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You're listening to KFI AM six forty. The Bill Handles show on demand on
the iHeartRadio. F Hump Day,February twenty eighth, the last day of
the month, except not this month. It's leap year, and this is
when we celebrate royalty in a waythat we rarely do. Five lords a
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leaping because it's leap year. SometimesI stretch and it doesn't work. I
would say that one definitely is inthat category. Wow, yeah, pretty
much. Okay, fair enough.Let's say, well, let's let me
say hello. Well you you're notgonna let me, I'm going to so
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I will now say hello. Wow. Yeah. Well, I just want
to make sure that we have theyou know, the categories established here.
Good morning Neil, Good morning WillieWolf handle a square and behind Neil,
and he puts this up all thetime because I'm watching Neil on a screen
as I watch everybody on the screen, everybody watches me on a screen because
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we're all in different studios. Neilputs up behind him, well, it's
something relating to the topic or makingfun of me, And across the top,
guess what day it is, Andof course a photo of a camel
looking right at me. You everridden a camel? Yeah, yeah,
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boy, they're vicious little things.You know, what are you talking about?
I've written a cable next to you. That's true. And what's fun
about a camel is when you go, for example, you go to Egypt
near the Pyramids, there's tons ofcamels. It's all touristy like crazy,
and you get on a camel andyou get pictures in front of the pyramids
and it is so cheap. Itis just a dollar to get on the
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camel. The problem is it's twentydollars to get off the camel. Those
people, they they know what theyare doing in terms of business. No,
twenty dollars, Well, enjoy yourcamel ride. And camel rides are
not comfortable at all. They youknow, the camels, they don't walk
like horses or dogs. It's thesame back in front, their legs go
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at the same time, back infront. So there's a lot of you
know it, waivers. It's weird. Yeah, it is weird. It's
very uncomfortable. No, we rodethem together in Morocco. Well, oh
Morocco too, Yeah, yeah,can you remember we had that campsite we
had to walk out there on camels. Yeah, and it was so cold.
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It was the desert I had wasfreezing cold. I had one inch
that was bear on my neck.I was wrapped up completely and it and
it froze just that peace. Duringthe day, I mean this was summertime.
During the day, it's one hundredand eighty degrees and then at night
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it's like being in outer space atnight. It was in the thirties,
but it was maybe even the twentiesand may have been below freezing. There's
no water there, so anyway,and good morning, good morning Wolf,
be Wolf, Wolf you Wolf.Yeah, that's so clever. I should
have I should have kept my middlename Wolf because that you know, Wolf
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Blitzer does it, and that's sucha cool name. But I couldn't.
When I was a kid, Icouldn't, do you know. I chose
my own name, William, likewhen you came out, yeah, or
when I came out. That's thatwould have been Judy what I came out.
Uh no, uh no, no, I chose my own name.
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And when we were naturalized. WhenI when I was a naturalized American citizen,
I didn't want to be Wolf anymorebecause all the kids were making fun
of me. So, now whatdo you want to be? And I
said, so William did it?Yeah, William Tael cartoon or something.
All right, Amy, good morning? Well, Hi Bill? How are
you? No, I'm just fabulous. Thank you. I know you love
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it when people ask you how youare. Yeah, I know, yeah,
I know, especially on Handle onthe Lock because people are told specifically
do not ask Bill how he is? Bill, how are you horrible?
Now let's move on or okay,what do you want? And then Tony,
good morning, good morning. Youknow you actually look more awake than
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you do normally. First of all, your eyes are open today. I
actually slept a little. Wow.That's good. All right, guys,
you're ready to do it? Yep. On this humpday, Wednesday, February
twenty eighth, Handle on the Newswith Amy King and Neil and Me lead
story. Well, the shutdown comingup this weekend Saturday night. It looks
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like it may not. The governmentmay in fact continue going. You had
House Speaker Mike Johnson and Chuck Schumerin the White House among other congressional leaders
talking about how and this is Bidencalling them saying we've got we cannot let
the government shut down and Mike Johnson, who has to kowtow to the fundamental
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as far right Republicans and the partywho really have unbelievable influence, and he
said, and they are willing toshut down the government. I mean,
if they don't get this long listof demands, they're saying, we're going
to shut down the government, andthey have the power to do so.
So it looks like a deal iscoming now. One of the things about
the fundamental right Republicans, they havea hell of a point, and that
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is we have to stop spending.We're going to have over a trillion,
well over a trillion dollars, approachingtwo trillion dollars in deficit. So there's
two things that they're doing. Oneis ridiculous and one makes all the sense
in the world. Spending too muchmoney makes all the sense of the world.
