July 16, 2024 • 34 mins
Amy King & Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. JD Vance: Trump selected Ohio senator as VP pick after last-minute push from son. Judge dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump; Special counsel’s office to appeal. Elon Musk has said he is committing around $45MIL a month to a new pro-Trump super PAC. California is 1st state to ban school rules requiring parents get notified of child’s pronoun change. California hits ‘very high’ Covid levels. Russian cyber firm Kaspersky to shut down US operations after ban. National Anthem at MLB’s Home Run Derby goes badly wrong.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I AM six forty. I
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August sixth, What Bill the daythat Hiroshima was bombed sauteed mushrooms?
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Nobody thinks that's good. Bill Nobody, And now handle on the news,
ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle, and good morning everybody. Bill Handle
here on Tuesday morning, July sixteenth. Oh, so I thought yesterday was
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a big day as we talked aboutwhat happened on Saturday night and last night
the RNC opened up the Republican NationalConvention. And I had said this,
I said, football pool, howbig would the bandage be on Donald Trump's
ear? Turned out it was aMaxi pad. Oh, it wasn't that
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big. It was pretty big.It was a good point. You know,
anybody else would have had one ofthose flesh colored band aids on the
wound. By the way, that'snot me, well it is me making
fun of it. But and I'mgonna talk more about this. This was
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the most brilliantly staged national convention we'veever had. And you have to give
all the credit for that one onDonald Trump. This is his stuff,
this is what he does better thananybody else, and he's a showman.
And but he pulled it off brilliantlywalking into the convention hall and what's his
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face singing I'm proud to be anAmerican. Yeah, I mean, just
brilliant, brilliantly done. And I'mgonna talk more about that. Also,
he teared up, He literally tearedup. Son did as well, Yeah,
Son did. But I've never seenDonald Trump tear up in all the
years, and it was appropriate forhim to do so. I mean,
the guy two nights before came thatclose to dying. Here's a man who
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he could have been dead two nightsbefore, came as close to dying being
killed as you can get. Andyou could see and then the accolades in
the audience. I mean it wasmore than even Chris Wallace, who's been
covering these conventions forever, I've neverseen anything like it. But I said
that was going to happen. Imean, Donald Trump to these people is
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a deity. This is no longerhe is not a political figure. He
is not He is this short ofGod to these people. And it's true.
It's just it's extraordinary what he hasdone. As I said, two
hundred years from now, you knowwhether you think this is a good president
or bad president. And history willtell us because and it takes decades and
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decades for historians to really look atthis, never in within fifty or sixty
years. But I will tell youhe will be considered the most unique president.
Maybe Teddy Roosevelt was considered, butI don't think even on the same
level. I really don't. Allright, hello to one and all.
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Neil, good morning, good morning, Willie Wolf, Yes, and good
morning, good morning. Uh yes, Amy, Well, Hi Bill,
Hi, Kno. Hello. Sothe a sound like the yeah you find
your dead Neil next week, Neil, you're gone, right, You're on
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vacation, Yes, sir, Waita second, you were just gone yesterday.
Oh No, I was done yesterdaybecause I was filling in for Tim
Conway Jr. Excuses excuse, Yeah, yeah, to work. He's our
you too, He's our utility goto guy, which is exactly what I
did prior to the Morning Show alittle. I would fill in for everybody,
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and that's just the way it works. So who's uh, and who's
coming in? Is it Fred comingin on next week? Do we know?
I'm not sure yet, Okay,I think it might be Petros.
Haven't gottensation either one. I mean, is going to be a I me,
yeah, we could do that.It'll just be It'll just be audio
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of being going oh Bill, now, now now. So it's going to
be a combination. I'll ask Petrosabout some singular play that happens, and
he'll tell me what the player hadfor lunch. And because it's you,
yeah, being pretty much always foodwith me pretty much. All right.
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Oh, we have so much tocover today, that's for sure. Republican
nominee for president interesting guy. JDfans to say the least. Boy has
he turned around? I mean hewas a Trump hater and vicious attacks on
Trump. That's changed, didn't agood chunk of the Republican Party. Not
like Trump at the beginning? Ohyeah, I mean he was like a
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never Trump. Oh absolutely absolutely.We have just so much going on today,
all right, So let's do itand we start first hour as we
always do, handle on the newswith Ammy King, Neil and me lead
Sorry JD Vance, Ohio Senator.Is Trump's running mate. It was announced
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yesterday, you know, in Dvancefound out twenty minutes before Trump announces it
on True Social. Isn't that crazy? It was almost like a game show.
It was almost like the Oscars Americawhere they go, why know the
runner up? Yeah, he's juststill. And it came out that way
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too, because as we're I waswatching CNN and Fox yesterday and they were
like, oh, Marco Rubio justgot the call, he's out. Oh,
Doug Bergham got the call he's nolonger in the running, and all
of them. Well, I onlysaw the Doug Bergman interview where it was
no, I'm not disappointed. No, Vance is the perfect choice. No
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I am. I'm the governor andI'm going to stay the governor. It's
the best job. You know.It's almost like it's almost as if if
he were asked, he would say, no, I'm really busy. Well
not quite. Yeah, I didn'twant it anyway. Yeah, a lot
going on. Wouldn't it be funif they actually said, you know what,
I'm ticked, I really wanted thejob. I know, God forbid
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anybody being honest. Vance is aninteresting choice. We're gonna talk more about
him later on he's an interesting guy. Yeah, he is a very interesting
guy. Married to a Hindu.I just by the way woman and they
had a Hindu ceremony. I justsaw her for the first time. Yeah.
I would like to say good forhim. Did you see Uh?
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I don't know if you saw picturesof their wedding. It was a Hindu
ceremony. Uh. The uh theclergy The clergyman had eight arms. It
was just fascinating. Okay, anybodyelse hearing crickets not, it's just me.
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Okay, geez man Ah, it'sa visual Yeah, yeah, Hey,
it's not over yet. So thejudge in Florida yesterday dismissed the classified
documents case against Trump, but thespecial counsel, who the judge said was
unconstitutionally appointed to the case, uh, is appealing and the DOJ said,
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Yep, go ahead. I thinkthe appeal is going to fly. It
was such a long shot argument infront of the judge that the Trump team
didn't even bring it up in allof the other cases in a special prosecutor
case there's two of them going on, and didn't bring it up in the
first one. It was a lastminute hail Mary and the judge bought it.
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But then again, this judge,Aileen Cannon, has been so pro
Trump across the board. Trump isthe teff law and candidate slash president slash
future president. I mean he cannotlose in court. Well, he's lost
in the stormy Daniels travel. That'sunimportant. This is but lost versus gain.
