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BHS - 7A – 4th of July Fireworks | Shark Attacks

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An uphill battle as Southern California cities try to combat illegal 4th of July fireworks. The jiggle is up: Bosses bust workers with fake computer activity. What is Canary Mission? Web site runs profiles amid Gaza protests. Are shark attacks on the rise? Here is what the data tells us.

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You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Tomorrow is July fourth. Look at that three to four. I gotta tell you this is why I get paid the big bucks for this deep analysis. So with that is yes, Shannon Shannon Farren's birthdays today. Oh I didn't know that. Yeah, I did not know that. My mother's birthday is tomorrow. She was born on July fourth, Not that it mattered, you know, in the eastern Poland where she came from. But

still, you know, July fourth. So that's kind of neat. And I'll tell you what you're going to see a whole lot of Unfortunately, even though we celebrate our Independence Day and it's all about barbecues, not enough people take pay attention to Independence Day. Fireworks are all over the place now. Fireworks that are professionally done, I mean those are licensed and they're inspected and all of that. I Professional fireworks are just the neatest thing. But a

lot of people have illegal fireworks at home. If you're in La County, for you to have even a sparkler is illegal. And what we used to do is go across county line to Ventura County where you can sell fireworks, and they have the big pop up booths and you can see on the sign it's safe and insane is how they sell it. And so then you go home with all these fireworks and you set them off, and you do homemade fireworks or home fireworks, and the cities go nuts because there's a lot of

damage. I mean people get hurt, I mean kids lose their hands. By the way, Cono, I forgot to ask you to play the song Let's give the Boy a Hand, which would have been absolutely appropriate for a promo for this particular segment. So cities have a very hard time for a couple of reasons. First of all, when you put everybody on the street, for example, your's day, every cop is on the street. Everybody same thing with Fourth of July. Every cop, for example, the city

of Hunting and Beach has every police officer they have on the street. And here is the problem. Every time there is a notification of fireworks, they send out three or four cops, and it's very hard to catch people with illegal fireworks. The cop has to actually see it in front of him. So you set off these fireworks and then you go back home and the cop hasn't seen it, even though the city is apprized of it. Because they have websites now and the phone calls. I mean, they know when fireworks

are being set off, and not only are they dangerous for fires. And I didn't think this through until I picked up this article in the Orange County Register, and that is the illegal fireworks cause the physical damage. You know, kids getting their hands blown off. Okay, cono, let's give the boy a hand. No, couldn't do it. Not enough time was my fault, by the way, But also the risk of fire at the house and setting off brush fires, et cetera, which happens all the time.

But the it's post traumatic stress syndrome. A lot of veterans hearing this stuff go off have a very tough time when they're hearing this massive explosion. Now, those of us who haven't been around guns, I mean, I kind of like the I kind of like the the sound of fireworks. By the way, that's one of the reasons you were talking yesterday, Neil. Fireworks are coming back. Even though drone shows are spectacular, and you saw one,

and what they can do with a drone show is incredible. But you can't have the explosion, you can't have the sound, you don't have the smell of the cordite that just overcomes everybody. It's just fireworks are absolutely great in my neighborhood. It's like downtown Bay Route around this time a year, so I smell all that I hear. I could sit in my backyard and watch them pop over the fence. I mean they're everywhere. Yeah, one of the best places to see fireworks, of course Disneyland. You guys are

Disneyland, you know, complete freaks on July fourth. Are the fireworks particularly impressive or it's just their normal fireworks show, which are incredibly impressive. That's a good question. I don't know if they do something special for the fourth of July, but they have such an amazing show now because not only are you getting the fireworks at Disneyland, you're getting the They have this projection mapping that goes over all the castle and the building and buildings and main Street.

It's pretty impressive. Yeah, you know, I've been trying to reach Disneyland because they could combine the two and that is real fireworks as well as a drone show. For example, you have the big drone outline of Mickey, which is, of course drones can do. And you set off fireworks and you blow Mickey up up so his head actually explodes. That is a fireworks demonstration. Did your parents announce that they weren't going to hug you or did they just not hug you? Did they like go, hey, I'm not

gonna hug you. You got admit that's a visual. Best place. One of the best places to see fireworks at Disneyland is at the Anaheim White House because you go upstairs to the bar and they have that They have that outdoor area and you can actually it's the deck they have and you right there, you're seeing the fireworks over Disneyland. It's very impressive. It's kind of neat every night at nine o'clock, right yeah, ok, thereabout unless the inclement

