August 28, 2024 • 30 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Special counsel files reworked indictment against Donald Trump. Harris and Walz to give first sit-down interview as Democratic ticket on CNN. ‘Brought back to life’: Family hails rescue of Israeli hostage from Hamas tunnel in Gaza. Trump says he’s accepted rules for September 10 debate, which include muted mics. Massive air tanker will battle California wildfires
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
So there's the state slug. And then California is also
going to designate the dungeness crab as the state crustacean.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, now you please.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You don't want to conflate the dungeness crab with the
crabs that you got in your youth when you were
dating the wrong person.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I just want to point that out. This is the
dungeness crab. Thank you, Bill, They're okay.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
All right, it is a humpday, August twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
We've got a whole lot to talk about today. First
of all, quick hello to the morning crowd. Amy, Good morning,
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
You know, I try to listen to as much of
wake up call as I can. Unfortunately, I'm you know,
reading the stuff that I'm getting from Anne and I'm
looking at the news. But uh, the little bits and
pieces I get, I have to tell you, I get little.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Bits and piece bits and pieces. Uh are you really?
I really can't.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Tell uh how that works. So anyway, I just wanted
to point that out that I haven't listened to it
and what the hell you say? No, no, And then
I am going to point out how cold on how
good your newscasts are, in which they are absolutely superb,
and if that translates, which I don't know because I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Listen to Wake Up Call, You're doing a phenomenal job.
That was a compliment. Thank you, You're welcome. That was
a handle compliment. I know what I'm doing is giving.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Her kudos for something I have no idea if she
deserves kudos or not. Thanks, You're welcome, You're welcome. But
I know your ratings are phenomenal, So that helps. That
does help, all right.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So there's a good morning to Amy. Let's start with that. Neil,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I don't want any part of this.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Do you have anything nice to say to Neil this morning?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I don't want it. Give it all to Cono.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
I'm good, this is not the host con O.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Good morning, though, and good morning, good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I've shared lead the story about when Neil and I
go out in the one time he tried to buy
lunch for me.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Have I I've shared that with you because I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Okay, So I've got a rule in my life that
whoever makes the most money pays for lunch, and I
have friends who make more money than I do. We've
had friends who made more money I do, and I
have no problem. I just hand in the check.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Here you go. Couldn't care less.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So Neil we would have lunch early on when he
became my intern, or after he was working at the station.
So one day we're having lunch and I go to
the restroom and I ask the female waitress person for
the bill, and she says it's already been taken care of.
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And I looked at Neil and I said, what happened?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Here?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
He goes, I took care of the bill because you
take me to lunch. And I said to him, Neil,
let me point something out. Okay, if you think I
am grateful for this, you are not.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I am not.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
As a matter of fact, my esteem for you has
dropped several points and none of this is appreciated. Just
wanted to let you know that's how much I appreciate
you buying lunch. Ever since then, if I'm with Neil
at a meal and that bill in that little bill
past thing either leather or a little you know, whatever
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that they put it in comes in front of Neil.
He throws it to me like a frisbee. I mean,
I have to duck to get out of the way.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
What do they call those? Uh huh yeah, I'm trying.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
To touch it.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, no, you you're very good about that.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
The folio that.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
The yeah, the folio and sometimes they're made leather a
lot and clipboards.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That's it. The other day I had one.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
They put a clipboard on it, you know, a little
clipboard and you get the thing that looks like a
mouth trap to hold everything together. Okay, that's it. Uh
just yeah, it's a great story. It's one of my
great stories. Which if you if I ever add that
to my podcast, you will that will be the last
time you ever listened to a podcast of mine, which,
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by the way, is up and running the Bill Handle
Show podcast. Yesterday it's Tuesdays and Thursdays. Yesterday was I
explained to you how far back your dog goes, and
I'm talking about genetically and mankind and dogs.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, you guys ready to do it?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
We got a lot going on today, So pardon.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Neil, nothing, move along.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Okay, fair enough, all right, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's time for Handle on.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
The News with Amy King, Neil and moa lea.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Story, and boy it is a lead story.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yesterday, a superseding indictment against former President Trump by special
counsel Jack Smith. I'm going to get much more into
this at seven am. But superseding indictments are indictments that
are superseding, strangely enough, and what they do is either
amplify or are added to a current indictment, which any
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prosecutor can do. That is something that is just done.
And if you remember, the Supreme Court said that the
president has absolute immunity when he is acting in his
official capacity, and the Trump administration, the former president's lawyers
had argued.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That everything he does is official capacity.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Everything even Trump said anything I do as president, I'm
immune from any kind of prosecution. Well, the court delineated
official actions versus non official action. So what Jack Smith says,
he took the same set of facts and split him apart,
reduced a few of them, and said the four counts,
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we're looking at what he did as a candidate, not
an official act. Trying to overturn an election is not
something that is a national issue. It is well, it's
not a issue of national security, it's not official as
to what a president does.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
He did it as a candidate.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
So anyway, I'll talk more about that at seven am,
because there's a lot on that one.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It's a big deal, to say the least.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Here's another big deal. Time for a sit down. Vice
President Harris has finally agreed to do a sit down interviews.
Do it alone. No, she's gonna have her vice presidential candidate,
Tim Walls by her side. It's going to happen tomorrow
night at six on CNN. Dana Bash is the interviewer.
She hasn't done a formal interview or a press conference
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since she announced that she was running for president more
than a month ago.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, she's getting a lot of grief for that. Have
you noticed while Trump and Vance are separately doing their rallies,
she doesn't move without Walls. Those two are together. I
think there can join twins.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I think it's weird that she needs him in an interview.
