July 22, 2025 • 25 mins
(July 22,2025)
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who became America’s spn Theo Huxtable on ‘The Cosby Show,’ dies at 54. Marines leaving Los Angeles, Pentagon says. House halts as Republicans try to shut Epstein votes down. Israel condemned by 28 nations over “inhumane killing” of Gaza civilians and “drip feeding of aid” as war expands. Price tag for LA fires pegged at $654BIL.
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who became America’s spn Theo Huxtable on ‘The Cosby Show,’ dies at 54. Marines leaving Los Angeles, Pentagon says. House halts as Republicans try to shut Epstein votes down. Israel condemned by 28 nations over “inhumane killing” of Gaza civilians and “drip feeding of aid” as war expands. Price tag for LA fires pegged at $654BIL.
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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):
We had surgery on little Gucci and the surgery really
didn't take, so there needed another surgery, and I said,
how much is that going to cost? Sixteen thousand dollars.
Gucci did not survive that because Gucci was put down.
If you think I was going to spend sixteen thousand
dollars more to operate on this little dog, you're crazy.
I wouldn't spend sixteen thousand dollars out of pocket to
(00:32):
operate on my kids much less a dog.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Come and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
KFI. Bill hand it here. It is a Tuesday Morning
Taco Tuesday, July twenty two. That promo where I said
I wouldn't spend sixteen thousand dollars to operate on my
kid much less a dog, fortunately, is very true, and
that goes to show you what a decent human being
(01:06):
I am. My daughter walks around and does my dad
makes us living being a dick? And I go, yes,
that's as true. That is her quote of the week.
All right, good morning everybody. Oh yes, it is going
to be needs to say we had a lot of
(01:26):
news coming up today. Amy is back. Amy is back
with us. Amy. Last week you were in Oregon visiting friends.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Actually, I went up this last weekend for a celebration
of life for one of my best friends from high school.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Oh that's cool. Yeah, Oh how old? When the person
died way too young. Yeah, it's tough when that happened.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Way too young, the big Sea gutter.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh god, that's horrible.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It was horrible.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
But she was an amazing woman who lived life that
was too short, but she lived it so well.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
They're really incredible person.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah. Usually you have to excuse me celebrations of life
of people who do exactly that. You rarely have celebration
of life of felons who have done twenty two years
in prison for various crimes. You don't see many celebrations
of life on that one. And who was have just died?
(02:28):
It was an actor who they died at ninety nine
years of age. And you go to shake your head
and you.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Go, was he the actor or the lyricist?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
From the way we were both both, Yeah, he was
ninety h lyricists.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah. Also, I like to read obituaries in newspapers because
they are many biographies, but they always it's people who
have succeeded. It's medical doctors, is people who are extraordinarily
successful in education, in business, you never ever see. You know,
(03:05):
Bill was a plumber for twenty two years.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Heylmers are important.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I'm not arguing they I'm not saying they aren't. They're
incredibly important. As a matter of fact, they make a
lot more money than insert name of whatever I'm about
to say here. The point I'm making is it's always
people that they run obituaries that have extraordinary lives.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, that's all, Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The only thing I want in my own bid is
he died. Okay, talking about that. First of all, let
me say goodbye, Hello, goodbye. Let me say hello to
the rest of the crowd. Neil is not here. He
is on vacation until next week. Cono is here. Good morning,
Good morning, Cono. And of course Will is here. Good morning,
(03:50):
Will morning, Good morning Bill. Good Did you go to
an Italian restaurant last night by any chance? Oh? Here
we go, because that shirt is literally a tablecloth from
an Italian restaurant. Thank you, You're welcome. A good morning,
Good morning Bill. Yes, we start the day and talking
(04:12):
about deaths, life well lived and taken away too early.
The lead story today is about Malcolm Jamal Warner. He
was theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Died in a
(04:34):
very tragic death off the coast of Costa Rica, in
which he drowned. He was out there and a riptie
got him and he went out to see and he
didn't survive. The part that I find interesting is the
reaction to Malcolm Jamal Warner. I never know, but rarely
do I know the impact of these people in terms
(04:56):
of how important and how impactful they are. I just
don't get it. I missed that with Frank Sinatra, didn't
quite get it Kobe, who was huge news, not that
it wasn't a huge story, I just didn't get the impact.
And in this one it was just it was extraordinary
(05:17):
how big a deal was made, and as I look
into it, legitimately show so. I think the only person
that I can remember that got even more attention than
Malcolm Jamal Warner was when Mother Teresa died, who interestingly enough,
played Bill Cosby's mother in law on The Cosby Show.
