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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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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.
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  Speaker 2: App. And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: here's Bill Handel. Good morning, everybody. All right. It's a Friday,
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  Speaker 2: foodie Friday on October 16th. We have what? How many
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  Speaker 2: days to go? 18 days before the midterms. And it's
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  Speaker 2: already heating up big time. And we talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: The only chance Republicans have of doing anything, electively speaking,
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  Speaker 3: collectively speaking, in the midterms where there are seats up
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  Speaker 3: that are in play.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of them. is the fact they have.
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  Speaker 3: More money than anything else. They are going to be
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  Speaker 3: pouring money into these races.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, pouring money. Story in the L.A.
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  Speaker 3: Times, New York Times, Musk alone has poured $ 197 million
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  Speaker 3: or $ 137 million into Paxton's race in Texas. Oh, my Soros.
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  Speaker 3: What is he thinking? Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of Soros. Yiddish Soros. Okay, so there is that.
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  Speaker 3: I was also speaking to Neil as we went on the—
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  Speaker 3: before we started the show.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what he does for Halloween. And Dio this.
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  Speaker 3: Year is going to do something kind of neat for Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he really goes Paul's to the wall.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't do that. That's gross. That is gross.
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  Speaker 2: But in any case. Yeah, Ann and I are both Halloweenies. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: which is terrific.
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  Speaker 3: And how many kids go to trick-or-treat at your house?
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  Speaker 2: You said 30 to 50, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ann's probably getting more than we do. I was
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  Speaker 3: going to ask Ann. Ann, how many kids go to
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  Speaker 3: your house?
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  Speaker 4: About 100.
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  Speaker 2: About 100 kids. Yeah, because I live on the flats
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  Speaker 2: right below the hills. And you know how many kids
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  Speaker 2: come to my house? Zero. That's right. And you want
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  Speaker 2: to know why?
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  Speaker 4: Because you have a gate.
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  Speaker 2: Not only that. Oh, I go beyond that.
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  Speaker 3: I have I make sure that every light in the
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  Speaker 3: house is dark. No porch light. And then to redundancy
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  Speaker 3: for redundancy sake is a lot like NASA when they
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  Speaker 3: set off.
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  Speaker 2: A mission space mission.
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  Speaker 3: I also put a sign on the door that says
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  Speaker 3: sex offender lives here. So between those three, I do
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  Speaker 3: not get trick-or-treaters.
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  Speaker 2: Gross.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Will. And you're going to go dressed as a
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  Speaker 2: sex offender again this year? Yeah, I am. That outfit
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  Speaker 2: that you have on? So, Will, do you have the
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  Speaker 2: trick-or-treat crowd? You know what? I've lived in apartments for
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  Speaker 2: so long, I have never had a trick-or-treater in LA, period.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you.
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  Speaker 3: It saves you money because candy has gotten so damn expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I still buy the candy, though. Oh, good for you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I can understand that. Just in case. Just in case,
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  Speaker 2: every year. My girls' bat mitzvah was candy-themed.
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  Speaker 3: And every table had this huge sort of cylindrical jar,
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  Speaker 3: like four feet tall, filled with candy. I went wholesale
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  Speaker 3: to the wholesale mart and I think spent $ 1, 600 on
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  Speaker 3: candy just for that.
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  Speaker 2: Believe me, it was, well, it was the theme. Amy,
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  Speaker 2: good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Trick or treat question. Yes or no in your house?
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  Speaker 4: Do I get trick or treaters?
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  Speaker 2: No, never.
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  Speaker 4: But I, like Will, I prepare for them just in
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  Speaker 4: case I'm through about the first bag of candy so far.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Got it. Mario, your trick-or-treat life. No trick-or-treaters in
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  Speaker 2: my apartment complex.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I don't trick-or-treat myself. I retired last year. Just kidding. Good.
