June 26, 2024 • 27 mins
Neil Saavedra & Amy King join Bill for Handel on the News. Southern California raid nets 60 tons of illegal fireworks. Julian Assange ends stalemate with US, exchanging guilty plea for his freedom. Homeless man on sex offender registry arrested in Santa Monica beach attacks. Lauren Boebert wins crowded House GOP primary in new Colorado district. Evan Gershkovich appears in glass cage as espionage trial begins in Russia. Top aide to DA Gascon tells police, ‘you’ve pulled over the wrong person.’ Deputies arrest entire California Hells Angels chapter.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. My mother
for a while. It was theybought new furniture, and we're talking about
how the arms and the legs wereso expensive. What do you mean the
arm? How about the rest ofit? When the arms of the legs
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are so expensive? Oh you meana cost you an arm and a leg?
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Bill Handle, and this is KFIAM six forty. Good morning everybody.
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It is a on Wednesday with oneand all in the morning. Neo,
good morning, Good morning, WillieWolf and and Goo morning morning Bill,
Okay, Amy, good morning,Hello, Hello, and we're glad you're
back. And then next week youare off vacationing going to family in Oregon.
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Didn't did not know you came fromOregon until you told me you're going
to see family in Oregon. Boy, I figure that one out. Thank
you, you're quick. Yeah,damn right. And Cono good morning morning
Bill, Yeah, yep. Andwas the news. I'm watching NBC right
now and the story is is Parisready for the Olympics. We're getting there.
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You don't have a question about theOlympics because they change and add events
every Olympics. You know that thatthey time change, interest change, and
I think there was a push.Remember Calvera's county, Calaveras County. Yes,
the big frog jumping right now?Do you think that they're gonna the
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French are gonna have a frog jumpingcontest and the losers get cooked up and
they serve them at a delicacy offrog legs. Huh yeah, it's more
about the frog. What are theygonna Yeah, the French will jump because
they it's a derogatory term for French. Oh yeah, very much is Oh
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yes, enough to where there maybe emails and U if we had an
HR department, department, I wouldbe hauled in for frog. Huh uh
huh, yeah, I did notknow. Look it up. Okay,
look it up. Derogatory term Frenchpeople. Yep, national flag of France.
It's white. Okay, we cando a lot with that. I
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could hear Cono laughing down the hall. He's the only one that laughs.
Cono is the only one that laughsat this stuff. It's good. The
white flag goes good. Yeah,okay, he's mak you. Yeah,
I've been with you for thirty years, that's true. And then some of
the races, half of them you'rerunning forwards, and then the other half
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of the races. Hey, it'sa fune go ahead. They had a
ship in the odorant for all thepeople coming from other countries. Yeah all
that, Yeah, okay, fairenough. It is a Wednesday, Doctor
JIMKINI is coming aboard at eight thirties. He always does. But we have
a lot of stuff to cover.Let's do it. It's time for Handle
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on the news with Amy and Neiland me lead story. Wow fireworks illegal
fireworks every year it's out there whereLa County it's not legal. Ventura County
is legal. You know. WhenI was a kid, we would drive
right over county lines and pick upfireworks, you know, the sparklers and
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all that stuff. Well, therewas a bust in gardena seventy five tons
wow of fireworks. And I'm talkingabout some big fireworks, professional fireworks.
I don't think there were a lotof sparklers in there. No, I'm
talking about the kind that shoot upin the sky and they explode and do
the colors and stuff, and thosepeople have to be licensed to do that.
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That's as tough as getting a prescriptionfor an opioid today. Yeah,
you can always tell what your neighborhoodis like if you hear a lot of
fireworks. I hear a lot offireworks my neighborhood, and it doesn't matter
what. And there's always a storyabout some kid getting his hand blown off
every year, and then there's astory there that the kid can't hitchhike anymore,
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and it's horrible. He passed assomeone else, pick his nose.
Sad story. Amy, Oh you'redone. Okay, she's all. I'm
out, she quit. I amcompletely done. Yeah. Julian Massage is
a free man. The Wiki leaksfounder has walked free for the first time
in twelve years. A US judgeon the Northern Mariana Islands, because he
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didn't want to have anything done onactual you know, on the on the
mainland, took his plea of releasingsecret US documents and then sentenced him to
served time and released him. Andnow he's back in Australia. You know,
I kind of surprise. I thinkit was a big express for a
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lot of people. Yeah, itwas a plea bargain and it's one count.
I mean there was there was somebig charges against him, one hundred
and seventy five years worth. Yeah, and look at the difference between the
time was Daniel Ellsberg and when hereleased the Pentagon papers, and now you
have a songe different time, differentplace. You know, it's just a
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whole mentality of for his Elsberg isa hero, a hero for releasing those
Pentagon papers, which, by theway, is the same thing releasing classified
documents about US involvement militarily. Allright, Gosh, if we only had
more money to throw out the problem. A homeless man went on a violent
rampage in Santa Monica State Beach.He attacked three women, and one of
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them he even tried to drown inthe Pacific Ocean. The attack occurred on
Monday morning, just north of SanMonica Pier and south of the California incline
that we all know and love.Of course, this guy just needs housing.
We could just get him home,yeah, maybe with a spot in
it. Oh and he's a sexoffender too. Oh well, now there
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you are, so let's give it. I hope he goes to that new
high rise with all the amenities atsix dollars, formally known as skid row
because we can't call it that anymore. No, they call it barely hills.
