October 31, 2025 • 24 mins
(October 31, 2025)
IT’S FOODIE FRIDAY! Food enthusiast and host of ‘The Fork Report’ on KFI Neil Saavedra joins Bill to talk about less food in restaurants but not for why you might think, Wicked Cake, and Costco Zombie Apocalypse $3,000 food supply. 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 less food in restaurants but not for why you might think, Wicked Cake, and Costco Zombie Apocalypse $3,000 food supply. The show closes with ‘Ask Handel Anything.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're List Saints KF I am six forty the Bill
Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio f.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is Halloween. Everybody October thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
First Handle and the morning crew except for Amy, who
is not here, but Head the Brooker is and she's
only one dressed in a costume.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
So thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And it normally would make us feel bad, but no,
couldn't care less. Now it's time for Foody Friday with
Neil Savedra and as we're talking about the Fork Report
on Saturday, where I am going to talk about the
Fork Report tomorrow two to five.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
The week from tomorrow, the following.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Saturday, the Fork Report is going to be at the
Wild Fork Restaurant or Wild Fork Store, excuse me, in
Laguna Miguel.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's thanks Grilling.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I am joining him and there will be there will
be food a plenty for everybody. It will be great
fun chefs and all kinds of meat and we're going
to learn a lot and eat and Zelman's will be
there also with samples, free samples. So calendar that that
is a week from tomorrow in Laguna Miguel, the Wild
(01:14):
Fork Store. All right, it is time, It is time
I'll do the costco a little bit later on. Let's
talk about less food in restaurants, but there's a spin
to that, so talk about it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So you know how it used to be thought that
you the fancier you get, the smaller the dishes. When
you go to a restaurants, I guess this tiny little
fruit fruit dish super chefy, but it's like I'm paying
for that.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That used to be a joke.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And then slowly portioned sizes got bigger again, and especially
here in California, we tend to get really hearty sized dishes. However,
more and more with the rise of GLP one medications,
and of course those are the ones that are originally
for diabetes, but people are using them as to weight
(02:10):
control that they really it changes the way you eat
and the desire to eat more, so you kind of
back off and want to eat less.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Restaurants and some trend some people that look at trends
and look into how this is going to affect feud
food in the future, they're seeing that it's sort of
rewriting the rules of dining out right now in America,
And you're the smaller plates are starting to come back again.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I would never leave leftovers ever, I would clean my plate.
I now leave food on my plate, and the food wastage.
Part of that has to be psychological. If there has
to be an issue with people who work in restaurants
knowing that there is food insecurity and people we are
having a hard time eating, particularly in these days, the
amount of waste that goes on, I mean I have
(03:05):
a tremendous amount of waste. It has to hit you psychologically.
What was the restaurant across the street from us? I
forgot the name where the portions were enormous, right just.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Across the street.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
What was it not across the street over there on
the other side of it was on the other side
of Hollywood Way.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
No, it was right across the street from me. In
a big, tall tower.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
There was a restaurant at the bottom that gave you
portions that were beyond comprehension.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Was it like a cheesecake factory kind.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Of No, it wasn't cheesecake, which is also enormous portions.
I forgot the name of the restaurant, but I could.
You couldn't believe it. You order meat loaf and you
got five huge slices for lunch and just it's such.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
A rotation of restaurants, so it's hard for me to
remember what's been.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Okay, So that's challenging and for the better, and sometimes
it pushes for creativity as well, and to maximize each
bite rather than just you know, gorge out on food.
So it's, uh, it's they're slimming things down, and this
is moving towards the fast food restaurants as well, which
is not a bad thing. Uh, And so don't be
(04:14):
surprised to start seeing that it's not just shrink flation.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Hey, one of my favorite restaurants, and a bunch of
these have closed.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It's a chain out back steakhouses. And I've always enjoyed
out baked statehouses because first of all, the steaks are
they come from beef cattle that have been turned down
by every single slaughterhouse in the United States.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
The actually nice job they actually do.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
They that the bloom onion, the bloomin and it's it
was always crowded because I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Why why are they shutting down?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, obviously because of you know, lack of money, lack
of revenue coming in.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, there's not a clear definition on this one. This
one is kind of strange because, uh, it abruptly closed
restaurants across several states, not here, but Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland,
New York, Wisconsin. It's interesting that they closed kind of overnight,
(05:16):
completely surprising staff, completely surprising patrons, and still there's no
set reasoning or understanding as to why they did so.
