July 18, 2025 • 30 mins
(July 18, 2025)
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. New U.S assessment finds American strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites. ‘The Late Show with Steven Colbert’ to end May 2026. House passes Trump’s $9BIL DOGE cuts package. Trump diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a minor vein condition, after noticing swelling in legs.
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. New U.S assessment finds American strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites. ‘The Late Show with Steven Colbert’ to end May 2026. House passes Trump’s $9BIL DOGE cuts package. Trump diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a minor vein condition, after noticing swelling in legs.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I misplaced my phone fifteen times a day because I
always put it in different places. I pick it up
and I put it someplace, and I completely forget where
I put it, and then I forget who I am.
And that's a whole that's on another different issue, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
AM sixty Morning everybody, Handle and Morning Creuse. Sort Of
on a Friday morning, July eighteenth, at Kono, we just
barely made me getting programmed by like three seconds.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, I saw the panic in your face.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Who's that panic? Are you kidding? No?
Speaker 5 (01:01):
You never actually have panic. You just sit there here
like a yeah. Yeah, there was a chance that I
wasn't going to do the show today. You go back
to bed because there was no pro programming. Yeah, we
did eventually, and so oh that would have been great
because Neil is not here.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Amy, what do you do when I'm gone and Neil
is gone?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I guess we have an extended version of wake up call?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I guess you do, and you just start scrambling.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's never happened before, and I'm hoping that it doesn't
ever happen.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Interview the uh the illegal migrant who's running the fruit
stand down on the corner.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
No, we much bigger names than that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, the illegal migrant that has a taco stand yep, Okay,
that's fine. You notice I use the word migrant now.
I don't use the word alien anymore.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Is uh ann or good morning? Is illegal aliens still
being used illegally or have they have that? They have
changed that?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You'll say illegal it's usually illegal immigrant now.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, I know, but I'm talking about legally. I mean
the word alien.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
For example, alien resident is a Green card holder, so
the word alien is used, but illegal alien, I'm wondering
if that's used legally. For example, the word imbecile.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Is a lot around here.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well that's a given, but it's a legal term, the
word imbecile, and I think that has been removed as
part of I.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Think it was either the criminal procedure, the law.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Or civil procedure you know, US code, I think, or
maybe the California civil procedure. I don't know, don't know,
but a couple of words that are used and not
used do do change in their lifetimes.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Well, the only I think, the only the only word.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Or the only organization hasn't changed is the is the
National Association of Color People.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
They have not changed that. Where else can you use
the word colored people? You can't but.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
In the and see a triple b q R. It
is because it's such a historical organization created in the
late eighteen hundreds. They're not going to take away its
historical name, which is wonderful. I mean, good for them, history.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Pre EMPs or Trump's if you will, you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The popular vernacular is. Okay, So we've got Coto, We've
got Amy, we have Ann. Neil is not here.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Nikki is mad cap Australian jew. Good morning, Nikki. How
are Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I took home about a pound and a half of
locks yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
No, I froze it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I had some this morning, but I couldn't believe it
that much was left. I mean all the bagels were gone,
and the fruit was gone, and the cream cheese was gone.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
But the locks. No one ate the lots.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I don't actually eat it myself. I'm a vegetarian, but
I miss it.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
You're a vegetarian, I am sorry, Yeah you should be,
but I ate caviat.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You know, you can't eat caviaar, you know, because those
are you know, fish cuts or fish eggs.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Egg I eat eggs. It's not born yet, it's not birthed.
It doesn't have a face.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I always wondering about not having a face. Okay, will
good morning.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Good morning sir. All right, don't see you at all
on the screen.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I'm in the process of moving boots.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh that's why.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yes, okay, all right, Neil is gone what today and
all through next week?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And there's a show continue on sure.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Matter of fact, is fry so we're not having foody Friday.
I don't think we're doing ask Candle anything because we
just didn't get enough phone calls.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I didn't pitch it enough.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We are. Unfortunately, the guy with the taco stand down
the street is not available, notwithstanding the fact he doesn't
speak a word of English. But we do have a
guy with the name of David Zucker who is going
to be with us. Now you may not know his
name out immediately, but have you ever seen the film
(05:31):
Airplane Naked Guns. That's David Zucker and he's at an
event on Sunday where it's gonna be a lot of fun.
I'm going to talk to him because well he's crazy.
I mean, you sit there and you go, who thinks.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Of that stuff on the airplane? In any case?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
All right, moving on, So Will I can't even make
fun of anything you're dressed in today, if you are
even because I haven't seen you yet.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I'm wearing something some some something. You're wearing something. All right,
see they can't see you. This is radio. So you
know who's worthy gonna take. I'll get the line right. Well,
thank you. You know, i'd like to see what you
look like. Okay, are you ready to do this?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It's time for Handle on the News on a Friday morning,
July eighteenth, and it's a non foody Friday, so it's
just Friday, and we start with Handle on the News
with Amy and Me lead story. Okay, US assessment the
latest on the Iran on the strikes against the Iran
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nuclear sites. It looks like two out of three were
not particularly harmed.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Not they were harmed, just.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Not decimator or not particularly damaged.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean there was some damage, it was it was
more of a one was was taken out basically one
was is fair to say, was severely taken out.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
The other two were fender benders.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And it's uh, stops Iran from I guess going forward
for a matter of months. I think this is a
lot of psychological a lot of psychological pull on Iran
because Ran knows that with Trump in office and Natanyahu
in office, no one's screwing around here. I mean, no
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one is at this point. The United States in Israel
are not loath to go in there and just bomb
the crap out of Iran.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Moving on, Colbert's getting canceled. The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert will end in May of twenty twenty six. He
made the announcement last night on the show basically said, Hey,
before we get started, I wanted to let you know
that we are going to be ending the show. They
said they're not replacing him, They're just ending the show,
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and CBS is saying, hey, this was a financial decision.
