April 19, 2024 • 30 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Isfahan explosions: Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, US official tells CNN. House GOP’s aid bills for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan advance – with democrat’s help. Jet collision narrowly avoided at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. TikTok is in the hot seat once again in Washington. Gas prices on the rise in Southern California ahead. New $24 monthly fee proposed for many Southern California electricity customers. Two more insurance companies announce plans to leave California.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. If they
had I'm confident somebody as militant andfocused as Trump is they'd follow that line
too. If my grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandfather. I met
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And now Handle on the news,Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
It's Friday. It's foody Friday righthere kf I AM six forty,
Bill Handle, and we've got thelast show of the week before Handle on
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live at Wendy's in Glendora, sevenO six West Root sixty six, Sir,
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it's a lot of fun watching Neilbroadcast. You get to know there,
you get to bs with Neil,and it's just a lot of fun.
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one and all Good morning, Amy, good morning. Didn't listen to you
open the show this morning because Iwas busy reading the stories. And did
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you open with We've got a lotof news today? Yeah? Yeah.
I was that different though from yougoing they got a lot of stuff to
talk about today? Do I saythat? Yeah? Almost every day?
Wow? Yeah. But you knowwhat I opened the show with, I
now have a hen named after me? Wow. Yeah. A listener posted
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it on Instagram. There was actuallythey had a chicken named after YouTube Bill,
but it was uh, it wasnot a nice chicken in it.
It has gone to live somewhere else. Yeah. And was the chicken named
uh, well, you know crapwithout the used crap. No, it
was named Bill. Oh, Ifeel better. She names your chickens after
like people she knows and anyway,that's lovely. Uh. Do you I
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watch ABC News just happened to likethem. I switched over from Lester to
David Muor and that's one of theshows that I watch, and it's always
breaking news. Every day we gotbreaking news, didn't matter if it happened
the day before. I hate thatevery they all do that. Now.
I know breaking news, come on, breaking news is breaking news. Drives
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me nuts aor right now, CNNand Fox both do that all the time.
Okay, well, we have breakingnews and we have a lot to
talk about today, kno, HelloBill uh and and who puts together our
breaking news and things that we havea lot to talk Oh my god,
we got lots of breaking news today. Yeah, lots of breaking news,
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which you think is big news,yet at the same time it's not big
news. Well, they also putthe big graphics up, and you know
we don't do that. We don'tdo that. We have to pinch you
can't see them. Yeah, that'snot being able to put graphics up.
Yeah. I made fun of Garyand Shannon and I didn't listen to it,
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but they covered the eclipse, andI've always wondered, how do you
cover the eclipse on radio? Youthink that's one of those things that we
would have a tough time with radiocovering the story. You know, years
ago, every anniversary for Bill Handlewe do the big extravaganza, right,
and I'd end up building these props. I even built these big asses one
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time with a pimphol on them forBill that shot caffetti out at the crowd.
So well, someone asked me whatI was doing and I was up
late working and I said, oh, I'm building props, and they went,
don't you work in radio. You'rebuilding props for So sometimes things are
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a little different, Bill, Butthat was an event that I came to
and you were describing. Okay,so how about this, I'm building props?
Fine, one line. Hey,here comes the eclipse. It's here,
it's gone. You've just covered theeclipse. Well, the what you
do is you go like this,the sun is full, it is out,
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you can see it. It's verybright. Now it's starting to get
a little bit covered and it's gettingvery very covered, getting very dark out
here. Now it's just passing byand it's just and it's gone. All
right, let's do this right intohandle on the news on this foody Friday
with Anne. Who is going totell us about a lot to talk about
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today? You mean Amy? Oh, that's right, it was Amy.
Who's going to do that? I'llconflight your two names, Neil and me.
Lead story welcome, which might notbe a lead story. Well it's
lead story, but it may notbe breaking it and not be enormous news.
And this has to do with Israel. Retaliating against Iran, which retaliated
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against Israel, and it was verylow key. Yesterday, it was reported
at Biden putting tremendous pressure on Netagna, who not to have any kind of
large scale attack on Iran, andhe didn't. It was reported that he
pulled back twice. They had amuch larger retaliation plan that was about to
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go into effect. In any case, it was a few missiles went into
Iran's territory, very little damage wasdone, and the fact that Iran had
said any attack on Iranian soil willbe met with immediate and major consequence within
seconds. Yeah, yeah, nothing, nothing, you know, it just
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disappeared. Iran's not going crazy,not talking anymore about it, retaliation,
Israel's pulling back. The United Statesis it's gone. But wasn't it Like
you ever see those people that arebeing pulled off by law enforcement and they're
trying to hit law enforcement there,Well, don't do it, don't do
it, no more hitting, andthen they spit on the cop or something.
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That's kind of what it reminded meof. It's like, don't do
anything, baby, don't do anything, don't do it any good. And
then that was it because At first, I was like, holy hell,
this is not good. Yea,when Israel started this one with the attack
on the consulate, not of coursestarting the war, but the attack on
the consulate where twelve people did die, including some senior Iranian military officials,
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retaliation for so Iranic retaliates with thosethree hundred missiles, little damage. A
few people heard, some critically couplefighting for their lives, especially one little
girl. Retaliation back. Nobody wantsa regional war, not Iran, nobody,
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and so it's tit for tat.This is how World War one started.
The Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated. Allof a sudden, the argument starts
between the Allies, the Western Worldand the Ottoman Empire, and World War
one came into being. Could havebeen completely averted. World War two could
have on a different level in nineteenthirty eight, calling Hitler's bluff, but
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that didn't happen. But World WarOne was this situation, except it went
on and cooler heads prevailed this timearound. Imagine this, Democrats and Republicans
holding hands working together. Okay,might not be exactly that, but Democrats
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did take an unusual step yesterday andhelped Republican leaders advance legislation to provide billions
of dollars installed security funding for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. So the
House Rules Committee got together last nightand four Democrats voted with Speaker Mike Johnson,
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and the bill passed nine to three, which sets up a vote on
the House floor this weekend for thataid. It will happen. HAKM Jeffries,
Speaker, Minority Leader of the House, has already said this is going
to go. No one's going totake a chance on tossing out Mike Johnson
the second time in a matter ofmonths, tossing out the speaker, which
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had never been done in US history. No one has a stomach for it.
Just we're done. So you'll seeDemocrats and Mike Johnson is anethema to
Democrats. I mean, this guyis super conservative, right wing, about
as much as they come, butnot crazy where you have Marjorie Taylor Green
crazy. And so we're on ourway to having that bill. Ukraine's going
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to get money, and maybe toolate. Who knows. Certainly Israel is
going to get funding. That sortof a given uh in Taiwan because of
the fear of China and what they'redoing in the China Sea South China Seas.
The FAA is investigating out two jetlinerswere put on a parent collision course
as they were leaving Ronald Reagan NationalAirport just yesterday morning. You the audio
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I heard on Wake Up Call withAmy this morning. Man, you had
normally cool traffic controllers as these twoplanes stopped about four hundred feet apart,
going you know, stop stop thebrags. Yeah, it wasn't that normal,
like the pilot. Well, ladiesand gentlemen, we're experiencing severe turbulence.
It wasn't that. A couple thingsabout this one is it's just a
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question of time. There has beenso many close calls in the last few
weeks, the last several months thatsomething's got to give. So you are
going to see a major accident happening. And the most talking about running into
colliding on the runway that was intent Reef, a little island off of
Spain where they do refueling. Twoseven forty seven's jammed full of people collided.
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Really yeah, six hundred and somethingnumber of people died. The biggest
air disaster in history, and itwas on a runway when they collided one
t bone the other one and exploded, I mean a full blast. The
runway had cleared, the tower hadcleared. Also, you're right about being
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calm. These voice recorders whenever aplane goes down and they play the voice
recorder of the pilot, You're right, Amy, they're so calm. They
are just they're talking as if we'reon the phone or they're on the phone
right as they hit the ground.Were the The response from the pilot was
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calm. But the people, yeah, traffic controllers, so you have you
had the pilot go, uh,yeah, we were cleared. Yeah,
it's like not our fault. Here'sthe sound. You want to hear it
real quick. It's just five secondswe stopped. We were cleared to cross
the runway. Yeah, we hadclear I mean he was a little voice
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was a little bit higher and alittle bit exercise, but not very much.
The control towers going brazik. Someone'sgot it. Someone's head is going
to roll because they someone cleared theairplane to cross the runway while the other
airplane was cleared to take off,and they were going to run into each
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other, and they both aboard itand they did it very quickly. Now
it's the head's going to roll.Not the same way that Joe Biden's uncle's
head rolled, but pretty close flavorsin the face. So TikTok is hot
topic again. Surprisingly, in connectionwith Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan funding,
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House Republicans added what they call ahot button bill that could lead to
a nationwide TikTok ban. House SpeakerMike Johnson wants to hold a vote on
the package as early as Saturday.This is that ninety billion dollars that we
were talking about. But somehow oranother, hit TikTok got on the docket
and so they could be voting onwhether to ban TikTok. Yeah, if
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I had the guests, Democrats aregoing to let this one through as our
Republicans because I think for the mostpart, everybody's in favor of curtailing the
Chinese influence, and the bill isway too important and every senator. One
of the things about US Senate Congressis you can throw your own bills.
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You can amend bill like crazy.I remember there was a bill many years
ago at Alaska Center, very powerful, I think with Stevens and there was
a bill passing and he the lastminute he throw in threw in he needs
several million dollars for a Chubb Salmonmuseum. No kidding. Now, California,
you can't throw extra bills in.I don't think he's every bill every
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why You're right. In California,it's one bill and that's it. You
can't amend it. It goes tothe goes to the legislature. Also in
California there's a line item veto wherethe governor can just item out saying I'm
not going to do this, I'mnot going to do that, and then
it goes forward. In the US, it's an up or down. President
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does not have a line item veto. It's this thing. I'm with Amy,
that just is the weirdest. It'san ya and an a. But
everybody can throw in pork, pork, pork, and normally the more pork
the better to me, But notnot under these circumstances. All right,
we one more for the break,all right, another reason to move out
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of California. Yesterday, the averageprice of a gallon of unleaded gas was
five dollars and forty five cents inCalifornia. A month ago, the statewide
average was four ninety. And weare super high. The national average is
three dollars and sixty seven cents.Because they like to bend us over here
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in California. Well that for abunch of reasons. But the price used
to be fifty cents difference between nationaland California. That was sort of the
going rate for decades. The differenceis parody. Now it's a buck fifty,
a buck eighty. I mean itis crazy. No, it's cocaine
and Kardashians. Yeah, it's expensivestuff. It really is. Because we
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have the California blend, which isunique to California, which means that we
can't share and when we run low, for example, Nevada runs low,
they just bring in from other states. Can't do that in California. Can't
do it well as if prices weren'thigh enough. There's a proposal out there
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to tack a twenty four dollars feeon your monthly water bills. Now this
is not for DWP customers, butit is for Pacific Gas and Electric Company,
Southern California, Edison, and SanDiego Gas and Electric. Actually it's
not your water bill, it's yourelectric bill. And there's a lawmaker who's
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like, you know what, we'vehad enough. So Assembly Member Jackie Irwin
from Thousand Oaks says, what theCPUC is offering to do just isn't going
to cut it. The CPUs,the CPUC has offered to reduce killowatt hours
the cost of them by five toseven cents, and instead we'll tack on
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the fee. But Jackie's like,no, that doesn't that doesn't make up
the difference. You're just raising thepower bills. More so, they introduced
a bill to stop that. Inthe California, a Public Utilities Commission actually
regulates this. You can't raise orlower rates. A company cannot raise or
lower rates without going in front ofthe CPUC, can't do it. Same
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thing with the insurance Commissioner for insurance. So I moved to Orange County,
by the way, and I gotout of Department of Water and Power.
