July 5, 2024 • 33 mins
Biden tells Democratic Governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. White House now says Biden was seen by his doctor days after debate. Hurricane Beryl batters Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Rishi Sunak concedes defeat as Labour Party heads for sweeping UK election victory. Hezbollah launches big attack on Israel, sonic booms rattle Beirut. Neiman Marcus purchased by rival Saks Fifth Avenue with Amazon. Japan: US sending dozens of F-15EX, F35 fighter jets in $10 Billion modernization. High-speed hippos can get airborne, says new study.
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You're listening to k I Am sixforty the Bill Handles show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Wayne Resnick. All right,
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everybody, it's time for the Julyfifth tradition. Look at your hands,
Heather Brooker. Yes, how manyfingers including thumbs do you have today on
July fifth? So far I gotall ten? Oh fantastic. Now let
us go to producer and Hi,good morning, I made. Did you
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retain all your digits? Yeah,they're all intact, very well. Oh
my god, that's fantastic. Andrunning the bar this morning, Robin Barreto
made. I don't know how many. Here's the thing I've never I have
not had opportunity to meet you.So it's possible before yesterday you didn't have
all ten fingers and thumbs. Butassuming you did, do you still have
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ten? I promise I still haveten? Okay, Oh, you promise.
It's not You're not in trouble.I don't know if you don't.
This brings up a very interesting thingbecause the hiring of Robin here is so
excellent running the board has created aproblem in the building. Are you aware
of this? Yes, I'm aware. Of this. You know what I'm
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talking about, Heather, I do. You have, of course, the
same first name as our boss,Robin Bertolucci, the program director. So
now sometimes people will go, oh, here, oh, Robin's coming,
not just the first name, butRobin B. They both have the yeah,
makes it even worse. Although peopledon't usually say Robin be is coming.
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Well, I mean, if you'relike typing in an email, that's
oh, okay, table that justfor a second, okay, because that's
a separate problem. And I'm nottrying. We love you, Robin BM.
But sometimes now people will go,oh, something Robin. And of
course, and this is nothing againstRobin Bertolucci. This is against just having
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a boss across the board in general. And also, let's be honest.
You want to be honest for asecond, and working in an industry where
people disappear, do you know whatI'm saying? Radio is an industry where
you can be here and doing greatand be gone five seconds later. That's
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just a nature. It's the natureof the business. So it's kind of
like a dictatorship in that regard wherepeople just get disappeared. So anytime you
hear Robin, right, we thinkboss and even though I Robin Berdolucci,
boss means clenching in areas of thebody. So do you, Robin,
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do you notice sometimes when you walkinto a room that the people who are
already in the room breathe a sighof relief that it's you. I think
so, but so far Conway andMo call me little Robin. Oh see,
they're already tying you, yep tothe boss in this way. Now.
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The other thing, Heather, youbrought up having someone whose first name
is Robin and the beginning of theirlast name is a bee. You're right
when you go to type an email, what is your fear? I'm afraid
I'm gonna send something inappropriate or sendsomething maybe accidentally to the boss that was
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intended for the other Robin. AndI work with Robin a lot on the
board operator Robin a lot on theweekends, So I have to pause and
double check because I'm sure Robin Bertoluccidoes not want to get all of my
emails that I send with updates andyou know, pre records and all that.
She doesn't want to say it.Yeah, I had to watch that
yesterday, the first time I've hadto email Robin this Robin Robin for this
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morning, because I don't think RobinBertolucci, the PD of the station,
really cares that there's a sounder forthe seven to fifty segment now luckily.
So the main thing is this,So the main detriment to you, Robin,
is that people will not send youdirty memes or salacious gossip or like
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bitchin and moaning about whatever's happening,for fear they will accidentally send it to
our boss. So you are missingout on some Have you gotten any emails
that were accidentally intended for the programdirector? Yeah? I figured you had.
Yeah, of course I have.Yeah, give us the dirt you
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heard. What are people complaining about? It's just mostly like stuff that has
nothing to do with me. Ithas to do with like a boss kind
of thing. And I'm like,why do I get this? And I'm
like, yeah, it's probably notfor me meeting. The meeting at ten
has been moved to ten thirty,that kind of stuff. Yeah, all
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right, Well, anyway, goodmorning, everybody. Let us start today's
handle on the News with Heather Brookerand me and our lead story. Biden
says, Oh, the ease intoit. That's nice, that's all right,
a little dramatic pause before the beforethe sleepy time music. I say
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sleepy time music. Because President JoeBiden did have a meeting with some governors
at the White House Democratic Governors,and he said he's got a plan,
you know, to be more vigorouson the campaign trail and try to make
up for his debate performance, andthat is he will stop scheduling events after
eight pm so he can get moresleep. Same Biden, Same, Yeah.
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I'm like, dude, you're stayingup later than me. What is
happening here? Anyway? That's now. This is you know, there was
no official White House press release aboutthis. This is some people were at
the meeting and he said that apparently, and they all ran to the press
to say, oh my, heysaid he's gonna stop doing stuff at eight.
Here's the thing I get, LikeGeorge W. Bush went to bed
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at nine, and Barack Obama,if I remember correctly, there were several
times where they would do like aday in the Life of a whatever,
and he would stop working and makedinner at like six thirty. So if
Joe Biden has in fact been workingafter eight all the time, it's not
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I think unreasonable that he should coolit a little bit. Yeah, because
he is. He is eighty one. And by the way, at seven
thirty, we're going to get intowhy we know politicians are old. We
know that all you got to dois look at them. Turn on c
SPAN, look at a session ofCongress and you can see that politicians are
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overwhelmingly old. But why at seventhirty you will get the answer to that
conundrum. And anyway, Biden's gota bedtime, Ugh, lucky, all
right. White House now says alsothat President Biden was seen by his doctor
in the days after the debate.But the discrepancy here is that they initially
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said that he had just like abrief check. Are they saying that he
was a brie checked, not aphysical. When people were pressing the White
House spokeswoman, they were asking herif he'd had any other medical exams and
she said no. So the initialreply was that no, he hasn't been
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seen by a doctor. And nowthey're sort of walking it back and going,
well, actually, yes, hewas seen by a doctor in a
brief check, but it wasn't afull physical. It was just them checking
on his cold. They should alljust be even if somebody asked a direct
question about did he have a neurologicalexam? They should just be replying with
his accomplishments and his plans. Youdon't think they should respond to any questions
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about his health at all. No, it's ridiculous, just like it was.