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  Speaker 2: How old is too old?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When I was a kid, I used to trick-or-treat.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, as I became a tweener, 12, 13 years old,
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  Speaker 3: I would start the earliest I possibly could and be
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  Speaker 3: the last person off the streets. I filled a duffel
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  Speaker 3: bag filled with candy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not surprised.
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  Speaker 3: And then in those days, those little mini candy bars,
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  Speaker 3: those the rich people handed out.
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  Speaker 2: Normally, it was two or three of the rock candy,
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  Speaker 2: the hard candies that you buy in bulk. Here you go.
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  Speaker 3: And no one paid attention.
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  Speaker 2: Rocks. Yeah, that's what they were. Yeah, rocks. I got rocks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know what we do is for the neighborhood kids,
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  Speaker 5: if you recognize them, you get them the bigger candy bars.
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  Speaker 4: And you become very popular when you hand out full-size
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  Speaker 4: candy bars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I never had full-size. The best I could ever do
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  Speaker 3: was those mini candy bars. Oh, wow. That was big.
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  Speaker 3: But I lived in a fairly poor neighborhood at the time, too.
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  Speaker 3: And anybody who lives on a street, what are the
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  Speaker 3: streets in which massive amounts of trick-or-treaters go to? And
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  Speaker 3: I mean, buses of kids are brought in, literally, and
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  Speaker 3: they're brought in from poorer neighborhoods to go to these streets.
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  Speaker 3: And there's one in Encino, and there's one in Pasadena
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  Speaker 3: where people are expected to hand out tons of candy.
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  Speaker 5: And I mean— hundreds of pounds down some streets uh
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  Speaker 5: in east central as well and then they uh and
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  Speaker 5: then up the up sunset they have those old victorian
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  Speaker 5: homes uh what district is that you know what i'm
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  Speaker 5: talking about those they were in thriller one of the
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  Speaker 5: houses was in thriller they do up their yards um
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  Speaker 5: carol carol street maybe something like that.
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  Speaker 3: No carol street's the old old homes uh that's what
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  Speaker 3: i'm saying the old oh yeah those are homes that
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  Speaker 3: are uh basically museum pieces.
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  Speaker 2: No one lives in those. No, they do. Okay. Then
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  Speaker 2: that's another part of town.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they go and they, and kids trick or treat there.
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  Speaker 2: And in my.
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  Speaker 3: Neighborhood last year, uh, we had the adults and there
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  Speaker 3: was a group on our street that we set up tables.
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  Speaker 3: So the adults could hang all the kids went around.
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  Speaker 3: And didn't offer any candy, but Lindsay offered Jell-O shots
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  Speaker 3: to all the adults. So there was this table of
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  Speaker 3: Jell-O shots that as the adults were taking their kids.
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  Speaker 2: Gulp, gulp, gulp.
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  Speaker 3: She does know how to live. She certainly does. Okay, guys,
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  Speaker 3: let's do it. Boy, do we have some news to
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  Speaker 3: share with you, and some of it not so good
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  Speaker 3: at all.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for Handle on the News. Amy, Neil, and me,
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  Speaker 2: lead story.
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  Speaker 3: Live!
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  Speaker 2: Me up. Another school shooting.
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  Speaker 3: Three children and a teacher killed in an Oregon elementary
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  Speaker 3: school shooting. A teenager walks into the school and just
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  Speaker 3: starts shooting a place up. First outside, unloads the gun outside.
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  Speaker 3: 911 is called. The cops show up within three minutes
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  Speaker 3: of He's already gone inside the school and killed three
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  Speaker 3: little ones, five, eight and 11 years. And then it
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  Speaker 3: looks like a bystander took him down. We don't have
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  Speaker 3: exactly the same information. And I was talking to, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, this is the 36th shooting on K to
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  Speaker 3: 12 school grounds this year.
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  Speaker 2: It's horrific.
