September 27, 2024 • 30 mins
Amy King & Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Storm poses threat hours after landfall. NTSB issues ‘urgent’ safety warning for some Boeing 737s, including MAX, in latest blow to struggling planemaker. Netanyahu to speak to U.N. amid calls for Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire. Semi-truck carrying lithium batteries overturns, sparks fire in San Pedro. LA Metro searching for solutions after deadly bus hijacking.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KPI AM six forty the Bill Handles
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
And ballistic missiles are not just missiles.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
They go up into space and then they come down
right where they're supposed to, and there's no defense to them, virtually.
And it's an ICBM, which stands for I think inter
Chinese Bowel movement.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Do I have that right? I've always wondered what that
stood for?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Intercontinental missile.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I see, yeah, intercontinental ballistic missile. I like the first definition.
It's just better.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill handle, and good morning everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
It is a footy Friday, September twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yes, all right, Friday is always kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
So let's start with a good well, first of all,
Now let's start with a good morning for everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
All right, Cono, you're up again, morning, Cono, Yes I am,
Yes you are.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Amy, Good morning, Hi Bill, Hi there, and good morning,
good morning, and last and certainly least, Neil, good morning
to you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Good morning, Willie Woolf.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Okay, So a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
First of all, Fridays are always fun because Neil joins
me he's always there, but it's our segment's Foody Friday,
which is always ONLAN to eight thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
A Handle on the Law calls.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
We're going back into the archives of calls tomorrow morning
is Handle on the Law for me tow eleven, right
after Dean Sharp with the house Whisper. And these are
just fun calls. I mean it's almost any call I
can get. You know how many calls I have? You
have any of what my what my library is? Nineteen
eighty five is when I started doing that. So I
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got a lot of calls all the way from big
real reel the real, to cassettes to dats, to floppy
discs and originally floppy discs I thought was sort of
an ed issue. It's floppy discs. I got that now
and all the way to thumb drives, all kinds of things. Okay,
(02:18):
so we're going to do our another session at eight fifty.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh, no, at eight thirty, okay, really quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Before we get into it, I have to share with
you the nightmare I had last night.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't get nightmares very often. I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I was at but two thirty for me, it's very
early because usually I'm up an hour later, and I
know you guys are at that point, certainly Kno and
Amy and yeah, well food chain issue. Okay, So I
jump out a bit, literally jump out a bit at
two thirty and I had this nightmare you don't often
remember vividly nightmares.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I'm in the car and I'm parked.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I go into a parking space in front of some
businesses with my entire family there, and I see in
the side view mirror a guy walking towards us pulling
out a gun, a handgun, and I scream.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
He has a gun.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I open the door I'm driving, and I just bail out,
looking back to see what's going on, and he reaches
in and shoots everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And it was absolutely horrible, and I was the only survivor.
And then I realized, you know what, that's not so bad.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I've had work sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah, it was. I'm the only one that walked away. Anyway,
it was.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I mean, god, I hate those nightmares, okay. Uh And
sometimes and you guys wake up to a nightmare because
you worked with me, uh so your nightmares every single morning,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I love how you're the only one that would say
take the woman leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, please take her.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I'm the one that God forbid someone ever attacks my
kids and I'm there.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's there, boy.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I just grab them and put them right in front
of me so quickly your headspins.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Shield one and shield two pretty.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Much, Shield three too. I've got anybody in my car. Okay, guys,
we've God do we have a lot to talk about
this morning, So let's go for it. It's time for
Handle on the news with Amy King. Needle me lead story.
Stop all right, Well, Hurricane Helene went ahead and made
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landfall in the Panhandle of Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Just as it was, just as it was it had.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Threatened to be, and the whether people called it right
category four when it hit. I think the good news here.
I mean, you know, the property damage was insane. So
two things, Amy, you're following up on this. Number one,
did it do as much damage as was anticipated? And
how many people died from this storm? Up to this point.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
So far, we know of six people who've been killed.
About three million people are without power, there's flooding everywhere,
and one of the concerns is that this all happened overnight.
So now we're getting a look at it, and the
people are getting a look at the damage that's been done.
But you can see, I mean, it's just flooding everywhere.
There's been some tornadoes, and it's moving across the Carolinas,
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in Georgia and into southern Virginia.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, where it's still huge.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It'll be a I don't know where it stops being
a hurricane and becomes a tropical storm or tropical depression.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It is a tropical storm now it's been downgraded. So
it had like one hundred and forty mile an hour
winds and now it's down to about sixty.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Now, so we have six deaths now a hurricane of
that magnitude, and we go back to the year nineteen
hundred when they didn't have weather forecasting, They had no
idea hit Galveston, Texas anywhere from six to twelve thousand
people die.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
They figure about eight thousand people were killed in that hurricane.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And can you imagine not anticipating it, And there you
are in Galveston, which is right on the water on
the Gulf, and all of a sudden, a hurricane of
this magnitude comes in and a storm surge of fifteen
twenty feet just horrific.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So that's going to take a long time fixing this one.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
More hurricanes, they're going to be more of them, They're
going to be stronger. It's tough. Oh oh, here's finally
some good news for Boeing.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Oh I was just going to say Boeing just can't
catch a break.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Oh, it's the other way. Then I misread that. Then okay,
I'll see. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
The NTSB has issued urgent safety recommendations for some Boeing
seven thirty sevens, including the Max, which has already had
some of its own issues, warning that a critical flight
control could jam. It has to do with the rudder
on some of the seven thirty sevens. The NTSB investigated
an incident in February. The pilots of a United Airlines
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Max eight landing in Newark reported that their rudder pedals stuck.
