November 18, 2025 • 30 mins
(November 18,2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. House expected to vote today on releasing the Epstein files. President Trump says U.S intends to sell F-35 jet fighters to Saudi Arbia. FEMA head resigns; David Richaardson had been difficult to reach during Texas floods. Bitcoin just erased its gains for this year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KPI AM six forty the Bill Handle Show
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and they love the sound of the rain. And as
far as I'm concerned, rain just gets your wet when
you're outside.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That's it, nothing more, nothing less.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
God, if I ever dated and I went on these websites,
it would not be easy for me. I hate walking
on the beach, I hate nature, I hate the rain.
I can't stand any of it. How about a date
and now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Bill Handle here on a rainy Tuesday morning, November eighteen.
So we had a little bit of a respite yesterday,
and then it came down hard again.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In the afternoon, and so, Amy, what are we looking
at for the rest of the week. I default to you.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We've got showers, maybe some thunderstorms today, Like they're saying,
it's one hundred percent chance we will see rain at
some point during the day for most of the LA area.
And then we get a break tomorrow, so we'll be
sunny tomorrow, and then another storm comes in Thursday.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
That's great, and that's gonna last how many eights, just
a couple days.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It should be drive for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
All right, So for next weekend we're in pretty good shape.
But Thanksgiving, well, no, it's this week. So for Thanksgiving
we should.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Be okay, Well, we don't know yet.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, we don't know, but there are no storms brooving
out in the Pacific that our scheduled to come in
during that time on the shooting.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And actually my ten day forecast is saying that we
should see sunny skies and highs in the upper sixties
around Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh it's very nice. Okay, Well, hello to you, Amy,
Hi Bill. Hello, And there's Will Coles River.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Good morning Bill. Yeah, we'll we'll see.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We'll put his face up right next to the camp
And if you think Will is questionable at looking good
from a distance, man, you should see him with his
face right next to the camera.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Uh. It's it's very pleasant to see that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
In the meantime, Good morning Anne.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Good morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yes, absolutely, cono there you are. Good morning Bill.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Oh did you know it's Mickey Mouse's ninety six birthday today?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I did not. He looks great good yep.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Original name of Mickey was one two three four five
moredsem mouse Yeah, yeah, and you who came up with
who came up with were with the name Mickey his wife?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That is correct? What was his wife's name? Mouse made no, no, no,
that was well I think it was. I think I
think it was Lilyan, wasn't it? Am I right on that?
I believe so I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Okay, So anyway, Neil, good morning, hey, and just came
up with a topic, uh, and describe it real quickly.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We're probably going to do it in a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Well, there's a there's a new AI feature that's called
cleuly and basically, in real time, it will help you
with a conversation.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So if you're on a zoom and you have it
up in real time, it'll tell.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You how to.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Continue the conversation.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
The questions to ask answers to questions you're being asked,
and it basically prompts you to say different things to
make yourself sound more interesting, so you don't have to
use your brain.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Real right, So here's the question I'm going to ask.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We're putting this together right now, and the question that's
going to be asked is real simple. I mean, we're
a third person here is Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That's me. Is Bill Handle really and truly a dick?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And going through everything that I have said, going through
sharing thoughts over the years, the answer is I'm going
to ask as a percentage of people who actually think
as big an a hole as people think I am
so real Quickly, survey says Neil, percentage do you I guess?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, said Cono. Yeah, Neil took my answer.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Okay, Amy, I think it's much lower than that. Thank
you so much. Shevn Okay, much lower? Will oh lower?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Ninety eight percent? Excellent? And finally, Anne, God, you guys
are mean. I gave it eighty percent. Well, thank you
for that. It's that's Appreciateay.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So what I'm just curious to I mean literally, because
I have played both sides of that coin. Anybody who's
been listening to me over the years knows that there
are slivers, little tiny cracks where wait a.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Minute, maybe he isn't that big of a dick.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Most people miss that, But Neil Cono stopped shaking your head. Okay,
I don't want to hear that. So anyway, and then
I will ask the same question I think of the
rest of you will and Ann and just all of you,
because I think there is some dickiosity amongst all of us.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh really is a new word.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Uh think think think Will and Amy have an edge
to them.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Do you a little bit of an edge? I think so?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, if you really search if the internet, if AI
is that good? And Amy, you've been here for literally
how long I know, station at the station, at the station,
so we know.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Who you are.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I have twelve thirteen years.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Okay, and then prior to that, because remember the AI
can search your entire entire broadcast history.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well then I was hosting morning shows and other markets.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Okay, I mean, but that is certainly the computer. You know,
the artificial intelligence can search through that. Plus I don't know.
And can it look at texts.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Your private texts? I don't think you can. And although
they can start, although I bet you can.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I'll bet he can because when there's a problem, I
mean yeah, when the the FBI, they can go through
and they subpoena texts and they'll go through years of
text to find out did you make a terrorist threats?
And so anyway, there's a few texts that I have
gone where the response is, uh, what are you wearing?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Sailor and Okay, you guys ready to do it?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yes it is yes, you were absolutely porn ready. Okay,
let's do it, guys. Uh, it is time for Handle
on the News with Amy Neil and Me on this
Tuesday morning lead story.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Jeff Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffery, Jeffrey.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Okay, oh, this is so much fun.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Now the Republican controlled House of Representative is expected to
vote today on that measure that would force the Justice
Department to release the records. Jeffrey Epstein. Interesting set of
circumstances here. Originally the President has been fighting this like crazy,
and of course all the Republicans fell right in line
(07:11):
with that, except there were a few and it was
mounting saying, you know what, this is not there's a
line that was crossed here. We will follow Donald Trump
to our death. But when it comes to covering up pedophiles,
or potentially covering up pedophiles, that line will not be crossed.
