December 13, 2024 • 30 mins
Amy King & Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Malibu updates recovery efforts as Franklin fire containment reaches 30%. Amazon plans to donate $1MIL to President-elect Trump’s inauguration. Overdraft fees crackdown: Biden administration sets new rules for banks. Head of the Federal Aviation Administration to resign, allowing Trump to pick his successor. Canadian official threatens to cut off energy to the United States.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KPI AM six forty. The Bill handles show
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh god, the thought of a stuffed dead dog that
you loved walking around via a remote control is beyond,
I mean beyond delicious. And now handle on the news,
ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle. Good morning everybody, Friday,
(00:37):
December thirteenth, Friday the thirteenth, and we're going to talk
a little bit about that throughout the show. Yes, and
Neil behind him, of course, puts all these graphics. I
wish we could share these because this is what Jason
if I'm not mistaken with the mask right, the the
(01:01):
hockey mask and dressed in a in Santa Claus outfit.
Yeah yeah, yeah, Mary, Yes, exactly so. But Friday is
four Friday at thirteenth. I've always loved Friday at thirteenth.
I'm not super sistous at all, but I have to
tell you, every year I go out and I get
a black cat, I put it under a ladder and
(01:24):
I kill it with broken mirror shards. What what is
wrong with you? Plenty?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
He was not loved or hugged as a child.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I was of glass I was. No, it has to
be mirror sharks. I was. I was hugged too hard
as a child. My father was arrested for that because
it went beyond hugging.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
In any case, you know, someone left a message, some
young lady left a message on the talk back yesterday
that she hated me because I was mean to you.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And I'm like, uh yeah. I asked Anne yesterday in
her travails and her meeting people, how many people actually
think I'm as big a dick as I as I
come off? Yeah? Pretty much everyone.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You're actually very generous and kind. Now filtered, you just
are unfiltered. You kind of says, old, it's it's all.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
No, it's not just unfiltered. I mean there's a deep
seated hatred of you and the world around me and me.
You know, I'm a basically your self loathing jew. You know,
it's just that simple.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You are the seven year old boy with the big
forehead that walks up to people and go you're fat.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, And can I describe this morning what we talked
about the Christmas tree? Is that inappropriate?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
How we?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Anne asked me, Uh, do I have a Christmas tree
coming up? And now that yeah, I did. Yeah. Now
I'm with a shiksa goddess of love here. Well not particularly,
but it's visually very strong. So yeah, I got a
Christmas tree and we're doing a honka thing also, so
uh sort of hit both. And what I want to
do is, instead of a little angel on top of
(03:22):
the tree, is to uh put a crucifix uh of
you know, doing the you know, Jesus being crucified, and
then a little model of the juice selling nails right
next to it. And she said that was a little tough.
I think that's uh neil, of all that you could
do that you could do that for me, I mean,
(03:42):
because you're so good at this. I think that'd be
a great little figuring above the Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I can't hear you over the popping crackling of the fire.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's what I said.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He's going to burn. He's going to n.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Okay, all right, anyway, enough of me, Enough of me
to talking about how great I am. All Right, this
self aggrandizing.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
You are going to be burning, and it's going to
be so loud in hell that Jesus is going to
stomp on the floor and go keep it down down there. Oh,
that's allowed you will be all right?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Fair enough, all right, let me say good morning to everybody,
because it's a Friday, the thirteenth. We're going to have
great fun we do on Friday first Cono. Good morning.
Hey God, everybody's wearing like shirts that have written things
on them. I can't see what that says.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Just an astros and give to me an astros.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Okay, and Amy, you're that's so funny? Amy you're wearing
is right? What go ahead?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Amy? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I'm wearing a Disney hoodie that Anne gave me for
Christmas last year.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So the both one of my Christmas gifts. Why are
there trying to remind me? This is what I got
last year?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What am I getting this year?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Maybe that's it?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And Neil has got all of you and got Neil
that too. Jeez.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is a shirt that Ann had nothing to do
with because I wasn't on the show last year. This
spirit Halloween shirt.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Oh okay. And Anne, you're just wearing your normal green
thing that you wear.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Oh no, she's wearing the bra I got her.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Oh okay, excellent.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
A it's a a sweater?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Why is it a thing you ever seen? You know
they do. I'm thinking of doing bras for conjoined Jews
so they can wear to you know, to a synagogue
and they're together with the brass yamaka. It's never mind,
it's a visual too. I have no idea where you're going.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I totally visualized that. I'm sorry, but I understand Bill.
After thirty years conjoined Jews wearing a bra as yamakas.
That's actually funny. Oh thank you. I think that's what
threw the curveball.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, one other thing I have to before we start
the news, and I sent this to ConA. I'm going
to play it for you. Justin Wersham, who was our kono.
A couple of years ago or three years ago, is
there was a news story about one of those stools
(06:13):
that you sit on in the shower, and it was well,
it had to do with a man who was sitting
on one of those and had some real physical problems
because there were holes in the stools too, I guess
for air to circulate. And the stool was made. It
was a Swedish stool, and so let's just play that.
