February 13, 2025 • 27 mins
(February 13, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Flash flood watch issued as new storm could bring nearly 5 inches of rain to foothill burn areas. Evacuation warning to take effect Thursday for parts of Airport Fire burn scar area in Orange County. Munich: Dozens injured in car ramming as city prepares for high-stakes security conference. 75,000 federal workers accepted President Trump’s buyouts as offer ends. Elon Musk calls for the U.S government to delete entire agencies: ‘Remove the roots of the weed.’
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Flash flood watch issued as new storm could bring nearly 5 inches of rain to foothill burn areas. Evacuation warning to take effect Thursday for parts of Airport Fire burn scar area in Orange County. Munich: Dozens injured in car ramming as city prepares for high-stakes security conference. 75,000 federal workers accepted President Trump’s buyouts as offer ends. Elon Musk calls for the U.S government to delete entire agencies: ‘Remove the roots of the weed.’
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Trump also said yesterday, if the AP does not use
the Gulf of America as describing the Gulf of Mexico,
Trump will be sending troops into the AP and we'll.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Be attacking it. Didn't we see that AP reporter trying
to crash the Oval office. It was dragged off in handcuffs.
Do I have that right?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh, and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Bill Handle here and the Morning Crew modified Morning Crew
today and it is Thursday morning, February thirteenth. By the way,
that Trump line that I said about, let's just say
these some issues with the AP that refuses to or
(01:03):
we'll still use the term the ghost of Mexico.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I don't know how far off I am. One of
the things I want to talk about, and that is
what time we're going to do.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That At eight thirty is thirty three moves that President
Trump has made in twenty three days and.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Executive executive actions.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The last time anybody came close to this was FDR
when he inherited the depression and how he had to
deal with the same thing happened.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Lawsuits were filed.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It was a conservative court and in fact shut down
a lot of what FDR wanted. But FDR was a
liberal and it was It'll be a little bit of
history now we talk about.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So first, let's say hello to everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Cono, good morning, Moonda, Bill Okay, Neil, good morning, Willie
wolf Amy good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Well Hello Bill.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And filling in for Anne today and tomorrow is Michelle.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Hello, good morning.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
The the erstwhile of the erstwhile producer of this show
for twenty five years and Michelle now promoted to executive
producer almost twenty six years.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
How long you've been the executive producer, Michelle?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Almost four?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Really? All right?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Longer?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So Anne is not here, by the way, am I
is Anne? Okay? With sharing why she's gone for two days?
Does she say anything? Would rather not this?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I don't know. I would probably say air on the
side of not. She'll probably okay.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Then, okay, fair enough. So what a tease that is? Huh?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Just some stuff?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Of course that people.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, usually people do have some stuff going on, unless
they are so sick of the show they go I
need a day off. Nothing going on. Yes, that is
not only an option, it is a possibility, It is
a probability.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I would say it should be required that every few
months you get a few days off from you.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Uh yeah, yeah, all right, So maybe she'll share on Monday,
so you have to tune in. Michelle is here today
and tomorrow. Big storms coming in today. We have a
lot to cover.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
As a matter of fact, let's start with Amy. I
say good morning to you already.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
You did, oh for the love of them.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Okay, this is memory, this is memory speaking.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now I can tell you the programs that FDR actually
did initiate, which ones were shot down by the Supreme
Court in nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But I forgot that.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I said hello to Amy thirty five seconds ago.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
You know who else have springs like that? Dementia patients?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
True? Actually, I just you know, you're right.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
I was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, that's in the news, and I take ambient and
it says and my balance is bad.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'm forgetting things.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So I've always forgotten things, so that hasn't changed very much.
But I'm right in line with what's going on. It's
pretty scary stuff. So okay, okay, so I'll be very
forgetful this morning, it's time for Handle news.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Today is Thursday. We're starting Handle on the news.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That is correct with Amy.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
The point is, I know that's correct, So that's the
least helpful as opposed to huh huh, what are we doing? Okay,
time for Handle on the news. Lead story.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You keep him and it's all about the rain.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And when we have any issues of climate, I always
defer to Amy to give us the latest.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So the rain is falling now, the heaviest that helps.
It is expected to start at about two this afternoon.
And because of the heavy rain expected and maybe even
thunderstorms which would be really bad tonight, there are several
evacuation warnings in place. They could turn into evacuation orders
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if they If your house is under an evacuation order,
you would have been contacted by now directly. But just
know that, you know, mud flows and debris flows and
flash flooding is all the possibility, So get ready and
be ready to get.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Out if you have to. Yeah, that's gonna be a
big one.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It's in La County near the burn scars. It's in
Orange County near the airport fire. It's also in the
Ie from the fires. From earlier, from October. So there's
several areas that are affected.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
All right, we'll be reporting on that. Well, I think
Gary and Shannon will be more reporting. And then this
afternoon because the rain's coming down and it's getting uh
you see, getting harder and harder as it comes down. Now, quick,
quick question, rain always comes down? Why do we say that?
