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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty as bites his
torso, his left arm hand andpossibly his chin. And he used to
have a deep bass voice. Hisballs are gone. I think that that's
where he was bent. Oh hidit hurts anyway, he's expected to be.
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Okay, Cono is the only onethat laughs at this stuff. You
know, no one else thinks thisstuff is funny. Try drunk, huh
drunk and now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle,
and he had had good morning KFIAM six forty. Go handle here
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and the morning crew on a footyFriday, June seventh, twenty twenty four.
And always look forward Fridays because ourlast hour is well last half hour.
This week's World in Review where Iwrap it all up and from eight
Day thirty it's Foody Friday with NeilSavedra. And today we're going to talk
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about I have absolutely no idea whatwe're going to talk about. It's National
Donut Day, oh okay, andnobody brought donuts. Nobody brought donuts.
You know, weish what happened tothe times when it was National Donut Day
and we get donut places from allover that we're open bringing in donuts.
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Pizza Day would have people open upearly, just all of it. Do
you remember National Mercedes Sports Cars Day? Yeah, I think that's what put
the end to it, the factthat you took two. I think it
was a little greedy. Yeah,those days are gone. Those days are
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just gone. You know, there'sa there's a saying in radio, if
you can't get it for your wholesale, you just don't need it. That
used to be the montradio. What. I don't think that's radio now,
well, many many years ago,it was then. Cocaine was a big
part of it too. You know, radio in his heyday, certainly radio
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stations that played pop music. YouI don't think there was a promotional guy
that handed a record or a tapeto a program director without a vile cocaine
tape to it. I'd heard somestories back in the day at the old
building. Yeah, up on theroof, all kinds of debauchery that would
take place. Yeah. Yeah,you couldn't get changed, you couldn't go.
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You'd be very careful going and makingcoffee and getting that sweet and low
envelope. You go, Okay,I don't know the strongest coffee I've ever
had. Bad anyway, born intoyou, Neil Amy, Good morning,
Hi, Bill Kono. Yeah,any particular reason we're trying to look like
Ted Kazinski today. Where don't yetyou have the hoodie? Don't you?
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I do have a hoodie. It'sred. Okay, it was great,
it used to be red. Itjust washed a whole bunch of times.
I had no idea if that's trueor not. And good morning, Good
morning Bill. All right, we'reall here. The A team has arrived.
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Oh all right, anything else goingon? We can talk about tomorrow
morning handle on the law at eightto eleven, tomorrow afternoon, two to
five, the Fork report. Sothat's yeah. Basically, I put the
food in food in food, sowe're gonna be just okay. Oh you
don't understand what that means. Butthat's all right. The food the food
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fighters woo, no, they're freeof the food fighters. The food as
in Vietnamese fair's fun, No more, that's fun. This is more along
the lines of this food. CON'sthe one again. Con know's the only
one who gets it. Yeah,okay, As in fool, it's time
for the sock check. It's allright, all right, here we go,
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guys, we're heading on. AndI didn't even digress too much on
that one. That was Neil.Okay, guys, let's do it handle
on the news, Amy King,Neil and me lead story yesterday. The
President, I'm assuming he's still inFrance, was right above the Normandy beachhead
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on the cliffs, right above thetwo beaches where the Americans U taught and
Omaha, thank you very much,Utah on Omaha beaches where the Americans landed.
And as I described yesterday, theveterans who actually landed on that beach,
the very very few who remain,none of them younger than ninety eight,
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and several of them north of onehundred years old, were honored.
