January 2, 2026 • 42 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
A M six forty and now Handle on the news.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good morning kf I AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Neil Savader in the morning crew. What
it's all modified this morning? I think, right, are we?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah? You're the only one.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Wow, I'm like, the only original band member. Well, we've
got Heather Brooker in for Amy, we got math Matt
in four, and we have Sam.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
In for KNO.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And who's doing uh, Treys Beck Trey Alexander. That's easy
for me to say, is back doing the traffic, which
I'm assuming is pretty light this morning. Tray, Hello, it's
in the bathroom. Sorry that happens. Oh, he can run in.
He's probably he told me earlier. It's been very lied.
(01:12):
He's like, there's not much going on today. And I'm like, well,
that's a good problem I have. We love it.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Everybody's cozy and bad. Nobody's listening.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I don't want to love holiday roads and La Day Road. Yeah,
holiday traffic in La is the best.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, this is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
How long to take you to get here?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You can cuss if you want. Nobody's listening this morning.
Everybody's cozy and they're bad. Say a dirty word, you
do it, you first, poopoo pants, dooty butt, you go first.
You have less chance of getting canned than me. Oh no, hey,
it's only been luck at this point thirty years.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm like good in radio, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I've dropped the F bomb twice, really yeah, and the
S bomb once. But in my defense, uh, the first
time I ever did it, I was being shocked with
a tasers on the air, what one hundred and twenty
thousand volts or whatever going through my systems.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
W u KRP in Cincinnati is going on.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh, some some inmate or something was complaining that he
was tased, and I told him to sit down and
shut up because it was listen, you're there for a reason.
You brought this on yourself. And my partner at the time,
Tim Kelly, was like, oh, yeah, how.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Would you take a taser? I'll get tased And I
didn't even do anything. So I did.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But yeah, another another host, that's what was her name,
another host, female host on the weekends, went to do it,
and she just kind of tapped me with it and
then she's like, I can't do this, and he looked
like he was making a fist. I'm like, damn right,
I'm making a fist. Then I'm going to hit you.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I'm going to want to.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And then security came up to do it and they said,
now you're doing it right. You gots take it right
in here, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And then you swore a little bit.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, but I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I said, hey, look I didn't swear, and everybody was white.
All the blood had dropped from their face, and I'm like, really, well,
it happens, come on.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Little cousin every now and then.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And then someone was being mean to a producer or
something one time.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh yeah, it's not okay, No.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Treat people good.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I like you coming to the defense of the producers
like that. Yeah, I that's profanity.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, I don't like that. You don't take yourself too seriously. Yeah,
for I'm super honored to do this job. It's a
huge deal for people to let us into their cars,
their lives, their homes and all that stuff. But I
don't take myself seriously. And you know, you don't need
to treat people poorly in life.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That's right, preach, preach.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So we got through the first day of twenty twenty
six field pretty good about it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, we nailed it.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Pretty good about it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I have some thoughts on things that I want to do.
I don't have any resolutions, what say you, Heather Brooker?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You know I have some goals, you know, I resolutions,
you know, whatever you want to call them. My goals
are to do more things that give back to the community.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I heard that. I think that's really neat. I would
like about that. The other day yesterday, I think.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, I would like to do that more. I feel
like I get so caught up. Like you were talking
yesterday about being a workhorse. That's me. Like, I'm I'm
only part time here at KFI, but I will work
fifty hours a week if they let me because I
enjoy work. I'm a work person.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I see that in you. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I enjoy being busy. And there's stuff I do outside
of here that I don't put down on my timesheet
that I do I probably should put it down, but
I'm always working. I like to be busy.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I'm that that was that person too. Yeah, I've done that.
So it's hard to tell people not to, but yeah
you should.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, I know I should.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
So I'm like, I want to focus more on trying
to redirect some of that energy into helping other people
and maybe not so much work because I'm you know,
I'm just trying to find a balance. I think that's
the struggle.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Charity is great, and you know what, there's a lot
to do, even you with your skills in theater and acting.
You know, there's young people that need mentors and leadership
in those things too. People always think of charity as
having to dump out money, but I'm right, and I do,
I do.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I have. My rule is local.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Then you do local, state, national, and international. Yeah, so
you find and you give a little bit to wherever. Yeah,
something a little like that. And then for the arts,
I'm really big on self help graphics and East LA
place like that where you can give money to or
donate stuff. If you you know, any equipment that I
(06:01):
have for making a you can donate that to, you know,
art places that teach art. You can also send your
tech stuff to STEM programs, which I'm a big fan
of and things like that.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You know what's funny is I don't know if this
is how other communities are other cities or maybe this
is just a Los Angeles problem, but it is incredibly
hard to volunteer in some places because so many people
want to do it. I remember wanting to. My daughter
asked me a few years ago about volunteering and an
animal shelter because she loves animals. Sure, and I went
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to look and see where I could do that and
sign up. And I was looking at the Bourbank Animal Shelter.
There was like a six month waiting list to volunteer there,
and I was like what So I was like, I'll
look somewhere else. Let me see passading it the same thing,
and like maybe it's just animals focused, but they're also
I looked at the Downtown Women's Shelter and like other places.
Oh really, Yeah, there's a waiting list in a lot
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of these places to volunteer. And I'm like, you know
where that's a good problem to have. Good on La.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You gotta go to the crappy one everyone wants to
deal with. Where are the charity nobody washing us? It's like, uh, yeah,
there's a yeah, I can imagine there's a lot of
people that are our givers and kind and also.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
It's a great problem to have in our city. Like
what an abundance of people who want to help, you know,
but it's also annoying. It's like I want to be
good too. Yeah, come on, come on, I wanna. I
want to help.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
You're stealing all your goodness?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Right, all right, let's get to some of the news.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Handle on the news, uh lead story. I do like
the rain. I'm not only happy when it rains, but
I do like the rain. In New Year's Day, we
had that nice, steady downpour.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I'll be honest.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I took a longer nap than normal, I because I
was up after midnight with my family and then came
and did the show. So a lot of yesterday was
h Yeah, turning off the alarm because I said an
alarm when I napped.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Do you sleep with white noise? You have a fan
or anything? Alms?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I do when I sleep at night, A mild one.
But I don't do that. I when I nap, I
don't do certain things that I do when I sleep,
Like I don't pull the curtains shot when I nap,
I don't do I don't get under the covers when
I nap.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I want my body to know. It's different than normal sleep.
All right, So I go full sleep and I'm like
covering the eyes everything in your Yes, wow, no bra there. Well,
I don't tend to wear a bra when I'm sleeping either.
I probably should, let's be honest, a little floppy.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So we had this kind of rare January rainsterom and
it's not over. I mean, it's gonna be very little today,
I think from what I've seen more.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, there's more coming. There's another stormfront that's going to
be coming. I need a double check, but I think
it's supposed to be later tonight and through the next
several days.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to all of that. More changed
some plans.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I was hoping to see my aunt and uncle and
one of my cousins and hang out with my mom
over there, but you know, outdoors doing a barbecue.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But I don't know. Someone said, hey, southern California, look
at this wood stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah. Ended up being a nice day yesterday, though.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
It's beautiful, all right. One more one more.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
President Trump says he the US is locked and loaded
if Iran starts killing protesters. There's a lot going on
over there right now. Demonstrations are happening among business owners
and university students. They are protesting soaring prices and collapsing currency,
and reports have been coming out that one protester was killed,
(09:55):
and President Trump posted if Iran violently kills peaceful protesters,
which is their custom, the US of America will come
to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready
to go.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Law and nobody harasses protesters but me, baby, alright, you
know I didn't think about that. That's literally a song, right,
don't rain on my parade? And then you know, yesterday
no one listened to the song. KFI AM six forty
heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good Friday morning. Look
(10:35):
at this Friday, second day of the new year. I
think we're doing great. Twenty twenty six is gonna be awesome.
