May 14, 2024 • 27 mins
Amy King & SPECIAL GUEST Petros Papadakis join Bill for Handel on the News. US assesses Israel has amassed enough troops to launch full-scale incursion into Rafah, officials say. NY v Trump: Prosecutors to resume questioning Michael Cohen after testimony on Stormy Daniels payment. Baltimore bridge span removed; ship freed with precision blast. US calls on Iran to halt ‘unprecedented’ weapons transfers to Yemen’s Houthis for attacks on ships. Biden to increase tariffs on $18BIL in Chinese imports in a new warning to Beijing. Strange fungus turns cicadas into zombies.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I am six forty. I've
been an Oregon donor for ever since, probably in my twenties. Oh,
I'd love to get a piece ofyour pancreas. Oh yeah, yeah,
what a piece? And now handleon the news, Ladies and gentlemen.
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Here's Bill Handle on another day.It's Tuesday, Taco Tuesday on a Tuesday.
That's usually when Taco Tuesday is Mayfifteenth, going on in May fifteenth.
You're a day ahead. I'm sorry, you're a day ahead. Is
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it May fourteenth? Yep? Oh, then go interesting. I am a
day ahead. All right, letme change that. Hold on that.
Sorry, my paperwork is wrong,I'll change it. Okay, fair enough,
here we go Tuesday, May fourteenth, not fifteenth. He'd be amazed,
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style, I see. I justwant life to go quicker. Now
we're getting quicker to go towards Friday. Sorry, Bill, that's okay,
don't worry about it. Don't worryabout it. It happens. And threw
herself under the bus there and Iwasn't going to so okay, fair enough,
please put it on the record,and did this and screwed it up.
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So you beat me to it.All right, let me say a
quick good morning to one and all. Petro's good morning to you. Good
morning, Yah Sue ah su.Yeah, you're only son a little tired
because Petros not only does this show. When he's doing this show, but
he also does his weekday show threeto seven o'clock on klac AM five seventy
sports. So you that's a roughday for you, isn't it, Petrock.
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I'm gonna get it fired up.Bill, don't you worry? You
do? You take a nap betweennow and then? Sometimes not yesterday though,
Yeah? That is. I nevernap, so you know, come
the afternoon, I'll watch TV andfall asleep on the couch. I strap
sep mask on my seatpap mask,you know, and uh that'll put me
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down for hours two or three ifI'm not careful. Bill. Now,
you wake up when it's dark andyou're quite disoriented and groggy, aren't you?
Are you A Yeah? I've neverunderstood that twenty minute power nap stuff.
I mean I envy those people,Amy, Good morning, good morning.
I take a twenty minute power napevery day. See that's I hate
people like that, Amy. Ihave I told you how much I hate
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you. I hate people that cantake a twenty minute power nap and then
wake up refreshed. Oh is therea couch? Is there a couch or
something you go to or you justdo it sleeping standing up? Sometimes it's
like I'm asleep on the air.Go Well, yeah, I mean that's
a given. But that's whether you'refeeling good or not. But okay,
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fair enough, Kno, good morning, good morning. Didn't you say that
you fall asleep watching TV? Idid that. Yeah, that's not an
app no, because it's not nosleep. No, it's really bad sleep.
It's waking up every couple of minutes. What I miss? What I
miss? So it's not a twentyminute power nap, and then you have
to reverse whatever is you're watching onTV. Didn't I already see that?
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It's just it's it's no fun,it's miserable. Do you take a nap?
Cono? I try to, butI have a three month old and
a three year old, so ohyeah, yeah you can you kiss goodbye?
Sleeping for a while and morning nowmorning? Yes you do? Yeah
that you do it fairly religiously.And how long anap do you take?
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About two hours? Don't you don'tyou get up groggy when you do that.
Yes, but I don't go tosleep until about eleven o'clock at night.
I guess, wow, okay,yeah, and I'm asleep at eight
thirty nine o'clock. So and thensometimes I have a hard time sleeping.
But this is why God invented ambient. So two things that God invented that
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I so appreciate. Number one penicillinfor those rip roaring great times when you
are not particularly careful who you're with. And number two, ambient penicillin was
a big revelation in the twentieth century. Was oh my god, it changed
everything. It changed every syphiletics theyfound. Now, if you're too far
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gone with syphilis, the penicillin won'thelp you, right, that is correct.
You'll go, yeah, you're justgone. When you're in the tertiary
stage of syphilis, you're in alot of trouble. Although it takes a
long time to get there, itreally does. All right, guys,
Oh that's conversation thursdaye syphilis. Okay, before you have breakfast, let me
start describing it. Open shankers,superating sores on as syphilis eats your brain.
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Ready, possible to take I knowwhat happened to al Capone. Oh,
it takes decades. Okay, ittakes decades. Okay, guys,
ready to do it. As we'rereading our oatmeal, let's do it,
guys, it's time for handle onthe news, Amy Petros and me lead
story. All right, well,no surprise here, but it looks like
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Israel has amassed enough troops on theedge of Rafa to begin moving forward with
a full scale incursion. Biden administrationhas said that the world is about to
not only has the world already comedown against Israel, but if this happens,
you're going to see an international backlashagainst Israel. And Israel just doesn't
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care. It just doesn't care.Nothing as far as Israel government is concerned,
is going to stop Israel from destroyingHamas. And if it takes wiping
out another thirty five or forty thousandpalest Indians, they will do it.
Now. A point I want tomake is that as they talk about thirty
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five thousand Palestinians and that's being bandiedabout the world, that includes militants.
