August 1, 2025 • 30 mins
(Friday 08/01/25)
FOODIE FRIDAY! Food enthusiast and host of ‘The Fork Report’ on KFI Neil Saavedra joins Bill to talk about national fast-food rankings, Costco pan $300 cheaper than the pan it is modeled after, and why beef prices have been rising. The hour closes with ‘Ask Handel Anything.’
FOODIE FRIDAY! Food enthusiast and host of ‘The Fork Report’ on KFI Neil Saavedra joins Bill to talk about national fast-food rankings, Costco pan $300 cheaper than the pan it is modeled after, and why beef prices have been rising. The hour closes with ‘Ask Handel Anything.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm in the move for food.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
And this is kfive Bill Handle Here. It is a
Foody Friday, first day of August twenty twenty five, and
it is time for Foody Friday with o'nil, host of
The Fork Report tomorrow afternoon two to five o'clock, following
Rich Tomorrow with the Tech Show, following me with Handle
(00:38):
on the Law. Following Deanjan that's it. Forgot his name
for a minute. That's good. See that's how I forget
your name too, you know, I forget my forget my
kid's name. Oh yeah, absolutely, following Dean with as the
horse Whisperer.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, because he whispers to horses. That's correct, that's correct.
Well done, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Okay, let's do it guys, the Fork Report and actually
Foody Friday with Neil. Of course, we start with Costco.
As I have said this week twice, I've gone to
Costco when my psychologist fired me, which she did incidentally, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Because she said there's nothing more we can do for you.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I decided that therapy, the best way to do therapy
is to go to Costco.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I go twice a week and at least I get
something for it.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I just got some toilet paper and filled half the
garage with it. Neil, Wow, Costco News, Okay, yeah, everything's fine.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Costco News Okay, yeah. I put Costco News in oftentimes
for you. However, this is truly for the listener, because
if you're looking for a great ham this is a
look say copycat. So you know, they're the heavy cast
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iron and they are covered in the ceramic. They're gorgeous.
They're expensive, as you know, and I know your daughter
is a huge fan of them, and Pamela loves cooking
and loves La Cruse.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, he's got a couple of them.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
And they're expensive as hell. They're worth it, don't get
me wrong. But this enamel cast iron skillet with a
lid at Costco is going for fifty four ninety nine.
Now if you get the equivalent, if you go to
get the equivalent the La Crose La Cruse rather a
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signature enameled cast iron deep saute pan, it's three hundred
and sixty eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And this is fifty dollars four nine and it's stunning.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Now you've got you know, twelve different colors if you
go the La Crusee or out, but if you you
know whereas Costco has like four or five different colors.
But still, I mean a gorgeous pan. It is well made,
and if you're looking for something like this, I have
not seen a better deal ever.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Okay, So now you're talking about a single pan, correct, Yeah,
it's a single sin with a line, and it's just
one you don't have. It doesn't have several different ones
that are available.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Nope, this is just the twelve I think it's a
twelve inch Okay, so it is. But it's really a
stunning pan, and I thought, you know, for people out
there that like the durability, it's a sturdy pan. Not
only does it work on your stove, but it can
go up to about four hundred and fifty degrees in
the oven as well, So being able to have that
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kind of versatility and the strength and longevity of these
types of pans. Of course, again it's the cast iron,
but it's got that enamel on the outside that makes
it you know, uh lovely, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
What I have to I Well, since I've gone to
Costco already twice, but I may actually may go again today. Uh,
and uh by one and give it as a gift
to Pamela because she is a seriously good cook. I mean,
as you know everything. Oh yeah, she went to culinary school.
She went she took a baking course in France. Uh
(04:24):
it's there's a lot of French people there right in France.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Uh not if you speak German, there aren't not if
you walk in there and say Vaderzan, they're not there anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Gotcha. They all their information to your daughter, did they?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That is correct? Everything is estrangely enough. It's a white rye.
Bread is white. I mean they just it's white covering
that when they're not when they're finished with the tablecloth,
the white ones.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
They use them as flags. All right.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Uh, let's get into national fast food rank now we're
we'll talk about that a little bit because because I
was a little surprised when you talk about rankings, who
is ranking them?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Okay, starters, Okay, this is uh you know they do
this national polling for these restaurants. Now these are drive throughs.
These are national drive through So this isn't You're not
you're not going to have your in and out on
here or certain places like that.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
This is just wait a second, this is just drive throughs.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Just drive through fast food restaurants. I don't know they existed,
drive through restaurants.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just drive throughs. What am I missing here? Well?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
No, these with drive throughs.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Oh with drive throughs. Okay, that okay, got it?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yes, I mean, any any restaurant is a drive through
if you've got a fast enough car, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
But yeah, yeah, that gives a little problematic The point
is every now, every fast food esta establishment has a
drive through. I mean you you don't see standalons anymore,
doesn't exist. All right, the actual rankings, and here is
the surprise.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
All right, Neil take it from here.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Uh So, according to the National Center for Health Statistics,
they say that there's you know, a rise in chicken nuggets, Hamburger's, tacos,
sweet treats. But people love these things, right, we know
that they love these things. But I'm always surprised on
how these rankings turn out. So this is a national
ranking for drive through fast food places. The top ten
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number ten McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's the worst. Well yeah, so there, McDonald's is getting out.
But I'm not crazy.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
French fries, that's fantastic French fries. Ninth place is not
a place that I've heard of. They have fried chicken.
They're called zach Zaxb's zax b Ys, but I'm not
familiar with them. They are a national chain. Eighth place
is Raising Canes, which I find to be quite low
(07:15):
because I love me some raisins.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But there is a Raising Canes does not have much flavor.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
There's no I don't find Raising Canes has a lot
of flavor in this chicken, and I have eaten it,
I still do, but I don't find that particularly tasty.