(07:32):
And the President realized that. And so now Mike Johnson,
who insisted on never bringing that, would never have the vote,
would never go against the president. Now he is in
favor of releasing the file and the whole issue of
having said no, for months has disappeared.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's as if it never happened.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Well, he kind of never didn't when he was running,
wasn't he like, we are going to release day one.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So yeah, because of the Democrats had it and the one
thing the Republicans have. And it's a good question, why
if there are anti Trump and anti Republican references to
the Epstein trial, why didn't the just why didn't the
Biden Justice.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Department release those?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Because probably just as many Democrats are being named as
Republicans say, is why.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Guess this may close down Washington.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
No, it's not going to close down. Everybody's like a
house of cards.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
No. And then and the President realized he was probably
going to lose this vote, so he turned around and said, oh,
if now telling Republicans vote, vote on it. I want
you to vote to release it, and then the Senate
and he says, and then he hasn't even committed to
signing it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
He says, I think I will.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Do you know that he can make one phone call
and the files are released within ten minutes. And if
he's in favor of less files, what then why vote
exactly exactly? I vote because he wants to not make
the decision himself to release those files and put Republicans in.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
A bad light, and so the blame can be spread.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Well, the Congress wanted it, the Senate wanted it, and
I'm just agreeing with them, as opposed to calling them
up and saying you will not vote in favor of this,
I don't care what you think, which was the case
until he reversed himself.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
How do we know nothing's been redacted?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
That's the other issue.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, it will be and here's what, and here is what,
and here's what's going to happen is the vote for
the file files will be made, the President will sign. However,
Pam BONDI will open up an investigation of Democrats who
are listed on there and will then say we can't
(09:54):
release all the files because there's an active investigation going on.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
There is it now, but there will.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Be an active investigation going on as soon as the
vote takes place and the files are determined to be released.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's what it is. A cluster truck, this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
But the bottom line is, and no Republican is going
to be able to run having voted no on releasing
those Epstein files because the accusation that's going to be
both in the primary against another Republican and in the generals.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Why did you vote to protect a pedophile?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We're not talking about Trump necessarily, but why did you
vote to protect pedophiles that Jeffrey Epstein names?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
How do you answer that you can't? Therefore, the files
will be released? I mean it is. The politics of
this are just insane.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And you won't see President Trump, who wants the files released,
to make the phone call to release the files.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All right, let's do one more and we'll take our break.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I like to an order of F thirty five's with
the side of fries, please. President Trump says the US
will sell advanced F thirty five fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.
So there are concerns with this because some are saying
that it could erode Israel's military advantage in the Middle
East and then reduce the amount of leverage that Washington
(11:25):
has to encourage Saudi Arabia and Israel to normalize their relationship.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, this gets interesting because the F thirty five is
the most advanced fighter jet that exists on the planet.
It is a top top secret. The US keeps it
very close to the vest Israel has them. I don't
know what other countries do have them. There may be
other countries, allied countries that have them.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Amy do you know.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I was listening to us information about this when I
got worried about it, and I think it's only Israel,
at least in the Middle.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
East, and that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And to give it to Saudi Arabia is Israel's going nuts,
of course, because Israel has the advantage militarily across the
entire Middle East. Now the other side is Saudi Arabia
was about to normalize relationships with Israel. Israel is a
lot closer to Saudi Arabia in terms of politics and
(12:21):
in terms of just surviving in the Middle East. The
real enemy is Aron. And so you're gonna see Saudi
Arabian Israel. I believe normalized relationships much like Jordan has,
like the Emirates have, like Egypt has.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And I think you're going to see other countries too.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
All right, Yeah, we've sold them to like everybody, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Belgium, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Norway,
Full Singapore.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
All allies, all allies, strong allies, and Saudi Arabia, not
necessarily an ally because it aligns itself with the Palestinian
cause for example, big time, well, at least lip service wise.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
All right, David Richardson, if you remember he is, was
the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency aka
FEMA for a short amount of time. He resigned yesterday,
So about six months or so, was the acting head
of the disaster response agency for the US. But apparently
(13:24):
he's not easy to get a hold of. And that's
a huge complaint. I mean, you think disasters.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
During hurricanes and natural disaster.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Back in July when there were massive issues, I guess
he was hard to find and staffers and others that
were interviewed are like, hey, you know, we couldn't get
a hold of him, and he wasn't He didn't come
to meetings apparently in all this, so a lot of
controversies surrounding him. And apparently he resigned yesterday, so the controversy.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, what a piece of work he was.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And when he did show up, he'd be in a
cowboy hat and cowboy boots. I mean, just come on, guy, really,
so another head of FEMA disappears.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
What's your homeworth? Not as much as it was. Home
values are falling in more than half of the US.
As of October, fifty three percent of homes in the
country had lost value in the past year. That's according
to Zillo. Home prices are falling in much of the
Southeast and also parts of the West. They are still
(14:30):
rising in some cities in the Midwest and the Northeast.
