July 3, 2025 • 29 mins
(July 03, 2025)
Heather Brooker joins Neil Saavedra who hosts Handel on the News while Bill is out for an extended 4th of July weekend. House GOP holdouts fall in line, paving the way for final passage of Trump tax bill. Diddy denied bail at hearing, to remain in jail after verdict. Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw reaches 3,000 strikeout milestone. Girl who went overboard on Disney Dream cruise fell ‘backward through a porthole.’
Heather Brooker joins Neil Saavedra who hosts Handel on the News while Bill is out for an extended 4th of July weekend. House GOP holdouts fall in line, paving the way for final passage of Trump tax bill. Diddy denied bail at hearing, to remain in jail after verdict. Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw reaches 3,000 strikeout milestone. Girl who went overboard on Disney Dream cruise fell ‘backward through a porthole.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I know.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I've talked to management many, many times about Neil filling
in for me, and by far they believe Neil is
not only the most qualified, but the most entertaining fill in.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
There's no one really else that could fill in.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And it has nothing to do with the fact that
they don't pay him for this. If they bring in
someone else, they have to pay, so no influence on
that one. Just want to point that out.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
not Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Oh boy, nothing like you know, one hundred and fifty
years of insecurity on that poor man. That's right right.
Here're the one KFI AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Neil Sevadra here with the morning crew.
Happy July third. I know it seems a little awkward,
(01:00):
July third. What's the big deal about July third? It's
like nothing specific, right, You're wrong. It's Shannon Fairn's birthday, bro,
Look at that. Happy birthday, Shannon fair Dog. We have
a name shand dog ship. Shoot. No, but it is.
(01:24):
That's the only thing I can think of on a
July third that has any It's the day before all
hell broke loose and America brew legs and arms started
walking little baby country going, we're gonna do it, the
great experiment, the greatest country in the world. Like everybody
(01:46):
wants to be here, except actual Americans who are complaining
about it all the time. And I said, just travel, travel,
go to a Muslim country where they get you up
at four in the morning with a call to prayer,
and you'll go, wow, we're not very religious. I can't work.
(02:07):
It is a different world out there, I'm telling you,
and you're too soft to be able to live in it.
I assure you you'll come back here every single time,
happy to be with you. The fourth of July, riding
into the weekend, it's going to be a long weekend.
Maybe you're out there. I know you were listening to
Heather and Wake Up Call. You're on the highways and
the byways. You wouldn't know what's going on because apparently
(02:30):
Heather is trying to sabotage poor Will.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I played it and I was like, Oh, that's not
that bad. I thought maybe someone was joking. The guy
was like, oh, get rid of Will. But that's rude, sir.
I just want to say on.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
The record, now you say that heaven that is. Have
you ever met our audience.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I have.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I thought he was joking. No, some of them are horrible,
horrible people. You roll out of bed and say, I
want to be hurtful.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
They say, I'm going to just call and press this
button and say me nasty things. Well, for the record,
we love Will and we think he does a kick
butt job.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah. I remember when I was in management and we
were changing the team and moving things around. We were
thrilled to have Will do mornings, and he's been nothing
but great. So I see I have an f and
you around here? Someone for that caller? Oh no, I
left it, and I have like the whole other people. Well,
(03:29):
I keep the whole alphabet with me at all times,
because you know, I think that it's important. Heather, nice
to see you, my friend. Thank you you too. I
had to hear your voice. You came on so cheery.
The music barely started this morning for the show. It's
like welcome to wake and you're like hi, everybody.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It will not be like that in the coming weeks.
While check with me next Friday. I'm gonna be like, Hey.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I always say Amy coming back. I always say it's
it's by Wednesday. Yes. Like Sharon Belly, Oh, my my
dear friend, Sharon Bellio, who I adore, one of the
smartest friends. I love her on the Planet's fantastic. She
is smart, she's funny, she's beautiful, she's all the things
we should hate about someone. But she. I used to
(04:13):
tease her when she'd fill in on the morning show
as a producer that by Wednesday she was mean. She
was like over it by Wednesday. The waking up and
something about.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
That mid week call, that that midweek that gets you, well, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It take you?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Like like if you fly somewhere and you get jet laggy,
then you take about three days and like on the
third day, I'm either weepy or a total ass, And
then on the fourth day and find you're like I've
adjusted now. Yeah, so we hope you don't become like
a super villain. Oh oh, is that an option? What
(04:50):
would you what would your villain if you were a
super villain, Heather, what would you be? Oh my gosh,
what would be your thing? I think I would do.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Mind control, like without hesitation. I want to control people
with my mind and be able to make them do
what I want them to do.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
That's incredibly telling, incredibly Did I just tell myself a
little bit there? Well, yeah, I'm a scorpio. Oh boy,
there you go. Yeah, put those puzzle pieces together. Boy,
a scorpio who's in the entertainment business. What are the odds?
And an only child, oh my god? And a redhead.
(05:26):
Oh my gosh, jeez. It's like a trifecta of evil.
There is no god in your world? And you know
how I knew that that was a horrible thing to want?
Is uh? Cono nodded in agreement. Yeah, could you want
to bud control? ConA? Would you do mine control?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
No, I've thought about this a lot. Invisibility control. All
the birds in the world.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Oh, Neil and I just went, huh, yeah, that's serious.
The birds as telling as Heather's was. Yours is like,
you know what, rolling the couch, get this boy on there.