It was similarly ridiculous. Remember whenDonald Trump got COVID and you had
the same thing going on, whichis, we weren't getting the kind of
information that we wanted, and wewanted to know every minute, who's he
seeing, what are the doctors saying, how that is it? Is he
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on a ventilator? Kenny walk?Can he talk? And they were not
constantly updating us with that kind ofgranular information either. So this isn't a
partisan thing. This is more like, ultimately, our concern is who do
we want to be our president?So I need to hear things that help
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me decide who I want to beour president. Don't you feel like though
knowing his state of his cognitive abilitieswould factor into that and how you feel
about no wouldn't at all? No, Because what's really what you get here
is with a president, you electa philosophy and you are electing a series
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of policies, and if that personthen the day of inauguration, like right
at twelve oh two pm, fallsover and dies. Then you have a
vice president who takes over and youstill have the same policies and philosophies.
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That's what I'm saying. The personis not as important as the collection of
philosophies and policies. We need thatto be. That's just what people should
be thinking of, and that Imean, depending on your view of the
world, one is going to bea better choice than the other, for
sure. That is a beautiful reminderthat I think everybody on both sides,
all sides of the aisle, needto remember. You're voting for the whole
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person, the whole You're voting forthe ideas. You're not voting for the
body. You're not voting for theflesh sack, You're voting for the ideas.
Yes. Well, look, ifeither of the campaigns want to hire
me at a lucrative rate, I'llbe happy to advise them. You're listening
to Bill Handle on demand from KFIAM six forty. Let's continue Handle on
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the news with me and Heather Brookerand an update on Herhurricane burrel Oh that's
my update to do about that.I thought I was tossing. Well,
it continues its path of destruction,making landfall on the Yukatan Peninsula in Mexico.
It is down from a high ofa category five to a category two,
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which is still very dangerous. Sothe beaches are closed. They have
thousands of troops there to help asthe storm hits, and as what usually
happens, it'll be a day,day and a half before you get an
update on how much damage there isin a place where the hurricane passed through.
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Nobody's ready five minutes later to tellyou how many buildings have been destroyed,
and that kind of thing. Sotime Burl is dying down slowly and
stubbornly. All right, So bignews over in the UK. After fourteen
years of Conservative rule, the LaborParty is now looks like the Labor Party
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is now going to be in controlin the UK. Prime Minister Rishi sunak
As conceded to defeat. He wasbeat by Labor Party leader Kir Starmer,
and I guess now they also theLabor Party has four hundred and ten seats
and the Conservative drop to one thirtyone. And Sue next said in his
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concession speech, the British people havedelivered a sobering verdict tonight. There is
much to learn and reflect on andI take responsibility for the loss, all
right. They won't learn anything becauseif you get your hat handed to you
like this. The Conservative Party wasin power for fourteen years, we have
this snap election, which would havehad to have happened in the next few
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months no matter what. It wasjust done a little bit early, and
the balance of power tips to theother philosophy and tips pretty I mean,
this is an exit poll that youcited about Labor ending up with four hundred
and ten seats, But any wayyou slice it, it's a big shift.
So he said, he's going tolearn. Well, what you would
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learn is maybe you should moderate yourpositions, just like if you had a
very left or liberal government in powerfor a long time and then you had
a massive shift, same thing.Maybe you guys should moderate your positions.
And of course if politicians and partieslearned from these swings, what would happen
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is the parties would be closer togetherthan they are farther apart. In there
there'd be smaller differences kind of likeit used to be. We had a
period in this country where the twoparties were not like we're way the f
over here, well where totally wayover here where you can't even see us.
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It wasn't like that. It wasmore like, hey, we're over
here. Well, we're over here, we're close to guess what, We're
close enough we can talk to eachother. Now it's like we're so far
over here we can't even hear you. Was that like the eighties and nineties,
because I don't. Sometimes I reminisceabout what a great time that was,
But I don't know if I havethis idyllic view of it in my
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mind because that's when I grew up, was in the eighties and nineties.
But it certainly didn't feel quite solike every day was a catastrophic like we're
heading towards the end of our countryfeeling. We've always had the high.
The high rhetoric with name call,I mean name calling and personal with tax
goes back all the way to thebeginning of the country in politics. But
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there's there's a difference between we shouldstructure these tax cuts in this way,
No, we should struck sure themin this way. That's a little bit
different. Then we should kill womenfor having abortions. No, we should
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pay for every woman to have anabortion, even if they don't want one.
Like you can be yelling about something, but you're still not that far
apart anyway. So no, he'snot. They're not gonna learn any And
you know what, man, ifwe're still here doing this in five years,
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it will be it'll be a storyabout how there was a bit a
snap election and the Conservatives took backall the seats. Yeah. Hesbilah launched
a big rocket and drone attack againstIsrael that led to Israel, of course,
intercepting most of those incomings and scramblingfighter jets which go so fast that
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there were sonic booms going on overthe area. So if you were in
your apartment in bay Rude having coffee, you know you got a rude awakening
from the sonic booms. At leastnow as of right now, Israel is
saying no injuries, and they're alsothey're they're not saying anything about whether there's
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been like property damage. They aresaying that some shrapnel uh started some fires.
So this is the way it tendsto go over there where Hezbollah launches
a bunch of stuff and then mostof it does not hit anything relevant.
