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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 2: Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 1: KFI AM 640, Handel here and the morning crew. Three
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  Speaker 1: weeks exactly to the day before the midterm comes along.
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  Speaker 1: We hear a lot about politics over the next three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to see what's going to happen. Is the
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  Speaker 1: House going to flip? Almost certainly. Is the Senate going
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  Speaker 1: to flip? Yeah, yeah, there's a decent chance. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about that and what's going on and the money
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  Speaker 1: that's being spent and the response the president and the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans have and what the Democrats are doing, all of that.
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  Speaker 1: over the next couple of weeks. That really does affect
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  Speaker 1: us big time. So before that, let me say a
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  Speaker 1: quick hello to one and all. Neil, good morning. Good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: There is, oh, Willow, how you doing this morning? Good morning, Bill.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a black sweatshirt of some kind?
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a black kind of hoodie thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, black tin makes you tend to look a
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  Speaker 1: little thinner, although it's... I get it. Yeah, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: help here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just... No. No, it doesn't work. Yeah. Amy,
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  Speaker 1: Dodger Blue. Yep. Keep in the face. There you are.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. And there's Anne in Padre's sort of
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  Speaker 1: purplish brown. No, not even close. Oh, okay. Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: the camera. It's the camera that does it. Also, introduce Mario,
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  Speaker 1: our new guy. Hello, hello. Good morning, everybody. Mario has
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  Speaker 1: replaced Kono. Mario has now come onto the show as
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  Speaker 1: our board operator. Temporarily, he's on Tuesday through Friday here.
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  Speaker 1: because he also does handle on the law, but they're
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  Speaker 1: looking for someone. I think they're looking at some people
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  Speaker 1: that do handle on the law, which means Mario come
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  Speaker 1: here Monday through Friday. A couple of things about Mario.
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  Speaker 1: Mario decided he would forego the, the better paying and
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  Speaker 1: the more advantageous job at a Taco Bell or Del Taco,
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  Speaker 1: which Kono took. And so I just want to give Mario,
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  Speaker 1: number one, a heads up. Number two, you have a
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  Speaker 1: hell of a future here because you're going to go
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  Speaker 1: from board op to board op and maybe be promoted
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  Speaker 1: to board op a little bit later on at exactly
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  Speaker 1: the same salary. And so.
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  Speaker 3: We finally got enough money to afford a whole Mexican.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. yeah but hold on he also has to do
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  Speaker 1: the lawns too that's included in the job description he
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  Speaker 1: has to mow the lawns only on saturdays in front
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  Speaker 1: of the building yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Being a half breed i'll do the edging but.
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  Speaker 1: There you go my goddaughter uh she was dating a
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  Speaker 1: hispanic guy uh and she introduced me to him it
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  Speaker 1: was at my house and so she introduces me to
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  Speaker 1: him uh and It was Bill. I think his name
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  Speaker 1: was Izzy, short for Isidore or whatever. So Bill, this
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  Speaker 1: is Izzy. Izzy, this is Bill. I threw him my
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  Speaker 1: car keys and said, here, take care of my car.
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  Speaker 1: It's out in front. And he threw you his taxes. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: it turned out the guy made about $ 150, 000 a year
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  Speaker 1: in the world of computers. So he thought it was
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  Speaker 1: very funny. And we got along great after that. Although
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  Speaker 1: I have to tell you, every time he saw a
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  Speaker 1: truck with a lawnmower on the bed of the pickup truck,
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  Speaker 1: he got an erection. I noticed that. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can usually notice them.
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  Speaker 1: He's the only one that laughed. You can usually notice
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  Speaker 1: them on other men. This is why Will is on
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  Speaker 1: this show. Because he's the only one that laughs. Okay, man,
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on today. As usual, we do not
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  Speaker 1: have small news days anymore. New White House press secretary
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  Speaker 1: this morning in a very unusual move, and we weren't
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  Speaker 1: expecting this, a blonde who is in her 30s. replacing
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  Speaker 1: a blonde who is in her 30s. And there's also
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  Speaker 1: a fair amount of baggage with this one, too, which
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  Speaker 1: we'll describe later on. Some conspiracy stuff, or at least
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  Speaker 1: the allegation is there, is what I'm hearing. All right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: are you ready to do it? Whee!
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  Speaker 3: Sure. Whee! Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, whee. Thank you very much for that. Amy, before
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  Speaker 1: we do it, quick, weather-wise. Yesterday it was drizzling, and
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  Speaker 1: I was out for my walk, and today, what's happening?
