July 4, 2025 • 26 mins
(Friday 07/04/25)
Heather Brooker joins Neil Saavedra who hosts Handel on the News while Bill is out for an extended 4th of July weekend. Trump takes ‘Big, Beautiful Bill; victory lap in Iowa: 5 Takeaways. Central California wildfire scorches 53,000 acres; now the largest in 2025. Russia launches record number of drones at Ukraine after latest Trump-Putin phone call. Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. arrested in Studio City and will be deported, federal officials say. RIP Michael Madsen.
Heather Brooker joins Neil Saavedra who hosts Handel on the News while Bill is out for an extended 4th of July weekend. Trump takes ‘Big, Beautiful Bill; victory lap in Iowa: 5 Takeaways. Central California wildfire scorches 53,000 acres; now the largest in 2025. Russia launches record number of drones at Ukraine after latest Trump-Putin phone call. Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. arrested in Studio City and will be deported, federal officials say. RIP Michael Madsen.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
US government is preparing to breed billions of flies, and
they're doing this to fight a flush eating maggot.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
What are they gonna do?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Put the politicians indoors so they don't get eaten? Maybe, yeah, yeah, politician,
breakdown the word polly meaning many ticks, meaning bloodsucking bugs,
many bloodsucking bugs.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Good night, take.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
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and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You don't get that kind of twit handle.
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We're busting the comedy KFI AM six forty live everywhere
on the heart radio at Happy Birthday America did Look,
we did.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It, We did it.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Everybody's going to be celebrating today except people that make
excuses not to celebrate.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I don't feel patriotic this year. Listen.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
You can't love me at my worst, you can't love
me at my best. It's a great country, and we've
been through a lot, and we'll continue to go through
a lot because growing pains come with growing. So I'm
happy to be here this morning with the Morning Crew.
Neil Svader here with the Morning Crew handle us off
today because he hates America and he goes to Canada
(01:43):
every fourth of July and that's what he does, that's
how he celebrates. I guess that's just who he is.
But we have a lot to get to today, including
and we'll be Lucy Goosey and have some fun. But
I think we're going to open up the phones at
eight o'clock to answer all of you your cooking, baking,
or grilling questions, because we normally do foody Friday anyway,
(02:06):
so I thought we'd do that. And the number is
eight hundred five two zero one five three four. Write
it down eight hundred five to zero one five three four,
and we'll take your calls in the eight o'clock hour
about grilling or anything like that. We'll get to those
coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Heather, how are you.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm good, happy to be here.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I know it's a different schedule for you. And you
said you're going to be sleeping.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I you know, I'm hoping not to. Yesterday I really struggle.
We talked about this where I was like, I'm going
to stay awake. I'm not going to nap and then
by like six o'clock last night, I was like, ooh,
in pain.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But I'm gonna s Yeah, there's a I find.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
It's a little different if I get If I just
go into my day and start working, I don't think
about it.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, but if I get on my.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Computer and start working and things like that, then I
get a little tired. Depending and on average I'm about
five hours. I did the math, sleep about five hours
a night Monday through Friday. So yeah, it's it can
be brutal, but you know what, it could be worse.
I could be an or Cono. I have to get
(03:11):
up the day before. Yes, you know they actually they
got up on the third to prepare the show for
the fourth.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So nobody wants that.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Nobody nobody wants that.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, but but you know what, today is going to
be one of those days where you push through to
enjoy yourself. If you you got to split the difference,
you go in the yard with the kids or something,
and you sleep in the yard and then it seems
like you're doing stuff, but you're just napping. You're just
napping with everyone else. Cono, good morning, sir, Good morning, Neil.
(03:47):
Have you America to you, sir, I'm out. I'm out
in your area. I'm out in sand Burdou.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, but you're a little bit of a higher elevation
than I'm.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
The higher elevation indeed, as I am always around you.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Uh? And the best for last?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And how are you kneel? Happy four?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Happy fourth to you? You know I say best for last?
