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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 app.
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  Speaker 2: It's the news!
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  Speaker 4: Ah! Yeah, that's great. Let's talk about Venezuelan boobs again, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Bubelas.
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  Speaker 4: Las bubelas, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, bubelas. So soft and cuddly.
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  Speaker 5: And now, Handel on the News.
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  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handel. Good morning, everybody. It
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  Speaker 4: is a Tuesday morning, October 27. Some big doings today.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, the vote is going on in Israel. There
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  Speaker 4: are nine hours ahead of us. So it's three o'clock
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  Speaker 4: in the afternoon. And we should get some some notice
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  Speaker 4: or some information about which way the vote is going.
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  Speaker 4: Hugely important. It's what you say.
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  Speaker 2: Four o'clock, Amy.
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  Speaker 3: I believe Jordana said it was 4 p.m. Eastern, so
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  Speaker 3: about 1 in the afternoon is when we'll get the
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  Speaker 3: first return.
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  Speaker 4: I thought, no, they're nine hours ahead of us. So
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  Speaker 4: nine hours ahead of us would be 3 o'clock in
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  Speaker 4: the afternoon, would it not? It would be, correct. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They're nine hours. Jordana is off by a couple hours, probably.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're not getting returns yet.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, because polls are still open. What
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying is by our time this late afternoon or
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  Speaker 4: certainly by evening, we'll have a very good idea of
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  Speaker 4: what's going on in Israel. Big, big important vote in
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  Speaker 4: Israel to which way the country's going to go. It
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  Speaker 4: really is one of the most important votes. We'll talk
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more about that later on. Because that vote,
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  Speaker 4: it's not just some country voting. It has a lot
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  Speaker 4: to do with what happens to us and what we
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  Speaker 4: are going to do because we are so important. tied
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  Speaker 4: into and married to the Middle East in terms of
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  Speaker 4: what's happening here with the oil and our foreign relations
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  Speaker 4: and allies and just war on terror, all of that.
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  Speaker 4: All right. First day, hello to one and all. Mario
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  Speaker 4: is with us and will be through Friday. We don't
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  Speaker 4: have anybody yet to replace you so you can work
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  Speaker 4: on Monday, right? Not quite yet.
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  Speaker 2: And good morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. So we don't have anybody for now. Do we
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  Speaker 4: have anybody, Neil, to replace you? We've been looking for
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  Speaker 4: a long time.
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  Speaker 2: I am without replacement, sir. I apologize. But there's only
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  Speaker 2: one me in this world.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that sounds there's only that sounds like a romper
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  Speaker 4: room or a Mr. Rogers episode. There's only one you
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  Speaker 4: and you're a very special person because no one in
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  Speaker 4: the world is like you, Neil. You are special, too.
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  Speaker 2: And for a little behind the scenes, right before the
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  Speaker 2: show goes on, you have Anne yelling in the background.
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  Speaker 2: handle put on your headsets he didn't even have his
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  Speaker 2: headphones on she has to tell you wipe your butt
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  Speaker 2: chew and swallow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah sit up straight yeah we we have a pretty
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  Speaker 4: loose show here there's no question we do we do
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  Speaker 4: we we yeah it's a royal we and we are
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  Speaker 4: not amused.
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  Speaker 2: What and sleep thank you two hours a night uh
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  Speaker 2: because she's so loosey-goosey about everything.
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  Speaker 4: Like, whatever. Well, there's Ann.
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  Speaker 2: 20 hours a week or 20 hours a day she works. Loosey-goosey.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's, well, it's pretty loosey-goosey at some points on
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  Speaker 4: this show. And then, Will, good morning to you. Good morning, Bill.
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  Speaker 4: Nice shirt. Hawaii there. Yeah, it's a Tommy Bahama shirt. Now,
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  Speaker 4: this is, I'm quickly, quickly going through my Costco shirts.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I have any Costco shirts left.
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  Speaker 2: Where are they going?
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  Speaker 4: They're disappearing. It's like socks in the dryer. All I
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  Speaker 4: know is I walk into the closet and where I
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  Speaker 4: think I'm grabbing a Costco knockoff, I grab a shirt
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  Speaker 4: and I look at the label and it is a
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  Speaker 4: real Tony Bahama.
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  Speaker 2: Tommy. Tony.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, so Tony Bahama is not the real thing either?
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  Speaker 2: That's the first thing that happens when you join a cult.
