May 19, 2025 • 31 mins
(May 19,2025)
Heather Brooker and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Biden is diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Suspect identified in Palm Springs bombing and is said to have died in the blast. 2 dead, 19 injured after Mexican Navy sailboat crashes into Brooklyn Bridge, mayor says. Trump says he will speak to Putin on the phone later today. Israel says it will allow ‘basic’ aid into Gaza after nearly 3 months of blockade.
Heather Brooker and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Biden is diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Suspect identified in Palm Springs bombing and is said to have died in the blast. 2 dead, 19 injured after Mexican Navy sailboat crashes into Brooklyn Bridge, mayor says. Trump says he will speak to Putin on the phone later today. Israel says it will allow ‘basic’ aid into Gaza after nearly 3 months of blockade.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to kf I AM six forty. The Bill
handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio f Monday morning,
May nineteenth. As we start the week, let me say
hello to everyone out there.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, first of all, Heather, Heather Brookers.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
In for Amy, who is not with us this morning? Yes, Heather,
when do they tell you to come on in? Heather
is going that Amy is not coming.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
In yesterday morning, late morning, early afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I think it was, oh so yeah, plenty of time,
plenty of time, yep, yeah, plenty of time. Occasionally Neil,
as Neil gets a call, what's the latest you've ever
gotten a call saying Handle's not going to be in.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Gosh seven am?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Though you've gotten a call earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Now, Man, I have said, Dan, you know what, I
can't do this either. I'm feeling so sick because I'll
come to the microphone if I'm bleeding out. You know,
I rarely. You know, it doesn't matter, right, But they
tell you time.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I ever hosted your show, You've got six this when
you started five got sick at six am. I was
in charge of promotions. I had already been there for
twenty two hours at the station and had to fill
in for you because your voice went bad.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know, and you would yeah, no, it was really bad.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Now you remember that, and I also remember, I mean
based on you know, the circumstances, the hours, the no
preparation time. Granted you, you didn't sound very good. You
sounded pretty bad legitimately. So the interesting part is when
you do the show now, you really can't tell the
difference between then and now.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Handle can't say you were hurt so bad as a child.
You can't compliment anybody. You don't want anybody to do well.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I've missed you, that I missed you. This this witty
banter in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Witty banner. This is how we actually feel. There's nothing witty,
and it's not bantering. Good morning, Will, How are you morning?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
All right? What is that? I can't see that with
that on your T shirt?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
There was an incident this morning with the alarm clock,
so I barely got here drive.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Will did come running in this?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Okay, I just know.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I'm just curious as to what that T shirt says.
You got an emblem on it that's.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
All skull something.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It's upside down brewing company in Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Okay, great, I'm glad I took the time to figure
that one out. Okay, excellent, cono, good morning, and uh
and there you are, good morning in good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Do you work at so far this week?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I did?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And who did you see? And who is there?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Jam?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Monster jam?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Oh yeah I sent.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I sent Lindsay video and she goes, can I come
pick you up right now?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I said, yes, that's not monster truck stuff, is it
it is? Oh, it's the monster truck where they bring
in all the dirt.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And how's your hearing this morning? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
No, there you ran out of ear plugs at the SOFI.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
That's incredible. Well, it's not incredible, it's believable. So do
they This is fascinating stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I love that there.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Does anybody have a full set of teeth that go
to those places?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
There's actually a lot of kids there with yeah right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I've been there. It's it's a fun show.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Little little kids love those big trucks.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I can see that. I can see that. Yeah, I
kind of like that. Uh, well, I don't know. Those
are always very strange to me.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I've never been in I've never a truck person, you know,
or you girls. Yeah, also, I was big on I
was big on ken dolls when I was when I
was much younger, and that that translates into I'm not
even going to talk about that. It's between me and
my shrink.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You took your daughters to musicals mostly I did take
my daughters to musicals. I know, oh I've been to
them with you.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We've gotten Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I have a similar I have a similar love for for.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
When I take when I take my daughter to musical,
particularly Pamela.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You know the it's all the I Now, you have
to have number one, the obligatory uh Latino, doesn't matter
what the show is, the obligatory Latino, the obligatory insanely
overweight person in the chorus dancing, the obligatory African American.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Right, you have to have them. So every time I.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Turn to my daughter when some one of those show up,
I go, Pamela. She goes, I know, dad, shut.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Up with those. She knows exactly what I'm going to say.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
By the way, you're watching them in southern California, and
as a Latino, I would say, not obligatory when you're
fifty percent of the population.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
But let me ask you this. For example, Hamilton, which
is phenomenal. There's one white person in the cast. You
know that said the rest of his all minority.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I mentioned that if I remember, he's just the guy
who plays George. It's just the guy who plays George.
The third is Hunt.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
That's the whole premise is that they're taking something from
the past, but it is still a reverse reversion.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Don't explain. Yeah, please don't explain that to me.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That's way too complicated for me.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Give me a break.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And usually you could point out you usually you can
point out, you know, who is in the chorus gay,
the gay dancers.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And who is not?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And you know that's that's impossible to her me. Very
dear friend of mine, by the way, well their son buried.
Dear friend mind went into dancing. He joined a dancing
troupe and everybody made fun of him. Oh, and everybody's
going to think, you know, you're that kind of person. Goes,
first of all, this guy is the most depraved guy.
He gets laid more than anybody he I have ever
(05:38):
met or seen in my entire life. He goes, are
you kidding with all of those chorus girls and I'm
the straight guy.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, if you're the straight guy in a theater department.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You do really well.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You're doing really well. Hey, I also love musicals. I
just want to propose, like a handle show musical outing.
You know, she's a pantagious Maybe somewhere will also I.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Agree, but I'm just going by myself. I do that
all the time. I do kfi events where no one
else shows up to cut me.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You're just the only one there. Yeah, all right, Well,
I would go to the theater with anybody if they
ever want to go see a show. I'm down, all.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Right, she's hustling for it. Okay, all right, guys, let's
do it. What a weird Monday to start with, Just
another week, just weirdness and weird.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Ma me, we'll come back tomorrow. I'm sure, I promise.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Okay, she'll get it too. All right, guys, let's do it.
