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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six forty. Obviously,

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the margins are already very thin in the fast food world. Oh yeah,

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much thinner than people think. And you are not thinner than people think when

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you know because I eat those margins. And now Handle on the news.

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Ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle, and good morning everybody. March twenty

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eighth. As we come close to ending the month. Is I always do

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this here? I've been around all these decades and I yet to figure out

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which months are thirty one and thirty Is March thirty one? Yes, okay,

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March thirty one? And April first is still April first? Yes,

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that's Monday. It's still April fools Day, I know. And we don't

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do anything anymore. I have a terrific story of April Foo Fool's Day when

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David Hall are former program director, and I filled in for the urban station

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Kase. Yeah, when it was a cock station and I filled in,

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remember Mother Love and Ico. So we switched and it was an all black

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station and I started in the morning over there and I said, Hi,

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my name is Bill Handle. I worked for KFI, and I noticed I'm

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a little. I'm a lawyer, by the way, and I noticed that

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there's not one person that works for KAS. Every single employee is black.

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And so I told him I'm filing a lawsuit anti discrimination. And here I

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am your new morning disc jockey, different times, different times. And then

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I mean I went I went crazy, like, here's another record from some

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group. I have no idea that sounds exactly the same like every other group.

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They all sound the same to me. Oh no, you could do

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No, you could do that in those days. You can't do that now.

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I'm sorry. Yeah, And there's a few other things that I can't

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that I did that morning that I can't say. It's a different world in

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terms of radio. Well, it's a different world in terms of everything.

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It's called change Bill. It is, yeah, bettering ourselves as people,

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growing, sometimes sec sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Okay, sometimes

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for you or who for everybody? Okay, how about this an eighteen dollars

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happy meal. That's not for the better. It's not happy. There's no

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happy. Yeah. Who you telling? I got a seven year old?

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Oh yeah, all right, So there it goes your college boneut, petito,

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enjoy your college all right, Good morning, Neil, good morning,

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Willie Wolf and there's a good morning, good morning wearing the padre Let's go,

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and Amy wearing Dodger blue. Good Dodgers fight are they Are they in

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fact doing their thing today? Are they playing today or just both of you

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just wearing It's opening day and they're playing each other. No, the Dodgers

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and Podres playing to each other in South Korea last Oh yeah, yeah,

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that's done. It's done. Dodgers are a Dodger stadium today against Saint Louis,

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and the Podres are not. Nick Balochini wants us to fight. Okay,

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we're not gonna do that. We're not We're not doing Dodgers. Hey

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guys, we're not doing sports talk. You know what build The key thing

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is we wanted to take you to the paint. We want them to get the W and that is the focus of the game. They put their game

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face on, which I've never understood. Cono, good morning, good morning.

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Yeah. There was what was a Dodger station or they're there. Used

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to be a station that carried the Dodgers. I forgot their name, KBC,

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and they used to have a sports show, like every night there would

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be sports It was crazy. And then one night I happened to do channel

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surfing and there it was. I was just listening and the host name was

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Jeff Witcher if I not remember, if I remember correctly, it was very

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good. Literally went to the phones because they took phone calls, and it

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was Manuel, who has been waiting two and a half hours. And I'm

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sorry Manuel that I have held you off, but I wanted to get to

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you. So Manuel, what do you want to say? Go Dodgers and

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hung up. That's it, I wrote. That is a Dodgers fan.

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Yeah, okay, that guy has a full life. Okay. What you

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didn't hear is that a Dodger listener was listening. A Dodger player was listening.

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That gate of him the motivation he needed. Yeah, okay, you

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guys ready to do it? Yep, all right, sure, let's put

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our let's put our game faces on. Okay, give it one hundred and

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twelve percent. Yeah, handle on the news, Amy and Neil and me

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leave Storry go to and they're unfortunately nicely done. CONO. That's worth an

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email. Their two bodies were found in the river where the Franciscott Keybridge collapsed.

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We know that six were missing, unaccounted for. They just found two

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in a pickup truck that had gone in. And then if you look at

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the video, most of the cars had made it across because the ship had

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called for Mayda, someone aboard the ship and the authorities stopped cars from going

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onto the bridge, and then the ones that were there left, except there

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were some work crews that were there right in the middle, lights blinking,

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and you can actually see them go into the water. Can you imagine such

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a circumstance that is so immediate in seconds and nothing you can do about it?

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No, and imagine how quick it went Now, I mean horrific.

