July 7, 2025 • 32 mins
(Friday 07/07/25)
Heather Brooker and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Texas braces for more rain as death toll mounts to at least 82 with dozens missing. Trump signs disaster declaration for Central Texas Floods. Elon Musk says ‘America Party’ formed after poll on X shows support. OC lifeguards rescue hundreds of swimmers on July 4th weekend due to dangerous rip currents.
Heather Brooker and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Texas braces for more rain as death toll mounts to at least 82 with dozens missing. Trump signs disaster declaration for Central Texas Floods. Elon Musk says ‘America Party’ formed after poll on X shows support. OC lifeguards rescue hundreds of swimmers on July 4th weekend due to dangerous rip currents.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to camp I Am six forty the bill
handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
App and now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's bill handle? Is it Monday already? July seventh? I
(00:37):
have no idea what July seventh is about? None?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And for good morning everybody. Well, I know what July
seventh is about. Is July seventh, following July sixth, and
just one day before July eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But is there any significance to July seventh?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And I have no idea National Hamburger Day or National
cockroach Day?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I have you know, there there no idea how many.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Days there are, how many holidays there.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Are, or national days there are?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Okay, I have a couple of stories about that, but eh,
not interested.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Quick Hello, hello, cono, you're there.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, a little bit late this morning. Slept in yeah,
oh good?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
No good?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You don't do it enough. No, you don't do it enough.
You deserve a little sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
No, no, I didn't sleep.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It was it was a combination of work last night
and kids last night.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And yeah, all right, what does that tell you about kids?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Number one?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Don't have any it's too late.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Number two. Yes, you can.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You can take them to the shelter just and if
they're young enough, they'll get adopted out. It's when they're older,
like my kids, that's when they have a hard time
adopting them out.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And let me see who else is here? Basically everybody?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh, Heather Brooker is here week? Hello Heather, Hi, good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And what this week? And does Amy come back next Monday?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yes, so we have you for the whole week. What's
it like waking up at two three o'clock in the morning,
My dear, I.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Don't love it?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Do you're not?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I enjoy this show.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Very much, and I love being able to come in
and chat with you guys and everything, But I don't
love getting up super early.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Have you noticed this is why we don't have interns
working on this show. Now you go to the Gary
and Shannon Show, they have hot and cold running interns.
They have earned interns lined up around the block because
no one has to wake up a two o'clock in
the morning for them. Actually that's not true. I'm just
pointing that out. Ever since the interns have to be
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paid now by law, those days are gone.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Good morning Anne.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
She's in here with me. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
No, I see Anne, I see there.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh she's in yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
She is working working hard today, so she has no kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
She's she ran the boards, she put together the show,
she did work with you on wake Up Call and
produced my show, putting together stories. A lot of work, right, Kno,
Let's move on though, okay, fair, let's move on.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And then we have Will Coleschreiver. Hello, Will, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
How are you good?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Button down shirt today? Are we going to a funeral?
Something that you're gonna wear a tie once a week?
You know, I figure out shave and or a button
down shirt? Yeah, and you know I do notice that
you shaved and there you go. Yeah, just for me,
I know, excellent.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
When I never mind, I wasn't gonna say anything company
all right, anyway, let me see July fourth, my daughter
asked me about going Yes, yes you do. Pamela asked
me about going to the Magic Castle. And Neil knows
Tony who is a magician that showed up at our event.
And Tony is a very talented, talented guy. Anyways, I
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called him about going to the Magic castle, and Neil
had said, be prepared. It's not quite the same as
it used to be. Well, it used to be you'd
get in for free. All you had to do was
be a guest of a member and you'd get in
for free. And they had a bar you could drink
or not drink, and you saw the shows.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
You had to get dinner. You've always had to get dinner.
If you were you've always had to get dinner always.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Yeah, that's been their requirement for a while, I if.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I remember correctly, Well, maybe it goes back to before
magic was invented.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Now, however, when you were a kid, magic was real.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, that's a good point to me.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's still red dragons.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So there were going to be four of us to go,
and I asked Tony, what does it cost to go?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
How about this forty five dollars entrance fee per person
and you have to buy dinner, and dinner runs one
hundred dollars per person plus and so good evening. Six
hundred dollars minimum to spend an evening. But by the way,
probably watching one show in the big room and then
slide of hand. I'll tell you what the sleight of
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hand is is when they replace the bill, you're looking
at it and it's you think it's ahead, it's really
two hundred dollars ahead what.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
It was purchased by somebody. And so things have changed
and it's run like a business now, whereas before it
was it was a private club and it was run now.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Which is it was kind of well if if you
still need an invitation to go, or the general.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Public alsobsolutely still need an invitation to go. But yes,
it does cost to get in now and and has
for a while. But they the place has never looked better.
It's not like they're running absconding with money. They're putting
it back into the place and it looks beautiful and
they're doing, you know, wonderful things with it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
But yeah, it's run like a high It is a.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
World class restaurant now and all these they they've really
upped the antie.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
My husban I was just given tickets to go. So
we're going to take our daughter, but she since she's
only twelve, she can only go to the brunch apparently
on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah, so but we're going to take her.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
And I'm really curious to see how much has changed.
We haven't been in years.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, I mean either So it's basically a private club
without the bunnies who have the disappearing ears.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Basically, that's it.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I was remember for years of which club. I love
the place?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, I love I love the sleight of hand stuff.
I mean that's what really. That skill levels amazing for me. Okay,
we have a fair amount to cover. The big beautiful
bill past and jeez, Louise, it was Mike Johnson and
Lindsey Graham. I was surprised that Mike Johnson was actually
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standing up next to the president.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I thought he would not be in that position.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah, it's like you more in a Yeah Clinton style.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, well there he is standing up. Well there's a shocker.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
All right, let's go ahead and engage right into handle
on the news with Heather Neil and me lead story
that you wouldn't be well, the horrible story that happened
over the weekend, that flooding in Texas.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh god, what is it?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Eighty one people now dead, eighty two dead, doesn't still missing.
