July 11, 2025 • 28 mins
(Friday 07/11/25)
IT’S FOODIE FRIDAY! Food enthusiast and host of ‘The Fork Report’ on KFI Neil Saavedra joins Bill to talk about • Sonic and Popeyes trying to steal McDonald's thunder • People love this Italian ingredient at Costco • Dr Pepper and Walmart Just Launched a New Item, and It's Not Soda. The show closes with ‘Ask Handel Anything.’
IT’S FOODIE FRIDAY! Food enthusiast and host of ‘The Fork Report’ on KFI Neil Saavedra joins Bill to talk about • Sonic and Popeyes trying to steal McDonald's thunder • People love this Italian ingredient at Costco • Dr Pepper and Walmart Just Launched a New Item, and It's Not Soda. The show closes with ‘Ask Handel Anything.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's Foody Friday. We do it every Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Neil who tomorrow has his Fork Report, his show which
is all about food and he's broadcasting tomorrow from the
Wild Fork and what Santa have that right there?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Okay, Magic Mountain Parkway.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Okay, two to five, and that's when he's doing that.
And by the way, just I want to pitch my
show real quick. Eight to eleven.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I never do that. I always pitch your show, Neil
eight to.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Eleven here on KFI marginal legal Advice, where I tell
you you have absolutely no case. Now let's get right
into foody Friday and some questions Sonic and Popeyes basically
trying to steal the thunder McDonald's. Now, there is one
(01:35):
Sonic where I used to live. We're talking about Orange County,
prior to where I live now. I live for a
year in a rental place until I bought my house,
and there was one Sonic, just one that I ever
have seen.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And how do I describe Sonic food?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Let me see some of the words delicious, terrible, audible, tasteless.
I'm not a fan of Sonic. Now am I a
fan of Popeyes? I am a fan of Popeyes.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Oh, you and I used to go down the street.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Right dirty the dirty rice. Yeah, their idea of dirty
rice is very different than ours. Our idea of dirty
rice is you spill the rice onto the floor and
then you scoop it up with a five second rule.
But it is so good that so pardon.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Much different than their dirty rice?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, yeah, much different.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So let's talk about what's going on at Popeyes and Sonic.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Well, if you remember some years back, there was Popeyes
came out with a chicken sandwich and everyone went berserk.
I think there was a stabbing, a shooting, beheading, I
don't know what it was. But because it was limit
was because it was it was limited, they were hard
yet all of that. So the and those were the
chicken sandwich wars and chicken sandwiches we've talked about this
(03:00):
are continued, continuing to be outperforming burgers, starting to outperform
burgers now. So it's a funny timing the way all
this works. Sometime ago, McDonald's said that people's most requested
menu item that was taken off the menu was their raps,
(03:22):
their chicken raps, and they said, we're going to bring
them back, and they finally did yesterday. They brought back
their chicken wraps and people are loving it.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
They got two flavors of these chicken raps.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
And McDonald's has been making a big deal about this
because everybody has asked them forever to bring them back.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Right, they went away in twenty nineteen, I think.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Just before the pandemic, and you know, at the end
of last year, I think they were saying they'll be back,
they'll be back, They'll be back. Now they are the
interesting thing is is there is a big war going
going on when it comes to fast food. They're trying to,
you know, get every fast food dollar all these different places.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
So then all of a sudden, Popeyes is coming out
with a new menu item.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
And from yesterday on through the thirteenth you can try
them free. So they have their their new wraps now.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
So they're adding these chicken wraps to.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
The menu and they're going, you know, right after McDonald's.
They're typically about three ninety nine, but you can get
them for free with a.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Purchase free assuming you sign up and go to the
website and get inundated with the five or ten email
blasts a day.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
With any purchase of five dollars or more through Popeyes
app or site.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yes, it's always going to tie to that.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Customers will get a cut Popeye's wrap battle and get
it wrap with a W instead of it aren't. And
then on top of that, you've got Sonic launching their
fun on their fun ninety nine menu. One of their
now they have chicken wraps. The thing is they're buck
(05:14):
ninety nine each, so.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
They have but how but how big are they the
size of your finger?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, it's not always size isn't that what you say?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh god, yeah, the size of your finger. Let's go
back on that one.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
But it just goes to show you what what you know?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
What how sometimes it's like there'll be a World War
two movie that comes out and then all of a sudden,
there's like three or four Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah, it just cut comes in clusters. It's kind of
what's going.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You always have someone at the head of it, and
then everybody follows.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Granted, but let me ask you a questions.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Since everybody comes in and they're all piling on new items,
I mean everyone to see.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What sticks.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And in some cases take items that were wildly successful
and making them permanent on the medu Why has McDonald's
not done that with their pork rib sandwich, which is
still a cult sandwich, the extruded pork, which I love.