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  Speaker 3: I was talking to Linz this morning and talking about
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  Speaker 3: what kids do when they go to school now and wonder,
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  Speaker 3: are they genuinely wonder if they're going to get shot
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  Speaker 3: that day? And it's an active shooter scenarios where when
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  Speaker 3: we were kids, well, fire drills. Of course, every school
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  Speaker 3: has always had them. But you really didn't think there
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  Speaker 3: was going to be a fire. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 3: just sort of something you had to do. And then
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  Speaker 3: we had drop drills, earthquake drills. We never had because
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  Speaker 3: that wasn't a huge thing. But we had drop drills,
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  Speaker 3: honest to God, atomic bomb drills everywhere. frightened that russia
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  Speaker 3: was going to unload a an atomic weapon onto our
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  Speaker 3: city los angeles and so we prepared for that by
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  Speaker 3: going under the desk.
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  Speaker 2: And putting your hands over your neck and it.
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  Speaker 5: Was just stupid we still did those in this in
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  Speaker 5: the 70s up until reagan probably but did.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody actually think we didn't that there was going to
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  Speaker 3: be a bomb drop that's sort of nah, not really.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, it was, it just was, you did it
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  Speaker 2: because you had to do it.
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  Speaker 3: And the teacher would go in the middle of a sentence, drop,
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  Speaker 3: and everybody would dive under their desks. The problem with
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  Speaker 3: active shooter drills is they are very real. And the
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  Speaker 3: anticipation is very real. And the students connect with those
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  Speaker 3: in a real way. That's how horrific it has become.
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  Speaker 3: Utterly horrific. It was much more fun waiting for the, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the Russians to bomb Los Angeles because no one thought
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  Speaker 3: it was going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And strangely enough, it didn't happen. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the Dodgers dreams of a three-peat have turned into
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  Speaker 4: a nightmare. Dodgers eliminated from the postseason as the Brewers
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  Speaker 4: sweep the two-time defending champions in the NLCS. The one
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  Speaker 4: bright spot, Shohei Otani, hit a three-run home run in
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  Speaker 4: the second inning. It was fun to see him hit
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  Speaker 4: that home run and bring a couple other players back home.
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  Speaker 4: Four to nothing was the lead at the time, but
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  Speaker 4: then those Brewers, they were relentless and just kept chipping
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  Speaker 4: away at the lead and then took over in the
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  Speaker 4: sixth and then solidified it in the ninth and off
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  Speaker 4: they go to the World Series and the Dodgers go home.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and yesterday we were talking about how many teams
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  Speaker 3: have come back from a 3-0 deficit. One. Yeah. One
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  Speaker 3: in the National League.
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  Speaker 4: No, none in the National League. One in the American League.
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  Speaker 4: And it was the 2004 Red Sox.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Let's take a break.
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  Speaker 3: We'll come back as Amy mourns the death of this
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  Speaker 3: season with the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: Handel and the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Crew.
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  Speaker 3: And we continue with more Handel on the news. And
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  Speaker 3: that's Amy, Neil and me.
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  Speaker 5: As if our coasts don't have enough problems, especially there
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  Speaker 5: in Malibu, fire breaks out. You've got evacuation orders and
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  Speaker 5: warnings were issued just yesterday evening as the wind-driven Bryson
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  Speaker 5: fire was rapidly spreading through brush there in Malibu. Those
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  Speaker 5: Santa Ana winds came in, started whipping things up. It
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  Speaker 5: broke out near Encinal Canyon Road. and Mulholland Highway around
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  Speaker 5: 5 p.m. It's grown to just under 150 acres so far.
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  Speaker 5: Zero percent containment at this point, and that is according
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  Speaker 5: to CAL FIRE.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and what are the wind conditions going to be like, Amy?
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  Speaker 3: Usually you're on top of this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got more Santa Ana winds today. The winds
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  Speaker 4: are expected to peak today. So in the mountains, they're
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  Speaker 4: saying we could see gusts up to like 90 miles
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  Speaker 4: an hour, probably 40 miles an hour along the coast.
