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You're listening to kp I AM six forty the Bill Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle and good good, good morning everybody. A happy Friday, foodie Friday here and what a pleasure. Oh, thank you for dancing, Neil. Okay, let me see who's there? Oh? Amy just jumped on. Amy. Nice to see you, nice to be seen. Well there you are. Okay, we've started. That'll be the last time I'm friendly

to you this morning. But that's okay. Hey, I got once during It's a good day. Actually, that is a good day, I know. And I was just talking to Neil too. I'll tell you about that in a minute. Robin, good morning, good morning. All right, So Robin is here today, and the lovely Ann comes back on Monday, Michelle, oh no kono comes back on Monday. Ann comes back and replaces Michelle, who's replacing Ann for the week. Good morning, good morning,

and that's it. And then Neil again. Okay, Neil and I were talking about a restaurant. I take my daughter on foody adventures. Pamela is a super foodie and I jump in the freight and I'm going to take her to Las Vegas for something called fork Film and fork or fork in Film, and these are pop ups where they play films and the whatever the food related, what theme in the film. Well, for example, if it's food

related or food centric the film, they serve that food. For example, Ratatoui is going to be shown, and guess what they're gonna serve steak. No, they're gonna serve ratatue and other other foods that are in the film. So that should be a lot of fun, ridiculously expensive, so I will you know, I wish my daughter did something cheaper like collect rocks and I go out and get a rock and go here. Doesn't work that way. It's very depressive. If your daughter's collected rocks, they'd be diamonds.

Look right, collection, They're not stupid, that's probably true. Oh. Also, I have to share something with you. I have these two little dogs and squirrels in the backyard and there's a little doggy door. I have the glass doors, and so there's they go back and forth with a little swinging doggy door, and they always go chasing after squirrels. I mean, they go crazy. They can see the squirrels and go screaming, chasing after

squirrel. And the other day I'm sitting in my chair, my easy chair that's not so easy, and reading my book, and all of a sudden I hear screaming, Gucci has a squirrel. And you know how dogs pick up their toys and shake them back and forth the way they have a want to do in the house, Gucci was doing that with a live squirrel that was squeaking like create. I thought it was a toy. I thought it was whatever, squeaky toys. That's what those little dogs do. They that's

what they're bred to do, is catch rats and squirrels. So I get a scream. Lindsay starts screaming, squirrel, squirrels, squirrel. I immediately lift my legs up off the floor. I panic. It goes squirrels, squirrel, squirrel. In the meantime, the dog has that squirrel in its mouth, shaking it back and forth, running around. Let's go of the squirrel. Boom it goes into one of the bathrooms, and so I sit here. You get rid of the squirrel, like, oh no, no,

you get rid of the squirrel. No, no, you're the man of the house. No I'm not. You're the man of the house, get rid of the squirrel. So thank goodness, there's a guy across the street who happens to be a good guy, and you had to call another man into your home to take care of something you should have taken care of. It was a squirrel around the house. No, it was no. No, what am I the squirrel whisper? No, you go and call

a neighbor. That's right, I think spider. I started looking. Actually, I went on the internet and on a Google search and put in squirrel hunters and I couldn't find it. Squirrel Wregler. This is the only squirrel that didn't get your attention in life every other No, no, he got my attention. Oh no, he got my attention. I hope you gave him a tip for taking the getting the squirrel out. Oh I'm sorry. I already I was thinking about a oil. And do they do squirrels?

I don't think so. In any case, well they did with you. So the point is that I didn't do it. The guy across the street did it. And I wish we had videoed me in my chair. It looked like I was doing exercises core exercises when your legs go up, That's what I was doing, sing squirrel, squirrel, I was very Were you afraid that it was going to run up your skirt? Or I was afraid it was going to bite me? Yeah, it was running around by that point. The point here is handles a woos Oh yeah, oh, one

hundred percent. Oh, no question about it. So the squirrel was it was not in good shape. So the guy Acrosstreet came in and opened the front door because when the door had not been opened yet, and he put the grab the squirrel, squirrel in some kind of blanket or whatever that he brought, and he let it out the front door, and there it was limping down the sidewalk. That squirrel was not going to survive. So we now have the squirrel assassin story of twenty twenty four. That's going to be

in the annals of the handle Houselow Hold the squirrel assassin story. All right, guys, let's do it. It's a Friday, which means we're gonna have a good time. Well, before I started, how has it going to be? Amy? Of course, I was not listening to you in

