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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
- 0:04Speaker 1: six forty cease five.
- 0:13Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty bill Handle. Here it is Aday, Wednesday,
- 0:17Speaker 2: July eighth. A quick word about Friday at A thirty
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- 0:35Speaker 2: this show will be streaming, and then there's a microphone
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- 0:43Speaker 2: is recorded, and then Neil chooses the best questions to
- 0:46Speaker 2: ask A thirty in the morning on Friday. Now, a
- 0:51Speaker 2: quick word about what's happening or not happening over in Iran,
- 0:56Speaker 2: and that is the ceasefire isn't ceasing, lusts fire And
- 1:01Speaker 2: according to the President, the ceasefire between Iran and the
- 1:06Speaker 2: United States is over.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Yeah, no kidding.
- 1:09Speaker 2: This is days after escalating attacks and it looks like
- 1:13Speaker 2: the prospect of major hostilities renewed hostilities are there. And
- 1:19Speaker 2: so I want to make a point here this by
- 1:21Speaker 2: the way, Trump said this in a meetium of NATO leaders,
- 1:24Speaker 2: and this is right after the US launched eighty strikes
- 1:27Speaker 2: on Iran in response to Iran attacking ships passing through
- 1:31Speaker 2: the state or form moves. Now, one of the things
- 1:34Speaker 2: that I really like about President Trump. He does not
- 1:37Speaker 2: engage in political speech. He does not speak as you
- 1:43Speaker 2: would expect any normal president or any other president to speak,
- 1:48Speaker 2: where statements are measured, they're careful, they are looked at
- 1:53Speaker 2: in terms of what kind of response is this going
- 1:57Speaker 2: to get? Very carefully statements. Nope. And this is one
- 2:03Speaker 2: of the things I like about this president. They're scum,
- 2:07Speaker 2: they're sick people, They're led by sick people. They're vicious,
- 2:11Speaker 2: violent people. Far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste
- 2:14Speaker 2: of time dealing with them. They're liars, there's something wrong
- 2:18Speaker 2: with them. They're cuckoo. And as far as I'm concerned,
- 2:21Speaker 2: it's over.
- 2:24Speaker 3: Well.
- 2:25Speaker 2: I don't think there's much doubt where he's coming from now.
- 2:28Speaker 2: As I said, I enjoy this. I think this guy
- 2:32Speaker 2: brings to the table the way presidents think and would
- 2:36Speaker 2: never say. And he also said talks with Iron could continue,
- 2:40Speaker 2: but he was skeptical they would even be productive and
- 2:44Speaker 2: he and he went on, they can talk, but I
- 2:46Speaker 2: think they're wasting their time.
- 2:48Speaker 3: They're a bunch of lying guys.
- 2:50Speaker 2: They're bad people, and frankly, I don't want to waste
- 2:54Speaker 2: my time with them.
- 2:55Speaker 3: Now.
- 2:55Speaker 2: I'll let our wonderful negotiators keep talking if they want,
- 2:59Speaker 2: But I don't see it. So the talks were about
- 3:05Speaker 2: opening the Strait of Hormuse. Iran has not yet committed
- 3:09Speaker 2: to not controlling the Strait of Hormose or not charging tolls.
- 3:15Speaker 3: That is up.
- 3:16Speaker 2: Keep in mind that the Strait was an open, international
- 3:20Speaker 2: free waterway prior to this war. Iran never even considered
- 3:25Speaker 2: shutting down the strait, and this war kicked it off.
- 3:31Speaker 3: Also, the nuclear deal, they're.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Talking about nuclear weapons deal in the enriched uranium program.
- 3:39Speaker 2: That's up in the air, And there's a lot of controversy.
