July 3, 2024 • 28 mins
Neil Saavedra & Heather Brooker join Bill for Handel on the News. Gavin Newsom travels to Washington to ‘stand with’ Biden amid calls to step down. CNN Poll: Most voters think Democrats have a better chance of keeping White House if Biden isn’t the nominee. Bass launches reelection bid, begins fundraising for June 2026. Judge delays Trump’s sentencing in hush money case after Supreme Court ruling. Los Angeles to pay over $21 million in botched fireworks detonation. U.S sends a plane of Chinese migrants to China. 200 missing children found in US Marshals Service nationwide sweep.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty Here interesting you
don't need a male to get involvedwhere the female reproduces and how you don't.
Unfortunately, I'm always testing out whetherit happens in mammals or not,
because I am trying to get pregnantmany many times in my life, always
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trying Can I get pregnant? CanI get pregnant? That is a horrible
masturbation joke. I might be Okay, Yes, good morning everyone, come
and now handle on the news.Ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle and
get good morning everybody. It isWednesday, Hoday, Wednesday, July third,
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and it ah, we have aday. We have a day ahead
of us, and I'm gonna doa couple things about going to the beach.
How if you go into the water, you're gonna get eaten, which
is great news. Also, doctorJim is with us some move new information
about another vaccine, and so we'lltalk about that. And fourth of July
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fireworks story. I'm going to tellyou what some cities are doing. But
first a quick hello to win anall. Heather Brooker, good morning,
Good morning, all right, Neil, good morning, Willie Wolf. There
you are, kno billoo and goodmorning, good morning bill Okay. Now
tomorrow is July fourth. I wantto point out that Neil and I are
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going to be at the Anaheim WhiteHouse July fourteenth, because they're doing a
Basteel Day dinner that both Neil andI are going to be at. I'll
give you some more information because Julyfourth is our independence Their July fourth in
France is Bastiele Day, where theycelebrate the storming of the bass Steel.
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So not only it's called Basteel Day, it's also called Surrender Day. The
tour interchangeable as far as the namesof the holidays. And so there's gonna
be a price fixed menu and I'mgetting that together. I don't even know
what it is yet, and Ihave to. We'll share the menu,
etcetera. So you come on down. We'll make fun of the French.
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White white tablecloths and white napkins willbe everybody will be asked to, you
know, put the napkins over theirheads, uh and scream I surrender,
I surrender in French. It's goingto be a fun dinner. And of
course you know Bruno is you knowthe most phenomenal chef out there. I
mean I eat there as often asI can. It's just a schlep from
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La It's in Anaheim, all right, Sonia. I will talk more about
that later on tablet. Yeah,do that. No, you can just
tell him that we're going to bedoing that at the Biblioteca. Yeah,
you know, I share with you. France has a real habit of or
they used to. The waiters wereso rude. I mean everybody in France
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is rude. And so I hada French Canadian girlfriend the first time I
went to France, and we wentand I actually had her teach me in
French, which I've now forgotten thatwhenever a waiter was rude, smile and
go. Your mother was a Nazicollaborator during World War II, wasn't she.
Now that one didn't go over verywell, but too bad. Never
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get into a fight with a waiterbecause you're going to lose, because the
waiter is going to be bringing youthe food and rarely do you know what
happens. Lindsay was in the hospitalityindustry. She opened up restaurants when she
was younger, and she will neverlet leftovers be packed in the kitchen.
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Hey, can I put that?Can I pack that for you? Absolutely
not. Please bring the box outhere and I'll pack it myself. Well,
that's because they oftentimes toss it,go to toss it, and then
forget. Oh they wanted that,and then they put it back in the
box. No, it's because thepeople in the kitchen will sometimes do gross
things to your face. That's exactly. Yeah, but they'll do that.
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They can do that no matter what. Y that's exactly they can. But
they don't do that once they giveyou the food, then you can start
being rude. You know. Itell how about not be rude. I
don't know how to do that.I don't know how to not be rude.
But you know, if I'm notgetting good service, I'll snap my
fingers. I will take my napkinand twirl it over my head to get
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their attention. Oh, you're definitelygetting a finger in the pie if you
see. That is why we packour own food for leftovers. That is
precisely why we do it. Imean, I've worked in I've worked in
restaurants before, and I watched peoplein restaurants like snack on the plates as
they were coming back and they Imean, they just do that. Yeah,
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And I don't think everybody does that, but they're you to take a
chance. Who's gonna take a chance. So that's what I do at restaurants.
And I'm a big fan of leftovers, by the way. I mean,
I always take leftover food home.I do unless there's only a bite
left. Tell you what else Ido when something as I'm leaving the restaurant
and I'm not completely full, I'llgo past people's table and go, hey,
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are you going to finish that?Now? That is embarrassing for people
I'm with. Are you gonna eatall of that? I've gone out with
you? That's true? You haveOkay, guys, let's do it.
Handle on the news on this fourthof July. Era of fourth of July,
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the night of fourth of July.All right, handle on the news
with Heather and' neil and me leadstory. Oh yeah, Gavin Newsom is
on his way to Washington to standby Biden. Is backing Biden. Now,
I have a question to ask you, in terms of Gavin and his
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political aspirations. Do you think ifhe could get into bed with the Democratic
hierarchy, if they really were committedto tossing by Biden out. You think
he'd be backing up Biden. Well, no, right, that's correct,
slick opportunist, that is absolutely Whatabout what about closing up to become his
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u his success, not his success, Secretary Hair? What about vice president?
Uh no, no, no,Kamala is on the ticket. As
a matter of fact, I waslisting last night. There were several congressmen
that we're saying Joe Biden should considerstepping down and Kamala Harris should step in
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because she's the heir apparent. Thisis the way it would you say,
error apparent? I did. Thisis the way it works in politics.
