July 29, 2024 • 26 mins
“No One is Above the Law”: Biden calls for Supreme Court reform, opposes presidential immunity. El Chapo’s son helped U.S arrest fabled Narco Chief ‘El Mayo’. Paris Olympics organizers apologize for opening ceremony’s ‘The Lat Supper.’ The British Olympic team has picked a food fight with France.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is KFI Bill Handle here.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
It is a Monday morning, July twenty nine, and we're
in the middle of the Olympics. I'll be talking a
fair amount about the Olympics. Matter of fact, I'm just
talking to and a few minutes ago during the break,
and we are putting together a couple of podcasts now
about the Olympics that I thought will drop.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
What on Thursday and next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And it's just some fun stuff and the podcast now
you can log onto the podcast and it's on the
iHeartRadio app. The Bill Handle Show podcast different from the
on demand stuff that we do. In other words, you
can listen to this show on demand a truncated version.
The podcast is totally different stuff. It's unique to the podcast.
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And I'll be doing a couple of stories about that
food at the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There's a whole story onto itself. I'll be doing some
of that coming up at AM. I doing Yeah seven fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And then some of the history of the Olympics. I
got some of the events were hilarious throughout the years,
and so I'll do that also. So it's the Handle
Show podcast on the iHeartRadio app Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It drops at nine o'clock a new episode. Now.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Over the weekend, there was an op ed piece in
the Washington Washington Post authored by Joe Biden, and he
called for major changes.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And he's already said this, but he's put these three together.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What he wants in his major changes in the Supreme Court,
what he wants is a constitutional amendment limits immunity for
president in light of what the Court had said last month.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He wants to impose term.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Limits for justices, and that has been fairly controversial. It
makes a lot of sense because now you're gonna be
one hundred and fifty years old and not even know
what you're doing, and you're sitting on the bench, so
lifetime a port ointments.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And he wants an.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Enforceable code of ethics because it turns out that heretofore
the Supreme Court justices were a sacris act. I mean,
they never did anything wrong and there was never a conflict.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Right huh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The op ed piece, Biden said, no one is above
the law, not the president, not a justice, no one.
In light of what former President Trump said that a president.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Is above the law.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Anything he does as president, he is immune from prosecution.
And the court actually kind of went his way in
a couple of areas. In July, the Supreme Court said
presidents cannot be prosecuted for quote, official acts during their
time in office. Now they can be prosecuted for unofficial acts.
But that goes back to the lower courts to determine,
(02:51):
and so, you know, sometimes it's pretty clear cut, sometimes
it's not. The Supreme Court said, hey, every one of
these acts has to be determined to be official or
non official in a court of law. Biden said that
as a US senator for thirty six years and as
a vice president and as president, he has overseen more
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Supreme Court nominations than anyone in history.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's probably true, And he.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Said what's happening now is not particularly normal. Now he's
asked for three changes lifetime appointment.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That changes.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
He wants every two years the president to make to
designate another official Supreme Court just and he wants what is.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
It, nine years or eighteen years on the bench. That's it.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And so at least there's going to be some turnover
because here's one of the problems with the lifetime appointment.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
They're there for a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And if you have a Supreme Court now that does
go one way or the other politically, forget about a
non political Supreme Court that doesn't exist anymore. Well, what
ends up happening in the case of the court now,
former President Trump selected three justices, by the way, according
to the rules. I mean, I can't argue with that.
And for those liberals that are going berserk, hey, that's
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the way the rules work. But a president's legacy a
choice is thirty thirty five years. Donald Trump will long
be dead when his version of the Supreme Court is over.
And that's the problem with a lifetime appointment. And the
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current president wants a binding code of conduct for a
Supreme Court justice. There is no binding anything for a
Supreme Court justice. And this came to light because what
he had, you had Justice Thomas and Justice Alito didn't
disclose they received millions of dollars of gifts from individuals
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with businesses before the court because they do business. Anybody
who has a bui business or as involved in a
business that somehow the Court is going to be ruling
on should disclose or not even be allowed to give
to a justice. Well, you know, no rule against that,
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and you had Toledo and you have particularly Clarence Thomas.