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  Speaker 3: That is a problem. Remember the Palisades fire, those winds
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  Speaker 3: were over a hundred miles an hour. They were hurricane
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  Speaker 3: level winds, which is why the flames exploded. And to
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  Speaker 3: the point where sometimes these fires are so big, so hot,
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  Speaker 3: they create their own weather systems.
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  Speaker 4: Well, hopefully these, anything that breaks out won't get that big.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: This one relatively small. They had it up at like
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  Speaker 4: over 200 acres, and then they mapped.
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  Speaker 2: It last night. So it's about 150.
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  Speaker 4: I sue, you sue, we all sue for who knows what.
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  Speaker 4: The latest one, though, is the Trump administration suing California.
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  Speaker 4: California sued Trump administration, what, like 100 times? So now
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  Speaker 4: the Trump administration is suing California over its handling of
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  Speaker 4: voter fraud claims and is asking a federal court to
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  Speaker 4: immediately bar the state from counting ballots of about 20,000
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  Speaker 4: voters in the state many of them in L.A. County,
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  Speaker 4: that the administration alleges are likely non-citizens.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know the connection, how they have that information.
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  Speaker 3: Do they simply say to the states, these people are
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  Speaker 3: not legal, they're not citizens? And by the way, that's
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  Speaker 3: everybody who has a green card is not a citizen
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  Speaker 3: and can't vote either in a national election. And they're
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  Speaker 3: saying here 20,000 of them are likely non-citizens, likely. So therefore,
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  Speaker 3: you can't count them. Where do you think the court's
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  Speaker 3: going to go on this one? It's the ongoing, as
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  Speaker 3: you pointed out, it's the ongoing fight. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: in the hundreds of lawsuits back and forth now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and here's the other thing that I was thinking
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  Speaker 4: about yesterday is why bother? I mean, it's not like
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  Speaker 4: even if they discounted these 20,000 votes, that wouldn't change
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  Speaker 4: anything in California.
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  Speaker 2: No, it wouldn't. It's a waste of time.
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  Speaker 3: If you're going to do this, do what Trump did
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  Speaker 3: in 2020 and go after those counties where it was
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  Speaker 3: a fraction of a point difference. For example, in Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: remember when the president called Raffensperger president? and said, find
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  Speaker 3: me 11,000 votes. 11,000 in the state would have turned
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  Speaker 3: it around to allow Trump to have the electoral votes
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  Speaker 3: from Georgia. He would anyway, as we know. But you're right.
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  Speaker 3: That's where it makes sense. California makes no sense, which
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  Speaker 3: is why you never see any presidential money spent on
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  Speaker 3: here in California.
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  Speaker 2: All you're going to see is the midterms. It's too expensive.
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  Speaker 3: For Congress people to advertise because advertising costs way, way
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  Speaker 3: too much here in California. So you don't see those
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  Speaker 3: and you certainly don't see any national issues. Go to
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  Speaker 3: New Hampshire when a presidential is running before the election.
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  Speaker 3: There is not one advertising spot that you can buy. 100%
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  Speaker 3: have been sold out years in advance.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: The ups and downs of an amusement park. You have
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  Speaker 5: a growing number of these parks shutting down because of
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  Speaker 5: the roller coaster issues.
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  Speaker 2: Police and state.
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  Speaker 5: Regulators are doing a bunch of investigations. Obviously, the one
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  Speaker 5: most recently is what caused a man to fall out
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  Speaker 5: of his seat and plummet to his death at the
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  Speaker 5: Georgia Six Flags Park. So now SeaWorld Orlando in Florida
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  Speaker 5: is And other theme parks in Montreal, Canada confirmed Thursday
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  Speaker 5: they had temporary closed rides, bringing the total number of
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  Speaker 5: roller coasters being halted now to 11.
