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January 24, 2024 39 mins
Neil Saavedra & Amy King join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump wins New Hampshire Primary; Haley isn’t quitting. Proposed California law AB 1772 calls for required jail time for repeat shoplifters. Greater Los Angeles homeless count 2024: Annual survey gets underway as volunteers fan out across county. Police warn against water guns resembling real firearms. L.A. Times to lay off at least 115 people in the newsroom. 13-year-old driver accused in Compton bakery robbery arrested again hours after release. SoCal to Vegas rail project to get another $2.5BIL. The IRS announces plans to simplify and redesign tax notices.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. It's been
a very graphic morning so far.Yeah, I know too much about your
body already. Oh you've seen menaked several times, multiple times, yess

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in New York, not just ina romantic way, but also in many
other circumstances. Leio, what doyou always turned the lightshout and now handle
on the news, Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle KFI AM six forty,

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Bill Handle. Here it is aWednesday Morning, hook Day, January
twenty four. As we start aWednesday show and a quick hello too,
Let's start with kdo this morning?Yes, morning, Yes? And uh

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mo, yeah, and Neil,how are you this morning? You know
I cannot see a camel now withoutthinking of you and a Wednesday. I
know, I know nowhere I seea camel. Yeah, and double either
single hump or double hump. Twohumps are always better. Yeah, oh

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yeah yeah, and a lot ofus can't do that but quickly yes,
uh okay. Drama. What's thedifference between a dramedary and a camel?
I don't know, I don't know. There's a I think, I mean,
obviously there's a one hump versus twohump and there and I don't know
the names other than maybe the differenceis one is called one hump and the

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other one is called two humps,and it may be the scientific name.
There you go. Yeah, wellthere's that too. And good morning,
good morning. Oh you sound excitedand the lovely Amy good morning, well,
good morning, good morning. AndKno, I don't know if you've
shared that you are about to havea big, a big incident in your

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life. I mean I shared withyou, Okay, all right, and
it has to do with well,I don't want to push it, but
it has to do. It hasto do with penicillin and massive doses.
So we'll we'll leave that alone,okay. And sensations, yes, and
we'll go on and having you know, more discharges in the US Army hands

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out, Okay, you won't.We had to start, how could how
It's it's six o six and wehad we have to start the show,
don't we. Uh? Okay,let's just move on in the right direction
hopefully. Uh. It's time forHandle on the News with Amy King,

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Neil Sevadra and Me on this WednesdayMorning lead story. When chicken, that's
funny. No surprise. Trump wonthe New Hampshire primary, and then the
real issue was I mean, therewas talk about Nicky Hayley coming in and

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winning. Well, that went awayvery quickly, and the issue was how
close was she? How close asecond was she? And it's sort of
equivocal here, and that is ifshe won by single digits, that would
be a win. If she won, if she lost, if she lost

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by single digits, that would bea win. If she lost by double
ditches that dish double digits, thatwould be a huge loss. And it
was fifty two to forty three percent, So it's sort of yeah, I
don't know, and she is stayingin the race. And according to CNN,
Trump was more angry than he washappy than he won, because he

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it's being reported that he was He'sso pissed off that she isn't dropping out,
so angry because that's disloyal uh.And again, disloyalty is the number
one, Well number one, that'shis that's his uht, that's that's it's

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what he his loyalty. That's whythe second you say you are my god,
he's like, you're terrific. Yeah, you're terrific. You've been you
ran a great race. You're terrific. You did a big ley job.
I'm happy for you. And it'slike, and you're a great guy.
That's what happened with DeSantis rips intoTrump, Trump rips into him, and

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the second Santas drops out and endorsesTrump all of a sudden, DeSantis is
a good guy. So with thatbeing in mind, here's the scary part,
I mean, really frightening to meis what Trump says is loyalty to
him, is loyalty to the Constitution. Yeah. Yeah, And if you're
disloyal to him, you are disloyalto a constitution, the Constitution, and

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you are this close to being atrader. You know. It's scary stuff,
and especially the power he will have. He said if he becomes president
again, that he's going to changethe red strip to orange on the American
flag. Yeah that's how By theway, it's uh yeah, I don't
know how far off that is.You know, we changed, uh the

