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Speaker 2: Yes, it is a Friday, February twenty. First, it's a
Speaker 2: Foody Friday at A twenty. We do it for Foody
Speaker 2: Friday with Neil and I have a very deep, deep
Speaker 2: question that I have for Neil starting the segment. Not
Speaker 2: going to share it with you. This is a tease,
Speaker 2: see to get you to listen. It is a question
Speaker 2: of great import. Also, looking at some of the news,
Speaker 2: the Senate yesterday confirmed Cash Patel is FBI director. Of
Speaker 2: course they did, because it really doesn't matter if Cash
Speaker 2: Pattel is a lunatic and hates the FBI more so
Speaker 2: than any FBI director that I can ever remember. But
Speaker 2: for example, he wants to clean out closed down FBI headquarters.
Speaker 2: That's what he said in Washington, d C. And that
Speaker 2: is the.
Speaker 3: Hoover Building, right you bet, j Edgar Hoover.
Speaker 2: Building, and he wants to change it to what is
Speaker 2: historically correct, and that's the j Edgar transvestite building.
Speaker 3: A little bit of historical background for you. So let
Speaker 3: me move to matter of fact. Let me move the
Speaker 3: administration on what's going on.
Speaker 2: The response to Trump being elected I've never seen anything
Speaker 2: like in all of the years that I've been looking
Speaker 2: at presidential elections. And one of the responses and people
Speaker 2: are I mean, people are more engaged in what this
Speaker 2: election is about on both sides.
Speaker 3: And you have to only look around and not live under.
Speaker 2: A rock to realize that the people that hate him
Speaker 2: really hate him, that people that love him really love him.
Speaker 2: And one of the offshoots, one of the chapters of
Speaker 2: all of this is a number of people who say
Speaker 2: they are leaving the United States because of Trump and
Speaker 2: are actually leaving now. The reality is a lot of
Speaker 2: celebrities say they are leaving. They said they're leaving the
Speaker 2: first time around, and they're now saying they leave. They're
Speaker 2: lead definitely leaving this time around. A few have left.
Speaker 2: Eva Longoria has left, a few others have bailed out.
Speaker 2: But for the most part, everybody says I'm leaving, I'm leaving,
Speaker 2: I'm leaving. Don't but let me tell you what is
Speaker 2: going on, And that doesn't matter those celebrities. Doesn't matter
Speaker 2: if some film star leaves, Okay, fine, great, now, let
Speaker 2: me tell you what is happening. February eighth, the German
Speaker 2: news magazine Dershpiegel very well regarded report of the max
Speaker 2: Planck Society, one of the world's top scientific research institution,
Speaker 2: is experiencing a major uptick in application from American scientists,
Speaker 2: a brain drain. The president of the Society regards the
Speaker 2: US as a quote talent new talent pool.
Speaker 3: Time.
Speaker 2: When the Trump administration is cutting billions and funding, for example,
Speaker 2: to the National Institutes of Help, scientists are leaving scientists
Speaker 2: who either work for the government or work for institutions
Speaker 2: that are funded in grants by the government. That is
Speaker 2: a problem, because that is a real brain drain. Now
Speaker 2: is that happening. Well, at this point, all we have
Speaker 2: is a huge uptick of applications and inquiries. By the way,
Speaker 2: the max Planck Society, here's a bit of historical irony
Speaker 2: for you. The max Planck Society has been around in
Speaker 2: Germany for well over one hundred years, if not earlier,
Speaker 2: and it was from the max Planck Society that still
Speaker 2: existed in the Third Reich under Nazism, that German scientists
Speaker 2: left Germany to come to the United States, including Albert Einstein.
Speaker 2: You know that the majority of scientists who created the
Speaker 2: atomic bomb were German scientists who had come because of emigration.
Speaker 3: They had to get the hell out. Now their lives
Speaker 3: were at stake.