Yeah, so that's they're remarketing.Yeah. More election results have rolled
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in. Who knew yesterday was anelection day in several states. Republican Representative
Lauren Bobert has come out victorious overfive GOP opponents in the primary election for
her new Colorado district. In hervictory party in northern Colorado, she wore
a mega hat and Donald Trump brandedsneakers. Oh, she's the one who
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bought them and called for unified GOPand building bridges with other Republicans. That
means that's MAGA talk for if you'renot joining the Donald Trump bandwagon, you
are a trader. Oh is thatwhat that is? Oh? You bet,
you bet. She to celebrate,went straight to the theater and started
making out with somebody in the seats. That's so yeah, lovely all right.
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President Biden's proclamation, if you remember, issued where he said he was
going to temporarily suspend the entry ofcertain non citizens across the southern border.
It's been in effect for about threeweeks now, and of course it's still
early, but the border patrols sevenday encounter average that's what they call when
they meet up with someone not supposedto be here, has decreased by more
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than and the number is low enoughto where everybody who is claiming asylum is
going to get an asylum hearing.Yeah, so it's kind of a If
it works, it's a problem,right. If it doesn't work, it's
Yeah, it was over twenty fivehundred people that weren't allowed to weren't just
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just weren't allowed to claim asylum.They were hit under the twenty four Night
under right, and we're talking aboutpeople who have crossed the border illegally,
between border crossings legal ones, youknow, like Tija Wan and all that.
It's completely and incidantly it's interesting thathe has done by executive order this
and this can be undone by anypresident because he had this is such pandering,
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because he had first fought everything interms of curtailing the border, and
the Republicans were going crazy and rightlyso, and he said, okay,
okay, you got it. Okay, we'll we'll do a pipartisan deal where
we're stick the border. And DonaldTrump said, no, you don't do
that. And the Republicans immediately turnedaround, and you're gonna hear tomorrow night,
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border border border border didn't do anything? Yes, Oh no, did
plenty. Joe Biden is h he'sgoing to try to take the credit for
this, and it's pandering. It'sone pandering that he's doing it. At
this point. I hope they fight. I hope they physically fight tomorrow.
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Oh, Biden, Biden is done. You know, he's a big guy,
No Trump. Trump's like six foursix' three. I was with
you when I met him, alongsideyou. He's a big guy, like
two hundred and seventy pounds. Okay, I take his tiny little hand.
Yeah, and he grabbed you right, and he grabbed you by the he
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said, okay, let's just let'sjust move on. Not looking good for
Gerskovic. Evan Gerskovic, who wasthe first American journalist to be arrested on
espionage charges in Russia since the ColdWar, is on trial. He made
an appearance in a Russian courtroom today. He was in that glass cage.
It shows him with his head shaved. It's a closed door thing, so
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you can't have a lot of peoplein there. He was arrested reporting for
the Wall Street Journal in twenty twentytwo, and then they later accused him
of spying for the CIA. Yeah, he's in trouble. Ninety nine percent
of people get tried in Russia getconvicted. His only chance, I mean,
he will get convicted and do somewill get a serious jail sentence because
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he's accused of espionage, which ofcourse he's quote already guilty. I mean
that's established. His only chance ofgetting out is to do an exchange prisoner
exchange. Why would you even goto Russia? Good, very good point
for anything, very good point.And it was a reporting trip. He
had just been hired by the WallStreet Journal, and he went to the
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city of Ika Terenburg. By theway, you know what that you know,
ikon Terrenberg is where the Romanovs sawAlexander, I mean sar Nicholas and
Alexander were killed. That's where theywere assassinated. Did you know that?
I do now, sir okay,I just thought i'd throw that out at
you. I think it's Kershkovitch.By the way, I thought it was
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Gerskovich too, but then ABC's guycalled him Griskovich. Earlier today, so
I'm not one hundred percent sure onthe pronunciation of that. It's not like
it's not like they can't make amistake either. It's not true. It's
not just us. Yeah, Okay, Somewhere over there they're going, well,
I heard Amy King from KFI pronounceit this one. Yeah, I
know. Yeah. Have you noticedthat we bring ABC reporters here. I
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don't know the last time, asyou said, a KFI reporter is on
national news over there. I don'tknow how that works. Actually, I
think I think we're I think it'ssome kind of deal we've cut, that
we can put some kind of affiliatedeal that we cut that we can use
ABC reporters. Fascinating. Yeah,shall I proceed? Yeah. Authorities with
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the Azuza Police Department are saying thatnew video of the controversial twenty twenty one
arrest. If you remember, thiswas of the top aid to Los Angeles
County District Attorney George Gascon that theysay this video is vindication for their police
offerers and the police officers' actions.This was stupid, So this comes out.
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They didn't the cops did not havebody cameras on, but apparently this
wing nut and I say that becauseit's my opinion. He was the LADA
chief of staff, Joseph dingas Amyking anything on that ani Anigas He was
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accused of public intoxication. He wastaken into custody back in December of twenty
twenty one. He was with hisfiance who was driving and was also detained
on suspen suspicion of driving well intoxicated. Well, the city just settled for
ten grand. Yeah, but that'sthat doesn't mean they didn't. No,
No, they said, hey,it's just cheaper than going to trial.
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But apparently he was saying things like, hey, this conversation is over,
don't answer her any questions to hisfiancee, and he's like, trust me.