(05:40):
Really and Yeah, and got a lot of fame for
that one, because anybody attached to the Cosby Show clearly
is enormous. And then the Jamal Warner Malcolm Jamal Warner
went on and had a rather extraordinary career within the
Black Community podcast, not only actor, but also poet and
(06:02):
I mean just he was very, very involved and it
was well respected and well loved.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I bet they'll have a celebration of life for him.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm sure they're going to have a celebration of life
for him. By the way, I've always wondered that about
the celebration of life. I sort of at first, I
didn't get it, because really it's a non celebration of death,
but you do celebrate someone's life. I always thought that
was kind of eh, But not so much anymore, as
(06:34):
many of the people I know are popping off, I'm realizing, okay,
and I am saying using the phrase way too soon
a whole lot occasionally. I know, my mother, for example,
too long, Oh, way too long? Okay, let's move on.
(07:00):
Oh by the way, before people think I'm a in
veteran a hole, my mother, who died at ninety eight,
became a vegetable at ninety three. And you talk about
quality of life, five years of being a stock of
broccoli is not good news. It really isn't. Why don't
we move on?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Okay, head them up, move them out.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Hundreds of US Marines who've been in Los Angeles to
protect federal buildings and ice agents during immigration raids and
protests are headed for home. Pentagon confirmed that the seven
hundred Marines are being sent home after several weeks here.
La Mayor Bass had criticized their presence, also the presence
of about four thousand California National Guard members. She called
(07:46):
it a waste of taxpayer money, again calling for everybody
to leave. She made that call yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Are there still demonstrations going on of any number?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Okay, I've been out of town for three days, but
I don't believe so you're pretty much.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I mean they're still doing the raids.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh yeah, they're Oh, they're doing the raids big time.
You bet. What was that a story in the I
think it was the La Times, and that we may
end up doing. And that is high school football teams
are being decimated. Goes to show you how many illegal
members are are in high school football teams, or it's
(08:28):
just a question of fear. If you have a Hispanic surname,
all right, one more ifore we take a break, no votes.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
House Republicans have virtually stopped work on all major legislation
leading up to six week summer recess.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Seems like they're always going on recess.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
They apparently want to avoid taking votes on forcing the
release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Democrats have been using
this opportunity since the President kind of said, hey, let's
just get over it, to try to force their Republican
colleagues to go on the record about Epstein. House Speaker
Mike Johnson told reporters yesterday that he has no plans
(09:05):
to send members home early for August recess, but basically
didn't say we don't need to vote on Epstein Epstein.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
He basically said that he certainly thought that. Here's the
reason this Epstein business is such a big deal among
MAGA members is because both the President and Beyondy Pam
before she was Attorney General Cash Patel made a huge
deal of the secret Epstein files the government was holding
(09:34):
under Biden. Huge deal. And so okay, now you have
the Trump administration in power, where are the files? There
aren't any, And the MAGA supporters going, wait a minute,
you kept on saying there were, there were, there were,
and now you're saying there aren't. So what the trumpet
Trump administration is doing is asking the court to release
(09:58):
grand jury testimony, which usually secret, and the court may
or may not. The problem is the grand jury testimony
didn't have anything to do with a list. It was
the complicity of Epstein and Glinne Maxwell as to whether
a crime was committed or not. Any list is probably
(10:18):
part of the files that the White House has. They
can be released anytime, and they're not. I don't know
if there is no connection. The first thing I would
do is release those files, every one of them, with
names redacted. And then the problem is, and here's the question,
is Trump's name among those that are adapted. I don't
(10:43):
know what the White House can do on this one.
I really don't other than you can't dive into these
conspiracy theories and it turns out it really didn't happen.
You know, for example, there was a secret cabal of
Democrats under the leadership of Hillary Clinton that was having
a child molestation the whole community and a whole club
(11:08):
underneath a Chicago pizza house where they were molesting children,
and that turned out to be absolutely, of course wrong.
It turned out to be a steakhouse.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Well, the costs just keep piling up. Report out says
the two major wildfires that of course devastated parts of
La County and January cost more than twice as much
as the Campfire in twenty eighteen, which at the time
was the deadliest wildfire in history and the costliest in
(11:40):
the US. The Palisades Fire thirty seven billion dollars, eating
fire twenty eight billion dollars most expensive wildfire events for
the reinsurance industry as well, causing forty billion dollars in
total covered damage.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Now, what is really interesting about this is as much
as this has costs, which is astronomical. You talk about reinsurance,
reinsurances are insurance companies buying their own insurance. The way
we buy from insurance companies they buy it for themselves.
