December 19, 2025 • 23 mins
(December 19, 2025)
They get wheeled on flights and miraculously walk off… praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’ A lesson in false limits: Are athletes retiring too soon? The show closes with ‘Ask Handel Anything.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KMF I am six forty will Handle here on a
footy Friday, which is not a floody Friday because.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Neil Savedra is not here. Before we get to.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This religious topic, and I love doing religion, as you know,
a couple of big stories. You have the Just Department
today facing the deadline to release the remainder of its
investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein, and.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I don't know you think they're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I was right on Pete Hegseth not releasing the video
of that attack on the drug boat in which there
were two survivors and then they were taken out, and
now it is high it's top secret for some reason.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
All the other ones are not all right.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
So we'll see today if it happens now instead of
foody Friday. Neil who is here, and Neil, as you know,
is the producer of the Jesus Show that's heard on
Sundays here on KFI six to nine am. I want
to share a religious story with you. And this is
a story out of the Wall Tree Journal and they
(01:19):
interviewed a carlist Gomez. He was flying from Guadalajara to
here and the flight was really delayed, and he asked
the gate attendant, what's going on. Weather's fine, the crew
is here. There were twenty five wheelchair passengers that were
holding up boarding, twenty five of them.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Now, okay, so they get them on the airplane.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
They get these twenty five people on the airplane, and
as the passengers were getting off the airplane, those twenty
five people who were boarded on wheelchairs got up without assistance,
no wheelchair, and bounded off the airplane.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It was a miracle.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
They were cured of their disability on the plane, actually
on the jetway. That's why this is a Jesus or
a jetway Jesus that's at work. You've seen those early films. Well,
there was a faith healer, Amy Simple McPherson in the
(02:30):
twenties here in Los Angeles who had this enormous church,
the building is still here, and she would heal people.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
We have televangelists today who heal people. You know, they hear.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Voices and they come up there with wheelchairs and.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Stand up, stand up.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah yeah right. It's always some cancer cure or something.
It's never an amputation. For example, grow a leg, grow
a leg that you don't usually see when these evangelists
go crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Okay, so these are Jetway.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
This is Jetway Jesus that cures passengers before they land
and they're able to walk off. And they're also described
as miracle flights. And the flight attendant explained to Gomez
that a lot of these people request wheelchairs for the
(03:27):
quote VIP experience. What is that, Well, you skip the lines,
you get first crack, you get into the airplane first,
that overhead space, and then once they realize.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Wait, you have to stay on.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You have to stay on the plane until we get
a wheelchair, and you have to wait for everybody to
get off. WHOA, I'm fine, I've been cured. I spoke
in voices. Now there's usually no request for proof of
a disability passenger. Sometimes they're asked to fill out a
(04:00):
quick form saying yeah, I'm disabled, then off they go.
And sometimes, according to the flight attendant who talked to Gomez,
who gave him the reason why there were fifty people
on that flight, sometimes they're up to fifty wheelchairs boarding
a plane that seats one hundred and thirty passengers.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh, Gomez.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That flight from god to Lahara had twenty five wheelchair passengers,
and so it's the ultimate way of doing it.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It just works. Now it's gotten old real quickly.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Disney Disneyland used to do something like that, amy that
I would say that there is a Walmart near Disneyland
and you could buy one of those collapsible canes for
eight dollars and then go to the park and then
walk on your cane or with your cane and get
(04:55):
at the front.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Of the line.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And you are why they changed the policy.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I only did it, okay, to see if it could
be done for the purposes of doing a segment forty
five times.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You know what really made them change the policy though,
was that this is one of the biggest things that happened,
was that people were hiring people who were handicapped or
had a handicap to go with them. So like you'd
show up and one person would be in a wheelchair