But Will's around somewhere, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, hello, Will? Turning to handle personally. Forget it.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now you're going to criticize what I'm wearing, and no,
I would never do that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What are you wearing? We can't see you.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I'm wearing I'm wearing pajamas.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That boy, what a dream?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You know? What a funny story.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
There was a lovely young lady who's to oversea our
digital department many years ago, good dear friend of mine,
and she came to work one day. I don't know
if it's a you know, midweek thing or whatever, and
I looked at her. I said, you're you slept in
those clothes last night? She starts, I go, did you
(04:58):
try and pull off that as an outfit?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Like she did something with her hair.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
It was just one of those days probably where you know,
she had like three kids or two kids, and all
kinds of stuff going on. But I just thought it
was funny, and you reminded me of that, Like trying
to pull off that's that's pretty impressive, trying to pull
off what you slept in the night before and make
it look like a fashion choice.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Sure, yeah, handle.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Does that that white T shirt thing that he wears
with a V neck?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Who wears a V neck T shirt?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
A V neck T shirt?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I like v nex Yeah no, but I'm talking about
a man.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You know, the white the undershirts that they have, they
have a V neck rather than the crew neck.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah huh yeah, No, V necks are bad on a man, right, Yes,
it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's with the gray chest hair sticking out. It does
give you a ste.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
That's actually his back hair. It's just weird the way
it comes up over the mountain like a set of
trees in the forest.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Whenever you see a man in a vmack a V neck,
you immediately know a lot about them.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I don't know what it is, but you do know
something something You have learned something about them. Yeah, yeah,
not my thing, but you know I wear.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Isn't silver Well, isn't silver like all men with v
neck yes, and beanies and sandals with jeans and those felix.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I have no idea what you're talking about. Yeah, it
totally hell you say.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's it's real in their coffee shops.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
No, I don't go to coffee shops. Who goes to
coffee shops?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I do?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
V neck men to.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Sit and write your manuscript, you know. Oh, I'm so
broke with my five thousand dollars, you know, MacBook, Yes,
I look poor and every other way. You know, for
the longest time, when you go on the eastern side
of Los Angeles, it is really difficult to figure out
who's homeless and who's hipster. That's like the hardest thing
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at first, but you eventually get it.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And that's the key, right, That is the key is.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Just eventually picking up on that and figuring it out.
But that is okay, That is okay. Indeed, all right,
let's get into handle on the news lead story. Oh boy.
President Trump yesterday visited Iowa to kick off a year
(07:28):
long celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the country's founding La de La and in an event
that doubled as a victory lap for the passage of
his big beautiful bill, a major legislative package that was
a kind of a little bit of everything. It's like
(07:48):
a smorgasbord, and he wanted to cram it all in
one bill to be efficient, I guess, and just be
like boom, we did.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
He spoke at the Salute to America event in Des Moines, Iowa,
and on the eve of this great Independence Day, so
that happened.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Are these like still are these like rallies that he's
still having or I wonder if this was something that
was already planned, because he doesn't really need to continue
to have like the Trump rallies since he's already been.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I think he does. I think it's feel for him, sure,
I think he does.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I think he likes I think he likes the theatrics
and the crowd and connecting and being out there. And
I think, you know, and I don't mind that as
a president. I think presidents being out and about is good.
I like, you know, I like old school like cops
on the beat too. And when I used to live
in Hollywood, it would only happen around the oscars and
(08:49):
like and my wife and I would walk to the
Oscars every year from our apartment and we would, you know,
go hang out after.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Your award and then go home. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
No, I take photographs because I was fascinated by it.
It just is like this big I'm fascinated by.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's a spectacle.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, well, yeah, it's a spectacle.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Not always in the best way. I think it's sort
of absurd in a lot of ways. But it was
really neat to see how people came out and who
it brought out and law enforcement. It is the only
time you will see law enforcement in full gear, meaning
their their hats and everything, and they're walking the beat.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And I love it. I love when they're walking the beat.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It's just so who knows but that I think our
president likes that.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I think he does too. All Right. There is a
massive wildfire burning right now. It is the largest one
in so far this year. It is in central California.
Hundreds of firefighters are working to contain it. Nearly fifty
three thousand acres so far and it's only ten percent contained.
(10:00):
Called the Madrie Fire. It broke out yesterday and it's
around one o'clock in the afternoon and it quickly quickly
expanded to now nearly fifty three thousand IT. Evacuation warnings
and orders have been issued in areas of San Luis,
Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties. There are fifty structures threatened
(10:22):
at this time. And this is the story we're following
closely here in the newsroom, just giving people updates and
information on evacuation orders and what fire crews are doing
out there.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Russia launched a record number of drones, ironically at the
time that a lot of drone shows will be going
off here in the States. They launched them, of course,
at Ukraine overnight into this morning, striking multiple buildings residential
areas in the like hours after US President Donald Trump
said he had made no progress towards a ceasefire deal
(10:58):
during a phone call that he had with Vladimir Putin.
You know, it's interesting they I notice CNN does this,
and a few others do this. It's never with President
Vladimir Putin, It's always with his Russian counterpart. I just
I am fascinated by editorial language in modern day stories,
(11:23):
in journalism, and so it pings my ears and.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
My eyes when I see stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
But I just I wonder sometimes if it truly is
just like a writer who's trying to be creative or
trying to like find a different way to say it
and not be repetitive. And it's so funny.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Look at you being kind. I know.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I'm like, I'm trying to, like, you know, said a.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Word for Konian used in a story the other day,
and I almost I was like, one of the worst.