So that's just the latest for Boeing. Of course, they
had the mid air blowout in January.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, it doesn't stop.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Have you got a strike? And now, yeah, go ahead,
I was going to say. And of course, then there's
the Boeing Starliner, which has stranded a couple of astronauts
in space for like eight months.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Are they sending to a press confer or press conferences,
the guy with the black outfit and sickle.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Has it reached that point yet? I? Yeah, it's a
rough company.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Now is it a good tall invest What can you
recall a fall from grace now?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Not like this, not with a major inorporation like.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
This, not that had I mean, Rudy Giuliani is an individual,
but that's another one.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, I'm going to talk about Rudy Giuliani. And I've
got something to say about this which is kind of
interesting about that, but it's it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Let's do one more before I break.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Neil Okay Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netta, who set to
address the UN General Assembly this morning. Highly anticipated speech
comes as Israeli officials say they're preparing for potential ground
incursions into Lebanon, and Yahoo seems to be distancing himself
from the US back twenty one day ceasefire proposal, So
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he's kind of backing off from that. Things might be
heating up.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Oh yeah, and he's just saying, no, they're no proposal.
We're not we are not paying attention to what We're
going to go balls to the wall with Lebanon and
the guy who does sign language. You know that everybody
has his speeches. You can see part of the sign languages.
He's pounding on.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
The table with his fist. Go pound. Okay, never mind,
that almost worked.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It brought some sand.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I don't you know how to say that in Hebrew? Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
It's not just the little phone batteries that can explode,
you know, the lithium ion batteries that you can't take
on blanes and stuff because they can explode well, as
semitruck carrying six large lithium ion batteries overturned in sam
Pedro yesterday that sparked a fire and an explosion and
a hazmat situation. The forty seven Freeway is closed, the
Vincent Thomas Bridge is closed, the Port of Los Angeles
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is closed because it's basically blocked by this overturned big
rig and the lim the lithium batteries caught fire and
you can't put them out, so they just basically have
to let them burn and they could burn for two days.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And they're pretty dangerous. I mean, the small ones are
dangerous enough, but these are the big guys.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And apparently it's better to let them burn.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, yeah, I think they don't have much of a choice.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Well, they said for the environment too, because if they
you have to pump so much water into them to
put them out that they're worried about the runoff, and
especially because it's right there in the port and getting
into the water and stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's like Greek fire, where that's the ancient use of fire.
This was a fire that burnt, and the more water
you put on and the more it burnt. They use
those in ancient days or fighting wars. It's just yeah,
sometimes water just doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Alrighty, California will formal formally apologize for slavery. And why
is California apologized? We didn't have slavery in California, did we?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Actually we didn't have slavery per se.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, we allowed it, and we had a fugitive slave
law that if if a slave went up north, it
was he was he or she was free. Basically, that's it.
California upheld ownership of slavery. So a bounty hunter would
come in on behalf of a slave owner, California law
would allow that and that slave to be taken back.
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Even though California was not a slave state. I'm going
to talk a lot more about that at seven o'clock
because there's a whole world to this.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Well, this new law from Governor Gavin Newsom, he signed
it yesterday and he's gonna apologize for the lingering effects
on black Americans. This is part of a package of
reparation bills introduced here. He, as we talked about yesterday,
vetoed a bill that he's getting some pushback on as well.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, and there's some reasons and reparations go all the
way from apologizing right into paying black progeny of slaves.
As you could prove that your great great great grandfather
was a slave. Then the reparations people say, we're entitled
to money. And I'll explain all of that coming up
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seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And my great.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Uncle had received reparations, by the way, and my dad
should have received reparations for what happened during World War
two and he didn't. And I'll explain why the whole
world of reparations that's seven o'clock.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
The Vice President has basically went the way of Harry Potter.
He slammed a certain somebody, the he who must not
be named, during a meeting with Ukraine's Zelensky. She made
comments saying that Kiev should see territory for the sake
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of peace with Moscow is as dangerous and is unacceptable.
And she, of course was speaking after the two met
and unleashed the veiled criticism of former President Trump's push
for Ukraine to cut a deal to end the war.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Right, that's what foreign President Trump wants to do.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
If, by the way, cutting a deal is seeding territory
of Russia, is giving Russia part of eastern Ukraine. She
is saying no chance, Zelensky is saying no chance. And
Trump is saying, day one, he'll make a phone call
and he'll simply tell Zelensky and Putin you cut the deal.
And it's going to happen day one, as if Putin's
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going to listen to him, and certainly Zelensky, who's already
said no, I'm not going to do it now.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Can Zelensky be forced to do it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Can simply by the United States saying you're done, we
will not ship any arms to you at all.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You're finished. Uh, And then they can't defend themselves, so
can they be Can Ukraine be extorted into some kind
of a deal probably, So it's you know, which way
do you go on that.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
No one else is putting money into arms for.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Nothing like we are, nothing like we are.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Maybe Europe, maybe Europe will fulfill NATO takes up the
former space that we have.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
With arms and I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Well, on that note, you had Zelensky visit the White
House yesterday and they're saying this may be his final
chance to convince you know, this particular president, American president
who happens to be receptive to his cause of his
countries aimed with this particular war, and to say, you know, hey,
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we need help because everything that Trump has said that
if he gets in office, is going to put an
end to it.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, it's gonna I mean Kamala Harris said we're going
to continue on in back Ukraine to the very end,
and Trump said it's not going to happen. So it's
going to be a very different presidency depending on who
gets elected.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Boy is wow.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
The world's going to either not change very much if
Kamala Harris gets elected, or change dramatically if Trump gets elected.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Well, I guess it's good that they're talking about this
A day after a man hijacked a metro bus and
killed a passenger. The board of directors has met and
they're trying to reassure writers. The Inglewood mayor, James Buds said,
no one should ever get on a bus or train
and wonder if someone has a knife or a firearm.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, okay, how do you deal with it? Explain to me?