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Oh yeah, I mean his gainis just and then of course,
I mean, thank goodness that hesurvived. It was Van van Jones yesterday
on CNN who I like. Imean, the guy is brilliant in terms
of his analy analysis, super liberal, and he said something that I thought
was absolutely great. He goes,I don't want Trump to win, but
I also don't want him in thehospital or dead. And I thought a
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good way of putting it was avery good way of putting it. Yeah,
I thought that was excellent. I'mgoing to talk more about this,
by the way, at at seventhirty the case. Oh, Judge Cannon,
Yeah, yeah, what happened?All right? Elon Musk, who
said that he wasn't going to backeither of the candidates, has said that
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now he plans to commit around fortyfive million a month to a new super
political action committee a pack back backingformer president Donald truck. This is astronomical
money. He had not endorsed Trumpuntil the assassination attempt, and then literally
within minutes he endorses Trump. Ithought it came a little bit before that.
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No, I think it came afterthat. Well, I will tell
you this. The interesting thing iswhen you put these dollars in mind that
big Hally would charit, not charity, but a fundraiser. Yeah, for
Biden was thirty million. Yeah thatthey raised for that night forty five million
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yere kick Keep in mind a month, yeah, a month, forty five
million dollars a month over the nextfour months. I mean, this is
astronomical money. I don't think anybodyhas given this much money ever in the
history of presidential policy. That's uglyTruck money. Oh man, it is.
It is serious money. And sohe even was one hundred and seventy
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one hundred and eighty million dollars.Come on, I mean, you know,
how does anybody afford that? Well, I'll tell you why, because
Elon Musks were two hundred and fortyfive billion dollars as of today, the
richest man on the planet. Beforewe go on, I want to tell
you a story. We were atNeil and I were at the Anaheim White
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House for their bast Still Day amazing. It was great dinner, amaze and
a couple of videos that I didthere, which I'm not going to tell
you about because there's so much fun, and I'm i'll post some stuff to
Neil is going to put them up. And I don't know if you were
there when this this woman comes upto me and she said, I build
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you recognize me. I go,no, she goes, I was a
surrogate mother for you twenty six yearsago. Oh the woman in Green.
Yes she had. She did ittwice for the same couple. No,
she did for two different couples,twins both times. And I was moved.
I was moved. Not as movedas I was with the smoked salmon,
which was particularly good, but stillvery your priorities. So that was
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pretty neat. I mean that,do you know that I've had in my
career? In story he had twentyfive hundred kids? Wow, thank god
they're not yours. Yeah, Iwill tell you. You and I were
talking about it that night, andI was blown away when we all did
the math that your first kid isforty four or yeah, forty four years
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old. Now that's and the firstkid I did for a gay couple.
And this is when we couldn't evenadmit that gay couples having kids for gay
couples was even allowed. I mean, you know, I thought I'd go
to prison for that. Didn't youwrite the law I did? But that
kid is forty two years old,so I mean, it's hard to believe.
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And now no longer in surrogacy,and I'm staying with the most important
job on the planet, harassing you. Neil. It's it's an honor.
It is an honor, an honor. Huh. Okay, back we go
more handle on the news with AmyNeil and me. It's kind of like
a don't ask, don't tell policy. But Governor Newsom has signed a bill
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into law that bans school districts fromrequiring staff to notify parents and if their
child starts identifying as a different gender, changes his or her pronouns, that
kind of thing. I don't quiteunderstand this. I understand that kids having
privacy, but how do parents notknow yet at the same time the kid
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in school is identifying as the othersex. Let's say you have a young
boy mom and dad don't know whenhe comes down for dinner. In address,
I mean, I don't. Practicallyspeaking, I don't understand. I
understand the political aspects of this.And by the way, this is a
political statement more than any practical statement. Well, I'll tell you one.
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I mean, this is not evenin the same stratosphere. But when I
was a young punk rocker, myparents didn't let me dress a certain way,
and I would leave the house lookingone way. Of course, I
knids do that all the time,and that was an expression of who I
was. That No, understand thisis different. There is such a difference
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between gender identification and dressing. Iremember Barbara who would cont for a couple
of times changing clothes. I go, what, we're going to make some
extra money down on Santa Monica Boulevard. Is that what you plan on doing?
Woh, Father of the Year,You're done? Not dit it out
of your system. I'm done,okay. The impacts of human caused climate
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change, that's an interesting way.I don't know that I've ever read.
Oh this is CNN. Never mind. The impacts of human caused climate change
are so overwhelming they're actually messing withtime. According to New research. Now,
it's small matter of milliseconds a day, but with high tech equipment and
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everything like that, that is importantwhen you're dealing with computers, when you're
dealing with all kinds of high tech. I mean milliseconds a day. I
mean, this will have just tremendousinfluence in next I don't know, two
point three billion years in terms ofactually having an effect. And by then
the Earth is going to be spinningso fast we're all going to fly right
off. That's right, absolutely,because it's getting that. Yes, it's
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definitely speeding up. I mean we'regoing to hell in a hand basket quickly.
The world will be fine, willbe dead. Yeah, nothing's happening.
The Earth is going to be fine. Now. The world has the
ability of being very resilient. Theplanet is very resilient. Ten billion what
would it the equivalent of the asteroidor whatever that hit sixty five How old?
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The universe is fourteen billion years old, so I guess the Earth is
in the range of that's something toask, Well, sixty five million years
ago an asteroid or something hit theEarth and the dinosaurs gold. Yeah,
yeah, but that is the equivalentI think of ten million atomic bombs,
So I think it's gonna be justfine. Hey, sirih oh Man,
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how old is the Earth? Fourpoint five billion? We're both wrong?
Well, no, you were bothwrong. I never made that. I
never said ten billion. No yousaid ten billion? Amy? Did it
say billien billion? I swis,do not draw me into this. I
said ten million atomic bombs. Ithink is what I was trying to say.
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And I think that might even beincorrect. Hey, Siri, Oh,
for the love of Pete, whatis the equivalent of ten million atomic
bombs? Your mom? I haveno idea what you're talking about. Okay,
Uh, that's Siri by the way, all right, let's move on.
