January 24, 2025 • 22 mins
IT’S FOODIE FRIDAY! Food enthusiast and host of ‘The Fork Report’ on KFI Neil Saavedra joins Bill to talk about 711 being the most popular grocery store in the US, Dollar Tree turquoise bowls, Lunar New Year treats at Disneyland, and a Costa Mesa staple restaurant opening in Los Angeles. The show closes with ‘Ask Handel Anything.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
KFI Handle Here it is a Friday morning, January twenty
fourth Friday, which means it's foody Friday. And at the
bottom of the hours ask Handle anything. So let's get
right into it. Neil, this is interesting. So I'm looking
at the topics that we're gonna do, and it's America's
favorite grocery store seven eleven.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Okay, let me.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Give you a visual walk into a seven eleven with
a shopping cart and you have a choice of either
buying your groceries there or.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Buying a car. It's one of the two. You want
to explain this to me?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Well, I thought this was kind of interesting and it
may speak sociologically to the way we live at kind
of a high speed pace and that convenience is convenience.
So a market research and analytics firm release New Day
and they were basically looking at what grocery stores our
(01:05):
most popular with people that live in the US, what
do they love most and all that, so you assume
that it's going to be one of the top grocery stores.
And it turned out that when they did the study,
after breaking down all of the responses, it named seven
to eleven as America's favorite grocery stores for all adults.
(01:30):
And you know, it's convenient, you go to road trips,
you do what you're on the road, whatever you might
be doing, and it makes sense to use it for
convenience sakes. But I never see it as a grocery store.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, and the amount of shopping you do. For example,
every morning, I have coffee, You have coffee. I have coffee,
and I make my coffee with milk. And so when
I ran out, when I run out of milk, occasionally
I run out of milk. And a few weeks ago,
oh my god, I need you know, I need a
quarter of milk or half a gallon of milk. So
I went down to the seven eleven and pick it
up and put it on the counter, and he rings
(02:08):
it up and I said, no, no, no, I don't want
the cocaine that comes with it. I just want the milk.
And he said, no, no, that's the price of the milk.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I mean, come on, I mean it's just the prices
are insanity. So you're talking about just it's convenience, But
can you really compare convenience to going shopping and I
don't quite get that.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well this, you know, it's known, it's very well known,
all those things. But it scored a whopping ninety seven
percent on the fame scale.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
They have these different scales.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Right, people have heard of The brand also received sixty
five percent popularity rating under the grocery store category, meaning
that people have a very positive reaction to it. Now
you want to compare it Trader Joe's, much more traditional
grocery store, you could argue came in a very close
second with ninety four percent fame rating and sixty four
(03:05):
percent popularity rating and only disliked by five percent, where
eight percent of responders like seven elevens.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So that's pretty crazy, you know, it is in terms
of name recognition, But you know, when it comes to
name recognition, You and I we've traveled and we've been
to some pretty obscure places, and there are two things
that we have seen, three things that we have seen.
It doesn't matter where we go. There is a McDonald's there,
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and I'm talking about anywhere in the world. Oh sure,
there is a Kentucky Fried Chicken somewhere on the corner.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And there are seven.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Elevens all through Europe.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Very few Ralphs markets are in Denmark, for example, there
are seven elevens there, So I assume that has something
to do with it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Well, yes, it's popularity. But this is America.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Now, you and I have no get you and you
and I had Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Where were were we in Brazil?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
We were, and you could order it with or without feathers,
and it was for some reason.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The one with feathers is something that they love down there.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
They bring it out for you. Would you like Is
this the one you'd like?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, we'll take that.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So the thirty most popular grocery stores in America for
Q four twenty twenty four, it went seven to eleven
Trader Joe's, Whole Foods Market, al d Kroger, Circle K,
another Quick Quick One, Public's Fresh Market, Safeway, Sprouts, Farmers Market,
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Pigley Wiggly, which we don't have out here obviously, save
a lot, Win Dixie, Amazon, Fret.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I mean, it just goes on and on.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Now, all these names, and some of them are regional names. Aldi,
for example, just started here in southern California. It's what
are the rat Albertson's pavilions. I don't know if they're
out of this region, if across the country. Safeway is
in every city, so Albertson this is.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
On this list Food for Less, which is Ralph's affiliate.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I believe they are owned by the same company.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
So it just it goes to show you it's very
interesting the way people process information, what they retain and
what they all.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Right, Neil heard tomorrow with the Fork Report from two
two five all Things food, and Neil and I talk
a lot about food, by the way.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Off the air as you can imagine.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Okay, Hey, on that note, by the way, if you
are not following me or joining me on Instagram, please
do at Fork Reporter at Fork Reporter on Instagram, because
I believe tonight I will be doing a live an
Instagram live from my brother's home Speak Easy. So my
brother Craig and I will be doing that around seven
(05:56):
ish or so and I'll announce it on Instagram. But
tonight we'll do that and that'll be fun.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah. And it's a real speakeasy too. I mean he
builds a Speak.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Easy Yeah, hidden doors, all kinds of stuff, ten ceilings, everything.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
All right, So back we go more Footy Friday, and of.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Course we have to whenever possible, and this is for
Amy and Neal. We have to bring Disneyland into the
picture because it is religious for them.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
You le pre requiem sa prurey Disney.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's funny, that's very good.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
It is the Disneyland's Lunar New Year for twenty twenty five.
