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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: Good morning, everybody. Two weeks ago, I said I'll be back. Well,
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  Speaker 2: here I am.
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  Speaker 3: I'm back after a two-week absence, and I just threw
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  Speaker 3: a story at Ann. And she said that we actually
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  Speaker 3: did that story with Neil, and I got more than
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  Speaker 3: a little upset as I told her, you leave the
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  Speaker 3: good stories for me and you leave the crap stories
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  Speaker 3: for Neil because that's the way this show works or
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  Speaker 3: should roll.
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  Speaker 2: So let me say hello to everybody because.
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  Speaker 3: I'm back, and we're back to where we were almost,
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  Speaker 3: almost with a little modification.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, Neil, there you are. Good morning. Welcome home, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Nice to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Ann Ingold.
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  Speaker 2: Hello. Hello.
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  Speaker 5: My whole name.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Welcome back. We missed you. Yes, you did. There
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  Speaker 2: is Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Amy.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Bill. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: And Will Kohlschreiber.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting enough, you're wearing a UCLA t-shirt, and it's impossible
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  Speaker 3: for you to ever have gotten into UCLA.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So do you pretend you went to UCLA?
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  Speaker 4: I took a UCLA extension course there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody with an IQ of 12 can take an extension course.
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  Speaker 3: All you do is sign up for them. Great to
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  Speaker 3: have you back, Bill.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Now, as I told you, a modified show in the
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  Speaker 3: sense that Kono is gone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Matter of fact, he texted me last week and he said, Bill,
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  Speaker 3: I just want to let you know how much I've
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  Speaker 3: enjoyed the show. And it's been a real honor and
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  Speaker 3: a pleasure working with you. And I texted back, goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: Who is this?
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  Speaker 3: So now I understand that Mario has become our new Kono.
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  Speaker 2: However, Mario, his.
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  Speaker 3: His involvement is– or his running the board is only–
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  Speaker 3: is Tuesday through Friday because he's still running my Saturday show,
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  Speaker 3: Handle on the Law. And they're trying to figure out
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  Speaker 3: someone to replace Mario. And I assume there's some people
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  Speaker 3: in training or they're looking for somebody or they're going
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  Speaker 3: to whatever, some street corner on Skid Row saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: will you be willing to work for a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of food?
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  Speaker 2: And so Tony is filling in on Mondays. Tony Sorrento. Sorrentino.
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  Speaker 4: Close enough. Sorrento.
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  Speaker 2: Sargento. Tony makes cheese. And he does a very good job.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, so Tony is here on Mondays and will be here,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, for the next immediate couple of weeks. Tony,
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  Speaker 3: did they give you any timeline as to when you're
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  Speaker 3: going to be off on Monday? You look like you're
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  Speaker 3: falling asleep right there. Yeah, I mean, your eyes are— you
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  Speaker 3: haven't even opened your eyes yet. It's like they're glued shut.
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  Speaker 4: Like a baby puppy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much, pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway— uh those are our changes the rest of
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  Speaker 3: it hasn't changed it's uh nice uh to have gone
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  Speaker 3: on vacation you ever notice you go on vacation you
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  Speaker 3: can't wait you can't wait the anticipation is there you
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  Speaker 3: go and then you come back and three minutes into
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  Speaker 3: the show it's like it never happened like vacations never
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  Speaker 3: happened so gone for two weeks uh was in africa
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  Speaker 3: definitely a bucket list place i will tell you at
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  Speaker 3: some point in your life it's like the hajj when
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  Speaker 3: you go to mecca Uh, you should go once in
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  Speaker 3: your life, except it's a lot more interesting going to Africa.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, how many buckets do you have? Isn't this like
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  Speaker 4: your second or third trip?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my second trip out.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, I wanted to take a lens to Africa
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  Speaker 3: and basically did almost the same thing. And it was
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  Speaker 3: a great time because Kenya is at 5,000 feet. It's
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  Speaker 3: a way up there. So there's very few mosquitoes. You
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  Speaker 3: go lower to the other countries, man, it's mosquito heaven.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do a show. I'm going to do
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  Speaker 2: a segment on that later on, on what time? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: seven 50. How LA has.
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  Speaker 3: Become a living hell with mosquitoes. And because we're pretty
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  Speaker 3: low on the sea level, sea level, sea level of
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  Speaker 3: the level.
