May 9, 2024 • 30 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Biden says he will stop sending bombs and artillery shells to Israel if it launches major invasion of Rafah. Arrested UCLA protesters were equipped with heavy pipes, bolt cutters, chains – and a plan to occupy campus building, police say. Biden administration set to propose rule that would reject migrants who are ineligible for asylum. Shohei Ohtani’s ex-interpreter Ippei Mizuhara to plead guilty after transferring nearly $17MIL from Dodgers star’s account. Disney+ Max app: Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch streaming bundle combing streaming platforms including Hulu and HBO.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I. A M six forty
knows the last question you would everask president, and that is boxers or
briefs, which is asked of everysingle president. Went around the room and
(00:21):
Neil wears boxer brief's halfway there andKno said he wears boxers, and I
admitted that I wear panties. Andnow handle on the news. Ladies and
gentlemen, here's Bill Handle, andgood running everybody. Bill handle here.
(00:43):
It is a Thursday, May Night. Well, as Neil says, it
is a thoughtful Thursday. We're tryingto figure out thoughtful. So it is
either a thoughtful Thursday or terrific Thursday, or in Neil Neil's case, I've
got the trots Thursday. No,I'm back to normal. Oh all right,
you had the trots. I hadthe Thursday. Well, I got
(01:06):
my colonoscopy yesterday, clean as awhistle, by the way, no issues,
no issues, yay. And toyou know, Amy King, who's
been brave enough to talk about herbig c issues in the past, I
just want to say it's all jokingaside, it really is not a big
deal. And to do it andyou're you're it's important to say you're in
(01:29):
and out. Yeah, it's important, but it really is, and it
isn't a probably. You know,the prep has gotten so much easier these
days. It's really gata rade anda mixture of gator rade and stuff,
and it really is not a bigdeal and go get it done. It
just gives you peace of mind andoften you don't have to go back for
another five ten years. Right,you should be on the ten year plan
(01:51):
if you didn't have any issues.Yeah, yeah, unless you have a
history of in your family genetic history. But it is well worth it to
go. And they sent you,they gave you the pictures, right,
Neil. Yes, And I thinkI picked the one out for our Christmas
card this year. You know itlooks like a Japanese paper lantern. Yeah,
(02:15):
one of them does. And Iasked him, I said, can
I get a couple of eight bytens and then some wallet size for my
mom? Yeah, we can doit. Remember what was that year when
we did one of our events andon the T shirt I put up photos.
Okay, so Handle was the endorserfor Master Serve who did repiping,
(02:37):
and so the T shirt that Handlehad made for the repiping company. Was
they paid fires which they paid forso it had pictures of his coal and
on it and it said my pipesare clean. How about yours? Yea
brought to you by Master served therepiping specialists. Yeah, they paid more.
(02:57):
What does Masters now? I thinkthey've sort of morphed into another company.
So a quick hello Neil, Hello, good morning, Amy, good
morning. Well Hello there a Kno, there you are yep. And and
the lovely Anne good morning. Alsoquick plug for Lamarada Theater Jersey Boys this
(03:21):
weekend. Can't wait to go.I've seen it a couple of times.
It is phenomenal and Lamarada does anamazing job. Still some tickets available for
the weekend and trust me, youwill be absolutely thrilled if you don't like
it. Okay, I am going. I'm making this offer right now.
(03:43):
If you don't like it, you'renot going to get a money back guarantee
for me. Wow. I justwant to point that out. Your generosity
knows no bounds. I will tellyou this is from the brother of a
two time Tony Award winning Broadway producer, which my brother is. I will
tell you the producers and the theateritself is Broadway world cloud. Yeahute,
(04:11):
that's just impressive. Well, SouthernCalifornia Regional Theater in Southern California is absolutely
Broadway level. As a matter offact, a lot of Broadway stars come
to Southern California. I once askeda guy having seen Lion King for the
nineteenth time, and I just gotsick of it. I asked the lead,
who had been on Broadway for acouple of years, the lead,
(04:33):
and I said, what are youdoing? You're coming over here. You're
working for scale, which is whatthey do, and or a little more,
but not you know, big moneylike they do on Broadway. Because
these are they go for two,three weeks, four weeks at a time.
And I asked him, why doyou do it? He goes,
because I've been doing the same showfor two years on Broadway. Here I
(04:54):
get to exercise my chops. Iget to actually do the musical theater that
I grew up with studied, andI had to do different parts and it
is just absolutely tremendous. Okay,guys, enough of that. We've got
a whole lot of stuff going ontoday and let's do it. Time for
handling the news with Amy King andNeil Sevadra and me and lead story Do
(05:18):
It Do It? Twelve? TheUnited States and Joe Biden moving further and
further apart from Israel as the attacksand Gaza continue, as the quote non
attack non attack on RAFA theoretically hasn'tstopped, or at least that's what Israel
(05:40):
says targeted, which is a bunchof crap. It's just insane. And
Biden just said, Okay, we'restopping ammunition. This thing politically is killing
Biden, absolutely killing him. Andnow are there talks. Yeah. The
problem is is you've got the rightwingers in Israel, fundamental pro war right
(06:00):
wingers, and you got Kamas onthe other side that do not care about
their own people. They just don'tcare. You know, they prepared Gaza
is rubble from top to bottom aslong as they stay in power. So
it's a bad group of people onboth sides here. In terms of negotiation,
handle quick question, how do youthink and I know you're not a
(06:21):
fan, but you separate yourself asmuch as you can. How do you
think it would be different if Trumpwas president? Do you think he'd continue
to give Yeah? Whatever, he'smore pro Israeli. That's what I thought,
Yeah, oh yeah, that's whatI would. It's it would be
unlimited. He is completely pro Israeli. And you've got young people that are
(06:42):
gonna nail Biden because of not supportingthe Palestinians enough. And they're not going
to vote for Biden. I don'tknow if they're going to vote for Trump,
but that may be vote that actuallymay be the issue that kills Widen.
I mean, it may be theissue because he's losing. He's he's
desper he needs young people. Hedoesn't get young people, he loses.
(07:03):
It's that simple. And they're theyoung people. Gen Z's millennials to an
extent not so young, are justbailing out. They can't take it.
