October 14, 2024 • 32 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Wayne Resnick for Handel on the News as Bill is out on vacation this week. U.S. sends THAAD missile defense system to Israel to defend against Iran. Hezbollah drone strike kills 4 Israeli soldiers on military base. Biden announces more than $600MIL for electric grid resilience during visit to survey Hurricane Milton damage. Federal officials say no evidence of assassination attempt after man arrested with weapons near Trump rally in California. SpaceX successfully catches returning Starship rocket.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good Morning's Bill Handle show right here on KFI AM
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Wayne Resnick sitting in Neil Sevadra is here in Good morning, sir.
Amy King is here, Good morning to you. Kono is here,
Good morning, and is here our favorite Padres fan. And
this is the time of the show. By the way,
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And now's the time of the morning when we give
you Handle on the news with Amy and Neil and me.
And this is our lead Storytitude. Well, we all know
there's a lot going on between Israel and Hezbeala, Israel
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and Gaza, and Israel and Iran, and now the United
States is getting more involved.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
They are sending a hundred troops to Israel.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
As well as one of our most advanced missile defense
system that's known as the FAD Missile Defense System Terminal
High Altitude Area Defense Missile System.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And here's what this means. I'll tell you exactly what
it means.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You may recall and I can't I can't give you
a complete history of all the drones and the missiles
because this has been too many from all sides. But
relevant to this move on the part of the US.
Remember when Iran, not Hesbela, not Gaza, not their proxies
in the region, Iran.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Sent a bunch of drones and missiles to Israel.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
There was an attack and most of them were intercepted
and nobody really got hurt except for one Palestinian ironically,
So now everybody's been waiting to see what Israel will
do in retaliation, and the United States has been trying
to talk to Israel and say, hey, let's don't be
too crazy. We know you have to do something. We
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understand how it works. Don't be too crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Though.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The fact that we are sending this defense missile system
to Israel, as well as some support troops means we
believe whatever Israel's gonna do is going to be big
enough that Iran will have to.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Turn around and respond again. That's what this is all about.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We are waiting now for two attacks, Israel's retaliation against
Iran and then Iran's retaliation against it. Israel for Israel's
retaliation against Aaron.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
The nice version of.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
This is when you send somebody a thank you note,
and then they send you a thank you note because
you sent them a thank you note, and then you
send them a thank you note because they send you
a thank you note. Except it's not thank you notes,
it's missiles and drones. Let's get some news from Amy
King or Amy do you want to do this next
story since it is very much related.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yes, I think so, since in the whole spirit of retaliation,
Hesbolah has launched over one hundred drones on Israel and
one of them hit a dining hall at a military
base for Israeli soldiers were killed and dozens of others
were wounded. The swarm of attack drones has Israel pretty
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concerned because they're trying to figure out how the drone
was able to get through without warning and then hit
the base, and Hesbelah is saying that it did its
drone attack in retaliation for one of Israel's attacks into Lebanon.
Of course, Hesbila has been attacking Israel since October eighth.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well, I mean since before that, right, but you know
what I'm saying below.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
If you consider all of this one uninterrupted thread. This
has been going on for decades, yes, and we're way
passed trying to unspool who started it. There are good
arguments to be made that Israel didn't start it, but
you have to go back to the nineteen forties to
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say this is the beginning of this current day problem.
And it is a little concerning that Hesbela maybe is
getting more sophisticated by being able to sneak that drone through.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
President Joe Biden has announced over six hundred million dollars
for electric grid resilience. This was for full I mean,
I guess for the region, but mostly for Florida. And
this was during a visit where he was looking at
the damage from Hurricane Milton.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Twice.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Now, this is not really about the money, because they
think it speaks for itself.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It speaks to.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
How much money is needed to bring the electrical grid
up to snuff, if you will. It's technically six hundred
and twelve million dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
There are now less.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Than a million people I believe, in Florida without power,
but it's somewhere in the amy six hundred to eight
one hundred and fifty thousand, somewhere in there, it's actually down.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I mean it's still hundreds of thousands, but it's just
over four hundred thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Okay, well, then it's gone down since the last time
I looked, which is good news. In any event, some
of it goes to local utilities, some of it goes
to regional utilities, and it's to you know, make it's
not to fix things so much as it's to harden
them so that the next time there's a storm like this,
perhaps more people will keep their power than before. And
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speaking of Joe Biden in Florida looking at hurricane damage,
he did go there to look after Hurricane Milton. He
went there after Hurricane Helene, and both times Ron DeSantis
did not meet with him. So I don't know what
to make of that. I would say, it's at least
you've covered news for a long time, Amy, so you
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you would have a better perspective on how usual or unusual,
Isn't it Isn't it pretty much customary when a president
is in your state to survey a natural disaster, that
the governor shows up.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yes, you usually see that. I mean, there's famous. There
was the handshake between Obama and Chris Christie that basically
torpedoes his campaign, but everybody gave him all this flack
after it wasn't Katrina, was it. It was the the
other one it hit the Oh shoot, it was the
one that hit Jersey, obviously, but he took so much
flak for it him like he's he's a governor showing
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up for a president to arrive. The thing that surprises
me about this is that both DeSantis and the White
House are saying, Hey, everything's going great. We've been talking
a lot. Everything's good. So that he skipped the meeting
is kind of questionable.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Like what I think. I think you landed on it.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But he's not running for anything.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It doesn't matter. He still can have aspirations.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
It's the only thing that makes sense to me because
he is not complaining of any practical issues getting help,
So why wouldn't he appear.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Why wouldn't he meet with him or appear with him?
