March 11, 2026 • 27 mins
(March 11, 2026)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. US says it destroyed 16 Iranian minelayers. Pentagon says 140 US service members wounded since Iran war started. Georgia, Mississippi elections: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s replacement and other key takeaways. LAX board approves rate hike for companies like Uber, Lyft and others.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle. Oh no, mister Bell, do you remember that
from Saturday Night Live? Yes, you know we should do that?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes, o Clay creature man that would die in every single.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, right at my alley. It's wonderful. Okay. Anyway, good
morning everybody. We start day Wednesday, March eleventh, and the
whole crowd is there, I think, because I don't see
Will on the monitor yet. So if Will is there, no,
(00:54):
do something, throw something against the screen, get on the screen. Okay,
excellently done nothing from where I am. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
there you are. I had issues this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I'm sorting myself out.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You know what, when do we not have issues? Let
me think about this in terms of glitches on this show.
When do we not have them? It wouldn't be us
if if it worked well, No, tons of times it's
on your side. Yesterday it was here. I'm in my
home studio today and yesterday it was Neil, what are
(01:32):
you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We were just doing the universal sign for needing help.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
All of us were Oh oh, I thought the universal
sign for now. No, that's the one finger is not
needing help. That index finger got it. I'm a little
poor on my sign language anyway. Will, good morning, Amy,
there you are, and good morning and Neil and Kno,
everybody's here. And was talking about Kanye West. He's going
(02:02):
to be at SOFI and it was it the conversation
she you had with Will, and Will said, based on
everything that we're hearing, it's probably no one's going to
show up. Yeah, Will said, it doesn't seem like a
show most people are going to go to. It's just
going to be you know. Yeah, what happened, Well, yesterday
it sold out immediately and there was over a million
(02:22):
people in the queue to buy tickets. Yeah. Boy. People
were sending screenshots of their cue, going, oh, I'm one million,
eight hundred and twenty six.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Jewish, probably not a lot of Jews. Wow, he's bipolar,
he said, I that's mistake.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I was off the meds minute. It is really hard
to believe that he can be that popular. I guess.
I mean, I don't understand it. I'm not a big
fan of Taylor Swift either. I don't understand. Uh, I'm
not get easy. Yeah, I'm not throw it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Are you throwing t under the bus?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah? You are not her audience. It's not even that
I'm uh well, I mean there are plenty of people
that are sort of modern topical. I'm just saying, it's
just I don't don't don't talk about about her empire.
(03:24):
I very well said, I'm I just don't understand. Uh.
You know, I get the Eagles, I yet uh get
the uh the eagles.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
No, there's a few. There's just one of them. I
just saw them like last.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Year, So I get the stones. But maybe it's a
questions the question of longevity. You know, is Taylor Swift
going to be around fifty years from now with the
kind of following she has?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And I think that well, okay, and I have my
doubts about that.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, you won't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No, I don't have to worry about her next week. Okay. Anyway,
Good morning to one and all.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Wednesday mornings.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yes, all right, A lot of a lot of news,
a lot of Iranian stuff going on this morning, which
we will get to. Well, one thing I enjoyed yesterday,
just to quick aside before we jump into the story,
is Caroline Levitt when President Trump has said, I We're
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gonna stop when we get unconditional surrender from the Iranians.
And one of the reporters asked her what does unconditional
surrender mean? And she said, when the president feels like
they've surrendered, no matter what they do, he makes the
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decision as to them surrendering and no matter what. And
I'm just wondering, you know, when the president decides that
surrender is happening, it doesn't really matter. Now, the president
does make a choice as far as and how long
we're gonna stay there. And this thing I think is
going to come is starting to bite him in the
ass anyway, even though I totally agree with what he's doing. Okay,
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let's start, guys, It's time for Handle on the news
with Neil and Amy and me lead stories. Well, the
United States has just announced that it has taken out
multiple Iranian vessels, including sixteen Iranian mind layers. And the
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problem with those mine layers is they can be on
a small fishing boat and just have to go up
to one of these major tankers and major tanker ships
and just put the mine right against the hull of
the ship and just blow a huge hole and there
goes the ship with more and a half million barrels
of oil or whatever on it. It is, it's a problem
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Iran is coming back. Is asymmetrical fighting, which means it's
not head on fighting. There's no chance. I mean, it's
what is Iran going to do against the military force
of Israel and the United States. But going and attacking
via drones, for example, seems to be their go to now.
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And the drone technology and the drone intelligence where to
aim these things is intelligence is given by the Russians
to the Iranians. So right now, according to the White House,
there are no reports of Iran actually planting explosives in
this trade of horror moves, but it wouldn't be a surprise, okay.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Moving on one forty injuries, The Pentagon says about one
hundred and forty US service members have been wounded since
the attacks on Iran started last month. The chief Pentagon spokesman,
Sean Parnell said the vast majority of the have been minor.
One hundred and eight service members have already returned to duty.