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  Speaker 4: We're on sea level.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We're basically there. That's true.
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  Speaker 3: We're not Denver 6,500 feet or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: In any case.
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  Speaker 3: So I, some pictures are going to go up on
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  Speaker 3: at bill handle show. some pretty fun, amazing stuff that
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  Speaker 3: we did. And that's also a precursor to a podcast
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  Speaker 3: that Lindsay and I started travel podcasts. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 3: been talking about one for years and just to have
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  Speaker 3: fun and we're doing that. And we're actually, it's, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be fun. It's called excessive baggage, which says
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  Speaker 3: a lot about not only the podcast itself, but describes
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  Speaker 3: our relationship.
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  Speaker 4: Did she try and did Lindsay try and bring any
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  Speaker 4: animals home? Smuggle any baby tigers back or anything?
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  Speaker 2: No tigers in Africa, but that's besides the point.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, lions.
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  Speaker 3: Lions.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No bears either.
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  Speaker 4: I guess you'd have to go to Asia for the tigers.
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  Speaker 2: Go to India. So any place where tigers, I think, exist.
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  Speaker 2: That's Asia.
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  Speaker 3: India.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is Asia. In any case.
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  Speaker 3: So that's coming up. The podcast, Excessive Baggage. We're just
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  Speaker 3: starting that. And the rest of it, there'll be some
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  Speaker 3: great photos.
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  Speaker 2: She took.
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  Speaker 3: Over 4,000 photos and videos that she's going through.
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  Speaker 2: I took a couple hundred.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Well, you take a lot. I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: take a lot of them. And you have to go
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  Speaker 3: through them. There's one place, and you'll see the picture,
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  Speaker 3: Giraffe Manor, where you hang out with giraffes.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you went to that place the first time, didn't you?
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 3: It's a magical place. It's a magical place. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you have breakfast with the giraffes. I mean, you're sitting
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  Speaker 3: down to breakfast and the window is open and the
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  Speaker 3: giraffe sticks its neck in and its head is right
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  Speaker 3: next to yours while you're eating. And in the morning,
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  Speaker 3: 5.30 a.m., you hear it, second floor now, you hear
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  Speaker 3: it tap, tap, tap.
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  Speaker 2: On the window.
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  Speaker 3: You open the window and there is a giraffe staring
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  Speaker 3: right at you wanting a snack.
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  Speaker 4: Are they wild?
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  Speaker 3: No, they're wild giraffes. They're in a conservancy. So I
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  Speaker 3: guess to some extent they're trained, I guess. But they
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  Speaker 3: don't do tricks. You can't say heel. You can't have
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  Speaker 3: them roll over. They tend not to do that. Very
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  Speaker 3: difficult for a giraffe to do that. So it's a
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  Speaker 3: conservancy in that it's sort of a– how do I
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  Speaker 3: put it? What it does is it births giraffes. sends
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  Speaker 3: them out into the wild to repopulate, and there are
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  Speaker 3: a few giraffes that are there that, in fact, are
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  Speaker 3: involved in the procreation. There's Eddie, who is the only
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  Speaker 3: male there, and he stups all the females.
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  Speaker 2: He walks around, smiling. Oh, yeah, Eddie.
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  Speaker 3: Has a good time. And the prodigy of Eddie and
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  Speaker 3: the various other, like 12 or 14 of the other giraffes,
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  Speaker 3: is that they're released out in the wild and some
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  Speaker 3: are endangered.
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  Speaker 2: So they do a nice job.
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  Speaker 3: And they're supported by donations and the hotel itself. They
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  Speaker 3: take a good chunk of the exorbitant money that they
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  Speaker 3: charge and use that to establish and maintain the conservancy program.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll be talking a lot more about that. Also,
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  Speaker 3: the other thing I want to point out, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of politics. I know that I've always done Trump to death.
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  Speaker 3: We're probably going to do more Trump to death. But
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  Speaker 3: it was, I can tell you, having talked to people,
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  Speaker 3: Americans are not liked very much. And this administration is
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  Speaker 3: hated throughout Africa and throughout the world.
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  Speaker 2: We were in Dubai. Oh, that's a fun one, too.
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  Speaker 2: I've always wanted to fly Emirates.
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  Speaker 3: So if you would like a 17-hour flight, flight when
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  Speaker 3: you're in the air for 17 hours. Try Dubai, Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 3: Dubai on Emirates.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. That's it. Can't think of anything else. Any questions?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing going on? All right.
