December 5, 2025 • 32 mins
(December 05, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. FBI arrests suspect in D.C pipe bomb case from eve of Jan. 6 capitol riot, sources say. SCOTUS allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to GOP in 2026. Grand Jury rejects DOJ’s attempt to revive fraud case against NY AG James. US military strikes another boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing four, amid escalating questions about its counter-drug offensive.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And they also dress weird too, just to let you know.
And they have you know, the pay us, the ringlets.
And everybody has a beard, I mean everybody, the women,
the kids, you know, the five year olds walking around
with beards, and you just.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You can see them, you know, quite the sight. It
really is. Women, the children, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
All right, and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Here's Bill Handle. Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It is a Friday morning, December five, and today we
celebrate Friday morning, December five.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And let me say a quick hello to one and all.
Uh Neil, good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Will you there you go?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I would, and thank you very much. Check Hono, there
you are. Good morning, smooy, Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Good morning. There's a Will Coleschreiber, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Bill, good morning, and Amy and hello and and good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Okay, there we go. The obligatory good mornings are over.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Oh before we jump into the show, I want to
give you guys an update of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
If you remember, you remember, I.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Think Michelle sent out the email to all of us
that the auction items came in mainly as expected, I mean,
great numbers. The Ballgame with Gary and Shannon I think
came in at four thousand dollars. Dean and T and
his wife The Ballgame came in at thirty one hundred.
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John Colebilt an hour of an hour co hosting his
show came in at I think was it thirty seven
hundred dollars or forty that it was forty seven hundred dollars.
Pretty impressive, and that's basically in line with what they do.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And these are wonderful numbers too. What I just feel
like there's a light that you're about to shine on yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh God, yes, okay, Oh and it's you too, okay.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh no, no, no, now, this one.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
As much as I like to talk about myself and
think how impressed I am with myself, this is a
good one.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So our bid came in at eleven thousand dollars, which
is pretty good. But it was, to be fair, it's
in a new event that has never happened before. It
was Neil, and it was me involved, and I was involved,
and it was a barbecue at my house, so it
was very different. So, you know, eleven thousand dollars does
not seem insane to me, I mean, it seemed reasonable.
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Then a few minutes after the the polls closed, after
the auction closed, Michelle got a phone call from someone.
I think I shared this yesterday, but the story keeps
on going that if that person could be invited to
join our barbecue, a donation of twenty thousand dollars would
come in.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So now that.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Makes it eleven thousand and twenty thousand, thirty one thousand dollars.
Then Michelle reached out to the second bidder, number two,
who had bid ten thousand and change, pretty close to
the eleven thousand, and said, would you be interestedd Well,
that person matched the first bidder at eleven thousand dollars.
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So we raised for our auction item forty two thousand dollars, which, frankly,
I got to tell you, is pretty impressive. Even I'm
impressed with that, and I'm very impressed with very in reality,
not very impressed with us, especially you guys.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
But you know me neither.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So anyway, forty two thousand dollars, and of course I
was whipsaw into inviting the Morning Crew to join us
whenever we are going to do this So it'll be
some Saturday, probably March, in which Neil will broadcast with
me a Fork Report show at my house and we're
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gonna have chefs and pitmasters there, and Anaheim White House
is catering this thing.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It's gonna be really cool.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And there'll be six guesting on dates and stuff, and
yeah we are, and there'll be six guests, six guests
of honor, with the number one guest of honor the
winner of or the highest bidder during the auction.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You're gonna be just slightly less guest of honoring too.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yes, yes, they'll be.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
There'll be a slight guest of honorish sort of view
of this.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I'll be running a slave handle with a stopwatch, so
like when he greets someone or shakes their hands, I
will always have him stop just a little bit under
what he did to the person who got the first bit.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Anyway, I'm very proud of us. I'm very proud of us,
and very thankful to the people that bit as much
as they did.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oh you're not.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
You're whipping it out to measure it against everybody else.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And uh, it doesn't mean I'm wastec It doesn't mean
I'm not proud of us. Of course I'm whipping it out.
Of course I am.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I you know, I think of the forty two thousand
kids that will get a meal.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Oh that's incidental to me.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And I told Michelle, and just to show you how
gracious I am, I told Michelle to make sure she
crams it down everybody's throat around the station that.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We raised forty two thousand dollars. Yep.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And she said she will so be prepared for an email.
She will Bill Bill and found Bill and Eel are
the greatest, The most favored is the tippy toppy took
most of us, most.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Of Please, I'll be out there and they'll be handing
me their keys, going please park it somewhere.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Safe, our my neighborhood. It's all safe. Okay, guys, you're
ready to go?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Are you ready to go?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I just you're done slathering yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Sure I did. Listen. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do I remind you of someone very special who thinks
of himself as very special?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yes? I do.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I can't wait for the orange hand start talking.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, Okay, here we go, guys. Signed for And by
the way, that is a big thank you to those
those bidders. It is a lot of kids, a lot
of kids are going to eat because of that. All right,
moving on, handle on the news with Amy Neil and
me Lee story month well and arrest may A big
deal is made of this, and I think it should
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be a big deal there.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Arrest was made in the five year old case.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It was a pipe bomb or several pipe bombs that
were placed around Washington police stations the night of January
sixth or January fifth, before the January sixth overrunning of
the Capitol. And they finally got the guy, or they
think they got the guy. And it wasn't the tip
which usually happened. It was in a solid piece of evidence.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It was five.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Years of just combing through evidence over and over again.
It was just really good police work, is what did it? So?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
And that's what video People assume videos it's a shoe in,
but there's a lot of work there.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, but look at video.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Look at video it is you can't see a face,
and they did it. It was reported based on the
gate of the person. And I don't know if you
know Glenn Beck with Glenn Beck is a conservative, very
conservative talk show host, radio and television. Anyway, he reported
or the Blaze. His organization reported that there it was
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a woman because of the gate and named the woman
if I'm not mistaken, and it turned out not to be.
