August 21, 2025 • 32 mins
Amy and Neil join Bill to talk about the latest news stories. The Texas House passes Trump's gerrymandered election map. Obama supports California's redistricting efforts in response to Texas' gerrymandering. Israel has begun the first stages of clearing Palestinians out of Gaza. California resident catches the plague in Tahoe. Health and Human Services begs RFK Jr. to stop spreading inaccurate health info.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
Hey, good morning, everybody handle here and the morning crowd.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
It is a.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Thursday morning, terrible Thursday, terrific Thursday. I always get confused.
Oh how unusual. Yesterday I talked to Jim about cognitive
billies in memory, and I of course completely forgot what
I talked about, what we spoke about. All right, let
me get the mute going here. In any case, Sam,
(01:10):
Good morning. Sam's filling in for Kno, good morning, Bill.
How's it going? That's good? Excellent to have you here?
Maybe all right? All right, Amy, good morning, Hi Bill?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I just wonderful, couldn't be better. Just I wake up
in the morning and I come here and life is
so good.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I saw you you're loving on your puppy a little
bit earlier.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, you know, the little the little gal? Yeah, which
one was that? That's is he is he replaced Gucci
because Chi Gucci got eaten by a coyote for breakfast and.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Sounds like a country song Gucci got eating by coyoti.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
For breakfast and I'm just sitting here.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well, I told you that I lived next door to
Jessica Simpson's parents.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Yeah you did.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I tell that story and that little or her little
one got eaten by a coyote.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, and you know she came to everybody's do world.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Do you see my dog? If you see my dog?
And there were pieces of her little dog right across
my backyard.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
You know, you talk about there really were. So you
talk about Gucci and how you cried. I did actually cry, Okay,
and then you're mocking somebody for losing their dog to
a coyote.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
That is correct, you you have that one half percent correctly, Yeah,
sort of given. All right.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Uh, good morning, Neil, good morning morning and uh some
listener recommended themeless thursdays.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Oh that's every day.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Yeah, so it's like pretty much whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It to be, all right, Will good morning, Good morning,
Bill and Anne, good morning. Oh and there's your podres
but your yes go Padre, Yeah, yay, Yeah, is there
a rivalry between the Dodgers and San Diego.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yes, is there.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's like Dodgers San Francisco rivalries that go back for
zillions of years, that sort of thing.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
No, it's kind of a new We're much more in
their heads than the Giants at this point. Okay, well
you have a much better record than the Giants at
this point.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yes. And I like the Freeway Series where the Angels
and the Dodgers I've always wondered about. Yeah, they are
they on the opposite sides of the freeway during the
Freeway Series. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And then the Dodgers swept the Padres recently too. And
where you.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Live, this is sports talk, you know, this is yeah
Fox five seven e LA Sports.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
The key is you want to win. You got to
you got to get that w take to the pay
you want to give one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, you gotta put your Yeah, you gotta put your game. Yeah,
all of that all right. We're actually we're actually, I
think going to do a day without Trump. Uh and uh,
that doesn't happen very often, you know what they say? Yeah,
a day without Trump is like a day without Trump. Uh.
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And it's pretty impressive. But we have a lot. We
have some politics, talk about what happened in Texas that
was a big deal, and we'll talk about that, uh,
and a bunch of other stuff coming about the city
of Los Angeles, and then a real fun, fun topic.
Is there such thing as a good life? And what
is a good life? We'll explain because a good life
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to me is probably a good U is probably a
bad life to you, and the worse it is for you,
the better my life.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Is not sure how that works?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It works? Well, Okay, are we ready to do it?
It is time for Handle on the news with Amy
Neil and me lead story.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Living.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, Texas did, and of course we knew it was
going to happen. The Texas House passes the redistricting map
upon the request of the person we're not talking about today,
and five new basically Republican districts have been created, and
it's all about redrawing the congressional map to give the
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Republicans even more power or a bigger majority in the House. Well,
and of course, in retaliation, if you want to call
it that, California is doing the same thing, Governor Newsom.
That says, Okay, we're going to redistrict We're going to
redraw our map to create five new Democratic districts. And
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of course the Republicans are screaming, you can't do that,
you can't do that. Texas of course can do that.
But the argument is that technically speaking, it would be tough.
It's going to happen, but it's going to be a
little tougher because we have an independent commission that was
passed last time going that redistricts, and usually the redistricting
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happens every ten years based on the census, not this
time around. The President asked you do this, and of
course they jump, so that's exactly what they did. Now
Republicans are filing lawsuits against California doing this, arguing all
kinds of things that there wasn't enough time for hearings,
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the people of California aren't allowed to really look at this.
A judge just threw that right out because the argument
is the people going to vote in the end, there's
a vote that takes place. You can't argue that the
people of California are being screwed to not allowed to
comment on this when they vote, and so it's going
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to pass. The legislature today. There'll be a special election
in November. And I don't understand why Democrats are opposed
to this. Republicans of course, but Democrats. And once this happens,
every other state is going to do the same thing.
You will have safe districts, Republican districts, safe Democratic districts.
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We're done. There will be no more what's the word
I'm looking for, There'll be no more consensus. It'll just
go down party lines the whole country. The House will
be split and will continue to be split. That's not fun.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Or maybe they'll come to their senses and pass a
ban on this stuff. Yeah, everybody hates jerrymandering when it's
being done to them.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Maybe maybe it'll come to their consensus and their senses, yes,
and find it that it's too offensive, not almost worked
not qayy, yeah, okay, I just did this real quick,
but go ahead. Amy.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Basically, on the redistricting, former President Obama has weighed in
wonder why he says we cannot unit it laterally allow
one of the two major parties to rig the game.
