December 23, 2024 • 32 mins
Michael Monks joins Bill for Handel on the News. Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state law. Suspect arrested in the killing of a woman who was set on fire on a NYC subway car. Drones continue to buzz over US bases… the military isn’t sure why or how to stop them. Biden commutes most federal death row sentences to life in prison before Trump takes office.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF. I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I was just told that's Michael Monks. Yes, was he
wearing plaid pants? Did I see that? Correctly? Come on,
he's actually quite fashion with yeh plaid pan. Now listen,
I'll tell you what's fashionable.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay, you will, you most certainly will not, sir, And
now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
He's good morning everybody. Bill Handle here on Monday morning,
December twenty three. It is the day before the day
before Christmas, and the day before the day before of
the evening of Hanukkah. So morning to one and all.
All right, Amy is not here today or for the
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rest of the week, and filling in for Amy is
Michael Monks. Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Good morning to you. Bill.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I only can see you from the waist up because
you're behind the desk. Would you stand up? Please?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Is this permitted talk in the workplace?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It is absolutely I assume Number one, I assume you
have pants on, and number two, I feel like Eminem.
Where the will the real Michael Monks? Please stand up?
Please stand up? Oh regular pants, Michael, They're a little plaid. No,
I can't see them plaid, but I can see them.
By the way, the quite the fruit packete you have
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very impressive.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I appreciate that. Get that message out across the Yes,
I will.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So, Michael is in here this entire week. Neil is
not here, but Cono is uh and Cono you are
not working in the rest of the week because it's
this is the weird week. It's between Christmas and New
Year's always the weirdest week of the year in terms
of who's here and who's not. What's your schedule?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I just don't work Christmas Day in New Year's Day?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Okay, do we know who's filling in? What? What intern
that is willing to work for five dollars under minimum wage?
They were able to talk into working.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Sam is here one day and then Robin is here
another day.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, you know Sam's working on his PhD. If you haven't,
he hasn't gotten it yet, which is kind of impressive.
By the way, And you're off what tomorrow and the
rest of the week.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm off the same time you are.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Sorry tomorrow, Oh, okay, back come a sixth and then
filling in for me because I'm off tomorrow, and I'm
not back to the first Monday in January, and I
don't know what day that is January six, six Monday. Okay,
So I saw it's a long stretch. And who is well,
(02:46):
who's filling in for me for starters? Is it Wayne? Wayne? Wayne? Okay?
And who's filling in for you?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Michelle?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Michelle? Okay. I'm just out listen, I'm bringing it out.
I'm asking the question. These are rhetorical sort of questions
or questions I already know, but I want to get
everybody involved.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Right, You do not know any of the answers to
these questions.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's absolutely correct, Kono. And that's because I don't pay
attention to much. And if you were to ask me
that question, if you were to ask me that question
five minutes, ten minutes from now, it I wouldn't know
the answer. Although there's a story I don't know. We're
covering it on handle on the news about President to
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be Donald Trump wanting to take back the Panama Canal.
And here's one Okay, Michael, this is the Gerbil going
crazy in my head. Remember, I don't remember what I
had this morning ten minutes ago. How wide is the
old before they put the new Panama Canal in. How
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wide is the original? How big? How wide can ships be?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
How wide could the ships be in the original Panama
Canal from the early nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, fifty three feet?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I think it's a ten feet. Would you look that up?
See if I'm right or not?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Sure if I'm wrong, or the width of the canal
was one hundred and ten feet. We have to look
that up. And I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
It was one hundred and ten feet, sir, Thank you
very much. Well done.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Wow, Well, have no idea who's here tomorrow? But hey,
what can I tell you? Life? It just continues on
on the morning show, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It does for some of us.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I'm not all week. I can tell you that it
just gets through. And you have Jesus Christ himself filling
in for you on Wednesday. So that's not bad, that's true.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Matter of fact, every Christmas Day Jesus fills in for me.
I have quite often asked if I could fill in
for Jesus on the Sunday Show and give marginal spiritual advice,
and the answer has been a very hard, hard no.
They because people who have called up and are very depressed,
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very and actually are contemplating hurting themselves. And Jesus works
it out very well, very calm, very measured. You'd hear
me scream, jump do it right now. Jump. That's why
they won't let me fill in. Okay, are you guys
ready to do it? Let's do it. Handle on the
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news with Michael Munks, O'Neil and me lead story. Well,
here's a shocker. The Matt Gates Ethics Report has come
out by the Congressional Ethics Investigators, and yep, they said
that everything he's accused of has, in fact i happened.
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He did pay a bunch of women, including a seventeen
year old girl for sex, purchased, use illegal drugs including ecstasy,
dealing with sex from from his Capitol Hill office. And
this was a long running investigation Gates by the House
Ethics Committee. And so of course he has denied any
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of that. Now here was a question that since he
is no longer a congress person and no longer has
any connection with government in any way, there was talk
of you know, why release it because in the past
it hasn't been released, saying hey, the guy is out. Ah,
is this simply political retribution? Well, yeah, probably. And the
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good news for Gates is I don't think there is
one person in Congress that likes him, not one. I
think it ranges all the way from dislike to active
dislike to absolute hatred and beyond that.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He has the vibe of every jerk from the eighties
comedy involving college students. You know, he's got the right hair,
he's got the right shiny looking face, and cut suits
and all of that, so I can see why he's
just naturally dislike.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
He's also kind of not a nice person.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
No, No, he's known as a real dick. He really is,
and it is that's who he is. Sorry, let's do
one more and we take a break.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Absolutely, let's did you hear about this terrible story on
the subway in New York? A suspect, a Guatemalan migrant,
he's been reported as a woman was killed on a
New York subway train Sunday morning after a man set
her clothes on fire with a lighter and what authorities
are calling a brutal murder and an example of depraved behavior.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Bill, Yeah, now, I mean it's horrific. And then does
it go into politics. We don't know what kind of
an immigrant he is, if he is illegal, much more
fodder for the upcoming administration of President Musk.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
What I did see was the President Musk.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Of course, what I did see was that this this
migrant did cross the border in twenty eighteen, so it
would have been under the first Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So I'm guessing that was Well, we'll find out whether
he was illegal or not. And this I hope this
doesn't go into a political statement as opposed to just
a horrible, horrific crime. It starts and stops right there.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, it certainly involves a couple of political elements. One,
you've got immigration, but then you've also got the general
public safety component in New York in places like la
as well on mass transit. And what was particularly striking
outside of just this brutal murder was Governor Kathy Hokeel
of New York taking a selfie on the subway system
that day, talking about how much safer it had become
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because of some work that she had put in, and
then this brutal murder happened.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Now, when she was taking a selfie, was she actually
being attacked at that time or that one was deleted.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I think that Kathy Hokle had taken this before, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And by the way, the fact that she was surrounded
by fourteen security officers hey with guns with their uzzies drawn,
that probably had a lot to do with it's the
safest place in the world.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We are familiar with those types of photo ops here
in La and Mentor for sure. All Right, So these
drones are still up in the sky, man, I mean,
people still don't know exactly what they are. Maybe the
government does, maybe they don't. The military says they're not
sure why or how to stop them. So this series
of drone sightings over military bases across the country has
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renewed concerns that the US doesn't have clear government wide
policy for how to deal with unauthorized incursions that could
potentially pose a national security threat. Bill, I'm sure you're
comforted comforted by the fact that President elect Trump will
be in office to deal with these UFOs.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, it's you know, the law is the law on this.