Just oh, I forgot to say that it was inadvertent
that I flew on a private jet for my best
buddy who happens to be a billionaire on a luxury
resort in I think it was Bali that was thousands
of dollars a night. Yeah, maybe I should have said something,
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but I kind of forgot.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And what Biden says that there should be some kind
of ethics regulation, Well, it sort of is, but it's
voluntary and it's not specific. And aoc of course, being
who she is, Alexandria Ocasio Cortes a file articles of
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impeachment against Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alita over the ethics
violations and political bias.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Another one of these, let's file articles of impeachment, which
is a Republican who just filed articles of impeachment against
Harris as vice president. He wants to impeach her as
vice president because she did not follow the law as
he sees it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Let's impeae.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, Marjorie Taylor Green filed her first article of impeachment
against Joe Biden ten minutes after he was sworn in,
and she wanted to impeach him for high crimes and misdemeanors,
which is kind of interesting because how do you do
that in ten minutes? What on the way back from
the inaugural speech? Yeah, I mean, that's how crazy it
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has gotten. Is anything going to happen with this? By
the way, Joe Biden calling for what I think are
reasonable safeguards, reasonable guardrails.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Not a chance. Why is that?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Because you've got Congress that will never let it happen,
and because it's a conservative court. And on the other side,
if it were a super liberal court and conservatives would
be going for this, you'd have Congress that would never
let it happen. Society is too split, that's all. And
so it's just yeah, I guess depressing. Okay, Now, let's
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move over and talk about what happened also over the weekend.
And this has to do with El Chappo's son being
arrested in the US and l Chopo's son was is
I guess was now one of the big big players
in the Sinoloa cartel. And this was his father, El Choppo,
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who is now in prison and he's gotten twenty to
twenty five years. One of the things about being a
cartel kingpin is you don't go to jail very often.
And for example, the story of El Guzman, El Choppo Guzman,
who at one point was convicted in Mexico, Mexico with
not extra item to the United States. And so he
was convicted for X number of years and he built
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his own prison that was being quote being in prison,
and the guards worked for him, and the hookers came,
and the bands came, and the food and he brought
his own chef in I mean, that was prison. And
so what ended up happening is Mexico realizing the United
States got very very very serious with the cartel. And
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I'll tell you what did it. Fentanyl that did it.
You have one hundred thousand Americans dying every year, most
of them dying of opioid overdoses. A lot of those
opiate overdoses, as matter of fact, the majority are fentanyl
and all comes out of Mexico and the cartels involved,
and all of a sudden, whoops, now we're getting very serious.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So Mexico, the.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Kind of corruption not not so pervasive anymore, because it's
just it's hard to protect a guy who kills that
many people, that many innocent people in the United States,
and so the US is going crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So it turns out that.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The Sun has actually been in negotiations. This is El
Chapo's son, has been in negotiations with the US for
a surrender because he figures it's just going to be
a matter of time. So he is he now flies
into the US. He convinces this is the one that
really is interesting. One of the head Honchos El Mayo Zambada,
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who actually created this in a loa hotel with cartel
with El Chapo, this guy's.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Dad, and they got on an airplane, little prop plane,
and they're going.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
To see a well, so he convinces El Mayo, this
is Joaquim Guzman. He convinces El Mayo, let's get on
this airplane. I want you to see an airfield.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, it turns out that.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
El Chapo's son has actually arranged for that airplane to
go into the United States, unbeknownst to his.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Guy. I guess godfather El Mayo.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And by the way, so the authorities are going to
pick him up right the American authorities.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
They don't even know about it. They don't know about it.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Turns out that he has arranged for this airplane flight.
Just before taking off. Somehow the FBI, the authorities in
El Paso say hey, this guy's coming in. They can't
believe it. They're scrambling. They barely made it when the
plane landed, and so, okay, great news that they got Juaquin.
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What they didn't know is that he is bringing with
him El Mayo, who's been around.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I've never been in jail before. He's in his seventies.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
He's very low profile guy, has run the cartel for years.
He's one of the kingpins. And all of a sudden,
the authorities have both. They have both Guzman's son and
they now have El Mayo Zambada.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Big hit to the cartels.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I mean, this was a gift to the FBI, federal authorities,
a double.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Hit, big win. Unfortunately, here's what happens in the world.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Of the cartels is that a vacuum is instantly replaced.
There's an opening. Someone else comes in. It is going
to stop anything.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But at least you got the bad guys. Now you've
got El Mayo Zambada, he's going to go away forever.
And the fact that you've got Juaquin, the son of
El Chappo, who arranged for this, who helped the FBI,
who's been negotiations to give himself up because it was
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just a matter of time and the authorities aren't nearly
as cooperative anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So it was going to happen. What's gonna happen with him?
Is there going to be a plea deal? Yeah, some kind.
