December 4, 2025 • 31 mins
(December 04, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. President Trump launches immigration crackdown in New Orleans. California launches online portal to report misconduct by federal agents. Los Angeles sheriff deputies working in county jails now equipped with body warn cameras. New York Times sues Pentagon over first amendment rights. Massive shredded cheese recall: Check your fridge for these brands.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
I hate chat.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Is Bill handleliberal or conservative? Why is it only transcribing
Oh God.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
In the last seven years or when he started?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Good morning, everybody, Handle Morning crew.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Thursday morning, December fourth, and Neil asked me this morning,
when's Tonica? I have absolutely no idea, and he described
the meme which I thought was hilarious. There was a
meme going around where a woman says, don't stop asking
me when Honikah is Jews don't know, it just happens.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
All right, Good morning, Neil.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Good morning. In Yeah, it's a it's a moving target,
ain't it.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh well, it does move around, there's no question.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Because it's based on the Hebrew calendar, which is very
very different than the than the Gligorian or the Jewelian
can calendar. I mean it goes back, so you know,
I mean, and the holidays are different. When someone is
war mitfoot is the first time they buy a derivative,
they're able to do that, and when they get married
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they okay, excellent, all right, good morning, Ann, Good morning,
Good morning, and Amy, good morning, I Will and Kono
good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Good morning. In December fourteenth, oh, December fourteenth, first.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Night of Hanukah okay. And finally, last and least of course,
Will Coleschriiver, good morning, Will.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Good morning, sir. What's this derivative thing? It's an investment vehicle.
It's a very complicated investment vehicle.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Anyway, more about Perham Oh, pum, yeah, uh, I know.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Enough attention, Let's buy some flowers.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
No, you're right, what pine not? Poutine? Poutine is the
president of Russia. Pudim p u r I never mind purim. Okay,
enough of that, enough of the holidays. Oh, I've got
some terrific news to share with you guys. And it's
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extraordinary actually in a very very good way. And that is,
as you know, the auction items. The auction is over
for Katerina's Club and the what we were, what we donated.
The auction is a private barbecue at my house where
Neil and I will be broadcasting the Fork Report and
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it will be done there live and the winning bidder
will join us. And we got eleven thousand dollars for that,
which is pretty good. Yeah, it's very good. Now, now
let me tell you what happened. Michelle called me and
right after the auction closed, So eleven thousand dollars was it?
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A gentleman called Michelle and said, I didn't make it
in time for the auction. Do you think I can
be invited to Bill's house for the barbecue? And I'm
willing to donate twenty thousand dollars for that. Our auction
event went for thirty one thousand dollars. Wow, yeah, which
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is is pretty impressive. I must tell you there are
people that are either very big fans or have very
very special needs one or the other.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I'm going to buy one.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Of those disposable habachis and we're going to put it
in the center like the ever.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, and you know it's gonna be crazy, Well not quite,
but we're going to have pitt masters and grill masters
there in Anaheim White Houses catering the event.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So there's a lot of fun. It's going to be enormous.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
And Lake Industries is donating a set of a set
of knives worth a couple thousand dollars. Zelmans is offering
a year's worth of Zelmans also. I mean, we're throwing
a lot of stuff into the works. But getting thirty
one thousand dollars is you know that ain't bad?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That as actually is pretty good or very proud of that.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And the people that did win the auction, who were
the high bidder, we had to ask where I had
to ask their permission, can we bring another couple?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And they were very gracious about it.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
They said absolutely, So they'll be uh four, there'll be
four people attending and we're really very proud of that.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
We've never come close to that. Although we've never done
this either. It's a really different kind of event because
usually it's every year and does rate. By the way,
Dodger Game with Gary and Shannon this year, Dean and
Tina Dodger Game with them, John Cobalt an hours worth
of well joining him for an hour on his show,
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so you get to be a broadcaster. And then Wendy
giving some psychological or you know, you can't use the
word psychology because she's not a licensed psychologist, but therapy
fair enough.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So ours was over the top because we've never done
it before. Never.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
But the Dodgers, I think they they have access to
the iHeart.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, it's no it's terrific. It's not
just your Dodgers game.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I get that. There's a lot of good stuff that comes.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Everyone takes a bite of the Dodger dog and passages.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, No, it's not quite that. So no, it's it's
a it's a.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Pretty neat event and every year it does well as
it should. But you know, we went way over the
top on this one. I mean, my goodness, and now
I have to pretend I like people.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
God, I'll run interference, buddy.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And there isn't a Dodger game that people can stare at,
at least to avert their attention.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's all on us.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well, the food, the food works that will avert the
attention anyway. Of course, we have a fair amount to
talk about. We try to stay away from Trump news.
Today we're going to try to stay away on our
segment away from Trump. And I was just telling Lindsey,
it's hard not to do Trump. It is very difficult
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not to do Trump segments based on what goes on
every single day.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
It's the president.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Well no, no, he's not just the president, but he's
Donald Trump, the president.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
We've got local garbage too, We've got idiots and local offices.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
But I will tell you they're not changing our local
our local officials are not changing our cities and counties
the way that President Trump is changing America. That is huge, huge,
way beyond just what's going on right now.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Sidestep the supremacy laws.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, that's one of them. Yeah, that's one of them.
Pardon issues have gone a little bit crazy. There's a
lot just announced that the requirements for gas mileage by
twenty forty five, that's just been decimated. So it just
goes on and on and on. Okay, guys, you're ready
to do it.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Lead story. What do you think it's going to be?
All right?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Handle on the news, Amy Neil and me. Lead story. Yeah,
a Trump story. And this has to do with immigration.
