April 25, 2024 • 30 mins
Neil Saavedra & Amy King Join Bill for Handel on the News. USC closes campus after pro-Hamas protesters, police clash. Calls grow for Columbia University president to step down as protest spread nationwide. Biden says the US is rushing weaponry to Ukraine as he signs a $95BIL war aid measure into law. Arizona House votes to overturn 1864 abortion ban, paving way to leave 15-week limit in place. High-ranking advisor to L.A. DA Gascon hit with 11 felony charges. Man accused of shooting motorcycle deputy in West Covina charged; could get life in prison. Women are less likely to die when treated by female doctors, study suggests.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KF. I am six forty.
My mother died at ninety eight.She was old. As a matter of
fact, she looks so much betterdead than she did when she was alive.
I said, why why didn't youdo that ten years ago? Wow?
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And now Handle on the news,ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle.
Good morning, everybody, Bill HandleHere. It is a Thursday morning,
April twenty five, and it's well, you know, I took some
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weird pill last night to try sweetyeah, and I'm still really groggy.
And was it red or blue?We want to know how this is going
to go today? A yeah,big or small? You know? It
was swallow, it was blue.Hey, the desk it's magic. It's
levitating by itself. Why did youtake a new pill? That's the problem
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because the doctor I asked for aanother refill on my ambition, which I've
taken forever, and the doctor said, you know what, let's try something
else. I'd rather not have youdeal with ambien, so he said,
try this pill. Oh man,it's weird. I had the weirdest dreams
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last night, Neil. You werein one of my dreams. Oh,
geez, I didn't even know youcould do that with the kangaroo. Please
please please switch back to ambient anyway. Good morning Neil, Good morning Bubba.
Also a bicycle chain was involved too. Good morning Amy. Hi Bill
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having flashbacks of go ask Alice.H mm hmmm, I don't get that
Allison Sunderland reference. Yeah, JeffersonStarship is that right? There? You
go? Got it all right?And and good morning, Good morning Bill.
And there's Cono there, am Yeah. Cono is you know he wears
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a lot of those flannel shirts,dresses like a lesbian. Uh do you
uh yeah? Do you have theboots. That's a friend of mine from
England. I talked about women wholike women as dressing in flannel and having
stout shoes. Well, they're notall the same, you know. No,
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I know that, I know,I know not everybody is the same
at all. Okay, what tomorrow, let's do this tonight. Everybody take
what handle's taking. So we soon Friday we all come in with the
same vibe. Yeah. No,it's really weird. It really is.
Okay, hopefully it sort of itdrifts off or clears up. Have your
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diet to wake up? No,I don't I have my coffee. I
made my coffee this morning, whichI do. I mean, I can't
live without that coffee in the morning. I just a day without coffee in
the morning is like a day withoutcoffee in the morning. It's very,
very tough. Welcome to thoughtful Thursdaywith Bill Handle, a day thoughtful Thursday
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where we come up with thoughts,heavy thoughts. Damn. Yeah, yes,
wow, I can come up withsome. I can come up with
some immediately. Loose lips, sinkships. Wow. You could lead a
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horse to water, but you can'tlead a horticulture asphorisms with Bill Handle.
All right, guys, I likethat. I really like that. All
right, guys, ready to doit because we do have a lot on
our plate this morning. It istime for Handle on the news, Amy
King, Neil and me lead story. Well, the protesting continues. This
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one at USC. This one madethe national news last night. Usually it's
Yale, it was some schools onthe East Chicago. It hit here.
The campus has been closed at SCpro Palestinian protesters. The police clash,
arrests were made, and I'm goingto get into that more on at seven
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o'clock and then quite possibly the mostterrific phrase ever uttered by a government.
I'm going to talk about in relationto this. I was listening to Gary
and Shennon yesterday and they pointed outthat it almost looked like USC was,
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Hey, everybody else is getting attentionon college campuses, what about us?
Well it worked, Yeah, dummies, speaking of protests on college campuses.
Of course it continues at Columbia Universityand now you gotta go. That's the
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call for the president of the university. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
and some other officials went to Columbiayesterday and said, you know what,
if you can't get control of yourcampus, you need to step down.
So they're calling for Minute Chaffeek toleave office. Why haven't they called for
all the other presidents to step downwho are incapable of quelling the protests.
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And I'm talking about quelling the legalprotests. I don't think anybody is trying
to quell legal protests. Everybody sayslegal peaceful protests are fine. You just
can't block buildings, you can't blockaccess to the schools and threaten people.
And those are few and far betweenbecause a lot of Palestinian and the anti
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Israeli faction out there is saying thatthe threats against the Jewish students are very
few and far between, even thoughthey are there. I think it's I
don't know how much anti Semitism isbeing thrown around because you have some Jewish
students that are really threatened, butit happens anyway. You have Black students
that are threatened on a regular basis. You certainly have Muslim students that are
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threatened, and so I think it'smore unless you have to be threatened,
unless you specifically your family is targeted, then it's it's a bigger social issue,
I think than an illegal threat.More about that o'clock. I'm sorry,
isn't that a criminal issue at thatpoints? No? I mean specific
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threats. Yeah, I'm going tokill you. Yes, that is a
that's a violation of law. Youshould die is not Israel should be limited,
eliminated, is not a threat?Fair enough. President Joe Biden just
yesterday said that he was immediately rushingthrough the badly needed weaponry to Ukraine.
