June 9, 2026 • 27 mins
(June 09, 2026)
Heather Brooker joins Bill for Handel on the News. Nithya Raman seemed to do the impossible and advances to L.A mayor runoff. Pilots fine after helicopter crashes near Strait of Hormuz. President Trump insists an Iran deal is coming. Up & Up baby wipes are recalled at Targets nationwide
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
am six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies
and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And this is a Tuesday Morning talk about Tuesday. Bill
Handle Here June night, as we start the show boy,
A lot of people are missing today. Okay, let's first,
let's talk about the people who are here, both figuratively,
figuratively literally and sitting in their house, in their seats.
(00:51):
Amy is gone until next week. Heather Brooker is here,
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Heather, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Okay, so that's one the other when Michelle is certainly here.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I am here, good morning, good.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Morning, filling in for Anne, who I think is back
next Monday. Is that correct? Okay? Neil Savedra is gone,
and filling in for Neil is nobody. How are you? Nobody?
Silent type Neil doing the best suppression of Helen Keller
I have seen in a very long time. Will Coleschreiber here,
(01:25):
Good morning, and kno is here? What's up? And that's
my lineup? What's up? I talked to Neil yesterday. Neil
is doing reasonably well. He underwent bariatric surgery and is
eating and drinking absolutely nothing, and so he's already lost.
(01:46):
He's down. When did the surgery take place? Last week?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Friday?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Friday? And today is Tuesday, and he's already down eight
nine pounds. It goes very, very very quickly when you
have a bariatric surgery, as I did some twenty something
years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, you lost like too much weight.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
At one point on I went from I figure about
three ten because I stop weighing myself at three hundred.
I just wasn't gonna do it anymore. So I figure
about three ten and I dropped to one seventy three. Wow.
Yeah that was a lot of weight.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But how long did that take from the from.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The bariatric surgery? Yeah, nine minutes. It goes very very quickly.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
It was like I would say six months, six months,
six to eight months, six months.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You can lose one hundred pounds and six months.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It is very It's it's not fun, but it is
very rapid. And the you just don't have enough of
an appetite. They literally knock out a big portion of
your stomach. In my case, I had something called the
ruin why, which is considered the gold standard, but it
is a forever standard. Neil had the sleeve that goes
(03:02):
onto a stomach and crunches.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It up, and that can be removed, right, yes.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You can. The sleep can be removed. The ruin why cannot.
And they took out a good portion of the intestine,
about eighteen inches of the intestine with a ruined why.
And when that was finished, my stomach was about the
size of your thumb. And it has since expanded, because
stomachs expand rather dramatically. I mean, stomachs can get very big,
just as will so wow, yeah, it's a while shots fired.
(03:32):
Oh yeah, so yeah, we've just started. I haven't even
begun to stop yet. So I am. I weighed myself
this morning. I'm at one hundred and seventy three pounds.
I'm at the lowest I have been without being sick,
without a surgery, which you'd lose weight after major surgery
no matter what you do, certainly heart surgery. And then
(03:54):
when I had the by trick, the gastric bypass. So
there I was myself now. Also keep in mind, is
kind of fun weighing myself because I do it in
the kitchen, because upstairs Lindsay's asleep. I do it in
the kitchen, and I take off my nineties, I take
off my pajamas, etc. So I'm stark naked uh in
(04:16):
the kitchen with the lights on. Now behind me when
I do it are my big glass doors that open
up to the uh to the backyard. Oh yeah, no,
I know they get the They get my creepy ass.
They really do. You know my I lost when I
lost a lot of weight, I lost it in my
(04:37):
ass department. Uh and uh it's it's a it's a
very fluttery ass. There's a lot of uh loose skin there.
And I've often said July fourth, it's it's a wind
for me because I paint my uh my fluttery parts
red white and blue, and a good wind comes it
comes up. Man, it's uh. I get a lot of
patriotic uh.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Notice bringing memories of when you had your surgery and
I had to come to your house to do the
show and you would come downstairs in your tank top
and your boxers.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
For the Yeah. Yeah, Well after my after my after
my heart surgery, I should have taken a month off
because it was pretty serious. You started coming down a
week afterwards we started the show.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Did you get hazard pay for that?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
But I did have access to his refrigerator, so I could,
you know, fix myself a little snack before he came down.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Ye. So anyway, Neil will be back next week as
will Amy, as.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Will Amy's gone for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yes, Oh, can I always get confused?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You've done all these people, they're making they're leaving no one, You.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Got me and I don't know? All right? Are you
ready to do this?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Let's move on. It's time for Handle on the News
with Heather brook Or and me lead story one now
advances to second place and the runoff will be Nithia Rahman,
former city council member, or she still is a city
(06:09):
council member. Yeah, and it will be her and Karen Bass.
Spencer Spencer Pratt, a former reality TV guy from the Hills.
He's done. He was initially ahead the day of the election.
