February 17, 2025 • 32 mins
(February 17, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. European leaders meet in Paris as U.S. pushes ahead with Ukraine plan. Rubio lands in Saudi Arabia for talks on Gaza and Ukraine. Trump admin wants SCOTUS to permit firing of whistleblower agency head. Netanyahu vows to ‘finish the job’ against Iran with support from Trump. California gas prices are approaching $5 per gallon on average.
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. European leaders meet in Paris as U.S. pushes ahead with Ukraine plan. Rubio lands in Saudi Arabia for talks on Gaza and Ukraine. Trump admin wants SCOTUS to permit firing of whistleblower agency head. Netanyahu vows to ‘finish the job’ against Iran with support from Trump. California gas prices are approaching $5 per gallon on average.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to camp I Am six forty the Bill
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
It does not matter.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I have often said this, and I believe it to
be true. If Charles Manson were alive and nominated him
as Attorney General, he would be confirmed.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Swastika carved into his.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Forehead with a razor blade and all and now handle
on the news.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Leave this here's Bill Handle. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yo, Bill Handle here and the morning crew Yo. I
don't know why I started that way. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I don't use the word yo.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But hey, what can I tell you? All Right, good
morning to everybody. The A team has arrived. Okay, we'll
start with you morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Billy, No, no, no, I'm not a billy. I'm not a billy, Bob,
I am not a Willy. Two people on the planet
call me William Wolf and Sable and then Neil co
opted that. Let me tell you how happy is homage?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But the rest of it is, uh hey, Willy.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Can you imagine being serious with Willy? You know, you go,
let's say you get a PhD and you go across
uh dias across the stage and now a PhD for
Willy No dare you?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
There have been uh people in political office with that
very name.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
No one has ever had Willie.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm trying to think of which famous political office had
a Willie.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Didn't we have one?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I don't know who's slick Willy Jefferson and Clinton.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't think he was slick Willie.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I don't can't. We can look that one up any
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Amy, Willie Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, you're right, Willy Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, that will thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Willy Brown. Yeah, and Willy Brown, for those of you
that don't know that, was probably the second most powerful
Speaker of the California Assembly that ever lived, first one
being Jesse Unru who invented California politics. He's the one
that invented money is the milk of all politics.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think that was the phrase.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
In any case, Willie Brown was speaker for I think
thirteen fourteen years and had enormous, enormous power. He ran
it with an He ran the Assembly with an iron fist.
So yes, you are absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
In a little Willie Nelson.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh god, you're looking it up, Okay, yeah, all right,
of course you are all right? Amy. What is that
you have on your sweatshirt. I can't see it. Your
hairs are in the way there.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
It says, magical.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh yeah, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And do I see the Disneyland castle as an a
you do? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
It was a Christmas present for my brother. It was
a birthday present from my brother.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
No, that's sweet, that's sweet.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Uh. And then there's uh of course, Neil and I
don't know where Anne is. She's running around someplace. Okay, Oh,
real quickly before we get into handling the news. Yesterday,
as you know, I just moved into my new place
a year remodeling it. Thank you very much. What a disaster, Well,
wasn't a disaster. It just took a long time. A
lot of may as well's uh, in the construction may
(03:39):
as well as being while we're doing this, we may
as well do that. Yeah. And then if we're doing that,
we may as well do that. So it took a
lot longer. In the budget doubled, of course, and that's
that's a given in any case. First grill that I
had yesterday, First grilly and I went to Costco, of
(04:03):
course to buy my steaks, and I asked the.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Meat person there, I want to get I want. Yeah,
that's what they call him.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I asked, what is I want to get a really
good quality steak and he pointed me to a package
of steak. I put it in my into the cart
not paying attention until I went to the checkout counter
and it was twenty five ninety nine a pound.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeha, Phil A Mignon didn't notice that you.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Could buy a carton of eggs for that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh you as well, said, And I ended up grilling it.
And of course I was on the phone with Neil
what three times?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, I was up the mountain. I was in Big
Bear and got a call from Handle. He goes, I
got these steaks. I've got people here. How do I
cook them?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And so Neil told me how to do it with
the Thermo where to go. You cook them low and
slow and then very hot, very quick for the seer.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Anyway, they turned out perfect.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I'm proud of you, I mean perfect, and so very pleased,
very pleased.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That's exactly like doing a great steak.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, oh no, this was to cook a great Yeah,
this was insane.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now you know this.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You can either buy this steak or take a vacation
to Disneyland. I mean, it's pretty pricey stuff. But you
know what was it a package of four? I put
two away because there's big steaks about two and a
half inches thick. It was like seventy three dollars for
a package of four steaks.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Well, if you went out to eat that would yeah,
you won and cooked for you.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, it ended up being it ended up being what
was it thirty six eighteen dollars per steak.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
At all?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
No, and that is a huge Well that was two
out of the four, but they were massive. So in
any case, all right, enough of that making people feel
good who are at the end of the month, are
approaching the end of the month, and will they and
they'll be eating ramen for a bucket cup, all right,
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just to make people feel good.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Hey, and good morning, good morning, there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
All right, are you ready to do it?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You bet you.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It's a Monday, February seventeenth. Handle on the news, Amy
Neil and me lead story, oh Man, international relations are
going crazy in Europe.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
There was the Munich.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It was an annual meeting of Europeans and Americans. Vice
President Vance ripped into Europe and said the problem is
not China or Russia. The problem is with you guys
that are stopping the right wing from either forming or
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creating parties or in any way furthering their agenda.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I mean, we're talking about far right, far far right wing, where.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
The governments are stamping down on it, and they don't
have First Amendment, by the way, in most of Europe.