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be a perfect fall day, like sunny
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  Speaker 4: skies and cool temperatures, highs in the low 70s.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the meantime, for those people that live along
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  Speaker 1: the Orange... Orange County coastline, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: Long Beach as well.
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  Speaker 1: Long Beach is no longer long. Plenty of beach, but
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  Speaker 1: it's halfway into your house. The waterline, that's a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I've been looking at these pictures. Oh, did
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  Speaker 1: you see the video of that neighborhood in New Jersey
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  Speaker 1: where the shark is swimming down the middle of the street?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God. You have to look at that. Literally. Now,
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  Speaker 1: is that normal in Jersey? Well, it's literally the street
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  Speaker 1: is flooded. You have houses on both sides and there's
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  Speaker 1: a shark going down the middle. Now, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that's a hoax. I don't know if that's real
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  Speaker 1: or not. But it was pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Was it a baby shark?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no. It was at least a teenage shark, shark, shark, shark.
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  Speaker 1: Daddy shark. Grandpa shark. Yeah. We use that on the
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  Speaker 1: Handel show, on the Saturday show. Whenever I can't get
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  Speaker 1: phone calls, I will say, okay, you guys get to
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  Speaker 1: listen to this for a while. And in the fall,
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  Speaker 1: then the calls explode.
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  Speaker 4: It was a small, smooth dogfish shark.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm. Oh, and there it is. Small, smooth dogfish. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a dogfish shark. I have never heard it regarded
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  Speaker 1: as that. A dogfish? And I'm not talking about sharks either. What?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can tell because it stops at the fire
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  Speaker 3: hydrant and lifts its fin.
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  Speaker 1: That's actually very funny.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: That's actually not bad. I have to tell you. I
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  Speaker 1: have to give you credit for that. Of course it's horrible,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought it was very funny.
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  Speaker 3: Ann is my barometer. And she shook her head.
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  Speaker 1: It's not funny. All right, guys, ready to do it?
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  Speaker 1: It is time for Handle on the News on this
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, October 13th. Amy, Neil, and me. Lead story. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Houthis are going crazy. They just attacked Saudi Arabia, the capital, Riyadh,
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  Speaker 1: and the airport for a third day in a row.
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  Speaker 1: And man, that puts Saudi Arabia in a very unfortunate position.
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  Speaker 1: Because Saudi Arabia has portrayed itself as the very safe,
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  Speaker 1: very pro-business, very pro-Western government, which it is. And all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, this is up in the air. Flights
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  Speaker 1: are stopped. The airports are closed. And now you have
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  Speaker 1: President Trump. What the hell does he do? Because Saudi
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  Speaker 1: Arabia is a staunch ally of the United States. Does
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  Speaker 1: he come in to aid Saudi? Because it's in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of trouble relative to the Houthis. Houthis are gaining
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  Speaker 1: tremendous strength. And what does the president do? You talk
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  Speaker 1: about being between a rock and a hard place. Man,
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  Speaker 1: does he help? Does he not? Does he engage in
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  Speaker 1: yet another front of the war? So we'll no doubt
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  Speaker 1: be talking about that. And then the issue over the
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  Speaker 1: Russia diesel deal, which we'll talk about at 7 o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: Goliath may be the next to go. Six Flags closed
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  Speaker 4: its X2 roller coaster last month at Magic Mountain. because
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  Speaker 4: of the traumatic brain injuries allegedly suffered by several riders
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  Speaker 4: and even a death. Well, now a person has been
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  Speaker 4: killed on a roller coaster at Six Flags over Georgia. Apparently,
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  Speaker 4: he was ejected from the roller coaster. And then everybody
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  Speaker 4: who was on the roller coaster, they had to do
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  Speaker 4: an emergency evacuation, so they stopped it mid-ride. And now
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  Speaker 4: the Goliath is closed in Georgia, but it's also been
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  Speaker 4: closed at other parks across the country. including at Magic Mountain.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're not getting a lot of information on
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  Speaker 1: this either, exactly what happened. I mean, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: the kid who died was thrown from the car. And
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  Speaker 1: how do you get thrown from a car? Because once
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  Speaker 1: you're locked down, I don't even think you can open
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  Speaker 1: them up, can you, while the ride is— You'd assume not.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that would be the interesting part. Did something in
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  Speaker 4: the mechanism that secured him fail? Or did he not
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  Speaker 4: secure it properly? Was he not checked properly?