He said, you pulled over thewrong person. Things like check check
our license and who the registration isand not to see it's it's you pull
over the wrong person. It's you'vepulled over the wrong person. You've made
a mistake. This one is you'vepulled over the wrong person. Look who
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you're screwing with. Yeah, andyou can't do that. And the cops
were totally professional, yep, andso what I and this guy sounds like
a deep bag just like his boss. But what I the way I like
to spin this is everybody go toAzusa. It's a lovely foothill town.
Go to Azusa and spend lots ofmoney, eat there, do things so
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that they make that ten grand back. I uh, well, it said
you try to use that line.You you stopped the wrong person when I
was with a copy and then thecops said that, now you're the one
that blew through the stop sign.Okay, you know what what do you
say to that car? Do youknow who I am? No? No,
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I've been stopped by a cop who'sa KFI fan. And uh,
you know, because I've been procop my entire broadcast career. I mean,
I'm so pro cop that I've beenlet go. It's it's just for
that very reason, right, yeah, yeah, it's one of your most
redeeming. KFI is known as avery pro cop station. You know,
where there's individuals I don't know youcan say KFI. I don't think it.
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I don't think anybody has been anticop. There are plenty of who's
anti cop. I never understand,I'm sorry, go to some organizations defund
the police. I don't understand thatdismantle the police. Come on, there
are plenty organizations should be able.If you believe that, you should be
able to wear a shirt or something, so cops don't have to do anything,
have anything to do with you.If you're being pummeled on the street,
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they can go sorry, yeah,you've got the defund d on you
getting rid of one tax to putin another. I love this. The
Ala County Board of Supervisors is votedunanimously to let voters decide on a sales
tax hike to fund affordable housing andhomeless services. Yeah, and it's going
to pass. Oh great, wenever met a tax we don't like.
Yeah, so this one's going toget rid of the existing quarter sent sales
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tax that pays for homeless services andreplace it with a basically permanent half cent
sales tax. Yeah. This wasthe quarter cent has had a sunset clause.
It was going to go away intwenty twenty seven. So this one
says no. You know what happenswith these taxes all the time is that
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they sunset out and then we votein it. There was that one tax.
I forget what it was, butit was it was going to sunset
out and the payment and then itwas it had to do something with teachers,
and I when you run anything aboutteachers, I mean they run ads
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like crazy. And it was Iremember the TV commercials in that you were
paying X dollars that were going tosunset out the next year. And the
vote was to make it permanent.And the way it was advertised, you
will not pay one penny more intaxes. That's why you want to do
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this. Well that's true, butthe point is it's permanent now, so
it's uh, we got permanent.You make my head hurt. I know,
just that whole thing. It isjust asinine because they get their fix,
their their mainlining money, that's exactly, and then they don't want to
go back. And it's forgart.I'm looking throughout all the news going on
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in the TV saying that some homelessguy is trying to drown a woman in
Santa Monica. Yeah, well that'san off, that's a one off,
but on off. Well, drowningsomeone in Santa Monica, attacking somebody,
not attacking attacking well because water wasinvolved in Now it's the number of homeless
who actually attack someone. I meanit's there, but it's not It is
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growing but it's not all in thethousands. We're not seeing that. We
are seeing in the thousands the increaseof homeless that we're seeing. By the
way, I'm talking at seven o'clock. Newsome in a state of the state.
What do you spend half the timetalking about the homeless? Matter of
fact, he lives in the governor'smansion. He's asked the legislature to make
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the governor's mansion a tent, ofcourse, and his winery all the grapes
they can ask, Oh, thatwould be a great campground. Man,
Come with me to the French laundry, all right. The entire Bakersfield chapter
of Hell's Angels biker gang has beenarrested on suspicion of crimes including kidnapping,
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robbery, and assault, according tothe Kern County Sheriff's office. And when
they served eight search warrants, theyseize twenty five guns, ammunition, high
capacity magazines which are illegal, ofcourse, and gang paraphernalia. Thank god,
we have those tough gun laws sobad people like this live up.
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Wait, No, well, Ithink it's I don't think it's the hand
capacity magazines that really is the problemhere. I think it's the fact that
they're Hell's Angels and they're being accusedof kidnapping. Yeah, well, that's
what bad people do. We shouldhave laws against bad people. We do
have laws against what. Shoot,we also have laws against bad people that
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throw hand grenades. What. Well, that should solve it. A cadebra.
Genie Plus is magically changing at bothDisneyland and Disney World. They've had
this thing called Genie Plus for thelast couple of years, and you pay
for the service and you basically getto skip a lot of the lines.
So instead of like an hour anda half, you wait like fifteen minutes,
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bit you pay twenty five bucks forthe day. Well, they're changing
that because apparently nobody knows what theheck it is or how it works.
So Genie Plus will be known asLightning Lane Multi Passes. Ah, and
do you think they're going to raiseprices on that? Just just sort of
asking. They haven't said if they'regoing to raise the prices on that,
but I think it's a good clarificationfor them. Under city is confusing.
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It takes a little hard all right. Let me ask that question again to
the two Disneyland freaks here in theaudience. Do you let me reask that.
Do you think they're going to raiseprices on that again? Maybe?
No, I'm okay with that,of course you are. I'll take it.
Yeahs, I'll give a quarter percenttax hike on it. Neil and
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Amy's entire disposable income goes to Disneylandtickets. No, it also goes to
Star Wars stuff, Mickey Mouse stuff, a couple of Walt Disney photos.
All right, Michael Phelps, legendaryolympian, we all know who he is.