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entire paint scheme or the paint onthe Air Force one, you know that.
Uh he got rid of that incredibleblue and white, which I think
is absolutely lovely. It's magnificent.And now it's a thin red and red

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and white and blue stripe right downthe middle of the plane and it's you
know, maybe two inches and theplane is well, it's not Air Force
one at least the way I lookat it. Do you know who actually
came up with that, by theway, air Force one? Yeah,
no, the paint scheme on AirForce one, now, wasn't it Kennedy?
Yeah? It was Jackie Kennedy andhad hired one of the big designers,

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you know, graphic designers to dothat. It's beautiful. It's going
to be gone. Next plane they'rebuilding it now, Boeing is building it.
Now. Have you walked on thethe Reagan one at the race?
Yeah? I have. I have. And when you look at the difference
between Air Force one then and AirForce one nine, it's just Knight and
Day. So anyway, all right, let's move on. And so she's

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not quitting either. She says she'sstaying in the race, and that really
pisses them off. I mean she'sgonna lose. I mean, Trump has
the nomination wrapped up. I meanthat's a given. And if the election
were right now between Biden and Trump, Trump wins. So Boeing is making
the plane. Yeah, absolutely,and they don't have to worry through the

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planet air Force one lands, theydon't have to worry about actually opening the
door. It does it itself.Well, they've just changed their marketing and
they say Boeing now with three surpriseexits. Yeah, yeah, it's all
marketing. I get it. OK, here's a novel idea jail time for
criminals. Some lawmakers, law enforcementagencies, business owners and workers went to

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Sacramento or a rally to try toget people to support AB seventeen seventy two,
which would require jail time if someonewas convicted of a third theft crime.
Yeah, and which changes the philosophycompletely of the way we view jail
time and crime because shoplifting was notreally a crime. It was sort of

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a yeah, it's a crime,but it's it's like a traffic infraction because
these are not these are not realcriminals. Well, after you had the
smash and grabs and you have noyou see the video last night of that
family that owned that little business upin Santa Clarita where you have four people
break in, four guys break inand clean the place out, and as

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many times it's immigrant families that runthese places, and the entire family dives
in and works twenty four hours aday. And so finally the legislature says,
okay, you know what we're willingto do jail time now for a
third offense. It should be twentyfive to life for a first offense.
And the requirement is whoever gets convictedand goes to prison gets sodomized three times

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a day. That will show themthey stop putting your wishes out on the
public air. You know, Iwill say that it is. They should
just call this abu turn because nowwe're trying to go back to what the
sanity was originally. Yeah, allright, real crime. Okay, let's
go on. Let's get ready forthe Greater Los Angeles Homeless count all right,

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I'm twenty twenty four. That's wherethey get gosh, just thousands of
volunteers to sweep the spree streets ofLos Angeles. They go out across four
thousand square miles of LA County andthey count everything in these small groups.
They look for the number of unshelteredindividuals, tents, vehicles, any of

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the lean tos or the makeship shelters. We all see and they count them.
I don't know how accurate it is, but that's what say. It's
a snapshot. Yes, it's becausemany of the unhoused are there for a
week or two and then have housingand it goes back and forth and then
but it it gives us some ideaalso, I mean, thousands of volunteers

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a good percentage count and then goback to their tents. They're the ones.
Yeah, they start there themselves.Well, they're particularly careful about counting.
Yeah. You know what they usedto call those people that come in
for a small amount of time andthen leave transients Yeah, hobos, yeah,
bombers Yeah, oh good, goodgod. Try doing that today.

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All right, water wars could becomereal wars. So there's a water wars
competition that's about to get underway oris already getting underway in Seami Valley and
police are saying, hey, becareful. So the water wars competition is
high school students, mostly seniors.They plot and plan and go after other
high school students with water guns.But Seemi Valley police are saying, you

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gotta be careful because those water gunsare looking more and more like real guns.
So players apparently hide in parking lots, behind bushes other places, and
they try to take out the competition. They're only allowed to do it during
certain times of the day and thatkind of thing. But police are worried
that people who see them are goingto say, oh, that's a real