We're gonna start with a little bit of bad news,
and it's a Handle on the News with Heather O,
Neil and Me lead story. Well, Joe Biden diagnosed with
an aggressive form of prostate cancer. It has metastasized now
into his bones, and that is that ain't good news,
(06:48):
Although you know, I don't know if the doctors are
telling us the truth or not. And they're saying that
it's hormone sensitive, which allows for effective management. I don't
know what that means either anyway, So they're looking at treatment,
but into the bones is not good news at all.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And so it's not unusual.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You know, many many I don't know what the percentage
you may have pros day cancer, but usually you die
of old age before you die of prost day cancer.
When you have it so slow acting, it's kind of yeah,
at some point every man will have it.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Listening to Heather this morning, they were saying it could
be five ten years. I mean, it's not like it's
imminent death, right, Heather.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, that's what Stephen Portnoy from ABC said that the
doctors are saying that he could survive another five to
ten years with this with the proper treatment, but you
don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, and bone cancer is no fun, probably one of
the most painful cancers.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Also, just a great reminder everybody go get checked. This
is a good reminder to do that, all right. Suspect
has been identified in the Palm Springs bombing, a twenty
five year old man. His name is Guy Edward. Barkiss,
and authorities are now confirming that he is the person
who died during the explosion at the Palm Springs fertility clinic.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, interesting story, Not that it has any societal implications.
I mean, if anybody says this is important societaly, it's not,
because this guy is just a complete fruitcake and it's
basically a one off. But I'm going to dive into
it because there are a couple of things about this
that are just fascinating. He refers to some movements that
I didn't even know existed, that these are things I
(08:27):
was talking and about. This Really this is a thing,
and so I'll do that at seven point fifty one.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Thing.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I know, a lot of families are probably very relieved
that the embryos were not harmed in any way. So
I know that's a big relief to a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Oh, it's a huge relief because in many many cases,
those frozen embryos the last chance to have biological children.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yes, yeah, that's it. They're gone. They're gone.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And there have been lawsuits when embryos have been destroyed
or have left to baw by accident because they're in
liquid nitrogen. These containers big lawsuits and going in front
of a jury saying those are my kids, that's my
chance of parenthood.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Those cases settle pretty quickly. Go handle.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Here on a Monday, May nineteenth, we continue more handle
on the news, Heather in for Amy today, Neil in
for Neil today, and me.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Such a weird couple of days of news. You had
that bombing there in Palm Springs, and then a Mexican
Navy sailboat got two hundred and seventy seven people on
board doing a demonstration, crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday,
killed two people injuring more than a dozen others who
were on board. What a crazy s.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Did you see the video? You saw that crowd?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, from ten different angles.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's this huge sailing ship.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, and tall ship because they're tall, and it goes
right into the bridge and well the masks are higher
than the bridge, and you know, how is that possible?
They lost power and the current swept in and you
see that, and you had all the sailors this training boat,
all the sailors along the crossbars or whatever the hell
(10:18):
they call them, on the masts and they're all lining
up on that span and they're holding hands and and
they got knocked off. It was like it's almost like
one of those carnival side shows where you shoot those
little ducks and you know that.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Are copying over. Have a little bit of class? How
about that?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That was a little bit of class for me.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
They were definitely.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah. I think that it was a precursor to something
it's supposed to take place on the fourth of July.
I think it was a test run of something they
were going to do to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Beautiful ship too.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I mean, it is a knockout of a ship, but
a horribles Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
All right. So President Trump says if he could just
to Putin to Vladimir Putin that he they could work
it out. They could work out this whole thing in Ukraine,
the war in Ukraine. Apparently he's going to be speaking
to him today and I guess he's going to try
to convince him to stop the war in Ukraine. So
(11:19):
we'll see.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And he says, the only way the war's going to stop,
of course, is for Trump and Putin to cut a deal.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Zielinski's sort of off the table. We'll handle this.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Now, you think this is what happened by now this
phone call, because what Moscow is ten eleven hours ahead
of US, and so we're already talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's late afternoon in Moscow, really late afternoon. So we'll
see what time this happens. Man.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I don't know if Putin stays up later or not.
I have no idea early riser.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Torturing bugs.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, maybe early to bed, early to rise again.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'm keeping an eye on it. Hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
More prone to kill people. Okay.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Israel announced Sunday it will allow limited amount of humanitarian
aid to Gaza. You've got this three month blockade that
they were participating in, and you've got global experts that
came out on their you know, experts on food security
and all these things and straight up just said, hey,
you're you're running them into a famine. Prime Minister Benjamin
(12:24):
Netanyahu said a starvation crisis would jeopardize Israel's new military
offense in Gaza.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So, I mean, none of this makes any sense whatsoever. None.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
One of the authority figures in the Palestinian authority said,
when Hamas wants to have some kind of a truce,
Israel says no. When Israel wants to have a truce,
Hamas says no. Everybody is saying no. And the shame
of it is Israel says, you just return all of
the hostages or we're going to wipe out Gaza, and
(12:57):
Hamas is prepared to do that, is perfectly prepared to
have ninety five percent of the population of Gaza wiped
out as long as it stays in power.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Polly care about That's great, isn't that?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Who are you ruling over? At that point, you're ruling over.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Now you know what you're doing, You're ruling over and
oh you're talking about the Hamas.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It doesn't matter. They just want I don't even know
what they're thinking.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I have no idea, and here is yeah, and here
is what they're thinking. For example, we're talking about the Palestinians.
The rest of the Middle East, the Arab world will
be on their side.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's all lip service.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
This last four day or three day jaunt that the
president had in the Middle East, it was all about business.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
There was one or.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Two words that were about that were happening about what
was going on in Gaza. But let's talk business. That's
what we really care about. And the Palestinians, to their chagrin,
they think the world's going to turn against Israel or
they're going to be supported other than just straight out
lip service, a little bit of money from Saudi Arabia
and wait, but not a lot. So for the first
(14:04):
time I was reading yesterday, I was looking at I
think it was a Wall Street journal where there actually
is a movement starting to realize that, or at least
being vocal about telling us saying that Hamas is really
killing us. Israel is going to wipe us out. Are
the hostages worth the total destruction of Gaza?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's tough. And by the way, I am convinced that
Israel is.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Committing a war crime with the starvation, stopping humanitarian aid,
no question anything else.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, just a really devastating and deadly storm system moved
across the central US and into the eastern parts of
the US over the weekend. Twenty five people were killed
in Missouri, southeastern Kentucky as the storm moved its way east,
started in Kansas and Oklahoma, which is my home state,
(14:57):
and just destroyed towns and left just a wake of
death and destruction.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
This is brutal. These storms are absolutely brutal. I noticed
on ones areguing climate change anymore. I'm not hearing how
it doesn't exist anymore. And now it's just dealing with
these horrific storms and it's just this is terrible.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know, I grew up in Oklahoma, right in the
heart of tornado alley.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Oh did you ever experienced a tornado?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, yeah, like right there, up close, clicking your heels
three times.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I mean, I think I wish I could go home
kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
It was more like, take shelter, it's half a mile away,
and you know.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Okay, it's not like dogs flying through the air or
anything like that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
No, it wasn't quite that picturesque. But I grew up
with tornado sirens being a regular part of the you know,
school year and of your life, and knowing where to
position yourself in a safety in terms of where the
tornado is going, and it's a it's a real thing.
