December 19, 2024 • 29 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Government funding plan collapses as Trump makes new demands days before shutdown. California man detained in connection with Wisconsin school shooting, records show. LA Deputy Mayor Brian Williams placed on leave as FBI investigates bomb threat against City Hall. Dow plunges more than 1,100 points and marked its longest losing streak since 1974. Key takeaways from Fed’s 3rd rate cut.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
That's not true. I should have done that for them,
You know, I should be in misbelieved.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
You not that it scares me. He lies so well
that we believe him.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Look, yeah, he's been doing it on his show for
over thirty years.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Good morning everybody. It is a Thursday morning, December nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right around the corner, right around the corner. What is
December nineteenth?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Here?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No, yeah, that's true, right around the corner from December
twenty fives. W'd I had lunch yesterday? God, I've already forgotten.
Now I'll tell you what Hitler's dogs name was, But
I've forgotten where I had Lunchester. I've had lunchhot.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh, I went to an I went to the olive
Garden yesterday. Oh it's not good. Really? Yeah? Do they
do commercials for us?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I don't know, but I enjoy the olive Garden. Did
you have endless bread sticks?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah? Endless salad, endless salad.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So I kept on telling the female waitress is a
salad endless? She goes, yes, well, I want some endless salad.
Just make sure it's endless. She goes okay, and she
brings the endless salad. I go, now, are you sure
this is endless? She goes, yes, it's endless. Then I
will keep on eating endless salad.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Did she say as endless as your horrible jokes as unforgiving?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
She did?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, so, yeah, what was bad about it? It was
it just wasn't as up to par as olive gardens.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I like olive garden. I do enjoy alive garden as well.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah it was breadsticks aren't as good as they used
to be for some reason.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Really, Yeah, I don't know. I don't know it's anyway.
Maybe it was just the mood I was in, or
because that's location I was. No, No, the location is fine.
I was with one of my daughters, so poor thing.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah yeah, oh I bought her a smoker, you know,
a tragger smoker.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're very nice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
She's making a brisket today, she's smoking a ten hour brisket.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Is she starting right now?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, she has to because it's ten hours and then
it has to rest for you a hour. I'm gonna
have dinner with her at five o'clock ton I six o'clock,
so again because we go to bed early, so I
can't wait. So okay, that's the food report. See I
just did a fork report. Now, okay, I just got
fork reported.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
You did Inland Empire?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Check check check?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay, something's going on there.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah that's Will. He just he's over in the newsroom.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh yeah, why is he check check?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Checking in our ear ear earring?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I ran into Will Will Will this morning.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Walking in Thank god he wasn't in the plane.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, he's not.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
That would have been horrible. I would have taken you
right out. Yeah it's a prop plane.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Uh it is a prop plane. I think.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
No, it's a real plane.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That's funny. Okay, okay, not bad, not bad, all right?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And good morning, Hi, Hi, Good morning, Amy, Good morning,
Hi Bill.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh where's my hat? Oh? Here it is? Uh and
this isn't working.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I didn't know you wear you know, I.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Don't wear a hat normally. But here's what happened.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
BMW hat it is?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It happens to be a sterling BMW hat what you know?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
What I did?
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
By the way, CONO, good morning, good morning. Okay, So
here's what so yeah, so Amy, what I did is
I'm the garage door. I was opening the garage door
stepping out to my car because I go through the
garage sometimes. I had something to do, and so I
went out there and I was looking down at my phone. Okay,
and I the garage door wasn't quite open enough to
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clear my head, and it took off half of my skull.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And it's bad.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
It's really bad.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's about six inches of basically down to the skull.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Did it bleed a lot?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Not only did it bleed a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Remember when I talked about my tooth that it broke
at the gum line. So it broke the day before
and I had an appointment to with the dentist who
was just terrific, and she decided she agreed to see
me during her lunch hour. So I was on my
way to the dentist on an emergency dental call when
this happened. I walk into the dentist's office. Blood is
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dripping down both sides of my face. It was really pleasant.
So in any case, it is now it's horrible. Hold on, yes,
scaped up. You know we're not going to take a
picture of it.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
We should.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
I wouldn't, huh, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, you know what, I'm not shy about taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I remember what you were here when I took pictures
of my genital warts about ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Weren't you.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We actually I did. Actually I didn't do that.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
It's a joke, little tiny lens.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Okay, all right, See Cono thinks that stuff is funny.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Nobody else does.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Onno is a seven year old. He just giggled.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now I know he loves fart jokes.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
All right, guys, enough said, I said, I said hello
to everybody. Amy, I say good morning to you. Yes
you did, because I've already forgotten and will say good
morning to Will I did say. Now in the studio,
now with a prop plane?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Yeah, okay, he has this tiny little plane that he
holds in his hands when he does his reports and
he goes, by the way.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
As ridiculous as that sounds, he works for iHeart, and
that explains a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay, guys, are you ready to do it? Okay, where's
my Oh? Here it is asking us and we're ready.
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I think I am here we go. I just wanted
to grab the news.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
The news piles various persons in walls.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Okay, let's do.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
It, guys, handle on the news on this Thursday morning,
December nineteenth with Amy and Neil and me late story.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And another one bipartisan bill.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
We talked about that yesterday to move the government forward,
to fund the government stop gap wise until March fourteenth.