He made comments yesterday saying he supports the California Democrats
move to redraw congressional districts to offset the similar moves
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made by Texas. He says, I just want a fair
fight between Republicans and Democrats, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And these are another rules that have changed, and that
is presidents stay away from politics.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Former presidents now they're in the fray.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
They are jumping into the fray because last time, when
the person will not name lost the election, then the
commenting didn't stop. And so now the commenting in use
on the fight continues. It is a partisan fight right
down the middle.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
With this point, you have two presidents. You have Obama
for the Democrats and Trump for the Republicans. Is essentially
what's happening.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Now, which is a problem for the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh yes, and it's going to be getting interesting because
the next Republican president is going to be a Trump president.
I still think he's going to call the shots. I
do believe that, my belief. All Right, Some bad news
over in the Middle East.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yeah, this just keeps getting uglier and uglier and uglier.
About sixty thousand reservists are being called up for the
beginning of September, and this is to free up active
duty personnel for an operation that Israel has been saying
it's wanting to do and that is the preliminary actions
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going down now.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
To occupy all of Gaza sit yep.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So what they're going to do.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
They've had, you know, hold on outskirts, but now they're
they're you know, squeezing in. Hamas, of course, always the
victim says that Israel is obstructing the ceasefire deal.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yes, of course we're going to hold on to the hostages,
but you are obstructing good Good for you. In the meantime,
Israel is going to occupy certainly Gaza City, which once
again means millions of Palestinians have to be relocated. And
it is not fun for them. Boy, are they just
getting nailed from both sides. Israel is pounding them and
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starving them, and Hamas doesn't care. We are still going
to be proponents of the destruction of the state of
Israel as long as we're alive. I wonder what they
were thinking on October seventh. Did someone at one point
say maybe we shouldn't do this because Israel is going
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to get really pissed off. And twelve hundred Israelis were
killed in this horrible attack. At this point, you've got
sixty three thousand Palestinians.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Gaza has been pulverized.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
People are starving to death, and Hamas is still saying, Yep,
it's worth it. Go figure, take a break. We will
come back and continue on with handle on the news. Hey, fine,
good morning, everybody. Handle here on a Thursday morning. It's
August twenty one now, and Kono is out, He's going,
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he's gone fishing. Nikki is out or is she an
intern or part time whatever the hell they call it?
Is her birthday today? Yeah? Everybody takes off a birthday week?
Or what day is August twenty fifth? What day of
the week is that?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
August twenty fifth is Monday?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Monday? Okay, it's my birthday and I will be here.
I will be here.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Oh well, with all the Jewish holidays and every other
holiday you take off, trust me, you take off plenty.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, here I take off who won for you? I
take off one? Well, of course I gotta talk about Jesus. One.
One Jewish holiday I take off, Okay, thank you. Just one.
And there are dozens and dozens of them. Sometimes there
are two a day. There's there's a lot of them.
(12:34):
One you've taken off more I have not. I don't
take off Jewish holidays. I do not. I don't I
take one. No, I don't, Neil, stop, and I know
what I take off?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Oh you don't. You don't know your name?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And then no, no, and then m Kipper is uh
the holiest of the Jewish holidays?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Where do you apologize to God for being a Jew?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Okay, hold on, Kipper, and you celebrated Reagan?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
No, you celebrate kippers in generally would be that would be. Yeah,
that's a big deal in terms of eating in London. Okay,
we're done, guys with that. Did we actually digress? Did
we go on a tangent? Not here? Moving on more?
Handle on the news, Amy, Neil and me.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
We've got heat, we've got floods, we've got earthquakes. So
now just doesn't it make sense that we've got plague?
Oh boy, and it's in our own backyard. A person
who lives in California has tested positive for plague after
likely being bitten by an infected flea. The person was
camping in South Lake Tahoe. It's the first infection reported
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in the county Eldorado County since twenty twenty. The person
is recovering. An average of seven people are diagnosed with
a confirmed case of plague each year in the US.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And uh, the bubonic plague, which is fun okay, factoid.
How did bubonic plague gets get its name bubonic plague?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Mm hm, I do not know, sir.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I will tell you because it comes from the word
bo bules and bo bules that's true. We're gonna look
it up. Bobules are these little boils, uh, that people
with this kind of plague have, and then they burst
open and they become pussy and drainage comes out. And
please have breakfast, everybody. I want you to eat omeal
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oatmeal right now. Uh. And uh that's one of the symptoms,
usually in the armpits.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Okay, yeah, okay, So the plague, well, you're.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Giving me a disgusted look look it up.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Look it up. Bow bules, all right? Moving on.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Uh, the rivers have run red and there's locusts. No,
there's not, but they there's a hurricane and it is
a powerful one. This just goes to show you, you know,
they don't have to make landfall to cause avoct You've
got Hurricane Aaron slamming North Carolina, Virginia coast, strong winds,
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you got waves, rip currents, all of these things. And
this is just the the you know, outer bands that
are hitting this morning, and it's just massive.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It's six hundred miles across. And yesterday I was watching
the news with the weather report. It's threading the needle
right between the Bermudas and the US, going straight up
through that area and affecting both sides of the hurricane,
which never happens. You're right, it is massive, and it's crazy,
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it really is. That's when you really want to live
on the East Coast. Can you imagine if this thing
actually hit what would happen? Well, Katrina was this category
hit New Orleans straight on, and look what happened with Katrina.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
I'll take the earthquakes.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Ahhf's staffers have a little request for their boss. More
than seven hundred and fifty current and former staffers at
the Department of Health and Human Services have asked their boss,
Robert F. Kennedy Junior, to stop spreading inaccurate health information.
