November 11, 2025 • 23 mins
(November 11,2025)
Justice Department struggles as thousands exit and few are replaced. Betting on table tennis and other small sports fuels concern. Rose Bowl files restraining order to block UCLA move to SoFi Stadium. Trump officials consider opening California to offshore oil drilling.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
AM six forty Handle here on a Tuesday morning, Veterans Day,
November eleventh, the big, big story recovering. It looks like
the government shutdown is done. The Senate voted last night
to move ahead. The House is going to vote probably tonight,
and it will no doubt be on the President's desk
either tomorrow or Thursday, which of course is going to
be signed, and then we're back to normal, sort of,
(00:29):
because it's going to take a while to ramp up.
Forty days today, long long time, longest in US history. Now,
let's talk about the governor. Let me talk about the
government for a moment. The White House has the executive
branch has traditionally been independent or the FBI, Department of
(00:54):
Justice has been independent of the White House.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Now is that the law?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Of course not, because it's the executive branch and all
of these cabinet positions, all of the federal law enforcement
is under the direction of the White House. However, as
a matter of procedure and simply as a matter of
history policy, they have been independent. For example, the Department
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of Justice, you just the president leaves it alone. You
guys decide what to go on. Boy, has that changed.
Let's talk about how thousands of experienced attorneys since the
start of the administration have left and only a fraction
of the job the open jobs have in fact been
filled lack of qualified candidates, bureaucratic delays, hiring freezes, among
(01:48):
other things. So let me tell you a little bit
about the Department of Justice. Having gone to law school,
not a particularly good law school, but one of the
things about going to top tier law schools is that
students want to work for the Department of Justice. It
is considered the kreme de la creme. I mean, if
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you're a DOJ attorney, your big stuff, and well, let
me put it this way, those days are sort of
gone because these students don't want to be in the
DOJ because there is no independence. So you have people leaving,
you have top prosecutors who are fired, and you have
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political appointees coming in. Now, usually the only political appointee
would be the secretary, would be the Attorney general, and
then probably one level below that or political appointees have
to be confirmed by the Senate. Now it goes all
the way down political correctness in the sense of political
(02:50):
correctness to the White House, the administration is critical applications,
ask questions, sort of left handed questions, not direct questions.
Let's talk about your policies, your politics for a moment.
Are you in favor of what's going on? If you
say no, you're not going to get hired. How about
(03:13):
US attorneys or attorneys. Yeah, US attorneys who run the
various departments across the board district offices.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, they've been fired in mass.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And in certain cases those attorneys who do not back
the administration. For example, when you have the enemies of
the administration of Donald Trump and the DOJ orders them
to go forward and prosecute, and the prosecutors say, you
know what, we don't have evidence here, we don't have
(03:51):
enough evidence, they're fired, literally fired, and then a political
appointee is put in. The most I think probably the
poster child of this one is James Comy, who is
being prosecuted and the prosecutor, the head guy, uh said
(04:13):
there's not enough evidence. The US attorney said, there's not
enough evidence here. Fired And who was brought in This
is in Virginia US District in Virginia. Brought in was
a political hack to run the office and go ahead
and prosecute Colly. Not one minute of prosecutor prosecutorial, a
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history or experience, not a minute. It's just a Trump ally.
That's what's happening across the board with the Department, and
I mean thousands of them, and instead of being one
of the most secure, I mean, these are civil servants
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that are there and they do careers in many cases
for a lifetime, not anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
They want out.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And so what's happening is the Department of Justice is
being transformed completely into a political force, which heretofore didn't happen.
I got to tell you, life is changing. And when
this administration is done, you know, people talk about how
it's going to be a very different animal even after
Trump leaves the presidency. Man, it is certainly with the court, and.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I mean that's his.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Purview, because when you have a liberal presidence and a
Supreme Court vacancy comes up, you have a liberal justice.
I mean, that's just the way it works. And now
you have a very conservative court and you know, welcome
to America. That's the constitution. But putting in political appointees
into the Department of Justice to prosecute enemies.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And look at the pardons that have come down. Look
at the pardons.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Hundreds of them, all political allies, all allies as the resident.