I think they're gonna give him a break on this.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I mean they just he just handed them Zambada, convincing Zambada.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Let's get on this airplane with me.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
We're gonna look at an airfield in Mexico to help
us out a new field in which we can smuggle
fentanyl in the United States.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So there's a movie here.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Do you think you think they're not already writing a
movie by Because the son of El Chopo helps to
get the partner of El Chopo into the United States,
scams him into coming flying into the States. Why the
guy's thinking he's in Mexico. Man, that's a story, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
It's a good one too.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It is all right, now. One of the things about
the Olympic Games, which people I guess I'm part of
that group. I would love I've never been opening ceremonies ever,
and I would love to go. And am I going
to go here in la in twenty twenty eight. I might,
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I might, but I don't even know how much those
tickets are. The good news about the opening ceremonies in
Paris was that there it was along the Sane River,
as you know, and all the athletes parade were on
boats where the flags and it was everybody cheering three
hundred and something thousand people that were in bleacher seats
along the river, and it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Was pouring rain.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I might add it hasn't been too often that the
opening day of the Olympics pouring rain. If you're in
a stadium, it doesn't really matter. If you're outside on
the Sane.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
River, it matters.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So the French had promised that there would go that
there was going to be a different opening ceremony.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Well, you knew immediately because there's.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
No stadium, which, by the way, under the IOC charter,
the Olympic International Committee Charter, you have to have a stadium.
The fact that they weren't they had to change the charter,
they had to get a waiver. So we knew something
was going to be very different. And the French. When
the French get different, they get different. There is something
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about the French culture that is both stayed and very
republican in the sense that they have they have concepts
that go back millennia or at least hundreds of years
that are never going to change. At the same time,
they do things that are way out there too. This
one was way out there. So, as I said, we
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didn't know a lot of this was going to happen.
The tableau tableau meaning various acts and performances along the
river and over bridges, for example, on bridges or in
the buildings.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That line the river.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Well, one of them that was kind of neat was
what was happening over one of the bridges.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
And this was on the Debili Bridge.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Footbridge across the same and there were a group of
dancers and drag queens and there were along one side
of a banquet table and it looked an awful lot
like the Last Supper with a bunch of drag queens hmmm,
including DJ Barbara Butch or Booch. Described by the organizers
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an LGBTQ icon and there's mostly naked figures there painted blue.
There she was painted blue, and that was performer Felipe
Katadine singing a really raunchy song as the Greek god
of Wine. All of this along this table, it was
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really kind of interesting. And then there was a turns
into a dance floor and you had all kinds of
gay drag queens. My favorite drag queen was the guy
with a full beard in address dancing. And I'm not
a huge a queen fan, but I'm guessing that that
is not your normal, everyday drag queen scene. And so
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a lot of people saw this as just basically a
celebration of diversity, which France does. It's nightlife, which France does, Farce,
which France does Voltaire, I mean France. The theaterre in
France basically invented Farce. And all of a sudden you
got the Catholic Church far right politicos in France which
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are gaining a great deal of power, and Elon Musk
jumping into the fray screaming about how disrespectful all of
that was, how anti religious it was. Last Supper drag
queens come on the Catholic Bishop's Conference of France said
it contained quote certain elements that made Christianity the subject
of derision and.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Mockery, which we deeply deplore.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Christians of all continents offended by the outrageiousness, I guess so.
But we knew it was going to be different. We
were told it's going to be different. The guy who
was head of all of this jolly of France, what
was his first name, Thomas Jelley. He was given free
reign the Olympic Committee of Paris. Olympic Committee said you
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do whatever the hell you want, and he did. And
there were some fun stuff, I mean, and didn't particularly
like it. My favorite one was those decapitated Marie antoinettes
singing in that building that what classic French building, the windows.
I thought that was fantastic. I thought it was just neat.
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I really, I truly did.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I was trying to follow along with that faceless dancer
with the torch and yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, I thought, I just I loved it all. I
thought it was weird. I thought it was French. I
love some da ones. Yeah, you got gotta be a
little unusual. And the fact that you notice a lot
of those to answers. Some of the choreography was right
on and it was brilliant. Others was so stupid and
so dumb. The Lady Gaga number, I mean, come on,
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that was a sort of a bad attempt at some
kind of a French Diamonds or a girl's best friend act,
and it just uh, I didn't think.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That worked, But I gotta tell you, the rest of
it was brilliant anyway.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
The good news is that people are offended, particularly the
religious folks, and they have will started some hell headaches.
Remember the Sane river, the uh, the triathlon, various events.
They are gonna be uh that They're gonna be swum
in the sane guess what not not yet too much
bacteria coming into the saying, too much sewage actually going
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into it, and.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Mainly because of the rains.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It was a pouring, pouring raid.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, who else was there?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I will see uh deon ce uh Dion there we
go was up there singing.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Did you see her sing?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
She was the final act right in front of the
Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
She was a little stiff, but still very very good.