(06:36):
Because I go through my old stuff and this I
happened to go ahead and I listened to this and
it was one of the funniest things that ever occurred
on this show. And this was justin doing it. So
this was during the news. Okay, Cono play it please.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Jordi Sad Norway bought one of these stools that you
put in the shower. These plans take stools from Ikia
and if you look at a picture of the stools,
it has fairly large holes around the stool on top. Well,
what ended up happening is one of his testicular parts
(07:14):
got stuck in one of the holes when the hot
water caused the ball to expand.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Yeah, to address that, they released a PSA.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I found it on the internet.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
If you guys want to hear it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Sure would like to encourage caution and using the Marias
stool aka meatball calendar. If used in the shower, it
is possible for one or more of your meatballs to
descend through the hole.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Extra caution if you have an extra sad sack of
meatballs like Bill handle you Aikia caring for your meatballs
since nineteen forty three.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I lost Oh my god, I al Calander.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, I absolutely lost it. This was We've done some
fun stuff on this show.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
He's a very funny man.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, Justin is a very funny guy. Okay, so you
know what, we have a fair amount of news to
pick up on this Friday, and.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You would such the last.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, we wouldn't know that for ten minutes. What the hell,
It's Friday. So let's have a rip roaring good time.
All right, let's do it. Time for Handle on the
News with Amy Neil and me. Lead story. Well, the
Franklin fire is still going on, but it's all relatively
good news. Containment now reaches thirty thirty percent, only four
(08:39):
thousand acres, but it's Malibu and Malibu has a history
of fires and the homes are all a trillion dollars.
So and then you have major stars, public personalities. Big
star about Dick van Dyck who thought he lost his
cat and turned out the cat is safe and became
(09:00):
international news. Go figure that one out, by the way,
last year with Dick Van Dyke, I do I amc
the Lawyer's Philharmonic Orchestra, as you know, I do it
every year. Last year was it last year or the
year before? Dick Van Dyke, at ninety eight was performing
(09:20):
and he did a terrific job. I mean, it looks
really good for ninety nine. You think he still sings,
he still dances, I mean, obviously not the old Dick
van Dyke, but you go, wow. So anyway, incredibly talented,
very very talented.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Did you mention it was his birthday? No?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I didn't. I asked him how much, you know, I
asked him how much he got when he was doing
the Dick Van Dyke show, what he was being paid?
She did, of course, I did seven hundred and fifty
bucks a week. He just told you, flat out, flat out.
I always asked that was probably a lot of money
back then, Well it was. I sent a million dollars
an episode.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Like the Friends stars.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, but in those days, the stars of shows had
no power whatsoever. They were straight out employees. I wonder
what had no say in anything?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
What was a season back then? Now it's like twenty.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
A season back then was twenty. But this was only
his first year, and then of course it went out
blah blah because it was just a brand new show,
and people got nothing for brand new shows. It was
I think twenty two, twenty four. No, I think it
was thirty something episodes per season.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, it was crazy. Amy.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Amazon is, as Bill would say, taking a knee for
Trump or kissing the ring.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Amazon's planning to donate a million dollars to President elect
Trump's inauguration. Jeff Bezos, the founder, is expected to visit
with Trump in person in the next few days. Meta
confirmed on Wednesday that it had donated a million dollars
to the inaugural fund, just two weeks after CEO Mark
Zuckerberg met with Trump privately at mar A Lago.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, that's you're businessmen.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, they have to. And by the way, it's not
just kissing the ring and bending the knee. It's also
getting it where the sun don't shine.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Listen, it's business. It is business.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Remember when Trump was first running and everybody was like,
you donated to the Democrats, and he goes, I'm a businessman,
right right, It's true because I donated to everybody, and
the people that.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He hated he ripped into. As long as they say
I now believe in Trump, he believes in them.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know, the minute someone is a Republican and then
becomes an independent, the news always refers to them as
former Republican. No one ever refers to Trump as former Democrat,
and he was a Democrat for a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's right, he was a registered Democrat in the seventies.
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It's I don't know, yeah, it just is what it is,
all right. Over draft fees, we all hate them, and
this is one of the things that I like that
the Biden administration is doing. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
has finalized this rule. It's going to curb excessive overdraft fees.
So they're going to make it like five bucks, cap
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it at five bucks rather than the thirty five dollars
that is typical. And they say this is a potential
saving savings to customers as much as five billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
YEP. I find it kind of interesting interesting that it's
happening right now at the end of a Biden administration
and through an Obama administration of eight years that Biden
was Vice president, and you go really the last month
of the Biden administration, you've got the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
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which by the way, is controlled by the Federal by
the Feds the executive Branch, but it has been it
is absolutely a shanda, a shame to the biggest level
that banks are allowed to charge thirty five dollars over
Ja'll take it if you take you if you get
overcharged by two dollars, if you go over by two bucks,
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and they cover it as a thirty five dollar fee.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Let the resignations begin the first. First of all, we
had the FBI director announced that he is going to
step down, and now the head of the FAA has
also announced he is going to resign before President elect
Trump takes office. The head of the FAA has been
under a lot of taking a lot of heat since
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Boeing blew a panel off. And then also they are
working with antiquated equipment. They have a shortage of air
traffic controllers, while you know, consumer demand is very high.
But he says he's going to step down next month,
which clears the way for President elect Trump to name
his choice for fa Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I don't know how political is this going to be.
Is this one of those positions where it's going to
go to a loyalist And I don't know because usually
in this case, for example, Whittaker has a long history
of aviation and administration, has been the field most of
his life. So I don't know. Are we going to
get a loyalist who's an entire credentials are that he
(14:22):
was once on an airplane and therefore he's head of
the FAA.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Now he likes making paper airplanes.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I'm not no accusations here, mind you, but this is
one of those things where you know, I don't think
that in many cases, President Trump really cares. I think
he's going to leave it up to the experts on
this one. If he does name someone, I'm just guessing here.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Have we heard any rumblings like we had heard he
wanted to replace the FBI director?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
But no, no, no, this came out of the blue.
So maybe the guy just doesn't like that came out
of the wild, blue yonder.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Okay, Yeah, there's some people. If they were going to
come and be my boss, I'd probably tap out. Yeah,
I'm gone, all.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Right, I can yeah, I can agree that. Okay, shut up,
all right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
The family of Hannah Kobayashi, a strange story, recently found
safe after being reported missing in Los Angeles last month.