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But this is not I mean,we don't. Who needs this now?
Yeah? That was some by theway, Heather, We are definitely gonna
win a Marconi Award and a PeabodyAward for this broadcast because and and and
I don't mean to sound arrogant.You will be riding my coattails when we
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get this award, because this awardwill be based on the absolutely razor sharp
analysis that I just gave. IE. Who needs this now? I
look forward to that. Yeah,start writing your acceptance speech. Wheo.
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Oh wait, you know what,I may not be able to do the
rest of the show. My phoneis already ringing. I see here on
the caller ID the Rand Corporations callingme. I suspect I'm going to be
hit up by the Brookings Institution anda bunch of other think tanks after that
brilliant insight of mine. Well rememberus, little people, please, I
will try. You're listening to BillHandle on Demand from KFI AM six forty
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department store. Nieman Marcus will bebought by their rival Sachs Fifth Avenue,
along with along with another company whichwe will just will save the reveal on
that point. It's actually the parentcompany of Sacks Fifth Avenue, which is
called HBC. It's a two pointsixty five billion dollar deal and it's gonna
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result in the creation of a newcompany called SAX Global. And the head
honcho over there at HBC, RichardBaker, said, and this seems interesting
to me. So SAX is gonnabuy Niman Marcus, and he says they
will not close any stores or onlinebusinesses, they will not reduce services in
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any way, even though you know, you've got cities where you've got a
SAX and then down the road you'vegot a Neiman Marcus, and it kind
of seems like why would you keepboth of them open? No layoffs,
is what he's talking about. Likenobody's no harm, no foul. He's
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probably saying that partly because he knowsthe FTC is going to take a look
at this deal to see whether theythink it's kosher or not. Now you
want, you want to do thebig reveal for the other the other company
that's part of this deal that's gonnatake over a minority stake in SAX Global.
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Do you want to say it?Amazon? Amazon? Man, They
have endless tentacles Amazon does. Ifthey're gonna be a part owner, they
will provide technology and logistical expertise,which means I'm guessing there'll be a big
push to increase online commerce, whichI love online commerce. I love it.
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It's your favorite thing. I don'tknow if it's my favorite thing,
but it's it's if I was,you know, rewriting the sound of music
and rewriting that song, my favoritethings, it'd be in there. Yes,
So I'm not against online commerce,but I do think when you get
to this level of retail Sacks andNemen and burg dor Burgdorf, Bloomingdale's,
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Bloomies. If you're in the know, you know, if you're a regular,
you call it Bloomies. I thinkit's an important part of the whole
experience that you go in there,and how nice it is and how nice
everybody there is. I'm just curiousto know what is going to change with
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the customer experience, like what you'retalking about, because these are high end
stores like your Burgdorfs, your NeemaMarcus. Those are high end stores where
people are dropping thousands of dollars ondesigner clothes. If you're adding an Amazon
element in there, it suddenly losesa little bit of its luster, you
know, and people maybe you know, I'm curious to see if they're going
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to maintain that luxury standard for thosehigh end stores. I know. I
don't know that the Amazon influence isgonna be visible in the stores. I
think Amazon's gonna be behind. Well, you think you're gonna day go into
Neman Marcus and you can just grabwhatever you want and walk out because Amazon
will have all those cameras set uplike they do with their Amazon Ghost stores.
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Oh gosh, Hey, which ofthese four is the fanciest of the
stores in your opinion? Neiman MarcusSacks, Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Bloomingdale's.
I would say, for me,Bergdorf has a feel of like there's just
for the brand name alone, andwhat I know, I don't shop at
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any of the stores. I'm aJ. C. Pennigal Like that's my
jam Walmart hit me up, Iwould say to me, just in terms
of like brand recognition and what feelsmore like luxury is Burgdorf Goodman for me,
Like I've never been in a Burgdorfand I feel like I could not
buy anything in there. I boughtsome towels once at a Bloomingdale's. That's
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my that's my that's my luxury retailstory. Is I splurged out of Bloomingdale's.
But I'll tell you what it is. Wow, because first of all,
they're not as crowded obviously because they'reself selecting. So I had this
woman was like my my towel,valet for the whole transaction, your towel,
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all my questions, showing me differentthings, explaining everything. This is
Egyptian ringspun cotton. Its absorbent propertiesare slightly less than this, but it's
more it's softer over here. Thesethese are designed in Portugal. Wow,
Like there's a job. There isa job for a person. Their entire
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job is to know everything about luxurybathtouse. That's what I'm saying. We'll
see how that luxury high end servicechanges are speaking of, like new things.
Japan's getting some stuff. Yeah,So the US military is now sending
dozens of its du As fighter jetsover to Japan. It's part of a
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ten billion dollar upgrade of its forcesin the country. And I've read through,
you know, some of this information, and I don't fully understand why
they're doing that. Other than justI guess more military power because they can
do we need more stuff in Japan. Are we just to be prepared?
I don't know. Well, youknow that not too far away from Japan.
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You got that North Korea. Yes, yeah, and you got North
Korea being nice, nice with Russia. That's the only thing I can think
of is why they would want tobeef up that presence in Japan. God,
I don't think we're necessarily going hereJapan. Here are all these planes.
Do what you want with them.This is part of a joint This
is part of our joint relationship withJapan. And what I think what we're
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really doing is staging these fighters overthere. Yes, hey, Japan,
would you like to why don't youhave these on your vacant lots and kate?
Because if we need to really gocrazy, it's better if they're already
over there, because you know,we have I mean, we consider their
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military bases to be it's not thatwe consider them to be our military basis,
but they kind of are. It'slike this, Let's say you have
a house that you own and I'ma renter, right, I have a
key. I can come in thereright anytime, I'm allowed to walk around,
do stuff, use the kitchen.It's kind of like that, or
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maybe it's not. Somebody from theDefense Department can give us an email and
tell me I have no understanding ofthe relationship in Japan and our military.