This is a disaster of gargantuan proportions. And it's not
as if people just oh, I'm not going to leave
the way hurricanes or wildfire sometimes are. This took people
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by an absolute surprise. I mean this, what what of
the rivers? The Guadalupe River rose thirty feet in one hour?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It was like wash.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
What four months worth of rain in such a small
amount of it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Was just a completely insane and unfortunately, and so many kids,
and there was.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
A lot of these.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Camps along the river, like that one girls camp, the
Mystic Camp, which was hit the hardest. Jesus, It's just
it's heartbreaking to see what's going on. And they're still looking,
but they're not admitting it's a recovery effort yet, but
it's pretty much a recovery effort. It doesn't look like
they're going to find anybody still around.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Last night I was reading about a father who was
out looking for his twenty one year old daughter and
came across an eight to ten year old deceased boy floating,
and he was describing what was going on. I think
there was some stories about two sisters being found still
holding hands. It's just so heartbreaking all the way around.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You know, there's a saying that actually hits home. Parents
are not supposed to bury their children. Yeah, it's not
the natural course of events. All right, let's go ahead
and move on. And of course his news breaks on
that one. We'll hear more throughout the.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Day along these same lines.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
So President Trump announced that he signed that major Disaster
declaration for Kirk County, Texas, that is the area where
the heavy rains have been hitting. He says the families
are enduring an unimaginable tragedy with many lives lost, and
the Trump administration will work closely with state and local
leaders to help them. Coast Guard officials and Texas first
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responders say they have saved over eight hundred and fifty
people from the floodwaters.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, you wonder some of homes have been destroyed.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And you wonder how much FEMA and the Red Cross
are involved and the federal government involved in something like this,
because it seems to be this was pretty This area
was pretty sparse as opposed.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
To an area that had a lot of homes in there.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
So I'm just interested to find out how big an
effort it's going to be by the Red Cross, etc.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
On this, how much is necessary.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Well, whether you love the big beautiful Bill or hate
the big beautiful Bill, I think one of the possible
good things that came out of it was Elon Musk
declaring on X the formation of a new political party.
He of course, is still battling in his feud with
President Donald Trump over this big, beautiful bill, and he
said today the American Party is formed to give you
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back your freedom on a post there on X and
even fellow billionaire Mark Cuban, no fan of Trump, appeared
to support the idea. And if you've been listening for
any time, you know I hate the two party system.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So I'll take it fair enough.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And I'm coming back at seven point thirty with that
story because there are some moving pieces here. Last week
I did a story on creating a new major national party,
which is virtually impossible to do even with the money
that Elon Musk has. However, his strategy for what this
new party can is and that one makes sense, and
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I will jump into that at seven thirty this morning.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Oh can't wait for that, Yeah, all right. Treasury Secretary
Descent has said he's standing out about one hundred letters
about letters to about one hundred countries over the next
several days about tariffs. He says that if things don't
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move along by August first. Then I don't understand this.
You will boomerang back to your April twelfth tariff level.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
So he's like, which was ridiculous, Well, that was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, I was the one that Trump threw in and
two days later he came back, and then he came
back again, then he changed his mind again. Usually the
Treasury Secretary is somewhat independent from the Oval Office, but
Scott Descent is known as no descent percent.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
He's definitely taken his marching orders.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That's very funny.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
We'll have T shirts made, well, have T shirts made?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah, I could put that on your card.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
So he says, some of these could be as extensive
as seventy percent on the SAT.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I know he's back to that again. We don't know,
We don't know what tomorrow will bring. Well, it used
to be just a song.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now it's a philosophy of the White House.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
All right.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Measle cases, unfortunately are surging here in the United States,
record high since the disease was declared eliminated. You know
what that that reminds me of saying that when you
make something fool proof, they'll build a better fool And
we keep falling into this.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
So there have been at least.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Seventy seven confirmed cases of measles reporting the US in
twenty twenty five, so we're just halfway through the year,
and that beats out twenty nineteen, which was a record.
The crazy thing is you've got three people that have
died from it this year alone, all of which were unvaccinated,
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and it's continuing to grow.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, yeah, because you now have the government read RFK
Junior and Department of Healthy Human Services that have set
out right, vaccines are not effective, they are dangerous and
you have to be and they want to test every vaccine,
retest every vaccine out there because they want to double
blind study and claim that the peer review double blind
(13:38):
study hasn't taken place with vaccines, which it has by
the way, RFK Junior is making that up.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
But how unusual this administration is making.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Stuff up, and you're going to see more and more
people who are coming down with measles because remember, vaccines
are dangerous, they cause autism, they are highly risky.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Right, all right, moving on, there's already a little bit
of finger pointing going on in the Texas flood tragedy
situation that's going on. People are saying that the National
Weather Service warned about the life threatening flooding along the river.
But the question is how many people were actually reached
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by those warnings, because there are some critical vacancies at
the National Weather Service forecast office, and people are saying
that those vacancies are because of the cuts under the
Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, the vacancies certainly are because the cuts.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
However, the connection is, can they connect what happens the floods?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Not so nobody's floods.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Of course, there's no connection there, but either lack of
response or the warning didn't come soon enough because of
the cuts, And we don't know that they have yet
to make that connection, and it may not have any
connection to it at this point.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Investigations going on.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
If that's the case, of course, that's a concern. But
a larger concern to me was that they think also
warning fatigue. Yeah, and that's scarier to me. I mean,
you can fill the seat if you need to, but
the fact that people are are just like blowing off warnings,
I think.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I'm thinking it's going the other way now. It used
to be wildfires you stay put. Certainly, hurricanes you stay put.
Flooding you stayed put because no one paid attention, and
they would always the news outlets would always interview someone
that just didn't go. And I knew it wasn't going
to happen, and it didn't to them. Now, when you
have something like this, the Texas floods and the wildfires
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that we had in southern California, particularly the Palisades and
the Eating fire, you know, I think now people take
it a lot more seriously.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So I think it's going to go the other way.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Let's hope.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
What I have to you know, similar, you know, similar
on that is it's you know, the beaches during the
fourth July weekend were slammed because you had Thursday Friday
in the whole weekend, right, So they were slammed here
in southern California, you know, even the poop beaches.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
But godless Newport.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Beach for having lifeguards and more than five hundred or
more than five hundred swimmers already that this.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Past weekend they had to rescue.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
So, yeah, the riptides, but they made sure that they
had a lot of lifeguards on duty during this time,
knowing that but that amount of people, man, holy smokes,
having to be rescued from uh.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, did you see you could you know, aerial shots,
drone shots of those riptides that were going out. I
mean it was if you get caught in one of those,
you're zipping out to see it twenty five miles an hour.
