April 15, 2024 • 27 mins
Amy King and SPECIAL GUEST Petros Papadakis join Bill for Handel on the News. Israel vows to retaliate after Iran’s attack: what could happen next? Iran issues fresh threat to U.S. LAPD increasing patrols around religious sites following Iran drone strikes in Israel. Today is TAX DAY for most Americans. Here’s what you need to know. What prosecutors have to prove in the Trump hush money trial. California granted Presidential Major Disaster Declaration for February storm recovery efforts. Measles case confirmed in visitor who traveled through LA County, health officials say.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I AM six forty Kiss the
doors came over, were wiped outby the beasles and malaria and STDs.
They had sat with their horses thecome kiss the doors, and that's how
they developed these strange, weird STDs. You're all gonna go down and look
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at that Caprio statue in Sam Peter. Yeah, he's right behind the horse
and there's a close look out andhe's stepping and he's on a step on
a stool. He's got to beon a stool. Yeah, were okay,
got people weren't that tall? Andnow Handle on the news, ladies
and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle,and good morning everybody. Bill Handle here
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on a Monday morning, April fifteenth, Tax day. Today, also we
celebrate the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.Well, maybe we don't celebrate it.
We remember that he was actually shoton the fourteenth, but died on the
fifteenth of April. And do weknow what time he died, by the
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way, doo doo doo, doodoo doo do gerbilish, he died at
seven twenty two am on the fifteenth. And now he is one for the
ages. That was Stanton who wasSecretary of War, who said that was
shed a whole story on that.Yeah, and we should do Oh wait
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real quick, will you mute?Yeah? I do beauty now? Thank
you? She got me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did it.
It's Monday, and I was goingto take a day or two for
me to get used to everything.You forget every weekend, I do.
I become Monday. I forget.Now I am thinking here, I am.
I'm thinking about the assassination of AbrahamLincoln who was in the room.
What happened to Mary Lincoln? Sheat the time what she was nuts,
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but she went nuts, right,She was always nuts, she was always
paranoid, but she went right intocrazy after the assassination, I mean completely
nuts. Yeah, ended up ina place that you don't want to be.
Well, in her mind didn't matter. So anyway, Good morning,
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Petros, Good morning Bill. Allright, Amy, Good morning, Hi
Bill. Hey, you know whatthere's a new show on I think it's
on Apple TV because I just watchedit called Manhunt and it's about the assassination
of Lincoln and then the search forJohn Wilkes Booth. Yeah, and his
co conspirators. Yep, yep,yep. Of them were hanged. Some
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actually got away. Do you knowthat? Some got away. The dude
that held the horse, well,he got away. He got away.
Also, the guy who took themacross the river into Maryland gott no,
into Virginia got the way got away. Wasn't Maryland or Virginia. I think
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it was Maryland and Doc or SamuelMudd who set the leg. Yep,
he set the leg of John Wilkesbooth. Is that where we got Yes,
that's exactly where we got that.That's precisely where we got that.
He set the leg. And thenhe was convicted and tried. He was
tried and convicted and sent to prisonin the Tortugas and was pardoned. When
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I was watching the show last nightor yesterday afternoon, I thought about that
when they had him on, becauselast week you were talking about the origins
of catchphrases and stuff. Yeah,so yeah, did you know where they
got Hooker? Oh? Yeah,from General Hooker in the Civil War.
Yeah, he was also a CivilWar guy. He was He was the
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head of the Army of the Potomacfor a little while until he screwed it.
Up. I think he screwed upSpotsylvania or something. And he he
had so many women of a certainemployment. Yeah, and and big long
cigars, and Burnside had side sideburns. Comes from burn Side and they
switched around to General who had sideburns. Yep, a lot of that.
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And Spotsylvania came from the Rocky andBullwinkle cartoon. Did you know that's
right? That trick never worked?Uh yeah, okay, Uh, fair
enough, Okay, con Oh,good morning, riveting stuff guys. So
I just did the whole Shelby Foot. It was two hundred hours of listening.
I did the whole Civil War history, and I think every everybody should
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read that book. It is fascinating. It is I'm ready to learn what
happens. It's just as it isfascinating, absolutely fascinating. And all right,
uh amy, hello and good morning, good morning. Okay, and
we already got Cono, I believe. Yeah. Hookers, oh hookers,
that's it's all lakered out, Kno'sall lakerd out. Yeah yeah. And
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Petros. I got a call fromAnn that Petros who had asked for that
Mark Furman song. Oh. Iplayed it on the radio. I've been
listening to it all weekend. TheMark for Mana. I still can't believe
that happened. Yeah, Seriaman whowould not give interviews after the OJ trial.
He was the cop who a lotof the trial was based on that
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OJ was really being nailed for racismand Mark Furman got a boy. He
was convicted for perjury because he saidhe didn't use the word. In fact,
he did use the word. Andhe actually came on to this show
because I'd known him for a fewyears beforehand, and gave a parody of
himself and it was I've never seenPetros laugh so hard when we initially played
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it when he said to the Nword, I am no stranger. That
doesn't mean the evidence rearrange it.I am Mark for Mana. Yeah,
just Bob Dylan esk Yeah, TimKelly, believe whoever wrote that. Tim
Kelly did very very He used tobe on the show. He's married to
Michelle Kelly. Here on the show, Michelle Cube, Michelle Cube, Michelle
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Cube Kelly. Oh oh yeah,I get it now. Yeah, she
goes by Kelly, except here shegoes by Cube because we've known her as
Cube for all these years. Okay, Yeah, I played that song and
people I would say it was polarizingin modern day I think modern day sports
talk radio was barely It was justright on the edge for polarizing. Wouldn't
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people think that was hilarious? Peopleare idiots? No, well, I
don't care. It doesn't matter.I understand my whole life Petros, but
it's I can't imagine you would lookat that other than cono. Play that
for a second. You have itjust to remind people what it is if
people had several times. Yeah,and then we'll go right into the news.