It comes against a challenging backdrop in Late Night. It said,
it's not related to the show's performance, content or other
matters happening at Paramount Now. One of the things. One
of the matters that happened was that after Trump and
(08:09):
CBS settled that lawsuit over sixty minutes in the interview
with Kamala Harris, Colbert went on the air and went
on a ramp about it. Yeah, how much, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
How much politics is involved in this?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Now, the financial decision, that's going to be very easy
to see because CBS is a public company. Paramount is
a public company, and it's going to be easy to
see does it make money or does it not make
money unless they somehow obscure it. It's not complicated to
see that. Here's what it costs to make, here's the
amount of money we make on it or lose on it.
So the politics of this, I think are far far greater.
(08:44):
And what CBS is doing saying we're not replacing Colbert,
we are simply retiring his jersey number and the entire show,
I guess to make it palatable. I mean to me,
this is a complete case, complete cave and that we
will talk about coming up at.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
A thirty this morning. All right, one more if we
take a break, Amy.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The Doge deal is done. House passed a bill last
night two sixteen to two thirteen. Just two Republicans voted
against the package. It will cut nine billion dollars in
spending from the budget. It will affect foreign aid and
(09:32):
public broadcasting. Of course, these were part of the DOGE
cuts announced. Roughly eight billion will be taken from foreign
aid programs like USAID and another billion comes from the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting that helps SPUND, NPR and PBS.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, and there was no issue. Of course, it was
going to be passed. Mike Johnson, the Speaker puts it on.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
The floor the vote.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
There were a couple of votes that were not going
to turn out, and he immediately pulled those on procedural.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Grounds, but it was going to be.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It was a given and on true social Trump says,
this is big. And the speaker said he was quote
delighted to move the Doge package to the President's desk.
And there's this quote, I am delighted to move the
package to the President's desk, mister President, I said, I
was delighted, delighted. Do you hear me, delighted, sycophantic ass
(10:30):
that he is. Would you like to have a somewhat
independent speaker. I mean there were independent speakers that worked
with the President, Tip O'Neil, with President Reagan, but they
were speakers.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Okay, Ice has a new way to find illegal immigrants.
ICE officials are going to be given access to personal
data of ninety ninety million seventy nine million Medicaid enrollees.
The information will give ICE officials the ability to find
the location of aliens across the country. That's what it
says in the agreement signed Monday between the Centers for
(11:09):
Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Wow, we're going to do that later on too.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
See how far the government is going in tracking down
illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You got to be pretty careful.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
When I go to a Mexican restaurant, which I did
a couple of nights ago, I only ordered the caesar salad.
I am not going to be caught ordering Mexican food.
There is no way not. With this government doing what
it's doing.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We've got ICE and fired up. In downtown LA Federal Courthouse,
there was a skirmish, actually a pretty violent clash between
demonstrators and officers from the Department of Homeland Security. It
happened near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown LA yesterday.
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Officers wearing bulletproof which had Homeland Security on them across
the street where a handful of occupy ICE demonstrators were
camped out in front. There were signs a lot of
them had profanity. They were protesting ICE agents in LA.
The struggle got violent. Several people, including a couple of women,
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were taken to the ground. A man was pulled out
of a group and separated by several officers.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Hey, Amy, do we know where the demonstrators were When
you say across the street, they were no longer on
federal property or they weren't on federal property at all?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Do I have that correct?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I have not seen the video. So it said it
happened outside the Federal Courthouse near the Metropolitan Detention Center,
and it said that the officers crossed the street to where.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Yeah, and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And if they ended up crossing the street off of
federal land, you would think the LAPD would come in
and take care of it. I can certainly understand federal
officials on federal land, although I've seen protesters before in
front of, for example, of the Westwood Federal Building and
they were doing their protests and it was only LAPED
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that showed up. So it's kind of interesting whether or
not the I think the big difference if the demonstrators
were on federal land or not.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Kid Comy's warning her warning her colleagues. A day after
being fired by the Department of Justice, Maureen Comy told
her former colleagues that fear is the tool of a tyrant,
apparently taking aim at the upper ranks in the DAJ,
maybe a DOJ, maybe even the President. She sent a
message to the Manhattan US Attorney's Office, which has had
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a long standing motto of operating quote without fear or favor. Comy,
of course, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comy,
prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Gallaine Maxwell. She
told her former colleagues in a note that we have
entered a new phase where without fear may be the challenge.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Do we know whether or not she was political in
nature at all, or she been there for a very
long time.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I do not know. She says she was not provided
a reason for her termination.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Well, we do know. She's the daughter of James Comey,
and we do know he was. She prosecuted Epstein and
Julaanne Maxwell. I don't think that got in the way.
I don't think the DJ paid attention to that.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't know because you look at a lot of prosecutors,
a lot of people in the FBI who are saying
there canned simply because of what they did when they
were asked to investigate in certain aspects of either Department
of Justice, either the Trump folks or Trump people allied
with the Trump camp. Oh, here's some medical news of
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the president which is being made, probably too big a deal, but.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Trump has a chronic condition. He's been diagnosed with a
benign and common vein condition. It's known as chronic venous insufficiency. Basically,
your veins aren't pumping enough blood in the right direction.