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gun, and yeah, callege officerhave it. How about the cops showing
up and shooting somebody because someone hascalled in said there's someone with a gun
out there and shooting at people.So the police already have the mindset of
they're dealing with someone with a weapon, and then what happens school shanked sanctioned.
So no, no, you knowwhat I've always thought always is,

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if you're really a criminal and thepolice are going to show up, put
that little yellow tag, a littleyellow little os yeah in front of the
gun, so you're never gonna getshot. Yeah. It's it's sad because
it's kind of a fun concept andit's playful. But unless you modify these

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things, most of them are translucent, you know what the old ones were,
And now you have those big waterboosters whatever they call those. Yeah,
well those don't look real though,No, they don't like uh bazooka.
Yeah, so those aren't going tobe those are not going to be
misconstrued, right. But police aresaying that the water gun technology has gotten

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more sophisticated, and so now alot of the guns can be sold without
those orange tips. Yeah, andthey really do look like real weapons.
Yeah. Also the cops are saying, these water guns are not just a
little spray of water. There isa lot of pressure. Oh no,
you can get battery powered ones nowthat are automatic. They go up,

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up, up, up and shootblasts of water. They're pretty intense.
Not that I know anything about them, right of course to say no,
I would play with them during thesummer. AnyWho. La Times this was
a big deal. One hundred andfifteen people or so being laid off.
It's about twenty percent of the newsroom, this one hundred and forty two

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year old institution that has seen betterdays. You know, they left downtown
LA, they left that I Honicbuilding. They're now in else else.
Agundo. They're just saying, listen, we can't lose thirty to forty million
dollars a year with zero progress towardsyou know, getting more readers without doing

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something. A couple of things.First of all, the workers are in
an uproar. They how dare youlay any of us off? You should
be losing thirty or four million dollarsthirty or forty million dollars a year because
our jobs are more important than that. That's for starters. Also, the
La Times was late coming into theonline reporting. New York Times caught it

(13:41):
almost immediately. And the New YorkTimes is right at the uh, the
head of the class, not onlybecause it's the New York Times and it's
always been considered a better paper.New York Times is considered the paper in
the United States, but also theyjust caught it early on and are doing
okay. But I think they've shutdown bureaus all over the world too.

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Yeah, they've focused on different parts. Their digital assets are great, and
their podcast assets are great. Andyes, LA Times was late to the
game. It is strange though,when you cut the very product that you're
trying to deliver. That doesn't seemlike good management either. I mean,

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they have a great food section thereat the La Times too. I'm hoping
no one from there got laid off, but they I don't know, you'd
be or if they didn't, thenthey're only hiring anorexic food writers who don't
actually go out that we didn't haveany bills to Yah. Yeah, you

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won't have to pay them back foranything. Reimbursement is nil now because they're
like, I got some water,nice, nice bill. I like the
way you poke at people's weight issues. Go ahead, take a shot at
me. Okay, Okay, here'sthe scenario. Kid gets arrested because he's
a kid. He's released to hisparents and guess what gets arrested again.

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Okay, So you had mentioned thatrobbery at the Rubens or the burglary at
the Rubens Mexican Bakery and Cafe,and one of the people involved allegedly was
a thirteen year old, and thethirteen year old was arrested for being the
driver of that Kia that backed intothe bakery and pulled out and backed in

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again and crashed into it, whichlet a bunch of people get in and
basically ransack it. So he wasarrested, then released, and then arrested
for another robbery. Lovely one hundredpeople. By the way, it's being
reported that after the car crashed intothe door, they came in and ransacked

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and looted the place. Lovely onehundred people is thirteen years old. So
he's arrested, he's released again.He could be back and forth. He
could literally commit the crime, bereleased next day, committed a crime same
day, and he's thirteen years old. Which is why I believe that my

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line at juvenile is filing a juvenilecharge and not and treating him differently is
about age six at age seven,put them away nice, thank you.
You know, by the way,there is that that's pretty close to the
way I think. No, Iknow, That's why I'm trying to Okay,

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all right, maybe age seven isa little bit of an exaggeration.
Let's go to age nine. RubensBakery, by the way, sustained forty
thousand dollars in stolen items and damage. And you gotta think at this point
it's not it's not stealing anymore.That's terrorism. Yeah, I mean a
good point. The American dream thesepeople, that's why these things of running

