July 9, 2024 • 31 mins
Amy King & Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Biden is not being treated for Parkinson’s; White House says after NYT report. What to know about the NATO military alliance and how it is helping Ukraine. At least 4 deaths in Texas linked to historic storm. 5 suspected heat-related deaths reported across western Oregon. Will California’s power grid hold up during heat wave? A doctor who drove his family off a cliff will receive mental health care. Mike Bloomberg gives $1BIL to John Hopkins for free medical school.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I AM six forty USA Trump,
USA. I mean, it wasjust so obnoxious. People are going,
come on, you want to keepthe politics out of it this time
USA Trump. There was one JoeBiden cart, but it was broken down
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and the wheels were off flat.It kept going in circles. Yeah,
and now handle on the news,ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle.
Good morning, everybody. You gohandle here. It is a Tuesday morning,
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July nine. A few things werehappening. We're gonna talk about the
Alec Baldwin trial starts today and I'lltalk about that at seven a m.
We have Tech talk with Rich Burrowand some news about the heat. Hey,
the heat. Now it's time tosay hello, Hello, Okay,
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let's just move on. Morning Amy, Good morning, Bille uh Neil,
good morning, Good morning, WillieWolf. I think I found my new
ringtone for you when you call me? Is the USC true? Yeah?
I was referring to a golf cartparade on July fourth that I was at
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and just this obnoxious woman screaming,uh these political pro Trump statements he got.
Come on, you know, thisis for everybody today or it's July
fourth. You know, you thinkpeople with divergent political views can enjoy this
today without politics? No impossible.Okay, there's Michelle, Good morning,
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Michelle in for this week, goodmorning and out on vacation, and Cono
Morning, Cono Morning Bill. Okay, and uh, Neil, I just
sort of missed as you were comingon. You were talking about the view
somehow Cono testicles, baseball hat whatwas what was that about? Listen.
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If there was a job and Icould get paid for busting Cono's balls on
a daily basis, I would putin an application. It is the It
is like a sport to me.So the first thing I do is I
bust his chops in the morning andhe goes good morning to you, Neil.
And now actually he flipped you thebird this morning. Yeah. Yeah,
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but I love him. I lovehim like a brother man, of
course. Yeah. Yeah, naturallyhe could be my brother. I don't
know. My dad wore white patand leather shoes in the seventies, and
I hear that's a sign of havingkids you don't know about look it up.
Yeah, okay, yeah, Iknow. I'm here, I'm here.
I'm just trying to process that,all right? Uh, hot today,
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oh man, and you know heatwave and there's lots of news about
that one. And then an elevatorstory and that that rests right into my
heart. You know, elevators andme. It's like bagels. There's just
something about them, you know thatjust I love and I'll explain that a
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little. Well, they might bethe whole reason for the housing crisis.
That's right, that's right, They'relike elevators might be the whole reason.
Welcome for that story. Yeah,no, it's gonna be a it's a
fun story. I don't know ifI put it together. Eight thirty.
We're going to do that. No, I'm not. No, we're doing
that at eight fifty. Sorry,yeah, fade fifty. Michelle got that
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one. All right? What whatwhy? You guys ready to do it?
Yep? Yep. Let's do ahandle on the news on this Tuesday
morning with Amy and Neil and melead story. Okay, this was big
news and I think it was.The New York Times reported that a specialist
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in Parkinson's disease had been to theWhite House eight times in eight months,
and all of a sudden, onceagain, here's Biden and his ability to
govern. And now the talk isParkinson disease. And that was he was
playing rock paper scissors and it didn'tcome off well and it was shaking,
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and then all of a sudden,now this thing exploded and they started looking
at it. Rule number one,don't play rock paper scissors when you're running
for president. It just doesn't lookgood. In the meantime, the White
House said, and wouldn't say whythis doctor was showing up, but that's
what the problem is. When youhave gene whatever, what is it?
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What is it? Uh So,when she refused to confirm or elaborate on
this doctor's visit the other day,that just causes problems. And then she
did that like outrage. I'm offended. You'd ask that that be respectful.
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Yeah, me agree that that's alwayshiding when you become the victim. Normally,
it is nobody's business what your medicalissues are, unless you're president of
the United States. If you hadbusiness, you know your taxes mean less
to me than your health, andwe you know so. So the point
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is that he has been examined bya neurologist every year when he gets his
annual Barack Obama had people or hadthis specialist show up several times during his
administration and Trump. Uh we foundout last last night when does reas thing.
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No, but I sure would haveliked the press the Press secretary to
expand on that. She did sayhe is not being treated for Parkinson's.
He is not taking any medication nowfor Parkinson's. I got the idea that
if I would have felt much betterif she had said he does not have
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Parkinson's. Yeah. See that's thething. So what if he ends up
getting voted back in and he endsup having Parkinson's, then it's like,
well, all you can do isthis. The White House is going to
mandate that any camera that is videohim has one of those stabilizer devices.
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You know, they should put iton him. Yeah, they just there's
no way they can do a staticcamera shot on him. They're going to
have a steady camp for the president. They're gonna have to. Yeah.
So it's NATO's diamond anniversary. SoPresident Biden is hosting NATO for meetings this
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week. They start today go forthe next three days in DC. It's
the seventy fifth anniversary of NATO.They are apparently going to focus on ways
to reassure Ukraine, then NATO supportsit and its efforts against Russia. And
there's a somewhat of a misunderstanding aboutNATO. NATO is not going to get
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into the war in Ukraine. Asa matter of fact, it can't under
the NATO regulations. It does go, it doesn't go into war. It
only defends the Now, what isit? Thirty two members that are part
of NATO, and it was originallystarted what nineteen forty eight it started?