The request came after a shooter fired hundreds of rounds
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at the headquarters of the CDC earlier this month. The
letter said the violent attack on August eighth on CDC's
headquarters in Atlanta was not random, and the shooter had
expressed discontent with the COVID nineteen vaccine and also wanted
to make his distrust of it known.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, that's unfair for them to bring up a shooter,
a person who had this kind of this level of
upset with the CDC. That does that mean that therefore
other people who are as upset are going to shoot
the place up. No, I don't think so. Now, the
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underlying message that he's not doing any favors as head
of the CDC. He has actually called the CDC a
cesspool of corruption and has terminated thousands of employees. I mean,
that's pretty bad stuff. But saying that this somehow proves
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that Kennedy is off base, you don't need that to
prove it. I just don't think a single incident should
should be involved here or should be pointed to.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh great story, you know, let's on black.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, let's when we come back, Neil.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, because it's too good. It's too good to just
blow pass it.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
You want to savor it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's really it's really good. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
Thanks to if I handle here Thursday morning in August
twenty one, and we got a heat wave coming in.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It's gonna be hot. Not a schitz, but hot.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It's a dry heat as it bakes at one hundred
and fifty degrees. Okay, back we.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Go to Handle on the news with Amy Neil and
Me and.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
An absolutely delicious story up one of those great.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
I'm nicely played by the way. Yeah, this is almost comical.
Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noam. She said this week that
they're gonna paint the Southern border.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Wall bill duh wall, bill, duh wall.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
They're gonna paint that wall that we share with Mexico
there black so it will get hotter. Obviously, black attracts
the sun and keeps the heat, radiates that heat out
and this is going to deter I guess, people from
climbing the wall. And she credited the man who shall
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not be named this morning with the idea huge.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah all right, So how much do you think it's
gonna cost to paint three hundred or four hundred miles
of wall black?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I saw some number and I can't remember what it was.
But it's it's bigger than a bread box.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
How much how much you think of cost to buy
a pair of gloves?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Yeah, white gloves, thick white gloves.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
If you're gonna do this, let's do it. Helicopter gunships,
watch towers. I really go for it.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
What it's probably cheaper to electrify its part though, is
she did have like a roller or a brush or
something a symbol like scissors when you cut the ribbon.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I know it's some of this is just completely insane,
all right? Moving on?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
How long can you hold your breath? Bet? This guy
has you beat. There's a Croatian free diver who uh
held his breath for twenty nine minutes in three seconds.
Uh Vitomr Marisik took a last gulp of pure oxygen
and lay down in a pool. There he remained cool
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as a c cucumber for twenty nine minutes three seconds,
breaking the previous world record breath holder by five minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
That's impressive. I mean not what kind of like does
he has where he spends all his time holding his
breath underwater? I get that, but it's quiet. Yeah, you
hold your hold your breath for thirty seconds and you
have a hard time doing it.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
We do.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
We do tests here, my wife, my boy and me.
We we challenge each other.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Watch.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Oh it's it's difficult. I can I can do a minute.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
But man, the cool thing of this is that he
beats out most seam mammals with that.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, it's like as long as a bottlenosed dolphin can
stay under.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Not your son.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, we're not talking about Max anymore at that point.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Yeah, we we'd be calling for backup. I believe all right,
Ice is getting flashy.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
So sixty thousand.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
They picked up some SUVs, a pair of sixty thousand
Ford Mustangs. They are deploying in Washington, d C. But
they're they're making them more eye catching. And they want
these beautiful, beautiful Ice vehicles to be eye catching and
to be defenders of the homeland and they want their
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country back.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But they fired the drivers.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
They so what do you do with that? I mean,
the money that they're spending is just yeah, wait, we're
spending the money on the vehicle. We can't afford.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
They'll have to weime o ice, Yeah, and it will
just park and say o la please enter the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Ten thousand new agents, police dogs, new equipment and gear.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I mean ice and border protection. I mean the amount of.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Money that has been increased for border protection is it's explosive.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Well, but they've also stopped millions of people from coming
across the border.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
They have. It's been very successful. Now the issue is
is it worth the cost? The cost is going to
be astronomical, and it is.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
We spend money no matter which side's in there they
spend money on.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
They just spend money. It's what they do.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Well, the political that you agree with what they're spending
it on or not if you want. You know, some
people think that it's a waste to put ringbow colored crosswalks.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, I mean the issue here is very simple. Is
simply a question of money. It's a question. It's an
equation of financial equation. Keeping out illegal migrants. Does that
help or hurt the economy? And people who need migrants
are saying it's killing us people who are opposed to
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migrants because they're taking quote our jobs, and then it's
worth the money. But to Amy's point, it has worked
dramatically the number of migrants coming over. You know why
black walls those black walls are really working.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
They didn't even need the black walls. They weren't black
until yesterday.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Go figure. But again, it's a political move. I see
a lot of this is there are some really hard nosed,
legitimate reasons if you're taking a philosophical stand, taking.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
A roller and painting the wall black.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Don't you think that speaks to his constituents?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Though? Don't you think?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Oh? Absolutely, I would think. You don't think it's alic
You don't think it's a political move. I don't. Frankly,
I don't think he gives a rats about any of
the political position that he takes.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I think it is all politics.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
That's not to say that most politicians do not believe
in reelection and optics more importantly than they do in terms.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Of they do.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
There are a couple there are a couple of.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Art about being.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Being a rationalist and not being part of a political party.