Is it looks like the private insurance companies, the all
(12:18):
states of state, farms, etc. Have enough money to pay
their claims. It's the Fair Plan, the California Fair Plan,
which has not even close to enough money, and that
is going to mean the loss of billions and billions
of dollars paid for buy Well, it's going to be
(12:38):
the taxpayer, even that it is funded by insurance companies,
but to a very small degree.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Records released not Epstein, but MLK jor the National Archives
has published thousands of documents related to the assassination of
doctor Martin Luther King Junior in nineteen sixty eight. It's
part of an executive order that President Trump signed days
into a second term that required the release of and
(13:07):
declassification of records connected to MLK Junior's murder and also
the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and also Robert Kennedy.
Not immediately clear what new historical insights we will.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Find, probably not very many. These have been hashed and rehashed,
and we're going when they did these investigations, it's how
far they go. Martin Luther King when he was six
years old, what ice cream parlor did he go to
around the corner from his house, and what flavors ice
cream were his favorite? I think it goes to that extent.
(13:44):
So we're not going to see very much.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
A three year sentence. A federal judge in Kentucky has
sentenced a former Louisville police officer involved in the deadly
rate of Breonna Taylor's home to nearly three years in prison.
The Trump and administration apparently had requested he only served
one day behind bars. In November, a federal jury in
Kentucky convicted the former officer Brett Hankinson of one count
(14:10):
of violating Miss Taylor's civil rights by using excessive force
and firing several rounds through a window during that botched
drug raid back in twenty twenty. Mister Hankinson, who is white,
is the only officer charged for his actions during the
botched operation.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, it's interesting that the cops who actually killed her
with their shops shots were not charged. That's kind of wild.
And so the judge went directly, this is the prosecution
that it went ahead of him. Remember that the federal
prosecutors originally charged him and got the conviction of the
(14:52):
civil rights violations. Now they've come back and said we
only want one day in prison. Very different philosophy of
a administrations, very different. And the judge was about to
listen to the prosecution. Almost three years, just under three years.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Deadly explosion.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
They're tracing it back now to Marina del Rey. The
investigations did the deaths of those three LA County deputies
who were killed at the training center while they were
moving military style grenades, shifted over to Marina del Rey.
It's not clear yet what they found, but they searched
(15:32):
a boat in the marina. The three deputies were killed
moving undetonated ordinances.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, last grenades, and the investigated the grenades looked at
him and said they were inurt and so they started
back to the training center, sawing through the grenades to
show what the inside of the grenades looked like. And
off they went and three deputies died. So obviously, I
(16:00):
think who's going to be at fault is who declared
that those grenades were inert.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Democratic cities are bracing for a flood. White house borders are.
Tom Holman is promising to flood cities run by Democrats
with immigration agents. Americans living in so called sanctuary cities,
says Homan can expect to see far more agents on
the street soon. He says, we're going to flood the zone.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, why, I don't know, because it's such a problem.
So and where is he going to flood the zone? Well,
how about Los Angeles, Denver, Boston And these are blue cities,
so of course that's where the zone is going to
be flooded. One of the things I know is about
(16:49):
Tom Holman. I had to tell you this guy does
not seem like the head of an agency. I don't
know why. He doesn't seem particularly bright. He comes off
as you know, do I want to offend any group
of people. Yeah, he comes off as someone who eats
(17:11):
a lot of squirrel possum. And of course his job,
you did, smile Amy, His job is to make sure
not so much getting rid of illegal migrants. I think,
personal opinion, his job is to wreak havoc. And they're
that form of terrorism, not terrorism the way we know it,
(17:35):
but terrorism and the fear of ice coming in and
picking up migrants. It's what's happening in the Hispanic Latino
community here in southern California is astounding, all right.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Moving on, Hunter had as a few choice words for George,
and they all start with the letter F. Hunter Biden
went off on actor George Clooney and other high profile
demicratz who had called on his dad to resign or
front or not resigned, but to drop out of the
twenty twenty four presidential race. On YouTube, Hunter Biden lashed
(18:11):
out at Clooney and other members of the party who
publicly criticized the former president after his disastrous debate against
President Trump last summer fim FM F him and everybody
around him. Of course, Clooney was one of the first
prominent Democrats to say, yeah, he didn't recognize me at
a party, he needs to step down.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
At eight thirty this or eight fifty this morning, I'm
going to dive into it a little bit deeper. And
there is one one major, major fundamental flaw that was
missed completely or point that was missed completely by the Democrats.