LAWP not affected by this at allbecause LAWP handled its own power and the
CUP is leaving it alone. BecauseWLAWP has the sum of the cheapest power
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in the country. San Diego Gasand Electric, which I have the joys
of being under, now has thehighest power bills in the United States.
And what happens anybody who has solarin their home. I don't know anybody
who does that is simply not payingpower bills and therefore subsidizing or the other
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people who do pay power bills aresubsidizing me and other people have a solar
system, and I am outraged,outraged by the fact that I would have
to pay twenty four bucks. There'sa reason I went to Sunlock, so
I don't have to pay twenty fourdollars. So why is it so expensive
in San Diego? I don't know. It's as well that it's a long
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story with Enron and what happened withthe power business. How utility sold off
their power plants because electricity was socheap and they were buying it on the
market and LADWP, the guy whoheaded led but WP, said no,
no, we're keeping our own power. And he was clearly he was prescient,
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Oh was he? Because as theEnron scandal and the other utilities had
to start paying ten times as muchfor utility for power not LAWP and it's
still among the lowest in the country. So that's twenty four dollars. Is
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that a month, you said?Is that annually? Or is that a
month? No, it's it saystwenty four dollars a month, so they're
reducing them. They say they're goingto reduce the price of a kilowatt hour
by five to seven cents. Soit's going to be attack on a fee.
Yeah, and so who doesn't pay, Well, now you're gonna have
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solar customers pay. And so I'drather not pay. I'm okay with you
guys paying the kind of power youdo. Yeah, we can see that
on your face. Yeah, sweetman, Yes, I hope we get
hit by a bus. Netflix.If you remember they cracked down on password
sharing, well we showed them.Wait what they added nine million subscribers.
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They were right. They held people'sfeet to the fire, and they hit
a record high of two hundred andsixty nine point six million subscribers, nine
million more in the first three monthsof telling people, hey, you got
to buy your own subscription, youcan't share anymore. What is that eighty
eighty five percent of the population ofthe United States two hundred and sixty nine
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Yeah, I mean that's kind ofcrazy a week, but at three and
fifty three forty I think on somethinglike that, So I can't I now,
I might as well just give youmy password. That I had my
friends, none my family share withme and you can't use it anymore.
And my password was free Netflix Gone. I thought it was ass A.
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Yeah, yeah, that's true.That one works too. That's for other
other programs that I have. Sothe jury has been seated, but you
know, like everything that has todo with former President Trump, there's some
drama. Yes, you're actually onTuesday, seven of the jurors were selected
for the hush money trial, andthen yesterday two of the jurors that had
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already been seated were dismissed, sothen they had to go back and so
then they had to get seven moreplus alternates and they got them. So
now they've got their twelve plus onealternate. They need five more alternates and
once they have all of those andthey can start opening arguments. That's on
Monday. Both sides got jurors thatthey really liked and they really hated.
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So it looks like the judge hasdone a pretty good job. But all
you need is one juror to holdout, because a guilty verdict has to
be unanimous, and if one jurorholds out, you've got a hung jury.
Matter of fact, you have awell hung jury, depending on who's
on the jury. If you geta hung jury, can you retry or
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is that? Do you bet?What happened to double jeopardy? That's not
a trial because it's hung. Thetrials dismissed. It is not it's not
a verdict, it's not a decision. So that that's why that's not double
jeopardy. Oh, an acquittal comesin done, prosecution is finished, and
if the prosecution prevails, then thedefense has the ability to appeal, appeal,
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appeal until the final appeals court saysno, theoretically to the Supreme Court
call, of course, that'll neverhappen. Okay. Pence is looking towards
the future. Former Vice President MikePence says, Hey, if President Vladimir
Putin of Russia were to overrun Ukraine, then he would probably attack a NATO
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nation, and that would force theUS to become directly involved. So it's
in our best interest to protect them. It's Putin is not going to do
that. He'll take you. He'lltake Ukraine, and he'll take the eastern
part of Ukraine, not all ofit. He'll take the Dawndas region and
say this is Ukraine, this isour land as part of Russia. If
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Putin invades any other nation other thanI think Moldavia, is that borders Ukraine
and Putin attacks that country or invadesa country like it did Ukraine. That
is a declaration of war against twentyeight countries who are forced to go to
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war with Russia per the NATO CharterEntreaty. So you think Putin is going
to do that? Go to theUS, France, Germany, twenty six
other states. How long has NATObeen around? I think nineteen forty eight,
if I'm not mistaken, right afterWorld War Two? And let me
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ask Okay, I've got to findthat out. That's a good question.
Hey, sirih how long is NATObe around? Nineteen forty nine? All
right, close, Okay, I'llgive myself a B plus on that is
that? Okay, it's your yourshow. Yeah, it's your show.
I mean basically as he just did, an F plus. Okay, all
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right, this is amy, Ithink right, Oh, yes it is.