And all of a sudden, Europe is reeling with that,
and so Putin and the President, our president talking about
ending the war in Ukraine with a summit without Ukraine.
There of course, Ukraine will have nothing to do with
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the peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That'll be done by US and Russia.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And the bottom line is, as Zelenski said, you can
kiss goodbye the United States being our friend Europe relying
on the United States, We're gonna have to do it ourselves.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And that since World War two, actually.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Was it actually since before World War two, before Pearl Harbor,
when America first, America firsters led by Charles Charles Lindberg
I had argued, no war, we don't want to deal
with we don't want to deal with Europe. We don't
want to help Europe. By the way, FDR really wanted to,
(08:22):
and he couldn't politically, and then Pearl Harbor hit and
I just all blew up. And now we're involved in
Europe helped win the war. Europe probably couldn't have done
it with the United States. We did nation building with
a Marshall Plan where money was poured into Europe to
build it up, and we had NATO was formed, and
we have been best buddies with Europe right up until now.
(08:45):
It's really interesting stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I've said over and over again, the next four years
are going to be fastening, and I have a couple
of stories by the way about the next four years.
I can't get away from it, even though I've been
told over and over again, Bill, you're spending too much time. Willie,
you're spending too much time on what's going on with
the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It is that far reaching, and it is changing our
live the lives around the world that much because of
the influence the US has.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
All Right, Rubios in Saudi Arabia. Secretary of State Marco
Rubio arrived in Saudi Arabia. It's going to be talking
about the futures of both Gaza and Ukraine. He flew
to RhoD from Israel and is expected to press the
Saudi leadership on a post war Gaza vision. Of course,
(09:40):
President Trump said he wants to redevelop it as the
riviera of the Middle East, but that would mean moving
all the Palestinians out. And they're saying, you know what,
if that doesn't work for you, then what are some alternatives.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
When you think there's going to be a representative of Trump,
the Trump organization going up and down Gaza and saying
we'll put a hotel here, a Trump hotel here, and
a Trump resort there. Over there is Amara Gaza, and
it's going to be oh here, I'll tell you. I'll
tell you one thing. The Trump organization knows how to
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run a hotel. I mean they are good at what
they do. And when we went to Chicago, whole group
of us from the radio station, it was we stated
a Trump hotel and it was tremendous service.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Where you know, it was beautiful. But were you the
one that set that up?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
No? I didn't set that up.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It happened.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I think somebody did it as a joke.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
No, no, no, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I think it was Oh, you know what, it was.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It was right near the venue that we were at
where we could walk.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
It was a block and a half walk and it was.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Just, if not one of it was probably the if
not the it was one of the best run properties
I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Really well now, really well run.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Don't you think it would get bombed or something if
he tried to build in Gaza?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Are you kidding? It's going to get bombed if you
set up a hot dog stand in Gaza.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Well there's that, Okay, Well that seems racist or somebody.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
No, No, it's it refers to let's say, a bombing
or two that would occur in that part of the world.
I want to another story, another story.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
This tape measure, all right, Trump administ administration wants the
Supreme Court to permit the firing of the head of
the federal agency. This is dedicated to protecting whistle blowers. So,
according to documents obtained Sunday, that would mark the first
appeal of the just assistance he took office. So this
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is to start the start of what will be steadily
streaming lawyers and going back and forth. Is going to
be four years of a lot of.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Banks.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, but you know a lot of the stuff that's
going on makes no sense. For example, whistle blowers are
protected from being prosecuted, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Sew.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So you have a whistle blower that comes in and
whistle blows on some governmental program which fraud and waste, right,
because they're going after fraud and waste. Okay, And the
people that the very people that will point their fingers
at that are not protected anymore.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, if you get rid of the head of the department,
they're not protected. Aren't they still protected?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well it's on the way.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
We don't know, but it's on the way to changing
it up completely. It's like the IRS, the very notion
the IRS collects money. We desperately need money. Hundreds of
billions of dollars are left on the table. More IRS
agents are needed, and they're being cut.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Wait a second, but isn't is it Elon Musk a
whistle blower on all the money that's being spent.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
No, he's not a whistleblower. He is buying that portion
of the federal government. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
For it. I hope he gets a good you know,
good deal.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yeah, there's work left to be done. That's the word
from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He says that they're
ready to finish the job against Iraq, and they can
do Iran Iran. I can't believe I said Iraq, probably
because I'm watching a show that has an Iraqi on it. Okay,
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but Iran, And he says they'll do it with the
support of Trump. He said, over the last sixteenth month,
Israel has dealt a mighty blow to Iran's terror access
and under the strong leadership of President Trump, I have
no doubt that we can and will finish the job.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Okay, this is Rubio who is talking.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
That was oh yes, get it.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And Rubio said there could never be a nuclear Ron.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
He backed it up.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So a quick one here, and that is Israel does
not move without American permission. America is that influential. As
I said earlier, Israel cannot probably not even survive without
American intervention, supplying of arms, etc.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And you had Biden, for example.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Israelis were not particularly happy with because oh no, You're
not going to go after the Iranian nuclear facilities. Oh no,
we have to be more objective. We can't deal one
way or the other. It's just not fair. It's just
not right. Trump comes in and he goes, oh, no,
we screw fairness if you call it that, we cannot
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let Iran have nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's that simple.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
He's always said that, by the way, and he has
said and we know the second that they build a
nuclear weapon or close to it, boom, Israel attacks. Now
they have the backing of the.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
United States.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
That agrees that Iran having nuclear weapons changes everything.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It changes everything.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And Nettigao, who says ain't going to happen, and the
Trump administration says ain't gonna happen, and I happen to
agree with that. Can you imagine Iran having a nuclear
weapon and backing up every terrorist organization in the world.