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Eight service members remain listed is severely injured, and he
says they're getting the highest level of medical care. Of course,
we've lost seven soldiers.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Did you see that. I interviewed yesterday with one of
the surviving soldiers. And this one's a little weird because
this was a support a logistics location that had a
shelter underneath it. So the drone is somehow it's not intercepted,
but they know it's coming or the drones, and then
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the service personnel go underneath to the shelter and then
the all clear sounds and up they come again, and
that's when the drone hits. When they come up. And
the sergeant who survived said that he heard the drone
coming in. He saw it go through the roof of
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the building. He actually just for a second saw that
it was coming in and he turned away and five
feet from him, one of his co workers, that woman
sergeant basically was blown to pieces and he saw her
die right there. Really heartbreaking it is. So we're going
to see, unfortunately, we're going to see a lot of deaths,
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and I wish the president was not so I won't
say flipping about it, but nonchalant when it comes to
the deaths that were happening.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Okay, so interesting elections going on in the South. Just
yesterday there was interesting show in the power of President
Donald Trump's endorsement, as we've seen it can go either
way sometimes, but also the political strength of a senior
Democratic congressman who easily beat back a younger challenger. So
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you've got these two now, a very crowded field there
in Georgia at first, and this special election to replace
Marjorie Taylor Green as we know who left. She resigned
as she kind of puts herself back together apparently. But
it was interesting because there was a particular representative, Colton
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Moore on the Republican side, who was doing pretty well,
but then when it came down to it seemed that
those the Republicans kind of went towards Trump's pick, so.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
They the Republican is gonna win. There's that it's a
pretty red Oh yeah, it's about as red as as
the district is. So it's it's does that show anything
not particularly, Yeah, but it wasn't easily.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I mean, the the Democrat is in that it's not like, well, how.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Many votes of the Democrat win versus the Republican because
they're not they're not running against each other in the primaries. Now,
when the general election happens in November. That's going to
be interesting. Do I think the Republican is still going
to win? I think so, But I think the numbers
are going to narrow dramatically, and I believe that there
are going to be a whole bunch of districts They're
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going to flip around the country. As I'm looking at
the saying and maybe I'm dead wrong. I mean, I've
made these prognostications before, and I've been dead wrong a
lot most of the time, virtually every time.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Superintendent finally speaking, Alberto Carvallo has made his first public
statement since the FBI rated his home and his district
office in downtown That was on February twenty fifth. He's
denied any wrongdoing and says he wants to be returned
to his duties. Carvallo is currently unpaid administrative leave. His
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lawyer said, mister Carvallo remains confident that the evidence will
ultimately demonstrate he acted appropriately and in the best interests
of students.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, in the way is being described of how the
FBI came in there, knocking on the door early early
morning February twenty five, agents with long guns drawn. Both
Carball and his wife were placed in handcuffs and put
in the back of the car of the police car
while the search was being conducted. You think they could
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have just knocked on the door and say, we have
a search warrant here, and I don't know what he's
accused of doing. It's some kind of a violent crime.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
They do that though, they've done that. Remember when who
was it was? One of Trump says, he goes, why
didn't you just knock at the door?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Why in the morning, I was in my boxers, right,
Why do they do that? I don't get it. Obviously
to get as much omph as possible. I mean, you're
right on either side. I just don't get it. You
know why they do that obviously for the purposes of
as much impact of it, to scare those people, to
show that these are purpose as well. It's got to
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be consistent too.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
If you don't do it with some people and then
you do it with others, they're going they.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Don't do it with some people and they do it
with others. There is no consistency. The DOBI the police officers,
you know, quite often, I mean they knock on doors
all day long and here's a search warrant. There was
a search warrant that was issued when I was practicing
law in my office. One of the lawyers was accused
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of some kind of white collar crime, not in my firm,
but as in the same suite of offices. And they
came in with the Feds and they just moved us
all into the conference room and say stay there, will
we conduct the search. I mean, there were no guns,
there was nothing there. They literally knocked on the door,
someone opened the door and handed here's a search warrant.
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And so I'm sure that happens more often than not.
I'm just curious as to why this happens when there
is no risk at all, unless they had some kind
of information that Carvallo was going to come out with
his long gun and start blowing apart the cops. All right,
moving on, all right, lax.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
The worst airport in the world is now going to
be one of the most expensive to get to. Yesterday,
board members of the Los Angeles World Airports approved.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
A fee hike.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Let's see, it looks like it's a one hundred and
forty percent fee hike.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh it's more than that when you think about it.