And I'll bring that up because well, they just missed it.
(18:53):
And it's not Biden's age, which was a big issue,
and it was not Kamala Harris, who inherit by default
running for president of the nomination because she's one of
the weakest people up there. There is one point I
want to make at eight fifty, and I think you're
going to agree.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No more free admission. The US is going to start
requiring international visitors to pay a new visa integrity fee
of two hundred and fifty dollars. At least the fee
is going to apply to visitors who are required to
obtain non immigrant visas to enter the US. This includes
leisure and business travelers, international students, and other temporary visitors.
(19:36):
In fiscal twenty twenty four, the US issued nearly eleven
million non immigrant visas, according to the State Department. That's
a lot of money, it.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Is, but a lot of it is to be refunded.
I think under various programs. It's a little complicated, it
really is. I think they're going to go They're going
to go to the Disney folks to try to figure
out front of the line, you know, passes and annual passes.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Get in the lightning lane.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, yeah, I just if you look at what's refundable,
what isn't visa waiver programs some countries, yes, some countries know.
And so we're just trying to figure this out. Oh
oh oh, big duws.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Costco and Coke finally back together again. Yes, Costco's switching
from Pepsi to Coca Cola and it's food courts. They
started rolling it out across Costco warehouses at the beginning
of this month, and Coca Cola says that all of
Costco's food courts are going to have Coca Cola products
by this fall. You may or may not remember this,
(20:43):
but the company had switched from Coca Cola to Pepsi
back in twenty thirteen to keep that dollar fifty hot
dog combo.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, that all has to do with just the you know,
the contract price that costco pays for Coca Cola Pepsi products,
and Pepsi came in at Pepsi came in at a
lower price. It's that simple. A think, I don't know
why is coke coming in at a better price, or
just someone realized coke is just a lot better when
(21:14):
I think that's it. When the last time I went
to the Vatican and we had some friends that were
their Italian friends, and we were going through it and
they really don't even have pepsi over there. And we
were talking about the various popes throughout the history of
the Vatican, and I mentioned, do you know when pope
(21:35):
started taking other names, you know, not their real names,
And I said, when Cardinal Ciccola became pope about one
hundred years ago, he did not want to be known
as Pope's Sicola. And they just didn't get it, just
(21:56):
went right over their heads. No pepsi in Europe, only
Coke also no diet coke in Europe, only coke zero,
which is disgusting.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I agree. I just ran into that when I was traveling.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Ron Ron, Oh, it's horrible. It's horrible.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
It's not horrible, but it's not idea.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
It is horrible. And we'll go back to the Italian restaurant.
You stole that shirt from that You made that shirt
from the tablecloth. Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Time for a spelling lesson.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
David Letterman, former host of Late Night, hasn't yet publicly
commented on Stephen Colbert being fired from The Late Show,
but he does have a YouTube channel and he's posted
a couple of videos. The first features Colbert, who was
then a guest on The Late Show, roasting then President
(22:48):
George W.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Bush.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That happened during an appearance on June fourteenth, two thousand
and six, and he called it Stephen Colbert roast the President.
And then he posted another video taking a jab at
his former employee CBS, sharing a montage of moments in
which he mocked the network during his show. It said,
you can't spell CBS without BS.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
But that's their job, these late night hosts, to mock
who's ever in the administration At any time you simply
make fun of well, you make fun of who you're
working for, which we do on this show all the time,
who the president is. I mean, that's what they're supposed
to do.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yes, but it has changed, Bill, and it used to
be that they made fun of everybody, and it has
turned so mean spirited. Yeah, but what has not But
I know, but it didn't used to be. Like Johnny
Carson made fun of everybody.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, but his son was very he was very benign.