So she issuing their ass off because she got death
threats and all kinds of things, and it was interesting stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So anyway, the good news is that it looks like
they got the guy.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I wonder why didn't they find him sooner than this?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I think I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And they're saying, finally, going over and over and over
again the evidence they were able to track him down
because if you look at the video you can't.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
See who it is.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
No, but now they're saying they have like records of
when he bought like the batteries and the pieces of pipe,
and I'm like, nothing's private if they can go back
and find him actually buying all those things by here
to have.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You know, he bought a trailhead to be able to Yeah,
who I mean, I have gone to Low's yesterday. I
went to Low's and I bought like a butane lighter
thing that could easily be used to buttane light. And
that's going to be for our barbecue as a matter
of fact, to light the coals for the big green
egg to make them light up quicker, so it really
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zooms up. You know. They have that buttane lighter thing,
like the blow towards thing. So yeah, I could have
been tagged, sure, but I wasn't. Someone else was.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You know what, it's a lot of police work for
this person just to get pardoned by Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
What are you going to do? Good point?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Oh, I don't think this person's getting pardoned.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
New new that the cash Bettel was saying they were
like spearheading this investigation.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah no, this vers is going down big time, assuming
that the jury convicts.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
A challenge on Texas redistricting is toast get it, Texas toast?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
The Supreme Court ruled that Texas and its Republican leaders
can go ahead and use the new election map in
twenty twenty sixth with the new congressional districts that's expected
to send five more Republicans to Congress. And of course,
the response to that was the California is doing redistricting
of its own because of Texas. The Justice is set
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aside a lower court ruling that said the state's new
maps were a racial jerry mander, and the Court said
the impetus for the adoption of the Texas Map was
partisan advantage, pure and simple. That was from Justice Samuel Alito,
and he said, that's been going on for.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Years and that is perfectly constitutional. Legislatures can do things
like redistrict based on politics. And the Court said, yeah,
this is all politics. A couple of reasons that happened.
First of all, the argument among those detractors are saying
that it is illegal because it was racially motivated.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
The Court said, we don't think so. This is all
partisan politics.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And the argument is also that the court and this
is what the way the courts work. Great deference is
given to legislators. The presumption is always given to legislatures,
and that's what happened here. So now it's going to
be legislatures all over the country doing you exactly this
redistricting their brains out, and if you look at real numbers,
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the Republicans have somewhat an advantage. Except the midterms, the
Republicans are going to have a hard time overcoming this
affordability business big time.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
All right, But we do one more and then we'll
take a break. All right.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You know, the Department of Justice should have just called
handle on the law because they would have gotten the
same response. You have no case. A federal judge has
thrown out criminal charges against two of President Donald Trump's adversaries,
former cases FBI Director James Comy and New York Attorney
General Letitia James. The prosecution, a federal prosecution team, just
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failed simply to convince the majority of the grand jurors
to charges.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That grand jury, though just handed called this one too. Yeah,
it handed down a no bill. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Originally the reason her case and the case of Comy
it was dismissed is because the court ruled that the
that the attorney general or the US attorney in Virginia
was not qualified or it was illegal. She was named
illegally or kept on going illegally, and that was a
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technical rule one hundred and twenty days. And the court
and the jurist and the government kept on putting it
off and tried to get well, anyway, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
It's a long discussion on that one.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
What happened here is they okay, it was dismissed, so
they refiled it in front of the grand jury. They
wanted to get another indictment and the grand jury said no,
there isn't enough evidence. That's a no bill, is what
it's called. And that is so rare because grand juries
indict everybody and everything, and a no bill almost never
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ever happens.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Now, are they going to do it again? They can.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
They can attempt to indict and reindicte and reindite and
reindite until the grand jury, until the grand jury disbands.
I think it's eighteen months for a grand jury to
meet and then Iderrhea. Yeah, they could. Now are they
going to I don't think so. I think the politics
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of this, the optics are so insane. If they tried again,
I think they had a very hard time because the
grand jury already said no, and so we'll try again.
Can you imagine the politics?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
US strikes again.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
The US militaries carried out strike on a suspected drug
boat in the Eastern Pacific. Four people on board were
apparently killed. The Southern Spear says that intelligence confirmed the
boat was carrying narcotics and transitting along a known narco
traffic route in the Eastern Pacific. There is also along
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with the post on social media, was a twenty second
twenty one second long video showing the boat being hit.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, there's a whole legal issue about that.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Whether or not the president has a jurisdiction to do
that and to call the DARCO trafficantes, well they already
called him a terrorist group. And whether he ordered this
or Pete Hetzig can order this, what I find fascinating
is the issue, and we're going to bring it up today.
About those two survivors that were attacked. We've been talking
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about that a boat was blown up and two guys survived,
and then Congress or the leadership.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Was given the ability to see the videotape.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
The argument was that they were clinging to debris and
they were killed. One of the Republican senators said it
looked like they were trying to turn the boat over
and to now fight the aircraft coming in the jets.
The Democrats said, what are you talking about turning the
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boat over? Fascinating in that it's not a discussion as
to Republican conservative liberal, it's looking at A and two
and looking at two entirely different videos. This is what
I saw, No you didn't, this is what happened. Wait
a minute, at least agree on what happened and then
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decide the policy afterwards. It's just crazy.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Place in this country. We got people celebrate the fact
that an Italian man American killed in cold blood somebody
that was a CEO of an insurance company and he's
a hero. But you can't take a second shot at
a couple of skun bags that are bringing drugs into
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the country.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
The argument is where I just.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Think it's you keep talking about the legality of it.
I'm talking about we the people talking about it, and
it's like, oh, yeah killed Charlie.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Think yeah, I think a lot of it doesn't have
to really do with the issue of gross it is.