It was one we did on the news. God maybe
it was on Monday or something. It was one of
the worst stories I've ever ever read. The weight was
written was so hard leaning that it could have been
(12:06):
Fox News. It just was one of those things where
the way it was written. I'm always fascinated how if
somebody is a Republican and becomes a Democrat or an independent,
they always refer to them as former former Republican. But
no one refers to Trump as former Democrat because he
(12:29):
was a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
From Oh yeah, I think people forget that. I've forgotten
that because because no one says, what if they did.
What if all of a sudden we started calling him
former Democrat President Trump, people people would lose their minds.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
That's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You know, there's a new movie out right now on
Prime video called Heads of State, and it is about
a President Trump type character played by John Cena and
London minister played by Idris Elba and how they're in
a plane together and it goes down and wackiness ensues.
(13:06):
And when you say they're counterparts, you know, that reminded
me of that movie because they're sort of playing the
counterparts to each other and how they're both so different,
but whackiness ensues. Because it's a comedy.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Yeah, that's when you put John Cena as the president.
You don't have to you don't have to, you know,
to say by comedy people to comedy. If it was
a drama, Yeah, that'd be scary, all right. US Food
and Drug Administration has classified a recent blueberry recall as
the highest risk for potential potential listeria contamination. And this
(13:44):
happened on the first I think they issued a Class
one grade for the recall of twelve thousand pounds of
organic blueberries. So this is produced by Alma Pack International
in Georgia. Recall was initiated on June ninth after routine
(14:05):
testing at the facility found positive results for listeria.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So in my mind, listeria can just be washed off, right,
Can I just wash my fruits and veggies and be okay?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well, here's probably Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Most people, human error is the most likely problem in
all things.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
We're just not always smart.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
People ruins.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
So people say wash off. But I've seen how people
wash things off. They run it under you know, the
water faucet and shake it off and go, I washed
it right, No, you didn't wash it. So if that's
what you're talking about, no, But are there proper ways
to wash?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah? There are vegetable washes that you can use, and.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
There are natural ones that aren't filled with chemicals and like,
no chemicals are natural as well. But there are ones
that are not used with man made stuff but natural
things that can wash and things like that. The thing
is is you're not heating them up and you're not
cooking them, and so you put yourself at a bigger risk.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Okay, all right, Well I will be more thorough with
my veggie washing because I do to rent it under
the water.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
And yeah, what if your kid did that, would you
say they actually washed themselves?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I would feel better about her doing that than nothing
at all.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Well, it essentially is almost nothing. It gets the chunks off,
but not the bacteria.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Fair. Okay, that's fair, all right, speaking of chunks, that
was a terrible transition. I don't know what has nothing
to do with this next story, but about one hundred
and forty employees of the EPA are now on administrative leave.
This comes days after they signed a public letter expressing
their concern about the treatment of federal employees and the
(16:01):
Trump administration's regulation on climate and public health. The EPA
is now investigating the employees, who will be on leave
until July seventeenth. The letter expressed some concerns that the
Trump administration was dismantling the EPA Office of Research and Development,
(16:21):
canceling environmental justice programs and grants, and making employees fearful,
undermining the trust of the public, and ignoring scientific consensus
to protect polluters.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
This is a great story. Gladstone's reopens and Pacific Palisades
after the January wildfires. This is one of those places
and producer Ann and I were talking about this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It's one of those special.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Places where it's on the beach. It's not pretentious. They've
got great food and the whole vibe and atmosphere is great.
So good on them. We all know that Pacific Coast
Highway location and how great it is right there in Malibu,
and it was a major pit stop. We will go
(17:09):
there they hang out, producer and was talking about when
friends or family came into town, that was where you
took them to see the little bit of Malibu in
the like.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So good on them.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
It's going to it reopened its deck for dining today,
so that will this will be the first day that
you can go dine out there and enjoy all that
Gladstones has to offer.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I took my mom there last year for Mother's Day.
My mom and my daughter and I all went there
for Mother's Day last year.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's lovely, right, It's really.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Beautiful, And you're right, it is a very unpretentious. You know,
people think Malibu is all you know, bougie rich people,
but this is just a lovely little spot by the
ocean to have a bite to eat.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah, a nice place and you know that or Jeffreys,
you'd make the choice, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
A jury that says Google has to pay calif Woarnia
Android smartphone users three hundred fourteen a million dollars they
were found liable for making data transfers without permission while
devices were idle.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Tons of bitches. We knew it, we.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Knew stuff was going on jury and San Jose the
made the decision that Google misused customer's cell phone data
and they got to pay that three hundred and fourteen
just over three hundred fourteen million dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
You know what's funny is someone got your friend of
mine once was like, you know what, I don't have
any listening devices in my house. I don't have you know,
Google Home, or I don't have you know, Amazon Echo
or any of these things. And they said, you have
your phone. Man, Your phone is the exact same thing.
