December 15, 2025 • 21 mins
(December 15,2025)
Rob Reiner dead at 78: A look back at his Hollywood career that span more than 6 decades. What we know about the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia targeting a Jewish festival. California’s last nuclear plant clears key hurdle to stat open. L.A. vs L.A.28: Could the city sue over the cost of the Olympics?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF. I
am six forty listen what the flow the people say.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This KFI on a Monday morning, December fifteenth, second day
of Hanukkah today and ten days until that day Christmas,
where Neil is going to be filling in for me
on Christmas Day? Amy? Are you? Amy?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Are you working Christmas Day?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I am not?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh, good for you? Cono are you working Christmas Day? No?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Oh, it's getting good will? Are you working Christmas Day?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Wow? How's that for a food chain issue?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And Ann?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Are you working Christmas Day? I am not?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay, who's doing Who's doing the show? I know Neil's
doing the show, but who's filling in for you? Amy?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You know I have a special edition of wake Up
Call planned for you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh that means a recording of some kind. I'm very
excited about that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It's a special edition of wake Up Call.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That's that's another name for a recording that's not going
to stay live.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Okay? Is it recorded? Yes or no?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Okay, but it's it's a good It's a good, an
entertaining edition of wake Up Call.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
So if you're up early, we'll keep you entertained. I promise.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Okay, it's a good and entertaining edition of a recording.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So you wake up in the morning and you went
live news, it ain't gonna happen live news, uh, which
is also recorded.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I'm assuming you know we're still going to have live news.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
All right, Yeah, I'm just being ridiculous here. All right.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yesterday last night Neil Neil Savader called me. I was
just about to go to bed, and he said, hey,
are you going to do this story tomorrow? Uh, it
looks like Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle have been killed,
stabbed to death. We didn't know at that point. Well,
first of all, we didn't know at that point that
it was a stabbing. Second of all, we didn't know
it was Rob Reiner because the police just released the
(02:07):
information that there were two victims at a house connected
to Rob Reiner. The ages of the victims were seventy
eight and sixty eight. They released that very early. And
guess what, we knew immediately that that was going to happen.
That was going to be the case because Rob Reiner
seventy eight and his wife Michelle sixty eight, And we
(02:28):
now are finding out and this is incremental bits of
information that come out, which typically doing stories like this
that the son has been arrested, their son, and we
don't know what kind of relationship we had with him.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I'm assuming it was contentious.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And Rob Reiner is now being celebrated because of the accomplishments.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
He broke out.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I don't know if you remember All in the Family,
which was groundbreaking anyway, Archie Bunker and his daughter, his
daughter and son in law. Rob Reiner played Meathead, who
was a liberal in that show, and that followed real life.
Because Rob Reiner, who is an iconic actor director, I mean,
(03:13):
he's done some extraordinary films.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
He did television.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
He was a writer for a lot of the comedy people,
the comedy late night shows, which I didn't know, and
he directed what were those two big ones that immediately
come to mind.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
The funny ones are the not funny ones because he
did he did both st he.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Did miss remember I didn't realize he did. Yeah when
Harry met Sally of course.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Uh And and he also did Spinal Tap. But he
wrote for the first Comic Relief hosted by Robin Williams,
Billy Crystal WHIPOPI Goldberg. You remember that, and I did
know he was married to Penny Marshall, who that show
or her show was spun off I think from all
(03:57):
in the family, if I'm not mistaken, or it's spun
off from Happy Days, right, yeah, got that, and she
was a star of that, and they were married and
of course divorce and it was just I mean, what
he did was extraordinary, and he grew up. He's a
son of Carl Reiner, who he and of himself a
(04:18):
comedic genius and one of the early pioneers of television
in the fifties. It was just this is a heartbreaker
for anybody who is a fan of television, fan of movies.
