May 29, 2024 • 30 mins
Neil Saavedra & Amy King join Bill for Handel on the News. U.S officials say deadly Rafah airstrike did not cross Biden’s ‘Red Line.’ NY vs Trump trial: Jury begins deliberations after marathon closing arguments. Robert De Niro shows up for Biden campaign at Trump trial courthouse. Metro launches ‘tap to exit’ pilot program at North Hollywood B Line station. Venice canals attacks: Anthony Francisco Jones charged with murder after woman’s death. Pakistan: temperatures cross 125 degrees as heat wave hits Sindh.
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gentlemen, here's Bill Handle Andy.Good morning everybody. Bill Handle here on
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a Wednesday, Honday, May twentyninth, as we end May. All
right, first, hello, andthen I want to say something about the
promo that just hit. First ofall, good morning Neil, Good morning,
Willie Wolf, Yes, sir,and Cono good morning, Good morning
Bill. Yeah, everybody is sohappy to be here. I can tell
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Yippie and good morning Bill. Yeahyea and Amy Hi Bill Hi. Okay,
you heard that promo about me finallygetting printing and all of that.
Because when I broadcast out of thestudio, which I am today, I'm
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everything by myself, which I've alwayshad the producer do and obviously, and
is there. I'm here, soI have to do all of this by
myself, and I'm not really goodat this. So yesterday, for example,
I knocked the Wi Fi off thephone, because what happens is an
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download them and then send them tothe printer. Okay, And so here
I am in front of my screenand I just knocked the timer off,
and I don't know how, butI took my watch and I scotch taped
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it to the wall right in frontof me. And so there's there's tech
on a very high, high level. Okay. I just wanted to share
with you. We're gonna start referringto you as Big Bill now because you've
got a clock face. Yeah.You know, people don't understand that I
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don't know how to turn on stufflike on off buttons. Maybe they do
women. Yeah, we've already startedwith that. Oh god, I'm sorry.
Yeah it was you know. Somebodysomebody wrote our boss yesterday, Bill
saying I think Neil and Bill hateeach other after thirty years. Thirty years,
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they're saying, because you and Irib each other all the time.
I think they're getting on each other'snerves. Yeah, have you noticed?
And Amy and and and Kono.Neil cameboard what January one? Right,
Neil? When we started this inthe early January. It has changed a
little dramatically because now there's what one, two, three, four, five,
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six of us on the show,And it used to be one out
of you're all counting, we're atfive. We're at five. No,
we've got five including me a six? Right? No, no, one,
two, three, four five,look at your screen, okay,
five, I can't anyway. Itused to be that twenty percent of us
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were completely depraved six scatological, demeaning, basically horrific. Okay, Now we're
at forty percent. That has hitthat level. Have you guys noticed I
did grow up with brothers, andI am completely unoffendable, which means that
everyone. Oh no, no,no, we're not talking about you being
unoffendable. Oh no, you haveit wrong. It's being you being offensive.
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Oh yes, well that's kind ofwhat I meant. I mean,
okay, so nothing is off limitsto me, that is correct. I
think it makes a show even morequestionable? Is that the word for it?
I don't know that that's possible.You know what. The show is
happy to be a board. Yeah, we don't happen to Well, I'm
happy to be a board too.There is. They're simply not the reaction
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we used to get. Amy.You don't know this, but I used
to have a wall of hate wherepeople would send in emails and postcards and
letters, and I mean stuff likeyou know, Hitler was right. I
mean stuff that was so insane,so depraved. You should have or you
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are the product of sex with ainsert name of animal here. I think
you still get it. It justcomes through email and nobody looks at it
anymore. I think so. Idon't, well, I think anybody bothers
anymore. It does come via thetalkback button on the iHeartRadio app. Sometimes
I just get a big bowl ofpopcorn and enjoy how much people hate you.
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We'll start playing, by the way, just a quick, a little
bit of inside baseball. When itcomes to doing this kind of show,
you want people to hate you.You want people to really like you,
and you want people to hate you. And the more they hate you,
the better, because that means theyare more engaged. And that's what we
want, is engagement. Okay,a lot of engagement at a lot of
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engagement. Okay, guys, readyto go, Yep, let's do it.
Handle on the news on this dayWednesday with Amy Neil and me lead
story. Don't cross that lot.Just pick strike we talked about yesterday in
which forty five Palestin Indians were killed, over two hundred wounded. It hit
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a civilian building, part of thisrefugee camp in Rafa, and it exploded.
It ignited something that just went crazyand the whole world, as I
said yesterday, was just revolted,I mean total revulsion. And the US
says didn't cross that red line.Did because that's not a massive intervention attack
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on Rafa itself as far as theUS is concerned. It's a targeted attack.
It's getting tough. It's almost thejury's turn. Jurors in Trump's hush
money trial are expected to begin deliberationstoday after they get instructions from the judge.
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He'll talk about the law and thefactors that they can consider as they
try to reach verdict in the firstcriminal case against a former American president,
and the two sides are looking atit completely differently. A force I'm not
talking about just guilt or innocence,with offense saying innocent proseccious saying guilt.
Their approaches are completely different in termsof it's almost two worlds that they're looking
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at. And so I'll probably talkmore about that when the deliberations actually start.
What you're going today over the nextday or two. I don't think
this is going to go very quickly. You're not going to see a verdict
anytime soon or certainly now within thenext several hours. And then the judge
is charging the jury today. Chargingthe jury means giving jury instructions as to
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the law, and if A followsB, then you must find C or
you can't. Charging the jury alsomeans the judge takes credit cards from the
jury. Do they have a dothey have a layaway jury? They do
not pay installment? No, it'sit's it's upon deliberation, it's payment in
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advance of this liberation. Hey,why was this? Why was this the
trial that went first? Oh?Because they got it together first. You
had to judges that really wanted tomove balls to the walls on this one.