I mean, we're already day two and I think we're
kicking some boutet So Neil Savadra and the Morning Crew
although it's modified, got Sam on the board, Kno's taking
the day off, and Ann's out, but we got Matthew
and Amy's out.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
But we have Heather Brooker. That's uh, missus Brooker.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
If you're nasty, and we have Trey Alexander in for
will everybody's left me.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
That's all right.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Alone, We'll standing alone.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I like to look at it as everybody here showed
up for ah, thanks Pal, thanks Like last week I
showed up when I wasn't one. I'm telling you, yeah,
we're here. We support each other. It's a mutual support society.
A little inside baseball. Last Friday, there was a change
of plans, but I hadn't changed it on my calendar,
(11:35):
so I assumed I was on. So I came in
on a day when I wasn't supposed to be here,
and then I just sat and talked with Sam and
Heather for a little while and then went home.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I wasn't gonna say anything. I wasn't going to out
you for coming in, but I was like, oh nice.
I'm like, should I get Should we get some stories
together and just do it and prompt to do a
show impromptu show?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
No, I'll just get caught up with you folks, then
go back on my merry way. But we are going
back to the news. I'm like, super duper appreciative. I'm
like in that state of gratefulness right now. You know,
do you ever just do that? I know you do
this either because I can hear it when you're with them,
(12:17):
but when you just look at your family. And I'm
not a big climb the ladder guy. I'm very appreciative
of where I am at any point in time. And
just looked around yesterday and remember what a cute little
house we have and what a cute little family. And
I can go tinker in my shop and my son's
(12:38):
messing around and joking around, my wife's messing around, joking around.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I'm like, you know what, it's good hashtag blessed?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, or bleased? I like that the best you ever
go through.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And the people misspell it, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
That's those are the ones that I The misspelled hashtags
are my favorite.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
That's a deep dive.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I feel that way mostly when the tree is up
and there's music playing and we're all just kind of
hanging out and talking. Like on New Year's Eve, my
husband got my daughter a game called Grab the Mic
for Christmas, So on New Year's Eve we sat around
and played that.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
And what is what is grab the mic?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Grab the mic is there's like a little microphone that
comes with it, and it's you're giving a word. There's cards,
you flip over, and there's a word, and whoever sings
a song lyric with that word in it first moves
their points or moves their token or whatever across the
board according to how many points. So like, if the
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word is uh, and sometimes it's hard. If the word
is love, that's easy to do. You grab whoever grabs
the mic first sings their lyrics with the word love
in it, or sometimes the word will be like have
or ben.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
That's like an old improv game kind of Yeah. I
used to do that with a buddy of mine who's
a who's a comic, and we would on the way
to his shows. We do like album names or something,
and you could only have a conversation using album names
or things like that.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, that's fun. I love I love games. Game night
to me is a it's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
We love games too. We play. We play a lot
of games. Did you ever play Big Booty when you
did improv?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I remember that, you remember Big Booty? Yeah? I remember
what's big Booty?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Big Big Booty is. It's like a rhyming game where
you go everybody gets a number in the circle and
the number kind of gets tossed around across the room.
So you go, uh, a big booty, big booty, number one,
number one, number seven, number seven, number nine, number nine,
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number twelve, number eight, number whatever, and you have to
toss to the number that your whatever your number is,
and you kind of toss the booty around. Everyone listening
right now is like, is this a drinking game?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Because it should be.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It should be, yeah, And then what what happens when you.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It just gets faster and fast and faster, and then
whoever loses, I guess gets out of the circle. And
you know, it's been a minute since I've played it.
But we did a lot of fun improv games. I
was at the Groundlings and UCB and where did you
do improv?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I was at Second City, Second to Second City. Yeah,
I really enjoyed it. I did it going into knowing
that not just.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Obviously it's great for radio, but I was doing it
because I'm a marriage and family therapist and I was
trying to get comfortable in being in one on one
situations with people. So I took an improv class and
it helped, and they taught you big booty to help
with that. That was one of the exercises that they did.
It's just learning how to with eye contact communicate directly
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to the person you're trying to pass the ball to.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So now Sam is like, They're like, well, and then
this happened when I was thirteen, and goes yes and.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, exactly, exactly yes, And as a therapist, is exactly
the way you were.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Yeah, you kind of do. And how did that make
you feel?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
My wife's a therapist and I always say, don't put
me on the couch, and she says, don't do creepy
Jesus voice.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well or even already back of the news, shall we go?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Rain?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yes, rain is here, steady rain pounded Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena,
of course as the one hundred and thirty seventh Rose Parade.
We watched it here yesterday and we're humored by the
Grand Marshall Magic Johnson himself that you saw basically a
silhouette most of the time because they had the top
(16:34):
up on the convertible. He did reach out at some
point and wave his hand. Yeah, but that's crap.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Do they pay those folks?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
They do? I believe they do get paid. I think
he did. I think he was out of the car
at the beginning of the parade. My husband says, he
goes no. I saw him at the very top of
the parade when he was like, you know, tossing or
opening it whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I was like, oh, okay, because there was time when
they were doing a stand up or something before. But
once he got in the parade itself, it.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Was also a really small convert, Like he's a tall guy.
I don't know how he fit in there.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
His feet are in the engine compartment. They don't tell
you that. It's like a flintstone car. He's powering it
by his own self, all right.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
More Trump news. He is telling the Wall Street Journal
in an interview that he's not following his doctor's recommendations
because he's taking a higher dose of aspirin than what
they're recommending, because he says, well, aspirin is good for
thinning out the blood, and I don't want thick blood
(17:43):
pouring through my heart, so I want nice, thin blood
pouring through my heart. So he's taking a higher dose
of aspirin, blaming or than his doctors are recommended.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's what cracks me up is that thought that, hey,
if it's good, then more is better, right, right, Yeah,
I don't know that that's the case, but I saw
this yesterday and maybe you did too. Going back to
the Rose Parade that there was a float.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That came by and they had a banner.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
There's most of the time, there's no controversy when it comes.
They do a good job at keeping the Rose Parade. Yeah,
and just an enjoyable time. But it's a local parade,
and there was local news. There was a banner that
said A. G. Bonta Altadena demands an investigation and this
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is in reference to the California Attorney General Rob Bonta,
and demanding an investigation is to what caused the eat
and fire. And you know, they did dance around the
banner a little bit with camera work, but it was
seen in most of it. And I you know, I'm
not big on making everything a political platform, but in
(19:06):
this case, this is a very important local issue. It
was mishandled. Somebody needs to come up and lead and say, Okay,
this is where we dropped the ball, but this is
what we're doing a year later.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And considering that it was in Pasadena, Yeah, it's right there. Yeah,
you would think, I honestly thought there would have been
a little more representation or a little more nod to
the fires during the show, but we didn't during the prey,
but we didn't see that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
On that note, a good reminder for you, January seventh,
Next Wednesday, This coming Wednesday, the Los Angeles wildfires. One
year later, look at the news two hour special hosted
by our very own Michael Monks. Please stick around for
that is around. We should be talking to him today.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I don't think so he's off today, of course he is.
I have a special segment in that special as well. Actually,
a lot of the Canfine team contributed to that special,
so we've got some really great angles on the fire
one year later that I think people will really be
interested to hear.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yeah, put that on your calendar.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
That is the seventh on Wednesday at seven pm.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Happy Friday to you, but a lot to the law.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The second of January twenty twenty six, Neil Savadri in
the Morning Crew with you. Happy to be here today.
Rounding out the week. Handle has had the week off.
Yesterday yesterday I reached out, just texted Bill and Lindsay
and just said, you know, happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
You're crazy kids, and he wrote back, I hope you have.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
A marginal marginally pleasing twenty twenty six sounds about right. Yeah, yeah,
it's really heartwarming.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Do you think he's listening? Does he listen to the
show when he's not here?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Mostly no, but he does on occasion so that he
can come back and maybe bask you. Here's the thing
a lot of people don't think about this. Handle doesn't
like other radio shows because of one that no one
can do that the type of show that Handle likes,
because Handle likes listening to Handle.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I was gonna say his show the only one he likes.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yes, because if you're not him talking about him, then
he's bored. So he he listens for a couple of
minutes and goes, this is boring because it's not him.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Understood.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Yeah, okay, very.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Simple recipe for success with Bill. B Bill love Bill.
