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Day off. Wayne Resne here filling in until nine o'clock and then I believe

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Neil Savedra, who's normally here on this show, is filling in for Gary

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N. Shannon. So Amy, thank you. First of all, thank

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you to Amy King. Why because you are allowing us later in the show

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to replay an interview that you did. Oh yes, but Ted Kaebnerck Run

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for the Walls. The Run for the Wall where people get on their motorcycles

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and they leave I think they left from Ontario, yeah, weeks ago,

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California. They go all across the country and they end up in Washington,

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d C. They go to Arlington National Cemetery, they go to the Vietnam

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War Memorial and along the way they stop at different locations that are also veteran

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related. So they go across the country, stopping periodically to pay their respects

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in various ways. They even stopped this You probably did not get into with

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him, but they made us stop in Nitro, West Virginia, which is

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right outside Charleston, West Virginia, where I had the experience of living,

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okay, for six years. Long time to experience that, huh, well,

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yes, long enough that as soon as I got out of college,

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I came right back to California. But I know the Nitro area and everything,

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so I know where they went. And that was pretty cool. And

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that was a and I guarantee you this, that was a big deal for

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the people of Nitro, West Virginia to have a visit from the run to

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the wall people. Hey, anytime you have twelve hundred bikes rolling through town,

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it's going to be a big deal. Yeah, So thank you in

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advance for allowing us to repurpose your intellectual property. Of course, all right,

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we are ready for handle on the news now. It's me. It's

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Amy King. And here's the lead story. Storms tornadoes battering a lot of

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the Central United States. Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee,

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Kansas got some of it already, eight tornadoes yesterday. Yeah, and they're

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saying, get used to it now. From now through summer, it's gonna

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just be The United States of America is just gonna be a tornado factory.

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Nineteen deaths have been reported at least obviously that will probably go up. But

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the other part of it hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power,

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which is problematic because in Texas it's like one hundred degrees m h. That's

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right, it's not the right weather to have your patn I don't know if

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it's ever the right weather to have your your power go out, but let's

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say sixty eight relative humidity of fifty percent, maybe it's not the end of

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the world if your power goes out for a while. So there's so many

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people suffering right now in the wake of these storms. And you know,

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they pushed back the Indy five hundred because of the weather because there was lightning,

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and they made everybody get out of there and take shelter, and then

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finally when it cleared, they let everybody go back in so they could run

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that race. So it's affecting a lot of things. Israel continues to ramp

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up its attacks on Rafa. Dozens of people have been killed in an Israeli

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airstrike in Santhera, Gaza Action aid UK is saying at least fifty people,

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including civilians, were killed when Israeli fighter jets launched eight missiles at makeshift shelters.

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And of course the outrage on this is that these places were supposed to

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be safe spaces for the civilians, but then Action aid UK says they became

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targets of brutal violence. The Israeli Defense forces say that two top Hamas officials

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were killed in the air strike. They say they were in that area and

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they took them out. This is the problem when you're dealing with gorilla warriors

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who do embed themselves among civilians. That doesn't mean every single place where there

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are civilians in Gaza, there's also Hamas. But what happens is so they

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do that, and then Israel they can say anytime they want, Hey,

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you're saying it was civilians that we bombed, but there were Hamas people in

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there that we were trying to get at, and it's Hamas's fault every time

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we bomb civilians. It's the fault of Hamas for doing what they do.

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And you get to a point where it's like, okay, can you trust

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Israel every time they say that because you're not going to get pristinely accurate information

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from either side on this situation. It's bad optics and amy. What do

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you think of the International Court of Justice ordering Israel to stop it? Which

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I'm sorry, it's not a funny situation, but it's funny because they have

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no authority. Yeah, I don't understand anything. I don't understand why it's

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even there. What does the International Court do if it has no authority?