Everything else it just seemed like aweek. It is a half,
it is, you know, andthe least like, I don't know it.
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Just this one to me seems likeit's a much ado about nothing.
Well, we'll see what the jurysays, all right. So Robert de
Niro in his most important role yet, Uh, this is weird to me.
So Actor Robert de Niro. TwoJanuary sixth, police officers showed up
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yesterday on behalf of the Biden campaignoutside the courthouse where, of course President
Trump and this so called hush moneytrial was taking place. And the only
reason why they said they were therewas because they said, well, because
all the press is here. Sothey were basically across the street from the
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trial. And you had Robert deNiro just scrashing Trump and screaming at the
at the pro Trump protesters. Ohmy gosh, somebody you saw that video
of them yelling at each other,screaming. It was very impressive. Okay,
let's be honest. Now, Godblessed Robert de Niro and his acting
prowess back in the day. He'smade a lot of crap lately. I
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mean really he's not, but he'sbeen a lot of movies. The guy's
one of the premiere actors that wehave margins. He does a lot of
crap these days. He's just payingbills at this point. But he the
guy doesn't stop working. He doesnot maybe nicely said all right, let's
take a big fantak. Can tellyou talk you know what? You know?
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He gets along. It's really funnyto see him with Biden because they
both one goes huh and the othergoes, you talking to me, huh?
You talking to me? Huh.Well, Metro's trying something new.
Sheriff Luna recently said that most peopledetained or arrested for doing bad things on
the Metros, either buses, trainsor Metro stations, had not paid fares,
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and there have been a lot ofattacks on Metro lately. So now
Metro's rolling out a safety program that'strying to stop fair jumpers. The pilot
programs being done at the North Hollywoodbe Line station. It requires writers to
tap out when they get to wherethey're going. That's in addition to tapping
in to get in. A lotof places have that. A lot of
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subway systems have that. You haveto keep your card and of course you
put the card through that little machinething and you go through it and a
card punches out on the other endof that little railing thing and then you
go through and the same thing toget out of out of the station when
you get there. This is thedumbest thing I know. It actually works,
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I I you know if you've everbeen to a system. So let
me get this straight. Let meget the just breakdown the logic here.
So the sheriff is saying that almostone hundred percent of the crime committed on
the Metro is by criminals that don'tpay to get in right and they and
make some more difficulty so they're jumpthey have to jump to stations and you
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know what happens that they jump,they would have to jump over to one
and is going to stop them forone with their knife and the round for
one thing, you're going to see. You're going to see people who are
jumping on the other on the otherside, so that doubles uh and you
know what actions to them? Theyget a warning. Well that's different,
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that's definite. I'm not going toget and there's nothing, there's no they
they typical politicians that want to looklike they're doing something. They're doing this.
This is a security issue there.I'm sorry, I disagree with you
on this. Now they could,they could go one further. Okay,
sobod and they go, crap,I'm gonna get busted for tapping. No,
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it's not being busted. It's aquestion of seeing who is not tapping
and the already okay, this guyjumped over uh in to get in to
get out, and now we havea better idea of who these people are
doubles it doubles. Well, thatdepends on enforcement. That's a different issue.
But I'm talking about simply the abilityto see. Now they could go
one further. They could also havea tapping station just before you stab someone
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that you have to tap on thebus itself. That I like that,
But you know that that recently thecouple of the bus drivers that were attacked
was because the people didn't want topay their fare. All right, Well,
that's that those people. Then we'retalking about some serious jail time.
All right, two to five firstdefense of not paying your fare, second
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time five to ten. Well,then you have to get a DA to
prosecute it. Okay, that's anentirely separate issue. Is how much time
people? What is the part ofthe problem. Unless there's cages. If
there's a cage that drops down onthem. That's that works too when they
can't tap. Yeah, oh mygod. All right, Pope Francis,
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I'm sorry you're gay. I mean, I'm sorry I used an anti gay
slur and everyone's welcome, and Iwon't use the Italian word for the F
word for gays any being the yesnot being the words we know. I
am no, but he's like,I'm going to change it to a hint
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of mint, very strong light inthe lower very yes, very strong,
well, will now allow loafers intoservices. By the way, he didn't
deny this. He has not beenWhy did he use this pejorative? And
this was a meeting with bishops andit was not covered and it was not
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broadcast. No, but they didhave it was a leak in there,
which is why it was a leak. So anyway, he apologizes and he
said I really didn't mean it.We have and then he went into another
gay joke. Okay, he's liketwo guys walking to bar. Yeah,
ha ha boy, and then theysaid, ouch my head because they walking
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to bar. Okay, let's startheavenly father. Okay. Charges have been
changed. A man suspected of attackingand sexually assaulting two women in the Venice
Canals has now been charged with murderbecause one of the women who was attacked
was in a coma. She wasdeclared brain dead and died on Friday.
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So now Anthony Jones, who's twentynine years old, is charged with murder,
rape, sodomy, torture. Itwas really bad and he's eligible for
the death penalty on this one.A dirt bag, you know what.
But good thing is that the powersthat be here in Los Angeles are gonna
make it so you have to tapyour license to get out of Venice,
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so you can go in, youcan rape, murder, all that,
but if you tap your license toget out, then that will bring justice.
You know, crime is actually down, and that's the scary part.
And we don't hear me statistically speaking, you know what, they don't They
hide that crap is the reality becauseI'm living in the city and that's bs
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to see it, to feel it, to know that it's there. Statistically,
Neil, Neil, to decide whenthey do statistics. Right when the
FBI or LAPD or county sheriff isissuing crime statistics, they don't call you
up and say, Neil, whydon't you give us the report of where
you live on first and tell uswhat's going on. But what they can
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do is say that enhancements or thatcertain crimes are now misdemeanors instead of uh
oh they've done that, instead offelonies and stuff like the change. No,
no, no, that's there's noquestion. But that's a difference.