Say good things about Bill and you're fine. Oh, I
tell him. That's why I think he hates Trump so much.
They're pretty much the same person. What about me? All right?
Back to what here we go? Handle on the news,
it's got his name right.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
He can even be.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Neil on the News which to be honest, ring with
Heather Brooker.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
All Right, Zoran Mundani was officially sworn in in a
ceremony this week and as mayor of New York, and
he gave his inaugural address in front of thousands of
New Yorkers, including Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortes.
So he is making a lot of history here. He's
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the thirty four year old Democratic socialist. He is the
first Muslim and South Asian person to serve as mayor,
the first to use the Qur'an and his swearing in,
and the youngest mayor in over a century. Some promises
he made was to deliver an agenda of safety, affordability,
and abundance. And he says, he continued, he will continue
(22:42):
to rule or rule or maybe that's not the best
word govern as a democratic socialist. And he yeah, that's
what he's planning to do. He's not going to lose
his principles as mayor. That's what he says.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Cats danned his politics way, shape or form. But boy,
is he and his wife a good looking couple. They
are Wow, They're just they you know, And I'm sure
they're lovely people. I just socialism, as pretty as it
looks on paper, has one place, in one place only
in life, and that is at your home. I am
(23:17):
a socialist at home, and I think that's where it's
it's all for everybody at home, we all do it
and put it into the pot. But outside of the
intimacy of your home, it just doesn't work. Man, Somebody,
somebody's got to do the heavy lifting. And uh, it's
(23:38):
just not how it works. But it's pretty. I mean,
I love, I'd love we have a barter system. I
love I could just get a pelt.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I'm curious to see how we have one, Like just
socialist city in a country that is very capitalist, you know, Like,
how does that work with where one city is focusing
on socialism in a country that does not.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Really, Yeah, it's just to me, it's it's the capitalism
is not perfect by any stretch, but it's the best
of all the options. It just is you get every
individual the opportunity, and that's all I expect. Just allow
me opportunity. And for those that aren't getting those opportunities,
we have to focus and make sure they at least
(24:18):
have the openness to them. And then we're all good.
But socialism that you know, what's the old saying. The
socialism is great until you run out of other people's money.
And that's somebody's got to be making the money to
make it work. And what's the incentive if everybody's going
to take it? Only family? That's why it works at
home on a small, small scale. All right, this is
(24:40):
a weird sexual harassment You see Will Smith's name being
sued over allegations he retaliated against a violent violinist who
reported sexual harassment. You go, what, but that is an
odd headline. Basically, you have this violin who was on
(25:01):
tour with Will Smith. You know, his career has kind
of tanked after he assaulted Chris Rock on stage at
the Oscars, and so he went on tour. You know,
you got to make dad, I gotta make money, went
on tour doing his music there and he got a complaint.
Brian King Joseph, who was the violinist, said that he
(25:26):
came back to his room, his hotel room, and there
was like HIV medicine with somebody's name on it they
didn't know, and there was like somebody had obviously been
in his room and he went to the management and said, Hey,
somebody's been in my room. Somebody's been eating my porridge
and all this stuff. And apparently he said that he
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was fearful that someone was you know, there was a
note said Brian, I'll be back later like and he
felt like he was going to be sexually assaulted because
there was a note. That's and it's just an odds
and he was fired and has.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
He raised concerns to the management.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
That's what he says.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That's his that's his accusation. But it's an odd story all.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
The way, very strange. Yeah, all right, about three hundred
and twenty five thousand Californians will now need new real IDs.
Apparently there was a software error with the California DMV
and now about one point five percent of the people
in California holding these real IDs will need to get
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new ones. They're not It doesn't it's not super clear
what it says that the actual problem was. It just
says we reviewed our records and identified legacy system issue
from two thousand and six and are notifying impacted customers
with guidance on how to maintain a California issued credential.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
I want a new one, right, Yeah, I want a
new one.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Well, they also want to be clear that the federal
system had verified the lawful presence of the people who
you know, received these errored IDs, and that no one
who was undocumented got one.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
So during COVID and they were like, you got to
get your idea, you got to get it. My you know,
my son was just a we one. My wife's working,
and I got to go in and do it. Keep
in mind, the.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Early, uh, the very start of COVID.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I was supposed to be coming back to work from
my kidney transplant, and I you know, they're like, no,
you stay home because you've got a compromised immune system
all the stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So I went from you know, three months or whatever
of already being on home home stay for my kidney
right into COVID. So I was three months ahead of
everybody else for being quarantined.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And I had to go at some point take my
young son with me, who was just like at that
wandering age and I'm trying to at the DMV and
it's all on lockdown. I looked, listen, I had a
very small window of attractiveness around eighteen to twenty, and
I you know, I'm not telling anybody that I'm going
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to take the best picture anyways, but it is. It
is just a horrible picture now that is staying with
me forever. So I would be happy. I hope i'd
get one of the ones that was tainted around two
thousand and six. Yeah, I hope that maybe they'll go, hey,
let's redo this. Oh well, all right, twenty twenty six
is it going to be the year of that four
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day work week that we've heard so much about. Some
countries and areas already do this, but they're saying because
of AI and the rapid development in twenty twenty five,
that this has accelerated these feelings of anxiety about the future,
and people are worrying about shrinking entry level opportunities, rising
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electricity because you know, these these data farms, these that
they use. It takes so much for AI. I mean,
it takes a lot for the Internet.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
People are like, oh, this person flew a plot private
plane to wherever. I'm like, dude, when you looked up,
did fish ever have hair? And uh, you know, is
there really thing is the furry bass or whatever? These
are all cryptos zoological preferences anyways, if you look that up,
(29:33):
you're spending a butt ton of energy on stupidity. But
they're saying that these things might just push some of
these new type weeks, these four day work weeks, and
I'm like, hey, it depends on what you're doing in
that time, not how much time you have.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
What is your goal? What do you need to do?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Here in the United States, we have gone way out
of balance when it comes to work and home.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Oh yeah, just like we were talking about earlier. We
work too much and I need to reset that in
my own personal life. Man, I feel like we already
did this, but we're getting rid of plastic bags in California.
Is this de ja vous? Am I crazy?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
No, We've done.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
We go back and forth because it's if we were
trying to save the trees when we went to plastic,
and now we're trying to save the planet because plastic
is we just throw them all over the place.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
They end up in the gutter, and.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
They're horse in the ocean.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Cinebil ten fifty three now prohibits retailers from providing plastic
bags to customers at checkout. Shoppers who do not bring
their own reusual bag can purchase one for ten cent
feet Now here's the deal. I live in the Glendale,
and I remember years ago, like maybe seven eight years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Did you call it the Glendale Glendale? Okay people who know?
Speaker 3 (30:56):
No, they did this whole plastic bag doing this anymore thing.
Everybody's going to be using reusable, but you can buy
one for ten cents everywhere, and it was so annoying.
It was like, oh, what we have to pay? All right,
that's fine, ten cents whatever, because I would forget my bag.
Everywhere now in Glendale has plastic bags, and I'm like,
(31:17):
I thought these were not supposed to have these anymore,
And here we are years later, every store has plastic bags.
What are they doing?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
What they did was they switched to thicker bags. Yes,
they're much thicker. The thought was people will wash them
and reuse them, and they didn't, and so we wasted more.
Because we're emotional. Nobody's rational about these things, saramony.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
But also it feels like no one is enforcing it.