And we're getting the same, uh, the same screed as
(06:29):
we always have from Republicans, particularly the president. If some
if a Republican is ahead on election day, then votes
that come in afterwards are fraudulent. Uh, they're not. There
has been a rigged election. Notwithstanding California and other states
take mail in balloting and in California it's probably the
(06:52):
loosest in terms of time. In terms of security, it's
probably among the tightest. And in California you can do
a mail in ballot and if it's postmarked by the
day of the election, it can arrive up to seven
days later and will be counted. Also, California has an
automatic voter registration every citizen, I think in California, I
(07:16):
think everybody basically, Yeah, anybody who has registered to vote
gets an automatic ballot. And of course that's fraudulent too,
and it's other states do this, by the way, there's
some red states that do the same thing, not as
extensive as California. But here is what happens the day
of the voting. Republicans do better mail in ballots, Democrats
(07:40):
do better. And it's always the same screen. How does
for example, how does Pratt lose or how does Raman?
All of said get hundreds of thousands of votes after
election date, it's fraudulent. Well, that's the way it's set
up in California is not the only state. Now, I
(08:01):
will tell you that in every state or in every
campaign in which the Republican wins, after the ballot, after
the mail in ballot. There is no fraud that doesn't exist.
If a Republican wins mail in ballot or not, it
is a free democratic election. If a Democrat wins, it
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is a rigged election. Democracy does not exist in this
country where Democrats win. That's where we've come to. Now.
Have we heard a lot yet about Ramen winning in
terms of the fraud? I haven't heard as much as
I thought there would.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Be, you mean, winning the war in.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
The second place, as against Pratt, where Pratt was ahead
election day and now has lost because of the mail
in ballots. Have we been hearing a lot fraud? Fraud, fraud?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Oh yeah, there's a lot of chatter online of people
claiming that it's rigged and there's fraud. I mean, everything
you just said is what's happening. People are saying that
it's you know, we played a story talking about some celebrity,
Jamie Kennedy saying that they're finding votes in the back
alleys and in trash cans and all that.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You know, and all you have to do is file
lawsuit and bring it into court.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Just bring it into court. I think Bill is Saley
also said that they were going to be investigating see.
The issue is is that there's no proof and no
evidence has been brought forward because this is just how
California elections work.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, and there won't be and there won't be. I
think in an interview with the President when he said
there's fraud and Christine Kristin Welker said, where's the evidence?
Bring it forward, and he said, I just know it exists.
When the fraud was argued that Trump had won the
(09:53):
twenty twenty twenty twenty election and Joe Biden it was fraudulent,
there were lawsuits filed, headed by Rudy Giuliani. Sixty three
lawsuits were filed arguing fraud County, state, federal lawsuit. Not
one shred of evidence was produced, not one and a
(10:14):
or all dismissed, including Trump appointees. Okay, so we're going
to talk a lot more about that. That really bothers me.
It says a lot about where we're going.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Unfortunately, moving on, all right, are you as army helicopter
crash near the straight up horn moves? President Trump, though
last night after the Knicks game, says that two crew
members on board weren't hurt and they're doing fine. I
don't know how that's possible.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Being alive is fine.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, we don't know what caused the crash. There hasn't
been a lot of details released about this, but we
know that Trump is saying the pilots are fine, nobody
was injured, and they're supposed to release a report today.
All right, Moving on, President Trump also has expressed some
renewed optimism over negotiations with Iran. He says we have
(11:03):
a good chance of signing another deal or deal in
the next two or three days, but he didn't provide
any details or why there is this renewed optimism. Not anymore.
He's been predicting this over the past several months. The yeah,
we're gonna have a deal.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
We're gonna have a deal right next Wednesday. If we
don't have a deal, we're gonna bomb Iran. It's we
won the war the first hour. We're they're desperate to
make a deal of Iranians. Nothing has come to fruition nothing.
So now it's we're gonna have a deal. They're anxious,
and we'll have a deal soon. I don't know what
(11:38):
that means, not anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Israel's military has launched new attacks on tire in Lebanon,
this morning. They've issued also a rare evacuation order for
the historic southern Lebanese cities Christian Quarter. They say, in
light of Hasbella's violation the ceasefire agreement and it's targeting
of the Israeli home front, the IDF is compelled to
(12:04):
act forcefully against them.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah. The President is doing everything he possibly can to
bring this war to an end. And at this point
it certainly visa the Israel and Lebanon and it's just
not working. Is really just saying too bad and keeps
on attacking and ignoring the President, and it's not making
(12:26):
the President very happy at all. Tire, by the way,
there's I don't know if you know that, but the
biggest Goodyear plant is in Tire in the Mid East.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
That's not true. That is not that's not true.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, I just thought i'd go there. Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Lies this morning, Lies this morning, all right. US Food
and Drug Administration issued a recall notice for their brand
of baby wipes, and these wipes have the potential to
cause bacterial contamination that could result in some pretty series
or life threatening infections for newborns and young children. The
recall is for Target brand Up and Up fragrance free
(13:08):
and fresh cucumber scented baby wipes, So please check your wipes. Okay,
all right. La County measure Eer, which was previously going
into the no category, has now flipped and he is
slightly edging out in the yes category. This was introduced
(13:30):
by Supervisor Holly Mitchell and Hildas Lease. It's called the
Essential Services Restoration Act, and they're asking voters to enact
a half sent general sales tax for five years.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah. Two things. Number one, why not let's get we
go from the most taxed state county in the country
to the ridiculously most tax and for five years. You know,
the last time we've actually had a tax that was sunseted,
I can't remember. Five years, two years, ten years, two months,
(14:03):
three minutes, It doesn't matter. There'll be a bill, there'll
be a proposition to continue the tax on forever ten
point two five now percent La County, other cities, Orange County.
