January 5, 2026 • 32 mins
(January 05, 2026)
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. Nicolas Maduro to appear in New York courtroom. Delcy Rodriguez offers to work with US as Venezuela’s interim president. Denmark prime minister calls on Trump to ‘stop the threats’ about Greenland. US says Ukraine didn’t target Putin residence with drones, as Kremlin claims.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
App and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill handle King.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Good morning everybody. Oh yeah, we started again Monday morning,
January the fifth new year is here, and you know
Donald Trump said, you know we're not going to start
a boring new year, are we? Oh man, what a
weekend it has been. And we'll talk more about that
a whole lot more about that in the meantime. Today
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January fifth, three hundred and sixty or fifty one days
till Christmas, so shopping days. We're right here, and let
me see who's there. I know Neil is not there
today as I can't see him. He's gone on all
this week. But at anytime, everybody else is Amy, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Hi. I didn't know Neil wasn't going to be here.
That you for me right now?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, it does. I didn't know that either. And by
the way, Anne who the announcement because I actually slept,
which I couldn't believe this past week that I did
absolutely nothing, just stayed at home and just vegged out.
And so when the show starts and I'm not there.
(01:30):
Do they say it's handled on the news with and
then my name is not mentioned? Or how is that introduced?
I wasn't here.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I don't know Cono.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay, does anybody know Cono.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Is not Bill Handle?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And then it goes into oh does it say that?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh okay, good because I don't think any of us
knew that, because I don't think anybody listens when they're
not around, which goes to show you what big fans
we are of our own show.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Good Morning.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's true. Actually that one day I actually swept till
seven thirty, which I have not done in probably twenty
five years, and it was I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Usually up at three thirty, even on vacation.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Even on vacation. Yeah, I'm just up and running around
and watching CNN or reading a book. I just finished
Kamala Harris's new book. Wow, what a piece of crap
that is?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Can I borrow?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, I want to because I don't want to buy it.
You don't want to buy it, but I wouldn't want
to read it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You don't want to buy it. It's very self serving,
although it's kind of fun because it gives a lot
of inside stuff inside baseball. That's what makes it kind
of interesting. But no, it's aren't I great? Or I bitch?
And I shouldn't I have one? Yes? And so I said,
hello Ann Cono.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You didn't say me.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Actually, okay, Hello Anne. Oh we've been talking all morning.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
So we're all by the way vacation. They send us
like every other day, who's on vacation and what's the
schedule going to be like? And who's up and who's not.
So there's no excuse for not knowing here this week.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, and except that we were on vacation, so we
weren't reading emails.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Any emails.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
No, okay, it was vacation.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
No, I understand, said, don't be shocked, but you don't
know what's going on?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
There you go, well, said Michelle usually punches those out,
and she's pretty good about that. But no one reads.
I don't think. I don't even think I have a
an email address or an address that KFI. I just
you know, don't pay attention to it. And then no, Will,
good morning, Will, Will Coleschreiber, who I can't hear, who
(03:35):
clearly doesn't have his microphone on? Who is there? Now
I can I thought you were doing an impression of
Helen Keller. I'm going to go that's not bad. You know,
it could it could have been worse, like me. No,
in any case, Oh, we've got so much talk about. Obviously,
the big, big, big story is what happened on Friday
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night Saturday morning when American forces went in to Venezuela
and picked up a Nicholas Maduro. And oh my god,
what the response has been and the reaction and where
President Trump is going. I tell you, there will never
be another president like President Trump ever again, never has been,
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never will be. We're watching history in the making in
terms of a presidency. And with that, let's go ahead
and start a handle on the news on this Monday morning,
January fifth, Amy O'Neil and me Lea Storry. This morning,
just a couple hours ago, maybe an hour and a
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half ago, or maybe an hour ago, the former president
of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, was taken from a facility in
New York a detention center, and then brought over to
I think the Metropolitan Detention Center where he is going
to be a rained on all kinds of federal charges.
(05:01):
Was going to talk about a little bit later on.
He was kidnapped. It's that simple. American forces went in
in a massive military move and I attack. Yeah, you
can call it that. But special forces went in, backed
up by one hundred and fifty aircraft from twenty bases,
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came in with a massive show of force and grabbed
him straight out, grabbed him. It was just an insanely precise,
complicated military maneuver. And everybody, those pro and con are saying, wow,
look what the military did. Of course, the geopolitical, the financial,
the security aspects of this are way way up in
(05:48):
the air. We'll be talking more about that at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Let's work together, That's what the interim president of Venezuela
is now saying.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Delight, I thought you were talking to me, and I'm going,
why would we want to work together? Literally, I thought
that was where you were going. Okay, moving on, go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So over the weekend, President Trump basically said that if
Venezuela's vice president, Delcia Rodriguez is the interim president doesn't
do what's right, she is going to, in his words,
pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro. Well.
Delci Rodriguez had come out against the arrest and not deportation,
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the moving of Nicholas Muduro.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, the kidnapping is you know, the extra the extrication,
the extraction of Maduro.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yep, she said she was against it. Shouldn't he should
be released, and now she's saying, you know, let's work together.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Her response was I think maybe in relation to.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The you know, it's a little complicated because Marco Rubio,
the president said that Marco Rubio had been in touch
with her and after the fact, and that she was
willing to work. This is what the president said, that
she was willing to work with the United States, and
our president said, okay, that's great. And then you saw
on Venezuelan television where she says, absolutely not. Maduro is
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still the president. We demand the immediate return of Maduro.
