December 8, 2025 • 26 mins
(December 08, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Democrats call for releasing video of deadly boat strike in the Caribbean. U.S flips history by casting Europe, not Russia, as villain in new security policy. Zelenskyy due at Downing Street for high-level Ukraine talks. Chinese jets point radar at Japanese aircraft, Japan says. Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike, UN nuclear watchdog says.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Which accounted for eighty percent of the religious based hate crimes.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Who do you think we're targeted, Joos? Why?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Because they own all the media, they own all the
insurance company, they and all the businesses, and if you
ask Marjorie Taylor Green, they also control the laser beams
that come down from the satellite and light up our
wildfires here in California.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Hey, good morning everybody. It's Monday morning, December eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Unfortunately, we were not able to celebrate December seventh, Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Day, which we normally do.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And I normally go to synagogue where the rabbi for
Torah Torah Torah. That, by the way, is a that's
a historical joke.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And why is that?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Because, of course, the Torah is the five Books of Moses,
the Old Testament, which is used in synagogue all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And Torah Torah Torah.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Was the coded name that the Japanese used to radio
back to Japan that the December seventh attack was successful.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Torah Torah phil Handle jokes always historical, never hysteric.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Very well said, handle jokes right on point, never funny,
understood though. All right, good morning everybody, let's do it
will There you are half screen, greatly appreciated. Good morning,
you're good morning, Sir Kono. There you are here I am,
and Neil.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Good morning, There you are.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Are.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Amy. What is that that's written on your sweatshirt?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You always have something written I can't see that, believe,
I believe, as in the.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Back of football helmets during games.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
No, it's in Christmas season.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Huh huh, got it.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It's full on Christmas over over.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
For the first time, first time in my life. I'm
getting a Christmas tree. I'm actually, yeah, I've never done
that before. Christ Yes, that's very funny. What we're going
to do. Actually, are two trees, one the traditional Well,
first of all, let me say hello, Amy, good morning,
good morning, and that's I think everybody. I do believe,
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and and anything written.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
On her going.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay, Actually I conflated Amy with an I do that
all the time because both names start with an A.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And now christ tree talk.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Two Christmas trees, one traditional Christmas tree in my front window.
It's going to be a real Christmas tree. We're shopping tomorrow,
and I had no idea how much money.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Just a Christmas tree costs. Holy moly, big, I think
nine foot.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Oh that's going to be. That's gonna be what about
three hundred bucks?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah? That I can't stand it, I really can't.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
And then then in the late fifty to get rid
of the rodents.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yes, and then the well said, and then the lights
outside the house, the white lights that are going to
come in and come on, guys, it is so expensive
to be Christian during Christmas. Jews do a minora, a
little tiny candlabra and you electricity. It's one light, one match,
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and you stick eight candles on it and you are done.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's it. Welcome to Hanika, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So in the meantime, we've got two One Honika bush
is going up and the other Christmas tree Honka bush
will be blue and white lights. And there is a menora,
a lighted manora at the top where the star usually
is placed.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So I'll put that up. I just can't.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I cannot believe how expensive Christmas is.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Are you guys going to get a mench on the bench?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh, that's very funny. An elf on the shelf on
the elf.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah, there really is a bench on the bench.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, no, I know, you know, I've seen it. I've
seen it. We don't have a bench for it. It's
it's just so expensive.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Max asked last night if we have an ELF on
the shelf because we're putting stuff up, and I said, no,
we have a stealth ELF on the shelf and you
can't see it unless they.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Come from Holland. And then there is an ELF made
in Delft.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I'm not familiar with that location, but I'm sure it's funny.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It is it actually is actually that.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I think everybody at Holland is yes, no, no, death.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Is definitely I think it's Holland. I think it's the
Netherlands in any case. So there's that that we put
to bed and the other thing. Uh And this is
what Michelle sent. We're still waiting for more money to
come in for our fifteenth annual Pastathon. A lot of
it won't come in until Christmas because those giving machines
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are being collected and it looks like we're going to
raise more money. As of the end of Pastathon our broadcast,
we were at one million, two hundred and eighty nine
twenty dollars. Oh, man, Yeah, we have to hit one
point three million in order to beat last year.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
No, we already beat last year.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Oh did we?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
No, it was one. It was one. We rounded up,
so it's one point two eight nine. Right now, we're
therety thousand dollars ahead of last year.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And our rec eard year was twenty twenty three, one
point three million dollars, eighty one thousand pounds of pasta
and Michelle said in this email for Michelle, because she
ran the whole thing, expecting things to actually go down
this year because of the economy, but KFI listeners came
through KFI Listener. Since twenty ten, we've raised almost ten
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million dollars nine point eight million, over a million pounds
of pasta and sauce for Katarina's Club. And the money
that Neil and I raised for our.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Event is no, no, there's a no.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
There's a reason I'm saying this is it was actually
jokingly good to say, hey, did we haven't act at
auction at all? So the auction that we raised that
private barbecue at my house with Neil and I broadcasting
there is at forty one thousand dollars right now for
that auction event, and we are still talking to people.
