December 23, 2025 • 28 mins
(December 23,2025)
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. Evacuation warnings issued for Los Angeles burn areas ahead of holiday storm. Justice Department releases additional documents from Epstein files. Paramount’s new offer for Warner Bros. is not sufficient, major investor says. Crash on Los Angeles-area highway claims life of Call of Duty co-creator.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six fortys.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Did you know that you hate the holidays? I mean,
I hate the holidays. You're aware of that, But did
you know that you hate the holidays? No Amy is
shaking her head. She thinks she enjoys the holidays.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I do.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
No, you don't, No, you don't. You were fooling yourself.
I'm telling you right now, and.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Good morning everybody. Yep, it's that time of year. It
is now Tuesday, December twenty three. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve,
and then everybody is taking the day off. I don't
think anybody is working.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, we've got some. We have some people that are working.
Although well, Neil is working. He always does the Christmas day.
He also does Thanksgiving. But the rest of us were history,
right Cono, Yes, Oh, Usually you say I'm working, but okay, yeah, no,
I understand.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
That's why I threw it to you.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Usually you say not working as I throw it to you,
and then I make fun of you, oh being solow
on the food chain, that you are forced to work, right,
that's not the case. This share well, anyway, Good morning,
there we are and Amy, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Good morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You plan on going to Disneyland between the Christmas Day
and New Year's I might now? Why because it's going
to be drowned out and swept away and the lines
will be fairly short.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
No, because I'm not Now, I'm now not traveling to
Orgon Oh because of the weather.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
No, because of my cat, because the tickets were all
sold out for cats.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I have a ticket for me to go, but my
cat is having some health issues and I cannot leave her.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
She needs medication.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
How old is a cat?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
She's old. She's thirteen.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Oh it's time. Yeah, No, it is time. I'm gonna
make it.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I'm gonna make it really easy for you to go
to Oregon. Are you ready for this?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Would you like some handle on the law advice?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Okay, Good morning Will, Good morning Bill. Okay. What team
is that?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That is the San Francisco forty nine Ers who won
decisively last night. Okay, I didn't watch much football last night.
I watched bits and pieces of it. All I know
is the Chargers and the Rams are a pretty good shape.
Do they have a chance of being in the Super
Bowl against each other. Is there a shot at that?
I don't know. Is that possible, Cono, you're a football guy,
(03:00):
big football. Is it possible? The Chargers, they would have
to play like in the super Bowl, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yes, they have to play in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Wouldn't that be fun?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That would be fine. There's there's a there's a bit
of traffic. Although where's the Super Bowl played this year?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I think in San Francisco? Now can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Can you imagine the Rams and the Chargers playing at
so far for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Boy, would that be a perfect storm?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Huh Oh, it's not gonna happen this year because Cono's correct.
It's being played at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Okay, And there's Michelle. Good morning, Michelle, good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And she's filling in for Ann and tomorrow is my
last day and comes back after the first of the year.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Also she is back on the fifth.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yes, as I am. Okay, fair enough, And let me
see with the people. Amy is going to be sitting
shiva with her dead cat. Shiva is the Jewish funeral
rights that you stay at home for a week and
you cover the mirrors and you don't wear shoes. It's
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very strange any part of any religion, this strange stuff.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
So I think I'm going to pass on the Yeah,
you said, she my cat is alive, and well she
just needs medication on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Right, Okay, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We're going to do a is a cat dead or
alive report for the rest of the holiday season. Fair enough, Okay,
I think, well, of course, of course that is okay.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Why what do we have it any other way? Nope, nope, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh you know what, I was talking to Michelle, who
has known me. I mean Michelle, we've known each other
for thirty years. I think we've been working.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Together thirty thirty three years we've been working together.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I asked her, yesterday, Uh, did I reach new levels?
Yesterday was a day where I may have got over
over that line, I said, And I asked it, did
I reach new levels of dickiosity yesterday? And Michelle actually
said no, My dickishness was right along my normal lines.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Yeah, I did not notice an increase of dickishness yesterday.
Today it could be different, but I did not notice
it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Any anybody else we can give marginal legally or marginal
veterinarian advice?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Will do you have a Do you have a pet?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
No, they're all dead. Excellent, That's what I wanted to hear. Cono,
do you have a pet?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Nope? I got kids.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That's close, very close, yeah, very close. And I came
very and I came very close, many many times. And Michelle,
I know you've gone through a few pets, a big
part of your Familyine.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
She's cute, very cute.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
She's a finalist in the America's Favorite Pet contest, which
is going to start on January fifth.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
So yeah, how do you get what is America's Favorite Pet?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
It's just some contest where you can win ten thousand dollars.
And you know she'd be on the cover of Modern
Dog magazine.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I didn't know there was.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
A Modern Dog magazine. Okay, we are okay right there, Michelle.
We are starting a new KFI event annually, and we're
gonna call it the last week that the pet is
alive and people can submit their pets or photos.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Of their pets, because of course.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You okay, all right, you guys ready to go. It
is definitely time for handle on the news. And man,
we have some news and it's weather news, and it
ain't fun news either. It is time for handle on
the news with Amy Neils dot here and me lead story.