And so we're getting two different stories about this. And
as you said, Trump has warned her saying, if you
don't do exactly what we tell you to do, it's
going to be far worse for you than it was
for Maduro. Interesting point here, interesting factoid, and we're probably
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going to talk about that, is that up to the
extraction is the word that's being used in Maduro by
US forces. There were contracts. There were contacts maye between
the US government and Johnald Trump. President Trump said he
talked to Maduro twice on the telephone and said, surrender,
get out of here. Maduro was given the option of
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what is described as a gilded exit. He would be
allowed to leave the country, go to another country that
would give him asylum, which there are several that would,
and could take his money with him. And he has
he has to have billions of dollars, if not well,
at least hundreds of millions, and all that disappear. Boy
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did he gets wrong? How'd that work out for him?
And the President said he maybe he should have taken
that to offer, and it looks like he should have.
So del Rodriguez is she the president? Well, she was
sworn in the Supreme Court of Venezuela says she's the president. However,
we assume that she is not the president because she
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became vice president under an illegal election of Maduro. It was.
The whole thing is a cluster truck, and we're going
to be talking about that later on too. A lot
of moving pieces on this one. Another moving piece.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Is it Greenland or red White and Blueland? The Prime
Minister of Denmark has called on President Trump to stop
the threats about taking over Greenland. President Trump reiterated, we
do need Greenland, absolutely, we need it for defense. He
said that in an interview with the Atlantic magazine. Trump
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has repeatedly claimed that making Greenland part of the US
would serve you as national security interests given its strategic
location in the Arctic.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Now here's a question, is he going to buy Greenland
from Denmark? And how much is that worth? Assuming Denmark
wants to sell Greenland, which, of course it says, you
guys are crazy. You know, that's our territory. I mean,
this is part of our government. Does he and he's
been asked, do you with then invade Greenland and grab it?
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And he said no, no, we just have to get Greenland.
He has not gone beyond that goes right, and he
doubled down on all of us and coming back on
Air Force one, he was asked, and this is after
the majorial thing, asked you know what about okay, Greenland?
He said, we need it, We're gonna grab it, or
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we're gonna we want and need Greenland. And then Canada
the fifty first state. He hasn't left that one alone. Either. Now,
how insane is that? Except who would have thought that
the United States would in fact enter a sovereign country
and kidnap its leader and bring him the trial. By
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the way, who in Greenland? Who in Canada? Can they
bring the trial? And I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Why would they bring anybody to trial?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And of course they wouldn't. But what do you do
with Canada? What do you do? I mean, could it
be the thirty first state? Well it could the population.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh probably not the thirty first state built.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well fifty first. I'm sorry it has yet well said.
It has fewer people in California. In California is a state,
so it would be a little it would be a
big state. It's you don't even know where to go
with this. I don't know what to say about this,
but I do have plenty to say about what happened
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in Venezuela over this past weekend. Liar Liar.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
President Trump says that US officials have determined Ukraine did
not target a residence that belongs to Russian President Vladimir
Putin in a drone attack. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
said Ukraine launched a wave of drones at Putin's state
residence that it says defense systems in Russia were able
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to defeat.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Okay, and usually this time around, I didn't hear the
president say I believe Putin on no matter what he says,
and I disbelieve our own intelligence sources. At first he
said yeah, and maybe Putin's right, but then he changed
his mind. I think it was predicated on clearly intelligence
(12:13):
that the United States Intelligence services gave him. And now
Putin's lying, You're right, liar, liar, pants on fire.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Well, gas prices are still following you. I mean, they're
stupid high in California, but they continue to go down.
As President Trump calls on US oil companies to invest
in Venezuela. After the overthrow of President Nicholas Maduro, US
crewde oil fell thirty one cents. It's at fifty seven
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point eighty a barrel right now.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah. Now keep in mind that you would think a
major oil producing nation would stop producing oil, and at
this point you're not seeing any oil coming out of Ventezuela,
not very much oil. I think there's still some going
to China that the president is allowing to happen. But
the point is is that Venezuela produces so little oil
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that it doesn't alter the market very much. Venezuela has
the world's largest oil reserves by a long shot, yet
it is producing twenty percent of the oil it did
before Chavez, a predecessor to Maduro, came into office because
the economy of Venezuela has been destroyed. I mean, these
two guys single handedly destroyed the country, and so it
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turns out to be not one big deal because so
little oil is produced by Venezuela. Here's a factoid, by
the way, and that is are different kinds of oil,
different grades of oil. The United States produces a sweet oil,
is what it's called. An oil that is not sludgy,
is not thick. They're different grades, and you need different
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kinds of refinery abilities. Well, the United States oil is
mainly is mainly for gasoline, and that's about it. This
sludgy oil that's produced by Venezuela is used in virtually
all other kinds of manufacturing. And so it's pretty important
oil to say the least, but you're saying much of it.
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And then that leads right into discussions that we're going
to have over the next weeks, months, even years about
bringing Venezuelan oil back into the world market. With now
the United States making that call and making the decisions,
it looks like.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Less aid for Gaza. So Israel has revoked the licenses
of more than three dozen humanitarian organizations. The thirty seven
groups represent some of the most prominent of more than
one hundred independent NGOs working in Gaza. Those banned include
Doctors Without Borders, the Norwegian Refugee Council OXFAM, and Medical
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Aid for Palestinians. Israel's no longer going to allow those
groups to bring supplies into the Strip. Ortison, International Staffers
in Israel says all of those suspended groups are going
to have to halt all operations by March first.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You know, I've been thinking about this all weekend in
terms of what this announcement was about, because now I
think we have over seventy thousand people, or they have
over seventy thousand people that have died in Gaza as
a result of the Israeli attack on Gaza subsequent to
October seventh, and I had said that there's no question
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at war crimes certainly under international law, are being committed
by Israel, but here is my question also coming back
and Israel is basically saying we cannot let Hamas stay
as a military force, and Hamas is saying We're going
to stay as a military force no matter what, and
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all in it'll well have the population of Gaza to
be killed, in every single building to be destroyed, and
they're not giving up their military position, which is the
destruction of Israel. So what does this reel do? I mean,
do they let people starve? Well, no, they don't. They
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What they do is they bring people to the point
where aid is going to happen, Humanitarian aid, rebuild, all
of that helps Hamas. So now you have a government
next to you that is absolutely set on destroying you,
say you have the See the problem there is that
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Hamas is embedded in the civilian population, and Israel's going
to say, what do we do? We got to get
rid of Hamas. Hamas is part of the population. It's
there's no easy answer here. I have come to the
conclusion Hamas will never disarm. They've said that can you overthrow?
