July 14, 2026 • 26 mins
(July 14, 2026)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra joins Bill for Handel on the News. U.S to take over Strait of Hormuz, charge 20% fee for cargo shipped through, President Trump says. States sue to block Paramount’s deal for Warner Bros. Lindsey Graham’s sister appointed to finish his Senate term.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The only time I am not in favor of license
plate readers, and this one really gets my eyre up
is those license plate readers that read your license at
toll booths. I hate those. Those should be illegal going
through toll booths, those toll roods where they read your
license plate. And if you don't pay, or you don't
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have a prepaid card.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You're screwed.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You're a man of ethics in standup complete hypocrisy, and
now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It is a Tuesday morning, July fourteenth, morning, everybody, and
we start another day.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The heat wave. I looked up this morning. You didn't
go outside? Amy is the heat? Has the heat arrived?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
It has not arrived yet. We are under a heat
advisory until ten am, and then we do have an
extreme heat warning that starts at ten And it's going
to be hot and muggy today.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay, and so we well, the East Coast is getting
crazy New York one hundred degrees and humid. And that's
the other fun thing about the East Coast when it
is hot as hell and Let's not forget the humidity.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh it's great. It brings out all the urine smell.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, and let's not forget the bugs the size of
your fist that come out and fly around.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Just wonderful. This is when you want to move.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That's why I can't stand the Rose Parade. Every year,
the Rose Parade is broadcast and is broadcast throughout the country,
probably throughout the world.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And it's here. We are seventy two degrees.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Mostly during the Rose Parade, and people in upstate New
York January first are freezing.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's twelve below zero. There's snow up to the eaves
of the house.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And how many people decide, Okay, we're moving to southern
California enough.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Already, didn't They used to call that the greatest commercial
for southern California.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh yeah, it's just it is just got off.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It rained on the parade last year.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You rain on the parade every day.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Wow, Okay, I was okay, we started, see we started?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Where are we?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Six oh seven? Congratulations, the show is on its way.
Good morning Neil, good morning, Good morning Amy, Good morning
to you, Hi, Hi, Will Coleschreiber.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Good morning, Bill Handle, thank you and Cono. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It's National Dude today.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
By the way, I'm sorry nude Day National Well, okay,
I didn't celebrate well, summertime, it's not incredibly hot, so
I still am wearing my shorts this morning when it
is incredibly hot.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I come in here, Commando and the breeze blows. It's
really nice.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
He gets up and it looks like an image of
Popeye on.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I don't get that. If that went right past.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Me, Neil Well, I had to switch because I was
originally going to say Peter Griffin, but I knew you
wouldn't get that one, so I switched to Popeye.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But also true, he didn't get either of those.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And lastly, and certainly possibly maybe sort of leasely, there's Anne.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Anne's not even saying a word nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
She was just about to go topless for this show
and you've ruined it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Bill doing my part and nothing, nothing from you. I'll
tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
The only person on the show that is that we
I would appreciate going top it's really topless is Michelle Michelle.
As you know, believe me, we've talked about this before.
Michelle has gone public with this. I'm not shaming her.
Michelle is Michelle, all right, And when she was on
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the show for twenty five years as the producer, that
often came up, and she herself would in fact noted,
and you're know how we have promo pictures.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
We don't anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I mean, there used to be when everybody on the
show had promo pictures. Neil remember those days? Oh yeah, yeah, well,
of course those days are gone. And with Michelle, everybody
had their picture and it would say mornings KFI AM
six forty and the Times. And for Michelle, all we
had was a photo of the Grand Teton Mountains and
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she would sign.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Them the photos.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, she was not the Grand Teetons themselves, No, no, Yeah,
Michelle has been blessed with very large winnebagos and she's
very and she is very proud of that.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know, she once flashed at an Able Angels game
and got thrown out immediately.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well it covered. She was pretty she.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Was pretty drunk.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, enough of that, all right, right, a little bit
of inside base ooh, inside baseball at an Angel's game. O. Hmmm,
very strong and sound like Amy. Now, no, Amy does
these great openings. I love these puns and statements. Amy,
you're very very good at those when you do a
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story on the news. Matter of fact, why don't we
do stories on the news. It is time for a
handle on the news with Amy, Neil and me. Late
story tell Straight of Horror Moves has gotten a little
bit straighter.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
The President says that the US will become guardian of
the it's going to be under our control. And the
way we're going to pay for the control, which of
course has to be militarily, is the US will charge
a rate of twenty percent on all cargo shipped and
reimbursed at that rate. I don't know quite how they