What okay, well, what all right?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
One of the stories and there's always some kind of story.
One of the stories has to be with the food
and the Olympic village. So you would think, because this
is Vonts, you would have French fair and it would
be extraordinary because French, of course, they are known for gastronomy,
and if you've ever been to France, I mean they
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take their food really, really seriously.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So here you go.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You go to prank Paris and there you have the
cafes and the beast rosy boulageis and the Michelin Star restaurants,
which there are so many of them, far more than
any their place. And so you think in the Olympic
village the food would just be utterly spectacular, not even.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Close, not even close.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Ten thousand athletes, millions of visitors, this was going to
be the Olympics of hot cuisine, really hot cuisine, right,
And the British delegation arrives to the Olympic village and says, no,
we're not interested in your food. Why is that Well,
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because it's not really good. Since the British Olympic team
arrived in Paris, the delegation and other delegations of other
countries that have run into all kinds of issues with
both the quality and the quantity of the food in
the Olympic Village as a matter of fact, And this
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is a story about the Brits out of the Wall
Street Journal and just concentrating on the Brits.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
But this is just emblematic what other teams are dealing with.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
More of the athletes are choosing to eat their meals
at the British Performance Center. They brought their own chef
and are not eating at the main eating establishment there
at the Olympic Village where all the athletes get together.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Now think about this for a moment.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The Brits of all people, are criticizing the French of
all people about their food.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And think of what Britain has actually given to the
world of castronomy. Right, what have Brits contributed?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Boiled meat, boiled potatoes, probably one of the great desserts
of all times. Spotted dick, by the way, that is
not a symptom of an std.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That is actually a dessert.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And the reason they call it spotted dick because it
has raisins dried fruits in it and made with hard
fat of mutton or beef or pork, and it's just.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Actually it's kind of neat. It just has an interesting name,
all right.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So Norway's Chef de Mousson, the guy who was running
Norway's food Torre Orebo, said that while the food situation
is improving in the first few days, he said, it's
not even meeting close to our standards, much less France's
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normal standards.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
He said, and this is of Norway.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
We have more metals for food since nineteen eighty seven
than the French have, so we've come with higher expectations.
While the quantity of food is no longer a problem,
that was what initially it was the quantity of food
because also the Olympic athletes come there to practice, and
they come several days before and they were just running
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out of food. There wasn't enough food there. The quality
of food is still not the way it should be.
So what kind of food are they having? Well, it's
not exactly flai gras. But the Paris twenty twenty four Olympics,
the organizers prided themselves on and this is where we
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go into French wokeness, right, they had to find a
more sustainable, more eco friendly way to deliver the thirteen
million meals that they needed.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Across the games. So if you look at the menu.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
The cafeteria fair that the Olympic athletes are engaging or
in bibing in twice as much plant based foods as
previous Olympics. Why because it helps cut the carbon footprint
of the catering operations in half. Eighty percent of the
food comes with a sustainability label, thirty percent is organic.
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And I got to tell you at some point you
can't just keep on eating bushes. I mean, you've got
to have real food. And this is completely crazy. That's
and the other I told you about this one too.
No air conditioning. They're in the middle of a heat spell,
much like the rest of the western world is, and
there is no air conditioning in the Olympic village because
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of the fossil fuels and the way it's designed. So
what ends up happening is that at least they've changed
the rules and have allowed the various teams to bring
in their own air conditioning. So the American team, and
we have six hundred people there, by the way, we
have the largest group of athletes of in any country.
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They brought in portable air conditioners for six hundred athletes.
Originally you couldn't, and the Olympic committee said, okay, okay, okay,
you can. So I guess the fossil fuel issue is
kind a dead. I'm willing to bet the portable air
conditioners are a lot more exhaust exhausting of fossil fuels
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than a well designed system inside of a building. So
I guess they ended up doing exactly the opposite. Now,
as these reporters of the Wall Street Journal Journal were
going around and talking to athletes and across the board,
and none of the athletes were particularly happy with the
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food that the French were providing. One South Korean gymnast
Hurung said, wrong, I love.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
The food here. This is some of the best food
that I've eaten.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
And when asked specifically what dishes he really enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
He goes to the mangoes.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Those fresh mangoes are the best mangoes I have ever eaten.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
This is a weird Olympics, to say the least. I mean,
a strange one kind of fun. It's the French, the France.
