August 14, 2025 • 30 mins
(August 14, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Europeans strike upbeat note after Trump hears them out on Putin summit demands. Germany and allies to send major military aid package to Ukraine using new NATO supply line. Air Canada plans to lock out its flight attendants and cancel all flights starting this weekend. Melania Trump demands Hunter Biden retract ‘extremely salacious’ Epstein comments.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Europeans strike upbeat note after Trump hears them out on Putin summit demands. Germany and allies to send major military aid package to Ukraine using new NATO supply line. Air Canada plans to lock out its flight attendants and cancel all flights starting this weekend. Melania Trump demands Hunter Biden retract ‘extremely salacious’ Epstein comments.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good morning everybody. Bill Handle here. Oh my microphone not working.
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Speaker 6 (00:48):
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Speaker 5 (00:50):
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said that the I was on. Okay, just had to
figure out my headset for a minute. There, fair enough.
I'm at the studio at home and what I'm at
studio home? Nothing works? Actually everything works, I just don't
know how to work it. All right, Good morning everybody.
Bill Handle here. It's in August fourteenth, It's Taco Tuesday
(01:12):
plus two, and we are we have a lot to
talk about today.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Wow, how unusual. First of all, a quick hello to
one and all. Cono, Good morning. What's up? Bill? Oh,
what's up? What's up? Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Neil Cono doesn't have a star on the Walk of Fame.
Amy doesn't have a star Will doesn't and doesn't I
don't now.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Another name for my star on the Walk of Fame
is a urinal. I'm very pleased to say, yeah, exactly,
all right, Will, good morning, good morning, Bill, and there
you are. And I have to go through it. You know,
I don't know why I do this, but I like
to say good morning to everybody. Amy, good morning, Hi Bill,
there you go, big smile. And finally, Ann, who is
(01:56):
bitching and moaning already.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
This morning, I was.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Sort of yeah, no, me, no, me, no, Yeah, look
cheerful lucky. That's the word I do, is cheerful, happy,
go lucky. Oh okay, let's see.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
What was I going to talk about today. I'm going
to start it with all right.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
First of all, I don't know if you guys have
seen a new Billy Joel documentary just came out.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Ah amazing, it is so good.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
The other thing I want to point out is we're
and Amy, let's talk about this for a second before
we jump into the news, and that is that this week,
every night there's been a major shooting. I mean every
single night there has been a mass shooting, cops being killed, ambushed,
kids being taken out, and I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Why do they.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Cover these stories over and over again. Why don't at
the end of the week we just give the numbers
of people that have been killed. They used to do
that at the height of the Vietnam War. Walter Cronkite,
who was CBS and it was most trusted name in
news in America, literally would end the show on Friday
(03:09):
with this week, two hundred and eighty one American servicemen
were killed. And next week it's this week two hundred
and fifty six American servicemen were killed. All we got
was numbers at the end of the week. I'm thinking,
why aren't we doing that? Why don't we cover these
shootings when they're constant?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Morning tonight, I'll ask the program director.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, what program director? No, I'm just curious as to why.
I'm seriously why they're still making news because there are
so many of them.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I think it's to counter all that news about how
crime is down.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
H Yeah, it could be. That's true. It's as good
as you know. And the shame of it for someone
who is been pro gun control, which I have been
for many, many years, it's the fact that it's truly
it's just the cost of.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Doing businesses in this country. That's it.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You know, people are gonna die. I don't know, twenty
thirty thousand people are going to die. I don't know
how many as a result of gunshots, but it's in
the tens of thousands, and just that's the cost of
doing business.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
They're doing a lot of damage of stabbings too these days. Yeah,
I know, fifteen people are getting stabbed at a time.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You know, absolutely, you're right, which is why there's a
huge movement for knife control that we want to make
sure knives are put away safely, should not be carry
you shouldn't be able to carry a knife.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
As a matter of fact, are very popular too. I'm
sorry it shit, the big knife very popular. The cool
thing is is that when someone dies by a knife,
they always go, thank god, I wasn't shot.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Relative.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I have a question, just as if someone's trying to
kill you, they're trying to kill you, okay, relative to
the damage you can trying to kill each other. Bill,
let's look at that.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Well, it depends on what kind of show you have
where you are on the air. Good point I'm making
is stabbings, deaths by stabbing relative to deaths by guns.
I'm willing to better a tiny, tiny little amount. Also,
you can run away for the nice London.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
That's because they don't have guns in London.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yes, but people still want to kill is the problem.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Let's go to the.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Okay, anyway, the point is, the point is there are
so many of them and it's really getting depressing.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
That's all. Okay, let's do it, guys.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We've got a lot to cover today and really some
fun topics we're going to have today. They're just it's
a good show. It is a good show. Okay, let's
start handle on the news with Amy and me lead Storry.