We got to talk. So even the little eglits in
Big Bear, Yeah, they wouldn't be so friendly the oh wow. Oh,
(06:14):
and your villain name would be the Talon. Yeah. So
in Gotha are you like do you like the hawk?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Girl, and you like the the bird like Alfred Hitchcock birds.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
And I always thought like, yeah, there's a lot of
birds in the world that could just just create havoc
anyway you want.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Birds are small and annoying. I wonder why you want
to be them.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
No, there's some big birds. There's ostriches. There's ostriches. Yeah,
oh yeah, large, they're heading the large like right now,
there's some that could host large. I'm terrified of birds.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Well you should be. Look at him. Oh furry and
good morning. Will you've already been roasted? Yeah? Good morning?
Like coffee, like fresh coffee and fresh coffee, running around
getting things done because she actually works for a living,
which I suppose we should now handle on the news
(07:12):
lead story. All right, another strange day. Trump is in
the news. Group of House Republicans that were holding out
fell in line. It's basically what ends up happening. They
fell in line behind President Donald Trump and agreed to
allow his agenda to come to the floor. This was
(07:36):
a complete reversal course after days of threatening to block
the bill and putting it you know, putting it out
and saying this isn't going to happen in all these
things unless you do X, Y and Z, and now
it's back on track. Weeks and weeks, Trump and his
team have been promised by Hill Republican leaders that he
(07:58):
would deliver this headstrong some may say GOP hardliners who
were still vowing to defy it. They are now in line,
all right. No bail for Diddy.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
He's been denied bail after his verdict was released yesterday.
He was convicted of two criminal charges. The fifty five
year old has spent ten months in jail, including during
his trial, which has been going on for the past
couple of months. His lawyers were celebrating he was cleared
(08:33):
of the major criminal charges, the sex trafficking and racketeering,
but he was charged with on prostitution charges.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But the.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Judge says that he believes that he could still be
a threat based on some of the testimony that people
involved in the case and witnesses said, including an ex
girlfriend that anonymous ex girlfriend said that he choked and
dragged her, and some of the violent, more violent aspects
of the testimony that came out during the case.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, it's sad. Cassie, Poor Cassie. His ex girlfriend, Cassie
Ventura fye. I think she hits room temperature while he's
in jail. That's my fear, you think. I just think
I don't think he's a good guy. I think he
(09:25):
didn't get enough. I think the prosecution probably overshot with racketeering,
which is very difficult to prove, and he didn't get enough,
and I think that it's not done well.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
You know, I was talking to Peter Hara Lamboos from
ABC Today and my question was, you know, for months
leading up to this case, we were told there's going
to be all these celebrities that are out, of these
high profile people that are going to come out, and
none of that happened. I feel like none of that happened,
and none of the racketeering charges held up, and I
(10:03):
just it seemed like a big nothing burger, which.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah, in comparison to you know, what was the build
up was supposed to be the music's epstein. Yeah, yeah,
it didn't crack that way, all right. Clayton Kershaw laboring
pursuing fighting for three thousand strikeout and he did it.
(10:28):
He became one of the twentieth twenty. There's only twenty
pictures pictures that reached that milestone. Good for him. The
funny thing that he said, because I really didn't pitch
that great tonight, he said, he was like the slider
was bad and this that he starts going at himself,
(10:48):
but he still did it. It's a little bit of
a humble brag. Yeah, oh wow, it wasn't really even trying.
He really didn't pitch well, oh really it was. It
wasn't a great day for me. Well apparently apparently was.
I wasn't. I mean, you know, people have bad days.
Look at kno.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
All right, moving on, all right, Brian Coberger has admitted
to killing those college students in Idaho. So he was
in court and he said he was guilty of five counts.
Four of them were for murder and one of them
was for burglary. And as he read as the victims'
(11:30):
names were read, he said guilty after each name that
was read. And of course, as you can imagine, with
the family, the victim's family members in the courtroom, there
was a lot of tears, a lot of emotion behind
what was happening.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
This was just to spare him death penalty, right.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yes, And he did that so that he could avoid
getting the death penalty.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Any and he claims as to why why he doesn't
want to have the death penalty. No understanding. Oh so
why did the murder?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah, I don't think that that has really come out, Like,
I don't know. I think if he's pleading guilty, then
that will pretty much skip a trial, right like a
we may never know then because of that, he may
never have to say why he did it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Interesting governor gave he signs a seven hundred signed a
seven hundred and fifty million tax credit for film and
TV made in California. This of course coming at a
time where Hollywood is not Hollywood anymore, as they continue
to flock to places like Canada to do movies and
(12:41):
things like that. And not a fan of you, Hairdoo,
but I think this was smart. And I have friends
and family in the film industry, and of course that
sways me some. But ultimately a thinking person should look
at this and this is homegrown and we need to
(13:01):
keep it here.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
And the applications open on Monday. For those of you
who are wanting to start applying for those tax credit,
it's going to start on Monday. So it's very very
good news, yea, for the industry and for people who've
been needing this for a long time. Agreed, all right,
this was I don't know if you saw this video
over the weekend, but a five year old girl fell
(13:27):
off of a Disney cruise ship through a portal not
portal porthole and landed in the ocean, and her father
was nearby. The mom called to him and said, you know,
told him what happened, and he, without hesitation, jumped into
the ocean. Mind you, this is on a giant Disney
(13:48):
Dream cruise ship on its way back to Fort Lauderdale.