(17:05):
Can the people of guys overthrow Camas? They're basically starving
to death. It's a tough one, but the bottom line
is doctors without borders can't come in Oxfam, which is
a famous British charity. It's there's no easy answer there.
All right, let's do one more and we'll take a break.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
A high toll on teens. There was New Year's fire
in Switzerland. It happened at the Constellation Bar in southern Switzerland.
Forty people were killed in the fire. Twenty four have
now been identified. All of those whose ages the police provided,
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the majority were teenagers and everybody was under forty. So
the fire apparently started during a New Year's Eve celebration
when sparklers placed on top of champagne bottle ignited the
ceiling in the crowded bar's basement and caused what's called
a flashover.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, you've seen those flashovers when literally something ignites and
explodes into flame where you just can't get away with.
It's not a fire burning in your direction and you
get the hell out of dodge. It is an explosion
of fire that you can't get away from. And this
is why so many people died. And then you're going
(18:27):
to see, oh, the investigations are going to continue. Like
crazy sparklers held too close to the ceiling, How do
you hold sparklers too close to the ceiling without crawling
on top people. I know, Cono, is you know holding
it out now, Cono. No, there are people that are
taller than three three foot eight, which you are. It's
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still you have to have very low low ceilings.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Secret Service is hiring. The Secret Services launched a very
ambitious is hiring effort seeking to bring in thousands of
agents and officers to ease the strain on an overstretched
workforce and get ready for some big events in twenty
twenty eight, including the next presidential election and the twenty
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twenty eight Summer Olympic Games right here in LA. They
want four thousand new employees by twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, and they're also hiring what how many new border
patrol agents? Ten thousand? They wanted to hire those two
So let me ask you a question. You know that
they lowered their they lowered their level of expertise that
they need. You know, the qualifications have been somewhat lowered.
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And from what I understand, they're even accepting people who
used to be in law enforcement. For example, forty pounds overweight,
former crossing guards at schools. I mean, they are really
stretching for sure, we'll see the qualifications. Well, not going
to be as high, but you know it takes, you know,
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not long it takes to train a secret service person.
I mean it's months and months. So well they're gonna
have time. Is this twenty twenty eight? And will they
be arresting everybody in town?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Trump says drug prices are going to go down, but
apparently the drug makers aren't exactly in line with that.
Drug makers are planning to raise prices in the US
on at least three hundred and fifty branded medications, including
vaccines against covid, RSV and shingles, also cancer treatment called ibrants.
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The median price increase is about four percent, which was
in line with last years. There are a few that
are going to cut prices nine drugs, including more than
forty percent cut for a diabetes drug called Jaradians, and
although some related treatments.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I take Jardians, you do, yeah, I do. I absolutely
take Jardians. Yeah, not that I have diabetes, but it's
used for whatever the hell they use it for. The
only thing I know what I'm used for is le
Michtyl to keep me calm without going completely crazy. That's
the only drug I know.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Have you loved your dose since Trump won?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
No, I haven't up my mean of limit kill. Yeah, no,
I actually haven't. You would think I would have, But
not at all. Okay, yeah, not at all. I'm not
because I look at the Trump you know, election, and
what's happening and what Trump is doing. It's sort of
a you know, two sides of a coin. On the
one hand, on the good side is hey, tell me
this isn't fodder for talk radio. I mean now, you know,
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I love talking about it. And on the other hand,
the politics that would driving me completely crazy. You know,
the fact that, for example, vaccines will become criminal, that
any manufacturer or any any parent giving their kid a
vaccine will be in jail over twenty years. You're going
to see that going on. But no, the answer is no,
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they have not increased my dosage.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Mickey's facing eviction. Not that Mickey, it's actor Mickey Rourke.
He has had a go fundme page launched on his
behalf because he owes over fifty nine thousand dollars in
back rent. This is the support Mickey to prevent eviction. GoFundMe.
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He apparently was served an eviction noticed on December eighteenth.
That's according to La Times. He signed a lease in
March of twenty twenty five to pay fifty two hundred
dollars a month, but the rent was raised to seven
thousand dollars per month for the three bedroom, two bedroom
home built in nineteen twenty six.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, and fifty two hundred dollars a month is not
an insane rent. You know, we're talking about a moderate
home here in southern California and going up to seven thousand,
that's pretty high.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Well, and I just checked and it says that it's
raised tens of thousands of dollars so far, so they're
close to getting there, But that doesn't solve the long
term problem of if he's not been paying his rent
for Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Where did he get to that point? I mean he
was I won't say an A list actor, but certainly
a B list actor. And you know, they made very
good money, you know, even if you're talking about a
commercial film made by a major film studio. I mean,
they paid good money for the leads, for the stars.
