January 31, 2025 • 26 mins
(Friday 01/31/25)
IT’S FOODIE FRIDAY! Food enthusiast and host of ‘The Fork Report’ on KFI Neil Saavedra joins Bill to talk about great appliances for the Super Bowl, a NEW footlong Oreo, and store private sales are up. The show closes with ‘Ask Handel Anything.’
IT’S FOODIE FRIDAY! Food enthusiast and host of ‘The Fork Report’ on KFI Neil Saavedra joins Bill to talk about great appliances for the Super Bowl, a NEW footlong Oreo, and store private sales are up. The show closes with ‘Ask Handel Anything.’
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. I'm in the move for food and it
is a Friday morning, January thirty one, and a couple
of stories that we are covering some big ones. There
may be a twenty five percent terrify in Mexico and Canada.
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Tomorrow Trump will decide that today new pain medications come
out non oplioid. The FDA approved it, which is kind
of neat. The Santa Anna Unified School District put together
a tutorial to prepare staff for the possibility of ice
showing up on campus. It's a step by step It's
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handle a visit from ice. Also, I have reposted another
video that the Santa Ana School District prepared for people
in general, students and teachers how to deal with ice
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at Bill Handle show look at stories. Yeah you didn't
know this was happening. Okay, now it's time. Neil shakes
his head. I know, sometimes I just wish this was
television because I love his reactions. Okay, it's time for
the Fork Report, which is excuse me, it's time for
Foody Friday. Neil hosts The Fork Report tomorrow two to
(01:26):
five pm and his social addresses at Fork Reporter. All right, Neil,
I want to talk about the Super Bowl for a moment. Now.
You know, I do commercials for Stonefire Grill and they
and I'm going to be talking next week about what
to do for the game because I'm not allowed when
a commercial contexts to use the name of the game
(01:51):
because there's some all kinds of legal ramifications. However, I'm
also going to talk I'm sorry, the superb Bowel. Oh yeah,
I'm also going very good. I'm also going to talk
about and I don't know you've had this, their tortilla soup,
which is insanely good and if you get the large one,
which I call the super Bowl of Soup, it is
(02:15):
some of the best stuff you've ever had.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I think I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Huh Well, all right, Neil, let's do I'm gonna use
that line a few times during the commercials.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Okay, great appliances or appliance for the Super Bowl. I
haven't heard this, so you've got to tell Bee what's
going on with that?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Okay, so a lot of people ask me about applying
keeping food warm or even cooking food in them, and
there's been a mix of them over the years. One
of the really popular ones is a three unit. It's
one unit, but it has three separate slow cookers on it.
(02:58):
They were very popular for a while and then I
didn't see them, and now they are coming back. And
basically what they are slow cookers are like a crock pot.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
There's three of them. They're one and a half.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Courts each, and they are good for not only cooking
certain things in them, dips or keeping them warm, but
they're just super handy to have. And there is one
that is blowing people's minds because it is at Oldie
and it's thirty four to ninety nine, whereas most of
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them are at least.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Twice that, and it looks like a great setup.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Now this is one. This is one unit with three
different I guess what, one and a half court, one
and a half three different hotspots on what would you
call those? Because my mind has just gone away. They're
slow cookers, yeah, slow cookers on the burner.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Okay, yeah, well they have they so it's each one
one and a half court cooking pots, they have matching
glass lids, they have spoon rests, they're dis washers safe,
all those things. We've seen these before. I've never seen
them for thirty four ninety nine. Okay, So if you're
looking for something to keep things warm, I've used these
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in the past. I have similar I have a bunch
of warming style dishes. I've used them in the past
for keeping different proteins warm and making like a slider
bar or things like that.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But they work great. And if you can get.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Your hands on this, you go out to your local
Aldi and look for the Ambiano amb Ia.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
N triple slow cooker.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And again, not only can you cook in these things,
but you keep things you can put them on. There's
three settings. There's a high, a low, and a warm,
and they work great. And this like, like I said,
you're probably looking at about ninety dollars for most of these,
so finding them for thirty four ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And it's good quality stuff, it's good quality.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, this is getting ravers.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Got it? You know what? I found that the slow
cooker doesn't work all that well because last year I
taught I tried crispy coconut shrimp in sauce, and I
let it sit there for a couple of hours before
the game and it just it just didn't work.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
This is why I've never ever accepted one of your
invitations for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Uh? Yeah, and won't. Then what are you doing for this?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What? What are you doing for the Super Bowl this year?
I'm gonna go around the idea? Okay, good help? Amy?