Is a does does that ever go up?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Okay, something, I'm just wondering why rain always comes down.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It seems to me a touch of redundancy there.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Uh gravity Uh, I think, yeah, I think I think
gravity has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, yeah, I'll buy that.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
If the winds are blowing hard enough, it blows sideway,
it falls side sideways.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
That's true. I'll buy that. And of course, our one
of our favorite views is you watch TV and the
reporter from local station, even national station is there with
a microphone talking about the winds.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Although now the microphones are so good that the winds
could be howling and still you can hear the reporter
fairly clearly. However, the visual, and this is where I
wish we were television, The visual of a reporter standing
there and then being just swept away in front of you,
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like sideways, just hitting the wall.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
A lot of fun to see that happening.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Getting ready to get out.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
As we've been telling you, some people are being warned
that they might need to evacuate because of possible debris
and mudflows. So there is a voluntary evacuation warning for
several areas in the Airport burnfire. That's the one in
Orange County that burned in last fall, Tribuco Canyon, Bell Canyon,
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Hot Springs Canyon, Long Canyon, Majesica Canyon. Flood watch will
also be in effect from this morning through tonight for
most of Orange County. In fact, the floodwatch is up
for much of southern California.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, and you can go to the site you are
going to be swept away and die dot com. Okay, okay, okay,
you can respond, you know I did.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Okay, it was by not responding, So that says a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That says a lot, because silence is the loudest reaction
you can have.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Who came up with that phrase? By the way, what
moron came up with that?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I'm pretty sure Let's move on whoever it was?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
No, No, let's move on, Neil now let's move on.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Please, I'll give a beat here because this is sad.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
A car plowed into demonstrators in Munich this morning, injuring
at least twenty eight people. Local officials are looking at
this and calling it a suspected attack. Unfortunately, children were
among the injured, according to the city's mayor. So the
car hit a group of protesters staging a demonstration and
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this was linked to a strike organized by the thirty Union.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So you know, terror attacks are now defaulting just by
taking a car truck and slamming into a group with people.
You know, they're getting away from bombing, which takes manufacturing
the bomb, and certainly hijacking is you know, it's almost
impossible to do, but drive, renting a car, drive in car,
stealing a car or a truck and plowing into a
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group of people and killing or injuring dozens. That's the
go to now for terrorists. And how do you defend
against that?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
You don't.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
And the whole point is we like to focus on
the weapon of choice rather than focusing on people wanting
to do this to harm other people.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You know, they'll find a way that I think it's
basically social media and people calling in and the National
Security Agency. Do you know that the NSA monitors every
single phone call that's made in the United States everyone,
and it goes through all kinds of algorithms and they
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pull out words and phrases and then someone determines or
another algorithm determines whether that is some kind of a
risk question, okay. Or a little bit of advice, don't
look up pressure cookers if you're going to buy one.
And if you are talking about a movie and it's
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not doing too well.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Do not call it a bomb. That good advice.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
That is, as we say, we say that it's a
mass shooting, rather than saying that it's a mass killing
when really the killing part is the worst part about it. Okay,
whether it's a car or a knife a guy, thats okay.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That resonates.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Let's take the deal. That's what seventy five thousand federal
employees are saying to President Trump's buyout offer. The deal was,
if you agree to resign, we'll pay you through September.
And a judge had put it on hold said nope,
can't do that. But he didn't really say no, because
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the same judge lifted the pause on the program said,
the labor unions who sued didn't really have standing to
file the lawsuit. So the people who've accepted it about
three point three percent of the federal government's two point
three million workers.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I tried to do the numbers on this, and my
calculator didn't work very well on my phone. If the
average employee, the federal government average employeelet's say, make sixty
thousand dollars a year, is that about right if.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
You look at and maybe more than that, because that's
a good job to be a FED employee.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And there's seventy five thousand federal employees have already accepted
the deal. What is seventy five thousand times sixty thousand?
Because someone do the math on that.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Your calculator brank on. No, it just doesn't work. It
shows error, and I just you know, it's just it's
my iPhone.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Care.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
What did you say? Seventy five thousand times.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Seventy five thousand times sixty thousand.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Four point five billion?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Okay, Yeah, so far four point five billion dollars. That's
a chunk of money, and they're going to be more.
And if people do not sign up for this, the
risk is they're going to simply be fired under the
new Musk orient No, under the Musk managed DOGE where
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they're trying to really cut down on spending. Well, there's
four point five billion dollars right there. So that's we're
going to talk about that a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
As you can imagine.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Oh, I see what's wrong. I can see your calculator
from here. It's upside down. It's it says boobies. Bill.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Elon Musk calls for US government to delete entire agencies.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
He went on to say that he thinks.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
We need to delete entire agencies as opposed to leaving
part of them behind, and then gives the analogy of
like a weed. He says, if you don't remove the
roots of the weed, that it's easy for the weed
to grow back. So he says there's just some departments
that instead of trimming, you just need to get rid of.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, education is going to be gotten rid of.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Trump said, the Education secretary is there to undo. Also,
let me ask a question, if the government got rid
of the department that sets up those lecterns and microphones
at various locations, would anybody hear that.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
These agencies are going to be dismantled.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
I don't know the answer to that is that, like
if a signed company goes on strike, like what do
they hold?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Speaking of Elon Musk, he's getting a big defense contract.