and the whole party would cut the line. Now, wow,
(05:33):
and they actually hired people too. You have to give
them kudos. However, isn't while this disabled people. I don't
know if they actually give them a break anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
But wasn't there a time when disabled people could only
take one person with them on the ride?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They used to have to They didn't used to have
that restriction. They may have it now because but they
had to change their policy because again people were cheating it,
taking advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, when I report it after having only done it once,
mind you just for the purposes of the show. That
that Walmart cane, the collapsible cane, which you only have
to buy once, by the way, but it's disposable, it's
eight bucks and it's uh. That was problematic. And then
I said, don't ever do that again. And then of
(06:19):
course the next week I said, wait a minute, I've
got to I've got to try it again to see
if it really works.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Those are the days.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
When I went to Disneyland and a lot of times
they just don't let people or you wait in line,
you sit in the wheelchair, just wait in line like
everybody else, and then they put you in the wheelchair
accessible part of the ride. I'm thinking of Pirates of
the Caribbean, for example, where you can get in there
or the uh, well, let me ask you something I
(06:49):
haven't been on. In the auto zone. You know the uh,
those little cars and I'm sure you have right, yeah,
and you actually step on the gas right, Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
What do they do with couple amputees people that have
no legs?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Is that handled?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Maybe they have to go with another guest?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Oh, okay, just wondering. Okay, I want to share something
with you, and it's all about retirement. And there are
a couple kinds of people that live in the world
of retirement.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Those who can't wait to retire.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They've had a job that they haven't enjoyed for many,
many years or hated from the beginning, and we're sort
of forced into the job because of circumstances. A lot
of lawyers, for example, are practicing the law that they
first clerked at or clerked in and don't particularly like
it and or can't wait to retire. And then there
are people that just love to keep on working, and
(07:48):
in many cases they can't because society doesn't let them,
and they're.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Still able to work. It's just that, especially in the
world of athlete.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I mean, how many Tom Brady's are out there or
Lindsey Vaughn's. Lindsay Vaughn just won a World Cup race
at forty one which is the oldest racer of any
man or woman skier that has ever been and she
came back after seven years. And then the story about
(08:22):
Philip Rivers, forty four year old quarterback retired I think
retired seven years ago. He was no five years ago
and he was with the Colts and they ran out
of quarterbacks, so they brought him back after retirement, and
he had not thrown a ball for years, and he
actually did very well. Even though the Colts lost, he
(08:46):
was able to throw a touchdown. He did really well.
And when he retired it because he wanted to retire.
He and his wife have ten kids. Boy, you're not
talking about keeping busy, that's for sure. And he said,
I'm just ready to go. I want to spend time
with my kids. Well, I don't want to spend time
with my kids. I have no desire to spend time
with my kids. And so retirement in my life is well,
(09:10):
I don't know when I'm going to retire, frankly, And
here's what happens professional athletes. There is something called sarcopenia,
where it's a decline incremental decline of muscle mass aerobic
capacity begins to lessen flexibility decreases ligaman stiffen.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And in my world, in the world of talk, what
ends up happening?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, in my case, for example, because I'm no youngster,
I've been doing this for a long time, thirty two years,
just in the morning here on KFI, what ends up happening?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Have you noticed that I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Groping for words more and more, I go off on tangents.
I rarely know what I'm talking about. And so when
I tell people that I work with, you know what,
I'm definitely aging because of the way I broadcast, and
you can tell. And I'm told, Bill, you sounded the
(10:09):
same way the first day of broadcasting, groping for words,
not paying attention, going off on tangents, and I go, wow,
I feel good about that. The point is the other
side of this is I don't know what I'm going
to do when I retire.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I mean, this is a great gig. I enjoy doing this.
I make a terrific living doing this, and I don't golf.
There isn't a human being on this planet that I
would spend five and a half hours with on a
golf course. So I'm one of those people that you know,
literally probably going to retire when I finally end up
(10:51):
groping for words, going off on tangents, not knowing what
I'm talking about, just losing attention, that's when I'm to retire.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Wait a minute, I've been doing that for forty years.