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  Speaker 2: They remove your identity slowly. And then rebuild you in
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  Speaker 2: the image in which she wants you to be. So congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there you go. All right. Anyway, I now have
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  Speaker 4: a closet full of Tommy Bahama shirts. And I hate gifts.
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  Speaker 4: As you guys know, I'm not interested in getting gifts
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  Speaker 4: at all for birthdays or anniversaries or any of that.
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  Speaker 4: I just give them away. So I tell people, don't
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  Speaker 4: bring a gift. If I have a birthday party, don't
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  Speaker 4: bother because I'm not going to ever use it. Except
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  Speaker 4: Jim Keeney. Jim Keeney and I switch shirts. I get
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  Speaker 4: him a Tommy Bahama. He gets me a Tommy Bahama.
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  Speaker 4: So it's equivalent to each of us buying our own
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  Speaker 4: once a year. And so that's.
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  Speaker 3: But the question is, do you get him a Tony
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  Speaker 3: Bahama or a Tommy Bahama?
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  Speaker 4: What I do is I also have and this is
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  Speaker 4: a little dirty secret that just between us guys, I
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  Speaker 4: was able to get Tommy Bahama labels. Those little labels
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  Speaker 4: that I sew into.
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  Speaker 3: Your Walmart shirts?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, pretty much. And I really appreciate it. All right, guys,
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  Speaker 4: you ready to do it? It is that time. Big day.
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  Speaker 4: And then, of course, our election is coming up next Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly one week from today. And the voter guide, I
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  Speaker 4: continue on at 730 today with the handle. Don't follow
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  Speaker 4: my lead voter guide. And today I'll be doing props
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  Speaker 4: to three and four. Talk about those. I do the
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  Speaker 4: props and I'm not doing anything else other than props
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  Speaker 4: because local races. It's up to you to figure out
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  Speaker 4: what you want to do. And if you're talking about
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  Speaker 4: state elections, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter one whit
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  Speaker 4: because the Democrats, as I've said over and over again,
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  Speaker 4: have a super majority, have a super duper majority, have
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  Speaker 4: a super duper pooper majority where I don't even know
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  Speaker 4: why Republicans show up. It's a waste of time. Just
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  Speaker 4: get your money. You know, just get paid. They can't
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  Speaker 4: stop you. It's an elected office. You know, you can
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  Speaker 4: just get elected and do nothing. You certainly can with
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  Speaker 4: judicial appointments, federal judges. Do you know that? They're in
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  Speaker 4: for life. It doesn't matter. It does not matter. Okay, guys,
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  Speaker 4: if you are ready to do it, let us do it.
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  Speaker 4: It's time for Handle on the News on this Tuesday
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  Speaker 4: morning with Femi, Neil, and me, lead story. Well, here
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  Speaker 4: comes the election today, guys. And Israel is really deciding
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  Speaker 4: which way the country is going to go because of
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  Speaker 4: the war still reeling from the Hamas 2023 attack, divided
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  Speaker 4: over the character of the state, the future of the state,
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  Speaker 4: and the right person to lead it. And Benjamin Netanyahu
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  Speaker 4: is in for the fight of his life, political life,
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  Speaker 4: that is. And we'll talk more about that as this
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  Speaker 4: thing pans out, because it is one hell of a story.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to do more about that at 7 o'clock
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  Speaker 4: this morning, trying to understand why it is so important
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  Speaker 4: and what is going on. It's a very weird— this is
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  Speaker 4: parliamentary— the parliamentary system at its worst is the state of Israel.
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  Speaker 4: We do not have a parliamentary system. England does. Most
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  Speaker 4: other countries in the world do. We do not. We
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  Speaker 4: are a representative elective system. And it is we who
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  Speaker 4: elect the president in the parliamentary system. The party in
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  Speaker 4: power puts in the prime minister. There is no direct election.
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  Speaker 4: So I'll talk more about that at seven o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 3: And as we move on, I just did a little
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  Speaker 3: double check. So the polls in Israel are open until
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  Speaker 3: 10 p.m. local time, which if they're nine hours ahead.
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  Speaker 3: then that's 1 p.m. our time that we'll start hearing
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  Speaker 3: the first results.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they do it– I don't know if they
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  Speaker 4: do it by counting because it's way too early to
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  Speaker 4: have any kind of a count, of course. But exit
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  Speaker 4: polling seems to do it. And if you look at
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  Speaker 4: our elections, I watch CNN because I love John King
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  Speaker 4: and his analysis of what's happening with the elections. But
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  Speaker 4: it's early. The reporting starts coming in early, early, early
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  Speaker 4: days where you just get a few people. And then,
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  Speaker 4: of course, it starts going up. And hours later, it
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  Speaker 4: can be determinative as to who wins or it can
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  Speaker 4: go for days.