Then you have Leticia James, who is the DA in Manhattan,
who has been indicted for lying on a application, a
loan application, saying that she lived in one apartment or
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she lived in one house and said it was her residence.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And she claims she didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But anyways, stop in the air, and she is being
prosecuted by the US Attorney, and I guarantee you that
the US Attorney will be asking for the maximum sentence.
And in the meantime, you've got people that are yesterday
there were a bunch of pardon people that were in
prison for fraud, stealing money from the government, all kinds
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of egregious crimes.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Pardon. But Leticia James, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We've got that application and let's put her in jail
for as long as we possibly can.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That will be the argument. I guarantee you. It's horrible,
It really is horrible.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And I know people lay you know, just rip into
me because of the way I'm looking at all this.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You know, guys, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I mean, I just don't get it, you know, I
don't get for example, Republican congress people and senators who
don't say a word about what's going on, not a word,
you know, how is that possible? And how Democrats vote
down party lines notwithstanding anything else, doesn't matter what it is.
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We're going down party lines both sides. And that's why
the eighth senators Democratic senators who flipped over to the
Republican side and stopped this shutdown. Is it's end of
the world news, it's World War three headline news that
that happened, that they went over to the other side.
(08:04):
And I explained that a little bit at seven o'clock
when I started the seven o'clock segment, which, by the way,
you can listen to streaming, right, we can do that
and the podcast And since I don't know how to
get to it, how do we get to it?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Neil, just go to KFI AM six forty dot com
use and look for podcasts or use a keyword podcast
and then you can listen to them there, yeah, and show.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, I didn't know. Yeah, I don't know how to
do that, you know. There, I am technological maven, so
ignorance complete ignorance. All right, let's bail out of here.
All right, this is a fun story. And this has
to do with betting, sports betting. And you know what
the hottest sport is right now in terms of betting.
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You think it's baseball, football, basketball, Yeah, it's there.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
The US new one is table tennis, ping pong.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You go to these major sports betting platforms, you bet
on ping pong, and what's going on, Well, they want
to expand, so it's not just ping pong. Some of
these major one there's one that's based i think here
in California.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That has high a lie figure.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That one out almost to the point where you can
bet on Little league and Pop Warner football.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It's any sport out there.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And what does that mean, Well, when you have that
many sports, it's just kind of easier to throw games.
Look at the Look at the two ballplayers who are
just indicted for throwing the game in the sense that
people bet on the next pitch would be a ball,
and it was so obvious that a ball was thrown,
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and they've been indicted. One is accused and one was indicted.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And these guys make millions of dollars a year and
they were getting seven thousand dollars for it. I mean,
what is that about?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And you have football players who are under investigation, so
for some reason there is well, I mean, here's the reason.
More and more people are betting because of the platforms,
because of the betting situations or the betting platforms that
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you can bet on on your phone, which of course
never existed and it was illegal in many states to gamble.
Now it's wide open. It is totally wide open. And
so if you want to bet on high Ali, is
that the way it's pronounced.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
High Lie?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, I don't know how that's pronounced. They do a
lot of that in Tijuana. I don't know if you've
ever been there. It's a lot of fun, it really is.
By the way, there is a company it's called a
Alt Sports Data, and what it does is specialize in
taking claims on sports that haven't reached the online gambling market, and.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So they latched on to these sports.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
They offer profit sharing and the opportunity to reach a
wider audience for these bets sports. And let me tell
you the leagues that have signed on two dozen different leagues,
X games.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Power Slap.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I don't even know what power slap is do you
stand up and slap each other in the face?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Can you imagine? Huh? Thank you? All right?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The World Highlight League, the disc Call Golf Pro Tour,
who ever heard about that? And the Big One Major
League table tennis. Yeah, you're betting on that. And you
can bet every few seconds, by the way, to the
point where one of them or several of the major
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sports book don't let you do that anymore. You literally
can bet every couple of seconds. It's much like what's
the next ball thrown?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
How far?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And we're talking about in football, you can bet anything
that comes up. It used to be be a winner loss,
that's what you would do, and then the point spread,
you win, you lose by the point spread.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Now it's how fast and how far.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Is the runner going to go in the second quarter.