Remember we talked about it yesterday is going from four
dollars to twelve dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Well, and this is for you know, third party uber lyft,
even taxis limousine companies that operate going to and fro
there at the airport. But this access fee increase, you know,
not only affects them, that's going to be pushed on
to us. This is all while while we're waiting for
the Skylink, as they say, to open this summer, so
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the fees won't go into effect until the summer when
Skylak opens up. But it's it's just another kick to
the testes man for a horrible airport as it you know,
as it stands. And now they're saying it's going to
ease congestion, but it's just poorly laid out.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Back and take the people Mover in Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
By the way, do you remember the people Mover at Disneyland. Yes,
And you remember and somebody, some kid decided he was
going to ride the people Mover in between the cars
of the people Move the kid that got out, yeah yeah, yeah,
and they shut down the people Mover immediately because.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You can't make something stupid proof. It's been said that
if you make something fool proof, they'll build a better fool.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh well, said Charlie.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Kirk's widow is going to the Air Force Academy.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Well the board.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
President Trump has appointed Erica Kirk to the US Air
Force Academy Board of Visitors. The Board's responsibilities include looking
into the academy's morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, financial affairs,
and academic methods and other method and other matters. The
board also makes recommendations to the Secretary of War.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Did she retire with twenty or twenty five years of
service in the military?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I forget Well, okay, you know, I thought, I swear
I thought. The board's responsibility includes looking awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh goody.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I want Somedi in his department. He's got to get
some brunettes. He just fired the one brunette he had.
I know, it's really tough, alrighty. So this is bizarre.
Just when you think you hate a generation and you
know him, you don't. So about one third of gen
Z men, this is across twenty nine different countries, believe
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that a wife should always obey her husband. This is
a new study out of Paris. But the interesting thing
here is that this multinational market research firm that went
into this with over twenty three thousand surveyed adults, thirty
one percent of gen Z men agree that a wife
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should always obey her husband.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
But check this out.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
The figure is more than double the response, which was
thirteen percent by men or baby boomers.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Oh yeah, the boomers appreciate women because we're all whipped.
All right, I'm going to do that topic at seven
thirty because there's a lot to this, so I'm going
to dive into that a little bit deeper.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, how is lindsay obeying?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Not?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Well, she says you're obeying. Well, that is correct.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Evictied.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
A judge recently entered an eviction ruling against actor Mickey Rourke, who,
despite owing nearly sixty thousand dollars in unpaid rent at
his Beverly Grove home, rejected more than one hundred thousand
dollars that was raised for I'm going to go fund
me campaign coordinated by his manager. Remember they raised the
money really quick, and then he said, no, no, I
don't want it. I don't take handouts like that, don't
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need it. And he's said, and he didn't pay the
rent because he was in some sort of a dispute
with the landlord, and so the judge evicted him.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, I don't think he did he even show up
to court or was it au.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
They didn't know, they couldn't recognize him. Yeah, okay, he
was a handsome man. I'm sorry. He was a good
looking man.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
And I liked him. He was a good actor. I
liked him, fantastic actor.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But now he looks like somebody pulled silly putty over
their knee.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It just nicely said, nicely said, Well he's quirky. I
loved his acting, all.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Right, Uh noma. We've been hearing a lot about this
pop up in silver Lake at the Paramour there on
the hills of Silver Lake. And this is Renee Zeppe.
He is a world famous chef three Michelin stars. As
a matter of fact, well, a lot of controversy around him.
The New York Times did a you know, did a
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deep dive investigation int allegations. I think there was like
thirty five thirty six allegations against him of hyper mistreating
both psychologically and physical abuse against staff at his fine
dining eatey you know, not here in la But they're
coming to bite him in the ass. And now he's
got two major, two major sponsors pulling out, one of
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which is American is Express and then the hospitality company Blackbird.
They cut ties and I think it starts today. I
think they so.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
To your point of biting him in the ass is
because he bit his staff in the ass and now
he's getting it big time. Oh they are punch He
also punched them. The allegation is and threw them against walls.
One of them was with a knife.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
But they the story I read doing some studying on
it yesterday. I will tell you that there he would
do things that they do in cults, like embarrass you
in front of people to get compliance and stuff like that.
Pretty crazy, pretty crazy. Don't know the man, but crazy
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story all right. See one more before I break amy.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Don't kill the deer please. A plan to shoot and
kill all the deer on Catalina Island is being challenged
by the Ellie County's Office of County Council. They wrote
a letter to the conservancy and said, you know, killing
all the deer is just reckless and humane. The plan
to get rid of the deer is because the deer
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have taken over. There's like two thousand of them or
something and says the deer eating all the native grasses,
that's harming the ecosystem and increasing the growth of more
flammable invasive grasses. So the council, along with Ellie County
Supervisor Janis Hahn, whose district includes Katalina Island, have said
that they advocate for thinning the herd but leaving a
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small deer population to keep brush volume down.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
What if you kill the humanely? Is that inhumane or
just the concept of killing them is inhumane? And our
and do they meet at Chick fil a and talk
about humanly killing animals? And I don't know the answer
to that.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Is it like genter what do they just call it
gentrification or something like that? And then everybody will want
them dead.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Good point.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So we all remember twelve years ago or so, you
had the MH three seventy flight out of Malaysia. If
you remember the Malaysia Airline flight that vanished two hundred
and thirty nine people aboard. And now twelve years later,
you've got a renewed investigation going on the family, could
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you imagine still doesn't know what happened. There is no
real description of what took place. They don't know where
the plane is any of these things, so it's back on.
