August 7, 2026 • 28 mins
(August 07, 2026)
Neil Saavedra fills in for Bill Handel this Friday morning. ‘Pervert glasses’: Backlash against Meta’s smart glasses grows People are trying to catch the cyclospora intestinal parasite infection to lose weight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. You are listening to the bill Handle show.
Here's Nil Savedra.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You cannot drop those bombs before I go on the air,
Miss Anne, Holy smokes, Adam, you got to get in
on some of this action in here. The stories. Wow,
we it started. All I could say, Hey, by the way,
KFI A six forty, Neil Savadra here with the morning
(00:38):
crew handles out today. And you're listening on the KFI terrestrially.
Are you listening to us on the iHeartRadio app which
is free, by the way, great little app. Love listening.
I could be in the bathroom listen to Gary and Shannon,
which I believe is the way it was meant to
be enjoyed. So enjoy yourself. So we're talking during the
(01:01):
break here and Anne and I we were talking about
that guy in the billboard that ad what what's the
last house or something like that or is that what
it is? Amy so so, and they you call out
the cross streets of Sunset and Selma and right at
the same time, we're like, oh, that's a crap hole area.
(01:24):
And so we start talking about the old days of
going to gigs and shows, you know, the punk shows
and stuff are always in these crap areas. And I'm like,
oh yeah, and she goes, I would go to punk
shows there. I'm like, yeah, that Cathe de Grand was
right there on Selma and the low ceilings, and she goes, yeah,
in the tiny stage that basically you walk in the door,
it was a closet.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It was a closet.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
So growing up, my buddy Paco, he had they built
his dad built that was an FBI agent, and he
built a separate room in the garage for him his
son to have space. So he had this his bedroom
was in the garage and it had this weird overhang
(02:07):
with this small It didn't have a closet. It had
like this small space. So we called it the Cathay
for based on the Cathe to Grond because it had
these low ceilings. It was this tiny little space, and
you know that's kind of where you if you know,
you're in your teens and if you're making out, you're
(02:28):
kind of making out in that little room. Or anyways,
all of saying, we started going down this path of
these old punk rock clubs were in crap parts of town,
and we start going down and talked about it. She's like, yeah,
and there was this and Mystic Records was the label
we were on when I was in my I was
like fourteen. There was no legal way I should have
been able to sign a contract. But all that area
(02:54):
is it brings up those memories of these little hole
in the wall punk rock place. And then we started
talking about Ha's past and uh wow, and had known
some people. You knew some people, some big names, yep up,
some good times. Enjoyed it. So I want to get
(03:16):
you drunk because I want to hear every little detail.
I wish I could share it. But she uh, she
pulled out this big baton she called the equalizer and
looked at Cono and me and said, this doesn't leave
the room. So I pete a little, ConA pete a little,
and we promised it would stay here. Amy you ever
(03:39):
do anything crazy? No, never didn't think.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So I'm just glad there was no social media when
I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
She's all one time.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
At band camp. I never went to band camp.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh you could have frozen time and said what is
she going to say? And none of us would have
thought that. She's like one time I was having a
vegacle and I let one of my cats look at
and then I ate it again.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You guys are so funny.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm so bad.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You think I'm innocent.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm a baddie. Oh listen, come in here and talk
to Ann Well. You're gonna want to hear it more,
more and more. All right, let's get started on some
new skinny trends. Speaking of Anne, tiny little thing. You God,
(04:32):
I want to party with you so bad. Right now,
there is cyclospora. We've all been talking about bad things.
The lettuce he gets on food. It gives you the ria,
gives you the I fives, it gives you the green
apple two step.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Thank you for that sound?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Where did that come from? Was that Will?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Or?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Are you pressing buttons in there? Adam? Wasn't me? Who
was that? Was that? Will? Okay? Guilty?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, Geez couldn't well listen. I try and do a
respectable show and handles out. So there's the outbreak of
that disease causing that parasite there makes you infectious, gives you,
you know, diarrhea, cha cha cha. And now people are
(05:28):
trying to get it odd purpose to lose weight. They're
calling it cyclospora skinny. It's also called the diarrhea diet,
the diaryot So there's a pediatric physician in Turtle Medicine.
(05:49):
Doctor joined News Nation to talk about the trend. He says,
it's a concerning trend. We've been talking about cyclospora for
a few weeks now. It is problematic. It is a
ad bug that's caused per persistent diarrhea. I thought it
was going to say, like parasitic persistent diarrhea, dominal cramping,
(06:10):
feeling very uncomfortable, but boy, are you looking good? He
didn't say that. I said that. So social media influencers,
of course, the brain the uh, the brain faction that
runs America are talking about losing weight by getting it
now diarrhea and stool looseners and stuff that's been used before,
(06:36):
Like haven't women used laxatives and things like that to
lose weight? Amy, I can hear my gut. Why are
you looking at me? I'm not you? Oh sorry, missus Svelt.
We thought we'd start with you.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I have not ever done that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Okay, fn Fenn, what have you done? Olestra?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
What are you on?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Obvious? I'm not on anything. Now you noticed and told
the world that it looks like I've put on some weight.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, we did that to balance the the weights of justice.