And that's what I'm saying. Soit's it's crime is down, but what
kind of crime? Uh? Theproblem is we have cameras now that can
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take I think they're talking about violentcrime. Violent Well, come to me.
I have access to the same informationthat they put up on l A,
PD scanners and the like, andit is not down. Well you
personally, you don't think. SoOkay. All I'm doing is I'm quoting
the statistics, uh from what I'mhearing from the FBI. I'm quoting it
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from the various crime uh and countand city records. So I'm trying to
get my are you printing I'm notprinting. I'm trying to get because I
lost my time on my computer.I'm getting my stop watch here. It's
six twenty six and fifty four seconds, sir, Do I have that?
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It's six twenty six. Well Ihave six twenty one, it's fifty nine.
Say oh, now it's now sixtwenty seven. No, no,
I've got six. No, I'vegot six twenty six, twenty seven six
seven seven sevens. I've got itright. The United States military has been
forced to suspend all the aid deliveriesinto Gaza by sea after It's Peer,
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which I'll remind you was three hundredand twenty million dollars to build off the
coast of the Gaza Strip, suffereddamage because it had weather. Hm hmm,
yeah, a couple of things abouttwenty million dollars. Uh, yeah,
No, it's these are expensive littlebuggers and you take a while,
took over a month to bill andnow they have to repair it. And
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this is one of the things.This is going to be one of the
bigger ways of getting aided. Notenough. It certainly doesn't compare to bringing
trucks in overland through the crossings,but this is really important for especially that
area of Gaza, because Israel says, oh, we're not impeding humanitarian aid
at all, which is a croc. They are not going to get in
the way of American aid coming inin a non combat area. On an
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American pier being delivered by American forces. That ain't going to happen. So
the palace Ins can't win on thisone. I mean, this is I
mean the heartbreak here is. Idon't care what Israel says. They're doing
everything they can, and they havea point of if you have the bad
guys embedded in civilians and you haveto go after them. The number of
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people that children, the women,the innocent men that are getting just nailed,
it's heartbreaking. And of course noone's calling for the return of the
hostages, God forbid. You knowthat's not on the table. So no,
that's bizarre. But with all thetech that we can't get any any
aid, well, you still haveto get it in there. What do
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you have to do? Parachute itin, bring it in by drone?
Well they have been doing that,but it's not an effective way to do
it very much. Kind of hardto bring in three tons of medical supplies
by a drone that's six inches indiameter. I don't know, it just
seems weird. Its horror back andI'm going to do more of this story
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about the state of Palestine and thatthere's a whole whole thing about that.
I'll share that with you at thetop of the hour. No gagging here.
The federal judge in Trump's classified documentscase, Eileen Cannon, has rejected
Special counsel Jacksmith's request for a gagorder against former President Trump. She slammed
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prosecutors for not following the court's rulesby failing to meaningfully confer with Trump's defense
layers about a potential gag order beforemaking the request. She called it wholly
lacking in substance and professional courtesy.Wow, this is where he's going to
do. Just great, because Idon't even think he is going to have
to pardon himself when if he getsconvicted on this one. She is so
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pro Trump, by far, themost pro Trump judge that he has been
in front of and Trump who wasappointed by appointed by Trump. I mean,
she is openly openly pro Trump andhe is. Just wait while she
orders that this one is okay.They didn't confer. What are they going
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to confer about? We want togag order your honor because we don't want
Trump doing what he did in theother trials. Nope, you didn't confer.
You didn't agree on certain issues withthe with the defense. I mean,
yeah, okay, and everybody knowsif he controls the narrative, that's
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where his power is. Certainly,that's where his pr power is. Yeah,
exactly where. Although yesterday, leavingthe courtroom after closing arguments, he
did not go out in the hallwayand talk about a witch hunt. He
did not go out there and talkabout how this whole thing is skewed and
stopping its election interference and all that. He just left the courtroom, which
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is kind of interesting. You know, I saw some story yesterday and I
can't recall where it was, buttalking about how the Secret Service most likely
has already worked with the jail system. Of course it has a case.
Of course in the case of him. Book. Isn't that crazy, Yeah,
like they have to do wrote acall of some kind, they have
to they absolutely after the president stillhas to be protected by the Secret Service.
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Former president has to be protected.Now, a sitting president cannot go
to prison. I mean, it'sjust that simple. Even if he is
convicted the most heinous crime, he'snot going to prison during a presidency.
But the guy's a citizen, youknow, he goes to the Only thing
is former presidents get Secret Service protectionas a matter of law, So yeah,
they just go to prison with him. They get cellos on either side.
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And here's a real problem, orhere's the real problem. Because the
restrictions in prison, You're going tosee some Secret Service agents in real trouble
when they order Domino's pizza and givehim a slice. Well that's what I
was thinking. I'm like, whatif you were going to go to prison,
would we have to go in thereand make sure the bag gets were
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fresh? Yes, bagles were lockswere fresh. Yes, all right.
Ukraine gently needs or urgently rather needsnew soldiers. But the problem is a
lot of men are like, hey, because of the brutal fighting and everything
going on, we are trying toavoid being called up no matter what.