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It's Monday and we've got a lotto talking about. There we go.
This is Mark Firming. He getsthe blood going, Belle. We're
doing this one to death, aren'twe. This will be the last one?
Why not last one? Else?Every time I hear my name,
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it's always to get the blamer.They say the word I used helped to
free the juice. I'm marked formana. Okay, that's enough. Oh
yeah, you can listen to thatall day long. Put it you put
it on your phone as your ringer. I might make it the entrance on
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the show. Yeah, wouldn't thatbe hilarious? All right, Yeah,
time for a handle of the newswith Amy Petros in today and me lead
story interesting to say the least inthe Middle East. As you know,
we reported a couple of weeks agothat Israel had bombed the Iranian consulate in
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Syria and killed twelve people, includinga couple of scene your revolutionary Guard the
generals, and Iran promised retail retaliation, and everybody's wondering, what the hell,
what they what are they going todo? And we know they launched
cruise missiles, they launched drones,they launched rockets towards Israel from these three
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countries, a lot of it fromIran. And what it ended up happening
almost no damage. One one personinjured, a little girl who was severely
severely injured, clinging for her life, and that's it. And before the
missiles stopped flying, they Iran said, that's it, that's all we're gonna
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do. It was basically a messageto Israel. They knew that Israel has
these defenses. They launched these dronesvery slow, some of them are one
hundred miles per hour, every oneof them. The drones were knocked down
before they even entered airspace. Israeliairspace, and Iran said, okay,
that was our message, of course, cheering in all over your on.
Look what we did, Look whatwe did, and that typically happens in
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the Arab world. And now Natagnowho is saying we are going to retaliate,
and everybody is saying, hey,guys, stop right there, okay,
you started it with the bombing ofthe consulate. They responded, No
one was hurt except one person,little girl of her family, of course,
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is devastated, and almost no damage, virtually none because Israeli, the
Israeli patriot systems and their anti missiledefenses just took everything down. As a
matter of fact, England was involved. I think France was involved. American
ally, America was involved in theshooting down these drones. And Natagne who
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is and his war cabinet, hisfundamental crazy ass war cabinet are now allowing
retaliation. And you know, titfor tat. You killed twelve of our
people, we injured one, nodamage. Let's stop right here. We
had to respond to because we hadto respond, and you would think that
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would be it. Everybody around theworld saying hey, done finished. Iran
is saying done, finished, butwe'll see what happens with Israel. Keep
in mind, this is the mostconservative, pro war, anti Arab government
in the history of Iran. TheLPD is going to ramp up patrols around
religious sites following everything popping off inIran with Iran and Israel, and officials
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say they're paying close attention to anypotential threats in Los Angeles, as a
conflict in the Middle East could leadto a larger war in the region.
I do wonder if they're going tobe keeping a close eye on my Greek
Orthodox Church and Redondo Beach. Probablynot, I don't think so, because
the Greek Orthodox Church really isn't atarget. I mean, what does it
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have to do with only in Istanbul? Yeah, I mean, yeah,
there's not much of a target.I mean what can they do. Can
they, you know, charge achurch and force all the women and children
to shave their beards. They can'tdo that. You know, that's a
low blow. You know, thatis a low blow, except it's the
absolute truth. Deodorant and razors.You know, in Athens, though it's
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quite cosmopolitan, there's a lot ofshaving and going to the gym and deodorant.
But outside of there. Everybody's aChrogolodite. You're right. Yeah.
My partner, Karen, who I'vebeen partners with thirty one years, is
Greek Orthodox. And she got marriedin the Greek Orthodox Church and I was
her matron of honor and I wasand the Orthodox priest kept on saying,
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you're with the groom side. Igo, no, no, I'm with
her side. And just you know, he wouldn't get it until finally I
stood up at the wedding next tonext to her and he had it was
a young guy in his early thirties, had a beer down to his waist.
Oh well, yeah, that's kindof the Orthodox priest thing. You
have to have a good beard,yeah, Grant fort Donaldson style beard,
you know. And and the womenand the kids. They do a lot
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of hormone treatment for the youngsters,so the beards grow. There's a lot
of grandma neck beards in the Greekislands. I hate to admit it.
Oh yeah, he knows. Thisman knows the point of pride. Are
you a Greek Orthodox, by theway, I am. Now I'm assuming
you're not religious, or maybe youare. I have idea I do go
to church. Do you yeah,God, those brother sings in the church
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and okay, those are long services. Yeah, they never changed it.
You know, it's called the Divineliturgy, you know. And Catholicism they
cut down the mass pretty significantly overthe years, but not the Greeks.
Well it really depends. You know, six hours if somebody died, they
bring out the loaves of bread.You know, it's like forty day blessing,
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five year blessing, whatever. Andthat takes you know, you know,
you're going into tripping the marriage.You got to walk around the bride
three times and we walk around thetable bye. I just yeah, yeah,
And I was dancing around and holdingthe veil, I mean, doing
all that. Very sweet. Thetaxman cometh with the April fifteenth deadline upon
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us. The IRS Commissioner says theyare seeing a flurry of tax reachfund or
returns coming in. In the finalhours. They've received more than one hundred
million returns and tens of millions morereturns are expected to be filed in the
next few days. Yeah. Imean, most people get a refund,
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which is kind of neat for mostpeople because it's almost it's force savings.
