August 29, 2025 • 37 mins
(Friday 08/29/25)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra Bill for Handel on the News. Newsom says he’ll increase CHP presence in major cities, touts progress in crime. Trump picks top RFK Jr. deputy Jim O’Neill as interim CDC leader. US Air Force to provide military funeral honors for veteran killed on January 6th. Trump administration approves sale of 3,350 extended range missiles to Ukraine.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra Bill for Handel on the News. Newsom says he’ll increase CHP presence in major cities, touts progress in crime. Trump picks top RFK Jr. deputy Jim O’Neill as interim CDC leader. US Air Force to provide military funeral honors for veteran killed on January 6th. Trump administration approves sale of 3,350 extended range missiles to Ukraine.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
They tell the ambassador get out, or the country pulls
its own ambassador, and then after that it's cutting off relations.
So that's the first step in summoning a diplomat and
slapping him on the wrist to say you shouldn't do that, bad.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Bad, best summoned someone.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Let's bring summoning to the show. Summon someone, Bill, I
dare you? Who am I going to summon? Is nobody
listening anymore?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle, and good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Everybody will handle here.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It is a Friday, foody Friday, August twenty nine, and
we all love Fridays. Why because it's Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
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Speaker 2 (01:24):
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Speaker 3 (01:33):
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Speaker 2 (01:36):
Thank goodness, thank god it's Friday. Okay, so we have
foody Friday day. We asked, ask handle anything off to
a great start? Sir, Yeah, no, sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Cough.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Okay, what else is going on at Costco News? Of
course at eight o'clock? Come on, Amy, how could I
not do Costco News on.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
A foody Friday audience?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Do you know? I don't think I went to Costco
this week. Oh my gosh, I don't think I went
to Costco this week.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm going today, feel no, no, I must be running
a temperature. I'm going to day to Costco. You know
the turkey which is very good, the slice turkey which
we feed the dogs a little bit to get them
all excited.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
All right, anyway, so much for that. You know.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We went to Costco on Monday in honor of your
birthday and we got pizza.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh, their pizza is very good.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Their pizza very good, big big huge slice of pizza
for what a buck and a half or something like? Yeah,
birthday a little greasy, I must add, you have to
really pat it down because there's a lot of oil
on it, and I would like the crust to be crispier.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, you can crisp it up yourself. But it's a
nice dough. It is a very nice dough. Okay, I
am a nice dough.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Neil. Good morning, Good morning, Willie wolf Friday, sir. Yeah,
I Havepy Friday to you.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And this is particularly fun because I'm not working Monday.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You are. I'm happy to do it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Well, I'm happy you're doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yes you will Amy, good morning, Hi.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Bill yay cono, there you are there, I am.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You just sent me a new commercial to record, didn't you. Yes,
you have to record something today, either during the show
or after.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I'll probably recorded during the show or after. Thank you
one or the other. And uh, there's will u c
l A. Sure did you go to UCLA?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Will boo?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
No, you didn't go to UCLA. Did you even try
to go to ula stanchion courses there? Okay, okay, that
means you don't out. You didn't have one chance in
hell of getting into u c l A.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That's not entirely true.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh, it's entirely true. What well, okay, let's do this.
What was your g PA out of high school?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh? Look at the time? Uh exactly, and can you
even tell it? I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Actually it wasn't great though, and it's so bizarre getting
Oh my goodness, Oh okay, I guess who just came
in to say hello yourself again?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Now that was I'm like, uh so, here it goes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
He's gone and we're a trojan house too.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
By the way, Well, sorry, little dog, Yeah, I know,
like Daniel comes in every morning.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Uh so today to get into U c l A
or Berkeley or Stanford. Not only do I have to
have to have a four point two or four point
four gpa, which I don't know how that's done. Uh
ap classes, you also have to create a charity and
feed two thousand kids a night like Bruno does. Other
than that, you're not getting in not for extension courses. Yeah,
(05:09):
where did you go to school post high school?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Oh? Apple Valley High School is where I went to
high school, if that's what you're asking.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, and did you do any post high school?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Victor Valley College up in beautiful Victorville, California with the Rams.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Victor Valley, except they really did have rams.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes, yeah, okay, right.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And Ann good morning. I'm bored already, me too.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And there's Nikki over there, all right, she went to
school in Australia and studied whatever they helped.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
You actually went to a Jewish school in Australia, one
of only like two.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So I'm a bit special. That's the word i'd use. Special. Okay.
Got a lot going on today.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Stuff going on with the sea, big news also, at
least I think it's big news.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Also there is oh there, you know Newark Airport.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I mean those radios and the communications are just shutting down.
Control tower can't talk to airplanes.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
It's so bizarre.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
They're gonna have to have semaphore flags out there with people. Yes, exactly.
Amy is doing that with the big flags, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
At one point. Oh, here's something I've never shared with
anybody before.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I was in the boy Scouts before I got kicked out,
just before I got kicked out, and I was the
semaphore guy in my troop. And a semaphore is kind
of fun because it's Morse code, and you do it
with flags, and it depends on the position the flags.
For example, flag up, flag out means whatever the hell
(06:56):
whatever letter that is, and then halfway up or pardon, look, butterfly,
don't distract him. I'm sharing a story. And by the way,
it's not a butterfly. What you do is you take
a set of keys and you go squirrel, squirrel. That's
how you do it. Okay, Right, I said, hello, everybody,
(07:21):
you know what it's Friday.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
It is Friday, and it's before a long weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And is before a long weekend. You said, it's Friday
on Monday.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, but it's Friday on a Friday, all right, guys,
let's do it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Jump right into the news. It's time for handling.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
The news with Amy Neil and me lead. Sorry, this
one's kind of interesting and a stunner. So Gavin Newsom
now is bringing in the California Highway Patrol teams in
major California. He's San Diego, Inland Empire, La Central Valley, Sacramento,
(08:05):
San Francisco, and uh they'll be working with local teams
to fight crime. And Newsom says this has nothing to
do with the response to what Trump is doing. How
does he say that with a straight face botox.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Where he only has a straight face where he can't smile.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It's okay, I mean I've done it before, but in
really extraordinary circumstances where they're where you needed the highway.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
World, and extraordinary circumstances is the point.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Uh No, we are not at extraordinary circumstances, not in
terms of the reason that troops are being sent and
that is crime being out of control, which it is not.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
To the people that are experiencing the crime. It is. Well,
live in Orange County behind a gate. Probably not. It's
a question, well, what are the chan I heard it? Ok,
thank you?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
What are the chances of for example, you go to
the mall and getting held up. Some criminal sticks a
gun to your head and you say and says, give
me all your money.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
The chances are infinitisimal.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Unless it happens to you, then the chance is one
hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Gosh, I remember when you were a tough on crime person.