Why is why are these big box stores allowed to
still have these giant plastic bags?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
They well, the big the big box stores, don't. I mean,
you go to Costco and you grab them all Target
and Walmart, and but I think next maybe twenty twenty seven,
they're gonna you're they're gonna mandate us all become marsupials
and they're just like, no, you just have to have
a pouch flapping on you in your belly, and yeah,
you just have to.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Sorry, but we shall see.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I just got really heated there. I'm sorry. I didn't
mean to know, abe get angry. I'm just so mad
about the bag.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, as well, you should be KFIM six forty live
everywhere on.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
The iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Good morning, Happy Friday to you Neil Svader in the
Morning Crew. Handle will be back on Monday and I
get to take.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
The week off. Good for you.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah, although I do miss the crotchety old bastard, I'll
be honest. I you know, I enjoy messing with him
and us causing havoc on and off the air.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
So when you're not here, then Amy just has or
whoever's in the news that just does the news by themselves. Yeah,
because when you weren't here last week, it was it
was just me and Bill I did all the news stories.
I was like, hey, buddy, you can't chuck oh he does.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
You're back and forth.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
No, it's just the news person just reads all the stories.
I'm like, hey, buddy, can you chime in here?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Hey you have a little something little for the effort.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
So Amy, you'll be doing double duty next week.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Uh yeah, it does.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Uh that's why I do my best to be around
as not to I always feel guilty. I don't want
anybody else with that pick up the my scraps there.
Hey do you think things.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Are open today?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, back to normal. I know they're picking up it's
trash day. I get really excited about trash day. I
break down boxes, you know, That's what I do. That's
my man job. I break down the boxes.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
That's my husband's job too. We have a whole pile
on my yeez. Address the boxes.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, hello boxes, and then I'm done, all right. I
was just wondering, like, uh, you know what sounds fun
today is like going to like antique or or I
hate call them junk stores. Just what they are, store
with stuff. I think that sound fun. It does some fun,
But where where do you go?
Speaker 4 (34:01):
I know there's a bunch of seamy.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Valley's great. Also, Laverne has great stuff. There's a few
good ones here in Burbank, no joke. Oh no, yeah,
there's really great ones. There's one that is clothing and
some some you know stuff all from from movies.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Yeah, I've seen the hat the hat store, that's all
stuff that was used to They have great.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Stuff also, Long the Long Beach antique mall just popped
up on my feed and I'm like, I want to
go check that out.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
There was a spot in antique spot in Burbank, and
my kid is a huge history buff. He got my
kid like really nerded out because he got to hold
a bullet from the Civil War.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Oh that is cool.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
And apparently only one company made all the bullets, so
they couldn't figure out which side the bullet was shot from,
so it was there was a real cool little bit
of history there.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
My kid had a great time nerding out there. Wow,
that is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah. I just love that stuff too. Yeah, that's all
really cool. I'm fascinated by it all. All Right, back
to the news, shall we go. We've heard about this
a little bit. Santa Monica. They have a charging site
there for the WAIM, the robotaxis, and people are pissed
off because they talk.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
To each other.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
The vehicles honk to talk to each other, and while
they're parking and things like that, they're finding their way
back into I don't know if you have one of
those robotic mops or vacuums at home, but we have one.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
I call it.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I tell my son it's his brother. But I don't
know why, but it gives me anxiety. It just it's
always underfoot. And then they kind of beep and talk
to the base and then they go back to the bait.
They find the base and it's like now going to
the base and well the cars do that and people
(35:56):
and it's under like an apartment area or something.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Thing so annoying.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
And so the city of Santa Monica is asking a
judge declare the two way moot charging stations a public
nuisance in order that overnight operations be curtailed because of
the effects of all this noise and lighting, you know,
going back and forth. And they're using terms like mini
Las Vegas, living next door to a spaceship, a circus,
(36:23):
a city that never sleeps. And I hope they figure
something out because that is there's got to be a
way to do it in an industrial area or do
something where you're not underneath people because they made the
decision to make that lease before that stuff was there,
and then now they have this you know, the sound
(36:43):
and the crazy wemos.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Yeah, health subsidies are going to expire or have expired.
Rather that means millions of Americans are now facing steep
health insurance hikes. The entense tax credits that have helped
reduce the cost of health insurance for the Affordable Care
Act enrollees they expired this week, and that means more
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money for health insurance.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Measles are back. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Over two thousand measle cases have been reported in the
US in twenty twenty five. So you've got this ongoing
outbreak and really what we're trying to do is eliminate
these things.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
And so now.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
You've got a larger anti vax group, which to me,
I still don't see the logic in Yes, in any
mass system of any kind, there are going to be
of those that don't take well to it.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
And I get that.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
And if it was my kid, yeah, I or my family, yeah,
I'd be pissed off. But you've got these cases popping
up in things that we had a nice grip upon
are starting to come back. So they keep popping up up,
and the federal data is showing that higher annual totals
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than the country has seen in decades that we're dealing with.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I will never frustrators stand. I tried to understand the
perspective of people who don't want to get vaccinations, but
I just I don't.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
So your daughter's twelve, right, So so five years.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Ago or more now, when the COVID vaccine came out,
was there any hesitation?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Not at all? Okay, because I believe in science. I
believe in research, and we did a lot of reading
and research before we did it, and we felt comfortable
doing it, and there wasn't Hi, guys, come on in.
The engineers are here. Hi, are we in? Is something broken? No,
they're just coming to check on me. We we did
(38:50):
a lot of research and decided it was the best
decision for our family, you know, and we.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Did this exact same thing.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Yeah, but I know it is when you're you know,
Max is even much younger, he's nine, your daughter's twelve,
and it you Yeah, science is wonderful, but science is observational.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
And there's.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
A tholidamide was used by science at one point too,
So it's there. You know, there are things that we
have to we have to still make decisions as parents, right,
But I, like you, felt this is the best decision,
and we have to we have to rely on those
that investigate and study these things on our behalf. Every
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time you go to a doctor of any kind, you're
doing that, and so you just have to.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I mean, we also come from a family where science
is a big importance. My father in law is a researcher.
He has been studying gene cloning and all kinds of
all kinds of research to help cure cancer, certain types
of cancer. He has been a scientist, a research scientist
for many many years at a university. So and hitting
(40:04):
my sister in law same thing, scientists who's into research.
So we you know, may have a different perspective than
a lot of people, but we certainly did. I'm not
somebody who does things on a whim. We read about it,
re researched, yeah, and we felt like it was the
best decision at the time for our family versus the alternative,
which was to be unvaccinated and unprotected in any way.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
You know, I've not gotten it, have you? Gotten it.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
I have. I even had a booster.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
No, I don't mean about the shot. Have you had COVID?
Oh yeah, I've had boosters and all that time.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Oh yeah, I was like, oh, yeah, I have it.
You've never been vaccinated.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Oh of course I have a category, you know, with
a kidney transplant and suppressed the music. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
I I think I had it early on during COVID
during the first few months. I think I got it
early on, but I was never I've never had a
positive COVID test.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
If I had it, it would have been before it
hit Yeah, because they they're was something that hit me
before in twenty nineteen, November of twenty nineteen, before I
got my surgery, kidney surgery, and they almost didn't give
me the surgery.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Because it knocked you out so bad.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Well, because I had this weird cough that lingered. Oh
and that's the only time. But other than that, my
son's had it. I believe my wife's had it, or
maybe Tracy hasn't had it, but my son has had it,
and most of my family has had it.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
But I haven't gotten it. Okay, that's good. Yeah, I
take it.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
I don't knock on for then you don't.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Alrighty, that's a little bit of the news for you.
We come back. We got much more to get into.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
There's some California new laws for twenty twenty six that
might affect you, and we'll get into those and more,
and maybe I'll open up the phones later.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
I don't feel like talking to people.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Live, yeah, live radio like live live, live, dead radio.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Coming to you dead on KFI? All right, this kfi?
