June 19, 2024 • 29 mins
Neil Saavedra & Amy King join Bill for Handel on the News. Putin says Russia and North Korea will help each other if attacked, after signing ‘breakthrough’ partnership with Kim. House Ethics Committee expands investigation into Matt Gaetz. Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun denies culture of retaliation against whistleblowers at Senate hearing. Israel warns of prospect of ‘all-out war’ after Hezbollah publishes video of military, civilian sites. Israel’s Netanyahu blames Biden for withholding weapons, US officials say that’s not the whole story. MLB legend Willie Mays dies at 93.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. I think
the school prevails for a couple ofreasons. First of all, there are
only two genders, men and realmen. That's how we start, okay.
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For example, real men do notgo to musicals, even though I
push them all the time. Andnow Handle on the news, ladies and
gentlemen, here's Bill Handle. Well, it is a Wednesday, Juneteenth,
June nineteen, twenty twenty four,and we are going to talk about and
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celebrate Juneteenth today. It's really interesting. I'll give you a little bit of
history behind that, and it's goingto be a hot one today. First
of all, let me introduce orsay hello to the crowd. If I
can, Neil, good morning,Good morning, Willie Wolf and if Neil,
I wish we could see this,but you can't. Kneel's on computer
screen as everybody is talking to eachother, because that's what we do now.
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And behind them, he puts upthe graphics, which you can do.
And uh, as many times thereis there's the camel in the office
going Mike, Mike, Mike,Mike, Mike, Mike. Why because
today is hump Day? And thenwe celebrate hump Day every Wednesday, which
is always a joy. It's veryimportant holiday in uh my world. There's
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litters, New Year's, there's Julyfourth hump Day. A little commercial for
me these days. I mean,I was out doing my hump Day shopping,
getting my hump Day tree, andit's just like the hustling bustle I'm
not into anymore. Yeah. Sowhen you go to stores that have hump
Day sales, are they dumping humps? Is it a ump? Is it
a hump dump? Just be carefulon the ones that have been reboxed.
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You do not want to reuse humpOkay, fair enough, anyway, there
you are. We'll do that.We'll make milk it until all of us
get really sick of that. Goodmorning Cono, Good morning Bill. All
right, there we go, andthe lovely Amy, Good morning Amy,
Good morning Bill. Oh it's blackwith pearls. Is do I have that
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right? No? Oh? Ibling? Oh bling. It's a sparkly
necklace. It is sparkly, youknow, pretend necklaces. When we were
broken into at the house with thoseChilean gangs that I've talked about so many
times, they go up to thesecond floor with the ladder and clean out
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all of the jewelry because everything iskept upstairs virtually, and that everybody keeps
their jewelry et cetter and the upstairsmaster closet. All we had was bling.
Let me tell you how pissed offthose guys were when they left and
tried to pawn off the jewelry,which was complete garbage. That's not to
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say that what you're brying his garbage, but that is well. Let me
ask you this. Do you rememberhow much you paid for that lovely necklace?
My friend gave it to me,but I think it was it was
like a hundred bucks. Oh eventhat's very much. Okay, I mean
you mean you're telling me that thefourteen carrot's worth of diamonds that you have
around there aren't real. I knowyou can't tell, but no they're not.
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You're right, And good morning,good morning Bill. All right,
we're ready to go, guys.And how hot is it going to be
today? Because and you keep upon this stuff, how hot is it
going to be today? Yeah?How hot is it going to be?
Yeah? Ninety ninety Okay, I'min Wolden Hills. It's always really hot.
Yeah, it is, and northRidge is really hot, and so
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you know, welcome to Los Angelesheat dome. Over the rest of the
country, they are dying there.I mean he probably literally is. We're
going to go into the news thismorning. You've got a heat dome where
it's in the nineties. Records aregoing to be broken all over East coast
cities and it's hot and humid.So kono, are you ready to it's
a schitz out there, and relatedto describing the East Coast, which is
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a schwitz, but here it's hot, but it's not a schwitz. He's
looking, he's looking, looking,looking for it's fitz. Watch. Okay,
we're gonna be doing that this morningas we talk about the weather.
All right, Schwitz being boys andgirls, uh too sweat. Schwitz actually
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is a steam room in Yiddish,but it's also a verb. It is
a verb that not only do yousit in a schwitz, but you also
schwitz. We s fitz you schwitz, you will schwitz schwitz. We have
schwitz. Oh you can't. Wehave schwatz. No, no, that's
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only for males. And it's notschwatz, it's schwantz. We have schwantz.
Now if a group of males aresaying, we have swans, then
you have to do the plural wehave swans's. You know what. I'll
give you adish lessons later later on. There's swanks gonna be out there.
Yeah, that's out in the eastcoast. Okay, is it a pride
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of Schwanz's, that's very good.It is it a pod a murder of
well that that could be a crushof Schwans's depending on where you put your
swans, if it's in place.So at some point we'll do schwans rama.
Okay, guys, is it timefor handle on the news? Good
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start, good start today. Amy, you're learning Yiddish, right, there'll
be Yiddish lessons. We actually shoulddo a oh, you know what and
uh at some point a segment onYiddish. Yiddish words you need to know
because they're really good. Now.Arabic curses, by the way, are
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far better. They're the best inthe word world, you know. For
example, may you take a cameldung smear on your mustache and smell it
for a week? That is actuallya curse in Arabic? How do you
beat that? It's more poetic inthe original language, but actually it is
so Arabic is a very poetic languageto begin with. There's a lot of
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well, you know, all right, I was just thinking and it's not
gonna work. It wasn't gonna work. Okay, work all of it,
all of it, the thinking,that's right, the saying all of it.
