March 24, 2025 • 34 mins
(March 24, 2025)
Amy King and joins Chris Merrill who is hosting Handel on the News all week. First deportation flight lands in Venezuela from US, after deal to resume repatriations. Chuck Schumer rejects call to step down as Senate Democratic Leader. Canada calls snap election for April 28. US looks to make headway on Trump’s ceasefire hopes as Russia talks open in Saudi Arabia. California looks to eliminate gas tax, replace with road charge program.
Amy King and joins Chris Merrill who is hosting Handel on the News all week. First deportation flight lands in Venezuela from US, after deal to resume repatriations. Chuck Schumer rejects call to step down as Senate Democratic Leader. Canada calls snap election for April 28. US looks to make headway on Trump’s ceasefire hopes as Russia talks open in Saudi Arabia. California looks to eliminate gas tax, replace with road charge program.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
AM six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies
and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle. Good Monday morning, Chris
(00:22):
Marylyn for Bill. Pleasure, Pleasure, pleasure being with you.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I don't know about you. Busy weekend for me and
just codo. You're on high alert today, Amy, you're on
high alert today. So I had this vacation planned well
before Bill decided to throw a wrench in that and
take his own vacation. And so here's the deal. When
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you do a Sunday afternoon show and they say do
you want to do mornings during the week, you don't
say no. But I had this vacation plan, so I said, well,
I'd be happy to do it. I have to take
some dio equipment with me. So, Amy, you were talking
about the weather. Valley is supposed to be ninety degrees today.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Something, Yeah, mid nineties.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So I actually am broadcasting this morning from northern Michigan.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Oh what's the weather like there?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, I've got a camera here and you can't see
this on the rad I owe, but here you go, Amy,
I will show you outside my window.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Oh, ice and snow icen snow. Yeah, so it is
still March, so.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You know it is still March.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And I was supposed to put some buckets on trees
so I could make some maple syrup, but I didn't
do that because it was too cold and windy. I
woke up early, early, early this morning, which was still
last night in California, and the wind was blowing, and
I thought, I'm gonna lose power and I'm going to
screw this up and I'm not gonna be able to
do the show and I don't know what I'm gonna do.
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Everybody's gonna be so angry with me. But fortunately power
held on, and so that's really great. Lots of snow,
lots of ice on the trees, and I'm super excited
to be here the rest of the weekend. And I
spent watching basketball. I know Cono did too. How much
money did you have ride no one things, Conel. Of
course that's totally illegal and I would never out you
for that. How much How many brackets did you have?
Speaker 6 (02:13):
So I had twenty two?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Come on, dude, you need rehab.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
No I don't. I had four different apps. If you
divide that, that's around seven brackets. No, it's around six brackets,
you know, an app okay, and I ask him how
he's doing.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, how you doing on that? Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
And I'm in the top five hundred thousand out of
twenty four million for real?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, I thought you.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I thought all of them got busted.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
They did, And yesterday was the final bracket got busted.
Zero perfect brackets out of twenty five.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Nobody made it through the first weekend at a single person.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
So that's Warren Buffett did give a million dollars to
any employee who got thirty out of the first thirty two?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Right? Oh, is that right?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
It's correct.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
He's pretty sweet.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's pretty good. I was feeling people were asking me
about my bracket and mine was busted after the first game.
So I had I had Creighton losing the first game.
They won, and so that was it for my perfect
Bracket challenge. But I'm I'm eight point seven millionth h
So you're at the top five hundred thousand.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yeah, My Elite eight is there, My Final four is there.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah. So that's what I got going for me too,
is my Elite eight is still there. And Amy's looking
at us like we're speaking French.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
No, I get it. I just I just don't care
about basketball at all.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I know some beautiful he's beautiful thing about this. You
don't have to because you're just you're just picking names
off of a sheet.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Give you because look at your heads up.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, look at people like kno who's a total fan
and follows it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, and he's got one decent bracket. He's not telling
you about the other twenty one that are total crap.
He's telling you about the one that's doing really well,
which was probably his least favorite bracket that he filled out.
When he filled that one out, Yeah, he filled that
out thinking I'm just gonna take some of the top
seeds here, I'm not gonna worry about anything. So all
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the other ones he was picking upsets and was but
this has been such a slow tournament that people like
me who were what they call going chalk on a
lot of these different.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
You know, matchups, actually doing Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It's how you end up in the top eight point
seven million of the twenty four on ESPN, is what
I did. All right, handle on the news. Let's start
in Venezuela. Off we go, the first flight carrying Venezuelan immigrants.
This from CNN dot com deported from the United States
landing in Venezuela early this morning, the two governments reaching
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an agreement to resume repatriation flights. Nearly two hundred deportees
on the plane, specifically one hundred and ninety nine. I
don't know why we couldn't get that other one on there,
Not exactly sure. They landed just north of Caracas. And
everyone's so happy, and Venezuela is so happy, and we've
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got to peace and love and goodwill toward all people.
It looks like world peace has finally been achieved. Done.
Problems are all solved. America is now all safer, and
everyone is happy. No one is disappointed, and there will
be no more gnashing of the teeth.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
So off we go.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The economy should be cooking now. We got rid of
the the ninety nine Venezuelan undocumented immigrants that are here,
So problems are all solved.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Feeling good about that. Take care of America, have a
good one.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
America, Okay. Staying put. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says,
I'm not going anywhere. There have been more and more
calls for him to resign his position. Because of his
support for the funding bill that prevented a government shutdown.
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He was on the Sunday shows yesterday and said, you
know what, I'm sticking by my decision. He said, I
know that there was going to be controversy, but that
while the Republican's funding bill was bad, a shutdown of
the government would be a lot worse.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, where Schumer is screwed here is that Schumer came
out to start with and said he was not going
to vote for the bill, and he was telling everybody
about how terrible it was and what a bad, bad,
bad idea was. And two days later he flipped. And
what happened is Schumer got ahead of himself. He didn't
count the votes first, and so what he didn't realize
is that he was not going to have enough people
to stop the bill from being passed. He didn't have
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enough people to oppose it in order to make the
filibuster stand. And so then he was suddenly looking like
he was going to be in the minority, and he
wanted to come out looking like a leader. So well,
it passed because I said it was okay, So he
was really he put himself in a bad position, pitied
himself into a corner, and then all of a sudden
he says, well, look, we had to do it. This
is what leaders do. They picked the Sometimes you have
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to pick the lesser of two evils, and off we go.