They both look absurd to me.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Now, yeah, I'll tell you the one who I admire,
Liz Cheney, who stood up and said these are my values,
these are this is my position, and she got killed
in the primary.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Sixty eight percent is what she was a rationalist.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Well, because I don't like people don't like when you
look at things case by case, at piece by piece.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
They want you to be a part of a party.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Okay, when is a window not a window? We'll come
back with that, fright. I am six forty handle here
on a heat wave Thursday, August twenty one. All right,
quick question. When is a door not a door? It's
when it's a jar. When is the window not a window?
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When it's not a window? Amy?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
And when it's not a window, what do you do?
Speaker 6 (25:52):
You sue?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
So two lawsuits have been filed accusing Delta and United
of knowingly charge charging passengers extra for window seats that
were not next to a window. This just happened to me.
You know, you pay up pay for the premium seat
or whatever, and then you go to sit in your
window seat and it's one of the places where there's
a little gap and there is no window. So the
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lawsuit claims they're seeking to hold United and Delta accountable
for charging customers premiums for products they didn't deliver they're
accused of. Each carrier is accused of selling more than
a million window seats that were in fact windowless.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, that is a class action suit. You bet you.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
I want to on that one.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Oh yeah, you will be in on that one. You will.
You're part of the class.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Automatically, except I refuse to fly United, so I guess I.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Won't be Hey, no, you're still part of the class.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
You were you were damaged or you were quote injured
by the antics of the airline. You paid for something
that didn't exist, and it's across a million people, and
they're going to argue fraud. They're going to argue misrepresentation.
Oh yeah, so you'll get some money. You'll get forty
cents is the lawyers. You know, you're not gonna get
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very much, but you'll get some money.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
They should just put a little sticker of a window there.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, they should paint the window. How hard is that?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Where's Christina?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Yeah, with their paint brush. My window's black, all right, Hegseth.
Of course, the Defense Secretary Pete Haigseth heg Seth, he
has lots of security, like lots and lots and lots
of security, and then security for his security, and then
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they have security and so on and so on. So
they are straining the army agency that is tasked with
protecting him, and they're pulling agents from all kinds of
different investigations, criminal investigations, all kinds of things just to
safeguard his family residents and Minnesota Is residents in Tennessee.
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Obviously they're DC And numerous officials are saying, hey, you
know they do this under.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
The condition of it.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
It's just never been done before. He's taken it to
a new level. That's nobody has seen this ever. Yeah, okay,
it's like your security.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, totally gross. Yeah. Do a lot of
people want to see him dead? No? I don't think so.
I just why only because because you have it, you
can do it. And it depends how paranoid you are.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
There's something to it.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, there's a million different reasons. Oh here's a good story. Amy.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Target's CEO caught in the crosshairs. Brian Cornell is stepping
down after eleven years with Target because of well, really
crappy sales. Their sales have been slumping for years a result.
According to this article of its own strategic Mista, the
company of struggled as customers have purchased lest of its
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home goods and clothes targets also faced intense competition from
Walmart and Amazon and Costco.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, but look at the look at the philosophy here,
this is where we get nailed. Yesterday I was listening
to an analysis. Target was one of the forefront or
at the I would say it's forefront of the LGBTQ
acceptance in terms of corporate They had promotions programs, a
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lot of pro gay philosophy and products and vendors. And
four days after the President comes in science directives executive
orders getting rid of DEI, Target turns around and goes
the other way, really pissing off those that were in
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favor of LGPT LGBTQ rights. So they all boycotted and
they pissed off. That pisses off off the other side,
who will not buy a Target. They're caught right down
the middle. And the analysis is just, you know, take
a stand and keep it. That's it, because they pissed
off both sides.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yes, Amy, well I think you have a valid point. However,
I will note that Target is not what it used
to be. It much to be true, it's just it
doesn't have the cool stuff it used to have. The
quality is down. Yeah, it's been going on for years.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, that's you're right. So it's a combination. It's a
perfect storm. And I was listening to again this analysis
and said that a company just keeps its philosophy and
doesn't move, you know, you're gonna you've you've you've lost
the customers that won't go anyway. Uh, you're still at
the same point. They brought a Patagonia, which is very political,
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very liberal.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And isn't gonna move. This is who we are and
this is how we do business.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
And they're saying that Target, Yeah, Target just jumped back
and forth and screwed themselves completely.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
And Ben and Jerry's is fine, right.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yeah, Ben and Jerry's just sells.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
It does and Chick fil A is fine on the
other side.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Right, and they just keep on going. And it makes
all the sense. You can't bounce back and forth. You
just can't. All right, we're done, guys, we are certainly done.
Oh by the way, they can. Then the CEO they
brought in someone else that's going to start at the
B ANDAM next year.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Are going to get much better.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh yeah, much better. Target is going.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
The other problem is Target's getting hit with tariffs like
you can't believe. Because the majority of goods comes in
from overseas.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Okay, Kristin Crowley's former.