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He signed into law, of course, that ninety five billion with a b
war aid measure. It included assistantassistants also for Israel, Taiwan, and
other hot spots across the globe.This is going on while Ukraine for the
first time has begun using long rangeballistic missiles that are believed to be provided
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secretly by the US. Yeah,I was, you're already there. They
signed the bill allowing the US tosend those missiles to Ukraine, which are
have all ready being delivered and arebeing used as President Biden signed the bill.
The problem with this not that theUkraine, Not that Ukraine is getting
the arms, which I believe itshould. It may be too late.
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Russia has gotten a very strong,a very strong toe hold into Ukrainian territory
and this maybe well I'm not goingto say too little, but it could
be too late and should have happenedmonths ago and it didn't. And as
far as Israel is concerned, alot of argument. You're seeing a lot
of these students protesting, wanting theschools to disinvest, to get out of
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putting their pensions or putting their endowmentsinto companies, into funds that have that
invest in companies that deal with Israelor arms industries that then sell the Israel.
All of that. That's not gonnado. Jack. You know what,
You're out there protesting and you sayto Columbia, say to usc you've
got to get out of those companies. First of all, for the most
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part, those universities hand all ofthat over to folks who administrate those funds.
I don't know how many actually workdirectly for the schools. But you
know, fine, protest all youwant. It's and they're comparing this to
other protests. They're saying, Israel'sapartheid. Well you can argue that,
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but we did this in South Africa. We were able to turn this over
very different animal. And I'll talkmore about that one too at seven o'clock.
Well, welcome to the twenty firstcentury. The Arizona House of Representatives
has voted to overturn the state's onehundred and sixty year old law, which
basically bans just about all abortions.Three Republicans voted with all twenty nine Democrats
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yesterday to move the legislation forward.The state Senate gets it next, they're
expected to pass it and the mayoror the governor rather has said that she
will sign it. Yeah, tothink that's even on the books, and
it's been turned down twice the Republicansin Arizona to undo this bill. That's
the part that's studying is how evenan anti abortion legislator can leave a bill
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in the works that says that theonly way an abortion will be allowed is
to save the mother's night life.Not that the mother's life is at risk,
it's to save her life. Andhow close do you get and what
happens if you have a group ofdoctors saying, oh, no, no,
that was to save her life.You could have done ABC and D.
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It's not absolute that you would havesaved her life. Do they go
to prison? Does doctor go toprison for that? No one knows.
Oh, Also, what does thatmean? To save your life? You
have to be at a death Youhave to be at death's door. Or
can you have can the child beborn with some kind of anomaly, some
kind of a birth defect that willkill the child within months after being born?
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Hey, mother's life is an atstake, child has to be born?
Really crazy stuff? When is thisguy gonna leave? Ethics and Integrity
Assistant District Attorney Diana Tehran. She'sa top advisor to DA George Gascone.
She oversees cases involving public corruption,police misconduct, fraud, that type thing.
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She herself has been charged with elevenfelony violations. Boom dropped. The
mic doesn't get more delicious than that. No hell's going on with that guy.
She's accused of accessing computer data,including confidential peace officers files in twenty
eighteen, and that you can't do. So it's particularly good that she is
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the ethics fraud, police misconduct.That's fantastic. Maybe she understood the type,
misunderstood the title. Maybe she wassupposed to do that right, Like
the American Cancer Association, is thatpro cancer or that anti cancer? It
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doesn't really say in the title.So shooting at a sheriff's deputy maybe this
guy's last bad decision. Because ifthe guy who is charged with shooting at
an Lakeny Sheriff's deputy while he wassitting at a stoplight is convicted on the
several felonies he's charged with, hecould get life in prison. What we
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know is Raymundo Duran is a badactor. So he got arrested for DUI
on Monday in San Diego, hadnothing to do with the sheriff's deputy shooting,
and then Sheriff Luna said he hasa very extensive criminal history and a
violent criminal history. He had nobusiness having a gun in the first place.
He's been involved in a police pursuit. He was involved in a hidden
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run and had warrants out for paroleviolations, among other things. You know,
any shoots or is accused of shootinga cop in the back sitting on
his motorcycle waiting for a red light. You remember the cop. Yeah,
you would play either cops or robbersor good guys bad guys. You notice
how they don't say bad guys anymore. It's always bad actors. You don't
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want to label the person a badperson. They just are a regular person
that does horrible things. Is thatlike people argue about Johnny Depp. I'm
not following a bad actor. Ithink he's a good actor. I do
too, But I've heard it gothe other way too. Oh boy.
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But everybody says Meryl Streep is great. No one argues that Meryl Streep is
not phenomenal. I don't know thatshe's that great. Oh yes she is.
Oh I saw Mama, Mia,Mama me. That wasn't her fault.
She did that at gunpoint? Ohno, I can she wanted to
do it. Let's no, it'simpossible. Yeah, I liked Kramer versus
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Kramer two but Jeeves, yes,okay, all right, this is another
delicious one. Grand jury in Arizonahas handed up an indictment against former President
Donald Trump's allies. This course isdealing with their efforts to overturn the twenty
twenty election loss. And this hasa pretty good list of names. Here.
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There is closest advisor's former White HouseChief of Staff Mark Meadows. Of
course, Rudy Rudy Giuliani, oneof his attorneys. They're among those who
have been indicted. Yeah, andthey're not arguing they have absolute immunity because
someone who dyes his hair can dowhatever the hell he wants to in further
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runs of an election fraud doesn't workthat way. What a fall from grace,
Julie, we both know someone whoknows someone very close to Guliani.