It's just insane. By the way, do you bet Cono,
you're the one that knows about this stuff. Do you
bet at all on these platforms?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh, we can't bet in California, but through price picks
you can bet on a certain amount of things. So yes,
I do place some legal bets down.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Okay, I've never bet in my life. I don't bet
at casinos. Every time I go to Las Vegas, I
won't put a quarter in a machine. I just won't
do it. Is that because when I win, I'm gonna
lose next time. And when I lose, I want to
take a swan dive off the parking structure. That's just
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the way life works for me. You know who else
bets a lot in Las Vegas?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Michelle? She does the slots? Neil, Are you a gambler
when you go to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I consider it more of a gamer, like I'll go
out when I go to Morongo and stuff like that.
I go and I play blackjack, and I enjoy doing that,
but I'm not really like.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
That's a game of it. I stay by it. Okay,
fair enough? Will do you gamble? Do you play the games?
Very little?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I have, like, okay, one hundred dollars cutoff all right
after that?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It's too painful, Amy, Oh yeah, oh yeah, And I
may be the only one.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And do you play?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
But I want to? Okay, oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You work here at iHeart, so there's no money to play.
All right, We're done with it. I want to share
with you my first day at law school, and my
first class was contract's contract law. And remember the professor
standing up, and the first thing he said is, why
don't you write this down. Okay, if you sign a contract,
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you're screwed.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
If you want to change it. Okay, sign a contractor
screwed if you want to change it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
UCLA has a contract with the Rose Bowl that goes
to twenty forty three. So Pasadena, based on that, invested
one hundred and fifty million dollars in stadium upgrades, and
UCLA is thinking saying no, thank you, we're thinking of
leaving next year. Well, Pasadena and the Rose Bowl immediately
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filed a lawsuit and asked for first of all, a
temporary injunction and then an underlying suit saying, excuse me,
you signed the contract, screwed even if it's a bad contract.
So last week the plaintiffs sued to force the Bruins
to honor the terms of the lease. UCLA responded, we're
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evaluating our options.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
What options.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, I'll tell you the options, and that is it's
a straight money call because UCLA is talking to SOFI
Stadium and what they're doing, and by the way, that's
just more work for ann. Of course, what they're doing
is figuring out that they're going to have to pay
big money to UCLA and Pasadena and the Rose Bowl.
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Excuse me, UCLA will have to pay big money to
the Rose Bowl and Pasadena. And it's just a question
of dollars and cents. Because if they go to Sofi,
man they get a lot of stuff. I mean they
will get the luxury boxes, a chunk of the concessions,
a real good chunk of the concessions, the merchandising, the parking,
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I mean, all of it. They get virtually none of
that at the Rose Bowl. I mean they cut a
bad deal, is what they did. And they're saying, let's
look at the numbers. Okay, they're gonna have to settle
because they're screwed. However, if they go to SOFI, now
we're talking upfront money from so far getting them enough
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money to pay the settlement the ruins, like other Big
ten schools, could receive an upfront payment of one hundred
and forty million dollars of a proposed two point four
billion dollar deal between the conference and an investment fund
at the University of California pension system. Why the investment
will go in because UCLA will be generating a ton
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more money, which means that the investment fund is going
to be at have access to a ton more money.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
The Rose Bowl and Pasadena are asking for a fee
of a settlement of over a billion dollars if UCLA
breaches its contract. So it's a straight money call UCLA
and the Rose Bowl. I mean, and they've played their games.
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I don't know since the eighties. How long has UCLA
played sc for example, the rivalry that's been going on
since the turn of the last century at the Coliseum,
it's been forever.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
And so that what the Coliseum.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Is saying that just the discussions that UCLA is having
with so Far is putting the Coliseum at risk that
they're already losing money because all of a sudden, this
venue is not as magical as it is. The Colisseum
is iconic, but it's not so fi Uh the Colisseum,
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for example, did you know it has a retractable roof
that's always open the Colisseum, Yeah no, uh no, you're right.