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
Hey, good morning, everybody handle here and the morning crowd.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
It is a.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Thursday morning, terrible Thursday, terrific Thursday. I always get confused.
Oh how unusual. Yesterday I talked to Jim about cognitive
billies in memory, and I of course completely forgot what
I talked about, what we spoke about. All right, let
me get the mute going here. In any case, Sam,
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Good morning. Sam's filling in for Kno, good morning, Bill.
How's it going? That's good? Excellent to have you here?
Maybe all right? All right, Amy, good morning, Hi Bill?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I just wonderful, couldn't be better. Just I wake up
in the morning and I come here and life is
so good.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I saw you you're loving on your puppy a little
bit earlier.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, you know, the little the little gal? Yeah, which
one was that? That's is he is he replaced Gucci
because Chi Gucci got eaten by a coyote for breakfast and.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Sounds like a country song Gucci got eating by coyoti.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
For breakfast and I'm just sitting here.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well, I told you that I lived next door to
Jessica Simpson's parents.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Yeah you did.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I tell that story and that little or her little
one got eaten by a coyote.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, and you know she came to everybody's do world.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Do you see my dog? If you see my dog?
And there were pieces of her little dog right across
my backyard.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
You know, you talk about there really were. So you
talk about Gucci and how you cried. I did actually cry, Okay,
and then you're mocking somebody for losing their dog to
a coyote.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
That is correct, you you have that one half percent correctly, Yeah,
sort of given. All right.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Uh, good morning, Neil, good morning morning and uh some
listener recommended themeless thursdays.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Oh that's every day.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Yeah, so it's like pretty much whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It to be, all right, Will good morning, Good morning,
Bill and Anne, good morning. Oh and there's your podres
but your yes go Padre, Yeah, yay, Yeah, is there
a rivalry between the Dodgers and San Diego.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yes, is there.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's like Dodgers San Francisco rivalries that go back for
zillions of years, that sort of thing.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
No, it's kind of a new We're much more in
their heads than the Giants at this point. Okay, well
you have a much better record than the Giants at
this point.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yes. And I like the Freeway Series where the Angels
and the Dodgers I've always wondered about. Yeah, they are
they on the opposite sides of the freeway during the
Freeway Series. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And then the Dodgers swept the Padres recently too. And
where you.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Live, this is sports talk, you know, this is yeah
Fox five seven e LA Sports.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
The key is you want to win. You got to
you got to get that w take to the pay
you want to give one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, you gotta put your Yeah, you gotta put your game. Yeah,
all of that all right. We're actually we're actually, I
think going to do a day without Trump. Uh and uh,
that doesn't happen very often, you know what they say? Yeah,
a day without Trump is like a day without Trump. Uh.
(04:22):
And it's pretty impressive. But we have a lot. We
have some politics, talk about what happened in Texas that
was a big deal, and we'll talk about that, uh,
and a bunch of other stuff coming about the city
of Los Angeles, and then a real fun, fun topic.
Is there such thing as a good life? And what
is a good life? We'll explain because a good life
(04:48):
to me is probably a good U is probably a
bad life to you, and the worse it is for you,
the better my life.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Is not sure how that works?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It works? Well, Okay, are we ready to do it?
It is time for Handle on the news with Amy
Neil and me lead story.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Living.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, Texas did, and of course we knew it was
going to happen. The Texas House passes the redistricting map
upon the request of the person we're not talking about today,
and five new basically Republican districts have been created, and
it's all about redrawing the congressional map to give the
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Republicans even more power or a bigger majority in the House. Well,
and of course, in retaliation, if you want to call
it that, California is doing the same thing, Governor Newsom.
That says, Okay, we're going to redistrict We're going to
redraw our map to create five new Democratic districts. And
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of course the Republicans are screaming, you can't do that,
you can't do that. Texas of course can do that.
But the argument is that technically speaking, it would be tough.
It's going to happen, but it's going to be a
little tougher because we have an independent commission that was
passed last time going that redistricts, and usually the redistricting
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happens every ten years based on the census, not this
time around. The President asked you do this, and of
course they jump, so that's exactly what they did. Now
Republicans are filing lawsuits against California doing this, arguing all
kinds of things that there wasn't enough time for hearings,
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the people of California aren't allowed to really look at this.
A judge just threw that right out because the argument
is the people going to vote in the end, there's
a vote that takes place. You can't argue that the
people of California are being screwed to not allowed to
comment on this when they vote, and so it's going
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to pass. The legislature today. There'll be a special election
in November. And I don't understand why Democrats are opposed
to this. Republicans of course, but Democrats. And once this happens,
every other state is going to do the same thing.
You will have safe districts, Republican districts, safe Democratic districts.
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We're done. There will be no more what's the word
I'm looking for, There'll be no more consensus. It'll just
go down party lines the whole country. The House will
be split and will continue to be split. That's not fun.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Or maybe they'll come to their senses and pass a
ban on this stuff. Yeah, everybody hates jerrymandering when it's
being done to them.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Maybe maybe it'll come to their consensus and their senses, yes,
and find it that it's too offensive, not almost worked
not qayy, yeah, okay, I just did this real quick,
but go ahead. Amy.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Basically, on the redistricting, former President Obama has weighed in
wonder why he says we cannot unit it laterally allow
one of the two major parties to rig the game.