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Well, there are things they can do. There are disputes, usually between

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Usually what you have are disputes between two sovereign or could be more than two

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I guess sovereign entities, and it's almost always some kind of land dispute or

6:30

something like that. And they can go there and say you decide, International

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Court of Justice, that's this kind of a thing. Is not really even

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what they were set up for. And my point is what you really diminish

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your credibility when you order people to do things when you're not in a position

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of authority to order them to do anything. It's like the difference between if

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Robin Bertolucci called right now and said, I want you to talk about the

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new sandwich at subway. She's our boss. So if she says, I

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order you to talk about and I don't even know if there is a new

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sandwich at subway, but I order you to talk about. Then we would

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have to do it because if we didn't, we could get in some kind

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of trouble. But if like the guy who manned the exit at the parking

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garage here at KFI called up and said, I order you guys to talk

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about the new sandwich at subway, we would just go who do you think

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you are? And that's what the International Court of Justice is doing to themselves.

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They could have issued some kind of resolution like we we isshue a resolution

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that we don't like it. We condemn it, we condemned, Yes,

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we condemn it. They have the everybody has the authority to condemn. They

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do not have the authority to order anything. And of course Israel turned around

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and said this is crazy, like they're out of it, they're out of

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their minds at the International Court of Justice, and that it's anti Semitic that

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they issued this order that has no teeth in it. Okay, this whole

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thing with the upside down flag flying at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel

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Alito. And remember when social media went crazy with a picture of an upside

8:26

down flag at his house in like early twenty twenty one, and everybody was

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saying, this is the same thing that the election deniers were doing, and

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that the stop the Steel people were doing, and look at it, they're

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now Alito's doing it, and that means he's a big He thinks the election

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was stolen, and he is biased, and he should not be involved in

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anything having to do with January sixth or presidential immunity or anything else. And

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now were finding out that it seems to be something different, a different reason

9:03

that that flag was flying upside down at their house and we and we would

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have known it already and would have known it a long time ago if the

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Washington Post had not decided to bury the story, because apparently the real story

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is the Alitos. And I'm not even sure if it was both of them

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having this beef with a neighbor. It may just have been his wife.

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A Washington Post reporter back in twenty twenty one showed up at their house and

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missus Alito Martha, and Alito was like, get out of here, man,

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and he was like, what's with the flag upside down? And she

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said, it's an international signal of distress. Why don't you ask them,

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meaning her neighbors, ask them what they did? And then the Washington Post

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decided not to publish the story because this was a dispute between neighbors, and

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it really isn't a big deal. I mean, it's not a big deal

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in terms of any kind of national anything. It's probably a big deal if

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you're in the neighborhood and you've got all this drama going on, yes,

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between the neighbors. But I guess my point is is that we could have

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known this when it was happening, and the Washington Post just decided not to

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report on it. So now years later, years later, these photos leak

10:30

and everybody jumps to a different conclusion. But did the photos leak or did

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the Washington Post put the photos out? Well, the photos started showing up

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on social media, and that's why now the Washington Post is like, oh,

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oh hey, wait a minute, everybody, this big kerfuffle about the

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upside down flight. We actually know something about it. Oh well, thanks

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guys. By the way, a little side note, apparently the neighbor I

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don't know if this is the entire dispute but the neighbor had a sign f

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Trump sign and it was near a bus stop for a school, and then

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apparently another sign disparaging Missus Alito and also allegedly used the C word to refer

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to Missus Alito. So don't buy a house in that neighborhood right now,

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a lot of fighting, but hopefully putting this to rest that they said,

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oh, it's because Alito's an election denier. Right, if you want to

11:37

get away, you're not going to be alone because it's very, very crowded

11:41

at the airports. And just want to let you know too that they've issued

11:45

a ground stop in Atlanta's airport because of the severe weather. So this is

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a busy travel day, so officials are saying, hey, if you're going

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to travel, make sure you check those fights. First Friday was a record

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Yeah, two point nine million people were screened at airport across the country on

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Friday. That is the most individuals screened by the TSA in twenty two years,

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two million, nine hundred and fifty one, one hundred and sixty three

12:09

passengers. And between Friday last Friday and Wednesday Mondays from now yep, eighteen

12:18

million are expected to go through that's a lot. Oh oh man, that

12:22

those HUDs and news are they're going to be miserable clogged with people trying to

12:28

get beef jerky, I know. And you know they say that a lot

12:31

of people are flying this Memorial Day because like airfares are down and all of

12:35

that. I'm like, not where I'm looking like to go to a little

12:39

Medford, Oregon, which is my hometown. Six hundred bucks. It's because

12:46

it's i know, it's a smaller airport and it doesn't have as many options

12:50

and that kind of stuff. But still that's that's higher, way higher than

12:54

it usually is. That's very pricey, and that's why you're here. Yeah.