Speaker 2: Here, of course, lives are not at stake, but you're
Speaker 2: also seeing people searching for terms like dual citizenship. You
Speaker 2: had significant spikes on election day in inauguration day. And
Speaker 2: let me tell you what's going on personally. I am
Speaker 2: applying for citizenship for Poland. Now does that mean I'm
Speaker 2: leaving the United States?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I've always wanted to live in Italy for several months
Speaker 2: a year, of which I'm going to do. But I
Speaker 2: am going to be a Polish citizen. I'm going to
Speaker 2: be the butt of every poll out joke you've ever heard.
Speaker 3: In your life.
Speaker 2: Because I want a EU passport so I can zip
Speaker 2: and live wherever I want over in Europe. I don't
Speaker 2: have to worry about American visus because Americans are not
Speaker 2: going to do well over, not for a while. And
Speaker 2: so if I have a European passport, of which Poland
Speaker 2: is a member of the U, I'm home.
Speaker 3: Free American passports.
Speaker 2: I don't know right now, you know it's it's gonna
Speaker 2: be rough, uh for those of us who have one,
Speaker 2: and I probably matter of fact, I'm gonna probably use
Speaker 2: my Brazilian passport when I travel around, even though there
Speaker 2: are visa requirements. I think it's just just different Americans.
Speaker 2: You go to France, not so much anymore, but the
Speaker 2: French used to hate Americans.
Speaker 3: There's still a little bit of disdain. So it's it's
Speaker 3: a different world. It is.
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you from Italy. Aliva, derci baby, Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe not?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: It is time for Foody Friday with Neil Sabedra and
Speaker 2: me coming up right after this segment. It's asked handle anything,
Speaker 2: which is always fine, all right, Neil, Yes, we do
Speaker 2: Foody Friday. I have a very deep philosophical question. Oh boy,
Speaker 2: since birds are killing us now right, well, it's or
Speaker 2: we're we're on pandemic. Yeah yeah, So what's going to
Speaker 2: kill us first? The chicken or the egg?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's what you want to lead with. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I do know that
Speaker 1: one of the questions that I've been asked a lot
Speaker 1: lately is how come egg prices are going up? One
Speaker 1: of the reasons is the Avian flu. The second is
Speaker 1: just you know, economic inflation right now, and that's where
Speaker 1: we are. But the the avian flu has been a
Speaker 1: huge part of it. You know that they have to
Speaker 1: proactively kill a lot of egg laying hens because of
Speaker 1: concern about the avian So if one gets it, then
Speaker 1: to protect other parts of the flock, they actually have
Speaker 1: to destroy it.
Speaker 2: Going back to my joke, which turns only out to
Speaker 2: be half a joke, is actually yes.
Speaker 3: Sometimes a quarter of a joke.
Speaker 2: You would think that because of the culling of the flocks,
Speaker 2: I mean the destruction of.
Speaker 3: Entire flocks, millions, millions, Why.
Speaker 2: Aren't the the chickens that are used, you know, the
Speaker 2: cooking chickens, eating chickens, Why aren't they affected like the eggs?
Speaker 1: Okay, there are two types of chickens. So the hens
Speaker 1: that lay the eggs are egg laying hens. The other
Speaker 1: chickens that we eat or you're going to get your
Speaker 1: rotisserie chicken, and those prices aren't going through the roof
Speaker 1: or anything. They are roasters. They're two different chickens. And
Speaker 1: not only are they two different chickens, but they are
Speaker 1: raised differently as well. So the hen laying or the
Speaker 1: egg laying hens tend to be in migrant they're in
Speaker 1: tighter quarters, they're older because you're using them for longer.