You're the snake, I believe. And you know, Disney has
just really raised the bar on the kind of eat
you can get. And they have dragon fruit cocktail this year,
(06:58):
Tropical Coconut cooler. They have all these cocktails, the chocolate
Firecracker at the Lucky eight Lantern, fire chicken wings, the
spicy Gochu Jang chicken tacos, and I mean they really
really have some great choices for the New Year.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So so much going on there at the parks.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Right, Yeah, they do a lot of theme stuff within
the theme park Christmas, for example, Lunar you know, Lunar
New Year. I understand they were going with some new
guinea Headhunter where the drinks are in the shape of
you know, shrunken heads.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And it might not be accurate.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Well, they're too small, that's the problem.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
They actually got rid of the head hunter in the
Jungle Cruise too.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That's right, they did it. That's right. It was politically incorrect.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
You know, it's funny. We're gonna do that when retires. Yeah,
we are with a monkey.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Okay, excellent, well said.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Now let's finish MPs.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Let's finish it up. An Orange County restaurant that's moving
to La.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Okay, so this is awesome. Now, Bill, you know on
Wilshire Boulevard. Do you remember? It was there for like
forty years and I think at twenty eighteen they shuddered
the Marie calendars there. Oh yeah, sure, big one flagship
with its brick. It's a gorgeous location. Well, a buddy
of mine who's just a really, really great guy, rob Ariano,
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he has brought one of the great restaurants from Orange County,
Desconso to that location, and it's opening this week. It
actually opened on the twenty third, but this will be
its first weekend. And not only do they have regular
dining seats and things like that, but they have a
plancha where you can sit around the planchain and they'll
(08:55):
make it in front of you. Kind of allah Benny Hanna.
But Mexican food, so it's a really cool interactive space
as well as you know you're looking for. Nowadays, people
look for more than just great food. They want kind
of experience, and this is going to be the place,
and I just want to encourage people to check it out.
(09:17):
Their food is fantastic, the atmosphere is gorgeous, and hopefully
we'll get Rob on the show this weekend too, because
it is It is a great place in Coasta Mesa
that we're lucky to have here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So Neil opens up this weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
All right, Neil, you have just violated rule number three
of this radio program, and it's an inviolate rule. I
am the only one allowed to horror for my friends. You.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
It's not actually he and I became friends from him
coming on the show.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I know you've done a lot of that. It's the
people have I know your friends. I mean, it all
turns into.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Food, So it's not like we're buddies.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I know, I know you don't go I do, but
you don't go there.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
It has become a friend because he just is one
of those people in the industry who's kind and dedicated
and really focuses on the detail of the experience in
the food.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So yeah, I don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I don't understand any of that. I just don't get it.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
We got to go there when you're yeah, no, I
will know, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I think you would dig it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And the girl, you know, we asked you all how
to do We have to take a break in just
a second and go into ask Handle Anything.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You and I And we've done this before.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Is we take a limited number of guests with us,
not to eat with us, but to watch us eat.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh yeah, it's fun for them.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh it's tremendous. It is entertainment on an extraordinary level.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
And they're allowed to keep anything that falls off our
plate or comes out of our mouth.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's wonderful experience.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, yesterday I went to the restaurant with Jim Kinney
and I was starving, and as I'm walking past, I'm
looking at people going, hey, are you going to finish that?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's very embarrassing for anybody that's with me. All right,
eight thirty.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
It is a Friday, and this is how we're ending
our shows on Friday. At least we're starting to do that.