There you go, guys. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
I really.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Al Gore said it best when he when he's introduced,
and he said, I used to be the next president
of the United States. And one of my fears, legitimately
is I don't want to go around saying I used
to be Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's that's a legitimate fear.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
However, I'll have forgotten my name by then, and so
I don't have to worry about it. Forgotten that I've
ever worked in radio. What's the name of the station? Amy,
Do you know how many years I introduced myself as Hi,
this is Bill Handle, this is KABC Radio. Now I
(11:54):
was fired. I was, oh, yeah, you did, Honest to god,
I was fired from KABC.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
In nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I had done my illegal show in nineteen eighty eight,
and they fired me because I was groping for words,
because I was going off on tangients, because I rarely
knew what I was talking about giving advice. I made
absolutely no sense and so they can me. But I
for years, literally years, I would use those call letters. Okay,
(12:27):
and it is time for Ask Candle Anything. And this
is where you folks record a question for me. Neil
goes through the questions and I hear him for the
first time and answer. Because it's Ask Candle Anything. Neil
is not here, but he has selected the questions as
we end the Friday show, and the whole point of
it is to humiliate me and usually it works. So
(12:49):
with that in mind, our first call for Ask Candle Anything.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Hey, it's known in San Diego.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Hey, if Bill was one of the seven door offs,
which one would he want to be?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
And why would it be?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Happy?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Nice?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Where do you go with that one? Okay, I'd be
the incontinent one.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Is that was?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That would be one of the dwarfs, that would be
there's stupid, there's droopy, there's loopy. Uh, there's groupie, and
then there's the one that doesn't sound like that, and
that's incontinency.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Okay, moving on, you divorce margin and it's just still single.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
And if I think of her phone number.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Thank you. Oh well, first of all, I didn't divorce Margarine.
As much as people think that I'm using butter, I'm not.
I still use Margarine. And uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
At this point she is single.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah yeah, and a real catch, I might add, she
is uh, you know, very attractive and just yeah, you know,
so you want to grab.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Her while you can do the war margin. Oh I'm
sorry margin.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Okay, I'm you know, divorce margin as in the typing
when you get something on paper. Yes, I divorced margin,
and now I use the entire page.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Okay, next, Bill Hector, and goodyear Arizona. Here.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I always thought you were about six foot three.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
How tall are you now?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Bill?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Have you shrunk over the years or still?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Oh you were you? Never sixty three? Were you's a
lot smaller than that. Please let us know. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Okay, No, I was never six three. I was six'
one at my. Height but what ends up happening as
those who have family members or, you the.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Body is actually.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Shrinks it does because we're not really made to walk
for seventy. Years so the discs get, smaller and you do,
shrink AND i did shrink quite a, bit SO i
went from six to one to five foot, three and
it's it's a. Lot let me tell you it's it's
not the same The uh, yeah, yeah the self self
(15:10):
clothing comes right into. It self esteem has a lot
to do with. It, uh, okay we have another.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
One, Uh bill handle this is kind of a curious,
question but, uh sort of looking into the. Future but,
uh you talked about about how must say something about
money is going to be useless and all. That, well
if money is going to be, USELESS i want your,
opinion then what does that mean about? Gold and also
(15:35):
if money is, useless how AM i going to buy My?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Zelmans? Oh good.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Question, No i'm not saying money is useless and is
no longer going to. Exist It's Elon musk that said,
that uh and not. Me and how do you buy
Your zelmans with?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Money? YEAH i don't quite get.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
How money is going to be useless because What musk
was saying that there'll be so much technology and so
MUCH ai out, there you won't have to work at,
all and therefore money is not going to be there
to buy. Anything you'll be able to get everything FOR
i guess. FREE i JUST i don't get. It it
makes no sense to, me but, no and SO i
(16:18):
still get. Paid and it's one of those things that
WHEN i go to the store AND i put the
corn flakes on the, counter they want. Money all, RIGHT
i think we do one more before we take a.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Break Hey, BILL i really Miss neil right. Now AND
i was wondering if you get.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
That same feeling on the inside whenever you don't See
neil for that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Long all, right, thanks absolutely. Not there is no Chance
i'm ever going to Miss neil and really feel like
he should be here with.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Me no. Chance.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Now it used to Be neil AND i used to be.
Closer we. Would we've spent time in a hotel. Together
he's a very good. SPOONER i have to tell. You
we do some really nice, spooning and we've gone on.