And the President was there and itwas a very moving moment. And then
he had an interview one on onewith David Muir of AB News, and
a couple of things were said,ripped into of course, Donald Trump,
and of course became a political speechor some political answers. Talked about democracy,
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talked about how important it was,alluded to Trump not being a proponent
of democracy, although he didn't sayit outright, and one of the most
interesting ones. He was asked aboutthe trial and about the conviction of Donald
Trump. He said, the juryis spoken, and you know to say
that this was not a legitimate juryand decision is to undermine democracy. And
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then MRR said talked about Hunter Bidenand said, if Hunter Biden is convicted
by this jury, will you standby it? He goes, of course,
and was asked, will you pardonHunter Biden? This is a federal
charge, and he emphatically said no, he couldn't. If he were to
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pardon his son, it would blowup, like you cannot believe. So
anyway, that was yesterday, avery moving pain to American heroism and how
these men died for democracy, whichthey did, for freedom, which they
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did. Did anyone ask Biden ifhe remembers where he was? He didn't
look good. He didn't. Hedid not look good. I gotta tell
you he is. He looks doddering. Whether he is or not, I
think he's sharp hit things answers areon, but the way, the perception
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is almost everything. He does notlook good s. The last speech he
made sound like he'th got hard candiesin his mouth. Yeah, it's tough
age. He comes off a lotolder than he is. Trump comes off
a lot younger than he is.Didn't you go to high school with Biden?
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Yeah? I was a couple ofyears ahead of him, so I
knew about him behind me. Tellyou who I did go to high school?
That was a couple of years,a few years ahead of me,
Michael Milkin. Sally Field came frommy high school. Did you go to
school with her? No, shewas ahead of me a couple of years,
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but she was already Who else wentRichard what's his name? The actor,
the one who was in close encounters, Richard Dreyfuss, I think went
to Birmingham or at least cal StateNorthridge. He's been in the news for
some great reasons. Maybe yeah,If I'm not, I'm trying to remember.
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If that's the case, certainly,Michael Milkin and Dwight Chapin, you
remember his name, you don't?Appointment secretary of Richard Nixon, one of
the Watergate guys who went to prisonfor four years. The hell that's funny
is none of the people you mentionedright now are waking up telling someone that
they went to school with you.That's correct, That is correct. Okay,
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let's move on speaking of Trump,a former advisor Steve Bannon's days is
a freeman maybe numbered. A federaljudge told Steve Bannon yesterday that he needs
to surrender by July first to servehis four month prison term. Of course,
he was sentenced for contempt of Congresscharges after he wouldn't give testimony to
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the House committee investigating the January sixthattack on the Capitol. The judge at
first allowed him to remain free whilehe appealed, but now that at least
one of his appeals has been turneddown, the judge said, nah,
you should go to jail now now. And yesterday I know if you heard
him come outside the courtroom and hesaid, we're going to appeal this the
Supreme Court. Let me tell youwhat Supreme Court's gonna say. If it
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says anything no or please, whatare you thinking? So he's going to
he's gonna spend four months in prison. There's no way around it. You
know, he can scream all hewants. But he was ranting again about
how it was everything was a setup. It's you know, weaponization of the
federal law enforcement. I mean,just on and on and on. He's
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going to prison. Very rare Ican't remember the last person that went to
prison for contempt of Congress. Hewouldn't testify. Now, Merrit Garland is
also claiming executive privilege, but thishas to do with Justice Department conversations that
were had with the President, andthat argument is a lot stronger. And
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I can't imagine Congress issuing a contemptof Congress citation against Merrick Garland. Maybe
they will, who they hell knowsis the House Judiciary Committee. Right,
crazy stuff comes out of there.Hunter Biden's ex girlfriend, who also happens
to be the widow of the defendants, like brother Bo, has testified that
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she panicked when she searched his carand found the gun with a bunch of
other garbage in his glove compartment,apparently a moment that set off a massive
chaotic string of events that has broughtthe president's son to federal courtroom this week.
Yeah. I don't know how he'sgoing to get out of this.
I mean, there's one defense,and frankly, I just don't buy it,
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and I don't think the jury's goingto buy it either. He put
down he's not a user of drugs. At that moment when he signed he
wasn't snorting. He waited thirty secondstill after he signed I'm not a user.
