December 10, 2025 • 29 mins
(December 10, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. President Trump gives economy ‘A plus plus plus plus’ grade amid affordability concerns. Homeless services CEO step down from government oversight board amid scandal. Eileen Higgins becomes Miami’s first democratic mayor in 30 years. Anheuser-Busch invests millions in Van Nuys brewery location ahead of 2026 World Cup, 2028 Summer Olympics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I know, and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle. Good morning, everybody handle here. All right,
it is a humpdo Wednesday, December tenth, fifteen more days
till that magical day. Four more days until that kind
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of magical day. And we're talking about Christmas and of
course Honika respectively. By the way, Hankkah is a really
minor ceremony. You know that. It's a really minor just
you know, it's just it's it doesn't mean much. And
the only reason that it's given its import as a
holiday is because it's right next to Christmas, because Jews
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have no self esteem and it had to do with
all right, it's a sop, all right, Yeah, Christians have Christmas. Okay,
we'll give you Honkkah. We have one song, one song
Rade Old, raid Old, Raid Old, and then you have
the song oh that, but that's Adam Sandler. That doesn't
count as a traditional song, which, by the way, on Honkkah,
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we have to play the Adam Sandler Honikah song. All right,
cono uh put that in the calendar, all right, that
is going to be our bump on the fourteenth. When
is the fourteenth? Oh my god, it's is it over
the weekend? That's cramps. It doesn't matter because we have
eight days. We have eight days. We have eight days
to have a good time. And we're just hitting eight
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crazy nights, so you get christ that's true, eight days
and eight nights. And I'm getting my honka bush together
and I'll post that. So we have a Honka bush
and we have a Christmas tree, all right. And then
I was going to get a third Christmas tree, but
instead I looked on the internet at and we're looking
at some Satanists. So we're gonna get We're going to
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get a doll uh that looks like a baby, and
we're gonna, you know, put it where never mind, I'm
not going to go into the satan jokes. All right,
let me say hello to one and all morning.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Neil, Good morning, Willie wolf Esquire.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, sir, and Amy, Hi Bill. Oh how unusual you're
now wearing a I don't know, is that a hoodie
or of course Disney Lean.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Of course, and candy cane spirit jersey.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes, yeah, but that's kind of neat. It's a sort
of a relief of of Mickey there done. Yeah, it's nice.
I like it. Yeah, no, it's it's it's different. Uh
and then no, it is, well not for you, I
mean anything, Disney. I'm surprised. I can't wait for you
to come in in Mickey Mouse ears, which I'm sure
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you have dozens of them. Uh. And we'll take a
picture of it and post it. Okay, there's Will, good morning,
Good morning Bill, and Ann is there? Good morning Bill,
Good morning. It looks like you're wearing a bathrobe. What
did I say to you guys earlier?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You just said that, doesn't it look like I'm wearing
a rope?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, it's a spider. Yeah, I didn't hear that. It
is past delly, Cono. I can't see you at all.
I don't know what's going on with the with the zoom.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It's not different from yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh there you are, okay, got no, no, no, no,
that was that was Cono's fault. What we are going
to do is today, as always, we try as hard
as we can not to do a Trump story. I
think today there's only one. But I think we're going
to add a segment either weekly or twice weekly. And
(03:48):
it's going to be this episode of Crazy. And we
have one of those coming up at where uh it's
oh at eight o'clock, this eppisode of Crazy and it
has to do with the State Department and it is
absolutely delicious. Also this episode of Crazy, another one a
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medical episode of Crazy. We're going to do with doctor
Jim Keeney today. All right, we've all said, hello, anything
new in the world, let me see, not really, not really.
I'm preparing for Chaunka and Christmas and have you got
ye christmakud? That's true, that's part of it too. And
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I've gotten my gifts if you were out of the way,
and I believe me it for me, it's real easy.
I just what I give is a little bit of
money to everybody. And here here's your five bucks. And
this year, because of Lin's there's actually a card with
a nice state a nice card with some writing saying, yeah,
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I know I got disgusting.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
All right, so you called me fat mine? Uh she
was very nice.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Uh yeah, Well okay, it's you're a big, big, big,
big part of the show.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I did that I actually did to be honest with you,
and so it was it's really easy and then at
the memo, i'd go happy holidays, I'm done. You know.