So it won't be a rn that is going to
detonate a nuclear weapon, which now can be put in
small packages.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It'll be one of the terrorists organizations.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
It will be someone who's radicalized. In the United States,
we just had a stabbing in Germany where a radicalized
I think it was Hisserian refugee killed a fourteen year
old kid.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I mean that was yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So you know Israel, yes.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Palestinians or Iranians no.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
The average price of gas in California has skyrocketed recent weeks.
It continues to go up and up and up, and
it is winking at that dreaded five dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
This is all according to Triple.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
A and the average price of regular gas in California
was four dollars and eighty four cents on Saturday. That
number was up about twenty five cents from last Saturday,
and it continues to go up from there. But this
apparently has to do with that. And I love this.
We hear this all the time. Refineries begin to transition
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to summer blends of fuel. And another thing we have
here in southern California and that there's a routine maintenance
in northern California going on.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
You know, the last time a refinery was built in
California was forty two, forty three years ago. Now there
are seven major companies that are here. One of them
goes down, one refinery goes down for maintenance for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
We're in a world of hurt.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And so I'm going to do that story coming up
at seven point fifty. And the question is should California
consider consider basically taking over the refineries as a governmental process.
It's already done in many countries. All right, one more
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before we take a break.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
NAACP is looking to cancel companies that cancel DEI. The
group says they want Black Americans to steer their buying
power toward corporations that haven't pulled back from DEI policies.
They put out a spending guide. It was released on Saturday.
They say it's needed because diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
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promote the social and economic advancement of all Black Americans
and DOUBLEACP president Derek Johnson said diversity is better for
the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
White uvas. No, now that's pretty obscure. I just want
to point that out. No, No, I'm going to explain
this one, because this is pretty obscure. You have white
raisins as opposed to dark raisins. Yeah, yes, clearing you know.
And so white raisins, if you buy white raisins, you're
called golden.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, golden raisins, but they're white. Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And it used to be where the boycott of the
grape growers actually worked. That was Caesar Chavez. So golden
white raisins. No, now is.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
The newest protest. See you get that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I mean that went through a couple of very nuanced
it made sense. I'm telling you very good. You have
funny but very subtle and very good.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Nice job.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah no, no, I'll take credit.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
For that one.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
White UVa's no. Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Well, the Trump administration is sticking with Trump's very famous line,
you fired. You started firing hundreds of FAA probationary employees.
And I guess that means what have they been nailed
for less than a year or less than a year,
So this is not about them being on probation for
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something they did.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
This just means they're in right trial. Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
For example, a lot of companies ninety days and they
can fire you for any sort of any reason. Far leowbjections.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
We don't know the exact number, but the head of
the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists said that several hundred workers
started getting firing notices on Friday and they could actually
be barred.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
From facilities as of tomorrow after the holiday today.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
By the way, I don't disagree in looking at quote everybody.
Every administration goes after fraud and waste, and when you
have two point three million employees, you're going to find
some stuff that well, let's just say shouldn't shouldn't happen.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But here's an example.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You have a case that a few hundred security workers
were fired from nuclear facilities to guard our weapons systems.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oops.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So they fire them and then they unfire them the
next day. It's just it's moving too quickly, is what
it is. And then oops, that's exactly what they said.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oops.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And then there are are great.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Stories of, you know, the ridiculous money that's being spent
for insane stuff. And the administration came out with a
list saying fifty million dollars for condoms for Palestinians. Two
days later it was one hundred million dollars. Now, keep
in mind, we have yet to see fraud and waste.
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We have yet to see a pointed finger and saying, look,
what's happening.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's firings right now.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And what it is is reducing the workforce. To reduce
the workforce, that's what's happening now. And they're only there
haven't been all that many. There've been I think a few,
a few thousand relative to two point three million.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And it's just head count at this point.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I think it is.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I think it is well. The people that hand out
the condoms in Gaza one hundred million of dollars worth.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
That's two one hundred and eighty six for a man,
woman and child in Gaza. Those six year olds really
need him. I have no idea what the numbers are.
By the way, I'm just making that up.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
More hostages are free. Three more hostages were released from
Hamas over the weekend in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
It's part of the ceasefire agreement that appeared to have
been in jeopardy last week but appears to be back
on track again. The hostages were released in communis in
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southern Gaza. It's the sixth release of hostages under the
current agreement.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Look at the pr here paganda. The hostages are released
on this stage and they are surrounded by Hamas fighters,
all in brand new crispy uniforms, big signs coming out.
The announcement by Hamas we have won. We have prevailed.
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Prevailed means that they were not forced to leave Gaza.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
They still had power, so they won.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Of course, No, they are not released in any area
where entire neighborhoods, entire parts of cities were destroyed.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
But it's a win it's a win.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And if the hostages are not released per the agreement,
Natagnan who is itching to get back and destroy the
rest of Gaza.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
So we'll see. And it's always that case where you
have three.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Hostages, two hostages released, four hundreds, if not thousand. It
was Do you remember that that corporal that was picked up,
he was captured Gilad Shali or Shali guilt, just an
ordinary corporal picked up by Hamas. Six years, six years
the negotiations went on. Eleven hundred Palestinians were released for
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one Israeli, one Israeli soldier, and the release included yeah,
yah Sinwar, who masterminded the attack on Israel October seventh.