Of course you've got some coming from the brand. Bloomin
Brands is actually the brand there, Elizabeth Daily. They told
(05:37):
Usday Today in a statement that these are business decisions,
that they're part of an ongoing turnaround plan, and that
they considered a variety of factors including sales, traffic, trade areas,
potential investment, improved performance, these such things. But it was
that they were so abrupt that, like some people that
(05:58):
were working, their servers said, they were, you know, saying
buy to customers one night and can't wait to see
you next you know, regular see you next time, and then.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Then they just shut down, right, Yeah, thing up.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
One of the things that I always found interesting in
the world of business is a business can have various branches.
Typically a restaurant and it's making money, but not enough
money that it's Uh, even though it's profitable, we want
a certain level of profitability because it just isn't worth
(06:29):
it for us. And we're finding out've always wondered. But
it's making money, and they go, yeah, okay, but not enough.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, maybe there's just a set and it's got you
have to make this much money for it to be
worthy of us to invest in that property or whatever
it is. It just is a pretty rare that they
go overnight, Yeah overnight like that.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Uh, And Costco does the same thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You can have a product and breadth the shore if
you remember Breath the Shore.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And they were in Costco and and they were.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Doing fine, no problem at all, but they weren't doing
the numbers that Costco wanted.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
There is a threshold and.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Even even you need a certain amount of packages to
no certain yeah, a certain amount of units that were sold.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Even though they were doing well, it wasn't moving as
quickly as they demanded, which is why Costco takes brands
and gets rid of them and they disappear.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You go there, I do that too. There were a
couple of sauces.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That I love Tomato sauces that disappeared, and I went
to the manager and go what happened? He goes, we
weren't selling enough of them, but you were selling them
like crazy yep, but not crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Enough, not sober stupid crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, and that's what they want. This one is fun.
This is Costco and it's called the U I guess
you call it the zombie Apocalypse. Three thousand dollars. Now
that's a lot of burritos, a lot of frozen burritos.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
So Costco launched this three thousand dollars emergency food supply
and it's, you know, all of these food supplies basically
say hey, we're built to last twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
But now you have They call it the ready Wise Kit.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I call it the you know, zombie apocalypse Kit, because
this is a massive amount of food you've got. This
particular ready Wise Kit includes thirty eight buckets with more
than five thousand freeze dried servings designed to last twenty
five years. The funny thing is, the minute this comes out,
(08:34):
you've got experts and nutritionists and dietitians coming out saying.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's only for survival.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Is if people are going to buy this and use
it as their daily intake. But this is about being
prepared for any sort of national emergency or local emergency.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But this kiit's crazy though. I mean it's if you
need this amount of food as a survivalist and apocalypse
is here, then you don't want to live where you are.
Then the world has truly fallen apart. Armageddon has arrived.
Now I can see five days supply, which a lot
of companies have three days supply of food. Major earthquake hits,
(09:17):
a major in some cases hurricanes hitting, you're out for
a week until at least food starts being food supply
starts being generated. But you know, come on, what forty
eight buckets? So how long you mentioned it? There's twenty five.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Year shelf life. But that's what the shoots. Yeah they do.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, your hell knows who's going to be around twenty
fives from hell.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But there are some things you have to look at.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Is they're oil inside, because things can go rancid regardless
the type of packaging. Is it thick, is it thick packaging?
Is it foil packaging? Is their liner inside? Is there
different things like that are going to set it apart.
I've said this before. I think the brand that I
purchased is the guy who owns it is nutty as hell,
(10:09):
but it's called I think it's eating Family Farms or
eating Valley Farm, maybe eating Valley Farms. And that's what
I purchased for my family because it's actually excellent food.
It's food that I would eat normally and that is
packaged in a way that lasts for twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, I don't know, I'd have to check it out,
but three grand is a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, especially at Costco.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's MRIs, which were developed for the Armed services and
these are packages and they actually have a chemical in
there that you sort of squeeze it and it will
actually heat it up.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And is it's a big meal.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's like thirty five hundred calories designed for soldiers that
are in combat that you.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Really suck up the uh, they're going to be hump
food lots. Yeah. By the way, you know what you
know what mr stands for? Meals ready to eat?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, meals ready for eat or I've heard meals rejected
by Ethiopians.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That is by the way. I'm not making that up either.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That is one of the terms that are used to
describe that, and then I'm not even go to I'm
not even gonna get into the other ones.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
They usually have a favorite, but yes, not all of
them are are so great, but it is important to have.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And you got to keep in mind that you need
the water to prepare.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
These things too, if there's a possibility and drinking water.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So in addition to this survivalist a lot of Mormons
are buying this stuff and a lot of survivalists by
this stuff. I mean, you go go to the Walmart,
probably the best Walmart in the country is between Saint
George and a little town called Hurricane. I beg, oh, yeah,
where all the fundamentalists Mormons go. Oh man, that's you know,
(11:55):
the guys with the fifteen wives.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I've been to the funnel of the fundamental fundamental List Mormon.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Enclave there.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah, the whole thing, and went there and you
could get they had vhs tapes or DVDs on how
to braid your hair because yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, I mean they're obviously nuts.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That store has more survivalist gear and food supplies that
I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Utah.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
As a matter of fact, funny enough, the place that
I mentioned that we buy ours from is Mormon run
and owned, and yeah, there are a lot of survivalists
and the the world be ready stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I have sash too in my garage. For any major
like thing that happens, I have the MRIs, the water,
all of it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Wow, there was a quick story. As you know, Savile,
my partner in the cook wear business. We were having
a meeting with one of the distributors and the guy
is completely nuts survivalists, and we were talking about gold,
you know, to hang onto gold because money's going to
be worthless and money in the bank is going to
fall apart.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And I said, do you have gold?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And he goes, no, absolutely not, And I'm thinking, okay,
the guy is okay.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
At least he has a head on a head on
his shoulders.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And we talked about how gold people aren't going to
buy things with gold when the apocalypse apocalypse comes, because
gold is now We're only talking about practical uses of gold,
you know, for what satellites and cell phones or whatever
else they put in gold. And so I said, good
for you. So what what do you think you should have?
