July 24, 2024 • 21 mins
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. Biden will address the nation tonight. Netanyahu will make speech to Congress as optimism for a ceasefire in Gaza rises. Trump campaign files FEC complaint trying to block Biden funds transferring to Harris. LAUSD math and English test scores rise after pandemic learning loss. Senate to vote on bills regulating social media for kids. France will allow LAPD officers to carry guns at the Paris Olympics. Sharks in Brazil test positive for cocaine, say scientists.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I am six forty. Neil
comes back? What next Wednesday?So Samy and I looks like right now
just ourselves for this week. Boy, am I excited? Woo hoo.
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That's exactly it. We're back toHandle on the news with Amy and me
and we're excited beyond words. Okay, and now Handle on the news ladies
and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle,and good morning everybody. Bill Handle here.
Yesterday starting the show was very veryhigh excitement level. So I'm trying
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to get it up as quickly asI can right now in terms of my
excitement level. Kono, is therea pill for this to get it up
for a show? Blue? It'sblue, Little kill Blue. No,
you can't do that because if you'resitting under a desk, man, the
pain is just unbelievable. You justcannot do it. Okay. Amy's already
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shaking her head as is, andand we're starting. We didn't we what
two seconds in the show and I'vealready gone there. It's going to be
a day. It's going to bea day. All right, Hello,
hey Cono, good morning? Whatwas up? Was up? Okay?
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What's up? And Amy? Goodmorning, good morning, good morning,
and good morning Hello Bill. Again, a lot going on today. It's
a Wednesday, it's a day,July twenty fourth, but the first hour
is just Amy and Moir because Neilis coming back next Wednesday. And Amy
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once again the heat spell. Isit break today? Nope? Okay,
thank you, No, that wasour weather report was Actually that's why you
get paid the big bucks around here. Okay, you're ready to do it?
Yeah, handle on the news.Me and Amy lead story, Soman
rolling and President Joe Biden is goingto address the nation from the Oval Office,
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one of those very serious my fellowAmericans, from the Oval Office,
which is abite as serious as hegets. And he is explaining why he's
bailing out. And we all knowwhy he's bailing out. Now the question
is what is he Is he goingto go beyond? I have listened to
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my advisors and senior members of theadministration and the party saying I have no
path to winning the election. Doeshe even go there? Uh? He
certainly won't mention his age that hewon't do. I don't think he will.
I'm gonna coming up at eight twentyto do a segment based on what
he is going to say tonight aboutretirement into your seventies and eighties and why
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it is so damn difficult and apersonal story. Not that I'm retiring,
but I have a very close friendof mine who has this issue or had
this issue. So Richard Nixon whenhe resigned in nineteen seventy three, he
did not say it's because I amabout to be charged with a felony and
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I am about to be impeached andtossed out of office as president. He
said, I no longer have apolitical base in Congress. Okay, Yeah,
which is a croc everybody knows that. And also keep in mind that
President Biden's allies, all of themwho have asked him to leave, from
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George Clooney to Nancy Pelosi to HakimJeffries, I don't think once they mentioned
to him it's because you are old, or it's because you no longer have
the acuity or the cognitive abilities toactually run this country. It's because you
don't have a path to win againstDonald Trump. That's it. So we'll
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see how far he goes tonight.It's going to be very very interesting to
see how far he takes it becausewell we're talking about it. There's a
whole thing about people in their seventyand eighties and how difficult it is to
retire, just to bail and youknow, unless you're digging ditches or you
know, pulling wire like my daddid. He was electrician, and you
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know, he retired and I thinksixty five is as normal. He was
looking forward to it. So wehad a lot to talk about throughout the
rest of the show. Okay,the fighting could cease soon. US and
Israeli officials are showing increased optimism aboutthe prospects of a ceasefire and a hostage
deal being agreed to that would endor at least pause the war in Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin n Yahoo isdelivering a high speaks, high stakes
speech to Congress this afternoon, andthen he's going to meet with Biden and
Vice President Harris tomorrow and apparently isgoing to meet with Trump too down Florida.
Yeah, because first of all,the very close allies Biden and Nataenna,
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who don't get a log very well, certainly Trump and Nintaya who does.
