Handel on the News

Amy King & Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Israel-Hamas War: Netanyahu acknowledges ‘tragic mistake’ in strike on Rafah that killed dozens. Spain cabinet to recognize a Palestinian state as EU rift with Israel widens. Severe storms threaten millions across the East on Memorial Day following a weekend of destructive, deadly weather. ‘Aggressive shark behavior’ forces closure of waters at all San Clemente beaches, officials say. Pope Francis accused of making homophobic slur in a closed-door meeting. China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs. Closing arguments for Trump’s hush money trial begin today… here’s what to know.

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to camp I am sixforty, the Bill Handles show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. You shouldput it this way as I rip into
the papacy. Okay, where I'ma fund of the papacy. Is that
considered a pap smear? Okay,we're done. Okay, now you've gone

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after all the women too. Yes, I am. Wow, there we
go, linguists starting starting the houroffensively ending the hour. You're just just
offensive across the board. Yeah,I am. And now handle on the
news, ladies and gentlemen, here'sBill Handle, and good morning everybody,

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Bill Handle. Here it is Tuesday, Tuesday. Oh oh, here we
go. Let me okay, allright, let me mute that. Let
me meete that. You figure bynow I know how to run this thing.
No, Thirty one years and Istill don't not oppress the proper buttons.
Well, you had a day off, so you forgot. I actually
had two days off because I rana recording on Saturday. Although maybe I'm

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not supposed to tell you that Ido that Tuesdays and Thursdays when I bank
excuse me, phone calls so wecan create a new show that really isn't
a new show. It's well,it's a new show, but I'm not
their new show anyway. It makesall the sense in the world. Okay,

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And and good morning, Good morningBill. Yeah. And mentioned that
I'm I don't have much energy thismorning, and I said, no,
I'll get it up. And shesays, maybe you shouldn't say that,
And then I went to R I'mtalking about my energy. I'll get it
up. Why do you go tothe lowest common denominator? And you made
me that way? Yeah, puttingit on an right, Thank you,

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Neil. Yeah. Morning. Shewas a sweet little flower when she got
here. I know. I Yes. Good morning, Willie Wolf, good
morning. And Cono, good morning, Good morning. I heard Amy call
you the technical producer. That's correct, Bill, that's your title. How

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was that not his title? BecauseI've never thought of Cono or anybody in
that position as the technical producer.I'm better than most Bill. Okay,
he's flying the plane man. Yeah, but that's okay. I'll buy that.
You just learned to print. Theguy's an octopus. He's doing fifty

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things. Although my print my printingdidn't work this morning, oh boy.
Yeah, but it wasn't my fault. It was my fault. The phone
was not connected to the WiFi.It knocked off the Wi Fi and I
didn't know how to handle it.So usually now I have to figure I'll
get there. I'll get there.I'll get there. Okay, So that's

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everybody. Did everybody have a goodMemorial Day weekend? Well? Neil worked
on Friday. No, he workedyesterday. Yesterday, Amy, you worked
yesterday, right of course? Okay, Kno, you worked yesterday. You
know it. And you worked yesterday, Yes, I did well. We
could have a conversation about food chainissues here. I did not work yesterday,

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and the world was a better placefor it. It was a better
place. Although I have to tellyou when I was the bench, you
know, prior to getting yeah,actually prior to getting in of the show,
I would do every single shift.I was on weekends and there was
not a holiday that I was working. We did overnights in those days,

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and I would do overnights and itwas so I paid my dues and the
other end an honor to be onthis station. It just is, what
the hell is that? What youmean? He puts graphics up behind him.
Uh, it's Taco Tuesday, right, I understand, But it looks

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like libre Taco Tuesday. Yeah,Amy, that's because you're polite. Is
someone I believe the term is inthe sexual community is a gimp but uh
with a taco. But it's it'sS and M. But it's got a
taco. So it's a taco themefor that. Yeah. Yeah, that's
a rubber whole thing face mask.I'm still I'm sorry. I let's get

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to the news. That's what that'sokay, you know, that's that's interesting
on several different levels. Neil,I'm just trying to mix it up,
buddy. Yeah, Okay, guys, Uh, we've got a fair amount
to cover. It's been a roughweekend for many many people, particularly in
Gaza, to say the least.So let's start it with handle on the

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news on this Tuesday morning, Maytwenty eighth, with Amy King and Neil
and me lead story. Wow,it was a tough one. Israel launched
an air attack in Rafa, arefugee camp in Rafa, and it looks

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like it was a civilian target washit and it looked as if some massive
explosion he had either ignited it ignitedan ammunition dump, which I don't think
it is, or gasoline storage andman, thirty five people died. It