Rarely do you have someone, especiallyrunning a former vice president or someone who's
connected that's the person that gets it. Unfortunately, that's the person who gets
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it. There are people that arebetter than Kamala Harris by a long shot.
And Biden should consider he should considerstepping down because even if it's not
true, the perception that he istoo old. And what happens is that
I think he's guaranteeing that Donald Trumpwins this one. I think so too.
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And here's the problem. I likethe fact that I don't care if
Joe Biden doesn't know how to reactor doesn't know how to do a debate.
That's not what a president does.A president doesn't sit behind that resolute
desk, and when some big issuecomes before the president, he has to
think it through and be methodical andnot just shoot from the hip, which
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Donald Trump does. I'd rather havea bad debater and someone who is thoughtful.
You know, I agree with you, but you sound a lot like
people that are trying to justify votingfor a guy that they know is past.
You know, I'm hearing a lotof this. People were very shocked
at the debate, and now there'sa lot of kind of comfort talk to
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make people feel comfortable. And thereality is, and I told you I
voted for him, but I'm lookingat and I'm not voting for Trump,
but I'm looking at this going.You know, we keep justifying based on
the D or the R after theirname instead of looking for the right people.
Yeah, I mean, we haven'tdone that. We haven't done that
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in a very long time. Sowe have to stay by rules. Why
can't you boot you know, Kamalaor oh you can't you know, why
can't you just do these things?You can, of course, but they're
not going to because you have theunwritten rules that automatically you can't pick the
same vice president. You know,in the last time, last time a
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vice president was dropped from the ticketon a sitting president, it was Franklin
Roosevelt who named this, the senatorfrom Missouri that no one had ever heard
of Harry Truman as his vice president. Garner Wallace, who were his vice
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presidents? No, no, I'mgoing to pick a new one. That
was the last time it happened.You just the very situations need extraordinary Well,
the reality is is that And here'sthe question that was asked to take
a break, and this one madea lot of sense. Is the issue
of Joe Biden? Is he justthat he just have a bad night?
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Was this a one off? Ordoes this really indicate how he thinks and
he is out of it? Thatis the question. It's not his question.
Very good question because you can seehow his people reacted, You could
see how Democrats reacted. You couldsee this this is not just a one
off. And therefore the question isis it because he is a bad debater
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or is his mine truly going?He's too old and he's he's decaying,
just like Reagan did in office.We've seen it before. It just needs
to be taken care of. He'snot going to last four years. You're
not going to do it. It'stoo here, it's too big of an
overhauled. He won't last the games. He won't last four years. Because
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I believe it will be Trump,and I agree. I would never vote
for Trump. It's because only becausenot even his policies. I just think
he individe. I don't even thinkhe's a Republican. I really don't know.
I don't think so either. AllRight, continuing just a little bit
of the conversation we were having earlier. Most voters are thinking the Democrats will
the better chance of keeping the WhiteHouse if Biden isn't the nominee. A
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new cn End poll says his approvalrating has also hit a new low following
his performance at the presidential debate lastThursday. Yeah, and there there's gonna
be a new movie coming out,you know, pushing Joe Biden. Breakfast
said Joe's. Oh boy, that'sa breakfast at Bernie's reference. Okay,
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no, you're not a Weekend.I thought it was breakfast at Tiffany's and
I was like, I don't getit. Oh, Wendays with Maury.
He's confusing a lot of things.I'm conflating a lot of stuff. No,
breakfast at Tiffany's is one thing youcan get. Bernie's is the one.
But the guys, yeah, weekendat Joe's. All right. I
was good until I conflated it.And then the thing Heather, I speak
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fluent handle, and I have formany years. I translated in my head
like with a U N headset.You'll get it. That's actually true.
By the way, I have topoint that out. Oh. The guys
used to, you know, RichMorada and stuff would tell go what does
this mean? And I go,I know exactly what that means. He
goes, uh, what was it? Chinese is the color of morning?
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And I said, no, hemeans white. In China, white is
the color of morning instead of black, like it is here, and he
goes, I never ever figured thatone out. I speak handle. All
right, let's move on. NeilLos Angeles mayor Karen Bass she's kicking off
her reelection bid. She's saying sheis seeking the second four year term.
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Why she wants to continue to deliverchange that Angelino's deserve, and she that
we cannot afford to stop momentum,like on things she's worked hard on,
including public safety yep. And sheis bragging about how the city the number
of homeless people in the city hashas dropped ten percent compared with a prior
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year because a lot of them weremoved into hotels. A couple of people
at the Peninsula got a little pissedoff on my ad that we're paying forty
two hundred dollars a night for asuite motels in interim housing. So I
guess that helps, but nothing anypermanence. I will tell you, when
you're up against her predecessor, it'shard not to look better. I do
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genuinely believe she's better, and Ihave seen some changes with the homeless since
she's been in office, But comeon, the politics of all this that
is going down, it's not goingdown. Yeah, I don't care who's
here. I think LA at thispoint is virtually ungovernable. There are just
certain entities that are just on theirface ungovernable. LA unified schools, they
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still will run again, like who'sgoing to be her competition? Nobody once
you're in, You're in. Imean they'll be public, they'll be Republic
for you, but she'll be in. I mean, the city is very
liberal. She is very liberal.Paul Caruso, having spent overall one hundred
million dollars of his money, couldn'tbait her all right. A judge has
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delayed trumps sentencing in the hush moneycase. Immediately after the Supreme Courts ruling
yesterday, they reached out, oron Monday, rather, they reached out
and asked for it to be moved. And it looks like it was.
It wasn't since for July eleventh,and now it has been moved to September.
