July 8, 2025 • 31 mins
(July 08,2025)
Heather Brooker and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. New flooding risks; death toll rises in Central Texas. Heavily armed immigration agents in L.A’s MacArthur Park. Trump announces new tariffs of up to 40% on a growing number of countries. US Justice Department finds no Jeffrey Epstein ‘client list.’
Heather Brooker and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. New flooding risks; death toll rises in Central Texas. Heavily armed immigration agents in L.A’s MacArthur Park. Trump announces new tariffs of up to 40% on a growing number of countries. US Justice Department finds no Jeffrey Epstein ‘client list.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
First named storm of the twenty twenty five Atlantic hurricane
season to hit the US, and the name.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Is Sean Tall. Now, come on, Sean Tall. That's a
French hooker.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Seriously, and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
It is a Taco Tuesday Handle Morning Crew, July eighth.
As we're in the middle of summer, you know, the
weather's been pretty nice in southern California, and look at
what they're going through in Texas and those camps, particularly
along the Guadalupe River.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's just a horrific story. What is the count now?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Is one hundred and five fishally dead and still have
dozens missing?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Do I have that right headther?
Speaker 6 (01:02):
That's correct?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Just crazy. It's absolutely heartbreaking. And a lot of those
were kids, and younger kids. Because as I'm looking at
this story, the youngest campers were closer to the river,
and the older campers were up on the bank, were
farther up, and a lot of them survived, clearly why
(01:27):
and the younger kids near the river just most of
them didn't stand a chance.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
It's it's tough. So anyway, with that, let me say
good morning to one and all.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Neil, good morning to you, hey, Willie Wolf yep, And
I noticed, I said, your beard it looks a little unkempt,
and it's it's bushy.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It is bushy. Yes, you have had it's it's a
bushy beard.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
That's it needs a trim. Normally comes to a point
right now. It's a little bushy.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, so all right, So by the way, let me
ask something because usually on July fourth, you will die
at red, white and blue. I've seen that a few
times and didn't happen this.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Year, Red green and blue for me, hyn't thee.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh yeah, excuse me, you're right, July fourth, red green
and blue.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
There's a connection there. Anyway. Good morning, Kno, good morning Bill.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Happy Prime Day, Well.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's right, it's happy Prime Day. Yes, not that I
go on the computer and buy anything. But we're going
to talk about Prime Day. Mike Dubuski or Dubuski ABC
Technology reporter is going to join us about Prime Day,
which is going to go what is it four days now?
And then it's gonna be Prime week and then Prime
month and before you know it, here we go. It's
fire season every day of the year.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Heather, good morning, good morning. There you go.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And Heather's here all week long, Heather Brooker and is
always here running the show. And as will there Will.
You have to move the camera so I can see you, will,
because I'm just looking at the street there.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, that is California Street.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That's right, Yeah, all right, fair enough, all right, So
we've got a fair amount to cover. Obviously, we've got
international news that Yahoo and how unusual Donald Trump news,
as well as following that god awful, horrific story in Texas,
(03:33):
and the storms keep on coming. Uh, they're looking at
another amount of a good amount of rainfall. What was
it they in a month? They got rain in one
four months worth of rain four months any place. I mean,
that's just that is just crazy, that really is. And
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of course what is that going to do? And then
the Guadalupe River overflowed its banks and went up twenty
five feet in forty minutes or something completely insane.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That's why no one stood a chance or people that
were close.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
All right, you guys, ready to do it as we
start our Tuesday Taco Tuesday, July eighth, handle on the
News with Heather Brooker in for Amy this week, Neil
Savedra in for Neil Savada this week, and I am
in for Law this week.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You were giving me a look.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Heather, No, I was, I'm here. I was trying to yawning, Yes,
trying not to yawn yeah, and me giving you a
weird luck.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But I was like, good, you're already we're into the
show now three minutes and you're already bored.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
He's trying to sound like me.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Let me have a little coffee. I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, good for you.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
All right, guys, here we go handle on the news
lead story, well, new flooding risks in central test Texas,
storm ravage, terrain. As Heather and I were discussing one
hundred and five people confirmed dead, a lot of them kids,
(05:11):
young kids eight nine years old, and what a couple
of dozens still missing and they're well.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And put it this way, the rescue efforts have.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now turned into recovery as you have thousands of volunteers
going through the debris and finding bodies. I can't even
imagine going through the debris and moving a tree stump
or some branches aside and seeing the body of.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
An eight year old.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I mean, I can't even imagine how horrific that must be.