Now going to New Orleans to arrest immigrants who are
illegally in the US. And that's the latest city to
be targeted by the President. Have you noticed that every
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single city targeted has a Democrat mayor. There is no
such thing as a city in the United States that
has a Republican mayor that has a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
With illegal aliens.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And President has said that it's the Democrat cities that
we're going to go after.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
See, I told you so, I told you so.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
So New Orleans with sanctuary laws and stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, New Orleans I don't think is a sanctuary
so but laly the ones that come up with yeah,
well that's a given, those are going to be going
at that. That's but New Orleans because there's a there is. Yeah,
well why are there sanctuary laws? Because again, the politics
are just totally polarized, and you've got politicians who are
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so upset with what's going on and dealing with the
federal authorities that you know, they the laws are passed
saying you can't agree with federal authorities. By the way,
that that has gone on many many years before.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
What's happening? Now? Okay, enough of Trump now, oh no,
oh no, there's more.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
California has a new snitch line, So officials have launched
an online portal for people to report misconduct by federal
agents and officers of the state.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
This announced by the Governor's office.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
The California Department of Justice will use the information submitted
to create a record of potential illegal conduct by federal
agents that could be used in possible legal actions.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
All right, I mean is that legal?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I can do that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
What are they doing illegally?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, the argument is that they are stopping people illegally,
not giving them Miranda warnings, wrapping them up, going after
US citizens and not asking and detaining US citizens.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
There are a couple of allegations, just a couple out there.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So one eight hundred I'm a rat? Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah? Or one eight hundred my wife is about to
be picked up? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Okay, moving on, Oh we do angelo, Yeah, going live,
Let's do it live.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
They're gonna the deputies, which are the only humans that
go to jail on their own decision. They go, hey,
let's let's let me work in a jail, are now
going to be equipped with body worn cameras. So, uh, this,
you know, they keep saying, is protection of everything. I
think ultimately we're all going to be wearing cameras at
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some point, teachers, kids, everything.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
But uh, it makes a noise when you turn it on,
makes a noise, so.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Everybody can hear that the inmate is now going to
be filmed. Even partners of deputies and stuff like that
that are nearby know that it's actively recording. And every
two minutes or so, the body camp will beep again
to remind the deputy anybody around the camera is still recording.
So this is after California Attorney General Rob Bonta is
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assuming Los Angeles County Sheriff's department over alleged unc constitutional
in humane conditions in the county jail as opposed to
all the inhumane conditions outside of the jail in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Apparently, I just pet my dog just came in. That
is not a euphemism. That is not And if it
were a euphemism, it would be a Dodger dog.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And you know why it would be a Dodger dog.
If that was a euphemism.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Why do you think because you're a liar?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
No?
Speaker 7 (11:29):
No, are you saying that Dodgers are liars?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Not.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I'm saying the Dodger dog.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I'm talking about the length of a Dodger dog relative
to regular hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Don't Dodger dogs go? I gain it's been a million years.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Since they do extend past the bun perfectly.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So that's exactly where I was going. They extend past
the bun. Okay, why don't we leave it at that?
Moving on more handle on the news, Amy Neil and me.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
So a paper wants back in the Pentagon. The New
York Times is accused the Pentagon in a lawsuit of
infringing on the constitutional rights of journalists by imposing a
set of new restrictions on reporting about the military. The
Time says the Defense Department's new policy violates the First
Amendment and seeks to restrict journalists's ability to do what
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journalists have always done, and that is asked questions of
government employees, gather the information and report on the stories,
to take the public beyond official pronouncements.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I don't know if that is a constitutional right to
be in the press room of the White House. And
does the White House and the Pentagon have the right
to say, if you want access to us, or you
want to ask us questions, if you want tips from us,
these are the requirements that you make it. I don't
know if that's a constitutional issue or not.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
What about a crime scene, they're they're limited in their
access to a crime scene as well?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Right, yeah, absolutely, now, but but we're talking on access. Uh,
you know, I think you can limit access to reporters,
it's the question. You can't stop them from reporting, And
so there, I don't know which way the court's going
to go because the court gives a lot of leeway
to the press legally, but at this one, I think
we're going to have much Yeah, and I think they're
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going to have I think it's not a constitution, right,
that's my.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Call on it.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
All Right.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
So Matthew Perry and his unfortunate death is back in
the news because the former physician who supplied the ketamine
to Matthew Perry, of course the Friends actor in the
weeks leading up to the actor's death, was now sentenced
just yesterday to serve about two and a half years
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or so in federal prison.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
So Salvador plus Sensia.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Who lives in Placentia?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
No, who when, like, uh, Calabasas or something, Placentia, You don't,
I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Know saying isn't wasn't the doctor from that area?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Oh yeah, absolutely, doctor was absolutely Calabasas. And we know
some people who he was their doctor.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, and for ketamine.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
And not no, not for kenemine, Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Just so sad because the family comes out, the mother
and stepmother comes out. You know, we're still dealing with
this differently than fans are there it's horrible losing a child.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I mean, I don't care who it is, you know,
for a parent to have to bury a child is
uh is one of the worst nightmares out there.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Uh, here's a really cheesy story. More than one point
five million bags of different shredded cheeses that are sold
all over the place, including in California, have been recalled
voluntarily because of possible metal contamination. There's a possibility that
there are metal fragments in the profits products. Rather, the
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cheese is by the Great Lakes Cheese Company based in Ohio.