I am a tough on crime person. Now you're not
you used to be.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
But now that Trump is tough on crime, you think
that tough on That's not true.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It's absolutely not true.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
All I'm saying is, do we really need five thousand
troops in a city?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
By the way it.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Does, It does work down crime by eighty yes, fair enough.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So how many how many cities?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well I won't be any Republican cities, but how many
democratic cities are there in this country where crime would
be lowered if you brought in federal troops.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You would need uh millions and millions of federal troops.
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
But why are you against it?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
First of all, it's the cost, because it's because remember.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
The effects paid for it anyway, that.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
But doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
But they can do things other than sit there and
patrol the streets. And they call up in. The National
Guard is called up. These are people that just work
and they're called up, and all of a sudden, they're
not working anymore and the productivity drops like crazy. So
it's a lot of money. And then they're paid for
by the federal government. And the point is we lose
(10:34):
track of why they are really needed, and all of
a sudden they're not there for the purposes of quelling crime. Uh,
they are there for the purposes, the political purposes. Now,
let me ask you this it works. I'm not arguing
that it doesn't work, but is it is?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It? Is it feasible?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Well, if you really want feasibility, you put a National
Guard guardsmen at every single corner in on the street
for example, Los Angeles. How many corners are there on
the streets of LA that would work exactly?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Six?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Okay, let's go. And by the way, Newsome doing this
is also insane. He's I guess he's agreeing with the
president that crime is out of control. You know, where
do you go with this? It's not I mean, it's horrible,
but it's dropping. And let's look at crime relative to
crime in other countries, other cities, and the other thing
(11:36):
that I have a problem with. Crime is out of
control only in cities that have democratic mayors. There is
no criminal problem in Republican led cities.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It doesn't exist. That one I have a problem with.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Also, well, I tell you that we got a more
stern DA here in Los Angeles and it helped no Dan.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Noah when you get Rudy Giuliani, who is nuts. But
when he was the mayor, I think it was the
chief of police or the mayor at that time, it
was the smallest infraction people got arrested for, and it
was a very big deal. If you go for the
small crime and you pop the small crime, that translates
(12:19):
right to more serious crime.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And we've gone back and window concept gay right.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Next, Trump has tapped a new CDC direct director. A
top deputy of Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F.
Kennedy Junior, has been tapped to act as the acting
head of the Centers for Disease Control. Jim O'Neill disappointment clears,
or at least potentially clears the path for Kennedy to
(12:47):
keep going with his efforts to overhaul federal vaccine policy.
After the last head of the CDC Susan Manares who
was just fired, balked at his requests.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, and this guy is O'Neill is not a at
least it didn't see me. It was a skeptic. He
believes in vaccines. The only thing he does not believe
in his mandates when is the government mandating vaccines unless
you go to school. I mean, now, maybe he is
not in favor of mandating student inoculations before you go
(13:21):
to school because most schools, public schools, you don't walk
in the door unless you have that MMR vaccine. They
just don't let you in. So maybe those days will
be over. I don't know the answer, all right, US
Air Force.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Is going backwards on their decision to give Ashley Babbitt.
If you remember, she was there on January sixth, twenty
twenty one, she breached a very sensitive area of the
US capital. Members of Congress were evacuating and she was shot,
(14:00):
and the military said they were not going to give
her funeral honors under the Biden administration, And now the
US Air Force says now it will provide military funeral
honors d Ashley Babbitt, even going further and inviting the
family to meet at the Pentagon personally, so that.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Condolences can be.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Offered, right, and what she's a hero because she heroically
broke into the Capitol and tried to get into the
Speaker's office. But then all of the January sixth attackers
of the cop capital are heroes by.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
M you know, very pro military. They do stuff that
most of us aren't willing to do.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
But man, oh man.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
If if you you lose me the minute you defend
anybody that breached the capital on January well, I don't
they did. I don't care who you want to be president,
but they're not.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
But they're there.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But they didn't breach the capital. They upheld the Constitution.
That's what they were doing and protesting the uh well,
protesting the complete elimination of the constitutional rights. And that's
how you do it. You breach the Capitol and threaten
people's lives. So congress people have to go into hiding.
(15:26):
I mean, it's just you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Might as well try and justify Benghazi.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
To me, that's yeah, it's like it just as like
I shut off and go no, all right, moving on.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
This is probably one of the most heartbreaking things. I
can't imagine having to do this as a parent. Fletcher Merkle,
who was eight, and Harper Moyski, who was ten, both
died when a shooter opened fire through the windows of
the Minneapolis school's church Wednesday morning. Fletcher's dad yesterday spoke
(15:58):
about it and urged parents to give your kids an
extra hug as he remembered his son. Jesse Merkle, said
his son loved his family, friends, fishing, cooking, in any
sport that he was allowed to play.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You know what makes this and you're right about the
heartbreaking part.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Usually when kids are killed, usually it's crossfire, it's they
aren't targeted. In this case, the children were targeted by
this cockroach.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And that that really is.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
A as I said, a heartbreaker. And this guy, I mean,
look at his heroes. His heroes were mass shooters who
killed kids. Keep in mind, though.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
This guy's an interesting person.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
He identified as a woman and trans Yeah, looks that way.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
And the mother, the mother went to court and allowed
him were was in favor. And I think you need
parents permission to change his name. And Robyn or something, yeah,
I think it was Robin. He was from some male
name Robert to Robin.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
To Robin Neil.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, just processing alrighty uh, countries are suspending parcel shipments
to the US. Of course, this goes to that you
talked about this some time ago, the Dominimus Trade agreement
that was sunseted by President Donald Trump in July. So
(17:34):
a lot of that's coming to fruition now and you've
got to come. You know, you've got different countries Bosnia, Bosnia,
herz A, Covina, UH that are stopping shipments because of this,
And of course that allowed a certain percentage to slide through.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I think it was less than eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It was dominimous and that skirted the terriffs. And but
for small packages, things that were worth under eight hundred dollars.
So you can see large shipments, big containers, and now
it's all tariffed, every bit of it under any circumstance.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Moving on to slow Sorry about that.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Mystery is unfolding in Texas. So a contract was awarded
to a company to build and operate what the administration
is saying will become the nation's largest immigration detention complex.