The Kennedy clan has turned on oneof their own. Members of the
Kennedy family have formally endorsed President Bidenin his bid to be re elected as
president. They are not throwing theirsupport against Robert F. Kennedy, who
is running for president as an independent. Yeah. Crazy. One of the
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children of Robert I think it's asister of Robert Kennedy Junior went out and
announced that the Kennedy clan was endorsingBiden, and listening to her speak,
it was like Pence talking about PresidentTrump when he was the vice president,
the greatest man in the world,the most successful president, someone who was
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saving our country. I mean,the guy was sick of fan. That's
what happened yesterday, complete sickophant language. I go, come on, guys,
how about we endorse President Biden asopposed to all the other crap all
way. It was just and ofcourse it was a crowd. They went
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yay whenever that was mentioned, and
it was just kind of stupid.I think it took away from a lot
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of it, just saying okay,well, let's move on. Hyundai.
It just said yesterday that it pausedadvertising on x of course, the platform
formerly known as Twitter. And thisis just a day after that. One
of their ads was reportedly appeared rightnext to an anti Semitic and pro Hitler
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post go figure on the social mediasite. So they're like, we're out,
We're just pausing our advertising for now. Yeah, this is the algorithm
that compros advertising on there. Imean, no one made that decision and
they stopped. They they did exactlywhat they were supposed to do. It
popped up when complained. They lookedat it and go, yeah, we're
done with that one. So youcan't. You cannot put a post up
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there. That is basically Hitler wasmisunderstood dot Com and have a major advertiser
on that site. Yeah, boy, Hitler could paint dot Com. Yeah,
what a dancer. Right to theproducers, remember uh, oh Line
Winston Churchill was actually a phenomenal painter, and oh Hitler is better. He
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could paint an entire apartment. Twocoats. Two more insurance companies are bailing
on California. Tokyo Marine America Insuranceand Transpacific Insurance Company say they're going to
withdraw from homeowners and personal umbrella insurancemarkets in California and if you're impacted,
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you're going to get a non renewalnotice beginning in July. First. These
companies did not say why they're leaving, but I'll tell you why they're making
no money. They're losing money.I lost insurance last November on my house
and I was bare for two anda half weeks. I insured, my
insurance company said bye, we're donewith California, and so refused to renew.
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When does this become a state emergency? I think so. I think
so. I mean it's going tohave But there are plenty of houses that
are uninsured out there. That's theproblem. People go bare, especially if
they have no mortgage. In abouthalf the people have no mortgage out there.
And I get calls on handle onthe wall all the time and some
kind of liability. Someone slipped andfall fell. What do I do?
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You're screwed. You don't have insurance. You're screwed. So you scramble for
insurance. It's all you can do. And I'm paying twice as much as
I would before. Yikes. Allright, if you don't want the green
Apple two steps, make sure youdon't have the Infinite Herb organic basil there
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at Trader Joe. So on Wednesdaythey came out and they started pulling the
product. It was linked to dozensof salmonilla infections in seven states. So
you gotta be careful because it canmake you sick. Yeah, I know,
kiddy. You know how Trader Joe'shas names Trader Petees and for the
different products they have, It says, never mind Trader Joe's colon blow.
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No, I was going to basicallyTrader sALS salmonilla. There's there's a lot
we can do with that, butI'm not going to. Amy grows her
own, so she doesn't don't worryabout it. Yeah, basil, Yeah,
we grow our own. Basil growsand it grows so fast, and
you take the leaves off, butmake sure you spray them with pesticide so
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they don't have the aphibs going crazy. Yeah, and so that they're just
like the stuff you buy at thestore. Yeah. Yeah. Starbucks is
going greener. So it's got thoseplastic cups for their cold and there's a
lot of them. So they're revampingthose plastic cups. They have undergone an
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environmentally friendly redesign using twenty percent lessplastic. It's the company's latest effort to
reduce the environmental impacts of the cups. I'd rather them up the flavor of
their coffee by twenty percent. Yeah, not so bitter, all right,
you know they're trying. I mean, good for them, they're trying.
Well, they kind of have to. It's been part of their whole mission
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statement. All right. So ifyou have a tattoo that you regret,
how about getting it covered up forfree with an illustration of your pet.
So pet Smart has partnered with atattoo studio here in Los Angeles and pet
owners can cover their unwanted tattoo oftheir girlfriend or ex wife. How do
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you do? What kind of apet can you put onto a swastika tattoo
that works? M A square facepug? Maybe? Well, it doesn't
have to cover it literally could coverit it up and more, doesn't have
to fit the shape. All right. I know you have a lot of
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tattoos. I do have some tattoos. No swastika, no swastika. Do
you hate any of them? Now? No? They all kind of speak
to a different part of my lifeat different times. And so, yeah,
I've been talking to people. Imean, tattooing is so it's just
become part and parcel of society.I mean it used to be when I
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was growing up, tattooed people theywere the bad people, especially girls.
Oh my god, you were areal slut. If you put a tattoo
on today, it's like everybody does. It's wild. And I asked people
what does that mean? And likeyou said, this signifies something in my
life. This signifies something my parents, I'm very close. This signifies a
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girlfriend. If I were going toattoos, i'd have my girlfriend's name,
uh going up my arm and thencrossing them out, you know, exing
them out. Oh, they dothe arm. What they do? They
do a paint roller. They tattooa paint roller and a paint swath over
the last one. That's the serial. Yeah, and some people they have
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like six of them. That's Clay. That's great. Yeah, it's like
somebody came by with a paint roller. I never thought of that. That's
great. All right, guys,we are out of time on this one.
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had I'm confident somebody as militant andfocused as Trump is they'd follow that line
too. If my grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandfather. I met
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you, she doesn't. She did. Let's take a bak when she walked.
And now Handle on the news,Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
It's Friday. It's foody Friday righthere kf I AM six forty,
Bill Handle, and we've got thelast show of the week before Handle on
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the Law tomorrow. A lot goingon tomorrow too. Neil who is broadcasting
live at Wendy's in Glendora, sevenO six West Root sixty six, Sir,
we're gonna get some kicks on Rootsixty six. Yeah. No,
it's a lot of fun watching Neilbroadcast. You get to know there,
you get to bs with Neil,and it's just a lot of fun.