Okay, guys, let's do it. Handle on the news, Amy
Neil and me lead story those.Oh yeah, Putin is in North Korea
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and they signed a break through partnershipand I'm going to talk more about that
at eight o'clock. Uh, togive you an idea of how Putin is
a good guy and attacking Ukraine.But a little bit of a little bit
of reality here as to countries don'tcare about individual rights and human rights.
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They really don't, including the UnitedStates, even though we say it.
And I'll explain that a little bitlater. And the deal that Putin and
Kim struck, and that's coming upat eight o'clock. So Matt Gates is
back in the spotlight. Remember itwas a big deal for a while and
then it kind of went away.Well it's back again. The House Ethics
Committee says it is expanding its investigationinto Representative Matt Gates to include additional allegations
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that the lawmaker from Florida tried toobstruct the investigation as it looks into accusations
of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, and more. The investigation has been
going on for three years. Yeah, the DOJ drop charges, by the
way, the weaponized DOJ drop charges. And now it's the weaponized House of
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Representative even though they're controlled Republican Republicanscontrol it. This is the weaponization of
insert name of any agency or electivebody here, and it's gone crazy.
The guy's the sleeves. He reallyis. He is. He's a big,
big talker against Democrats, against Biden, I mean huge. He was
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responsible for kicking Kevin McCarthy out ofthe speakership. He led that move and
he won that one. And MikeJohnson they've left that one alone because you
know how many how many speakers dothey throw out? How many speakers?
As Gates going to toss for exactlythe same thing, by the way,
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So Matt Gates, I hope hegets nailed, nailed. He'll only assuming
all of that is correct, he'lljust be censured. You know, bad
boys slap on the wrist. That'swhat happens, all right. Boeing CEO
Dave Calhoun spent two two hours yesterdaytrying to persuade largely very very skeptical senators
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that all the issues going with theaircraft maker that they are committed to safety
since a pair of deadly crashes aboutsix years ago. He also denied any
widespread accusations that Boeing retaliates against whistleblowers or employees who bring up safety concerns.
Yeah, and the chair of thecommittee nailed him both sides screaming at
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him. He denied. He justsaid, Nope, we don't have that
kind of a culture. Yes,we're straightening things out. And it was
just they weren't even on the sameplanet. By the way, this is
where the phrase you've heard it before. It blew the doors off that argument.
Nice well played, sir, Thankyou, turning up the heat.
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Israel has worned hes be Law ofthe prospect of an all out war after
the Lebanese militant group published a nineminute video. It was apparently taken by
a drone and it shows Israeli militaryand civilian locations in several cities around Israel,
and foreign Minister Israel Katz says,we're getting very close to the moment
of deciding to change the rules ofthe game against Hesbola and Lebanon. Yeah,
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I don't quite understand what the Hesbalais doing. Israel's fully prepared to
do a to front war. Imean, they will fight with Hesbelah and
Kamas. They've had plenty of twofront wars, and they will decimate southern
Lebanon. Now it's going to bemore of a fight because they have the
sophisticated missiles. Iran has backed themup and it's fairly easy to get this
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stuff into southern Lebanon. But thereif they're prepared to literally have Southern Lebanon
look like Gaza, okay. Andthen of course Israel has the bomb.
You know that. It's believed thatthey have two hundred nuclear way weapons and
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they're never going to go down withoutblowing up a bunch of Arab cities.
They just won't. Israel only hasto lose one time and it ceases to
become Israel with its neighbors. Andby the way, his Bellaw is ramping
this up with attacks and this latestone simply for solidarity with the Palestinians for
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no other reason none. Israel hasno ambitions in Lebanon. It just wants
to be left alone up there.There's the border, and so far because
of the attacks they have evacuated theentire northern part of Israel. Is going
to be an all out war.Well, I mean, if you're in
a country, do you fight Israel. Hamas certainly made that choice. Boy,
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that worked out well for them,didn't it. Okay, we'll see,
we'll see. It's getting closer andcloser. Speaking of it's really Prime
Minister Jamin netnaho Was has claimed ratherthat the United States is withholding weapons and
imploied that this was slowing Israel's offensivein the southern Gaza city of Rafa.
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And there's obviously that's where the fightingis going on now, and there's already
this dire humanitarian situation for Palestinians there. Yeah. And by the way,
the withholding of weapons actually did happenbecause Ukraine and Israel were packaged together.
Congress did not vote. It tooka while for Congress to vote. Ukraine
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and then connected to Israel and theUnited States saying the only thing we've withheld
are those two thousand pound bombs thattake out blocks of people. And Netta
ya who is straight out blaming Biden. I mean they're getting into it,
the two of them, and we'llsee what happens with that way. Matter
of fact, Neta nyahho. He'svery very careful not to go too far.
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For example, in his last speechhe said, I don't want to
mention names Biden, and I wantto make sure that we have a decent
relationship Biden, and that we don'twe don't get to the point where Israel
and United States are completely at odds. Biden, so very subtle, thank
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you. Yeah, he is Bidenhis time, Oh, very strong.
The pier is in peril. Youknow that two hundred and thirty million dollars
temporary peer the US military built.It was supposed to become an offloading point
for aid to get into Gaza.It's basically failed. It's yeah, been
a month and it's been in serviceonly about ten days. It broke apart
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in rough seas. It was detachedto avoid damage, and now it's been
paused for security concerns as well.Yeah, two hundred and thirty million dollars
did nothing nothing. It is basicallythe biggest pool float that has ever been
built. The good news is Timuhas return policies, so we'll see if
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we can get that back. Yeahyeah, and it never did. It
was supposed to be a stop gapanyway. The only way to really bring
aid into Gaza is via the points, the various transition points. There's Rafa
and there's a couple in northern California. They have to be opened up the
border crossings, and they have Israelis allowing. You know, Israel is
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a very very interesting philosophy. Hereis that people were starving in Gaza,
and I believe that Israel is allowingjust enough aid so it's not outright starvation.