Johnny Carson could never today make it as a host
a late night host.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Okay, and Jay Leno also made fun of everybody, but
did it in a good natured way.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Again benign, that's really nice, funny. Yeah, it was well
and today I think you're right. The vitriol here, the
humor is not without malice. The humor is malice across
the board, and it is The polarization is completely insane,
even to the point where one side of Congress there
(24:19):
are actually Congress people that say, if you shake hands
with someone on the other side of the aisle, you
are a trader, which is ridiculous, of course, but that's
that's where we've gone to. Unfortunately, that's where we are,
by the way, how was the Italian food?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Will I'm not gonna let it go.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
No, no chance. If I want, absolutely no chance, i'd
be wearing Italian food. That's how bad I am eating
it because I just in all right, good, well, the
same way. But see tablecloth on top of tablecloth? I
can never tell. Okay, we are off and running. This
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
We had surgery on little Gucci and the surgery really
didn't take, so there needed another surgery, and I said,
how much is that going to cost? Sixteen thousand dollars.
Gucci did not survive that because Gucci was put down.
If you think I was going to spend sixteen thousand
dollars more to operate on this little dog, you're crazy.
I wouldn't spend sixteen thousand dollars out of pocket to
(00:32):
operate on my kids much less a dog.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Come and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
KFI. Bill hand it here. It is a Tuesday Morning
Taco Tuesday, July twenty two. That promo where I said
I wouldn't spend sixteen thousand dollars to operate on my
kid much less a dog, fortunately, is very true, and
that goes to show you what a decent human being
(01:06):
I am. My daughter walks around and does my dad
makes us living being a dick? And I go, yes,
that's as true. That is her quote of the week.
All right, good morning everybody. Oh yes, it is going
to be needs to say we had a lot of
(01:26):
news coming up today. Amy is back. Amy is back
with us. Amy. Last week you were in Oregon visiting friends.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Actually, I went up this last weekend for a celebration
of life for one of my best friends from high school.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Oh that's cool. Yeah, Oh how old? When the person
died way too young. Yeah, it's tough when that happened.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Way too young, the big Sea gutter.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh god, that's horrible.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It was horrible.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
But she was an amazing woman who lived life that
was too short, but she lived it so well.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
They're really incredible person.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah. Usually you have to excuse me celebrations of life
of people who do exactly that. You rarely have celebration
of life of felons who have done twenty two years
in prison for various crimes. You don't see many celebrations
of life on that one. And who was have just died?
(02:28):
It was an actor who they died at ninety nine
years of age. And you go to shake your head
and you.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Go, was he the actor or the lyricist?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
From the way we were both both, Yeah, he was
ninety h lyricists.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah. Also, I like to read obituaries in newspapers because
they are many biographies, but they always it's people who
have succeeded. It's medical doctors, is people who are extraordinarily
successful in education, in business, you never ever see. You know,
(03:05):
Bill was a plumber for twenty two years.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Heylmers are important.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I'm not arguing they I'm not saying they aren't. They're
incredibly important. As a matter of fact, they make a
lot more money than insert name of whatever I'm about
to say here. The point I'm making is it's always
people that they run obituaries that have extraordinary lives.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, that's all, Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The only thing I want in my own bid is
he died. Okay, talking about that. First of all, let
me say goodbye, Hello, goodbye. Let me say hello to
the rest of the crowd. Neil is not here. He
is on vacation until next week. Cono is here. Good morning,
Good morning, Cono. And of course Will is here. Good morning,
(03:50):
Will morning, Good morning Bill. Good Did you go to
an Italian restaurant last night by any chance? Oh? Here
we go, because that shirt is literally a tablecloth from
an Italian restaurant. Thank you, You're welcome. A good morning,
Good morning Bill. Yes, we start the day and talking
(04:12):
about deaths, life well lived and taken away too early.
The lead story today is about Malcolm Jamal Warner. He
was theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Died in a
(04:34):
very tragic death off the coast of Costa Rica, in
which he drowned. He was out there and a riptie
got him and he went out to see and he
didn't survive. The part that I find interesting is the
reaction to Malcolm Jamal Warner. I never know, but rarely
do I know the impact of these people in terms
(04:56):
of how important and how impactful they are. I just
don't get it. I missed that with Frank Sinatra, didn't
quite get it Kobe, who was huge news, not that
it wasn't a huge story, I just didn't get the impact.
And in this one it was just it was extraordinary
(05:17):
how big a deal was made, and as I look
into it, legitimately show so. I think the only person
that I can remember that got even more attention than
Malcolm Jamal Warner was when Mother Teresa died, who interestingly enough,
played Bill Cosby's mother in law on The Cosby Show.
