November 5, 2025 • 25 mins
(November 05, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Prop 50 in California, approving democrats to redraw state congressional maps. Mamdani defeats Cuomo is NYC mayor’s race. At least 7 dead, 11 injured in UPS plane crash and explosion at Kentucky airport. Israel says Hamas has returned the remains of another hostage.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six fortys.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Neil.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Maybe that's why your TikTok videos really didn't work out,
because you're really hot and creative and other people may
not know you're hot, but I don't know. I think
you're pretty hot. I think you're pretty hot. I think
you're pretty hard.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle, and.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It is KFI. It's Wednesday. It's a home day.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Handle Morning Crew on November fifth, the day after the
big election which Democrats literally swept across the entire country,
and I'm going to talk more about that on at
seven o'clock. And as I'm looking to see what happened,
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I think a couple of major points came out and
I'm gonna explore those a little deeper.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Coming up. One of them that it looks like.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That Trump wins or Trump people do not go beyond
Trump to vote. In other words, he is a singular
person and an outlier. It's all of his endorsements mean nothing.
What matters to MAGA people is only the president. Okay,
that's one takeaway. The other takeaway is there are literally
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three ways and you need all three to determine how
a race is going to go between a Republican and
a Democrat, or, in the case of Prop fifty Democratic
leaning Prop fifty Republican meeting leaning against. Two things or
three things. One pulling straight out polling. The other one
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is reading the temperature of what the electorate is now,
putting your finger in the air and seeing which way
the wind is blowing. The third is how often and
how strongly does the president say that the election is
rigged and it's a scam. And the more he pushes
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that it's a scam and it's rigged, the more in
trouble the Republicans are because that's him reading the wind.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So it's so we got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So we'll be doing that a little bit later on
the post election day.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
All right, quick, hello to one and all. A good morning, Neil.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Good morning, Willie Wolf Esquire, Yes, sir and Kno, good morning,
good morning Bill. And by the way, in terms of Esquire,
are you are you surprised I have not been disbarred yet, Neil,
Hell's to the yes, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
They're actually every Saturday.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, you know, I have actually been turned into the
state bar three times and them to investigate based on
the quality of my legal advice for real and the
state bar it was hilarious, and they and they have
to open up an investigation, and they have to. When
someone complains, an investigation is opened up, and then that
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person or that organization is replied to by a state bar,
by a state bar adjuster, if you will, or an
individual who deals with this and then says, we have
opened up investigation in and then the name of the
person and we will inform you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
As to what happened.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
In all three cases, when the complaint read we are
complaining because of a handle's legal advice, the response was
what legal advice.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That answers?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
That doesn't it there They've said that the fore.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Report has better legal advice.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh? Absolutely, Well, Neil, you're the producer of the Jesus Show.
How often have I pitched to give marginal spiritual advice?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I would let you get near that program, do it now?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Okay? All right? Will good morning?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No God, Yeah, it's true. Oh, it's a great story.
And then there's Amy good morning, Amy, Hi, And then
there is Ann good morning and good morning. Yeah that
you know, I don't know if I shared this story
with Todd Spitzer, who is a friend of the show
and a friend of mine. For the DA of Orange County,
was a screener. He started as a screener on Handle
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on the Law. That was his foray into showbiz. Anyway,
we've been friends ever since, and when he ran for
county supervisor, he asked me to in fact introduce him
to this very conservative Republican religious group of people. And
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he said, Bill, you know, I'm Jewish, but I really
downplay it, you know, I soft pedal it, So would
you please please not mention it. I looked at him
and just stared at him, and he said I shouldn't
have said that, should I? And I went, Nope, absolutely not.
So I try to know there's two parts of this story.
So I introduced him, Ladies and gentlemen, is my honor
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to introduce Todd the Jew Spitzer.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So that was one thing that I did.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
The other thing is, during the course there was a
cocktail party kind of thing. I ended up with three
nuns who were there arguing whether God existed or not.
My position was, there is no God to three nuns.
I wish I had recorded that conversation. Okay, the jew Spitzer.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
And King Nuns cry.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, they actually argued with me. I mean, come on,
come on, guys, Yeah, please ask one of them out.
That's very funny. That's actually very full.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Listen, let's just discuss this over a drink. How about
we'll go half. How about yeah it's wine, but it's
a man of Schevitz.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, we are that's very funny.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Actually, all right, guys, we have plenty to talk about today,
for sure, So let's start with handle on the news
with Amy, Neil and me lead story. Well. Prop fifty
past overwhelmingly two to one, and the the only issue
was how much was it going to pass by? How
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much it was going to win by? And two to
one is was at the upper upper echelons of the predictions.