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Yeah, it's war fatigue. Youknow when something first starts, everybody lines
up and you know, me first, me first, me first. Here
we are two years later and justit ain't the same. Do you think
it? Did you think it wasgonna last this long? No? I
thought they were going to have asanybody did. Nope, no one anticipated
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the fighting stance of the Ukrainians,or at least I didn't. So you
think it was hot in Phoenix lastsummer. I remember it was like one
hundred and ten and twenty Temperatures hitone hundred and twenty five point six degrees
fahrenheit in Pakistan's southern province of Thinn. It's the highest reading of the summer,
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close to the country's record high.That's really hot. One hundred and
twenty five degrees. Yep. Yeah, extreme temperatures all over Asia have been
recorded in the last month. Yep. It's like I don't know if you've
seen the video of those two oldJews sitting on a apart bench going,
oh, it's that shit's out there. Oh it's so good. No,
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not true. There are no Jewsin Pakistan. I'm sorry. Oh my
god, I will tell you this. I'd be able to cook an egg
on my head. Oh yeah,you absolutely, that'd be fun to work.
One hundred and twenty six degrees.That's a death Valley, I don't.
Yeah, and well, at leastit's a dry heat in Death Valley.
It's a dry I always say that, you know, hey, you
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cook your you cook, you bakecookies in the oven at three hundred and
seventy five degrees, But it's adry heat. So that works. It
is. I wonder how what theI wonder how moist it is. I
wonder what the humidity level of Pakistanis. I'll bet you it's not a
dry heat. Well let's see,so it's outside of next to India.
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Yeah, so it's probably pretty humid. When I was Hereia, we got
within twenty five miles of Pakistan andthey're like, this is as far as
we go. Hey, siri,what's the humidity level in Pakistan? No?
See twenty two percent in Islamabad.That's very dry. Yeah, it's
a dry heat. You were right. Well there you go. Look at
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that. Look at that. Man. It's so weird to hear your girlfriend
so early in the morning. Right, why don't we take a break?
Okay, hello, Surre, tellme you love me? I love you?
Bill? Hey, all right?More doing something that does nothing.
California lawmakers in both houses recently approvedtwo bills banning grocery and convenience store statewide
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from offering customers reusable plastic bags,which they switched to because they didn't want
us to use the disposable And itdoesn't matter. You pay the extra ten
percent and you throw away the bags. I have stacks of bags in my
garage because I don't take reusable bags. So yesterday I was at a Trader
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Jokes. Oh I'm sorry Costco.Yesterday I was at a Trader Jokes and
I bought forty items. I mean, I just filled up. I really
liked their frozen stuff even more thanCostco. Unfortunately, So I'm act at
Trader Joe's and maybe they're thirty itemson the checkout on the conveyor bill,
and so they rack it all upand it was sixty eighty dollars and the
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clerk actually says, do you wanta bag? I go no, I'll
just carry all of this stuff inmy arms to my car. Of course
I wanted a bag. You more. On the point is I got a
bag. They charged me ten percentor ten cents per bag. I went
ahead and unloaded it at home.And what did I do? Took the
bag and put it next to thepile of the two hundred other bags that
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I have at the garage. Andthat's the point, you earth killer.
Yes, well, they're going tostill offer customers paper bags, which if
you remember, they stopped using becauseit was killing all the trees. And
then did the plastic and everything else. But they're going to do these bags
made of fifty percent post consumer recycledmaterials still for ten cents. They will
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never ever give up that ten centsagain. Pretty soon they're just going to
charge us when we bring our ownbags. That'll be ten cents for the
true If you know what the secretis, you say no bags, and
then you go ahead and put yourgroceries in a bag, and they nine
times out of ten they go,hey, you know you'd need to pay
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ten percent for that or ten centsfor that. You can actually get away
with if you do it right,and then say put it on my card.
They would never mind, never mind. If I got a bag them,
I get to keep the bag.Yeah, So we're killing a whole
lot of bad guys. Number ofpeople put to death worldwide spiked by thirty
percent in twenty twenty three. That'sin spite of fewer countries using capital punished.
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The US saw a jump in executions. It's one of the top five
countries for executing people who are convictedof Christ. Look how few Alabama two
four to six, Missouri four,Oklahoma four, Texas say rip rousing eight
that's it. You know where alot of executions are being held Iran.
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I'm sure. Oh China, Iranis a forty eight percent increase over the
last year. Oh wow, wellthey have to call the contention somehow.
What what did they use bill there? You know, I think they use
in Iran, they hang them,don't they? I do, they do
hang them, But I'm thinking theyuse construction cranes seriously in the town and
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in the town square. So yeah, yeah, really good, very interesting
stuff. In Saudi Arabia is stilltake your head off, really yeah,
absolutely, they still use that.They'll go into city squares and take the
old acts and you have the executionersscreaming, heads up and boom, off
goes the head. Wow. Well, hugely entertaining. You know, we
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could learn from other parts of thecountry. Okay, I'm just that's enough
of that. An airline kicked afamily off the plane after they made their
own no penut announcement when the crewapparently refused to it. Seems like in
different stories as to whether they wereobnoxious about it or not. The family
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says they simply just asked the peoplein the first rows to pass it along.
They have a daughter who has asevere peanut allergy and was just asking
people to not have peanuts. Yep. And now why would the pilot get
upset about that, because that's whatthe story says. It is kind of
Yahoo news. The pilot got allpissed off and he threw them off,
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and this is the Sun Express.Never heard of Sun Express. Well,
they were saying something about how possiblythe father was trying to get to the
cockpit after they wouldn't do the announcement. The airline said, we don't do
those announcements because we can't guarantee analogyfree flight and you have to give us
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forty eight hours of notice, whichthey did. In the family said,
well, we couldn't get a holdof anybody, so depends who you believe.
I guess all right, we're done, guys. This is kf AM
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learned to print. The guy's anoctopus. My printing didn't work this morning.