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  Speaker 1: Also— There's so many things that could have gone wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you'd think there was a whiplash if it
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  Speaker 1: stopped very suddenly with these other riders also suffering injuries
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  Speaker 1: who weren't tossed. So those roller coaster rides— I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I love roller coaster rides, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the one that scares me the most is
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  Speaker 1: the one at Disneyland. Which one? Space Mountain? Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: one in the dark. Because, man, you never know where
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  Speaker 1: you're going, and I'm convinced that I'm going to fly off,
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  Speaker 1: and my head is going to hit one of those
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  Speaker 1: steel girders. That's all I think about, that an earthquake
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  Speaker 1: is going to come, and my head goes right into
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  Speaker 1: a steel girder and comes popping off. That's how I
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  Speaker 1: enjoy that ride, because that's all I think about when
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  Speaker 1: I'm riding it.
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  Speaker 3: Couldn't we just fill your head back up with helium?
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  Speaker 1: We could. Great. okay one dad what.
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  Speaker 3: Federal agents monday uh went into the minnesota congressman congresswoman's
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  Speaker 3: home by the way searched the home of democratic u.s
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  Speaker 3: representative uh omar and started escalation of a criminal investigation
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  Speaker 3: and uh right before uh re-election.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and usually they don't within 60 days of an election, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the new— They have. They did with Trump.
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  Speaker 1: They did with— Yeah, the policies— I said usually they don't. Hillary, too, right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: usually they don't is the point. Hillary was a big one.
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  Speaker 1: That includes Democrats as well as Republicans. But this has
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  Speaker 1: to do with something wrong with her immigration status because
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  Speaker 1: she came over. She was born in Somalia, became a U.S.
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  Speaker 1: citizen in 2005— And now they are saying there's something
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  Speaker 1: wrong with their immigration status. Well, I find it kind
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  Speaker 1: of a coincidence. Don't you? Three weeks before the election,
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  Speaker 1: you have a search FBI search of her home. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have any idea what it is other than the
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  Speaker 1: State Department. I think Homeland Security says it has to
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  Speaker 1: do with an immigration violation. We don't know what that's about.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see. If there's any kind of a pattern here,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to disappear very quickly. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be nothing there. Like with Comey, like with Letitia James,
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  Speaker 1: like with the guy who put his hands into the
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  Speaker 1: reflecting pool and damaged the pool. And he put his hands,
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  Speaker 1: according to Janine Perino, he put his hands forcibly into
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  Speaker 1: that reflecting pool violently. What happens if there is a
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  Speaker 1: there there? Then you wonder, why do they wait?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, why do they wait? Because all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: from going back to 2005, that had just come up now.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it seems a little desperate.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's the issue. It's not whether or not
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  Speaker 1: there's legitimacy and there might be. But it's come on.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look at the timing, guys.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: Handel on the news with Amy, Neil and me. And
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  Speaker 1: I have a joke for you. What's so funny about
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  Speaker 1: cannabis and tobacco retailers that makes all of us laugh?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I was just going to say this is no
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  Speaker 4: laughing matter.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you go.
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  Speaker 4: City Council in L.A. has unanimously approved a measure to
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  Speaker 4: prohibit the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide by cannabis
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  Speaker 4: and tobacco retailers. Mayor Bass plans to sign it into law.
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  Speaker 4: She says this is a public health and public safety issue.
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  Speaker 4: Nitrous oxide is dangerous, especially in the hands of kids
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  Speaker 4: and far too accessible.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know you could buy it. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: can buy nitrous. Yeah, it looks like it's sold at
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  Speaker 1: gas stations.
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  Speaker 3: I saw some kids huffing the other day and I'd
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  Speaker 3: not seen that on my street out of balloons. Up
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  Speaker 3: to the top of like six kids.
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  Speaker 4: Were they huffing or are they just doing helium?
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  Speaker 1: They were huffing and puffing.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm pretty sure they're not gathering around and hiding
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  Speaker 3: to do helium.
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  Speaker 1: And they're trying to blow Neil's house down.
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  Speaker 3: Huff and puff?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, huff and puff.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we got so wrapped up with the Skydance merger,
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  Speaker 3: we had forgotten there had been other ones as well.
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  Speaker 3: You had supermarket chain Albertsons talking about merging with Kroger. Now,
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  Speaker 3: since that fell through, it wants $ 8 billion after their
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  Speaker 3: mega deal imploded about two years ago. So Albertsons is
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  Speaker 3: accusing Kroger leaders of making lowball offers to federal regulators
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  Speaker 3: to largely keep the most profitable stores in the combined
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  Speaker 3: company and kind of shove off the weaker performance ones.