The family is doing the right thing. They're offering a
refund of those who donated to an online fundraiser during
the search. They got up to so over eight hundred
donors raised more than forty seven.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Hey, and I have a question. You are that's true?
How much does go fundme take percentage wise? Good?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Quick?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Any idea and I'll tell you why I asked that.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Because you might be able to pay the fees too.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That's what I'm talking about. Do they refund the fees
that go fundme takes when money goes in?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
It's a two point nine percent? How much two point
nine percent plus thirty cents per donation?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Okay? So are they thirty cents? Okay? So three percent?
That's that's not the end of the world. That's fifteen
hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But and then thirty cents times two.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Hundred and forty bucks, right, Yeah, I mean it's not
the end of the world. But you know, good for
them for coming to the table on that one.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
As you say, a weird story.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Hey, and now that.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
We know she's okay, we can say that. Every time
I hear this story, I think of Star Trek. Why
why the Kobayashi marud the test that nobody could fit,
that nobody could beat and Kirk beat it. Oh, it
was at all of the Star Trek movies.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Wow, I had no idea you were that much of
a Star Trek nerd. That's great.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Beat me on that one. Yeah, I already think of
hot dog eating contests.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Also very strong. Yeah, and hot dog eating contest won
by a guy who weighs one hundred and thirty pounds
soaking wet.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, so I guess that overshadowed. But that's a good pull, Amy, Well,
good for you. All right, this is depressing.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
More than two hundred and thirty three thousand bottles of
an antidepressant have been recalled by public health officials. The
US Food and Drug Administration classified capsules of deloxetine, sold
by Rising Pharmaceuticals is a Class two risk, the risk
level in the FBA FDA's second most severe level, as
(17:23):
they say it could temporarily or medically reversible adverse health consequences.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, risk of cancer with an antidepressants. First time I
heard that. So if you take this and you get cancer,
you really don't care.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Like, oh me, oh my, what about who else? Let's
see handle your on antidepressants?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh yeah, heavy ones, any heavy else? Lamictol? I take it?
Oh cono on antidepressants.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Wow, all the guys. Oh yeah, and don't to us.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I remember my kids were in school and Barbara needed
she was she needed some help in that regard, and
we're going to go to school and tell her. And
Marjorie said, we can't tell the school. I oh, you
have to tell the school. Yeah, but it'll be in
the file that you know. It's horrible. She has antidepressants.
(18:17):
We can't let them know. I go, you have to
let them know. So she goes there and we go
to the school and really embarrassingly, we say she is
on antidepressants, and the nurse said, yeah, sixty percent of
our students are. Okay, we're done.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
She went to the doctor. The doctor said, well, maybe
a new dad might help.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah. Well even the doctor was on antidepressants. Okay, let's
move on.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Take some of mine, all right, Stanley the Big Cup Craze,
their mugs are everywhere. Now this is a particular one
of their particular styles. D only issue a recall a
two point six million of these popular drink wears switchback
and trigger action stainless steel travel mugs. So they've got
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a defect and they're worried about burns. So what happens
is the lid and the threads on the lid they
shrink when exposed to heat and torque and that means
the lid can pop off, posing a burn hazard if
you have something, you know, one hundred and forty degrees
or above, so.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You gets don't play hockey if you have a Stanley
Is that not Stanley cup?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Come on, it was a stretch, A stretch I'm allowed.
They can't all work. Matter of fact, very few of
them work.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Some of them work, very few, occasionally.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Beefing up the bennies. The Senate is pushing to vote
on legislation that would provide full social security benefits to
millions of people, setting up potential passage in the final
days of the lame Duck Congress. So it's called the
Social Security Fairness Act, and it would eliminate policies that
limit social Security payouts to about two point eight million people.
(20:10):
And those people are people who receive a pension from
a job that is not covered by Social Security and
surviving spouses of social security recipients who receive a government
pension of their own.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, there are certain parts of social Security that sort
of miss. It's really complicated stuff. And so this one
they're going ahead and I just I guess plugging the hole.
And they've been asked about this a lot of people
in the millions that have been pushing for this for
a very long time because they're screwed. You asked them
out of Social Security benefits. By the way, that of
(20:45):
course adds to the trillions of dollars of deficit that
we're going to have.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
All Right, Canada says, you're a boot to feel my wrath.
Canada could retaliate against President elect Donald Trump, who is
threatening tariffs, and they say we're going to shut down
energy flows to the United States. So now you're looking
at what's that New York State, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
The whole Northeast gets most of his power from Canada.
If this thing, if these tariffs tariffs go through, there's
gonna be retaliatory tariffs and we're going to be in
a full scale trade war. And if you don't think
that's going to affect our prices.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Are we just going to annex them? I'm just going
to say, Okay, there's a lot of people that would
love to be members of the big states of the
United States.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You got people in Newfoundland which are called New Fees Labrador,
which that's those guys are all well, you can say
they're never mind. I was going to do another one
of those that you were going to ask A bad joke. Yeah, yeah,
another bad joke. But the point is it's going to
be a full scale trade war if President elect Trump
(22:03):
goes ahead and pops in those those terrorists, which you
can't I mean, he can wake up in the morning,
goes I think we're gonna throw thirty percent tariff on
China or whatever country. It's gonna it's gonna be nuts
because certain things they can't do because we buy so much,
they buy so much from us, it's pretty nuts. It's
gonna go crazy. And I don't and by the way,
(22:24):
I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't think Trump
is going to I don't think Trump is going to
institute those terrorists. I think this is a lot of
uh not even so much bluster and negotiating tactic is
what I think.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's a negotiating tast Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And we'll see, we'll see. I certainly Biden doesn't do this.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Like your tariffed. You you're tariffed, all right, let's go ahead.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
And you know, I can't even say Biden anymore as
any kind of relevancy when it comes to US policy
because there's just not a lot of relevancy at all.