And that's what happens.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
All right, go ahead, this one, this one got past me.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I did not know there was an Amazon employee captured
by Hamas. But Amazon CEO now is relieved after Hamas
released employee that was taken hostage on October seventh.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, these when these negotiations happen, When an American is
captured and finally released, it's very very quiet. Amazon was
told do not talk about it, do not say anything,
and that's exactly what they did. And now whether it
was because of what Amazon did behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
We don't know, but you're right.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
For the first time we have an Amazon employee who
was captured.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Well, it's not unusual to thank supporters. What is unusual
is who these supporters are. Remember the guy who killed
or is it alleged to have killed United Healthcare CEO
Brian Thompson. Luigi Mangioni is in jail, being held as
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they're putting the case together against him, and he's getting
supporter letters, and so they posted on a website set
up by his defense that, hey, you know, really appreciate this.
Mangioni said, I'm overwhelmed by and grateful for everyone who
has written to me to share their stories and expressed
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their support for him murdering somebody in cold blood.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, all these guys get support letters, women who want
to marry them.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I interviewed the wife of the nightstalker.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Who she was one of hundreds of people that wanted
to connect with a Nightstalker and ended up marrying him
in prison behind the clear plastic separation, I mean, they
couldn't touch each other and they got married. And I
interviewed her and she maintained number one his innocence and
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number two she was she was a lucky one that
got to him to marry her after hundreds of proposals.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
There you go, we're all we're all nuts. Oh yeah,
we show was out so I could a kill the
ball for you.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah, I mean just completely insane.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
All right.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
The US Department of Agriculture last week issued a conditional
license for an avian flu vaccine. I heard this this
morning on wake Up Call with Amy King. And they
can use this in chickens, which makes sense. The outbreak
is obviously causing massive problems with the poultry flocks, and
this effects egg laying hens much more than it does
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what we call roasters or roasted the chickens we eat.
So that's why egg prices are going up. Yet the
price of chicken isn't necessarily.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Although I just I went to rals and yeah, Lindsay
wants these pasture pastured chickens to get run around and have, Yeah,
to buy eggs, and it was seven ninety nine for
a carton. No, it was really good because I have
to like eggs with chickens that can't move, you know,
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they're sort of completely other claws go through and they're
connected to the cages and they can't move.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I find those eggs tasteier.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Do you have any miserable eggs, ma'am great, I'll take those.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, and those are what four ninety nine only, and
a couple of weeks ago, I paid twelve dollars for
the same one happy eggs is then that's the name
of the the uh of those eggs and pasture raisers.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Paid nine bucks for extra large eggs for a carton.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, no, one's yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And I just paid eight dollars seven eight dollars for
the you know, and the and they're great eggs. I
mean the shells are hard, and they're thick, and the
oaks are this deep yellow.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I mean they're really good eggs.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Okay, okay, clothing chickens.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Blocked by the White House. The White House has stopped
a credentialed Associated Press reporter and photographer from getting on
Air Force one Friday to join him for the weekend
trip because AP won't say the golf of Mexico is
now the golf of America.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Boy.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And this is not the first time. They've also blocked
the AP from covering a handful of events in the
White House, including a news conference with India's leader and
also some gatherings in the Oval office.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah. And one of the big stories today is Marco
Rubio is coming back from Saudi America and he is
we'll have a press conference today.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Okay, did you hear?
Speaker 5 (28:27):
I think this is actually serious that somebody said if
we took control of Greenland, they wanted to rename it red,
white and blue Land.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Oh that's very strong, very strong.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Wow, where are we? You know?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Since its inception launched in two thousand and five, Reddit
has always been free the social media site all kinds
of free access to great information and some not so
great information. While now there's a new feature coming to
Reddit potentially in twenty twenty five this year that put
some of its content behind paywalls. And I'm curious how
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this is gonna go over because you have to pay.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's like x charging for content or the additional content.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I mean, it's happening all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Look at podcasts or look at that are normally free,
but you can get in and subscribe for the additional podcasts,
things behind the scenes everything to make money. You can't
how about this cable or subscription TV right platforms Peacock,
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which I have.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I have a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I gotta tell you, more and more commercials are on there,
and I start screaming, come on, the whole point of
these platforms is no commercials. It's getting very depressing. You
can still do it, just pay an extra three bucks.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Oh no, it's ridiculous. It always goes back to the
original model. No matter how how much they tell us, hey,
we're going to revolutionize things, they go back to the
model advertising charging us everything.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Well, thank goodness, we're not losing CBS. Google's YouTube and
Paramount Global have come up with a new distribution contract
which stops a threatened blackout of CBS and other TV
channels for nearly eight million YouTube TV customers.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I'm a YouTube user and it's I would be sorely
disappointed if I didn't have CBS because I watched CBS.
Any of you guys are YouTubers, that's my go to.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I'm a premium user, but I'm not. I don't use
them as my amy.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Do you do YouTube?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Not much?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Just every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Do you have it?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I have YouTube TV, but I don't pay for it.