He went to see his doctor had a thorough examination
after he noticed that he had some mild swelling in
his legs. It revealed no evidence of a more serious
(15:21):
condition like deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease. White House
Press Secretary Caroline Lovett read the memo about the examination
at the press briefing yesterday, and then the White House
has released it.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, and in normal, the doctor says, is normal anybody
over seventy. It's very common, and particularly the people that
use artificial tanning products all over their face.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Not uncommon at.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
All, You know, why it came everybody started talking about
it was that somebody noticed that he was shaking somebody's
hand and he had makeup on one of his hands.
On the hand on his right hand, the one he
shakes with, he had makeup on it because he's got
some bruising there.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, and a lot when you talk to these politicians
or these movie stars when they're at events. I mean
they're literally shaking hands, particularly a president with thousands of
people at events, and it can get sore. You'll see
a couple of them, you know, was it Ronald Reagan
or whoever? You only saw him shake hands with his
left hand a Bill Clinton because the right hand I
(16:27):
had been bruised so much. You know, because some people
give a very limp handshake, and then there are others
that give a really firm, solid handshake that can.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Hurt Trump does he does a handshake fight Like when
he's gone with the leaders. There's a lot of back
and forth and who's going to let go?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And so one I think is legitimate.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You know, the handshake part of it, the bruising, maybe
the thrombosis.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Now the raccoon look, I think is a whole different story.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That is not a medical condition.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Well, sure looks like you, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
The charge is murder and more charges have been filed
against the guy suspected of killing an American Idol music
supervisor and her husband. It happened in their home in Encino.
Raymond Budarian, who's twenty two years old, also from Encino,
is facing two counts for murder and account of residential
burglary in the deaths of Robin Kay and her husband,
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Thomas de Luca. All of those counts include special circumstances,
so that means that he could be facing the death penalty.
Prosecutors haven't announced if they're going to pursue that yet.
His next court hearing is scheduled for August twentieth.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, Typically what happens is there'll be a plea deal
life imprisonment without possibility of parole, and they take the
death penalty off the table. Also, my Persian palace right
down the street from here, let me tell you how
that feels, because, frankly, you know, when there's a triple
murder and entire kindergarten class is taken out by an
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act from some guy with an axe and it's a
your neighborhood. Yeah, it's okay, you know, I feel bad
about it, but it's in your neighborhood. When this stuff
happens in my neighborhood, that affects me a little bit
deeper wide because I'm a self centered, self aggrandizing ass.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Is that pretty fair?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Amy, Yeah, you were just starting Okay, fine, just okay,
moving on.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Uh, maybe we're going to finally get some insight into
a killer. The judge in Idaho that was doing the
Brian Coburger case has lifted the gag order that's been
in effect for quite a while. That's because Brian Coburger
pleaded guilty to the murders of those four University of
Idaho's students that happened in twenty twenty two, and that
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clears the way for attorneys and prosecutors and law enforcement
and anybody to talk about the case. The judge said
that the gag order was no longer necessary since Coburger's
guilty plea means the case is not going to trial.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And he pled guilty, cut a deal life imprisonment without parole,
or basically he's going to die in prison. So the
death penalty was taken off the table. Also, the only
reason that gag orders are issued are because you go public.
The argument is that those arguments, those public statements can.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Taint the jury pool.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
And if there ain't no jury pool to taint, if
there ain't no pool to taint jury pool, wise.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Why didn't a gag order? And that's why the gag
order was lifted.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Wells Fargo workers aren't going to be going to the
Far East anytime soon. Wells Fargo has suspended all travel
to China because a banker was blocked from leaving the country.
Wells Fargo says that shen Yu Mao was subjected to
an exit ban after she went into China in recent weeks.
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Wells Fargo said, we're closely tracking the situation and working
through the appropriate channels so our employee can return to
the US as soon as possible.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Oh so she's still there.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
She's still there.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah, Oh that's fun.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
So she's being refused permission to leave China, so.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
And has not been charged.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Usually at this point these people are charged with some
kind of espionage or some BS charge.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
So she's just not being allowed to leave.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Kind of scary, yeah, very scary. Yeah, this might ruffle
some feathers. Peacock is raising streaming prices again, third increase
in three years. So later this month prices are going
to go up by three dollars a month. So the
ad supported premium plan is going to go up to
ten ninety nine per month. The premium plus plan apparently
(20:49):
that one doesn't have commercials, will be sixteen ninety nine
a month.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Come on, it's getting to the point where it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Buy all of these platforms.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I mean, I bundle them because I'm really into the
various platforms Prime, which everybody has, certainly Netflix and Hulu,
and I've got a couple of British ones and Peacock.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
But it's getting pretty pricey out there. I mean, it's
now now.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I mean, can you imagine eleven dollars per month with ads?