There's a excess based company last year that started renewing
the search for the flight three seventy of their and
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their role here is kind of cool. It's like, if
we don't find anything, then you don't pay anything.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
So it sounds like a Pi Jenny commercial, isn't it. Yeah,
you only you don't pay until you win. Right. I
have a question about this and maybe Amy, this might
be worth looking up, and that is that when it
did happen twelve years ago, was the technology there that
followed an airplane across the ocean. I know that it
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wasn't too long ago where you had no radar contact
across the Pacific, that the planes were just out there
empty in terms of radar contact. Today, with the GPS,
you know exactly where they are, so if the plane
goes down, you sort of can pinpoint it.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
The technology did exist, but what's not uniformly implemented or
mandatory at the time. They do know that the plane
turned south like it veered off its course.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Remember, they don't know when, they don't know where it
crashed specifically into the pretty big ocean.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Nope, Okay, crazy that they still haven't found that fascinating.
Turning the other cheek, the wife of a Georgia High
school teacher who died during a late night senior prank
gone wrong has asked for all the charges to be
dropped against the students involved. There were five North Hall
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High students. They were arrested after going to the math
teacher's house. It's Jason Hughes, and they had their toilet
paper because they were going to tpee his house long
standing prank tradition. Well, Hughes was walking toward the street
when he tripped and fell onto the slippery roadway. He
was then run over by a car driven by one
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of the students, and the wife says, you know what,
this was a terrible tragedy. Amily's determined to prevent a
separate tragedy from occurring, which would be ruining the lives
of these students.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Good on her. Yeah, when you think about it, you know,
they charged him with the higular manslaughter. I mean, he
wasn't speeding. I'm assuming he was driving appropriately leaving the scene,
and uh, the teacher fell in front of the car.
I'm assuming that's what happened, and it is an accident
and the wife also said that he was excited about it.
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He knew the prank was going on.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Outstanding thing.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah it's and it's not even a horrible prank for
Pete's sake, you know, like.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
From the stupid somebody's house we got all the time.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh yeah, it was the best. Although now you know,
you don't want to you don't want to waste the
toilet also, you know, also you want to use also
you want to use new toilet paper because it gets
to be just not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Okay, take kind It just dissolves as you throw it,
all right, So there you're remember the shooter at the
Chiefs rally last year?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Was it at the Super Bowl No. Twenty twenty four?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Rather so?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah, the Kansas City Chiefs win, and there was some
craziness that went on. About twelve people brandish firearms. The
guns found at the scene include at least two AR
style rifles. They started shooting, and there was a DJ,
Lisa Lopez Galvan, the host of a local radio show
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out there. She was killed while watching the rally with
her family. About two dozen other people, many of them children,
were wounded but survived. Well, this got really muddled. Bill
because of the law and the self defense laws is
they couldn't they couldn't prove that there wasn't an act
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of self defense taking place at the time.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
So that is a little weird, isn't it. It's just
it's true. It's a bizarre, bizarre case because.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Because of their laws, there was no way to say, okay,
definitively this was murder or because the guys.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
The guy who shot the people said that they he
was defending himself because another group had approached them and
was threatening them.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And this is a stand in your ground law, which
a bunch of states have. Extend your ground law California
is you merely must protect yourself. Someone breaks into your house,
you can go ahead and shoot them, But out there
on the street you have to retreat and not pull
up a gun and start shooting. Not in Georgia and
other states, it's staying your ground and that's expanding too,
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all right, So do one more and then we are bailing.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
All right, Which is worse jury duty or working the
polls on election day. Well, apparently now you might have
a choice. In Idaho, Senate committee has advanced a bill
that would allow prospective jurors to volunteer as poll workers
on election day instead.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Have you or Anne ever worked the poll No?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
No, not any kind of.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You've never done any poll works answering. Also, that was
the wrong question, and or Amy, that was the wrong
question you asked. It's not which would you rather do
work the polls or jury duty? The question is what
would you rather do, either have jury duty or undergo
surgery without anesthesia, And it is the latter, which is
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what most people choose jury duty.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
It's kind of a cool option though.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It is a cool option, it is, but they're so
short of juries. How many juries? How many people go
through the jury system in for example, La County, a
Grazilian millions a year, like two million people they need
a year going through the jury system, of which every
single one wants to get out of jury duty except
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people that work for the post office because they really
enjoy it because they get paid. And certain big companies
also get paid.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Well, any county worker, right, the government worker gets.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You yeah, of course, and then a lot of major
corporations also will pay their workers full till, just like iHeart,
because that's policy here. If you go until we get
paid like five bucks, don't No, that's the official rate
you get paid by the government, five dollars a day,
or maybe it's fifteen dollars a day. Now I have
no idea. Okay, we're done. The President pushing for that
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voting bill, and that fight is getting a touch more intense,
and we'll talk about that coming up. KFI Am sixty.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
And now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle. Oh no, mister Bell, do you remember that
from Saturday Night Live? Yes, you know we should do that?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yes, o Clay creature man that would die in every single.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, right at my alley. It's wonderful. Okay. Anyway, good
morning everybody. We start day Wednesday, March eleventh, and the
whole crowd is there, I think, because I don't see
Will on the monitor yet. So if Will is there, no,
(00:54):
do something, throw something against the screen, get on the screen. Okay,
excellently done nothing from where I am. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
there you are. I had issues this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I'm sorting myself out.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You know what, when do we not have issues? Let
me think about this in terms of glitches on this show.