I think it's weird.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, I think it's rather strange.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Now there's a reason for it, because maybe she doesn't
do too well in one on ones, or maybe she
does see her and also he is such a likable,
folksy kind of guy. You just like him, and he's
the only one up on a national ticket that is
just that nice of a guy that you want to
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hang with him. His likability factor is tremendous. Her likability
factor is not now not as bad as Hillary Clinton,
her likability factor was down in the toilet, and Donald
Trump's likability factor is not.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Very high either.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
So I think he is the best weapon that her
campaign has, and.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I can see the political motive of that, but a
lot of.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Criticisms saying, hey, you really need him at every step
of the way.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Family Hail's rescue of Israeli hostage from Hamas tunnel in Gaza.
Those tunnels that people say don't exist apparently do exist.
For Han al Kadi. He's fifty two. He's a Bedouin
Israeli citizen from or a hot in southern Israel who
has been held hostage since the beginning October seventh. He's
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now in stable medical condition after being rescued from this
tunnel in southern Gaza. Very complex operation. They say, ol
Kadi is the eighth hostage to be rescued alive in
Gods by the Israeli military.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You have very few and far between them.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
So now the Israelis are saying there are one hundred
and nine hostages, of which they have no idea how
many are dead, and certainly Hamas is not saying.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And that guy said that he told his rescuers that
he was originally held with a group of people in
the tunnels and that he saw at least one of
the hostages die in front of him.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And when they found him, he wasn't with his captor.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
No, he was by himself. He was by himself.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And the kind of intelligence that Israel the Israeli forces get,
it's pretty impressive. I mean, they're going it looks like
any but anybody who's in the tunnel that goes out
of the tunnel is in real danger of the Israeli
and Israeli attack or assassination attempt, which is why Raya
Sinwar stays in the tunnels.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
That's what the reporting has been.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And it makes yeah, I believe that because that's the
safest place for him for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Okay, Well forget saving the planet. Republican officials in twenty
four States have asked the Supreme Court to halt a
Biden administration effort to reduce emissions of methane gas. The
States are asking the High Court to pause an Environmental
Protection Agency rule that went into effect earlier this year,
and that the agency estimates will cut methane emissions from
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oil and gas operations by nearly eighty percent through twenty
thirty eight.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Yeah, and you've got the environmentalists that are going, hey,
take a look at what's going on in the world.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Okay, just take a look.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
You're not hearing climate change is a hoax anymore. That's
sort of off the table, all right. So that's one
view from the Republicans that the environmentalists and the Democrats say,
you guys are crazy, You're destroying the planet. The other
side of it is, hey, we have to keep people working.
You know, look how many hundreds of thousands of people
will work in the fossil fuel industries, the power plants,
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the oil industry, the oil patch, and so what do
you do with that? So under a Harris administration, it
will see very strong laws in terms of the.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Strength the EPA has.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Under a Trump administration, it's exactly the opposite. And you
get to guess which way it goes, which side you're on?
Have you seen? And I watch the national news every night.
In addition, to everything I read. I don't know the
last time I looked at a story over the last
week and weeks where there hasn't been a major story
about climate change, either its massive flooding rains beyond belief
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or its heat spells that are hitting the country. I mean,
is it is tough. I mean, climate change is upon us,
and now what do.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
We deal with it?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
The good news is is by the time it makes
it unlivable, I'll be dead.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Let my kids, my grand kids worry about it.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Oh, I think that's all something for us to hope for.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced on truth Social
of Course that he has reached an agreement to participate
in the September tenth debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
So the rules basically are going to be the same
as the CNN debate. That means, you know, he says,
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it's works for everyone. That means the muted mics and
everything that we saw last time.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, And I was reading about this and listening to
the pundits, and this is a win for him. And
here is the thinking on the Trump part, or at
least the Trump advisors, is a non muted, a non
muted press conference means that he isn't going to interrupt
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every two seconds like he did with Hillary, like he
did with Joe Biden, and what the Harris folks want
to do is have him do that. So he looks
kind of out of control, and his folks are saying no,
because if he cannot overreact, then he comes off more presidential.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
As opposed to a wild man.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
So it's basically, we want to control our guy, and
that means a muted mic.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
And by the way, I think that's true because Donald
Trump does veer off and get very personal and he does.
You know, every time Joe Biden would say something, Donald
Trump would go Nope, not true, nope, nope, nope. In
the original debate, the muted debate, well, obviously Joe Biden,
you can't even compare the two because he imploded. So
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that's we're even hearing that. Donald Trump, if you look
at it, didn't do very well in the campaign, didn't
do very well in the debate. Now you can argue
yes or no, but Joe Biden was so disastrous the
comparison can't even be made.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well, you said not a day is by that we
don't do a story about climate change. The ocean's overflowing.
UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez issued a global SOS. It's
a save our Seas. The Global SOS was issued while
he was on the Pacific island nation of Tonga. There's
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a plea out to the world to massively increase finance
and support for vulnerable countries. Says the ocean is overflowing
and rising seas or a crisis entirely of humanities.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Making Meanwhile, surfs UP US officials awarded California nearly one
hundred and fifty million for the construction of more than
nine thousand and two hundred electric vehicle the vehicle charging units.