I don't know if most of the pundits said did
not think it was going to go that much or high,
So we'll dive into that. Usually I don't ask people
how they voted, but I'm going to on this one,
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and please feel free to say I don't want to
tell you, Bill, and I'm not going to ask Amy
because I can't. But Neil, I'm guessing you voted no
based on the conversations we've had absolutely, okay, but cone.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
But under no no point did I think that that
was going to sway?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
How?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, that's like a vote for a Democrat or Republican
any presidential in this state.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I want to know.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, okay, fair enough, Kno, how did you vote? If
you want to share, you voted no?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Will? How did you vote? Or Will is recording something
and thought was a freeway? That's true? Well said, and
and you voted yes? Is that true? Okay? I voted,
and I voted yes.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Not only do I believe in jerry mandering, I just
like the way the maps look. They're just kind of
they look like a very complicated puzzle.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
They're not so complicated.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
They're all blue.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Uh well yeah, but they're were within the complication. They're
you know, one of these things, and they are all blue.
I think I don't know how many six congressional districts
in the state of California.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Forty three.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
It's forty three to nine right now, so it'll be
forty nine or forty eight to four.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, and that's not enough for Democrats.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
And it's not because of the overwhelming number in California
California is so blue it doesn't matter. It's replacing a
Republican Republican congress person with a Democrat because Republicans have
a razor thin majority. And that's what this is about.
On both sides. By the way, both sides are doing
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exactly that. Okay, moving on, and I'll talk more about
this at seven am.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
If he can make it there, mom Donnie can make
it anywhere, Okay. Democratic socialist Zorn Mandami, thirty four years old,
has been elected mayor of New York City. He beat
former Governor Andrew Cuomo. It was like fifty points something
to forty one point something, and then like seven or
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eight percent for Curtis Sliwa. Mom Donnie said, last night
we are breathing in the air of a city that
has been reborn. He said he wishes Andrew Cuomo Cuomo
only the best in private life, but let tonight be
the final time I utter his name as we turn
the page on politics that abandons the many and answers
only to the few.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
What do you think is going to happen when he
first when he has sworn in, and the first thing
he does is sign a declaration changing the color of
the flag of New York City to red and they
play the Internacional at his inauguration.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Do you do you remember all the hubub I wasn't alive,
but all the hubbub about Kennedy because he was a Catholic.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Oh God, yes, oh yes, I do that. The poet
was going to tell him what to do.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh yeah. Uh. He was the first Catholic president that
we've had. Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
He wasn't a democratic socialist. Uh no, he was, he was,
he was.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
He actually was pretty conservative as as a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He was. He was.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, he was a Cold War warrior. He was not
big on civil rights as his brother Robert Kennedy. And
Robert Kennedy, who is the dad of the Crazy Man,
actually ran the campaign. He ran Kennedy's campaign, And let
me tell you how far it went. There was a
rally that was going to happen, uh in the basement
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of a Catholic church, and they canceled the rally because
of the fact that it was in a church, in
the basement of a church, because of the backlash that
was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Straight.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Oh man, he considered a pretty radical rightist.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh yeah, well, we're a very conservative Democrat.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Those were the days when Democrats were it was Yeah,
the polarization simply didn't exist. Oh. Also, do you know
that Kennedy won by maybe one hundred thousand votes across
the country almost nothing, And most of those votes he
won by were dead people in Cook County cemetery because
Richard Bailey Daily, the mayor of Chicago, who was very
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close to Kennedy's dad in the days of the bootlegging.
In any case, after Kennedy won by this hair and
you have to give Richard Nixon credit for this one.
He could have called for a recount because of the law,
and he refused to do it. He goes, I'm not
going to put the country through this. That was Richard Dickson.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Too soon to put him through something else.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, but that's what Richard Ninston did. I mean, you
have to give him a lot of credit for that.
In any case, if you asked, especially after the assassination,
how many people voted for Kennedy. Every single person in
America voted for Kennedy, they all like, oh, yeah, I
voted for them.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh yeah, It's like you go to France. You know
how many.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
People were after World War Two were in the French Resistance.
I was, I was, I was in the French resistance.