And it's gonna be a tough one in terms of
the weather and the rains and the storms.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And I always defer to Amy. Give us the highlights please.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Okay, it's gonna rain really hard.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
So we've got gusty winds expected, We've got rain expected
to start this afternoon. The heaviest of the rain's going
to be overnight and tomorrow morning. They're saying up to
an inch an hour in some areas, mainly like in
the foothills mountains, and that of course has mudslide debris
flow warnings and a lot of worries, especially in the
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burn areas. So if some evacuation warnings have been issued,
no one's ordered out, but the warnings go into effect.
We've got some flood watches in effect to Penga canyons
closed down preemptively.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
So it's going to come down hard.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And we got yesterday what we were reporting that parts
of the mountains in the Inland Empire twelve inches of rain. Well,
I think at anywhere close to twelve inches of rain.
You've guaranteed yourself. We've guaranteed ourselves some massive mud slides.
There's no way to avert these mudslides at twelve inches
of rain. I mean, that's impossible. So we'll be talking
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about it since all of us are here.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Also, it's uh tomorrow and then after that on Thursday,
and I'm inside it's Pj's. It's just doing nothing. Lighting
up the fire even though we don't have a fireplace,
and watching football sounds like fun. Yeah, let's take a break, okay, okay,
(08:21):
and we'll come back and keep on going. By the way,
I do have a fireplace. I just wanted to share that.
And I don't know why I went that way because
I thought it would work.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
And it didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh right, But you have several fireplaces.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Actually I only had one. I have one.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I had Yeah, no, I had two fireplaces at the
Persian Palace.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So no, you're downsizing, is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Oh? I downsized like crazy? Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Was the Persian Palace that much bigger than the house? Wow?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah? My Persian Palace was massive. It was huge.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It was yeah, way over built, and it was just
you know, all the kids left, and you know, we
dug up all the pets and we sent them out
for there was just too much room.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Okay, the rain so expected to start by this afternoon
and then the heaviest rain overnight and tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
All right, more a handle on the news with Amy
A and Neil is not here and me Well.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
The redacted document dump continues. The Justice Department has released
more documents from files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Thousands of documents have been released, but the Justice Department
is saying that it's unable to fully release all the
files by the deadline because of the vetting process required
(09:39):
to protect Epstein's victims.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah, it's kind of pretty sloppy.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
First of all, the administration held up did not wanted
to release those files, went back and forth, yes, release them, yes,
release and made a major point during the campaign to
release the files. Now we're in power, we're not going
to release them. We don't have them. We are going
to give you part of them. There was a bill
that was passed, the President's signed, and it was supposed
(10:05):
to come in on Friday, right, didn't make it. Some
were still being kept, and now it's gotten sloppy because
some are over redacted, some are under redacted, and no
one's very happy on this one. Even MADA supporters aren't happy,
and that's very very rare. So we'll find out what
happens with the files now. MSNBC, what a shocker that
(10:28):
is is reporting that a some email shows that President
Trump was on Epstein's private jet multiple times. We don't
know where it's going, and that has not been confirmed
as far as I can see, because I'm looking at
four or five news outlets.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Has not been confirmed at all.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But of course if it were where to think it
would break, you know, the non bias station ms NBC.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Paramount, this new deal not worth it.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
At least that's the word from one of the major
shareholders to Warner Brothers. So Paramount sky Dance came forward
yesterday and presented a new offer that had like forty
billion dollars of the deal personally guaranteed by co founder
Larry Ellison. But this guy, who is a four percent
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shareholder in Harris Oakmark, so he's a four percent shareholder
in Warner Brothers, he said he would hold out for
more from the Ellison family controlled Paramount. He said, you
know this one was better but not good enough.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah, this has handed.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
When there's a bidding war, the shareholders do just fine.
And that seems to be what's going on.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Well, Netflix hasn't come up with a new deal. They're
still sticking with their.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Safe and arguing that their deal is the best no
matter what.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And Warner Brothers is saying that deal is better.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yes, But at the same time, the board of Netflix
is saying to at this point to Paramount not good
enough because the deal was already inked with Paramount with
Netflix and Warner Brothers is coming in or a Paramount
is coming in with a hostile bid try to take over,
and that's against the wishes of the board.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Happens all the time.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Well, apparently deportees will get their due their due process.
A federal judge has ordered that the Venezuelan men, about
two hundred of them deported to the prison in El
Salvador in March from the US, need to get their
due process.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
They said they didn't get it before they left, and
they need that.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
So the judge has given the administration until the fifth
of January to either facilitate their return to the US
from El Salvador or to otherwise provide them with hearings
that satisfy the requirements of due process.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Now this happened, and now he invoked.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
The President invoked the deportation under the Alien Enemies Act,
which was passed in seventeen ninety eight by the US
government and has not changed since then. And I am
going to dive into that at seven point fifty a
little bit of handle history.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
That's interesting stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
So some people actually got to see that pulled sixty
minutes story that we were telling you about. The story
was about the Seacott Maximum Security prison in El Salvator
that we are El Salvator, that we were just referencing.
But apparently the package for sixty minutes was distributed on
an app owned by Global TV, which airs sixty minutes
(13:44):
in Canada. A. We didn't get to see it here
in the US, but they did in Canada.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And there's a lot of controversy about that because a
lot of detractors are saying, why was it able to
air in fifty of the fifty one American states and
they still allowed it in Canada. Okay, well, it's they're
going a cave on this one. This one's another cluster truck.