He and if it's ever going tohappen, he is Donald Trump is
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tefline. He the luck he hasacross the boards. Supreme Court just backed
him up yesterday when they came downwith their decision. Was it. I
read an article yesterday, one ofmy opinion pieces, that said, this
isn't even a conservative court anymore.It's a straight out Trump court. That's
it. You know my mom Iwas talking to her about that too,
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and she said, well, itseems like the Supreme Court is helping him.
Oh yes, And they are anxiety, you know, and beyond I
mean beyond just helping not even hisposition, but effectively saying Donald Trump cannot
be held responsible, even to thepoint where when they're talking about official versus
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non official acts, because the courtdid say non official acts are not covered.
But if you're arguing official or nonofficial, you can't even bring in
motive. You cannot even bring ina president's motive, even if you can
prove his motivation was sheer retribution,you cannot. I don't understand. How
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can you in in law to beable to bring in evidence and understand what
is official what is not official.You would have to bring motive in that
is correct. Okay, So Ican intend crime and I don't do it.
I can't do it. You can'tdo it with your circumstances. The
court said you can't do it.You are so you're saying this is a
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bad judgment. You see, it'snot. It's a non legal judgment.
You you think the Supreme Court lookedat this and came up with the wrong
conclusion. That's a given. Yes, I think the court came up with
a wrong conclusion because I can understandthe court court coming up with you no
official you would think intent like anintent crime. Okay, Uh, You've
got certain crimes that are intent crimes, that is, you intend to commit
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the crimes and others. It justhappens. And can you imagine trying to
prove an intent crime. You cannotbring any circumstances that talks about it.
Then you have it, then youhave an intent crime. Then that that
goes over to So you're saying thatyou don't think the president of the United
States should be immune. No,absolutely, absolutely certain circumstances. It's uh,
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yeah, I think under very limitedcircumstances, which usually the court does.
It went the other way instead ofreally limiting is a broad The president
can't be touched for what he didin office, cannot be touched. That's
it. President can do anything heor she in this case he wants to
do. Can I ask just likea basic civics question here, because you
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know, when we were in class, we were taught that the United States
is built on a system of checksand balances. Where is the checks and
balances? That's just a Supreme Courtis a false support. Yeah, it
is a falsehood. Yeah, givesthe president basically unbridled, unlimited power.
There has never been a decision inthe history of the United States that has
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given any president this kind of power. As Elena Kagan pointed out in her
dissent, you can't argue that theorder of the commander in chief to a
seal team is official. He's orderingthe military. How about ordering to kill
a rival if it's an official act, he does that as president, he
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is he can do that and hasthe power to assess the rifles. What
that's a war crime? Well,I don't maybe not a rival country,
but a rival candidate with somebody who'scoming after him in I mean, it's
a You can argue war crime allday long. The court doesn't care.
The court doesn't care. It seemsI don't know, it seems hyperbolic.
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I love how people are responding withif Trump's in office now. It was,
well, the problems that kills me. It's like everyone keeps talking like,
well, as president. I'm like, he's not president. No.
It happens to do with what hedid as president. I asked being charged
after the presidency. That's what thisis about. And he is claiming immunity
as what I did as president cannotbe regarded as criminals. Meanwhile, the
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Clintons are kicking themselves in the ass, going we could have gotten away with
this, that's true, and theyactually well yeah, all right, Spring
Card has to reverse itself. It'snever going to right, Okay. The
city council unanimously approved settlements with morethan a dozen residents. This just yesterday.
Why well that was the anniversary ofthe June thirtieth, twenty twenty one
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blast. If you remember what amess that was. The settlement will now
go to Mayor Karen Bass for approval. It will be about twenty one million
dollars that will go out to theresidents there strictly at the point, it's
not even personal injury, it's justproperty damage. Yeah, I remember that
explosion, but the bomb squad wentin and didn't quite work. I mean,
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just that whole neighborhood went up.And they're settling as they should,
all right, Fashion Island, Thisis a terrible story that happened in Fashion
Island yesterday in Newport Beach. Apparently, a husband and wife were leaving Barnes
and Noble and some robbers came upto them, tried to rob them,
and somehow the woman ended up inthe parking lot and was run over by
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one of the suspects, and eventually, after a chase of a pursuit,
the suspects were arrested and taken incustody in Southgate. Yeah, and this
is a very high end mallent Yeah. Oh yeah, it just you know,
it's disgusting. The whole story isdiscussing that she was dragged bray and
all that. But ultimately you cantell the difference still between LA and Orange
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County because they caught them. Theycaught them, and Spitzer will make sure
that they do time. Oh justice. They don't want LA coming to Orange
County. Oh no, no,no, Todd he almost has. You
talk about Trump wanting to build awall. Todd wants to build a wall
the Orange Curtain, the Orange Curtain, and he wants to make it a
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real Orange Curtain. And believe me, anybody who lives in Orange County would
throw money into that one. Withgun turrets. They're going to start using
like metal detectors. If you wantto go from LA into it's going to
be like going to Jordan from Israel. Yeah, you're gonna have to change
buses, change planes. No,it's yeah, that is a zoo.
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And we've done that. Okay,let's move on. We got to do
a couple more stories. Okay.The Department of Homeland Security just said yesterday
one hundred and sixteen Chinese nationals weredeported back to China. This is a
big move. It came after thesurge of Chinese migrants entering at our southern
border here in the US. It'sraising. The numbers are rising. Rather
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they are in the Chinese Mike,I think what a third of the border
crossings in this last year have beenChinese. Everybody thinks it's Mexicans. Now,
I got to tell you, yougot Haitians. You have people from
all over the world, South,well, Northern Africa, Chinese ware one
is issues coming over the border,because well that's what you have when you
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leave the door open there. Andthere is really no good system for checking
these people out, which is whyin this case they played Chinese checkers.