He made comments yesterday saying he supports the California Democrats
move to redraw congressional districts to offset the similar moves
(08:31):
made by Texas. He says, I just want a fair
fight between Republicans and Democrats, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And these are another rules that have changed, and that
is presidents stay away from politics.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Former presidents now they're in the fray.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
They are jumping into the fray because last time, when
the person will not name lost the election, then the
commenting didn't stop. And so now the commenting in use
on the fight continues. It is a partisan fight right
down the middle.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
With this point, you have two presidents. You have Obama
for the Democrats and Trump for the Republicans. Is essentially
what's happening.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Now, which is a problem for the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh yes, and it's going to be getting interesting because
the next Republican president is going to be a Trump president.
I still think he's going to call the shots. I
do believe that, my belief. All Right, Some bad news
over in the Middle East.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yeah, this just keeps getting uglier and uglier and uglier.
About sixty thousand reservists are being called up for the
beginning of September, and this is to free up active
duty personnel for an operation that Israel has been saying
it's wanting to do and that is the preliminary actions
(09:56):
going down now.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
To occupy all of Gaza sit yep.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So what they're going to do.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
They've had, you know, hold on outskirts, but now they're
they're you know, squeezing in. Hamas, of course, always the
victim says that Israel is obstructing the ceasefire deal.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yes, of course we're going to hold on to the hostages,
but you are obstructing good Good for you. In the meantime,
Israel is going to occupy certainly Gaza City, which once
again means millions of Palestinians have to be relocated. And
it is not fun for them. Boy, are they just
getting nailed from both sides. Israel is pounding them and
(10:40):
starving them, and Hamas doesn't care. We are still going
to be proponents of the destruction of the state of
Israel as long as we're alive. I wonder what they
were thinking on October seventh. Did someone at one point
say maybe we shouldn't do this because Israel is going
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to get really pissed off. And twelve hundred Israelis were
killed in this horrible attack. At this point, you've got
sixty three thousand Palestinians.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Gaza has been pulverized.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
People are starving to death, and Hamas is still saying, Yep,
it's worth it. Go figure, take a break. We will
come back and continue on with handle on the news. Hey, fine,
good morning, everybody. Handle here on a Thursday morning. It's
August twenty one now, and Kono is out, He's going,
(11:41):
he's gone fishing. Nikki is out or is she an
intern or part time whatever the hell they call it?
Is her birthday today? Yeah? Everybody takes off a birthday week?
Or what day is August twenty fifth? What day of
the week is that?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
August twenty fifth is Monday?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Monday? Okay, it's my birthday and I will be here.
I will be here.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Oh well, with all the Jewish holidays and every other
holiday you take off, trust me, you take off plenty.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, here I take off who won for you? I
take off one? Well, of course I gotta talk about Jesus. One.
One Jewish holiday I take off, Okay, thank you. Just one.
And there are dozens and dozens of them. Sometimes there
are two a day. There's there's a lot of them.
(12:34):
One you've taken off more I have not. I don't
take off Jewish holidays. I do not. I don't I
take one. No, I don't, Neil, stop, and I know
what I take off?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Oh you don't. You don't know your name?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And then no, no, and then m Kipper is uh
the holiest of the Jewish holidays?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Where do you apologize to God for being a Jew?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Okay, hold on, Kipper, and you celebrated Reagan?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
No, you celebrate kippers in generally would be that would be. Yeah,
that's a big deal in terms of eating in London. Okay,
we're done, guys with that. Did we actually digress? Did
we go on a tangent? Not here? Moving on more?
Handle on the news, Amy, Neil and me.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
We've got heat, we've got floods, we've got earthquakes. So
now just doesn't it make sense that we've got plague?
Oh boy, and it's in our own backyard. A person
who lives in California has tested positive for plague after
likely being bitten by an infected flea. The person was
camping in South Lake Tahoe. It's the first infection reported
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in the county Eldorado County since twenty twenty. The person
is recovering. An average of seven people are diagnosed with
a confirmed case of plague each year in the US.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And uh, the bubonic plague, which is fun okay, factoid.
How did bubonic plague gets get its name bubonic plague?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Mm hm, I do not know, sir.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I will tell you because it comes from the word
bo bules and bo bules that's true. We're gonna look
it up. Bobules are these little boils, uh, that people
with this kind of plague have, and then they burst
open and they become pussy and drainage comes out. And
please have breakfast, everybody. I want you to eat omeal
(14:35):
oatmeal right now. Uh. And uh that's one of the symptoms,
usually in the armpits.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Okay, yeah, okay, So the plague, well, you're.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Giving me a disgusted look look it up.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Look it up. Bow bules, all right? Moving on.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Uh, the rivers have run red and there's locusts. No,
there's not, but they there's a hurricane and it is
a powerful one. This just goes to show you, you know,
they don't have to make landfall to cause avoct You've
got Hurricane Aaron slamming North Carolina, Virginia coast, strong winds,
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you got waves, rip currents, all of these things. And
this is just the the you know, outer bands that
are hitting this morning, and it's just massive.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It's six hundred miles across. And yesterday I was watching
the news with the weather report. It's threading the needle
right between the Bermudas and the US, going straight up
through that area and affecting both sides of the hurricane,
which never happens. You're right, it is massive, and it's crazy,
(15:49):
it really is. That's when you really want to live
on the East Coast. Can you imagine if this thing
actually hit what would happen? Well, Katrina was this category
hit New Orleans straight on, and look what happened with Katrina.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
I'll take the earthquakes.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Ahhf's staffers have a little request for their boss. More
than seven hundred and fifty current and former staffers at
the Department of Health and Human Services have asked their boss,
Robert F. Kennedy Junior, to stop spreading inaccurate health information.
