October 8, 2024 • 23 mins
Neil Saavedra and Amy King join Wayne Resnick for Handel on the News; Bill is out on vacation. Hurricane Milton is a category 5, Florida orders evacuation. Illegal crossings at U.S. southern border reach lowest point of Biden presidency. Kamala Harris faces 60 minutes grilling over economic plans and whether Netanyahu is an ‘ally.’ Life expectancy is hitting a limit, researchers say. Qantas apologizes after R-rated movie plays on every screen during Syndey-Tokyo flight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on Demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Ladies and gentlemen. Here's Wayne Resnick. Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's the Bill Handle Show, our first segment this morning
with Neil Savedra.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good morning, sir. Good morning, Wayne Resnick. How are you.
I'm good. Good to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Amy Kine, Good morning, Well Hi Wayne, It's wonderful to
start the show with you this morning. Yes, producer an Hello,
Good morning Wayne. I think we're off to a great
start so far. In this very first segment of today's
Bill Handle Show. Yep and Kono on the board. Good morning, sir,
Good morning. Way all right, it is the time we
(01:00):
bring you Handle on the news with me Wayne Resnick
in for Bill who is on a vacation, Neil Savedra,
Amy King, and the lead story. Hurricane Milton is vacillating
between a category four and a category five. It was
(01:21):
a category five, it's apparently for the moment knocked back
down to a category four. And I know that some
scientists said they did expect it to possibly weaken a
little bit before it hit landfall in the Tampa area,
so maybe that is what we're seeing. But they also
said it could just as easily bump up to a five,
(01:42):
I think, other than for scientific purposes, if you're there
in Tampa in your mobile home, I don't think there's
any practical difference for you whether it's technically a four
or technically a five, particularly since the storm surgeon that
they're talking about, if they happen, would be about double
(02:05):
the storm surges from Hurricane Helene. They're talking about eight
to twelve feet of storm surge in Tampa Bay, the
highest ever predicted for the region. And guess when the
last time Tampa Bay was hit directly by a hurricane
over one hundred years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Gosh, I was only two.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
They don't so they I mean, they obviously get peripheral
problems from hurricanes, but they don't generally get hit directly.
I mean, this Hurricane Milton's weird because it's coming across
the Gulf horizontally.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Which is highly uncommon.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, and also the degree and rapidness with which it
intensified is apparently unprecedented. So is this a here's your
climate change, we warned you, we told you this is
a new.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Normal, or is this one truly just a fluke?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
How many when you when the planet has been here
for so long, what is normal if you're talking about
millions and billions of years.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yes, you bring up something I've thought about, which is
they always talk about like average temperatures now are this
much higher than a thousand years ago?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
An attempt to interpolate something that you could not have
any evidence about. There is no way to know what
the temperature patterns were like a thousand years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's not possible yet.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
They they and I'm not a climate change denial that's
not what you're hearing here, not at all. But I'm
just saying when they go, well, you know temperatures are
up this much over hundreds of years ago, there's no
way to actually know that. You can know it's hotter
than it was thirty years ago. Quite well, so I don't.
I don't to your point, the planet's been here so long,
(04:16):
we have no idea if at one point it was
nothing but hurricanes all the time everywhere.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
You know, it kind of seems like long that old
joke about the blonde or dumb person or whatever and
the sorryn the the does my blinker work?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
No, yes, no, yes, there's so many it's like it's oh,
my gosh, we're in a heat pattern. Oh my god,
we're in a cool pattern. It's it's a long period
of time.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, that's why I stated before too, And you can't
blame that on me.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Or how No, I think the evidence is extremely overwhelming
that if you're talking about, say, the last hundred years,
where we do have legitimate data that there are disturbing
trends in climate change, and I'm not sure that it's
necessary to say, oh, this is so much worse than
it was a thousand years ago, Why does it eat?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Why does Why does that help the cause?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Just focus on the last hundred years and what's happened
and what is happening, as well as the idea that oh,
it's going to destroy the planet.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
No, the planet.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Don't say that the planet's going to be fine humans,
we'll go bye bye. It's a planet, is not We
are not harming the planet will be fine. Drives me
nuts when people say that.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
We're not harming the planet. The planet is harming us. Yes, yeah,
we may be. We may be poking it. We may
be poking the planet.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You had it responding, hit it so hard it killed
the dinosaurs, and it's still fine.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
We're not it's going to be fine. We will be dead.
