July 10, 2026 • 30 mins
(July 10, 2026)
A major housing affordability bill is about to become law, even without President Trump’s signature. Strong El Nino now a virtual certainty… what it means for California. Frustration, fury reign at Boyle Heights town hall on Lineage warehouse fire.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I remember the cough button. I don't see it anymore.
That would actually be a pause button in the cough
enable you to cough, so you don't have to turn
of the mic on or off. I never once used
the cough button because I was convinced there would be
metal fingers coming out from underneath the desks grabbing my
gonaz and saying turn left and cough. That's how they
(00:33):
used to test for hernias. By the way, little medical joke. Okay,
come and now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Good morning everybody. It is a Friday. It's a footy Friday,
July tenth, and we start. I like Fridays. First of all,
we have Neil, who is always here anyway, but it's
a foody Friday topic. So Neil prior to the Fok
Report on Saturday, we do a half hour and then
(01:09):
ask Handle anything. Will came in. We're sitting here in
the studio. Will came in and we talked about something
about him being heavy or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, I said, he was solid. I gave him a hub.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh that's it, that's right.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, it's right, solid, right, it's not he's not doweye.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, you said he was solid and I said, no,
he's fat. I feel the love I know you do.
And he said he has abs that where where do
you have? Is it Halloween and we're covering them up?
Is that what's happening?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
No, he's feel strong.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I felt safe in his.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Arms, Thank you, Neil. He's strong for a fat guy.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
He's not fat.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Okay, you're a.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Sad little man.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I am a sad little man. I'm not so little anymore.
You know. When I was fat, God, I love saying that.
But I would do all these events. You know, we
did a lot of personal events, personal appearances, and people
would come up to me and and what we talked about,
of course being heavy, said you me everybody that worked
(02:19):
on the show for the most part. And people would
come up and they didn't know what we'd look like
days before the internet where everybody looks, you know, knows
what you look like, and said, wow, I thought you
were short, short, short and fat igot.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I never said I was short tempered.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, but you know, people assume it's short and fat,
not big in fat. All right, enough of that. You
are huge, huge you You're huge.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Like Ken Champeau. He has that East Coast a little
bit of acted huge.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It was a bunch of human drama.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, all right, guys. Hello, hey, and there you are
here I am there you are. And there's a Neil Stirt.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Good morning, Neil, Good morning buddy, Happy Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It HAPs Friday. You and uh there's uh where there's Will.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Will is at the machine up down the hall at.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
The Yeah, he's ben pressing. He's bench pressing the copyright will.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Good morning again. Good morning Bill and Amy, I said,
good morning, coming in this morning. You did. I did
it so kind of you.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I was, and I feel so honored that you acknowledged me.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So you should.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He knows your name, that's well he didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
For the first ten years. So this is an accomplishment.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah. And con O Hello, No, I didn't say hello.
And you're also not putting that microphone on. Your microphone
is not on Cono of all the people, oh boy,
oh people, all the people in the world that don't
have their micro.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It's still not on. Is it broken?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's just changed? Oh? There you go, Okay, there you go.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
The engineers were messing with the board.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Huh. And you're right, And I didn't. I don't know
people's names. It took it takes years for me to
figure out people's names.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
And you know you just called me in.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, I just well every.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah the problem that to Valentine. Uh yeah, from Valentine
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, I did that. Probably we came in at the
same time, Valani and it was he goes, hey Bill,
and I go, hey, champ.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Sport, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I yeah, I don't done. He goes, I'm Valentine. And
it was probably the fifteenth time that I finally oh, okay,
you're Valentine. I think it's early on set dementia. But
people are telling me that it's just I am not
mindful and I just don't care.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, I think that's it the last one. I don't
think you care.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I probably don't.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You hate everything about this show that isn't focused completely
on you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I hate everything about life that isn't focused on me.
It's what is life if it's not focused on a
person who lives it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
There's other people in this world that count, billions that count.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yes, No, no, all right, anyway, good morning to one,
Good morning to all.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I tell you who do count?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Listeners? Listeners count?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, and all the love you give them, I do
actually responding to their emails, and yeah, it's true listening
to the time.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
True. I get a lot of people because we've been
on the air. I've been on the air for so long,
and people that started with me are my age and hey, Bill,
I get this. I've been listening to you for thirty years.
I get that, and I just tell them shut up.
I don't want to hear it, but it's all. I've
been listening to you for thirty years. Okay, I've been
listening to you for thirty years, and I inevitably say,
(05:51):
you know, we've both gotten old together and you look
like utter crap.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And you wear it horribly. See kind of quality connection
with your audience.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Okay, are you guys ready to go? It is time
on a Friday for a handle on the news, Amy,
Neil and me late. Sorry, Well, that housing affordability bill
that the President sort of yanks. Remember they had passed
overwhelmingly in the Senate and the House, I mean overwhelmingly,
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and it attempts to well make housing more affordable a
bunch of different ways, making it easier to borrow money
and reduce red tape across the country. And the President
was set to pass it or sign it because it
had been passed, and literally it went off the table,
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and I mean off the table because it had been
on the table. He was signing it, and then he
changed his mind and said nah, and they took away
the lectern and took away the lighting. And he now says, nope,
I want that Save Act. The what is it? The lawyer,
not the lawyer, the voting the idea, Yeah, thank you,
(07:09):
that's what I meant to say, voter id And he
thinks that's the most important thing in the world. He
says that, and does anybody care? I mean, who think
about this? Who cares about voting restrictions? How does it
affect anybody other than okay, you can't you have to
send in your vote a week earlier. Okay, how does
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that affect us in the meantime? How about housing? You
think that affects anybody? And he said, oh no, the
Save Act is far more important. The housing is no
big deal. So they passed it and he may veto it,
which I can't imagine he would. My god, the backlasher
would be incredible. So if it just sits there without
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his signature, it becomes law for ten days. And if
he tries to veto it, let me put it this way,
eighty five to five in the Senate, three fifty eight
to thirty two in the House, that is well on
its way to make that bill veto proof. He could
veto it and there's enough in the House and send
it to override the veto. Very rarely does that happen.