You doing?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
It's just not something?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay, fair enough?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Are you even going to watch the game? Do I
watch the game?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah? Are you even gonna watch it?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It's usually okay, fair enough?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Amy? What are you doing for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But either going to a friend's house or another friend's house?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Right, So that depends on whether you're not sure. That
depends on whether the terrorists can and tomorrow or not,
depending on.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Who's sure or not.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Cono, what are you doing for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
My wife works, so I'll be a single dad at home. Okay, Yeah,
I don't like to party with them, all right?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And super Bowl plans, yep. We go to the same
friends every year. There's probably one hundred people there. Geez, yeah,
parties's one hundred. So how many TVs are out there?
They have probably fifteen TV setup. Wow. Yeah, And I'm
going to do what I usually do during Super Bowl.
The two of us, Lindsay and I are going to
(06:32):
just be home nobody because I have no friends and
even if I don't even invite people over because everybody
would say no. So I don't want that kind of humiliation.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, I longstanding no with you.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, I know. Hey, I understand. The commercials are back
good ones, some of them where there have been terrible
and the high price commercials, you know, first quarter of
the game, depending on where they are in the commercial
roll stop set eight million dollars for thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I may I have a fun trivia question for you.
What do you think the average viewer is expected to
shell out for game related food expenses?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You know what, I don't know I would ask you
that question. I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's one hundred and forty two bucks. There.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I never would have guessed that much ever, and that
is just for four deviled eggs.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yes, hey, welcome to inflation. Yeah, I mean the eggs
are getting crazy all right? Yeah, now a foot long oreo.
You got to explain that one to me.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
So this is actually interesting because we here with Oreo,
it's always new flavors. This new flavors that they come
out with. Some of them are good, some of them
not so good. But this month Oreo has been, you know,
doing all kinds of different things that we love and
know them to do. But the newest thing is putting
(08:03):
in a new dessert in collaboration with our friends at Subway.
So they're putting the Oreo foot long cookie. It's a warm,
twelve inch cookie and cream.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And it's so imagine this.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
It is part of their sidekicks and if you haven't
had them, there both desserts and some savory items that
are a foot long. They have a truro, they have
a pretzel. Neither of those I think are very good,
quite honestly. But they're bringing this. It's like a brownie
(08:38):
with cream filling and then crushed Oreos in the center
of it. And this is going to be one of
their newest things. It started yesterday. The Oreo foot long
be available for a limited time at different Subway locations
nationwide and we'll see how it goes. I'll probably try
and get one today.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
The things that.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I do like when it comes to Subway and they're
snacks and sides and desserts. The foot long cookie, they're
regular chocolate chip not so great. The cinnabon foot long
chiro not so great, and the anti and foot log
pretzel not so great. But their pepperoni cheese dippers they're
(09:20):
cheese and chicken and cheese. And their double cheese dippers
are actually pretty darn good.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So what shape is it in I'm envisioning a foot
long sort of in a role kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Now, it's more like a long brownie with a divot
through the center. Okay, So think of it as a
foot long brownie about two inches tall and then twelve
inches wide, and it has a little dip in the center,
a little concake dip that runs the length, and in
there is the cream and the crushed oreos. Okay, and
(09:54):
you know sound okay this, Yeah, it looks like it
looks it's okay.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Hey, when the kono did that drop at the beginning
of this segment. Uh, the the mention was that oreos were.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That people who sorry about that?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The oreos are a hundred countries. Uh, it's so by far,
is the oreo cookie the biggest selling, biggest produced cookie,
like on the planet.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You know, that's a great question. I don't know the answer.
I would guess it's up there.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, there are three things that I noticed the last
time I went to Brazil, which is a zillion years ago,
and I went. I decided I was going to go
to the Amazon, and so I go into the hinterlands
of the Amazon. You take a boat in there, and
you have these little tiny villages that really don't have electricity,
or there's one line coming through and there's no sanitation.
(10:52):
It's into the river. Three things. Every one of those
villages have Coca Cola, pringles, p Pato chips, and Oreo cookies.
And we're talking a little tiny village way up the
Amazon that has two hundred people living there, Indigenous people.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Kno just said that Oreo is the best selling cookie.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I would think, all right, real quickly before we bail.