13:03

And also people among these record people going through the airports on Friday,

13:07

people at LAX got a little something extra exposure to measles, they say,

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La County Public Health officials have confirmed somebody with measles went through the Tom Bradley

13:22

International Terminal. This was actually back on May nineteenth, and they were infectious

13:28

with the highly contagious disease of measles. They came in on a flight and

13:33

then they were in the airport for five hours and then they got a connecting

13:37

flight out. Now let's be realistic. People sitting next to this person on

13:43

the plane, they have something to be concerned about, and whatever people were

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near this person in the terminal have something to be concerned about. I'm yes.

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If you're not vaccinated, I'm fine. You're fine, and is fine,

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Kono is fine because we were not in terminal seven and we're vaccinated that

14:05

as well. You know, this was supposed to be eradicated, and then

14:11

when some people decided they weren't going to get a measles vaccine, it opened

14:16

the door just a little bit for measles measles to poke its head out and

14:20

go, hey, wait a minute. I think some of you people want

14:22

me back here. I am yeah, but you're right. Most of us

14:28

are just fine. Sad news. A star is going out at Disney.

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Oh, Jim Jimmy be Jim Jimmy, Me Jim Jim Jimmy us. We've

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been as lucky as lucky compy Disney songwriting legend Richard M. Sherman, remembered

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for Mary Poppins and It's a Small World, along with a lot of others,

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has died. He was ninety five years old. He died Saturday in

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Beverly Hills. Disney people are saying he was a prolific composer, lyricist,

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and a key member of Walt Disney's inner circle of creative talents, and an

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Academy Award winner with his brother. He wrote with his brother, Robert B.

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Sherman. They won Academy Awards for Mary Poppins Best Score and Best Orational

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Best Song for Jim Chimchim Cherie. Yeah, he might actually make a lot

15:20

of people mad because he wrote It's a small world, you know, it's

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just a catch. Did they come to him and say did Walt come to

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him and say, I want you to write a tune that we're going to

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play on a loop when people go through a ride and it's a ride where

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they're going to go inside a place in a little boat, and sometimes the

15:48

ride will break down and they will be stuck in there for a long time

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with the song on a loop? Can you write me something like that?

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And he went, Ooh, what's the most devious ear where I can come

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up with? I don't think so. I think he meant no harm And

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there's no rule that says you have to play the same song all the way

16:10

through the ride. I understand, right, they I haven't been on It's

16:12

a Small World in a very long time. But it's the same song,

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but as you go through it's in different languages and styles. Yeah, isn't

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that right? Amy, I'm looking at you. You're the Disney expert here.

16:25

I was just on it last week. Okay, So, I mean I sort of understand, but you could have different, completely different songs throughout

16:33

the ride. Maybe they only wanted to pay Richard Sherman for one song for

16:38

the ride. He was like, how long's the ride? It's about five

16:42

minutes. No, it's a long one. Oh it's fifteen minutes. Oh

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geez, fifteen. He's like, well, let me give you five songs.

16:48

Then you're gonna watch five songs, and wals like, no, no,

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no, no, we only have one a budget for one song, but don't you worry. We're gonna mix it up with with Sometimes it'll just

16:59

be regler singing, and sometimes it'll be racially offensive and ethnically offensive singing.

17:03

Not offensive in any way, shape or form. It's a wonderful thing.

17:07

And here's the other one that he wrote, the tikk Tik Tiki Room.

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He's good at those earworm songs. Yeah, Oh, definitely. His stuff

17:17

was in Chitty Chitty Bang Banks, Who Become Home, Charlotte's Webb, The

17:19

Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and something called The Slipper and the

17:26

Rose. Is that a Cinderella themed movie from nineteen seventy six, because I've

17:33

never heard of it. It's a Cinderella bachelor mashup. Have you seen?