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get twenty percent. Maybe it is the price of oil
on the day that the Strait of hor Moves is
passed or is used by these cargo ships, and certainly
oil will be that you can charge because it's the
value at that day in charge twenty percent. So you've
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got two million barrels of oil typically on one of
these giant tankers, and I saw a news story yesterday
that would be thirty four million dollars per tanker. Now
what I don't know, other than oil, how do they
determine twenty percent of the value of a cargo.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well, you know, widgets, the price of widgets. I know
people are just gonna say that one's empty. By the way, Bill,
as a fellow punster, you missed a great opportunity at
that headline. The world is not gay about the Strait
of Horror moves.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Oh, very strong, that's true.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And don't look at me, don't you dare? Yeah, yeah,
you're saying.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And so the United States that Pete Hexeth and others
have said we control the Strait of Horror moves. Well,
Iran just said we're stopping yet. That's it. We're closing
it down. But wait a minute, we the United States
controls it. Nope, how about that? And Iran can and
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does close it. It is closed right now. I mean,
the war is heating up, and price of oil has
spiked ten percent yesterday because of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
All right, one more and then we'll take a break.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Uh. Several states say they're trying to save the Industryttorney
General Rob Bonte is leading twelve states, including California, New York, Washington,
with a lawsuit to block Paramounts one hundred eleven billion
dollar merger with Warner Brothers Discovery. The lawsuit says the
deal would hurt movie theaters. It would damage the competitive
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market for distributing movies, including blockbusters that bring in a
lot of money and a lot of money for the studios.
The lawsuit also claims the deal would give the combined
company anti competitive power over the market for distributing basic
TV channels like CNN. They say in the lawsuit the
merger will end competition permanently.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now I'm going to do this story coming up at
seven o'clock, but my favorite response is a paramount saying
buy us buying the Warner Discovery. That's going to increase competition.
They actually said that taking a company in burging it
with another company is could for competition.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Explain that one to me, would you please?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
All Right? Lindsey Graham, as we know, passed away and
his sister has been appointed to finish his Senate terms,
So Darlene Graham Nordowne will finish out his Senate term
after the death of mister Graham this past Saturday. She
accepted the appointment, saying that it would be a privilege
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to get to finish some of her brother's work over
the next several months.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Which is not undifficult. She's a placeholder.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The election happens, well, the general in November, there'll be
a snap election to see who is going to be
the Republican nominee. And so it makes sense. And as
we know, he died of a ruptured or a terror
in his a order because of high blood pressure sure
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and some other cardiovascular disease which occasionally happens. And when
you're a ortigos boy, that tappens pretty quickly, say the least.
I love the fact that cash Mattel is ordering the
FBI to investigate. And my question is, how do the
Democrats cause a ordered tear?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Can't wait for that one, can you?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I could do it how I'll punch you right in
the heart.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I don't think that it doesn't cause any or tear.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The way I do it, it does, right, I mean
it'll it'll stop your heart. I'm going to knock that
pig valve right out of your mouth.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
That you can do. But the old day or the tear, you.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Know, Russians know how to do it. They can do anything. Yes,
stick you with the tip of an umbrella in your toes.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's true. With uh, what is it racing? Is that?
What it's called.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, okay, Pete's trying to plug those leaks. The Department
of Defense and the Justice Department have created a joint
task force to identify and prosecute individuals who are sharing
sensitive information with the media. Defense Secretary Pete Haegsas says
the new task force will help the Pentagon investigate leaks
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more quickly and thoroughly, and anyone who improperly shares that
confidential to classified information, as he put it, will be
met with the full force of the law. He said,
leaked information risks.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Lives already on the books. It is a crime to
leak information.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
That still happens.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh, it'll always happen, of course.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I mean they're trying to get more, trying to figure
out how to strengthen the security. The big thing is
the investigation of Air Force one and how the President
had to fly back from Europe on the old Air
Force one and somehow when that leaked, that became a
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national security issue. Maybe it does say that the new
Air Force one doesn't have the security features. Yeah, I
guess you could argue that anyway.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Oh good luck.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
By the way, when they hauled the reporters in, where
did you get your information.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh, that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Back to court. President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the IRS
over his leaked tax returns was filed for an improper purpose.
I'll have to explain that it, judge said Monday, as
she referred one of his lawyers for potential disciplinary action
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and characterized the ten billion dollar complaint as an exercise
in self dealing. So the judge did stop short explicitly
avoiding the deal shielding Trump from tax scrutiny, but said
that the government government cannot claim in official proceedings that
the agreement was the result of a legitimate legal process.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
A couple of things about that lawful. This is a
lower judge and district court judge, so of course it's
going to be appealed. Second of all, the judge said,
wait a minute. You file a lawsuit. You are the president.