They're you know, they're the Palestiniansupporters. More and more and more look
at the protests, and it's thatTrump goes in. Let me tell you,
he's going to put Biden to shamein terms of supporting Israel. So
(07:29):
they were geared up and ready togo. Police say that that group of
forty four protesters who got arrested onthe campus of UCLA on Monday, I
remember they were in a parking structureand got zip tied when they caught him.
They had bolt cutters, super glue, padlocks, and other stuff that
showed they were probably planning to vandalizeand occupy a building on campus. A
(07:54):
UCLA police statement indicated the group wasalso carrying printed materials like do it Yourself
Occupation Guide. Yeah, let metell you where they're going to get into
a whole lot of trouble. Yeah, trespassing. I mean that's a misdemeanor
and people go in and out andyou have vast majority of the people that
have been arrested. These folks thatwere arrested with the pipes and the bolt
(08:18):
cutters and the padlocks, they werecharged with conspiracy to commit a crime that
is a major felony. That isa no joke felony. Conspiracy is just
nails you And you're not going tosee an in and out revolving door through
prison on this one. Oh no, not with these guys. Yeah,
(08:41):
I'm curious. The super glue hereis sayanoak relate is is what super glue
is? I wonder if they weregoing to put that in the locks to
block them from being picked or anythinglike that. That could be or strange
thing to have on you in thatcase. Yeah, well, I mean
you can do a lot with superglue. The real dumb ones were going
(09:03):
to put super glue on their tonguesand lick the light poles. Those were
the real stare hands together. Yeah, yeah, wrap your hand around the
pole and then super glue your handstogether. You can do a lot with
super glue and you're right. Locks. Once it's in, you need bold
cutters to undo a lock. Andso you know a lot of these protesters,
(09:24):
i mean across the board chain themselvestogether. You've seen those protests where
they handcuff each other and they havethe big plastic pipes that cover their hands.
You know, their arms they goacross, you know, both arms
when they're locked together, and theydo all kinds of stuff. I don't
know if that visual worked. Iknew what I was talking about. Okay,
(09:48):
that's just important. The Biden administrationis expected to propose a rule cracking
down on migrants that are ineligible toclaim asylum. And this isn't like this
massive sweeping situation, but rather kindof tightening up the current immigration system.
So but it's not struggling. Youknow why he's struggling because he has already
(10:11):
caved, and in tightening up immigration, he has given what the Republicans wanted.
The Republicans then shut it down becauseTrump said, do not pass this
bill because I need to use immigrationin my run against Biden. And that
is exactly what's going to happen.So he's not going to get Congress to
(10:33):
help I get all that. Butwhy not have done it earlier when it
wasn't you absolutely I had them thestrategy. Had they done this prior to
the presidential run of former President Trump, uh, it wouldn't. It wouldn't
be as much ammunition against Biden administration. You know what he caved. I
(10:54):
mean, the guy is pro youknow, he's pro immigration. It's that
simple. And he and he wantsto go light on illegal immigration. He
finally had to cave to political pressureand just you're right, too late,
too little, too late. Nowit's going to be a big, big
deal. Well, she came,she tried, she failed. Representative Marjorie
(11:18):
Taylor Green followed through with her threatto try to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson,
and just like Bill Handle predicted,she failed. Yeah, but I
said she wasn't going to do it. Yesterday she stunned everybody because everybody thought,
I mean she there was I meanit was overwhelming. I mean it
was crazy. Sixteen people or thirtysomething people voted for the motion. I
(11:43):
mean, you know, so youhad three hundred and something that did not
over Yeah, I think three ninetysix congress people voted. Here is what
she came to. She met withMike Johnson the day before to negotiate,
and of course she is so insane. Her position is, you never talk
(12:03):
to Democrats. It doesn't matter underany circumstances. You do not talk to
Democrats. And he's been doing thata lot. Yeah, he's cutting a
deal. You have to. Youcannot you've got a four vote majority.
You cannot get anything passed without talkingto Democrats. And it's so she went
ahead and did it. Now sheknew she was going to lose, but
she wants it on the record whovoted with the Democrats, which, by
(12:28):
the way, is the majority ofthe Republicans. And so, and she
was vicious, I mean against MikeJohnson. What she said was just crazy
vicious. Even the Republicans, rightwing Republicans said this is completely insane.
I mean, this was a tantrum. This is not the way Congress should
(12:50):
work. If she ever wanted togo into leadership, it ain't gonna happen,
that's for sure. What does youknow, Mike Johnson do after she
rips them and say he's in commonopen and uh, basically he's a trader
to Republican causes. I mean,just but she did it. She went
on, she wanted to go onthe stand. He didn't like me as
a as a dumb guy though,who Johnson, He's not dumb, He's
(13:13):
just a you know what he isis just a follower. He's not a
leader in that position. Needs wellin this case, this is the exactly
in this In this case, hesaid, we have to pass legislation.
We this is a world of compromise. That is that is the way democracy
(13:35):
works. Isn't it supposed to bethat way? I think? Yeah,
stuff done. Finally, this isgoing to be the most ineffective Congress since
the Civil War when half of Congressstood up and walked out the door the
Southern States and joined, uh,the Confederacy. Not much happened, all
(13:58):
right, show Hey Otani's former longtimeinterpreter has agreed to plead guilty to charges
for illegally transferring. We finally gota big number, almost seventeen million dollars
from Otani's bank account, obviously withoutpermission. This is to pay off his
(14:20):
massive gambling debts. But man,oh man, at first we thought it
was around four million or something likethat. Now I'm sixteen million, yeah,
and now seventeen million. Yeah.And look at he's his winning bets
for one hundred and forty two million. His losing bets were one hundred and
eighty three million negative loss or negativeforty one million dollars. Now this guy's
(14:45):
going to do some serious jail time. He's played guilty. He's not even
going to trial. He is lookingat a max of thirty years. Of
course he's not going to get thirtyyears, but he's going to get I
wouldn't be surprised. I have tocall the way a criminal defense that I
know, federal criminal defense attorney.I'm willing to bet he's going to get
eight years. If I had toguess, you know what, we have
(15:07):
to send an email to Wayne.He'll know exactly. Do you think he
bet on it? Do you thinkwhen they said he you know, you
get up to thirty years, hewill? You know what, I bet
it's going to be a that's probablytrue. Well, that could be problems
because remember he had the huge gamblingdebt, so apparently it's not very good
at betting. Obviously, not timeto get bundled up. Disney and Warner
(15:31):
Brothers Discovery say they're launching a newbundle service this summer. It's going to
have Disney Plus and Hulu, whichis already offered together, but now they're
adding in Max. So the newbundle will offer things like ABC, CNN,
DC, Discovery, Disney Food Network, FX, HBO, HGTV,
Hulu, Marvel, Marvel, Pixar, Searchlight, Warner Brothers and more,
(15:54):
all on one bundle. Now,this is where on all these bundling whenever
there is a new undling package,what happens all the time. You've got
to do research. Which of theseplatforms do you want? Which of the
services do you want? Some youdon't use. For example, I used
to have direct TV. I don'thave Direct TV because they're sports centric and
(16:15):
I'm not interested in paying a fortunefor sports. So I look at it
and I bundle stuff that I wantto watch. All right, and you
got to look today, you haveto really look to see what you want
and which package you buy. Allright, but you take it really quick.