Get Oh, we'll save this story. Oh boy, all right, oh
boy, more Olympic doping controversy.You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from
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KFI AM six forty. We gota doping scandal, everybody. It's the
Chinese swimmers. Apparently, right beforethe last Olympics in Tokyo, twenty three
Chinese swimmers tested positive for a bannedsubstance. Yet we're allowed to compete anyway.
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What happened is they tested for thisit's a heart medication that you're not
supposed to take because I guess ifyou're healthy and you take it, it
gives you some kind of advantage.And then the Chinese official said, oh,
probably the food got contaminated. Okay, how interesting that the food got
contaminated just for these twenty three swimmerswith a specific drug that is known to
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be misused. Okay, but guesswhat the World Anti Doping Agency said?
Oh all right, well then fine, someone was paid off. Yeah,
so here's what happened. Do youknow that in the United States we have
a law that allows us to investigatedoping conspiracies even if they didn't happen in
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the United States? Really? Yes? And using that law, A House
committee asked the Justice Department back inMay to look into this, and now
apparently they have subpoena the head ofthe international body that governs swimming, World
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Aquatics and their top administrator, BrentNowicki, has been subpoena to testify.
What ultimately will this mean though forthis upcoming Olympics? Do we know it
might put some pressure on the Antidoping agency in the Olympic officials to not
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have such a casual attitude if athletesaren't test positive. Maybe I don't really
honestly. You know, I walkout my door and I look at the
world and I go, all right, what are all the problems that we
have? And the fact that someathletes might be able to participate in the
Olympics even though they broke the dopingrules is so far down on that list.
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Yeah, but that's what's going on. Probably it's also a way you
can distract people. I guess it'slike, look, look at what we're
doing. We're doing this thing aboutdoping, and then you start thinking about
doping and should athletes be allowed todope. There's a whole school of thought
that says there shouldn't be any restrictionson performance enhancing drugs. I how much
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I want to take them? Takethem? I want how much money this
committee that researches doping allegations around theworld, how much are we spending on
that that could be used for oh, the World Anti Doping Agency? Yeah,
I don't know. You know what, let me ask you a question
now now, and it's they havesuccessfully distracted us, because now we're talking
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about whether athletes should be actually justbe allowed to use whatever they want.
If you take certain substances, theidea is you're getting an unfair advantage.
Of course, you're only getting anunfair advantage because it's against the rules,
and most athletes follow the rules.Okay, what if you practice more that
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gives you an unfair advantage over anathlete who practices less. What if you
have a better coach, What ifyou have better access to things like physical
therapy and MRIs? How equal arewe gonna make it I mean, it's
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ever going to be perfectly equal becauseof all the factors that you just mentioned,
you know, coaches, time fortraining, just people's own physical limitations
or abilities. So you're never goingto have a completely equal playing field,
which is what makes the Olympics soexciting because everybody's coming in at varying degrees
of training and Olympic ability, andthen you get to see who, at
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that moment in time was the bestof the best. Yeah. See,
now maybe you do you remember thisbecause I only have the vegus of detail
of it, But there was somebodywas proposing a separate sports league to have
Olympic style games where there were nodoping rules. This was actually proposed for
somebody just like let them go crazywith us. Just whatever you want to
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do, and then you guys allcompete with each other, just a bunch
of coked up like shot putters.You're welcome for that image, America.
All right, I want to getto the story, Waine. I'm very
excited about this. I don't knowwhy. I've never heard of anything like
this before. Former Acre at KCOW and KCBS has fired filed a five
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million dollar lawsuit claiming he was firedbecause he was white. Jeff Vaughn is
he's with the conservative group American LegalFirst. He says that he's suing them
for anti white demon's discrimination. Heworked there for eight years and says he
was never given a reason for hisfiring, but believes it was obvious because
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he was fired because he is anolder, white, heterosexual male four protected
statusies. Yeah, right, age, race, sexual orientation, sex.
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Well, all right, I mean, listen, there have been successful lawsuits
like this, and we don't knowthe details of how he came to not
work there anymore. You will haveto see how it works out. I'm
sure will be getting updates since it'slocal. Yeah, I mean, really,
I've never heard anything like this happeningin LA. But I do believe
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that things like this do happen inLA. As someone who has worked in
many television stations here in Los Angeles, I do believe that there might be
some validity to his claim. Well, we will have to see. Give
me one second, because we cando one more story and all right,
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this is random and fun and isnot going to upset anybody. Heather,
if you would go to story fourteen, all right, in which you will
tell us now about an amazing discoveryregarding the hippopotamus. You guys, hippopotamuses,
hippopotami, hippos. I don't knowwhy I said that they can fly,
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they can get airborne. Okay,wait, not fly get airborne.
Let me clarify. There is apparentlya new study that shows are some new
research has found they have been ableto lift all four limbs off the ground
when they move quickly, so whenthey're running super fast, they're actually kind
of getting airborne a little bit inmid stride, in between I guess,
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in between steps, yeah, whateverwe want to call them. Yeah,
like when you see a lion runningand or like you know those kinds of
animals. They you see them kindof lift their all four legs off the
ground. And I guess people neverthink that hippos can do that, but
I guess they can. Good forthem. Yeah, all right, that
is on the news. Now,Well, we got more animal news coming
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up later in the show with heavypetting, including uh, which animal groups
are run by the ladies? Youknow, we think of men running the
world, right, but what aboutthe lady animals? But before we do
that, we're gonna get some newsfrom Heather Brooker. And then when we
come back, I'm going to propositionyou. You've been listening to The Bill
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Handle Show. Catch My Show Mondaythrough Friday, six am to nine am,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadioapp
You're listening to k I Am sixforty the Bill Handles show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Wayne Resnick. All right,
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everybody, it's time for the Julyfifth tradition. Look at your hands,
Heather Brooker. Yes, how manyfingers including thumbs do you have today on
July fifth? So far I gotall ten? Oh fantastic. Now let
us go to producer and Hi,good morning, I made. Did you
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retain all your digits? Yeah,they're all intact, very well. Oh
my god, that's fantastic. Andrunning the bar this morning, Robin Barreto
made. I don't know how many. Here's the thing I've never I have
not had opportunity to meet you.So it's possible before yesterday you didn't have
all ten fingers and thumbs. Butassuming you did, do you still have
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ten? I promise I still haveten? Okay, Oh, you promise.