Sometimes not even an envelope. Hey, I also for birthdays
or not that I do it very often, but it's
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you know, it's gift cards, but not gift cards to
a particular store or restaurant. It's just here, here's a
visa card, leave me alone. And I think those are
by far the best gifts. Wedding gifts. Yeah, you're better
off giving just uh, you know, cash. They do that
at at weddings, when you have ethnic weddings, that's what
they tend to do is here's some here's some cash.
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Enjoy yourself. All right, guys, are you ready to do it? Yes?
Or yes? On that? Thank you? Okay, easy, peasy, here
we go. It's handle on the news with Amy Neil
and Me lead story.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Everything is.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All right, approaching crazy. The President is doing an interview
and he is asked he's on Fox and Friends and
he is asked, how is the economy. Give the economy
a grade? And he said a plus plus plus plus
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plus I think, followed with five pluses. A with five pluses.
Now this is and of course during the conversation, prices
are down and that gets kind of interesting when you
go to the grocery store. It takes a real Maga
supporter to walk in and pay three dollars more a
pound for meat or a steak and say prices are down.
(06:49):
When I paid three dollars down from today than it was,
then I guess that's true. And so I'll tell you
where we're going to go with this. Ok we've gone
from prices. We're going to be cutting half day one
that no one believed. And that's puffery, by the way.
I mean I didn't take that seriously. That's just Donald Trump,
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you know, Okay, and only the super Maga believers. Oh yeah,
oh yeah, yeah. The price is going to be cut
in half day one. Now more, I think logical is
I'm going to bring prices down, which never happened. And
since voters vote with their wallets, I mean that is
number one by a long shot. It's now getting to
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it's Joe Biden who's causing all of these problems, and
that's that's going thin. That is that's getting a little
thin because we're a year in and the election is
going to be two years in, and you can only
blame Biden so much for the problems are going on.
By the way, that's not to say that Biden didn't.
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I don't know if he caused the the prices to
go up. And I don't think the president is responsible
for prices going up. I think there's a lot more
to that. It's much much more complicated than just the
policy of any given president. But you're going to see
Biden being blamed more and more, and you're going to
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see and the president is really it's a mixed message,
which I really don't get. Prices are down yet Joe
Biden was responsible for prices being up and prices are
down because I'm causing prices to go down and you
look and you go, wait a minute, I'm paying more.
So it's I think it's going to hurt the Republican Party.
(08:41):
This one is going to sting. I really believe that. Okay,
moving on, Oh it's my.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Turn, I know, yeah, it is, I know, Okay, The
head of LOSSA says so long. The chief executive of
the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency LASA as
A resigned from a government oversight board during a federal
investigation into some real estate dealings several weeks ago. The
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Wine Guard Center CEO Kevin Murray was placed on leave
and his director of real estate development, Ben Rosen, was
also put on leave while the nonprofit conducted an internal
review into its housing projects. Just the latest in a
string of problems with LUST.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Because it's horrible, Yeah, because it is horrible, because it
is corrupt as hell. And I think the analogy here
is when COVID hit and when remember the deep Water Horizon,
when it blew up in the Gulf of Mexico. What
VP that owned it had to do was just start
writing checks like crazy and the fraud was unbelievable. Same
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thing with a housing crisis. Karen Bass goes in sees
a legitimate problem with a high housing crisis, and now
the checks just start getting written, very little oversight, and
of course there is corruption up and down. This one
is a little bit tougher because the accusation is people
within the organization are making lots of money and they
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are corrupt. So no surprise, by the way, no surprise.
And the other side of it, though, is do you
you set up governmental authorities to oversee the money that's
being spent. Well, that takes time to do, that is
not easy. You have to establish bureaucracies, you have to
train people, you have to have accountants coming in, and
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therefore money is not being spent while you're setting up
the oversight. And again COVID, how you don't have time
to set up oversight useless.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Sorry, then the money's useless because in the pockets of
people that don't deserve it, not.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
All of it, not all of it, but the amount
of fraud, I mean during a COVID it was just
astronomical the amount of fraud thating on. And so there's
you know, which way do you go on that. Do
you accept corruption or do you accept people not getting
the benefits.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
They're not getting the benefits.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Either way they are getting the benefits, they are not
getting the benefits.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
So every dime, neil, every dime that's in this program
doesn't go to the homeless.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Monica Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez sounded this alarm over a year ago,
not arguing that there it is not going to where
it needs to go, okay at all?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All Right, so the story that these thousands of homeless
shelters and beds have been built is false because every
dime has gone to corruption.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
How come the actual number of people that they keep
saying in City Hall are off the streets is almost
to the number of the amount of people that die each.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Day on the streets. Okay, so you know where are
they going?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I understand. So your point is not a dime goes
to housing. It is all stolen people in them. It's
they're not in there. Okay, how many people? Okay, how
many people? So it is I'm not arguing that, but
you have taken it to an extreme. You are taking
it to an neil. You're taking it to an extreme.