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  Speaker 3: This is to remind you of those SeaWorld kind of
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  Speaker 3: shows with Orca, with Orcas, gone, done. And are you
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  Speaker 3: going to see roller coasters disappearing? No, probably have just much,
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  Speaker 3: much stronger restraints so that, God forbid, there's a fire,
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  Speaker 3: no one will ever have a chance of getting out
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  Speaker 3: of those cars.
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  Speaker 2: Wait till that happens. I always look at the bright
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  Speaker 2: side of things, don't I?
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  Speaker 4: You are a little ray of sunshine.
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  Speaker 2: I certainly am.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: This tagging apparently was sort of an inside job. LA
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  Speaker 4: County DA Nathan Hockman has sent a message to anyone
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  Speaker 4: who's thinking about vandalizing property. He said, you will be arrested,
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  Speaker 4: you will be prosecuted, and you will be punished to
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  Speaker 4: the full extent of the law. They arrested a four-person
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  Speaker 4: graffiti crew and charged them with felony vandalism. Because they
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  Speaker 4: say they tagged 12 locations throughout the city, including 11
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  Speaker 4: buildings in and around downtown and one in the mid-Wilshire area.
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  Speaker 4: They did about $ 200, 000 in damage. And one of the guys,
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  Speaker 4: Javier Roca, is 38 years old. And worked for LADWP
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  Speaker 4: as an electrical craft helper.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: But the ages, Bill, is what blew me away. These
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  Speaker 2: are not kids. 40, 45, 38.
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  Speaker 3: And then have you ever seen the freeway signs that
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  Speaker 3: are graffitied? And they're in the middle of the freeway
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  Speaker 3: with that one long arm coming out. And you go,
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  Speaker 3: how the hell did anybody get out there? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's impossible. Right.
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  Speaker 2: A DWP cherry picker. Yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 3: It's specialized equipment and repelling gear. These guys are pros
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  Speaker 3: at this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Just to tag. I mean, get a life, guys. Way
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  Speaker 2: to tell them, Bill. Yeah, damn right.
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  Speaker 3: Personally, let me tell you what I think about graffiti.
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  Speaker 3: If I had my druthers, it would be the death penalty.
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  Speaker 2: Straight out. You're caught graffitiing. You're shot. Thank you. You're done. Well, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do one more.
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  Speaker 5: Costa Mesa woman and her dog, her voting dog. That's
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  Speaker 5: a voting dog. That there's a voting dog in California.
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  Speaker 5: Cast ballots in the animal's name back in 2021 and 2022.
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  Speaker 5: This all tied around Laura Lee Yorick's. 64 charged in
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  Speaker 5: September of 2025. Five felonies after posting a photo to
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  Speaker 5: social media.
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  Speaker 2: Dummy.
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  Speaker 5: Showing her dog posing with a ballot while wearing I
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  Speaker 5: Voted sticker.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we got a lot of stupid people. Yeah, she
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  Speaker 2: got caught the second time out that she did this,
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  Speaker 2: you genius, you. And you know what it was for?
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  Speaker 5: This is the only reason why I'm okay with it,
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  Speaker 5: is that it was for the recall of Gavin Newsom.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. And the punishment is kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Part of it is she's required to pay for four
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  Speaker 3: billboards that feature the photo of the dog with a
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  Speaker 3: ballot and reads, don't be a dog.
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  Speaker 2: Voter fraud is a crime. If you can't legally vote,
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  Speaker 2: don't vote. That's kind of clever. I mean, it should
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  Speaker 2: have been the death penalty, but that's okay. Kind of clever.
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  Speaker 5: The dog has mentioned in news stories that since the incident,
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  Speaker 5: it's been rough.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Ann. Even a fake laugh is okay for me.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. Hey, I got an idea.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't we take a break and we'll come back
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  Speaker 3: and continue on with more Handle on the News.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: It's foodie party. Neil and I, one of my favorite segments.