First of all, it's perfectly legal to fly UFOs. Now,
you can't do it in restricted airspace. And I think
that the government and the military can deal with it
if it is deemed to be a national security issue.
So if this continues on a another week, two weeks,
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three weeks, I can see they are shot down with
four million dollar missiles. So you take out a thirty
nine dollars Walmart drone and spend four million bucks to
take it down. And there are hundreds of them. But
I'll tell you they're going down.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
That you think that they are coming down these drugs.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I mean they're gonna do something, you know, it's yeah,
they're gonna have to declare this national emergency. There's so
many out there, but how many of them? And now
they're investigating a lot of people are looking at these
drones and they're seeing aircraft and reporting them as drones
and so, but there are drones out there. I think
only two guys have been arrested for flying over was
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it Logan Airport in Boston. I don't know the answer,
but I'd like to see why not at death rate?
Don't they have death rays that can you know, just
zip out, you know, zap the electronics. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, let's just get this thing over with, you know,
to go ahead and zap us all. Meanwhile, in Washington,
President Biden he's still president. Biden commutes most federal death
rose sentences to life in prison before Trump takes office.
What were your thoughts on this today, Bill.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well, I mean, no surprise. He can't just pardon his
son and not pardon everybody else. And he's now limited
to the death penalty only being used against terrorists. That's it.
The guy who was and one of the brothers was
involved in the Boston bombing, Dylan Roof the attack killing
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nine people with the Black Church and Charleston Robert Bowers
eleven worshipers at the Pittsburgh's Tree of Life and twenty
eighteen Other than that, everybody gets commuted. Communities these are
they're eligible and they have been convicted and the death
penalty is rendered. But you know, I mean death penalty
is you know, it's just not being used. I never
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tell you, Michael, I saw an execution? You did, Yeah,
eye witness an execution? Fabulous? One of the best days
that man. You if you ever get to witness and execution,
that's entertainment with a capital E.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
You know, they used to invite reporters to basic witnesses.
I know they still do it, and they still do
by law. Yeah, we would occasionally get those invitations at
other news organizations.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I've been.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I never I never got to do it. Not sure
if I would have enjoyed it the way you see, if.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You would have enjoyed it. It's a lottery one. The
only thing is they don't cater it. They don't give
you snacks.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Was it a clean killing or was there somebody for it?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Was? Actually k if? I won twice in a row
on the lottery. The first one was the last execution
by the gas Chambert Robert Alton Harris, and then the
next one, which I went to see, was the first
lethal injection execution. William Bonnen. I tell you the first
go around that gas chamber business. That is really strong.
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I mean that is kind of neat. Uh the one
by lethal injection, Eh, you know, so yeah, not as
much action. No, no, let me see a little bit
and just the cheek go out and you know, the
face turns purple and you see the last breath and
it's I mean, it's not bad. It really isn't. Well.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm sorry that President Biden rained on your parade with.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Uh, yeah, I wouldn't be invited. I don't think the
same rules apply for federal executions.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I know you've moved out to the hinterlands of Greater
Los Angeles, and I'm wondering if you're a big Starbucks guy,
because it might get a little bit trickier out there.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I know.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I oh you do.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, I hate it. I can't stand in the coffee.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, the good news is you won't have to drink it. Apparently,
because a lot of the workers are on strike, the
union has expanded its strike to nine states, including here, Bill,
right here in Burbank, we had we had a store
shut down by the barisas just a couple of days ago,
So they mean business. The Starbucks Workers United Union said
workers in Missouri, New Jersey, and New York began their
strike Sunday, after locations in Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania joined
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the strike that had already started right here in California
and in Washington and Illinois. So do you think the
Starbucks needs to start bargaining better with its baristas?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
In December, no wage increases at all, and a guarantee
in the future and no cap on that of one
point five percent. So it kind of pisses people off.
Can you imagine if iHeart offered you no increase. As
a matter of fact, that's exactly what they're doing. Yeah,
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and one point five percent increase. No, it's a one
point five percent decrease if you look at their latest offer.
But yeah, I think you're going to see this spread
because unionism is spreading.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yeah, we've seen it here in LA in the fast
food industry in particular. Are you seeing or sensing that
workers are feeling more empowered in some of these service Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Absolutely, what's motivating that's it's very cyclical. The unions were
incredibly strong in the creation of unions back at the
turn of the Last Entry, actually before that with the
Women's Garment Workers. That was the first big union in
the a c l O acl CIO and the eight
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America Federal AFL, and that came into being. That's when
workers were really really deprived of any rights and the
employer is just completely controlled and abused workers. And then
it started coming around and the heyday United Autoworkers in
the thirties with Walter Ruther and then my dad was
a union employee. He was a member of IBW, the
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Electrical Workers Union in the fifties and sixties and unions
were at the top of the heat. He was making
tons of money with great benefits, and then it went
the other way. You had deregulation, you had pro business,
you didn't have the same sort of left wing philosophy.
And now the unions have come back. So it's cyclical
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and it's tough. The only people that get away with,
you know, doing way and really abusing any possible unionism
is strangely enough, iHeart okay, let's go ahead. And by
the way, if you think I get in trouble by
railing into iHeart okay, let's come back.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Michael Monks does not endorse any of the comments made.
He's proudly, happily employed by iHeartMedia.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Well there you go.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I gotta tell you.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Bill is a relative newcomer to California about two years now.