How many members were there? Ithink there were five or eight. But
anyway, so NATO's pretty important.The only person that really doesn't like NATO
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is President Trump, although to givehim credit, the US was paying far
more than it's our fair share ofthe cost of NATO, and the other
countries just weren't putting up the waythey're supposed to per the treaty. But
that's his attitude towards the financial side, not a NATO as a concept.
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I don't think. I don't thinkhe's ever said NATO per se there's anything
wrong with it. If memory serves, it was all about the money,
and he did light the fire undertheir ass and didn't start and he got
them to start paying what is supposedto be paid. Okay, one more
before you take a break. TropicalStorm Barrel unleashed some severe weather, obviously
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to southeast Texas just yesterday, floodinghighways, closing oil ports, canceling more
than thirteen hundred flights, knocking outpower to two point seven million dollars or
seven two point seven million homes andbusinesses, and on top of all that,
killing at least four people. Yeah, it's a bad one. And
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this is just the start. It'sthe earliest of a major tropical storm or
hurricane that has come this early inthe season. This strength, this does
not bode well, it really doesn't. We're in for a rough time heat
wave. Well, all kinds ofrecords were set in the last few days,
and Amy, we're looking at morerecords set this week, aren't we.
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Yep, it's going to be hot. Thank you. That's our weather
person, Amy, who started itas a weather Let me go look outside,
Bill, Yeah, it's hot,So we can take the heat here
in SoCal But in Oregon it's adifferent story. So far. During Oregon's
heat wave, which is similar toours, they're seeing temperatures over one hundred
degrees at least five deaths have beenreported since Friday. Yeah, it's gonna
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get worse. It's gonna get worse. Seven twenty. I'm doing a story
on the heat wave, but notnecessarily. The number of people that are
dying will die, do die,But just the cost of heat is becoming
astronomical. We'll be doing that laterone. All right, So California's power
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grid, Oh brownouts, no brownouts, don't use your air conditioner, and
now use your air conditioner. SoCalifornia endures this historic record setting heat wave,
the power grid managers are reassuring thepublic that supply can meet the demand
and go ahead and keep the airconditioners running, even though they always tell
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us that we need to save.They haven't issued any flex alert. No
they haven't. And you know why, why because so many people have solar
systems in their house and you don'tneed electricity, or you need far less
during the day when it's hotter thanhell, because your solar system is for
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u seing electricity. That's it.Or I think that or that government Newsome
got mocked so bad for saying thathe wants everybody to get ev cars when
we can't even withstand regular use ofour power. I think that's more emissions
than anything else. But and youcan look this one up. I don't
think there's been a power plant builtin thirty years. Oh no, that's
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an oil refinery. I don't rememberthe last time a power plant was built
because of solar. Because we areusing less and less. What is it
thirty percent of California's energy is nowproduced by So this is just an about
face. It seems very I don'tknow, No, I can't. I
have a great idea. No,you know, it's getting hotter. We
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know that Palm springs one hundred andtwenty four degrees on Saturday. Is that
insanity? Yet at the same time, we've had heat waves that were far
less than we're in the middle ofnow, and we've had brownouts. The
rolling brown outs are the rolling blackouts. And I think it's because and I'm
just guessing here, but I thinkit's a good educated guests because of solar.
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For example, I put in myPersian palace had a solar system.
Literally the first phone call I made, or one of the first when I
bought my new place west to Sunlux. I know, Ding, ding Ding,
It's well, how's that for apromo, but there was no way
I was not going to have asolar system. And I like your conditioning,
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so there good keeps you from stinking. Yeah, California doctor, if
you remember you skipped me? Didyou? No? It is Amy.
I don't want to miss this onebecause I think whoever did this should be
zip tied themselves. A dog,a beautiful German shepherd, was found in
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a remote area of Malibu Crete Canyon. It had zip ties over its muzzle
and around its neck, so apair of rock climbers found it last Wednesday,
was about two hundred feet off thetrail. They were able to get
to the dog and the dog turnedout to be friendly, so they got
the zip ties off and then calledanimal control in and so they've rescued the
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dog. He's being taken care of. He's seven years old. And the
saddest part of this is not thatthese jerks did this to this dog,
as the dog could be very sick. It may have lymphoma, but they
said that if it is, ifit does, they have the resources to
treat it. So it's not upfor adoption or anything yet. But the
dog's been rest as bad as itis. Abandoning a dog, and that
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is horrific. Zip tying its muzzleso it can't drink if it finds water,
can't eat, and we'll simply yeah, it can't do anything. I
mean, it is just horrific.That is that should be twenty five to
life. Well, it's you know, it's frustrating that this poor dog is
zip tied and you're walking around withno zip ties and a good point and
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some pictures. Yeah, well itis. It's a sweet ermon dog.
You can treat a shepherd. Yeah, it looks like a shepherd, maybe
a shepherd mixed, beautiful about sevenyear old dog. And they don't have
it up for adoption. I wouldimagine that we will get follow ups on
this and will like, well,if it is to be brought up for
adoption now, there'll be hundreds ofpeople lined up to grab it simply because
of the publicity. Absolutely good Californiadoctor who drove as Tesla and his family
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off at two hundred and fifty footcliff tried to kill them. We'll undergo
two years of mental health treatment ina diversion program rather than getting nailed for
attempted murder, which is what theDA put up there. The San Mateo
County DA back in January twenty twentythree is when this took place, if
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you remember, so, I don'tknow why they don't just put them in
a tent with the rest of thecrazy people. Yeah. Well, first
of all, Michelle, I'm gettingreally tired of these families, these drivers
driving off a cliff to kill everybodyin the car. That's it. I
don't want any more of those storiestoday. I'm up to hear with those
now. It's kind of unusual.You would think, how mentally ill does
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this guy have to be, asyou pointed out, Neil to drive off
the cliff with him inside the carbecause he wanted to kill everybody. And
I don't even think his wife wantedto press charges. If I'm not mistaken,
Amy, you remember this story.I think his wife was on his
side, and well, not onthe side in terms of driving over the
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cliff, but in terms of hismental illness, in terms of his abilities
just to think straight. And thejudge obviously bought that. Yeah, yeah,
I mean trying to kill your family, you know? Is that worth
two years of mental health treatment?And then it's dismissed through a diversion program.