President elect Donald Trump said you kill it, kill the bill.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And of course they're going to kill the bill. He's
not even president yet.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And the same thing happened with that bipartisan bill to
strengthen the border, and he even said, I want to
use this as a I want to use this for
a platform for kill the bill. And it was killed instantly.
And that's what's happening. And by the way, they're not wrong.
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Elon Musk is pushing this very, very hard, and the
President the Republicans are saying there's too much money being spent.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
And too many things in that bill. They have a
new stadium in continuing reservation build.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
By the way, it's not as if they're wrong. Both
sides have a point. I've been screaming forever. But here's
the issue. Who's the deficit hawk anymore? Nobody, nobody, It
used to be universal. Let's stop, let's stop, let's stop.
And it's what's going to happen, is well right now?
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The if Congress overrides that and decides to have some
balls and we'll do something other than what President elect
Trump wants, Biden would sign it and Trump would go
in and couldn't do anything until March fourteenth, after he
becomes president. But it's could have killed and this is
gonna wipe out Mike Johnson. By the way, Mike Johnson
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voted in favor of it. He put it together. Done,
call a cost. Kevin McCarthy his seat doing exactly the
same thing that Mike Johnson just did, and it is
a mess. Later on, I'm going to do a I mean,
this is I mean the just the the opposition and
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the volatility and the negativity going on with the Republicans
and with Democrats coming up at seven thirty, I'm going
to do a story that goes absolutely the other way,
just a story about real democracy and just good manners
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in an election that'll be up to seven thirty. All right,
let's do one more before he took a break.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
There's a California connection to the Wisconsin school shooter. A
twenty year old guy from Carlsbad has been detained on
suspicion of plotting to coordinate a mass shooting at a
government building in conjunction with the Madison school shooter. So
apparently FBI agents found this guy, Alexander Paffendorf from Carlsbad,
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and they interviewed him, and during that time he admitted
that he had told the fifteen year old girl who
shot and killed a teacher and another student before shooting
herself at the school in Madison, Wisconsin this week, that
he would arm himself with explosives and a gun and
target a government building. Didn't say what the government building was.
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FBI agents say they saw messages from Paffendorff to the
fifteen year old girl they had communicated.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
All right, not much I can say about that, all right.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
LA Deputy Mayor Brian Williams placed on leave as FBI
investigates bomb threat against city haul and his possible relationship
with that. So he was immediately placed on administrative leave,
said a statement. The mair takes this matter very seriously.
(10:13):
When the threat was reported. Blah blah blah, all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
All right, Well, the Dow took a dive. The Dow
plunged Wednesday by eleven hundred twenty three points it's two
point six percent. After the FED announced that it was
cutting interest rates by a quarter percent, as expected. But
apparently what they didn't like was that the FED said
that next year, in twenty twenty five, they're probably only
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going to cut their rates two times. That caused the
nos do.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, the expectation was four times. And what's this is
really counterintuitive. The economy is too hot, it's growing too quickly,
and that means inflation is growing too quickly, because the
two are connected.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
And it's tough.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Although you know, the Dow, even though it is now
it's gone south for the last ten days big time.
But it's lost six percent in the ten days and
that is not a huge amount. I mean, the Dow
has lost a lot more than that during a given
couple of days, so you know, and the Dow really
doesn't mean a whole lot anyway. The Dow are the
thirty biggest companies, the industrials. You want to look at
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the SMP, you want to look at the entire market,
which is fine, by the way, it has not plunged
like this.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Well, don't these things mean something?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
No, they mean nothing. Actually they need they mean plenty.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Why is it in the news. I just don't know
what it means. And I want to sound like I
know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
WHOA, You're doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
On that note, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by
a quarter point as we talked about the third rate
cut since it began to lower borrowing costs in September.
So the Central Bank's latest moves leaves the benchmark lending
rate in a range between four point two five and
four point five two year low.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
But this wasn't unanimous.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, there was one person on the Fed that said no,
usually it's the unanimous. But how much does this change anything?
Mortgage rate six point six percent as of a couple
of days ago. Interest rates on your credit card astronomical. Still,
you know, twenty eight percent, twenty nine percent, twenty one percent.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
You have a twenty one percent interest rate on your
credit card.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I don't even pay attention because I pay them off
at the end of the month. I don't pay attention
at all. Probably it's probably twenty nine percent. What I
just don't pay attention. I just I just don't care.
So when I applied for the card, I get benefits
and theoretically I pay for those benefits with this ridiculous
interest rate, which I don't pay because I pay off
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my card at the end of the month.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
I think I have one credit card, and I think
the interest rate is eight percent?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Okay, but is it still eight percent? Have you checked lately?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Yeah, not too long ago.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I checked, because I how does it credit card be
eight percent when a mortgage rate is six point six
when a car loan is over eight percent at some neil.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's impossible low it might be eleven.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's even way where I am looking. I don't have
anything that's twenty percent. I understand, I get it, but
I don't care. They'll give you cards that'll give you
ridiculous amounts of credit I mean interest, and.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I just don't pay attention.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
There's some of them are up to like thirty and
thirty five percent. What I have you not been listening
to Joel lars Card I do.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I listen to Joel all the time. I listened to
him on your show as well.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah, he said, as long as you do what Bill
is doing and you pay it off every month so
you don't pay the interest, it's fine. They're good tools.
