July 16, 2025 • 22 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio f.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello Bill Handle Job Wilton thirty two years have coming
on chilling our marginal legal advice. You've even been suspended
once or twice. Your voice ringing over airways into the sky.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
From KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Thirty two years of handle.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
That is so good.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Out of course, those songs created by a KFI listener
and contributor. He's a really really lovely person, very talented.
His name is ericless Art and I'm sure he has
Eric Lizardo dot com. That's e R I C l
I s A r d o dot com. You hear
(01:11):
these creations other stuff that he's made for KFI. Really,
I mean, clearly talented, very talented. You know we uh,
you know we have to.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Have theme songs.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Now, I'm gonna want a theme So I want a
theme song for like every segment.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Oh you men, your specialty segments.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, like yours. Say, you know, we eat like a pig.
There's we don't write him. We'll have airic no, I know,
but I would.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, I've got to have Eric do that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You know what if you could set me up with Eric,
of course, because obviously he's insanely good at this.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, he's very very talented.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, okay, fair enough. Where were we?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Oh yeah, your show by show thirty two years of excellence.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah yeah, exactly U and not forgetting quote certainly no
dementia here, all right. I want to now finished my
Etsy story, And I was talking to you, speaking to
you about this Janudi Pereira, who basically lost the job
and was looking for a retail job. No luck, So
(02:15):
she did what a whole lot of people are now doing.
She paid a witch on Etsy to cast a spell,
and in an interview, she said, the job mark is terrible.
I'm not getting any responses, so why not help myself out?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And it doesn't work?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh well, it was only fifteen bucks, so she some
of her friends bought Etsy spells during finals. Now, she's
not a huge believer in witchcraft, but believes in manifesting,
the ritual of envisioning desired outcomes.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Isn't that witchcraft?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Uh will?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Isn't that?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You know?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It's psychopictography, I suppose very strong. It goes back to okay, sixties, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Now, the day that the Etsy witch cast the spell,
she got a job offer from Whole Foods.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Okay, and she asks was it magic? Oh? I don't know.
Has she ever heard the word coincidence in her life?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So witchcraft and spell work has now become a cottage industry,
and online cottage industry.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You know, youve got economic uncertainty, you're going crazy, and
those ridiculous dating apps totally vapid. I don't know who
does well on those.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
So what people are doing are putting their beliefs and
disposable incomes into love spells and career charms and spirit cleansers.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Brought to you by chlorox.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Now Etsy, And I didn't know this because Lindsay shops
on Etsy constantly and it's always stuff. But it has
been a home to psychics and mystics for a long time.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
In no Amy, did you know that psychics and mystics
on Etsy?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
No, I always just bought things from you. Yeah, yeah,
but it's all the time. I've never seen that come up.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Uh, And it's even TikTok has talked about going to
Etsy for witchcraft. And I'll tell you when it really
got big, the concept of hiring an Etsy witch really
hit a fever pitch when an influencer by the name
of Jazz Smith no idea who Jazz Smith are is
(04:29):
told her TikTok followers that she had paid an etsy
witch to make sure the weather was perfect during her
Memorial Day weekend wedding.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And guess what, the wedding was perfect. The weather was.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Great, and therefore that's not a coincidence that it happened
to be a sunny, wonderful day on Memorial Day.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Wait, is there like a conflict of interest if another
client calls up and says, I want it to rain
on this day? Like what if somebody was in in
the wedding party and didn't want it to happen.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
A negative spell? So but what if they pay more?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I don't know the answer to that, or would they.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Have to say I can't because I've already put a
spell on that.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But which I've known people believe in witches, you know, wickens,
is that that's some kind of witchy.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Thing wickens or modern day witches, not like you know.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But just to give you an idea of how crazy
society is, because and this I think someone is going
to argue woke.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The US Army has wickan Chaplains.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I don't know if you'd call that woke. If there's
enough people that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Want wickan chaplains.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
This is a belief system, So Satanism, yes, but Satanism
is a philosophy.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah. And were they cook and eat children?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Anton Levy did not cook and eat children. He started
the Church of Satan in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh oh, there you go, no kids recipes?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Noop?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Oh okay, happy handle over Suri to you, thirty two years.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Of stupid things you said, I'm still good things you're
still gonna do, like lording your salary.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Over every one?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
You see, what's upon.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
A time for cook?