weather or something like that. They used to have tinker Bell that used to come down from the matterhorn right well for the Pixar Fest. It's a little different, but it's pretty pretty cool. Yeah. And you know the woman who was tinker Bell that came down, I mean she did that for like fifty years or so. She ended up being a little old lady and came down and she stopped doing it because you know, one day if she came down and she was dead, and then they realized that, sure, that's

not it. I thought you were going to do an incontinent joke. I'm sort of proud of you in one way and then on the other not so much. Hey, okay, so too, let's go to Anaheim White House together and we'll get well, we are going to be at Anaheim White House. We're gonna be there on July fourteenth for Bastiele Day, their celebration of the French surrendering during World War Two. They lasted six French lasted six weeks

when the Nazis marched in. What let's eat up top on the balcony and we'll do like that lady in the tramp with the Spaghettian meatballs and watch the fireworks together. Oh you and me? Oh that's a visual. In any case, cities, if you're going to use fireworks in the city Orange County, City of la I hope you get nailed because of the potential danger. And right now most cities is one thousand dollars. Fine, you have cities well, like I think Corona is raising it to a five thousand dollars fine

when you get nailed first time out. Oh and you're a kid, all right. Let's say you're seventeen, eighteen years old. Ah, big deal. So you get tagged and you get a fine. I'm not going to pay it. I can't afford it. That stays with you work forever, and by the time you're old enough to realize that this is real money, it's like a billion dollars because the fine adds onto a fine, adds to onto a fine when you don't pay it. All right, So the important

thing is bill. Even if you don't get caught, it might cost you an arm or a leg. Oh yeah, remember kids, fires bad and explosions kill Oh there you are. No explosions don't kill people. People kill people. People with explosives kill people. They certainly do. Now, great story, and this is entitled the Jiggle is Up. And what is jiggling? Well, you've probably done it. You've certainly seen co workers do it.

You see this in the movies all the time. The boss comes around or someone comes around, and you're on a website you shouldn't be, and all of a sudden you move them mouth so boom, it goes back, or you're playing a game and it goes back to whatever website you should be on to work. And that's called jiggling. And there's all kinds of technology and really stupid stuff. They're for twenty bucks. There's a company that sells a jiggling device and it's almost like its own Wiji board. They just move

randomly around so you look like you're doing some work and you're not. And the companies know that, and they're getting more and more into catching you do that. Now. The pandemic, of course, caused everybody to or a lot of people to work at home. So how do you tell who's actually working and even at the computer because people jiggle and peers that they are working when they are not. It's really weird, Bill. So they we use

teams. Other people use the team zoom, whatever you're using. There's that little check mark by your name, and they can even see if you go to send an email to somebody, you can see that check mark, whether it's green or it's red, or it's yellow, whether somebody's active or not. And to think that somebody went out of their way to get a device that jiggles their mouth to make it look like so if their boss looks they can see they got a green check. That means they're on their computer and

they're working. That people would go out of their way to do this instead of well, just working. And not a small number of people either. They're finding out and major companies are going to get and they're buying software they are. The algorithms can tell people think. And I don't know why that. When you're on a company server, you can jiggle all you want.

They know what you're looking at. I mean when you in management, for example, Neil and I remember you calling me into the office and you said, Bill, you are spending a lot of time on the website Barnyard Love dot com. And you said you can't do that. And at least I got away with it because that was for for purposes of figuring out what I was going to do on the show. It was I got away with it because it's research for the show a lot. You're spending a lot of time

on German porn and working yeah, Glasstable dot com. Yeah. So anyway, the point is is that they know everything that's happening, and I gotta tell you their companies are coming down Wells Fargo, for example, just picked up a new website or picked up a new software company, and it's called I think it's called terror Mind, and they it really literally reads what people

are doing in the world of jiggling. And so, now what is Wells Fargo saying if a lot of people do the jiggling, does that mean they're firing a lot of people. They're only looking for the most egregious acts. They're not going after everybody. But if you are a jiggler and jiggle a lot, and you're working for a major corporation, I've got news this is not particularly good for you, Although some companies are saying it really doesn't have

to do with finding out who's jiggling and who's not jiggling. Specifically, is to figure out how workloads work. Are we giving people too much work? And where are they going and what is going on that people do jiggle and they want to pretend they're working. If you get inundated with the amount of work and you're just done and the company is fanatic about it, oh yeah,

so you jiggle. So let them think you're doing some work that you're going on websites that appear to be work websites, and of course you're going on barnyard love dot com or incidentally, if one of the wonderful things about the Internet is you can put any act of any kind and put a dot com on it and there is a world back there. I just want to say, and they know it, they know it, and people haven't be caught here that, Neil, Were people fired for that going on websites because