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There are still balls being juggled in the air as figure.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Is there more people?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I know, same number of people.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
But what they're doing is they're outbidding each other, still
not as to win, but as to simply see how
much money can be raised for our auction item.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Oh you should throw in something a little extra to
incentivize them.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Oh we've thrown in plenty to incentivize them.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
A picture with the bill handle.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh yeah, we have thrown in a knife set worth
a couple thousand dollars, really high end, Gormet said, a
year's worth of Zelman's. And the event is going to
be insane catering by Anaheim White House, And if you've
never had catering by the White House, it's insanity.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It's so good.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
I should reach out to the people from Melissa's Produce
and see if they'll give a year's worth of garlic
and onions.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
That would be very strong. And we combine that with Zelman's.
So we're still we're still talking. I mean, it's we've
never come close to that now. Granted it's uh, you know,
compared to other people, we've done much better. However, Uh,
it's it's a it's unique in its own way because
we can have more than one couple join us, for
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more than one person join us, So there are some differences.
So it's not as impressive as it sounds. Except uh,
it's it's as impressive as it sounds. Okay, that goes down,
all right, Ready for some news on on on on
a Monday.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, hey, come on, I'm patting you too, Neil. I'm
giving us both the credit. It's a good credit.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It is time for handle on the news with Amy,
Neil and me lead. Sorry, the controversy regarding the second
video of that boat attack in the Caribbean by US forces.
First boat attack basically killed everybody drug boat and the
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second attack, which we're not seeing video were of two survivors,
and we're getting two different views of this, two different descriptions.
The Republicans are saying, oh no, they were trying to
overturn the boat that was already a wash in water
that weighed thousands of pounds. They were to go to
overturn and take their radios which didn't exist, and I
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guess take their weapons which didn't exist, and fight back
against aircraft that were flying at four hundred miles an
hour the attack aircraft. Now the Democrats are saying, it's
these two survivors that were clinging to debris fighting for
their lives when they were attacked. I gotta tell you,
(10:00):
I'm gonna lay politics aside. I tend to believe the former.
I don't think two guys swimming in the ocean we're
trying to overturn a boat of this size so they
could go and fight the armed forces of the United
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States or continue the drug run. Sure, hope those drug
runners are okay, Yeah, well they yeah, they're not.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Anyway, we're trying to get everybody's trying to get that video.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And the point the.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Kindagon is this morning. By the way, what's going.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Sounds like crap.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
You're gonna have to type during the break, tighten the
string between the cans.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Uh. Yeah, there's something's going on with that connection. Good music,
Well play handle here, Good morning everybody. Monday morning, December eighth,
we continue more handle on the news, Amy Neil and me.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Who is what is the evil Empire? Apparently it's Europe.
The US government has published an annual national security strategy.
It's a thirty page document. This year paints European nations
as wayward declining powers that have ceded their sovereignty to
the European Union and are led by governments that suppress
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democracy and muzzle voices that want a more nationalistic turn.
It also says that the whole of Europe faces civilizational
erasure through immigration that could render it unrecognizable in the
next two decades.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah. As crazy as this sounds, this is one of
those Trump administration moves, there really is another side to
this coin and I'm going to share this with you.
Not that it's not nuts, but it's not easy, it's complicated.
There's some moving pieces here. I'll do that at seven
o'clock coming up. But the bottom line is China and
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Russia are our friends and Europe is our enemies.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Does the document say that or does it just highlight
the European Union.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It highlights the European Union as moving towards being our
enemy against us, and the only thing that's left doesn't
say anything negative about China Russia, So you have to
you have to extrapolate from that. But there is another
side of this because a lot of what Trump is saying,
He's absolutely right. What's going on in Europe now. The
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only issue is do they remain allies or are they other?
Are they the other side of the line of our enemies,
and how far and how deep the enemy situation goes.
I'll talk more about that at seven o'clock. As I said,
it's not that simple, all right.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
President Voladimir Zolenski, he's going to speaking of European leaders.
He's going to be meeting with key European leaders in
London today. They're basically looking, you know, talking with the allies.