(05:40):
Really and Yeah, and got a lot of fame for
that one, because anybody attached to the Cosby Show clearly
is enormous. And then the Jamal Warner Malcolm Jamal Warner
went on and had a rather extraordinary career within the
Black Community podcast, not only actor, but also poet and
(06:02):
I mean just he was very, very involved and it
was well respected and well loved.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I bet they'll have a celebration of life for him.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm sure they're going to have a celebration of life
for him. By the way, I've always wondered that about
the celebration of life. I sort of at first, I
didn't get it, because really it's a non celebration of death,
but you do celebrate someone's life. I always thought that
was kind of eh, But not so much anymore, as
(06:34):
many of the people I know are popping off, I'm realizing, okay,
and I am saying using the phrase way too soon
a whole lot occasionally. I know, my mother, for example,
too long, Oh, way too long? Okay, let's move on.
(07:00):
Oh by the way, before people think I'm a in
veteran a hole, my mother, who died at ninety eight,
became a vegetable at ninety three. And you talk about
quality of life, five years of being a stock of
broccoli is not good news. It really isn't. Why don't
we move on?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Okay, head them up, move them out.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Hundreds of US Marines who've been in Los Angeles to
protect federal buildings and ice agents during immigration raids and
protests are headed for home. Pentagon confirmed that the seven
hundred Marines are being sent home after several weeks here.
La Mayor Bass had criticized their presence, also the presence
of about four thousand California National Guard members. She called
(07:46):
it a waste of taxpayer money, again calling for everybody
to leave. She made that call yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Are there still demonstrations going on of any number?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Okay, I've been out of town for three days, but
I don't believe so you're pretty much.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I mean they're still doing the raids.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh yeah, they're Oh, they're doing the raids big time.
You bet. What was that a story in the I
think it was the La Times, and that we may
end up doing. And that is high school football teams
are being decimated. Goes to show you how many illegal
members are are in high school football teams, or it's
(08:28):
just a question of fear. If you have a Hispanic surname,
all right, one more ifore we take a break, no votes.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
House Republicans have virtually stopped work on all major legislation
leading up to six week summer recess.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Seems like they're always going on recess.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
They apparently want to avoid taking votes on forcing the
release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Democrats have been using
this opportunity since the President kind of said, hey, let's
just get over it, to try to force their Republican
colleagues to go on the record about Epstein. House Speaker
Mike Johnson told reporters yesterday that he has no plans
(09:05):
to send members home early for August recess, but basically
didn't say we don't need to vote on Epstein Epstein.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
He basically said that he certainly thought that. Here's the
reason this Epstein business is such a big deal among
MAGA members is because both the President and Beyondy Pam
before she was Attorney General Cash Patel made a huge
deal of the secret Epstein files the government was holding
(09:34):
under Biden. Huge deal. And so okay, now you have
the Trump administration in power, where are the files? There
aren't any, And the MAGA supporters going, wait a minute,
you kept on saying there were, there were, there were,
and now you're saying there aren't. So what the trumpet
Trump administration is doing is asking the court to release
(09:58):
grand jury testimony, which usually secret, and the court may
or may not. The problem is the grand jury testimony
didn't have anything to do with a list. It was
the complicity of Epstein and Glinne Maxwell as to whether
a crime was committed or not. Any list is probably
(10:18):
part of the files that the White House has. They
can be released anytime, and they're not. I don't know
if there is no connection. The first thing I would
do is release those files, every one of them, with
names redacted. And then the problem is, and here's the question,
is Trump's name among those that are adapted. I don't
(10:43):
know what the White House can do on this one.
I really don't other than you can't dive into these
conspiracy theories and it turns out it really didn't happen.
You know, for example, there was a secret cabal of
Democrats under the leadership of Hillary Clinton that was having
a child molestation the whole community and a whole club
(11:08):
underneath a Chicago pizza house where they were molesting children,
and that turned out to be absolutely, of course wrong.
It turned out to be a steakhouse.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Well, the costs just keep piling up. Report out says
the two major wildfires that of course devastated parts of
La County and January cost more than twice as much
as the Campfire in twenty eighteen, which at the time
was the deadliest wildfire in history and the costliest in
(11:40):
the US. The Palisades Fire thirty seven billion dollars, eating
fire twenty eight billion dollars most expensive wildfire events for
the reinsurance industry as well, causing forty billion dollars in
total covered damage.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Now, what is really interesting about this is as much
as this has costs, which is astronomical. You talk about reinsurance,
reinsurances are insurance companies buying their own insurance. The way
we buy from insurance companies they buy it for themselves.