So most of it was in Carer County and the
Guadalupe River and this happened on July fourth.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Wow, can't miss it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Christian Girls School has what about seven hundred and fifty
one thousand campers known all over the country, and well,
obviously Camp Mystic has wiped out.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It's been around for.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
A while, but then there were several dozen camps that
were along the river. It's just one of those places
that you know, it was the center for girl girls
camp specifically.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
You know, my daughter goes to a Sleepway camp and
you know, I was talking about this with Jim Ryan
this morning, and one of the things that's so heartbreaking
about this too is that this particular story, when you
send these kids off to summer camps like this, a
lot of times they don't let you bring your cell phones, right,
They don't want the kids to have cell phones. So
none of these children had cell phones. They had no
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way to be alerted, no way to contact.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Also, almost one o'clock in the morning, when the first
cell phone the announcement came out at one o'clock, they
already had mentioned life threatening floods coming. Yeah, and you're right,
they're putting up now they're putting up sirens along the
river bank a little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, they're going to do that.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
And apparently little some of the counselor's only a handful
of the counselors had actual phones, and they tried their
best to alert people. But when you've got that many kids,
you know, and nobody it has cell phone, and I
guess the reception there is really bad as well. There
was just no way to get the word out to everybody,
to get them ount into.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It's story after a story that's horrific.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I remember going to sleep away camp I'll never forget
as a kid, and when it was time for me
to come home, my parents said, why don't you stay
a little longer?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It was they called it stay away camp.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Stay there, can't you know?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
It's it's interesting we talk about these things because you know,
these natural disasters have been going on forever, and we
always think technology is going to save us, and it's
you know, if there's only so much can do, only
so much warning on these things, and you know, like
earthquakes or anything else. I mean, did you see the
way that water rushed in. It looked like a movie.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, Okay, some local stuff we're going to cover today, Heather.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
All right, So big doings yesterday at MacArthur Park when
a convoy of immigration agents carrying rifles and wearing tactical
gears showed up in the middle of an area that's
widely considered to be the heart of the immigrant community
in Los Angeles. They're at MacArthur Park. They apparently were
(08:38):
looking for immigrants without documentation, and they're not saying if
anybody was arrested. They say they don't comment. The DHS
says they're not commenting ongoing enforcement operations. But Mayor Bass
showed up in the middle of all this. It was
all The video that was captured showed her. She was
talking to someone on the phone. We don't know who
she was talking to. She borrowed one of the ice
(09:01):
agent's phones to make a phone call or speak to somebody,
and then it was like this, this hustle and bustle
of clear everybody out and then they left shortly after.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
All right, more on that at seven am.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
That's a spec of crap park, by the way, beautiful
and she never goes there. There's so many problems with it,
and she shows up for you know, this moment, although
it was pretty harry.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's about two miles away from me.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, if she needed a fake passport, she can go
to MacArthur Park and pick one up.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Didn't it used to be a nice park, like.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
A long time ago.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
No, yes, years ago.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It is a beautiful park and I have spent a
lot of time there. Oh, but I will, I will
tell you it has gotten so bad that Langers, if
you remember Handle months sometime last year, was complaining and
calling out mare Baths for not doing anything right.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
A great Delli, but it's right there across the street
is a crap hole.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, hold a craphole.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
With tons of drug deals going down. She hasn't done squat,
but the minute there's a photo opportunity, she's out there.
Pretty horrific though, to see military vehicles out there all right.
Top medical organizations suing the Health and Human Services Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Junior, including you know, different groups like
(10:24):
the American Academy of Pediatrics and Society for Maternal Fetal
Medicine because they say that him going back and saying
that COVID nineteen vaccine, they no longer recommend for children
or pregnant people, pregnant people.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Pregnant women, children, healthy children, pregnant women.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
So yeah, so they're saying that this could be dangerous
and it was sidelining science.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Who can disagree with that.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well, like fire seventeen, the original members of this committee
that gives advice to the Centers for Disease Control to
determine which vaccines are appropriate, what doses, who should get
the vaccines. Fires All seventeen brings in eight new ones,
half of them skeptics, straight out vaccine skeptics.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And of course it's an uproar. It's an uproar.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I can't wait for him to try to get federal
law making vaccines illegal. Maybe I'm a little bit hyperbolic there,
but I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
You know, that's that's your least hyperbolic statement I think
I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Maybe.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
All right, all right, we told you about it. Yesterday.
Trump was saying he's going to send out letters and
increase tariffs. Well he did it. He sent out several
letters to heads of several countries informing them of their
new tariff rate. Those reciprocal tariffs are expected to go
into effect on Wednesday, and in some cases the letters
(12:03):
Trump sent specify new reciprocal tariff rates that are higher
or lower compared to the April levels.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, there's a couple of ways of looking at what
he talks about is reciprocal tariffs. In other words, what
a country charges us for goods to bring goods in,
we charge the same.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So on his face, it seems pretty fair.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
The problem is is that tariffs are very different different products.
Do we want to tariff things that we need and
don't even produce and we bring in. Do we want
to tariff those and make it more expensive for consumers.
It's a lot more complicated than just a simple reciprocal
tariff scheme. But anyway, we'll see what happens. The man
(12:51):
writes a letter says something, and people jump, people jump.
His influence around the world is extraordinary. Oh here's a
fun one, Neil.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
We're going to release them. I promise we're going to
release them.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
We're going to release all the information about the sex offender,
Jeffrey Epstein and his Little Black Book.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But it doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, you am BONDI she had she It was like
Joe McCarthy. She literally said, I have a list here
of people who are in Epstein's Little Black Book.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
She made it up.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
They all had to, and how could the president not know?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
And keep saying we're going to release this information and
then it doesn't matter exhaustive review of these.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
You say whatever is going to give you some political ammunition.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
That's all. You make it up.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You just make it up a lot like this show,
you know, when you just make it up, a lot
like Handle on the lot.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Make it up.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
So President Donald Trump promised this, and as we have
seen very few things that he has said, you know,
in his statements prior to becoming president, you know, he's
pretty much gone, hey, I'm going to go after legal immigrants,