I've got whatever the free thing is. I don't use
that as a streaming service.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I do.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's my go to for network's local news. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Absolutely, Okay, So you don't have direct TV or.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
No, I don't have direct TV?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No, oh I got I get calls from direct TV
all the time. Hi, you're a customer. Yeah, until eighteen
years ago when I canceled direct TV.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
That's correct. And YouTube.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
No, she's shaking her head, and uh, of course, CONO
can't afford any of that.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Cono. You still have rabbit ears on your TV, don't you.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
That is correct.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Okay, we're done, guys.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
A box with a cutout like a screen and he got.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, he still has the cathode ray TV.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Right, get a hanger and she just holds it up.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
That's what they did for you know. That's what they
did for the Super first Super Bowl, which.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Was blacked out in Los Angeles nineteen sixty three and
you couldn't get it and people would be making these
antennas literally out of coat hangers.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
You're right, Oh god, those days, it was so great,
those days, Oh were the days?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
It does not matter.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I have often said this, and I believe it to
be true. If Charles Manson were alive and nominated him
as Attorney General, he would be confirmed.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Swastika carved into his.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Forehead with a razor blade and all and now handle
on the news.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Leave this here's Bill Handle. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yo, Bill Handle here and the morning crew Yo. I
don't know why I started that way. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I don't use the word yo.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But hey, what can I tell you? All Right, good
morning to everybody. The A team has arrived. Okay, we'll
start with you morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Billy, No, no, no, I'm not a billy. I'm not a billy, Bob,
I am not a Willy. Two people on the planet
call me William Wolf and Sable and then Neil co
opted that. Let me tell you how happy is homage?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But the rest of it is, uh hey, Willy.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Can you imagine being serious with Willy? You know, you go,
let's say you get a PhD and you go across
uh dias across the stage and now a PhD for
Willy No dare you?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
There have been uh people in political office with that
very name.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
No one has ever had Willie.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm trying to think of which famous political office had
a Willie.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Didn't we have one?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I don't know who's slick Willy Jefferson and Clinton.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't think he was slick Willie.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I don't can't. We can look that one up any
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Amy, Willie Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, you're right, Willy Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, that will thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Willy Brown. Yeah, and Willy Brown, for those of you
that don't know that, was probably the second most powerful
Speaker of the California Assembly that ever lived, first one
being Jesse Unru who invented California politics. He's the one
that invented money is the milk of all politics.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think that was the phrase.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
In any case, Willie Brown was speaker for I think
thirteen fourteen years and had enormous, enormous power. He ran
it with an He ran the Assembly with an iron fist.
So yes, you are absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
In a little Willie Nelson.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh god, you're looking it up, Okay, yeah, all right,
of course you are all right? Amy. What is that
you have on your sweatshirt. I can't see it. Your
hairs are in the way there.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
It says, magical.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh yeah, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And do I see the Disneyland castle as an a
you do? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
It was a Christmas present for my brother. It was
a birthday present from my brother.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
No, that's sweet, that's sweet.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Uh. And then there's uh of course, Neil and I
don't know where Anne is. She's running around someplace. Okay, Oh,
real quickly before we get into handling the news. Yesterday,
as you know, I just moved into my new place
a year remodeling it. Thank you very much. What a disaster, Well,
wasn't a disaster. It just took a long time. A
lot of may as well's uh, in the construction may
(03:39):
as well as being while we're doing this, we may
as well do that. Yeah. And then if we're doing that,
we may as well do that. So it took a
lot longer. In the budget doubled, of course, and that's
that's a given in any case. First grill that I
had yesterday, First grilly and I went to Costco, of
(04:03):
course to buy my steaks, and I asked the.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Meat person there, I want to get I want. Yeah,
that's what they call him.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I asked, what is I want to get a really
good quality steak and he pointed me to a package
of steak. I put it in my into the cart
not paying attention until I went to the checkout counter
and it was twenty five ninety nine a pound.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeha, Phil A Mignon didn't notice that you.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Could buy a carton of eggs for that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh you as well, said, And I ended up grilling it.
And of course I was on the phone with Neil
what three times?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, I was up the mountain. I was in Big
Bear and got a call from Handle. He goes, I
got these steaks. I've got people here. How do I
cook them?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And so Neil told me how to do it with
the Thermo where to go. You cook them low and
slow and then very hot, very quick for the seer.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Anyway, they turned out perfect.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I'm proud of you, I mean perfect, and so very pleased,
very pleased.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That's exactly like doing a great steak.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, oh no, this was to cook a great Yeah,
this was insane.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now you know this.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You can either buy this steak or take a vacation
to Disneyland. I mean, it's pretty pricey stuff. But you
know what was it a package of four? I put
two away because there's big steaks about two and a
half inches thick. It was like seventy three dollars for
a package of four steaks.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Well, if you went out to eat that would yeah,
you won and cooked for you.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, it ended up being it ended up being what
was it thirty six eighteen dollars per steak.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
At all?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
No, and that is a huge Well that was two
out of the four, but they were massive. So in
any case, all right, enough of that making people feel
good who are at the end of the month, are
approaching the end of the month, and will they and
they'll be eating ramen for a bucket cup, all right,
(06:18):
just to make people feel good.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Hey, and good morning, good morning, there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
All right, are you ready to do it?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You bet you.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It's a Monday, February seventeenth. Handle on the news, Amy
Neil and me lead story, oh Man, international relations are
going crazy in Europe.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
There was the Munich.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It was an annual meeting of Europeans and Americans. Vice
President Vance ripped into Europe and said the problem is
not China or Russia. The problem is with you guys
that are stopping the right wing from either forming or
(07:10):
creating parties or in any way furthering their agenda.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I mean, we're talking about far right, far far right wing, where.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
The governments are stamping down on it, and they don't
have First Amendment, by the way, in most of Europe.
And all of a sudden, Europe is reeling with that,
and so Putin and the President, our president talking about
ending the war in Ukraine with a summit without Ukraine.