the morning because I'm preparing the show. Well, it's going to be seventies of the beaches, eighties, low nineties for the metro areas, but we will probably top one hundred in the valleys, the Ie and the High Desert could get one thirteen, which you're not going to the High Desert today, so you're safe. Yeah, no, I don't do that. All right, guys, let's do it Handle on It News on a Friday morning with Amy Neil and me lead story, set out the way stand out. Okay,

what else are we going to talk about? Of course, we open up with how the president did yesterday at that press conference in Washington at the NATO summit or the end of the NATO Summit. I'm gonna do a lot more of that at seven o'clock. But here's the bottom line. President Biden is the greatest single president we've ever had in history. The world looks to him as leadership and all. Yeah, how do I know that? All you have to do is ask him and he will tell you. Or he

did tell us a couple of gaffes. Somehow, President Zelensky became president putin. Vice President Harris became Vice President Trump Trump. Yeah. Solid. He also called his chief of staff the commander in chief. Yeah he did. Now I have to tell you it's I'm going to give him a pass on that stuff. He does mix up words and that has very little to do with his ability to govern or not governed. That was not it. That was not him having cognitive issues. It's just I don't think, no,

I don't. I think people mix up words, and they do. If you just do that. I mix up my daughter things constantly. He's just old. That's concerned. Yesterday, yesterday he came off as forceful. He did not come off at bomb like he did during the debate where he lost it completely. He simply called he misspoke, okay, and then he corrected himself right now. Yeah, so yeah, on this one. The thing is is that nobody has confidence with him. It's not about those things.

It's about letting you know. I think the questions that were asked, even though that I didn't like the way they were set up. You know, it's like they called upon people that were on a list. But ultimately, I think when he was called out for saying, hey, you're supposed to be a bridge candidate right to bridge to bridge, and he said, no, I'm not. I don't have a problem with his So he's sticking his

feet in the ground the same way Trump did to me. I don't find it any different, and so I don't for him not to here's the problem for him. For him not to stick his feet in the ground means he is going to give up that race. If he is staying in which he is, then it is then it's his call, and he's putting Trump in the White House to put But the point is, I mean, Neil, you and I have been doing this for thirty years, Michelle, you and

I have been doing this for thirty years, give or take. I have mumbled and bumbled, and how many times have I just just positioned, just opposed just I had all the problem exactly many times. But English is your second language, That's correct. But let me ask you, is, Mike, have my cognitive abilities changed at all since you've known me. I'm the same. I just mix up words, and I think that's ten. She has a history of doing that, and he stumbles because he is a study.

You touch nothing. No one gives you the remote to the TV. You have no power other than the question. It's a question of who I am. It's not a question of cognitive disassociation. But he wasn't always this way. It's yeah, he's been that way for a very long He's always done gaffs, but he hasn't lost his train of thought like he did eleven times last night. He just mixed up words. He didn't know he was halfway through a sentence, and then you go out of anyway he would stop

a thought. Okay, what we are going to do is talk more about it. At seven o'clock. Amy can get in and disagree with me all she wants. You can say, Bill, you're completely wrong, and Amy will not be here Monday morning as much as Bill Handles show with only Bill, Bill Handle and the morning crew of some squirrel that's limping around in Orange County, we are coming back with Vice President Trump. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I am six forty. It's becoming a parent that

Amy and I are diverging in various political views. It's taken a while, and so Amy, you know, let's agree to agree, okay to whatever I say. You got it, Bill, Okay, thank you? Because this is the Bill Handle Show. Actually I kind of like it. And Amy has to walk a very fine line because she's a newsperson and I cannot jump into arguments on a political level or whatever. But you draw that you you navigate that line pretty well. Amy. I must admit, you know,

hold off. That's two nice things in one day. So it's true. I know, I mean, I'm not blowing smoke. Care I'm reasonably impressed with that, although the real you is coming out. When are you going to get the tattoo right, the MS thirteen or swastika tattoo on your neck? Probably never? Okay, what an acute Oh, Neil, it's a very bad accusation. Okay, you ready to do it? Hold on one second, hey, Robin, I can't hear the station, my dear. Oh okay, you go there. You are all right. So Neil

missed all of that. Okay, guys, you ready to do it? Neil, he said nice things. I said something sort of said nice things. I ended it with a gun for you. That was super nice. Okay, let's do it more, handle more handle on the news with Amy, who's agreed to agree with me and Neil and me. Barack and Nancy