Because Handle always gets to Ann who's tiny and goes
there's ant and I think he's got an issue like
mom issues like he sees it because she controls his life.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, I've done like controlled dieting stuff like just severe
calorie restrictions and that kind of stuff, but not any
like pills except for like, what was that stuff like
when we were in our twenties cross stops. No, it
was like a thing that you got it like a
Dexa trim or yeah, like Dexa trim and it I
(07:48):
couldn't do it just speed pretty much because it would
just give you like the jitters and make you feel sick.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
When I was.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Working on Handle thirty plus years ago as an intern,
I was I would go straight to work from here
for a full time job and then come drive out.
This was from Newbury Park by the way, drive out
in the morning to work for free for him, and
I was doing no do's man because I would have
(08:16):
to put on a suit and go to work afterwards
for a full day, you know, get home, go to bed,
four hours sleep, come back in and do that. That
stuff's a bad pan. That not good, all right, don't
get the poopies to lose weight. There's glp ones there.
You can spend money and just have your guts tied
(08:37):
it and not like me forty plus pounds two months. Mhm,
I lost a whole Kno, all right, we're just talking
about old radio and it's just the old scene. And
it was I don't know, I reminisce about that. So
(08:58):
some guy writes it and who was this who called
it actually about? We were talking about old punk rock venues,
and Mike hit us up. He said, Tuesday night was
dollar night at the Cathet the Grand and Suicidal Tendency
played there constantly, and that the fire marshal would shut
it down because it was no bigger than a closet,
(09:22):
and if you had ten people in there, it was
two anyways, all the old days. So it got me
thinking about this one place. It was the Ukrainian Cultural
Center or something on Melrose used to have shows there
and I don't live that far from it these days,
and it had a payphone outside, and it used to
be the payphone that I would go call. I was
(09:43):
in my teens, man, so I would call my parents
let them know if I was going to be late,
if I was seeing a show or something like that.
And here this story is twenty twenty six. The headline
says LA to shell out one million dollars to keep
payphones ringing across the region. I get it, there's poor people.
There's a need maybe in these areas, but I don't
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see people without phones. So when I see a payphone,
I look at it and I go, that's for drug dealing.
And they're always in the worst areas. And to spend
a million dollars to keep two hundred and fifty payphones
throughout the county working raises an eyebrow. Again. I say
this all the time. Fill the potholes, you know, get
(10:30):
the easy one right, Get the easy ones right. You
do that stuff and we will follow you anywhere. Fix
the sidewalks, you know, trim the trees, have them not
you know, going through power lines and things like that.
Do the basic stuff. I don't know if we need
(10:51):
all these, but the supervisors are seeking approval for yeah,
a million dollars, nine one hundred and fifty three thousand
dollars this contract maintain services to about two hundred and
fifty pay phones around the county. So ultimately they you know,
some of our them are at shriff's facilities, hospitals, maybe
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county parks and the like. But this is this is
not for you and me to make a call. They
say sixty percent of the revenue for payphones producing one
hundred dollars or more revenue each month according to the contract,
So you know what's that county will not get a
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share of the revenue for payphones that generate ninety nine
dollars or less a month. So they're only going to
make money over one hundred bucks as far as sharing
in that. And they you know that there's to what
end when everybody's running around with a device in their hand,
that million dollars can do something else somewhere out. So
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I need to hear a better argument if you're going
to have one outside of a if you're going to
have one outside of a sheriff's office or a hospital
or something, then have them take care of the revenue
and take care of the phones and the upkeep like
they do the vending machines or anything else.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
The phones used to pay for themselves.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well yeah, but they aren't going to now, they're just not.
You're not going to get enough calls if you're only
in especially if you're waiting for it to get So,
what is it twenty five cents or is it fifty
cents to make a call these dates? I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I have no idea. I haven't made a phone call
on a pay phone for a probably fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It doesn't It doesn't sound cool to drop a quarter.
I dropped a quarter on that guy. You got to
drop a dime. Dropping a dime on a guy sounds cool?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Is that where they're originated?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, you drop a dime on a guy. You drop
a dime in there, and you call.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Please deposit another ten cents?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You know, you do a nickel upstate at a four yard.
People know that because I was your phone. Huh yeah, cono,
I know some things. It's not just people in the ie.
What is Amy's like? Oh got it? Yeah? Oh oh
well that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Well I don't know much about prison culture.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, she says, ask ahnd she's fun AND's fun.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Man, No, that just means she got caught.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
No, she's yeah, Amy like a cat, Like a cat, yeah,
all right, so use that million dollars for something else. There.
We're moving right through the news. Smart glasses metas smart glasses.
I have a pair. They do not have prescribed lenses
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in them, so I only use them infrequently, but I
love them. They're actually very cool for a couple reasons.
The ability to listen to music in them is awesome.
I let my boy use them sometimes in the car.
He can listen to music and do whatever. They're just
a really cool technology. I can also ask questions just
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the same way you would Surrey or anything else. You
could sit there and you can ask questions and it'll
give you the answer in your ear. It's really cool technology.