I'll tell you that, as far as chicken is concerned.
Here is a little hint. Do you have a you
have a food fryer, right, Neil, I mean a air fryer.
(07:42):
Of course, everybody has an air fryer at Costco. Strangely enough,
Tyson's chicken strips, which are huge. I mean they're basically
huge chunks of chicken, and they're frozen, big bag. You
take those pieces out, three or four pieces, and you
put them in your air fryer. You don't heat up
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the air fryer, you just put them in. You set
it at three hundred and sixty degrees for thirteen minutes
and they are done, and they are crispy, and they
have just the enough spice, they're tangy. They're just wonderful
and very inexpensive relative to everything else.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Just thought I mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I'm Bill Handle followed me for more recipes.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That was not a recipe that's throwing some frozen chicken
into a air fryer, but just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I love it. Okay, soving on Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Seventh place is Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Sixth place is KFC with those eleven herbs and spices.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And very expensive. Don't you find KFC overpriced? It has
gotten quite expensive. I agree.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, it's like Carl's Junior. It's like Carl's. Very expensive
relative to other fast food places.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Yea, Carls isn't even on here. Fifth place is Windy's,
which I still would I think is low. I think
Wendy's has great food and they are often overlooked. I
think their burgers are great. I think their food is great.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Fourth place is Chick fil A. What's it?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Don't be square? Go to Wendy's.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Okay, you're hilarious, and go to Don't cut Corners?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Okay, even on our meat there you go, that's better.
Yours is better? Which?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Now, which one after Wendy's is fourth place? Chick fil A?
Now wow, it went from first to fourth. Yeah, they
were first for like nine years.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Third place is A and W. Which I don't know.
We might have a couple out here.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, you know the root beer.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh, those big frosty mugs of root beer ice cold.
The mugs were ice cold. They were everywhere for a
long Yeah, they were great. Jack in the Box comes
in second place. Interesting, Yeah, I wouldn't have got.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I wouldn't have done. I go to jam. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
And and then first place is a local joint came
out of California, based here in California, Del Taco. Two
years in a row, Del Taco. Del Taco. Yes, with
their Mexican in quote fair, but they have great prices
and I like their food. They've got, you know, burritos.
(10:21):
Casey is not Cho's tacos. All those the crispy ones.
I mean do they do these have a fast media?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Now what the tacos when you go to a restaurant,
they aren't They are not crispy when you go to
traditional uh Mexican restaurants. Authentic ones you get the soft Uh,
you get the soft flower or usually corn and flower tortillas.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
They don't know from crispy tortillas in Mexico.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, in traditional here when you when you go to
high end Mexican restaurants or media and Mexican restaurants. Uh,
the tacos are not crispy. They're not crispy tacos there.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You can get deep fried, you can get beriah, you
can get different tacos that are fried, pan fried, or
deep fried depending. It's not a street taco where you
have a small corn tortilla or two corn tortillas with
your typical.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, but that is a very interesting list, cilantro. Okay,
try the Tyson chicken. You'll be surprised at how good
that is.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Follow bills and more recipes. Okay, lastly, we have just
a couple of minutes here, right yep. Okay, So ground
beef is usually one of those great fillers. You know
that chicken breast and ground beef are the two proteins
easy for a family that even if they're strapped, you
can get by with. While ground beef just hit over
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six bucks a pound and prices we're going up for
steak meats. But when you have beef prices now about
eight percent higher in twenty twenty five, some reaching over
nine bucks a pound just in July, the thought, as
(12:09):
well as is tariffs, is this? This is that? What
it's not tariffs? We have a shrinking, shrinking US herds.
This we've got the lowest amount of headcount since nineteen
fifty one. You've got feed costs on the rise, you've
got an increased demand. There was a parasite called a
screwworm parasite that this outbreak in Mexico resulting in the
(12:34):
USDA putting restrictions on imports. So and then you've got
climate change. You've got you know, the addition of economic pressures,
a three year drought.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And it's not it's only it's only up eight percent.
You'd think it'd be double by now.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
But you know what, that creeps up pretty quickly. With protein.
You know, it's not like you're buying an out some protein.
You're you're usually buying it by pound. That starts to
creep up, you know, quite high. I mean think of eggs.
Yes they got high, but it wasn't oh they got
to as high as a bucket egg.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I think Okay, here's some exciting news, some Costco news.
I went in the as I told you, I went
in a couple of days ago, no yesterday, and I
went into the refrigerated section where they keep the eggs,
et cetera. They now have free range eggs, which they
never had before, so they have.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Does an egg need to be free range? They don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That's a good point because they just have to. They
need room to roll around. Free range eggs, which and
their dirt cheap. Of course, you have to buy them,
you know, one hundred and twenty or one hundred and
fifty at a time, these huge packages. But Lindsey is crazy.