Because Trump is such a firm,firm believer on the Israeli side.
And Nao who is you know thefact he's coming a little bit at the
table. I'll tell you what hehas to give up. He has to
give up the premise that Hamas isgoing to disappear. That is what's going
to wipe out Hamas. It willnot happen. It will not. And
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with that you can move backwards.And does Hamas want a ceasefire? You
know, I have my doubts.I think Hamas is willing to have all
of Gaza become just a pile ofrubble as long as they stay in power.
So we'll see what happens. Tellyou one thing, if there is
any kind of peace deal, Nittagna, who is out on his ass,
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hands off, says Trump. TheTrump campaign has filed a complain with the
Federal Election Commission arguing that money raisedfor President Biden's reelection campaign can't be transferred
over to Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign. And of course it's only because they're
concerned about federal law. It's notbecause they don't want ninety one million dollars
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transferred over to BI to Kamala Harris. Actually, I don't know where they're
going to go because Harris, shewas on the ticket. It is the
same ticket with Biden simply bailing out. I don't think it has changed legally,
and so we'll see what happens onthat, because the last thing the
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Trump campaign wants is ninety one milliondollars going to Harris, which means if
that's the case, you're talking almosttwo hundred million million dollars going into her
campaign. And Musk remember the fortyfive million dollar per month that he was
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giving. Never mind, I reallydidn't mean forty five million. What I
really meant is forty five dollars.It wasn't that low. But he did
back off the forty five million dollarsa month. He said what's being reported
in the media is simply not true. Yes, it's except that he didn't
refute it. I'll tell you whenit came out, he didn't immediately refute
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it. So you're saying that nowthat Kamala is taking over as the Democratic
nominee, he's backing off. No, No, I think he is.
He wakes up in the morning andwhat he does a Elon Musk style.
Musk style is just point a purchase, you know, when you're in the
checkout line and you see that packa gum and all a sudden you wanted
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or that little bag. That's whathe does with multi billion dollar corporations.
Wakes up, you know, Ithink I'll buy Twitter today, won't do
any analysis, and then finds outlater we paid forty four billion dollars for
a company that's worth twenty five billiondollars on its best day. So hey,
here's forty five billion dollars a month. Oh what did I just say?
Okay, So I don't know whatit's going to be, but you're
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right, it sure ain't going tobe forty five million dollars a month.
Score one for the kids. Standardizedtest scores in the LA school system have
shown gains in all tested grade levelsin math and English. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo
was excited about that part of theannouncement yesterday, but the other part was
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that a majority of students still remainbelow the state's grade level standards. Did
you go to public school? Yeh, by the way, where not in
southern California? Right up in Oregon? Okay? And public school okay,
Conell public School of course. Okay. And I went to public school LA
Unified as a matter of fact,which is the poster child of the worst
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school district in the country. Wasit always bad? No? No,
I actually came out and this isa concept that LA Unified hasn't seen for
a while. I actually came outliterate and it was a pretty good education.
And then I went to up theladder, all in state schools until
law school, where I went toa private law school. And back then
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proficiency was very different than today's levelof proficiency. It has gone down,
down, down where proficiency is.Well, let me put it this way.
Today, if you can get outof a third grade and sign your
name beyond just putting an X onthe paper, you're doing better. You're
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much more proficient. It is noteasy. It is to get people.
And there's a bunch of reasons.I'm not saying it's LA Unified. It
has become basically ungovernable. So manystudents English is the second language and they
have to teach at the lower commondenominator or in terms of teaching English and
you know, teaching math, whichwhen you have people coming over the border,
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those kids do not have that skillset. They don't have the schools,
they don't have that in Mexico likethey do here. So anyway,
I guess that's good news, exceptwe have to look at it. Well,
it's even less than the prior pandemic. It's moving up, which is
good news, but incrementally cracking downto keep the kids safe. Cend A
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majority leader Chuck Schumer, has announcedthat the Senate will vote on the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act and the KidsOnline Safety Act. It's supposed to help
make social media companies take more responsibilityin shielding children from harmful material on social
media platform Yeah, we're starting tounderstand how devastatingly horrible social media can be.