The camera can also be used to tell you what
you're seeing, so for blind folks, I hear that. It's
you know, they would spend five grand for systems to
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be able to do that, and you're spending three hundred,
three hundred and fifty dollars to be able to go
what's in front of me, or to read things. It
can read things. They can also translate, so you could
have someone talking to you in a different language and
they'll translate in your ear. Phenomenal technology. They're being referred
to as pervert glasses. And I'm humored to no end
(14:51):
about this because everyone walks around with a camera in
their hand everywhere they go, and it's not as inconspicuous
as you think, or maybe it is. It's more inconspicuous.
Is it spicuous? No, it's not spicuous. Is it to
know whether someone's filming you or just scroll it? And
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there is also people. There are also people that you
go to an outdoor setting and you're sitting there and
they're filming you or videoing you in your face because
they have the First Amendment right to do so. Because
you're in public. Anything that's going on in public, you
can videotape. There is no there. It's public. I mean
(15:36):
technically if they can see in your window, if they
can see it from the street or something, they can
video it. They can see it from the street. You
might have a case. My neighbor has cameras that are
on part of our I mean, I know they see
(15:57):
stuff we do. Now there's a certain amount of that
that's going to bleed over. I'm very very cautious about that.
We have many cameras, but I set them in ways
and I talk to my neighbors about them. If it's
going to bleed in, or I make it not bleed in,
and there's certain rules. Well, now people have a massive
(16:20):
backlash against meta smart glasses. I've seen people wear them
in the wild. I do not. I like them for
when I'm in my shop if i want to video
what I'm doing with my hands, if I'm shooting, you know,
I can shoot video of things time lapse. I can
do all kinds of things of a project I'm working on.
If I'm cooking and I'm going to post something, then
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I could do that with my glasses. Whatever I'm looking at,
I don't think about a little red light comes on.
I'm sure you can disable it or put something over it,
painted whatever. But I'm humored that people are freaked out
by the glasses. The truth of the matter is there
is no privacy. Think of all glasses there. It is
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so easy to get a button on your shirt that
is a camera, a pen in your pocket that is
a camera. There there are so many more stealthy ways
to get photos of you that are still legal. Check
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your local listenings. But that I humored that these had
and it happened with the first ones the Google glass.
If you remember, people were getting punched because they were
wearing them and they and it was partially because they
looked lame. But now they're ray bands. They look pretty much.
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They're a little thicker rimmed. I spot them pretty quickly.
I interviewed a firefighter some last year sometime and you
immediately when he sat down that he was wearing them.
And I thought, that's actually a cool idea firefighters having them.
If they're going on site somewhere and they're looking through,
they've got that now recorded. You could also pass that
(18:10):
through I'm sure to a mobile unit, have somebody watching
what you're watching as you go through. So yes, can
it be abused like anything else? Phones are abused, these
little cameras that are found everywhere. You know there was
the uh hash the Stewart or something on a plane
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that had little cameras or a phone or something hidden
in the toilet. We hear about those things all the time,
little tiny cameras. I got to tell you, if somebody
is going to do it, they're probably not going to
do it with those glasses. Even though there are going
to be perverts that use them. And I'll tell you
why they're perverts. They're going to use any tool, they're
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going to put mirrors on their shoes, they're going to
do whatever they can because they're perverts. But it doesn't
mean anybody who has those things are perverts. The technology
is pretty spectacular and the amount of help they can
give you if you're in this business. For instance, being
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able to use them would be great. Being able to
use them to video a guest or something like that
is a is pretty cool technology. There is a there's
an old saying misuse does not bar use, and that
means that people are going to misuse everything, but it
doesn't bar the use the proper use of something. That's
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another thing we're going to be getting to talk about
in the eight o'clock hour is that someone bad people
are always going to do bad things, but you know
who pays for it? The good people. We're always the
one that have to ask for the key for the
spray paint or someone to come over to get razors for.
What the hell was that was that a dog? Oh?
(19:57):
Someone says this snieze It sounded like the hounds of Hell.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I think it was col Schreiber's sneezing.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
What is with his body functions today. What are you
talking about me?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yeah, you made two sounds earlier. Now you're you're sneezing
like a ninety year old Jewish man. I have so
many sneezes in this booth. I think there's dust. Oh
I don't have a cold.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Okay, sorry, So the backlash my clothes. You were supposed
to hear it?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
No, I write it down the hall. Yeah, it reverberated
through the empty halls. The KFI studio helps it.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
In my knee, I thought a storm was coming. So uh,
just if you look for the little light on, look
for people doing weird things. I get all that, But
the technology is not the problem. The individual is the problem.
And we have to stop punishing those of us that
don't use things for bad in bad ways, because we're
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the ones that keep getting put in the corner for
some pervert. And those perverts are thankfully few and far between.