And that is our segment, Ask Handle Anything, and What
happens is people record their questions and Neil and and
choose the best questions, asking me anything, and you get
we get personal. I mean, you know me for a
long time, and I have no problem. You know, I
(11:25):
wear my heart on my sleeves.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
So that's what this is about.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Ask handle anything. So I hear these questions at the
same time you do right now, and I haven't heard
them before. So it's a spontaneous, spontaneous response. So Neil,
do you introduce or do I?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
We just go right to it, Connor.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I just want to say, it's not so much that
we pick the best ones. We just kind of have
to cull through all the why is handled such a
shill for the Democrats?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
From disillusion syndrome or whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, I know, it's all those.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
We cut through those, all right, and then we asked you.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Then we asked the important stuff my STDs that I've
had over my lifetime. For example, this morning we did
a story on crabs. All right, Cono, let's go ahead.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
The first question, Hey, quick question, just wondering when you're
gonna retire your show. Oh I hate to see that,
but it's gonna happen eventually.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And I was curious. Yeah, no, it's a good question.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I don't know because I was getting really close to it,
and then Neil came onto the show and it's sort
of changed everything and I'm just having the greatest time
of my life. And then Kno came on. All right, yeah,
not so much.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
And it's just nice. I am nice. That is nice.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And then Ann came aboard and that changed everything because
An came aboard.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Okay, that's enough. Next question.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
We do have a good team.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yes we do.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I actually I think is the best team we've ever had.
And that's not blowing smoke either. Go ahead, Corno, Bill,
What is the most cocaine you've done in one sitting
in one hour's time. In one hour's time, I think
I knocked off maybe a gram and a half. That's
(13:31):
a lot of cocaine, man, that was a lot of snorting.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah. I was a pretty serious cocaine addict.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
What did it cost back then for a I was
about the same as it costs now.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I think it was one hundred dollars a gram a
little vial one hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And that was back then. You know that.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I went into drug rehab in nineteen eighty three, and
I spent I spent four fun years being a cocaine addict.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Although I have to tell you, for those of you who.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Did a lot of cocaine, you'll know exactly what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And for those of.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You that have not, one of the real upsides about cocaine.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
If you're a nosepicker like I am.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Some of the best boogers in the world come out
of a nostril that has had a lot of cocaine
in it.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
That's the weirdest things.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And by the way, for those of you that have
done cocaine, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
What how did it make you? Did it make you
more hyper?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
How'd you? You're a mess? Now? Just wow?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
All right? Next question, Hi Bill, this is Brian so
at the station.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Who do you feel is wittier than you?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Everybody?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Even the guy who doesn't speak English and mops up
the floor?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Although is that racist? By the way? Am I saying
of that?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I mean, you know, we've got pretty witty people. Neil
is in.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Credibly witty, bless you.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No, It's true, especially with the stuff that oh Kono
is shaking his hand, going I don't know, but I
would I would literally, I would say, I would say
you neil.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I generally think you're waiting for your than I am.
And it's very nice.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
By the way, they compliment about, you know, me being witty,
which is kind of neat. Okay, we have time, We
have enough to go for.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
A couple of sessions. Right, let's do one more.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
We'll see, Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Hey, Bill, I'm thirty one and I live in southern California.