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And that is body shaming and bullying, and it's as rough as it
was just in school being bullied andI was bullied by the way because I
was overweight. It is not fun. And today who is that gal?
And I remember that case? Rememberwhen she convinced that kid to jump off
the building and kill himself. Afew years ago through the internet, they
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were having chats back and forth andyou are useless, No one likes you.
Everybody wants you dead, over andover and over again. Well,
this will theoretically stop it and forcethe major platforms to look for it and
guard against that, which I don'tknow how they're going to do, but
it's a duty of care standard forsocial media video platforms, and so it's
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a question of algorithms. And ofcourse who's against it, well, first
of all the tech industry, ofcourse, the American Civil Liberties Union.
If you want to kill yourself,you have every right to kill yourself,
go ahead and jump off buildings.So that's any interference with first amen rights.
The ACLU is as crazy as thatas the gun advocates are with the
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Second Amendment. Just a little overthe top both sides, Okay. The
two time mayor of LA wants tobecome the governor of CA. Former Los
Angeles Mayor Antonio via Ragosa has announcedhis twenty twenty six run for the governor's
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office in California. He's been outof elected office since he left city hall
in twenty thirteen. He emphasized hisability to work with both Democrats and Republicans
while he was the mayor and whenhe served as Speaker of the California Assembly,
and on his record of balancing budgetsand enhancing public safety and education.
Yeah, well that's the good side. As he's touting there are some other
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aspects on the other side. I'mgoing to talk about that at seven o'clock
because I think he's got better thanjust a good chance. I think he's
going to make it. And i'lltell you why, coming up at seven
am one because while Alex Lane itat seven o'clock. Okay, time to
slow your role. In Anaheim,the city of Anaheim is lowering speed limits
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all over the city. One hundredand sixty nine sections of road are going
to have their speed limits go down, most of them by five miles per
hour, some by ten miles perhour, and one by Disneyland's going down
fifteen miles per hour from forty totwenty five miles per hour. And the
reasons they're doing this, according tothe city, is that they did this
study and they were watching how peopleare already driving, and they said that
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about eighty five percent of the peopledriving around Anaheim are already driving those lower
slow speeds. So they say they'rejust making it official. Yeah, Now
here's the irony of this, becauseAnaheim is one of those cities you want
to get through as quickly as possiblebecause that's Anaheim. And for those of
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you that live in Anaheim. Yes, I am completely insulting you like I
do. Why would I leave youout of the mix? Exactly. Yeah,
Kamala Harris loves Freedom, and obviouslyBeyonce loves Kamala Harris. So Vice
President Harris made her big entrance forher first official visit to her campaign headquarters
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on Monday evening and she walked outto Beyonce's Freedom and then her team got
approval from Beyonce's reps to use Freedomthroughout her presidential campaign if she's nominated.
Now, I compare this to DonaldTrump using music from Fleetwood Mac and Fleetwood
Mac went Burr Zirk when Donald Trumpwas using their music. So it's just
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a little bit different, to saythe least. I think all of the
songs that Trump plays that people goberserk, Yeah they do. And well
a couple of songs, you knowwhen they did karaoke versions of songs,
and the Trump campaign Joe Biden isa crook. O'biden is complete crap.
You know, It's just all theydo is change the lyrics. So we'll
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see again. You know what,music, I'm proud, I'm proud to
be an American. That's a bigone. For Trump. That is Lee
Greenwood? Yeah, yeah, Leewho wrote that? Did Lee Greenwood actually
write that song? I think hedid. But it's a great song.
It is a great song and it'sperfect for political rallies, I mean,
just perfect. LAPD is going tobe packing in Paris. So Los Angeles
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police officers are deployed to the twentytwenty eight Summer Olympics and it's not a
ton of them, but we've gota small group. And the LAPD had
to convince the French government to temporarilysuspend its law against overseas police officers being
armed in the country so they cancarry their weapons as they patrol. Well,
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yeah, I think I think thelaw is when we can look this
up, France has pretty heavy control, as of all of Europe does,
and the only people that are allowedto carry arms is a police law enforcement
in the country and LAPD this isnot law enforcement in France now, they
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are not sworn officers in France.So the government of France, and I
don't know if it's France, Yeah, I think it's a national law and
so you'll see the LAPD. Okay, I'm glad they're going to be packing.