There's only one butt sniffer of Burbank that I'm aware of,
and that is Tim Conway Junior. No, there's only one
that I know of, right, and they're going to start
banning kneeling down at bookstores because some guy likes to
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sniff Rando's behind No I say nay, all right, good
Friday morning to you. Neil Savader in the morning crew
here handle is off today. He's always a little off right,
just a wee bet so I I those of you
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who know me here at KFI. I've been everywhere at
KFI behind the scenes. I like all of it. I
like when I was doing marketing. I designed a lot
of billboards here at KFI. My predecessor, Bill Lewis, and
David G. Hall, who is the program director when I
(21:57):
first came here very early on, brought me in to
sit in and talk about billboard stuff and I was
very honored by that. And then as they left and
working with Robin Berd Lucian like, it's just it's been
a big thing, working with marketing billboards, finding ways to
get KFI out there and doing gorilla marketing is one
(22:20):
of my favorite things. And it's one of the things
that I love about LA and it's kind of gone
by the side. They've kind of moved in with and
I mean marketing groups with experiences, and I think that's great.
These these experiences where you go somewhere and they make
a makeshift building or something, you walk in and you
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experience something, and I love those things. But man, we
are a driving city. We drive in Los Angeles. You know,
as we just heard, Monks and Merrill are going to
be talking about writing public transit. We don't do that
a lot here. It's not like New York. New York,
you're great for that. You just hop on the subway.
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If you're going to go out to bar hopping, you
don't have to worry about that stuff. But seeing this
man living inside the billboard on Sunset Boulevard, but Boulevard,
if you haven't heard about this to promote a film,
just brought back all those really cool moments LA moments,
billboard moments, especially radio. We used to use billboards like
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nobody's business. It's just you're in your car usually when
you're listening to radio. I know now with iHeartRadio app
and stuff like that, we listen to it everywhere. I
know I do. I've got it on me all the time.
But it reminds you of being this kinetic, connective city
that we haven't seemed to be in some time. And
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I like seeing this. So this is in West Hollywood
and it's on Sunset and Selma that started us talking
about it a little earlier with Anne. But when I
first saw it and Jo said the same thing. When
we first heard a guy living on a billboard, we
thought a homeless until I'm sorry, but that's just that's
how we think in la Ah. It's it's it's the
(24:10):
homeless situation. They're moving up, moving on up to the billboards.
But it's a guy. So let me let me if
you haven't seen this, it's pretty cool. It's a billboard
that they built this. You know, what are they what
do they call that?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
A living room? No, no, Amy, that's diorama.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Those are both great descriptors, but not what I was
looking for. That that type of one of a bay window.
It's like a bay window, right, It kind of jets
out three different sides there and it's made to look
like a living room. There's a guy in it.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
He's in his bathroom right now because that's morning time.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, And there's a guy actually in there, and he
does he have a TV or something, and he's got
a whiteboard so he can communicate with people down on
the street or driving by. Doesn't sound safe. And this
is all to promote this film. So what is the
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name of the film. It's like The Last House. The
Last House. Is it a horror film?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It sounds like it could be. The family gets trapped
inside the house. Their supplies, food and stuff are dwindling,
and there's some ominous force that's not allowing them to leave.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Oh so it's about COVID. Why don't they just say that?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Don't they just call it the pandemic?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah? I went through this for years. There was no
big deal. But he's got a bookshelf up there, looks
like a computer or something. Can you text with him?
Or is it just but it is attracting a lot
of attention. I want to, you know, I'll probab we
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go out there today, take my son out there to
see the freak show. But it just reminds me of
the good old days of gorilla marketing and doing something
odd in La you know, these weird things. We used
to do all kinds of crazy stuff on KFI to
get people's attention. And I remember, I don't know if
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we ended up putting these billboards up, but it was
a design that was ore to traditional black, white and orange,
with images of Obama, of Hillary Clinton, of George Bush,
with just single descriptors. We would look for things that
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people describe these people about and we'd put that word
up there. We'd put good ones and bad ones on
different billboards and see what the reaction of people. Or
you'd put warmonger up underneath and you know, underneath their picture.
I don't think we ever put those up, but we
did at one point just put words up with no description. Mexican.
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It was just a board that said Mexican on it
with KFI. And then I can't remember all of the Mexican.
One stands out to me, just to see how people
responded to words with no context, and people flipped out
about it. What's that supposed to be? I don't know.
What doesn't mean to you? You're the ones flipping out
about it. You got a problem with Mexicans. It was
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crazy some of the things that we used to do
great KFI. It shared our attitude. People collect photos of
them good time. So seeing this out on the streets
of Sunset and Selma in Hollywood or in la is
kind of cool. And it's going to be there through
the weekend, Amy, I just through tomorrow. That's it.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, So today and tomorrow is your opportunity to go see.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Get out there and see some craziness in la Yeah,
I love it all right, stick around a really important topic.
This is one that I want you to participate in,
meaning that if you are moved by this information, I'm
gonna want you to contact the politicians that be. I
think this is a horrible case of probably trying to
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do good but really really missing the mark and hurting
a lot of good people, me included, as I am
a maker. I will explain with the help of David
Tobin when we return. It's The Bill Handle Show, Neil
and the Morning Crew. This is KFI heard everywhere on
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Speaker 4 (28:31):
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six forty. You are listening to the bill Handle show.