How did you get to that point? I don't even know,
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don't even know. You have to have lived very high
or spent all your money on drugs, fun, rock and roll,
everything else.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Stuck in paradise. So the FAA closed down the airspace
over Venezuela following the capture of Nicholas Maduro over the weekend,
and they have reopened that airspace, but then now they're
going to have to play catch up, and so a
lot of people are stranded, a lot of tourists, probably
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on Christmas vacation or the New Year vacation. For example,
a reporter for ABC's station in Philadelphia said she and
her family were supposed to fly home from San Juan,
Puerto Rico to Philadelphia last night, but now she says
she's been told by the airlines she can't get a
flight out until Friday.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, look at the perfect storm here. You've got the
flights going in and out of Venezuela. Of course those
are done at least for the short term. You have
the airspace over Venezuela being cut off that US airlines
cannot overfly Venezuela. You have the holidays in which are
the busiest travel times of the year, and you have
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those crazy ass storms that are going on on the
East Coast where flights are canceled and or delayed in
Moss in mass That's a four way perfect storm. That's
not even a three way. This is when it makes sense.
You just sit back and veg for the holidays. You
know it didn't bother me because I didn't get off
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the couch. Yeah, Amy, did you did you go any place?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well? I was supposed to fly up to Oregon for
the holiday, but my cat was sick, so I had
the cat that canceled Christmas, and I stayed home and
did much of what the same as you, and a
lot of time on the couch over the holidays.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
A lot of people, virtually everybody I knew, didn't go
any place over the holidays. And did you go any place? No, cono.
I know you can't afford it, but you didn't go
any place? Will Did you go any place? For my side, gig,
I did some work out of town, but yeah, no, yeah,
I didn't go. I think a lot of it has
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to do with even as whale and error space being
shut down that stopped me from going at any.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Place, see something, say something at school. A federal court
has ruled that free speech and religious rights of California
teachers will be upheld if they want to tell parents
about how their child is expressing gender identity at school,
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that's a victory for conservatives and parents rights advocates. The
federal or the judge concluded that federal law allows school
employees to notify parents of gender incongruents.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
And this has to do with the law that says
that the school either does not or can't call parents
and say, your kid is coming off as or exhibiting
herself for himself identifying as the other sex. And I've
always wondered about how many kids who do identify as
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the others their parents don't know about that. They only
do that at school. I've often wondered about that, what
the number of kids that that effects. I think it's
far more policy and far more political statement than anything else.
But anyway, look now it's the federal judge says, you know,
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teachers have a right to call parents and say, hey,
you know Fred is coming off and identifies as Frederica.
It's run of news.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Is there something fishy about this? A five hundred and
thirty five pound bluefin tuna has sold for three point
two million dollars at the first auction of twenty twenty
six at Tokyo's Toyosu Fish Market. The pricey fish was
caught off the coast of Oma in northern Japan. Apparently
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a lot of tuna, hundreds of them are sold every
day at the auction. The prices are significantly higher than
usual for the Oma tuna.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now, usually I want to make a point here, not
about the story, but usually how good a job you
do at introducing stories. You know, you do little quips
or little different introductions, and how you do play for words.
And you're usually very, very good about this, Amy, But
then there was this story. Is there something fishy about this?
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I'm thinking, come on, really, come on, come on, Amy.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I've been off for a week and a half.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Man, is there something fishy about that? Okay, I'm not
gonna let Okay, it's enough attacking you. Let's go back
to what we do.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Nothing clever about this. Another sad ending for a famous
person's child. Tommy Lee Jones daughter Victoria has been found dead.
It happened last Thursday in San Francisco. People at the
scene apparently told first responders that she'd been using cocaine.
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They first got to the Fairmont San Francisco on Thursday, morning,
saw blue tinge on her lips and fingernails and suspected
that she had odd on drugs. She was just thirty four.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, it's tough for any family. And of course there's
one hundred thousand of these a year. Now it's probably
dropped down to seventy thousand of these a year, just
when it happens to the children, or it happens to
people that are very well known or in the public
in the public eye, and of course this is exactly
the case with Tommy Lee Jones.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Well, it was a good run. The oldest operating restaurant
in La County's closing its doors for good. The original
Saugust Cafe at its last day of business yesterday, so
if you didn't get there, you missed it. It was
opened for one hundred and thirty nine years. Opened in
eighteen eighty six, the original Saugus Cafe fed President's, Hollywood
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stars and everyone in between for almost a century and
a half.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Cay mant, what was Saugus like in eighteen eighty six?
What three cows and two people have you ever been?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I have never been to Saugust.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I Oh, okay, I don't think you're missing much and
for those people that live in Saugus, I let me
put it on the table. She wasn't missing much. Okay,
let's finish up. This's our last story. We're gonna do
in a minute. Yes, yes, a lot. We met it
through the whole stack today, Anne.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
What is the best selling electric car? And he guesses,
and he guesses not Tesla. Apparently, Tesla delivered one point
six four million vehicles in twenty twenty five, which was
down nine from a year before. China's BYD sold two
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point two six million vehicles last week.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Year.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
It is now the biggest electric vehicle maker in the world.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And no surprise, because China has some extraordinary technology on
its own, is quickly moving into the world's superpower across
the board, militarily, economically and technologically. In this case, you
have the electric vehicles. And when China puts its mind
to something, man they make it happen. So BYD you
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know what the number one car model they have, by
the way, to anybody, you know, it's the Mugu y car.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Don't think that's accurate.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But it sounds good, doesn't it. No, it doesn't. It
sounds stupid. And I accused Amy as sounding stupid boy.