Okay, all right, Sometimes theywork, sometimes they don't. And apparently
two hundred missing children were found ina US Marshall Service nationwide sweep. Apparently
one hundred and seventy of them werein dangered runaways and they were rescued as
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part of an operation with the USMarshall Services, and then the operation was
in partnership with the National Center forMissing and Exploited Children. They were covered
and removed one hundred and twenty threechildren from dangerous situations. The other seventy
seven missing children were located and foundto be in safe locations. You know,
as good as this story sounds,and it is wonderful for those kids,
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the other side of this is thereare tens of thousands of kids out
there under these circumstances. That's theheartbreaker that in terms of the numbers that
are well, they're all vulnerable,but the ones that are abused, the
ones that are trafficked, I mean, it's pretty horrible stuff to say the
least, so at least, andthe problem is with these it's massive undertaking
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with many agencies, and the investigationgoes on for a very long time.
In the meantime, these little girls, for the most part, are picked
up and used. The Federal TradeCommission unanimously voted to block mattress maker Temper
Sealy's purchase of Mattress Firm on Tuesday. So you've got the world's largest mattress
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supplier and manufacture and the largest inthe US betting retailer trying to do this
four billion dollar deal. The FTCis concerned about it because they want to
keep trade free. Very good.It's gonna make the world's biggest manufacturer slash
retailer. And the FTC said,not too powerful, No chance, So
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we'll see what happens. No MattressMafia, King Mintain's over there, all
right, Well, yeah, justa quick one. You know, the
FTC doesn't just say no. TheFTC has to go to court and stop
the sale. But you didn't knowthat. Okay, thanks for that.
No, you're welcome putting one inmy mind pocket. Get your stamps everybody,
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because the price of stamps are goingup. Apparently they are going to
go from sixty eight cents to seventythree cents on July fourteenth, So go
and get your forever stamps. Thisis part of the USPS Tenure Delivering for
America plan to financially stabilize the postalservice. Yeah. Maybe maybe it's going
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to break even for the first timein thirty years as it loses money handover
fist. Here's the problem with thepostal service. You know, how does
ups How do FedEx make so muchmoney because the postal service has to deliver
to every address in the country.So if you're writing to some Eskimo up
in Borough, Alaska living in anigloo by the way, I don't know
if you might be even allowed tosay that. Probably not. You shouldn't
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be referring to people as eskimos,but they are. But they are Eskimos.
In any case, they have todeliver to that iglo. Okay,
well, now they're going to paymore to do it, that's correct.
Know then that igloo is still warmerthan that cold dead heart in your chest.
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But that's a thank you. Acrowd crushed at a religious gathering in
northern India that killed more than onehundred and twenty people yesterday, mostly women,
in one of the deadliest such incidentsin the country, in the country
that they have seen in recent years. But these these gatherings, man,
they are very little rules around them, very little safety nets or anything else,
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and they're massive and the minute youknow, heat or something like that
creates a stampede. Good night Irene. Yeah, these are about followers of
the Bullet Baba who come to him. It's a cult. It's a cult,
and so here they are. He'sgone, by the way, he's
just because they're going after him forall kinds of reasons. I would not
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go and die and drop into anopen sewer and basically have heatstroke for the
boulet baba. No, no,what about a really good sale on bread?
Oh oh, where's I made himhungry? And I brought a bagel
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today from just from the store.Oh that's not a bagel a bagel.
Listen, I'm not as rich asyou are. I can't go to You
can't go to a bagel shop,and I can't. I literally, there
is no bagel shop where I live. I live in the Blendale. We
have we have no bagel. Yeah, no, I understand that. But
you know, don't ever say thata bagel from a bagel from a supermarket
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is the bagel. You know whatthey call bagels from supermarkets, They call
them bread. That's what they are. You have to go to a real
jew bagel shop you want real jewbagels. I would love that if there
was one closer to my house andopen it to. Michelle occasionally brings them,
by the way. Michelle, Yeah, she stalks by Western Bagels.
Fourth of July. You never seeBill more passionate than when he's talking about
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Trump or bagels. That's correct.Maybe we need Bill on the Fork Report.
He has been, we talked,We have actually had huge discussions about
the quality of bagels and the chewof the bagels, and the rust and
the density. I no longer livein a neighborhood. You know, I
got another house and I don't haveI'm not near a Western bagel. I'm
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near Einstein's bagel, a real jewbagel, but very dense. And I
think just way big, too big, because it depends on where you grow
up, and I grew up onWestern bagels. You want that chew because
I want the chews at the storeor just like chew ish. Yeah,
very very well said. And it'sbread, they're not you. You have
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to well, you know what weshould do that You and I on Folk
Reports should talk about what a bagelis and is not. Oh yeah,
because this is fascinating, not onlythat it's half of my life. Bagels.
We'll do that about that. Arethere out of time? Not yet?
There is a I just want totell you quickly. There is a
movement right now happening in La andthe bagel scene. It is popping more
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now than ever before. Courage Bagels, Mary's Bagels, like so many bagel
places are Courage Bagels. Storage Bagelsis apparently the hot spot. The line
wraps around the block to get out. Schmoolies Bagels. Yeasty Boy Bagels.
That's a real place, by theway, is it really you? Boys?
Yeah? That's great? All right, let me know. Do you
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want me to do this last storynow? Unfortunately we're ending on the bagels
listen, You're stuck with me throughthe weekend. Bill, So I'm sorry,
No, I'm actually not. Butthat's okay, all right, We're
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don't need a male to get involvedwhere the female reproduces and how you don't.