The problem is he had just told us two days
prior that it was so bad that you couldn't possibly
vote for it because all of the children would go hungry,
and the buses would stop running, and grandma was going
to be put to sleep because her medicaid would no
longer be accepted, and if you're on Social Security, you
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might as well start begging for money. Now, go paint
yourself a nice sign so you can sit by the
freeway exits. And then two days later he was but
I voted for it, So he did this to himself
and the Democrats right now we are in total disarray. And
that's because they don't have leadership, and even the leaders
don't know what they're doing. They are not doing a
very good job of communicating. There's just no conversation going on,
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and they're putting themselves in a bad spot and it's
gonna be tough to recoup from this. What the Democrats,
some of the Democrats are saying, well, why don't we
just keep giving Trump enough rope and he'll hang himself,
which could be the case. You know, he likes to
make bold, He does things that are unpopular. He does
things that in a vacuum people like to talk about.
People like to scream about things like shutting down the
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Department of Education when they're in the primaries. But when
the rubber meets the road, to use a cliche, suddenly
people go, wait a minute. I didn't think that people
were gonna lose their jobs. Oh wait a minute. I
didn't think we'd be canning one hundred thousand people. I
didn't think this would affect the unemployment. I didn't think
he was going to cut the stuff that I cared about.
And now all of a sudden, we go, oh, well,
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that's what it looks like. And so the Democrats are going, well,
hopefully he screws things up fast so we can win
an election during the mid terms. They better figure out
a message quick, because either you're going to oppose him
or you're gonna let him have enough rope. And I
think what some of the Democrats are fearing is if
we keep giving him rope, he might become popular. There
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might be some people that really like him. And some
of the numbers coming out right now are showing that
he is gaining support in certain demographics that the Democrats
have traditionally held, like the Hispanic demographic. He's doing very
well in Hispanic demographic right now. And they're terrified of that.
They're terrified. They're pooping themselves. There's poop, got democratic poop
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all over the place. To Canada and the Great White North,
we go the Prime Minister there, the new guy.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
You know his name, No, you haven't learned it yet.
Mark Carney is his name.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And he used to be a banker, not like a
bank teller, but an actual banker, which means that he
was taking your money, I guess. And he has now
called for the dissolution of parliament, he said, and I'm quoting.
I've just requested that the Governor General dissolve Parliament and
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call an election for April twenty eighth. She has agreed. Now,
the Governor General is a representative of King Charles the Third,
which evidently Canada still has to ask King Charles if
it's okay since they're part of the British Commonwealth. It's messy.
Right after asking permission from Britain if it was okay.
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Carney said, we are facing the most significant crisis of
our lifetimes because President Trump's unjustified trade actions and his
threats to our sovereignty. Again, threats to our sovereignty, and
he's able to say that after he gets permission from
King Charles to be able to say that. So that's
really nice, that's sovereign. I'm asking Canadians for a strong,
positive mandate to deal with President Trump, adding that the
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Republican wants to break us, so America can own us.
We will not let that happen.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
What do you suppose the odds are that?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I mean, he says he's not gonna meet Trump until
Trump recognizes Canadian sovereignty, which got me thinking his Trump
not recognized that Canada is its own nation. And a point,
does Trump just start referring to Canada as the fifty
first state. He keeps saying it should be the fifty
first state. At what point does he just say Canada
is the fifty first state. Say it enough times people
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will start to believe you. Right. So maybe at some
point we just absorb Canada without even asking the rest
of the world just starts acknowledging that, yeah, you're part
of the United States. I could see it happening. I
got nothing else, Amy King, It's off to you.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
The two sides are talking, but the two sides aren't talking.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Here's what I need both of them.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
A US delegation led by Steve Whitkoff is talking with
Kremlin negotiators in Riod, Saudi Arabia today. The meeting today
comes after talks between a US team and Ukraine's defense minister.
They had meetings yesterday. But while everybody's talking, Russia and
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Ukraine aren't actually talking. And while that all goes on,
the war rages on. Lots and lots of drone strikes
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I saw that, yeah, lots of drone strikes. If we
can break this down, So what you have here is
you've got the United States is talking with Ukrainians, and
then the United States is talking with Russians, but those
two are not talking with one another. This is if
you've ever been through a divorce and you're trying to
figure out custody matters, This is not uncommon. She's in
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one room, he's in the other room, and then you've
got this mediator that goes back and forth between them
because the two can't stand to look at each other anymore.
They just if they see each other then they're gonna
But so they after the negotiating in separate rooms, and
then eventually the mediator will say, well, she says you
can have this, and then he'll go back and say,
well he says you can have this, and then hopefully
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they sign an agreement and off they go. That's kind
of what's happening here. I know my example is a
bit reductive, but it's the best I got.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Right now, it's Monday.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know. I mentioned earlier that the Democratic Party is confused.
Nancy Pelosi privately offering some advice for Hakim Jeffries as
the Democrats are devolving into bitter infighting over a government
funding bill. She told Jeffries, use your power. They had
an hour long sit down at his office earlier this month,
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says the Jeffery's needs to flex his muscle with Chuck
Schumer and sharpen the party's strategy with a shutdown looming.
That according to a person briefed on their conversation, obviously
they did not sharpen anything. They dulled after a week
back home, where the Democrats took an earful from their voters.
They demanded that the Democrats hold a tougher line with
President Trump. Jeffries is facing new pressure to forego his
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cautious demeanor and then lead a charge against the White
House and then take the reins of his party strategy
from Schumer. I don't know how much strategy Schumer has
right now. Schumer doesn't seem to have much of a strategy.
Suber can't even agree with himself day to day, So
I don't know what Jefferys is going to be able
to do. I think right now the Democrats are just
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generally looking for somebody that wants to step up and
be the leader. And right now they're all kind of
pointing at each other. Not it, not it? Not it? Hey?
Are we going to see gas prices drop? Amy King?
Speaker 6 (14:22):
No, Oh, we thought maybe the price of the pump
might come down a little bit.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Well, so lawmakers are going to look for new funding
for road repairs, but I don't think it's gonna be
because of a decrease in the gas tax, or well
they won't, so you know what, you you may be correct,
because here's the deal.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
The broken clock is right twice.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
A day, gas Tech. No, you're you're more right than me.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Gas tax revenues are expected to drop by like five
billion dollars a year by twenty thirty five because more
people are buying electric vehicles.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
That's so they're not initiative, right.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Right, So they're not going to be paying the gas taxes,
which is fifty nine cents a gallon, highest in the US.
So they're like, oh, oh, we're going to have to
fix this reduction in revenue.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
So if you still it's up in the air.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Are they going to eliminate the gas tax or are
they going to add something new because the gas tax
isn't going to pay for the road repairs, that's the
big question, all right, Okay, so yeah, so go ahead,
they're going to They're going to do a road use
tax instead, at least that's what they're looking at.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So it's kind of like a mileage tax, right, So
if you drive X amount of miles and then you'd
have to report that at the end of the year
and say I drove this far and they would say, okay,
well you owe it's this much money. And right now,
I think there's some registration fees that are going with
your electric vehicles because you're not paying gas tax, and
so they're trying to figure out how to offset this.