But the the big issue on that one is were
they clinging to debris?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And do you kill people?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
No matter what Jack and rose Man, it's not, you know,
the Titanic going, does it's to market?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I mean everybody makes it like I understand, all right,
vote Aisle.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Let's move on so we can spend we can spend hours,
we can spend hours on that one.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Okay, moving on, all right?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So, UH, the Advisory Committee for the Union unitization something
like that practices UH been scheduled to weigh in on
whether to change recommendations regarding hepatitis B vaccination. Now this
has to do not just with all of us, this
has to do with newborns in the US. So the
vote is now set to take place today on the
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session today. It had already been pushed back I guess
by the advisors in the September meeting, But during yesterday's meeting,
advisors stumbled over repetitive language and lack of clarity about
what they're voting on, so they delay the crucial vote
in a tense meeting yet again.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It seems, Yeah, this is what a scumbag Robert Kennedy Jr.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Is.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
He fired everybody on the advisory committee and put in
his own people who a couple of them. And by
the way, number two at the CDC is a straight
vaccine skeptics straight across. And the argument now is hepatitis
B vaccines at birth and there's three or four shots
is considered by mainstream science to be insanely effective, like.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Ninety nine something percent.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
But because it's a vaccine, and because vaccines cost autism.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
We have to relook at everything.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
We have to study all the vaccines, and it doesn't
matter if they've been tested and studied for fifty years,
we have to look at it. And they brought in
his witnesses crackpots, straight out crackpots.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I'll tell you who. Probably he is not very happy.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Bill Cassidy, who is the center that gave the vote
to have Kennedy confirmed, and Kennedy was There's Cassidy was
and is a fervent advocate of vaccines. Matter of fact,
he was the spokesperson for several pro vaccines organizations and
he voted to confirm. And he is now seeing what
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he has wrought. And I'm sure he's kicking himself in
the ass saying what.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Did you do?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh? And by the way, Robert Kennedy lied and said,
oh no, no, I'm not going to touch vaccines though
I believe in science.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Of course, that didn't happen, all right. Moving on a.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Lot of hate.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Hate crimes in La County are still at near record
high levels for twenty twenty four. The numbers were just
released yesterday from the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations.
It said there were thirteen hundred and fifty five reported
hate crimes in the county in twenty twenty four. It's
actually a one percent decrease from the year before, but
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still really high. Anti Black hate crimes accounted for the
majority of incidents, and hate crimes against the Middle Eastern
community increased sevenfold.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
That was the largest rise in any Yeah, what a shocker.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'm going to do more of that at seven point
fifty when we dive into trying to explain why and
who and it's a sign of the times, as Neil
points out, it's just a sign of the times.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It's crazy times.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
This is the bizierro where if you've ever read Superman comics,
the bizarro world, that's what we're in.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Okay, the gondola gets green lighted, but it didn't.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
It didn't go quietly. We'll just say that.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Lots of community members, hundreds of impacked a meeting room
Thursday to have their say to the Metro Board of
Directors whether they are in favor of or opposed to
the gondola project that's supposed to go from Union Station
up to Dodger Stadium. And the board chairman said, hey,
we're not going to listen to community members before we vote. Well,
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that didn't sit well, and the place erupted and there
were chants of let us speak from anti gondola people
and other chance of you already spoke from pro gondola forces.
So the directors leave the room to go figure out.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
What to do.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
And then all those people are sitting in the meeting room,
chants are ebbing and flowing from both sides. The anti
gondola forces passed around a bullhorn. The pro gondola forces
danced around the room.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It was going to happen either.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
They said they were going to vote and favor it beforehand,
so this was just this was just entertainment, which they did.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
But they allowed them then to speak before.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
They were an hour yelling, everybody yelling for an hour.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I love that they were dancing around the room.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Well to see how they lay their bodies over in
front of a gondola when it's built. All right, Netflix, man,
we are living in a real world monopoly game. Netflix
has prevailed for its bid to buy a lot of
Warner Brothers Discovery. They agree to pay seventy two billion
with a B for you know, just right down the
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street in Burbank. Best Warner Brothers film their television studios HBO,
Max and HBO. So big, big deal going in big
this morning. And that gives Netflix. You know, Harry Potter.
That gives them Batman, that gives them Fred and Flintstone.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It gives them everything. Aversely, we're going to talk more
about that at seven o'clock. By the way, well said
when you open the segment with it's like a monopoly game.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
It just is like no, very well said and everything.
It was a good intro.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well, it's not raining men in Latvia.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
There's a nationwide shortage of men in the European country,
which has increasingly forced women to hire husbands for an
hour to help with help around the house. According to
a recent report by Eurostat, Latvia has fifteen and a
half percent more women than men. That's three times the
average rate in the europe In Union and over the
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age of sixty five, there are twice as many women
as men.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah, and they're I don't know, if you've ever seen
a lot for young women, you know what they look like, careful,
they're very they're very they're very healthy. You know, horse
get stuck in mud. Women pull out without trailer or
without tractor. They're actually some of them are just knockouts. Yeah,
I'm just you know, I just wanted to make a
bad joke. Okay, I see, am I allowed?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Would they be?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Well, why would they need a man?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
That's right, that's my whole point. And this doesn't make sense,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, it's actually that you want men to do household
chores and.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You hire them.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
It's it's almost like a housekeeper, but it's you gets
you advertise and uh, you know it's weird starting any men?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Can you get that thing from the top and then
you open this jar?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah? All right.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
So US Immigration and custom and for Enforcement continues its crackdowns.
We're still seeing the videos everything like that. Of course,
their focuses on undocumented immigrants, supposedly, and the superintendent for
Los Angeles Unified says that it's having an impact on
the school district.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Well, of course it is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
But the thing that I find funny here is that
when people complained about illegal aliens being in the school
system and causing effect on grades and the waste scrubb runs,
everyone said, no, it doesn't have any effect. But now
that they're not there, it's like, well, it's having an
effect in an adverse ways.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Of course it has to. And by the way, we're
not talking about anything. It's morally wrong.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Here, the Supreme Court ruled in a Texas case US
Supreme Court that education must be given to every student
in the country up through high school and cannot be
asked The student cannot be asked about immigration status, which
means that LA Unified, which has an enormous number of Latinos,
you have to automatically assume that a decent proportion are
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in fact illegal. Much like if you look at the
university in the Latvian population of Los Angeles versus the
Hispanic population, You're going to see a pretty good percentage
of undocumented people who are in LA.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And that translates.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That that translates to the schools too, and they're frightened.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Those kids are frightened, the parents are frightened. I get that,
and all of that is horrific to me. In the
way these raids are being played out is horrific. In
many cases. You can't help but look at states that
have large amounts of illegal immigration having poor school testing
and poor grades.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Oh yeah, you can, because English is the second language.