They're planning their response to what our part has been
in the ongoing ongoing US push for Kiev to accept
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concessions in peace talks. So big high level meeting follows
three days of talks in Florida where Zolenski's chief negotiator
push for changes to the White House plan, which is,
you know, let's face it is considered widely to accommodate
Central Kremlin fans.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It's the Russian plan.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's basically what it is, straight out, this is what
Russia wants, and this is what the White House is
pushing for. And then you have the European leaders. And
that's part of what I'm going to talk about at
seven o'clock, that we have switched loyalties.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It looks like continueing.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
On how much power does one man have? Apparently the
Supreme Court's going to weigh in on that. The Justices
will be taking a case being argued today that calls
for a unanimous ninety year old decision limiting executive authority
to be overturned. The case before the High Court involves
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the Federal Trade Commission, and it's a ruling that dates
back to nineteen thirty five, when the Justices established that
presidents at the time it was Democratic President Franklin D.
Roosevelt could not fire the appointed leaders of the alphabet
soup of federal agencies. I guess that's the FDC without.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
The cost see right, all the various EPA which are
created way does way later than that.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And does the president have the power to fire them?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
And because he's been trying, Yeah, oh, I.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Know, he's trying to do everything. I mean, he's there's
no question he is pushing the bound. It's a presidential
power unlike any other president. And to his on his
side is a Supreme Court that is massively on his side.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
But didn does predate him being in there?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Oh yeah, this is nineteen thirty five.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Yeah yeah, no, no, no, but I mean this move has
been going on for a while to what not.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Really not real?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
So the president can make a determination that the president
wants to make all determinations, that the president wants the
federal government to follow his dictates, and truly believes.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
That this president does. I'm saying this predates Trump. So
I'm curious why would they?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
No, not like this, nothing, nothing like this, nothing like this.
This is trying to get rid of birthright citizenship. Can
you imagine if Supreme Court gets the fact that Supreme
Court's even hearing that case is astound?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Here's the point. How does the Supreme Court rule a constitution?
Does the president have the right to reinterpret the Constitution?
I think it all is predicated on jurisdiction thereof in
the fourteenth Amendment and just simply saying that native born
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Americans aren't to be considered native born Americans if they
were born of people who are illegal. There is one
exception where native born Americans are not Americans, and that
is someone who is born of diplomatic parents.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
They are not citizens of the United States, so it's.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You can go there if you want, if he wants,
and we'll of course talk about that big time.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
All right, stop shining your radar at me. You got
Japan yesterday saying that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their
radar right at Japanese military aircraft into what they refer
to as dangerous incidents near Okinawa Islands, Japan's Okona Islands,
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and Beijing is disputing this saying no, that's not but
Chinese navy spokesperson said that the Japanese aircraft had like
repeatedly approached and then disrupted what the Chinese were doing.
They had this, they had their navy out and there
were conducting these previously announced carrier based flight training stuff
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going on, and they said, yeah, they kept shining their radar.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Is that an active aggression?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah, well that's what they think.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Painting an aircraft with your aircraft, that's putting your radar
up and looking right at it is a precursor to
launching a missive.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, launching a missile.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So the Chinese tartly, the Chinese deny, I mean they
deny everything, you know, So you know, I believe the
Japanese on this one, because I think the Chinese denied
doing it at all, and they go, oh and by
the way, they were in internation, they were in our
national waters over our sovereign, sovereign waters.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Going on, worse.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Spears could be realized on this one. The protective shield,
I didn't know there was one. There's a protective shield
around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine, but it
can't do its job any longer of confining radioactive waste
because of a drone strike earlier this year. That's according
to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Ukraine says it was
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Russia that carried out the strike at Chernobyl on February fourteenth.
Of course the Kremlin has denied that.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, who else is going to send the missiles?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Ukraine going to send the missile into a nuclear facility
that is leaking radiation like crazy, that blew up and melted.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
By the way, France did build that huge dome.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
If you ever look at a documentary doing that, they
built it and they rolled it over Chernobyl. The buildings is
really fascinating. Builllions of dollars spent on that.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Was it a lead or something.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, it's a concrete metal. I don't know how if
there's lead in there, I have no idea. And if
it is, a superman can't come through and fly and rescue.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Trump says he'll be involved in reviewing this Netflix Warner
Brothers deal. We've been hearing so much about proposed seventy
two billion dollar deal, and as you heard, there's some
more news that is coming out about that deal. There's
still a lot of back and forth. When we thought
it was kind of.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Accepted, right, but now Paramount has jumped in Paramount sky Dance.