Bill. You know what's crazy aboutthis is not only does Disney have
Star Wars and Marvel, but thiswould give them through this app, it
(16:40):
would also give them the DC Universeyea and Harry Potter. I mean,
yeah, massage. It depends onwhat you like, for sure. I
mean I spend a fortune on onbundling and bundling, and I spend a
fortune on streaming. By the way, I have Apple Plus. If you
like music at all, which Ilove, Schmigadoon plus one is funniest,
(17:07):
most hilarious series. It's two seasons. It's Shmigadoon take off on Brigadoon and
Schmicago, Uh, take off onChicago. And it is brilliant. It's
parody. Uh it is a Peontwo or a pain two to musicals.
As people who clearly love musicals andoh god, so well done, let
(17:32):
me heartily recommend it Apple Plus.If you have a Smigadoon, you have
to know, you have to knowabout the the the actual content. I
don't know if you do, butno, I don't know. If it
is hilarious. It is so enjoyableon its face, but if you know
the musicals and the references, itgets even deeper. It is just very
funny. Uh. Panera is droppingtheir charged lemonade in quotes, which just
(17:57):
happens to be the subject of multiplewrongful death lawsuits, which is probably the
best reason to drop something from yourlineup. You ever had that, you
ever had that charge lemonade? No? No, I like living and I
have a bowl and beautiful and yougo to you know, you used to
go to pen Area and they tookit down where you have that menu above
(18:17):
the counter that you looked at,there was actually a skull and bones above
the lemonade. It was I mean, it gave you know, they told
you this is not good stuff.Yeah, drink it. It comes out
in like a lead lined goblet.But you know what, what did I
read here? I had seen somewherein the story that that it's coming off
(18:38):
the menu in the next two weeks. If you if you thought something was
harmful, wouldn't you kind of justtake it off? No, because here's
why, And this story makes alot of sense because if they removed it
immediately, then that would be anadmission, or it could be interpreted to
dismissions. The dumb mistass. Notonly that, not only that, the
(19:00):
story is ridiculous. You can't usethat in court. You're not allowed to
use a milion or two measures afterthe fact to fix it. You just
say, you know what to becauseof the press, and we thought it
was yeah, we did nothing wrong. We did nothing wrong. And our
lemonade kills me. Why we didn'tthere for two weeks? You know what.
I'm going to go get some todayand I'm going to drop to the
(19:22):
floor after I take a sip.There you go. H if they edited
out did it really happen? Netflixhas edited out Kim Kardashian being booed at
the Tom Brady roast at the KiaForm. It's part of the Netflix as
a joke fest, and she gotup there and was met with a massive
(19:44):
amount of booze. Then actor JeffRoss jumps up on stage, gets on
another mic and says whoa, whoa, whoa. But if you watch the
roast on Netflix now, you willsee that Kardashian's beginning part of her roast
of Tom Brady is gone, andso is the part where Jeff Ross tries
to calm down the crowd, youknow, and I'm looking at what she
(20:07):
said. This is a roast.Why would they get offended by this?
It's not about that, It wasn't. I think it was before she even
told a joke. I don't knowwhen. Yeah, I think they were
booing just her in general human being. Yeah, which is interesting, right,
listen, Yeah, I don't getit. Yeah, it's one of
those things that they you know,listen, we do the same thing when
(20:27):
you start the show. They editedout all of you know, Amy booing
and co. Yeah, exactly,and who's the loudest it gets town.
Hey, you know, the explanationfor our FK has come out. Neil.
Now we know what's going on fromthe politicians. Need to stop telling
us everything. We don't need toknow if you kill dogs, and we
(20:49):
certainly don't need to know that ourFK. Junior says that they found a
dead worm in his brain back intwenty ten, and uh, this is
great. The doctor believed, youknow, everyone thought it was a tumor.
All the doctor thought that was tumor. But one doctor believed that the
abnormality that was seen on the scanswas and I quote caused by a worm
(21:15):
that got into my brain and atea portion of it and then died.
You know what, that's a thing. Yes, but that is a thing
that he just said. My brainisn't even worth the sustenance of a worm.
No. I think this is whatthese worms do is they eat part
of the brain and then from whatI understand, all of the consequences are
(21:40):
short lived, memory loss, cognitiveinability balanced, and it all comes back.
You know, I remember cleared mysibyl decades what you went through something
similar years ago, and the doand you the worm died and you asked
the doctor, my worm's still alive, and it was due to starvation.
(22:00):
Yeah, yeah, so it wasthat's me. No. Hello, Okay,
if you lived in Ohio as ofright now, you wouldn't be able
to vote for the president of theUnited State. So the State House and
the Senate are trying to put forwardsome proposals that would allow President Biden to
be on the November ballot. Itwould and they would do that by changing
(22:23):
the certification deadline. Yeah, it'sa technical issue. It's you have to
be nominated by a deadline. Youcan't be nominated until after the deadline.
As far as the Democratic convention.So they're trying to change the dates.