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I always enjoyed that. But it'sworth going also for our friends from our
friends for real, Zelman's is goingto be there with some free samples.
Zelman's Man Team mouth Mims. Allright, let me take good morning to
one and all Good morning, Amy, good morning. Didn't listen to you
open the show this morning because Iwas busy reading the stories. And did
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you open with We've got a lotof news today? Yeah? Yeah.
I was that different though from yougoing they got a lot of stuff to
talk about today? Do I saythat? Yeah? Almost every day?
Wow? Yeah. But you knowwhat I opened the show with, I
now have a hen named after me? Wow. Yeah. A listener posted
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it on Instagram. There was actuallythey had a chicken named after YouTube Bill,
but it was uh, it wasnot a nice chicken in it.
It has gone to live somewhere else. Yeah. And was the chicken named
uh, well, you know crapwithout the used crap. No, it
was named Bill. Oh, Ifeel better. She names your chickens after
like people she knows and anyway,that's lovely. Uh. Do you I
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watch ABC News just happened to likethem. I switched over from Lester to
David Muor and that's one of theshows that I watch, and it's always
breaking news. Every day we gotbreaking news, didn't matter if it happened
the day before. I hate thatevery they all do that. Now.
I know breaking news, come on, breaking news is breaking news. Drives
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me nuts aor right now, CNNand Fox both do that all the time.
Okay, well, we have breakingnews and we have a lot to
talk about today, kno, HelloBill uh and and who puts together our
breaking news and things that we havea lot to talk Oh my god,
we got lots of breaking news today. Yeah, lots of breaking news,
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which you think is big news,yet at the same time it's not big
news. Well, they also putthe big graphics up, and you know
we don't do that. We don'tdo that. We have to pinch you
can't see them. Yeah, that'snot being able to put graphics up.
Yeah. I made fun of Garyand Shannon and I didn't listen to it,
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but they covered the eclipse, andI've always wondered, how do you
cover the eclipse on radio? Youthink that's one of those things that we
would have a tough time with radiocovering the story. You know, years
ago, every anniversary for Bill Handlewe do the big extravaganza, right,
and I'd end up building these props. I even built these big asses one
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time with a pimphol on them forBill that shot caffetti out at the crowd.
So well, someone asked me whatI was doing and I was up
late working and I said, oh, I'm building props, and they went,
don't you work in radio. You'rebuilding props for So sometimes things are
(04:13):
a little different, Bill, Butthat was an event that I came to
and you were describing. Okay,so how about this, I'm building props?
Fine, one line. Hey,here comes the eclipse. It's here,
it's gone. You've just covered theeclipse. Well, the what you
do is you go like this,the sun is full, it is out,
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you can see it. It's verybright. Now it's starting to get
a little bit covered and it's gettingvery very covered, getting very dark out
here. Now it's just passing byand it's just and it's gone. All
right, let's do this right intohandle on the news on this foody Friday
with Anne. Who is going totell us about a lot to talk about
(04:55):
today? You mean Amy? Oh, that's right, it was Amy.
Who's going to do that? I'llconflight your two names, Neil and me.
Lead story welcome, which might notbe a lead story. Well it's
lead story, but it may notbe breaking it and not be enormous news.
And this has to do with Israel. Retaliating against Iran, which retaliated
(05:18):
against Israel, and it was verylow key. Yesterday, it was reported
at Biden putting tremendous pressure on Netagna, who not to have any kind of
large scale attack on Iran, andhe didn't. It was reported that he
pulled back twice. They had amuch larger retaliation plan that was about to
(05:41):
go into effect. In any case, it was a few missiles went into
Iran's territory, very little damage wasdone, and the fact that Iran had
said any attack on Iranian soil willbe met with immediate and major consequence within
seconds. Yeah, yeah, nothing, nothing, you know, it just
(06:06):
disappeared. Iran's not going crazy,not talking anymore about it, retaliation,
Israel's pulling back. The United Statesis it's gone. But wasn't it Like
you ever see those people that arebeing pulled off by law enforcement and they're
trying to hit law enforcement there,Well, don't do it, don't do
it, no more hitting, andthen they spit on the cop or something.
(06:26):
That's kind of what it reminded meof. It's like, don't do
anything, baby, don't do anything, don't do it any good. And
then that was it because At first, I was like, holy hell,
this is not good. Yea,when Israel started this one with the attack
on the consulate, not of coursestarting the war, but the attack on
the consulate where twelve people did die, including some senior Iranian military officials,
(06:51):
retaliation for so Iranic retaliates with thosethree hundred missiles, little damage. A
few people heard, some critically couplefighting for their lives, especially one little
girl. Retaliation back. Nobody wantsa regional war, not Iran, nobody,
(07:14):
and so it's tit for tat.This is how World War one started.
The Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated. Allof a sudden, the argument starts
between the Allies, the Western Worldand the Ottoman Empire, and World War
one came into being. Could havebeen completely averted. World War two could
have on a different level in nineteenthirty eight, calling Hitler's bluff, but
(07:39):
that didn't happen. But World WarOne was this situation, except it went
on and cooler heads prevailed this timearound. Imagine this, Democrats and Republicans
holding hands working together. Okay,might not be exactly that, but Democrats
(07:59):
did take an unusual step yesterday andhelped Republican leaders advance legislation to provide billions
of dollars installed security funding for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. So the
House Rules Committee got together last nightand four Democrats voted with Speaker Mike Johnson,
(08:20):
and the bill passed nine to three, which sets up a vote on
the House floor this weekend for thataid. It will happen. HAKM Jeffries,
Speaker, Minority Leader of the House, has already said this is going
to go. No one's going totake a chance on tossing out Mike Johnson
the second time in a matter ofmonths, tossing out the speaker, which
(08:43):
had never been done in US history. No one has a stomach for it.