It comes out of a machine and then the ribs
(06:19):
are somehow created out of collagen or something, and it's
it's gray, but it's covered with barbeque real me.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
You can actually go online and see.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Now, I know, I know we talked about that, but
the question still I think is fairly legitimate. It is
a wildly popular item. I'm not a bait. I'm not
a fan of McDonald's at all. I go to McDonald's
when that pork sandwich is available. Why are not they
not making that a permanent item.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Well, they've got to have some reasoning for it, whether
it's the cost in the head that they're or what
it takes to make it. And they put it together
for limited time because that makes people excited about it,
and maybe if it's on there for longer, it dips,
you know, whatever it is. Things like this rap specifically,
(07:10):
I think had to do with the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
If you remember, well you get you get a free
virus with every rap ho.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
But if you remember they stopped doing like salad stings.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, I remember.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Here's the thing bill To make things uh work as
a as an item like this, they have to be
able to use some of the ingredients for different things
as well. So in this case, McDonald's brought back the
chicken fingers again and that ended up making it worthy.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Costco news and.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
You know where yesterday, strangely enough, I went to Costco
and that is my twice this week trip to costume.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I did that I usually do.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, no, no, I go by myself because it's therapy
to me. I mean I used to have a therapist
and she fired me, as you know, and so now
therapy is at Costco.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
What's your since it's in honor of ask me anything
Friday with Bill Handle? Uh, what is your average spend
when you go into a Costco?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Would you say a couple hundred bucks?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Wow? You know? Or a couple of hundred When I
shots yesterday, I had to get a prescription and I
didn't want to wait, so I just walked in the
door and I just walk around, you know, get samples,
and I'd like to look at people and I'll point
out to something, Oh, you know, that's not very good,
and I'll do running commentary about you know, I'll go
to the freezer ale and they'll look at, for example,
(08:43):
their chicken melts, which are not very good, and I
know you don't want that.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And then if they're next to the chicken bakes, I go, oh,
you want that? Those are terrific. So it's commentary, you know,
it's it's play by play.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Gotcha, Okay, chicken bakes in your freezer right now?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wow? A whole box of them.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Matter of fact, if I went, you know what I
should do is go to my freezer and show you
bring out the box of chicken bakes.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But I won't do that. Take my word for it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Chicken, but I will, sir.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
So this is something that I love that Costco does.
You know they really they really work on being as
good or better than their competitor. And that means whoever's
leading the pack, whatever the name brand is, they want
to battle. That's what they want when they do their Kirkland.
(09:33):
So people are freaking out about this Italian ingredient at Costco.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
They're saying it's fantastic and that.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Some people are saying I'm not even making it at
home anymore because it's it's better or almost as good
as fresh and that is is grease. Oh, the pesta
it's there, it's their pesto, and it's it actually is
(10:02):
very very good. It's tasty, it's not bitter. You know
a lot of it's hit or miss if you go
for jarred pasta.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, but it's been there, it's been there for years.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And the pesto is right next to the artichoke dip,
which is right next to.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
The various other I know these stores.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I mean, I can tell you exactly if you want
to guide a tour of my Costco, that's not a problem.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
But that that jar of pesto has been up there.
It's been up there for years. Here's the thing, and
you'll know that. Notice this happens from time to time
is things will come into vogue again that have been
around forever at Costco. But people are maybe it's the season,
you know, the summer. Maybe people are tossing it, you know,
(10:47):
they're pasta in it. Whatever it is it is, there
has been a surgeence again of people getting it and
explaining why they love it so much.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
And one of the.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Reasons is that it is authentic. It's a twenty two
ounce jar. Its priced at about almost twelve bucks eleven.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, it's a big jar. In fact, I have one
in my pantry.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Strange, twenty two ounces is pretty it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
The problem is it's a lot of pesto and you're
not going to use pesto every day. And there are
certain things that you buy at Costco that you know,
if you're a small family, there's two of us for
example here you know, I don't know, I'm having my
daughter come over tomorrow for spend the weekend. With me
(11:38):
and I'm getting this is where I spend real money unfortunately,
and that is their prime. Beef steaks their prime. I
have some ribbis that I bought and.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It is so it's Pamela coming over to cook.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well I'm cooking.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I'm the one that does the grilling based on what
the recommendations you made to me in terms of the
thermometer that you told me to get, which I use
and it's magic and the steaks are just incredible.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Yeah, so you can it really, once you hit your
stride and break the simple codes of making a steak,
you can. You can pull them out consistently.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Actually pesto would go good with that. The basil blend
that they have there.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh, you rub it on top, you rub it on
top of the steak before you before you cook it.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
No, I would do it right at the end there,
or put it on a small bed of it. Or
you can put some pasta, make some pasta with it
and put the slice the steak.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
And put it on top of that pasta. It be fantastic.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
But you know, because these ingredients are asked, you know,
authentic Italian ingredients. It makes for a wonderful pesto.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Plus.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
One of the things that you keep in mind when
it comes to this is that it's not shelf stable.
You got to keep it in the fridge, which reminds
you that it doesn't have a ton of preservatives in it.
And it's the real deal. So if you want something
in a pinch, it works out very nicely, better better
than just the convenience of having a jarred pop.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
The other thing about Costco, and this is one of
the negatives about Costco, is they have a point of
critical mass where if a product doesn't sell enough, they're
out the door.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Even though the product is.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Doing great and there's plenty of customers, they simply want
sale items that are through the roof.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, and a lot of good items. There was a.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Pasta sauce in a bag that I absolutely loved and
would buy regularly, and years ago it was gone.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
There's areas like that.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You know, i'n't been San Francisco in a while, but
San Francis go New York. There's areas with restaurants that
you have to be an exceptional restaurant to even be
in that area or you won't last very long. Even
if you're good, you know, because they're the competition is
so intense. Lastly, Doctor Pepper and Walmart just launched this
(14:19):
new item but it's not soda.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
And these look delicious actually there if you like soda.