I think that's a good idea.And by the way, Greenwood did
write Proud to be in American greatsong, great song. Okay, guess
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who's going to be running around France. Snoop's going to be one of the
final torch bearers of the Olympic Flameahead of the opening ceremonies in Paris on
Friday. Snoop Dog's going to carrythe torch through the neighborhood of Centenese in
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the final stop of the Olympic Flamesjourney before it gets to the Eiffel Tower.
Yeah, that's kind of neat.I think it's number one. Snoop
Dog, who is an iconic figurehere in America, and the French who
understand that he is a great figure. And I don't know if you know
hip hop is played in France.I have no idea. I wonder what
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French hip hop is about. Oh, wouldn't that be great to figure that
one out. But anyway, greatnews for Snoop. I love this idea.
Yeah, and he's also going tobe doing like reports for NBC.
I know that's crazy. And heis in negotians and negotiations right now to
buy Pakistan. You know that,don't you? He has a chunk of
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money. Yes he does, Yes, he does. All right, Well,
there's a movie called Cocaine Bear.Could Cocaine Shark be next? Shark's
living off the coast of Brazil havetested positive for cocaine. The sharks are
in the waters off the city ofRio dejian Aio. Cocaine was found in
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both their livers and their muscle teshtissue. They tested thirteen specimens and they
picked these particular sharks because they livein a small area of coastal waters where
they're exposed to significant contaminant discharges.Now, I want to bring something to
the table here, Having been acoke addict, you know, more than
a few years ago, and Ieven went into drug rehab. So coke
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was my thing, and by theway, it's been decades. Just want
to let you know, except sometimeswhen I'm excited, but that's besides the
point. And I have a lotof energy, so I have, you
know, some expertise coming to thetable on this story. And the first
thing that I thought about is howdo you get a shark to snort cocaine?
I mean, think about that fora moment, that nostril thing that
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you need is. You know,that's sort of important. So Amy Ann
do a little bit of re search. How do sharks snort cocaine? Actually,
the cocaine gets into the sharks systemfrom the sewage discharges from humans who
use the drug and the illegal laboratoriesthat produce it. Well, let me
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tell you, any sharks that werearound southern California back in the eighties were
swimming around and pretty excited every timeI went to the bathroom. Okay,
you can lock up your spot insports history. The locker used by Kobe
Bryant for most of his career whilehe played at Staples Centers being auctioned off
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by Sotheby's. It's on the auctionblock from now until August second. You
can go to their website if you'reinterested in making a bid for it,
and sootheby says there's a good chanceit's going to go for more than a
million dollars. Yeah, just togive you an idea of sports memorabilia is
insane. And of course Kobe,who would have insane memorabilia anyway, After
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he died in that horrible helicopter crash, the value his stuff just exploded,
So I wouldn't be surprised if itgot a million dollars at all. And
if that's not enough for you,there's also Michael Jordan's shorts from his final
game, Reggie Jackson's Yankees jacket,and one of Raphael and Nadal's used rackets
from the two thousand and six FrenchOpen and Wimbledon. Yeah, all alive
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and still can garner insane amounts ofmoney, especially Michael jackson shorts. Not
Jackson, Michael his shorts. Nowwe're not talking his underwear shorts, right,
no talk, it's the shorts hewere in his final game. Oh
okay, because you know they wantused the jerseys, et cetera. You
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know that, Oh that would beinteresting. Hey, I want to suggest
real quickly before we go on ifwe have the time, and that is
a documentary that I've seen. Ithink it's on Netflix called The Golden Touch
g O. L d N.This is the guy who whatever is named
Golden and he runs a sports memorabiliacompany, probably the largest in the world,
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and sell sports memorabilia. To giveyou an idea of what that is
about, that is worth seeing.It is an extraordinary documentary and it's just
it's it's just insane. The valueof stuff. Michael Jordan's like the first
tennis shoes that he wore in somechampionship game over two million dollars. I
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mean, it's just it's beyond comprehension. All Right, I think we're done,
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I am six forty. Neil
comes back? What next Wednesday?So Samy and I looks like right now
just ourselves for this week. Boy, am I excited? Woo hoo.
