June 5, 2024 • 30 mins
Neil Saavedra & Amy King join Bill for Handel on the News. Biden unveils plans to enact restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at US-Mexico border. Hunter Biden Trial: Ex-wife is expected to testify. House passes GOP bill to sanction ICC as it seeks arrest warrant for Netanyahu. AT&T resolves outage that left some customers without service across the US. Mexican mayor killed hours after first woman elected president. FDA advisors reject MDMA as a treatment for patients with PTSD. Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter pleads guilty to stealing $17MIL from star. Job openings fall to 3-year low, as the US economy continues to slow.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I A M six forty,
and I just want to point outI'll tell you all of you Kno and
Neil and Amy and and how muchI love you and important you are to
my life. I can't live withoutyou. I love you so much.
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And now Handle on the news,ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle now
in reference to that homo, thatwas me, uh describing what I would
be like on ecstasy or m dm A. It was not any kind
of real description or anticipation of anyfuture events. Not what we heard.
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Now. Yeah, we just heardthat you love us. Yeah, I
love you too, buddy. That'syeah, we heard. Now, Now
that's when I'm high on MDMA.No, we heard that's what That's not
what we heard, Paw, Iunderstand. I thought that was part of
the discussion. Although I may beone of the few people on the planet
that still hate people at MVMA,I don't know the answer. That would
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be weird, that would be well, what you know, when I was
a cocaine addict four years I wasa cocaine addict and ended up in drug
rehab for thirty wonderful days. Igained sixty pounds during those four years.
I have yet to meet anybody whowas a cocaine addict who put on weight.
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It's like impossible to do. ButI can eat, But I can
eat through my problems. So youknow, food is my thing. And
Neil, you know, you andI have talked about this. You know
we've been to meals many times together. And you know when I'm sad,
I eat. When I'm happy,I eat, when I'm wide awake and
wired, I eat. And whenI go to sleep, I eat and
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I sleep eat. Also, allright, let me say good morning everybody.
It is a Wednesday morning and upday. June five, tomorrow is a
big day, June six, DDay. It is it eighty years,
eighty years, eighty years, andthere's still a few people that are alive,
not many. And since was eightyyears ago, there were some fifteen,
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well sixteen seventeen year old soldiers atthat time who actually were there on
D Day and stormed the Normandy shores. And I think tomorrow and let me
do this tomorrow. Let's talk aboutit, because there's a few facts about
the Normandy invasion. For example,you think of these beaches next to each
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other. Right, there's seventy fivemiles apart between. If you look at
all five beaches that were stormed,and some Canadians, for example, just
walked onto the beach. The Canadianforces. US soldiers were nailed, and
so there'll be a lot of itsaving private Ryan was about that as fascinating
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stuff. So tomorrow we'll talk alittle bit about D Day, a lot
of historical importance to the US.And then what happened Eisenhower how he had
actually written two versions of the DDay invasion, one it's successful, to
it had failed. He was readyto go with that. Isn't that crazy?
You know? They Nixon did thesame thing for the moon landing.
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I think there was there was onewhere it failed, a speech where it
failed, and there was one.Yeah, but look at the difference.
Look at the difference historically when Nixontalked about the success of the moon landing,
which it was, and of coursehe completely co opt co opted it
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politically, got on the phone withthe guys on the on the moon and
you know, you're wonderful, You'reterrific. Now, his speech if it
were to fail was one word.It would just be whoops. And then
the conversation's over. Okay, goodmorning, Joe. Look yeah, well
you look at that. It wasthat, you know, you know what's
fascinating. There is a podcast Ican't remember the name of it that took
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the actual speech because you can getit. Took the actual speech that was
written in case the men did notcome back from the moon Michael Collins,
Neil Armstrong and buzz Edwin Aldrin thatthey didn't come back, and they dramatized
it as to what it would havesounded like on the radio and television.
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Cool if Yeah, it was prettyneat. I don't know who did it,
but you could probably search that andit was. It's kind of spine
tingling to hear what what that wouldhave sound like if they didn't come back.
And just a quick aside, andyou're absolutely right about that, And
a quick factoid which a lot ofpeople may not know. Neil. Your
name, yes, Neil Edwin EdwinSavedra. I was born in July of
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sixty nine. Let's see, theywent up in what on the nineteenth I
was born on the twenty eighth,and so I'm named I was almost named
Neil Edwin Michael Savedra. But oneof my brothers, Craig, already had
Michael as a middle name. Sothat, yeah, a fascinating story.
I mean July, I think Julynineteenth, we're going to do that story
because there's some great stuff about whathappened. You know, they go to
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the moon. Oh my god,look at the historical importance. Those guys
didn't care. They didn't give arats about the history. They didn't care.
They were technicians, they were pilots. I'm telling you, Michael and
Neil. But I think I thinkbuzz Aldrin felt the weight of it.
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I think, you know what,I'll talk more about that. I mean,
that's all been coming up all right. On the nineteenth of July,
I am going to moon you though, well, well said Amy, looking
forward to that way. I'm lookingfor a failure of the moon landing when
you do that, Amy, goodmorning, good morning. I will not
be mooning you on Oh not yet. Yeah. On the window. I
like the morning on the window.They call that the pressed hams. Oh
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yeah, when you see it,Cono, good morning. He's visualizing it's
gonna be great about a month awayand good morning, good morning. Okay,
let's do it. Guys, wehave a fair amount to cover.
Obviously, as we do every morning, it's time for a handle on the
news with Amy King, Neil andMe lead story. And Joe Biden enacted
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under executive order and we knew thiswas happening. A executive directive saying that
illegal immigrants crossing the border and claimingasylum, it will be a limit of
twenty five hundred a day and that'sover the course of a week and average.
And anything over that border is shutdown, can't come in, cannot
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claim asylum, nada. And hesaid his because Congress won't pass a bill,
which is true. There was abipartisan bill that was shut down.