I think are there some places that are now eleven
percent sero tax?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I want to say Palmdale, like up in that area,
that Lancaster Palmdale area, I think is.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, how special is that? Huh? All right?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Big waves coming into Malibu. These are potentially deadly rip currents,
and authorities are warning people to be careful if you're
heading out into the waters there, and actually they're saying
just don't don't go out to the waters. Waves as
large as seven feet are forecast to hit the beaches
across the area.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, rip tides are no fun. They tend to kill
people a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
And a federal judge has struck down a one hundred
thousand dollars fee. Remember that one hundred thousand dollars fee
that was going to be imposed on new H one
B visas for highly skilled four workers. Will judge says
that it constituted an unlawful tax that Congress never authorized.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, here's the argument, and it's going to go up.
This is a federal judge, and it's going to do
the appeals and will certainly go to the Supreme Court
whether they're going to hear it or not. And that
is the president. According to the administration, the president has
the ability under law he can basically can make it
a million dollar or eliminated completely the HN one visa visa,
(15:31):
the visa itself, or certainly the money if it is
if he deems it detrimental to the interests of the
United States, and with the judge said, no, no, what
you're doing is just adding a tax, and we'll see
what happens. And tax is only Congress. Same thing with tariffs.
By the way, the same thing happened with the court
(15:51):
and tariffs. You know, you don't. The Congress has to
do it, not you, And he's always argued that he
will make that decision.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I'm just surprised that it's taken this long, though, for
everything takes forever. Well, that's true. Our legal system is
very slow. Also, Trump administration said that they're seeking district
citizenship of seventeen immigrants. They are escalating their push to
find and expel people who they say improperly obtained US citizenship.
(16:20):
The Justice Department says they're filing these denaturalization cases and
district courts across the country, targeting people accused of concealing
previous crimes or committing fraud during the naturalization process.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, here's the problem. And by the way, I agree
with the administration on this one. I mean, you do
want to de certify.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Or get rid of denaturalized.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Thank you denaturalize people who are this kind of criminal
who have engaged this kind of criminal activity. Here's the problem, though,
the only basis of doing so is to commit fraud
in the application to become a naturalized citizen. Those are
the basis for doing it, not anything else. And so
(17:08):
there's still US citizens. And if they've attempted sexual battery
on Tiler, you go to jail, but you're still a
US citizen. Once you're a naturalized citizen, other than committing
fraud on the application, you're basically a citizen. Even though
I would like the administration's position to be involved. Here's
a quick story. I'm going to take a minute to
share this with you. My father was instrumental in getting
(17:31):
an avowed Nazi out of this country. A man who
handled in Yugoslavia. He was interior or minister of justice
in Yugoslavia during World War Two, and it was a
Nazi puppet regime. And he came to the United States
and he came under an assumed name, and the State
(17:52):
Department were certain members the State Department wanted to ship
him out of the country because there was a warrant
for his a rest. They were going to try him
as a criminal over what was Yugoslavia. And the only
way they got they finally got him, it was online
in the immigrant line, not the fact that he was
a Nazi and there was a warrant he was a citizen.
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And what ended up happening is they finally got him,
and my dad actually testified in that trial, and he
got man. He got grief, He had death threats because
the Croatian community was very, very upset that this guy
was being shipped out. And then I don't know if
you ever heard Irv Rubin, Michelle, you know who Irv
(18:36):
Reubin was. Irv was a guy who headed the Jewish
Defense League and he would actually protect Jews, a bunch
of guys like the Guardian Angels in New York, except
there were a bunch of Jews in Los Angeles. He,
by the way, ended up going to prison. He was convicted,
and then he took a swan dive off of floor
(18:58):
the third floor of the Federal building. And of course
there was a conspiracy they threw him off and just
a bunch of crap. But anyway, my dad as a witness,
no one would help in the Jewish community. Irv is
the only one. Irv in his group were the only
ones that protected my dad, and when he testified, they
would pick him up, accompany him into court, and then
(19:21):
accompany him out, and he had to go through this
gauntlet of pro or Tugovich Croatian Catholics or Tukovich was Catholic,
and so with a lot of religious aspects to this,
and just giving an idea of how crazy IRV was.
There was a little old lady that came up to
my father as he was going into the courthouse and
(19:44):
there were demonstrations, and this little old lady, it must
have been ninety. You know, she has a cane and
she's been over and she shuffles and she goes, mister Handel,
you know, you have to let bygones be bygones. At
some point you have to forgive IRV bends down, spits
in her face and goes get out of the way,
(20:04):
you Croatian horror. Now that is impressive stuff. Yeah, I know.
IRV was quite a character. Matter of fact, he used
to whenever I'd say anything, remember it he was at
be we'd used to be in Koreatown, and if I
didn't put him on on some topic, he would be
demonstrating five o'clock in the morning with a bullhorn in
(20:25):
our parking lot, and I would be sending him bagels
and coffee. It was while he was screaming against KFI. Yeah,
it was just tremendous, tremendous episodes. Those are the old days, ah,
the good old days. Yeah, Okay, imagine that now.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
If you didn't put somebody on and they would come
down here, you wouldn't know. We would all just be like,
there's somebody here.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I know you could look out the window and see them.