It's one point two billion dollar contract. The project is
going to be built on a military base, and it
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was awarded to acquisition Logistics, which is a small business
that didn't have experience running a correction facility and hasn't
won a federal contract that was valued at more than
sixteen million dollars.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
This is a one point two billion dollar project.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
The mystery over the award just deepened as the news
facility started to taking its first detainees. The Pentagon isn't
releasing the contract or explaining why it picked Acquisition Logistics
over a dozen other bidders to build a massive tent
camp at Fort Bliss in West Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, did you note the headquarters of a company that
is building a one point two billion dollar facility? The
CEO is a guy named Ken Wagner, and his headquarters
are his three bedroom house.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
He's working from home.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I understand, which makes all the sense in the world.
I get that very very Rarely do you have companies
that sell a billion dollars worth of business in one
contract that are headquarters in three bedroom houses. And he
wouldn't he wouldn't even answer the door. Damn it.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
It's never legal to take a dump on school children.
Did I read that ran Delta Airlines paying seventy seventy
eight million dollars just a little bit over that actually
to settle a lawsuit back from twenty twenty, they for
some reason did a fuel dump of fifteen thousand gallons
(20:19):
of fuel in a densely populated area, hitting cities, schools,
and caused.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
A big mess.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
As a matter of fact, the firefighters called it a
multi casualty incident. About sixty patients, twenty of them children,
minor injuries other complaints of being doused with jet fuel
there in Park Avenue element yeah school.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And the question is the plane had to return to
the airport for whatever reason, and the procedure is maybe
even the law is they have to dump fuel. They
are not to there, not to land with a fuel
for a full fuel the crash, right.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
All right, sure don't want which makes all that makes
a lot of sense. Flammable, Yeah, it really fuel tends
to be a little flammable. That's very flammable.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Now, how easy was it to then go across usually
to go to the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I don't know how close it was.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It could have been, and of course they admitted no wrong,
but it could have been that was the only alternative
they had for whatever reason. If the pilot's just screwed up.
Of course, the lawsuit hits and there's no question and
there's nothing wrong, But what if you know they could
have dumped the fuel and didn't dump the fuel over
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the Pacific, that's negligence. But if they had to, it
doesn't matter if they had to dump the fuel.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Al Delda said the same thing.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
They said, we're just to avoid the uncertainty and distraction
and cost of litigation.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
We're going to pay seventy eight, which.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Happens all the time, which and there are a lot
of plaintiffs here and it's not fun. It's raining fuel
and the kids didn't even know what was happening. All
they know is they got wet with this fuel.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Trump appears to be turning back to Team Zelenski. The
Trump administration has approved the sale of three thy three
hundred and fifty extended range attack munition missiles eerams to Ukraine.
As it continues Ukraine continues to just get pounded by Russia.
The announcement of the proposed eight hundred and twenty five
(22:29):
million sale came yesterday follows a deadly knight of Russian
strikes on the Ukrainian capital. Over six hundred rockets and
drones launched.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And Trump has yet to sanction Russia with this, just
sanctioned India fifty percent for buying Russian fuel, but has
not yet sanctioned Russia. I assume he still thinks there
is a chance that there is going to be some
kind of a piece of cord.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
But with Putin really so and saying there's a chance,
I'm not saying he is saying there's a chance. I
mean he is going for peace and there's any.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
There's this strange trend going on increasing private care options
for veterans. And now you have the Department of Veterans
Affair transferring nearly two billion dollars in funding for its
healthcare system to pay for care of private providers. And
this represents about nearly five percent of the VA's total
(23:33):
budget of money allocated to private care. But this seems
to be going on more and more. I don't know
why we don't get it together for our veterans.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, some places they do get it together. I've talked
to vets that said they get great care because the
VA has improved dramatically over the last ten twelve years.
The government has made a major push. Now the question
is it more effect to privatize it.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
That's going to take a while to figure out, and
there's probably going to be different looks at it and
go ahead, Amy, I'm.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Just curious, is this part of if you'll recall, during
Trump's first presidency, there was the huge thing going on
and he said, it's ridiculous that vets can't get care
of the VA. So he puts something in place, and
I'm not remembering specifically where he said, if you can't
get into your VA because it was backed up and underfunded,
you can go to a private provider.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
And I'm wondering if this is an extension of that, and.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
But since Trump became president the first go round, the
VA service, from what I understand, has improved dramatically and
it should be among the best in the world because
veterans certainly deserved that.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
The jews of alligator alcatrads have been snapshut. So they're
emptying out the detention center in Florida that is basically
in the Everglades and surrounded by alligators, which is why
they named it that. But the center could be completely closed.
As a judge upheld her decision that ordered the operations
(25:15):
to wind down indefinitely because they're saying that they didn't
get environmental studies done and when they put this thing
in place. So for now, shutting down the facility would
cost the state between fifteen and twenty million dollars and
then would cost another fifteen to twenty if they have
to fix the structures reinstall them. If Florida is eventually
(25:36):
allowed to open it, the Florida Division of Emergency Management
could lose most of the value of the two hundred
and eighteen million dollars it invested in making the little
used airport suitable for the detention center too.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, Now there was another side on this one, and
I don't remember which officials said this, but one of
the reasons it's virtually empty is they move people very
quickly through it. That when you have five these are
what five thousand beds, you can move five thousand people in,
they come processed out, they go to be deported. So
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there is the success of this, I don't know the answer.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Well, the other thing that happened though, is that the
judge said, hey, you guys can't take any more in
because she basically put a stay on it.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah, she did.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
She did because of the environmental issue, because the government's
own policy it mandates that er that reports and studies
have to happen. And it looks like they didn't do it.