It is a technical issue that hasto be unraveled. And this is only
(22:45):
the Democrats because the dates of theDemocratic Convention are different than the Republican Convention.
The neurolink may be unlinking. Theysay they're first in human brain implant
from back in January has encountered someproblems and apparently it links itself and interfaces
(23:07):
with what it calls these threads,right, these sixty four threads or what
have you, that it connects tothinner than a human hair, and some
of them are backing away from thelink and changing its performance. Yeah,
keeping an eye on that, andyou know this is this is going to
happen. This is simply the nextstep in terms of spinal injuries and just
(23:34):
it's fabulous technology. And this wasa neuralink started by Elon Musk. And
that little battery they put in therethat was exploding and catching on fire.
No, I'm pretty sure that wasn'tthe Oh no, that's the Tesla.
I'm sorry, I get I conflatedthe two old lease. So the launch
of Boeing Starliners spacecraft, which wassupposed to take astronauts up to the space
(23:56):
station and be the first time thatthey had on board. Was delayed on
Monday. Well, now they're sayingthat the next opportunity for liftoff will not
be until May seventeenth, which isa week from Friday. Veteran astronauts Sunny
Williams and Butch Wilmar Wilmore were alreadyall strapped in ready to go when they
said, you know what, weneed to scrub this one. And it's
(24:18):
because of a valve replacement. Nosurprise, considering there are millions of parts
of these things, it's almost amiracle when they do go this. Also,
just in Boeing has ordered a tonof duct tape and popsicle sticks.
Oh stop, we'll see about that, all right. This the US government
has launched a manhunt for this Russianfugitive. They're putting ten million dollars on
(24:45):
his head right now for running theworld's largest ransomware scheme. So they tried
this, this particular fugitive, thishacker has tried to extort millions from targets
like Boeing, for one, andthe United Kingdom's Royal Mail service. Yeah,
that's big stuff. That's pretty fallmunicipality. I mean he's going for
(25:06):
the moon on this one, andif he is in Russia, they're never
going to see him. Prutin willnever ever let him be extradited to any
place. So there may be moreto this one, but we just don't
know what it is. Miss USAcontestants have called for transparency from the miss
USA organization after Miss USA Noelia Voitannounced that she was going to relinquish her
(25:33):
crown and cited mental health issues.So a bunch of contestants posted on their
social media as statements saying they supporther, but then also went on to
say, we're asking the miss USAorganization to release Noelia from the confidentiality NDA
clause of her contract so that shecan speak on her experiences and time at
miss USA. Yeah, it seemslike everybody signs an NDA non disclosure agreement,
(26:02):
which in California NDAs are illegal.They that yes, can't be enforced.
How come you mentioned that yesterday?How come because because they're deemed coercive,
which I don't understand because here you'regetting paid for not talking and sometimes
NDAs, and I think in termsof business is legitimate. So it's so,
(26:26):
for example, we sold my partnercare and I sold our surrogacy center
and we had several people that wereinterested and they had to see the books.
So we go ahead and show thebooks they have they sign an NDA
non disclosure agreement saying you're not goingto share this is only for you to
look at in anticipation of buying thecompany. We're not interested in our books
(26:48):
going public privately owned companies. Sosometimes it's legitimate, but in general,
in this case, for example,you're an employee and you sign an NDA,
not particularly not particularly be enforceable inCalifornia. So they're just saying.
They're not saying it's not legal.They're just saying that the miss USA contest
(27:11):
should release her and all the othercontestants from signing that NDA, or from
enforcing the NDA that they all signand not sign. Again. Curiosity about
what's going on there, all right? You know, I've said many many
times before that with climate change,the issue will be solved by innovation conservation.
We're just too far down the line. So I was thrilled to see
(27:33):
this, the world's largest plant that'sdesigned to suck planet heating pollution out of
the atmosphere like a big old vacuum. Began operating in Iceland on Wednesday,
and it reminds me of Spaceballs.Do you remember that the big vacuum in
Spaceballs that sucked up all the airor something like that. You don't remember
(27:55):
that big? Now? I neverseen Spaceballs? Yeah? What you're not
up? Oh? I just neversaw it. You know. There was
a Brooks fan. Yeah, therewas a sixty minute piece. Yes,
I am. There was a sixtyminute piece that was done on this technology
and it was Iceland and it wasan experimental plant and now they've expanded it
to the first commercial plant. Andwhat it did is suck CO two out
(28:17):
of the air and then put itinto granite stones and literally these giant cylinder
a cylindrical massive stone I mean thirtyfeet high, six feet wide, that
then were put into the ground verydeep. And they were able that technology
(28:38):
is able to take CO two andput it back into the ground so it
doesn't escape. It's pretty neat,very originally did it in limestone. They
took it for granted, but okay, yeah, no, hey listen know
your audience. Man's that's very strong. Probably is it's really it's really expensive,
(28:59):
and it's Iceland gets away with itbecause they have geothermal geothermal which is
a very inexpensive way to heat soor to use energy, and it's really
neat. I mean, it's nofossil fuels are used at all. Is
terrific, But there aren't many placeslike Iceland that have that many geothermal plants.
Why don't we just plant more trees, because how many trees can you
(29:25):
plant? But you're right, thathelps a lot. Yeah, and in
the meantime, while deforestation is takingplace, you plant one fiber being destroyed
around the world, says the guybuilding a new house. I'm not building
a new house. I'm remodeling.Okay. Remember when the color of the
car affected whether you got pulled over, Well, now apparently it's the kind
(29:48):
of car in Suify has released alist of car brands most often ticketed for
speeding based on four point six millioncar insurance applications. So the car frands
that get the most speeding tickets areInfinity, Sion, Volkswagen, Subaru,
Mazda. That's the top five,Monday makes the top ten. You would
(30:11):
think it'd be the sports cars,but I guess it's the question of numbers.
Well, some of these, yeah, as my mom would say,
some of these cars are zippy,zippy, you know they're they're Some of
these are are pretty fast little carsyep. Okay. Least likely to get
speeding tickets are drivers of Cadillacs,Tesla and Volvo. Okay, there you
(30:34):
have there, you have it allright, thettle in your Vovo. Yep.