Walmart put together this new.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Line of bakery items and they are flavored like soft
drinks Doctor Pepper, orange crush, seven up. They even have
a Hawaiian punch one and they're like little muffins. And
I think the creativity here is kind of fun. I
have not, but I will give you a quick tip.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You don't buy it.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
No, you can get.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
A boxed cake cake, you know, powdered box cake, and
you can skip the the oil and the egg and
just put in a twelve ounce can of soda and
blend it together and cook it like it says on
the box. And you can make a yellow cake with
(15:14):
orange crush that comes out fantastic. You can use beer
with a spice cake, you know, something like guinness and
a spice cake and it comes out right.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
All these and you.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Skip the oil and you skip the egg, and you
just pour in a twelve ounce can of soda and
you can make these flavors at home.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Oh that actually sounds very good.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
It is really good in its super Moist.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Tomorrow Afternoon after Rich Tomorrow and his tech show. Neil
is broadcasting live Santa Clarita the Wild Fork Store, and
I just Neil.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Let's go to the website right find information on it, and.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I go to KFI AM six forty dot com slash
wild Fork for more information.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
But I hope to see you there. Shake hand Salo, all.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Right, Ask cant don't shake hands with him because he's
got cooties.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Ask handle like the listeners, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Ask handle anything.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We do that and you record questions and Neil chooses them,
and it's all about embarrassing me. And by now you
know the history of how it started, and if you don't,
I'll tell you at some point.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Okay, First question.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I've asked GPT to notify me whenever Bill says something
funny or even just clever so far crickets.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Or of a statement.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Really, yeah, what's your question? Is it true? Yeah? What
the hell do I know? How does chat Gypt? How
do they know it? But how does chat Gypt know
that anything's funny?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
I guess it probably just knows when it's your voice,
and it's soon.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Okay, okay, and then someone decides it's funny. Okay, next question.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Hey Bill, call your new house the tapist on a Castle.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Huh, okay, that's fairly dumb. Another statement that's without a question,
Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It's a weird mix today. Will you call your new house? No,
I won't, but thanks for the thought. We're actually trying
to come up with some kind of name for the house, and.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We don't know what what it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Uh, you know, at this point we've had all we're
thinking through, you know, uh, the Passion Pit, you know,
STD Central, Uh really the the you.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Know, mold locator. I don't know yet. Okay, moving on,
Hey Bill, you go on a lot of vacations. Want
to move to Italy when you retire and all that
good stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
What's the worst country or worst vacation you ever had?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Oh it's actually that's a good question. Uh, what is
the worst vacation I've ever had? Well? I just came
on to Palermo in Sicily and I that was a
toilet and I had a hard time with that.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I mean, more.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Potholes than anything else. And I'm trying to think of
what the worst vacation I've ever been. Oh, I took
a cruise, a river cruise in Europe that was a
piece of crap, and that was a little bad. I'm
not going to get into it, but you know I
normally would. But I think they may come back as advertisers.
Not with me, by the way, But so those are
(18:26):
a couple of them. That's a good question too, All right,
next question.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Hey, good morning Bill. Your wedding guests that went to
your wedding, were they responsible for making their own arrangements
such as the hotel, airplane, flights, et cetera. Or did
you help out, which I kind of doubt. And then secondly,
did you buy a square in the office pool as
to how long this marriage is going to last?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
No, everybody was responsible for their own rooms and their
flight except for the people that it was out of
castle with nine rooms.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I paid for those.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I paid for my daughter and her husband to go
because they that was a combination of honeymoon. Other than that,
everybody was on their own for the most part. And
so it's a good question.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And what was the other question?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh I am in the office pool for how long
my marriage is gonna last? I mean, I didn't know
there was an office pool as far as the marriage.
Now we're March okay, March twentieth a Neil that I
paid for your flight.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
No, I didn't, no you, but but you were gracious,
very gracious about I paid for your day for three day.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah, yeah, I paid for that.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Okay, yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Next question, Hey Bill, I never even thought of this,
but do you play video games or have you played
video games recently like PlayStation or Xbox?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
And if you.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
Don't, what was your favorite game previously on the old arcades?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Was it Pinball? Was it pac Man? Or Dig Doug?
You what?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Good? Question? Number one.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I do not play video games because I'm too busy
playing with myself and that takes up all my time.
I'm not a fan of video games, and I never
played pac Man.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
But when the games first came out.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Remember Asteroid, Yeah right, yeah, right next to my office
I had. My first office was in North Hollywood, and
there was like a little restaurant thing and they had
a pac Man. What they had an Asteroid game arcade
game you put quarters in, and my partner would spend
more time at that Asteroid game than in the office.
(20:47):
And so our relationship went south pretty quickly.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
But yeah, it was that game.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It was Asteroids.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, and after that, I know, video games at all,
not a video.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Fame, pinball or anything.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
When you were young, No, no, not really.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Now you're worn to bong than pong.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I was born and bong, I mean, and you know, once,
once I discovered masturbation, it was over, you know, completely.