All right, I buy that no one should. Now what.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Metal detectors? Okay, well where are the metal detectors going
to be?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
And who's going to enforce it? If it sets off
an alarm?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
What happens?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Listen, you guys are missing the point. They said that
your safety is their utmost concern.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And past that as if that's not important.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Now there is.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Now there is a way to ensure or at least
make it safer for for bus riders.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And if you look at the city of Kuritiba in Brazil,
they matter of fact, this became world famous. There were
municipalage all over the world. They created a.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Bus system where it basically becomes a line, much like
at Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
There is a queue.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
In other words, you go through the turnstile, you pay
your money, and it's a walkway that happens to be
covered and everybody that's gone through there, they just get
on the bus.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
It's basically a line that is controlled there. You can
do it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You can have metal detectors at the entry, because that's
not the entry to the bus, that's the entry to
the queue.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
How could you do that on the street.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
They do it on the street. That's the whole point.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
They do it on the street, and the bus goes
right up to the bus stop and instead of people
just getting right off the sidewalk, they have come from
a walkway. Much like the Raiders of the Lost Arc
of the Right at Disneyland, where you go through and
then you wait in the tunnels and then you get
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on board those little cars or those big cars. That's
the same thing with the imagine a bus going up
to that and every bus stop.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
We got to take a little nod from India. You
go to Rajasthan or wherever, and everybody's riding on the
outside of the bus.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
On top of the bus.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah, all the seats should be on the outside or.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
They are on the out side. They are no on
the out that's not fair. You're not being fair to them.
Inside buses and everybody stands up and outside the buses, it's.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Standing room only. They don't actually have seats inside the bus.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Then it's kind of like mad Max and you're on
your own on the outside. But the inside at least
the drivers who need to be safe or safe yes, okay.
Meryl Street speaking on the sidelines of the United Nations
General Assembly, she was talked about cat, squirrels, and birds,
not that Haitians.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Were eating them or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
She basically came out and said that all three of
those animals are treated better than women in Afghanistan. And
she said a cat may feel the sun on her face,
she may chase a squirrel into the park, a bird
may sing in Kabul, but a girl may not.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
And women may not in public.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And this is extraordinary, she said, this is a suppression
of the natural law.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, four more standards. The toughest place in the world
to be a woman. It's it's insane.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And Afghanistan did sign the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women, but the Taliban then
came in. That was before the Taliban. Yeah, and in
they came. And women have to wear that burkas. They
cannot be seen, they can't go in public by themselves.
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They can't look at a man, and if they're caught
looking at a man, the penalties are severe. And I
think they have the vice police running around there. You know,
these move laws that beat up women.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
It's crazy to be a woman.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Got a win for a single cat, ladies. The governor
has signed a bill that aims to reform pet insurance
and better protect pet owners. Yay, I've tried to get
pet insurance for my cats. It's not an easy thing
to do, but this bill will require more transparency from
the people who ensure pet owners regarding their coverages or
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changes in premiums, because as the the animals get older,
the premiums go up. It also requires more clarity and
policies that exclude pre existing conditions.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So, yeah, insurance has never been a decent deal.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I don't have pet insurance on my dogs, and because
it's just you know, I don't have dental insurance either,
because you just don't.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Get very much for it.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's not like medical insurance that you get Okay, quickly,
we're going to go around because we're running way ahead.
We've got more time than we have stories.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
So and you have a dog pet insurance, I do No,
I do not. Okay, fair enough, Amy. Do you have
a pet?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I do? I have two cats?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Two cats? Pet insurance?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I tried to get it once for my other cats
that have since crossed the Rainbow bridge.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Because you didn't pay for their insurance.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Okay, the last one lived to be twenty and a
half years old. That's leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But it was no pet insurance.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
It was stupid expensive and it didn't cover stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Do you have a pet No?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I got kids?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay, yeah, that's it. Any See, I have kids too.
It's no insurance there either.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
And Neil, I know you have Max. Do you have
pet insurance for Max?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So the point I'm making is I'd love to know
and what percentage of pet owners actually have pet insurance
and what this bill is about. And it's exactly the
problem is, you have to be more they have to
be more transparent the insurance company about coverage, about premiums, deductibles,
because it's and by the way, veterinary bills are far
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far more than human being bills. Now, there aren't many
heart transplants in the cat world that'll give you.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
But there was a survey inducted in the US and
twenty twenty three, I found that only twenty four percent
of pet owners have insurance. Okay, okay, let's move on.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Wait did you say whether you had pet insurance?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I said I don't. I started with I don't have
pet insurance. Huh, I don't. It's just because it doesn't
cover enough. There's too many deductibles, there are too many exclusions.
For example, I was looking at it and one of
the exclusions, if.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Your dog has four legs, we don't cover.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Oh yeah, that could be rough.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, so one off. Yeah, then that works. I mean,
it's just I'm not an make fan of pet insurance.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Okay, noh right, everything old is new again. DirecTV and
Dish are in advanced talks. They want to merge in
this deal that would create the largest US ATV provider
with almost twenty million subscribers.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
But if you remember, they're.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Past discussions of the Direct TV Dish combination or combining forces.
There they faced antitrust concerns. But now because the shift
from pay TV to streaming and all that, the competitive
landscape is different and they think that this path might
be the right time, right place.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I'm still getting calls from Direct TV.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I have not had a Direct TV account for probably
fifteen years, if not longer, and they're still calling me unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribed, unsubscribed.