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  Speaker 3: I just love doing that where Neil and I talk
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  Speaker 3: food and we look like we talk food. Well, I
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: used to look like we talk food.
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  Speaker 2: I'm slowly getting there. Yeah, you are. No, you are very,
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  Speaker 2: very slowly. I mean, like glacially slowly. You look like
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  Speaker 2: a candle that's melting.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I do.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? You're right. You look like a balloon
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: that's been blown up a hundred times. Yeah, yeah. Gravity.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, gravity. Yeah. It's scrotal gravity. It's just, things
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  Speaker 2: just drop. Oh, stop with that look. Amy and Anne. Look,
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  Speaker 2: stop it. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: We return to more Handel on the news. Amy, Neil,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: and me.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Uh, maybe it's time for the president to raise the
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: bar because this woman didn't pass it.
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  Speaker 1: Get it?
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: White House Press Secretary Katie Zachariah says she never passed
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: the bar, although she has called herself a lawyer and
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: President Trump referred to her as an attorney. The Wall
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Street Journal says she failed the bar in California in 2011.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: She graduated from Pepperdine University's law school. So she says
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: that she was distracted by her plans to get married
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: and move to China for her husband's work around the
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  Speaker 4: same time she took the bar exam. And she says
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: she didn't think much of the results and didn't need
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: to pass the exam to do her work in China.
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  Speaker 4: She also says she never described herself as an attorney
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: at law.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Well, she called herself an attorney.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how many people call themselves
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: attorney at law, which incidentally.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Is the technical term. Can you be attorney at grocery shopping?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: You can be, actually. That's true. You can be. This
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: was a very big deal.
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  Speaker 3: I heard a commentator yesterday say it's being way overblown
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: what happened to her. And her only shot at really
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: making it all go away is to do a good
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: job as press secretary. So she was on Fox &
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Friends this morning and looked good. She did a pretty
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: good job this morning on Fox & Friends. Seemed much
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: more professional. But then it was Fox & Friends.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: What are they going to do?
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Rip into her? And- And there is some legitimacy because
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I have heard you can call yourself a lawyer having
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: graduated law school.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: There's no specific rule.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: California, I think if you say you're an attorney at law,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: you can only call yourself an attorney at law if
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: you have passed the bar. It's small potatoes. It really is.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's actually an argument. The problem is— There's
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: importance in those terms. Not really.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Not really.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: The terms go bouncing back and forth. But here's why
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: it was important. It was her first day out. And
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: the issue with the press secretary is all about credibility.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: That was the problem. She could have straightened this out.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you pass the bar? I didn't.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I just graduated law school. And I call myself a
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: lawyer because you can do that. Now, let's talk about
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: the issues. And it would have gone away very quickly.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I think it was mishandled, but it's going to go
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: away very, very quickly. I think we're going to spend
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: a lot more time talking about her blonde hair and
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: how far her roots and where she goes to dye
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: her naturally blonde hair with dark roots.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I'm proud of never passing a bar. That's true. I
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: always go in, sit down, have some snacks.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: A little cocktail. Yeah. And let me ask you a question.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I know you have blonde hair.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: And how much time do you spend, you know, dealing
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: with your roots to try to make them darker?
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Exactly. I spend a lot of money. Yeah. Boy,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: do I know that. Hair is expensive. No kidding. You're
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: jealous she has roots. No, I'm not, actually.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I'm not.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Shiny boy. Okay, moving on. All right, wholesale inflation.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: U.S.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Wholesale inflation jumped in September. No, duh.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Highest level in more than four years, marking the second
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  Speaker 5: hotter than expected inflation reading this week. And, of course,
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: piling up more concerns about the economy. And this is
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: no bueno. As we slide into the midterm elections, the producer-
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Price index rose 1.3 percent from the month before and
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: 6.3 percent.