There of course, Ukraine will have nothing to do with
(07:37):
the peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That'll be done by US and Russia.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And the bottom line is, as Zelenski said, you can
kiss goodbye the United States being our friend Europe relying
on the United States, We're gonna have to do it ourselves.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And that since World War two, actually.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Was it actually since before World War two, before Pearl Harbor,
when America first, America firsters led by Charles Charles Lindberg
I had argued, no war, we don't want to deal
with we don't want to deal with Europe. We don't
want to help Europe. By the way, FDR really wanted to,
(08:22):
and he couldn't politically, and then Pearl Harbor hit and
I just all blew up. And now we're involved in
Europe helped win the war. Europe probably couldn't have done
it with the United States. We did nation building with
a Marshall Plan where money was poured into Europe to
build it up, and we had NATO was formed, and
we have been best buddies with Europe right up until now.
(08:45):
It's really interesting stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I've said over and over again, the next four years
are going to be fastening, and I have a couple
of stories by the way about the next four years.
I can't get away from it, even though I've been
told over and over again, Bill, you're spending too much time. Willie,
you're spending too much time on what's going on with
the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It is that far reaching, and it is changing our
live the lives around the world that much because of
the influence the US has.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
All Right, Rubios in Saudi Arabia. Secretary of State Marco
Rubio arrived in Saudi Arabia. It's going to be talking
about the futures of both Gaza and Ukraine. He flew
to RhoD from Israel and is expected to press the
Saudi leadership on a post war Gaza vision. Of course,
(09:40):
President Trump said he wants to redevelop it as the
riviera of the Middle East, but that would mean moving
all the Palestinians out. And they're saying, you know what,
if that doesn't work for you, then what are some alternatives.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
When you think there's going to be a representative of Trump,
the Trump organization going up and down Gaza and saying
we'll put a hotel here, a Trump hotel here, and
a Trump resort there. Over there is Amara Gaza, and
it's going to be oh here, I'll tell you. I'll
tell you one thing. The Trump organization knows how to
(10:17):
run a hotel. I mean they are good at what
they do. And when we went to Chicago, whole group
of us from the radio station, it was we stated
a Trump hotel and it was tremendous service.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Where you know, it was beautiful. But were you the
one that set that up?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
No? I didn't set that up.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It happened.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I think somebody did it as a joke.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
No, no, no, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I think it was Oh, you know what, it was.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It was right near the venue that we were at
where we could walk.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
It was a block and a half walk and it was.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Just, if not one of it was probably the if
not the it was one of the best run properties
I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Really well now, really well run.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Don't you think it would get bombed or something if
he tried to build in Gaza?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Are you kidding? It's going to get bombed if you
set up a hot dog stand in Gaza.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Well there's that, Okay, Well that seems racist or somebody.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
No, No, it's it refers to let's say, a bombing
or two that would occur in that part of the world.
I want to another story, another story.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
This tape measure, all right, Trump administ administration wants the
Supreme Court to permit the firing of the head of
the federal agency. This is dedicated to protecting whistle blowers. So,
according to documents obtained Sunday, that would mark the first
appeal of the just assistance he took office. So this
(11:44):
is to start the start of what will be steadily
streaming lawyers and going back and forth. Is going to
be four years of a lot of.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Banks.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, but you know a lot of the stuff that's
going on makes no sense. For example, whistle blowers are
protected from being prosecuted, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Sew.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So you have a whistle blower that comes in and
whistle blows on some governmental program which fraud and waste, right,
because they're going after fraud and waste. Okay, And the
people that the very people that will point their fingers
at that are not protected anymore.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, if you get rid of the head of the department,
they're not protected. Aren't they still protected?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well it's on the way.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
We don't know, but it's on the way to changing
it up completely. It's like the IRS, the very notion
the IRS collects money. We desperately need money. Hundreds of
billions of dollars are left on the table. More IRS
agents are needed, and they're being cut.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Wait a second, but isn't is it Elon Musk a
whistle blower on all the money that's being spent.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
No, he's not a whistleblower. He is buying that portion
of the federal government. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
For it. I hope he gets a good you know,
good deal.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yeah, there's work left to be done. That's the word
from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He says that they're
ready to finish the job against Iraq, and they can
do Iran Iran. I can't believe I said Iraq, probably
because I'm watching a show that has an Iraqi on it. Okay,
(13:29):
but Iran, And he says they'll do it with the
support of Trump. He said, over the last sixteenth month,
Israel has dealt a mighty blow to Iran's terror access
and under the strong leadership of President Trump, I have
no doubt that we can and will finish the job.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Okay, this is Rubio who is talking.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
That was oh yes, get it.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And Rubio said there could never be a nuclear Ron.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
He backed it up.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So a quick one here, and that is Israel does
not move without American permission. America is that influential. As
I said earlier, Israel cannot probably not even survive without
American intervention, supplying of arms, etc.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And you had Biden, for example.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Israelis were not particularly happy with because oh no, You're
not going to go after the Iranian nuclear facilities. Oh no,
we have to be more objective. We can't deal one
way or the other. It's just not fair. It's just
not right. Trump comes in and he goes, oh, no,
we screw fairness if you call it that, we cannot
(14:36):
let Iran have nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's that simple.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
He's always said that, by the way, and he has
said and we know the second that they build a
nuclear weapon or close to it, boom, Israel attacks. Now
they have the backing of the.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
United States.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
That agrees that Iran having nuclear weapons changes everything.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It changes everything.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And Nettigao, who says ain't going to happen, and the
Trump administration says ain't gonna happen, and I happen to
agree with that. Can you imagine Iran having a nuclear
weapon and backing up every terrorist organization in the world.
So it won't be a rn that is going to
detonate a nuclear weapon, which now can be put in
small packages.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It'll be one of the terrorists organizations.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
It will be someone who's radicalized. In the United States,
we just had a stabbing in Germany where a radicalized
I think it was Hisserian refugee killed a fourteen year
old kid.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I mean that was yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So you know Israel, yes.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Palestinians or Iranians no.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
The average price of gas in California has skyrocketed recent weeks.