Well, maybe I'm exaggerating a littlebit, but he said. The
defense is saying he was in rehabat the time, he was sober at
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the time, and therefore at thetime. I don't know if anybody's going
to buy that because are you auser? Does that mean do you actually
have you just snorted cocaine as youwere picking up the pen to say no
and signing. From the descriptions,it sounds like he would do crack while
he was doing crack. Uh.Yeah, he described he described a pretty
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serious cocaine addiction. And by theway, crack is I mean, crack
is really serious stuff. I meanI was in the cocaine man. The
people there in the crack are ina whole different level. Hey, if
you weren't worried about it, whywould you have your ex girlfriend or girlfriend
at the time, who also happenedto be the widow of your late brother
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bo, Why would you have herthrow the gun away in a trash can
at a grocery store? Well didhe do that or did she find the
gun and throw it away? Oh? I don't know. I don't know
either. Yeah, seems like aweird thing to throw it away at a
grocery store, especially if he justbought it. I hope it was a
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Walmart so somebody could use it.Okay, So if he is convicted,
as Bill mentioned, just a coupleof minutes ago, the President says of
pardons off the table. He didan interview with ABC's David Muir and said
he would not offer a pardon toHunter if he's found guilty on those charges,
and also he said he would acceptthe outcome of the trial whatever it
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is. Yeah, I number whenhe has no choice in saying that,
I have to believe it. That'sone thing you can argue a lot about
Joe Biden, but him saying thatis what goes right in line to what
he has always said, his thinking, his political his political positions. Yeah,
I agree that. I think hewas honest and truthful when he said
that and not politically motivated. Didn'the also say that his son was a
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decent guy, and oh yeah,he loves his son. Oh no,
he is totally supportive of his son. By the way, if he was,
if he had any power, ifhe wasn't the President he would make
if he knew the president his bestfriend, he wouldn't make a phone call
to the president and say help myson out. I just don't think that's
who he is. Interesting. Soin the category we've got nothing else to
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do. A popular Los Angeles YouTuberfaces an explosive charge with federal prosecutors accusing
him of directing a video stunt whichthese fireworks, if you've seen it,
were blasted from this small airborne helicopterat a speeding Lamborghini. Nothing screams America
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more than this video. If yousaw it, it was actually pretty cool
to watch. Yes, dangerous,Yes, it was on federally owned land,
the Elmerage Dry Lake bed there inSan Bordeux, but it looked cool.
And now the guy's getting popped forit. Yeah, and you think,
I'll bet you he didn't think aboutbeing charged with explosives on federal land.
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Just I mean, he can goto jail for a very long time
for this. Oh yeah, Becausethere's a couple of things when you think
about it. You would have hadto go to Las Vegas to get the
explosive or to get the fireworks,bring them across state lines, and then
go on federal land and throw themfrom a helicopter, and they are an
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explosive device technically, and lead.I will tell you it's the coolest thing
you've ever seen. However, itjust seems like there's a yeah, yeah,
he should get popped. But there'sa lot of other stuff running on.
The VP race is on. FormerPresident Trump says he's going to announce
his running mate at the Republican NationalConvention next month. Vetting papers or materials
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have apparently been sent to several candidates, including Senator Tim Scott, Senator Marco
Rubio, Senator jd Vance, andGovernor Doug Bergham. Now, at the
convention, I can see Trump doingthis, standing up with an envelope in
his hand, saying, here arethe five finalists and then let's see who
won. Tears open the the envelopeand says, and the winner is I
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can just see it. By theway, if anybody, if anybody would
do it, it would be Trumpbecause of his connection, his appreciate,
appreciate appreciation for showbiz. YEP.I think he would. He would do
and get away with it. Itwould be hilarious. You should have five
names up there, four of them. He'll call off and go you're fired,
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and then the ones still standing hemoves forward. Yeah, and then
they all plot. Don't forget that. The camera gets all five of four
of the losers and they're all applaudingthat rictest smile applauds that you have to
make when someone else wins. Yeah, like the Academy Awards. Yeah,
exactly, you know that, thatstupid smile. Yeah. The other guy
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on Yeah, Yeah, he's gonnapick the He's gonna pick the best,
the strongest, the smartest person inthe whole world until they betray him.