There's two hundred and thirty five thousand cases of low
moisture parts skim Mozzarellas shredded cheese being recalled.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, you don't even have to name the brand. Yeah,
it's every brand on the planet.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
They sure seems like it. Huh.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
And then there's nineteen hundred cases of Happy Farms by
Aldi in Italian style shredded cheese. There's Italian style shredded
cheese blends more than fifteen thousand cases, and then a
very small amount one hundred and seventeen cases of Food
Club finally shredded pizza style for cheese blend.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Get the block cheese and great at yourself.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Great at yourself?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
All right, Trump rolls back biden euer fuel economy stand
and this is kind of we heard this during the
news this morning with Amy King. Is basically he's saying
Trump is trying to make the case that it's artificially
inflating the cost of vehicles, because pushing somebody towards an
expensive ev is not always doable.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It's not artificially you know, making the cost higher.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It does make the cost higher because you know, engines
have to be developed that are much more cost efficient,
and it all adds costs to the vehicle. And we
go back several decades the car manufacturers were claiming, you know,
what they were claiming is that seat belts made the
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car more expensive. Let's not mandate seat belts. Well, I
will tell you crush zones.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
It may be upfront cost, but ultimately on an electric vehicle,
isn't it like tires and brakes, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
But this is about it all.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, this is all gas cars.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
And it's a little complicated because included in a car
company's gas mileage requirement are electric vehicles. And this is
average that we're talking about that the government wants, so
it brings down the average, allowing the much more profitable
gas powered twelve mile per gallon super trucks to be sold.
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I don't know anybody who has one of those, Lindsay,
but it's pretty expensive on the on the gasoline side.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Here, I've never seen a bigger person surrounded by a tiny.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Person surrounded by a bigger car than your wife.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, she's pretty small, and she like, yeah, she would
drive an eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I think if you could fit in the garage.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Our Speaker Johnson's day's numbered well, apparently some people are
starting to break with Speaker Johnson. Representative A Last Stephonic
called him an habitual liar. Representative Nancy masa South Carolina,
so she's so frustrated with him that she might even
have a little huddle with Marjorie Taylor Green from Georgia
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about retiring early.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Anna Paulina Anna Paulina Luna.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
From Florida has gone around Johnson to try to force
a vote that he didn't want to bring to the floor,
and members from all corners of his conference have been
openly complaining about his leadership, and some are predicting he
may not last as the Speaker for the rest of
his term.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Well, he was a compromised speaker anyway. He was the
least offensive person to become the speaker and is considered
the least effective speaker in the last century. Why because,
Number one, he has not an effective leader to begin with.
That's just not who he is. Certain people have leadership styles,
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certain people don't.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
He doesn't. And I think there are some Republicans.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It will certainly Democrats, but are Coplicans are saying, Hey,
you know what, you aren't the speaker, you're a ChIL
for President Trump. President Trump tells you what to do.
You wake up at the morning every morning, you call
the President what should I do today? Mister President? He
tells you, and that's what you do. And by the way,
that's not far from the truth either. As I've told
you over and over again, Mike Johnson has said publicly,
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my job as Speaker and this Congress is to push
Trump's agenda. That's what we're supposed to do. Wait a minute,
that's what the legislative branch is supposed to do. Isn't
the third arm of government? Nope, there are only two
arms of government, the presidency of which he has an
army of four hundred and thirty five soldiers in the
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House and the judiciary, and that's it. Yeah, it's I
get very angry at this. You know, I may disagree
with a lot of what Congress does and I do.
And when there's a conservative Congress, you know, I real conservative.
I'm not happy. When it's real liberal, I'm not happy.
But it's Congress. It's what they do. It's not what
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the president wakes up in the morning and tells them
what to do. Now do they pay attention to where
the president is going? Of course you do. Party is
party is party. But I hope he's out on his ass.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I really do. He is an embarrassment as in his
position as speaker. All right.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, Uh, I hate her name because
Lanelayne Glaine.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Jeez, gizz Lane.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
That was Wayne.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, there's a weird spelling. It's Jilane, right, right, Amy
huh guh yeah, like Glinda.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
That's right, who then became Glinda mm hmmm, so it'll
be Glaine. So.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
She was convicted of recruiting young girls, as we all know,
into this horrible sex trafficking. She's planning to ask the
judge to release her from prison. And this is to
according to some new court filings, you know, this is
basically her desire to get out of prison, saying that
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she was because the heat of the story and the
heat of national interest in all of that, that she's
been kind of wrongly put in a situation of being
the skate.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Well that's yeah, that's not quite what's going on, Neil.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It has to do with she's appealing her decision and
if she wins, the adverse publicity of these Epstein files
will affect the jury and will she'll get an unfair trial.
It's a stretch on her behalf. I mean, it really
is a stretch. This one is pretty bizarre. There's plenty
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of cases where you can't release x number of information
or there's so much information. Oj had the same argument
that it's every jury out there is prejudice, and that's
sometimes why they move venues.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
If it happens locally.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Let's say a crime happens in LA, then the defense
will say we got a defense will say we can't
be in LA. It's too local a story and people
are too affected by it and they're going to be prejudiced.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So This is a big picture. I'm on appeal.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
In case I win the appeal and we go to
a new trial, then the Epstein trials being released are
going to affect the jury pool.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It's just it's really kind of a stretch.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
And on the other hand, she's also asking for a
pardon from the President, and I don't think it's going
to go further than that. He already she said, nope,
President wasn't there in the Epstein file. And this is
two days after the Deputy Attorney General went to visit her,
which has never happened before, spend two days with her,
and then she transferred into a club fed the most
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minimum and minimum security prisons out there. And so now
there's no more upside to to giving her a pardon.
But can you imagine if Trump gave her a pardon?