And what seems to be, you know, people don't understand
(15:58):
is there's there is not that you can do to
hide from a tornado unless.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Well out if you got I mean, they are tornado shelters.
I assume you do. Basements, so you go down in
the basement.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yes, but even that, if your house completely falls in
around you, you're not entirely safe. Or if the wind
comes and you know, tornadoes have like a tip that
touches the ground and lifts things up and pulls up,
so anything is uproaded. I mean, you've seen the aftermath
of tornado distruser, Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
See them all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But inevitably, but people survive. Inevitably, someone comes out of
this place that was completely destroyed, yeah, and comes out
and says, I mean, thank goodness, we're alive, which is
absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yes, you can't survive. There are shelters that are built
for that. You definitely can't survive it. But it's just
it's it's getting worse. I think you know, oh it is. Yeah, no,
it's a listen, that's science.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It's getting worse.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I mean, it doesn't take an idiot to figure out
that this is real stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It is a Monday morning, May nineteenth.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Haven't looked outside yet to see what the weather is like, Heather,
were we are looking at outside?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Wise beautiful and sunny.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It's gonna be a nice day today, Okay, it would.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Be in the seventy it'd be hot today, guys, really hot.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And then the East Coast is drowning. That's great.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
See, that's I wish that they would that the news
would cover how horrible the weather is here, because you
know what ends up happening. Excuse me, fraud is I
hate it when there's great weather New Year's Day because
we do the Rose Parade and it's seventy degrees outside
(17:30):
and everybody's in shorts and short sleeve shirts, and you've
got a bunch of people in upstate New York and
Buffalo and the snow is up over the eves are saying,
what the.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Hell are we doing living here?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah? Yeah, And Macy's Day Parade the past few years
has been like rainy and miserable, and I'm like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
So yeah, and welcome to southern California. Right, This is
what we need is more people, all right, continuing on
more handle on the news with Heather and Neil and me.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
All right. Police in Slavinia, that's a real place, by
the way, they're investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue
of the US First Lady Millennia Trump. I saw it
off carried away from her hometown. It was unveiled in
twenty twenty during the first President Donald Trump. I guess
(18:16):
it actually replaced a wooden statue that had been set
on fire that year.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So did you even know that there was a statue
of Millennia or a Millennia that didn't either.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Be a blind spot?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, because she's done so much.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Yeah, he's up on statue. Of course, she's the best.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, she dresses, She dresses well too.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, everything about her very pretty.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
She is very pretty, very attractive woman doesn't Yeah, she's pretty.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I like that. That's what else can you say about her?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
She's pretty, She's Slovenian, she speaks with an accent, and
she is the most inconsequential first lady that we've had,
probably in the history of first ladies, certainly modern history.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
But he's pretty. He's pretty.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
World peace, all right. Bruce Springsteen is in a little
bit of he's causing a little controversy. He called President
Trump a dried out prune during one of his concerts,
and then, of course, you know, President Trump heard about that,
and and he went online and called him highly overrated
Bruce Springsteen. And then so now Brucepingsteen, it's like this
(19:31):
back and forth. Now Bruce Bingstein is.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, I Thinkdent Trump and then typical Trump, where he
writes through social never liked him, never liked his music,
where his radical left politics. He's not a talented guy,
just to push the obnoxious jerk who fervently supported crooked
Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent fool and our worst ever
president who came close to destroying our country. At what
(19:56):
point does Trump give up this Joe Biden stuff. He's obsessed,
I know, completely obsessed years. I know, I mean completely obsessed.
So you know his philosophy. You hit me once, I
hit you twice. So it's that's not Joe Biden. But
certainly Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Isn't he older than Bruce Trump?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh he has to be.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Oh yeah, I think yeah, I don't think Bruce Springsteen
is what Trump is seventy eight something like that, seventy seven,
seventy eighty Springsteen is, is he?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh that's pretty old too.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I mean Bruce Springsteen is seventy five, so just a
few years apart.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah, hey, Kettle, maybe it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, it seems supermature. Supermature.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Oh yeah, well that's a word I would use to
describe our president.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Mature is right, there isn't it?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Just name calling each other.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, it's great. I know, these stupid duty pants runs idiots.
Vandenberg Space Force Space announced the US military will be
test launching an unarmed nuclear missile while fingers crossed. Let's hope,
so northern Santa Arbor County. It's going to be Wednesday morning.
So if you're out here and you're up between twelve
(21:06):
oh one am and five oh one am on May
twenty first, you might be able to catch a glimpse
of the minute Men three intercontinental Ballistic missile the ICBM.