She wants happy chickens, which is going.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
To save you a lot of money, because how much
did you pay? You were paying a lot for those.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I was paying thirteen dollars a for a dozen. Now
they're seven dollars eight dollars and regular eggs just you know,
treat your chickens like crap eggs those are three bucks,
four bucks they could be.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, basically they've gone down. But I was stunned.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Free range eggs and they're half the price of of course,
the ones that you find at at the supermarket and beef.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Of course, feel better about buying an egg, but it's.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
It doesn't make me feel better, you know. I mean,
as a matter of fact, the more chicken suffers, I think,
the better the meat tastes.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And but that's a whole world there.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Taste the fear in the egg pretty.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Much what it's that's science. That's science when you have
the hormones going through and the adrenaline and all of that. Okay,
we're done.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I mean I are going to miss your sense of
humor when you're in hell.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And it is time, as we always do it end
of the last half hour of the show. It's ask
handle anything. And that came out of the experiences that
all of us have here on KFI. Those are on
the air because we're always asked by everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I had lunch the other day.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I just happened to go into a sandwich shop and
I was talking to some guy and a KFI listener,
and all he did was asked me about you guys,
what's Neil like?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You know what's uh?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, he asked about Kno, he did, will if it
makes you feel any better? He had no idea you
even existed. Okay with that awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Okay, So with that, it's asked handle anything, and the
rules are always the same, and that is you ask
you record a question.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I have not heard it. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Neil chooses which ones and we all hear at the
same time, and well usually there to humiliate me.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Okay, let's do it. Cono. Hey, Bill, I like your show.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
I listened to it every morning while I'm walking dog,
so keep sneath.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
From getting completely bored.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
But I got to tell you, you're eating on the air
is disgusting.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Do what the rest of us.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Do, eat before we go to work, or eat during
a break but eating during the show it more.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Of a service announcement.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I think, Yeah, all right, okay, so what all right? Yeah,
you're disgustingn't know what. I'm not answering any questions. Why
you want me to admit it? You want me to
deny it? Of course I eat on the air show
gets in the way of my breakfast.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
What she kind of represents I don't put all of
them up, but she kind of represents a chunk of
the sentiment out there. So I thought she kind of
she's like one for a hundred all right, all.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Right, thank you for your opinion when I don't ask
for opinions.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Moving on, George from North Rich Bill, I have basically
a twofold question, and we heard about the passing of
Ossi Osborne and how they late.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Flowers saw him on a star.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
My question is will people when you pass the bill,
will people be laying flowers on your star? And now
too will? If not? Well, would you put in your
will that someone from KFI or the morning show do so?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Answering with the first question, will people put star flowers
on my star? No, they will continue to do exactly
what they're doing now is peeing on the star, and
on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Okay, that's for starters.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Second of all, in my will, I can't force anybody
to do anything. I can, you know, pay them, or
I can say here's some flowers, would you put it
on my on my star?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
But I know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
They're going to take the flowers, give them to someone
and then go and pee on my star, which people
do on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I will say that I heard John Cobalt want say
say that when you die, he's going to leave a
fresh one on your star, but he won't.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Be the first. He will be the first.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I don't know if that was a k or is
it one? But he said rash I remember Ryan.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Excellent. Okay, next question Cono.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Hey Bill Matt from the ie all hail Kono, asked
Campbell anything. I'm out in the ie. So my go
to deli is in Palm Springs at Sherman's Deli.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Have you been to Sherman's Deli?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
And if you have, how does it compare to Brent's
thinking about making my trip out to Brents check that out?
And also do you remember what you said what deck
forty was?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Uh? Number one?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I have not been out to Sherman so I have
no idea. I doubt that it will match Brent's. Brent's
every year in Zaggots is at the top of the heap.
It's been named number one in Los Angeles and a
couple of times it's been named number one deli in
the country. And as against New York Deli's because Zaggots
(18:59):
and everybody is totally biased to biased against New York
again in favor of New York delis. And I already
forgot the second question. The second part of it? What
was it you used to have? Oh, yeah, wet deck.
I don't know what what deck is? Okay, I know
what I remember?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
No, I think.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
I think you used to say that it WD forty
stood for wet deck because it was used on naval
ships and the first time they did forty people died.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Oh no, no, no, no, you made up some Yeah
it was in reality, in reality?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
What does what's w D forty?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
It was the fortieth attempt at the formula for this
kind of oil.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
That's where WD it was. I think it's water displacement
or something.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Whatever it is, but I know it was.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
The forty stands for fortieth attempt attempt.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
So that's a wet deck. See.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I completely misheard that. Move along, all right, moving along.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
All hail kono?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
We just did he?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Just wow?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well done self promotion.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yes, I was just.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Curious if you ever thought of pitching Zelman's to Costco.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
The answer is yes.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
When Zelmans, they're created by the breath Assure people, which
I they're friends about. I've been involved with him for
thirty five years or yeah, at least so Zelman's or
breath Ashore. Was it Costco and the problem with pitching
Costco is, first of all, you have to create your
own SKU. They want different packaging like two or three
(20:56):
or four whatever, some unique packaging.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Also, you have to.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Do such astounding numbers to stay at Costco. I mean,
you can still do very well and the product makes money,
but if you don't hit that critical mass, you're gone.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
And they're very tough on that.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
So yeah, that would be terrific, and we talk about
that all the time. But that's a tough one. That
is good idea. We'd love to be at Costco. We're
there before, so we'll try again, all right, CONO. Next question, Hey.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Bill, I was wondering if you could have a debate
with John Colebelt in regards to California and the current
administration issues.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Thank you, that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I've only debated John once and it had to do
with Bill Clinton when he was impeached. And do you
remember the sexcapade that went on with Monica Lewinsky And
he talked about how criminal it was, and I talked
about how it really wasn't maybe the perjury part, but
(22:07):
you know, and he lied about it. But here's the wery. Yeah,
sure is illegal except I understand. What did he What
did he lie about? He lied about having hold on,
He lied about.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Having sex with Monica Lewinsky.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Now there is it's in the wall, Okay, it is
statutory that a married man must lie about having sex
with another woman.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
You're stupid. Perjury isn't about what you perjure yourself about.
It's about perjury. No, I understand, but I said it
should have been handled differently. That kind of perjury is
not the same as a financial crime perjury.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
It's you know, he purjured himself about having sex. I mean,
come on, who doesn't lie about having sex? You know,
for example, I'll tell you I have a decent sex life.