Jumped without hesitation into the daughter to save his five
year old and then he treaded water for about twenty
minutes or so while the man overboard call went out
over the ship and they sent a rescue boat out
to them. Just that both the father and the young
(14:09):
girl were okay, but just like a completely devastating and
terrifying moment for any parent. And I had conversations with
my own husband about this. I was like, would I
be brave enough to do that? I'm terrified of heights.
I would like to think that I would, but I'm
terrified of heights.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It's not about it's instinct.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I would imagine, Yeah, at that point, instinct takes over
over fear.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
You are all those things. I'll ask it this way.
Are you brave enough to watch your child die?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Now?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Oh? I couldn't. Okay I could. And there's your answer. Yeah,
you know, you just you are Instinct jumps, you know,
takes a hold of you, and that's you know, a
nice end. Yeah, that's probably the only cruise line I
think I would go on at this point in life.
But even though I've had some wonderful cruises.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
It's a wonderful cruise. I've been on a couple Disney
cruises and they're really fantastic. I'm really surprised that something
like this would happen, and I'd be curious to know
what Disney is going.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
To do to follow up with it. Listen, there's safety protocols,
there's only you know, life. The fact that this doesn't
have it happen every day, you know, is a miracle. Yeah,
quite honestly. Yeah, all right, real quickly before we go
to break. Republican lawmakers are slamming the Trump Administration's decision
to halt some US missile munition shipments to Ukraine. They
(15:32):
say it risks emboldening Russia at pivotal point in the war.
That this ugliness continues to go on, and it was
expected Trump and Republicans in general have not been happy
about this helping out Ukraine, which boggles my mind.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
All right, Well, the Dodgers have received a federal complaint
from a Merica First Legal that's the conservative legal group
founded by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
He is saying that the Dodgers and the LA Dodgers
and Guggenheim partners engage in racially and sexually discriminatory hiring
(16:18):
practices under the banner of diversity, equity and inclusion. Of course,
Guggenheim is the investment firm controlled by Mark Walter who
just bought the Lakers. In a June thirtieth the letter,
he says he's accusing the Dodgers of the investment firm
of violating the Title seven of the Civil Rights Act
(16:38):
of nineteen sixty four by making employment decisions based on race, color, sex,
and national origin.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
They're kind of the anti aclu. I guess yeah, the opposite, opposite,
but equal, something like that Chuck E Cheese is, which
is now what chuck E cheese. They changed it because
originally it was Chuck E Cheese's, and nobody said that.
They always called the Chuck E Cheese So then so
they ended up changing it. That little tidbit little information.
(17:08):
It's the Handle show. We'd like to make sure you
leave knowing more or what Handle calls factoids factoids which
sounds like a horrible breath mint. The arcade chain is
opening the spinoff, but it's aimed at at as adults,
so not kids. It's called Chuck's Arcade. You're going to Chucks. Yeah, bro,
(17:29):
I'll meet you at Chucks. We're gonna go you know,
where are your Chucks? Yeah? Where your Chucks? At Chucks?
So it's for adults and their ten are open so
far malls across these United States. You got arcades in
Saint Petersburg, Florida, Tulsa. These I think, I think I
could not look at this list and probably could have
(17:51):
guessed where these were. I don't even know that I
needed this, But AnyWho coming to a an.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Area near you, whatever, we still have the animatronics the show.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
That's what I want to know. There's only there's only
like one was it like Torrents or something. There's someplace
out here that I think is the only one left.
Bourbank has one that still has the eletronics. Yeah, why
do you know that?
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Because I have a child who I'm a child too,
Because we have been people still have birthday parties there.
People still have birthday parties. Chucky Cheese.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Where is chuck E Cheese and Burbank It's on San Fernando,
just past the mall. Like if you're oh, now, I
know where it is. It's just down the street from here. Yeah,
let's go. All right, let's do We're doing a remote
handle show side cheese. All right. Del Monte Foods files
for bankruptcy. So okay, this canned company, we know, it's
(18:54):
been staple there in grocery stores for over one hundred years.
It's trying to stay bankruptcy and filing for cha Chapter eleven.
Is you know, trying to you know, fight to stay.
You know those green cans, right, the green cans. I
think they got yellow lettering or whatever. Del Monte Foods was. Yeah,
(19:19):
I've I've gotten this stuff. But the company is securing
a nine hundred and twelve point five million from investors
to try and stay afloat while at restructures. You know,
Canned goods. The technology of frozen food, and that sounds strange,
but the tech on freezing things fast enough. When you
(19:42):
freeze food, it makes these little tiny little knives that
come out of ice. When ice creates, it makes these
little things that cut apart the food in very tiny,
tiny little ways. Makes it mushing weird. They've gotten over
that they have all this tech, and canning is the same.
(20:02):
They continue to can better, fresher at things like that,
and so that's sad to see that they're going through that.