What is our kfi? Los Angeles? Heard every going I
Heart Radio. Bye.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
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Speaker 2 (42:05):
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Ladies and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good morning kf I AM six forty live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Neil Savader in the morning crew. What
it's all modified this morning? I think, right, are we?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah? You're the only one.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Wow, I'm like, the only original band member. Well, we've
got Heather Brooker in for Amy, we got math Matt
in four, and we have Sam.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
In for KNO.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And who's doing uh, Treys Beck Trey Alexander. That's easy
for me to say, is back doing the traffic, which
I'm assuming is pretty light this morning. Tray, Hello, it's
in the bathroom. Sorry that happens. Oh, he can run in.
He's probably he told me earlier. It's been very lied.
(01:12):
He's like, there's not much going on today. And I'm like, well,
that's a good problem I have. We love it.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Everybody's cozy and bad. Nobody's listening.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I don't want to love holiday roads and La Day Road. Yeah,
holiday traffic in La is the best.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, this is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
How long to take you to get here?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You can cuss if you want. Nobody's listening this morning.
Everybody's cozy and they're bad. Say a dirty word, you
do it, you first, poopoo pants, dooty butt, you go first.
You have less chance of getting canned than me. Oh no, hey,
it's only been luck at this point thirty years.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm like good in radio, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I've dropped the F bomb twice, really yeah, and the
S bomb once. But in my defense, uh, the first
time I ever did it, I was being shocked with
a tasers on the air, what one hundred and twenty
thousand volts or whatever going through my systems.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
W u KRP in Cincinnati is going on.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh, some some inmate or something was complaining that he
was tased, and I told him to sit down and
shut up because it was listen, you're there for a reason.
You brought this on yourself. And my partner at the time,
Tim Kelly, was like, oh, yeah, how.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Would you take a taser? I'll get tased And I
didn't even do anything. So I did.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But yeah, another another host, that's what was her name,
another host, female host on the weekends, went to do it,
and she just kind of tapped me with it and
then she's like, I can't do this, and he looked
like he was making a fist. I'm like, damn right,
I'm making a fist. Then I'm going to hit you.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I'm going to want to.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And then security came up to do it and they said,
now you're doing it right. You gots take it right
in here, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And then you swore a little bit.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, but I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I said, hey, look I didn't swear, and everybody was white.
All the blood had dropped from their face, and I'm like, really, well,
it happens, come on.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Little cousin every now and then.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And then someone was being mean to a producer or
something one time.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh yeah, it's not okay, No.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Treat people good.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I like you coming to the defense of the producers
like that. Yeah, I that's profanity.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, I don't like that. You don't take yourself too seriously. Yeah,
for I'm super honored to do this job. It's a
huge deal for people to let us into their cars,
their lives, their homes and all that stuff. But I
don't take myself seriously. And you know, you don't need
to treat people poorly in life.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That's right, preach, preach.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So we got through the first day of twenty twenty
six field pretty good about it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, we nailed it.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Pretty good about it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I have some thoughts on things that I want to do.
I don't have any resolutions, what say you, Heather Brooker?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You know I have some goals, you know, I resolutions,
you know, whatever you want to call them. My goals
are to do more things that give back to the community.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I heard that. I think that's really neat. I would
like about that. The other day yesterday, I think.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, I would like to do that more. I feel
like I get so caught up. Like you were talking
yesterday about being a workhorse. That's me. Like, I'm I'm
only part time here at KFI, but I will work
fifty hours a week if they let me because I
enjoy work. I'm a work person.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I see that in you. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I enjoy being busy. And there's stuff I do outside
of here that I don't put down on my timesheet
that I do I probably should put it down, but
I'm always working. I like to be busy.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I'm that that was that person too. Yeah, I've done that.
So it's hard to tell people not to, but yeah
you should.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, I know I should.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
So I'm like, I want to focus more on trying
to redirect some of that energy into helping other people
and maybe not so much work because I'm you know,
I'm just trying to find a balance. I think that's
the struggle.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Charity is great, and you know what, there's a lot
to do, even you with your skills in theater and acting.
You know, there's young people that need mentors and leadership
in those things too. People always think of charity as
having to dump out money, but I'm right, and I do,
I do.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I have. My rule is local.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Then you do local, state, national, and international. Yeah, so
you find and you give a little bit to wherever. Yeah,
something a little like that. And then for the arts,
I'm really big on self help graphics and East LA
place like that where you can give money to or
donate stuff. If you you know, any equipment that I
(06:01):
have for making a you can donate that to, you know,
art places that teach art. You can also send your
tech stuff to STEM programs, which I'm a big fan
of and things like that.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You know what's funny is I don't know if this
is how other communities are other cities or maybe this
is just a Los Angeles problem, but it is incredibly
hard to volunteer in some places because so many people
want to do it. I remember wanting to. My daughter
asked me a few years ago about volunteering and an
animal shelter because she loves animals. Sure, and I went
(06:41):
to look and see where I could do that and
sign up. And I was looking at the Bourbank Animal Shelter.
There was like a six month waiting list to volunteer there,
and I was like what So I was like, I'll
look somewhere else. Let me see passading it the same thing,
and like maybe it's just animals focused, but they're also
I looked at the Downtown Women's Shelter and like other places.
Oh really, Yeah, there's a waiting list in a lot
(07:01):
of these places to volunteer. And I'm like, you know
where that's a good problem to have. Good on La.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You gotta go to the crappy one everyone wants to
deal with. Where are the charity nobody washing us? It's like, uh, yeah,
there's a yeah, I can imagine there's a lot of
people that are our givers and kind and also.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
It's a great problem to have in our city. Like
what an abundance of people who want to help, you know,
but it's also annoying. It's like I want to be
good too. Yeah, come on, come on, I wanna. I
want to help.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
You're stealing all your goodness?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Right, all right, let's get to some of the news.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Handle on the news, uh lead story. I do like
the rain. I'm not only happy when it rains, but
I do like the rain. In New Year's Day, we
had that nice, steady downpour.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I'll be honest.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I took a longer nap than normal, I because I
was up after midnight with my family and then came
and did the show. So a lot of yesterday was
h Yeah, turning off the alarm because I said an
alarm when I napped.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Do you sleep with white noise? You have a fan
or anything? Alms?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I do when I sleep at night, A mild one.
But I don't do that. I when I nap, I
don't do certain things that I do when I sleep,
Like I don't pull the curtains shot when I nap,
I don't do I don't get under the covers when
I nap.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I want my body to know. It's different than normal sleep.
All right, So I go full sleep and I'm like
covering the eyes everything in your Yes, wow, no bra there. Well,
I don't tend to wear a bra when I'm sleeping either.
I probably should, let's be honest, a little floppy.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So we had this kind of rare January rainsterom and
it's not over. I mean, it's gonna be very little today,
I think from what I've seen more.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, there's more coming. There's another stormfront that's going to
be coming. I need a double check, but I think
it's supposed to be later tonight and through the next
several days.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to all of that. More changed
some plans.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I was hoping to see my aunt and uncle and
one of my cousins and hang out with my mom
over there, but you know, outdoors doing a barbecue.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But I don't know. Someone said, hey, southern California, look
at this wood stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah. Ended up being a nice day yesterday, though.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
It's beautiful, all right. One more one more.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
President Trump says he the US is locked and loaded
if Iran starts killing protesters. There's a lot going on
over there right now. Demonstrations are happening among business owners
and university students. They are protesting soaring prices and collapsing currency,
and reports have been coming out that one protester was killed,
(09:55):
and President Trump posted if Iran violently kills peaceful protesters,
which is their custom, the US of America will come
to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready
to go.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Law and nobody harasses protesters but me, baby, alright, you
know I didn't think about that. That's literally a song, right,
don't rain on my parade? And then you know, yesterday
no one listened to the song. KFI AM six forty
heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good Friday morning. Look
(10:35):
at this Friday, second day of the new year. I
think we're doing great. Twenty twenty six is gonna be awesome.