And you cannot include militants in thesame conversation as Palestinian civilians. So you
figure about a third a third andRafa is the last wronghold, and that's
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where the rubber is going to meetthe road. And that is who's going
to win this one. Because ifIsrael pulls back Hamas, Ramas is going
to stay in power. If Israelgoes forward and takes out Ramas, well
you're gonna see a whole lot morepeople die. What's the endgame, Well,
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what do they want the end Well, there is no endgame. Even
Natanya, who says we'll figure itout, will have some kind of an
occupation. Can you imagine Israel occupyingthe Gaza, which they did at one
point, but that was way forthe kind of terrorism that exploded. There's
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no easy answer here. There isno easy answer, just doesn't exist,
insurmountable. The fixer's fixing to goback on the stand. Prosecutors will continue
questioning Michael Cohen today. He wason the stand for a full day.
Yesterday, Cohen, who once famouslysaid he would take a bullet for Trump,
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testified against Trump about his role insetting up the hush money payment to
foreign actress Stormy Daniels ahead of thetwenty sixteen election. He said that he
often lied for his boss or twofor his boss, saying he did it
because the only thing on his mindwas to accomplish the task and keep him
happy. Yeah, the fireworks goingto happen when the defense starts cross examining
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him. And that could happen todaytoday, right. Yeah, they're not
sure yet, but it could.The prosecution, I mean, they want
to effectively establish him as someone whois not a liar, good luck,
or at least is not lying hereand going through all of his foibles,
everything he has done, trying todiminish dismantle the defense's attack on him.
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By the way, it's not goingto dismantle, it's whether the jury says,
we've heard this, we know allof this, and he right up
to this point calm collected answering thequestions. So far, he's done a
pretty good job. And we'll seewhat the jury, the jury buys.
I think the process the defense maygo over the top. I think,
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I mean, the lawyers that Trumphas are not shy about attacking and it
may backfire, especially since that they'regoing to do nothing that he hasn't already
admitted admitted to. Okay, Ithink we can move on yeah, no,
the bridge bill, the Francis ScottKey Bridge with a terrible accident in
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Baltimore, aren't they blew part ofit clear? And by the end of
the month they're going to have trafficagain at the Chesapeake Bay. Isn't that
great news? Actually it is.Did you see the video of the bill
of bridge exploding? These tined explosionsjust he's what they look like, little
tiny pops and all the various connectionslook good. And that's how they created
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Glendale. Yeah, dynamiting nicely said, is that true. Yeah, that's
the name of the high school,the Dynamiters. I didn't know that they
blew up the mountain. Uh okay, who knew? Yeah, well they
changed it to the Nitros now,yeah, because dynamiters for a high school
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team maybe not as kosher and twentytwenty three, yeah, but nitros help
twenty four Yeah, I guess they'rethe nitros now right From the fat Chance
Department. The US has called onIran to stop transferring what it calls an
unprecedented amount of weapons to Yemen's Hootyrebels. They say it it's enabling fighters
to carry out reckless attacks on shipsin the Red Sea and elsewhere. You
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would think. Remember whenever we talkedabout terrorists groups, it was always small
arms fires. They would come in, not in uniforms of any kind.
Insurgency warfare, asymmetrical warfare as theycall it. They have ballistic missiles now
and cruise missiles and helicopters. Imean, it's you know, it's no
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longer a small terrorist groups, noarmy. Now it's a terrorist army.
And the difference is you can arguethat Iran its army is quote a terrorist
army, but they're not going togo to war with anybody. The houthis
on the other hand, they haveno problem because what the entire country is
going to do. You have allof Yemen going to get into a fight
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with the military powers, with theAllies, you know, the European Union.
So this is Iran is probably themost dangerous entry in the world right
now in terms of what it's doingand backing up insurgencies and terrorist groups all
over the world. It's crazy tolook at pictures of Tadan and all that
before the takeover of the religious kindof conversion of the government. It's crazy.
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It was like a really modern society. It was completely modern under the
Shaw. It was David like Jewsunder the Shot. You know, the
Jews did great under the Shaw.And now what happened is everybody who had
any money in nineteen seventy nine,particularly Jews, they left Iran and now
they live in Beverly Hills. That'sright, Beverly Hills, right. And
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the most popular store and the mostsuccessful store in all the Beverly Hills are
the ones that sell chandeliers and they'redoing just great. You know, Joe
Biden is increasing tariffs on Chinese imports. Eighteen billion dollars in Chinese imports across
a handful of sectors, deem strategicstuff like solar cells, cranes, medical
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products, battery components, critical minerals, electric vehicles, Yeah, semiconductors.
One percent on evs because they've producedan EV that costs undred ten thousand dollars.
Try to get an EV here thatcost ten thousand dollars. So what's
China doing? Just cutting all kindsof corners and Biden's well, it's cheaper,
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No, it's cheaper to make.The labor is far cheaper in China.
They don't have to worry about laborunions. Or oh, show requirements.
They also produce war rod minerals.They don't have to import those.
Also, the government subsidizes it tothey dump these around the world. You
put all that together and you havea much cheaper product and you and the
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end they and they put tariffs onthings coming into China. What they want
is quote free trade, free trade. To them is you buy chin these
products without tariffs, no protective tariffs, but selling to us, We're going
to teariff you up the ying yang. So oh it's very good, yang,
I got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So it's so this
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is what countries do. They throwon protective tariffs. One hundred percent on
evs, that's up four times.Solar panels, which are much cheaper being
manufactured in China, the vast majorityare that's up fifty percent, or that's
now at fifty percent for components.So every one hundred dollars solar panel that's
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sold, the manufacturer distributor pays onehundred and fifty fifty percent terror to the
government. That seems to fly inthe face of the balance and the nature
of the Yin and yang. Yesit does well, Melinda's done. Melinda
Gates has announced that she's stepping downfrom the famous Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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She said that it's not a decisionshe came to lightly. She says
she's proud of the foundation Bill andI built together and the extraordinary work in
what they're doing to address inequities aroundthe world. For more than thirty years,
the Gates Foundation has donated more thanseventy seven billion dollars in charitable contributions.