It's just a little bit over theline of starvation. And that is
pretty cynical. But I think Natagna, who is that cynical? I think
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he will allow hundreds of thousands ofpeople right into fa emminent to keep his
position as Prime minister. Sad newsyesterday. Willie Mays, the iconic Hall
of Fame center fielder known for thegreatest all around baseball player of all time,
he died yesterday. And you knowthe he was ninety three years old,
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so it's not like it was ashort life, but a huge representative
of baseball and a what would youcall that baseball? No, no,
a leegend, yes, well,absolutely a legend. Yes, I was
thinking of an ambassador. He isthe word I was looking for that just
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you know, phenomenal, phenomenal athlete, just phenomenal and you can and I
don't know what the quality of hislife was towards the end, but certainly,
as you describe it, this isa life well lived, clearly and
iconic and certainly a legend. Andwhat did you play? Baseball? Basketball?
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Baseball? Thank you very much.Show me the money. US prosecutors
have announced a major breakthrough in acrackdown against Chinese money laundering networks they say
are working with Mexican drug cartels.They filed charges against twenty four people tied
to a scheme to launder more thanfifty million dollars in drugs. Yeah,
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this is Mexico and the cartels andsome Americans out of la and it is
just a lot of money. Thisdrug business is become international. You ever
thought that Mexico and Chinese cartels wouldhook up with Chinese and Americans to get
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this moving? Boy, this iscomplicated. Stuff hasn't it always been international.
No, I don't think like this. I don't think the cartels.
I think they acted on their ownwith mules and trucks. That's my understanding.
I may be wrong about that,but it shows the tentacles of this
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stuff. By the way, whenthey bust one of these, how many
have let how are through? Howmany do they miss? Maybe they bust
one out of ten. It's andit takes years to figure this out.
They put hundreds of investigators on thisand police, and they get one a
couple of years. Usually they're investigatingthis. Steve Gregory has talked about this
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quite often. All right, well, you got to imagine the cartels have
their hands in just about everything butavocados, mangoes. Maybe. The United
States government has suspended inspections of avocadosand mangoes in the Mexican state of Michoacan
due to security concerns after one ofthe inspectors got a threatening message. So
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they're out, they're gone, Andas the inspector left, he turns to
the cartel and says, hey,don't have the fruitfly traps hit you in
the ass. I'm out of here. Well, the weird thing is,
we do get a lot from Mexico, but we do provide. We have
a lot of avocados here, wejust don't have them year round as Mexico
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does. However, some of themwere already en root and so they're on
their way. And then some comefrom Jalisco, I believe, but you
know, so Oruarez, It'salisco,Jalisco. So we'll still get some Mexican
avocados. You'll see them just dispatch. I think they walked away from and
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said we're going to leave before wemiss our heads. Yeah, hands,
feet, yeah, penises, Yeah, pretty much. Last week it was
tornadoes. This week it's heat andnow here come the hurricanes. A tropical
storm warning is in effect, nota hurricane yet for parts of South Texas
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and northeastern Mexico. It's the firsttropical storm thread of the year. It's
going to or it's expected to unloadtorrential rainfall and raise the flood threat not
just in the US but also inparts of Mexico and Central America. Yeah,
early, early for a tropical stormthreat. And I don't know if
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how much news you watch, ObviouslyI watch a lot of it, especially
in the national news. For thelast how many weeks is the lead story.
The storms and the weather. It'sgetting tough, it really is.
So the droughts are going to bedrowdier, hurricanes are going to be stronger,
they're going to come earlier, they'regoing to be more of them,
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and there are the weather people aresaying be prepared for a rough rough season.
Well, already the heat dome recordswere broken and this early at the
same time, So welcome to climatechange. All right. This is a
story that I think we're gonna needto see more unfold because it seems bizarre.
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You got a nineteen year old USCstudent by the name of Ivan Diego's
he was idd as the murder suspectin this stabbling stabbing of a homeless man
on Greek Row who apparently was breakingin to his car or someone's car,
and he approached him. There weremaybe two other guys as well, so
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it looks like three people approached him. One said they had a gun,
he pulled out a knife and stabbedhim. And now he is They they
booked him for murder. And here'smy question, A two million dollar bail,
Yeah, I mean I don't evenknow they actively Yeah, effectively,
there's no bail there, you know, two million dollar bail to a guy
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this young or anybody. He doesn'thave a pile of money. Here's my
question. I don't know the answerto this either. Maybe I'll call a
handle on the law and ask myselfon Saturday. And that is simply saying
I have a gun. Is thatenough to argue self defense when a crime
is being committed? I don't knowthe answer to that. Did he reach
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for a waistband? Did he reachbehind him? And if he did,
he just say I have a gun. This is when I'm going to trust
somebody other than me, not goingto wait. I will tell you Saturday
morning. The answer excellent, Iasked myself. By the way, as
more the description comes out of theevent, he did not leave the scene
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and he totally cooperated law enforcement.So slow down or else. A bill
that would pave the way for speedcameras to be put in high risk areas
in Malibu have cleared a hurdle.Senate Bill twelve ninety seven has passed out
of the State Assemblies Transportation Committee.So basically they're saying that these speed cameras
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were going through Malibu can be apretty dangerous thing. They've shown a forty
one percent reduction in fatal or incapacitatinginjuries in other areas of the state.