You file a lawsuit against the IRS, of which you control,
and the deal is cut which the IRS does not
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argue the other side at all. Sure will give you
what you demand. That you and your family or your
businesses cannot be audited at all up to now. And
I don't know if the ten billion dollars was that
all they walk away from that amy already. And then
this fund, of course, the one point seven to six
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billion dollar fund.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
They've walked away from that fund, the one point seven
to seven six billion dollar fund. And they said, fine,
we're not going to try to reimburse.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
People, okay, And how about that ten billion dollars to
pay the president?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Is that's still up in the air.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Well, that was the complaint. He was suing for that,
and they settled it.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
No, I understand did they settle it for the ten
billion dollars or is is it just the one point
eight billion dollars that was removed and is the only
thing left the non prosecution settlement? And you can't you
can't settle with yourself. That's what the that's what the
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court said.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
One of the rules of the court.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You have to have a legitimate adversarial relationship. You can't
have both people walk into court and sue and have
everybody agree.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
That's called a settlement, right.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
So the settlement was that he dropped the ten billion
dollar lawsuit in exchange for the one point seven seven
six billion dollar fund and the tax protections.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, I was completing them. That's that's correct. And the
court said you can't do that. You sue yourself. You
agree to this fund with yourself, and it's no, Yeah,
you can't do that. Wouldn't it be great if you
control the irs and you sue, and then the ir
S says, I'll tell you what, we'll settle that we're
never gonna we're never gonna audit you, but we'll let
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you take money out of the federal federal coffers. But
you're the president, you control that money exactly. So the
court said, well, who didn't think this was self dealing?
Of course it was self dealing.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
On its face. I mean, they din'tven pretend it was
the self dealing.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
And of course the government said okay, because Trump said
okay to his demand.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
All right.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
May have been mistaken identity, but an Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agent in Maine has shot and killed a man
in his car on Monday. The Department of Homeland Security
said that the man was in the country illegally and
attempted to flee the scene when an ICE agent tried
to stop him in Biddeford, Maine, early yesterday morning. They
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said that he was shot because the officer feared for
public safety.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, that he had weaponized his car, which I'm assuming
is he was trying to run over people. And at
first the statement was that he was the target of
the chase or target of the operation, and then they
came back twelve hours later and said no, no, he
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wasn't the target. I think ICE is going to be
in a lot of trouble on this. Amy have we
and no body camps?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
No, they did not have body camps. And it turns
out that the man killed was a Colombian man who
was here legally. They were going after somebody that they
said had the last known address of an illegal alien
with a final order for removal, so they might have
just after the wrong person.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, I think that's a given.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Now the question is taking the car and weaponizing Yet
was he trying to run over people? Was he targeting
ICE agents or someone else? And I wish we don't.
I haven't seen video of it yet.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Encounter ConA just said in my ear that there is
video footage from a security camera camera somewhere in the
vicinity apparently, but I've not seen it either.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So we're going to see.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
We're going to see if remember the two the two
incidents that happened, one with that woman and I think
it was Minneapolis and one with that man who was shot,
and they came out and talked about weaponization and he
pulled out a gun and he had a gun, but
he never pulled it out, and he was just it's crazy.
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Ice is not doing themselves any favor. This used to
be a strong point for the President Ice. Now it
has gone the other way.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah. It's strange. Thing is Mexico came out and was
pissed and now he's Colombian. So does Mexico just stand
down at this point? No?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I think there they continue to be angry.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Ah, the Texas guy got it. Thanks Conna. All right,
this is disgusting if true. Pasadena Luxury Hotel Corporation, Langham
Hotels Pacific. Oh yeah, this is serious, upper crust hotel lovely.
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But they're being accused. Oh well, I guess they're guilty
at this point. If they've got to.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Pay, they've settled. They did not admit guilty, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Okay, yeah, they never admit guilt.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Ever, for three hundred and twenty thousand dollars, they settled
the lawsuit alleging unfairly raised prices on guests in the
wake of the Eaton fire last year. Now, the company
didn't admit any wrongdoing here about that settlement, as Bill
and Amy said, But we do have a law here
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in California says you can't add more than ten percent
from your normal posted rates during any sort of natural disaster.
This could be for water, this could be for a hotel,
this could be for anything. And they said ahead, they
did it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
A quick word about not admitting guilt. They have to
not admit guilt because once they admit guilt, then anybody
suing them outside of the government.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Let's say you have.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
An individual who alleges that he or she was overcharged.
You have the organization say, yeah, we're guilty of it.
Cases over it's done now with just how much money.