Private label sales are up. Private label, of course, Kirkland
being the I guess, the king of private labels.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, this was you know, growing up, whenever you got
like tasty os or fruity you know.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Holes, that's not a good one.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Anyways, As a kid, I remember when my mom would
try and get break home.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Some private label were like.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I know, do you remember remember when it was white
boxes with a blue stripe going through it, and every.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Plane wrap plane wrap during the eighties. As a matter
of fact, one of my favorite movies from the eighties
is Repo Man, and all the food in there through
the entirety of the movie is all plane wrap, which
was white with the dark blue light blue stripe with
dark blue stripes around it, and it would just say
beer or crackers.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The fact is they've gotten better.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So private label sales hit a record of two hundred
and seventy one billion in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
They continue to go on the rise.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
So these are you go to your local grosser and
they have their own brand, the Select brand or any
of these things, and they've gotten really really good. And
even you know, Amazon has its own label now and
the Amazon Basics, I think, is what it is. So
more and more of these brands are becoming real competitors
(12:44):
because the truth is a lot of them are made
in similar if not the same Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
How about the same factories, and they just label. You
have a store like Costco or you have you know,
as you said, Amazon or Safeway or any of the
major supermarkets, they'll bring out their own brand and it's
the same factory. Oh and they just take X number
of products and just throw another label on it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
So it continues to rise, you know, five percent here,
seven percent there. But the reality is they're getting better
and better and people it is I will tell you
right now, it is one of the best bargains you
will find in a grocery.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Starch or the groceries.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
You know, private labels and a lot of them popu
them because they don't market them the same way. But
many of them I find are even better than the
name brands. And I've switched over here, not because they're
cheaper necessarily that's a a you know, a good plus,
but because they're actually very very good.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Well Kirkland obviously from Costo. Yeah, but I'm thinking of
switching over from my HMO Kaiser to Kirkland Medical.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
They don't have that yet. Costco has. You can get
your eyes done and you're tied, I know you can.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, great, And I think they're talking to proctologists, which
is a whole segment on its own. We're done, We're done, Neil.
Now it's ask handle anything where you get to record
a question and I'll explain during the week how you
do that, and and and Neil, grab these questions the
(14:20):
ones that are the most fun, and I get to
answer them. And it's because people ask me questions all
the time, so I thought i'd do it on the air.
And I'm pretty honest about it. And I don't hear
them until you hear them. I respond right here, right
there on the air. And the more embarrassing they are,
usually the more embarrassing they are. All right, Neil, do
(14:44):
we start? And Cono do we start? Do I go
straight to Cono?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
All right, Cono.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Let's start with the first question?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah? Okay, let me answer that one question?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
All right?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, I don't care the Dodgers, the Clippers, I don't
care whoever is playing.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
All right, Kno.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Question number two, Hi, Bill, what's one of the funniest
things that ever happened to you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
It's a fairly long story. I went not too long,
I was. This goes to how prescient I am and
how ahead of the world I am. I was at
a funeral at a Catholic at a Catholic service, and
the casket is going down the aisle right in front
of me, followed by about seven priests, and I turned
(15:46):
to the person I was sitting with as it was
rolling and way too loud a stage whisper, I said,
how many of those priests do you think are dorking
that altar boy? And about it dozen people heard that
because the whisper was too large or too loud. So
that was both one of the most embarrassing and one
(16:08):
of the funniest.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So you're saying one of the funniest things that ever
happened to you, was you Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah. And by the way, this was years before the
story broke about Catholic priests. Okay, I'm prescient. I'm telling
you Winston Churchill Winston Churchill nineteen thirty two understanding who
Hitler was by himself.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Hi, Bill, are you still going to retire in Italy?
How about telling us a little bit more about that?
It sounds fascinating. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I plan on real well spending several months in Italy,
and I may very well move there because I just
happened to love Italy and Lindsey is completely crazy about Italy.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I mean, that's pasta here in the States. You know,
pardon we have pasta here in the Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It's just I probably end up a few months there,
in a few months here. A lot of people do that.
I just I've always wanted to live overseas for a
period of time. So the answer is, yeah, I probably am.
But I'm still a waste from retiring unless they retire
me tomorrow after some of the cracks I made.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I will tell you the thing about Italians. They don't
finish anything. I went to Rome and there's a bunch
of buildings that don't have roofs or walls.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, they don't. Yeah, and you know why. You know
why they It's funny. You know why they don't have pimples,
don't you Why? Because they slide off? Okay, enough of that. Oh,
I know it's an olive oil joke. All right, let's
(17:55):
move on. Hey, Bill, I don't think i've ever heard
you tell a story about your experience with the movie
Wag the Dog and the stories there. Yeah, I was
actually in the movie Wag the Dog. Yeah, thanks for asking.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I was in that movie.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
That's my claim to fame and the dog that's very funny,
I know, I was the tail that was wagged. No.
I play a reporter in the movie. And here here's
a little sidebar story. I was They had the B
team go out that was sort of a b roll. So,
of course, none of the major actors or anything, because
(18:34):
it was just a small scene that I was in
and I was a reporter waiting for someone to come
down off an airplane. Woody Harrelson actually in the film.
And I'm there and waiting for the plane and there's
a group of extras and I'm by the stairs. Of
course the plane isn't there because they're not going to
rent a plane. And I had to join SAG at
(18:58):
the time, and it cost me eleven hundred dollars to
join SAG, the Screen Actors Guild, and that's before after
SAG connected. Eleven hundred dollars, I had to pay to
join the union. I got paid scale, which was just
under eight hundred dollars, so it cost me a net
of three hundred dollars. And usually when they have crafts foods,
(19:20):
you know, they have great food at those film sets,
which usually are spectacular. They brought in cold.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Pizza for lunch.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And I'm in the movie. You see me on a
television screen inside the jet as they're looking to land
and then the plane crashes and whatever. So if you
look at IMB that is the credit world of the movies.