Yes, and then they're going tobe the dumbest, stupidest rat all right.
Lapd xpo latest and less lethal policerobots, both bipeds and quadrupeds.
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They hosted an expo just yesterday demonstratingthe future of non lethal policing. Some
seventy vendors came out. Uh,these are robots, tasers and the like
that can de escalate a dangerous situationwithout the use of deadly force. I'm
all for it. It's gonna lookbad, by the way. They less
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than lethal. Yeah, they don'tuse non lethal. That term doesn't exist
because everything could be because people candie yeah, they can die. You
can in the you know, youcould scare someone and they could die.
Yep. And the ones that wehave are the less than lethal as opposed
to China, which just unveiled theirlittle dog robots that have you know,
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like AR fifteen's on a yeah,and they do. Matter of fact,
their dog robots are so sophisticated.Their dog robusts have dog robsts, have
rabies. I mean they're that good. We'll stop that. A man had
worst friend in China. It's Friday, guys. You know, for those
of you that are saying we've hitnew levels of stupidity, it's Friday.
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That's hard to believe. And stickaround. There's more common we've been dumber.
Well, that's a whole lot oflegos. Two people have been arrested
in connection with a retail theft ringallegedly targeting Lego toys. The legos were
found at a home in Long Beach. Police are saying that a retailer in
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San Pedro was hit several times,and then more Lego retailers were hit in
Torrents and Lakewood, and police saythey saw a woman go and drop some
legos off at this home in LongBeach. They served a search warrant and
recovered more than twenty eight hundred boxesof Lego toys. We report the theft.
Now it's the arrest, which isgreat. Yeah, the bad guy
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seventy one year old guy and athirty nine year old woman. Yeah.
Yeah. The cops said, theyjust you know, put the pieces together
one time. Yeah. And thestory, I mean, the story keeps
on going. I mean it haslegs, okay, and that's for that
goes. Okay, we're done,We're done. No more, neil,
next story. There's something there's anotherone in there somewhere about stepping on.
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I'll move on. Okay. Sothe Pride flag, or what they call
the Progress Pride Flag, now,the city officials raised this flag at city
Hall for the first time. Overthe weekend. Mayor Karen Bass announced she
signed an ordinance and unanimously was approvedby the city Council allowing the Pride flag
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to be raised at city Hall andelsewhere in the Civic Center in June.
Now, a let's say, asuper for right group once the Confederacy flag
raised, well, I think theyshould. If I'm going to raise wine,
I'm raise different because the Confederate flagwas an enemy of the state.
Well, a lot of people lookat the Gay Pride as being anti religious,
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and what are you going to do? What are you going to do?
You know what weirds me out isin a country where the most patriotic
thing you can do is protect somebody'sfreedoms and liberties, why would it be
a bad thing? And no,I'm not crazy about flying any flag other
than the American flag. That Americanflag should stand for Black Lives Matter,
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should agree for writing, should standfor women's rights. That flag should stand
for all of it and should beall encompassing. But if the you know,
if they lit up City Hall inthe rainbow and things like that at
night, I have zero problems withthat. I think that it's important.