And usually and originally when you buy this stuff, the
whole purpose is not to have ads. How do you
pay for advertising TV? How does that work? It's like,
can you imagine we who obviously do we on this
(21:42):
show and this station, We do advertising, and that's what
pays for our salaries and pays for this station, and
so you get it for free? You know, all you
have to do is listen to my bad ads. Can
you imagine if we charged you and you had to
listen to our bad ads, our listenership would I will
(22:03):
bet you we would lose fifty percent of our listenership.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
We'd go down to one hundred.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Okay, why will people defy the president? Former House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi says she knows so. She was doing an
interview with SiriusXM and said that a lot of members
of Congress, the Republicans, worry that they could be attacked
in the same way that her husband, Paul was assaulted
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inside their home nearly three years ago. She says, that's
what they're afraid of. She says they don't want their children,
threaten their families, threaten their lives in jeopardy because they
speak out against the president.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah. Now, as the couple, there's a couple of issues here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
There is no question that a lot of these crazy
ass political moves, I mean, criminal moves are done by
Trump supporters. Virtually all of them are political violence done
by Trump supporters. That is not to say that Trump
supporters do that. Certainly, Donald Trump does and does not
advocate in any sense violence at all, nor do any
(23:09):
Republicans that I know. All I'm saying is the crazy
people who tend to do this violence liberals are just idiots,
the fanatic right wing fundamentalists. I think this reaches a
level of well, I mean violence. For example, those with
Roe v. Wade and those that were against abortion. Abortion
(23:30):
clinics were blown up. And so the reality here is
there is retribution being done by the Trump administration. There
is no question and to be primaried out, there is
no question that that is happening. The violence I think
Nancy Pelosi is off although yeah, I gotta tell you,
if you can offend some crazy people out there amy
(23:51):
you were out to say something, well, just.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You can't only blame that on the extreme right, because
then remember when Steve Scalise was shot at those.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, no, I understand, we look at but absolutely, but
for every Ski Steve Scalise, how many incidents of the
violence are on the other end. What I'm telling you
is I think there's far more violence from the fundamental right.
That's what I believe, and I'd love to see some stats.
Don't give me that smile. I hate that smile.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I hate it.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I think it happens on both sides.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Oh it does, Oh, it absolutely does.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I'm not arguing that, I'm just saying in terms of
percentages because what you do, well, let me put it
this way, Okay, people who on the right, I'm sure
you will agree with those on the right, the fundamental's
right are much more engaged and feel far more passionate
than those on the left in terms of their passion
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at least that what we see politically, and those on
the left don't are not big advocates of guns either.
Where those on the rights are, those on the right are.
So I just thought i'd throw that at you.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Okay, you've heard of just do it, well, just pay it.
Celebrity defense attorney Mike Mark Garrigos, who has represented Eric
and Lyle Menendez, has to pay one hundred thousand dollars
to a youth basketball coach for his part in a
scheme back in twenty eighteen to extort Nike Remember this one.
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The coach, Gary Franklin, filed a legal malpractice lawsuit accusing
Garrigos and now disgraced and disbarred attorney Michael Avenatti, saying
that they basically messed up a one and a half
million dollar settlement from Nike because they wanted more money
for themselves. The two attorneys insisted that in addition to
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the one and a half million dollar settlement with Franklin,
they wanted to be hired to do a confidential investigation
and wanted to get paid twenty million dollars or Avenatti
would expose alleged misconduct in youth basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, so it's not just they wanted money for themselves.
This is straight out extortion. As lawyers, they were extorting
representing their client, they were extorting Nike, And so.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Why would they do that. Don't they make enough money?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
No, and you goes especially because he's like so famous.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Right, you know, it's weird like Tom Girardi who has
got in prison, you know, one of the foremost attorneys
in all of California, and the guy stole millions of
dollars from people.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And it was wealthy, wealthy.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I think his wife was one of the housewives of
Beverly Hills.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Eric, I don't know, Yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, I don't know why they do that because there's
just not enough money out there, I guess, you know,
for certain people, there just ain't enough.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
So anyway, one hundred thousand dollars he gets to pay.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Okay, this is genius. Really, the House has passed a
landmark piece of legislation. It's called the Genius Act. It's
the first major crypto legislation ever passed by Congress. Now
heads to President Trump's desk. So in the process of
getting this passed, there was this big blowout when a
(27:13):
few of the Republicans staged a rebellion. They brought the
floor to a standstill, but it was short lived. They
worked it out and then got it passed. It establishes
a regulatory framework for the two hundred and fifty billion
dollar market for stable coins, which is a type of
cryptocurrency that's tied to the value of an asset like
the US dollar. I still don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Well, I need a regulation. Cryptocurrency is the wild West.
There is no regulation.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
In crypto currency, and so they're bringing some kind of
regulation to it.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And it's gone from Trump being so anti crypto now
he's in favor of crypto because of his family and
they got involved in crypto. But I'm happy to hear,
and this is something that Biden did not do. I'm
happy to hear there is some kind of regulatory scheme
coming in on this. This is desperate and this is
the way of the future. I don't get it to
(28:11):
this day. I don't understand crypto literally to this day.
I mean, look what happened twenty years ago when crypto
came out, or thirty years ago, when crypto came out,
you could buy bitcoins bit coins for under a penny,
two or three or five bitcoins for under a penny.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Fast forward?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
This week? It hit one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
per bitcoin.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It's currently at one hundred and twenty Okay, So let's
say you had invested one penny one penny and bought
three or four bitcoins and here you are. You turn
a penny into five hundred thousand dollars. That's a pretty
(28:58):
good return, don't you think. Yeah, all right, I think
we're none guys, we are fioenie.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You don't want to mention that. Yeah, Lute in the
game are coming back?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah, because I love this movie.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Good?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Okay, So Toy Story is coming back to the big screen.
I mean, you can watch it all the time on
Disney Plus, but if you want to see it on
the Big Screen to Market's thirtieth anniversary. It's being re
released in theaters starting on September twelfth. Toy Story was
the first ever fully computer animated feature film, released in
nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Remember how jaw dropping it was. I mean just the technology.