And the rule is, I've never been caught in a
riptide because I don't go to the beach if I
just don't do that. You know, if I if I
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want sandpaper up my rear end, I'll just go out
to the hardware store and buy it.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You know, I don't have to get wet. But you know,
always swim.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Sideways because that's how you get out of riptide. Don't panic,
which of course everybody does.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
But I like the beach.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
I will not go in the ocean though. That's I
will lay on the beach all day, but no ocean
for me.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
All right, Yeah, I'm taking a.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Hard stance this morning, guys. That's it.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Wow, all right.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
All right.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
So we're getting a few more details about the Gaza
ceasefire proposal. Apparently Prime Minister Netanyahu is saying there are
twenty hostages that are alive and thirty dead, and he
says I am determined to bring them all back.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
We'll see, and he's meeting the president this morning. And
as this is all going on, a couple of things
are happening. Israel is ramping up it's incursion and its
fighting Gaza. Not much of a fight, it's attack in Gaza.
And even though I'm as bout as pro Israeli as
it gets, there's no question in my mind that war
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crimes are being committed by Israel with what's happening, lack
of aid going in, I mean, purposely using starvation as
part of his war effort, which is contrary to every
international agreement and moral agreement you could possibly agree, believe it.
Then the other side of is Hamas doesn't care if
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ninety eight percent of the population of Gaza is killed
as long as it.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Stays in power.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I mean, they'll literally wait until there's nobody left except
members of Hamas, and so it's the fight just I
don't know how it ends. I mean, they'll come to
some kind of an agreement, but the two are at odds.
Kamas will not give up its fundamental beliefs that Israel
should be destroyed, and that's what they're there for. You know,
Hamas was as a political party created on the concept
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that Israel has to be destroyed.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
That was their main tenant and they've never changed.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
So I don't know where you go with that other
than people, innocent people, and a lot of them dying.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
All right.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
We remember last week hearing about that horrific story of
the pyrotechnics facility in Esparto. Was that exploded that building,
the fantastical images coming out of the explosion, and then
we heard the sad news that there were seven people missing. Well,
authorities believe they have found the remains of those seven people,
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exactly the same number as we're missing, and we don't
have the victims' names, and it probably won't be released,
of course until families are notified. But very sad state
of affairs there, for sure. Very small town up north,
unlike community.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Unlike the stories we've heard all over the country of
garages full of fireworks floated.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
This was a license facility.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
This is a company that's stored and within permitting processes.
I kept the fireworks in this huge warehouse, and so
obviously you're going to find out. I don't think I
would work at one of those because the risk is.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So high things that could go wrong.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
I mean just even friction could cause an explosion, you know.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Yeah, all right, So it looks like they're making some
good progress. Firefighters say they're making good progress on the
Madre Fire in San Luis Obispo County. It has burned
more than eighty thousand acres and is now the largest
in California so far this year. They just double checked
just now to make sure they are at thirty percent containment.
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That's up from ten percent on Saturday. And they're really
trying to get the upper hand out there. It is
just fueled by brush and all kinds of stuff out
there that just doesn't seem to be slowing down.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And we're in for a very dry summer.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
One of the things about very wet winters, which we
had a couple of years ago, it's unfortunately wet winters
do not do us any good because wet winters followed
by dry summers means you have plants, you have brush
that has grown because it's wet, and they love the wet.
And you see big, huge areas of green where normally
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you see brown, and come the summer it's all dried out.
And look at the fuel you now, look you have
on those hillsides so it's it's double hit.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Unfortunately, nothing's very good about it. What is that eighty
thousand acres biggest so far?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I would say fire season has already started, but I
don't even know why they bother even using that term
fire season.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
It's all year round now, and all.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Year round three hundred and sixty five days a year California.
You know, thank good at least, thank goodness, we have
the traffic which keeps us here. You know, there's some
very good things that out southern California people move into,
and that one of them is the traffic, which we
just love. Oh well, let's not forget the housing prices too,
that brings people in.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Strangely enough, yesterday the traffic was not bad coming home
down the hill from Big Bear.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Okay, we talked about that. You were thought it was.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Going to be miserable, but it was maybe five ten
minutes longer than it normally is.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
What time day did you leave, gosh, I can in
the afternoon, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
But I watched the whole day from about eight am
on and it was about the same.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Well, everybody was at the Glendale Galleria because that's where
I was.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
That's where I was, and it was packed. I was like,
where do all these people come from?
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Well, that's good, yeah, people spending money all right. Back
to the Middle East, Israel's military launched air strikes early Monday,
targeting ports and facilities had by Yemen's hoot. The rebels
and then Bulls of course responded with missile fire. But
this all started because of a ship I believe it
was a Greek owned bulk carrier named Magic Seas was
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in the Red Sea and took on some fire that
was believed to be the Hoothy Rebels and caught fire,
took on water, forced the crew to abandon, and so
Israel took action on that.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
And this is just crossing the wires right now that
that ship is thinking now in the Red Sea?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Do you know what it was carrying? Is it said? Yes,
it's obviously some kind of a container ship.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
It just said it was a Greek owned bulk carrier.
I don't know, is a bulk.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Carrier just a container ship? And that's how I would
have been so, uh.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
No, nothing bulk.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It carries bulk.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Do you buy bulk, the incredible bulk.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
It's a big market for bulk, incredible bulk. Yeah, Okay,
why don't we take.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
A break comaical carrying vessel vehicle that's bulky, but that's
only those are big SUVs. Those are bulk Neil, you
have a broadcast, a remote broadcast coming up this weekend
on the Fork Reporter.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Thank you for naturally segueing into that, Sir, Saturday, July twelfth,
join me at Wild Fork Foods there in Santa Clarita,
so it's off Magic Mountain Parkway. Of course, it's the
show two to five pm. I'll be in store broadcasting.