The sticker shock at the pump never ceases. But it
is the cheapest Christmas gas since COVID in southern California.
And right now, what we're being told is that across
the country that's true. It's also true here in southern California.
Gas Buddy told CNN it expects gas prices will average
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about three dollars and one cent a gallon nationally on
Christmas Day?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Now, why do we even bother reporting on national gas prices?
So nationally the average is three bucks? All right, when's
the last time you bought read all our gas?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I think it's to make us envious.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I know it's because California law is weird, because it's
just crazy, the way the summer blended all out of
their crap. But it's you're right, you get sticker shock. Now.
What's reasonable, though, is housing. I'm sure that when you
came into southern California. Where do you come from?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
By the way, I'm from a place called Kentucky. Oh
you came from Kentucky? Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Did you have to take your car off the cinder
blocks and put wheels on it when you drove out? No?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I wrote a mule to work.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I believe that.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Yeah, so we were all good, and bad things happen
when you try to pump out.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
You know, I've actually had pretty good tasting squirrel soup
in my time, and I know that's the sort of
the national the state dish of Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It's a little party. It's a little tough to chew
with no teeth.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, what well, said, see, you're you can't do that.
I'm the one that says stuff like that. Michael. Okay,
you are not allowed to be funny. If that's funny
at all. What part of Kentucky did you I'm from.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I am from a Covington, Kentucky, which is connected by
river by bridge to Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Okay, all right, so it's more of a.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
White I mean, honestly, I'll play into your Kentucky tropes
if you like. But like, I'm from the city. I've
never been on a horse. I have all my teeth,
they're lovely. Okay, Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, what your sofa is on the porch and the
springs have sprung.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Indeed, indeed, our state vegetable is coal. Oh okay, not bad,
We're good.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Bad. Okay, let's move on. Good okay.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
JP Morgan Wells Fargo Bank of America facing federal lawsuit
over Zell payment network frauds. So this is a federal
civil complaint that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the
banks rush to get the peer to peer payment platform
to market without effective safeguards and bill.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
This is something a lot of people use Zell.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I mean, if you ever hang out in the fashion
district or some of these shops around town. They won't
let you pay with a card, but they'll gladly take
your Zell.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, and by the way, what a stunner. A major
financial institution once again accused of defrauding and nailing consumers. Boy,
I hadn't heard that one before.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Do you use Zell?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Uh? I don't, but no, it's mainly what do I use.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
A Palvenmo.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Checks?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
You write checks still with a quill? I imagine?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, I am so no, it's now I've used PayPal
and it was a Venmo. H Venmo? I use uh?
But uh, for some reason, not Zell.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Two US Navy pilots eject safely over the Red Sea
after a fighter jets shot down and apparent friendly fire incident.
So a lot of fun stuff happening over in the
Red Sea. Bill, this looks like a couple of our
own guys shot down by a couple of our own guys.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, and whuties of course are taking the credit for it,
although I don't think that the military would lie about
that that. Have a question, do you find it kind
of strange that when one of our guys shoots down
one of our guys they call that friendly.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
You know, it's an interesting point you read. You raise
about semantics. Frankly, I mean, I guess technically they're friends,
but we don't know what kind of drama was going
on between these folks.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
All right, because when I shoot someone, I know they
don't call that friendly. Okay, let's move on. Now.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Keep in mind, this is also the same military that
you're going to task with shooting down those drones.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So how do you think that's going to go?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Well? The drones. I don't think that when you go
and spend thirty nine dollars at Walmart for a drone,
it has the ability to shoot down a US fighters.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yet my yes, though probably true. Okay.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Questions are mounting in Germany over the deadly Christmas market
attack as the suspect appears in court. Now, this is
another example of how polarized our country is, because you're
always looking to, you know, put this guy into one
bracket of ideology.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Was this guy right wing? Was he left wing?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
How do we put him into American politics? Authorities in
Germany these growing accusations they could have done more to
prevent a deadly Christmas market attack. As a judge ordered
the suspect to be held in pre trialed attention following
a late night court apparance on Saturday. Talib Al abdu
Mulshin is accused of ramming a car into a busy
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market in the city of Madgeburg, killing five people and
injuring more than two hundred bill.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, a couple things. It reported that he is a psychiatrist.
When do you get that kind of news about someone
who does this. Also, as I was looking at this, thinking,
come on, you know, you're gonna blame the authorities because
usually they have these concrete posts or metal posts around
these Christmas markets. I've been to him in Germany and
the security is pretty good. You can't get any vehicle
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through them except this one. It's reported that he was
able to take a back entrance with which was not
in fact guarded or was not hardened. And that's there.
And then this situation is horrific. I mean he hit
two hundred people, you know, killed already five some are
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still life threatening. You remember it was first reported there
were two, but there were dozens other that were life threatening. Well,
three of those have already died and there's still others
with life threatening injuries.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
The dead included a nine year old boy. Yeah, and
then four women forty five, fifty two, sixty seven, and
seventy five years old.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Just a terrible thing to happen at the holidays.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
And then it's raising questions in Germany like we have
here in America over immigration. This guy was someone who
was from somewhere else, and then there are questions about
whose side was he on. Wish political ideology to subscribe
to a pretty terrible thing all around, And that case
is not over.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Do you want to do another or do you want now,
let's do one more and then we'll take a break.
You got it.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Joe Manchin, who's also from a West Virginia, you can
make fun of West Virginia the same as Kentucky. Interchangeable,
so you can get your jokes in here too as well,
Bill West jokes none, just statements of statements of fact. Observations, Yeah,
observations work, yeah. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin torches the
Democrats on his way out the door. Joe Manchin preparing
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to leave Congress after nearly fifteen years. He registered as
an independent earlier this year, leaving the Democratic Party. He's
further distancing himself from his former party, calling the Democratic
brand toxic bill.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Is it toxic?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, well, if you're a Republican, certainly toxic, and if
you're a Democrat, the Republican party is certainly toxic. Toxic.
I think it's fair to say both are toxic, certainly
to each other and the rest of us. Mansion was
always the most conservative of the Democrats. He was only
Democrat in name, and then he became an independent really
in name only, and then he is a pretty right
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wing I mean, the guy is conservative anyway you put it.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
It's a dell get dance to be elected as a
Democrat in West Virginia, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Okay, that makes sense to you. I don't know when
the last time one was, because West Virginia is a
pretty red state, all right.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
The FDA approves weight loss drug zep bound for obstructive
sleep apnea. US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved
the first prescription medicine for obstructive sleep apnea. It's a
weight loss drug, zep bound. This medicine is part of
the class known as g LP one receptor agonist that
also includes o zimpic. So we're finding a bill that
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these drugs can do wonders.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Oh yeah, this may very well be this class of drugs.