So in effect, what happens is everybody ends up paying
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the taxes, whether you drive an electric vehicle or a
gas powered vehicle. So my guess, just because I've seen
how government works, my guess is that they will institute
the mileage tax without doing much in the way of
reducing the gas tax. That would That would be.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
My guess too, is because once you have a tax,
it's hard to get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And they might say, oh, we're gonna we're gonna eliminate
some of the gas tax. Like you said, fifty nine
cents a gallon, So I mean, maybe they drop it
by a quarter, and you know, we're still paying I
don't know whatever fifty nine minus twenty five is, and
I think it's still thirty four and so everybody's still
paying thirty four cents. Might see the price of the
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pump coming down fifteen cents, but then everybody's gonna start
paying this mileage tax as well. And then if you
are if you are in the transportation business, you are
really going to be pissed because then you're paying your
mileage tax, and you're paying a gas tax, and you're
looking at all the other cars out there, especially the evs,
and you're saying, they're still not paying their fair share,
and we're all getting hosed on this. So while the
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price of the p may come down a little, your
Uber Eats cost is going to go up. Great.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, here, why don't they put a tax on the
charging stations?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I don't know, that's a really good question. You would
think that they would be able to do that, probably
because we work so hard to protect the power companies
and the last thing we want to do is make
the power companies sad. Hate to do that. We've got
to protect those power companies. They've got houses to burn down.
Last thing we want to do is putting more onus
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on them. All right, twenty three and meters. It's filed
for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. So sounds like they are
dun they say, after a thorough evaluation of strategic alternatives, Well,
that is just a corporate bingo, there isn't it. After
a thorough evaluation of strategic initiatives, we have determined that
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a court supervised sale process is the best path forward.
To maximize the value of the business. Of course, the
value of the business is nothing. That's why they're going bankrupt.
The company said last year they were cutting about forty
percent of the workforce and they were discontinuing further development
of all their therapies as part of their restructuring, and
that did not do the trick. So the company went
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public in twenty twenty one. Never made a profit. Stock
shot up following the listing, briefly developing the company about
six billion dollars, and the primary shareholder became a billionaire
in a hurry. But now he's not a billionaire. The
core product is an at home DNA testing kit that
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offers quote personalized genetic insights end quote that the company
says can flag potential health risks like one's likelihood of
developing Alzheimer's or certain cancers.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I thought it was defined long lost relatives.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
So you've got that too. So there are a number
of different DNA testing organizations. There's I'm trying to think
family Tree my Heritage twenty three. There's another one. I
can't remember. I only know this. My father in retirement
has become sort of a genealogical sleuth and he was
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able to explain to me in far more detail than
I ever asked for how some of this works. Now
they're able to track down and triangulate potential suspects. Remember
the the was it the Golden State killer? Was that
the guy in Bay Area? And they got that guy
by triangulating all of his other relatives, and you got
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this one. You've got this relative matches, and that relative matches,
and when you do all the different maths on how
close the matches are, they were able to narrow it
down to two people. And then they surreptitiously got some
DNA samples from the guy after he discarded like a
paper cup or something and tested it and then they said, yep,
that's our guy. It matches the DNA that was preserved
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from a crime scene from years and years.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
And years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
So the most interesting thing to me, and it's not
being reported in the CNN article, is what happens to
all of the data, the data and or the DNA.
And I don't know if twenty three and MES saves
your spittle in a giant spit safe or if they
simply save your genetic results and then discard your TOUA.
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So what We don't know, though, is what happens to
that data. So if you're somebody that took a twenty
three and me test, and twenty three and me is
going out of business and they're trying to sell off
the value of the company, and I'm guessing they're probably
their computers and office chairs and such, what happens to
the data and what happens to your personal information that
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is of concern for anyone that took one of these
twenty three and me tests. So in many cases, I'm
going to guess that they're going to try to work
with some of the other companies so that you could
potentially migrate your information over, hopefully for no cost. But
I don't know what they do with that with that,
I don't know what they do with the genetic material,
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and I don't know what they do with your DNA data,
because I would assume that they can't simply discard it.
And I don't know how safe you would feel if
if they told you we're just going to trash everything
that you've got. I don't think you'd feel real safe
about that potentially being out there in the ether. When
can talk about id THA, there's nothing more, nothing more
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personal than your DNA. So that's a concern, says I,
and I should know because I have to listen to
my father drone out about this for way too long.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Here's the concern.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
If you're in the Defense Department, somebody's leaking and the
Defense Department is not happy about it. So they have
decided that they are going to use light detectors. They're
going to have their workers submit to light detector polygraph
tests as part of their investigation into who is releasing information.
The DoD Chief of Staff Joe Casper said, the use
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of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will be
in accordance with applicable law and policy. They will commence
immediately and culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
We are going to track them down. If you leaked,
we are going to ask you about it, and if
you lie to us, then you're gonna be busted. And
it's all hell is going to break loose, because as
we all know, these light detector tests are infallible. If
you take a lie detector test and it says that
you were lying, then you definitely lied. And if you
take a lie detector test and it shows that you
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are telling the truth, then you most certainly are telling
the truth. So infallible investigation going on at the Department
of Defense, we're gonna track down those horrible people that
are talking to media. What I would love to see
is an expansion of the polygraph. I'd like to see
this everywhere, and I mean everywhere. And I know what
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you're thinking, Oh, it'd be nice if the president would
have to take a polygraph. Yeah, sure it would. But
let's go one step further and start using this in
all different circumstances. So suppose that you have Medicare and
you're trying to get your bill paid and you call
Medicare and they say you're not covered. I would like
for that person to take a polygraph test to find
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out if I'm actually not covered or if they're just
lying because they don't want to have to deal with
your claim or deal with you.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
In fact, we should use this everywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I mean every aspect of government should have an ongoing
polygraph test.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
Imagine.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Remember we put body cams on cops so that we
could monitor what they were doing and make sure that
if somebody filed a complain against a police officer that
they weren't making it up. Or if somebody filed a
complain against police officer, then we had evidence that said, yeah,
sure enough, this officer was behaving badly. What if we
just equipped police officers with polygraphs everywhere they go? So
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you say do you have any do you have any
weapon in the vehicle? And they go no, officer, and
then a big red light would flashing. Yes they do everywhere.
I mean, we should put it everywhere. I'm all for
the polygraphs. These are great more polygraphs. They are infallible.
As we all know, you're probably I got bad news
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for you. You're probably going to die soon in a
manner that you didn't see coming. And I know for
a lot of you you probably spend a good deal
of time sitting around wondering what will be my devius. Well,
as we find out it's probably going to be fungus,
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And that's a real downer because you did not think
you were going to die of a fungus. For those
of you just joining us, we are all going to die.