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It is a Monday morning, July twenty nine, and we're
in the middle of the Olympics. I'll be talking a
fair amount about the Olympics. Matter of fact, I'm just
talking to and a few minutes ago during the break,
and we are putting together a couple of podcasts now
about the Olympics that I thought will drop.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
What on Thursday and next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And it's just some fun stuff and the podcast now
you can log onto the podcast and it's on the
iHeartRadio app. The Bill Handle Show podcast different from the
on demand stuff that we do. In other words, you
can listen to this show on demand a truncated version.
The podcast is totally different stuff. It's unique to the podcast.
(00:56):
And I'll be doing a couple of stories about that
food at the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There's a whole story onto itself. I'll be doing some
of that coming up at AM. I doing Yeah seven fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And then some of the history of the Olympics. I
got some of the events were hilarious throughout the years,
and so I'll do that also. So it's the Handle
Show podcast on the iHeartRadio app Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It drops at nine o'clock a new episode. Now.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Over the weekend, there was an op ed piece in
the Washington Washington Post authored by Joe Biden, and he
called for major changes.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And he's already said this, but he's put these three together.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What he wants in his major changes in the Supreme Court,
what he wants is a constitutional amendment limits immunity for
president in light of what the Court had said last month.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He wants to impose term.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Limits for justices, and that has been fairly controversial. It
makes a lot of sense because now you're gonna be
one hundred and fifty years old and not even know
what you're doing, and you're sitting on the bench, so
lifetime a port ointments.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And he wants an.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Enforceable code of ethics because it turns out that heretofore
the Supreme Court justices were a sacris act. I mean,
they never did anything wrong and there was never a conflict.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Right huh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The op ed piece, Biden said, no one is above
the law, not the president, not a justice, no one.
In light of what former President Trump said that a president.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Is above the law.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Anything he does as president, he is immune from prosecution.
And the court actually kind of went his way in
a couple of areas. In July, the Supreme Court said
presidents cannot be prosecuted for quote, official acts during their
time in office. Now they can be prosecuted for unofficial acts.
But that goes back to the lower courts to determine,
(02:51):
and so, you know, sometimes it's pretty clear cut, sometimes
it's not. The Supreme Court said, hey, every one of
these acts has to be determined to be official or
non official in a court of law. Biden said that
as a US senator for thirty six years and as
a vice president and as president, he has overseen more
(03:13):
Supreme Court nominations than anyone in history.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's probably true, And he.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Said what's happening now is not particularly normal. Now he's
asked for three changes lifetime appointment.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That changes.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
He wants every two years the president to make to
designate another official Supreme Court just and he wants what is.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
It, nine years or eighteen years on the bench. That's it.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And so at least there's going to be some turnover
because here's one of the problems with the lifetime appointment.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
They're there for a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And if you have a Supreme Court now that does
go one way or the other politically, forget about a
non political Supreme Court that doesn't exist anymore. Well, what
ends up happening in the case of the court now,
former President Trump selected three justices, by the way, according
to the rules. I mean, I can't argue with that.
And for those liberals that are going berserk, hey, that's
(04:09):
the way the rules work. But a president's legacy a
choice is thirty thirty five years. Donald Trump will long
be dead when his version of the Supreme Court is over.
And that's the problem with a lifetime appointment. And the
(04:29):
current president wants a binding code of conduct for a
Supreme Court justice. There is no binding anything for a
Supreme Court justice. And this came to light because what
he had, you had Justice Thomas and Justice Alito didn't
disclose they received millions of dollars of gifts from individuals
(04:53):
with businesses before the court because they do business. Anybody
who has a bui business or as involved in a
business that somehow the Court is going to be ruling
on should disclose or not even be allowed to give
to a justice. Well, you know, no rule against that,
(05:14):
and you had Toledo and you have particularly Clarence Thomas.
Just oh, I forgot to say that it was inadvertent
that I flew on a private jet for my best
buddy who happens to be a billionaire on a luxury
resort in I think it was Bali that was thousands
of dollars a night. Yeah, maybe I should have said something,
(05:34):
but I kind of forgot.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And what Biden says that there should be some kind
of ethics regulation, Well, it sort of is, but it's
voluntary and it's not specific. And aoc of course, being
who she is, Alexandria Ocasio Cortes a file articles of
(06:00):
impeachment against Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alita over the ethics
violations and political bias.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Another one of these, let's file articles of impeachment, which
is a Republican who just filed articles of impeachment against
Harris as vice president. He wants to impeach her as
vice president because she did not follow the law as
he sees it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Let's impeae.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, Marjorie Taylor Green filed her first article of impeachment
against Joe Biden ten minutes after he was sworn in,
and she wanted to impeach him for high crimes and misdemeanors,
which is kind of interesting because how do you do
that in ten minutes? What on the way back from
the inaugural speech? Yeah, I mean, that's how crazy it
(06:51):
has gotten. Is anything going to happen with this? By
the way, Joe Biden calling for what I think are
reasonable safeguards, reasonable guardrails.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Not a chance. Why is that?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Because you've got Congress that will never let it happen,
and because it's a conservative court. And on the other side,
if it were a super liberal court and conservatives would
be going for this, you'd have Congress that would never
let it happen. Society is too split, that's all. And
so it's just yeah, I guess depressing. Okay, Now, let's
(07:26):
move over and talk about what happened also over the weekend.