That is the only girl that we'lltalk to you, and that's the
only reason why you keep asking herquestions, all right, Amy? Yeah,
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COVID's going down the drain, literally, because that's where they're measuring COVID
levels. National virus measurements in sewagehave reached high levels for the first time
the summer. Coronavirus levels in California'swastewater are now estimated to be slightly are
actually significantly higher than they were lastsummer. So that's how they tell Now,
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I guess ye, they test thesewage. Now, how about you
walking in with one hundred and fourtemperature. No, no, we're gonna
test the sewage. Well that's ayou're not gonna go test. Everybody test
their poop. It's easier, It'seasier, all right. During the Republican
National Convention in Milwaukee, Senate MinorityLeader Mitch McConnell, who you know,
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has had a bumpy relationship, tosay the least, with Trump, he
faced booze from the crowd as hecast Kentucky's delegate votes for US. And
look at what he did. Hewas one of the biggest criticizers of Trump
during the January sixth running of theCapitol, and he stood up and he
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blamed Donald Trump not for the actualattack, but he said Donald Trump did
act did not act appropriately. Itwas appropriately, It was a derelict in
duty, et cetera. He endedup endorsing Trump, Okay, outright.
I mean, he's a strong endorsersupporter of Trump. He never took that
back. He never said I waswrong. Now you have Republicans that are
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saying, not only was Donald Trumpnot wrong, he was right. He
is uh. He asked patriots tochange what was an illegal, unconstitutional election.
So you have those who are inprison are patriots or hostages, and
if Trump gets elected vast vast majority. I mentioned this last night filling in
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for Tim Conway Junior, that ifthat is your mentality, then you could
have someone on the left say thatDonald Trump is such a threat to democracy.
Oh absolutely that it was right whatthat wing nut did on that.
Yeah, there are people. Ohno, you should have seen Instagram.
I mean I was checking out Instagram. I mean it exploded with liberals saying,
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oh my god, he missed.What a shame. I mean a
lot of that, a lot ofthat going down. There's something really wrong
with us. Oh, there issomething so wrong it's ridiculous. Now,
is Trump going to pardon all ofthe hostages. No. I think there
are one or two that have beenconvicted of attacking police officers and harming them
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with their own weapons. I thinkthose people may not be pardoned because Trump
did say I'm not going to pardonall of them. I'll look at it
on a case by case basis,but the general premise is that they are
patriots who overran the election. Imean, it's tough, You're right,
I mean, it's just it's adifferent world last night. Well, we'll
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talk more about the convention later on, because last night, I mean,
I was watching another planet that theone I live on. All right.
Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab is goingto gradually wind down its operations in the
US and says it's going to layoff all its US based employees after the
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Department of Commerce announced a ban onthe firm selling its products in the States.
They say that after two decades ofoperations in the US, the company
has carefully examined and evaluated the impactof the US legal requirements and made this
sad difficult decision as business opportunities inthe country are no longer viable. Yeah.
Too close to the Russian government,So Russian company and Putent controls everything.
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But that's no big deal. Imean, this is not that big
a company four hundred million people intwo hundred and forty thousand companies around the
world. Eh, yeah, couldbe bigger. It's tiny, yeah,
tiny ah. This is this isbig, big stuff, all right.
Macy's, Macy's not Macy's management endedtalks with private investors. This was a
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you know, they were attempting totake over the company, but Macy says,
you know what, We're going topursue our own turnaround strategy, strategy
and remain remake the chain as awhole. But they want to do it
themselves rather than just selling it outright to someone else. Yeah. And
by the way, that's up inthe air, because we may see it
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go one way, or we maysee it go another way. That wait,
what we may may see it goone way, we may see it
go another way. Let me explainthat to you. I wasn't so lazy.
Had get up and slap your faceright now. Okay, So,
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speaking of up in the air inthe not so friendly skies, United Airlines
has issued an apology to Hall ofFame running back Terrell Davis. He was
detained and questioned following a flight fromDenver to the John Wayne Airport. Here's
what Terrell Davis says happened. Hesaid that he was on a flight with
his wife, his two sons,and a daughter. He says his son
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asked a flight attendant for a cupof ice. The flight attendant didn't respond
on so Terrell Davis says he tappedthe flight attendant to get his attention.
The flight attendant yelled, don't hitme and ran off toward the front of
the cabin. And then nothing happeneduntil the plane landed. And that's when
Terrell Davis says that FBI agents andother law enforcement agents got on board,
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handcuffed him and escorted him off theplane. Yeah, and he told his
story, which was corroborated by thepeople sitting around him. And United is
apologizing left, right and center,as they should. And we don't know
the flight attendant's name rightly, sobecause I think the flight attendant would be
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killed suddenly. Football McGee was thename of the flight attendant. Yeah,
And so if this flight attendant isnot fired, I mean instantly, I
would be shocked. All right,We're going to get some audio on this
in a second. But country singerI'd never heard of her before England d
and Dress was the talk of socialmedia yesterday. She delivered a memorable version
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of the national anthem before the MLBhome run derby at Globe Life Field in
Arleeington, Texas. Now she isapparently an accomplished singer songwriter. You couldn't
tell, but this dethroned Fergie fromtwenty eighteen in her NBA All Star Game
song. So let's give it alisten. Yes, very strong? Wow,
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what ofless? Okay, now Ihave a question. Oh my lord,
was that booing or were people juststunned? I think it's a little
bit all the above. That that'sthe first time I heard that. I
had read, I'd seen that thatit took place, and I saw pictures.
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That's God bless her Rose Roseanne Bartwhat I first of all, the
national anthem, star Spangled Banners impossibleto sing. It's just Whitney Houston.
No, it's it's you can't singit. Well, you have Irving Berlin
who wrote America the Beautiful, whichis a lovely song written by an American.
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Uh, and it's not the nationalanthem. And so now it's star
Spangled Banner, which was an Englishdrinking song in the English pubs. Yep.
But most of our songs are notare modified, not the Irving Berlin
songs. That's an original, butthere are a lot of that were that
were drinking, you know, Englishdrinking songs. That a kind of I
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don't know if you remember in thesixties at the Olympics, Russia did not
have a national anthem for many manymany years. So as the Olympics,
the flags go up and the nationalanthem of the country wins goes up at
the Olympics, you know, ona banner or whatever. It would be
silent. When Russia had its nationalanthem, it had no national anthem.
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So the polup Burero said, we'rewriting one for next year, for the
next Olympics, and they came upwith one. Lusha is and the Hatikva,
which is the Israeli national anthem,which is very easy to sing.
By the way, is that waswritten I think in the late forties,
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early fifties. So you know,national anthems do change. I think they
go back to the founding of acountry. Well when was ours written?
Well, I don't know when toput the song, but this is the
basis of the Franciscott Key poem,you know, the bombs bursting in era
he was talking I think it waseighteen thirties, eighteen forties, so I
was talking about the War of eighteentwelve. That was a poem that he
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wrote that then those words were putto this English drinking song of which some
kind, which song of ours isbasically God Save the Queen. Uh we
don't have God, no, no, but we have a song where the
music is the same. Oh yeah, that is my country to the Yeah
yeah, my country tis if heis based on the English God Save the
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Queen so tune. Yeah, Sowhy why wouldn't they the United States adopt
an American uh songwriter with a songthat says everything about America and it's easy
to sing where people can sing itlike that's Roseen bar Yeah I know that
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was great too, with a grabof the crotch at the end. That
was impressive. If they both soundlike somebody trying to skin a cat,
but when you sing it, itsounds well anyway. So there's a move
afoot to have the Irving Berlin America, the Irving Berlin's America the beautiful.