Put in my name and you'll see wag the dog,
tiny little part. Okay, ib D imb S. I have
(19:54):
no idea what that is. What do they call that?
By the way, is that I b D?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I am dB. Okay, well there you go. Okay, fair enough,
let's come back.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I'm sorry nothing.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Okay, we're gonna come back and we're gonna finish up.
Ask handle anything. See this is fun. It's glad you're
enjoying it. I am enjoying it. I really enjoy this segment.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Is it's one of your favorite topics. What me?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Damn straight?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
All right, Cono, you want.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
To go for the next Good Morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I was wondering what the first car you ever purchased was.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh uh, it was a piece of crap. Fiat is
what it was. I decided I was going to get
a foreign car and it was probably it was the cheapest,
oldest Fiat that kept falling apart. Oh you know, I
haven't been asked that ever.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You know what FIAT stands for fix it again, Tony. Yeah,
that's true. That's true.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Man. It was just a piece of crap beyond a
piece of crap.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
All right, good, I've never made that. Okay, Hi, Bill,
how did you propose to Lindsey?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Thanks? Yeah, she proposed to me. Actually, Uh it was uh,
you know, in a bank. Uh no, No, I don't
remember what it was. And I just, uh, you know, said,
you know, I'm tired of this, stop it. Okay, okay,
I'll do it. Leave me alone, quit bugging me.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Oh. How romantical?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Damn right, damn straight. And here is the plan, by
the way, uh, and this is uh, and we're gonna
do this at the wedding. There is this magnificent wedding
ring that she has, uh that I am going to
take off her finger and put it back on her finger.
It's going to be romantic as hell.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Do they use a forklift?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Uh? Oh, give me a break.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Was it in front of an atm Uh? Did she
get down on one knee?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I don't think she don't.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Did she?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I'm trying to remember, because I know there was. She
was asking, uh. And during the course of asking, there
was a lot of whimpering.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
There was a lot of please, please.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Okay, done, let me alone.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And when she's digging, does she use an actual gold shovel? Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Please, no, no, no, this is me you're talking.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Give you break, all right?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Next question, hey, Bill, Of all the products you've endorsed
over the years, which product was the most fun to
make commercials for an indoors?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
You know what I've done so many you wish okay,
all right?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
The most fun one, I think is the one I'm
doing now. Zellman's only because Anthony and Lauren let me
do anything with it. They don't care. It's you know
when I mentioned that there now in the pository form,
so you can either swallow them or put him you
know where he puts the positories. And the worst one.
(23:04):
You know, I don't do spots unless I really believe
in the product. So and by the way, I'm not
blowing smoke here. It was if it was a if
it was a bad spot, I would tell you what.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Well there was there wasn't one that maybe changed management
or something or ownership and you said, I'm not doing
it anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well, it's occasionally what happened a few things that I
won't do uh. And this is where I get into it.
If there's a sale, I have to know when it ends.
I don't want for a limited time. I don't know
what that means, and I won't do that.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I just refuse.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Everything is. I don't use the word incredible very often.
I remember at a at a sales meeting and I
was asked, what do you hate about commercials in general?
And I said, I hate incredible. I hate amazing because
everything is amazing incredible, and I go, let me tell you,
(24:01):
it's really incredible, incredible and amazing. I wake up in
the morning, I look down and I see a ten
inch Schwantz. That is amazing and incredible. Okay, short of that, Ah,
all right, tomorrow morning. It's a handle on the law
from eight to eleven o'clock Neil two to five for the.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Fork Report, seriously ending on that.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, it's true, it actually happened. It actually happened to
the sales meeting. I'm not making that up. You can
ask people at the station that we're at that sales meeting.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
This is why everybody hates you the Actually that's true.
For a living and you do this, yeah, paid.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, Gary and Shannon are up next and they're going
to cover the uh well obviously the crash in Washington,
the tariffs that are coming up tomorrow. I mean, the
big story is also nine New Nuggets. It's Friday, so
they give you the nine new news nuggets you need
(25:04):
to know, all right, and we're back on Monday, Amy,
wake up call. I know. Was that inappropriate, by the way,
that story that I just told you? Okay, No, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I have no idea. You know what?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
How about this when I talked to the FCC this afternoon,
this is Handle on the law. Okay, oh, you're right.
See my head is already there. You're right, thanks, Cono.
(25:41):
Now you're right, my head is already in tomorrow morning.