And I think you put your finger on it.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
When Chris Christi just was just a decent human being
and shook hands with Obama, people went crazy against him
for doing it. So maybe DeSantis is remembering that that happened.
It's not it's not listen, I don't like it, Okay,
I'm just they should behave like adults. And there's something
about this that's wrong and petty. It feels petty. Meanwhile,
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North Carolina speaking of people being petty, her hatinal cause.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, Hurricane help is on hold in North Carolina in
several communities where FEMA has paused its activities. The sheriff
in Ash County says it's being done out of an
abundance of caution, where in person applications for aid in
at least two locations have been paused because of threats.
In some counties, they're saying that the assistance is going
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to start up again, but it's saying that they had
threats against FEMA workers.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Hi, I'm here to help you. Please don't kill me.
This is what we've come to. And the problem is
that it's a real thing where people cannot gown get
help or have to go out of their way somewhere else,
far away to apply for help because of some rabble rousers.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's not something I can wrap my head around or
get into the mind of a person who would be
threatening FEMA other than other than all the you know,
these conspiracy theories, these insane conspiracy theories going around, and
I guess if.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You believe it, see, this is the This is the problem.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
For a normal person is it's impossible to put yourself
in the shoes of someone who believes that the government
is steering hurricanes towards red areas.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And these kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
If you believe it, then everything like threatening people is
rational to you. And and we can't that's a that's
a bridge we can't cross in terms of trying to
like understand another person. It's very dangerous and very upsetting.
And we are going to talk a little bit. I
think it's at eight thirty. Let me double check that, yep.
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Eight The truth about the government controlling hurricanes. What if
I told you, and this is not conspiracy theory time,
I promise, But what if I told you there is
a tiny grain of truth there, what you're right to
shake here. I should not be presenting it that way.
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The government is not controlling hurricanes, but the government has
engaged in some activity to try to do some things
with weather, not to smash hurricanes into Republican counties. But
we'll get into the things that have been tried, why
they've been tried and why they all have failed, which
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is the main takeaway is they're not steering hurricanes towards
you because they can't, because nobody can. I'll explain why
it's impossible. All right, next up, now, Neil, do you
want to handle this?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I guess not.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Oh hey, federal officials say the situation Okay, there was
a rally at Coachella and a guy was arrested about
a half a mile away from where the rally was,
and he had some guns and AMMO in his car.
And the sheriff of Riverside County, Chad Bianco, who's a
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huge Trump fan, loves Trump. I don't know who loves
Trump more, John Cobelt or Chad Bianco, but he loves Trump.
So he's saying like, oh, asassination attempt to it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
We missed about the last fifteen seconds of what you said.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, we monitor the connections here and I can see
there's there's a big data drops going on. Chad Bianco
said that they stopped prevented an assassination attempt. But there's
a lot of reason to believe that this guy with
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the guns was not interested at all in doing anything
to Donald Trump, except maybe shaking his hand. Because this guy, VEM.
Miller from Las Vegas is a sovereign citizen. And the
reason that he was stopped is because the car that
he was driving had sovereign plates, which is to say,
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bogus license plates that are not valid usually and I
don't know what his said. Sometimes they say Freeman or
some other indication that the car is registered or is
being driven by somebody who considers themselves a sovereign citizen
and not subject to the laws of the United States
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and all of that.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
So once you.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Tell me somebody's driving around with sovereign license plates, the
fact that you find a shotgun and a handgun and
a high capacity magazine in the trunk of his car
doesn't surprise me at all. I'd be surprised if you
didn't find any guns in the car of such a person.
And he is a Trump supporter, and it's impossible to
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know what the hell he was up to, but he is.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
He was arrested. And here's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
This is how we know that law enforcement doesn't seem
to think that he's dangerous because he was released on
five thousand dollars bail, and the crime that he's charged
with his possession of a weapon and a high capacity magazine.
He's not charged with anything having to do with trying
to hurt anybody.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, he didn't get out of him. No, he did not.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And the Secret Service and even the Sheriff's office, the
same sheriff's office who said they prevented an assassination attempt,
said there was no danger to the president at all.
You don't get out on five thousand dollars bail if
people think you're dangerous.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
House Speaker Mike Johnson said that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Congress can wait to talk about more hurricane aid until
after they're back in session after the election. Now that
by itself sounds really callous and that he's a big.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Deic. Okay, but.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It might not totally be, because they appropriated twenty billion
dollars of extra money to FEMA before they went out,
And so I don't think he's saying, oh, like FEMA
should never get any more money. I think he's saying,
we already front loaded some reserves.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
By what they did is it's not really more money
for FEMA.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They allow now FEMA to tap into next fiscal year's funding,
but it made available twenty million dollars that wouldn't have
been available before. So I think he's thinking they already
got a twenty million dollar bonus to work with and
that should get them.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Through and then when we come back normally, we can
take care of it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
That's what he said, because they haven't tench This is
what he said, at least watching him, was that they
haven't tallied the damage yet, and like you said, they
frontloaded it, so they've got the twenty billion. And then
he said, we will pay for this. We're going to
appropriate it. We just need to wait until we kind
of have the assessments, right.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I don't think this is one of those things where
certain people in the house are trying to make sure
that no money you know that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
The people will be left high and dry.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I think this is just more about why gear up
a special session if it's not necessary. Oh, Amy, tell
us about this amazing before you tell us.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, let me do it before you tell us.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Okay, there is a visual component here because you're you're
going to describe something that happened. So if you go
to our account on X at Bill Handle's show, you
can look at what Amy is about to tell us.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Okay, I'm gonna say that SpaceX is a better catcher
than the Dodgers. Will Smith, Oh, how about that? So
SpaceX pulled off another first. They launched the Starship this
again yesterday. It's that big, huge, four hundred foot tall
rocket that's going to eventually go to Mars. It's not
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crude or anything like that, but they launched it and
then the rocket booster went up and went over the
Gulf of Mexico and then came back down. And this
is much bigger than the other SpaceX rockets. Came back
down and they basically caught it with what they called
the chopsticks, but they're these giant metal arms and it
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now it's back on the launch pad standing upright.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You can see it. You can see it on our
X account at Bill Handle's show. If you can't get
to that right now, I think I can help you
visualize it. We've all seen a rocket on the launch
pad ready to be launched.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
So what happened here is that they launched it, it flies.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Around, and then they brought it back down and put
it back exactly where it was before it launched.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yeah, the other ones that come down, they come down
like on a platform in the ocean or something like that.