You just like him because he doesshow tunes, that's true. Just you
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know, you're absolutely right. Hewas the master of show tunes before Learner
and Low. I mean he wasearly days he Irving and his brother.
All right. So here's a weirdlittle twist of fate. The investment giant
Blackrock has pulled an ad that hadThomas Crooks in it. That's the guy
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who took the shot at former PresidentTrump. In twenty twenty two, Blackrock
ran an ad featuring a teacher fromBethel Park High School in which several unpaid
students briefly appeared in the background,and that included Thomas Matthew Crooks. What
are the odds? What are theodds? You know? What this reminds
me of is when they were doinga documentary about the Beatles, gonna be
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a docu drama or whatever, andone of the lead roles, an actor
by the name of Mark I thinkDavid Chapman or Mark Chapman, got the
role, and then they realized that'sthe name of the guy who killed John
Lennon. Oops, no thanks,we're pulling this one. In much like
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this, we have a video thatshows this guy. Oops, we're pulling
this one. Of course, theydidn't do on purpose. What else could
they do? You're right, whatare the odds? It's one of those
bizarre odds. You remember who wasit, Adrian van dud Komfa who was
ad Dition? Yeah, great guy, Yeah, great guy. And I
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saw him in front of the MonaLisa at the loof when I was traveling,
just random, just randomly, andI'm right behind him and I recognize
him, and I'm saying, hey, buddy, you're in the way.
And he turned to look at me, going what kind of an ass is
doing that to me? And youwave it's me as He's like, oh
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great, you just ruined the tripknowing you're here. Speaking of Disney,
the Splash Mountain wildly popular ride atDisneyland, and I was never a fan
personally, but Anyo Disney spent onehundred and forty two million turning Splash Mountain
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into Tiana's Bayou Adventure, both atDisneyland and Walt Disney World in Florida.
The early stuff that I've seen ofthe animatronics is insane, except that when
you look at social media, thisis what New York Times where it came
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from, this story. This oneis KTLA okay, and that's KTL the
local version, but it comes outof a national story. They looked at
social media eight hundred and eleven thousandviews, eleven thousand likes, forty five
thousand dislikes of that ride. SoI don't know, Well, you're going
to go on it? Have youbeen on it? You have a people
are not open yet it, yeah, but people are stupid. They just
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don't like when there's change, becausethey're going to see it. You're going
to have some people seeing that thisis about being woke one hundred and four.
It is, yeah, well yeah, because it was brayer rabbit.
The theme in Splash Mountain, whichyou look at it in context, is
uh was okay at the time andis completely racist now. For example,
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minstrel shows in blackface, right,well, it's turned the last century.
Uh, you know that was notconsidered particularly racist. I mean it was
just part and parcel of what itwas. And of course today you look
at it back to the N word. You don't use the N word constantly.
Abraham Lincoln would tell jokes using theN word as a as a constant.
It's it's you have to look atit in historical context. By the
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way, I'm not defending it.I was about to ask, no,
no, no, I'm not defendingabout to ask I'm not. But we
don't look at anything in his sorticalcontext at all. If it was if
it's racist now, and it wasn'tracist all those years ago. You know,
women not being allowed to vote,We look at that today as gets
unbelievable. Well before nineteen twenty,within the context people, and yeah,
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other than the suffer jette movement.Yeah that makes sense. You know,
women voting, What the hell isthat about? So anyway, I'm not
defending, but I'm saying they gotrid of it, and to your point,
maybe it is. It is gettingrid of something that now you cannot
have. So I just wanted topoint that out. Yeah, they were
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moved rape from the rape and pillagingof the Pirates song, that's true,
or the man of it, yeah, or the or you got the pirate
chasing that woman around and around andread yeah, and yeah, that's right.
And so they changed it to thewoman chasing the guy, which is
somehow better. Yeah. So Idon't know that there's anything better about this.
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But Whoopi Goldberg said her mom wasa big fan of Disney Parks,
so after her mom died, Whoopytook her ashes and spread them around Walt
Disney World. But you can't doremember wait, we did it. It's
a small world at Disneyland. It'snot legal. No, no, no,
it's not legal. Yeah, youknow what, I did a podcast
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on it. You know what wouldbe better, I'll come out soon.
They should just make a place forit and say you can do it here
like a big hole. And theysaid, this is the ash hole here,
and what they should do is putthe old animatronic figures that used to
be it's a small world down thereand sing about the ashes going down and
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so the code. I did awhole podcast on this thing, and it
is I don't know when it's comingout because today is day two of my
podcast or day one of my podcast. This week. Every Tuesday and Thursday,
I drive a podcast at nine o'clockright after the show, and you
can go to the iHeartRadio app.It's still only on the iHeartRadio app.
(33:07):
We're moving it to the other platformsand hopefully by next week. And I'm
talking about a din An emergency podcast. I'm talking about what happened, the
assassination attempt and the aftermath, andI just I dive into it a little
bit deeper, and that's available onthe iHeartRadio app, Bill handle Pod Bill
Handles Show podcast. Okay, butyou did a podcast about this about the
(33:30):
cleanup, Yeah, I just know. Not. Yes, I did it
about not just the cleanup, aboutburials across the board. And this is
one of the weirdest one people distributingthe ashes, and it happens all the
time. I bet yeah. Andif it's on a ride, they have
to shut it down because it's consideredan environmental it's considered an environmental issue.
How can you can mess with theYeah, it's a bo it's considered a
(33:53):
bio hazard. Here's what I'd liketo do. How is that a bio
has I don't know. Ashes,I don't know, but I'll tell you
it's fun is going into my fireplaceand getting a ziplock bag full of ashes
and spreading them around Disneyland so theyhave to clean it up and just shut
down rides. That's fun. Ileave my disney Land alone. Everybody.
(34:16):
Don't do that. Bill, Comeon, that's entertainment. That's a ride.