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Good morning everybody. Oh yeah, we started again Monday morning,
January the fifth new year is here, and you know
Donald Trump said, you know we're not going to start
a boring new year, are we? Oh man, what a
weekend it has been. And we'll talk more about that
a whole lot more about that in the meantime. Today
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January fifth, three hundred and sixty or fifty one days
till Christmas, so shopping days. We're right here, and let
me see who's there. I know Neil is not there
today as I can't see him. He's gone on all
this week. But at anytime, everybody else is Amy, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Hi. I didn't know Neil wasn't going to be here.
That you for me right now?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, it does. I didn't know that either. And by
the way, Anne who the announcement because I actually slept,
which I couldn't believe this past week that I did
absolutely nothing, just stayed at home and just vegged out.
And so when the show starts and I'm not there.
(01:30):
Do they say it's handled on the news with and
then my name is not mentioned? Or how is that introduced?
I wasn't here.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I don't know Cono.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay, does anybody know Cono.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Is not Bill Handle?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And then it goes into oh does it say that?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh okay, good because I don't think any of us
knew that, because I don't think anybody listens when they're
not around, which goes to show you what big fans
we are of our own show.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Good Morning.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's true. Actually that one day I actually swept till
seven thirty, which I have not done in probably twenty
five years, and it was I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Usually up at three thirty, even on vacation.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Even on vacation. Yeah, I'm just up and running around
and watching CNN or reading a book. I just finished
Kamala Harris's new book. Wow, what a piece of crap
that is?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Can I borrow?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, I want to because I don't want to buy it.
You don't want to buy it, but I wouldn't want
to read it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You don't want to buy it. It's very self serving,
although it's kind of fun because it gives a lot
of inside stuff inside baseball. That's what makes it kind
of interesting. But no, it's aren't I great? Or I bitch?
And I shouldn't I have one? Yes? And so I said,
hello Ann Cono.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You didn't say me.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Actually, okay, Hello Anne. Oh we've been talking all morning.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
So we're all by the way vacation. They send us
like every other day, who's on vacation and what's the
schedule going to be like? And who's up and who's not.
So there's no excuse for not knowing here this week.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, and except that we were on vacation, so we
weren't reading emails.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Any emails.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
No, okay, it was vacation.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
No, I understand, said, don't be shocked, but you don't
know what's going on?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
There you go, well, said Michelle usually punches those out,
and she's pretty good about that. But no one reads.
I don't think. I don't even think I have a
an email address or an address that KFI. I just
you know, don't pay attention to it. And then no, Will,
good morning, Will, Will Coleschreiber, who I can't hear, who
(03:35):
clearly doesn't have his microphone on? Who is there? Now
I can I thought you were doing an impression of
Helen Keller. I'm going to go that's not bad. You know,
it could it could have been worse, like me. No,
in any case, Oh, we've got so much talk about. Obviously,
the big, big, big story is what happened on Friday
(03:55):
night Saturday morning when American forces went in to Venezuela
and picked up a Nicholas Maduro. And oh my god,
what the response has been and the reaction and where
President Trump is going. I tell you, there will never
be another president like President Trump ever again, never has been,
(04:17):
never will be. We're watching history in the making in
terms of a presidency. And with that, let's go ahead
and start a handle on the news on this Monday morning,
January fifth, Amy O'Neil and me Lea Storry. This morning,
just a couple hours ago, maybe an hour and a
(04:39):
half ago, or maybe an hour ago, the former president
of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, was taken from a facility in
New York a detention center, and then brought over to
I think the Metropolitan Detention Center where he is going
to be a rained on all kinds of federal charges.
(05:01):
Was going to talk about a little bit later on.
He was kidnapped. It's that simple. American forces went in
in a massive military move and I attack. Yeah, you
can call it that. But special forces went in, backed
up by one hundred and fifty aircraft from twenty bases,
(05:24):
came in with a massive show of force and grabbed
him straight out, grabbed him. It was just an insanely precise,
complicated military maneuver. And everybody, those pro and con are saying, wow,
look what the military did. Of course, the geopolitical, the financial,
the security aspects of this are way way up in
(05:48):
the air. We'll be talking more about that at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Let's work together, That's what the interim president of Venezuela
is now saying.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Delight, I thought you were talking to me, and I'm going,
why would we want to work together? Literally, I thought
that was where you were going. Okay, moving on, go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So over the weekend, President Trump basically said that if
Venezuela's vice president, Delcia Rodriguez is the interim president doesn't
do what's right, she is going to, in his words,
pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro. Well.
Delci Rodriguez had come out against the arrest and not deportation,
(06:37):
the moving of Nicholas Muduro.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, the kidnapping is you know, the extra the extrication,
the extraction of Maduro.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yep, she said she was against it. Shouldn't he should
be released, and now she's saying, you know, let's work together.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Her response was I think maybe in relation to.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The you know, it's a little complicated because Marco Rubio,
the president said that Marco Rubio had been in touch
with her and after the fact, and that she was
willing to work. This is what the president said, that
she was willing to work with the United States, and
our president said, okay, that's great. And then you saw
on Venezuelan television where she says, absolutely not. Maduro is
(07:18):
still the president. We demand the immediate return of Maduro.
And so we're getting two different stories about this. And
as you said, Trump has warned her saying, if you
don't do exactly what we tell you to do, it's
going to be far worse for you than it was
for Maduro. Interesting point here, interesting factoid, and we're probably
(07:40):
going to talk about that, is that up to the
extraction is the word that's being used in Maduro by
US forces. There were contracts. There were contacts maye between
the US government and Johnald Trump. President Trump said he
talked to Maduro twice on the telephone and said, surrender,
get out of here. Maduro was given the option of
(08:04):
what is described as a gilded exit. He would be
allowed to leave the country, go to another country that
would give him asylum, which there are several that would,
and could take his money with him. And he has
he has to have billions of dollars, if not well,
at least hundreds of millions, and all that disappear. Boy
(08:25):
did he gets wrong? How'd that work out for him?