Speaker 9 (06:48):
You had a taste? How long all the big bout
in your heart needs to be play? Let's look back
on these you're dead and now you're still tan pronounced
(07:10):
high bred heavy head over YouTube from the thirty two.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Even from three thousand miles away, I can still hear
you chewing Bill gross.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
As a matter of fact, it was just about you.
Take Wayne resnickh was on this show? How long was
Wayne on the show?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Seven plus?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah? And he was the previous Neil uh.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Well A little different situation there.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, even though he was pretty heavy set, he was thinner.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Than you matter. With you, Wayne looked great. I know,
he got every day and yeah, but he was still
pretty chunky. I don't know if he's.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Still with you.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You know what what you put our names there, Bill,
But you're really talking about yourself.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Aren't you. Oh it hurts you?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Oh yeah, mister workout, Yeah, mister mountain bike.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Sorry, that's me. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Wayne.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
He hugged you as a child.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Wayne left and he went to Virginia. We got how
many people have been on this show since the beginning? Oh,
I don't know. You go through them like tissue.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I do.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Nobody likes you.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's true, I mean a lot, a lot. Yeah, and
then Michelle was with me for twenty six years, twenty
seven t I think twenty six and Rich twenty years
and a lot. And then there were people with me
for five minutes. That's true. Okay, Moving on and the
story of Etsy Witches and I know it sounds really weird,
(08:45):
but it's sort of a cottage industry. Etsy is a
platform where you buy stuff, really neat stuff. It started
with hand crafted things. It was supposed to be vintage right, yeah,
Now it's just great. So there is now a whole
cottage industries, I said, with which is on Etsy. So
(09:07):
there is a creative director in La roheat Thalwani and
pays Etsy eight dollars and forty eight cents to cast
the spell on the New York Knicks and did this
ahead of Game five in the Eastern Conference in May.
And what he found was a witch offering discount codes,
(09:31):
and he went to that witch and it worked. So
then he bought a now first one out.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
If that'sn't that important to you, you're going to go
to a discount coupon wit.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Then he bought a second spell for twenty one bucks
from Etsy for Game six, but lost that one, and
he says it could be Now to your point, it
could be that someone from the Indiana Pacers, a fan,
paid more to their ats witch. So that's possible. I
love it, Okay. Then there is a shop on Etsy
(10:07):
Mariahs Spells four thousand sales on Etsy four point nine stars,
sells a permanent protection spell for two hundred bucks.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
That is like forever.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Then there's another shop, Spells by Carlton forty four thousand
sales and says I will bring back your ex lever
for seven bucks. That is cheap. Well, I mean that
is dirt cheap. Not there, Okay, now go to well
well said. Now if you go to the house rules
(10:41):
of Etsy. No metaphysical services, including spell casting.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
See they already broke.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Their own procedures philosophy, no spell casting, but they do
spell casting, and can't have items that advertise a metaphysical
outcome like a acting wealth, love, gambling, luck, more business,
employment opportunities, assistance with legal or relationship situation.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Damn right, you call me for legal. The point is
that every one of these rules are broken because.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
A lot of these shops on Etsy still promised love
and success and revenge.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Ooh that's the best.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And one of the most popular ones are, of course romance,
including removing third parties. So one Etsy which charges a
starting rate of ten bucks to divinate and determine whether
she can work with a client, that's ten dollars just
as shift, she'll work with you, and if she can,
good business, good business. And if she can, it's like
(11:46):
an application.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Fee for an apartment.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
They charge you forty five bucks right for an application fee,
and does mean you're going to get it if she
feels she can work with you. Her rate ranges from
twenty to two hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
There's some money in there, there is. You canna make money.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You know, it's quantity and you can always fall back
on in Etsy selling brass bras.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Okay, I'm missing something.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Which brass bra which are older than a witch is?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Oh oh oh yeah. I was a little bit of
a stretch. Okay, thank me, I'm the one stretching.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, all right, uh okay. Time for doctor Jim Keeney
or med segment. Jim being the chief medical officer for
Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach and an
er doctor himself of the first water.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
H Jim, Good morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Okay, don't you seem happy this morning?