A wonder drug originally dealt with just for diabetes. They
expanded it and now in big enough doses. I mean
it's weight loss. It helps not only diabetes but heart disease.
I mean when you go through I talked to doctor
Jim Keiney a couple weeks ago and he said, this
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really may be the widest drug in of its use
and its efficacy and its ability to do what it is.
It's basically, you know, it's snake oil, except that it's real.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah, it's made from a real snake.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, exactly. You know how snake oil can deal with
everything and can cure everything. This looks like it not
only diabetes and heart and stroke, but now sleep app
and weight and ed and baldness and oily stools. I mean,
you're going to see this across the board.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
What is this going to do for the dating market
when we are all sexy?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, you know a lot of I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
You have to worry about I've never I've never had
to say you're used to having the field cleared anyway,
But you know what, what are we supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You know you're not a bad looking guy. You know that.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I mean, I I saw you the first time I
got some wood.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I hope it was oak.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Why don't we move on?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Colorado's skilift rescue. A crack in the ski lift forces
a winter park gondola evacuation. Hundred and seventy four skiers
in Colorado and snowboarders rescued.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Okay, this this sounds I've never been skiing, Bill, so
I don't know what it's like.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Obviously, I've seen images and videos and all of that
of these types of things.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I imagine you've been skiing. What would it be like?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Saying twice in my life and it didn't It didn't
pan out very well for me as bad as this. Yeah,
it's cold, it's well. Yeah, you always think you're gonna
get stuck.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah, sure you.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I always think that if I'm on some kind of
a gondola or a ski lift and and you're okay
when you're low and you're right near the snow line,
and then you go up two hundred feet part of it,
and that's scary because you know you're it's scary. It's
when this happens, and they have to go up and
they have to rescue you, and it's hours up there,
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and you freeze your you yeah, how do I put this?
You know, so we're okay with the FCC. You freeze your.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Balls off, but then you just take a zep bound
and your balls grow back?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Is that what? I?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
No, you're wrong? Or well here's a contradiction. What do
you do? Do you take zep bound so your testicular
activity increases, and do you counter that with steroids so
your balls look like there's a size of raisins. It
is all very complicated, But why don't we move on?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Let's indeed, because I think we're hitting some very sensitive
places for some of our listeners. Passenger attempts to bring
extremely concerning items through TSA through TSA at no place
other than lax itself. TSA officers shocked by what they
found a gamut of banned items in a woman's carry
on last week. Dozens of fireworks, replica guns and knives.
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I mean, look, you can't even get through there with
your laptop with being questioned.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
So eighty goodness, eighty.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Two fireworks consumers. I mean it's just in one carry
on bag. Yeah. Yeah, this one's a genius, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
This is probably someone who doesn't fly a lot. I mean,
how do you not know the rules? After all of
this time? She was flying to Philadelphia? Now do you
think that's a connection to anything here? Any comments about
East Coast?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
No? Not. You know, I'm tired of making fun of everybody.
Give me, give me a respite for a minute or two.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
All right, well, let's do this. Let's let's celebrate the
people who are due some money from the government. A
rare case of the government having to pay the people.
A million taxpayers will soon receive up to fourteen hundred
dollars from the IRS. It's not all of us, obviously,
but they're distributing about two point four billion dollars to
taxpayers who failed to claim a recovery rebate credit on
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their twenty twenty one tax returns, and also people who
missed one of the COVID stimulus payments or had received
less than the full amount they were able to claim
this credit.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Are you getting this check? Bill?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
You know, I don't even know whether I whether I
got one or not, because it's I get auto deposit
from the IRS. So ideal with them electronic. So frankly,
it's it's you know, my stuff is. I don't even
go into it because it's pretty complicated stuff, so I
don't know if I got it or not. Yeah, that's
how much I pay attention. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Well, you've got people for that.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I got people who have people who have people for that.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And I guess these people did not have people. Maybe
they went to some very quick tax service because this
was all very common to do during the pandemic on
how to handle this stuff on your taxes.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Well, the vast majority of people did get it, the vast,
vast majority. But you're still talking how much total that
were that's going to give a million people, But then
how many taxpayers are there? One million, one hundred and
twenty million. Yeah, so not a very big percentage. I
think we have time for one more.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Well, let's let's see. I've got two to choose from here.
Let's do this one. Let's talk about Vladimir Putin. He's
holding talks with the Prime Minister of Slovakia and this
is a rare visit to Moscow by a leader in
the European Union. So you know that situation in Eastern
Europe is still going on. And do you think with
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the change in geopolitics that we're going to see other
people cozying up to Vladimir Putin?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yes and no. But look at it this way. Slovakia
gets Russian gas, gets Russian natural gas, and it's a
pipeline that goes through Ukraine and it's still flowing because
Zelenski is honoring a treaty, a deal with Russia and
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Slovakia that ends. What is the end at the end
of the year, is that it it ends in a
few days. And what Zelensky is saying, that's gonna We're
gonna live up to the deal and then we're gonna
cut it off. We're done. And so now you've got
the Slovak Prime minister saying we have to get natural gas,
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and he's meeting with Russia because that's one of the
few things that Russia still exports and still has, I
mean the rest of it. A lot of sanctions going
on Russia, but not so much on the gas X
exportation because Europe relies on Russian natural gas.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
And we don't think of Slovakia as a world power
that I mean, but these are This is a nation,
a sovereign states with its own leadership. Is there any
type of influence that a country like that could have
on now?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Really, it's just I think the news is that you
have a member of the EU that's meeting with Putin,
and Putin and the EU have become ardent enemies. And
I've ever seen Slovak women. I don't think one of
them weighs under three hundred pounds in osh, very you.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Was that true before or after the split from the
Czech Republic?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
You know what? I don't remember, because no, it was
true before because even though Czech women are very heavy
set in the amen of themselves, the Slovaks taken it
to another extreme. By the way, we'll get emails from
Slovakia the people that are of Slovakian descent. Oh yeah,
you know, Okay, fair enough, We're done, guys. All right,
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
I was just told that's Michael Monks. Yes, was he
wearing plaid pants? Did I see that? Correctly? Come on,
he's actually quite fashion with yeh plaid pan. Now listen,
I'll tell you what's fashionable.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay, you will, you most certainly will not, sir, And
now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
He's good morning everybody. Bill Handle here on Monday morning,
December twenty three. It is the day before the day
before Christmas, and the day before the day before of
the evening of Hanukkah. So morning to one and all.