(08:14):
But you can't even figure out the politics of this.
I have no idea why he would do that. Okay,
moving on.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Super soakers on the way, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration NOAH says there is now a ninety seven percent
chance and El Nino will either be strong or very
strong this fall. There's an eighty one percent chance it'll
be very strong. El Nino means there's going to be
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a higher chance of above average rainfall for southern California,
and that increases the risk of wintertime flash floods and landslides.
Officials also warn that the climate pattern characterized by warmer
weather in the central and Eastern Ocean will also increase
the risk of heat waves on land and at sea.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Wait, we get in rain or is it going to
be hot?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yes, yeah, can be very strong. It's to both. I mean,
it's just a climate is all screwed up by the
way El Nino. Isn't that your nephew? Also?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
How dare you?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You racist?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Actually it is.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I know it is. But it's a small ones. It's
just the tiniest little small It's very big. That phrase
is very big in the dwarf community. It's okay, hanging
it out with dwarfs. Yeah, the Mexican dwarf community and
dwarf community dwarf.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Okay, what a scene man. So they're in Boil Heights.
We all know about the fire that has a butt
ton of this food and stench, eighty five million pounds
of food thowed, burned, spoiled, terrible smell, rats, and tensions
there in Boil Heights reached an intense level. Just yet,
(10:00):
yesterday a residence showed up to a packed house. More
than two hundred people were turned away at the door
because the venue reached capacity. Of course, Los Angeles Mayor
Karen Bass struggled even to start the meeting over the
loud booze yelling of community members, actions that were repeated
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as other elected officials took to the microphone. A chorus
of liar was shouted out at her. Booze were shouted
because of the the lineage warehouse fire and how they
were just frustrated.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And what could be done? What are they doing? You
got what I understand, but I don't know what they
are not doing? Are they being slow on it? Is
there negligence?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Nothing we've been done that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I don't know. I don't know what they could do.
They bring in the bulldozers?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Do they whatever it takes?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Well, I mean there's and I'm just questioning this because
I don't know. We don't know enough about it. But
what could they do that they are not doing? I
guess destroy the building, but then you have the debris
and I don't know the answer, but.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You gotta do something, So why not do it now?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So do something now? But what if you don't know what?
I don't know. What's something?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Got to be a money thing or something where they're going?
But it's like no, no, I can't just leave a
pile of.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Round And are they leaving it?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Just aren't they have something go into the palisades fire
and eating fire and start assessing the ground and everything else. Initially, yes,
but it wasn't rotting food.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It wasn't. It's it's I.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Think, where does rotting food go?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Now? It goes to rot, that goes to where we
take rot. It goes to the big rotting place in
the sky.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You want to go over there and see anything, If
anything is good as left, you and me probably could
clear out of that.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Don't even think about it. Huntington Beach Police are warning
online organizers and promoters who are trying to put together
an end of summer beach bash or a takeover. They
said that they do not want to see a repeat
of Newport Beaches fourth of July, in which over four
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hundred people were arrested. They were chasing people off the
beach with horses. The crowd looted a pavilions, got into
people's houses, and generally caused mayhem. So Huntington Beach says, yeah,
don't even think about it.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And Huntington Beach Police are no joke. They proudly wear
those swastika tattoos. Oh they're pretty conservative. I wouldn't tell you.
It's a very right wing little community. The last place
I'd go ransacking someone's homes in Orange County. Flag equals
gun inside pretty much today, pretty much, all right?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Iran. Iran hatched a fresh plot, apparently to kill Trump.
This is what Isla is telling Trump. You gotta wonder
if you wanted to get under Trump's skin, that's what
you tell.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I would go the other way on that. I would
go the other way if there weren't threats against Trump.
He would say, why why aren't people threatening my life?
You know, come on, there's a true narcissism.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Why are they threatening other people not me?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I'm doing this at seven o'clock, by the way, because
there's a there's a whole story here.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
So yeah, this is just is reel sharing intelligence for
the US.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And why and is it true? Is it not?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Well? Did you see some of the signs they were
showing on the news where they have killed Trump on
the signs and a bullet going through the name Trump?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, but that was is that local? Or is that yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But they were showing it on the news here. I mean, that's.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Forward. And Trump is delighted because instead of just death
to America. It's death to Trump. Trump said, it's about
time you recognize.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
That it was realteresting. It's always well, I'm sure Bush
bush Is and the like had their face on science.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
A little late for regrets. Maybe The twenty three year
old who's accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk apparently
told his roommate about it shortly after the shooting. He
said he wished he hadn't done it. The video interview
of the roommate was played in a courtroom in Utah yesterday.
(14:31):
Prosecutors presented the recording as key evidence in a week
long preliminary evidentiary hearing, and the judge is expected to
decide by the end of today whether there's enough evidence
to take the case to trial.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I have I don't know the last time I've heard
of a preliminary hearing like this. It's enough just you
have the smallest, tiniest bit of evidence and the judge
binds it over for trying.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well, they just did this with the David thing too,
though they had They've got all these pre trial things.