Direct TV and Dish are probably the most Direct TV
the most aggressive people out there.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Once you sign up, you can't get out.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
They just keep you forever and when you try to
get out, And I'll remember this phone call last time
when I did get out. I tried to get out. No, no,
why are you leaving? I go because I want to leave.
Oh no, tell me why you're canceling because I don't
want DirecTV anymore? Well, no, no, no, tell us why
you know what can we do? I don't want the
service anymore? And it got to the point where I
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literally had to say, Okay, since you're recording this call,
let me put it on the record. Are you stopping
me from leaving? Is that what you are doing? You
will not let me cancel my subscription? Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
And at that.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Point, you know they gave up the ghost. So now
you just and Direct TV are going to do that
to you.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Well, is you should have just said, hey, what now
that you're out of it for ten years or whatever,
just say can my box isn't working. Then they'll come
out send a tech. The tech will go, you don't
have direct TV and your goal.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I've been trying to tell you.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That, you know what, that's actually a very good idea.
But then what they do is they check to see
if I have an account, and I don't, so they're
just trying to hustle me. But anyway, that's just I
mean the same thing. It's like a timeshare place. Those
places are fantastic to not let you out the door
once you go in, Uh, they lock the doors.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It's like haunted mansion. There's no way out at no
windows and doors.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
All right, Well, it's a real life succession. The fate
of Robert Murdoch's vast media empire, including Fox News, is
in the hands of a probate commissioner in Reno. The
family has been attending evidentiary hearings. It's a secret trial
to determine whether the ninety two year old can alter
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his family trust that was set up decades ago. It
gives his four oldest children equal votes over the future
of his media empire after he dies, but Murdoch wants
to change it so that his eldest son and chosen
successor Lachlan will remain in charge for decades, and the
other three Murdoch kids are challenging that.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah, now here is let me throw it a little deeper.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Here. It's an irrevocable trust. And you may want to
look up the word irrevocable. I get these questions all
the time on handle on the law. Let's go to
the dictionary, all right. So what he wants to do
is break it for the benefit of the shareholders of
the company. And he's saying that supersedes the irrevocability of
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the trust because if you've got four kids and they're
all have completely different visions of where the company is going,
then that's going to effectively destroy or diminish to value
the company. So that's what he's asking the Probate commissioner
to do.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
He effectually wants.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
To keep out Fox News and Fox Corporation very right wing.
He's got some children there who go the other way.
His daughter, for example, is basically a liberal, and if
she is any any way controlling or has a say
in which Fox is going to go, it's not going
to be quite as conservative.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I don't you know what it's it's a reno judge,
it's Nevada. So don't I not from thear with how
Nevada works. A matter of fact, I'm not familiar with
much of anything legally, but anyway, that's my take on it.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
So I thought, I HONESD is refreshing.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
The cable news channel, speaking of right wing the cable
news channel Newsmax reached a settlement with the voting machine
company Smartmatic stupid name, bringing an end to the defamation
lawsuit that accused the network of spreading multiple false claims
surrounding the twenty twenty election. More of the same stuff
(26:31):
that was stolen and the machines were bad and all
those things.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And they claimed they had proof and I never did.
They just made that up, and so they sued. So
smart Maatic I sue them.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's kind of interesting that, first of all, the jury
selection was already underway. Second of all, the judge earlier
said that the ability to seek punitive damages, we want
punies on top of compensateory, on top of the actual
money we lost. Judge said, no, it's a big win
(27:05):
for a huge win for Newsmax. On that one, but
they agreed to settle would have been much much higher
if the judge had allowed punitive damages.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
By the way dominion voting systems.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Fox News paid seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars
in his settlement, saying the same kind of crap about dominion.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Well, Rudy's descent into the abyss continues. Former New York
City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred months after he
lost his law license in New York over the claims
that then President Trump lost the election and or actually
didn't lose the election. The ruling from the appeals Court
(27:52):
in DC said Giuliani didn't respond to an order to
explain why he shouldn't be disbarred in the district after
losing his law license.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, here's a guy.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Well, you know, he was one of the most revered
and I will use that word US attorney's Southern District
of New York.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Shut down the mafia, and he's shut down.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Big corporations, predatory practices, became America's mayor. And now because
he got on the Trump bandwagon, he's nailed. I mean,
he has lost lawsuit after lawsuit. He won what he
got a several hundred million dollars judgment against him by
those two Georgia workers.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Now here's the interesting part, because I know people who
know people, that is that.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
He has lost his licenses.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
He is still looking at criminal charges and owes his
lawyers in the millions of dollars and will continue to
do so. He has this radio program in New York,
lost his main one, main advertiser. He's going to declare bankruptcy.
He's done, He's finished, done. He is still a true believer.
(29:02):
He is still a true believer. It was all worth it.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I mean, yeah, what do you say with that Trump?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
He's a bomb shelter of one. Yeah, like he nothing
hurts him, but everybody around him seems to fall by
the wayside.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Are you talking about former President Trump?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Oh yeah, it's like he nothing seems to hurt him,
but everybody around him keeps.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I know, I know, I mean, he is the true
I mean, I just don't get it, you know, because
I'd asked this person who you know, to go through
channels they go. Does he ever wake up in the
morning and go, hey, maybe this didn't work out so well.
I'm losing everything I have and I can't practice law anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
No, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Still a true believer. That part I don't understand. All right, guys,
we are done. Wow, only one.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Story left and it was a good one. But we
don't have time. So there you go, right coming.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Up formal apology and reparations, if you will, for California's
role in slavery. And I'm going to talk about reparations
and give you a little bit of history and give
you a personal story about reparations.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Mainly the people that I worked with you love it.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I'm sorry about Cono. I hadn't quite finished yet. The
people around here demanding reparations for working on this show.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You see you, snassy right there?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
You almost woke Cono up.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
And ballistic missiles are not just missiles.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
They go up into space and then they come down
right where they're supposed to, and there's no defense to them, virtually.
