June 6, 2024 • 31 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. 1st fatal human case of bird flu subtype confirmed in Mexico: WHO. “Right to Contraception Act” votes fall short. What was in the bill. Israeli airstrike kills dozens sheltering in UN school, Gaza officials say. California bars and nightclubs will need to offer drug testing kits next month. FDA vaccine advisers vote unanimously in favor of updated Covid-19 shot for Fall. Workers at TJ Maxx and Marshalls are wearing police-like body cameras… here’s how it’s going. TikTok faces cyberattack targeting CNN and Paris Hilton.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I am six forty. 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.
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It says that it would only biteif it's cornered. I think spoony,
No, it's cornered. Wow.Have men told you when you tried
to spoon them that it felt likethey were being cornered? Maybe? Okay?
And now handle on the news,ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
All right, another day another eightycents because we work at iHeart instead
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of a dollar. Good morning,everybody. It is a Thursday morning?
Is it thoughtful Thursday? Have weaccepted that as the moniker for Thursday?
We haven't had a lot of pushback. No, we haven't, because nobody
really cares and there's nothing really good. Hump Day is hump day that one
works. Foody Friday works only becauseof us, Neil and the rest of
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it. Magnificent Monday, Munificent Monday. We talked about that. Uh Tuesday,
you know, Taco Tuesday. Ofcourse at worst. Anyway, it
doesn't matter. I keep on doingall that let me say a quick helload
everybody before we get started, becausethere's stuff going on to say the least.
First, let me talk say helloto Ann this morning morning and yeah
it was first. Thanks. Yeah. Rolling around you see like we do
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commercials this run of the show,you know, different times, different places.
Uh neil the morning, good morning. How about thrush Thursday? Thrush
Thursday? Yeah? Isn't that likeit's like a bird or you turn red
your face talking about the thrush inyour mouth? Is there rush in your
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mouth? Yeah? Thrush? Isn'tthat like when you have a yeast infection
in your mouth? I don't thinkso, I don't think so. You
have to look that one up.Thrush is your I think you turn red
and your face as a thrush anda bird, and I don't know.
I don't know the other one.Maybe you're right. It's a yeast infection
caused by an overgrowth of the Candidafungus and can affect your mouth and some
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other place. So you want tostay away from certain kinds of sexual activity
with people you don't know? Isthat saying yeah, you know what?
You're welcome, Bill, You learnedsomething I did? No, no,
no, you I did. Idid not know that. Thank you,
Neil. I appreciate that. IfI ever get asked that one on Jeopardy,
that's a winner. Uh and Amy, good morning? Oh hi,
Hi you did. I was justI normally don't listen to the show,
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your show, because i'm as youknow, I'm preparing, although I like
it the bits and pieces. Ido listen. This morning, just before
you bailed out and locked out,you did that story about zinc oxide,
the white zinc that cream that yousee on people's noses if you ever went
to the beach. Yeah, thatwas really weird. And I had a
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question. And of course you didn'teven talk about the political fallout of that,
and that is black people using zincoxide and walking around in white face,
and I thought that I've never heardof any backlash on that. You're
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right, we didn't talk about that. Well, man, there you are.
You ever used zinc oxide? Yournose looks so stupid and it's usually
just on your nose too. Well, the gal that I talked to with
the Environmental Working Group said that someforms of it are better now, so
it's not quite so like you know, it didn't look like a like es
Nick said a lifeguard of the nineteeneighties. Yea, well, those are
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great. All right, let's seewhat's going on. Oh today D Day,
And at seven o'clock, I'm goingto share some information about D Day
and share with you a personal experienceabout D Day. Not that I was,
there were family members, but oneof the most moving experiences of my
entire life was at Normandy overlooking thebeaches of Normandy for the attack happened on
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January sixth, and a couple ofinteresting facts about that X story. If
you ever have the chance, andpeople out of France all the time,
you know, it's one of thosethings. And very few people go to
Normandy. It's just not a touristplace. And I will share with you
the one time I went. AndI will never ever forget that day for
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the rest of my life. AndI will share that with you. And
that's coming up at seven o'clock.Okay, all right, when you get
paperwork here and the stories here andoh where the hell is? Okay,
here we go. Stories got himso organized? Who's so damn organized?
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I haven't even put in my bagelyet. Okay, that's okay, you
guys ready to do it? Sure? Sure, ohcno, did I say
good morning to you today? Oh? Oh yeah, it's okay, you
know, I forgot kno. Andnow that's part for the course. All
right, let's do it now.Handle on the news on this Thursday,
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June sixth, eighty years D Day, following the anniversary of D Day,
Amy Neil and me lead story.Well, and I don't know why this
is such a big deal. Ishould ask Jim this story. And this
is the first fatal human case ofbird flu a subtype, confirmed in Mexico
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according to the WHO. And Ihad no idea that the Who, one
of the best rock bands in theworld, why they got involved in health
issues. But they did because theycare, because they care. Also who
WHO is also the World Health Organization, But that's besides the point. Anyway,
it's this guy died in Mexico,and WHO said human infection with the
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bird flu has the potential for highpublic health impact. The current risk the
general population is low. I thinkis this Are they making comparison between this
and COVID? Oh do you remember? I mean they were scared. Although
very early on when COVID hit,you heard the health authorities go berserk saying
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this is bad, bad stuff whileit was still in China, and if
I remember correctly, it was thereaction was overwhelming. I'm wondering if there's
anything close to that, because thisis a sub variant they haven't seen before
of the bird flu and switching itover. What's what happened with COVID it?
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What's the world I'm looking for whenit transfers to human zoa something or
other. When it you've got animaldisease, look it up. You'll probably
find it starts with zoo No,it's it's zeriosity zoootronics. Uh, no
idea what that word is. ButH one N one also had concern.
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You remember the swine pig swine fluor whatever that had concern. Nothing has
been like COVID though, No,no, no, no, no.