And then can you do this on exitgen circumstances? I
don't know. This thing is reported to cost four hundred
(26:45):
million dollars of taxpayer money, of which looks like tax
Florida taxpayer is going to hit up about.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Half of that. So this is a little bit pricey,
all right.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Whenever you think about finding a body in the desert,
you think of it as whole. While federal and local
officials are investigating over one hundred piles of cremated human
remains on federal land in a small town in Nevada,
and so they're finding uh, you know, uh cremines.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
What they refer to them as.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
But even like broken vessels that were carrying just dumped
in piles out there, and they've they've authenticated that they're
actually human remains, but broken urns and and things like
that out there, and they don't they're still trying to
figure out where the hell.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
They came from. Very strange. Now, cremaines is that like crasins.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah, yes, I suppose it is. Yeah, it's just a fun,
playful name for dead bodies that.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Have been that have been burnt up.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
It remains get cremains. Yes, they're fun, fruity and full
of nutrition.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeah, I think they did.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I think they did find a foot sticking out or
something really attractive.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
But they're not. But what would you have? Teeth?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yeah, usually their teeth that are left and bits of bone,
little bits and pieces of bone. And they're not considered
a hazardous substance.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Once they've been burned. I bag. Yeah, once they've been burnt,
they're not considered hazardous at all.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust right.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yes, oh, very very religious, very biblical.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Uh oh, Bill, this could affect Lindsay. We know how
she loves her free range eggs. Large brown, cage free
eggs from a small farm in San Bernardino County are
at the center of a salmonella outbreak. About ninety five
people have become sick. Eighteen had to go to the
hospital across dozens of states. They're Country Eggs LLC of
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Lucerne Valley being investigated by the FDA along with the CDC.
Because it's sunshine Omega three golden yolk eggs were found
to be contaminated with salmonella. The companies agreed to a recall.
The eggs are packed in individual retail cartons. And these
are the names Nagatoshi Produce, Miss Sho, massuh Uh, Nigea Markets,
(29:24):
and Country Eggs.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, and let's not forget Salmonella Farms, which is not
the best name in the world if you're selling eggs.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Death belly eggs. M yeah, I hate that it happen to.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Do a small farm like this too.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Well, it's not that far, I mean it's that yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Oh, did you know that the free range eggs Costco
is now selling free range eggs?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yes, you should go get some today.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
It's just too big. They're like sixty and there's only
two of a seeding. So but if you have a
reasonably sized family. I mean, I've been buying those free
range eggs because, as I said, Lindsay, just there's this
thing about Lindsay. I mean, yeah, I know, Jay her
she dances around bushes and trees and you know, eats twigs.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I mean that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
And free range eggs are the big part of our life,
and you can get them at costco now, which is neat.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I love the fact that she eats all these healthful
things and then squishes her liver with two bottles of
prosecco at night.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
That's true. Good for Yeah, yep, yep it doesset? Yes,
all right, this is a horrible story.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
If you remember, this happened about a year and a
half ago to a Compton cemetery. Was I don't know,
robbed burgled. What happens when they go and steal headstones?
In this case, they're looking mostly for the metals, your
copper or bronze headstones, but several dozen were damaged or
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moved or removed for those plaques. You can't get lower
than that, And it costs about three thousand or more
to replace headstones.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
And you know these.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Small cemeteries they don't have the money to replace all
these things.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I have a question. I've been to my share of cemeteries.
I don't remember metal tombstones. Aren't they made out of stone?
Because they're called stones.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Could go on top of them like my dad's. It's
a tombstone that lays flat, but it's got a plaque
on top of it.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Oh yeah, so is that so it's not it's just
it's just a plaque.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
It's turning greenish, so I think it's kind.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Okay, God, yeah, I have how much do you think
it's worth? I mean, ways, stop it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
It's no.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
That's they spent a nice amount of money on it.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
And that's what happens, by the way Jewish materies, when
a Jew is buried, traditionally, it is a plaque at
the head of the grave, and it is a metal
plaque that goes just in the ground, on the ground,
and it's about an inch thick maybe, and it.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Is okay, I can see it being stolen. I can
now how voulder is that.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
It's bad enough that people are going out and stealing
the copper and making, you know, neighborhoods go dark because
they're stealing it from lighting. They did it on the
sixth Street bridge or the fourth Street is that fourth
Street or sixth Street there?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
And they're doing all these things and you're gonna desecrate
someone's grave. Yeah, and they don't care any wing nut
that would buy that, a metal company that would buy that,
because these guys aren't smelting, they're not melting it down.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
And then you know they're selling it to these chop
shops if you will, who then go ahead and melt
it down, and it's valuable stuff, Well it is to
haunt them.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Yes, Ice Cube may have been projecting.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Back in nineteen ninety three, the rapper released his song
It Was a Good Day, and one of the famous
lyrics from the song is when Cube says he even
saw the lights of the Goodyear blimp and it read
Ice Cubes a Pimp. Well, fast forward thirty two years
and Ice Cube is celebrating his first tour in over
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a decade and has partnered up with Goodyear. And this,
of course is Goodyear's one hundredth anniversary, and they announced
the that they're going to be partners on August twenty
fourth over Orlando, Orlando, Florida, when the Goodyear blimp flashed
that sign.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Now who what? Goodyear said?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Okay to the signage that read ice Cubes a Pimp?
Speaker 5 (33:57):
I don't think they did. That was on the that
was in the lyrics of the song.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Yeah, but if I'm told they're going to put that
message on the side of the blimp, oh they are.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
So I was thinking like, oh, yeah, someone who forces
and manages sex workers, right.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah, I just wondered about that.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, oh no, no, no, they it said, yeah, Goodyear
said a lining together for his upcoming tour. Feels like
we are bringing that lyric to life, both literally and
figuratively for fans across generations. That to me means that's
being flashed across the Goodyear blimp.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Okay, so, but now this is what AI is telling me, h,
the blimp will not read ice Cubes of pimp. Due
to the nature and the partnership of the and the message,
the Goodyear blim will display a more family friendly message
ice cubes.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Ice cube is not a pimp? Is that? What it's
going to read?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Something about tasting is pimppand don't make me come down
hard on my Pimppand.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah I don't get it. Well good, that's okay, wonder more,
let's finish it.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
The last story of the morning that led to the
how do billionaires deal with people neighbors being upset?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
You buy them things.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Mark Zuckerberg, of course, billionaire co founder of Facebook, CEO
of Meta, or as handle says, Meta, reportedly gave noise
canceling headphones to his neighbors in Crescent Park neighborhood in Palauto. Now,
the reason why he did this is because he bought
up like eleven homes on Edgewood Drive out there in
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Hamilton Avenue over the past fourteen years, beautiful, idyllic neighborhood, business,
executive lawyers, Stanford University professors. And now it's all dominated
by construction equipment, surveillance, lavish party.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Yeah, he's raised. He's raised him there to the ground.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
So now he has eleven home sits and he is
building his manie this story. Paid one hundred and ten
million dollars for the homes, and now he's building the
homes and there's so much noise, the complaints, and he said, well,
here's some headsets, noise canceling your headphones.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
You know what, I wouldn't tell anybody that I won
the lottery, but handle would know because I would buy
every damn house around him, and I'd raise them by
four stories so that we all look down on him.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
You do that anyway, Yeah, but it's hard. We have
to get up on chairs.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Okay, I'm a physically okay looking down on me.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I thought it was more figuratively.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
And that he would be on stilts Instead of elevators,
the whole house would lift up.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
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Speaker 2 (36:58):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
They tell the ambassador get out, or the country pulls
its own ambassador, and then after that it's cutting off relations.