So you can see how they can't admit guilt because
it's over for them with any lawsuit because the first
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thing you put on the stands an executive for Langham,
didn't you admit that you did this?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
How do you have any argument against that. That's why
they don't. That's why they don't admit to wrongdoing.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I'm okay trying to find out how much they are Yeah,
how much you have increased rates? Because ten percent that threshold.
But I mean, did they raise rates by fifty percent?
Like we just had a guy convicted for raising rental
forty percent after the fires.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Now people stay at the Langham depending on that. People
have a lot of money who stay at the Langham.
It is a very pricey hotel. There's a Langham in London,
for example, where it's one thousand dollars a night, So
it's you know, people have that kind of money.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Do they care?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I don't know. I don't stay at a thousand dollars
a night hotel rooms.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
I had some shaking near the San Andreas Vault. Back
to back earthquakes rumbled north of La Two of California's
most significant faults were shaking, including the San Andreas. A
magnitude four point one hit at three point thirty eight
a m. Sunday, just outside Fraser Park that's near the Grapevine.
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Then a magnitude four point three hit at nine forty
a m. Yesterday. The epicenter was in the Mahabby Desert.
Weak shaking was felt as far away as Los Angeles,
Victorville and Santa Claritas, and Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys.
The Fraser earthquake, according to the USGS, was probably on
the San Andres.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We're so due for a major quake here in southward
California along the Sandreas Fall. This is the teutonic plates
that meet, and when they sort of slipped past each other,
there comes the earthquake.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And it ain't fun.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We've had some good ones and we're gonna Yeah, we're
way overdue for the big one.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
How come I've been hearing this since I was in
grade school because it's.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Still way overdue geologically. It's just a moment in time.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That's profound.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, that is profound.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
So is Angel's gas. That's all right, all right, thank
you for So people are betting against Trump, at least
the market is Oil surges most since twenty twenty, but
they're looking at the US government stockpile of crude has
been drawn down to its lowest level since nineteen eighty three,
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and this renewed fight fighting with Trump and the strait
of hormuse has pushed crude futures up. So people are
looking obviously in the future of what's going on and
this fight going on with Trump's announcement that he is
reimposing the US blockade in Iranian of Iranian ships and
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all of that, and saying he's going to bob the
hell out of him obviously makes people nervous and the
price go up.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
That's what happens. The United States is saying the Straight
of Horror moves, we control it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Iran says Straight of America, Bill, Straight of America.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, the Straight of America. Whether straight of it's the
Trump job in mind, that's straight up the Trumps, that's true.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
And so we're the war is happening.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Well, you see, and the SATs are not getting back together.
University of California Admissions board has voted to rescind efforts
to reconsider whether to resume SAT and Act requirements for admissions.
Remember they pulled him a few years ago, I think
it was during the pandemic. But on a meeting or
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at a meeting on Friday, the board said no, let's
let's not reconsider that right now, and then all of
the links on their website explaining what they were planning
to do disappeared.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And why is this so controversial? Because the argument is
the SAT and the.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Written and the.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Multiple choice is skewed against people of color, and.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Do you know they it doesn't say.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It doesn't say when I took the when I took
the bar, exactly the same argument because a number of
African Americans who passed the bar was minuscule. Number of
people who took the bar was miniscule, and the argument
was to rewrite the bar that lasted thirty seconds where
the bar folks the state bar said no, you're dreaming,
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We're not going to do that. And I think you're
saying the same thing, except the UC system is caving
and I don't know. I have no idea how the
bar can be rewritten in terms of viewing it as
one color or another, or poor people have a rougher
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time with the bar.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, poor people have a rougher.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Time with any academic endeavor because they don't have tutors,
because they don't get the same education, because inner city
schools aren't as good that they don't test as well.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So you know, you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Can't even out the playing field without going communists, which
everybody gets the same education, everybody makes the same money.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
The state owns everything, and you work for the state.