Now they're going to do evidentiary hearings to decide and
all that.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It's well, if you're doing evidence your hearing at this point,
and the only thing that makes sense is that these
motions are decided now by the judges, opposed to being
decided prior to the trial. But other than that, of
course he's going to be bound I hate. What I
dislike is the new saying, well, we're going to see
if it's going to be bound over for trial. It is.
(15:31):
The chances of going through preliminary hearing and not being
bound over one in one thousand. Anyway, quick tip matches.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Matches. What else? Flint rock? There's a lot of ways
to start a fire. Yeah, if you've ever taken any
mountain training, Well, this man must not have known that.
A man from Indiana charged with a felony after he
was accused of cutting off his own genitals and using
them to start a fire. I don't.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I didn't know those were incendiary devices either.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Little grenades. I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I mean, so this took back took place back in May,
and he was charged with arts and after he said
he cut off his own penis, doused it with gasoline
and lit it on fire.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And the police did show up.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, they thought it was a barbecue.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yea, And the police showed up, and he did say
when they walked in past the.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Dijon, what's it? Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Very strong, very strong?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Oh man, you know what this this freaking fascist country
we live in. It's gotten to the place where you
can't burn your own penis.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I are, you know, without getting arrested.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
What's next? No fireworks? On the fourth of July. Nazi goal.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I love saying that that's.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
The whitest goal I've ever heard.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Do you remember Heather Jordan who used to be an
anchor here?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah, I love she.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
She has been doing stuff with the LAFC. She is
the stadium announcer in Dallas for World Cup. Wow, And
so the other day when they were playing, I could
hear her saying, go, it was very cool.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I wish here women's stadium announcers. What bell? What the
hell happened? I mean life?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
They drive now too, Bill, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We love to job well. And yeah, the voting I
can see just barely. But other than that, I don't get.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
It all right. Killian Mbappe spread his arms out wide
and spun around after scoring his eighth goal of this
year's World Cup. That means that he has twenty goals
in his World Cup career. It came in his twentieth
match at the tournament, which moves him just one behind
Argentinian legend Lionel Messi.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Soccer is in its heydays. I mean, yep, it's neat
that the United States has lost. Well, yeah, I mean
I was a given in the United States is a
lot I would lose because it's just not a world
power when it comes to soccer. But how we've accepted soccer.
It was the poor stepsister of sports and now s
it's become a thing and a big thing, which is
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kind of neat.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yep, big thing. And there's the last match at so
Far is today at noon.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, and the I wonder what the tickets are for
the World champion, you know, the cup winner. We haven't
been for the.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Final, yeah, on the nineteenth or whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, I'm wondering how much they're going for.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Well, it's some of them at so Fire going for
like seventeen eighteen, nineteen thousand, nineteen thousand. Ye, the cheap
seats are going for eleven hundred.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, I'm assuming this is secondary market, right, yeah? Is
anybody even able to get face value on these games.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Well, I'm guessing that they sold out, didn't they.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Oh, of course, although the hotels are saying they didn't,
and that's another story.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Well, no, that got flipped. If you remember we talked
about this early on, the hotels were not getting a
response that they thought they were going to and they
were very concerned early on. However, last minute people came through.
So last minute they started booking rooms. And so it's end.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Up still not to the level. I mean some are
reporting that they did that they're doing worse than a
normal summer.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
All the prices have dropped. See so you can get
almost well you're in the lower bowl for sixty six dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
So as the last tournament game in Los Angeles is
on Friday, hotels are uh popular now with soccer fans,
and they're full and they're charging higher rates actually, so
they're still you know, it's not hitting everyone, but the
ones that have been taken care of say that it's
there being saved by this last minute rush. So people
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are going in there, which is good. They need they
need help. I think we're gonna have a resurgence of
hotels again. I think that it's getting so expensive to
do Airbnb or Verbo or anything, and you have to
jump through a lot of hoops and you don't get
somebody cleaning the rooms and doing stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I do love having my room clean.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I love a good hotel now. I love an Airbnb too.
You know, you get a pool and you do all
that stuff. But there's something about room service and being
close to you know, some of these places. Palm Springs
is lovely to go to. Maybe not so lovely right now,
but things like that. You go out to Marongo and
the weather's great, and they've got the they've got the
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lazy river.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I like a lazy now. Is it because you're lazy?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah? And I like rivers.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I would just float by and people would try and
use me as a flotation to mind because you look
like a yeah, this will fit for honey, bring the kids.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Warner Brothers is going to be the home base for
the LA Olympics, the Warner Brothers Ranch in Burbank. It's
going to be the broadcast headquarters. They made the announcement
yesterday that the thirty acre Hollywood Way campus would play
a pivotal role in the games, constructing an efficient TV
nerve center the operational hub where feeds from events are
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produced and distributed to hundreds of millions of viewers around
the world.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I am assuming that this is about offering broadcasting an
office space to various outlets around the world that the
Olympic Committee says, here is where you can about, This
is where your reporters can be, This is where your
central control is going to be.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Makes sense.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah, and we have all the equipment, we have all
the lines, everything's ready to go. I'm assuming that that's
the case.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
That's right. Just that's right down the street from here.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
It's got sixteen down stages, a five story creative office building.
So yeah, it's got everything that they need.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, except all the really cool original sets that had
torn down recently. All right, quickly eviction averted. You know,
there's these formerly homeless people who are being housed with subsidies.