Can you imagine a Jack Olash? No, of course not,
of course not he the federal authorities, the Department of
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the Bureau of Corrections.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
This is as far as they're going to go. Does
he still have Biden's auto pen? Maybe he could have Biden?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Uh yeah, yeah, that says she got I believe she
got what she wanted. I believe the administration got what
it's wanted, and here's as far as we will go.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
We'll allow you to be in this.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Prison, which incidantly, people convicted of child molestation, being part
of raping children miners do not get into these prisons,
and she is one in one. So yeah, there there
will be no pardon. I mean obviously not amy.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
But that's just the talk of it is.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Can you imagine if it's one of those conversations.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Let's do one more talk about a surprise and very
welcome Christmas present. In the coming days, people are going
to be getting letters from the county and undo medical debt,
which will let them know that their medical debt has
been erased. Who are these letters going to. They're going
to more than one hundred and seventy one thousand residents
of La County. The Department of Public Health has announced
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more than three hundred and sixty three million dollars in
medical debt has been permanently erased for those low income
people as part of a relief pilot program.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
YEP, I think, are we on our way to national health?
Are we on our way to make it a single payer?
Read the government pays all medical bills.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Wait are they paying this or are they.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
The county is negotiating it.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I believe they're giving these insurance companies or they're giving
the medical providers. Let's say, we'll give you thirty cents
on the dollar. We'll give you ten cents on the dollar,
because the argument that they're going to have, we're better
off taking ten cents than nothing. Because the number one
bankrupt see issue in the United States by far, the
number one reason people go bankrupt is medical bills. And
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once you're done, once your bankrupt yeah, once you're done
with meta, once you're done to your bankruptcy, chow baby,
you're done. So the providers are going to get some money.
And at seven o'clock we're gonna do a story about this.
And this has to do with the murder of the
healthcare United Healthcare CEO. And I'm going to talk a
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little bit and give you a personal story too as
to what happened. So it's a little bit complex, but
I want to jump into it because I think I
think it's important and I don't care if you think
it's important or not.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Okay, this one's a little confusing, but basically, you have
a consumer group and a pushing for this initiative that
would require California insurancers to offer policy to homeowners who
fireproof their houses.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
So you know, they do.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Whatever the defensive space, they put spark arrests or whatever
in their attic, whatever it is. But it seems that
there is another group that we're coming with a similar idea,
and so one is kind of standing down at this point.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Well they have to, because when you have competing measures,
let's say you have a measure a measure B that's
going against or trying to establish something.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Well, they cannibalize each other.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
They put the vote, which means it's firstly an automatic
note because you need fifty percent plus one in order
to pass the proposition in California. So they both decided, Okay,
we're out of it and we can continue on as before.
It has to do with forcing insurers to offer insurance
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to people who fireproof their homes. Right now, insures can
say no to anybody. They can just say we're going
and then bail out of the state.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
And here it cannot be part of a system because the.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
State has the right to say you do ABC or
and D or you're out. That's all required. It's a
business measure. It's a requirement to do business.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
For example, I'm just saying, how can insurance company if
you have an insurance system, by definition it's to protect.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Yeah, it's to make money.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
I get all that, But the vast majority of the
people are not going to have their house burned down.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
However, the ones that do have their houses burned down,
there are enough of them that insurance companies go broke.
And that's the problem insurance companies, these ones that bailed
out are not making enough money or losing money.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Amy, you're going to say something, I.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
Have a question for you.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Is it because everybody's suing. They're not just like doing
replacement costs, But everybody sues so much, and then the
insurance companies pay for it. So I'm wondering if everybody
wasn't so soue happy, if the insurance companies wouldn't be
going bankrupt.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Well, let me ask you this, Amy.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Let's say you have a house in the Pacific Palisades
and it didn't burn down, but the smoke destroyed the
house to where you have to bring it down to
studs because the toxic smoke literally permeates even the dry
wall where it is there forever, and the insurance company says,
we're not covering that. We only cover if actual fire
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damage is seen. Do you file a lawsuit? Well, of
course you do.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
And the point is my point though, is that insurance
companies used to cover stuff.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Now they try to deny stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
My dad was an insurance man for years and it
was a very reputable business.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, and it no longer is because the philosophy of
insurance companies and basically because it costs so much money.
I think you know what the insurance companies in a
Pacific palisades. I mean, can you imagine the cost of
rebuilding the ones that have burned down? Although you know
there are enough reserves in the private insurance companies to
meet the requirement.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It's the CalFire plan. It's a fair plan that's going
to go broke.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
But the point is, if insurance companies are losing money
in a state, they can bail.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
They can say we're I.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Mean, what a company that's making money is going to
leave the state.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
So the government plan is going to fail. That's correct,
Let's have them run more things.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, the government plan fails, and that's guaranteed by the
people of the state of California.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Okay, moving on, your.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Brain may need the booze.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
A new study suggests that the brain physically adapts to
rely on alcohol to relieve stress and anxiety, and it
creates this kind of feedback loop that makes quitting drinking
more difficult.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
From researchers, it's scripts.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
They say that sometimes people start associating alcohol with relief
from like stress and other stuff, and so when they don't.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Get it, then they have these withdrawal symptoms.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
They say this what is what makes addictions so hard
to break is that people aren't just chasing a high.
They're also trying to get rid of powerful negative states
like the stress and anxiety.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yeah, the alcohol business course is fighting back like crazy
and arguing that all the authors in the new study
were completely dead falling down drunk when they did this study.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I was gonna say they needed to drink.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Hey, why don't we go get a drink and talk
about this all right, let's do one more real quickly.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Panda Express, the parent company actually Panda Express, has now
been ordered to pay one million dollars to because they
violated California laws, which laws California's Hazardous Materials plan laws.