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
So you know, hearing about all the stories and the
last thirty two years.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, there's a lot. Well you've been around for what
over twenty here right over the.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Well close to thirty?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Wow?
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Is twenty nine exactly?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So three years in is when we've did our first interview.
I forget going back that far, all right. A couple
of topics that I want to start diving into another
chapter of Robert F.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Kennedy Junior is crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now he is saying that doctor's profit on giving vaccines.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
What is that story about?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
If doctors get pay for every procedure they do, that's
sort of a given.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Where's the news here, right?
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Well, I mean he's trying to say that it generates
up to fifty percent of pediatrician revenues and brings in
huge bonuses. That is so wrong, it's unbelievable. You know,
people can fact check that all they want. The vaccines
themselves are super expensive to buy and stock and a
lot of them. You know, you buy them in bulk.
(13:56):
You don't just get to buy one at a time.
So these pediatricians have to lay out the money to
buy these supplies and then when they get reimbursed, it
really doesn't cover the cost of purchasing the vaccine storing
it in a special refrigerator. By the way, it's not
just that you just can't buy one at Low's and
put it in that refrigerator. It has to have a
monitor that monitors the temperatures just to be able to
(14:18):
take a log of all the temperatures to know that
it hasn't dropped below a certain temperature. Then there's the
administrative cost of actually giving it, hiring people to do it.
In the end, it is a money loser. So if
you go to most doctor's offices now, they'll tell you
to call the health department. They don't want to be bothered.
They don't carry them. They know they're important, and a
lot of them do still carry them because they recognize
(14:41):
the significance and importance of them and that as a
patient convenience, they don't want to send their patients off
to the county Health department. But a lot no longer
carry them. And if you're going traveling anywhere exotic and
you need yellow fever vaccine or anything like that, you'll
never find it in a doctor's office. You have to
go to the county health department because nobody's going to
buy that that and let it sit in a refrigerator
(15:01):
and expire unused.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You know, did you know, Kaiser?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I when I travel the fair amount, but I remember
last time when I went to Africa, for example, I
had to get the yellow fever. And also I go
to Brazil and I got all these exotic shots and
they have a shot clinic where they give you that stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
See, they're more organized though. They're like the County Health
Department where they have a broad broad network and they
can focus all that in one travel clinic, so they
can have one refrigerator and one stock and it serves
to everybody, every individual. Kaiser doctor, I guarantee doesn't have
these vaccines in their office.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Okay, fair enough, and does the County Health Department. Let's
say I want a yellow fever vaccination. I call the
County Health Department. What do they charge me? Because these
vaccines are not inexpensive.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Right, No, they charge you. So some of them are expensive.
Some of them are are pretty inexpensive. So it just
depends on which one you're talking about. And so yeah,
they'll you go down there, and some of them are free.
I believe you know. I've never gone to the County
Health Department. I always sounds so you know that travel
I referred to you when you didn't know about Kaiser
(16:17):
to a travel clinic here in Orange County, and I
just you know, I've always gone there. I thought it's
a little more convenient.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, and some of these vaccinations so much fun. They
make you sick as a dog. And it's not just
a flu vaccine where you feel a little headachey, I
mean you're on your back for days. And I was
told better that than getting yellow fever, better that than
getting whatever disease you're trying to avoid. All right, Doctor
Jim Keeney, Chief Medical Officer, Fording. They Saint Mary Medical Center.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Long Beach.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And of those thirty two years Jim has been here,
I think twenty nine of them.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
That's how long Jim has been here. And is our you.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Got to do in the news story? Can you do it?