Just we're done. So you'll seeDemocrats and Mike Johnson is anethema to
Democrats. I mean, this guyis super conservative, right wing, about
as much as they come, butnot crazy where you have Marjorie Taylor Green
crazy. And so we're on ourway to having that bill. Ukraine's going
(09:07):
to get money, and maybe toolate. Who knows. Certainly Israel is
going to get funding. That sortof a given uh in Taiwan because of
the fear of China and what they'redoing in the China Sea South China Seas.
The FAA is investigating out two jetlinerswere put on a parent collision course
as they were leaving Ronald Reagan NationalAirport just yesterday morning. You the audio
(09:33):
I heard on Wake Up Call withAmy this morning. Man, you had
normally cool traffic controllers as these twoplanes stopped about four hundred feet apart,
going you know, stop stop thebrags. Yeah, it wasn't that normal,
like the pilot. Well, ladiesand gentlemen, we're experiencing severe turbulence.
It wasn't that. A couple thingsabout this one is it's just a
(09:56):
question of time. There has beenso many close calls in the last few
weeks, the last several months thatsomething's got to give. So you are
going to see a major accident happening. And the most talking about running into
colliding on the runway that was intent Reef, a little island off of
Spain where they do refueling. Twoseven forty seven's jammed full of people collided.
(10:20):
Really yeah, six hundred and somethingnumber of people died. The biggest
air disaster in history, and itwas on a runway when they collided one
t bone the other one and exploded, I mean a full blast. The
runway had cleared, the tower hadcleared. Also, you're right about being
(10:41):
calm. These voice recorders whenever aplane goes down and they play the voice
recorder of the pilot, You're right, Amy, they're so calm. They
are just they're talking as if we'reon the phone or they're on the phone
right as they hit the ground.Were the The response from the pilot was
(11:03):
calm. But the people, yeah, traffic controllers, so you have you
had the pilot go, uh,yeah, we were cleared. Yeah,
it's like not our fault. Here'sthe sound. You want to hear it
real quick. It's just five secondswe stopped. We were cleared to cross
the runway. Yeah, we hadclear I mean he was a little voice
(11:26):
was a little bit higher and alittle bit exercise, but not very much.
The control towers going brazik. Someone'sgot it. Someone's head is going
to roll because they someone cleared theairplane to cross the runway while the other
airplane was cleared to take off,and they were going to run into each
(11:46):
other, and they both aboard itand they did it very quickly. Now
it's the head's going to roll.Not the same way that Joe Biden's uncle's
head rolled, but pretty close flavorsin the face. So TikTok is hot
topic again. Surprisingly, in connectionwith Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan funding,
(12:13):
House Republicans added what they call ahot button bill that could lead to
a nationwide TikTok ban. House SpeakerMike Johnson wants to hold a vote on
the package as early as Saturday.This is that ninety billion dollars that we
were talking about. But somehow oranother, hit TikTok got on the docket
and so they could be voting onwhether to ban TikTok. Yeah, if
(12:37):
I had the guests, Democrats aregoing to let this one through as our
Republicans because I think for the mostpart, everybody's in favor of curtailing the
Chinese influence, and the bill isway too important and every senator. One
of the things about US Senate Congressis you can throw your own bills.
(12:58):
You can amend bill like crazy.I remember there was a bill many years
ago at Alaska Center, very powerful, I think with Stevens and there was
a bill passing and he the lastminute he throw in threw in he needs
several million dollars for a Chubb Salmonmuseum. No kidding. Now, California,
you can't throw extra bills in.I don't think he's every bill every
(13:20):
why You're right. In California,it's one bill and that's it. You
can't amend it. It goes tothe goes to the legislature. Also in
California there's a line item veto wherethe governor can just item out saying I'm
not going to do this, I'mnot going to do that, and then
it goes forward. In the US, it's an up or down. President
(13:41):
does not have a line item veto. It's this thing. I'm with Amy,
that just is the weirdest. It'san ya and an a. But
everybody can throw in pork, pork, pork, and normally the more pork
the better to me, But notnot under these circumstances. All right,
we one more for the break,all right, another reason to move out
(14:01):
of California. Yesterday, the averageprice of a gallon of unleaded gas was
five dollars and forty five cents inCalifornia. A month ago, the statewide
average was four ninety. And weare super high. The national average is
three dollars and sixty seven cents.Because they like to bend us over here
(14:22):
in California. Well that for abunch of reasons. But the price used
to be fifty cents difference between nationaland California. That was sort of the
going rate for decades. The differenceis parody. Now it's a buck fifty,
a buck eighty. I mean itis crazy. No, it's cocaine
and Kardashians. Yeah, it's expensivestuff. It really is. Because we
(14:45):
have the California blend, which isunique to California, which means that we
can't share and when we run low, for example, Nevada runs low,
they just bring in from other states. Can't do that in California. Can't
do it well as if prices weren'thigh enough. There's a proposal out there
(15:05):
to tack a twenty four dollars feeon your monthly water bills. Now this
is not for DWP customers, butit is for Pacific Gas and Electric Company,
Southern California, Edison, and SanDiego Gas and Electric. Actually it's
not your water bill, it's yourelectric bill. And there's a lawmaker who's
(15:26):
like, you know what, we'vehad enough. So Assembly Member Jackie Irwin
from Thousand Oaks says, what theCPUC is offering to do just isn't going
to cut it. The CPUs,the CPUC has offered to reduce killowatt hours
the cost of them by five toseven cents, and instead we'll tack on
(15:46):
the fee. But Jackie's like,no, that doesn't that doesn't make up
the difference. You're just raising thepower bills. More so, they introduced
a bill to stop that. Inthe California, a Public Utilities Commission actually
regulates this. You can't raise orlower rates. A company cannot raise or
lower rates without going in front ofthe CPUC, can't do it. Same
(16:08):
thing with the insurance Commissioner for insurance. So I moved to Orange County,
by the way, and I gotout of Department of Water and Power.