So don't act like you're protecting the planet. Oh, I'm
doing it for the planet. You're trying to save your
own ass.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And you know what, I'm glad you said it that way,
because I suddenly, and this is true. I feel better immediately,
I feel more contentment because you said, you know, the
plan will be fine, will be dead, and you sort
of meant will be dead from the effects of climate change.
But then I realized something, We're all going to be
dead anyway. Yeah, I mean, so it's no. So what's
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the difference. The result is the same, whether no pun
intended there with a homonym, it's exactly the same. If
climate change continues to get worse and there's droughts and
floods and everybody starves to death and hurricanes flat and
everything and all that and we're all dead, or if
nothing happens and one hundred years from now, every single
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person is also dead. It's just it's now, it's just
a matter of scheduling. But what if we're mostly dead, Well,
then that's that's George a Romero movie. You're mostly dead,
all right, all right?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
One more before we get news.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
The call to stay away seems to be working. The
number of migrants crossing into the USA legally at the
southern border has reached its lowest point of the Biden administration.
Fifty four thousand apprehensions of migrants crossed into the country
between legal entry points along the border with Mexico in September.
(07:24):
That's the lowest number recorded since August of twenty twenty,
when the COVID pandemic and travel restrictions tied to the
pandemic lowered those crossings.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
We should have told Biden that the election was coming
up sooner.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
He would have done this a couple of years ago.
You think that was a political move on his part.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I don't know why it's happening now.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well, it happened three minutes ago, Yeah, three months ago,
when he gave the order to clamp down on asylum claims.
Now three months later they're saying, oh, the numbers at
the border have dropped.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
But that's not a surprise.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Because if tomorrow he said, everybody who asked for asylum
is going to get it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No matter what what will happen at the border.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
People, it'll be overrun with people asking for asylum because
they know they're going to get.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It one more sure, All right, wide ranging interview CBS's
sixty minutes, the Vice President was questioned on her political
positions and those that have shifted. In the interview, you
had CBS's Bill Whittaker kind of pressing Harris there on
(08:42):
how she'd pay for all these economic proposals, plans to
build millions of new housing units, tax breaks for new parents,
twenty five K down payment assistant for home buyers, and
the Vice President said, well, I'm gonna go to the
rich people and take it from them.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Excellent plan, is it is? It? Is? It? Is it?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Is it de facto a terrible plan? Uh? No, it
worked for Robin Hood quite well. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The fact of that story, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
The fact is, as she pointed out in the interview,
non partisan economic experts with no access to grind all
of them have looked at Trump's plan and Harris's plan,
and the fact of the matter is her plan adds
considerably less. They both add to the deficit but and
(09:46):
end the national debt. But her plan adds significantly less. Well,
this is the problem with the two party system. The
assumption is those are our options.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well and right now they may be, but doesn't mean
you know, it's like this one smells less like poop
than the other.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
And I guess just because this is related that the
intro they did before her interview Scott Kelly, who came
on and explained why Trump was not appearing on the
show and said there were shifting explanations for why Trump
wouldn't come on that Trump said he didn't want to
be fact checked, and also then he said apparently or
(10:28):
his people said they wanted an apology for the twenty
twenty interview with Leslie Stall that he didn't like if
you remember, so they kind of zinged Trump at the
beginning for not coming on. Yeah, I'm going to start
usingly see them. I don't think that was necessary. To
be honest, you could have just said he declined to
(10:48):
be part of this show and move on.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, well, nobody. It's everything.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Everybody wants to demonize this person or that person, and
it's it's no longer fair fights. But I am I'm
going to start using that in arguments with my wife.
I was told there would be no fact checking.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Zell.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Didn't you say you were going to take out the treasure.