In light that we're supposed to expire in December, we're
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no longer at risk because there's been an infusion of
new funds by Congress.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I misunderstand the funding was expiring or the people were
going to expire the way.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You said that. No, if the people were going to expire,
then this wouldn't be an issue.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That's correct, But then you have the same situation you
have at that food center because you have the rotting smell,
and it would be very.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Very differently on the house and the unlive. No, so
they they're that waiver has changed things. Now they've got
the money.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, and it's federal and it's federal money that came in,
which is surprising.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And they all have to wear Trump shirt.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
That's where they get you. There's the rough.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, because I thought, and this is last minute money
coming in because they had already said you're going to
be evicted. They sent out thousands of hey, you're going
to be evicted notices.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Okay, well, the cupboards are almost bare at LAUSD. County
analysts say the district is facing severe indications it will
be insolvent by November of twenty twenty seven, that it
will fall two hundred and thirty one million dollars into
the red and won't be able to make payroll. The
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county has appointed a fiscal expert to work with the
district to eliminate the projected deficit. They've got forty five
days to find a way to fix it. LA School
Superintendent Andres Chape suggested there's no need for alarm.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Of course not. And LA Unified still has the same
problems that always had that's never been able to attain,
and that is producing literate graduates.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
They need to break a cycle. There's something going on
that just it's too big.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
It's too big, and it's too management heavy, and it's
it's it'll not even do it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
They're better than we are.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, And I don't know, maybe they don't have as
much management.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
All right, this is a bummer, and you should know
better as federal agents. But the federal agents that were
caught up in that shooting in Houston, they didn't have
body cameras. In this modern age with specially when you're
under the microscope and people don't trust you as an
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organization or any of those things. How can you go
out without body cams.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Especially federal agents. Now you can't argue, we can't afford it.
They are literally drowning in money. So signed Trump administration
is doing for immigration makes it even worse. And it's
their usual line. It was the driver weaponized his car
and I mean all of that, and you know it's
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just not going to fly.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times.
We all hear those warnings, but apparently another person has
decided to ignore that. For the second time in less
than a month, a guest at Disneyland has climbed out
of the log ride boat on Tiana's By You Adventure,
that one that used to be Splash Mountain. The latest
one happened on July fourth. I was there, didn't see it.
(25:58):
A cast members the ride. They watched the rides on
closed circuit TV and noticed a child climb out of
the boat. The cast member stopped the ride. Now, if
you'll remember, back on June twenty first, a thirteen year
old climbed out of the boat just before it did
the big drop at the end of the ride. And
then that child went down the drop without a boat.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Have you noticed and you just literally it was just
a description that Okay, it's a given a guest at
Disneyland and a cast member. By the way, it's not
just Disney, It's it's corporations across the country. For example,
you are a guest at Target. Huh Sales Associates. I
(26:43):
how is a janitor part of a cast?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
They are because they're all part of the show. If
you can see them, they're part of the show.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I don't no interact with them, Yeah you are, No,
because they're not. They're not acting as janitors. They really
are are Janet. That's not that job is not the
acting part. The acting part is being nice to people
like you. Oh yeah, I don't understand that. And I
just wondered where that when it become became that it's
(27:14):
always been ketch No, I don't know, it has not
for what it has not. I think Michael Eisner put
in the concept of cast member.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
But but everybody does it. You know, it's not It's
not Disney by itself. I mean there is no uh,
there literally is no park that doesn't that refers to
their employees as employees.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Well, corporate here calls us all useless trash.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah, but they're more honest here. Yeah. No, what they do.
Even our union calls us artists, which is like beyond
comprehension with you. Yeah, and we are and uh, you've
heard this before. We are talent. That is the word
that is used to describe us.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
On the air.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
We are talent, not talented.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I can't get that up out of my mouth about myself.
I couldn't tell someone, Hey, I'm the talent.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Disney started calling them cast members in the sixties.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, this was Walt.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Disney instituted the change to reinforce the idea that theme
park was an immersive theatrical production.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
All right, So it was all right. So it happened
before that. It happened before Eisner. I thought it was Eisner.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
They did it, it was the man himself.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah, I always thought that it was Walt, the.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
One mustache person in the entire organization. Are they allowed
to have mustaches?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Now they have their beards? I think down too.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
The women and the other thing that was that total laughing.
The other thing that I find which I never understood
and today I still don't. Tattoos are so accepted that
when Amy was kind of enough to take me and
(28:54):
my daughter did disney Land and it was fabulous, it
was just fabulous, we had run into a few of
the employees. I'm talking about the guides, uh, these gals
and the plaid.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The cast members, I call them the plaid.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, their plates, tattoos on their arms straight out and
not covered, not covered.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
They used to have to wear sleeves to cover.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Them, to cover them. Amy has a Disney tattoo on
her back. It says, you have to be this toll
to ride this ride.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That's actually fun though, you know what, that's actually pretty good. Okay,
we're going to leave it at that point. Okay, oh really,
that's where we're going to leave it. No, No, let's
talk about No, let's let's talk about one of my
favorite stories. What happened?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
You want to do another? Okay, Idaho madam?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
By a rattler. Yea barely survives fifty four anti venom
doses and they were going through them.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
He made it, he made it.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
He got bit bless him.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Problem is he got bit right on his vein and
went right into his system. Oh that is not good.
You die very quick with that. But he didn't. He survived,
which is good and very luxury.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Like cleaning the place out. I don't think they had
any more Antae Benham left.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So the next person that came in, Yeah, it was
bit I just got back too bad.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
It looks it looks severe.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
All right, we're gonna come back Israel, Israel and the
plot to kill the president, and we'll return KF I
am six point forty you've been listening to the Bill
Handle Show.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
I remember the cough button. I don't see it anymore.