Why a lot of would be home buyers have remained
on the sidelines because of economic uncertainty and mortgage rates
sticking around six percent.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
How are we doing in southern California?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I think we're probably flat because I haven't seen home
prices go up the way they did last year.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Do we have any idea I have noted.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, we did a story like two weeks ago, and
remember the percentage. I mean, they've dropped just a tough bit,
but not a lot.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
All right, fair enough. I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But I did notice that there's somebody on my street
who's had their house for sale and it's been for
sale for a really long time. They would go up
and they'd be gone immediately, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And my neighbor through two doors down has had her
their sale home for sale for almost the entire time
that I've been living here, and at a reasonable price,
not asking crazy money, couldn't sell it.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Decided not to sell.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
The house once you moved in, buddy.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, exactly in the house, and then the house across
the street, and then down the street. There were like
four or five homes that were for sale in my neighborhood,
all at reasonable prices.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
They all went. So I don't know why the house
didn't go down the street.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
All right, The Justice Department is, you know, going after COMBI,
as we know. And now you've got a judge stepping
in and saying, you know what there is, in their words,
not mine, disturbing pattern of profound and investigative missteps, very
specific and very stern. So this federal judge ruled monday
(16:13):
in directing prosecutors to provide defense lawyers with all grand
jury material from the case. Which is that very unusual
because yeah, I was gonna say, but it.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Looks like that the grand jury indictment and the evidence
presented was so so sketchy that the lead prosecutor who
was there, the US attorney that was there, dropped out.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He said, I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
There's no evidence and so he was fired, and then
another one was put in who had never had proscatorial experience,
that was assigned to be the US attorney for that district,
and she's going forward on it. Now. I want to
point something out, and that is Kobe and ly Titia
James and of course John Bolton have all been indicted
and are all going to be put up for trial
(17:03):
because of the horrors that they had done. For example,
Letitia James is call me having lied to Congress. One
witness says he lied. He says no, But let's believe
the one guy who said he did. Okay, fair enough.
Tom Holman, who is head of ICE, it is reported
(17:24):
that the FBI has video of him accepting a fifty
thousand dollars cash bribe.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Video.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Christin Nolams said, we've investigated it and there's not enough
evidence to go forward with Tom Holman. Life is wonderful,
isn't it. Craziness is going on, Insanity is going on,
and of course the insanity of the politics that are happening.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
All right, Well, if you don't want to be fat anymore,
you can get your weight loss drugs for cheaper. The
maker of wigov and ozempk have cut prices for most
of these medifications three forty nine a month, down from
four ninety nine a month. That's accuding to Novo Nordisk,
(18:13):
so Wigovy and Ozempic drop in their prices for new customers.
Novo Nordisk is going to sell the point twenty five
milligram and they point five milligram versions of Wigovy and
ozempk four one hundred and ninety nine dollars a month
for the first two months. Apparently they're doing this in
response to Trump administration pressure and also Eli Lilly potentially
(18:36):
slashing prices for the weightless truns.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, and this is Trump. You have to give him
credit for this.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
He's done more than any other president to really president,
to really put pressure on big pharma in a big way.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And so good news, good news.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
A lot of fat people in this country, I mean
a whole lot of fat people.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I'm going to get rid of the fatty.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I don't want to make too many accusations here, Neil, Well.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Bill, I'm very excited, and I'm going to have a snack. Yeah,
all right, Walgreens. You know, you got to figure sometimes
you go forward and sometimes you go backwards and I'm
telling you companies are going to start going backwards. Walgreens,
who's had some issues back in twenty twenty four, they
(19:27):
plan to close about twelve hundred underperforming stores. Well now
they're no longer going to give most of their workers
paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays,
six of them to be exact. And this is just
after being bought by a private equity company for.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yah and they want to cut expenses. How many companies
do not give Thanksgiving or Christmas Day off as a
paid vacation.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
It's probably very rare, but I'm thank you major Major's rare.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, our company, we don't get a paid Thanksgiving or
we do, of course we do. Amy just not you,
just you. Yeah, maybe you ought to look into that,
Yeah you do.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
No what I mean, No, I think that that might
be changing with the new contract or something.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But oh no, the union.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah it is under union. I think under the union contract.
I think they have to.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
The new one, the new one that goes into effect
next year.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
But I've been here for like twelve years.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I don't even I don't even think we have a contract.
KFI has a contract with the union.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, we do. We got a new one this year.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Oh they signed it this year.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
There was no contract for ten years, twelve years.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Well, we had a contract. It was just the old
contract that expired.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
We were just lapse, but it lapsed for a decade,
so we.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Were going off the terms of those kinds.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Well, anyway, I know that's not that exciting to you.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Okay, I didn't know that. That's wow.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You know. I tend not to bad mouth I heart,
but that one is a tough one.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Not Giving, Thanksgiving and Christmas, we do.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Shut down the radio station.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
No, but you get people that are willing. No, you
get people that are willing to work, and you pay
them big money vacation pay no, nope. Okay, Well congratulations Neil.