I don't know how much. There has been very status.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Uck what there has never been a lamer duck, well said,
Well said till the.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Evil Empires stepping up its attacks. Russia launched a new
widespread attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight. The country has
implemented emergency power outages. They don't know exactly how much
damage has been done yesterday, but they're asking people to
stay in shelters. Streets in the capital city of Kiev
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remained largely empty this morning, as Ukraine's air force warned
of the threat of ballistic and cruise missiles that could
be targeting parts of the country any day now.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
If Russia wins the war, it'll be because of this
taking out the power infrastructure of Ukraine, because they'll basically
be lighting all of Ukraine with either torches or campfires.
It's just battery.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
What's the reality bill of Russia taking over Ukraine as
it pertains to the US Russia.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
If Russia wins, it won't be Ukraine, all of Ukraine.
It'll simply be the eastern part of Ukraine, which Putin
said has always been part of Russia. And it was
for many years back and forth. It's the don Bass
area of Ukraine, and that's the way it's going to go.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Why is that strategic for them?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Because it's not a question so much a strategic First
of all, it's another buffer against NATO if that part
becomes Russia. But more importantly, Putin thinks and believes in
his heart and soul, and we're going back to the
time when he was a KGB officer, right, and he
went into the KGB and he entered politics or entered
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service that he truly believes Ukraine is part of Russia.
It's the heart of Russia actually where Russia actually started
back in the Middle Ages.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Why didnt care about it?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Why do we care about it? Because again, the buffer
and the philosophy, if he's willing to take that, does
he then take poland does he then take uh other?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Get it?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That's it, that's the fear. That's the fear. And Ukraine
is a democracy and Russia is not, and it's just
another superpower coming in and just grabbing land. It's akin
to what happened in World War Two nineteen thirty eight
with Hitler taking over Czechoslovakia, where the Western power. Just
let him take it here, just go ahead and take it.
(25:30):
And look what happened. And they're comparing their comparing Putin
to to Hitler, and it's and Putin wants a greater Russia.
He doesn't care about the Soviet Union. He just wants
Russia to be this huge dominant power in the lands
that it had. It's a whole philosophy thing. It's scary,
and it scares the crap out of everybody.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
No, I get I get it, and that's what I thought.
I just don't know why there's so much push pushbacks,
pushback from people here in the United States.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Because it is a democracy, and at some point you
stand up for it. Now a lot of people say
it's not worth it, But who knows.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
If he's bigger and badder, it would be it'd be
a problem.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, that's and that's the fear. There's going to be
a problem.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
All right. So surprising, this is news. More than one
hundred million dollars in marijuana weighing ninety thousand pounds was
seized from San Bernardino County. Con No, you're from the county,
not the city. You're out there in San burdu.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
This is the county. I don't think it's okay wherever
the hell that is?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
No, that's not a topic like a home pass. Oh
is it the first thy right there?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
How did they figure one hundred million dollars worth? Because
ninety thousand pounds is a wholesale h if they if
they figured it out, well, this was valued. If they
valued it at at per joint, at an individual joint price,
it's probably in the billions and billions of dollars. If
you have ninety thousand pounds of the stuff and you're
(27:03):
selling it a joint at a time, you know at
what level of distribution? I don't know, but anything.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Watching Kono do the math, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I'm doing the math.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
A lot of pounds sells it a joint? They don't.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
It's only it's only eleven hundred eleven dollars per pound?
Then did I do the math backwards?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That is, so eleven hundred dollars a pound pot goes
for a lot more than that a pound. It depends
on that, I guess, depends on the quality. I don't
even know. It's been so long since I smoke pot.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
That's a bargain basement.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, I guess it's I guess it's wholesale. I guess
it's wholesale. Wholesale at the distribution level, cutting out the middleman.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
There were three thousand trash bags filled with weed stack
twelve feet high in the building.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yeah that's a lot. Okay.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
California is cracking down on not only marijuana but also
people parking. It's called the daylighting Law. It's been in
effect for a while, but they've been issuing warnings, but
starting on January first, they're going to stop issuing warnings
and start issuing tickets to vehicle owners caught breaking the law.
It's anyone who parks within twenty feet of any crosswalk
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or fifteen feet of a crosswalk that has extended curbs.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
This is it's one of those things where you're pulling
out and there's a car parked so close to you
you can't see it, especially if it's a big SUV
pulling out of a driveway right and you look and
there's the car blocking the view and you don't see
cars coming, So the chances of you getting t boned
are pretty high. You ever noticed that as you pull
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out of a driveway and you can't see I mean,
you're scared and you go, yeah, that you do it
inch by inch?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
What that's what this has to do with.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
No, No, this is even worse because this is for
a crosswalks where people can't see. I mean, frankly, I'm
not much of a pedestrians. So if someone you know,
is hit and flies forty feet in the air, but
if I'm pulling out of a driveway and I can't
see something, they have to change that. It's the law.
