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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM640, the Bill Handel Show on
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  Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see the video of that neighborhood in New
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  Speaker 2: Jersey where the shark is swimming down the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the street?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God, you have to look at that. It's literally
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  Speaker 2: the street is flooded. You have houses on both sides
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  Speaker 2: and there's a shark going down the middle.
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  Speaker 4: It was a small, smooth dogfish shark.
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  Speaker 2: I have never heard it regarded as that.
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  Speaker 3: You can tell because it stops at the fire hydrant
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  Speaker 3: and lifts its fin.
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  Speaker 2: That's actually very funny.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 5: And now, Handel on the News.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Yet another day. It's already Thursday. The week's flying by.
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  Speaker 2: And we're getting close to the midterms. Actually, I'm mailing
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  Speaker 2: my mail-in today. I finished it a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm trying to figure out what my name is.
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  Speaker 2: If your name doesn't match exactly the way it's registered,
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  Speaker 2: it gets tossed. Your vote doesn't exist. So I'm sitting down,
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  Speaker 2: and does anybody vote for judges? I don't. I literally
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  Speaker 2: write in. I do my write-in for judges. I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't care. Let them count that.
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  Speaker 6: I have friends that are judges, and sometimes I'll ask
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  Speaker 6: them if they know anybody and if they have any insights.
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  Speaker 2: No, they don't. No one knows anybody. The way judges
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  Speaker 2: work in California is they're appointed by the governor, 12-year sentence.
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  Speaker 2: terms and they have to be reelected and judges are
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  Speaker 2: there basically for life because all you do is look
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  Speaker 2: at what what they do for a living and someone's
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  Speaker 2: you know a deli store a deli owner and someone
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  Speaker 2: else is a plumber and then there's one that says
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  Speaker 2: judge who is already going for re-election. Who do you
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  Speaker 2: think wins, huh?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going for the deli owner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so am I. I have a bias. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: I just, no one pays any attention. You pay attention
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  Speaker 2: to your assembly person. Certainly this time around, and this
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  Speaker 2: has to do with changing, well, assembly and senate really
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter anyway. Switching a few seats one way or
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  Speaker 2: the other. California, the senate assembly has changed Such a
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  Speaker 2: super majority. I don't even know why Republicans even show
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  Speaker 2: up in Sacramento. But certainly the House seats are a big,
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  Speaker 2: big deal.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say a quick hello to the crowd. Anne, good
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  Speaker 2: morning to you.
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  Speaker 3: Hi.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. Good morning. Amy, is that another
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  Speaker 2: Disneyland garb?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: It's another Halloween spirit jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. And Neil, you went to Disneyland yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, my wife and I ran out there for a
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  Speaker 6: couple of hours while our boy was in school.
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  Speaker 4: Did you get there before the rain?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it didn't start raining until we were driving home,
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  Speaker 6: so no worries.
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  Speaker 3: But Park is beautiful. Gorgeous. And they've got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of new foods.
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  Speaker 2: How crowded was it yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Not at all. They had 15-minute waits for most rides.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I would think.
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  Speaker 6: We hit three or four rides before we came home
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  Speaker 6: and had lunch and all of those things still.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. And who's left here to say hello to? There's Will.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Bill.
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  Speaker 2: And there's Mario dressed in screaming hooker red. Congratulations. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. All right. What was I going to say? Oh, yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: So I went into the valley from Orange County, had
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  Speaker 2: to do some stuff up in the Hollywood Hills. And
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  Speaker 2: so it took me an hour and a half to
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  Speaker 2: get there, which was very little traffic, almost none. Coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Was two hours and 45 minutes. And what a joy
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  Speaker 2: that was. And then part of it, the rain was
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  Speaker 2: so heavy that I couldn't see the lines. Could not
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  Speaker 2: see the lines on the freeway. And just had this,
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  Speaker 2: it was almost like a fog. There was so much
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  Speaker 2: rain coming down.
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  Speaker 4: Were you driving?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I was. So you had one eye. Yeah, one eye.