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  Speaker 3: I'm done. Neil coming up after the break and he'll
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  Speaker 3: be taking over the show because he's done such a,
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  Speaker 3: just a stellar job.
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 4: I will tell you, I will tell you something in
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  Speaker 4: all seriousness. I like busting your chops. It is not
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  Speaker 4: the same when you're gone and there will never, ever,
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  Speaker 4: ever be another bill handle.
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  Speaker 2: Aw, shucks.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm serious.
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  Speaker 2: I bust your balls all the time. My index finger
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  Speaker 2: is now jammed into my cheek. It's twirling. That is
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  Speaker 2: the reality, sir. Well, thank you for that.
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  Speaker 4: That is the reality.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, guys, let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: And we've got news aplenty on this Monday morning, October 12th,
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  Speaker 3: two weeks to go or three weeks to go, uh,
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  Speaker 3: before the election. And, uh, The Republicans are scrambling, to
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  Speaker 3: say the least. We'll see what happens over, what, November 2nd?
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  Speaker 3: Is that when the election is? I do believe it
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  Speaker 3: is Tuesday, November 2nd.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Time for Handel on the News with Amy, Neil, and me.
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  Speaker 3: Lead story. The president has declared an energy ceasefire between
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  Speaker 3: Russia and Ukraine. Zelensky said, fine with me. Russia has
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  Speaker 3: said nothing so far. What's interesting about this is that
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  Speaker 3: coupled with this, the president has lifted the sanctions against
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  Speaker 3: Russia in selling its diesel fuel, not only to the
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  Speaker 3: United States, but just global markets. Now, keep in mind
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  Speaker 3: that Russia was not allowed to sell the diesel fuel
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  Speaker 3: because it was under sanctions. And the sanctions were so
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  Speaker 3: strict that the president said any country or business that
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  Speaker 3: does business with Russia and its fuel, diesel fuel, is
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  Speaker 3: going to be sanctioned. And then he turned right around
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  Speaker 3: and said, never mind, I've changed my mind. And you
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  Speaker 3: see these other countries. scrambling, saying, wait a second, we're
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  Speaker 3: not doing, because you forced us not to, and now
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  Speaker 3: you're opening it up. So, and the other thing that's
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  Speaker 3: kind of fun that I'm enjoying is the president is
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  Speaker 3: not responsible for the increase in the cost of diesel fuel.
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  Speaker 3: It is, and you'll hear this again and again, starting today,
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  Speaker 3: actually starting a few days ago. It is Zelensky who
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  Speaker 3: is responsible for the high cost of diesel. It is
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  Speaker 3: Vladimir Zelensky, that Vladimir Zelensky that is causing this high
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  Speaker 3: price of diesel in the United States.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't there any, I mean, any, any other option? Then
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  Speaker 4: to put money in the hands of Putin and his regime.
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  Speaker 3: No, because they're the ones that sell what their major
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  Speaker 3: source of fuel sales are is diesel fuel. That's where
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  Speaker 3: they shined in terms of revenue coming in for its
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  Speaker 3: oil products. And now the president has said wide open,
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  Speaker 3: you go ahead and sell. We're releasing sanctions and hoping
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  Speaker 3: that that will curtail the cost of diesel fuel, which
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  Speaker 3: it will for a very limited amount of time and
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  Speaker 3: for not very much money. OK, so anyway, the energy ceasefire.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's going to happen with that. It
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  Speaker 3: could be just another. Another declaration, five thousand dollars for
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  Speaker 3: every American that votes for Republican free pizzas for everybody. OK,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to come back and engage in yet more
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  Speaker 3: Handel on the news.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: I stand corrected. The election is Tuesday, November 3rd.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, hey, genius.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 4: Mute your mic.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, already. You know, there it is.
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  Speaker 5: And so it begins.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Well, Tony, you have to tell me
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  Speaker 2: to mute my mic because it shows.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: He's just sort of– he's waking up.
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  Speaker 1: Huh? Huh?
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  Speaker 2: What did you just say?
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  Speaker 3: It's a little early for someone who doesn't do this
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  Speaker 3: on a regular basis. As I said, Tony is here
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  Speaker 3: on Mondays and will be for a little while. Our Mario,
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  Speaker 3: our new guy, will be here Tuesdays through Friday. And
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  Speaker 3: Mario is– actually superb at what he does legitimately. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: back we go.