all these things. He's doing tariffs, all these things. But
this is one thing where he said he was going
(14:13):
to release this. And his supporters are growing frustrated because
a lot of them are into conspiracies and they're saying, hey,
he didn't kill himself. Well, the Justice Department of the
FBI in the us U, they did, Well, you got
the conspiracy people, and he said, hey, he killed himself
and there's no black book.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, and incidentally, Trump promised to get rid of the
illegal immigrants. At first, it was the bad guys, remember,
only the bad guys.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But that takes too much time. You have to look, it's.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Easier just sweeping the park.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Easier to send out a big net.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Though it was crazy to see that kind of military
in military gear.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Made no sense at all.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Do we all right? I have other questions about that
Trump Epstein story, but we'll move on. Fireworks are suspected
to be the cause of the brush fire that was
happening in your homes in Laguna Beach. This is an
investigation that is ongoing. It only got to about four acres,
but several homes were evacuated. Those evacuation orders have since
(15:15):
been lifted. And now the fire department thinks that it
might have been some fireworks, people messing around with fireworks.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, this year, there have been more accidents with fireworks
that I remember. And the magnitude of these fireworks, yeah,
just heartbreaking from.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
The neighborhood fireworks. And then there was the seven people
who died in Yolo County from the fireworks plants there
or company there. And oh yeah, yeah, there's just a
lot of fireworks related problems this year.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And people that their kids play with fireworks, and you know,
a couple of them were screaming, hands off, hands off
the fireworks, and the kid misinterprets it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh what.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I'm I can't hear you.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
We got to move on to the next No, I'm
not saying anything. I'm just shaking my head.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
E Trump says he'll send new weapons to Ukraine. If
you remember, he stopped. They paused as they said, I'm
sending weapons there. But he says we have to. They
have to be able to defend themselves. They're not able
to and we need to send them all.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, there was a big issue of keep in mind,
we're in the middle of America firsters. We are in
that kind of philosophy come from the Biden administration where
we are the beacon of democracy and we're there to
be at the forefront of democracy, which means that we're
sending weapons to.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Places around the world.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
That our allies that big attacked by the bad guys
who we need to support our allies. It's different today
because our allies are not really our friends. Our enemies
are our friends. It's kind of crazy. But and according
to Pete headsith they cut back on the arms being
(17:18):
sent to Ukraine for defense.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Well that's changed.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It's obvious that Trump who thinks there's going to be
and is trying to get some kind of a piece
of cord between Ukraine and Russia. It is not going
to happen. He's admitted it, putin just won't let it happen,
just not paying attention. So we're back to We're back
to the federal government, the US government supplying Ukraine with
defensive weapons.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
So I've spent some time of the last week or
so talking to people in the Altadena and Palisades area
who were victims of the wildfire in January, talking about
the recovery efforts. I did a special report on it.
It aired yesterday. If you guys get a chance to
check that out, it's really interesting to hear what they're
all saying about the rebuilding and recovery efforts. Well, now,
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Governor Newsome said yesterday he's unveiled a blueprint for the
next phase of recovery after those wildfires, and that plan
outlines a four month planned to identify community needs, prioritize
rebuilding efforts, and maintain momentum. You know, in when I
was looking at investigations, you know, there's a county website
(18:26):
that has a dashboard with how many building permits have
been requested, how many days it's taking to get the
permits approved. You can see, you know, real time access
to that. And when I was doing the story yesterday,
eleven hundred applications had been submitted for rebuilds permits for
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rebuilds in the Palisades and Altadena areas. Only eighty five
had been approved. And out of those, something like forty
three were for single family homes in Altadena and only
one was for a single family home in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Was it newsom yesterday that talked about the debris cleaning
and it took a month and it was some international
records setting debris cleaning.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Yeah, So the Army Corps of Engineers in really record
time has cleared all of the parcels of land. They're
like ninety four percent done. They're expected to be finished
sometime in July. With clearing the land of debris, doing
that six inch scrape and then handing it back over
to the property owner.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
The dollar rose sharply against other major currencies yesterday after
US President Donald Trump announced new tariffs set to go
on effect on August first. So you've got Japan, South
Korea that'll be affected by those new tariffs. And Trump
posted letters to the leaders of these countries and more
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on his social media platform, which he loves.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
And showing the letter, which is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And this thing goes up and down and up and down,
and do the terrors kick in August first?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Will there be an extension? Who knows? Will the numbers change?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Who knows will these countries kowtow considering the power the
United States has?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Maybe no one really knows. Tell you.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
The part I don't understand is the stock market is
at basically record highs with all of the turmoil going on.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Companies aren't hiring.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Inventories and are.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Low and not being replaced. So I don't get.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
It all right. A woman has lost her arm after
being attacked by a lion in Queensland Darling downs Zoo, Queensland,
Darling down Zoo. That's a tongue twister, the woman Darling
down Zoo. The unidentified woman was attacked on Sunday morning.
It was taken to the High Hospital in Brisbane, where
(21:01):
she had read surgery. There apparently she well, I don't
know what she was doing.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Did she work there? You sort of get the impression
she worked there.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Yeah, it says the woman was watching keepers work in
the carnivore precinct when inexplicably one of the animals grabbed
her by the arm. So I'm not sure why she
would be there watching.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
The story adds added that the attack of her dream
and activity the woman has done many many times over
the past twenty years.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
So I mean, this story is.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
She was just observing them, who knows many many times.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
That's strange though, to be so close to lions like that.
And yeah, maybe she works there, maybe she's a volunteer.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
The story doesn't say anyways, she lost her arm.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
And don't hang out with lions.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, I was about to make a horrible joke, but
I'm not going to. Okay, good, So this woman goes
past a lion enclosure and okay, let's just move on.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Neil's already shaking his head like no.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
No, and his solidarity.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Everybody's working in solid yeah, you know, in solidarity, but
in solidarity. Everybody working at the zoo stands in front
of the lion enclosure and their arms, arm in arm.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Oh not quite okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
It's like getting your arm close to a tree chipper.
It just is bad, bad, bad, all right. Department of
Veterans Affairs announced yesterday it's walking back plans for mass layoffs.
If you remember, they talked about shedding tens of thousands
of jobs at the end of fiscal year twenty twenty five.
