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December 15, 2025 16 mins

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California leaders look away as vehicle deaths skyrocket. Nearly one-quarter of Americans say the healthcare system is in crisis. How DVDs and CDs are becoming cool again in the age of streaming. 

 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
am six forty.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Traveling steeds by my handle.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Here morning crew.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Neil gone this week, and when I walk out of
the door, I think it's next week.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm gone for the entire week. Neil will be filling
in for me.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
It is a Monday, December fifteenth, second day of Hanukkah, Christmas,
ten days away, and some of the big stories were
looking at. Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle were murdered
and found yesterday at their home in Brentwood, and their
son has been arrested for the killing of his parents.

(00:45):
This is a story that's developing, and it's not only
a national story as you would guess, but very much
a local story also having them living virtually their entire
lives in southern California, and the shooting at Brown University
where two were killed, and then the shooting at Bondi
Beach in Australia and Sydney where fifteen people or fourteen

(01:08):
were killed and fifteen well fourteen were killed by the gunman.
I don't consider the gunman a person at all, and
it's a father and son who did the shooting. The
father has been killed, the son is in the hospital. Okay,
a story about drivers in California. It used to be

(01:29):
that drunk drivers were given a slap on the wrist
even when a death occurred. It was not really considered
a crime until Mother's against Drunk Drivers came in mad
and really made some movement. So you would look at
California being at the forefront of dealing with drunk drivers,
speeding drivers, etc. Well, they are at the forefront. California

(01:53):
is at the forefront of ignoring it. There was a
state committee meeting that this year and the director of
Caltrans showed a chart and it showed black bars representing
the death toll on California roads in each year of
the past twenty years. If you stick at the chart,

(02:14):
fatalities have been falling dramatically until twenty ten, and then
it goes the other way.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
And nobody there could miss.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
The fact that more than sixty percent increase happened in depths.
The head of cal Tran says, we're working to reverse
that trend now at that hitting at that committee hearing,
no legislator asked about the chart. No one asked the
director what exactly was going on, and the hearing was

(02:46):
three hours and the committee member asked a question about
homeless encampments along the road, gas tax revenue, gender identity,
on IDs, planning for the twenty twenty eight Olympics, not
a word about the deaths on the highways. Over the
past decades, nearly forty thousand people have died more than

(03:08):
twenty have been injured on California roads.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
And.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
The cow Matters investigation shows that time and again the
crashes were caused either by drunk drivers, chronic speeders, and
motorists with a history of recklessness recklessness behind them, and
year after year, nothing happens, not the governor, not the legislators,

(03:35):
not the courts, not the DMV, Nobody acts on it.
First of all, we have some of the weakest DUI
laws in the nation. DUI related deaths have been rising
more than twice as fast than the rest of the
country per capita. Now, there were some bills, a bills
specifically that it was introduced, and this was a bill

(03:59):
regarding speeding, even to the point where it goes into recklessness.
If you're speeding, and if you're hitting seventy five miles
now or eighty five miles an hour, that's speeding if
you're hitting one hundred miles an hour, and now we're
talking about reckless driving, and two years in a row
bills that would have required the use of speed limiting
technology on cars that failed, specifically those monitors that either

(04:26):
do not let the car go past a certain speed
or breathalyzers. If someone's been accused of drunk driving convicted,
the car doesn't start unless the breathalyzer is blown.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Into and the meter shows.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
A zero or well below the level of drunk driving.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
And it was on the books, it was being passed.
They did pass.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Gavin Newsom vetoed the bill that required technology that alerts
drivers when they're speed Babe, Babe, bape your speeding. The DMV,
which can take dangerous drivers off the road, routinely allows
drivers with histories of dangers driving to continue to operate

(05:13):
on the roadways. Now, the guy who Knewsom chose to
run the agency won't even talk about it. The only
thing the ad Agency released was a statement talking about
modernization efforts that reflect quote an ongoing commitment to enhancing
accountability and transparency while continually refining our process to insure

(05:37):
California roads are safer for everyone. Is there one guy
who writes all of these pr hack reports about safety
is our number one concern, That's what we care about. Please,
So do you know who also fought the drunk driving
one the breathalyzer, because that was also on the books

(06:00):
that Newsome in fact said no to. You know who
fought it, the ACLU. The ACLU had that bill, got it. Well,
this was before it even hit Newsome, this was in
the legislature. And why is that because the drivers have
to pay for it and have to pay one hundred

(06:22):
dollars a month to a private company to rent those
breathalyzers that don't let someone who is drunk or blows
a certain amount of alcohol in his or her system drive.
And what the ACLU said, it is a form of
racialized wealth extraction because poor people can't afford it. Therefore,

(06:48):
this is racist and they got to the bill, the
acl you gutted the bill. So if you get hit
by a drunk driver next time out, or you lose
a loved one, God for just think of the ACLU,
especially if you're a liberal, you know, I just think
what the ACLU.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Did on this one.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Huh. All right, now, as you can imagine, there is
survey after survey being.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Done about this.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
There's a new Gallup poll that was just released and
concerns and costs and access to healthcare. It actually has
long dominated Gallup survey studying health problems facing the country.
The number one problem with health care is the cost
and are you ready?