All right, ask Candle anything, which we do real quickly
for those that have not listened before. Institute of this
a few months ago, based on the fact that everybody
out there asks everybody out here about well, everybody who
(21:27):
works here, what's Neil like?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
What's John like? What's Conway like? What's Cobalt like?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
So I just thought about you.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
What are you talking about? What's John like? What's Conway like?
That's about me?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
All the questions are all about you.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, I don't know what is the name of this show?
Have I missed out on something?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Well, the name that we call it or the name
that you call it?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Exactly? All right?
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Next question, Hey, Bill, why do you get upset when
people ask you how are you doing on your last show?
If it wasn't for the people, you wouldn't have a show.
I don't understand why you have to be so mean
to them like that. It's hard for me to listen.
I like the show, but I can't listen to you
being mean to these people.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Okay, that's a good question. Why do I get upset
when people go how are you? I'll tell you why,
because it's a throwaway question. No one cares how I am.
I don't care how they are. It's the start of hey,
how are you? No one means it. It's a crutch
and it takes up time, and I want to get
right to the question. So when people call, the screener says,
(22:36):
get right to it. None of this how are you?
And even I listen to your show, I'm a longtime caller,
first time listener, and you know all of that.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I just for me. It's a waste of time. That's
why I do it. Why am I mean? I'm not mean?
I'm Bill Handle. Okay, moving on. This is Gary from Kennesall, Georgia.
I was just wondering, how did you originally get your
job way back.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
In the day.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
We'll have a good morning now. That's actually a good question.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I've shared it with before and the way I got
well the job in radio is I was because of
my legal background. I am a surregacy, third party reproduction.
No one was practicing when I did so. I was
interviewed over and over again, and I had been interviewed
(23:31):
on another unidentified radio station, KBC. And the program director
walks down the hall one day and goes, Bill, I've
been listening to your interviews. You're better than half the
people I have here. And I said, no, I'm better
than all the people you have here. And I got
offered a job, and it was handling the law that
(23:52):
started nineteen eighty five. Can you believe that? And that's
been going on since then. And then I did what
is it?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Four years?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And I got hired here in nineteen eighty nine, four
years of weekends and fill in and uh, then I
got hired. Then I was given morning drive full time.
So Heather, let me explain how this works. Uh. You
work part time for weekends, uh, and you do fill
ins uh, and then you are given a full time show.
(24:25):
Not that that's ever gonna happen to you, but I
just wondered, No, that's I just wanted to share with
you how I did it.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I'm not a straight white male. They will not give
me a show on KFI.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Oh, you're a yeah, that's not bad.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
It's not bad.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Okay, we have Tokay, we don't have enough swimming. Okay,
I'm gonna make an old fashion with those good.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Very good Heather.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That's that's lined as your I'll buy that, all right.
Next question, she just came here.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
From Kennesall Georgia.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I was just wondering, how did you originally get your
job way back in the Okay? Does he want me
to answer that question twice or kono? Is that your
screw up?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
George Calabasas.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
My question to Bill is when.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You do that commercial for the your mints, the mouse mints,
I forget their name.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You mentioned how sometimes your breath might smell like the
opposite end of a rhino.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
My question is have you worked with rhinos or are
you just speaking out of your opposite end? Oh, that's
a very good, very good question. And Zelman's is not
a mint. It's more than a mint, as Neil and
I tell you. And when my breath does smell on
the back end of a rhino, the answer to your
(25:39):
question is yes, I have spent much time at the
back end of a rhino, not only studying but also
having discussions with people. So I know what the rear
end of a rhino does smell like. So good question,
very good question. All right, Next question, Hey.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Bill, are you part owner of Zelman's mintee now mint?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yes, I do have a small piece of Zelman's and
I did. It came out of breath Ashore if you
remember those thirty years ago where I was partners with
breath Ashore. So when zelman started, I said, hey, I'd
like to be part of it. So yes, absolutely, and
I'm very proud of that. So that's a good question,
(26:29):
by the way, and I want to be honest about that,
because if I lie about that, Heather is going to
be taking my spot here on Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That's actually a good question. Okay, next junior junior, junior partner.
Just want to let you know, Oh that's it. We're done. Okay.
We went through a lot of them pretty well.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Okay, So before we bail out of here real quickly,
Heather is not coming back on Monday. Amy is coming
back and head there is going to be going through
the various shows doing fill in and Heather. Actually, I
hate to say this, but actually is very good, and
so we're back again Neil broadcasting tomorrow from Santa Clarita
(27:14):
with the Fork Report at Wild Fork food and there's
gonna be tons of giveaways.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Are samples gonna be given out?
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Neil?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Oh, yeah, they'll have a grill master out there grolling
up some protein samples. We're on Magic Mountain Park where
they're in Santa Clarita at the Wild Fork Foods tomorrow
two five.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Why do you have such a tough time saying meat
instead of protein?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
No, I'll say meat, but then I because I.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Got protein, they're gotting proteins. It's meat.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I've been whacking my meat since.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I go Well said, okay, you can tell you here
and on this show.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
All right, we're done, guys, Okay, we're finished. Gary and
Shannon up next Monday morning. I do Legal, the Legal
Show tomorrow morning. At eight o'clock Monday morning, we start
all over again. Amy is back and it's Amy and
Amy and Will. I'm sorry, well, Amy and Will. Five
to six o'clock wake up call, and then Neil and
(28:11):
I jump aboard and then kno who is going to
play several drops simultaneously because he forgets what the last
one was and Ann who is running around someplace. All right, guys,
you have a good one.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You have missed you. Bye bye. Sure you will, yeah,
miss you will?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
You know?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I know, yeah, you really will.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Miss us.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
We're gonna miss you, Heather, we will.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I don't believe you now, you're lying.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's Foody Friday. We do it every Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Neil who tomorrow has his Fork Report, his show which
is all about food and he's broadcasting tomorrow from the
Wild Fork and what Santa have that right there?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Okay, Magic Mountain Parkway.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Okay, two to five, and that's when he's doing that.