While the VA Secretary previously said that their goal was
(22:48):
to layoff roughly eighty thousand employees, the total stuff is
around four four hundred and seventy thousand people. They were
going to do that, but looks like they've pushed back
that fifteen percent of its workforce being dumped. Now they're
scrapping those plans, and we'll see what the number ends
(23:09):
up being.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yea, our veterans alone people.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, four hundred and seventy thousand employees is in the
US government has to be like two point three million
employees something along those lines. And out of that four
hundred and seventy thousand work for the VA.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
In any case, have too many as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yeah, Well, the.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
VA Press secretary said, as you said, they cut back
is not nearly as big, but no major changes, and
none of these reductions are going to impact veteran care
or benefits. All mission critical positions are exempt. I don't
know when you cut that many people down, you know,
(23:53):
are these guys that mow the lawn? Is that thirty
thousand of those so that one. I don't know the
answer to. The numbers are so skewed across the board
these days that I have absolutely no idea. I don't
think anybody does as to what's really going on. Oh,
here's some more numbers.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
All right. The Trump administration is ending the temporary status
for eighty thousand Hondurans and Nicaraguans that has allowed them
to live and work in the US for nearly a
quarter of a century. These are people who came here
after that hurricane, the devastating hurricane in Central America, I believe,
back in the nineties, and now their status has been
(24:38):
reviewed and Christy Nome is saying it's time to go.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah, we think about this.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
This temporary status protected status was as a result of
the infrastructure being destroyed in Hunters in Nicaragua.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
They have rebuilt.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
A lot of that and so people, I'm going to
take the side of the government on this one. Does
temporaries status mean permanent status? And that is what I
think advocates saying, once you've been granted temporary status, it's
really permanent status.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Let's not hid ourselves. Well.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Trump administrations say, no, temporary is temporary. And based on
our rules, what we set up, what we defined as
the basis for this temporary status, those terms are those
situations no longer occur and now it is safe to
return back.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Government has the right to do that.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
That's what we're seeing with companies now saying okay, COVID's over. Essentially,
get your ass back to work, right, Yeah, you have.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
A whole that's exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah, you let us do remote Let us do remote work.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Therefore, we should do remote work forever, even though the
pandemic is over all.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Sad and strange story Italian sniffer dog that was known
to have saved multiple people through its sniffing found nine
missing people during its career. Once honored by Italy's Prime Minister,
was killed after eating a sausage filled with nails that
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were thrown into his kennel. They believe obviously it was
on purpose. You don't get nails like that in there.
They suggested the killing was carried out as revenge because
Bruno this beautiful dog and his role in dismantling dog
fighting rings. Oh man, what piece of garbage.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
The dog's trainer said, he even knows who's responsible because
we know who it is. Get on that now, Well
all you have to do. Let me ask you a question.
You released this guy's name and address. How long does
he stay alive?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah? That's just absolutely disgusting.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Right, sad? Speaking of sadness, let's talk about some of
the unhappiest jobs. Anybody here? Anybody here?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yea working on this show? Top of the list according
to survey.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Yeah, according to a survey of people on the Handle show.
All right, so net happiness score, let's talk about that.
It is a new report that's come out from something
called shift Pulse. They did a survey to find out
who is the most unhappy jobs, and it's kind of surprising.
Apparently pharmacists working in pharmacies has the worst net happiness score,
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with just like under fourteen percent of pharmacy workers giving
a positive assessment. And then the next three jobs on
the unhappiness list were working in delivery and postal services,
animal health, and medical clinics. And then on the other
end of that. This is kind of funny. I think
the happiest workers were those who work in tobacco, E
(27:56):
cigarette and marijuana stores.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Now you see that's not fair because this is when
you talk about your numbers being skewed. So there they
go and go to.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
A dispensary, for example, and ask people how happy they
are working there.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Hey, man, I'm so happy.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I'm so happy.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Just look wait, wait, wait, wait, you have the same pharmacists.
You've got pharmacists.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah they do, Yes they do.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
Yeah, I have friends pharmacies. They get yelled at a lot.
It's a very stressful job.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
People are mean, mean, right, If you guys are quiet,
you can actually hear Tesla stock fall chairs and Tesla
plunged six point seventy nine percent yesterday after CEO Elon
Musk said he's forming a new American political party. So, uh,
you know, President Trump's ticked off and all that, but
(28:49):
don't you think that his involvement was with politics is
what kind of annoyed shareholders in the first year. And
then he says, okay, I'm getting out of it. And
then he says, now I'm He's getting back into it.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, and he was ignoring Tesla, there's no question, and
it really hurt the value. They had dropped over fifty percent.
Although space X I think is doing just fine.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well, there's no you know, there's no.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, there's no Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
There's there's no consumer to buy SpaceX products. It's all
pursued to contracts with NASA and NASA Yeah, so I
get that.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
But you can get evs, you know, anywhere they used
to lead.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I mean, they're gorgeous cars. They're beautifully made Tesla's.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
You don't like them, but anything other than the cyber truck,
I think they're lovely cars and really.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Well, I bought one. It lasted two weeks.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
My mom wanted to visit the Tesla's store to see
one in like up close, and I took her to
visit it, and she was so excited. I'm gonna get
a Tesla.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, talk to handle about that. Okay, let's I think
we haven't time for at least one more. So.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
This is kind of a bad story here. Cole's French
Dip in downtown La has announced it will permanently close
on August third. They say the COVID pandemic, Hollywood strikes
and increased crime, rising labor and goods and high rent
and legal challenges are what's forcing them to close, which
does sound like an overwhelming, a overwhelming amount of problems.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Yeah, this is almost what one hundred and twenty years old, this.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Place, it's story knocked on the door one seventeen. But
if you've never been there, it's gorgeous inside. They used
to have the Varnish, which closed some time ago, which
was a speakeasy in the back, which was wonderful, very small.
The food there is was excellent, that the cocktails were
just top notch.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Their drink program and it's sad as hell.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Well, and they claim they invented Cole's invented the French dip. Now, yes,
you go to Philip which, by the way, you I
like Philip's Big tables, and they have lamb sandwiches, which
you don't find very many other places. And the lamb
tastes better after they pick it up off the floor
(31:08):
when it hits a sawdust and it is it's a
very different, very different flavor to it. Not that I'm
talking about the restaurants themselves, and I.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Like them both.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Okay, I've never.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Been to either one. I member, I've never been.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Very lost, very very neay to go.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Make it a priority.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, now I can't doing it anymore. All Right, We're done, guys.