(18:55):
In the sixties and seventies, everybody's paranoid that the government
was listening. Now we pay about fifteen hundred bucks a
pop to get one of those listening devices in our
house on our own. Go figure already. Immoral is a
word that is used a Democrat. A Democrat, Hakeem Jeffreys
(19:18):
blasted Trump and the megabill in a record breaking eight
plus hour speech.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I love these things.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
They do absolutely nothing, you know, It's just part of
the showmanship of politics. As It's been said Washington, d C.
Is Hollywood for ugly people, And it really is one
of those things where.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
You know, they applaud this like something was done.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Yeah. I can make statements and say things that people
hopefully will remember, but really it's like, I don't know,
it's a lot of long winded people on both sides.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
In my point of view.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
All right, this is so fun Forngebob SquarePants fans, SpongeBob
and his friends are getting a USPS stamp, and honestly,
they're so cute. They're bright and colorful. If you're a
fan of SpongeBob, you're gonna want to get these little
pineapple under the Sea stamps. Bright yellow Spongebobs is. SpongeBob's
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bright yellow face is on two different stamps, and then
there's one option with SpongeBob and Patrick and then there's
one that has the entire SquarePants gang on there.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
And it's so cute.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
They're so cute. They're going to be available when let
me see August first, No, I don't know, let's say now,
let's just go now to the post office. Everybody just
go get them right and right away. Today's the fourth
so go tomorrow. I'll go tomorrow, well, maybe Monday, Okay.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I will say this that SpongeBob SquarePants is the only
celebrity I've seen not a stamp that fits the entire
stamp perfectly.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, his whole little face is a square.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
My son asked me the other day, he's ate. By
the way, Daddy, what did they call him SpongeBob square Pants?
He's square buddy. To fit the pants have to be
square as well.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, just makes sense.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, And then he said, why don't they call him?
And he had some name that was perfect, like yellow something.
So I don't know, you know, deads don't know everything.
Not even talk show host debts, Well.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
These stamps are cute, everybody, They're super cute. Of here
in Nickelodeon Spongebobby fans, that'd be cute to have.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
The one that stands out to me was the Curse
one where he was saying they bleeped it out all
the time and never said what he was saying. Yes,
but that's the one of the best cartoons I've ever seen.
That particular episode all Right ATF investigates Northern California fireworks
explosion like.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
A casual entertainment into the ATF explosion story.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, because this is real life, right, and so it's sad.
You got seven workers in that warehouse still missing, and
you know they say it pyrotechnics or fireworks plant factory there,
it's you know, it's explosives at any time, you know,
(22:26):
explosive powders and the like that, a spark, metallic friction,
there's always a possibility of that. And it's devastating to
think that people lost their life so they can't find
them right now. This is about forty miles northwest of Sacramento,
and everybody's thinking about these people, you know, but the
(22:47):
likelihood of them being fann found at this you know point, wildlife,
everything else that's going crazy as a result of these fires.
It's all sad and frustrating. Fireworks are are a neat
invention and they're cool to watch in the proper setting,
but very sad, very sad.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And other sad news. Actor Michael Madson, who was a
staple in many Quentin Tarantino films, including Kill Bill and
Reservoir Dogs, has died. He was sixty seven years old.
The reports coming in that he was found unresponsive in
his Malibu home likely due to some type of cardiac episode.
(23:29):
It's very sad.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yeah, I can't get out of my head. I mean,
Reservoir Dog is a brilliant film and one of my
all time favorites. But you know, once you see a
man cut off another man's ear, they just it sticks
with you. So he'll always Michael Madison Madison rather will
always be a guy who dances around another guy covered
(23:52):
in gasoline while cutting off his ear.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, let me talk about an iconic role and just
a legendary actor. Really sad news and his sister Virginia
Manson right.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, so she made some comments yesterday that were very sweet.
But yeah, he'd been up and down for a long
time and only sixty seven years old. Not an old
man by any stretch. Yeah, so sad to see that happen.
But another excuse to go through some of his films.
Don't know that today's the day watch a Reservoir Dog
(24:28):
or kill Bill?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Oh dogs? Rather, but a.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Wonderful film, dark and funny like I like it. This
makes the world go around, Heather, h dark and.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Funny, dark and funny.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Because comedy is pain, right, Heather, that's.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Right, you got to bring out your pain. To make
people laugh. I guess laugh at my.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Pain sitting in the green room with comedians, as you know,
some of the darkest stuff I've ever ever heard.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And you can't be thin skinned around comics. You know,
there was this thing for a while where and instilled
are like comedians are trying so hard to not get canceled,
you know. But what makes comedians funny, and really great
comedians funny is that they push the envelope and they
take it to the edge of where you are uncomfortable
but you're laughing and yeah, they're just wildly inappropriate and so.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Funny because it's not a team sport.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
No, you can make a movie about those same things
and they wouldn't know what, you know, who to point on.