And by the way, just I want to pitch my
show real quick. Eight to eleven.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I never do that. I always pitch your show, Neil
eight to.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Eleven here on KFI marginal legal Advice, where I tell
you you have absolutely no case. Now let's get right
into foody Friday and some questions Sonic and Popeyes basically
trying to steal the thunder McDonald's. Now, there is one
(01:35):
Sonic where I used to live. We're talking about Orange County,
prior to where I live now. I live for a
year in a rental place until I bought my house,
and there was one Sonic, just one that I ever
have seen.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And how do I describe Sonic food?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Let me see some of the words delicious, terrible, audible, tasteless.
I'm not a fan of Sonic. Now am I a
fan of Popeyes? I am a fan of Popeyes.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Oh, you and I used to go down the street.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Right dirty the dirty rice. Yeah, their idea of dirty
rice is very different than ours. Our idea of dirty
rice is you spill the rice onto the floor and
then you scoop it up with a five second rule.
But it is so good that so pardon.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Much different than their dirty rice?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, yeah, much different.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So let's talk about what's going on at Popeyes and Sonic.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Well, if you remember some years back, there was Popeyes
came out with a chicken sandwich and everyone went berserk.
I think there was a stabbing, a shooting, beheading, I
don't know what it was. But because it was limit
was because it was it was limited, they were hard
yet all of that. So the and those were the
chicken sandwich wars and chicken sandwiches we've talked about this
(03:00):
are continued, continuing to be outperforming burgers, starting to outperform
burgers now. So it's a funny timing the way all
this works. Sometime ago, McDonald's said that people's most requested
menu item that was taken off the menu was their raps,
(03:22):
their chicken raps, and they said, we're going to bring
them back, and they finally did yesterday. They brought back
their chicken wraps and people are loving it.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
They got two flavors of these chicken raps.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
And McDonald's has been making a big deal about this
because everybody has asked them forever to bring them back.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Right, they went away in twenty nineteen, I think.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Just before the pandemic, and you know, at the end
of last year, I think they were saying they'll be back,
they'll be back, They'll be back. Now they are the
interesting thing is is there is a big war going
going on when it comes to fast food. They're trying to,
you know, get every fast food dollar all these different places.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
So then all of a sudden, Popeyes is coming out
with a new menu item.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
And from yesterday on through the thirteenth you can try
them free. So they have their their new wraps now.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
So they're adding these chicken wraps to.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
The menu and they're going, you know, right after McDonald's.
They're typically about three ninety nine, but you can get
them for free with a.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Purchase free assuming you sign up and go to the
website and get inundated with the five or ten email
blasts a day.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
With any purchase of five dollars or more through Popeyes
app or site.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yes, it's always going to tie to that.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Customers will get a cut Popeye's wrap battle and get
it wrap with a W instead of it aren't. And
then on top of that, you've got Sonic launching their
fun on their fun ninety nine menu. One of their
now they have chicken wraps. The thing is they're buck
(05:14):
ninety nine each, so.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
They have but how but how big are they the
size of your finger?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, it's not always size isn't that what you say?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh god, yeah, the size of your finger. Let's go
back on that one.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So uh yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
But it just goes to show you what what you know?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
What how sometimes it's like there'll be a World War
two movie that comes out and then all of a sudden,
there's like three or four Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah, it just cut comes in clusters. It's kind of
what's going.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You always have someone at the head of it, and
then everybody follows.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Granted, but let me ask you a questions.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Since everybody comes in and they're all piling on new items,
I mean everyone to see.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What sticks.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And in some cases take items that were wildly successful
and making them permanent on the medu Why has McDonald's
not done that with their pork rib sandwich, which is
still a cult sandwich, the extruded pork, which I love.