That's an utter lie.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I mean that's okay. Moving on, Why.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Was Zelvin Mintz taking off the market a few years ago?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Zelman Mintz were not taken off the market. Breadth Ashore
was taken off the market. And it's too long, a
very long story, but they were breadth Ashore was a
victim of predatory business practices, and had it happen in Europe,
people would have gone to prison for doing what happened
to them. But it would take me ten fifteen minutes
(23:32):
to get into it, but it's all legal stuff. It
wasn't all legal stuff. Oh yeah, I had the quality.
This stuff was amazing. It was all legal stuff. It
had to do with companies that were trying to go
against and filed suits and all that.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
It was comp because they were so successful, right, yeah,
that's exactly why.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah. Yeah, they took too much of the market.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And you've got big companies that did not like it,
and that happens more often than not. And it's like
Microsoft accused of, you know, taking small businesses and destroying them.
Remember all of those accusations. All right, let's continue on.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Good morning. Denise from Otionside, soon to be Denise from Glendora,
wamp not just kidding. So this is a question for
Handle and Neil actually because I'm getting transferred to Glendora, California,
where I have no family, no friends, don't know the area,
but I am a foodie hoping you guys could suggest
some restaurants, dive bars, fast food, anything that I could
(24:31):
enjoy a really good meal at.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That's that's to you. Neil, Glendora.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, no, you you know, uh you had Savile used
to live out there, and I thought maybe you guys.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, you know what. That's true.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I can call I forgot that, I can call Sable
and I will ask him and uh yeah, not that
you'll never get back to her.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
First of all, the foothills are a gem in Los Angeles.
They are absolutely gorgeous and they are filled with great food.
You've got Root sixty six with tons of places. If
you're looking for a fun dive bar, I'd say our
place in Glendora. It's karaoke, low key, playful. And as
(25:16):
far as restaurants, I'm going to go with and bros.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
And yeah, and she has nobody here, no friends, no acquaintances,
no one that likes that particularly likes her. Boy, I
don't know anything about that at all. Like can certainly
help her with her problems.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, you can't get friends for yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Well said, okay, Conor do we have more to know?
Speaker 9 (25:40):
And your family came to the US, I'm assuming you
just spoke Portuguese. When did it transition to speaking English
at home? Or did you always end up speaking Portuguese
within your household?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
All right, let's that's a very good question. When did
it transition for me? It was three weeks because I
was into kindergarten.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
And no one spoke Portuguese, so it was it was
a baptism in fire. There wasn't English as the second language,
none of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
And at home it was my parents spoke Portuguese to
each other. And they well, let me put it this way,
when my mom died and my dad died after sixty
years in this country, they still sounded like they got
off got off the boat yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So it was yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
And then when they spoke, when they didn't want me
to understand, they spoke Yiddish to each other.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
You know, they did the Jewish language.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
And is that how I learned the word schmuck.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
That's why I worn older schmuck. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
And you know the words that I use I learned there.
And the only phrase I ever really knew in Yiddish
was my mother as I was getting beat up by
my dad because he was very old world, and you know,
corporal punishment was a bit thing. The only thing I
remember that my mother saying in Yiddish was LEO, hit
(27:05):
him harder.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Okay, hid him harder, get him so hard. Words in
kindergarten in English, yes, little fat Jewish boy, Yeah, okay,
that's curious.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Okay, Uh, if we have one more, Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
Good morning, Wooly Wolf, Lawrence Arrah notionanside. Hey, your middle
name is wolf and Neil calls you wooly Wolf. Is
that because you have Harry back, Harry arms, and chest.
So my question is, are you in fact wooly? That's it.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
This is the reason he doesn't have a talk show. Okay.
It's as much.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
As he would like to be on the air, he
clearly does not have a show.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Uh. My middle name is Wolf.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
It was originally I was born as wolf Handle, and
I chose the name William. By the way, that was
my call, and it was I took it on when
I was eleven years old, when I became naturalized, naturalized
American citizen through my parents. And at that point you
can have any name you want. It's almost like a
birth certificate. And so I chose William and it is
(28:16):
William wolf Handle. Now, the Willie Wolf part is the
only person that ever called me Willie Wolf was Savil
for years and years, and Neil picked up on it
because he realized that Savile was making incredible fun of
me because I am not a Willie. I am not
a billy. I am not a will will. We already
(28:39):
have a will here.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
So it cracks me up every time he goes well
a wolf in his accent.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
In his accent, italk about savile Yeah, South Africa.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
How he does it? So I adopted. I used to
call you handleman. And do you know why? I used
to call you yell handleman in the morning when i'd
see you in the office. Uh No, many years ago,
decades and decades and decades ago, you were doing actually
I think you were maybe in Glendora doing some remote
and we were out there doing some remote, and some
(29:14):
old lady came up to me and told me how
much I love him so much. I listened to his
show all the time. I love him so much. Bill
Handleman is my favorite, and I how could you be
her favorite? She didn't even know your name.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
There are some things when I didn't know my name,
which is true.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I have actually mispronounced my own name on the air
without doing shill hamblin. Yeah, legitimately mispronouncing my name without shtick.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
All right, we're done, guys, This is KABC. Yeah that's all.
I've done that a few times. I've done that. Yeah,
that's Okay, we're done, guys. Thank you Neil. That's enough.
All right, it's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Okay, Tomorrow morning o'clock hand on the law, Neil from
two to five with the Fork Report, and then of
course we start all over again on Monday. Will and
Amy wake up call on the rest of us. That's
Neil and I. We come aboard at nine.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Or six so much and oldman it'll be Selmans. I
will suck off the mint.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Oh, let's not go there.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Okay, we've already had that conversation. All right, we're done.