I mean, I don't know if you'velready talked about the
time you interrupted or you intended or got banned from
your daughter's PTA meeting, But to me, that's one of
your funnier stories.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, please share.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
When we first met you, you went around introducing me
to everyone at the party as Julio the pool boy.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So yeah, this was yeah, this was a party I
used to had for advertisers and people on the show.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Which yeah, at the Persian Palace.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. But no, you tell the story better,
but you you know the way you tell it about
how you walked in to your daughter's PTA meeting and
and started going off about you know, the treasure's budget,
the use of glitter, and demanding to explain why, you know,
(17:48):
why they're charging twelve dollars for spaghetti dinner that they
pour out of a can.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It was a little rough I got. I got tossed
from pta me. I also, you know, got from the
boy Scouts. You know, I was actually thrown out of
my troop, and it was Troop eleven at because I
accused the scout master of embezzling money. They had started
(18:16):
charging as a revenue for the troop for the patches.
You know, they normally should cost you in those days,
like two bucks, three bucks, and they raised it to
fifteen dollars on the patch just to raise money on
top of the dues, because the troop needed money and
it was not well funded. And so when the scout
(18:36):
master announced that the patches were going to be more money,
straight out, I accused them embezzlement. I said, you're keeping
this money, aren't you. This is going in your pocket.
That was my last Boy Scout meeting in those days. Yeah,
so I haven't stopped. I've been thrown out of school.
I remember, I've thrown out of a history course once
(18:57):
because I told the teacher, you don't know what the
hell you're talking about. That was junior high school. Goodbye,
you're done. The only place where yet we keep you. Yeah,
the only place.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Where it works out is here at the station.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
The only place where an a hole can make money.
I know, nice solid living.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, my daughters are always saying that about me. Dad,
You you make your living being a dick. I go,
that's true.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
And doctor Jim Keeney eighteen years of schooling.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, I was talking to that.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I was talking to Jim and Jim you were you
thinking of doing a not another residency. I know you
did get your MBA, which is now you went into management.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Hey, here's and we're.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Going to end it because we'll do the other stories
next week. But let me ask you. Don't you in
the er don't don't you just miss having people die
on you in front of you?
Speaker 8 (19:49):
I mean just that, not at all, not at all.
That's that's the great part about this job is But
you know, I don't have to worry about that anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Jim is now the chief with.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
A death story, don't you.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, I always have to talk about dead people.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yea, it makes you feel better, Doc, I watch somebody
die every day on this show.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
All right, Jim, thank you, and we'll pick up the
rest of the stories next week. Take care, have a
good day. I always and I always end up with
kill somebody. But no, he no longer can, he no
longer does. Do you want to give thank you, Derek?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Oh yeah, I will, I will.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You heard a bunch of songs today, created by KFI
listener and contributor Eric Lesardo, And you can listen to
any segment and you'll see where you'll hear these great,
great songs.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Thank you for that, nute guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Not too many people get songs created for them, but
I think he can and does, right, ericlsaro dot com
E R I C and Losarto is l I s
A R d O dot com.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
And you can hear your songs because they're pretty tremendous.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
That's it, guys. We're gone tomorrow. Well, Neil's not here tomorrow.
Neil no goes on vacation a little bit, so Neil's history.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Sorry, Okay, buddy, my locks just came up.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Oh man, that would be great. Yeah, thirty second year
you choke on lock?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, thanks to Bride Odd locks thanks.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
To Brent's Deli of course, for a spectacular morning plate,
which they always do.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And uh, that's it, guys.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Tomorrow morning we're all back and we start our thirty
third year that we are all together and writing.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
To celebrate and what nothing to celebrate.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Nothing at all to celebrate.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, I know he doesn't stop up next Gary and Shannon,
and you'll get to listen to them do whatever the
hell they do for the next four hours, just like
you listen to me do whatever the hell I do.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
That's what you get for listening to KFI. KFI A
M six
Speaker 1 (21:55):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello Bill Handle Job Wilton thirty two years have coming
on chilling our marginal legal advice. You've even been suspended
once or twice. Your voice ringing over airways into the sky.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
From KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Thirty two years of handle.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
That is so good.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Out of course, those songs created by a KFI listener
and contributor. He's a really really lovely person, very talented.