I mean, too little to afford to go to college,
but too much to qualify for any financial aid. So
I'm just kind of stuck in the middle here. And
I always thought about getting into radio, but maybe that's
just because I'm a narcissist. Any advice on breaking into
the industry, or yeah, even a way to get a
(15:48):
head out here, Yeah, any advice is welcomed.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Sure, don't do it. It is not something and by
the way, that's not me just making fun. Radio is
a terrestrial do because of all of the different ways
that content is being used, radio per se is not
an easy place to get into.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
There used to be, for example, of the world of
talk radio, which I know and Neil will join me.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We used to have a bench where people would work
on weekends for example, and fill in. That's what I
did before I started doing the morning show.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Those days are gone.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Those days are gone, and the money for the most
part is horrific in terms of working in radio. So
you know the advice that I'm trying to be serious here,
you're really stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Going to college, don't qualify. It's too expensive. Yeah, thirty
thirty one, that's.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
But if you have something you like to talk about,
then do a podcast.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
There's still no Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
No, that's true. However, let's get real for a moment.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I agree, But let's get real for a moment in
terms of podcasting, because first of all, everybody does a podcast. Now,
if you're going to try to make your living on
it and monetize, how many people actually are able to
monetize their podcasts?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, I mean zero.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Zero one percent.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Now, if you want to do it as a hobby,
that's great, but you're not going to make a living
at it.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
So basically your life is over.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
For those of you that are thinking you have some
future in anything, you don't just suck it up. I'm
giving you a reality check. You know your life is finished.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
You know the two jobs that AI will probably take first,
crazy enough, medical doctors and lawyers.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well, it's it's hard for AI to argue in court
for one thing, and transactional stuff. You know, it's certainly
diagnosis is going to be helped by AI.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
But let me ask you, when's the last time you
saw computer performing surgery?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Robots do?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Really?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, though they are there, they're actually being They help
surgeons do what they do.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
They're more precise, but you still need a surgeon there.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
But with AI, you won't eventually trust me. Those those
are more.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
In all right, So don't go to medical school, don't
go to law school. I just don't go any place. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You know, life is finished. Take a swanel off the building.
Yeah all right, great, I'm trying to make people feel good.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
All right, let's move on with another question.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Bill Hector hearing goodyear.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
I was wondering you don't got that linguistic gene on you.
You only speak Portuguese in English. You don't speak Spanish
or any other language like your father did. Do any
of your kids speak foreign languages.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
No, it's a good question. First of all, I don't
have the gene.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
My dad spoke nine languages and a few others, not fluently.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean, he was science fiction.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
My daughter Pamela excuse me what the Jewish day school
and came out pretty fluent in Hebrew.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
She has the gene. I don't I.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Speak Portuguese because I was born in Brazil sort of,
I've forgotten a lot of it, a little bit of English, uh,
And I can get along in Spanish.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I can say things.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Like uh la migra, which gets people moving on a
regular basis.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Don't desto b leoteca. You know what it is really weird.
I was in uh, Brazil with Bill, and I'd known
him for decades already when we went and I'd never
heard you speak Portuguese. So we're in a restaurant and
(19:34):
he just starts going off in Portuguese to the waiter
and it freaked me the hell out. And then where
we were, gosh, we were at the waterfall what is that?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Oh Questioux Falls Quests.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And there was a news reporter there and started interviewing
him in Portuguese, and it was it was really weird.
You you click right into it.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah, it takes me a little while once I'm there,
and I've forgotten a lot of it, but it's just
if i'm there, it comes back pretty quickly. All right,
I think we have time for one more.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Question therapy a long time. What's the biggest revelation you've
had about yourself or anything? Thanks, The biggest revelation.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
That my definition of four inches is not everybody else's
definition of.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Inches. You know what? You know, I don't know. That's
actually a very good question. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Maybe realizing that my stick of having no self esteem
is not stick.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Uh, you know, there.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Was a revelation.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Oh that's a breakthrough. Yeah, I thought you were going
to say that. Your therapist said that you're.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
What I got fired. My therapist fired me.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
She said, yeah, there's yeah, there's nothing I can do
for it.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's true. By the way, that's absolutely a reality. My
therapist fired me. All right, guys, we are done with
the week, done with the show. Tomorrow morning h Saturday
Sharks with Dean Sharp, House Whisper, and then I'm here
eight to eleven with Handle on the Law.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Rich Demureaw goes.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Eleven to two with the Tech Show, and then Neil
with the Fork Report.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
And if and if you want to follow me on
Instagram at Fork Reporter. Tonight at around seven I'll be
broadcasting in Instagram live for my brothers speakeasy in his home.
We just talk garbage about each other and drink.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Oh wow, you talking garbage about someone? What a shocker.