New cases of a drug resistant dangerous fungus identified in
two state hospital systems the Canada, Not Canada, Candida, orris
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Or see or us. Thank goodness, we shortened that identified
almost ten years ago. Now we're finding it in Georgia
and in Florida. So the CDC has called this Candida
orius and urgent anti microbial resistant threat. It is resistant
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to anti fungal drugs, making it hard to treat an
infection once it occurs. And if you get infected with
this passage pathogen, excuse me, there is no treatment that
we can give to help you combat it. You're on
your own. According to a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics
at the University of South Carolina. So if you get this,
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it is going to be a bad deal. How do
you get it? They say you can get it with
a catheter, and that is the last place that you
want a fungus to infect you. You can get it
through breathing tubes, feeding tubes, and pick lines. Those are
at the highest risk levels because the pathogen can enter
the body through those types of devices. And once you
get it, it is hard to figure out what's going
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on because the symptoms that are like any other infection.
You get fever and chills, and and it also stays
on surfaces, countertops, bedrails, door knobs, and it sticks around
for ever.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
So uh, it's no fundsies.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
And the last of us comes to real Life's.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Not about that?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Season two is coming up, and that's the one.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
With Pedro Pascal, right, yeah, that's I'd watch him.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
The Fungus invites invades everybody in the altar onto zombies.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah yeah, yeah, great, I could see that.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
We're already at zombie stage there.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
All right, what's in a name a lot? If you're
an eaglet in a nest overlooking Big Bear Lake, As
you've heard us talking about Jackie and Shadowed, the Bald
Eagles had three eaglets. Two of them have survived so
far to the point where the Friends of Big Bear
Valley say it's time to name them. So they open
their naming contest and they're just asking that if you
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would like to suggest a name, you make a small donation.
So for five bucks you can suggest one name, for
ten you can suggest three, and for twenty five dollars
you can suggest ten names. Friends of Big Bear Valley
is nonprofit and they're the ones who have that camera
up one hundred and forty feet up in a tree
so we can watch the little Eglitz as they grow
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and watch Jackie in Shadow, and then after they get
all the suggestions, then they randomly pick the finalists, and
elementary school kids in Big Bear get to make the
final decision.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Well that's fun.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I don't believe that it's random. I don't believe that
they're randomly choosing the finalists.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Okay, I mean, you're gonna pick it out of a hat.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
What if you end up with the C word MACF
word face, Right, they're not going to hand that to
a bunch of elementary kids like.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
They're going to suggest Seaward McGuff word face.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
It would only cost me five dollars, I might all right.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
We're rooting for Rocky, at least for the little one.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Why why do you like Rocky?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Well, because there were three eggs. Two hatched right kind
of back to back, and then the third one didn't
hatch for almost a week because it was late almost
a week later, so it was right on schedule.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
But he was a lot smaller than the other ones.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
And we said he's going to have to be a
fighter if he's going to make it, and and editor
Carla said we should name him Rocky.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I think that's I think that's great. Yeah, the one
that died though, I guess they did name that one.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
They did.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
They they named it Misty after former friends of Big
Bear Valley Kathy mister Lee, who passed away from cancer,
so they commemoratively named the one that didn't make it.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I don't want to sound insensitive. In fact, I'm trying
to do exactly the opposite.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Okay, go for it.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Why would you named the dead bird after her? I mean,
wouldn't you want to do one of the living birds
after heard so that her memory lives on symbolically?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Got a point.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
It was weird to me. It feels strange, one of
the odds we end up with Birdie mcbird face.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Then zero to none. But if you want to do
it it spriends of Big Bear Valley. He it's their
website and it's through Friday.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Eagle Mick pecker Face. It's a bird's You don't have
to dump that cono. That's fine. You can leave that.
That's fine.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
I was talking about the beak.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It's fine. What do we do it? Oh, let's go
to the Bay Area. Ah, it's a nice place to visit,
isn't it.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Golden Gate safety nets are reducing suicide deaths.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Well, that's good. Newly installed safety nets on the Golden
Gate Bridge reducing suicides there by seventy three percent. So
if you try to jump off the bridge, you landed
a net.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Now have people jumping gone down?
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I think so because there's a net in the way.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Officials say there have been an average of thirty confirmed
suicide deaths per year for the last twenty years, and
they put they put in this stainless steel barrier on
both sides of the bridge. They did have a pushback
from people who were opposing modifying the bridge's Art deco style.
It was doing some work in San Francisco when they
were arguing about this, and this was one of those
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deals where I get that it's iconic, I get that
it's really nice, but you got people jumping off of
it all the time. There's an easy way to fix it.
You put in this net and they go, yeah, but
it's gonna be ugly. Yeah, but thirty people a year
jumping off of it, and they go, yeah, but we
really like the way it looks, which just seemed really
bizarre to me. So anyway, they took a look and
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everything's better. Now, before the installation, there were two and
a half suicide deaths per month at the bridge. Now
it has dropped to one point eight three sides per
month during the installation period and points sixty seven suicides
per month after installation. I'm guessing that's an average and
not necessarily that just two thirds of one's body died.
So researchers finding this big reduction after they put the
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nets in. So that's great. And if you have ever
talked with someone that has tried to take their own lives,
once they are saved, they they oftentimes they don't do
it again.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
The people that really want to.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
So if they are landing in this and by the way,
it's not like it's a big cushy circus net, You're
not bouncing in and out of this thing. It's a
big steel, you know, barrier that is not comfortable. So
if you jump off of it and you land on
this barrier, it's it's gonna hurt. So the other thing
with people who are trying to take their own lives,
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they don't really want to suffer. The whole point is
to end suffering. They want to they want to just
go quickly. So that's yeah. If you can't go quickly,
then you find somewhere else to do it. And if
if the bridge isn't available, it's it's deterring people. So
I'm I'm a big fan of this. I always thought
the argument because it's a nice bridge, it looks so nice.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
It's I thought that.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Was a silly argument. When we take a look at
what matters, Amy, you want to you want to do
one more and we want to get you to news.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
A shift is in the works. FBI Director Cash Btel
also serves as the acting director of the ATF, the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Yeah, he has a
plan to move as many as one thousand ATF agents
over to the FBI, cutting the current ATF agents by
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more than a third. So apparently they're not losing their jobs,
they're shifting their jobs.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Okay, have we overstaffed the ATF? Is that the thinking here?
We just there's too many people investigating alcohol and tobaccos
and firearms and explosives, so we'll just send them over
the FBI. Do they have to be retrained? We don't
know what their jobs are. We just know that they're
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shifting from one department over to the other one.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Okay, Well, the ATF is going to temporarily assign about
one hundred and fifty agents from field offices to other
ATF field offices. It does not really clear, but they
there's some of them would be moved over to help
with border patrol.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
Oh there you go. All right.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I wondered where we were going with it. So that
makes sense now, okay, so it's serving the larger goal
then the border patrolling. I'm telling you we're not gonna
have anybody here without documents in the not so distant future.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
And then what are we gonna complain about?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Because if the economy isn't fixed, if jobs are still
not available, and you don't have migrants to blame, who
are you gonna blame? Throughout history, we've been able to
blame ferners for anything that's gone wrong. But if we
don't have ferners, who are we going to blame? God?