Former President Trump told the Republican Congress, you shut this down. I want
this as an issue in the presidentialso I can argue Joe Biden has done
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nothing, and so here's what hehas done. By the way, really
late to the table. I mean, there's no question it's I don't know
if Joe Biden actually in his heartfeels any of this. I think he
loves illegal aliens personally, but forthe longest time said that his hands were
tied. Apparently they will apparently not, you know, I mean, he
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can, he can do a lotof things, and that's exactly what he's
doing. So Trump and Republicans sayingthis is just a political stunt and that's
all he's doing. And I gottatell you, there's some argument, why
did you wait until a few monthsbefore the presidential Interesting? Well, well,
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and I don't disagree with what hedid. I mean anything that would
help this influx. I mean,people would call this an invasion, which
the Democrats will not use that word. They're right, it is an invasion,
all right? Moving on, Bringon the exes. Hunter Biden's trial
in Delaware continues today. It's daytwo of testimony. It's expected that Hunter
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Biden's ex wife, Kathleen Buell,is expected to be among the witnesses.
They have three children together. Theydivorced in twenty sixteen, apparently after his
infidelity and drug use became too muchto overcome. Another person that's expected to
take the stand is Hallie Biden.That's Hunter's ex girlfriend and also his dead
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brother's wife. She's expected to takethe stand. There you go, And
did they starting up to her funeral? I don't know if they did or
not. I mean, that's kindof a little bizarre connection. Hey,
I was wondering. I was wonderinghow the defense was going to hand this.
I mean, where is the defensehere? I'm shaking my eye,
you know, sort of scratching myhead. He admits he's a drug user.
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He admits he's a drug user duringthe time he is applying for his
firearms license, his federal firearms license. But maybe not on that day.
That is what the defense is saying. It was at sort of that moment
he did not, and so technicallyspecifically kind of sort of it was not.
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That's the entire defense, and we'llsee if the jury buys it.
I would like to say the scariestwords you will ever hear in court is,
prosecutors, your honor, the prosecutorswould like to bring the defendant's ex
wife stand. Yeah, that's nota good deal. That's not a good
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deal at all. All right.So the US House passed a Republican led
bill yesterday that would impose sanctions onthe Ice see the International Criminal Court after
its top prosecutor recommended war crime chargesagainst Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nenyahu. So
passed two hundred and forty seven toone five you had forty two Democrats cross
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party lines to help the Republicans passthis bill. Yeah, this doesn't mean
a lot. I mean the statementthat Nittanyahu is a should be charged as
a war criminal. I tell youthere have been presidents that have been named
as war criminals by international organizations.No one pays attention, or at least
we don't. First of all,we're not even a member of the court.
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Second of all, the sanctions,what are the sanctions going to be?
Well, they won't let anybody withouta visa or it takes a visa
to come into the United States.Says no, if you're a member of
the court or support the court orsanctions. I mean, they could,
for example, freeze bank accounts likethey did with Russia. There's a lot
of things they can do. Butit doesn't mean a whole lot. It
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really doesn't. It's just a statement. And here is the problem. Not
that Nattayahu isn't doing horrible things bykeeping going in the war and he's maintaining
his premiership over and above anything else. That's really all he cares about is
stay in power. But to asBiden pointed out, to compare him to
the Hamas leaders who ordered the utterdestruction and the rape and the pillaging and
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the murder of innocent civilians. Isvery different because Israel, at least it's
arguing, do you think it's targetingcivilians? That it doesn't have anything.
There's no military use for what Israelis doing. The whole point of Israel
is just to go in and killas many Palestinians. Do you buy that?
I don't. On the other hand, Hamas crossing the border, the
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entire point was to take hostages andto kill as many Israelis as possible.
Big difference, and of course that'sall being conflated. Okay, let's just
move on. You know where Ifeel. AT and T customers could not
reach out to touch someone yesterday fora while. AT and T says it
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has resolved an outage that left somecustomers in the dark. So the deal
was that there was a problem withinthe system that stopped AT and T customers
from calling people who have other charactercarriers or getting calls from people who have
other carriers. Interesting marketing ploy,don't you think you? And here here
is a question real quickly, okay, AT and T Neil, are you
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an AT and T customer? Yes, because I'm through the company. Okay,
Amy, AT and T. Iam because it's the only place that
gives me service in my apartment.Wow, and AT and T Yes,
Actually Wow Kono and not me neither. I wouldn't touch AT and T.
Well, I don't get service.I didn't get service to Persian Palace anything
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other than Verizon, and then assoon as I move and went to T
Mobile. So here's bottom line.I don't care about you guys. Listen,
it doesn't matter to me any ofus crying because you and Cono couldn't
get a hold of us. Yeah, that's true. It's not the end
of the world. You know,you deal, your deal. You can't
get hold of you. That's Godintending me not to get hold of you.
Okay, all right. Yolanda Sanchezwas shot in the town of Cotija,
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Mexico. She had governed as mayorsince September twenty one. This is
really coming on the heels of widespreadviolence against politicians, overshadowed the big general
election in Mexico that we just were, you know, talking about this past
this week saw two women run forthe presidency, so now and one one
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Shinebaum one. But the story hereis and it follows what I had said.
I think on Monday that a thirdof Mexico, a third of Mexico
is controlled by the cartels. Andthis woman mayor was kidnapped. First,
she spent three days being kidnapped,and the cartel told her people that kidnapped
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her on behalf of the cartel ormembers, uh, saying we're going to
let you go. All you haveto do is hand the security. This
is what she was mad or handthe security of the town over to state
police who were in the pay ofthe cartel, and she told to go
pound sand. They still let hergo. So federal security was involved and
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didn't work. They still killed her. Can you imagine the security around Shinebaum.