I think, you know, whenyou talk about public buildings, you know,
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yeah, I think you have tobe even Stephen, what's good for
the goose is good for the goose, There's no question about it. Isn't
this why like you can have nativitiesand Satanic displays at Christmas time? Because
well, actually ordinances have said youcan only have Nativity scenes, you can't
have Satanic although that would be kindof interesting. You know, it's sacrificing
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babies, you know, yeah,yeah, why not? Because if you
have one, and if you're aSatanist who decides what a religion is,
but not this government. This governmentis philosophical, it's not religious. Okay,
here we go, Neil and Igo through this all the time,
and we can spend them we canspend twenty minutes talking about something that no
one, no one else gets arats ass about. All right, let's
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okay. So the alleged stalker isstriking back. Have you watched Baby Reindeer
on It's not that good? Ilove good. I didn't like it very
creepy. Well, anyway, thewoman who says she was defamed over her
portrayal as a stalker in Baby Reindeeris suing Netflix for one hundred seventy million
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dollars. Of course that no oneknows who she is. Well, she
was a lawyer in the show.Remember, but we're talking about we're talking
about the woman who is a quotedefamed. Does it matter? Lawyers are
as nuts as anybody else. Now, one hundred and seventy million dollars,
Oh you sue for anything? Whynot make it a billion dollars? What
difference does it make it makes headlinesanyway. She's going, well, this
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is where is she suing? Uh? Where the file? It was filed
forty here in Los Angeles? Yeah, okay, and apparently she's very litigious.
Yeah, clearly in Scotland. Yeah, in Scotland it would be thrown
out in two seconds. So butBill, what what is the liability if
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they say this is a true storyand you can track down who the people,
you have to Well you have toprove damages, and what are her
damages? Her reputation being destroyed.That's not easy to prove. And sometimes
it's so egregious. You know,the jury will come back or the judge,
you'll come back and give some kindof a ward. It ain't going
to be one hundred or more milliondollars. That's going to not happen.
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So you know, these things gono place. They very rarely go any
place. Now, the defamation againstthat, I think was that writer against
Trump that went eighty five million dollars. She had asked for three million,
The jury comes back with eighty fivemillion against Trump. I would like to
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argue with anybody that that wasn't political. Go ahead and throw me that argument.
Of course, that was political.This isn't political. This is your
normal BS defamation lawsuit where it's astretch. You know, I was portrayed.
No, remember all this thing.All characters are fictitious. You have
that disclaimer at the end of thebeginning of the end of a film,
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and any resemblance to anybody is anaccident or whatever. You could argue this.
For instance, let's let's say therewas a can you get punitive damages
if you are made to sit andlisten to bad puns seven days a week
and they just keep coming, andso you have to disclaim it, right,
No accusation here is against any livingperson. Oh no, theoretically,
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I'm just saying, if there werefour people that worked with someone who forced
them to listen to bad puns.Yes, Dad shokes old references like,
is there do I have a casethat's so? I mean, does this
guy's so clever? Oh? Neil, Neil, it was too clever,
all right. New Fear Unlocked officialsconfirmed that a woman's death last November in
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Sierra County was the first known anddocumented fatal attack by a black bear in
California history, and inside her home. Yes, she was seventy one years
old. She was found in herhome there in Downeyville, north of Lake
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Tahoe, after being attacked by ablack bear. Really we don't know her
name, but I'll bet you hermiddle name is Lunch. That's not even
funny because the bear was totally eatingher. Yeah, that's the point.
That's wrong. What you and Konolike two little idiots giggling over there.
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This is a woman's life. Itis very sad. I mean, the
problem A lot of it has todo with timing. You know. It's
the farther out you are, thefunny year it can be. But okay,
we're not even a year out now, I know, I know,
but we're in good six months.Yeah, okay, that works. That's
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far enough back it becomes funny.It it takes to this, yeah,
okay. A language learning app hasbowed to pressure from Russia. Duo Lingo
has deleted references in Russia to whatMoscow has called non traditional, non traditional
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sexual relations. And they did thisafter being warned by Russia's communication regulator about
publishing LGBT content that Russia classifies asextremism and even terrorism. Homosexuality is terrorism.
Yeah, yeah, that's what they'reI mean, they're crazy in Russia.
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By the way, I use Duolingobecause I'm trying to learn Italian,
and here I am conflated the wordlunch for bait. That's the problem with
Italian manga manja. Yeah, sookay, some sometimes it works and sometimes
it doesn't. I want an appcalled to Alipa. All right, excellent?