Whether the political aspects of this, and that's the argument.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
That case.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
CBS is going to cave an error.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, I think Seawalk CBS already caved now, whether it's
going to be released or not, because it rips into
the Trump administration and I don't even think mentioning well,
I has to mention that Trump administration, and that is
the potential illegal deportation and how those prisoners were treated
in the El Salvadoran prisoner prison.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Guess what, you could be a billionaire for Christmas. The
jackpot for the next powerball drawing is going to be
one point seven billion dollars because no one won it
last night.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah. Their math is weird because everybody takes the lump
sum and that brings it way way down to I think,
what's seven hundred million?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
So you have a cash value on this one is
seven hundred and eighty one million.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
And you pay half of that in taxes, which doesn't
really matter if you're in California. And on top of that,
I mean theoretically it's worth one point seven billion. You
can take it over twenty years, and I don't know
if anybody has done that recently.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, well what.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Happens if you die? Do you will it to somebody?
Or does go away like social Security?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
No, it doesn't go away. It doesn't go away. It's
part of the estate.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I mean, you get it. It's not to use it
or lose it kind of thing. But everybody takes the
cash because that paltry forty million dollars a year just
doesn't cut it.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Now you want some serious money there.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Looks like Barry Manilo is going to make it, at least,
we hope. So kind of a tough day for Manaluni's
like me. Barry Manilo has announced that he has been
diagnosed with lung cancer recently, but he says his doctors
don't think it's spread. He's going to have surgery to
get the spot that was discovered removed. And he said
he doesn't have to have chemo or radiation. He just
(16:09):
is going to have to rest. So he says he
hopes to be back on the stage by belief February.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, he said that a little more plastic surgery might
help him last a little bit longer.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
He's on a fantastic show seen.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Look if you look very I have actually so if
you look. If you look very.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Carefully, you can tell there was a touch of plastic surgery.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Done on him over the years.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Is a little midge because you have just seen the
cleft in his chin.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It gets every year.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, that used to be that used to be his
belly button. Okay, moving on there he does. But I
and he's written some terrific songs.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Did he's written? Write his first one when you're sixteen
or something?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah? I just really amazing, amazing guy, you know, just
musically well, I have to connect some oak with his face,
but I'm not going to. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Call of Duty's co creator has been killed. Vince Zampella
was one of two people in a ferrari that hit
a concrete barrier and caught fire while speeding down Angelus
Crest Highway. It happened early Sunday morning, about twelve or
actually was Sunday afternoon about twelve forty at mile markers
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sixty two on the Angelus Crest Highways.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Kind of sad, yep.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
And he wrote, Call of Duty maybe the number one
game out there. I think maybe Mario Brothers is number one,
but Call of Duty is right up there. Also, that
was am I right on this cono. I don't game.
But isn't there in the original Call of Duty where
you get into it with screaming at a hooker who
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doesn't put out a program?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Okay, I get them confused.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
It is in a video game, just a program.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
This is more war related, got it? Okay, you're a soldier? Yeah,
all right, fair enough, got it? Got it?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Speaking of war related, President Trump has announced a new
class of battleships there what he calls Trump Class ship.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Course he does.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
He said, one of them will be the largest battleship
in the history of our country.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yes, in the world. It will be the largest battleship
that ever was.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And he of course named the fleet after the class
Trump Class vessels and taking a page out of the
George Foreman book, who called all of his sons George.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
The Trump Class vessels not only will be Trump Class,
but will be named Trump one, and then Trump two,
and then Trump three and four and five. It's much
like the Super Bowl, right with the Roman numerals.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Did you see the name of the first ship.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's called the USS Defiant, which is actually perfect. But
I mean, come on, you have a and whether or
not we need a new class of battleships, and we might.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Ours is pretty aged, but sure, why not let's call
it after ourselves.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I'm telling you I've been joking about this.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But the next president, if it is, if it is
a democratic president, is going.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
To have a real issue.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
How does he remove Trump's face off of Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
How does he do it? Okay? Moving on?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
What is this stuff?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
US Customs and Border Patrol have intercepted what they call
some ghoulish looking cargo from a passenger who's on his
way into the US from Africa, actually specifically from Congo,
and the Customs and Border Patrol workers said that this
person believed that the food they were bringing was fine
(19:51):
to enter the US at O'Hare Airport.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
They said it was not, and it was four pounds
of non human primate meat.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Did you look at the picture?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yes, it's gross.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
It is This is.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Perfect for Halloween. They should have picked this up for
Halloween or saved it for next Halloween. It is absolutely disgusting.
It looks like some kind of you know what it
looks like. It looks like an insect with a really
bizarre head on it doesn't it? It is truly god awful.
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That's worth seeing. Where do people see that? Are we're
going to post that?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I'll post it on your Instagram?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Okay, go to at Bill Handles Show. All right, I
think we can do. Oh here's the story of one
of my favorite places.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yeah, so it looks like In and Out's kind of
going all Disney because now you have to make an
appointment to get in line. Hoping to get in and
out of the In and Out Burger quickly. They have
introduced a new app. So the first three locations open
doors in mid December, so to combat resulting congestion from
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new locations, the web based tool called the Weight app
was launched to provide real time data on how long
it takes to order both inside and outside and at
the drive through.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, this is in Tennessee where they open up three
of them, and I mean this, it is a cult
place to eat here in southern California. The lines are
always ridiculously long. It's just it astounds me. And it's good.