There were four people in the French resistance. Okay, that
was it. So I just wanted to share with you
how crazy it has been. So Manai Wins considers himself
a social socialist democratic socialist, and I don't think it's
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going to go that far because sitting behind the desk
is a very different animal than going out and campaigning.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It really is. There's reality that hits all right.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Okay, so Democrats, as Handel's been saying, and you've heard
on the news all morning, victory as Trump blames GOP
losses on the shut down, you've got Democrat.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Craps that was not on purpose.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, people think that micrats swept statewide contests in Virginia,
New Jersey, here in California and Pennsylvania, even racking up
victories maybe in lower profile races across across the board.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
There were an occasional Republican. This was a sweep.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
But yeah, absolutely, to say different would be uh, dishonest.
But everybody thinks it's a repudiation of the Trump agenda,
which you can't you know, unsee. But I love the
fact that Trump said is because he's not on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You know what, I have to tell you. There's validity
to that.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yes, but that crazy, but that when he's but he's
right when he's on the ballot Republicans. When when he's
not on the ballot, the Democrats are win.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
There is no Republican party. There's trump Ism.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's it. That's basically true. That also is true. So
both are not exclusive or not mutually exclusive.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Amy horrific cargo plane crash happened at Muhammad Ali International
Airport in Louisville, Kentucky. A UPS cargo plane was trying
to take off on its way to Honolulu, and you
could see in video flames on the plane's left wing
and a trail of smoke, and then it tried to
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get off the ground, didn't make it and crashed and
exploded into a huge fireball. And now they've just updated
it and now it's nine people were killed, three on
board because it was a cargo plane, and then another
six on the ground.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, it never made it past one hundred and seventy
five feet in the air. I mean literally just lifted
off and then went right into the ground. I was
listening to an expert, aviation expert saying yesterday, the size
of that fireball was so extraordinary that he thought that
it hit a fuel depot, you know, one of those
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tank areas that are under the ground. He said, that's
the only way that this could have been that big
of a fireball.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Well, if you're just lifting off, wouldn't you have full
You would, but not to that extent.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, you would, you would, you'd be it'd be very full.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But again he said, notwithstanding that, all right, we do
one more and then we'll take a break.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
All right, more remains, unfortunately or fortunately of Hostages and
Gaza have been turned over. I say that because the
gruesome reality is there remains. They are now in Israel.
It is said by Hamas that they recovered the body
of an Israeli soldier there in Gaza, and they handed
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over the remains. Israel statement did not indicate whether the
remains were of a soldier or not.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
At this point, and it's going back and forth.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Hamas returns remains in Israel, then hands Hamas back remains.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Bizarre that they keep remains.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Usually when you have opposing sides, they release the dead
to the other side for burial. I mean they are
not held as hostages the bodies of soldiers or civilians.
I mean, it's really that whole war is crazy over there,
completely nuts.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Sounds like some but he didn't do their homework on this.
A series of loopholes quietly negotiated by the insurance industry
have neutralized requirements by the state that would have resulted
in many homes being covered by traditional insurance companies. That's
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according to a report by The New York Times. But
apparently the New York Times says this rule to keep
homeowners insured had all these loopholes in it, and it
allowed the insurance companies to cancel insurance policies and also
jack up rights.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Any surprise the insurance industry is that powerful. Any surprise
at all?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Well, shouldn't the insurance Commissioner of California caught these loopholes?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I think he negotiated those loopholes.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
He says that he was bullied into it.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Okay, Well that doesn't mean he wasn't. That doesn't mean
he didn't negotiate them. It just means he was bullied
into them, which I don't understand because the insurance negotiator
is the one that decides what the rates are going
to be so go figure.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy came out just on Tuesday and
said that his department may have to close certain parts
of the country's airspace next week. Now this is all
because of the government shut down, of course, and we've
been seeing this escalate as more and more people working
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for the airport are working for free essentially at this point.
So with the shutdown, it would be dishonest to say so,
says Duffy, that more risk is not injected into the
system and the situation, he says, has four stair traffic
controllers to make difficult financial decisions. Some of them are
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getting second jobs their family.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
This is a risk the Trump administration, I think is
taking because they can find money somewhere in the budget.
Remember the budget is in the trillions and trillions of dollars.
They can move around money they did with this Armed Services,
they did with other departments. And this has become a
political football of extraordinary levels. And have you seen it's
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not even this department is closed because of funding.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's this department is.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Closed because the Democrats won't vote to open up the government.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
And that's right in front.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
You can't even believe that the politics of saying this
is open, this is closed. And how about the one
that said this department is closed due to the duplicitus
stabbing back bastard Democrats who won't vote to keep the
government open.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
There's two parties, there's two sides, and to be able
to blame it on one side or the other, his hasse.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh, that's what's going on with this one.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And I think the Republican is going to lose on
this one because already the Americans are.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Blaming Republicans for this.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Absolutely, the optics are horrible.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yep, all right, one more before we take a break.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Uh, let's take a closer look at this one, shall we.