I asked, is he that crazy? He goes he's crazier than that,
And that question, I asked,what a fall? What's about a fall
from grace? Because here's a guywho was probably one of the best prosecutors
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in the nation. He took downthe mafia in New York. Uh.
Then he becomes America's mayor and hedoes a brilliant job as the mayor of
New York. Then it goes intothe crapper and I asked, how is
that possibly? He goes he justgot caught up in this inner circle of
Donald Trump. And Donald Trump isso charismatic that he just draws people to
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him. He's like the sun withplanets circling around, and he got caught
up in that. You and Iboth met Donald Trump at the same time.
Yeah, And did you think hewas that charismatic? No. I
thought he was a dick fair enough. I remember him kissing your butt once
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he find found out who you were. No. No, yeah, because
he was like, I don't wantto do this thing or whatever, and
then it's like it's Bill Handle.Yeah, you know. I asked him
the same question I ask everybody,and that is my first It was a
question and answer. I'm in frontof I don't know how many people at
the forum, and I was askedto interview him, and I said,
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you're a very wealthy man, youknow, Donald Because I was told to
call him mister Trump. That didn'thappen. I said, you're a pretty
wealthy man, and he goes,yes, I am. How much money
do you have in your pocket?Right now? What are you talking about?
How much money do you have inyour pocket? Now I'll reach in
there. Let's see how much money. Let's see a guy, how wealthy
you are? No I didn't.I said it respectfully, But he didn't
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have much money in his pocket.How kind of guy who's that wealthy?
I'm like eight dollars in his pocket. How much do you carry money around?
Oh? Yeah, yeah, Ialways carry a couple hundred dollars.
I don't do that anymore. Ohno, I do, because if ever
I get held up by some drugdrug addict who is dazed walking around looking
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for his fix and sticks a gunto my head. Hey, give me
your money. I want him tobe happy. I want him to be
really happy when he takes my money. Like you've heard those stories of the
person had sixty cents on them andthe guy shot him because he was so
frustrated. Uh ah, here yougo, Hey, enjoy yourself, knock
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yourself out. One day you're goingto come around out of an alley way
and four people are gonna hold youup and they're gonna go We're not Neil
Amy and or no, no,give us your money. Yeah, all
I have four people and all Ihave is one hundred dollars bill. Hey
can anyone if you break this?I want to be even with everybody.
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So airlines have been ordered to showme the money. US Department of Transportation
prove some rules yesterday that require airlinesto one show the full price of what
your ticket is going to cost beforeyou buy it, and then two give
cash refunds if your flight is canceledor significantly changed. And they said that
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passengers deserve to know up front whatcosts they're facing, and they should get
their money back when an airline owesthem without having to ask. Seems simple
enough, airlines. I'm going toEurope this October coming up, and after
I bought the tickets, then I'mtold that if I want to sit next
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to I'm going with Lindsay, ifI'm going to sit next to someone,
if we want to sit together,I have to pay one hundred and forty
eight bucks per person extra. Whitwhat one hundred and forty eight dollars just
to sit together? I mean,thank god, I don't like her that
much, so I didn't have topay it. But geez, Louise,
come along, guys, junk feeafter junk fee on top of junk fee.
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They have to get rid of thosetwo. I don't understand. If
you book the seats, yes,so why don't you just pretend like you
book them separate? Well, fine, you can book them separately, you
can look come together. But whathappens is if you don't order the seats
next to each other or order theseat you want, you get it that
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day, the day of the flight, and they just throw you wherever they
want to. That's rude. Yeah, okay, well, all right,
more legal garbage for Donald Trump.Is he accountable for his attempts to overturn
the twenty twenty election. Well that'sa conversation been going on for some time
among courts across the country. Today, bump bump bum, the Supreme Court
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will enter the chat and we shallfind out their thoughts. I cannot imagine
the court granting him immunity. Icannot if the court grants him total immunity
because of his argument that a presidentcan do anything the president wants during a
presidency. I don't know where thiscountry is going well. You know,
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Amy, you asked a great questionthis morning on pick up call. She
asked, is there any gray areaor is it just a yes or no
either he is immune. Yah,there's gonna be all kinds of gray area
because the question in specifically in frontof the court, and usually the court
decides very narrowly, and the questionis can he be immunized from the conduct
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in the election subversion count? Andthe court can clearly say that immunity only
is restricted to this kind of activityin furtherance of an election that is within
the bounds of a president doing anythinghe wants, basically, and this is
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in order to overturn a legal election. But even that would blow it wide
open, because then the argument is, can he, for example, arrest
poll workers for fear that they arethey're engaging in misconduct in primarily democratic districts.
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I don't know the answer to that. What if they tell any circumstances
is scary notion? What if theytell him he can have immunity, but
he has to get vaccinated for it? Very strong? Yeah, then there's
problems. Yeah, the way youbuy and sell your home is about to
change. So a federal judge hasgiven the ok to the National Association of
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Realtor's settlement. It's worth four hundredand eighteen million dollars. It's an antitrust
case and basically what housing experts aresaying is the settlement may get rid of
the current real estate business model.Of course, under the current system,
home sellers pay a full commission,usually five or six percent, and under
the terms of this settlement, theseller's agents will no longer be required to
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offer commissions to buyers agents. Yeah. I'm going to get into that coming
up at seven point thirty, andit's going to be another one of those
lower prices are better for our worsefor the consumer. We maintain our high
prices and it's good for the consumer. I'll explain that later on. And
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really well, I'll tell you aboutthat because it's is it all encompassing?
