July 31, 2025 • 27 mins
(July 31, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Kamala Harris will not run for California governor in 2026. L.A City Council bans N-word and C-word at meetings. Arab states call on Hamas to disarm and relinquish power in unprecedented move. Texas House Republicans unveil new congressional map that looks to pick up 5 GOP seats. Dems invoke rare federal law to force release of Epstein files… here’s how it works.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Kamala Harris will not run for California governor in 2026. L.A City Council bans N-word and C-word at meetings. Arab states call on Hamas to disarm and relinquish power in unprecedented move. Texas House Republicans unveil new congressional map that looks to pick up 5 GOP seats. Dems invoke rare federal law to force release of Epstein files… here’s how it works.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yes or no? Have you ever had a stock Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, but I beg for stalkers. I want people interested
in following me.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
No one ever. Does you know why Howy had a stalker.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I paid the stalker to stock me so I could
feel like I was impressive and wanted and famous.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Okay, it is Thursday, everybody, July thirty one, last.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Day of July, and then go right into August.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh, since it is my birthday August on the twenty fifth. Hey,
starting tomorrow, I'm taking celebrating my birth month. And I
thought it would take off all thirty days, just like
Joel Larsgard is doing thirty days vacation. I got to
(01:09):
ask him next week, what the hell? How much money
can you make that you can take thirty days vacation.
That's very impressive. I've never had a thirty day vacation
in my life.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Is he really taking off thirty days?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I don't wait from us he's taking off four weeks.
I have no idea. Maybe has something else going. I
don't know. Neil but I'm going to ask him, that's
for sure. Anyway.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Good morning, Neil, Good morning, Willie wool Hey Kono, you're
wearing something different sweatshirt and baseball cap this morning gets
cold in here, huh yeah, okay, Amy.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Good morning, Well good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, there you go, and Will there you are, Good
morning Bill, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And and nice blue perky you know, top wearing.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Didn't know where you were going with Yeah, that was
but yes, perky, for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I get.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Perky. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Katie Kirk was described as perky, and she hated it
because she always considered herself a serious journalist, which she is,
by the way, and what was so? And then the
mad Australian Jews who has a PhD in celestial navigation
and is now working for iHeart for minimum wage.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Good morning, Nikki.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Sea shirt.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
In case you were wondering, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Today I'm wearing a Jimmy Hendrix SA shirt in case
you're wondering.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Not wondering in the least, I'll let you borrow it. Yeah,
that'll fit. That'll work. Extra small, that's me x Well,
it depends.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Where, but yeah, extra small does work.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Okay. What else is going on?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's basically it anything going on birthday month, starting to borrow.
Neil and I are putting together in October eleventh, fun
fun evening at the White House, the Anaheim White House Restaurant.
It's gonna be with Zelman's and we're gonna When do
you start announcing that this Saturday?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Right you just did?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
When do you start talking about it? How people can join.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Us about it? Right now? Can you hear me, Bill,
Bill in the studio, can you hear me? Yes, We're
gonna put Zelmans to the test with a extraordinarily garlicky
on unie menu.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah, we are. And we'll talk more about it starting next.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yew and Neil, I'll talk about this Saturday.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, and Neil will start He'll send us off with
the message on Saturday. Okay, that is it for the
good mornings, and it is time to jump into will
I said hello to you, didn't I will because I've
already forgotten again. Okay, I forget. Literally I remember the
(04:04):
most obscure thing an I'll tell you. I mean, just
the weirdest stuff that comes out of my rear end.
But I literally forgot what I said thirty seconds ago.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You just said that weird stuff comes out of your rear.
End sir, Well, facts not weird.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I'll be weird stuff depending on what I eat anyway,
but facts weird, facts and factoids. Sixen, Yeah, all right,
it is and we're started. You guys ready to do it.
It's time for Handle on the News on a Thursday
morning with Amy Neil and me Lead Storry, Karla Harris Annolys. Yesterday,
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she is not running for California governor and do more
about it.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
That's at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
What she left out is I am not running for
California governor, and you can bet your ass I'm going
to run for president. And that is exactly what she said,
and I'm going to speak more about that. I hope
she does.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I hope she does. We'll see how she does. We'll
talk a little.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Bit more about how the next run, the next presidential
nominating run on the Democratic Party will be not only
a free for all, but will be a legitimate test
because that's what primaries do.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Legitimately, you can't do.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He cannot be thrilled about that.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
He can't.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
What we need desperately is a good long primary to
vet all of the candidates to see which one comes
out that's what Donald Trump did, ran a long, hard
campaign and came out ahead. And that's exactly what our
democracy is about. Is everybody gets to know the candidates
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and know where they sit. Kamala Harris, she just walked
into it and will talk more about that because there's
a lot of moving there.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I hope it involves joy. Isn't that what she ran on? Joy?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to some joy.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Not a lot of joy in city council meets meetings
when people start throwing around racial slurs and really really
bad words. But the La City Council now has officially
banned the use of the N word and the SEA
word during public comment. The band comes years after tiraids
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by a few speakers who apparently come to a lot
of meetings, attack officials, wait their sexual orientation, their gender,
and sometimes use racial slurs. So sometimes now speakers are
going to get a warning if they use the N
word or the C word or any variation of that word,
and if they keep it up, they'll be removed from
the room and maybe banned from future meetings.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Except there is the first Moment amendment issue and the
threat of filing a lawsuit. These are public meetings, and
there's always as you said, they show up all the time.