are talking behind Joe's back. So right after the press conference yesterday with President Biden, at the NATO summit, we got word that former President Obama and former Speaker Pelosi had been speaking privately about the future of the twenty twenty four campaign, expressing concerns about how much harder they think it's going to be for Biden to beat former President Trump. Yeah, and I don't understand Obama at all. Why since knowing that Biden is going to be the nominee, why

he doesn't jump in with both feet. I mean he has to. He is the You want to be on the right side of history, and if you still have to do what you have to do, what's the right side of history? As of right now? I had to guess, is Trump is going to win all The latest poll just came out said that it really hasn't changed much the pupil that came out, But we don't I don't have the battleground states yet. I haven't seen those, and the national mean absolutely

nothing. It's to battleground states, and so I haven't seen those because Trump was pretty well ahead in those. But the bottom line is, since Biden is going to be the nominee, how does the most forceful voice in the Democratic Party not say, yes, he's our guy? I don't know how that's possible, because he's not stupid. Well no, no, he's everybody,

and even everybody knows that he would have to do that well. And Biden said something really smart last night that he said, you know, somebody else might be able to win, but starting from zero right now is awfully hard to do. And I thought that was a really good point. Biden actually came off if you don't count those three or four gaffs. Biden came off pretty strong. I mean his strong his back is foreign relates, started strong. He didn't hold it. He was I disagree. He his bailey

Wick is foreign relations. He was in the Senate for forty years ahead of the Senate Foreign Relation Committee. I mean he knows or did know everybody on a first name basis. We're talking about world leaders, and he's very, very connected. So that's his strong point. So yesterday did pretty well other than you know, his gaffs, and he did three or four gaffs. And but that's Biden, So that one I don't hold against him. I

just don't know the gaffs in any other circumstance. I agree. But when you've got Obama, who who picked him as his VP and the people that know him best going this is not good. They know more than we do, and that makes me nervous. But Obama has been staying out of politics anyway for the most part. He just has' and you have former presidents do exactly that. George W. Man, he walked out of that presidency. I said, I am a private citizen and a painter, and a pretty

decent painter. Okay. Uh. The official list of speakers speaking of politics for next week's Republican National Convention. It isn't solidified yet, but full of politicians. And I'm going to put this in quotes. Celebrities are confirming their slady to take the stage at the four day event there in Milwaukee. So so far they include this one cracks me Up, Florida governor and former Republican candidate and complete nemesis to Trump, right, not anymore about standing up?

Yeah? And then former reality TV star and Kanye's ex Amber Rose. I don't know her what it's obviously a conservative, clearly, just not too long ago. She didn't like Trump very much at first. It's amazing how many people didn't and now do. Now everybody likes the winner and certainly in the world of Republican politics. Uh, that's a winner they're looking at. Let's jump on. Uh, let's go ahead and jump on some coattails. Not a whole lot of real a whole lot of of real star power in the

Republican I'll tell you why. Well, there isn't that. Also, I tell me if this is that, I don't know this is if this is true or not. Is Trump making sure that there are no real big stars because they want to He wants to make sure that he is the big guy. Rush Limba interesting, Rush Limbaugh. When people would fill in for Rush Limbaugh, he would get hacks, just absolute hacks filling in for him. That's pretty common. Yeah, it is. Hosts don't want someone better.

But you know, the whole point is they don't want someone good or better to get the attention. They want people to, oh, my good goodness, we have our regular host back, and Rush was sort of the king of that. I think this goes on here too, doesn't The attention has to only go to one person and that's it, and the rest of them

there. But then there aren't any huge Republican stars. Ronda Santis actually is a Republican star if you're looking at star power, But then star power in the Republican circles is you've got a supernova and then you have a bunch of dwindling stars. And that's what Republican politics is right now. All right, let's go ahead and take a break, and let's move through some of these Some of these stories a little bit quicker. And this is my fault,

so I take it back. Let's check in with Amy, who has agreed to agree with me at every moment of this show. You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six forty. Both Trump and Biden are an embarrassment. A new Pew Research survey shows that former President Trump has a four percentage point lead over President Biden in the twenty twenty four presidential race. That's the most recent there, released yesterday, But it also found that sixty three

percent of voters describe both Biden and Trump as embarrassing. Yeah, Hi, by that people have heard we have the worst choice that we have had in a very very very long time, I think. So it's just horrible. Either, it doesn't matter, you can't it's a lose lose. By the way, the poll that you just said where Trumps they had nationally four or five points. ABC News reported yesterday that they're basically neck and neck. So

the polls are all over the place and we really don't know. And the only poll that matters, if you really want to look at it, is very close to the election, and it's the battlegrounds. The rest of it you can completely ignore. I heard that the voting stations are going to give out like little clothes pins. So yeah, a good points. Yeah,