I mean, you can't practice medicineanymore, and he can't smoke marijuana.
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I guess that's part of it.Drink alcohol or even see his wife
and kids for those two years.Yeah, I it baffles me. Yeah
it is. It is baffling.Time to head back to face the music.
A French court has ruled that aguy from Saratoga, California, who
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was accused of sexually assaulting a collegestudent in Pennsylvania back in twenty thirteen and
then lady later sending her a messageon Facebook saying so I raped you,
can be extradited to the US.The guy's name is Ian Cleary. He's
thirty one. They found him innortheastern France after searching for him for three
years, and he's been held.He wanted to fight extradition, but the
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French court said, nope, yougot to go back to the US.
Yeah, here's the genius who admitsraping someone on Facebook. I mean there
is there's a Darwin winner on thatone. I mean he should actually be
extradited for stupid, the crime ofstupid, because he has hit that level.
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Good news. Huh, So Iraped you, he writes, but
I'll never do it again. Okay, we can take one more, all
right. Federal judge in Alaska resignedfor his what would normally be a lifetime
appointment after an internal investigation concluded hecreated a hostile work environment for his law
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clerk. I did law clerks ratherplural, and engaged in an inappropriate sexual
relationship with one of them after herclerk clerkship ended. And apparently he encouraged
his law clerks to rape people basedon their sexual desirability. He belittled or
ostracized clerks who tried to talk himout of his inappropriate cash. This is
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like working for handle. Yeah,yeah, right. So two issues on
this one. One is the allegationor simply it's the statement that he was
stripping a law clerk after she leftthe clerkship. Who cares about that?
And I'm consenting adults. He's nolonger she's no longer subordinate, so they
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have a relationship. It's the hostilework environment. I think that did it.
It's the way he treated his staff, and that you can't do.
He can't. Nope. And bythe way, by the way, if
he had, he could not beremoved unless he's impeached. You know that,
don't you it's a lifetime appointment,but he resigned. Chuck Schumer is
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working on a workaround. The Senatemajority leader says he and other Democrats are
going to work to advance legislation tostrip former President Trump of the immunity he
was granted under last week's Supreme Courtruling. I guess it was a week
and a half ago. That protectsthe president's official acts from criminal prosecution.
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Now Congress can do that, theycan overrive the Supreme Court. Well,
it's the Supreme Court interprets what immunityis, and it's the unofficial versus official
really isn't in the language of theConstitution. And if Congress says this is
basically by the way the court,Supreme Court kicked it back down to the
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lower court to determine with whether whatthe president did was official or unofficial.
So it can happen. It's notgoing to but it can happen. I
mean, what makes that really scarythis decision by the Supreme Court is when
dealing with deciding what's unofficial and whatis official, you can't bring evidence in,
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for example, as to motive.That can't be considered. So you
know, it was more than aparrot victory for Trump. I mean,
he got away with this one.That's the Teflon president, he truly is.
He's not the president. He wasthe Teflon president. He is now
the Teflon and he will be theTeflon president when he runs or when I
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think he's going to win. IfI had Democrats keep trying to keep Joe
Biden in, that's the problem.We shall see. They have no choice.
Unfortunately, you know what, youcan walk around the Trump will walk
around the White House going I officiallyhate you and winking at people. Yeah.
If I were, if I werean advisor for Trump, I just
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say, lay low, no morecrazy accusations. Just lay low. I
don't have to do anything. LetJoe Biden win the election for you,
which I think would happen. Okay, right, Uh. A one billion
dollar gift to John Hopskins Hopkins Universityfrom billionaire Mike Bloomberg will make a medic
school medical school free for most studentsand increase financial aid for those enrolled in
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nursing, public health, other graduateprograms. And this just I am changing
my name legally to John's Hopkins Medicals. I mean, this is a big
deal. It's already been done oncefor I think the new I think NYU
Medical School if they have one doneby a multi zillionaire. And this is
not just here is a billion dollarsfor scholarships. Here's a billion dollars of
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which the interest or the investment offthe billion dollars is paying for all of
these students. I mean it islifetime. There's enough money there to pay
for tuition for all of the studentsforever. Yes, Amy, I have
a question. Yes, So doesthat mean that Bloomberg is going to have
all of that money given back tohim because of the White House's plan to
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erase student debt? No, it'sthere because this means that students will not
have student debt. Okay, thisjust says free medical school. Now,
getting into Hopkins is hard enough,it's one of the top medical schools in
the country. How hard do youthink it's going to go in now because
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there's no tuition? But anyways,Bloomberg, he's a billionaire Bloomberg News former
mayor of New York, so thata good guy. He doesn't have to
keep it. So, I meanhe's a multi billionaire, but pretty impressive
to say the least. Okay,good luck if you want to buy a
home. Speaking of big dollars,buying home in La and Orange Counties cost
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ten times more than what you typicallymake in a year. That's nice.
That's double what it was in nineteeneighty. By the way, LA and
Orange County metro areas had the fourthhighest price income ratio out of the three
hundred metro areas listed on a newreport. Yeah, look at how much
money you need someone putting down threepoint five down payment. You know,
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I would think it's twenty percent andthat's the way to get the best.