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  Speaker 2: From the year before. Yeah. You know, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. This is not good news, especially for this cycle
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  Speaker 3: of elections. So two things you're going to see happening.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: There are three things. One, the Democrats are going to
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: pounce on this. I mean, big part of the election.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: narrative on behalf of the Democrats. Republicans are going to
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: do one of two things. One thing they're not going
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: to do, we're talking about the ads, for example, running
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: for office. They're not going to talk about the economy.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: They can't.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Republicans cannot say, I mean, you know, the president says
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: inflation is under control.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Prices are lower. We beat inflation. No, no.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, no one believes that. You can hear eight
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: million commercials and you're.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Not going to buy it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: The other thing which might be bought is now– and
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: the president has said this and others have said this.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: I'm watching all the pundits. This is Biden's fault. This
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: is all about Biden and the president is doing what
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: he can, but it's long term. It's hard to undo
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: what Biden has done. And I heard one say he
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: we know he has a plan. Don't know what it is,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: but we know he has a plan to straighten this out.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: So it's going to be a very interesting cycle. There'll
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: be two different worlds that you're going to see between
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: now and election. One, the economy is horrible and ignoring
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: it to accepting it.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: And it's Biden's fault. That's what you're going to hear. Oh,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and diesel.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: If you listen to the president, diesel is Zelensky's fault
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: straight on. The price of diesel hitting what it does
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: is all about Vladimir Zelensky.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Nothing to do with Iran.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: That you will not hear being mentioned at all, except
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: for the Democratic side. It's going to be very interesting. OK,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: let's go ahead and take a break. And oh, hey,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: we don't have Diet Coke.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Is Pepsi OK? Take your victory lap. Yeah, I know. Oh,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: there you go. Oh, you should be ashamed of yourself.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and finish up, Bob.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Handle on the news with Amy Neal and me.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: As it always should have been.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: KFC has struck a deal with Coke to serve Coca-Cola
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: products in thousands of restaurants across the U.S., dealing a
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: blow to longtime supplier PepsiCo. The switch to Coke at
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: KFC U.S. would start in January. Now, Pepsi didn't lose everything.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: They're going to continue to serve at Taco Bell. But
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: PepsiCo shares did fall after the Wall Street Journal first
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: reported about the deal talks.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Now, a question I have often asked, have you ever
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: gone into a restaurant and asked for Pepsi.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: And you were told, is Diet Coke okay?
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: I have never experienced that, and I have asked many
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: a waitress person and a waiter whether that happens.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Is Diet Coke okay? No.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: It's always, is Pepsi okay when Diet Coke is not available?
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: And I always say, is Monopoly money okay? And that's
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: the way I answer it. KFC now has switched over
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: to Diet Coke, which is great. That's a small story
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: compared to when Costco went back to Diet Coke. When
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Costco went to Pepsi, I got very upset. I was
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: about to start– demonstrations uh so anyway uh and it's
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: all a contract basis that's what it is so good
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: good for kfc the most overpriced chicken uh in the
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: world neil you know food do you find kfc pretty pricey.