Yeah, it's crazy, the speeding. I mean, we've all experienced that.
Yesterday, I was both on thestreet and the freeway getting to the
freeway, and both on the streetand on the freeway, and I must
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have seen four different incidences where you'vegot guys. Usually it's guys going through
weaving through traffic and like one hundredmiles an hour. They think that it's
almost like stunt people being filmed doingthat, and it is so crazy.
And at one point there was acop that I saw back maybe a block
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just ignored it or didn't see it. No one gets tagged. When's the
last time you saw a speeder goingthat crazy? Who was tagged by the
police, don't know? A quickreminder This weekend, this Saturday night at
the Walt Disney Concert Hall, it'sthe LA Lawyers Philharmonic judges and lawyers who
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are in the Philharmonic. Gary Green, who is a lawyer, a practicing
lawyer, is the head of theorchestra and it's oh, it's always great
fun. I'm the MC so yousee me in a tuxedo. Once a
year I make a complete ass outof myself as always. And it's this
Saturday, June twenty two at theWalt Disney Concert Hall. And it is
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a terrific show with legal voices,the choir too, and it's show tunes
and pop music, classical music.I mean, you put it all together,
it's going to be pretty neat.And you can go to La Lawyersphil
dot org for tickets La Lawyersphil dotorg for tickets. And by the way,
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after the show, you know,come up and say hello to me,
because I won't be there. I'mgoing to be long gone. I'm
just not interested in saying hello toyou. Okay, excuse me, let's
do it. Let's finish that pandleon the news on this Wednesday morning,
Amy, Neil and me. Alrighty. So when you're driving down the road,
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you last thing you want is Idon't know, you know, steam
coming out of your engine or maybea flat tire. Imagine going to space
and having malfunctioning thrusters, a seriesof helium links leaks. Not a good
thing. So now, which company, Neil, oh, let me look
this up. Bill, Let's ohBoeing Boeing in their star Liner. Thanks
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for asking. Two veteran astronauts willextend their stay on the International Space Station.
We warn them, don't go,but they are. They've got the
groundwork people trying to figure out orbetter understand, as they say, the
issues of the Boeing built spacecraft thatcarried them. Tom, And I know
it's a different division division, yes, but you do got a wonder Yeah,
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And how do you know there wasa helium leak inside? Because they
I told us that's why. Thatis not where the leap was built.
No, I know that it wouldbe funny if it was. I had
to do a helium balloon joke.Hello, grandchedule. Yeah, this is
kind of like a I don't know, to you and me, it'd be
like a five dollars fine. ButAmazon's been fined five point nine million dollars
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for allegedly violating California's warehouse quota law. And of course Prime members get stuff
fast, and employees say sometimes thatspeed comes at a cost to them.
And Amazon's been investigated at two SanBernardino County Amazon warehouses. A total of
fifty nine thousand violations were found fromOctober twenty three to March of twenty four.
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Yeah, five point nine million dollars. That literally is the money you
find between the cushions on your couchand your couch. For Amazon. My
daughter's roommate, Pamela's roommate, sheworked, she now works in tech for
Amazon, and she was in thewarehouse and she goes, that's a tough
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job. It is not easy beinga warehouse worker. What were some of
the violations to quota? Basically quotasystems you have to do X number of
boxes from what I understand, Xnumber of boxes in a given amount of
time. And that's why she saidit's not easy. It's a tough job.
But promotions, they're pretty good aboutpromotions. Their pay is pretty good.
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So a lot of people line upto work at Amazon. You know
what, fifty boxes a minute hasbeen your quota, but we're giving you
a promotion. Now you need todo sixty five. That's true. Now,
it's like it's like, iHeart,they give you a promotion by giving
you a different total. I meana different title, I mean no money,
nothing. You're doing exactly the samejob, but now you're a vice
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president in charge of nothing. Iassumed a couple of positions when people were
let go, well, now youdo it, right, how much money
you get extra? Nothing? Yeah, yeah, exactly, But at least
I have my hair. That's true, all right. Navidia is now the
new Wall Street Darling artificial intelligence posterchild is now the most valuable company in
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the world, taking the crown fromMicrosoft. Yeah, they go back and
forth, and this is very important. Navidia's three point three four trillion cap.
Microsoft is now three point three twotrillion cap. Apple way back in
third at three point twenty seven trilliondollar cap and depending on the vagaries of
the stock market, a difference betweenmorning and night. And clearly this is
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simply bragging rights. But it's kindof nice to be the number one,
the most valuable company on the planet. And you know this this coming.
Nvidia started what twenty five years ago, Microsoft started fifty years ago. I
mean, you have GM started inthe early nineteen twenties, you have Westinghouse
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started into in the late eighteen hundreds. I mean this goes to show you
how important tech is and how techhas just it rules the world. Now,
oh ai is going to permeate everything, so it already has. Yeah,
there's already no way. Yeah,it's crazy and we'll be out of
a job soon. You know,you're going to get an AI talk show
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host who will not be stopping midwayto chew on a bagel. It just
won't be happening. Well, whatfun is that? It isn't it is?
We'll have to program it to dothat. It's true because that seems
to work, right somehow, themore bagels the better, the higher the
ratings. There's a direct correlation.By the way, there is a mathematical
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correlation bagels equals ratings. All right, guys, someone's going colon hashtag insert
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. I think
the school prevails for a couple ofreasons. First of all, there are
only two genders, men and realmen. That's how we start, okay.