They say they're making a hostile bid for Warner Brothers
and we'll go directly to the shareholders and offer thirty
dollars per share cash, which you can do.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Hostile bid is happening all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Also, there's FTC involvement because the size of the market. Now,
keep in mind, they're paying eighty two billion in cash.
Seventy two billion, I think ten billion dollars are sucking
up in credit.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Does Netflix really have eighty two billion dollars in cash? Well,
they have lots of cash, but I think they're going
to go out to lenders and they're going to try
to get big money for people to invest or. Major
institution is to invest in cash.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Not much is bill.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
How is this not a monopoly?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's not because there are other providers. Yeah, but there's who,
there's who.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
There's pointconk But at what point you consume so much?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
That's exactly what the FTC has to decide.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That's exactly the issue here.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And once it reaches critical mask, the government comes in
and says, no, you're not going to do it happens
all the time where the government says no, thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Now, usually when you have conservative.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Conservative administrations in they're more their lacks about stopping these
major acquisitions. But still, I mean, you may be right,
this is so enormous. Who the hell knows which way
it's going to go?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
All right, No more free lunch unless it's President Trump's birthday.
The National Park Service is offering free admission to national
parks on President Trump's birthday next year, which also happens
to be Flag Day, but it is eliminating free admission
to the parks on Martin Luther King Junior Day and
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on June teenth, which is June.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Nineteenth, which is celebrating of the last group of slaves
that were freed, or we're told that we're freed.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
So here is the question.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
All right, I know that there is a new contest
that the federal government is now promoting, and that is
which face on Mount Rushmore will be eliminated to put
Trump's face on? Which way? Which way do you think
they're going to go? I say, Teddy Roosevelt?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
How long before Christmas is no longer a national holiday?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
But Trump's birthday is?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, okay, this is just fun. By the way, this
is just fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Well, it is on Flag Day, it is.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
That's true. It is on Flag Day. So how do
you interpret it?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
And and I get that, all right, how do you
defend Juneteenth and Martin.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Luther King Day, which is a national holiday. That's a
tough one, all right.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Anyo, the dogs on skid Row, Let's focus on something positive.
So you've got La the city cracking down on criminal
activity in skid Row. That's good, but it's not what
you think. It's criminal activity dealing with animals.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Dogs. So there's this new pilot program.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
That is looking into getting officers about sixty officers from
Central Division as a matter of fact, that have been
trained with enhanced investigations about animal welfare and animal cruelty.
You know, there's some people that are there for whatever reasons,
but the animal.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
And they don't treat their dogs very well. You know,
it's they just don't treat their dogs well. And animal
cruelty is coming in as a clime, which it is,
and I think people tend to ignore what happens on
skid row. A lot of people don't go into the
shelters because I don't think the shelters take animals, so
people stay on the streets. And it's rough being it's
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rough being poor, it's rough being on skid row.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
It's rough being a dog on skin on skid row.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Well, we had a leak at the Loof, as if
that huge heist wasn't enough, A water leak damaged several
hundred works in Lou's Egyptian department. I just went and
saw those in the museum in Paris. Between three and
four hundred works were affected by the league, which was
discovered back in late November. They were egyptologies, Egyptology journals,
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and scientific documentations. So they're saying it wasn't the major stuff,
but it was still important.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I mean still you know you just love's having all
kinds of problems, mainly because it's French.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
All right, Fernando of Venezuela. This is beyond me and
I'm not even a big sports fan. But he was
denied again induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
This comes fourteen months after his passing in October of
twenty twenty four. But just I mean, I mean, it's
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almost thirty years out as it is at the end
of his pitching career.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Mere pitcher.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's hard to have I guess sixteen people
on this group of Contemporary Baseball Era committee. Uh but
and it comes up every three years or whatever.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
But because he didn't get the five votes this time,
he can't even be on the ballot next time.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
You need at least five. Yeah, and he couldn't get it.
He couldn't get it. So he did Mexico twenty thirty one.
I saw the first game he pitched that. I actually
was there when he debuted as a Dodger.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
When you asked him to park your car or something.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He didn't speak a word of English. I'm assuming he lived.