We are absolutely no surprise with theVolvo. By the way. Uh
KFI AM six forty live everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to
the Bill Handle Show. Catch myshow Monday through Friday, six am to
nine am, and anytime on demandon the iHeartRadio app
You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I. A M six forty
knows the last question you would everask president, and that is boxers or
briefs, which is asked of everysingle president. Went around the room and
(00:21):
Neil wears boxer brief's halfway there andKno said he wears boxers, and I
admitted that I wear panties. Andnow handle on the news. Ladies and
gentlemen, here's Bill Handle, andgood running everybody. Bill handle here.
(00:43):
It is a Thursday, May Night. Well, as Neil says, it
is a thoughtful Thursday. We're tryingto figure out thoughtful. So it is
either a thoughtful Thursday or terrific Thursday, or in Neil Neil's case, I've
got the trots Thursday. No,I'm back to normal. Oh all right,
you had the trots. I hadthe Thursday. Well, I got
(01:06):
my colonoscopy yesterday, clean as awhistle, by the way, no issues,
no issues, yay. And toyou know, Amy King, who's
been brave enough to talk about herbig c issues in the past, I
just want to say it's all jokingaside, it really is not a big
deal. And to do it andyou're you're it's important to say you're in
(01:29):
and out. Yeah, it's important, but it really is, and it
isn't a probably. You know,the prep has gotten so much easier these
days. It's really gata rade anda mixture of gator rade and stuff,
and it really is not a bigdeal and go get it done. It
just gives you peace of mind andoften you don't have to go back for
another five ten years. Right,you should be on the ten year plan
(01:51):
if you didn't have any issues.Yeah, yeah, unless you have a
history of in your family genetic history. But it is well worth it to
go. And they sent you,they gave you the pictures, right,
Neil. Yes, And I thinkI picked the one out for our Christmas
card this year. You know itlooks like a Japanese paper lantern. Yeah,
(02:15):
one of them does. And Iasked him, I said, can
I get a couple of eight bytens and then some wallet size for my
mom? Yeah, we can doit. Remember what was that year when
we did one of our events andon the T shirt I put up photos.
Okay, so Handle was the endorserfor Master Serve who did repiping,
(02:37):
and so the T shirt that Handlehad made for the repiping company. Was
they paid fires which they paid forso it had pictures of his coal and
on it and it said my pipesare clean. How about yours? Yea
brought to you by Master served therepiping specialists. Yeah, they paid more.
(02:57):
What does Masters now? I thinkthey've sort of morphed into another company.
So a quick hello Neil, Hello, good morning, Amy, good
morning. Well Hello there a Kno, there you are yep. And and
the lovely Anne good morning. Alsoquick plug for Lamarada Theater Jersey Boys this
(03:21):
weekend. Can't wait to go.I've seen it a couple of times.
It is phenomenal and Lamarada does anamazing job. Still some tickets available for
the weekend and trust me, youwill be absolutely thrilled if you don't like
it. Okay, I am going. I'm making this offer right now.
(03:43):
If you don't like it, you'renot going to get a money back guarantee
for me. Wow. I justwant to point that out. Your generosity
knows no bounds. I will tellyou this is from the brother of a
two time Tony Award winning Broadway producer, which my brother is. I will
tell you the producers and the theateritself is Broadway world cloud. Yeahute,
(04:11):
that's just impressive. Well, SouthernCalifornia Regional Theater in Southern California is absolutely
Broadway level. As a matter offact, a lot of Broadway stars come
to Southern California. I once askeda guy having seen Lion King for the
nineteenth time, and I just gotsick of it. I asked the lead,
who had been on Broadway for acouple of years, the lead,
(04:33):
and I said, what are youdoing? You're coming over here. You're
working for scale, which is whatthey do, and or a little more,
but not you know, big moneylike they do on Broadway. Because
these are they go for two,three weeks, four weeks at a time.
And I asked him, why doyou do it? He goes,
because I've been doing the same showfor two years on Broadway. Here I
(04:54):
get to exercise my chops. Iget to actually do the musical theater that
I grew up with studied, andI had to do different parts and it
is just absolutely tremendous. Okay,guys, enough of that. We've got
a whole lot of stuff going ontoday and let's do it. Time for
handling the news with Amy King andNeil Sevadra and me and lead story Do
(05:18):
It Do It? Twelve? TheUnited States and Joe Biden moving further and
further apart from Israel as the attacksand Gaza continue, as the quote non
attack non attack on RAFA theoretically hasn'tstopped, or at least that's what Israel
(05:40):
says targeted, which is a bunchof crap. It's just insane. And
Biden just said, Okay, we'restopping ammunition. This thing politically is killing
Biden, absolutely killing him. Andnow are there talks. Yeah. The
problem is is you've got the rightwingers in Israel, fundamental pro war right
(06:00):
wingers, and you got Kamas onthe other side that do not care about
their own people. They just don'tcare. You know, they prepared Gaza
is rubble from top to bottom aslong as they stay in power. So
it's a bad group of people onboth sides here. In terms of negotiation,
handle quick question, how do youthink and I know you're not a
(06:21):
fan, but you separate yourself asmuch as you can. How do you
think it would be different if Trumpwas president? Do you think he'd continue
to give Yeah? Whatever, he'smore pro Israeli. That's what I thought,
Yeah, oh yeah, that's whatI would. It's it would be
unlimited. He is completely pro Israeli. And you've got young people that are
(06:42):
gonna nail Biden because of not supportingthe Palestinians enough. And they're not going
to vote for Biden. I don'tknow if they're going to vote for Trump,
but that may be vote that actuallymay be the issue that kills Widen.
I mean, it may be theissue because he's losing. He's he's
desper he needs young people. Hedoesn't get young people, he loses.
(07:03):
It's that simple. And they're theyoung people. Gen Z's millennials to an
extent not so young, are justbailing out. They can't take it.
They're you know, they're the Palestiniansupporters. More and more and more look
at the protests, and it's thatTrump goes in. Let me tell you,
he's going to put Biden to shamein terms of supporting Israel. So
(07:29):
they were geared up and ready togo. Police say that that group of
forty four protesters who got arrested onthe campus of UCLA on Monday, I
remember they were in a parking structureand got zip tied when they caught him.