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  Speaker 1: And the rain?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: And I was driving and every time something, I had
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  Speaker 2: to turn and Lindsay would go, Bill, you got to
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  Speaker 2: turn here. Because I had my one eye. She did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that.
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  Speaker 3: And your wooden foot.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm zipping along at maybe 50, 52 miles an
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  Speaker 2: hour along the freeway. And there are people to my
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  Speaker 2: left are going past me at 70, 75 miles an hour. Go,
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  Speaker 2: what in God's name is wrong with these people when
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  Speaker 2: the rain is that heavy? And sometimes, and I've been
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  Speaker 2: in rain. It wasn't quite that bad yesterday. But I've
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  Speaker 2: been in rain. Here's Southern California where the windshield wipers
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  Speaker 2: can't keep up with the rain. That is a tough drive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's rough. That's pretty scary. It does nothing. It
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  Speaker 3: does nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Where was I in? I was in Europe and
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  Speaker 2: we were driving through a fog. This was last time out.
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  Speaker 2: And you could not see 10 feet in front of you.
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  Speaker 2: Not 10 feet.
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  Speaker 4: Where was that?
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember. Somewhere in Italy. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: remember where it was specifically.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds like Southern Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: And there were people, it was a two-lane highway. And
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  Speaker 2: so I'm crawling along. I'm going five, eight miles an
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  Speaker 2: hour because I'm looking at 10 feet. There were people
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  Speaker 2: to the left of me that were zipping at 30,
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  Speaker 2: 35 miles an hour into a completely dense fog that
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't see. You didn't even know which way the
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  Speaker 2: road was turning. You had no idea. And there they were.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't understand that. I really don't. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: that's the rain. Real quickly, Amy, what is the forecast today, rain-wise?
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  Speaker 4: We've got rain, possibly thunderstorms. There is some concern of
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  Speaker 4: flooding along the Malibu coast and in the Santa Monica
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  Speaker 4: Mountains because there could have some heavy downpours. But the
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  Speaker 4: rain is going to move out by tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. And the only part that I really care
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  Speaker 2: about is near San Juan Capistrano. How's the rain there?
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  Speaker 2: The rest of it, eh, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to get some rain today. You'll be fine.
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  Speaker 2: I have to go to Costco and I do a Costco.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. It's already Thursday and I haven't been to Costco. No,
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  Speaker 2: I was. I was there on Monday. OK, I feel better.
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  Speaker 2: So it'll be day two today. All right. Let me
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  Speaker 2: see what's going on here. We've got the Vance story. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot of fun. That one, man. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to take a page out of President Trump. and talk
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  Speaker 2: about Vivek Ramaswamy and what running for the governor of Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: the governorship. Okay, let's do it. It is definitely time
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  Speaker 2: for some news. Handle on the news on this Thursday morning,
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  Speaker 2: October 23, with Amy, Neil, and me, Lead Story. Let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about this a little bit later in the Ohio
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  Speaker 2: Republican race or the Ohio race for governor Ramaswamy. He
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  Speaker 2: got an ad that he admitted his campaign produced that
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  Speaker 2: showed Amy Alcott's mother. Amy Alcott is the Democrat running
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  Speaker 2: against him, showed her mother. Boy, and what a piece
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  Speaker 2: of work the mother is, has not aged well, if
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  Speaker 2: you have seen this ad. She could use a few
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  Speaker 2: more teeth.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I don't know if you've seen the ad. No,
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  Speaker 2: but the teeth, that's tough. Take a look at her.
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  Speaker 2: She's a before picture for anybody who's done dental implant commercials.
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  Speaker 2: And so she's looking at the camera and is just squeaking,
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  Speaker 2: my daughter is a liar, don't vote for her, and whatever. Well,
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  Speaker 2: of course, what's left out is Amy Alcott was taken
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  Speaker 2: away from her. Mom lost custody of Amy Alcott when
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  Speaker 2: Amy was 12 years old because her stepfather, who the
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  Speaker 2: mom kept on with him, even after he was accused
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  Speaker 2: of raping Amy, that this woman lost custody of Amy.