Even though you don't get any intereston it. Interesting, you don't get
any interest when they hang on yourmoney, but when you owe them money,
you pay the interest and they payyour back. They take their own
sweet time, right as opposed topenns. They can get it pretty quickly.
But yeah, it's a matter ofweeks sometimes months. If you get
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it early days, you're gonna getit early days back. I got mine
back. Yeah, you can doit pretty quickly. You seem like a
pretty efficient, responsible person. Well, thank you, Petros, You're welcome.
Donald Trump is going to go toManhattan on Monday morning, that's today,
to be the first president to goto trial for criminal charges. I
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guess this is the only one ofhis cases that are going It's hard for
me to keep track of that isactually going to take place in front of
a jury before the election happens.Is that the case? Yeah? I
think so, because everything else isbeing delayed successfully at this point, and
he is what we're being told nowwhere his lawyers are considering putting him on
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the stand because the way he isgoing to play, if this is not
a criminal trial, this is apolitical trial, and he is being nailed,
attacked, prosecuted, and persecuted bythe state, which is against him,
which is against the voters, andso the way he is portraying it,
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I am the victim, and Iam standing in for you very Jesus
like they're persecuting me, prosecuting bothfor you. I am here for your
sins and your sins are believing theconstitution. You think you'll put his hands
out and have people touch the woundsor at least touched the one hundred dollars
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bills. You know, you grabthe Benjamins. It's official. California is
a disaster again. The California Governor'sOffice of Emergency Services declared a presidential Major
Disaster declaration for several counties, includingLa San Luis, Obispo, Santa Barbara,
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and Ventura. Yeah. I havea question the governor declaring the state
major disaster area. When hasn't itbeen a major disaster area. Well,
this is a particular disaster between theend of January in mid February h amongst
other disasters. I get it,yep, Okay, Petros before you go
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on quick Word, you can hearPetros every day three to seven pm on
AM five seventy La Sports, Petrosand Money is the show. And since
he is on at three o'clock inthe afternoon and doesn't compete here, go
ahead and listen to it. Youyou want, You're welcome. Yeah,
stream it on the iHeart app O. J. Simpson is judged to burn.
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He will be cremated, the executorof this estate says, and that's
going to be in the coming days. Of course. SoJ died last week
at seventy six. It was abig story, and they're not going to
cut out his brain and check itfor CTE. Yeah, he probably didn't
have much of it either. Oh, I bet you he did, you
think, So let me ask youhow badly was he banged around? Less
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more so than others about to say, got back just about as bad as
you could be banged around in footballat any time. He wore it.
I mean he carried the ball thirtythirty five times a game and a lot
of occasions in college and the pros. So, I mean, that's no
excuse for his behavior. But there'sno doubt about it. I've had teammates
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who are just really normal, seeminglywe have, you know, for football
players, and then later in lifejust something switches and they they lose touch
or fall through the cracks, andit's happened with a few guys, you
guys who made millions of dollars playingin the NFL. So it is a
thing. But they're not going tocheck his brain, and I guess they
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can't find out about it until afteryou die and they check your brains.
Yeah great, hey, Petros.With some of the changes that they've made,
is it improving that or are theystill getting I mean, Pete football.
Look, football is interesting because wetackle, right, I mean,
that's the only reason people watch thesport is because they hit each other.
Otherwise it's just, you know,it's flag football. It's not interesting.
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But yes, they've litigated or delegateda lot of a lot of the way
we tackle out of the game andwhat they're able to do to you in
practice. That kind of stuff haschanged dramatically while I've been working, but
not certainly not when I was playing, and certainly not when OJ was playing.
So but they're not going to checkup anyway, So too bad.
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So this guy really got around somebodywho had measles was in the Southland,
and the health department says be carefulif you were at the places where he
was It was from Saturday, Marchthirtieth to Sunday, April first. Sounds
like he was in town for acouple of days, typical touristy kind of
thing, staying at the Sheridan GatewayHotel or at least spend time there,
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went to Universal Studios, and thenwent to a lot of restaurants. Yeah,
we know, a non Los AngelesCounty resident. I don't even know
what that means. Somewhere in thecountry, typhoid Mary. Yeah, somewhere
in India, who the hell knows. Third world country, second world country,
who the hell knows. He hitup the Jack in a Box on
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Manchester in Englewood, Hell yeah,and the Jenny's Splendid ice Cream ki yep,
Kleida's Chicken Shack in Universal Studios.I mean, yeah, it was
busy for a couple of days.You know. The other day I went
through one of those drive through pharmacies. I needed something at the CBS.
So as I'm driving through and theclerk says, okay, can I help
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you? When I order a cheeseburgerwith a large order of fries, and
like nothing, no response, nothing, sir, this is a pharmacy.
Come on, really, it's notthe same bill. People just don't have
the same sense of human that weused to. It looks like the House
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Speaker Mike Johnson says he's going topush for aid to Israel and the Ukraine
this week. So foreign aid fromthe House for Israel because they're being attacked,
I guess, and the Ukraine becausethey've been attacked for quite some time.
Yep. And there's a movement notthat it's going to happen to oust
Mike Johnson. Why is that?Because he is going to agree with some
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Democrats and now believes in foreign aid. We didn't know, but he wants
Ukraine and Israeli aid. Israeli aidis pretty easy. But the Republicans,
hard right Republicans, which he isone of them, or at least under
the control of them, for fearthat he's going to get tossed, have
said continuously we are not going topass anything a budget, aid to Ukraine
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or Israel unless we get the borderunder control. And President Biden caved into
that, by the way, anda bipartisan bill gave them ninety percent of
what they wanted, and we weregoing to go and of course Trump said
no, you will not pass thislegislation. They all saluted and said,
yes sir, and that's what happened. It looks like Johnson is going the
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other way. He's changed his tuneand you're going to see reality hit Congress
where Congress actually decides on its ownwhat decision it makes. So this is
good news and he's going to surviveany attempt to oust him. They're not
going to do it again. AfterKevin McCarthy. They will not The Congress
will not do it again. Fanshave become litigants. More than two fifty
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people who survived that suicide bombing thatkilled twenty two people at an Ariana Grande
concert in Manchester, England, havetaken legal action against Britain's domestic intelligence agency,
called m I five. An officialinquiry last year reported that Britain's domestic
intelligence agency didn't act fast enough onkey information and missed an opportunity to prevent
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the bombing altogether. Yeah, theseare very very unusual suits in England.