We're celebrating summer grilling seasons, so we have all kinds
of things. Every fifteen minutes we'll be giving doing giveaways.
(24:39):
They'll be wild Fork food samples cooked by grill Pitmaster.
You can win a barbecue and tickets to Dodgers and
tickets to Magic Mountain, all kinds of things. So they're
on Magic Mountain Parkway this Saturday. Go to KFI AM
six forty dot com slash wild Fork.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Hope to see you there.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And if you have not eaten Wild Fork food, you're
in for a treat. And Neil and I have talked
about just the technology involved in what they do and
how big those plants are. It is fascinating how it
is done, and at some point we're going to go
into that because I know we talked about it before,
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but it is really interesting stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Oh and a quick one coming up on Friday.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
It's ask Handle Anything, and so a quick reminder that
without you, this doesn't not happen. Ask Handle Anything is
any personal question. We just have fun doing it where
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Speaker 1 (25:37):
The show, click onto the iHeartRadio app, then the Bill
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there's a microphone. Click onto that and you've got fifteen
to twenty seconds to ask a question. And I don't
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rip wearing good time. So people are always asking everybody
else what I'm like, or what Cold Bilt's like, or
what you know Tim is like. And so you know,
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I've added that to our Friday segment.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It's just fun, fun, fun.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It's FOURK report or Footy Friday eight day thirty and
then ask Handle Anything eight thirty to nine on Friday,
as we end the show. All right, talking about ending
the show, why don't we end to handle on the news.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh, it's such a clever segue.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, this is why I get the big bucks. So
we finished.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Handle on the News on this Monday morning with Heather
in for Amy this week and Neil and me.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
All right, So TikTok is going to be launching its
own standalone version of the app, specifically just for users
in the United States. And this is all part of
their efforts to comply with the federal law that's requiring
the app's Chinese parent company, by Dance, to divest its
US operations or face a nationwide ban. And President Trump
(26:50):
recently extended the ban deadline and that is now going
to be on September seventeenth. The new app is anticipated
to be in the App Store by September fifth.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And if it isn't, you're probably gonna see another delay
given by the President.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And this is he's already given three. All right.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So when you think about all of these tariffs and
the delays, just just the threat of doing them brings
these countries and a lot of these companies to the table.
And when it can't be done, the extension is there.
And of course TikTok, owned by the Chinese company Bite me, okay.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I hope they don't. I have half a million followers
on TikTok. I hope they don't.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You have half a million follows?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I do?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I have had seriously serious, seriously, you have half a million.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Followers, yeah, on TikTok alone, and so I hope that
they don't, like, get rid of it all.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It's taken me years to build up that.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I'm going to ask you, and I'm not going to
ask you how much, which of course I will. With
half a million followers on TikTok, can you do you
monetize that?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
You know, I was a part of their monetization program
for a while, but I felt like it was hurting
my my reach and you know, kind of it's almost
like if they want to pay you, they don't show
your stuff to as many people. So I stepped out
of their program. And also it was like pennies on
the dollar. It's not that much. I think if people
are getting millions of views every single day on like
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ten videos a day, then yeah, they're making some good money.
The real money on TikTok is in the TikTok shop.
If you're hawking the items that you're getting from their
TikTok shop and getting people to buy through your links.
That's where the real money is on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And did you sell stuff like condoms?
Speaker 5 (28:35):
And that is my demographic I get as a middle
aged mom.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
People are always asking me what condoms are you using?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
No?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
I mostly I mostly just do like funny silly mom
and parenting stuff on there.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
So you don't do like you know, Danny dildoz or
you know with you plenty.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
No nor do we?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Why do we move on and finish in the show
on Dildos.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
The mom comic who supports condoms nice alrighty so Ozzy
Osbourne his last stand, Sit stand Sit he raised or
rises up beneath the stage. Leather throne exactly what you'd expect,
has a bat two diamond eyed skulls on it. Seventy
(29:28):
six years old. The Prince of Darkness has Parkinson's disease.
This was his very last show. You know, this guy's
in bad shape. His spine is held together with screws
and plates. His voice, you know, struggled for pitch and
all of that. But this was Black Sabbath been around
since nineteen sixty eight. In front of some forty five
(29:50):
thousand people who came from all over the world to
watch this, another five point eight million watching online. And
you know, good for him. Yeah, there would be I'm
going to do this.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
The reality show.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
The Osborne's were kind of fun. Oh my gosh, that
was That was one of the more creative one. Also
usually Parkinson's. Well, in terms of a rock star up
on stage, Parkinson's I argue could actually help.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Why don't we move on and finish it up?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Why don't we Okay, Sean did he combs?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
He gets a standing ovation from inmates after his court victory.
Ew boy, I don't know what else to say about that.
They said, we never get to see anyone who beats
the government.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Is that what happened? Did he really beat the very much?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And he came out a winner on this one. And
in federal court, the conviction.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Rate that I mean, all of the charges whatever that's
charged is pretty much in the ninety percent range.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
They do not go the Feds do not go to
trial unless they have a case that is air tight.
But this one, there were some holes in the in
the case.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
And this is why I thought the defense was kind
of crazy not to bring one witness up there, and
all they did was spend half an hour half an
hour attacking the prosecution's case.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
That was it, and it seemed to have worked. He
was convicted on two counts.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I could theoretically do ten years on each count, twenty years.
But please, he may not even get prison. I mean
he'll get if anything, he'll get a couple of years,
three years, four years.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
You think that little? Yeah, yeah, I do, good man,
I was hoping. I don't say, hey, can I shake
your hand now?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I think what happens is first defense. If he's done
anything for charity, I think that's going to kick in,
and he's The jury was very good, they said he
we did not look at him as Sean did he Combs.
We looked at him as a defendant. And I think
that the court is going to treat.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Him the same way.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And you look at the guide, the sentencing guidelines, and
I haven't seen them, but oh, we should look at those.