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  Speaker 2: More handle on the news on this Monday morning. Amy, Neil,
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  Speaker 2: and me.
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  Speaker 5: Both sides are calling for the president to call off
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  Speaker 5: the deal. Six senators called for President Trump's administration to
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  Speaker 5: immediately reverse course on that plan to purchase the deal,
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  Speaker 5: the Russian diesel that Bill was just telling you about.
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  Speaker 5: It's four Republicans and two Democrats signing a statement Protesting,
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  Speaker 5: saying the administration failed to consult with Congress or submit
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  Speaker 5: any explanation to justify its decision, which is required by statute.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, I'm surprised. How many Republicans are there? I
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  Speaker 3: think three who have made that call. Four. Four Republicans
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  Speaker 3: out of 53.
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  Speaker 2: But there was only two Democrats.
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  Speaker 5: It was just it was a statement.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's fair. That's fair to say.
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  Speaker 3: But my question is, how many Republicans would not join
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  Speaker 3: that if there was a vote being taken right now
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  Speaker 3: as to force the president, which can't do what they
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  Speaker 3: can't do in terms of the Russian diesel plan? So
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  Speaker 3: we'll see how that pans out, because that's up in
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  Speaker 3: the air today, too. All right, back to Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: We go.
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  Speaker 4: Saudi Arabia has just said yesterday that they would respond decisively.
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  Speaker 4: Respond to what? Well, the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen,
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  Speaker 4: day after a strike on Riyadh's international airport there. And
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  Speaker 4: this brought that big expanding Middle East conflict home to
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  Speaker 4: the Saudi capital. So they claimed, the Houthis later claimed
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  Speaker 4: responsibility And saying that, you know, warned airlines against flying
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  Speaker 4: to Saudi airports, calling them potential targets.
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  Speaker 2: And they're going to do it. And this one is
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  Speaker 2: scary for Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because there really is no defense here. They've already, 10
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  Speaker 3: years ago, they went after the Houthis and were successful.
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  Speaker 3: But the Houthis have come back with asymmetric fighting. drones, etc.,
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  Speaker 3: that have just upended war in general. And now you
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  Speaker 3: have Saudi Arabia with its major airports at risk, and
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  Speaker 3: that changes everything. And now the president, our president, has
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  Speaker 3: to decide, does it join the fight against the Houthis? Boy,
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  Speaker 3: is he caught between a rock and a hard place
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  Speaker 3: on this. Because once the attack on Iran happened, with
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  Speaker 3: Israel and the United States attacking Iran, then the Houthis
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  Speaker 3: got involved, and they have actually grown in power substantially.
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  Speaker 3: So this one is, uh, also really troubling. It's, it's
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  Speaker 3: a mess going on right now.
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  Speaker 2: It is a mess.
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  Speaker 5: As Barry Manilow would say, we made it through the rain.
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  Speaker 5: The worst of the surge, uh, from the storm has
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  Speaker 5: now passed from, uh, what was hurricane Rachel and then
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  Speaker 5: tropical storm and then post subtropical storm Rachel. Uh, but
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  Speaker 5: it did do damage, uh, Laguna beach, uh, Long Beach, Malibu,
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  Speaker 5: lot of, uh, lot of damage. And, uh, in fact,
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  Speaker 5: our Jason Nathanson is going to be out there a
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  Speaker 5: little bit later, giving us a report in the latest
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  Speaker 5: update of the homes that were red tagged and the
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  Speaker 5: beach erosion. And, uh, it's kind of a mess.
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  Speaker 3: Last night, uh, I was watching Lindsay looking on social
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  Speaker 3: media as to what happened.
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  Speaker 2: To these beaches. She grew up along these beaches.
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  Speaker 3: These are beaches that she went to as, uh, a kid,
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  Speaker 3: a teenager, and just hung out. And she's seeing these
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  Speaker 3: places that are no longer what she saw. And for those,
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  Speaker 3: did you see that boardwalk along Long Beach? Those homes
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  Speaker 3: were multi-million dollar homes and have just been wiped out.
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  Speaker 3: Good time to buy oceanfront property, isn't it, in Southern California?