But you put down three and ahalf percent down payment. I'm assuming there
are programs that do that. You'dhave to earn four hundred and twenty thousand
dollars a year for a median pricedhome. Four hundred and twenty thousand dollars
a year income. How is thatfor insanity? Unless you live in San
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Jose. San Jose, it's alittle bit better. You need five hundred
and sixty six thousand dollars annually tobe able to afford a medium priced median
priced home, and that's using thethirty percent. Well, I think it's
just to afford it much less.The pretcent percent rule, which says that
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you should only use or should onlypay thirty percent of your income for rent
or mortgage, and that's been thrownout the window. People pay a lot
more than that, all right.California will impose permanent water restrictions for the
first time in history, after thestate's Water Resources Control Board approved this incredibly
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long debated policy. So, yeah, they're gonna not just individual households or
businesses, retail water suppliers will nowbe required to reduce their water use by
close to thirty percent over the nextfifteen years. Yeah, we're not going
to be asked to do that,no mandate, and we just won't have
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enough water to keep it going fullblast because we're not gonna be able to
get the water. It'll be athirty percent cut. So I think we're
going to go back to you can'twater your lawns, you can't wash your
cars, you can't use water toclean your driveway. Yeah, in your
case, Neil, you are savingthe environment by not showering. So there's
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get ready, get ready for that. Shut up, Kono's laughing. You
stack the ass, you stink.We don't even know what's under that hat.
Bruh uh. Yeah, but youknow what, they never they never
take away something and give it back. That's the reality. So they want
you know, when it comes towater, that's not true because they'll come
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in with a policy of water restrictionsand then they'll turn it around like we
had when it was huge rains wehad and water restrictions were off. And
then when they're when it's really droughtland and we don't have any water,
they do that. You'll see thatgoing up. Did you change anything at
the Persian Palace? No? Yeah, well you know what we had to
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us little people had to and Iwent to DG. I went to zero
scaping, we went to succulence.We've done all that multiple times, and
all it does is cost us acrap ton of money. Well, okay,
let's do this. I put inartificial grass, so I have mil
grass, which they're looking at outlawing, by the way, right with my
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new place. All it's artificial combination, artificial grass, cacti or actually its
cactuses or cacti, and succulents likeyou say, and no baths or showers
for weeks at a time. Wellthey call them succulents for a reason because
they suck as outdoor decoration in lessand landscaping unless you live in possibly I
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think they're beautiful, but that's besides. They can be beautiful, but it's
just not grass. No, it'snot busy at the beach, baby,
lifeguards didn't have a lot of timeto just sit around and soak up the
sun. Over the long holiday weekend, five thousand, six hundred and twenty
rescues were logged at beaches in OrangeCounty between July fourth and the seventh.
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That makes it the busiest Fourth ofJuly weekend in the past decade. In
Laguna Beach, which is just sevenand a half mile stretch of coastline,
lifeguards made a total of twenty twohundred and seventy eight rescues. Twelve hundred
of those were to get people outof rip currents. So when lifeguards have
to take breaks by law, theyjust let people drown. Sarah, come
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on, stay out of the water. And if you're an idiot, you
know, thank you for helping uswith our gene pool. Just cotten rip
tides and they tell you riptides stayout of the water and people go in
the water, come on, orget eaten by a shark. That's also
good too. Oh did you seethat shark bite from last week? Did
you guys talk about that as like, oh yeah, that whole chunk of
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that person's leg was just God.I did a story about how rare shark
bites are, and the next daythere were four of them off of one
beach in Florida. Okay, we'renot going to do these are extremely rare
stories anymore. Well, yeah,that's the way. The shark lights are
very rare. Yeah. Rapidly expandingand accelerating, complex of complex of landslides.
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They are on the southern east,southeastern rather tip of Pelos Verdes Peninsula.
Not only reecavoc causing problems to homes, roads, utilities, all of
that. We heard about Wayfarer's chapelhad to be abandoned at least temporarily.
But it's creating a new beach.Have you seen a picture of the new
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beach. Boy, this is abeach you'd want to go to. Lots
of rocks. Yeah, it ishorrible, but you know it happens.
So in the meantime, on theother side Pacific Coast Highway, the entire
hillside is coming down and destroying thehighway. But you get one hundred and
fifty feet of this new rocky.You can't walk on a beach, so
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I guess that's still beachfront property.Yeah, yeah, you'd want that in
front of your house. Okay,okay, let's see. If you love
California, you just might love this. You can tune in now to twenty
four to seven live stream of hulHauser's visiting series. It's on PBS Southern
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California's YouTube channel. Now. Ifyou're not familiar with heul Hauser, he
was a public TV producer. Diedback in twenty thirteen. I am not
familiar with him because, oh no, you have to do now. You
have to look at this. No, I know, I mean I'm good
looking for you have there? Imean it is Wow, that's an avocado
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eating dolls. Yeah, that's aman. That's Hulhuser. He's quite a
piece, but hugely, hugely popular. Remember when I had that horrible,
god awful television show, the worstshow television show in the history of mankind.
The soundstage was right next to hulhusersound stage where he did a lot
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of his work, I mean insidework. Of course, it was all
location shooting for him or ninety fivepercent, and it was He's done a
lot of it California Goal. Andhe takes these little stories of people.
For example, you've got the oldestavocado tree in California. Gosh, that's
an old tree. He would putplaces on the map. Tali ran down
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the street from us here in Burbank. Boom shaka laga. All right,
we'll end with this diagnosis of sexuallytransmitted diseases jump nearly twenty four percent among
seniars ages sixty five and older duringthe pandemic, so says this study.
And yes, syphilis was a bigone, followed by Donna Rhea. Have
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you have you seen those well,have you seen those retirement communities? Yeah?
I mean their stoop Land is oneof them. Oh yeah, very
impressive. Okay, we're done,guys. Just a real quick personal shout
out a miss ya Ethel. I'mthinking about your baby. KFI AM six
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom kf I AM six forty USA Trump,
USA. I mean, it wasjust so obnoxious. People are going,
come on, you want to keepthe politics out of it this time
USA Trump. There was one JoeBiden cart, but it was broken down
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and the wheels were off flat.It kept going in circles. Yeah,
and now handle on the news,ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle.