His name is ericless Art and I'm sure he has
Eric Lizardo dot com. That's e R I C l
I s A r d o dot com. You hear
(01:11):
these creations other stuff that he's made for KFI. Really,
I mean, clearly talented, very talented. You know we uh,
you know we have to.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Have theme songs.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Now, I'm gonna want a theme So I want a
theme song for like every segment.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Oh you men, your specialty segments.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, like yours. Say, you know, we eat like a pig.
There's we don't write him. We'll have airic no, I know,
but I would.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, I've got to have Eric do that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You know what if you could set me up with Eric,
of course, because obviously he's insanely good at this.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, he's very very talented.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, okay, fair enough. Where were we?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Oh yeah, your show by show thirty two years of excellence.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah yeah, exactly U and not forgetting quote certainly no
dementia here, all right. I want to now finished my
Etsy story, And I was talking to you, speaking to
you about this Janudi Pereira, who basically lost the job
and was looking for a retail job. No luck, So
(02:15):
she did what a whole lot of people are now doing.
She paid a witch on Etsy to cast a spell,
and in an interview, she said, the job mark is terrible.
I'm not getting any responses, so why not help myself out?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And it doesn't work?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh well, it was only fifteen bucks, so she some
of her friends bought Etsy spells during finals. Now, she's
not a huge believer in witchcraft, but believes in manifesting,
the ritual of envisioning desired outcomes.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Isn't that witchcraft?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Uh will?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Isn't that?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
You know?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It's psychopictography, I suppose very strong. It goes back to okay, sixties, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Now, the day that the Etsy witch cast the spell,
she got a job offer from Whole Foods.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Okay, and she asks was it magic? Oh? I don't know.
Has she ever heard the word coincidence in her life?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So witchcraft and spell work has now become a cottage industry,
and online cottage industry.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You know, youve got economic uncertainty, you're going crazy, and
those ridiculous dating apps totally vapid. I don't know who
does well on those.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
So what people are doing are putting their beliefs and
disposable incomes into love spells and career charms and spirit cleansers.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
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Speaker 1 (03:45):
Now Etsy, And I didn't know this because Lindsay shops
on Etsy constantly and it's always stuff. But it has
been a home to psychics and mystics for a long time.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Did you know that?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
In no Amy, did you know that psychics and mystics
on Etsy?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
No, I always just bought things from you. Yeah, yeah,
but it's all the time. I've never seen that come up.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Uh, And it's even TikTok has talked about going to
Etsy for witchcraft. And I'll tell you when it really
got big, the concept of hiring an Etsy witch really
hit a fever pitch when an influencer by the name
of Jazz Smith no idea who Jazz Smith are is
(04:29):
told her TikTok followers that she had paid an etsy
witch to make sure the weather was perfect during her
Memorial Day weekend wedding.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And guess what, the wedding was perfect. The weather was.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Great, and therefore that's not a coincidence that it happened
to be a sunny, wonderful day on Memorial Day.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Wait, is there like a conflict of interest if another
client calls up and says, I want it to rain
on this day? Like what if somebody was in in
the wedding party and didn't want it to happen.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
A negative spell? So but what if they pay more?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I don't know the answer to that, or would they.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Have to say I can't because I've already put a
spell on that.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But which I've known people believe in witches, you know, wickens,
is that that's some kind of witchy.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Thing wickens or modern day witches, not like you know.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But just to give you an idea of how crazy
society is, because and this I think someone is going
to argue woke.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The US Army has wickan Chaplains.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I don't know if you'd call that woke. If there's
enough people that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Want wickan chaplains.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
This is a belief system, So Satanism, yes, but Satanism
is a philosophy.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah. And were they cook and eat children?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Anton Levy did not cook and eat children. He started
the Church of Satan in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh oh, there you go, no kids recipes?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Noop?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Oh okay, happy handle over Suri to you, thirty two years.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Of stupid things you said, I'm still good things you're
still gonna do, like lording your salary.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Over every one?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
You see, what's upon.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
A time for cook?