He's prompted another backlash online after it was revealed that
his rocket company SpaceX is still getting multimillion dollar contracts
from the US government while he's working two slash trillions
of dollars from the federal budget.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah. I mean that is an accusation. That is a
complete croc.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
When he was asked in the Oval Office, is there
a conflict here amongst your companies that have contracts with
the federal government, he said, no, there aren't.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Therefore we know there aren't.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Because he said it, and I think the President backed
that up. No conflict, no conflict, Thank you very much.
There's no conflict.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
And then he looked at President Trump said I think
that person just said Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Certain, I think so, and Trump handed him a contract
at the time and said, this is not a conflict.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I mean, it's crazy stuff.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
We'll tag this on really quickly before we go to
a break. You're gonna love this bill because tagging on
to that you know, every I guess every now and
again they put out these forecasts. The government puts out
these forecasts talk about the companies that they're partnering with
in the future and the cost.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
While the State.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Department was planning to buy four hundred million worth of
armored Tesla's later this year, according to that twenty twenty
five procurear procurement forecast, and all of a sudden, the
document that said that they were going to buy them
from Tesla has been changed, and now it just says
(15:21):
that they're going to buy four hundred thousand or four
hundred million worth of electric armored vehicles, but doesn't mention Tesla.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, I wonder who made that call. I do not
think it is Marco Rubio, who's head of the State Department.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I think it was lower down on the management level.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I'm just I'm prognosticating here. I don't know the answer
of that, just guessing, all right.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
New York's being accused of playing favorites. The Trump administration
has sued New York over its immigration policies and accused
state officials of prioritizing or favoring illegal aliens over US citizens.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said. She cited New York's green
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light law, which allows people in the state to get
a driver license regardless of citizenship or legal status, and
she said, you know what that's stopping. It stops today,
and then other stuff as well.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, now I can see that philosophy. Okay, we don't
want illegal migrants to get driver's license, but how does that.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Favor illegal migrants and somehow take away from the rights
of US citizens?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Having a hard time putting that together.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Is allowing migrants By the way, I'll tell you, I
happen to like the idea of illegal migrants getting driver's
license because they are tested at least at least some
official right, some examiner jumps in the car with them
and looks to see if they know how to drive.
(17:01):
So that to me is simply a question of safety.
For me, I'd rather have someone illegal or not have
a driver's license.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Because they've been tested at least to some extent. Does
that make sense?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, no, just and you know that's outside of the morality,
outside of the law, outside of a political position.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's just I don't want to get hit by people
who have no insurance.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
What do you assume they don't know how to drive.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I'm not assuming they know how to drive, but I'll
tell you if they test, then I know that they
do know how to drive to some extent.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
That's the difference. You look at it two different ways.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So I just don't see how you know. The only
thing I can see is American citizens that are at
risk because they're illegal migrants in the country. And I
don't see that either.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I mean, there are if you've got bad ones, but
you've got bad anybody. If you have bad tourists that
commit crimes, or let's get rid of tourists, it's you know,
there's bad people, no matter what happens.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Already the site.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Telsea Gabbart sworn in as Director of National Intelligence. This
was pretty contentious. She's the next Director of National Intelligence.
Fifty two to forty eight vote. She was sworn in
hours later there at the Oval Office. But man, that
confirmation hearing, I mean, they've all been pretty intense.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Yeah, but she.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Got from both sides, and even some Republicans jumped on
all about.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
But in the end they vote for her along party lines,
and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You don't screw with President Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
If you don't vote the way he wants you to vote,
you're primaried out.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
You're done.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You're done as a senator, you're done as a corongoss person,
as a Republican, you're gone. And so you have even
Bill Cassidy, who is a senator, who is a doctor,
who headed the vaccine who headed the vaccine program in Louisiana.
That was his program, and he ripped into Robert Kennedy,
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ripped into him.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
And you know what he did.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He voted in favor in the end, he voted in
favor because Trump said, you're primary and out, and they
care far more about their political position. We're talking both sides.
By the way, Democrats and Republicans, they care far more
about their political positions and getting re elected than they
do for the good of the country.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Good of the country is down number three or four.