I was told there was going to be no fact checking.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Right, Well, you're living about as long as you're going
to live. According to a new study, humanity is hitting
the upper limit of life expectancy. Mark Hayward is a
University of Texas researcher, says it looks like we've reached
a plateau in our longevity. He also said, it's always
possible that there could be some break through that would
(11:31):
push survival to greater heights, but we're not seeing that
right now.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So what is it like a one hundred, No.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
It's like seventy. What's the average seventy something?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Depends on what country you live in. That's why for
this study, they looked at the eight places in the
world where people live the longest, like Australia and France
and Hong Kong and South Korea. And then they and
this is true because they're based in the United States,
they said, well, we'll throw the United States into this study,
even though for life expectancy, we are not even in
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the top forty in the world for life, but they
threw it in any way because they just felt like
we should.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Well.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Seventy one point three years globally.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, wow, that doesn't seem very long. I got a kid,
I gotta good.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I got some stuff to you.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
In the US, life expectancy, at least in twenty twenty
two is seventy seven point five years.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Sure, it's going to be much higher than the average.
You think of some places in the world where the
life expectancy is still fifty fifty five.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
But why shouldn't we be higher? Aren't we better than this?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
No, we have, We're we're letting the Spaniards and the
Swiss live longer than us.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Oh, Australia, it's eighty.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Eighty one years for males and eighty five years for females.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, and you know, and you know what, those last
four years for the ladies are their happiest when all
the dudes are gone.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Okay, now get this.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
In Japan it's eighty seven years for women and eighty
one for men.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
We got to go move to Japan.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I don't think that it's well, it's it's too late.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Basically, whatever the benefits are in Japan that allow people
to live that much longer, it's probably too late for you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Amy.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Well, no, in Italy it's eighty four years. And they
drink a lot of wine, so I'd fit right in.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
They're perfect. I want to put a shrimp on the
barbie now.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
But say don't do it with water.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
The largest regulated see that the Segway Kids, the largest
regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States.
American Water announced just yesterday that it was the victim
of a cyber attack, so they were pausing billing to
customers and looking over to see.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
What this mess.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I feel like we are so vulnerable, like all of
our utilities, everything is so vulnerable to cyber attack. And
I don't mean just stealing our information, but being able
to shut down systems and basically take us offline.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Who's with me, right, That's absolutely the truth. Because they've
prioritized automation and remote access, which means you don't have
to employ as many people. They've prioritized that rather than
the security of this infrastructure. And so that's where we
find ourselves, where it is at least theoretically possible to
(14:41):
shut down your water to you know, they're saying that
it would be theoretically possible for somebody to take over
a nuclear reactor remotely. That seems on the bad side
of things. Oh, but shutting down the water is good.
Is that your contrast?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
But the bomby stuff, the those types that should that
seems like we shuld have better security.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Well, speaking of that, Kim Jong Un remember him. He
gave a speech yesterday at a university. You want to
know what the name of the university is.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Kim Jong Un University.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Of National Defense.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yes, that is the name of Yes, that's the name
the Kim Jong Un University of National Defense.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
All the schools and museums the same like named after him.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Everything's named after him.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
If you go to McDonald's in North Korea, you can't
buy a big Mac. You have to buy a big
Kim Jong Un. That's how it works over there. So
he's mad because, you know, South Korea and the United
States have a recent agreement to integrate our military capabilities better.
And that's specifically because North Korea keeps yakkin about nukes.
(15:57):
That's why we're doing it. So he doesn't like that.
So he gave a speech and he said, oh, listen,
I will use nukes if I have to. Don't you
worry about that. So when you're doing the thing that
makes the other countries banned against you, and then you
get mad, and then you continue to do the same
thing that's making them banned against you in the first place.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's Kim Jong un.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Well, the kids were accompanied by a parent, so the
rules weren't really broken. But here's what happened on a
quantus fight a flight recently. You know how they have
the screens on the backs of the seats and you
can watch movies. Yes, Well, there was a technical issue
and so they couldn't choose what movies to watch, and
(16:43):
so the crew said, here, let's just put a movie in. Well,
they put an R rated movie on and it played
for about an hour. It's called Daddy O. Stars Dakota
Johnson and Sean Penn. It has strong language throughout, lots
of sexual material, and brief graphic nudity. Apparently it was
very uncomfortable for a while until they figured out.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
That maybe more family.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeahs a joke, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I think even in Madam Webb, she was naked.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
No, who's Dakota Johnson?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Whoa whoa? Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Is she on the fifty Is she the fifty Shades?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
A great?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Doesn't that movie take place entirely in the taxi cab.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I've never heard of it.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It's Sean penn Is a taxi driver and Dakota Johnson
gets in the cab and they start talking and and
there's like bonding and fan. I don't, I don't, I
haven't seen it. But it's like a real two hander.