It's almost going to be I wouldguess it's either close to or surpass
the Secret Service protection for the president. Well, I mean it's you're talking.
The cartel is military grade. Yeah, I mean, yeah, they
don't have training. No, it'snot like armed forces that are well trained.
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But you're right they have well,I mean they're animal. You might
be surprised how well trained. Maybelevels are maybe reconvicted Amanda Knox has been
convicted again of slander in a courtin Italy. The Italian court reconvicted her,
upholding the only conviction that is stillstanding tied to the brutal murder of
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Amanda Knox's roommate in two thousand andseven. So the court sentenced Knox to
three years for slandering Patrick Lumumba,a Congolese bar owner. Knox is not
expected to serve any additional time sinceshe already served about four years before her
murder conviction was overturned. The judgesays, that's time served. Yeah,
I got two questions. Do weknow what she said about this guy,
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Patrick la Mumba in terms of theslander? Yeah, I don't. I
don't. I don't why she namedhim while she was exhausted and confused during
an extensive police investigation, naming himas I guess complicit in the killing of
the roommate. May believe that's what? Yeah, Also, what is she
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staying? What is she doing stayingin Italy? At what point do you
say goodbye to Italy while you stillhave a case pending After four years she
went to the court and spoke inItalian and rattled on, and so she
must love Italy. I can understandbut not doing jail time in Italy.
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Well, the food though, andthe prison even the prison food is fabulous
in Italy. Yeah, spaghetti everyday. Yeah, a little bit of
milanaise, those sautepe vegetables. Andthe wine is I'm not a wine drinker,
but it's very cheap. It's verygood. Yeah. It makes you
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want to commit a crime. Itdoes, is there in Italy? Doesn't
it? All? Right? Panelof Advisors to the US Health Regulator,
and we talked a little bit aboutthis yesterday voted against a therapy based on
the party drug md M a uh. And this was primarily for patients with
post traumatic stress disorder, which isa shame. And this is a major
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setback of you know, just thevery the tip, the very tiniest,
tiniest, you know, look intothe psychedelic treatment. Yeah, we talked
about this. We did this storyspecifically yesterday about using MDMA for post traumatic
stress disorder. And the big problemthis is the FDA. And as I
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said, the FDA is not goingto prove anything in a double blind study,
which is you have one group thattakes some medication, one group that
is a placebo does not take themedication. The doctor's administrating, don't know
who gets it or not. Andthen they do the study with MDMA,
you know who has it. Youdon't go on a psychedelic trip and not
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understand that you're on a psychedelic tripand the other people don't. So it's
it's there's really no controls And thatwas the part they cite that is a
problem and that you'll never have controlsand so based on the FDA, you'll
never have approval of this. Whydon't they just give them another drug instead
of a placebo? Why don't theygive them me edibles or something? Well?
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Because there what's what high is high? And it's just too you don't
get the same drug. What elseare you going to do other than MDMA
or no MDMA? So you're goingto compare MDMA to some other drug.
Is there going to be a psychedelicIs there going to be a hallucinogen that
screws everything up? You can't reallytest for this. All you can do
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is anecdotally work for this. UhAnd I said that was a huge problem
yesterday. And I'm a huge believerin this too, although I have to
tell you when they said no,they said no. Part of Their denial
was that the FDA loved everybody involvedin the testing. All this is the
best test we've ever done. Welost you. Thank you so much.
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Keep those contraceptives flowing. Senate isgoing to vote today on leg that would
protect access to contraception at the nationallevel. In a letter, Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer called the overturning a Rowversus Wide one of the worst Supreme Court
decisions of modern times. The decisionallowed each state to pass their own abortion
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rights or restrictions, uprooting national protectionsfor the procedure. Yeah, I mean
this is a political move, Ithink. Yeah, I mean in light
of the fact, I mean thereare a couple of crazy senators or congress
people that say we have to restrictcontraception, right, not abortion contraception,
but I mean, come on,so this is simply to have them put
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on the record, and just youknow, I wish the Senate would just
do something else other than, youknow, make these and both sides do
this. It's just crazy. Ithink there's a bill in the works in
one of the Republican and one ofthe Red states saying we're going to outlaw
penises. I mean, anything,you know, it could actually benefit a
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Jewish back bill or to shorten Okay, the Wisconsin Attorney general filed charges against
three allies of Donald Trump. Theywere accused of taking part in the effort
to put forth a slate fake electorsand usurped the twenty twenty presidential election.
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Yep, this was interesting. Thiswas a group and we talked about this
earlier at Cheesborough. Who and theseare lawyers too, for the most part,
who came up with this kakamamy schemethat said, we'll put together our
electors who will vote for Donald Trump, notwithstanding that that Biden won in Wisconsin.
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We're gonna overturn it. You can'tdo that. It's a crime.
Now, they argued in their defense, No, no, we didn't try
to overturn it. This was justin case the courts held that the election
was is fraudulent. So this wasjust the backup. Now, no one
bought that. So a couple ofthem already, uh, the ten fake
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electors who did sign as quote electors, which they were not. Uh,
this avowed their attempt and they canyou imagine that it's part of a civil
settlement. You've got people who haveto on the record say yes, Joe
Biden is our president. Has havewe come to that? I mean,
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it's insane. Well, how comethat in this particular case, the side
that was complaining about interference with theelection is trying to interfere with the election.
That's a very good point. That'sa that's a very It's like the
guy that's totally homophobic, but he'sinto dudes. Oh yeah, you see
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that all the time. Yeah,you love it when you have a fundamentalists,
uh, Christian ministers, evangelists whoscream morality, who scream God and
scream family values, and they're allstripping eight year old boys, or a
lot of them are, I'll tellyou, at least when when you have
liberal priests and televangelists. I don'tknow how many there are out there who
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scream morality. They don't scream moralitywhile they're screwing around. They're less hypocritical.