You're here Thanksgiving in the day after and you too,
and no extra money right correct?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Oh wow, I don't think so. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Time and a half.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, if that's true, if you're on contract, all right,
let's just move on.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
The UN backs President Trump's peace plan. The UN Security
Council endorse proposals put forward by President Trump that twenty
point plan for a lasting piece in Gaza. It includes
the deployment of an international stabilization force and a possible
plan to a Palestinian state. The vote was thirteen to nothing,
(22:00):
with abstentions by China and Russia. Hamas came out and said, well,
we don't support it, and Israel said Palestinian state, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, now under Nettayahoo, that'll never happen. In the end,
you have to give Trump credit for this. It was
his prop pressure that puts this together. I don't think
it would have happened without him.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Well, and here's I was talking to Jordana Miller too
about this, because it's going to take a long time.
There's lots of conditions and stuff if they do this,
and she said, even if Netanyahu's against a Palestinian state,
he's probably not going to be in power by the
time that's correct, that's all plays out.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
You're absolutely right, And so they're putting of course, they're
calling it the Trump Peace Plan, naturally, and it's no
longer the Islamic world, it's the Trumpslamic world.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
All right.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Bringing back an oldie, but a goodie. You got health
officials this week, uh looking around and seeing that measles
outbreak that began in Texas and another in Utah and Arizona.
Finding that this could America end our status here in
the United States as a nation that has eliminated measles.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Those a pet train of transmission since January, going bump, bump, bump, Texas, Oklahoma,
now New Mexico. So we're going backwards.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, Well, those pesky vaccines you got in the way
of the disease being spread. Now it's the Mennonites. This
is not the Robert F. Kennedy craziness. The Mennonites have
never allowed vaccinations. But the problem is herd immunity is
basically gone because so many people do not get vaccines.
(23:39):
Kids do not get vaccines anymore. The spread goes when
there's when there's herd immunity, it's just going to stop
a few few people getting vaccines. It doesn't spread more
and more people not getting vaccines. Well, this is what
you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
More flights to Mexico. Apparently. Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum says
that Mexican Airlines has agreed to hand over some flight
slots to the nation's busy capital airport to US characters.
This is our carriers, This is happening during an ongoing
spat between the US and Mexico over flight distribution. She
(24:21):
didn't say how many slots were being given up, but
they will be. It comes as the US Department of
Transportation is cracked down on Mexican airline operations in the
US in recent months.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Other than involuntary flights to Mexico that the US government
provides for certain people that are picked up.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Who wants to go to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
It's a great place to vacation.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
It's a great place to die. Oh yeah, Okay, Moving
on Tokyo.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Speaking of dying, they don't want karoshi, which to death
from overwork. Tokyo officials are looking over all the details
of this stuff as people are fighting for a four
day work week, not just oh we want some time
to relax, but apparently to erase the nation's notoriously punishing
(25:19):
work culture, and that they're trying to find ways to
balance everything out because you've got you know, birth rates down,
all these different things that are emanating from having you know,
burnout and all these things that are caused by overworking.
There four day work week is looking like the answer.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Look at the cultural difference between Tokyo or Japan, where
they work like animals, they work so hard. And then
you have France where you wake up, you go to
work at ten o'clock, you have lunch from twelve to two,
and then you leave at four o'clock. And let's not
forget a month. They cation by law that you start
at ah those French, but they have to do their art.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I know they doo.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yes, California is not the only ones suing, you know
the California has filed dozens of lawsuits against Trump administration. Well,
now this time the Trump administration is filing a lawsuit
against California and it's new law that bans federal agents
from wearing masks. It also and also requiring them to
have ID while they do ice operations. The government has
(26:33):
argued that the laws threaten the safety of officers who
are facing what they call unprecedented harassment, dosing, and violence
during these ice immigration reads. The laws are called the
No Secret Police and No Vigilante Laws. California is the
first in the country to do it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, both sides have a point because life is so
polarized that you go after either side and the threats
just happen.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
So if you have the what is the people that
have dealt.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
With the police if they could, if they can, many
of them publish the addresses of the policeman's homes after
recognizing them with facial recognition software.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
You can do whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And at the same time, don't you want to know
if you want to go after someone who is acting
acting out when arresting someone acting inappropriately?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So I don't know where the answer is on that one.
All right.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
The good news is that American Social Security cost of
living increase is going to pop up next year. The
bad news is for older Americans it's going to be
consumed by Medicare costs.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, it gets pretty expensive this medical care.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
In the States. So there you go. Okay, not much
more to say.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
How about prices? Its post officer going up, But the
good news is they don't to go up until after
the holidays. The Postal Service says that shipping prices are
going to go up starting in February, I believe. But
the mail, the stamp prices for just the basic stamp,
those are staying the same.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, when you look.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
At this is shipping, when you look at ups, when
you look at FedEx, both are fabulously profitable organizations. The
Postal Service, which also ships and does letters, is losing money.
And that's because the Postal Service delivers to every single
address in the United States.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
They even have mules that deliver.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Down into the Grand Canyon, and there are places that
are only available to get to by snowmobiles and airplanes.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Barges so well, people complain about them, but I got
to tell you, the United States Postal Service is still
one of the best deals on the planet. When you
it is what it is, get for your money.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Absolutely and it's it doesn't get any tax dollars. It
makes it all with stamps and services. And although they
should charge more for the junk mail, although how do
you determine what junk mail is? I have no idea
who makes that decision. But ninety percent of the mail
that I get is crap, pure crap in the sense
(29:24):
that they're all coupons and real well real estate people.
I mean, how long has it been. It's been what
a year and a half since I bought my house.