These are gadflies who show up every single meeting and
start screaming at the council people and there's nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I have I have watched that that is.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Completely crazy, and it was there's nothing you can do.
They're open meetings. Comments, public comments have to be allowed.
And so is this the first First Amendment issue?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I you know, the court could very well say, hey, guys,
they have a right to do that. I'm going to
make an analogy here, and that is the Prime Minister
of England is just a member of basically their member
of Congress, and that's the president, and they have to
run for their congressional seat and it's an MPC member
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of Parliament and when it's time to run, they have
to go out and do quote their version of the primaries.
And so there I remember seeing one with Margaret Thatcher
and she is out there in front of her constituency
and by law, anybody who wants to run against her
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can do so. So the last one, the picture I
saw someone addresses Abraham Lincoln who was arguing the tin
Man from the Wizard of Oz. Crazy people and that's
the analogy here. Crazy people are allowed to talk at
public meetings where public comments have to be given.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Oh some of them have radio shows. Yeah, thanks for that, okay, Neil, Yes, sir,
this is an all time first tell me if I'm wrong,
Willie Wolf. You have a twenty two member Arab League,
you have the entire European Union. In another seventeen countries
(09:00):
all backed a declaration that happens to be signed by
the United Nations basically saying that they want Hamas to
relinquish all power in Gaza and disarm.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
And you are right, it has never happened before. And
they are blaming Hamas as well as Israel. And Israel
is being blamed universally for the starvation that's going on.
There's no issue about that, and Israel should be blamed.
But you have the Arab but world not recognizing October seventh.
They only recognized October eighth when Israel went and attacked Gaza.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well, this time they condemned it.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You bet.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Now it's time they condemned it because the mass starvation
that's going on in Gaza is is so offending and
royaling the world that Okay, whatever we can do and
they talk about it too, a two state solution, which
I think is the only way out on this one.
So we'll talk more about that too. As always, there's
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just a lot there.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Lawmakers in Texas, Republicans specifically, have put out their first
draft of the state's new congressional map. They have revamped
district lines to try to flip five Democratic seats in
next year's midterm elections over to the Republican side. The
new map targets US House members in Austin, Dallas, and
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Houston metro areas, also in South Texas. Democrats say they
might try to stop this process by leaving the state,
which apparently they could do. If they leave, then they
wouldn't have a quorum and couldn't have a vote.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I mean, but eventually you show up.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Eventually, you have to do it. Other states have done it.
Oregon did it. There was a huge, huge thing when
Oregon lawmakers just left the state.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, this one.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
The Republicans are doing things that the Blue states and
not We have not and cannot do. And we talked,
I talked about this yesterday. And this has to do midterm, right,
you have to change congressional where you can't change congressional
disticcts every ten years, pursuing to the census. What they're
doing is in the middle of that term, they're passing
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a law saying they can change districts right now. And
it's flipping the way you can do it, as Jerry Mander.
You draw the districts, so you can change a you
can change the party who's going to go. And it's
a little complicated but can be done easily. Okay, So
Gavin Newsen says, well, I'm going to do the same
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thing in California.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
He can't.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Everything's already democratic in California, right.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Not only that we can know there are some Republican
seats there are that can be changed.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
We passed the law that Newsom pushed saying that the
legislature cannot do that. It has to be an independent
commission which cannot show favoritism. So that doesn't happen in
the Southern states, the Red states. So this is this
is kind of crazy. Is there a chance that they're
going to stop it? Maybe because it's these are black
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districts also, and now you talk about the issue of racism.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
We're going to be thrown into the mix. So we'll see,
we'll see if the report.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And this is Trump saying here's what I want you
to do, of course, and we'll see if this works.
And if it does work, I tell you it's do
the Democrat to the Republicans keep control of Congress. Yeah,
maybe it's a mess. It is such a mess going on,
the polarization. Effectively, it says we don't want any kind
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of a democracy if you have a democratic seat. We
are going to do everything to undo a democratic seat
and make it republican, and we don't care how we
do it. And so they passed a law saying we
can do it.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
It's crazy making.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Speaking of laws, this one bill is another one of
those strange, tiny, never heard of being used laws, very obscure.