(00:21):
For example, real men do notgo to musicals, even though I
push them all the time. Andnow Handle on the news, ladies and
gentlemen, here's Bill Handle. Well, it is a Wednesday, Juneteenth,
June nineteen, twenty twenty four,and we are going to talk about and
(00:44):
celebrate Juneteenth today. It's really interesting. I'll give you a little bit of
history behind that, and it's goingto be a hot one today. First
of all, let me introduce orsay hello to the crowd. If I
can, Neil, good morning,Good morning, Willie Wolf and if Neil,
I wish we could see this,but you can't. Kneel's on computer
screen as everybody is talking to eachother, because that's what we do now.
(01:07):
And behind them, he puts upthe graphics, which you can do.
And uh, as many times thereis there's the camel in the office
going Mike, Mike, Mike,Mike, Mike, Mike. Why because
today is hump Day? And thenwe celebrate hump Day every Wednesday, which
is always a joy. It's veryimportant holiday in uh my world. There's
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litters, New Year's, there's Julyfourth hump Day. A little commercial for
me these days. I mean,I was out doing my hump Day shopping,
getting my hump Day tree, andit's just like the hustling bustle I'm
not into anymore. Yeah. Sowhen you go to stores that have hump
Day sales, are they dumping humps? Is it a ump? Is it
a hump dump? Just be carefulon the ones that have been reboxed.
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You do not want to reuse humpOkay, fair enough, anyway, there
you are. We'll do that.We'll make milk it until all of us
get really sick of that. Goodmorning Cono, Good morning Bill. All
right, there we go, andthe lovely Amy, Good morning Amy,
Good morning Bill. Oh it's blackwith pearls. Is do I have that
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right? No? Oh? Ibling? Oh bling. It's a sparkly
necklace. It is sparkly, youknow, pretend necklaces. When we were
broken into at the house with thoseChilean gangs that I've talked about so many
times, they go up to thesecond floor with the ladder and clean out
(02:37):
all of the jewelry because everything iskept upstairs virtually, and that everybody keeps
their jewelry et cetter and the upstairsmaster closet. All we had was bling.
Let me tell you how pissed offthose guys were when they left and
tried to pawn off the jewelry,which was complete garbage. That's not to
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say that what you're brying his garbage, but that is well. Let me
ask you this. Do you rememberhow much you paid for that lovely necklace?
My friend gave it to me,but I think it was it was
like a hundred bucks. Oh eventhat's very much. Okay, I mean
you mean you're telling me that thefourteen carrot's worth of diamonds that you have
around there aren't real. I knowyou can't tell, but no they're not.
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You're right, And good morning,good morning Bill. All right,
we're ready to go, guys.And how hot is it going to be
today? Because and you keep upon this stuff, how hot is it
going to be today? Yeah?How hot is it going to be?
Yeah? Ninety ninety Okay, I'min Wolden Hills. It's always really hot.
Yeah, it is, and northRidge is really hot, and so
(03:43):
you know, welcome to Los Angelesheat dome. Over the rest of the
country, they are dying there.I mean he probably literally is. We're
going to go into the news thismorning. You've got a heat dome where
it's in the nineties. Records aregoing to be broken all over East coast
cities and it's hot and humid.So kono, are you ready to it's
a schitz out there, and relatedto describing the East Coast, which is
(04:09):
a schwitz, but here it's hot, but it's not a schwitz. He's
looking, he's looking, looking,looking for it's fitz. Watch. Okay,
we're gonna be doing that this morningas we talk about the weather.
All right, Schwitz being boys andgirls, uh too sweat. Schwitz actually
(04:33):
is a steam room in Yiddish,but it's also a verb. It is
a verb that not only do yousit in a schwitz, but you also
schwitz. We s fitz you schwitz, you will schwitz schwitz. We have
schwitz. Oh you can't. Wehave schwatz. No, no, that's
(04:54):
only for males. And it's notschwatz, it's schwantz. We have schwantz.
Now if a group of males aresaying, we have swans, then
you have to do the plural wehave swans's. You know what. I'll
give you adish lessons later later on. There's swanks gonna be out there.
Yeah, that's out in the eastcoast. Okay, is it a pride
(05:16):
of Schwanz's, that's very good.It is it a pod a murder of
well that that could be a crushof Schwans's depending on where you put your
swans, if it's in place.So at some point we'll do schwans rama.
Okay, guys, is it timefor handle on the news? Good
(05:38):
start, good start today. Amy, you're learning Yiddish, right, there'll
be Yiddish lessons. We actually shoulddo a oh, you know what and
uh at some point a segment onYiddish. Yiddish words you need to know
because they're really good. Now.Arabic curses, by the way, are
(05:59):
far better. They're the best inthe word world, you know. For
example, may you take a cameldung smear on your mustache and smell it
for a week? That is actuallya curse in Arabic? How do you
beat that? It's more poetic inthe original language, but actually it is
so Arabic is a very poetic languageto begin with. There's a lot of
(06:19):
well, you know, all right, I was just thinking and it's not
gonna work. It wasn't gonna work. Okay, work all of it,
all of it, the thinking,that's right, the saying all of it.
Okay, guys, let's do it. Handle on the news, Amy
Neil and me lead story those.Oh yeah, Putin is in North Korea
(06:46):
and they signed a break through partnershipand I'm going to talk more about that
at eight o'clock. Uh, togive you an idea of how Putin is
a good guy and attacking Ukraine.But a little bit of a little bit
of reality here as to countries don'tcare about individual rights and human rights.
(07:11):
They really don't, including the UnitedStates, even though we say it.