I'm still getting stuff from real estate agents. Hey, if
you're thinking of selling your house here I am. I
get half a dozen of those a week. Okay, we
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are done. Coming up the OJ Simpson case is still alive,
and what an agreement the estate has made with the
Goldman family and it means absolutely nothing, and I'll share
with you when.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
We come back. Let's check in with or we'll.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Talk to Amy a few minutes after I lock out,
which I should have just said.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
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on the beach, I hate nature, I hate the rain.
I can't stand any of it. How about a date
and now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Bill Handle here on a rainy Tuesday morning, November eighteen.
So we had a little bit of a respite yesterday,
and then it came down hard again.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In the afternoon, and so, Amy, what are we looking
at for the rest of the week. I default to you.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We've got showers, maybe some thunderstorms today, Like they're saying,
it's one hundred percent chance we will see rain at
some point during the day for most of the LA area.
And then we get a break tomorrow, so we'll be
sunny tomorrow, and then another storm comes in Thursday.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
That's great, and that's gonna last how many eights, just
a couple days.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It should be drive for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
All right, So for next weekend we're in pretty good shape.
But Thanksgiving, well, no, it's this week. So for Thanksgiving
we should.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Be okay, Well, we don't know yet.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, we don't know, but there are no storms brooving
out in the Pacific that our scheduled to come in
during that time on the shooting.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And actually my ten day forecast is saying that we
should see sunny skies and highs in the upper sixties
around Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh it's very nice. Okay, Well, hello to you, Amy,
Hi Bill. Hello, And there's Will Coles River.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Good morning Bill. Yeah, we'll we'll see.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We'll put his face up right next to the camp
And if you think Will is questionable at looking good
from a distance, man, you should see him with his
face right next to the camera.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Uh. It's it's very pleasant to see that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
In the meantime, Good morning Anne.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Good morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yes, absolutely, cono there you are. Good morning Bill.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Oh did you know it's Mickey Mouse's ninety six birthday today?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I did not. He looks great good yep.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Original name of Mickey was one two three four five
moredsem mouse Yeah, yeah, and you who came up with
who came up with were with the name Mickey his wife?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That is correct? What was his wife's name? Mouse made no, no, no,
that was well I think it was. I think I
think it was Lilyan, wasn't it? Am I right on that?
I believe so I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Okay, So anyway, Neil, good morning, hey, and just came
up with a topic, uh, and describe it real quickly.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We're probably going to do it in a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Well, there's a there's a new AI feature that's called
cleuly and basically, in real time, it will help you
with a conversation.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So if you're on a zoom and you have it
up in real time, it'll tell.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You how to.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Continue the conversation.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
The questions to ask answers to questions you're being asked,
and it basically prompts you to say different things to
make yourself sound more interesting, so you don't have to
use your brain.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Real right, So here's the question I'm going to ask.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
We're putting this together right now, and the question that's
going to be asked is real simple. I mean, we're
a third person here is Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That's me. Is Bill Handle really and truly a dick?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And going through everything that I have said, going through
sharing thoughts over the years, the answer is I'm going
to ask as a percentage of people who actually think
as big an a hole as people think I am
so real Quickly, survey says Neil, percentage do you I guess?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, said Cono. Yeah, Neil took my answer.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Okay, Amy, I think it's much lower than that. Thank
you so much. Shevn Okay, much lower? Will oh lower?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Ninety eight percent? Excellent? And finally, Anne, God, you guys
are mean. I gave it eighty percent. Well, thank you
for that. It's that's Appreciateay.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So what I'm just curious to I mean literally, because
I have played both sides of that coin. Anybody who's
been listening to me over the years knows that there
are slivers, little tiny cracks where wait a.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Minute, maybe he isn't that big of a dick.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Most people miss that, But Neil Cono stopped shaking your head. Okay,
I don't want to hear that. So anyway, and then
I will ask the same question I think of the
rest of you will and Ann and just all of you,
because I think there is some dickiosity amongst all of us.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh really is a new word.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Uh think think think Will and Amy have an edge
to them.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Do you a little bit of an edge? I think so?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, if you really search if the internet, if AI
is that good? And Amy, you've been here for literally
how long I know, station at the station, at the station,
so we know.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Who you are.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I have twelve thirteen years.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Okay, and then prior to that, because remember the AI
can search your entire entire broadcast history.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well then I was hosting morning shows and other markets.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Okay, I mean, but that is certainly the computer. You know,
the artificial intelligence can search through that. Plus I don't know.
And can it look at texts.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Your private texts? I don't think you can. And although
they can start, although I bet you can.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I'll bet he can because when there's a problem, I
mean yeah, when the the FBI, they can go through
and they subpoena texts and they'll go through years of
text to find out did you make a terrorist threats?
And so anyway, there's a few texts that I have
gone where the response is, uh, what are you wearing?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Sailor and Okay, you guys ready to do it?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yes it is yes, you were absolutely porn ready. Okay,
let's do it, guys. Uh, it is time for Handle
on the News with Amy Neil and Me on this
Tuesday morning lead story.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Jeff Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffery, Jeffrey.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Okay, oh, this is so much fun.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Now the Republican controlled House of Representative is expected to
vote today on that measure that would force the Justice
Department to release the records. Jeffrey Epstein. Interesting set of
circumstances here. Originally the President has been fighting this like crazy,
and of course all the Republicans fell right in line
(07:11):
with that, except there were a few and it was
mounting saying, you know what, this is not there's a
line that was crossed here. We will follow Donald Trump
to our death. But when it comes to covering up pedophiles,
or potentially covering up pedophiles, that line will not be crossed.