They're just evaluating current missile systems competency, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
People are going to take video of it and go
does anyone know what this is?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Exactly does anybody know? We're telling you right here in
kfive all right, emergency contraception. You can now get it
at seven eleven and other convenience stores. It's going to
be right next to the condoms. They're actually just in
the stores. I think. I don't know if it's all
the stores or not, but there's a company that is
(21:47):
releasing the Morning After pills in single doses. It started
in Texas and now it's kind of spreading across the country.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
They should put that next to all the greasy weenies
and then you.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Know the big and I'll tell you what they do
not they should not do, is advertise the big gulp
next to these things. People could truly misunderstand that entire concept.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Well that you wouldn't need it, if.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's precisely my point.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Okay, Yeah, moving on planes, trains, automobiles, don't use any
of them. Apparently in New Jersey. New Jersey transit train
engineers are now going back to work tentative deal Sunday
and their three day strike. Planes not working right, trains
(22:37):
not working right, halted service for some one hundred thousand
daily riders routes to Newark Airport, which wasn't the best
to fly out of anyways.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I think four hundred and fifty people who have shut
down New Jersey transit.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Oh it's Jersey, am I right?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah? I mean it's just last time.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
This was what forty years ago, the transit strike, last
transit strike.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
That's another reason you want to move to New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Taylor Ham Sandwich is good.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
You know, when we are in Italy, do you know
what Neil the wedding, et cetera. Do you know that
in Italy. The calendar strikes for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You can actually look at a calendar and say, this
industry is going to for example, railroad workers will be
striking on June second to June fifth's, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well we should know that, we should know.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And on top of that, for example, in the railroad strike,
in those strikes, not only do you calendar them, but
they also publish what trains will still be running. And
this is the union publishing this stuff. It's just a
whole world of strike. I just thought i'd mentioned that.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Not as Lana. I think I would find that very helpful.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Very helpful.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Bill handle showed Neil's major here because Bill handles, I
don't know, going to the bathroom eating something fell down
the stairs and can't get up. It's a sunny day,
rand quick errand yeah, because uh, I can't get the
clapper to work his equipment. Come on, here we go.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
All right, Oh, let's work.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
What got what to work?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You? Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, pretty much, let's do A guy's ready to finish it?
Handle on news, We're ready, Yeah, sure, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
All right, So the FDA has approved nova vaks. The
COVID nineteen shot. They have some restrictions on it though.
They make the only traditional protein based COVID vaccine coronavirus vaccine,
and until now it had emergency authorization from the FDA
for use in any one twelve and older, but on Friday,
the FDA granted the company full approval for its vaccine
(24:57):
use in adults only an adult sixty five and older
or those twelve to sixty four who have had at
least one health problem that puts them at increased risk
from COVID so neil.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That means you get a triple shot of the COVID vaccine, right.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Actually, I just have a continuous IV send me all
the time. Yeah, I'll still live longer than you. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't know. I'm pretty careful. I mean, you know,
obviously I eat like crap.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You know, it's all Costco, you know, frozen stuff occasionally
Trader Joe's. But no, I walk an hour a day
where I used to walk an hour a day and
can't do that with my boot. It's going to the
doctor today. I don't know when they're gonna pull out this.
You know, I've got a pin like a rod going
through my toe and it's sticking out.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, yeah, it's really pleasant.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Sounds real healthy. I'll come over and just yeah, you
sound healthy as Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
It's one of let me tell you what I you
know what you would do. I'll tell you what you
would do. You would take that rod and you would
ping it like a tuning for it, just to make
me feel good. I know that, all right? Moving on, all.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Right, LF Todd's you know, the worst thing you want
to hear when you're flying in a plane is hey,
there's no pilot.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
So two hundred and five people on board went without
a pilot for ten minutes last year after the pilot
went to the bathroom and the co pilot fainted when
he was alone in the cockpit. So yeah, Frankfurt to Spain,
February of twenty twenty four. So they did an investigation.
(26:40):
It was an autopilot which saved everybody, but the co pilot,
they said, did operate controls unintentionally.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well passed, I just straight off fainted.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Now to be fair, I mean this is it was
a neurological problem. The co pilot didn't know he had
and he fainted. And you talk about as perfect. It
comes down when the pilot is in the course of
the toilet and then tries to get back in and
he can't and the code doesn't work. But they took
(27:10):
care of it pretty quickly because the pilot has a
secret code, so it all works out. By the way,
what's worse on Lufthansa than the pilot not being there?
I'll tell you what's worse. You come aboard and the
stewardess or the pilot says, all the Jews on the
left hand side, please of the plane.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
That's worse.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I thought you were going to say the food.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Backs of Food's not bad. I fight Lufton's all the
time to good airline.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I like it all right. So protests are coming to
Target on the anniversary of George Floyd's death. Leaders in
the Black faith community are calling on their followers to
boycott Target after its recent retreat from the DEI inclusion
programs that they had originally announced. They're asking for everyone
to boycott outside of Target stores a peaceful protest if
(27:57):
you will, on May twenty fifth, that is the fifth
anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, and Target is being particularly targeted because it was
one of the first companies that dove into UH into
dei UH after George Floyd, to its credit to for
many people in the black community and those who had
a real problem with the police in Minneapolis. By the way,
they're in the same city that George Floyd. They're headquarters,
(28:24):
same city Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered. UH. And
they're now one of the first companies to go back
from d i UH caving into the Trump administration other
conservatives because they are woke.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
And that's in UH, that's in.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Quotation marks. And so they're coming back very quickly. And
so let's just say they're targeted on both ends.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Not funning by law because of the federal no, of course.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Not but but but the Trump administration is figuring out
a way to do it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Believe me. Malcolm X.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Yes, the city of Los Angeles and veiled street signs
dedicated to civil rights activist Malcolm X in Lamartin Park.
It would have been his one hundredth birthday. They unveiled
us on Saturday, and so this was followed by the
thirty third Malcolm X Festival. This year's theme was human
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rights by any means necessary, Okay, and a five mile
stretch of Crenshove Boulevard will now be known as Malcolm
x Way.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yeah, it's cool, Malcolm x Way.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
A lot of people the x ray text just thought
it was the guy who announced it. I just had
a big lisp, so when he said Malcolm x way,
it was they just Misunderstood's all.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Right, it's Monday heating up a car.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
We can't end on that. We can't end on that joke.
We got to talk about the Bachelor Mansion getting him makeover.