All right.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Americans are getting more and more pessimistic about their personal finances.
About forty eight percent of Americans said their financial situation
was worse in men of this year than a year ago,
and the highest share since January of twenty twenty three,
and the Federal Reserve Bank is saying that so consumers
are also less optimistic about the future as well.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, but look at what's happening right Our consumer index
are the index which measures our confidence way way down.
Our spending is up, employments in good shape, the stock
market is at record highs. None of it makes sense.
Matter of fact, it's up again right now. It's up
(21:33):
what three hundred and oh, four hundred and sixty six points. Come,
what do you do with all that? You can't make
sense of it? So well, it doesn't translate yet between
consumer confidence and the economy going downhill, which it should.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
So people are basically up saying they're not happy with
their personal finances, but all of the indicators and numbers
say that things are going well. Yeah, yeah, So it
doesn't make sense. You're right. Several private label products saw
price drops. Oh bill, handled, this one's for you. Some
of them dropped as much as ten dollars at Costco.
(22:10):
The Costco's lowering prices on several of their popular Kirkland
and Signature are Kirkland Signature items, including ones that shoppers
had previously said as getting more expensive. So have you
checked out this list to see if? I got to
tell you there's not much to this. I no understand it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
The Crispy Wings, I don't buy him.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Well, I don't understand why the prices are dropped anyway,
because Costco's markup overall is maybe eleven percent, and on
food it's even less than that, between five and ten percent.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well. Well, according to Fox Business, which released this story,
it's a bunch of executives saying that in light of
consumers fears. Although sales at Costco I'm shirt are still
through the roof, they are dropping it because of what
the perception is out there. The bottom line is milk, chocolate, almonds. Hey,
(23:04):
I don't care. I don't use those golf balls. No,
not enough goalsap male golfs out there to even make
a difference. Kinsai sheets, Chrispy wings. Yeah, I'm not only so.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, the markup is so low anyway at Costco. The
regular grocery markup is between fifteen and thirty percent. At
Costco is like maybe twelve percent.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, I don't care. So people are saving a couple bucks.
It sounds like maybe just a few dollars there, all right,
all right, So, coffee lovers, a new study has been
published for you. People who drink more one or more
cups of coffee each day lost an average of thirty
six minutes of sleep compared to those who didn't. This
(23:50):
is from the New Zealand Journal of Medicine and found Sense. Yeah,
people who were assigned to drink coffee were also more active,
taking an average of one thousand more steps. Well, yeah, see.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
There's that right, So you can do the same study
with for methampheta bean. Sure, you don't sleep as much
and you walk faster.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
How many cufs toffee do you drink a day handle?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I drink either one or two just in the morning.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Do you stop so you stop at a certain time?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, not because I mean not because you know, I
stop at a certain time. It's just that I'm done
with coffee in the morning.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So it's just a morning thing for you.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, for me, it's a morning thing. How about you?
You drink coffee in the morning.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I don't drink coffee at all.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Oh, that's right, you don't, Heather, Are you a coffee drinker?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I love coffee, and I will stop. My cutoff is
probably for the morning edition of coffee, around ten thirty
or eleven, But then I will almost always have a
nice coffee in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Okay, kono, who can't afford coffee? You don't drink coffee,
do you? You're cheering company.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
He's like a one sip.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Okay, that's the initial taste. But I would consider myself
a coffee It's that first sip of that first cup,
and it will and your nostrils all of it. Are
you a coffee drinker. And it's not like as good
as cocaine, but it still works. Will Are you a
coffee drinker? Have one cup a day? Yeah? I make
it at home and I bring it here and smell.
The best part is when it bruised. It turns itself
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on in the morning and at that smell when I'm
you know, in the shower. Oh all right, I think
we have time for one more story.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Alright. Uh, the world's biggest sporting event is coming to LA,
but the real impact will not be felt on the pitch,
that's right. According to a new analysis from bookies dot com,
the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup is projected to
generate in eye popping almost six hundred million dollars in
economic impact for LA. And that's interesting because I was
(25:43):
asking people this morning, are you going to be watching
the World Cup? And so many people said no.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, And I don't know how many billion people actually
watch the World Cup. I mean it's insanity. It's half
of the round population. Yeah, it's half of the world population.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
So uh, a big event, big event for sure.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, I'm going to watch it.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Are you going to watch it?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah? Certainly parts of it.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Are you rooting for a certain team, or you just
want to watch for the social impact of it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, I just I really don't care. First of all,
I would root for the United States and the United
States close. I used to root for Brazil only because
I'm Brazilian and that was a world class team, I mean,
one of the best in the world. There since they're
still up there, but not like Argentina, not like Germany,
and so we'll we'll see what happens. I'm I'm going
(26:32):
to watch.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
The average audience for worldwide for each game is about
one hundred and seventy five million.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Wow, worldwide game worldwide.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, okay, over the course of the Cup because there
are a bunch of games that are played.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah, and then a final game could could see like
one billion people watch.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty crazy. Okay, guys, we are
done with the news. Coming back, I'm going to give
you an equation, a mathematical equation that you're going to
have a hard time refuting. I'll be back with that
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and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And this is a Tuesday Morning talk about Tuesday. Bill
Handle Here June night, as we start the show boy,
A lot of people are missing today. Okay, let's first,
let's talk about the people who are here, both figuratively,
figuratively literally and sitting in their house, in their seats.