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  Speaker 3: So this was filed yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: My question is, according to their agreement, Albertsons and Kroger,
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  Speaker 1: Kroger to buy Albertsons, the breakup fee was $ 600 million,
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  Speaker 1: which happens all the time. We're entering negotiations. You want
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  Speaker 1: to buy my company. If it doesn't go through, you
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  Speaker 1: owe me X dollars. That would have happened with Skydance
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  Speaker 1: and Warner Brothers. How does that not get abused, though? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? I don't understand how somehow $ 600 million
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  Speaker 1: becomes $ 9. 3 billion. And that's obviously it's really, really complicated stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But it looks like Albertsons is reaching for the moon
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  Speaker 1: on this one and and accusing Kroger of all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of misdeeds.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of millions, this company is going to hand over
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  Speaker 4: more than 100 million to make it right. So remember
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  Speaker 4: back in May when that aerospace company. And Garden Grove
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  Speaker 4: had the chemical tank that was going to possibly explode.
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  Speaker 4: It's GKN Aerospace. And because of that, more than 50,000
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  Speaker 4: residents had to get out of the neighborhoods. And the
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  Speaker 4: inconvenience caused is going to cost GKN Aerospace a pretty penny.
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  Speaker 4: A $ 125 million settlement has been agreed to with Orange
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  Speaker 4: County prosecutors.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, we don't know how much of that insurance is.
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  Speaker 1: is covering that $ 125 million because companies like this, every
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  Speaker 1: company like this has an insurance policy and then a
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  Speaker 1: reinsurance policy behind that. So I don't know what their
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  Speaker 1: deductible is. There are cities that have and counties that
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  Speaker 1: have insurance. They pay for insurance. So we don't know
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  Speaker 1: how much actual out-of-pocket, but either way, $ 125 million. And
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  Speaker 1: it's probably an agreement between both the insurers and the
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  Speaker 1: company itself to pay up the $ 125 million. It's a chunk.
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  Speaker 1: And we're talking about people who were gone for evacuated
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  Speaker 1: for just days.
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  Speaker 4: And it was, remember it was over Memorial day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It seems pretty stiff, but no, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can be really inconvenienced a big time. Okay. I
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  Speaker 1: think we have time for at least one more before
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  Speaker 1: our break.
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  Speaker 3: The Blair Bitch Project. Selma Blair charged with assault. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: that's very strong. Well, let me look at Anne.
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  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 3: No. No response.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't like that. Okay, moving on.
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  Speaker 3: Charged with assault. And apparently it's not the first time
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  Speaker 3: she's bitten anyone. So actress Selma Blair has been charged
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  Speaker 3: with two counts of second degree assault after an alleged
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  Speaker 3: incident during which a flight attendant and others were injured
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  Speaker 3: aboard a commercial flight from Los Angeles to New York
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  Speaker 3: City on Sunday night. Blair, who did not enter a plea,
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  Speaker 3: appeared in court Monday evening wearing blue jeans, light gray hoodie,
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  Speaker 3: who cares, pulled up to her elbows, sweatshirt, and blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 3: But apparently they say she tried to open the door
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  Speaker 3: to the airplane and then bit and maybe even hit.
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  Speaker 1: A steward eye.
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  Speaker 3: And it also she has mentioned that she's bit some celebrities,
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  Speaker 3: bitten some celebrities in her book. It's something strange. You
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  Speaker 3: can't really blame it on MS.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's MS. I think it's cerebral palsy.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's MS.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it is MS. And so she takes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of medication.
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  Speaker 4: And her lawyer says she's missed it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see. But she has a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of history. She's very public with her MS, too.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember Christina Applegate biting anybody or trying to
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  Speaker 3: open doors or anybody else for that matter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, she's got some issues.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she does. It sounds like your next wife.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I just thought that one through. You know what?
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's go ahead and take a break and
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  Speaker 1: we'll come back and go on with Handel on the news.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: We continue with Handel on the news. Amy, Neil and me.
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  Speaker 4: Cut it out or else. The top U.S. and NATO
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  Speaker 4: military commander in Europe. has promised wide-scale measures to thwart
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  Speaker 4: any Russian attack on Europe, but also delivered a different
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  Speaker 4: kind of message behind the scenes, warning Ukraine to stop
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  Speaker 4: attacking Russian refineries or risk getting cut off from critical U.S.