Yeah, the way the model isnow, it's really interesting in terms of
his power of real estate brokers.I'll do that. Coming up at seven
point thirty. Russian talk about PettyRussian Orthodox priest who has been you know,
leading memorial services. This happened lastmonth at the grave of the late
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opposition leader Alexei Navolny. He's beensuspended from clerical duties in order to serve
three years of penance. So theMoscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church did
the suspension, but no reason wasstated for the punishment. But no,
it's crazy, but we've had thattoo. How many priests over the years
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I have promoted homosexuality or promoted womenas priests who haven't gotten disciplined by the
Catholic Church where parishes are taken away, not towing the line. Now there's
a morality here's but this is political. So this is it is that's correct.
But I mean, I'm not goingto defend this because it is horrible
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over there. But political crimes areeven worse than moral turpitude crimes. That
is the problem. And so andthey're not arresting him. It's just the
Grand Vizier of the Russian Orthodox Churchis saying we're going to pull him off.
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And he has to. He's beingsuspended and he has to do penance,
pray to God in terms of hiswrongdoing to so he can understand and
deal with it and come back intofull priesthood. More evidence that women doctors
are the best. There's a newstudy of people ages sixty five and older,
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and it shows that women who goto the hospital are less likely to
die or be readmitted to the hospitalif they're treated by female doctors. Researchers
say that the gap means that fivethousand women's lives could be saved each year
if they only went to women doctors, if they only went to women doctors.
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And it's interesting too. They lookedat like eight hundred thousand people and
they said for the male patients,it didn't matter if it was a man
or a woman, but for thewomen patients, their death rates went down
if they were also treated by awoman because the male doctors like, yeah,
yeah, yes, sweetheart, you'refine, you're just being hysterical.
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Now. I had a female doctorfor a time until she moved. And
this was my internest who would giveme, you know, that exam and
she was very small and petite,loved it. And then I got a
basketball player. Wow, professional basketballplayer. Let me tell you what that
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was like. Was this your gynecologist? No, it was close. Yeah.
I do think that there's a bias. I think there's bias with minorities,
and I think there's bias with womenwith doctors. Yeah, there really
is. Many years ago, Iwas referred to and had a black doctor
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and we just started talking politics,and he brought up the fact that people
looked at him as an affirmative actiondoctor, and he goes, hey,
I went to Harvard. You know, I did my residency at Hopkins.
You know I was top of myclass. I don't want people to think
that I'm not qualified simply because I'mAfrican American. And he was really pissed
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off. Well, yeah, butin the reverse, there are no Yeah,
there are white doctors that don't reactto people of color the same way.
Yeah there are white doctors that o'treact to anybody the same way.
But you're right, you know again, this is the people are people.
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Human beings are human beings, andyou get those mistakes. Well, you
get that kind of bias all thetime. Ring customers could receive a refund
after the company settled this particular lawsuit. This lawsuit settlement, if you remember,
involved the charges that Ring allowed employeesin some contractors actually to access customers
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consumers private videos and they didn't implementany of these security protections. I think
there was one guy who had athing for this one particular customer and he
would watch her videos as she's cominghome and leaving from per home. Yeah,
this is five point six million dollars. Though, this is a change
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that Ring finds underneath the cushions inthe waiting room. I mean, this
is nothing for a company like Ring. Yeah, but I think Amazon,
who owns Ring now paid over thirtymillion to two one. Yeah. Yeah,
this is thirty million is in thefirst cushion of the first couch that
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you run into. So the USDAis taking the fun out of lunches.
They're limiting the amount of sugar thatcan be in meals. I guess that's
probably a good thing. But theUS Department of Agriculture announced a series of
changes to nutrition standards. The biggestchange is that they're going to reduce the
amount of sugar in meals. They'realso going to reduce sodium and school meals
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like fifteen percent less, and theyare going to allow chocolate milk to be
served, but it'll be a limitedamount. Yeah. I remember when I
I was in a kid When Iwas a kid and ate in the cafeteria,
and there was a similar requirement fromthe USDA that did not go through.
And one at one USDA, amember of the committee, asked for
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the meals to go from inedible toedible, and that failed miserably. And
you ever had a school lunch,I'd liked. I liked the square pizzas.
I loved the pizza day. Yeah, yeah, I liked the When
I was in junior high school,the grilled cheese sandwiches on brown bread for
some reason, and this is whenthe school got surplus cheese, in this
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case from the government, government governmentcheese, and price went down from a
quarter to ten percent to ten cents. Absolutely loved it. I liked the
grilled cheese as well. Yeah,it wasn't the coffee cake, now you're
talking. I liked the chocolate shakesthat you'd buy, Oh yeah, almost
they almost had chocolate in them.Yeah, but you dip your crunchy Cheetos
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in the chocolate shape. I neverI just liked the shakes. Yeah,
a little sweet and savory. Youknow what, I wish they would I
know, this is weird. Theywould teach like reading and like writing and
math in school. Yeah, Iwish they'd get back. That's just me.
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I'm old fashioned. I'm still thinkingabout those chocolate shakes, which really
weren't chocolate, but they were superthick too. Yeah, they were.
They were really good. They wereexpensive though. They were a quarter and
that was no, no, no, you know, I go back a
few years, but that was thatwas real money. When the entire lunch
costs sixty cents, I'll never forgetthat. And the best value was rice
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with gravy on it. I wasa chunky little kid. I have rice
with gravy was of excellent, excellentthey served that, Oh yeah they did.