I can't let you go down like that. We got
the Bachelor bill. Is this your favorite show? Do you
like this show?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, A big, big Bachelor fan.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, I don't think I've seen it once.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Because those reality shows are well, I think they're ridiculous,
but they do great because they cost nothing to make
and they make a fortune.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
That's true. I hate to a bit of two. I'm
not a fan of the Bachelor or most of those
reality dating shows. But for those of you who are,
the Bachelor Mansion is which has been home to the
Bacheler for forty seasons, getting a big facelift, and you
can also rent it out for six thousand dollars a
night on Airbnb. That's fun. It's in Aurora Hills.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, this look at the look at the premise.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You've had bachelor and bachelorette and they go in there
and do things with each other. And now it's uh,
let's do a makeover. Right, we'll do interior design of
the mansion and see who wins. And then that's going
to be following up with people that run waste management
and pick up garbage.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
That's the next show after that. See.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I like those kind of shows, the home runner shows
where you can shoot do a before or an after
thing or whatever. But I don't like the dating ones
where they make out in hot tubs.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, but ten weeks after the renovation, it falls apart
with the camera.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, that's actually true. That's actually true the way they
do this. Okay, guys, we're done. Coming up, Trump's Big
Bill advances. That big beautiful bill looks like it went
through the ugly forest and got hit with a couple
of branches. And I'll explain coming up.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
You've been listening to The Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Catch My Show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to kf I AM six forty. The Bill
handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio f Monday morning,
May nineteenth. As we start the week, let me say
hello to everyone out there.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, first of all, Heather, Heather Brookers.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
In for Amy, who is not with us this morning? Yes, Heather,
when do they tell you to come on in? Heather
is going that Amy is not coming.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
In yesterday morning, late morning, early afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I think it was, oh so yeah, plenty of time,
plenty of time, yep, yeah, plenty of time. Occasionally Neil,
as Neil gets a call, what's the latest you've ever
gotten a call saying Handle's not going to be in.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Gosh seven am?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Though you've gotten a call earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Now, Man, I have said, Dan, you know what, I
can't do this either. I'm feeling so sick because I'll
come to the microphone if I'm bleeding out. You know,
I rarely. You know, it doesn't matter, right, But they
tell you time.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I ever hosted your show, You've got six this when
you started five got sick at six am. I was
in charge of promotions. I had already been there for
twenty two hours at the station and had to fill
in for you because your voice went bad.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know, and you would yeah, no, it was really bad.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Now you remember that, and I also remember, I mean
based on you know, the circumstances, the hours, the no
preparation time. Granted you, you didn't sound very good. You
sounded pretty bad legitimately. So the interesting part is when
you do the show now, you really can't tell the
difference between then and now.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Handle can't say you were hurt so bad as a child.
You can't compliment anybody. You don't want anybody to do well.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I've missed you, that I missed you. This this witty
banter in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Witty banner. This is how we actually feel. There's nothing witty,
and it's not bantering. Good morning, Will, How are you morning?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
All right? What is that? I can't see that with
that on your T shirt?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
There was an incident this morning with the alarm clock,
so I barely got here drive.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Will did come running in this?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Okay, I just know.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I'm just curious as to what that T shirt says.
You got an emblem on it that's.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
All skull something.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It's upside down brewing company in Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Okay, great, I'm glad I took the time to figure
that one out. Okay, excellent, cono, good morning, and uh
and there you are, good morning in good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Do you work at so far this week?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I did?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And who did you see? And who is there?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Jam?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Monster jam?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Oh yeah I sent.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I sent Lindsay video and she goes, can I come
pick you up right now?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I said, yes, that's not monster truck stuff, is it
it is? Oh, it's the monster truck where they bring
in all the dirt.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And how's your hearing this morning? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
No, there you ran out of ear plugs at the SOFI.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
That's incredible. Well, it's not incredible, it's believable. So do
they This is fascinating stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I love that there.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Does anybody have a full set of teeth that go
to those places?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
There's actually a lot of kids there with yeah right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I've been there. It's it's a fun show.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Little little kids love those big trucks.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I can see that. I can see that. Yeah, I
kind of like that. Uh, well, I don't know. Those
are always very strange to me.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I've never been in I've never a truck person, you know,
or you girls. Yeah, also, I was big on I
was big on ken dolls when I was when I
was much younger, and that that translates into I'm not
even going to talk about that. It's between me and
my shrink.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You took your daughters to musicals mostly I did take
my daughters to musicals. I know, oh I've been to
them with you.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We've gotten Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I have a similar I have a similar love for for.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
When I take when I take my daughter to musical,
particularly Pamela.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You know the it's all the I Now, you have
to have number one, the obligatory uh Latino, doesn't matter
what the show is, the obligatory Latino, the obligatory insanely
overweight person in the chorus dancing, the obligatory African American.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Right, you have to have them. So every time I.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Turn to my daughter when some one of those show up,
I go, Pamela. She goes, I know, dad, shut.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Up with those. She knows exactly what I'm going to say.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
By the way, you're watching them in southern California, and
as a Latino, I would say, not obligatory when you're
fifty percent of the population.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
But let me ask you this. For example, Hamilton, which
is phenomenal. There's one white person in the cast. You
know that said the rest of his all minority.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I mentioned that if I remember, he's just the guy
who plays George. It's just the guy who plays George.
The third is Hunt.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
That's the whole premise is that they're taking something from
the past, but it is still a reverse reversion.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Don't explain. Yeah, please don't explain that to me.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That's way too complicated for me.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Give me a break.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And usually you could point out you usually you can
point out, you know, who is in the chorus gay,
the gay dancers.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And who is not?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And you know that's that's impossible to her me. Very
dear friend of mine, by the way, well their son buried.
Dear friend mind went into dancing. He joined a dancing
troupe and everybody made fun of him. Oh, and everybody's
going to think, you know, you're that kind of person. Goes,
first of all, this guy is the most depraved guy.
He gets laid more than anybody he I have ever
(05:38):
met or seen in my entire life. He goes, are
you kidding with all of those chorus girls and I'm
the straight guy.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, if you're the straight guy in a theater department.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You do really well.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You're doing really well. Hey, I also love musicals. I
just want to propose, like a handle show musical outing.
You know, she's a pantagious Maybe somewhere will also I.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Agree, but I'm just going by myself. I do that
all the time. I do kfi events where no one
else shows up to cut me.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You're just the only one there. Yeah, all right, Well,
I would go to the theater with anybody if they
ever want to go see a show. I'm down, all.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Right, she's hustling for it. Okay, all right, guys, let's
do it. What a weird Monday to start with, Just
another week, just weirdness and weird.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Ma me, we'll come back tomorrow. I'm sure, I promise.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Okay, she'll get it too. All right, guys, let's do it.
We're gonna start with a little bit of bad news,
and it's a Handle on the News with Heather O,
Neil and Me lead story. Well, Joe Biden diagnosed with
an aggressive form of prostate cancer. It has metastasized now
into his bones, and that is that ain't good news,
(06:48):
Although you know, I don't know if the doctors are
telling us the truth or not. And they're saying that
it's hormone sensitive, which allows for effective management. I don't
know what that means either anyway, So they're looking at treatment,
but into the bones is not good news at all.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And so it's not unusual.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You know, many many I don't know what the percentage
you may have pros day cancer, but usually you die
of old age before you die of prost day cancer.