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  Speaker 5: You know what i have not purchased kfc in a
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: well over a year so i don't know it's been
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: a while Yeah, it's still pretty.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Pricey, and you can— It's pretty good, too. KFC, not bad.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Not bad, especially when they leave the feathers out of
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: the chicken.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: It's better. I do like their food. I just— Oh,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I do, too. It's just been a while. Yeah, but
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: it's overpriced, I think. But it's good food. No, it is.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: It's very good chicken. All right. Ukraine, man.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: This is— This is more of what you were talking
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: about earlier in regards to Trump and Ukraine. Ukraine attacked
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: a Russian oil refinery yesterday, and they basically just abandoned
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: that brief so-called truce involving energy-related targets. And it basically said,
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Zelensky said, you know, I feel betrayed by President Donald Trump,
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: and we need to protect ourselves. So the strike probably
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: is going to further complicate things.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, for sure. Look what's going to happen.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: First of all, this, quote, truce that the president announced
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: that Zelensky actually agreed to and did hold on for
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: a bit, the truce in which the diesel oil facilities,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: particularly in Russia, were not to be bombed. And likewise, well,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Russia never paid attention to it. It just didn't exist.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: So Zelensky finally said, I'm going to now continue to
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: go after the infrastructure. The president, because of the diesel
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: prices here, has then opened up Russia to sell its
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: diesel fuel, even though the sanctions were in place. And
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: the United States stopped companies and countries from doing business
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: with Russia based on what was happening in Ukraine. So
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: what the president has done, basically given a lifeline to Putin,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: stabbed Ukraine in the back, Zelensky in the back, because
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: it's more important for Russia. the United States to have
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: diesel fuel. The problem with that is Russia will be
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: able to sell, but it's going to be a drop
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: in the bucket for us. If it does affect prices,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: it will be pennies for a short period of time.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: And both parties are not very happy with the president.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: He's very mercurial. I mean, we know that. Morning, noon,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: and night.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Lenders have some splaining to do, apparently. California regulators want
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: to sit down with the state's licensed mortgage lenders and
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: servicers to try to figure out how they've handled the
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: release of home insurance proceeds following the wildfires. Insurance payouts
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: for mortgaged homes damaged or destroyed by fires typically aren't
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: sent directly to the homeowners, but instead they go to
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: the lenders and the servicers who then disperse the funds
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: as the home is rebuilt or repaired. But in this case,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: there have been widespread complaints by fire survivors that their
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: reconstruction work is being held up because they're not getting
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: the proceeds from fire. the insurers.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I didn't know that it was the insurance
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: companies that went ahead and paid out on those insurance claims. Now,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: the banks, for example, if you're building a house or
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: remodeling and you go to the bank for a loan,
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: they'll give it to you in increments. When you finish this,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: we'll give you that. When you finish this part, we'll
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: give you that. Well, it doesn't work that way, obviously,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: with the banks because this is insurance companies paying mortgage.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: Lenders to And then the lenders give it to the
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: lenders and so it's the lenders uh who are being
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: asked what the hell is going on uh you can't
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: do it this slowly you can't make this kind uh
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: you can't put these loopholes uh into it or uh
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: to you can't put these hurdles into it okay we
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: can do one more i think All right.
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: Those FBI agents and some analysts were fired, they say,
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: And you remember back when they were looking into the
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: retention of classified documents at his Florida estate. So they
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: sued yesterday to get their jobs back, calling the terminations
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: unlawful acts of political retribution.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look at the gaslighting that's going on here.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: The– Kash Patel and the administration is arguing that anybody
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: who went after Trump was doing it as a part
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: of weaponized Justice Department. After Trump, he came back, goes,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I am going to hit back for people who have
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: weaponized the Justice Department. I'm not weaponizing it by saying,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: let's go after that person. Let's go after that person.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Let's go after those folks. Now, the FBI agents who
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: were fired summarily without hearings, without the ability to contest
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: the issues. They anybody involved peripherally in the investigation of
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has been fired or some of them have
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: been fired. And the argument is, what do you do
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: when a supervisor says this is what I want this investigation?
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: I guess Patel is saying you should have said absolutely not.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I will ignore your direct order, Mr.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Supervisor.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: It's it's crazy. None of this makes sense. And I'm
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: hoping the courts say, yeah, they get their jobs back.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: It's fairly safe to say Kash Patel does not see
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: eye to eye with these FBI agents.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I know. Good night. Tip your waitress.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Very smart. Very, very weak. Very small. OK, we're done, guys.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: That's it. Don't be cross with me. Oh, wow. Doesn't stop,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: does it? OK. Midterm elections coming up. L.A. voters.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: And what is what is the number one thing they're
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: worried about? Well, I'll give you a few. And that's
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: coming right up. KFI AM 640.
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