I think Nickel. I think thislunch lady was messing. No,
no, no, no, nickI don't think anybody else got that.
No. I think everything from tencents and this was five cents. Sorry,
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My mother died at ninety eight.She was old. As a matter of
fact, she looks so much betterdead than she did when she was alive.
I said, why why didn't youdo that ten years ago? Wow?
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And now Handle on the news,ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle.
Good morning, everybody, Bill HandleHere. It is a Thursday morning,
April twenty five, and it's well, you know, I took some
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weird pill last night to try sweetyeah, and I'm still really groggy.
And was it red or blue?We want to know how this is going
to go today? A yeah,big or small? You know? It
was swallow, it was blue.Hey, the desk it's magic. It's
levitating by itself. Why did youtake a new pill? That's the problem
(01:07):
because the doctor I asked for aanother refill on my ambition, which I've
taken forever, and the doctor said, you know what, let's try something
else. I'd rather not have youdeal with ambien, so he said,
try this pill. Oh man,it's weird. I had the weirdest dreams
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last night, Neil. You werein one of my dreams. Oh,
geez, I didn't even know youcould do that with the kangaroo. Please
please please switch back to ambient anyway. Good morning Neil, Good morning Bubba.
Also a bicycle chain was involved too. Good morning Amy. Hi Bill
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having flashbacks of go ask Alice.H mm hmmm, I don't get that
Allison Sunderland reference. Yeah, JeffersonStarship is that right? There? You
go? Got it all right?And and good morning, Good morning Bill.
And there's Cono there, am Yeah. Cono is you know he wears
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a lot of those flannel shirts,dresses like a lesbian. Uh do you
uh yeah? Do you have theboots. That's a friend of mine from
England. I talked about women wholike women as dressing in flannel and having
stout shoes. Well, they're notall the same, you know. No,
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I know that, I know,I know not everybody is the same
at all. Okay, what tomorrow, let's do this tonight. Everybody take
what handle's taking. So we soon Friday we all come in with the
same vibe. Yeah. No,it's really weird. It really is.
Okay, hopefully it sort of itdrifts off or clears up. Have your
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diet to wake up? No,I don't I have my coffee. I
made my coffee this morning, whichI do. I mean, I can't
live without that coffee in the morning. I just a day without coffee in
the morning is like a day withoutcoffee in the morning. It's very,
very tough. Welcome to thoughtful Thursdaywith Bill Handle, a day thoughtful Thursday
(03:32):
where we come up with thoughts,heavy thoughts. Damn. Yeah, yes,
wow, I can come up withsome. I can come up with
some immediately. Loose lips, sinkships. Wow. You could lead a
(03:52):
horse to water, but you can'tlead a horticulture asphorisms with Bill Handle.
All right, guys, I likethat. I really like that. All
right, guys, ready to doit because we do have a lot on
our plate this morning. It istime for Handle on the news, Amy
King, Neil and me lead story. Well, the protesting continues. This
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one at USC. This one madethe national news last night. Usually it's
Yale, it was some schools onthe East Chicago. It hit here.
The campus has been closed at SCpro Palestinian protesters. The police clash,
arrests were made, and I'm goingto get into that more on at seven
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o'clock and then quite possibly the mostterrific phrase ever uttered by a government.
I'm going to talk about in relationto this. I was listening to Gary
and Shennon yesterday and they pointed outthat it almost looked like USC was,
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Hey, everybody else is getting attentionon college campuses, what about us?
Well it worked, Yeah, dummies, speaking of protests on college campuses.
Of course it continues at Columbia Universityand now you gotta go. That's the
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call for the president of the university. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
and some other officials went to Columbiayesterday and said, you know what,
if you can't get control of yourcampus, you need to step down.
So they're calling for Minute Chaffeek toleave office. Why haven't they called for
all the other presidents to step downwho are incapable of quelling the protests.
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And I'm talking about quelling the legalprotests. I don't think anybody is trying
to quell legal protests. Everybody sayslegal peaceful protests are fine. You just
can't block buildings, you can't blockaccess to the schools and threaten people.
And those are few and far betweenbecause a lot of Palestinian and the anti
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Israeli faction out there is saying thatthe threats against the Jewish students are very
few and far between, even thoughthey are there. I think it's I
don't know how much anti Semitism isbeing thrown around because you have some Jewish
students that are really threatened, butit happens anyway. You have Black students
that are threatened on a regular basis. You certainly have Muslim students that are
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threatened, and so I think it'smore unless you have to be threatened,
unless you specifically your family is targeted, then it's it's a bigger social issue,
I think than an illegal threat.More about that o'clock. I'm sorry,
isn't that a criminal issue at thatpoints? No? I mean specific
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threats. Yeah, I'm going tokill you. Yes, that is a
that's a violation of law. Youshould die is not Israel should be limited,
eliminated, is not a threat?Fair enough. President Joe Biden just
yesterday said that he was immediately rushingthrough the badly needed weaponry to Ukraine.
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He signed into law, of course, that ninety five billion with a b
war aid measure. It included assistantassistants also for Israel, Taiwan, and
other hot spots across the globe.This is going on while Ukraine for the
first time has begun using long rangeballistic missiles that are believed to be provided
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secretly by the US. Yeah,I was, you're already there. They
signed the bill allowing the US tosend those missiles to Ukraine, which are
have all ready being delivered and arebeing used as President Biden signed the bill.
The problem with this not that theUkraine, Not that Ukraine is getting
the arms, which I believe itshould. It may be too late.