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  Speaker 2: And Amy has not seen her in over 50 years.
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  Speaker 2: And the ad just showed, here's mom, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how they got hold of her, saying don't vote. The
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  Speaker 2: backlash has been insane.
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  Speaker 6: What barrel do you have to dig to the bottom.
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  Speaker 2: Of to find that? And I will tell you what J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance said. J.D. Vance defended the ad and said the
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  Speaker 2: problem is not the ad. That's not despicable. What's despicable
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  Speaker 2: are the Republicans that are attacking the ad. Those are
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  Speaker 2: the despicable ones. I mean, it has gotten that crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to talk more about that. It's that's
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  Speaker 2: really digging pretty deep. I think it's going to backfire
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  Speaker 2: big time. I mean, he is a sleazy guy.
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  Speaker 3: He really is.
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  Speaker 2: I've never liked him at all.
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  Speaker 4: Throwing up another roadblock. Two weeks before the midterms, Democratic
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  Speaker 4: Party leaders are suing in federal court led by Senator
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  Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries. The lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 4: seeks a court order barring the administration from purging legally
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  Speaker 4: registered voters from statewide voter registration lists or denying ballots
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  Speaker 4: to legally registered voters.
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  Speaker 2: Now, here's what's interesting. This is the federal government effectively saying,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go through the lists of what you,
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  Speaker 2: the states, have determined to be legal voters, and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to decide whether they're legal or not as voters.
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  Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter what the Constitution says, which, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, this is a complete violation of the Constitution,
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  Speaker 2: which says the states will determine how voters vote.
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  Speaker 3: Is done.
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  Speaker 2: It's the states, period, done. Federal government has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with it. And it is, and the Trump administration says, oh, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get involved. Here's the other thing is
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  Speaker 2: Kash Patel has not precluded FBI agents from showing up
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  Speaker 2: at polling booths. He has not precluded that in order
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  Speaker 2: to maintain a legitimate and free election. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Maintain a free election. Do you ask people who you
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  Speaker 2: vote for? And if you vote for a Democrat, that's
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  Speaker 2: not a free vote. I mean, I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: what I have no idea. The court's going to shut
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  Speaker 2: him down, of course. But it's what do you do
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  Speaker 2: with this, where it's going? Because there's so much widespread
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  Speaker 2: that the administration now has to get in widespread fraud.
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  Speaker 2: The administration now has to get involved in making sure
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  Speaker 2: elections are free and fair.
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  Speaker 6: How do the states know how to run the election?
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  Speaker 6: What governs that?
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  Speaker 2: State law. They determine themselves. Do you do mail-in ballot,
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  Speaker 2: the balloting? Yes or no.
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  Speaker 3: So the state could do whatever it wants.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much. Pretty much. It can't just– what it can't do–
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  Speaker 2: is know that there are illegal aliens voting and have
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  Speaker 2: done nothing. But the state's position is, for example, California
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  Speaker 2: sends out ballots to everybody. If you're a driver's license,
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  Speaker 2: you get a ballot. Now, the argument there's widespread fraud.
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  Speaker 2: If there is, there could be lawsuits filed. But here
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  Speaker 2: is the problem. There is no widespread fraud. That's like
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  Speaker 2: the argument that all Democrats are fraudulent. Therefore, we have
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  Speaker 2: to do this.
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  Speaker 3: No, that wasn't my question. I was just curious.
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  Speaker 2: No, the states control. States control. The states control how
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  Speaker 2: the ballot is, how big the ballots are, the font.
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  Speaker 3: The states control.
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  Speaker 2: State determines everything. What time the election is, what the font,
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  Speaker 2: what size the font is, how, whether, when the ballots
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  Speaker 2: are counted. Some count California, for example, it takes up
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  Speaker 2: to 30 days to count the vote because we have
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  Speaker 2: provisional ballots coming in because they don't even start counting
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  Speaker 2: the vote until the end of the election process. They
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  Speaker 2: don't even begin counting where other states start counting the
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  Speaker 2: votes as they come in. So if you have a
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  Speaker 2: three-week window in which you can file or you can
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  Speaker 2: mail in ballots, the second the state gets it can
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  Speaker 2: start counting the votes, not California. All those rules are
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  Speaker 2: the state.