(13:39):
And he looked at me and his eyes glistened and
he said, ammunition.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You know, it's crazy, as we're going to need.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Lead and full metal jackets are going to be worthy
because gold can only get you so much.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
But you know, threatening gold watch.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Assuming that the apocalypse doesn't count, doesn't come.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Gold's gonna be okay.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
All right, we're done, and it's ask Candle anything where
you record questions. Neil chooses the questions and I answer them,
and it's usually to embarrass me, and most of the
time it works. And let's do it. Let's start with
the questions. Cono number one, Hey.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
There, handle Bill Blake here and feeling. I remember at
one time you were talking about writing an autobiography, not
to be confused with your fascination with auto eroticism, and
I wonder if you ever did that, And if you
haven't and you're still planning to, I've got a great
title for you, Handle on the Scrawl, A marginal legal
life with absolutely no grace.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
So what do you think? Bill?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And by the way, contact me and I'll tell you
where to send the check.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Wow. Yeah, we Wow. We were talking earlier because Cono
thought that I aied that I did not. It does
sound like a I sucking, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
And it sounds like, sounds good, it sounds like a
professional broadcaster. And the answer is no, I'm not going
to write a book. And if the I've talked about it,
I've been asked to. No, I'm not willing to do it,
mainly because of my reproductive loss stuff in one of
the early pioneers of that. That's why people are interested,
and and how I got into radio? And actually that's
(15:19):
the story. Uh, and it's if I were to do
a book, it's how to get into radio by being
a dick?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And I thought it was going to be, uh selling
babies for dummies. Yeah you could. That's also very strong. Okay,
that one was weird. All right, Cono, I want to
jump the gun on ask a bill anything. Would you
ever consider writing a book? Yeah? Second blouse, Neil, Neil, listen,
(15:49):
I don't. I don't. Let I work with what I have.
But so, okay, what are the odds to people book?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And the same answer if I did it was how
to get in radio by being a dick?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And there's a lot to that, by the way. Oh yeah,
there's a whole story why that title would work. All right, Cono,
one more until we had a break or maybe two more.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
So this is for Bill Handle, And I was wanting
to know. You mentioned you had a pe teacher named
Dwayne Putnam. He would give you swats, and I was
wanting to know when he would say handle, assume the position.
What was that, Gregor angele the chair in front of you,
and what did he use to swatch you.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
With his hand?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Okay, yardstick? All right, this is a good question.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
What infractions? How many swats did you get? And you
still have nightmares of Dwayne Putnam? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Okay, that's a great question.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
First of all, mister Putnam was an All Pro tackle
with the LA Rams and he went to become a
pe teacher and he would.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Do the slotting.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
He was like six foot four weigh two hundred and
eighty pounds solid, and it would be assume the position.
Now you have a good actually it's a good description
of it. I'll tell you. It was not on my
knees looking at him.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Uh. He never wanted to be religious, all right, So
that's off the question. That's what Okay. What it was
was been down and grab your ankles and the swat came.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It was with a paddle.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It actually looked almost like a cricket bat, and I
thought I thought I'd be flying into the wall opposite
where I was getting swatted, and it turned out he
really held back.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
But it hurt. It hurt.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Those were the days when you acted out, you got swatted.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And that was mister Putnam.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That still existed when I was in junior high. Although
I never got swatted. You you could, Yeah, no I did.