I mean, we're already day two and I think we're
kicking some boutet So Neil Savadra and the Morning Crew
although it's modified, got Sam on the board, Kno's taking
the day off, and Ann's out, but we got Matthew
and Amy's out.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
But we have Heather Brooker. That's uh, missus Brooker.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
If you're nasty, and we have Trey Alexander in for
will everybody's left me.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
That's all right.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Alone, We'll standing alone.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I like to look at it as everybody here showed
up for ah, thanks Pal, thanks Like last week I
showed up when I wasn't one. I'm telling you, yeah,
we're here. We support each other. It's a mutual support society.
A little inside baseball. Last Friday, there was a change
of plans, but I hadn't changed it on my calendar,
(11:35):
so I assumed I was on. So I came in
on a day when I wasn't supposed to be here,
and then I just sat and talked with Sam and
Heather for a little while and then went home.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I wasn't gonna say anything. I wasn't going to out
you for coming in, but I was like, oh nice.
I'm like, should I get Should we get some stories
together and just do it and prompt to do a
show impromptu show?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
No, I'll just get caught up with you folks, then
go back on my merry way. But we are going
back to the news. I'm like, super duper appreciative. I'm
like in that state of gratefulness right now. You know,
do you ever just do that? I know you do
this either because I can hear it when you're with them,
(12:17):
but when you just look at your family. And I'm
not a big climb the ladder guy. I'm very appreciative
of where I am at any point in time. And
just looked around yesterday and remember what a cute little
house we have and what a cute little family. And
I can go tinker in my shop and my son's
(12:38):
messing around and joking around, my wife's messing around, joking around.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I'm like, you know what, it's good hashtag blessed?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, or bleased? I like that the best you ever
go through.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And the people misspell it, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
That's those are the ones that I The misspelled hashtags
are my favorite.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
That's a deep dive.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I feel that way mostly when the tree is up
and there's music playing and we're all just kind of
hanging out and talking. Like on New Year's Eve, my
husband got my daughter a game called Grab the Mic
for Christmas, So on New Year's Eve we sat around
and played that.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
And what is what is grab the mic?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Grab the mic is there's like a little microphone that
comes with it, and it's you're giving a word. There's cards,
you flip over, and there's a word, and whoever sings
a song lyric with that word in it first moves
their points or moves their token or whatever across the
board according to how many points. So like, if the
(13:36):
word is uh, and sometimes it's hard. If the word
is love, that's easy to do. You grab whoever grabs
the mic first sings their lyrics with the word love
in it, or sometimes the word will be like have
or ben.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
That's like an old improv game kind of Yeah. I
used to do that with a buddy of mine who's
a who's a comic, and we would on the way
to his shows. We do like album names or something,
and you could only have a conversation using album names
or things like that.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, that's fun. I love I love games. Game night
to me is a it's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
We love games too. We play. We play a lot
of games. Did you ever play Big Booty when you
did improv?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I remember that, you remember Big Booty? Yeah? I remember
what's big Booty?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Big Big Booty is. It's like a rhyming game where
you go everybody gets a number in the circle and
the number kind of gets tossed around across the room.
So you go, uh, a big booty, big booty, number one,
number one, number seven, number seven, number nine, number nine,
(14:41):
number twelve, number eight, number whatever, and you have to
toss to the number that your whatever your number is,
and you kind of toss the booty around. Everyone listening
right now is like, is this a drinking game?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Because it should be.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It should be, yeah, And then what what happens when you.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It just gets faster and fast and faster, and then
whoever loses, I guess gets out of the circle. And
you know, it's been a minute since I've played it.
But we did a lot of fun improv games. I
was at the Groundlings and UCB and where did you
do improv?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I was at Second City, Second to Second City. Yeah,
I really enjoyed it. I did it going into knowing
that not just.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Obviously it's great for radio, but I was doing it
because I'm a marriage and family therapist and I was
trying to get comfortable in being in one on one
situations with people. So I took an improv class and
it helped, and they taught you big booty to help
with that. That was one of the exercises that they did.
It's just learning how to with eye contact communicate directly
(15:44):
to the person you're trying to pass the ball to.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So now Sam is like, They're like, well, and then
this happened when I was thirteen, and goes yes and.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, exactly, exactly yes, And as a therapist, is exactly
the way you were.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Yeah, you kind of do. And how did that make
you feel?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
My wife's a therapist and I always say, don't put
me on the couch, and she says, don't do creepy
Jesus voice.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well or even already back of the news, shall we go?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Rain?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yes, rain is here, steady rain pounded Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena,
of course as the one hundred and thirty seventh Rose Parade.
We watched it here yesterday and we're humored by the
Grand Marshall Magic Johnson himself that you saw basically a
silhouette most of the time because they had the top
(16:34):
up on the convertible. He did reach out at some
point and wave his hand. Yeah, but that's crap.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Do they pay those folks?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
They do? I believe they do get paid. I think
he did. I think he was out of the car
at the beginning of the parade. My husband says, he
goes no. I saw him at the very top of
the parade when he was like, you know, tossing or
opening it whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I was like, oh, okay, because there was time when
they were doing a stand up or something before. But
once he got in the parade itself, it.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Was also a really small convert, Like he's a tall guy.
I don't know how he fit in there.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
His feet are in the engine compartment. They don't tell
you that. It's like a flintstone car. He's powering it
by his own self, all right.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
More Trump news. He is telling the Wall Street Journal
in an interview that he's not following his doctor's recommendations
because he's taking a higher dose of aspirin than what
they're recommending, because he says, well, aspirin is good for
thinning out the blood, and I don't want thick blood
(17:43):
pouring through my heart, so I want nice, thin blood
pouring through my heart. So he's taking a higher dose
of aspirin, blaming or than his doctors are recommended.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's what cracks me up is that thought that, hey,
if it's good, then more is better, right, right, Yeah,
I don't know that that's the case, but I saw
this yesterday and maybe you did too. Going back to
the Rose Parade that there was a float.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That came by and they had a banner.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
There's most of the time, there's no controversy when it comes.
They do a good job at keeping the Rose Parade. Yeah,
and just an enjoyable time. But it's a local parade,
and there was local news. There was a banner that
said A. G. Bonta Altadena demands an investigation and this
(18:40):
is in reference to the California Attorney General Rob Bonta,
and demanding an investigation is to what caused the eat
and fire. And you know, they did dance around the
banner a little bit with camera work, but it was
seen in most of it. And I you know, I'm
not big on making everything a political platform, but in
(19:06):
this case, this is a very important local issue. It
was mishandled. Somebody needs to come up and lead and say, Okay,
this is where we dropped the ball, but this is
what we're doing a year later.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And considering that it was in Pasadena, Yeah, it's right there. Yeah,
you would think, I honestly thought there would have been
a little more representation or a little more nod to
the fires during the show, but we didn't during the prey,
but we didn't see that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
On that note, a good reminder for you, January seventh,
Next Wednesday, This coming Wednesday, the Los Angeles wildfires. One
year later, look at the news two hour special hosted
by our very own Michael Monks. Please stick around for
that is around. We should be talking to him today.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I don't think so he's off today, of course he is.
I have a special segment in that special as well. Actually,
a lot of the Canfine team contributed to that special,
so we've got some really great angles on the fire
one year later that I think people will really be
interested to hear.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yeah, put that on your calendar.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
That is the seventh on Wednesday at seven pm.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Happy Friday to you, but a lot to the law.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The second of January twenty twenty six, Neil Savadri in
the Morning Crew with you. Happy to be here today.
Rounding out the week. Handle has had the week off.
Yesterday yesterday I reached out, just texted Bill and Lindsay
and just said, you know, happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
You're crazy kids, and he wrote back, I hope you have.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
A marginal marginally pleasing twenty twenty six sounds about right. Yeah, yeah,
it's really heartwarming.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Do you think he's listening? Does he listen to the
show when he's not here?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Mostly no, but he does on occasion so that he
can come back and maybe bask you. Here's the thing
a lot of people don't think about this. Handle doesn't
like other radio shows because of one that no one
can do that the type of show that Handle likes,
because Handle likes listening to Handle.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I was gonna say his show the only one he likes.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yes, because if you're not him talking about him, then
he's bored. So he he listens for a couple of
minutes and goes, this is boring because it's not him.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Understood.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Yeah, okay, very.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Simple recipe for success with Bill. B Bill love Bill.