I never would have figured out out.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh I'm a little as is. Yeah, yeah, I grew
up with a lot of boys.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
All right, you got it, We're done. All right.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Monday, we come back with this show, Wake Up Call
with Amy starting at five am, and the rest has
come aboard at well, the restless Neil and I come
aboard at.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
At six o'clock until right about now.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Up next Gary and Shannon, and you've got four hours
of frivolity with Gary and Shannon Handle and the Morning Crew.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
KFI Handle Here it is a Friday morning, January twenty
fourth Friday, which means it's foody Friday. And at the
bottom of the hours ask Handle anything. So let's get
right into it. Neil, this is interesting. So I'm looking
at the topics that we're gonna do, and it's America's
favorite grocery store seven eleven.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Okay, let me.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Give you a visual walk into a seven eleven with
a shopping cart and you have a choice of either
buying your groceries there or.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Buying a car. It's one of the two. You want
to explain this to me?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Well, I thought this was kind of interesting and it
may speak sociologically to the way we live at kind
of a high speed pace and that convenience is convenience.
So a market research and analytics firm release New Day
and they were basically looking at what grocery stores our
(01:05):
most popular with people that live in the US, what
do they love most and all that, so you assume
that it's going to be one of the top grocery stores.
And it turned out that when they did the study,
after breaking down all of the responses, it named seven
to eleven as America's favorite grocery stores for all adults.
(01:30):
And you know, it's convenient, you go to road trips,
you do what you're on the road, whatever you might
be doing, and it makes sense to use it for
convenience sakes. But I never see it as a grocery store.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, and the amount of shopping you do. For example,
every morning, I have coffee, You have coffee. I have coffee,
and I make my coffee with milk. And so when
I ran out, when I run out of milk, occasionally
I run out of milk. And a few weeks ago,
oh my god, I need you know, I need a
quarter of milk or half a gallon of milk. So
I went down to the seven eleven and pick it
up and put it on the counter, and he rings
(02:08):
it up and I said, no, no, no, I don't want
the cocaine that comes with it. I just want the milk.
And he said, no, no, that's the price of the milk.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I mean, come on, I mean it's just the prices
are insanity. So you're talking about just it's convenience, But
can you really compare convenience to going shopping and I
don't quite get that.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well this, you know, it's known, it's very well known,
all those things. But it scored a whopping ninety seven
percent on the fame scale.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
They have these different scales.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Right, people have heard of The brand also received sixty
five percent popularity rating under the grocery store category, meaning
that people have a very positive reaction to it. Now
you want to compare it Trader Joe's, much more traditional
grocery store, you could argue came in a very close
second with ninety four percent fame rating and sixty four
(03:05):
percent popularity rating and only disliked by five percent, where
eight percent of responders like seven elevens.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So that's pretty crazy, you know, it is in terms
of name recognition, But you know, when it comes to
name recognition, You and I we've traveled and we've been
to some pretty obscure places, and there are two things
that we have seen, three things that we have seen.
It doesn't matter where we go. There is a McDonald's there,
(03:34):
and I'm talking about anywhere in the world. Oh sure,
there is a Kentucky Fried Chicken somewhere on the corner.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And there are seven.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Elevens all through Europe.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Very few Ralphs markets are in Denmark, for example, there
are seven elevens there, So I assume that has something
to do with it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Well, yes, it's popularity. But this is America.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Now, you and I have no get you and you
and I had Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Where were were we in Brazil?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
We were, and you could order it with or without feathers,
and it was for some reason.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The one with feathers is something that they love down there.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
They bring it out for you. Would you like Is
this the one you'd like?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, we'll take that.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So the thirty most popular grocery stores in America for
Q four twenty twenty four, it went seven to eleven
Trader Joe's, Whole Foods Market, al d Kroger, Circle K,
another Quick Quick One, Public's Fresh Market, Safeway, Sprouts, Farmers Market,
(04:42):
Pigley Wiggly, which we don't have out here obviously, save
a lot, Win Dixie, Amazon, Fret.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I mean, it just goes on and on.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Now, all these names, and some of them are regional names. Aldi,
for example, just started here in southern California. It's what
are the rat Albertson's pavilions. I don't know if they're
out of this region, if across the country. Safeway is
in every city, so Albertson this is.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
On this list Food for Less, which is Ralph's affiliate.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I believe they are owned by the same company.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
So it just it goes to show you it's very
interesting the way people process information, what they retain and
what they all.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Right, Neil heard tomorrow with the Fork Report from two
two five all Things food, and Neil and I talk
a lot about food, by the way.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Off the air as you can imagine.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Okay, Hey, on that note, by the way, if you
are not following me or joining me on Instagram, please
do at Fork Reporter at Fork Reporter on Instagram, because
I believe tonight I will be doing a live an
Instagram live from my brother's home Speak Easy. So my
brother Craig and I will be doing that around seven
(05:56):
ish or so and I'll announce it on Instagram. But
tonight we'll do that and that'll be fun.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah. And it's a real speakeasy too. I mean he
builds a Speak.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Easy Yeah, hidden doors, all kinds of stuff, ten ceilings, everything.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
All right, So back we go more Footy Friday, and of.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Course we have to whenever possible, and this is for
Amy and Neal. We have to bring Disneyland into the
picture because it is religious for them.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
You le pre requiem sa prurey Disney.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's funny, that's very good.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
It is the Disneyland's Lunar New Year for twenty twenty five.