It's not You're not in trouble.I don't know if you don't.
This brings up a very interesting thingbecause the hiring of Robin here is so
excellent running the board has created aproblem in the building. Are you aware
of this? Yes, I'm aware. Of this. You know what I'm
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talking about, Heather, I do. You have, of course, the
same first name as our boss,Robin Bertolucci, the program director. So
now sometimes people will go, oh, here, oh, Robin's coming,
not just the first name, butRobin B. They both have the yeah,
makes it even worse. Although peopledon't usually say Robin be is coming.
(02:00):
Well, I mean, if you'relike typing in an email, that's
oh, okay, table that justfor a second, okay, because that's
a separate problem. And I'm nottrying. We love you, Robin BM.
But sometimes now people will go,oh, something Robin. And of
course, and this is nothing againstRobin Bertolucci. This is against just having
(02:22):
a boss across the board in general. And also, let's be honest.
You want to be honest for asecond, and working in an industry where
people disappear, do you know whatI'm saying? Radio is an industry where
you can be here and doing greatand be gone five seconds later. That's
(02:44):
just a nature. It's the natureof the business. So it's kind of
like a dictatorship in that regard wherepeople just get disappeared. So anytime you
hear Robin, right, we thinkboss and even though I Robin Berdolucci,
boss means clenching in areas of thebody. So do you, Robin,
(03:08):
do you notice sometimes when you walkinto a room that the people who are
already in the room breathe a sighof relief that it's you. I think
so, but so far Conway andMo call me little Robin. Oh see,
they're already tying you, yep tothe boss in this way. Now.
(03:31):
The other thing, Heather, youbrought up having someone whose first name
is Robin and the beginning of theirlast name is a bee. You're right
when you go to type an email, what is your fear? I'm afraid
I'm gonna send something inappropriate or sendsomething maybe accidentally to the boss that was
(03:53):
intended for the other Robin. AndI work with Robin a lot on the
board operator Robin a lot on theweekends, So I have to pause and
double check because I'm sure Robin Bertoluccidoes not want to get all of my
emails that I send with updates andyou know, pre records and all that.
She doesn't want to say it.Yeah, I had to watch that
yesterday, the first time I've hadto email Robin this Robin Robin for this
(04:16):
morning, because I don't think RobinBertolucci, the PD of the station,
really cares that there's a sounder forthe seven to fifty segment now luckily.
So the main thing is this,So the main detriment to you, Robin,
is that people will not send youdirty memes or salacious gossip or like
(04:48):
bitchin and moaning about whatever's happening,for fear they will accidentally send it to
our boss. So you are missingout on some Have you gotten any emails
that were accidentally intended for the programdirector? Yeah? I figured you had.
Yeah, of course I have.Yeah, give us the dirt you
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heard. What are people complaining about? It's just mostly like stuff that has
nothing to do with me. Ithas to do with like a boss kind
of thing. And I'm like,why do I get this? And I'm
like, yeah, it's probably notfor me meeting. The meeting at ten
has been moved to ten thirty,that kind of stuff. Yeah, all
(05:30):
right, Well, anyway, goodmorning, everybody. Let us start today's
handle on the News with Heather Brookerand me and our lead story. Biden
says, Oh, the ease intoit. That's nice, that's all right,
a little dramatic pause before the beforethe sleepy time music. I say
(05:54):
sleepy time music. Because President JoeBiden did have a meeting with some governors
at the White House Democratic Governors,and he said he's got a plan,
you know, to be more vigorouson the campaign trail and try to make
up for his debate performance, andthat is he will stop scheduling events after
eight pm so he can get moresleep. Same Biden, Same, Yeah.
(06:17):
I'm like, dude, you're stayingup later than me. What is
happening here? Anyway? That's now. This is you know, there was
no official White House press release aboutthis. This is some people were at
the meeting and he said that apparently, and they all ran to the press
to say, oh my, heysaid he's gonna stop doing stuff at eight.
Here's the thing I get, LikeGeorge W. Bush went to bed
(06:43):
at nine, and Barack Obama,if I remember correctly, there were several
times where they would do like aday in the Life of a whatever,
and he would stop working and makedinner at like six thirty. So if
Joe Biden has in fact been workingafter eight all the time, it's not
(07:08):
I think unreasonable that he should coolit a little bit. Yeah, because
he is. He is eighty one. And by the way, at seven
thirty, we're going to get intowhy we know politicians are old. We
know that all you got to dois look at them. Turn on c
SPAN, look at a session ofCongress and you can see that politicians are
(07:31):
overwhelmingly old. But why at seventhirty you will get the answer to that
conundrum. And anyway, Biden's gota bedtime, Ugh, lucky, all
right. White House now says alsothat President Biden was seen by his doctor
in the days after the debate.But the discrepancy here is that they initially
(07:55):
said that he had just like abrief check. Are they saying that he
was a brie checked, not aphysical. When people were pressing the White
House spokeswoman, they were asking herif he'd had any other medical exams and
she said no. So the initialreply was that no, he hasn't been
(08:15):
seen by a doctor. And nowthey're sort of walking it back and going,
well, actually, yes, hewas seen by a doctor in a
brief check, but it wasn't afull physical. It was just them checking
on his cold. They should alljust be even if somebody asked a direct
question about did he have a neurologicalexam? They should just be replying with
his accomplishments and his plans. Youdon't think they should respond to any questions
(08:39):
about his health at all. No, it's ridiculous, just like it was.