You know, I'm done with the show and I'm already there.
And uh yeah, thanks for correcting me. All right, let's
do that again. Uh, I'm gonna talk to the FCC
this afternoon. This is Handle.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
It is no, it's not.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
It is.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
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six forty. I'm in the move for food and it
is a Friday morning, January thirty one, and a couple
of stories that we are covering some big ones. There
may be a twenty five percent terrify in Mexico and Canada.
(00:21):
Tomorrow Trump will decide that today new pain medications come
out non oplioid. The FDA approved it, which is kind
of neat. The Santa Anna Unified School District put together
a tutorial to prepare staff for the possibility of ice
showing up on campus. It's a step by step It's
a six minute recording and shows the staff how to
(00:42):
handle a visit from ice. Also, I have reposted another
video that the Santa Ana School District prepared for people
in general, students and teachers how to deal with ice
showing up. And that's on the Instagram. It's on Instagram
(01:03):
at Bill Handle show look at stories. Yeah you didn't
know this was happening. Okay, now it's time. Neil shakes
his head. I know, sometimes I just wish this was
television because I love his reactions. Okay, it's time for
the Fork Report, which is excuse me, it's time for
Foody Friday. Neil hosts The Fork Report tomorrow two to
(01:26):
five pm and his social addresses at Fork Reporter. All right, Neil,
I want to talk about the Super Bowl for a moment. Now.
You know, I do commercials for Stonefire Grill and they
and I'm going to be talking next week about what
to do for the game because I'm not allowed when
a commercial contexts to use the name of the game
(01:51):
because there's some all kinds of legal ramifications. However, I'm
also going to talk I'm sorry, the superb Bowel. Oh yeah,
I'm also going very good. I'm also going to talk
about and I don't know you've had this, their tortilla soup,
which is insanely good and if you get the large one,
which I call the super Bowl of Soup, it is
(02:15):
some of the best stuff you've ever had.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I think I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Huh Well, all right, Neil, let's do I'm gonna use
that line a few times during the commercials.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Okay, great appliances or appliance for the Super Bowl. I
haven't heard this, so you've got to tell Bee what's
going on with that?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Okay, so a lot of people ask me about applying
keeping food warm or even cooking food in them, and
there's been a mix of them over the years. One
of the really popular ones is a three unit. It's
one unit, but it has three separate slow cookers on it.
(02:58):
They were very popular for a while and then I
didn't see them, and now they are coming back. And
basically what they are slow cookers are like a crock pot.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
There's three of them. They're one and a half.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Courts each, and they are good for not only cooking
certain things in them, dips or keeping them warm, but
they're just super handy to have. And there is one
that is blowing people's minds because it is at Oldie
and it's thirty four to ninety nine, whereas most of
(03:33):
them are at least.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Twice that, and it looks like a great setup.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Now this is one. This is one unit with three
different I guess what, one and a half court, one
and a half three different hotspots on what would you
call those? Because my mind has just gone away. They're
slow cookers, yeah, slow cookers on the burner.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Okay, yeah, well they have they so it's each one
one and a half court cooking pots, they have matching
glass lids, they have spoon rests, they're dis washers safe,
all those things. We've seen these before. I've never seen
them for thirty four ninety nine. Okay, So if you're
looking for something to keep things warm, I've used these
(04:17):
in the past. I have similar I have a bunch
of warming style dishes. I've used them in the past
for keeping different proteins warm and making like a slider
bar or things like that.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But they work great. And if you can get.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Your hands on this, you go out to your local
Aldi and look for the Ambiano amb Ia.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
N triple slow cooker.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And again, not only can you cook in these things,
but you keep things you can put them on. There's
three settings. There's a high, a low, and a warm,
and they work great. And this like, like I said,
you're probably looking at about ninety dollars for most of these,
so finding them for thirty four ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And it's good quality stuff, it's good quality.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, this is getting ravers.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Got it? You know what? I found that the slow
cooker doesn't work all that well because last year I
taught I tried crispy coconut shrimp in sauce, and I
let it sit there for a couple of hours before
the game and it just it just didn't work.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
This is why I've never ever accepted one of your
invitations for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Uh? Yeah, and won't. Then what are you doing for this?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What? What are you doing for the Super Bowl this year?
I'm gonna go around the idea? Okay, good help? Amy?
You doing?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
It's just not something?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay, fair enough?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Are you even going to watch the game? Do I
watch the game?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah? Are you even gonna watch it?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It's usually okay, fair enough?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Amy? What are you doing for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But either going to a friend's house or another friend's house?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Right, So that depends on whether you're not sure. That
depends on whether the terrorists can and tomorrow or not,
depending on.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Who's sure or not.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Cono, what are you doing for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
My wife works, so I'll be a single dad at home. Okay, Yeah,
I don't like to party with them, all right?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And super Bowl plans, yep. We go to the same
friends every year. There's probably one hundred people there. Geez, yeah,
parties's one hundred. So how many TVs are out there?