Oh boy, it was my fault. The phone was not connected to
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to handle it. So usually nowI have to figure out. I'll get
there. I'll get there, andnow Handle on the news. Ladies and
gentlemen, here's Bill Handle Andy.Good morning everybody. Bill Handle here on
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a Wednesday, Honday, May twentyninth, as we end May. All
right, first, hello, andthen I want to say something about the
promo that just hit. First ofall, good morning Neil, Good morning,
Willie Wolf, Yes, sir,and Cono good morning, Good morning
Bill. Yeah, everybody is sohappy to be here. I can tell
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Yippie and good morning Bill. Yeahyea and Amy Hi Bill Hi. Okay,
you heard that promo about me finallygetting printing and all of that.
Because when I broadcast out of thestudio, which I am today, I'm
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about half and half. I'm athome today broadcasting, I have to do
everything by myself, which I've alwayshad the producer do and obviously, and
is there. I'm here, soI have to do all of this by
myself, and I'm not really goodat this. So yesterday, for example,
I knocked the Wi Fi off thephone, because what happens is an
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sends me the stories on my phone, and then from my phone, I
download them and then send them tothe printer. Okay, And so here
I am in front of my screenand I just knocked the timer off,
and I don't know how, butI took my watch and I scotch taped
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it to the wall right in frontof me. And so there's there's tech
on a very high, high level. Okay. I just wanted to share
with you. We're gonna start referringto you as Big Bill now because you've
got a clock face. Yeah.You know, people don't understand that I
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don't know how to turn on stufflike on off buttons. Maybe they do
women. Yeah, we've already startedwith that. Oh god, I'm sorry.
Yeah it was you know. Somebodysomebody wrote our boss yesterday, Bill
saying I think Neil and Bill hateeach other after thirty years. Thirty years,
(02:54):
they're saying, because you and Irib each other all the time.
I think they're getting on each other'snerves. Yeah, have you noticed?
And Amy and and and Kono.Neil cameboard what January one? Right,
Neil? When we started this inthe early January. It has changed a
little dramatically because now there's what one, two, three, four, five,
(03:20):
six of us on the show,And it used to be one out
of you're all counting, we're atfive. We're at five. No,
we've got five including me a six? Right? No, no, one,
two, three, four five,look at your screen, okay,
five, I can't anyway. Itused to be that twenty percent of us
(03:46):
were completely depraved six scatological, demeaning, basically horrific. Okay, Now we're
at forty percent. That has hitthat level. Have you guys noticed I
did grow up with brothers, andI am completely unoffendable, which means that
everyone. Oh no, no,no, we're not talking about you being
unoffendable. Oh no, you haveit wrong. It's being you being offensive.
(04:12):
Oh yes, well that's kind ofwhat I meant. I mean,
okay, so nothing is off limitsto me, that is correct. I
think it makes a show even morequestionable? Is that the word for it?
I don't know that that's possible.You know what. The show is
happy to be a board. Yeah, we don't happen to Well, I'm
happy to be a board too.There is. They're simply not the reaction
(04:36):
we used to get. Amy.You don't know this, but I used
to have a wall of hate wherepeople would send in emails and postcards and
letters, and I mean stuff likeyou know, Hitler was right. I
mean stuff that was so insane,so depraved. You should have or you
(05:00):
are the product of sex with ainsert name of animal here. I think
you still get it. It justcomes through email and nobody looks at it
anymore. I think so. Idon't, well, I think anybody bothers
anymore. It does come via thetalkback button on the iHeartRadio app. Sometimes
I just get a big bowl ofpopcorn and enjoy how much people hate you.
(05:23):
We'll start playing, by the way, just a quick, a little
bit of inside baseball. When itcomes to doing this kind of show,
you want people to hate you.You want people to really like you,
and you want people to hate you. And the more they hate you,
the better, because that means theyare more engaged. And that's what we
want, is engagement. Okay,a lot of engagement at a lot of
(05:46):
engagement. Okay, guys, readyto go, Yep, let's do it.
Handle on the news on this dayWednesday with Amy Neil and me lead
story. Don't cross that lot.Just pick strike we talked about yesterday in
which forty five Palestin Indians were killed, over two hundred wounded. It hit
(06:09):
a civilian building, part of thisrefugee camp in Rafa, and it exploded.
It ignited something that just went crazyand the whole world, as I
said yesterday, was just revolted,I mean total revulsion. And the US
says didn't cross that red line.Did because that's not a massive intervention attack
(06:33):
on Rafa itself as far as theUS is concerned. It's a targeted attack.
It's getting tough. It's almost thejury's turn. Jurors in Trump's hush
money trial are expected to begin deliberationstoday after they get instructions from the judge.
(06:55):
He'll talk about the law and thefactors that they can consider as they
try to reach verdict in the firstcriminal case against a former American president,
and the two sides are looking atit completely differently. A force I'm not
talking about just guilt or innocence,with offense saying innocent proseccious saying guilt.
Their approaches are completely different in termsof it's almost two worlds that they're looking
(07:21):
at. And so I'll probably talkmore about that when the deliberations actually start.
What you're going today over the nextday or two. I don't think
this is going to go very quickly. You're not going to see a verdict
anytime soon or certainly now within thenext several hours. And then the judge
is charging the jury today. Chargingthe jury means giving jury instructions as to
(07:46):
the law, and if A followsB, then you must find C or
you can't. Charging the jury alsomeans the judge takes credit cards from the
jury. Do they have a dothey have a layaway jury? They do
not pay installment? No, it'sit's it's upon deliberation, it's payment in
(08:11):
advance of this liberation. Hey,why was this? Why was this the
trial that went first? Oh?Because they got it together first. You
had to judges that really wanted tomove balls to the walls on this one.
Everything else it just seemed like aweek. It is a half,
it is, you know, andthe least like, I don't know it.
(08:33):
Just this one to me seems likeit's a much ado about nothing.
Well, we'll see what the jurysays, all right. So Robert de
Niro in his most important role yet, Uh, this is weird to me.