I'm going to try and spread youall over someplace and I can just
imagine you going, I'm not dead. Yes, all right, we are
done. By the way, guys, WHOOPI Goldberg admits it, which is
kind of weird. Okay, weare done. This is KFI AM six
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here on Tuesday morning, July sixteenth. Oh, so I thought yesterday was
(00:49):
a big day as we talked aboutwhat happened on Saturday night and last night
the RNC opened up the Republican NationalConvention. And I had said this,
I said, football pool, howbig would the bandage be on Donald Trump's
ear? Turned out it was aMaxi pad. Oh, it wasn't that
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big. It was pretty big.It was a good point. You know,
anybody else would have had one ofthose flesh colored band aids on the
wound. By the way, that'snot me, well it is me making
fun of it. But and I'mgonna talk more about this. This was
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the most brilliantly staged national convention we'veever had. And you have to give
all the credit for that one onDonald Trump. This is his stuff,
this is what he does better thananybody else, and he's a showman.
And but he pulled it off brilliantlywalking into the convention hall and what's his
(01:55):
face singing I'm proud to be anAmerican. Yeah, I mean, just
brilliant, brilliantly done. And I'mgonna talk more about that. Also,
he teared up, He literally tearedup. Son did as well, Yeah,
Son did. But I've never seenDonald Trump tear up in all the
years, and it was appropriate forhim to do so. I mean,
the guy two nights before came thatclose to dying. Here's a man who
(02:17):
he could have been dead two nightsbefore, came as close to dying being
killed as you can get. Andyou could see and then the accolades in
the audience. I mean it wasmore than even Chris Wallace, who's been
covering these conventions forever, I've neverseen anything like it. But I said
that was going to happen. Imean, Donald Trump to these people is
(02:40):
a deity. This is no longerhe is not a political figure. He
is not He is this short ofGod to these people. And it's true.
It's just it's extraordinary what he hasdone. As I said, two
hundred years from now, you knowwhether you think this is a good president
or bad president. And history willtell us because and it takes decades and
(03:02):
decades for historians to really look atthis, never in within fifty or sixty
years. But I will tell youhe will be considered the most unique president.
Maybe Teddy Roosevelt was considered, butI don't think even on the same
level. I really don't. Allright, hello to one and all.
(03:23):
Neil, good morning, good morning, Willie Wolf, Yes, and good
morning, good morning. Uh yes, Amy, Well, Hi Bill,
Hi, Kno. Hello. Sothe a sound like the yeah you find
your dead Neil next week, Neil, you're gone, right, You're on
(03:46):
vacation, Yes, sir, Waita second, you were just gone yesterday.
Oh No, I was done yesterdaybecause I was filling in for Tim
Conway Jr. Excuses excuse, Yeah, yeah, to work. He's our
you too, He's our utility goto guy, which is exactly what I
did prior to the Morning Show alittle. I would fill in for everybody,
(04:08):
and that's just the way it works. So who's uh, and who's
coming in? Is it Fred comingin on next week? Do we know?
I'm not sure yet, Okay,I think it might be Petros.
Haven't gottensation either one. I mean, is going to be a I me,
yeah, we could do that.It'll just be It'll just be audio
(04:29):
of being going oh Bill, now, now now. So it's going to
be a combination. I'll ask Petrosabout some singular play that happens, and
he'll tell me what the player hadfor lunch. And because it's you,
yeah, being pretty much always foodwith me pretty much. All right.
(04:53):
Oh, we have so much tocover today, that's for sure. Republican
nominee for president interesting guy. JDfans to say the least. Boy has
he turned around? I mean hewas a Trump hater and vicious attacks on
Trump. That's changed, didn't agood chunk of the Republican Party. Not
like Trump at the beginning? Ohyeah, I mean he was like a
(05:15):
never Trump. Oh absolutely absolutely.We have just so much going on today,
all right, So let's do itand we start first hour as we
always do, handle on the newswith Ammy King, Neil and me lead
Sorry JD Vance, Ohio Senator.Is Trump's running mate. It was announced
(05:40):
yesterday, you know, in Dvancefound out twenty minutes before Trump announces it
on True Social. Isn't that crazy? It was almost like a game show.
It was almost like the Oscars Americawhere they go, why know the
runner up? Yeah, he's juststill. And it came out that way
(06:00):
too, because as we're I waswatching CNN and Fox yesterday and they were
like, oh, Marco Rubio justgot the call, he's out. Oh,
Doug Bergham got the call he's nolonger in the running, and all
of them. Well, I onlysaw the Doug Bergman interview where it was
no, I'm not disappointed. No, Vance is the perfect choice. No
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I am. I'm the governor andI'm going to stay the governor. It's
the best job. You know.It's almost like it's almost as if if
he were asked, he would say, no, I'm really busy. Well
not quite. Yeah, I didn'twant it anyway. Yeah, a lot
going on. Wouldn't it be funif they actually said, you know what,
I'm ticked, I really wanted thejob. I know, God forbid
(06:44):
anybody being honest. Vance is aninteresting choice. We're gonna talk more about
him later on he's an interesting guy. Yeah, he is a very interesting
guy. Married to a Hindu.I just by the way woman and they
had a Hindu ceremony. I justsaw her for the first time. Yeah.
I would like to say good forhim. Did you see Uh?
(07:06):
I don't know if you saw picturesof their wedding. It was a Hindu
ceremony. Uh. The uh theclergy The clergyman had eight arms. It
was just fascinating. Okay, anybodyelse hearing crickets not, it's just me.
(07:28):
Okay, geez man Ah, it'sa visual Yeah, yeah, Hey,
it's not over yet. So thejudge in Florida yesterday dismissed the classified
documents case against Trump, but thespecial counsel, who the judge said was
unconstitutionally appointed to the case, uh, is appealing and the DOJ said,
(07:51):
Yep, go ahead. I thinkthe appeal is going to fly. It
was such a long shot argument infront of the judge that the Trump team
didn't even bring it up in allof the other cases in a special prosecutor
case there's two of them going on, and didn't bring it up in the
first one. It was a lastminute hail Mary and the judge bought it.
(08:15):
But then again, this judge,Aileen Cannon, has been so pro
Trump across the board. Trump isthe teff law and candidate slash president slash
future president. I mean he cannotlose in court. Well, he's lost
in the stormy Daniels travel. That'sunimportant. This is but lost versus gain.
(08:39):
Oh yeah, I mean his gainis just and then of course,
I mean, thank goodness that hesurvived. It was Van van Jones yesterday
on CNN who I like. Imean, the guy is brilliant in terms
of his analy analysis, super liberal, and he said something that I thought
was absolutely great. He goes,I don't want Trump to win, but
I also don't want him in thehospital or dead. And I thought a
(09:01):
good way of putting it was avery good way of putting it. Yeah,
I thought that was excellent. I'mgoing to talk more about this,
by the way, at at seventhirty the case. Oh, Judge Cannon,
Yeah, yeah, what happened?All right? Elon Musk, who
said that he wasn't going to backeither of the candidates, has said that
(09:26):
now he plans to commit around fortyfive million a month to a new super
political action committee a pack back backingformer president Donald truck. This is astronomical
money. He had not endorsed Trumpuntil the assassination attempt, and then literally
within minutes he endorses Trump. Ithought it came a little bit before that.