This is all in an attempt to make zero mission
cars attractive to wider range drivers. You've heard handled talked
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about this many times on the air, that that range
anxiety and everything else, that it's time to put your
money where your mouth is.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, I mean that's a evs were had exploded in
popularity and sales. I mean they were going like crazy,
especially here in California, not only because we're drivers and
we're usually ahead of the curve, but also because of
the emissions and the two twenty thirty five standard that
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we are supposed to be completely fossil fuel free terms
of energy, we need alternative energy. Put all that together
and EV's make all the sense in the world. And
I bought one promise charging stations. EV sales have actually
slowed because of charging stations, and I was talking to
one of the BMW guys saying, until charging stations become prolific,
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sales are not going to go. Even though it makes
tremendous sense to buy an EV. I mean the cost
of there's no cost of fuel, minuscule electricity costs, and
so I mean we need charging stations.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
When I do my commercials.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
For Walter's Wholesale Electric, which I do every day, what's
the first thing I say, not enough EV charging stations.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
There aren't enough.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Did the government step in with gas stations.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
No, but I don't think the I don't think it
needed to. If you look at the infrastructure, it was organic.
Gas stations were always there from the very beginning. Well,
it used to be you buy cans of gas early
on from your pharmacy and you put it in and
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then gas stations started, but it was all organic. This
is a very different animal. For example, the government really
got involved in the development of nuclear weapons, and that
wasn't done in small batches by individual entrepreneurs. Sometimes the
government has to get involved.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Sometimes not.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Another day, another delay. SpaceX has delayed its latest mission,
and that is the Polaris Dawn mission, which was supposed
to launch for civilians into space. They were going to
go to Earth's Van Allen radiation belts, which apparently is
lower th orbit to do some spacewalks that it would
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be the first time a civilian would do a spacewalk,
but they said we have to push it back because
they're expecting the weather to be bad when the crew
is scheduled to return, not for the takeoff for the return.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Yeah, we're going to have Rod Pyle with this coming
up at seven thirty to talk about this. In a
couple of other instances where SpaceX, I think Elon mus
going to be the become the hero on this one.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
So that's up at seven thirty.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Disbarred celebrity lawyer Tom Giraldi was Girardi. Girardi sorry, was
convicted yesterday of inbezid tens of millions of dollars from
his clients. So you got several people that had severe
physical injuries, families of people killed in accident. He's generally
a pretty horrible person.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yeah, he's a bad guy because not only did he
embezzle trust funds money that he received in settlements and
jury awards, but the people he took them from, burn victims,
people who are elderly, people who had lost family and
got settlements, he took it. He just took their money.
I mean tens of millions over all these years. And
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I mean you talk about a facade he's put on
his wife was what one of the stars of Wives
of Beverly Hills, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, like I watched that place.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
He's even been on a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, he has.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And it's just I mean private jets and vacations and
all that, all with stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Stole from the poor and gave to the rich.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Looking himself right.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
And he was also involved in the Pacific Gaston Electric lawsuit,
the Erin Brockovich lawsuit that led to a three hundred
and thirty three million dollar settlement which he was going
to get. He would have got, I mean legitimately would
get one hundred million dollars on that thirty percent of
a settlement.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I mean, because that's the retainer.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
So in any case he was it was disbarred a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Now, how do I know him because.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
He was one of the chief sponsors of the Lawyer's
Philharmonic that I amc every year, and he was always there,
and there'd be the the green room and we would
talk and just I mean, it's an acquaintance. I'm not
going to say he's a friend. But every time I
would go there and Girardi was there, I noticed that
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I was pickpocketed. I never put the two together. This
helps enormously for me to understand what happened.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I will tell you just heads up, he probably won't
be showing up for a few years.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I don't think he's going to go to prison. I
don't think.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I think he is old, decrepit. He is suffering from dementia.
As a matter of fact, he got his trial delayed
because of dementia. He lives in an assistant facility, assistant
living facility. And what makes it even weird, this guy
who has spent stolen tens of millions, stolen tens of millions,
and has spent a fortune he has a public defender
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representing him. He doesn't even have a lawyer. He can't
afford a lawyer, and so he'll end up in complete dementia.
And originally he had asked for a dismissal based on
inability to participate in his trial, which is a constitutional requirement.
You have to be able to participate and understand what
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you're doing. And he got out of that and a
judge reinstated.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
His ability to participate, and so.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
And his defense is the doggate the homework being his
partner who stole all the money and he really didn't
know sure.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So Mexico's matt edis. Mexico's President Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador
has halted diplomatic relations with the US and Canadian embassies
after their ambassador's criticized Obrador's proposal to have judges elected
by popular vote. Lopez Obrador says the pause is with
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the embassies, though it's not with the whole country, and
he said relations will be re established once the diplomats
are respectful of the independence of Mexico, of the sovereignty
of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah, this one's interesting because pulling your ambassadors out and
basically saying no, no embassy can be at work. Sort
of kind of is diplomatic relations being cut off? But
he's saying no, it's only the embassies themselves. I guess
the buildings themselves, those who work in the embassy.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
One's kind of weird.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Also his argument, and you know, you've got American diplomatic personnel,
including Canadian are telling Mexico here's the way you should
do it. You should not have popular election of judges.
Excuse me, who the hell are you? This is our country.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
So I can see him being pissed off. And of course,
I mean his.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Administration just sucks big time.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
All right.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
For years, the Paralympians with tattoos, you know, the Olympic rings.
We saw a lot of that during the Olympics this year,
the Summer Olympics this year. They had to cover them
up completely for competition or they would face penalties from
the International Paralympic Committee, and that included disqualification. But ahead
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of the twenty twenty four Paralympics, which start next week
in Paris, they suddenly have, you know, with zero explanation,
reversed course and are dropping the rule.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Well yeah, well think about this. Doesn't that make a
lot of sense. First of all, any athlete who goes
to the Olympics that is tatted is going to have
the Olympic rings on. I mean, there's no way. It's
too great an honor and too great a statement not
to make with the Olympics the Olympic rings. And now
I have a question, is it only have to do
with the Olympic rings themselves that weren't allowed? And I
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don't know the answer to this because it is the Paralympics,
and they I think they have a different logo, don't they.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
They don't. It's the same logo.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
All right, that's what a on set.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Okay, Well, the big guns have arrived to fight fires.