Keep in mind, and I'm going to go now, I'm
going to get in trouble for saying this. Okay, you
have kids of parents who are illegal who come across
into the United States. These are not people who have
marketable skills. The They are not people who cross over
the border who have high educations. And so you've got
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kids that come from a lower socioonomic level than others.
And it's just going to be you look at problem
after problem after problem, and that's the case here, and
of course you're going to have decreasing You add all
of that together, and you have decreasing numbers at LA Unified,
which I think is I think there are more Hispanics
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in LA Unified than certainly Caucasians. I'd like to know
those figures and if you can figure out the percentage
of students at LA Unified who are Hispanic.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
And she is not paying attention to me at all.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Okay, We're going to come back and I'll look at
at myself.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I'll ask SII real quickly.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Just before the break, we were talking about LA Unified
school district and how enrollment has dropped dramatically in basically
in fear of ice coming in and picking up students,
and I think as a legitimate fear, not that they
have yet gone into the school and pick up kids.
As far as I know, but the general fear. And
then I said, how what is the percentage of Hispanic
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students in LA Unified? Neil came up with the figure
seventy three percent, And how many are estimated to be undocumented?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Illegal?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And all they can do is estimate because they can't ask.
Twenty five percent of the entire school district is estimated
to be illegal. Hey, you wonder why they're frightened. You
wonder why their parents are saying, uh, you're not going
to school to some extent, which is why enrollment is dropping.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
All right, moving on, let's do an Olympic story.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Big bucks come into LA courtesy of the twenty twenty
eight Summer Games. A new economic report says LA's Olympic
and Paralympic Games are expected to generate between thirteen and
seventeen billion dollars for the region between now and twenty
twenty nine. The report sites a fiscally responsible, low liability
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games within more than seven billion dollars, privately funded budget,
and a reliance on existing facilities, so we're not having
to spend as much because we already have stadiums and stuff.
All right, this wee'm staring off into space.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
This one's a doozy hold up. So President Donald Trump,
his famous name that has been on the side of
many buildings before, has now been installed on a building
and it's signage. But the unique thing is this particular
building is an independent agency that his administration got it
(27:37):
essentially earlier this year. So it's the US Institute of Peace,
the USIP, and it it says welcome to the Donald J.
Trump Institute of Peace. The best is yet to come.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
It's just it's so insane that it just defies credulity.
The FIFER World I think the lottery for the World
Cup attendance is coming out today and billions of people
are going to the lottery. The head of FIFA, Huge
Trump ally and advocate, pushed like crazy to have Trump
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win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Trump didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
FIFA has just created the FIFA World Peace Prize, and
the odds makers in Las Vegas are putting the odds
of President Trump Trump winning the FIFA winning the FIFA
World Peace Prize at just under ninety nine percent.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Well, I.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Love that.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
The State Department posted on x Wednesday. It said it
announced that it had renamed the institute quote to reflect
the greatest deal maker in our nation on sectary.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And you watch now you are going to see science
books we written for kids will no longer be the
Solar system. It will be the Trump system. It's going
to really just explode. I mean, you know, this is
fun stuff. I mean, this does not affect prices, does
not affect going to the supermarket and where some really
serious stuff is going on. This is just entertaining. I mean,
(29:17):
I just want I just want to know how far
this goes? Okay, moving on, better.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Than a baseball card, maybe not, but getting there. A
game stop customer is cashed in after trading a Pokemon
card in for over thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Apparently a customer in Grapevine.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Texas sold the gaming retailer a fully authenticated PSA Grade
ten hollow Ganger card with a fair market valuation of
almost thirty four thousand dollars, but they sold it for
thirty four hundred and ninety four.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah. I have a question about that. Isn't this an
artificial price on these things?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I would guess that Kono, who's a Pokemon fan, I
have no idea if you are. But a company like
Pokemon releases a very limited number of cards, and therefore
they're worth a bucket of money, and they control it,
and they just control it, and so if they release six,
it's worth a zillion bucks and it's their call. Unlike
as Amy pointed out, other baseball card, like a Honus
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Wagner card, and we're talking about the turn of the
last century. Uh they I think that sold for three
million or two point eight million dollars because that was
that was a legitimate, not manufactured process.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
It happened, you.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Know, like a Babe Ruth baseball card, Bickey Mantle rookie card.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
It was as you know, it was just part of
the card stock.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
But it's worth nothing unless somebody is interested in collecting it.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah, but that's anything. Yeah, but that's anything.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Yes, that's the whole point that it's just the value
that people put on it. I mean, hey, the same
with gold. Yeah, right, look at this rock. It's hard
to find one. Give you a bunch of money for it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Well, let's well, five thousand years from now, maybe maybe
people will say that about Pokemon cards.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
All right, pokemona.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Things have been around for a while, have a little
bit more validity, but it's just been manufactured by the company.
It's like the beers.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You know, there are enough. You know how how.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Many diamonds there are out there? There are tons, and
the beers artificially creates a scarcity that makes diamonds that valuable.
And if the beer, the beers were to release a
bunch more diamonds, would they control of they drop in price.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
So pardon nothing.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
The beers, that's those are those are the companies in
Germany that make beers. They're the beers, the beers. Okay, anyway,
I don't get it. Pokemon Pokemon, Pokemon Pokemon. All right,
We're done, guys, So much for that. Warner bro Tho's
down the street, the headquarters and quarter breath. Yeah, dub
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
And they also dress weird too, just to let you know.