The federal judge who's overseeing former FBI Director James Comy's
legal challenge to the appointment of Lindsay Halligan as the
US Attorney to the Eastern District is telling prosecutors to
hand over the transcript of Halligan's presentation to the grand
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jury that voted to indict Comy. So you'll remember, Comy
pleaded not guilty to these charges. The charges were bought,
were brought by the grand jury, two charges, and Lindsay
Halligan was appointed to cover that because the first person
who was supposed to do it didn't want to bring
the charges or refused to, and so Trump got rid
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of her or him and replaced him with Halligan.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Now, is right?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yeah, an indictment by the grand jury is a secret proceeding.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
There was one witness.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That's quite often that happens based on one witness, and
that judge said, I want to see those transcripts, which
is very which is very unusual, very And then the
whole issue of whether or not she should even take
that position because the Senate did not confirm her.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And this is also a political football.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I mean, we're gonna we're gonna see three and a
half year or three years of.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
This coming up. All right.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Predatory solicitation. We've heard the story.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
In the La Times about the sexual abuse claims against
La City, and those have shed light on something that's
going on that they refer to as predatory salespeople who
stand out in front of the social services offices and
try and use these aggressive I don't know solicitation techniques.
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I guess to talk to people that are seeking food
stamps that cache aid that obviously are going to think
through things and woo them to you know, suing or
participating in things to make money.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
How double sleazy is this when you take people that
are on this level of vulnerability.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Well, they're not even running after the ambulance at this point,
waiting for the ambulance to come to them. So in
this particular case, this does tie into the county's sex
abuse lawsuit. But also yeah, but just all it like
they're saying they're going to build a buffer zone.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
They just don't know how to do it just yet.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, and how far out solicitation, because you can solicit
I mean, that's the law.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Alex is opting out yous. Senator Alex Padilla announced that
he will not be running for governor of California next year.
There's been speculation about it for months that he might
do it, but he said he's not going to and
said instead he will focus on countering President Trump's agenda
in Congress.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah, that doesn't matter because if he resigns, you have
Gavin Newsom was going to just appoint another liberal senator.
So I don't get what he is going to do
that another senator that the governor would appoint would not do. Now,
this is an interesting announcement because what he did is
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this is a big win for Newsom, big.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Win for Newsom.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
The number of name recognized politicos in this state on
the Democratic side is now dropping, now winnowing down.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
And Newsom put his entire.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Political he put I think he put a political record,
this political future on Prop fifty and he got such
a massive win that this thing catapulted him in terms
of him will forever.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
He tied to his name like he gets that credit one. Yeah,
he does, all right. David Beckham, God bless him.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Man.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
This guy has nothing going for him, not you know,
not very attractive, ugly wife, not talent and all that stuff.
But he got knighted. Good for him, knighted by King
Charles the Third. He's the of course. The British soccer
star retired described this as his proudest moment. Boy did
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his suit the morning suits, you know, the old school morning.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
His wife made it, That's what the story says. And
when he you know, you have to bow down to
the king. Did you notice how low he actually bent? Okay,
bend it like bend it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You got it, thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
It's actually pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That was on get it.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Accused of a big old end around. Clippers owner Steve
Baumer is being sued by eleven investors for allegedly using
Aspiration to secretly pay Hawhi Leonard and circumvent the NBA
salary cap. So Balmer was added this week as a
defendant to an existing civil lawsuit against Aspiration's co founder
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Joseph Sandberg and several others associated with the now defunct company.
They're saying that a twenty eight million dollar deal between
Aspiration and Kawhi Leonard helped the team circumvent the salary cap.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay, does anybody care? Hi don't?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
All right?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well more and Neil fast right up.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
So sixteen thousand structors, structures we all know burned in
the Palisades and eaten fires.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Very sad to watch.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
While there's a materials company in Canada that called Altech
Advanced Materials that they have this wild fire guardian jelsp
and it gives ninety percent fire protection for homes. You know,
the truth is we have the tech to make fireproof.