But a comedian stands there by themselves like a boxer
and takes everything on their own. It's about as raw
and personal and intimate as you can get. So you know,
they attack the person for making them.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, and if it doesn't hit, there's nothing worse than
standing there in silence and you're like, oof, oof, that
didn't that didn't work. What can I do to win
them over again?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah? That's what can I do to you again? It's them.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
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Speaker 2 (26:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
US government is preparing to breed billions of flies, and
they're doing this to fight a flush eating maggot.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
What are they gonna do?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Put the politicians indoors so they don't get eaten? Maybe, yeah, yeah, politician,
breakdown the word polly meaning many ticks, meaning bloodsucking bugs,
many bloodsucking bugs.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Good night, take.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Your weight, try and now handle on the news. Ladies
and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You don't get that kind of twit handle.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
That's right, that's that's the commode is what we do here.
We're busting the comedy KFI AM six forty live everywhere
on the heart radio at Happy Birthday America did Look,
we did.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It, We did it.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Everybody's going to be celebrating today except people that make
excuses not to celebrate.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I don't feel patriotic this year. Listen.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
You can't love me at my worst, you can't love
me at my best. It's a great country, and we've
been through a lot, and we'll continue to go through
a lot because growing pains come with growing. So I'm
happy to be here this morning with the Morning Crew.
Neil Svader here with the Morning Crew handle us off
today because he hates America and he goes to Canada
(01:43):
every fourth of July and that's what he does, that's
how he celebrates. I guess that's just who he is.
But we have a lot to get to today, including
and we'll be Lucy Goosey and have some fun. But
I think we're going to open up the phones at
eight o'clock to answer all of you your cooking, baking,
or grilling questions, because we normally do foody Friday anyway,
(02:06):
so I thought we'd do that. And the number is
eight hundred five two zero one five three four. Write
it down eight hundred five to zero one five three four,
and we'll take your calls in the eight o'clock hour
about grilling or anything like that. We'll get to those
coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Heather, how are you.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm good, happy to be here.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I know it's a different schedule for you. And you
said you're going to be sleeping.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I you know, I'm hoping not to. Yesterday I really struggle.
We talked about this where I was like, I'm going
to stay awake. I'm not going to nap and then
by like six o'clock last night, I was like, ooh,
in pain.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But I'm gonna s Yeah, there's a I find.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
It's a little different if I get If I just
go into my day and start working, I don't think
about it.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, but if I get on my.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Computer and start working and things like that, then I
get a little tired. Depending and on average I'm about
five hours. I did the math, sleep about five hours
a night Monday through Friday. So yeah, it's it can
be brutal, but you know what, it could be worse.
I could be an or Cono. I have to get
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up the day before. Yes, you know they actually they
got up on the third to prepare the show for
the fourth.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So nobody wants that.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Nobody nobody wants that.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, but but you know what, today is going to
be one of those days where you push through to
enjoy yourself. If you you got to split the difference,
you go in the yard with the kids or something,
and you sleep in the yard and then it seems
like you're doing stuff, but you're just napping. You're just
napping with everyone else. Cono, good morning, sir, Good morning, Neil.
(03:47):
Have you America to you, sir, I'm out. I'm out
in your area. I'm out in sand Burdou.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, but you're a little bit of a higher elevation
than I'm.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
The higher elevation indeed, as I am always around you.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Uh? And the best for last?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And how are you kneel? Happy four?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Happy fourth to you? You know I say best for last?
But Will's around somewhere, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, hello, Will? Turning to handle personally. Forget it.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now you're going to criticize what I'm wearing, and no,
I would never do that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What are you wearing? We can't see you.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I'm wearing I'm wearing pajamas.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That boy, what a dream?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You know? What a funny story.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
There was a lovely young lady who's to oversea our
digital department many years ago, good dear friend of mine,
and she came to work one day. I don't know
if it's a you know, midweek thing or whatever, and
I looked at her. I said, you're you slept in
those clothes last night? She starts, I go, did you
(04:58):
try and pull off that as an outfit?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Like she did something with her hair.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
It was just one of those days probably where you know,
she had like three kids or two kids, and all
kinds of stuff going on. But I just thought it
was funny, and you reminded me of that, Like trying
to pull off that's that's pretty impressive, trying to pull
off what you slept in the night before and make
it look like a fashion choice.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Sure, yeah, handle.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Does that that white T shirt thing that he wears
with a V neck?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Who wears a V neck T shirt?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
A V neck T shirt?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I like v nex Yeah no, but I'm talking about
a man.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You know, the white the undershirts that they have, they
have a V neck rather than the crew neck.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah huh yeah, No, V necks are bad on a man, right, Yes,
it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's with the gray chest hair sticking out. It does
give you a ste.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
That's actually his back hair. It's just weird the way
it comes up over the mountain like a set of
trees in the forest.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Whenever you see a man in a vmack a V neck,
you immediately know a lot about them.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I don't know what it is, but you do know
something something You have learned something about them. Yeah, yeah,
not my thing, but you know I wear.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Isn't silver Well, isn't silver like all men with v
neck yes, and beanies and sandals with jeans and those felix.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I have no idea what you're talking about. Yeah, it
totally hell you say.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's it's real in their coffee shops.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
No, I don't go to coffee shops. Who goes to
coffee shops?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I do?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
V neck men to.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Sit and write your manuscript, you know. Oh, I'm so
broke with my five thousand dollars, you know, MacBook, Yes,
I look poor and every other way. You know, for
the longest time, when you go on the eastern side
of Los Angeles, it is really difficult to figure out
who's homeless and who's hipster. That's like the hardest thing
(06:57):
at first, but you eventually get it.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And that's the key, right, That is the key is.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Just eventually picking up on that and figuring it out.