So Actor Robert de Niro. TwoJanuary sixth, police officers showed up
(08:54):
yesterday on behalf of the Biden campaignoutside the courthouse where, of course President
Trump and this so called hush moneytrial was taking place. And the only
reason why they said they were therewas because they said, well, because
all the press is here. Sothey were basically across the street from the
(09:15):
trial. And you had Robert deNiro just scrashing Trump and screaming at the
at the pro Trump protesters. Ohmy gosh, somebody you saw that video
of them yelling at each other,screaming. It was very impressive. Okay,
let's be honest. Now, Godblessed Robert de Niro and his acting
prowess back in the day. He'smade a lot of crap lately. I
(09:39):
mean really he's not, but he'sbeen a lot of movies. The guy's
one of the premiere actors that wehave margins. He does a lot of
crap these days. He's just payingbills at this point. But he the
guy doesn't stop working. He doesnot maybe nicely said all right, let's
take a big fantak. Can tellyou talk you know what? You know?
(10:01):
He gets along. It's really funnyto see him with Biden because they
both one goes huh and the othergoes, you talking to me, huh?
You talking to me? Huh.Well, Metro's trying something new.
Sheriff Luna recently said that most peopledetained or arrested for doing bad things on
the Metros, either buses, trainsor Metro stations, had not paid fares,
(10:26):
and there have been a lot ofattacks on Metro lately. So now
Metro's rolling out a safety program that'strying to stop fair jumpers. The pilot
programs being done at the North Hollywoodbe Line station. It requires writers to
tap out when they get to wherethey're going. That's in addition to tapping
in to get in. A lotof places have that. A lot of
(10:46):
subway systems have that. You haveto keep your card and of course you
put the card through that little machinething and you go through it and a
card punches out on the other endof that little railing thing and then you
go through and the same thing toget out of out of the station when
you get there. This is thedumbest thing I know. It actually works,
(11:07):
I I you know if you've everbeen to a system. So let
me get this straight. Let meget the just breakdown the logic here.
So the sheriff is saying that almostone hundred percent of the crime committed on
the Metro is by criminals that don'tpay to get in right and they and
make some more difficulty so they're jumpthey have to jump to stations and you
(11:31):
know what happens that they jump,they would have to jump over to one
and is going to stop them forone with their knife and the round for
one thing, you're going to see. You're going to see people who are
jumping on the other on the otherside, so that doubles uh and you
know what actions to them? Theyget a warning. Well that's different,
(11:52):
that's definite. I'm not going toget and there's nothing, there's no they
they typical politicians that want to looklike they're doing something. They're doing this.
This is a security issue there.I'm sorry, I disagree with you
on this. Now they could,they could go one further. Okay,
sobod and they go, crap,I'm gonna get busted for tapping. No,
(12:13):
it's not being busted. It's aquestion of seeing who is not tapping
and the already okay, this guyjumped over uh in to get in to
get out, and now we havea better idea of who these people are
doubles it doubles. Well, thatdepends on enforcement. That's a different issue.
But I'm talking about simply the abilityto see. Now they could go
one further. They could also havea tapping station just before you stab someone
(12:37):
that you have to tap on thebus itself. That I like that,
But you know that that recently thecouple of the bus drivers that were attacked
was because the people didn't want topay their fare. All right, Well,
that's that those people. Then we'retalking about some serious jail time.
All right, two to five firstdefense of not paying your fare, second
(13:01):
time five to ten. Well,then you have to get a DA to
prosecute it. Okay, that's anentirely separate issue. Is how much time
people? What is the part ofthe problem. Unless there's cages. If
there's a cage that drops down onthem. That's that works too when they
can't tap. Yeah, oh mygod. All right, Pope Francis,
(13:26):
I'm sorry you're gay. I mean, I'm sorry I used an anti gay
slur and everyone's welcome, and Iwon't use the Italian word for the F
word for gays any being the yesnot being the words we know. I
am no, but he's like,I'm going to change it to a hint
(13:48):
of mint, very strong light inthe lower very yes, very strong,
well, will now allow loafers intoservices. By the way, he didn't
deny this. He has not beenWhy did he use this pejorative? And
this was a meeting with bishops andit was not covered and it was not
(14:09):
broadcast. No, but they didhave it was a leak in there,
which is why it was a leak. So anyway, he apologizes and he
said I really didn't mean it.We have and then he went into another
gay joke. Okay, he's liketwo guys walking to bar. Yeah,
ha ha boy, and then theysaid, ouch my head because they walking
(14:35):
to bar. Okay, let's startheavenly father. Okay. Charges have been
changed. A man suspected of attackingand sexually assaulting two women in the Venice
Canals has now been charged with murderbecause one of the women who was attacked
was in a coma. She wasdeclared brain dead and died on Friday.
(14:56):
So now Anthony Jones, who's twentynine years old, is charged with murder,
rape, sodomy, torture. Itwas really bad and he's eligible for
the death penalty on this one.A dirt bag, you know what.
But good thing is that the powersthat be here in Los Angeles are gonna
make it so you have to tapyour license to get out of Venice,
(15:20):
so you can go in, youcan rape, murder, all that,
but if you tap your license toget out, then that will bring justice.
You know, crime is actually down, and that's the scary part.
And we don't hear me statistically speaking, you know what, they don't They
hide that crap is the reality becauseI'm living in the city and that's bs
(15:45):
to see it, to feel it, to know that it's there. Statistically,
Neil, Neil, to decide whenthey do statistics. Right when the
FBI or LAPD or county sheriff isissuing crime statistics, they don't call you
up and say, Neil, whydon't you give us the report of where
you live on first and tell uswhat's going on. But what they can
(16:08):
do is say that enhancements or thatcertain crimes are now misdemeanors instead of uh
oh they've done that, instead offelonies and stuff like the change. No,
no, no, that's there's noquestion. But that's a difference.