This is KFI A M sixty.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
First named storm of the twenty twenty five Atlantic hurricane
season to hit the US, and the name.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Is Sean Tall. Now, come on, Sean Tall. That's a
French hooker.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Seriously, and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
It is a Taco Tuesday Handle Morning Crew, July eighth.
As we're in the middle of summer, you know, the
weather's been pretty nice in southern California, and look at
what they're going through in Texas and those camps, particularly
along the Guadalupe River.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's just a horrific story. What is the count now?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Is one hundred and five fishally dead and still have
dozens missing?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Do I have that right headther?
Speaker 6 (01:02):
That's correct?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Just crazy. It's absolutely heartbreaking. And a lot of those
were kids, and younger kids. Because as I'm looking at
this story, the youngest campers were closer to the river,
and the older campers were up on the bank, were
farther up, and a lot of them survived, clearly why
(01:27):
and the younger kids near the river just most of
them didn't stand a chance.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
It's it's tough. So anyway, with that, let me say
good morning to one and all.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Neil, good morning to you, hey, Willie Wolf yep, And
I noticed, I said, your beard it looks a little unkempt,
and it's it's bushy.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It is bushy. Yes, you have had it's it's a
bushy beard.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
That's it needs a trim. Normally comes to a point
right now. It's a little bushy.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, so all right, So by the way, let me
ask something because usually on July fourth, you will die
at red, white and blue. I've seen that a few
times and didn't happen this.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Year, Red green and blue for me, hyn't thee.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh yeah, excuse me, you're right, July fourth, red green
and blue.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
There's a connection there. Anyway. Good morning, Kno, good morning Bill.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Happy Prime Day, Well.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
That's right, it's happy Prime Day. Yes, not that I
go on the computer and buy anything. But we're going
to talk about Prime Day. Mike Dubuski or Dubuski ABC
Technology reporter is going to join us about Prime Day,
which is going to go what is it four days now?
And then it's gonna be Prime week and then Prime
month and before you know it, here we go. It's
fire season every day of the year.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Heather, good morning, good morning. There you go.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And Heather's here all week long, Heather Brooker and is
always here running the show. And as will there Will.
You have to move the camera so I can see you, will,
because I'm just looking at the street there.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, that is California Street.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That's right, Yeah, all right, fair enough, all right, So
we've got a fair amount to cover. Obviously, we've got
international news that Yahoo and how unusual Donald Trump news,
as well as following that god awful, horrific story in Texas,
(03:33):
and the storms keep on coming. Uh, they're looking at
another amount of a good amount of rainfall. What was
it they in a month? They got rain in one
four months worth of rain four months any place. I mean,
that's just that is just crazy, that really is. And
(03:54):
of course what is that going to do? And then
the Guadalupe River overflowed its banks and went up twenty
five feet in forty minutes or something completely insane.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That's why no one stood a chance or people that
were close.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
All right, you guys, ready to do it as we
start our Tuesday Taco Tuesday, July eighth, handle on the
News with Heather Brooker in for Amy this week, Neil
Savedra in for Neil Savada this week, and I am
in for Law this week.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You were giving me a look.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Heather, No, I was, I'm here. I was trying to yawning, Yes,
trying not to yawn yeah, and me giving you a
weird luck.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But I was like, good, you're already we're into the
show now three minutes and you're already bored.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
He's trying to sound like me.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Let me have a little coffee. I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, good for you.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
All right, guys, here we go handle on the news
lead story, well, new flooding risks in central test Texas,
storm ravage, terrain. As Heather and I were discussing one
hundred and five people confirmed dead, a lot of them kids,
(05:11):
young kids eight nine years old, and what a couple
of dozens still missing and they're well.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And put it this way, the rescue efforts have.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now turned into recovery as you have thousands of volunteers
going through the debris and finding bodies. I can't even
imagine going through the debris and moving a tree stump
or some branches aside and seeing the body of.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
An eight year old.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I mean, I can't even imagine how horrific that must be.