And they have you know, the pay us, the ringlets.
And everybody has a beard, I mean everybody, the women,
the kids, you know, the five year olds walking around
with beards, and you just.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
You can see them, you know, quite the sight. It
really is. Women, the children, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
All right, and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Here's Bill Handle. Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It is a Friday morning, December five, and today we
celebrate Friday morning, December five.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And let me say a quick hello to one and all.
Uh Neil, good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Will you there you go?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I would, and thank you very much. Check Hono, there
you are. Good morning, smooy, Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Good morning. There's a Will Coleschreiber, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Bill, good morning, and Amy and hello and and good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Okay, there we go. The obligatory good mornings are over.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Oh before we jump into the show, I want to
give you guys an update of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
If you remember, you remember, I.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Think Michelle sent out the email to all of us
that the auction items came in mainly as expected, I mean,
great numbers. The Ballgame with Gary and Shannon I think
came in at four thousand dollars. Dean and T and
his wife The Ballgame came in at thirty one hundred.
(01:50):
John Colebilt an hour of an hour co hosting his
show came in at I think was it thirty seven
hundred dollars or forty that it was forty seven hundred dollars.
Pretty impressive, and that's basically in line with what they do.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And these are wonderful numbers too. What I just feel
like there's a light that you're about to shine on yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh God, yes, okay, Oh and it's you too, okay.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh no, no, no, now, this one.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
As much as I like to talk about myself and
think how impressed I am with myself, this is a
good one.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So our bid came in at eleven thousand dollars, which
is pretty good. But it was, to be fair, it's
in a new event that has never happened before. It
was Neil, and it was me involved, and I was involved,
and it was a barbecue at my house, so it
was very different. So, you know, eleven thousand dollars does
not seem insane to me, I mean, it seemed reasonable.
(02:52):
Then a few minutes after the the polls closed, after
the auction closed, Michelle got a phone call from someone.
I think I shared this yesterday, but the story keeps
on going that if that person could be invited to
join our barbecue, a donation of twenty thousand dollars would
come in.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So now that.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Makes it eleven thousand and twenty thousand, thirty one thousand dollars.
Then Michelle reached out to the second bidder, number two,
who had bid ten thousand and change, pretty close to
the eleven thousand, and said, would you be interestedd Well,
that person matched the first bidder at eleven thousand dollars.
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So we raised for our auction item forty two thousand dollars, which, frankly,
I got to tell you, is pretty impressive. Even I'm
impressed with that, and I'm very impressed with very in reality,
not very impressed with us, especially you guys.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
But you know me neither.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So anyway, forty two thousand dollars, and of course I
was whipsaw into inviting the Morning Crew to join us
whenever we are going to do this So it'll be
some Saturday, probably March, in which Neil will broadcast with
me a Fork Report show at my house and we're
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gonna have chefs and pitmasters there, and Anaheim White House
is catering this thing.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It's gonna be really cool.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And there'll be six guesting on dates and stuff, and
yeah we are, and there'll be six guests, six guests
of honor, with the number one guest of honor the
winner of or the highest bidder during the auction.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You're gonna be just slightly less guest of honoring too.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yes, yes, they'll be.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
There'll be a slight guest of honorish sort of view
of this.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I'll be running a slave handle with a stopwatch, so
like when he greets someone or shakes their hands, I
will always have him stop just a little bit under
what he did to the person who got the first bit.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Anyway, I'm very proud of us. I'm very proud of us,
and very thankful to the people that bit as much
as they did.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oh you're not.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
You're whipping it out to measure it against everybody else.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And uh, it doesn't mean I'm wastec It doesn't mean
I'm not proud of us. Of course I'm whipping it out.
Of course I am.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I you know, I think of the forty two thousand
kids that will get a meal.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Oh that's incidental to me.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And I told Michelle, and just to show you how
gracious I am, I told Michelle to make sure she
crams it down everybody's throat around the station that.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We raised forty two thousand dollars. Yep.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And she said she will so be prepared for an email.
She will Bill Bill and found Bill and Eel are
the greatest, The most favored is the tippy toppy took
most of us, most.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Of Please, I'll be out there and they'll be handing
me their keys, going please park it somewhere.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Safe, our my neighborhood. It's all safe. Okay, guys, you're
ready to go?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Are you ready to go?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I just you're done slathering yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Sure I did. Listen. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do I remind you of someone very special who thinks
of himself as very special?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yes? I do.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I can't wait for the orange hand start talking.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, Okay, here we go, guys. Signed for And by
the way, that is a big thank you to those
those bidders. It is a lot of kids, a lot
of kids are going to eat because of that. All right,
moving on, handle on the news with Amy Neil and
me Lee story month well and arrest may A big
deal is made of this, and I think it should
(06:37):
be a big deal there.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Arrest was made in the five year old case.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It was a pipe bomb or several pipe bombs that
were placed around Washington police stations the night of January
sixth or January fifth, before the January sixth overrunning of
the Capitol. And they finally got the guy, or they
think they got the guy. And it wasn't the tip
which usually happened. It was in a solid piece of evidence.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It was five.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Years of just combing through evidence over and over again.
It was just really good police work, is what did it? So?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
And that's what video People assume videos it's a shoe in,
but there's a lot of work there.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, but look at video.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Look at video it is you can't see a face,
and they did it. It was reported based on the
gate of the person. And I don't know if you
know Glenn Beck with Glenn Beck is a conservative, very
conservative talk show host, radio and television. Anyway, he reported
or the Blaze. His organization reported that there it was
(07:42):
a woman because of the gate and named the woman
if I'm not mistaken, and it turned out not to be.