All right, Amy is not here today or for the
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rest of the week, and filling in for Amy is
Michael Monks. Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Good morning to you. Bill.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I only can see you from the waist up because
you're behind the desk. Would you stand up? Please?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Is this permitted talk in the workplace?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It is absolutely I assume Number one, I assume you
have pants on, and number two, I feel like Eminem.
Where the will the real Michael Monks? Please stand up?
Please stand up? Oh regular pants, Michael, They're a little plaid. No,
I can't see them plaid, but I can see them.
By the way, the quite the fruit packete you have
(01:32):
very impressive.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I appreciate that. Get that message out across the Yes,
I will.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So, Michael is in here this entire week. Neil is
not here, but Cono is uh and Cono you are
not working in the rest of the week because it's
this is the weird week. It's between Christmas and New
Year's always the weirdest week of the year in terms
of who's here and who's not. What's your schedule?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I just don't work Christmas Day in New Year's Day?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Okay, do we know who's filling in? What? What intern
that is willing to work for five dollars under minimum wage?
They were able to talk into working.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Sam is here one day and then Robin is here
another day.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, you know Sam's working on his PhD. If you haven't,
he hasn't gotten it yet, which is kind of impressive.
By the way, And you're off what tomorrow and the
rest of the week.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm off the same time you are.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Sorry tomorrow, Oh, okay, back come a sixth and then
filling in for me because I'm off tomorrow, and I'm
not back to the first Monday in January, and I
don't know what day that is January six, six Monday. Okay,
So I saw it's a long stretch. And who is well,
(02:46):
who's filling in for me for starters? Is it Wayne? Wayne? Wayne? Okay?
And who's filling in for you?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Michelle?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Michelle? Okay. I'm just out listen, I'm bringing it out.
I'm asking the question. These are rhetorical sort of questions
or questions I already know, but I want to get
everybody involved.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Right, You do not know any of the answers to
these questions.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's absolutely correct, Kono. And that's because I don't pay
attention to much. And if you were to ask me
that question, if you were to ask me that question
five minutes, ten minutes from now, it I wouldn't know
the answer. Although there's a story I don't know. We're
covering it on handle on the news about President to
(03:27):
be Donald Trump wanting to take back the Panama Canal.
And here's one Okay, Michael, this is the Gerbil going
crazy in my head. Remember, I don't remember what I
had this morning ten minutes ago. How wide is the
old before they put the new Panama Canal in. How
(03:48):
wide is the original? How big? How wide can ships be?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
How wide could the ships be in the original Panama
Canal from the early nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, fifty three feet?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I think it's a ten feet. Would you look that up?
See if I'm right or not?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Sure if I'm wrong, or the width of the canal
was one hundred and ten feet. We have to look
that up. And I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
It was one hundred and ten feet, sir, Thank you
very much. Well done.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Wow, Well, have no idea who's here tomorrow? But hey,
what can I tell you? Life? It just continues on
on the morning show, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It does for some of us.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I'm not all week. I can tell you that it
just gets through. And you have Jesus Christ himself filling
in for you on Wednesday. So that's not bad, that's true.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Matter of fact, every Christmas Day Jesus fills in for me.
I have quite often asked if I could fill in
for Jesus on the Sunday Show and give marginal spiritual advice,
and the answer has been a very hard, hard no.
They because people who have called up and are very depressed,
(05:00):
very and actually are contemplating hurting themselves. And Jesus works
it out very well, very calm, very measured. You'd hear
me scream, jump do it right now. Jump. That's why
they won't let me fill in. Okay, are you guys
ready to do it? Let's do it. Handle on the
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news with Michael Munks, O'Neil and me lead story. Well,
here's a shocker. The Matt Gates Ethics Report has come
out by the Congressional Ethics Investigators, and yep, they said
that everything he's accused of has, in fact i happened.
(05:45):
He did pay a bunch of women, including a seventeen
year old girl for sex, purchased, use illegal drugs including ecstasy,
dealing with sex from from his Capitol Hill office. And
this was a long running investigation Gates by the House
Ethics Committee. And so of course he has denied any
(06:05):
of that. Now here was a question that since he
is no longer a congress person and no longer has
any connection with government in any way, there was talk
of you know, why release it because in the past
it hasn't been released, saying hey, the guy is out. Ah,
is this simply political retribution? Well, yeah, probably. And the
(06:27):
good news for Gates is I don't think there is
one person in Congress that likes him, not one. I
think it ranges all the way from dislike to active
dislike to absolute hatred and beyond that.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
He has the vibe of every jerk from the eighties
comedy involving college students. You know, he's got the right hair,
he's got the right shiny looking face, and cut suits
and all of that, so I can see why he's
just naturally dislike.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
He's also kind of not a nice person.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
No, No, he's known as a real dick. He really is,
and it is that's who he is. Sorry, let's do
one more and we take a break.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Absolutely, let's did you hear about this terrible story on
the subway in New York? A suspect, a Guatemalan migrant,
he's been reported as a woman was killed on a
New York subway train Sunday morning after a man set
her clothes on fire with a lighter and what authorities
are calling a brutal murder and an example of depraved behavior.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Bill, Yeah, now, I mean it's horrific. And then does
it go into politics. We don't know what kind of
an immigrant he is, if he is illegal, much more
fodder for the upcoming administration of President Musk.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
What I did see was the President Musk.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Of course, what I did see was that this this
migrant did cross the border in twenty eighteen, so it
would have been under the first Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So I'm guessing that was Well, we'll find out whether
he was illegal or not. And this I hope this
doesn't go into a political statement as opposed to just
a horrible, horrific crime. It starts and stops right there.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, it certainly involves a couple of political elements. One,
you've got immigration, but then you've also got the general
public safety component in New York in places like la
as well on mass transit. And what was particularly striking
outside of just this brutal murder was Governor Kathy Hokeel
of New York taking a selfie on the subway system
that day, talking about how much safer it had become
(08:35):
because of some work that she had put in, and
then this brutal murder happened.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Now, when she was taking a selfie, was she actually
being attacked at that time or that one was deleted.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I think that Kathy Hokle had taken this before, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And by the way, the fact that she was surrounded
by fourteen security officers hey with guns with their uzzies drawn,
that probably had a lot to do with it's the
safest place in the world.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We are familiar with those types of photo ops here
in La and Mentor for sure. All Right, So these
drones are still up in the sky, man, I mean,
people still don't know exactly what they are. Maybe the
government does, maybe they don't. The military says they're not
sure why or how to stop them. So this series
of drone sightings over military bases across the country has
(09:21):
renewed concerns that the US doesn't have clear government wide
policy for how to deal with unauthorized incursions that could
potentially pose a national security threat. Bill, I'm sure you're
comforted comforted by the fact that President elect Trump will
be in office to deal with these UFOs.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, it's you know, the law is the law on this.