Oh yeah, you know, extenseake proof if they're expensive and.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Ugly, but unless your house goes up and smoke, that's
not so expensive.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It is impressive and let me ask the question.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I had Michael Jackson use this gel during that Pepsi corho.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I think you would have been okayasured prior running down
the street.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, good, Okay, we're done, guys, we are finished. This
is KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
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Speaker 3 (25:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Neil.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Maybe that's why your TikTok videos really didn't work out,
because you're really hot and creative and other people may
not know you're hot, but I don't know. I think
you're pretty hot. I think you're pretty hot. I think
you're pretty hard.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle, and.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It is KFI. It's Wednesday. It's a home day.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Handle Morning Crew on November fifth, the day after the
big election which Democrats literally swept across the entire country,
and I'm going to talk more about that on at
seven o'clock. And as I'm looking to see what happened,
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I think a couple of major points came out and
I'm gonna explore those a little deeper.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Coming up. One of them that it looks like.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That Trump wins or Trump people do not go beyond
Trump to vote. In other words, he is a singular
person and an outlier. It's all of his endorsements mean nothing.
What matters to MAGA people is only the president. Okay,
that's one takeaway. The other takeaway is there are literally
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three ways and you need all three to determine how
a race is going to go between a Republican and
a Democrat, or, in the case of Prop fifty Democratic
leaning Prop fifty Republican meeting leaning against. Two things or
three things. One pulling straight out polling. The other one
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is reading the temperature of what the electorate is now,
putting your finger in the air and seeing which way
the wind is blowing. The third is how often and
how strongly does the president say that the election is
rigged and it's a scam. And the more he pushes
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that it's a scam and it's rigged, the more in
trouble the Republicans are because that's him reading the wind.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So it's so we got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So we'll be doing that a little bit later on
the post election day.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
All right, quick, hello to one and all. A good morning, Neil.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Good morning, Willie Wolf Esquire, Yes, sir and Kno, good morning,
good morning Bill. And by the way, in terms of Esquire,
are you are you surprised I have not been disbarred yet, Neil,
Hell's to the yes, Yes, that's true.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
They're actually every Saturday.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, you know, I have actually been turned into the
state bar three times and them to investigate based on
the quality of my legal advice for real and the
state bar it was hilarious, and they and they have
to open up an investigation, and they have to. When
someone complains, an investigation is opened up, and then that
(03:18):
person or that organization is replied to by a state bar,
by a state bar adjuster, if you will, or an
individual who deals with this and then says, we have
opened up investigation in and then the name of the
person and we will inform you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
As to what happened.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
In all three cases, when the complaint read we are
complaining because of a handle's legal advice, the response was
what legal advice.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That answers?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
That doesn't it there They've said that the fore.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Report has better legal advice.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh? Absolutely, Well, Neil, you're the producer of the Jesus Show.
How often have I pitched to give marginal spiritual advice?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I would let you get near that program, do it now?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Okay? All right? Will good morning?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No God, Yeah, it's true. Oh, it's a great story.
And then there's Amy good morning, Amy, Hi, And then
there is Ann good morning and good morning. Yeah that
you know, I don't know if I shared this story
with Todd Spitzer, who is a friend of the show
and a friend of mine. For the DA of Orange County,
was a screener. He started as a screener on Handle
(04:43):
on the Law. That was his foray into showbiz. Anyway,
we've been friends ever since, and when he ran for
county supervisor, he asked me to in fact introduce him
to this very conservative Republican religious group of people. And
(05:07):
he said, Bill, you know, I'm Jewish, but I really
downplay it, you know, I soft pedal it, So would
you please please not mention it. I looked at him
and just stared at him, and he said I shouldn't
have said that, should I? And I went, Nope, absolutely not.
So I try to know there's two parts of this story.
So I introduced him, Ladies and gentlemen, is my honor
(05:28):
to introduce Todd the Jew Spitzer.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So that was one thing that I did.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
The other thing is, during the course there was a
cocktail party kind of thing. I ended up with three
nuns who were there arguing whether God existed or not.
My position was, there is no God to three nuns.
I wish I had recorded that conversation. Okay, the jew Spitzer.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
And King Nuns cry.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, they actually argued with me. I mean, come on,
come on, guys, Yeah, please ask one of them out.
That's very funny. That's actually very full.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Listen, let's just discuss this over a drink. How about
we'll go half. How about yeah it's wine, but it's
a man of Schevitz.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, we are that's very funny.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Actually, all right, guys, we have plenty to talk about today,
for sure, So let's start with handle on the news
with Amy, Neil and me lead story. Well. Prop fifty
past overwhelmingly two to one, and the the only issue
was how much was it going to pass by? How
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much it was going to win by? And two to
one is was at the upper upper echelons of the predictions.