- 3:44Speaker 2: Because we opened up negotiations that cease fire sixty day
- 3:49Speaker 2: cease fire sanctions were lifted. Iran was allowed to sell
- 3:55Speaker 2: its oil on the open market, which for years it
- 3:59Speaker 2: has no been able to do. And here is I
- 4:04Speaker 2: think a big issue is that the president lives in
- 4:08Speaker 2: a society where public sentiment actually has influence. I mean,
- 4:14Speaker 2: he looks at poles, and he looks at which way
- 4:16Speaker 2: the public is viewing him and which way the wind
- 4:19Speaker 2: is blowing. You think anybody in Iron cares who's in power?
- 4:24Speaker 2: Do you think they care one iota of what the
- 4:28Speaker 2: public thinks or what the polls show.
- 4:31Speaker 3: Of course not.
- 4:33Speaker 2: I mean they're prepared to kill thousands of their own people.
- 4:35Speaker 2: So right now, it's not full scale war. It's a
- 4:41Speaker 2: tit for tat. Well, actually it's a tat for no
- 4:48Speaker 2: tit because it's okay, I'm not gonna it's not a
- 4:55Speaker 2: tit for tat. It's a tat but okay, I'm just
- 4:59Speaker 2: leaving it alone. I'm referencing the fact that we have
- 5:03Speaker 2: attacked Iran, and Iran has not attacked anybody other than
- 5:08Speaker 2: closing the straight Again, well they did.
- 5:10Speaker 3: They shot on three ships that were going through the
- 5:13Speaker 3: Strait and KWA and I think it was that before
- 5:21Speaker 3: the for tat or the tat. It may have been
- 5:26Speaker 3: after we responded.
- 5:28Speaker 2: Okay, So that was a tat for following Ai. That
- 5:33Speaker 2: was tatty. Okay, damn I get paid for this, you
- 5:38Speaker 2: know that? Is that a scary thought?
- 5:40Speaker 3: It's a horrible, horrible shame.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, and people often ask, how is that possible?
- 5:51Speaker 2: I have no idea, don't know. All right, let's do
- 5:56Speaker 2: a little bit of national politics and has to do
- 6:00Speaker 2: with the Democrats hope to flip the Senate to a
- 6:05Speaker 2: Democratic majority, and one of the most hopeful races was
- 6:11Speaker 2: Graham Plattner, Democrat Senate, to candidate against Susan Collins, who's
- 6:16Speaker 2: been there for three terms as a Republican Senator, and.
- 6:21Speaker 3: She was one of the most vulnerable to lose her seat.
- 6:26Speaker 2: The problem with Platner is he came onto the scene
- 6:30Speaker 2: with some baggage, and that is sexual misconduct, writing texts
- 6:37Speaker 2: to women, many of them or several of them, inappropriate
- 6:41Speaker 2: ones unless you think that sexting is appropriate. And that
- 6:46Speaker 2: was he admitted to that, and he had just been
- 6:49Speaker 2: married and he was sending those texts. Now, the accusations
- 6:53Speaker 2: were beyond that that, in fact, he had conducted himself inappropriately,
- 7:00Speaker 2: and so on Monday, a woman goes forward with an
- 7:06Speaker 2: allegation that he outright raped her.
- 7:11Speaker 3: Whoa.
- 7:12Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, he also had a Nazi symbol
- 7:15Speaker 2: that was tattooed. I don't know where it was tattooed
- 7:18Speaker 2: on his body, but he erased it, had it removed,
- 7:21Speaker 2: and said I had no idea I had a Nazi affiliations. Yeah,
- 7:25Speaker 2: that old swastika, you know, doesn't mean much in terms
- 7:27Speaker 2: of Nazism. I don't even know what that what the
- 7:31Speaker 2: symbol was. Has that they even been brought forward what
- 7:33Speaker 2: exactly it was, because I haven't heard. I don't know
- 7:38Speaker 2: in any case. So that's Monday. A woman who used
- 7:42Speaker 2: to date Platner said he assaulted her in twenty twenty one.
- 7:45Speaker 2: He denied the allegation, and he was starting to lose supporters.
- 7:50Speaker 3: I mean, already it was iffy. Now.