That's the term for a movie. Oh that's a movie
that focuses on two It's a two hander, which is
what was going on in some of the seats on
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that Quantus nicely played.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yes, well, apparently the thing is that even when the
same I guess, there's a lot of sexting. So there's
a lot of full screenshots of the close up of
the phone with graphic words, so even.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
If you didn't have headphones on, you could see what
was going on.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, real CD or well played, sir. All right.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Panera, if you remember Panera bread some time ago, had
that charged lemonade drink. I think they might have had
a couple different flavors and they were caffeinated. Then we
heard about Sarah Katz, twenty one years old. She was
a University of Pennsylvania student. She had a heart condition.
Her doctor told her to stay away.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
From energy drinks. She got the lemonade, and she died.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
And so her I guess Panera is now settling the
lawsuit with the first plain iff in charged lemonade wrongful
death suits because there's more common.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And then I'm not clear whether they stopped selling it
or not. Yeah, they did.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
When this first happened, they said, Oh, what we'll do
is have it'll be will make it clearer.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I think about how.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Much caffeine is in it, We're still going to sell it.
And now I guess after talking to some attorneys on
the other side. Yeah, realizing you know, they were facing
this lawsuit, they said, let's just not even have this product.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Back in May, they came out and said that they weren't.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yes, that was the right move because not only did
it have a bunch of caffeine, it also had guarana
in it. That's another stimulant, and it's really piling on.
The Supreme Court will leave in place a court order
that does not allow the Biden administration to enforce what
they believed the law should be. With regard to abortions
(19:43):
in emergency situations. The Department of Health and Human Services
had said that under federal law, if you have a
woman who's having an actual medical emergency. Even if it's
in a state that bans abortion, you still have to
provide an abortion as part of saving her life. And
so we're gonna make you. And then some states went
(20:04):
to court and a lower court said, no, you can't
make them do that. You can't make them give abortions
even if it's in an emergency. And the government went
to the Supreme Court and said, will you tell them
to let us make them give abortions in an emergency?
And the Supreme Court said, no, we won't tell them
that now is will still get litigated fully, but for
right now, they blocked the Biden administration from doing that.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
How how how can you say that you couldn't save
a person's life under those circumstances.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Ah, you can, But what the Biden administration rule was
is you must there's a difference you. In other words,
if you choose as a doctor in an abortion banded
state that has an exception for the life of the mother,
you can do the abortion. But what the Biden administration
(21:01):
wanted is if you as the doctor and you've heard
these cases, women go in and the doctors are like,
we're too afraid, we don't want to get in trouble,
we won't do it. What the Biden administration wanted is
to say, if you, as the doctor, say I don't
want to or I don't think we should do the
abortion right now in this emergency, you would be in trouble.
(21:21):
You would actually be in trouble with the FEDS. And
that's what the Supreme Court said for right now, we're
not going to allow that to be the case.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
This mayor was, Can we do you.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Mind you want to skip this one? Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
No, no, I think well I want to skip all
of them now, just because we're out of time, not
for any other reason. Can we just go right to
set stories? The last story seventeen?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Of course, Richard Simmons recently passed away, and he's going
to be sweating with sweating to the oldies for eternity.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
He was apparently he was buried in his workout outfit.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Of course, that's what I wanted people to hear.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
I think that's very appropriate, sweating.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
To the moldies. Oh, oh, neil too soon. I'm sorry.
It just I saw it and I took it. You did,
and yes, no, it's fine. You know what? He probably
he probably would have laughed at that.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Actually that guy, you know, for a guy who was
considered by many to be so like quirky and weird
or whatever, he he really had an excellent sense of
himself and sense of humor about how he was perceived.