I'm sorry the Rose Bowl. But then they're gonna go
to so Far. You're right, I'm sorry about the Coliseum.
I uh got that, got it? Conflated, but uh, don't
correct me on.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
That, please, usc and I gotta.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I know, yeah, okay, I'm I'm all right, I'm comflating.
All right, I'm conflating all of that. But so far,
for example, has that retractable roof as does the Rose Bowl.
Did you know that it's just always open. It has
the luxury suites, it has the parking. It's also a
lot closer U c l A. Incidentally, okay, did that
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make sense for anybody?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Probably not?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You know, I confused U c l A. The Colisseum
s the retractable roofs.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Hey, you got to write that the Colisseum is iconic though.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Okay, thank you. Built for the nineteen thirty two Olympics
and the nineteen eighty four Olympics. Were there The only
two Olympics that ever made money were in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
See there you go a little bit of history there
all right.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
By the way, for those of you that did listen
to the last segment, I just ignore it. Ladies and
gentlemen of the jury, please strike that entire segment.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
All right. A whole lot going on.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
The big story, of course, is why you just saw
me sneeze.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Was that it. I know, I know, and you know
I didn't do it on the mind. I didn't howk
it on the microphone? Well you we heard you, No,
you heard me sneeze.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, but I was able to.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Sneeze into uh wet, you're not.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
By the way, Once I was on an airplane and
I sneezed and it was not pleasant because I mean,
this thing came flying out of my throat and mouth
and it hit some bald guy literally in the back
of his head five rows up.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And he heard me sneezing. Let me tell you how
pleasant that conversation was.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Cross True's actually it's actually happened. Uh all right, thanks
for pointing that out, by the way, guys, at least
the laughing part. So I want to finish up with
what's going on with us here in southern California. The
Administration is planning to propose oil drilling off of the
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coast down here, and this's for the first time in decades.
And that's according to a draft map that's been reviewed
by The Washington Post. It proposes six offshore lease sales
between twenty twenty seven and twenty thirty along the California coast,
mainly in southern California. It also envisions expanding drilling in
the eastern Gulf of Mexico Gulf of America, and this
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has generally been avoided because, well, it's near Florida, and
people in Florida are a little bit upset about the
possibility of an oil spill. Now the fact that we
in California a little bit upset, that really doesn't matter
because we're California, and as a matter of fact, they
may cause an oil spill in California just to screw
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with us, and so ten oil companies and the American
Petroleum Institute in a June letter said that if we
can drill in those areas, it has the potential to
generate jobs, new revenue, revenue, and an additional production to
advance America's energy dominance. Nothing about alternative energy, that doesn't exist.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
It's all about drill, baby, drill.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
And that's the difference between well, the next administration, which
is probably, I'm guessing not going to be a very
conservative administration because if I had to guess, and I do,
I think I think the economy is not going to
do well.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Prices are going to go up pretty dramatically.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
And I think and the cost of living going to
go up, and I think that's going.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
To really hurt. The other thing that's being considered is.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Up off the Alaska coast, but way up there, that's
six auctions. Now the High Arctic region being considered. It's
not going to be it's not going to happen because
you couldn't You can't clean up an oil spell if
it happens. It's so remote, conditions so extreme, the environment
so fragile that even a very pro drilling administration and
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the oil companies are going to stay away from that
because it's just too damn expensive.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
But are we going to see.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
New oil drilling rigs out southern California? Well, the fourteen
million dollar homes are the eighteen million dollar homes in
Malibu who are going to lose all of their ocean
footage because of climate change and the Casar rising, plus
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offshore quarter of a mile, you'll see a few of
those oil rigs. How much you think those homes are
going to be worth.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
In five years? I wouldn't buy one. All right, guys,
we're done. You've been listening to the Bill Handle show.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
AM six forty Handle here on a Tuesday morning, Veterans Day,
November eleventh, the big, big story recovering. It looks like
the government shutdown is done. The Senate voted last night
to move ahead. The House is going to vote probably tonight,
and it will no doubt be on the President's desk
either tomorrow or Thursday, which of course is going to
be signed, and then we're back to normal, sort of,
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because it's going to take a while to ramp up.