This one went back to its launch now, right back.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
To the to the to the launch pad, and it's
it's unbelievable. And they didn't know if they were going
to be able to do it until they had already
launched it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
They didn't know if they were good.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
There are the conditions that are necessary, including weather conditions
and other things that are that are necessary to try
it cannot be known until right before.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You're gonna decide to try it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
So when they when they when it lifted off, they
weren't sure that the backup plan would have been the
normal plan that Amy talked about landing it on a
thing in the ocean. But they didn't know, and the
conditions happened to be correct, so.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
They tried it worked.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It's really quite astonishing, Oh, in a good way.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Yeah, I'm blown away. When my roomba goes back to it, that's.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
When it docks, when it docks charger.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Yeah. So when I watched that video, I was like,
holy hell.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Imagine, imagine that's a good analogy too. Imagine it's a
rumba redocking itself on the charging station, except the rumba
was thousands of feet in the sky and was like
dropped down and dug and landed and landed back in.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Its charging doc.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah, it's pretty impressive now it is.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It is now another visual here which also on our
ex account at bill handle show.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
You can go look at what Neil is about to
tell you about.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
This one's a weird one.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
So we all know bed Bath or bed Bath and
Bodyworks rather their retailer, they specialize in things that smell nice,
like candles and the like, right, so they promoted on
its social their social media account something called the snowflake
or it's a candle that is supposed to be for
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like a I don't know, snow day or something.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It's a it's a winter themed candle with a fragrance
with a fragrance.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
God, why do sound like an Elmer fudd fragrance.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Fragwans.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We're going to learn a lot about Bath and Bodyworks
right now. As you said, their thing is things that
smell good, and they have candles in shampoo and condition
or body lotions, and they have o stuff. Now, some
of their products they describe the smell, so they'll like
lemon and leather, but others they don't tell you what
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it smells like. In the name, they give it a
name like Gingham surprise or I'm not I'm not exaggerating.
That might not be an actuable one, but I'm not
making I'm not trying to be funny.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
That is the kind of thing they do, you know,
a walk through autumn.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So this candle, the name of the candle is called
snowed in.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Yes, so, and it has let's say, I'm going to say,
a quarter a quarter of a snowflake, like a snowflake
if you cut it out of paper.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And to me, it looks like heads of aliens.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
That's what I think too.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
I think I agree, like you know, the traditional kind
of eyeballs and the pointy head. But some were saying
that it looks like a clansman from the klue Klux
Klan hood, and they were calling them clandeles and all
these different things, and they finally took it off. But
I wonder, listen, is it good marketing and a good design?
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Absolutely not. As a as an illustrator and a graphic
designer of many many years, I look at that and
that's a horrible design. You wouldn't know that it is
a snowflake. Unless you pulled it back further from what
it is. It just doesn't work as a close up
and it looks odd. But I don't see Klansman. Isn't
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the first thing that comes to my mind?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Alien is? And I wonder you know, it's no different than.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Seeing Jesus in a urine stain at a bath gas
station bathroom.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
You know, if that's what you see, that's what you see.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
But this is and then they put it next to
a hood, a picture of a Klansman hood.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
So now to try to try to help you see it. Yeah,
but in an event, if you if you're having tru
visualizing this, no problem, go to x formerly Twitter at
Bill Handles show and you will see this candle.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
It's the label of the candle that everybody is objecting to.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I still think it looks more like an alien.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, we all, we all agree that's what it evokes.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
When you just look at it, A bunch of aliens.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
You'd think that the Coneheads and Saturday Night Live would
be suing them and instead of scene Klansman.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Former President Trump was speaking with Maria bart Romo.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
That's a do you know that song?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
New?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Do you know?
Speaker 6 (22:33):
What?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
What I'm referencing No Joey Ramone.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Obviously, before he passed away, Joey Ramon put out a
solo album and on that album is a song that
is a tribute to Maria bart Romo and it's a
great it's a great pop song. Anyway, he loved Maria Bartiomo. Anyway,
he was on he was talking to Maria Bartiomo on
Fox News and he said, I'm just going to quote
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what he said. I think the bigger problem are the
people from within. We have some very bad people, we
have some sick people, radical left lunatics. I think it
should be very easily handled by if necessary, by National
Guard or if really necessary, by the military, because they
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can't let that happen. And he's talking about on election
day that if there's some kind of unrest on election
day that the military should come in. But what he's
anticipating is people on the left causing problems that we
should turn our military against our citizens. Luckily, he says
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a lot of things that really don't track and don't
and don't have legs.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
How do we know which is going to come to fruition,
which is not like you say, don't come to you know,
they don't have legs. It's like that's the hard part though,
how do we know which ones?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well? We don't, which is that That's why it's so tough,
because you have to you kind of have to prepare
for the possibility that any of it might.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
So Boeing's losing billions. Sunday marked a month since thirty
thousand Boeing machinists walked off the job in Washington, and
it's just the latest and the string of things that have,
you know, really kind of put a black eye on Boeing.