We got to see one thirty Hercules. California is the
first state in the nation to own, operate, and deploy
its own big air tank cur toify wildfires. We're going
to be getting a total of seven of them. They're
being retrofitted. The Hercules is capable of flying faster and
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further than any other aircraft in Calfire's arsenal, with a
range of eight hundred miles and a payload of four
thousand gallons of fire retardant.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Now this is Calfire's fleet. There are private fleets out there.
For example, there's a seven forty seven that flies around
out there that fights fires, as well as a DC
ten that's out there. If you've seen those things at work.
But this is CalFire and they're using more and more
aircraft because that seems to be obviously the way to
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go with a lot of it has to do with
they now have the ability to put retardant on the
ground at night because of the technology, which they used
to not be able to do. And I got to
tell you, those pilots are I mean insane. You're flying
around at like four hundred feet and the thermals that
come off of fire, I mean, can you imagine the
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kind of turbulence that comes off these massive wildfires and
then they are four hundred five hundred feet which is
why occasionally and the aircraft.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Are all old.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
I mean these are refurbished, it's not like their new aircraft,
and some of them are really old. And occasionally you
read about a couple of them auguring into the ground,
start diving and then all of a sudden the wings
come off. That is very problematic, not good for the pilots.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
You know, what the crazy thing is to me losing
them all that weight? No, that all that weight at
one time, you know, when they're dumping. Yeah, whether it's
the fast edge, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
And that's another issue of how difficult it is to
fly those things.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Yeah, very impressive pilots.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Now I want to point something out is we have one, two,
three stories left to go, which means there is no
chance in hell that we are not going to have
time left over at the end of the segment, because
we're going to run out of stories before we run
out of time, and that doesn't happen very often. So
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Ann and Neil and Amy start coming up with jokes
if you would please, that we can end the show with. Okay,
and they have to be fairly clean, or in the
hour with they have to be fairly clean. So let's
go ahead and do the stories, and then we'll jump
into how we are going to spin and how we're
going to opf ascute and convolute and try to figure
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out how we spend the rest of the hour handle
on the news with Amy, Neil and me.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I want to convolute, of course, root and toot and convolute, Hey,
don't touch that.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oops.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
The Daisy.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
A four year old boy accidentally smashed a bronze age
jar at an archaeological museum in Haifa, Israel. And so
in this particular museum, they have some of the artifacts
just as they are naturally on a stand. And I
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know that sounds crazy, but it's kind of a beautiful
sentiment wrapped in glass or anything like that. This artifact
was over thirty five hundred years old. It's on display
without that glass near the institution's entrance. And their belief
is they they want I guess the original curator or
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builder of the museum said that they want some of
these artifacts to be accessible. But his father said that
his son had just pulled the jar lightly and then
he saw it at the kid's feet, and he's like,
oh my god.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yes, they're going to keep on.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
They're going to keep on allowing first of all kids
in the museum and still no protection for these artifacts.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah, we'll figure.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I wonder how much they're going to be talking about Taylor.
The Kelsey brothers, Jason and Travis have signed a podcast
deal with Amazon's Wondery and for the brothers it's worth
more than one hundred million dollars. They they do their
New Heights podcast. They've been doing it since twenty twenty two,
but now they've signed the deal with Wondery, which is
(28:07):
an Amazon company, just in time for the twenty twenty
four to twenty five NFL season. It's a three year deal.
Wondery gets exclusive light rights to all the episodes. They
say that New Heights has brought hilarious, relevant commentary and
interviews and unprecedented insider access to the NFL season and
professional sports, and they're thrilled to be part of it.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, and it's still going to be available on all
the platforms out there. He's just going to go on
Amazon first and they'll be ad free.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So I guess that's worthwhile.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
How many Downstrea was very popular before, and do we
know how many downloads? This thing has to have an
astronomical listenership. You know, you don't get one hundred million
dollars just for the potential of making money.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
It just doesn't work here. Your jealousy, of course, is jealousy.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Of course never gave a rats ass about downloads until
his own podcast.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That's absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
And for the record, I and the number of listeners
has just exploded on my podcast. I want to thank
all nine of you that have become listeners, and it
is growing like crazy. If you look at the graph,
by next week, it'll be probably fifteen sixteen people. Well
might as well pitch the podcast. The podcast dropping Tuesday
(29:29):
and Thursday. Thank you for that, Neil good segue.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It's the Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Show podcast and it started Tuesday and Thursday nine o'clock
we drop it.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
And the one that dropped.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Yesterday is the History of Dogs, Your dog and how
your dog came into your home and your life.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
But man, it started a long time ago. Very interesting stuff. Okay, oh,
we're actually gonna make it last story.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Mark Zuckerberg, you all know him.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
He's the chairman and CEO of the social media company Meta.