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was horrific and it looked like andit was. I think it was more
than that. It's at least fortyfive. Wow. Yeah, death tolls
going up. One hundreds is injured, and it is. Of course,
the world is just shaking in itsresponse, and Israel is losing by the

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minute any support that it has.But here is the problem, and it's
sort of you know, you can'twin no matter which way you choose.
While the world says that Israel hasa legitimate reason to go after Hamas,
it can go after Hamas legitimately,and most countries don't dispute that. If

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Hamas is embedded in the population,what do you do if you're going after
Hamas leaders And in this case,two Hamas leaders were killed, and I
don't think anybody is arguing that Israelshould not go after them, because keep
in mind, Hamas is dedicated tothe destruction of Israel, so it's legitimate

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to go after them. But atthe same time, you can't target or
hit civilian targets. What do youdo do You simply never go after civilian
targets, leaving Hamas to rearm andone again attack Israel as it has promised
to do, or are civilians deadwhen you go after Hamas? Leadership?

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What do you do with that?Yeah, but you know Netnyahu coming out
and acknowledging it is a tragic mistakeis crap too, because it's like a
drunk driver saying I didn't mean tokill. What's he supposed to do?
But everybody has said don't go intoRafa. We've even backed off as an
ally there there was no The wholepoint of not going into Rafa is that

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there is no way not to havea supriving casualty. And this is right,
and this is a mistake. Itjust is the last hold on.
No, the attack wasn't a mistake. The uh, the attack was well,
it was a mistake that had aimedat that point. But I don't
even know what do you say?I don't know the answer of this.
Do you say no civilians will betargeted or killed or kept to a minimum,

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which Israel says. I don't knowif that's true or not, And
that means Haman is going to beleft untouched. You can't go after Hamas
if you don't go after civilians,get him? What do you do the
same with law enforcement. Law enforcementhere has rules and the bad guys don't.
Yeah, I don't know. Badguys can shoot into a crowd of
people. Cops can't. It's justa way good and bad works. Yeah,

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but so many palestin Indians have diedthat it's it's terrible. I mean,
there's no answer to this. Andno one around the world is screaming
at Hamas return the hostages. That'snot on the table by anyone. So
Hamas is keeping over a hundred civilians, innocent civilians that it has captured,

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kidnapped, even to the point ofwhen it kills in Israeli or it has
killed, it takes the body anduses the body as hostage, so the
family can't even bury their loved ones. These guys are animals, and no
one is talking about that. Youknow what else is pretty nuts in the
worldwide response, even more so herein the in the United States, probably

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is that the protesters and the proPalestinian groups will come out and say,
how dare you treat everyone in GazaAs if they're Hamas. However, on
the flip side, they treat everysingle Israeli or every single Jew, even

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worse, every single Jewish person asas if they are net in Yahoo.
Yeah, I mean, it's justit's insane. All right, let's take
no, let's do one more beforewe take a break. Well, there's
more backing for a two state solutionin Gaza and Israel. Spain, Norway
and Ireland have moved to formally recognizea Palestinian state. Tel Aviv says that

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it will have no immediate impact onits war in Gaza, but the Spanish
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told his nationin a televised address from Madrid that this
is and historic decision that has asingle goal, and that is to help
Israelis and Palestinians achieve peace. Yeah, it doesn't mean a thing. I
mean, there's one hundred and thirtycountries already around the world that have recognized

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the state of Palestine. Now what, okay, we recognize you. Now
what it doesn't mean a damn thing. And you've got Israel going, okay,
go ahead, you know, thebig mazotove to you. Now,
Israel is pressuring the world not torecognize the Palestinian And by the way,

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when you talk about recognizing Palestine,that means recognizing Gaza as part of the
country, and it is run byterrorists. That's the problem. We don't
care. We're going to recognize it. It doesn't matter that is run by
a government, and Hamas is agovernment that is absolutely dedicated to destroying its

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neighbor. But we don't care,says Norway and Spain. We still want
to recognize this as a country,notwithstanding that the charter is the destruction of
the state of Israel. This isvery complicated stuff, it really is.
I'll tell you one thing. Theyat the party recognizing Israel, no bagels

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were served, none or recognizing Jamasin Palestine. No bagels, no locks,
no bagels, which, by theway, I had last night or
I head over the weekend. Okay, oh good, I'm just gonna cross
that off my BINGO card today.Yeah, bagels yesterday? Yeah yeah.