I have to do the unthinkable and take responsibility for ourselves,
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not my America, not anytime soon. Chris Maryland for Bill
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and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle. Good Monday morning, Chris
(00:22):
Marylyn for Bill. Pleasure, Pleasure, pleasure being with you.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I don't know about you. Busy weekend for me and
just codo. You're on high alert today, Amy, you're on
high alert today. So I had this vacation planned well
before Bill decided to throw a wrench in that and
take his own vacation. And so here's the deal. When
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you do a Sunday afternoon show and they say do
you want to do mornings during the week, you don't
say no. But I had this vacation plan, so I said, well,
I'd be happy to do it. I have to take
some dio equipment with me. So, Amy, you were talking
about the weather. Valley is supposed to be ninety degrees today.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Something, Yeah, mid nineties.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So I actually am broadcasting this morning from northern Michigan.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Oh what's the weather like there?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, I've got a camera here and you can't see
this on the rad I owe, but here you go, Amy,
I will show you outside my window.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Oh, ice and snow icen snow. Yeah, so it is
still March, so.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You know it is still March.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And I was supposed to put some buckets on trees
so I could make some maple syrup, but I didn't
do that because it was too cold and windy. I
woke up early, early, early this morning, which was still
last night in California, and the wind was blowing, and
I thought, I'm gonna lose power and I'm going to
screw this up and I'm not gonna be able to
do the show and I don't know what I'm gonna do.
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Everybody's gonna be so angry with me. But fortunately power
held on, and so that's really great. Lots of snow,
lots of ice on the trees, and I'm super excited
to be here the rest of the weekend. And I
spent watching basketball. I know Cono did too. How much
money did you have ride no one things, Conel. Of
course that's totally illegal and I would never out you
for that. How much How many brackets did you have?
Speaker 6 (02:13):
So I had twenty two?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Come on, dude, you need rehab.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
No I don't. I had four different apps. If you
divide that, that's around seven brackets. No, it's around six brackets,
you know, an app okay, and I ask him how
he's doing.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, how you doing on that? Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
And I'm in the top five hundred thousand out of
twenty four million for real?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, I thought you.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I thought all of them got busted.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
They did, And yesterday was the final bracket got busted.
Zero perfect brackets out of twenty five.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Nobody made it through the first weekend at a single person.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
So that's Warren Buffett did give a million dollars to
any employee who got thirty out of the first thirty two?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Right? Oh, is that right?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
It's correct.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
He's pretty sweet.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's pretty good. I was feeling people were asking me
about my bracket and mine was busted after the first game.
So I had I had Creighton losing the first game.
They won, and so that was it for my perfect
Bracket challenge. But I'm I'm eight point seven millionth h
So you're at the top five hundred thousand.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yeah, My Elite eight is there, My Final four is there.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah. So that's what I got going for me too,
is my Elite eight is still there. And Amy's looking
at us like we're speaking French.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
No, I get it. I just I just don't care
about basketball at all.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I know some beautiful he's beautiful thing about this. You
don't have to because you're just you're just picking names
off of a sheet.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Give you because look at your heads up.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, look at people like kno who's a total fan
and follows it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, and he's got one decent bracket. He's not telling
you about the other twenty one that are total crap.
He's telling you about the one that's doing really well,
which was probably his least favorite bracket that he filled out.
When he filled that one out, Yeah, he filled that
out thinking I'm just gonna take some of the top
seeds here, I'm not gonna worry about anything. So all
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the other ones he was picking upsets and was but
this has been such a slow tournament that people like
me who were what they call going chalk on a
lot of these different.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
You know, matchups, actually doing Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It's how you end up in the top eight point
seven million of the twenty four on ESPN, is what
I did. All right, handle on the news. Let's start
in Venezuela. Off we go, the first flight carrying Venezuelan immigrants.
This from CNN dot com deported from the United States
landing in Venezuela early this morning, the two governments reaching
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an agreement to resume repatriation flights. Nearly two hundred deportees
on the plane, specifically one hundred and ninety nine. I
don't know why we couldn't get that other one on there,
Not exactly sure. They landed just north of Caracas. And
everyone's so happy, and Venezuela is so happy, and we've
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got to peace and love and goodwill toward all people.
It looks like world peace has finally been achieved. Done.
Problems are all solved. America is now all safer, and
everyone is happy. No one is disappointed, and there will
be no more gnashing of the teeth.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
So off we go.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The economy should be cooking now. We got rid of
the the ninety nine Venezuelan undocumented immigrants that are here,
So problems are all solved.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Feeling good about that. Take care of America, have a
good one.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
America, Okay. Staying put. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says,
I'm not going anywhere. There have been more and more
calls for him to resign his position. Because of his
support for the funding bill that prevented a government shutdown.
(05:57):
He was on the Sunday shows yesterday and said, you
know what, I'm sticking by my decision. He said, I
know that there was going to be controversy, but that
while the Republican's funding bill was bad, a shutdown of
the government would be a lot worse.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, where Schumer is screwed here is that Schumer came
out to start with and said he was not going
to vote for the bill, and he was telling everybody
about how terrible it was and what a bad, bad,
bad idea was. And two days later he flipped. And
what happened is Schumer got ahead of himself. He didn't
count the votes first, and so what he didn't realize
is that he was not going to have enough people
to stop the bill from being passed. He didn't have
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enough people to oppose it in order to make the
filibuster stand. And so then he was suddenly looking like
he was going to be in the minority, and he
wanted to come out looking like a leader. So well,
it passed because I said it was okay, So he
was really he put himself in a bad position, pitied
himself into a corner, and then all of a sudden
he says, well, look, we had to do it. This
is what leaders do. They picked the Sometimes you have
(07:02):
to pick the lesser of two evils, and off we go.
The problem is he had just told us two days
prior that it was so bad that you couldn't possibly
vote for it because all of the children would go hungry,
and the buses would stop running, and grandma was going
to be put to sleep because her medicaid would no
longer be accepted, and if you're on Social Security, you
(07:24):
might as well start begging for money. Now, go paint
yourself a nice sign so you can sit by the
freeway exits. And then two days later he was but
I voted for it, So he did this to himself
and the Democrats right now we are in total disarray. And
that's because they don't have leadership, and even the leaders
don't know what they're doing. They are not doing a
very good job of communicating. There's just no conversation going on,
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and they're putting themselves in a bad spot and it's
gonna be tough to recoup from this. What the Democrats,
some of the Democrats are saying, well, why don't we
just keep giving Trump enough rope and he'll hang himself,
which could be the case. You know, he likes to
make bold, He does things that are unpopular. He does
things that in a vacuum people like to talk about.
People like to scream about things like shutting down the
(08:09):
Department of Education when they're in the primaries. But when
the rubber meets the road, to use a cliche, suddenly
people go, wait a minute. I didn't think that people
were gonna lose their jobs. Oh wait a minute. I
didn't think we'd be canning one hundred thousand people. I
didn't think this would affect the unemployment. I didn't think
he was going to cut the stuff that I cared about.