They're good burgers. I mean, are they that good? I
don't know, but they have their own flavor and in
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Tennessee they're yeah, you know, it's regional. Sometimes too. One
of the big burgers in Tennessee is the possumburger. It
is so good that you will want to try it.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
So Bostin burgers are okay, but monkey burgers aren't.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Is that what you That is correct?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Monkey burgers and I possum burgers because here's why people
wait so much in line that the possums get run
over and then they're picked up by nevermind.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
That's I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Maybe they'll rename it trump Land, Greenland's prime minister, has
fired back after President drump pointed a special envoy to Greenland.
It's Louisiana's Republican Governor, Jeff Landry. Trump said that Landry
understands how essential Greenland is to our national security, and
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then Landry posted on social media, it's an honor to
serve you in this volunteer position to make Greenland a
part of the US, which Greenland says it wants no
part of.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I find it incredible.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
There's some things that are being done by this administration
that number one, I find sort of ridiculous, some entertaining,
some dangerous, to be honest with you, and then some
just nuts. This is under the Nuts Department. Where are
they going to go? Or they is Trump going to
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invade Greenland go to war. I don't know how anybody
understands what's going on on leave.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Brown University's police chief has been placed on leave more
than a week after the mass shooting that left two
students dead. Nine others were shot. The school president, Christina Patson,
says that Brown University is going to commission a review
of campus, campus safety and the response to the shooting
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on December thirteenth, saying that putting the chief on leave
is just sort of standard procedure. They did say that
they're going to make some immediate changes, including more security
cameras installed across campus campus, including at the Barrison Holly
Engineering building where the shooting happened. There was a lot
of complaints because there wasn't a lot of video surveillance
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of the area.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Aren't these stories all closing the barnhore barn door after
the horse has escaped kind of thing where all of
a sudden security is ramped up across the country and
there really isn't much a connection when you see several
different schools and or shopping centers and or organizations, churches, etc.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
At risk.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
It's always before the fact that they're able to foil
the plot. So I don't know what else they could do.
But putting up a big security blanket does that stop
someone from coming in, make them more difficult, And we're
never going to know how many of these are foiled.
Occasionally we get language from the FBI saying we foil something,
but the whole point of secret security is secret security,
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So no idea. I've shared this when my kids were
the synagogue that we belonged to head of school. My
kids went to it and when we dropped the kids
off in the morning, there would be the arm guard
there who was directing traffic, and I mean there was
with the weapons. And I was told, you don't even
know the security that we have here, and we're never
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going to tell you what we have. And I think
that happens on a lot school and then you know,
people can avert it. I mean, some crazies got through,
Thank goodness, they didn't have weapons.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Well in this case, someone did see something and say something.
When we're talking about the Brown University shooting, there is
a custodian named Derek Lacy.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
He reported a.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Suspicious person on campus several times before the shooting. He
says he remembers seeing the guy who they've identified as
the gunman more than a dozen times canvassing the engineering
building and other areas before the shooting, and he reported
it and they didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So what could they do?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, and even if you do, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I guess you can't arrest him for not doing anything.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
No, you can't. And so you're casing.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's probably some kind of a crime, but stocking, But
what are you stalking if you're looking at a building?
I mean, they could do some kind of crime there.
But then again, how many tips do they get when
a killer is loose and there really is at risk
and the police department, the authorities send out the word, hey,
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we are offering twenty five fifty thousand dollars reward for
information or just asking for tips. Thousands come in, and
what do you do with that? You sift through thousands?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
All right? I think we have time for at least one.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
More move over shots. The pill is coming.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
The FDA has approved a daily pill version of Novo
Nordisk's weight loss drug Wogovy. The wagov pill uses the
same active ingredient ingredient the semi glue tide that powers
the original wogov along with its sister drug for diabetes, ozempic,
but those are given in weekly injections.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
This will be a daily pill.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
And what goov makers say that the pill shows roughly
similar weight loss and side effects in clinical trials.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Y know, this is pretty close to the magic bullet
that we've been talking about for weight loss. One in
eight adults say they are currently taking the medicine. Gives
you an idea of the obesity level in this country.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
We're just fat and we're getting fatter those possum burders
in Tennessee. That's just doing it.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Okay, we do it, Yeah, we do one more. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Is it Santa or is it Scrooge? Dressed in red
suits and backed by masked elves, a group of Santas
marched into a supermarket in Montreal, loaded their bags with
thousands of dollars worth of groceries, and disappeared into the night.
They're calling themselves the Bandit Santas. They later released a
statement saying the food would be distributed to the needy
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and saying the robin Hood style stunt was intended to
highlight the spiraling cost of living crisis.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Well yeah, I mean it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I mean, I don't know if that's a particularly good
way of doing it, stealing food and giving it to
the poor, but sure, why not. How many people are
offended and you go in front of a jury on
that one and see what happens. Probably be a slap
on the wrist. All right, we're done, guys. This is
KFI AM six point forty.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
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Speaker 2 (28:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Did you know that you hate the holidays? I mean,
I hate the holidays. You're aware of that, But did
you know that you hate the holidays? No Amy is
shaking her head. She thinks she enjoys the holidays.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I do.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
No, you don't, No, you don't. You were fooling yourself.