LAWP not affected by this at allbecause LAWP handled its own power and the
CUP is leaving it alone. BecauseWLAWP has the sum of the cheapest power
(16:30):
in the country. San Diego Gasand Electric, which I have the joys
of being under, now has thehighest power bills in the United States.
And what happens anybody who has solarin their home. I don't know anybody
who does that is simply not payingpower bills and therefore subsidizing or the other
(16:55):
people who do pay power bills aresubsidizing me and other people have a solar
system, and I am outraged,outraged by the fact that I would have
to pay twenty four bucks. There'sa reason I went to Sunlock, so
I don't have to pay twenty fourdollars. So why is it so expensive
in San Diego? I don't know. It's as well that it's a long
(17:15):
story with Enron and what happened withthe power business. How utility sold off
their power plants because electricity was socheap and they were buying it on the
market and LADWP, the guy whoheaded led but WP, said no,
no, we're keeping our own power. And he was clearly he was prescient,
(17:37):
Oh was he? Because as theEnron scandal and the other utilities had
to start paying ten times as muchfor utility for power not LAWP and it's
still among the lowest in the country. So that's twenty four dollars. Is
(17:57):
that a month, you said?Is that annually? Or is that a
month? No, it's it saystwenty four dollars a month, so they're
reducing them. They say they're goingto reduce the price of a kilowatt hour
by five to seven cents. Soit's going to be attack on a fee.
Yeah, and so who doesn't pay, Well, now you're gonna have
(18:18):
solar customers pay. And so I'drather not pay. I'm okay with you
guys paying the kind of power youdo. Yeah, we can see that
on your face. Yeah, sweetman, Yes, I hope we get
hit by a bus. Netflix.If you remember they cracked down on password
sharing, well we showed them.Wait what they added nine million subscribers.
(18:44):
They were right. They held people'sfeet to the fire, and they hit
a record high of two hundred andsixty nine point six million subscribers, nine
million more in the first three monthsof telling people, hey, you got
to buy your own subscription, youcan't share anymore. What is that eighty
eighty five percent of the population ofthe United States two hundred and sixty nine
(19:10):
Yeah, I mean that's kind ofcrazy a week, but at three and
fifty three forty I think on somethinglike that, So I can't I now,
I might as well just give youmy password. That I had my
friends, none my family share withme and you can't use it anymore.
And my password was free Netflix Gone. I thought it was ass A.
(19:37):
Yeah, yeah, that's true.That one works too. That's for other
other programs that I have. Sothe jury has been seated, but you
know, like everything that has todo with former President Trump, there's some
drama. Yes, you're actually onTuesday, seven of the jurors were selected
for the hush money trial, andthen yesterday two of the jurors that had
(20:03):
already been seated were dismissed, sothen they had to go back and so
then they had to get seven moreplus alternates and they got them. So
now they've got their twelve plus onealternate. They need five more alternates and
once they have all of those andthey can start opening arguments. That's on
Monday. Both sides got jurors thatthey really liked and they really hated.
(20:26):
So it looks like the judge hasdone a pretty good job. But all
you need is one juror to holdout, because a guilty verdict has to
be unanimous, and if one jurorholds out, you've got a hung jury.
Matter of fact, you have awell hung jury, depending on who's
on the jury. If you geta hung jury, can you retry or
(20:47):
is that? Do you bet?What happened to double jeopardy? That's not
a trial because it's hung. Thetrials dismissed. It is not it's not
a verdict, it's not a decision. So that that's why that's not double
jeopardy. Oh, an acquittal comesin done, prosecution is finished, and
if the prosecution prevails, then thedefense has the ability to appeal, appeal,
(21:12):
appeal until the final appeals court saysno, theoretically to the Supreme Court
call, of course, that'll neverhappen. Okay. Pence is looking towards
the future. Former Vice President MikePence says, Hey, if President Vladimir
Putin of Russia were to overrun Ukraine, then he would probably attack a NATO
(21:37):
nation, and that would force theUS to become directly involved. So it's
in our best interest to protect them. It's Putin is not going to do
that. He'll take you. He'lltake Ukraine, and he'll take the eastern
part of Ukraine, not all ofit. He'll take the Dawndas region and
say this is Ukraine, this isour land as part of Russia. If
(21:57):
Putin invades any other nation other thanI think Moldavia, is that borders Ukraine
and Putin attacks that country or invadesa country like it did Ukraine. That
is a declaration of war against twentyeight countries who are forced to go to
(22:18):
war with Russia per the NATO CharterEntreaty. So you think Putin is going
to do that? Go to theUS, France, Germany, twenty six
other states. How long has NATObeen around? I think nineteen forty eight,
if I'm not mistaken, right afterWorld War Two? And let me
(22:40):
ask Okay, I've got to findthat out. That's a good question.
Hey, sirih how long is NATObe around? Nineteen forty nine? All
right, close, Okay, I'llgive myself a B plus on that is
that? Okay, it's your yourshow. Yeah, it's your show.
I mean basically as he just did, an F plus. Okay, all
(23:07):
right, this is amy, Ithink right, Oh, yes it is.