But those interest rates are just through the roof. I
just got my American Express is twenty two or twenty
three percent now, which is free nineteen.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Well that tracks for you. I wouldn't give you a loan.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
They will because they're yeah big will look at he
looks like a hood.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You know, it used to be.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It's gotten the point now where you are better off
borrowing money from the mafia and paying vig.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Wow. Okay uh.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
A secret vote apparently did the trick. So the House
Ethics Committee is going to release the report on former
Congressman Matt Gates this week. Last month, they voted along
party lines not to release the results. But the panel
voted this month in secret. And when they did it
in secret, that's when they said, okay, yeah, we want
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to get that information out there.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah. No, I'm not a big fan of Matt Gates
at all, but what's the benefit of releasing a report
on someone who is not in government anymore, is not
involved in Congress, does not have any job in the government.
What's the good other than pure retribution just to make
him look bad. I don't know the answer to that.
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I would have voted no, and maybe because it was
a secret vote. He was also hated by virtually everybody
in Congress. He was not liked at all by Republicans
or by Democrats, and that may have been one of
the reasons.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Let's do one more for taking a break, Neil Okay.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Trump borders Are says he'll need funding and at least
one hundred thousand beds to carry out deportation. I think
currently we have like forty thousand detention beds that are funded.
And Tom Homan, who Donald Trump has tapped as his
incoming administrations borders Are said that he that plans are
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underway to deport undocumented immigrants at large scale and that
he'll need funding to do so.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And he's thinking of getting the military involved. Now, the
military cannot enforce laws in the United States, not allowed
to by law. However, can they support Can they provide intelligence? Nah?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Probably? Can they keep peace?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
No, they can't do jack, so they wait.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Their military is for foreign invasions and national security outside
the country. We have bases and we launch a national Guard.
National Guard is different. That's they are not. It's a
separate force. National Guard is not the Army, the Navy,
or the Air Force, even though they do fly and
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do the same things they do.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Their Army National Guard is not the Army.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
See if I'm right on that. Please Okay, God, you
got me confused.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Hey, Siri oh Man.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Is the Army National Guard part of the US military?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm absolutely right, but I've just shut it off so
you'll know that. You won't know, Oh it is Huh.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
You were the kid that threw the board up right
before you in the air, right before you lost Monopoly.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, okay, Jame's over all right now, all right, Neil
may have been right on that one.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Okay, let's go back to Okay, I just say, you
know what, Cono, can you delete all of that?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You know I would have reachedlt that last time. I
just made an ass out of myself. No more than usual.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Ok TikTok's going straight to the top. The Supreme Court
has agreed to hear arguments and make a decision on
whether a ban on TikTok violates the First Amendment. The
High Court is going to hear arguments on January tenth,
and if TikTok doesn't sell by January nineteenth, TikTok, of
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course is Chinese zone. If they don't sell by the nineteenth,
it would effectively be banned in the United States.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Now the government is saying that ban is based on
the fact. The government is saying this is national security
issues because you have Chinese people, not that the Chinese
government known for. Of course, it's honesty and not hacking,
and TikTok is arguing we have a First Amendment right now.
The same thing happened in China where one of the
American platforms argued First Amendment rights.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And the lawyers were shot.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Because that's just not quite the place to go if
I run the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What's good for the goose, or excuse me, what's good
for the pay king duck is good for the pay
king duck.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I will tell you this.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
It is weird when other countries you are amendment argue
our rules.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I happen to think I think the Supreme Court is
going to rule in favor of the government on this one.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I think.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
All right, healthcare CEO killing the latest going on right now.
Mangioni arrives at court faces extradition to New York on
first greet murdered charges.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, he's in front of a judge who has to
okay extradition. He's still in he's still in Pennsylvania, and
he has the right to fight extradition.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
But he's not going to.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
No, he's waited, and so judge's going to simply rubber
stamp it and they're going to fly him out.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
And he gets to fly private.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Look, only you would know and care about that. Yeah, yeah,
do you know what he's eating on the plane?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
You know what? I haven't gotten the menu yet.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
The EPA is putting the gas on a ban to
ban gas cars. The Biden administration has officially granted California
permission to ban new gas car sales in the state
by the year twenty thirty five. The state needed to
get the waiver from the EPA to proceed with the mandate,
and President Biden said, yep, let's do it. That's one
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of his final acts, pushing the auto industry into the
green energy sector.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
And President elect Trump is going to say, considering his
connection to Putin yet it is not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
He is going to reverse it.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
This may be one of the day one reversals which
the President can because this is a directive. This is
not a law passed by Congress. This is an executive directive,
all right.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
LAPD LAFD charged two million dollars for working Dodgers World
Series parade and just a little over two million dollars,
And of course the Dodgers end up paying for this.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
They're all too happy.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
To cut that check and take care of the people
that kept everyone safe. But that's a pretty penny for
one parade.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, and they were fine with it.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
They just loved it because well, when they won.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
When did they win was a twenty twenty World Series?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
They won, right, and during COVID they couldn't have the parade.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So this one they went balls to the wall. We're
going to have a big parade and we'll pay the money. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
So when you, in this case request the permit to
conduct this special event, they agreed to pay the city's
actual cost for providing everything.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Definitely not a lot of love on this boat. The
FBI's investigating very good. A Royal Caribbean cruise ship pulled
into port on Monday in la A passenger had died
on board its navigator of the sea's ship. They're trying
to figure out what happened. Thirty five year old Michael
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Vigil allegedly attacked two crew members during a sailing over
the weekend, and video footage shows him attempting to kick
down the door to a room where a crew member
was apparently hiding before he was subdued by security. And
sometime during that altercation he died.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, you can see him kicking the door. You can
see security overwhelming him. He's now on the ground. That's
the only video that you see. And then, as you said,
somewhere during that he died. Now I have been on
Royal Caribbean and it's going to turn out that he
died of food poisoning.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Oh, you can't say that.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
It's not true.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Are they advertisers?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
It doesn't matter, you can't. Isn't there some legal issue there?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I have no idea. Oh I know. Let me put
it this way.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Seafood salad, right, which usually a shrimp in scallops they
were opening at Cana Tuna.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Was the guy intoxicated?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Amy King, don't know?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Did he die of food poisoning? Don't know, don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
We're not going to assume the bill that he did.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, when you assume, you make an ass out of here.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay, well let me okay, let me ask you this.