It's really very depressing, very depressing.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
It's yeah, by the way, she's best friends with Bashar
al Asade, right, he talked about she talked about how
great Putin is. It's just only Mitch McConnell voted no
because he's retiring and he doesn't care. And those are
the only people that would vote no. And there are
plenty of Republicans that well, several that are retiring.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And they still vote for Trump. They vote for Trump's
candidate nominee.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
All Right, Trump and President Putin had a good talk
yesterday and are going to start negotiations aimed at ending
the war in Ukraine. Trump said that he and Putin
talked for over an hour, and then he also talked
to Ukraine's President Zelensky yesterday, and then Trump said, I
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think President Putin wants peace. President Zelensky wants peace, and
I want peace. I just want to see people stop
being killed.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I agree that they all want peace.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
But Putin's idea of peace is taking some of Ukraine's land,
saying that it is his and believing it.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's not just arbitrary.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
He has thought that that part of the Ukraine don Bass,
the don Bass region eastern Ukraine has always been part
of Russia, which it was for hundreds of years, and
does Zelenski wants to keep that land. And Trump is
effectively saying, we got to come to some kind of deal.
And my question is who thinks the other side is
the evil empire? How about both of them? Putin and
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Trump think the evil Empire is over there, maybe not
so much. Yeah, anyway, let's move on there. And they're
very well. Maybe peace because in reality is that the
United States has enormous power, particularly military power, which it's
probably not going to use, but financial power, economic power
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that is a juggernaut. And Trump's taking advantage of that
where other presidents have not to move to his idea
of foreign policy, which is very important to him. Trump
doesn't care about a lot of stuff. He doesn't care
about the state.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Phil He doesn't want peace. He wants a peace. Oh strong,
very good, very good communication.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Eric. Everyone deserves TLC on Valentine's Day, and that includes
our little furry friends. So if you're looking for love
this well that doesn't come out right looking for love
this Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
That's illegal. I think i'ds illegal, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Know your audience.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
I just as I said that and realized I was
on the Handle show, I'm like best friends. Animal Society
is giving Angelinos, that's all of us good people the
chance to fall for a new furry friend with free
adoptions and special Valentine's Day sleepovers from February fourteenth to seventeen.
So if you want a lifelong companion, that would be great.
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It's a no kill shelter, or just what to share
the weekend of love with a shelter pet.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
This is a great way to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, look at the numbers. Look how spectacular these numbers were.
This organization was found in nineteen eighty four. At that time,
seventeen million animals were euthanized per year in the US.
It is down to four hundred and fifteen thousand animals euthanized.
There are so many no kill shelters, and a lot
of those four hundred and fifteen are dogs and cats
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that are really old and have some real problems that
should be euthanized.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Or yeah, we put down our dog. God, that really
did kill me.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
But she had been, you know, eaten by a coyote
or partially eaten, and there was just no issue.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
So some of them were fiance Lindsay refers to you
as a rescue.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I think, ye sweet, Yeah, thank you hello for that. Yeah. No,
let's move on.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I get it this thing on.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Oh yeah, monkeying around in Florida. Good, get you an STD.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
See there we go again. Hold on a minute, there's
Neil again. You've got what very careful about? Who are
what you shuop? Okay, she knows. Okay, I'm sorry I
interrupted you Please go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
So in Florida they have these Reesis monkeys that originally
came over because some guy had a glass bottom boat
business and he had some monkeys, and of course they
escaped and or they released the monkeys actually to attract tourists,
so they'd have them on this island. They could go
to the island and go, hey, you guys, check that
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out there, there's monkeys on the island. Well, the monkeys
did what monkeys do, and then there were like five
hundred of them. Now there are about one hundred and ninety.
But aside from the environmental concerns of how the monkeys
are affecting the ecosystem on the island, they're posing a
threat to public health because Reesis maccoques in Florida have
tested positive for herpes.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Quick question, what was the disease where The argument was
in Africa having sex with monkeys or chimpanzees. You mean
remember that not fraudulently but no, no, I mean it
was there was age. Yes, the argument was that it
started with people having sex with monkeys, men having sex
(25:08):
with monkeys. Now, I want to point something out physiologically.
If Riesei's monkeys are pretty small, if a man is
having sex with a Reese's monkey on the cac don't
those monkeys explode?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
All right, let's just move on.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
That is not an image I needed to.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
I know that was for you, Michelle.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Why I don't work on the show anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yes, that's a visual. Okay, I think we can do
another one.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
I'm just trying to put a little breath between that
and a Disney story. So Disney has become the latest
company to change its policies. This is of course, dealing
with diversity, equity, and inclusion amid the federal government pressure
to eliminate these programs. Interestingly enough, I'm not sure how
much this changes. So if you remember those sort of
(26:02):
controversial AutoPlay advisory disclaimers, that would be that were introduced
by Disney in twenty nineteen. So if you're streaming something
on Disney Plus like Dumbo or Peter Pan, it would
say negative depictions and or mistreatment of peoples or.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Cultures before it would play well.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
The new advisory now says this program is presented as
originally created and may contain stereotypes or negative depictions.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
It doesn't say what they are though.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, and I don't understand, you know, what's the difference
between the two. It seems like the disclaimer is the
same to me, I'm going to interpret it as the same.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Well, it's all semantics, right, it's just words.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Yeah, But I think actually it's I think the second
one is a little more powerful, calling them stereotypes or
negative depictions.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Oh well, the other one said negative depictions, yeah, people
or cultures.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
And yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Seems the same to me. Okay, let's we're done with that,
at least with the news this morning. Kf I am six.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
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Speaker 2 (27:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Trump also said yesterday, if the AP does not use
the Gulf of America as describing the Gulf of Mexico,
Trump will be sending troops into the AP and we'll.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Be attacking it. Didn't we see that AP reporter trying
to crash the Oval office. It was dragged off in handcuffs.