(07:32):
And the President realized that. And so now Mike Johnson,
who insisted on never bringing that, would never have the vote,
would never go against the president. Now he is in
favor of releasing the file and the whole issue of
having said no, for months has disappeared.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's as if it never happened.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Well, he kind of never didn't when he was running,
wasn't he like, we are going to release day one.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So yeah, because of the Democrats had it and the one
thing the Republicans have. And it's a good question, why
if there are anti Trump and anti Republican references to
the Epstein trial, why didn't the just why didn't the
Biden Justice.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Department release those?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Because probably just as many Democrats are being named as
Republicans say, is why.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Guess this may close down Washington.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
No, it's not going to close down. Everybody's like a
house of cards.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
No. And then and the President realized he was probably
going to lose this vote, so he turned around and said, oh,
if now telling Republicans vote, vote on it. I want
you to vote to release it, and then the Senate
and he says, and then he hasn't even committed to
signing it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
He says, I think I will.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Do you know that he can make one phone call
and the files are released within ten minutes. And if
he's in favor of less files, what then why vote
exactly exactly? I vote because he wants to not make
the decision himself to release those files and put Republicans in.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
A bad light, and so the blame can be spread.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Well, the Congress wanted it, the Senate wanted it, and
I'm just agreeing with them, as opposed to calling them
up and saying you will not vote in favor of this,
I don't care what you think, which was the case
until he reversed himself.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
How do we know nothing's been redacted?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
That's the other issue.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, it will be and here's what, and here is what,
and here's what's going to happen is the vote for
the file files will be made, the President will sign. However,
Pam BONDI will open up an investigation of Democrats who
are listed on there and will then say we can't
(09:54):
release all the files because there's an active investigation going on.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
There is it now, but there will.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Be an active investigation going on as soon as the
vote takes place and the files are determined to be released.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's what it is. A cluster truck, this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
But the bottom line is, and no Republican is going
to be able to run having voted no on releasing
those Epstein files because the accusation that's going to be
both in the primary against another Republican and in the generals.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Why did you vote to protect a pedophile?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We're not talking about Trump necessarily, but why did you
vote to protect pedophiles that Jeffrey Epstein names?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
How do you answer that you can't? Therefore, the files
will be released? I mean it is. The politics of
this are just insane.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And you won't see President Trump, who wants the files released,
to make the phone call to release the files.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All right, let's do one more and we'll take our break.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I like to an order of F thirty five's with
the side of fries, please. President Trump says the US
will sell advanced F thirty five fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.
So there are concerns with this because some are saying
that it could erode Israel's military advantage in the Middle
East and then reduce the amount of leverage that Washington
(11:25):
has to encourage Saudi Arabia and Israel to normalize their relationship.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, this gets interesting because the F thirty five is
the most advanced fighter jet that exists on the planet.
It is a top top secret. The US keeps it
very close to the vest Israel has them. I don't
know what other countries do have them. There may be
other countries, allied countries that have them.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Amy do you know.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I was listening to us information about this when I
got worried about it, and I think it's only Israel,
at least in the Middle.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
East, and that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And to give it to Saudi Arabia is Israel's going nuts,
of course, because Israel has the advantage militarily across the
entire Middle East. Now the other side is Saudi Arabia
was about to normalize relationships with Israel. Israel is a
lot closer to Saudi Arabia in terms of politics and
(12:21):
in terms of just surviving in the Middle East. The
real enemy is Aron. And so you're gonna see Saudi
Arabian Israel. I believe normalized relationships much like Jordan has,
like the Emirates have, like Egypt has.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And I think you're going to see other countries too.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
All right, Yeah, we've sold them to like everybody, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Belgium, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Norway,
Full Singapore.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
All allies, all allies, strong allies, and Saudi Arabia, not
necessarily an ally because it aligns itself with the Palestinian
cause for example, big time, well, at least lip service wise.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
All right, David Richardson, if you remember he is, was
the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency aka
FEMA for a short amount of time. He resigned yesterday,
So about six months or so, was the acting head
of the disaster response agency for the US. But apparently
(13:24):
he's not easy to get a hold of. And that's
a huge complaint. I mean, you think disasters.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
During hurricanes and natural disaster.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Back in July when there were massive issues, I guess
he was hard to find and staffers and others that
were interviewed are like, hey, you know, we couldn't get
a hold of him, and he wasn't He didn't come
to meetings apparently in all this, so a lot of
controversies surrounding him. And apparently he resigned yesterday, so the controversy.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, what a piece of work he was.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And when he did show up, he'd be in a
cowboy hat and cowboy boots. I mean, just come on, guy, really,
so another head of FEMA disappears.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
What's your homeworth? Not as much as it was. Home
values are falling in more than half of the US.
As of October, fifty three percent of homes in the
country had lost value in the past year. That's according
to Zillo. Home prices are falling in much of the
Southeast and also parts of the West. They are still
(14:30):
rising in some cities in the Midwest and the Northeast.