When you have it so slow acting, it's kind of yeah,
at some point every man will have it.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Listening to Heather this morning, they were saying it could
be five ten years. I mean, it's not like it's
imminent death, right, Heather.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, that's what Stephen Portnoy from ABC said that the
doctors are saying that he could survive another five to
ten years with this with the proper treatment, but you
don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, and bone cancer is no fun, probably one of
the most painful cancers.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Also, just a great reminder everybody go get checked. This
is a good reminder to do that, all right. Suspect
has been identified in the Palm Springs bombing, a twenty
five year old man. His name is Guy Edward. Barkiss,
and authorities are now confirming that he is the person
who died during the explosion at the Palm Springs fertility clinic.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, interesting story, Not that it has any societal implications.
I mean, if anybody says this is important societaly, it's not,
because this guy is just a complete fruitcake and it's
basically a one off. But I'm going to dive into
it because there are a couple of things about this
that are just fascinating. He refers to some movements that
I didn't even know existed, that these are things I
(08:27):
was talking and about. This Really this is a thing,
and so I'll do that at seven point fifty one.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Thing.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I know, a lot of families are probably very relieved
that the embryos were not harmed in any way. So
I know that's a big relief to a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Oh, it's a huge relief because in many many cases,
those frozen embryos the last chance to have biological children.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yes, yeah, that's it. They're gone. They're gone.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And there have been lawsuits when embryos have been destroyed
or have left to baw by accident because they're in
liquid nitrogen. These containers big lawsuits and going in front
of a jury saying those are my kids, that's my
chance of parenthood.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Those cases settle pretty quickly. Go handle.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Here on a Monday, May nineteenth, we continue more handle
on the news, Heather in for Amy today, Neil in
for Neil today, and me.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Such a weird couple of days of news. You had
that bombing there in Palm Springs, and then a Mexican
Navy sailboat got two hundred and seventy seven people on
board doing a demonstration, crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday,
killed two people injuring more than a dozen others who
were on board. What a crazy s.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Did you see the video? You saw that crowd?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, from ten different angles.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's this huge sailing ship.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, and tall ship because they're tall, and it goes
right into the bridge and well the masks are higher
than the bridge, and you know, how is that possible?
They lost power and the current swept in and you
see that, and you had all the sailors this training boat,
all the sailors along the crossbars or whatever the hell
(10:18):
they call them, on the masts and they're all lining
up on that span and they're holding hands and and
they got knocked off. It was like it's almost like
one of those carnival side shows where you shoot those
little ducks and you know that.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Are copying over. Have a little bit of class? How
about that?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That was a little bit of class for me.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
They were definitely.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah. I think that it was a precursor to something
it's supposed to take place on the fourth of July.
I think it was a test run of something they
were going to do to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Beautiful ship too.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I mean, it is a knockout of a ship, but
a horribles Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
All right. So President Trump says if he could just
to Putin to Vladimir Putin that he they could work
it out. They could work out this whole thing in Ukraine,
the war in Ukraine. Apparently he's going to be speaking
to him today and I guess he's going to try
to convince him to stop the war in Ukraine. So
(11:19):
we'll see.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And he says, the only way the war's going to stop,
of course, is for Trump and Putin to cut a deal.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Zielinski's sort of off the table. We'll handle this.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Now, you think this is what happened by now this
phone call, because what Moscow is ten eleven hours ahead
of US, and so we're already talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's late afternoon in Moscow, really late afternoon. So we'll
see what time this happens. Man.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I don't know if Putin stays up later or not.
I have no idea early riser.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Torturing bugs.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, maybe early to bed, early to rise again.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'm keeping an eye on it. Hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
More prone to kill people. Okay.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Israel announced Sunday it will allow limited amount of humanitarian
aid to Gaza. You've got this three month blockade that
they were participating in, and you've got global experts that
came out on their you know, experts on food security
and all these things and straight up just said, hey,
you're you're running them into a famine. Prime Minister Benjamin
(12:24):
Netanyahu said a starvation crisis would jeopardize Israel's new military
offense in Gaza.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So, I mean, none of this makes any sense whatsoever. None.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
One of the authority figures in the Palestinian authority said,
when Hamas wants to have some kind of a truce,
Israel says no. When Israel wants to have a truce,
Hamas says no. Everybody is saying no. And the shame
of it is Israel says, you just return all of
the hostages or we're going to wipe out Gaza, and
(12:57):
Hamas is prepared to do that, is perfectly prepared to
have ninety five percent of the population of Gaza wiped
out as long as it stays in power.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Polly care about That's great, isn't that?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Who are you ruling over? At that point, you're ruling over.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Now you know what you're doing, You're ruling over and
oh you're talking about the Hamas.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It doesn't matter. They just want I don't even know
what they're thinking.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I have no idea, and here is yeah, and here
is what they're thinking. For example, we're talking about the Palestinians.
The rest of the Middle East, the Arab world will
be on their side.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's all lip service.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
This last four day or three day jaunt that the
president had in the Middle East, it was all about business.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
There was one or.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Two words that were about that were happening about what
was going on in Gaza. But let's talk business. That's
what we really care about. And the Palestinians, to their chagrin,
they think the world's going to turn against Israel or
they're going to be supported other than just straight out
lip service, a little bit of money from Saudi Arabia
and wait, but not a lot. So for the first
(14:04):
time I was reading yesterday, I was looking at I
think it was a Wall Street journal where there actually
is a movement starting to realize that, or at least
being vocal about telling us saying that Hamas is really
killing us. Israel is going to wipe us out. Are
the hostages worth the total destruction of Gaza?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
It's tough. And by the way, I am convinced that
Israel is.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Committing a war crime with the starvation, stopping humanitarian aid,
no question anything else.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, just a really devastating and deadly storm system moved
across the central US and into the eastern parts of
the US over the weekend. Twenty five people were killed
in Missouri, southeastern Kentucky as the storm moved its way east,
started in Kansas and Oklahoma, which is my home state,
(14:57):
and just destroyed towns and left just a wake of
death and destruction.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
This is brutal. These storms are absolutely brutal. I noticed
on ones areguing climate change anymore. I'm not hearing how
it doesn't exist anymore. And now it's just dealing with
these horrific storms and it's just this is terrible.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know, I grew up in Oklahoma, right in the
heart of tornado alley.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Oh did you ever experienced a tornado?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, yeah, like right there, up close, clicking your heels
three times.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I mean, I think I wish I could go home
kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
It was more like, take shelter, it's half a mile away,
and you know.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Okay, it's not like dogs flying through the air or
anything like that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
No, it wasn't quite that picturesque. But I grew up
with tornado sirens being a regular part of the you know,
school year and of your life, and knowing where to
position yourself in a safety in terms of where the
tornado is going, and it's a it's a real thing.
