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Bill Handle, and this is KFI AM six forty. I handle. Oh. It is a Friday, foody Friday, a Friday morning, July nineteenth, and the crowd is upon us. Neil, there you go. Good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf. I am upon you. Yes, you are not sure what that means, bro, but I on you. Yes. And there's Cono. Good morning, Cono, Good morning Bill. I am up on you as well, Yes you are. Do you shower with that hat on? By the way, I shower all right. I'm
glad to hear that. Yeah. And there's a reason why we're looking at each other through a monitor. You know. That's a safeguard. Those are the guardrails, Amy, always closing my door to I know, Amy, Good morning, Hi. Hi. By the way, how much time do you spend with sheep? Because clearly it never mind that one got passed me. Yeah, no, it was just a reference to never mind, yeah sheep and being too close to me or was making fun of Kno, you,
it's a given. And then and good morning. I don't want any part of this conversation today, and you're not having any part of it. Amy didn't ever say hello to you, okay, sort of kind of hello, Amy, Okay, Well, you know last night we're going to talk a whole lot about or what happened last night. But did Trump talk? Was it three or four hours that he was up there? Seemed like three or four hours, it does it was ninety minutes. Yeah, he riffs
and babbles. When he riffs, I mean you can whatever you say, whatever you think about Donald Trump, either good or bad. The guy rambles and he repeats and he babbles. We're just talking delivery now. I'm not going to talk about like later on, I'll talk about what he actually said. Isn't it difficult to think of somebody getting up in age that gets paid to just ramble and babble and say the same things over and over and over again. Wow, and get paid for it. Wow. Hello. Yeah,
okay, I'm just thinking, just thinking. I know I understand that, Cono. Thank you for pointing that out. I was too old to figure that out as an I come. Yeah, thanks, I because I love Yes, that's true, but that's true although I'm not seventy Is he seventy eight now or seventy seven? I think he is seventy eight if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, okay, Bill, I would vote for you in a heartbeat over the choices we have. Oh yeah, let me here we
go. What do I do? My background is I was drug addled, probably the worst, you know, well credentials cal State Northridge, the Harvard of the West, and my law school with year law school now defunct because it didn't do such a good job inside of business. So what law school did you go to? I went to Harvard? How about you, Bill?
I went to a law school that's still longer there. Okay, that's like going to school the internet, to schools you know you go to and I used to make fun of and there were some initial non I don't even know if they assume it have a non accredited law schools where you just sort of open up. No, I've got much more babbling to do, believe me. Oh I've got more babbling. All right? Does that mean I stopped that? Okay, fair enough, Yeah, we'll do that. I
was just making a reference to uh, former President Trump last night. I think it ended. At one point I did, I had do you know what? I came back and I go, oh my god, it's still going. Do you know who else was nominated three times? Williams. Jennings Bryant was nominated three times. And I'm wonder if ADLEYE. Stevenson was nominated three times? Let me see, hey, sirih oh, I don't have to do that anymore. Was Adleie Stevenson nominated three times? For president?
If you think it could be serious, asked me to call emergency services or someone you trust. I'm not kidding. That's what came up. That's what happened. That's what that actually came up. Do you have an Apple watch? You having heart it day? I mean, if you can read that on the phone, that's what came up on my phone. I've never seen that, all right, So I won't be asking that question anymore. Okay, guys, they know I'm asking if you need emergency services right now,
you couldn't be better to, could it. Maybe that's that software glitch, yeah, or maybe it now knows me, you know, with AI and understands who I am. All right, that's literally that was a lot of babbling and I want to, by the way, was that purposeful? Oh? I don't know, what do you think? Okay, we are on our way to handle on the news with Amy Neil and me Lee story. Oh yeah, this is a big one. Flights grounded, passengers delayed, hospitals screwed up. Probably, I would guess, if not, the biggest
IT outage in the world. Way up there, and I'll talk more about that. But this is crazy. It's one company, CrowdStrike, cybersecurity company that has millions and millions of customers around the world. And this was not a cyber attack. This was just an update that went south and it took all of these companies off. Airlines were shut down, hospitals couldn't use their building systems. I mean, this was crazy stuff. But isn't that baboo?