Speaker 9 (06:48):
You had a taste? How long all the big bout
in your heart needs to be play? Let's look back
on these you're dead and now you're still tan pronounced
(07:10):
high bred heavy head over YouTube from the thirty two.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Even from three thousand miles away, I can still hear
you chewing Bill gross.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
As a matter of fact, it was just about you.
Take Wayne resnickh was on this show? How long was
Wayne on the show?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Seven plus?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah? And he was the previous Neil uh.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Well A little different situation there.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, even though he was pretty heavy set, he was thinner.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Than you matter. With you, Wayne looked great. I know,
he got every day and yeah, but he was still
pretty chunky. I don't know if he's.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Still with you.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You know what what you put our names there, Bill,
But you're really talking about yourself.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Aren't you. Oh it hurts you?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Oh yeah, mister workout, Yeah, mister mountain bike.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Sorry, that's me. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Wayne.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
He hugged you as a child.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Wayne left and he went to Virginia. We got how
many people have been on this show since the beginning? Oh,
I don't know. You go through them like tissue.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I do.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Nobody likes you.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's true, I mean a lot, a lot. Yeah, and
then Michelle was with me for twenty six years, twenty
seven t I think twenty six and Rich twenty years
and a lot. And then there were people with me
for five minutes. That's true. Okay, Moving on and the
story of Etsy Witches and I know it sounds really weird,
(08:45):
but it's sort of a cottage industry. Etsy is a
platform where you buy stuff, really neat stuff. It started
with hand crafted things. It was supposed to be vintage right, yeah,
Now it's just great. So there is now a whole
cottage industries, I said, with which is on Etsy. So
(09:07):
there is a creative director in La roheat Thalwani and
pays Etsy eight dollars and forty eight cents to cast
the spell on the New York Knicks and did this
ahead of Game five in the Eastern Conference in May.
And what he found was a witch offering discount codes,
(09:31):
and he went to that witch and it worked. So
then he bought a now first one out.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
If that'sn't that important to you, you're going to go
to a discount coupon wit.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Then he bought a second spell for twenty one bucks
from Etsy for Game six, but lost that one, and
he says it could be Now to your point, it
could be that someone from the Indiana Pacers, a fan,
paid more to their ats witch. So that's possible. I
love it, Okay. Then there is a shop on Etsy
(10:07):
Mariahs Spells four thousand sales on Etsy four point nine stars,
sells a permanent protection spell for two hundred bucks.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
That is like forever.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Then there's another shop, Spells by Carlton forty four thousand
sales and says I will bring back your ex lever
for seven bucks. That is cheap. Well, I mean that
is dirt cheap. Not there, Okay, now go to well
well said. Now if you go to the house rules
(10:41):
of Etsy. No metaphysical services, including spell casting.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
See they already broke.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Their own procedures philosophy, no spell casting, but they do
spell casting, and can't have items that advertise a metaphysical
outcome like a acting wealth, love, gambling, luck, more business,
employment opportunities, assistance with legal or relationship situation.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Damn right, you call me for legal. The point is
that every one of these rules are broken because.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
A lot of these shops on Etsy still promised love
and success and revenge.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Ooh that's the best.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And one of the most popular ones are, of course romance,
including removing third parties. So one Etsy which charges a
starting rate of ten bucks to divinate and determine whether
she can work with a client, that's ten dollars just
as shift, she'll work with you, and if she can,
good business, good business. And if she can, it's like
(11:46):
an application.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Fee for an apartment.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
They charge you forty five bucks right for an application fee,
and does mean you're going to get it if she
feels she can work with you. Her rate ranges from
twenty to two hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
There's some money in there, there is. You canna make money.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You know, it's quantity and you can always fall back
on in Etsy selling brass bras.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Okay, I'm missing something.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Which brass bra which are older than a witch is?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Oh oh oh yeah. I was a little bit of
a stretch. Okay, thank me, I'm the one stretching.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, all right, uh okay. Time for doctor Jim Keeney
or med segment. Jim being the chief medical officer for
Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach and an
er doctor himself of the first water.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
H Jim, Good morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Okay, don't you seem happy this morning?