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Now you're in the water and you're drowning. Yeah, and there's I mean,

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I can't even imagine that kind of panic. Oh. Another story,

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more bad news from the bridge collapse, and that is that the ship that

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crashed into the bridge support was carrying fifty six containers that have hazardous materials in

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them. We don't know. Well, yeah, well they said it's corrosives

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and flammables, but they didn't specifically say at this point. And those containers,

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several of them have been breached, so they've got like tears in the

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metal. I think a couple of them have fallen into the water. And

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on top of that, that ship, because it had just left the port

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of Baltimore, also had more than a million gallons of fuel on it.

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The ship is currently sitting on the bottom of the channel because of the weight

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of the bridge that's on top of it, and officials the coast Guards are

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saying the vessel is stable, but it does still have over a million and

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a half gallons of fuel. And on a financial just a financial front,

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the port has been shut down. The thousands of jobs that are non existent

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now until the port opens up, and this is weeks and weeks, if

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not once, I mean that's it has wiped out the port financially. And

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this port is an on and off port. I think it's called roll on

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roll off, So it's a big one for automobiles and agricultural equipment and manufacturing

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equipment. Wow, a bunch of industries that don't need to hit either.

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All right, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net and Yahoo's office has agreed thankfully to

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reschedule a planned meeting with US and Israeli officials. Of course, this is

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to discuss a possible operation there and raw There's been a lot of talk and

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headbutting on this one, and we shall see if this makes any headway.

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It won't know, it won't. Hamas will not move, will not move,

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off of its off of its premise, off of its belief, of

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its demand that the war cease immediately and all Israeli troops leave Gaza not going

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to happen. The only issue now is the town of Rafa going to be

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attacked, because that's the last stronghold of Hamas, and the whole world is

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the whole world is telling Israelis do not attack Rafa. It is the last

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bastion of civilians. Million and a half half more than half of Gaza is

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in that town. So a big player in the no labels movement has died.

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This was kind of a surprise yesterday when it happened. But Joseph Lieberman

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died in New York City from complications of a fall. Is all his family

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has said. He was eighty two. Of course, he was a former

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senator. He was Al Gore's running made in two thousand. He almost was going to be the running made of Republican John McCain, even though he was

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a Democratic. He's a big Taran John McCain, but he was an independent.

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Bernie Sanders has been an independent for years. But they're all liberal Independence

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Caucus with the domain, you know how. The weirdest thing is, I

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was in my office the other day. I shared an office with the Big Boss Robn Bertolucci, and Joseph Joe Lieberman shows up on the TV. He

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was on CNN or something. Yeah, because he's part of them no labels.

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Yes, so he pops all the TV and go. I didn't even

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know he was still alive. No one did. And then all of a

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sudden, this happens. I shouldn't have said anything and killed him. I

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killed Joe Leverman. There you go, well said. And he was the

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only senior member of Congress ever who is an Orthodox practicing Jew. And I

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didn't know he was with Orthodox And originally he was running on the no pork

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ticket, and that is that what it was originally. Yeah, can you

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push can you push the elevator button for me? Tickets? Right? Yeah?

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No? And he and he was he was an Orthodox practicing Jew.

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You know else is an Orthodox Jew practices Jared Kushner really yeah? Yeah?

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And Ivanka, Ivanka converted to Judaism because of him. Wait a second,

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So but she's a shiksa. Well that's yeah, but this is what is

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a non Jew And they're usually shiksa goddesses of love, usually middle yeah,

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beautiful, long legged blonde. This is what Jewish men uh in as their

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midlife crisises do. They go out, they put the two pay on,

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they buy themselves a maserati and they find themselves a twenty something shiksa goddess of

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love and they drive around and the shiksas light like them because of the two

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pay but not the one on their head that they are to pay for everything

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that they want. Oh well said that, up up, but up all

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right. The long national nightmare is over. A year's long fight between Disney

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and Florida is set to end after two parties agreed to a settlement. We

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don't know what it is yet. But this had to do with the CEO

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of Disney, Bob Chappik And after the dose gay law was passed and he

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went crazy and that all kinds of anti DeSantis anti legislature, and then they

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got into a huge fight and DeSantis throughout or passed the law that Reedy Creek

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Development corporation because Disney set up their own municipality in Orange County, Florida,

11:41

their own building and safety, I mean their own and had all kinds of

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tax brace and the legislature said no thank you. When there was lawsuits back