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  Speaker 4: weapons and intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're getting two messages here. One, Russia, you
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  Speaker 1: better stop it. And the other one, Kiev, you better
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  Speaker 1: stop it. And did you notice that it's only the facilities,
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  Speaker 1: the oil, the gas, diesel facilities that are being held
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  Speaker 1: up to, they got to stop it. They have to
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  Speaker 1: stop the attacks because of the world energy crisis. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the world energy fiasco that's going on right now. And
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  Speaker 1: this goes to what the president is doing and is
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  Speaker 1: not doing. And it's just it's a god awful mess.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, this war was not such a good idea,
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  Speaker 1: even though initially I backed it up. I've got to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, in retrospect, I'm going, ah, this was not
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  Speaker 1: such a good idea. It really wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you can you can agree with the premise and
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  Speaker 3: disagree with the execution.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Without thinking it through.
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  Speaker 3: Seems to be. Trump's not great with execution.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And his premise, making sure that Iran does not have
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon, that's solid. But how you get there
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  Speaker 1: and getting allies and even telling Congress, all of a
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: sudden you wake up one day and we're at war.
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  Speaker 1: But that is we'll talk a lot about that and
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  Speaker 1: the presidential power and what's going on in the United
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  Speaker 1: States with the Republican senators. All right. Moving on. OK.
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  Speaker 3: George Washington chopped down a cherry tree. Trump's going to
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: outdo that and chop down 500 trees at the East
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Potomac golf links. He started back on Friday afternoon and
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: apparently a judge has now stepped in and said that
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: she was furious that. with the Justice Department lawyers for
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: their conduct in this lawsuit seeking to halt the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration takeover of this historic golf course there in Washington,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: and that it was inexcusable that hundreds of trees were
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  Speaker 3: removed from the course over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now this belies a very interesting and I think
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: a big problem. And that is when the Trump administration
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: wants to do something, it doesn't matter what the court says.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: They just move ahead with it. The court says you
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: can't do it. Trump says, fine, you can't do it
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  Speaker 1: and does it. What's the purpose of all that? I mean,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: 500 trees. Because he wants to redo everything in his
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: image because he has an idea of which way it
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: should go. And notwithstanding any law or policy or procedural issue,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: he just goes ahead and does it. And here's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Who can stop him? Nobody, because the court has no
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: enforcing powers whatsoever. Do you know who enforces federal judgments
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and federal orders? Department of Justice. That's who does it.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: And when the president says, I want those trees knocked
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  Speaker 1: down and the argument is, but what is that? You
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: don't have the right to do that. You go to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: court and the court says, you don't have a right
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: to do that. You can't do it. And he just
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: smiles and goes, OK, and goes ahead and does it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Now what? And that is the problem. This is a
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: president who believes that all decision making powers lie with him.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: There is no such thing as congressional power. There's only
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: congressional rubber stamping. And don't even bother with the rubber stamping.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Just go ahead and do it. So that is the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: problem we're going to have big time by the time
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the election moves forward. What is going to happen? And
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping that the president up to this point, for
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the most part, has paid attention to the courts. In
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: small measures, relatively small measures, for example, building that east
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: wing with the big, beautiful ballroom, didn't matter what the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: court said. Even when the court said you can't do
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: it because you didn't go through the proper procedures, he goes,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I don't care, and goes ahead and does it. That's
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: what happened here. Okay, let's go ahead and move on.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Shohei could be sitting the next one out.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: The L.A.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Dodgers are heading back to Los Angeles for Game 3
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: against the Brewers in the National League Championship Series, and
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: they're down 2-0. The Brewers are leading the best of
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: seven series. And Shohei Otani, God love him, has not
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: really been performing. He went 0-4 in the cleanup spot
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: in Game 2, bringing his postseason total to just three hits,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: all singles, in 20 at-bats. You can see he's struggling.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: We've been talking about it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Why not just sit him out?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Well, as the analysts are trying to figure out what's
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: going on, it looks like the story is going to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: turn out to be just bad sushi.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: You are so talented at taking a non-racist story and
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: making it racist. Good for you, buddy.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that. I thought you were going to.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Go towards how expensive that seat is. I will.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I take all of that as a compliment, by the way.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Why don't we
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: do this? Why don't we take a break? And then
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll finish up the news.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Our new guy, Mario at the board.com. Kono has left
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: us for greener pastures. Mario, on the other hand. Mario,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: what's your last name? Arvizu. Arvizu. Hispanic, I guess, of
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: some kind? Some kind of Hispanic, yes. Something like that. Yeah,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I was wondering because he came in with a blue
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: shirt and his name right over the pocket. Go ahead.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Okay. The red rag in his back.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all of it. Go ahead. I'm watching the new
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: press secretary, White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah. And I
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: got to tell you, she's no Carolyn Leavitt. No matter
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: what you say about Carolyn Leavitt, as crazy as I
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: thought she was, she was a great communicator, very strong
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: on her feet. This one, I got to tell you,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: there's some big issues going on. She's reading off of
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: a script and doing a horrible job. And it's just, yeah,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: it's night and day, the difference with Carolyn Leavitt and her.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I'm offended by her eyebrows, too. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And that natural blonde hair. Let me ask you something,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: you ladies there. How difficult is it to dye your
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: roots and getting it somehow covering up your natural blonde
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: hair with the Roots Dark? Doesn't that take some real doing? Okay,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: never mind.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: First of all, I'm offended you only asked the women.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: You think this is my natural color?