Not only is it a great movie and the story
is terrific and it is just well done as a movie,
but boy, the technologists just floored everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
He think how much better it is now. I know,
if you look at the animated stuff now versus thirty
years ago, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
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I misplaced my phone fifteen times a day because I
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and I put it someplace, and I completely forget where
I put it, and then I forget who I am.
And that's a whole that's on another different issue, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
AM sixty Morning everybody, Handle and Morning Creuse. Sort Of
on a Friday morning, July eighteenth, at Kono, we just
barely made me getting programmed by like three seconds.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, I saw the panic in your face.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Who's that panic? Are you kidding? No?
Speaker 5 (01:01):
You never actually have panic. You just sit there here
like a yeah. Yeah, there was a chance that I
wasn't going to do the show today. You go back
to bed because there was no pro programming. Yeah, we
did eventually, and so oh that would have been great
because Neil is not here.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Amy, what do you do when I'm gone and Neil
is gone?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I guess we have an extended version of wake up call?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I guess you do, and you just start scrambling.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's never happened before, and I'm hoping that it doesn't
ever happen.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Interview the uh the illegal migrant who's running the fruit
stand down on the corner.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
No, we much bigger names than that.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, the illegal migrant that has a taco stand yep, Okay,
that's fine. You notice I use the word migrant now.
I don't use the word alien anymore.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Is uh ann or good morning? Is illegal aliens still
being used illegally or have they have that? They have
changed that?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You'll say illegal it's usually illegal immigrant now.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, I know, but I'm talking about legally. I mean
the word alien.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
For example, alien resident is a Green card holder, so
the word alien is used, but illegal alien, I'm wondering
if that's used legally. For example, the word imbecile.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Is a lot around here.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well that's a given, but it's a legal term, the
word imbecile, and I think that has been removed as
part of I.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Think it was either the criminal procedure, the law.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Or civil procedure you know, US code, I think, or
maybe the California civil procedure. I don't know, don't know,
but a couple of words that are used and not
used do do change in their lifetimes.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Well, the only I think, the only the only word.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Or the only organization hasn't changed is the is the
National Association of Color People.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
They have not changed that. Where else can you use
the word colored people? You can't but.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
In the and see a triple b q R. It
is because it's such a historical organization created in the
late eighteen hundreds. They're not going to take away its
historical name, which is wonderful. I mean, good for them, history.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Pre EMPs or Trump's if you will, you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The popular vernacular is. Okay, So we've got Coto, We've
got Amy, we have Ann. Neil is not here.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Nikki is mad cap Australian jew. Good morning, Nikki. How
are Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I took home about a pound and a half of
locks yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
No, I froze it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I had some this morning, but I couldn't believe it
that much was left. I mean all the bagels were gone,
and the fruit was gone, and the cream cheese was gone.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
But the locks. No one ate the lots.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I don't actually eat it myself. I'm a vegetarian, but
I miss it.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
You're a vegetarian, I am sorry, Yeah you should be,
but I ate caviat.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You know, you can't eat caviaar, you know, because those
are you know, fish cuts or fish eggs.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Egg I eat eggs. It's not born yet, it's not birthed.
It doesn't have a face.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I always wondering about not having a face. Okay, will
good morning.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Good morning sir. All right, don't see you at all
on the screen.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I'm in the process of moving boots.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh that's why.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yes, okay, all right, Neil is gone what today and
all through next week?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And there's a show continue on sure.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Matter of fact, is fry so we're not having foody Friday.
I don't think we're doing ask Candle anything because we
just didn't get enough phone calls.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I didn't pitch it enough.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We are. Unfortunately, the guy with the taco stand down
the street is not available, notwithstanding the fact he doesn't
speak a word of English. But we do have a
guy with the name of David Zucker who is going
to be with us. Now you may not know his
name out immediately, but have you ever seen the film
(05:31):
Airplane Naked Guns. That's David Zucker and he's at an
event on Sunday where it's gonna be a lot of fun.
I'm going to talk to him because well he's crazy.
I mean, you sit there and you go, who thinks.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Of that stuff on the airplane? In any case?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
All right, moving on, So Will I can't even make
fun of anything you're dressed in today, if you are
even because I haven't seen you yet.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I'm wearing something some some something. You're wearing something. All right,
see they can't see you. This is radio. So you
know who's worthy gonna take. I'll get the line right. Well,
thank you. You know, i'd like to see what you
look like. Okay, are you ready to do this?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It's time for Handle on the News on a Friday morning,
July eighteenth, and it's a non foody Friday, so it's
just Friday, and we start with Handle on the News
with Amy and Me lead story. Okay, US assessment the
latest on the Iran on the strikes against the Iran
(06:35):
nuclear sites. It looks like two out of three were
not particularly harmed.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Not they were harmed, just.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Not decimator or not particularly damaged.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean there was some damage, it was it was
more of a one was was taken out basically one
was is fair to say, was severely taken out.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
The other two were fender benders.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And it's uh, stops Iran from I guess going forward
for a matter of months. I think this is a
lot of psychological a lot of psychological pull on Iran
because Ran knows that with Trump in office and Natanyahu
in office, no one's screwing around here. I mean, no
(07:19):
one is at this point. The United States in Israel
are not loath to go in there and just bomb
the crap out of Iran.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Moving on, Colbert's getting canceled. The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert will end in May of twenty twenty six. He
made the announcement last night on the show basically said, Hey,
before we get started, I wanted to let you know
that we are going to be ending the show. They
said they're not replacing him, They're just ending the show,
(07:48):
and CBS is saying, hey, this was a financial decision.
