuse to talk about what was happening at the trial 379 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:59.960 because I went on hours long ranch that we did 380 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:05.519 didn't have a state slug. Well, finally we do, ladies 381 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:11.200 and gentlemen, Governor Gavin whoso signed laws and as of today, 382 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:19.720 California's official state crustacean is the dungeonis crab, the official. 383 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:25.640 State slug of California is the Banana slug, and the 384 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:33.440 official state sea show of California is the black abaloney. 385 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:40.359 These are all fine choices. I have no complaints. Yes, 386 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:43.000 good job everybody picking those things. You know, the banana 387 00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:46.880 slug obviously because you see Santa Cruz's mascot is a 388 00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:51.279 banana slug named Sammy the Slug, so we know that 389 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:54.240 he kind of There was no way the banana slug 390 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:58.240 was not gonna win the slug contest, the slugfest, if 391 00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:00.680 you will, to become the state slug. 392 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:02.240 Now, I don't know the competition. 393 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:07.119 The dungeon is crab lobby must have really greased some palms. 394 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:11.720 And the black abalony. That's Have you ever seen a 395 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:17.839 black cabalony shell? They're gorgeous. No, I've never seen gorgeous. Yeah, 396 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:20.319 they're very pretty. And you're just looking at a photo 397 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:23.839 of one. Yeah, yeah, I'd like to have one. 398 00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:27.759 Wish one? Would you rather eat? No, I'm not eating 399 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:29.480 any oh oh of these? The crab. 400 00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:31.240 You have to eat the crab, right, you don't think 401 00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:33.960