It's the anticipation of the president tomorrow meeting with Vladimir Putin,
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and there's a few things going on. First of all,
the president has walked back big time. What's going to
happen at that summit? You remember day one the wars
were going to end the presidency, both Ukraine and in Israel,
the Israeli kamaswar. And I think that President Trump seriously
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underestimated the players in these conflicts. That's for starters. Second,
it's sort of a gift.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I think.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think it's fair to say that most of the
rest of the world thinks that Putin is not necessarily smarter,
but more sophisticated and negotiator. It gets things done well
thought out. Where the president is very spontaneous and relies
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on his ability to cut deals, which he has forever,
doesn't quite work that way on the world stage.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And then the president said something, there's going to be
a land swap. What does that mean. It looks like
the land swap is Putin taking as much land as
as possible prior to the meeting, and then he will
give up some of the land he took in order
to keep some of the land that he took.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
That's the landswap.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I thought your analysis on that yesterday was brilliant. That
he's taking as much as he can to negotiate by
giving back something, going, okay, we'll just take a little
bit exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, And when we talk about land, usually when you
think about landswap, you give up something and the other
side gives up something. Not quite in this case. Okay,
we'll talk lots more about this tomorrow. To say the least, a.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Shot in the arm for Ukraine. Germany says it's going
to work with a group of Ukraine's Western backers to
supply a package of military aid to Ukraine worth up
to five hundred million dollars. They're going to be using
a new NATO supply line. Earlier this month, NATO started
coordinating deliveries of large weapons packages to Ukraine after the
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Netherlands said it would provide air defense AMMO and other
military aid worth about five hundred and eighty two million dollars,
and Sweden said the following day they were going to
kick in about two hundred and seventy five million dollars
in a joint effort along with Denmark and Norway, and
a total of five hundred million for the Scandinavian countries
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on air defenses, anti tank weapons, AMMO and spare parts.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, when you look at these numbers, these are low
relative to the amount of money, arms equipment that has
been sent to Ukraine already. I mean in the tens
of billions of dollars. I think we're north of one
hundred billion dollars loan in this country. And they have
the European Union, you have countries. It's a mess. This
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thing putin has really put the world in a big turmoil.
And it is really unfortunate. But you know, the guy's
a dictator, you know, and he's created a pariah state.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Sounds like a bad appetizer. All have the dictators please,
Air Canada will not be going oot in a boot.
They are going on strike, apparently, flight attendants they voted
to go on strike. About ninety nine point seven percent
of the membership voted to go on strike. You've got
Air Canada has nearly four hundred and thirty daily flights
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between Canada and the US fifty US airports, about one
hundred and thirty thousand customers a day. Interesting thing. This
comes at a good time because Canadians aren't coming over here.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I thought they're not. I don't think, but it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
What this The topic about this, The point of these
negotiations is something that's been going for years and years
and years, and that is the airlines don't pay full
tilt for stewart I or stewardesses, male and female stewardesses.
And it has to do with getting ready waiting for
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airplanes sitting on tarmacs. I think it used to be
when wheels up and now it's when you pull back
from the gate and if it takes you a while
to get to the plane, or you're walking forever to
get to the plane or the flight center, you're not
being paid for that.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
And they want pay.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
For every second they're at work. And I don't argue
with that one. The airline center proposal that offers a
thirty eight percent increase over four years, Nope, nope, nope,
we want The big thing is we want one hundred
percent pay for all hours of work.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
All right, let's go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
There was a weird case that came to mind where
somebody had a manager had to clock out and then
lock up the store, and they said they were being
cheated for the time between clocking out and locking up
the store after years and years of doing that for time, Well, if.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's two minutes and they want yeah, because if you're
walking around making sure that the doors are locked and
securing the building before walking out the front door, let's
say it takes you ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Okay, that's you're right. Add that over time.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Things they're a little icy in downtown. After months of denials,
members of Congress were finally able to get into the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown Los Angeles, where
people in detention have been reporting lack of food, water,
and beds. Representatives accused the facility of being sanitized before
they got there. There's a rule that says you have
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to give seventy two hours notice. So Jimmy Gomez and
Judy Chu and some lawmakers went there yesterday, and Representative
Gomez said, on this visit inside, two people were there
right now. So when I say they invited us in
when there was nobody there, right, they knew what they
were doing.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
The ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans and certainly folks
at ice and the Democratic leadership in Congress.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Matter of fact, Democratic members of Congress, I.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Mean, this fight is just getting it's I'm glad that
the President is putting a UFC fight at the White
House on the South Lawn. And they should not have
professional fighters. They just should have members of Congress on
both sides.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Of the aisle.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Oh that would be fun.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You might as well, I mean, sure, why not? And
east side gets to pick someone. Democrats picked Nancy Pelosi
because she's eighty six years old.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
And she's scrappy, and she is scrapping, that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
And boy does she know how to pick stocks am
I right, codo, yeah boy out of money. I love
how they argue about a detention center. Yet there's people
living living in their own piss uh just outside my door.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
That's all right?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
What the Zell New York attorney is suing the parent
company of that money exchange service, Zell. They say the
payment service enabled a bunch of fraud. And I've only
used it once or twice per somebody requesting it like
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a I don't know, like somebody we were using a
service or something.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
That we use all the use.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I never do because it always has had a bad rap.
They have a massive amounts of fraud. Apparently it wasn't
as secure as they say. And now you're at New
York Attorney General.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Did you know?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I didn't that the company at run Zell is owned
by the large US banks JP, Morgan, Chase, Bank of America,
Capital One, Wells Fargo. I did not know that they.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Do it because people were using Venmo. People still use PayPal,
they use Apple.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Use we use Venmo constantly. Just take a choice, and
I think people just like, yeah, Venmo works.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Don't mess with Melania.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
The first Lady has demanded that Hunter Biden, the former
first son retract comments linking her to Jeffrey Epstein. She's
threatened to sue if he doesn't retract him.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Apparently.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Biden was doing an interview with Andrew Callig Callahan, a
British journalist, earlier this month, and he said that Epstein
introduced the first Lady to now President Trump. She says
the statements are false, defamatory, and salacious, and it's threatening
to do.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I don't see the issue. Why couldn't she introduce him?