Yeah, these are the wealthy peopletoday. I mean, this is
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that you give away your fortune,you know Warren Buffett did. A matter
of fact, Warren Buffet's story isfascinating because that's the one that comes to
mind, right that Warren Buffett hasa foundation probably the same that has money
equivalent. And you know what kindof foundation he's building. Is it going
to be the Warren Buffett Foundation?It is not. He's giving an all
to the Gates Foundation. He says, Hey, why should I start up
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a whole new infrastructure. They havea great one in terms of their bureaucracy.
Here, just take my money.And so they've done some extraordinary good
with what they do, though,is they do it on a global scale.
I mean, they eradicate diseases acrosscontinents. I mean, this is
no small thing. And she wasknown as is known as one of the
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great philanthropists. Both of them gaveaway the vast majority of their money and
so still will they have a tonBut they still will She retiring or it
doesn't say, doesn't say, she'sjust going to transition to a new part
of his life. Bill Gates sayshe expects greatness from his former wife as
she transitions away from her role.Yeah. They had a very from what
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I understand, very amicable breakup.Okay, guys, what you're laughing?
They didn't have an amicable breakup,did they? He cheated his way through
that relationship. But I'm talking aboutthe bread. Of course he did.
But I'm talking about the breakup itself. I thought it was amicable. Oh
it was all right, Yeah,that's what I'm saying. Hold on,
yeah, I mean it's you know, breaking up is hard to do.
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Everlea's uh okay, I thought itwas Bill and Melinda. It's still popping
off. In the Ukraine, AnthonyAnthony blinked in the US Secretary of State
said Tuesday that American military aid ison its way. He visited and he
says it's going to make a realdifference. Increasing attacks on the northeastern border.
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In recent days in Moscow, troopshave captured around one hundred to one
hundred and twenty five square kilometers ofterritory. So this thing keeps on raging
and pushing back and forth. Andit's been a long time now in fields.
Yeah, it's been Oh my god, it so well into second year.
And it's unfortunate, I mean reallyunfortunate for the Ukrainians because they were
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going to lose the war, butfor the aid from the United States straight
out lose the war. And itturns out now the aid is pouring back
in and so the war continues.Putin wants the eastern Ukraine. He thinks
it is part of Russia. Itwas under the USSR. And he has
said that the falling apart of theBerlin Wall, the falling of the Berlin
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Wall and the demise of communism wasone of the worst moments in all of
history. I mean, the guyis he believes in uh uh, the
power and the and the USSR maintaininghis control over that part of the world.
He wants its never gonna be theUSSR it's a Russian federation, but
he wants to include certainly Ukraine aspart of his country and is willing to
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fight for it and kill hundreds ofthousands of people doing it. It's amazing
to me that because Russia, withthe USSR, they had nothing to do
with the church, right, noreligion, but Putin loves the Orthodox Church.
Well there they back up. Yeah, they're they're like arm in arm,
which is a really big difference fromthe old USSR. There's this whole
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religious component as well, and alot of Ukrainians are Orthodox as well.
Yeah, yeah, of course theyare. So there's another twist in the
Rebecca Grossman case. The socialite wasconvicted of second degree murder for the hit
and run deaths of Jacob and MarkIskander. They were hit and killed in
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a crosswalk in Westlake Village in twentytwenty. So she was convicted less than
three months ago and she's supposed tobe sentenced on June tenth. But now
La County DA Gascone is reassigning theprosecutors who helped get the guilty verdict,
and apparently it's because of some sortof conflict of interest because Grossman hired a
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new defense attorney. Yeah, whoalso represents someone in the DA's office.
So they have to now put afirewall up. And it's a delaying tactic.
It's that simple, and they're goingto get it. She just doesn't
want to go to prison. She'sholding off on it. But she will,
she will, like real prison.Yeah. Oh yeah, she ran
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over two kids in a crosswalk.Yeah, but didn't Caitlyn Jenner do that?
And she she didn't go to prison. I don't remember the No,
I know Caitlyn Jenner is. Idon't remember somebody on I remember, but
I remember on exact circums that notthe I don't remember the exact circumstances.
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This one I remember far more becausea couple of kids on a crosswalk.
I mean she plowed into them.Oh it's bad. Yeah. Hepatitis Bill,
there's a HEP outbreak. I knowabout HEP B and hepse. This
is a hepatitis A. Yeah,this is the bad one since mid March,
and it's in the homeless encampments,which is really bad, and they're
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trying to vaccinate people. I've neverheard of hepatitis A. Thought it was
B and C. I think noA is. I think the worst one.
I mean, I thought, yeah, yeah, that's the tough one.
That's where your liver basically explodes.And I'm the and is that do
I am? I correct on thatbecause I'm I sound like I'm talking I
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know what I'm talking about. I'mactually going to acquies today that I'm don't
know what I'm talking about. Theliver and spread from person to person.
Well, I understand, yes,I mean that that I said, But
is it the worst of the hepatitisesThat's what I'm saying, and I say
it is. It's a two dosevaccine. Okay, Well, exactly.