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  Speaker 3: Even though they have to do in-person voting, there is
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  Speaker 3: no mail-in voting.
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  Speaker 4: There is no mail-in voting in Israel. That's why I
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  Speaker 4: did the story yesterday. Israeli expats are flying to Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Staying out of it. A federal appeals court. has rejected
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  Speaker 3: a request from the administration that it intervene in a
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  Speaker 3: lawsuit against California and declined to order the state to
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  Speaker 3: set aside up to 20,000 mail-in ballots that the DOJ
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  Speaker 3: says are likely from non-citizens. They said the lower court
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  Speaker 3: judge had not yet considered it, so they didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to do anything about it. Well, that judge is going
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  Speaker 3: to consider it today in L.A.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's not going to happen anyway, no matter
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  Speaker 4: which way the judge goes. I think if the judge rules– well,
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  Speaker 4: what will happen is the judge is going to rule
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  Speaker 4: against the Trump administration because that lawsuit makes no sense.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, segregating 20,000 votes because the federal government
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  Speaker 4: suspects that these people are not citizens. And one of
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  Speaker 4: the questions the court says– Based on what? How did
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  Speaker 4: you get to that number? Who gave you that number?
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  Speaker 4: What rationale? What procedure did you use? use in determining
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  Speaker 4: that number? What problem do you have with the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Constitution that the states determine how votes are to be
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  Speaker 4: determined and run? So they're going no place with that.
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  Speaker 4: But we talked about that yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: All right. The money is at enough, man. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to get my son to do a little voter fraud.
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  Speaker 2: And then if Republicans get in after the midterms, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to have one million and five thousand dollars. President
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  Speaker 2: Trump offering one million bucks yesterday to anyone who reports
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  Speaker 2: voter fraud that leads to an arrest and conviction.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I'll tell you what the next lawsuit is going
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  Speaker 4: to be about that. In every race in which the
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  Speaker 4: Republicans lose, and we're talking about close races, let's say,
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  Speaker 4: what the lawsuit is going to be is the administration
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  Speaker 4: or the Republicans will file a lawsuit. to uh not
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  Speaker 4: certify the results because so many allegations look how many
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  Speaker 4: people uh tipped us off as to the fraud.
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  Speaker 2: Look at how look at the number of people that's
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  Speaker 2: an interesting take yeah and i think that what happens
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  Speaker 2: that's legitimate uh you know your honors uh we have
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  Speaker 2: such an overwhelming number of tips we have to pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to that That is fascinating, William Wolfe.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much. Well, we're coming back. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not a cynic, am I? I don't even think that
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  Speaker 4: was cynical. I think that was more of a reality play.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we're going to come back. Everything is awful.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is awful. It fills his mind.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty much. Not only is the glass not half full,
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  Speaker 4: it's half empty and there's a hole at the bottom
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  Speaker 4: of the glass where the water is pouring through.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 4: Today is the Israeli elections. I'll talk more about that
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  Speaker 4: at 7 o'clock. Coming up November 14th, just a quick announcement.
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  Speaker 4: Neil Fork Report is being broadcast from the Wild Fork.
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  Speaker 4: store in Laguna Niguel in Orange County. I will be
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  Speaker 4: joining Neil and samples more food than you could ever eat.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean, it's not just little Costco samples either.
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  Speaker 2: I love how you say you're going to be joining
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  Speaker 2: me when you're going to be joining for the food.
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  Speaker 4: Of course I am. Of course I am. And this isn't,
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  Speaker 4: this is not Costco where the Korean ladies are shoving
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  Speaker 4: you aside for, well, maybe you will see a couple
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  Speaker 4: of Korean ladies shoving you aside. Yeah, that's true. Because
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  Speaker 4: here's an equation. The more Korean ladies, the fewer the pets. OK,
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  Speaker 4: moving on. More handle on the news with Amy, Neil
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  Speaker 4: and me.
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  Speaker 3: DOJ has taken another shot at James Comey. The former
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  Speaker 3: FBI director has been accused this time of mishandling national
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  Speaker 3: security information in October of 2016 that they say ended
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  Speaker 3: up in a New York Times article, according to Court Sealed.