He is ripping the World Anti DopingAgency and described it as inconsistent and
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that these rules, these anti dopingrules, are causing more frustration and especially
with the clean athletes because they wanta fair competition and they're not getting it
now. Chinese, of course,because the US is serious about anti doping,
as is the Chinese, except theother way. So what is this
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particular try meta Remember when it usedto be the Russians. Yeah, except
the Russians are out of the Olympicsthis time around, So now it's Chinese
tri metazidine. It's a drug thatgives you a very long lasting erection.
It really just a guess I wasI was impressed that you knew the name.
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And then when you said that,I go, that makes that that
tracks that he'd know what that is. No, they don't. I don't
know what it does. But it'ssome sort of performance enthancing exactly. It
gives you long lasting erections. Okay, this might be too soon. A
firefighter has an attachment issue, butit's it's good news though, because his
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ear has been reattached. Okay,So a firefighter is one of eleven firefighters
who were injured the other day inan explosion at a homeless camp near Encino,
and this one it took off hisear, burned his face, but
they have surgically reattached it. Thefirefighter was upgraded to stable condition. And
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then really, so it's all goodnews. It's going to be okay.
Yeah, a couple of things.We remember when we had said this,
or I had said this is apropane tank that went up it was a
hand grenade. Yeah, I meanthat's kind of because you're a freaking wild
West. You do anything you wantif you're homeless. Yeah, that's a
good point. And and by theway, let's give him more money.
Yeah, and he needs a youcan tell which way we go on this
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show our politics and they have todo a second surgery because the first time
around they put it the ear onbackwards. Okay, wow, well God
bless him to be okay. Yeah, and for defending a fire that probably
had no reason being lit in thefirst place. All right, FDA warns
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this is like reverse world right here. FDA warrens maker Sarah Lee and Intimate's
not to claim foods contain allergens whenthey don't. Yeah, now that's interesting.
So normally you have the you know, don't. Yeah, they're life
say they don't. They don't includethings that people can be allergic to,
like peanuts, Yeah, leave thatout. But they're saying these have allergens
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in them when they don't. Andnow they're not. They're not accusing them
specifically of any wrongdoing, but justsaying miss branded mother misbranding to help people.
So I you know, I'm lookingthrough the story and I'm trying to
find is this just a c yA is this just to cover you know
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this the just like, hey,just say everything has allergens and maybe yeah,
yeah this, uh, these foodsare made in this equipment that makes
everything because that's legit and of courseit's legit, so you're you're absolutely right.
Mess with Sarah Lee and Intimate's.Man, yeah, this is a
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I didn't know this. This isa Mexican food giant that owns Intimates and
Sarah Lee meanbo Yeah, and theyown what else do they own? Oh?
They make They also the or Weethey owned. You know, they're
wonderful Artisano bread that is Oh mygod, bread is so Thomas's English muffins.
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I had one this morning. Oh, very a quick one about Thomas's
English muffins. They're like six bucksa pack in the supermarket. Costco.
You get four of them for ninedollars for eight ninety nine four packs of
Thomas's. Yes, wow, goto Costco. That's the best deal in
the world. What a shocker.Okay, how much did they pay for
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that? They paid nothing because theydon't need to because they've gotten me.
So the war is not yet overbetween credit card companies and retailers because a
judge overseeing a thirty billion dollar preliminarysettlement between MasterCard, Visa and retailers rejected
the deal. So the deal wasthat the retailer would have the fees reduced
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because you know, every time yourun your card. The retailers get charged
a fee to use master Card andVisa, so it was going to lower
that, but the settlement was rejected. Yeah, which is weird. And
by the way, the lowering ofand they had agreed to this to point
zero four percentage, down from liketwo percent or as high as four percent,
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that's cute. No, no,no, no, They were going
to reduce it by point zero fourpercentage for a minimum three years and point
zero four which you think is ridiculouswith companies this side size, that's more
than the GDP of Pakistan, justthat point zero four percent. So I
think this story is about how massivemaster Card and Visa are, and it's
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the retailers. You're right, twopercent up to four percent they charge the
retailers, these companies. It's alot of money. Yeah, like some
a lot of places that you gowon't take an American Express. That's because
it's the best higher. Yeah,charges hire fees, very expensive, all
right. Yesterday, the La CountyBoard of Supervisors called for the creation of
a five million dollar pilot program aimedat helping low income residents eliminate medical debts.
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So this would target essentially the county'slowest income with ye. So that's
a very interesting question because medical debtjust affects so many people it does what's
horrific. Yeah. Number one causeof bankruptcy is medical debt. And there's
all kinds of issues as to creditratings because of medical debt. But this
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is a pilot program where the county. If you live in Los Angeles,
you are now paying for the medicaldebt for poor people. I also say,
poor people who only drive cars thatare fifteen years old, they are
really nailed up. I think thecounty should buy them new cars because they're
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poor people. It's hey, atsome point, being poor is being poor.
Yeah, but it okay, Butwait a second, because if they're
poor with a fifteen, you know, year old car or poor, you
have a problem with it. Butif they're dirt poor and on the streets,
you think we should throw whatever moneywe can at it. Oh,
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I don't think I'm just saying Ithink the homeless is a big problem.
By the way, I'm just tryingto understand your spectrum of poorness. And
you know, there's an answer topoverty. There's an answer in dealing to
poor people. Get rich, that'llstraighten all of it out. And on
this day, his hot crew twotimes larger. Okay, we are done.
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for a while. It was theybought new furniture, and we're talking about
how the arms and the legs wereso expensive. What do you mean the
arm? How about the rest ofit? When the arms of the legs
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are so expensive? Oh you meana cost you an arm and a leg?