And the President said he maybe he should have taken
that to offer, and it looks like he should have.
So del Rodriguez is she the president? Well, she was
sworn in the Supreme Court of Venezuela says she's the president. However,
we assume that she is not the president because she
(08:47):
became vice president under an illegal election of Maduro. It was.
The whole thing is a cluster truck, and we're going
to be talking about that later on too. A lot
of moving pieces on this one. Another moving piece.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Is it Greenland or red White and Blueland? The Prime
Minister of Denmark has called on President Trump to stop
the threats about taking over Greenland. President Trump reiterated, we
do need Greenland, absolutely, we need it for defense. He
said that in an interview with the Atlantic magazine. Trump
(09:23):
has repeatedly claimed that making Greenland part of the US
would serve you as national security interests given its strategic
location in the Arctic.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Now here's a question, is he going to buy Greenland
from Denmark? And how much is that worth? Assuming Denmark
wants to sell Greenland, which, of course it says, you
guys are crazy. You know, that's our territory. I mean,
this is part of our government. Does he and he's
been asked, do you with then invade Greenland and grab it?
(09:53):
And he said no, no, we just have to get Greenland.
He has not gone beyond that goes right, and he
doubled down on all of us and coming back on
Air Force one, he was asked, and this is after
the majorial thing, asked you know what about okay, Greenland?
He said, we need it, We're gonna grab it, or
(10:14):
we're gonna we want and need Greenland. And then Canada
the fifty first state. He hasn't left that one alone. Either. Now,
how insane is that? Except who would have thought that
the United States would in fact enter a sovereign country
and kidnap its leader and bring him the trial. By
(10:42):
the way, who in Greenland? Who in Canada? Can they
bring the trial? And I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Why would they bring anybody to trial?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And of course they wouldn't. But what do you do
with Canada? What do you do? I mean, could it
be the thirty first state? Well it could the population.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh probably not the thirty first state built.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well fifty first. I'm sorry it has yet well said.
It has fewer people in California. In California is a state,
so it would be a little it would be a
big state. It's you don't even know where to go
with this. I don't know what to say about this,
but I do have plenty to say about what happened
(11:23):
in Venezuela over this past weekend. Liar Liar.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
President Trump says that US officials have determined Ukraine did
not target a residence that belongs to Russian President Vladimir
Putin in a drone attack. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
said Ukraine launched a wave of drones at Putin's state
residence that it says defense systems in Russia were able
(11:50):
to defeat.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Okay, and usually this time around, I didn't hear the
president say I believe Putin on no matter what he says,
and I disbelieve our own intelligence sources. At first he
said yeah, and maybe Putin's right, but then he changed
his mind. I think it was predicated on clearly intelligence
(12:13):
that the United States Intelligence services gave him. And now
Putin's lying, You're right, liar, liar, pants on fire.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Well, gas prices are still following you. I mean, they're
stupid high in California, but they continue to go down.
As President Trump calls on US oil companies to invest
in Venezuela. After the overthrow of President Nicholas Maduro, US
crewde oil fell thirty one cents. It's at fifty seven
(12:46):
point eighty a barrel right now.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah. Now keep in mind that you would think a
major oil producing nation would stop producing oil, and at
this point you're not seeing any oil coming out of Ventezuela,
not very much oil. I think there's still some going
to China that the president is allowing to happen. But
the point is is that Venezuela produces so little oil
(13:12):
that it doesn't alter the market very much. Venezuela has
the world's largest oil reserves by a long shot, yet
it is producing twenty percent of the oil it did
before Chavez, a predecessor to Maduro, came into office because
the economy of Venezuela has been destroyed. I mean, these
two guys single handedly destroyed the country, and so it
(13:35):
turns out to be not one big deal because so
little oil is produced by Venezuela. Here's a factoid, by
the way, and that is are different kinds of oil,
different grades of oil. The United States produces a sweet oil,
is what it's called. An oil that is not sludgy,
is not thick. They're different grades, and you need different
(13:58):
kinds of refinery abilities. Well, the United States oil is
mainly is mainly for gasoline, and that's about it. This
sludgy oil that's produced by Venezuela is used in virtually
all other kinds of manufacturing. And so it's pretty important
oil to say the least, but you're saying much of it.
(14:20):
And then that leads right into discussions that we're going
to have over the next weeks, months, even years about
bringing Venezuelan oil back into the world market. With now
the United States making that call and making the decisions,
it looks like.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Less aid for Gaza. So Israel has revoked the licenses
of more than three dozen humanitarian organizations. The thirty seven
groups represent some of the most prominent of more than
one hundred independent NGOs working in Gaza. Those banned include
Doctors Without Borders, the Norwegian Refugee Council OXFAM, and Medical
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Aid for Palestinians. Israel's no longer going to allow those
groups to bring supplies into the Strip. Ortison, International Staffers
in Israel says all of those suspended groups are going
to have to halt all operations by March first.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You know, I've been thinking about this all weekend in
terms of what this announcement was about, because now I
think we have over seventy thousand people, or they have
over seventy thousand people that have died in Gaza as
a result of the Israeli attack on Gaza subsequent to
October seventh, and I had said that there's no question
(15:39):
at war crimes certainly under international law, are being committed
by Israel, but here is my question also coming back
and Israel is basically saying we cannot let Hamas stay
as a military force, and Hamas is saying We're going
to stay as a military force no matter what, and
(15:59):
all in it'll well have the population of Gaza to
be killed, in every single building to be destroyed, and
they're not giving up their military position, which is the
destruction of Israel. So what does this reel do? I mean,
do they let people starve? Well, no, they don't. They
(16:21):
What they do is they bring people to the point
where aid is going to happen, Humanitarian aid, rebuild, all
of that helps Hamas. So now you have a government
next to you that is absolutely set on destroying you,
say you have the See the problem there is that
(16:45):
Hamas is embedded in the civilian population, and Israel's going
to say, what do we do? We got to get
rid of Hamas. Hamas is part of the population. It's
there's no easy answer here. I have come to the
conclusion Hamas will never disarm. They've said that can you overthrow?