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  Speaker 4: Very rough. Federal judge ordered the Trump administration yesterday to
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  Speaker 4: stop airing ads funded by the U.S. government. These are
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  Speaker 4: those ads we've been talking about for a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks that portray President Donald Trump in favorable light. And
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  Speaker 4: he said they were PSAs. The court disagrees. The lawsuit
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  Speaker 4: was brought by a watchdog group called Common Cause.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, this is the president running these ads, pro-America ads,
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  Speaker 3: which are generally allowed. However, he's the one that is
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  Speaker 3: at the forefront of these ads. And look at what
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  Speaker 3: the implication here is. If you are pro-American, you are pro-Trump.
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  Speaker 3: I am America. And it is– I was just watching
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  Speaker 3: this morning. One of the Republican senators said this is
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  Speaker 3: absolutely appropriate for him to do that. to uh promote
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  Speaker 3: effectively promote his presidency effectively promote himself and the court
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  Speaker 3: said no of course it's immediately appealed 100 it'll be who.
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  Speaker 4: Does that speak to like that's just the maga base
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  Speaker 4: that's not no one's gonna go oh that's great with
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  Speaker 4: this undecided wow i you know i never knew that
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  Speaker 4: is correct but the only shot that the Republicans have
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  Speaker 4: from a wipeout coming up in three weeks is to
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  Speaker 4: engage the MAGA base.
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  Speaker 3: Get out in force. Get out there in huge numbers,
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  Speaker 3: because if you don't, we're going to be wiped out.
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  Speaker 3: That's the argument. And that's why the president is going
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: to these ruby red states. uh that basically are ruby
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: red and he is saying you got to go out
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: and vote pretend that i'm on the ballot although i
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: haven't heard that lately uh and they they have to
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: without the maga base going out in force uh there
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: is truly going to be a wipeout i mean a
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: complete wipeout all right uh done with that one so
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  Speaker 3: uh let's take a break we'll come back and uh
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  Speaker 3: yet more handle on the.
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  Speaker 6: News You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI
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  Speaker 6: AM 640.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I think it's only the drizzle after a weekend
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: of relentless rain. Southern California being decimated. Hurricane Rachel did
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: not do well for us.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: But it's returned. More Handel on the news. Amy, Neil
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: and me.
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  Speaker 5: The floods could cause your car to catch fire.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: What?
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: Fire officials warning residents about a potentially dangerous consequence of
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: saltwater exposure. especially involving electric vehicles. Laguna Beach Fire says
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: saltwater can damage those lithium-ion batteries that are in EVs, hybrids,
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: electric bicycles, and scooters, and could trigger fires days or
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: even weeks after initial exposure to water.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: In general, though, these batteries spontaneously catch fire. What was
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: that yesterday on the news on that airplane when a
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: battery exploded in the overhead compartment?
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Well, you're not supposed to have them in the overhead
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  Speaker 5: compartments anymore.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: You just don't have it at all. So, you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: be real careful. Don't bring that Tesla through the airport.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Don't use it as your carry-on. Well, first of all,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: it won't fit through the x-ray machine. But, yeah, it's
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: a world of hurt. Now, we have e-bikes. You unplug them.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: You do not keep them plugged in. Charge, goodbye, turn
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  Speaker 3: them off.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I use a lot of rechargeable batteries and
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: stuff in my shop and I have special containers for them.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: uh so if they explode uh because they're so dangerous
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: these days all right uh back to it you've got
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: president donald trump and secretary of uh state little marco
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: isn't that what he used to call him marco rubio
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: before they were friends before they were buddies uh they're
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: considering firing the u.s ambassador to greece kimberly guilfoyle So
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: a lot of reports coming out alleging she has engaged
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  Speaker 4: in at the very least improper and at the very
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  Speaker 4: most possibly illegal conduct before and during her tenure in Athens.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: So apparently Trump and Rubio are, as it's, this is quote,
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  Speaker 4: extremely pissed off by Gilfoyle's report.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: She'll be fired. She'll be fired. I would think so.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: And the allegation is she sent an email to a
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: former donor and, says, honey, would you please pay off
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: my $ 100, 000 American Express bill? And inferred, and you'll be
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: close to the president. And I'll make sure of that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Something along those lines. And the texts are there. I
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: think it was a text that she sent.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: But you have to be careful as a brunette in
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: his administration.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: You're damn right. For example, his new press secretary. How
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: about that? Another blonde. A very tentative, you know, line
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: to safety when you're a brunette. Yeah, when you wait,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Marco Rubio is going to come into a press conference
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: one day with long blonde locks.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Could you imagine?