Good morning, everybody. You gohandle here. It is a Tuesday morning,
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July nine. A few things werehappening. We're gonna talk about the
Alec Baldwin trial starts today and I'lltalk about that at seven a m.
We have Tech talk with Rich Burrowand some news about the heat. Hey,
the heat. Now it's time tosay hello, Hello, Okay,
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let's just move on. Morning Amy, Good morning, Bille uh Neil,
good morning, Good morning, WillieWolf. I think I found my new
ringtone for you when you call me? Is the USC true? Yeah?
I was referring to a golf cartparade on July fourth that I was at
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and just this obnoxious woman screaming,uh these political pro Trump statements he got.
Come on, you know, thisis for everybody today or it's July
fourth. You know, you thinkpeople with divergent political views can enjoy this
today without politics? No impossible.Okay, there's Michelle, Good morning,
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Michelle in for this week, goodmorning and out on vacation, and Cono
Morning, Cono Morning Bill. Okay, and uh, Neil, I just
sort of missed as you were comingon. You were talking about the view
somehow Cono testicles, baseball hat whatwas what was that about? Listen.
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If there was a job and Icould get paid for busting Cono's balls on
a daily basis, I would putin an application. It is the It
is like a sport to me.So the first thing I do is I
bust his chops in the morning andhe goes good morning to you, Neil.
And now actually he flipped you thebird this morning. Yeah. Yeah,
(02:36):
but I love him. I lovehim like a brother man, of
course. Yeah. Yeah, naturallyhe could be my brother. I don't
know. My dad wore white patand leather shoes in the seventies, and
I hear that's a sign of havingkids you don't know about look it up.
Yeah, okay, yeah, Iknow. I'm here, I'm here.
I'm just trying to process that,all right? Uh, hot today,
(02:59):
oh man, and you know heatwave and there's lots of news about
that one. And then an elevatorstory and that that rests right into my
heart. You know, elevators andme. It's like bagels. There's just
something about them, you know thatjust I love and I'll explain that a
(03:21):
little. Well, they might bethe whole reason for the housing crisis.
That's right, that's right, They'relike elevators might be the whole reason.
Welcome for that story. Yeah,no, it's gonna be a it's a
fun story. I don't know ifI put it together. Eight thirty.
We're going to do that. No, I'm not. No, we're doing
that at eight fifty. Sorry,yeah, fade fifty. Michelle got that
(03:42):
one. All right? What whatwhy? You guys ready to do it?
Yep? Yep. Let's do ahandle on the news on this Tuesday
morning with Amy and Neil and melead story. Okay, this was big
news and I think it was.The New York Times reported that a specialist
(04:08):
in Parkinson's disease had been to theWhite House eight times in eight months,
and all of a sudden, onceagain, here's Biden and his ability to
govern. And now the talk isParkinson disease. And that was he was
playing rock paper scissors and it didn'tcome off well and it was shaking,
(04:31):
and then all of a sudden,now this thing exploded and they started looking
at it. Rule number one,don't play rock paper scissors when you're running
for president. It just doesn't lookgood. In the meantime, the White
House said, and wouldn't say whythis doctor was showing up, but that's
what the problem is. When youhave gene whatever, what is it?
(04:55):
What is it? Uh So,when she refused to confirm or elaborate on
this doctor's visit the other day,that just causes problems. And then she
did that like outrage. I'm offended. You'd ask that that be respectful.
(05:15):
Yeah, me agree that that's alwayshiding when you become the victim. Normally,
it is nobody's business what your medicalissues are, unless you're president of
the United States. If you hadbusiness, you know your taxes mean less
to me than your health, andwe you know so. So the point
(05:35):
is that he has been examined bya neurologist every year when he gets his
annual Barack Obama had people or hadthis specialist show up several times during his
administration and Trump. Uh we foundout last last night when does reas thing.
(06:00):
No, but I sure would haveliked the press the Press secretary to
expand on that. She did sayhe is not being treated for Parkinson's.
He is not taking any medication nowfor Parkinson's. I got the idea that
if I would have felt much betterif she had said he does not have
(06:26):
Parkinson's. Yeah. See that's thething. So what if he ends up
getting voted back in and he endsup having Parkinson's, then it's like,
well, all you can do isthis. The White House is going to
mandate that any camera that is videohim has one of those stabilizer devices.
(06:48):
You know, they should put iton him. Yeah, they just there's
no way they can do a staticcamera shot on him. They're going to
have a steady camp for the president. They're gonna have to. Yeah.
So it's NATO's diamond anniversary. SoPresident Biden is hosting NATO for meetings this
(07:08):
week. They start today go forthe next three days in DC. It's
the seventy fifth anniversary of NATO.They are apparently going to focus on ways
to reassure Ukraine, then NATO supportsit and its efforts against Russia. And
there's a somewhat of a misunderstanding aboutNATO. NATO is not going to get
(07:30):
into the war in Ukraine. Asa matter of fact, it can't under
the NATO regulations. It does go, it doesn't go into war. It
only defends the Now, what isit? Thirty two members that are part
of NATO, and it was originallystarted what nineteen forty eight it started?
How many members were there? Ithink there were five or eight. But
anyway, so NATO's pretty important.The only person that really doesn't like NATO
(07:56):
is President Trump, although to givehim credit, the US was paying far
more than it's our fair share ofthe cost of NATO, and the other
countries just weren't putting up the waythey're supposed to per the treaty. But
that's his attitude towards the financial side, not a NATO as a concept.