They have probably fifteen TV setup. Wow. Yeah, And I'm
going to do what I usually do during Super Bowl.
The two of us, Lindsay and I are going to
(06:32):
just be home nobody because I have no friends and
even if I don't even invite people over because everybody
would say no. So I don't want that kind of humiliation.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, I longstanding no with you.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, I know. Hey, I understand. The commercials are back
good ones, some of them where there have been terrible
and the high price commercials, you know, first quarter of
the game, depending on where they are in the commercial
roll stop set eight million dollars for thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I may I have a fun trivia question for you.
What do you think the average viewer is expected to
shell out for game related food expenses?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You know what, I don't know I would ask you
that question. I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's one hundred and forty two bucks. There.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I never would have guessed that much ever, and that
is just for four deviled eggs.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yes, hey, welcome to inflation. Yeah, I mean the eggs
are getting crazy all right? Yeah, now a foot long oreo.
You got to explain that one to me.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
So this is actually interesting because we here with Oreo,
it's always new flavors. This new flavors that they come
out with. Some of them are good, some of them
not so good. But this month Oreo has been, you know,
doing all kinds of different things that we love and
know them to do. But the newest thing is putting
(08:03):
in a new dessert in collaboration with our friends at Subway.
So they're putting the Oreo foot long cookie. It's a warm,
twelve inch cookie and cream.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And it's so imagine this.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
It is part of their sidekicks and if you haven't
had them, there both desserts and some savory items that
are a foot long. They have a truro, they have
a pretzel. Neither of those I think are very good,
quite honestly. But they're bringing this. It's like a brownie
(08:38):
with cream filling and then crushed Oreos in the center
of it. And this is going to be one of
their newest things. It started yesterday. The Oreo foot long
be available for a limited time at different Subway locations
nationwide and we'll see how it goes. I'll probably try
and get one today.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
The things that.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I do like when it comes to Subway and they're
snacks and sides and desserts. The foot long cookie, they're
regular chocolate chip not so great. The cinnabon foot long
chiro not so great, and the anti and foot log
pretzel not so great. But their pepperoni cheese dippers they're
(09:20):
cheese and chicken and cheese. And their double cheese dippers
are actually pretty darn good.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So what shape is it in I'm envisioning a foot
long sort of in a role kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Now, it's more like a long brownie with a divot
through the center. Okay, So think of it as a
foot long brownie about two inches tall and then twelve
inches wide, and it has a little dip in the center,
a little concake dip that runs the length, and in
there is the cream and the crushed oreos. Okay, and
(09:54):
you know sound okay this, Yeah, it looks like it
looks it's okay.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Hey, when the kono did that drop at the beginning
of this segment. Uh, the the mention was that oreos were.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That people who sorry about that?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The oreos are a hundred countries. Uh, it's so by far,
is the oreo cookie the biggest selling, biggest produced cookie,
like on the planet.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
You know, that's a great question. I don't know the answer.
I would guess it's up there.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, there are three things that I noticed the last
time I went to Brazil, which is a zillion years ago,
and I went. I decided I was going to go
to the Amazon, and so I go into the hinterlands
of the Amazon. You take a boat in there, and
you have these little tiny villages that really don't have electricity,
or there's one line coming through and there's no sanitation.
(10:52):
It's into the river. Three things. Every one of those
villages have Coca Cola, pringles, p Pato chips, and Oreo cookies.
And we're talking a little tiny village way up the
Amazon that has two hundred people living there, Indigenous people.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Kno just said that Oreo is the best selling cookie.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I would think, all right, real quickly before we bail.