What about beneficial reparations? How come everybody always goes straight
to money. Why not education? Why not free education? Well,
there's an argument there too. It's a huge argument. I
think I think that should have been a no brain
brain or bring it up. If you've been pushed behind,
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then push.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
For Now let me ask you case still.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Do you still believe that people of minority are pushed
behind in education?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Uh? And uh the let's say the work the work world.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I'm gonna I would argue, it's the other way to
even it out that's been going on. All right, let's
go ahead and finish it up. The paramount deal we're
going to talk about. It's the biggest deal that ever
was in the world of the deals that worked. Eh,
maybe it was, Yeah, we is. We is the biggest
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deal that ever was. We'll be back kf I A
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
The only time I am not in favor of license
plate readers, and this one really gets my eyre up
is those license plate readers that read your license at
toll booths. I hate those. Those should be illegal going
through toll booths, those toll roods where they read your
license plate. And if you don't pay, or you don't
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have a prepaid card.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You're screwed.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
You're a man of ethics in standup complete hypocrisy, and
now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It is a Tuesday morning, July fourteenth, morning, everybody, and
we start another day.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The heat wave. I looked up this morning. You didn't
go outside? Amy is the heat? Has the heat arrived?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
It has not arrived yet. We are under a heat
advisory until ten am, and then we do have an
extreme heat warning that starts at ten And it's going
to be hot and muggy today.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay, and so we well, the East Coast is getting
crazy New York one hundred degrees and humid. And that's
the other fun thing about the East Coast when it
is hot as hell and Let's not forget the humidity.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh it's great. It brings out all the urine smell.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, and let's not forget the bugs the size of
your fist that come out and fly around.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Just wonderful. This is when you want to move.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That's why I can't stand the Rose Parade. Every year,
the Rose Parade is broadcast and is broadcast throughout the country,
probably throughout the world.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And it's here. We are seventy two degrees.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Mostly during the Rose Parade, and people in upstate New
York January first are freezing.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's twelve below zero. There's snow up to the eaves
of the house.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And how many people decide, Okay, we're moving to southern
California enough.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Already, didn't They used to call that the greatest commercial
for southern California.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh yeah, it's just it is just got off.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It rained on the parade last year.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You rain on the parade every day.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Wow, Okay, I was okay, we started, see we started?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Where are we?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Six oh seven? Congratulations, the show is on its way.
Good morning Neil, good morning, Good morning Amy, Good morning
to you, Hi, Hi, Will Coleschreiber.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Good morning, Bill Handle, thank you and Cono. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It's National Dude today.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
By the way, I'm sorry nude Day National Well, okay,
I didn't celebrate well, summertime, it's not incredibly hot, so
I still am wearing my shorts this morning when it
is incredibly hot.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I come in here, Commando and the breeze blows. It's
really nice.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
He gets up and it looks like an image of
Popeye on.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I don't get that. If that went right past.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Me, Neil Well, I had to switch because I was
originally going to say Peter Griffin, but I knew you
wouldn't get that one, so I switched to Popeye.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But also true, he didn't get either of those.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And lastly, and certainly possibly maybe sort of leasely, there's Anne.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Anne's not even saying a word nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
She was just about to go topless for this show
and you've ruined it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Bill doing my part and nothing, nothing from you. I'll
tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
The only person on the show that is that we
I would appreciate going top it's really topless is Michelle Michelle.
As you know, believe me, we've talked about this before.
Michelle has gone public with this. I'm not shaming her.
Michelle is Michelle, all right, And when she was on
(04:16):
the show for twenty five years as the producer, that
often came up, and she herself would in fact noted,
and you're know how we have promo pictures.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
We don't anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I mean, there used to be when everybody on the
show had promo pictures. Neil remember those days? Oh yeah, yeah, well,
of course those days are gone. And with Michelle, everybody
had their picture and it would say mornings KFI AM
six forty and the Times. And for Michelle, all we
had was a photo of the Grand Teton Mountains and
(04:49):
she would sign.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Them the photos.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, she was not the Grand Teetons themselves, No, no, Yeah,
Michelle has been blessed with very large winnebagos and she's
very and she is very proud of that.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know, she once flashed at an Able Angels game
and got thrown out immediately.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well it covered. She was pretty she.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Was pretty drunk.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, enough of that, all right, right, a little bit
of inside base ooh, inside baseball at an Angel's game. O. Hmmm,
very strong and sound like Amy. Now, no, Amy does
these great openings. I love these puns and statements. Amy,
you're very very good at those when you do a
(05:38):
story on the news. Matter of fact, why don't we
do stories on the news. It is time for a
handle on the news with Amy, Neil and me. Late
story tell Straight of Horror Moves has gotten a little
bit straighter.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
The President says that the US will become guardian of
the it's going to be under our control. And the
way we're going to pay for the control, which of
course has to be militarily, is the US will charge
a rate of twenty percent on all cargo shipped and
reimbursed at that rate. I don't know quite how they
(06:18):
get twenty percent. Maybe it is the price of oil
on the day that the Strait of hor Moves is
passed or is used by these cargo ships, and certainly
oil will be that you can charge because it's the
value at that day in charge twenty percent. So you've
(06:39):
got two million barrels of oil typically on one of
these giant tankers, and I saw a news story yesterday
that would be thirty four million dollars per tanker. Now
what I don't know, other than oil, how do they
determine twenty percent of the value of a cargo.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Well, you know, widgets, the price of widgets. I know
people are just gonna say that one's empty. By the way, Bill,
as a fellow punster, you missed a great opportunity at
that headline. The world is not gay about the Strait
of Horror moves.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Oh, very strong, that's true.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And don't look at me, don't you dare? Yeah, yeah,
you're saying.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And so the United States that Pete Hexeth and others
have said we control the Strait of Horror moves. Well,
Iran just said we're stopping yet. That's it. We're closing
it down. But wait a minute, we the United States
controls it. Nope, how about that? And Iran can and
(07:41):
does close it. It is closed right now. I mean,
the war is heating up, and price of oil has
spiked ten percent yesterday because of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
All right, one more and then we'll take a break.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Uh. Several states say they're trying to save the Industryttorney
General Rob Bonte is leading twelve states, including California, New York, Washington,
with a lawsuit to block Paramounts one hundred eleven billion
dollar merger with Warner Brothers Discovery. The lawsuit says the
deal would hurt movie theaters. It would damage the competitive
(08:18):
market for distributing movies, including blockbusters that bring in a
lot of money and a lot of money for the studios.