They have not had a single plane worked on at
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the production facility in Everett, Washington since the machinist union
members walked off the job. It was the first strike
at the company in sixteen years. And Boeing says it's
losing or it's so far has lost five billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Boo three four five, who boohoo.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I'm tired of these corporations, uh treating their workers this way,
being so adverse to better compensating their workers, basically letting
their workers share indirectly through their compensation in the success
of their company, so adverse to it that they'd rather
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lose five billion dollars and cross their fingers that the
workers give in first.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I've had it.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I can't do anything about it, but I have, but
I am fed up. Just in case you're to keep
you keeping track? Uh oh, where am I going to
get a slurping now?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Neil?
Speaker 6 (25:48):
But yoel not at four soon to be closed seven elevens.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Not the saddest thing you ever heard for where where
are fifty head count? Mobs of young people gonna go rob? Now?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Well, they still have thirteen thousand other locations selling. They
got lots of target.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
The eternal optimist. Yeah, play make places for kids to rob, Neil.
So there's a big string of closures. Seven to eleven
announces mass closures of four hundred and forty four stores
across the country North Americans. Seven eleven locations have experienced,
you know, a lot of grief, not just the the
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theft and all of that, but negative traffic. Since twenty
twenty three, they've got I think it's seven point three
percent as of this August. They continue to tick down
and part of that is inflation, the pressure of inflation
and drop in demand of cigarettes. But don't they just
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don't you move on to selling vaping stuff or something.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Or I would think so and snuff and bad hot food.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
You mean wait, you mean reimagined elevated a convenience store.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Food, which is food?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
I see food in the shape of a hot dog
that can roll on the same cook rollers that make
the hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yes, everything everything.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Hey we have we have burritos now, they fit on
the hot dog roller. Hey we have pizza now, but
it's cylindrical and it fits on the hot dog roller.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Have our egg tubes?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yes, heavy tubes.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Amy.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Amy is correct on this. Amy is the sensible one here.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Though they have thirteen thousand locations, you're talking about four
hundred and forty four underperforming store. It's not it's not
Christ's time at seven and I holdings.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Yep, but I don't.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
When you see a chunk go down like that, that's.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Usually the Maybe it's over saturation, because there's some places
where there's way too many of them in a say,
a square mile.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
But at one point we held that at one that
was is my point. At one point it was fine.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Maybe these are stores where the staff is not as
attractive as the staff at the at the ones right
around it.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Oh what you've you've you've been to A seven eleven. Right,
I don't know that that's the poll.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
There's some very comely lasses and handsome gents working at
a seven eleven.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
I go straight to the Zingers, just on the counter,
and I go on my merry way.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Well, sad news probably for the people working at those stores. Oh,
sad news for the citrus industry in Florida. Although if
you're a fan of California, this is kind of darkly
good news. The citrus industry in Florida has been decimated
over many years now because of the hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I mean you have Irma and Ian and Adalia and
Helene and Milton, and every time there's a hurricane, obviously
they lose crops, and sometimes they lose permanently land that
they were using to cultivate citrus. It's gotten so bad
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that up until twenty fourteen, so about ten years ago,
Florida produced almost seventy five percent of our nation's oranges.
Fast forward to now, the twenty twenty three to twenty
twenty four season, Florida is only seventeen percent, California seventy
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nine percent.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
It was a time we probably produced more than that
back in the day because all the you know, before Disneyland,
because we had all those orchards. I mean, it was
nothing orange orchards throughout Orange County, hence the name.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
But then Florida came to completely dominate, and now they're
back down a distant second.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
The Florida.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Florida is the San Diego padres of citrus production. Oh,
California is the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
And I'm just joshing around. Did you see your little
hackles go up?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, she takes this stuff very seriously.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Had knives with their logos on it.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Hey, one more, I'm gonna let Amy decide. Do you
want to do the North Korea thing or or the
ten thousand border patrol agents thing?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Which one would you like to finish.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
On North Korea?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Well, we got Israel and Iran, we got Ukraine and Russia.
Could North and South Korea be next? North Korea said
Sunday that its frontline army units are ready to lunch
strikes on South Korea. They say they would do it
in response to South Korea flying drones and dropping leaflets
over its capital city of Pyeongyang. Now, South Korea hasn't
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admitted to it, but they haven't denied it either, that's true,
but they've threatened that. North Korea's threatened to respond with
force if it happens again. All right, that is then
dropping the poop stuff over onto South Korea.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I mean, I'd rather they drop poop than nukes.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Well, no, that no, there's the North. Did the garbage
drops in the South, right, So the South they're just
doing propaganda leaflets.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yes, but they don't.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
North Korea is not like an incursion into their sovereign airspace.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
So we're going to get into the retaliation thing.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Well, yes, but it's disproportionate.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You you flew drones, unarmed drones over US and dropped lets,
so we're gonna get our nukes set up to fire
at you. They should just respond with as use more
garbage or poop.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Dude, snut.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
It's like kids, you know, they're putting the poop in
a bag, they're letting in a fire, knocking on the
door and running. Then I think the response should be
tepeing the the the entire tess.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
That just makes sense, right, And and then and then
that response to that is putting shaving cream on the
handles of all the tank doors.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Yes exactly, or putting like cellophane around the border so
if you yeah across the border, they'll smash their face
and do it and be like, oh.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
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And this is our lead Storytitude. Well, we all know
there's a lot going on between Israel and Hezbeala, Israel
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and Gaza, and Israel and Iran, and now the United
States is getting more involved.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
They are sending a hundred troops to Israel.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
As well as one of our most advanced missile defense
system that's known as the FAD Missile Defense System Terminal
High Altitude Area Defense Missile System.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And here's what this means. I'll tell you exactly what
it means.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You may recall and I can't I can't give you
a complete history of all the drones and the missiles
because this has been too many from all sides. But
relevant to this move on the part of the US.