Private label sales are up. Private label, of course, Kirkland
being the I guess, the king of private labels.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, this was you know, growing up, whenever you got
like tasty os or fruity you know.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Holes, that's not a good one.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Anyways, As a kid, I remember when my mom would
try and get break home.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Some private label were like.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I know, do you remember remember when it was white
boxes with a blue stripe going through it, and every.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Plane wrap plane wrap during the eighties. As a matter
of fact, one of my favorite movies from the eighties
is Repo Man, and all the food in there through
the entirety of the movie is all plane wrap, which
was white with the dark blue light blue stripe with
dark blue stripes around it, and it would just say
beer or crackers.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The fact is they've gotten better.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So private label sales hit a record of two hundred
and seventy one billion in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
They continue to go on the rise.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
So these are you go to your local grosser and
they have their own brand, the Select brand or any
of these things, and they've gotten really really good. And
even you know, Amazon has its own label now and
the Amazon Basics, I think, is what it is. So
more and more of these brands are becoming real competitors
(12:44):
because the truth is a lot of them are made
in similar if not the same Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
How about the same factories, and they just label. You
have a store like Costco or you have you know,
as you said, Amazon or Safeway or any of the
major supermarkets, they'll bring out their own brand and it's
the same factory. Oh and they just take X number
of products and just throw another label on it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
So it continues to rise, you know, five percent here,
seven percent there. But the reality is they're getting better
and better and people it is I will tell you
right now, it is one of the best bargains you
will find in a grocery.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Starch or the groceries.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
You know, private labels and a lot of them popu
them because they don't market them the same way. But
many of them I find are even better than the
name brands. And I've switched over here, not because they're
cheaper necessarily that's a a you know, a good plus,
but because they're actually very very good.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Well Kirkland obviously from Costo. Yeah, but I'm thinking of
switching over from my HMO Kaiser to Kirkland Medical.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
They don't have that yet. Costco has. You can get
your eyes done and you're tied, I know you can.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, great, And I think they're talking to proctologists, which
is a whole segment on its own. We're done, We're done, Neil.
Now it's ask handle anything where you get to record
a question and I'll explain during the week how you
do that, and and and Neil, grab these questions the
(14:20):
ones that are the most fun, and I get to
answer them. And it's because people ask me questions all
the time, so I thought i'd do it on the air.
And I'm pretty honest about it. And I don't hear
them until you hear them. I respond right here, right
there on the air. And the more embarrassing they are,
usually the more embarrassing they are. All right, Neil, do
(14:44):
we start? And Cono do we start? Do I go
straight to Cono?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
All right, Cono.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Let's start with the first question?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah? Okay, let me answer that one question?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
All right?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, I don't care the Dodgers, the Clippers, I don't
care whoever is playing.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
All right, Kno.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Question number two, Hi, Bill, what's one of the funniest
things that ever happened to you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
It's a fairly long story. I went not too long,
I was. This goes to how prescient I am and
how ahead of the world I am. I was at
a funeral at a Catholic at a Catholic service, and
the casket is going down the aisle right in front
of me, followed by about seven priests, and I turned
(15:46):
to the person I was sitting with as it was
rolling and way too loud a stage whisper, I said,
how many of those priests do you think are dorking
that altar boy? And about it dozen people heard that
because the whisper was too large or too loud. So
that was both one of the most embarrassing and one
(16:08):
of the funniest.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So you're saying one of the funniest things that ever
happened to you, was you Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah. And by the way, this was years before the
story broke about Catholic priests. Okay, I'm prescient. I'm telling
you Winston Churchill Winston Churchill nineteen thirty two understanding who
Hitler was by himself.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Hi, Bill, are you still going to retire in Italy?
How about telling us a little bit more about that?
It sounds fascinating. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I plan on real well spending several months in Italy,
and I may very well move there because I just
happened to love Italy and Lindsey is completely crazy about Italy.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I mean, that's pasta here in the States. You know,
pardon we have pasta here in the Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It's just I probably end up a few months there,
in a few months here. A lot of people do that.
I just I've always wanted to live overseas for a
period of time. So the answer is, yeah, I probably am.
But I'm still a waste from retiring unless they retire
me tomorrow after some of the cracks I made.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I will tell you the thing about Italians. They don't
finish anything. I went to Rome and there's a bunch
of buildings that don't have roofs or walls.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, they don't. Yeah, and you know why. You know
why they It's funny. You know why they don't have pimples,
don't you Why? Because they slide off? Okay, enough of that. Oh,
I know it's an olive oil joke. All right, let's
(17:55):
move on. Hey, Bill, I don't think i've ever heard
you tell a story about your experience with the movie
Wag the Dog and the stories there. Yeah, I was
actually in the movie Wag the Dog. Yeah, thanks for asking.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I was in that movie.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
That's my claim to fame and the dog that's very funny,
I know, I was the tail that was wagged. No.
I play a reporter in the movie. And here here's
a little sidebar story. I was They had the B
team go out that was sort of a b roll. So,
of course, none of the major actors or anything, because
(18:34):
it was just a small scene that I was in
and I was a reporter waiting for someone to come
down off an airplane. Woody Harrelson actually in the film.
And I'm there and waiting for the plane and there's
a group of extras and I'm by the stairs. Of
course the plane isn't there because they're not going to
rent a plane. And I had to join SAG at
(18:58):
the time, and it cost me eleven hundred dollars to
join SAG, the Screen Actors Guild, and that's before after
SAG connected. Eleven hundred dollars, I had to pay to
join the union. I got paid scale, which was just
under eight hundred dollars, so it cost me a net
of three hundred dollars. And usually when they have crafts foods,
(19:20):
you know, they have great food at those film sets,
which usually are spectacular. They brought in cold.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Pizza for lunch.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And I'm in the movie. You see me on a
television screen inside the jet as they're looking to land
and then the plane crashes and whatever. So if you
look at IMB that is the credit world of the movies.