So she issuing their ass off because she got death
threats and all kinds of things, and it was interesting stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So anyway, the good news is that it looks like
they got the guy.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I wonder why didn't they find him sooner than this?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I think I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And they're saying, finally, going over and over and over
again the evidence they were able to track him down
because if you look at the video you can't.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
See who it is.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
No, but now they're saying they have like records of
when he bought like the batteries and the pieces of pipe,
and I'm like, nothing's private if they can go back
and find him actually buying all those things by here
to have.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You know, he bought a trailhead to be able to Yeah,
who I mean, I have gone to Low's yesterday. I
went to Low's and I bought like a butane lighter
thing that could easily be used to buttane light. And
that's going to be for our barbecue as a matter
of fact, to light the coals for the big green
egg to make them light up quicker, so it really
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zooms up. You know. They have that buttane lighter thing,
like the blow towards thing. So yeah, I could have
been tagged, sure, but I wasn't. Someone else was.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You know what, it's a lot of police work for
this person just to get pardoned by Trump.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
What are you going to do? Good point?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Oh, I don't think this person's getting pardoned.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
New new that the cash Bettel was saying they were
like spearheading this investigation.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah no, this vers is going down big time, assuming
that the jury convicts.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
A challenge on Texas redistricting is toast get it, Texas toast?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
The Supreme Court ruled that Texas and its Republican leaders
can go ahead and use the new election map in
twenty twenty sixth with the new congressional districts that's expected
to send five more Republicans to Congress. And of course,
the response to that was the California is doing redistricting
of its own because of Texas. The Justice is set
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aside a lower court ruling that said the state's new
maps were a racial jerry mander, and the Court said
the impetus for the adoption of the Texas Map was
partisan advantage, pure and simple. That was from Justice Samuel Alito,
and he said, that's been going on for.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Years and that is perfectly constitutional. Legislatures can do things
like redistrict based on politics. And the Court said, yeah,
this is all politics. A couple of reasons that happened.
First of all, the argument among those detractors are saying
that it is illegal because it was racially motivated.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
The Court said, we don't think so. This is all
partisan politics.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And the argument is also that the court and this
is what the way the courts work. Great deference is
given to legislators. The presumption is always given to legislatures,
and that's what happened here. So now it's going to
be legislatures all over the country doing you exactly this
redistricting their brains out, and if you look at real numbers,
(10:57):
the Republicans have somewhat an advantage. Except the midterms, the
Republicans are going to have a hard time overcoming this
affordability business big time.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
All right, But we do one more and then we'll
take a break. All right.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You know, the Department of Justice should have just called
handle on the law because they would have gotten the
same response. You have no case. A federal judge has
thrown out criminal charges against two of President Donald Trump's adversaries,
former cases FBI Director James Comy and New York Attorney
General Letitia James. The prosecution, a federal prosecution team, just
(11:38):
failed simply to convince the majority of the grand jurors
to charges.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That grand jury, though just handed called this one too. Yeah,
it handed down a no bill. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Originally the reason her case and the case of Comy
it was dismissed is because the court ruled that the
that the attorney general or the US attorney in Virginia
was not qualified or it was illegal. She was named
illegally or kept on going illegally, and that was a
(12:12):
technical rule one hundred and twenty days. And the court
and the jurist and the government kept on putting it
off and tried to get well, anyway, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
It's a long discussion on that one.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
What happened here is they okay, it was dismissed, so
they refiled it in front of the grand jury. They
wanted to get another indictment and the grand jury said no,
there isn't enough evidence. That's a no bill, is what
it's called. And that is so rare because grand juries
indict everybody and everything, and a no bill almost never
(12:47):
ever happens.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Now, are they going to do it again? They can.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
They can attempt to indict and reindicte and reindite and
reindite until the grand jury, until the grand jury disbands.
I think it's eighteen months for a grand jury to
meet and then Iderrhea. Yeah, they could. Now are they
going to I don't think so. I think the politics
(13:11):
of this, the optics are so insane. If they tried again,
I think they had a very hard time because the
grand jury already said no, and so we'll try again.
Can you imagine the politics?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
US strikes again.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
The US militaries carried out strike on a suspected drug
boat in the Eastern Pacific. Four people on board were
apparently killed. The Southern Spear says that intelligence confirmed the
boat was carrying narcotics and transitting along a known narco
traffic route in the Eastern Pacific. There is also along
(13:48):
with the post on social media, was a twenty second
twenty one second long video showing the boat being hit.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, there's a whole legal issue about that.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Whether or not the president has a jurisdiction to do
that and to call the DARCO trafficantes, well they already
called him a terrorist group. And whether he ordered this
or Pete Hetzig can order this, what I find fascinating
is the issue, and we're going to bring it up today.
About those two survivors that were attacked. We've been talking
(14:18):
about that a boat was blown up and two guys survived,
and then Congress or the leadership.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Was given the ability to see the videotape.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
The argument was that they were clinging to debris and
they were killed. One of the Republican senators said it
looked like they were trying to turn the boat over
and to now fight the aircraft coming in the jets.
The Democrats said, what are you talking about turning the
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boat over? Fascinating in that it's not a discussion as
to Republican conservative liberal, it's looking at A and two
and looking at two entirely different videos. This is what
I saw, No you didn't, this is what happened. Wait
a minute, at least agree on what happened and then
(15:12):
decide the policy afterwards. It's just crazy.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Place in this country. We got people celebrate the fact
that an Italian man American killed in cold blood somebody
that was a CEO of an insurance company and he's
a hero. But you can't take a second shot at
a couple of skun bags that are bringing drugs into
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the country.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
The argument is where I just.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Think it's you keep talking about the legality of it.
I'm talking about we the people talking about it, and
it's like, oh, yeah killed Charlie.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Think yeah, I think a lot of it doesn't have
to really do with the issue of gross it is.