The lawsuit also claims the deal would give the combined
company anti competitive power over the market for distributing basic
TV channels like CNN. They say in the lawsuit the
merger will end competition permanently.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now I'm going to do this story coming up at
seven o'clock, but my favorite response is a paramount saying
buy us buying the Warner Discovery. That's going to increase competition.
They actually said that taking a company in burging it
with another company is could for competition.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Explain that one to me, would you please?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
All Right? Lindsey Graham, as we know, passed away and
his sister has been appointed to finish his Senate terms,
So Darlene Graham Nordowne will finish out his Senate term
after the death of mister Graham this past Saturday. She
accepted the appointment, saying that it would be a privilege
(09:26):
to get to finish some of her brother's work over
the next several months.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Which is not undifficult. She's a placeholder.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The election happens, well, the general in November, there'll be
a snap election to see who is going to be
the Republican nominee. And so it makes sense. And as
we know, he died of a ruptured or a terror
in his a order because of high blood pressure sure
(10:00):
and some other cardiovascular disease which occasionally happens. And when
you're a ortigos boy, that tappens pretty quickly, say the least.
I love the fact that cash Mattel is ordering the
FBI to investigate. And my question is, how do the
Democrats cause a ordered tear?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Can't wait for that one, can you?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I could do it how I'll punch you right in
the heart.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I don't think that it doesn't cause any or tear.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The way I do it, it does, right, I mean
it'll it'll stop your heart. I'm going to knock that
pig valve right out of your mouth.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
That you can do. But the old day or the tear, you.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Know, Russians know how to do it. They can do anything. Yes,
stick you with the tip of an umbrella in your toes.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's true. With uh, what is it racing? Is that?
What it's called.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, okay, Pete's trying to plug those leaks. The Department
of Defense and the Justice Department have created a joint
task force to identify and prosecute individuals who are sharing
sensitive information with the media. Defense Secretary Pete Haegsas says
the new task force will help the Pentagon investigate leaks
(11:18):
more quickly and thoroughly, and anyone who improperly shares that
confidential to classified information, as he put it, will be
met with the full force of the law. He said,
leaked information risks.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Lives already on the books. It is a crime to
leak information.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
That still happens.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh, it'll always happen, of course.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I mean they're trying to get more, trying to figure
out how to strengthen the security. The big thing is
the investigation of Air Force one and how the President
had to fly back from Europe on the old Air
Force one and somehow when that leaked, that became a
(12:01):
national security issue. Maybe it does say that the new
Air Force one doesn't have the security features. Yeah, I
guess you could argue that anyway.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Oh good luck.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
By the way, when they hauled the reporters in, where
did you get your information.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh, that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Back to court. President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the IRS
over his leaked tax returns was filed for an improper purpose.
I'll have to explain that it, judge said Monday, as
she referred one of his lawyers for potential disciplinary action
(12:40):
and characterized the ten billion dollar complaint as an exercise
in self dealing. So the judge did stop short explicitly
avoiding the deal shielding Trump from tax scrutiny, but said
that the government government cannot claim in official proceedings that
the agreement was the result of a legitimate legal process.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
A couple of things about that lawful. This is a
lower judge and district court judge, so of course it's
going to be appealed. Second of all, the judge said,
wait a minute. You file a lawsuit. You are the president.