That answers the question, thanks,Petro. It can range from a mild
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illness lasting a few weeks to asevere, severe illness lasting several months,
just full a death, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dark urine, yellowy eyes
and skin. Okay, that helps. I don't still haven't answer the exact
question, but I'm trying here.I know you are, no, Petros,
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I'm not demeaning her. What you'resaying at all is worse. It
doesn't floating liver, no exploding liver, so it skips. So it's a
B. It's a B or C. Okay, that's how we answer.
So, uh, I guess weknow our A b C. So bring
it over to the elementary school.Yeah. Well, first she shot her
dog, and now she's got twomore indigenous tribes who are not at all
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happy with her. It's South DakotaGovernor Christine. She has been banned from
entering tribal lands adjacent to South Dakota. Apparently it's because she and tribal leaders
have had some disagreement over the governor'sprevious remarks about Native communities. She said
that tribal leaders were benefiting from cartelsbeing in their area, on their lands,
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and that that's why they attack herevery day. Well, that's not
the most brilliant political statement to make. She doesn't strike me as overly smart.
You know the part in the bookI shot my dog blue, it's
fourteen months old, it didn't huntreal well. Also was biting people and
eating kids. Okay, I understandthat, but don't you just leave that
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out? And don't you the editorleave it out? Does the editors say
this might not go over well,well this is number one. There's that
one. But here is what shesays publicly, and that's the cartels and
being involved with the Indian tribes.Come on, guy, come on,
I mean, it's just real bright. It seems like a lovely lady.
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Oh, here's a great story.Do you guys have a experience with cicadas,
No, because I've been here insouthern California my whole life. Yeah.
The only time I've seen cicadas arereally is in Greece and they are
loud. But all over the countrythey do this, you know, they
click and they're in the trees.But there is a weird fungus that is
controlling cicadas and making them into azombie. And the zombie cicadas are spreading
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a strange fungus and not procreating.They're being hijacked their bodies and behavior by
the fungus. It's like the WalkingDead for cicadas. If they had the
ability to make a show, itwould be an unbelievable documentary. Oh yeah,
so were they attacking? No,they're just doing anything. Yeah,
they just eat their guts and theydon't reproduce. I guess just this disgusting.
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They're gross if you're seen them,like they fall out of trees and
they're like these Yeah. Oh,and there's so many well this year,
this year is like the first timesince has happened since Thomas Jefferson days and
won't happened again, brother eight millionyears. They're on thirteen and seventeen year
old cycles. So every thirteen yearold, every thirteen years, one group
comes out, and then the eitherseventeen years the other group comes out,
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and when they when they mate.I'm talking about those time periods. Trillions
of those little buggers are out there. They emerge from the earth like the
Thriller video. Yeah, they do, they do. They're they're not harmful
or anything. They're just completely disgusting. Well, we talked to Jim Ryan
during wake up call and he saidthey're coming out now, that's great,
Yeah, but not here, no, no, okay. And he also
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said you can eat them. They'relike the size of a shrimp. Oh
it sounds good. Yeah, andso much for all you can eat shrimp.
Red Lobster is abruptly closing forty eightrestaurants around the country. They're saying
that Buffalo, Orlando, Jacksonville somaybe not here, and other cities were
listed as temporarily closed. The companyhas about six hundred and fifty locations and
they're not doing well and are consideringfiling for bankruptcy. I like red lobster.
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The most popular thing in reb Lobsteris not even seafood. What is
it. It's the cheese bread.Yes, I was about to say that
cheese bread is fabulous. I've neverbeen, but I've heard much about the
You like the cheese bread very cheesy, that's me. The California town has
a new mayor, Martin Short,celebrity mayor. Have we heard about this
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funner California? Who makes it morefun than Martin Short? Yeah? Wouldn't
it be funnier California? Wouldn't thatmake more sense? Funner is not even
a word. No, it's morefun. But it's a city in North
County, San Diego, and MartinShort is the mayor. I like Martin
Short. He was great as EdwardGrimly. Yeah. TV on an Indian
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reservation. It was established twenty sixteen. Okay, no cartels, Yeah,
the cartel part of it. Yeah. And it's basically a great PR stunt
and it works gets people to theresort because there's you know, there's our
mayor, Martin Short. They've hadJane Lynch, the tall Lady Rob Wriggle,
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the comedian, and the Hoff.The tall lady, she's quite tall,
she is, but she's also maybethe funny lady, the comedian,
great actress. She is a riot, and so is Rob Wriggle and the
Hoff who's not maybe not as intentionallyfunny. All those people are pretty tall,
though, all three of them coincidence. I don't know. Martin Short's
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like sawed off, he's like fiveto three. All right, okay,
filler up Lake Tahoe is expected tobe full for the first time in five
years. Yes, we had avery wet winter and there's a lot of
snow up in the mountains right now, between one hundred and one hundred and
eighty four percent of normal in theSierra, and so they're saying when all
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that melts, it's going to fillup the lake and it'll be full for
the first time since June of twentynineteenth. So that's good. And people
going to say that climate change,global warming is off the table. It's
not true. Oh, believe me, it's true. This thing goes in
cycles. All right, Petros,you are out of here. I know
that because you're on this afternoon.It's a long day for you. I'll
do whatever you want. I mean, you want to stick around and talk
about the Ukraine, I'll do itall right. If you want to hang
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it, you want to hang that'sfine. We got a lot going on.
It's about to say goodbye to one, but Petro, I love you,
Belle, I got I'll wake upthe kids and I'll come back all
right, you got it. That'sPetros and Money Today, every day three
to seven pm on KLA c AMfive seventy Sports. You don't want hi,
Missay because Petros is basically completely outof his mind. This is KFI
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I am six forty. I've
been an Oregon donor for ever since, probably in my twenties. Oh,
I'd love to get a piece ofyour pancreas. Oh yeah, yeah,
what a piece? And now handleon the news, Ladies and gentlemen.