And now all of a sudden, we go, oh, well,
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that's what it looks like. And so the Democrats are going, well,
hopefully he screws things up fast so we can win
an election during the mid terms. They better figure out
a message quick, because either you're going to oppose him
or you're gonna let him have enough rope. And I
think what some of the Democrats are fearing is if
we keep giving him rope, he might become popular. There
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might be some people that really like him. And some
of the numbers coming out right now are showing that
he is gaining support in certain demographics that the Democrats
have traditionally held, like the Hispanic demographic. He's doing very
well in Hispanic demographic right now. And they're terrified of that.
They're terrified. They're pooping themselves. There's poop, got democratic poop
(09:18):
all over the place. To Canada and the Great White North,
we go the Prime Minister there, the new guy.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
You know his name, No, you haven't learned it yet.
Mark Carney is his name.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And he used to be a banker, not like a
bank teller, but an actual banker, which means that he
was taking your money, I guess. And he has now
called for the dissolution of parliament, he said, and I'm quoting.
I've just requested that the Governor General dissolve Parliament and
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call an election for April twenty eighth. She has agreed. Now,
the Governor General is a representative of King Charles the Third,
which evidently Canada still has to ask King Charles if
it's okay since they're part of the British Commonwealth. It's messy.
Right after asking permission from Britain if it was okay.
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Carney said, we are facing the most significant crisis of
our lifetimes because President Trump's unjustified trade actions and his
threats to our sovereignty. Again, threats to our sovereignty, and
he's able to say that after he gets permission from
King Charles to be able to say that. So that's
really nice, that's sovereign. I'm asking Canadians for a strong,
positive mandate to deal with President Trump, adding that the
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Republican wants to break us, so America can own us.
We will not let that happen.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
What do you suppose the odds are that?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I mean, he says he's not gonna meet Trump until
Trump recognizes Canadian sovereignty, which got me thinking his Trump
not recognized that Canada is its own nation. And a point,
does Trump just start referring to Canada as the fifty
first state. He keeps saying it should be the fifty
first state. At what point does he just say Canada
is the fifty first state. Say it enough times people
(11:11):
will start to believe you. Right. So maybe at some
point we just absorb Canada without even asking the rest
of the world just starts acknowledging that, yeah, you're part
of the United States. I could see it happening. I
got nothing else, Amy King, It's off to you.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
The two sides are talking, but the two sides aren't talking.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Here's what I need both of them.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
A US delegation led by Steve Whitkoff is talking with
Kremlin negotiators in Riod, Saudi Arabia today. The meeting today
comes after talks between a US team and Ukraine's defense minister.
They had meetings yesterday. But while everybody's talking, Russia and
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Ukraine aren't actually talking. And while that all goes on,
the war rages on. Lots and lots of drone strikes
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I saw that, yeah, lots of drone strikes. If we
can break this down, So what you have here is
you've got the United States is talking with Ukrainians, and
then the United States is talking with Russians, but those
two are not talking with one another. This is if
you've ever been through a divorce and you're trying to
figure out custody matters, This is not uncommon. She's in
(12:29):
one room, he's in the other room, and then you've
got this mediator that goes back and forth between them
because the two can't stand to look at each other anymore.
They just if they see each other then they're gonna
But so they after the negotiating in separate rooms, and
then eventually the mediator will say, well, she says you
can have this, and then he'll go back and say,
well he says you can have this, and then hopefully
(12:50):
they sign an agreement and off they go. That's kind
of what's happening here. I know my example is a
bit reductive, but it's the best I got.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Right now, it's Monday.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know. I mentioned earlier that the Democratic Party is confused.
Nancy Pelosi privately offering some advice for Hakim Jeffries as
the Democrats are devolving into bitter infighting over a government
funding bill. She told Jeffries, use your power. They had
an hour long sit down at his office earlier this month,
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says the Jeffery's needs to flex his muscle with Chuck
Schumer and sharpen the party's strategy with a shutdown looming.
That according to a person briefed on their conversation, obviously
they did not sharpen anything. They dulled after a week
back home, where the Democrats took an earful from their voters.
They demanded that the Democrats hold a tougher line with
President Trump. Jeffries is facing new pressure to forego his
(13:45):
cautious demeanor and then lead a charge against the White
House and then take the reins of his party strategy
from Schumer. I don't know how much strategy Schumer has
right now. Schumer doesn't seem to have much of a strategy.
Suber can't even agree with himself day to day, So
I don't know what Jefferys is going to be able
to do. I think right now the Democrats are just
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generally looking for somebody that wants to step up and
be the leader. And right now they're all kind of
pointing at each other. Not it, not it? Not it? Hey?
Are we going to see gas prices drop? Amy King?
Speaker 6 (14:22):
No, Oh, we thought maybe the price of the pump
might come down a little bit.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Well, so lawmakers are going to look for new funding
for road repairs, but I don't think it's gonna be
because of a decrease in the gas tax, or well
they won't, so you know what, you you may be correct,
because here's the deal.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
The broken clock is right twice.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
A day, gas Tech. No, you're you're more right than me.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Gas tax revenues are expected to drop by like five
billion dollars a year by twenty thirty five because more
people are buying electric vehicles.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
That's so they're not initiative, right.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Right, So they're not going to be paying the gas taxes,
which is fifty nine cents a gallon, highest in the US.
So they're like, oh, oh, we're going to have to
fix this reduction in revenue.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
So if you still it's up in the air.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Are they going to eliminate the gas tax or are
they going to add something new because the gas tax
isn't going to pay for the road repairs, that's the
big question, all right, Okay, so yeah, so go ahead,
they're going to They're going to do a road use
tax instead, at least that's what they're looking at.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So it's kind of like a mileage tax, right, So
if you drive X amount of miles and then you'd
have to report that at the end of the year
and say I drove this far and they would say, okay,
well you owe it's this much money. And right now,
I think there's some registration fees that are going with
your electric vehicles because you're not paying gas tax, and
so they're trying to figure out how to offset this.
So in effect, what happens is everybody ends up paying
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the taxes, whether you drive an electric vehicle or a
gas powered vehicle. So my guess, just because I've seen
how government works, my guess is that they will institute
the mileage tax without doing much in the way of
reducing the gas tax. That would That would be.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
My guess too, is because once you have a tax,
it's hard to get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And they might say, oh, we're gonna we're gonna eliminate
some of the gas tax. Like you said, fifty nine
cents a gallon, So I mean, maybe they drop it
by a quarter, and you know, we're still paying I
don't know whatever fifty nine minus twenty five is, and
I think it's still thirty four and so everybody's still
paying thirty four cents. Might see the price of the
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pump coming down fifteen cents, but then everybody's gonna start
paying this mileage tax as well. And then if you
are if you are in the transportation business, you are
really going to be pissed because then you're paying your
mileage tax, and you're paying a gas tax, and you're
looking at all the other cars out there, especially the evs,
and you're saying, they're still not paying their fair share,
and we're all getting hosed on this. So while the
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price of the p may come down a little, your
Uber Eats cost is going to go up. Great.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah, here, why don't they put a tax on the
charging stations?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I don't know, that's a really good question. You would
think that they would be able to do that, probably
because we work so hard to protect the power companies
and the last thing we want to do is make
the power companies sad. Hate to do that. We've got
to protect those power companies. They've got houses to burn down.