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They have to change that.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I was actually in your car with you one day
when you drove over someone. We're at some event. You
drove over someone's foot.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh I do remember that. Yeah, yeah, and I remember
I pointed the finger at you, screaming he did it,
he did it?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And I said, I'm.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I think, by the way, that's a true story. I
did actually run over someone. They weren't hurt or anything,
but still I don't know if I actually ran over
that person's foot, but certainly it looked like part of
the tire built it. Bump thump. Yeah, all right, guys,
we're done. This is KFI A M sixty. You've been
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh god, the thought of a stuffed dead dog that
you loved walking around via a remote control is beyond,
I mean beyond delicious. And now handle on the news,
ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle. Good morning everybody, Friday,
(00:37):
December thirteenth, Friday the thirteenth, and we're going to talk
a little bit about that throughout the show. Yes, and
Neil behind him, of course, puts all these graphics. I
wish we could share these because this is what Jason
if I'm not mistaken with the mask right, the the
(01:01):
hockey mask and dressed in a in Santa Claus outfit.
Yeah yeah, yeah, Mary, Yes, exactly so. But Friday is
four Friday at thirteenth. I've always loved Friday at thirteenth.
I'm not super sistous at all, but I have to
tell you, every year I go out and I get
a black cat, I put it under a ladder and
(01:24):
I kill it with broken mirror shards. What what is
wrong with you? Plenty?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
He was not loved or hugged as a child.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I was of glass I was. No, it has to
be mirror sharks. I was. I was hugged too hard
as a child. My father was arrested for that because
it went beyond hugging.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
In any case, you know, someone left a message, some
young lady left a message on the talk back yesterday
that she hated me because I was mean to you.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And I'm like, uh yeah. I asked Anne yesterday in
her travails and her meeting people, how many people actually
think I'm as big a dick as I as I
come off? Yeah? Pretty much everyone.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You're actually very generous and kind. Now filtered, you just
are unfiltered. You kind of says, old, it's it's all.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
No, it's not just unfiltered. I mean there's a deep
seated hatred of you and the world around me and me.
You know, I'm a basically your self loathing jew. You know,
it's just that simple.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You are the seven year old boy with the big
forehead that walks up to people and go you're fat.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, And can I describe this morning what we talked
about the Christmas tree? Is that inappropriate?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
How we?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Anne asked me, Uh, do I have a Christmas tree
coming up? And now that yeah, I did. Yeah. Now
I'm with a shiksa goddess of love here. Well not particularly,
but it's visually very strong. So yeah, I got a
Christmas tree and we're doing a honka thing also, so
uh sort of hit both. And what I want to
do is, instead of a little angel on top of
(03:22):
the tree, is to uh put a crucifix uh of
you know, doing the you know, Jesus being crucified, and
then a little model of the juice selling nails right
next to it. And she said that was a little tough.
I think that's uh neil, of all that you could
do that you could do that for me, I mean,
(03:42):
because you're so good at this. I think that'd be
a great little figuring above the Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I can't hear you over the popping crackling of the fire.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's what I said.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He's going to burn. He's going to n.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Okay, all right, anyway, enough of me, Enough of me
to talking about how great I am. All Right, this
self aggrandizing.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
You are going to be burning, and it's going to
be so loud in hell that Jesus is going to
stomp on the floor and go keep it down down there. Oh,
that's allowed you will be all right?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Fair enough, all right, let me say good morning to everybody,
because it's a Friday, the thirteenth. We're going to have
great fun we do on Friday first Cono. Good morning.
Hey God, everybody's wearing like shirts that have written things
on them. I can't see what that says.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Just an astros and give to me an astros.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Okay, and Amy, you're that's so funny? Amy you're wearing
is right? What go ahead?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Amy? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I'm wearing a Disney hoodie that Anne gave me for
Christmas last year.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So the both one of my Christmas gifts. Why are
there trying to remind me? This is what I got
last year?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What am I getting this year?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Maybe that's it?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And Neil has got all of you and got Neil
that too. Jeez.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is a shirt that Ann had nothing to do
with because I wasn't on the show last year. This
spirit Halloween shirt.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Oh okay. And Anne, you're just wearing your normal green
thing that you wear.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Oh no, she's wearing the bra I got her.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Oh okay, excellent.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
A it's a a sweater?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Why is it a thing you ever seen? You know
they do. I'm thinking of doing bras for conjoined Jews
so they can wear to you know, to a synagogue
and they're together with the brass yamaka. It's never mind,
it's a visual too. I have no idea where you're going.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I totally visualized that. I'm sorry, but I understand Bill.
After thirty years conjoined Jews wearing a bra as yamakas.
That's actually funny. Oh thank you. I think that's what
threw the curveball.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, one other thing I have to before we start
the news, and I sent this to ConA. I'm going
to play it for you. Justin Wersham, who was our kono.
A couple of years ago or three years ago, is
there was a news story about one of those stools
(06:13):
that you sit on in the shower, and it was well,
it had to do with a man who was sitting
on one of those and had some real physical problems
because there were holes in the stools too, I guess
for air to circulate. And the stool was made. It
was a Swedish stool, and so let's just play that.
(06:36):
Because I go through my old stuff and this I
happened to go ahead and I listened to this and
it was one of the funniest things that ever occurred
on this show. And this was justin doing it. So
this was during the news. Okay, Cono play it please.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Jordi Sad Norway bought one of these stools that you
put in the shower. These plans take stools from Ikia
and if you look at a picture of the stools,
it has fairly large holes around the stool on top. Well,
what ended up happening is one of his testicular parts
(07:14):
got stuck in one of the holes when the hot
water caused the ball to expand.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Yeah, to address that, they released a PSA.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I found it on the internet.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
If you guys want to hear it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Sure would like to encourage caution and using the Marias
stool aka meatball calendar. If used in the shower, it
is possible for one or more of your meatballs to
descend through the hole.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Extra caution if you have an extra sad sack of
meatballs like Bill handle you Aikia caring for your meatballs
since nineteen forty three.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I lost Oh my god, I al Calander.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, I absolutely lost it. This was We've done some
fun stuff on this show.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
He's a very funny man.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, Justin is a very funny guy. Okay, so you
know what, we have a fair amount of news to
pick up on this Friday, and.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
You would such the last.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, we wouldn't know that for ten minutes. What the hell,
It's Friday. So let's have a rip roaring good time.