It comes out of a machine and then the ribs
(06:19):
are somehow created out of collagen or something, and it's
it's gray, but it's covered with barbeque real me.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
You can actually go online and see.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Now, I know, I know we talked about that, but
the question still I think is fairly legitimate. It is
a wildly popular item. I'm not a bait. I'm not
a fan of McDonald's at all. I go to McDonald's
when that pork sandwich is available. Why are not they
not making that a permanent item.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Well, they've got to have some reasoning for it, whether
it's the cost in the head that they're or what
it takes to make it. And they put it together
for limited time because that makes people excited about it,
and maybe if it's on there for longer, it dips,
you know, whatever it is. Things like this rap specifically,
(07:10):
I think had to do with the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
If you remember, well you get you get a free
virus with every rap ho.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
But if you remember they stopped doing like salad stings.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, I remember.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Here's the thing bill To make things uh work as
a as an item like this, they have to be
able to use some of the ingredients for different things
as well. So in this case, McDonald's brought back the
chicken fingers again and that ended up making it worthy.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Costco news and.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
You know where yesterday, strangely enough, I went to Costco
and that is my twice this week trip to costume.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I did that I usually do.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, no, no, I go by myself because it's therapy
to me. I mean I used to have a therapist
and she fired me, as you know, and so now
therapy is at Costco.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
What's your since it's in honor of ask me anything
Friday with Bill Handle? Uh, what is your average spend
when you go into a Costco?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Would you say a couple hundred bucks?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Wow? You know? Or a couple of hundred When I
shots yesterday, I had to get a prescription and I
didn't want to wait, so I just walked in the
door and I just walk around, you know, get samples,
and I'd like to look at people and I'll point
out to something, Oh, you know, that's not very good,
and I'll do running commentary about you know, I'll go
to the freezer ale and they'll look at, for example,
(08:43):
their chicken melts, which are not very good, and I
know you don't want that.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And then if they're next to the chicken bakes, I go, oh,
you want that? Those are terrific. So it's commentary, you know,
it's it's play by play.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Gotcha, Okay, chicken bakes in your freezer right now?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wow? A whole box of them.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Matter of fact, if I went, you know what I
should do is go to my freezer and show you
bring out the box of chicken bakes.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But I won't do that. Take my word for it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Chicken, but I will, sir.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
So this is something that I love that Costco does.
You know they really they really work on being as
good or better than their competitor. And that means whoever's
leading the pack, whatever the name brand is, they want
to battle. That's what they want when they do their Kirkland.
(09:33):
So people are freaking out about this Italian ingredient at Costco.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
They're saying it's fantastic and that.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Some people are saying I'm not even making it at
home anymore because it's it's better or almost as good
as fresh and that is is grease. Oh, the pesta
it's there, it's their pesto, and it's it actually is
(10:02):
very very good. It's tasty, it's not bitter. You know
a lot of it's hit or miss if you go
for jarred pasta.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, but it's been there, it's been there for years.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And the pesto is right next to the artichoke dip,
which is right next to.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
The various other I know these stores.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I mean, I can tell you exactly if you want
to guide a tour of my Costco, that's not a problem.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
But that that jar of pesto has been up there.
It's been up there for years. Here's the thing, and
you'll know that. Notice this happens from time to time
is things will come into vogue again that have been
around forever at Costco. But people are maybe it's the season,
you know, the summer. Maybe people are tossing it, you know,
(10:47):
they're pasta in it. Whatever it is it is, there
has been a surgeence again of people getting it and
explaining why they love it so much.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
And one of the.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Reasons is that it is authentic. It's a twenty two
ounce jar. Its priced at about almost twelve bucks eleven.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, it's a big jar. In fact, I have one
in my pantry.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Strange, twenty two ounces is pretty it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
The problem is it's a lot of pesto and you're
not going to use pesto every day. And there are
certain things that you buy at Costco that you know,
if you're a small family, there's two of us for
example here you know, I don't know, I'm having my
daughter come over tomorrow for spend the weekend. With me
(11:38):
and I'm getting this is where I spend real money unfortunately,
and that is their prime. Beef steaks their prime. I
have some ribbis that I bought and.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It is so it's Pamela coming over to cook.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well I'm cooking.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I'm the one that does the grilling based on what
the recommendations you made to me in terms of the
thermometer that you told me to get, which I use
and it's magic and the steaks are just incredible.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Yeah, so you can it really, once you hit your
stride and break the simple codes of making a steak,
you can. You can pull them out consistently.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Actually pesto would go good with that. The basil blend
that they have there.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh, you rub it on top, you rub it on
top of the steak before you before you cook it.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
No, I would do it right at the end there,
or put it on a small bed of it. Or
you can put some pasta, make some pasta with it
and put the slice the steak.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
And put it on top of that pasta. It be fantastic.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
But you know, because these ingredients are asked, you know,
authentic Italian ingredients. It makes for a wonderful pesto.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Plus.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
One of the things that you keep in mind when
it comes to this is that it's not shelf stable.
You got to keep it in the fridge, which reminds
you that it doesn't have a ton of preservatives in it.
And it's the real deal. So if you want something
in a pinch, it works out very nicely, better better
than just the convenience of having a jarred pop.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
The other thing about Costco, and this is one of
the negatives about Costco, is they have a point of
critical mass where if a product doesn't sell enough, they're
out the door.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Even though the product is.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Doing great and there's plenty of customers, they simply want
sale items that are through the roof.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, and a lot of good items. There was a.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Pasta sauce in a bag that I absolutely loved and
would buy regularly, and years ago it was gone.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
There's areas like that.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You know, i'n't been San Francisco in a while, but
San Francis go New York. There's areas with restaurants that
you have to be an exceptional restaurant to even be
in that area or you won't last very long. Even
if you're good, you know, because they're the competition is
so intense. Lastly, Doctor Pepper and Walmart just launched this
(14:19):
new item but it's not soda.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
And these look delicious actually there if you like soda.