I just think of those guys withthe wide stance or whatever you know,
that say that they're trying to youknow, put their foot under the
toilet, next to the stall orwhatever, trying to get someone's attention,
Like you got a why, yeah? Why? Needs? Who was the
congress person that got caught. Remember, but he said, I have a
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wide stance. Yeah, white stands, bro. Yeah, you know what
it's It's not like you're parking aHummer in a compact space. Let's be
honest, Amy, let's do onemore as predicted. The interpreter did it.
The former interpretive for La Dodgers stars. Oh Tani has pleaded guilty to
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stealing millions from the star slugger,and he did it to pay off gambling
debts more than seventeen million dollars.Ye remember when he was accused of the
four million dollar theft. Originally thoseare the numbers. Otani said that he
had permission to do that, thatit was okay. Do you remember that,
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Amy, I don't remember him eversaying. I think he said that
it was he knew about it.Well, his name was on I think
two million dollars of that original fourIn terms of the bank draft from what
I remember, Otani signed those draftsof five hundred thousand dollars each. You
want to look that up. Butnow now the guy forged or something,
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and all I think, so,well, I don't know, you know
what you have to we have tolook that up to find out I may
have gotten this all wrong, whichis so highly unusual on this show.
But now it's seventeen million dollars.Otani is completely gone. The other way
is this avowed miss you, Missuharaand Miss O'Hara is looking at some serious
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jail time like years. Well,you know, because it's the numb,
it's it's the it's the amount ofmoney we're talking about. That's I've talked
often with this with Wayne. Thereare two issues. Number one, the
crime itself. When you're dealing witha financial crime, so you've got the
underlying crime, and then the amountof money that was stolen. And once
you hit a certain level, manyou're looking you know, they're throwing the
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book at you. Okay. It'skind of strange though, when you put
it right up against the Grossman casewhere she got what thirty four years for
murdering two boys. Well, he'snot gonna he could get up to thirty
years, he's not going to getthat. I doubt he's going to get
more than eight or ten, ismy guests, I'd like to know that
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my calendar this one, all right, I'm guessing eight to ten years for
this, and when the when thesentencing comes down, we'll bring it up.
Or if I'm completely wrong, wewill bring it up. We have
to wait till October to find outthat is correct. Well, back in
the day, Ricky and Lucy hadto sleep in separate beds. But today
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you can have a pregnant woman onthe box of Special K. Yay,
so Special K marketed to women bypromising they could lose weight by replacing two
meals a day with bowls of cereal. Remember that that was some years ago.
Well, now the cereal brand haspartnered with Molly Baz and she's a
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cookbook authored by the Way and recentlythe star of a very buzzy ad for
lactation cookies, which sound yummy.How do cookies? Laugh take? Oh
you have to milk them. Yeah, yeah, and they have to they
have to be with child. Butman, it's a little complicated. What's
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interesting about the story, if youread on, is this was originally on
a billboard digital billboard in Times Square. They had to pull that one down
immediately so many people got offended bythat a pregnant woman. I don't know
what's offensive about that. I don'teither. Oh, and the cookies apparently
are called areolios, very strong,very well done, very no I read
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that that's lined as your so far, but good for her. I think
pregnant women are beautiful. I thinkbreastfeeding women are beautiful. And I don't
know what people are so freaked outabout the human forms on what the human
form is doing at a given time. Well, listen, I don't want
to see how many human forms areinvolved at that time. Naked picking up
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the soap, I don't want tonaked at all, Like you fully clothed
on the front of a box ofcereal, to me is offensive. Yeah,
let's move on looking for a job. It's a little bit tougher than
it has been recently. The numberof openings in the US has gone down
for the second month in a row. There were still eight point zero six
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million jobs available in April, butas of April there were an estimated one
point two available jobs for every jobseeker, which sounds not too bad,
but it's the lowest ratio since Juneof twenty twenty one. This as just
a simple warning to Michael Krozer andanybody else. Every word of this story
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is horrible. Giant, venomous flyingspiders with four inch legs are real,
and they're going to potentially invade NewYork, the New York area sometimes this
year. The only good thing aboutthis story is potentially invade the New York
area sometime this year, and thenNew Yorkers will claim how it's the best
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thing in the world because New Yorkis the best city. That's why they
get the biggest, best spiders.Yeah, it's the old fly venomous spider
story. I'm getting so sick ofthese, and no more of these in
the news for a while, okay, I mean there's just too many of
these stories. Sick of them.You know, we've got to deal with
the giant, venomous flying Joro spiderinvading the city. Yeah, is that
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not the heteus four inch legs.It's not that big four inch legs you
Okay, Yeah, they may bereally small because Daddy long legs are small
and they have strangely enough long legs. I included the photo. These guys
are a little more substantial. Theyhave like yellow legs, you know,
and the people and you know,somebody is sitting there and you know,
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holding it, and I don't knowhow venomous the venom is. Well,
I can tell you, Bill,because we went and did an out and
about at the spider pavilion at theNatural History Museum. So I'm kind of
obsessed with spiders now, and Ichecked on it. These spiders will only
bite if they're cornered, and eventhen their fangs likely wouldn't be big enough
to pierce human skins. So theyare venomous. But story, it's just
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such a stupid story. Then,well, but the headlines, it's it's
end of the world National inquiry headlines. You know what, amy what you
call your little spider friends and yousay, can I borrow one for the
night? And you you spoon itthe whole night and you tell us no.
It says that it would only biteif it's cornered. I think spooning
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it's cornered. Wow. Have mentold you when you tried to spoon them
that it felt like they were beingcornered? Maybe? Okay, that's a
new verb that I don't I'm notaware of. But to be cornered?