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Just destructive thunderstorms tornadoes. They wereresponsible for at least twenty three deaths over
the long weekend, including his horriblefour children. And this was in parts
of Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas,Oklahoma, and Alabama. So the storms
killed fifteen in Arkansas and Texas alone. Another five people died in Kentucky.

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Just horrific and you know, almostmotion picture like destruction. It's great.
And the video these days is fardifferent. You see, these storm watchers
would be off at a distance.Now they're in the middle of the tornadoes.
You see that video of that gasstation where thirty or forty people sheltered

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and it was hit directly and thevideo was going and people were screaming.
Everybody survived that one. Wow,And you wonder and these storm watchers,
I mean, you're driving along.Here's the video of people driving along and
a tornado crosses the road right infront of them. I mean, it's

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it's astounding, and it's so hundredsof tornadoes were reported in the last few
days. It's never been that bad. I'm glad we don't get tornadoes yet.
Yeah. No fun. Okay,this is sounding a little bit like,
uh, RoboCop or something, butin recent military drills with Cambodia,

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China's military showed off a robot dogwith an automatic rifle mounted on its back.
Wait a second, are you lookway ahead of the game here?
Ahead of the game? Oh Iam yeah? Oh wait, it's the
shark story. Oh see, Ijust wanted to get right to the dogs.
Okay, so uh it's not jaws, but it looks like there was
some juvenile great white sharks that areswimming around off the coast and one of

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them went and bumped into a surferon Monday. So San Clementy Wait a
second, what so does the arethe shot sharks robots? And do they
have guns attached to them? No, they don't know the shark just San
Clementy Beach. Seems like it's anall you can eat buffet for the sharks,
except nobody got eaten yet there.Well, I here's it. I

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think a surfboard got eaten. Imean, they're stupid sharks. Well,
it got bumped. There were reportsthat it was a fight, but it
was a bump and everybody's okay.But they cleared out the waters and said,
you know what, you need tostay away because they're district were showing
aggressive behavior. Okay, great story, Now Neil will take this one.

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Oh this is okay. Pope Francisallegedly told Italian bishops this was in a
closed door meeting not to permit gaymen to train for the priesthood. There
were two Italian newspapers at least thatwere in there that claimed that the eighty
seven seven year old pontiff made ahomophobic slur in these meetings. Now you

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know, during his you know timeas pope, the Pope has sought,
you know, to offer more welcomingapproach to LGBTQ Catholic saying, who am
I to judge? Some people thinkbecause Italian is is not his native language,
that he didn't know how how heavythis word word? Please? How

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do you pronounce it? Froutzia gene? That? Did I have that right?
Would the two g's? Would itbe a heart like a gee to
translate to fag atry? I didn'teven I didn't even know that word existed.
But I will say, you know, having a gay brother, I
don't use the F word, butI will say this in this context,

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it's almost a funny sounding word toadd. But it looks like he's going
to Starbucks. Why it just makesit sound odd. But yes, that
is what was was used. Andsome people are coming to the Pope's defense
saying, hey, it's his secondlanguage, and he, you know,
he didn't understand that it was okay. I mean, he's doing it in

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front of the press, but whoknows. Yeah, the Pope, Now
are we ready for their RoboCop.Yeah, we have the Okay, so
China's military showed off a robot dogwith an automatic rifle mounted on its back,
basically turning man's best friend into akilling machine. Remember when we got
the robot dogs here in LA andeverybody was worried about this. China's doing

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it. Yeah, of course,you know, we'll never even the very
fact we have robo robodogs is justhugely controversial there. They just kill people
with them. But then that's China. Now they go straight, don't they
don't. Yeah, don't hide it. You can. I believe you can
get in the United States one witha flamethrower on it for about ten fifteen

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grand, not that I've looked.Oh I didn't know that. Well it's
you weed control and all that,I think, But you know, yeah
with flamethrowers, well yeah, youknow, actually you know what you know
they do because we have backburning onyou know, areas that are prone to
forest fires. Yeah, they do. So it is actually a legitimate way

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to do we debatement is to usea flame. But that's not what people
are buying it for any who.Out of Tokyo vehicle manufacturer Toyota is ending,
or at least set to end,its massive sponsor sponsorship deal with the
International Olympic Committee. So just afterParis Olympics, the reports are that Japan

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is uh and the manufacturer Toyota,is going to back out. They're apparently
the largest sponsorship deal and they don'tfeel like the money was effectively used to
support athletes or promote the sports.So we'll see if that actually ends up
happening. Yeah, that is abig deal, although the Olympics has gotten