So that's the first step in summoning a diplomat and
slapping him on the wrist to say you shouldn't do that, bad.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Bad, best summoned someone.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Let's bring summoning to the show. Summon someone, Bill, I
dare you? Who am I going to summon? Is nobody
listening anymore?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle, and good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Everybody will handle here.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It is a Friday, foody Friday, August twenty nine, and
we all love Fridays. Why because it's Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
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Speaker 2 (01:24):
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Speaker 3 (01:33):
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Speaker 2 (01:36):
Thank goodness, thank god it's Friday. Okay, so we have
foody Friday day. We asked, ask handle anything off to
a great start? Sir, Yeah, no, sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Cough.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Okay, what else is going on at Costco News? Of
course at eight o'clock? Come on, Amy, how could I
not do Costco News on.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
A foody Friday audience?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Do you know? I don't think I went to Costco
this week. Oh my gosh, I don't think I went
to Costco this week.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm going today, feel no, no, I must be running
a temperature. I'm going to day to Costco. You know
the turkey which is very good, the slice turkey which
we feed the dogs a little bit to get them
all excited.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
All right, anyway, so much for that. You know.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We went to Costco on Monday in honor of your
birthday and we got pizza.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh, their pizza is very good.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Their pizza very good, big big huge slice of pizza
for what a buck and a half or something like? Yeah,
birthday a little greasy, I must add, you have to
really pat it down because there's a lot of oil
on it, and I would like the crust to be crispier.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, you can crisp it up yourself. But it's a
nice dough. It is a very nice dough. Okay, I
am a nice dough.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Neil. Good morning, Good morning, Willie wolf Friday, sir. Yeah,
I Havepy Friday to you.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And this is particularly fun because I'm not working Monday.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You are. I'm happy to do it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Well, I'm happy you're doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yes you will Amy, good morning, Hi.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Bill yay cono, there you are there, I am.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You just sent me a new commercial to record, didn't you. Yes,
you have to record something today, either during the show
or after.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I'll probably recorded during the show or after. Thank you
one or the other. And uh, there's will u c
l A. Sure did you go to UCLA?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Will boo?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
No, you didn't go to UCLA. Did you even try
to go to ula stanchion courses there? Okay, okay, that
means you don't out. You didn't have one chance in
hell of getting into u c l A.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That's not entirely true.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh, it's entirely true. What well, okay, let's do this.
What was your g PA out of high school?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh? Look at the time? Uh exactly, and can you
even tell it? I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Actually it wasn't great though, and it's so bizarre getting
Oh my goodness, Oh okay, I guess who just came
in to say hello yourself again?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Now that was I'm like, uh so, here it goes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
He's gone and we're a trojan house too.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
By the way, Well, sorry, little dog, Yeah, I know,
like Daniel comes in every morning.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Uh so today to get into U c l A
or Berkeley or Stanford. Not only do I have to
have to have a four point two or four point
four gpa, which I don't know how that's done. Uh
ap classes, you also have to create a charity and
feed two thousand kids a night like Bruno does. Other
than that, you're not getting in not for extension courses. Yeah,
(05:09):
where did you go to school post high school?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Oh? Apple Valley High School is where I went to
high school, if that's what you're asking.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, and did you do any post high school?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Victor Valley College up in beautiful Victorville, California with the Rams.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Victor Valley, except they really did have rams.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes, yeah, okay, right.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And Ann good morning. I'm bored already, me too.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And there's Nikki over there, all right, she went to
school in Australia and studied whatever they helped.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
You actually went to a Jewish school in Australia, one
of only like two.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So I'm a bit special. That's the word i'd use. Special. Okay.
Got a lot going on today.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Stuff going on with the sea, big news also, at
least I think it's big news.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Also there is oh there, you know Newark Airport.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I mean those radios and the communications are just shutting down.
Control tower can't talk to airplanes.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
It's so bizarre.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
They're gonna have to have semaphore flags out there with people. Yes, exactly.
Amy is doing that with the big flags, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
At one point. Oh, here's something I've never shared with
anybody before.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I was in the boy Scouts before I got kicked out,
just before I got kicked out, and I was the
semaphore guy in my troop. And a semaphore is kind
of fun because it's Morse code, and you do it
with flags, and it depends on the position the flags.
For example, flag up, flag out means whatever the hell
(06:56):
whatever letter that is, and then halfway up or pardon, look, butterfly,
don't distract him. I'm sharing a story. And by the way,
it's not a butterfly. What you do is you take
a set of keys and you go squirrel, squirrel. That's
how you do it. Okay, Right, I said, hello, everybody,
(07:21):
you know what it's Friday.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
It is Friday, and it's before a long weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And is before a long weekend. You said, it's Friday
on Monday.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, but it's Friday on a Friday, all right, guys,
let's do it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Jump right into the news. It's time for handling.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
The news with Amy Neil and me lead. Sorry, this
one's kind of interesting and a stunner. So Gavin Newsom
now is bringing in the California Highway Patrol teams in
major California. He's San Diego, Inland Empire, La Central Valley, Sacramento,
(08:05):
San Francisco, and uh they'll be working with local teams
to fight crime. And Newsom says this has nothing to
do with the response to what Trump is doing. How
does he say that with a straight face botox.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Where he only has a straight face where he can't smile.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It's okay, I mean I've done it before, but in
really extraordinary circumstances where they're where you needed the highway.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
World, and extraordinary circumstances is the point.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Uh No, we are not at extraordinary circumstances, not in
terms of the reason that troops are being sent and
that is crime being out of control, which it is not.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
To the people that are experiencing the crime. It is. Well,
live in Orange County behind a gate. Probably not. It's
a question, well, what are the chan I heard it? Ok,
thank you?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
What are the chances of for example, you go to
the mall and getting held up. Some criminal sticks a
gun to your head and you say and says, give
me all your money.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
The chances are infinitisimal.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Unless it happens to you, then the chance is one
hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Gosh, I remember when you were a tough on crime person.