And he was at this sort of the top an
A list director, and while I'm not an A list actor,
he was known by everybody, everybody in Hollywood, and he
(04:41):
was one of those directors that so many stars want
to work for. So I think the only thing that's
left in terms of this story is the relationship between
their son and themselves.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Do we have any news on that's still just wide open.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Well, we know that there was a history of drug
use in the sun. We know that they had the
father and son had worked together, that the thirty two
year old son is a screenwriter. But again we don't
have a whole lot of information. They were actually supposed
to do a press conference at seven. They pushed that back,
(05:22):
and that's TMZ, of course, reporting that the Sun has
now been taken into custody.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And from what I understand, I remember where I got
this story that the Sun had overcome his rug addiction,
or at least was sober for a period of time,
and I think I got that from TMZ too. In
any case, this is a story that we're going to
be following for no doubt. A few years now, another murderer,
(05:49):
and this one is more expansive.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I've been talking about anti Semitism growing and growing since
October seventh, actually since October eighth, when Israel attacked Gaza
and went to war with Hamas, and the anti Semitism
has simply grown and groaned. A lot has to do
with the way Israelis or Tea are treating the folks
(06:16):
in Gaza, and some seventy thousand people in Gaza have
been killed. So there's a lot of international pressure and
there's a lot of international hatred towards Israel.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And when we.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Talk about anti Semitism. What happened at Bondi Beach yesterday
in Australia has taken it to extraordinary heights because this
is far more than anti Semitism. This is straight out
terrorism against Jewish people. Fifteen people were killed yesterday and
dozen more injured after two gunmen open fired at a
(06:51):
crowd of about a thousand celebrating Hanukkah on the beach.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And this was put together by Kabbad of Sydney.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Kabbad being a Jewish organization that is the only one
I know that actually proselytizes not to get people to
join the Jewish religion, not interested in that. You know,
you're not Jewish, Mazeltov, stay not Jewish. What it does
is try to get Jews to become more religious. And
I have been confronted with Kabad Nick's that's what they
(07:22):
call them, many times, and I say, you know what,
no thanks, but it's not unusual. It's an organization that's
pretty aggressive. So they're on a beach on Saturday or
Sunday in Sydney, Bondi Beach, which is one of the
more high end neighborhoods in Sydney, and forty people were injured,
(07:46):
fifteen were killed and two police officers also were shot.
And the second shooter, a son of the first shooter,
is still alive, the father having been killed, and the
police call the shootings a targeted attack on Jewish Australians
(08:07):
law enforcements. A law enforcement calls it a straight out
terrorist attack. And there were also two addition to the
two shootings, and the two gunman was taken down, one killed,
one seriously wounded. There were two improvised explosives in a
nearby vehicle.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Link. I love that when they say that link to.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
The suspect, belonging to the suspects. And then you see
a video of one bystander. The people are calling a
hero and legitimately so, and he is seen attacking one
of the armed, the father gunmen and wrestling the long
gun from him and it was an extraordinary act of bravery,
probably saved a bunch of people. Now Jewish people have
(08:52):
been increasingly targeted. And what makes this story even more
heart wrenching is the fact that there was a ten
year old that was killed, and there was a man
in his eighties I believe in his eighties, maybe his nineties.
They don't give us the age who was a Holocaust
survivor can you imagine surviving the Holocaust and then being
(09:20):
killed on the beach Bondye Beach celebrating Hanukkah.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Wow, that is that's terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That is And you know, the anti Semitism is rampant now,
attacks on synagogue throughout the country, Jewish organizations, and as
you can imagine, security is ramped up all basically all
over the world at Jewish at synagogues, Jewish buildings, community centers.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
As you know, my kids went to a Jewish day.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
School and back then and we're talking about going back
fifteen years, the security was extraordinary because of the fear
of anti Semitism and attacks. And we had armed security
that were there and there was unarmed and that wasn't
(10:14):
even shared with the parents. The school official says, we're
not even tell you what we have in terms of security.
One of the victims was Rabbi Elie Schlanger. He was
described as a devoted chaplain who worked tyrosle as a
Kabbad emissary. It is one of those attacks and by
(10:39):
the way, both of and I don't want to sound
like it sounds like a Muslim attack and label Muslims,
but they had Muslim names and it was a father
and son who were out shooting the place up.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Obviously, the cops are going through everything.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They have, every bit of email, any texts, they have,
any chats, any searches for terrorist activities, explosives, buying guns.