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
So you know, hearing about all the stories and the
last thirty two years.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, there's a lot. Well you've been around for what
over twenty here right over the.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Well close to thirty?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Wow?
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Is twenty nine exactly?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So three years in is when we've did our first interview.
I forget going back that far, all right. A couple
of topics that I want to start diving into another
chapter of Robert F.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Kennedy Junior is crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now he is saying that doctor's profit on giving vaccines.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
What is that story about?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
If doctors get pay for every procedure they do, that's
sort of a given.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Where's the news here, right?
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Well, I mean he's trying to say that it generates
up to fifty percent of pediatrician revenues and brings in
huge bonuses. That is so wrong, it's unbelievable. You know,
people can fact check that all they want. The vaccines
themselves are super expensive to buy and stock and a
lot of them. You know, you buy them in bulk.
(13:56):
You don't just get to buy one at a time.
So these pediatricians have to lay out the money to
buy these supplies and then when they get reimbursed, it
really doesn't cover the cost of purchasing the vaccine storing
it in a special refrigerator. By the way, it's not
just that you just can't buy one at Low's and
put it in that refrigerator. It has to have a
monitor that monitors the temperatures just to be able to
(14:18):
take a log of all the temperatures to know that
it hasn't dropped below a certain temperature. Then there's the
administrative cost of actually giving it, hiring people to do it.
In the end, it is a money loser. So if
you go to most doctor's offices now, they'll tell you
to call the health department. They don't want to be bothered.
They don't carry them. They know they're important, and a
lot of them do still carry them because they recognize
(14:41):
the significance and importance of them and that as a
patient convenience, they don't want to send their patients off
to the county Health department. But a lot no longer
carry them. And if you're going traveling anywhere exotic and
you need yellow fever vaccine or anything like that, you'll
never find it in a doctor's office. You have to
go to the county health department because nobody's going to
buy that that and let it sit in a refrigerator
(15:01):
and expire unused.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You know, did you know, Kaiser?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I when I travel the fair amount, but I remember
last time when I went to Africa, for example, I
had to get the yellow fever. And also I go
to Brazil and I got all these exotic shots and
they have a shot clinic where they give you that stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
See, they're more organized though. They're like the County Health
Department where they have a broad broad network and they
can focus all that in one travel clinic, so they
can have one refrigerator and one stock and it serves
to everybody, every individual. Kaiser doctor, I guarantee doesn't have
these vaccines in their office.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Okay, fair enough, and does the County Health Department. Let's
say I want a yellow fever vaccination. I call the
County Health Department. What do they charge me? Because these
vaccines are not inexpensive.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Right, No, they charge you. So some of them are expensive.
Some of them are are pretty inexpensive. So it just
depends on which one you're talking about. And so yeah,
they'll you go down there, and some of them are free.
I believe you know. I've never gone to the County
Health Department. I always sounds so you know that travel
I referred to you when you didn't know about Kaiser
(16:17):
to a travel clinic here in Orange County, and I
just you know, I've always gone there. I thought it's
a little more convenient.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, and some of these vaccinations so much fun. They
make you sick as a dog. And it's not just
a flu vaccine where you feel a little headachey, I
mean you're on your back for days. And I was
told better that than getting yellow fever, better that than
getting whatever disease you're trying to avoid. All right, Doctor
Jim Keeney, Chief Medical Officer, Fording. They Saint Mary Medical Center.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Long Beach.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And of those thirty two years Jim has been here,
I think twenty nine of them.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
That's how long Jim has been here. And is our you.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Got to do in the news story? Can you do it?