Remember when Iran, not Hesbela, not Gaza, not their proxies
in the region, Iran.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Sent a bunch of drones and missiles to Israel.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
There was an attack and most of them were intercepted
and nobody really got hurt except for one Palestinian ironically,
So now everybody's been waiting to see what Israel will
do in retaliation, and the United States has been trying
to talk to Israel and say, hey, let's don't be
too crazy. We know you have to do something. We
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understand how it works. Don't be too crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Though.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The fact that we are sending this defense missile system
to Israel, as well as some support troops means we
believe whatever Israel's gonna do is going to be big
enough that Iran will have to.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Turn around and respond again. That's what this is all about.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We are waiting now for two attacks, Israel's retaliation against
Iran and then Iran's retaliation against it. Israel for Israel's
retaliation against Aaron.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
The nice version of.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
This is when you send somebody a thank you note,
and then they send you a thank you note because
you sent them a thank you note, and then you
send them a thank you note because they send you
a thank you note. Except it's not thank you notes,
it's missiles and drones. Let's get some news from Amy
King or Amy do you want to do this next
story since it is very much related.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yes, I think so, since in the whole spirit of retaliation,
Hesbolah has launched over one hundred drones on Israel and
one of them hit a dining hall at a military
base for Israeli soldiers were killed and dozens of others
were wounded. The swarm of attack drones has Israel pretty
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concerned because they're trying to figure out how the drone
was able to get through without warning and then hit
the base, and Hesbelah is saying that it did its
drone attack in retaliation for one of Israel's attacks into Lebanon.
Of course, Hesbila has been attacking Israel since October eighth.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well, I mean since before that, right, but you know
what I'm saying below.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
If you consider all of this one uninterrupted thread. This
has been going on for decades, yes, and we're way
passed trying to unspool who started it. There are good
arguments to be made that Israel didn't start it, but
you have to go back to the nineteen forties to
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say this is the beginning of this current day problem.
And it is a little concerning that Hesbela maybe is
getting more sophisticated by being able to sneak that drone through.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
President Joe Biden has announced over six hundred million dollars
for electric grid resilience. This was for full I mean,
I guess for the region, but mostly for Florida. And
this was during a visit where he was looking at
the damage from Hurricane Milton.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Twice.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Now, this is not really about the money, because they
think it speaks for itself.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It speaks to.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
How much money is needed to bring the electrical grid
up to snuff, if you will. It's technically six hundred
and twelve million dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
There are now less.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Than a million people I believe, in Florida without power,
but it's somewhere in the amy six hundred to eight
one hundred and fifty thousand, somewhere in there, it's actually down.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I mean it's still hundreds of thousands, but it's just
over four hundred thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Okay, well, then it's gone down since the last time
I looked, which is good news. In any event, some
of it goes to local utilities, some of it goes
to regional utilities, and it's to you know, make it's
not to fix things so much as it's to harden
them so that the next time there's a storm like this,
perhaps more people will keep their power than before. And
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speaking of Joe Biden in Florida looking at hurricane damage,
he did go there to look after Hurricane Milton. He
went there after Hurricane Helene, and both times Ron DeSantis
did not meet with him. So I don't know what
to make of that. I would say, it's at least
you've covered news for a long time, Amy, so you
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you would have a better perspective on how usual or unusual,
Isn't it Isn't it pretty much customary when a president
is in your state to survey a natural disaster, that
the governor shows up.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yes, you usually see that. I mean, there's famous. There
was the handshake between Obama and Chris Christie that basically
torpedoes his campaign, but everybody gave him all this flack
after it wasn't Katrina, was it. It was the the
other one it hit the Oh shoot, it was the
one that hit Jersey, obviously, but he took so much
flak for it him like he's he's a governor showing
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up for a president to arrive. The thing that surprises
me about this is that both DeSantis and the White
House are saying, Hey, everything's going great. We've been talking
a lot. Everything's good. So that he skipped the meeting
is kind of questionable.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Like what I think. I think you landed on it.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But he's not running for anything.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It doesn't matter. He still can have aspirations.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
It's the only thing that makes sense to me because
he is not complaining of any practical issues getting help,
So why wouldn't he appear.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Why wouldn't he meet with him or appear with him?
And I think you put your finger on it.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
When Chris Christi just was just a decent human being
and shook hands with Obama, people went crazy against him
for doing it. So maybe DeSantis is remembering that that happened.
It's not it's not listen, I don't like it, Okay,
I'm just they should behave like adults. And there's something
about this that's wrong and petty. It feels petty. Meanwhile,
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North Carolina speaking of people being petty, her hatinal cause.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, Hurricane help is on hold in North Carolina in
several communities where FEMA has paused its activities. The sheriff
in Ash County says it's being done out of an
abundance of caution, where in person applications for aid in
at least two locations have been paused because of threats.