But that is okay, That is okay. Indeed, all right,
let's get into handle on the news lead story. Oh boy.
President Trump yesterday visited Iowa to kick off a year
(07:28):
long celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the country's founding La de La and in an event
that doubled as a victory lap for the passage of
his big beautiful bill, a major legislative package that was
a kind of a little bit of everything. It's like
(07:48):
a smorgasbord, and he wanted to cram it all in
one bill to be efficient, I guess, and just be
like boom, we did.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
He spoke at the Salute to America event in Des Moines, Iowa,
and on the eve of this great Independence Day, so
that happened.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Are these like still are these like rallies that he's
still having or I wonder if this was something that
was already planned, because he doesn't really need to continue
to have like the Trump rallies since he's already been.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I think he does. I think it's feel for him, sure,
I think he does.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I think he likes I think he likes the theatrics
and the crowd and connecting and being out there. And
I think, you know, and I don't mind that as
a president. I think presidents being out and about is good.
I like, you know, I like old school like cops
on the beat too. And when I used to live
in Hollywood, it would only happen around the oscars and
(08:49):
like and my wife and I would walk to the
Oscars every year from our apartment and we would, you know,
go hang out after.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Your award and then go home. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
No, I take photographs because I was fascinated by it.
It just is like this big I'm fascinated by.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It's a spectacle.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, well, yeah, it's a spectacle.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Not always in the best way. I think it's sort
of absurd in a lot of ways. But it was
really neat to see how people came out and who
it brought out and law enforcement. It is the only
time you will see law enforcement in full gear, meaning
their their hats and everything, and they're walking the beat.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And I love it. I love when they're walking the beat.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It's just so who knows but that I think our
president likes that.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I think he does too. All Right. There is a
massive wildfire burning right now. It is the largest one
in so far this year. It is in central California.
Hundreds of firefighters are working to contain it. Nearly fifty
three thousand acres so far and it's only ten percent contained.
(10:00):
Called the Madrie Fire. It broke out yesterday and it's
around one o'clock in the afternoon and it quickly quickly
expanded to now nearly fifty three thousand IT. Evacuation warnings
and orders have been issued in areas of San Luis,
Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties. There are fifty structures threatened
(10:22):
at this time. And this is the story we're following
closely here in the newsroom, just giving people updates and
information on evacuation orders and what fire crews are doing
out there.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Russia launched a record number of drones, ironically at the
time that a lot of drone shows will be going
off here in the States. They launched them, of course,
at Ukraine overnight into this morning, striking multiple buildings residential
areas in the like hours after US President Donald Trump
said he had made no progress towards a ceasefire deal
(10:58):
during a phone call that he had with Vladimir Putin.
You know, it's interesting they I notice CNN does this,
and a few others do this. It's never with President
Vladimir Putin, It's always with his Russian counterpart. I just
I am fascinated by editorial language in modern day stories,
(11:23):
in journalism, and so it pings my ears and.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
My eyes when I see stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
But I just I wonder sometimes if it truly is
just like a writer who's trying to be creative or
trying to like find a different way to say it
and not be repetitive. And it's so funny.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Look at you being kind. I know.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I'm like, I'm trying to, like, you know, said a.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Word for Konian used in a story the other day,
and I almost I was like, one of the worst.
It was one we did on the news. God maybe
it was on Monday or something. It was one of
the worst stories I've ever ever read. The weight was
written was so hard leaning that it could have been
(12:06):
Fox News. It just was one of those things where
the way it was written. I'm always fascinated how if
somebody is a Republican and becomes a Democrat or an independent,
they always refer to them as former former Republican. But
no one refers to Trump as former Democrat because he
(12:29):
was a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
From Oh yeah, I think people forget that. I've forgotten
that because because no one says, what if they did.