- 7:53Speaker 2: The next day, a second ex girlfriend goes to the Post,
- 7:58Speaker 2: the Washington Post and said that Platner repeatedly removed protection
- 8:03Speaker 2: without her consent as they were having sex.
- 8:08Speaker 3: He has called the campaign.
- 8:09Speaker 2: He has called that claim categorically false and politically motivated.
- 8:14Speaker 2: Or I thought she was talking about my clothes when
- 8:18Speaker 2: she said, get rid of that thing, do not take
- 8:21Speaker 2: it off.
- 8:24Speaker 3: Hmm. Okay, that probably didn't fly either.
- 8:27Speaker 2: So by now you've got state and national Democrats or
- 8:32Speaker 2: pressuring him to quit the race, and it was you know,
- 8:36Speaker 2: the fact that he got started anyway, is that he
- 8:40Speaker 2: was able to get the votes, and he was during
- 8:43Speaker 2: the primary and the voters said, ah, come on, no
- 8:47Speaker 2: big deal. What I do not like about the Democrats
- 8:50Speaker 2: is the hypocrisy of them willing to whenever a Republican
- 8:56Speaker 2: is nailed on sexual misconduct. Man, they're jumping up and
- 8:59Speaker 2: down to make sure that everybody knows about it. Those
- 9:03Speaker 2: pervert Republicans, which they are. How about the pervert Democrats
- 9:09Speaker 2: which there are? And all of a sudden, Platiner his
- 9:12Speaker 2: accusation is sort of swept under the rug and let's
- 9:15Speaker 2: downplay it. I'll tell you who really downplayed it, Bernie Sanders.
- 9:18Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders is seen at these rallies holding Plattner's arm
- 9:24Speaker 2: up as if he has just won a boxing championship
- 9:29Speaker 2: and ignored the allegations. Totally ignored the allegations. What is
- 9:39Speaker 2: that about. Well, Bernie Sanders has changed his mind because
- 9:44Speaker 2: at this point he's lost it. Now there's another spin
- 9:48Speaker 2: on this is if he doesn't bail out by Monday voluntarily,
- 9:55Speaker 2: his name is on the ballot. He is the Democratic nominee.
- 10:00Speaker 2: He is going to get three votes. And Susan Collins,
- 10:04Speaker 2: who looks up at the sky, says, thank you God,
- 10:08Speaker 2: thank you for Graham Platner is going to win and
- 10:12Speaker 2: probably the biggest landslide she's ever had. Now, if Graham
- 10:15Speaker 2: Plattner does bail out, which he already says, I'm relooking
- 10:18Speaker 2: at which way to go forward, that means he's Bailey. Now,
- 10:23Speaker 2: the Denver Panta Party Maine has two weeks in which
- 10:27Speaker 2: to select a replacement. They can't do an election, so
- 10:33Speaker 2: it's going to have to be I guess the party,
- 10:36Speaker 2: the senior party executives. I mean, who is going to
- 10:40Speaker 2: get that spot. And there are a few front runners,
- 10:44Speaker 2: people that ran in the primary, but it's gonna be tough.
- 10:51Speaker 2: This is one weird one man you know today and
- 10:57Speaker 2: this is a good thing. And I was just talking
- 11:00Speaker 2: to a few people, including my daughter and including lindsay
- 11:04Speaker 2: that men just get away with so much.
- 11:08Speaker 3: Hey, not so much anymore now.
- 11:10Speaker 2: When the me too movement was there, a simple allegation
- 11:13Speaker 2: got someone fired and that went crazy. And now I
- 11:19Speaker 2: think it has settled down to let's look at the evidence.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Plattner had said that the allegation as Monday, as far
- 11:28Speaker 2: as Monday was concerned where the rape took place, and
- 11:33Speaker 2: he said, oh, it's just operatives from the other side
- 11:36Speaker 2: as people that want to accuse me and make sure
- 11:40Speaker 2: I'm not that I lose the race. This woman has
- 11:43Speaker 2: no credibility an interview with Jake Tapper she did of CNN.