Say good things about Bill and you're fine. Oh, I
tell him. That's why I think he hates Trump so much.
They're pretty much the same person. What about me? All right?
Back to what here we go? Handle on the news,
it's got his name right.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
He can even be.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Neil on the News which to be honest, ring with
Heather Brooker.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
All Right, Zoran Mundani was officially sworn in in a
ceremony this week and as mayor of New York, and
he gave his inaugural address in front of thousands of
New Yorkers, including Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortes.
So he is making a lot of history here. He's
(22:20):
the thirty four year old Democratic socialist. He is the
first Muslim and South Asian person to serve as mayor,
the first to use the Qur'an and his swearing in,
and the youngest mayor in over a century. Some promises
he made was to deliver an agenda of safety, affordability,
and abundance. And he says, he continued, he will continue
(22:42):
to rule or rule or maybe that's not the best
word govern as a democratic socialist. And he yeah, that's
what he's planning to do. He's not going to lose
his principles as mayor. That's what he says.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Cats danned his politics way, shape or form. But boy,
is he and his wife a good looking couple. They
are Wow, They're just they you know, And I'm sure
they're lovely people. I just socialism, as pretty as it
looks on paper, has one place, in one place only
in life, and that is at your home. I am
(23:17):
a socialist at home, and I think that's where it's
it's all for everybody at home, we all do it
and put it into the pot. But outside of the
intimacy of your home, it just doesn't work. Man, Somebody,
somebody's got to do the heavy lifting. And uh, it's
(23:38):
just not how it works. But it's pretty. I mean,
I love, I'd love we have a barter system. I
love I could just get a pelt.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I'm curious to see how we have one, Like just
socialist city in a country that is very capitalist, you know, Like,
how does that work with where one city is focusing
on socialism in a country that does not.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Really, Yeah, it's just to me, it's it's the capitalism
is not perfect by any stretch, but it's the best
of all the options. It just is you get every
individual the opportunity, and that's all I expect. Just allow
me opportunity. And for those that aren't getting those opportunities,
we have to focus and make sure they at least
(24:18):
have the openness to them. And then we're all good.
But socialism that you know, what's the old saying. The
socialism is great until you run out of other people's money.
And that's somebody's got to be making the money to
make it work. And what's the incentive if everybody's going
to take it? Only family? That's why it works at
home on a small, small scale. All right, this is
(24:40):
a weird sexual harassment You see Will Smith's name being
sued over allegations he retaliated against a violent violinist who
reported sexual harassment. You go, what, but that is an
odd headline. Basically, you have this violin who was on
(25:01):
tour with Will Smith. You know, his career has kind
of tanked after he assaulted Chris Rock on stage at
the Oscars, and so he went on tour. You know,
you got to make dad, I gotta make money, went
on tour doing his music there and he got a complaint.
Brian King Joseph, who was the violinist, said that he
(25:26):
came back to his room, his hotel room, and there
was like HIV medicine with somebody's name on it they
didn't know, and there was like somebody had obviously been
in his room and he went to the management and said, Hey,
somebody's been in my room. Somebody's been eating my porridge
and all this stuff. And apparently he said that he
(25:48):
was fearful that someone was you know, there was a
note said Brian, I'll be back later like and he
felt like he was going to be sexually assaulted because
there was a note. That's and it's just an odds
and he was fired and has.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
He raised concerns to the management.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
That's what he says.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That's his that's his accusation. But it's an odd story all.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
The way, very strange. Yeah, all right, about three hundred
and twenty five thousand Californians will now need new real IDs.
Apparently there was a software error with the California DMV
and now about one point five percent of the people
in California holding these real IDs will need to get
(26:35):
new ones. They're not It doesn't it's not super clear
what it says that the actual problem was. It just
says we reviewed our records and identified legacy system issue
from two thousand and six and are notifying impacted customers
with guidance on how to maintain a California issued credential.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
I want a new one, right, Yeah, I want a
new one.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Well, they also want to be clear that the federal
system had verified the lawful presence of the people who
you know, received these errored IDs, and that no one
who was undocumented got one.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
So during COVID and they were like, you got to
get your idea, you got to get it. My you know,
my son was just a we one. My wife's working,
and I got to go in and do it. Keep
in mind, the.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Early, uh, the very start of COVID.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I was supposed to be coming back to work from
my kidney transplant, and I you know, they're like, no,
you stay home because you've got a compromised immune system
all the stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So I went from you know, three months or whatever
of already being on home home stay for my kidney
right into COVID. So I was three months ahead of
everybody else for being quarantined.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And I had to go at some point take my
young son with me, who was just like at that
wandering age and I'm trying to at the DMV and
it's all on lockdown. I looked, listen, I had a
very small window of attractiveness around eighteen to twenty, and
I you know, I'm not telling anybody that I'm going
(28:15):
to take the best picture anyways, but it is. It
is just a horrible picture now that is staying with
me forever. So I would be happy. I hope i'd
get one of the ones that was tainted around two
thousand and six. Yeah, I hope that maybe they'll go, hey,
let's redo this. Oh well, all right, twenty twenty six
is it going to be the year of that four
(28:36):
day work week that we've heard so much about. Some
countries and areas already do this, but they're saying because
of AI and the rapid development in twenty twenty five,
that this has accelerated these feelings of anxiety about the future,
and people are worrying about shrinking entry level opportunities, rising
(28:59):
electricity because you know, these these data farms, these that
they use. It takes so much for AI. I mean,
it takes a lot for the Internet.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
People are like, oh, this person flew a plot private
plane to wherever. I'm like, dude, when you looked up,
did fish ever have hair? And uh, you know, is
there really thing is the furry bass or whatever? These
are all cryptos zoological preferences anyways, if you look that up,
(29:33):
you're spending a butt ton of energy on stupidity. But
they're saying that these things might just push some of
these new type weeks, these four day work weeks, and
I'm like, hey, it depends on what you're doing in
that time, not how much time you have.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
What is your goal? What do you need to do?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Here in the United States, we have gone way out
of balance when it comes to work and home.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Oh yeah, just like we were talking about earlier. We
work too much and I need to reset that in
my own personal life. Man, I feel like we already
did this, but we're getting rid of plastic bags in California.
Is this de ja vous? Am I crazy?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
No, We've done.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
We go back and forth because it's if we were
trying to save the trees when we went to plastic,
and now we're trying to save the planet because plastic
is we just throw them all over the place.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
They end up in the gutter, and.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
They're horse in the ocean.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Cinebil ten fifty three now prohibits retailers from providing plastic
bags to customers at checkout. Shoppers who do not bring
their own reusual bag can purchase one for ten cent
feet Now here's the deal. I live in the Glendale,
and I remember years ago, like maybe seven eight years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Did you call it the Glendale Glendale? Okay people who know?
Speaker 3 (30:56):
No, they did this whole plastic bag doing this anymore thing.
Everybody's going to be using reusable, but you can buy
one for ten cents everywhere, and it was so annoying.
It was like, oh, what we have to pay? All right,
that's fine, ten cents whatever, because I would forget my bag.
Everywhere now in Glendale has plastic bags, and I'm like,
(31:17):
I thought these were not supposed to have these anymore,
And here we are years later, every store has plastic bags.
What are they doing?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
What they did was they switched to thicker bags. Yes,
they're much thicker. The thought was people will wash them
and reuse them, and they didn't, and so we wasted more.
Because we're emotional. Nobody's rational about these things, saramony.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
But also it feels like no one is enforcing it.