Is it looks like the private insurance companies, the all
(12:18):
states of state, farms, etc. Have enough money to pay
their claims. It's the Fair Plan, the California Fair Plan,
which has not even close to enough money, and that
is going to mean the loss of billions and billions
of dollars paid for buy Well, it's going to be
(12:38):
the taxpayer, even that it is funded by insurance companies,
but to a very small degree.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Records released not Epstein, but MLK jor the National Archives
has published thousands of documents related to the assassination of
doctor Martin Luther King Junior in nineteen sixty eight. It's
part of an executive order that President Trump signed days
into a second term that required the release of and
(13:07):
declassification of records connected to MLK Junior's murder and also
the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and also Robert Kennedy.
Not immediately clear what new historical insights we will.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Find, probably not very many. These have been hashed and rehashed,
and we're going when they did these investigations, it's how
far they go. Martin Luther King when he was six
years old, what ice cream parlor did he go to
around the corner from his house, and what flavors ice
cream were his favorite? I think it goes to that extent.
(13:44):
So we're not going to see very much.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
A three year sentence. A federal judge in Kentucky has
sentenced a former Louisville police officer involved in the deadly
rate of Breonna Taylor's home to nearly three years in prison.
The Trump and administration apparently had requested he only served
one day behind bars. In November, a federal jury in
Kentucky convicted the former officer Brett Hankinson of one count
(14:10):
of violating Miss Taylor's civil rights by using excessive force
and firing several rounds through a window during that botched
drug raid back in twenty twenty. Mister Hankinson, who is white,
is the only officer charged for his actions during the
botched operation.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, it's interesting that the cops who actually killed her
with their shops shots were not charged. That's kind of wild.
And so the judge went directly, this is the prosecution
that it went ahead of him. Remember that the federal
prosecutors originally charged him and got the conviction of the
(14:52):
civil rights violations. Now they've come back and said we
only want one day in prison. Very different philosophy of
a administrations, very different. And the judge was about to
listen to the prosecution. Almost three years, just under three years.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Deadly explosion.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
They're tracing it back now to Marina del Rey. The
investigations did the deaths of those three LA County deputies
who were killed at the training center while they were
moving military style grenades, shifted over to Marina del Rey.
It's not clear yet what they found, but they searched
(15:32):
a boat in the marina. The three deputies were killed
moving undetonated ordinances.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, last grenades, and the investigated the grenades looked at
him and said they were inurt and so they started
back to the training center, sawing through the grenades to
show what the inside of the grenades looked like. And
off they went and three deputies died. So obviously, I
(16:00):
think who's going to be at fault is who declared
that those grenades were inert.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Democratic cities are bracing for a flood. White house borders are.
Tom Holman is promising to flood cities run by Democrats
with immigration agents. Americans living in so called sanctuary cities,
says Homan can expect to see far more agents on
the street soon. He says, we're going to flood the zone.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, why, I don't know, because it's such a problem.
So and where is he going to flood the zone? Well,
how about Los Angeles, Denver, Boston And these are blue cities,
so of course that's where the zone is going to
be flooded. One of the things I know is about
(16:49):
Tom Holman. I had to tell you this guy does
not seem like the head of an agency. I don't
know why. He doesn't seem particularly bright. He comes off
as you know, do I want to offend any group
of people. Yeah, he comes off as someone who eats
(17:11):
a lot of squirrel possum. And of course his job,
you did, smile Amy, His job is to make sure
not so much getting rid of illegal migrants. I think,
personal opinion, his job is to wreak havoc. And they're
that form of terrorism, not terrorism the way we know it,
(17:35):
but terrorism and the fear of ice coming in and
picking up migrants. It's what's happening in the Hispanic Latino
community here in southern California is astounding, all right.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Moving on, Hunter had as a few choice words for George,
and they all start with the letter F. Hunter Biden
went off on actor George Clooney and other high profile
demicratz who had called on his dad to resign or
front or not resigned, but to drop out of the
twenty twenty four presidential race. On YouTube, Hunter Biden lashed
(18:11):
out at Clooney and other members of the party who
publicly criticized the former president after his disastrous debate against
President Trump last summer fim FM F him and everybody
around him. Of course, Clooney was one of the first
prominent Democrats to say, yeah, he didn't recognize me at
a party, he needs to step down.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
At eight thirty this or eight fifty this morning, I'm
going to dive into it a little bit deeper. And
there is one one major, major fundamental flaw that was
missed completely or point that was missed completely by the Democrats.
And I'll bring that up because well, they just missed it.