He was not oblivious at all, which means he knew
what he was doing, and he was doing what he.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Wanted, and I think he helped a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
He did help.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Always perceived him that way. I never I never saw
him as a joke or anything. I saw him as
a character, you know, flamboyant and loud and boisterous and
all those things. But I always saw him as a
as a pretty cool icon, you know that seemed to
care about people and laugh with them, cried with them,
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and motivated them.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Very well, said sir.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Ladies and gentlemen. Here's Wayne Resnick. Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's the Bill Handle Show, our first segment this morning
with Neil Savedra.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good morning, sir. Good morning, Wayne Resnick. How are you.
I'm good. Good to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Amy Kine, Good morning, Well Hi Wayne, It's wonderful to
start the show with you this morning. Yes, producer an Hello,
Good morning Wayne. I think we're off to a great
start so far. In this very first segment of today's
Bill Handle Show. Yep and Kono on the board. Good morning, sir,
Good morning. Way all right, it is the time we
(01:00):
bring you Handle on the news with me Wayne Resnick
in for Bill who is on a vacation, Neil Savedra,
Amy King, and the lead story. Hurricane Milton is vacillating
between a category four and a category five. It was
(01:21):
a category five, it's apparently for the moment knocked back
down to a category four. And I know that some
scientists said they did expect it to possibly weaken a
little bit before it hit landfall in the Tampa area,
so maybe that is what we're seeing. But they also
said it could just as easily bump up to a five,
(01:42):
I think, other than for scientific purposes, if you're there
in Tampa in your mobile home, I don't think there's
any practical difference for you whether it's technically a four
or technically a five, particularly since the storm surgeon that
they're talking about, if they happen, would be about double
(02:05):
the storm surges from Hurricane Helene. They're talking about eight
to twelve feet of storm surge in Tampa Bay, the
highest ever predicted for the region. And guess when the
last time Tampa Bay was hit directly by a hurricane
over one hundred years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Gosh, I was only two.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
They don't so they I mean, they obviously get peripheral
problems from hurricanes, but they don't generally get hit directly.
I mean, this Hurricane Milton's weird because it's coming across
the Gulf horizontally.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Which is highly uncommon.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, and also the degree and rapidness with which it
intensified is apparently unprecedented. So is this a here's your
climate change, we warned you, we told you this is
a new.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Normal, or is this one truly just a fluke?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
How many when you when the planet has been here
for so long, what is normal if you're talking about
millions and billions of years.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yes, you bring up something I've thought about, which is
they always talk about like average temperatures now are this
much higher than a thousand years ago?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
An attempt to interpolate something that you could not have
any evidence about. There is no way to know what
the temperature patterns were like a thousand years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's not possible yet.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
They they and I'm not a climate change denial that's
not what you're hearing here, not at all. But I'm
just saying when they go, well, you know temperatures are
up this much over hundreds of years ago, there's no
way to actually know that. You can know it's hotter
than it was thirty years ago. Quite well, so I don't.
I don't to your point, the planet's been here so long,
(04:16):
we have no idea if at one point it was
nothing but hurricanes all the time everywhere.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
You know, it kind of seems like long that old
joke about the blonde or dumb person or whatever and
the sorryn the the does my blinker work?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
No, yes, no, yes, there's so many it's like it's oh,
my gosh, we're in a heat pattern. Oh my god,
we're in a cool pattern. It's it's a long period
of time.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, that's why I stated before too, And you can't
blame that on me.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Or how No, I think the evidence is extremely overwhelming
that if you're talking about, say, the last hundred years,
where we do have legitimate data that there are disturbing
trends in climate change, and I'm not sure that it's
necessary to say, oh, this is so much worse than
it was a thousand years ago, Why does it eat?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Why does Why does that help the cause?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Just focus on the last hundred years and what's happened
and what is happening, as well as the idea that oh,
it's going to destroy the planet.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
No, the planet.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Don't say that the planet's going to be fine humans,
we'll go bye bye. It's a planet, is not We
are not harming the planet will be fine. Drives me
nuts when people say that.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
We're not harming the planet. The planet is harming us. Yes, yeah,
we may be. We may be poking it. We may
be poking the planet.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You had it responding, hit it so hard it killed
the dinosaurs, and it's still fine.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
We're not it's going to be fine. We will be dead.