All right, let's do it. Time for Handle on the
News with Amy Neil and me. Lead story. Well, the
Franklin fire is still going on, but it's all relatively
good news. Containment now reaches thirty thirty percent, only four
(08:39):
thousand acres, but it's Malibu and Malibu has a history
of fires and the homes are all a trillion dollars.
So and then you have major stars, public personalities. Big
star about Dick van Dyck who thought he lost his
cat and turned out the cat is safe and became
(09:00):
international news. Go figure that one out, by the way,
last year with Dick Van Dyke, I do I amc
the Lawyer's Philharmonic Orchestra, as you know, I do it
every year. Last year was it last year or the
year before? Dick Van Dyke, at ninety eight was performing
(09:20):
and he did a terrific job. I mean, it looks
really good for ninety nine. You think he still sings,
he still dances, I mean, obviously not the old Dick
van Dyke, but you go, wow. So anyway, incredibly talented,
very very talented.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Did you mention it was his birthday? No?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I didn't. I asked him how much, you know, I
asked him how much he got when he was doing
the Dick Van Dyke show, what he was being paid?
She did, of course, I did seven hundred and fifty
bucks a week. He just told you, flat out, flat out.
I always asked that was probably a lot of money
back then, Well it was. I sent a million dollars
an episode.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Like the Friends stars.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, but in those days, the stars of shows had
no power whatsoever. They were straight out employees. I wonder
what had no say in anything?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
What was a season back then? Now it's like twenty.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
A season back then was twenty. But this was only
his first year, and then of course it went out
blah blah because it was just a brand new show,
and people got nothing for brand new shows. It was
I think twenty two, twenty four. No, I think it
was thirty something episodes per season.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, it was crazy. Amy.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Amazon is, as Bill would say, taking a knee for
Trump or kissing the ring.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Amazon's planning to donate a million dollars to President elect
Trump's inauguration. Jeff Bezos, the founder, is expected to visit
with Trump in person in the next few days. Meta
confirmed on Wednesday that it had donated a million dollars
to the inaugural fund, just two weeks after CEO Mark
Zuckerberg met with Trump privately at mar A Lago.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, that's you're businessmen.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, they have to. And by the way, it's not
just kissing the ring and bending the knee. It's also
getting it where the sun don't shine.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Listen, it's business. It is business.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Remember when Trump was first running and everybody was like,
you donated to the Democrats, and he goes, I'm a businessman,
right right, It's true because I donated to everybody, and
the people that.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He hated he ripped into. As long as they say
I now believe in Trump, he believes in them.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know, the minute someone is a Republican and then
becomes an independent, the news always refers to them as
former Republican. No one ever refers to Trump as former Democrat,
and he was a Democrat for a long time.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's right, he was a registered Democrat in the seventies.
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It's I don't know, yeah, it just is what it is,
all right. Over draft fees, we all hate them, and
this is one of the things that I like that
the Biden administration is doing. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
has finalized this rule. It's going to curb excessive overdraft fees.
So they're going to make it like five bucks, cap
(12:20):
it at five bucks rather than the thirty five dollars
that is typical. And they say this is a potential
saving savings to customers as much as five billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
YEP. I find it kind of interesting interesting that it's
happening right now at the end of a Biden administration
and through an Obama administration of eight years that Biden
was Vice president, and you go really the last month
of the Biden administration, you've got the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
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which by the way, is controlled by the Federal by
the Feds the executive Branch, but it has been it
is absolutely a shanda, a shame to the biggest level
that banks are allowed to charge thirty five dollars over
Ja'll take it if you take you if you get
overcharged by two dollars, if you go over by two bucks,
(13:14):
and they cover it as a thirty five dollar fee.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Let the resignations begin the first. First of all, we
had the FBI director announced that he is going to
step down, and now the head of the FAA has
also announced he is going to resign before President elect
Trump takes office. The head of the FAA has been
under a lot of taking a lot of heat since
(13:42):
Boeing blew a panel off. And then also they are
working with antiquated equipment. They have a shortage of air
traffic controllers, while you know, consumer demand is very high.
But he says he's going to step down next month,
which clears the way for President elect Trump to name
his choice for fa Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I don't know how political is this going to be.
Is this one of those positions where it's going to
go to a loyalist And I don't know because usually
in this case, for example, Whittaker has a long history
of aviation and administration, has been the field most of
his life. So I don't know. Are we going to
get a loyalist who's an entire credentials are that he
(14:22):
was once on an airplane and therefore he's head of
the FAA.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Now he likes making paper airplanes.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I'm not no accusations here, mind you, but this is
one of those things where you know, I don't think
that in many cases, President Trump really cares. I think
he's going to leave it up to the experts on
this one. If he does name someone, I'm just guessing here.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Have we heard any rumblings like we had heard he
wanted to replace the FBI director?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
But no, no, no, this came out of the blue.
So maybe the guy just doesn't like that came out
of the wild, blue yonder.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Okay, Yeah, there's some people. If they were going to
come and be my boss, I'd probably tap out. Yeah,
I'm gone, all.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Right, I can yeah, I can agree that. Okay, shut up,
all right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
The family of Hannah Kobayashi, a strange story, recently found
safe after being reported missing in Los Angeles last month.