That would actually be a pause button in the cough
enable you to cough, so you don't have to turn
of the mic on or off. I never once used
the cough button because I was convinced there would be
metal fingers coming out from underneath the desks grabbing my
gonaz and saying turn left and cough. That's how they
(00:33):
used to test for hernias. By the way, little medical joke. Okay,
come and now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Good morning everybody. It is a Friday. It's a footy Friday,
July tenth, and we start. I like Fridays. First of all,
we have Neil, who is always here anyway, but it's
a foody Friday topic. So Neil prior to the Fok
Report on Saturday, we do a half hour and then
(01:09):
ask Handle anything. Will came in. We're sitting here in
the studio. Will came in and we talked about something
about him being heavy or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, I said, he was solid. I gave him a hub.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh that's it, that's right.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, it's right, solid, right, it's not he's not doweye.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, you said he was solid and I said, no,
he's fat. I feel the love I know you do.
And he said he has abs that where where do
you have? Is it Halloween and we're covering them up?
Is that what's happening?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
No, he's feel strong.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I felt safe in his.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Arms, Thank you, Neil. He's strong for a fat guy.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
He's not fat.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Okay, you're a.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Sad little man.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I am a sad little man. I'm not so little anymore.
You know. When I was fat, God, I love saying that.
But I would do all these events. You know, we
did a lot of personal events, personal appearances, and people
would come up to me and and what we talked about,
of course being heavy, said you me everybody that worked
(02:19):
on the show for the most part. And people would
come up and they didn't know what we'd look like
days before the internet where everybody looks, you know, knows
what you look like, and said, wow, I thought you
were short, short, short and fat igot.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I never said I was short tempered.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, but you know, people assume it's short and fat,
not big in fat. All right, enough of that. You
are huge, huge you You're huge.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Like Ken Champeau. He has that East Coast a little
bit of acted huge.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It was a bunch of human drama.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, all right, guys. Hello, hey, and there you are
here I am there you are. And there's a Neil Stirt.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Good morning, Neil, Good morning buddy, Happy Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It HAPs Friday. You and uh there's uh where there's Will.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
No.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Will is at the machine up down the hall at.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
The Yeah, he's ben pressing. He's bench pressing the copyright will.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Good morning again. Good morning Bill and Amy, I said,
good morning, coming in this morning. You did. I did
it so kind of you.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I was, and I feel so honored that you acknowledged me.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So you should.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He knows your name, that's well he didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
For the first ten years. So this is an accomplishment.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah. And con O Hello, No, I didn't say hello.
And you're also not putting that microphone on. Your microphone
is not on Cono of all the people, oh boy,
oh people, all the people in the world that don't
have their micro.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It's still not on. Is it broken?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It's just changed? Oh? There you go, Okay, there you go.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
The engineers were messing with the board.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Huh. And you're right, And I didn't. I don't know
people's names. It took it takes years for me to
figure out people's names.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
And you know you just called me in.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, I just well every.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah the problem that to Valentine. Uh yeah, from Valentine
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, I did that. Probably we came in at the
same time, Valani and it was he goes, hey Bill,
and I go, hey, champ.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Sport, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I yeah, I don't done. He goes, I'm Valentine. And
it was probably the fifteenth time that I finally oh, okay,
you're Valentine. I think it's early on set dementia. But
people are telling me that it's just I am not
mindful and I just don't care.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, I think that's it the last one. I don't
think you care.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I probably don't.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You hate everything about this show that isn't focused completely
on you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I hate everything about life that isn't focused on me.
It's what is life if it's not focused on a
person who lives it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
There's other people in this world that count, billions that count.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yes, No, no, all right, anyway, good morning to one,
Good morning to all.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I tell you who do count?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Listeners? Listeners count?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, and all the love you give them, I do
actually responding to their emails, and yeah, it's true listening
to the time.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
True. I get a lot of people because we've been
on the air. I've been on the air for so long,
and people that started with me are my age and hey, Bill,
I get this. I've been listening to you for thirty years.
I get that, and I just tell them shut up.
I don't want to hear it, but it's all. I've
been listening to you for thirty years. Okay, I've been
listening to you for thirty years, and I inevitably say,
(05:51):
you know, we've both gotten old together and you look
like utter crap.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And you wear it horribly. See kind of quality connection
with your audience.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Okay, are you guys ready to go? It is time
on a Friday for a handle on the news, Amy,
Neil and me late. Sorry, Well, that housing affordability bill
that the President sort of yanks. Remember they had passed
overwhelmingly in the Senate and the House, I mean overwhelmingly,
(06:25):
and it attempts to well make housing more affordable a
bunch of different ways, making it easier to borrow money
and reduce red tape across the country. And the President
was set to pass it or sign it because it
had been passed, and literally it went off the table,
(06:46):
and I mean off the table because it had been
on the table. He was signing it, and then he
changed his mind and said nah, and they took away
the lectern and took away the lighting. And he now says, nope,
I want that Save Act. The what is it? The lawyer,
not the lawyer, the voting the idea, Yeah, thank you,
(07:09):
that's what I meant to say, voter id And he
thinks that's the most important thing in the world. He
says that, and does anybody care? I mean, who think
about this? Who cares about voting restrictions? How does it
affect anybody other than okay, you can't you have to
send in your vote a week earlier. Okay, how does
(07:30):
that affect us in the meantime? How about housing? You
think that affects anybody? And he said, oh no, the
Save Act is far more important. The housing is no
big deal. So they passed it and he may veto it,
which I can't imagine he would. My god, the backlasher
would be incredible. So if it just sits there without
(07:54):
his signature, it becomes law for ten days. And if
he tries to veto it, let me put it this way,
eighty five to five in the Senate, three fifty eight
to thirty two in the House, that is well on
its way to make that bill veto proof. He could
veto it and there's enough in the House and send
it to override the veto. Very rarely does that happen.