I don't know if most of the pundits said did
not think it was going to go that much or high,
So we'll dive into that. Usually I don't ask people
how they voted, but I'm going to on this one,
(07:06):
and please feel free to say I don't want to
tell you, Bill, and I'm not going to ask Amy
because I can't. But Neil, I'm guessing you voted no
based on the conversations we've had absolutely, okay, but cone.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
But under no no point did I think that that
was going to sway?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
How?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, that's like a vote for a Democrat or Republican
any presidential in this state.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I want to know.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, okay, fair enough, Kno, how did you vote? If
you want to share, you voted no?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Will? How did you vote? Or Will is recording something
and thought was a freeway? That's true? Well said, and
and you voted yes? Is that true? Okay? I voted,
and I voted yes.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Not only do I believe in jerry mandering, I just
like the way the maps look. They're just kind of
they look like a very complicated puzzle.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
They're not so complicated.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
They're all blue.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Uh well yeah, but they're were within the complication. They're
you know, one of these things, and they are all blue.
I think I don't know how many six congressional districts
in the state of California.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Forty three.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
It's forty three to nine right now, so it'll be
forty nine or forty eight to four.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, and that's not enough for Democrats.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
And it's not because of the overwhelming number in California
California is so blue it doesn't matter. It's replacing a
Republican Republican congress person with a Democrat because Republicans have
a razor thin majority. And that's what this is about.
On both sides. By the way, both sides are doing
(08:46):
exactly that. Okay, moving on, and I'll talk more about
this at seven am.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
If he can make it there, mom Donnie can make
it anywhere, Okay. Democratic socialist Zorn Mandami, thirty four years old,
has been elected mayor of New York City. He beat
former Governor Andrew Cuomo. It was like fifty points something
to forty one point something, and then like seven or
(09:15):
eight percent for Curtis Sliwa. Mom Donnie said, last night
we are breathing in the air of a city that
has been reborn. He said he wishes Andrew Cuomo Cuomo
only the best in private life, but let tonight be
the final time I utter his name as we turn
the page on politics that abandons the many and answers
only to the few.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
What do you think is going to happen when he
first when he has sworn in, and the first thing
he does is sign a declaration changing the color of
the flag of New York City to red and they
play the Internacional at his inauguration.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Do you do you remember all the hubub I wasn't alive,
but all the hubbub about Kennedy because he was a Catholic.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Oh God, yes, oh yes, I do that. The poet
was going to tell him what to do.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh yeah. Uh. He was the first Catholic president that
we've had. Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
He wasn't a democratic socialist. Uh no, he was, he was,
he was.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
He actually was pretty conservative as as a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He was. He was.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, he was a Cold War warrior. He was not
big on civil rights as his brother Robert Kennedy. And
Robert Kennedy, who is the dad of the Crazy Man,
actually ran the campaign. He ran Kennedy's campaign, And let
me tell you how far it went. There was a
rally that was going to happen, uh in the basement
(10:43):
of a Catholic church, and they canceled the rally because
of the fact that it was in a church, in
the basement of a church, because of the backlash that
was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Straight.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Oh man, he considered a pretty radical rightist.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh yeah, well, we're a very conservative Democrat.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Those were the days when Democrats were it was Yeah,
the polarization simply didn't exist. Oh. Also, do you know
that Kennedy won by maybe one hundred thousand votes across
the country almost nothing, And most of those votes he
won by were dead people in Cook County cemetery because
Richard Bailey Daily, the mayor of Chicago, who was very
(11:29):
close to Kennedy's dad in the days of the bootlegging.
In any case, after Kennedy won by this hair and
you have to give Richard Nixon credit for this one.
He could have called for a recount because of the law,
and he refused to do it. He goes, I'm not
going to put the country through this. That was Richard Dickson.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Too soon to put him through something else.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, but that's what Richard Ninston did. I mean, you
have to give him a lot of credit for that.
In any case, if you asked, especially after the assassination,
how many people voted for Kennedy. Every single person in
America voted for Kennedy, they all like, oh, yeah, I
voted for them.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh yeah, It's like you go to France. You know
how many.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
People were after World War Two were in the French Resistance.
I was, I was, I was in the French resistance.
There were four people in the French resistance. Okay, that
was it. So I just wanted to share with you
how crazy it has been. So Manai Wins considers himself
a social socialist democratic socialist, and I don't think it's
(12:30):
going to go that far because sitting behind the desk
is a very different animal than going out and campaigning.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It really is. There's reality that hits all right.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Okay, so Democrats, as Handel's been saying, and you've heard
on the news all morning, victory as Trump blames GOP
losses on the shut down, you've got Democrat.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Craps that was not on purpose.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, people think that micrats swept statewide contests in Virginia,
New Jersey, here in California and Pennsylvania, even racking up
victories maybe in lower profile races across across the board.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
There were an occasional Republican. This was a sweep.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
But yeah, absolutely, to say different would be uh, dishonest.