But all right, this one's you too. You took mine
that doun lnty one was myne Oh, I'm sorry, but
please do mine.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Well, I just let you go with it because I
was like, let's see his take on it. He's got
some good I was.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I was enthralled.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I feel there's so much President Trump news we should
share in the Nam Yeah please, all right.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
President Trump announced a trade deal with Vietnam that would
allow US goods to enter the country duty free. Vietnamese
exports in the US, by contrast, would face a twenty
percent levee.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Okay, now you do this story and this will level
us up. Oh all right, I'll coming to the pictures began. Yeah,
the brooker at the back.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
All right, Uh, the US government, this is really creepy,
but this is a story of science for good. US
government is preparing to breed billions of flies and they're
doing this to fight a flesh eating maggot that has
been destroying the beef industry, could decimate wildlife and even
(21:13):
kill household pets. Scientists are saying, this is really good
technology and it's using science to solve a problem, and
I think it's pretty cool. It's more effective apparently than
spraying pesticides and things like that.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
And it eats the flesh eating the maggots.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Yes, these flies will eat the maggots that are eating
cows and wildlife.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
What are they going to do? Put the politicians indoors
so they don't get eaten? Maybe, yeah, politician? Breakdown the
word poly meaning many, Titian meaning no politics, baby ticks
meaning blood sucking bugs, many blood sucking bugs. Good night,
good night, get your way. Try eating Fire's eighteenth victim
(22:02):
has been identified. This is this is a bummer. I
mean this since January continues to take and take and
take this horrible situation. This individual was an actor, a teacher,
and so the County Medical Examiner's Office has confirmed in
(22:23):
this case, Kevin Divine, fifty four, died in that fire.
His remains were discovered April second on the nine hundred
block of Boston Street. But he's the eighteenth person known
to have died in the Eating fire.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
You see, is considering adopting a semester system. And this
is something I didn't realize. How many UC schools have
a quarterly semester system instead of just doing the semester.
So apparently this all started sixty years ago when the
(23:02):
University of California switched its campuses from semesters to quarters.
They were trying to make space for more students by
packing a calendar with a larger number of shorter classes. Well,
now a lot of universities no longer use this program.
Only fifty campuses nationwide use the quarter system. And so
(23:26):
I guess there is a study that's going to be
happening with a group of UC working group. They're looking
to see if they switch to semesters, what effects that
will have on the student success and the financial cost
to rearrange the registration and class schedules.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
All you know, always trying to cram more people in
the system, Am I right, You're right? Come on, all right,
this is a weird ass story. Missouri serial plant employee
died after getting trapped in an industrial oven. So I
(24:06):
don't even know what that would look like. The victim
was identified as Nicholas Lopez Gomez, thirty eight years old,
the watermelon National, working under the alias Edward Avila, and
that comes from the coroner's office. They tried to give aid,
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but you know, that's a hard that's a hard comeback.
And so during the break, Heather I was talking with Anne,
producer Ann, and we're going and she goes, didn't this
happen not too long ago? And and she thought it
was a Costco She looked it up. A Walmart employee.
(24:48):
I was looking for her daughter and ended up finding
her the most both must have worked for Walmart, finding
her charred remains in the stores walking bakery of it.
We were thinking, you know, I have I like to
do manufacturing and stuff like that. So I have some
you know, sizeable machines with blades and lasers and stuff.
(25:12):
They all have these massive stop buttons or warning you
know things that you can There's not something inside a
big oven that like let yourself out. Even a trunk
nowadays has that little glow in the dark handle. They
have these glowing the dark handles in there because kids
were getting stuck in. You know what they say, if you,
(25:34):
I guess people assume no one's going to be.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
In the oven, well you can't assume on the inside
of the oven.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
That makes an ass out of you. Heather, you too, Cono,
just because just because, uh so, I what a horrible story,
but you would think, I mean because I think even
the walk in refrigerators and freezers and all those things
have something, if it's anything you can want walk into,
(26:00):
should have a way to be able to walk out of.
So a horrible story there, And this stuff does happen
every now and again, but horrific to think about that
going down. Have you ever been this? I know this
is a strange question. Have you Have you ever been
(26:22):
locked in anywhere? Heather, No, I would freak out. I'm
I would be I'm kind of clausophobic, so I would
be like, ah, well, if you weren't, you would be
pretty quickly to your luckier. What about you, Conor, you
strike me as someone that was locked in, maybe purposely
in somewhere or No, I was brothers. Yeah, that's why
(26:42):
I'm saying someone who grew up with brothers.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
I have been locked in my room where they tied
you know, you tie like a sheet to the door
handle and then you tie it to the other door handles.
And yeah, so I was suck in my room for
many hours.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I remember.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Yeah, that was I think the not in closed or
like confined area. So was this in the last week
or so? No, I don't have a kid to do
that anymore or know how to very very sophisticated.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Yeah, when you didn't have when you need to have
screen time and digit you know, a phone on your hip,
you found out interesting ways? What about you and been
locked in anything?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
No, but there are these giant refrigerators.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
That's so five.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
So when I go in before I shift to grab
waters for some of the staff I'm working with, I
prop that door open. I pull things over trash cans,
bins to prop that door open because I do not
That freaks me.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
There's nothing have you ever looked? Didn't tell you?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It doesn't lock, Like if you were to shut the door,
it just opens. It just glides open. There's nothing latching it.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Well, then what are you freaking about? I don't know,
just extra just in case I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
There's just no way possible that I can be stuck
in there, just so we don't end up on the
news exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
And will against your will?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Have you ever been locked in in a place that
you couldn't get out of? Locked in? No, locked out? Yes,
well that strikes. That's because of your horrible traffic. Everybody,
all of la is talking about it. Wow. Sometimes I
would have thirty seconds to put in fifty accidents. You
(28:33):
sometimes get the headlines only that's you know. I try
to hit the big ones. Well, you do a great job.