In some counties, they're saying that the assistance is going
(08:35):
to start up again, but it's saying that they had
threats against FEMA workers.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Hi, I'm here to help you. Please don't kill me.
This is what we've come to. And the problem is
that it's a real thing where people cannot gown get
help or have to go out of their way somewhere else,
far away to apply for help because of some rabble rousers.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's not something I can wrap my head around or
get into the mind of a person who would be
threatening FEMA other than other than all the you know,
these conspiracy theories, these insane conspiracy theories going around, and
I guess if.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You believe it, see, this is the This is the problem.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
For a normal person is it's impossible to put yourself
in the shoes of someone who believes that the government
is steering hurricanes towards red areas.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And these kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
If you believe it, then everything like threatening people is
rational to you. And and we can't that's a that's
a bridge we can't cross in terms of trying to
like understand another person. It's very dangerous and very upsetting.
And we are going to talk a little bit. I
think it's at eight thirty. Let me double check that, yep.
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Eight The truth about the government controlling hurricanes. What if
I told you, and this is not conspiracy theory time,
I promise, But what if I told you there is
a tiny grain of truth there, what you're right to
shake here. I should not be presenting it that way.
(10:20):
The government is not controlling hurricanes, but the government has
engaged in some activity to try to do some things
with weather, not to smash hurricanes into Republican counties. But
we'll get into the things that have been tried, why
they've been tried and why they all have failed, which
(10:41):
is the main takeaway is they're not steering hurricanes towards
you because they can't, because nobody can. I'll explain why
it's impossible. All right, next up, now, Neil, do you
want to handle this?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I guess not.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Oh hey, federal officials say the situation Okay, there was
a rally at Coachella and a guy was arrested about
a half a mile away from where the rally was,
and he had some guns and AMMO in his car.
And the sheriff of Riverside County, Chad Bianco, who's a
(11:20):
huge Trump fan, loves Trump. I don't know who loves
Trump more, John Cobelt or Chad Bianco, but he loves Trump.
So he's saying like, oh, asassination attempt to it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
We missed about the last fifteen seconds of what you said.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, we monitor the connections here and I can see
there's there's a big data drops going on. Chad Bianco
said that they stopped prevented an assassination attempt. But there's
a lot of reason to believe that this guy with
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the guns was not interested at all in doing anything
to Donald Trump, except maybe shaking his hand. Because this guy, VEM.
Miller from Las Vegas is a sovereign citizen. And the
reason that he was stopped is because the car that
he was driving had sovereign plates, which is to say,
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bogus license plates that are not valid usually and I
don't know what his said. Sometimes they say Freeman or
some other indication that the car is registered or is
being driven by somebody who considers themselves a sovereign citizen
and not subject to the laws of the United States
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and all of that.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
So once you.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Tell me somebody's driving around with sovereign license plates, the
fact that you find a shotgun and a handgun and
a high capacity magazine in the trunk of his car
doesn't surprise me at all. I'd be surprised if you
didn't find any guns in the car of such a person.
And he is a Trump supporter, and it's impossible to
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know what the hell he was up to, but he is.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
He was arrested. And here's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
This is how we know that law enforcement doesn't seem
to think that he's dangerous because he was released on
five thousand dollars bail, and the crime that he's charged
with his possession of a weapon and a high capacity magazine.
He's not charged with anything having to do with trying
to hurt anybody.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, he didn't get out of him. No, he did not.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And the Secret Service and even the Sheriff's office, the
same sheriff's office who said they prevented an assassination attempt,
said there was no danger to the president at all.
You don't get out on five thousand dollars bail if
people think you're dangerous.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
House Speaker Mike Johnson said that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Congress can wait to talk about more hurricane aid until
after they're back in session after the election. Now that
by itself sounds really callous and that he's a big.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Deic. Okay, but.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It might not totally be, because they appropriated twenty billion
dollars of extra money to FEMA before they went out,
And so I don't think he's saying, oh, like FEMA
should never get any more money. I think he's saying,
we already front loaded some reserves.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
By what they did is it's not really more money
for FEMA.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They allow now FEMA to tap into next fiscal year's funding,
but it made available twenty million dollars that wouldn't have
been available before. So I think he's thinking they already
got a twenty million dollar bonus to work with and
that should get them.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Through and then when we come back normally, we can
take care of it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
That's what he said, because they haven't tench This is
what he said, at least watching him, was that they
haven't tallied the damage yet, and like you said, they
frontloaded it, so they've got the twenty billion. And then
he said, we will pay for this. We're going to
appropriate it. We just need to wait until we kind
of have the assessments, right.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I don't think this is one of those things where
certain people in the house are trying to make sure
that no money you know that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
The people will be left high and dry.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I think this is just more about why gear up
a special session if it's not necessary. Oh, Amy, tell
us about this amazing before you tell us.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, let me do it before you tell us.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Okay, there is a visual component here because you're you're
going to describe something that happened. So if you go
to our account on X at Bill Handle's show, you
can look at what Amy is about to tell us.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Okay, I'm gonna say that SpaceX is a better catcher
than the Dodgers. Will Smith, Oh, how about that? So
SpaceX pulled off another first. They launched the Starship this
again yesterday. It's that big, huge, four hundred foot tall
rocket that's going to eventually go to Mars. It's not
(16:30):
crude or anything like that, but they launched it and
then the rocket booster went up and went over the
Gulf of Mexico and then came back down. And this
is much bigger than the other SpaceX rockets. Came back
down and they basically caught it with what they called
the chopsticks, but they're these giant metal arms and it
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now it's back on the launch pad standing upright.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You can see it. You can see it on our
X account at Bill Handle's show. If you can't get
to that right now, I think I can help you
visualize it. We've all seen a rocket on the launch
pad ready to be launched.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
So what happened here is that they launched it, it flies.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Around, and then they brought it back down and put
it back exactly where it was before it launched.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yeah, the other ones that come down, they come down
like on a platform in the ocean or something like that.