you were in management and I couldn't talk about it if they did. No, I'm even general were people you can't even say that. I couldn't and wouldn't. But because I think you know what happens because people is too specific? How about species? Are species fired? What about species love dot com? Well, now we go back to uh, barnyard love dot com. You know what I will tell you though, and I have a theory and you can try this in your your own time, maybe not on your work

computer. But if you type anything in the Internet, anything in the Internet, as innocent as it will be two pages in on Google, there will be a naked person somewhere, doesn't matter, sure it is. For example, just if you google the white House dot com right, well, it's a cornosite. It is a porno site. It's what dot gov, which is the actual governmental whites the governmental website. And if you google bill handle

billhandle dot com, barnyard love comes up immediately. So it would appear that I have this thing for cows, and in fact I don't because I'm a It's only for research purposes. Now, as much fun as I make fun of that, this is real issue and people do lose their jobs. And companies are doing this more and more and more because they're finding more and more people. And one of these major companies tear a mind that actually goes through

and is hired. They have five thousand corporate clients and they look for what's going on in terms of the computer use, and they are saying that they found seven percent of all employees are in fact jiggling, except they went, okay, our algorithm wasn't that specific. It wasn't specific and not enough,

let's go deeper into it, and that became eight percent. Now it seems pretty low, except if you've got an employment of one hundred thousand people, and a lot of companies do you know Boeing, for example, has more than one hundred thousand people, most of them unscrewing doors on fuselages. That they have a lot of people eight percent. Now, of course Boeing has manufacturing, but there are companies that I have one hundred thousand people working on

computers. It's a lot of people, a lot of people. Let me ask you this, Neil, once again, management was jiggling ever an issue here at iHeart. Can you share that as far as I know, I really don't know that they what they have at corporate for that, I don't but and I've never heard anything personally about that. But I imagine any corporation is concerned about that. But you know, and they have access to anything.

If they pay your phone bill, they have access to your phone, okay, they you know, if you're using their computers, their servers, they're any of that, they have access to all of that. As far as the campus protests that are going around the country, now we're not hearing too much right now, but they continue. And this of course has to do with the pro Palestinian protests around the US, because students are looking at this as genocide. A lot of Palestinians are being killed, no question about

it. They really don't want to hear the other side the initial terrorist acts sort of disappeared. And the fact that Hamas is embedding itself in civilians, that's not particularly important. It's the number of civilians that are killed. And by the way, that is absolutely true. Boy, you've got and Israel is not letting humanitarian aid in. So what you have is this group of students all over the country and they're showing up on websites. What does that

mean the students, the Palestinian or the pro Palestinian students. The demonstrators are showing up, particularly on one website it's the Canary Mission. And what is the Canary Mission. Well, it effectively says that if you are a protester on the Palestinian side, you are anti Semitic. There it is direct connection. You go, wait a minute, do you think people can just be having nothing to do with being against Jews just being against Israel. Believe me,

Israel is a political state, it is a sovereign country. It happens to be a Jewish state. But that's really almost incidental to the point where these demonstrators are not screaming about Jews, They're screaming about what's happening to the Palestinians now. Are there some you bet, there are some, you bet you And there are all kinds of anti Semitic moves on the campus, but you know, they're pretty few and far between, nothing like what happens at

these demonstrations, the number of students and professors that are out there. And so they show up on this website, the Canary Mission, and as you can imagine, guess what happens. Then everybody who argues that these protesters are anti Semitic, we now have their names and we can go after them. And they're showing up and they're being accused of anti Semitism. Now that doesn't

just go away, because let's say they're out working looking for work. The first thing that pops up when their name is googled is the fact that they're on the Canary Mission or it's one of the four or five things, and they're anti Semitic. That doesn't help trying to get a job. No employer wants that accusation out there among new employees, particularly, And so they're saying, wait a minute, we're not anti Semitic. Why can't we be against

the state of Israel and still be okay with Jews? And they're conflating it. They are conflating it when I see a protester out there who has assigned free Palestine and then some crap, you know, palate free Palestine from the what the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. I mean, I don't even know if they know what they're talking about. Because if you're talking about a Palestine between the river Jordan River and the Sea Mediterranean, right

in the middle of that is Israel. That's the problem. If you're arguing that Palestine is the Jordan River all the way to the Mediterranean, yeah that's a problem. But a lot don't even know what the hell they're talking about. But that doesn't matter. They're not necessarily anti Semitic. And there is a broad brush that is being used here. And no one knows who's backing the Canary Project, the Canary Mission, it is very anonymous. No one