And it's an ICBM, which stands for I think inter
Chinese Bowel movement.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Do I have that right? I've always wondered what that
stood for?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Intercontinental missile.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I see, yeah, intercontinental ballistic missile. I like the first definition.
It's just better.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill handle, and good morning everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
It is a footy Friday, September twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yes, all right, Friday is always kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
So let's start with a good well, first of all,
Now let's start with a good morning for everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
All right, Cono, you're up again, morning, Cono, Yes I am,
Yes you are.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Amy, Good morning, Hi Bill, Hi there, and good morning,
good morning, and last and certainly least, Neil, good morning
to you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Good morning, Willie Woolf.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Okay, So a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
First of all, Fridays are always fun because Neil joins
me he's always there, but it's our segment's Foody Friday,
which is always ONLAN to eight thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
A Handle on the Law calls.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
We're going back into the archives of calls tomorrow morning
is Handle on the Law for me tow eleven, right
after Dean Sharp with the house Whisper. And these are
just fun calls. I mean it's almost any call I
can get. You know how many calls I have? You
have any of what my what my library is? Nineteen
eighty five is when I started doing that. So I
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got a lot of calls all the way from big
real reel the real, to cassettes to dats, to floppy
discs and originally floppy discs I thought was sort of
an ed issue. It's floppy discs. I got that now
and all the way to thumb drives, all kinds of things. Okay,
(02:18):
so we're going to do our another session at eight fifty.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh, no, at eight thirty, okay, really quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Before we get into it, I have to share with
you the nightmare I had last night.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't get nightmares very often. I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I was at but two thirty for me, it's very
early because usually I'm up an hour later, and I
know you guys are at that point, certainly Kno and
Amy and yeah, well food chain issue. Okay, So I
jump out a bit, literally jump out a bit at
two thirty and I had this nightmare you don't often
remember vividly nightmares.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I'm in the car and I'm parked.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I go into a parking space in front of some
businesses with my entire family there, and I see in
the side view mirror a guy walking towards us pulling
out a gun, a handgun, and I scream.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
He has a gun.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I open the door I'm driving, and I just bail out,
looking back to see what's going on, and he reaches
in and shoots everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And it was absolutely horrible, and I was the only survivor.
And then I realized, you know what, that's not so bad.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I've had work sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah, it was. I'm the only one that walked away. Anyway,
it was.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I mean, god, I hate those nightmares, okay. Uh And
sometimes and you guys wake up to a nightmare because
you worked with me, uh so your nightmares every single morning,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I love how you're the only one that would say
take the woman leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, please take her.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I'm the one that God forbid someone ever attacks my
kids and I'm there.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's there, boy.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I just grab them and put them right in front
of me so quickly your headspins.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Shield one and shield two pretty.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Much, Shield three too. I've got anybody in my car. Okay, guys,
we've God do we have a lot to talk about
this morning, So let's go for it. It's time for
Handle on the news with Amy King. Needle me lead story.
Stop all right, Well, Hurricane Helene went ahead and made
(04:33):
landfall in the Panhandle of Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Just as it was, just as it was it had.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Threatened to be, and the whether people called it right
category four when it hit. I think the good news here.
I mean, you know, the property damage was insane. So
two things, Amy, you're following up on this. Number one,
did it do as much damage as was anticipated? And
how many people died from this storm? Up to this point.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
So far, we know of six people who've been killed.
About three million people are without power, there's flooding everywhere,
and one of the concerns is that this all happened overnight.
So now we're getting a look at it, and the
people are getting a look at the damage that's been done.
But you can see, I mean, it's just flooding everywhere.
There's been some tornadoes, and it's moving across the Carolinas,
(05:26):
in Georgia and into southern Virginia.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, where it's still huge.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It'll be a I don't know where it stops being
a hurricane and becomes a tropical storm or tropical depression.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It is a tropical storm now it's been downgraded. So
it had like one hundred and forty mile an hour
winds and now it's down to about sixty.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Now, so we have six deaths now a hurricane of
that magnitude, and we go back to the year nineteen
hundred when they didn't have weather forecasting, They had no
idea hit Galveston, Texas anywhere from six to twelve thousand
people die.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
They figure about eight thousand people were killed in that hurricane.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And can you imagine not anticipating it, And there you
are in Galveston, which is right on the water on
the Gulf, and all of a sudden, a hurricane of
this magnitude comes in and a storm surge of fifteen
twenty feet just horrific.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
So that's going to take a long time fixing this one.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
More hurricanes, they're going to be more of them, They're
going to be stronger. It's tough. Oh oh, here's finally
some good news for Boeing.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Oh I was just going to say Boeing just can't
catch a break.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Oh, it's the other way. Then I misread that. Then okay,
I'll see. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
The NTSB has issued urgent safety recommendations for some Boeing
seven thirty sevens, including the Max, which has already had
some of its own issues, warning that a critical flight
control could jam. It has to do with the rudder
on some of the seven thirty sevens. The NTSB investigated
an incident in February. The pilots of a United Airlines
(07:02):
Max eight landing in Newark reported that their rudder pedals stuck.