Vacation but in, general the answer is, NO i do
not Miss. Neil i'm just fine when he's not. Here
(17:16):
as a matter of, fact listening to this, SEGMENT i
don't Miss neil because a lot of times he won't shut. Up,
okay let's go ahead and grab the next, Question, Hi.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Bill one. Question are you relatively? Happy?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, No i'm not relatively. Unhappy i'm completely. UNHAPPY i,
mean to the depths of my, Soul i'm. Unhappy and
the only REASON i don't commit suicide is because that
would make other people, happy And i'm not interested in
doing that.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Either, okay moving.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
On.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Hey, bill how come you don't Tell zelman's In smart
And final Or Trader. Joe's wouldn't it be easier than
having commercials every ten?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Minutes, well easier for. You, possibly we just haven't gotten there.
Yet it's just a question of time That zelmans will
be at At Trader joe's and Probably walmart as a
matter of. Fact next time you, go you can ask
the manager, why you, know why don't you Have zelman's
(18:32):
because that would make. It, yeah that would make it
really convenient for. People so that's the answer. There, wow
that was a serious, answer wasn't.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It what just? Happened, okay let's move.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
On Hey, bill you just did a segment on how
you give everybody cash and write checks to everybody and
that you hate going out buying. Gifts do you write
a check To lindsey?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Too, no she writes a check to. Herself, YES i
WISH i could just write a check to, her AND
i am Frankly i'm not a. GIFTER i don't go
out of my way to gift simply because it takes,
time you have to think it, through you have to
actually like the person that you're. Gifting so, NO i
(19:24):
find it a pain in the. Ass it's just easier
to write a check and go.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Here leave me. Alone.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Now on the, Show anne is a, gifter and Certainly
amy is a, gifter AND i.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Don't know About cono And will are you a? Gifter?
Will i'm a.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Grifter that's WHY i thought we were going to go
there and beat and you beat me to, it and
you Beat kno to.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
It, okay thank. You let's not do that.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Again although that was pretty maronic AND i was going
to be embarrassed even saying, that do we have any?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
More kno got a? Couple, okay let's go for. It, Hi,
bill tell?
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Me are you a?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Millionaire?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, yeah And i'll tell you, why BECAUSE i own
a home in Southern, california and anybody who owns a
home is pretty much a millionaire simply because of property
values here in Southern.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
California.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah that put me. Over that puts me over the
edge big. Time so, ALSO i have a most favored nation.
Clause and this is a little bit inside, baseball and
my contract calls for anybody who gets a raise in the,
building you have to match it for. Me and that
is that is a world in the contract called the
(20:40):
most favored nation, clause WHICH i don't. Have but, yeah
the answer to your. Question and by the, Way i'm not.
ALONE i mean there are lots of people who are.
Millionaires moving.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
On, hey this is Listener allen Dandel you always Ask
ann if she was working at So far whenever there
was a big game on the previous. Day BUT i
don't think we've talked about What anne does. There, So,
ann what do you do with So? Far and is
it more interesting than producing a radio show for some
blowhard radio host who constantly gropes yeah for? Words, yeah
let me thanks.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
All, Right and you want to describe what you do
with So? Far, yes that's a part time. JOB i
love it.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Though i'm a guest experience, manager SO i basically just
make sure that my area of the stadium people have
someone to talk, to if they have somebody that they
are if they have an issue or have a complaint
or or meet up with.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Anything, YEAH i just want to put an put on
the table and just get a little uh more. REALISTIC
a guest experience manager AT sofi is a person who
cleans the ladies, room and that is where you'll find.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Such a. Chark do we have one? More or are we?
Done all done? Well all done? Well we did pretty?
Well not too all? Right we are.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
DONE i come back On, monday and next week is
totally modified WITH i don't even know When.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Will comes here and Where amy. Is will will be here.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And AMY i think is here early next, week and,
well i'll tell you later on who is? Where even
after you're telling, Me i'll forget it, instantly remember the
STORY i just. DID i will completely forget, it and
so we'll be repeating it all over. Again, okay we're, Done,
gary and what's her?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Face? Shannon that's her?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Name completely forgot up next and tomorrow morning is handle
on the.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Wall you want to hear people.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
FORGETTING i take it To New heights tomorrow morning from
eight to eleven o'clock and you will Hear neil from
two to. Five we'll rich to morrow eleven to two
and what else going. On i've sort of forgotten what we're.