I'm telling you right now, and.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Good morning everybody. Yep, it's that time of year. It
is now Tuesday, December twenty three. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve,
and then everybody is taking the day off. I don't
think anybody is working.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, we've got some. We have some people that are working.
Although well, Neil is working. He always does the Christmas day.
He also does Thanksgiving. But the rest of us were history,
right Cono, Yes, Oh, Usually you say I'm working, but okay, yeah, no,
I understand.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
That's why I threw it to you.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Usually you say not working as I throw it to you,
and then I make fun of you, oh being solow
on the food chain, that you are forced to work, right,
that's not the case. This share well, anyway, Good morning,
there we are and Amy, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Good morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You plan on going to Disneyland between the Christmas Day
and New Year's I might now? Why because it's going
to be drowned out and swept away and the lines
will be fairly short.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
No, because I'm not Now, I'm now not traveling to
Orgon Oh because of the weather.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
No, because of my cat, because the tickets were all
sold out for cats.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I have a ticket for me to go, but my
cat is having some health issues and I cannot leave her.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
She needs medication.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
How old is a cat?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
She's old. She's thirteen.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Oh it's time. Yeah, No, it is time. I'm gonna
make it.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I'm gonna make it really easy for you to go
to Oregon. Are you ready for this?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Would you like some handle on the law advice?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Okay, Good morning Will, Good morning Bill. Okay. What team
is that?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That is the San Francisco forty nine Ers who won
decisively last night. Okay, I didn't watch much football last night.
I watched bits and pieces of it. All I know
is the Chargers and the Rams are a pretty good shape.
Do they have a chance of being in the Super
Bowl against each other. Is there a shot at that?
I don't know. Is that possible, Cono, you're a football guy,
(03:00):
big football. Is it possible? The Chargers, they would have
to play like in the super Bowl, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yes, they have to play in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Wouldn't that be fun?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That would be fine. There's there's a there's a bit
of traffic. Although where's the Super Bowl played this year?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I think in San Francisco? Now can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Can you imagine the Rams and the Chargers playing at
so far for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Boy, would that be a perfect storm?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Huh Oh, it's not gonna happen this year because Cono's correct.
It's being played at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Okay, And there's Michelle. Good morning, Michelle, good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And she's filling in for Ann and tomorrow is my
last day and comes back after the first of the year.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Also she is back on the fifth.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yes, as I am. Okay, fair enough, And let me
see with the people. Amy is going to be sitting
shiva with her dead cat. Shiva is the Jewish funeral
rights that you stay at home for a week and
you cover the mirrors and you don't wear shoes. It's
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very strange any part of any religion, this strange stuff.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
So I think I'm going to pass on the Yeah,
you said, she my cat is alive, and well she
just needs medication on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Right, Okay, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We're going to do a is a cat dead or
alive report for the rest of the holiday season. Fair enough, Okay,
I think, well, of course, of course that is okay.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Why what do we have it any other way? Nope, nope, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh you know what, I was talking to Michelle, who
has known me. I mean Michelle, we've known each other
for thirty years. I think we've been working.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Together thirty thirty three years we've been working together.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I asked her, yesterday, Uh, did I reach new levels?
Yesterday was a day where I may have got over
over that line, I said, And I asked it, did
I reach new levels of dickiosity yesterday? And Michelle actually
said no, My dickishness was right along my normal lines.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Yeah, I did not notice an increase of dickishness yesterday.
Today it could be different, but I did not notice
it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Any anybody else we can give marginal legally or marginal
veterinarian advice?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Will do you have a Do you have a pet?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
No, they're all dead. Excellent, That's what I wanted to hear. Cono,
do you have a pet?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Nope? I got kids.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That's close, very close, yeah, very close. And I came
very and I came very close, many many times. And Michelle,
I know you've gone through a few pets, a big
part of your Familyine.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
She's cute, very cute.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
She's a finalist in the America's Favorite Pet contest, which
is going to start on January fifth.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
So yeah, how do you get what is America's Favorite Pet?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
It's just some contest where you can win ten thousand dollars.
And you know she'd be on the cover of Modern
Dog magazine.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I didn't know there was.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
A Modern Dog magazine. Okay, we are okay right there, Michelle.
We are starting a new KFI event annually, and we're
gonna call it the last week that the pet is
alive and people can submit their pets or photos.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Of their pets, because of course.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You okay, all right, you guys ready to go. It
is definitely time for handle on the news. And man,
we have some news and it's weather news, and it
ain't fun news either. It is time for handle on
the news with Amy Neils dot here and me lead story.
And it's gonna be a tough one in terms of
the weather and the rains and the storms.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And I always defer to Amy. Give us the highlights please.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Okay, it's gonna rain really hard.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
So we've got gusty winds expected, We've got rain expected
to start this afternoon. The heaviest of the rain's going
to be overnight and tomorrow morning. They're saying up to
an inch an hour in some areas, mainly like in
the foothills mountains, and that of course has mudslide debris
flow warnings and a lot of worries, especially in the
(07:22):
burn areas. So if some evacuation warnings have been issued,
no one's ordered out, but the warnings go into effect.