But but the scare is, andwe talked to Jim. The scare is,
you know, you have a newvariant comes up, or a new
virus that flips over and goes intohumans. Now you've got a real problem
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because we don't have immunity to it. And look how long it took to
deal with COVID and how many peoplein the world died, Over a million
die just in the United states.By the way, it's it's zoonotic viral
disease, zoonautic, not zoiotic.Is it not zoriosity? What is it
transferred in the mouth? It isthrush Thursday. Wow. Wow, I
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don't think so. I'm trying tomake it. I'm trying to make fetch
stick. Yeah, fetch stick.Okay. Now, you never get that.
That's forever. That's for Sometimes Ido stuff just for Kno. Okay,
yeah, I would never get that, even when you explained it to
me. I wouldn't get that.Did it have to do with like a
punk rock band or something? No? Mean Girls? Mean Girls? No,
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I never saw Mean Girls. It'sgood movie. Yeah, it's just
right here. No right to contraception, at least not for now. Democrats
forced a Senate vote on whether tostart working on legislation that would codify the
right to contraception. It needed sixtyvotes, but it didn't pass because the
vote was fifty one thirty nine.Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer then changed his
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vote to ah, it was aprocedural move, so he can bring it
up again later. Yeah, thisis a one political move. This has
absolutely no influence on anything that's goingto happen. What the Democrats want to
do is they brought this up justso a vote is going to be taken,
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and it puts the senators on therecord so the attack can be you
are against contraception because the weight theRoe v. Wade opinion and the state's
really going nuts on limiting abortion.It is that has really affected women voters.
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I mean that has engaged and enrageda lot of women voters, and
the Democrats are relying big time onthat. This is just another move towards
that. Let's put it on therecord you're against contraception. Well it really
doesn't matter. I mean, youknow what state doesn't allow contra reception?
Well, nobody. Every state allowscontraception. So I all politics. This
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one is on the Democrats. Anotherheartbreaker, dozens of people have been killed
multiple others injured in an overnight Israeliairstrike on a United Nations run school there
in central Gaza. Now I havea question here, and that is I
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mean, it is horrific. Israelsays. The reason they attacked this school
is it was basically a facility thathoused Hamas hamaus Hamas operatives. It was
effectively a small base inside the building. And so what does Israel do at
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this point? Does it not targetcivilian buildings? Saying and I don't know
if it's true or not, butI tend to believe it, saying that
you it's a military compound inside ofa civilian building. So what do they
do? Well, you can't targetthose buildings. That means the war.
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The war is over right now andHamas cannot be attacked. What do you
do with this? This is whatyou do. This is the problem with
fighting against terrorists. They're not playingby any of the rules. No,
I understand, But whole world runningthis school if with known terrorists, yeah,
bumpering down as uh, you know, as a military how are they
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not aware of that? Well,and we haven't heard they. I haven't
heard one word from the UN sayingyou bet Hamas was in that building.
Nope, nothing as far as theUN is concerned. It's just indiscriminate bombing
by Israel, just taking out civiliantarget after civilian target. To them,
Hamas doesn't exist. There are noKamas militants. It's only Israel attacking these
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buildings, infrastructure, hospitals, schools. That's it. It's so weird now,
Why doesn't Hamas go out in theopen and fight like real men fight
because it would be wiped out inten seconds and it knows it. Oh
no, this is the play forthem, This is the terrorist play,
of course. And so what doyou do? What does Israel do?
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Do they? Yeah, nobody?Politically, what do they do? You'll
never get Hamas ever admitting that itwas that they kept militants in those facilities.
Ever, that just doesn't exist.The world buys it. The talking
about thirty six thousand Palestinians, theones that have been killed, and tragically
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they're all innocent. They're all womenand children and innocent men. There are
no militants in Gaza. You knowwhat's sad. And I've asked this of
people and no one can respond anyother way. But the truth, and
that is, if October seventh didn'ttake place, there would be peace,
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or at least there would not bewell, okay to the Palestinian side.
Now I'm going to take the otherside, and that is they're saying that
the occupation has gone on since nineteensixty seven on the West Bank Gaza.
It happened, Yeah, maybe sixtyseven, but really, when Hamas took
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over in two thousand and six,and they say, we have no future,
we have no future, We'll neverhave a country, and we're willing
to die for it. And youknow, you can't argue that because they're
right, especially now with the Israeligovernment, the hardliners, they're not gonna
let they're not gonna allow it toa two state system. They're not So
what a Palazan? What do thePalestinians do? They say, we want
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a country, then you got Hamasthat doesn't agree with the two state system
because Israel doesn't exist. If Hamastakes over control of that area, than
every Jew dies. What do youdo with that? And I don't know
the answer, but I'd like ita little bit more even handed, even
though I'm on one side of it. Clearly, you know there is another
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side in the world of the UN, the international community, the world of
the Arabs. There is no otherside. Doesn't exist. There's no fighting,
there are no militants. It's allIsrael indiscriminately bombing civilians. Waking up
in the morning, and you've gota couple of general say, oh,
you know what, let's wipe outthat hospital because we had nothing better to
do. We'll do it after breakfast. Anyway, let's move on. I'm
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trying to turn my page. Yeah, well, story for Amy. Another
line of defense against date rape drugs. Bars and nightclubs in California are going
to be required to offer drug testingkits when a new law goes into effects
starting July first. It was passedby the legislature last year. The idea
is to protect consumers from becoming victimsof date rape drugs and roofies. So
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anywhere that sells beer and wine liquorwill need to offer drug testing kits and
then prominently display signage saying the drugtesting kits are available, and they're going
to need to be available either freeof charge or for a reasonable prices.
All right, that makes sense,all right. Another new version of COVID
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nineteen vaccine will probably be coming thisfall. So you have the US Food
and Drug Administration. They have acommittee of independent Advisors. They voted unanimously
yesterday to recommend that the agency telvaccine manufacturers to update the COVID nineteen shots
so they'll be more effective against theJN one lineage of the new coronavirus.