So most of it was in Carer County and the
Guadalupe River and this happened on July fourth.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Wow, can't miss it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Christian Girls School has what about seven hundred and fifty
one thousand campers known all over the country, and well,
obviously Camp Mystic has wiped out.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It's been around for.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
A while, but then there were several dozen camps that
were along the river. It's just one of those places
that you know, it was the center for girl girls
camp specifically.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
You know, my daughter goes to a Sleepway camp and
you know, I was talking about this with Jim Ryan
this morning, and one of the things that's so heartbreaking
about this too is that this particular story, when you
send these kids off to summer camps like this, a
lot of times they don't let you bring your cell phones, right,
They don't want the kids to have cell phones. So
none of these children had cell phones. They had no
(06:47):
way to be alerted, no way to contact.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Also, almost one o'clock in the morning, when the first
cell phone the announcement came out at one o'clock, they
already had mentioned life threatening floods coming. Yeah, and you're right,
they're putting up now they're putting up sirens along the
river bank a little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, they're going to do that.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
And apparently little some of the counselor's only a handful
of the counselors had actual phones, and they tried their
best to alert people. But when you've got that many kids,
you know, and nobody it has cell phone, and I
guess the reception there is really bad as well. There
was just no way to get the word out to everybody,
to get them ount into.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It's story after a story that's horrific.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I remember going to sleep away camp I'll never forget
as a kid, and when it was time for me
to come home, my parents said, why don't you stay
a little longer?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It was they called it stay away camp.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Stay there, can't you know?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
It's it's interesting we talk about these things because you know,
these natural disasters have been going on forever, and we
always think technology is going to save us, and it's
you know, if there's only so much can do, only
so much warning on these things, and you know, like
earthquakes or anything else. I mean, did you see the
way that water rushed in. It looked like a movie.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, Okay, some local stuff we're going to cover today, Heather.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
All right, So big doings yesterday at MacArthur Park when
a convoy of immigration agents carrying rifles and wearing tactical
gears showed up in the middle of an area that's
widely considered to be the heart of the immigrant community
in Los Angeles. They're at MacArthur Park. They apparently were
(08:38):
looking for immigrants without documentation, and they're not saying if
anybody was arrested. They say they don't comment. The DHS
says they're not commenting ongoing enforcement operations. But Mayor Bass
showed up in the middle of all this. It was
all The video that was captured showed her. She was
talking to someone on the phone. We don't know who
she was talking to. She borrowed one of the ice
(09:01):
agent's phones to make a phone call or speak to somebody,
and then it was like this, this hustle and bustle
of clear everybody out and then they left shortly after.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
All right, more on that at seven am.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
That's a spec of crap park, by the way, beautiful
and she never goes there. There's so many problems with it,
and she shows up for you know, this moment, although
it was pretty harry.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's about two miles away from me.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, if she needed a fake passport, she can go
to MacArthur Park and pick one up.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Didn't it used to be a nice park, like.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
A long time ago.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
No, yes, years ago.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It is a beautiful park and I have spent a
lot of time there. Oh, but I will, I will
tell you it has gotten so bad that Langers, if
you remember Handle months sometime last year, was complaining and
calling out mare Baths for not doing anything right.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
A great Delli, but it's right there across the street
is a crap hole.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, hold a craphole.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
With tons of drug deals going down. She hasn't done squat,
but the minute there's a photo opportunity, she's out there.
Pretty horrific though, to see military vehicles out there all right.
Top medical organizations suing the Health and Human Services Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Junior, including you know, different groups like
(10:24):
the American Academy of Pediatrics and Society for Maternal Fetal
Medicine because they say that him going back and saying
that COVID nineteen vaccine, they no longer recommend for children
or pregnant people, pregnant people.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Pregnant women, children, healthy children, pregnant women.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
So yeah, so they're saying that this could be dangerous
and it was sidelining science.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Who can disagree with that.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well, like fire seventeen, the original members of this committee
that gives advice to the Centers for Disease Control to
determine which vaccines are appropriate, what doses, who should get
the vaccines. Fires All seventeen brings in eight new ones,
half of them skeptics, straight out vaccine skeptics.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And of course it's an uproar. It's an uproar.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I can't wait for him to try to get federal
law making vaccines illegal. Maybe I'm a little bit hyperbolic there,
but I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
You know, that's that's your least hyperbolic statement I think
I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Maybe.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
All right, all right, we told you about it. Yesterday.
Trump was saying he's going to send out letters and
increase tariffs. Well he did it. He sent out several
letters to heads of several countries informing them of their
new tariff rate. Those reciprocal tariffs are expected to go
into effect on Wednesday, and in some cases the letters
(12:03):
Trump sent specify new reciprocal tariff rates that are higher
or lower compared to the April levels.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, there's a couple of ways of looking at what
he talks about is reciprocal tariffs. In other words, what
a country charges us for goods to bring goods in,
we charge the same.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So on his face, it seems pretty fair.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
The problem is is that tariffs are very different different products.
Do we want to tariff things that we need and
don't even produce and we bring in. Do we want
to tariff those and make it more expensive for consumers.
It's a lot more complicated than just a simple reciprocal
tariff scheme. But anyway, we'll see what happens. The man
(12:51):
writes a letter says something, and people jump, people jump.
His influence around the world is extraordinary. Oh here's a
fun one, Neil.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
We're going to release them. I promise we're going to
release them.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
We're going to release all the information about the sex offender,
Jeffrey Epstein and his Little Black Book.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But it doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, you am BONDI she had she It was like
Joe McCarthy. She literally said, I have a list here
of people who are in Epstein's Little Black Book.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
She made it up.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
They all had to, and how could the president not know?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
And keep saying we're going to release this information and
then it doesn't matter exhaustive review of these.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
You say whatever is going to give you some political ammunition.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
That's all. You make it up.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You just make it up a lot like this show,
you know, when you just make it up, a lot
like Handle on the lot.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Make it up.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
So President Donald Trump promised this, and as we have
seen very few things that he has said, you know,
in his statements prior to becoming president, you know, he's
pretty much gone, hey, I'm going to go after legal immigrants,
all these things. He's doing tariffs, all these things. But
this is one thing where he said he was going
(14:13):
to release this. And his supporters are growing frustrated because
a lot of them are into conspiracies and they're saying, hey,
he didn't kill himself. Well, the Justice Department of the
FBI in the us U, they did, Well, you got
the conspiracy people, and he said, hey, he killed himself
and there's no black book.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, and incidentally, Trump promised to get rid of the
illegal immigrants. At first, it was the bad guys, remember,
only the bad guys.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But that takes too much time. You have to look, it's.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Easier just sweeping the park.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Easier to send out a big net.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Though it was crazy to see that kind of military
in military gear.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Made no sense at all.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Do we all right? I have other questions about that
Trump Epstein story, but we'll move on. Fireworks are suspected
to be the cause of the brush fire that was
happening in your homes in Laguna Beach. This is an
investigation that is ongoing. It only got to about four acres,
but several homes were evacuated. Those evacuation orders have since
(15:15):
been lifted. And now the fire department thinks that it
might have been some fireworks, people messing around with fireworks.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, this year, there have been more accidents with fireworks
that I remember. And the magnitude of these fireworks, yeah,
just heartbreaking from.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
The neighborhood fireworks. And then there was the seven people
who died in Yolo County from the fireworks plants there
or company there. And oh yeah, yeah, there's just a
lot of fireworks related problems this year.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And people that their kids play with fireworks, and you know,
a couple of them were screaming, hands off, hands off
the fireworks, and the kid misinterprets it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh what.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I'm I can't hear you.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
We got to move on to the next No, I'm
not saying anything. I'm just shaking my head.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
E Trump says he'll send new weapons to Ukraine. If
you remember, he stopped. They paused as they said, I'm
sending weapons there. But he says we have to. They
have to be able to defend themselves. They're not able
to and we need to send them all.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, there was a big issue of keep in mind,
we're in the middle of America firsters. We are in
that kind of philosophy come from the Biden administration where
we are the beacon of democracy and we're there to
be at the forefront of democracy, which means that we're
sending weapons to.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Places around the world.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
That our allies that big attacked by the bad guys
who we need to support our allies. It's different today
because our allies are not really our friends. Our enemies
are our friends. It's kind of crazy. But and according
to Pete headsith they cut back on the arms being
(17:18):
sent to Ukraine for defense.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Well that's changed.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It's obvious that Trump who thinks there's going to be
and is trying to get some kind of a piece
of cord between Ukraine and Russia. It is not going
to happen. He's admitted it, putin just won't let it happen,
just not paying attention. So we're back to We're back
to the federal government, the US government supplying Ukraine with
defensive weapons.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
So I've spent some time of the last week or
so talking to people in the Altadena and Palisades area
who were victims of the wildfire in January, talking about
the recovery efforts. I did a special report on it.