We've got some flood watches in effect to Penga canyons
closed down preemptively.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
So it's going to come down hard.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And we got yesterday what we were reporting that parts
of the mountains in the Inland Empire twelve inches of rain. Well,
I think at anywhere close to twelve inches of rain.
You've guaranteed yourself. We've guaranteed ourselves some massive mud slides.
There's no way to avert these mudslides at twelve inches
of rain. I mean, that's impossible. So we'll be talking
(07:59):
about it since all of us are here.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Also, it's uh tomorrow and then after that on Thursday,
and I'm inside it's Pj's. It's just doing nothing. Lighting
up the fire even though we don't have a fireplace,
and watching football sounds like fun. Yeah, let's take a break, okay, okay,
(08:21):
and we'll come back and keep on going. By the way,
I do have a fireplace. I just wanted to share that.
And I don't know why I went that way because
I thought it would work.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
And it didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh right, But you have several fireplaces.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Actually I only had one. I have one.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I had Yeah, no, I had two fireplaces at the
Persian Palace.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So no, you're downsizing, is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Oh? I downsized like crazy? Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Was the Persian Palace that much bigger than the house? Wow?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah? My Persian Palace was massive. It was huge.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It was yeah, way over built, and it was just
you know, all the kids left, and you know, we
dug up all the pets and we sent them out
for there was just too much room.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Okay, the rain so expected to start by this afternoon
and then the heaviest rain overnight and tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
All right, more a handle on the news with Amy
A and Neil is not here and me Well.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
The redacted document dump continues. The Justice Department has released
more documents from files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Thousands of documents have been released, but the Justice Department
is saying that it's unable to fully release all the
files by the deadline because of the vetting process required
(09:39):
to protect Epstein's victims.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah, it's kind of pretty sloppy.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
First of all, the administration held up did not wanted
to release those files, went back and forth, yes, release them, yes,
release and made a major point during the campaign to
release the files. Now we're in power, we're not going
to release them. We don't have them. We are going
to give you part of them. There was a bill
that was passed, the President's signed, and it was supposed
(10:05):
to come in on Friday, right, didn't make it. Some
were still being kept, and now it's gotten sloppy because
some are over redacted, some are under redacted, and no
one's very happy on this one. Even MADA supporters aren't happy,
and that's very very rare. So we'll find out what
happens with the files now. MSNBC, what a shocker that
(10:28):
is is reporting that a some email shows that President
Trump was on Epstein's private jet multiple times. We don't
know where it's going, and that has not been confirmed
as far as I can see, because I'm looking at
four or five news outlets.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Has not been confirmed at all.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But of course if it were where to think it
would break, you know, the non bias station ms NBC.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Paramount, this new deal not worth it.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
At least that's the word from one of the major
shareholders to Warner Brothers. So Paramount sky Dance came forward
yesterday and presented a new offer that had like forty
billion dollars of the deal personally guaranteed by co founder
Larry Ellison. But this guy, who is a four percent
(11:28):
shareholder in Harris Oakmark, so he's a four percent shareholder
in Warner Brothers, he said he would hold out for
more from the Ellison family controlled Paramount. He said, you
know this one was better but not good enough.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah, this has handed.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
When there's a bidding war, the shareholders do just fine.
And that seems to be what's going on.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Well, Netflix hasn't come up with a new deal. They're
still sticking with their.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Safe and arguing that their deal is the best no
matter what.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And Warner Brothers is saying that deal is better.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yes, But at the same time, the board of Netflix
is saying to at this point to Paramount not good
enough because the deal was already inked with Paramount with
Netflix and Warner Brothers is coming in or a Paramount
is coming in with a hostile bid try to take over,
and that's against the wishes of the board.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Happens all the time.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Well, apparently deportees will get their due their due process.
A federal judge has ordered that the Venezuelan men, about
two hundred of them deported to the prison in El
Salvador in March from the US, need to get their
due process.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
They said they didn't get it before they left, and
they need that.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
So the judge has given the administration until the fifth
of January to either facilitate their return to the US
from El Salvador or to otherwise provide them with hearings
that satisfy the requirements of due process.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Now this happened, and now he invoked.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
The President invoked the deportation under the Alien Enemies Act,
which was passed in seventeen ninety eight by the US
government and has not changed since then. And I am
going to dive into that at seven point fifty a
little bit of handle history.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
That's interesting stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
So some people actually got to see that pulled sixty
minutes story that we were telling you about. The story
was about the Seacott Maximum Security prison in El Salvator
that we are El Salvator, that we were just referencing.
But apparently the package for sixty minutes was distributed on
an app owned by Global TV, which airs sixty minutes
(13:44):
in Canada. A. We didn't get to see it here
in the US, but they did in Canada.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And there's a lot of controversy about that because a
lot of detractors are saying, why was it able to
air in fifty of the fifty one American states and
they still allowed it in Canada. Okay, well, it's they're
going a cave on this one. This one's another cluster truck.