They had bolt cutters, super glue, padlocks, and other stuff that
showed they were probably planning to vandalizeand occupy a building on campus. A
(07:54):
UCLA police statement indicated the group wasalso carrying printed materials like do it Yourself
Occupation Guide. Yeah, let metell you where they're going to get into
a whole lot of trouble. Yeah, trespassing. I mean that's a misdemeanor
and people go in and out andyou have vast majority of the people that
have been arrested. These folks thatwere arrested with the pipes and the bolt
(08:18):
cutters and the padlocks, they werecharged with conspiracy to commit a crime that
is a major felony. That isa no joke felony. Conspiracy is just
nails you And you're not going tosee an in and out revolving door through
prison on this one. Oh no, not with these guys. Yeah,
(08:41):
I'm curious. The super glue hereis sayanoak relate is is what super glue
is? I wonder if they weregoing to put that in the locks to
block them from being picked or anythinglike that. That could be or strange
thing to have on you in thatcase. Yeah, well, I mean
you can do a lot with superglue. The real dumb ones were going
(09:03):
to put super glue on their tonguesand lick the light poles. Those were
the real stare hands together. Yeah, yeah, wrap your hand around the
pole and then super glue your handstogether. You can do a lot with
super glue and you're right. Locks. Once it's in, you need bold
cutters to undo a lock. Andso you know a lot of these protesters,
(09:24):
i mean across the board chain themselvestogether. You've seen those protests where
they handcuff each other and they havethe big plastic pipes that cover their hands.
You know, their arms they goacross, you know, both arms
when they're locked together, and theydo all kinds of stuff. I don't
know if that visual worked. Iknew what I was talking about. Okay,
(09:48):
that's just important. The Biden administrationis expected to propose a rule cracking
down on migrants that are ineligible toclaim asylum. And this isn't like this
massive sweeping situation, but rather kindof tightening up the current immigration system.
So but it's not struggling. Youknow why he's struggling because he has already
(10:11):
caved, and in tightening up immigration, he has given what the Republicans wanted.
The Republicans then shut it down becauseTrump said, do not pass this
bill because I need to use immigrationin my run against Biden. And that
is exactly what's going to happen.So he's not going to get Congress to
(10:33):
help I get all that. Butwhy not have done it earlier when it
wasn't you absolutely I had them thestrategy. Had they done this prior to
the presidential run of former President Trump, uh, it wouldn't. It wouldn't
be as much ammunition against Biden administration. You know what he caved. I
(10:54):
mean, the guy is pro youknow, he's pro immigration. It's that
simple. And he and he wantsto go light on illegal immigration. He
finally had to cave to political pressureand just you're right, too late,
too little, too late. Nowit's going to be a big, big
deal. Well, she came,she tried, she failed. Representative Marjorie
(11:18):
Taylor Green followed through with her threatto try to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson,
and just like Bill Handle predicted,she failed. Yeah, but I
said she wasn't going to do it. Yesterday she stunned everybody because everybody thought,
I mean she there was I meanit was overwhelming. I mean it
was crazy. Sixteen people or thirtysomething people voted for the motion. I
(11:43):
mean, you know, so youhad three hundred and something that did not
over Yeah, I think three ninetysix congress people voted. Here is what
she came to. She met withMike Johnson the day before to negotiate,
and of course she is so insane. Her position is, you never talk
(12:03):
to Democrats. It doesn't matter underany circumstances. You do not talk to
Democrats. And he's been doing thata lot. Yeah, he's cutting a
deal. You have to. Youcannot you've got a four vote majority.
You cannot get anything passed without talkingto Democrats. And it's so she went
ahead and did it. Now sheknew she was going to lose, but
she wants it on the record whovoted with the Democrats, which, by
(12:28):
the way, is the majority ofthe Republicans. And so, and she
was vicious, I mean against MikeJohnson. What she said was just crazy
vicious. Even the Republicans, rightwing Republicans said this is completely insane.
I mean, this was a tantrum. This is not the way Congress should
(12:50):
work. If she ever wanted togo into leadership, it ain't gonna happen,
that's for sure. What does youknow, Mike Johnson do after she
rips them and say he's in commonopen and uh, basically he's a trader
to Republican causes. I mean,just but she did it. She went
on, she wanted to go onthe stand. He didn't like me as
a as a dumb guy though,who Johnson, He's not dumb, He's
(13:13):
just a you know what he isis just a follower. He's not a
leader in that position. Needs wellin this case, this is the exactly
in this In this case, hesaid, we have to pass legislation.
We this is a world of compromise. That is that is the way democracy
(13:35):
works. Isn't it supposed to bethat way? I think? Yeah,
stuff done. Finally, this isgoing to be the most ineffective Congress since
the Civil War when half of Congressstood up and walked out the door the
Southern States and joined, uh,the Confederacy. Not much happened, all
(13:58):
right, show Hey Otani's former longtimeinterpreter has agreed to plead guilty to charges
for illegally transferring. We finally gota big number, almost seventeen million dollars
from Otani's bank account, obviously withoutpermission. This is to pay off his
(14:20):
massive gambling debts. But man,oh man, at first we thought it
was around four million or something likethat. Now I'm sixteen million, yeah,
and now seventeen million. Yeah.And look at he's his winning bets
for one hundred and forty two million. His losing bets were one hundred and
eighty three million negative loss or negativeforty one million dollars. Now this guy's
(14:45):
going to do some serious jail time. He's played guilty. He's not even
going to trial. He is lookingat a max of thirty years. Of
course he's not going to get thirtyyears, but he's going to get I
wouldn't be surprised. I have tocall the way a criminal defense that I
know, federal criminal defense attorney.I'm willing to bet he's going to get
eight years. If I had toguess, you know what, we have
(15:07):
to send an email to Wayne.He'll know exactly. Do you think he
bet on it? Do you thinkwhen they said he you know, you
get up to thirty years, hewill? You know what, I bet
it's going to be a that's probablytrue. Well, that could be problems
because remember he had the huge gamblingdebt, so apparently it's not very good
at betting. Obviously, not timeto get bundled up. Disney and Warner
(15:31):
Brothers Discovery say they're launching a newbundle service this summer. It's going to
have Disney Plus and Hulu, whichis already offered together, but now they're
adding in Max. So the newbundle will offer things like ABC, CNN,
DC, Discovery, Disney Food Network, FX, HBO, HGTV,
Hulu, Marvel, Marvel, Pixar, Searchlight, Warner Brothers and more,
(15:54):
all on one bundle. Now,this is where on all these bundling whenever
there is a new undling package,what happens all the time. You've got
to do research. Which of theseplatforms do you want? Which of the
services do you want? Some youdon't use. For example, I used
to have direct TV. I don'thave Direct TV because they're sports centric and
(16:15):
I'm not interested in paying a fortunefor sports. So I look at it
and I bundle stuff that I wantto watch. All right, and you
got to look today, you haveto really look to see what you want
and which package you buy. Allright, but you take it really quick.