Why is why are these big box stores allowed to
still have these giant plastic bags?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
They well, the big the big box stores, don't. I mean,
you go to Costco and you grab them all Target
and Walmart, and but I think next maybe twenty twenty seven,
they're gonna you're they're gonna mandate us all become marsupials
and they're just like, no, you just have to have
a pouch flapping on you in your belly, and yeah,
you just have to.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Sorry, but we shall see.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I just got really heated there. I'm sorry. I didn't
mean to know, abe get angry. I'm just so mad
about the bag.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, as well, you should be KFIM six forty live
everywhere on.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
The iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Good morning, Happy Friday to you Neil Svader in the
Morning Crew. Handle will be back on Monday and I
get to take.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
The week off. Good for you.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah, although I do miss the crotchety old bastard, I'll
be honest. I you know, I enjoy messing with him
and us causing havoc on and off the air.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
So when you're not here, then Amy just has or
whoever's in the news that just does the news by themselves. Yeah,
because when you weren't here last week, it was it
was just me and Bill I did all the news stories.
I was like, hey, buddy, you can't chuck oh he does.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
You're back and forth.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
No, it's just the news person just reads all the stories.
I'm like, hey, buddy, can you chime in here?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Hey you have a little something little for the effort.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
So Amy, you'll be doing double duty next week.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Uh yeah, it does.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Uh that's why I do my best to be around
as not to I always feel guilty. I don't want
anybody else with that pick up the my scraps there.
Hey do you think things.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Are open today?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, back to normal. I know they're picking up it's
trash day. I get really excited about trash day. I
break down boxes, you know, That's what I do. That's
my man job. I break down the boxes.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
That's my husband's job too. We have a whole pile
on my yeez. Address the boxes.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, hello boxes, and then I'm done, all right. I
was just wondering, like, uh, you know what sounds fun
today is like going to like antique or or I
hate call them junk stores. Just what they are, store
with stuff. I think that sound fun. It does some fun,
But where where do you go?
Speaker 4 (34:01):
I know there's a bunch of seamy.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Valley's great. Also, Laverne has great stuff. There's a few
good ones here in Burbank, no joke. Oh no, yeah,
there's really great ones. There's one that is clothing and
some some you know stuff all from from movies.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Yeah, I've seen the hat the hat store, that's all
stuff that was used to They have great.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Stuff also, Long the Long Beach antique mall just popped
up on my feed and I'm like, I want to
go check that out.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
There was a spot in antique spot in Burbank, and
my kid is a huge history buff. He got my
kid like really nerded out because he got to hold
a bullet from the Civil War.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Oh that is cool.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
And apparently only one company made all the bullets, so
they couldn't figure out which side the bullet was shot from,
so it was there was a real cool little bit
of history there.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
My kid had a great time nerding out there. Wow,
that is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah. I just love that stuff too. Yeah, that's all
really cool. I'm fascinated by it all. All Right, back
to the news, shall we go. We've heard about this
a little bit. Santa Monica. They have a charging site
there for the WAIM, the robotaxis, and people are pissed
off because they talk.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
To each other.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
The vehicles honk to talk to each other, and while
they're parking and things like that, they're finding their way
back into I don't know if you have one of
those robotic mops or vacuums at home, but we have one.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
I call it.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I tell my son it's his brother. But I don't
know why, but it gives me anxiety. It just it's
always underfoot. And then they kind of beep and talk
to the base and then they go back to the bait.
They find the base and it's like now going to
the base and well the cars do that and people
(35:56):
and it's under like an apartment area or something.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Thing so annoying.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
And so the city of Santa Monica is asking a
judge declare the two way moot charging stations a public
nuisance in order that overnight operations be curtailed because of
the effects of all this noise and lighting, you know,
going back and forth. And they're using terms like mini
Las Vegas, living next door to a spaceship, a circus,
(36:23):
a city that never sleeps. And I hope they figure
something out because that is there's got to be a
way to do it in an industrial area or do
something where you're not underneath people because they made the
decision to make that lease before that stuff was there,
and then now they have this you know, the sound
(36:43):
and the crazy wemos.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Yeah, health subsidies are going to expire or have expired.
Rather that means millions of Americans are now facing steep
health insurance hikes. The entense tax credits that have helped
reduce the cost of health insurance for the Affordable Care
Act enrollees they expired this week, and that means more
(37:07):
money for health insurance.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Measles are back. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Over two thousand measle cases have been reported in the
US in twenty twenty five. So you've got this ongoing
outbreak and really what we're trying to do is eliminate
these things.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
And so now.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
You've got a larger anti vax group, which to me,
I still don't see the logic in Yes, in any
mass system of any kind, there are going to be
of those that don't take well to it.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
And I get that.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
And if it was my kid, yeah, I or my family, yeah,
I'd be pissed off. But you've got these cases popping
up in things that we had a nice grip upon
are starting to come back. So they keep popping up up,
and the federal data is showing that higher annual totals
(38:04):
than the country has seen in decades that we're dealing with.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I will never frustrators stand. I tried to understand the
perspective of people who don't want to get vaccinations, but
I just I don't.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
So your daughter's twelve, right, So so five years.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Ago or more now, when the COVID vaccine came out,
was there any hesitation?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Not at all? Okay, because I believe in science. I
believe in research, and we did a lot of reading
and research before we did it, and we felt comfortable
doing it, and there wasn't Hi, guys, come on in.
The engineers are here. Hi, are we in? Is something broken? No,
they're just coming to check on me. We we did
(38:50):
a lot of research and decided it was the best
decision for our family, you know, and we.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Did this exact same thing.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Yeah, but I know it is when you're you know,
Max is even much younger, he's nine, your daughter's twelve,
and it you Yeah, science is wonderful, but science is observational.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
And there's.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
A tholidamide was used by science at one point too,
So it's there. You know, there are things that we
have to we have to still make decisions as parents, right,
But I, like you, felt this is the best decision,
and we have to we have to rely on those
that investigate and study these things on our behalf. Every
(39:35):
time you go to a doctor of any kind, you're
doing that, and so you just have to.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I mean, we also come from a family where science
is a big importance. My father in law is a researcher.
He has been studying gene cloning and all kinds of
all kinds of research to help cure cancer, certain types
of cancer. He has been a scientist, a research scientist
for many many years at a university. So and hitting
(40:04):
my sister in law same thing, scientists who's into research.
So we you know, may have a different perspective than
a lot of people, but we certainly did. I'm not
somebody who does things on a whim. We read about it,
re researched, yeah, and we felt like it was the
best decision at the time for our family versus the alternative,
which was to be unvaccinated and unprotected in any way.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
You know, I've not gotten it, have you? Gotten it.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
I have. I even had a booster.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
No, I don't mean about the shot. Have you had COVID?
Oh yeah, I've had boosters and all that time.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Oh yeah, I was like, oh, yeah, I have it.
You've never been vaccinated.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Oh of course I have a category, you know, with
a kidney transplant and suppressed the music. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
I I think I had it early on during COVID
during the first few months. I think I got it
early on, but I was never I've never had a
positive COVID test.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
If I had it, it would have been before it
hit Yeah, because they they're was something that hit me
before in twenty nineteen, November of twenty nineteen, before I
got my surgery, kidney surgery, and they almost didn't give
me the surgery.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Because it knocked you out so bad.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Well, because I had this weird cough that lingered. Oh
and that's the only time. But other than that, my
son's had it. I believe my wife's had it, or
maybe Tracy hasn't had it, but my son has had it,
and most of my family has had it.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
But I haven't gotten it. Okay, that's good. Yeah, I
take it.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
I don't knock on for then you don't.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Alrighty, that's a little bit of the news for you.
We come back. We got much more to get into.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
There's some California new laws for twenty twenty six that
might affect you, and we'll get into those and more,
and maybe I'll open up the phones later.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
I don't feel like talking to people.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Live, yeah, live radio like live live, live, dead radio.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Coming to you dead on KFI? All right, this kfi?
What is our kfi? Los Angeles? Heard every going I
Heart Radio. Bye.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
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