And Australia has one of the toughest gun control laws
actually in the industrialized world. And they came out of
a nineteen ninety six event where twenty four people were
(11:25):
shot and killed in Australia in Tasmania, that big island
off the southern coast of Australia, Tasmania, which is also
the home to many millions of people. All Right, guys,
we're done with that, and it's just bad news after
the bad news after bad news.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Okay, Now, as I said earlier, I'm going to explain
to Amy why men.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Within a fifteen mile radius of the Diabolo Nuclear Plant
one along the California coast, if you go up along
one oh one, you'll see these this power plant with
those domes that look like a giant set of breasts
that are there. It's pretty impressive. And I'll tell you
why they don't. Men don't need night lights amy because
(12:20):
if you're within fifteen miles of a power plant, men
have blue balls that glow.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And you don't. You're welcome there, you are just I
just wanted to share that with you.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And it is the last one that's in the United
States or in California, and there's been a massive move
in California. The environmentalists do not like nuclear power plants,
although other environmentalists do like nuclear power plants because the
footprint is so small and it produces a huge amount
(13:00):
of energy without fossil fuels.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's fossil fuel neutral.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But they're both sides of that quite you know, two
million gallons of water punched into the Pacific every day,
and the environ environmentalists are saying it kills a lot
of fish. Those that are in favor of the power
plants say the water is actually cleaner when it goes
in to the ocean.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And here it was.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It was supposed to be decommissioned in twenty thirty and
because it produces so much power, about ten percent of
the power in California is produced by this one plant.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
All of a sudden, people are going, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The reality is there's no chance that California can remain
fossil fuel neutral, in other words, not using one bit
of fossil fuel by twenty I think forty five is
what Governor Knewson wants. Without the use of nukes, you
can't do it. So how dangerous are is nuclear power? Well,
(14:09):
it was well on his way to coming back after
three Mile Island. It fell apart the sentiment, and then
you had then sure Noble came in and everybody was
scared to death, and then Fukushima just shut it down. Well,
we're going back now, and why is that? Well, to
give you an idea, this one power plant produces enough
(14:30):
power for and then it's always the same thing, hundreds
of thousands of homes.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Did you know that.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
France has either seventy five or eighty five percent of
all of its power produced by nukes, by nuclear power plants,
and they don't seem to be frightened of it. I'm
a big fan of nuclear power plants because I kind
of like the idea of blue balls walking around the house,
(14:56):
these glowing nuts. And the power plant Diablo nineteen eighty
five is when it was built, and the two million
gallons I said.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Every day it's been in construction.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Since construction, it's been a lot of mystery about this,
a lot of controversy because of the damage to marine life.
The Coastal Commission estimates that two billion larval fish.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
A year are killed.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I don't know how many they're out there with that
percentage is And at this point is it going to
be allowed to continue on?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It looks that way.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
The last hurdle was the Coastal Commission, and they finally
said yes, as long as, okay, there are some caveats here,
and they extended it another I think fifteen years, as
long as eight thousand acres belonging to the power plant
is set aside, so there'll be no development ever lately.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
And the other thing is.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The amount of money that has to go to the
power plant in subsidies, and at this point they're trying
to figure out how much is going to be paid
by Southern California as the Edison, San Diego Gaston Electric
which has nothing to do with those power plants, but
the plant provides energy to the entire state, so therefore
(16:25):
it's okay for the state rate payers to.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Kick into this.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
However, on top of that, usually federal money comes in
and oh, federal money to the state under President Trump.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Wow, we don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Although under President Trump, the rate the amount of money
given to power plants, especially in even even the Diablo
power plant, has not been reduced. Even with all the
craziness going on, the money still flows. So we're going
to see that happen. I think there's some other ones
too that are being built. But it you know, it
(17:04):
takes about ten years to build a nuclear power plant
at least. I mean, the regulatory controls are insane.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Now here is a fun question, Amy. There were exactly
two Olympics in the history of the modern Olympics that
actually made money, that showed a profit, and they were
do doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
doo do do do do do any idea? Don't look
it up, just look at me and tell me which Olympic.
(17:37):
I know you were looking at the news, so maybe
you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I'm so sorry, I was looking at the news. What
do you what's your question?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Two Olympics that made money in the history of a
modern day Olympics, which cities, well, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
is one the other one, Los Angeles, you.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Already knew the answer and you wanted me to google it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yep, ninth, No, you didn't have to google it in
nineteen thirty two, nineteen eighty four. And we're hoping that
number three the hat trick is going to be LA again.