(00:22):
That's exactly it. We're back toHandle on the news with Amy and me
and we're excited beyond words. Okay, and now Handle on the news ladies
and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle,and good morning everybody. Bill Handle here.
Yesterday starting the show was very veryhigh excitement level. So I'm trying
(00:47):
to get it up as quickly asI can right now in terms of my
excitement level. Kono, is therea pill for this to get it up
for a show? Blue? It'sblue, Little kill Blue. No,
you can't do that because if you'resitting under a desk, man, the
pain is just unbelievable. You justcannot do it. Okay. Amy's already
(01:11):
shaking her head as is, andand we're starting. We didn't we what
two seconds in the show and I'vealready gone there. It's going to be
a day. It's going to bea day. All right, Hello,
hey Cono, good morning? Whatwas up? Was up? Okay?
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What's up? And Amy? Goodmorning, good morning, good morning,
and good morning Hello Bill. Again, a lot going on today. It's
a Wednesday, it's a day,July twenty fourth, but the first hour
is just Amy and Moir because Neilis coming back next Wednesday. And Amy
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once again the heat spell. Isit break today? Nope? Okay,
thank you, No, that wasour weather report was Actually that's why you
get paid the big bucks around here. Okay, you're ready to do it?
Yeah, handle on the news.Me and Amy lead story, Soman
rolling and President Joe Biden is goingto address the nation from the Oval Office,
(02:21):
one of those very serious my fellowAmericans, from the Oval Office,
which is abite as serious as hegets. And he is explaining why he's
bailing out. And we all knowwhy he's bailing out. Now the question
is what is he Is he goingto go beyond? I have listened to
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my advisors and senior members of theadministration and the party saying I have no
path to winning the election. Doeshe even go there? Uh? He
certainly won't mention his age that hewon't do. I don't think he will.
I'm gonna coming up at eight twentyto do a segment based on what
he is going to say tonight aboutretirement into your seventies and eighties and why
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it is so damn difficult and apersonal story. Not that I'm retiring,
but I have a very close friendof mine who has this issue or had
this issue. So Richard Nixon whenhe resigned in nineteen seventy three, he
did not say it's because I amabout to be charged with a felony and
(03:27):
I am about to be impeached andtossed out of office as president. He
said, I no longer have apolitical base in Congress. Okay, Yeah,
which is a croc everybody knows that. And also keep in mind that
President Biden's allies, all of themwho have asked him to leave, from
(03:47):
George Clooney to Nancy Pelosi to HakimJeffries, I don't think once they mentioned
to him it's because you are old, or it's because you no longer have
the acuity or the cognitive abilities toactually run this country. It's because you
don't have a path to win againstDonald Trump. That's it. So we'll
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see how far he goes tonight.It's going to be very very interesting to
see how far he takes it becausewell we're talking about it. There's a
whole thing about people in their seventyand eighties and how difficult it is to
retire, just to bail and youknow, unless you're digging ditches or you
know, pulling wire like my daddid. He was electrician, and you
(04:30):
know, he retired and I thinksixty five is as normal. He was
looking forward to it. So wehad a lot to talk about throughout the
rest of the show. Okay,the fighting could cease soon. US and
Israeli officials are showing increased optimism aboutthe prospects of a ceasefire and a hostage
deal being agreed to that would endor at least pause the war in Gaza.
(04:55):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin n Yahoo isdelivering a high speaks, high stakes
speech to Congress this afternoon, andthen he's going to meet with Biden and
Vice President Harris tomorrow and apparently isgoing to meet with Trump too down Florida.
Yeah, because first of all,the very close allies Biden and Nataenna,
(05:15):
who don't get a log very well, certainly Trump and Nintaya who does.
Because Trump is such a firm,firm believer on the Israeli side.
And Nao who is you know thefact he's coming a little bit at the
table. I'll tell you what hehas to give up. He has to
give up the premise that Hamas isgoing to disappear. That is what's going
to wipe out Hamas. It willnot happen. It will not. And
(05:40):
with that you can move backwards.And does Hamas want a ceasefire? You
know, I have my doubts.I think Hamas is willing to have all
of Gaza become just a pile ofrubble as long as they stay in power.