What are the sensing guidelines for two of us? And
we take a look at those. What the sensing guidelines
are for someone who's been convicted of those two charges?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
First offense.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I don't think it's more than a couple of years, but.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
It could be That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
And does he I don't know if what his priors
are or anything, but I don't think they're that substantial.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
They were really minor, all right, kf I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
App and now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's bill handle? Is it Monday already? July seventh? I
(00:37):
have no idea what July seventh is about? None?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And for good morning everybody. Well, I know what July
seventh is about. Is July seventh, following July sixth, and
just one day before July eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But is there any significance to July seventh?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And I have no idea National Hamburger Day or National
cockroach Day?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I have you know, there there no idea how many.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Days there are, how many holidays there.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Are, or national days there are?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Okay, I have a couple of stories about that, but eh,
not interested.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Quick Hello, hello, cono, you're there.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, a little bit late this morning. Slept in yeah,
oh good?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
No good?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You don't do it enough. No, you don't do it enough.
You deserve a little sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
No, no, I didn't sleep.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It was it was a combination of work last night
and kids last night.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And yeah, all right, what does that tell you about kids?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Number one?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Don't have any it's too late.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Number two. Yes, you can.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You can take them to the shelter just and if
they're young enough, they'll get adopted out. It's when they're older,
like my kids, that's when they have a hard time
adopting them out.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And let me see who else is here? Basically everybody?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh, Heather Brooker is here week? Hello Heather, Hi, good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And what this week? And does Amy come back next Monday?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yes, so we have you for the whole week. What's
it like waking up at two three o'clock in the morning,
My dear, I.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Don't love it?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Do you're not?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I enjoy this show.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Very much, and I love being able to come in
and chat with you guys and everything, But I don't
love getting up super early.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Have you noticed this is why we don't have interns
working on this show. Now you go to the Gary
and Shannon Show, they have hot and cold running interns.
They have earned interns lined up around the block because
no one has to wake up a two o'clock in
the morning for them. Actually that's not true. I'm just
pointing that out. Ever since the interns have to be
(02:45):
paid now by law, those days are gone.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Good morning Anne.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
She's in here with me. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
No, I see Anne, I see there.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh she's in yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
She is working working hard today, so she has no kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
She's she ran the boards, she put together the show,
she did work with you on wake Up Call and
produced my show, putting together stories. A lot of work, right, Kno,
Let's move on though, okay, fair, let's move on.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And then we have Will Coleschreiver. Hello, Will, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
How are you good?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Button down shirt today? Are we going to a funeral?
Something that you're gonna wear a tie once a week?
You know, I figure out shave and or a button
down shirt? Yeah, and you know I do notice that
you shaved and there you go. Yeah, just for me,
I know, excellent.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
When I never mind, I wasn't gonna say anything company
all right, anyway, let me see July fourth, my daughter
asked me about going Yes, yes you do. Pamela asked
me about going to the Magic Castle. And Neil knows
Tony who is a magician that showed up at our event.
And Tony is a very talented, talented guy. Anyways, I
(04:01):
called him about going to the Magic castle, and Neil
had said, be prepared. It's not quite the same as
it used to be. Well, it used to be you'd
get in for free. All you had to do was
be a guest of a member and you'd get in
for free. And they had a bar you could drink
or not drink, and you saw the shows.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
You had to get dinner. You've always had to get dinner.
If you were you've always had to get dinner always.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Yeah, that's been their requirement for a while, I if.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I remember correctly, Well, maybe it goes back to before
magic was invented.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Now, however, when you were a kid, magic was real.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, that's a good point to me.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's still red dragons.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So there were going to be four of us to go,
and I asked Tony, what does it cost to go?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
How about this forty five dollars entrance fee per person
and you have to buy dinner, and dinner runs one
hundred dollars per person plus and so good evening. Six
hundred dollars minimum to spend an evening. But by the way,
probably watching one show in the big room and then
slide of hand. I'll tell you what the sleight of
(05:08):
hand is is when they replace the bill, you're looking
at it and it's you think it's ahead, it's really
two hundred dollars ahead what.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
It was purchased by somebody. And so things have changed
and it's run like a business now, whereas before it
was it was a private club and it was run now.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Which is it was kind of well if if you
still need an invitation to go, or the general.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Public alsobsolutely still need an invitation to go. But yes,
it does cost to get in now and and has
for a while. But they the place has never looked better.
It's not like they're running absconding with money. They're putting
it back into the place and it looks beautiful and
they're doing, you know, wonderful things with it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
But yeah, it's run like a high It is a.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
World class restaurant now and all these they they've really
upped the antie.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
My husban I was just given tickets to go. So
we're going to take our daughter, but she since she's
only twelve, she can only go to the brunch apparently
on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah, so but we're going to take her.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
And I'm really curious to see how much has changed.
We haven't been in years.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, I mean either So it's basically a private club
without the bunnies who have the disappearing ears.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Basically, that's it.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I was remember for years of which club. I love
the place?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, I love I love the sleight of hand stuff.
I mean that's what really. That skill levels amazing for me. Okay,
we have a fair amount to cover. The big beautiful
bill past and jeez, Louise, it was Mike Johnson and
Lindsey Graham. I was surprised that Mike Johnson was actually
(06:48):
standing up next to the president.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I thought he would not be in that position.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah, it's like you more in a Yeah Clinton style.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, well there he is standing up. Well there's a shocker.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
All right, let's go ahead and engage right into handle
on the news with Heather Neil and me lead story
that you wouldn't be well, the horrible story that happened
over the weekend, that flooding in Texas.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh god, what is it?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Eighty one people now dead, eighty two dead, doesn't still missing.