So that's just the latest for Boeing. Of course, they
had the mid air blowout in January.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, it doesn't stop.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Have you got a strike? And now, yeah, go ahead,
I was going to say. And of course, then there's
the Boeing Starliner, which has stranded a couple of astronauts
in space for like eight months.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Are they sending to a press confer or press conferences,
the guy with the black outfit and sickle.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Has it reached that point yet? I? Yeah, it's a
rough company.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Now is it a good tall invest What can you
recall a fall from grace now?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Not like this, not with a major inorporation like.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
This, not that had I mean, Rudy Giuliani is an individual,
but that's another one.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, I'm going to talk about Rudy Giuliani. And I've
got something to say about this which is kind of
interesting about that, but it's it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Let's do one more before I break.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Neil Okay Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netta, who set to
address the UN General Assembly this morning. Highly anticipated speech
comes as Israeli officials say they're preparing for potential ground
incursions into Lebanon, and Yahoo seems to be distancing himself
from the US back twenty one day ceasefire proposal, So
(08:18):
he's kind of backing off from that. Things might be
heating up.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Oh yeah, and he's just saying, no, they're no proposal.
We're not we are not paying attention to what We're
going to go balls to the wall with Lebanon and
the guy who does sign language. You know that everybody
has his speeches. You can see part of the sign languages.
He's pounding on.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
The table with his fist. Go pound. Okay, never mind,
that almost worked.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It brought some sand.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I don't you know how to say that in Hebrew? Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
It's not just the little phone batteries that can explode,
you know, the lithium ion batteries that you can't take
on blanes and stuff because they can explode well, as
semitruck carrying six large lithium ion batteries overturned in sam
Pedro yesterday that sparked a fire and an explosion and
a hazmat situation. The forty seven Freeway is closed, the
Vincent Thomas Bridge is closed, the Port of Los Angeles
(09:13):
is closed because it's basically blocked by this overturned big
rig and the lim the lithium batteries caught fire and
you can't put them out, so they just basically have
to let them burn and they could burn for two days.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And they're pretty dangerous. I mean, the small ones are
dangerous enough, but these are the big guys.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And apparently it's better to let them burn.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, yeah, I think they don't have much of a choice.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Well, they said for the environment too, because if they
you have to pump so much water into them to
put them out that they're worried about the runoff, and
especially because it's right there in the port and getting
into the water and stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's like Greek fire, where that's the ancient use of fire.
This was a fire that burnt, and the more water
you put on and the more it burnt. They use
those in ancient days or fighting wars. It's just yeah,
sometimes water just doesn't work.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Alrighty, California will formal formally apologize for slavery. And why
is California apologized? We didn't have slavery in California, did we?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Actually we didn't have slavery per se.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, we allowed it, and we had a fugitive slave
law that if if a slave went up north, it
was he was he or she was free. Basically, that's it.
California upheld ownership of slavery. So a bounty hunter would
come in on behalf of a slave owner, California law
would allow that and that slave to be taken back.
(10:41):
Even though California was not a slave state. I'm going
to talk a lot more about that at seven o'clock
because there's a whole world to this.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Well, this new law from Governor Gavin Newsom, he signed
it yesterday and he's gonna apologize for the lingering effects
on black Americans. This is part of a package of
reparation bills introduced here. He, as we talked about yesterday,
vetoed a bill that he's getting some pushback on as well.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, and there's some reasons and reparations go all the
way from apologizing right into paying black progeny of slaves.
As you could prove that your great great great grandfather
was a slave. Then the reparations people say, we're entitled
to money. And I'll explain all of that coming up
(11:32):
seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And my great.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Uncle had received reparations, by the way, and my dad
should have received reparations for what happened during World War
two and he didn't. And I'll explain why the whole
world of reparations that's seven o'clock.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
The Vice President has basically went the way of Harry Potter.
He slammed a certain somebody, the he who must not
be named, during a meeting with Ukraine's Zelensky. She made
comments saying that Kiev should see territory for the sake
(12:15):
of peace with Moscow is as dangerous and is unacceptable.
And she, of course was speaking after the two met
and unleashed the veiled criticism of former President Trump's push
for Ukraine to cut a deal to end the war.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Right, that's what foreign President Trump wants to do.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
If, by the way, cutting a deal is seeding territory
of Russia, is giving Russia part of eastern Ukraine. She
is saying no chance, Zelensky is saying no chance. And
Trump is saying, day one, he'll make a phone call
and he'll simply tell Zelensky and Putin you cut the deal.
And it's going to happen day one, as if Putin's
(12:55):
going to listen to him, and certainly Zelensky, who's already
said no, I'm not going to do it now.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Can Zelensky be forced to do it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Can simply by the United States saying you're done, we
will not ship any arms to you at all.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You're finished. Uh, And then they can't defend themselves, so
can they be Can Ukraine be extorted into some kind
of a deal probably, So it's you know, which way
do you go on that.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
No one else is putting money into arms for.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Nothing like we are, nothing like we are.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Maybe Europe, maybe Europe will fulfill NATO takes up the
former space that we have.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
With arms and I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Well, on that note, you had Zelensky visit the White
House yesterday and they're saying this may be his final
chance to convince you know, this particular president, American president
who happens to be receptive to his cause of his
countries aimed with this particular war, and to say, you know, hey,
(14:03):
we need help because everything that Trump has said that
if he gets in office, is going to put an
end to it.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, it's gonna I mean Kamala Harris said we're going
to continue on in back Ukraine to the very end,
and Trump said it's not going to happen. So it's
going to be a very different presidency depending on who
gets elected.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Boy is wow.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
The world's going to either not change very much if
Kamala Harris gets elected, or change dramatically if Trump gets elected.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Well, I guess it's good that they're talking about this
A day after a man hijacked a metro bus and
killed a passenger. The board of directors has met and
they're trying to reassure writers. The Inglewood mayor, James Buds said,
no one should ever get on a bus or train
and wonder if someone has a knife or a firearm.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, okay, how do you deal with it? Explain to me?