First of all, it's perfectly legal to fly UFOs. Now,
you can't do it in restricted airspace. And I think
that the government and the military can deal with it
if it is deemed to be a national security issue.
So if this continues on a another week, two weeks,
(09:59):
three weeks, I can see they are shot down with
four million dollar missiles. So you take out a thirty
nine dollars Walmart drone and spend four million bucks to
take it down. And there are hundreds of them. But
I'll tell you they're going down.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
That you think that they are coming down these drugs.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I mean they're gonna do something, you know, it's yeah,
they're gonna have to declare this national emergency. There's so
many out there, but how many of them? And now
they're investigating a lot of people are looking at these
drones and they're seeing aircraft and reporting them as drones
and so, but there are drones out there. I think
only two guys have been arrested for flying over was
(10:39):
it Logan Airport in Boston. I don't know the answer,
but I'd like to see why not at death rate?
Don't they have death rays that can you know, just
zip out, you know, zap the electronics. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, let's just get this thing over with, you know,
to go ahead and zap us all. Meanwhile, in Washington,
President Biden he's still president. Biden commutes most federal death
rose sentences to life in prison before Trump takes office.
What were your thoughts on this today, Bill.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well, I mean, no surprise. He can't just pardon his
son and not pardon everybody else. And he's now limited
to the death penalty only being used against terrorists. That's it.
The guy who was and one of the brothers was
involved in the Boston bombing, Dylan Roof the attack killing
(11:30):
nine people with the Black Church and Charleston Robert Bowers
eleven worshipers at the Pittsburgh's Tree of Life and twenty
eighteen Other than that, everybody gets commuted. Communities these are
they're eligible and they have been convicted and the death
penalty is rendered. But you know, I mean death penalty
is you know, it's just not being used. I never
(11:52):
tell you, Michael, I saw an execution? You did, Yeah,
eye witness an execution? Fabulous? One of the best days
that man. You if you ever get to witness and execution,
that's entertainment with a capital E.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
You know, they used to invite reporters to basic witnesses.
I know they still do it, and they still do
by law. Yeah, we would occasionally get those invitations at
other news organizations.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I've been.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I never I never got to do it. Not sure
if I would have enjoyed it the way you see, if.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You would have enjoyed it. It's a lottery one. The
only thing is they don't cater it. They don't give
you snacks.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Was it a clean killing or was there somebody for it?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Was? Actually k if? I won twice in a row
on the lottery. The first one was the last execution
by the gas Chambert Robert Alton Harris, and then the
next one, which I went to see, was the first
lethal injection execution. William Bonnen. I tell you the first
go around that gas chamber business. That is really strong.
(12:47):
I mean that is kind of neat. Uh the one
by lethal injection, Eh, you know, so yeah, not as
much action. No, no, let me see a little bit
and just the cheek go out and you know, the
face turns purple and you see the last breath and
it's I mean, it's not bad. It really isn't. Well.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm sorry that President Biden rained on your parade with.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Uh, yeah, I wouldn't be invited. I don't think the
same rules apply for federal executions.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I know you've moved out to the hinterlands of Greater
Los Angeles, and I'm wondering if you're a big Starbucks guy,
because it might get a little bit trickier out there.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I know.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I oh you do.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, I hate it. I can't stand in the coffee.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, the good news is you won't have to drink it. Apparently,
because a lot of the workers are on strike, the
union has expanded its strike to nine states, including here, Bill,
right here in Burbank, we had we had a store
shut down by the barisas just a couple of days ago,
So they mean business. The Starbucks Workers United Union said
workers in Missouri, New Jersey, and New York began their
strike Sunday, after locations in Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania joined
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the strike that had already started right here in California
and in Washington and Illinois. So do you think the
Starbucks needs to start bargaining better with its baristas?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
In December, no wage increases at all, and a guarantee
in the future and no cap on that of one
point five percent. So it kind of pisses people off.
Can you imagine if iHeart offered you no increase. As
a matter of fact, that's exactly what they're doing. Yeah,
(14:23):
and one point five percent increase. No, it's a one
point five percent decrease if you look at their latest offer.
But yeah, I think you're going to see this spread
because unionism is spreading.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yeah, we've seen it here in LA in the fast
food industry in particular. Are you seeing or sensing that
workers are feeling more empowered in some of these service Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Absolutely, what's motivating that's it's very cyclical. The unions were
incredibly strong in the creation of unions back at the
turn of the Last Entry, actually before that with the
Women's Garment Workers. That was the first big union in
the a c l O acl CIO and the eight
(15:10):
America Federal AFL, and that came into being. That's when
workers were really really deprived of any rights and the
employer is just completely controlled and abused workers. And then
it started coming around and the heyday United Autoworkers in
the thirties with Walter Ruther and then my dad was
a union employee. He was a member of IBW, the
(15:33):
Electrical Workers Union in the fifties and sixties and unions
were at the top of the heat. He was making
tons of money with great benefits, and then it went
the other way. You had deregulation, you had pro business,
you didn't have the same sort of left wing philosophy.
And now the unions have come back. So it's cyclical
(15:56):
and it's tough. The only people that get away with,
you know, doing way and really abusing any possible unionism
is strangely enough, iHeart okay, let's go ahead. And by
the way, if you think I get in trouble by
railing into iHeart okay, let's come back.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Michael Monks does not endorse any of the comments made.
He's proudly, happily employed by iHeartMedia.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Well there you go.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I gotta tell you.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Bill is a relative newcomer to California about two years now.
The sticker shock at the pump never ceases. But it
is the cheapest Christmas gas since COVID in southern California.