(00:51):
Amy is gone until next week. Heather Brooker is here,
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Heather, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Okay, so that's one the other when Michelle is certainly here.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I am here, good morning, good.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Morning, filling in for Anne, who I think is back
next Monday. Is that correct? Okay? Neil Savedra is gone,
and filling in for Neil is nobody. How are you? Nobody?
Silent type Neil doing the best suppression of Helen Keller
I have seen in a very long time. Will Coleschreiber here,
(01:25):
Good morning, and kno is here? What's up? And that's
my lineup? What's up? I talked to Neil yesterday. Neil
is doing reasonably well. He underwent bariatric surgery and is
eating and drinking absolutely nothing, and so he's already lost.
(01:46):
He's down. When did the surgery take place? Last week?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Friday?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Friday? And today is Tuesday, and he's already down eight
nine pounds. It goes very, very very quickly when you
have a bariatric surgery, as I did some twenty something
years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, you lost like too much weight.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
At one point on I went from I figure about
three ten because I stop weighing myself at three hundred.
I just wasn't gonna do it anymore. So I figure
about three ten and I dropped to one seventy three. Wow.
Yeah that was a lot of weight.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But how long did that take from the from.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The bariatric surgery? Yeah, nine minutes. It goes very very quickly.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
It was like I would say six months, six months,
six to eight months, six months.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You can lose one hundred pounds and six months.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It is very It's it's not fun, but it is
very rapid. And the you just don't have enough of
an appetite. They literally knock out a big portion of
your stomach. In my case, I had something called the
ruin why, which is considered the gold standard, but it
is a forever standard. Neil had the sleeve that goes
(03:02):
onto a stomach and crunches.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It up, and that can be removed, right, yes.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You can. The sleep can be removed. The ruin why cannot.
And they took out a good portion of the intestine,
about eighteen inches of the intestine with a ruined why.
And when that was finished, my stomach was about the
size of your thumb. And it has since expanded, because
stomachs expand rather dramatically. I mean, stomachs can get very big,
just as will so wow, yeah, it's a while shots fired.
(03:32):
Oh yeah, so yeah, we've just started. I haven't even
begun to stop yet. So I am. I weighed myself
this morning. I'm at one hundred and seventy three pounds.
I'm at the lowest I have been without being sick,
without a surgery, which you'd lose weight after major surgery
no matter what you do, certainly heart surgery. And then
(03:54):
when I had the by trick, the gastric bypass. So
there I was myself now. Also keep in mind, is
kind of fun weighing myself because I do it in
the kitchen, because upstairs Lindsay's asleep. I do it in
the kitchen, and I take off my nineties, I take
off my pajamas, etc. So I'm stark naked uh in
(04:16):
the kitchen with the lights on. Now behind me when
I do it are my big glass doors that open
up to the uh to the backyard. Oh yeah, no,
I know they get the They get my creepy ass.
They really do. You know my I lost when I
lost a lot of weight, I lost it in my
(04:37):
ass department. Uh and uh it's it's a it's a
very fluttery ass. There's a lot of uh loose skin there.
And I've often said July fourth, it's it's a wind
for me because I paint my uh my fluttery parts
red white and blue, and a good wind comes it
comes up. Man, it's uh. I get a lot of
patriotic uh.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Notice bringing memories of when you had your surgery and
I had to come to your house to do the
show and you would come downstairs in your tank top
and your boxers.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
For the Yeah. Yeah, Well after my after my after
my heart surgery, I should have taken a month off
because it was pretty serious. You started coming down a
week afterwards we started the show.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Did you get hazard pay for that?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
But I did have access to his refrigerator, so I could,
you know, fix myself a little snack before he came down.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Ye. So anyway, Neil will be back next week as
will Amy, as.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Will Amy's gone for two weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yes, Oh, can I always get confused?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You've done all these people, they're making they're leaving no one, You.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Got me and I don't know? All right? Are you
ready to do this?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Let's move on. It's time for Handle on the News
with Heather brook Or and me lead story one now
advances to second place and the runoff will be Nithia Rahman,
former city council member, or she still is a city
(06:09):
council member. Yeah, and it will be her and Karen Bass.
Spencer Spencer Pratt, a former reality TV guy from the Hills.
He's done. He was initially ahead the day of the election.
And we're getting the same, uh, the same screed as
(06:29):
we always have from Republicans, particularly the president. If some
if a Republican is ahead on election day, then votes
that come in afterwards are fraudulent. Uh, they're not. There
has been a rigged election. Notwithstanding California and other states
take mail in balloting and in California it's probably the
(06:52):
loosest in terms of time. In terms of security, it's
probably among the tightest. And in California you can do
a mail in ballot and if it's postmarked by the
day of the election, it can arrive up to seven
days later and will be counted. Also, California has an
automatic voter registration every citizen, I think in California, I
(07:16):
think everybody basically, Yeah, anybody who has registered to vote
gets an automatic ballot. And of course that's fraudulent too,
and it's other states do this, by the way, there's
some red states that do the same thing, not as
extensive as California. But here is what happens the day
of the voting. Republicans do better mail in ballots, Democrats
(07:40):
do better. And it's always the same screen. How does
for example, how does Pratt lose or how does Raman?