Forty days today, long long time, longest in US history. Now,
let's talk about the governor. Let me talk about the
government for a moment. The White House has the executive
branch has traditionally been independent or the FBI, Department of
(00:54):
Justice has been independent of the White House.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Now is that the law?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Of course not, because it's the executive branch and all
of these cabinet positions, all of the federal law enforcement
is under the direction of the White House. However, as
a matter of procedure and simply as a matter of
history policy, they have been independent. For example, the Department
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of Justice, you just the president leaves it alone. You
guys decide what to go on. Boy, has that changed.
Let's talk about how thousands of experienced attorneys since the
start of the administration have left and only a fraction
of the job the open jobs have in fact been
filled lack of qualified candidates, bureaucratic delays, hiring freezes, among
(01:48):
other things. So let me tell you a little bit
about the Department of Justice. Having gone to law school,
not a particularly good law school, but one of the
things about going to top tier law schools is that
students want to work for the Department of Justice. It
is considered the kreme de la creme. I mean, if
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you're a DOJ attorney, your big stuff, and well, let
me put it this way, those days are sort of
gone because these students don't want to be in the
DOJ because there is no independence. So you have people leaving,
you have top prosecutors who are fired, and you have
(02:30):
political appointees coming in. Now, usually the only political appointee
would be the secretary, would be the Attorney general, and
then probably one level below that or political appointees have
to be confirmed by the Senate. Now it goes all
the way down political correctness in the sense of political
(02:50):
correctness to the White House, the administration is critical applications,
ask questions, sort of left handed questions, not direct questions.
Let's talk about your policies, your politics for a moment.
Are you in favor of what's going on? If you
say no, you're not going to get hired. How about
(03:13):
US attorneys or attorneys. Yeah, US attorneys who run the
various departments across the board district offices.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, they've been fired in mass.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And in certain cases those attorneys who do not back
the administration. For example, when you have the enemies of
the administration of Donald Trump and the DOJ orders them
to go forward and prosecute, and the prosecutors say, you
know what, we don't have evidence here, we don't have
(03:51):
enough evidence, they're fired, literally fired, and then a political
appointee is put in. The most I think probably the
poster child of this one is James Comy, who is
being prosecuted and the prosecutor, the head guy, uh said
(04:13):
there's not enough evidence. The US attorney said, there's not
enough evidence here. Fired And who was brought in This
is in Virginia US District in Virginia. Brought in was
a political hack to run the office and go ahead
and prosecute Colly. Not one minute of prosecutor prosecutorial, a
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history or experience, not a minute. It's just a Trump ally.
That's what's happening across the board with the Department, and
I mean thousands of them, and instead of being one
of the most secure, I mean, these are civil servants
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that are there and they do careers in many cases
for a lifetime, not anymore.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
They want out.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And so what's happening is the Department of Justice is
being transformed completely into a political force, which heretofore didn't happen.
I got to tell you, life is changing. And when
this administration is done, you know, people talk about how
it's going to be a very different animal even after
Trump leaves the presidency. Man, it is certainly with the court, and.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I mean that's his.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Purview, because when you have a liberal presidence and a
Supreme Court vacancy comes up, you have a liberal justice.
I mean, that's just the way it works. And now
you have a very conservative court and you know, welcome
to America. That's the constitution. But putting in political appointees
into the Department of Justice to prosecute enemies.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And look at the pardons that have come down. Look
at the pardons.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Hundreds of them, all political allies, all allies as the resident.
Then you have Leticia James, who is the DA in Manhattan,
who has been indicted for lying on a application, a
loan application, saying that she lived in one apartment or
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she lived in one house and said it was her residence.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And she claims she didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But anyways, stop in the air, and she is being
prosecuted by the US Attorney, and I guarantee you that
the US Attorney will be asking for the maximum sentence.