Unfortunately, I'm always testing out whetherit happens in mammals or not,
because I am trying to get pregnantmany many times in my life, always
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trying Can I get pregnant? CanI get pregnant? That is a horrible
masturbation joke. I might be Okay, Yes, good morning everyone, come
and now handle on the news.Ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle and
get good morning everybody. It isWednesday, Hoday, Wednesday, July third,
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and it ah, we have aday. We have a day ahead
of us, and I'm gonna doa couple things about going to the beach.
How if you go into the water, you're gonna get eaten, which
is great news. Also, doctorJim is with us some move new information
about another vaccine, and so we'lltalk about that. And fourth of July
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fireworks story. I'm going to tellyou what some cities are doing. But
first a quick hello to win anall. Heather Brooker, good morning,
Good morning, all right, Neil, good morning, Willie Wolf. There
you are, kno billoo and goodmorning, good morning bill Okay. Now
tomorrow is July fourth. I wantto point out that Neil and I are
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going to be at the Anaheim WhiteHouse July fourteenth, because they're doing a
Basteel Day dinner that both Neil andI are going to be at. I'll
give you some more information because Julyfourth is our independence Their July fourth in
France is Bastiele Day, where theycelebrate the storming of the bass Steel.
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So not only it's called Basteel Day, it's also called Surrender Day. The
tour interchangeable as far as the namesof the holidays. And so there's gonna
be a price fixed menu and I'mgetting that together. I don't even know
what it is yet, and Ihave to. We'll share the menu,
etcetera. So you come on down. We'll make fun of the French.
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White white tablecloths and white napkins willbe everybody will be asked to, you
know, put the napkins over theirheads, uh and scream I surrender,
I surrender in French. It's goingto be a fun dinner. And of
course you know Bruno is you knowthe most phenomenal chef out there. I
mean I eat there as often asI can. It's just a schlep from
(02:43):
La It's in Anaheim, all right, Sonia. I will talk more about
that later on tablet. Yeah,do that. No, you can just
tell him that we're going to bedoing that at the Biblioteca. Yeah,
you know, I share with you. France has a real habit of or
they used to. The waiters wereso rude. I mean everybody in France
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is rude. And so I hada French Canadian girlfriend the first time I
went to France, and we wentand I actually had her teach me in
French, which I've now forgotten thatwhenever a waiter was rude, smile and
go. Your mother was a Nazicollaborator during World War II, wasn't she.
Now that one didn't go over verywell, but too bad. Never
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get into a fight with a waiterbecause you're going to lose, because the
waiter is going to be bringing youthe food and rarely do you know what
happens. Lindsay was in the hospitalityindustry. She opened up restaurants when she
was younger, and she will neverlet leftovers be packed in the kitchen.
(03:50):
Hey, can I put that?Can I pack that for you? Absolutely
not. Please bring the box outhere and I'll pack it myself. Well,
that's because they oftentimes toss it,go to toss it, and then
forget. Oh they wanted that,and then they put it back in the
box. No, it's because thepeople in the kitchen will sometimes do gross
things to your face. That's exactly. Yeah, but they'll do that.
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They can do that no matter what. Y that's exactly they can. But
they don't do that once they giveyou the food, then you can start
being rude. You know. Itell how about not be rude. I
don't know how to do that.I don't know how to not be rude.
But you know, if I'm notgetting good service, I'll snap my
fingers. I will take my napkinand twirl it over my head to get
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their attention. Oh, you're definitelygetting a finger in the pie if you
see. That is why we packour own food for leftovers. That is
precisely why we do it. Imean, I've worked in I've worked in
restaurants before, and I watched peoplein restaurants like snack on the plates as
they were coming back and they Imean, they just do that. Yeah,
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And I don't think everybody does that, but they're you to take a
chance. Who's gonna take a chance. So that's what I do at restaurants.
And I'm a big fan of leftovers, by the way. I mean,
I always take leftover food home.I do unless there's only a bite
left. Tell you what else Ido when something as I'm leaving the restaurant
and I'm not completely full, I'llgo past people's table and go, hey,
(05:21):
are you going to finish that?Now? That is embarrassing for people
I'm with. Are you gonna eatall of that? I've gone out with
you? That's true? You haveOkay, guys, let's do it.
Handle on the news on this fourthof July. Era of fourth of July,
(05:44):
the night of fourth of July.All right, handle on the news
with Heather and' neil and me leadstory. Oh yeah, Gavin Newsom is
on his way to Washington to standby Biden. Is backing Biden. Now,
I have a question to ask you, in terms of Gavin and his
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political aspirations. Do you think ifhe could get into bed with the Democratic
hierarchy, if they really were committedto tossing by Biden out. You think
he'd be backing up Biden. Well, no, right, that's correct,
slick opportunist, that is absolutely Whatabout what about closing up to become his
(06:31):
u his success, not his success, Secretary Hair? What about vice president?
Uh no, no, no,Kamala is on the ticket. As
a matter of fact, I waslisting last night. There were several congressmen
that we're saying Joe Biden should considerstepping down and Kamala Harris should step in
(06:54):
because she's the heir apparent. Thisis the way it would you say,
error apparent? I did. Thisis the way it works in politics.
Rarely do you have someone, especiallyrunning a former vice president or someone who's
connected that's the person that gets it. Unfortunately, that's the person who gets
(07:14):
it. There are people that arebetter than Kamala Harris by a long shot.
And Biden should consider he should considerstepping down because even if it's not
true, the perception that he istoo old. And what happens is that
I think he's guaranteeing that Donald Trumpwins this one. I think so too.
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And here's the problem. I likethe fact that I don't care if
Joe Biden doesn't know how to reactor doesn't know how to do a debate.