And that's what I'm saying. Soit's it's crime is down, but what
kind of crime? Uh? Theproblem is we have cameras now that can
(16:30):
take I think they're talking about violentcrime. Violent Well, come to me.
I have access to the same informationthat they put up on l A,
PD scanners and the like, andit is not down. Well you
personally, you don't think. SoOkay. All I'm doing is I'm quoting
the statistics, uh from what I'mhearing from the FBI. I'm quoting it
(16:55):
from the various crime uh and countand city records. So I'm trying to
get my are you printing I'm notprinting. I'm trying to get because I
lost my time on my computer.I'm getting my stop watch here. It's
six twenty six and fifty four seconds, sir, Do I have that?
(17:15):
It's six twenty six. Well Ihave six twenty one, it's fifty nine.
Say oh, now it's now sixtwenty seven. No, no,
I've got six. No, I'vegot six twenty six, twenty seven six
seven seven sevens. I've got itright. The United States military has been
forced to suspend all the aid deliveriesinto Gaza by sea after It's Peer,
(17:37):
which I'll remind you was three hundredand twenty million dollars to build off the
coast of the Gaza Strip, suffereddamage because it had weather. Hm hmm,
yeah, a couple of things abouttwenty million dollars. Uh, yeah,
No, it's these are expensive littlebuggers and you take a while,
took over a month to bill andnow they have to repair it. And
(18:00):
this is one of the things.This is going to be one of the
bigger ways of getting aided. Notenough. It certainly doesn't compare to bringing
trucks in overland through the crossings,but this is really important for especially that
area of Gaza, because Israel says, oh, we're not impeding humanitarian aid
at all, which is a croc. They are not going to get in
the way of American aid coming inin a non combat area. On an
(18:23):
American pier being delivered by American forces. That ain't going to happen. So
the palace Ins can't win on thisone. I mean, this is I
mean the heartbreak here is. Idon't care what Israel says. They're doing
everything they can, and they havea point of if you have the bad
guys embedded in civilians and you haveto go after them. The number of
(18:48):
people that children, the women,the innocent men that are getting just nailed,
it's heartbreaking. And of course noone's calling for the return of the
hostages, God forbid. You knowthat's not on the table. So no,
that's bizarre. But with all thetech that we can't get any any
aid, well, you still haveto get it in there. What do
(19:08):
you have to do? Parachute itin, bring it in by drone?
Well they have been doing that,but it's not an effective way to do
it very much. Kind of hardto bring in three tons of medical supplies
by a drone that's six inches indiameter. I don't know, it just
seems weird. Its horror back andI'm going to do more of this story
(19:29):
about the state of Palestine and thatthere's a whole whole thing about that.
I'll share that with you at thetop of the hour. No gagging here.
The federal judge in Trump's classified documentscase, Eileen Cannon, has rejected
Special counsel Jacksmith's request for a gagorder against former President Trump. She slammed
(19:52):
prosecutors for not following the court's rulesby failing to meaningfully confer with Trump's defense
layers about a potential gag order beforemaking the request. She called it wholly
lacking in substance and professional courtesy.Wow, this is where he's going to
do. Just great, because Idon't even think he is going to have
to pardon himself when if he getsconvicted on this one. She is so
(20:17):
pro Trump, by far, themost pro Trump judge that he has been
in front of and Trump who wasappointed by appointed by Trump. I mean,
she is openly openly pro Trump andhe is. Just wait while she
orders that this one is okay.They didn't confer. What are they going
(20:41):
to confer about? We want togag order your honor because we don't want
Trump doing what he did in theother trials. Nope, you didn't confer.
You didn't agree on certain issues withthe with the defense. I mean,
yeah, okay, and everybody knowsif he controls the narrative, that's
(21:03):
where his power is. Certainly,that's where his pr power is. Yeah,
exactly where. Although yesterday, leavingthe courtroom after closing arguments, he
did not go out in the hallwayand talk about a witch hunt. He
did not go out there and talkabout how this whole thing is skewed and
stopping its election interference and all that. He just left the courtroom, which
(21:25):
is kind of interesting. You know, I saw some story yesterday and I
can't recall where it was, buttalking about how the Secret Service most likely
has already worked with the jail system. Of course it has a case.
Of course in the case of him. Book. Isn't that crazy, Yeah,
like they have to do wrote acall of some kind, they have
to they absolutely after the president stillhas to be protected by the Secret Service.
(21:49):
Former president has to be protected.Now, a sitting president cannot go
to prison. I mean, it'sjust that simple. Even if he is
convicted the most heinous crime, he'snot going to prison during a presidency.
But the guy's a citizen, youknow, he goes to the Only thing
is former presidents get Secret Service protectionas a matter of law, So yeah,
they just go to prison with him. They get cellos on either side.
(22:12):
And here's a real problem, orhere's the real problem. Because the
restrictions in prison, You're going tosee some Secret Service agents in real trouble
when they order Domino's pizza and givehim a slice. Well that's what I
was thinking. I'm like, whatif you were going to go to prison,
would we have to go in thereand make sure the bag gets were
(22:33):
fresh? Yes, bagles were lockswere fresh. Yes, all right.
Ukraine gently needs or urgently rather needsnew soldiers. But the problem is a
lot of men are like, hey, because of the brutal fighting and everything
going on, we are trying toavoid being called up no matter what.