Bill. You know what's crazy aboutthis is not only does Disney have
Star Wars and Marvel, but thiswould give them through this app, it
(16:40):
would also give them the DC Universeyea and Harry Potter. I mean,
yeah, massage. It depends onwhat you like, for sure. I
mean I spend a fortune on onbundling and bundling, and I spend a
fortune on streaming. By the way, I have Apple Plus. If you
like music at all, which Ilove, Schmigadoon plus one is funniest,
(17:07):
most hilarious series. It's two seasons. It's Shmigadoon take off on Brigadoon and
Schmicago, Uh, take off onChicago. And it is brilliant. It's
parody. Uh it is a Peontwo or a pain two to musicals.
As people who clearly love musicals andoh god, so well done, let
(17:32):
me heartily recommend it Apple Plus.If you have a Smigadoon, you have
to know, you have to knowabout the the the actual content. I
don't know if you do, butno, I don't know. If it
is hilarious. It is so enjoyableon its face, but if you know
the musicals and the references, itgets even deeper. It is just very
funny. Uh. Panera is droppingtheir charged lemonade in quotes, which just
(17:57):
happens to be the subject of multiplewrongful death lawsuits, which is probably the
best reason to drop something from yourlineup. You ever had that, you
ever had that charge lemonade? No? No, I like living and I
have a bowl and beautiful and yougo to you know, you used to
go to pen Area and they tookit down where you have that menu above
(18:17):
the counter that you looked at,there was actually a skull and bones above
the lemonade. It was I mean, it gave you know, they told
you this is not good stuff.Yeah, drink it. It comes out
in like a lead lined goblet.But you know what, what did I
read here? I had seen somewherein the story that that it's coming off
(18:38):
the menu in the next two weeks. If you if you thought something was
harmful, wouldn't you kind of justtake it off? No, because here's
why, And this story makes alot of sense because if they removed it
immediately, then that would be anadmission, or it could be interpreted to
dismissions. The dumb mistass. Notonly that, not only that, the
(19:00):
story is ridiculous. You can't usethat in court. You're not allowed to
use a milion or two measures afterthe fact to fix it. You just
say, you know what to becauseof the press, and we thought it
was yeah, we did nothing wrong. We did nothing wrong. And our
lemonade kills me. Why we didn'tthere for two weeks? You know what.
I'm going to go get some todayand I'm going to drop to the
(19:22):
floor after I take a sip.There you go. H if they edited
out did it really happen? Netflixhas edited out Kim Kardashian being booed at
the Tom Brady roast at the KiaForm. It's part of the Netflix as
a joke fest, and she gotup there and was met with a massive
(19:44):
amount of booze. Then actor JeffRoss jumps up on stage, gets on
another mic and says whoa, whoa, whoa. But if you watch the
roast on Netflix now, you willsee that Kardashian's beginning part of her roast
of Tom Brady is gone, andso is the part where Jeff Ross tries
to calm down the crowd, youknow, and I'm looking at what she
(20:07):
said. This is a roast.Why would they get offended by this?
It's not about that, It wasn't. I think it was before she even
told a joke. I don't knowwhen. Yeah, I think they were
booing just her in general human being. Yeah, which is interesting, right,
listen, Yeah, I don't getit. Yeah, it's one of
those things that they you know,listen, we do the same thing when
(20:27):
you start the show. They editedout all of you know, Amy booing
and co. Yeah, exactly,and who's the loudest it gets town.
Hey, you know, the explanationfor our FK has come out. Neil.
Now we know what's going on fromthe politicians. Need to stop telling
us everything. We don't need toknow if you kill dogs, and we
(20:49):
certainly don't need to know that ourFK. Junior says that they found a
dead worm in his brain back intwenty ten, and uh, this is
great. The doctor believed, youknow, everyone thought it was a tumor.
All the doctor thought that was tumor. But one doctor believed that the
abnormality that was seen on the scanswas and I quote caused by a worm
(21:15):
that got into my brain and atea portion of it and then died.
You know what, that's a thing. Yes, but that is a thing
that he just said. My brainisn't even worth the sustenance of a worm.
No. I think this is whatthese worms do is they eat part
of the brain and then from whatI understand, all of the consequences are
(21:40):
short lived, memory loss, cognitiveinability balanced, and it all comes back.
You know, I remember cleared mysibyl decades what you went through something
similar years ago, and the doand you the worm died and you asked
the doctor, my worm's still alive, and it was due to starvation.
(22:00):
Yeah, yeah, so it wasthat's me. No. Hello, Okay,
if you lived in Ohio as ofright now, you wouldn't be able
to vote for the president of theUnited State. So the State House and
the Senate are trying to put forwardsome proposals that would allow President Biden to
be on the November ballot. Itwould and they would do that by changing
(22:23):
the certification deadline. Yeah, it'sa technical issue. It's you have to
be nominated by a deadline. Youcan't be nominated until after the deadline.
As far as the Democratic convention.So they're trying to change the dates.
It is a technical issue that hasto be unraveled. And this is only
(22:45):
the Democrats because the dates of theDemocratic Convention are different than the Republican Convention.