When do we not have them? It wouldn't be us
if if it worked well, No, tons of times it's
on your side. Yesterday it was here. I'm in my
home studio today and yesterday it was Neil, what are
(01:32):
you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We were just doing the universal sign for needing help.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
All of us were Oh oh, I thought the universal
sign for now. No, that's the one finger is not
needing help. That index finger got it. I'm a little
poor on my sign language anyway. Will, good morning, Amy,
there you are, and good morning and Neil and Kno,
everybody's here. And was talking about Kanye West. He's going
(02:02):
to be at SOFI and it was it the conversation
she you had with Will, and Will said, based on
everything that we're hearing, it's probably no one's going to
show up. Yeah, Will said, it doesn't seem like a
show most people are going to go to. It's just
going to be you know. Yeah, what happened, Well, yesterday
it sold out immediately and there was over a million
(02:22):
people in the queue to buy tickets. Yeah. Boy. People
were sending screenshots of their cue, going, oh, I'm one million,
eight hundred and twenty six.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Jewish, probably not a lot of Jews. Wow, he's bipolar,
he said, I that's mistake.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I was off the meds minute. It is really hard
to believe that he can be that popular. I guess.
I mean, I don't understand it. I'm not a big
fan of Taylor Swift either. I don't understand. Uh, I'm
not get easy. Yeah, I'm not throw it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Are you throwing t under the bus?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah? You are not her audience. It's not even that
I'm uh well, I mean there are plenty of people
that are sort of modern topical. I'm just saying, it's
just I don't don't don't talk about about her empire.
(03:24):
I very well said, I'm I just don't understand. Uh.
You know, I get the Eagles, I yet uh get
the uh the eagles.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
No, there's a few. There's just one of them. I
just saw them like last.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Year, So I get the stones. But maybe it's a
questions the question of longevity. You know, is Taylor Swift
going to be around fifty years from now with the
kind of following she has?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And I think that well, okay, and I have my
doubts about that.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, you won't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No, I don't have to worry about her next week. Okay. Anyway,
Good morning to one and all.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Wednesday mornings.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yes, all right, A lot of a lot of news,
a lot of Iranian stuff going on this morning, which
we will get to. Well, one thing I enjoyed yesterday,
just to quick aside before we jump into the story,
is Caroline Levitt when President Trump has said, I We're
(04:29):
gonna stop when we get unconditional surrender from the Iranians.
And one of the reporters asked her what does unconditional
surrender mean? And she said, when the president feels like
they've surrendered, no matter what they do, he makes the
(04:50):
decision as to them surrendering and no matter what. And
I'm just wondering, you know, when the president decides that
surrender is happening, it doesn't really matter. Now, the president
does make a choice as far as and how long
we're gonna stay there. And this thing I think is
going to come is starting to bite him in the
ass anyway, even though I totally agree with what he's doing. Okay,
(05:13):
let's start, guys, It's time for Handle on the news
with Neil and Amy and me lead stories. Well, the
United States has just announced that it has taken out
multiple Iranian vessels, including sixteen Iranian mind layers. And the
(05:33):
problem with those mine layers is they can be on
a small fishing boat and just have to go up
to one of these major tankers and major tanker ships
and just put the mine right against the hull of
the ship and just blow a huge hole and there
goes the ship with more and a half million barrels
of oil or whatever on it. It is, it's a problem
(05:58):
Iran is coming back. Is asymmetrical fighting, which means it's
not head on fighting. There's no chance. I mean, it's
what is Iran going to do against the military force
of Israel and the United States. But going and attacking
via drones, for example, seems to be their go to now.
(06:20):
And the drone technology and the drone intelligence where to
aim these things is intelligence is given by the Russians
to the Iranians. So right now, according to the White House,
there are no reports of Iran actually planting explosives in
this trade of horror moves, but it wouldn't be a surprise, okay.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Moving on one forty injuries, The Pentagon says about one
hundred and forty US service members have been wounded since
the attacks on Iran started last month. The chief Pentagon spokesman,
Sean Parnell said the vast majority of the have been minor.
One hundred and eight service members have already returned to duty.