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  Speaker 3: All of them are the state.
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  Speaker 2: And the Trump administration is saying there's so much widespread fraud.
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  Speaker 2: We're now going to get in and start determining how
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  Speaker 2: the vote, who votes, what the safeguards are. It's like
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  Speaker 2: the federal government saying we'll take over the California Highway Patrol.
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  Speaker 2: California is unable to administer its own laws. So we
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  Speaker 2: will take it over. It's crazy making.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: OK, let's do it. More Handel on the news. Amy,
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  Speaker 2: Neil and me.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody out. The U.S.
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  Speaker 6: State Department has ordered some diplomats and, of course, their
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  Speaker 6: family members to get the hell out from Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 6: There are plans to withdraw family members from a number
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  Speaker 6: of the U.S. missions there in the region is, of course,
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  Speaker 6: dealing with attacks on Saudi Arabia, killed at least one person,
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  Speaker 6: injured eight others at a civilian airport. And these are
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  Speaker 6: those drone attacks that are going on, obviously, amid Houthi
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  Speaker 6: strikes there on Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: And Saudi Arabia used to be one of the safest
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  Speaker 2: countries on the planet and not so much anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Well, not for journalists.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a journalist. I mean Khashoggi. Yeah. Yeah. That was
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  Speaker 2: sort of an outlier, not in general. But still, Saudi
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  Speaker 2: Arabia is considered a strong ally of the United States. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the fight with Iran. Iran, everybody in the
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  Speaker 2: Mideast is frightened of Iran. That's really the enemy. They
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  Speaker 2: give lip service to Israel.
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  Speaker 3: No chance.
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  Speaker 2: Israel is really an ally of most of these countries,
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  Speaker 2: including Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 4: Another interception, and we're not talking football. California Representative Nancy
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  Speaker 4: Pelosi's office received a suspicious letter in what appears to
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  Speaker 4: be the latest in a series of of letters targeting U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Congress members before the midterms. The offices of more than
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  Speaker 4: three dozen Congress members across the political spectrum have received
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  Speaker 4: envelopes containing a white powder substance in recent days.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So far, there's no danger at all. It doesn't seem
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  Speaker 2: like it's a harmful substance. It may be sweet, though,
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  Speaker 2: for all we know. And her political office, Pelosi's political office, right?
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  Speaker 2: What do they say? How do they respond? Speaker Pelosi
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  Speaker 2: remains focused on serving the people of San Francisco. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: come on. You know, how about we don't know what
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  Speaker 2: the hell these this powder is and we're looking into it. No,
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  Speaker 2: we remain focused on helping the people of San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean? That means it's a politician talking.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it means.
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  Speaker 6: I miss the days of them finding white powder in
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  Speaker 6: the White House. And when Biden was in, everybody knew
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  Speaker 6: what it was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't even need to send it to the lab.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. I mean, this is one thing I give
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  Speaker 2: President Trump credit for, is if something was sent to
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  Speaker 2: the White House, I don't think his spokesperson would say,
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  Speaker 2: the president remains committed to the future of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: It would be some sleazeball trying to attack the greatest
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  Speaker 2: president who ever lived.
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  Speaker 6: Oh god it would be funny if it wasn't true
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  Speaker 6: all right a judge in new mexico ordered meta of
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  Speaker 6: course the platform that everybody uses uh just yesterday to
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  Speaker 6: pay the state 25 billion dollars after a jury found
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  Speaker 6: the company had missed uh or misled customers rather about
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  Speaker 6: privacy of their data which is this is another day
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  Speaker 6: with these platforms um this stemmed from allegations that uh
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  Speaker 6: The consulting firms have looked into this and said that
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  Speaker 6: they obtained data from a bunch of people, millions of
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  Speaker 6: Facebook users without their consent. New Mexico had sued Meta
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  Speaker 6: and accused it of lying to Facebook users.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, on behalf of consumers. Now, that doesn't stop individuals
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  Speaker 2: from suing. This is the state and the $ 25 billion
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  Speaker 2: penalty the judge handed. He said that it actually was
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  Speaker 2: a penalty of more than $ 218 billion under the law.