Wow, we learned a lot today. Yeah, all right, KF I
am six forty live everywhere on theiHeartRadio app. You've been listening to the
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and I just want to point outI'll tell you all of you Kno and
Neil and Amy and and how muchI love you and important you are to
my life. I can't live withoutyou. I love you so much.
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And now Handle on the news,ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle now
in reference to that homo, thatwas me, uh describing what I would
be like on ecstasy or m dm A. It was not any kind
of real description or anticipation of anyfuture events. Not what we heard.
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Now. Yeah, we just heardthat you love us. Yeah, I
love you too, buddy. That'syeah, we heard. Now, Now
that's when I'm high on MDMA.No, we heard that's what That's not
what we heard, Paw, Iunderstand. I thought that was part of
the discussion. Although I may beone of the few people on the planet
that still hate people at MVMA,I don't know the answer. That would
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be weird, that would be well, what you know, when I was
a cocaine addict four years I wasa cocaine addict and ended up in drug
rehab for thirty wonderful days. Igained sixty pounds during those four years.
I have yet to meet anybody whowas a cocaine addict who put on weight.
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It's like impossible to do. ButI can eat, But I can
eat through my problems. So youknow, food is my thing. And
Neil, you know, you andI have talked about this. You know
we've been to meals many times together. And you know when I'm sad,
I eat. When I'm happy,I eat, when I'm wide awake and
wired, I eat. And whenI go to sleep, I eat and
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I sleep eat. Also, allright, let me say good morning everybody.
It is a Wednesday morning and upday. June five, tomorrow is a
big day, June six, DDay. It is it eighty years,
eighty years, eighty years, andthere's still a few people that are alive,
not many. And since was eightyyears ago, there were some fifteen,
(02:17):
well sixteen seventeen year old soldiers atthat time who actually were there on
D Day and stormed the Normandy shores. And I think tomorrow and let me
do this tomorrow. Let's talk aboutit, because there's a few facts about
the Normandy invasion. For example,you think of these beaches next to each
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other. Right, there's seventy fivemiles apart between. If you look at
all five beaches that were stormed,and some Canadians, for example, just
walked onto the beach. The Canadianforces. US soldiers were nailed, and
so there'll be a lot of itsaving private Ryan was about that as fascinating
(03:02):
stuff. So tomorrow we'll talk alittle bit about D Day, a lot
of historical importance to the US.And then what happened Eisenhower how he had
actually written two versions of the DDay invasion, one it's successful, to
it had failed. He was readyto go with that. Isn't that crazy?
You know? They Nixon did thesame thing for the moon landing.
(03:24):
I think there was there was onewhere it failed, a speech where it
failed, and there was one.Yeah, but look at the difference.
Look at the difference historically when Nixontalked about the success of the moon landing,
which it was, and of coursehe completely co opt co opted it
(03:45):
politically, got on the phone withthe guys on the on the moon and
you know, you're wonderful, You'reterrific. Now, his speech if it
were to fail was one word.It would just be whoops. And then
the conversation's over. Okay, goodmorning, Joe. Look yeah, well
you look at that. It wasthat, you know, you know what's
fascinating. There is a podcast Ican't remember the name of it that took
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the actual speech because you can getit. Took the actual speech that was
written in case the men did notcome back from the moon Michael Collins,
Neil Armstrong and buzz Edwin Aldrin thatthey didn't come back, and they dramatized
it as to what it would havesounded like on the radio and television.
(04:30):
Cool if Yeah, it was prettyneat. I don't know who did it,
but you could probably search that andit was. It's kind of spine
tingling to hear what what that wouldhave sound like if they didn't come back.
And just a quick aside, andyou're absolutely right about that, And
a quick factoid which a lot ofpeople may not know. Neil. Your
name, yes, Neil Edwin EdwinSavedra. I was born in July of
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sixty nine. Let's see, theywent up in what on the nineteenth I
was born on the twenty eighth,and so I'm named I was almost named
Neil Edwin Michael Savedra. But oneof my brothers, Craig, already had
Michael as a middle name. Sothat, yeah, a fascinating story.
I mean July, I think Julynineteenth, we're going to do that story
because there's some great stuff about whathappened. You know, they go to
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the moon. Oh my god,look at the historical importance. Those guys
didn't care. They didn't give arats about the history. They didn't care.
They were technicians, they were pilots. I'm telling you, Michael and
Neil. But I think I thinkbuzz Aldrin felt the weight of it.
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I think, you know what,I'll talk more about that. I mean,
that's all been coming up all right. On the nineteenth of July,
I am going to moon you though, well, well said Amy, looking
forward to that way. I'm lookingfor a failure of the moon landing when
you do that, Amy, goodmorning, good morning. I will not
be mooning you on Oh not yet. Yeah. On the window. I
like the morning on the window.They call that the pressed hams. Oh
(06:05):
yeah, when you see it,Cono, good morning. He's visualizing it's
gonna be great about a month awayand good morning, good morning. Okay,
let's do it. Guys, wehave a fair amount to cover.
Obviously, as we do every morning, it's time for a handle on the
news with Amy King, Neil andMe lead story. And Joe Biden enacted
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under executive order and we knew thiswas happening. A executive directive saying that
illegal immigrants crossing the border and claimingasylum, it will be a limit of
twenty five hundred a day and that'sover the course of a week and average.
And anything over that border is shutdown, can't come in, cannot
(06:55):
claim asylum, nada. And hesaid his because Congress won't pass a bill,
which is true. There was abipartisan bill that was shut down.