I got old.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I got swatted twenty Yeah, no surprise, yep, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Hey Bill, Why do you broadcast from home? Do I
broadcast from home? Simple question?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It is a simple question because I live an hour
and a half away from the station.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That's for starters.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
During COVID, a lot of us broadcast from home simply
because we had to. And I set up when I
bought my house, and I set up a full broadcast
studio that's every bit as good as the studio at KFI,
And it sounds like I'm in the studio because the
technology is there. And the main reason is I have
(18:32):
a thirty foot commute, all right, that ain't bad, and
I walk downstairs in my sleepy shorts except during the
summer where I don't really use them, and I have
an air conditioning, a little fan in front, and I
swing a little bit because of you know, the sweaty
part of the bill.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
All right, cono, Hey, Bill, I just wonder why, or
rather what happened.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Okay, I think I think that's a legitimate question.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
That is a legitimate question.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
We start with a chromosomal chromosomal chromosomal abnormality going way back. Also,
there's some gene issues, not the kind you buy a costco,
but some gene issues parents and as Neil has said,
dropped me on my head several times, no hugging at all,
(19:30):
and just for some reason, there is a genetic mutation
that makes me an all around dick.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And here I am. Does that answer the question?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, tip of the iceberg, Yes very much.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I said, that's a pretty good question.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
You know, Neil asked that question all the time, all
the time, all the time.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Hey, good morning, Billy. So you've said in the past,
during high school, in early college and what have you,
you weren't quite the catch. You weren't Paul Newman or
Brad Pitt or whatever. But did you ask girls out?
And did you ever have somebody stand you up or
during a meal get up to go to the powder
(20:15):
room and not come back.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay, that's a very good question. Starting with did I
go out very much? The answer is no, did I do?
People turn me down? Every single time I asked, did anybody,
any woman or girl, ever get up and leave the
dinner table and a restaurant and go to the powder
(20:37):
room and ever come back? No, because no one ever
sat down with me. They all said no. And, needless
to say, throughout my early years, and based on all
of that, I didn't get laid very much. And anyways
start a bad looking guy. No, and I start. But
then the penis size has a lot to do with
it too.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I think it's my personality.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Okay, but I have to say that when I started
earning a good living, which I did early on, from
the day I became a lawyer, I was a good living.
I actually had on a Saturday night, gone out to
Santa Monica Boulevard, offered two hundred dollars and had the
(21:16):
hooker say, you know what, and it's been a pretty
good Saturday for me.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'd rather not. I'm thinking of quittinger. Yeah right, No,
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
By the way, I didn't. I didn't do very well
I didn't. I was a fat kid.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I was.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Uh yeah, yeah, hey baby, I'm an astronaut.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
What do you think? Huh that worked, didn't it? Or
how about this one? Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Or how about this one and this one? How about
this one? When I was I had broken up with
a girlfriend. Uh, I'd lived with her through law school
and we've been together for like nine years. And I
broke up with her and I was thirty five years old,
and so I moved back to my parents' house for
(22:05):
about a year, trying to figure out where my life
was going to be. And I used to I was
introduced to people, and I'd be introduced to a girl.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
A woman. I go, Hi, you know, my name is Bill.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'm an attorney, and I'm reasonably successful. And by the way,
I lived with my mom and dad. That was not
a good year. I must tell you. Oh that's true,
by the way. Okay, moving on, Hey, Bill, I was
wondering if you ever dress up for Halloween? And if so,
what kind of costumes have you worn? Have a great day? Yeah, no,
(22:39):
that's a very good question. What costumes have I worn?
And I have dressed up for Halloween? It's been a long,
long time since I did that. I mean basically as
a kid. And I'm trying to remember, remember it used
to be a hobo.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Do you remember that. I have pictures of me dresses
a hope.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, I hope yeah, when we were kids. And then
it got and then it got a little bit more creative.
I dressed dressed up as a tumor one year, which
was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I dressed up as a sperm one year. That only
takes a sheet. Uh. And instead of the holes, you
do a whole thing. You still had horrible modality. Yes,
that's very good. Instead of going instead of what, instead
of walking to the door, I'd be spinning around.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
That's right, walking all over the driveway. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Okay, that that is a sperm joke, by the way.
Uh okay, moving on, we have one last one to go.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yes, I want to know. This is for Bill Handle.