Why Well, because the soda fountains they use have they
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give out CO.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Two carbon dioxide. That's how they make the bubbles.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But they've never taught any of their staff, apparently to.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I guess not, I yuess not. So there's a million
bucks there you go. All right, we're done now.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
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Good morning, everybody, Handle Morning crew.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Thursday morning, December fourth, and Neil asked me this morning,
when's Tonica? I have absolutely no idea, and he described
the meme which I thought was hilarious. There was a
meme going around where a woman says, don't stop asking
me when Honikah is Jews don't know, it just happens.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
All right, Good morning, Neil.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Good morning. In Yeah, it's a it's a moving target,
ain't it.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh well, it does move around, there's no question.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Because it's based on the Hebrew calendar, which is very
very different than the than the Gligorian or the Jewelian
can calendar. I mean it goes back, so you know,
I mean, and the holidays are different. When someone is
war mitfoot is the first time they buy a derivative,
they're able to do that, and when they get married
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they okay, excellent, all right, good morning, Ann, Good morning,
Good morning, and Amy, good morning, I Will and Kono
good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Good morning. In December fourteenth, oh, December fourteenth, first.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Night of Hanukah okay. And finally, last and least of course,
Will Coleschriiver, good morning, Will.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Good morning, sir. What's this derivative thing? It's an investment vehicle.
It's a very complicated investment vehicle.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Anyway, more about Perham Oh, pum, yeah, uh, I know.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Enough attention, Let's buy some flowers.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
No, you're right, what pine not? Poutine? Poutine is the
president of Russia. Pudim p u r I never mind purim. Okay,
enough of that, enough of the holidays. Oh, I've got
some terrific news to share with you guys. And it's
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extraordinary actually in a very very good way. And that is,
as you know, the auction items. The auction is over
for Katerina's Club and the what we were, what we donated.
The auction is a private barbecue at my house where
Neil and I will be broadcasting the Fork Report and
(02:51):
it will be done there live and the winning bidder
will join us. And we got eleven thousand dollars for that,
which is pretty good. Yeah, it's very good. Now, now
let me tell you what happened. Michelle called me and
right after the auction closed, So eleven thousand dollars was it?
(03:15):
A gentleman called Michelle and said, I didn't make it
in time for the auction. Do you think I can
be invited to Bill's house for the barbecue? And I'm
willing to donate twenty thousand dollars for that. Our auction
event went for thirty one thousand dollars. Wow, yeah, which
(03:39):
is is pretty impressive. I must tell you there are
people that are either very big fans or have very
very special needs one or the other.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I'm going to buy one.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Of those disposable habachis and we're going to put it
in the center like the ever.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, and you know it's gonna be crazy, Well not quite,
but we're going to have pitt masters and grill masters
there in Anaheim White Houses catering the event.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So there's a lot of fun. It's going to be enormous.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
And Lake Industries is donating a set of a set
of knives worth a couple thousand dollars. Zelmans is offering
a year's worth of Zelmans also. I mean, we're throwing
a lot of stuff into the works. But getting thirty
one thousand dollars is you know that ain't bad?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That as actually is pretty good or very proud of that.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And the people that did win the auction, who were
the high bidder, we had to ask where I had
to ask their permission, can we bring another couple?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And they were very gracious about it.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
They said absolutely, So they'll be uh four, there'll be
four people attending and we're really very proud of that.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
We've never come close to that. Although we've never done
this either. It's a really different kind of event because
usually it's every year and does rate. By the way,
Dodger Game with Gary and Shannon this year, Dean and
Tina Dodger Game with them, John Cobalt an hours worth
of well joining him for an hour on his show,
(05:14):
so you get to be a broadcaster. And then Wendy
giving some psychological or you know, you can't use the
word psychology because she's not a licensed psychologist, but therapy
fair enough.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So ours was over the top because we've never done
it before. Never.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
But the Dodgers, I think they they have access to
the iHeart.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, it's no it's terrific. It's not
just your Dodgers game.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I get that. There's a lot of good stuff that comes.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Everyone takes a bite of the Dodger dog and passages.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, No, it's not quite that. So no, it's it's
a it's a.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Pretty neat event and every year it does well as
it should. But you know, we went way over the
top on this one. I mean, my goodness, and now
I have to pretend I like people.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
God, I'll run interference, buddy.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And there isn't a Dodger game that people can stare at,
at least to avert their attention.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's all on us.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well, the food, the food works that will avert the
attention anyway. Of course, we have a fair amount to
talk about. We try to stay away from Trump news.
Today we're going to try to stay away on our
segment away from Trump. And I was just telling Lindsey,
it's hard not to do Trump. It is very difficult
(06:35):
not to do Trump segments based on what goes on
every single day.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
It's the president.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Well no, no, he's not just the president, but he's
Donald Trump, the president.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
We've got local garbage too, We've got idiots and local offices.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
But I will tell you they're not changing our local
our local officials are not changing our cities and counties
the way that President Trump is changing America. That is huge, huge,
way beyond just what's going on right now.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Sidestep the supremacy laws.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, that's one of them. Yeah, that's one of them.
Pardon issues have gone a little bit crazy. There's a
lot just announced that the requirements for gas mileage by
twenty forty five, that's just been decimated. So it just
goes on and on and on. Okay, guys, you're ready
to do it.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Lead story. What do you think it's going to be?
All right?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Handle on the news, Amy Neil and me. Lead story. Yeah,
a Trump story. And this has to do with immigration.