So we'll see what happens. Tellyou one thing, if there is
any kind of peace deal, Nittagna, who is out on his ass,
(06:02):
hands off, says Trump. TheTrump campaign has filed a complain with the
Federal Election Commission arguing that money raisedfor President Biden's reelection campaign can't be transferred
over to Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign. And of course it's only because they're
concerned about federal law. It's notbecause they don't want ninety one million dollars
(06:26):
transferred over to BI to Kamala Harris. Actually, I don't know where they're
going to go because Harris, shewas on the ticket. It is the
same ticket with Biden simply bailing out. I don't think it has changed legally,
and so we'll see what happens onthat, because the last thing the
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Trump campaign wants is ninety one milliondollars going to Harris, which means if
that's the case, you're talking almosttwo hundred million million dollars going into her
campaign. And Musk remember the fortyfive million dollar per month that he was
(07:08):
giving. Never mind, I reallydidn't mean forty five million. What I
really meant is forty five dollars.It wasn't that low. But he did
back off the forty five million dollarsa month. He said what's being reported
in the media is simply not true. Yes, it's except that he didn't
refute it. I'll tell you whenit came out, he didn't immediately refute
(07:31):
it. So you're saying that nowthat Kamala is taking over as the Democratic
nominee, he's backing off. No, No, I think he is.
He wakes up in the morning andwhat he does a Elon Musk style.
Musk style is just point a purchase, you know, when you're in the
checkout line and you see that packa gum and all a sudden you wanted
(07:53):
or that little bag. That's whathe does with multi billion dollar corporations.
Wakes up, you know, Ithink I'll buy Twitter today, won't do
any analysis, and then finds outlater we paid forty four billion dollars for
a company that's worth twenty five billiondollars on its best day. So hey,
here's forty five billion dollars a month. Oh what did I just say?
Okay, So I don't know whatit's going to be, but you're
(08:16):
right, it sure ain't going tobe forty five million dollars a month.
Score one for the kids. Standardizedtest scores in the LA school system have
shown gains in all tested grade levelsin math and English. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo
was excited about that part of theannouncement yesterday, but the other part was
(08:39):
that a majority of students still remainbelow the state's grade level standards. Did
you go to public school? Yeh, by the way, where not in
southern California? Right up in Oregon? Okay? And public school okay,
Conell public School of course. Okay. And I went to public school LA
Unified as a matter of fact,which is the poster child of the worst
(09:01):
school district in the country. Wasit always bad? No? No,
I actually came out and this isa concept that LA Unified hasn't seen for
a while. I actually came outliterate and it was a pretty good education.
And then I went to up theladder, all in state schools until
law school, where I went toa private law school. And back then
(09:24):
proficiency was very different than today's levelof proficiency. It has gone down,
down, down where proficiency is.Well, let me put it this way.
Today, if you can get outof a third grade and sign your
name beyond just putting an X onthe paper, you're doing better. You're
(09:45):
much more proficient. It is noteasy. It is to get people.
And there's a bunch of reasons.I'm not saying it's LA Unified. It
has become basically ungovernable. So manystudents English is the second language and they
have to teach at the lower commondenominator or in terms of teaching English and
you know, teaching math, whichwhen you have people coming over the border,
(10:07):
those kids do not have that skillset. They don't have the schools,
they don't have that in Mexico likethey do here. So anyway,
I guess that's good news, exceptwe have to look at it. Well,
it's even less than the prior pandemic. It's moving up, which is
good news, but incrementally cracking downto keep the kids safe. Cend A
(10:28):
majority leader Chuck Schumer, has announcedthat the Senate will vote on the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act and the KidsOnline Safety Act. It's supposed to help
make social media companies take more responsibilityin shielding children from harmful material on social
media platform Yeah, we're starting tounderstand how devastatingly horrible social media can be.
(10:54):
And that is body shaming and bullying, and it's as rough as it
was just in school being bullied andI was bullied by the way because I
was overweight. It is not fun. And today who is that gal?
And I remember that case? Rememberwhen she convinced that kid to jump off
the building and kill himself. Afew years ago through the internet, they
(11:18):
were having chats back and forth andyou are useless, No one likes you.