I want to know did his wife find anybody new
after their divorce?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
She found someone new? Uh the day after I got
married to her. Okay, No, no, I think I don't
think about Marjorie. Yeah, she is talking about Marjorie. I
don't think so.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I don't think she's a ca and no.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
No, but and I I know she's she's a real
catch seeing each other Bill, Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I understand that. And Tracy is just up for it. No,
and she is. I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
She spends a lot of time with the kids, and
she doesn't put herself out socially, and when she does, yeah,
she'll be fine. She she is a real catch, I mean,
a wonderful, wonderful lady. And I talk to her almost
every day. I mean we're still very close. And she's
worth as much as you are.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Oh yeah, you betcha. She is all right, guys, we
are dude.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
You've been listening to The Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Catch My Show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is Halloween. Everybody October thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
First Handle and the morning crew except for Amy, who
is not here, but Head the Brooker is and she's
only one dressed in a costume.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
So thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
And it normally would make us feel bad, but no,
couldn't care less. Now it's time for Foody Friday with
Neil Savedra and as we're talking about the Fork Report
on Saturday, where I am going to talk about the
Fork Report tomorrow two to five.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
The week from tomorrow, the following.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Saturday, the Fork Report is going to be at the
Wild Fork Restaurant or Wild Fork Store, excuse me, in
Laguna Miguel.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's thanks Grilling.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I am joining him and there will be there will
be food a plenty for everybody. It will be great
fun chefs and all kinds of meat and we're going
to learn a lot and eat and Zelman's will be
there also with samples, free samples. So calendar that that
is a week from tomorrow in Laguna Miguel, the Wild
(01:14):
Fork Store. All right, it is time, It is time
I'll do the costco a little bit later on. Let's
talk about less food in restaurants, but there's a spin
to that, so talk about it.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So you know how it used to be thought that
you the fancier you get, the smaller the dishes. When
you go to a restaurants, I guess this tiny little
fruit fruit dish super chefy, but it's like I'm paying
for that.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That used to be a joke.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And then slowly portioned sizes got bigger again, and especially
here in California, we tend to get really hearty sized dishes. However,
more and more with the rise of GLP one medications,
and of course those are the ones that are originally
for diabetes, but people are using them as to weight
(02:10):
control that they really it changes the way you eat
and the desire to eat more, so you kind of
back off and want to eat less.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Restaurants and some trend some people that look at trends
and look into how this is going to affect feud
food in the future, they're seeing that it's sort of
rewriting the rules of dining out right now in America,
And you're the smaller plates are starting to come back again.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I would never leave leftovers ever, I would clean my plate.
I now leave food on my plate, and the food wastage.
Part of that has to be psychological. If there has
to be an issue with people who work in restaurants
knowing that there is food insecurity and people we are
having a hard time eating, particularly in these days, the
amount of waste that goes on, I mean I have
(03:05):
a tremendous amount of waste. It has to hit you psychologically.
What was the restaurant across the street from us? I
forgot the name where the portions were enormous, right just.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Across the street.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
What was it not across the street over there on
the other side of it was on the other side
of Hollywood Way.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
No, it was right across the street from me. In
a big, tall tower.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
There was a restaurant at the bottom that gave you
portions that were beyond comprehension.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Was it like a cheesecake factory kind.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Of No, it wasn't cheesecake, which is also enormous portions.
I forgot the name of the restaurant, but I could.
You couldn't believe it. You order meat loaf and you
got five huge slices for lunch and just it's such.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
A rotation of restaurants, so it's hard for me to
remember what's been.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Okay, So that's challenging and for the better, and sometimes
it pushes for creativity as well, and to maximize each
bite rather than just you know, gorge out on food.
So it's, uh, it's they're slimming things down, and this
is moving towards the fast food restaurants as well, which
is not a bad thing. Uh, And so don't be
(04:14):
surprised to start seeing that it's not just shrink flation.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Hey, one of my favorite restaurants, and a bunch of
these have closed.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It's a chain out back steakhouses. And I've always enjoyed
out baked statehouses because first of all, the steaks are
they come from beef cattle that have been turned down
by every single slaughterhouse in the United States.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
The actually nice job they actually do.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
They that the bloom onion, the bloomin and it's it
was always crowded because I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Why why are they shutting down?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, obviously because of you know, lack of money, lack
of revenue coming in.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, there's not a clear definition on this one. This
one is kind of strange because, uh, it abruptly closed
restaurants across several states, not here, but Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland,
New York, Wisconsin. It's interesting that they closed kind of overnight,
(05:16):
completely surprising staff, completely surprising patrons, and still there's no
set reasoning or understanding as to why they did so.
Of course you've got some coming from the brand. Bloomin
Brands is actually the brand there, Elizabeth Daily. They told
(05:37):
Usday Today in a statement that these are business decisions,
that they're part of an ongoing turnaround plan, and that
they considered a variety of factors including sales, traffic, trade areas,
potential investment, improved performance, these such things. But it was
that they were so abrupt that, like some people that
(05:58):
were working, their servers said, they were, you know, saying
buy to customers one night and can't wait to see
you next you know, regular see you next time, and then.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Then they just shut down, right, Yeah, thing up.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
One of the things that I always found interesting in
the world of business is a business can have various branches.