And what seems to be, you know, people don't understand
(15:58):
is there's there is not that you can do to
hide from a tornado unless.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Well out if you got I mean, they are tornado shelters.
I assume you do. Basements, so you go down in
the basement.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yes, but even that, if your house completely falls in
around you, you're not entirely safe. Or if the wind
comes and you know, tornadoes have like a tip that
touches the ground and lifts things up and pulls up,
so anything is uproaded. I mean, you've seen the aftermath
of tornado distruser, Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
See them all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But inevitably, but people survive. Inevitably, someone comes out of
this place that was completely destroyed, yeah, and comes out
and says, I mean, thank goodness, we're alive, which is
absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yes, you can't survive. There are shelters that are built
for that. You definitely can't survive it. But it's just
it's it's getting worse. I think you know, oh it is. Yeah, no,
it's a listen, that's science.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It's getting worse.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I mean, it doesn't take an idiot to figure out
that this is real stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It is a Monday morning, May nineteenth.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Haven't looked outside yet to see what the weather is like, Heather,
were we are looking at outside?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Wise beautiful and sunny.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It's gonna be a nice day today, Okay, it would.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Be in the seventy it'd be hot today, guys, really hot.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And then the East Coast is drowning. That's great.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
See, that's I wish that they would that the news
would cover how horrible the weather is here, because you
know what ends up happening. Excuse me, fraud is I
hate it when there's great weather New Year's Day because
we do the Rose Parade and it's seventy degrees outside
(17:30):
and everybody's in shorts and short sleeve shirts, and you've
got a bunch of people in upstate New York and
Buffalo and the snow is up over the eves are saying,
what the.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Hell are we doing living here?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah? Yeah, And Macy's Day Parade the past few years
has been like rainy and miserable, and I'm like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
So yeah, and welcome to southern California. Right, This is
what we need is more people, all right, continuing on
more handle on the news with Heather and Neil and me.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
All right. Police in Slavinia, that's a real place, by
the way, they're investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue
of the US First Lady Millennia Trump. I saw it
off carried away from her hometown. It was unveiled in
twenty twenty during the first President Donald Trump. I guess
(18:16):
it actually replaced a wooden statue that had been set
on fire that year.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So did you even know that there was a statue
of Millennia or a Millennia that didn't either.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Be a blind spot?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, because she's done so much.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Yeah, he's up on statue. Of course, she's the best.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, she dresses, She dresses well too.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, everything about her very pretty.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
She is very pretty, very attractive woman doesn't Yeah, she's pretty.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I like that. That's what else can you say about her?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
She's pretty, She's Slovenian, she speaks with an accent, and
she is the most inconsequential first lady that we've had,
probably in the history of first ladies, certainly modern history.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
But he's pretty. He's pretty.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
World peace, all right. Bruce Springsteen is in a little
bit of he's causing a little controversy. He called President
Trump a dried out prune during one of his concerts,
and then, of course, you know, President Trump heard about that,
and and he went online and called him highly overrated
Bruce Springsteen. And then so now Brucepingsteen, it's like this
(19:31):
back and forth. Now Bruce Bingstein is.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, I Thinkdent Trump and then typical Trump, where he
writes through social never liked him, never liked his music,
where his radical left politics. He's not a talented guy,
just to push the obnoxious jerk who fervently supported crooked
Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent fool and our worst ever
president who came close to destroying our country. At what
(19:56):
point does Trump give up this Joe Biden stuff. He's obsessed,
I know, completely obsessed years. I know, I mean completely obsessed.
So you know his philosophy. You hit me once, I
hit you twice. So it's that's not Joe Biden. But
certainly Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Isn't he older than Bruce Trump?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh he has to be.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Oh yeah, I think yeah, I don't think Bruce Springsteen
is what Trump is seventy eight something like that, seventy seven,
seventy eighty Springsteen is, is he?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh that's pretty old too.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I mean Bruce Springsteen is seventy five, so just a
few years apart.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah, hey, Kettle, maybe it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, it seems supermature. Supermature.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Oh yeah, well that's a word I would use to
describe our president.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Mature is right, there isn't it?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Just name calling each other.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, it's great. I know, these stupid duty pants runs idiots.
Vandenberg Space Force Space announced the US military will be
test launching an unarmed nuclear missile while fingers crossed. Let's hope,
so northern Santa Arbor County. It's going to be Wednesday morning.
So if you're out here and you're up between twelve
(21:06):
oh one am and five oh one am on May
twenty first, you might be able to catch a glimpse
of the minute Men three intercontinental Ballistic missile the ICBM.
They're just evaluating current missile systems competency, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
People are going to take video of it and go
does anyone know what this is?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Exactly does anybody know? We're telling you right here in
kfive all right, emergency contraception. You can now get it
at seven eleven and other convenience stores. It's going to
be right next to the condoms. They're actually just in
the stores. I think. I don't know if it's all
the stores or not, but there's a company that is
(21:47):
releasing the Morning After pills in single doses. It started
in Texas and now it's kind of spreading across the country.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
They should put that next to all the greasy weenies
and then you.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Know the big and I'll tell you what they do
not they should not do, is advertise the big gulp
next to these things. People could truly misunderstand that entire concept.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Well that you wouldn't need it, if.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's precisely my point.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Okay, Yeah, moving on planes, trains, automobiles, don't use any
of them. Apparently in New Jersey. New Jersey transit train
engineers are now going back to work tentative deal Sunday
and their three day strike. Planes not working right, trains
(22:37):
not working right, halted service for some one hundred thousand
daily riders routes to Newark Airport, which wasn't the best
to fly out of anyways.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I think four hundred and fifty people who have shut
down New Jersey transit.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Oh it's Jersey, am I right?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah? I mean it's just last time.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
This was what forty years ago, the transit strike, last
transit strike.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
That's another reason you want to move to New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Taylor Ham Sandwich is good.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
You know, when we are in Italy, do you know
what Neil the wedding, et cetera. Do you know that
in Italy. The calendar strikes for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You can actually look at a calendar and say, this
industry is going to for example, railroad workers will be
striking on June second to June fifth's, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well we should know that, we should know.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And on top of that, for example, in the railroad strike,
in those strikes, not only do you calendar them, but
they also publish what trains will still be running. And
this is the union publishing this stuff. It's just a
whole world of strike. I just thought i'd mentioned that.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Not as Lana. I think I would find that very helpful.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Very helpful.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Bill handle showed Neil's major here because Bill handles, I
don't know, going to the bathroom eating something fell down
the stairs and can't get up. It's a sunny day,
rand quick errand yeah, because uh, I can't get the
clapper to work his equipment. Come on, here we go.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
All right, Oh, let's work.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
What got what to work?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You? Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, pretty much, let's do A guy's ready to finish it?