They deal with Facebook and gram all of that.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Well.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
He said in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee
on Monday this week that his teams were pressured by
the Biden White House to censor some content around COVID nineteen,
even things that were humor or satire. He also said
that the FBI warned his company about potential Russian disinformation
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around Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian firm Barisma affecting the
twenty twenty election, and he said that he regrets all
of this.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
All right, all right, well we actually made it. We
did a pretty good job. No, we didn't have to
put in the jokes, did we.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
All right?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
So there's the state slug. And then California is also
going to designate the dungeness crab as the state crustacean.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, now you please.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You don't want to conflate the dungeness crab with the
crabs that you got in your youth when you were
dating the wrong person.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I just want to point that out. This is the
dungeness crab. Thank you, Bill, They're okay.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
All right, it is a humpday, August twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
We've got a whole lot to talk about today. First
of all, quick hello to the morning crowd. Amy, Good morning,
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
You know, I try to listen to as much of
wake up call as I can. Unfortunately, I'm you know,
reading the stuff that I'm getting from Anne and I'm
looking at the news. But uh, the little bits and
pieces I get, I have to tell you, I get little.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Bits and piece bits and pieces. Uh are you really?
I really can't.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Tell uh how that works. So anyway, I just wanted
to point that out that I haven't listened to it
and what the hell you say? No, no, And then
I am going to point out how cold on how
good your newscasts are, in which they are absolutely superb,
and if that translates, which I don't know because I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Listen to Wake Up Call, You're doing a phenomenal job.
That was a compliment. Thank you, You're welcome. That was
a handle compliment. I know what I'm doing is giving.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Her kudos for something I have no idea if she
deserves kudos or not. Thanks, You're welcome, You're welcome. But
I know your ratings are phenomenal, So that helps. That
does help, all right.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So there's a good morning to Amy. Let's start with that. Neil,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I don't want any part of this.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Do you have anything nice to say to Neil this morning?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I don't want it. Give it all to Cono.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
I'm good, this is not the host con O.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Good morning, though, and good morning, good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I've shared lead the story about when Neil and I
go out in the one time he tried to buy
lunch for me.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Have I I've shared that with you because I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Okay, So I've got a rule in my life that
whoever makes the most money pays for lunch, and I
have friends who make more money than I do. We've
had friends who made more money I do, and I
have no problem. I just hand in the check.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Here you go. Couldn't care less.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So Neil we would have lunch early on when he
became my intern, or after he was working at the station.
So one day we're having lunch and I go to
the restroom and I ask the female waitress person for
the bill, and she says it's already been taken care of.
(03:25):
And I looked at Neil and I said, what happened?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Here?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
He goes, I took care of the bill because you
take me to lunch. And I said to him, Neil,
let me point something out. Okay, if you think I
am grateful for this, you are not.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I am not.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
As a matter of fact, my esteem for you has
dropped several points and none of this is appreciated. Just
wanted to let you know that's how much I appreciate
you buying lunch. Ever since then, if I'm with Neil
at a meal and that bill in that little bill
past thing either leather or a little you know, whatever
(04:04):
that they put it in comes in front of Neil.
He throws it to me like a frisbee. I mean,
I have to duck to get out of the way.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
What do they call those? Uh huh yeah, I'm trying.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
To touch it.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, no, you you're very good about that.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
The folio that.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
The yeah, the folio and sometimes they're made leather a
lot and clipboards.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That's it. The other day I had one.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
They put a clipboard on it, you know, a little
clipboard and you get the thing that looks like a
mouth trap to hold everything together. Okay, that's it. Uh
just yeah, it's a great story. It's one of my
great stories. Which if you if I ever add that
to my podcast, you will that will be the last
time you ever listened to a podcast of mine, which,
(04:48):
by the way, is up and running the Bill Handle
Show podcast. Yesterday it's Tuesdays and Thursdays. Yesterday was I
explained to you how far back your dog goes, and
I'm talking about genetically and mankind and dogs.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, you guys ready to do it?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
We got a lot going on today, So pardon.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Neil, nothing, move along.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Okay, fair enough, all right, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's time for Handle on.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
The News with Amy King, Neil and moa lea.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Story, and boy it is a lead story.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yesterday, a superseding indictment against former President Trump by special
counsel Jack Smith. I'm going to get much more into
this at seven am. But superseding indictments are indictments that
are superseding, strangely enough, and what they do is either
amplify or are added to a current indictment, which any
(05:47):
prosecutor can do. That is something that is just done.
And if you remember, the Supreme Court said that the
president has absolute immunity when he is acting in his
official capacity, and the Trump administration, the former president's lawyers
had argued.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That everything he does is official capacity.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Everything even Trump said anything I do as president, I'm
immune from any kind of prosecution. Well, the court delineated
official actions versus non official action. So what Jack Smith says,
he took the same set of facts and split him apart,
reduced a few of them, and said the four counts,
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we're looking at what he did as a candidate, not
an official act. Trying to overturn an election is not
something that is a national issue. It is well, it's
not a issue of national security, it's not official as
to what a president does.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
He did it as a candidate.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
So anyway, I'll talk more about that at seven am,
because there's a lot on that one.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It's a big deal, to say the least.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Here's another big deal. Time for a sit down. Vice
President Harris has finally agreed to do a sit down interviews.
Do it alone. No, she's gonna have her vice presidential candidate,
Tim Walls by her side. It's going to happen tomorrow
night at six on CNN. Dana Bash is the interviewer.
She hasn't done a formal interview or a press conference
(07:14):
since she announced that she was running for president more
than a month ago.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, she's getting a lot of grief for that. Have
you noticed while Trump and Vance are separately doing their rallies,
she doesn't move without Walls. Those two are together. I
think there can join twins.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I think it's weird that she needs him in an interview.