I am a tough on crime person. Now you're not
you used to be.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
But now that Trump is tough on crime, you think
that tough on That's not true.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It's absolutely not true.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
All I'm saying is, do we really need five thousand
troops in a city?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
By the way it.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Does, It does work down crime by eighty yes, fair enough.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So how many how many cities?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well I won't be any Republican cities, but how many
democratic cities are there in this country where crime would
be lowered if you brought in federal troops.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You would need uh millions and millions of federal troops.
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
But why are you against it?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
First of all, it's the cost, because it's because remember.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
The effects paid for it anyway, that.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
But doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
But they can do things other than sit there and
patrol the streets. And they call up in. The National
Guard is called up. These are people that just work
and they're called up, and all of a sudden, they're
not working anymore and the productivity drops like crazy. So
it's a lot of money. And then they're paid for
by the federal government. And the point is we lose
(10:34):
track of why they are really needed, and all of
a sudden they're not there for the purposes of quelling crime. Uh,
they are there for the purposes, the political purposes. Now,
let me ask you this it works. I'm not arguing
that it doesn't work, but is it is?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It? Is it feasible?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Well, if you really want feasibility, you put a National
Guard guardsmen at every single corner in on the street
for example, Los Angeles. How many corners are there on
the streets of LA that would work exactly?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Six?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Okay, let's go. And by the way, Newsome doing this
is also insane. He's I guess he's agreeing with the
president that crime is out of control. You know, where
do you go with this? It's not I mean, it's horrible,
but it's dropping. And let's look at crime relative to
crime in other countries, other cities, and the other thing
(11:36):
that I have a problem with. Crime is out of
control only in cities that have democratic mayors. There is
no criminal problem in Republican led cities.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It doesn't exist. That one I have a problem with.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Also, well, I tell you that we got a more
stern DA here in Los Angeles and it helped no Dan.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Noah when you get Rudy Giuliani, who is nuts. But
when he was the mayor, I think it was the
chief of police or the mayor at that time, it
was the smallest infraction people got arrested for, and it
was a very big deal. If you go for the
small crime and you pop the small crime, that translates
(12:19):
right to more serious crime.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And we've gone back and window concept gay right.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Next, Trump has tapped a new CDC direct director. A
top deputy of Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F.
Kennedy Junior, has been tapped to act as the acting
head of the Centers for Disease Control. Jim O'Neill disappointment clears,
or at least potentially clears the path for Kennedy to
(12:47):
keep going with his efforts to overhaul federal vaccine policy.
After the last head of the CDC Susan Manares who
was just fired, balked at his requests.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, and this guy is O'Neill is not a at
least it didn't see me. It was a skeptic. He
believes in vaccines. The only thing he does not believe
in his mandates when is the government mandating vaccines unless
you go to school. I mean, now, maybe he is
not in favor of mandating student inoculations before you go
(13:21):
to school because most schools, public schools, you don't walk
in the door unless you have that MMR vaccine. They
just don't let you in. So maybe those days will
be over. I don't know the answer, all right, US
Air Force.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Is going backwards on their decision to give Ashley Babbitt.
If you remember, she was there on January sixth, twenty
twenty one, she breached a very sensitive area of the
US capital. Members of Congress were evacuating and she was shot,
(14:00):
and the military said they were not going to give
her funeral honors under the Biden administration, And now the
US Air Force says now it will provide military funeral
honors d Ashley Babbitt, even going further and inviting the
family to meet at the Pentagon personally, so that.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Condolences can be.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Offered, right, and what she's a hero because she heroically
broke into the Capitol and tried to get into the
Speaker's office. But then all of the January sixth attackers
of the cop capital are heroes by.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
M you know, very pro military. They do stuff that
most of us aren't willing to do.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
But man, oh man.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
If if you you lose me the minute you defend
anybody that breached the capital on January well, I don't
they did. I don't care who you want to be president,
but they're not.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
But they're there.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But they didn't breach the capital. They upheld the Constitution.
That's what they were doing and protesting the uh well,
protesting the complete elimination of the constitutional rights. And that's
how you do it. You breach the Capitol and threaten
people's lives. So congress people have to go into hiding.
(15:26):
I mean, it's just you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Might as well try and justify Benghazi.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
To me, that's yeah, it's like it just as like
I shut off and go no, all right, moving on.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
This is probably one of the most heartbreaking things. I
can't imagine having to do this as a parent. Fletcher Merkle,
who was eight, and Harper Moyski, who was ten, both
died when a shooter opened fire through the windows of
the Minneapolis school's church Wednesday morning. Fletcher's dad yesterday spoke
(15:58):
about it and urged parents to give your kids an
extra hug as he remembered his son. Jesse Merkle, said
his son loved his family, friends, fishing, cooking, in any
sport that he was allowed to play.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You know what makes this and you're right about the
heartbreaking part.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Usually when kids are killed, usually it's crossfire, it's they
aren't targeted. In this case, the children were targeted by
this cockroach.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And that that really is.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
A as I said, a heartbreaker. And this guy, I mean,
look at his heroes. His heroes were mass shooters who
killed kids. Keep in mind, though.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
This guy's an interesting person.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
He identified as a woman and trans Yeah, looks that way.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
And the mother, the mother went to court and allowed
him were was in favor. And I think you need
parents permission to change his name. And Robyn or something, yeah,
I think it was Robin. He was from some male
name Robert to Robin.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
To Robin Neil.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, just processing alrighty uh, countries are suspending parcel shipments
to the US. Of course, this goes to that you
talked about this some time ago, the Dominimus Trade agreement
that was sunseted by President Donald Trump in July. So
(17:34):
a lot of that's coming to fruition now and you've
got to come. You know, you've got different countries Bosnia, Bosnia,
herz A, Covina, UH that are stopping shipments because of this,
And of course that allowed a certain percentage to slide through.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I think it was less than eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It was dominimous and that skirted the terriffs. And but
for small packages, things that were worth under eight hundred dollars.
So you can see large shipments, big containers, and now
it's all tariffed, every bit of it under any circumstance.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Moving on to slow Sorry about that.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Mystery is unfolding in Texas. So a contract was awarded
to a company to build and operate what the administration
is saying will become the nation's largest immigration detention complex.