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Here's Bill Handle on another day.It's Tuesday, Taco Tuesday on a Tuesday.
That's usually when Taco Tuesday is Mayfifteenth, going on in May fifteenth.
You're a day ahead. I'm sorry, you're a day ahead. Is
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it May fourteenth? Yep? Oh, then go interesting. I am a
day ahead. All right, letme change that. Hold on that.
Sorry, my paperwork is wrong,I'll change it. Okay, fair enough,
here we go Tuesday, May fourteenth, not fifteenth. He'd be amazed,
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style, I see. I justwant life to go quicker. Now
we're getting quicker to go towards Friday. Sorry, Bill, that's okay,
don't worry about it. Don't worryabout it. It happens. And threw
herself under the bus there and Iwasn't going to so okay, fair enough,
please put it on the record,and did this and screwed it up.
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So you beat me to it.All right, let me say a
quick good morning to one and all. Petro's good morning to you. Good
morning, Yah Sue ah su.Yeah, you're only son a little tired
because Petros not only does this show. When he's doing this show, but
he also does his weekday show threeto seven o'clock on klac AM five seventy
sports. So you that's a roughday for you, isn't it, Petrock.
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I'm gonna get it fired up.Bill, don't you worry? You
do? You take a nap betweennow and then? Sometimes not yesterday though,
Yeah? That is. I nevernap, so you know, come
the afternoon, I'll watch TV andfall asleep on the couch. I strap
sep mask on my seatpap mask,you know, and uh that'll put me
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down for hours two or three ifI'm not careful. Bill. Now,
you wake up when it's dark andyou're quite disoriented and groggy, aren't you?
Are you A Yeah? I've neverunderstood that twenty minute power nap stuff.
I mean I envy those people,Amy, Good morning, good morning.
I take a twenty minute power napevery day. See that's I hate
people like that, Amy. Ihave I told you how much I hate
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you. I hate people that cantake a twenty minute power nap and then
wake up refreshed. Oh is therea couch? Is there a couch or
something you go to or you justdo it sleeping standing up? Sometimes it's
like I'm asleep on the air.Go Well, yeah, I mean that's
a given. But that's whether you'refeeling good or not. But okay,
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fair enough, Kno, good morning, good morning. Didn't you say that
you fall asleep watching TV? Idid that. Yeah, that's not an
app no, because it's not nosleep. No, it's really bad sleep.
It's waking up every couple of minutes. What I miss? What I
miss? So it's not a twentyminute power nap, and then you have
to reverse whatever is you're watching onTV. Didn't I already see that?
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It's just it's it's no fun,it's miserable. Do you take a nap?
Cono? I try to, butI have a three month old and
a three year old, so ohyeah, yeah you can you kiss goodbye?
Sleeping for a while and morning nowmorning? Yes you do? Yeah
that you do it fairly religiously.And how long anap do you take?
(03:51):
About two hours? Don't you don'tyou get up groggy when you do that.
Yes, but I don't go tosleep until about eleven o'clock at night.
I guess, wow, okay,yeah, and I'm asleep at eight
thirty nine o'clock. So and thensometimes I have a hard time sleeping.
But this is why God invented ambient. So two things that God invented that
(04:14):
I so appreciate. Number one penicillinfor those rip roaring great times when you
are not particularly careful who you're with. And number two, ambient penicillin was
a big revelation in the twentieth century. Was oh my god, it changed
everything. It changed every syphiletics theyfound. Now, if you're too far
(04:35):
gone with syphilis, the penicillin won'thelp you, right, that is correct.
You'll go, yeah, you're justgone. When you're in the tertiary
stage of syphilis, you're in alot of trouble. Although it takes a
long time to get there, itreally does. All right, guys,
Oh that's conversation thursdaye syphilis. Okay, before you have breakfast, let me
start describing it. Open shankers,superating sores on as syphilis eats your brain.
(05:02):
Ready, possible to take I knowwhat happened to al Capone. Oh,
it takes decades. Okay, ittakes decades. Okay, guys,
ready to do it. As we'rereading our oatmeal, let's do it,
guys, it's time for handle onthe news, Amy Petros and me lead
story. All right, well,no surprise here, but it looks like
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Israel has amassed enough troops on theedge of Rafa to begin moving forward with
a full scale incursion. Biden administrationhas said that the world is about to
not only has the world already comedown against Israel, but if this happens,
you're going to see an international backlashagainst Israel. And Israel just doesn't
(05:46):
care. It just doesn't care.Nothing as far as Israel government is concerned,
is going to stop Israel from destroyingHamas. And if it takes wiping
out another thirty five or forty thousandpalest Indians, they will do it.
Now. A point I want tomake is that as they talk about thirty
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five thousand Palestinians and that's being bandiedabout the world, that includes militants.
And you cannot include militants in thesame conversation as Palestinian civilians. So you
figure about a third a third andRafa is the last wronghold, and that's
(06:28):
where the rubber is going to meetthe road. And that is who's going
to win this one. Because ifIsrael pulls back Hamas, Ramas is going
to stay in power. If Israelgoes forward and takes out Ramas, well
you're gonna see a whole lot morepeople die. What's the endgame, Well,
(06:49):
what do they want the end Well, there is no endgame. Even
Natanya, who says we'll figure itout, will have some kind of an
occupation. Can you imagine Israel occupyingthe Gaza, which they did at one
point, but that was way forthe kind of terrorism that exploded. There's
(07:11):
no easy answer here. There isno easy answer, just doesn't exist,
insurmountable. The fixer's fixing to goback on the stand. Prosecutors will continue
questioning Michael Cohen today. He wason the stand for a full day.