It comes against a challenging backdrop in Late Night. It said,
it's not related to the show's performance, content or other
matters happening at Paramount Now. One of the things. One
of the matters that happened was that after Trump and
(08:09):
CBS settled that lawsuit over sixty minutes in the interview
with Kamala Harris, Colbert went on the air and went
on a ramp about it. Yeah, how much, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
How much politics is involved in this?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Now, the financial decision, that's going to be very easy
to see because CBS is a public company. Paramount is
a public company, and it's going to be easy to
see does it make money or does it not make
money unless they somehow obscure it. It's not complicated to
see that. Here's what it costs to make, here's the
amount of money we make on it or lose on it.
So the politics of this, I think are far far greater.
(08:44):
And what CBS is doing saying we're not replacing Colbert,
we are simply retiring his jersey number and the entire show,
I guess to make it palatable. I mean to me,
this is a complete case, complete cave and that we
will talk about coming up at.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
A thirty this morning. All right, one more if we
take a break, Amy.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The Doge deal is done. House passed a bill last
night two sixteen to two thirteen. Just two Republicans voted
against the package. It will cut nine billion dollars in
spending from the budget. It will affect foreign aid and
(09:32):
public broadcasting. Of course, these were part of the DOGE
cuts announced. Roughly eight billion will be taken from foreign
aid programs like USAID and another billion comes from the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting that helps SPUND, NPR and PBS.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, and there was no issue. Of course, it was
going to be passed. Mike Johnson, the Speaker puts it on.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
The floor the vote.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
There were a couple of votes that were not going
to turn out, and he immediately pulled those on procedural.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Grounds, but it was going to be.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It was a given and on true social Trump says,
this is big. And the speaker said he was quote
delighted to move the Doge package to the President's desk.
And there's this quote, I am delighted to move the
package to the President's desk, mister President, I said, I
was delighted, delighted. Do you hear me, delighted, sycophantic ass
(10:30):
that he is. Would you like to have a somewhat
independent speaker. I mean there were independent speakers that worked
with the President, Tip O'Neil, with President Reagan, but they
were speakers.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Okay, Ice has a new way to find illegal immigrants.
ICE officials are going to be given access to personal
data of ninety ninety million seventy nine million Medicaid enrollees.
The information will give ICE officials the ability to find
the location of aliens across the country. That's what it
says in the agreement signed Monday between the Centers for
(11:09):
Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Wow, we're going to do that later on too.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
See how far the government is going in tracking down
illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You got to be pretty careful.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
When I go to a Mexican restaurant, which I did
a couple of nights ago, I only ordered the caesar salad.
I am not going to be caught ordering Mexican food.
There is no way not. With this government doing what
it's doing.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We've got ICE and fired up. In downtown LA Federal Courthouse,
there was a skirmish, actually a pretty violent clash between
demonstrators and officers from the Department of Homeland Security. It
happened near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown LA yesterday.
(11:57):
Officers wearing bulletproof which had Homeland Security on them across
the street where a handful of occupy ICE demonstrators were
camped out in front. There were signs a lot of
them had profanity. They were protesting ICE agents in LA.
The struggle got violent. Several people, including a couple of women,
(12:18):
were taken to the ground. A man was pulled out
of a group and separated by several officers.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Hey, Amy, do we know where the demonstrators were When
you say across the street, they were no longer on
federal property or they weren't on federal property at all?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Do I have that correct?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I have not seen the video. So it said it
happened outside the Federal Courthouse near the Metropolitan Detention Center,
and it said that the officers crossed the street to where.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Yeah, and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And if they ended up crossing the street off of
federal land, you would think the LAPD would come in
and take care of it. I can certainly understand federal
officials on federal land, although I've seen protesters before in
front of, for example, of the Westwood Federal Building and
they were doing their protests and it was only LAPED
(13:06):
that showed up. So it's kind of interesting whether or
not the I think the big difference if the demonstrators
were on federal land or not.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Kid Comy's warning her warning her colleagues. A day after
being fired by the Department of Justice, Maureen Comy told
her former colleagues that fear is the tool of a tyrant,
apparently taking aim at the upper ranks in the DAJ,
maybe a DOJ, maybe even the President. She sent a
message to the Manhattan US Attorney's Office, which has had
(13:40):
a long standing motto of operating quote without fear or favor. Comy,
of course, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comy,
prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Gallaine Maxwell. She
told her former colleagues in a note that we have
entered a new phase where without fear may be the challenge.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Do we know whether or not she was political in
nature at all, or she been there for a very
long time.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I do not know. She says she was not provided
a reason for her termination.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Well, we do know. She's the daughter of James Comey,
and we do know he was. She prosecuted Epstein and
Julaanne Maxwell. I don't think that got in the way.
I don't think the DJ paid attention to that.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't know because you look at a lot of prosecutors,
a lot of people in the FBI who are saying
there canned simply because of what they did when they
were asked to investigate in certain aspects of either Department
of Justice, either the Trump folks or Trump people allied
with the Trump camp. Oh, here's some medical news of
(14:53):
the president which is being made, probably too big a deal, but.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Trump has a chronic condition. He's been diagnosed with a
benign and common vein condition. It's known as chronic venous insufficiency. Basically,
your veins aren't pumping enough blood in the right direction.