It's one point two billion dollar contract. The project is
going to be built on a military base, and it
(18:40):
was awarded to acquisition Logistics, which is a small business
that didn't have experience running a correction facility and hasn't
won a federal contract that was valued at more than
sixteen million dollars.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
This is a one point two billion dollar project.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
The mystery over the award just deepened as the news
facility started to taking its first detainees. The Pentagon isn't
releasing the contract or explaining why it picked Acquisition Logistics
over a dozen other bidders to build a massive tent
camp at Fort Bliss in West Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, did you note the headquarters of a company that
is building a one point two billion dollar facility? The
CEO is a guy named Ken Wagner, and his headquarters
are his three bedroom house.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
He's working from home.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I understand, which makes all the sense in the world.
I get that very very Rarely do you have companies
that sell a billion dollars worth of business in one
contract that are headquarters in three bedroom houses. And he
wouldn't he wouldn't even answer the door. Damn it.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
It's never legal to take a dump on school children.
Did I read that ran Delta Airlines paying seventy seventy
eight million dollars just a little bit over that actually
to settle a lawsuit back from twenty twenty, they for
some reason did a fuel dump of fifteen thousand gallons
(20:19):
of fuel in a densely populated area, hitting cities, schools,
and caused.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
A big mess.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
As a matter of fact, the firefighters called it a
multi casualty incident. About sixty patients, twenty of them children,
minor injuries other complaints of being doused with jet fuel
there in Park Avenue element yeah school.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And the question is the plane had to return to
the airport for whatever reason, and the procedure is maybe
even the law is they have to dump fuel. They
are not to there, not to land with a fuel
for a full fuel the crash, right.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
All right, sure don't want which makes all that makes
a lot of sense. Flammable, Yeah, it really fuel tends
to be a little flammable. That's very flammable.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Now, how easy was it to then go across usually
to go to the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I don't know how close it was.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It could have been, and of course they admitted no wrong,
but it could have been that was the only alternative
they had for whatever reason. If the pilot's just screwed up.
Of course, the lawsuit hits and there's no question and
there's nothing wrong, But what if you know they could
have dumped the fuel and didn't dump the fuel over
(21:40):
the Pacific, that's negligence. But if they had to, it
doesn't matter if they had to dump the fuel.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Al Delda said the same thing.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
They said, we're just to avoid the uncertainty and distraction
and cost of litigation.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
We're going to pay seventy eight, which.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Happens all the time, which and there are a lot
of plaintiffs here and it's not fun. It's raining fuel
and the kids didn't even know what was happening. All
they know is they got wet with this fuel.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Trump appears to be turning back to Team Zelenski. The
Trump administration has approved the sale of three thy three
hundred and fifty extended range attack munition missiles eerams to Ukraine.
As it continues Ukraine continues to just get pounded by Russia.
The announcement of the proposed eight hundred and twenty five
(22:29):
million sale came yesterday follows a deadly knight of Russian
strikes on the Ukrainian capital. Over six hundred rockets and
drones launched.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And Trump has yet to sanction Russia with this, just
sanctioned India fifty percent for buying Russian fuel, but has
not yet sanctioned Russia. I assume he still thinks there
is a chance that there is going to be some
kind of a piece of cord.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
But with Putin really so and saying there's a chance,
I'm not saying he is saying there's a chance. I
mean he is going for peace and there's any.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
There's this strange trend going on increasing private care options
for veterans. And now you have the Department of Veterans
Affair transferring nearly two billion dollars in funding for its
healthcare system to pay for care of private providers. And
this represents about nearly five percent of the VA's total
(23:33):
budget of money allocated to private care. But this seems
to be going on more and more. I don't know
why we don't get it together for our veterans.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, some places they do get it together. I've talked
to vets that said they get great care because the
VA has improved dramatically over the last ten twelve years.
The government has made a major push. Now the question
is it more effect to privatize it.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
That's going to take a while to figure out, and
there's probably going to be different looks at it and
go ahead, Amy, I'm.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Just curious, is this part of if you'll recall, during
Trump's first presidency, there was the huge thing going on
and he said, it's ridiculous that vets can't get care
of the VA. So he puts something in place, and
I'm not remembering specifically where he said, if you can't
get into your VA because it was backed up and underfunded,
you can go to a private provider.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
And I'm wondering if this is an extension of that, and.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
But since Trump became president the first go round, the
VA service, from what I understand, has improved dramatically and
it should be among the best in the world because
veterans certainly deserved that.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
The jews of alligator alcatrads have been snapshut. So they're
emptying out the detention center in Florida that is basically
in the Everglades and surrounded by alligators, which is why
they named it that. But the center could be completely closed.
As a judge upheld her decision that ordered the operations
(25:15):
to wind down indefinitely because they're saying that they didn't
get environmental studies done and when they put this thing
in place. So for now, shutting down the facility would
cost the state between fifteen and twenty million dollars and
then would cost another fifteen to twenty if they have
to fix the structures reinstall them. If Florida is eventually
(25:36):
allowed to open it, the Florida Division of Emergency Management
could lose most of the value of the two hundred
and eighteen million dollars it invested in making the little
used airport suitable for the detention center too.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, Now there was another side on this one, and
I don't remember which officials said this, but one of
the reasons it's virtually empty is they move people very
quickly through it. That when you have five these are
what five thousand beds, you can move five thousand people in,
they come processed out, they go to be deported. So
(26:11):
there is the success of this, I don't know the answer.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Well, the other thing that happened though, is that the
judge said, hey, you guys can't take any more in
because she basically put a stay on it.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah, she did.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
She did because of the environmental issue, because the government's
own policy it mandates that er that reports and studies
have to happen. And it looks like they didn't do it.
And then can you do this on exitgen circumstances? I
don't know. This thing is reported to cost four hundred
(26:45):
million dollars of taxpayer money, of which looks like tax
Florida taxpayer is going to hit up about.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Half of that. So this is a little bit pricey,
all right.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Whenever you think about finding a body in the desert,
you think of it as whole. While federal and local
officials are investigating over one hundred piles of cremated human
remains on federal land in a small town in Nevada,
and so they're finding uh, you know, uh cremines.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
What they refer to them as.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
But even like broken vessels that were carrying just dumped
in piles out there, and they've they've authenticated that they're
actually human remains, but broken urns and and things like
that out there, and they don't they're still trying to
figure out where the hell.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
They came from. Very strange. Now, cremaines is that like crasins.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah, yes, I suppose it is. Yeah, it's just a fun,
playful name for dead bodies that.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Have been that have been burnt up.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
It remains get cremains. Yes, they're fun, fruity and full
of nutrition.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeah, I think they did.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I think they did find a foot sticking out or
something really attractive.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
But they're not. But what would you have? Teeth?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yeah, usually their teeth that are left and bits of bone,
little bits and pieces of bone. And they're not considered
a hazardous substance.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Once they've been burned. I bag. Yeah, once they've been burnt,
they're not considered hazardous at all.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust right.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Yes, oh, very very religious, very biblical.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Uh oh, Bill, this could affect Lindsay. We know how
she loves her free range eggs. Large brown, cage free
eggs from a small farm in San Bernardino County are
at the center of a salmonella outbreak. About ninety five
people have become sick. Eighteen had to go to the
hospital across dozens of states. They're Country Eggs LLC of
(28:58):
Lucerne Valley being investigated by the FDA along with the CDC.