It was in the States for a bunch of years,
did he retire to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I mean, he was from Mexico. I'm just curious if.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
He moved out here, because remember, he was he was broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The No, he was, he was broadcasting the game, yeh
with yeah he was for years and years he was
broadcasting game and on the Spanish version of the version
of the Dodgers broadcast. But I'm just curious to see
if he moved down to Mexico where maybe he was
bicoastal as they say, all right, guys, we are done.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Which accounted for eighty percent of the religious based hate crimes.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Who do you think we're targeted, Joos? Why?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Because they own all the media, they own all the
insurance company, they and all the businesses, and if you
ask Marjorie Taylor Green, they also control the laser beams
that come down from the satellite and light up our
wildfires here in California.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Hey, good morning everybody. It's Monday morning, December eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Unfortunately, we were not able to celebrate December seventh, Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Day, which we normally do.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And I normally go to synagogue where the rabbi for
Torah Torah Torah. That, by the way, is a that's
a historical joke.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And why is that?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Because, of course, the Torah is the five Books of Moses,
the Old Testament, which is used in synagogue all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And Torah Torah Torah.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Was the coded name that the Japanese used to radio
back to Japan that the December seventh attack was successful.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Torah Torah phil Handle jokes always historical, never hysteric.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Very well said, handle jokes right on point, never funny,
understood though. All right, good morning everybody, let's do it
will There you are half screen, greatly appreciated. Good morning,
you're good morning, Sir Kono. There you are here I am,
and Neil.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Good morning, There you are.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Are.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Amy. What is that that's written on your sweatshirt?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You always have something written I can't see that, believe,
I believe, as in the.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Back of football helmets during games.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
No, it's in Christmas season.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Huh huh, got it.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It's full on Christmas over over.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
For the first time, first time in my life. I'm
getting a Christmas tree. I'm actually, yeah, I've never done
that before. Christ Yes, that's very funny. What we're going
to do. Actually, are two trees, one the traditional Well,
first of all, let me say hello, Amy, good morning,
good morning, and that's I think everybody. I do believe,
(02:44):
and and anything written.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
On her going.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay, Actually I conflated Amy with an I do that
all the time because both names start with an A.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
And now christ tree talk.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Two Christmas trees, one traditional Christmas tree in my front window.
It's going to be a real Christmas tree. We're shopping tomorrow,
and I had no idea how much money.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Just a Christmas tree costs. Holy moly, big, I think
nine foot.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Oh that's going to be. That's gonna be what about
three hundred bucks?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah? That I can't stand it, I really can't.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
And then then in the late fifty to get rid
of the rodents.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yes, and then the well said, and then the lights
outside the house, the white lights that are going to
come in and come on, guys, it is so expensive
to be Christian during Christmas. Jews do a minora, a
little tiny candlabra and you electricity. It's one light, one match,
(03:50):
and you stick eight candles on it and you are done.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's it. Welcome to Hanika, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So in the meantime, we've got two One Honika bush
is going up and the other Christmas tree Honka bush
will be blue and white lights. And there is a menora,
a lighted manora at the top where the star usually
is placed.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So I'll put that up. I just can't.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I cannot believe how expensive Christmas is.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Are you guys going to get a mench on the bench?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh, that's very funny. An elf on the shelf on
the elf.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah, there really is a bench on the bench.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, no, I know, you know, I've seen it. I've
seen it. We don't have a bench for it. It's
it's just so expensive.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Max asked last night if we have an ELF on
the shelf because we're putting stuff up, and I said, no,
we have a stealth ELF on the shelf and you
can't see it unless they.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Come from Holland. And then there is an ELF made
in Delft.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I'm not familiar with that location, but I'm sure it's funny.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It is it actually is actually that.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I think everybody at Holland is yes, no, no, death.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Is definitely I think it's Holland. I think it's the
Netherlands in any case. So there's that that we put
to bed and the other thing. Uh And this is
what Michelle sent. We're still waiting for more money to
come in for our fifteenth annual Pastathon. A lot of
it won't come in until Christmas because those giving machines
(05:30):
are being collected and it looks like we're going to
raise more money. As of the end of Pastathon our broadcast,
we were at one million, two hundred and eighty nine
twenty dollars. Oh, man, Yeah, we have to hit one
point three million in order to beat last year.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
No, we already beat last year.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Oh did we?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
No, it was one. It was one. We rounded up,
so it's one point two eight nine. Right now, we're
therety thousand dollars ahead of last year.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And our rec eard year was twenty twenty three, one
point three million dollars, eighty one thousand pounds of pasta
and Michelle said in this email for Michelle, because she
ran the whole thing, expecting things to actually go down
this year because of the economy, but KFI listeners came
through KFI Listener. Since twenty ten, we've raised almost ten
(06:26):
million dollars nine point eight million, over a million pounds
of pasta and sauce for Katarina's Club. And the money
that Neil and I raised for our.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Event is no, no, there's a no.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
There's a reason I'm saying this is it was actually
jokingly good to say, hey, did we haven't act at
auction at all? So the auction that we raised that
private barbecue at my house with Neil and I broadcasting
there is at forty one thousand dollars right now for
that auction event, and we are still talking to people.