Yesterday, Cohen, who once famouslysaid he would take a bullet for Trump,
(07:31):
testified against Trump about his role insetting up the hush money payment to
foreign actress Stormy Daniels ahead of thetwenty sixteen election. He said that he
often lied for his boss or twofor his boss, saying he did it
because the only thing on his mindwas to accomplish the task and keep him
happy. Yeah, the fireworks goingto happen when the defense starts cross examining
(07:53):
him. And that could happen todaytoday, right. Yeah, they're not
sure yet, but it could.The prosecution, I mean, they want
to effectively establish him as someone whois not a liar, good luck,
or at least is not lying hereand going through all of his foibles,
everything he has done, trying todiminish dismantle the defense's attack on him.
(08:15):
By the way, it's not goingto dismantle, it's whether the jury says,
we've heard this, we know allof this, and he right up
to this point calm collected answering thequestions. So far, he's done a
pretty good job. And we'll seewhat the jury, the jury buys.
I think the process the defense maygo over the top. I think,
(08:37):
I mean, the lawyers that Trumphas are not shy about attacking and it
may backfire, especially since that they'regoing to do nothing that he hasn't already
admitted admitted to. Okay, Ithink we can move on yeah, no,
the bridge bill, the Francis ScottKey Bridge with a terrible accident in
(08:58):
Baltimore, aren't they blew part ofit clear? And by the end of
the month they're going to have trafficagain at the Chesapeake Bay. Isn't that
great news? Actually it is.Did you see the video of the bill
of bridge exploding? These tined explosionsjust he's what they look like, little
tiny pops and all the various connectionslook good. And that's how they created
(09:20):
Glendale. Yeah, dynamiting nicely said, is that true. Yeah, that's
the name of the high school,the Dynamiters. I didn't know that they
blew up the mountain. Uh okay, who knew? Yeah, well they
changed it to the Nitros now,yeah, because dynamiters for a high school
(09:41):
team maybe not as kosher and twentytwenty three, yeah, but nitros help
twenty four Yeah, I guess they'rethe nitros now right From the fat Chance
Department. The US has called onIran to stop transferring what it calls an
unprecedented amount of weapons to Yemen's Hootyrebels. They say it it's enabling fighters
to carry out reckless attacks on shipsin the Red Sea and elsewhere. You
(10:07):
would think. Remember whenever we talkedabout terrorists groups, it was always small
arms fires. They would come in, not in uniforms of any kind.
Insurgency warfare, asymmetrical warfare as theycall it. They have ballistic missiles now
and cruise missiles and helicopters. Imean, it's you know, it's no
(10:31):
longer a small terrorist groups, noarmy. Now it's a terrorist army.
And the difference is you can arguethat Iran its army is quote a terrorist
army, but they're not going togo to war with anybody. The houthis
on the other hand, they haveno problem because what the entire country is
going to do. You have allof Yemen going to get into a fight
(10:52):
with the military powers, with theAllies, you know, the European Union.
So this is Iran is probably themost dangerous entry in the world right
now in terms of what it's doingand backing up insurgencies and terrorist groups all
over the world. It's crazy tolook at pictures of Tadan and all that
before the takeover of the religious kindof conversion of the government. It's crazy.
(11:20):
It was like a really modern society. It was completely modern under the
Shaw. It was David like Jewsunder the Shot. You know, the
Jews did great under the Shaw.And now what happened is everybody who had
any money in nineteen seventy nine,particularly Jews, they left Iran and now
they live in Beverly Hills. That'sright, Beverly Hills, right. And
(11:43):
the most popular store and the mostsuccessful store in all the Beverly Hills are
the ones that sell chandeliers and they'redoing just great. You know, Joe
Biden is increasing tariffs on Chinese imports. Eighteen billion dollars in Chinese imports across
a handful of sectors, deem strategicstuff like solar cells, cranes, medical
(12:05):
products, battery components, critical minerals, electric vehicles, Yeah, semiconductors.
One percent on evs because they've producedan EV that costs undred ten thousand dollars.
Try to get an EV here thatcost ten thousand dollars. So what's
China doing? Just cutting all kindsof corners and Biden's well, it's cheaper,
(12:26):
No, it's cheaper to make.The labor is far cheaper in China.
They don't have to worry about laborunions. Or oh, show requirements.
They also produce war rod minerals.They don't have to import those.
Also, the government subsidizes it tothey dump these around the world. You
put all that together and you havea much cheaper product and you and the
(12:50):
end they and they put tariffs onthings coming into China. What they want
is quote free trade, free trade. To them is you buy chin these
products without tariffs, no protective tariffs, but selling to us, We're going
to teariff you up the ying yang. So oh it's very good, yang,
I got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So it's so this
(13:11):
is what countries do. They throwon protective tariffs. One hundred percent on
evs, that's up four times.Solar panels, which are much cheaper being
manufactured in China, the vast majorityare that's up fifty percent, or that's
now at fifty percent for components.So every one hundred dollars solar panel that's
(13:33):
sold, the manufacturer distributor pays onehundred and fifty fifty percent terror to the
government. That seems to fly inthe face of the balance and the nature
of the Yin and yang. Yesit does well, Melinda's done. Melinda
Gates has announced that she's stepping downfrom the famous Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
(13:56):
She said that it's not a decisionshe came to lightly. She says
she's proud of the foundation Bill andI built together and the extraordinary work in
what they're doing to address inequities aroundthe world. For more than thirty years,
the Gates Foundation has donated more thanseventy seven billion dollars in charitable contributions.