This is a disaster of gargantuan proportions. And it's not
as if people just oh, I'm not going to leave
the way hurricanes or wildfire sometimes are. This took people
(07:42):
by an absolute surprise. I mean this, what what of
the rivers? The Guadalupe River rose thirty feet in one hour?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It was like wash.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
What four months worth of rain in such a small
amount of it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Was just a completely insane and unfortunately, and so many kids,
and there was.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
A lot of these.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Camps along the river, like that one girls camp, the
Mystic Camp, which was hit the hardest. Jesus, It's just
it's heartbreaking to see what's going on. And they're still looking,
but they're not admitting it's a recovery effort yet, but
it's pretty much a recovery effort. It doesn't look like
they're going to find anybody still around.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Last night I was reading about a father who was
out looking for his twenty one year old daughter and
came across an eight to ten year old deceased boy floating,
and he was describing what was going on. I think
there was some stories about two sisters being found still
holding hands. It's just so heartbreaking all the way around.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You know, there's a saying that actually hits home. Parents
are not supposed to bury their children. Yeah, it's not
the natural course of events. All right, let's go ahead
and move on. And of course his news breaks on
that one. We'll hear more throughout the.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Day along these same lines.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
So President Trump announced that he signed that major Disaster
declaration for Kirk County, Texas, that is the area where
the heavy rains have been hitting. He says the families
are enduring an unimaginable tragedy with many lives lost, and
the Trump administration will work closely with state and local
leaders to help them. Coast Guard officials and Texas first
(09:28):
responders say they have saved over eight hundred and fifty
people from the floodwaters.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, you wonder some of homes have been destroyed.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And you wonder how much FEMA and the Red Cross
are involved and the federal government involved in something like this,
because it seems to be this was pretty This area
was pretty sparse as opposed.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
To an area that had a lot of homes in there.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
So I'm just interested to find out how big an
effort it's going to be by the Red Cross, etc.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
On this, how much is necessary.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Well, whether you love the big beautiful Bill or hate
the big beautiful Bill, I think one of the possible
good things that came out of it was Elon Musk
declaring on X the formation of a new political party.
He of course, is still battling in his feud with
President Donald Trump over this big, beautiful bill, and he
said today the American Party is formed to give you
(10:26):
back your freedom on a post there on X and
even fellow billionaire Mark Cuban, no fan of Trump, appeared
to support the idea. And if you've been listening for
any time, you know I hate the two party system.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
So I'll take it fair enough.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And I'm coming back at seven point thirty with that
story because there are some moving pieces here. Last week
I did a story on creating a new major national party,
which is virtually impossible to do even with the money
that Elon Musk has. However, his strategy for what this
new party can is and that one makes sense, and
(11:11):
I will jump into that at seven thirty this morning.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Oh can't wait for that, Yeah, all right. Treasury Secretary
Descent has said he's standing out about one hundred letters
about letters to about one hundred countries over the next
several days about tariffs. He says that if things don't
(11:34):
move along by August first. Then I don't understand this.
You will boomerang back to your April twelfth tariff level.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
So he's like, which was ridiculous, Well, that was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, I was the one that Trump threw in and
two days later he came back, and then he came
back again, then he changed his mind again. Usually the
Treasury Secretary is somewhat independent from the Oval Office, but
Scott Descent is known as no descent percent.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
He's definitely taken his marching orders.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That's very funny.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
We'll have T shirts made, well, have T shirts made?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah, I could put that on your card.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
So he says, some of these could be as extensive
as seventy percent on the SAT.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I know he's back to that again. We don't know,
We don't know what tomorrow will bring. Well, it used
to be just a song.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now it's a philosophy of the White House.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
All right.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Measle cases, unfortunately are surging here in the United States,
record high since the disease was declared eliminated. You know
what that that reminds me of saying that when you
make something fool proof, they'll build a better fool And
we keep falling into this.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
So there have been at least.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Seventy seven confirmed cases of measles reporting the US in
twenty twenty five, so we're just halfway through the year,
and that beats out twenty nineteen, which was a record.
The crazy thing is you've got three people that have
died from it this year alone, all of which were unvaccinated,
(13:12):
and it's continuing to grow.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, yeah, because you now have the government read RFK
Junior and Department of Healthy Human Services that have set
out right, vaccines are not effective, they are dangerous and
you have to be and they want to test every vaccine,
retest every vaccine out there because they want to double
blind study and claim that the peer review double blind
(13:38):
study hasn't taken place with vaccines, which it has by
the way, RFK Junior is making that up.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
But how unusual this administration is making.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Stuff up, and you're going to see more and more
people who are coming down with measles because remember, vaccines
are dangerous, they cause autism, they are highly risky.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Right, all right, moving on, there's already a little bit
of finger pointing going on in the Texas flood tragedy
situation that's going on. People are saying that the National
Weather Service warned about the life threatening flooding along the river.
But the question is how many people were actually reached
(14:21):
by those warnings, because there are some critical vacancies at
the National Weather Service forecast office, and people are saying
that those vacancies are because of the cuts under the
Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, the vacancies certainly are because the cuts.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
However, the connection is, can they connect what happens the floods?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Not so nobody's floods.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Of course, there's no connection there, but either lack of
response or the warning didn't come soon enough because of
the cuts, And we don't know that they have yet
to make that connection, and it may not have any
connection to it at this point.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Investigations going on.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
If that's the case, of course, that's a concern. But
a larger concern to me was that they think also
warning fatigue. Yeah, and that's scarier to me. I mean,
you can fill the seat if you need to, but
the fact that people are are just like blowing off warnings,
I think.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I'm thinking it's going the other way now. It used
to be wildfires you stay put. Certainly, hurricanes you stay put.
Flooding you stayed put because no one paid attention, and
they would always the news outlets would always interview someone
that just didn't go. And I knew it wasn't going
to happen, and it didn't to them. Now, when you
have something like this, the Texas floods and the wildfires
(15:43):
that we had in southern California, particularly the Palisades and
the Eating fire, you know, I think now people take
it a lot more seriously.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So I think it's going to go the other way.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Let's hope.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
What I have to you know, similar, you know, similar
on that is it's you know, the beaches during the
fourth July weekend were slammed because you had Thursday Friday
in the whole weekend, right, So they were slammed here
in southern California, you know, even the poop beaches.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
But godless Newport.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Beach for having lifeguards and more than five hundred or
more than five hundred swimmers already that this.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Past weekend they had to rescue.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
So, yeah, the riptides, but they made sure that they
had a lot of lifeguards on duty during this time,
knowing that but that amount of people, man, holy smokes,
having to be rescued from uh.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, did you see you could you know, aerial shots,
drone shots of those riptides that were going out. I
mean it was if you get caught in one of those,
you're zipping out to see it twenty five miles an hour.