(08:14):
But you can't even figure out the politics of this.
I have no idea why he would do that. Okay,
moving on.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Super soakers on the way, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration NOAH says there is now a ninety seven percent
chance and El Nino will either be strong or very
strong this fall. There's an eighty one percent chance it'll
be very strong. El Nino means there's going to be
(08:44):
a higher chance of above average rainfall for southern California,
and that increases the risk of wintertime flash floods and landslides.
Officials also warn that the climate pattern characterized by warmer
weather in the central and Eastern Ocean will also increase
the risk of heat waves on land and at sea.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Wait, we get in rain or is it going to
be hot?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yes, yeah, can be very strong. It's to both. I mean,
it's just a climate is all screwed up by the
way El Nino. Isn't that your nephew? Also?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
How dare you?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You racist?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Actually it is.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I know it is. But it's a small ones. It's
just the tiniest little small It's very big. That phrase
is very big in the dwarf community. It's okay, hanging
it out with dwarfs. Yeah, the Mexican dwarf community and
dwarf community dwarf.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Okay, what a scene man. So they're in Boil Heights.
We all know about the fire that has a butt
ton of this food and stench, eighty five million pounds
of food thowed, burned, spoiled, terrible smell, rats, and tensions
there in Boil Heights reached an intense level. Just yet,
(10:00):
yesterday a residence showed up to a packed house. More
than two hundred people were turned away at the door
because the venue reached capacity. Of course, Los Angeles Mayor
Karen Bass struggled even to start the meeting over the
loud booze yelling of community members, actions that were repeated
(10:21):
as other elected officials took to the microphone. A chorus
of liar was shouted out at her. Booze were shouted
because of the the lineage warehouse fire and how they
were just frustrated.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And what could be done? What are they doing? You
got what I understand, but I don't know what they
are not doing? Are they being slow on it? Is
there negligence?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Nothing we've been done that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I don't know. I don't know what they could do.
They bring in the bulldozers?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Do they whatever it takes?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Well, I mean there's and I'm just questioning this because
I don't know. We don't know enough about it. But
what could they do that they are not doing? I
guess destroy the building, but then you have the debris
and I don't know the answer, but.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You gotta do something, So why not do it now?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So do something now? But what if you don't know what?
I don't know. What's something?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Got to be a money thing or something where they're going?
But it's like no, no, I can't just leave a
pile of.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Round And are they leaving it?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Just aren't they have something go into the palisades fire
and eating fire and start assessing the ground and everything else. Initially, yes,
but it wasn't rotting food.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It wasn't. It's it's I.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Think, where does rotting food go?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Now? It goes to rot, that goes to where we
take rot. It goes to the big rotting place in
the sky.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You want to go over there and see anything, If
anything is good as left, you and me probably could
clear out of that.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Don't even think about it. Huntington Beach Police are warning
online organizers and promoters who are trying to put together
an end of summer beach bash or a takeover. They
said that they do not want to see a repeat
of Newport Beaches fourth of July, in which over four
(12:17):
hundred people were arrested. They were chasing people off the
beach with horses. The crowd looted a pavilions, got into
people's houses, and generally caused mayhem. So Huntington Beach says, yeah,
don't even think about it.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And Huntington Beach Police are no joke. They proudly wear
those swastika tattoos. Oh they're pretty conservative. I wouldn't tell you.
It's a very right wing little community. The last place
I'd go ransacking someone's homes in Orange County. Flag equals
gun inside pretty much today, pretty much, all right?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Iran. Iran hatched a fresh plot, apparently to kill Trump.
This is what Isla is telling Trump. You gotta wonder
if you wanted to get under Trump's skin, that's what
you tell.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I would go the other way on that. I would
go the other way if there weren't threats against Trump.
He would say, why why aren't people threatening my life?
You know, come on, there's a true narcissism.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Why are they threatening other people not me?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I'm doing this at seven o'clock, by the way, because
there's a there's a whole story here.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
So yeah, this is just is reel sharing intelligence for
the US.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And why and is it true? Is it not?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Well? Did you see some of the signs they were
showing on the news where they have killed Trump on
the signs and a bullet going through the name Trump?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, but that was is that local? Or is that yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But they were showing it on the news here. I mean, that's.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Forward. And Trump is delighted because instead of just death
to America. It's death to Trump. Trump said, it's about
time you recognize.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
That it was realteresting. It's always well, I'm sure Bush
bush Is and the like had their face on science.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
A little late for regrets. Maybe The twenty three year
old who's accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk apparently
told his roommate about it shortly after the shooting. He
said he wished he hadn't done it. The video interview
of the roommate was played in a courtroom in Utah yesterday.
(14:31):
Prosecutors presented the recording as key evidence in a week
long preliminary evidentiary hearing, and the judge is expected to
decide by the end of today whether there's enough evidence
to take the case to trial.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I have I don't know the last time I've heard
of a preliminary hearing like this. It's enough just you
have the smallest, tiniest bit of evidence and the judge
binds it over for trying.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well, they just did this with the David thing too,
though they had They've got all these pre trial things.