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I don't know, is that thethat the flirty one. What do you
mean the flurry one? Flirt isthe new sub variant, the forward.
Okay, you know this is JimKinney brought this up. But we are
moving very quickly into covid being endemic. It'll be like the flu shot every
year, trying to figure out howto catch up to the variant. Be
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said. The virus mutates like allviruses do, and the flu virus mutates,
and I get a flu shot everyyear, and sometimes they guess right,
sometimes they don't. But the fludoesn't kill you, well it does.
It kills a lot of people,Yeah, it does. It's not
people don't understand how dangerous the flucan be. I mean tens of thousands
of people die of the flu everyyear, particularly young people, people that
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are to compromise immune systems, elderlypeople. So anyway, that's another vaccines
available, and I'm getting it.I'm getting it. I believe in vaccines.
It's not that complicated. And youknow why, because I'm autistic and
I'm already past that point. Ithink we don't have to worry about me
getting autism. Focus on the visectorand then the vaccines. One of Trump's
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trials has been put on hold.A Georgia appeals court has halted the election
conspiracy case against Donald Trump and severalof his co defendants. Apparently they need
to decide whether the trial can moveforward with da Fani Willis in place.
Yeah, she is a moron,She is an idiot. This is one
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of those cases in which, eventhough there may not be a direct conflict
that involves she hired a prosecutor,an outside council at five hundred thousand dollars
to run the case for the DA'soffice. Didn't choose anybody within the DA's
office. And she ends up stoopingthis guy and admits to stooping this guy.
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Now they claim the stopping happened afterhe was hired, and there's all
kinds of issues there, but justthe appearance of this conflict, resign get
off this case. She won't doit. And she's a Democrat and wants
to nail Donald Trump. She puther whatever situation that she's personally involved with,
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above nailing Donald Trump. And they'reprosecuting Donald Trump. Now, if
it was a Republican who was apro Trumpist or pro Trump, I mean,
you know, obviously they would doeverything. Well, they would prosecute
even but this is just crazy making. So is she going to be disqualified?
Who the hell knows. But I'lltell you where the win is here
for Trump, and I mean massivewin. Nothing is going to be decided
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until next year. Nothing. Bythe way, this is the state case.
It doesn't mean that Trump is offthe hook if he wins. If
he wins the election, he's stillon the hook for this case after his
term is over. This would haveprobably happened before the term was over.
He could have been convicted again inthis case for election interfering. But she
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blew it. She screwed the poochon this Well, there's no evidence of
her screwing the poach just no,no, she no. The only evidence
is she screwed the prosecutor that shehired the heart Wants with the heart Wants
Bill. Yeah, especially when youhave a profile case, high profile case
like this. All right, retailgiant TJ Max, you've got marshals and
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there's gonna be more and more.Home Goods is said to be doing this
as well. They're equipping some oftheir store employees with body cams. These
are identical basically to what law enforcementused now and they say this is to
keep customers and employees safe. Thesurvey that they were taking of major chains
said that this is all done bythe National Retail Federation last, So,
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I mean, who is arguing withthat it's an invasion of privacy. You
already have cameras all over the store. No, there's no privacy in a
public no. No, no.But the point is it's, you know,
if this can cut down on shoplifting, I think that's great. Okay,
I'm going to tell you something,and I truly believe this. This
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is not stunty or to try toget a reaction. I really believe that
it's going to become the norm forpeople to be wearing cameras on their person
when they're out in public. Itend to agree because we have no any
of their cars now, and Ithink that's the only way you're going to
be able to protect yourself. Andyou'll have one on the front and one
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on the back. Yeah, andthat's what people are going to be doing
to be safe. Yep, you'llhave they have dash cams, have body
cams, they'll have ass cams.Okay, some backwards, don't ask where
the camera is. That's also correct. Yeah, but you'll have to have
it surgically removed. That's correct.Well, we got a leak this.
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We saw the launch of the BoeingStarliner yesterday, which was spectacular if you
ask me. Uh. And they'reon their way to the International Space Station
is supposed to get there and doctortoday. But NASA put out a tweet
or an X last night saying twomore helium leaks had been detected. There
was a helium leak detected before thelaunch. They said, eh, that's
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okay. Helium is used in spacecraftthruster systems that allow the thrusters to fire.
It's not combustible and it's not toxic. So the astronauts apparently found out
about it before they went to sleeplast night. NASA said, hey,
you guys, go to sleep.We're going to keep monitoring it. Yeah,
there's no problem. And then allof a sudden they discovered there was
that helium leak. Not because thesensor is because all of a sudden,
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one of the astronauts began speaking ina very high squeaky voice. Good night.
What was that? I said,good night? Uh? Oh you
know what they knew? I realizedthat the Boeing Starliner is a different division
than their planes and all. Butyou know you want to be the astronaut
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going up on a Boeing spacecraft ofany kind. Well, NASA is overseeing
this one, although you know there'san argument there too, NASA overseeing to
the extent that it used to.I don't know, I don't know,
all right, just a quick reminder. I do this every year, and
that is I amc the LA LawyersPhilharmonic and it is something well Gary Green,
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my friend who founded it, andit is lawyers and judges who play.
I mean, this is world classmusic. These guys should have been
professional musicians, but they wanted tomake a living, so they're lawyers,
their judges. They and this isthe orchestra that they have. And every
year. This is at the WaltDisney Concert Hall Saturday night, June twenty
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two. I'm seeing it, soif you'd like to go, and it's
always fun. This year it's I'mgonna have some stuff from Mary Poppins because
Richard Sherman, who has been theremany times, he and his brother wrote
Mary Poppins did the music as wellas many many Disney songs. Incredible songwriter.
So it is Saturday evening June twentytwo, and it is the LA
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Lawyers and the LA Lawyers or thechorus that is also attached to it.
It's an incredible evening. And keepin mind this is the Lawyers and the
chorus that you'll be listening to.Baby check Baby, check baby, and
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this is how they always start themusic at the LA Lawyers concert. So
it's a twenty second see I Idid not see. That's a little shtick.