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into stores, grabbing, smashing.It becomes terrorism to me, and a
totally different level of punishment should be. Okay, that resonates, all right,
even after you know all the storeclosings we've been hearing about and all
the layoffs Macy's rejected a five pointeight billion dollar takeover bid from you know,

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investment firms and all of these things. And it looks like they're saying
after their board reviews the proposal,and they said they just they had concerns
about the financing plan, felt likethere was a lack of compelling value.
Yeah, they're saying, we're notgetting enough money. So when you're closing

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and laying twenty five hundred people off, this is high management of your Yeah.
Matter of fact, I'm going todo a story later on about how
management protects its own ass and that'sfar more important than doing a good job
for shareholders and employees and the public. It's much like people who run for

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office. Being re elected is themost important thing. There are very few
Liz Cheneys in the world that arein elected office, and there are very
few CEOs and boards that really careabout the value. Well as shareholders,
they care about the value, Butas far as taking care of everybody else,

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eh, don't think so. AllRight, water wars could become real
wars. So there's a water warscompetition that's about to get underway or is
already getting underway in Semi Valley andpolice are saying, hey, be careful.
So the water Wars competition is highschool students, mostly seniors. They

(18:48):
plot and plan and go after otherhigh school students with water guns. But
Seemi Valley police are saying, yougotta be careful because those water guns are
looking more and more like real guns. So players apparently hide in parking lots,
behind bushes other places, and theytry to take out the competition.
They're only allowed to do it duringcertain times of the day and that kind

(19:11):
of thing. But police are worriedthat people who see them are going to
say, oh, that's a realgun. And how about the cops showing
up and shooting somebody because someone hascalled in said there's someone with a gun
out there and shooting at people.So the police already have the mindset of

(19:32):
they're dealing with someone with a weapon, and then what happens school shank sanctioned.
So no, no, you knowwhat I've always thought always is,
if you're really a criminal and thepolice are going to show up, put
that little yellow tag, a littleyellow little oisip, yeah, in front

(19:52):
of the gun, so you're nevergoing to get shot. Yeah, It's
it's sad because it's kind of afun concept and it's playful. But unless
you modify these things. Most ofthem are translucent, you know what the
old ones were. And now youhave those big water boosters whatever they call
those. Yeah, well those don'tlook real though. No, they don't

(20:18):
like bazookas. Yeah, so thosearen't going to be uh, those are
not going to be misconstrued, right, But police are saying that the water
gun technology has gotten more sophisticated andso now a lot of the guns can
be sold without those orange tips.Yeah, and they really do look like
real weapons. Yeah. Also,the cops are saying, these water guns

(20:38):
are not just a little spray ofwater. There is a lot of pressure.
Oh no, you can get batterypowered ones now that are automatic.
They go up, up, up, up and shoot blasts of water.
They're pretty intense. Not that Iknow anything about them, right of course
to say, no, I wouldplay with them during the summer. AnyWho.

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La Times. This was a bigdeal. One hundred and fifteen people
or so being laid off. It'sabout twenty percent of the news room,
this one hundred and forty two yearold institution that has seen better days.
You know, they they left downtownLa They left that iconic building. They're
now in El Segundo. They're justsaying, listen, we can't lose thirty

(21:27):
to forty million dollars a year withzero progress towards, you know, getting
more readers without doing something. Acouple of things. First of all,
the workers are in an uproar.They how dare you lay any of us
off? You should be losing thirtyor four million dollars thirty or forty million

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dollars a year because our jobs aremore important than that. That's for starters.
Also, the LA Times was latecoming into the online reporting. New
York Times caught it almost immediately.And the New York Times is right at
the head of the class, notonly because it's the New York Times and

(22:08):
it's always been considered a better paper. New York Times is considered the paper
in the United States, but alsothey just caught it early on and are
doing okay. But I think they'veshut down bureaus all over the world too.
Yeah, they've focused on different parts. Their digital assets are great,

(22:29):
and their podcast assets are great.And yes, LA Times was late to
the game. It is strange though, when you cut the very product that
you're trying to deliver. That doesn'tseem like good management either. I mean,
they have a great food section thereat the La Times too. I'm
hoping no one from there got laidoff, but they I don't know,

(22:52):
you'd be or if they didn't,then they're only hiring Anarexic food writers who
don't actually go out. That won'thave any bills to yes, yeah,
yeah, you won't have to paythem back for anything. Reimbursement is nail
now because they're like, I gotsome water, nice, nice bill.