Do I have that right?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh, and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Bill Handle here and the Morning Crew modified Morning Crew
today and it is Thursday morning, February thirteenth. By the way,
that Trump line that I said about, let's just say
these some issues with the AP that refuses to or
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we'll still use the term the ghost of Mexico.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I don't know how far off I am. One of
the things I want to talk about, and that is
what time we're going to do.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That At eight thirty is thirty three moves that President
Trump has made in twenty three days and.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Executive executive actions.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The last time anybody came close to this was FDR
when he inherited the depression and how he had to
deal with the same thing happened.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Lawsuits were filed.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It was a conservative court and in fact shut down
a lot of what FDR wanted. But FDR was a
liberal and it was It'll be a little bit of
history now we talk about.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So first, let's say hello to everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Cono, good morning, Moonda, Bill Okay, Neil, good morning, Willie
wolf Amy good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Well Hello Bill.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And filling in for Anne today and tomorrow is Michelle.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Hello, good morning.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
The the erstwhile of the erstwhile producer of this show
for twenty five years and Michelle now promoted to executive
producer almost twenty six years.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
How long you've been the executive producer, Michelle?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Almost four?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Really? All right?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Longer?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So Anne is not here, by the way, am I
is Anne? Okay? With sharing why she's gone for two days?
Does she say anything? Would rather not this?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I don't know. I would probably say air on the
side of not. She'll probably okay.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Then, okay, fair enough. So what a tease that is? Huh?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Just some stuff?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Of course that people.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, usually people do have some stuff going on, unless
they are so sick of the show they go I
need a day off. Nothing going on. Yes, that is
not only an option, it is a possibility, It is
a probability.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I would say it should be required that every few
months you get a few days off from you.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Uh yeah, yeah, all right, So maybe she'll share on Monday,
so you have to tune in. Michelle is here today
and tomorrow. Big storms coming in today. We have a
lot to cover.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
As a matter of fact, let's start with Amy. I
say good morning to you already.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
You did, oh for the love of them.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Okay, this is memory, this is memory speaking.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now I can tell you the programs that FDR actually
did initiate, which ones were shot down by the Supreme
Court in nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But I forgot that.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I said hello to Amy thirty five seconds ago.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
You know who else have springs like that? Dementia patients?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
True? Actually, I just you know, you're right.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
I was.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, that's in the news, and I take ambient and
it says and my balance is bad.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'm forgetting things.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So I've always forgotten things, so that hasn't changed very much.
But I'm right in line with what's going on. It's
pretty scary stuff. So okay, okay, so I'll be very
forgetful this morning, it's time for Handle news.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Today is Thursday. We're starting Handle on the news.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That is correct with Amy.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
The point is, I know that's correct, So that's the
least helpful as opposed to huh huh, what are we doing? Okay,
time for Handle on the news. Lead story.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You keep him and it's all about the rain.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And when we have any issues of climate, I always
defer to Amy to give us the latest.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So the rain is falling now, the heaviest that helps.
It is expected to start at about two this afternoon.
And because of the heavy rain expected and maybe even
thunderstorms which would be really bad tonight, there are several
evacuation warnings in place. They could turn into evacuation orders
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if they If your house is under an evacuation order,
you would have been contacted by now directly. But just
know that, you know, mud flows and debris flows and
flash flooding is all the possibility, So get ready and
be ready to get.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Out if you have to. Yeah, that's gonna be a
big one.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It's in La County near the burn scars. It's in
Orange County near the airport fire. It's also in the
Ie from the fires. From earlier, from October. So there's
several areas that are affected.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
All right, we'll be reporting on that. Well, I think
Gary and Shannon will be more reporting. And then this
afternoon because the rain's coming down and it's getting uh
you see, getting harder and harder as it comes down. Now, quick,
quick question, rain always comes down? Why do we say that?