June twenty second. Go to LALawyers phil as In Philharmonic LA lawyersphil
dot org and I'd love to seeyou there. It's so worth it to
go. It is a charity.It benefits those who can't afford legal services,
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which is everybody, and it providesscholarships to people in the for school,
et cetera. It's a really agreat organization and it's fun to watch.
It's fun to watch lawyers. I'llget together and not sue each other.
Okay, guys ready to do it? Just lower their rates lawyers,
instead of having to have a charityto help people afford it and stuff.
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Why don't you just lower your rates? Why would I ever do that?
Why do you think you go tolaw School for to lower your rates please,
Neil, I have been with Billmultiple times. It really is a
wonderful evening. By the way.Yeah, well, thank you for that.
I appreciate it. Okay, guys, let's do it finish up handle
on the news with Amy, Neiland me. All Right, Wall Street
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favorite artificial intelligence darling NA video iscontinuing to just swell and swell and swell
as people get very excited. Theyare the AI chip maker and they rows
what three point zero one nine trilliondollars yesterday and that nudges them just ever
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so slightly past Apple, which isat two point ninety nine trillion, And
boy, they catch it with theright time chip manufacturers. That creates the
chips for virtually every AI application outthere, which is now coming to computers.
That's the whole next thing is computershaving the ability to use AI.
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That's going to be the next generationalthing. They still are just a hair
behind Microsoft on that at three pointpretty ipressive stuff. Yeah, I mean
that getting into mind boggling right numbers. What's in a name A lot?
When it comes to a super sensitivecity council, La City Council has declined
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a donation of two police dogs aftera city leader raised concerns that the dogs
had been trained by a company thatshares its name with a Nazi military hideout
used by Hitler. The dogs arepaid for dollar donation Rearside County company Alderhorse
International, was donating them. SoAlderhorse apparently is it means eagle's nest in
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German. But it is also thename of the Nazi bunker used by Hitler
during World War Two. Yeah,and the guy who runs and said,
oh no, no, no,this has nothing to do with the Nazis.
Why have a name that? Whatthe name of Hitler's bunker? Why
would you do that? I mean, why don't you just call it Adolph's
Dog Service. Yeah, but thename in German doesn't mean Adolph's Bunker.
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No, but it is used.But it is used at that for that's
been to Germany. They've wiped outany reference. They've made it illegally they
have we haven't no, but theystill use this name in businesses there because
it's a that I don't know that, I don't know on I don't know
too. It actually is referencing aspecific breed dog as well. By that
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I didn't know that either, andEagles Nest Dog. The La City Council
drove their VW's and sat around theirKrupps coffeemaker to talk about this too.
All right, But all I'm sayingis why that's not even politically brilliant,
you know, just why would younot have an American division of a company,
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or why would you call it this? I just think when you've got
presidents of you know, Ivy Leagueschools coming out saying that anti Semitism,
there's a time for it, weshould be focusing on that rather than the
name that. Well, we aredoing both, all right now, where
you and I disagree, okay?And by the way, is your favorite
song out of Borat, I'd throwthe Jews down the well. I like
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it in the original Hebrew. Itadds a little to it, but you
know in English it's okay, yeah, okay. So the organizers of the
twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics reached foror not outside outside the sports world for
their new chief executive. But thisis kind of interesting. They hired a
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retired US Army lieutenant general who servedin the White House as chief of Staff
for the Federal Emergency Management Agency andnow will be a part of the twenty
twenty eight Summer Olympics. Yeah,and he's a logistics expert his entire career,
which makes all the sense in theworld. And hopefully that the LA
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Olympics ends up making some money forboth the US Olympics organization as well as
the IOOC did last time, didlast time, the only two times Olympics
have ever ever ever made money innineteen thirty two LA Olympics, nineteen eighty
four LA Olympics, and now we'relooking at twenty twenty eight LA Olympics the
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first time that a city gets itfor the third time. So yeah,
yeah, we're going to have toprior to the Olympics. We're going to
do something called homeless tossing. Yohyeah, yeah, great, I mean,
no question about it. They're goingto be sweeping that under the rug.
They're going to cover up all thegraffiti, the filth, the human
waste. It'll be great for theten minutes the Olympics are here. I
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think it's ten days, isn't it? Is that how long? The Olympics
ten minutes, ten days? Andthen there's stuff that no one pays attention
to you got these phenomenal events thateverybody goes to, gymnastics for example,
and then you have events that weirdstuff that no one's ever heard of,
like curly Winter Olympics, and thatis my favorite sport. Here's just literally
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rock being gone down and then theytake the brooms and sweet sweep it up
and they get that and they getthose teams from janitors organizations. You know
that this is my thing. Ithink you want to add excitement flip them.
Yeah, you can get a rockto slide on eister the Winter Olympics,
try and do it on concrete duringthe Summer Olympics. There's a sport.
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There's a sport also my favorite oneI love. I love the three
hundred and forty pound Bulgarian women thatdo the shot put those That is an
exciting sport. Today. I throwmy husband. I throw husband Vetti fod
Okay, all right, guys,going to get to the Flavor Flavor story.
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No we're not, Oh Flavor Flavorstrying to try to save its red
Lobster basically by going and ordering everythingon the menu. Yeah, he's because
he is a nut for red lobster, and he's doing everything he can to
save Red Lobster. Good for him. I like red lobster, cheesy bread,
very strong. Let's go yeah beforeit goes away. Yeah, we'll
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do have a show party there.I try to save red Lobster. Yeah,
save red Lobster. Not bad.You know what, Neil, you
put this one together as all makesthe T shirts and the hats. Okay,
little flavor, flavor Okay, wewill be will be back kf I
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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.
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It says that it would only biteif it's cornered. I think spoony,
No, it's cornered. Wow.Have men told you when you tried
to spoon them that it felt likethey were being cornered? Maybe? Okay?