All right, I buy that no one should. Now what.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Metal detectors? Okay, well where are the metal detectors going
to be?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
And who's going to enforce it? If it sets off
an alarm?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
What happens?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Listen, you guys are missing the point. They said that
your safety is their utmost concern.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And past that as if that's not important.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Now there is.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Now there is a way to ensure or at least
make it safer for for bus riders.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And if you look at the city of Kuritiba in Brazil,
they matter of fact, this became world famous. There were
municipalage all over the world. They created a.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Bus system where it basically becomes a line, much like
at Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
There is a queue.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
In other words, you go through the turnstile, you pay
your money, and it's a walkway that happens to be
covered and everybody that's gone through there, they just get
on the bus.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
It's basically a line that is controlled there. You can
do it.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You can have metal detectors at the entry, because that's
not the entry to the bus, that's the entry to
the queue.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
How could you do that on the street.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
They do it on the street. That's the whole point.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
They do it on the street, and the bus goes
right up to the bus stop and instead of people
just getting right off the sidewalk, they have come from
a walkway. Much like the Raiders of the Lost Arc
of the Right at Disneyland, where you go through and
then you wait in the tunnels and then you get
(16:36):
on board those little cars or those big cars. That's
the same thing with the imagine a bus going up
to that and every bus stop.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
We got to take a little nod from India. You
go to Rajasthan or wherever, and everybody's riding on the
outside of the bus.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
On top of the bus.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah, all the seats should be on the outside or.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
They are on the out side. They are no on
the out that's not fair. You're not being fair to them.
Inside buses and everybody stands up and outside the buses, it's.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Standing room only. They don't actually have seats inside the bus.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Then it's kind of like mad Max and you're on
your own on the outside. But the inside at least
the drivers who need to be safe or safe yes, okay.
Meryl Street speaking on the sidelines of the United Nations
General Assembly, she was talked about cat, squirrels, and birds,
not that Haitians.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Were eating them or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
She basically came out and said that all three of
those animals are treated better than women in Afghanistan. And
she said a cat may feel the sun on her face,
she may chase a squirrel into the park, a bird
may sing in Kabul, but a girl may not.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
And women may not in public.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And this is extraordinary, she said, this is a suppression
of the natural law.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, four more standards. The toughest place in the world
to be a woman. It's it's insane.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And Afghanistan did sign the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women, but the Taliban then
came in. That was before the Taliban. Yeah, and in
they came. And women have to wear that burkas. They
cannot be seen, they can't go in public by themselves.
(18:24):
They can't look at a man, and if they're caught
looking at a man, the penalties are severe. And I
think they have the vice police running around there. You know,
these move laws that beat up women.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
It's crazy to be a woman.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Got a win for a single cat, ladies. The governor
has signed a bill that aims to reform pet insurance
and better protect pet owners. Yay, I've tried to get
pet insurance for my cats. It's not an easy thing
to do, but this bill will require more transparency from
the people who ensure pet owners regarding their coverages or
(19:05):
changes in premiums, because as the the animals get older,
the premiums go up. It also requires more clarity and
policies that exclude pre existing conditions.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So, yeah, insurance has never been a decent deal.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I don't have pet insurance on my dogs, and because
it's just you know, I don't have dental insurance either,
because you just don't.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Get very much for it.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
It's not like medical insurance that you get Okay, quickly,
we're going to go around because we're running way ahead.
We've got more time than we have stories.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
So and you have a dog pet insurance, I do No,
I do not. Okay, fair enough, Amy. Do you have
a pet?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I do? I have two cats?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Two cats? Pet insurance?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I tried to get it once for my other cats
that have since crossed the Rainbow bridge.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Because you didn't pay for their insurance.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Okay, the last one lived to be twenty and a
half years old. That's leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But it was no pet insurance.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
It was stupid expensive and it didn't cover stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Do you have a pet No?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I got kids?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay, yeah, that's it. Any See, I have kids too.
It's no insurance there either.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
And Neil, I know you have Max. Do you have
pet insurance for Max?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So the point I'm making is I'd love to know
and what percentage of pet owners actually have pet insurance
and what this bill is about. And it's exactly the
problem is, you have to be more they have to
be more transparent the insurance company about coverage, about premiums, deductibles,
because it's and by the way, veterinary bills are far
(20:50):
far more than human being bills. Now, there aren't many
heart transplants in the cat world that'll give you.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
But there was a survey inducted in the US and
twenty twenty three, I found that only twenty four percent
of pet owners have insurance. Okay, okay, let's move on.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Wait did you say whether you had pet insurance?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I said I don't. I started with I don't have
pet insurance. Huh, I don't. It's just because it doesn't
cover enough. There's too many deductibles, there are too many exclusions.
For example, I was looking at it and one of
the exclusions, if.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Your dog has four legs, we don't cover.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Oh yeah, that could be rough.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, so one off. Yeah, then that works. I mean,
it's just I'm not an make fan of pet insurance.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Okay, noh right, everything old is new again. DirecTV and
Dish are in advanced talks. They want to merge in
this deal that would create the largest US ATV provider
with almost twenty million subscribers.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
But if you remember, they're.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Past discussions of the Direct TV Dish combination or combining forces.
There they faced antitrust concerns. But now because the shift
from pay TV to streaming and all that, the competitive
landscape is different and they think that this path might
be the right time, right place.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I'm still getting calls from Direct TV.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I have not had a Direct TV account for probably
fifteen years, if not longer, and they're still calling me unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribed, unsubscribed.
Direct TV and Dish are probably the most Direct TV
the most aggressive people out there.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Once you sign up, you can't get out.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
They just keep you forever and when you try to
get out, And I'll remember this phone call last time
when I did get out. I tried to get out. No, no,
why are you leaving? I go because I want to leave.