17:37

I have no idea. I've never heard of that. Okay. Johnny Wachter

17:45

was an actor who was on General Hospital for two or three years and he

17:52

was gunned down in Los Angeles when he happened to come across three people who

17:57

were stealing the catalytic converter off of his car, which is a very popular

18:02

thing to have happen. It's a popular crime. Typically, you don't have

18:07

murderous devils doing that kind of crime. Usually it's people who if you come

18:15

across them, they will either run away or they'll just keep They'll just keep

18:19

cutting off your catalytic converter. They won't stop. But these three guys were

18:23

masked, they were obviously armed, and he was shot and he has passed

18:29

away. That's really sad, Okay, who that was my question when I

18:37

started reading this story. Chase Oliver has won the Libertarian Party presidential nomination.

18:42

It happened on Sunday at the party's convention after seven rounds of voting. The

18:49

thirty eight year old has previously run for Congress several times in Georgia. He

18:55

says he got two point one percent of the vote when he ran for Senate in Georgia, and he says he believes that getting two percent of the vote

19:03

nationally in November's general election is a reasonable goal. It probably maybe it is

19:07

a reasonable goal. And I'm glad to see that he's not pretending that he

19:12

could actually become the president like RFK Junior. Yeah, at least this guy

19:18

is saying, look, we're here just to have some kind of a presence,

19:23

and if I can get two percent of the vote, then I don't

19:26

know, we can go to Biden or Trump, whichever one is really going

19:30

to become the president, and we can say you should at least listen to

19:33

some of our ideas because there are some of us out here. We are

19:37

part of the American political landscape. US libertarians never mind that libertarianism is a

19:42

is a It's like a cartoon character. In the world of politics, it's

19:51

not real and it will never be real. You can't actually have a libertarian

19:57

country. It's impossible because it's based on it's based on the idea that the

20:03

government's going to do like three things and everything else is going to be private

20:08

sector, free economy. Your road's getting paved, your fire departments, you

20:17

know your neighborhood will hire a police officer and just name. So I just

20:22

say name to me. In the history of the world, one libertarian country

20:29

that ever existed, thank you. A man's been arrested after police say he

20:36

threw a flammable substance on somebody else at a subway station in New York City.

20:42

Nile Taylor is the perpetrators I guess alleged perpetrator's name. He's forty nine,

20:49

facing charges of assault and arson and reckless endangerment. He threw this stuff

20:56

on another person to set their shirt on fire. I think that person it's

21:00

gonna be okay, thank goodness. But here's the kicker. So they arrest

21:04

him, and they had double arrest him because they also say he did this

21:11

another time back in February on a train platform in New York City. Where

21:17

he threw a lit container of flammable liquid at a group of people. So

21:22

he's got double cases for doing the same kind of thing here. Look in

21:26

Los Angeles, people say Los Angeles is different than New York. We have

21:32

the best tacos, they have the best pizza. We have Hollywood, they

21:38

have Broadway. We have stabbings on our public transit. They have people throwing

21:47

gasoline on other people. H sixth one half does in the other. Yeah,

21:55

I know how. And he's been arrested for this before and probably was

22:00

immediately released, which puts him out there. Don't know how he fits,

22:04

Yeah, don't know exactly how he fits into the criminal justice reform of New

22:10

York City. Well, they have zero right or cashless bail. They have

22:15

cashless or zero bail too, no cash bail. Yeah, but in this

22:18

case, we don't know. I'll, you know, here's what I'll do, even though I don't know when I'll be back to say anything about it.

22:22

But I'll keep an eye on this guy and see kind of what happens

22:26

with him. Okay. Uh. In eco friendly Santa Monica, they're not

22:32

very happy, of course. I can't imagine anybody's super happy about this one.