You're the snake, I believe. And you know, Disney has
just really raised the bar on the kind of eat
you can get. And they have dragon fruit cocktail this year,
(06:58):
Tropical Coconut cooler. They have all these cocktails, the chocolate
Firecracker at the Lucky eight Lantern, fire chicken wings, the
spicy Gochu Jang chicken tacos, and I mean they really
really have some great choices for the New Year.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
So so much going on there at the parks.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Right, Yeah, they do a lot of theme stuff within
the theme park Christmas, for example, Lunar you know, Lunar
New Year. I understand they were going with some new
guinea Headhunter where the drinks are in the shape of
you know, shrunken heads.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And it might not be accurate.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Well, they're too small, that's the problem.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
They actually got rid of the head hunter in the
Jungle Cruise too.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That's right, they did it. That's right. It was politically incorrect.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
You know, it's funny. We're gonna do that when retires. Yeah,
we are with a monkey.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Okay, excellent, well said.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Now let's finish MPs.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Let's finish it up. An Orange County restaurant that's moving
to La.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Okay, so this is awesome. Now, Bill, you know on
Wilshire Boulevard. Do you remember? It was there for like
forty years and I think at twenty eighteen they shuddered
the Marie calendars there. Oh yeah, sure, big one flagship
with its brick. It's a gorgeous location. Well, a buddy
of mine who's just a really, really great guy, rob Ariano,
(08:33):
he has brought one of the great restaurants from Orange County,
Desconso to that location, and it's opening this week. It
actually opened on the twenty third, but this will be
its first weekend. And not only do they have regular
dining seats and things like that, but they have a
plancha where you can sit around the planchain and they'll
(08:55):
make it in front of you. Kind of allah Benny Hanna.
But Mexican food, so it's a really cool interactive space
as well as you know you're looking for. Nowadays, people
look for more than just great food. They want kind
of experience, and this is going to be the place,
and I just want to encourage people to check it out.
(09:17):
Their food is fantastic, the atmosphere is gorgeous, and hopefully
we'll get Rob on the show this weekend too, because
it is It is a great place in Coasta Mesa
that we're lucky to have here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So Neil opens up this weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
All right, Neil, you have just violated rule number three
of this radio program, and it's an inviolate rule. I
am the only one allowed to horror for my friends. You.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
It's not actually he and I became friends from him
coming on the show.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I know you've done a lot of that. It's the
people have I know your friends. I mean, it all
turns into.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Food, So it's not like we're buddies.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I know, I know you don't go I do, but
you don't go there.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
It has become a friend because he just is one
of those people in the industry who's kind and dedicated
and really focuses on the detail of the experience in
the food.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So yeah, I don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I don't understand any of that. I just don't get it.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
We got to go there when you're yeah, no, I
will know, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I think you would dig it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And the girl, you know, we asked you all how
to do We have to take a break in just
a second and go into ask Handle Anything.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You and I And we've done this before.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Is we take a limited number of guests with us,
not to eat with us, but to watch us eat.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh yeah, it's fun for them.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh it's tremendous. It is entertainment on an extraordinary level.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
And they're allowed to keep anything that falls off our
plate or comes out of our mouth.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's wonderful experience.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, yesterday I went to the restaurant with Jim Kinney
and I was starving, and as I'm walking past, I'm
looking at people going, hey, are you going to finish that?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's very embarrassing for anybody that's with me. All right,
eight thirty.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
It is a Friday, and this is how we're ending
our shows on Friday. At least we're starting to do that.