He went to see his doctor had a thorough examination
after he noticed that he had some mild swelling in
his legs. It revealed no evidence of a more serious
(15:21):
condition like deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease. White House
Press Secretary Caroline Lovett read the memo about the examination
at the press briefing yesterday, and then the White House
has released it.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, and in normal, the doctor says, is normal anybody
over seventy. It's very common, and particularly the people that
use artificial tanning products all over their face.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Not uncommon at.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
All, You know, why it came everybody started talking about
it was that somebody noticed that he was shaking somebody's
hand and he had makeup on one of his hands.
On the hand on his right hand, the one he
shakes with, he had makeup on it because he's got
some bruising there.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, and a lot when you talk to these politicians
or these movie stars when they're at events. I mean
they're literally shaking hands, particularly a president with thousands of
people at events, and it can get sore. You'll see
a couple of them, you know, was it Ronald Reagan
or whoever? You only saw him shake hands with his
left hand a Bill Clinton because the right hand I
(16:27):
had been bruised so much. You know, because some people
give a very limp handshake, and then there are others
that give a really firm, solid handshake that can.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Hurt Trump does he does a handshake fight Like when
he's gone with the leaders. There's a lot of back
and forth and who's going to let go?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
And so one I think is legitimate.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You know, the handshake part of it, the bruising, maybe
the thrombosis.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Now the raccoon look, I think is a whole different story.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That is not a medical condition.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Well, sure looks like you, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
The charge is murder and more charges have been filed
against the guy suspected of killing an American Idol music
supervisor and her husband. It happened in their home in Encino.
Raymond Budarian, who's twenty two years old, also from Encino,
is facing two counts for murder and account of residential
burglary in the deaths of Robin Kay and her husband,
(17:21):
Thomas de Luca. All of those counts include special circumstances,
so that means that he could be facing the death penalty.
Prosecutors haven't announced if they're going to pursue that yet.
His next court hearing is scheduled for August twentieth.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, Typically what happens is there'll be a plea deal
life imprisonment without possibility of parole, and they take the
death penalty off the table. Also, my Persian palace right
down the street from here, let me tell you how
that feels, because, frankly, you know, when there's a triple
murder and entire kindergarten class is taken out by an
(17:58):
act from some guy with an axe and it's a
your neighborhood. Yeah, it's okay, you know, I feel bad
about it, but it's in your neighborhood. When this stuff
happens in my neighborhood, that affects me a little bit
deeper wide because I'm a self centered, self aggrandizing ass.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Is that pretty fair?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Amy, Yeah, you were just starting Okay, fine, just okay,
moving on.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Uh, maybe we're going to finally get some insight into
a killer. The judge in Idaho that was doing the
Brian Coburger case has lifted the gag order that's been
in effect for quite a while. That's because Brian Coburger
pleaded guilty to the murders of those four University of
Idaho's students that happened in twenty twenty two, and that
(18:47):
clears the way for attorneys and prosecutors and law enforcement
and anybody to talk about the case. The judge said
that the gag order was no longer necessary since Coburger's
guilty plea means the case is not going to trial.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And he pled guilty, cut a deal life imprisonment without parole,
or basically he's going to die in prison. So the
death penalty was taken off the table. Also, the only
reason that gag orders are issued are because you go public.
The argument is that those arguments, those public statements can.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Taint the jury pool.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
And if there ain't no jury pool to taint, if
there ain't no pool to taint jury pool, wise.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Why didn't a gag order? And that's why the gag
order was lifted.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Wells Fargo workers aren't going to be going to the
Far East anytime soon. Wells Fargo has suspended all travel
to China because a banker was blocked from leaving the country.
Wells Fargo says that shen Yu Mao was subjected to
an exit ban after she went into China in recent weeks.
(19:57):
Wells Fargo said, we're closely tracking the situation and working
through the appropriate channels so our employee can return to
the US as soon as possible.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Oh so she's still there.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
She's still there.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah, Oh that's fun.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
So she's being refused permission to leave China, so.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
And has not been charged.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Usually at this point these people are charged with some
kind of espionage or some BS charge.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
So she's just not being allowed to leave.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Kind of scary, yeah, very scary. Yeah, this might ruffle
some feathers. Peacock is raising streaming prices again, third increase
in three years. So later this month prices are going
to go up by three dollars a month. So the
ad supported premium plan is going to go up to
ten ninety nine per month. The premium plus plan apparently
(20:49):
that one doesn't have commercials, will be sixteen ninety nine
a month.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Come on, it's getting to the point where it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Buy all of these platforms.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I mean, I bundle them because I'm really into the
various platforms Prime, which everybody has, certainly Netflix and Hulu,
and I've got a couple of British ones and Peacock.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
But it's getting pretty pricey out there. I mean, it's
now now.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I mean, can you imagine eleven dollars per month with ads?