And I'll explain that a little bitlater. And the deal that Putin and
Kim struck, and that's coming upat eight o'clock. So Matt Gates is
back in the spotlight. Remember itwas a big deal for a while and
then it kind of went away.Well it's back again. The House Ethics
Committee says it is expanding its investigationinto Representative Matt Gates to include additional allegations
(07:39):
that the lawmaker from Florida tried toobstruct the investigation as it looks into accusations
of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, and more. The investigation has been
going on for three years. Yeah, the DOJ drop charges, by the
way, the weaponized DOJ drop charges. And now it's the weaponized House of
(08:00):
Representative even though they're controlled Republican Republicanscontrol it. This is the weaponization of
insert name of any agency or electivebody here, and it's gone crazy.
The guy's the sleeves. He reallyis. He is. He's a big,
big talker against Democrats, against Biden, I mean huge. He was
(08:22):
responsible for kicking Kevin McCarthy out ofthe speakership. He led that move and
he won that one. And MikeJohnson they've left that one alone because you
know how many how many speakers dothey throw out? How many speakers?
As Gates going to toss for exactlythe same thing, by the way,
(08:43):
So Matt Gates, I hope hegets nailed, nailed. He'll only assuming
all of that is correct, he'lljust be censured. You know, bad
boys slap on the wrist. That'swhat happens, all right. Boeing CEO
Dave Calhoun spent two two hours yesterdaytrying to persuade largely very very skeptical senators
(09:05):
that all the issues going with theaircraft maker that they are committed to safety
since a pair of deadly crashes aboutsix years ago. He also denied any
widespread accusations that Boeing retaliates against whistleblowers or employees who bring up safety concerns.
Yeah, and the chair of thecommittee nailed him both sides screaming at
(09:31):
him. He denied. He justsaid, Nope, we don't have that
kind of a culture. Yes,we're straightening things out. And it was
just they weren't even on the sameplanet. By the way, this is
where the phrase you've heard it before. It blew the doors off that argument.
Nice well played, sir, Thankyou, turning up the heat.
(09:52):
Israel has worned hes be Law ofthe prospect of an all out war after
the Lebanese militant group published a nineminute video. It was apparently taken by
a drone and it shows Israeli militaryand civilian locations in several cities around Israel,
and foreign Minister Israel Katz says,we're getting very close to the moment
of deciding to change the rules ofthe game against Hesbola and Lebanon. Yeah,
(10:16):
I don't quite understand what the Hesbalais doing. Israel's fully prepared to
do a to front war. Imean, they will fight with Hesbelah and
Kamas. They've had plenty of twofront wars, and they will decimate southern
Lebanon. Now it's going to bemore of a fight because they have the
sophisticated missiles. Iran has backed themup and it's fairly easy to get this
(10:41):
stuff into southern Lebanon. But thereif they're prepared to literally have Southern Lebanon
look like Gaza, okay. Andthen of course Israel has the bomb.
You know that. It's believed thatthey have two hundred nuclear way weapons and
(11:01):
they're never going to go down withoutblowing up a bunch of Arab cities.
They just won't. Israel only hasto lose one time and it ceases to
become Israel with its neighbors. Andby the way, his Bellaw is ramping
this up with attacks and this latestone simply for solidarity with the Palestinians for
(11:24):
no other reason none. Israel hasno ambitions in Lebanon. It just wants
to be left alone up there.There's the border, and so far because
of the attacks they have evacuated theentire northern part of Israel. Is going
to be an all out war.Well, I mean, if you're in
a country, do you fight Israel. Hamas certainly made that choice. Boy,
(11:48):
that worked out well for them,didn't it. Okay, we'll see,
we'll see. It's getting closer andcloser. Speaking of it's really Prime
Minister Jamin netnaho Was has claimed ratherthat the United States is withholding weapons and
imploied that this was slowing Israel's offensivein the southern Gaza city of Rafa.
(12:11):
And there's obviously that's where the fightingis going on now, and there's already
this dire humanitarian situation for Palestinians there. Yeah. And by the way,
the withholding of weapons actually did happenbecause Ukraine and Israel were packaged together.
Congress did not vote. It tooka while for Congress to vote. Ukraine
(12:33):
and then connected to Israel and theUnited States saying the only thing we've withheld
are those two thousand pound bombs thattake out blocks of people. And Netta
ya who is straight out blaming Biden. I mean they're getting into it,
the two of them, and we'llsee what happens with that way. Matter
of fact, Neta nyahho. He'svery very careful not to go too far.
(12:56):
For example, in his last speechhe said, I don't want to
mention names Biden, and I wantto make sure that we have a decent
relationship Biden, and that we don'twe don't get to the point where Israel
and United States are completely at odds. Biden, so very subtle, thank
(13:18):
you. Yeah, he is Bidenhis time, Oh, very strong.
The pier is in peril. Youknow that two hundred and thirty million dollars
temporary peer the US military built.It was supposed to become an offloading point
for aid to get into Gaza.It's basically failed. It's yeah, been
a month and it's been in serviceonly about ten days. It broke apart
(13:43):
in rough seas. It was detachedto avoid damage, and now it's been
paused for security concerns as well.Yeah, two hundred and thirty million dollars
did nothing nothing. It is basicallythe biggest pool float that has ever been
built. The good news is Timuhas return policies, so we'll see if
(14:05):
we can get that back. Yeahyeah, and it never did. It
was supposed to be a stop gapanyway. The only way to really bring
aid into Gaza is via the points, the various transition points. There's Rafa
and there's a couple in northern California. They have to be opened up the
border crossings, and they have Israelis allowing. You know, Israel is
(14:30):
a very very interesting philosophy. Hereis that people were starving in Gaza,
and I believe that Israel is allowingjust enough aid so it's not outright starvation.