Have you ever cruised on Royal Caribbean.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
No, I've been on Princess.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Okay, so you have no credibility all at all with
Royal Caribbean.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I didn't make an assertion, though.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I didn't make an assertion.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah I did, Okay, I absolutely did.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
All right. I had everybody's head about the bed ki
am six forty, don't handle here.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
On a Thursday morning, December nineteenth, the last story we
did before he went to break was about the Royal
Caribbean passenger dying on the ship. And I had said
that they're gonna find out he died of food poisoning.
I said that I was going to get a phone
call or I the iHeart lawyers were gonna call me.
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They called me and I told him to go stuff it. However,
I would like to humbly apologize to Royal Caribbean and
tell everybody the food is some of the best food
I have ever eaten in my life. Okay, wow, yeah,
it's a whole all right, Why don't we move on
more handle on the news.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Don't drip over the tail between your legs. All right,
So America's first severe case of bird flu is confirmed.
It's in Louisiana. The Center of for Disease Control and
Prevention said this is the first such case in the
United States. The person was exposed to sick and dead
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birds in backyard flocks. Don't go around sick and dead birds. Yeah,
that's pretty simple. Yeah, stay away from sick and dead birds.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And I think this one someone had like a flock
in their backyard. Well they yeah, I mean, okay, fine,
who keeps flocks in their backyard? What?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
How many is a flock? Because my friend of mine
has some chickens in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
That's how many she's got.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Like ten or eleven. That's a flock.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
That's a flock.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
There's not something else when it's poultry.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Uh, maybe it's a pod. Maybe it's a herd of chickens.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
A murder.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That's that's pros Yeah, I know. Oh, that's a fun game.
By the way, giraffes, you know what those are two
words for giraffes, I mean two terms. If a giraffe
is standing and not moving. No, that's a parliament is
owls for real? So giraffes that are not moving standing
(25:21):
still is a tower of giraffes appropriate? If they are moving,
it's a Johnny of giraffes.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I mean, go figure, and uh you've got what else?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Peacocks and an ostentation of peacocks? I flock like ducks
or jews. Here's one for you, amy, Jews are a
bank of Jews.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
You're making stuff up again?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Yeah, a bank of Jews.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, okay, let's move on.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
You know you can call a group of chickens the
little ones a peep of chickens.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yes, all right, that's where peeps came from.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Are you making stuff up again?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
All right? How about rhinoceros o?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
What's rhino a crush? Appropriate?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Wow, I viewer in a beauty pageant, you'd be misinformation?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Oh all right, why don't we continue on and uh
finish it up this segment?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Okay, squirrels aren't only storing nuts for the winter. So
you know you see squirrels and they stuff their little
cheeks with nuts. Well, apparently scientists have found unprecedented evidence
of another type of squirrel exhibiting carnivorous behavior, including hunting, killing,
and eating voles.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah yeah, that's uh is that voles or vowels?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Fools?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
They're apparently opportunistic. They'll eat nuts, but if the opportunity
comes along, they'll eat a bowl too.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
You know what a group of squirrels is called a
rabies of squirrels. All right, we have a couple of
warning dew wey.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Yeah, flight diverted due to strong smell. And this time
it didn't have to do with handle one hundred live
pigs in the cargo. Can you imagine, you know, because
you never know what's in the cargo bent yeahay or whatever,
and all of a sudden the stench of pigs.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
They would have let it happen, but there were a
group of Jews that happened to be flying, and they
just went.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Get Jews and Muslims on the plane and like get
the smell of bacon out pretty much.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, we're having a good time this morning, aren't we are.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
We We're gonna go through group after group after a group, okay, Mark, Yeah,
we can do uh yeah, yeah, we can do one more.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Okay, you like clean fuel, you got it? Virginia is
going to be the side of the world's first grid
scale nuclear fusion power plant able to harness this futuristic
clean power and generate electricity by the early twenty thirties.
It's going to be a multi billion dollar facility near Richmond,
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and once it's up and running, the plant's going to
be able to plug into the grid and produce four
hundred megawatts. That's enough to power about one hundred and
fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Hanks and without nuclear power, without going to the nukes,
and this is the newest technology. There will never be
the ability of our country or the Earth to be
neutral in terms of fossil fuels and emissions. Never in
order to reduce that to zero. I mean, we're still
(28:52):
in climate change and we're still all going to drown
or die of wildfires. But want to reach a point
where there is no additional it's gonna take this. Okay,
now we're done.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh, we went through sixteen stories today. Not bad, not bad.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
All right. This is KFI AM six point forty. You've
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
They were the first out to use those starters that
you push the button and today advertise there is no
Kia in Akia.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
That's not true. I should have done that for them,
You know, I should be in misbelieved.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
You not that it scares me. He lies so well
that we believe him.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Look, yeah, he's been doing it on his show for
over thirty years.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Good morning everybody. It is a Thursday morning, December nineteenth.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right around the corner, right around the corner. What is
December nineteenth?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Here?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No, yeah, that's true, right around the corner from December
twenty fives. W'd I had lunch yesterday? God, I've already forgotten.