You've got Senate Democrats that are pushing strangely enough to
have the Epstein files made public. I don't know why
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they didn't do this when you know their president was
rulling things, but now it's super important to them. So
this weird federal law allows the Democrats in this case
to request that the dj turnover all the material related
to the Epstein investigation, which is probably not going to happen.
This is this is for their review confessional.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
This Epstein thing is the President is getting nailed on
this because remember yesterday the files were, they were there,
We have to release them. The government has them, Biden
has them, and then all of a sudden, you have
a Trump government.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh no, they don't exist.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And according to reports, I think a Wall Street journal
released the report that Pam Bondi, Attorney General, told President Trump,
your name appears multiple times in this report. And so
he is now being terrific and saying, I have asked
the DOJ to request that the court release the Oh
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my god, what's what I'm looking for? That I actually
lose that name on that oh grand jury testimony, and
therefore we're going to make that public. Here's the problem.
The grand jury testimony, which one judge said we're not
going to release, consists of two witnesses, both cops.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
That's the grand jury testimony. Now, how about the file itself?
You know who has that? The DOJ they're not releasing it.
They are not releasing it and coming up with some
kind of crazy excuse. And Trump has said three different
versions of how he changed his relationship with Epstein, three
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different versions of while he no longer had Epstein as
a friend.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Listen, they these files have been in that office during Biden. Yep,
how come when when if you didn't want Trump to
run and you had information on him there, why would
they not have released it during Biden and just said
(15:31):
listen this pig.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I don't know. But the uproar is going on right now.
That's the problem. Biden never said I have the list,
and then I don't have the list, and then bid yeah,
but Biden's name didn't appear on the list.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
He had nothing to do with it. And it's going
back and forth.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's not that the list exists, it's who is who
was Epstein friends with Donald Trump?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Whose name appears?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That's what everybody But we're finding out amy that he
was particularly good friends with with Jeffrey Epstein, which is fine,
by the way. That doesn't mean that doesn't mean there's
anything wrong with that. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong.
But why three different versions of how he dumped epscene,
three different versions in about a week.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
What's that not an October surprise? Man? Why not release
it before he became president?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I don't and I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
To that if there don't in there. To me, that's
the dumbest that I understand. But I understand you're right now,
what does that have to do with now?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Which is a we I don't know why it didn't
happen before, but I do know that the DJ has
the file.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
We know that, we know that.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
President Trump's name appears in that file, and as Amy
pointed out, so is everybody else.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
There's no question about it.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But the information we're getting is that Trump and Epstein
hung out together a lot. That's the information we're getting.
If it's not true, release the damn file. If it
is true, well okay, that's a problem. And the problem
is that it's the Maga base that's screaming forgess of this.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah, both of them.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You know, I have go through all the Magma base,
Maga mah, yeah, yes, all right.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
It seems like this should have happened a long time ago.
But Governor Newsom has signed a bill into law that
increases the penalty for some offenders who solicit sixteen and
seventeen year olds for sex. It's AB three seventy nine.
It'll allow prosecutors to charge suspects who are at least
three years older than the minor, they solicit for sex
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with a felony instead of a misdemeanor on the first defense.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, a couple of moving pieces on this one, because
what do you.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Do with a twenty one year old with his girlfriend
who is seventeen and a half for almost eighteen years old,
and the prosecutor doesn't like the guy?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Then what ends up happening? Charge with a felony? This is.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
This is why prosecutors should have this wobbler decision instead
of an automatic first defense. I can see automatic first
defense if the kid is fourteen and you've got a
twenty eight year old thirty five year old predator, and
that's a misdemeanor first defense. That's crazy. But there's a
reason for this wobbling business. Prosecutors have the choice, which
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is a good idea.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Wait, so if they're sixteen or seventeen years old, you
don't think they should be charged with a felony.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
It depends.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It depends, because what if you have a twenty year
old or even a twenty year old with a girlfriend
that's almost eighteen, right, I mean that's a according to Newsome,
that's a straight felony.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Wait, a minute, I thought I had three years different.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It has to go with a twenty one year old
and someone who's just about to turn seven eighteen. So
that's why I like the idea of a straight out
the prosecution decides which way to go on this because.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Right now I think it is a misdemeanor on the
first defense. Isn't that the law?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Now?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
It is?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
It is?
Speaker 6 (19:15):
So I was just curious because I thought it was
just for if they solicit somebody for sex, like specifically
for prostitution ID I was eighteen.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, that's hitting up on something. Hey baby, what are
you wearing? What a trollop? No, that's that's just I'm
not arguing. There's what a solicitation?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I go on a date.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Okay, I go on a date and I'm first time out,
and guess what I want to do because I'm a
guy and I'm a pig, because guys are pigs.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
You want to buy dinner?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Uh No, I don't want to buy dinner. I will
buy dinner if I have to buy dinner. All right,
let's go on.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Okay, you know, Alec Baldwin should have just counted his
blessings and moved on. But he went and put in
a lawsuit alleging that he was maliciously prosecuted, and that's
been tossed. About six months after we heard the news
that the case against him was being dismissed, that involuntary
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manslaughter charge that you remember for the movie he worked
on Rust, which came and went. Nobody cared about it.