She knew him beforehand, and he knew everybody. I mean
knowing Jeff Epstein. If you'd have three quarters, you're.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Saying that Jeffrey Epstein introduced Milania Trump to Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh oh, I'm sorry. I uh yeah, no I misspoke
on that one. No, no, But but let me ask
a question.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
I I don't they met at a party?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Was it a party?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
I don't know, but else or something to the story
A bunch.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, let's even let's even say it's true. Okay, now
what now?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
What's uh? What's what's the downside here? Hey? I like
you to meet uh Donald Trump and then they hook up.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Trump a lot of stuff, saying that she slept with
Epstein before.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Well that's different. That's different. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
But Alania, she's gonna set a la Yeah. Yeah, you
better step off. She's gonna get you.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Bill. Yeah, you should be in radio.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Okay, yes, next, thirty five hundred birds? What's wrong with you? People? Kno?
Out there in the Inland Empire, thirty five hundred birds
were seized? Why cause I guess people are cockfighting. No,
the birds are cockfighting. Yeah, well then I've been training
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for the wrong fight.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You have fifty six people arrested. They had firearms, drugs,
drug paraphernalia. Multi week cockfighting investigation in San BORDEU and
official you know, dubbed the crowd crow Rooster.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I wonder who came up with that one? That is
so clever, isn't it Crowing Rooster? That operation? I have
a question about thirty five thirty five hundred birds.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Yeah, that's and why? Yeah, it's huge And you.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Know the name of the original operation was Operation cock Block.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Was it really? Okay? Excellent? Now?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Why do in the Inland Empire is cock fighting so popular?
Because when you give the girl, when you give those
birds the mess that they have in the Inland Empire
in such huge quantities.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
You get a hell of a fight between those birds.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Who could watch that?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
You got me?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I mean, don't they You know the old things that
I remember hearing are like they have razors, they put
them on their talents.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
They do Oh no, the talents.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
If you look at the talents, I mean, it is vicious,
It is inhumane, It is horrible.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
This is a big bust.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Six members and associates of the Hoover criminal Gang, allegedly
we're arrested yesterday. Authorities are calling it the first major
takedown of a sex trafficking operation along the Figaroa corridor
of South La. Apparently, that area, about a three and
a a half mile stretch of fig is notoriously known
for prostitution. They conducted the operation from February of twenty
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twenty one to August of twenty twenty five, allegedly recruiting
vulnerable miners and young women, including as young as fourteen
years old. They were targeting runaways kids in the foster
care system through social media, branding them with tattoos, drugging them,
and forcing them into prostitution.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah. I'm looking at the names of those arrested, and
none of them are Hispanic and I point out that
at first I thought this was cartel stuff, and it
doesn't seem to be associated with the cartels, so I
don't know, I've noticed that. And Hoover, where do they
get the name Hoover.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Because they suck?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh that's not all okay, and that's not bad. All right,
I'll take that.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
All right. This is the quote of the morning. This
comes from a rancher, Lake Ruff, who says, I don't
care what kind of cemetery it is. I don't care
if it's religious, non religious, private or public. I don't
want dead bodies in my water. I don't know if
that's what he sounds like. But this all comes because
in Riverside County there's a proposed cemetery to be built,
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and a lot of people, including mister Ruff and his
family there at rough family ranch in Riverside County, are
upset about. He wanted to turn his property there into
an organic farm.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
He's cemetery he wanted to turn into turn it into
a cemetery.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
No, it's just he wanted to turn it into an
organic farm. But he says this proposed project that is
not far from his property is threatening his his goal
and his his dream to create this or.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Oh, I got it, Okay, I thought, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Know how you're going to have twenty thousand dead bodies
next door potentially.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Here's why I conflated it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, because or I thought organic burials, you know where
they just throw someone into the ground and you rot, uh,
you know, without any caskets or anything, fertilizer, the warm food.
I get that, And so that's where I conflated that twenty.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
He's not happy. Don't want to no dead bodies in
my water.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, but they get well I don't know if they're
gonna be in the water, but they rot pretty quickly
when they're in the ground.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, it goes into the ground, awkwarfers all that stuff.
And then sure you're drinking dead bodies. Bill.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
You know you can do what I did.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
You know, my mother died and I put her in ah,
you know, one of those canisters out and back a composter.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
We're fine with your.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Banana peels, Yeah, cheaper as much cheaper.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Just need one that's a decent size.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Keeping those cuts. Divided panel of the Appeals Court ruled
that the Trump administration can suspend or termin eight billions
of dollars of congressionally appropriated funding for foreign aid.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
On his first day in.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Office, President Trump issued an executive order directing the State
Department and the US Agency for International Development USAID to
freeze spending on foreign aid. And this decision allows that
aid to be frozen.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, because he's the one that controls it.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
That it was funded by Congress.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
And the argument was if it's funded by Congress, therefore
you can't stop it, and the appeals court said, yeah,
he can because it is an executive order. Kind of
interesting that all of the funding of most of the
USAID is gone. I mean, there's some argument about waste,
I can see that, but this is for aid prevention.