DOING i know me saying, Okay amba saying we know
you that. Day, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Okay this IS KFI am.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
KMF I am six forty will Handle here on a
footy Friday, which is not a floody Friday because.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Neil Savedra is not here. Before we get to.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This religious topic, and I love doing religion, as you know,
a couple of big stories. You have the Just Department
today facing the deadline to release the remainder of its
investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein, and.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I don't know you think they're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I was right on Pete Hegseth not releasing the video
of that attack on the drug boat in which there
were two survivors and then they were taken out, and
now it is high it's top secret for some reason.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
All the other ones are not all right.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
So we'll see today if it happens now instead of
foody Friday. Neil who is here, and Neil, as you know,
is the producer of the Jesus Show that's heard on
Sundays here on KFI six to nine am. I want
to share a religious story with you. And this is
a story out of the Wall Tree Journal and they
(01:19):
interviewed a carlist Gomez. He was flying from Guadalajara to
here and the flight was really delayed, and he asked
the gate attendant, what's going on. Weather's fine, the crew
is here. There were twenty five wheelchair passengers that were
holding up boarding, twenty five of them.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Now, okay, so they get them on the airplane.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
They get these twenty five people on the airplane, and
as the passengers were getting off the airplane, those twenty
five people who were boarded on wheelchairs got up without assistance,
no wheelchair, and bounded off the airplane.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It was a miracle.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
They were cured of their disability on the plane, actually
on the jetway. That's why this is a Jesus or
a jetway Jesus that's at work. You've seen those early films. Well,
there was a faith healer, Amy Simple McPherson in the
(02:30):
twenties here in Los Angeles who had this enormous church,
the building is still here, and she would heal people.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
We have televangelists today who heal people. You know, they hear.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Voices and they come up there with wheelchairs and.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Stand up, stand up.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah yeah right. It's always some cancer cure or something.
It's never an amputation. For example, grow a leg, grow
a leg that you don't usually see when these evangelists
go crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Okay, so these are Jetway.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
This is Jetway Jesus that cures passengers before they land
and they're able to walk off. And they're also described
as miracle flights. And the flight attendant explained to Gomez
that a lot of these people request wheelchairs for the
(03:27):
quote VIP experience. What is that, Well, you skip the lines,
you get first crack, you get into the airplane first,
that overhead space, and then once they realize.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Wait, you have to stay on.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You have to stay on the plane until we get
a wheelchair, and you have to wait for everybody to
get off. WHOA, I'm fine, I've been cured. I spoke
in voices. Now there's usually no request for proof of
a disability passenger. Sometimes they're asked to fill out a
(04:00):
quick form saying yeah, I'm disabled, then off they go.
And sometimes, according to the flight attendant who talked to Gomez,
who gave him the reason why there were fifty people
on that flight, sometimes they're up to fifty wheelchairs boarding
a plane that seats one hundred and thirty passengers.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh, Gomez.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That flight from god to Lahara had twenty five wheelchair passengers,
and so it's the ultimate way of doing it.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It just works. Now it's gotten old real quickly.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Disney Disneyland used to do something like that, amy that
I would say that there is a Walmart near Disneyland
and you could buy one of those collapsible canes for
eight dollars and then go to the park and then
walk on your cane or with your cane and get
(04:55):
at the front.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Of the line.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And you are why they changed the policy.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Well, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I only did it, okay, to see if it could
be done for the purposes of doing a segment forty
five times.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You know what really made them change the policy though,
was that this is one of the biggest things that happened,
was that people were hiring people who were handicapped or
had a handicap to go with them. So like you'd
show up and one person would be in a wheelchair
and the whole party would cut the line. Now, wow,