Here's Nil Savedra.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You cannot drop those bombs before I go on the air,
Miss Anne, Holy smokes, Adam, you got to get in
on some of this action in here. The stories. Wow,
we it started. All I could say, Hey, by the way,
KFI A six forty, Neil Savadra here with the morning
(00:38):
crew handles out today. And you're listening on the KFI terrestrially.
Are you listening to us on the iHeartRadio app which
is free, by the way, great little app. Love listening.
I could be in the bathroom listen to Gary and Shannon,
which I believe is the way it was meant to
be enjoyed. So enjoy yourself. So we're talking during the
(01:01):
break here and Anne and I we were talking about
that guy in the billboard that ad what what's the
last house or something like that or is that what
it is? Amy so so, and they you call out
the cross streets of Sunset and Selma and right at
the same time, we're like, oh, that's a crap hole area.
(01:24):
And so we start talking about the old days of
going to gigs and shows, you know, the punk shows
and stuff are always in these crap areas. And I'm like,
oh yeah, and she goes, I would go to punk
shows there. I'm like, yeah, that Cathe de Grand was
right there on Selma and the low ceilings, and she goes, yeah,
in the tiny stage that basically you walk in the door,
it was a closet.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It was a closet.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
So growing up, my buddy Paco, he had they built
his dad built that was an FBI agent, and he
built a separate room in the garage for him his
son to have space. So he had this his bedroom
was in the garage and it had this weird overhang
(02:07):
with this small It didn't have a closet. It had
like this small space. So we called it the Cathay
for based on the Cathe to Grond because it had
these low ceilings. It was this tiny little space, and
you know that's kind of where you if you know,
you're in your teens and if you're making out, you're
(02:28):
kind of making out in that little room. Or anyways,
all of saying, we started going down this path of
these old punk rock clubs were in crap parts of town,
and we start going down and talked about it. She's like, yeah,
and there was this and Mystic Records was the label
we were on when I was in my I was
like fourteen. There was no legal way I should have
been able to sign a contract. But all that area
(02:54):
is it brings up those memories of these little hole
in the wall punk rock place. And then we started
talking about Ha's past and uh wow, and had known
some people. You knew some people, some big names, yep up,
some good times. Enjoyed it. So I want to get
(03:16):
you drunk because I want to hear every little detail.
I wish I could share it. But she uh, she
pulled out this big baton she called the equalizer and
looked at Cono and me and said, this doesn't leave
the room. So I pete a little, ConA pete a little,
and we promised it would stay here. Amy you ever
(03:39):
do anything crazy? No, never didn't think.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So I'm just glad there was no social media when
I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
She's all one time.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
At band camp. I never went to band camp.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh you could have frozen time and said what is
she going to say? And none of us would have
thought that. She's like one time I was having a
vegacle and I let one of my cats look at
and then I ate it again.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You guys are so funny.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm so bad.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You think I'm innocent.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm a baddie. Oh listen, come in here and talk
to Ann Well. You're gonna want to hear it more,
more and more. All right, let's get started on some
new skinny trends. Speaking of Anne, tiny little thing. You God,
(04:32):
I want to party with you so bad. Right now,
there is cyclospora. We've all been talking about bad things.
The lettuce he gets on food. It gives you the ria,
gives you the I fives, it gives you the green
apple two step.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Thank you for that sound?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Where did that come from? Was that Will?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Or?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Are you pressing buttons in there? Adam? Wasn't me? Who
was that? Was that? Will? Okay? Guilty?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, Geez couldn't well listen. I try and do a
respectable show and handles out. So there's the outbreak of
that disease causing that parasite there makes you infectious, gives you,
you know, diarrhea, cha cha cha. And now people are
(05:28):
trying to get it odd purpose to lose weight. They're
calling it cyclospora skinny. It's also called the diarrhea diet,
the diaryot So there's a pediatric physician in Turtle Medicine.
(05:49):
Doctor joined News Nation to talk about the trend. He says,
it's a concerning trend. We've been talking about cyclospora for
a few weeks now. It is problematic. It is a
ad bug that's caused per persistent diarrhea. I thought it
was going to say, like parasitic persistent diarrhea, dominal cramping,
(06:10):
feeling very uncomfortable, but boy, are you looking good? He
didn't say that. I said that. So social media influencers,
of course, the brain the uh, the brain faction that
runs America are talking about losing weight by getting it
now diarrhea and stool looseners and stuff that's been used before,
(06:36):
Like haven't women used laxatives and things like that to
lose weight? Amy, I can hear my gut. Why are
you looking at me? I'm not you? Oh sorry, missus Svelt.
We thought we'd start with you.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I have not ever done that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Okay, fn Fenn, what have you done? Olestra?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
What are you on?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Obvious? I'm not on anything. Now you noticed and told
the world that it looks like I've put on some weight.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, we did that to balance the the weights of justice.