- 11:47Speaker 3: She has all the credibility in the world. This is
- 11:50Speaker 3: not a woman who made this up, not if you
- 11:53Speaker 3: listen to her.
- 11:55Speaker 2: Okay, oh, here is a real estate deal that the
- 11:59Speaker 2: DHU has Department Homeland Security.
- 12:02Speaker 3: Man.
- 12:03Speaker 2: Occasionally you get a deal that sounds pretty good, this one.
- 12:10Speaker 3: Not so much. The Department of Homeland.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Security has just bought two detention centers, one in California
- 12:19Speaker 2: City has no idea where that is and O te
- 12:22Speaker 2: Mesa has no idea where that is. But these were
- 12:25Speaker 2: two of the largest They are the largest detention centers
- 12:29Speaker 2: in California, and was one point five billion dollars to
- 12:32Speaker 2: buy both of these. And the question is why. Well,
- 12:38Speaker 2: one reason that's being given is that once it leaves
- 12:44Speaker 2: the state of California, it's jurisdiction. They're not going to
- 12:46Speaker 2: physically leave, but the jurisdiction it becomes a federal facility.
- 12:50Speaker 2: The state has very little control, and the DHS does
- 12:55Speaker 2: not like state control, particularly California. And I think what's
- 13:00Speaker 2: interesting about this, First of all, the whole issue with
- 13:02Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security. Under that one bit of a
- 13:06Speaker 2: big beautiful bill Act, the Department gets one hundred and
- 13:10Speaker 2: seventy billion dollars this fiscal year. They do not know
- 13:15Speaker 2: what to do with the money that they're sitting on.
- 13:18Speaker 2: They have so much money. Now, how about the entitlement
- 13:21Speaker 2: programs that are out there. The money that's going to
- 13:26Speaker 2: is going to medical research, that's going to local hospitals,
- 13:31Speaker 2: that's going for education, that's for the most part being
- 13:33Speaker 2: gutted completely. And we'll talk more about that a little
- 13:35Speaker 2: bit later on at A twenty and so they ended
- 13:39Speaker 2: up buying these two facilities, and we're talking about a
- 13:42Speaker 2: lot of beds too, two thousand at the ote Mesa facility,
- 13:49Speaker 2: twenty five hundred at the California City Detention, and a.
- 13:53Speaker 3: Lot of them are well, they're just not very full.
- 13:56Speaker 2: Now the government is saying the reason they're not very
- 13:58Speaker 2: full because we're processing people very quickly and so they're
- 14:02Speaker 2: in and out. And so my favorite story of the detention,
- 14:08Speaker 2: and this was a big story, and Amy will certainly
- 14:10Speaker 2: remember it because she reported on it many times, is
- 14:15Speaker 2: I remember alligator Alcatraz that was built in Florida out
- 14:20Speaker 2: in the middle of the boonies. Four hundred million dollars
- 14:25Speaker 2: they spent on it, and I think at the highest
- 14:28Speaker 2: point they had twelve or thirteen detainees and then I mean,
- 14:34Speaker 2: nobody went there and then they shut it down four
- 14:37Speaker 2: hundred million dollars poof. And maybe they're going to make
- 14:42Speaker 2: it a refuge for manatees and feeding them cabbage heads.
- 14:47Speaker 2: I have no idea what they're going to do, but
- 14:50Speaker 2: there is a whole lot of controversy regarding them. So immediately,
- 14:55Speaker 2: both core Civic, the company that has the contract that
- 15:00Speaker 2: runs the facilities, is still going to run the facility,
- 15:02Speaker 2: and these are multi billion dollar contracts cor Civic has
- 15:07Speaker 2: with the US governments, and nothing is going to change.
- 15:11Speaker 2: Courcivic is still going to be doing what it does.
- 15:15Speaker 2: The ownership of the facility, however, is going to go
- 15:17Speaker 2: to the federal government.