(05:33):
and they actually hired people too. You have to give
them kudos. However, isn't while this disabled people. I don't
know if they actually give them a break anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
But wasn't there a time when disabled people could only
take one person with them on the ride?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They used to have to They didn't used to have
that restriction. They may have it now because but they
had to change their policy because again people were cheating it,
taking advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, when I report it after having only done it once,
mind you just for the purposes of the show. That
that Walmart cane, the collapsible cane, which you only have
to buy once, by the way, but it's disposable, it's
eight bucks and it's uh. That was problematic. And then
I said, don't ever do that again. And then of
(06:19):
course the next week I said, wait a minute, I've
got to I've got to try it again to see
if it really works.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Those are the days.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
When I went to Disneyland and a lot of times
they just don't let people or you wait in line,
you sit in the wheelchair, just wait in line like
everybody else, and then they put you in the wheelchair
accessible part of the ride. I'm thinking of Pirates of
the Caribbean, for example, where you can get in there
or the uh, well, let me ask you something I
(06:49):
haven't been on. In the auto zone. You know the uh,
those little cars and I'm sure you have right, yeah,
and you actually step on the gas right, Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
What do they do with couple amputees people that have
no legs?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Is that handled?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Maybe they have to go with another guest?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Oh, okay, just wondering. Okay, I want to share something
with you, and it's all about retirement. And there are
a couple kinds of people that live in the world
of retirement.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Those who can't wait to retire.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They've had a job that they haven't enjoyed for many,
many years or hated from the beginning, and we're sort
of forced into the job because of circumstances. A lot
of lawyers, for example, are practicing the law that they
first clerked at or clerked in and don't particularly like
it and or can't wait to retire. And then there
are people that just love to keep on working, and
(07:48):
in many cases they can't because society doesn't let them,
and they're.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Still able to work. It's just that, especially in the
world of athlete.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I mean, how many Tom Brady's are out there or
Lindsey Vaughn's. Lindsay Vaughn just won a World Cup race
at forty one which is the oldest racer of any
man or woman skier that has ever been and she
came back after seven years. And then the story about
(08:22):
Philip Rivers, forty four year old quarterback retired I think
retired seven years ago. He was no five years ago
and he was with the Colts and they ran out
of quarterbacks, so they brought him back after retirement, and
he had not thrown a ball for years, and he
actually did very well. Even though the Colts lost, he
(08:46):
was able to throw a touchdown. He did really well.
And when he retired it because he wanted to retire.
He and his wife have ten kids. Boy, you're not
talking about keeping busy, that's for sure. And he said,
I'm just ready to go. I want to spend time
with my kids. Well, I don't want to spend time
with my kids. I have no desire to spend time
with my kids. And so retirement in my life is well,
(09:10):
I don't know when I'm going to retire, frankly, And
here's what happens professional athletes. There is something called sarcopenia,
where it's a decline incremental decline of muscle mass aerobic
capacity begins to lessen flexibility decreases ligaman stiffen.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And in my world, in the world of talk, what
ends up happening?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, in my case, for example, because I'm no youngster,
I've been doing this for a long time, thirty two years,
just in the morning here on KFI, what ends up happening?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Have you noticed that I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Groping for words more and more, I go off on tangents.
I rarely know what I'm talking about. And so when
I tell people that I work with, you know what,
I'm definitely aging because of the way I broadcast, and
you can tell. And I'm told, Bill, you sounded the
(10:09):
same way the first day of broadcasting, groping for words,
not paying attention, going off on tangents, and I go, wow,
I feel good about that. The point is the other
side of this is I don't know what I'm going
to do when I retire.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I mean, this is a great gig. I enjoy doing this.
I make a terrific living doing this, and I don't golf.
There isn't a human being on this planet that I
would spend five and a half hours with on a
golf course. So I'm one of those people that you know,
literally probably going to retire when I finally end up
(10:51):
groping for words, going off on tangents, not knowing what
I'm talking about, just losing attention, that's when I'm to retire.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Wait a minute, I've been doing that for forty years.