Got it? I should have broughtthem to a job interview. I
should have. And now Handle onthe news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle, and this is KFIAM six forty. Good morning everybody.
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It is a on Wednesday with oneand all in the morning. Neo,
good morning, Good morning, WillieWolf and and Goo morning morning Bill,
Okay, Amy, good morning,Hello, Hello, and we're glad you're
back. And then next week youare off vacationing going to family in Oregon.
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Didn't did not know you came fromOregon until you told me you're going
to see family in Oregon. Boy, I figure that one out. Thank
you, you're quick. Yeah,damn right. And Cono good morning morning
Bill, Yeah, yep. Andwas the news. I'm watching NBC right
now and the story is is Parisready for the Olympics. We're getting there.
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You don't have a question about theOlympics because they change and add events
every Olympics. You know that thatthey time change, interest change, and
I think there was a push.Remember Calvera's county, Calaveras County. Yes,
the big frog jumping right now?Do you think that they're gonna the
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French are gonna have a frog jumpingcontest and the losers get cooked up and
they serve them at a delicacy offrog legs. Huh yeah, it's more
about the frog. What are theygonna Yeah, the French will jump because
they it's a derogatory term for French. Oh yeah, very much is Oh
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yes, enough to where there maybe emails and U if we had an
HR department, department, I wouldbe hauled in for frog. Huh uh
huh, yeah, I did notknow. Look it up. Okay,
look it up. Derogatory term Frenchpeople. Yep, national flag of France.
It's white. Okay, we cando a lot with that. I
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could hear Cono laughing down the hall. He's the only one that laughs.
Cono is the only one that laughsat this stuff. It's good. The
white flag goes good. Yeah,okay, he's mak you. Yeah,
I've been with you for thirty years, that's true. And then some of
the races, half of them you'rerunning forwards, and then the other half
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of the races. Hey, it'sa fune go ahead. They had a
ship in the odorant for all thepeople coming from other countries. Yeah all
that, Yeah, okay, fairenough. It is a Wednesday, Doctor
JIMKINI is coming aboard at eight thirties. He always does. But we have
a lot of stuff to cover.Let's do it. It's time for Handle
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on the news with Amy and Neiland me lead story. Wow fireworks illegal
fireworks every year it's out there whereLa County it's not legal. Ventura County
is legal. You know. WhenI was a kid, we would drive
right over county lines and pick upfireworks, you know, the sparklers and
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all that stuff. Well, therewas a bust in gardena seventy five tons
wow of fireworks. And I'm talkingabout some big fireworks, professional fireworks.
I don't think there were a lotof sparklers in there. No, I'm
talking about the kind that shoot upin the sky and they explode and do
the colors and stuff, and thosepeople have to be licensed to do that.
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That's as tough as getting a prescriptionfor an opioid today. Yeah,
you can always tell what your neighborhoodis like if you hear a lot of
fireworks. I hear a lot offireworks my neighborhood, and it doesn't matter
what. And there's always a storyabout some kid getting his hand blown off
every year, and then there's astory there that the kid can't hitchhike anymore,
(04:40):
and it's horrible. He passed assomeone else, pick his nose.
Sad story. Amy, Oh you'redone. Okay, she's all. I'm
out, she quit. I amcompletely done. Yeah. Julian Massage is
a free man. The Wiki leaksfounder has walked free for the first time
in twelve years. A US judgeon the Northern Mariana Islands, because he
(05:02):
didn't want to have anything done onactual you know, on the on the
mainland, took his plea of releasingsecret US documents and then sentenced him to
served time and released him. Andnow he's back in Australia. You know,
I kind of surprise. I thinkit was a big express for a
(05:23):
lot of people. Yeah, itwas a plea bargain and it's one count.
I mean there was there was somebig charges against him, one hundred
and seventy five years worth. Yeah, and look at the difference between the
time was Daniel Ellsberg and when hereleased the Pentagon papers, and now you
have a songe different time, differentplace. You know, it's just a
(05:44):
whole mentality of for his Elsberg isa hero, a hero for releasing those
Pentagon papers, which, by theway, is the same thing releasing classified
documents about US involvement militarily. Allright, Gosh, if we only had
more money to throw out the problem. A homeless man went on a violent
rampage in Santa Monica State Beach.He attacked three women, and one of
(06:10):
them he even tried to drown inthe Pacific Ocean. The attack occurred on
Monday morning, just north of SanMonica Pier and south of the California incline
that we all know and love.Of course, this guy just needs housing.
We could just get him home,yeah, maybe with a spot in
it. Oh and he's a sexoffender too. Oh well, now there
(06:32):
you are, so let's give it. I hope he goes to that new
high rise with all the amenities atsix dollars, formally known as skid row
because we can't call it that anymore. No, they call it barely hills.
Yeah, so that's they're remarketing.Yeah. More election results have rolled
(06:53):
in. Who knew yesterday was anelection day in several states. Republican Representative
Lauren Bobert has come out victorious overfive GOP opponents in the primary election for
her new Colorado district. In hervictory party in northern Colorado, she wore
a mega hat and Donald Trump brandedsneakers. Oh, she's the one who
(07:14):
bought them and called for unified GOPand building bridges with other Republicans. That
means that's MAGA talk for if you'renot joining the Donald Trump bandwagon, you
are a trader. Oh is thatwhat that is? Oh? You bet,
you bet. She to celebrate,went straight to the theater and started
making out with somebody in the seats. That's so yeah, lovely all right.