Walmart put together this new.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Line of bakery items and they are flavored like soft
drinks Doctor Pepper, orange crush, seven up. They even have
a Hawaiian punch one and they're like little muffins. And
I think the creativity here is kind of fun. I
have not, but I will give you a quick tip.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You don't buy it.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
No, you can get.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
A boxed cake cake, you know, powdered box cake, and
you can skip the the oil and the egg and
just put in a twelve ounce can of soda and
blend it together and cook it like it says on
the box. And you can make a yellow cake with
(15:14):
orange crush that comes out fantastic. You can use beer
with a spice cake, you know, something like guinness and
a spice cake and it comes out right.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
All these and you.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Skip the oil and you skip the egg, and you
just pour in a twelve ounce can of soda and
you can make these flavors at home.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Oh that actually sounds very good.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
It is really good in its super Moist.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Tomorrow Afternoon after Rich Tomorrow and his tech show. Neil
is broadcasting live Santa Clarita the Wild Fork Store, and
I just Neil.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Let's go to the website right find information on it, and.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I go to KFI AM six forty dot com slash
wild Fork for more information.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
But I hope to see you there. Shake hand Salo, all.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Right, Ask cant don't shake hands with him because he's
got cooties.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Ask handle like the listeners, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Ask handle anything.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We do that and you record questions and Neil chooses them,
and it's all about embarrassing me. And by now you
know the history of how it started, and if you don't,
I'll tell you at some point.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Okay, First question.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I've asked GPT to notify me whenever Bill says something
funny or even just clever so far crickets.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Or of a statement.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Really, yeah, what's your question? Is it true? Yeah? What
the hell do I know? How does chat Gypt? How
do they know it? But how does chat Gypt know
that anything's funny?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
I guess it probably just knows when it's your voice,
and it's soon.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Okay, okay, and then someone decides it's funny. Okay, next question.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Hey Bill, call your new house the tapist on a Castle.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Huh, okay, that's fairly dumb. Another statement that's without a question,
Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It's a weird mix today. Will you call your new house? No,
I won't, but thanks for the thought. We're actually trying
to come up with some kind of name for the house, and.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We don't know what what it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Uh, you know, at this point we've had all we're
thinking through, you know, uh, the Passion Pit, you know,
STD Central, Uh really the the you.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Know, mold locator. I don't know yet. Okay, moving on,
Hey Bill, you go on a lot of vacations. Want
to move to Italy when you retire and all that
good stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
What's the worst country or worst vacation you ever had?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Oh it's actually that's a good question. Uh, what is
the worst vacation I've ever had? Well? I just came
on to Palermo in Sicily and I that was a
toilet and I had a hard time with that.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I mean, more.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Potholes than anything else. And I'm trying to think of
what the worst vacation I've ever been. Oh, I took
a cruise, a river cruise in Europe that was a
piece of crap, and that was a little bad. I'm
not going to get into it, but you know I
normally would. But I think they may come back as advertisers.
Not with me, by the way, But so those are
(18:26):
a couple of them. That's a good question too, All right,
next question.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Hey, good morning Bill. Your wedding guests that went to
your wedding, were they responsible for making their own arrangements
such as the hotel, airplane, flights, et cetera. Or did
you help out, which I kind of doubt. And then secondly,
did you buy a square in the office pool as
to how long this marriage is going to last?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
No, everybody was responsible for their own rooms and their
flight except for the people that it was out of
castle with nine rooms.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I paid for those.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I paid for my daughter and her husband to go
because they that was a combination of honeymoon. Other than that,
everybody was on their own for the most part. And
so it's a good question.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And what was the other question?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Oh I am in the office pool for how long
my marriage is gonna last? I mean, I didn't know
there was an office pool as far as the marriage.
Now we're March okay, March twentieth a Neil that I
paid for your flight.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
No, I didn't, no you, but but you were gracious,
very gracious about I paid for your day for three day.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah, yeah, I paid for that.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Okay, yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Next question, Hey Bill, I never even thought of this,
but do you play video games or have you played
video games recently like PlayStation or Xbox?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
And if you.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
Don't, what was your favorite game previously on the old arcades?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Was it Pinball? Was it pac Man? Or Dig Doug?
You what?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Good? Question? Number one.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I do not play video games because I'm too busy
playing with myself and that takes up all my time.
I'm not a fan of video games, and I never
played pac Man.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
But when the games first came out.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Remember Asteroid, Yeah right, yeah, right next to my office
I had. My first office was in North Hollywood, and
there was like a little restaurant thing and they had
a pac Man. What they had an Asteroid game arcade
game you put quarters in, and my partner would spend
more time at that Asteroid game than in the office.
(20:47):
And so our relationship went south pretty quickly.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
But yeah, it was that game.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It was Asteroids.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, and after that, I know, video games at all,
not a video.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Fame, pinball or anything.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
When you were young, No, no, not really.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Now you're worn to bong than pong.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I was born and bong, I mean, and you know, once,
once I discovered masturbation, it was over, you know, completely.
All right, ask Candle anything, which we do real quickly
for those that have not listened before. Institute of this
a few months ago, based on the fact that everybody
out there asks everybody out here about well, everybody who
(21:27):
works here, what's Neil like?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
What's John like? What's Conway like? What's Cobalt like?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
So I just thought about you.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
What are you talking about? What's John like? What's Conway like?
That's about me?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
All the questions are all about you.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, I don't know what is the name of this show?
Have I missed out on something?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Well, the name that we call it or the name
that you call it?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Exactly? All right?
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Next question, Hey, Bill, why do you get upset when
people ask you how are you doing on your last show?