The family is doing the right thing. They're offering a
refund of those who donated to an online fundraiser during
the search. They got up to so over eight hundred
donors raised more than forty seven.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Hey, and I have a question. You are that's true?
How much does go fundme take percentage wise? Good?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Quick?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Any idea and I'll tell you why I asked that.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Because you might be able to pay the fees too.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That's what I'm talking about. Do they refund the fees
that go fundme takes when money goes in?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
It's a two point nine percent? How much two point
nine percent plus thirty cents per donation?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Okay? So are they thirty cents? Okay? So three percent?
That's that's not the end of the world. That's fifteen
hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But and then thirty cents times two.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Hundred and forty bucks, right, Yeah, I mean it's not
the end of the world. But you know, good for
them for coming to the table on that one.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
As you say, a weird story.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Hey, and now that.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
We know she's okay, we can say that. Every time
I hear this story, I think of Star Trek. Why
why the Kobayashi marud the test that nobody could fit,
that nobody could beat and Kirk beat it. Oh, it
was at all of the Star Trek movies.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Wow, I had no idea you were that much of
a Star Trek nerd. That's great.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Beat me on that one. Yeah, I already think of
hot dog eating contests.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Also very strong. Yeah, and hot dog eating contest won
by a guy who weighs one hundred and thirty pounds
soaking wet.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, so I guess that overshadowed. But that's a good pull, Amy, Well,
good for you. All right, this is depressing.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
More than two hundred and thirty three thousand bottles of
an antidepressant have been recalled by public health officials. The
US Food and Drug Administration classified capsules of deloxetine, sold
by Rising Pharmaceuticals is a Class two risk, the risk
level in the FBA FDA's second most severe level, as
(17:23):
they say it could temporarily or medically reversible adverse health consequences.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, risk of cancer with an antidepressants. First time I
heard that. So if you take this and you get cancer,
you really don't care.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Like, oh me, oh my, what about who else? Let's
see handle your on antidepressants?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Oh yeah, heavy ones, any heavy else? Lamictol? I take it?
Oh cono on antidepressants.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Wow, all the guys. Oh yeah, and don't to us.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I remember my kids were in school and Barbara needed
she was she needed some help in that regard, and
we're going to go to school and tell her. And
Marjorie said, we can't tell the school. I oh, you
have to tell the school. Yeah, but it'll be in
the file that you know. It's horrible. She has antidepressants.
(18:17):
We can't let them know. I go, you have to
let them know. So she goes there and we go
to the school and really embarrassingly, we say she is
on antidepressants, and the nurse said, yeah, sixty percent of
our students are. Okay, we're done.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
She went to the doctor. The doctor said, well, maybe
a new dad might help.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah. Well even the doctor was on antidepressants. Okay, let's
move on.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Take some of mine, all right, Stanley the Big Cup Craze,
their mugs are everywhere. Now this is a particular one
of their particular styles. D only issue a recall a
two point six million of these popular drink wears switchback
and trigger action stainless steel travel mugs. So they've got
(19:08):
a defect and they're worried about burns. So what happens
is the lid and the threads on the lid they
shrink when exposed to heat and torque and that means
the lid can pop off, posing a burn hazard if
you have something, you know, one hundred and forty degrees
or above, so.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You gets don't play hockey if you have a Stanley
Is that not Stanley cup?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Come on, it was a stretch, A stretch I'm allowed.
They can't all work. Matter of fact, very few of
them work.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Some of them work, very few, occasionally.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Beefing up the bennies. The Senate is pushing to vote
on legislation that would provide full social security benefits to
millions of people, setting up potential passage in the final
days of the lame Duck Congress. So it's called the
Social Security Fairness Act, and it would eliminate policies that
limit social Security payouts to about two point eight million people.
(20:10):
And those people are people who receive a pension from
a job that is not covered by Social Security and
surviving spouses of social security recipients who receive a government
pension of their own.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, there are certain parts of social Security that sort
of miss. It's really complicated stuff. And so this one
they're going ahead and I just I guess plugging the hole.
And they've been asked about this a lot of people
in the millions that have been pushing for this for
a very long time because they're screwed. You asked them
out of Social Security benefits. By the way, that of
(20:45):
course adds to the trillions of dollars of deficit that
we're going to have.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
All Right, Canada says, you're a boot to feel my wrath.
Canada could retaliate against President elect Donald Trump, who is
threatening tariffs, and they say we're going to shut down
energy flows to the United States. So now you're looking
at what's that New York State, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
The whole Northeast gets most of his power from Canada.
If this thing, if these tariffs tariffs go through, there's
gonna be retaliatory tariffs and we're going to be in
a full scale trade war. And if you don't think
that's going to affect our prices.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Are we just going to annex them? I'm just going
to say, Okay, there's a lot of people that would
love to be members of the big states of the
United States.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You got people in Newfoundland which are called New Fees Labrador,
which that's those guys are all well, you can say
they're never mind. I was going to do another one
of those that you were going to ask A bad joke. Yeah, yeah,
another bad joke. But the point is it's going to
be a full scale trade war if President elect Trump
(22:03):
goes ahead and pops in those those terrorists, which you
can't I mean, he can wake up in the morning,
goes I think we're gonna throw thirty percent tariff on
China or whatever country. It's gonna it's gonna be nuts
because certain things they can't do because we buy so much,
they buy so much from us, it's pretty nuts. It's
gonna go crazy. And I don't and by the way,
(22:24):
I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't think Trump
is going to I don't think Trump is going to
institute those terrorists. I think this is a lot of
uh not even so much bluster and negotiating tactic is
what I think.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's a negotiating tast Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And we'll see, we'll see. I certainly Biden doesn't do this.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Like your tariffed. You you're tariffed, all right, let's go ahead.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
And you know, I can't even say Biden anymore as
any kind of relevancy when it comes to US policy
because there's just not a lot of relevancy at all.