But his attorneys said that the judge and all of
that were blinded by their desire, or the prosecutors rather
were blinded by their desire to convict Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
And that may be true, by the way, this issue
is not whether that is an issue, by the way,
the case was dismissed first time around because the prosecution
did not share with a defense expulpatory evidence, which is
the law, and the judge just.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Tossed the case, which happens all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
So now you have the civil suit against New Mexico
saying exactly what you said, Neil, this is prosecutorial not misconduct.
But he's being aimed at and being shot at, so
to speak, because he's a high profile guy, because it's
a deep pocket, because whatever, and they get points by
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prosecuting him. That's why they did it. Okay, so he
sues them. And you know why I was dismissed because
here's six months and he has done nothing after filing
the lawsuit, and you have to go forward. I mean
you have to go forward with go depositions and interrogatories
and motions, and I mean, you can't just sit on
your ass. Well he sat on his ass and the
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judge said, okay, lawsuit dismissed. So we're never gonna get
to the underlying issue as to where did the prosecutors
actually go after him, because he's Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Like he says, seniors could have some trouble keeping those
Social Security payments coming. They soon won't be able to
just call Social Security to change addresses or check statuses
of benefit claims. Instead, they're going to have to first
verify their identity online or go to a field office
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if they're unable to do it. The reason that this
is changing is the agency is trying to expand its
online authentication requirement for address changes, claim status requests, benefit
verification letters, and tax statements. It's part of Trump's efforts
to cut out fraud.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah, I'd like to know I have no problem with
the fraud, because this is going to make it much
more difficult for seniors, There's no question about it.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
That's a given.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Now, how much fraud is involved, wouldn't you first want
to do the investigation and say there's massive fraud and
this is how to take care of it, or just
assume there's fraud and make it more difficult for seniors,
which is going to cut down on expenses. And so
this is the broad brush going across, and in this case,
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seniors are it is going to get difficult for seniors,
especially people who only live on Social Security, who don't
have access to computers, who are indigen poor.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
That's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Actually don't have the wherewithal to get on computers and
deal with it, much like I don't have the wherewithal much.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Okay, all right, let's go from the poor to the rich.
You know, watching all of the tsunami coverage, the one
thing that popped up that was weird is Oprah's name
was trending, and I'm like, what the hell was this? Well,
you look, you remember during the Maui fires that she
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bought up land and all this stuff. Well, it turns
out that she has this private road that would make
it easier for people to get to high Land during
the tsunami warning and a lot of people went online saying,
you know, taking pictures, went on X and they showed, look,
(24:02):
if she opened this road, we'd be able to get
there more quickly. A lot of backlash, and now she's
pushing back with a representation saying no, we called immediately
and talked to FEMA and talked to locals, local law
enforcement and said to open it up. So she's pushing back,
but man, it was horrible press the entire night.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And she also argues that she doesn't even control the road.
It's a public road that she has an easement on. Okay,
great story, Amy Nan Nan.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
We have to do this.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Is it natural or is it alien?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
It's origin it's Aliens.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
It's called the three I Atlas, and it's an interstellar
object discovered speeding through our cosmic neighborhood. Most astrophyth astrophysicists
say that it's got all the telltale signs of an
icy comet. But there are three researchers at the Avy Lobe.
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Lobe is a person, never mind, okay, astrophysicists, Okay, So
he's an astrophysicist at are Harvard and he says it's
not just a random space rock, but is in an
intelligently controlled alien spacecraft that's zooming through the galaxy. Oh yeah,
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it was discovered apparently in July, confirmed to have originated
outside Earth's solar system, which makes it just one of
three known interstellar objects ever discovered in our cosmic neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah, not very interesting unless a group of people say
they want to go back to whatever planet it comes
from and they're willing to kill themselves.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Yeah. Oh, some sports news, Neil.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, sports ish news. You have NBA All Star Gilbert Arenas.
Is that his name? I have no idea who he is,
but he was arrested in Encino, So apparently he lived
in this mansion for a while. Then he started renting
it out and using it as a casino of sorts.
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They had illegal poker games going there. You had to
pay what they call a rake. It's like attacks or
something to play in addition to whatever you're betting whatever.
The pod is that type of thing, but very high stakes,
and apparently it included hiring women to provide companionship air
quotes bunny years for gamblers and so this thing's busting
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wide open. A bunch of people with a lot of
money got swept up in this as well, and it
will continue to unfold. But right there in Encino, since
this is.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
The second story out of Encino where the Persian Palace
is located.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah, oh was it? Is it happening there?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
It might be?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
It might be, but I'm out of there. Okay, we're done.