This one went back to its launch now, right back.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
To the to the to the launch pad, and it's
it's unbelievable. And they didn't know if they were going
to be able to do it until they had already
launched it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
They didn't know if they were good.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
There are the conditions that are necessary, including weather conditions
and other things that are that are necessary to try
it cannot be known until right before.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You're gonna decide to try it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
So when they when they when it lifted off, they
weren't sure that the backup plan would have been the
normal plan that Amy talked about landing it on a
thing in the ocean. But they didn't know, and the
conditions happened to be correct, so.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
They tried it worked.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
It's really quite astonishing, Oh, in a good way.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Yeah, I'm blown away. When my roomba goes back to it, that's.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
When it docks, when it docks charger.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Yeah. So when I watched that video, I was like,
holy hell.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Imagine, imagine that's a good analogy too. Imagine it's a
rumba redocking itself on the charging station, except the rumba
was thousands of feet in the sky and was like
dropped down and dug and landed and landed back in.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Its charging doc.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah, it's pretty impressive now it is.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
It is now another visual here which also on our
ex account at bill handle show.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
You can go look at what Neil is about to
tell you about.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
This one's a weird one.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
So we all know bed Bath or bed Bath and
Bodyworks rather their retailer, they specialize in things that smell nice,
like candles and the like, right, so they promoted on
its social their social media account something called the snowflake
or it's a candle that is supposed to be for
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like a I don't know, snow day or something.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It's a it's a winter themed candle with a fragrance
with a fragrance.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
God, why do sound like an Elmer fudd fragrance.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Fragwans.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We're going to learn a lot about Bath and Bodyworks
right now. As you said, their thing is things that
smell good, and they have candles in shampoo and condition
or body lotions, and they have o stuff. Now, some
of their products they describe the smell, so they'll like
lemon and leather, but others they don't tell you what
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it smells like. In the name, they give it a
name like Gingham surprise or I'm not I'm not exaggerating.
That might not be an actuable one, but I'm not
making I'm not trying to be funny.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
That is the kind of thing they do, you know,
a walk through autumn.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So this candle, the name of the candle is called
snowed in.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Yes, so, and it has let's say, I'm going to say,
a quarter a quarter of a snowflake, like a snowflake
if you cut it out of paper.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And to me, it looks like heads of aliens.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
That's what I think too.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
I think I agree, like you know, the traditional kind
of eyeballs and the pointy head. But some were saying
that it looks like a clansman from the klue Klux
Klan hood, and they were calling them clandeles and all
these different things, and they finally took it off. But
I wonder, listen, is it good marketing and a good design?
(21:10):
Absolutely not. As a as an illustrator and a graphic
designer of many many years, I look at that and
that's a horrible design. You wouldn't know that it is
a snowflake. Unless you pulled it back further from what
it is. It just doesn't work as a close up
and it looks odd. But I don't see Klansman. Isn't
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the first thing that comes to my mind?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Alien is? And I wonder you know, it's no different than.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Seeing Jesus in a urine stain at a bath gas
station bathroom.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
You know, if that's what you see, that's what you see.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
But this is and then they put it next to
a hood, a picture of a Klansman hood.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
So now to try to try to help you see it. Yeah,
but in an event, if you if you're having tru
visualizing this, no problem, go to x formerly Twitter at
Bill Handles show and you will see this candle.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
It's the label of the candle that everybody is objecting to.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I still think it looks more like an alien.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, we all, we all agree that's what it evokes.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
When you just look at it, A bunch of aliens.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
You'd think that the Coneheads and Saturday Night Live would
be suing them and instead of scene Klansman.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Former President Trump was speaking with Maria bart Romo.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
That's a do you know that song?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
New?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Do you know?
Speaker 6 (22:33):
What?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
What I'm referencing No Joey Ramone.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Obviously, before he passed away, Joey Ramon put out a
solo album and on that album is a song that
is a tribute to Maria bart Romo and it's a
great it's a great pop song. Anyway, he loved Maria Bartiomo. Anyway,
he was on he was talking to Maria Bartiomo on
Fox News and he said, I'm just going to quote
(23:02):
what he said. I think the bigger problem are the
people from within. We have some very bad people, we
have some sick people, radical left lunatics. I think it
should be very easily handled by if necessary, by National
Guard or if really necessary, by the military, because they
(23:24):
can't let that happen. And he's talking about on election
day that if there's some kind of unrest on election
day that the military should come in. But what he's
anticipating is people on the left causing problems that we
should turn our military against our citizens. Luckily, he says
(23:48):
a lot of things that really don't track and don't
and don't have legs.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
How do we know which is going to come to fruition,
which is not like you say, don't come to you know,
they don't have legs. It's like that's the hard part though,
how do we know which ones?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well? We don't, which is that That's why it's so tough,
because you have to you kind of have to prepare
for the possibility that any of it might.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
So Boeing's losing billions. Sunday marked a month since thirty
thousand Boeing machinists walked off the job in Washington, and
it's just the latest and the string of things that have,
you know, really kind of put a black eye on Boeing.