That's not what a president does.A president doesn't sit behind that resolute
desk, and when some big issuecomes before the president, he has to
think it through and be methodical andnot just shoot from the hip, which
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Donald Trump does. I'd rather havea bad debater and someone who is thoughtful.
You know, I agree with you, but you sound a lot like
people that are trying to justify votingfor a guy that they know is past.
You know, I'm hearing a lotof this. People were very shocked
at the debate, and now there'sa lot of kind of comfort talk to
(08:22):
make people feel comfortable. And thereality is, and I told you I
voted for him, but I'm lookingat and I'm not voting for Trump,
but I'm looking at this going.You know, we keep justifying based on
the D or the R after theirname instead of looking for the right people.
Yeah, I mean, we haven'tdone that. We haven't done that
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in a very long time. Sowe have to stay by rules. Why
can't you boot you know, Kamalaor oh you can't you know, why
can't you just do these things?You can, of course, but they're
not going to because you have theunwritten rules that automatically you can't pick the
same vice president. You know,in the last time, last time a
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vice president was dropped from the ticketon a sitting president, it was Franklin
Roosevelt who named this, the senatorfrom Missouri that no one had ever heard
of Harry Truman as his vice president. Garner Wallace, who were his vice
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presidents? No, no, I'mgoing to pick a new one. That
was the last time it happened.You just the very situations need extraordinary Well,
the reality is is that And here'sthe question that was asked to take
a break, and this one madea lot of sense. Is the issue
of Joe Biden? Is he justthat he just have a bad night?
(09:48):
Was this a one off? Ordoes this really indicate how he thinks and
he is out of it? Thatis the question. It's not his question.
Very good question because you can seehow his people reacted, You could
see how Democrats reacted. You couldsee this this is not just a one
off. And therefore the question isis it because he is a bad debater
(10:11):
or is his mine truly going?He's too old and he's he's decaying,
just like Reagan did in office.We've seen it before. It just needs
to be taken care of. He'snot going to last four years. You're
not going to do it. It'stoo here, it's too big of an
overhauled. He won't last the games. He won't last four years. Because
(10:31):
I believe it will be Trump,and I agree. I would never vote
for Trump. It's because only becausenot even his policies. I just think
he individe. I don't even thinkhe's a Republican. I really don't know.
I don't think so either. AllRight, continuing just a little bit
of the conversation we were having earlier. Most voters are thinking the Democrats will
the better chance of keeping the WhiteHouse if Biden isn't the nominee. A
(10:52):
new cn End poll says his approvalrating has also hit a new low following
his performance at the presidential debate lastThursday. Yeah, and there there's gonna
be a new movie coming out,you know, pushing Joe Biden. Breakfast
said Joe's. Oh boy, that'sa breakfast at Bernie's reference. Okay,
(11:15):
no, you're not a Weekend.I thought it was breakfast at Tiffany's and
I was like, I don't getit. Oh, Wendays with Maury.
He's confusing a lot of things.I'm conflating a lot of stuff. No,
breakfast at Tiffany's is one thing youcan get. Bernie's is the one.
But the guys, yeah, weekendat Joe's. All right. I
was good until I conflated it.And then the thing Heather, I speak
(11:35):
fluent handle, and I have formany years. I translated in my head
like with a U N headset.You'll get it. That's actually true.
By the way, I have topoint that out. Oh. The guys
used to, you know, RichMorada and stuff would tell go what does
this mean? And I go,I know exactly what that means. He
goes, uh, what was it? Chinese is the color of morning?
(11:56):
And I said, no, hemeans white. In China, white is
the color of morning instead of black, like it is here, and he
goes, I never ever figured thatone out. I speak handle. All
right, let's move on. NeilLos Angeles mayor Karen Bass she's kicking off
her reelection bid. She's saying sheis seeking the second four year term.
(12:18):
Why she wants to continue to deliverchange that Angelino's deserve, and she that
we cannot afford to stop momentum,like on things she's worked hard on,
including public safety yep. And sheis bragging about how the city the number
of homeless people in the city hashas dropped ten percent compared with a prior
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year because a lot of them weremoved into hotels. A couple of people
at the Peninsula got a little pissedoff on my ad that we're paying forty
two hundred dollars a night for asuite motels in interim housing. So I
guess that helps, but nothing anypermanence. I will tell you, when
you're up against her predecessor, it'shard not to look better. I do
(13:03):
genuinely believe she's better, and Ihave seen some changes with the homeless since
she's been in office, But comeon, the politics of all this that
is going down, it's not goingdown. Yeah, I don't care who's
here. I think LA at thispoint is virtually ungovernable. There are just
certain entities that are just on theirface ungovernable. LA unified schools, they
(13:24):
still will run again, like who'sgoing to be her competition? Nobody once
you're in, You're in. Imean they'll be public, they'll be Republic
for you, but she'll be in. I mean, the city is very
liberal. She is very liberal.Paul Caruso, having spent overall one hundred
million dollars of his money, couldn'tbait her all right. A judge has
(13:45):
delayed trumps sentencing in the hush moneycase. Immediately after the Supreme Courts ruling
yesterday, they reached out, oron Monday, rather, they reached out
and asked for it to be moved. And it looks like it was.
It wasn't since for July eleventh,and now it has been moved to September.
He and if it's ever going tohappen, he is Donald Trump is
(14:09):
tefline. He the luck he hasacross the boards. Supreme Court just backed
him up yesterday when they came downwith their decision. Was it. I
read an article yesterday, one ofmy opinion pieces, that said, this
isn't even a conservative court anymore.It's a straight out Trump court. That's
it. You know my mom Iwas talking to her about that too,
(14:30):
and she said, well, itseems like the Supreme Court is helping him.