Now I'll tell you what Hitler's dogs name was, But
I've forgotten where I had Lunchester. I've had lunchhot.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh, I went to an I went to the olive
Garden yesterday. Oh it's not good. Really? Yeah? Do they
do commercials for us?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I don't know, but I enjoy the olive Garden. Did
you have endless bread sticks?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah? Endless salad, endless salad.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So I kept on telling the female waitress is a
salad endless? She goes, yes, well, I want some endless salad.
Just make sure it's endless. She goes okay, and she
brings the endless salad. I go, now, are you sure
this is endless? She goes, yes, it's endless. Then I
will keep on eating endless salad.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Did she say as endless as your horrible jokes as unforgiving?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
She did?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, so, yeah, what was bad about it? It was
it just wasn't as up to par as olive gardens.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I like olive garden. I do enjoy alive garden as well.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah it was breadsticks aren't as good as they used
to be for some reason.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Really, Yeah, I don't know. I don't know it's anyway.
Maybe it was just the mood I was in, or
because that's location I was. No, No, the location is fine.
I was with one of my daughters, so poor thing.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah yeah, oh I bought her a smoker, you know,
a tragger smoker.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, they're very nice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
She's making a brisket today, she's smoking a ten hour brisket.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Is she starting right now?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, she has to because it's ten hours and then
it has to rest for you a hour. I'm gonna
have dinner with her at five o'clock ton I six o'clock,
so again because we go to bed early, so I
can't wait. So okay, that's the food report. See I
just did a fork report. Now, okay, I just got
fork reported.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
You did Inland Empire?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Check check check?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay, something's going on there.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah that's Will. He just he's over in the newsroom.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh yeah, why is he check check?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Checking in our ear ear earring?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I ran into Will Will Will this morning.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Walking in Thank god he wasn't in the plane.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, he's not.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
That would have been horrible. I would have taken you
right out. Yeah it's a prop plane.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Uh it is a prop plane. I think.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
No, it's a real plane.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That's funny. Okay, okay, not bad, not bad, all right?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And good morning, Hi, Hi, Good morning, Amy, Good morning,
Hi Bill.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh where's my hat? Oh? Here it is? Uh and
this isn't working.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I didn't know you wear you know, I.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Don't wear a hat normally. But here's what happened.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
BMW hat it is?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It happens to be a sterling BMW hat what you know?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
What I did?
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
By the way, CONO, good morning, good morning. Okay, So
here's what so yeah, so Amy, what I did is
I'm the garage door. I was opening the garage door
stepping out to my car because I go through the
garage sometimes. I had something to do, and so I
went out there and I was looking down at my phone. Okay,
and I the garage door wasn't quite open enough to
(04:02):
clear my head, and it took off half of my skull.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And it's bad.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
It's really bad.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's about six inches of basically down to the skull.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Did it bleed a lot?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Not only did it bleed a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Remember when I talked about my tooth that it broke
at the gum line. So it broke the day before
and I had an appointment to with the dentist who
was just terrific, and she decided she agreed to see
me during her lunch hour. So I was on my
way to the dentist on an emergency dental call when
this happened. I walk into the dentist's office. Blood is
(04:43):
dripping down both sides of my face. It was really pleasant.
So in any case, it is now it's horrible. Hold on, yes,
scaped up. You know we're not going to take a
picture of it.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
We should.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
I wouldn't, huh, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, you know what, I'm not shy about taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I remember what you were here when I took pictures
of my genital warts about ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Weren't you.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We actually I did. Actually I didn't do that.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
It's a joke, little tiny lens.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Okay, all right, See Cono thinks that stuff is funny.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Nobody else does.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Onno is a seven year old. He just giggled.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now I know he loves fart jokes.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
All right, guys, enough said, I said, I said hello
to everybody. Amy, I say good morning to you. Yes
you did, because I've already forgotten and will say good
morning to Will I did say. Now in the studio,
now with a prop plane?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Yeah, okay, he has this tiny little plane that he
holds in his hands when he does his reports and
he goes, by the way.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
As ridiculous as that sounds, he works for iHeart, and
that explains a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay, guys, are you ready to do it? Okay, where's
my Oh? Here it is asking us and we're ready.
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I think I am here we go. I just wanted
to grab the news.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
The news piles various persons in walls.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Okay, let's do.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
It, guys, handle on the news on this Thursday morning,
December nineteenth with Amy and Neil and me late story.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
And another one bipartisan bill.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
We talked about that yesterday to move the government forward,
to fund the government stop gap wise until March fourteenth.
President elect Donald Trump said you kill it, kill the bill.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And of course they're going to kill the bill. He's
not even president yet.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And the same thing happened with that bipartisan bill to
strengthen the border, and he even said, I want to
use this as a I want to use this for
a platform for kill the bill. And it was killed instantly.