Gary and Shannon up next. KFI AM sixty. You've been
listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch My Show Monday
through Friday six am to nine am, and anytime on
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm in the move for food.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
And this is kfive Bill Handle Here. It is a
Foody Friday, first day of August twenty twenty five, and
it is time for Foody Friday with o'nil, host of
The Fork Report tomorrow afternoon two to five o'clock, following
Rich Tomorrow with the Tech Show, following me with Handle
(00:38):
on the Law. Following Deanjan that's it. Forgot his name
for a minute. That's good. See that's how I forget
your name too, you know, I forget my forget my
kid's name. Oh yeah, absolutely, following Dean with as the
horse Whisperer.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, because he whispers to horses. That's correct, that's correct.
Well done, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Okay, let's do it guys, the Fork Report and actually
Foody Friday with Neil. Of course, we start with Costco.
As I have said this week twice, I've gone to
Costco when my psychologist fired me, which she did incidentally, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Because she said there's nothing more we can do for you.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I decided that therapy, the best way to do therapy
is to go to Costco.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I go twice a week and at least I get
something for it.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I just got some toilet paper and filled half the
garage with it. Neil, Wow, Costco News, Okay, yeah, everything's fine.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Costco News Okay, yeah. I put Costco News in oftentimes
for you. However, this is truly for the listener, because
if you're looking for a great ham this is a
look say copycat. So you know, they're the heavy cast
(02:05):
iron and they are covered in the ceramic. They're gorgeous.
They're expensive, as you know, and I know your daughter
is a huge fan of them, and Pamela loves cooking
and loves La Cruse.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, he's got a couple of them.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
And they're expensive as hell. They're worth it, don't get
me wrong. But this enamel cast iron skillet with a
lid at Costco is going for fifty four ninety nine.
Now if you get the equivalent, if you go to
get the equivalent the La Crose La Cruse rather a
(02:44):
signature enameled cast iron deep saute pan, it's three hundred
and sixty eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And this is fifty dollars four nine and it's stunning.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Now you've got you know, twelve different colors if you
go the La Crusee or out, but if you you
know whereas Costco has like four or five different colors.
But still, I mean a gorgeous pan. It is well made,
and if you're looking for something like this, I have
not seen a better deal ever.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Okay, So now you're talking about a single pan, correct, Yeah,
it's a single sin with a line, and it's just
one you don't have. It doesn't have several different ones
that are available.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Nope, this is just the twelve I think it's a
twelve inch Okay, so it is. But it's really a
stunning pan, and I thought, you know, for people out
there that like the durability, it's a sturdy pan. Not
only does it work on your stove, but it can
go up to about four hundred and fifty degrees in
the oven as well, So being able to have that
(03:50):
kind of versatility and the strength and longevity of these
types of pans. Of course, again it's the cast iron,
but it's got that enamel on the outside that makes
it you know, uh lovely, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
What I have to I Well, since I've gone to
Costco already twice, but I may actually may go again today. Uh,
and uh by one and give it as a gift
to Pamela because she is a seriously good cook. I mean,
as you know everything. Oh yeah, she went to culinary school.
She went she took a baking course in France. Uh
(04:24):
it's there's a lot of French people there right in France.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Uh not if you speak German, there aren't not if
you walk in there and say Vaderzan, they're not there anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Gotcha. They all their information to your daughter, did they?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That is correct? Everything is estrangely enough. It's a white rye.
Bread is white. I mean they just it's white covering
that when they're not when they're finished with the tablecloth,
the white ones.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
They use them as flags. All right.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Uh, let's get into national fast food rank now we're
we'll talk about that a little bit because because I
was a little surprised when you talk about rankings, who
is ranking them?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Okay, starters, Okay, this is uh you know they do
this national polling for these restaurants. Now these are drive throughs.
These are national drive through So this isn't You're not
you're not going to have your in and out on
here or certain places like that.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
This is just wait a second, this is just drive throughs.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Just drive through fast food restaurants. I don't know they existed,
drive through restaurants.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just drive throughs. What am I missing here? Well?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
No, these with drive throughs.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Oh with drive throughs. Okay, that okay, got it?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yes, I mean, any any restaurant is a drive through
if you've got a fast enough car, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
But yeah, yeah, that gives a little problematic The point
is every now, every fast food esta establishment has a
drive through. I mean you you don't see standalons anymore,
doesn't exist. All right, the actual rankings, and here is
the surprise.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
All right, Neil take it from here.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Uh So, according to the National Center for Health Statistics,
they say that there's you know, a rise in chicken nuggets, Hamburger's, tacos,
sweet treats. But people love these things, right, we know
that they love these things. But I'm always surprised on
how these rankings turn out. So this is a national
ranking for drive through fast food places. The top ten
(06:41):
number ten McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's the worst. Well yeah, so there, McDonald's is getting out.
But I'm not crazy.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
French fries, that's fantastic French fries. Ninth place is not
a place that I've heard of. They have fried chicken.
They're called zach Zaxb's zax b Ys, but I'm not
familiar with them. They are a national chain. Eighth place
is Raising Canes, which I find to be quite low
(07:15):
because I love me some raisins.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But there is a Raising Canes does not have much flavor.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
There's no I don't find Raising Canes has a lot
of flavor in this chicken, and I have eaten it,
I still do, but I don't find that particularly tasty.
I'll tell you that, as far as chicken is concerned.
Here is a little hint. Do you have a you
have a food fryer, right, Neil, I mean a air fryer.