So don't act like you're protecting the planet. Oh, I'm
doing it for the planet. You're trying to save your
own ass.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And you know what, I'm glad you said it that way,
because I suddenly, and this is true. I feel better immediately,
I feel more contentment because you said, you know, the
plan will be fine, will be dead, and you sort
of meant will be dead from the effects of climate change.
But then I realized something, We're all going to be
dead anyway. Yeah, I mean, so it's no. So what's
(06:18):
the difference. The result is the same, whether no pun
intended there with a homonym, it's exactly the same. If
climate change continues to get worse and there's droughts and
floods and everybody starves to death and hurricanes flat and
everything and all that and we're all dead, or if
nothing happens and one hundred years from now, every single
(06:41):
person is also dead. It's just it's now, it's just
a matter of scheduling. But what if we're mostly dead, Well,
then that's that's George a Romero movie. You're mostly dead,
all right, all right?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
One more before we get news.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
The call to stay away seems to be working. The
number of migrants crossing into the USA legally at the
southern border has reached its lowest point of the Biden administration.
Fifty four thousand apprehensions of migrants crossed into the country
between legal entry points along the border with Mexico in September.
(07:24):
That's the lowest number recorded since August of twenty twenty,
when the COVID pandemic and travel restrictions tied to the
pandemic lowered those crossings.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
We should have told Biden that the election was coming
up sooner.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
He would have done this a couple of years ago.
You think that was a political move on his part.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I don't know why it's happening now.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well, it happened three minutes ago, Yeah, three months ago,
when he gave the order to clamp down on asylum claims.
Now three months later they're saying, oh, the numbers at
the border have dropped.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
But that's not a surprise.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Because if tomorrow he said, everybody who asked for asylum
is going to get it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No matter what what will happen at the border.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
People, it'll be overrun with people asking for asylum because
they know they're going to get.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It one more sure, All right, wide ranging interview CBS's
sixty minutes, the Vice President was questioned on her political
positions and those that have shifted. In the interview, you
had CBS's Bill Whittaker kind of pressing Harris there on
(08:42):
how she'd pay for all these economic proposals, plans to
build millions of new housing units, tax breaks for new parents,
twenty five K down payment assistant for home buyers, and
the Vice President said, well, I'm gonna go to the
rich people and take it from them.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Excellent plan, is it is? It? Is? It? Is it?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Is it de facto a terrible plan? Uh? No, it
worked for Robin Hood quite well. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The fact of that story, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
The fact is, as she pointed out in the interview,
non partisan economic experts with no access to grind all
of them have looked at Trump's plan and Harris's plan,
and the fact of the matter is her plan adds
considerably less. They both add to the deficit but and
(09:46):
end the national debt. But her plan adds significantly less. Well,
this is the problem with the two party system. The
assumption is those are our options.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well and right now they may be, but doesn't mean
you know, it's like this one smells less like poop
than the other.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
And I guess just because this is related that the
intro they did before her interview Scott Kelly, who came
on and explained why Trump was not appearing on the
show and said there were shifting explanations for why Trump
wouldn't come on that Trump said he didn't want to
be fact checked, and also then he said apparently or
(10:28):
his people said they wanted an apology for the twenty
twenty interview with Leslie Stall that he didn't like if
you remember, so they kind of zinged Trump at the
beginning for not coming on. Yeah, I'm going to start
usingly see them. I don't think that was necessary. To
be honest, you could have just said he declined to
(10:48):
be part of this show and move on.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, well, nobody. It's everything.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Everybody wants to demonize this person or that person, and
it's it's no longer fair fights. But I am I'm
going to start using that in arguments with my wife.
I was told there would be no fact checking.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Zell.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Didn't you say you were going to take out the treasure.
I was told there was going to be no fact checking.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Right, Well, you're living about as long as you're going
to live. According to a new study, humanity is hitting
the upper limit of life expectancy. Mark Hayward is a
University of Texas researcher, says it looks like we've reached
a plateau in our longevity. He also said, it's always
possible that there could be some break through that would
(11:31):
push survival to greater heights, but we're not seeing that
right now.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
So what is it like a one hundred, No.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
It's like seventy. What's the average seventy something?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Depends on what country you live in. That's why for
this study, they looked at the eight places in the
world where people live the longest, like Australia and France
and Hong Kong and South Korea. And then they and
this is true because they're based in the United States,
they said, well, we'll throw the United States into this study,
even though for life expectancy, we are not even in
(12:05):
the top forty in the world for life, but they
threw it in any way because they just felt like
we should.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Well.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Seventy one point three years globally.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, wow, that doesn't seem very long. I got a kid,
I gotta good.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I got some stuff to you.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
In the US, life expectancy, at least in twenty twenty
two is seventy seven point five years.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Sure, it's going to be much higher than the average.