Because Handle always gets to Ann who's tiny and goes
there's ant and I think he's got an issue like
mom issues like he sees it because she controls his life.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, I've done like controlled dieting stuff like just severe
calorie restrictions and that kind of stuff, but not any
like pills except for like, what was that stuff like
when we were in our twenties cross stops. No, it
was like a thing that you got it like a
Dexa trim or yeah, like Dexa trim and it I
(07:48):
couldn't do it just speed pretty much because it would
just give you like the jitters and make you feel sick.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
When I was.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Working on Handle thirty plus years ago as an intern,
I was I would go straight to work from here
for a full time job and then come drive out.
This was from Newbury Park by the way, drive out
in the morning to work for free for him, and
I was doing no do's man because I would have
(08:16):
to put on a suit and go to work afterwards
for a full day, you know, get home, go to bed,
four hours sleep, come back in and do that. That
stuff's a bad pan. That not good, all right, don't
get the poopies to lose weight. There's glp ones there.
You can spend money and just have your guts tied
(08:37):
it and not like me forty plus pounds two months. Mhm,
I lost a whole Kno, all right, we're just talking
about old radio and it's just the old scene. And
it was I don't know, I reminisce about that. So
(08:58):
some guy writes it and who was this who called
it actually about? We were talking about old punk rock venues,
and Mike hit us up. He said, Tuesday night was
dollar night at the Cathet the Grand and Suicidal Tendency
played there constantly, and that the fire marshal would shut
it down because it was no bigger than a closet,
(09:22):
and if you had ten people in there, it was
two anyways, all the old days. So it got me
thinking about this one place. It was the Ukrainian Cultural
Center or something on Melrose used to have shows there
and I don't live that far from it these days,
and it had a payphone outside, and it used to
be the payphone that I would go call. I was
(09:43):
in my teens, man, so I would call my parents
let them know if I was going to be late,
if I was seeing a show or something like that.
And here this story is twenty twenty six. The headline
says LA to shell out one million dollars to keep
payphones ringing across the region. I get it, there's poor people.
There's a need maybe in these areas, but I don't
(10:07):
see people without phones. So when I see a payphone,
I look at it and I go, that's for drug dealing.
And they're always in the worst areas. And to spend
a million dollars to keep two hundred and fifty payphones
throughout the county working raises an eyebrow. Again. I say
this all the time. Fill the potholes, you know, get
(10:30):
the easy one right, Get the easy ones right. You
do that stuff and we will follow you anywhere. Fix
the sidewalks, you know, trim the trees, have them not
you know, going through power lines and things like that.
Do the basic stuff. I don't know if we need
(10:51):
all these, but the supervisors are seeking approval for yeah,
a million dollars, nine one hundred and fifty three thousand
dollars this contract maintain services to about two hundred and
fifty pay phones around the county. So ultimately they you know,
some of our them are at shriff's facilities, hospitals, maybe
(11:14):
county parks and the like. But this is this is
not for you and me to make a call. They
say sixty percent of the revenue for payphones producing one
hundred dollars or more revenue each month according to the contract,
So you know what's that county will not get a
(11:37):
share of the revenue for payphones that generate ninety nine
dollars or less a month. So they're only going to
make money over one hundred bucks as far as sharing
in that. And they you know that there's to what
end when everybody's running around with a device in their hand,
that million dollars can do something else somewhere out. So
(12:00):
I need to hear a better argument if you're going
to have one outside of a if you're going to
have one outside of a sheriff's office or a hospital
or something, then have them take care of the revenue
and take care of the phones and the upkeep like
they do the vending machines or anything else.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
The phones used to pay for themselves.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Well yeah, but they aren't going to now, they're just not.
You're not going to get enough calls if you're only
in especially if you're waiting for it to get So,
what is it twenty five cents or is it fifty
cents to make a call these dates? I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I have no idea. I haven't made a phone call
on a pay phone for a probably fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
It doesn't It doesn't sound cool to drop a quarter.
I dropped a quarter on that guy. You got to
drop a dime. Dropping a dime on a guy sounds cool?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Is that where they're originated?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, you drop a dime on a guy. You drop
a dime in there, and you call.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Please deposit another ten cents?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You know, you do a nickel upstate at a four yard.
People know that because I was your phone. Huh yeah, cono,
I know some things. It's not just people in the ie.
What is Amy's like? Oh got it? Yeah? Oh oh
well that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Well I don't know much about prison culture.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, she says, ask ahnd she's fun AND's fun.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Man, No, that just means she got caught.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
No, she's yeah, Amy like a cat, Like a cat, yeah,
all right, so use that million dollars for something else. There.
We're moving right through the news. Smart glasses metas smart glasses.
I have a pair. They do not have prescribed lenses
(13:47):
in them, so I only use them infrequently, but I
love them. They're actually very cool for a couple reasons.
The ability to listen to music in them is awesome.
I let my boy use them sometimes in the car.
He can listen to music and do whatever. They're just
a really cool technology. I can also ask questions just
(14:08):
the same way you would Surrey or anything else. You
could sit there and you can ask questions and it'll
give you the answer in your ear. It's really cool technology.