(09:48):
No, I think it came afterthat. Well, I will tell
you this. The interesting thing iswhen you put these dollars in mind that
big Hally would charit, not charity, but a fundraiser. Yeah, for
Biden was thirty million. Yeah thatthey raised for that night forty five million
(10:11):
yere kick Keep in mind a month, yeah, a month, forty five
million dollars a month over the nextfour months. I mean, this is
astronomical money. I don't think anybodyhas given this much money ever in the
history of presidential policy. That's uglyTruck money. Oh man, it is.
It is serious money. And sohe even was one hundred and seventy
(10:31):
one hundred and eighty million dollars.Come on, I mean, you know,
how does anybody afford that? Well, I'll tell you why, because
Elon Musks were two hundred and fortyfive billion dollars as of today, the
richest man on the planet. Beforewe go on, I want to tell
you a story. We were atNeil and I were at the Anaheim White
(10:52):
House for their bast Still Day amazing. It was great dinner, amaze and
a couple of videos that I didthere, which I'm not going to tell
you about because there's so much fun, and I'm i'll post some stuff to
Neil is going to put them up. And I don't know if you were
there when this this woman comes upto me and she said, I build
(11:13):
you recognize me. I go,no, she goes, I was a
surrogate mother for you twenty six yearsago. Oh the woman in Green.
Yes she had. She did ittwice for the same couple. No,
she did for two different couples,twins both times. And I was moved.
I was moved. Not as movedas I was with the smoked salmon,
which was particularly good, but stillvery your priorities. So that was
(11:39):
pretty neat. I mean that,do you know that I've had in my
career? In story he had twentyfive hundred kids? Wow, thank god
they're not yours. Yeah, Iwill tell you. You and I were
talking about it that night, andI was blown away when we all did
the math that your first kid isforty four or yeah, forty four years
(12:03):
old. Now that's and the firstkid I did for a gay couple.
And this is when we couldn't evenadmit that gay couples having kids for gay
couples was even allowed. I mean, you know, I thought I'd go
to prison for that. Didn't youwrite the law I did? But that
kid is forty two years old,so I mean, it's hard to believe.
(12:28):
And now no longer in surrogacy,and I'm staying with the most important
job on the planet, harassing you. Neil. It's it's an honor.
It is an honor, an honor. Huh. Okay, back we go
more handle on the news with AmyNeil and me. It's kind of like
a don't ask, don't tell policy. But Governor Newsom has signed a bill
(12:52):
into law that bans school districts fromrequiring staff to notify parents and if their
child starts identifying as a different gender, changes his or her pronouns, that
kind of thing. I don't quiteunderstand this. I understand that kids having
privacy, but how do parents notknow yet at the same time the kid
(13:16):
in school is identifying as the othersex. Let's say you have a young
boy mom and dad don't know whenhe comes down for dinner. In address,
I mean, I don't. Practicallyspeaking, I don't understand. I
understand the political aspects of this.And by the way, this is a
political statement more than any practical statement. Well, I'll tell you one.
(13:39):
I mean, this is not evenin the same stratosphere. But when I
was a young punk rocker, myparents didn't let me dress a certain way,
and I would leave the house lookingone way. Of course, I
knids do that all the time,and that was an expression of who I
was. That No, understand thisis different. There is such a difference
(14:05):
between gender identification and dressing. Iremember Barbara who would cont for a couple
of times changing clothes. I go, what, we're going to make some
extra money down on Santa Monica Boulevard. Is that what you plan on doing?
Woh, Father of the Year,You're done? Not dit it out
of your system. I'm done,okay. The impacts of human caused climate
(14:28):
change, that's an interesting way.I don't know that I've ever read.
Oh this is CNN. Never mind. The impacts of human caused climate change
are so overwhelming they're actually messing withtime. According to New research. Now,
it's small matter of milliseconds a day, but with high tech equipment and
(14:48):
everything like that, that is importantwhen you're dealing with computers, when you're
dealing with all kinds of high tech. I mean milliseconds a day. I
mean, this will have just tremendousinfluence in next I don't know, two
point three billion years in terms ofactually having an effect. And by then
the Earth is going to be spinningso fast we're all going to fly right
off. That's right, absolutely,because it's getting that. Yes, it's
(15:09):
definitely speeding up. I mean we'regoing to hell in a hand basket quickly.
The world will be fine, willbe dead. Yeah, nothing's happening.
The Earth is going to be fine. Now. The world has the
ability of being very resilient. Theplanet is very resilient. Ten billion what
would it the equivalent of the asteroidor whatever that hit sixty five How old?
(15:35):
The universe is fourteen billion years old, so I guess the Earth is
in the range of that's something toask, Well, sixty five million years
ago an asteroid or something hit theEarth and the dinosaurs gold. Yeah,
yeah, but that is the equivalentI think of ten million atomic bombs,
So I think it's gonna be justfine. Hey, sirih oh Man,
(15:56):
how old is the Earth? Fourpoint five billion? We're both wrong?
Well, no, you were bothwrong. I never made that. I
never said ten billion. No yousaid ten billion? Amy? Did it
say billien billion? I swis,do not draw me into this. I
said ten million atomic bombs. Ithink is what I was trying to say.
(16:18):
And I think that might even beincorrect. Hey, Siri, Oh,
for the love of Pete, whatis the equivalent of ten million atomic
bombs? Your mom? I haveno idea what you're talking about. Okay,
Uh, that's Siri by the way, all right, let's move on.
That is the only girl that we'lltalk to you, and that's the
only reason why you keep asking herquestions, all right, Amy? Yeah,
(16:40):
COVID's going down the drain, literally, because that's where they're measuring COVID
levels. National virus measurements in sewagehave reached high levels for the first time
the summer. Coronavirus levels in California'swastewater are now estimated to be slightly are
actually significantly higher than they were lastsummer. So that's how they tell Now,
(17:02):
I guess ye, they test thesewage. Now, how about you
walking in with one hundred and fourtemperature. No, no, we're gonna
test the sewage. Well that's ayou're not gonna go test. Everybody test
their poop. It's easier, It'seasier, all right. During the Republican
National Convention in Milwaukee, Senate MinorityLeader Mitch McConnell, who you know,
(17:26):
has had a bumpy relationship, tosay the least, with Trump, he
faced booze from the crowd as hecast Kentucky's delegate votes for US. And
look at what he did. Hewas one of the biggest criticizers of Trump
during the January sixth running of theCapitol, and he stood up and he
(17:49):
blamed Donald Trump not for the actualattack, but he said Donald Trump did
act did not act appropriately. Itwas appropriately, It was a derelict in
duty, et cetera. He endedup endorsing Trump, Okay, outright.