You do a great job. Will That guy's a jerk
paranoid now and he was probably drinking. I don't know.
I mean, yeah, no, I was talking about will Oh,
just kidding. All right. This is KFI heard everywhere on
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
I know.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I've talked to management many, many times about Neil filling
in for me, and by far they believe Neil is
not only the most qualified, but the most entertaining fill in.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
There's no one really else that could fill in.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And it has nothing to do with the fact that
they don't pay him for this. If they bring in
someone else, they have to pay, so no influence on
that one. Just want to point that out.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
not Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Oh boy, nothing like you know, one hundred and fifty
years of insecurity on that poor man. That's right right.
Here're the one KFI AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Neil Sevadra here with the morning crew.
Happy July third. I know it seems a little awkward,
(01:00):
July third. What's the big deal about July third? It's
like nothing specific, right, You're wrong. It's Shannon Fairn's birthday, bro,
Look at that. Happy birthday, Shannon fair Dog. We have
a name shand dog ship. Shoot. No, but it is.
(01:24):
That's the only thing I can think of on a
July third that has any It's the day before all
hell broke loose and America brew legs and arms started
walking little baby country going, we're gonna do it, the
great experiment, the greatest country in the world. Like everybody
(01:46):
wants to be here, except actual Americans who are complaining
about it all the time. And I said, just travel, travel,
go to a Muslim country where they get you up
at four in the morning with a call to prayer,
and you'll go, wow, we're not very religious. I can't work.
(02:07):
It is a different world out there, I'm telling you,
and you're too soft to be able to live in it.
I assure you you'll come back here every single time,
happy to be with you. The fourth of July, riding
into the weekend, it's going to be a long weekend.
Maybe you're out there. I know you were listening to
Heather and Wake Up Call. You're on the highways and
the byways. You wouldn't know what's going on because apparently
(02:30):
Heather is trying to sabotage poor Will.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I played it and I was like, Oh, that's not
that bad. I thought maybe someone was joking. The guy
was like, oh, get rid of Will. But that's rude, sir.
I just want to say on.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
The record, now you say that heaven that is. Have
you ever met our audience.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I have.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I thought he was joking. No, some of them are horrible,
horrible people. You roll out of bed and say, I
want to be hurtful.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
They say, I'm going to just call and press this
button and say me nasty things. Well, for the record,
we love Will and we think he does a kick
butt job.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah. I remember when I was in management and we
were changing the team and moving things around. We were
thrilled to have Will do mornings, and he's been nothing
but great. So I see I have an f and
you around here? Someone for that caller? Oh no, I
left it, and I have like the whole other people. Well,
(03:29):
I keep the whole alphabet with me at all times,
because you know, I think that it's important. Heather, nice
to see you, my friend. Thank you you too. I
had to hear your voice. You came on so cheery.
The music barely started this morning for the show. It's
like welcome to wake and you're like hi, everybody.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It will not be like that in the coming weeks.
While check with me next Friday. I'm gonna be like, Hey.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I always say Amy coming back. I always say it's
it's by Wednesday. Yes. Like Sharon Belly, Oh, my my
dear friend, Sharon Bellio, who I adore, one of the
smartest friends. I love her on the Planet's fantastic. She
is smart, she's funny, she's beautiful, she's all the things
we should hate about someone. But she. I used to
(04:13):
tease her when she'd fill in on the morning show
as a producer that by Wednesday she was mean. She
was like over it by Wednesday. The waking up and
something about.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
That mid week call, that that midweek that gets you, well, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It take you?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Like like if you fly somewhere and you get jet laggy,
then you take about three days and like on the
third day, I'm either weepy or a total ass, And
then on the fourth day and find you're like I've
adjusted now. Yeah, so we hope you don't become like
a super villain. Oh oh, is that an option? What
(04:50):
would you what would your villain if you were a
super villain, Heather, what would you be? Oh my gosh,
what would be your thing? I think I would do.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Mind control, like without hesitation. I want to control people
with my mind and be able to make them do
what I want them to do.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
That's incredibly telling, incredibly Did I just tell myself a
little bit there? Well, yeah, I'm a scorpio. Oh boy,
there you go. Yeah, put those puzzle pieces together. Boy,
a scorpio who's in the entertainment business. What are the odds?
And an only child, oh my god? And a redhead.
(05:26):
Oh my gosh, jeez. It's like a trifecta of evil.
There is no god in your world? And you know
how I knew that that was a horrible thing to want?
Is uh? Cono nodded in agreement. Yeah, could you want
to bud control? ConA? Would you do mine control?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
No, I've thought about this a lot. Invisibility control. All
the birds in the world.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Oh, Neil and I just went, huh, yeah, that's serious.
The birds as telling as Heather's was. Yours is like,
you know what, rolling the couch, get this boy on there.
We got to talk. So even the little eglits in
Big Bear, Yeah, they wouldn't be so friendly the oh wow. Oh,
(06:14):
and your villain name would be the Talon. Yeah. So
in Gotha are you like do you like the hawk?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Girl, and you like the the bird like Alfred Hitchcock birds.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
And I always thought like, yeah, there's a lot of
birds in the world that could just just create havoc
anyway you want.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Birds are small and annoying. I wonder why you want
to be them.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
No, there's some big birds. There's ostriches. There's ostriches. Yeah,
oh yeah, large, they're heading the large like right now,
there's some that could host large. I'm terrified of birds.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Well you should be. Look at him. Oh furry and
good morning. Will you've already been roasted? Yeah? Good morning?