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  Speaker 3: Court papers unsealed yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know how that's going to happen because,
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  Speaker 4: of course, he's going to deny it. Then they're going
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  Speaker 4: to say he leaked it. Sources at the newspaper always
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  Speaker 4: say or reporters always refuse to give sources. So this
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  Speaker 4: is the third go round against Comey.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: Once again. And is it going to go anyplace? Of
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  Speaker 4: course not. It doesn't. He is an avowed enemy of Trump.
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  Speaker 4: And if you are an enemy of Trump, even just
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  Speaker 4: a perceived enemy, then the full weight of the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: government comes down on you in a big, big way.
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  Speaker 4: That's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Man charged with threatening letters.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Not so much just the threatening letters. A harsh word
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  Speaker 2: letter can be wonderful, but don't put white powder in it.
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  Speaker 2: That's when it becomes problematic. Matthew Unglesby, that's what I'm
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  Speaker 2: going with, has been charged. He not only sent the
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  Speaker 2: threatening letters, but they contained a white granular substance. These
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  Speaker 2: were to three members of Congress and a handwritten letter
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  Speaker 2: that read H-A-H-A. Nicely done, Joker. A fourth letter with
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  Speaker 2: white granular substance included the note, H-A-H, enjoy the gift.
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  Speaker 2: Not a big brain on Matthew.
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  Speaker 4: What if it were included in their, this product is
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  Speaker 4: used to sweeten your coffee? Would there still be that
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  Speaker 4: big a deal made of it?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not. Ha, ha, ha, says the Joker. Pow, Batman.
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  Speaker 3: We got some hijack hijinks going on. A passenger was
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  Speaker 3: arrested after writing a message on a cell phone in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the air as they were flying from
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  Speaker 3: Las Vegas to Newark, New Jersey. And apparently somebody saw
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  Speaker 3: him say that he was going to hijack the plane.
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  Speaker 3: And so they turned around and they landed back in
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  Speaker 3: Las Vegas. Interesting to hear the pilots talking about it, too,
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  Speaker 3: because they're like, OK, we've been Notified that this guy
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  Speaker 3: has sent messages saying he wants to hijack the plane,
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  Speaker 3: but he doesn't know that we know and we're going
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  Speaker 3: to turn around and land now.
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  Speaker 4: Right. And he was very calm about it. What he
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  Speaker 4: did is it was a flight attendant who saw this
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  Speaker 4: on his phone. And he says it was just a joke.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't intend for it to happen. You can't do
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  Speaker 4: jokes like that.
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  Speaker 2: He was texting someone else.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. It was it was a text. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Not a smart guy from Las Vegas. Was he going
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  Speaker 2: to crash it into New York?
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you one thing. I will tell you something else.
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  Speaker 4: Don't ever, ever at a checkpoint at the airport describe
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  Speaker 4: a movie as a bomb that the movie just bombed.
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  Speaker 4: You do not want to say that.
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  Speaker 2: Or enjoy a bomb pop.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It would be bad as well.
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  Speaker 3: I remember my mom saying that when we were flying
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  Speaker 3: when we were kids. They were like, no, you cannot
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  Speaker 3: say that. And we'd go, we could say bomb. And
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  Speaker 3: they're like, no, you can't. But now it's even more serious.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's crazy now. Yeah. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 4: you can't even listen to the song. Who was it?
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  Speaker 3: You dropped a bomb on me?
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  Speaker 2: No. La Bomba.
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  Speaker 4: Who did that? Oh, Richie Valens. It's La, insert name
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  Speaker 4: of song here, La.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, La Bamba.
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  Speaker 4: Richie Valens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can't even watch Ishtar on a plane.
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  Speaker 3: Because it bombed so bad.
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  Speaker 4: Because it bombed, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: OK, applauding Rick Caruso. Good man. I like that Rick
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  Speaker 2: Caruso for doing this. He said he came out and
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  Speaker 2: said he's voting for Karen Bass in the mayoral race.
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  Speaker 2: And he had been he'd been kind of stating that
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't backing anybody. But good for him to get
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  Speaker 2: some other eyes on Mayor Bass so that. nithya ramen
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  Speaker 2: noodles doesn't get in office.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah do you know i want to congratulate you neil
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  Speaker 4: uh for being completely objective about the mayoral race this
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  Speaker 4: time around.
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  Speaker 2: You know what i'm learning from you uh hyperbolic and
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  Speaker 2: absurd you know freaking i have nithya ramen tds and
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  Speaker 2: it balances out your tds in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't think I'm not talking about active people
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  Speaker 4: running for office. I don't think I don't think I've.