(12:22):
It's corruption. Yes, their beds empty, but there is money
that's actually being spent appropriately. There is now is the
corruption too much? Oh? You bet? You bet. You and
I don't disagree on that one, but I don't think
it's it's as bad as you portrayed it. That there
nobody's moving in. There is no housing. It's all a myth.
(12:45):
So anyway, let's move on. You and I can disagree,
and just because you're wrong, you know, I understand you're
part of the show.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
All right, jubulant skies. I believe that's what we were
just listening to. Famous opera singer was found with critical
injuries consistent with a stabbing and then pronounced dead at
the scene. Mica Sky's the victim's son, was found inside
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the home was later taken into custody. So the suspect
there the sun will be booked for homicide and the
case will be presented to a Los Angeles county.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And he has a mental illness. We're hearing that that
the son has all kinds of mental problems and they
knew there was a big problem when the police recalled
because he was singing for help in a bass voice.
That is too soon for that, isn't no, of course not,
that's a little bit too soon, Okay, moving on?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Could this be a harbinger of things to come? Eileen
Higgins has won an election and become Miami's first Democratic
mayor in thirty years. She's also the first woman to
be mayor and first non Hispanic candidate since the nineties.
She was elected. She's a former county commissioner. This adds
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to a string of Democratic wins across the US that
have served to highlight the growing level of resistance to
President Trump in his second term. Significant to note that
Miami Dade has a big immigrant population and it voted
for Trump in historic numbers in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, bigarearely not anymore a big Hispanic population huge. As
a matter of fact, the entire population of Miami Dade
consists of two groups. That's it, one Cuban Hispanics and
the other one full of my mother old Jewish yentas
that won't shut up.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Men in black sox sandals and Bermuda shortz.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, pretty much screaming Mimi. Ver's the pool, Veter's the pool. Okay,
just a quick word about this. This is not voting
well for Republicans because if you look at what's going
on in local elections, governor's elections that just happened. The
Democrats are sweeping so far. So we'll see what the
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midterms are like. That's going to be the litmus test.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
The midterms not the midterms usually go it gives to
the party.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, generally they do. Yeah, generally they do. And it's
just a question of numbers. Obama got killed in the
midterms in his first midterms, so he did all of
his work during the first two years. Actually, that's when
a president has powers. The first two years. After that,
he's actually considered a lame duck. And so we'll see
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what happens in these midterms. Trump has just changed the
formula completely, so we'll see. I think he's going to
have As long as he has Congress behind him right
to the very last day of his presidency, he will
have enormous power, unlike other presidents.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Anna Heiser Bush, you know, you're driving off the four
or five there and you see it. It's actually pretty
lit up at night, investing millions of bucks in its
brewery there in Van Eys, and that is good. That
means job security, high quality products coming out of southern California,
which is great money back into the local economy. And
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this is all preparing to host the twenty twenty six
World Cup at twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics. You got
to love when when local government and companies start spit
shining things not for us.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You know, it used to be Bush Bush Gardens before
they right off, remember that, Yeah, years and years ago,
and then they converted it to manufacturing the brewery, and
now they're expanding the brewery.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
So you ever looked at some of the rides that
they had there that would no longer be legal. It's
like a broken glass pit for the kids.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It was. Don't forget the parrots flying around attacking people's heads.
Its yeah, people's eyeballs. I think, okay, a story that
Neil Wood is loving Amy, but you're taking it.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Affordability is all the buzz for the La City Council.
The council has voted unanimously to adopt the Affordable Housing
Streamlining Ordinance. Under the ordinance, developers will get fast tracked
city approval for projects that include affordable housing. Reviews for
these products projects rather typically take six to nine months,
but under this new directive, they will be required to
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be approved within sixty days.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Keep you seeing, oversight will either disappear or be seriously limited.