And that's basically true. All right to the Peer to Nowhere, the Biden administration will soon permanently shut down that two hundred and thirty million dollars temporary peer that the US military built to rush humanitarian aid to Gaza. They're having issues. There were some rough seat and the like, and it forced operators to remove the structure several days ago to avoid damage. That it wasn't sticking to

the beach apparently, And so it's going the way him go. Two hundred and thirty million dollars for a pair that was used three times and now is being dismantled. And they didn't even have chance to put that roller coaster on it. Okay, now that could have that could have bought two feet of track for what a waste. Yeah, so you kind of wonder if these people should be parents. This hate this story. The Sheriff's office in Mohave

County, Arizona, is investigating the death of a baby girl. Her parents took her boating on Lake Havasu when it was one hundred and twenty degrees outside on July fifth. The four month old became unconscious great shortly after five pm, and then was transferred to a hospital for heat related illness, and then died when she was taken to Phoenix Children Hospital. Yea, and by the way, you kind of wonder whether they should be parents or not. I

think you're being way too generous. Amy. Here's the issue on this one. This is not leaving someone in a car, a baby in a car. They probably didn't know that this kind of heat for a baby. I'd like to know the baby was a covered, Was there lots of water? Was the kid was a little one hydrated before you go out? Yeah, no, it's true. Not arguing that. I'm not sorry, but it's not like leaving a kid in a hot car, you know, in a

sealed car. I'm just wondering, you know, where they were sitting at because I can see trying to do everything, but the heat is so great that a little infant can't take it. And my wife and my boy who's seven, as you know, are in Arizona visiting family. It was one hundred and eighteen yesterday. My son Max walked out of the air conditioning house, made it halfway to the car and said noop and walked back for him. What said he just? He said, not going to happen. I'm

not getting in that car. I'm not going anywhere. Yeah, how about just grabbing the handle of your car and getting third degree burns as you try to open up the door. It's redicted, all right. What's being called a by prosecutors, the largest single case of shoplifting in the history of Long Beach. You might have heard Amy talking about this during the news and during wake up call. This woman was arrested yesterday under the suspicion of shoplifting thirty

times from the same store A TJ. Max Okay. And this was only between September of twenty twenty three and June of twenty twenty four, thirty times every single time. Each individual case was less than nine hundred and fifty because so that means that means it's a misdemeanor. Yep, And that means it's La County. And they don't them, they don't nag you. Where George Gascon doesn't tag you for multiple misdemeanors. You can have five hundred of them

and you're still not going to do any prison time or jail times. So thousand dollars she can't matter. She can go on and keep on going. This on another one hundred and twenty times thirty misdemeanor theft charges you're talking about, you know, shoes jeens. You won't see that story in Orange County, by the way, where someone is tagged thirty times or suspected of thirty counts and only as a misdemeanor. They can't wrap those. That's what they're

trying to change. I don't think they. I mean, I think you can, but I think the DA won't. I may be wrong on that, by the way. Well they're looking to change Prop forty seven, Yeah, and it could be under Prop forty seven you can't do it. And I don't know the answer. And maybe George Gascone's wrists are tied on this one. But what doesn't this prove the problem when they she's stealing under nine hundred Yeah, no it does. But that's the entire point. Under nine

fifty is a misdemeanor and it's not considered a very serious crime. At nine point fifty one, it's a felony and considered a very serious crime. There has to be some line there. Did she sit there and bring her a little calculator with it? Okay? Nut? Now? Is that including tax or not? Is that before or after tax technicalities? A sneaker smash and grab. A bunch of bad guys busted into a sneaker shop in South LA. A surveillance video shows a Kia Sedan crashing into the front window of the

store, which let the bad guys in. They made off with about twenty five thousand dollars worth of high end sneakers and shirts. Love those smashing grabs, right, and the only reason we see every one of them, there's a surveillance on all of them. So it's kind of video wise, very entertaining. But instead of selling the car, they use it to smash through. It's like, well, then just steal the car and sell the car. There's that too, Yeah, I should talk them. It's not tax

evasion when you steal and don't pay tax. You know, I don't think they tag you for tax evasion. And it may it may very well be certainly major thefts. They can be charged with tax evation. But here's what usually happens when people are caught. It's they're charged with crimes, and tax evasion is difficult to prove. They don't deal with that. They don't charge