You file a lawsuit against the IRS, of which you control,
and the deal is cut which the IRS does not
(13:23):
argue the other side at all. Sure will give you
what you demand. That you and your family or your
businesses cannot be audited at all up to now. And
I don't know if the ten billion dollars was that
all they walk away from that amy already. And then
this fund, of course, the one point seven to six
(13:45):
billion dollar fund.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
They've walked away from that fund, the one point seven
to seven six billion dollar fund. And they said, fine,
we're not going to try to reimburse.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
People, okay, And how about that ten billion dollars to
pay the president?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Is that's still up in the air.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Well, that was the complaint. He was suing for that,
and they settled it.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
No, I understand did they settle it for the ten
billion dollars or is is it just the one point
eight billion dollars that was removed and is the only
thing left the non prosecution settlement? And you can't you
can't settle with yourself. That's what the that's what the
(14:27):
court said.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
One of the rules of the court.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You have to have a legitimate adversarial relationship. You can't
have both people walk into court and sue and have
everybody agree.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
That's called a settlement, right.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
So the settlement was that he dropped the ten billion
dollar lawsuit in exchange for the one point seven seven
six billion dollar fund and the tax protections.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, I was completing them. That's that's correct. And the
court said you can't do that. You sue yourself. You
agree to this fund with yourself, and it's no, Yeah,
you can't do that. Wouldn't it be great if you
control the irs and you sue, and then the ir
S says, I'll tell you what, we'll settle that we're
never gonna we're never gonna audit you, but we'll let
(15:16):
you take money out of the federal federal coffers. But
you're the president, you control that money exactly. So the
court said, well, who didn't think this was self dealing?
Of course it was self dealing.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
On its face. I mean, they din'tven pretend it was
the self dealing.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
And of course the government said okay, because Trump said
okay to his demand.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
All right.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
May have been mistaken identity, but an Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agent in Maine has shot and killed a man
in his car on Monday. The Department of Homeland Security
said that the man was in the country illegally and
attempted to flee the scene when an ICE agent tried
to stop him in Biddeford, Maine, early yesterday morning. They
(16:04):
said that he was shot because the officer feared for
public safety.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, that he had weaponized his car, which I'm assuming
is he was trying to run over people. And at
first the statement was that he was the target of
the chase or target of the operation, and then they
came back twelve hours later and said no, no, he
(16:31):
wasn't the target. I think ICE is going to be
in a lot of trouble on this. Amy have we
and no body camps?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
No, they did not have body camps. And it turns
out that the man killed was a Colombian man who
was here legally. They were going after somebody that they
said had the last known address of an illegal alien
with a final order for removal, so they might have
just after the wrong person.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, I think that's a given.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Now the question is taking the car and weaponizing Yet
was he trying to run over people? Was he targeting
ICE agents or someone else? And I wish we don't.
I haven't seen video of it yet.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Encounter ConA just said in my ear that there is
video footage from a security camera camera somewhere in the
vicinity apparently, but I've not seen it either.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So we're going to see.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
We're going to see if remember the two the two
incidents that happened, one with that woman and I think
it was Minneapolis and one with that man who was shot,
and they came out and talked about weaponization and he
pulled out a gun and he had a gun, but
he never pulled it out, and he was just it's crazy.
(17:52):
Ice is not doing themselves any favor. This used to
be a strong point for the President Ice. Now it
has gone the other way.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah. It's strange. Thing is Mexico came out and was
pissed and now he's Colombian. So does Mexico just stand
down at this point? No?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I think there they continue to be angry.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Ah, the Texas guy got it. Thanks Conna. All right,
this is disgusting if true. Pasadena Luxury Hotel Corporation, Langham
Hotels Pacific. Oh yeah, this is serious, upper crust hotel lovely.
(18:38):
But they're being accused. Oh well, I guess they're guilty
at this point. If they've got to.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Pay, they've settled. They did not admit guilty, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Okay, yeah, they never admit guilt.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Ever, for three hundred and twenty thousand dollars, they settled
the lawsuit alleging unfairly raised prices on guests in the
wake of the Eaton fire last year. Now, the company
didn't admit any wrongdoing here about that settlement, as Bill
and Amy said, But we do have a law here
(19:10):
in California says you can't add more than ten percent
from your normal posted rates during any sort of natural disaster.
This could be for water, this could be for a hotel,
this could be for anything. And they said ahead, they
did it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
A quick word about not admitting guilt. They have to
not admit guilt because once they admit guilt, then anybody
suing them outside of the government.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Let's say you have.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
An individual who alleges that he or she was overcharged.
You have the organization say, yeah, we're guilty of it.
Cases over it's done now with just how much money.