Is a does does that ever go up?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Okay, something, I'm just wondering why rain always comes down.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It seems to me a touch of redundancy there.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Uh gravity Uh, I think, yeah, I think I think
gravity has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, yeah, I'll buy that.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
If the winds are blowing hard enough, it blows sideway,
it falls side sideways.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
That's true. I'll buy that. And of course, our one
of our favorite views is you watch TV and the
reporter from local station, even national station is there with
a microphone talking about the winds.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Although now the microphones are so good that the winds
could be howling and still you can hear the reporter
fairly clearly. However, the visual, and this is where I
wish we were television, The visual of a reporter standing
there and then being just swept away in front of you,
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like sideways, just hitting the wall.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
A lot of fun to see that happening.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Getting ready to get out.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
As we've been telling you, some people are being warned
that they might need to evacuate because of possible debris
and mudflows. So there is a voluntary evacuation warning for
several areas in the Airport burnfire. That's the one in
Orange County that burned in last fall, Tribuco Canyon, Bell Canyon,
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Hot Springs Canyon, Long Canyon, Majesica Canyon. Flood watch will
also be in effect from this morning through tonight for
most of Orange County. In fact, the floodwatch is up
for much of southern California.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, and you can go to the site you are
going to be swept away and die dot com. Okay, okay, okay,
you can respond, you know I did.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Okay, it was by not responding, So that says a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That says a lot, because silence is the loudest reaction
you can have.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Who came up with that phrase? By the way, what
moron came up with that?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I'm pretty sure Let's move on whoever it was?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
No, No, let's move on, Neil now let's move on.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Please, I'll give a beat here because this is sad.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
A car plowed into demonstrators in Munich this morning, injuring
at least twenty eight people. Local officials are looking at
this and calling it a suspected attack. Unfortunately, children were
among the injured, according to the city's mayor. So the
car hit a group of protesters staging a demonstration and
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this was linked to a strike organized by the thirty Union.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So you know, terror attacks are now defaulting just by
taking a car truck and slamming into a group with people.
You know, they're getting away from bombing, which takes manufacturing
the bomb, and certainly hijacking is you know, it's almost
impossible to do, but drive, renting a car, drive in car,
stealing a car or a truck and plowing into a
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group of people and killing or injuring dozens. That's the
go to now for terrorists. And how do you defend
against that?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
You don't.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
And the whole point is we like to focus on
the weapon of choice rather than focusing on people wanting
to do this to harm other people.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
You know, they'll find a way that I think it's
basically social media and people calling in and the National
Security Agency. Do you know that the NSA monitors every
single phone call that's made in the United States everyone,
and it goes through all kinds of algorithms and they
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pull out words and phrases and then someone determines or
another algorithm determines whether that is some kind of a
risk question, okay. Or a little bit of advice, don't
look up pressure cookers if you're going to buy one.
And if you are talking about a movie and it's
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not doing too well.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Do not call it a bomb. That good advice.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
That is, as we say, we say that it's a
mass shooting, rather than saying that it's a mass killing
when really the killing part is the worst part about it. Okay,
whether it's a car or a knife a guy, thats okay.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That resonates.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Let's take the deal. That's what seventy five thousand federal
employees are saying to President Trump's buyout offer. The deal was,
if you agree to resign, we'll pay you through September.
And a judge had put it on hold said nope,
can't do that. But he didn't really say no, because
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the same judge lifted the pause on the program said,
the labor unions who sued didn't really have standing to
file the lawsuit. So the people who've accepted it about
three point three percent of the federal government's two point
three million workers.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I tried to do the numbers on this, and my
calculator didn't work very well on my phone. If the
average employee, the federal government average employeelet's say, make sixty
thousand dollars a year, is that about right if.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
You look at and maybe more than that, because that's
a good job to be a FED employee.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And there's seventy five thousand federal employees have already accepted
the deal. What is seventy five thousand times sixty thousand?
Because someone do the math on that.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Your calculator brank on. No, it just doesn't work. It
shows error, and I just you know, it's just it's
my iPhone.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Care.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
What did you say? Seventy five thousand times.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Seventy five thousand times sixty thousand.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Four point five billion?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Okay, Yeah, so far four point five billion dollars. That's
a chunk of money, and they're going to be more.
And if people do not sign up for this, the
risk is they're going to simply be fired under the
new Musk orient No, under the Musk managed DOGE where
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they're trying to really cut down on spending. Well, there's
four point five billion dollars right there. So that's we're
going to talk about that a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
As you can imagine.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Oh, I see what's wrong. I can see your calculator
from here. It's upside down. It's it says boobies. Bill.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Elon Musk calls for US government to delete entire agencies.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
He went on to say that he thinks.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
We need to delete entire agencies as opposed to leaving
part of them behind, and then gives the analogy of
like a weed. He says, if you don't remove the
roots of the weed, that it's easy for the weed
to grow back. So he says there's just some departments
that instead of trimming, you just need to get rid of.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, education is going to be gotten rid of.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Trump said, the Education secretary is there to undo. Also,
let me ask a question, if the government got rid
of the department that sets up those lecterns and microphones
at various locations, would anybody hear that.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
These agencies are going to be dismantled.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
I don't know the answer to that is that, like
if a signed company goes on strike, like what do
they hold?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Speaking of Elon Musk, he's getting a big defense contract.