They just don't sue very much moreso than they ever did. It was
unheard of before and now you're seeingmore of it. They don't understand our
o litigous society. It's because hereyou can sue and you drop the suit
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and you're done, right or anywherein the middle of the case. Well,
there you sue, and if youdrop the case or it goes or
it goes anywhere against you, automaticallyyou pay all the costs, all of
them, even to the amortized orthe pro radish are of the toilet paper
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that's in the bathroom. You gottapay for the wigs. Yeah, you
got to pay. Those wigs arenot cheap either. By the way,
there you are throwing on I havea wig on. If you look at
the website, you when I dohandle on the Law and Events, I
had the long wig. Yeah.Now is it a photoshopped wig or is
it? No? No, no, no, I haven't the room.
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Is it on like a head?Yeah? No no no, it's not
on it like well, you know, like a woman would have like you
know the I don't keep the winnow, I just throw it in the
closet. Copy that. Uh shotani? Did you hear about this bill?
He hit his first home run asa Dodger. Somebody caught it in
the crowd, a woman named AmberRoman, and uh, they were a
little bit upset about the way theDodgers separated her from the ball. Uh.
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It happened in a way that therewas unsavory. Uh in her opinion,
I guess, And there was anarticle written. So the Dodgers came
back around and had her take apicture with shoe hal Tani and now she's
happy. Uh. The best partabout this was her her Twitter handle was,
Yeah, it's really weird how theydid it. As a matter of
fact, I have a podcast that'sstarting in a couple of weeks. Uh,
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yeah, the Bill Handle Show podcast. I decided to go into that
realm. Yeah, I do awhole story about this and how what the
rules are in terms of returning baseballsand what baseball can do and what football
does when a ball goes into thestands and show, hey, Otani,
this is first homer as a Dodger. It's caught and immediately, according to
Amber the authorities quote, the Dodgersofficials go separate her from her husband and
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do a hard sell. We wantto authenticate the ball, but which isn't
true. I mean they wouldn't beable to authenticate it anyway. MLB authenticates
the ball, So that's why theDodgers tried to make this right because it
didn't look good right off the bat. That being said, my best advice
if you catch a home run ballat a baseball game, if it's something
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of significance like this is going tobe worth a couple hundred g's. I
guess some of the prognosticators said,get the hell out of there, leave
the stadium, make sure everybody seesyou with the ball. Walk out of
the stadium. Well, how doyou authenticate it? Then you go to
MLB there's video. They can figureout that it's the They can figure out
is that ball. Yeah, they'renot going to screw you over. Well,
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what if you went to the storeand bought ten other balls on your
way out and then tried to sellthat is They're like a microscopic serial and
you can't trust the team. Idon't know about that, but you cannot
trust the team to uh. Theywill. They just want to separate you
from the ball and they will giveyou useless, signed crap that is nothing,
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you know, and that's that's theirprerogative. They want to get the
ball back to the player and theywant to do it as quickly as possible.
In the euphoria of the moment now. And I did this on the
podcast, and I may be deadass wrong. Major league football, you
can't keep the ball. They throwit in the stands and they go out
and grab it and want unless youlike tuck it and run like a football
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player. You'd have to and that'shard because they will get you. But
that has happened. But uh,yeah, footballs are worth more money.
And football's belong to the teams.You know that, Uh you know those
are your football's, Like you knowthe Tom Brady I deflated the ball,
You know that those are their balls. You know, that's the ball he's
comfortable throwing. So when they're onoffense, they use their ball. Yeah,
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they do get those back. Yeah. And the great story of the
guy who caught Tom Brady's last footballlast touchdown football paid five hundred thousand dollars
for it, and then Tom Bradycomes back the next season and all of
a sudden, your five hundred thousanddollars football isn't worth jack because it's not
his last touchdown pass memorabilia. Peopleare idiots, But I who catch anything,
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you get the hell out of there. And on this podcast, it's
one of the first one that's comingout. Man, and I go through
the whole series of memorabilia. Whatstuff costs? I mean, it is
crazy. What memorabilia costs makes nosense sometimes. All right, what is
it worth for your last touchdown whenyou played at sc About as about as
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much as uh, just a footballyou'd buy there, you go, it's
just the football. As a matterof fact, it's a used football.
It probably looks like one of thoseold timey footballs. It looks like a
big bag. You'd buy it atpeer one import. All right, guys,
we are done. That was alot of fun. Good luck with
a podcast. Excuse me, goodluck with a podcast? Oh thank you.
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I'm going to try that one.It's I'm recording him now and it's
hey, that is how do younot have a podcast? Today? Everybody
has a podcast. So I'm goingto just be talking a lot more about
it over the next few weeks.All right, Petros, thank you,
Petros and Mony every single day threeto seven pm AM five seventy LA sports.
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And he has reached that his socialat Petros and Money. Petros will
see you on Wednesday. I'll beback. I love it all right,
KF I am six forty live everywhereon the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I AM six forty Kiss the
doors came over, were wiped outby the beasles and malaria and STDs.