It was similarly ridiculous. Remember whenDonald Trump got COVID and you had
the same thing going on, whichis, we weren't getting the kind of
information that we wanted, and wewanted to know every minute, who's he
seeing, what are the doctors saying, how that is it? Is he
(09:00):
on a ventilator? Kenny walk?Can he talk? And they were not
constantly updating us with that kind ofgranular information either. So this isn't a
partisan thing. This is more like, ultimately, our concern is who do
we want to be our president?So I need to hear things that help
(09:22):
me decide who I want to beour president. Don't you feel like though
knowing his state of his cognitive abilitieswould factor into that and how you feel
about no wouldn't at all? No, Because what's really what you get here
is with a president, you electa philosophy and you are electing a series
(09:46):
of policies, and if that personthen the day of inauguration, like right
at twelve oh two pm, fallsover and dies. Then you have a
vice president who takes over and youstill have the same policies and philosophies.
(10:07):
That's what I'm saying. The personis not as important as the collection of
philosophies and policies. We need thatto be. That's just what people should
be thinking of, and that Imean, depending on your view of the
world, one is going to bea better choice than the other, for
sure. That is a beautiful reminderthat I think everybody on both sides,
all sides of the aisle, needto remember. You're voting for the whole
(10:31):
person, the whole You're voting forthe ideas. You're not voting for the
body. You're not voting for theflesh sack, You're voting for the ideas.
Yes. Well, look, ifeither of the campaigns want to hire
me at a lucrative rate, I'llbe happy to advise them. You're listening
to Bill Handle on demand from KFIAM six forty. Let's continue Handle on
(10:56):
the news with me and Heather Brookerand an update on Herhurricane burrel Oh that's
my update to do about that.I thought I was tossing. Well,
it continues its path of destruction,making landfall on the Yukatan Peninsula in Mexico.
It is down from a high ofa category five to a category two,
(11:18):
which is still very dangerous. Sothe beaches are closed. They have
thousands of troops there to help asthe storm hits, and as what usually
happens, it'll be a day,day and a half before you get an
update on how much damage there isin a place where the hurricane passed through.
(11:43):
Nobody's ready five minutes later to tellyou how many buildings have been destroyed,
and that kind of thing. Sotime Burl is dying down slowly and
stubbornly. All right, So bignews over in the UK. After fourteen
years of Conservative rule, the LaborParty is now looks like the Labor Party
(12:07):
is now going to be in controlin the UK. Prime Minister Rishi sunak
As conceded to defeat. He wasbeat by Labor Party leader Kir Starmer,
and I guess now they also theLabor Party has four hundred and ten seats
and the Conservative drop to one thirtyone. And Sue next said in his
(12:31):
concession speech, the British people havedelivered a sobering verdict tonight. There is
much to learn and reflect on andI take responsibility for the loss, all
right. They won't learn anything becauseif you get your hat handed to you
like this. The Conservative Party wasin power for fourteen years, we have
this snap election, which would havehad to have happened in the next few
(12:56):
months no matter what. It wasjust done a little bit early, and
the balance of power tips to theother philosophy and tips pretty I mean,
this is an exit poll that youcited about Labor ending up with four hundred
and ten seats, But any wayyou slice it, it's a big shift.
So he said, he's going tolearn. Well, what you would
(13:18):
learn is maybe you should moderate yourpositions, just like if you had a
very left or liberal government in powerfor a long time and then you had
a massive shift, same thing.Maybe you guys should moderate your positions.
And of course if politicians and partieslearned from these swings, what would happen
(13:41):
is the parties would be closer togetherthan they are farther apart. In there
there'd be smaller differences kind of likeit used to be. We had a
period in this country where the twoparties were not like we're way the f
over here, well where totally wayover here where you can't even see us.
(14:03):
It wasn't like that. It wasmore like, hey, we're over
here. Well, we're over here, we're close to guess what, We're
close enough we can talk to eachother. Now it's like we're so far
over here we can't even hear you. Was that like the eighties and nineties,
because I don't. Sometimes I reminisceabout what a great time that was,
But I don't know if I havethis idyllic view of it in my
(14:24):
mind because that's when I grew up, was in the eighties and nineties.
But it certainly didn't feel quite solike every day was a catastrophic like we're
heading towards the end of our countryfeeling. We've always had the high.
The high rhetoric with name call,I mean name calling and personal with tax
goes back all the way to thebeginning of the country in politics. But
(14:48):
there's there's a difference between we shouldstructure these tax cuts in this way,
No, we should struck sure themin this way. That's a little bit
different. Then we should kill womenfor having abortions. No, we should
(15:09):
pay for every woman to have anabortion, even if they don't want one.
Like you can be yelling about something, but you're still not that far
apart anyway. So no, he'snot. They're not gonna learn any And
you know what, man, ifwe're still here doing this in five years,
(15:30):
it will be it'll be a storyabout how there was a bit a
snap election and the Conservatives took backall the seats. Yeah. Hesbilah launched
a big rocket and drone attack againstIsrael that led to Israel, of course,
intercepting most of those incomings and scramblingfighter jets which go so fast that
(15:54):
there were sonic booms going on overthe area. So if you were in
your apartment in bay Rude having coffee, you know you got a rude awakening
from the sonic booms. At leastnow as of right now, Israel is
saying no injuries, and they're alsothey're they're not saying anything about whether there's
(16:15):
been like property damage. They aresaying that some shrapnel uh started some fires.
So this is the way it tendsto go over there where Hezbollah launches
a bunch of stuff and then mostof it does not hit anything relevant.
(16:37):
But this is not I mean,we don't. Who needs this now?