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and forth. They've settled it don't know what, don't know what it is,

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but they've settled. What an expensive drag out. Yeah, another conviction

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for an LA official. Proud day. A jury found LA Deputy Mayor Raymond

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Chen former guilty of taking and securing bribes for himself and for former council member

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Jose Weesar, part of a big old pay to play scheme. It took

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the jury just a couple of hours to find Chan guilty on all twelve counts

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of racketeering, conspiracy, bribery, honest services fraud, and giving false statements

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to investigators. Yeah. And you wonder why these guys don't plead out because

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the evidence is overwhelming. And I'll tell you why. Sometimes they don't plead

12:31

out because the DA doesn't want to plead deal wants a trial because it's so

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high profile, is not going to give any kind of a break. Sure

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you can plead, but we're still going to give you fifteen or twenty years,

12:43

whatever it is. And so they don't plead because even if they're convicted,

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the judge is is going to give them less, give whoever the defendant,

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less than what the prosecutors want. Prosecutors want the moon. So if

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you're going to go to trial, they say, we're going to trial,

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you have to go. You have no choice. So, uh, that's

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what happened. And he's gonna get he's gonna get some jail time for sure.

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How much is we saar get right? He was he was a keen

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or something. He was enough. He was a councilman when he did that,

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and I think that was a little tougher. Yeah, thirteen years all

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right, Mike Lindell what this guy piece of work? Yeah. It makes

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a great pillow though. Yeah, I've never I'm not a fan of those

13:26

lumpy foam style pillows, but do they work. I love my pillow.

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Yeah, yep, I love my pillow as well my pillow I know.

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So you love my my pillow, my pillow. Yeah? Wow? Does

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I talk to you at night going it was rigged? It was stolen?

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Yes, so you've got the my pillow owner and election famous election Denier.

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Mike Lindell was formally evicted from Minneso his Minnesota warehouse. But you know,

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he was doing an interview with the Associated Press and he said that the eviction

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was another It was not another sign of money woes or anything like that.

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If you remember, he got nailed for five million bucks in an arbitration award

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because he claimed that he had proof that China, oh yeah, interfered with

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the twenty twenty US presidential elections. And he said that he pays on five

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million if they could actually challenge that. Someone challenged it, Yeah, professor,

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and challenged it, and you wouldn't pay, got sued, got hit.

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Jud said, yeah, you made the challenge someone. There's a contract

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there and he fulfilled the terms and now you pay five million dollars. Don't

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get involved in politics. Also, it's this a weird one. Is a court ordered the eviction and Lindell said, that's just a formality because the landlord

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wants to take the property back. If the landlord wanted to take the property

14:52

back, he would simply say, hey, I'm going to give you a

14:54

notice I want the property back. So Lindell must have said no, and

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and therefore an eviction happened because if you if you give notice and you're out

15:05

or your landlord gets noticed, there is no eviction if you leave. Well,

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and then there was the fact that apparently he owes around two hundred and

15:13

seventeen thousand dollars to the Delaware based First Industrial LP for rent for the facility.

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I know it's it's a mess. He's in trouble. I mean financially.

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Oh, he's got to be because he's throwing money. You know, he got and wound up in the politics and things follow and he was thrown

15:31

out at retailers. He was thrown out a target. It was because of

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his politics. Well, he spent all his money on those ten pound gold

15:37

crosses. You were working. I'm not a marshal. They're not a fan.

15:41

You know. Tuck that in. You know that joke about Jesus on

15:45

the cross and he's going, man, this is really powerful. I hope

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they make jewelry out of it. Huh. You think that's what he was

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saying. No, Well, I'll tell you what he was saying, and

15:56

don't keep it moving. Okay, I was making a profound point. Okay,

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move on, I'll tell you what he was saying okay, I won't. I will say, Peter, I can see your house from here.

16:07

I'm gonna slap you. No, no, no, not at all, not at all. What he said screaming, is someone get over here with

16:12

a ladder and a pair of pliers. Okay, let's go ahead and move

16:18

on. So technically, former President Trump did not violate a judge's gag order.

16:23

He the judge said, hey, don't attack the witnesses and the prosecutors

16:29

and all that stuff and the issue that gag order ahead of his hush money

16:33

trial, which is supposed to start on April fifteenth. So Trump just went

16:37

after the judge, lovely and his daughter yeap, all kinds of accusations.