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  Speaker 2: Endorsed you are the only person I know that after
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  Speaker 2: next Tuesday is going to wear. I voted as my
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  Speaker 2: wife told me so on sticker on their chest.
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  Speaker 4: Well said.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 4: Israeli news. The big vote is today is happening as
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  Speaker 4: we speak. Let's come back to a handle on the news. Amy,
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  Speaker 4: Neil and me.
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  Speaker 3: How about some cash to leave the company? Microsoft is
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  Speaker 3: offering buyouts to about 60,000 workers. The company says the
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  Speaker 3: voluntary exit offer reflects an important part of how we're
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  Speaker 3: evolving our approach to change, creating greater flexibility and where possible,
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  Speaker 3: More ways for employees to shape their next chapter.
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  Speaker 4: That's a lot of feet that are walking. 120,000 of them.
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  Speaker 3: 60,000.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: No, 60,000 people.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, 120,000 feet. You're right.
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  Speaker 4: That is correct. Thank you. I did the math. Okay. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Microsoft is planning to spend $ 190 billion on capital expenditures
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: this year, largely tied to investment in artificial intelligence.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Yep. Another episode in the AI story. Man, that's going
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: to be talked about for a while, you think?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: National panel for the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America,
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  Speaker 2: decided Monday, once again, delay voting on whether to uphold
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: or rescind the Los Angeles chapter's endorsement of Nithya Raman.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't think any of the DSA members
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: that are actually council members are voting or have supported Raman.
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  Speaker 3: They all support.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: So this is this is actually the. national group. And
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  Speaker 2: they said that this is all over concerns that Rahman
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  Speaker 2: hasn't taken a sufficiently tough stance against Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Israel.
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  Speaker 4: But Karen Bass hasn't taken a tough stance against Israel.
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  Speaker 4: So not like this. Rahman is in an interesting position,
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  Speaker 4: not liberal enough or not left wing enough to for
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: uh the super the socialist not quite where they want
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: to crap can the the chief of police yeah she
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: does she does but she hates basically doesn't like the
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: police uh has come more to the center but ramen
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: is i well it's that's it's another work i'm not
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: thrilled with either one of them looks like karambe the
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: dead gorilla is my write-in once.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Again don't write in just come on just do bass
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: before we get some sort of weird crap i think
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: i think bass is gonna take it no matter what
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: i don't know i hope so okay your lips to
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: god's ears or whatever god's lips to your ears.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: How about some cash to leave the company? Oh, wait,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: it's not the same story as Microsoft. Skydance is now
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: offering voluntary buyouts to employees as the media giant moves
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: ahead with plans to slash costs following the merger or
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: takeover of Warner Brothers Discovery and Paramount Skydance, now known
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: as just Skydance. It's also imposing a five-day return to
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: office mandate across all operations, marking another major shakeup for workers.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: This is from orders from David Ellison.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: The big deal was 60 Minutes. Remember the reporters leaving
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: 60 Minutes because they were outraged by the changes being
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: made at CBS. And have you watched 60 Minutes lately?
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: I have a few episodes. I really can't tell the difference.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: We're all under 60, so none of us watch it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, come on. That's great stuff.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: It really is.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Give me a break on that. All right, let's do
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: one more, and then we will take our break.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: All right, DoorDash. You're not a big fish unless you
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: try and swallow another fish, apparently. DoorDash is pushing forward
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: on talks to acquire Instacart, another food delivery rival there.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Could be finalized as soon as this week. Could value
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Instacart at around $ 17 billion. No guarantees, obviously, when these
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: things happen.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: And this is one of those that makes a lot
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: of sense. Because if you look what DoorDash does, is
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: deliver food from restaurants for the most part. And Instacart
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: shops for you. We use Instacart all the time. And
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: it's really a neat process.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: They do a great job. It's just hard with produce.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Produce is very difficult.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: So that's the only thing.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah. But that's about it. And even then they do
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: a decent job with produce. They're not as careful as
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: you're going to be, but still.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Depending on who you get.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody else. It does work. So the two of
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: the companies together will make this massive company. And it just,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: it's very, has a lot of symbiosis to it. Yes,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: thank you very much.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Israeli elections are going on right now. Talk more about
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: that at seven o'clock. Also, before we finish up, Handel
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: on the news, as Amy will tell you and I
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: will also confirm, you go to Africa. And if you're
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: out on the bush, surprisingly, they have pretty sophisticated bathrooms
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: out there. And right now, if you go to Instagram,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: at Excessive Baggage Podcast, or TikTok, at Excessive Baggage, or