And now handle on the news,ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
All right, another day another eightycents because we work at iHeart instead
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of a dollar. Good morning,everybody. It is a Thursday morning?
Is it thoughtful Thursday? Have weaccepted that as the moniker for Thursday?
We haven't had a lot of pushback. No, we haven't, because nobody
really cares and there's nothing really good. Hump Day is hump day that one
works. Foody Friday works only becauseof us, Neil and the rest of
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it. Magnificent Monday, Munificent Monday. We talked about that. Uh Tuesday,
you know, Taco Tuesday. Ofcourse at worst. Anyway, it
doesn't matter. I keep on doingall that let me say a quick helload
everybody before we get started, becausethere's stuff going on to say the least.
First, let me talk say helloto Ann this morning morning and yeah
it was first. Thanks. Yeah. Rolling around you see like we do
(01:38):
commercials this run of the show,you know, different times, different places.
Uh neil the morning, good morning. How about thrush Thursday? Thrush
Thursday? Yeah? Isn't that likeit's like a bird or you turn red
your face talking about the thrush inyour mouth? Is there rush in your
(02:00):
mouth? Yeah? Thrush? Isn'tthat like when you have a yeast infection
in your mouth? I don't thinkso, I don't think so. You
have to look that one up.Thrush is your I think you turn red
and your face as a thrush anda bird, and I don't know.
I don't know the other one.Maybe you're right. It's a yeast infection
caused by an overgrowth of the Candidafungus and can affect your mouth and some
(02:22):
other place. So you want tostay away from certain kinds of sexual activity
with people you don't know? Isthat saying yeah, you know what?
You're welcome, Bill, You learnedsomething I did? No, no,
no, you I did. Idid not know that. Thank you,
Neil. I appreciate that. IfI ever get asked that one on Jeopardy,
that's a winner. Uh and Amy, good morning? Oh hi,
Hi you did. I was justI normally don't listen to the show,
(02:45):
your show, because i'm as youknow, I'm preparing, although I like
it the bits and pieces. Ido listen. This morning, just before
you bailed out and locked out,you did that story about zinc oxide,
the white zinc that cream that yousee on people's noses if you ever went
to the beach. Yeah, thatwas really weird. And I had a
(03:06):
question. And of course you didn'teven talk about the political fallout of that,
and that is black people using zincoxide and walking around in white face,
and I thought that I've never heardof any backlash on that. You're
(03:29):
right, we didn't talk about that. Well, man, there you are.
You ever used zinc oxide? Yournose looks so stupid and it's usually
just on your nose too. Well, the gal that I talked to with
the Environmental Working Group said that someforms of it are better now, so
it's not quite so like you know, it didn't look like a like es
Nick said a lifeguard of the nineteeneighties. Yea, well, those are
(03:51):
great. All right, let's seewhat's going on. Oh today D Day,
And at seven o'clock, I'm goingto share some information about D Day
and share with you a personal experienceabout D Day. Not that I was,
there were family members, but oneof the most moving experiences of my
entire life was at Normandy overlooking thebeaches of Normandy for the attack happened on
(04:17):
January sixth, and a couple ofinteresting facts about that X story. If
you ever have the chance, andpeople out of France all the time,
you know, it's one of thosethings. And very few people go to
Normandy. It's just not a touristplace. And I will share with you
the one time I went. AndI will never ever forget that day for
(04:40):
the rest of my life. AndI will share that with you. And
that's coming up at seven o'clock.Okay, all right, when you get
paperwork here and the stories here andoh where the hell is? Okay,
here we go. Stories got himso organized? Who's so damn organized?
(05:03):
I haven't even put in my bagelyet. Okay, that's okay, you
guys ready to do it? Sure? Sure, ohcno, did I say
good morning to you today? Oh? Oh yeah, it's okay, you
know, I forgot kno. Andnow that's part for the course. All
right, let's do it now.Handle on the news on this Thursday,
(05:26):
June sixth, eighty years D Day, following the anniversary of D Day,
Amy Neil and me lead story.Well, and I don't know why this
is such a big deal. Ishould ask Jim this story. And this
is the first fatal human case ofbird flu a subtype, confirmed in Mexico
(05:53):
according to the WHO. And Ihad no idea that the Who, one
of the best rock bands in theworld, why they got involved in health
issues. But they did because theycare, because they care. Also who
WHO is also the World Health Organization, But that's besides the point. Anyway,
it's this guy died in Mexico,and WHO said human infection with the
(06:18):
bird flu has the potential for highpublic health impact. The current risk the
general population is low. I thinkis this Are they making comparison between this
and COVID? Oh do you remember? I mean they were scared. Although
very early on when COVID hit,you heard the health authorities go berserk saying
(06:41):
this is bad, bad stuff whileit was still in China, and if
I remember correctly, it was thereaction was overwhelming. I'm wondering if there's
anything close to that, because thisis a sub variant they haven't seen before
of the bird flu and switching itover. What's what happened with COVID it?
(07:04):
What's the world I'm looking for whenit transfers to human zoa something or
other. When it you've got animaldisease, look it up. You'll probably
find it starts with zoo No,it's it's zeriosity zoootronics. Uh, no
idea what that word is. ButH one N one also had concern.
(07:25):
You remember the swine pig swine fluor whatever that had concern. Nothing has
been like COVID though, No,no, no, no, no.
But but the scare is, andwe talked to Jim. The scare is,
you know, you have a newvariant comes up, or a new
virus that flips over and goes intohumans. Now you've got a real problem
(07:47):
because we don't have immunity to it. And look how long it took to
deal with COVID and how many peoplein the world died, Over a million
die just in the United states.By the way, it's it's zoonotic viral
disease, zoonautic, not zoiotic.Is it not zoriosity? What is it
transferred in the mouth? It isthrush Thursday. Wow. Wow, I
(08:13):
don't think so. I'm trying tomake it. I'm trying to make fetch
stick. Yeah, fetch stick.Okay. Now, you never get that.