He's prompted another backlash online after it was revealed that
his rocket company SpaceX is still getting multimillion dollar contracts
from the US government while he's working two slash trillions
of dollars from the federal budget.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah. I mean that is an accusation. That is a
complete croc.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
When he was asked in the Oval Office, is there
a conflict here amongst your companies that have contracts with
the federal government, he said, no, there aren't.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Therefore we know there aren't.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Because he said it, and I think the President backed
that up. No conflict, no conflict, Thank you very much.
There's no conflict.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
And then he looked at President Trump said I think
that person just said Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Certain, I think so, and Trump handed him a contract
at the time and said, this is not a conflict.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I mean, it's crazy stuff.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
We'll tag this on really quickly before we go to
a break. You're gonna love this bill because tagging on
to that you know, every I guess every now and
again they put out these forecasts. The government puts out
these forecasts talk about the companies that they're partnering with
in the future and the cost.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
While the State.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Department was planning to buy four hundred million worth of
armored Tesla's later this year, according to that twenty twenty
five procurear procurement forecast, and all of a sudden, the
document that said that they were going to buy them
from Tesla has been changed, and now it just says
(15:21):
that they're going to buy four hundred thousand or four
hundred million worth of electric armored vehicles, but doesn't mention Tesla.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, I wonder who made that call. I do not
think it is Marco Rubio, who's head of the State Department.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I think it was lower down on the management level.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I'm just I'm prognosticating here. I don't know the answer
of that, just guessing, all right.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
New York's being accused of playing favorites. The Trump administration
has sued New York over its immigration policies and accused
state officials of prioritizing or favoring illegal aliens over US citizens.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said. She cited New York's green
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light law, which allows people in the state to get
a driver license regardless of citizenship or legal status, and
she said, you know what that's stopping. It stops today,
and then other stuff as well.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, now I can see that philosophy. Okay, we don't
want illegal migrants to get driver's license, but how does that.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Favor illegal migrants and somehow take away from the rights
of US citizens?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Having a hard time putting that together.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Is allowing migrants By the way, I'll tell you, I
happen to like the idea of illegal migrants getting driver's
license because they are tested at least at least some
official right, some examiner jumps in the car with them
and looks to see if they know how to drive.
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So that to me is simply a question of safety.
For me, I'd rather have someone illegal or not have
a driver's license.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Because they've been tested at least to some extent. Does
that make sense?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, no, just and you know that's outside of the morality,
outside of the law, outside of a political position.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's just I don't want to get hit by people
who have no insurance.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
What do you assume they don't know how to drive.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
I'm not assuming they know how to drive, but I'll
tell you if they test, then I know that they
do know how to drive to some extent.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
That's the difference. You look at it two different ways.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So I just don't see how you know. The only
thing I can see is American citizens that are at
risk because they're illegal migrants in the country. And I
don't see that either.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I mean, there are if you've got bad ones, but
you've got bad anybody. If you have bad tourists that
commit crimes, or let's get rid of tourists, it's you know,
there's bad people, no matter what happens.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Already the site.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Telsea Gabbart sworn in as Director of National Intelligence. This
was pretty contentious. She's the next Director of National Intelligence.
Fifty two to forty eight vote. She was sworn in
hours later there at the Oval Office. But man, that
confirmation hearing, I mean, they've all been pretty intense.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Yeah, but she.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Got from both sides, and even some Republicans jumped on
all about.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
But in the end they vote for her along party lines,
and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You don't screw with President Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
If you don't vote the way he wants you to vote,
you're primaried out.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
You're done.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You're done as a senator, you're done as a corongoss person,
as a Republican, you're gone. And so you have even
Bill Cassidy, who is a senator, who is a doctor,
who headed the vaccine who headed the vaccine program in Louisiana.
That was his program, and he ripped into Robert Kennedy,
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ripped into him.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
And you know what he did.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He voted in favor in the end, he voted in
favor because Trump said, you're primary and out, and they
care far more about their political position. We're talking both sides.
By the way, Democrats and Republicans, they care far more
about their political positions and getting re elected than they
do for the good of the country.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Good of the country is down number three or four.
It's really very depressing, very depressing.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
It's yeah, by the way, she's best friends with Bashar
al Asade, right, he talked about she talked about how
great Putin is. It's just only Mitch McConnell voted no
because he's retiring and he doesn't care. And those are
the only people that would vote no. And there are
plenty of Republicans that well, several that are retiring.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And they still vote for Trump. They vote for Trump's
candidate nominee.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
All Right, Trump and President Putin had a good talk
yesterday and are going to start negotiations aimed at ending
the war in Ukraine. Trump said that he and Putin
talked for over an hour, and then he also talked
to Ukraine's President Zelensky yesterday, and then Trump said, I
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think President Putin wants peace. President Zelensky wants peace, and
I want peace. I just want to see people stop
being killed.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I agree that they all want peace.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
But Putin's idea of peace is taking some of Ukraine's land,
saying that it is his and believing it.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's not just arbitrary.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
He has thought that that part of the Ukraine don Bass,
the don Bass region eastern Ukraine has always been part
of Russia, which it was for hundreds of years, and
does Zelenski wants to keep that land. And Trump is
effectively saying, we got to come to some kind of deal.