And that is our segment, Ask Handle Anything, and What
happens is people record their questions and Neil and and
choose the best questions, asking me anything, and you get
we get personal. I mean, you know me for a
long time, and I have no problem. You know, I
(11:25):
wear my heart on my sleeves.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
So that's what this is about.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Ask handle anything. So I hear these questions at the
same time you do right now, and I haven't heard
them before. So it's a spontaneous, spontaneous response. So Neil,
do you introduce or do I?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
We just go right to it, Connor.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I just want to say, it's not so much that
we pick the best ones. We just kind of have
to cull through all the why is handled such a
shill for the Democrats?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
From disillusion syndrome or whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, I know, it's all those.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
We cut through those, all right, and then we asked you.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Then we asked the important stuff my STDs that I've
had over my lifetime. For example, this morning we did
a story on crabs. All right, Cono, let's go ahead.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
The first question, Hey, quick question, just wondering when you're
gonna retire your show. Oh I hate to see that,
but it's gonna happen eventually.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And I was curious. Yeah, no, it's a good question.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I don't know because I was getting really close to it,
and then Neil came onto the show and it's sort
of changed everything and I'm just having the greatest time
of my life. And then Kno came on. All right, yeah,
not so much.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
And it's just nice. I am nice. That is nice.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And then Ann came aboard and that changed everything because
An came aboard.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Okay, that's enough. Next question.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
We do have a good team.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yes we do.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I actually I think is the best team we've ever had.
And that's not blowing smoke either. Go ahead, Corno, Bill,
What is the most cocaine you've done in one sitting
in one hour's time. In one hour's time, I think
I knocked off maybe a gram and a half. That's
(13:31):
a lot of cocaine, man, that was a lot of snorting.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah. I was a pretty serious cocaine addict.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
What did it cost back then for a I was
about the same as it costs now.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I think it was one hundred dollars a gram a
little vial one hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And that was back then. You know that.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I went into drug rehab in nineteen eighty three, and
I spent I spent four fun years being a cocaine addict.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Although I have to tell you, for those of you who.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Did a lot of cocaine, you'll know exactly what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And for those of.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You that have not, one of the real upsides about cocaine.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
If you're a nosepicker like I am.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Some of the best boogers in the world come out
of a nostril that has had a lot of cocaine
in it.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
That's the weirdest things.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And by the way, for those of you that have
done cocaine, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
What how did it make you? Did it make you
more hyper?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
How'd you? You're a mess? Now? Just wow?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
All right? Next question, Hi Bill, this is Brian so
at the station.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Who do you feel is wittier than you?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Everybody?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Even the guy who doesn't speak English and mops up
the floor?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Although is that racist? By the way? Am I saying
of that?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I mean, you know, we've got pretty witty people. Neil
is in.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Credibly witty, bless you.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No, It's true, especially with the stuff that oh Kono
is shaking his hand, going I don't know, but I
would I would literally, I would say, I would say
you neil.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I generally think you're waiting for your than I am.
And it's very nice.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
By the way, they compliment about, you know, me being witty,
which is kind of neat. Okay, we have time, We
have enough to go for.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
A couple of sessions. Right, let's do one more.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
We'll see, Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Hey, Bill, I'm thirty one and I live in southern California.