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I mean, this is this is big stuff that was
cut around the world.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
But it's a question of philosophy too, Which way do
you go? All right?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So Walmart is trying to keep up with the Joneses.
Of course, the jones is being target Whole Foods, which
is owned by Amazon, by the way, by giving a perk,
a little benefit to their workers and the grocery bills
they have every single month. So we all know that
Walmart is the country's largest private employer. They're extending ten
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percent employee discount, and this includes just about everything grocery
purchases on their store or online. And they're trying to
keep their workers or woo new workers. When you have
places like you know, Amazon who owns Whole Foods, as
I said, are offering workers at twenty percent discount on
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most in store purchases. Target offers twenty percent discount on
fresh and frozen produce and some store brands, and ten
percent discount on most other goods. So that can be
a big deal. Yeah, it can be a big deal.
iHeart does much similar things, you know.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
For example, for us, we're allowed to listen to the
radio for free, which is a big perk here.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
They do sometimes when they have big concerts, tell us
that we can buy the tickets early.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yeah, that's basically it.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Hey how about a discount, no, no, no, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You can also buy swag, so if you want to
be a walking billboard for the company, you can purchase it.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
There actually were some sweatshirts Mate which were kind of neat,
you know, iHeartMedia sweatshirts, and they put them on sale
and when you on the secondary market you would buy them,
and they were for less money than they were than
what I Heeart was selling them for.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
We're going to read one of these stories one day
and Kono's going to get up, take off his headphones,
to walk out and get a new job.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
He's trying really hard, and I might follow him. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel says he has obtained Italian citizenship.
Does that mean he'll be going the way of other
celebrities Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres and some others and moving
abroad because of the second term of President Trump. He said,
I did get an Italian citizenship. He says, what's going
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on is as bad as you thought it was going
to be. It's so much worse. It's unbelievable. Like I
think it's probably even worse than he would like it
to be.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So two questions. One, how did he get Italian citizenship.
I'm in the middle of getting EU citizenship, a Polish
citizenship because my father was born in Poland, even though
he left when he was a toddler. So through my dad,
I can get Polish citizenship, which means I'm a member
of the European community. And remember I'm you know, the
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plan is to move to Italy at least part of
the time. Uh, and then it's hard to do a
show from Italy.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, who knows if the show will be around for
one Yeah, I don't know. L night shows are.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
They're on their way out. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Although he can do his he can do his late
now night show very early in the morning.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But here's the deal, if you're gonna move. I hate
the weakness in this. Everybody forgets we the people part
of all this, and to just you know, take off
is so weak.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
To me.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Not to mention, you know, Jimmy Kimmel found his way
up with The Man Show and having women jumping on trampoline, right,
but you know you had Stern doing all that.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Pig Why is it? Why is it weak? Though?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
If you're talking about I'm out of here because of
what's going on in this country, why.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Don't have to country because the country is not the same,
Then your beliefs and stand up for them.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I have this conversation with Lindsay all the time because
she's the one that really wants to get noticed out
of the United States.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
And the argument is there really is no country to
fight for anymore over fifty percent of the electorate I
mean plurality, but more than certainly voted for Biden, voted
for Donald Trump and the people. I've never seen anything
like this where it is so polarized. I mean, it's
really sanity out there.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So and so during the sixties when leaders were getting
shot and during the Civil War and all of these things,
it wasn't I.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Have never seen it so polarized. And I think you
lived during the sixties. Yes, I think during the sixties
the polarization was very different than today, very different. And
when you're talking about the leaders, you had Kennedy, Martin,
Luther King, and RFK. Those are the three that were assassinated,
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one nineteen sixty the other two.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Thirteen percent of the population on social media. That tells
you how to think that's correct. It's a very different
thirteen percent. I'm surprised that is that is enough to
number one change away minds. And incidentally, I don't know
where you got thirteen percent, because we've been reporting there's
a far greater number of people that are listening to
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and they get.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Their news from TikTok. I think it's demographic. I think
it's younger people.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
We do the studies when I was in management here,
we do the studies of how how people are swayed
from social media.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Okay, and you get to look this one up. I
think Neil's wrong on this one. What is the percentage
of people that look at social media to obtain their news?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, no, but you're talking about you're talking about, yes,
demographics of young people. My statement is the entire population
is of three hundred and fifty million people in the
United States plus are not on social media.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Oh no, of course not. Of course I don't get
my news from social media. I get my porno from
social media. It's I understand, it's a very different animal.
I won't even go into that.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
This sixteen minute or a thirteen second clip is all
you need.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Okay, Why don't we get out of this one and
continue on and finish up handle on the news Amy,
I think it's.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Mister Oh is it Neil turn Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Jerry Jones, who's the owner of the Cowboys, had just
done a documentary series called America's Team, The Gambler and
His Cowboys. It's going to debut on Netflix next week.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
So this guy's eighty two.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Years old and apparently he was diagnosed in June of
twenty ten. Underwent two surgeries in his lungs and lift
nodes for cancer. It looks like it was melanoma or
something that fantastasized.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Yeah, he's very lucky to be alive. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
So he took some experimental trial drug and it treated
this advance to melanoma. And he had not disclosed this
cancer diagnosis publicly, and in this documentary he does. That's
pretty great. I mean, that's a long time to live
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with that kind.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Yeah, he was part of I understand he was part
of a control group trying a new drug. We don't
know if it was I'm assuming he was in the
part of the control group that actually took the drug
because these were double blind studies, so half people take
placebos and the other half take drugs and they compare
the two. Those are the double blind studies. Okay, guys,
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good morning everybody. Bill Handle here. Oh my microphone not working.