(07:01):
There are still balls being juggled in the air as figure.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Is there more people?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I know, same number of people.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
But what they're doing is they're outbidding each other, still
not as to win, but as to simply see how
much money can be raised for our auction item.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Oh you should throw in something a little extra to
incentivize them.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Oh we've thrown in plenty to incentivize them.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
A picture with the bill handle.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh yeah, we have thrown in a knife set worth
a couple thousand dollars, really high end, Gormet said, a
year's worth of Zelman's. And the event is going to
be insane catering by Anaheim White House, And if you've
never had catering by the White House, it's insanity.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It's so good.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
I should reach out to the people from Melissa's Produce
and see if they'll give a year's worth of garlic
and onions.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
That would be very strong. And we combine that with Zelman's.
So we're still we're still talking. I mean, it's we've
never come close to that now. Granted it's uh, you know,
compared to other people, we've done much better. However, Uh,
it's it's a it's unique in its own way because
we can have more than one couple join us, for
(08:20):
more than one person join us, So there are some differences.
So it's not as impressive as it sounds. Except uh,
it's it's as impressive as it sounds. Okay, that goes down,
all right, Ready for some news on on on on
a Monday.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, hey, come on, I'm patting you too, Neil. I'm
giving us both the credit. It's a good credit.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It is time for handle on the news with Amy,
Neil and me lead. Sorry, the controversy regarding the second
video of that boat attack in the Caribbean by US forces.
First boat attack basically killed everybody drug boat and the
(09:15):
second attack, which we're not seeing video were of two survivors,
and we're getting two different views of this, two different descriptions.
The Republicans are saying, oh no, they were trying to
overturn the boat that was already a wash in water
that weighed thousands of pounds. They were to go to
overturn and take their radios which didn't exist, and I
(09:39):
guess take their weapons which didn't exist, and fight back
against aircraft that were flying at four hundred miles an
hour the attack aircraft. Now the Democrats are saying, it's
these two survivors that were clinging to debris fighting for
their lives when they were attacked. I gotta tell you,
(10:00):
I'm gonna lay politics aside. I tend to believe the former.
I don't think two guys swimming in the ocean we're
trying to overturn a boat of this size so they
could go and fight the armed forces of the United
(10:21):
States or continue the drug run. Sure, hope those drug
runners are okay, Yeah, well they yeah, they're not.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Anyway, we're trying to get everybody's trying to get that video.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And the point the.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Kindagon is this morning. By the way, what's going.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Sounds like crap.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
You're gonna have to type during the break, tighten the
string between the cans.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Uh. Yeah, there's something's going on with that connection. Good music,
Well play handle here, Good morning everybody. Monday morning, December eighth,
we continue more handle on the news, Amy Neil and me.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Who is what is the evil Empire? Apparently it's Europe.
The US government has published an annual national security strategy.
It's a thirty page document. This year paints European nations
as wayward declining powers that have ceded their sovereignty to
the European Union and are led by governments that suppress
(11:33):
democracy and muzzle voices that want a more nationalistic turn.
It also says that the whole of Europe faces civilizational
erasure through immigration that could render it unrecognizable in the
next two decades.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah. As crazy as this sounds, this is one of
those Trump administration moves, there really is another side to
this coin and I'm going to share this with you.
Not that it's not nuts, but it's not easy, it's complicated.
There's some moving pieces here. I'll do that at seven
o'clock coming up. But the bottom line is China and
(12:12):
Russia are our friends and Europe is our enemies.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Does the document say that or does it just highlight
the European Union.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It highlights the European Union as moving towards being our
enemy against us, and the only thing that's left doesn't
say anything negative about China Russia, So you have to
you have to extrapolate from that. But there is another
side of this because a lot of what Trump is saying,
He's absolutely right. What's going on in Europe now. The
(12:42):
only issue is do they remain allies or are they other?
Are they the other side of the line of our enemies,
and how far and how deep the enemy situation goes.
I'll talk more about that at seven o'clock. As I said,
it's not that simple, all right.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
President Voladimir Zolenski, he's going to speaking of European leaders.
He's going to be meeting with key European leaders in
London today. They're basically looking, you know, talking with the allies.