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: No, I know it isn't. I know we're talking about
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: his goatee or go-to.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I don't wake up this way.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I'm blonde. It's work. Yeah, you're blonde. I am. That's right.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: He is blonde. Yeah, he is blonde. Your hair, your hairline,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: your head is that pasty white. Okay, let's move on
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and actually finish up. Handle on the news on this
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, October 13th. Amy, Neil, and me. Neil and me.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Jason, our very own Jason Nathanson was out yesterday. Record-breaking
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: hurricane activity there in the Pacific Ocean battering the California
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: coast and just absolutely horrendous. I know we saw less
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: rain in some areas than we thought we were going to,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: but our coastline took a beating um the season of
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: tropical storms is hurricanes record-breaking energy in the pacific ocean
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: ocean now here in southern california on our coastline and
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: regardless of the amount of rain you got in your
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: specific area or not you can't help but see the
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: damage uh that has changed long beach orange county and
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: um as handle was saying yesterday lindsey his wife grow
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: up on these beaches and can see firsthand the changes
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: going on there.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: She knows every single building that is no longer there
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: or no longer able to be there, even if it is.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, red tag, gone, destroyed almost.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Sitting this one out. At least they hope so. Archbishop
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Timothy Broglio oversees the Catholic Church's pastoral services to Catholics
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: in the U.S. military. And he has said that any
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Catholic soldier assigned to the U.S. Army firing squad should
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: be asked to be excused from that duty. He says
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: it's contrary to the teachings of the church. Of course,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Nadel Hassan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: in 2009, is scheduled to be executed by firing squad
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: on December 3rd. And Bruglio says the crime committed by
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Hassan was heinous. but does exposing the public to his
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: execution serve any purpose?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, more of a political religious statement, uh, because I'm, I,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and I, I'm just guessing though, uh, it's going to
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: be volunteers who do that. Now the problem is, uh,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: is that how the vetting of 300,000 volunteers, how do
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: they go through that? You know what?
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: It is a little strange, God bless them, but it
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: is a little strange, uh, coming from someone who, uh,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: is surrounded by the effigy of someone being executed. The
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Corpus Christi is Christ being executed on a cross.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but at the same time, the Roman soldiers who
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: did execute him, they weren't following many christian uh many christian.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Christ says it was okay told him not to stop
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: it i don't know i'm just saying just saying all
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: right um all right california scientist uh almost poisoned to
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: death man this did you see this video spy cam
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: set up northern california woman who says she nearly died
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: after being repeatedly poisoned by a co-worker and she's not
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: even in radio she's publicly releasing disturbing well come on
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: There's a couple of times, man, you know, and wasn't
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: thrilled with me that I smelled my drink before I
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: took a sip.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Look at her just grinning. Yeah.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: She's a devious one coming in with. Oh, everything's fine.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Drink up.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: So apparently this is, you know, it was severe, obviously,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: the allegations and everything. But this guy avoided prison. through
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: a plea agreement. You know, back in the day, wasn't
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: it mostly women who did the poisoning?
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. Arsenic and old lace, that sort of thing.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, we are done. Just the last story,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: just a quick note that various hotel owners are not
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: happy with what happened with the World Cup. The hype
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: wasn't very good. It's very religious. My cup did not
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: runneth over. It just wasn't Didn't pan out, did not
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: pan out, and they did not gain a lot of business,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: in some cases lost. Okay, we are done. Coming up,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the president picks a political fight, but it's with Republican senators,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: his own party. And that says a lot. And we'll
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: talk about what? Because there's a lot of backlash going
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: on this way. And we'll be back. This is KFI
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: AM 640. You've been listening to The Bill Handel Show.
• 30:13
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