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Hold on.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
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I well you and I don't know where it went.
Very strange. Let's try that again. Okay, Uh, there we go.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
All right, we've heard you the whole time.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
No, I know that.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh I know, yeah, I know. He yeah, Kono had
said that the I was on. Okay, just had to
figure out my headset for a minute. There, fair enough.
I'm at the studio at home and what I'm at
studio home? Nothing works? Actually everything works, I just don't
know how to work it. All right, Good morning everybody.
Bill Handle here. It's in August fourteenth, It's Taco Tuesday
(01:12):
plus two, and we are we have a lot to
talk about today.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Wow, how unusual. First of all, a quick hello to
one and all. Cono, Good morning. What's up? Bill? Oh,
what's up? What's up? Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Neil Cono doesn't have a star on the Walk of Fame.
Amy doesn't have a star Will doesn't and doesn't I
don't now.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Another name for my star on the Walk of Fame
is a urinal. I'm very pleased to say, yeah, exactly,
all right, Will, good morning, good morning, Bill, and there
you are. And I have to go through it. You know,
I don't know why I do this, but I like
to say good morning to everybody. Amy, good morning, Hi Bill,
there you go, big smile. And finally, Ann, who is
(01:56):
bitching and moaning already.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
This morning, I was.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Sort of yeah, no, me, no, me, no, Yeah, look
cheerful lucky. That's the word I do, is cheerful, happy,
go lucky. Oh okay, let's see.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
What was I going to talk about today. I'm going
to start it with all right.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
First of all, I don't know if you guys have
seen a new Billy Joel documentary just came out.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Ah amazing, it is so good.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
The other thing I want to point out is we're
and Amy, let's talk about this for a second before
we jump into the news, and that is that this week,
every night there's been a major shooting. I mean every
single night there has been a mass shooting, cops being killed, ambushed,
kids being taken out, and I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Why do they.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Cover these stories over and over again. Why don't at
the end of the week we just give the numbers
of people that have been killed. They used to do
that at the height of the Vietnam War. Walter Cronkite,
who was CBS and it was most trusted name in
news in America, literally would end the show on Friday
(03:09):
with this week, two hundred and eighty one American servicemen
were killed. And next week it's this week two hundred
and fifty six American servicemen were killed. All we got
was numbers at the end of the week. I'm thinking,
why aren't we doing that? Why don't we cover these
shootings when they're constant?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Morning tonight, I'll ask the program director.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, what program director? No, I'm just curious as to why.
I'm seriously why they're still making news because there are
so many of them.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I think it's to counter all that news about how
crime is down.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
H Yeah, it could be. That's true. It's as good
as you know. And the shame of it for someone
who is been pro gun control, which I have been
for many, many years, it's the fact that it's truly
it's just the cost of.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Doing businesses in this country. That's it.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You know, people are gonna die. I don't know, twenty
thirty thousand people are going to die. I don't know
how many as a result of gunshots, but it's in
the tens of thousands, and just that's the cost of
doing business.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
They're doing a lot of damage of stabbings too these days. Yeah,
I know, fifteen people are getting stabbed at a time.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You know, absolutely, you're right, which is why there's a
huge movement for knife control that we want to make
sure knives are put away safely, should not be carry
you shouldn't be able to carry a knife.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
As a matter of fact, are very popular too. I'm
sorry it shit, the big knife very popular. The cool
thing is is that when someone dies by a knife,
they always go, thank god, I wasn't shot.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Relative.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I have a question, just as if someone's trying to
kill you, they're trying to kill you, okay, relative to
the damage you can trying to kill each other. Bill,
let's look at that.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Well, it depends on what kind of show you have
where you are on the air. Good point I'm making
is stabbings, deaths by stabbing relative to deaths by guns.
I'm willing to better a tiny, tiny little amount. Also,
you can run away for the nice London.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
That's because they don't have guns in London.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yes, but people still want to kill is the problem.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Let's go to the.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Okay, anyway, the point is, the point is there are
so many of them and it's really getting depressing.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
That's all. Okay, let's do it, guys.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We've got a lot to cover today and really some
fun topics we're going to have today. They're just it's
a good show. It is a good show. Okay, let's
start handle on the news with Amy and me lead Storry.