(22:55):
Yeah, it's war fatigue. Youknow when something first starts, everybody lines
up and you know, me first, me first, me first. Here
we are two years later and justit ain't the same. Do you think
it? Did you think it wasgonna last this long? No? I
thought they were going to have asanybody did. Nope, no one anticipated
(23:18):
the fighting stance of the Ukrainians,or at least I didn't. So you
think it was hot in Phoenix lastsummer. I remember it was like one
hundred and ten and twenty Temperatures hitone hundred and twenty five point six degrees
fahrenheit in Pakistan's southern province of Thinn. It's the highest reading of the summer,
(23:41):
close to the country's record high.That's really hot. One hundred and
twenty five degrees. Yep. Yeah, extreme temperatures all over Asia have been
recorded in the last month. Yep. It's like I don't know if you've
seen the video of those two oldJews sitting on a apart bench going,
oh, it's that shit's out there. Oh it's so good. No,
(24:03):
not true. There are no Jewsin Pakistan. I'm sorry. Oh my
god, I will tell you this. I'd be able to cook an egg
on my head. Oh yeah,you absolutely, that'd be fun to work.
One hundred and twenty six degrees.That's a death Valley, I don't.
Yeah, and well, at leastit's a dry heat in Death Valley.
It's a dry I always say that, you know, hey, you
(24:26):
cook your you cook, you bakecookies in the oven at three hundred and
seventy five degrees, But it's adry heat. So that works. It
is. I wonder how what theI wonder how moist it is. I
wonder what the humidity level of Pakistanis. I'll bet you it's not a
dry heat. Well let's see,so it's outside of next to India.
(24:52):
Yeah, so it's probably pretty humid. When I was Hereia, we got
within twenty five miles of Pakistan andthey're like, this is as far as
we go. Hey, siri,what's the humidity level in Pakistan? No?
See twenty two percent in Islamabad.That's very dry. Yeah, it's
a dry heat. You were right. Well there you go. Look at
(25:18):
that. Look at that. Man. It's so weird to hear your girlfriend
so early in the morning. Right, why don't we take a break?
Okay, hello, Surre, tellme you love me? I love you?
Bill? Hey, all right?More doing something that does nothing.
California lawmakers in both houses recently approvedtwo bills banning grocery and convenience store statewide
(25:41):
from offering customers reusable plastic bags,which they switched to because they didn't want
us to use the disposable And itdoesn't matter. You pay the extra ten
percent and you throw away the bags. I have stacks of bags in my
garage because I don't take reusable bags. So yesterday I was at a Trader
(26:02):
Jokes. Oh I'm sorry Costco.Yesterday I was at a Trader Jokes and
I bought forty items. I mean, I just filled up. I really
liked their frozen stuff even more thanCostco. Unfortunately, So I'm act at
Trader Joe's and maybe they're thirty itemson the checkout on the conveyor bill,
and so they rack it all upand it was sixty eighty dollars and the
(26:25):
clerk actually says, do you wanta bag? I go no, I'll
just carry all of this stuff inmy arms to my car. Of course
I wanted a bag. You more. On the point is I got a
bag. They charged me ten percentor ten cents per bag. I went
ahead and unloaded it at home.And what did I do? Took the
bag and put it next to thepile of the two hundred other bags that
(26:48):
I have at the garage. Andthat's the point, you earth killer.
Yes, well, they're going tostill offer customers paper bags, which if
you remember, they stopped using becauseit was killing all the trees. And
then did the plastic and everything else. But they're going to do these bags
made of fifty percent post consumer recycledmaterials still for ten cents. They will
(27:12):
never ever give up that ten centsagain. Pretty soon they're just going to
charge us when we bring our ownbags. That'll be ten cents for the
true If you know what the secretis, you say no bags, and
then you go ahead and put yourgroceries in a bag, and they nine
times out of ten they go,hey, you know you'd need to pay
(27:33):
ten percent for that or ten centsfor that. You can actually get away
with if you do it right,and then say put it on my card.
They would never mind, never mind. If I got a bag them,
I get to keep the bag.Yeah, So we're killing a whole
lot of bad guys. Number ofpeople put to death worldwide spiked by thirty
percent in twenty twenty three. That'sin spite of fewer countries using capital punished.
(28:00):
The US saw a jump in executions. It's one of the top five
countries for executing people who are convictedof Christ. Look how few Alabama two
four to six, Missouri four,Oklahoma four, Texas say rip rousing eight
that's it. You know where alot of executions are being held Iran.
(28:22):
I'm sure. Oh China, Iranis a forty eight percent increase over the
last year. Oh wow, wellthey have to call the contention somehow.
What what did they use bill there? You know, I think they use
in Iran, they hang them,don't they? I do, they do
hang them, But I'm thinking theyuse construction cranes seriously in the town and
(28:42):
in the town square. So yeah, yeah, really good, very interesting
stuff. In Saudi Arabia is stilltake your head off, really yeah,
absolutely, they still use that.They'll go into city squares and take the
old acts and you have the executionersscreaming, heads up and boom, off
goes the head. Wow. Well, hugely entertaining. You know, we
(29:10):
could learn from other parts of thecountry. Okay, I'm just that's enough
of that. An airline kicked afamily off the plane after they made their
own no penut announcement when the crewapparently refused to it. Seems like in
different stories as to whether they wereobnoxious about it or not. The family
(29:30):
says they simply just asked the peoplein the first rows to pass it along.
They have a daughter who has asevere peanut allergy and was just asking
people to not have peanuts. Yep. And now why would the pilot get
upset about that, because that's whatthe story says. It is kind of
Yahoo news. The pilot got allpissed off and he threw them off,
(29:52):
and this is the Sun Express.Never heard of Sun Express. Well,
they were saying something about how possiblythe father was trying to get to the
cockpit after they wouldn't do the announcement. The airline said, we don't do
those announcements because we can't guarantee analogyfree flight and you have to give us
(30:17):
forty eight hours of notice, whichthey did. In the family said,
well, we couldn't get a holdof anybody, so depends who you believe.
I guess all right, we're done, guys. This is kf AM
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