I think it's weird.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, I think it's rather strange.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Now there's a reason for it, because maybe she doesn't
do too well in one on ones, or maybe she
does see her and also he is such a likable,
folksy kind of guy. You just like him, and he's
the only one up on a national ticket that is
just that nice of a guy that you want to
(08:00):
hang with him. His likability factor is tremendous. Her likability
factor is not now not as bad as Hillary Clinton,
her likability factor was down in the toilet, and Donald
Trump's likability factor is not.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Very high either.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
So I think he is the best weapon that her
campaign has, and.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I can see the political motive of that, but a
lot of.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Criticisms saying, hey, you really need him at every step
of the way.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Family Hail's rescue of Israeli hostage from Hamas tunnel in Gaza.
Those tunnels that people say don't exist apparently do exist.
For Han al Kadi. He's fifty two. He's a Bedouin
Israeli citizen from or a hot in southern Israel who
has been held hostage since the beginning October seventh. He's
(08:56):
now in stable medical condition after being rescued from this
tunnel in southern Gaza. Very complex operation. They say, ol
Kadi is the eighth hostage to be rescued alive in
Gods by the Israeli military.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You have very few and far between them.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
So now the Israelis are saying there are one hundred
and nine hostages, of which they have no idea how
many are dead, and certainly Hamas is not saying.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And that guy said that he told his rescuers that
he was originally held with a group of people in
the tunnels and that he saw at least one of
the hostages die in front of him.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And when they found him, he wasn't with his captor.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
No, he was by himself. He was by himself.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And the kind of intelligence that Israel the Israeli forces get,
it's pretty impressive. I mean, they're going it looks like
any but anybody who's in the tunnel that goes out
of the tunnel is in real danger of the Israeli
and Israeli attack or assassination attempt, which is why Raya
Sinwar stays in the tunnels.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
That's what the reporting has been.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And it makes yeah, I believe that because that's the
safest place for him for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Okay, Well forget saving the planet. Republican officials in twenty
four States have asked the Supreme Court to halt a
Biden administration effort to reduce emissions of methane gas. The
States are asking the High Court to pause an Environmental
Protection Agency rule that went into effect earlier this year,
and that the agency estimates will cut methane emissions from
(10:29):
oil and gas operations by nearly eighty percent through twenty
thirty eight.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Yeah, and you've got the environmentalists that are going, hey,
take a look at what's going on in the world.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Okay, just take a look.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
You're not hearing climate change is a hoax anymore. That's
sort of off the table, all right. So that's one
view from the Republicans that the environmentalists and the Democrats say,
you guys are crazy, You're destroying the planet. The other
side of it is, hey, we have to keep people working.
You know, look how many hundreds of thousands of people
will work in the fossil fuel industries, the power plants,
(11:03):
the oil industry, the oil patch, and so what do
you do with that? So under a Harris administration, it
will see very strong laws in terms of the.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Strength the EPA has.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Under a Trump administration, it's exactly the opposite. And you
get to guess which way it goes, which side you're on?
Have you seen? And I watch the national news every night.
In addition, to everything I read. I don't know the
last time I looked at a story over the last
week and weeks where there hasn't been a major story
about climate change, either its massive flooding rains beyond belief
(11:44):
or its heat spells that are hitting the country. I mean,
is it is tough. I mean, climate change is upon us,
and now what do.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
We deal with it?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
The good news is is by the time it makes
it unlivable, I'll be dead.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Let my kids, my grand kids worry about it.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Oh, I think that's all something for us to hope for.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced on truth Social
of Course that he has reached an agreement to participate
in the September tenth debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
So the rules basically are going to be the same
as the CNN debate. That means, you know, he says,
(12:22):
it's works for everyone. That means the muted mics and
everything that we saw last time.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah, And I was reading about this and listening to
the pundits, and this is a win for him. And
here is the thinking on the Trump part, or at
least the Trump advisors, is a non muted, a non
muted press conference means that he isn't going to interrupt
(12:50):
every two seconds like he did with Hillary, like he
did with Joe Biden, and what the Harris folks want
to do is have him do that. So he looks
kind of out of control, and his folks are saying no,
because if he cannot overreact, then he comes off more presidential.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
As opposed to a wild man.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
So it's basically, we want to control our guy, and
that means a muted mic.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
And by the way, I think that's true because Donald
Trump does veer off and get very personal and he does.
You know, every time Joe Biden would say something, Donald
Trump would go Nope, not true, nope, nope, nope. In
the original debate, the muted debate, well, obviously Joe Biden,
you can't even compare the two because he imploded. So
(13:41):
that's we're even hearing that. Donald Trump, if you look
at it, didn't do very well in the campaign, didn't
do very well in the debate. Now you can argue
yes or no, but Joe Biden was so disastrous the
comparison can't even be made.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well, you said not a day is by that we
don't do a story about climate change. The ocean's overflowing.
UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez issued a global SOS. It's
a save our Seas. The Global SOS was issued while
he was on the Pacific island nation of Tonga. There's
(14:20):
a plea out to the world to massively increase finance
and support for vulnerable countries. Says the ocean is overflowing
and rising seas or a crisis entirely of humanities.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Making Meanwhile, surfs UP US officials awarded California nearly one
hundred and fifty million for the construction of more than
nine thousand and two hundred electric vehicle the vehicle charging units.