It aired yesterday. If you guys get a chance to
check that out, it's really interesting to hear what they're
all saying about the rebuilding and recovery efforts. Well, now,
(18:05):
Governor Newsome said yesterday he's unveiled a blueprint for the
next phase of recovery after those wildfires, and that plan
outlines a four month planned to identify community needs, prioritize
rebuilding efforts, and maintain momentum. You know, in when I
was looking at investigations, you know, there's a county website
(18:26):
that has a dashboard with how many building permits have
been requested, how many days it's taking to get the
permits approved. You can see, you know, real time access
to that. And when I was doing the story yesterday,
eleven hundred applications had been submitted for rebuilds permits for
(18:47):
rebuilds in the Palisades and Altadena areas. Only eighty five
had been approved. And out of those, something like forty
three were for single family homes in Altadena and only
one was for a single family home in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Was it newsom yesterday that talked about the debris cleaning
and it took a month and it was some international
records setting debris cleaning.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Yeah, So the Army Corps of Engineers in really record
time has cleared all of the parcels of land. They're
like ninety four percent done. They're expected to be finished
sometime in July. With clearing the land of debris, doing
that six inch scrape and then handing it back over
to the property owner.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
The dollar rose sharply against other major currencies yesterday after
US President Donald Trump announced new tariffs set to go
on effect on August first. So you've got Japan, South
Korea that'll be affected by those new tariffs. And Trump
posted letters to the leaders of these countries and more
(19:54):
on his social media platform, which he loves.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
And showing the letter, which is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And this thing goes up and down and up and down,
and do the terrors kick in August first?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Will there be an extension? Who knows? Will the numbers change?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Who knows will these countries kowtow considering the power the
United States has?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Maybe no one really knows. Tell you.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
The part I don't understand is the stock market is
at basically record highs with all of the turmoil going on.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Companies aren't hiring.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Inventories and are.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Low and not being replaced. So I don't get.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
It all right. A woman has lost her arm after
being attacked by a lion in Queensland Darling downs Zoo, Queensland,
Darling down Zoo. That's a tongue twister, the woman Darling
down Zoo. The unidentified woman was attacked on Sunday morning.
It was taken to the High Hospital in Brisbane, where
(21:01):
she had read surgery. There apparently she well, I don't
know what she was doing.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Did she work there? You sort of get the impression
she worked there.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Yeah, it says the woman was watching keepers work in
the carnivore precinct when inexplicably one of the animals grabbed
her by the arm. So I'm not sure why she
would be there watching.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
The story adds added that the attack of her dream
and activity the woman has done many many times over
the past twenty years.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
So I mean, this story is.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
She was just observing them, who knows many many times.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
That's strange though, to be so close to lions like that.
And yeah, maybe she works there, maybe she's a volunteer.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
The story doesn't say anyways, she lost her arm.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
And don't hang out with lions.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, I was about to make a horrible joke, but
I'm not going to. Okay, good, So this woman goes
past a lion enclosure and okay, let's just move on.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Neil's already shaking his head like no.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
No, and his solidarity.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Everybody's working in solid yeah, you know, in solidarity, but
in solidarity. Everybody working at the zoo stands in front
of the lion enclosure and their arms, arm in arm.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Oh not quite okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
It's like getting your arm close to a tree chipper.
It just is bad, bad, bad, all right. Department of
Veterans Affairs announced yesterday it's walking back plans for mass layoffs.
If you remember, they talked about shedding tens of thousands
of jobs at the end of fiscal year twenty twenty five.