- 15:20Speaker 3: And what do they do. This is going to.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Be a prophesizing history here, because as immigration starts heading
- 15:30Speaker 2: downhill and believing it already has. One of the things
- 15:34Speaker 2: that President Trump has said is one of the main
- 15:37Speaker 2: tenets of his campaign, his belief that has been going
- 15:41Speaker 2: on for a very long time. This is not just
- 15:42Speaker 2: a political move on his part. Is he has been
- 15:45Speaker 2: against immigration for a very long time.
- 15:49Speaker 3: Now.
- 15:49Speaker 2: He believes in legal immigration, but he has made legal
- 15:52Speaker 2: immigration almost impossible for anybody to come into this country
- 15:56Speaker 2: very difficult. The visa requirements, the one B or HB
- 16:01Speaker 2: one of visas which now are one hundred thousand dollars
- 16:05Speaker 2: for a company instead of five thousand dollars to bring
- 16:07Speaker 2: in skill that foreigners foreigners into the particularly the computer industry,
- 16:14Speaker 2: and so he has made it very, very difficult. And
- 16:16Speaker 2: the more successful he is, and he is being very successful,
- 16:21Speaker 2: the fewer detention centers that are going to be needed.
- 16:25Speaker 2: And why the federal government needs to buy these detention
- 16:28Speaker 2: centers when they're already owned by the statan when they
- 16:31Speaker 2: don't need them anymore, they don't need them. Thank you
- 16:33Speaker 2: walking away for it. Why should you be a buyer
- 16:38Speaker 2: when you can rent and walk away when you no
- 16:41Speaker 2: longer need to rent?
- 16:45Speaker 3: Okay, a story about Krispy Kreme.
- 16:46Speaker 2: I really enjoy this because it's number one Krispy Kreme,
- 16:48Speaker 2: which I like, and it is a business story and
- 16:52Speaker 2: chief executive John Charlesworth is trying to turn Krispy Kreme around.
- 16:58Speaker 2: It's actually been losing money, and one of the ways
- 17:02Speaker 2: it's been trying to regain its market share is now
- 17:08Speaker 2: sales through retailers Walmart, Ralphs, where I go shopping all
- 17:14Speaker 2: the time. You can buy they have a stand a
- 17:16Speaker 2: Kiosk Wha. You can buy Krispy Kreme donuts six packs,
- 17:19Speaker 2: twelve packs. And here's something that's fun. Here's a stat
- 17:24Speaker 2: for you, a billion donuts a year.
- 17:27Speaker 1: Now.
- 17:28Speaker 2: What makes the company difficult to turn around is that
- 17:32Speaker 2: it manufactures its own equipment, shapes, bakes, glazes. The donuts
- 17:38Speaker 2: sells in more than forty countries around the world, so
- 17:41Speaker 2: all of the different toppings that they have the specialty donuts,
- 17:45Speaker 2: Kate crumbles, Graham cracker, crust toppings, star spangled sprinkles.
- 17:51Speaker 3: I don't know why they do.
- 17:51Speaker 2: Star spangled sprinkles because half of their market just doesn't exist.
- 17:56Speaker 2: There isn't a straight man on the planet that would
- 17:58Speaker 2: buy a donut with sprinkles on it.
- 18:01Speaker 3: I'd do it in a heartbeat, not eating. I rest
- 18:04Speaker 3: my case.
- 18:05Speaker 2: There isn't a straight man on the planet that would
- 18:08Speaker 2: buy a donut with sprinkles on it.
- 18:11Speaker 3: I've just never under I'm sorry, imous, what's wrong with sprinkles?
- 18:15Speaker 2: Yeah, there sprinkles. There are sprinkles. There's my daughter when
- 18:23Speaker 2: she was doing her unicorn birthday parties, you know, little girls'
- 18:27Speaker 2: birthday parties, which she actually did right through her twenties.
- 18:30Speaker 2: To be honest with you, it was sprinkles on the donuts.