They're planning their response to what our part has been
in the ongoing ongoing US push for Kiev to accept
(13:22):
concessions in peace talks. So big high level meeting follows
three days of talks in Florida where Zolenski's chief negotiator
push for changes to the White House plan, which is,
you know, let's face it is considered widely to accommodate
Central Kremlin fans.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It's the Russian plan.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's basically what it is, straight out, this is what
Russia wants, and this is what the White House is
pushing for. And then you have the European leaders. And
that's part of what I'm going to talk about at
seven o'clock, that we have switched loyalties.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It looks like continueing.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
On how much power does one man have? Apparently the
Supreme Court's going to weigh in on that. The Justices
will be taking a case being argued today that calls
for a unanimous ninety year old decision limiting executive authority
to be overturned. The case before the High Court involves
(14:22):
the Federal Trade Commission, and it's a ruling that dates
back to nineteen thirty five, when the Justices established that
presidents at the time it was Democratic President Franklin D.
Roosevelt could not fire the appointed leaders of the alphabet
soup of federal agencies. I guess that's the FDC without.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
The cost see right, all the various EPA which are
created way does way later than that.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And does the president have the power to fire them?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
And because he's been trying, Yeah, oh, I.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Know, he's trying to do everything. I mean, he's there's
no question he is pushing the bound. It's a presidential
power unlike any other president. And to his on his
side is a Supreme Court that is massively on his side.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
But didn does predate him being in there?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Oh yeah, this is nineteen thirty five.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Yeah yeah, no, no, no, but I mean this move has
been going on for a while to what not.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Really not real?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
So the president can make a determination that the president
wants to make all determinations, that the president wants the
federal government to follow his dictates, and truly believes.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
That this president does. I'm saying this predates Trump. So
I'm curious why would they?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
No, not like this, nothing, nothing like this, nothing like this.
This is trying to get rid of birthright citizenship. Can
you imagine if Supreme Court gets the fact that Supreme
Court's even hearing that case is astound?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Here's the point. How does the Supreme Court rule a constitution?
Does the president have the right to reinterpret the Constitution?
I think it all is predicated on jurisdiction thereof in
the fourteenth Amendment and just simply saying that native born
(16:15):
Americans aren't to be considered native born Americans if they
were born of people who are illegal. There is one
exception where native born Americans are not Americans, and that
is someone who is born of diplomatic parents.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
They are not citizens of the United States, so it's.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You can go there if you want, if he wants,
and we'll of course talk about that big time.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
All right, stop shining your radar at me. You got
Japan yesterday saying that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their
radar right at Japanese military aircraft into what they refer
to as dangerous incidents near Okinawa Islands, Japan's Okona Islands,
(17:03):
and Beijing is disputing this saying no, that's not but
Chinese navy spokesperson said that the Japanese aircraft had like
repeatedly approached and then disrupted what the Chinese were doing.
They had this, they had their navy out and there
were conducting these previously announced carrier based flight training stuff
(17:24):
going on, and they said, yeah, they kept shining their radar.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Is that an active aggression?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah, well that's what they think.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Painting an aircraft with your aircraft, that's putting your radar
up and looking right at it is a precursor to
launching a missive.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, launching a missile.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So the Chinese tartly, the Chinese deny, I mean they
deny everything, you know, So you know, I believe the
Japanese on this one, because I think the Chinese denied
doing it at all, and they go, oh and by
the way, they were in internation, they were in our
national waters over our sovereign, sovereign waters.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Going on, worse.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Spears could be realized on this one. The protective shield,
I didn't know there was one. There's a protective shield
around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine, but it
can't do its job any longer of confining radioactive waste
because of a drone strike earlier this year. That's according
to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Ukraine says it was
(18:31):
Russia that carried out the strike at Chernobyl on February fourteenth.
Of course the Kremlin has denied that.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, who else is going to send the missiles?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Ukraine going to send the missile into a nuclear facility
that is leaking radiation like crazy, that blew up and melted.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
By the way, France did build that huge dome.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
If you ever look at a documentary doing that, they
built it and they rolled it over Chernobyl. The buildings is
really fascinating. Builllions of dollars spent on that.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Was it a lead or something.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, it's a concrete metal. I don't know how if
there's lead in there, I have no idea. And if
it is, a superman can't come through and fly and rescue.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Trump says he'll be involved in reviewing this Netflix Warner
Brothers deal. We've been hearing so much about proposed seventy
two billion dollar deal, and as you heard, there's some
more news that is coming out about that deal. There's
still a lot of back and forth. When we thought
it was kind of.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Accepted, right, but now Paramount has jumped in Paramount sky Dance.