knows who's running it, no one knows who's banking out. Now, there are tons of organizations that are out there and fight anti Semitism. Who would be there Anti Defamation League, for example, But we know exactly who they are, We know exactly who runs them, we know exactly what their donors are and who their donors are a lot of transparency, not with the Canary Mission. So those people who I'm angry because they're wearing that Palestinian scarf and

cover up their face. By the way, how many Italian restaurants are there where you can steal those tablecloths that they're making into the kaffiats, I don't get I know there were that many Italian restaurants out there, But the bad news is here. And you know where I sit on this. I am completely pro Israel except for the lack of humanitarian aid that Israel is stopping and the starvation that's going on. I think Israel is handling it very very badly

and losing and legitimately losing world support for what they're doing. But at the same time, you can't conflate it. You cannot conflate it are I would say the fast majority of those protesters are not particularly anti Semitic, and the ones that are don't understand what's going on. They have absolutely no idea of what is actually happening. All they know is there's a protest. Palestinians are

dying, true, Palestinian children are dying. True. They're talking about thirty eight thousand Palestinians who have been killed men, women, and children, completely ignoring that a third of those are Hamas militants. Is this really allowed to go after them? Now? Swimming out there? Shark attacks, shark attacks, and they're on the rise. I mean, it's going crazy, more and more of them out there. Hey, I got news for you. They're not on the rise. They're actually decreasing. The point is if anybody

is even nibbled by a shark, that becomes a national story. Oh another shark attack. Well, here's an interesting little footnote. The vast majority of shark attacks, if you will, and that's in quotes, and there's very few of them in twenty twenty three sixty nine unprovoked shark attacks in the world. The vast majority are test bites, where the shark gives a test byte. Ah, okay, that's not what I wanted. I made a mistake

here. And that's not the prey I like. It's not a it's not, for examplely a seal that they like a lot, and they swim in. The sharks swim away. The problem with these fatal attacks is even one of the big sharks, you get hit by a great white one, little bite from a great white could be a very big bite and you die. The issue is it just makes big, big news. And what state is the number one state in the country for shark attacks? Here is something you

probably don't know. It's Nebraska has more shark attacks than any other state, which is really interesting because it's land locked. By the way, I just made that up. That's ludicrous. It's Florida. Why because Florida has the longest has the biggest area of coastline than any other state, and it's all warm and sharks don't like cold water. You go in the northern part of California and the Pacific Ocean, it's okay, they get a little cold.

They like warm water. Also, they like close to shore, which doesn't help people because shark will swim up to you in three feet of water and munch away. So there are some rules about keeping sharks away, and a lot of them just make sense. For example, don't wear shiny jewelry. Sharks like swag. Well, I mean, they don't like swag. Per se like a lure, a fishing lure. It is. I have a

swimming buddy in the water, so both of you get eaten. Don't swim at dawn or at dusk because you have mosquitoes, the light is low. And I guess what shark's mistake. Mistake you for prey. You know they're not the brightest things out there. Don't enter water where there is fishing nearby. Why well, because that's kind of obvious. And by the way, the shiny jewelry catches the sunlight and glints and it could look like fish,

as Neil said, allure. And try to avoid splashing because it generates a sound similar to that of struggling fish or whatever prey, because they struggle like crazy when there be when they are attacked. And so here's the bottom line. If a shark is eating you, just stay calm, don't splash around. What do you mean, don't splash around? Who the hell was not

going to splash around if a shark starts eating you. No, they're saying, don't splash around to begin with, because that can attract the attention of a shark. And I'll tell you the number one rule, and I always follow because I'm very rarely gonna get bitten by a shark. I stay out

of the water. You want water, go swimming in a swimming pool, Also, the sand at the ocean, you know, goes up your rear end, and you know the reality is, you know, you might as well just take some sandpaper and just you know, up and down your rear end, and then and pour water on your ass. And therefore you can simulate the ocean and you don't go and you don't get eaten by a shark. I tell you, those are the rules. I hope they helped.

Coming up doctor Jim Keeney with some medical news and some news just broke by the way, so we'll talk to Jim. Oh no that we do that at eight thirty. I'm sorry. I called the how about this? Let's do this? And I always talk about how much money people need. For some reason, I am enthralled with money, how it works, how we spend it, what we need to save. And you know what, that's me. The fact is I'm enthralled with money, having nothing to do with

my cultural background. Yeah, way to break the stereotype. By the way, buddy, Yeah, KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch my show Monday through Friday six am to nine am and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,

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