And that's what's happening. And by the way, they're not wrong.
(07:08):
Elon Musk is pushing this very, very hard, and the
President the Republicans are saying there's too much money being spent.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
And too many things in that bill. They have a
new stadium in continuing reservation build.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
By the way, it's not as if they're wrong. Both
sides have a point. I've been screaming forever. But here's
the issue. Who's the deficit hawk anymore? Nobody, nobody, It
used to be universal. Let's stop, let's stop, let's stop.
And it's what's going to happen, is well right now?
(07:43):
The if Congress overrides that and decides to have some
balls and we'll do something other than what President elect
Trump wants, Biden would sign it and Trump would go
in and couldn't do anything until March fourteenth, after he
becomes president. But it's could have killed and this is
gonna wipe out Mike Johnson. By the way, Mike Johnson
(08:06):
voted in favor of it. He put it together. Done,
call a cost. Kevin McCarthy his seat doing exactly the
same thing that Mike Johnson just did, and it is
a mess. Later on, I'm going to do a I mean,
this is I mean the just the the opposition and
(08:26):
the volatility and the negativity going on with the Republicans
and with Democrats coming up at seven thirty, I'm going
to do a story that goes absolutely the other way,
just a story about real democracy and just good manners
(08:50):
in an election that'll be up to seven thirty. All right,
let's do one more before he took a break.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
There's a California connection to the Wisconsin school shooter. A
twenty year old guy from Carlsbad has been detained on
suspicion of plotting to coordinate a mass shooting at a
government building in conjunction with the Madison school shooter. So
apparently FBI agents found this guy, Alexander Paffendorf from Carlsbad,
(09:18):
and they interviewed him, and during that time he admitted
that he had told the fifteen year old girl who
shot and killed a teacher and another student before shooting
herself at the school in Madison, Wisconsin this week, that
he would arm himself with explosives and a gun and
target a government building. Didn't say what the government building was.
(09:39):
FBI agents say they saw messages from Paffendorff to the
fifteen year old girl they had communicated.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
All right, not much I can say about that, all right.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
LA Deputy Mayor Brian Williams placed on leave as FBI
investigates bomb threat against city haul and his possible relationship
with that. So he was immediately placed on administrative leave,
said a statement. The mair takes this matter very seriously.
(10:13):
When the threat was reported. Blah blah blah, all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
All right, Well, the Dow took a dive. The Dow
plunged Wednesday by eleven hundred twenty three points it's two
point six percent. After the FED announced that it was
cutting interest rates by a quarter percent, as expected. But
apparently what they didn't like was that the FED said
that next year, in twenty twenty five, they're probably only
(10:38):
going to cut their rates two times. That caused the
nos do.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, the expectation was four times. And what's this is
really counterintuitive. The economy is too hot, it's growing too quickly,
and that means inflation is growing too quickly, because the
two are connected.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
And it's tough.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Although you know, the Dow, even though it is now
it's gone south for the last ten days big time.
But it's lost six percent in the ten days and
that is not a huge amount. I mean, the Dow
has lost a lot more than that during a given
couple of days, so you know, and the Dow really
doesn't mean a whole lot anyway. The Dow are the
thirty biggest companies, the industrials. You want to look at
(11:23):
the SMP, you want to look at the entire market,
which is fine, by the way, it has not plunged
like this.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Well, don't these things mean something?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
No, they mean nothing. Actually they need they mean plenty.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Why is it in the news. I just don't know
what it means. And I want to sound like I
know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
WHOA, You're doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
On that note, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by
a quarter point as we talked about the third rate
cut since it began to lower borrowing costs in September.
So the Central Bank's latest moves leaves the benchmark lending
rate in a range between four point two five and
four point five two year low.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
But this wasn't unanimous.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
No, there was one person on the Fed that said no,
usually it's the unanimous. But how much does this change anything?
Mortgage rate six point six percent as of a couple
of days ago. Interest rates on your credit card astronomical. Still,
you know, twenty eight percent, twenty nine percent, twenty one percent.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
You have a twenty one percent interest rate on your
credit card.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I don't even pay attention because I pay them off
at the end of the month. I don't pay attention
at all. Probably it's probably twenty nine percent. What I
just don't pay attention. I just I just don't care.
So when I applied for the card, I get benefits
and theoretically I pay for those benefits with this ridiculous
interest rate, which I don't pay because I pay off
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my card at the end of the month.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
I think I have one credit card, and I think
the interest rate is eight percent?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Okay, but is it still eight percent? Have you checked lately?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Yeah, not too long ago.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I checked, because I how does it credit card be
eight percent when a mortgage rate is six point six
when a car loan is over eight percent at some neil.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's impossible low it might be eleven.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's even way where I am looking. I don't have
anything that's twenty percent. I understand, I get it, but
I don't care. They'll give you cards that'll give you
ridiculous amounts of credit I mean interest, and.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I just don't pay attention.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
There's some of them are up to like thirty and
thirty five percent. What I have you not been listening
to Joel lars Card I do.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I listen to Joel all the time. I listened to
him on your show as well.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah, he said, as long as you do what Bill
is doing and you pay it off every month so
you don't pay the interest, it's fine. They're good tools.