(07:36):
President Biden's proclamation, if you remember, issued where he said he was
going to temporarily suspend the entry ofcertain non citizens across the southern border.
It's been in effect for about threeweeks now, and of course it's still
early, but the border patrols sevenday encounter average that's what they call when
they meet up with someone not supposedto be here, has decreased by more
(07:59):
than and the number is low enoughto where everybody who is claiming asylum is
going to get an asylum hearing.Yeah, so it's kind of a If
it works, it's a problem,right. If it doesn't work, it's
Yeah, it was over twenty fivehundred people that weren't allowed to weren't just
(08:20):
just weren't allowed to claim asylum.They were hit under the twenty four Night
under right, and we're talking aboutpeople who have crossed the border illegally,
between border crossings legal ones, youknow, like Tija Wan and all that.
It's completely and incidantly it's interesting thathe has done by executive order this
and this can be undone by anypresident because he had this is such pandering,
(08:43):
because he had first fought everything interms of curtailing the border, and
the Republicans were going crazy and rightlyso, and he said, okay,
okay, you got it. Okay, we'll we'll do a pipartisan deal where
we're stick the border. And DonaldTrump said, no, you don't do
that. And the Republicans immediately turnedaround, and you're gonna hear tomorrow night,
(09:07):
border border border border didn't do anything? Yes, Oh no, did
plenty. Joe Biden is h he'sgoing to try to take the credit for
this, and it's pandering. It'sone pandering that he's doing it. At
this point. I hope they fight. I hope they physically fight tomorrow.
(09:28):
Oh, Biden, Biden is done. You know, he's a big guy,
No Trump. Trump's like six foursix' three. I was with
you when I met him, alongsideyou. He's a big guy, like
two hundred and seventy pounds. Okay, I take his tiny little hand.
Yeah, and he grabbed you right, and he grabbed you by the he
(09:52):
said, okay, let's just let'sjust move on. Not looking good for
Gerskovic. Evan Gerskovic, who wasthe first American journalist to be arrested on
espionage charges in Russia since the ColdWar, is on trial. He made
an appearance in a Russian courtroom today. He was in that glass cage.
It shows him with his head shaved. It's a closed door thing, so
(10:15):
you can't have a lot of peoplein there. He was arrested reporting for
the Wall Street Journal in twenty twentytwo, and then they later accused him
of spying for the CIA. Yeah, he's in trouble. Ninety nine percent
of people get tried in Russia getconvicted. His only chance, I mean,
he will get convicted and do somewill get a serious jail sentence because
(10:39):
he's accused of espionage, which ofcourse he's quote already guilty. I mean
that's established. His only chance ofgetting out is to do an exchange prisoner
exchange. Why would you even goto Russia? Good, very good point
for anything, very good point.And it was a reporting trip. He
had just been hired by the WallStreet Journal, and he went to the
(11:00):
city of Ika Terenburg. By theway, you know what that you know,
ikon Terrenberg is where the Romanovs sawAlexander, I mean sar Nicholas and
Alexander were killed. That's where theywere assassinated. Did you know that?
I do now, sir okay,I just thought i'd throw that out at
you. I think it's Kershkovitch.By the way, I thought it was
(11:22):
Gerskovich too, but then ABC's guycalled him Griskovich. Earlier today, so
I'm not one hundred percent sure onthe pronunciation of that. It's not like
it's not like they can't make amistake either. It's not true. It's
not just us. Yeah, Okay, Somewhere over there they're going, well,
I heard Amy King from KFI pronounceit this one. Yeah, I
know. Yeah. Have you noticedthat we bring ABC reporters here. I
(11:46):
don't know the last time, asyou said, a KFI reporter is on
national news over there. I don'tknow how that works. Actually, I
think I think we're I think it'ssome kind of deal we've cut, that
we can put some kind of affiliatedeal that we cut that we can use
ABC reporters. Fascinating. Yeah,shall I proceed? Yeah. Authorities with
(12:11):
the Azuza Police Department are saying thatnew video of the controversial twenty twenty one
arrest. If you remember, thiswas of the top aid to Los Angeles
County District Attorney George Gascon that theysay this video is vindication for their police
offerers and the police officers' actions.This was stupid, So this comes out.
(12:33):
They didn't the cops did not havebody cameras on, but apparently this
wing nut and I say that becauseit's my opinion. He was the LADA
chief of staff, Joseph dingas Amyking anything on that ani Anigas He was
(12:54):
accused of public intoxication. He wastaken into custody back in December of twenty
twenty one. He was with hisfiance who was driving and was also detained
on suspen suspicion of driving well intoxicated. Well, the city just settled for
ten grand. Yeah, but that'sthat doesn't mean they didn't. No,
No, they said, hey,it's just cheaper than going to trial.
(13:16):
But apparently he was saying things like, hey, this conversation is over,
don't answer her any questions to hisfiancee, and he's like, trust me.
He said, you pulled over thewrong person. Things like check check
our license and who the registration isand not to see it's it's you pull
over the wrong person. It's you'vepulled over the wrong person. You've made
a mistake. This one is you'vepulled over the wrong person. Look who
(13:39):
you're screwing with. Yeah, andyou can't do that. And the cops
were totally professional, yep, andso what I and this guy sounds like
a deep bag just like his boss. But what I the way I like
to spin this is everybody go toAzusa. It's a lovely foothill town.