16:41

One thing about Trump, he is fearless. He is fearless. I mean

16:45

he will say anything, any attack. Wait till you see debates between Joe

16:51

Biden and Donald Trump. They're not going to debate. Ah, God,

16:56

I wish they would. We should force them into like a an octagon or

17:00

something like, how could you deny the American people that I know it's a

17:04

massive Why I know, Well, of course it's gonna and it's gonna be

17:07

razor thin. We're just I'm just waiting for as it the the if it

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narrows at all, we're going to hear rigged, rigged, rigged, rigg

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guarantee that. Why do you think they're not going to debate, Amy, I don't think the Biden camp is going to agree to it. You know.

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That may be true, that may be true. I might be wrong.

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Well, I'm thinking I would go for the debate, and you may be very well right. I mean, I don't know at this point,

17:33

but I would think if there's a debate, Donald Trump is going to go

17:37

so over the top with attacks, and if Biden remains calm and just sort

17:45

of chuckles, come on, Donald, Yeah, but you also don't want

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to look like you didn't understand what he said. Yeah, that's true.

17:53

There's some so you've got to play. Yeah. That's Walter Monde when he

18:00

was debating Ronald Reagan and Reagan and the attack was Reagan's age and I think

18:06

Reagan was seventy three or seventy four, and Mondale pointed out his age and

18:11

Reagan chuckled and said, I'm not going to hold your youth against you and

18:18

just completely undermined it. It was just fantastic all right, So Russia has

18:23

no designs apparently on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic

18:30

States or the Czech Republic. But this is a big butt. If the

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West supplies F sixteen fighters to Ukraine, they will be shot down. They're

18:41

not going to be shot down. Well, maybe they'll shoot down Ukrainian planes

18:44

because once they've turned them over, the F sixteen has become a part of

18:47

the Ukrainian air force because there are no NATAL planes flying along. How could

18:52

that not be just part of regular war. Yes, once you hand over

18:56

a plane to somebody, But this is Putin, who's I have no intention

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And incidentally, he had no intention of attacking Ukraine either. As the troops

19:06

were lining up in Belarus and along the Ukrainian Russian border. It was simply

19:11

a military exercise. He kept on saying that over and over, and then

19:15

of course the invasion happened. No wait, you think he lied, Yeah,

19:19

but I'm what I think he's telling the truth. Not so much the

19:23

F sixteens. But I don't think he's going to attack NATO because under Article

19:27

five of NATO, attack on one, attack on all and all of a

19:33

sudden, war has been declared against twenty eight countries. Russia is gonna have

19:41

a tough time with that one. And then and maybe it unleashes the atomic

19:45

bomb I took you Israel would if Israel was on his last legs, and

19:49

if Israel was about to disappear, if Arabs win or its enemies are about

19:56

to win the war and destroy Israel, outcome the atomic weapons. What does

20:00

Israel yell in that case? Do they have like a cool Hebrew saying yeah,

20:07

I think geronimo torah, torah, torah. Oh you're so excited.

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Oh just remember how press the button. I've fallen into a conversation with handle

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and I can't get up. All right, Five had a million dollars.

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Five had a million dollars. A million dollars? Is that a major lottery

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win? No, of course not. How about almost a billion billion is

20:37

stronger. But when you talk about a billion dollars, the reality is half

20:42

of that goes to taxes. So there it is. Now you're a five

20:45

hundred million. Now if you want a lump some as opposed to the annuity

20:52

that goes over thirty years. Now you're at two hundred and fifty million dollars

20:56

out of a billion, twenty five percent if you want a lump, still

21:00

not bad. I've never seen anybody take a win of almost a billion dollars

21:07

and make it a problem until right now. You know, there are,

21:11

of course, there are lottery winners who won in the several millions and have

21:15

just peed it all the way. You know what if you win several million

21:19

like that, Yeah, you put it away? You do you put it

21:22

away. That's your retirement. It's not about changing your lifestyle. It's about

21:26

that's how you become wealthy. Yeah. But remember the last guy who won

21:30

a billion dollars, he was like from Alta Dina or something like that,

21:33

and he's bought mansions. Oh yeah, he bought some stuff. I mean

21:36

he bought Alta Dina. Ye, he bought he bought that mansion in Malibu,

21:40

that spec mansion that went for what forty or fifty million dollars? I

21:44

mean, why don'd you do that? What would that cost? What do

21:47

you think that cost? Took upkeep for a year, Oh hundreds of thousand,

21:51

the millions to keep several hundred thousand dollars at least. You know,

21:55

here's what happens is you go out of your mind, and you why why

21:59

wouldn't you end up living a great lifestyle? Do you really need a sixteen

22:02

thousand foot home or twenty thousand square foot home? Remember he was he was

22:07

changing light bulbs for a living, and here you go, and now he's

22:12

people go berserk. They really do go berzerk. I mean it's well,

22:15

well, a lot of people are expected to go berserk because there was no

22:18

winner in power Ball last night. So the next jackpot drawing is going to

22:22

be worth nine hundred thirty five million dollars. That's for Saturday, and of

22:26

course Mega Million's resets because somebody won the one point one three billion dollar jackpot.