That's forever. That's for Sometimes Ido stuff just for Kno. Okay,
yeah, I would never get that, even when you explained it to
me. I wouldn't get that.Did it have to do with like a
punk rock band or something? No? Mean Girls? Mean Girls? No,
(08:35):
I never saw Mean Girls. It'sgood movie. Yeah, it's just
right here. No right to contraception, at least not for now. Democrats
forced a Senate vote on whether tostart working on legislation that would codify the
right to contraception. It needed sixtyvotes, but it didn't pass because the
vote was fifty one thirty nine.Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer then changed his
(08:58):
vote to ah, it was aprocedural move, so he can bring it
up again later. Yeah, thisis a one political move. This has
absolutely no influence on anything that's goingto happen. What the Democrats want to
do is they brought this up justso a vote is going to be taken,
(09:20):
and it puts the senators on therecord so the attack can be you
are against contraception because the weight theRoe v. Wade opinion and the state's
really going nuts on limiting abortion.It is that has really affected women voters.
(09:43):
I mean that has engaged and enrageda lot of women voters, and
the Democrats are relying big time onthat. This is just another move towards
that. Let's put it on therecord you're against contraception. Well it really
doesn't matter. I mean, youknow what state doesn't allow contra reception?
Well, nobody. Every state allowscontraception. So I all politics. This
(10:07):
one is on the Democrats. Anotherheartbreaker, dozens of people have been killed
multiple others injured in an overnight Israeliairstrike on a United Nations run school there
in central Gaza. Now I havea question here, and that is I
(10:28):
mean, it is horrific. Israelsays. The reason they attacked this school
is it was basically a facility thathoused Hamas hamaus Hamas operatives. It was
effectively a small base inside the building. And so what does Israel do at
(10:48):
this point? Does it not targetcivilian buildings? Saying and I don't know
if it's true or not, butI tend to believe it, saying that
you it's a military compound inside ofa civilian building. So what do they
do? Well, you can't targetthose buildings. That means the war.
(11:11):
The war is over right now andHamas cannot be attacked. What do you
do with this? This is whatyou do. This is the problem with
fighting against terrorists. They're not playingby any of the rules. No,
I understand, But whole world runningthis school if with known terrorists, yeah,
bumpering down as uh, you know, as a military how are they
(11:35):
not aware of that? Well,and we haven't heard they. I haven't
heard one word from the UN sayingyou bet Hamas was in that building.
Nope, nothing as far as theUN is concerned. It's just indiscriminate bombing
by Israel, just taking out civiliantarget after civilian target. To them,
Hamas doesn't exist. There are noKamas militants. It's only Israel attacking these
(12:01):
buildings, infrastructure, hospitals, schools. That's it. It's so weird now,
Why doesn't Hamas go out in theopen and fight like real men fight
because it would be wiped out inten seconds and it knows it. Oh
no, this is the play forthem, This is the terrorist play,
of course. And so what doyou do? What does Israel do?
(12:22):
Do they? Yeah, nobody?Politically, what do they do? You'll
never get Hamas ever admitting that itwas that they kept militants in those facilities.
Ever, that just doesn't exist.The world buys it. The talking
about thirty six thousand Palestinians, theones that have been killed, and tragically
(12:46):
they're all innocent. They're all womenand children and innocent men. There are
no militants in Gaza. You knowwhat's sad. And I've asked this of
people and no one can respond anyother way. But the truth, and
that is, if October seventh didn'ttake place, there would be peace,
(13:07):
or at least there would not bewell, okay to the Palestinian side.
Now I'm going to take the otherside, and that is they're saying that
the occupation has gone on since nineteensixty seven on the West Bank Gaza.
It happened, Yeah, maybe sixtyseven, but really, when Hamas took
(13:28):
over in two thousand and six,and they say, we have no future,
we have no future, We'll neverhave a country, and we're willing
to die for it. And youknow, you can't argue that because they're
right, especially now with the Israeligovernment, the hardliners, they're not gonna
let they're not gonna allow it toa two state system. They're not So
what a Palazan? What do thePalestinians do? They say, we want
(13:50):
a country, then you got Hamasthat doesn't agree with the two state system
because Israel doesn't exist. If Hamastakes over control of that area, than
every Jew dies. What do youdo with that? And I don't know
the answer, but I'd like ita little bit more even handed, even
though I'm on one side of it. Clearly, you know there is another
(14:13):
side in the world of the UN, the international community, the world of
the Arabs. There is no otherside. Doesn't exist. There's no fighting,
there are no militants. It's allIsrael indiscriminately bombing civilians. Waking up
in the morning, and you've gota couple of general say, oh,
you know what, let's wipe outthat hospital because we had nothing better to
do. We'll do it after breakfast. Anyway, let's move on. I'm
(14:43):
trying to turn my page. Yeah, well, story for Amy. Another
line of defense against date rape drugs. Bars and nightclubs in California are going
to be required to offer drug testingkits when a new law goes into effects
starting July first. It was passedby the legislature last year. The idea
is to protect consumers from becoming victimsof date rape drugs and roofies. So
(15:07):
anywhere that sells beer and wine liquorwill need to offer drug testing kits and
then prominently display signage saying the drugtesting kits are available, and they're going
to need to be available either freeof charge or for a reasonable prices.
All right, that makes sense,all right. Another new version of COVID
(15:33):
nineteen vaccine will probably be coming thisfall. So you have the US Food
and Drug Administration. They have acommittee of independent Advisors. They voted unanimously
yesterday to recommend that the agency telvaccine manufacturers to update the COVID nineteen shots
so they'll be more effective against theJN one lineage of the new coronavirus.
(15:58):
I don't know, is that thethat the flirty one. What do you
mean the flurry one? Flirt isthe new sub variant, the forward.