Go to Azusa and spend lots ofmoney, eat there, do things so
(14:01):
that they make that ten grand back. I uh, well, it said
you try to use that line.You you stopped the wrong person when I
was with a copy and then thecops said that, now you're the one
that blew through the stop sign.Okay, you know what what do you
say to that car? Do youknow who I am? No? No,
(14:22):
I've been stopped by a cop who'sa KFI fan. And uh,
you know, because I've been procop my entire broadcast career. I mean,
I'm so pro cop that I've beenlet go. It's it's just for
that very reason, right, yeah, yeah, it's one of your most
redeeming. KFI is known as avery pro cop station. You know,
where there's individuals I don't know youcan say KFI. I don't think it.
(14:46):
I don't think anybody has been anticop. There are plenty of who's
anti cop. I never understand,I'm sorry, go to some organizations defund
the police. I don't understand thatdismantle the police. Come on, there
are plenty organizations should be able.If you believe that, you should be
able to wear a shirt or something, so cops don't have to do anything,
have anything to do with you.If you're being pummeled on the street,
(15:09):
they can go sorry, yeah,you've got the defund d on you
getting rid of one tax to putin another. I love this. The
Ala County Board of Supervisors is votedunanimously to let voters decide on a sales
tax hike to fund affordable housing andhomeless services. Yeah, and it's going
to pass. Oh great, wenever met a tax we don't like.
Yeah, so this one's going toget rid of the existing quarter sent sales
(15:33):
tax that pays for homeless services andreplace it with a basically permanent half cent
sales tax. Yeah. This wasthe quarter cent has had a sunset clause.
It was going to go away intwenty twenty seven. So this one
says no. You know what happenswith these taxes all the time is that
(15:54):
they sunset out and then we votein it. There was that one tax.
I forget what it was, butit was it was going to sunset
out and the payment and then itwas it had to do something with teachers,
and I when you run anything aboutteachers, I mean they run ads
(16:15):
like crazy. And it was Iremember the TV commercials in that you were
paying X dollars that were going tosunset out the next year. And the
vote was to make it permanent.And the way it was advertised, you
will not pay one penny more intaxes. That's why you want to do
(16:37):
this. Well that's true, butthe point is it's permanent now, so
it's uh, we got permanent.You make my head hurt. I know,
just that whole thing. It isjust asinine because they get their fix,
their their mainlining money, that's exactly, and then they don't want to
go back. And it's forgart.I'm looking throughout all the news going on
(17:02):
in the TV saying that some homelessguy is trying to drown a woman in
Santa Monica. Yeah, well that'san off, that's a one off,
but on off. Well, drowningsomeone in Santa Monica, attacking somebody,
not attacking attacking well because water wasinvolved in Now it's the number of homeless
who actually attack someone. I meanit's there, but it's not It is
(17:26):
growing but it's not all in thethousands. We're not seeing that. We
are seeing in the thousands the increaseof homeless that we're seeing. By the
way, I'm talking at seven o'clock. Newsome in a state of the state.
What do you spend half the timetalking about the homeless? Matter of
fact, he lives in the governor'smansion. He's asked the legislature to make
(17:48):
the governor's mansion a tent, ofcourse, and his winery all the grapes
they can ask, Oh, thatwould be a great campground. Man,
Come with me to the French laundry, all right. The entire Bakersfield chapter
of Hell's Angels biker gang has beenarrested on suspicion of crimes including kidnapping,
(18:10):
robbery, and assault, according tothe Kern County Sheriff's office. And when
they served eight search warrants, theyseize twenty five guns, ammunition, high
capacity magazines which are illegal, ofcourse, and gang paraphernalia. Thank god,
we have those tough gun laws sobad people like this live up.
(18:30):
Wait, No, well, Ithink it's I don't think it's the hand
capacity magazines that really is the problemhere. I think it's the fact that
they're Hell's Angels and they're being accusedof kidnapping. Yeah, well, that's
what bad people do. We shouldhave laws against bad people. We do
have laws against what. Shoot,we also have laws against bad people that
(18:52):
throw hand grenades. What. Well, that should solve it. A cadebra.
Genie Plus is magically changing at bothDisneyland and Disney World. They've had
this thing called Genie Plus for thelast couple of years, and you pay
for the service and you basically getto skip a lot of the lines.
So instead of like an hour anda half, you wait like fifteen minutes,
(19:14):
bit you pay twenty five bucks forthe day. Well, they're changing
that because apparently nobody knows what theheck it is or how it works.
So Genie Plus will be known asLightning Lane Multi Passes. Ah, and
do you think they're going to raiseprices on that? Just just sort of
asking. They haven't said if they'regoing to raise the prices on that,
but I think it's a good clarificationfor them. Under city is confusing.
(19:38):
It takes a little hard all right. Let me ask that question again to
the two Disneyland freaks here in theaudience. Do you let me reask that.
Do you think they're going to raiseprices on that again? Maybe?
No, I'm okay with that,of course you are. I'll take it.
Yeahs, I'll give a quarter percenttax hike on it. Neil and
(20:00):
Amy's entire disposable income goes to Disneylandtickets. No, it also goes to
Star Wars stuff, Mickey Mouse stuff, a couple of Walt Disney photos.
All right, Michael Phelps, legendaryolympian, we all know who he is.