So here's what's going on. The people who run the
Olympics is a private organization. It is not public at all,
(18:21):
and this year it's called LA twenty eight and.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
There is, let's say, a.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Consultation with each other, a disagreement, maybe a lawsuit. Who's
going to pay for additional city services required? And we're
talking about hundreds of millions of dollars taxpayer money is
if it's going to be the city Now, the city
had an October one deadline for hammering out a quote
(18:50):
enhanced City Resources master agreement with LA twenty eight. That
was October one. Didn't happen, did it. City officials met,
and we're going to talk about the potential for a
lawsuit because we don't know who's going to pay for
all these additional city services, what kind of city services well, security,
(19:13):
trash removal, traffic control, paramedics. That hasn't been figured out yet,
and LA twenty eight is arguing that it should be
the city. The city is saying, wait a minute, how
about you guys, because this is a it actually is
a private event. The City of Los Angeles is not
(19:35):
running the Olympics. Now, they're providing some services, but we
expect to be reimbursed. And the analogy is the Dodgers'
twenty twenty four World Series victory parade. All right, well,
that was a private event that was put on by
the Dodgers, and the Dodgers reimbursed the city two million
(19:58):
dollars for police, for police, fire, transportation, other services. So
the city in LA twenty eight are meeting every day
to try to hash some of this out. And the
other thing is that part of President's Trump Big Beautiful
Bill includes a billion dollars to reimburse state and local
(20:21):
governments for security, planning Olympics related costs.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
But we don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
How much of that money is going to come to
LA twenty eight or the City of Los Angeles to
reimburse the city, and we're not going to know until
next year. And naturally, the first assumption is that the
city or LA twenty eight will not be getting federal
money because of the way the President feels about southern California,
(20:52):
especially the city of La although he has not stopped
money that has already been allocated to the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Has not stopped it. Even in the midst of all
this craziness.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
The money seems to be flowing in, but we won't
know the final tab or who is going to be
responsible for those additional funds. And the city is saying
we just don't have it. In LA twenty eight is saying, yeah,
but you have to provide it. This is what cities
do when they host Olympics. And so everybody's up in
(21:26):
the air now. That city council meeting, even though they
argue back and forth, there was absolutely no talk about
a lawsuit none at all, even though it may very
well end up being a lawsuit.
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
This KFI on a Monday morning, December fifteenth, second day
of Hanukkah today and ten days until that day Christmas,
where Neil is going to be filling in for me
on Christmas Day? Amy? Are you? Amy?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Are you working Christmas Day?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I am not?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh, good for you? Cono are you working Christmas Day? No?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Oh, it's getting good will? Are you working Christmas Day?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Wow? How's that for a food chain issue?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And Ann?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Are you working Christmas Day? I am not?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay, who's doing Who's doing the show? I know Neil's
doing the show, but who's filling in for you? Amy?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You know I have a special edition of wake Up
Call planned for you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh that means a recording of some kind. I'm very
excited about that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It's a special edition of wake Up Call.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That's that's another name for a recording that's not going
to stay live.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Okay? Is it recorded? Yes or no?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Okay, but it's it's a good It's a good, an
entertaining edition of wake Up Call.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
So if you're up early, we'll keep you entertained. I promise.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Okay, it's a good and entertaining edition of a recording.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So you wake up in the morning and you went
live news, it ain't gonna happen live news, uh, which
is also recorded.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I'm assuming you know we're still going to have live news.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
All right, Yeah, I'm just being ridiculous here. All right.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yesterday last night Neil Neil Savader called me. I was
just about to go to bed, and he said, hey,
are you going to do this story tomorrow? Uh, it
looks like Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle have been killed,
stabbed to death. We didn't know at that point. Well,
first of all, we didn't know at that point that
it was a stabbing. Second of all, we didn't know
it was Rob Reiner because the police just released the
(02:07):
information that there were two victims at a house connected
to Rob Reiner. The ages of the victims were seventy
eight and sixty eight. They released that very early. And
guess what, we knew immediately that that was going to happen.