Handle on news, We're ready, Yeah, sure, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
All right, So the FDA has approved nova vaks. The
COVID nineteen shot. They have some restrictions on it though.
They make the only traditional protein based COVID vaccine coronavirus vaccine,
and until now it had emergency authorization from the FDA
for use in any one twelve and older, but on Friday,
the FDA granted the company full approval for its vaccine
(24:57):
use in adults only an adult sixty five and older
or those twelve to sixty four who have had at
least one health problem that puts them at increased risk
from COVID so neil.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That means you get a triple shot of the COVID vaccine, right.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Actually, I just have a continuous IV send me all
the time. Yeah, I'll still live longer than you. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't know. I'm pretty careful. I mean, you know,
obviously I eat like crap.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You know, it's all Costco, you know, frozen stuff occasionally
Trader Joe's. But no, I walk an hour a day
where I used to walk an hour a day and
can't do that with my boot. It's going to the
doctor today. I don't know when they're gonna pull out this.
You know, I've got a pin like a rod going
through my toe and it's sticking out.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, yeah, it's really pleasant.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Sounds real healthy. I'll come over and just yeah, you
sound healthy as Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
It's one of let me tell you what I you
know what you would do. I'll tell you what you
would do. You would take that rod and you would
ping it like a tuning for it, just to make
me feel good. I know that, all right? Moving on, all.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Right, LF Todd's you know, the worst thing you want
to hear when you're flying in a plane is hey,
there's no pilot.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
So two hundred and five people on board went without
a pilot for ten minutes last year after the pilot
went to the bathroom and the co pilot fainted when
he was alone in the cockpit. So yeah, Frankfurt to Spain,
February of twenty twenty four. So they did an investigation.
(26:40):
It was an autopilot which saved everybody, but the co pilot,
they said, did operate controls unintentionally.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well passed, I just straight off fainted.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Now to be fair, I mean this is it was
a neurological problem. The co pilot didn't know he had
and he fainted. And you talk about as perfect. It
comes down when the pilot is in the course of
the toilet and then tries to get back in and
he can't and the code doesn't work. But they took
(27:10):
care of it pretty quickly because the pilot has a
secret code, so it all works out. By the way,
what's worse on Lufthansa than the pilot not being there?
I'll tell you what's worse. You come aboard and the
stewardess or the pilot says, all the Jews on the
left hand side, please of the plane.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
That's worse.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I thought you were going to say the food.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Backs of Food's not bad. I fight Lufton's all the
time to good airline.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I like it all right. So protests are coming to
Target on the anniversary of George Floyd's death. Leaders in
the Black faith community are calling on their followers to
boycott Target after its recent retreat from the DEI inclusion
programs that they had originally announced. They're asking for everyone
to boycott outside of Target stores a peaceful protest if
(27:57):
you will, on May twenty fifth, that is the fifth
anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, and Target is being particularly targeted because it was
one of the first companies that dove into UH into
dei UH after George Floyd, to its credit to for
many people in the black community and those who had
a real problem with the police in Minneapolis. By the way,
they're in the same city that George Floyd. They're headquarters,
(28:24):
same city Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered. UH. And
they're now one of the first companies to go back
from d i UH caving into the Trump administration other
conservatives because they are woke.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
And that's in UH, that's in.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Quotation marks. And so they're coming back very quickly. And
so let's just say they're targeted on both ends.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Not funning by law because of the federal no, of course.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Not but but but the Trump administration is figuring out
a way to do it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Believe me. Malcolm X.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Yes, the city of Los Angeles and veiled street signs
dedicated to civil rights activist Malcolm X in Lamartin Park.
It would have been his one hundredth birthday. They unveiled
us on Saturday, and so this was followed by the
thirty third Malcolm X Festival. This year's theme was human
(29:22):
rights by any means necessary, Okay, and a five mile
stretch of Crenshove Boulevard will now be known as Malcolm
x Way.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yeah, it's cool, Malcolm x Way.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
A lot of people the x ray text just thought
it was the guy who announced it. I just had
a big lisp, so when he said Malcolm x way,
it was they just Misunderstood's all.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Right, it's Monday heating up a car.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
We can't end on that. We can't end on that joke.
We got to talk about the Bachelor Mansion getting him makeover.
I can't let you go down like that. We got
the Bachelor bill. Is this your favorite show? Do you
like this show?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, A big, big Bachelor fan.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, I don't think I've seen it once.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Because those reality shows are well, I think they're ridiculous,
but they do great because they cost nothing to make
and they make a fortune.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
That's true. I hate to a bit of two. I'm
not a fan of the Bachelor or most of those
reality dating shows. But for those of you who are,
the Bachelor Mansion is which has been home to the
Bacheler for forty seasons, getting a big facelift, and you
can also rent it out for six thousand dollars a
night on Airbnb. That's fun. It's in Aurora Hills.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, this look at the look at the premise.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You've had bachelor and bachelorette and they go in there
and do things with each other. And now it's uh,
let's do a makeover. Right, we'll do interior design of
the mansion and see who wins. And then that's going
to be following up with people that run waste management
and pick up garbage.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
That's the next show after that. See.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I like those kind of shows, the home runner shows
where you can shoot do a before or an after
thing or whatever. But I don't like the dating ones
where they make out in hot tubs.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, but ten weeks after the renovation, it falls apart
with the camera.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, that's actually true. That's actually true the way they
do this. Okay, guys, we're done. Coming up, Trump's Big
Bill advances. That big beautiful bill looks like it went
through the ugly forest and got hit with a couple
of branches. And I'll explain coming up.
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