And the rule is, I've never been caught in a
riptide because I don't go to the beach if I
just don't do that. You know, if I if I
(17:01):
want sandpaper up my rear end, I'll just go out
to the hardware store and buy it.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You know, I don't have to get wet. But you know,
always swim.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Sideways because that's how you get out of riptide. Don't panic,
which of course everybody does.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
But I like the beach.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
I will not go in the ocean though. That's I
will lay on the beach all day, but no ocean
for me.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
All right, Yeah, I'm taking a.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Hard stance this morning, guys. That's it.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Wow, all right.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
All right.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
So we're getting a few more details about the Gaza
ceasefire proposal. Apparently Prime Minister Netanyahu is saying there are
twenty hostages that are alive and thirty dead, and he
says I am determined to bring them all back.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
We'll see, and he's meeting the president this morning. And
as this is all going on, a couple of things
are happening. Israel is ramping up it's incursion and its
fighting Gaza. Not much of a fight, it's attack in Gaza.
And even though I'm as bout as pro Israeli as
it gets, there's no question in my mind that war
(18:09):
crimes are being committed by Israel with what's happening, lack
of aid going in, I mean, purposely using starvation as
part of his war effort, which is contrary to every
international agreement and moral agreement you could possibly agree, believe it.
Then the other side of is Hamas doesn't care if
(18:30):
ninety eight percent of the population of Gaza is killed
as long as it.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Stays in power.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I mean, they'll literally wait until there's nobody left except
members of Hamas, and so it's the fight just I
don't know how it ends. I mean, they'll come to
some kind of an agreement, but the two are at odds.
Kamas will not give up its fundamental beliefs that Israel
should be destroyed, and that's what they're there for. You know,
Hamas was as a political party created on the concept
(18:59):
that Israel has to be destroyed.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
That was their main tenant and they've never changed.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
So I don't know where you go with that other
than people, innocent people, and a lot of them dying.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
All right.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
We remember last week hearing about that horrific story of
the pyrotechnics facility in Esparto. Was that exploded that building,
the fantastical images coming out of the explosion, and then
we heard the sad news that there were seven people missing. Well,
authorities believe they have found the remains of those seven people,
(19:36):
exactly the same number as we're missing, and we don't
have the victims' names, and it probably won't be released,
of course until families are notified. But very sad state
of affairs there, for sure. Very small town up north,
unlike community.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Unlike the stories we've heard all over the country of
garages full of fireworks floated.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
This was a license facility.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
This is a company that's stored and within permitting processes.
I kept the fireworks in this huge warehouse, and so
obviously you're going to find out. I don't think I
would work at one of those because the risk is.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So high things that could go wrong.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
I mean just even friction could cause an explosion, you know.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Yeah, all right, So it looks like they're making some
good progress. Firefighters say they're making good progress on the
Madre Fire in San Luis Obispo County. It has burned
more than eighty thousand acres and is now the largest
in California so far this year. They just double checked
just now to make sure they are at thirty percent containment.
(20:50):
That's up from ten percent on Saturday. And they're really
trying to get the upper hand out there. It is
just fueled by brush and all kinds of stuff out
there that just doesn't seem to be slowing down.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And we're in for a very dry summer.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
One of the things about very wet winters, which we
had a couple of years ago, it's unfortunately wet winters
do not do us any good because wet winters followed
by dry summers means you have plants, you have brush
that has grown because it's wet, and they love the wet.
And you see big, huge areas of green where normally
(21:29):
you see brown, and come the summer it's all dried out.
And look at the fuel you now, look you have
on those hillsides so it's it's double hit.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Unfortunately, nothing's very good about it. What is that eighty
thousand acres biggest so far?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I would say fire season has already started, but I
don't even know why they bother even using that term
fire season.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
It's all year round now, and all.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Year round three hundred and sixty five days a year California.
You know, thank good at least, thank goodness, we have
the traffic which keeps us here. You know, there's some
very good things that out southern California people move into,
and that one of them is the traffic, which we
just love. Oh well, let's not forget the housing prices too,
that brings people in.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Strangely enough, yesterday the traffic was not bad coming home
down the hill from Big Bear.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Okay, we talked about that. You were thought it was.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Going to be miserable, but it was maybe five ten
minutes longer than it normally is.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
What time day did you leave, gosh, I can in
the afternoon, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
But I watched the whole day from about eight am
on and it was about the same.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Well, everybody was at the Glendale Galleria because that's where
I was.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
That's where I was, and it was packed. I was like,
where do all these people come from?
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Well, that's good, yeah, people spending money all right. Back
to the Middle East, Israel's military launched air strikes early Monday,
targeting ports and facilities had by Yemen's hoot. The rebels
and then Bulls of course responded with missile fire. But
this all started because of a ship I believe it
was a Greek owned bulk carrier named Magic Seas was
(23:10):
in the Red Sea and took on some fire that
was believed to be the Hoothy Rebels and caught fire,
took on water, forced the crew to abandon, and so
Israel took action on that.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
And this is just crossing the wires right now that
that ship is thinking now in the Red Sea?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Do you know what it was carrying? Is it said? Yes,
it's obviously some kind of a container ship.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
It just said it was a Greek owned bulk carrier.
I don't know, is a bulk.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Carrier just a container ship? And that's how I would
have been so, uh.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
No, nothing bulk.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It carries bulk.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Do you buy bulk, the incredible bulk.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
It's a big market for bulk, incredible bulk. Yeah, Okay,
why don't we take.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
A break comaical carrying vessel vehicle that's bulky, but that's
only those are big SUVs. Those are bulk Neil, you
have a broadcast, a remote broadcast coming up this weekend
on the Fork Reporter.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Thank you for naturally segueing into that, Sir, Saturday, July twelfth,
join me at Wild Fork Foods there in Santa Clarita,
so it's off Magic Mountain Parkway. Of course, it's the
show two to five pm. I'll be in store broadcasting.
We're celebrating summer grilling seasons, so we have all kinds
of things. Every fifteen minutes we'll be giving doing giveaways.
(24:39):
They'll be wild Fork food samples cooked by grill Pitmaster.