That was going to be the case because Rob Reiner
seventy eight and his wife Michelle sixty eight, And we
(02:28):
now are finding out and this is incremental bits of
information that come out, which typically doing stories like this
that the son has been arrested, their son, and we
don't know what kind of relationship we had with him.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I'm assuming it was contentious.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
And Rob Reiner is now being celebrated because of the accomplishments.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
He broke out.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I don't know if you remember All in the Family,
which was groundbreaking anyway, Archie Bunker and his daughter, his
daughter and son in law. Rob Reiner played Meathead, who
was a liberal in that show, and that followed real life.
Because Rob Reiner, who is an iconic actor director, I mean,
(03:13):
he's done some extraordinary films.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
He did television.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
He was a writer for a lot of the comedy people,
the comedy late night shows, which I didn't know, and
he directed what were those two big ones that immediately
come to mind.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
The funny ones are the not funny ones because he
did he did both st he.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Did miss remember I didn't realize he did. Yeah when
Harry met Sally of course.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Uh And and he also did Spinal Tap. But he
wrote for the first Comic Relief hosted by Robin Williams,
Billy Crystal WHIPOPI Goldberg. You remember that, and I did
know he was married to Penny Marshall, who that show
or her show was spun off I think from all
(03:57):
in the family, if I'm not mistaken, or it's spun
off from Happy Days, right, yeah, got that, and she
was a star of that, and they were married and
of course divorce and it was just I mean, what
he did was extraordinary, and he grew up. He's a
son of Carl Reiner, who he and of himself a
(04:18):
comedic genius and one of the early pioneers of television
in the fifties. It was just this is a heartbreaker
for anybody who is a fan of television, fan of movies.
And he was at this sort of the top an
A list director, and while I'm not an A list actor,
he was known by everybody, everybody in Hollywood, and he
(04:41):
was one of those directors that so many stars want
to work for. So I think the only thing that's
left in terms of this story is the relationship between
their son and themselves.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Do we have any news on that's still just wide open.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Well, we know that there was a history of drug
use in the sun. We know that they had the
father and son had worked together, that the thirty two
year old son is a screenwriter. But again we don't
have a whole lot of information. They were actually supposed
to do a press conference at seven. They pushed that back,
(05:22):
and that's TMZ, of course, reporting that the Sun has
now been taken into custody.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And from what I understand, I remember where I got
this story that the Sun had overcome his rug addiction,
or at least was sober for a period of time,
and I think I got that from TMZ too. In
any case, this is a story that we're going to
be following for no doubt. A few years now, another murderer,
(05:49):
and this one is more expansive.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I've been talking about anti Semitism growing and growing since
October seventh, actually since October eighth, when Israel attacked Gaza
and went to war with Hamas, and the anti Semitism
has simply grown and groaned. A lot has to do
with the way Israelis or Tea are treating the folks
(06:16):
in Gaza, and some seventy thousand people in Gaza have
been killed. So there's a lot of international pressure and
there's a lot of international hatred towards Israel.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And when we.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Talk about anti Semitism. What happened at Bondi Beach yesterday
in Australia has taken it to extraordinary heights because this
is far more than anti Semitism. This is straight out
terrorism against Jewish people. Fifteen people were killed yesterday and
dozen more injured after two gunmen open fired at a
(06:51):
crowd of about a thousand celebrating Hanukkah on the beach.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And this was put together by Kabbad of Sydney.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Kabbad being a Jewish organization that is the only one
I know that actually proselytizes not to get people to
join the Jewish religion, not interested in that. You know,
you're not Jewish, Mazeltov, stay not Jewish. What it does
is try to get Jews to become more religious. And
I have been confronted with Kabad Nick's that's what they
(07:22):
call them, many times, and I say, you know what,
no thanks, but it's not unusual. It's an organization that's
pretty aggressive. So they're on a beach on Saturday or
Sunday in Sydney, Bondi Beach, which is one of the
more high end neighborhoods in Sydney, and forty people were injured,
(07:46):
fifteen were killed and two police officers also were shot.