There you go, guys. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
I really.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Al Gore said it best when he when he's introduced,
and he said, I used to be the next president
of the United States. And one of my fears, legitimately
is I don't want to go around saying I used
to be Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's that's a legitimate fear.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
However, I'll have forgotten my name by then, and so
I don't have to worry about it. Forgotten that I've
ever worked in radio. What's the name of the station? Amy,
Do you know how many years I introduced myself as Hi,
this is Bill Handle, this is KABC Radio. Now I
(11:54):
was fired. I was, oh, yeah, you did, Honest to god,
I was fired from KABC.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
In nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I had done my illegal show in nineteen eighty eight,
and they fired me because I was groping for words,
because I was going off on tangients, because I rarely
knew what I was talking about giving advice. I made
absolutely no sense and so they can me. But I
for years, literally years, I would use those call letters. Okay,
(12:27):
and it is time for Ask Candle Anything. And this
is where you folks record a question for me. Neil
goes through the questions and I hear him for the
first time and answer. Because it's Ask Candle Anything. Neil
is not here, but he has selected the questions as
we end the Friday show, and the whole point of
it is to humiliate me and usually it works. So
(12:49):
with that in mind, our first call for Ask Candle Anything.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Hey, it's known in San Diego.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
Hey, if Bill was one of the seven door offs,
which one would he want to be?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
And why would it be?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Happy?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Nice?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Where do you go with that one? Okay, I'd be
the incontinent one.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Is that was?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That would be one of the dwarfs, that would be
there's stupid, there's droopy, there's loopy. Uh, there's groupie, and
then there's the one that doesn't sound like that, and
that's incontinency.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Okay, moving on, you divorce margin and it's just still single.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
And if I think of her phone number.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Thank you. Oh well, first of all, I didn't divorce Margarine.
As much as people think that I'm using butter, I'm not.
I still use Margarine. And uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
At this point she is single.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yeah yeah, and a real catch, I might add, she
is uh, you know, very attractive and just yeah, you know,
so you want to grab.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Her while you can do the war margin. Oh I'm
sorry margin.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Okay, I'm you know, divorce margin as in the typing
when you get something on paper. Yes, I divorced margin,
and now I use the entire page.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Okay, next, Bill Hector, and goodyear Arizona. Here.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I always thought you were about six foot three.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
How tall are you now?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Bill?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Have you shrunk over the years or still?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Oh you were you? Never sixty three? Were you's a
lot smaller than that. Please let us know. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Okay, No, I was never six three. I was six'
one at my. Height but what ends up happening as
those who have family members or, you the.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Body is actually.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Shrinks it does because we're not really made to walk
for seventy. Years so the discs get, smaller and you do,
shrink AND i did shrink quite a, bit SO i
went from six to one to five foot, three and
it's it's a. Lot let me tell you it's it's
not the same The uh, yeah, yeah the self self
(15:10):
clothing comes right into. It self esteem has a lot
to do with. It, uh, okay we have another.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
One, Uh bill handle this is kind of a curious,
question but, uh sort of looking into the. Future but,
uh you talked about about how must say something about
money is going to be useless and all. That, well
if money is going to be, USELESS i want your,
opinion then what does that mean about? Gold and also
(15:35):
if money is, useless how AM i going to buy My?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Zelmans? Oh good.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Question, No i'm not saying money is useless and is
no longer going to. Exist It's Elon musk that said,
that uh and not. Me and how do you buy
Your zelmans with?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Money? YEAH i don't quite get.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
How money is going to be useless because What musk
was saying that there'll be so much technology and so
MUCH ai out, there you won't have to work at,
all and therefore money is not going to be there
to buy. Anything you'll be able to get everything FOR
i guess. FREE i JUST i don't get. It it
makes no sense to, me but, no and SO i
(16:18):
still get. Paid and it's one of those things that
WHEN i go to the store AND i put the
corn flakes on the, counter they want. Money all, RIGHT
i think we do one more before we take a.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Break Hey, BILL i really Miss neil right. Now AND
i was wondering if you get.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
That same feeling on the inside whenever you don't See
neil for that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Long all, right, thanks absolutely. Not there is no Chance
i'm ever going to Miss neil and really feel like
he should be here with.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Me no. Chance.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Now it used to Be neil AND i used to be.
Closer we. Would we've spent time in a hotel. Together
he's a very good. SPOONER i have to tell. You
we do some really nice, spooning and we've gone on.