Last thing we want to do is putting more onus
(17:30):
on them. All right, twenty three and meters. It's filed
for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. So sounds like they are
dun they say, after a thorough evaluation of strategic alternatives, Well,
that is just a corporate bingo, there isn't it. After
a thorough evaluation of strategic initiatives, we have determined that
(17:53):
a court supervised sale process is the best path forward.
To maximize the value of the business. Of course, the
value of the business is nothing. That's why they're going bankrupt.
The company said last year they were cutting about forty
percent of the workforce and they were discontinuing further development
of all their therapies as part of their restructuring, and
that did not do the trick. So the company went
(18:15):
public in twenty twenty one. Never made a profit. Stock
shot up following the listing, briefly developing the company about
six billion dollars, and the primary shareholder became a billionaire
in a hurry. But now he's not a billionaire. The
core product is an at home DNA testing kit that
(18:36):
offers quote personalized genetic insights end quote that the company
says can flag potential health risks like one's likelihood of
developing Alzheimer's or certain cancers.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I thought it was defined long lost relatives.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
So you've got that too. So there are a number
of different DNA testing organizations. There's I'm trying to think
family Tree my Heritage twenty three. There's another one. I
can't remember. I only know this. My father in retirement
has become sort of a genealogical sleuth and he was
(19:09):
able to explain to me in far more detail than
I ever asked for how some of this works. Now
they're able to track down and triangulate potential suspects. Remember
the the was it the Golden State killer? Was that
the guy in Bay Area? And they got that guy
by triangulating all of his other relatives, and you got
(19:31):
this one. You've got this relative matches, and that relative matches,
and when you do all the different maths on how
close the matches are, they were able to narrow it
down to two people. And then they surreptitiously got some
DNA samples from the guy after he discarded like a
paper cup or something and tested it and then they said, yep,
that's our guy. It matches the DNA that was preserved
(19:51):
from a crime scene from years and years.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
And years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
So the most interesting thing to me, and it's not
being reported in the CNN article, is what happens to
all of the data, the data and or the DNA.
And I don't know if twenty three and MES saves
your spittle in a giant spit safe or if they
simply save your genetic results and then discard your TOUA.
(20:19):
So what We don't know, though, is what happens to
that data. So if you're somebody that took a twenty
three and me test, and twenty three and me is
going out of business and they're trying to sell off
the value of the company, and I'm guessing they're probably
their computers and office chairs and such, what happens to
the data and what happens to your personal information that
(20:40):
is of concern for anyone that took one of these
twenty three and me tests. So in many cases, I'm
going to guess that they're going to try to work
with some of the other companies so that you could
potentially migrate your information over, hopefully for no cost. But
I don't know what they do with that with that,
I don't know what they do with the genetic material,
(21:01):
and I don't know what they do with your DNA data,
because I would assume that they can't simply discard it.
And I don't know how safe you would feel if
if they told you we're just going to trash everything
that you've got. I don't think you'd feel real safe
about that potentially being out there in the ether. When
can talk about id THA, there's nothing more, nothing more
(21:24):
personal than your DNA. So that's a concern, says I,
and I should know because I have to listen to
my father drone out about this for way too long.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Here's the concern.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
If you're in the Defense Department, somebody's leaking and the
Defense Department is not happy about it. So they have
decided that they are going to use light detectors. They're
going to have their workers submit to light detector polygraph
tests as part of their investigation into who is releasing information.
The DoD Chief of Staff Joe Casper said, the use
(21:59):
of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will be
in accordance with applicable law and policy. They will commence
immediately and culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
We are going to track them down. If you leaked,
we are going to ask you about it, and if
you lie to us, then you're gonna be busted. And
it's all hell is going to break loose, because as
we all know, these light detector tests are infallible. If
you take a lie detector test and it says that
you were lying, then you definitely lied. And if you
take a lie detector test and it shows that you
(22:33):
are telling the truth, then you most certainly are telling
the truth. So infallible investigation going on at the Department
of Defense, we're gonna track down those horrible people that
are talking to media. What I would love to see
is an expansion of the polygraph. I'd like to see
this everywhere, and I mean everywhere. And I know what
(22:56):
you're thinking, Oh, it'd be nice if the president would
have to take a polygraph. Yeah, sure it would. But
let's go one step further and start using this in
all different circumstances. So suppose that you have Medicare and
you're trying to get your bill paid and you call
Medicare and they say you're not covered. I would like
for that person to take a polygraph test to find
(23:18):
out if I'm actually not covered or if they're just
lying because they don't want to have to deal with
your claim or deal with you.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
In fact, we should use this everywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I mean every aspect of government should have an ongoing
polygraph test.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
Imagine.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Remember we put body cams on cops so that we
could monitor what they were doing and make sure that
if somebody filed a complain against a police officer that
they weren't making it up. Or if somebody filed a
complain against police officer, then we had evidence that said, yeah,
sure enough, this officer was behaving badly. What if we
just equipped police officers with polygraphs everywhere they go? So
(23:57):
you say do you have any do you have any
weapon in the vehicle? And they go no, officer, and
then a big red light would flashing. Yes they do everywhere.
I mean, we should put it everywhere. I'm all for
the polygraphs. These are great more polygraphs. They are infallible.
As we all know, you're probably I got bad news
(24:18):
for you. You're probably going to die soon in a
manner that you didn't see coming. And I know for
a lot of you you probably spend a good deal
of time sitting around wondering what will be my devius. Well,
as we find out it's probably going to be fungus,
(24:38):
And that's a real downer because you did not think
you were going to die of a fungus. For those
of you just joining us, we are all going to die.
New cases of a drug resistant dangerous fungus identified in
two state hospital systems the Canada, Not Canada, Candida, orris
(24:59):
Or see or us. Thank goodness, we shortened that identified
almost ten years ago. Now we're finding it in Georgia
and in Florida. So the CDC has called this Candida
orius and urgent anti microbial resistant threat. It is resistant
(25:21):
to anti fungal drugs, making it hard to treat an
infection once it occurs. And if you get infected with
this passage pathogen, excuse me, there is no treatment that
we can give to help you combat it. You're on
your own. According to a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics
at the University of South Carolina. So if you get this,
(25:42):
it is going to be a bad deal. How do
you get it? They say you can get it with
a catheter, and that is the last place that you
want a fungus to infect you. You can get it
through breathing tubes, feeding tubes, and pick lines. Those are
at the highest risk levels because the pathogen can enter
the body through those types of devices. And once you
get it, it is hard to figure out what's going
(26:03):
on because the symptoms that are like any other infection.