It's the anticipation of the president tomorrow meeting with Vladimir Putin,
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and there's a few things going on. First of all,
the president has walked back big time. What's going to
happen at that summit? You remember day one the wars
were going to end the presidency, both Ukraine and in Israel,
the Israeli kamaswar. And I think that President Trump seriously
(06:36):
underestimated the players in these conflicts. That's for starters. Second,
it's sort of a gift.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I think.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think it's fair to say that most of the
rest of the world thinks that Putin is not necessarily smarter,
but more sophisticated and negotiator. It gets things done well
thought out. Where the president is very spontaneous and relies
(07:07):
on his ability to cut deals, which he has forever,
doesn't quite work that way on the world stage.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And then the president said something, there's going to be
a land swap. What does that mean. It looks like
the land swap is Putin taking as much land as
as possible prior to the meeting, and then he will
give up some of the land he took in order
to keep some of the land that he took.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
That's the landswap.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I thought your analysis on that yesterday was brilliant. That
he's taking as much as he can to negotiate by
giving back something, going, okay, we'll just take a little
bit exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, And when we talk about land, usually when you
think about landswap, you give up something and the other
side gives up something. Not quite in this case. Okay,
we'll talk lots more about this tomorrow. To say the least, a.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Shot in the arm for Ukraine. Germany says it's going
to work with a group of Ukraine's Western backers to
supply a package of military aid to Ukraine worth up
to five hundred million dollars. They're going to be using
a new NATO supply line. Earlier this month, NATO started
coordinating deliveries of large weapons packages to Ukraine after the
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Netherlands said it would provide air defense AMMO and other
military aid worth about five hundred and eighty two million dollars,
and Sweden said the following day they were going to
kick in about two hundred and seventy five million dollars
in a joint effort along with Denmark and Norway, and
a total of five hundred million for the Scandinavian countries
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on air defenses, anti tank weapons, AMMO and spare parts.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, when you look at these numbers, these are low
relative to the amount of money, arms equipment that has
been sent to Ukraine already. I mean in the tens
of billions of dollars. I think we're north of one
hundred billion dollars loan in this country. And they have
the European Union, you have countries. It's a mess. This
(09:06):
thing putin has really put the world in a big turmoil.
And it is really unfortunate. But you know, the guy's
a dictator, you know, and he's created a pariah state.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Sounds like a bad appetizer. All have the dictators please,
Air Canada will not be going oot in a boot.
They are going on strike, apparently, flight attendants they voted
to go on strike. About ninety nine point seven percent
of the membership voted to go on strike. You've got
Air Canada has nearly four hundred and thirty daily flights
(09:43):
between Canada and the US fifty US airports, about one
hundred and thirty thousand customers a day. Interesting thing. This
comes at a good time because Canadians aren't coming over here.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I thought they're not. I don't think, but it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
What this The topic about this, The point of these
negotiations is something that's been going for years and years
and years, and that is the airlines don't pay full
tilt for stewart I or stewardesses, male and female stewardesses.
And it has to do with getting ready waiting for
(10:22):
airplanes sitting on tarmacs. I think it used to be
when wheels up and now it's when you pull back
from the gate and if it takes you a while
to get to the plane, or you're walking forever to
get to the plane or the flight center, you're not
being paid for that.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
And they want pay.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
For every second they're at work. And I don't argue
with that one. The airline center proposal that offers a
thirty eight percent increase over four years, Nope, nope, nope,
we want The big thing is we want one hundred
percent pay for all hours of work.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
All right, let's go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
There was a weird case that came to mind where
somebody had a manager had to clock out and then
lock up the store, and they said they were being
cheated for the time between clocking out and locking up
the store after years and years of doing that for time, Well, if.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's two minutes and they want yeah, because if you're
walking around making sure that the doors are locked and
securing the building before walking out the front door, let's
say it takes you ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Okay, that's you're right. Add that over time.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Things they're a little icy in downtown. After months of denials,
members of Congress were finally able to get into the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown Los Angeles, where
people in detention have been reporting lack of food, water,
and beds. Representatives accused the facility of being sanitized before
they got there. There's a rule that says you have
(11:58):
to give seventy two hours notice. So Jimmy Gomez and
Judy Chu and some lawmakers went there yesterday, and Representative
Gomez said, on this visit inside, two people were there
right now. So when I say they invited us in
when there was nobody there, right, they knew what they
were doing.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
The ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans and certainly folks
at ice and the Democratic leadership in Congress.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Matter of fact, Democratic members of Congress, I.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Mean, this fight is just getting it's I'm glad that
the President is putting a UFC fight at the White
House on the South Lawn. And they should not have
professional fighters. They just should have members of Congress on
both sides.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Of the aisle.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Oh that would be fun.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You might as well, I mean, sure, why not? And
east side gets to pick someone. Democrats picked Nancy Pelosi
because she's eighty six years old.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
And she's scrappy, and she is scrapping, that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
And boy does she know how to pick stocks am
I right, codo, yeah boy out of money. I love
how they argue about a detention center. Yet there's people
living living in their own piss uh just outside my door.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
That's all right?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
What the Zell New York attorney is suing the parent
company of that money exchange service, Zell. They say the
payment service enabled a bunch of fraud. And I've only
used it once or twice per somebody requesting it like
(13:38):
a I don't know, like somebody we were using a
service or something.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
That we use all the use.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I never do because it always has had a bad rap.
They have a massive amounts of fraud. Apparently it wasn't
as secure as they say. And now you're at New
York Attorney General.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Did you know?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I didn't that the company at run Zell is owned
by the large US banks JP, Morgan, Chase, Bank of America,
Capital One, Wells Fargo. I did not know that they.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Do it because people were using Venmo. People still use PayPal,
they use Apple.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Use we use Venmo constantly. Just take a choice, and
I think people just like, yeah, Venmo works.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Don't mess with Melania.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
The first Lady has demanded that Hunter Biden, the former
first son retract comments linking her to Jeffrey Epstein. She's
threatened to sue if he doesn't retract him.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Apparently.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Biden was doing an interview with Andrew Callig Callahan, a
British journalist, earlier this month, and he said that Epstein
introduced the first Lady to now President Trump. She says
the statements are false, defamatory, and salacious, and it's threatening
to do.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I don't see the issue. Why couldn't she introduce him?