I don't know how much. There has been very status.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Uck what there has never been a lamer duck, well said,
Well said till the.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Evil Empires stepping up its attacks. Russia launched a new
widespread attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight. The country has
implemented emergency power outages. They don't know exactly how much
damage has been done yesterday, but they're asking people to
stay in shelters. Streets in the capital city of Kiev
(23:31):
remained largely empty this morning, as Ukraine's air force warned
of the threat of ballistic and cruise missiles that could
be targeting parts of the country any day now.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
If Russia wins the war, it'll be because of this
taking out the power infrastructure of Ukraine, because they'll basically
be lighting all of Ukraine with either torches or campfires.
It's just battery.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
What's the reality bill of Russia taking over Ukraine as
it pertains to the US Russia.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
If Russia wins, it won't be Ukraine, all of Ukraine.
It'll simply be the eastern part of Ukraine, which Putin
said has always been part of Russia. And it was
for many years back and forth. It's the don Bass
area of Ukraine, and that's the way it's going to go.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Why is that strategic for them?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Because it's not a question so much a strategic First
of all, it's another buffer against NATO if that part
becomes Russia. But more importantly, Putin thinks and believes in
his heart and soul, and we're going back to the
time when he was a KGB officer, right, and he
went into the KGB and he entered politics or entered
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service that he truly believes Ukraine is part of Russia.
It's the heart of Russia actually where Russia actually started
back in the Middle Ages.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Why didnt care about it?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Why do we care about it? Because again, the buffer
and the philosophy, if he's willing to take that, does
he then take poland does he then take uh other?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Get it?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
That's it, that's the fear. That's the fear. And Ukraine
is a democracy and Russia is not, and it's just
another superpower coming in and just grabbing land. It's akin
to what happened in World War Two nineteen thirty eight
with Hitler taking over Czechoslovakia, where the Western power. Just
let him take it here, just go ahead and take it.
(25:30):
And look what happened. And they're comparing their comparing Putin
to to Hitler, and it's and Putin wants a greater Russia.
He doesn't care about the Soviet Union. He just wants
Russia to be this huge dominant power in the lands
that it had. It's a whole philosophy thing. It's scary,
and it scares the crap out of everybody.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
No, I get I get it, and that's what I thought.
I just don't know why there's so much push pushbacks,
pushback from people here in the United States.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Because it is a democracy, and at some point you
stand up for it. Now a lot of people say
it's not worth it, But who knows.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
If he's bigger and badder, it would be it'd be
a problem.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, that's and that's the fear. There's going to be
a problem.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
All right. So surprising, this is news. More than one
hundred million dollars in marijuana weighing ninety thousand pounds was
seized from San Bernardino County. Con No, you're from the county,
not the city. You're out there in San burdu.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
This is the county. I don't think it's okay wherever
the hell that is?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
No, that's not a topic like a home pass. Oh
is it the first thy right there?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
How did they figure one hundred million dollars worth? Because
ninety thousand pounds is a wholesale h if they if
they figured it out, well, this was valued. If they
valued it at at per joint, at an individual joint price,
it's probably in the billions and billions of dollars. If
you have ninety thousand pounds of the stuff and you're
(27:03):
selling it a joint at a time, you know at
what level of distribution? I don't know, but anything.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Watching Kono do the math, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I'm doing the math.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
A lot of pounds sells it a joint? They don't.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
It's only it's only eleven hundred eleven dollars per pound?
Then did I do the math backwards?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That is, so eleven hundred dollars a pound pot goes
for a lot more than that a pound. It depends
on that, I guess, depends on the quality. I don't
even know. It's been so long since I smoke pot.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
That's a bargain basement.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, I guess it's I guess it's wholesale. I guess
it's wholesale. Wholesale at the distribution level, cutting out the middleman.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
There were three thousand trash bags filled with weed stack
twelve feet high in the building.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yeah that's a lot. Okay.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
California is cracking down on not only marijuana but also
people parking. It's called the daylighting Law. It's been in
effect for a while, but they've been issuing warnings, but
starting on January first, they're going to stop issuing warnings
and start issuing tickets to vehicle owners caught breaking the law.
It's anyone who parks within twenty feet of any crosswalk
(28:17):
or fifteen feet of a crosswalk that has extended curbs.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
This is it's one of those things where you're pulling
out and there's a car parked so close to you
you can't see it, especially if it's a big SUV
pulling out of a driveway right and you look and
there's the car blocking the view and you don't see
cars coming, So the chances of you getting t boned
are pretty high. You ever noticed that as you pull
(28:43):
out of a driveway and you can't see I mean,
you're scared and you go, yeah, that you do it
inch by inch?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
What that's what this has to do with.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
No, No, this is even worse because this is for
a crosswalks where people can't see. I mean, frankly, I'm
not much of a pedestrians. So if someone you know,
is hit and flies forty feet in the air, but
if I'm pulling out of a driveway and I can't
see something, they have to change that. It's the law.
(29:11):
They have to change that.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I was actually in your car with you one day
when you drove over someone. We're at some event. You
drove over someone's foot.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh I do remember that. Yeah, yeah, and I remember
I pointed the finger at you, screaming he did it,
he did it?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And I said, I'm.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I think, by the way, that's a true story. I
did actually run over someone. They weren't hurt or anything,
but still I don't know if I actually ran over
that person's foot, but certainly it looked like part of
the tire built it. Bump thump. Yeah, all right, guys,
we're done. This is KFI A M sixty. You've been
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