You think of some places in the world where the
life expectancy is still fifty fifty five.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
But why shouldn't we be higher? Aren't we better than this?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
No, we have, We're we're letting the Spaniards and the
Swiss live longer than us.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Oh, Australia, it's eighty.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Eighty one years for males and eighty five years for females.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, and you know, and you know what, those last
four years for the ladies are their happiest when all
the dudes are gone.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Okay, now get this.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
In Japan it's eighty seven years for women and eighty
one for men.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
We got to go move to Japan.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I don't think that it's well, it's it's too late.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Basically, whatever the benefits are in Japan that allow people
to live that much longer, it's probably too late for you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Amy.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Well, no, in Italy it's eighty four years. And they
drink a lot of wine, so I'd fit right in.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
They're perfect. I want to put a shrimp on the
barbie now.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
But say don't do it with water.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
The largest regulated see that the Segway Kids, the largest
regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States.
American Water announced just yesterday that it was the victim
of a cyber attack, so they were pausing billing to
customers and looking over to see.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
What this mess.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I feel like we are so vulnerable, like all of
our utilities, everything is so vulnerable to cyber attack. And
I don't mean just stealing our information, but being able
to shut down systems and basically take us offline.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Who's with me, right, That's absolutely the truth. Because they've
prioritized automation and remote access, which means you don't have
to employ as many people. They've prioritized that rather than
the security of this infrastructure. And so that's where we
find ourselves, where it is at least theoretically possible to
(14:41):
shut down your water to you know, they're saying that
it would be theoretically possible for somebody to take over
a nuclear reactor remotely. That seems on the bad side
of things. Oh, but shutting down the water is good.
Is that your contrast?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
But the bomby stuff, the those types that should that
seems like we shuld have better security.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Well, speaking of that, Kim Jong Un remember him. He
gave a speech yesterday at a university. You want to
know what the name of the university is.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Kim Jong Un University.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Of National Defense.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yes, that is the name of Yes, that's the name
the Kim Jong Un University of National Defense.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
All the schools and museums the same like named after him.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Everything's named after him.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
If you go to McDonald's in North Korea, you can't
buy a big Mac. You have to buy a big
Kim Jong Un. That's how it works over there. So
he's mad because, you know, South Korea and the United
States have a recent agreement to integrate our military capabilities better.
And that's specifically because North Korea keeps yakkin about nukes.
(15:57):
That's why we're doing it. So he doesn't like that.
So he gave a speech and he said, oh, listen,
I will use nukes if I have to. Don't you
worry about that. So when you're doing the thing that
makes the other countries banned against you, and then you
get mad, and then you continue to do the same
thing that's making them banned against you in the first place.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's Kim Jong un.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Well, the kids were accompanied by a parent, so the
rules weren't really broken. But here's what happened on a
quantus fight a flight recently. You know how they have
the screens on the backs of the seats and you
can watch movies. Yes, Well, there was a technical issue
and so they couldn't choose what movies to watch, and
(16:43):
so the crew said, here, let's just put a movie in. Well,
they put an R rated movie on and it played
for about an hour. It's called Daddy O. Stars Dakota
Johnson and Sean Penn. It has strong language throughout, lots
of sexual material, and brief graphic nudity. Apparently it was
very uncomfortable for a while until they figured out.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
That maybe more family.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeahs a joke, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I think even in Madam Webb, she was naked.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
No, who's Dakota Johnson?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Whoa whoa? Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Is she on the fifty Is she the fifty Shades?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
A great?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Doesn't that movie take place entirely in the taxi cab.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I've never heard of it.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It's Sean penn Is a taxi driver and Dakota Johnson
gets in the cab and they start talking and and
there's like bonding and fan. I don't, I don't, I
haven't seen it. But it's like a real two hander.