Like coffee, like fresh coffee and fresh coffee, running around
getting things done because she actually works for a living,
which I suppose we should now handle on the news
(07:12):
lead story. All right, another strange day. Trump is in
the news. Group of House Republicans that were holding out
fell in line. It's basically what ends up happening. They
fell in line behind President Donald Trump and agreed to
allow his agenda to come to the floor. This was
(07:36):
a complete reversal course after days of threatening to block
the bill and putting it you know, putting it out
and saying this isn't going to happen in all these
things unless you do X, Y and Z, and now
it's back on track. Weeks and weeks, Trump and his
team have been promised by Hill Republican leaders that he
(07:58):
would deliver this headstrong some may say GOP hardliners who
were still vowing to defy it. They are now in line,
all right. No bail for Diddy.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
He's been denied bail after his verdict was released yesterday.
He was convicted of two criminal charges. The fifty five
year old has spent ten months in jail, including during
his trial, which has been going on for the past
couple of months. His lawyers were celebrating he was cleared
(08:33):
of the major criminal charges, the sex trafficking and racketeering,
but he was charged with on prostitution charges.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But the.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Judge says that he believes that he could still be
a threat based on some of the testimony that people
involved in the case and witnesses said, including an ex
girlfriend that anonymous ex girlfriend said that he choked and
dragged her, and some of the violent, more violent aspects
of the testimony that came out during the case.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, it's sad. Cassie, Poor Cassie. His ex girlfriend, Cassie
Ventura fye. I think she hits room temperature while he's
in jail. That's my fear, you think. I just think
I don't think he's a good guy. I think he
(09:25):
didn't get enough. I think the prosecution probably overshot with racketeering,
which is very difficult to prove, and he didn't get enough,
and I think that it's not done well.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
You know, I was talking to Peter Hara Lamboos from
ABC Today and my question was, you know, for months
leading up to this case, we were told there's going
to be all these celebrities that are out, of these
high profile people that are going to come out, and
none of that happened. I feel like none of that happened,
and none of the racketeering charges held up, and I
(10:03):
just it seemed like a big nothing burger, which.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah, in comparison to you know, what was the build
up was supposed to be the music's epstein. Yeah, yeah,
it didn't crack that way, all right. Clayton Kershaw laboring
pursuing fighting for three thousand strikeout and he did it.
(10:28):
He became one of the twentieth twenty. There's only twenty
pictures pictures that reached that milestone. Good for him. The
funny thing that he said, because I really didn't pitch
that great tonight, he said, he was like the slider
was bad and this that he starts going at himself,
(10:48):
but he still did it. It's a little bit of
a humble brag. Yeah, oh wow, it wasn't really even trying.
He really didn't pitch well, oh really it was. It
wasn't a great day for me. Well apparently apparently was.
I wasn't. I mean, you know, people have bad days.
Look at kno.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
All right, moving on, all right, Brian Coberger has admitted
to killing those college students in Idaho. So he was
in court and he said he was guilty of five counts.
Four of them were for murder and one of them
was for burglary. And as he read as the victims'
(11:30):
names were read, he said guilty after each name that
was read. And of course, as you can imagine, with
the family, the victim's family members in the courtroom, there
was a lot of tears, a lot of emotion behind
what was happening.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
This was just to spare him death penalty, right.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yes, And he did that so that he could avoid
getting the death penalty.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Any and he claims as to why why he doesn't
want to have the death penalty. No understanding. Oh so
why did the murder?
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Yeah, I don't think that that has really come out, Like,
I don't know. I think if he's pleading guilty, then
that will pretty much skip a trial, right like a
we may never know then because of that, he may
never have to say why he did it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Interesting governor gave he signs a seven hundred signed a
seven hundred and fifty million tax credit for film and
TV made in California. This of course coming at a
time where Hollywood is not Hollywood anymore, as they continue
to flock to places like Canada to do movies and
(12:41):
things like that. And not a fan of you, Hairdoo,
but I think this was smart. And I have friends
and family in the film industry, and of course that
sways me some. But ultimately a thinking person should look
at this and this is homegrown and we need to
(13:01):
keep it here.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
And the applications open on Monday. For those of you
who are wanting to start applying for those tax credit,
it's going to start on Monday. So it's very very
good news, yea, for the industry and for people who've
been needing this for a long time. Agreed, all right,
this was I don't know if you saw this video
over the weekend, but a five year old girl fell
(13:27):
off of a Disney cruise ship through a portal not
portal porthole and landed in the ocean, and her father
was nearby. The mom called to him and said, you know,
told him what happened, and he, without hesitation, jumped into
the ocean. Mind you, this is on a giant Disney
(13:48):
Dream cruise ship on its way back to Fort Lauderdale.
Jumped without hesitation into the daughter to save his five
year old and then he treaded water for about twenty
minutes or so while the man overboard call went out
over the ship and they sent a rescue boat out
to them. Just that both the father and the young
(14:09):
girl were okay, but just like a completely devastating and
terrifying moment for any parent. And I had conversations with
my own husband about this. I was like, would I
be brave enough to do that? I'm terrified of heights.