(17:05):
Can the people of guys overthrow Camas? They're basically starving
to death. It's a tough one, but the bottom line
is doctors without borders can't come in Oxfam, which is
a famous British charity. It's there's no easy answer there.
All right, let's do one more and we'll take a break.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
A high toll on teens. There was New Year's fire
in Switzerland. It happened at the Constellation Bar in southern Switzerland.
Forty people were killed in the fire. Twenty four have
now been identified. All of those whose ages the police provided,
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the majority were teenagers and everybody was under forty. So
the fire apparently started during a New Year's Eve celebration
when sparklers placed on top of champagne bottle ignited the
ceiling in the crowded bar's basement and caused what's called
a flashover.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, you've seen those flashovers when literally something ignites and
explodes into flame where you just can't get away with.
It's not a fire burning in your direction and you
get the hell out of dodge. It is an explosion
of fire that you can't get away from. And this
is why so many people died. And then you're going
(18:27):
to see, oh, the investigations are going to continue. Like
crazy sparklers held too close to the ceiling, How do
you hold sparklers too close to the ceiling without crawling
on top people. I know, Cono, is you know holding
it out now, Cono. No, there are people that are
taller than three three foot eight, which you are. It's
(18:49):
still you have to have very low low ceilings.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Secret Service is hiring. The Secret Services launched a very
ambitious is hiring effort seeking to bring in thousands of
agents and officers to ease the strain on an overstretched
workforce and get ready for some big events in twenty
twenty eight, including the next presidential election and the twenty
(19:16):
twenty eight Summer Olympic Games right here in LA. They
want four thousand new employees by twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, and they're also hiring what how many new border
patrol agents? Ten thousand? They wanted to hire those two
So let me ask you a question. You know that
they lowered their they lowered their level of expertise that
they need. You know, the qualifications have been somewhat lowered.
(19:44):
And from what I understand, they're even accepting people who
used to be in law enforcement. For example, forty pounds overweight,
former crossing guards at schools. I mean, they are really
stretching for sure, we'll see the qualifications. Well, not going
to be as high, but you know it takes, you know,
(20:06):
not long it takes to train a secret service person.
I mean it's months and months. So well they're gonna
have time. Is this twenty twenty eight? And will they
be arresting everybody in town?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Trump says drug prices are going to go down, but
apparently the drug makers aren't exactly in line with that.
Drug makers are planning to raise prices in the US
on at least three hundred and fifty branded medications, including
vaccines against covid, RSV and shingles, also cancer treatment called ibrants.
(20:43):
The median price increase is about four percent, which was
in line with last years. There are a few that
are going to cut prices nine drugs, including more than
forty percent cut for a diabetes drug called Jaradians, and
although some related treatments.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I take Jardians, you do, yeah, I do. I absolutely
take Jardians. Yeah, not that I have diabetes, but it's
used for whatever the hell they use it for. The
only thing I know what I'm used for is le
Michtyl to keep me calm without going completely crazy. That's
the only drug I know.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Have you loved your dose since Trump won?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
No, I haven't up my mean of limit kill. Yeah, no,
I actually haven't. You would think I would have, But
not at all. Okay, yeah, not at all. I'm not
because I look at the Trump you know, election, and
what's happening and what Trump is doing. It's sort of
a you know, two sides of a coin. On the
one hand, on the good side is hey, tell me
this isn't fodder for talk radio. I mean now, you know,
(21:46):
I love talking about it. And on the other hand,
the politics that would driving me completely crazy. You know,
the fact that, for example, vaccines will become criminal, that
any manufacturer or any any parent giving their kid a
vaccine will be in jail over twenty years. You're going
to see that going on. But no, the answer is no,
(22:07):
they have not increased my dosage.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Mickey's facing eviction. Not that Mickey, it's actor Mickey Rourke.
He has had a go fundme page launched on his
behalf because he owes over fifty nine thousand dollars in
back rent. This is the support Mickey to prevent eviction. GoFundMe.
(22:33):
He apparently was served an eviction noticed on December eighteenth.
That's according to La Times. He signed a lease in
March of twenty twenty five to pay fifty two hundred
dollars a month, but the rent was raised to seven
thousand dollars per month for the three bedroom, two bedroom
home built in nineteen twenty six.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, and fifty two hundred dollars a month is not
an insane rent. You know, we're talking about a moderate
home here in southern California and going up to seven thousand,
that's pretty high.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Well, and I just checked and it says that it's
raised tens of thousands of dollars so far, so they're
close to getting there, But that doesn't solve the long
term problem of if he's not been paying his rent
for Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Where did he get to that point? I mean he
was I won't say an A list actor, but certainly
a B list actor. And you know, they made very
good money, you know, even if you're talking about a
commercial film made by a major film studio. I mean,
they paid good money for the leads, for the stars.