Whether the political aspects of this, and that's the argument.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
That case.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
CBS is going to cave an error.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, I think Seawalk CBS already caved now, whether it's
going to be released or not, because it rips into
the Trump administration and I don't even think mentioning well,
I has to mention that Trump administration, and that is
the potential illegal deportation and how those prisoners were treated
in the El Salvadoran prisoner prison.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Guess what, you could be a billionaire for Christmas. The
jackpot for the next powerball drawing is going to be
one point seven billion dollars because no one won it
last night.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah. Their math is weird because everybody takes the lump
sum and that brings it way way down to I think,
what's seven hundred million?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
So you have a cash value on this one is
seven hundred and eighty one million.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
And you pay half of that in taxes, which doesn't
really matter if you're in California. And on top of that,
I mean theoretically it's worth one point seven billion. You
can take it over twenty years, and I don't know
if anybody has done that recently.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, well what.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Happens if you die? Do you will it to somebody?
Or does go away like social Security?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
No, it doesn't go away. It doesn't go away. It's
part of the estate.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I mean, you get it. It's not to use it
or lose it kind of thing. But everybody takes the
cash because that paltry forty million dollars a year just
doesn't cut it.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Now you want some serious money there.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Looks like Barry Manilo is going to make it, at least,
we hope. So kind of a tough day for Manaluni's
like me. Barry Manilo has announced that he has been
diagnosed with lung cancer recently, but he says his doctors
don't think it's spread. He's going to have surgery to
get the spot that was discovered removed. And he said
he doesn't have to have chemo or radiation. He just
(16:09):
is going to have to rest. So he says he
hopes to be back on the stage by belief February.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, he said that a little more plastic surgery might
help him last a little bit longer.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
He's on a fantastic show seen.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Look if you look very I have actually so if
you look. If you look very.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Carefully, you can tell there was a touch of plastic surgery.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Done on him over the years.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Is a little midge because you have just seen the
cleft in his chin.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It gets every year.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, that used to be that used to be his
belly button. Okay, moving on there he does. But I
and he's written some terrific songs.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Did he's written? Write his first one when you're sixteen
or something?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah? I just really amazing, amazing guy, you know, just
musically well, I have to connect some oak with his face,
but I'm not going to. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Call of Duty's co creator has been killed. Vince Zampella
was one of two people in a ferrari that hit
a concrete barrier and caught fire while speeding down Angelus
Crest Highway. It happened early Sunday morning, about twelve or
actually was Sunday afternoon about twelve forty at mile markers
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sixty two on the Angelus Crest Highways.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Kind of sad, yep.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
And he wrote, Call of Duty maybe the number one
game out there. I think maybe Mario Brothers is number one,
but Call of Duty is right up there. Also, that
was am I right on this cono. I don't game.
But isn't there in the original Call of Duty where
you get into it with screaming at a hooker who
(17:50):
doesn't put out a program?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Okay, I get them confused.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
It is in a video game, just a program.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
This is more war related, got it? Okay, you're a soldier? Yeah,
all right, fair enough, got it? Got it?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Speaking of war related, President Trump has announced a new
class of battleships there what he calls Trump Class ship.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Course he does.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
He said, one of them will be the largest battleship
in the history of our country.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yes, in the world. It will be the largest battleship
that ever was.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
And he of course named the fleet after the class
Trump Class vessels and taking a page out of the
George Foreman book, who called all of his sons George.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
The Trump Class vessels not only will be Trump Class,
but will be named Trump one, and then Trump two,
and then Trump three and four and five. It's much
like the Super Bowl, right with the Roman numerals.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Did you see the name of the first ship.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's called the USS Defiant, which is actually perfect. But
I mean, come on, you have a and whether or
not we need a new class of battleships, and we might.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Ours is pretty aged, but sure, why not let's call
it after ourselves.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I'm telling you I've been joking about this.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But the next president, if it is, if it is
a democratic president, is going.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
To have a real issue.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
How does he remove Trump's face off of Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
How does he do it? Okay? Moving on?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
What is this stuff?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
US Customs and Border Patrol have intercepted what they call
some ghoulish looking cargo from a passenger who's on his
way into the US from Africa, actually specifically from Congo,
and the Customs and Border Patrol workers said that this
person believed that the food they were bringing was fine
(19:51):
to enter the US at O'Hare Airport.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
They said it was not, and it was four pounds
of non human primate meat.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Did you look at the picture?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yes, it's gross.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
It is This is.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Perfect for Halloween. They should have picked this up for
Halloween or saved it for next Halloween. It is absolutely disgusting.
It looks like some kind of you know what it
looks like. It looks like an insect with a really
bizarre head on it doesn't it? It is truly god awful.
(20:24):
That's worth seeing. Where do people see that? Are we're
going to post that?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I'll post it on your Instagram?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Okay, go to at Bill Handles Show. All right, I
think we can do. Oh here's the story of one
of my favorite places.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yeah, so it looks like In and Out's kind of
going all Disney because now you have to make an
appointment to get in line. Hoping to get in and
out of the In and Out Burger quickly. They have
introduced a new app. So the first three locations open
doors in mid December, so to combat resulting congestion from
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new locations, the web based tool called the Weight app
was launched to provide real time data on how long
it takes to order both inside and outside and at
the drive through.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, this is in Tennessee where they open up three
of them, and I mean this, it is a cult
place to eat here in southern California. The lines are
always ridiculously long. It's just it astounds me. And it's good.