- 18:33Speaker 2: By the way, I'm not exaggerating about the birthday party
- 18:36Speaker 2: business anyway. It's just it's a difficult turnaround because the
- 18:42Speaker 2: company manufactures its own equipment to make just the regular donuts.
- 18:49Speaker 2: I mean, you look at the glazed donuts, the crispy cream.
- 18:52Speaker 2: Crispy cream has remember do you remember the days when
- 18:58Speaker 2: a batch would come out to be sold and the
- 19:00Speaker 2: red light and the siren would come up, and people
- 19:03Speaker 2: would line up by the hundreds and hundreds and stand
- 19:07Speaker 2: in line to grab donuts, and then they have to
- 19:10Speaker 2: wait for the next batch to come out. Boy, are
- 19:13Speaker 2: those days gone? And again it's a problem with those
- 19:17Speaker 2: specialty donuts. You know why, because they all have to
- 19:20Speaker 2: be made by hand, not the donut part itself, because
- 19:24Speaker 2: that goes into the blast though five thousand machine and
- 19:27Speaker 2: the glazing goes on. But the sprinkles and their specialty
- 19:31Speaker 2: donuts like Harry Potter, he Man milk bar donuts. They
- 19:37Speaker 2: all have to be finished off by hand. And whenever
- 19:40Speaker 2: you're talking about millions of donuts being sold and part
- 19:44Speaker 2: of the process is hand sprinkling sprinkles, man, I don't
- 19:51Speaker 2: understand sprinkles. I don't really. And here's the other part
- 19:55Speaker 2: about this. I didn't know this either. The average Krispy
- 19:58Speaker 2: Kreme customer only buys two three times a year. I
- 20:03Speaker 2: didn't know that half the clientele is under thirty five.
- 20:08Speaker 2: So what they have to do is come out with
- 20:11Speaker 2: these limited edition donuts that can be stars on social media.
- 20:16Speaker 2: So what Krispy Kreme does is now run fifteen to
- 20:19Speaker 2: twenty special runs of donuts a year, plus a collection
- 20:22Speaker 2: for each season, and the staff decorating them by hand.
- 20:27Speaker 2: And according to Charles Worth, the CEO, that alone is
- 20:30Speaker 2: worth the effort, even though they're losing money on it.
- 20:33Speaker 2: So they have to turn it around. And Neil, you
- 20:36Speaker 2: and I have talked about this. With all these the
- 20:38Speaker 2: fast food places, they all have specialties, they all have
- 20:41Speaker 2: seasonal items, and now we're looking at Krispy Kreme. In
- 20:47Speaker 2: this case, we're going to see product after product after
- 20:51Speaker 2: product become seasonal.
- 20:53Speaker 4: Well, yeah, the easiest thing to do for any company
- 20:57Speaker 4: to wake you up is to have a sale. It's
- 21:00Speaker 4: hard to do that on a three dollars donut, So,
- 21:03Speaker 4: I mean, you could do stuff by the dozen or weather.
- 21:05Speaker 4: So what they have to do is they have to
- 21:07Speaker 4: create things that cause buzz and people talking.
- 21:10Speaker 2: So yeah, all right, So we're gonna have a specialty
- 21:17Speaker 2: Earthday Krispy Kreme donuts.
- 21:20Speaker 3: Filled with dirt, Filled with dirt, Okay.
- 21:22Speaker 2: And it tastes, Yes, a Krispy Kreme donut that smells
- 21:26Speaker 2: and tastes like compost. I'm telling you there's some winners here.
- 21:31Speaker 2: I should work for these people. Okay, we're done, guys,
- 21:35Speaker 2: coming up, interesting story about Waymo. God, I love this story.
- 21:40Speaker 2: What happened to Waymo and what happened to a couple
- 21:42Speaker 2: of kids that were writing in a Waymo vehicle.
- 21:45Speaker 3: That's coming up. KFI Am sixty. You've been listening to
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