The Kennedy clan has turned on oneof their own. Members of the
Kennedy family have formally endorsed President Bidenin his bid to be re elected as
president. They are not throwing theirsupport against Robert F. Kennedy, who
is running for president as an independent. Yeah. Crazy. One of the
(23:33):
children of Robert I think it's asister of Robert Kennedy Junior went out and
announced that the Kennedy clan was endorsingBiden, and listening to her speak,
it was like Pence talking about PresidentTrump when he was the vice president,
the greatest man in the world,the most successful president, someone who was
(23:56):
saving our country. I mean,the guy was sick of fan. That's
what happened yesterday, complete sickophant language. I go, come on, guys,
how about we endorse President Biden asopposed to all the other crap all
way. It was just and ofcourse it was a crowd. They went
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yay whenever that was mentioned, and
it was just kind of stupid.I think it took away from a lot
(24:18):
of it, just saying okay,well, let's move on. Hyundai.
It just said yesterday that it pausedadvertising on x of course, the platform
formerly known as Twitter. And thisis just a day after that. One
of their ads was reportedly appeared rightnext to an anti Semitic and pro Hitler
(24:42):
post go figure on the social mediasite. So they're like, we're out,
We're just pausing our advertising for now. Yeah, this is the algorithm
that compros advertising on there. Imean, no one made that decision and
they stopped. They they did exactlywhat they were supposed to do. It
popped up when complained. They lookedat it and go, yeah, we're
done with that one. So youcan't. You cannot put a post up
(25:08):
there. That is basically Hitler wasmisunderstood dot Com and have a major advertiser
on that site. Yeah, boy, Hitler could paint dot Com. Yeah,
what a dancer. Right to theproducers, remember uh, oh Line
Winston Churchill was actually a phenomenal painter, and oh Hitler is better. He
(25:29):
could paint an entire apartment. Twocoats. Two more insurance companies are bailing
on California. Tokyo Marine America Insuranceand Transpacific Insurance Company say they're going to
withdraw from homeowners and personal umbrella insurancemarkets in California and if you're impacted,
(25:53):
you're going to get a non renewalnotice beginning in July. First. These
companies did not say why they're leaving, but I'll tell you why they're making
no money. They're losing money.I lost insurance last November on my house
and I was bare for two anda half weeks. I insured, my
insurance company said bye, we're donewith California, and so refused to renew.
(26:14):
When does this become a state emergency? I think so. I think
so. I mean it's going tohave But there are plenty of houses that
are uninsured out there. That's theproblem. People go bare, especially if
they have no mortgage. In abouthalf the people have no mortgage out there.
And I get calls on handle onthe wall all the time and some
kind of liability. Someone slipped andfall fell. What do I do?
(26:37):
You're screwed. You don't have insurance. You're screwed. So you scramble for
insurance. It's all you can do. And I'm paying twice as much as
I would before. Yikes. Allright, if you don't want the green
Apple two steps, make sure youdon't have the Infinite Herb organic basil there
(26:59):
at Trader Joe. So on Wednesdaythey came out and they started pulling the
product. It was linked to dozensof salmonilla infections in seven states. So
you gotta be careful because it canmake you sick. Yeah, I know,
kiddy. You know how Trader Joe'shas names Trader Petees and for the
different products they have, It says, never mind Trader Joe's colon blow.
(27:23):
No, I was going to basicallyTrader sALS salmonilla. There's there's a lot
we can do with that, butI'm not going to. Amy grows her
own, so she doesn't don't worryabout it. Yeah, basil, Yeah,
we grow our own. Basil growsand it grows so fast, and
you take the leaves off, butmake sure you spray them with pesticide so
(27:47):
they don't have the aphibs going crazy. Yeah, and so that they're just
like the stuff you buy at thestore. Yeah. Yeah. Starbucks is
going greener. So it's got thoseplastic cups for their cold and there's a
lot of them. So they're revampingthose plastic cups. They have undergone an
(28:07):
environmentally friendly redesign using twenty percent lessplastic. It's the company's latest effort to
reduce the environmental impacts of the cups. I'd rather them up the flavor of
their coffee by twenty percent. Yeah, not so bitter, all right,
you know they're trying. I mean, good for them, they're trying.
Well, they kind of have to. It's been part of their whole mission
(28:29):
statement. All right. So ifyou have a tattoo that you regret,
how about getting it covered up forfree with an illustration of your pet.
So pet Smart has partnered with atattoo studio here in Los Angeles and pet
owners can cover their unwanted tattoo oftheir girlfriend or ex wife. How do
(28:51):
you do? What kind of apet can you put onto a swastika tattoo
that works? M A square facepug? Maybe? Well, it doesn't
have to cover it literally could coverit it up and more, doesn't have
to fit the shape. All right. I know you have a lot of
(29:14):
tattoos. I do have some tattoos. No swastika, no swastika. Do
you hate any of them? Now? No? They all kind of speak
to a different part of my lifeat different times. And so, yeah,
I've been talking to people. Imean, tattooing is so it's just
become part and parcel of society.I mean it used to be when I
(29:36):
was growing up, tattooed people theywere the bad people, especially girls.
Oh my god, you were areal slut. If you put a tattoo
on today, it's like everybody does. It's wild. And I asked people
what does that mean? And likeyou said, this signifies something in my
life. This signifies something my parents, I'm very close. This signifies a
(29:57):
girlfriend. If I were going toattoos, i'd have my girlfriend's name,
uh going up my arm and thencrossing them out, you know, exing
them out. Oh, they dothe arm. What they do? They
do a paint roller. They tattooa paint roller and a paint swath over
the last one. That's the serial. Yeah, and some people they have
(30:18):
like six of them. That's Clay. That's great. Yeah, it's like
somebody came by with a paint roller. I never thought of that. That's
great. All right, guys,we are out of time on this one.
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