Typically a restaurant and it's making money, but not enough
money that it's Uh, even though it's profitable, we want
a certain level of profitability because it just isn't worth
(06:29):
it for us. And we're finding out've always wondered. But
it's making money, and they go, yeah, okay, but not enough.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, maybe there's just a set and it's got you
have to make this much money for it to be
worthy of us to invest in that property or whatever
it is. It just is a pretty rare that they
go overnight, Yeah overnight like that.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Uh, And Costco does the same thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You can have a product and breadth the shore if
you remember Breath the Shore.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And they were in Costco and and they were.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Doing fine, no problem at all, but they weren't doing
the numbers that Costco wanted.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
There is a threshold and.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Even even you need a certain amount of packages to
no certain yeah, a certain amount of units that were sold.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Even though they were doing well, it wasn't moving as
quickly as they demanded, which is why Costco takes brands
and gets rid of them and they disappear.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You go there, I do that too. There were a
couple of sauces.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
That I love Tomato sauces that disappeared, and I went
to the manager and go what happened? He goes, we
weren't selling enough of them, but you were selling them
like crazy yep, but not crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Enough, not sober stupid crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, and that's what they want. This one is fun.
This is Costco and it's called the U I guess
you call it the zombie Apocalypse. Three thousand dollars. Now
that's a lot of burritos, a lot of frozen burritos.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
So Costco launched this three thousand dollars emergency food supply
and it's, you know, all of these food supplies basically
say hey, we're built to last twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
But now you have They call it the ready Wise Kit.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I call it the you know, zombie apocalypse Kit, because
this is a massive amount of food you've got. This
particular ready Wise Kit includes thirty eight buckets with more
than five thousand freeze dried servings designed to last twenty
five years. The funny thing is, the minute this comes out,
(08:34):
you've got experts and nutritionists and dietitians coming out saying.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's only for survival.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Is if people are going to buy this and use
it as their daily intake. But this is about being
prepared for any sort of national emergency or local emergency.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But this kiit's crazy though. I mean it's if you
need this amount of food as a survivalist and apocalypse
is here, then you don't want to live where you are.
Then the world has truly fallen apart. Armageddon has arrived.
Now I can see five days supply, which a lot
of companies have three days supply of food. Major earthquake hits,
(09:17):
a major in some cases hurricanes hitting, you're out for
a week until at least food starts being food supply
starts being generated. But you know, come on, what forty
eight buckets? So how long you mentioned it? There's twenty five.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Year shelf life. But that's what the shoots. Yeah they do.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, your hell knows who's going to be around twenty
fives from hell.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But there are some things you have to look at.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Is they're oil inside, because things can go rancid regardless
the type of packaging. Is it thick, is it thick packaging?
Is it foil packaging? Is their liner inside? Is there
different things like that are going to set it apart.
I've said this before. I think the brand that I
purchased is the guy who owns it is nutty as hell,
(10:09):
but it's called I think it's eating Family Farms or
eating Valley Farm, maybe eating Valley Farms. And that's what
I purchased for my family because it's actually excellent food.
It's food that I would eat normally and that is
packaged in a way that lasts for twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, I don't know, I'd have to check it out,
but three grand is a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, especially at Costco.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's MRIs, which were developed for the Armed services and
these are packages and they actually have a chemical in
there that you sort of squeeze it and it will
actually heat it up.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And is it's a big meal.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's like thirty five hundred calories designed for soldiers that
are in combat that you.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Really suck up the uh, they're going to be hump
food lots. Yeah. By the way, you know what you
know what mr stands for? Meals ready to eat?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, meals ready for eat or I've heard meals rejected
by Ethiopians.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That is by the way. I'm not making that up either.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That is one of the terms that are used to
describe that, and then I'm not even go to I'm
not even gonna get into the other ones.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
They usually have a favorite, but yes, not all of
them are are so great, but it is important to have.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
And you got to keep in mind that you need
the water to prepare.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
These things too, if there's a possibility and drinking water.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So in addition to this survivalist a lot of Mormons
are buying this stuff and a lot of survivalists by
this stuff. I mean, you go go to the Walmart,
probably the best Walmart in the country is between Saint
George and a little town called Hurricane. I beg, oh, yeah,
where all the fundamentalists Mormons go. Oh man, that's you know,
(11:55):
the guys with the fifteen wives.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I've been to the funnel of the fundamental fundamental List Mormon.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Enclave there.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah, the whole thing, and went there and you
could get they had vhs tapes or DVDs on how
to braid your hair because yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, I mean they're obviously nuts.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That store has more survivalist gear and food supplies that
I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Utah.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
As a matter of fact, funny enough, the place that
I mentioned that we buy ours from is Mormon run
and owned, and yeah, there are a lot of survivalists
and the the world be ready stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I have sash too in my garage. For any major
like thing that happens, I have the MRIs, the water,
all of it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Wow, there was a quick story. As you know, Savile,
my partner in the cook wear business. We were having
a meeting with one of the distributors and the guy
is completely nuts survivalists, and we were talking about gold,
you know, to hang onto gold because money's going to
be worthless and money in the bank is going to
fall apart.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And I said, do you have gold?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And he goes, no, absolutely not, And I'm thinking, okay,
the guy is okay.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
At least he has a head on a head on
his shoulders.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
And we talked about how gold people aren't going to
buy things with gold when the apocalypse apocalypse comes, because
gold is now We're only talking about practical uses of gold,
you know, for what satellites and cell phones or whatever
else they put in gold. And so I said, good
for you. So what what do you think you should have?