I mean, he's a strong endorsersupporter of Trump. He never took that
back. He never said I waswrong. Now you have Republicans that are
(18:11):
saying, not only was Donald Trumpnot wrong, he was right. He
is uh. He asked patriots tochange what was an illegal, unconstitutional election.
So you have those who are inprison are patriots or hostages, and
if Trump gets elected vast vast majority. I mentioned this last night filling in
(18:32):
for Tim Conway Junior, that ifthat is your mentality, then you could
have someone on the left say thatDonald Trump is such a threat to democracy.
Oh absolutely that it was right whatthat wing nut did on that.
Yeah, there are people. Ohno, you should have seen Instagram.
I mean I was checking out Instagram. I mean it exploded with liberals saying,
(18:56):
oh my god, he missed.What a shame. I mean a
lot of that, a lot ofthat going down. There's something really wrong
with us. Oh, there issomething so wrong it's ridiculous. Now,
is Trump going to pardon all ofthe hostages. No. I think there
are one or two that have beenconvicted of attacking police officers and harming them
(19:18):
with their own weapons. I thinkthose people may not be pardoned because Trump
did say I'm not going to pardonall of them. I'll look at it
on a case by case basis,but the general premise is that they are
patriots who overran the election. Imean, it's tough, You're right,
I mean, it's just it's adifferent world last night. Well, we'll
(19:40):
talk more about the convention later on, because last night, I mean,
I was watching another planet that theone I live on. All right.
Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab is goingto gradually wind down its operations in the
US and says it's going to layoff all its US based employees after the
(20:00):
Department of Commerce announced a ban onthe firm selling its products in the States.
They say that after two decades ofoperations in the US, the company
has carefully examined and evaluated the impactof the US legal requirements and made this
sad difficult decision as business opportunities inthe country are no longer viable. Yeah.
Too close to the Russian government,So Russian company and Putent controls everything.
(20:25):
But that's no big deal. Imean, this is not that big
a company four hundred million people intwo hundred and forty thousand companies around the
world. Eh, yeah, couldbe bigger. It's tiny, yeah,
tiny ah. This is this isbig, big stuff, all right.
Macy's, Macy's not Macy's management endedtalks with private investors. This was a
(20:48):
you know, they were attempting totake over the company, but Macy says,
you know what, We're going topursue our own turnaround strategy, strategy
and remain remake the chain as awhole. But they want to do it
themselves rather than just selling it outright to someone else. Yeah. And
by the way, that's up inthe air, because we may see it
(21:10):
go one way, or we maysee it go another way. That wait,
what we may may see it goone way, we may see it
go another way. Let me explainthat to you. I wasn't so lazy.
Had get up and slap your faceright now. Okay, So,
(21:32):
speaking of up in the air inthe not so friendly skies, United Airlines
has issued an apology to Hall ofFame running back Terrell Davis. He was
detained and questioned following a flight fromDenver to the John Wayne Airport. Here's
what Terrell Davis says happened. Hesaid that he was on a flight with
his wife, his two sons,and a daughter. He says his son
(21:56):
asked a flight attendant for a cupof ice. The flight attendant didn't respond
on so Terrell Davis says he tappedthe flight attendant to get his attention.
The flight attendant yelled, don't hitme and ran off toward the front of
the cabin. And then nothing happeneduntil the plane landed. And that's when
Terrell Davis says that FBI agents andother law enforcement agents got on board,
(22:21):
handcuffed him and escorted him off theplane. Yeah, and he told his
story, which was corroborated by thepeople sitting around him. And United is
apologizing left, right and center,as they should. And we don't know
the flight attendant's name rightly, sobecause I think the flight attendant would be
(22:42):
killed suddenly. Football McGee was thename of the flight attendant. Yeah,
And so if this flight attendant isnot fired, I mean instantly, I
would be shocked. All right,We're going to get some audio on this
in a second. But country singerI'd never heard of her before England d
and Dress was the talk of socialmedia yesterday. She delivered a memorable version
(23:07):
of the national anthem before the MLBhome run derby at Globe Life Field in
Arleeington, Texas. Now she isapparently an accomplished singer songwriter. You couldn't
tell, but this dethroned Fergie fromtwenty eighteen in her NBA All Star Game
song. So let's give it alisten. Yes, very strong? Wow,
(23:44):
what ofless? Okay, now Ihave a question. Oh my lord,
was that booing or were people juststunned? I think it's a little
bit all the above. That that'sthe first time I heard that. I
had read, I'd seen that thatit took place, and I saw pictures.
(24:04):
That's God bless her Rose Roseanne Bartwhat I first of all, the
national anthem, star Spangled Banners impossibleto sing. It's just Whitney Houston.
No, it's it's you can't singit. Well, you have Irving Berlin
who wrote America the Beautiful, whichis a lovely song written by an American.
(24:25):
Uh, and it's not the nationalanthem. And so now it's star
Spangled Banner, which was an Englishdrinking song in the English pubs. Yep.
But most of our songs are notare modified, not the Irving Berlin
songs. That's an original, butthere are a lot of that were that
were drinking, you know, Englishdrinking songs. That a kind of I
(24:45):
don't know if you remember in thesixties at the Olympics, Russia did not
have a national anthem for many manymany years. So as the Olympics,
the flags go up and the nationalanthem of the country wins goes up at
the Olympics, you know, ona banner or whatever. It would be
silent. When Russia had its nationalanthem, it had no national anthem.
(25:08):
So the polup Burero said, we'rewriting one for next year, for the
next Olympics, and they came upwith one. Lusha is and the Hatikva,
which is the Israeli national anthem,which is very easy to sing.
By the way, is that waswritten I think in the late forties,
(25:30):
early fifties. So you know,national anthems do change. I think they
go back to the founding of acountry. Well when was ours written?
Well, I don't know when toput the song, but this is the
basis of the Franciscott Key poem,you know, the bombs bursting in era
he was talking I think it waseighteen thirties, eighteen forties, so I
was talking about the War of eighteentwelve. That was a poem that he
(25:52):
wrote that then those words were putto this English drinking song of which some
kind, which song of ours isbasically God Save the Queen. Uh we
don't have God, no, no, but we have a song where the
music is the same. Oh yeah, that is my country to the Yeah
yeah, my country tis if heis based on the English God Save the
(26:14):
Queen so tune. Yeah, Sowhy why wouldn't they the United States adopt
an American uh songwriter with a songthat says everything about America and it's easy
to sing where people can sing itlike that's Roseen bar Yeah I know that
(26:41):
was great too, with a grabof the crotch at the end. That
was impressive. If they both soundlike somebody trying to skin a cat,
but when you sing it, itsounds well anyway. So there's a move
afoot to have the Irving Berlin America, the Irving Berlin's America the beautiful.