Yeah? That was some by theway, Heather, We are definitely gonna
win a Marconi Award and a PeabodyAward for this broadcast because and and and
I don't mean to sound arrogant.You will be riding my coattails when we
(17:03):
get this award, because this awardwill be based on the absolutely razor sharp
analysis that I just gave. IE. Who needs this now? I
look forward to that. Yeah,start writing your acceptance speech. Wheo.
(17:26):
Oh wait, you know what,I may not be able to do the
rest of the show. My phoneis already ringing. I see here on
the caller ID the Rand Corporations callingme. I suspect I'm going to be
hit up by the Brookings Institution anda bunch of other think tanks after that
brilliant insight of mine. Well rememberus, little people, please, I
will try. You're listening to BillHandle on Demand from KFI AM six forty
(17:52):
department store. Nieman Marcus will bebought by their rival Sachs Fifth Avenue,
along with along with another company whichwe will just will save the reveal on
that point. It's actually the parentcompany of Sacks Fifth Avenue, which is
called HBC. It's a two pointsixty five billion dollar deal and it's gonna
(18:19):
result in the creation of a newcompany called SAX Global. And the head
honcho over there at HBC, RichardBaker, said, and this seems interesting
to me. So SAX is gonnabuy Niman Marcus, and he says they
will not close any stores or onlinebusinesses, they will not reduce services in
(18:41):
any way, even though you know, you've got cities where you've got a
SAX and then down the road you'vegot a Neiman Marcus, and it kind
of seems like why would you keepboth of them open? No layoffs,
is what he's talking about. Likenobody's no harm, no foul. He's
(19:02):
probably saying that partly because he knowsthe FTC is going to take a look
at this deal to see whether theythink it's kosher or not. Now you
want, you want to do thebig reveal for the other the other company
that's part of this deal that's gonnatake over a minority stake in SAX Global.
(19:22):
Do you want to say it?Amazon? Amazon? Man, They
have endless tentacles Amazon does. Ifthey're gonna be a part owner, they
will provide technology and logistical expertise,which means I'm guessing there'll be a big
push to increase online commerce, whichI love online commerce. I love it.
(19:51):
It's your favorite thing. I don'tknow if it's my favorite thing,
but it's it's if I was,you know, rewriting the sound of music
and rewriting that song, my favoritethings, it'd be in there. Yes,
So I'm not against online commerce,but I do think when you get
to this level of retail Sacks andNemen and burg dor Burgdorf, Bloomingdale's,
(20:15):
Bloomies. If you're in the know, you know, if you're a regular,
you call it Bloomies. I thinkit's an important part of the whole
experience that you go in there,and how nice it is and how nice
everybody there is. I'm just curiousto know what is going to change with
(20:37):
the customer experience, like what you'retalking about, because these are high end
stores like your Burgdorfs, your NeemaMarcus. Those are high end stores where
people are dropping thousands of dollars ondesigner clothes. If you're adding an Amazon
element in there, it suddenly losesa little bit of its luster, you
know, and people maybe you know, I'm curious to see if they're going
(20:59):
to maintain that luxury standard for thosehigh end stores. I know. I
don't know that the Amazon influence isgonna be visible in the stores. I
think Amazon's gonna be behind. Well, you think you're gonna day go into
Neman Marcus and you can just grabwhatever you want and walk out because Amazon
will have all those cameras set uplike they do with their Amazon Ghost stores.
(21:22):
Oh gosh, Hey, which ofthese four is the fanciest of the
stores in your opinion? Neiman MarcusSacks, Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Bloomingdale's.
I would say, for me,Bergdorf has a feel of like there's just
for the brand name alone, andwhat I know, I don't shop at
(21:44):
any of the stores. I'm aJ. C. Pennigal Like that's my
jam Walmart hit me up, Iwould say to me, just in terms
of like brand recognition and what feelsmore like luxury is Burgdorf Goodman for me,
Like I've never been in a Burgdorfand I feel like I could not
buy anything in there. I boughtsome towels once at a Bloomingdale's. That's
(22:06):
my that's my that's my luxury retailstory. Is I splurged out of Bloomingdale's.
But I'll tell you what it is. Wow, because first of all,
they're not as crowded obviously because they'reself selecting. So I had this
woman was like my my towel,valet for the whole transaction, your towel,
(22:33):
all my questions, showing me differentthings, explaining everything. This is
Egyptian ringspun cotton. Its absorbent propertiesare slightly less than this, but it's
more it's softer over here. Thesethese are designed in Portugal. Wow,
Like there's a job. There isa job for a person. Their entire
(22:57):
job is to know everything about luxurybathtouse. That's what I'm saying. We'll
see how that luxury high end servicechanges are speaking of, like new things.
Japan's getting some stuff. Yeah,So the US military is now sending
dozens of its du As fighter jetsover to Japan. It's part of a
(23:17):
ten billion dollar upgrade of its forcesin the country. And I've read through,
you know, some of this information, and I don't fully understand why
they're doing that. Other than justI guess more military power because they can
do we need more stuff in Japan. Are we just to be prepared?
I don't know. Well, youknow that not too far away from Japan.
(23:44):
You got that North Korea. Yes, yeah, and you got North
Korea being nice, nice with Russia. That's the only thing I can think
of is why they would want tobeef up that presence in Japan. God,
I don't think we're necessarily going hereJapan. Here are all these planes.
Do what you want with them.This is part of a joint This
is part of our joint relationship withJapan. And what I think what we're
(24:08):
really doing is staging these fighters overthere. Yes, hey, Japan,
would you like to why don't youhave these on your vacant lots and kate?
Because if we need to really gocrazy, it's better if they're already
over there, because you know,we have I mean, we consider their
(24:30):
military bases to be it's not thatwe consider them to be our military basis,
but they kind of are. It'slike this, Let's say you have
a house that you own and I'ma renter, right, I have a
key. I can come in thereright anytime, I'm allowed to walk around,
do stuff, use the kitchen.It's kind of like that, or
(24:51):
maybe it's not. Somebody from theDefense Department can give us an email and
tell me I have no understanding ofthe relationship in Japan and our military.