You got to cut the budget toborder security and you have to secure
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the border per our demands, nocompromise. You will either fix the border
per our demands, or we're goingto shut down. Looks like that's going
away. It looks like both ofthem are going away. And a lot
of it has to do with thethe a to Ukraine, which You've got
a lot of Republicans or Democrats aresaying, you know, we got to
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stop that aid to Israel. Isstill everybody's everybody's comfortable with that as of
right now. Mayor Basss secured somecash frush off of meetings in Sacramento.
Mayor Baths and other city officials saidthat the LA area is going to get
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three hundred million dollars in emergency reimbursementsfrom the federal government, including sixty million
dollars that will directly go to thecity to reimburse for COVID nineteen expenses.
The other money will go to homelessnessand storm relief. Yeah, this is
money that should have gone to thecity anyway in the county and the state
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per the emergency COVID expenditures, andjust the money was just flying out the
door. I mean, it wastotally uncontrolled. But you know, here's
the choice. The government had,same choice that BP had. Remember deep
Water Horizon that blew up and allthe oil went across the Louisiana coast.
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It's businesses and people were so hurtby it, all so impacted that BP
just started writing checks. The fraudwas astounding. Here we got well,
how much money did we get interms of people were making more money,
not only the FEDS and the issuethe STEMS check, people were on unemployment
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and then California got six hundred dollarsa week, even more Californians and people
were making more money than when theywere working. So part of all of
that was the money that was goingto go to Los Angeles, which is
still out there. They didn't rescindit because that was established by law,
it was by directive and so hey, here's three hundred million dollars you guys
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didn't give us. So I don'tgive Karen Bass all that much credit for
securing this. It's mony that's owed. Thank you to pay us. I
can't hear you, Neil, sorryabout that. Yeah, thank god we've
got more money going towards the homelessbecause they've been doing so great with all
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the money and they've thrown into itso far. Yeah, it's all all
helping. Let's take a break.We're coming back. You're listening to Bill
Handle on demand from KFI AM sixforty. Could they before the end of
February. You don't want to makeit a big deal out of Leapier.
We should you know what, andlet's do this this Neil brought up,
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let's do a topic on No,we'll do it tomorrow. We'll do it
tomorrow on the origin of Leapier,how it works, both historically when it
was all put together and scientifically,what it means, and how it's not
completely exact because the Earth is actuallyslowing down, you know that by one
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tenth of one mile per hour forevery century or something. So we'll do
that tomorrow. You know, theorgan the origins of Leapier, and Neil
and I were talking about that.Yeah, the math behind it's pretty yeah.
Yeah, I'm going back to theancient Egyptians that is today Leapier eve.
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Oh yeah, air of Leapier.Air of Leapier. Day Arab is
Hebrew or the night before, soit's era of Yom Kipur, the night
before on just the Yeah, AraArab. Christmas is in Hebrew, the
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night before Christmas. A little bitof a just means evening, yes Arab?
Yes, yeah, Okay, enoughof that. Are you ready to
continue on with handle on us?Yes, Amy, King Neil Savedra and
MOI. President Joe Biden easily wonMichigan's Democratic primary yesterday. And this is
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despite that grassroots effort to cast protestvotes, you know, the uncommitted votes
because of his handling of the warin Gaza. And the issue was not
that he was going to win.I mean, Dean Phillips, who we
had on the show, is simplya protest vote. But this was a
legitimate protest vote. How many peoplewould say they were unallowed, that they
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were not voting? Fourteen percent didn'tAnd I don't know what was expected.
I don't know if we have thatnews amy as to what the expectation is
for the basically protest vote against Biden. You mean, how many they expected
to vote that way? Yeah?What percent? I think it was right.
They were saying around one hundred thousand, and that's what that's who did,
all right, So they got itbasically the way they wanted, and
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it was simply a protest vote.Every one of those people going to vote
for Biden, I mean, orthey're not going to vote, which means
Donald Trump. They're a non votefor Biden. A Democrat deciding not to
vote is really a vote for DonaldTrump, and it's you know, someone
those Democrats have to wake up.Except that there was also we were talking
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to Stephen Portinite about this a wakeup call there. There was also a
large number of people who did theuncommitted on the Republican side, not one
hundred thousand, but a substantial amount, And like three hundred and fifty thousand
people voted for Nicki Haley as opposedto Donald Trump. So they have the
same problem on the Republican side,except Nicki Haley will be out. So
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you've got the Democrats either voting forJoe Biden, we're not voting, which
means that's a vote for Donald Trump. The Republicans deciding not to vote is
a vote for Joe Biden. Andthe problem is Republicans are far more engaged
than the Democrats are in this presidentialrace. And it's just the question is
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the numbers and the independent votes.Okay, California beaches not exactly pristine right
now because more sewage is dumped intothe ocean. This time it's in Santa
Barbara County. Couple beaches are closed. They initially thought it was five hundred
thousand gallons, but now they're sayingit's about a million gallons that have dumped
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into the water near the from theSanta Barbara Airport area to the Galita Slough,
you know those and the two beacheswe're closed is a crap Beach and
feces Beach. They're right next toeach other. And then the beautiful overlook
of dun Dune is just I mean, this time of year is magic.