The camera can also be used to tell you what
you're seeing, so for blind folks, I hear that. It's
you know, they would spend five grand for systems to
(14:29):
be able to do that, and you're spending three hundred,
three hundred and fifty dollars to be able to go
what's in front of me, or to read things. It
can read things. They can also translate, so you could
have someone talking to you in a different language and
they'll translate in your ear. Phenomenal technology. They're being referred
to as pervert glasses. And I'm humored to no end
(14:51):
about this because everyone walks around with a camera in
their hand everywhere they go, and it's not as inconspicuous
as you think, or maybe it is. It's more inconspicuous.
Is it spicuous? No, it's not spicuous. Is it to
know whether someone's filming you or just scroll it? And
(15:13):
there is also people. There are also people that you
go to an outdoor setting and you're sitting there and
they're filming you or videoing you in your face because
they have the First Amendment right to do so. Because
you're in public. Anything that's going on in public, you
can videotape. There is no there. It's public. I mean
(15:36):
technically if they can see in your window, if they
can see it from the street or something, they can
video it. They can see it from the street. You
might have a case. My neighbor has cameras that are
on part of our I mean, I know they see
(15:57):
stuff we do. Now there's a certain amount of that
that's going to bleed over. I'm very very cautious about that.
We have many cameras, but I set them in ways
and I talk to my neighbors about them. If it's
going to bleed in, or I make it not bleed in,
and there's certain rules. Well, now people have a massive
(16:20):
backlash against meta smart glasses. I've seen people wear them
in the wild. I do not. I like them for
when I'm in my shop if i want to video
what I'm doing with my hands, if I'm shooting, you know,
I can shoot video of things time lapse. I can
do all kinds of things of a project I'm working on.
If I'm cooking and I'm going to post something, then
(16:43):
I could do that with my glasses. Whatever I'm looking at,
I don't think about a little red light comes on.
I'm sure you can disable it or put something over it,
painted whatever. But I'm humored that people are freaked out
by the glasses. The truth of the matter is there
is no privacy. Think of all glasses there. It is
(17:06):
so easy to get a button on your shirt that
is a camera, a pen in your pocket that is
a camera. There there are so many more stealthy ways
to get photos of you that are still legal. Check
(17:27):
your local listenings. But that I humored that these had
and it happened with the first ones the Google glass.
If you remember, people were getting punched because they were
wearing them and they and it was partially because they
looked lame. But now they're ray bands. They look pretty much.
(17:48):
They're a little thicker rimmed. I spot them pretty quickly.
I interviewed a firefighter some last year sometime and you
immediately when he sat down that he was wearing them.
And I thought, that's actually a cool idea firefighters having them.
If they're going on site somewhere and they're looking through,
they've got that now recorded. You could also pass that
(18:10):
through I'm sure to a mobile unit, have somebody watching
what you're watching as you go through. So yes, can
it be abused like anything else? Phones are abused, these
little cameras that are found everywhere. You know there was
the uh hash the Stewart or something on a plane
(18:31):
that had little cameras or a phone or something hidden
in the toilet. We hear about those things all the time,
little tiny cameras. I got to tell you, if somebody
is going to do it, they're probably not going to
do it with those glasses. Even though there are going
to be perverts that use them. And I'll tell you
why they're perverts. They're going to use any tool, they're
(18:51):
going to put mirrors on their shoes, they're going to
do whatever they can because they're perverts. But it doesn't
mean anybody who has those things are perverts. The technology
is pretty spectacular and the amount of help they can
give you if you're in this business. For instance, being
(19:12):
able to use them would be great. Being able to
use them to video a guest or something like that
is a is pretty cool technology. There is a there's
an old saying misuse does not bar use, and that
means that people are going to misuse everything, but it
doesn't bar the use the proper use of something. That's
(19:33):
another thing we're going to be getting to talk about
in the eight o'clock hour is that someone bad people
are always going to do bad things, but you know
who pays for it? The good people. We're always the
one that have to ask for the key for the
spray paint or someone to come over to get razors for.
What the hell was that was that a dog? Oh?
(19:57):
Someone says this snieze It sounded like the hounds of Hell.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I think it was col Schreiber's sneezing.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
What is with his body functions today. What are you
talking about me?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yeah, you made two sounds earlier. Now you're you're sneezing
like a ninety year old Jewish man. I have so
many sneezes in this booth. I think there's dust. Oh
I don't have a cold.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Okay, sorry, So the backlash my clothes. You were supposed
to hear it?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
No, I write it down the hall. Yeah, it reverberated
through the empty halls. The KFI studio helps it.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
In my knee, I thought a storm was coming. So uh,
just if you look for the little light on, look
for people doing weird things. I get all that, But
the technology is not the problem. The individual is the problem.
And we have to stop punishing those of us that
don't use things for bad in bad ways, because we're
(20:51):
the ones that keep getting put in the corner for
some pervert. And those perverts are thankfully few and far between.