They had sat with their horses thecome kiss the doors, and that's how
they developed these strange, weird STDs. You're all gonna go down and look
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at that Caprio statue in Sam Peter. Yeah, he's right behind the horse
and there's a close look out andhe's stepping and he's on a step on
a stool. He's got to beon a stool. Yeah, were okay,
got people weren't that tall? Andnow Handle on the news, ladies
and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle,and good morning everybody. Bill Handle here
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on a Monday morning, April fifteenth, Tax day. Today, also we
celebrate the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.Well, maybe we don't celebrate it.
We remember that he was actually shoton the fourteenth, but died on the
fifteenth of April. And do weknow what time he died, by the
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way, doo doo doo, doodoo doo do gerbilish, he died at
seven twenty two am on the fifteenth. And now he is one for the
ages. That was Stanton who wasSecretary of War, who said that was
shed a whole story on that.Yeah, and we should do Oh wait
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real quick, will you mute?Yeah? I do beauty now? Thank
you? She got me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did it.
It's Monday, and I was goingto take a day or two for
me to get used to everything.You forget every weekend, I do.
I become Monday. I forget.Now I am thinking here, I am.
I'm thinking about the assassination of AbrahamLincoln who was in the room.
What happened to Mary Lincoln? Sheat the time what she was nuts,
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but she went nuts, right,She was always nuts, she was always
paranoid, but she went right intocrazy after the assassination, I mean completely
nuts. Yeah, ended up ina place that you don't want to be.
Well, in her mind didn't matter. So anyway, Good morning,
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Petros, Good morning Bill. Allright, Amy, Good morning, Hi
Bill. Hey, you know whatthere's a new show on I think it's
on Apple TV because I just watchedit called Manhunt and it's about the assassination
of Lincoln and then the search forJohn Wilkes Booth. Yeah, and his
co conspirators. Yep, yep,yep. Of them were hanged. Some
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actually got away. Do you knowthat? Some got away. The dude
that held the horse, well,he got away. He got away.
Also, the guy who took themacross the river into Maryland gott no,
into Virginia got the way got away. Wasn't Maryland or Virginia. I think
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it was Maryland and Doc or SamuelMudd who set the leg. Yep,
he set the leg of John Wilkesbooth. Is that where we got Yes,
that's exactly where we got that.That's precisely where we got that.
He set the leg. And thenhe was convicted and tried. He was
tried and convicted and sent to prisonin the Tortugas and was pardoned. When
(03:22):
I was watching the show last nightor yesterday afternoon, I thought about that
when they had him on, becauselast week you were talking about the origins
of catchphrases and stuff. Yeah,so yeah, did you know where they
got Hooker? Oh? Yeah,from General Hooker in the Civil War.
Yeah, he was also a CivilWar guy. He was He was the
(03:44):
head of the Army of the Potomacfor a little while until he screwed it.
Up. I think he screwed upSpotsylvania or something. And he he
had so many women of a certainemployment. Yeah, and and big long
cigars, and Burnside had side sideburns. Comes from burn Side and they
switched around to General who had sideburns. Yep, a lot of that.
(04:09):
And Spotsylvania came from the Rocky andBullwinkle cartoon. Did you know that's
right? That trick never worked?Uh yeah, okay, Uh, fair
enough, Okay, con Oh,good morning, riveting stuff guys. So
I just did the whole Shelby Foot. It was two hundred hours of listening.
I did the whole Civil War history, and I think every everybody should
(04:31):
read that book. It is fascinating. It is I'm ready to learn what
happens. It's just as it isfascinating, absolutely fascinating. And all right,
uh amy, hello and good morning, good morning. Okay, and
we already got Cono, I believe. Yeah. Hookers, oh hookers,
that's it's all lakered out, Kno'sall lakerd out. Yeah yeah. And
(04:53):
Petros. I got a call fromAnn that Petros who had asked for that
Mark Furman song. Oh. Iplayed it on the radio. I've been
listening to it all weekend. TheMark for Mana. I still can't believe
that happened. Yeah, Seriaman whowould not give interviews after the OJ trial.
He was the cop who a lotof the trial was based on that
(05:15):
OJ was really being nailed for racismand Mark Furman got a boy. He
was convicted for perjury because he saidhe didn't use the word. In fact,
he did use the word. Andhe actually came on to this show
because I'd known him for a fewyears beforehand, and gave a parody of
himself and it was I've never seenPetros laugh so hard when we initially played
(05:40):
it when he said to the Nword, I am no stranger. That
doesn't mean the evidence rearrange it.I am Mark for Mana. Yeah,
just Bob Dylan esk Yeah, TimKelly, believe whoever wrote that. Tim
Kelly did very very He used tobe on the show. He's married to
Michelle Kelly. Here on the show, Michelle Cube, Michelle Cube, Michelle
(06:04):
Cube Kelly. Oh oh yeah,I get it now. Yeah, she
goes by Kelly, except here shegoes by Cube because we've known her as
Cube for all these years. Okay, Yeah, I played that song and
people I would say it was polarizingin modern day I think modern day sports
talk radio was barely It was justright on the edge for polarizing. Wouldn't
(06:25):
people think that was hilarious? Peopleare idiots? No, well, I
don't care. It doesn't matter.I understand my whole life Petros, but
it's I can't imagine you would lookat that other than cono. Play that
for a second. You have itjust to remind people what it is if
people had several times. Yeah,and then we'll go right into the news.
(06:48):
It's Monday and we've got a lotto talking about. There we go.
This is Mark Firming. He getsthe blood going, Belle. We're
doing this one to death, aren'twe. This will be the last one?