(08:16):
I don't think. I don't thinkhe's ever said NATO per se there's anything
wrong with it. If memory serves, it was all about the money,
and he did light the fire undertheir ass and didn't start and he got
them to start paying what is supposedto be paid. Okay, one more
before you take a break. TropicalStorm Barrel unleashed some severe weather, obviously
(08:39):
to southeast Texas just yesterday, floodinghighways, closing oil ports, canceling more
than thirteen hundred flights, knocking outpower to two point seven million dollars or
seven two point seven million homes andbusinesses, and on top of all that,
killing at least four people. Yeah, it's a bad one. And
(09:01):
this is just the start. It'sthe earliest of a major tropical storm or
hurricane that has come this early inthe season. This strength, this does
not bode well, it really doesn't. We're in for a rough time heat
wave. Well, all kinds ofrecords were set in the last few days,
and Amy, we're looking at morerecords set this week, aren't we.
(09:24):
Yep, it's going to be hot. Thank you. That's our weather
person, Amy, who started itas a weather Let me go look outside,
Bill, Yeah, it's hot,So we can take the heat here
in SoCal But in Oregon it's adifferent story. So far. During Oregon's
heat wave, which is similar toours, they're seeing temperatures over one hundred
degrees at least five deaths have beenreported since Friday. Yeah, it's gonna
(09:48):
get worse. It's gonna get worse. Seven twenty. I'm doing a story
on the heat wave, but notnecessarily. The number of people that are
dying will die, do die,But just the cost of heat is becoming
astronomical. We'll be doing that laterone. All right, So California's power
(10:13):
grid, Oh brownouts, no brownouts, don't use your air conditioner, and
now use your air conditioner. SoCalifornia endures this historic record setting heat wave,
the power grid managers are reassuring thepublic that supply can meet the demand
and go ahead and keep the airconditioners running, even though they always tell
(10:35):
us that we need to save.They haven't issued any flex alert. No
they haven't. And you know why, why because so many people have solar
systems in their house and you don'tneed electricity, or you need far less
during the day when it's hotter thanhell, because your solar system is for
(10:56):
u seing electricity. That's it.Or I think that or that government Newsome
got mocked so bad for saying thathe wants everybody to get ev cars when
we can't even withstand regular use ofour power. I think that's more emissions
than anything else. But and youcan look this one up. I don't
think there's been a power plant builtin thirty years. Oh no, that's
(11:18):
an oil refinery. I don't rememberthe last time a power plant was built
because of solar. Because we areusing less and less. What is it
thirty percent of California's energy is nowproduced by So this is just an about
face. It seems very I don'tknow, No, I can't. I
have a great idea. No,you know, it's getting hotter. We
(11:39):
know that Palm springs one hundred andtwenty four degrees on Saturday. Is that
insanity? Yet at the same time, we've had heat waves that were far
less than we're in the middle ofnow, and we've had brownouts. The
rolling brown outs are the rolling blackouts. And I think it's because and I'm
just guessing here, but I thinkit's a good educated guests because of solar.
(12:01):
For example, I put in myPersian palace had a solar system.
Literally the first phone call I made, or one of the first when I
bought my new place west to Sunlux. I know, Ding, ding Ding,
It's well, how's that for apromo, but there was no way
I was not going to have asolar system. And I like your conditioning,
(12:24):
so there good keeps you from stinking. Yeah, California doctor, if
you remember you skipped me? Didyou? No? It is Amy.
I don't want to miss this onebecause I think whoever did this should be
zip tied themselves. A dog,a beautiful German shepherd, was found in
(12:46):
a remote area of Malibu Crete Canyon. It had zip ties over its muzzle
and around its neck, so apair of rock climbers found it last Wednesday,
was about two hundred feet off thetrail. They were able to get
to the dog and the dog turnedout to be friendly, so they got
the zip ties off and then calledanimal control in and so they've rescued the
(13:07):
dog. He's being taken care of. He's seven years old. And the
saddest part of this is not thatthese jerks did this to this dog,
as the dog could be very sick. It may have lymphoma, but they
said that if it is, ifit does, they have the resources to
treat it. So it's not upfor adoption or anything yet. But the
dog's been rest as bad as itis. Abandoning a dog, and that
(13:30):
is horrific. Zip tying its muzzleso it can't drink if it finds water,
can't eat, and we'll simply yeah, it can't do anything. I
mean, it is just horrific.That is that should be twenty five to
life. Well, it's you know, it's frustrating that this poor dog is
zip tied and you're walking around withno zip ties and a good point and
(13:52):
some pictures. Yeah, well itis. It's a sweet ermon dog.
You can treat a shepherd. Yeah, it looks like a shepherd, maybe
a shepherd mixed, beautiful about sevenyear old dog. And they don't have
it up for adoption. I wouldimagine that we will get follow ups on
this and will like, well,if it is to be brought up for
adoption now, there'll be hundreds ofpeople lined up to grab it simply because
of the publicity. Absolutely good Californiadoctor who drove as Tesla and his family
(14:20):
off at two hundred and fifty footcliff tried to kill them. We'll undergo
two years of mental health treatment ina diversion program rather than getting nailed for
attempted murder, which is what theDA put up there. The San Mateo
County DA back in January twenty twentythree is when this took place, if
(14:43):
you remember, so, I don'tknow why they don't just put them in
a tent with the rest of thecrazy people. Yeah. Well, first
of all, Michelle, I'm gettingreally tired of these families, these drivers
driving off a cliff to kill everybodyin the car. That's it. I
don't want any more of those storiestoday. I'm up to hear with those
now. It's kind of unusual.You would think, how mentally ill does
(15:05):
this guy have to be, asyou pointed out, Neil to drive off
the cliff with him inside the carbecause he wanted to kill everybody. And
I don't even think his wife wantedto press charges. If I'm not mistaken,
Amy, you remember this story.I think his wife was on his
side, and well, not onthe side in terms of driving over the
(15:26):
cliff, but in terms of hismental illness, in terms of his abilities
just to think straight. And thejudge obviously bought that. Yeah, yeah,
I mean trying to kill your family, you know? Is that worth
two years of mental health treatment?And then it's dismissed through a diversion program.