But everybody thinks it's a repudiation of the Trump agenda,
which you can't you know, unsee. But I love the
fact that Trump said is because he's not on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You know what, I have to tell you. There's validity
to that.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yes, but that crazy, but that when he's but he's
right when he's on the ballot Republicans. When when he's
not on the ballot, the Democrats are win.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
There is no Republican party. There's trump Ism.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's it. That's basically true. That also is true. So
both are not exclusive or not mutually exclusive.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Amy horrific cargo plane crash happened at Muhammad Ali International
Airport in Louisville, Kentucky. A UPS cargo plane was trying
to take off on its way to Honolulu, and you
could see in video flames on the plane's left wing
and a trail of smoke, and then it tried to
(14:14):
get off the ground, didn't make it and crashed and
exploded into a huge fireball. And now they've just updated
it and now it's nine people were killed, three on
board because it was a cargo plane, and then another
six on the ground.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, it never made it past one hundred and seventy
five feet in the air. I mean literally just lifted
off and then went right into the ground. I was
listening to an expert, aviation expert saying yesterday, the size
of that fireball was so extraordinary that he thought that
it hit a fuel depot, you know, one of those
(14:50):
tank areas that are under the ground. He said, that's
the only way that this could have been that big
of a fireball.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Well, if you're just lifting off, wouldn't you have full
You would, but not to that extent.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, you would, you would, you'd be it'd be very full.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But again he said, notwithstanding that, all right, we do
one more and then we'll take a break.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
All right, more remains, unfortunately or fortunately of Hostages and
Gaza have been turned over. I say that because the
gruesome reality is there remains. They are now in Israel.
It is said by Hamas that they recovered the body
of an Israeli soldier there in Gaza, and they handed
(15:27):
over the remains. Israel statement did not indicate whether the
remains were of a soldier or not.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
At this point, and it's going back and forth.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Hamas returns remains in Israel, then hands Hamas back remains.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Bizarre that they keep remains.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Usually when you have opposing sides, they release the dead
to the other side for burial. I mean they are
not held as hostages the bodies of soldiers or civilians.
I mean, it's really that whole war is crazy over there,
completely nuts.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Sounds like some but he didn't do their homework on this.
A series of loopholes quietly negotiated by the insurance industry
have neutralized requirements by the state that would have resulted
in many homes being covered by traditional insurance companies. That's
(16:19):
according to a report by The New York Times. But
apparently the New York Times says this rule to keep
homeowners insured had all these loopholes in it, and it
allowed the insurance companies to cancel insurance policies and also
jack up rights.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Any surprise the insurance industry is that powerful. Any surprise
at all?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Well, shouldn't the insurance Commissioner of California caught these loopholes?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I think he negotiated those loopholes.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
He says that he was bullied into it.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Okay, Well that doesn't mean he wasn't. That doesn't mean
he didn't negotiate them. It just means he was bullied
into them, which I don't understand because the insurance negotiator
is the one that decides what the rates are going
to be so go figure.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy came out just on Tuesday and
said that his department may have to close certain parts
of the country's airspace next week. Now this is all
because of the government shut down, of course, and we've
been seeing this escalate as more and more people working
(17:32):
for the airport are working for free essentially at this point.
So with the shutdown, it would be dishonest to say so,
says Duffy, that more risk is not injected into the
system and the situation, he says, has four stair traffic
controllers to make difficult financial decisions. Some of them are
(17:53):
getting second jobs their family.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
This is a risk the Trump administration, I think is
taking because they can find money somewhere in the budget.
Remember the budget is in the trillions and trillions of dollars.
They can move around money they did with this Armed Services,
they did with other departments. And this has become a
political football of extraordinary levels. And have you seen it's
(18:19):
not even this department is closed because of funding.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's this department is.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Closed because the Democrats won't vote to open up the government.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
And that's right in front.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
You can't even believe that the politics of saying this
is open, this is closed. And how about the one
that said this department is closed due to the duplicitus
stabbing back bastard Democrats who won't vote to keep the
government open.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
There's two parties, there's two sides, and to be able
to blame it on one side or the other, his hasse.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh, that's what's going on with this one.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And I think the Republican is going to lose on
this one because already the Americans are.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Blaming Republicans for this.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Absolutely, the optics are horrible.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yep, all right, one more before we take a break.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Uh, let's take a closer look at this one, shall we.