22:34

But there's a ceramic studio chain store in Santa Monica and they're taking a

22:40

lot of heat because a video has surfaced of one of their employees dumping dirty

22:45

water down a storm drain. It's oops. The video was posted then deleted

22:49

from Reddit. It shows an employee dumping what appears to be green paint,

22:53

tinted water or glazed down a storm drain with a no dumping sign stamped above

23:00

the storm drain. Another coworker stood by am. In the video posted to

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Instagram, one of the employees can be heard saying, who cares it'll rain?

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Oh, well that's a good point, so dump everything in there.

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As long as it rains, it's fine. They've apolloed to the people behind

23:22

the studio apologized profusely. I would not be surprised if the guy did it

23:26

is gone, and they actually said they're ashamed. That's such a huge mistake

23:36

caused by one of our own just feet from the store. Well, I

23:40

don't get why they would go outside the store and dump it down a storm

23:44

drain. If they were gonna dump it, why wouldn't they just like dump

23:47

it down the sink, which they're probably not supposed to do either. But you know what, I yeah, well maybe because if they had done it

23:52

in the store, somebody else would have seen it and they would have been in trouble and they thought, we'll just go out in the back. But

23:56

here's the other thing. So they were caught dumping whatever it was old what

24:00

have you down a storm drain. Well, doesn't a ceramic studio constantly have

24:07

this dirty water? So where was all the dirty water going before? Exactly

24:11

before this guy was I assume a lot of it was dumped down the drain.

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And the saddest part of the story is that that particular leftovers from the

24:22

ceramic studio was from a husband who went in there and made a coffee mug

24:29

for his wife for Mother's Day. And she'll never tell him, but she

24:34

doesn't like it. She thinks it looks stupid and eventually that little secret that

24:44

she's keeping from him is going to tear the marriage apart. And yes,

24:51

Amy, there are children involved. It's a sad day. It is a

24:56

sad day and a sad made up story as well. Yeah, this is

25:00

sad and not made up. The government of a New Guinea says that a

25:06

landslide that happened Friday has left over two thousand people buried alive. Now the

25:14

UN has estimated it's about six hundred and seventy people. They've recovered the remains

25:18

of six people so far. And Australia, which is the closest neighbor to

25:26

this place, is sending a bunch of help to to try to help,

25:30

you know, get people out of that rubble tragic. Let's just come together,

25:38

shall we. The leaders of South Korea, China, and Japan are

25:44

set to meet today for their first trilateral meeting in more than four years.

25:48

So the group got together sort of yesterday and held bilateral meetings, but they're

25:55

gonna all three sit down today. No major breakthroughs are expected, but exerts

26:00

are saying just restarting the high level Annual meeting is a good sign for cooperation

26:04

among the three Northeast Asian neighbors. So they're supposed to talk about boosting economic

26:11

opportunities and other cooperation, but they're also expected to talk about some rather touchy

26:17

subjects like North Korea, Taiwan, and the South China Sea. Now,

26:22

when they were doing the bilateral meetings yesterday, which country is the low rung

26:27

on the ladder. And what I mean is which country had to go back

26:32

and forth? Do you know what I'm saying? Somebody had to get up

26:37

and go to a different room. Did South Korea talk to China? And

26:41

then who had to get up and go to a different room to talk to

26:45

Japan? South Korea or China? I think that it. Of course I

26:49

don't know, but I would think they all had it because it would make

26:52

sense to for South Korea and China to talk, and for China and Japan

26:56

to talk, and to have South Korea and Japan talk without chi seed dating.

27:00

Yeah, like speed dating. Oh, this is sad. Now,

27:06

this man lived a long, wonderful life. Not just his own life was

27:11

wonderful, but he made living in southern California wonderful. Raoul Porthos Senior,

27:18

the co founder of Porthos Bakery, has passed away at the age of ninety

27:22

two. He and his lovely wife Rosa, came here from Cuba over forty

27:26

years ago. They opened the first Porthos Bakery in Ecco Park on Sunset Boulevard

27:33

and now there are multiple locations around the Southland. And I'll tell you right