Now going to New Orleans to arrest immigrants who are
illegally in the US. And that's the latest city to
be targeted by the President. Have you noticed that every
(07:48):
single city targeted has a Democrat mayor. There is no
such thing as a city in the United States that
has a Republican mayor that has a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
With illegal aliens.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And President has said that it's the Democrat cities that
we're going to go after.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
See, I told you so, I told you so.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
So New Orleans with sanctuary laws and stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, New Orleans I don't think is a sanctuary
so but laly the ones that come up with yeah,
well that's a given, those are going to be going
at that. That's but New Orleans because there's a there is. Yeah,
well why are there sanctuary laws? Because again, the politics
are just totally polarized, and you've got politicians who are
(08:37):
so upset with what's going on and dealing with the
federal authorities that you know, they the laws are passed
saying you can't agree with federal authorities. By the way,
that that has gone on many many years before.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
What's happening? Now? Okay, enough of Trump now, oh no,
oh no, there's more.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
California has a new snitch line, So officials have launched
an online portal for people to report misconduct by federal
agents and officers of the state.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
This announced by the Governor's office.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
The California Department of Justice will use the information submitted
to create a record of potential illegal conduct by federal
agents that could be used in possible legal actions.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
All right, I mean is that legal?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I can do that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
What are they doing illegally?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, the argument is that they are stopping people illegally,
not giving them Miranda warnings, wrapping them up, going after
US citizens and not asking and detaining US citizens.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
There are a couple of allegations, just a couple out there.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So one eight hundred I'm a rat? Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah? Or one eight hundred my wife is about to
be picked up? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Okay, moving on, Oh we do angelo, Yeah, going live,
Let's do it live.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
They're gonna the deputies, which are the only humans that
go to jail on their own decision. They go, hey,
let's let's let me work in a jail, are now
going to be equipped with body worn cameras. So, uh, this,
you know, they keep saying, is protection of everything. I
think ultimately we're all going to be wearing cameras at
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some point, teachers, kids, everything.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
But uh, it makes a noise when you turn it on,
makes a noise, so.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Everybody can hear that the inmate is now going to
be filmed. Even partners of deputies and stuff like that
that are nearby know that it's actively recording. And every
two minutes or so, the body camp will beep again
to remind the deputy anybody around the camera is still recording.
So this is after California Attorney General Rob Bonta is
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assuming Los Angeles County Sheriff's department over alleged unc constitutional
in humane conditions in the county jail as opposed to
all the inhumane conditions outside of the jail in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Apparently, I just pet my dog just came in. That
is not a euphemism. That is not And if it
were a euphemism, it would be a Dodger dog.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And you know why it would be a Dodger dog.
If that was a euphemism.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Why do you think because you're a liar?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
No?
Speaker 7 (11:29):
No, are you saying that Dodgers are liars?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Not.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I'm saying the Dodger dog.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I'm talking about the length of a Dodger dog relative
to regular hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Don't Dodger dogs go? I gain it's been a million years.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Since they do extend past the bun perfectly.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So that's exactly where I was going. They extend past
the bun. Okay, why don't we leave it at that?
Moving on more handle on the news, Amy Neil and me.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
So a paper wants back in the Pentagon. The New
York Times is accused the Pentagon in a lawsuit of
infringing on the constitutional rights of journalists by imposing a
set of new restrictions on reporting about the military. The
Time says the Defense Department's new policy violates the First
Amendment and seeks to restrict journalists's ability to do what
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journalists have always done, and that is asked questions of
government employees, gather the information and report on the stories,
to take the public beyond official pronouncements.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I don't know if that is a constitutional right to
be in the press room of the White House. And
does the White House and the Pentagon have the right
to say, if you want access to us, or you
want to ask us questions, if you want tips from us,
these are the requirements that you make it. I don't
know if that's a constitutional issue or not.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
What about a crime scene, they're they're limited in their
access to a crime scene as well?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Right, yeah, absolutely, now, but but we're talking on access. Uh,
you know, I think you can limit access to reporters,
it's the question. You can't stop them from reporting, And
so there, I don't know which way the court's going
to go because the court gives a lot of leeway
to the press legally, but at this one, I think
we're going to have much Yeah, and I think they're
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going to have I think it's not a constitution, right,
that's my.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Call on it.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
All Right.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
So Matthew Perry and his unfortunate death is back in
the news because the former physician who supplied the ketamine
to Matthew Perry, of course the Friends actor in the
weeks leading up to the actor's death, was now sentenced
just yesterday to serve about two and a half years
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or so in federal prison.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
So Salvador plus Sensia.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Who lives in Placentia?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
No, who when, like, uh, Calabasas or something, Placentia, You don't,
I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Know saying isn't wasn't the doctor from that area?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Oh yeah, absolutely, doctor was absolutely Calabasas. And we know
some people who he was their doctor.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, and for ketamine.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
And not no, not for kenemine, Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Just so sad because the family comes out, the mother
and stepmother comes out. You know, we're still dealing with
this differently than fans are there it's horrible losing a child.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I mean, I don't care who it is, you know,
for a parent to have to bury a child is
uh is one of the worst nightmares out there.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Uh, here's a really cheesy story. More than one point
five million bags of different shredded cheeses that are sold
all over the place, including in California, have been recalled
voluntarily because of possible metal contamination. There's a possibility that
there are metal fragments in the profits products. Rather, the
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cheese is by the Great Lakes Cheese Company based in Ohio.