What if all of a sudden we started calling him
former Democrat President Trump, people people would lose their minds.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
That's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You know, there's a new movie out right now on
Prime video called Heads of State, and it is about
a President Trump type character played by John Cena and
London minister played by Idris Elba and how they're in
a plane together and it goes down and wackiness ensues.
(13:06):
And when you say they're counterparts, you know, that reminded
me of that movie because they're sort of playing the
counterparts to each other and how they're both so different,
but whackiness ensues. Because it's a comedy.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Yeah, that's when you put John Cena as the president.
You don't have to you don't have to, you know,
to say by comedy people to comedy. If it was
a drama, Yeah, that'd be scary, all right. US Food
and Drug Administration has classified a recent blueberry recall as
the highest risk for potential potential listeria contamination. And this
(13:44):
happened on the first I think they issued a Class
one grade for the recall of twelve thousand pounds of
organic blueberries. So this is produced by Alma Pack International
in Georgia. Recall was initiated on June ninth after routine
(14:05):
testing at the facility found positive results for listeria.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So in my mind, listeria can just be washed off, right,
Can I just wash my fruits and veggies and be okay?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well, here's probably Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Most people, human error is the most likely problem in
all things.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
We're just not always smart.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
People ruins.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
So people say wash off. But I've seen how people
wash things off. They run it under you know, the
water faucet and shake it off and go, I washed
it right, No, you didn't wash it. So if that's
what you're talking about, no, But are there proper ways
to wash?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah? There are vegetable washes that you can use, and.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
There are natural ones that aren't filled with chemicals and like,
no chemicals are natural as well. But there are ones
that are not used with man made stuff but natural
things that can wash and things like that. The thing
is is you're not heating them up and you're not
cooking them, and so you put yourself at a bigger risk.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Okay, all right, Well I will be more thorough with
my veggie washing because I do to rent it under
the water.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
And yeah, what if your kid did that, would you
say they actually washed themselves?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I would feel better about her doing that than nothing
at all.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Well, it essentially is almost nothing. It gets the chunks off,
but not the bacteria.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Fair. Okay, that's fair, all right, speaking of chunks, that
was a terrible transition. I don't know what has nothing
to do with this next story, but about one hundred
and forty employees of the EPA are now on administrative leave.
This comes days after they signed a public letter expressing
their concern about the treatment of federal employees and the
(16:01):
Trump administration's regulation on climate and public health. The EPA
is now investigating the employees, who will be on leave
until July seventeenth. The letter expressed some concerns that the
Trump administration was dismantling the EPA Office of Research and Development,
(16:21):
canceling environmental justice programs and grants, and making employees fearful,
undermining the trust of the public, and ignoring scientific consensus
to protect polluters.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
This is a great story. Gladstone's reopens and Pacific Palisades
after the January wildfires. This is one of those places
and producer Ann and I were talking about this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It's one of those special.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Places where it's on the beach. It's not pretentious. They've
got great food and the whole vibe and atmosphere is great.
So good on them. We all know that Pacific Coast
Highway location and how great it is right there in Malibu,
and it was a major pit stop. We will go
(17:09):
there they hang out, producer and was talking about when
friends or family came into town, that was where you
took them to see the little bit of Malibu in
the like.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So good on them.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
It's going to it reopened its deck for dining today,
so that will this will be the first day that
you can go dine out there and enjoy all that
Gladstones has to offer.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I took my mom there last year for Mother's Day.
My mom and my daughter and I all went there
for Mother's Day last year.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's lovely, right, It's really.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Beautiful, And you're right, it is a very unpretentious. You know,
people think Malibu is all you know, bougie rich people,
but this is just a lovely little spot by the
ocean to have a bite to eat.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah, a nice place and you know that or Jeffreys,
you'd make the choice, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
A jury that says Google has to pay calif Woarnia
Android smartphone users three hundred fourteen a million dollars they
were found liable for making data transfers without permission while
devices were idle.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Tons of bitches. We knew it, we.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Knew stuff was going on jury and San Jose the
made the decision that Google misused customer's cell phone data
and they got to pay that three hundred and fourteen
just over three hundred fourteen million dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
You know what's funny is someone got your friend of
mine once was like, you know what, I don't have
any listening devices in my house. I don't have you know,
Google Home, or I don't have you know, Amazon Echo
or any of these things. And they said, you have
your phone. Man, Your phone is the exact same thing.
(18:55):
In the sixties and seventies, everybody's paranoid that the government
was listening. Now we pay about fifteen hundred bucks a
pop to get one of those listening devices in our
house on our own. Go figure already. Immoral is a
word that is used a Democrat. A Democrat, Hakeem Jeffreys
(19:18):
blasted Trump and the megabill in a record breaking eight
plus hour speech.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I love these things.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
They do absolutely nothing, you know, It's just part of
the showmanship of politics. As It's been said Washington, d C.