Speaker 1: You're not killing them for meat. Now you're killing off
Speaker 1: the roaster chickens at a young age six eight weeks
Speaker 1: whatever it is, and so they're not living long enough
Speaker 1: to often catch this. Plus they're not in the migratory
Speaker 1: paths of certain birds that are carrying the disease over,
Speaker 1: so it's not hitting them. It hits them a little bit,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't hit them to the degree, so it's
Speaker 1: not passed along to us in any way, shape or form,
Speaker 1: because they're not being destroyed the same way. So you
Speaker 1: can still go out and get chicken or you know,
Speaker 1: we had the Super Bowl, people were going out get
Speaker 1: chicken wings. Totally different situation. The birds that the hens
Speaker 1: that are laying the eggs are around much longer. They're
Speaker 1: in different quarters and they come across other birds depending
Speaker 1: on where they are. And you know what's nuts. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're down to I don't know, one hundred million egg
Speaker 1: laying birds right now or something. We almost have to
Speaker 1: have one egg laying chicken per person in the United
Speaker 1: States to be at.
Speaker 3: The normal rationship.
Speaker 2: That's three times.
Speaker 1: But isn't that insane? Like it takes that's about what
Speaker 1: it is. It's somewhere around three hundred and let's say
Speaker 1: eighteen three hundred and twenty million hens, and we're around
Speaker 1: one hundred and some odd million ring.
Speaker 3: But you know you're right. For example, you still get
Speaker 3: the rotistary chicken.
Speaker 2: We talked about that earlier this morning at Costco, and
Speaker 2: the other day I was at Costco because I'm always
Speaker 2: at Costco, and I know you buy a rotissary chicken,
Speaker 2: it's still five bucks and they.
Speaker 3: Give you a thermometer they throw it in.
Speaker 1: It is well, that's a lost leader of course for them,
Speaker 1: of course, but it is. People do get confused when
Speaker 1: they say, well, aren't we killing off the chickens? And
Speaker 1: how come we're able to get decent prices When you
Speaker 1: look at eggs.
Speaker 3: We just paid.
Speaker 1: Nine dollars or something for eggs at the local grocery
Speaker 1: store for a dozen eggs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty crazy. That's nine bucks. What should they
Speaker 3: be considering inflation.
Speaker 1: Around three dollars? I think three fifty? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that that could still be Yeah, that would probably be
Speaker 1: about the norm, maybe maybe even a little lower. They
Speaker 1: can be very inexpensive when we are in complete balance.
Speaker 2: So how long does it take to bring back the
Speaker 2: flocks to the point where we hit normal production?
Speaker 1: You know there, I've seen different and read different different
Speaker 1: timelines as to what it would take. But we're definitely
Speaker 1: not going to turn it around overnight. I mean you're
Speaker 1: looking at I was reading about someone breaking down how
Speaker 1: a lot of people want to start their own little
Speaker 1: egg farms in their in their backyard. A lot of
Speaker 1: people are doing that, and they're even saying don't buy
Speaker 1: an adult chicken or hand to raise them from chicks,
Speaker 1: to control their environment and how they're raised in all
Speaker 1: of those things. So it does take to get to
Speaker 1: maturity to start laying eggs does take some times, and
Speaker 1: of course you know that's part of the egg laying
Speaker 1: processes as well. They're just not eating them, they're fertilizing them.
Speaker 1: And and when you have a shortage, now you're using
Speaker 1: some of those eggs to create more.
Speaker 2: You are you using less eggs in your life? I am?
Speaker 3: I am?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we go. I've got an eight year
Speaker 1: old boy, so and I love eggs. I think eggs
Speaker 1: are a cheap, easy protein and you know, and they're tasty,
Speaker 1: so but yeah, I eat a little less eggs these days,
Speaker 1: just you know, but we we still keep them in
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 2: They're still there, all right, Neil, Oh, tomorrow you do
Speaker 2: the Fork Report.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm broadcasting live tomorrow from Morongo Casino Resort and
Speaker 1: Spa there in Cabazon. It will be good fun, yep.
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to share with you. But Neil
Speaker 2: and I are in the midst of putting together a
Speaker 2: broadcast together that we have never done.
Speaker 3: And I'm talking about yeah that one. Okay, okay, all right?
Speaker 1: What a tease?
Speaker 2: What a tease?