Former President Trump told the Republican Congress, you shut this down. I want
this as an issue in the presidentialso I can argue Joe Biden has done
(07:19):
nothing, and so here's what hehas done. By the way, really
late to the table. I mean, there's no question it's I don't know
if Joe Biden actually in his heartfeels any of this. I think he
loves illegal aliens personally, but forthe longest time said that his hands were
tied. Apparently they will apparently not, you know, I mean, he
(07:40):
can, he can do a lotof things, and that's exactly what he's
doing. So Trump and Republicans sayingthis is just a political stunt and that's
all he's doing. And I gottatell you, there's some argument, why
did you wait until a few monthsbefore the presidential Interesting? Well, well,
(08:00):
and I don't disagree with what hedid. I mean anything that would
help this influx. I mean,people would call this an invasion, which
the Democrats will not use that word. They're right, it is an invasion,
all right? Moving on, Bringon the exes. Hunter Biden's trial
in Delaware continues today. It's daytwo of testimony. It's expected that Hunter
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Biden's ex wife, Kathleen Buell,is expected to be among the witnesses.
They have three children together. Theydivorced in twenty sixteen, apparently after his
infidelity and drug use became too muchto overcome. Another person that's expected to
take the stand is Hallie Biden.That's Hunter's ex girlfriend and also his dead
(08:45):
brother's wife. She's expected to takethe stand. There you go, And
did they starting up to her funeral? I don't know if they did or
not. I mean, that's kindof a little bizarre connection. Hey,
I was wondering. I was wonderinghow the defense was going to hand this.
I mean, where is the defensehere? I'm shaking my eye,
you know, sort of scratching myhead. He admits he's a drug user.
(09:07):
He admits he's a drug user duringthe time he is applying for his
firearms license, his federal firearms license. But maybe not on that day.
That is what the defense is saying. It was at sort of that moment
he did not, and so technicallyspecifically kind of sort of it was not.
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That's the entire defense, and we'llsee if the jury buys it.
I would like to say the scariestwords you will ever hear in court is,
prosecutors, your honor, the prosecutorswould like to bring the defendant's ex
wife stand. Yeah, that's nota good deal. That's not a good
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deal at all. All right.So the US House passed a Republican led
bill yesterday that would impose sanctions onthe Ice see the International Criminal Court after
its top prosecutor recommended war crime chargesagainst Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nenyahu. So
passed two hundred and forty seven toone five you had forty two Democrats cross
(10:16):
party lines to help the Republicans passthis bill. Yeah, this doesn't mean
a lot. I mean the statementthat Nittanyahu is a should be charged as
a war criminal. I tell youthere have been presidents that have been named
as war criminals by international organizations.No one pays attention, or at least
we don't. First of all,we're not even a member of the court.
(10:39):
Second of all, the sanctions,what are the sanctions going to be?
Well, they won't let anybody withouta visa or it takes a visa
to come into the United States.Says no, if you're a member of
the court or support the court orsanctions. I mean, they could,
for example, freeze bank accounts likethey did with Russia. There's a lot
of things they can do. Butit doesn't mean a whole lot. It
(11:00):
really doesn't. It's just a statement. And here is the problem. Not
that Nattayahu isn't doing horrible things bykeeping going in the war and he's maintaining
his premiership over and above anything else. That's really all he cares about is
stay in power. But to asBiden pointed out, to compare him to
the Hamas leaders who ordered the utterdestruction and the rape and the pillaging and
(11:26):
the murder of innocent civilians. Isvery different because Israel, at least it's
arguing, do you think it's targetingcivilians? That it doesn't have anything.
There's no military use for what Israelis doing. The whole point of Israel
is just to go in and killas many Palestinians. Do you buy that?
I don't. On the other hand, Hamas crossing the border, the
(11:50):
entire point was to take hostages andto kill as many Israelis as possible.
Big difference, and of course that'sall being conflated. Okay, let's just
move on. You know where Ifeel. AT and T customers could not
reach out to touch someone yesterday fora while. AT and T says it
(12:11):
has resolved an outage that left somecustomers in the dark. So the deal
was that there was a problem withinthe system that stopped AT and T customers
from calling people who have other charactercarriers or getting calls from people who have
other carriers. Interesting marketing ploy,don't you think you? And here here
is a question real quickly, okay, AT and T Neil, are you
(12:35):
an AT and T customer? Yes, because I'm through the company. Okay,
Amy, AT and T. Iam because it's the only place that
gives me service in my apartment.Wow, and AT and T Yes,
Actually Wow Kono and not me neither. I wouldn't touch AT and T.
Well, I don't get service.I didn't get service to Persian Palace anything
(12:56):
other than Verizon, and then assoon as I move and went to T
Mobile. So here's bottom line.I don't care about you guys. Listen,
it doesn't matter to me any ofus crying because you and Cono couldn't
get a hold of us. Yeah, that's true. It's not the end
of the world. You know,you deal, your deal. You can't
get hold of you. That's Godintending me not to get hold of you.
Okay, all right. Yolanda Sanchezwas shot in the town of Cotija,
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Mexico. She had governed as mayorsince September twenty one. This is
really coming on the heels of widespreadviolence against politicians, overshadowed the big general
election in Mexico that we just were, you know, talking about this past
this week saw two women run forthe presidency, so now and one one
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Shinebaum one. But the story hereis and it follows what I had said.
I think on Monday that a thirdof Mexico, a third of Mexico
is controlled by the cartels. Andthis woman mayor was kidnapped. First,
she spent three days being kidnapped,and the cartel told her people that kidnapped
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her on behalf of the cartel ormembers, uh, saying we're going to
let you go. All you haveto do is hand the security. This
is what she was mad or handthe security of the town over to state
police who were in the pay ofthe cartel, and she told to go
pound sand. They still let hergo. So federal security was involved and
(14:28):
didn't work. They still killed her. Can you imagine the security around Shinebaum.
It's almost going to be I wouldguess it's either close to or surpass
the Secret Service protection for the president. Well, I mean it's you're talking.
The cartel is military grade. Yeah, I mean, yeah, they
don't have training. No, it'snot like armed forces that are well trained.