22:33

You know what, it's there, Jersey. Isn't there more than a fifty percent chance that no one pulls a lucky number? They hadn't had a

22:40

winner in Mega Millions since New Year's Yeah, and if you add another number,

22:47

then you never have anybody winning. See. I wish that they would

22:49

drop it down and so they had more winners, except that it's so much

22:56

money that people buy into it and go, Okay, I'm going to spend

22:59

five six dollars two dollars a ticket or ten dollars or twenty dollars. Yeah,

23:02

once it gets that high, then you have a motivation. You go. That's the whole point. You get that kind of high, you're whoa.

23:07

Now people who normally don't buy lottery tickets are buying them. Like me,

23:12

do you really buy a lot I get a lot of pressure. I

23:15

get a lot of pressure. Please go and spend ten bucks. Now with

23:18

Michelle, we have a pool. Hey, there's eighty of us in the

23:22

pool. And give her thirty five people in one pool. Yeah, that's

23:26

true. Very crowded, very warm pool. This story sucks. The woman

23:33

who admitted to stealing President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley's diary and she went on to

23:40

sell it to conservative activists. The good part is she can face a rest

23:45

as soon as a Friday. What a sucky where this is? We are

23:52

so degrading? Oh yeah that And it has gotten to the point when with

23:56

the politics that it has nothing to do with what it will do for the

24:00

country anymore. It's just people wanted to This story is really weird. She

24:04

has skipped sentencing hearing three times in a row and she's not going to get

24:10

jail time. How is that? Because she's an idiot. But this last

24:14

time did she say that it had to do with like that's what she's done.

24:18

I mean, I'm sorry, I'm missing the sentencing because I have to

24:21

go to a MENSA meeting. Oh really, it's credible, all right,

24:26

credit, it's credible. We all hate highway closures, but this is one

24:33

that I can get behind. And it's not gonna happen fully, And it's

24:36

happening overnights. But a portion of the one to one is going to be

24:41

closing overnight starting in April to allow for the construction work to be done on

24:47

the large wildlife crossing bridge. It's being put in in a gore Hills.

24:52

So are they going to shut down like one one direction overnight so they can

24:55

start putting in the support beams? Yeah? Come on, come on,

24:59

I mean all like, we all hate stoppages, but this one we're gonna

25:04

feel so good about. No. No, a mountain lion getting run over

25:08

occasionally is no big deal. Yes it is. It kind of caused the

25:15

problem with the whole eco. Oh yeah, yeah. Cleaning it up,

25:18

Okay, I got it. Cleaning it up is a mess. Okay,

25:21

fair enough. Anyway, taking me seriously on that, you know. Nope,

25:26

nope, I'm thrilled about this. I can't wait. And it should

25:30

be open and have wildlife mountain lions and other critters crossing by next year.

25:36

Yeah, Amy, and I know exactly how Ponscious Pilot felt. We're constantly

25:41

washing our hands of anything that has to do in the program. Seven to

25:45

eleven announces a new hot dog flavored drink. Some people are questioning that if

25:49

the product is real as comes as the well known convenience store announced just yesterday

25:56

that they got this new collection of seven select spark waters. They got lemon,

26:00

lime, green apple, sweet orange, and hot dog flavor, not

26:04

to be confused with dog water. I know, look at it. I

26:08

mean, they come up with the stuff that no one even knows that's real.

26:11

But they're saying, you don't have to bite it to a hot dog

26:15

and take a drink a gulp afterwards. No, No, you can do

26:18

it all in one fells. It's convenient. Oh okay, we'll tell you

26:22

this. Though all the other flavors are out, the dog hot dog flavored

26:26

drink is expected to hit shelves on April first. How about the new one

26:32

decomposing human body flavor drink? We're done. Taste and maggots, We're done.

26:41

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