Why not last one? Else?Every time I hear my name,
(07:09):
it's always to get the blamer.They say the word I used helped to
free the juice. I'm marked formana. Okay, that's enough. Oh
yeah, you can listen to thatall day long. Put it you put
it on your phone as your ringer. I might make it the entrance on
(07:33):
the show. Yeah, wouldn't thatbe hilarious? All right, Yeah,
time for a handle of the newswith Amy Petros in today and me lead
story interesting to say the least inthe Middle East. As you know,
we reported a couple of weeks agothat Israel had bombed the Iranian consulate in
(07:56):
Syria and killed twelve people, includinga couple of scene your revolutionary Guard the
generals, and Iran promised retail retaliation, and everybody's wondering, what the hell,
what they what are they going todo? And we know they launched
cruise missiles, they launched drones,they launched rockets towards Israel from these three
(08:18):
countries, a lot of it fromIran. And what it ended up happening
almost no damage. One one personinjured, a little girl who was severely
severely injured, clinging for her life, and that's it. And before the
missiles stopped flying, they Iran said, that's it, that's all we're gonna
(08:41):
do. It was basically a messageto Israel. They knew that Israel has
these defenses. They launched these dronesvery slow, some of them are one
hundred miles per hour, every oneof them. The drones were knocked down
before they even entered airspace. Israeliairspace, and Iran said, okay,
that was our message, of course, cheering in all over your on.
Look what we did, Look whatwe did, and that typically happens in
(09:03):
the Arab world. And now Natagnowho is saying we are going to retaliate,
and everybody is saying, hey,guys, stop right there, okay,
you started it with the bombing ofthe consulate. They responded, No
one was hurt except one person,little girl of her family, of course,
(09:24):
is devastated, and almost no damage, virtually none because Israeli, the
Israeli patriot systems and their anti missiledefenses just took everything down. As a
matter of fact, England was involved. I think France was involved. American
ally, America was involved in theshooting down these drones. And Natagne who
(09:45):
is and his war cabinet, hisfundamental crazy ass war cabinet are now allowing
retaliation. And you know, titfor tat. You killed twelve of our
people, we injured one, nodamage. Let's stop right here. We
had to respond to because we hadto respond, and you would think that
(10:09):
would be it. Everybody around theworld saying hey, done finished. Iran
is saying done, finished, butwe'll see what happens with Israel. Keep
in mind, this is the mostconservative, pro war, anti Arab government
in the history of Iran. TheLPD is going to ramp up patrols around
religious sites following everything popping off inIran with Iran and Israel, and officials
(10:37):
say they're paying close attention to anypotential threats in Los Angeles, as a
conflict in the Middle East could leadto a larger war in the region.
I do wonder if they're going tobe keeping a close eye on my Greek
Orthodox Church and Redondo Beach. Probablynot, I don't think so, because
the Greek Orthodox Church really isn't atarget. I mean, what does it
(10:58):
have to do with only in Istanbul? Yeah, I mean, yeah,
there's not much of a target.I mean what can they do. Can
they, you know, charge achurch and force all the women and children
to shave their beards. They can'tdo that. You know, that's a
low blow. You know, thatis a low blow, except it's the
absolute truth. Deodorant and razors.You know, in Athens, though it's
(11:20):
quite cosmopolitan, there's a lot ofshaving and going to the gym and deodorant.
But outside of there. Everybody's aChrogolodite. You're right. Yeah.
My partner, Karen, who I'vebeen partners with thirty one years, is
Greek Orthodox. And she got marriedin the Greek Orthodox Church and I was
her matron of honor and I wasand the Orthodox priest kept on saying,
(11:45):
you're with the groom side. Igo, no, no, I'm with
her side. And just you know, he wouldn't get it until finally I
stood up at the wedding next tonext to her and he had it was
a young guy in his early thirties, had a beer down to his waist.
Oh well, yeah, that's kindof the Orthodox priest thing. You
have to have a good beard,yeah, Grant fort Donaldson style beard,
you know. And and the womenand the kids. They do a lot
(12:09):
of hormone treatment for the youngsters,so the beards grow. There's a lot
of grandma neck beards in the Greekislands. I hate to admit it.
Oh yeah, he knows. Thisman knows the point of pride. Are
you a Greek Orthodox, by theway, I am. Now I'm assuming
you're not religious, or maybe youare. I have idea I do go
to church. Do you yeah,God, those brother sings in the church
(12:31):
and okay, those are long services. Yeah, they never changed it.
You know, it's called the Divineliturgy, you know. And Catholicism they
cut down the mass pretty significantly overthe years, but not the Greeks.
Well it really depends. You know, six hours if somebody died, they
bring out the loaves of bread.You know, it's like forty day blessing,
(12:52):
five year blessing, whatever. Andthat takes you know, you know,
you're going into tripping the marriage.You got to walk around the bride
three times and we walk around thetable bye. I just yeah, yeah,
And I was dancing around and holdingthe veil, I mean, doing
all that. Very sweet. Thetaxman cometh with the April fifteenth deadline upon
(13:15):
us. The IRS Commissioner says theyare seeing a flurry of tax reachfund or
returns coming in. In the finalhours. They've received more than one hundred
million returns and tens of millions morereturns are expected to be filed in the
next few days. Yeah. Imean, most people get a refund,
(13:35):
which is kind of neat for mostpeople because it's almost it's force savings.
Even though you don't get any intereston it. Interesting, you don't get
any interest when they hang on yourmoney, but when you owe them money,
you pay the interest and they payyour back. They take their own
sweet time, right as opposed topenns. They can get it pretty quickly.
But yeah, it's a matter ofweeks sometimes months. If you get
(13:56):
it early days, you're gonna getit early days back. I got mine
back. Yeah, you can doit pretty quickly. You seem like a
pretty efficient, responsible person. Well, thank you, Petros, You're welcome.