27:38

now, if you have lived in southern California. And you have not been

27:45

to a Portho's Bakery, You truly are missing out. That place is so

27:52

good and there's always always a huge line, but that moves quick, it

28:00

does, or you can move very quickly. You can call ahead too and

28:03

order ahead. You can. And I don't get to see all the stuff

28:07

and make your choices because you can see the stuff on their website. They

28:11

have great pictures that you get. You get the idea, you know during

28:14

the P word, Yeah, do you know what I'm talking about? Yes,

28:18

when I say the P word, Yeah, if you don't want to

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say pandemic, you don't have to. I was getting. You know,

28:25

you could order and then drive up the one in Burbank. You could drive

28:30

up into their and they had people traffic control and everything. I mean,

28:33

they handled it so beautifully because they were busy as hell. But you could

28:37

order online and drive up and they'd bring it to your car. And I

28:40

was doing that every other day and they Porthos was one of the ones though,

28:45

that you'd pay for it or however, and then they would you'd pop

28:48

your trunk and they just put it in the trunk. Right did they do

28:51

that with you. In my case, I think they just handed it to

28:55

me through the window. But if I had had more stuff, you know,

28:57

I was just ordering food for me. But if you did a big

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order, yeah, you could pop your trunk and they'd load it. It's

29:03

just the pastries are great, the sandwiches are great. I cannot I could

29:07

myself spend from now until seven o'clock just praising how amazing Porthos is. And

29:17

not every city, even the other big cities in this country, they don't

29:19

necessarily have something as great as Porthos, and they don't have as great of

29:25

a story. I got to talk to Betty Porto, and their story is

29:30

amazing. Where they immigrated from Cuba. They started cooking, like her mom

29:34

started cooking out of their their garage or something. And I mean they're totally

29:40

self made and have just become this icon in southern California. Yeah, so

29:45

he will be pressed for sure. If you're wondering why every time you drive

29:49

past McDonald's now the parking lot is full of Lamborghini's and Bentley's, Amy's going

29:57

to tell you why fast food is now luxury. Fast food increasingly seen as

30:03

a luxury item by many Americans. Because of the rising prices. That's according

30:07

to a lending Tree survey, nearly eight out of ten people surveyed said they

30:12

now view fast food as a luxury. Sixty two percent say they're eating less

30:18

of it because the prices are gone up so much, and half of those

30:21

surveyed say they do consider that a luxury because they're struggling financially because of inflation

30:27

and all that stuff. So here's how much prices have gone up. McDonald's

30:33

has doubled its prices since twenty fourteen. I think they've doubled them since last

30:37

year. But that's, you know whatever. Popeye's prices are up eighty six

30:40

percent, Taco Bells prices are up eighty one percent, prices at Subway and

30:45

Starbucks are up thirty nine percent. And of course here in California, because

30:52

of that fast food minimum wage law, the prices are going up even more.

30:57

Yeah, at the fast food restaurants, there's a couple that are trying

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to hold it off. Who there's a It in and Out, no Chick

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fil A, no in and out where they said they're fighting it. They're

31:10

trying not to raise it, but they just kind of have no option because

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you know, they're increasing the salaries of the workers from sixteen to twenty dollars

31:18

an hour. Yeah, you know what happened during again the P word.

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Yeah, you can say it pandemic. Yeah you should. If I ever

31:30

say that, you should say what it is so people don't think I'm being

31:33

disgusting. Okay, And you know, inflation went crazy and food out,

31:41

restaurant food went up more steeply than groceries. And then when inflation started to

31:48

cool, the inflation on the groceries cooled more quickly than restaurant food. So

31:57

there's a definite economic disadvantage now to eating out, not to mention the tax

32:06

that you know, the sales tax that you pay that you don't pay on

32:08

groceries. So that's why a lot of people now are saying it is so

32:12

much more economical to just buy food at the grocery store and make food at

32:16

home than it is to eat out. Handle was talking about go ahead,

32:22

I was going to say. Handle was talking about this a couple of weeks ago, and I was like, they can't be that much because I don't

32:27

go to fast food places that much. Trust me, I eat plenty of

32:30

food, but I don't I don't go to fast food that often. And I went to Wendy's, which I love and haven't been to in a few

32:37

years, and it was it was like sixteen dollars for a burger, fries

32:40

and a little tiny frosty a kid's rusty. Yeah. And it's a combination

32:45

of the prices going up and some people struggling on top of that, right,

32:53

so that that big Mac is getting farther and farther out of your economic

32:57

reach. Speaking of economics, very slow Memorial Day weekend box office numbers.