And this has to do with El Chappo's son being
arrested in the US and l Chopo's son was is
I guess was now one of the big big players
in the Sinoloa cartel. And this was his father, El Choppo,
(07:47):
who is now in prison and he's gotten twenty to
twenty five years. One of the things about being a
cartel kingpin is you don't go to jail very often.
And for example, the story of El Guzman, El Choppo Guzman,
who at one point was convicted in Mexico, Mexico with
not extra item to the United States. And so he
was convicted for X number of years and he built
(08:09):
his own prison that was being quote being in prison,
and the guards worked for him, and the hookers came,
and the bands came, and the food and he brought
his own chef in I mean, that was prison. And
so what ended up happening is Mexico realizing the United
States got very very very serious with the cartel. And
(08:31):
I'll tell you what did it. Fentanyl that did it.
You have one hundred thousand Americans dying every year, most
of them dying of opioid overdoses. A lot of those
opiate overdoses, as matter of fact, the majority are fentanyl
and all comes out of Mexico and the cartels involved,
and all of a sudden, whoops, now we're getting very serious.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So Mexico, the.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Kind of corruption not not so pervasive anymore, because it's
just it's hard to protect a guy who kills that
many people, that many innocent people in the United States,
and so the US is going crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So it turns out that.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The Sun has actually been in negotiations. This is El
Chapo's son, has been in negotiations with the US for
a surrender because he figures it's just going to be
a matter of time. So he is he now flies
into the US. He convinces this is the one that
really is interesting. One of the head Honchos El Mayo Zambada,
(09:32):
who actually created this in a loa hotel with cartel
with El Chapo, this guy's.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Dad, and they got on an airplane, little prop plane,
and they're going.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
To see a well, so he convinces El Mayo, this
is Joaquim Guzman. He convinces El Mayo, let's get on
this airplane. I want you to see an airfield.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, it turns out that.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
El Chapo's son has actually arranged for that airplane to
go into the United States, unbeknownst to his.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Guy. I guess godfather El Mayo.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And by the way, so the authorities are going to
pick him up right the American authorities.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
They don't even know about it. They don't know about it.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Turns out that he has arranged for this airplane flight.
Just before taking off. Somehow the FBI, the authorities in
El Paso say hey, this guy's coming in. They can't
believe it. They're scrambling. They barely made it when the
plane landed, and so, okay, great news that they got Juaquin.
(10:40):
What they didn't know is that he is bringing with
him El Mayo, who's been around.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I've never been in jail before. He's in his seventies.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
He's very low profile guy, has run the cartel for years.
He's one of the kingpins. And all of a sudden,
the authorities have both. They have both Guzman's son and
they now have El Mayo Zambada.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Big hit to the cartels.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I mean, this was a gift to the FBI, federal authorities,
a double.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Hit, big win. Unfortunately, here's what happens in the world.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Of the cartels is that a vacuum is instantly replaced.
There's an opening. Someone else comes in. It is going
to stop anything.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But at least you got the bad guys. Now you've
got El Mayo Zambada, he's going to go away forever.
And the fact that you've got Juaquin, the son of
El Chappo, who arranged for this, who helped the FBI,
who's been negotiations to give himself up because it was
(11:57):
just a matter of time and the authorities aren't nearly
as cooperative anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So it was going to happen. What's gonna happen with him?
Is there going to be a plea deal? Yeah, some kind.