They're good burgers. I mean, are they that good? I
don't know, but they have their own flavor and in
(21:32):
Tennessee they're yeah, you know, it's regional. Sometimes too. One
of the big burgers in Tennessee is the possumburger. It
is so good that you will want to try it.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
So Bostin burgers are okay, but monkey burgers aren't.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Is that what you That is correct?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Monkey burgers and I possum burgers because here's why people
wait so much in line that the possums get run
over and then they're picked up by nevermind.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
That's I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Maybe they'll rename it trump Land, Greenland's prime minister, has
fired back after President drump pointed a special envoy to Greenland.
It's Louisiana's Republican Governor, Jeff Landry. Trump said that Landry
understands how essential Greenland is to our national security, and
(22:19):
then Landry posted on social media, it's an honor to
serve you in this volunteer position to make Greenland a
part of the US, which Greenland says it wants no
part of.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I find it incredible.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
There's some things that are being done by this administration
that number one, I find sort of ridiculous, some entertaining,
some dangerous, to be honest with you, and then some
just nuts. This is under the Nuts Department. Where are
they going to go? Or they is Trump going to
(22:52):
invade Greenland go to war. I don't know how anybody
understands what's going on on leave.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Brown University's police chief has been placed on leave more
than a week after the mass shooting that left two
students dead. Nine others were shot. The school president, Christina Patson,
says that Brown University is going to commission a review
of campus, campus safety and the response to the shooting
(23:26):
on December thirteenth, saying that putting the chief on leave
is just sort of standard procedure. They did say that
they're going to make some immediate changes, including more security
cameras installed across campus campus, including at the Barrison Holly
Engineering building where the shooting happened. There was a lot
of complaints because there wasn't a lot of video surveillance
(23:48):
of the area.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Aren't these stories all closing the barnhore barn door after
the horse has escaped kind of thing where all of
a sudden security is ramped up across the country and
there really isn't much a connection when you see several
different schools and or shopping centers and or organizations, churches, etc.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
At risk.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
It's always before the fact that they're able to foil
the plot. So I don't know what else they could do.
But putting up a big security blanket does that stop
someone from coming in, make them more difficult, And we're
never going to know how many of these are foiled.
Occasionally we get language from the FBI saying we foil something,
but the whole point of secret security is secret security,
(24:35):
So no idea. I've shared this when my kids were
the synagogue that we belonged to head of school. My
kids went to it and when we dropped the kids
off in the morning, there would be the arm guard
there who was directing traffic, and I mean there was
with the weapons. And I was told, you don't even
know the security that we have here, and we're never
(24:56):
going to tell you what we have. And I think
that happens on a lot school and then you know,
people can avert it. I mean, some crazies got through,
Thank goodness, they didn't have weapons.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Well in this case, someone did see something and say something.
When we're talking about the Brown University shooting, there is
a custodian named Derek Lacy.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
He reported a.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Suspicious person on campus several times before the shooting. He
says he remembers seeing the guy who they've identified as
the gunman more than a dozen times canvassing the engineering
building and other areas before the shooting, and he reported
it and they didn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So what could they do?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, and even if you do, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I guess you can't arrest him for not doing anything.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
No, you can't. And so you're casing.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's probably some kind of a crime, but stocking, But
what are you stalking if you're looking at a building?
I mean, they could do some kind of crime there.
But then again, how many tips do they get when
a killer is loose and there really is at risk
and the police department, the authorities send out the word, hey,
(26:07):
we are offering twenty five fifty thousand dollars reward for
information or just asking for tips. Thousands come in, and
what do you do with that? You sift through thousands?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
All right? I think we have time for at least one.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
More move over shots. The pill is coming.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
The FDA has approved a daily pill version of Novo
Nordisk's weight loss drug Wogovy. The wagov pill uses the
same active ingredient ingredient the semi glue tide that powers
the original wogov along with its sister drug for diabetes, ozempic,
but those are given in weekly injections.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
This will be a daily pill.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
And what goov makers say that the pill shows roughly
similar weight loss and side effects in clinical trials.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Y know, this is pretty close to the magic bullet
that we've been talking about for weight loss. One in
eight adults say they are currently taking the medicine. Gives
you an idea of the obesity level in this country.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
We're just fat and we're getting fatter those possum burders
in Tennessee. That's just doing it.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Okay, we do it, Yeah, we do one more. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Is it Santa or is it Scrooge? Dressed in red
suits and backed by masked elves, a group of Santas
marched into a supermarket in Montreal, loaded their bags with
thousands of dollars worth of groceries, and disappeared into the night.
They're calling themselves the Bandit Santas. They later released a
statement saying the food would be distributed to the needy
(27:42):
and saying the robin Hood style stunt was intended to
highlight the spiraling cost of living crisis.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Well yeah, I mean it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I mean, I don't know if that's a particularly good
way of doing it, stealing food and giving it to
the poor, but sure, why not. How many people are
offended and you go in front of a jury on
that one and see what happens. Probably be a slap
on the wrist. All right, we're done, guys. This is
KFI AM six point forty.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
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