I would like to think that I would, but I'm
terrified of heights.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It's not about it's instinct.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I would imagine, Yeah, at that point, instinct takes over
over fear.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
You are all those things. I'll ask it this way.
Are you brave enough to watch your child die?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Now?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Oh? I couldn't. Okay I could. And there's your answer. Yeah,
you know, you just you are Instinct jumps, you know,
takes a hold of you, and that's you know, a
nice end. Yeah, that's probably the only cruise line I
think I would go on at this point in life.
But even though I've had some wonderful cruises.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
It's a wonderful cruise. I've been on a couple Disney
cruises and they're really fantastic. I'm really surprised that something
like this would happen, and I'd be curious to know
what Disney is going.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
To do to follow up with it. Listen, there's safety protocols,
there's only you know, life. The fact that this doesn't
have it happen every day, you know, is a miracle. Yeah,
quite honestly. Yeah, all right, real quickly before we go
to break. Republican lawmakers are slamming the Trump Administration's decision
to halt some US missile munition shipments to Ukraine. They
(15:32):
say it risks emboldening Russia at pivotal point in the war.
That this ugliness continues to go on, and it was
expected Trump and Republicans in general have not been happy
about this helping out Ukraine, which boggles my mind.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
All right, Well, the Dodgers have received a federal complaint
from a Merica First Legal that's the conservative legal group
founded by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
He is saying that the Dodgers and the LA Dodgers
and Guggenheim partners engage in racially and sexually discriminatory hiring
(16:18):
practices under the banner of diversity, equity and inclusion. Of course,
Guggenheim is the investment firm controlled by Mark Walter who
just bought the Lakers. In a June thirtieth the letter,
he says he's accusing the Dodgers of the investment firm
of violating the Title seven of the Civil Rights Act
(16:38):
of nineteen sixty four by making employment decisions based on race, color, sex,
and national origin.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
They're kind of the anti aclu. I guess yeah, the opposite, opposite,
but equal, something like that Chuck E Cheese is, which
is now what chuck E cheese. They changed it because
originally it was Chuck E Cheese's, and nobody said that.
They always called the Chuck E Cheese So then so
they ended up changing it. That little tidbit little information.
(17:08):
It's the Handle show. We'd like to make sure you
leave knowing more or what Handle calls factoids factoids which
sounds like a horrible breath mint. The arcade chain is
opening the spinoff, but it's aimed at at as adults,
so not kids. It's called Chuck's Arcade. You're going to Chucks. Yeah, bro,
(17:29):
I'll meet you at Chucks. We're gonna go you know,
where are your Chucks? Yeah? Where your Chucks? At Chucks?
So it's for adults and their ten are open so
far malls across these United States. You got arcades in
Saint Petersburg, Florida, Tulsa. These I think, I think I
could not look at this list and probably could have
(17:51):
guessed where these were. I don't even know that I
needed this, But AnyWho coming to a an.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Area near you, whatever, we still have the animatronics the show.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
That's what I want to know. There's only there's only
like one was it like Torrents or something. There's someplace
out here that I think is the only one left.
Bourbank has one that still has the eletronics. Yeah, why
do you know that?
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Because I have a child who I'm a child too,
Because we have been people still have birthday parties there.
People still have birthday parties. Chucky Cheese.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Where is chuck E Cheese and Burbank It's on San Fernando,
just past the mall. Like if you're oh, now, I
know where it is. It's just down the street from here. Yeah,
let's go. All right, let's do We're doing a remote
handle show side cheese. All right. Del Monte Foods files
for bankruptcy. So okay, this canned company, we know, it's
(18:54):
been staple there in grocery stores for over one hundred years.
It's trying to stay bankruptcy and filing for cha Chapter eleven.
Is you know, trying to you know, fight to stay.
You know those green cans, right, the green cans. I
think they got yellow lettering or whatever. Del Monte Foods was. Yeah,
(19:19):
I've I've gotten this stuff. But the company is securing
a nine hundred and twelve point five million from investors
to try and stay afloat while at restructures. You know,
Canned goods. The technology of frozen food, and that sounds strange,
but the tech on freezing things fast enough. When you
(19:42):
freeze food, it makes these little tiny little knives that
come out of ice. When ice creates, it makes these
little things that cut apart the food in very tiny,
tiny little ways. Makes it mushing weird. They've gotten over
that they have all this tech, and canning is the same.
(20:02):
They continue to can better, fresher at things like that,
and so that's sad to see that they're going through that.