The request came after a shooter fired hundreds of rounds
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at the headquarters of the CDC earlier this month. The
letter said the violent attack on August eighth on CDC's
headquarters in Atlanta was not random, and the shooter had
expressed discontent with the COVID nineteen vaccine and also wanted
to make his distrust of it known.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, that's unfair for them to bring up a shooter,
a person who had this kind of this level of
upset with the CDC. That does that mean that therefore
other people who are as upset are going to shoot
the place up. No, I don't think so. Now, the
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underlying message that he's not doing any favors as head
of the CDC. He has actually called the CDC a
cesspool of corruption and has terminated thousands of employees. I mean,
that's pretty bad stuff. But saying that this somehow proves
(17:30):
that Kennedy is off base, you don't need that to
prove it. I just don't think a single incident should
should be involved here or should be pointed to.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh great story, you know, let's on black.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, let's when we come back, Neil.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, because it's too good. It's too good to just
blow pass it.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
You want to savor it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's really it's really good. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
You're listening to Bill handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
Thanks to if I handle here Thursday morning in August
twenty one, and we got a heat wave coming in.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It's gonna be hot. Not a schitz, but hot.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It's a dry heat as it bakes at one hundred
and fifty degrees. Okay, back we.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Go to Handle on the news with Amy Neil and
Me and.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
An absolutely delicious story up one of those great.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
I'm nicely played by the way. Yeah, this is almost comical.
Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noam. She said this week that
they're gonna paint the Southern border.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Wall bill duh wall, bill, duh wall.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
They're gonna paint that wall that we share with Mexico
there black so it will get hotter. Obviously, black attracts
the sun and keeps the heat, radiates that heat out
and this is going to deter I guess, people from
climbing the wall. And she credited the man who shall
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not be named this morning with the idea huge.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah all right, So how much do you think it's
gonna cost to paint three hundred or four hundred miles
of wall black?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I saw some number and I can't remember what it was.
But it's it's bigger than a bread box.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
How much how much you think of cost to buy
a pair of gloves?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Yeah, white gloves, thick white gloves.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
If you're gonna do this, let's do it. Helicopter gunships,
watch towers. I really go for it.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
What it's probably cheaper to electrify its part though, is
she did have like a roller or a brush or
something a symbol like scissors when you cut the ribbon.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I know it's some of this is just completely insane,
all right? Moving on?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
How long can you hold your breath? Bet? This guy
has you beat. There's a Croatian free diver who uh
held his breath for twenty nine minutes in three seconds.
Uh Vitomr Marisik took a last gulp of pure oxygen
and lay down in a pool. There he remained cool
(20:31):
as a c cucumber for twenty nine minutes three seconds,
breaking the previous world record breath holder by five minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
That's impressive. I mean not what kind of like does
he has where he spends all his time holding his
breath underwater? I get that, but it's quiet. Yeah, you
hold your hold your breath for thirty seconds and you
have a hard time doing it.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
We do.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
We do tests here, my wife, my boy and me.
We we challenge each other.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Watch.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Oh it's it's difficult. I can I can do a minute.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
But man, the cool thing of this is that he
beats out most seam mammals with that.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, it's like as long as a bottlenosed dolphin can
stay under.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Not your son.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, we're not talking about Max anymore at that point.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Yeah, we we'd be calling for backup. I believe all right,
Ice is getting flashy.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
So sixty thousand.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
They picked up some SUVs, a pair of sixty thousand
Ford Mustangs. They are deploying in Washington, d C. But
they're they're making them more eye catching. And they want
these beautiful, beautiful Ice vehicles to be eye catching and
to be defenders of the homeland and they want their
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country back.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But they fired the drivers.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
They so what do you do with that? I mean,
the money that they're spending is just yeah, wait, we're
spending the money on the vehicle. We can't afford.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
They'll have to weime o ice, Yeah, and it will
just park and say o la please enter the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Ten thousand new agents, police dogs, new equipment and gear.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I mean ice and border protection. I mean the amount of.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Money that has been increased for border protection is it's explosive.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Well, but they've also stopped millions of people from coming
across the border.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
They have. It's been very successful. Now the issue is
is it worth the cost? The cost is going to
be astronomical, and it is.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
We spend money no matter which side's in there they
spend money on.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
They just spend money. It's what they do.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Well, the political that you agree with what they're spending
it on or not if you want. You know, some
people think that it's a waste to put ringbow colored crosswalks.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, I mean the issue here is very simple. Is
simply a question of money. It's a question. It's an
equation of financial equation. Keeping out illegal migrants. Does that
help or hurt the economy? And people who need migrants
are saying it's killing us people who are opposed to
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migrants because they're taking quote our jobs, and then it's
worth the money. But to Amy's point, it has worked
dramatically the number of migrants coming over. You know why
black walls those black walls are really working.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
They didn't even need the black walls. They weren't black
until yesterday.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Go figure. But again, it's a political move. I see
a lot of this is there are some really hard nosed,
legitimate reasons if you're taking a philosophical stand, taking.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
A roller and painting the wall black.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Don't you think that speaks to his constituents?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Though? Don't you think?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Oh? Absolutely, I would think. You don't think it's alic
You don't think it's a political move. I don't. Frankly,
I don't think he gives a rats about any of
the political position that he takes.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I think it is all politics.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
That's not to say that most politicians do not believe
in reelection and optics more importantly than they do in terms.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Of they do.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
There are a couple there are a couple of.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Art about being.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Being a rationalist and not being part of a political party.