They always say, though, that it's a software update. No, No, I think when it's a cyber attack, I think we know it's a cyber attack. I don't think they're able to keep secret what is a cyber attack and they're able to cover up what? I get it. But maybe it's a guy who just spilled his you know, coffee could bear or something could be. Always seems to be an update. Oh yeah, they update constantly. I mean every second, you know, you get your updates.
But yeah, very well, be amy, who was that story about the guy? Literally they were doing a test run one guy and wiped out I don't know how much data and put companies for days on the fritz. Oh I don't even remember that. Okay, well, good, that helped me a lot. I know, all right, I was as helpful as Siri. Yes, I accept. Those two words were stretched out to more than ninety minutes. Donald Trump has accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the Republican
National Convention. To start off the speech, he detailed the assassination attempt. He said, I'm going to tell you one one time, and then I'm not going to because it's too painful. And I thought that part of it was really interesting. Here's the longest convention speech though in modern history. Ninety three minutes. Yeah, it was. It started very introspective. It started as the advisors that we as told and knew Trump was going to him out
conciliatory, arguing for a United America. And then it devolved right into your normal Trump bashing, bashing opponents, bashing the government, certainly bashing Biden, making up wild facts, I mean, just stuff that made no sense whatsoever, just pulled him out of his rear end. And it was absolutely Ah, it was typical Donald Trump. I don't think he cannot control himself when it comes to this stuff. This is in his DNA. The way he bashes, it's like trying to eat one French fry. You cannot do it.
It's impossible. He cannot not be Trump. It's impossible for him not to be. Was he supposed to be unifying the country or unifying the Republican Party. He doesn't have to unify the Republican Party. I mean they are lockstep. They are in lockstep behind him. Did you hear the fake controversy that the coat of the man who was killed, the firefighter was killed, that it was misspelled, his name was misspelled, and so people flipped out. But that's his actual jacket, and it was misspelled. See, I
thought I thought they rented it from Western Costume. No, it just down the steel jacket. Wow, it's missing an A on purpose because it couldn't fit the whole name on there, and he chose to have the A removed. But everybody was blaming Trump like it was a prop. And by the way, I've never seen anything like that with a prop being brought on the stage for that reason. I mean, he's very obviously, very effective. I've just never seen it. I was surprised that he rolls up his sleeves.
Nothing up my sleeves, and then whosh, comes out the cards. He is a showman. He is a showman. I mean the whole I've never seen such a choreographed and well crafted convention. And this was all Trump, all of it. I mean, that's it was very well done. I would hate to be the DNC in August. Oh yeah, I don't even know. And the speeches were very very short. You know, if someone spoke for ten minutes during the convention, that was a long time.
I mean, they kept it moving they I thought it was. I thought it was brilliantly done. Also, the biggest drop, the biggest balloon drop in the history of the world. They just kept coming. They did. And by the way, how do we know it's the biggest balloon drop in the history of the world because we were told it was the biggest balloon drop in the history of the world. When Obama steps in. You got to
listen. Former President Barack Obama has told allies in all you know, the most recent of days, that President Biden's path to victory has greatly diminished and he thinks the president needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy. So it's over. It's over now, it's just a question of doing it gracefully, and rumors that will be done this weekend. Yeah, it's over.
It's over. Then the issue is who gets it, and unfortunately it's going to be Kamala Harris, and she's getting it by virtue of just being there, that's all. But if nothing people were already there and willing to hold their nose for Joe Biden. Don't you think they'll just hold their nose for Kamala Harris? No, I think well, certainly, I mean there'll be Democrats who will, but I don't know that she's going to pull the independent
vote. That's that's my point. That's the point is that there's really no there there is. I've often said I'm a big fan of Pete Boodhag, really am. I think he would be absolutely terrific. He's moderate, I mean, he's on the liberal side. He's a Democrat, and I'm fine with moderate Republicans. I'm fine with moderate Democrats. I'm fine either way. Nikki Hayley, I would have loved to see be the nominee, and she would have gotten my vote. But there's no there there with Kamalae Harris.