They have not had a single plane worked on at
(24:40):
the production facility in Everett, Washington since the machinist union
members walked off the job. It was the first strike
at the company in sixteen years. And Boeing says it's
losing or it's so far has lost five billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Boo three four five, who boohoo.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I'm tired of these corporations, uh treating their workers this way,
being so adverse to better compensating their workers, basically letting
their workers share indirectly through their compensation in the success
of their company, so adverse to it that they'd rather
(25:24):
lose five billion dollars and cross their fingers that the
workers give in first.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I've had it.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I can't do anything about it, but I have, but
I am fed up. Just in case you're to keep
you keeping track? Uh oh, where am I going to
get a slurping now?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Neil?
Speaker 6 (25:48):
But yoel not at four soon to be closed seven elevens.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Not the saddest thing you ever heard for where where
are fifty head count? Mobs of young people gonna go rob? Now?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Well, they still have thirteen thousand other locations selling. They
got lots of target.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
The eternal optimist. Yeah, play make places for kids to rob, Neil.
So there's a big string of closures. Seven to eleven
announces mass closures of four hundred and forty four stores
across the country North Americans. Seven eleven locations have experienced,
you know, a lot of grief, not just the the
(26:32):
theft and all of that, but negative traffic. Since twenty
twenty three, they've got I think it's seven point three
percent as of this August. They continue to tick down
and part of that is inflation, the pressure of inflation
and drop in demand of cigarettes. But don't they just
(26:54):
don't you move on to selling vaping stuff or something.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Or I would think so and snuff and bad hot food.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
You mean wait, you mean reimagined elevated a convenience store.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Food, which is food?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
I see food in the shape of a hot dog
that can roll on the same cook rollers that make
the hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yes, everything everything.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Hey we have we have burritos now, they fit on
the hot dog roller. Hey we have pizza now, but
it's cylindrical and it fits on the hot dog roller.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Have our egg tubes?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yes, heavy tubes.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Amy.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Amy is correct on this. Amy is the sensible one here.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Though they have thirteen thousand locations, you're talking about four
hundred and forty four underperforming store. It's not it's not
Christ's time at seven and I holdings.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Yep, but I don't.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
When you see a chunk go down like that, that's.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Usually the Maybe it's over saturation, because there's some places
where there's way too many of them in a say,
a square mile.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
But at one point we held that at one that
was is my point. At one point it was fine.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Maybe these are stores where the staff is not as
attractive as the staff at the at the ones right
around it.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Oh what you've you've you've been to A seven eleven. Right,
I don't know that that's the poll.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
There's some very comely lasses and handsome gents working at
a seven eleven.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
I go straight to the Zingers, just on the counter,
and I go on my merry way.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Well, sad news probably for the people working at those stores. Oh,
sad news for the citrus industry in Florida. Although if
you're a fan of California, this is kind of darkly
good news. The citrus industry in Florida has been decimated
over many years now because of the hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I mean you have Irma and Ian and Adalia and
Helene and Milton, and every time there's a hurricane, obviously
they lose crops, and sometimes they lose permanently land that
they were using to cultivate citrus. It's gotten so bad
(29:24):
that up until twenty fourteen, so about ten years ago,
Florida produced almost seventy five percent of our nation's oranges.
Fast forward to now, the twenty twenty three to twenty
twenty four season, Florida is only seventeen percent, California seventy
(29:46):
nine percent.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
It was a time we probably produced more than that
back in the day because all the you know, before Disneyland,
because we had all those orchards. I mean, it was
nothing orange orchards throughout Orange County, hence the name.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
But then Florida came to completely dominate, and now they're
back down a distant second.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
The Florida.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Florida is the San Diego padres of citrus production. Oh,
California is the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
And I'm just joshing around. Did you see your little
hackles go up?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, she takes this stuff very seriously.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Had knives with their logos on it.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Hey, one more, I'm gonna let Amy decide. Do you
want to do the North Korea thing or or the
ten thousand border patrol agents thing?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Which one would you like to finish.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
On North Korea?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Well, we got Israel and Iran, we got Ukraine and Russia.
Could North and South Korea be next? North Korea said
Sunday that its frontline army units are ready to lunch
strikes on South Korea. They say they would do it
in response to South Korea flying drones and dropping leaflets
over its capital city of Pyeongyang. Now, South Korea hasn't
(31:12):
admitted to it, but they haven't denied it either, that's true,
but they've threatened that. North Korea's threatened to respond with
force if it happens again. All right, that is then
dropping the poop stuff over onto South Korea.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I mean, I'd rather they drop poop than nukes.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Well, no, that no, there's the North. Did the garbage
drops in the South, right, So the South they're just
doing propaganda leaflets.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yes, but they don't.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
North Korea is not like an incursion into their sovereign airspace.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
So we're going to get into the retaliation thing.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Well, yes, but it's disproportionate.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You you flew drones, unarmed drones over US and dropped lets,
so we're gonna get our nukes set up to fire
at you. They should just respond with as use more
garbage or poop.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Dude, snut.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
It's like kids, you know, they're putting the poop in
a bag, they're letting in a fire, knocking on the
door and running. Then I think the response should be
tepeing the the the entire tess.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
That just makes sense, right, And and then and then
that response to that is putting shaving cream on the
handles of all the tank doors.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Yes exactly, or putting like cellophane around the border so
if you yeah across the border, they'll smash their face
and do it and be like, oh.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
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