And in the meantime, you've got people that are yesterday
there were a bunch of pardon people that were in
prison for fraud, stealing money from the government, all kinds
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of egregious crimes.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Pardon. But Leticia James, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We've got that application and let's put her in jail
for as long as we possibly can.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That will be the argument. I guarantee you. It's horrible,
It really is horrible.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And I know people lay you know, just rip into
me because of the way I'm looking at all this.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You know, guys, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I mean, I just don't get it, you know, I
don't get for example, Republican congress people and senators who
don't say a word about what's going on, not a word,
you know, how is that possible? And how Democrats vote
down party lines notwithstanding anything else, doesn't matter what it is.
(07:43):
We're going down party lines both sides. And that's why
the eighth senators Democratic senators who flipped over to the
Republican side and stopped this shutdown. Is it's end of
the world news, it's World War three headline news that
that happened, that they went over to the other side.
(08:04):
And I explained that a little bit at seven o'clock
when I started the seven o'clock segment, which, by the way,
you can listen to streaming, right, we can do that
and the podcast And since I don't know how to
get to it, how do we get to it?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Neil, just go to KFI AM six forty dot com
use and look for podcasts or use a keyword podcast
and then you can listen to them there, yeah, and show.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, I didn't know. Yeah, I don't know how to
do that, you know. There, I am technological maven, so
ignorance complete ignorance. All right, let's bail out of here.
All right, this is a fun story. And this has
to do with betting, sports betting. And you know what
the hottest sport is right now in terms of betting.
(08:54):
You think it's baseball, football, basketball, Yeah, it's there.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
The US new one is table tennis, ping pong.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You go to these major sports betting platforms, you bet
on ping pong, and what's going on, Well, they want
to expand, so it's not just ping pong. Some of
these major one there's one that's based i think here
in California.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That has high a lie figure.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That one out almost to the point where you can
bet on Little league and Pop Warner football.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It's any sport out there.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And what does that mean, Well, when you have that
many sports, it's just kind of easier to throw games.
Look at the Look at the two ballplayers who are
just indicted for throwing the game in the sense that
people bet on the next pitch would be a ball,
and it was so obvious that a ball was thrown,
(09:53):
and they've been indicted. One is accused and one was indicted.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And these guys make millions of dollars a year and
they were getting seven thousand dollars for it. I mean,
what is that about?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And you have football players who are under investigation, so
for some reason there is well, I mean, here's the reason.
More and more people are betting because of the platforms,
because of the betting situations or the betting platforms that
(10:26):
you can bet on on your phone, which of course
never existed and it was illegal in many states to gamble.
Now it's wide open. It is totally wide open. And
so if you want to bet on high Ali, is
that the way it's pronounced.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
High Lie?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, I don't know how that's pronounced. They do a
lot of that in Tijuana. I don't know if you've
ever been there. It's a lot of fun, it really is.
By the way, there is a company it's called a
Alt Sports Data, and what it does is specialize in
taking claims on sports that haven't reached the online gambling market, and.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So they latched on to these sports.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
They offer profit sharing and the opportunity to reach a
wider audience for these bets sports. And let me tell
you the leagues that have signed on two dozen different leagues,
X games.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Power Slap.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I don't even know what power slap is do you
stand up and slap each other in the face?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Can you imagine? Huh? Thank you? All right?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The World Highlight League, the disc Call Golf Pro Tour,
who ever heard about that? And the Big One Major
League table tennis. Yeah, you're betting on that. And you
can bet every few seconds, by the way, to the
point where one of them or several of the major
(12:03):
sports book don't let you do that anymore. You literally
can bet every couple of seconds. It's much like what's
the next ball thrown?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
How far?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And we're talking about in football, you can bet anything
that comes up. It used to be be a winner loss,
that's what you would do, and then the point spread,
you win, you lose by the point spread.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Now it's how fast and how far.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Is the runner going to go in the second quarter.