Why a lot of would be home buyers have remained
on the sidelines because of economic uncertainty and mortgage rates
sticking around six percent.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
How are we doing in southern California?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I think we're probably flat because I haven't seen home
prices go up the way they did last year.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Do we have any idea I have noted.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, we did a story like two weeks ago, and
remember the percentage. I mean, they've dropped just a tough bit,
but not a lot.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
All right, fair enough. I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But I did notice that there's somebody on my street
who's had their house for sale and it's been for
sale for a really long time. They would go up
and they'd be gone immediately, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And my neighbor through two doors down has had her
their sale home for sale for almost the entire time
that I've been living here, and at a reasonable price,
not asking crazy money, couldn't sell it.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Decided not to sell.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
The house once you moved in, buddy.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, exactly in the house, and then the house across
the street, and then down the street. There were like
four or five homes that were for sale in my neighborhood,
all at reasonable prices.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
They all went. So I don't know why the house
didn't go down the street.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
All right, The Justice Department is, you know, going after COMBI,
as we know. And now you've got a judge stepping
in and saying, you know what there is, in their words,
not mine, disturbing pattern of profound and investigative missteps, very
specific and very stern. So this federal judge ruled monday
(16:13):
in directing prosecutors to provide defense lawyers with all grand
jury material from the case. Which is that very unusual
because yeah, I was gonna say, but it.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Looks like that the grand jury indictment and the evidence
presented was so so sketchy that the lead prosecutor who
was there, the US attorney that was there, dropped out.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He said, I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
There's no evidence and so he was fired, and then
another one was put in who had never had proscatorial experience,
that was assigned to be the US attorney for that district,
and she's going forward on it. Now. I want to
point something out, and that is Kobe and ly Titia
James and of course John Bolton have all been indicted
and are all going to be put up for trial
(17:03):
because of the horrors that they had done. For example,
Letitia James is call me having lied to Congress. One
witness says he lied. He says no, But let's believe
the one guy who said he did. Okay, fair enough.
Tom Holman, who is head of ICE, it is reported
(17:24):
that the FBI has video of him accepting a fifty
thousand dollars cash bribe.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Video.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Christin Nolams said, we've investigated it and there's not enough
evidence to go forward with Tom Holman. Life is wonderful,
isn't it. Craziness is going on, Insanity is going on,
and of course the insanity of the politics that are happening.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
All right, Well, if you don't want to be fat anymore,
you can get your weight loss drugs for cheaper. The
maker of wigov and ozempk have cut prices for most
of these medifications three forty nine a month, down from
four ninety nine a month. That's accuding to Novo Nordisk,
(18:13):
so Wigovy and Ozempic drop in their prices for new customers.
Novo Nordisk is going to sell the point twenty five
milligram and they point five milligram versions of Wigovy and
ozempk four one hundred and ninety nine dollars a month
for the first two months. Apparently they're doing this in
response to Trump administration pressure and also Eli Lilly potentially
(18:36):
slashing prices for the weightless truns.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, and this is Trump. You have to give him
credit for this.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
He's done more than any other president to really president,
to really put pressure on big pharma in a big way.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And so good news, good news.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
A lot of fat people in this country, I mean
a whole lot of fat people.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I'm going to get rid of the fatty.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I don't want to make too many accusations here, Neil, Well.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Bill, I'm very excited, and I'm going to have a snack. Yeah,
all right, Walgreens. You know, you got to figure sometimes
you go forward and sometimes you go backwards and I'm
telling you companies are going to start going backwards. Walgreens,
who's had some issues back in twenty twenty four, they
(19:27):
plan to close about twelve hundred underperforming stores. Well now
they're no longer going to give most of their workers
paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays,
six of them to be exact. And this is just
after being bought by a private equity company for.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yah and they want to cut expenses. How many companies
do not give Thanksgiving or Christmas Day off as a
paid vacation.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
It's probably very rare, but I'm thank you major Major's rare.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, our company, we don't get a paid Thanksgiving or
we do, of course we do. Amy just not you,
just you. Yeah, maybe you ought to look into that,
Yeah you do.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
No what I mean, No, I think that that might
be changing with the new contract or something.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But oh no, the union.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah it is under union. I think under the union contract.
I think they have to.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
The new one, the new one that goes into effect
next year.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
But I've been here for like twelve years.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I don't even I don't even think we have a contract.
KFI has a contract with the union.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, we do. We got a new one this year.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Oh they signed it this year.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
There was no contract for ten years, twelve years.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Well, we had a contract. It was just the old
contract that expired.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
We were just lapse, but it lapsed for a decade,
so we.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Were going off the terms of those kinds.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Well, anyway, I know that's not that exciting to you.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Okay, I didn't know that. That's wow.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You know. I tend not to bad mouth I heart,
but that one is a tough one.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Not Giving, Thanksgiving and Christmas, we do.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Shut down the radio station.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
No, but you get people that are willing. No, you
get people that are willing to work, and you pay
them big money vacation pay no, nope. Okay, Well congratulations Neil.
You're here Thanksgiving in the day after and you too,
and no extra money right correct?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Oh wow, I don't think so. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Time and a half.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, if that's true, if you're on contract, all right,
let's just move on.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
The UN backs President Trump's peace plan. The UN Security
Council endorse proposals put forward by President Trump that twenty
point plan for a lasting piece in Gaza. It includes
the deployment of an international stabilization force and a possible
plan to a Palestinian state. The vote was thirteen to nothing,
(22:00):
with abstentions by China and Russia. Hamas came out and said, well,
we don't support it, and Israel said Palestinian state, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, now under Nettayahoo, that'll never happen. In the end,
you have to give Trump credit for this. It was
his prop pressure that puts this together. I don't think
it would have happened without him.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Well, and here's I was talking to Jordana Miller too
about this, because it's going to take a long time.