Donald Trump is going to go toManhattan on Monday morning, that's today,
to be the first president to goto trial for criminal charges. I
(14:16):
guess this is the only one ofhis cases that are going It's hard for
me to keep track of that isactually going to take place in front of
a jury before the election happens.Is that the case? Yeah? I
think so, because everything else isbeing delayed successfully at this point, and
he is what we're being told nowwhere his lawyers are considering putting him on
(14:37):
the stand because the way he isgoing to play, if this is not
a criminal trial, this is apolitical trial, and he is being nailed,
attacked, prosecuted, and persecuted bythe state, which is against him,
which is against the voters, andso the way he is portraying it,
(14:58):
I am the victim, and Iam standing in for you very Jesus
like they're persecuting me, prosecuting bothfor you. I am here for your
sins and your sins are believing theconstitution. You think you'll put his hands
out and have people touch the woundsor at least touched the one hundred dollars
(15:20):
bills. You know, you grabthe Benjamins. It's official. California is
a disaster again. The California Governor'sOffice of Emergency Services declared a presidential Major
Disaster declaration for several counties, includingLa San Luis, Obispo, Santa Barbara,
(15:43):
and Ventura. Yeah. I havea question the governor declaring the state
major disaster area. When hasn't itbeen a major disaster area. Well,
this is a particular disaster between theend of January in mid February h amongst
other disasters. I get it,yep, Okay, Petros before you go
(16:07):
on quick Word, you can hearPetros every day three to seven pm on
AM five seventy La Sports, Petrosand Money is the show. And since
he is on at three o'clock inthe afternoon and doesn't compete here, go
ahead and listen to it. Youyou want, You're welcome. Yeah,
stream it on the iHeart app O. J. Simpson is judged to burn.
(16:29):
He will be cremated, the executorof this estate says, and that's
going to be in the coming days. Of course. SoJ died last week
at seventy six. It was abig story, and they're not going to
cut out his brain and check itfor CTE. Yeah, he probably didn't
have much of it either. Oh, I bet you he did, you
think, So let me ask youhow badly was he banged around? Less
(16:52):
more so than others about to say, got back just about as bad as
you could be banged around in footballat any time. He wore it.
I mean he carried the ball thirtythirty five times a game and a lot
of occasions in college and the pros. So, I mean, that's no
excuse for his behavior. But there'sno doubt about it. I've had teammates
(17:15):
who are just really normal, seeminglywe have, you know, for football
players, and then later in lifejust something switches and they they lose touch
or fall through the cracks, andit's happened with a few guys, you
guys who made millions of dollars playingin the NFL. So it is a
thing. But they're not going tocheck his brain, and I guess they
(17:37):
can't find out about it until afteryou die and they check your brains.
Yeah great, hey, Petros.With some of the changes that they've made,
is it improving that or are theystill getting I mean, Pete football.
Look, football is interesting because wetackle, right, I mean,
that's the only reason people watch thesport is because they hit each other.
Otherwise it's just, you know,it's flag football. It's not interesting.
(18:00):
But yes, they've litigated or delegateda lot of a lot of the way
we tackle out of the game andwhat they're able to do to you in
practice. That kind of stuff haschanged dramatically while I've been working, but
not certainly not when I was playing, and certainly not when OJ was playing.
So but they're not going to checkup anyway, So too bad.
(18:25):
So this guy really got around somebodywho had measles was in the Southland,
and the health department says be carefulif you were at the places where he
was It was from Saturday, Marchthirtieth to Sunday, April first. Sounds
like he was in town for acouple of days, typical touristy kind of
thing, staying at the Sheridan GatewayHotel or at least spend time there,
(18:48):
went to Universal Studios, and thenwent to a lot of restaurants. Yeah,
we know, a non Los AngelesCounty resident. I don't even know
what that means. Somewhere in thecountry, typhoid Mary. Yeah, somewhere
in India, who the hell knows. Third world country, second world country,
who the hell knows. He hitup the Jack in a Box on
(19:10):
Manchester in Englewood, Hell yeah,and the Jenny's Splendid ice Cream ki yep,
Kleida's Chicken Shack in Universal Studios.I mean, yeah, it was
busy for a couple of days.You know. The other day I went
through one of those drive through pharmacies. I needed something at the CBS.
So as I'm driving through and theclerk says, okay, can I help
(19:30):
you? When I order a cheeseburgerwith a large order of fries, and
like nothing, no response, nothing, sir, this is a pharmacy.
Come on, really, it's notthe same bill. People just don't have
the same sense of human that weused to. It looks like the House
(19:52):
Speaker Mike Johnson says he's going topush for aid to Israel and the Ukraine
this week. So foreign aid fromthe House for Israel because they're being attacked,
I guess, and the Ukraine becausethey've been attacked for quite some time.
Yep. And there's a movement notthat it's going to happen to oust
Mike Johnson. Why is that?Because he is going to agree with some
(20:17):
Democrats and now believes in foreign aid. We didn't know, but he wants
Ukraine and Israeli aid. Israeli aidis pretty easy. But the Republicans,
hard right Republicans, which he isone of them, or at least under
the control of them, for fearthat he's going to get tossed, have
said continuously we are not going topass anything a budget, aid to Ukraine
(20:41):
or Israel unless we get the borderunder control. And President Biden caved into
that, by the way, anda bipartisan bill gave them ninety percent of
what they wanted, and we weregoing to go and of course Trump said
no, you will not pass thislegislation. They all saluted and said,
yes sir, and that's what happened. It looks like Johnson is going the
(21:06):
other way. He's changed his tuneand you're going to see reality hit Congress
where Congress actually decides on its ownwhat decision it makes. So this is
good news and he's going to surviveany attempt to oust him. They're not
going to do it again. AfterKevin McCarthy. They will not The Congress
will not do it again. Fanshave become litigants. More than two fifty
(21:30):
people who survived that suicide bombing thatkilled twenty two people at an Ariana Grande
concert in Manchester, England, havetaken legal action against Britain's domestic intelligence agency,
called m I five. An officialinquiry last year reported that Britain's domestic
intelligence agency didn't act fast enough onkey information and missed an opportunity to prevent
(21:56):
the bombing altogether. Yeah, theseare very very unusual suits in England.