Vacation but in, general the answer is, NO i do
not Miss. Neil i'm just fine when he's not. Here
(17:16):
as a matter of, fact listening to this, SEGMENT i
don't Miss neil because a lot of times he won't shut. Up,
okay let's go ahead and grab the next, Question, Hi.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Bill one. Question are you relatively? Happy?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, No i'm not relatively. Unhappy i'm completely. UNHAPPY i,
mean to the depths of my, Soul i'm. Unhappy and
the only REASON i don't commit suicide is because that
would make other people, happy And i'm not interested in
doing that.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Either, okay moving.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
On.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Hey, bill how come you don't Tell zelman's In smart
And final Or Trader. Joe's wouldn't it be easier than
having commercials every ten?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Minutes, well easier for. You, possibly we just haven't gotten there.
Yet it's just a question of time That zelmans will
be at At Trader joe's and Probably walmart as a
matter of. Fact next time you, go you can ask
the manager, why you, know why don't you Have zelman's
(18:32):
because that would make. It, yeah that would make it
really convenient for. People so that's the answer. There, wow
that was a serious, answer wasn't.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It what just? Happened, okay let's move.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
On Hey, bill you just did a segment on how
you give everybody cash and write checks to everybody and
that you hate going out buying. Gifts do you write
a check To lindsey?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Too, no she writes a check to. Herself, YES i
WISH i could just write a check to, her AND
i am Frankly i'm not a. GIFTER i don't go
out of my way to gift simply because it takes,
time you have to think it, through you have to
actually like the person that you're. Gifting so, NO i
(19:24):
find it a pain in the. Ass it's just easier
to write a check and go.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Here leave me. Alone.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Now on the, Show anne is a, gifter and Certainly
amy is a, gifter AND i.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Don't know About cono And will are you a? Gifter?
Will i'm a.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Grifter that's WHY i thought we were going to go
there and beat and you beat me to, it and
you Beat kno to.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
It, okay thank. You let's not do that.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Again although that was pretty maronic AND i was going
to be embarrassed even saying, that do we have any?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
More kno got a? Couple, okay let's go for. It, Hi,
bill tell?
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Me are you a?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Millionaire?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, yeah And i'll tell you, why BECAUSE i own
a home in Southern, california and anybody who owns a
home is pretty much a millionaire simply because of property
values here in Southern.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
California.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah that put me. Over that puts me over the
edge big. Time so, ALSO i have a most favored nation.
Clause and this is a little bit inside, baseball and
my contract calls for anybody who gets a raise in the,
building you have to match it for. Me and that
is that is a world in the contract called the
(20:40):
most favored nation, clause WHICH i don't. Have but, yeah
the answer to your. Question and by the, Way i'm not.
ALONE i mean there are lots of people who are.
Millionaires moving.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
On, hey this is Listener allen Dandel you always Ask
ann if she was working at So far whenever there
was a big game on the previous. Day BUT i
don't think we've talked about What anne does. There, So,
ann what do you do with So? Far and is
it more interesting than producing a radio show for some
blowhard radio host who constantly gropes yeah for? Words, yeah
let me thanks.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
All, Right and you want to describe what you do
with So? Far, yes that's a part time. JOB i
love it.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Though i'm a guest experience, manager SO i basically just
make sure that my area of the stadium people have
someone to talk, to if they have somebody that they
are if they have an issue or have a complaint
or or meet up with.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Anything, YEAH i just want to put an put on
the table and just get a little uh more. REALISTIC
a guest experience manager AT sofi is a person who
cleans the ladies, room and that is where you'll find.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Such a. Chark do we have one? More or are we?
Done all done? Well all done? Well we did pretty?
Well not too all? Right we are.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
DONE i come back On, monday and next week is
totally modified WITH i don't even know When.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Will comes here and Where amy. Is will will be here.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And AMY i think is here early next, week and,
well i'll tell you later on who is? Where even
after you're telling, Me i'll forget it, instantly remember the
STORY i just. DID i will completely forget, it and
so we'll be repeating it all over. Again, okay we're, Done,
gary and what's her?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Face? Shannon that's her?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Name completely forgot up next and tomorrow morning is handle
on the.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Wall you want to hear people.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
FORGETTING i take it To New heights tomorrow morning from
eight to eleven o'clock and you will Hear neil from
two to. Five we'll rich to morrow eleven to two
and what else going. On i've sort of forgotten what we're.
DOING i know me saying, Okay amba saying we know
you that. Day, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Okay this IS KFI am.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
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