And usually and originally when you buy this stuff, the
whole purpose is not to have ads. How do you
pay for advertising TV? How does that work? It's like,
can you imagine we who obviously do we on this
(21:42):
show and this station, We do advertising, and that's what
pays for our salaries and pays for this station, and
so you get it for free? You know, all you
have to do is listen to my bad ads. Can
you imagine if we charged you and you had to
listen to our bad ads, our listenership would I will
(22:03):
bet you we would lose fifty percent of our listenership.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
We'd go down to one hundred.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Okay, why will people defy the president? Former House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi says she knows so. She was doing an
interview with SiriusXM and said that a lot of members
of Congress, the Republicans, worry that they could be attacked
in the same way that her husband, Paul was assaulted
(22:32):
inside their home nearly three years ago. She says, that's
what they're afraid of. She says they don't want their children,
threaten their families, threaten their lives in jeopardy because they
speak out against the president.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah. Now, as the couple, there's a couple of issues here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
There is no question that a lot of these crazy
ass political moves, I mean, criminal moves are done by
Trump supporters. Virtually all of them are political violence done
by Trump supporters. That is not to say that Trump
supporters do that. Certainly, Donald Trump does and does not
advocate in any sense violence at all, nor do any
(23:09):
Republicans that I know. All I'm saying is the crazy
people who tend to do this violence liberals are just idiots,
the fanatic right wing fundamentalists. I think this reaches a
level of well, I mean violence. For example, those with
Roe v. Wade and those that were against abortion. Abortion
(23:30):
clinics were blown up. And so the reality here is
there is retribution being done by the Trump administration. There
is no question and to be primaried out, there is
no question that that is happening. The violence I think
Nancy Pelosi is off although yeah, I gotta tell you,
if you can offend some crazy people out there amy
(23:51):
you were out to say something, well, just.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You can't only blame that on the extreme right, because
then remember when Steve Scalise was shot at those.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, no, I understand, we look at but absolutely, but
for every Ski Steve Scalise, how many incidents of the
violence are on the other end. What I'm telling you
is I think there's far more violence from the fundamental right.
That's what I believe, and I'd love to see some stats.
Don't give me that smile. I hate that smile.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I hate it.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I think it happens on both sides.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Oh it does, Oh, it absolutely does.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I'm not arguing that, I'm just saying in terms of
percentages because what you do, well, let me put it
this way, Okay, people who on the right, I'm sure
you will agree with those on the right, the fundamental's
right are much more engaged and feel far more passionate
than those on the left in terms of their passion
(24:47):
at least that what we see politically, and those on
the left don't are not big advocates of guns either.
Where those on the rights are, those on the right are.
So I just thought i'd throw that at you.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Okay, you've heard of just do it, well, just pay it.
Celebrity defense attorney Mike Mark Garrigos, who has represented Eric
and Lyle Menendez, has to pay one hundred thousand dollars
to a youth basketball coach for his part in a
scheme back in twenty eighteen to extort Nike Remember this one.
(25:21):
The coach, Gary Franklin, filed a legal malpractice lawsuit accusing
Garrigos and now disgraced and disbarred attorney Michael Avenatti, saying
that they basically messed up a one and a half
million dollar settlement from Nike because they wanted more money
for themselves. The two attorneys insisted that in addition to
(25:45):
the one and a half million dollar settlement with Franklin,
they wanted to be hired to do a confidential investigation
and wanted to get paid twenty million dollars or Avenatti
would expose alleged misconduct in youth basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, so it's not just they wanted money for themselves.
This is straight out extortion. As lawyers, they were extorting
representing their client, they were extorting Nike, And so.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Why would they do that. Don't they make enough money?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
No, and you goes especially because he's like so famous.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Right, you know, it's weird like Tom Girardi who has
got in prison, you know, one of the foremost attorneys
in all of California, and the guy stole millions of
dollars from people.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And it was wealthy, wealthy.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I think his wife was one of the housewives of
Beverly Hills.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Eric, I don't know, Yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, I don't know why they do that because there's
just not enough money out there, I guess, you know,
for certain people, there just ain't enough.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
So anyway, one hundred thousand dollars he gets to pay.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Okay, this is genius. Really, the House has passed a
landmark piece of legislation. It's called the Genius Act. It's
the first major crypto legislation ever passed by Congress. Now
heads to President Trump's desk. So in the process of
getting this passed, there was this big blowout when a
(27:13):
few of the Republicans staged a rebellion. They brought the
floor to a standstill, but it was short lived. They
worked it out and then got it passed. It establishes
a regulatory framework for the two hundred and fifty billion
dollar market for stable coins, which is a type of
cryptocurrency that's tied to the value of an asset like
the US dollar. I still don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Well, I need a regulation. Cryptocurrency is the wild West.
There is no regulation.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
In crypto currency, and so they're bringing some kind of
regulation to it.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And it's gone from Trump being so anti crypto now
he's in favor of crypto because of his family and
they got involved in crypto. But I'm happy to hear,
and this is something that Biden did not do. I'm
happy to hear there is some kind of regulatory scheme
coming in on this. This is desperate and this is
the way of the future. I don't get it to
(28:11):
this day. I don't understand crypto literally to this day.
I mean, look what happened twenty years ago when crypto
came out, or thirty years ago, when crypto came out,
you could buy bitcoins bit coins for under a penny,
two or three or five bitcoins for under a penny.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Fast forward?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
This week? It hit one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
per bitcoin.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It's currently at one hundred and twenty Okay, So let's
say you had invested one penny one penny and bought
three or four bitcoins and here you are. You turn
a penny into five hundred thousand dollars. That's a pretty
(28:58):
good return, don't you think. Yeah, all right, I think
we're none guys, we are fioenie.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You don't want to mention that. Yeah, Lute in the
game are coming back?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah, because I love this movie.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Good?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Okay, So Toy Story is coming back to the big screen.
I mean, you can watch it all the time on
Disney Plus, but if you want to see it on
the Big Screen to Market's thirtieth anniversary. It's being re
released in theaters starting on September twelfth. Toy Story was
the first ever fully computer animated feature film, released in
nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Remember how jaw dropping it was. I mean just the technology.
Not only is it a great movie and the story
is terrific and it is just well done as a movie,
but boy, the technologists just floored everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
He think how much better it is now. I know,
if you look at the animated stuff now versus thirty
years ago, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Okay, we are done. This is KFI A M six forty.
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