KF I am sixty.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
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Speaker 3 (27:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yes or no? Have you ever had a stock Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, but I beg for stalkers. I want people interested
in following me.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
No one ever. Does you know why Howy had a stalker.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I paid the stalker to stock me so I could
feel like I was impressive and wanted and famous.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Okay, it is Thursday, everybody, July thirty one, last.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Day of July, and then go right into August.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh, since it is my birthday August on the twenty fifth. Hey,
starting tomorrow, I'm taking celebrating my birth month. And I
thought it would take off all thirty days, just like
Joel Larsgard is doing thirty days vacation. I got to
(01:09):
ask him next week, what the hell? How much money
can you make that you can take thirty days vacation.
That's very impressive. I've never had a thirty day vacation
in my life.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Is he really taking off thirty days?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I don't wait from us he's taking off four weeks.
I have no idea. Maybe has something else going. I
don't know. Neil but I'm going to ask him, that's
for sure. Anyway.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Good morning, Neil, Good morning, Willie wool Hey Kono, you're
wearing something different sweatshirt and baseball cap this morning gets
cold in here, huh yeah, okay, Amy.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Good morning, Well good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, there you go, and Will there you are, Good
morning Bill, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And and nice blue perky you know, top wearing.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Didn't know where you were going with Yeah, that was
but yes, perky, for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I get.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Perky. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Katie Kirk was described as perky, and she hated it
because she always considered herself a serious journalist, which she is,
by the way, and what was so? And then the
mad Australian Jews who has a PhD in celestial navigation
and is now working for iHeart for minimum wage.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Good morning, Nikki.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Sea shirt.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
In case you were wondering, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Today I'm wearing a Jimmy Hendrix SA shirt in case
you're wondering.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Not wondering in the least, I'll let you borrow it. Yeah,
that'll fit. That'll work. Extra small, that's me x Well,
it depends.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Where, but yeah, extra small does work.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Okay. What else is going on?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's basically it anything going on birthday month, starting to borrow.
Neil and I are putting together in October eleventh, fun
fun evening at the White House, the Anaheim White House Restaurant.
It's gonna be with Zelman's and we're gonna When do
you start announcing that this Saturday?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Right you just did?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
When do you start talking about it? How people can join.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Us about it? Right now? Can you hear me, Bill,
Bill in the studio, can you hear me? Yes, We're
gonna put Zelmans to the test with a extraordinarily garlicky
on unie menu.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah, we are. And we'll talk more about it starting next.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yew and Neil, I'll talk about this Saturday.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, and Neil will start He'll send us off with
the message on Saturday. Okay, that is it for the
good mornings, and it is time to jump into will
I said hello to you, didn't I will because I've
already forgotten again. Okay, I forget. Literally I remember the
(04:04):
most obscure thing an I'll tell you. I mean, just
the weirdest stuff that comes out of my rear end.
But I literally forgot what I said thirty seconds ago.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
You just said that weird stuff comes out of your rear.
End sir, Well, facts not weird.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I'll be weird stuff depending on what I eat anyway,
but facts weird, facts and factoids. Sixen, Yeah, all right,
it is and we're started. You guys ready to do it.
It's time for Handle on the News on a Thursday
morning with Amy Neil and me Lead Storry, Karla Harris Annolys. Yesterday,
(04:43):
she is not running for California governor and do more
about it.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
That's at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
What she left out is I am not running for
California governor, and you can bet your ass I'm going
to run for president. And that is exactly what she said,
and I'm going to speak more about that. I hope
she does.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I hope she does. We'll see how she does. We'll
talk a little.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Bit more about how the next run, the next presidential
nominating run on the Democratic Party will be not only
a free for all, but will be a legitimate test
because that's what primaries do.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Legitimately, you can't do.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He cannot be thrilled about that.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
He can't.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
What we need desperately is a good long primary to
vet all of the candidates to see which one comes
out that's what Donald Trump did, ran a long, hard
campaign and came out ahead. And that's exactly what our
democracy is about. Is everybody gets to know the candidates
(05:52):
and know where they sit. Kamala Harris, she just walked
into it and will talk more about that because there's
a lot of moving there.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I hope it involves joy. Isn't that what she ran on? Joy?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to some joy.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Not a lot of joy in city council meets meetings
when people start throwing around racial slurs and really really
bad words. But the La City Council now has officially
banned the use of the N word and the SEA
word during public comment. The band comes years after tiraids
(06:35):
by a few speakers who apparently come to a lot
of meetings, attack officials, wait their sexual orientation, their gender,
and sometimes use racial slurs. So sometimes now speakers are
going to get a warning if they use the N
word or the C word or any variation of that word,
and if they keep it up, they'll be removed from
the room and maybe banned from future meetings.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Except there is the first Moment amendment issue and the
threat of filing a lawsuit. These are public meetings, and
there's always as you said, they show up all the time.