Oh no, tell me why you're canceling because I don't
want DirecTV anymore? Well, no, no, no, tell us why
you know what can we do? I don't want the
service anymore? And it got to the point where I
(23:04):
literally had to say, Okay, since you're recording this call,
let me put it on the record. Are you stopping
me from leaving? Is that what you are doing? You
will not let me cancel my subscription? Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
And at that.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Point, you know they gave up the ghost. So now
you just and Direct TV are going to do that
to you.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Well, is you should have just said, hey, what now
that you're out of it for ten years or whatever,
just say can my box isn't working. Then they'll come
out send a tech. The tech will go, you don't
have direct TV and your goal.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I've been trying to tell you.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That, you know what, that's actually a very good idea.
But then what they do is they check to see
if I have an account, and I don't, so they're
just trying to hustle me. But anyway, that's just I
mean the same thing. It's like a timeshare place. Those
places are fantastic to not let you out the door
once you go in, Uh, they lock the doors.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It's like haunted mansion. There's no way out at no
windows and doors.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
All right, Well, it's a real life succession. The fate
of Robert Murdoch's vast media empire, including Fox News, is
in the hands of a probate commissioner in Reno. The
family has been attending evidentiary hearings. It's a secret trial
to determine whether the ninety two year old can alter
(24:29):
his family trust that was set up decades ago. It
gives his four oldest children equal votes over the future
of his media empire after he dies, but Murdoch wants
to change it so that his eldest son and chosen
successor Lachlan will remain in charge for decades, and the
other three Murdoch kids are challenging that.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah, now here is let me throw it a little deeper.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Here. It's an irrevocable trust. And you may want to
look up the word irrevocable. I get these questions all
the time on handle on the law. Let's go to
the dictionary, all right. So what he wants to do
is break it for the benefit of the shareholders of
the company. And he's saying that supersedes the irrevocability of
(25:17):
the trust because if you've got four kids and they're
all have completely different visions of where the company is going,
then that's going to effectively destroy or diminish to value
the company. So that's what he's asking the Probate commissioner
to do.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
He effectually wants.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
To keep out Fox News and Fox Corporation very right wing.
He's got some children there who go the other way.
His daughter, for example, is basically a liberal, and if
she is any any way controlling or has a say
in which Fox is going to go, it's not going
to be quite as conservative.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I don't you know what it's it's a reno judge,
it's Nevada. So don't I not from thear with how
Nevada works. A matter of fact, I'm not familiar with
much of anything legally, but anyway, that's my take on it.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
So I thought, I HONESD is refreshing.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
The cable news channel, speaking of right wing the cable
news channel Newsmax reached a settlement with the voting machine
company Smartmatic stupid name, bringing an end to the defamation
lawsuit that accused the network of spreading multiple false claims
surrounding the twenty twenty election. More of the same stuff
(26:31):
that was stolen and the machines were bad and all
those things.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And they claimed they had proof and I never did.
They just made that up, and so they sued. So
smart Maatic I sue them.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's kind of interesting that, first of all, the jury
selection was already underway. Second of all, the judge earlier
said that the ability to seek punitive damages, we want
punies on top of compensateory, on top of the actual
money we lost. Judge said, no, it's a big win
(27:05):
for a huge win for Newsmax. On that one, but
they agreed to settle would have been much much higher
if the judge had allowed punitive damages.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
By the way dominion voting systems.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Fox News paid seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars
in his settlement, saying the same kind of crap about dominion.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Well, Rudy's descent into the abyss continues. Former New York
City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred months after he
lost his law license in New York over the claims
that then President Trump lost the election and or actually
didn't lose the election. The ruling from the appeals Court
(27:52):
in DC said Giuliani didn't respond to an order to
explain why he shouldn't be disbarred in the district after
losing his law license.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, here's a guy.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Well, you know, he was one of the most revered
and I will use that word US attorney's Southern District
of New York.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Shut down the mafia, and he's shut down.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Big corporations, predatory practices, became America's mayor. And now because
he got on the Trump bandwagon, he's nailed. I mean,
he has lost lawsuit after lawsuit. He won what he
got a several hundred million dollars judgment against him by
those two Georgia workers.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It's it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Now here's the interesting part, because I know people who
know people, that is that.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
He has lost his licenses.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
He is still looking at criminal charges and owes his
lawyers in the millions of dollars and will continue to
do so. He has this radio program in New York,
lost his main one, main advertiser. He's going to declare bankruptcy.
He's done, He's finished, done. He is still a true believer.
(29:02):
He is still a true believer. It was all worth it.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I mean, yeah, what do you say with that Trump?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
He's a bomb shelter of one. Yeah, like he nothing
hurts him, but everybody around him seems to fall by
the wayside.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Are you talking about former President Trump?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Oh yeah, it's like he nothing seems to hurt him,
but everybody around him keeps.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I know, I know, I mean, he is the true
I mean, I just don't get it, you know, because
I'd asked this person who you know, to go through
channels they go. Does he ever wake up in the
morning and go, hey, maybe this didn't work out so well.
I'm losing everything I have and I can't practice law anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
No, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Still a true believer. That part I don't understand. All right, guys,
we are done. Wow, only one.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Story left and it was a good one. But we
don't have time. So there you go, right coming.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Up formal apology and reparations, if you will, for California's
role in slavery. And I'm going to talk about reparations
and give you a little bit of history and give
you a personal story about reparations.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Mainly the people that I worked with you love it.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I'm sorry about Cono. I hadn't quite finished yet. The
people around here demanding reparations for working on this show.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You see you, snassy right there?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
You almost woke Cono up.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I know all right. This is KFI AM live everywhere
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