Because it's sunshine Omega three golden yolk eggs were found
to be contaminated with salmonella. The companies agreed to a recall.
The eggs are packed in individual retail cartons. And these
are the names Nagatoshi Produce, Miss Sho, massuh Uh, Nigea Markets,
(29:24):
and Country Eggs.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, and let's not forget Salmonella Farms, which is not
the best name in the world if you're selling eggs.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Death belly eggs. M yeah, I hate that it happen to.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Do a small farm like this too.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Well, it's not that far, I mean it's that yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Oh, did you know that the free range eggs Costco
is now selling free range eggs?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yes, you should go get some today.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
It's just too big. They're like sixty and there's only
two of a seeding. So but if you have a
reasonably sized family. I mean, I've been buying those free
range eggs because, as I said, Lindsay, just there's this
thing about Lindsay. I mean, yeah, I know, Jay her
she dances around bushes and trees and you know, eats twigs.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I mean that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
And free range eggs are the big part of our life,
and you can get them at costco now, which is neat.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I love the fact that she eats all these healthful
things and then squishes her liver with two bottles of
prosecco at night.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
That's true. Good for Yeah, yep, yep it doesset? Yes,
all right, this is a horrible story.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
If you remember, this happened about a year and a
half ago to a Compton cemetery. Was I don't know,
robbed burgled. What happens when they go and steal headstones?
In this case, they're looking mostly for the metals, your
copper or bronze headstones, but several dozen were damaged or
(31:03):
moved or removed for those plaques. You can't get lower
than that, And it costs about three thousand or more
to replace headstones.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
And you know these.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Small cemeteries they don't have the money to replace all
these things.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I have a question. I've been to my share of cemeteries.
I don't remember metal tombstones. Aren't they made out of stone?
Because they're called stones.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Could go on top of them like my dad's. It's
a tombstone that lays flat, but it's got a plaque
on top of it.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Oh yeah, so is that so it's not it's just
it's just a plaque.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
It's turning greenish, so I think it's kind.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Okay, God, yeah, I have how much do you think
it's worth? I mean, ways, stop it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
It's no.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
That's they spent a nice amount of money on it.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
And that's what happens, by the way Jewish materies, when
a Jew is buried, traditionally, it is a plaque at
the head of the grave, and it is a metal
plaque that goes just in the ground, on the ground,
and it's about an inch thick maybe, and it.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Is okay, I can see it being stolen. I can
now how voulder is that.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
It's bad enough that people are going out and stealing
the copper and making, you know, neighborhoods go dark because
they're stealing it from lighting. They did it on the
sixth Street bridge or the fourth Street is that fourth
Street or sixth Street there?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
And they're doing all these things and you're gonna desecrate
someone's grave. Yeah, and they don't care any wing nut
that would buy that, a metal company that would buy that,
because these guys aren't smelting, they're not melting it down.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
And then you know they're selling it to these chop
shops if you will, who then go ahead and melt
it down, and it's valuable stuff, Well it is to
haunt them.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Yes, Ice Cube may have been projecting.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Back in nineteen ninety three, the rapper released his song
It Was a Good Day, and one of the famous
lyrics from the song is when Cube says he even
saw the lights of the Goodyear blimp and it read
Ice Cubes a Pimp. Well, fast forward thirty two years
and Ice Cube is celebrating his first tour in over
(33:29):
a decade and has partnered up with Goodyear. And this,
of course is Goodyear's one hundredth anniversary, and they announced
the that they're going to be partners on August twenty
fourth over Orlando, Orlando, Florida, when the Goodyear blimp flashed
that sign.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Now who what? Goodyear said?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Okay to the signage that read ice Cubes a Pimp?
Speaker 5 (33:57):
I don't think they did. That was on the that
was in the lyrics of the song.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Yeah, but if I'm told they're going to put that
message on the side of the blimp, oh they are.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
So I was thinking like, oh, yeah, someone who forces
and manages sex workers, right.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah, I just wondered about that.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, oh no, no, no, they it said, yeah, Goodyear
said a lining together for his upcoming tour. Feels like
we are bringing that lyric to life, both literally and
figuratively for fans across generations. That to me means that's
being flashed across the Goodyear blimp.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Okay, so, but now this is what AI is telling me, h,
the blimp will not read ice Cubes of pimp. Due
to the nature and the partnership of the and the message,
the Goodyear blim will display a more family friendly message
ice cubes.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Ice cube is not a pimp? Is that? What it's
going to read?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Something about tasting is pimppand don't make me come down
hard on my Pimppand.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah I don't get it. Well good, that's okay, wonder more,
let's finish it.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
The last story of the morning that led to the
how do billionaires deal with people neighbors being upset?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
You buy them things.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Mark Zuckerberg, of course, billionaire co founder of Facebook, CEO
of Meta, or as handle says, Meta, reportedly gave noise
canceling headphones to his neighbors in Crescent Park neighborhood in Palauto. Now,
the reason why he did this is because he bought
up like eleven homes on Edgewood Drive out there in
(35:42):
Hamilton Avenue over the past fourteen years, beautiful, idyllic neighborhood, business,
executive lawyers, Stanford University professors. And now it's all dominated
by construction equipment, surveillance, lavish party.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Yeah, he's raised. He's raised him there to the ground.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
So now he has eleven home sits and he is
building his manie this story. Paid one hundred and ten
million dollars for the homes, and now he's building the
homes and there's so much noise, the complaints, and he said, well,
here's some headsets, noise canceling your headphones.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
You know what, I wouldn't tell anybody that I won
the lottery, but handle would know because I would buy
every damn house around him, and I'd raise them by
four stories so that we all look down on him.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
You do that anyway, Yeah, but it's hard. We have
to get up on chairs.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Okay, I'm a physically okay looking down on me.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I thought it was more figuratively.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
And that he would be on stilts Instead of elevators,
the whole house would lift up.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
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