And the part that really pisses me off is that the Democrats, a leadership of the Democratic Party is already saying we're gonna go for it. Joe Biden, she would make a great president. And this is while he was staying in the race. He said that. So, I mean, have we really gotten to that point where it's, you know, by default one thing about Donald Trump? There's nothing by default with Donald Trump, not even a little bit. You don't think they could hop over her and put Buddha jedge
or anything like that. And no, they're gonna have to Well, first of all, they're gonna have to hop over Joe Biden, who's gonna be comatose on the ground that's for starters, then they're no, no, I'm just gonna get it. He's going to get it. And Trump is the luckiest guy in the world, in the world, and I mean the good news lucky that he the bullet. That's a good luck. You know that that is a good place to be in terms of that luck. But the
rest of it, Look at how lucky he is. What's happening in the Democratic Party imploding right now? Look at how lucky he was with the court cases. Last night he talked about how the dismissal of the document's case vindicated him, and the case fell apart. It only fell apart, not to the merits of the case, is because the judge bought this ridiculous argument that somehow the very appointment of Jack Smith, that the Special Council was unconstitutional the
way it was done. So it's and it doesn't matter. By the way, California, who is it the king with the stats? I think you did, Amy Where in California it's exactly the same as it was prior to the deblacle in terms of the support California is baked in. No doesn't matter what you do. If Joe Biden stays in office and he runs and he is dead by the time, and let's say he dies. A lot of arguments already there, but let's say he is actually dead, He'll still get
the California vote. That'll happened. Okay, Well, President Harris does have a nice ring to it. At least that's the word from a lot of Democrats. They think the vice president would make a good president. They did a ap Nork Center of for Public Affairs Research poll. Six and ten Democrats believe Kamala Harris would be a good pick for the top spot spot. About two and ten do not think she is a good choice, and another too inten say yeah, I don't know enough to say, yeah, I'd love
to know what those six intend. These are Democrats, of course, keep in mind, you know, it's as Republicans would say, if a Republican is there, he would do a good job, and in Democrats she would there. I'll tell you if she gets it, which I think she's going to. The more people get to know this woman, the fewer supporters she's going to have. You don't think she has any good traits. I mean she hasn't shown them as VP. But I have no idea. I don't
know her personally. I do not like Frankly, I just I just don't think there's any gravitas there, that's all. I just don't think there's any gravitas there. When she was the attorney general, to remember the lawsuit against Nielsen in terms of which hit our rating so hard. That's a long story because of the waiting system. Anyway, just for political correctness, she joined California joined that lawsuit, and it was just it didn't have to. It's a long story. I want to get into that, but it was it
was a political decision as opposed to anything else. It was, I mean, come on, you know, it was just pandering. And that's what I think she does. She panders. And that's just one example. All right. This was such a bummer. Bob Newhart is known for his stammering and his deadpand very unflappable personality. Died. Stand up comedian, later television movie star. Died. He was ninety four years old. One of his
best more recent movies was Elf. He was so great in that. But of course the Bob Newhart Show. Yeah, Bob Newhart show was fantastic. Yes, ninety four years old. I mean, you can't get too upset about that. Did I ever tell you I actually had lunch with Bob Newhart? No? Actually I was at the table next to him in a restaurant, so close enough. Yeah, yeah, and I waved to him. He kind of ignored me, but I consider that having lunch with him.
Wow. Okay, well that was fast. Evan Gerskevich, the first American journalist to be arrested on espionage charges since the Cold War in Russia anyway, has been found guilty of spying and was immediately sentenced to sixteen years in prison in a Russian court. The trial only lasted two days. That is a very long trial for something like this in Russia. I mean it was preordained, no surprise at all. Everybody expected it and they came right through.
I think the only surprise is that the prosecution asked for eighteen years and the judge came down with sixteen years. Usually it's the other way around, your honor, we suggest sixteen years. No, no, here's twenty eight. Enjoy yourself because they do that a lot too. So the poor guy is, well, he's going to be able to get out, because I think Putin's already talking about a prisoner swap, although Paul Wheeland has been in for what six seven years already? Why would you go to that place? You're
crazy, crazy. I would be shocked if there was any reporter from any news outlet sitting, especially American or any European news news outlet. If you're in Russia. You're right, why would anybody go there? All right? Netflix continues to find ways to screw you and me. They're going to start phasing out its Basic plan. That's the cheapest advertising free plan costs eleven ninety nine per month in the United States, and it will go the way of
the Dodo bird. Yeah, this is it's now getting to be prohibitively expensive. You have to choose effectively. One. I'm at two hundred and fifty bucks and I have the Netflix. I don't know if it's premium or not, but Standard plan will be fifteen dollars and fifty cents a month. Yeah. They're just recreating cable at this point. They are now they're making twenty different cables. Yeah. Yeah, what's you have to buy them all? Yeah? What's it ever seen? The Standard plan and the premium plan.