So you can see how they can't admit guilt because
it's over for them with any lawsuit because the first
(20:03):
thing you put on the stands an executive for Langham,
didn't you admit that you did this?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
How do you have any argument against that. That's why
they don't. That's why they don't admit to wrongdoing.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I'm okay trying to find out how much they are Yeah,
how much you have increased rates? Because ten percent that threshold.
But I mean, did they raise rates by fifty percent?
Like we just had a guy convicted for raising rental
forty percent after the fires.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Now people stay at the Langham depending on that. People
have a lot of money who stay at the Langham.
It is a very pricey hotel. There's a Langham in London,
for example, where it's one thousand dollars a night, So
it's you know, people have that kind of money.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Do they care?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I don't know. I don't stay at a thousand dollars
a night hotel rooms.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
I had some shaking near the San Andreas Vault. Back
to back earthquakes rumbled north of La Two of California's
most significant faults were shaking, including the San Andreas. A
magnitude four point one hit at three point thirty eight
a m. Sunday, just outside Fraser Park that's near the Grapevine.
(21:23):
Then a magnitude four point three hit at nine forty
a m. Yesterday. The epicenter was in the Mahabby Desert.
Weak shaking was felt as far away as Los Angeles,
Victorville and Santa Claritas, and Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys.
The Fraser earthquake, according to the USGS, was probably on
the San Andres.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We're so due for a major quake here in southward
California along the Sandreas Fall. This is the teutonic plates
that meet, and when they sort of slipped past each other,
there comes the earthquake.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And it ain't fun.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We've had some good ones and we're gonna Yeah, we're
way overdue for the big one.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
How come I've been hearing this since I was in
grade school because it's.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Still way overdue geologically. It's just a moment in time.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That's profound.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, that is profound.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
So is Angel's gas. That's all right, all right, thank
you for So people are betting against Trump, at least
the market is Oil surges most since twenty twenty, but
they're looking at the US government stockpile of crude has
been drawn down to its lowest level since nineteen eighty three,
(22:45):
and this renewed fight fighting with Trump and the strait
of hormuse has pushed crude futures up. So people are
looking obviously in the future of what's going on and
this fight going on with Trump's announcement that he is
reimposing the US blockade in Iranian of Iranian ships and
(23:06):
all of that, and saying he's going to bob the
hell out of him obviously makes people nervous and the
price go up.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
That's what happens. The United States is saying the Straight
of Horror moves, we control it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Iran says Straight of America, Bill, Straight of America.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, the Straight of America. Whether straight of it's the
Trump job in mind, that's straight up the Trumps, that's true.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
And so we're the war is happening.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Well, you see, and the SATs are not getting back together.
University of California Admissions board has voted to rescind efforts
to reconsider whether to resume SAT and Act requirements for admissions.
Remember they pulled him a few years ago, I think
it was during the pandemic. But on a meeting or
(23:56):
at a meeting on Friday, the board said no, let's
let's not reconsider that right now, and then all of
the links on their website explaining what they were planning
to do disappeared.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And why is this so controversial? Because the argument is
the SAT and the.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Written and the.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Multiple choice is skewed against people of color, and.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Do you know they it doesn't say.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It doesn't say when I took the when I took
the bar, exactly the same argument because a number of
African Americans who passed the bar was minuscule. Number of
people who took the bar was miniscule, and the argument
was to rewrite the bar that lasted thirty seconds where
the bar folks the state bar said no, you're dreaming,
(24:51):
We're not going to do that. And I think you're
saying the same thing, except the UC system is caving
and I don't know. I have no idea how the
bar can be rewritten in terms of viewing it as
one color or another, or poor people have a rougher
(25:12):
time with the bar.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, poor people have a rougher.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Time with any academic endeavor because they don't have tutors,
because they don't get the same education, because inner city
schools aren't as good that they don't test as well.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So you know, you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Can't even out the playing field without going communists, which
everybody gets the same education, everybody makes the same money.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
The state owns everything, and you work for the state.
What about beneficial reparations? How come everybody always goes straight
to money. Why not education? Why not free education? Well,
there's an argument there too. It's a huge argument. I
think I think that should have been a no brain
brain or bring it up. If you've been pushed behind,
(25:58):
then push.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
For Now let me ask you case still.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Do you still believe that people of minority are pushed
behind in education?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Uh? And uh the let's say the work the work world.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I'm gonna I would argue, it's the other way to
even it out that's been going on. All right, let's
go ahead and finish it up. The paramount deal we're
going to talk about. It's the biggest deal that ever
was in the world of the deals that worked. Eh,
maybe it was, Yeah, we is. We is the biggest
(26:32):
deal that ever was. We'll be back kf I A
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