(13:39):
And he looked at me and his eyes glistened and
he said, ammunition.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You know, it's crazy, as we're going to need.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Lead and full metal jackets are going to be worthy
because gold can only get you so much.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
But you know, threatening gold watch.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Assuming that the apocalypse doesn't count, doesn't come.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Gold's gonna be okay.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
All right, we're done, and it's ask Candle anything where
you record questions. Neil chooses the questions and I answer them,
and it's usually to embarrass me, and most of the
time it works. And let's do it. Let's start with
the questions. Cono number one, Hey.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
There, handle Bill Blake here and feeling. I remember at
one time you were talking about writing an autobiography, not
to be confused with your fascination with auto eroticism, and
I wonder if you ever did that, And if you
haven't and you're still planning to, I've got a great
title for you, Handle on the Scrawl, A marginal legal
life with absolutely no grace.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
So what do you think? Bill?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And by the way, contact me and I'll tell you
where to send the check.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Wow. Yeah, we Wow. We were talking earlier because Cono
thought that I aied that I did not. It does
sound like a I sucking, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
And it sounds like, sounds good, it sounds like a
professional broadcaster. And the answer is no, I'm not going
to write a book. And if the I've talked about it,
I've been asked to. No, I'm not willing to do it,
mainly because of my reproductive loss stuff in one of
the early pioneers of that. That's why people are interested,
and and how I got into radio? And actually that's
(15:19):
the story. Uh, and it's if I were to do
a book, it's how to get into radio by being
a dick?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And I thought it was going to be, uh selling
babies for dummies. Yeah you could. That's also very strong. Okay,
that one was weird. All right, Cono, I want to
jump the gun on ask a bill anything. Would you
ever consider writing a book? Yeah? Second blouse, Neil, Neil, listen,
(15:49):
I don't. I don't. Let I work with what I have.
But so, okay, what are the odds to people book?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And the same answer if I did it was how
to get in radio by being a dick?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And there's a lot to that, by the way. Oh yeah,
there's a whole story why that title would work. All right, Cono,
one more until we had a break or maybe two more.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
So this is for Bill Handle, And I was wanting
to know. You mentioned you had a pe teacher named
Dwayne Putnam. He would give you swats, and I was
wanting to know when he would say handle, assume the position.
What was that, Gregor angele the chair in front of you,
and what did he use to swatch you.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
With his hand?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Okay, yardstick? All right, this is a good question.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
What infractions? How many swats did you get? And you
still have nightmares of Dwayne Putnam? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Okay, that's a great question.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
First of all, mister Putnam was an All Pro tackle
with the LA Rams and he went to become a
pe teacher and he would.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Do the slotting.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
He was like six foot four weigh two hundred and
eighty pounds solid, and it would be assume the position.
Now you have a good actually it's a good description
of it. I'll tell you. It was not on my
knees looking at him.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Uh. He never wanted to be religious, all right, So
that's off the question. That's what Okay. What it was
was been down and grab your ankles and the swat came.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It was with a paddle.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It actually looked almost like a cricket bat, and I
thought I thought I'd be flying into the wall opposite
where I was getting swatted, and it turned out he
really held back.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
But it hurt. It hurt.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Those were the days when you acted out, you got swatted.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And that was mister Putnam.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That still existed when I was in junior high. Although
I never got swatted. You you could, Yeah, no I did.