You just like him because he doesshow tunes, that's true. Just you
(27:06):
know, you're absolutely right. Hewas the master of show tunes before Learner
and Low. I mean he wasearly days he Irving and his brother.
All right. So here's a weirdlittle twist of fate. The investment giant
Blackrock has pulled an ad that hadThomas Crooks in it. That's the guy
(27:26):
who took the shot at former PresidentTrump. In twenty twenty two, Blackrock
ran an ad featuring a teacher fromBethel Park High School in which several unpaid
students briefly appeared in the background,and that included Thomas Matthew Crooks. What
are the odds? What are theodds? You know? What this reminds
me of is when they were doinga documentary about the Beatles, gonna be
(27:49):
a docu drama or whatever, andone of the lead roles, an actor
by the name of Mark I thinkDavid Chapman or Mark Chapman, got the
role, and then they realized that'sthe name of the guy who killed John
Lennon. Oops, no thanks,we're pulling this one. In much like
(28:14):
this, we have a video thatshows this guy. Oops, we're pulling
this one. Of course, theydidn't do on purpose. What else could
they do? You're right, whatare the odds? It's one of those
bizarre odds. You remember who wasit, Adrian van dud Komfa who was
ad Dition? Yeah, great guy, Yeah, great guy. And I
(28:37):
saw him in front of the MonaLisa at the loof when I was traveling,
just random, just randomly, andI'm right behind him and I recognize
him, and I'm saying, hey, buddy, you're in the way.
And he turned to look at me, going what kind of an ass is
doing that to me? And youwave it's me as He's like, oh
(28:57):
great, you just ruined the tripknowing you're here. Speaking of Disney,
the Splash Mountain wildly popular ride atDisneyland, and I was never a fan
personally, but Anyo Disney spent onehundred and forty two million turning Splash Mountain
(29:18):
into Tiana's Bayou Adventure, both atDisneyland and Walt Disney World in Florida.
The early stuff that I've seen ofthe animatronics is insane, except that when
you look at social media, thisis what New York Times where it came
(29:41):
from, this story. This oneis KTLA okay, and that's KTL the
local version, but it comes outof a national story. They looked at
social media eight hundred and eleven thousandviews, eleven thousand likes, forty five
thousand dislikes of that ride. SoI don't know, Well, you're going
to go on it? Have youbeen on it? You have a people
are not open yet it, yeah, but people are stupid. They just
(30:03):
don't like when there's change, becausethey're going to see it. You're going
to have some people seeing that thisis about being woke one hundred and four.
It is, yeah, well yeah, because it was brayer rabbit.
The theme in Splash Mountain, whichyou look at it in context, is
uh was okay at the time andis completely racist now. For example,
(30:26):
minstrel shows in blackface, right,well, it's turned the last century.
Uh, you know that was notconsidered particularly racist. I mean it was
just part and parcel of what itwas. And of course today you look
at it back to the N word. You don't use the N word constantly.
Abraham Lincoln would tell jokes using theN word as a as a constant.
It's it's you have to look atit in historical context. By the
(30:51):
way, I'm not defending it.I was about to ask, no,
no, no, I'm not defendingabout to ask I'm not. But we
don't look at anything in his sorticalcontext at all. If it was if
it's racist now, and it wasn'tracist all those years ago. You know,
women not being allowed to vote,We look at that today as gets
unbelievable. Well before nineteen twenty,within the context people, and yeah,
(31:15):
other than the suffer jette movement.Yeah that makes sense. You know,
women voting, What the hell isthat about? So anyway, I'm not
defending, but I'm saying they gotrid of it, and to your point,
maybe it is. It is gettingrid of something that now you cannot
have. So I just wanted topoint that out. Yeah, they were
(31:36):
moved rape from the rape and pillagingof the Pirates song, that's true,
or the man of it, yeah, or the or you got the pirate
chasing that woman around and around andread yeah, and yeah, that's right.
And so they changed it to thewoman chasing the guy, which is
somehow better. Yeah. So Idon't know that there's anything better about this.
(32:02):
But Whoopi Goldberg said her mom wasa big fan of Disney Parks,
so after her mom died, Whoopytook her ashes and spread them around Walt
Disney World. But you can't doremember wait, we did it. It's
a small world at Disneyland. It'snot legal. No, no, no,
it's not legal. Yeah, youknow what, I did a podcast
(32:23):
on it. You know what wouldbe better, I'll come out soon.
They should just make a place forit and say you can do it here
like a big hole. And theysaid, this is the ash hole here,
and what they should do is putthe old animatronic figures that used to
be it's a small world down thereand sing about the ashes going down and
(32:47):
so the code. I did awhole podcast on this thing, and it
is I don't know when it's comingout because today is day two of my
podcast or day one of my podcast. This week. Every Tuesday and Thursday,
I drive a podcast at nine o'clockright after the show, and you
can go to the iHeartRadio app.It's still only on the iHeartRadio app.
(33:07):
We're moving it to the other platformsand hopefully by next week. And I'm
talking about a din An emergency podcast. I'm talking about what happened, the
assassination attempt and the aftermath, andI just I dive into it a little
bit deeper, and that's available onthe iHeartRadio app, Bill handle Pod Bill
Handles Show podcast. Okay, butyou did a podcast about this about the
(33:30):
cleanup, Yeah, I just know. Not. Yes, I did it
about not just the cleanup, aboutburials across the board. And this is
one of the weirdest one people distributingthe ashes, and it happens all the
time. I bet yeah. Andif it's on a ride, they have
to shut it down because it's consideredan environmental it's considered an environmental issue.
How can you can mess with theYeah, it's a bo it's considered a
(33:53):
bio hazard. Here's what I'd liketo do. How is that a bio
has I don't know. Ashes,I don't know, but I'll tell you
it's fun is going into my fireplaceand getting a ziplock bag full of ashes
and spreading them around Disneyland so theyhave to clean it up and just shut
down rides. That's fun. Ileave my disney Land alone. Everybody.
(34:16):
Don't do that. Bill, Comeon, that's entertainment. That's a ride.
I'm going to try and spread youall over someplace and I can just
imagine you going, I'm not dead. Yes, all right, we are
done. By the way, guys, WHOOPI Goldberg admits it, which is
kind of weird. Okay, weare done. This is KFI AM six
(34:39):
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