Yeah, these are the wealthy peopletoday. I mean, this is
(14:18):
that you give away your fortune,you know Warren Buffett did. A matter
of fact, Warren Buffet's story isfascinating because that's the one that comes to
mind, right that Warren Buffett hasa foundation probably the same that has money
equivalent. And you know what kindof foundation he's building. Is it going
to be the Warren Buffett Foundation?It is not. He's giving an all
to the Gates Foundation. He says, Hey, why should I start up
(14:39):
a whole new infrastructure. They havea great one in terms of their bureaucracy.
Here, just take my money.And so they've done some extraordinary good
with what they do, though,is they do it on a global scale.
I mean, they eradicate diseases acrosscontinents. I mean, this is
no small thing. And she wasknown as is known as one of the
(15:01):
great philanthropists. Both of them gaveaway the vast majority of their money and
so still will they have a tonBut they still will She retiring or it
doesn't say, doesn't say, she'sjust going to transition to a new part
of his life. Bill Gates sayshe expects greatness from his former wife as
she transitions away from her role.Yeah. They had a very from what
(15:22):
I understand, very amicable breakup.Okay, guys, what you're laughing?
They didn't have an amicable breakup,did they? He cheated his way through
that relationship. But I'm talking aboutthe bread. Of course he did.
But I'm talking about the breakup itself. I thought it was amicable. Oh
it was all right, Yeah,that's what I'm saying. Hold on,
yeah, I mean it's you know, breaking up is hard to do.
(15:45):
Everlea's uh okay, I thought itwas Bill and Melinda. It's still popping
off. In the Ukraine, AnthonyAnthony blinked in the US Secretary of State
said Tuesday that American military aid ison its way. He visited and he
says it's going to make a realdifference. Increasing attacks on the northeastern border.
(16:07):
In recent days in Moscow, troopshave captured around one hundred to one
hundred and twenty five square kilometers ofterritory. So this thing keeps on raging
and pushing back and forth. Andit's been a long time now in fields.
Yeah, it's been Oh my god, it so well into second year.
And it's unfortunate, I mean reallyunfortunate for the Ukrainians because they were
(16:29):
going to lose the war, butfor the aid from the United States straight
out lose the war. And itturns out now the aid is pouring back
in and so the war continues.Putin wants the eastern Ukraine. He thinks
it is part of Russia. Itwas under the USSR. And he has
said that the falling apart of theBerlin Wall, the falling of the Berlin
(16:52):
Wall and the demise of communism wasone of the worst moments in all of
history. I mean, the guyis he believes in uh uh, the
power and the and the USSR maintaininghis control over that part of the world.
He wants its never gonna be theUSSR it's a Russian federation, but
he wants to include certainly Ukraine aspart of his country and is willing to
(17:18):
fight for it and kill hundreds ofthousands of people doing it. It's amazing
to me that because Russia, withthe USSR, they had nothing to do
with the church, right, noreligion, but Putin loves the Orthodox Church.
Well there they back up. Yeah, they're they're like arm in arm,
which is a really big difference fromthe old USSR. There's this whole
(17:38):
religious component as well, and alot of Ukrainians are Orthodox as well.
Yeah, yeah, of course theyare. So there's another twist in the
Rebecca Grossman case. The socialite wasconvicted of second degree murder for the hit
and run deaths of Jacob and MarkIskander. They were hit and killed in
(17:59):
a crosswalk in Westlake Village in twentytwenty. So she was convicted less than
three months ago and she's supposed tobe sentenced on June tenth. But now
La County DA Gascone is reassigning theprosecutors who helped get the guilty verdict,
and apparently it's because of some sortof conflict of interest because Grossman hired a
(18:22):
new defense attorney. Yeah, whoalso represents someone in the DA's office.
So they have to now put afirewall up. And it's a delaying tactic.
It's that simple, and they're goingto get it. She just doesn't
want to go to prison. She'sholding off on it. But she will,
she will, like real prison.Yeah. Oh yeah, she ran
(18:45):
over two kids in a crosswalk.Yeah, but didn't Caitlyn Jenner do that?
And she she didn't go to prison. I don't remember the No,
I know Caitlyn Jenner is. Idon't remember somebody on I remember, but
I remember on exact circums that notthe I don't remember the exact circumstances.
(19:06):
This one I remember far more becausea couple of kids on a crosswalk.
I mean she plowed into them.Oh it's bad. Yeah. Hepatitis Bill,
there's a HEP outbreak. I knowabout HEP B and hepse. This
is a hepatitis A. Yeah,this is the bad one since mid March,
and it's in the homeless encampments,which is really bad, and they're
(19:27):
trying to vaccinate people. I've neverheard of hepatitis A. Thought it was
B and C. I think noA is. I think the worst one.
I mean, I thought, yeah, yeah, that's the tough one.
That's where your liver basically explodes.And I'm the and is that do
I am? I correct on thatbecause I'm I sound like I'm talking I
(19:48):
know what I'm talking about. I'mactually going to acquies today that I'm don't
know what I'm talking about. Theliver and spread from person to person.
Well, I understand, yes,I mean that that I said, But
is it the worst of the hepatitisesThat's what I'm saying, and I say
it is. It's a two dosevaccine. Okay, Well, exactly.