That's the term for a movie. Oh that's a movie
that focuses on two It's a two hander, which is
what was going on in some of the seats on
(17:55):
that Quantus nicely played.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yes, well, apparently the thing is that even when the
same I guess, there's a lot of sexting. So there's
a lot of full screenshots of the close up of
the phone with graphic words, so even.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
If you didn't have headphones on, you could see what
was going on.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, real CD or well played, sir. All right.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Panera, if you remember Panera bread some time ago, had
that charged lemonade drink. I think they might have had
a couple different flavors and they were caffeinated. Then we
heard about Sarah Katz, twenty one years old. She was
a University of Pennsylvania student. She had a heart condition.
Her doctor told her to stay away.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
From energy drinks. She got the lemonade, and she died.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
And so her I guess Panera is now settling the
lawsuit with the first plain iff in charged lemonade wrongful
death suits because there's more common.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And then I'm not clear whether they stopped selling it
or not. Yeah, they did.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
When this first happened, they said, Oh, what we'll do
is have it'll be will make it clearer.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I think about how.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Much caffeine is in it, We're still going to sell it.
And now I guess after talking to some attorneys on
the other side. Yeah, realizing you know, they were facing
this lawsuit, they said, let's just not even have this product.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Back in May, they came out and said that they weren't.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yes, that was the right move because not only did
it have a bunch of caffeine, it also had guarana
in it. That's another stimulant, and it's really piling on.
The Supreme Court will leave in place a court order
that does not allow the Biden administration to enforce what
they believed the law should be. With regard to abortions
(19:43):
in emergency situations. The Department of Health and Human Services
had said that under federal law, if you have a
woman who's having an actual medical emergency. Even if it's
in a state that bans abortion, you still have to
provide an abortion as part of saving her life. And
so we're gonna make you. And then some states went
(20:04):
to court and a lower court said, no, you can't
make them do that. You can't make them give abortions
even if it's in an emergency. And the government went
to the Supreme Court and said, will you tell them
to let us make them give abortions in an emergency?
And the Supreme Court said, no, we won't tell them
that now is will still get litigated fully, but for
right now, they blocked the Biden administration from doing that.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
How how how can you say that you couldn't save
a person's life under those circumstances.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Ah, you can, But what the Biden administration rule was
is you must there's a difference you. In other words,
if you choose as a doctor in an abortion banded
state that has an exception for the life of the mother,
you can do the abortion. But what the Biden administration
(21:01):
wanted is if you as the doctor and you've heard
these cases, women go in and the doctors are like,
we're too afraid, we don't want to get in trouble,
we won't do it. What the Biden administration wanted is
to say, if you, as the doctor, say I don't
want to or I don't think we should do the
abortion right now in this emergency, you would be in trouble.
(21:21):
You would actually be in trouble with the FEDS. And
that's what the Supreme Court said for right now, we're
not going to allow that to be the case.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
This mayor was, Can we do you.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Mind you want to skip this one? Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
No, no, I think well I want to skip all
of them now, just because we're out of time, not
for any other reason. Can we just go right to
set stories? The last story seventeen?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Of course, Richard Simmons recently passed away, and he's going
to be sweating with sweating to the oldies for eternity.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
He was apparently he was buried in his workout outfit.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Of course, that's what I wanted people to hear.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
I think that's very appropriate, sweating.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
To the moldies. Oh, oh, neil too soon. I'm sorry.
It just I saw it and I took it. You did,
and yes, no, it's fine. You know what? He probably
he probably would have laughed at that.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Actually that guy, you know, for a guy who was
considered by many to be so like quirky and weird
or whatever, he he really had an excellent sense of
himself and sense of humor about how he was perceived.
He was not oblivious at all, which means he knew
what he was doing, and he was doing what he.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Wanted, and I think he helped a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
He did help.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Always perceived him that way. I never I never saw
him as a joke or anything. I saw him as
a character, you know, flamboyant and loud and boisterous and
all those things. But I always saw him as a
as a pretty cool icon, you know that seemed to
care about people and laugh with them, cried with them,
(23:17):
and motivated them.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Very well, said sir.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
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