I mean, you can't practice medicineanymore, and he can't smoke marijuana.
(15:50):
I guess that's part of it.Drink alcohol or even see his wife
and kids for those two years.Yeah, I it baffles me. Yeah
it is. It is baffling.Time to head back to face the music.
A French court has ruled that aguy from Saratoga, California, who
(16:15):
was accused of sexually assaulting a collegestudent in Pennsylvania back in twenty thirteen and
then lady later sending her a messageon Facebook saying so I raped you,
can be extradited to the US.The guy's name is Ian Cleary. He's
thirty one. They found him innortheastern France after searching for him for three
years, and he's been held.He wanted to fight extradition, but the
(16:37):
French court said, nope, yougot to go back to the US.
Yeah, here's the genius who admitsraping someone on Facebook. I mean there
is there's a Darwin winner on thatone. I mean he should actually be
extradited for stupid, the crime ofstupid, because he has hit that level.
(17:00):
Good news. Huh, So Iraped you, he writes, but
I'll never do it again. Okay, we can take one more, all
right. Federal judge in Alaska resignedfor his what would normally be a lifetime
appointment after an internal investigation concluded hecreated a hostile work environment for his law
(17:25):
clerk. I did law clerks ratherplural, and engaged in an inappropriate sexual
relationship with one of them after herclerk clerkship ended. And apparently he encouraged
his law clerks to rape people basedon their sexual desirability. He belittled or
ostracized clerks who tried to talk himout of his inappropriate cash. This is
(17:48):
like working for handle. Yeah,yeah, right. So two issues on
this one. One is the allegationor simply it's the statement that he was
stripping a law clerk after she leftthe clerkship. Who cares about that?
And I'm consenting adults. He's nolonger she's no longer subordinate, so they
(18:11):
have a relationship. It's the hostilework environment. I think that did it.
It's the way he treated his staff, and that you can't do.
He can't. Nope. And bythe way, by the way, if
he had, he could not beremoved unless he's impeached. You know that,
don't you it's a lifetime appointment,but he resigned. Chuck Schumer is
(18:32):
working on a workaround. The Senatemajority leader says he and other Democrats are
going to work to advance legislation tostrip former President Trump of the immunity he
was granted under last week's Supreme Courtruling. I guess it was a week
and a half ago. That protectsthe president's official acts from criminal prosecution.
(18:53):
Now Congress can do that, theycan overrive the Supreme Court. Well,
it's the Supreme Court interprets what immunityis, and it's the unofficial versus official
really isn't in the language of theConstitution. And if Congress says this is
basically by the way the court,Supreme Court kicked it back down to the
(19:17):
lower court to determine with whether whatthe president did was official or unofficial.
So it can happen. It's notgoing to but it can happen. I
mean, what makes that really scarythis decision by the Supreme Court is when
dealing with deciding what's unofficial and whatis official, you can't bring evidence in,
(19:40):
for example, as to motive.That can't be considered. So you
know, it was more than aparrot victory for Trump. I mean,
he got away with this one.That's the Teflon president, he truly is.
He's not the president. He wasthe Teflon president. He is now
the Teflon and he will be theTeflon president when he runs or when I
(20:07):
think he's going to win. IfI had Democrats keep trying to keep Joe
Biden in, that's the problem.We shall see. They have no choice.
Unfortunately, you know what, youcan walk around the Trump will walk
around the White House going I officiallyhate you and winking at people. Yeah.
If I were, if I werean advisor for Trump, I just
(20:29):
say, lay low, no morecrazy accusations. Just lay low. I
don't have to do anything. LetJoe Biden win the election for you,
which I think would happen. Okay, right, Uh. A one billion
dollar gift to John Hopskins Hopkins Universityfrom billionaire Mike Bloomberg will make a medic
school medical school free for most studentsand increase financial aid for those enrolled in
(20:55):
nursing, public health, other graduateprograms. And this just I am changing
my name legally to John's Hopkins Medicals. I mean, this is a big
deal. It's already been done oncefor I think the new I think NYU
Medical School if they have one doneby a multi zillionaire. And this is
not just here is a billion dollarsfor scholarships. Here's a billion dollars of
(21:22):
which the interest or the investment offthe billion dollars is paying for all of
these students. I mean it islifetime. There's enough money there to pay
for tuition for all of the studentsforever. Yes, Amy, I have
a question. Yes, So doesthat mean that Bloomberg is going to have
all of that money given back tohim because of the White House's plan to
(21:47):
erase student debt? No, it'sthere because this means that students will not
have student debt. Okay, thisjust says free medical school. Now,
getting into Hopkins is hard enough,it's one of the top medical schools in
the country. How hard do youthink it's going to go in now because
(22:07):
there's no tuition? But anyways,Bloomberg, he's a billionaire Bloomberg News former
mayor of New York, so thata good guy. He doesn't have to
keep it. So, I meanhe's a multi billionaire, but pretty impressive
to say the least. Okay,good luck if you want to buy a
home. Speaking of big dollars,buying home in La and Orange Counties cost
(22:30):
ten times more than what you typicallymake in a year. That's nice.
That's double what it was in nineteeneighty. By the way, LA and
Orange County metro areas had the fourthhighest price income ratio out of the three
hundred metro areas listed on a newreport. Yeah, look at how much
money you need someone putting down threepoint five down payment. You know,
(22:55):
I would think it's twenty percent andthat's the way to get the best.