It's just a little bit over theline of starvation. And that is
pretty cynical. But I think Natagna, who is that cynical? I think
(14:54):
he will allow hundreds of thousands ofpeople right into fa emminent to keep his
position as Prime minister. Sad newsyesterday. Willie Mays, the iconic Hall
of Fame center fielder known for thegreatest all around baseball player of all time,
he died yesterday. And you knowthe he was ninety three years old,
(15:18):
so it's not like it was ashort life, but a huge representative
of baseball and a what would youcall that baseball? No, no,
a leegend, yes, well,absolutely a legend. Yes, I was
thinking of an ambassador. He isthe word I was looking for that just
(15:41):
you know, phenomenal, phenomenal athlete, just phenomenal and you can and I
don't know what the quality of hislife was towards the end, but certainly,
as you describe it, this isa life well lived, clearly and
iconic and certainly a legend. Andwhat did you play? Baseball? Basketball?
(16:03):
Baseball? Thank you very much.Show me the money. US prosecutors
have announced a major breakthrough in acrackdown against Chinese money laundering networks they say
are working with Mexican drug cartels.They filed charges against twenty four people tied
to a scheme to launder more thanfifty million dollars in drugs. Yeah,
(16:25):
this is Mexico and the cartels andsome Americans out of la and it is
just a lot of money. Thisdrug business is become international. You ever
thought that Mexico and Chinese cartels wouldhook up with Chinese and Americans to get
(16:45):
this moving? Boy, this iscomplicated. Stuff hasn't it always been international.
No, I don't think like this. I don't think the cartels.
I think they acted on their ownwith mules and trucks. That's my understanding.
I may be wrong about that,but it shows the tentacles of this
(17:06):
stuff. By the way, whenthey bust one of these, how many
have let how are through? Howmany do they miss? Maybe they bust
one out of ten. It's andit takes years to figure this out.
They put hundreds of investigators on thisand police, and they get one a
couple of years. Usually they're investigatingthis. Steve Gregory has talked about this
(17:29):
quite often. All right, well, you got to imagine the cartels have
their hands in just about everything butavocados, mangoes. Maybe. The United
States government has suspended inspections of avocadosand mangoes in the Mexican state of Michoacan
due to security concerns after one ofthe inspectors got a threatening message. So
(17:52):
they're out, they're gone, Andas the inspector left, he turns to
the cartel and says, hey,don't have the fruitfly traps hit you in
the ass. I'm out of here. Well, the weird thing is,
we do get a lot from Mexico, but we do provide. We have
a lot of avocados here, wejust don't have them year round as Mexico
(18:12):
does. However, some of themwere already en root and so they're on
their way. And then some comefrom Jalisco, I believe, but you
know, so Oruarez, It'salisco,Jalisco. So we'll still get some Mexican
avocados. You'll see them just dispatch. I think they walked away from and
(18:34):
said we're going to leave before wemiss our heads. Yeah, hands,
feet, yeah, penises, Yeah, pretty much. Last week it was
tornadoes. This week it's heat andnow here come the hurricanes. A tropical
storm warning is in effect, nota hurricane yet for parts of South Texas
(18:56):
and northeastern Mexico. It's the firsttropical storm thread of the year. It's
going to or it's expected to unloadtorrential rainfall and raise the flood threat not
just in the US but also inparts of Mexico and Central America. Yeah,
early, early for a tropical stormthreat. And I don't know if
(19:18):
how much news you watch, ObviouslyI watch a lot of it, especially
in the national news. For thelast how many weeks is the lead story.
The storms and the weather. It'sgetting tough, it really is.
So the droughts are going to bedrowdier, hurricanes are going to be stronger,
they're going to come earlier, they'regoing to be more of them,
(19:41):
and there are the weather people aresaying be prepared for a rough rough season.
Well, already the heat dome recordswere broken and this early at the
same time, So welcome to climatechange. All right. This is a
story that I think we're gonna needto see more unfold because it seems bizarre.
(20:03):
You got a nineteen year old USCstudent by the name of Ivan Diego's
he was idd as the murder suspectin this stabbling stabbing of a homeless man
on Greek Row who apparently was breakingin to his car or someone's car,
and he approached him. There weremaybe two other guys as well, so
(20:25):
it looks like three people approached him. One said they had a gun,
he pulled out a knife and stabbedhim. And now he is They they
booked him for murder. And here'smy question, A two million dollar bail,
Yeah, I mean I don't evenknow they actively Yeah, effectively,
there's no bail there, you know, two million dollar bail to a guy
(20:45):
this young or anybody. He doesn'thave a pile of money. Here's my
question. I don't know the answerto this either. Maybe I'll call a
handle on the law and ask myselfon Saturday. And that is simply saying
I have a gun. Is thatenough to argue self defense when a crime
is being committed? I don't knowthe answer to that. Did he reach
(21:08):
for a waistband? Did he reachbehind him? And if he did,
he just say I have a gun. This is when I'm going to trust
somebody other than me, not goingto wait. I will tell you Saturday
morning. The answer excellent, Iasked myself. By the way, as
more the description comes out of theevent, he did not leave the scene
(21:30):
and he totally cooperated law enforcement.So slow down or else. A bill
that would pave the way for speedcameras to be put in high risk areas
in Malibu have cleared a hurdle.Senate Bill twelve ninety seven has passed out
of the State Assemblies Transportation Committee.So basically they're saying that these speed cameras
(21:56):
were going through Malibu can be apretty dangerous thing. They've shown a forty
one percent reduction in fatal or incapacitatinginjuries in other areas of the state.