And my question is who thinks the other side is
the evil empire? How about both of them? Putin and
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Trump think the evil Empire is over there, maybe not
so much. Yeah, anyway, let's move on there. And they're
very well. Maybe peace because in reality is that the
United States has enormous power, particularly military power, which it's
probably not going to use, but financial power, economic power
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that is a juggernaut. And Trump's taking advantage of that
where other presidents have not to move to his idea
of foreign policy, which is very important to him. Trump
doesn't care about a lot of stuff. He doesn't care
about the state.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Phil He doesn't want peace. He wants a peace. Oh strong,
very good, very good communication.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Eric. Everyone deserves TLC on Valentine's Day, and that includes
our little furry friends. So if you're looking for love
this well that doesn't come out right looking for love
this Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
That's illegal. I think i'ds illegal, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Know your audience.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
I just as I said that and realized I was
on the Handle show, I'm like best friends. Animal Society
is giving Angelinos, that's all of us good people the
chance to fall for a new furry friend with free
adoptions and special Valentine's Day sleepovers from February fourteenth to seventeen.
So if you want a lifelong companion, that would be great.
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It's a no kill shelter, or just what to share
the weekend of love with a shelter pet.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
This is a great way to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, look at the numbers. Look how spectacular these numbers were.
This organization was found in nineteen eighty four. At that time,
seventeen million animals were euthanized per year in the US.
It is down to four hundred and fifteen thousand animals euthanized.
There are so many no kill shelters, and a lot
of those four hundred and fifteen are dogs and cats
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that are really old and have some real problems that
should be euthanized.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Or yeah, we put down our dog. God, that really
did kill me.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
But she had been, you know, eaten by a coyote
or partially eaten, and there was just no issue.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
So some of them were fiance Lindsay refers to you
as a rescue.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I think, ye sweet, Yeah, thank you hello for that. Yeah. No,
let's move on.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I get it this thing on.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Oh yeah, monkeying around in Florida. Good, get you an STD.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
See there we go again. Hold on a minute, there's
Neil again. You've got what very careful about? Who are
what you shuop? Okay, she knows. Okay, I'm sorry I
interrupted you Please go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
So in Florida they have these Reesis monkeys that originally
came over because some guy had a glass bottom boat
business and he had some monkeys, and of course they
escaped and or they released the monkeys actually to attract tourists,
so they'd have them on this island. They could go
to the island and go, hey, you guys, check that
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out there, there's monkeys on the island. Well, the monkeys
did what monkeys do, and then there were like five
hundred of them. Now there are about one hundred and ninety.
But aside from the environmental concerns of how the monkeys
are affecting the ecosystem on the island, they're posing a
threat to public health because Reesis maccoques in Florida have
tested positive for herpes.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Quick question, what was the disease where The argument was
in Africa having sex with monkeys or chimpanzees. You mean
remember that not fraudulently but no, no, I mean it
was there was age. Yes, the argument was that it
started with people having sex with monkeys, men having sex
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with monkeys. Now, I want to point something out physiologically.
If Riesei's monkeys are pretty small, if a man is
having sex with a Reese's monkey on the cac don't
those monkeys explode?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
All right, let's just move on.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
That is not an image I needed to.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
I know that was for you, Michelle.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Why I don't work on the show anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yes, that's a visual. Okay, I think we can do
another one.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
I'm just trying to put a little breath between that
and a Disney story. So Disney has become the latest
company to change its policies. This is of course, dealing
with diversity, equity, and inclusion amid the federal government pressure
to eliminate these programs. Interestingly enough, I'm not sure how
much this changes. So if you remember those sort of
(26:02):
controversial AutoPlay advisory disclaimers, that would be that were introduced
by Disney in twenty nineteen. So if you're streaming something
on Disney Plus like Dumbo or Peter Pan, it would
say negative depictions and or mistreatment of peoples or.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Cultures before it would play well.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
The new advisory now says this program is presented as
originally created and may contain stereotypes or negative depictions.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
It doesn't say what they are though.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, and I don't understand, you know, what's the difference
between the two. It seems like the disclaimer is the
same to me, I'm going to interpret it as the same.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Well, it's all semantics, right, it's just words.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Yeah, But I think actually it's I think the second
one is a little more powerful, calling them stereotypes or
negative depictions.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Oh well, the other one said negative depictions, yeah, people
or cultures.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
And yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Seems the same to me. Okay, let's we're done with that,
at least with the news this morning. Kf I am six.
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