And the second shooter, a son of the first shooter,
is still alive, the father having been killed, and the
police call the shootings a targeted attack on Jewish Australians
(08:07):
law enforcements. A law enforcement calls it a straight out
terrorist attack. And there were also two addition to the
two shootings, and the two gunman was taken down, one killed,
one seriously wounded. There were two improvised explosives in a
nearby vehicle.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Link. I love that when they say that link to.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
The suspect, belonging to the suspects. And then you see
a video of one bystander. The people are calling a
hero and legitimately so, and he is seen attacking one
of the armed, the father gunmen and wrestling the long
gun from him and it was an extraordinary act of bravery,
probably saved a bunch of people. Now Jewish people have
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been increasingly targeted. And what makes this story even more
heart wrenching is the fact that there was a ten
year old that was killed, and there was a man
in his eighties I believe in his eighties, maybe his nineties.
They don't give us the age who was a Holocaust
survivor can you imagine surviving the Holocaust and then being
(09:20):
killed on the beach Bondye Beach celebrating Hanukkah.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Wow, that is that's terrible.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That is And you know, the anti Semitism is rampant now,
attacks on synagogue throughout the country, Jewish organizations, and as
you can imagine, security is ramped up all basically all
over the world at Jewish at synagogues, Jewish buildings, community centers.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
As you know, my kids went to a Jewish day.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
School and back then and we're talking about going back
fifteen years, the security was extraordinary because of the fear
of anti Semitism and attacks. And we had armed security
that were there and there was unarmed and that wasn't
(10:14):
even shared with the parents. The school official says, we're
not even tell you what we have in terms of security.
One of the victims was Rabbi Elie Schlanger. He was
described as a devoted chaplain who worked tyrosle as a
Kabbad emissary. It is one of those attacks and by
(10:39):
the way, both of and I don't want to sound
like it sounds like a Muslim attack and label Muslims,
but they had Muslim names and it was a father
and son who were out shooting the place up.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Obviously, the cops are going through everything.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They have, every bit of email, any texts, they have,
any chats, any searches for terrorist activities, explosives, buying guns.
And Australia has one of the toughest gun control laws
actually in the industrialized world. And they came out of
a nineteen ninety six event where twenty four people were
(11:25):
shot and killed in Australia in Tasmania, that big island
off the southern coast of Australia, Tasmania, which is also
the home to many millions of people. All Right, guys,
we're done with that, and it's just bad news after
the bad news after bad news.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Okay, Now, as I said earlier, I'm going to explain
to Amy why men.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Within a fifteen mile radius of the Diabolo Nuclear Plant
one along the California coast, if you go up along
one oh one, you'll see these this power plant with
those domes that look like a giant set of breasts
that are there. It's pretty impressive. And I'll tell you
why they don't. Men don't need night lights amy because
(12:20):
if you're within fifteen miles of a power plant, men
have blue balls that glow.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And you don't. You're welcome there, you are just I
just wanted to share that with you.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And it is the last one that's in the United
States or in California, and there's been a massive move
in California. The environmentalists do not like nuclear power plants,
although other environmentalists do like nuclear power plants because the
footprint is so small and it produces a huge amount
(13:00):
of energy without fossil fuels.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
It's fossil fuel neutral.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
But they're both sides of that quite you know, two
million gallons of water punched into the Pacific every day,
and the environ environmentalists are saying it kills a lot
of fish. Those that are in favor of the power
plants say the water is actually cleaner when it goes
in to the ocean.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And here it was.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
It was supposed to be decommissioned in twenty thirty and
because it produces so much power, about ten percent of
the power in California is produced by this one plant.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
All of a sudden, people are going, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The reality is there's no chance that California can remain
fossil fuel neutral, in other words, not using one bit
of fossil fuel by twenty I think forty five is
what Governor Knewson wants. Without the use of nukes, you
can't do it. So how dangerous are is nuclear power? Well,
(14:09):
it was well on his way to coming back after
three Mile Island. It fell apart the sentiment, and then
you had then sure Noble came in and everybody was
scared to death, and then Fukushima just shut it down. Well,
we're going back now, and why is that? Well, to
give you an idea, this one power plant produces enough
(14:30):
power for and then it's always the same thing, hundreds
of thousands of homes.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Did you know that.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
France has either seventy five or eighty five percent of
all of its power produced by nukes, by nuclear power plants,
and they don't seem to be frightened of it. I'm
a big fan of nuclear power plants because I kind
of like the idea of blue balls walking around the house,
(14:56):
these glowing nuts. And the power plant Diablo nineteen eighty
five is when it was built, and the two million
gallons I said.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Every day it's been in construction.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Since construction, it's been a lot of mystery about this,
a lot of controversy because of the damage to marine life.