Get Oh, we'll save this story. Oh boy, all right, oh
boy, more Olympic doping controversy.You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from
(25:12):
KFI AM six forty. We gota doping scandal, everybody. It's the
Chinese swimmers. Apparently, right beforethe last Olympics in Tokyo, twenty three
Chinese swimmers tested positive for a bannedsubstance. Yet we're allowed to compete anyway.
(25:33):
What happened is they tested for thisit's a heart medication that you're not
supposed to take because I guess ifyou're healthy and you take it, it
gives you some kind of advantage.And then the Chinese official said, oh,
probably the food got contaminated. Okay, how interesting that the food got
contaminated just for these twenty three swimmerswith a specific drug that is known to
(25:57):
be misused. Okay, but guesswhat the World Anti Doping Agency said?
Oh all right, well then fine, someone was paid off. Yeah,
so here's what happened. Do youknow that in the United States we have
a law that allows us to investigatedoping conspiracies even if they didn't happen in
(26:19):
the United States? Really? Yes? And using that law, A House
committee asked the Justice Department back inMay to look into this, and now
apparently they have subpoena the head ofthe international body that governs swimming, World
(26:42):
Aquatics and their top administrator, BrentNowicki, has been subpoena to testify.
What ultimately will this mean though forthis upcoming Olympics? Do we know it
might put some pressure on the Antidoping agency in the Olympic officials to not
(27:03):
have such a casual attitude if athletesaren't test positive. Maybe I don't really
honestly. You know, I walkout my door and I look at the
world and I go, all right, what are all the problems that we
have? And the fact that someathletes might be able to participate in the
Olympics even though they broke the dopingrules is so far down on that list.
(27:26):
Yeah, but that's what's going on. Probably it's also a way you
can distract people. I guess it'slike, look, look at what we're
doing. We're doing this thing aboutdoping, and then you start thinking about
doping and should athletes be allowed todope. There's a whole school of thought
that says there shouldn't be any restrictionson performance enhancing drugs. I how much
(27:48):
I want to take them? Takethem? I want how much money this
committee that researches doping allegations around theworld, how much are we spending on
that that could be used for oh, the World Anti Doping Agency? Yeah,
I don't know. You know what, let me ask you a question
now now, and it's they havesuccessfully distracted us, because now we're talking
(28:08):
about whether athletes should be actually justbe allowed to use whatever they want.
If you take certain substances, theidea is you're getting an unfair advantage.
Of course, you're only getting anunfair advantage because it's against the rules,
and most athletes follow the rules.Okay, what if you practice more that
(28:37):
gives you an unfair advantage over anathlete who practices less. What if you
have a better coach, What ifyou have better access to things like physical
therapy and MRIs? How equal arewe gonna make it I mean, it's
(29:00):
ever going to be perfectly equal becauseof all the factors that you just mentioned,
you know, coaches, time fortraining, just people's own physical limitations
or abilities. So you're never goingto have a completely equal playing field,
which is what makes the Olympics soexciting because everybody's coming in at varying degrees
of training and Olympic ability, andthen you get to see who, at
(29:22):
that moment in time was the bestof the best. Yeah. See,
now maybe you do you remember thisbecause I only have the vegus of detail
of it, But there was somebodywas proposing a separate sports league to have
Olympic style games where there were nodoping rules. This was actually proposed for
somebody just like let them go crazywith us. Just whatever you want to
(29:45):
do, and then you guys allcompete with each other, just a bunch
of coked up like shot putters.You're welcome for that image, America.
All right, I want to getto the story, Waine. I'm very
excited about this. I don't knowwhy. I've never heard of anything like
this before. Former Acre at KCOW and KCBS has fired filed a five
(30:07):
million dollar lawsuit claiming he was firedbecause he was white. Jeff Vaughn is
he's with the conservative group American LegalFirst. He says that he's suing them
for anti white demon's discrimination. Heworked there for eight years and says he
was never given a reason for hisfiring, but believes it was obvious because
(30:27):
he was fired because he is anolder, white, heterosexual male four protected
statusies. Yeah, right, age, race, sexual orientation, sex.
(30:48):
Well, all right, I mean, listen, there have been successful lawsuits
like this, and we don't knowthe details of how he came to not
work there anymore. You will haveto see how it works out. I'm
sure will be getting updates since it'slocal. Yeah, I mean, really,
I've never heard anything like this happeningin LA. But I do believe
(31:11):
that things like this do happen inLA. As someone who has worked in
many television stations here in Los Angeles, I do believe that there might be
some validity to his claim. Well, we will have to see. Give
me one second, because we cando one more story and all right,
(31:34):
this is random and fun and isnot going to upset anybody. Heather,
if you would go to story fourteen, all right, in which you will
tell us now about an amazing discoveryregarding the hippopotamus. You guys, hippopotamuses,
hippopotami, hippos. I don't knowwhy I said that they can fly,
(31:55):
they can get airborne. Okay,wait, not fly get airborne.
Let me clarify. There is apparentlya new study that shows are some new
research has found they have been ableto lift all four limbs off the ground
when they move quickly, so whenthey're running super fast, they're actually kind
of getting airborne a little bit inmid stride, in between I guess,
(32:19):
in between steps, yeah, whateverwe want to call them. Yeah,
like when you see a lion runningand or like you know those kinds of
animals. They you see them kindof lift their all four legs off the
ground. And I guess people neverthink that hippos can do that, but
I guess they can. Good forthem. Yeah, all right, that
is on the news. Now,Well, we got more animal news coming
(32:44):
up later in the show with heavypetting, including uh, which animal groups
are run by the ladies? Youknow, we think of men running the
world, right, but what aboutthe lady animals? But before we do
that, we're gonna get some newsfrom Heather Brooker. And then when we
come back, I'm going to propositionyou. You've been listening to The Bill
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