He is ripping the World Anti DopingAgency and described it as inconsistent and
(20:26):
that these rules, these anti dopingrules, are causing more frustration and especially
with the clean athletes because they wanta fair competition and they're not getting it
now. Chinese, of course,because the US is serious about anti doping,
as is the Chinese, except theother way. So what is this
(20:49):
particular try meta Remember when it usedto be the Russians. Yeah, except
the Russians are out of the Olympicsthis time around, So now it's Chinese
tri metazidine. It's a drug thatgives you a very long lasting erection.
It really just a guess I wasI was impressed that you knew the name.
(21:15):
And then when you said that,I go, that makes that that
tracks that he'd know what that is. No, they don't. I don't
know what it does. But it'ssome sort of performance enthancing exactly. It
gives you long lasting erections. Okay, this might be too soon. A
firefighter has an attachment issue, butit's it's good news though, because his
(21:37):
ear has been reattached. Okay,So a firefighter is one of eleven firefighters
who were injured the other day inan explosion at a homeless camp near Encino,
and this one it took off hisear, burned his face, but
they have surgically reattached it. Thefirefighter was upgraded to stable condition. And
(21:59):
then really, so it's all goodnews. It's going to be okay.
Yeah, a couple of things.We remember when we had said this,
or I had said this is apropane tank that went up it was a
hand grenade. Yeah, I meanthat's kind of because you're a freaking wild
West. You do anything you wantif you're homeless. Yeah, that's a
good point. And and by theway, let's give him more money.
Yeah, and he needs a youcan tell which way we go on this
(22:22):
show our politics and they have todo a second surgery because the first time
around they put it the ear onbackwards. Okay, wow, well God
bless him to be okay. Yeah, and for defending a fire that probably
had no reason being lit in thefirst place. All right, FDA warns
(22:45):
this is like reverse world right here. FDA warrens maker Sarah Lee and Intimate's
not to claim foods contain allergens whenthey don't. Yeah, now that's interesting.
So normally you have the you know, don't. Yeah, they're life
say they don't. They don't includethings that people can be allergic to,
like peanuts, Yeah, leave thatout. But they're saying these have allergens
(23:08):
in them when they don't. Andnow they're not. They're not accusing them
specifically of any wrongdoing, but justsaying miss branded mother misbranding to help people.
So I you know, I'm lookingthrough the story and I'm trying to
find is this just a c yA is this just to cover you know
(23:29):
this the just like, hey,just say everything has allergens and maybe yeah,
yeah this, uh, these foodsare made in this equipment that makes
everything because that's legit and of courseit's legit, so you're you're absolutely right.
Mess with Sarah Lee and Intimate's.Man, yeah, this is a
(23:51):
I didn't know this. This isa Mexican food giant that owns Intimates and
Sarah Lee meanbo Yeah, and theyown what else do they own? Oh?
They make They also the or Weethey owned. You know, they're
wonderful Artisano bread that is Oh mygod, bread is so Thomas's English muffins.
(24:15):
I had one this morning. Oh, very a quick one about Thomas's
English muffins. They're like six bucksa pack in the supermarket. Costco.
You get four of them for ninedollars for eight ninety nine four packs of
Thomas's. Yes, wow, goto Costco. That's the best deal in
the world. What a shocker.Okay, how much did they pay for
(24:36):
that? They paid nothing because theydon't need to because they've gotten me.
So the war is not yet overbetween credit card companies and retailers because a
judge overseeing a thirty billion dollar preliminarysettlement between MasterCard, Visa and retailers rejected
the deal. So the deal wasthat the retailer would have the fees reduced
(25:03):
because you know, every time yourun your card. The retailers get charged
a fee to use master Card andVisa, so it was going to lower
that, but the settlement was rejected. Yeah, which is weird. And
by the way, the lowering ofand they had agreed to this to point
zero four percentage, down from liketwo percent or as high as four percent,
(25:25):
that's cute. No, no,no, no, They were going
to reduce it by point zero fourpercentage for a minimum three years and point
zero four which you think is ridiculouswith companies this side size, that's more
than the GDP of Pakistan, justthat point zero four percent. So I
think this story is about how massivemaster Card and Visa are, and it's
(25:49):
the retailers. You're right, twopercent up to four percent they charge the
retailers, these companies. It's alot of money. Yeah, like some
a lot of places that you gowon't take an American Express. That's because
it's the best higher. Yeah,charges hire fees, very expensive, all
right. Yesterday, the La CountyBoard of Supervisors called for the creation of
a five million dollar pilot program aimedat helping low income residents eliminate medical debts.
(26:15):
So this would target essentially the county'slowest income with ye. So that's
a very interesting question because medical debtjust affects so many people it does what's
horrific. Yeah. Number one causeof bankruptcy is medical debt. And there's
all kinds of issues as to creditratings because of medical debt. But this
(26:36):
is a pilot program where the county. If you live in Los Angeles,
you are now paying for the medicaldebt for poor people. I also say,
poor people who only drive cars thatare fifteen years old, they are
really nailed up. I think thecounty should buy them new cars because they're
(26:56):
poor people. It's hey, atsome point, being poor is being poor.
Yeah, but it okay, Butwait a second, because if they're
poor with a fifteen, you know, year old car or poor, you
have a problem with it. Butif they're dirt poor and on the streets,
you think we should throw whatever moneywe can at it. Oh,
(27:18):
I don't think I'm just saying Ithink the homeless is a big problem.
By the way, I'm just tryingto understand your spectrum of poorness. And
you know, there's an answer topoverty. There's an answer in dealing to
poor people. Get rich, that'llstraighten all of it out. And on
this day, his hot crew twotimes larger. Okay, we are done.
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