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: That'd be funny. Here's a win for the animals. So
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: there's a guy who got mauled to death in a
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: zoo in Britain. It happened at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: The tiger is named Altai. And the man entered the
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: big cat's enclosure and the, Tiger did what tigers do
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: and mauled him to death.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, first he was playing with him. Did you see
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: a video of the tiger sort of swiping at him?
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: And here's a guy on the ground facing the tiger
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: and wagging his finger.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: At the tiger.
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  Speaker 4: I saw that.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you do that. Like he's in the WNBA. Bad boy.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: And then the tiger eats him.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the zoo has decided they are not going to
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: euthanize the cat.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Why would they euthanize?
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Well, because remember that whole thing with that beautiful gorilla?
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: The gorilla.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And the little boy got into the enclosure and they
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  Speaker 5: killed the gorilla.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't his fault.
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  Speaker 3: But I think they killed the gorilla while he was
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  Speaker 3: holding on to the kid or while the kid was
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  Speaker 3: in the enclosure. I don't think they killed him later.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Let's look that one up. If memory serves, you may
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  Speaker 3: be right. I voted for the gorilla. By the way,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: that was a– Signed up, well, what do they do,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: a fill-in vote for the gorilla?
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Oh, your write-in vote?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my write-in vote, yeah. What was his name? I
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: wrote in the gorilla. I forgot the gorilla's name.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Arumbe or something?
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, or Carumbe or something, yeah.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Carumbe? Because I wouldn't vote for Trump and I wouldn't
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: vote for Kamala Harris, so I ended up voting for
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: the gorilla, who's dead. I don't even know if a
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: dead gorilla can be the president.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Can we euthanize the guy's parents who got into the enclosure?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know. So, anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Did the boy die?
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: No. No.
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  Speaker 2: They rescued the kid.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Harambe did not harm that kid at all.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The zoo officials used a rifle to shoot and kill
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  Speaker 5: Harambe rather than tranquilizing him because of the life-threatening danger
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: to the child.
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  Speaker 3: But he never hurt the kid. I mean, he dragged
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: him along but never attacked the child. Just, yeah, dead gorilla.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: So you don't want your army– caught off guard and
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: you don't want your army caught off guard by the
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: leader of the army uh secretary of defense pete hegseth's
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: announcement that the execution probably to handle's excitement uh of
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: the convicted fort hood mass shooter would be shown in
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: public well the people at the pentagon and the army
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: uh they got caught off guard by that three sources
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: have said Yeah, I mean, this came up.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: We saw that interview that was on the USS Lincoln
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: that Hex was doing with that podcaster.
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  Speaker 2: And it seemed to me he just came out of
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: the blue and said, yeah.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: We're going to go ahead and we're going to stream
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: this live, the execution. So everybody knows how serious this
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: killing of all these soldiers are.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: This guy is nuts.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Psychiatrist, Army psychiatrist who became radicalized and ended up shooting
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  Speaker 3: that room in Fort Hood. In any case, so it's
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: not going to happen. There's just too much backlash on this.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: It's impossible. Even though the president said, yes, I okayed it. Yes,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: it's being done with my permission. Believe me, that's going
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: to change.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: And then did you see J.D. Vance when they asked
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: him about it? He goes, I'm not going to be watching.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Now, I would watch it. Now, I would watch it
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: only because I would watch it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Put them in the enclosure with the tiger.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: There you go. Throw them in there. Yeah.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: We'll be back. and finish up Handel on the News
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: on this Monday morning.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM 640.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Three weeks away from the election, November 3rd, Tuesday, and
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: nice to be back. Okay, let's do it. Let's finish
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: up Handel on the News with Amy, Neal, and me.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: A postal worker who pummeled a peacock in Pasadena is
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: going to face punishment.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, how is that for alliteration? Well done.
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  Speaker 5: So this guy is caught on video beating up a peacock.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: It's a white peacock that's been roaming the neighborhood for years.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Stunning creature, by the way.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Charged with animal cruelty. The peacock, by the way, has
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: recovered from its injuries and has been relocated to a
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: private ranch in Northern California.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: And peacocks are known to be exceptionally vicious, except for
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: this one.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Well, except it was a little aggressive toward men.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Well, just like Amy.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just like, yeah, exactly. LA DWP.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: So sorry. I'm sorry. Nearly two years after the Palisades
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: fire destroyed thousands of structures, lest we forget, uh, some
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Pacific Palisades residents rebuilding their homes say there's massive delays
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: by the Los Angeles department of water and power and
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: slowed their return. And now, the LADWP has apologized from
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: the interim general manager there.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but does that mean the permitting process is going
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: to go any faster?