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  Speaker 2: And he nailed them for that. But he says, tell
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  Speaker 2: you what, we'll make it $ 25 billion. Wow. Just for you,
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  Speaker 2: we'll make it $ 25 billion. We'll give you a discount.
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  Speaker 4: An act of revenge. Two teenage girls have been arrested
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  Speaker 4: on suspicion of plotting a mass shooting at Corona High
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  Speaker 4: School in Riverside County. Investigators believe it may have been
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  Speaker 4: An act of revenge. The two girls apparently spent months
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  Speaker 4: researching school shootings and talking about how they could carry
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  Speaker 4: out the attack. They talked about how they could get weapons,
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  Speaker 4: but they didn't actually get any weapons and had apparently
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  Speaker 4: hit lists of students and teachers.
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  Speaker 2: That a little scary? How many of these we're seeing
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  Speaker 2: more and more and more? And how many do we
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  Speaker 2: not know of? How many of these plots are thwarted
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  Speaker 2: that we never hear of? And plenty of them, I
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  Speaker 2: would guess. All right. Moving on. Is there more? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: let's take a break.
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  Speaker 3: You're right. You're right.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely my fault. I was looking at some of the
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  Speaker 2: news items that we're going to be talking about a
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  Speaker 2: little bit later on.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: Let's return more Handel on the news. Amy Neal me.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Vladimir Putin, of course, the Russian president, is agreeing, at
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  Speaker 6: least at this point, to resume the U.S.-mediated peace talks
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  Speaker 6: with Ukraine. This could be as soon as next month,
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  Speaker 6: but we don't know. This all came down yesterday after
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Putin met U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in, you know, D.C.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: 's latest attempt to.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was St. Petersburg in Russia where they met.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: And Putin said, OK, I'll sit down and talk. I
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: still want a third of Ukraine. I want the eastern
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: third of Ukraine. That is my position. It's never changed.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: It never will change. Maybe I'll give up 10 feet.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: How old is Putin? Oh, God, he's in his 70s,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: maybe early 70s.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: He's had a lot of work done.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe early 70s. He is going to be dictator for life.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: There's no question. He is a self-imposed president for the
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: rest of his life. And God help anybody that runs
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: against him.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: He's 74.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: OK.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: And it's like the election in Russia is much like
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Saddam Hussein when he was elected president over and over again.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: One time he was elected with 110 percent of the vote,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: which is pretty impressive. I thought that was a great vote.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Sounds like widespread fraud.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Sounds like sci-fi, but it's not. The Pentagon has given
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: the Department of Homeland Security the green light to test
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: a military-grade heat ray.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Finally.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: At the southern border. It's called the Active Denial System.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: It's a nonlethal weapon that shoots an invisible beam of
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: electromagnetic waves that can reach a little more than a
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: half mile away. Apparently, it causes a burning sensation when
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: it comes into contact with human skin and.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: So does Bill.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: That's true. You've just described a microwave, by the way.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: You've literally just described a microwave oven.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I'm not crazy about it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: How that is being used, but I do want us
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: to have Ray weapons just because that's cool.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is cool. And this is the Department of
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Homeland Security. So who do you think is going to
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: be using it, huh?