Everybody wants you dead, over andover and over again. Well,
this will theoretically stop it and forcethe major platforms to look for it and
guard against that, which I don'tknow how they're going to do, but
it's a duty of care standard forsocial media video platforms, and so it's
(11:41):
a question of algorithms. And ofcourse who's against it, well, first
of all the tech industry, ofcourse, the American Civil Liberties Union.
If you want to kill yourself,you have every right to kill yourself,
go ahead and jump off buildings.So that's any interference with first amen rights.
The ACLU is as crazy as thatas the gun advocates are with the
(12:03):
Second Amendment. Just a little overthe top both sides, Okay. The
two time mayor of LA wants tobecome the governor of CA. Former Los
Angeles Mayor Antonio via Ragosa has announcedhis twenty twenty six run for the governor's
(12:24):
office in California. He's been outof elected office since he left city hall
in twenty thirteen. He emphasized hisability to work with both Democrats and Republicans
while he was the mayor and whenhe served as Speaker of the California Assembly,
and on his record of balancing budgetsand enhancing public safety and education.
Yeah, well that's the good side. As he's touting there are some other
(12:46):
aspects on the other side. I'mgoing to talk about that at seven o'clock
because I think he's got better thanjust a good chance. I think he's
going to make it. And i'lltell you why, coming up at seven
am one because while Alex Lane itat seven o'clock. Okay, time to
slow your role. In Anaheim,the city of Anaheim is lowering speed limits
(13:09):
all over the city. One hundredand sixty nine sections of road are going
to have their speed limits go down, most of them by five miles per
hour, some by ten miles perhour, and one by Disneyland's going down
fifteen miles per hour from forty totwenty five miles per hour. And the
reasons they're doing this, according tothe city, is that they did this
study and they were watching how peopleare already driving, and they said that
(13:33):
about eighty five percent of the peopledriving around Anaheim are already driving those lower
slow speeds. So they say they'rejust making it official. Yeah, Now
here's the irony of this, becauseAnaheim is one of those cities you want
to get through as quickly as possiblebecause that's Anaheim. And for those of
(13:54):
you that live in Anaheim. Yes, I am completely insulting you like I
do. Why would I leave youout of the mix? Exactly. Yeah,
Kamala Harris loves Freedom, and obviouslyBeyonce loves Kamala Harris. So Vice
President Harris made her big entrance forher first official visit to her campaign headquarters
(14:18):
on Monday evening and she walked outto Beyonce's Freedom and then her team got
approval from Beyonce's reps to use Freedomthroughout her presidential campaign if she's nominated.
Now, I compare this to DonaldTrump using music from Fleetwood Mac and Fleetwood
Mac went Burr Zirk when Donald Trumpwas using their music. So it's just
(14:45):
a little bit different, to saythe least. I think all of the
songs that Trump plays that people goberserk, Yeah they do. And well
a couple of songs, you knowwhen they did karaoke versions of songs,
and the Trump campaign Joe Biden isa crook. O'biden is complete crap.
You know, It's just all theydo is change the lyrics. So we'll
(15:07):
see again. You know what,music, I'm proud, I'm proud to
be an American. That's a bigone. For Trump. That is Lee
Greenwood? Yeah, yeah, Leewho wrote that? Did Lee Greenwood actually
write that song? I think hedid. But it's a great song.
It is a great song and it'sperfect for political rallies, I mean,
just perfect. LAPD is going tobe packing in Paris. So Los Angeles
(15:33):
police officers are deployed to the twentytwenty eight Summer Olympics and it's not a
ton of them, but we've gota small group. And the LAPD had
to convince the French government to temporarilysuspend its law against overseas police officers being
armed in the country so they cancarry their weapons as they patrol. Well,
(15:54):
yeah, I think I think thelaw is when we can look this
up, France has pretty heavy control, as of all of Europe does,
and the only people that are allowedto carry arms is a police law enforcement
in the country and LAPD this isnot law enforcement in France now, they
(16:15):
are not sworn officers in France.So the government of France, and I
don't know if it's France, Yeah, I think it's a national law and
so you'll see the LAPD. Okay, I'm glad they're going to be packing.