But all right, this one's you too. You took mine
that doun lnty one was myne Oh, I'm sorry, but
please do mine.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Well, I just let you go with it because I
was like, let's see his take on it. He's got
some good I was.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I was enthralled.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I feel there's so much President Trump news we should
share in the Nam Yeah please, all right.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
President Trump announced a trade deal with Vietnam that would
allow US goods to enter the country duty free. Vietnamese
exports in the US, by contrast, would face a twenty
percent levee.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Okay, now you do this story and this will level
us up. Oh all right, I'll coming to the pictures began. Yeah,
the brooker at the back.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
All right, Uh, the US government, this is really creepy,
but this is a story of science for good. US
government is preparing to breed billions of flies and they're
doing this to fight a flesh eating maggot that has
been destroying the beef industry, could decimate wildlife and even
(21:13):
kill household pets. Scientists are saying, this is really good
technology and it's using science to solve a problem, and
I think it's pretty cool. It's more effective apparently than
spraying pesticides and things like that.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
And it eats the flesh eating the maggots.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Yes, these flies will eat the maggots that are eating
cows and wildlife.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
What are they going to do? Put the politicians indoors
so they don't get eaten? Maybe, yeah, politician? Breakdown the
word poly meaning many, Titian meaning no politics, baby ticks
meaning blood sucking bugs, many blood sucking bugs. Good night,
good night, get your way. Try eating Fire's eighteenth victim
(22:02):
has been identified. This is this is a bummer. I
mean this since January continues to take and take and
take this horrible situation. This individual was an actor, a teacher,
and so the County Medical Examiner's Office has confirmed in
(22:23):
this case, Kevin Divine, fifty four, died in that fire.
His remains were discovered April second on the nine hundred
block of Boston Street. But he's the eighteenth person known
to have died in the Eating fire.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
You see, is considering adopting a semester system. And this
is something I didn't realize. How many UC schools have
a quarterly semester system instead of just doing the semester.
So apparently this all started sixty years ago when the
(23:02):
University of California switched its campuses from semesters to quarters.
They were trying to make space for more students by
packing a calendar with a larger number of shorter classes. Well,
now a lot of universities no longer use this program.
Only fifty campuses nationwide use the quarter system. And so
(23:26):
I guess there is a study that's going to be
happening with a group of UC working group. They're looking
to see if they switch to semesters, what effects that
will have on the student success and the financial cost
to rearrange the registration and class schedules.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
All you know, always trying to cram more people in
the system, Am I right, You're right? Come on, all right,
this is a weird ass story. Missouri serial plant employee
died after getting trapped in an industrial oven. So I
(24:06):
don't even know what that would look like. The victim
was identified as Nicholas Lopez Gomez, thirty eight years old,
the watermelon National, working under the alias Edward Avila, and
that comes from the coroner's office. They tried to give aid,
(24:27):
but you know, that's a hard that's a hard comeback.
And so during the break, Heather I was talking with Anne,
producer Ann, and we're going and she goes, didn't this
happen not too long ago? And and she thought it
was a Costco She looked it up. A Walmart employee.
(24:48):
I was looking for her daughter and ended up finding
her the most both must have worked for Walmart, finding
her charred remains in the stores walking bakery of it.
We were thinking, you know, I have I like to
do manufacturing and stuff like that. So I have some
you know, sizeable machines with blades and lasers and stuff.
(25:12):
They all have these massive stop buttons or warning you
know things that you can There's not something inside a
big oven that like let yourself out. Even a trunk
nowadays has that little glow in the dark handle. They
have these glowing the dark handles in there because kids
were getting stuck in. You know what they say, if you,
(25:34):
I guess people assume no one's going to be.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
In the oven, well you can't assume on the inside
of the oven.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
That makes an ass out of you. Heather, you too, Cono,
just because just because, uh so, I what a horrible story,
but you would think, I mean because I think even
the walk in refrigerators and freezers and all those things
have something, if it's anything you can want walk into,
(26:00):
should have a way to be able to walk out of.
So a horrible story there, And this stuff does happen
every now and again, but horrific to think about that
going down. Have you ever been this? I know this
is a strange question. Have you Have you ever been
(26:22):
locked in anywhere? Heather, No, I would freak out. I'm
I would be I'm kind of clausophobic, so I would
be like, ah, well, if you weren't, you would be
pretty quickly to your luckier. What about you, Conor, you
strike me as someone that was locked in, maybe purposely
in somewhere or No, I was brothers. Yeah, that's why
(26:42):
I'm saying someone who grew up with brothers.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
I have been locked in my room where they tied
you know, you tie like a sheet to the door
handle and then you tie it to the other door handles.
And yeah, so I was suck in my room for
many hours.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I remember.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Yeah, that was I think the not in closed or
like confined area. So was this in the last week
or so? No, I don't have a kid to do
that anymore or know how to very very sophisticated.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Yeah, when you didn't have when you need to have
screen time and digit you know, a phone on your hip,
you found out interesting ways? What about you and been
locked in anything?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
No, but there are these giant refrigerators.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
That's so five.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
So when I go in before I shift to grab
waters for some of the staff I'm working with, I
prop that door open. I pull things over trash cans,
bins to prop that door open because I do not
That freaks me.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
There's nothing have you ever looked? Didn't tell you?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
It doesn't lock, Like if you were to shut the door,
it just opens. It just glides open. There's nothing latching it.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Well, then what are you freaking about? I don't know,
just extra just in case I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
There's just no way possible that I can be stuck
in there, just so we don't end up on the
news exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
And will against your will?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Have you ever been locked in in a place that
you couldn't get out of? Locked in? No, locked out? Yes,
well that strikes. That's because of your horrible traffic. Everybody,
all of la is talking about it. Wow. Sometimes I
would have thirty seconds to put in fifty accidents. You
(28:33):
sometimes get the headlines only that's you know. I try
to hit the big ones. Well, you do a great job.
You do a great job. Will That guy's a jerk
paranoid now and he was probably drinking. I don't know.
I mean, yeah, no, I was talking about will Oh,
just kidding. All right. This is KFI heard everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
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