It continues to go up and up and up, and
it is winking at that dreaded five dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
This is all according to Triple.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
A and the average price of regular gas in California
was four dollars and eighty four cents on Saturday. That
number was up about twenty five cents from last Saturday,
and it continues to go up from there. But this
apparently has to do with that. And I love this.
We hear this all the time. Refineries begin to transition
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to summer blends of fuel. And another thing we have
here in southern California and that there's a routine maintenance
in northern California going on.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
You know, the last time a refinery was built in
California was forty two, forty three years ago. Now there
are seven major companies that are here. One of them
goes down, one refinery goes down for maintenance for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
We're in a world of hurt.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And so I'm going to do that story coming up
at seven point fifty. And the question is should California
consider consider basically taking over the refineries as a governmental process.
It's already done in many countries. All right, one more
(17:12):
before we take a break.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
NAACP is looking to cancel companies that cancel DEI. The
group says they want Black Americans to steer their buying
power toward corporations that haven't pulled back from DEI policies.
They put out a spending guide. It was released on Saturday.
They say it's needed because diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
(17:35):
promote the social and economic advancement of all Black Americans
and DOUBLEACP president Derek Johnson said diversity is better for
the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
White uvas. No, now that's pretty obscure. I just want
to point that out. No, No, I'm going to explain
this one, because this is pretty obscure. You have white
raisins as opposed to dark raisins. Yeah, yes, clearing you know.
And so white raisins, if you buy white raisins, you're
called golden.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, golden raisins, but they're white. Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And it used to be where the boycott of the
grape growers actually worked. That was Caesar Chavez. So golden
white raisins. No, now is.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
The newest protest. See you get that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I mean that went through a couple of very nuanced
it made sense. I'm telling you very good. You have
funny but very subtle and very good.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Nice job.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah no, no, I'll take credit.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
For that one.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
White UVa's no. Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Well, the Trump administration is sticking with Trump's very famous line,
you fired. You started firing hundreds of FAA probationary employees.
And I guess that means what have they been nailed
for less than a year or less than a year,
So this is not about them being on probation for
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something they did.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
This just means they're in right trial. Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
For example, a lot of companies ninety days and they
can fire you for any sort of any reason. Far leowbjections.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
We don't know the exact number, but the head of
the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists said that several hundred workers
started getting firing notices on Friday and they could actually
be barred.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
From facilities as of tomorrow after the holiday today.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
By the way, I don't disagree in looking at quote everybody.
Every administration goes after fraud and waste, and when you
have two point three million employees, you're going to find
some stuff that well, let's just say shouldn't shouldn't happen.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But here's an example.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You have a case that a few hundred security workers
were fired from nuclear facilities to guard our weapons systems.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oops.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So they fire them and then they unfire them the
next day. It's just it's moving too quickly, is what
it is. And then oops, that's exactly what they said.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oops.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And then there are are great.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Stories of, you know, the ridiculous money that's being spent
for insane stuff. And the administration came out with a
list saying fifty million dollars for condoms for Palestinians. Two
days later it was one hundred million dollars. Now, keep
in mind, we have yet to see fraud and waste.
(20:40):
We have yet to see a pointed finger and saying, look,
what's happening.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's firings right now.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And what it is is reducing the workforce. To reduce
the workforce, that's what's happening now. And they're only there
haven't been all that many. There've been I think a few,
a few thousand relative to two point three million.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And it's just head count at this point.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I think it is.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I think it is well. The people that hand out
the condoms in Gaza one hundred million of dollars worth.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
That's two one hundred and eighty six for a man,
woman and child in Gaza. Those six year olds really
need him. I have no idea what the numbers are.
By the way, I'm just making that up.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
More hostages are free. Three more hostages were released from
Hamas over the weekend in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
It's part of the ceasefire agreement that appeared to have
been in jeopardy last week but appears to be back
on track again. The hostages were released in communis in
(21:52):
southern Gaza. It's the sixth release of hostages under the
current agreement.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Look at the pr here paganda. The hostages are released
on this stage and they are surrounded by Hamas fighters,
all in brand new crispy uniforms, big signs coming out.
The announcement by Hamas we have won. We have prevailed.
(22:19):
Prevailed means that they were not forced to leave Gaza.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
They still had power, so they won.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Of course, No, they are not released in any area
where entire neighborhoods, entire parts of cities were destroyed.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
But it's a win it's a win.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And if the hostages are not released per the agreement,
Natagnan who is itching to get back and destroy the
rest of Gaza.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
So we'll see. And it's always that case where you
have three.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Hostages, two hostages released, four hundreds, if not thousand. It
was Do you remember that that corporal that was picked up,
he was captured Gilad Shali or Shali guilt, just an
ordinary corporal picked up by Hamas. Six years, six years
the negotiations went on. Eleven hundred Palestinians were released for
(23:16):
one Israeli, one Israeli soldier, and the release included yeah,
yah Sinwar, who masterminded the attack on Israel October seventh.
And that's what happens.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
All right, go ahead, this one, this one got past me.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I did not know there was an Amazon employee captured
by Hamas. But Amazon CEO now is relieved after Hamas
released employee that was taken hostage on October seventh.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, these when these negotiations happen, When an American is
captured and finally released, it's very very quiet. Amazon was
told do not talk about it, do not say anything,
and that's exactly what they did. And now whether it
was because of what Amazon did behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
We don't know, but you're right.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
For the first time we have an Amazon employee who
was captured.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Well, it's not unusual to thank supporters. What is unusual
is who these supporters are. Remember the guy who killed
or is it alleged to have killed United Healthcare CEO
Brian Thompson. Luigi Mangioni is in jail, being held as
(24:40):
they're putting the case together against him, and he's getting
supporter letters, and so they posted on a website set
up by his defense that, hey, you know, really appreciate this.