(18:53):
And it's not Biden's age, which was a big issue,
and it was not Kamala Harris, who inherit by default
running for president of the nomination because she's one of
the weakest people up there. There is one point I
want to make at eight fifty, and I think you're
going to agree.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No more free admission. The US is going to start
requiring international visitors to pay a new visa integrity fee
of two hundred and fifty dollars. At least the fee
is going to apply to visitors who are required to
obtain non immigrant visas to enter the US. This includes
leisure and business travelers, international students, and other temporary visitors.
(19:36):
In fiscal twenty twenty four, the US issued nearly eleven
million non immigrant visas, according to the State Department. That's
a lot of money, it.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Is, but a lot of it is to be refunded.
I think under various programs. It's a little complicated, it
really is. I think they're going to go They're going
to go to the Disney folks to try to figure
out front of the line, you know, passes and annual passes.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Get in the lightning lane.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, yeah, I just if you look at what's refundable,
what isn't visa waiver programs some countries, yes, some countries know.
And so we're just trying to figure this out. Oh
oh oh, big duws.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Costco and Coke finally back together again. Yes, Costco's switching
from Pepsi to Coca Cola and it's food courts. They
started rolling it out across Costco warehouses at the beginning
of this month, and Coca Cola says that all of
Costco's food courts are going to have Coca Cola products
by this fall. You may or may not remember this,
(20:43):
but the company had switched from Coca Cola to Pepsi
back in twenty thirteen to keep that dollar fifty hot
dog combo.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, that all has to do with just the you know,
the contract price that costco pays for Coca Cola Pepsi products,
and Pepsi came in at Pepsi came in at a
lower price. It's that simple. A think, I don't know
why is coke coming in at a better price, or
just someone realized coke is just a lot better when
(21:14):
I think that's it. When the last time I went
to the Vatican and we had some friends that were
their Italian friends, and we were going through it and
they really don't even have pepsi over there. And we
were talking about the various popes throughout the history of
the Vatican, and I mentioned, do you know when pope
(21:35):
started taking other names, you know, not their real names,
And I said, when Cardinal Ciccola became pope about one
hundred years ago, he did not want to be known
as Pope's Sicola. And they just didn't get it, just
(21:56):
went right over their heads. No pepsi in Europe, only
Coke also no diet coke in Europe, only coke zero,
which is disgusting.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I agree. I just ran into that when I was traveling.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Ron Ron, Oh, it's horrible. It's horrible.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
It's not horrible, but it's not idea.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
It is horrible. And we'll go back to the Italian restaurant.
You stole that shirt from that You made that shirt
from the tablecloth. Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Time for a spelling lesson.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
David Letterman, former host of Late Night, hasn't yet publicly
commented on Stephen Colbert being fired from The Late Show,
but he does have a YouTube channel and he's posted
a couple of videos. The first features Colbert, who was
then a guest on The Late Show, roasting then President
(22:48):
George W.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Bush.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That happened during an appearance on June fourteenth, two thousand
and six, and he called it Stephen Colbert roast the President.
And then he posted another video taking a jab at
his former employee CBS, sharing a montage of moments in
which he mocked the network during his show. It said,
you can't spell CBS without BS.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
But that's their job, these late night hosts, to mock
who's ever in the administration At any time you simply
make fun of well, you make fun of who you're
working for, which we do on this show all the time,
who the president is. I mean, that's what they're supposed
to do.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yes, but it has changed, Bill, and it used to
be that they made fun of everybody, and it has
turned so mean spirited. Yeah, but what has not But
I know, but it didn't used to be. Like Johnny
Carson made fun of everybody.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, but his son was very he was very benign.
Johnny Carson could never today make it as a host
a late night host.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Okay, and Jay Leno also made fun of everybody, but
did it in a good natured way.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Again benign, that's really nice, funny. Yeah, it was well
and today I think you're right. The vitriol here, the
humor is not without malice. The humor is malice across
the board, and it is The polarization is completely insane,
even to the point where one side of Congress there
(24:19):
are actually Congress people that say, if you shake hands
with someone on the other side of the aisle, you
are a trader, which is ridiculous, of course, but that's
that's where we've gone to. Unfortunately, that's where we are,
by the way, how was the Italian food?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Will I'm not gonna let it go.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
No, no chance. If I want, absolutely no chance, i'd
be wearing Italian food. That's how bad I am eating
it because I just in all right, good, well, the
same way. But see tablecloth on top of tablecloth? I
can never tell. Okay, we are off and running. This
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