All of said get hundreds of thousands of votes after
election date, it's fraudulent. Well, that's the way it's set
up in California is not the only state. Now, I
(08:01):
will tell you that in every state or in every
campaign in which the Republican wins, after the ballot, after
the mail in ballot. There is no fraud that doesn't exist.
If a Republican wins mail in ballot or not, it
is a free democratic election. If a Democrat wins, it
(08:25):
is a rigged election. Democracy does not exist in this
country where Democrats win. That's where we've come to. Now.
Have we heard a lot yet about Ramen winning in
terms of the fraud? I haven't heard as much as
I thought there would.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Be, you mean, winning the war in.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
The second place, as against Pratt, where Pratt was ahead
election day and now has lost because of the mail
in ballots. Have we been hearing a lot fraud? Fraud, fraud?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Oh yeah, there's a lot of chatter online of people
claiming that it's rigged and there's fraud. I mean, everything
you just said is what's happening. People are saying that
it's you know, we played a story talking about some celebrity,
Jamie Kennedy saying that they're finding votes in the back
alleys and in trash cans and all that.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You know, and all you have to do is file
lawsuit and bring it into court.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Just bring it into court. I think Bill is Saley
also said that they were going to be investigating see.
The issue is is that there's no proof and no
evidence has been brought forward because this is just how
California elections work.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, and there won't be and there won't be. I
think in an interview with the President when he said
there's fraud and Christine Kristin Welker said, where's the evidence?
Bring it forward, and he said, I just know it exists.
When the fraud was argued that Trump had won the
(09:53):
twenty twenty twenty twenty election and Joe Biden it was fraudulent,
there were lawsuits filed, headed by Rudy Giuliani. Sixty three
lawsuits were filed arguing fraud County, state, federal lawsuit. Not
one shred of evidence was produced, not one and a
(10:14):
or all dismissed, including Trump appointees. Okay, so we're going
to talk a lot more about that. That really bothers me.
It says a lot about where we're going.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Unfortunately, moving on, all right, are you as army helicopter
crash near the straight up horn moves? President Trump, though
last night after the Knicks game, says that two crew
members on board weren't hurt and they're doing fine. I
don't know how that's possible.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Being alive is fine.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, we don't know what caused the crash. There hasn't
been a lot of details released about this, but we
know that Trump is saying the pilots are fine, nobody
was injured, and they're supposed to release a report today.
All right, Moving on, President Trump also has expressed some
renewed optimism over negotiations with Iran. He says we have
(11:03):
a good chance of signing another deal or deal in
the next two or three days, but he didn't provide
any details or why there is this renewed optimism. Not anymore.
He's been predicting this over the past several months. The yeah,
we're gonna have a deal.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
We're gonna have a deal right next Wednesday. If we
don't have a deal, we're gonna bomb Iran. It's we
won the war the first hour. We're they're desperate to
make a deal of Iranians. Nothing has come to fruition nothing.
So now it's we're gonna have a deal. They're anxious,
and we'll have a deal soon. I don't know what
(11:38):
that means, not anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Israel's military has launched new attacks on tire in Lebanon,
this morning. They've issued also a rare evacuation order for
the historic southern Lebanese cities Christian Quarter. They say, in
light of Hasbella's violation the ceasefire agreement and it's targeting
of the Israeli home front, the IDF is compelled to
(12:04):
act forcefully against them.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah. The President is doing everything he possibly can to
bring this war to an end. And at this point
it certainly visa the Israel and Lebanon and it's just
not working. Is really just saying too bad and keeps
on attacking and ignoring the President, and it's not making
(12:26):
the President very happy at all. Tire, by the way,
there's I don't know if you know that, but the
biggest Goodyear plant is in Tire in the Mid East.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
That's not true. That is not that's not true.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, I just thought i'd go there. Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Lies this morning, Lies this morning, all right. US Food
and Drug Administration issued a recall notice for their brand
of baby wipes, and these wipes have the potential to
cause bacterial contamination that could result in some pretty series
or life threatening infections for newborns and young children. The
recall is for Target brand Up and Up fragrance free
(13:08):
and fresh cucumber scented baby wipes, So please check your wipes. Okay,
all right. La County measure Eer, which was previously going
into the no category, has now flipped and he is
slightly edging out in the yes category. This was introduced
(13:30):
by Supervisor Holly Mitchell and Hildas Lease. It's called the
Essential Services Restoration Act, and they're asking voters to enact
a half sent general sales tax for five years.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah. Two things. Number one, why not let's get we
go from the most taxed state county in the country
to the ridiculously most tax and for five years. You know,
the last time we've actually had a tax that was sunseted,
I can't remember. Five years, two years, ten years, two months,
(14:03):
three minutes, It doesn't matter. There'll be a bill, there'll
be a proposition to continue the tax on forever ten
point two five now percent La County, other cities, Orange County.