They both look absurd to me.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Now, yeah, I'll tell you the one who I admire,
Liz Cheney, who stood up and said these are my values,
these are this is my position, and she got killed
in the primary.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Sixty eight percent is what she was a rationalist.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Well, because I don't like people don't like when you
look at things case by case, at piece by piece.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
They want you to be a part of a party.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Okay, when is a window not a window? We'll come
back with that, fright. I am six forty handle here
on a heat wave Thursday, August twenty one. All right,
quick question. When is a door not a door? It's
when it's a jar. When is the window not a window?
(25:45):
When it's not a window? Amy?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
And when it's not a window, what do you do?
Speaker 6 (25:52):
You sue?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
So two lawsuits have been filed accusing Delta and United
of knowingly charge charging passengers extra for window seats that
were not next to a window. This just happened to me.
You know, you pay up pay for the premium seat
or whatever, and then you go to sit in your
window seat and it's one of the places where there's
a little gap and there is no window. So the
(26:13):
lawsuit claims they're seeking to hold United and Delta accountable
for charging customers premiums for products they didn't deliver they're
accused of. Each carrier is accused of selling more than
a million window seats that were in fact windowless.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, that is a class action suit. You bet you.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
I want to on that one.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Oh yeah, you will be in on that one. You will.
You're part of the class.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Automatically, except I refuse to fly United, so I guess I.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Won't be Hey, no, you're still part of the class.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
You were you were damaged or you were quote injured
by the antics of the airline. You paid for something
that didn't exist, and it's across a million people, and
they're going to argue fraud. They're going to argue misrepresentation.
Oh yeah, so you'll get some money. You'll get forty
cents is the lawyers. You know, you're not gonna get
(27:05):
very much, but you'll get some money.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
They should just put a little sticker of a window there.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, they should paint the window. How hard is that?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Where's Christina?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Yeah, with their paint brush. My window's black, all right, Hegseth.
Of course, the Defense Secretary Pete Haigseth heg Seth, he
has lots of security, like lots and lots and lots
of security, and then security for his security, and then
(27:37):
they have security and so on and so on. So
they are straining the army agency that is tasked with
protecting him, and they're pulling agents from all kinds of
different investigations, criminal investigations, all kinds of things just to
safeguard his family residents and Minnesota Is residents in Tennessee.
(28:04):
Obviously they're DC And numerous officials are saying, hey, you
know they do this under.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
The condition of it.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
It's just never been done before. He's taken it to
a new level. That's nobody has seen this ever. Yeah, okay,
it's like your security.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, totally gross. Yeah. Do a lot of
people want to see him dead? No? I don't think so.
I just why only because because you have it, you
can do it. And it depends how paranoid you are.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
There's something to it.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, there's a million different reasons. Oh here's a good story. Amy.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Target's CEO caught in the crosshairs. Brian Cornell is stepping
down after eleven years with Target because of well, really
crappy sales. Their sales have been slumping for years a result.
According to this article of its own strategic Mista, the
company of struggled as customers have purchased lest of its
(29:03):
home goods and clothes targets also faced intense competition from
Walmart and Amazon and Costco.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, but look at the look at the philosophy here,
this is where we get nailed. Yesterday I was listening
to an analysis. Target was one of the forefront or
at the I would say it's forefront of the LGBTQ
acceptance in terms of corporate They had promotions programs, a
(29:31):
lot of pro gay philosophy and products and vendors. And
four days after the President comes in science directives executive
orders getting rid of DEI, Target turns around and goes
the other way, really pissing off those that were in
(29:52):
favor of LGPT LGBTQ rights. So they all boycotted and
they pissed off. That pisses off off the other side,
who will not buy a Target. They're caught right down
the middle. And the analysis is just, you know, take
a stand and keep it. That's it, because they pissed
off both sides.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yes, Amy, well I think you have a valid point. However,
I will note that Target is not what it used
to be. It much to be true, it's just it
doesn't have the cool stuff it used to have. The
quality is down. Yeah, it's been going on for years.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, that's you're right. So it's a combination. It's a
perfect storm. And I was listening to again this analysis
and said that a company just keeps its philosophy and
doesn't move, you know, you're gonna you've you've you've lost
the customers that won't go anyway. Uh, you're still at
the same point. They brought a Patagonia, which is very political,
(30:52):
very liberal.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And isn't gonna move. This is who we are and
this is how we do business.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
And they're saying that Target, Yeah, Target just jumped back
and forth and screwed themselves completely.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
And Ben and Jerry's is fine, right.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yeah, Ben and Jerry's just sells.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
It does and Chick fil A is fine on the
other side.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Right, and they just keep on going. And it makes
all the sense. You can't bounce back and forth. You
just can't. All right, we're done, guys, we are certainly done.
Oh by the way, they can. Then the CEO they
brought in someone else that's going to start at the
B ANDAM next year.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Are going to get much better.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh yeah, much better. Target is going.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
The other problem is Target's getting hit with tariffs like
you can't believe. Because the majority of goods comes in
from overseas.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Okay, Kristin Crowley's former.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
LA fire chief lawsuit, of course went in doubt you
sue someone, And let me tell you about a suit
that's going on right now. This is KFI a M six.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand and from KFI
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