The Coastal Commission estimates that two billion larval fish.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
A year are killed.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I don't know how many they're out there with that
percentage is And at this point is it going to
be allowed to continue on?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It looks that way.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
The last hurdle was the Coastal Commission, and they finally
said yes, as long as, okay, there are some caveats here,
and they extended it another I think fifteen years, as
long as eight thousand acres belonging to the power plant
is set aside, so there'll be no development ever lately.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
And the other thing is.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The amount of money that has to go to the
power plant in subsidies, and at this point they're trying
to figure out how much is going to be paid
by Southern California as the Edison, San Diego Gaston Electric
which has nothing to do with those power plants, but
the plant provides energy to the entire state, so therefore
(16:25):
it's okay for the state rate payers to.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Kick into this.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
However, on top of that, usually federal money comes in
and oh, federal money to the state under President Trump.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Wow, we don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Although under President Trump, the rate the amount of money
given to power plants, especially in even even the Diablo
power plant, has not been reduced. Even with all the
craziness going on, the money still flows. So we're going
to see that happen. I think there's some other ones
too that are being built. But it you know, it
(17:04):
takes about ten years to build a nuclear power plant
at least. I mean, the regulatory controls are insane.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Now here is a fun question, Amy. There were exactly
two Olympics in the history of the modern Olympics that
actually made money, that showed a profit, and they were
do doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
doo do do do do do any idea? Don't look
it up, just look at me and tell me which Olympic.
(17:37):
I know you were looking at the news, so maybe
you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I'm so sorry, I was looking at the news. What
do you what's your question?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Two Olympics that made money in the history of a
modern day Olympics, which cities, well, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
is one the other one, Los Angeles, you.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Already knew the answer and you wanted me to google it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yep, ninth, No, you didn't have to google it in
nineteen thirty two, nineteen eighty four. And we're hoping that
number three the hat trick is going to be LA again.
So here's what's going on. The people who run the
Olympics is a private organization. It is not public at all,
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and this year it's called LA twenty eight and.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
There is, let's say, a.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Consultation with each other, a disagreement, maybe a lawsuit. Who's
going to pay for additional city services required? And we're
talking about hundreds of millions of dollars taxpayer money is
if it's going to be the city Now, the city
had an October one deadline for hammering out a quote
(18:50):
enhanced City Resources master agreement with LA twenty eight. That
was October one. Didn't happen, did it. City officials met,
and we're going to talk about the potential for a
lawsuit because we don't know who's going to pay for
all these additional city services, what kind of city services well, security,
(19:13):
trash removal, traffic control, paramedics. That hasn't been figured out yet,
and LA twenty eight is arguing that it should be
the city. The city is saying, wait a minute, how
about you guys, because this is a it actually is
a private event. The City of Los Angeles is not
(19:35):
running the Olympics. Now, they're providing some services, but we
expect to be reimbursed. And the analogy is the Dodgers'
twenty twenty four World Series victory parade. All right, well,
that was a private event that was put on by
the Dodgers, and the Dodgers reimbursed the city two million
(19:58):
dollars for police, for police, fire, transportation, other services. So
the city in LA twenty eight are meeting every day
to try to hash some of this out. And the
other thing is that part of President's Trump Big Beautiful
Bill includes a billion dollars to reimburse state and local
(20:21):
governments for security, planning Olympics related costs.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
But we don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
How much of that money is going to come to
LA twenty eight or the City of Los Angeles to
reimburse the city, and we're not going to know until
next year. And naturally, the first assumption is that the
city or LA twenty eight will not be getting federal
money because of the way the President feels about southern California,
(20:52):
especially the city of La although he has not stopped
money that has already been allocated to the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Has not stopped it. Even in the midst of all
this craziness.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
The money seems to be flowing in, but we won't
know the final tab or who is going to be
responsible for those additional funds. And the city is saying
we just don't have it. In LA twenty eight is saying, yeah,
but you have to provide it. This is what cities
do when they host Olympics. And so everybody's up in
(21:26):
the air now. That city council meeting, even though they
argue back and forth, there was absolutely no talk about
a lawsuit none at all, even though it may very
well end up being a lawsuit.
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