There's only one butt sniffer of Burbank that I'm aware of,
and that is Tim Conway Junior. No, there's only one
that I know of, right, and they're going to start
banning kneeling down at bookstores because some guy likes to
(21:16):
sniff Rando's behind No I say nay, all right, good
Friday morning to you. Neil Savader in the morning crew
here handle is off today. He's always a little off right,
just a wee bet so I I those of you
(21:36):
who know me here at KFI. I've been everywhere at
KFI behind the scenes. I like all of it. I
like when I was doing marketing. I designed a lot
of billboards here at KFI. My predecessor, Bill Lewis, and
David G. Hall, who is the program director when I
(21:57):
first came here very early on, brought me in to
sit in and talk about billboard stuff and I was
very honored by that. And then as they left and
working with Robin Berd Lucian like, it's just it's been
a big thing, working with marketing billboards, finding ways to
get KFI out there and doing gorilla marketing is one
(22:20):
of my favorite things. And it's one of the things
that I love about LA and it's kind of gone
by the side. They've kind of moved in with and
I mean marketing groups with experiences, and I think that's great.
These these experiences where you go somewhere and they make
a makeshift building or something, you walk in and you
(22:40):
experience something, and I love those things. But man, we
are a driving city. We drive in Los Angeles. You know,
as we just heard, Monks and Merrill are going to
be talking about writing public transit. We don't do that
a lot here. It's not like New York. New York,
you're great for that. You just hop on the subway.
(23:01):
If you're going to go out to bar hopping, you
don't have to worry about that stuff. But seeing this
man living inside the billboard on Sunset Boulevard, but Boulevard,
if you haven't heard about this to promote a film,
just brought back all those really cool moments LA moments,
billboard moments, especially radio. We used to use billboards like
(23:24):
nobody's business. It's just you're in your car usually when
you're listening to radio. I know now with iHeartRadio app
and stuff like that, we listen to it everywhere. I
know I do. I've got it on me all the time.
But it reminds you of being this kinetic, connective city
that we haven't seemed to be in some time. And
(23:48):
I like seeing this. So this is in West Hollywood
and it's on Sunset and Selma that started us talking
about it a little earlier with Anne. But when I
first saw it and Jo said the same thing. When
we first heard a guy living on a billboard, we
thought a homeless until I'm sorry, but that's just that's
how we think in la Ah. It's it's it's the
(24:10):
homeless situation. They're moving up, moving on up to the billboards.
But it's a guy. So let me let me if
you haven't seen this, it's pretty cool. It's a billboard
that they built this. You know, what are they what
do they call that?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
A living room? No, no, Amy, that's diorama.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Those are both great descriptors, but not what I was
looking for. That that type of one of a bay window.
It's like a bay window, right, It kind of jets
out three different sides there and it's made to look
like a living room. There's a guy in it.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
He's in his bathroom right now because that's morning time.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, And there's a guy actually in there, and he
does he have a TV or something, and he's got
a whiteboard so he can communicate with people down on
the street or driving by. Doesn't sound safe. And this
is all to promote this film. So what is the
(25:16):
name of the film. It's like The Last House. The
Last House. Is it a horror film?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It sounds like it could be. The family gets trapped
inside the house. Their supplies, food and stuff are dwindling,
and there's some ominous force that's not allowing them to leave.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Oh so it's about COVID. Why don't they just say that?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Don't they just call it the pandemic?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah? I went through this for years. There was no
big deal. But he's got a bookshelf up there, looks
like a computer or something. Can you text with him?
Or is it just but it is attracting a lot
of attention. I want to, you know, I'll probab we
(26:00):
go out there today, take my son out there to
see the freak show. But it just reminds me of
the good old days of gorilla marketing and doing something
odd in La you know, these weird things. We used
to do all kinds of crazy stuff on KFI to
get people's attention. And I remember, I don't know if
(26:21):
we ended up putting these billboards up, but it was
a design that was ore to traditional black, white and orange,
with images of Obama, of Hillary Clinton, of George Bush,
with just single descriptors. We would look for things that
(26:43):
people describe these people about and we'd put that word
up there. We'd put good ones and bad ones on
different billboards and see what the reaction of people. Or
you'd put warmonger up underneath and you know, underneath their picture.
I don't think we ever put those up, but we
did at one point just put words up with no description. Mexican.
(27:05):
It was just a board that said Mexican on it
with KFI. And then I can't remember all of the Mexican.
One stands out to me, just to see how people
responded to words with no context, and people flipped out
about it. What's that supposed to be? I don't know.
What doesn't mean to you? You're the ones flipping out
about it. You got a problem with Mexicans. It was
(27:26):
crazy some of the things that we used to do
great KFI. It shared our attitude. People collect photos of
them good time. So seeing this out on the streets
of Sunset and Selma in Hollywood or in la is
kind of cool. And it's going to be there through
the weekend, Amy, I just through tomorrow. That's it.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, So today and tomorrow is your opportunity to go see.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Get out there and see some craziness in la Yeah,
I love it all right, stick around a really important topic.
This is one that I want you to participate in,
meaning that if you are moved by this information, I'm
gonna want you to contact the politicians that be. I
think this is a horrible case of probably trying to
(28:10):
do good but really really missing the mark and hurting
a lot of good people, me included, as I am
a maker. I will explain with the help of David
Tobin when we return. It's The Bill Handle Show, Neil
and the Morning Crew. This is KFI heard everywhere on
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Speaker 4 (28:31):
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