Is Hollywood for ugly people, And it really is one
of those things where.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
You know, they applaud this like something was done.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Yeah. I can make statements and say things that people
hopefully will remember, but really it's like, I don't know,
it's a lot of long winded people on both sides.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
In my point of view.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
All right, this is so fun Forngebob SquarePants fans, SpongeBob
and his friends are getting a USPS stamp, and honestly,
they're so cute. They're bright and colorful. If you're a
fan of SpongeBob, you're gonna want to get these little
pineapple under the Sea stamps. Bright yellow Spongebobs is. SpongeBob's
(20:23):
bright yellow face is on two different stamps, and then
there's one option with SpongeBob and Patrick and then there's
one that has the entire SquarePants gang on there.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
And it's so cute.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
They're so cute. They're going to be available when let
me see August first, No, I don't know, let's say now,
let's just go now to the post office. Everybody just
go get them right and right away. Today's the fourth
so go tomorrow. I'll go tomorrow, well, maybe Monday, Okay.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I will say this that SpongeBob SquarePants is the only
celebrity I've seen not a stamp that fits the entire
stamp perfectly.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, his whole little face is a square.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
My son asked me the other day, he's ate. By
the way, Daddy, what did they call him SpongeBob square Pants?
He's square buddy. To fit the pants have to be
square as well.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, just makes sense.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, And then he said, why don't they call him?
And he had some name that was perfect, like yellow something.
So I don't know, you know, deads don't know everything.
Not even talk show host debts, Well.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
These stamps are cute, everybody, They're super cute. Of here
in Nickelodeon Spongebobby fans, that'd be cute to have.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
The one that stands out to me was the Curse
one where he was saying they bleeped it out all
the time and never said what he was saying. Yes,
but that's the one of the best cartoons I've ever seen.
That particular episode all Right ATF investigates Northern California fireworks
explosion like.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
A casual entertainment into the ATF explosion story.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, because this is real life, right, and so it's sad.
You got seven workers in that warehouse still missing, and
you know they say it pyrotechnics or fireworks plant factory there,
it's you know, it's explosives at any time, you know,
(22:26):
explosive powders and the like that, a spark, metallic friction,
there's always a possibility of that. And it's devastating to
think that people lost their life so they can't find
them right now. This is about forty miles northwest of Sacramento,
and everybody's thinking about these people, you know, but the
(22:47):
likelihood of them being fann found at this you know point, wildlife,
everything else that's going crazy as a result of these fires.
It's all sad and frustrating. Fireworks are are a neat
invention and they're cool to watch in the proper setting,
but very sad, very sad.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And other sad news. Actor Michael Madson, who was a
staple in many Quentin Tarantino films, including Kill Bill and
Reservoir Dogs, has died. He was sixty seven years old.
The reports coming in that he was found unresponsive in
his Malibu home likely due to some type of cardiac episode.
(23:29):
It's very sad.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yeah, I can't get out of my head. I mean,
Reservoir Dog is a brilliant film and one of my
all time favorites. But you know, once you see a
man cut off another man's ear, they just it sticks
with you. So he'll always Michael Madison Madison rather will
always be a guy who dances around another guy covered
(23:52):
in gasoline while cutting off his ear.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, let me talk about an iconic role and just
a legendary actor. Really sad news and his sister Virginia
Manson right.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, so she made some comments yesterday that were very sweet.
But yeah, he'd been up and down for a long
time and only sixty seven years old. Not an old
man by any stretch. Yeah, so sad to see that happen.
But another excuse to go through some of his films.
Don't know that today's the day watch a Reservoir Dog
(24:28):
or kill Bill?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Oh dogs? Rather, but a.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Wonderful film, dark and funny like I like it. This
makes the world go around, Heather, h dark and.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Funny, dark and funny.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Because comedy is pain, right, Heather, that's.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Right, you got to bring out your pain. To make
people laugh. I guess laugh at my.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Pain sitting in the green room with comedians, as you know,
some of the darkest stuff I've ever ever heard.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And you can't be thin skinned around comics. You know,
there was this thing for a while where and instilled
are like comedians are trying so hard to not get canceled,
you know. But what makes comedians funny, and really great
comedians funny is that they push the envelope and they
take it to the edge of where you are uncomfortable
but you're laughing and yeah, they're just wildly inappropriate and so.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Funny because it's not a team sport.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
No, you can make a movie about those same things
and they wouldn't know what, you know, who to point on.
But a comedian stands there by themselves like a boxer
and takes everything on their own. It's about as raw
and personal and intimate as you can get. So you know,
they attack the person for making them.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, and if it doesn't hit, there's nothing worse than
standing there in silence and you're like, oof, oof, that
didn't that didn't work. What can I do to win
them over again?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah? That's what can I do to you again? It's them.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
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