33:08

Now, an interesting thing has happened the two big movies Big I guess in

33:15

finger quotes, Furiosa, the Mad Max prequel, and the Garfield Movie.

33:22

Now, the Garfield movie is already reporting they're estimated four day totals, meaning

33:28

including today, even though and I'm you're the news person, so I'll defer

33:34

to you on this, but I feel like today is not over yet.

33:39

But they're saying an estimated four day total of thirty one point nine million in

33:45

ticket sales. The Mad Max people are not trying to predict the future or

33:52

time travel, so they're only reporting Friday, Saturday and yesterday twenty five point

33:57

six million these are anemic numbers, and in fact, except during when theaters

34:05

were closed during the P word pandemic, these are the lowest opening weekend totals

34:13

since a little movie twenty nine years ago called Casper. Remember the old that

34:21

Casper movie. They came out with, Yes, and I loved it. I thought it was adorable and it was and it was the number one movie

34:27

the weekend it came out. But it earned a poultry twenty two point five

34:30

million, although that's not adjusted for inflation, so if you adjusted it for

34:35

inflation, maybe it would have beat these these two dogs, Furiosa and the

34:42

Garfield movie. And I don't mean dogs that they're bad movies. I'd mean

34:45

box office dogs. Although maybe that's not fair. We're the dogs because we

34:50

didn't go out to see them. Did you see either of these movies this weekend? No? And neither did I see Where the dogs Amy? Okay,

34:58

well we might be Venus Williams is a Barbie. She's a tennis star.

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She's won seven Grand Slam Singles titles, five Wimbledon titles, four Olympic

35:08

gold medals, and now she will be immortalized as a Barbie doll. It's

35:15

part of the sixty fifth anniversary of Barbie, recognizing the impact of sports on

35:19

fostering self confidence, ambition, and empowerment among the next generation. So there

35:23

are actually nine new Barbies coming out, and all of them represent nine different

35:29

countries where the athletes are from. So you probably won't know the names of

35:31

any of the other ones, so I'm not going to say them. But

35:35

Williams said that she's honored to be recognized as a sports role model and join

35:38

forces with Team Barbie to continue empowering the next generation of girls. Yeah,

35:45

if you're saying, what about Serena Williams, where's her Barbie? Two things

35:49

I would like to say. Number one, Serena Williams posted a thing about,

35:52

Yeah, I'm so jazzed that my sister's getting a Barbie, and her

35:54

husband posted a thing saying, oh man, I'm going to buy the Venus

35:59

Williams barbie or art you know my daughter. And also Serena Williams didn't have

36:04

a Barbie, but did have a doll. All the way back in two

36:09

thousand, there was a company called play Along Toys who was selling maybe they

36:15

still sell it, a Serena Williams doll under the banner of American champions.

36:22

So you can't get a Serena Williams barbie, but you can get a Serena

36:29

Williams doll and now a Venus Williams doll, if you would like to do

36:31

that. Okay, mm hmm. And speaking of sports, according to a

36:37

wallet hub report, if you're a soccer fan in the United States, the

36:44

place you want to be is right here in Los Angeles, the number one

36:47

city for true football get it fans, beating Seattle, beating Portland, beating

36:54

Salt Lake City, beating any of the other three hundred cities that they looked

37:00

at. In order to be looked at, you had to have at least

37:04

one college or professional soccer team in your city, and there were three hundred

37:07

of them in LA's number one. Do you know we have two major league

37:12

soccer teams, we have a National Women's Soccer League team, and historically our

37:19

teams have done pretty good. I mean, we won't really have dynasties the

37:24

way that some cities have in some sports at some times, but we are

37:29

definitely nothing to sneeze at. And if you love soccer, they're just that

37:34

many options, all right. That is handle on the news. This is

37:38

the Bill Handle Show. It's CAFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio

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