I got old.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I got swatted twenty Yeah, no surprise, yep, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Hey Bill, Why do you broadcast from home? Do I
broadcast from home? Simple question?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It is a simple question because I live an hour
and a half away from the station.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That's for starters.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
During COVID, a lot of us broadcast from home simply
because we had to. And I set up when I
bought my house, and I set up a full broadcast
studio that's every bit as good as the studio at KFI,
And it sounds like I'm in the studio because the
technology is there. And the main reason is I have
(18:32):
a thirty foot commute, all right, that ain't bad, and
I walk downstairs in my sleepy shorts except during the
summer where I don't really use them, and I have
an air conditioning, a little fan in front, and I
swing a little bit because of you know, the sweaty
part of the bill.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
All right, cono, Hey, Bill, I just wonder why, or
rather what happened.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Okay, I think I think that's a legitimate question.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
That is a legitimate question.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
We start with a chromosomal chromosomal chromosomal abnormality going way back. Also,
there's some gene issues, not the kind you buy a costco,
but some gene issues parents and as Neil has said,
dropped me on my head several times, no hugging at all,
(19:30):
and just for some reason, there is a genetic mutation
that makes me an all around dick.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And here I am. Does that answer the question?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, tip of the iceberg, Yes very much.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I said, that's a pretty good question.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
You know, Neil asked that question all the time, all
the time, all the time.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Hey, good morning, Billy. So you've said in the past,
during high school, in early college and what have you,
you weren't quite the catch. You weren't Paul Newman or
Brad Pitt or whatever. But did you ask girls out?
And did you ever have somebody stand you up or
during a meal get up to go to the powder
(20:15):
room and not come back.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay, that's a very good question. Starting with did I
go out very much? The answer is no, did I do?
People turn me down? Every single time I asked, did anybody,
any woman or girl, ever get up and leave the
dinner table and a restaurant and go to the powder
(20:37):
room and ever come back? No, because no one ever
sat down with me. They all said no. And, needless
to say, throughout my early years, and based on all
of that, I didn't get laid very much. And anyways
start a bad looking guy. No, and I start. But
then the penis size has a lot to do with
it too.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I think it's my personality.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Okay, but I have to say that when I started
earning a good living, which I did early on, from
the day I became a lawyer, I was a good living.
I actually had on a Saturday night, gone out to
Santa Monica Boulevard, offered two hundred dollars and had the
(21:16):
hooker say, you know what, and it's been a pretty
good Saturday for me.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'd rather not. I'm thinking of quittinger. Yeah right, No,
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
By the way, I didn't. I didn't do very well
I didn't. I was a fat kid.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I was.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Uh yeah, yeah, hey baby, I'm an astronaut.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
What do you think? Huh that worked, didn't it? Or
how about this one? Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Or how about this one and this one? How about
this one? When I was I had broken up with
a girlfriend. Uh, I'd lived with her through law school
and we've been together for like nine years. And I
broke up with her and I was thirty five years old,
and so I moved back to my parents' house for
(22:05):
about a year, trying to figure out where my life
was going to be. And I used to I was
introduced to people, and I'd be introduced to a girl.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
A woman. I go, Hi, you know, my name is Bill.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'm an attorney, and I'm reasonably successful. And by the way,
I lived with my mom and dad. That was not
a good year. I must tell you. Oh that's true,
by the way. Okay, moving on, Hey, Bill, I was
wondering if you ever dress up for Halloween? And if so,
what kind of costumes have you worn? Have a great day? Yeah, no,
(22:39):
that's a very good question. What costumes have I worn?
And I have dressed up for Halloween? It's been a long,
long time since I did that. I mean basically as
a kid. And I'm trying to remember, remember it used
to be a hobo.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Do you remember that. I have pictures of me dresses
a hope.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, I hope yeah, when we were kids. And then
it got and then it got a little bit more creative.
I dressed dressed up as a tumor one year, which
was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I dressed up as a sperm one year. That only
takes a sheet. Uh. And instead of the holes, you
do a whole thing. You still had horrible modality. Yes,
that's very good. Instead of going instead of what, instead
of walking to the door, I'd be spinning around.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
That's right, walking all over the driveway. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Okay, that that is a sperm joke, by the way.
Uh okay, moving on, we have one last one to go.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yes, I want to know. This is for Bill Handle.
I want to know did his wife find anybody new
after their divorce?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
She found someone new? Uh the day after I got
married to her. Okay, No, no, I think I don't
think about Marjorie. Yeah, she is talking about Marjorie. I
don't think so.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I don't think she's a ca and no.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
No, but and I I know she's she's a real
catch seeing each other Bill, Yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I understand that. And Tracy is just up for it. No,
and she is. I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
She spends a lot of time with the kids, and
she doesn't put herself out socially, and when she does, yeah,
she'll be fine. She she is a real catch, I mean,
a wonderful, wonderful lady. And I talk to her almost
every day. I mean we're still very close. And she's
worth as much as you are.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Oh yeah, you betcha. She is all right, guys, we
are dude.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
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