I mean, the standard is fifteen fifty and the premium is twenty three bucks a month. What do you get if it's if you have AD free, you have AD free. So I don't quite understand. Maybe for higher you know, higher resolution TVs or something, maybe you get eight four K eight K. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But that's that's a big difference too, all right. So and I like Netflix, and I like it a lot too, I do. But yeah,
but it's sixteen bucks a month. We're twenty three dollars a month now, it's getting a little crazy. Standard limits you who downloads on two devices always happens. Premium allows up to six got it there, it is, Thank you for that, Amy, You're welcome here. Here he goes again. President Biden has announced another round of student loan debt forgiveness, this one affecting thirty five thousand public sector workers, including teachers, nurses, and firefighters.
It will cost one point two billion dollars. The Biden administration is already fighting two legal challenges to other student loan repayment plans that it launched last year. There were known as the Save the Saving on a valuable education plan. Well, yeah, the legal issue is does Biden have the authority to do this without Congress? And those are the fights that are going on. And in the meantime, the underlying issue, should the taxpayer subsidize the Well, it's
the only way this loan forgiveness is subsidized by the taxpayer. And I don't know. I think it's going to change dramatically with President Trump, by the way, I think it's it's not going to be too much longer that we stop referring to Donald Trump as former President Trump. All Right, I think he's going to be President Trump. Just to make it clear, we all knew where you were going, Okay, I just I didn't. Wasn't super cryptic. I was a little confused. That's like the person who says I'm
going to go to the bathroom, if you know what I mean. That's a very good point. That's actually a very picking up what you're putting down. Yes, this story just sucks. The largest housing provider for migrant children engaged in pervasive sexual aboose abuse. So you've got Southwest key programs in and their employees, including supervisors in the like, raped, tortured or solicited sex
and nude images of children beginning in twenty fifteen, maybe even earlier. That is what the Justice Department is claim in a lawsuit filed just this week. Yeah, now this is a civil lawsuit. You would think if the accusation against these people is part of their lawsuit, why they haven't been arrested for this? I don't understand. Well, No, two employees have been indicted on criminal charges, and so that's okay, So that's too out of I
don't know. I would guess tens of thousands of employees will find out how pervasive this is. But if you notice that, you know, any organization of any size that deals with anyone who is vulnerable, the accusations are out there. It is are we really that sick as a society? Or is this simply some outliers and that has been blown up? You know, much
more? I would imagine. It's not the totality of the areas. No, I understand, But you know, the point is, for example, do you think there are any more and I'm going to go back to politics, do you think there are any more rapists and the criminal elements and murderers out of illegal immigrants coming in than there were twenty years ago as a percentage. I don't hi, there's five people working on the show right now. One of them is a horrible pervert. So that's twenty percent, right right,
And does that stay? It would that doesn't change never mind. I don't even know where we're going with that one. But thanks for pointing that out. Neil's amy, she's filthy. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, we believe that. All right, guys. Oh, we can do one more and then we'll take a break. Just in time for the Olympics.
Lamayor Bass and your favorite bill. Secretary of Transportation Pete Bodhajedge have outlined a new federal funding program for zero emission buses and charging infrastructure that should be completed in time for the twenty twenty eight Olympics. Seventy seven and a half million dollar project. It'll help the agency purchase dozens of battery electric buses and also install new chargers. Yeah, well, without chargers, they're not going
anywhere. Nobody's going anywhere. That's the problem. And EV well, in general, we'll do more about that a little bit later on, but the number of evs that are being sold is dropping. It's not doing well because there isn't enough infrastructure out there. That's the problem. And so this is another hit at the infrastructure. Here's some more money, and this is going to be incremental. This is going to take a long long time to make
this whole thing viable. Unfortunately, the act Exam will see changes, including the science portion is going to be optional, which is good because we need less reason and science in this world. So the exam will be evolving to, as they say, meet the challenge the challenges students and educators face, like not being educated, yeahretty much. Still for example, science is hard. Yeah, that's right. Science is hard. So that's being removed.