Speaker 3: I can tease myself anything I can't fine handle.
Speaker 2: Here we in Friday, last two segments with ask Me
Speaker 2: Anything or ask handle Anything. And we do this every
Speaker 2: Friday now and we record questions during the week and
Speaker 2: Cono plays them.
Speaker 3: I have not heard these questions.
Speaker 2: Case of first impressionment is we say in the legal
Speaker 2: field and I get to answer them spontaneously and usually
Speaker 2: well you'll hear Cono. Why don't we start and give
Speaker 2: everybody a taste of asininity? Is that now a verb
Speaker 2: to asinine?
Speaker 3: All right? Hey, Bill, just wondering what was the most.
Speaker 1: Pivotal moment in your life that really shaped you into
Speaker 1: the man you are?
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: My circumcision, I was eight days old and I still
Speaker 2: remember the cutting off of the schwantz. By the way,
Speaker 2: just a quick little bit of information for you. Do
Speaker 2: you know that you rarely see Jewish alcoholics very rarely.
Speaker 3: And you know why. I'll tell you why. There's a
Speaker 3: reason for it.
Speaker 2: Because when a baby is circumcised, usually a male baby,
Speaker 2: the moil, the guy who does a circumcision, usually a rabbi,
Speaker 2: gets the kid drunk, literally gets the kid drunk. You
Speaker 2: dip you a little rag or a little bit of
Speaker 2: cloth into a into some wine, and the kid suckles
Speaker 2: on it because kids do. That kid is high, and
Speaker 2: then there goes the slice. And so here's what happens.
Speaker 2: And this is subconsciously because you really don't remember. Subconsciously,
Speaker 2: it's alcohol schaunts being cut, alcohol schaunts being cut. That
Speaker 2: was a pivotal moment in my life. Let me tell you, God,
Speaker 2: I remember that took off too much. Actually, okay, let's
Speaker 2: move on.
Speaker 1: Hey, Bill, is it true that you have a little
Speaker 1: satchel of jew gold around your neck?
Speaker 3: Just carrious you anti Semite?
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm the only one that can make
Speaker 2: fun of Jews. Okay, that that one's done. God, I
Speaker 2: hit anti Semitism, except when I'm doing it.
Speaker 4: What if he was a Jewish guy.
Speaker 2: Then he's self loathing you the way I am. Then
Speaker 2: that's legitimate. Then okay, moving on, Bill, I.
Speaker 5: Have a question for you. What do you listen to
Speaker 5: on your way home? Do you listen to KFI? Or
Speaker 5: do you ever listen to KFI going or coming from home?
Speaker 5: And will you listen to them on your way home
Speaker 5: when you move? And if you listen to music, what
Speaker 5: kind of music do you like?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a good question.
Speaker 2: First of all, I already am in my new home,
Speaker 2: so I'll tell you what I default to.
Speaker 3: I don't listen to a lot of music.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I don't listen to a lot of talk radio because, frankly,
Speaker 2: I think that all of us are miserable. Had if
Speaker 2: I was the program director, i'd fire everybody and put
Speaker 2: me on probation. Frankly at this station, because I hear that.
Speaker 2: I hear a lot, and so I'm involved. You know what,
Speaker 2: I do listen to a lot of hard news. In
Speaker 2: case you haven't guessed you yet, I'm a hard news junkie,
Speaker 2: and so I'll listen on the way. I listen to CNN.
Speaker 2: I'll listen to Fox. I'll listen to BBC. I read
Speaker 2: the newspaper every morning, so I do that a lot.
Speaker 2: But I do Channel Surf. Whenever I want to feel
Speaker 2: complete hatred towards everybody, I will tune into John COLEBLT.
Speaker 2: When I want to hear sports that I don't understand
Speaker 2: at all, I'll listen to Gary and Shannon. But and
Speaker 2: then music I will listen to. I like Beatles, that
Speaker 2: sort of thing. The two stations I listen to and Sirious,
Speaker 2: the Blend and whatever the other one is that plays
Speaker 2: my kind of mellow music, because I'm a mellow kind
Speaker 2: of guy. Okay, on see, I don't say I'm telling
Speaker 2: you I have not heard these questions.