I think are there some places that are now eleven
percent sero tax?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I want to say Palmdale, like up in that area,
that Lancaster Palmdale area, I think is.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, how special is that? Huh? All right?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Big waves coming into Malibu. These are potentially deadly rip currents,
and authorities are warning people to be careful if you're
heading out into the waters there, and actually they're saying
just don't don't go out to the waters. Waves as
large as seven feet are forecast to hit the beaches
across the area.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, rip tides are no fun. They tend to kill
people a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
And a federal judge has struck down a one hundred
thousand dollars fee. Remember that one hundred thousand dollars fee
that was going to be imposed on new H one
B visas for highly skilled four workers. Will judge says
that it constituted an unlawful tax that Congress never authorized.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, here's the argument, and it's going to go up.
This is a federal judge, and it's going to do
the appeals and will certainly go to the Supreme Court
whether they're going to hear it or not. And that
is the president. According to the administration, the president has
the ability under law he can basically can make it
a million dollar or eliminated completely the HN one visa visa,
(15:31):
the visa itself, or certainly the money if it is
if he deems it detrimental to the interests of the
United States, and with the judge said, no, no, what
you're doing is just adding a tax, and we'll see
what happens. And tax is only Congress. Same thing with tariffs.
By the way, the same thing happened with the court
(15:51):
and tariffs. You know, you don't. The Congress has to
do it, not you, And he's always argued that he
will make that decision.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I'm just surprised that it's taken this long, though, for
everything takes forever. Well, that's true. Our legal system is
very slow. Also, Trump administration said that they're seeking district
citizenship of seventeen immigrants. They are escalating their push to
find and expel people who they say improperly obtained US citizenship.
(16:20):
The Justice Department says they're filing these denaturalization cases and
district courts across the country, targeting people accused of concealing
previous crimes or committing fraud during the naturalization process.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, here's the problem. And by the way, I agree
with the administration on this one. I mean, you do
want to de certify.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Or get rid of denaturalized.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Thank you denaturalize people who are this kind of criminal
who have engaged this kind of criminal activity. Here's the problem, though,
the only basis of doing so is to commit fraud
in the application to become a naturalized citizen. Those are
the basis for doing it, not anything else. And so
(17:08):
there's still US citizens. And if they've attempted sexual battery
on Tiler, you go to jail, but you're still a
US citizen. Once you're a naturalized citizen, other than committing
fraud on the application, you're basically a citizen. Even though
I would like the administration's position to be involved. Here's
a quick story. I'm going to take a minute to
share this with you. My father was instrumental in getting
(17:31):
an avowed Nazi out of this country. A man who
handled in Yugoslavia. He was interior or minister of justice
in Yugoslavia during World War Two, and it was a
Nazi puppet regime. And he came to the United States
and he came under an assumed name, and the State
(17:52):
Department were certain members the State Department wanted to ship
him out of the country because there was a warrant
for his a rest. They were going to try him
as a criminal over what was Yugoslavia. And the only
way they got they finally got him, it was online
in the immigrant line, not the fact that he was
a Nazi and there was a warrant he was a citizen.
(18:15):
And what ended up happening is they finally got him,
and my dad actually testified in that trial, and he
got man. He got grief, He had death threats because
the Croatian community was very, very upset that this guy
was being shipped out. And then I don't know if
you ever heard Irv Rubin, Michelle, you know who Irv
(18:36):
Reubin was. Irv was a guy who headed the Jewish
Defense League and he would actually protect Jews, a bunch
of guys like the Guardian Angels in New York, except
there were a bunch of Jews in Los Angeles. He,
by the way, ended up going to prison. He was convicted,
and then he took a swan dive off of floor
(18:58):
the third floor of the Federal building. And of course
there was a conspiracy they threw him off and just
a bunch of crap. But anyway, my dad as a witness,
no one would help in the Jewish community. Irv is
the only one. Irv in his group were the only
ones that protected my dad, and when he testified, they
would pick him up, accompany him into court, and then
(19:21):
accompany him out, and he had to go through this
gauntlet of pro or Tugovich Croatian Catholics or Tukovich was Catholic,
and so with a lot of religious aspects to this,
and just giving an idea of how crazy IRV was.
There was a little old lady that came up to
my father as he was going into the courthouse and
(19:44):
there were demonstrations, and this little old lady, it must
have been ninety. You know, she has a cane and
she's been over and she shuffles and she goes, mister Handel,
you know, you have to let bygones be bygones. At
some point you have to forgive IRV bends down, spits
in her face and goes get out of the way,
(20:04):
you Croatian horror. Now that is impressive stuff. Yeah, I know.
IRV was quite a character. Matter of fact, he used
to whenever I'd say anything, remember it he was at
be we'd used to be in Koreatown, and if I
didn't put him on on some topic, he would be
demonstrating five o'clock in the morning with a bullhorn in
(20:25):
our parking lot, and I would be sending him bagels
and coffee. It was while he was screaming against KFI. Yeah,
it was just tremendous, tremendous episodes. Those are the old days, ah,
the good old days. Yeah, Okay, imagine that now.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
If you didn't put somebody on and they would come
down here, you wouldn't know. We would all just be like,
there's somebody here.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I know you could look out the window and see them.