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a pretty poor reputation with the headof the IOC and the Olympic committees.
By the way, that's the bestjob in the world is to be on
the committee, the head committee ofthe IOC, because you have every city
out there and they're bidding for theOlympics, and the IOC major committee chooses

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and they go to the cities.Can you imagine how well treated they are.
It's it's a great gig. It'sa great gig. Families are still
looking to hold someone accountable. Thefamilies of the Uvaldi school shooting victims have
filed a lawsuit against the makers ofthe AR fifteen assault rifle. The publisher

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of the first person shooter video gameseries Call of Duty, and also Meta,
the parent of Instagram. They claimthat all three played a part in
promoting the gun used in the shootingthat killed nineteen students. It was two
years ago on Friday, Yeah,horroblem event. But you know, federal
law actually precludes a manufact actures ofguns to be sued. Uh, there's

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that. And when you go touh, I mean Call of Duty,
somehow does this? I mean that'sgoing to be a stretch. It is,
and of course the manufactures the arassault weapons, and it's just I
don't know where this is gonna go. Uh. I don't know whether there's
a political statement or uh. Infact, there is a shot at so
to speak, a shot at this. I don't know, but you know

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it's back we go. You know, people don't gun. Guns don't kill
people. People kill people right,well favor, but humans are the only
constant in every murder. That's uhproblem. The weapon can change the situation,
gets true, but it's but it'shard, Neil. It is hard

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to shoot someone if you don't havea gun, but you can kill them
with a knife. Yeah, andthat's when you go in and you shoot
up an entire school. Really,then you can't go Why don't you go
after the magazine maker? Because themagazine is what I that I listen,
I agree, and it's it's alwaysa pyeroic to make cars that can only

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go fifty five miles per I understand, I understand, but that is but
cars are absolutely necessary. Knives arekind of horrific. It's a horrific thing,
but it is. It's ast thingyou seem to think if this is,
you know what, it's hypothetical.I don't even know. I don't
even know why I say it anymore. Let's just move on, all right.

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So closing arguments for Trumps so calledhush money trial. Not sure why
it got branded that way, butbegin today so we shall see. You
know what's in the last magic bagof you know, the defense today that
today it's the Trump people of thedefense makes its arguments, followed by prosecution

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and looks like it seems tomorrow thatthese jury starts deliberation. This is the
weakest case against Trump that exists,and this is the one where if he's
going to get off, he's goingto get off. The strongest case is
the classified document case, but it'sa federal case and if it turns out
the Trump wins, that case isover instantly, and I don't even think

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Trump will have to pardon himself.He'll just shut down the investigation. The
Justice Department will just withdraw and saywe're not going to move forward because it
is clearly a witch hunt and itshouldn't go forward. So I think,
if I had to guess, it'sfifty to fifty that he gets convicted.

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Another day, another metro attack,actually two. A metro bus driver was
attacked yesterday. It happened shortly beforeten o'clock in the morning. A bus
was traveling south on Spring Street,just south of Temple and downtown LA.
The bus driver apparently recognized the personwho was about to attack because they'd had

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run ins before, and tried toclose the door keep the person out,
But when the doors reopened, thewoman lunged at the driver, grabbed her
glasses or the driver's glasses broke,the glasses scratched the driver's face. And
then last night a person at ametro bus stop on Miracle Mile was stabbed.
M Well, there's a way toprotect the bus drivers. That's an

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easy one. You just put oneof those Plexi glass you know, protective
what they call those glass protection youknow, like they do in the bank.
You know, you can't you havethat little slot where you do have
partials, but they're gonna, youknow, put bigger ones. It doesn't
help have to Now, Now thegun passengers different other passengers. There's a

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problem. Yeah, everyone else candie, but just remember this. I
just don't kill people. People killedright now. This is where I agree
with people having a gun. Ifa homeless person, if I'm on a
bus and a hole almost person evenstarts going down the aisle, I shoot
him. Just preventive. Bill handlefor judge, ladies and gentlemen and juror.