But the the big issue on that one is were
they clinging to debris?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And do you kill people?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
No matter what Jack and rose Man, it's not, you know,
the Titanic going, does it's to market?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I mean everybody makes it like I understand, all right,
vote Aisle.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Let's move on so we can spend we can spend hours,
we can spend hours on that one.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Okay, moving on, all right?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So, UH, the Advisory Committee for the Union unitization something
like that practices UH been scheduled to weigh in on
whether to change recommendations regarding hepatitis B vaccination. Now this
has to do not just with all of us, this
has to do with newborns in the US. So the
vote is now set to take place today on the
(16:49):
session today. It had already been pushed back I guess
by the advisors in the September meeting, But during yesterday's meeting,
advisors stumbled over repetitive language and lack of clarity about
what they're voting on, so they delay the crucial vote
in a tense meeting yet again.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
It seems, Yeah, this is what a scumbag Robert Kennedy Jr.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Is.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
He fired everybody on the advisory committee and put in
his own people who a couple of them. And by
the way, number two at the CDC is a straight
vaccine skeptics straight across. And the argument now is hepatitis
B vaccines at birth and there's three or four shots
is considered by mainstream science to be insanely effective, like.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Ninety nine something percent.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
But because it's a vaccine, and because vaccines cost autism.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
We have to relook at everything.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
We have to study all the vaccines, and it doesn't
matter if they've been tested and studied for fifty years,
we have to look at it. And they brought in
his witnesses crackpots, straight out crackpots.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I'll tell you who. Probably he is not very happy.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Bill Cassidy, who is the center that gave the vote
to have Kennedy confirmed, and Kennedy was There's Cassidy was
and is a fervent advocate of vaccines. Matter of fact,
he was the spokesperson for several pro vaccines organizations and
he voted to confirm. And he is now seeing what
(18:24):
he has wrought. And I'm sure he's kicking himself in
the ass saying what.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Did you do?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh? And by the way, Robert Kennedy lied and said,
oh no, no, I'm not going to touch vaccines though
I believe in science.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Of course, that didn't happen, all right. Moving on a.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Lot of hate.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Hate crimes in La County are still at near record
high levels for twenty twenty four. The numbers were just
released yesterday from the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations.
It said there were thirteen hundred and fifty five reported
hate crimes in the county in twenty twenty four. It's
actually a one percent decrease from the year before, but
(19:01):
still really high. Anti Black hate crimes accounted for the
majority of incidents, and hate crimes against the Middle Eastern
community increased sevenfold.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
That was the largest rise in any Yeah, what a shocker.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'm going to do more of that at seven point
fifty when we dive into trying to explain why and
who and it's a sign of the times, as Neil
points out, it's just a sign of the times.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It's crazy times.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
This is the bizierro where if you've ever read Superman comics,
the bizarro world, that's what we're in.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Okay, the gondola gets green lighted, but it didn't.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
It didn't go quietly. We'll just say that.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Lots of community members, hundreds of impacked a meeting room
Thursday to have their say to the Metro Board of
Directors whether they are in favor of or opposed to
the gondola project that's supposed to go from Union Station
up to Dodger Stadium. And the board chairman said, hey,
we're not going to listen to community members before we vote. Well,
(20:00):
that didn't sit well, and the place erupted and there
were chants of let us speak from anti gondola people
and other chance of you already spoke from pro gondola forces.
So the directors leave the room to go figure out.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
What to do.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
And then all those people are sitting in the meeting room,
chants are ebbing and flowing from both sides. The anti
gondola forces passed around a bullhorn. The pro gondola forces
danced around the room.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It was going to happen either.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
They said they were going to vote and favor it beforehand,
so this was just this was just entertainment, which they did.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
But they allowed them then to speak before.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
They were an hour yelling, everybody yelling for an hour.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I love that they were dancing around the room.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Well to see how they lay their bodies over in
front of a gondola when it's built. All right, Netflix, man,
we are living in a real world monopoly game. Netflix
has prevailed for its bid to buy a lot of
Warner Brothers Discovery. They agree to pay seventy two billion
with a B for you know, just right down the
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street in Burbank. Best Warner Brothers film their television studios HBO,
Max and HBO. So big, big deal going in big
this morning. And that gives Netflix. You know, Harry Potter.
That gives them Batman, that gives them Fred and Flintstone.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It gives them everything. Aversely, we're going to talk more
about that at seven o'clock. By the way, well said
when you open the segment with it's like a monopoly game.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
It just is like no, very well said and everything.
It was a good intro.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well, it's not raining men in Latvia.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
There's a nationwide shortage of men in the European country,
which has increasingly forced women to hire husbands for an
hour to help with help around the house. According to
a recent report by Eurostat, Latvia has fifteen and a
half percent more women than men. That's three times the
average rate in the europe In Union and over the
(22:01):
age of sixty five, there are twice as many women
as men.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah, and they're I don't know, if you've ever seen
a lot for young women, you know what they look like, careful,
they're very they're very they're very healthy. You know, horse
get stuck in mud. Women pull out without trailer or
without tractor. They're actually some of them are just knockouts. Yeah,
I'm just you know, I just wanted to make a
bad joke. Okay, I see, am I allowed?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Would they be?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Well, why would they need a man?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
That's right, that's my whole point. And this doesn't make sense,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, it's actually that you want men to do household
chores and.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You hire them.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
It's it's almost like a housekeeper, but it's you gets
you advertise and uh, you know it's weird starting any men?
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Can you get that thing from the top and then
you open this jar?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah? All right.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
So US Immigration and custom and for Enforcement continues its crackdowns.
We're still seeing the videos everything like that. Of course,
their focuses on undocumented immigrants, supposedly, and the superintendent for
Los Angeles Unified says that it's having an impact on
the school district.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Well, of course it is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
But the thing that I find funny here is that
when people complained about illegal aliens being in the school
system and causing effect on grades and the waste scrubb runs,
everyone said, no, it doesn't have any effect. But now
that they're not there, it's like, well, it's having an
effect in an adverse ways.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Of course it has to. And by the way, we're
not talking about anything. It's morally wrong.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Here, the Supreme Court ruled in a Texas case US
Supreme Court that education must be given to every student
in the country up through high school and cannot be
asked The student cannot be asked about immigration status, which
means that LA Unified, which has an enormous number of Latinos,
you have to automatically assume that a decent proportion are
(24:03):
in fact illegal. Much like if you look at the
university in the Latvian population of Los Angeles versus the
Hispanic population, You're going to see a pretty good percentage
of undocumented people who are in LA.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
And that translates.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That that translates to the schools too, and they're frightened.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Those kids are frightened, the parents are frightened. I get that,
and all of that is horrific to me. In the
way these raids are being played out is horrific. In
many cases. You can't help but look at states that
have large amounts of illegal immigration having poor school testing
and poor grades.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Oh yeah, you can, because English is the second language.