I think that's a good idea.And by the way, Greenwood did
write Proud to be in American greatsong, great song. Okay, guess
(16:37):
who's going to be running around France. Snoop's going to be one of the
final torch bearers of the Olympic Flameahead of the opening ceremonies in Paris on
Friday. Snoop Dog's going to carrythe torch through the neighborhood of Centenese in
(17:00):
the final stop of the Olympic Flamesjourney before it gets to the Eiffel Tower.
Yeah, that's kind of neat.I think it's number one. Snoop
Dog, who is an iconic figurehere in America, and the French who
understand that he is a great figure. And I don't know if you know
hip hop is played in France.I have no idea. I wonder what
(17:22):
French hip hop is about. Oh, wouldn't that be great to figure that
one out. But anyway, greatnews for Snoop. I love this idea.
Yeah, and he's also going tobe doing like reports for NBC.
I know that's crazy. And heis in negotians and negotiations right now to
buy Pakistan. You know that,don't you? He has a chunk of
(17:45):
money. Yes he does, Yes, he does. All right, Well,
there's a movie called Cocaine Bear.Could Cocaine Shark be next? Shark's
living off the coast of Brazil havetested positive for cocaine. The sharks are
in the waters off the city ofRio dejian Aio. Cocaine was found in
(18:06):
both their livers and their muscle teshtissue. They tested thirteen specimens and they
picked these particular sharks because they livein a small area of coastal waters where
they're exposed to significant contaminant discharges.Now, I want to bring something to
the table here, Having been acoke addict, you know, more than
a few years ago, and Ieven went into drug rehab. So coke
(18:30):
was my thing, and by theway, it's been decades. Just want
to let you know, except sometimeswhen I'm excited, but that's besides the
point. And I have a lotof energy, so I have, you
know, some expertise coming to thetable on this story. And the first
thing that I thought about is howdo you get a shark to snort cocaine?
I mean, think about that fora moment, that nostril thing that
(18:52):
you need is. You know,that's sort of important. So Amy Ann
do a little bit of re search. How do sharks snort cocaine? Actually,
the cocaine gets into the sharks systemfrom the sewage discharges from humans who
use the drug and the illegal laboratoriesthat produce it. Well, let me
(19:15):
tell you, any sharks that werearound southern California back in the eighties were
swimming around and pretty excited every timeI went to the bathroom. Okay,
you can lock up your spot insports history. The locker used by Kobe
Bryant for most of his career whilehe played at Staples Centers being auctioned off
(19:40):
by Sotheby's. It's on the auctionblock from now until August second. You
can go to their website if you'reinterested in making a bid for it,
and sootheby says there's a good chanceit's going to go for more than a
million dollars. Yeah, just togive you an idea of sports memorabilia is
insane. And of course Kobe,who would have insane memorabilia anyway, After
(20:03):
he died in that horrible helicopter crash, the value his stuff just exploded,
So I wouldn't be surprised if itgot a million dollars at all. And
if that's not enough for you,there's also Michael Jordan's shorts from his final
game, Reggie Jackson's Yankees jacket,and one of Raphael and Nadal's used rackets
from the two thousand and six FrenchOpen and Wimbledon. Yeah, all alive
(20:27):
and still can garner insane amounts ofmoney, especially Michael jackson shorts. Not
Jackson, Michael his shorts. Nowwe're not talking his underwear shorts, right,
no talk, it's the shorts hewere in his final game. Oh
okay, because you know they wantused the jerseys, et cetera. You
(20:48):
know that, Oh that would beinteresting. Hey, I want to suggest
real quickly before we go on ifwe have the time, and that is
a documentary that I've seen. Ithink it's on Netflix called The Golden Touch
g O. L d N.This is the guy who whatever is named
Golden and he runs a sports memorabiliacompany, probably the largest in the world,
(21:11):
and sell sports memorabilia. To giveyou an idea of what that is
about, that is worth seeing.It is an extraordinary documentary and it's just
it's it's just insane. The valueof stuff. Michael Jordan's like the first
tennis shoes that he wore in somechampionship game over two million dollars. I
(21:34):
mean, it's just it's beyond comprehension. All Right, I think we're done,
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