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Yes, White House to announce newactions to modernize America's aging electrical grid
because it's crap, and we sawa lot of this when you had tons
of people throughout the US without powerup to the I think one hundred and
twenty thousand, up to at leastone hundred and twenty thousand or so just

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in Kentucky, I think yesterday.Oh, it's a lot more than that.
I was talking to Jim Ryan duringwake up call and he said,
there's like six more than six hundredand fifty thousand without Oh my gosh,
and it's almost one hundred degrees inTexas. It's just nuts to see that.
And also, you know, they'retalking about water being hacked, and

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I fear that when we modernize ourelectrical then we're going to do it with
more computer enhancement. I mean,there's a way if everybody had solar systems,
and I understand that's way off inthe distance, especially if you're talking
about farms that you need a gridof some kind, but individual solar systems.
I mean, I have a solarsystem and if the grid is off,

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it's I'm fine. But the problemis that's an individual home. What
do you do at night? Well, you have batteries which I'm now putting
into my house, and that getseven more expensive. This is not going
to be easy. More solar poweris being created during the day than they
will ever need, and solar poweris increasing. Problem is at night and

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batteries. That technology has not explodedthe way it should. And by the
way, solar systems are so inexpensive, aren't they. I think the minimums
twenty five thousand dollars. Yeah,but what's the return seven to ten years?
No, it depends on which utilityseven to ten in department of water

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and power. I live or mynew house is in the most expensive utility
in the country. Goody it No, Well, now I have solars going
in. You know, I sunLex is installing a solar system. And
my payback now because electricity is soexpensive, is about eighty ninety minutes the

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first sunny day of summer. You'repaid back. All right. We've lost
another sports legend. Bill Walton,the basketball Hall of Fame center who won
two national titles at UCLA, twoNBA championships in Portland and Boston, and
later became a color commentator, diedyesterday. He was seventy one, and

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his death follows a long battle withcancer. Yeah, and what a character.
He was larger than life in severaldifferent ways. Outrageous, fun,
just uh, just a wonderful guy. And you know, wore a beard
and John wouldn't hated it and hedidn't care. You know what his favorite

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band was, Yeah, Grateful Dead. That's what Cono chose to look at
that, don't you know why?Because he's our technical director technical producer.
Both both Yeah and Walton would weartied I shirts while broadcasting. Tied I

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t shirts. You know, allthe broadcasters wear ties and coats. He'd
be there in a tied iye Tshirt. What just a great character.
Well it's got tie in it,okay, well said, all right,
so polarizing MLB umpire. I don'tknow if he goes by Angel or in
Hell Hernandez, but he is setto retire today. He grew a reputation,

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is one of the worst in themajors, constantly going viral in recent
years for what are said to behorrendous calls and gosh, what was it,
thirty four seasons in the majors.Yeah, they kept him, no
because he was horrible. And they'renot using technology baseball. I mean,

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there's technology that can read a baseballgoing over the plate and specifically within millimeters,
whether it's in the strike zone ornot, and they're not using it.
I don't know. Does that makeit better or worse? It makes
it more certainly makes it more specific, I know, But isn't that kind

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of part of the game is thehuman Well, except you got guys like
this who come up to the platewhere they're seeing eye dogs and then the
dog goes into the dugout and thentheir umpire yeah, so Canada is rolling
out the red leaf to Gazin's.Canada says it will issue five thousand visas

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to people from Gaza, which isfive times more than they originally had planned,
and added that they were horrified bythe Israeli airstrike in Rafa that killed
at least, yeah, forty fivepeople. One little problem with this,
No one can get out. Youcan't leave Gaza. All the borders are

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shut down. Israel's not letting anybodyout. You've got Americans that you got.
You have American citizens who are there, aid workers, doctors and humanitarian
eight folks from the UN, UScitizens and they cannot get out. And
if US citizens can't get out,because the US is by far the most

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important ally that Israel has, noone's getting out, so it might as
well be five million that they Yeah, why not? All right? You
might hear the boom, A bigsonic boom could rattle southern California today,
especially if you're in you know,the area of San Luis Obispo and tourist
Santa Barbara, thanks to SpaceX's latestrocket launch from Vandenburg Space for Space.

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So around three twenty or so,I think is when they're shooting for the
launch and if there's any weather conditionsthat prevent it. I think the backup
windows available windows. Those are fun. I miss sonic booms. I remember
when the Shuttle would come in andyou'd hear two sonic booms. Oh yeah,
the gooms. Yeah, that wasgreat. I don't remember hearing the

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booms from the SpaceX right, yeah. Oh no, I have no idea
why it does. I remember sonicbooms as a kid, though. Oh,
they used to do sonic booms allover the place. Overhead they would
that stopped. You can't do inthe United States. They don't let you,
which is why you ever had theconcord fly into LA. It always

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flew New York because over the UnitedStates, where it would create a sonic
boom as it flew over, Ijust couldn't do it. That's a shame.
I mean, I love sonic booms. They're entertaining. You watch your
dogs flip out because they don't knowwhat's happening. People scared, they think
the end of the world is here. I mean, it's just it's wonderful,
wonderful stuff, all right. Sonicbooms don't kill people. People kill

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people. Yeah, they go Boom, yeah, boom in the night.
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