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd rather have that.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so would we.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Some Trump-friendly counties may not be so friendly this time around.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: After the first days of early voting in Ohio, Democrats
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: are making up larger shares of pre-election voters than they
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: did two years ago. They follow these numbers. And at
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: this point in 2024, Republicans held a 30 percentage point
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: lead over Democrats in counties that voted for Trump by
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: 20 points or more. That's according to data from the
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Ohio secretary of state this year that has shrunk to
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: just five points.
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  Speaker 3: This is an interesting cycle because at this point, the
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Republicans are trying to minimize their losses. What they're trying
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: to do instead of making it a Democratic sweep, is
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: make it a Democratic trickle. I mean everybody accepts the
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: fact that Republicans are going to lose seats and probably
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: lose the House, maybe the Senate, although maybe not. Certainly
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: the House and it is– we're going to see what
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: kind of a wipeout this is going to be. I
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: think it is going to be substantial because people are
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: just tired of it. They are just tired of the
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: promises that are being made. And you're going to hear
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: promises being made from now through Election Day that are
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: going to boggle the mind. One of them being, have they,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: as the president talked ever again about the $ 5, 000 per
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: person check that every American receives if Republicans stay in
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: power in the House and the Senate? I think I
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: haven't heard much about that lately.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: We have to wait till after the election.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: That's right. And the war is going to be over,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: but only after the election. So here's what you do.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Vote Republican, keep the Republicans in power, and I will
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: end the war right after that.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: I could use that money for the holidays.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I think it'd be great.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: All right. She's not dead. She's not even mostly dead.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Krista Pike, whose head should be on one, survived the
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Tennessee's attempt to execute by way of lethal injection. So
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: they've moved her back to prison. She's 50 years old now,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: discharged from the hospital and back.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Where she was housed for 30 years. And this puts
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: in doubt the entire death penalty. All the governors, the
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: states are looking at it, go, whoops, this is the
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: first time that any inmate who has been executed as
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: a result of the pentobarbital, part of the cocktail, has survived. Now,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: there have been others that have had a tough time dying,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: and there have been lawsuits after lawsuits, but she seems
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: to be the only one that has survived.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Does that mean it's over? No, not at all.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: You know, there's that myth that if you survived a hanging–
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: For example, in the Old West, you were being hanged,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: even modernly.
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  Speaker 2: If you survived it, the rope broke or whatever, that's it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: It's over. You're not going to get the death penalty.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: In reality, they just put up another rope. And so—
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: an unusual punishment. Well, that's the whole point. That's what
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: all of this is about.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: I guarantee the Fort Hood shooter will not have this issue.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: They will know.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: And that's that's it.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: And that is the other argument, because, you know, it's barbaric.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: And I put that in quotes as an execution is
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: by firing squad. You die pretty quickly. I'll tell you,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: the other thing you die of very quickly and fairly
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: painlessly is guillotine.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: But they say that you can still see your body
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: after your head rolls off.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: I don't think so. Would it be like a chicken
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: when you cut its head off? Have you seen that?
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: They run around the yard.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: For a while.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: They do, but that's because of the central nervous system
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: on the chicken. They really don't use their brains very much.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: So your body would run around. That's very well said.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, we're done, guys. That's it.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Coming up, matter of fact, we're going to talk about
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: the last public execution, a little bit of handle history here,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: and Pete Hegseth wants the execution of the Fort Hood shooter.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Live streamed so we can all watch it. I knew
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: you'd be excited about that. I have mixed feelings about that, truly,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: and yes.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Yes. I had witnessed an execution myself, as I've told
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: all of you, and it's much like a entertainer who says,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: I wish I could take all of you home with me.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: I wish you could all have been there when I
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: witnessed the execution.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: What if they did it at the Coliseum or something?
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Instead of broadcasting live.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: They would make money. They would make money. All right,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: let's go ahead and take a break. We'll be dealing
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: with that when we come back. This is KFI AM 640.
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