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Yeah, can't they fix this?Is? This is what happens is the
storms come in and the sewage plantsjust don't work. They're overwhelmed because they're
not they don't have the capacity totake all the water coming in. Now
Here is a little factoid. Oneof the most or the most successful and
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efficient sewage plants is in the Marina, and that's the Hyperion plant. And
this is La City, and thathigh the Hyperion plant can actually sustain the
sewage of the population twice the sizeof Los Angeles. It is extraordinarily built
well. But you know it isalso victim too, you know, too
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much rain water coming in. Soyou know, let's go back to crap
Beach and feces Beach. I wouldn'tgo swimming, you know, if you're
going to, you know, takea jacuzzi in your toilet. I mean,
you know, you can you know, water swirls around. You can
you know the water? There's whywhy go to the beach. Yeah,
it's the only place in the worldwhere you pray for a shark instead of
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a floater. Yes, like nicelysaid, rapid growing Texas wildfire had prompted
evacuations. Smarter. These small townswere ordered to evacuate. You got strong
winds, you got dry grass.Of course, the unseasonably warm temperatures were
seeing all over the place. Andit also prompts the shutdown of nuclear weapons
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facility out there in Texas. Yeah. Can you imagine blowing up and blowing
up by accident because the fire goingthrough, it's like a fireworks factory.
If a fire goes through, boomup it goes. Now, this is
the Texas Panhandle. This is thesize of a California wildfire. Actually they're
saying it's a million acres that we'retalking about. And what does that go
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to show? You? Look atclimate change where look at the rains we
get that we have gotten record rains. Look at the East Coast that went
through all these horrible storms now goingthrough a dry spell that they're breaking every
record of heat along the East Coast. And now you have California like wildfires
in Texas. I've never heard aTexas pandle a Panhandle wildfire of this level.
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Now, when they say the droughtsare going to get droughtier, the
storms are going to get stormier,the hurricanes are going to get more hurricane
like or hurricane ear, it's hey, it's happening. I'm right in front
of our faces. It's happening.Very depressing. Suicides should be much much
higher. I'm telling you there's amiracle that we don't have more. I'm
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sorry, Amy, Let's go aheadand get your story before we bail.
Okay, this sanctuary city may notbe all it's cracked up to be.
Mayor Eric Adams in New York Cityapparently is changing his tune and is supporting
a modification of laws that have madeNew York a sanctuary city. He said
that migrants who commit serious crimes shouldbe deported and that the city should be
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able to communicate with federal ice agents, which, of course, in a
sanctuary city situation, that is notpossible. You can't by law. City
council says, you cannot same thingwith city councils. With the cities here,
if someone is a criminal right andis held on a criminal charge.
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They don't even ask if that personis illegal or not. And it used
to be that if someone is perceivedto be I legal, ICE would be
called. So as soon as theywere out of prison or let go under
bond or whatever, ICE was informedwould pick that person up and begin deportation
hearings. Sanctuary cities do not allowthat to happen. You don't call ICE.
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Well, you know, yeah,how many migrants, undocumented migrants have
poured into New York. You've seenthose buses after bus after bus, and
what does the city do. Sanctuarycity puts them up in hotel rooms,
takes care of them, and itdoor overwhelmed. They're at New York's at
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the breaking point. And Eric Adamsis going, Okay, I get it.
I'm finally listening because we have tomaintain New York as New York.
Okay, We're going to take abreak, come back, and there's more.
There's more Handle on the news.You're listening to Bill Handle on demand
from KFI AM six forty Wednesday morning, Humpday, February twenty eighth, second
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to last day of February this month. And we continue with handle on the
news, Amy King and Neil andMe talk about doing anything for the w
You've got the US women's cycling team. They've been suspended by the International Cycling
Union. Why because they perpetrated fraud. They dressed one of their mechanics as
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a writer in order to avoid disqualificationbecause they had four writers and needed five.