This is all in an attempt to make zero mission
cars attractive to wider range drivers. You've heard handled talked
(14:55):
about this many times on the air, that that range
anxiety and everything else, that it's time to put your
money where your mouth is.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Yeah, I mean that's a evs were had exploded in
popularity and sales. I mean they were going like crazy,
especially here in California, not only because we're drivers and
we're usually ahead of the curve, but also because of
the emissions and the two twenty thirty five standard that
(15:25):
we are supposed to be completely fossil fuel free terms
of energy, we need alternative energy. Put all that together
and EV's make all the sense in the world. And
I bought one promise charging stations. EV sales have actually
slowed because of charging stations, and I was talking to
one of the BMW guys saying, until charging stations become prolific,
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sales are not going to go. Even though it makes
tremendous sense to buy an EV. I mean the cost
of there's no cost of fuel, minuscule electricity costs, and
so I mean we need charging stations.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
When I do my commercials.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
For Walter's Wholesale Electric, which I do every day, what's
the first thing I say, not enough EV charging stations.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
There aren't enough.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Did the government step in with gas stations.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
No, but I don't think the I don't think it
needed to. If you look at the infrastructure, it was organic.
Gas stations were always there from the very beginning. Well,
it used to be you buy cans of gas early
on from your pharmacy and you put it in and
(16:41):
then gas stations started, but it was all organic. This
is a very different animal. For example, the government really
got involved in the development of nuclear weapons, and that
wasn't done in small batches by individual entrepreneurs. Sometimes the
government has to get involved.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Sometimes not.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Another day, another delay. SpaceX has delayed its latest mission,
and that is the Polaris Dawn mission, which was supposed
to launch for civilians into space. They were going to
go to Earth's Van Allen radiation belts, which apparently is
lower th orbit to do some spacewalks that it would
(17:25):
be the first time a civilian would do a spacewalk,
but they said we have to push it back because
they're expecting the weather to be bad when the crew
is scheduled to return, not for the takeoff for the return.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Yeah, we're going to have Rod Pyle with this coming
up at seven thirty to talk about this. In a
couple of other instances where SpaceX, I think Elon mus
going to be the become the hero on this one.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
So that's up at seven thirty.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Disbarred celebrity lawyer Tom Giraldi was Girardi. Girardi sorry, was
convicted yesterday of inbezid tens of millions of dollars from
his clients. So you got several people that had severe
physical injuries, families of people killed in accident. He's generally
a pretty horrible person.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yeah, he's a bad guy because not only did he
embezzle trust funds money that he received in settlements and
jury awards, but the people he took them from, burn victims,
people who are elderly, people who had lost family and
got settlements, he took it. He just took their money.
I mean tens of millions over all these years. And
(18:35):
I mean you talk about a facade he's put on
his wife was what one of the stars of Wives
of Beverly Hills, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, like I watched that place.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
He's even been on a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, he has.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And it's just I mean private jets and vacations and
all that, all with stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Stole from the poor and gave to the rich.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Looking himself right.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
And he was also involved in the Pacific Gaston Electric lawsuit,
the Erin Brockovich lawsuit that led to a three hundred
and thirty three million dollar settlement which he was going
to get. He would have got, I mean legitimately would
get one hundred million dollars on that thirty percent of
a settlement.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I mean, because that's the retainer.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
So in any case he was it was disbarred a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Now, how do I know him because.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
He was one of the chief sponsors of the Lawyer's
Philharmonic that I amc every year, and he was always there,
and there'd be the the green room and we would
talk and just I mean, it's an acquaintance. I'm not
going to say he's a friend. But every time I
would go there and Girardi was there, I noticed that
(19:46):
I was pickpocketed. I never put the two together. This
helps enormously for me to understand what happened.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I will tell you just heads up, he probably won't
be showing up for a few years.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I don't think he's going to go to prison. I
don't think.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I think he is old, decrepit. He is suffering from dementia.
As a matter of fact, he got his trial delayed
because of dementia. He lives in an assistant facility, assistant
living facility. And what makes it even weird, this guy
who has spent stolen tens of millions, stolen tens of millions,
and has spent a fortune he has a public defender
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representing him. He doesn't even have a lawyer. He can't
afford a lawyer, and so he'll end up in complete dementia.
And originally he had asked for a dismissal based on
inability to participate in his trial, which is a constitutional requirement.
You have to be able to participate and understand what
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you're doing. And he got out of that and a
judge reinstated.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
His ability to participate, and so.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
And his defense is the doggate the homework being his
partner who stole all the money and he really didn't
know sure.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So Mexico's matt edis. Mexico's President Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador
has halted diplomatic relations with the US and Canadian embassies
after their ambassador's criticized Obrador's proposal to have judges elected
by popular vote. Lopez Obrador says the pause is with
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the embassies, though it's not with the whole country, and
he said relations will be re established once the diplomats
are respectful of the independence of Mexico, of the sovereignty
of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah, this one's interesting because pulling your ambassadors out and
basically saying no, no embassy can be at work. Sort
of kind of is diplomatic relations being cut off? But
he's saying no, it's only the embassies themselves. I guess
the buildings themselves, those who work in the embassy.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
One's kind of weird.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Also his argument, and you know, you've got American diplomatic personnel,
including Canadian are telling Mexico here's the way you should
do it. You should not have popular election of judges.
Excuse me, who the hell are you? This is our country.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
So I can see him being pissed off. And of course,
I mean his.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Administration just sucks big time.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
All right.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
For years, the Paralympians with tattoos, you know, the Olympic rings.
We saw a lot of that during the Olympics this year,
the Summer Olympics this year. They had to cover them
up completely for competition or they would face penalties from
the International Paralympic Committee, and that included disqualification. But ahead
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of the twenty twenty four Paralympics, which start next week
in Paris, they suddenly have, you know, with zero explanation,
reversed course and are dropping the rule.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Well yeah, well think about this. Doesn't that make a
lot of sense. First of all, any athlete who goes
to the Olympics that is tatted is going to have
the Olympic rings on. I mean, there's no way. It's
too great an honor and too great a statement not
to make with the Olympics the Olympic rings. And now
I have a question, is it only have to do
with the Olympic rings themselves that weren't allowed? And I
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don't know the answer to this because it is the Paralympics,
and they I think they have a different logo, don't they.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
They don't. It's the same logo.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
All right, that's what a on set.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Okay, Well, the big guns have arrived to fight fires.