How did you get to that point? I don't even know,
(23:44):
don't even know. You have to have lived very high
or spent all your money on drugs, fun, rock and roll,
everything else.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Stuck in paradise. So the FAA closed down the airspace
over Venezuela following the capture of Nicholas Maduro over the weekend,
and they have reopened that airspace, but then now they're
going to have to play catch up, and so a
lot of people are stranded, a lot of tourists, probably
(24:18):
on Christmas vacation or the New Year vacation. For example,
a reporter for ABC's station in Philadelphia said she and
her family were supposed to fly home from San Juan,
Puerto Rico to Philadelphia last night, but now she says
she's been told by the airlines she can't get a
flight out until Friday.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, look at the perfect storm here. You've got the
flights going in and out of Venezuela. Of course those
are done at least for the short term. You have
the airspace over Venezuela being cut off that US airlines
cannot overfly Venezuela. You have the holidays in which are
the busiest travel times of the year, and you have
(25:00):
those crazy ass storms that are going on on the
East Coast where flights are canceled and or delayed in
Moss in mass That's a four way perfect storm. That's
not even a three way. This is when it makes sense.
You just sit back and veg for the holidays. You
know it didn't bother me because I didn't get off
(25:22):
the couch. Yeah, Amy, did you did you go any place?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well? I was supposed to fly up to Oregon for
the holiday, but my cat was sick, so I had
the cat that canceled Christmas, and I stayed home and
did much of what the same as you, and a
lot of time on the couch over the holidays.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
A lot of people, virtually everybody I knew, didn't go
any place over the holidays. And did you go any place? No, cono.
I know you can't afford it, but you didn't go
any place? Will Did you go any place? For my side, gig,
I did some work out of town, but yeah, no, yeah,
I didn't go. I think a lot of it has
(25:59):
to do with even as whale and error space being
shut down that stopped me from going at any.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Place, see something, say something at school. A federal court
has ruled that free speech and religious rights of California
teachers will be upheld if they want to tell parents
about how their child is expressing gender identity at school,
(26:24):
that's a victory for conservatives and parents rights advocates. The
federal or the judge concluded that federal law allows school
employees to notify parents of gender incongruents.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
And this has to do with the law that says
that the school either does not or can't call parents
and say, your kid is coming off as or exhibiting
herself for himself identifying as the other sex. And I've
always wondered about how many kids who do identify as
(26:59):
the others their parents don't know about that. They only
do that at school. I've often wondered about that, what
the number of kids that that effects. I think it's
far more policy and far more political statement than anything else.
But anyway, look now it's the federal judge says, you know,
(27:21):
teachers have a right to call parents and say, hey,
you know Fred is coming off and identifies as Frederica.
It's run of news.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Is there something fishy about this? A five hundred and
thirty five pound bluefin tuna has sold for three point
two million dollars at the first auction of twenty twenty
six at Tokyo's Toyosu Fish Market. The pricey fish was
caught off the coast of Oma in northern Japan. Apparently
(27:56):
a lot of tuna, hundreds of them are sold every
day at the auction. The prices are significantly higher than
usual for the Oma tuna.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now, usually I want to make a point here, not
about the story, but usually how good a job you
do at introducing stories. You know, you do little quips
or little different introductions, and how you do play for words.
And you're usually very, very good about this, Amy, But
then there was this story. Is there something fishy about this?
(28:32):
I'm thinking, come on, really, come on, come on, Amy.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I've been off for a week and a half.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Man, is there something fishy about that? Okay, I'm not
gonna let Okay, it's enough attacking you. Let's go back
to what we do.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Nothing clever about this. Another sad ending for a famous
person's child. Tommy Lee Jones daughter Victoria has been found dead.
It happened last Thursday in San Francisco. People at the
scene apparently told first responders that she'd been using cocaine.
(29:13):
They first got to the Fairmont San Francisco on Thursday, morning,
saw blue tinge on her lips and fingernails and suspected
that she had odd on drugs. She was just thirty four.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, it's tough for any family. And of course there's
one hundred thousand of these a year. Now it's probably
dropped down to seventy thousand of these a year, just
when it happens to the children, or it happens to
people that are very well known or in the public
in the public eye, and of course this is exactly
the case with Tommy Lee Jones.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Well, it was a good run. The oldest operating restaurant
in La County's closing its doors for good. The original
Saugust Cafe at its last day of business yesterday, so
if you didn't get there, you missed it. It was
opened for one hundred and thirty nine years. Opened in
eighteen eighty six, the original Saugus Cafe fed President's, Hollywood
(30:09):
stars and everyone in between for almost a century and
a half.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Cay mant, what was Saugus like in eighteen eighty six?
What three cows and two people have you ever been?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I have never been to Saugust.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I Oh, okay, I don't think you're missing much and
for those people that live in Saugus, I let me
put it on the table. She wasn't missing much. Okay,
let's finish up. This's our last story. We're gonna do
in a minute. Yes, yes, a lot. We met it
through the whole stack today, Anne.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
What is the best selling electric car? And he guesses,
and he guesses not Tesla. Apparently, Tesla delivered one point
six four million vehicles in twenty twenty five, which was
down nine from a year before. China's BYD sold two
(31:06):
point two six million vehicles last week.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Year.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
It is now the biggest electric vehicle maker in the world.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And no surprise, because China has some extraordinary technology on
its own, is quickly moving into the world's superpower across
the board, militarily, economically and technologically. In this case, you
have the electric vehicles. And when China puts its mind
to something, man they make it happen. So BYD you
(31:37):
know what the number one car model they have, by
the way, to anybody, you know, it's the Mugu y car.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Don't think that's accurate.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
But it sounds good, doesn't it. No, it doesn't. It
sounds stupid. And I accused Amy as sounding stupid boy.
There we go. All right, this is KFI AM sixty.
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