So they just threw the outfit ontheir mechanic and said, just go
to the starting line and pretend likeyou're with us. Where's the fifth person?
They don't know? Didn't show up? Oh, just didn't show Yeah,
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well I don't know. They liedabout it. Yeah they did.
Well, they didn't actually lie aboutit. I mean their defense. If
I'm their lawyer, and that's inquotes representing them, I'd say, you
know what, I think it's ashe. It can't be a Shenisa.
Yeah, Susnika. Maybe it is. Was actually on her way to a
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costume party. And don't don't hitus with that. What do you think?
Huh? Good defense. This iswhy I get paid the big dollars
to be a lawyer. Yeah,well that's why you're on radio. Well,
I give free advice, and asI've said, people overpay for it.
Yeah, I could do. That'sthe only legal show in America I
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could do. Yeah. The problemis strangely enough, you actually have to
be licensed. I'm sorry to tellyou. Really. Yeah, who's who
the hell is licensing you? StateBar of California, State Bar licensed nine
oh ninety seven one. Wow,that's the lowest bar. Did they call
you the limbo lawyer? That baris low? Yeah? Oh, very
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good. Okay, got a convictionmore than twenty years in the making.
A jury in Brooklyn has found twomen guilty of the murder of run DMC
star jam Master J. So theconviction comes yesterday, twenty two years after
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he was shot and killed in frontof his studio or in his studio in
front of other people. The shootinghappened October thirtieth, two thousand and two.
Prosecutors said the two guys killed thefamed DJ as an active revenge for
a failed drug deal. These rappershave a really interesting history, don't they
and lifestyle. So you have jamMaster, you have a notorious big Remember
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he was killed two pac or isit six pack? Two pac? Okay?
Wow, okay, thanks for thatdope break. Actually, you know
he actually had a six pack.I mean, the guy was well built.
You know, he had those abominablemuscles there, the abominable muscles.
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Handle you crack me up here,you are the dumbest smart person I know.
Okay, right, why do wemove on? What do you think?
Let's do it. So strong performancesin stocks and bonds in twenty twenty
three and then you you know,put that together with steady savings rates and
employee provided matching contributions, the fourto oh one K investors ended twenty twenty
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three looking pretty pretty good. Sothis fourth quarter data from Fidelity Investments shows
that, yes, things were movingup. But they also reported that a
number of the four oh one kaccounts balances with one million dollars rose in
the fourth quarter by twenty percent.So people that have one million dollars in
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their four oh one k, whichis not me, but that's kind of
cool, yeah, like, andthat's not bad. With a million dollars.
You have to ask people what kindof money do you need to be
comfortable? And people way understated.So here you are with a million dollars.
Realistically, to keep the million dollarsin place, about four percent return
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is about right. That's forty thousanddollars a year. Now that's not bad,
I mean adding forty thousand dollars ayear to your social security, but
it's not a great, great livingbecause if your social security and forty thousand
dollars a year, so let's sayyou get two thousand dollars twenty five hundred
dollars for your social security, you'renow on seventy thousand dollars a year,
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which isn't bad except in southern Californiawhere it's poverty level. Pretty much,
seventy thousand dollars a year does notgo very far. You're not driving,
and that's with a million dollars inyour portfolio. What does Joel Larsgard say?
Says, pension, savings and socialsecurity are the three that should get
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you to where you need to go. No pension, those are gone.
There are almost pensions, so doyou that's because we're in the union.
Yeah, that is a union pension. How many people are number one in
unions and number two that have healthypensions? The after pension is pretty good.
Yeah, And well there's a reasonthe after pension is pretty good,
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and that is that, first ofall, the media companies put into the
pension. We don't put into it, which is great. Second of all,
up to fifteen thousand dollars. Itused to be that way, you
don't get any pension, but thepension still collects. Right, the media
companies have to still put in andso that's free money for them. That
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just they get that. And itused to be, oh god, this
was wonderful when that happened. Itused to be I think it was ten
percent the media companies put in.There was a limit the IRS lets you
put into the pension, and soall the rest of it. Let's say
you made if you were a highhigh earner, I mean million dollars a
year. So the pension, theIRS only lets one hundred thousand dollars go
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into the pension. Uh and thepension plan gets two hundred thousand dollars ten
percent. Well, all of therest of it is free to the pension
after putting in the one and tenor the one hundred thousand dollars. That's
why AFTRA is doing so well andour pension is so strong. Okay,
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yeah, now there's a world tothat. Believe me, I looked into
that. Why you don't think I'mgoing to look into how much money I'm
going to get when I retire.I'm not saying anything, of course you're
not. But anyway, very veryfew pensions are out there. So that's
done, and you have basically sosecure in whatever you've saved up. Four
oh one k and this is whatwe're talking about. Four one ks.