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Russia has gotten a very strong,a very strong toe hold into Ukrainian territory
and this maybe well I'm not goingto say too little, but it could
be too late and should have happenedmonths ago and it didn't. And as
far as Israel is concerned, alot of argument. You're seeing a lot
of these students protesting, wanting theschools to disinvest, to get out of
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putting their pensions or putting their endowmentsinto companies, into funds that have that
invest in companies that deal with Israelor arms industries that then sell the Israel.
All of that. That's not gonnado. Jack. You know what,
You're out there protesting and you sayto Columbia, say to usc you've
got to get out of those companies. First of all, for the most
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part, those universities hand all ofthat over to folks who administrate those funds.
I don't know how many actually workdirectly for the schools. But you
know, fine, protest all youwant. It's and they're comparing this to
other protests. They're saying, Israel'sapartheid. Well you can argue that,
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but we did this in South Africa. We were able to turn this over
very different animal. And I'll talkmore about that one too at seven o'clock.
Well, welcome to the twenty firstcentury. The Arizona House of Representatives
has voted to overturn the state's onehundred and sixty year old law, which
basically bans just about all abortions.Three Republicans voted with all twenty nine Democrats
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yesterday to move the legislation forward.The state Senate gets it next, they're
expected to pass it and the mayoror the governor rather has said that she
will sign it. Yeah, tothink that's even on the books, and
it's been turned down twice the Republicansin Arizona to undo this bill. That's
the part that's studying is how evenan anti abortion legislator can leave a bill
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in the works that says that theonly way an abortion will be allowed is
to save the mother's night life.Not that the mother's life is at risk,
it's to save her life. Andhow close do you get and what
happens if you have a group ofdoctors saying, oh, no, no,
that was to save her life.You could have done ABC and D.
(10:33):
It's not absolute that you would havesaved her life. Do they go
to prison? Does doctor go toprison for that? No one knows.
Oh, Also, what does thatmean? To save your life? You
have to be at a death Youhave to be at death's door. Or
can you have can the child beborn with some kind of anomaly, some
kind of a birth defect that willkill the child within months after being born?
(10:56):
Hey, mother's life is an atstake, child has to be born?
Really crazy stuff? When is thisguy gonna leave? Ethics and Integrity
Assistant District Attorney Diana Tehran. She'sa top advisor to DA George Gascone.
She oversees cases involving public corruption,police misconduct, fraud, that type thing.
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She herself has been charged with elevenfelony violations. Boom dropped. The
mic doesn't get more delicious than that. No hell's going on with that guy.
She's accused of accessing computer data,including confidential peace officers files in twenty
eighteen, and that you can't do. So it's particularly good that she is
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the ethics fraud, police misconduct.That's fantastic. Maybe she understood the type,
misunderstood the title. Maybe she wassupposed to do that right, Like
the American Cancer Association, is thatpro cancer or that anti cancer? It
(12:11):
doesn't really say in the title.So shooting at a sheriff's deputy maybe this
guy's last bad decision. Because ifthe guy who is charged with shooting at
an Lakeny Sheriff's deputy while he wassitting at a stoplight is convicted on the
several felonies he's charged with, hecould get life in prison. What we
(12:33):
know is Raymundo Duran is a badactor. So he got arrested for DUI
on Monday in San Diego, hadnothing to do with the sheriff's deputy shooting,
and then Sheriff Luna said he hasa very extensive criminal history and a
violent criminal history. He had nobusiness having a gun in the first place.
He's been involved in a police pursuit. He was involved in a hidden
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run and had warrants out for paroleviolations, among other things. You know,
any shoots or is accused of shootinga cop in the back sitting on
his motorcycle waiting for a red light. You remember the cop. Yeah,
you would play either cops or robbersor good guys bad guys. You notice
how they don't say bad guys anymore. It's always bad actors. You don't
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want to label the person a badperson. They just are a regular person
that does horrible things. Is thatlike people argue about Johnny Depp. I'm
not following a bad actor. Ithink he's a good actor. I do
too, But I've heard it gothe other way too. Oh boy.
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But everybody says Meryl Streep is great. No one argues that Meryl Streep is
not phenomenal. I don't know thatshe's that great. Oh yes she is.
Oh I saw Mama, Mia,Mama me. That wasn't her fault.
She did that at gunpoint? Ohno, I can she wanted to
do it. Let's no, it'simpossible. Yeah, I liked Kramer versus
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Kramer two but Jeeves, yes,okay, all right, this is another
delicious one. Grand jury in Arizonahas handed up an indictment against former President
Donald Trump's allies. This course isdealing with their efforts to overturn the twenty
twenty election loss. And this hasa pretty good list of names. Here.
(14:26):
There is closest advisor's former White HouseChief of Staff Mark Meadows. Of
course, Rudy Rudy Giuliani, oneof his attorneys. They're among those who
have been indicted. Yeah, andthey're not arguing they have absolute immunity because
someone who dyes his hair can dowhatever the hell he wants to in further
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runs of an election fraud doesn't workthat way. What a fall from grace,
Julie, we both know someone whoknows someone very close to Guliani.
I asked, is he that crazy? He goes he's crazier than that,
And that question, I asked,what a fall? What's about a fall
from grace? Because here's a guywho was probably one of the best prosecutors
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in the nation. He took downthe mafia in New York. Uh.