(07:04):
Eight service members remain listed is severely injured, and he
says they're getting the highest level of medical care. Of course,
we've lost seven soldiers.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Did you see that. I interviewed yesterday with one of
the surviving soldiers. And this one's a little weird because
this was a support a logistics location that had a
shelter underneath it. So the drone is somehow it's not intercepted,
but they know it's coming or the drones, and then
(07:34):
the service personnel go underneath to the shelter and then
the all clear sounds and up they come again, and
that's when the drone hits. When they come up. And
the sergeant who survived said that he heard the drone
coming in. He saw it go through the roof of
(07:55):
the building. He actually just for a second saw that
it was coming in and he turned away and five
feet from him, one of his co workers, that woman
sergeant basically was blown to pieces and he saw her
die right there. Really heartbreaking it is. So we're going
to see, unfortunately, we're going to see a lot of deaths,
(08:15):
and I wish the president was not so I won't
say flipping about it, but nonchalant when it comes to
the deaths that were happening.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Okay, so interesting elections going on in the South. Just
yesterday there was interesting show in the power of President
Donald Trump's endorsement, as we've seen it can go either
way sometimes, but also the political strength of a senior
Democratic congressman who easily beat back a younger challenger. So
(08:48):
you've got these two now, a very crowded field there
in Georgia at first, and this special election to replace
Marjorie Taylor Green as we know who left. She resigned
as she kind of puts herself back together apparently. But
it was interesting because there was a particular representative, Colton
(09:11):
Moore on the Republican side, who was doing pretty well,
but then when it came down to it seemed that
those the Republicans kind of went towards Trump's pick, so.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
They the Republican is gonna win. There's that it's a
pretty red Oh yeah, it's about as red as as
the district is. So it's it's does that show anything
not particularly, Yeah, but it wasn't easily.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I mean, the the Democrat is in that it's not like, well, how.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Many votes of the Democrat win versus the Republican because
they're not they're not running against each other in the primaries. Now,
when the general election happens in November. That's going to
be interesting. Do I think the Republican is still going
to win? I think so, But I think the numbers
are going to narrow dramatically, and I believe that there
are going to be a whole bunch of districts They're
(10:03):
going to flip around the country. As I'm looking at
the saying and maybe I'm dead wrong. I mean, I've
made these prognostications before, and I've been dead wrong a
lot most of the time, virtually every time.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Superintendent finally speaking, Alberto Carvallo has made his first public
statement since the FBI rated his home and his district
office in downtown That was on February twenty fifth. He's
denied any wrongdoing and says he wants to be returned
to his duties. Carvallo is currently unpaid administrative leave. His
(10:41):
lawyer said, mister Carvallo remains confident that the evidence will
ultimately demonstrate he acted appropriately and in the best interests
of students.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, in the way is being described of how the
FBI came in there, knocking on the door early early
morning February twenty five, agents with long guns drawn. Both
Carball and his wife were placed in handcuffs and put
in the back of the car of the police car
while the search was being conducted. You think they could
(11:14):
have just knocked on the door and say, we have
a search warrant here, and I don't know what he's
accused of doing. It's some kind of a violent crime.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
They do that though, they've done that. Remember when who
was it was? One of Trump says, he goes, why
didn't you just knock at the door?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Why in the morning, I was in my boxers, right,
Why do they do that? I don't get it. Obviously
to get as much omph as possible. I mean, you're
right on either side. I just don't get it. You
know why they do that obviously for the purposes of
as much impact of it, to scare those people, to
show that these are purpose as well. It's got to
(11:53):
be consistent too.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
If you don't do it with some people and then
you do it with others, they're going they.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Don't do it with some people and they do it
with others. There is no consistency. The DOBI the police officers,
you know, quite often, I mean they knock on doors
all day long and here's a search warrant. There was
a search warrant that was issued when I was practicing
law in my office. One of the lawyers was accused
(12:18):
of some kind of white collar crime, not in my firm,
but as in the same suite of offices. And they
came in with the Feds and they just moved us
all into the conference room and say stay there, will
we conduct the search. I mean, there were no guns,
there was nothing there. They literally knocked on the door,
someone opened the door and handed here's a search warrant.
(12:39):
And so I'm sure that happens more often than not.
I'm just curious as to why this happens when there
is no risk at all, unless they had some kind
of information that Carvallo was going to come out with
his long gun and start blowing apart the cops. All right,
moving on, all right, lax.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
The worst airport in the world is now going to
be one of the most expensive to get to. Yesterday,
board members of the Los Angeles World Airports approved.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
A fee hike.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Let's see, it looks like it's a one hundred and
forty percent fee hike.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh it's more than that when you think about it.