Mangioni said, I'm overwhelmed by and grateful for everyone who
has written to me to share their stories and expressed
(25:01):
their support for him murdering somebody in cold blood.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, all these guys get support letters, women who want
to marry them.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I interviewed the wife of the nightstalker.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Who she was one of hundreds of people that wanted
to connect with a Nightstalker and ended up marrying him
in prison behind the clear plastic separation, I mean, they
couldn't touch each other and they got married. And I
interviewed her and she maintained number one his innocence and
(25:38):
number two she was she was a lucky one that
got to him to marry her after hundreds of proposals.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
There you go, we're all we're all nuts. Oh yeah,
we show was out so I could a kill the
ball for you.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah, I mean just completely insane.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
All right.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
The US Department of Agriculture last week issued a conditional
license for an avian flu vaccine. I heard this this
morning on wake Up Call with Amy King. And they
can use this in chickens, which makes sense. The outbreak
is obviously causing massive problems with the poultry flocks, and
this effects egg laying hens much more than it does
(26:21):
what we call roasters or roasted the chickens we eat.
So that's why egg prices are going up. Yet the
price of chicken isn't necessarily.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Although I just I went to rals and yeah, Lindsay
wants these pasture pastured chickens to get run around and have, Yeah,
to buy eggs, and it was seven ninety nine for
a carton. No, it was really good because I have
to like eggs with chickens that can't move, you know,
(26:51):
they're sort of completely other claws go through and they're
connected to the cages and they can't move.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I find those eggs tasteier.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Do you have any miserable eggs, ma'am great, I'll take those.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, and those are what four ninety nine only, and
a couple of weeks ago, I paid twelve dollars for
the same one happy eggs is then that's the name
of the the uh of those eggs and pasture raisers.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Paid nine bucks for extra large eggs for a carton.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, no, one's yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And I just paid eight dollars seven eight dollars for
the you know, and the and they're great eggs. I
mean the shells are hard, and they're thick, and the
oaks are this deep yellow.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I mean they're really good eggs.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Okay, okay, clothing chickens.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Blocked by the White House. The White House has stopped
a credentialed Associated Press reporter and photographer from getting on
Air Force one Friday to join him for the weekend
trip because AP won't say the golf of Mexico is
now the golf of America.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Boy.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And this is not the first time. They've also blocked
the AP from covering a handful of events in the
White House, including a news conference with India's leader and
also some gatherings in the Oval office.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah. And one of the big stories today is Marco
Rubio is coming back from Saudi America and he is
we'll have a press conference today.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Okay, did you hear?
Speaker 5 (28:27):
I think this is actually serious that somebody said if
we took control of Greenland, they wanted to rename it red,
white and blue Land.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Oh that's very strong, very strong.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Wow, where are we? You know?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Since its inception launched in two thousand and five, Reddit
has always been free the social media site all kinds
of free access to great information and some not so
great information. While now there's a new feature coming to
Reddit potentially in twenty twenty five this year that put
some of its content behind paywalls. And I'm curious how
(29:04):
this is gonna go over because you have to pay.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's like x charging for content or the additional content.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I mean, it's happening all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Look at podcasts or look at that are normally free,
but you can get in and subscribe for the additional podcasts,
things behind the scenes everything to make money. You can't
how about this cable or subscription TV right platforms Peacock,
(29:36):
which I have.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I have a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I gotta tell you, more and more commercials are on there,
and I start screaming, come on, the whole point of
these platforms is no commercials. It's getting very depressing. You
can still do it, just pay an extra three bucks.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Oh no, it's ridiculous. It always goes back to the
original model. No matter how how much they tell us, hey,
we're going to revolutionize things, they go back to the
model advertising charging us everything.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Well, thank goodness, we're not losing CBS. Google's YouTube and
Paramount Global have come up with a new distribution contract
which stops a threatened blackout of CBS and other TV
channels for nearly eight million YouTube TV customers.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I'm a YouTube user and it's I would be sorely
disappointed if I didn't have CBS because I watched CBS.
Any of you guys are YouTubers, that's my go to.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I'm a premium user, but I'm not. I don't use
them as my amy.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Do you do YouTube?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Not much?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Just every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Do you have it?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I have YouTube TV, but I don't pay for it.
I've got whatever the free thing is. I don't use
that as a streaming service.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I do.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's my go to for network's local news. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Absolutely, Okay, So you don't have direct TV or.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
No, I don't have direct TV?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No, oh I got I get calls from direct TV
all the time. Hi, you're a customer. Yeah, until eighteen
years ago when I canceled direct TV.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
That's correct. And YouTube.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
No, she's shaking her head, and uh, of course, CONO
can't afford any of that.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Cono. You still have rabbit ears on your TV, don't you.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
That is correct.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Okay, we're done, guys.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
A box with a cutout like a screen and he got.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, he still has the cathode ray TV.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Right, get a hanger and she just holds it up.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
That's what they did for you know. That's what they
did for the Super first Super Bowl, which.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Was blacked out in Los Angeles nineteen sixty three and
you couldn't get it and people would be making these
antennas literally out of coat hangers.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
You're right, Oh god, those days, it was so great,
those days, Oh were the days?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
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