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: The border. But think of it like Star Trek. Put
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: it on stun, Scotty.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's going to be big signs of Homeland
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Security on these devices saying Chalupas for everyone. All right,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: moving on.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: Okay, so there's this neighbor who allegedly fed the wild
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: coyote in Atwater that we talked about. You remember the
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: coyote attacked a baby, a little 16-month-old toddler bitten there
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: in the neighborhood, and they said somebody must have been
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: feeding them. So the California Department of Fish and Wildlife
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: have contacted the individual and And they're going to file
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: a case with the Los Angeles City's attorney for illegally
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: feeding wildlife.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that was a thing.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: It is a thing.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: You cannot feed wildlife.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Don't feed the bears.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I've got a friend who's in a lot of trouble
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: because she feeds raccoons every day.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not good.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: That's not good. And why would you feed a raccoon?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: They're vicious little bastards. They're very cute. Until you get
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: near them and they take those claws and maul your face. No,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: it's illegal. And they found it was the right coyote DNA,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: with DNA. I'm assuming after he bit the toddler, they
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: got some DNA from the coyote and then matched it
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: with the coyote. I'm assuming his dung, his waste, his
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: poop or what he left behind and match it. My
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: homeowner association, and I don't know if it was very
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: close to voting in, taking DNA samples of dogs who
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: crapped on people's front yards and matching them. In other words,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: if you had a dog, you had to do a
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: swab of your dog that then your DNA would be,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: there would be a baseline there. They would be on record.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: And then they would take a little piece of the
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: dog poop and match it to find out whose dog
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: it was.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Do you have a phone number or a website for
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: that company?
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: No, it's just DNA.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: It's just straight. Big dog area where I am. Yeah.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: You don't want to step in this stuff.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: It's horrific.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Especially with you putting your foot in your mouth all day.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. Oh, that is. Yeah, I'm going to
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: have breakfast. OK, let's do one more, I think, before
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: we take our break.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Not much reflecting on the reflecting pool. The Justice Department's
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: inspector general has declined to investigate allegations of misconduct against
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: the prosecutors who brought charges against Olympian David Hearn, accusing
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: him of vandalizing the reflecting pool. Of course, those charges
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: were eventually dropped. The OJ's inspector general determined that the
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: allegations fell outside his purview.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not that they weren't legitimate. He just didn't have
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the authority to deal with them. And that press conference
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: that Janine Perot, is that how you pronounce her name?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: That she had. She's the U.S. attorney for the Southern
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: District or Washington, D.C. And remember, this guy had been arrested.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: David Hearn had been arrested for defacing a federal monument.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: And the defacement was him taking a piece of that
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: floating monument. paint off the reflecting pool that was coming
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: off of which the company later on said, oh yeah,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: it's our fault. And her press conference was astounding. He
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: forcibly put his hands into that reflecting pool forcibly with
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: a just, okay, that's one forcibly because that's a difference.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: And he was rude to the, he was rude to
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: the park rangers that were there. rude which is a
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: federal crime to be rude to park rangers she would
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: it was a buffoonery act that she did and then
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: of course it disappeared because none of it was true
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: i mean he put his hands in there but so
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: did everybody uh so did so many other people anyway
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: so um the prosecutors aren't going to be nailed uh
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: unfortunately uh it would be the department of justice who
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: would go after the lawyers from the department of justice
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: so that's not going to happen let's take a break
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: we'll be back And it is the last break of
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the hour. So do not go away.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: OK, more handle on the news. Actually, we finish it
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: up on this Thursday morning. Amy, Neil and me.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: So Airbnb, many of us have stayed.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: I love using Airbnb when we get a chance, but
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: it seems that host. People that own the places are
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: getting a little too detailed when it comes to what
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: you need to do before you check out there. So
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: beginning next month, Airbnb hosts will face limits on those
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: tasks that they can ask you to complete before your checkout.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: You know, people have been complaining that there's the list
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: is too long. It's too complicated. It's hard to understand.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: So hosts can now choose from seven standard house rules
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: and add reasonable requests. But they all have to be specific.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: And if Airbnb sees that you're getting a little out
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: of their lines, they can flag you and check in
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: with you. There can't be any host imposed fines or