Okay, you know this is JimKinney brought this up. But we are
moving very quickly into covid being endemic. It'll be like the flu shot every
year, trying to figure out howto catch up to the variant. Be
(16:19):
said. The virus mutates like allviruses do, and the flu virus mutates,
and I get a flu shot everyyear, and sometimes they guess right,
sometimes they don't. But the fludoesn't kill you, well it does.
It kills a lot of people,Yeah, it does. It's not
people don't understand how dangerous the flucan be. I mean tens of thousands
of people die of the flu everyyear, particularly young people, people that
(16:41):
are to compromise immune systems, elderlypeople. So anyway, that's another vaccines
available, and I'm getting it.I'm getting it. I believe in vaccines.
It's not that complicated. And youknow why, because I'm autistic and
I'm already past that point. Ithink we don't have to worry about me
getting autism. Focus on the visectorand then the vaccines. One of Trump's
(17:06):
trials has been put on hold.A Georgia appeals court has halted the election
conspiracy case against Donald Trump and severalof his co defendants. Apparently they need
to decide whether the trial can moveforward with da Fani Willis in place.
Yeah, she is a moron,She is an idiot. This is one
(17:26):
of those cases in which, eventhough there may not be a direct conflict
that involves she hired a prosecutor,an outside council at five hundred thousand dollars
to run the case for the DA'soffice. Didn't choose anybody within the DA's
office. And she ends up stoopingthis guy and admits to stooping this guy.
(17:48):
Now they claim the stopping happened afterhe was hired, and there's all
kinds of issues there, but justthe appearance of this conflict, resign get
off this case. She won't doit. And she's a Democrat and wants
to nail Donald Trump. She puther whatever situation that she's personally involved with,
(18:10):
above nailing Donald Trump. And they'reprosecuting Donald Trump. Now, if
it was a Republican who was apro Trumpist or pro Trump, I mean,
you know, obviously they would doeverything. Well, they would prosecute
even but this is just crazy making. So is she going to be disqualified?
Who the hell knows. But I'lltell you where the win is here
for Trump, and I mean massivewin. Nothing is going to be decided
(18:33):
until next year. Nothing. Bythe way, this is the state case.
It doesn't mean that Trump is offthe hook if he wins. If
he wins the election, he's stillon the hook for this case after his
term is over. This would haveprobably happened before the term was over.
He could have been convicted again inthis case for election interfering. But she
(18:56):
blew it. She screwed the poochon this Well, there's no evidence of
her screwing the poach just no,no, she no. The only evidence
is she screwed the prosecutor that shehired the heart Wants with the heart Wants
Bill. Yeah, especially when youhave a profile case, high profile case
like this. All right, retailgiant TJ Max, you've got marshals and
(19:19):
there's gonna be more and more.Home Goods is said to be doing this
as well. They're equipping some oftheir store employees with body cams. These
are identical basically to what law enforcementused now and they say this is to
keep customers and employees safe. Thesurvey that they were taking of major chains
said that this is all done bythe National Retail Federation last, So,
(19:42):
I mean, who is arguing withthat it's an invasion of privacy. You
already have cameras all over the store. No, there's no privacy in a
public no. No, no.But the point is it's, you know,
if this can cut down on shoplifting, I think that's great. Okay,
I'm going to tell you something,and I truly believe this. This
(20:02):
is not stunty or to try toget a reaction. I really believe that
it's going to become the norm forpeople to be wearing cameras on their person
when they're out in public. Itend to agree because we have no any
of their cars now, and Ithink that's the only way you're going to
be able to protect yourself. Andyou'll have one on the front and one
(20:23):
on the back. Yeah, andthat's what people are going to be doing
to be safe. Yep, you'llhave they have dash cams, have body
cams, they'll have ass cams.Okay, some backwards, don't ask where
the camera is. That's also correct. Yeah, but you'll have to have
it surgically removed. That's correct.Well, we got a leak this.
(20:47):
We saw the launch of the BoeingStarliner yesterday, which was spectacular if you
ask me. Uh. And they'reon their way to the International Space Station
is supposed to get there and doctortoday. But NASA put out a tweet
or an X last night saying twomore helium leaks had been detected. There
was a helium leak detected before thelaunch. They said, eh, that's
(21:10):
okay. Helium is used in spacecraftthruster systems that allow the thrusters to fire.
It's not combustible and it's not toxic. So the astronauts apparently found out
about it before they went to sleeplast night. NASA said, hey,
you guys, go to sleep.We're going to keep monitoring it. Yeah,
there's no problem. And then allof a sudden they discovered there was
that helium leak. Not because thesensor is because all of a sudden,
(21:30):
one of the astronauts began speaking ina very high squeaky voice. Good night.
What was that? I said,good night? Uh? Oh you
know what they knew? I realizedthat the Boeing Starliner is a different division
than their planes and all. Butyou know you want to be the astronaut
(21:51):
going up on a Boeing spacecraft ofany kind. Well, NASA is overseeing
this one, although you know there'san argument there too, NASA overseeing to
the extent that it used to.I don't know, I don't know,
all right, just a quick reminder. I do this every year, and
that is I amc the LA LawyersPhilharmonic and it is something well Gary Green,
(22:15):
my friend who founded it, andit is lawyers and judges who play.
I mean, this is world classmusic. These guys should have been
professional musicians, but they wanted tomake a living, so they're lawyers,
their judges. They and this isthe orchestra that they have. And every
year. This is at the WaltDisney Concert Hall Saturday night, June twenty
(22:40):
two. I'm seeing it, soif you'd like to go, and it's
always fun. This year it's I'mgonna have some stuff from Mary Poppins because
Richard Sherman, who has been theremany times, he and his brother wrote
Mary Poppins did the music as wellas many many Disney songs. Incredible songwriter.
So it is Saturday evening June twentytwo, and it is the LA
(23:03):
Lawyers and the LA Lawyers or thechorus that is also attached to it.
It's an incredible evening. And keepin mind this is the Lawyers and the
chorus that you'll be listening to.Baby check Baby, check baby, and
(23:27):
this is how they always start themusic at the LA Lawyers concert. So
it's a twenty second see I Idid not see. That's a little shtick.