Remember we talked about it yesterday is going from four
dollars to twelve dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Well, and this is for you know, third party uber lyft,
even taxis limousine companies that operate going to and fro
there at the airport. But this access fee increase, you know,
not only affects them, that's going to be pushed on
to us. This is all while while we're waiting for
the Skylink, as they say, to open this summer, so
(13:43):
the fees won't go into effect until the summer when
Skylak opens up. But it's it's just another kick to
the testes man for a horrible airport as it you know,
as it stands. And now they're saying it's going to
ease congestion, but it's just poorly laid out.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Back and take the people Mover in Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
By the way, do you remember the people Mover at Disneyland. Yes,
And you remember and somebody, some kid decided he was
going to ride the people Mover in between the cars
of the people Move the kid that got out, yeah yeah, yeah,
and they shut down the people Mover immediately because.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You can't make something stupid proof. It's been said that
if you make something fool proof, they'll build a better fool.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh well, said Charlie.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Kirk's widow is going to the Air Force Academy.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Well the board.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
President Trump has appointed Erica Kirk to the US Air
Force Academy Board of Visitors. The Board's responsibilities include looking
into the academy's morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, financial affairs,
and academic methods and other method and other matters. The
board also makes recommendations to the Secretary of War.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Did she retire with twenty or twenty five years of
service in the military?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I forget Well, okay, you know, I thought, I swear
I thought. The board's responsibility includes looking awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh goody.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I want Somedi in his department. He's got to get
some brunettes. He just fired the one brunette he had.
I know, it's really tough, alrighty. So this is bizarre.
Just when you think you hate a generation and you
know him, you don't. So about one third of gen
Z men, this is across twenty nine different countries, believe
(15:44):
that a wife should always obey her husband. This is
a new study out of Paris. But the interesting thing
here is that this multinational market research firm that went
into this with over twenty three thousand surveyed adults, thirty
one percent of gen Z men agree that a wife
(16:04):
should always obey her husband.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
But check this out.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
The figure is more than double the response, which was
thirteen percent by men or baby boomers.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Oh yeah, the boomers appreciate women because we're all whipped.
All right, I'm going to do that topic at seven
thirty because there's a lot to this, so I'm going
to dive into that a little bit deeper.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, how is lindsay obeying?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Not?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Well, she says you're obeying. Well, that is correct.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Evictied.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
A judge recently entered an eviction ruling against actor Mickey Rourke, who,
despite owing nearly sixty thousand dollars in unpaid rent at
his Beverly Grove home, rejected more than one hundred thousand
dollars that was raised for I'm going to go fund
me campaign coordinated by his manager. Remember they raised the
money really quick, and then he said, no, no, I
don't want it. I don't take handouts like that, don't
(16:58):
need it. And he's said, and he didn't pay the
rent because he was in some sort of a dispute
with the landlord, and so the judge evicted him.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, I don't think he did he even show up
to court or was it au.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
They didn't know, they couldn't recognize him. Yeah, okay, he
was a handsome man. I'm sorry. He was a good
looking man.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
And I liked him. He was a good actor. I
liked him, fantastic actor.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But now he looks like somebody pulled silly putty over
their knee.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
It just nicely said, nicely said, Well he's quirky. I
loved his acting, all.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Right, Uh noma. We've been hearing a lot about this
pop up in silver Lake at the Paramour there on
the hills of Silver Lake. And this is Renee Zeppe.
He is a world famous chef three Michelin stars. As
a matter of fact, well, a lot of controversy around him.
The New York Times did a you know, did a
(17:56):
deep dive investigation int allegations. I think there was like
thirty five thirty six allegations against him of hyper mistreating
both psychologically and physical abuse against staff at his fine
dining eatey you know, not here in la But they're
coming to bite him in the ass. And now he's
got two major, two major sponsors pulling out, one of
(18:20):
which is American is Express and then the hospitality company Blackbird.
They cut ties and I think it starts today. I
think they so.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
To your point of biting him in the ass is
because he bit his staff in the ass and now
he's getting it big time. Oh they are punch He
also punched them. The allegation is and threw them against walls.
One of them was with a knife.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
But they the story I read doing some studying on
it yesterday. I will tell you that there he would
do things that they do in cults, like embarrass you
in front of people to get compliance and stuff like that.
Pretty crazy, pretty crazy. Don't know the man, but crazy
(19:06):
story all right. See one more before I break amy.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Don't kill the deer please. A plan to shoot and
kill all the deer on Catalina Island is being challenged
by the Ellie County's Office of County Council. They wrote
a letter to the conservancy and said, you know, killing
all the deer is just reckless and humane. The plan
to get rid of the deer is because the deer
(19:30):
have taken over. There's like two thousand of them or
something and says the deer eating all the native grasses,
that's harming the ecosystem and increasing the growth of more
flammable invasive grasses. So the council, along with Ellie County
Supervisor Janis Hahn, whose district includes Katalina Island, have said
that they advocate for thinning the herd but leaving a
(19:51):
small deer population to keep brush volume down.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
What if you kill the humanely? Is that inhumane or
just the concept of killing them is inhumane? And our
and do they meet at Chick fil a and talk
about humanly killing animals? And I don't know the answer
to that.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Is it like genter what do they just call it
gentrification or something like that? And then everybody will want
them dead.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Good point.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So we all remember twelve years ago or so, you
had the MH three seventy flight out of Malaysia. If
you remember the Malaysia Airline flight that vanished two hundred
and thirty nine people aboard. And now twelve years later,
you've got a renewed investigation going on the family, could
(20:46):
you imagine still doesn't know what happened. There is no
real description of what took place. They don't know where
the plane is any of these things, so it's back on.