We got to see one thirty Hercules. California is the
first state in the nation to own, operate, and deploy
its own big air tank cur toify wildfires. We're going
to be getting a total of seven of them. They're
being retrofitted. The Hercules is capable of flying faster and
(24:09):
further than any other aircraft in Calfire's arsenal, with a
range of eight hundred miles and a payload of four
thousand gallons of fire retardant.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Now this is Calfire's fleet. There are private fleets out there.
For example, there's a seven forty seven that flies around
out there that fights fires, as well as a DC
ten that's out there. If you've seen those things at work.
But this is CalFire and they're using more and more
aircraft because that seems to be obviously the way to
(24:40):
go with a lot of it has to do with
they now have the ability to put retardant on the
ground at night because of the technology, which they used
to not be able to do. And I got to
tell you, those pilots are I mean insane. You're flying
around at like four hundred feet and the thermals that
come off of fire, I mean, can you imagine the
(25:02):
kind of turbulence that comes off these massive wildfires and
then they are four hundred five hundred feet which is
why occasionally and the aircraft.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Are all old.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
I mean these are refurbished, it's not like their new aircraft,
and some of them are really old. And occasionally you
read about a couple of them auguring into the ground,
start diving and then all of a sudden the wings
come off. That is very problematic, not good for the pilots.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
You know, what the crazy thing is to me losing
them all that weight? No, that all that weight at
one time, you know, when they're dumping. Yeah, whether it's
the fast edge, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
And that's another issue of how difficult it is to
fly those things.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Yeah, very impressive pilots.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Now I want to point something out is we have one, two,
three stories left to go, which means there is no
chance in hell that we are not going to have
time left over at the end of the segment, because
we're going to run out of stories before we run
out of time, and that doesn't happen very often. So
(26:02):
Ann and Neil and Amy start coming up with jokes
if you would please, that we can end the show with. Okay,
and they have to be fairly clean, or in the
hour with they have to be fairly clean. So let's
go ahead and do the stories, and then we'll jump
into how we are going to spin and how we're
going to opf ascute and convolute and try to figure
(26:23):
out how we spend the rest of the hour handle
on the news with Amy, Neil and me.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I want to convolute, of course, root and toot and convolute, Hey,
don't touch that.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oops.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
The Daisy.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
A four year old boy accidentally smashed a bronze age
jar at an archaeological museum in Haifa, Israel. And so
in this particular museum, they have some of the artifacts
just as they are naturally on a stand. And I
(26:56):
know that sounds crazy, but it's kind of a beautiful
sentiment wrapped in glass or anything like that. This artifact
was over thirty five hundred years old. It's on display
without that glass near the institution's entrance. And their belief
is they they want I guess the original curator or
(27:17):
builder of the museum said that they want some of
these artifacts to be accessible. But his father said that
his son had just pulled the jar lightly and then
he saw it at the kid's feet, and he's like,
oh my god.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yes, they're going to keep on.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
They're going to keep on allowing first of all kids
in the museum and still no protection for these artifacts.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah, we'll figure.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I wonder how much they're going to be talking about Taylor.
The Kelsey brothers, Jason and Travis have signed a podcast
deal with Amazon's Wondery and for the brothers it's worth
more than one hundred million dollars. They they do their
New Heights podcast. They've been doing it since twenty twenty two,
but now they've signed the deal with Wondery, which is
(28:07):
an Amazon company, just in time for the twenty twenty
four to twenty five NFL season. It's a three year deal.
Wondery gets exclusive light rights to all the episodes. They
say that New Heights has brought hilarious, relevant commentary and
interviews and unprecedented insider access to the NFL season and
professional sports, and they're thrilled to be part of it.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, and it's still going to be available on all
the platforms out there. He's just going to go on
Amazon first and they'll be ad free.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So I guess that's worthwhile.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
How many Downstrea was very popular before, and do we
know how many downloads? This thing has to have an
astronomical listenership. You know, you don't get one hundred million
dollars just for the potential of making money.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
It just doesn't work here. Your jealousy, of course, is jealousy.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Of course never gave a rats ass about downloads until
his own podcast.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That's absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
And for the record, I and the number of listeners
has just exploded on my podcast. I want to thank
all nine of you that have become listeners, and it
is growing like crazy. If you look at the graph,
by next week, it'll be probably fifteen sixteen people. Well
might as well pitch the podcast. The podcast dropping Tuesday
(29:29):
and Thursday. Thank you for that, Neil good segue.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It's the Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Show podcast and it started Tuesday and Thursday nine o'clock
we drop it.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
And the one that dropped.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Yesterday is the History of Dogs, Your dog and how
your dog came into your home and your life.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
But man, it started a long time ago. Very interesting stuff. Okay, oh,
we're actually gonna make it last story.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Mark Zuckerberg, you all know him.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
He's the chairman and CEO of the social media company Meta.
They deal with Facebook and gram all of that.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Well.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
He said in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee
on Monday this week that his teams were pressured by
the Biden White House to censor some content around COVID nineteen,
even things that were humor or satire. He also said
that the FBI warned his company about potential Russian disinformation
(30:22):
around Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian firm Barisma affecting the
twenty twenty election, and he said that he regrets all
of this.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
All right, all right, well we actually made it. We
did a pretty good job. No, we didn't have to
put in the jokes, did we.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
All right?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
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