They just don't sue very much moreso than they ever did. It was
unheard of before and now you're seeingmore of it. They don't understand our
o litigous society. It's because hereyou can sue and you drop the suit
(22:18):
and you're done, right or anywherein the middle of the case. Well,
there you sue, and if youdrop the case or it goes or
it goes anywhere against you, automaticallyyou pay all the costs, all of
them, even to the amortized orthe pro radish are of the toilet paper
(22:40):
that's in the bathroom. You gottapay for the wigs. Yeah, you
got to pay. Those wigs arenot cheap either. By the way,
there you are throwing on I havea wig on. If you look at
the website, you when I dohandle on the Law and Events, I
had the long wig. Yeah.Now is it a photoshopped wig or is
it? No? No, no, no, I haven't the room.
(23:00):
Is it on like a head?Yeah? No no no, it's not
on it like well, you know, like a woman would have like you
know the I don't keep the winnow, I just throw it in the
closet. Copy that. Uh shotani? Did you hear about this bill?
He hit his first home run asa Dodger. Somebody caught it in
the crowd, a woman named AmberRoman, and uh, they were a
little bit upset about the way theDodgers separated her from the ball. Uh.
(23:25):
It happened in a way that therewas unsavory. Uh in her opinion,
I guess, And there was anarticle written. So the Dodgers came
back around and had her take apicture with shoe hal Tani and now she's
happy. Uh. The best partabout this was her her Twitter handle was,
Yeah, it's really weird how theydid it. As a matter of
fact, I have a podcast that'sstarting in a couple of weeks. Uh,
(23:48):
yeah, the Bill Handle Show podcast. I decided to go into that
realm. Yeah, I do awhole story about this and how what the
rules are in terms of returning baseballsand what baseball can do and what football
does when a ball goes into thestands and show, hey, Otani,
this is first homer as a Dodger. It's caught and immediately, according to
Amber the authorities quote, the Dodgersofficials go separate her from her husband and
(24:14):
do a hard sell. We wantto authenticate the ball, but which isn't
true. I mean they wouldn't beable to authenticate it anyway. MLB authenticates
the ball, So that's why theDodgers tried to make this right because it
didn't look good right off the bat. That being said, my best advice
if you catch a home run ballat a baseball game, if it's something
(24:34):
of significance like this is going tobe worth a couple hundred g's. I
guess some of the prognosticators said,get the hell out of there, leave
the stadium, make sure everybody seesyou with the ball. Walk out of
the stadium. Well, how doyou authenticate it? Then you go to
MLB there's video. They can figureout that it's the They can figure out
is that ball. Yeah, they'renot going to screw you over. Well,
(24:55):
what if you went to the storeand bought ten other balls on your
way out and then tried to sellthat is They're like a microscopic serial and
you can't trust the team. Idon't know about that, but you cannot
trust the team to uh. Theywill. They just want to separate you
from the ball and they will giveyou useless, signed crap that is nothing,
(25:17):
you know, and that's that's theirprerogative. They want to get the
ball back to the player and theywant to do it as quickly as possible.
In the euphoria of the moment now. And I did this on the
podcast, and I may be deadass wrong. Major league football, you
can't keep the ball. They throwit in the stands and they go out
and grab it and want unless youlike tuck it and run like a football
(25:38):
player. You'd have to and that'shard because they will get you. But
that has happened. But uh,yeah, footballs are worth more money.
And football's belong to the teams.You know that, Uh you know those
are your football's, Like you knowthe Tom Brady I deflated the ball,
You know that those are their balls. You know, that's the ball he's
comfortable throwing. So when they're onoffense, they use their ball. Yeah,
(25:59):
they do get those back. Yeah. And the great story of the
guy who caught Tom Brady's last footballlast touchdown football paid five hundred thousand dollars
for it, and then Tom Bradycomes back the next season and all of
a sudden, your five hundred thousanddollars football isn't worth jack because it's not
his last touchdown pass memorabilia. Peopleare idiots, But I who catch anything,
(26:22):
you get the hell out of there. And on this podcast, it's
one of the first one that's comingout. Man, and I go through
the whole series of memorabilia. Whatstuff costs? I mean, it is
crazy. What memorabilia costs makes nosense sometimes. All right, what is
it worth for your last touchdown whenyou played at sc About as about as
(26:48):
much as uh, just a footballyou'd buy there, you go, it's
just the football. As a matterof fact, it's a used football.
It probably looks like one of thoseold timey footballs. It looks like a
big bag. You'd buy it atpeer one import. All right, guys,
we are done. That was alot of fun. Good luck with
a podcast. Excuse me, goodluck with a podcast? Oh thank you.
(27:10):
I'm going to try that one.It's I'm recording him now and it's
hey, that is how do younot have a podcast? Today? Everybody
has a podcast. So I'm goingto just be talking a lot more about
it over the next few weeks.All right, Petros, thank you,
Petros and Mony every single day threeto seven pm AM five seventy LA sports.
(27:32):
And he has reached that his socialat Petros and Money. Petros will
see you on Wednesday. I'll beback. I love it all right,
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