It's just insane. By the way, do you bet Cono,
you're the one that knows about this stuff. Do you
bet at all on these platforms?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh, we can't bet in California, but through price picks
you can bet on a certain amount of things. So yes,
I do place some legal bets down.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Okay, I've never bet in my life. I don't bet
at casinos. Every time I go to Las Vegas, I
won't put a quarter in a machine. I just won't
do it. Is that because when I win, I'm gonna
lose next time. And when I lose, I want to
take a swan dive off the parking structure. That's just
(13:11):
the way life works for me. You know who else
bets a lot in Las Vegas?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Michelle? She does the slots? Neil, Are you a gambler
when you go to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I consider it more of a gamer, like I'll go
out when I go to Morongo and stuff like that.
I go and I play blackjack, and I enjoy doing that,
but I'm not really like.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
That's a game of it. I stay by it. Okay,
fair enough? Will do you gamble? Do you play the games?
Very little?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I have, like, okay, one hundred dollars cutoff all right
after that?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It's too painful, Amy, Oh yeah, oh yeah, And I
may be the only one.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And do you play?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
But I want to? Okay, oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You work here at iHeart, so there's no money to play.
All right, We're done with it. I want to share
with you my first day at law school, and my
first class was contract's contract law. And remember the professor
standing up, and the first thing he said is, why
don't you write this down. Okay, if you sign a contract,
(14:20):
you're screwed.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
If you want to change it. Okay, sign a contractor
screwed if you want to change it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
UCLA has a contract with the Rose Bowl that goes
to twenty forty three. So Pasadena, based on that, invested
one hundred and fifty million dollars in stadium upgrades, and
UCLA is thinking saying no, thank you, we're thinking of
leaving next year. Well, Pasadena and the Rose Bowl immediately
(14:49):
filed a lawsuit and asked for first of all, a
temporary injunction and then an underlying suit saying, excuse me,
you signed the contract, screwed even if it's a bad contract.
So last week the plaintiffs sued to force the Bruins
to honor the terms of the lease. UCLA responded, we're
(15:12):
evaluating our options.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
What options.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, I'll tell you the options, and that is it's
a straight money call because UCLA is talking to SOFI
Stadium and what they're doing, and by the way, that's
just more work for ann. Of course, what they're doing
is figuring out that they're going to have to pay
big money to UCLA and Pasadena and the Rose Bowl.
(15:42):
Excuse me, UCLA will have to pay big money to
the Rose Bowl and Pasadena. And it's just a question
of dollars and cents. Because if they go to Sofi,
man they get a lot of stuff. I mean they
will get the luxury boxes, a chunk of the concessions,
a real good chunk of the concessions, the merchandising, the parking,
(16:07):
I mean, all of it. They get virtually none of
that at the Rose Bowl. I mean they cut a
bad deal, is what they did. And they're saying, let's
look at the numbers. Okay, they're gonna have to settle
because they're screwed. However, if they go to SOFI, now
we're talking upfront money from so far getting them enough
(16:30):
money to pay the settlement the ruins, like other Big
ten schools, could receive an upfront payment of one hundred
and forty million dollars of a proposed two point four
billion dollar deal between the conference and an investment fund
at the University of California pension system. Why the investment
will go in because UCLA will be generating a ton
(16:54):
more money, which means that the investment fund is going
to be at have access to a ton more money.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
The Rose Bowl and Pasadena are asking for a fee
of a settlement of over a billion dollars if UCLA
breaches its contract. So it's a straight money call UCLA
and the Rose Bowl. I mean, and they've played their games.
(17:29):
I don't know since the eighties. How long has UCLA
played sc for example, the rivalry that's been going on
since the turn of the last century at the Coliseum,
it's been forever.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
And so that what the Coliseum.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Is saying that just the discussions that UCLA is having
with so Far is putting the Coliseum at risk that
they're already losing money because all of a sudden, this
venue is not as magical as it is. The Colisseum
is iconic, but it's not so fi Uh the Colisseum,
(18:09):
for example, did you know it has a retractable roof
that's always open the Colisseum, Yeah no, uh no, you're right.