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But you're right they have well,I mean they're animal. You might
be surprised how well trained. Maybelevels are maybe reconvicted Amanda Knox has been
convicted again of slander in a courtin Italy. The Italian court reconvicted her,
upholding the only conviction that is stillstanding tied to the brutal murder of
(15:16):
Amanda Knox's roommate in two thousand andseven. So the court sentenced Knox to
three years for slandering Patrick Lumumba,a Congolese bar owner. Knox is not
expected to serve any additional time sinceshe already served about four years before her
murder conviction was overturned. The judgesays, that's time served. Yeah,
I got two questions. Do weknow what she said about this guy,
(15:39):
Patrick la Mumba in terms of theslander? Yeah, I don't. I
don't. I don't why she namedhim while she was exhausted and confused during
an extensive police investigation, naming himas I guess complicit in the killing of
the roommate. May believe that's what? Yeah, Also, what is she
(16:00):
staying? What is she doing stayingin Italy? At what point do you
say goodbye to Italy while you stillhave a case pending After four years she
went to the court and spoke inItalian and rattled on, and so she
must love Italy. I can understandbut not doing jail time in Italy.
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Well, the food though, andthe prison even the prison food is fabulous
in Italy. Yeah, spaghetti everyday. Yeah, a little bit of
milanaise, those sautepe vegetables. Andthe wine is I'm not a wine drinker,
but it's very cheap. It's verygood. Yeah. It makes you
(16:47):
want to commit a crime. Itdoes, is there in Italy? Doesn't
it? All? Right? Panelof Advisors to the US Health Regulator,
and we talked a little bit aboutthis yesterday voted against a therapy based on
the party drug md M a uh. And this was primarily for patients with
post traumatic stress disorder, which isa shame. And this is a major
(17:10):
setback of you know, just thevery the tip, the very tiniest,
tiniest, you know, look intothe psychedelic treatment. Yeah, we talked
about this. We did this storyspecifically yesterday about using MDMA for post traumatic
stress disorder. And the big problemthis is the FDA. And as I
(17:30):
said, the FDA is not goingto prove anything in a double blind study,
which is you have one group thattakes some medication, one group that
is a placebo does not take themedication. The doctor's administrating, don't know
who gets it or not. Andthen they do the study with MDMA,
you know who has it. Youdon't go on a psychedelic trip and not
(17:51):
understand that you're on a psychedelic tripand the other people don't. So it's
it's there's really no controls And thatwas the part they cite that is a
problem and that you'll never have controlsand so based on the FDA, you'll
never have approval of this. Whydon't they just give them another drug instead
of a placebo? Why don't theygive them me edibles or something? Well?
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Because there what's what high is high? And it's just too you don't
get the same drug. What elseare you going to do other than MDMA
or no MDMA? So you're goingto compare MDMA to some other drug.
Is there going to be a psychedelicIs there going to be a hallucinogen that
screws everything up? You can't reallytest for this. All you can do
(18:33):
is anecdotally work for this. UhAnd I said that was a huge problem
yesterday. And I'm a huge believerin this too, although I have to
tell you when they said no,they said no. Part of Their denial
was that the FDA loved everybody involvedin the testing. All this is the
best test we've ever done. Welost you. Thank you so much.
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Keep those contraceptives flowing. Senate isgoing to vote today on leg that would
protect access to contraception at the nationallevel. In a letter, Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer called the overturning a Rowversus Wide one of the worst Supreme Court
decisions of modern times. The decisionallowed each state to pass their own abortion
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rights or restrictions, uprooting national protectionsfor the procedure. Yeah, I mean
this is a political move, Ithink. Yeah, I mean in light
of the fact, I mean thereare a couple of crazy senators or congress
people that say we have to restrictcontraception, right, not abortion contraception,
but I mean, come on,so this is simply to have them put
(19:38):
on the record, and just youknow, I wish the Senate would just
do something else other than, youknow, make these and both sides do
this. It's just crazy. Ithink there's a bill in the works in
one of the Republican and one ofthe Red states saying we're going to outlaw
penises. I mean, anything,you know, it could actually benefit a
(20:00):
Jewish back bill or to shorten Okay, the Wisconsin Attorney general filed charges against
three allies of Donald Trump. Theywere accused of taking part in the effort
to put forth a slate fake electorsand usurped the twenty twenty presidential election.
(20:22):
Yep, this was interesting. Thiswas a group and we talked about this
earlier at Cheesborough. Who and theseare lawyers too, for the most part,
who came up with this kakamamy schemethat said, we'll put together our
electors who will vote for Donald Trump, notwithstanding that that Biden won in Wisconsin.
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We're gonna overturn it. You can'tdo that. It's a crime.
Now, they argued in their defense, No, no, we didn't try
to overturn it. This was justin case the courts held that the election
was is fraudulent. So this wasjust the backup. Now, no one
bought that. So a couple ofthem already, uh, the ten fake
(21:10):
electors who did sign as quote electors, which they were not. Uh,
this avowed their attempt and they canyou imagine that it's part of a civil
settlement. You've got people who haveto on the record say yes, Joe
Biden is our president. Has havewe come to that? I mean,
(21:30):
it's insane. Well, how comethat in this particular case, the side
that was complaining about interference with theelection is trying to interfere with the election.
That's a very good point. That'sa that's a very It's like the
guy that's totally homophobic, but he'sinto dudes. Oh yeah, you see
(21:52):
that all the time. Yeah,you love it when you have a fundamentalists,
uh, Christian ministers, evangelists whoscream morality, who scream God and
scream family values, and they're allstripping eight year old boys, or a
lot of them are, I'll tellyou, at least when when you have
liberal priests and televangelists. I don'tknow how many there are out there who
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scream morality. They don't scream moralitywhile they're screwing around. They're less hypocritical.