If it wasn't for the people, you wouldn't have a show.
I don't understand why you have to be so mean
to them like that. It's hard for me to listen.
I like the show, but I can't listen to you
being mean to these people.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Okay, that's a good question. Why do I get upset
when people go how are you? I'll tell you why,
because it's a throwaway question. No one cares how I am.
I don't care how they are. It's the start of hey,
how are you? No one means it. It's a crutch
and it takes up time, and I want to get
right to the question. So when people call, the screener says,
(22:36):
get right to it. None of this how are you?
And even I listen to your show, I'm a longtime caller,
first time listener, and you know all of that.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I just for me. It's a waste of time. That's
why I do it. Why am I mean? I'm not mean?
I'm Bill Handle. Okay, moving on. This is Gary from Kennesall, Georgia.
I was just wondering, how did you originally get your
job way back.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
In the day.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
We'll have a good morning now. That's actually a good question.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I've shared it with before and the way I got
well the job in radio is I was because of
my legal background. I am a surregacy, third party reproduction.
No one was practicing when I did so. I was
interviewed over and over again, and I had been interviewed
(23:31):
on another unidentified radio station, KBC. And the program director
walks down the hall one day and goes, Bill, I've
been listening to your interviews. You're better than half the
people I have here. And I said, no, I'm better
than all the people you have here. And I got
offered a job, and it was handling the law that
(23:52):
started nineteen eighty five. Can you believe that? And that's
been going on since then. And then I did what
is it?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Four years?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And I got hired here in nineteen eighty nine, four
years of weekends and fill in and uh, then I
got hired. Then I was given morning drive full time.
So Heather, let me explain how this works. Uh. You
work part time for weekends, uh, and you do fill
ins uh, and then you are given a full time show.
(24:25):
Not that that's ever gonna happen to you, but I
just wondered, No, that's I just wanted to share with
you how I did it.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I'm not a straight white male. They will not give
me a show on KFI.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Oh, you're a yeah, that's not bad.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
It's not bad.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Okay, we have Tokay, we don't have enough swimming. Okay,
I'm gonna make an old fashion with those good.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Very good Heather.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That's that's lined as your I'll buy that, all right.
Next question, she just came here.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
From Kennesall Georgia.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I was just wondering, how did you originally get your
job way back in the Okay? Does he want me
to answer that question twice or kono? Is that your
screw up?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
George Calabasas.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
My question to Bill is when.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
You do that commercial for the your mints, the mouse mints,
I forget their name.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You mentioned how sometimes your breath might smell like the
opposite end of a rhino.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
My question is have you worked with rhinos or are
you just speaking out of your opposite end? Oh, that's
a very good, very good question. And Zelman's is not
a mint. It's more than a mint, as Neil and
I tell you. And when my breath does smell on
the back end of a rhino, the answer to your
(25:39):
question is yes, I have spent much time at the
back end of a rhino, not only studying but also
having discussions with people. So I know what the rear
end of a rhino does smell like. So good question,
very good question. All right, Next question, Hey.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Bill, are you part owner of Zelman's mintee now mint?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yes, I do have a small piece of Zelman's and
I did. It came out of breath Ashore if you
remember those thirty years ago where I was partners with
breath Ashore. So when zelman started, I said, hey, I'd
like to be part of it. So yes, absolutely, and
I'm very proud of that. So that's a good question,
(26:29):
by the way, and I want to be honest about that,
because if I lie about that, Heather is going to
be taking my spot here on Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That's actually a good question. Okay, next junior junior, junior partner.
Just want to let you know, Oh that's it. We're done. Okay.
We went through a lot of them pretty well.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Okay, So before we bail out of here real quickly,
Heather is not coming back on Monday. Amy is coming
back and head there is going to be going through
the various shows doing fill in and Heather. Actually, I
hate to say this, but actually is very good, and
so we're back again Neil broadcasting tomorrow from Santa Clarita
(27:14):
with the Fork Report at Wild Fork food and there's
gonna be tons of giveaways.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Are samples gonna be given out?
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Neil?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Oh, yeah, they'll have a grill master out there grolling
up some protein samples. We're on Magic Mountain Park where
they're in Santa Clarita at the Wild Fork Foods tomorrow
two five.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Why do you have such a tough time saying meat
instead of protein?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
No, I'll say meat, but then I because I.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Got protein, they're gotting proteins. It's meat.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I've been whacking my meat since.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I go Well said, okay, you can tell you here
and on this show.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
All right, we're done, guys, Okay, we're finished. Gary and
Shannon up next Monday morning. I do Legal, the Legal
Show tomorrow morning. At eight o'clock Monday morning, we start
all over again. Amy is back and it's Amy and
Amy and Will. I'm sorry, well, Amy and Will. Five
to six o'clock wake up call, and then Neil and
(28:11):
I jump aboard and then kno who is going to
play several drops simultaneously because he forgets what the last
one was and Ann who is running around someplace. All right, guys,
you have a good one.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You have missed you. Bye bye. Sure you will, yeah,
miss you will?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
You know?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I know, yeah, you really will.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Miss us.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
We're gonna miss you, Heather, we will.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I don't believe you now, you're lying.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
This is KFI A M six. You've been listening to
The Bill Handle Show. Catch My Show Monday through Friday,
six am to nine am, and anytime on demand on
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