These are gadflies who show up every single meeting and
start screaming at the council people and there's nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I have I have watched that that is.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Completely crazy, and it was there's nothing you can do.
They're open meetings. Comments, public comments have to be allowed.
And so is this the first First Amendment issue?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I you know, the court could very well say, hey, guys,
they have a right to do that. I'm going to
make an analogy here, and that is the Prime Minister
of England is just a member of basically their member
of Congress, and that's the president, and they have to
run for their congressional seat and it's an MPC member
(07:53):
of Parliament and when it's time to run, they have
to go out and do quote their version of the primaries.
And so there I remember seeing one with Margaret Thatcher
and she is out there in front of her constituency
and by law, anybody who wants to run against her
(08:13):
can do so. So the last one, the picture I
saw someone addresses Abraham Lincoln who was arguing the tin
Man from the Wizard of Oz. Crazy people and that's
the analogy here. Crazy people are allowed to talk at
public meetings where public comments have to be given.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Oh some of them have radio shows. Yeah, thanks for that, okay, Neil, Yes, sir,
this is an all time first tell me if I'm wrong,
Willie Wolf. You have a twenty two member Arab League,
you have the entire European Union. In another seventeen countries
(09:00):
all backed a declaration that happens to be signed by
the United Nations basically saying that they want Hamas to
relinquish all power in Gaza and disarm.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
And you are right, it has never happened before. And
they are blaming Hamas as well as Israel. And Israel
is being blamed universally for the starvation that's going on.
There's no issue about that, and Israel should be blamed.
But you have the Arab but world not recognizing October seventh.
They only recognized October eighth when Israel went and attacked Gaza.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well, this time they condemned it.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You bet.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Now it's time they condemned it because the mass starvation
that's going on in Gaza is is so offending and
royaling the world that Okay, whatever we can do and
they talk about it too, a two state solution, which
I think is the only way out on this one.
So we'll talk more about that too. As always, there's
(10:08):
just a lot there.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Lawmakers in Texas, Republicans specifically, have put out their first
draft of the state's new congressional map. They have revamped
district lines to try to flip five Democratic seats in
next year's midterm elections over to the Republican side. The
new map targets US House members in Austin, Dallas, and
(10:34):
Houston metro areas, also in South Texas. Democrats say they
might try to stop this process by leaving the state,
which apparently they could do. If they leave, then they
wouldn't have a quorum and couldn't have a vote.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I mean, but eventually you show up.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Eventually, you have to do it. Other states have done it.
Oregon did it. There was a huge, huge thing when
Oregon lawmakers just left the state.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, this one.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
The Republicans are doing things that the Blue states and
not We have not and cannot do. And we talked,
I talked about this yesterday. And this has to do midterm, right,
you have to change congressional where you can't change congressional
disticcts every ten years, pursuing to the census. What they're
doing is in the middle of that term, they're passing
(11:20):
a law saying they can change districts right now. And
it's flipping the way you can do it, as Jerry Mander.
You draw the districts, so you can change a you
can change the party who's going to go. And it's
a little complicated but can be done easily. Okay, So
Gavin Newsen says, well, I'm going to do the same
(11:41):
thing in California.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
He can't.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Everything's already democratic in California, right.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Not only that we can know there are some Republican
seats there are that can be changed.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
We passed the law that Newsom pushed saying that the
legislature cannot do that. It has to be an independent
commission which cannot show favoritism. So that doesn't happen in
the Southern states, the Red states. So this is this
is kind of crazy. Is there a chance that they're
going to stop it? Maybe because it's these are black
(12:15):
districts also, and now you talk about the issue of racism.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
We're going to be thrown into the mix. So we'll see,
we'll see if the report.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And this is Trump saying here's what I want you
to do, of course, and we'll see if this works.
And if it does work, I tell you it's do
the Democrat to the Republicans keep control of Congress. Yeah,
maybe it's a mess. It is such a mess going on,
the polarization. Effectively, it says we don't want any kind
(12:44):
of a democracy if you have a democratic seat. We
are going to do everything to undo a democratic seat
and make it republican, and we don't care how we
do it. And so they passed a law saying we
can do it.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
It's crazy making.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Speaking of laws, this one bill is another one of
those strange, tiny, never heard of being used laws, very obscure.
You've got Senate Democrats that are pushing strangely enough to
have the Epstein files made public. I don't know why
(13:22):
they didn't do this when you know their president was
rulling things, but now it's super important to them. So
this weird federal law allows the Democrats in this case
to request that the dj turnover all the material related
to the Epstein investigation, which is probably not going to happen.