She knew him beforehand, and he knew everybody. I mean
knowing Jeff Epstein. If you'd have three quarters, you're.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Saying that Jeffrey Epstein introduced Milania Trump to Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh oh, I'm sorry. I uh yeah, no I misspoke
on that one. No, no, But but let me ask
a question.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
I I don't they met at a party?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Was it a party?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
I don't know, but else or something to the story
A bunch.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, let's even let's even say it's true. Okay, now
what now?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
What's uh? What's what's the downside here? Hey? I like
you to meet uh Donald Trump and then they hook up.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Trump a lot of stuff, saying that she slept with
Epstein before.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Well that's different. That's different. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
But Alania, she's gonna set a la Yeah. Yeah, you
better step off. She's gonna get you.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Bill. Yeah, you should be in radio.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Okay, yes, next, thirty five hundred birds? What's wrong with you? People? Kno?
Out there in the Inland Empire, thirty five hundred birds
were seized? Why cause I guess people are cockfighting. No,
the birds are cockfighting. Yeah, well then I've been training
(16:30):
for the wrong fight.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You have fifty six people arrested. They had firearms, drugs,
drug paraphernalia. Multi week cockfighting investigation in San BORDEU and
official you know, dubbed the crowd crow Rooster.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I wonder who came up with that one? That is
so clever, isn't it Crowing Rooster? That operation? I have
a question about thirty five thirty five hundred birds.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Yeah, that's and why? Yeah, it's huge And you.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Know the name of the original operation was Operation cock Block.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Was it really? Okay? Excellent? Now?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Why do in the Inland Empire is cock fighting so popular?
Because when you give the girl, when you give those
birds the mess that they have in the Inland Empire
in such huge quantities.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
You get a hell of a fight between those birds.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Who could watch that?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
You got me?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I mean, don't they You know the old things that
I remember hearing are like they have razors, they put
them on their talents.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
They do Oh no, the talents.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
If you look at the talents, I mean, it is vicious,
It is inhumane, It is horrible.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
This is a big bust.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Six members and associates of the Hoover criminal Gang, allegedly
we're arrested yesterday. Authorities are calling it the first major
takedown of a sex trafficking operation along the Figaroa corridor
of South La. Apparently, that area, about a three and
a a half mile stretch of fig is notoriously known
for prostitution. They conducted the operation from February of twenty
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twenty one to August of twenty twenty five, allegedly recruiting
vulnerable miners and young women, including as young as fourteen
years old. They were targeting runaways kids in the foster
care system through social media, branding them with tattoos, drugging them,
and forcing them into prostitution.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah. I'm looking at the names of those arrested, and
none of them are Hispanic and I point out that
at first I thought this was cartel stuff, and it
doesn't seem to be associated with the cartels, so I
don't know, I've noticed that. And Hoover, where do they
get the name Hoover.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Because they suck?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh that's not all okay, and that's not bad. All right,
I'll take that.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
All right. This is the quote of the morning. This
comes from a rancher, Lake Ruff, who says, I don't
care what kind of cemetery it is. I don't care
if it's religious, non religious, private or public. I don't
want dead bodies in my water. I don't know if
that's what he sounds like. But this all comes because
in Riverside County there's a proposed cemetery to be built,
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and a lot of people, including mister Ruff and his
family there at rough family ranch in Riverside County, are
upset about. He wanted to turn his property there into
an organic farm.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
He's cemetery he wanted to turn into turn it into
a cemetery.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
No, it's just he wanted to turn it into an
organic farm. But he says this proposed project that is
not far from his property is threatening his his goal
and his his dream to create this or.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Oh, I got it, Okay, I thought, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Know how you're going to have twenty thousand dead bodies
next door potentially.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Here's why I conflated it.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, because or I thought organic burials, you know where
they just throw someone into the ground and you rot, uh,
you know, without any caskets or anything, fertilizer, the warm food.
I get that, And so that's where I conflated that twenty.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
He's not happy. Don't want to no dead bodies in
my water.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, but they get well I don't know if they're
gonna be in the water, but they rot pretty quickly
when they're in the ground.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, it goes into the ground, awkwarfers all that stuff.
And then sure you're drinking dead bodies. Bill.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
You know you can do what I did.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
You know, my mother died and I put her in ah,
you know, one of those canisters out and back a composter.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
We're fine with your.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Banana peels, Yeah, cheaper as much cheaper.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Just need one that's a decent size.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Keeping those cuts. Divided panel of the Appeals Court ruled
that the Trump administration can suspend or termin eight billions
of dollars of congressionally appropriated funding for foreign aid.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
On his first day in.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Office, President Trump issued an executive order directing the State
Department and the US Agency for International Development USAID to
freeze spending on foreign aid. And this decision allows that
aid to be frozen.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, because he's the one that controls it.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
That it was funded by Congress.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
And the argument was if it's funded by Congress, therefore
you can't stop it, and the appeals court said, yeah,
he can because it is an executive order. Kind of
interesting that all of the funding of most of the
USAID is gone. I mean, there's some argument about waste,
I can see that, but this is for aid prevention.
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I mean, this is this is big stuff that was
cut around the world.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
But it's a question of philosophy too, Which way do
you go? All right?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So Walmart is trying to keep up with the Joneses.