While the VA Secretary previously said that their goal was
(22:48):
to layoff roughly eighty thousand employees, the total stuff is
around four four hundred and seventy thousand people. They were
going to do that, but looks like they've pushed back
that fifteen percent of its workforce being dumped. Now they're
scrapping those plans, and we'll see what the number ends
(23:09):
up being.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yea, our veterans alone people.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, four hundred and seventy thousand employees is in the
US government has to be like two point three million
employees something along those lines. And out of that four
hundred and seventy thousand work for the VA.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
In any case, have too many as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yeah, Well, the.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
VA Press secretary said, as you said, they cut back
is not nearly as big, but no major changes, and
none of these reductions are going to impact veteran care
or benefits. All mission critical positions are exempt. I don't
know when you cut that many people down, you know,
(23:53):
are these guys that mow the lawn? Is that thirty
thousand of those so that one. I don't know the
answer to. The numbers are so skewed across the board
these days that I have absolutely no idea. I don't
think anybody does as to what's really going on. Oh,
here's some more numbers.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
All right. The Trump administration is ending the temporary status
for eighty thousand Hondurans and Nicaraguans that has allowed them
to live and work in the US for nearly a
quarter of a century. These are people who came here
after that hurricane, the devastating hurricane in Central America, I believe,
back in the nineties, and now their status has been
(24:38):
reviewed and Christy Nome is saying it's time to go.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah, we think about this.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
This temporary status protected status was as a result of
the infrastructure being destroyed in Hunters in Nicaragua.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
They have rebuilt.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
A lot of that and so people, I'm going to
take the side of the government on this one. Does
temporaries status mean permanent status? And that is what I
think advocates saying, once you've been granted temporary status, it's
really permanent status.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Let's not hid ourselves. Well.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Trump administrations say, no, temporary is temporary. And based on
our rules, what we set up, what we defined as
the basis for this temporary status, those terms are those
situations no longer occur and now it is safe to
return back.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Government has the right to do that.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
That's what we're seeing with companies now saying okay, COVID's over. Essentially,
get your ass back to work, right, Yeah, you have.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
A whole that's exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah, you let us do remote Let us do remote work.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Therefore, we should do remote work forever, even though the
pandemic is over all.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Sad and strange story Italian sniffer dog that was known
to have saved multiple people through its sniffing found nine
missing people during its career. Once honored by Italy's Prime Minister,
was killed after eating a sausage filled with nails that
(26:19):
were thrown into his kennel. They believe obviously it was
on purpose. You don't get nails like that in there.
They suggested the killing was carried out as revenge because
Bruno this beautiful dog and his role in dismantling dog
fighting rings. Oh man, what piece of garbage.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
The dog's trainer said, he even knows who's responsible because
we know who it is. Get on that now, Well
all you have to do. Let me ask you a question.
You released this guy's name and address. How long does
he stay alive?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah? That's just absolutely disgusting.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Right, sad? Speaking of sadness, let's talk about some of
the unhappiest jobs. Anybody here? Anybody here?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Yea working on this show? Top of the list according
to survey.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Yeah, according to a survey of people on the Handle show.
All right, so net happiness score, let's talk about that.
It is a new report that's come out from something
called shift Pulse. They did a survey to find out
who is the most unhappy jobs, and it's kind of surprising.
Apparently pharmacists working in pharmacies has the worst net happiness score,
(27:35):
with just like under fourteen percent of pharmacy workers giving
a positive assessment. And then the next three jobs on
the unhappiness list were working in delivery and postal services,
animal health, and medical clinics. And then on the other
end of that. This is kind of funny. I think
the happiest workers were those who work in tobacco, E
(27:56):
cigarette and marijuana stores.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Now you see that's not fair because this is when
you talk about your numbers being skewed. So there they
go and go to.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
A dispensary, for example, and ask people how happy they
are working there.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Hey, man, I'm so happy.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I'm so happy.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Just look wait, wait, wait, wait, you have the same pharmacists.
You've got pharmacists.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah they do, Yes they do.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
Yeah, I have friends pharmacies. They get yelled at a lot.
It's a very stressful job.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
People are mean, mean, right, If you guys are quiet,
you can actually hear Tesla stock fall chairs and Tesla
plunged six point seventy nine percent yesterday after CEO Elon
Musk said he's forming a new American political party. So, uh,
you know, President Trump's ticked off and all that, but
(28:49):
don't you think that his involvement was with politics is
what kind of annoyed shareholders in the first year. And
then he says, okay, I'm getting out of it. And
then he says, now I'm He's getting back into it.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, and he was ignoring Tesla, there's no question, and
it really hurt the value. They had dropped over fifty percent.
Although space X I think is doing just fine.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well, there's no you know, there's no.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, there's no Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
There's there's no consumer to buy SpaceX products. It's all
pursued to contracts with NASA and NASA Yeah, so I
get that.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
But you can get evs, you know, anywhere they used
to lead.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I mean, they're gorgeous cars. They're beautifully made Tesla's.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
You don't like them, but anything other than the cyber truck,
I think they're lovely cars and really.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Well, I bought one. It lasted two weeks.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
My mom wanted to visit the Tesla's store to see
one in like up close, and I took her to
visit it, and she was so excited. I'm gonna get
a Tesla.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, talk to handle about that. Okay, let's I think
we haven't time for at least one more. So.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
This is kind of a bad story here. Cole's French
Dip in downtown La has announced it will permanently close
on August third. They say the COVID pandemic, Hollywood strikes
and increased crime, rising labor and goods and high rent
and legal challenges are what's forcing them to close, which
does sound like an overwhelming, a overwhelming amount of problems.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Yeah, this is almost what one hundred and twenty years old, this.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Place, it's story knocked on the door one seventeen. But
if you've never been there, it's gorgeous inside. They used
to have the Varnish, which closed some time ago, which
was a speakeasy in the back, which was wonderful, very small.
The food there is was excellent, that the cocktails were
just top notch.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Their drink program and it's sad as hell.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Well, and they claim they invented Cole's invented the French dip. Now, yes,
you go to Philip which, by the way, you I
like Philip's Big tables, and they have lamb sandwiches, which
you don't find very many other places. And the lamb
tastes better after they pick it up off the floor
(31:08):
when it hits a sawdust and it is it's a
very different, very different flavor to it. Not that I'm
talking about the restaurants themselves, and I.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Like them both.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Okay, I've never.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Been to either one. I member, I've never been.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Very lost, very very neay to go.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Make it a priority.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, now I can't doing it anymore. All Right, We're done, guys.
This is KFI A M sixty.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
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