I mean, I don't know if you'velready talked about the
time you interrupted or you intended or got banned from
your daughter's PTA meeting, But to me, that's one of
your funnier stories.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, please share.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
When we first met you, you went around introducing me
to everyone at the party as Julio the pool boy.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So yeah, this was yeah, this was a party I
used to had for advertisers and people on the show.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Which yeah, at the Persian Palace.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. But no, you tell the story better,
but you you know the way you tell it about
how you walked in to your daughter's PTA meeting and
and started going off about you know, the treasure's budget,
the use of glitter, and demanding to explain why, you know,
(17:48):
why they're charging twelve dollars for spaghetti dinner that they
pour out of a can.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It was a little rough I got. I got tossed
from pta me. I also, you know, got from the
boy Scouts. You know, I was actually thrown out of
my troop, and it was Troop eleven at because I
accused the scout master of embezzling money. They had started
(18:16):
charging as a revenue for the troop for the patches.
You know, they normally should cost you in those days,
like two bucks, three bucks, and they raised it to
fifteen dollars on the patch just to raise money on
top of the dues, because the troop needed money and
it was not well funded. And so when the scout
(18:36):
master announced that the patches were going to be more money,
straight out, I accused them embezzlement. I said, you're keeping
this money, aren't you. This is going in your pocket.
That was my last Boy Scout meeting in those days. Yeah,
so I haven't stopped. I've been thrown out of school.
I remember, I've thrown out of a history course once
(18:57):
because I told the teacher, you don't know what the
hell you're talking about. That was junior high school. Goodbye,
you're done. The only place where yet we keep you. Yeah,
the only place.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Where it works out is here at the station.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
The only place where an a hole can make money.
I know, nice solid living.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, my daughters are always saying that about me. Dad,
You you make your living being a dick. I go,
that's true.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
And doctor Jim Keeney eighteen years of schooling.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, I was talking to that.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I was talking to Jim and Jim you were you
thinking of doing a not another residency. I know you
did get your MBA, which is now you went into management.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Hey, here's and we're.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Going to end it because we'll do the other stories
next week. But let me ask you. Don't you in
the er don't don't you just miss having people die
on you in front of you?
Speaker 8 (19:49):
I mean just that, not at all, not at all.
That's that's the great part about this job is But
you know, I don't have to worry about that anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Jim is now the chief with.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
A death story, don't you.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, I always have to talk about dead people.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yea, it makes you feel better, Doc, I watch somebody
die every day on this show.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
All right, Jim, thank you, and we'll pick up the
rest of the stories next week. Take care, have a
good day. I always and I always end up with
kill somebody. But no, he no longer can, he no
longer does. Do you want to give thank you, Derek?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Oh yeah, I will, I will.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You heard a bunch of songs today, created by KFI
listener and contributor Eric Lesardo, And you can listen to
any segment and you'll see where you'll hear these great,
great songs.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Thank you for that, nute guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Not too many people get songs created for them, but
I think he can and does, right, ericlsaro dot com
E R I C and Losarto is l I s
A R d O dot com.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
And you can hear your songs because they're pretty tremendous.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
That's it, guys. We're gone tomorrow. Well, Neil's not here tomorrow.
Neil no goes on vacation a little bit, so Neil's history.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Sorry, Okay, buddy, my locks just came up.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Oh man, that would be great. Yeah, thirty second year
you choke on lock?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, thanks to Bride Odd locks thanks.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
To Brent's Deli of course, for a spectacular morning plate,
which they always do.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And uh, that's it, guys.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Tomorrow morning we're all back and we start our thirty
third year that we are all together and writing.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
To celebrate and what nothing to celebrate.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Nothing at all to celebrate.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, I know he doesn't stop up next Gary and Shannon,
and you'll get to listen to them do whatever the
hell they do for the next four hours, just like
you listen to me do whatever the hell I do.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
That's what you get for listening to KFI. KFI A
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Speaker 1 (21:55):
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