Yeah, it's crazy, the speeding. I mean, we've all experienced that.
Yesterday, I was both on thestreet and the freeway getting to the
freeway, and both on the streetand on the freeway, and I must
(22:18):
have seen four different incidences where you'vegot guys. Usually it's guys going through
weaving through traffic and like one hundredmiles an hour. They think that it's
almost like stunt people being filmed doingthat, and it is so crazy.
And at one point there was acop that I saw back maybe a block
(22:45):
just ignored it or didn't see it. No one gets tagged. When's the
last time you saw a speeder goingthat crazy? Who was tagged by the
police, don't know? A quickreminder This weekend, this Saturday night at
the Walt Disney Concert Hall, it'sthe LA Lawyers Philharmonic judges and lawyers who
(23:07):
are in the Philharmonic. Gary Green, who is a lawyer, a practicing
lawyer, is the head of theorchestra and it's oh, it's always great
fun. I'm the MC so yousee me in a tuxedo. Once a
year I make a complete ass outof myself as always. And it's this
Saturday, June twenty two at theWalt Disney Concert Hall. And it is
(23:27):
a terrific show with legal voices,the choir too, and it's show tunes
and pop music, classical music.I mean, you put it all together,
it's going to be pretty neat.And you can go to La Lawyersphil
dot org for tickets La Lawyersphil dotorg for tickets. And by the way,
(23:47):
after the show, you know,come up and say hello to me,
because I won't be there. I'mgoing to be long gone. I'm
just not interested in saying hello toyou. Okay, excuse me, let's
do it. Let's finish that pandleon the news on this Wednesday morning,
Amy, Neil and me. Alrighty. So when you're driving down the road,
(24:07):
you last thing you want is Idon't know, you know, steam
coming out of your engine or maybea flat tire. Imagine going to space
and having malfunctioning thrusters, a seriesof helium links leaks. Not a good
thing. So now, which company, Neil, oh, let me look
this up. Bill, Let's ohBoeing Boeing in their star Liner. Thanks
(24:30):
for asking. Two veteran astronauts willextend their stay on the International Space Station.
We warn them, don't go,but they are. They've got the
groundwork people trying to figure out orbetter understand, as they say, the
issues of the Boeing built spacecraft thatcarried them. Tom, And I know
it's a different division division, yes, but you do got a wonder Yeah,
(24:56):
And how do you know there wasa helium leak inside? Because they
I told us that's why. Thatis not where the leap was built.
No, I know that it wouldbe funny if it was. I had
to do a helium balloon joke.Hello, grandchedule. Yeah, this is
kind of like a I don't know, to you and me, it'd be
like a five dollars fine. ButAmazon's been fined five point nine million dollars
(25:21):
for allegedly violating California's warehouse quota law. And of course Prime members get stuff
fast, and employees say sometimes thatspeed comes at a cost to them.
And Amazon's been investigated at two SanBernardino County Amazon warehouses. A total of
fifty nine thousand violations were found fromOctober twenty three to March of twenty four.
(25:45):
Yeah, five point nine million dollars. That literally is the money you
find between the cushions on your couchand your couch. For Amazon. My
daughter's roommate, Pamela's roommate, sheworked, she now works in tech for
Amazon, and she was in thewarehouse and she goes, that's a tough
(26:06):
job. It is not easy beinga warehouse worker. What were some of
the violations to quota? Basically quotasystems you have to do X number of
boxes from what I understand, Xnumber of boxes in a given amount of
time. And that's why she saidit's not easy. It's a tough job.
But promotions, they're pretty good aboutpromotions. Their pay is pretty good.
(26:30):
So a lot of people line upto work at Amazon. You know
what, fifty boxes a minute hasbeen your quota, but we're giving you
a promotion. Now you need todo sixty five. That's true. Now,
it's like it's like, iHeart,they give you a promotion by giving
you a different total. I meana different title, I mean no money,
nothing. You're doing exactly the samejob, but now you're a vice
(26:52):
president in charge of nothing. Iassumed a couple of positions when people were
let go, well, now youdo it, right, how much money
you get extra? Nothing? Yeah, yeah, exactly, But at least
I have my hair. That's true, all right. Navidia is now the
new Wall Street Darling artificial intelligence posterchild is now the most valuable company in
(27:18):
the world, taking the crown fromMicrosoft. Yeah, they go back and
forth, and this is very important. Navidia's three point three four trillion cap.
Microsoft is now three point three twotrillion cap. Apple way back in
third at three point twenty seven trilliondollar cap and depending on the vagaries of
the stock market, a difference betweenmorning and night. And clearly this is
(27:45):
simply bragging rights. But it's kindof nice to be the number one,
the most valuable company on the planet. And you know this this coming.
Nvidia started what twenty five years ago, Microsoft started fifty years ago. I
mean, you have GM started inthe early nineteen twenties, you have Westinghouse
(28:07):
started into in the late eighteen hundreds. I mean this goes to show you
how important tech is and how techhas just it rules the world. Now,
oh ai is going to permeate everything, so it already has. Yeah,
there's already no way. Yeah,it's crazy and we'll be out of
a job soon. You know,you're going to get an AI talk show
(28:30):
host who will not be stopping midwayto chew on a bagel. It just
won't be happening. Well, whatfun is that? It isn't it is?
We'll have to program it to dothat. It's true because that seems
to work, right somehow, themore bagels the better, the higher the
ratings. There's a direct correlation.By the way, there is a mathematical
(28:51):
correlation bagels equals ratings. All right, guys, someone's going colon hashtag insert
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