They say they're making a hostile bid for Warner Brothers
and we'll go directly to the shareholders and offer thirty
dollars per share cash, which you can do.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Hostile bid is happening all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Also, there's FTC involvement because the size of the market. Now,
keep in mind, they're paying eighty two billion in cash.
Seventy two billion, I think ten billion dollars are sucking
up in credit.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Does Netflix really have eighty two billion dollars in cash? Well,
they have lots of cash, but I think they're going
to go out to lenders and they're going to try
to get big money for people to invest or. Major
institution is to invest in cash.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Not much is bill.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
How is this not a monopoly?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's not because there are other providers. Yeah, but there's who,
there's who.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
There's pointconk But at what point you consume so much?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
That's exactly what the FTC has to decide.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That's exactly the issue here.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And once it reaches critical mask, the government comes in
and says, no, you're not going to do it happens
all the time where the government says no, thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Now, usually when you have conservative.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Conservative administrations in they're more their lacks about stopping these
major acquisitions. But still, I mean, you may be right,
this is so enormous. Who the hell knows which way
it's going to go?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
All right, No more free lunch unless it's President Trump's birthday.
The National Park Service is offering free admission to national
parks on President Trump's birthday next year, which also happens
to be Flag Day, but it is eliminating free admission
to the parks on Martin Luther King Junior Day and
(21:33):
on June teenth, which is June.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Nineteenth, which is celebrating of the last group of slaves
that were freed, or we're told that we're freed.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
So here is the question.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
All right, I know that there is a new contest
that the federal government is now promoting, and that is
which face on Mount Rushmore will be eliminated to put
Trump's face on? Which way? Which way do you think
they're going to go? I say, Teddy Roosevelt?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
How long before Christmas is no longer a national holiday?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
But Trump's birthday is?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, okay, this is just fun. By the way, this
is just fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Well, it is on Flag Day, it is.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
That's true. It is on Flag Day. So how do
you interpret it?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
And and I get that, all right, how do you
defend Juneteenth and Martin.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Luther King Day, which is a national holiday. That's a
tough one, all right.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Anyo, the dogs on skid Row, Let's focus on something positive.
So you've got La the city cracking down on criminal
activity in skid Row. That's good, but it's not what
you think. It's criminal activity dealing with animals.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Dogs. So there's this new pilot program.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
That is looking into getting officers about sixty officers from
Central Division as a matter of fact, that have been
trained with enhanced investigations about animal welfare and animal cruelty.
You know, there's some people that are there for whatever reasons,
but the animal.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
And they don't treat their dogs very well. You know,
it's they just don't treat their dogs well. And animal
cruelty is coming in as a clime, which it is,
and I think people tend to ignore what happens on
skid row. A lot of people don't go into the
shelters because I don't think the shelters take animals, so
people stay on the streets. And it's rough being it's
(23:43):
rough being poor, it's rough being on skid row.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
It's rough being a dog on skin on skid row.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Well, we had a leak at the Loof, as if
that huge heist wasn't enough, A water leak damaged several
hundred works in Lou's Egyptian department. I just went and
saw those in the museum in Paris. Between three and
four hundred works were affected by the league, which was
discovered back in late November. They were egyptologies, Egyptology journals,
(24:17):
and scientific documentations. So they're saying it wasn't the major stuff,
but it was still important.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I mean still you know you just love's having all
kinds of problems, mainly because it's French.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
All right, Fernando of Venezuela. This is beyond me and
I'm not even a big sports fan. But he was
denied again induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
This comes fourteen months after his passing in October of
twenty twenty four. But just I mean, I mean, it's
(24:55):
almost thirty years out as it is at the end
of his pitching career.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Mere pitcher.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's hard to have I guess sixteen people
on this group of Contemporary Baseball Era committee. Uh but
and it comes up every three years or whatever.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
But because he didn't get the five votes this time,
he can't even be on the ballot next time.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
You need at least five. Yeah, and he couldn't get it.
He couldn't get it. So he did Mexico twenty thirty one.
I saw the first game he pitched that. I actually
was there when he debuted as a Dodger.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
When you asked him to park your car or something.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He didn't speak a word of English. I'm assuming he lived.
It was in the States for a bunch of years,
did he retire to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I mean, he was from Mexico. I'm just curious if.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
He moved out here, because remember, he was he was broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The No, he was, he was broadcasting the game, yeh
with yeah he was for years and years he was
broadcasting game and on the Spanish version of the version
of the Dodgers broadcast. But I'm just curious to see
if he moved down to Mexico where maybe he was
bicoastal as they say, all right, guys, we are done.
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