It's not an option now. English is still one of the cores. Unless you don't speak English, then it's optional and you can do just fine not speaking English. Like that. It says this change is designed to make the testing experience more manageable for students. Do you really want a manageable testing experience? You put your name down and you walk out the door. That's manageable. It's not supposed to be manageable. The whole point is it's supposed to
test you. It's supposed to be hard. That's the point. But if it is hard. And here is the problem. Now we go back to a societal problem. Right, His minorities do worse than whites on these tests, so therefore inherently they are unfair. There was a move when I was graduating law school and taking the bar that the percentage of African Americans who actually took the bar it's like two three percent, and the percentage of blacks in
California like thirteen percent or across the United States. And so there was a move among an activist group to change the bar completely, to make it now through the lens of African Americans. I don't even know what that meant, but the very lens of what if you're looking at it as a white person, it is different than looking at it as a minority, Like, I guess the contract is different, right, I'm going to pay you ten thousand dollars. You're going to do this for me. I guess it's different if
you're a minority. I don't know, but it's it's you know, I'm not a big huge fan of calling everything woke and all of that. I gotta tell you this is really depressing. Forget electric hydrogen is where it's at California is going to be the first state to get federal funds under a program to create regional hubs that will produce hydrogen as an energy source. It's going
to be used for vehicles manufacturing and for generating electricity. Yeah. I mean, you talk about building an infrastructure, this will It's gonna be hard enough getting an electrical grid for electrical vehicle charging. This is going to be crazy. I mean, just okay, We're gonna do pilot programs and it disappears. I mean, this is trillions of dollars to switch over to hydrogen, although it is the cleanest fuel out there if you can keep it from exploding,
right, it doesn't explode hydrogen, it doesn't explode. You know what. Even what's even more flammable and explosive than hydrogen gasoline, And that seems to work in cars, doesn't it. You know what, No matter what kind of energy they use in California in the car, they'll still be driving on crappy roads that are filled with potholes. That's correct, And that technology is about as base as it gets. It's pretty cast. Fault in the hole you ask, falt whole. Yes. Former lou Dobbs Tonight anchor dies
at seventy eight. He political commentator did lou Dobbs Tonight at CNN. If you remember before it moved the Fox Business, seventy eight years young. Doesn't that seem young? It nowadays? Seventy eight, It just seems very young to me. Well, you know, the seventy eight is the new seventy nine. Now it's people are getting younger. That's how old the former president Trump is. That's correct, That's correct. Okay, so bud Light is
not bouncing back. More than a year after the big backlash over bud Light hiring or using a transgender person to promote their beer. The consumer boycott continues, and bud Light has slipped in the rankings for beer sales behind Modelo Especial and michelob Ultra. But Anheuser Busch may not be crying because all three beers are produced by Anheuser Busch, So what does it matter? But it says a lot about America and a lot about marketing, because look at this,
You've got Normally you would think this would fall away. Okay, you've got a trans person, and the transperson does this, and so there's a huge upward. Then it sort of disappears, hasn't disappeared clearly with these numbers. But then again, who drinks beer in great numbers? I don't know beer drinkers are. Well, let's go the other way, the political you would see more people that are conservative, you would see more you don't think democrats
drink beer. Not. Here's what I'm pointing. The big when you see I've tried to put this together so it makes any sense, you look at demographics. Let me put it this way. You look at demographics, and the beer drinkers will be more offended than, for example, champagne drinkers by a transuh, by a trans being a spokesperson, and it is offensive to a lot of people. And I'm saying more beer drinkers would be offended than people who drink sherry or drink whiskey. That's that's it is just a bad
marketing choice, is what happens. Now, if you if they were selling BoA's and Tutu's, this would work out perfectly, But they're not. It's beer. Does that make sense? Okay? So some guy picks up a bud light and his friend Cleafus goes whoa pretty much one of them queers? No, no, But I'm saying there's I'm not saying every I'm not saying that every Kleafus. I'm not saying every beer drinker is a Kleifus, but every Kleafus is a beer drinker. Okay, that's where I wanted to go.
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