Then he becomes America's mayor and hedoes a brilliant job as the mayor of
New York. Then it goes intothe crapper and I asked, how is
that possibly? He goes he justgot caught up in this inner circle of
Donald Trump. And Donald Trump isso charismatic that he just draws people to
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him. He's like the sun withplanets circling around, and he got caught
up in that. You and Iboth met Donald Trump at the same time.
Yeah, And did you think hewas that charismatic? No. I
thought he was a dick fair enough. I remember him kissing your butt once
(15:52):
he find found out who you were. No. No, yeah, because
he was like, I don't wantto do this thing or whatever, and
then it's like it's Bill Handle.Yeah, you know. I asked him
the same question I ask everybody,and that is my first It was a
question and answer. I'm in frontof I don't know how many people at
the forum, and I was askedto interview him, and I said,
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you're a very wealthy man, youknow, Donald Because I was told to
call him mister Trump. That didn'thappen. I said, you're a pretty
wealthy man, and he goes,yes, I am. How much money
do you have in your pocket?Right now? What are you talking about?
How much money do you have inyour pocket? Now I'll reach in
there. Let's see how much money. Let's see a guy, how wealthy
you are? No I didn't.I said it respectfully, But he didn't
(16:34):
have much money in his pocket.How kind of guy who's that wealthy?
I'm like eight dollars in his pocket. How much do you carry money around?
Oh? Yeah, yeah, Ialways carry a couple hundred dollars.
I don't do that anymore. Ohno, I do, because if ever
I get held up by some drugdrug addict who is dazed walking around looking
(16:55):
for his fix and sticks a gunto my head. Hey, give me
your money. I want him tobe happy. I want him to be
really happy when he takes my money. Like you've heard those stories of the
person had sixty cents on them andthe guy shot him because he was so
frustrated. Uh ah, here yougo, Hey, enjoy yourself, knock
(17:15):
yourself out. One day you're goingto come around out of an alley way
and four people are gonna hold youup and they're gonna go We're not Neil
Amy and or no, no,give us your money. Yeah, all
I have four people and all Ihave is one hundred dollars bill. Hey
can anyone if you break this?I want to be even with everybody.
(17:38):
So airlines have been ordered to showme the money. US Department of Transportation
prove some rules yesterday that require airlinesto one show the full price of what
your ticket is going to cost beforeyou buy it, and then two give
cash refunds if your flight is canceledor significantly changed. And they said that
(18:00):
passengers deserve to know up front whatcosts they're facing, and they should get
their money back when an airline owesthem without having to ask. Seems simple
enough, airlines. I'm going toEurope this October coming up, and after
I bought the tickets, then I'mtold that if I want to sit next
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to I'm going with Lindsay, ifI'm going to sit next to someone,
if we want to sit together,I have to pay one hundred and forty
eight bucks per person extra. Whitwhat one hundred and forty eight dollars just
to sit together? I mean,thank god, I don't like her that
much, so I didn't have topay it. But geez, Louise,
come along, guys, junk feeafter junk fee on top of junk fee.
(18:45):
They have to get rid of thosetwo. I don't understand. If
you book the seats, yes,so why don't you just pretend like you
book them separate? Well, fine, you can book them separately, you
can look come together. But whathappens is if you don't order the seats
next to each other or order theseat you want, you get it that
(19:07):
day, the day of the flight, and they just throw you wherever they
want to. That's rude. Yeah, okay, well, all right,
more legal garbage for Donald Trump.Is he accountable for his attempts to overturn
the twenty twenty election. Well that'sa conversation been going on for some time
among courts across the country. Today, bump bump bum, the Supreme Court
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will enter the chat and we shallfind out their thoughts. I cannot imagine
the court granting him immunity. Icannot if the court grants him total immunity
because of his argument that a presidentcan do anything the president wants during a
presidency. I don't know where thiscountry is going well. You know,
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Amy, you asked a great questionthis morning on pick up call. She
asked, is there any gray areaor is it just a yes or no
either he is immune. Yah,there's gonna be all kinds of gray area
because the question in specifically in frontof the court, and usually the court
decides very narrowly, and the questionis can he be immunized from the conduct
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in the election subversion count? Andthe court can clearly say that immunity only
is restricted to this kind of activityin furtherance of an election that is within
the bounds of a president doing anythinghe wants, basically, and this is
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in order to overturn a legal election. But even that would blow it wide
open, because then the argument is, can he, for example, arrest
poll workers for fear that they arethey're engaging in misconduct in primarily democratic districts.
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I don't know the answer to that. What if they tell any circumstances
is scary notion? What if theytell him he can have immunity, but
he has to get vaccinated for it? Very strong? Yeah, then there's
problems. Yeah, the way youbuy and sell your home is about to
change. So a federal judge hasgiven the ok to the National Association of
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Realtor's settlement. It's worth four hundredand eighteen million dollars. It's an antitrust
case and basically what housing experts aresaying is the settlement may get rid of
the current real estate business model.Of course, under the current system,
home sellers pay a full commission,usually five or six percent, and under
the terms of this settlement, theseller's agents will no longer be required to
(21:49):
offer commissions to buyers agents. Yeah. I'm going to get into that coming
up at seven point thirty, andit's going to be another one of those
lower prices are better for our worsefor the consumer. We maintain our high
prices and it's good for the consumer. I'll explain that later on. And
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really well, I'll tell you aboutthat because it's is it all encompassing?