And right now, what we're being told is that across
the country that's true. It's also true here in southern California.
Gas Buddy told CNN it expects gas prices will average
(16:46):
about three dollars and one cent a gallon nationally on
Christmas Day?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Now, why do we even bother reporting on national gas prices?
So nationally the average is three bucks? All right, when's
the last time you bought read all our gas?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I think it's to make us envious.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I know it's because California law is weird, because it's
just crazy, the way the summer blended all out of
their crap. But it's you're right, you get sticker shock. Now.
What's reasonable, though, is housing. I'm sure that when you
came into southern California. Where do you come from?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
By the way, I'm from a place called Kentucky. Oh
you came from Kentucky? Yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Did you have to take your car off the cinder
blocks and put wheels on it when you drove out? No?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I wrote a mule to work.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I believe that.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Yeah, so we were all good, and bad things happen
when you try to pump out.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
You know, I've actually had pretty good tasting squirrel soup
in my time, and I know that's the sort of
the national the state dish of Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It's a little party. It's a little tough to chew
with no teeth.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, what well, said, see, you're you can't do that.
I'm the one that says stuff like that. Michael. Okay,
you are not allowed to be funny. If that's funny
at all. What part of Kentucky did you I'm from.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I am from a Covington, Kentucky, which is connected by
river by bridge to Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Okay, all right, so it's more of a.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
White I mean, honestly, I'll play into your Kentucky tropes
if you like. But like, I'm from the city. I've
never been on a horse. I have all my teeth,
they're lovely. Okay, Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, what your sofa is on the porch and the
springs have sprung.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Indeed, indeed, our state vegetable is coal. Oh okay, not bad,
We're good.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Bad. Okay, let's move on. Good okay.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
JP Morgan Wells Fargo Bank of America facing federal lawsuit
over Zell payment network frauds. So this is a federal
civil complaint that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the
banks rush to get the peer to peer payment platform
to market without effective safeguards and bill.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
This is something a lot of people use Zell.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I mean, if you ever hang out in the fashion
district or some of these shops around town. They won't
let you pay with a card, but they'll gladly take
your Zell.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, and by the way, what a stunner. A major
financial institution once again accused of defrauding and nailing consumers. Boy,
I hadn't heard that one before.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Do you use Zell?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Uh? I don't, but no, it's mainly what do I use.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
A Palvenmo.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Checks?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
You write checks still with a quill? I imagine?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, I am so no, it's now I've used PayPal
and it was a Venmo. H Venmo? I use uh?
But uh, for some reason, not Zell.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Two US Navy pilots eject safely over the Red Sea
after a fighter jets shot down and apparent friendly fire incident.
So a lot of fun stuff happening over in the
Red Sea. Bill, this looks like a couple of our
own guys shot down by a couple of our own guys.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, and whuties of course are taking the credit for it,
although I don't think that the military would lie about
that that. Have a question, do you find it kind
of strange that when one of our guys shoots down
one of our guys they call that friendly.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
You know, it's an interesting point you read. You raise
about semantics. Frankly, I mean, I guess technically they're friends,
but we don't know what kind of drama was going
on between these folks.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
All right, because when I shoot someone, I know they
don't call that friendly. Okay, let's move on. Now.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Keep in mind, this is also the same military that
you're going to task with shooting down those drones.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So how do you think that's going to go?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Well? The drones. I don't think that when you go
and spend thirty nine dollars at Walmart for a drone,
it has the ability to shoot down a US fighters.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yet my yes, though probably true. Okay.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Questions are mounting in Germany over the deadly Christmas market
attack as the suspect appears in court. Now, this is
another example of how polarized our country is, because you're
always looking to, you know, put this guy into one
bracket of ideology.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Was this guy right wing? Was he left wing?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
How do we put him into American politics? Authorities in
Germany these growing accusations they could have done more to
prevent a deadly Christmas market attack. As a judge ordered
the suspect to be held in pre trialed attention following
a late night court apparance on Saturday. Talib Al abdu
Mulshin is accused of ramming a car into a busy
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market in the city of Madgeburg, killing five people and
injuring more than two hundred bill.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, a couple things. It reported that he is a psychiatrist.
When do you get that kind of news about someone
who does this. Also, as I was looking at this, thinking,
come on, you know, you're gonna blame the authorities because
usually they have these concrete posts or metal posts around
these Christmas markets. I've been to him in Germany and
the security is pretty good. You can't get any vehicle
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through them except this one. It's reported that he was
able to take a back entrance with which was not
in fact guarded or was not hardened. And that's there.
And then this situation is horrific. I mean he hit
two hundred people, you know, killed already five some are
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still life threatening. You remember it was first reported there
were two, but there were dozens other that were life threatening. Well,
three of those have already died and there's still others
with life threatening injuries.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
The dead included a nine year old boy. Yeah, and
then four women forty five, fifty two, sixty seven, and
seventy five years old.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Just a terrible thing to happen at the holidays.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
And then it's raising questions in Germany like we have
here in America over immigration. This guy was someone who
was from somewhere else, and then there are questions about
whose side was he on. Wish political ideology to subscribe
to a pretty terrible thing all around, And that case
is not over.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Do you want to do another or do you want now,
let's do one more and then we'll take a break.
You got it.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Joe Manchin, who's also from a West Virginia, you can
make fun of West Virginia the same as Kentucky. Interchangeable,
so you can get your jokes in here too as well,
Bill West jokes none, just statements of statements of fact. Observations, Yeah,
observations work, yeah. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin torches the
Democrats on his way out the door. Joe Manchin preparing
(23:18):
to leave Congress after nearly fifteen years. He registered as
an independent earlier this year, leaving the Democratic Party. He's
further distancing himself from his former party, calling the Democratic
brand toxic bill.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Is it toxic?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, well, if you're a Republican, certainly toxic, and if
you're a Democrat, the Republican party is certainly toxic. Toxic.
I think it's fair to say both are toxic, certainly
to each other and the rest of us. Mansion was
always the most conservative of the Democrats. He was only
Democrat in name, and then he became an independent really
in name only, and then he is a pretty right
(23:56):
wing I mean, the guy is conservative anyway you put it.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
It's a dell get dance to be elected as a
Democrat in West Virginia, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Okay, that makes sense to you. I don't know when
the last time one was, because West Virginia is a
pretty red state, all right.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
The FDA approves weight loss drug zep bound for obstructive
sleep apnea. US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved
the first prescription medicine for obstructive sleep apnea. It's a
weight loss drug, zep bound. This medicine is part of
the class known as g LP one receptor agonist that
also includes o zimpic. So we're finding a bill that
(24:33):
these drugs can do wonders.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Oh yeah, this may very well be this class of drugs.