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A Costco story, A Costco story, Oh sorry, buddy, yes
uh. In beginning in January twentytwenty five, Costco or Bill's second Home,
will stop stalking books regularly. It'sgoing to instead switch to kind of
a holiday shopping period type model Septemberthrough December. And really this seems and
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this has been leaked out by publishers, by the way, but well,
of course it's a lot of moneyto lose on this one. Yeah,
because they have that huge section.But about a huge section, wait,
a second huge section. Costco booksection is there are four books that are
available. That's it. It isnot a table section of books. It's
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not like your burritos or Panco coveredshrimp, where you have many different kinds.
This is four tables. Is biggerthan most bookstores which don't even Oh
that is that is not true.I was in a Barnes and Noble yesterday,
two floors New Anyways, they're stopselling books, but they're crap books
anyway. They don't sell the goodones that Barnes and Noble has become a
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coffee place that has no But Ilove going. It's another place where I
like to hang out. Oh Ilove bookstores. Yeah, I love them.
I wish they were bookstores all right, Amy, this one's right up
my alley and most of us wholive in California. Yeah, okay,
So if you have state farm insurance, apparently you're going to be able to
keep having state farm insurance, justwithout the part that protects you from wildfires.
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So yeah, let me ask youthis. You buy fire insurance,
except they don't protect you against fire. Well, it's general homeowners policies right
now without fire. That's the numberone problem is fire exactly. I mean
that is why you buy fire homeinsurance, because fire is your biggest danger.
But can't they just say, likewildfire, it's ridiculous to not have
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a fire. Oh no, youknow you don't. The nearby wildfire lose
their homes because of electrical issues,shorts, that's the whole point. Yeah,
and none of this, no,none of this. Yeah they could,
you're right, wildfire, but thatthe risk is greater with home fires
that are not wildfires. You know. They're also giving people a discounts on
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car insurance if you don't have wheels. Yeah. By the way, I
was, I was with State Farmh and they bailed out of California and
I had to find new insurance andit was not pleasant. I finally found
some after two and a half weeksafter my policy lapse. Two and a
half weeks of no home insurance.Did not get a lot of sleep for
two and a half weeks. Whatwas their tagline? We don't love the
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fires. Like a good neighbor Statefarmer is there? Yeah, yeah,
like a good neighbor. Can hehelp you with your fires? Yeah?
Like one more? One more,Neil, let's finish up with this?
Oh okay, one more? Yougot it? Vana White tearful goodbye to
her Wheel of Fortune partner Pat Sayjack, Yeah he leaves today. Wow,
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the end of an error. Soit was forty what forty years? Forty
years forty one? I have aquestion to ask you. So he's been
they've both been there for forty years. Let me ask you a question.
She got a quote substantial pay increasefrom the three million dollars per year she
was getting. What do you think, say Jack was getting to be on
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that show? He was making likefifteen wasn't he? Yeah, some crazy
figure. And it's part time work. Yeah. They record all the episodes
like a once, it's a weekor something. Yeah, and he sits
up there and it's a four hourgig once a week and walks away with
a fifteen million dollar paycheck. That'sa good gig. What you realize you
work like three days or three hoursa day, right? I work more
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than that, Okay, three anda half hours a day. All it's
closer your outbrain and works, youknow, twelve hours a day and you
work well, No, I meanconsidering. I keep on top of the
news big time, so I spendhours a day looking at news. I
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read three sometimes four papers a day, so you know, I spend time
doing it, you know, becauseI'm a history nut. I'm reading thousand
page biographies. I'm reading one aboutthe Third Reiche now Germany, the bureaucracy
within Germany in the thirties, andthen I'm reading theography of Napoleon, which
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is a thousand pages. So no, I don't give me this. Don't
give me. I work part time. I don't want to hear it for
four hours a day. Ryan Seacrestis going to make twenty eight million dollars
a year to host the show,just hosting the show. Yeah, okay,
but Ryan works very hard. Hedoes. He works like a dog.
I mean that's one thing this guydoes. He does not work just
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four hours a day. All Right, We're done, guys. KFI AM
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