Oh yes, And they are anxiety, you know, and beyond I
mean beyond just helping not even hisposition, but effectively saying Donald Trump cannot
be held responsible, even to thepoint where when they're talking about official versus
(14:52):
non official acts, because the courtdid say non official acts are not covered.
But if you're arguing official or nonofficial, you can't even bring in
motive. You cannot even bring ina president's motive, even if you can
prove his motivation was sheer retribution,you cannot. I don't understand. How
(15:15):
can you in in law to beable to bring in evidence and understand what
is official what is not official.You would have to bring motive in that
is correct. Okay, So Ican intend crime and I don't do it.
I can't do it. You can'tdo it with your circumstances. The
court said you can't do it.You are so you're saying this is a
(15:35):
bad judgment. You see, it'snot. It's a non legal judgment.
You you think the Supreme Court lookedat this and came up with the wrong
conclusion. That's a given. Yes, I think the court came up with
a wrong conclusion because I can understandthe court court coming up with you no
official you would think intent like anintent crime. Okay, Uh, You've
got certain crimes that are intent crimes, that is, you intend to commit
(15:58):
the crimes and others. It justhappens. And can you imagine trying to
prove an intent crime. You cannotbring any circumstances that talks about it.
Then you have it, then youhave an intent crime. Then that that
goes over to So you're saying thatyou don't think the president of the United
States should be immune. No,absolutely, absolutely certain circumstances. It's uh,
(16:23):
yeah, I think under very limitedcircumstances, which usually the court does.
It went the other way instead ofreally limiting is a broad The president
can't be touched for what he didin office, cannot be touched. That's
it. President can do anything heor she in this case he wants to
do. Can I ask just likea basic civics question here, because you
(16:45):
know, when we were in class, we were taught that the United States
is built on a system of checksand balances. Where is the checks and
balances? That's just a Supreme Courtis a false support. Yeah, it
is a falsehood. Yeah, givesthe president basically unbridled, unlimited power.
There has never been a decision inthe history of the United States that has
(17:07):
given any president this kind of power. As Elena Kagan pointed out in her
dissent, you can't argue that theorder of the commander in chief to a
seal team is official. He's orderingthe military. How about ordering to kill
a rival if it's an official act, he does that as president, he
(17:33):
is he can do that and hasthe power to assess the rifles. What
that's a war crime? Well,I don't maybe not a rival country,
but a rival candidate with somebody who'scoming after him in I mean, it's
a You can argue war crime allday long. The court doesn't care.
The court doesn't care. It seemsI don't know, it seems hyperbolic.
(17:56):
I love how people are responding withif Trump's in office now. It was,
well, the problems that kills me. It's like everyone keeps talking like,
well, as president. I'm like, he's not president. No.
It happens to do with what hedid as president. I asked being charged
after the presidency. That's what thisis about. And he is claiming immunity
as what I did as president cannotbe regarded as criminals. Meanwhile, the
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Clintons are kicking themselves in the ass, going we could have gotten away with
this, that's true, and theyactually well yeah, all right, Spring
Card has to reverse itself. It'snever going to right, Okay. The
city council unanimously approved settlements with morethan a dozen residents. This just yesterday.
Why well that was the anniversary ofthe June thirtieth, twenty twenty one
(18:45):
blast. If you remember what amess that was. The settlement will now
go to Mayor Karen Bass for approval. It will be about twenty one million
dollars that will go out to theresidents there strictly at the point, it's
not even personal injury, it's justproperty damage. Yeah, I remember that
explosion, but the bomb squad wentin and didn't quite work. I mean,
(19:11):
just that whole neighborhood went up.And they're settling as they should,
all right, Fashion Island, Thisis a terrible story that happened in Fashion
Island yesterday in Newport Beach. Apparently, a husband and wife were leaving Barnes
and Noble and some robbers came upto them, tried to rob them,
and somehow the woman ended up inthe parking lot and was run over by
(19:34):
one of the suspects, and eventually, after a chase of a pursuit,
the suspects were arrested and taken incustody in Southgate. Yeah, and this
is a very high end mallent Yeah. Oh yeah, it just you know,
it's disgusting. The whole story isdiscussing that she was dragged bray and
all that. But ultimately you cantell the difference still between LA and Orange
(20:00):
County because they caught them. Theycaught them, and Spitzer will make sure
that they do time. Oh justice. They don't want LA coming to Orange
County. Oh no, no,no, Todd he almost has. You
talk about Trump wanting to build awall. Todd wants to build a wall
the Orange Curtain, the Orange Curtain, and he wants to make it a
(20:21):
real Orange Curtain. And believe me, anybody who lives in Orange County would
throw money into that one. Withgun turrets. They're going to start using
like metal detectors. If you wantto go from LA into it's going to
be like going to Jordan from Israel. Yeah, you're gonna have to change
buses, change planes. No,it's yeah, that is a zoo.
(20:41):
And we've done that. Okay,let's move on. We got to do
a couple more stories. Okay.The Department of Homeland Security just said yesterday
one hundred and sixteen Chinese nationals weredeported back to China. This is a
big move. It came after thesurge of Chinese migrants entering at our southern
border here in the US. It'sraising. The numbers are rising. Rather
(21:03):
they are in the Chinese Mike,I think what a third of the border
crossings in this last year have beenChinese. Everybody thinks it's Mexicans. Now,
I got to tell you, yougot Haitians. You have people from
all over the world, South,well, Northern Africa, Chinese ware one
is issues coming over the border,because well that's what you have when you
(21:25):
leave the door open there. Andthere is really no good system for checking
these people out, which is whyin this case they played Chinese checkers.