The neurolink may be unlinking. Theysay they're first in human brain implant
from back in January has encountered someproblems and apparently it links itself and interfaces
(23:07):
with what it calls these threads,right, these sixty four threads or what
have you, that it connects tothinner than a human hair, and some
of them are backing away from thelink and changing its performance. Yeah,
keeping an eye on that, andyou know this is this is going to
happen. This is simply the nextstep in terms of spinal injuries and just
(23:34):
it's fabulous technology. And this wasa neuralink started by Elon Musk. And
that little battery they put in therethat was exploding and catching on fire.
No, I'm pretty sure that wasn'tthe Oh no, that's the Tesla.
I'm sorry, I get I conflatedthe two old lease. So the launch
of Boeing Starliners spacecraft, which wassupposed to take astronauts up to the space
(23:56):
station and be the first time thatthey had on board. Was delayed on
Monday. Well, now they're sayingthat the next opportunity for liftoff will not
be until May seventeenth, which isa week from Friday. Veteran astronauts Sunny
Williams and Butch Wilmar Wilmore were alreadyall strapped in ready to go when they
said, you know what, weneed to scrub this one. And it's
(24:18):
because of a valve replacement. Nosurprise, considering there are millions of parts
of these things, it's almost amiracle when they do go this. Also,
just in Boeing has ordered a tonof duct tape and popsicle sticks.
Oh stop, we'll see about that, all right. This the US government
has launched a manhunt for this Russianfugitive. They're putting ten million dollars on
(24:45):
his head right now for running theworld's largest ransomware scheme. So they tried
this, this particular fugitive, thishacker has tried to extort millions from targets
like Boeing, for one, andthe United Kingdom's Royal Mail service. Yeah,
that's big stuff. That's pretty fallmunicipality. I mean he's going for
(25:06):
the moon on this one, andif he is in Russia, they're never
going to see him. Prutin willnever ever let him be extradited to any
place. So there may be moreto this one, but we just don't
know what it is. Miss USAcontestants have called for transparency from the miss
USA organization after Miss USA Noelia Voitannounced that she was going to relinquish her
(25:33):
crown and cited mental health issues.So a bunch of contestants posted on their
social media as statements saying they supporther, but then also went on to
say, we're asking the miss USAorganization to release Noelia from the confidentiality NDA
clause of her contract so that shecan speak on her experiences and time at
miss USA. Yeah, it seemslike everybody signs an NDA non disclosure agreement,
(26:02):
which in California NDAs are illegal.They that yes, can't be enforced.
How come you mentioned that yesterday?How come because because they're deemed coercive,
which I don't understand because here you'regetting paid for not talking and sometimes
NDAs, and I think in termsof business is legitimate. So it's so,
(26:26):
for example, we sold my partnercare and I sold our surrogacy center
and we had several people that wereinterested and they had to see the books.
So we go ahead and show thebooks they have they sign an NDA
non disclosure agreement saying you're not goingto share this is only for you to
look at in anticipation of buying thecompany. We're not interested in our books
(26:48):
going public privately owned companies. Sosometimes it's legitimate, but in general,
in this case, for example,you're an employee and you sign an NDA,
not particularly not particularly be enforceable inCalifornia. So they're just saying.
They're not saying it's not legal.They're just saying that the miss USA contest
(27:11):
should release her and all the othercontestants from signing that NDA, or from
enforcing the NDA that they all signand not sign. Again. Curiosity about
what's going on there, all right? You know, I've said many many
times before that with climate change,the issue will be solved by innovation conservation.
We're just too far down the line. So I was thrilled to see
(27:33):
this, the world's largest plant that'sdesigned to suck planet heating pollution out of
the atmosphere like a big old vacuum. Began operating in Iceland on Wednesday,
and it reminds me of Spaceballs.Do you remember that the big vacuum in
Spaceballs that sucked up all the airor something like that. You don't remember
(27:55):
that big? Now? I neverseen Spaceballs? Yeah? What you're not
up? Oh? I just neversaw it. You know. There was
a Brooks fan. Yeah, therewas a sixty minute piece. Yes,
I am. There was a sixtyminute piece that was done on this technology
and it was Iceland and it wasan experimental plant and now they've expanded it
to the first commercial plant. Andwhat it did is suck CO two out
(28:17):
of the air and then put itinto granite stones and literally these giant cylinder
a cylindrical massive stone I mean thirtyfeet high, six feet wide, that
then were put into the ground verydeep. And they were able that technology
(28:38):
is able to take CO two andput it back into the ground so it
doesn't escape. It's pretty neat,very originally did it in limestone. They
took it for granted, but okay, yeah, no, hey listen know
your audience. Man's that's very strong. Probably is it's really it's really expensive,
(28:59):
and it's Iceland gets away with itbecause they have geothermal geothermal which is
a very inexpensive way to heat soor to use energy, and it's really
neat. I mean, it's nofossil fuels are used at all. Is
terrific, But there aren't many placeslike Iceland that have that many geothermal plants.
Why don't we just plant more trees, because how many trees can you
(29:25):
plant? But you're right, thathelps a lot. Yeah, and in
the meantime, while deforestation is takingplace, you plant one fiber being destroyed
around the world, says the guybuilding a new house. I'm not building
a new house. I'm remodeling.Okay. Remember when the color of the
car affected whether you got pulled over, Well, now apparently it's the kind
(29:48):
of car in Suify has released alist of car brands most often ticketed for
speeding based on four point six millioncar insurance applications. So the car frands
that get the most speeding tickets areInfinity, Sion, Volkswagen, Subaru,
Mazda. That's the top five,Monday makes the top ten. You would
(30:11):
think it'd be the sports cars,but I guess it's the question of numbers.
Well, some of these, yeah, as my mom would say,
some of these cars are zippy,zippy, you know they're they're Some of
these are are pretty fast little carsyep. Okay. Least likely to get
speeding tickets are drivers of Cadillacs,Tesla and Volvo. Okay, there you
(30:34):
have there, you have it allright, thettle in your Vovo. Yep.
We are absolutely no surprise with theVolvo. By the way. Uh
KFI AM six forty live everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to
the Bill Handle Show. Catch myshow Monday through Friday, six am to
nine am, and anytime on demandon the iHeartRadio app
The Bill Handel Show News
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.