criminals with tax evation unless the big, big mafia ones. You know, when you're talking about that's one of the only things you can tag them with. That's how you hit them. And yeah, they could, but it's you don't need to because the crime itself is going to give you more time than the tax evation part. Throw the book at him, well that's the point. I don't know what book it is, but maybe heavy. That's a good point. Okay, we are finished with this segment. We're going

to come back and finish Handle on the news on this Friday morning. They're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI. A six forty some wing nut is running around in Ventura. You got this serial projectile sniper. He's been targeting pedestrians and folks along a stretch of road in Ventura for what maybe as long as a year, they think, leaving many victims with painful injuries. And it looks or sounds like whoever it is is shooting kind of marble like

things. They're not paintballs, but they're kind of that size and shooting them at people walking around for a year. Yeah, and people were complaining about it, and they even complain about it when they get hickeys and go look at that. Okay, Well, they did say that a white pickup truck seems to be seen by many people that were victims taking off after they were struck. I hope they grabbed this wing nut because someone's going to get hurt.

Yeah. I think we're crowded now just wait. According to World Populations Prospects Report, global population is expected to grow from where we are now, which is eight point two billion, and we'll peak at ten point three billion, but that comes in the twenty eighties, so we'll all be gone by then. The number then is expected to gradually decline to about ten point two

billion by twenty one hundred. Yeah. Even worse, if you look at the stats, is that the birth rate and in the industrialized nations is going south, and so the kids that are being born are in third world countries, which is going to lead even more starvation and more issues with climate change. Because we have air conditioning, they don't in Sudan, so when it's one hundred and twenty degrees out there, people die like crazy. So none

of this is good news. And you're right, we're going to be gone by then, and goodness, let the kids and grandkids deal with it, all right. I don't know what to make of this, but if you're looking for early retirement and you don't have the money to do it, Taco Bell for some reason has created the canteenas where everyone can live like a retiree. It's this luxurious experience, apparently senior inspired recreation and cross generational activities.

You must be twenty one and older to participate. Weekend membership costs one hundred and fifty includes overnight accommodations for the ticket and a guest, and dining recreation. All these things a day passes fifty bucks a day. It is open ten am to eight pm Saturdays and eight am to eight pm on Sundays, so it's not a place where you live it's basically just a it's a resort.

It's run by Taco Bell. It's a Taco Bell resort. Yeah, and you can get the link of available at their rewards member or the Aircabella on we want to go. Yeah, I go, I go. I tried out. Sure, nothing to see here. The US Coast Guard says several military ships Chinese military ships have been spotted in the waters off Alaska. They were about one hundred and twenty four miles offshore in the Aleutian Islands area.

All four were in international waters, but they were also in what's called the US Exclusive Economic Zone that extends two hundred not miles from the US shoreline. Yeah, I know, a lot of countries have that, the two hundred mile economic zone, fishing rights, that sort of thing off of their banks. No big deal here, You're right, there's not a lot to see. It's just the Chinese or the Russians do the same thing. We do the same thing. You know, we go near coastlines, et cetera.

So it's not that big a deal. Here's an interesting one talking about sea. Yeah, you imported to me a great ending on this one Chinese woman who was swept out to sea while swimming at a Japanese beach. Weather was rescued thirty seven hours later after drifting in an inflatable swim ring more than fifty miles in the Pacific. When you're fifty miles, you're swept out to fee to see and there you are in a ring and you're fifty miles basically

from shore thirty seven hours. Don't you think about thirty five thirty six hours, it's all over. Let you go. Yeah, okay, I'm done. You're an appetizer floating. Yeah. No, good for her. I mean that is a miracle. That is a passing trader, passing trading ship, where a merchant ship saw her bobbing around and there were waves going on too. She was, of course, I being down. I would kiss kiss the sand when I got back, and I'd never go in the ocean

again. Okay, we're done, guys. A lot going on today coming up. We talked about this yesterday, and I don't know if you saw the Biden's big boy speech yesterday, the press conference he had at the end of the NATO summit. We'll talk about that. What happened, and it's both good news for Biden and bad news for Biden. It was a double hit, not a whole lot better than he was before that. Now we'll explain that one. And then new show here on KFI called Studio six point

forty. Steve Gregory is going to join us and talk about that, a show that he's hosting. And then Foody Friday at eight o'clock with neil Ah. Great great stun on Friday, Great fun on Friday. You see there, I am great stun on Friday. Therefore I misspoke and you're not the president. Okay, we will be back with Vice President Amy in just a few moments. You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show. Catch My Show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am, and any time on demand on the iHeartRadio app