(07:42):
Of course, everybody has an air fryer at Costco. Strangely enough,
Tyson's chicken strips, which are huge. I mean they're basically
huge chunks of chicken, and they're frozen, big bag. You
take those pieces out, three or four pieces, and you
put them in your air fryer. You don't heat up
(08:03):
the air fryer, you just put them in. You set
it at three hundred and sixty degrees for thirteen minutes
and they are done, and they are crispy, and they
have just the enough spice, they're tangy. They're just wonderful
and very inexpensive relative to everything else.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Just thought I mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I'm Bill Handle followed me for more recipes.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That was not a recipe that's throwing some frozen chicken
into a air fryer, but just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I love it. Okay, soving on Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Seventh place is Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Sixth place is KFC with those eleven herbs and spices.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And very expensive. Don't you find KFC overpriced? It has
gotten quite expensive. I agree.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, it's like Carl's Junior. It's like Carl's. Very expensive
relative to other fast food places.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Yea, Carls isn't even on here. Fifth place is Windy's,
which I still would I think is low. I think
Wendy's has great food and they are often overlooked. I
think their burgers are great. I think their food is great.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Fourth place is Chick fil A. What's it?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Don't be square? Go to Wendy's.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Okay, you're hilarious, and go to Don't cut Corners?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Okay, even on our meat there you go, that's better.
Yours is better? Which?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Now, which one after Wendy's is fourth place? Chick fil A?
Now wow, it went from first to fourth. Yeah, they
were first for like nine years.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Third place is A and W. Which I don't know.
We might have a couple out here.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, you know the root beer.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh, those big frosty mugs of root beer ice cold.
The mugs were ice cold. They were everywhere for a
long Yeah, they were great. Jack in the Box comes
in second place. Interesting, Yeah, I wouldn't have got.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I wouldn't have done. I go to jam. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
And and then first place is a local joint came
out of California, based here in California, Del Taco. Two
years in a row, Del Taco. Del Taco. Yes, with
their Mexican in quote fair, but they have great prices
and I like their food. They've got, you know, burritos.
(10:21):
Casey is not Cho's tacos. All those the crispy ones.
I mean do they do these have a fast media?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Now what the tacos when you go to a restaurant,
they aren't They are not crispy when you go to
traditional uh Mexican restaurants. Authentic ones you get the soft Uh,
you get the soft flower or usually corn and flower tortillas.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
They don't know from crispy tortillas in Mexico.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, in traditional here when you when you go to
high end Mexican restaurants or media and Mexican restaurants. Uh,
the tacos are not crispy. They're not crispy tacos there.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You can get deep fried, you can get beriah, you
can get different tacos that are fried, pan fried, or
deep fried depending. It's not a street taco where you
have a small corn tortilla or two corn tortillas with
your typical.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, but that is a very interesting list, cilantro. Okay,
try the Tyson chicken. You'll be surprised at how good
that is.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Follow bills and more recipes. Okay, lastly, we have just
a couple of minutes here, right yep. Okay, So ground
beef is usually one of those great fillers. You know
that chicken breast and ground beef are the two proteins
easy for a family that even if they're strapped, you
can get by with. While ground beef just hit over
(11:47):
six bucks a pound and prices we're going up for
steak meats. But when you have beef prices now about
eight percent higher in twenty twenty five, some reaching over
nine bucks a pound just in July, the thought, as
(12:09):
well as is tariffs, is this? This is that? What
it's not tariffs? We have a shrinking, shrinking US herds.
This we've got the lowest amount of headcount since nineteen
fifty one. You've got feed costs on the rise, you've
got an increased demand. There was a parasite called a
screwworm parasite that this outbreak in Mexico resulting in the
(12:34):
USDA putting restrictions on imports. So and then you've got
climate change. You've got you know, the addition of economic pressures,
a three year drought.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And it's not it's only it's only up eight percent.
You'd think it'd be double by now.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
But you know what, that creeps up pretty quickly. With protein.
You know, it's not like you're buying an out some protein.
You're you're usually buying it by pound. That starts to
creep up, you know, quite high. I mean think of eggs.
Yes they got high, but it wasn't oh they got
to as high as a bucket egg.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I think Okay, here's some exciting news, some Costco news.
I went in the as I told you, I went
in a couple of days ago, no yesterday, and I
went into the refrigerated section where they keep the eggs,
et cetera. They now have free range eggs, which they
never had before, so they have.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Does an egg need to be free range? They don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That's a good point because they just have to. They
need room to roll around. Free range eggs, which and
their dirt cheap. Of course, you have to buy them,
you know, one hundred and twenty or one hundred and
fifty at a time, these huge packages. But Lindsey is crazy.