But you put down three and ahalf percent down payment. I'm assuming there
are programs that do that. You'dhave to earn four hundred and twenty thousand
dollars a year for a median pricedhome. Four hundred and twenty thousand dollars
a year income. How is thatfor insanity? Unless you live in San
(23:19):
Jose. San Jose, it's alittle bit better. You need five hundred
and sixty six thousand dollars annually tobe able to afford a medium priced median
priced home, and that's using thethirty percent. Well, I think it's
just to afford it much less.The pretcent percent rule, which says that
(23:41):
you should only use or should onlypay thirty percent of your income for rent
or mortgage, and that's been thrownout the window. People pay a lot
more than that, all right.California will impose permanent water restrictions for the
first time in history, after thestate's Water Resources Control Board approved this incredibly
(24:02):
long debated policy. So, yeah, they're gonna not just individual households or
businesses, retail water suppliers will nowbe required to reduce their water use by
close to thirty percent over the nextfifteen years. Yeah, we're not going
to be asked to do that,no mandate, and we just won't have
(24:25):
enough water to keep it going fullblast because we're not gonna be able to
get the water. It'll be athirty percent cut. So I think we're
going to go back to you can'twater your lawns, you can't wash your
cars, you can't use water toclean your driveway. Yeah, in your
case, Neil, you are savingthe environment by not showering. So there's
(24:52):
get ready, get ready for that. Shut up, Kono's laughing. You
stack the ass, you stink.We don't even know what's under that hat.
Bruh uh. Yeah, but youknow what, they never they never
take away something and give it back. That's the reality. So they want
you know, when it comes towater, that's not true because they'll come
(25:14):
in with a policy of water restrictionsand then they'll turn it around like we
had when it was huge rains wehad and water restrictions were off. And
then when they're when it's really droughtland and we don't have any water,
they do that. You'll see thatgoing up. Did you change anything at
the Persian Palace? No? Yeah, well you know what we had to
(25:34):
us little people had to and Iwent to DG. I went to zero
scaping, we went to succulence.We've done all that multiple times, and
all it does is cost us acrap ton of money. Well, okay,
let's do this. I put inartificial grass, so I have mil
grass, which they're looking at outlawing, by the way, right with my
(25:56):
new place. All it's artificial combination, artificial grass, cacti or actually its
cactuses or cacti, and succulents likeyou say, and no baths or showers
for weeks at a time. Wellthey call them succulents for a reason because
they suck as outdoor decoration in lessand landscaping unless you live in possibly I
(26:18):
think they're beautiful, but that's besides. They can be beautiful, but it's
just not grass. No, it'snot busy at the beach, baby,
lifeguards didn't have a lot of timeto just sit around and soak up the
sun. Over the long holiday weekend, five thousand, six hundred and twenty
rescues were logged at beaches in OrangeCounty between July fourth and the seventh.
(26:44):
That makes it the busiest Fourth ofJuly weekend in the past decade. In
Laguna Beach, which is just sevenand a half mile stretch of coastline,
lifeguards made a total of twenty twohundred and seventy eight rescues. Twelve hundred
of those were to get people outof rip currents. So when lifeguards have
to take breaks by law, theyjust let people drown. Sarah, come
(27:10):
on, stay out of the water. And if you're an idiot, you
know, thank you for helping uswith our gene pool. Just cotten rip
tides and they tell you riptides stayout of the water and people go in
the water, come on, orget eaten by a shark. That's also
good too. Oh did you seethat shark bite from last week? Did
you guys talk about that as like, oh yeah, that whole chunk of
(27:33):
that person's leg was just God.I did a story about how rare shark
bites are, and the next daythere were four of them off of one
beach in Florida. Okay, we'renot going to do these are extremely rare
stories anymore. Well, yeah,that's the way. The shark lights are
very rare. Yeah. Rapidly expandingand accelerating, complex of complex of landslides.
(28:02):
They are on the southern east,southeastern rather tip of Pelos Verdes Peninsula.
Not only reecavoc causing problems to homes, roads, utilities, all of
that. We heard about Wayfarer's chapelhad to be abandoned at least temporarily.
But it's creating a new beach.Have you seen a picture of the new
(28:23):
beach. Boy, this is abeach you'd want to go to. Lots
of rocks. Yeah, it ishorrible, but you know it happens.
So in the meantime, on theother side Pacific Coast Highway, the entire
hillside is coming down and destroying thehighway. But you get one hundred and
fifty feet of this new rocky.You can't walk on a beach, so
(28:44):
I guess that's still beachfront property.Yeah, yeah, you'd want that in
front of your house. Okay,okay, let's see. If you love
California, you just might love this. You can tune in now to twenty
four to seven live stream of hulHauser's visiting series. It's on PBS Southern
(29:07):
California's YouTube channel. Now. Ifyou're not familiar with heul Hauser, he
was a public TV producer. Diedback in twenty thirteen. I am not
familiar with him because, oh no, you have to do now. You
have to look at this. No, I know, I mean I'm good
looking for you have there? Imean it is Wow, that's an avocado
(29:27):
eating dolls. Yeah, that's aman. That's Hulhuser. He's quite a
piece, but hugely, hugely popular. Remember when I had that horrible,
god awful television show, the worstshow television show in the history of mankind.
The soundstage was right next to hulhusersound stage where he did a lot
(29:49):
of his work, I mean insidework. Of course, it was all
location shooting for him or ninety fivepercent, and it was He's done a
lot of it California Goal. Andhe takes these little stories of people.
For example, you've got the oldestavocado tree in California. Gosh, that's
an old tree. He would putplaces on the map. Tali ran down
(30:12):
the street from us here in Burbank. Boom shaka laga. All right,
we'll end with this diagnosis of sexuallytransmitted diseases jump nearly twenty four percent among
seniars ages sixty five and older duringthe pandemic, so says this study.
And yes, syphilis was a bigone, followed by Donna Rhea. Have
(30:37):
you have you seen those well,have you seen those retirement communities? Yeah?
I mean their stoop Land is oneof them. Oh yeah, very
impressive. Okay, we're done,guys. Just a real quick personal shout
out a miss ya Ethel. I'mthinking about your baby. KFI AM six
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