All right.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Americans are getting more and more pessimistic about their personal finances.
About forty eight percent of Americans said their financial situation
was worse in men of this year than a year ago,
and the highest share since January of twenty twenty three,
and the Federal Reserve Bank is saying that so consumers
are also less optimistic about the future as well.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, but look at what's happening right Our consumer index
are the index which measures our confidence way way down.
Our spending is up, employments in good shape, the stock
market is at record highs. None of it makes sense.
Matter of fact, it's up again right now. It's up
(21:33):
what three hundred and oh, four hundred and sixty six points. Come,
what do you do with all that? You can't make
sense of it? So well, it doesn't translate yet between
consumer confidence and the economy going downhill, which it should.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
So people are basically up saying they're not happy with
their personal finances, but all of the indicators and numbers
say that things are going well. Yeah, yeah, So it
doesn't make sense. You're right. Several private label products saw
price drops. Oh bill, handled, this one's for you. Some
of them dropped as much as ten dollars at Costco.
(22:10):
The Costco's lowering prices on several of their popular Kirkland
and Signature are Kirkland Signature items, including ones that shoppers
had previously said as getting more expensive. So have you
checked out this list to see if? I got to
tell you there's not much to this. I no understand it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
The Crispy Wings, I don't buy him.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Well, I don't understand why the prices are dropped anyway,
because Costco's markup overall is maybe eleven percent, and on
food it's even less than that, between five and ten percent.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well. Well, according to Fox Business, which released this story,
it's a bunch of executives saying that in light of
consumers fears. Although sales at Costco I'm shirt are still
through the roof, they are dropping it because of what
the perception is out there. The bottom line is milk, chocolate, almonds. Hey,
(23:04):
I don't care. I don't use those golf balls. No,
not enough goalsap male golfs out there to even make
a difference. Kinsai sheets, Chrispy wings. Yeah, I'm not only so.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, the markup is so low anyway at Costco. The
regular grocery markup is between fifteen and thirty percent. At
Costco is like maybe twelve percent.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, I don't care. So people are saving a couple bucks.
It sounds like maybe just a few dollars there, all right,
all right, So, coffee lovers, a new study has been
published for you. People who drink more one or more
cups of coffee each day lost an average of thirty
six minutes of sleep compared to those who didn't. This
(23:50):
is from the New Zealand Journal of Medicine and found Sense. Yeah,
people who were assigned to drink coffee were also more active,
taking an average of one thousand more steps. Well, yeah, see.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
There's that right, So you can do the same study
with for methampheta bean. Sure, you don't sleep as much
and you walk faster.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
How many cufs toffee do you drink a day handle?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I drink either one or two just in the morning.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Do you stop so you stop at a certain time?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, not because I mean not because you know, I
stop at a certain time. It's just that I'm done
with coffee in the morning.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So it's just a morning thing for you.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, for me, it's a morning thing. How about you?
You drink coffee in the morning.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I don't drink coffee at all.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Oh, that's right, you don't, Heather, Are you a coffee drinker?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I love coffee, and I will stop. My cutoff is
probably for the morning edition of coffee, around ten thirty
or eleven, But then I will almost always have a
nice coffee in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Okay, kono, who can't afford coffee? You don't drink coffee,
do you? You're cheering company.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
He's like a one sip.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Okay, that's the initial taste. But I would consider myself
a coffee It's that first sip of that first cup,
and it will and your nostrils all of it. Are
you a coffee drinker. And it's not like as good
as cocaine, but it still works. Will Are you a
coffee drinker? Have one cup a day? Yeah? I make
it at home and I bring it here and smell.
The best part is when it bruised. It turns itself
(25:13):
on in the morning and at that smell when I'm
you know, in the shower. Oh all right, I think
we have time for one more story.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Alright. Uh, the world's biggest sporting event is coming to LA,
but the real impact will not be felt on the pitch,
that's right. According to a new analysis from bookies dot com,
the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup is projected to
generate in eye popping almost six hundred million dollars in
economic impact for LA. And that's interesting because I was
(25:43):
asking people this morning, are you going to be watching
the World Cup? And so many people said no.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, And I don't know how many billion people actually
watch the World Cup. I mean it's insanity. It's half
of the round population. Yeah, it's half of the world population.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
So uh, a big event, big event for sure.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, I'm going to watch it.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Are you going to watch it?
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah? Certainly parts of it.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Are you rooting for a certain team, or you just
want to watch for the social impact of it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, I just I really don't care. First of all,
I would root for the United States and the United
States close. I used to root for Brazil only because
I'm Brazilian and that was a world class team, I mean,
one of the best in the world. There since they're
still up there, but not like Argentina, not like Germany,
and so we'll we'll see what happens. I'm I'm going
(26:32):
to watch.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
The average audience for worldwide for each game is about
one hundred and seventy five million.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Wow, worldwide game worldwide.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, okay, over the course of the Cup because there
are a bunch of games that are played.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah, and then a final game could could see like
one billion people watch.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty crazy. Okay, guys, we are
done with the news. Coming back, I'm going to give
you an equation, a mathematical equation that you're going to
have a hard time refuting. I'll be back with that
KF I am six point forty. If you've been listening
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(27:11):
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