This is this is for their review confessional.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
This Epstein thing is the President is getting nailed on
this because remember yesterday the files were, they were there,
We have to release them. The government has them, Biden
has them, and then all of a sudden, you have
a Trump government.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh no, they don't exist.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And according to reports, I think a Wall Street journal
released the report that Pam Bondi, Attorney General, told President Trump,
your name appears multiple times in this report. And so
he is now being terrific and saying, I have asked
the DOJ to request that the court release the Oh
(14:28):
my god, what's what I'm looking for? That I actually
lose that name on that oh grand jury testimony, and
therefore we're going to make that public. Here's the problem.
The grand jury testimony, which one judge said we're not
going to release, consists of two witnesses, both cops.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
That's the grand jury testimony. Now, how about the file itself?
You know who has that? The DOJ they're not releasing it.
They are not releasing it and coming up with some
kind of crazy excuse. And Trump has said three different
versions of how he changed his relationship with Epstein, three
(15:06):
different versions of while he no longer had Epstein as
a friend.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Listen, they these files have been in that office during Biden. Yep,
how come when when if you didn't want Trump to
run and you had information on him there, why would
they not have released it during Biden and just said
(15:31):
listen this pig.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I don't know. But the uproar is going on right now.
That's the problem. Biden never said I have the list,
and then I don't have the list, and then bid yeah,
but Biden's name didn't appear on the list.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
He had nothing to do with it. And it's going
back and forth.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's not that the list exists, it's who is who
was Epstein friends with Donald Trump?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Whose name appears?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That's what everybody But we're finding out amy that he
was particularly good friends with with Jeffrey Epstein, which is fine,
by the way. That doesn't mean that doesn't mean there's
anything wrong with that. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong.
But why three different versions of how he dumped epscene,
three different versions in about a week.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
What's that not an October surprise? Man? Why not release
it before he became president?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I don't and I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
To that if there don't in there. To me, that's
the dumbest that I understand. But I understand you're right now,
what does that have to do with now?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Which is a we I don't know why it didn't
happen before, but I do know that the DJ has
the file.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
We know that, we know that.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
President Trump's name appears in that file, and as Amy
pointed out, so is everybody else.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
There's no question about it.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But the information we're getting is that Trump and Epstein
hung out together a lot. That's the information we're getting.
If it's not true, release the damn file. If it
is true, well okay, that's a problem. And the problem
is that it's the Maga base that's screaming forgess of this.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah, both of them.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You know, I have go through all the Magma base,
Maga mah, yeah, yes, all right.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
It seems like this should have happened a long time ago.
But Governor Newsom has signed a bill into law that
increases the penalty for some offenders who solicit sixteen and
seventeen year olds for sex. It's AB three seventy nine.
It'll allow prosecutors to charge suspects who are at least
three years older than the minor, they solicit for sex
(17:42):
with a felony instead of a misdemeanor on the first defense.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yeah, a couple of moving pieces on this one, because
what do you.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Do with a twenty one year old with his girlfriend
who is seventeen and a half for almost eighteen years old,
and the prosecutor doesn't like the guy?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Then what ends up happening? Charge with a felony? This is.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
This is why prosecutors should have this wobbler decision instead
of an automatic first defense. I can see automatic first
defense if the kid is fourteen and you've got a
twenty eight year old thirty five year old predator, and
that's a misdemeanor first defense. That's crazy. But there's a
reason for this wobbling business. Prosecutors have the choice, which
(18:31):
is a good idea.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Wait, so if they're sixteen or seventeen years old, you
don't think they should be charged with a felony.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
It depends.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It depends, because what if you have a twenty year
old or even a twenty year old with a girlfriend
that's almost eighteen, right, I mean that's a according to Newsome,
that's a straight felony.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Wait, a minute, I thought I had three years different.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It has to go with a twenty one year old
and someone who's just about to turn seven eighteen. So
that's why I like the idea of a straight out
the prosecution decides which way to go on this because.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Right now I think it is a misdemeanor on the
first defense. Isn't that the law?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Now?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
It is?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
It is?
Speaker 6 (19:15):
So I was just curious because I thought it was
just for if they solicit somebody for sex, like specifically
for prostitution ID I was eighteen.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, that's hitting up on something. Hey baby, what are
you wearing? What a trollop? No, that's that's just I'm
not arguing. There's what a solicitation?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I go on a date.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Okay, I go on a date and I'm first time out,
and guess what I want to do because I'm a
guy and I'm a pig, because guys are pigs.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
You want to buy dinner?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Uh No, I don't want to buy dinner. I will
buy dinner if I have to buy dinner. All right,
let's go on.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Okay, you know, Alec Baldwin should have just counted his
blessings and moved on. But he went and put in
a lawsuit alleging that he was maliciously prosecuted, and that's
been tossed. About six months after we heard the news
that the case against him was being dismissed, that involuntary
(20:17):
manslaughter charge that you remember for the movie he worked
on Rust, which came and went. Nobody cared about it.