There's two hundred and thirty five thousand cases of low
moisture parts skim Mozzarellas shredded cheese being recalled.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, you don't even have to name the brand. Yeah,
it's every brand on the planet.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
They sure seems like it. Huh.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
And then there's nineteen hundred cases of Happy Farms by
Aldi in Italian style shredded cheese. There's Italian style shredded
cheese blends more than fifteen thousand cases, and then a
very small amount one hundred and seventeen cases of Food
Club finally shredded pizza style for cheese blend.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Get the block cheese and great at yourself.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Great at yourself?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
All right, Trump rolls back biden euer fuel economy stand
and this is kind of we heard this during the
news this morning with Amy King. Is basically he's saying
Trump is trying to make the case that it's artificially
inflating the cost of vehicles, because pushing somebody towards an
expensive ev is not always doable.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It's not artificially you know, making the cost higher.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It does make the cost higher because you know, engines
have to be developed that are much more cost efficient,
and it all adds costs to the vehicle. And we
go back several decades the car manufacturers were claiming, you know,
what they were claiming is that seat belts made the
(16:45):
car more expensive. Let's not mandate seat belts. Well, I
will tell you crush zones.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
It may be upfront cost, but ultimately on an electric vehicle,
isn't it like tires and brakes, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
But this is about it all.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, this is all gas cars.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
And it's a little complicated because included in a car
company's gas mileage requirement are electric vehicles. And this is
average that we're talking about that the government wants, so
it brings down the average, allowing the much more profitable
gas powered twelve mile per gallon super trucks to be sold.
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I don't know anybody who has one of those, Lindsay,
but it's pretty expensive on the on the gasoline side.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Here, I've never seen a bigger person surrounded by a tiny.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Person surrounded by a bigger car than your wife.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, she's pretty small, and she like, yeah, she would
drive an eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I think if you could fit in the garage.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Our Speaker Johnson's day's numbered well, apparently some people are
starting to break with Speaker Johnson. Representative A Last Stephonic
called him an habitual liar. Representative Nancy masa South Carolina,
so she's so frustrated with him that she might even
have a little huddle with Marjorie Taylor Green from Georgia
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about retiring early.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Anna Paulina Anna Paulina Luna.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
From Florida has gone around Johnson to try to force
a vote that he didn't want to bring to the floor,
and members from all corners of his conference have been
openly complaining about his leadership, and some are predicting he
may not last as the Speaker for the rest of
his term.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Well, he was a compromised speaker anyway. He was the
least offensive person to become the speaker and is considered
the least effective speaker in the last century. Why because,
Number one, he has not an effective leader to begin with.
That's just not who he is. Certain people have leadership styles,
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certain people don't.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
He doesn't. And I think there are some Republicans.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
It will certainly Democrats, but are Coplicans are saying, Hey,
you know what, you aren't the speaker, you're a ChIL
for President Trump. President Trump tells you what to do.
You wake up at the morning every morning, you call
the President what should I do today? Mister President? He
tells you, and that's what you do. And by the way,
that's not far from the truth either. As I've told
you over and over again, Mike Johnson has said publicly,
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my job as Speaker and this Congress is to push
Trump's agenda. That's what we're supposed to do. Wait a minute,
that's what the legislative branch is supposed to do. Isn't
the third arm of government? Nope, there are only two
arms of government, the presidency of which he has an
army of four hundred and thirty five soldiers in the
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House and the judiciary, and that's it. Yeah, it's I
get very angry at this. You know, I may disagree
with a lot of what Congress does and I do.
And when there's a conservative Congress, you know, I real conservative.
I'm not happy. When it's real liberal, I'm not happy.
But it's Congress. It's what they do. It's not what
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the president wakes up in the morning and tells them
what to do. Now do they pay attention to where
the president is going? Of course you do. Party is
party is party. But I hope he's out on his ass.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I really do. He is an embarrassment as in his
position as speaker. All right.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, Uh, I hate her name because
Lanelayne Glaine.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Jeez, gizz Lane.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
That was Wayne.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, there's a weird spelling. It's Jilane, right, right, Amy
huh guh yeah, like Glinda.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
That's right, who then became Glinda mm hmmm, so it'll
be Glaine. So.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
She was convicted of recruiting young girls, as we all know,
into this horrible sex trafficking. She's planning to ask the
judge to release her from prison. And this is to
according to some new court filings, you know, this is
basically her desire to get out of prison, saying that
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she was because the heat of the story and the
heat of national interest in all of that, that she's
been kind of wrongly put in a situation of being
the skate.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Well that's yeah, that's not quite what's going on, Neil.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It has to do with she's appealing her decision and
if she wins, the adverse publicity of these Epstein files
will affect the jury and will she'll get an unfair trial.
It's a stretch on her behalf. I mean, it really
is a stretch. This one is pretty bizarre. There's plenty
(21:49):
of cases where you can't release x number of information
or there's so much information. Oj had the same argument
that it's every jury out there is prejudice, and that's
sometimes why they move venues.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
If it happens locally.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Let's say a crime happens in LA, then the defense
will say we got a defense will say we can't
be in LA. It's too local a story and people
are too affected by it and they're going to be prejudiced.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So This is a big picture. I'm on appeal.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
In case I win the appeal and we go to
a new trial, then the Epstein trials being released are
going to affect the jury pool.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
It's just it's really kind of a stretch.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
And on the other hand, she's also asking for a
pardon from the President, and I don't think it's going
to go further than that. He already she said, nope,
President wasn't there in the Epstein file. And this is
two days after the Deputy Attorney General went to visit her,
which has never happened before, spend two days with her,
and then she transferred into a club fed the most
(22:53):
minimum and minimum security prisons out there. And so now
there's no more upside to to giving her a pardon.
But can you imagine if Trump gave her a pardon?