I just think of those guys withthe wide stance or whatever you know,
that say that they're trying to youknow, put their foot under the
toilet, next to the stall orwhatever, trying to get someone's attention,
Like you got a why, yeah? Why? Needs? Who was the
congress person that got caught. Remember, but he said, I have a
(22:40):
wide stance. Yeah, white stands, bro. Yeah, you know what
it's It's not like you're parking aHummer in a compact space. Let's be
honest, Amy, let's do onemore as predicted. The interpreter did it.
The former interpretive for La Dodgers stars. Oh Tani has pleaded guilty to
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stealing millions from the star slugger,and he did it to pay off gambling
debts more than seventeen million dollars.Ye remember when he was accused of the
four million dollar theft. Originally thoseare the numbers. Otani said that he
had permission to do that, thatit was okay. Do you remember that,
(23:21):
Amy, I don't remember him eversaying. I think he said that
it was he knew about it.Well, his name was on I think
two million dollars of that original fourIn terms of the bank draft from what
I remember, Otani signed those draftsof five hundred thousand dollars each. You
want to look that up. Butnow now the guy forged or something,
(23:42):
and all I think, so,well, I don't know, you know
what you have to we have tolook that up to find out I may
have gotten this all wrong, whichis so highly unusual on this show.
But now it's seventeen million dollars.Otani is completely gone. The other way
is this avowed miss you, Missuharaand Miss O'Hara is looking at some serious
(24:03):
jail time like years. Well,you know, because it's the numb,
it's it's the it's the amount ofmoney we're talking about. That's I've talked
often with this with Wayne. Thereare two issues. Number one, the
crime itself. When you're dealing witha financial crime, so you've got the
underlying crime, and then the amountof money that was stolen. And once
you hit a certain level, manyou're looking you know, they're throwing the
(24:26):
book at you. Okay. It'skind of strange though, when you put
it right up against the Grossman casewhere she got what thirty four years for
murdering two boys. Well, he'snot gonna he could get up to thirty
years, he's not going to getthat. I doubt he's going to get
more than eight or ten, ismy guests, I'd like to know that
(24:48):
my calendar this one, all right, I'm guessing eight to ten years for
this, and when the when thesentencing comes down, we'll bring it up.
Or if I'm completely wrong, wewill bring it up. We have
to wait till October to find outthat is correct. Well, back in
the day, Ricky and Lucy hadto sleep in separate beds. But today
(25:11):
you can have a pregnant woman onthe box of Special K. Yay,
so Special K marketed to women bypromising they could lose weight by replacing two
meals a day with bowls of cereal. Remember that that was some years ago.
Well, now the cereal brand haspartnered with Molly Baz and she's a
(25:32):
cookbook authored by the Way and recentlythe star of a very buzzy ad for
lactation cookies, which sound yummy.How do cookies? Laugh take? Oh
you have to milk them. Yeah, yeah, and they have to they
have to be with child. Butman, it's a little complicated. What's
(25:55):
interesting about the story, if youread on, is this was originally on
a billboard digital billboard in Times Square. They had to pull that one down
immediately so many people got offended bythat a pregnant woman. I don't know
what's offensive about that. I don'teither. Oh, and the cookies apparently
are called areolios, very strong,very well done, very no I read
(26:18):
that that's lined as your so far, but good for her. I think
pregnant women are beautiful. I thinkbreastfeeding women are beautiful. And I don't
know what people are so freaked outabout the human forms on what the human
form is doing at a given time. Well, listen, I don't want
to see how many human forms areinvolved at that time. Naked picking up
(26:42):
the soap, I don't want tonaked at all, Like you fully clothed
on the front of a box ofcereal, to me is offensive. Yeah,
let's move on looking for a job. It's a little bit tougher than
it has been recently. The numberof openings in the US has gone down
for the second month in a row. There were still eight point zero six
(27:06):
million jobs available in April, butas of April there were an estimated one
point two available jobs for every jobseeker, which sounds not too bad,
but it's the lowest ratio since Juneof twenty twenty one. This as just
a simple warning to Michael Krozer andanybody else. Every word of this story
(27:30):
is horrible. Giant, venomous flyingspiders with four inch legs are real,
and they're going to potentially invade NewYork, the New York area sometimes this
year. The only good thing aboutthis story is potentially invade the New York
area sometime this year, and thenNew Yorkers will claim how it's the best
(27:53):
thing in the world because New Yorkis the best city. That's why they
get the biggest, best spiders.Yeah, it's the old fly venomous spider
story. I'm getting so sick ofthese, and no more of these in
the news for a while, okay, I mean there's just too many of
these stories. Sick of them.You know, we've got to deal with
the giant, venomous flying Joro spiderinvading the city. Yeah, is that
(28:17):
not the heteus four inch legs.It's not that big four inch legs you
Okay, Yeah, they may bereally small because Daddy long legs are small
and they have strangely enough long legs. I included the photo. These guys
are a little more substantial. Theyhave like yellow legs, you know,
and the people and you know,somebody is sitting there and you know,
(28:40):
holding it, and I don't knowhow venomous the venom is. Well,
I can tell you, Bill,because we went and did an out and
about at the spider pavilion at theNatural History Museum. So I'm kind of
obsessed with spiders now, and Ichecked on it. These spiders will only
bite if they're cornered, and eventhen their fangs likely wouldn't be big enough
to pierce human skins. So theyare venomous. But story, it's just
(29:06):
such a stupid story. Then,well, but the headlines, it's it's
end of the world National inquiry headlines. You know what, amy what you
call your little spider friends and yousay, can I borrow one for the
night? And you you spoon itthe whole night and you tell us no.
It says that it would only biteif it's cornered. I think spooning
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it's cornered. Wow. Have mentold you when you tried to spoon them
that it felt like they were beingcornered? Maybe? Okay, that's a
new verb that I don't I'm notaware of. But to be cornered?
Wow, we learned a lot today. Yeah, all right, KF I
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