June twenty second. Go to LALawyers phil as In Philharmonic LA lawyersphil
dot org and I'd love to seeyou there. It's so worth it to
go. It is a charity.It benefits those who can't afford legal services,
(23:52):
which is everybody, and it providesscholarships to people in the for school,
et cetera. It's a really agreat organization and it's fun to watch.
It's fun to watch lawyers. I'llget together and not sue each other.
Okay, guys ready to do it? Just lower their rates lawyers,
instead of having to have a charityto help people afford it and stuff.
(24:14):
Why don't you just lower your rates? Why would I ever do that?
Why do you think you go tolaw School for to lower your rates please,
Neil, I have been with Billmultiple times. It really is a
wonderful evening. By the way.Yeah, well, thank you for that.
I appreciate it. Okay, guys, let's do it finish up handle
on the news with Amy, Neiland me. All Right, Wall Street
(24:36):
favorite artificial intelligence darling NA video iscontinuing to just swell and swell and swell
as people get very excited. Theyare the AI chip maker and they rows
what three point zero one nine trilliondollars yesterday and that nudges them just ever
(24:59):
so slightly past Apple, which isat two point ninety nine trillion, And
boy, they catch it with theright time chip manufacturers. That creates the
chips for virtually every AI application outthere, which is now coming to computers.
That's the whole next thing is computershaving the ability to use AI.
(25:22):
That's going to be the next generationalthing. They still are just a hair
behind Microsoft on that at three pointpretty ipressive stuff. Yeah, I mean
that getting into mind boggling right numbers. What's in a name A lot?
When it comes to a super sensitivecity council, La City Council has declined
(25:44):
a donation of two police dogs aftera city leader raised concerns that the dogs
had been trained by a company thatshares its name with a Nazi military hideout
used by Hitler. The dogs arepaid for dollar donation Rearside County company Alderhorse
International, was donating them. SoAlderhorse apparently is it means eagle's nest in
(26:10):
German. But it is also thename of the Nazi bunker used by Hitler
during World War Two. Yeah,and the guy who runs and said,
oh no, no, no,this has nothing to do with the Nazis.
Why have a name that? Whatthe name of Hitler's bunker? Why
would you do that? I mean, why don't you just call it Adolph's
Dog Service. Yeah, but thename in German doesn't mean Adolph's Bunker.
(26:36):
No, but it is used.But it is used at that for that's
been to Germany. They've wiped outany reference. They've made it illegally they
have we haven't no, but theystill use this name in businesses there because
it's a that I don't know that, I don't know on I don't know
too. It actually is referencing aspecific breed dog as well. By that
(27:00):
I didn't know that either, andEagles Nest Dog. The La City Council
drove their VW's and sat around theirKrupps coffeemaker to talk about this too.
All right, But all I'm sayingis why that's not even politically brilliant,
you know, just why would younot have an American division of a company,
(27:21):
or why would you call it this? I just think when you've got
presidents of you know, Ivy Leagueschools coming out saying that anti Semitism,
there's a time for it, weshould be focusing on that rather than the
name that. Well, we aredoing both, all right now, where
you and I disagree, okay?And by the way, is your favorite
song out of Borat, I'd throwthe Jews down the well. I like
(27:45):
it in the original Hebrew. Itadds a little to it, but you
know in English it's okay, yeah, okay. So the organizers of the
twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics reached foror not outside outside the sports world for
their new chief executive. But thisis kind of interesting. They hired a
(28:06):
retired US Army lieutenant general who servedin the White House as chief of Staff
for the Federal Emergency Management Agency andnow will be a part of the twenty
twenty eight Summer Olympics. Yeah,and he's a logistics expert his entire career,
which makes all the sense in theworld. And hopefully that the LA
(28:29):
Olympics ends up making some money forboth the US Olympics organization as well as
the IOOC did last time, didlast time, the only two times Olympics
have ever ever ever made money innineteen thirty two LA Olympics, nineteen eighty
four LA Olympics, and now we'relooking at twenty twenty eight LA Olympics the
(28:52):
first time that a city gets itfor the third time. So yeah,
yeah, we're going to have toprior to the Olympics. We're going to
do something called homeless tossing. Yohyeah, yeah, great, I mean,
no question about it. They're goingto be sweeping that under the rug.
They're going to cover up all thegraffiti, the filth, the human
waste. It'll be great for theten minutes the Olympics are here. I
(29:15):
think it's ten days, isn't it? Is that how long? The Olympics
ten minutes, ten days? Andthen there's stuff that no one pays attention
to you got these phenomenal events thateverybody goes to, gymnastics for example,
and then you have events that weirdstuff that no one's ever heard of,
like curly Winter Olympics, and thatis my favorite sport. Here's just literally
(29:41):
rock being gone down and then theytake the brooms and sweet sweep it up
and they get that and they getthose teams from janitors organizations. You know
that this is my thing. Ithink you want to add excitement flip them.
Yeah, you can get a rockto slide on eister the Winter Olympics,
try and do it on concrete duringthe Summer Olympics. There's a sport.
(30:04):
There's a sport also my favorite oneI love. I love the three
hundred and forty pound Bulgarian women thatdo the shot put those That is an
exciting sport. Today. I throwmy husband. I throw husband Vetti fod
Okay, all right, guys,going to get to the Flavor Flavor story.
(30:26):
No we're not, Oh Flavor Flavorstrying to try to save its red
Lobster basically by going and ordering everythingon the menu. Yeah, he's because
he is a nut for red lobster, and he's doing everything he can to
save Red Lobster. Good for him. I like red lobster, cheesy bread,
very strong. Let's go yeah beforeit goes away. Yeah, we'll
(30:47):
do have a show party there.I try to save red Lobster. Yeah,
save red Lobster. Not bad.You know what, Neil, you
put this one together as all makesthe T shirts and the hats. Okay,
little flavor, flavor Okay, wewill be will be back kf I
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