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I like the way you poke atpeople's weight issues. Go ahead, take
a shot at me. Okay,Okay, here's the scenario. Kid gets
arrested because he's a kid, He'sreleased to his parents and guess what gets
arrested again. Okay, so youhad mentioned that robbery at the Rubens or
the burglary at the Rubens Mexican Bakeryand Cafe, and one of the people

(23:41):
involved allegedly was a thirteen year old, and the thirteen year old was arrested
for being the driver of that Kiathat backed into the bakery and pulled out
and backed in again and crashed intoit, which let a bunch of people
get in and basically ransack it.So he was arrested, then released,
and then arrested for another robbery Lovelyone hundred people. By the way,

(24:08):
it's being reported that after the carcrashed into the door, they came in
and ransacked and looted the place.Lovely one hundred people. But the kids
is thirteen years old. So he'sarrested, he's released again. He could
be back and forth. He couldliterally commit the crime, be released next

(24:29):
day, committed a crime same day. And he's thirteen years old. Which
is why I believe that my lineat juvenile is filing a juvenile charge and
and treating him differently is about agesix at age seven, put them away

(24:51):
nice, thank you, by theway, there is that's pretty close to
the way I think. No,I know, that's why trying to Okay,
all right, maybe eight seven's alittle bit of a an exaggeration.
Let's go to age nine. Ruben'sBakery, by the way, sustained forty
thousand dollars in stolen items and damage. And you got to think, at
this point, it's not it's notstealing anymore. That's terrorism. Yeah,

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I mean, a good point.American dream. These people That's why these
things of running into stores, grabbing, smashing, it becomes terrorism to me,
and a totally different level of punishmentshould be Okay, that resonates,
all right, even after you knowall the store closings we've been hearing about
and all the layoffs. Macy's rejecteda five point eight billion dollar takeover bid

(25:41):
from you know, investment firms andall of these things. And it looks
like they're saying after their board reviewsthe proposal, and they said they just
they had concerns about the financing plan, felt like there was a lack of
compelling value. Yeah, they're saying, we're not getting enough money. So

(26:02):
when you're closing and laying twenty fivehundred people off, this is high management
of your Yeah. Matter of fact, I'm going to do a story later
on about how management protects its ownass and that's far more important than doing
a good job for shareholders and employeesand the public. It's much like people

(26:23):
who run for office, being reelected is the most important thing. There
are very few Liz Cheneys in theworld that are in elected office, and
there are very few CEOs and boardsthat really care about the value well as
shareholders they care about the value,but as far as taking care of everybody

(26:47):
else, eh, don't think so. All right to two, here's the
project I can get on board with. Okay, So the US Department of
Transportation has approved two and a halfbillion dollars in bonds to go to the
Bright Line project. Remember that's thehigh speed rail line between southern California and

(27:11):
Las Vegas. And then this newfunding goes on top of a billion dollars
in private activity bonds that were previouslyallocated and a three billion dollar federal grant
that was announced in December. Soit looks like they're going to break ground
on this thing early this year.They haven't announced a date. The goal
is to have it up and runningby the Olympics. It would be two

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hundred and eighteen miles a rail line, mostly along the fifteen Corridor towards Las
Vegas, and the train would apparentlygo up to one hundred eighty six miles
an hour and could get you toVegas in two hours instead of driving which
takes four. Yeah. Now lookat the numbers here. This is much
like the Concord. When they builtthe Concord, it was losing money just

(27:56):
to just to keep it working.Forget about all the R and D,
the billions of R and D moneythat was just written off. I think
the same thing here, just puttingthis together in the billions of tens of
billions of dollars that's going to haveto be written off, And how much
you think the tickets are going tocost just to keep this thing going.