You get fever and chills, and and it also stays
on surfaces, countertops, bedrails, door knobs, and it sticks around
for ever.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
So uh, it's no fundsies.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
And the last of us comes to real Life's.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Not about that?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Season two is coming up, and that's the one.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
With Pedro Pascal, right, yeah, that's I'd watch him.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
The Fungus invites invades everybody in the altar onto zombies.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah yeah, yeah, great, I could see that.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
We're already at zombie stage there.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
All right, what's in a name a lot? If you're
an eaglet in a nest overlooking Big Bear Lake, As
you've heard us talking about Jackie and Shadowed, the Bald
Eagles had three eaglets. Two of them have survived so
far to the point where the Friends of Big Bear
Valley say it's time to name them. So they open
their naming contest and they're just asking that if you
(27:07):
would like to suggest a name, you make a small donation.
So for five bucks you can suggest one name, for
ten you can suggest three, and for twenty five dollars
you can suggest ten names. Friends of Big Bear Valley
is nonprofit and they're the ones who have that camera
up one hundred and forty feet up in a tree
so we can watch the little Eglitz as they grow
(27:28):
and watch Jackie in Shadow, and then after they get
all the suggestions, then they randomly pick the finalists, and
elementary school kids in Big Bear get to make the
final decision.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Well that's fun.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I don't believe that it's random. I don't believe that
they're randomly choosing the finalists.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Okay, I mean, you're gonna pick it out of a hat.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
What if you end up with the C word MACF
word face, Right, they're not going to hand that to
a bunch of elementary kids like.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
They're going to suggest Seaward McGuff word face.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
It would only cost me five dollars, I might all right.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
We're rooting for Rocky, at least for the little one.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Why why do you like Rocky?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Well, because there were three eggs. Two hatched right kind
of back to back, and then the third one didn't
hatch for almost a week because it was late almost
a week later, so it was right on schedule.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
But he was a lot smaller than the other ones.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
And we said he's going to have to be a
fighter if he's going to make it, and and editor
Carla said we should name him Rocky.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I think that's I think that's great. Yeah, the one
that died though, I guess they did name that one.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
They did.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
They they named it Misty after former friends of Big
Bear Valley Kathy mister Lee, who passed away from cancer,
so they commemoratively named the one that didn't make it.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I don't want to sound insensitive. In fact, I'm trying
to do exactly the opposite.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Okay, go for it.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Why would you named the dead bird after her? I mean,
wouldn't you want to do one of the living birds
after heard so that her memory lives on symbolically?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Got a point.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
It was weird to me. It feels strange, one of
the odds we end up with Birdie mcbird face.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Then zero to none. But if you want to do
it it spriends of Big Bear Valley. He it's their
website and it's through Friday.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Eagle Mick pecker Face. It's a bird's You don't have
to dump that cono. That's fine. You can leave that.
That's fine.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
I was talking about the beak.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It's fine. What do we do it? Oh, let's go
to the Bay Area. Ah, it's a nice place to visit,
isn't it.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Golden Gate safety nets are reducing suicide deaths.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Well, that's good. Newly installed safety nets on the Golden
Gate Bridge reducing suicides there by seventy three percent. So
if you try to jump off the bridge, you landed
a net.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Now have people jumping gone down?
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I think so because there's a net in the way.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Officials say there have been an average of thirty confirmed
suicide deaths per year for the last twenty years, and
they put they put in this stainless steel barrier on
both sides of the bridge. They did have a pushback
from people who were opposing modifying the bridge's Art deco style.
It was doing some work in San Francisco when they
were arguing about this, and this was one of those
(30:27):
deals where I get that it's iconic, I get that
it's really nice, but you got people jumping off of
it all the time. There's an easy way to fix it.
You put in this net and they go, yeah, but
it's gonna be ugly. Yeah, but thirty people a year
jumping off of it, and they go, yeah, but we
really like the way it looks, which just seemed really
bizarre to me. So anyway, they took a look and
(30:51):
everything's better. Now, before the installation, there were two and
a half suicide deaths per month at the bridge. Now
it has dropped to one point eight three sides per
month during the installation period and points sixty seven suicides
per month after installation. I'm guessing that's an average and
not necessarily that just two thirds of one's body died.
So researchers finding this big reduction after they put the
(31:14):
nets in. So that's great. And if you have ever
talked with someone that has tried to take their own lives,
once they are saved, they they oftentimes they don't do
it again.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
The people that really want to.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
So if they are landing in this and by the way,
it's not like it's a big cushy circus net, You're
not bouncing in and out of this thing. It's a
big steel, you know, barrier that is not comfortable. So
if you jump off of it and you land on
this barrier, it's it's gonna hurt. So the other thing
with people who are trying to take their own lives,
(31:53):
they don't really want to suffer. The whole point is
to end suffering. They want to they want to just
go quickly. So that's yeah. If you can't go quickly,
then you find somewhere else to do it. And if
if the bridge isn't available, it's it's deterring people. So
I'm I'm a big fan of this. I always thought
the argument because it's a nice bridge, it looks so nice.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
It's I thought that.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Was a silly argument. When we take a look at
what matters, Amy, you want to you want to do
one more and we want to get you to news.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
A shift is in the works. FBI Director Cash Btel
also serves as the acting director of the ATF, the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Yeah, he has a
plan to move as many as one thousand ATF agents
over to the FBI, cutting the current ATF agents by
(32:41):
more than a third. So apparently they're not losing their jobs,
they're shifting their jobs.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Okay, have we overstaffed the ATF? Is that the thinking here?
We just there's too many people investigating alcohol and tobaccos
and firearms and explosives, so we'll just send them over
the FBI. Do they have to be retrained? We don't
know what their jobs are. We just know that they're
(33:07):
shifting from one department over to the other one.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Okay, Well, the ATF is going to temporarily assign about
one hundred and fifty agents from field offices to other
ATF field offices. It does not really clear, but they
there's some of them would be moved over to help
with border patrol.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
Oh there you go. All right.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I wondered where we were going with it. So that
makes sense now, okay, so it's serving the larger goal
then the border patrolling. I'm telling you we're not gonna
have anybody here without documents in the not so distant future.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
And then what are we gonna complain about?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Because if the economy isn't fixed, if jobs are still
not available, and you don't have migrants to blame, who
are you gonna blame? Throughout history, we've been able to
blame ferners for anything that's gone wrong. But if we
don't have ferners, who are we going to blame? God?
I have to do the unthinkable and take responsibility for ourselves,
(34:04):
not my America, not anytime soon. Chris Maryland for Bill
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