I'm sorry the Rose Bowl. But then they're gonna go
to so Far. You're right, I'm sorry about the Coliseum.
I uh got that, got it? Conflated, but uh, don't
correct me on.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
That, please, usc and I gotta.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I know, yeah, okay, I'm I'm all right, I'm comflating.
All right, I'm conflating all of that. But so far,
for example, has that retractable roof as does the Rose Bowl.
Did you know that it's just always open. It has
the luxury suites, it has the parking. It's also a
lot closer U c l A. Incidentally, okay, did that
(18:53):
make sense for anybody?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Probably not?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You know, I confused U c l A. The Colisseum
s the retractable roofs.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Hey, you got to write that the Colisseum is iconic though.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Okay, thank you. Built for the nineteen thirty two Olympics
and the nineteen eighty four Olympics. Were there The only
two Olympics that ever made money were in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
See there you go a little bit of history there
all right.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
By the way, for those of you that did listen
to the last segment, I just ignore it. Ladies and
gentlemen of the jury, please strike that entire segment.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
All right. A whole lot going on.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
The big story, of course, is why you just saw
me sneeze.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Was that it. I know, I know, and you know
I didn't do it on the mind. I didn't howk
it on the microphone? Well you we heard you, No,
you heard me sneeze.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, but I was able to.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Sneeze into uh wet, you're not.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
By the way, Once I was on an airplane and
I sneezed and it was not pleasant because I mean,
this thing came flying out of my throat and mouth
and it hit some bald guy literally in the back
of his head five rows up.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And he heard me sneezing. Let me tell you how
pleasant that conversation was.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Cross True's actually it's actually happened. Uh all right, thanks
for pointing that out, by the way, guys, at least
the laughing part. So I want to finish up with
what's going on with us here in southern California. The
Administration is planning to propose oil drilling off of the
(20:38):
coast down here, and this's for the first time in decades.
And that's according to a draft map that's been reviewed
by The Washington Post. It proposes six offshore lease sales
between twenty twenty seven and twenty thirty along the California coast,
mainly in southern California. It also envisions expanding drilling in
the eastern Gulf of Mexico Gulf of America, and this
(21:00):
has generally been avoided because, well, it's near Florida, and
people in Florida are a little bit upset about the
possibility of an oil spill. Now the fact that we
in California a little bit upset, that really doesn't matter
because we're California, and as a matter of fact, they
may cause an oil spill in California just to screw
(21:24):
with us, and so ten oil companies and the American
Petroleum Institute in a June letter said that if we
can drill in those areas, it has the potential to
generate jobs, new revenue, revenue, and an additional production to
advance America's energy dominance. Nothing about alternative energy, that doesn't exist.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
It's all about drill, baby, drill.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
And that's the difference between well, the next administration, which
is probably, I'm guessing not going to be a very
conservative administration because if I had to guess, and I do,
I think I think the economy is not going to
do well.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Prices are going to go up pretty dramatically.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
And I think and the cost of living going to
go up, and I think that's going.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
To really hurt. The other thing that's being considered is.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Up off the Alaska coast, but way up there, that's
six auctions. Now the High Arctic region being considered. It's
not going to be it's not going to happen because
you couldn't You can't clean up an oil spell if
it happens. It's so remote, conditions so extreme, the environment
so fragile that even a very pro drilling administration and
(22:51):
the oil companies are going to stay away from that
because it's just too damn expensive.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
But are we going to see.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
New oil drilling rigs out southern California? Well, the fourteen
million dollar homes are the eighteen million dollar homes in
Malibu who are going to lose all of their ocean
footage because of climate change and the Casar rising, plus
(23:18):
offshore quarter of a mile, you'll see a few of
those oil rigs. How much you think those homes are
going to be worth.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
In five years? I wouldn't buy one. All right, guys,
we're done. You've been listening to the Bill Handle show.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Catch my show Monday through Friday, six am to nine
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