There's a excess based company last year that started renewing
the search for the flight three seventy of their and
(21:07):
their role here is kind of cool. It's like, if
we don't find anything, then you don't pay anything.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
So it sounds like a Pi Jenny commercial, isn't it. Yeah,
you only you don't pay until you win. Right. I
have a question about this and maybe Amy, this might
be worth looking up, and that is that when it
did happen twelve years ago, was the technology there that
followed an airplane across the ocean. I know that it
(21:36):
wasn't too long ago where you had no radar contact
across the Pacific, that the planes were just out there
empty in terms of radar contact. Today, with the GPS,
you know exactly where they are, so if the plane
goes down, you sort of can pinpoint it.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
The technology did exist, but what's not uniformly implemented or
mandatory at the time. They do know that the plane
turned south like it veered off its course.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Remember, they don't know when, they don't know where it
crashed specifically into the pretty big ocean.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Nope, Okay, crazy that they still haven't found that fascinating.
Turning the other cheek, the wife of a Georgia High
school teacher who died during a late night senior prank
gone wrong has asked for all the charges to be
dropped against the students involved. There were five North Hall
(22:31):
High students. They were arrested after going to the math
teacher's house. It's Jason Hughes, and they had their toilet
paper because they were going to tpee his house long
standing prank tradition. Well, Hughes was walking toward the street
when he tripped and fell onto the slippery roadway. He
was then run over by a car driven by one
(22:54):
of the students, and the wife says, you know what,
this was a terrible tragedy. Amily's determined to prevent a
separate tragedy from occurring, which would be ruining the lives
of these students.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Good on her. Yeah, when you think about it, you know,
they charged him with the higular manslaughter. I mean, he
wasn't speeding. I'm assuming he was driving appropriately leaving the scene,
and uh, the teacher fell in front of the car.
I'm assuming that's what happened, and it is an accident
and the wife also said that he was excited about it.
(23:27):
He knew the prank was going on.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Outstanding thing.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah it's and it's not even a horrible prank for
Pete's sake, you know, like.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
From the stupid somebody's house we got all the time.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh yeah, it was the best. Although now you know,
you don't want to you don't want to waste the
toilet also, you know, also you want to use also
you want to use new toilet paper because it gets
to be just not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Okay, take kind It just dissolves as you throw it,
all right, So there you're remember the shooter at the
Chiefs rally last year?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Was it at the Super Bowl No. Twenty twenty four?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Rather so?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah, the Kansas City Chiefs win, and there was some
craziness that went on. About twelve people brandish firearms. The
guns found at the scene include at least two AR
style rifles. They started shooting, and there was a DJ,
Lisa Lopez Galvan, the host of a local radio show
(24:28):
out there. She was killed while watching the rally with
her family. About two dozen other people, many of them children,
were wounded but survived. Well, this got really muddled. Bill
because of the law and the self defense laws is
they couldn't they couldn't prove that there wasn't an act
(24:49):
of self defense taking place at the time.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
So that is a little weird, isn't it. It's just
it's true. It's a bizarre, bizarre case because.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Because of their laws, there was no way to say, okay,
definitively this was murder or because the guys.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
The guy who shot the people said that they he
was defending himself because another group had approached them and
was threatening them.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And this is a stand in your ground law, which
a bunch of states have. Extend your ground law California
is you merely must protect yourself. Someone breaks into your house,
you can go ahead and shoot them, But out there
on the street you have to retreat and not pull
up a gun and start shooting. Not in Georgia and
other states, it's staying your ground and that's expanding too,
(25:38):
all right, So do one more and then we are bailing.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
All right, Which is worse jury duty or working the
polls on election day. Well, apparently now you might have
a choice. In Idaho, Senate committee has advanced a bill
that would allow prospective jurors to volunteer as poll workers
on election day instead.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Have you or Anne ever worked the poll No?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
No, not any kind of.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You've never done any poll works answering. Also, that was
the wrong question, and or Amy, that was the wrong
question you asked. It's not which would you rather do
work the polls or jury duty? The question is what
would you rather do, either have jury duty or undergo
surgery without anesthesia, And it is the latter, which is
(26:26):
what most people choose jury duty.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
It's kind of a cool option though.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It is a cool option, it is, but they're so
short of juries. How many juries? How many people go
through the jury system in for example, La County, a
Grazilian millions a year, like two million people they need
a year going through the jury system, of which every
single one wants to get out of jury duty except
(26:53):
people that work for the post office because they really
enjoy it because they get paid. And certain big companies
also get paid.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Well, any county worker, right, the government worker gets.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You yeah, of course, and then a lot of major
corporations also will pay their workers full till, just like iHeart,
because that's policy here. If you go until we get
paid like five bucks, don't No, that's the official rate
you get paid by the government, five dollars a day,
or maybe it's fifteen dollars a day. Now I have
no idea. Okay, we're done. The President pushing for that
(27:26):
voting bill, and that fight is getting a touch more intense,
and we'll talk about that coming up. KFI Am sixty.
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