Put in my name and you'll see wag the dog,
tiny little part. Okay, ib D imb S. I have
(19:54):
no idea what that is. What do they call that?
By the way, is that I b D?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I am dB. Okay, well there you go. Okay, fair enough,
let's come back.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I'm sorry nothing.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Okay, we're gonna come back and we're gonna finish up.
Ask handle anything. See this is fun. It's glad you're
enjoying it. I am enjoying it. I really enjoy this segment.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Is it's one of your favorite topics. What me?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Damn straight?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
All right, Cono, you want.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
To go for the next Good Morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I was wondering what the first car you ever purchased was.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh uh, it was a piece of crap. Fiat is
what it was. I decided I was going to get
a foreign car and it was probably it was the cheapest,
oldest Fiat that kept falling apart. Oh you know, I
haven't been asked that ever.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You know what FIAT stands for fix it again, Tony. Yeah,
that's true. That's true.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Man. It was just a piece of crap beyond a
piece of crap.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
All right, good, I've never made that. Okay, Hi, Bill,
how did you propose to Lindsey?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Thanks? Yeah, she proposed to me. Actually, Uh it was uh,
you know, in a bank. Uh no, No, I don't
remember what it was. And I just, uh, you know, said,
you know, I'm tired of this, stop it. Okay, okay,
I'll do it. Leave me alone, quit bugging me.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Oh. How romantical?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Damn right, damn straight. And here is the plan, by
the way, uh, and this is uh, and we're gonna
do this at the wedding. There is this magnificent wedding
ring that she has, uh that I am going to
take off her finger and put it back on her finger.
It's going to be romantic as hell.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Do they use a forklift?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Uh? Oh, give me a break.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Was it in front of an atm Uh? Did she
get down on one knee?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I don't think she don't.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Did she?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I'm trying to remember, because I know there was. She
was asking, uh. And during the course of asking, there
was a lot of whimpering.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
There was a lot of please, please.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Okay, done, let me alone.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And when she's digging, does she use an actual gold shovel? Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Please, no, no, no, this is me you're talking.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Give you break, all right?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Next question, hey, Bill, Of all the products you've endorsed
over the years, which product was the most fun to
make commercials for an indoors?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
You know what I've done so many you wish okay,
all right?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
The most fun one, I think is the one I'm
doing now. Zellman's only because Anthony and Lauren let me
do anything with it. They don't care. It's you know
when I mentioned that there now in the pository form,
so you can either swallow them or put him you
know where he puts the positories. And the worst one.
(23:04):
You know, I don't do spots unless I really believe
in the product. So and by the way, I'm not
blowing smoke here. It was if it was a if
it was a bad spot, I would tell you what.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Well there was there wasn't one that maybe changed management
or something or ownership and you said, I'm not doing
it anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well, it's occasionally what happened a few things that I
won't do uh. And this is where I get into it.
If there's a sale, I have to know when it ends.
I don't want for a limited time. I don't know
what that means, and I won't do that.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I just refuse.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Everything is. I don't use the word incredible very often.
I remember at a at a sales meeting and I
was asked, what do you hate about commercials in general?
And I said, I hate incredible. I hate amazing because
everything is amazing incredible, and I go, let me tell you,
(24:01):
it's really incredible, incredible and amazing. I wake up in
the morning, I look down and I see a ten
inch Schwantz. That is amazing and incredible. Okay, short of that, Ah,
all right, tomorrow morning. It's a handle on the law
from eight to eleven o'clock Neil two to five for the.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Fork Report, seriously ending on that.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, it's true, it actually happened. It actually happened to
the sales meeting. I'm not making that up. You can
ask people at the station that we're at that sales meeting.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
This is why everybody hates you the Actually that's true.
For a living and you do this, yeah, paid.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, Gary and Shannon are up next and they're going
to cover the uh well obviously the crash in Washington,
the tariffs that are coming up tomorrow. I mean, the
big story is also nine New Nuggets. It's Friday, so
they give you the nine new news nuggets you need
(25:04):
to know, all right, and we're back on Monday, Amy,
wake up call. I know. Was that inappropriate, by the way,
that story that I just told you? Okay, No, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I have no idea. You know what?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
How about this when I talked to the FCC this afternoon,
this is Handle on the law. Okay, oh, you're right.
See my head is already there. You're right, thanks, Cono.
(25:41):
Now you're right, my head is already in tomorrow morning.
You know, I'm done with the show and I'm already there.
And uh yeah, thanks for correcting me. All right, let's
do that again. Uh, I'm gonna talk to the FCC
this afternoon. This is Handle.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
It is no, it's not.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
It is.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
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