The federal judge who's overseeing former FBI Director James Comy's
legal challenge to the appointment of Lindsay Halligan as the
US Attorney to the Eastern District is telling prosecutors to
hand over the transcript of Halligan's presentation to the grand
(19:27):
jury that voted to indict Comy. So you'll remember, Comy
pleaded not guilty to these charges. The charges were bought,
were brought by the grand jury, two charges, and Lindsay
Halligan was appointed to cover that because the first person
who was supposed to do it didn't want to bring
the charges or refused to, and so Trump got rid
(19:47):
of her or him and replaced him with Halligan.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Now, is right?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yeah, an indictment by the grand jury is a secret proceeding.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
There was one witness.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That's quite often that happens based on one witness, and
that judge said, I want to see those transcripts, which
is very which is very unusual, very And then the
whole issue of whether or not she should even take
that position because the Senate did not confirm her.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
And this is also a political football.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I mean, we're gonna we're gonna see three and a
half year or three years of.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
This coming up. All right.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Predatory solicitation. We've heard the story.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
In the La Times about the sexual abuse claims against
La City, and those have shed light on something that's
going on that they refer to as predatory salespeople who
stand out in front of the social services offices and
try and use these aggressive I don't know solicitation techniques.
(20:54):
I guess to talk to people that are seeking food
stamps that cache aid that obviously are going to think
through things and woo them to you know, suing or
participating in things to make money.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
How double sleazy is this when you take people that
are on this level of vulnerability.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Well, they're not even running after the ambulance at this point,
waiting for the ambulance to come to them. So in
this particular case, this does tie into the county's sex
abuse lawsuit. But also yeah, but just all it like
they're saying they're going to build a buffer zone.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
They just don't know how to do it just yet.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, and how far out solicitation, because you can solicit
I mean, that's the law.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Alex is opting out yous. Senator Alex Padilla announced that
he will not be running for governor of California next year.
There's been speculation about it for months that he might
do it, but he said he's not going to and
said instead he will focus on countering President Trump's agenda
in Congress.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah, that doesn't matter because if he resigns, you have
Gavin Newsom was going to just appoint another liberal senator.
So I don't get what he is going to do
that another senator that the governor would appoint would not do. Now,
this is an interesting announcement because what he did is
(22:28):
this is a big win for Newsom, big.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Win for Newsom.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
The number of name recognized politicos in this state on
the Democratic side is now dropping, now winnowing down.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
And Newsom put his entire.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Political he put I think he put a political record,
this political future on Prop fifty and he got such
a massive win that this thing catapulted him in terms
of him will forever.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
He tied to his name like he gets that credit one. Yeah,
he does, all right. David Beckham, God bless him.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Man.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
This guy has nothing going for him, not you know,
not very attractive, ugly wife, not talent and all that stuff.
But he got knighted. Good for him, knighted by King
Charles the Third. He's the of course. The British soccer
star retired described this as his proudest moment. Boy did
(23:27):
his suit the morning suits, you know, the old school morning.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
His wife made it, That's what the story says. And
when he you know, you have to bow down to
the king. Did you notice how low he actually bent? Okay,
bend it like bend it.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You got it, thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
It's actually pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That was on get it.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Accused of a big old end around. Clippers owner Steve
Baumer is being sued by eleven investors for allegedly using
Aspiration to secretly pay Hawhi Leonard and circumvent the NBA
salary cap. So Balmer was added this week as a
defendant to an existing civil lawsuit against Aspiration's co founder
(24:21):
Joseph Sandberg and several others associated with the now defunct company.
They're saying that a twenty eight million dollar deal between
Aspiration and Kawhi Leonard helped the team circumvent the salary cap.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay, does anybody care? Hi don't?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
All right?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well more and Neil fast right up.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
So sixteen thousand structors, structures we all know burned in
the Palisades and eaten fires.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Very sad to watch.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
While there's a materials company in Canada that called Altech
Advanced Materials that they have this wild fire guardian jelsp
and it gives ninety percent fire protection for homes. You know,
the truth is we have the tech to make fireproof.
Oh yeah, you know, extenseake proof if they're expensive and.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Ugly, but unless your house goes up and smoke, that's
not so expensive.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It is impressive and let me ask the question.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I had Michael Jackson use this gel during that Pepsi corho.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I think you would have been okayasured prior running down
the street.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, good, Okay, we're done, guys, we are finished. This
is KFI A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
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