A wonder drug originally dealt with just for diabetes. They
expanded it and now in big enough doses. I mean
it's weight loss. It helps not only diabetes but heart disease.
I mean when you go through I talked to doctor
Jim Keiney a couple weeks ago and he said, this
(24:54):
really may be the widest drug in of its use
and its efficacy and its ability to do what it is.
It's basically, you know, it's snake oil, except that it's real.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah, it's made from a real snake.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, exactly. You know how snake oil can deal with
everything and can cure everything. This looks like it not
only diabetes and heart and stroke, but now sleep app
and weight and ed and baldness and oily stools. I mean,
you're going to see this across the board.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
What is this going to do for the dating market
when we are all sexy?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, you know a lot of I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
You have to worry about I've never I've never had
to say you're used to having the field cleared anyway,
But you know what, what are we supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You know you're not a bad looking guy. You know that.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I mean, I I saw you the first time I
got some wood.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I hope it was oak.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Why don't we move on?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Colorado's skilift rescue. A crack in the ski lift forces
a winter park gondola evacuation. Hundred and seventy four skiers
in Colorado and snowboarders rescued.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Okay, this this sounds I've never been skiing, Bill, so
I don't know what it's like.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Obviously, I've seen images and videos and all of that
of these types of things.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I imagine you've been skiing. What would it be like?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Saying twice in my life and it didn't It didn't
pan out very well for me as bad as this. Yeah,
it's cold, it's well. Yeah, you always think you're gonna
get stuck.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah, sure you.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I always think that if I'm on some kind of
a gondola or a ski lift and and you're okay
when you're low and you're right near the snow line,
and then you go up two hundred feet part of it,
and that's scary because you know you're it's scary. It's
when this happens, and they have to go up and
they have to rescue you, and it's hours up there,
(26:44):
and you freeze your you yeah, how do I put this?
You know, so we're okay with the FCC. You freeze your.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Balls off, but then you just take a zep bound
and your balls grow back?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Is that what? I?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
No, you're wrong? Or well here's a contradiction. What do
you do? Do you take zep bound so your testicular
activity increases, and do you counter that with steroids so
your balls look like there's a size of raisins. It
is all very complicated, But why don't we move on?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Let's indeed, because I think we're hitting some very sensitive
places for some of our listeners. Passenger attempts to bring
extremely concerning items through TSA through TSA at no place
other than lax itself. TSA officers shocked by what they
found a gamut of banned items in a woman's carry
on last week. Dozens of fireworks, replica guns and knives.
(27:45):
I mean, look, you can't even get through there with
your laptop with being questioned.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
So eighty goodness, eighty.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Two fireworks consumers. I mean it's just in one carry
on bag. Yeah. Yeah, this one's a genius, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
This is probably someone who doesn't fly a lot. I mean,
how do you not know the rules? After all of
this time? She was flying to Philadelphia? Now do you
think that's a connection to anything here? Any comments about
East Coast?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
No? Not. You know, I'm tired of making fun of everybody.
Give me, give me a respite for a minute or two.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
All right, well, let's do this. Let's let's celebrate the
people who are due some money from the government. A
rare case of the government having to pay the people.
A million taxpayers will soon receive up to fourteen hundred
dollars from the IRS. It's not all of us, obviously,
but they're distributing about two point four billion dollars to
taxpayers who failed to claim a recovery rebate credit on
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their twenty twenty one tax returns, and also people who
missed one of the COVID stimulus payments or had received
less than the full amount they were able to claim
this credit.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Are you getting this check? Bill?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
You know, I don't even know whether I whether I
got one or not, because it's I get auto deposit
from the IRS. So ideal with them electronic. So frankly,
it's it's you know, my stuff is. I don't even
go into it because it's pretty complicated stuff, so I
don't know if I got it or not. Yeah, that's
how much I pay attention. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Well, you've got people for that.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I got people who have people who have people for that.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And I guess these people did not have people. Maybe
they went to some very quick tax service because this
was all very common to do during the pandemic on
how to handle this stuff on your taxes.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Well, the vast majority of people did get it, the vast,
vast majority. But you're still talking how much total that
were that's going to give a million people, But then
how many taxpayers are there? One million, one hundred and
twenty million. Yeah, so not a very big percentage. I
think we have time for one more.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Well, let's let's see. I've got two to choose from here.
Let's do this one. Let's talk about Vladimir Putin. He's
holding talks with the Prime Minister of Slovakia and this
is a rare visit to Moscow by a leader in
the European Union. So you know that situation in Eastern
Europe is still going on. And do you think with
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the change in geopolitics that we're going to see other
people cozying up to Vladimir Putin?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yes and no. But look at it this way. Slovakia
gets Russian gas, gets Russian natural gas, and it's a
pipeline that goes through Ukraine and it's still flowing because
Zelenski is honoring a treaty, a deal with Russia and
(30:35):
Slovakia that ends. What is the end at the end
of the year, is that it it ends in a
few days. And what Zelensky is saying, that's gonna We're
gonna live up to the deal and then we're gonna
cut it off. We're done. And so now you've got
the Slovak Prime minister saying we have to get natural gas,
(30:56):
and he's meeting with Russia because that's one of the
few things that Russia still exports and still has, I
mean the rest of it. A lot of sanctions going
on Russia, but not so much on the gas X
exportation because Europe relies on Russian natural gas.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
And we don't think of Slovakia as a world power
that I mean, but these are This is a nation,
a sovereign states with its own leadership. Is there any
type of influence that a country like that could have
on now?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Really, it's just I think the news is that you
have a member of the EU that's meeting with Putin,
and Putin and the EU have become ardent enemies. And
I've ever seen Slovak women. I don't think one of
them weighs under three hundred pounds in osh, very you.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Was that true before or after the split from the
Czech Republic?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
You know what? I don't remember, because no, it was
true before because even though Czech women are very heavy
set in the amen of themselves, the Slovaks taken it
to another extreme. By the way, we'll get emails from
Slovakia the people that are of Slovakian descent. Oh yeah,
you know, Okay, fair enough, We're done, guys. All right,
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