She wants happy chickens, which is going.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
To save you a lot of money, because how much
did you pay? You were paying a lot for those.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I was paying thirteen dollars a for a dozen. Now
they're seven dollars eight dollars and regular eggs just you know,
treat your chickens like crap eggs those are three bucks,
four bucks they could be.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, basically they've gone down. But I was stunned.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Free range eggs and they're half the price of of course,
the ones that you find at at the supermarket and beef.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Of course, feel better about buying an egg, but it's.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
It doesn't make me feel better, you know. I mean,
as a matter of fact, the more chicken suffers, I think,
the better the meat tastes.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And but that's a whole world there.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Taste the fear in the egg pretty.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Much what it's that's science. That's science when you have
the hormones going through and the adrenaline and all of that. Okay,
we're done.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I mean I are going to miss your sense of
humor when you're in hell.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And it is time, as we always do it end
of the last half hour of the show. It's ask
handle anything. And that came out of the experiences that
all of us have here on KFI. Those are on
the air because we're always asked by everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I had lunch the other day.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I just happened to go into a sandwich shop and
I was talking to some guy and a KFI listener,
and all he did was asked me about you guys,
what's Neil like?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
You know what's uh?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, he asked about Kno, he did, will if it
makes you feel any better? He had no idea you
even existed. Okay with that awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Okay, So with that, it's asked handle anything, and the
rules are always the same, and that is you ask
you record a question.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I have not heard it. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Neil chooses which ones and we all hear at the
same time, and well usually there to humiliate me.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Okay, let's do it. Cono. Hey, Bill, I like your show.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
I listened to it every morning while I'm walking dog,
so keep sneath.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
From getting completely bored.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
But I got to tell you, you're eating on the air
is disgusting.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Do what the rest of us.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Do, eat before we go to work, or eat during
a break but eating during the show it more.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Of a service announcement.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I think, Yeah, all right, okay, so what all right? Yeah,
you're disgustingn't know what. I'm not answering any questions. Why
you want me to admit it? You want me to
deny it? Of course I eat on the air show
gets in the way of my breakfast.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
What she kind of represents I don't put all of
them up, but she kind of represents a chunk of
the sentiment out there. So I thought she kind of
she's like one for a hundred all right, all.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Right, thank you for your opinion when I don't ask
for opinions.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Moving on, George from North Rich Bill, I have basically
a twofold question, and we heard about the passing of
Ossi Osborne and how they late.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Flowers saw him on a star.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
My question is will people when you pass the bill,
will people be laying flowers on your star? And now
too will? If not? Well, would you put in your
will that someone from KFI or the morning show do so?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Answering with the first question, will people put star flowers
on my star? No, they will continue to do exactly
what they're doing now is peeing on the star, and
on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Okay, that's for starters.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Second of all, in my will, I can't force anybody
to do anything. I can, you know, pay them, or
I can say here's some flowers, would you put it
on my on my star?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
But I know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
They're going to take the flowers, give them to someone
and then go and pee on my star, which people
do on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I will say that I heard John Cobalt want say
say that when you die, he's going to leave a
fresh one on your star, but he won't.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Be the first. He will be the first.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I don't know if that was a k or is
it one? But he said rash I remember Ryan.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Excellent. Okay, next question Cono.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Hey Bill Matt from the ie all hail Kono, asked
Campbell anything. I'm out in the ie. So my go
to deli is in Palm Springs at Sherman's Deli.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Have you been to Sherman's Deli?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
And if you have, how does it compare to Brent's
thinking about making my trip out to Brents check that out?
And also do you remember what you said what deck
forty was?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Uh? Number one?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I have not been out to Sherman so I have
no idea. I doubt that it will match Brent's. Brent's
every year in Zaggots is at the top of the heap.
It's been named number one in Los Angeles and a
couple of times it's been named number one deli in
the country. And as against New York Deli's because Zaggots
(18:59):
and everybody is totally biased to biased against New York
again in favor of New York delis. And I already
forgot the second question. The second part of it? What
was it you used to have? Oh, yeah, wet deck.
I don't know what what deck is? Okay, I know
what I remember?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
No, I think.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
I think you used to say that it WD forty
stood for wet deck because it was used on naval
ships and the first time they did forty people died.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Oh no, no, no, no, you made up some Yeah
it was in reality, in reality?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
What does what's w D forty?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
It was the fortieth attempt at the formula for this
kind of oil.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
That's where WD it was. I think it's water displacement
or something.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Whatever it is, but I know it was.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
The forty stands for fortieth attempt attempt.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
So that's a wet deck. See.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I completely misheard that. Move along, all right, moving along.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
All hail kono?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
We just did he?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Just wow?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well done self promotion.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yes, I was just.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Curious if you ever thought of pitching Zelman's to Costco.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
The answer is yes.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
When Zelmans, they're created by the breath Assure people, which
I they're friends about. I've been involved with him for
thirty five years or yeah, at least so Zelman's or
breath Ashore. Was it Costco and the problem with pitching
Costco is, first of all, you have to create your
own SKU. They want different packaging like two or three
(20:56):
or four whatever, some unique packaging.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Also, you have to.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Do such astounding numbers to stay at Costco. I mean,
you can still do very well and the product makes money,
but if you don't hit that critical mass, you're gone.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
And they're very tough on that.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
So yeah, that would be terrific, and we talk about
that all the time. But that's a tough one. That
is good idea. We'd love to be at Costco. We're
there before, so we'll try again, all right, CONO. Next question, Hey.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Bill, I was wondering if you could have a debate
with John Colebelt in regards to California and the current
administration issues.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Thank you, that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I've only debated John once and it had to do
with Bill Clinton when he was impeached. And do you
remember the sexcapade that went on with Monica Lewinsky And
he talked about how criminal it was, and I talked
about how it really wasn't maybe the perjury part, but
(22:07):
you know, and he lied about it. But here's the wery. Yeah,
sure is illegal except I understand. What did he What
did he lie about? He lied about having hold on,
He lied about.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Having sex with Monica Lewinsky.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Now there is it's in the wall, Okay, it is
statutory that a married man must lie about having sex
with another woman.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
You're stupid. Perjury isn't about what you perjure yourself about.
It's about perjury. No, I understand, but I said it
should have been handled differently. That kind of perjury is
not the same as a financial crime perjury.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
It's you know, he purjured himself about having sex. I mean,
come on, who doesn't lie about having sex? You know,
for example, I'll tell you I have a decent sex life.