Can you imagine a Jack Olash? No, of course not,
of course not he the federal authorities, the Department of
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the Bureau of Corrections.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
This is as far as they're going to go. Does
he still have Biden's auto pen? Maybe he could have Biden?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Uh yeah, yeah, that says she got I believe she
got what she wanted. I believe the administration got what
it's wanted, and here's as far as we will go.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
We'll allow you to be in this.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Prison, which incidantly, people convicted of child molestation, being part
of raping children miners do not get into these prisons,
and she is one in one. So yeah, there there
will be no pardon. I mean obviously not amy.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
But that's just the talk of it is.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Can you imagine if it's one of those conversations.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Let's do one more talk about a surprise and very
welcome Christmas present. In the coming days, people are going
to be getting letters from the county and undo medical debt,
which will let them know that their medical debt has
been erased. Who are these letters going to. They're going
to more than one hundred and seventy one thousand residents
of La County. The Department of Public Health has announced
(24:20):
more than three hundred and sixty three million dollars in
medical debt has been permanently erased for those low income
people as part of a relief pilot program.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
YEP, I think, are we on our way to national health?
Are we on our way to make it a single payer?
Read the government pays all medical bills.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Wait are they paying this or are they.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
The county is negotiating it.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I believe they're giving these insurance companies or they're giving
the medical providers. Let's say, we'll give you thirty cents
on the dollar. We'll give you ten cents on the dollar,
because the argument that they're going to have, we're better
off taking ten cents than nothing. Because the number one
bankrupt see issue in the United States by far, the
number one reason people go bankrupt is medical bills. And
(25:07):
once you're done, once your bankrupt yeah, once you're done
with meta, once you're done to your bankruptcy, chow baby,
you're done. So the providers are going to get some money.
And at seven o'clock we're gonna do a story about this.
And this has to do with the murder of the
healthcare United Healthcare CEO. And I'm going to talk a
(25:27):
little bit and give you a personal story too as
to what happened. So it's a little bit complex, but
I want to jump into it because I think I
think it's important and I don't care if you think
it's important or not.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Okay, this one's a little confusing, but basically, you have
a consumer group and a pushing for this initiative that
would require California insurancers to offer policy to homeowners who
fireproof their houses.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
So you know, they do.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Whatever the defensive space, they put spark arrests or whatever
in their attic, whatever it is. But it seems that
there is another group that we're coming with a similar idea,
and so one is kind of standing down at this point.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Well they have to, because when you have competing measures,
let's say you have a measure a measure B that's
going against or trying to establish something.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Well, they cannibalize each other.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
They put the vote, which means it's firstly an automatic
note because you need fifty percent plus one in order
to pass the proposition in California. So they both decided, Okay,
we're out of it and we can continue on as before.
It has to do with forcing insurers to offer insurance
(26:50):
to people who fireproof their homes. Right now, insures can
say no to anybody. They can just say we're going
and then bail out of the state.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
And here it cannot be part of a system because the.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
State has the right to say you do ABC or
and D or you're out. That's all required. It's a
business measure. It's a requirement to do business.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
For example, I'm just saying, how can insurance company if
you have an insurance system, by definition it's to protect.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Yeah, it's to make money.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
I get all that, But the vast majority of the
people are not going to have their house burned down.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
However, the ones that do have their houses burned down,
there are enough of them that insurance companies go broke.
And that's the problem insurance companies, these ones that bailed
out are not making enough money or losing money.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Amy, you're going to say something, I.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
Have a question for you.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Is it because everybody's suing. They're not just like doing
replacement costs, But everybody sues so much, and then the
insurance companies pay for it. So I'm wondering if everybody
wasn't so soue happy, if the insurance companies wouldn't be
going bankrupt.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Well, let me ask you this, Amy.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Let's say you have a house in the Pacific Palisades
and it didn't burn down, but the smoke destroyed the
house to where you have to bring it down to
studs because the toxic smoke literally permeates even the dry
wall where it is there forever, and the insurance company says,
we're not covering that. We only cover if actual fire
(28:19):
damage is seen. Do you file a lawsuit? Well, of
course you do.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
And the point is my point though, is that insurance
companies used to cover stuff.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Now they try to deny stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
My dad was an insurance man for years and it
was a very reputable business.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, and it no longer is because the philosophy of
insurance companies and basically because it costs so much money.
I think you know what the insurance companies in a
Pacific palisades. I mean, can you imagine the cost of
rebuilding the ones that have burned down? Although you know
there are enough reserves in the private insurance companies to
meet the requirement.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
It's the CalFire plan. It's a fair plan that's going
to go broke.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
But the point is, if insurance companies are losing money
in a state, they can bail.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
They can say we're I.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Mean, what a company that's making money is going to
leave the state.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
So the government plan is going to fail. That's correct,
Let's have them run more things.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, the government plan fails, and that's guaranteed by the
people of the state of California.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Okay, moving on, your.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Brain may need the booze.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
A new study suggests that the brain physically adapts to
rely on alcohol to relieve stress and anxiety, and it
creates this kind of feedback loop that makes quitting drinking
more difficult.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
From researchers, it's scripts.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
They say that sometimes people start associating alcohol with relief
from like stress and other stuff, and so when they don't.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Get it, then they have these withdrawal symptoms.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
They say this what is what makes addictions so hard
to break is that people aren't just chasing a high.
They're also trying to get rid of powerful negative states
like the stress and anxiety.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yeah, the alcohol business course is fighting back like crazy
and arguing that all the authors in the new study
were completely dead falling down drunk when they did this study.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I was gonna say they needed to drink.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Hey, why don't we go get a drink and talk
about this all right, let's do one more real quickly.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Panda Express, the parent company actually Panda Express, has now
been ordered to pay one million dollars to because they
violated California laws, which laws California's Hazardous Materials plan laws.
Why Well, because the soda fountains they use have they
(30:39):
give out CO.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Two carbon dioxide. That's how they make the bubbles.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But they've never taught any of their staff, apparently to.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I guess not, I yuess not. So there's a million
bucks there you go. All right, we're done now.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
KFI A M.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Six.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
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