You can win a barbecue and tickets to Dodgers and
tickets to Magic Mountain, all kinds of things. So they're
on Magic Mountain Parkway this Saturday. Go to KFI AM
six forty dot com slash wild Fork.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Hope to see you there.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And if you have not eaten Wild Fork food, you're
in for a treat. And Neil and I have talked
about just the technology involved in what they do and
how big those plants are. It is fascinating how it
is done, and at some point we're going to go
into that because I know we talked about it before,
(25:21):
but it is really interesting stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Oh and a quick one coming up on Friday.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
It's ask Handle Anything, and so a quick reminder that
without you, this doesn't not happen. Ask Handle Anything is
any personal question. We just have fun doing it where
I'm make an ass out of myself.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
So during the course of.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
The show, click onto the iHeartRadio app, then the Bill
Handle Show, and then in the upper right hand corner
there's a microphone. Click onto that and you've got fifteen
to twenty seconds to ask a question. And I don't
care what it is. It's just fun. We have a
rip wearing good time. So people are always asking everybody
else what I'm like, or what Cold Bilt's like, or
what you know Tim is like. And so you know,
(25:58):
I've added that to our Friday segment.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It's just fun, fun, fun.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It's FOURK report or Footy Friday eight day thirty and
then ask Handle Anything eight thirty to nine on Friday,
as we end the show. All right, talking about ending
the show, why don't we end to handle on the news.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh, it's such a clever segue.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, this is why I get the big bucks. So
we finished.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Handle on the News on this Monday morning with Heather
in for Amy this week and Neil and me.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
All right, So TikTok is going to be launching its
own standalone version of the app, specifically just for users
in the United States. And this is all part of
their efforts to comply with the federal law that's requiring
the app's Chinese parent company, by Dance, to divest its
US operations or face a nationwide ban. And President Trump
(26:50):
recently extended the ban deadline and that is now going
to be on September seventeenth. The new app is anticipated
to be in the App Store by September fifth.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And if it isn't, you're probably gonna see another delay
given by the President.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And this is he's already given three. All right.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So when you think about all of these tariffs and
the delays, just just the threat of doing them brings
these countries and a lot of these companies to the table.
And when it can't be done, the extension is there.
And of course TikTok, owned by the Chinese company Bite me, okay.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I hope they don't. I have half a million followers
on TikTok. I hope they don't.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
You have half a million follows?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I do?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I have had seriously serious, seriously, you have half a million.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Followers, yeah, on TikTok alone, and so I hope that
they don't, like, get rid of it all.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It's taken me years to build up that.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I'm going to ask you, and I'm not going to
ask you how much, which of course I will. With
half a million followers on TikTok, can you do you
monetize that?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
You know, I was a part of their monetization program
for a while, but I felt like it was hurting
my my reach and you know, kind of it's almost
like if they want to pay you, they don't show
your stuff to as many people. So I stepped out
of their program. And also it was like pennies on
the dollar. It's not that much. I think if people
are getting millions of views every single day on like
(28:16):
ten videos a day, then yeah, they're making some good money.
The real money on TikTok is in the TikTok shop.
If you're hawking the items that you're getting from their
TikTok shop and getting people to buy through your links.
That's where the real money is on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And did you sell stuff like condoms?
Speaker 5 (28:35):
And that is my demographic I get as a middle
aged mom.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
People are always asking me what condoms are you using?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
No?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
I mostly I mostly just do like funny silly mom
and parenting stuff on there.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
So you don't do like you know, Danny dildoz or
you know with you plenty.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
No nor do we?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Why do we move on and finish in the show
on Dildos.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
The mom comic who supports condoms nice alrighty so Ozzy
Osbourne his last stand, Sit stand Sit he raised or
rises up beneath the stage. Leather throne exactly what you'd expect,
has a bat two diamond eyed skulls on it. Seventy
(29:28):
six years old. The Prince of Darkness has Parkinson's disease.
This was his very last show. You know, this guy's
in bad shape. His spine is held together with screws
and plates. His voice, you know, struggled for pitch and
all of that. But this was Black Sabbath been around
since nineteen sixty eight. In front of some forty five
(29:50):
thousand people who came from all over the world to
watch this, another five point eight million watching online. And
you know, good for him. Yeah, there would be I'm
going to do this.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
The reality show.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
The Osborne's were kind of fun. Oh my gosh, that
was That was one of the more creative one. Also
usually Parkinson's. Well, in terms of a rock star up
on stage, Parkinson's I argue could actually help.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Why don't we move on and finish it up?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Why don't we Okay, Sean did he combs?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
He gets a standing ovation from inmates after his court victory.
Ew boy, I don't know what else to say about that.
They said, we never get to see anyone who beats
the government.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Is that what happened? Did he really beat the very much?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And he came out a winner on this one. And
in federal court, the conviction.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Rate that I mean, all of the charges whatever that's
charged is pretty much in the ninety percent range.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
They do not go the Feds do not go to
trial unless they have a case that is air tight.
But this one, there were some holes in the in
the case.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
And this is why I thought the defense was kind
of crazy not to bring one witness up there, and
all they did was spend half an hour half an
hour attacking the prosecution's case.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
That was it, and it seemed to have worked. He
was convicted on two counts.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I could theoretically do ten years on each count, twenty years.
But please, he may not even get prison. I mean
he'll get if anything, he'll get a couple of years,
three years, four years.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
You think that little? Yeah, yeah, I do, good man,
I was hoping. I don't say, hey, can I shake
your hand now?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I think what happens is first defense. If he's done
anything for charity, I think that's going to kick in,
and he's The jury was very good, they said he
we did not look at him as Sean did he Combs.
We looked at him as a defendant. And I think
that the court is going to treat.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Him the same way.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And you look at the guide, the sentencing guidelines, and
I haven't seen them, but oh, we should look at those.
What are the sensing guidelines for two of us? And
we take a look at those. What the sensing guidelines
are for someone who's been convicted of those two charges?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
First offense.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I don't think it's more than a couple of years, but.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
It could be That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
And does he I don't know if what his priors
are or anything, but I don't think they're that substantial.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
They were really minor, all right, kf I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
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