But his attorneys said that the judge and all of
that were blinded by their desire, or the prosecutors rather
were blinded by their desire to convict Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
And that may be true, by the way, this issue
is not whether that is an issue, by the way,
the case was dismissed first time around because the prosecution
did not share with a defense expulpatory evidence, which is
the law, and the judge just.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Tossed the case, which happens all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
So now you have the civil suit against New Mexico
saying exactly what you said, Neil, this is prosecutorial not misconduct.
But he's being aimed at and being shot at, so
to speak, because he's a high profile guy, because it's
a deep pocket, because whatever, and they get points by
(21:18):
prosecuting him. That's why they did it. Okay, so he
sues them. And you know why I was dismissed because
here's six months and he has done nothing after filing
the lawsuit, and you have to go forward. I mean
you have to go forward with go depositions and interrogatories
and motions, and I mean, you can't just sit on
your ass. Well he sat on his ass and the
(21:40):
judge said, okay, lawsuit dismissed. So we're never gonna get
to the underlying issue as to where did the prosecutors
actually go after him, because he's Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Like he says, seniors could have some trouble keeping those
Social Security payments coming. They soon won't be able to
just call Social Security to change addresses or check statuses
of benefit claims. Instead, they're going to have to first
verify their identity online or go to a field office
(22:12):
if they're unable to do it. The reason that this
is changing is the agency is trying to expand its
online authentication requirement for address changes, claim status requests, benefit
verification letters, and tax statements. It's part of Trump's efforts
to cut out fraud.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah, I'd like to know I have no problem with
the fraud, because this is going to make it much
more difficult for seniors, There's no question about it.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
That's a given.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Now, how much fraud is involved, wouldn't you first want
to do the investigation and say there's massive fraud and
this is how to take care of it, or just
assume there's fraud and make it more difficult for seniors,
which is going to cut down on expenses. And so
this is the broad brush going across, and in this case,
(22:58):
seniors are it is going to get difficult for seniors,
especially people who only live on Social Security, who don't
have access to computers, who are indigen poor.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
That's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Actually don't have the wherewithal to get on computers and
deal with it, much like I don't have the wherewithal much.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Okay, all right, let's go from the poor to the rich.
You know, watching all of the tsunami coverage, the one
thing that popped up that was weird is Oprah's name
was trending, and I'm like, what the hell was this? Well,
you look, you remember during the Maui fires that she
(23:41):
bought up land and all this stuff. Well, it turns
out that she has this private road that would make
it easier for people to get to high Land during
the tsunami warning and a lot of people went online saying,
you know, taking pictures, went on X and they showed, look,
(24:02):
if she opened this road, we'd be able to get
there more quickly. A lot of backlash, and now she's
pushing back with a representation saying no, we called immediately
and talked to FEMA and talked to locals, local law
enforcement and said to open it up. So she's pushing back,
but man, it was horrible press the entire night.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And she also argues that she doesn't even control the road.
It's a public road that she has an easement on. Okay,
great story, Amy Nan Nan.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
We have to do this.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Is it natural or is it alien?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
It's origin it's Aliens.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
It's called the three I Atlas, and it's an interstellar
object discovered speeding through our cosmic neighborhood. Most astrophyth astrophysicists
say that it's got all the telltale signs of an
icy comet. But there are three researchers at the Avy Lobe.
(25:09):
Lobe is a person, never mind, okay, astrophysicists, Okay, So
he's an astrophysicist at are Harvard and he says it's
not just a random space rock, but is in an
intelligently controlled alien spacecraft that's zooming through the galaxy. Oh yeah,
(25:31):
it was discovered apparently in July, confirmed to have originated
outside Earth's solar system, which makes it just one of
three known interstellar objects ever discovered in our cosmic neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah, not very interesting unless a group of people say
they want to go back to whatever planet it comes
from and they're willing to kill themselves.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Yeah. Oh, some sports news, Neil.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, sports ish news. You have NBA All Star Gilbert Arenas.
Is that his name? I have no idea who he is,
but he was arrested in Encino, So apparently he lived
in this mansion for a while. Then he started renting
it out and using it as a casino of sorts.
(26:13):
They had illegal poker games going there. You had to
pay what they call a rake. It's like attacks or
something to play in addition to whatever you're betting whatever.
The pod is that type of thing, but very high stakes,
and apparently it included hiring women to provide companionship air
quotes bunny years for gamblers and so this thing's busting
(26:37):
wide open. A bunch of people with a lot of
money got swept up in this as well, and it
will continue to unfold. But right there in Encino, since
this is.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
The second story out of Encino where the Persian Palace
is located.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah, oh was it? Is it happening there?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
It might be?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
It might be, but I'm out of there. Okay, we're done.
KF I am sixty.
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