But those interest rates are just through the roof. I
just got my American Express is twenty two or twenty
three percent now, which is free nineteen.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Well that tracks for you. I wouldn't give you a loan.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
They will because they're yeah big will look at he
looks like a hood.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You know, it used to be.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It's gotten the point now where you are better off
borrowing money from the mafia and paying vig.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Wow. Okay uh.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
A secret vote apparently did the trick. So the House
Ethics Committee is going to release the report on former
Congressman Matt Gates this week. Last month, they voted along
party lines not to release the results. But the panel
voted this month in secret. And when they did it
in secret, that's when they said, okay, yeah, we want
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to get that information out there.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah. No, I'm not a big fan of Matt Gates
at all, but what's the benefit of releasing a report
on someone who is not in government anymore, is not
involved in Congress, does not have any job in the government.
What's the good other than pure retribution just to make
him look bad. I don't know the answer to that.
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I would have voted no, and maybe because it was
a secret vote. He was also hated by virtually everybody
in Congress. He was not liked at all by Republicans
or by Democrats, and that may have been one of
the reasons.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Let's do one more for taking a break, Neil Okay.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Trump borders Are says he'll need funding and at least
one hundred thousand beds to carry out deportation. I think
currently we have like forty thousand detention beds that are funded.
And Tom Homan, who Donald Trump has tapped as his
incoming administrations borders Are said that he that plans are
(15:41):
underway to deport undocumented immigrants at large scale and that
he'll need funding to do so.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And he's thinking of getting the military involved. Now, the
military cannot enforce laws in the United States, not allowed
to by law. However, can they support Can they provide intelligence? Nah?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Probably? Can they keep peace?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
No, they can't do jack, so they wait.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Their military is for foreign invasions and national security outside
the country. We have bases and we launch a national Guard.
National Guard is different. That's they are not. It's a
separate force. National Guard is not the Army, the Navy,
or the Air Force, even though they do fly and
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do the same things they do.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Their Army National Guard is not the Army.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
See if I'm right on that. Please Okay, God, you
got me confused.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Hey, Siri oh Man.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Is the Army National Guard part of the US military?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm absolutely right, but I've just shut it off so
you'll know that. You won't know, Oh it is Huh.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
You were the kid that threw the board up right
before you in the air, right before you lost Monopoly.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, okay, Jame's over all right now, all right, Neil
may have been right on that one.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Okay, let's go back to Okay, I just say, you
know what, Cono, can you delete all of that?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You know I would have reachedlt that last time. I
just made an ass out of myself. No more than usual.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Ok TikTok's going straight to the top. The Supreme Court
has agreed to hear arguments and make a decision on
whether a ban on TikTok violates the First Amendment. The
High Court is going to hear arguments on January tenth,
and if TikTok doesn't sell by January nineteenth, TikTok, of
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course is Chinese zone. If they don't sell by the nineteenth,
it would effectively be banned in the United States.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Now the government is saying that ban is based on
the fact. The government is saying this is national security
issues because you have Chinese people, not that the Chinese
government known for. Of course, it's honesty and not hacking,
and TikTok is arguing we have a First Amendment right now.
The same thing happened in China where one of the
American platforms argued First Amendment rights.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And the lawyers were shot.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Because that's just not quite the place to go if
I run the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What's good for the goose, or excuse me, what's good
for the pay king duck is good for the pay
king duck.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
I will tell you this.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
It is weird when other countries you are amendment argue
our rules.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I happen to think I think the Supreme Court is
going to rule in favor of the government on this one.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I think.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
All right, healthcare CEO killing the latest going on right now.
Mangioni arrives at court faces extradition to New York on
first greet murdered charges.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, he's in front of a judge who has to
okay extradition. He's still in he's still in Pennsylvania, and
he has the right to fight extradition.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
But he's not going to.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
No, he's waited, and so judge's going to simply rubber
stamp it and they're going to fly him out.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
And he gets to fly private.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Look, only you would know and care about that. Yeah, yeah,
do you know what he's eating on the plane?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
You know what? I haven't gotten the menu yet.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
The EPA is putting the gas on a ban to
ban gas cars. The Biden administration has officially granted California
permission to ban new gas car sales in the state
by the year twenty thirty five. The state needed to
get the waiver from the EPA to proceed with the mandate,
and President Biden said, yep, let's do it. That's one
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of his final acts, pushing the auto industry into the
green energy sector.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
And President elect Trump is going to say, considering his
connection to Putin yet it is not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
He is going to reverse it.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
This may be one of the day one reversals which
the President can because this is a directive. This is
not a law passed by Congress. This is an executive directive,
all right.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
LAPD LAFD charged two million dollars for working Dodgers World
Series parade and just a little over two million dollars,
And of course the Dodgers end up paying for this.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
They're all too happy.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
To cut that check and take care of the people
that kept everyone safe. But that's a pretty penny for
one parade.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, and they were fine with it.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
They just loved it because well, when they won.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
When did they win was a twenty twenty World Series?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
They won, right, and during COVID they couldn't have the parade.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So this one they went balls to the wall. We're
going to have a big parade and we'll pay the money. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
So when you, in this case request the permit to
conduct this special event, they agreed to pay the city's
actual cost for providing everything.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Definitely not a lot of love on this boat. The
FBI's investigating very good. A Royal Caribbean cruise ship pulled
into port on Monday in la A passenger had died
on board its navigator of the sea's ship. They're trying
to figure out what happened. Thirty five year old Michael
(21:32):
Vigil allegedly attacked two crew members during a sailing over
the weekend, and video footage shows him attempting to kick
down the door to a room where a crew member
was apparently hiding before he was subdued by security. And
sometime during that altercation he died.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, you can see him kicking the door. You can
see security overwhelming him. He's now on the ground. That's
the only video that you see. And then, as you said,
somewhere during that he died. Now I have been on
Royal Caribbean and it's going to turn out that he
died of food poisoning.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Oh, you can't say that.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
It's not true.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Are they advertisers?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
It doesn't matter, you can't. Isn't there some legal issue there?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I have no idea. Oh I know. Let me put
it this way.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Seafood salad, right, which usually a shrimp in scallops they
were opening at Cana Tuna.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Was the guy intoxicated?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Amy King, don't know?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Did he die of food poisoning? Don't know, don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
We're not going to assume the bill that he did.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, when you assume, you make an ass out of here.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay, well let me okay, let me ask you this.