I think they're gonna give him a break on this.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I mean they just he just handed them Zambada, convincing Zambada.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Let's get on this airplane with me.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
We're gonna look at an airfield in Mexico to help
us out a new field in which we can smuggle
fentanyl in the United States.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So there's a movie here.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Do you think you think they're not already writing a
movie by Because the son of El Chopo helps to
get the partner of El Chopo into the United States,
scams him into coming flying into the States. Why the
guy's thinking he's in Mexico. Man, that's a story, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
It's a good one too.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It is all right, now. One of the things about
the Olympic Games, which people I guess I'm part of
that group. I would love I've never been opening ceremonies ever,
and I would love to go. And am I going
to go here in la in twenty twenty eight. I might,
(13:11):
I might, but I don't even know how much those
tickets are. The good news about the opening ceremonies in
Paris was that there it was along the Sane River,
as you know, and all the athletes parade were on
boats where the flags and it was everybody cheering three
hundred and something thousand people that were in bleacher seats
along the river, and it.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Was pouring rain.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I might add it hasn't been too often that the
opening day of the Olympics pouring rain. If you're in
a stadium, it doesn't really matter. If you're outside on
the Sane.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
River, it matters.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So the French had promised that there would go that
there was going to be a different opening ceremony.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Well, you knew immediately because there's.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
No stadium, which, by the way, under the IOC charter,
the Olympic International Committee Charter, you have to have a stadium.
The fact that they weren't they had to change the charter,
they had to get a waiver. So we knew something
was going to be very different. And the French. When
the French get different, they get different. There is something
(14:14):
about the French culture that is both stayed and very
republican in the sense that they have they have concepts
that go back millennia or at least hundreds of years
that are never going to change. At the same time,
they do things that are way out there too. This
one was way out there. So, as I said, we
(14:35):
didn't know a lot of this was going to happen.
The tableau tableau meaning various acts and performances along the
river and over bridges, for example, on bridges or in
the buildings.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That line the river.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Well, one of them that was kind of neat was
what was happening over one of the bridges.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
And this was on the Debili Bridge.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Footbridge across the same and there were a group of
dancers and drag queens and there were along one side
of a banquet table and it looked an awful lot
like the Last Supper with a bunch of drag queens hmmm,
including DJ Barbara Butch or Booch. Described by the organizers
(15:24):
an LGBTQ icon and there's mostly naked figures there painted blue.
There she was painted blue, and that was performer Felipe
Katadine singing a really raunchy song as the Greek god
of Wine. All of this along this table, it was
(15:44):
really kind of interesting. And then there was a turns
into a dance floor and you had all kinds of
gay drag queens. My favorite drag queen was the guy
with a full beard in address dancing. And I'm not
a huge a queen fan, but I'm guessing that that
is not your normal, everyday drag queen scene. And so
(16:08):
a lot of people saw this as just basically a
celebration of diversity, which France does. It's nightlife, which France does, Farce,
which France does Voltaire, I mean France. The theaterre in
France basically invented Farce. And all of a sudden you
got the Catholic Church far right politicos in France which
(16:32):
are gaining a great deal of power, and Elon Musk
jumping into the fray screaming about how disrespectful all of
that was, how anti religious it was. Last Supper drag
queens come on the Catholic Bishop's Conference of France said
it contained quote certain elements that made Christianity the subject
of derision and.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Mockery, which we deeply deplore.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Christians of all continents offended by the outrageiousness, I guess so.
But we knew it was going to be different. We
were told it's going to be different. The guy who
was head of all of this jolly of France, what
was his first name, Thomas Jelley. He was given free
reign the Olympic Committee of Paris. Olympic Committee said you
(17:20):
do whatever the hell you want, and he did. And
there were some fun stuff, I mean, and didn't particularly
like it. My favorite one was those decapitated Marie antoinettes
singing in that building that what classic French building, the windows.
I thought that was fantastic. I thought it was just neat.
(17:40):
I really, I truly did.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I was trying to follow along with that faceless dancer
with the torch and yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, I thought, I just I loved it all. I
thought it was weird. I thought it was French. I
love some da ones. Yeah, you got gotta be a
little unusual. And the fact that you notice a lot
of those to answers. Some of the choreography was right
on and it was brilliant. Others was so stupid and
so dumb. The Lady Gaga number, I mean, come on,
(18:11):
that was a sort of a bad attempt at some
kind of a French Diamonds or a girl's best friend act,
and it just uh, I didn't think.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That worked, But I gotta tell you, the rest of
it was brilliant anyway.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
The good news is that people are offended, particularly the
religious folks, and they have will started some hell headaches.
Remember the Sane river, the uh, the triathlon, various events.
They are gonna be uh that They're gonna be swum
in the sane guess what not not yet too much
bacteria coming into the saying, too much sewage actually going
(18:45):
into it, and.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Mainly because of the rains.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It was a pouring, pouring raid.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, who else was there?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I will see uh deon ce uh Dion there we
go was up there singing.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Did you see her sing?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
She was the final act right in front of the
Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
She was a little stiff, but still very very good.