Yeah, the way the model isnow, it's really interesting in terms of
his power of real estate brokers.I'll do that. Coming up at seven
point thirty. Russian talk about PettyRussian Orthodox priest who has been you know,
leading memorial services. This happened lastmonth at the grave of the late
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opposition leader Alexei Navolny. He's beensuspended from clerical duties in order to serve
three years of penance. So theMoscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church did
the suspension, but no reason wasstated for the punishment. But no,
it's crazy, but we've had thattoo. How many priests over the years
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I have promoted homosexuality or promoted womenas priests who haven't gotten disciplined by the
Catholic Church where parishes are taken away, not towing the line. Now there's
a morality here's but this is political. So this is it is that's correct.
But I mean, I'm not goingto defend this because it is horrible
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over there. But political crimes areeven worse than moral turpitude crimes. That
is the problem. And so andthey're not arresting him. It's just the
Grand Vizier of the Russian Orthodox Churchis saying we're going to pull him off.
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And he has to. He's beingsuspended and he has to do penance,
pray to God in terms of hiswrongdoing to so he can understand and
deal with it and come back intofull priesthood. More evidence that women doctors
are the best. There's a newstudy of people ages sixty five and older,
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and it shows that women who goto the hospital are less likely to
die or be readmitted to the hospitalif they're treated by female doctors. Researchers
say that the gap means that fivethousand women's lives could be saved each year
if they only went to women doctors, if they only went to women doctors.
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And it's interesting too. They lookedat like eight hundred thousand people and
they said for the male patients,it didn't matter if it was a man
or a woman, but for thewomen patients, their death rates went down
if they were also treated by awoman because the male doctors like, yeah,
yeah, yes, sweetheart, you'refine, you're just being hysterical.
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Now. I had a female doctorfor a time until she moved. And
this was my internest who would giveme, you know, that exam and
she was very small and petite,loved it. And then I got a
basketball player. Wow, professional basketballplayer. Let me tell you what that
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was like. Was this your gynecologist? No, it was close. Yeah.
I do think that there's a bias. I think there's bias with minorities,
and I think there's bias with womenwith doctors. Yeah, there really
is. Many years ago, Iwas referred to and had a black doctor
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and we just started talking politics,and he brought up the fact that people
looked at him as an affirmative actiondoctor, and he goes, hey,
I went to Harvard. You know, I did my residency at Hopkins.
You know I was top of myclass. I don't want people to think
that I'm not qualified simply because I'mAfrican American. And he was really pissed
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off. Well, yeah, butin the reverse, there are no Yeah,
there are white doctors that don't reactto people of color the same way.
Yeah there are white doctors that o'treact to anybody the same way.
But you're right, you know again, this is the people are people.
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Human beings are human beings, andyou get those mistakes. Well, you
get that kind of bias all thetime. Ring customers could receive a refund
after the company settled this particular lawsuit. This lawsuit settlement, if you remember,
involved the charges that Ring allowed employeesin some contractors actually to access customers
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consumers private videos and they didn't implementany of these security protections. I think
there was one guy who had athing for this one particular customer and he
would watch her videos as she's cominghome and leaving from per home. Yeah,
this is five point six million dollars. Though, this is a change
(27:06):
that Ring finds underneath the cushions inthe waiting room. I mean, this
is nothing for a company like Ring. Yeah, but I think Amazon,
who owns Ring now paid over thirtymillion to two one. Yeah. Yeah,
this is thirty million is in thefirst cushion of the first couch that
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you run into. So the USDAis taking the fun out of lunches.
They're limiting the amount of sugar thatcan be in meals. I guess that's
probably a good thing. But theUS Department of Agriculture announced a series of
changes to nutrition standards. The biggestchange is that they're going to reduce the
amount of sugar in meals. They'realso going to reduce sodium and school meals
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like fifteen percent less, and theyare going to allow chocolate milk to be
served, but it'll be a limitedamount. Yeah. I remember when I
I was in a kid When Iwas a kid and ate in the cafeteria,
and there was a similar requirement fromthe USDA that did not go through.
And one at one USDA, amember of the committee, asked for
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the meals to go from inedible toedible, and that failed miserably. And
you ever had a school lunch,I'd liked. I liked the square pizzas.
I loved the pizza day. Yeah, yeah, I liked the When
I was in junior high school,the grilled cheese sandwiches on brown bread for
some reason, and this is whenthe school got surplus cheese, in this
(28:42):
case from the government, government governmentcheese, and price went down from a
quarter to ten percent to ten cents. Absolutely loved it. I liked the
grilled cheese as well. Yeah,it wasn't the coffee cake, now you're
talking. I liked the chocolate shakesthat you'd buy, Oh yeah, almost
they almost had chocolate in them.Yeah, but you dip your crunchy Cheetos
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in the chocolate shape. I neverI just liked the shakes. Yeah,
a little sweet and savory. Youknow what, I wish they would I
know, this is weird. Theywould teach like reading and like writing and
math in school. Yeah, Iwish they'd get back. That's just me.
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I'm old fashioned. I'm still thinkingabout those chocolate shakes, which really
weren't chocolate, but they were superthick too. Yeah, they were.
They were really good. They wereexpensive though. They were a quarter and
that was no, no, no, you know, I go back a
few years, but that was thatwas real money. When the entire lunch
costs sixty cents, I'll never forgetthat. And the best value was rice
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with gravy on it. I wasa chunky little kid. I have rice
with gravy was of excellent, excellentthey served that, Oh yeah they did.
I think Nickel. I think thislunch lady was messing. No,
no, no, no, nickI don't think anybody else got that.
No. I think everything from tencents and this was five cents. Sorry,
guys, we're done. Kf Iam six forty live everywhere on the
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