Keep in mind, and I'm going to go now, I'm
going to get in trouble for saying this. Okay, you
have kids of parents who are illegal who come across
into the United States. These are not people who have
marketable skills. The They are not people who cross over
the border who have high educations. And so you've got
(25:05):
kids that come from a lower socioonomic level than others.
And it's just going to be you look at problem
after problem after problem, and that's the case here, and
of course you're going to have decreasing You add all
of that together, and you have decreasing numbers at LA Unified,
which I think is I think there are more Hispanics
(25:26):
in LA Unified than certainly Caucasians. I'd like to know
those figures and if you can figure out the percentage
of students at LA Unified who are Hispanic.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
And she is not paying attention to me at all.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Okay, We're going to come back and I'll look at
at myself.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I'll ask SII real quickly.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Just before the break, we were talking about LA Unified
school district and how enrollment has dropped dramatically in basically
in fear of ice coming in and picking up students,
and I think as a legitimate fear, not that they
have yet gone into the school and pick up kids.
As far as I know, but the general fear. And
then I said, how what is the percentage of Hispanic
(26:08):
students in LA Unified? Neil came up with the figure
seventy three percent, And how many are estimated to be undocumented?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Illegal?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And all they can do is estimate because they can't ask.
Twenty five percent of the entire school district is estimated
to be illegal. Hey, you wonder why they're frightened. You
wonder why their parents are saying, uh, you're not going
to school to some extent, which is why enrollment is dropping.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
All right, moving on, let's do an Olympic story.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Big bucks come into LA courtesy of the twenty twenty
eight Summer Games. A new economic report says LA's Olympic
and Paralympic Games are expected to generate between thirteen and
seventeen billion dollars for the region between now and twenty
twenty nine. The report sites a fiscally responsible, low liability
(26:59):
games within more than seven billion dollars, privately funded budget,
and a reliance on existing facilities, so we're not having
to spend as much because we already have stadiums and stuff.
All right, this wee'm staring off into space.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
This one's a doozy hold up. So President Donald Trump,
his famous name that has been on the side of
many buildings before, has now been installed on a building
and it's signage. But the unique thing is this particular
building is an independent agency that his administration got it
(27:37):
essentially earlier this year. So it's the US Institute of Peace,
the USIP, and it it says welcome to the Donald J.
Trump Institute of Peace. The best is yet to come.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
It's just it's so insane that it just defies credulity.
The FIFER World I think the lottery for the World
Cup attendance is coming out today and billions of people
are going to the lottery. The head of FIFA, Huge
Trump ally and advocate, pushed like crazy to have Trump
(28:16):
win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Trump didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
FIFA has just created the FIFA World Peace Prize, and
the odds makers in Las Vegas are putting the odds
of President Trump Trump winning the FIFA winning the FIFA
World Peace Prize at just under ninety nine percent.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Well, I.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Love that.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
The State Department posted on x Wednesday. It said it
announced that it had renamed the institute quote to reflect
the greatest deal maker in our nation on sectary.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And you watch now you are going to see science
books we written for kids will no longer be the
Solar system. It will be the Trump system. It's going
to really just explode. I mean, you know, this is
fun stuff. I mean, this does not affect prices, does
not affect going to the supermarket and where some really
serious stuff is going on. This is just entertaining. I mean,
(29:17):
I just want I just want to know how far
this goes? Okay, moving on, better.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Than a baseball card, maybe not, but getting there. A
game stop customer is cashed in after trading a Pokemon
card in for over thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Apparently a customer in Grapevine.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Texas sold the gaming retailer a fully authenticated PSA Grade
ten hollow Ganger card with a fair market valuation of
almost thirty four thousand dollars, but they sold it for
thirty four hundred and ninety four.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah. I have a question about that. Isn't this an
artificial price on these things?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I would guess that Kono, who's a Pokemon fan, I
have no idea if you are. But a company like
Pokemon releases a very limited number of cards, and therefore
they're worth a bucket of money, and they control it,
and they just control it, and so if they release six,
it's worth a zillion bucks and it's their call. Unlike
as Amy pointed out, other baseball card, like a Honus
(30:19):
Wagner card, and we're talking about the turn of the
last century. Uh they I think that sold for three
million or two point eight million dollars because that was
that was a legitimate, not manufactured process.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
It happened, you.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Know, like a Babe Ruth baseball card, Bickey Mantle rookie card.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
It was as you know, it was just part of
the card stock.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
But it's worth nothing unless somebody is interested in collecting it.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah, but that's anything. Yeah, but that's anything.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Yes, that's the whole point that it's just the value
that people put on it. I mean, hey, the same
with gold. Yeah, right, look at this rock. It's hard
to find one. Give you a bunch of money for it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Well, let's well, five thousand years from now, maybe maybe
people will say that about Pokemon cards.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
All right, pokemona.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Things have been around for a while, have a little
bit more validity, but it's just been manufactured by the company.
It's like the beers.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You know, there are enough. You know how how.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Many diamonds there are out there? There are tons, and
the beers artificially creates a scarcity that makes diamonds that valuable.
And if the beer, the beers were to release a
bunch more diamonds, would they control of they drop in price.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
So pardon nothing.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
The beers, that's those are those are the companies in
Germany that make beers. They're the beers, the beers. Okay, anyway,
I don't get it. Pokemon Pokemon, Pokemon Pokemon. All right,
We're done, guys, So much for that. Warner bro Tho's
down the street, the headquarters and quarter breath. Yeah, dub
(32:03):
pars KF I am six point forty.
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