That's an utter lie.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I mean that's okay. Moving on, Why.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Was Zelvin Mintz taking off the market a few years ago?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Zelman Mintz were not taken off the market. Breadth Ashore
was taken off the market. And it's too long, a
very long story, but they were breadth Ashore was a
victim of predatory business practices, and had it happen in Europe,
people would have gone to prison for doing what happened
to them. But it would take me ten fifteen minutes
(23:32):
to get into it, but it's all legal stuff. It
wasn't all legal stuff. Oh yeah, I had the quality.
This stuff was amazing. It was all legal stuff. It
had to do with companies that were trying to go
against and filed suits and all that.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
It was comp because they were so successful, right, yeah,
that's exactly why.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah. Yeah, they took too much of the market.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And you've got big companies that did not like it,
and that happens more often than not. And it's like
Microsoft accused of, you know, taking small businesses and destroying them.
Remember all of those accusations. All right, let's continue on.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Good morning. Denise from Otionside, soon to be Denise from Glendora,
wamp not just kidding. So this is a question for
Handle and Neil actually because I'm getting transferred to Glendora, California,
where I have no family, no friends, don't know the area,
but I am a foodie hoping you guys could suggest
some restaurants, dive bars, fast food, anything that I could
(24:31):
enjoy a really good meal at.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
That's that's to you. Neil, Glendora.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, no, you you know, uh you had Savile used
to live out there, and I thought maybe you guys.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, you know what. That's true.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I can call I forgot that, I can call Sable
and I will ask him and uh yeah, not that
you'll never get back to her.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
First of all, the foothills are a gem in Los Angeles.
They are absolutely gorgeous and they are filled with great food.
You've got Root sixty six with tons of places. If
you're looking for a fun dive bar, I'd say our
place in Glendora. It's karaoke, low key, playful. And as
(25:16):
far as restaurants, I'm going to go with and bros.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
And yeah, and she has nobody here, no friends, no acquaintances,
no one that likes that particularly likes her. Boy, I
don't know anything about that at all. Like can certainly
help her with her problems.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, you can't get friends for yourself.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Well said, okay, Conor do we have more to know?
Speaker 9 (25:40):
And your family came to the US, I'm assuming you
just spoke Portuguese. When did it transition to speaking English
at home? Or did you always end up speaking Portuguese
within your household?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
All right, let's that's a very good question. When did
it transition for me? It was three weeks because I
was into kindergarten.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
And no one spoke Portuguese, so it was it was
a baptism in fire. There wasn't English as the second language,
none of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
And at home it was my parents spoke Portuguese to
each other. And they well, let me put it this way,
when my mom died and my dad died after sixty
years in this country, they still sounded like they got
off got off the boat yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So it was yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
And then when they spoke, when they didn't want me
to understand, they spoke Yiddish to each other.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
You know, they did the Jewish language.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
And is that how I learned the word schmuck.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
That's why I worn older schmuck. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
And you know the words that I use I learned there.
And the only phrase I ever really knew in Yiddish
was my mother as I was getting beat up by
my dad because he was very old world, and you know,
corporal punishment was a bit thing. The only thing I
remember that my mother saying in Yiddish was LEO, hit
(27:05):
him harder.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Okay, hid him harder, get him so hard. Words in
kindergarten in English, yes, little fat Jewish boy, Yeah, okay,
that's curious.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Okay, Uh, if we have one more, Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
Good morning, Wooly Wolf, Lawrence Arrah notionanside. Hey, your middle
name is wolf and Neil calls you wooly Wolf. Is
that because you have Harry back, Harry arms, and chest.
So my question is, are you in fact wooly? That's it.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
This is the reason he doesn't have a talk show. Okay.
It's as much.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
As he would like to be on the air, he
clearly does not have a show.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Uh. My middle name is Wolf.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
It was originally I was born as wolf Handle, and
I chose the name William. By the way, that was
my call, and it was I took it on when
I was eleven years old, when I became naturalized, naturalized
American citizen through my parents. And at that point you
can have any name you want. It's almost like a
birth certificate. And so I chose William and it is
(28:16):
William wolf Handle. Now, the Willie Wolf part is the
only person that ever called me Willie Wolf was Savil
for years and years, and Neil picked up on it
because he realized that Savile was making incredible fun of
me because I am not a Willie. I am not
a billy. I am not a will will. We already
(28:39):
have a will here.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
So it cracks me up every time he goes well
a wolf in his accent.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
In his accent, italk about savile Yeah, South Africa.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
How he does it? So I adopted. I used to
call you handleman. And do you know why? I used
to call you yell handleman in the morning when i'd
see you in the office. Uh No, many years ago,
decades and decades and decades ago, you were doing actually
I think you were maybe in Glendora doing some remote
and we were out there doing some remote, and some
(29:14):
old lady came up to me and told me how
much I love him so much. I listened to his
show all the time. I love him so much. Bill
Handleman is my favorite, and I how could you be
her favorite? She didn't even know your name.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
There are some things when I didn't know my name,
which is true.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I have actually mispronounced my own name on the air
without doing shill hamblin. Yeah, legitimately mispronouncing my name without shtick.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
All right, we're done, guys, This is KABC. Yeah that's all.
I've done that a few times. I've done that. Yeah,
that's Okay, we're done, guys. Thank you Neil. That's enough.
All right, it's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Okay, Tomorrow morning o'clock hand on the law, Neil from
two to five with the Fork Report, and then of
course we start all over again on Monday. Will and
Amy wake up call on the rest of us. That's
Neil and I. We come aboard at nine.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Or six so much and oldman it'll be Selmans. I
will suck off the mint.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Oh, let's not go there.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Okay, we've already had that conversation. All right, we're done.
Gary and Shannon up next. KFI AM sixty. You've been
listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch My Show Monday
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