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: any of those things.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: As they change their rules. Yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: One of them that the story talks about is the
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: host can't ask you to wash the dishes.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Which we've done before.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: I've washed dishes and put them, dry them and put
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: them away.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: You would think that would be the case. I don't
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: know if I've ever stayed at Airbnb. I'm too lazy
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: to learn how to use the TV and to just,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I just don't want to deal with it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: How's that any different than if you go to a hotel?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: It's different because I can call someone and say, come
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: up here and show me how to use the TV.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Can you bring the P-Boy up?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: That's exactly it. Thank you very much.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Let the hormones flow. The Supreme Court has rejected an
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: appeal from President Trump and rejected his order to end
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: hormone treatments and other gender-affirming care for transgender inmates in
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: federal prisons. They denied the appeal without comment. It follows
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: a ruling in June from a district judge saying he
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: would not wade into the culture war being waged against
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: transgender individuals and ruled that the Trump administration did not
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: have evidence or good reason for changing the longstanding policy
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: for these inmates.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: By the way, no one knows how they make these things.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Do you know how they make hormones? Oh, boy. They
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: don't pay them.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Figures it was money with you.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: And the worst officer award goes to this fella. Dennis
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: West was found dead in his Florida home. That officer
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: who responded to the welfare check back in July of 2022,
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: he discovered the body. He ended up moving into the home.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: This is the officer, by the way, and spent years
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: impersonating him.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so weird. So, Brian Lewis, Squarejos? Squareos? Squareos?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Squareos, 35.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Squareos.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: With the Lauderhill Police Department, was arrested Tuesday and faces
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: several felony charges.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Why did he do that?
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: He's nuts.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. Yeah, he's nuts. And he took on
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: the guy's identity. Well, what did he leave? His identity
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: is all of a sudden the police officer disappeared.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: Well, no, he shows up, goes back and forth between
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: his house and checks and gets what?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Not a bad gig if you can
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: get it.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Leo is good to go. Pope Leo doesn't need any
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: further treatment. Of course, he had surgery to remove part
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: of a lobe of his lung last week. They did testing.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: They determined that he did have a pulmonary adenocarcinoma.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Cancer.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: He had lung cancer.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: He had lung cancer, but they got it early.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Caught it early. He doesn't need any further treatment. So
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: no radiation.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: No chemo.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: That's great.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: That is great news and a good story in and
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: of itself. You go and you grab things as early
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: as possible. Although when it comes to lung cancer, usually
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: the symptoms don't show up until it's way too late.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: That's the problem. Same thing with pancreatic cancer. Not fun.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: Well, that's also hard to get to, right? The pancreas
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: is all tucked behind a bunch of garbage.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. It's virtually a death knell if pancreatic cancer.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: You die weeks after that. That's a tough one, pancreatic cancer.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: All right, one last one before we bail out of here.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: Day after the NFL Players Association called for what they
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: say is a full investigation into the Philadelphia Eagles handling
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: of quarterback Jalen Hurts and Medicare, Medicare, medical care, rather,
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: after he developed a blood clot. I guess the commissioner,
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: Roger Goodell, said the league would have no problem with
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: the union initiating such a review. So it's part of
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: our process.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: That's fine. Let's go ahead.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: And we talked to Jim Keeney about this yesterday. And
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Jim said that. When he was originally, that is, Hertz
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: was originally diagnosed with a superficial blood clot. That doesn't
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: stop him from playing. He probably would have allowed him
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: to play. That was what the medical staff said. And
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: then upon landing, they discovered that it was a deep
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: vein thrombosis that went into his lungs, blood clots in
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: his lungs, which have to be treated immediately. And Jim
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: said how he is not going to play anymore. for
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: the rest of the season, as was announced by the
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles. So I don't see anything untoward here. They
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: diagnosed appropriately, that's what he had, the allowing to play appropriately,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: and then it got worse. Okay, that's what the investigation
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: is going to show. We're done, guys. That is it.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg, Florida, negotiates a deal with
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin to release an American prisoner. And he calls
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Putin a humanitarian prisoner. That's a tough sell. I'll tell you,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: but we'll talk about that story coming up. KFI AM 640.
• 29:51
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