That answers the question, thanks,Petro. It can range from a mild
(20:11):
illness lasting a few weeks to asevere, severe illness lasting several months,
just full a death, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dark urine, yellowy eyes
and skin. Okay, that helps. I don't still haven't answer the exact
question, but I'm trying here.I know you are, no, Petros,
(20:33):
I'm not demeaning her. What you'resaying at all is worse. It
doesn't floating liver, no exploding liver, so it skips. So it's a
B. It's a B or C. Okay, that's how we answer.
So, uh, I guess weknow our A b C. So bring
it over to the elementary school.Yeah. Well, first she shot her
dog, and now she's got twomore indigenous tribes who are not at all
(20:56):
happy with her. It's South DakotaGovernor Christine. She has been banned from
entering tribal lands adjacent to South Dakota. Apparently it's because she and tribal leaders
have had some disagreement over the governor'sprevious remarks about Native communities. She said
that tribal leaders were benefiting from cartelsbeing in their area, on their lands,
(21:22):
and that that's why they attack herevery day. Well, that's not
the most brilliant political statement to make. She doesn't strike me as overly smart.
You know the part in the bookI shot my dog blue, it's
fourteen months old, it didn't huntreal well. Also was biting people and
eating kids. Okay, I understandthat, but don't you just leave that
(21:45):
out? And don't you the editorleave it out? Does the editors say
this might not go over well,well this is number one. There's that
one. But here is what shesays publicly, and that's the cartels and
being involved with the Indian tribes.Come on, guy, come on,
I mean, it's just real bright. It seems like a lovely lady.
(22:08):
Oh, here's a great story.Do you guys have a experience with cicadas,
No, because I've been here insouthern California my whole life. Yeah.
The only time I've seen cicadas arereally is in Greece and they are
loud. But all over the countrythey do this, you know, they
click and they're in the trees.But there is a weird fungus that is
controlling cicadas and making them into azombie. And the zombie cicadas are spreading
(22:33):
a strange fungus and not procreating.They're being hijacked their bodies and behavior by
the fungus. It's like the WalkingDead for cicadas. If they had the
ability to make a show, itwould be an unbelievable documentary. Oh yeah,
so were they attacking? No,they're just doing anything. Yeah,
they just eat their guts and theydon't reproduce. I guess just this disgusting.
(22:59):
They're gross if you're seen them,like they fall out of trees and
they're like these Yeah. Oh,and there's so many well this year,
this year is like the first timesince has happened since Thomas Jefferson days and
won't happened again, brother eight millionyears. They're on thirteen and seventeen year
old cycles. So every thirteen yearold, every thirteen years, one group
comes out, and then the eitherseventeen years the other group comes out,
(23:22):
and when they when they mate.I'm talking about those time periods. Trillions
of those little buggers are out there. They emerge from the earth like the
Thriller video. Yeah, they do, they do. They're they're not harmful
or anything. They're just completely disgusting. Well, we talked to Jim Ryan
during wake up call and he saidthey're coming out now, that's great,
Yeah, but not here, no, no, okay. And he also
(23:48):
said you can eat them. They'relike the size of a shrimp. Oh
it sounds good. Yeah, andso much for all you can eat shrimp.
Red Lobster is abruptly closing forty eightrestaurants around the country. They're saying
that Buffalo, Orlando, Jacksonville somaybe not here, and other cities were
listed as temporarily closed. The companyhas about six hundred and fifty locations and
they're not doing well and are consideringfiling for bankruptcy. I like red lobster.
(24:12):
The most popular thing in reb Lobsteris not even seafood. What is
it. It's the cheese bread.Yes, I was about to say that
cheese bread is fabulous. I've neverbeen, but I've heard much about the
You like the cheese bread very cheesy, that's me. The California town has
a new mayor, Martin Short,celebrity mayor. Have we heard about this
(24:37):
funner California? Who makes it morefun than Martin Short? Yeah? Wouldn't
it be funnier California? Wouldn't thatmake more sense? Funner is not even
a word. No, it's morefun. But it's a city in North
County, San Diego, and MartinShort is the mayor. I like Martin
Short. He was great as EdwardGrimly. Yeah. TV on an Indian
(25:02):
reservation. It was established twenty sixteen. Okay, no cartels, Yeah,
the cartel part of it. Yeah. And it's basically a great PR stunt
and it works gets people to theresort because there's you know, there's our
mayor, Martin Short. They've hadJane Lynch, the tall Lady Rob Wriggle,
(25:22):
the comedian, and the Hoff.The tall lady, she's quite tall,
she is, but she's also maybethe funny lady, the comedian,
great actress. She is a riot, and so is Rob Wriggle and the
Hoff who's not maybe not as intentionallyfunny. All those people are pretty tall,
though, all three of them coincidence. I don't know. Martin Short's
(25:42):
like sawed off, he's like fiveto three. All right, okay,
filler up Lake Tahoe is expected tobe full for the first time in five
years. Yes, we had avery wet winter and there's a lot of
snow up in the mountains right now, between one hundred and one hundred and
eighty four percent of normal in theSierra, and so they're saying when all
(26:03):
that melts, it's going to fillup the lake and it'll be full for
the first time since June of twentynineteenth. So that's good. And people
going to say that climate change,global warming is off the table. It's
not true. Oh, believe me, it's true. This thing goes in
cycles. All right, Petros,you are out of here. I know
that because you're on this afternoon.It's a long day for you. I'll
do whatever you want. I mean, you want to stick around and talk
about the Ukraine, I'll do itall right. If you want to hang
(26:26):
it, you want to hang that'sfine. We got a lot going on.
It's about to say goodbye to one, but Petro, I love you,
Belle, I got I'll wake upthe kids and I'll come back all
right, you got it. That'sPetros and Money Today, every day three
to seven pm on KLA c AMfive seventy Sports. You don't want hi,
Missay because Petros is basically completely outof his mind. This is KFI
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