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Okay, just take a break.What do you think. I think that's
an excellent idea. Yeah, longlecture on a pension, matter of fact,
and let's do an entire show onthe minutia of pensions tomorrow because we
might as well put people to sleepfor three hours. You're listening to Bill
Handle on demand from KFI AM sixforty, and it's not the last day
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of February. Matter of fact.When we talk about leap day amy,
as we go back to the news, well here's the way to get out
of celebrating your wedding anniversary. Everyyear, the Orange County Register, our
clerk and recorder, is offering walkin ceremonies on leap Day. So if
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you get married tomorrow on Leap Day, just think you only have to do
give you your lovely husband or wifean anniversary present every four years. Why
didn't I think of that. Whydidn't you, Yeah, that just slipped
through the craft. I saw thewheels turning as amy. Yes, yeah,
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yeah, your big gift giver,are you? Yeah? Pretty much?
All right? US Army this iskind of a not a great headline,
says US Army is slashing thousands ofjobs in major revamp to prepare for
future wars. But the reality isit's spaces, not faces, as they
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say. So they're looking at certainareas that have not been filled. They
don't have enough soldiers to fill thosejobs, and those are basically what they're
cutting, and it will slash thesize of the force by twenty four thousand.
But again it's really them not fillingareas and they're preparing. They're cutting
the Yeah, they're cutting jobs inwhich nobody is there exactly. Yeah,
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but they are adding jobs in Ithink counter drone units, air defense where
it's a new kind of warfare.They just have to deal with it.
Well, you know, they've beenhaving struggles with recruiting. Oh yeah,
and so that's going down and there. It's kind of interesting that they're saying,
hey, we're doing this restructuring tobetter able, you know, to
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be in a better position to fightthe next major war. It's like,
what do you know? And there'sno there's no conscription that was done under
the Nixon administration became an all volunteerarmy. Prior to that, you were
drafted a lot of fun. Whatis wrong with people? I have nothing
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fun and clever to say about this. But a guy in Washington who is
accused of killing more than thirty sixhundred protected birds, including bald eagles,
and selling them on the black market, has a plea deal. So prosecutors
are going to drop ten counts ofunlawful trafficking and instead he'll just plead guilty
to two counts of unlawfully trafficking baldand golden eagles. They say the guy
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he and another man shot birds onthe Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana and
then sold parts or all of theeagles between January of twenty fifteen in March
of twenty twenty one, and braggedabout going on killing spreez. Yeah,
and you know, usually I'll havesomething clever to say about this, making
fun of it. There's nothing tomake fun here. But this is crazy
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stuff. And you got thirteen yearsin prison as a plea deal and he's
going to do this is not halftimefor good behavior in federal court. He
does eighty five percent of the time. But to what im selling parts and
whole I don't know. I guesseagle feathers tales that kind of stuff.
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They were selling them and shipping themoff. There's some reports they went to
Texas and Taxidermis taxidermy. Yeah,people having a bald eagle of stuff.
Bald eagle. Who isn't this neat? No? So yeah, it's kind
of crazy. Thirty six hundred.I mean, that's that's ane. I
think we have time for one more. Okay. Survey finds that more children
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are being contacted by strangers online.Specifically, it's about thirty one percent,
so the third of them were contactedby strangers. But it had to do
with their mobile device and the location. You can turn on the location and
make it public and then people wouldcontact them. Adults would contact them and
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say, hey, are you inthis area? Based on that, and
it seems a lot of it mayhave to do with parents wanting to know
where their children are so they keepsome of those things on. Here's my
question. You have the location appand you can do it privately where only
certain people have it. Yeah,your parents' friends. Why would you allow
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it to be public? Well,some apps you need it to be,
right, Yeah, yeah, findingyour mirrors heats the parlor for example,
well, or Uber or anything likethat you would need it for. Still,
look at the danger kids being contactedby strangers online that has exploded.
Isn't that special? Huh? Allright, we're done, guys. Coming
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up, there is a game changingmercado Hispanic market in Costa Mesa, and
let me tell you what's going on. It is really well, it goes
to show you, number one,the influence of the Hispanic community and why
they didn't have what they should havehad a long time ago and now they
do have. Did that make anysense? Not to me either? All
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right, we'll do that when wecome back. KFI AM six forty live
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