Of course, the jones is being target Whole Foods, which
is owned by Amazon, by the way, by giving a perk,
a little benefit to their workers and the grocery bills
they have every single month. So we all know that
Walmart is the country's largest private employer. They're extending ten
(22:36):
percent employee discount, and this includes just about everything grocery
purchases on their store or online. And they're trying to
keep their workers or woo new workers. When you have
places like you know, Amazon who owns Whole Foods, as
I said, are offering workers at twenty percent discount on
(22:58):
most in store purchases. Target offers twenty percent discount on
fresh and frozen produce and some store brands, and ten
percent discount on most other goods. So that can be
a big deal. Yeah, it can be a big deal.
iHeart does much similar things, you know.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
For example, for us, we're allowed to listen to the
radio for free, which is a big perk here.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
They do sometimes when they have big concerts, tell us
that we can buy the tickets early.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yeah, that's basically it.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Hey how about a discount, no, no, no, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You can also buy swag, so if you want to
be a walking billboard for the company, you can purchase it.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
There actually were some sweatshirts Mate which were kind of neat,
you know, iHeartMedia sweatshirts, and they put them on sale
and when you on the secondary market you would buy them,
and they were for less money than they were than
what I Heeart was selling them for.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
We're going to read one of these stories one day
and Kono's going to get up, take off his headphones,
to walk out and get a new job.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
He's trying really hard, and I might follow him. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel says he has obtained Italian citizenship.
Does that mean he'll be going the way of other
celebrities Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres and some others and moving
abroad because of the second term of President Trump. He said,
I did get an Italian citizenship. He says, what's going
(24:34):
on is as bad as you thought it was going
to be. It's so much worse. It's unbelievable. Like I
think it's probably even worse than he would like it
to be.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So two questions. One, how did he get Italian citizenship.
I'm in the middle of getting EU citizenship, a Polish
citizenship because my father was born in Poland, even though
he left when he was a toddler. So through my dad,
I can get Polish citizenship, which means I'm a member
of the European community. And remember I'm you know, the
(25:05):
plan is to move to Italy at least part of
the time. Uh, and then it's hard to do a
show from Italy.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, who knows if the show will be around for
one Yeah, I don't know. L night shows are.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
They're on their way out. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Although he can do his he can do his late
now night show very early in the morning.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But here's the deal, if you're gonna move. I hate
the weakness in this. Everybody forgets we the people part
of all this, and to just you know, take off
is so weak.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
To me.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Not to mention, you know, Jimmy Kimmel found his way
up with The Man Show and having women jumping on trampoline, right,
but you know you had Stern doing all that.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Pig Why is it? Why is it weak? Though?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
If you're talking about I'm out of here because of
what's going on in this country, why.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Don't have to country because the country is not the same,
Then your beliefs and stand up for them.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I have this conversation with Lindsay all the time because
she's the one that really wants to get noticed out
of the United States.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
And the argument is there really is no country to
fight for anymore over fifty percent of the electorate I
mean plurality, but more than certainly voted for Biden, voted
for Donald Trump and the people. I've never seen anything
like this where it is so polarized. I mean, it's
really sanity out there.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So and so during the sixties when leaders were getting
shot and during the Civil War and all of these things,
it wasn't I.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Have never seen it so polarized. And I think you
lived during the sixties. Yes, I think during the sixties
the polarization was very different than today, very different. And
when you're talking about the leaders, you had Kennedy, Martin,
Luther King, and RFK. Those are the three that were assassinated,
(27:03):
one nineteen sixty the other two.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Thirteen percent of the population on social media. That tells
you how to think that's correct. It's a very different
thirteen percent. I'm surprised that is that is enough to
number one change away minds. And incidentally, I don't know
where you got thirteen percent, because we've been reporting there's
a far greater number of people that are listening to
(27:29):
and they get.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Their news from TikTok. I think it's demographic. I think
it's younger people.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
We do the studies when I was in management here,
we do the studies of how how people are swayed
from social media.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Okay, and you get to look this one up. I
think Neil's wrong on this one. What is the percentage
of people that look at social media to obtain their news?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, no, but you're talking about you're talking about, yes,
demographics of young people. My statement is the entire population
is of three hundred and fifty million people in the
United States plus are not on social media.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Oh no, of course not. Of course I don't get
my news from social media. I get my porno from
social media. It's I understand, it's a very different animal.
I won't even go into that.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
This sixteen minute or a thirteen second clip is all
you need.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Okay, Why don't we get out of this one and
continue on and finish up handle on the news Amy,
I think it's.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Mister Oh is it Neil turn Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Jerry Jones, who's the owner of the Cowboys, had just
done a documentary series called America's Team, The Gambler and
His Cowboys. It's going to debut on Netflix next week.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
So this guy's eighty two.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Years old and apparently he was diagnosed in June of
twenty ten. Underwent two surgeries in his lungs and lift
nodes for cancer. It looks like it was melanoma or
something that fantastasized.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Yeah, he's very lucky to be alive. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
So he took some experimental trial drug and it treated
this advance to melanoma. And he had not disclosed this
cancer diagnosis publicly, and in this documentary he does. That's
pretty great. I mean, that's a long time to live
(29:26):
with that kind.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Yeah, he was part of I understand he was part
of a control group trying a new drug. We don't
know if it was I'm assuming he was in the
part of the control group that actually took the drug
because these were double blind studies, so half people take
placebos and the other half take drugs and they compare
the two. Those are the double blind studies. Okay, guys,
(29:49):
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