Have you ever cruised on Royal Caribbean.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
No, I've been on Princess.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Okay, so you have no credibility all at all with
Royal Caribbean.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I didn't make an assertion, though.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I didn't make an assertion.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah I did, Okay, I absolutely did.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
All right. I had everybody's head about the bed ki
am six forty, don't handle here.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
On a Thursday morning, December nineteenth, the last story we
did before he went to break was about the Royal
Caribbean passenger dying on the ship. And I had said
that they're gonna find out he died of food poisoning.
I said that I was going to get a phone
call or I the iHeart lawyers were gonna call me.
(23:33):
They called me and I told him to go stuff it. However,
I would like to humbly apologize to Royal Caribbean and
tell everybody the food is some of the best food
I have ever eaten in my life. Okay, wow, yeah,
it's a whole all right, Why don't we move on
more handle on the news.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Don't drip over the tail between your legs. All right,
So America's first severe case of bird flu is confirmed.
It's in Louisiana. The Center of for Disease Control and
Prevention said this is the first such case in the
United States. The person was exposed to sick and dead
(24:15):
birds in backyard flocks. Don't go around sick and dead birds. Yeah,
that's pretty simple. Yeah, stay away from sick and dead birds.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And I think this one someone had like a flock
in their backyard. Well they yeah, I mean, okay, fine,
who keeps flocks in their backyard? What?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
How many is a flock? Because my friend of mine
has some chickens in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
That's how many she's got.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Like ten or eleven. That's a flock.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
That's a flock.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
There's not something else when it's poultry.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Uh, maybe it's a pod. Maybe it's a herd of chickens.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
A murder.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That's that's pros Yeah, I know. Oh, that's a fun game.
By the way, giraffes, you know what those are two
words for giraffes, I mean two terms. If a giraffe
is standing and not moving. No, that's a parliament is
owls for real? So giraffes that are not moving standing
(25:21):
still is a tower of giraffes appropriate? If they are moving,
it's a Johnny of giraffes.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I mean, go figure, and uh you've got what else?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Peacocks and an ostentation of peacocks? I flock like ducks
or jews. Here's one for you, amy, Jews are a
bank of Jews.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
You're making stuff up again?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Yeah, a bank of Jews.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, okay, let's move on.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
You know you can call a group of chickens the
little ones a peep of chickens.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yes, all right, that's where peeps came from.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Are you making stuff up again?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
All right? How about rhinoceros o?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
What's rhino a crush? Appropriate?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Wow, I viewer in a beauty pageant, you'd be misinformation?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Oh all right, why don't we continue on and uh
finish it up this segment?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Okay, squirrels aren't only storing nuts for the winter. So
you know you see squirrels and they stuff their little
cheeks with nuts. Well, apparently scientists have found unprecedented evidence
of another type of squirrel exhibiting carnivorous behavior, including hunting, killing,
and eating voles.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah yeah, that's uh is that voles or vowels?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Fools?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
They're apparently opportunistic. They'll eat nuts, but if the opportunity
comes along, they'll eat a bowl too.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
You know what a group of squirrels is called a
rabies of squirrels. All right, we have a couple of
warning dew wey.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Yeah, flight diverted due to strong smell. And this time
it didn't have to do with handle one hundred live
pigs in the cargo. Can you imagine, you know, because
you never know what's in the cargo bent yeahay or whatever,
and all of a sudden the stench of pigs.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
They would have let it happen, but there were a
group of Jews that happened to be flying, and they
just went.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Get Jews and Muslims on the plane and like get
the smell of bacon out pretty much.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, we're having a good time this morning, aren't we are.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
We We're gonna go through group after group after a group, okay, Mark, Yeah,
we can do uh yeah, yeah, we can do one more.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Okay, you like clean fuel, you got it? Virginia is
going to be the side of the world's first grid
scale nuclear fusion power plant able to harness this futuristic
clean power and generate electricity by the early twenty thirties.
It's going to be a multi billion dollar facility near Richmond,
(28:23):
and once it's up and running, the plant's going to
be able to plug into the grid and produce four
hundred megawatts. That's enough to power about one hundred and
fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Hanks and without nuclear power, without going to the nukes,
and this is the newest technology. There will never be
the ability of our country or the Earth to be
neutral in terms of fossil fuels and emissions. Never in
order to reduce that to zero. I mean, we're still
(28:52):
in climate change and we're still all going to drown
or die of wildfires. But want to reach a point
where there is no additional it's gonna take this. Okay,
now we're done.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh, we went through sixteen stories today. Not bad, not bad.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
All right. This is KFI AM six point forty. You've
been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
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