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: go to the website, excessivebaggage.com, it's my new travel podcast
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: that I'm doing with Lindsay, you'll see some pretty sophisticated
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: outdoor toilets And on the bush, out in the bush
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: in Africa. So it's my little experience there. Excessive Instagram,
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Excessive Baggage Podcast. TikTok at Excessive Baggage. Website, ExcessiveBaggage.com. It's
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: the name of the podcast, Excessive Baggage. See, that's sort
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: of a double, triple, quadruple on time.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: You should say it one more time for people who
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: didn't get it.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Okay. Excessive Baggage. Okay. Because both of us bring a
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: fair amount of baggage. I bring more. Okay, guys, let's
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: go ahead and finish up my handle on the news
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: on this Tuesday morning. Amy, Neil, and me.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Trump just topped Biden. The average price of gas during
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Trump's second term is now more expensive than it was
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: during the Biden era, according to a CNN analysis of
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: AAA data. Gas buddy guru Patrick DeHaan says it's pretty astonishing.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I don't think anyone would have predicted this 10 months ago.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: And it's a major reversal today. of the return to
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: less than $ 2 for a gallon of gas that Trump
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: promised in the summer of 2024.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Anybody listen to the rally last night? where the president said,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: you're paying a little bit more for gasoline, but the
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: good news is oil companies are making more money than
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: they ever have before. No. No, absolutely. And he said,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: we are producing more oil than we ever had before.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: We are now an oil exporting nation. So when you
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: go and fill up your gas tank, just tell yourself
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: we're an oil exporting nation because that'll help you really
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: deal with it. I just filled up Lindsey's gas tank.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: It's a 20-gallon tank, and it was $ 6. 50 a gallon,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: $ 130 to fill up the gas tank. But we are producing–
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: we're now an oil exporter, so it made me feel
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: great to pay $ 120 for a gas tank.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: You can't complain. She drives a car way too big
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: for her, and you switched an electric vehicle out for
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: a gas guzzler.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I did. I wanted a hybrid, but you
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: couldn't get them. You can't get hybrids. A three-month wait
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: for a hybrid. And my lease was up. It wasn't
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: going to happen.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: It just goes to show you that life is marketing.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Now our oil companies are making more money. That's beautiful.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Convicted murderer gets out. 28-year-old convicted murderer serving life in
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Tennessee in a prison there just escaped through a fence Sunday.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: And then stole the truck because that's what, you know,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: criminals do. And they haven't located him yet. It's a
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: measly $ 2, 500 for information that leads to his, you know, arrest.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Unless you add that to a voter fraud, then it's $ 7, 500. No, $ 8, 500.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Do you know that it's $ 2, 500 for a murderer, but
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: you can get a million if you turn in one
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: person who did voter fraud?
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: That's correct.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Priorities, my friend.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Okay. The billionaire at work.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Off the sidelines and into a huge spotlight, Jay-Z is
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: going to take the stage as the performer for the
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl halftime show coming up at SoFi Stadium on
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Valentine's Day. I believe it's Super Bowl 61. Now, Jay-Z's
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: entertainment company, Rock Nation, has been producing the halftime show
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: since 2020. Others who were in the running, Miley Cyrus,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Justin Bieber, Harry Styles, but they lost out. to Jay-Z,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: who chose himself to perform.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: That's correct. He looked in the mirror and said, I
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: think it's going to be you. Now, the reality is
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Jay-Z is an astounding performer.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Jay-Z.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: I said that, Jay-Z.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Jay-C is.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: No, no, Jay-C is someone that you appreciate. Jay-Z is
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: this billionaire business person. He's brilliant at that. And he
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: is enormously talented. And even though he chose himself, that
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: is an easy call for him to make. No one
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: is going to argue with that call for him. You
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: could get his wife up there.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: She's already done.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: It.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I don't find him that great.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm not in big favor of rappers anyway, although,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: you know, I've been listening to some Eminem stuff, and
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: he really is astounding. I have to tell you, I'm
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: not a big fan of rap, but there's a lot
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: of talent there.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: One white rap artist. Good for you, buddy. You're really
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: branching out your cultural instincts.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Damn straight. Coming up, talking about cultural instincts, guess what's
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: happening right now as we Sprechen? The vote in Israel
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: is happening, and I'll go through a little bit of that.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: And then a story that I thought I'd share with you,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: a personal story. Always fun sharing those with you. And
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: we'll be doing that as soon as we come back.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: This is KFI AM 640.
• 27:57
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• 28:00
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• 28:03
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