Speaker 3: And that's what makes this so much fun. All right,
Speaker 3: cono one more before the break.
Speaker 6: Hi, Bill, this is Joan, and I'm headed to Orange
Speaker 6: County in April, and I'm going to go to the
Speaker 6: Anaheim White House on your major suggestions, since your daughter
Speaker 6: got married there, so I wanted to know what I
Speaker 6: should order there.
Speaker 3: Good question.
Speaker 6: I would take your advice and hope that you can
Speaker 6: offer good Joan.
Speaker 2: All right, Joan, I hope you don't die before April.
Speaker 2: You sound like you're one hundred and forty, which I
Speaker 2: get a lot of that handle on the law and
Speaker 2: what to order an Anaheim White House, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: Virtually everything is good and that's and I'm not kidding. Okay,
Speaker 2: they have a lost of Ravioli that you will die for.
Speaker 2: They do seafood. Cono just went and what you ConA?
Speaker 3: What you order?
Speaker 4: Did the buscatinii buukatini?
Speaker 3: That's Michelle? Hey, come on, come on.
Speaker 4: I have a suggestion the paper Dolly Bowlin aise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's excellent, very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Michelle knows her stuff, being being an Italian.
Speaker 3: Forget about it.
Speaker 4: Also, the Secret Service drink was really good.
Speaker 3: I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 4: I don't beverage for over twenty one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't drink, so I'm.
Speaker 4: Telling you that other people that do drink. Yeah, secret Service, Okay,
Speaker 4: get it is it's at the White House.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's called the Secret Service. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So they do great pastas. They also have to have
Speaker 2: great steaks too. Even though it's northern, a lot of
Speaker 2: northern Italian and Bruno is self taught.
Speaker 3: He has not had one cooking class in his entire life.
Speaker 4: His mama taught him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, his mama taught him. Yeah, he did that right.
Speaker 4: Okay, Bill.
Speaker 6: Considering the price of eggs in southern California, my friends
Speaker 6: and I are discussing and I need your economic advice.
Speaker 5: Do you think the when the.
Speaker 6: Market recovers from bird flu, if the prices will ever
Speaker 6: go back to a dollar.
Speaker 5: Ninety nine for a dozen eggs? Help?
Speaker 4: We need your advice.
Speaker 3: No idea, got nothing.
Speaker 1: Next question, Bill, if you had a free trip on
Speaker 1: that cruise ship with.
Speaker 3: Colbert, would you go Cobalt? Would I go?
Speaker 2: You have no idea how much money I would pay
Speaker 2: not to go with John Cobalt.
Speaker 3: It's astronomical.
Speaker 2: I have actually traveled with John Cobalt, and I don't
Speaker 2: know how many years ago. That must have been twenty
Speaker 2: five thirty years ago. I'm still in therapy over that,
Speaker 2: by the way.
Speaker 7: Next question, I really enjoyed your podcast, and I was
Speaker 7: sad that you decided not to do it anymore. But
Speaker 7: I was wondering more about your mom's side of the
Speaker 7: family and how she came to Brazil.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a very good Oh, that's a good question.
Speaker 2: She came to Brazil because my grandmother. Now she came
Speaker 2: my mom went to Brazil and she came as an infant,
Speaker 2: my grandma who came from Poland. She was a victim
Speaker 2: of the Pigrims who that were going this Nazi Germany.
Speaker 2: Jewish people didn't do very well in Poland, especially it
Speaker 2: was always Russia Pole and it went back and forth
Speaker 2: unzer Zar Nicholas, both the first and the second. They
Speaker 2: just weren't treated well, and there were programs. The Cossacks
Speaker 2: came around, they just started killing everybody, and so she
Speaker 2: got the hell out, which is why interesting. I mean,
Speaker 2: that gives me another offshoot. Good that let me write
Speaker 2: into the next little segment that I want to give
Speaker 2: you a little bit of history. The reason that in
Speaker 2: the Jewish religion, your Judaism, someone's being Jewish flows from
Speaker 2: the mother, not from the father. From the mother is
Speaker 2: historically because Jewish women were raped so many times.