I mean, too little to afford to go to college,
but too much to qualify for any financial aid. So
I'm just kind of stuck in the middle here. And
I always thought about getting into radio, but maybe that's
just because I'm a narcissist. Any advice on breaking into
the industry, or yeah, even a way to get a
(15:48):
head out here, Yeah, any advice is welcomed.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Sure, don't do it. It is not something and by
the way, that's not me just making fun. Radio is
a terrestrial do because of all of the different ways
that content is being used, radio per se is not
an easy place to get into.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
There used to be, for example, of the world of
talk radio, which I know and Neil will join me.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We used to have a bench where people would work
on weekends for example, and fill in. That's what I
did before I started doing the morning show.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Those days are gone.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Those days are gone, and the money for the most
part is horrific in terms of working in radio. So
you know the advice that I'm trying to be serious here,
you're really stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Going to college, don't qualify. It's too expensive. Yeah, thirty
thirty one, that's.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
But if you have something you like to talk about,
then do a podcast.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
There's still no Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
No, that's true. However, let's get real for a moment.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I agree, But let's get real for a moment in
terms of podcasting, because first of all, everybody does a podcast. Now,
if you're going to try to make your living on
it and monetize, how many people actually are able to
monetize their podcasts?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, I mean zero.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Zero one percent.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Now, if you want to do it as a hobby,
that's great, but you're not going to make a living
at it.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
So basically your life is over.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
For those of you that are thinking you have some
future in anything, you don't just suck it up. I'm
giving you a reality check. You know your life is finished.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
You know the two jobs that AI will probably take first,
crazy enough, medical doctors and lawyers.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well, it's it's hard for AI to argue in court
for one thing, and transactional stuff. You know, it's certainly
diagnosis is going to be helped by AI.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
But let me ask you, when's the last time you
saw computer performing surgery?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Robots do?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Really?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, though they are there, they're actually being They help
surgeons do what they do.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
They're more precise, but you still need a surgeon there.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
But with AI, you won't eventually trust me. Those those
are more.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
In all right, So don't go to medical school, don't
go to law school. I just don't go any place. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You know, life is finished. Take a swanel off the building.
Yeah all right, great, I'm trying to make people feel good.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
All right, let's move on with another question.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Bill Hector hearing goodyear.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
I was wondering you don't got that linguistic gene on you.
You only speak Portuguese in English. You don't speak Spanish
or any other language like your father did. Do any
of your kids speak foreign languages.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
No, it's a good question. First of all, I don't
have the gene.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
My dad spoke nine languages and a few others, not fluently.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean, he was science fiction.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
My daughter Pamela excuse me what the Jewish day school
and came out pretty fluent in Hebrew.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
She has the gene. I don't I.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Speak Portuguese because I was born in Brazil sort of,
I've forgotten a lot of it, a little bit of English, uh,
And I can get along in Spanish.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I can say things.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Like uh la migra, which gets people moving on a
regular basis.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Don't desto b leoteca. You know what it is really weird.
I was in uh, Brazil with Bill, and I'd known
him for decades already when we went and I'd never
heard you speak Portuguese. So we're in a restaurant and
(19:34):
he just starts going off in Portuguese to the waiter
and it freaked me the hell out. And then where
we were, gosh, we were at the waterfall what is that?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Oh Questioux Falls Quests.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And there was a news reporter there and started interviewing
him in Portuguese, and it was it was really weird.
You you click right into it.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah, it takes me a little while once I'm there,
and I've forgotten a lot of it, but it's just
if i'm there, it comes back pretty quickly. All right,
I think we have time for one more.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Question therapy a long time. What's the biggest revelation you've
had about yourself or anything? Thanks, The biggest revelation.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
That my definition of four inches is not everybody else's
definition of.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Inches. You know what? You know, I don't know. That's
actually a very good question. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Maybe realizing that my stick of having no self esteem
is not stick.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Uh, you know, there.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Was a revelation.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Oh that's a breakthrough. Yeah, I thought you were going
to say that. Your therapist said that you're.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
What I got fired. My therapist fired me.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
She said, yeah, there's yeah, there's nothing I can do
for it.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That's true. By the way, that's absolutely a reality. My
therapist fired me. All right, guys, we are done with
the week, done with the show. Tomorrow morning h Saturday
Sharks with Dean Sharp, House Whisper, and then I'm here
eight to eleven with Handle on the Law.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Rich Demureaw goes.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Eleven to two with the Tech Show, and then Neil
with the Fork Report.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
And if and if you want to follow me on
Instagram at Fork Reporter. Tonight at around seven I'll be
broadcasting in Instagram live for my brothers speakeasy in his home.
We just talk garbage about each other and drink.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Oh wow, you talking garbage about someone? What a shocker.
I never would have figured out out.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh I'm a little as is. Yeah, yeah, I grew
up with a lot of boys.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
All right, you got it, We're done. All right.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Monday, we come back with this show, Wake Up Call
with Amy starting at five am, and the rest has
come aboard at well, the restless Neil and I come
aboard at.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
At six o'clock until right about now.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Up next Gary and Shannon, and you've got four hours
of frivolity with Gary and Shannon Handle and the Morning Crew.
Catch in the Morning kf I am sixty.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Catch My Show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
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