Now they're going to do evidentiary hearings to decide and
all that.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It's well, if you're doing evidence your hearing at this point,
and the only thing that makes sense is that these
motions are decided now by the judges, opposed to being
decided prior to the trial. But other than that, of
course he's going to be bound I hate. What I
dislike is the new saying, well, we're going to see
if it's going to be bound over for trial. It is.
(15:31):
The chances of going through preliminary hearing and not being
bound over one in one thousand. Anyway, quick tip matches.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Matches. What else? Flint rock? There's a lot of ways
to start a fire. Yeah, if you've ever taken any
mountain training, Well, this man must not have known that.
A man from Indiana charged with a felony after he
was accused of cutting off his own genitals and using
them to start a fire. I don't.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I didn't know those were incendiary devices either.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Little grenades. I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I mean, so this took back took place back in May,
and he was charged with arts and after he said
he cut off his own penis, doused it with gasoline
and lit it on fire.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And the police did show up.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, they thought it was a barbecue.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yea, And the police showed up, and he did say
when they walked in past the.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Dijon, what's it? Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Very strong, very strong?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Oh man, you know what this this freaking fascist country
we live in. It's gotten to the place where you
can't burn your own penis.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I are, you know, without getting arrested.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
What's next? No fireworks? On the fourth of July. Nazi goal.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I love saying that that's.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
The whitest goal I've ever heard.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Do you remember Heather Jordan who used to be an
anchor here?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah, I love she.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
She has been doing stuff with the LAFC. She is
the stadium announcer in Dallas for World Cup. Wow, And
so the other day when they were playing, I could
hear her saying, go, it was very cool.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I wish here women's stadium announcers. What bell? What the
hell happened? I mean life?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
They drive now too, Bill, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We love to job well. And yeah, the voting I
can see just barely. But other than that, I don't get.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
It all right. Killian Mbappe spread his arms out wide
and spun around after scoring his eighth goal of this
year's World Cup. That means that he has twenty goals
in his World Cup career. It came in his twentieth
match at the tournament, which moves him just one behind
Argentinian legend Lionel Messi.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Soccer is in its heydays. I mean, yep, it's neat
that the United States has lost. Well, yeah, I mean
I was a given in the United States is a
lot I would lose because it's just not a world
power when it comes to soccer. But how we've accepted soccer.
It was the poor stepsister of sports and now s
it's become a thing and a big thing, which is
(18:30):
kind of neat.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yep, big thing. And there's the last match at so
Far is today at noon.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, and the I wonder what the tickets are for
the World champion, you know, the cup winner. We haven't
been for the.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Final, yeah, on the nineteenth or whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, I'm wondering how much they're going for.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Well, it's some of them at so Fire going for
like seventeen eighteen, nineteen thousand, nineteen thousand. Ye, the cheap
seats are going for eleven hundred.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, I'm assuming this is secondary market, right, yeah? Is
anybody even able to get face value on these games.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Well, I'm guessing that they sold out, didn't they.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Oh, of course, although the hotels are saying they didn't,
and that's another story.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Well, no, that got flipped. If you remember we talked
about this early on, the hotels were not getting a
response that they thought they were going to and they
were very concerned early on. However, last minute people came through.
So last minute they started booking rooms. And so it's end.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Up still not to the level. I mean some are
reporting that they did that they're doing worse than a
normal summer.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
All the prices have dropped. See so you can get
almost well you're in the lower bowl for sixty six dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
So as the last tournament game in Los Angeles is
on Friday, hotels are uh popular now with soccer fans,
and they're full and they're charging higher rates actually, so
they're still you know, it's not hitting everyone, but the
ones that have been taken care of say that it's
there being saved by this last minute rush. So people
(20:19):
are going in there, which is good. They need they
need help. I think we're gonna have a resurgence of
hotels again. I think that it's getting so expensive to
do Airbnb or Verbo or anything, and you have to
jump through a lot of hoops and you don't get
somebody cleaning the rooms and doing stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I do love having my room clean.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I love a good hotel now. I love an Airbnb too.
You know, you get a pool and you do all
that stuff. But there's something about room service and being
close to you know, some of these places. Palm Springs
is lovely to go to. Maybe not so lovely right now,
but things like that. You go out to Marongo and
the weather's great, and they've got the they've got the
(21:02):
lazy river.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I like a lazy now. Is it because you're lazy?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah? And I like rivers.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I would just float by and people would try and
use me as a flotation to mind because you look
like a yeah, this will fit for honey, bring the kids.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Warner Brothers is going to be the home base for
the LA Olympics, the Warner Brothers Ranch in Burbank. It's
going to be the broadcast headquarters. They made the announcement
yesterday that the thirty acre Hollywood Way campus would play
a pivotal role in the games, constructing an efficient TV
nerve center the operational hub where feeds from events are
(21:41):
produced and distributed to hundreds of millions of viewers around
the world.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I am assuming that this is about offering broadcasting an
office space to various outlets around the world that the
Olympic Committee says, here is where you can about, This
is where your reporters can be, This is where your
central control is going to be.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Makes sense.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah, and we have all the equipment, we have all
the lines, everything's ready to go. I'm assuming that that's
the case.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
That's right. Just that's right down the street from here.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
It's got sixteen down stages, a five story creative office building.
So yeah, it's got everything that they need.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, except all the really cool original sets that had
torn down recently. All right, quickly eviction averted. You know,
there's these formerly homeless people who are being housed with subsidies.