Speaker 1 (07:34):
This is the part that I don't get.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Twenty three percent of respondents said the system is in
a state of crisis, which is among the highest readings
Gallup has ever said. Twenty three percent. Do you believe
it's such a low figure When I looked at this
and I'm thinking, only twenty three percent say the system
is in a state of crisis. Now we don't know

(08:00):
how far up, because this is the way surveys are written.
Do you believe it's give it a ten, a nine,
a seven. But it's really telling that I don't think
people understand it, although their insurance is going to go
up like crazy across the board, by the way, not
just the Obamacare recipients.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Eighty one.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
The negative perception, by the way, goes across party lines.
Now you would think that it's probably bigger among Democrats.
It would be eighty one percent of Democrats sixty four
percent of Republicans said the system is in a crisis
or of major problems, which is really interesting because that

(08:45):
is in direct opposition with Gallup says. But the bottom
line is that we know, we know how much trouble
we're in in terms of health insurance, and you're going
to see tens of millions of people who are insured
under Obamacare lose their insurance because they just can't afford it,

(09:06):
many cases double, in many cases triple because the subsidies
that were given to the American taxpayer who was buying
insurance under Obamacare, they went up dramatically. They were given
to the taxpayer slash customer of Obamacare because of COVID now,

(09:28):
and that was Grandfather. They was supposed to only go
until actually a couple of months ago, Oh no until
January first. It ends in two weeks. And this is
what shut down the government for thirty eight days. Just
is this issue of healthcare coverage, and the Republicans are

(09:50):
going to be blamed if this thing falls apart. Everybody
is scrambling now at this point. Republicans are trying to
come up with some kind of an answer, which.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
They haven't for decades.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
The Republicans have been saying, we have a better idea
than the conventional plan that's out there, certainly since the
first administration fort Trump administration, So we're not going back decades,
but the Republicans and Donald Trump has said he ran
on the fact he is going to come up with
a health care plan his first day in office. He

(10:25):
said we'll have a health care plan in two weeks.
And we've heard that over and over and over again.
The Democrats. It's easy for them, we just extend the subsidy,
thank you, We're done.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's an easy one.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
For Republicans that have to replace all that, that's a
little bit more problematic. So if this thing falls apart,
and it's going to because there's no answer here, there's
no way because the two sides are too far apart,
the Republicans are going to get blamed. And this is
going to hurt. This is going to hurt the Republicans. Now,
is something going to happen before the midterms. I'll tell

(11:03):
you if two things happen before the midterms. Thing number
one is inflation is not stopped and prices don't go down,
which is impossible, by the way.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Prices cannot go down.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
You know, when Donald Trump said day one, he's going
to cut the prices in half, you know that is
so ridiculous. I gave it to him because that's just
an insane political statement.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Come on, give me a break.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
But prices were going to be lower, as I said,
And when I opened up this morning, I said, I
did a Costco run on Friday, and normally I was
buying English muffins. And for the last several years, English
muffins have been seven ninety nine for a package of four.
They were nine forty nine a dollar and a half up.

(11:55):
And as I was thinking, as I was going to
the checkstand, you know what, nine is less than seven
ninety nine because prices have dropped. I actually believe the
President when he said prices are lower.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
And the other thing is if an insurance plan is
not put into place, those two are going to kill
the Republicans.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
So we'll talk more about that coming up over the
next few days.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
I think the Republicans are in trouble, I really do,
and I'll dive into that.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
What a day of news.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
It's a Monday, second day of Hanukkah, and in ten
days it's going to be Christmas and this holiday season
did not get off to a good start, certainly not
this past weekend. And what have we heard this past weekend. Well,
there's some good news that just came in and that
we heard about the US attorney in Los Angeles. I

(12:57):
believe that's who I gave the press conference, so I
have that right, Amy, I didn't hear the very beginning
of it was the was it the US attorney?

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yes, it was US Attorney Bill Staley, And they're still going, oh,
I'm sure, yeah. But we got the meat of it,
and that is that they've broken up a terror plot
for people have been arrested. Michael Monks is going to
join us at the top of the hour to bring
us the latest.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
All right, and this was So that's the good news.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Now let me give you the real bad news, starting
locally with Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle being murdered
in their home yesterday. Their son has been arrested for
the murderer, and we're hearing some very grizzly details about
that murder.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
That's horrific story.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
There also the Brown shooting, and I think that happened
on Saturday, Brown University gunman came in and shot shot
up the school. And it's Saturday, you think, being nobody there,
they were studying for finals. It was finals weeks and
final finals week, and two students were murdered act of

(14:00):
what is described as straight out terrorism and anti sentiment
anti semitism, because the acts of anti Semitism have exploded
throughout the world. And this is where I give President
Trump a lot of credit. Is he is doing doing
everything that on school campuses where anti Semitism is the

(14:23):
most prevalent, he's shutting it down for the most part,
as well as the anti wokeism. And so the horrific
story came out of Australia. There's a beach, Bondye Beach,
which is in one of the better area's, a big
high end neighborhood. Two gunmen, a father and a son
with long guns, were on a small overpass at the

(14:46):
beach and started shooting. They killed fourteen people and is
injured dozens of others. And if you see a video
of a man who just tackled the father, I mean
at great risk to him elf. And it's a Syrian.
Interestingly enough, it's a man from Syria who came to
Australia in two thousand and six and immigrated and he

(15:08):
is now considered a national hero, as he should be.
And so it's just all of it has been horrific,
it really has. Hoping that tomorrow we start the show
with a little bit of good news. In the meantime,
Gary and Shannon are up, Michael Monks is on his
way to the press conference with the US Attorney as
talking about that terrorist plot that has been foiled that

(15:33):
was going to happen New Year's Eve. And so we'll
be back tomorrow with hopefully better news, as I said, Amy,
and will start with wake up call.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Neil is not here this week, so I'm jumping aboard.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
And let's please, please, let's make it some better news.
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