(28:18):
Bill You don't understand people in RanchoCuca Manga really need to get to Vegas
two hours more quickly. Yeah,Now that's not as bad as the one
where you go from Weed, Californiato Fresno. That one's a little tougher
to stomach. But yeah, Iwould take this train though, Like now,

(28:38):
you know what, I'm a bigVegas fan and I think it would
be fun to go on a partytrain. Yeah, and it basically becomes
a party or you just yeah,because everybody's happy, everybody's drinking, and
you're sitting around and you're not runninginto people with these head on collisions.
Yep, you know you can.Maybe you do, but you don't talk
about it afterwards. What you cantake a plane, it's forty five minutes.

(29:02):
It just nah, but you havethe airport, you have security,
you're sitting on the tarmac, you'rewaiting for a gate. No, not
out of Burbank. Still you stillhave a It's if you put all of
it together, it's still a couple. Well I did two three hours,
and you sit in a car init's four hours. You want to hear
something heartbreaking. A little side noteabout Burbank Airport. I was flying to

(29:26):
Vegas. I went to the winda lot last year, and I was
walking into the airport. There's abig image of Bob Hope. A little
girl, not little maybe she's inher teens, and she goes, who's
that guy? And the mom goes, oh, he was a guy who

(29:48):
was famous a long time ago.And I'm like, uh yeah, same
thing with Yeah, same thing withTom Bradley, same thing. But you're
right, Bob Hope is far moreiconic. You know. You know why
they don't call it Bob Hope anymore. The Bob Hope airplane, like that
fire, Well there's that. Andalso because people didn't know where it was.

(30:11):
Yeah, but it still don't theycall it burb They call it Burbank,
Hollywood, Holly first, Hollywood Burbankbecause that gives you a geographical area,
and you know exactly where it is, as opposed to the Bob Hope
Airport where they held it. Wherethey held it. Bob he happened to
live into Luca Lake, but heheld knew anything there. Bob Hope Airport

(30:32):
in Burbank. Hey, that's likethe Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Orange
County, all right north of coastto Mesa. I rest my case,
Netflix, this is actually important,not because it has to do with wrestling
or the UFC, but because Netflixis looking to stream live events and that

(30:53):
could be cool. So yesterday Netflixand the WWE UFC announced this long term
deal giving the streaming service rights toair raw live one of the wrestling events.
And this could mean that we're goingto be looking at more and more
live events coming to Netflix, whichcould be could be interesting in the days

(31:15):
to come. I don't understand this. I don't understand wrestling. And you
know, these WrestleManias will fill upDodger Stadium, I mean will fill up
stadium because it's fun. Yeah,and certainly not a sports event because it's
all rehearsed. Oh yeah, youwant to get in the ring with those
guys? No? No, theyget hurt. I mean, you get

(31:36):
banged up. But you know,let me tell you, Oh, here
it is. You can get someinside scoop as to who's going to win,
because there are people that know that. Okay, well, is gymnastics
the sport? Sure, okay,well, what the only difference is they're
not doing it on someone. No, No, the only difference is it

(32:00):
is you're really competing in the UFC. There is an actual their mixed martial
arts they're fighting. Yeah. Those, you don't know who's gonna win those?
I get. You know that it'sopened. Someone can win, someone
can lose, and you don't knowin advance all the wrestling stuff. If
I understand it correctly, they haveto I think they have to label it

(32:23):
as exhibitions as opposed to sports events. And I may be wrong on that.
I'm pretty sure you can't bet onthem, That's what I'm saying,
because the winner is already decided.Oh Yrs news if you do bet on
it and you end up claiming iton your taxes. The IRS is making

(32:45):
moves to make tax documents easier todecipher. So they're launching a new plan
to redesign common tax documents. Andthese are the documents that you get to
remind you either how much you oweor that you made a mistake on your
return or that you've been a victimof identity theft. And apparently these forms

(33:05):
right now that you get from theIRS are very confusing, full of technical
jargon and hard to decipher. Sothey said we're going to make it easier,
and all is twenty million taxpayers willget these this year and then they'll
roll it out. You know,there are there's nobody who is actually sending
these out. This is all algorithmswhere the algorithm checks your tax return and

(33:28):
checks against the ten ninety nine's ifyou have gotten those, or checks the
amount of money that have been thatyou can deduct as against your deduction personal
deduction. One thing I'll give youfor Donald Trump, it was, I
think it was during the Trump administration, is he allowed I think a twenty