Speaker 3: Over the course of history.
Speaker 2: As these programs come through that you could delineate easily
Speaker 2: a child from the mother you knew came from a
Speaker 2: Jewish person. With the father you had no idea because
Speaker 2: of these crazy Cossacks and these military guys who would
Speaker 2: come in pillage and rape. I mean, it's a horrific story,
Speaker 2: but there it is. Don't know if that's true or not,
Speaker 2: but it sure sounds great. I think that is true,
Speaker 2: by the way. Yeah, I mean I think that is.
Speaker 2: Is that apocryphal?
Speaker 3: Not really? All right?
Speaker 8: Next question George Northridge. You know, Bill, I know that
Speaker 8: sometimes you can come across as a pretty harsh person
Speaker 8: in your opinions, And I'm just curious, Bill, have you
Speaker 8: ever been in a situation where, you know, if you
Speaker 8: expressed your opinion and you've angered that said person or
Speaker 8: person so much that they just got.
Speaker 3: Up and whooped you.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a good question too, by the way, Georgia,
Speaker 2: thanks for asking that question. Ironically enough, George Northridge lives
Speaker 2: in Woodland Hills. I don't know if you knew that.
Speaker 2: Has anybody gotten up and whooped me? No, they've gotten
Speaker 2: up and left me. But you know, I'm a pretty
Speaker 2: big guy. I mean I was six ' one and
Speaker 2: you know, way in two hundred and while I used
Speaker 2: to wig up to three hundred pounds, but no, it's now.
Speaker 2: I used to be six to one. You know how
Speaker 2: when you get older you tend to shrink. I used
Speaker 2: to be six to one I'm five foot four now,
Speaker 2: I mean, there just is incredible shrinkage going on.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna finish it up with that because
Speaker 2: we have a good time. I had by all. Also,
Speaker 2: at some point some one will ask me, and maybe
Speaker 2: I'll share with you next time, and I'll ask myself
Speaker 2: of all the questions I've gotten on Hand Along the Law.
Speaker 3: I keep in mind, let me tell you how long
Speaker 3: Hand Along the Law has.
Speaker 2: Been on the air since nineteen eighty five, Okay, I
Speaker 2: mean that's approaching a long time. I think next week
Speaker 2: I'm going to share with you the best phone call
Speaker 2: I have ever had in all of the years that
Speaker 2: I have been doing Handle on the Law.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, we are done.
Speaker 2: Coming up. It's Gary and Shannon at twelve thirty this
Speaker 2: morning or this afternoon. Actor comedian TJ. Miller will be
Speaker 2: their guest. I am back well tomorrow eight to eleven
Speaker 2: on Handle on the Laws, you know, following Dean Dean
Speaker 2: Sharp House Whisper afternoon two to five, Well Rich tomurrow
Speaker 2: after me, and then Neil two to five with the
Speaker 2: Folk Report, And so Monday it all comes back again.
Speaker 2: Amy wake up call. She's from five to six. The
Speaker 2: rest of us are well. Neil and I joined from
Speaker 2: six to nine, and then Anne. I think Ann comes
Speaker 2: back today. Michelle. Michelle's been with me for well, she
Speaker 2: was a producer of this show for almost twenty six
Speaker 2: years or twenty six years. Let me tell you, when
Speaker 2: we look at each other, how disgusted we are with
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 3: We went at it way too long.
Speaker 4: And Cono, that's kind of just how everyone looks at you.
Speaker 2: I know, they thank you very much, Cono. You know,
Speaker 2: Cono one time actually used to be intimidated by me.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it is a horrific concept. Handle and
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