In light that we're supposed to expire in December, we're
(22:40):
no longer at risk because there's been an infusion of
new funds by Congress.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I misunderstand the funding was expiring or the people were
going to expire the way.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You said that. No, if the people were going to expire,
then this wouldn't be an issue.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That's correct, But then you have the same situation you
have at that food center because you have the rotting smell,
and it would be very.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Very differently on the house and the unlive. No, so
they they're that waiver has changed things. Now they've got
the money.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, and it's federal and it's federal money that came in,
which is surprising.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And they all have to wear Trump shirt.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
That's where they get you. There's the rough.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, because I thought, and this is last minute money
coming in because they had already said you're going to
be evicted. They sent out thousands of hey, you're going
to be evicted notices.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Okay, well, the cupboards are almost bare at LAUSD. County
analysts say the district is facing severe indications it will
be insolvent by November of twenty twenty seven, that it
will fall two hundred and thirty one million dollars into
the red and won't be able to make payroll. The
(23:55):
county has appointed a fiscal expert to work with the
district to eliminate the projected deficit. They've got forty five
days to find a way to fix it. LA School
Superintendent Andres Chape suggested there's no need for alarm.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Of course not. And LA Unified still has the same
problems that always had that's never been able to attain,
and that is producing literate graduates.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
They need to break a cycle. There's something going on
that just it's too big.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
It's too big, and it's too management heavy, and it's
it's it'll not even do it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
They're better than we are.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, And I don't know, maybe they don't have as
much management.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
All right, this is a bummer, and you should know
better as federal agents. But the federal agents that were
caught up in that shooting in Houston, they didn't have
body cameras. In this modern age with specially when you're
under the microscope and people don't trust you as an
(25:04):
organization or any of those things. How can you go
out without body cams.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Especially federal agents. Now you can't argue, we can't afford it.
They are literally drowning in money. So signed Trump administration
is doing for immigration makes it even worse. And it's
their usual line. It was the driver weaponized his car
and I mean all of that, and you know it's
(25:31):
just not going to fly.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times.
We all hear those warnings, but apparently another person has
decided to ignore that. For the second time in less
than a month, a guest at Disneyland has climbed out
of the log ride boat on Tiana's By You Adventure,
that one that used to be Splash Mountain. The latest
one happened on July fourth. I was there, didn't see it.
(25:58):
A cast members the ride. They watched the rides on
closed circuit TV and noticed a child climb out of
the boat. The cast member stopped the ride. Now, if
you'll remember, back on June twenty first, a thirteen year
old climbed out of the boat just before it did
the big drop at the end of the ride. And
then that child went down the drop without a boat.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Have you noticed and you just literally it was just
a description that Okay, it's a given a guest at
Disneyland and a cast member. By the way, it's not
just Disney, It's it's corporations across the country. For example,
you are a guest at Target. Huh Sales Associates. I
(26:43):
how is a janitor part of a cast?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
They are because they're all part of the show. If
you can see them, they're part of the show.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I don't no interact with them, Yeah you are, No,
because they're not. They're not acting as janitors. They really
are are Janet. That's not that job is not the
acting part. The acting part is being nice to people
like you. Oh yeah, I don't understand that. And I
just wondered where that when it become became that it's
(27:14):
always been ketch No, I don't know, it has not
for what it has not. I think Michael Eisner put
in the concept of cast member.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
But but everybody does it. You know, it's not It's
not Disney by itself. I mean there is no uh,
there literally is no park that doesn't that refers to
their employees as employees.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Well, corporate here calls us all useless trash.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah, but they're more honest here. Yeah. No, what they do.
Even our union calls us artists, which is like beyond
comprehension with you. Yeah, and we are and uh, you've
heard this before. We are talent. That is the word
that is used to describe us.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
On the air.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
We are talent, not talented.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I can't get that up out of my mouth about myself.
I couldn't tell someone, Hey, I'm the talent.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Disney started calling them cast members in the sixties.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, this was Walt.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Disney instituted the change to reinforce the idea that theme
park was an immersive theatrical production.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
All right, So it was all right. So it happened
before that. It happened before Eisner. I thought it was Eisner.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
They did it, it was the man himself.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah, I always thought that it was Walt, the.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
One mustache person in the entire organization. Are they allowed
to have mustaches?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Now they have their beards? I think down too.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
The women and the other thing that was that total laughing.
The other thing that I find which I never understood
and today I still don't. Tattoos are so accepted that
when Amy was kind of enough to take me and
(28:54):
my daughter did disney Land and it was fabulous, it
was just fabulous, we had run into a few of
the employees. I'm talking about the guides, uh, these gals
and the plaid.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The cast members, I call them the plaid.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, their plates, tattoos on their arms straight out and
not covered, not covered.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
They used to have to wear sleeves to cover.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Them, to cover them. Amy has a Disney tattoo on
her back. It says, you have to be this toll
to ride this ride.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That's actually fun though, you know what, that's actually pretty good. Okay,
we're going to leave it at that point. Okay, oh really,
that's where we're going to leave it. No, No, let's
talk about No, let's let's talk about one of my
favorite stories. What happened?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
You want to do another? Okay, Idaho madam?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
By a rattler. Yea barely survives fifty four anti venom
doses and they were going through them.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
He made it, he made it.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
He got bit bless him.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Problem is he got bit right on his vein and
went right into his system. Oh that is not good.
You die very quick with that. But he didn't. He survived,
which is good and very luxury.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Like cleaning the place out. I don't think they had
any more Antae Benham left.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So the next person that came in, Yeah, it was
bit I just got back too bad.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
It looks it looks severe.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
All right, we're gonna come back Israel, Israel and the
plot to kill the president, and we'll return KF I
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