(33:49):
four thousand dollars simple deduction. It'sone page and you get that that was
easy for people if people making undertwenty four thousand dollars, heretofore head fill
out these forms and they are well, you can't read them, so I
don't think you just simplify it.Yeah, how do you feel about a
flat tax or something like just asimple percentage without all the dot. It's

(34:13):
regressive. The problem is it's regressive, and that's the argument for a graduated
tax, where the more money youearn, the bigger percentage they want from
you. Because rich people should notbe rich people. There's distribution of wealth.
But also with the tax code,the deductions and the if you want
to call them loopholes, the dutchesare astronomical. I mean, that is

(34:37):
what all of these lobbies, lobbygroups have pushed over the years. So
it's so back to regressive them.So back to regressive. Fifteen percent.
If you make ten thousand dollars isfifteen hundred dollars. That is a huge
hit. If you make ten milliondollars and you lose one point five million,

(34:58):
that really isn't a lot of money. I mean, you know,
you don't want to pay it,but doesn't change your life. Fifteen hundred
dollars on ten thousand, that changesyour life. That's why it's a graduated
tax system where a flat tax isconsidered regressive, and you know it,
the graduated system helps four people theoretically, So Ryan Gosling Tuesday, they came

(35:20):
out with all the early in themorning, they came out with all the
Oscar nominations. Ryan Gosling is nominatedfor the movie Barbie and his work there.
America Ferrera also earned a Supporting ActressActress nod for her performance in the
film, but Margot Robbie the starand Greta Gerwick the director did not.

(35:44):
And everybody is up in plastic armsabout it, except Ryan Gosling had to
put his exclamation point on it bycoming out and saying that there would be
no Barbie movie without Barbie herself andGreta Gerr. Yeah. But now he's
still going to take the award.Of course if he wins. There's no

(36:05):
issue that if he really if hereally felt that way and had any kind
of moral compass about this, ifyou want to talk about morality, he
would do what George C. Scottdid. I'm not interested, No,
thank you done. How can youyou know who was it? There was?

(36:27):
What is Ben Affleck when he directedone of his films and he won
for Best Actor area Yeah, yeah, I mean it happens all the time,
but he didn't get bet direct.Listen, you either trust the nomination
process or you don't. And inthis particular case, you could also say
they're saying, well, see,this just proves the movie's point that it's

(36:49):
a misogynistic world and they're not beingrecognized. But I can look at them
and say, hey, you looklike you're just saying, yes, the
brown girl, America Ferrera, Yeahshe got nominated, but how about the
how about the white girl who playedthe lead? Because it just works weirdly,
that's all. Yeah, there areplenty of films out there that want

(37:10):
Academy Awards that have all women casts. They've done that, like America.
They should be celebrating that America Ferrera, from what I heard, did an
amazing job and one of the mostpoignant parts of the entire movie. They
should be celebrating that. What's aboutDid you see the movie? Did you

(37:30):
see the movie? No? Ihave little to no desire? Yeah,
exactly. You know, my assis more poignant than the movie. Okay,
okay, not that my ass ispoignant? Did you say pointed?
I have no idea why I saidthat. That's a pimple. Yeah,
that was that was just weird.New study ties obesity and loneliness to death.

(37:57):
Yeah, so the studies says ithighlights the importance of taking social and
mental health into account in improving healthfor people with obesity, and saying that
people who are classified as obese andget treated for loneliness and social social isolation
easy for me to say, canlower their risk of death by about thirty

(38:17):
percent. Yeah, that makes sense, fat people, and I've been there.
It's a lonely place to be,very sort of conscious. I was
huge, I was enormous and lonelybecause of my weight, and then of
course I got thin, still lonely, so it turned out to be it

(38:38):
didn't matter for me. But youconnect loneliness to obesity and loneliness and were
herd animals. That's just what weare. People would like hanging out with
people, unless you're a recluse ora hermit. But for the most part,

(38:58):
people suffer and they're alone. Theyare people have dogs that when they
live at home, when they livewith extended family, are very tight.
They just do better. They doall right. Guys, We are done.
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