Okay, all right, Sometimes theywork, sometimes they don't. And apparently
two hundred missing children were found ina US Marshall Service nationwide sweep. Apparently
one hundred and seventy of them werein dangered runaways and they were rescued as
(21:49):
part of an operation with the USMarshall Services, and then the operation was
in partnership with the National Center forMissing and Exploited Children. They were covered
and removed one hundred and twenty threechildren from dangerous situations. The other seventy
seven missing children were located and foundto be in safe locations. You know,
as good as this story sounds,and it is wonderful for those kids,
(22:11):
the other side of this is thereare tens of thousands of kids out
there under these circumstances. That's theheartbreaker that in terms of the numbers that
are well, they're all vulnerable,but the ones that are abused, the
ones that are trafficked, I mean, it's pretty horrible stuff to say the
least, so at least, andthe problem is with these it's massive undertaking
(22:36):
with many agencies, and the investigationgoes on for a very long time.
In the meantime, these little girls, for the most part, are picked
up and used. The Federal TradeCommission unanimously voted to block mattress maker Temper
Sealy's purchase of Mattress Firm on Tuesday. So you've got the world's largest mattress
(22:56):
supplier and manufacture and the largest inthe US betting retailer trying to do this
four billion dollar deal. The FTCis concerned about it because they want to
keep trade free. Very good.It's gonna make the world's biggest manufacturer slash
retailer. And the FTC said,not too powerful, No chance, So
(23:21):
we'll see what happens. No MattressMafia, King Mintain's over there, all
right, Well, yeah, justa quick one. You know, the
FTC doesn't just say no. TheFTC has to go to court and stop
the sale. But you didn't knowthat. Okay, thanks for that.
No, you're welcome putting one inmy mind pocket. Get your stamps everybody,
(23:41):
because the price of stamps are goingup. Apparently they are going to
go from sixty eight cents to seventythree cents on July fourteenth, So go
and get your forever stamps. Thisis part of the USPS Tenure Delivering for
America plan to financially stabilize the postalservice. Yeah. Maybe maybe it's going
(24:03):
to break even for the first timein thirty years as it loses money handover
fist. Here's the problem with thepostal service. You know, how does
ups How do FedEx make so muchmoney because the postal service has to deliver
to every address in the country.So if you're writing to some Eskimo up
in Borough, Alaska living in anigloo by the way, I don't know
if you might be even allowed tosay that. Probably not. You shouldn't
(24:26):
be referring to people as eskimos,but they are. But they are Eskimos.
In any case, they have todeliver to that iglo. Okay,
well, now they're going to paymore to do it, that's correct.
Know then that igloo is still warmerthan that cold dead heart in your chest.
(24:48):
But that's a thank you. Acrowd crushed at a religious gathering in
northern India that killed more than onehundred and twenty people yesterday, mostly women,
in one of the deadliest such incidentsin the country, in the country
that they have seen in recent years. But these these gatherings, man,
they are very little rules around them, very little safety nets or anything else,
(25:12):
and they're massive and the minute youknow, heat or something like that
creates a stampede. Good night Irene. Yeah, these are about followers of
the Bullet Baba who come to him. It's a cult. It's a cult,
and so here they are. He'sgone, by the way, he's
just because they're going after him forall kinds of reasons. I would not
(25:36):
go and die and drop into anopen sewer and basically have heatstroke for the
boulet baba. No, no,what about a really good sale on bread?
Oh oh, where's I made himhungry? And I brought a bagel
(25:59):
today from just from the store.Oh that's not a bagel a bagel.
Listen, I'm not as rich asyou are. I can't go to You
can't go to a bagel shop,and I can't. I literally, there
is no bagel shop where I live. I live in the Blendale. We
have we have no bagel. Yeah, no, I understand that. But
you know, don't ever say thata bagel from a bagel from a supermarket
(26:22):
is the bagel. You know whatthey call bagels from supermarkets, They call
them bread. That's what they are. You have to go to a real
jew bagel shop you want real jewbagels. I would love that if there
was one closer to my house andopen it to. Michelle occasionally brings them,
by the way. Michelle, Yeah, she stalks by Western Bagels.
Fourth of July. You never seeBill more passionate than when he's talking about
(26:45):
Trump or bagels. That's correct.Maybe we need Bill on the Fork Report.
He has been, we talked,We have actually had huge discussions about
the quality of bagels and the chewof the bagels, and the rust and
the density. I no longer livein a neighborhood. You know, I
got another house and I don't haveI'm not near a Western bagel. I'm
(27:07):
near Einstein's bagel, a real jewbagel, but very dense. And I
think just way big, too big, because it depends on where you grow
up, and I grew up onWestern bagels. You want that chew because
I want the chews at the storeor just like chew ish. Yeah,
very very well said. And it'sbread, they're not you. You have
(27:27):
to well, you know what weshould do that You and I on Folk
Reports should talk about what a bagelis and is not. Oh yeah,
because this is fascinating, not onlythat it's half of my life. Bagels.
We'll do that about that. Arethere out of time? Not yet?
There is a I just want totell you quickly. There is a
movement right now happening in La andthe bagel scene. It is popping more
(27:48):
now than ever before. Courage Bagels, Mary's Bagels, like so many bagel
places are Courage Bagels. Storage Bagelsis apparently the hot spot. The line
wraps around the block to get out. Schmoolies Bagels. Yeasty Boy Bagels.
That's a real place, by theway, is it really you? Boys?
Yeah? That's great? All right, let me know. Do you
(28:10):
want me to do this last storynow? Unfortunately we're ending on the bagels
listen, You're stuck with me throughthe weekend. Bill, So I'm sorry,
No, I'm actually not. Butthat's okay, all right, We're
done. We are done, guys. This is kf I AM six forty
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