What okay, well, what all right?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
One of the stories and there's always some kind of story.
One of the stories has to be with the food
and the Olympic village. So you would think, because this
is Vonts, you would have French fair and it would
be extraordinary because French, of course, they are known for gastronomy,
and if you've ever been to France, I mean they
(19:43):
take their food really, really seriously.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So here you go.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You go to prank Paris and there you have the
cafes and the beast rosy boulageis and the Michelin Star restaurants,
which there are so many of them, far more than
any their place. And so you think in the Olympic
village the food would just be utterly spectacular, not even.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Close, not even close.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Ten thousand athletes, millions of visitors, this was going to
be the Olympics of hot cuisine, really hot cuisine, right,
And the British delegation arrives to the Olympic village and says, no,
we're not interested in your food. Why is that Well,
(20:30):
because it's not really good. Since the British Olympic team
arrived in Paris, the delegation and other delegations of other
countries that have run into all kinds of issues with
both the quality and the quantity of the food in
the Olympic Village as a matter of fact, And this
(20:51):
is a story about the Brits out of the Wall
Street Journal and just concentrating on the Brits.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
But this is just emblematic what other teams are dealing with.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
More of the athletes are choosing to eat their meals
at the British Performance Center. They brought their own chef
and are not eating at the main eating establishment there
at the Olympic Village where all the athletes get together.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Now think about this for a moment.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The Brits of all people, are criticizing the French of
all people about their food.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And think of what Britain has actually given to the
world of castronomy. Right, what have Brits contributed?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Boiled meat, boiled potatoes, probably one of the great desserts
of all times. Spotted dick, by the way, that is
not a symptom of an std.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That is actually a dessert.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And the reason they call it spotted dick because it
has raisins dried fruits in it and made with hard
fat of mutton or beef or pork, and it's just.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Actually it's kind of neat. It just has an interesting name,
all right.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So Norway's Chef de Mousson, the guy who was running
Norway's food Torre Orebo, said that while the food situation
is improving in the first few days, he said, it's
not even meeting close to our standards, much less France's
(22:36):
normal standards.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
He said, and this is of Norway.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
We have more metals for food since nineteen eighty seven
than the French have, so we've come with higher expectations.
While the quantity of food is no longer a problem,
that was what initially it was the quantity of food
because also the Olympic athletes come there to practice, and
they come several days before and they were just running
(23:01):
out of food. There wasn't enough food there. The quality
of food is still not the way it should be.
So what kind of food are they having? Well, it's
not exactly flai gras. But the Paris twenty twenty four Olympics,
the organizers prided themselves on and this is where we
(23:25):
go into French wokeness, right, they had to find a
more sustainable, more eco friendly way to deliver the thirteen
million meals that they needed.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Across the games. So if you look at the menu.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
The cafeteria fair that the Olympic athletes are engaging or
in bibing in twice as much plant based foods as
previous Olympics. Why because it helps cut the carbon footprint
of the catering operations in half. Eighty percent of the
food comes with a sustainability label, thirty percent is organic.
(24:02):
And I got to tell you at some point you
can't just keep on eating bushes. I mean, you've got
to have real food. And this is completely crazy. That's
and the other I told you about this one too.
No air conditioning. They're in the middle of a heat spell,
much like the rest of the western world is, and
there is no air conditioning in the Olympic village because
(24:26):
of the fossil fuels and the way it's designed. So
what ends up happening is that at least they've changed
the rules and have allowed the various teams to bring
in their own air conditioning. So the American team, and
we have six hundred people there, by the way, we
have the largest group of athletes of in any country.
(24:46):
They brought in portable air conditioners for six hundred athletes.
Originally you couldn't, and the Olympic committee said, okay, okay, okay,
you can. So I guess the fossil fuel issue is
kind a dead. I'm willing to bet the portable air
conditioners are a lot more exhaust exhausting of fossil fuels
(25:08):
than a well designed system inside of a building. So
I guess they ended up doing exactly the opposite. Now,
as these reporters of the Wall Street Journal Journal were
going around and talking to athletes and across the board,
and none of the athletes were particularly happy with the
(25:30):
food that the French were providing. One South Korean gymnast
Hurung said, wrong, I love.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
The food here. This is some of the best food
that I've eaten.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
And when asked specifically what dishes he really enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
He goes to the mangoes.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Those fresh mangoes are the best mangoes I have ever eaten.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
This is a weird Olympics, to say the least. I mean,
a strange one kind of fun. It's the French, the France.
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