There's lots of conditions and stuff if they do this,
and she said, even if Netanyahu's against a Palestinian state,
he's probably not going to be in power by the
time that's correct, that's all plays out.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
You're absolutely right, And so they're putting of course, they're
calling it the Trump Peace Plan, naturally, and it's no
longer the Islamic world, it's the Trumpslamic world.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
All right.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Bringing back an oldie, but a goodie. You got health
officials this week, uh looking around and seeing that measles
outbreak that began in Texas and another in Utah and Arizona.
Finding that this could America end our status here in
the United States as a nation that has eliminated measles.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Those a pet train of transmission since January, going bump, bump, bump, Texas, Oklahoma,
now New Mexico. So we're going backwards.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, Well, those pesky vaccines you got in the way
of the disease being spread. Now it's the Mennonites. This
is not the Robert F. Kennedy craziness. The Mennonites have
never allowed vaccinations. But the problem is herd immunity is
basically gone because so many people do not get vaccines.
(23:39):
Kids do not get vaccines anymore. The spread goes when
there's when there's herd immunity, it's just going to stop
a few few people getting vaccines. It doesn't spread more
and more people not getting vaccines. Well, this is what
you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
More flights to Mexico. Apparently. Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum says
that Mexican Airlines has agreed to hand over some flight
slots to the nation's busy capital airport to US characters.
This is our carriers, This is happening during an ongoing
spat between the US and Mexico over flight distribution. She
(24:21):
didn't say how many slots were being given up, but
they will be. It comes as the US Department of
Transportation is cracked down on Mexican airline operations in the
US in recent months.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Other than involuntary flights to Mexico that the US government
provides for certain people that are picked up.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Who wants to go to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
It's a great place to vacation.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
It's a great place to die. Oh yeah, Okay, Moving
on Tokyo.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Speaking of dying, they don't want karoshi, which to death
from overwork. Tokyo officials are looking over all the details
of this stuff as people are fighting for a four
day work week, not just oh we want some time
to relax, but apparently to erase the nation's notoriously punishing
(25:19):
work culture, and that they're trying to find ways to
balance everything out because you've got you know, birth rates down,
all these different things that are emanating from having you know,
burnout and all these things that are caused by overworking.
There four day work week is looking like the answer.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Look at the cultural difference between Tokyo or Japan, where
they work like animals, they work so hard. And then
you have France where you wake up, you go to
work at ten o'clock, you have lunch from twelve to two,
and then you leave at four o'clock. And let's not
forget a month. They cation by law that you start
at ah those French, but they have to do their art.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I know they doo.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yes, California is not the only ones suing, you know
the California has filed dozens of lawsuits against Trump administration. Well,
now this time the Trump administration is filing a lawsuit
against California and it's new law that bans federal agents
from wearing masks. It also and also requiring them to
have ID while they do ice operations. The government has
(26:33):
argued that the laws threaten the safety of officers who
are facing what they call unprecedented harassment, dosing, and violence
during these ice immigration reads. The laws are called the
No Secret Police and No Vigilante Laws. California is the
first in the country to do it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, both sides have a point because life is so
polarized that you go after either side and the threats
just happen.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
So if you have the what is the people that
have dealt.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
With the police if they could, if they can, many
of them publish the addresses of the policeman's homes after
recognizing them with facial recognition software.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
You can do whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And at the same time, don't you want to know
if you want to go after someone who is acting
acting out when arresting someone acting inappropriately?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So I don't know where the answer is on that one.
All right.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
The good news is that American Social Security cost of
living increase is going to pop up next year. The
bad news is for older Americans it's going to be
consumed by Medicare costs.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, it gets pretty expensive this medical care.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
In the States. So there you go. Okay, not much
more to say.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
How about prices? Its post officer going up, But the
good news is they don't to go up until after
the holidays. The Postal Service says that shipping prices are
going to go up starting in February, I believe. But
the mail, the stamp prices for just the basic stamp,
those are staying the same.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, when you look.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
At this is shipping, when you look at ups, when
you look at FedEx, both are fabulously profitable organizations. The
Postal Service, which also ships and does letters, is losing money.
And that's because the Postal Service delivers to every single
address in the United States.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
They even have mules that deliver.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Down into the Grand Canyon, and there are places that
are only available to get to by snowmobiles and airplanes.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Barges so well, people complain about them, but I got
to tell you, the United States Postal Service is still
one of the best deals on the planet. When you
it is what it is, get for your money.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Absolutely and it's it doesn't get any tax dollars. It
makes it all with stamps and services. And although they
should charge more for the junk mail, although how do
you determine what junk mail is? I have no idea
who makes that decision. But ninety percent of the mail
that I get is crap, pure crap in the sense
(29:24):
that they're all coupons and real well real estate people.
I mean, how long has it been. It's been what
a year and a half since I bought my house.
I'm still getting stuff from real estate agents. Hey, if
you're thinking of selling your house here I am. I
get half a dozen of those a week. Okay, we
(29:46):
are done. Coming up the OJ Simpson case is still alive,
and what an agreement the estate has made with the
Goldman family and it means absolutely nothing, and I'll share
with you when.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
We come back. Let's check in with or we'll.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Talk to Amy a few minutes after I lock out,
which I should have just said.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
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