So we'll see, they just won't have the time.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
And I think I just saw a bunch of people
on Sunset Boulevard living in these ordinances, beautiful these ordinances
or lavish and really.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Helping them all, right, Pope Leo news and then we'll
take a break. The Pope.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Pope Leo, he insisted Tuesday, talking about everything going on
with Ukraine and Russia. He says that Europe must have
a role in any Ukraine peace deal. Of course, this
comes at the criticism of Trump and his administration for
what he says is efforts to break apart the longstanding
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US European alliance.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, as he is American. His favorite drink Pepsi because
he is known as Pope Sicola. Okay, I've used that
one before, by the way, and I didn't think it
was funny the first six times, and so Amasa.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Was the first two times.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Okay, fair enough. You know, sometimes I actually say something original,
you know that, not kono shaking his head. Not very often,
but occasionally I do.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
No foul play. The death of former Senator Mitt Romney's
sister in law has been ruled a suicide. You may
remember that Carrie Romney from Valencia died from blunt traumatic
injuries after falling from the rooftop of a parking structure
in Valencia. That happened last fall. In October, the medical
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examiner ruled that it was a suicide.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah. Originally a story came out that she jumped took
a swan dive off the parking structure at Disneyland, singing
It's a small world all the way down.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Then this did not happen at Disneyland too soon?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
All right, more news you're in a grizzly mood today
and smiling.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I'm actually in a great move today. That Voulder.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
The more death stories, the happier he gets. Well, if
you're a richie rich in Russia with a Porsche, that
Porsche is not working, could you imagine having a portion
It just gets bricked. So apparently they have this system
it's satellite based that's supposed to protect cars against theft.
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But all of a sudden, all the Porsches in Russia
stopped working. So it's under investigation. But it doesn't matter
what the cause is. It's compounded by the invasion of
Ukraine because Porsche stopped supporting its vehicles in Russian twenty
twenty two. No statements whether it's ties into that or not,
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but ultimately they have been cut off from the satellite connection.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Does this sound like a hack?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, it could be sure.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, well, coming out in Crane, some of the greatest
hackers are out of Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's not a bad skill to have on your side.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I mean it used to be that. Oh yeah. As
a matter of fact, before hacking became the big thing,
The beginning of hack came out of Ukraine. Still you
can hire hackers like crazy and they're cheap relative to hackers.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Here, college students are going to have to pay back
their student loans. Former President Biden's signature student loan repayment
program is known as Saving on a Valuable Education or
Save is Dead. If approved by the courts, the settlement
will require no new borrowers are enrolled in the program,
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which based monthly bills on borrowers' incomes and was hailed
by the Biden administration as the most affordable student loan
repayment option in history.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, A couple of things about that one. One, I
think it was a directive that Biden did this. So
the argument is that the Congress had to approve it,
and so we don't know that. And I think if
this one goes to court, the courts will say that
it is the president has the right to do this.
The other side of this is those of us who
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paid back our student loans. I borrow it and I
paid back every penny with interest. Huh, How these people
get away with it. The other side of that one,
this is four sides, is when I went to school,
it wasn't two hundred thousand dollars in debt. It was
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actually affordable. So put all that together, and you've got
a clustered truck on your hands.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
This just in when people cause debt in their lives,
they all have to pay it back. I have to
pay for my house, all right. So the Pope's favorite drink,
Pepsi Co. They planned to cut prices. They're also going
to be eliminating some of their products. This has to
do that with an investor that they have that they
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refer to as an activist investor. They're making changes after
prodding from Elliott Investment Management, which took a four billion
dollars stake in the company back in September. So now
being on the board pushing back, they're going to get
rid of some things. They expect their organic revenue to
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grow between two and four percent and six We'll see
how that goes. Because when I think fresh snacks, I
think Pepsi.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Okay, And you're going to see no cheese Cheetos coming
out the Cheeto food product that's artificially tastes like cheese.
It's going to be good. Doritos. Don't they also make oreos?
I think they do? Don't they? No, that's that's Mendads
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or whatever the hell that company is.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
A whole lot of dust in the wind. More than
one hundred piles of cremated remains were discovered in search
like Nevada back in August. The person who found the
ashes stumbled on the piles back on July twenty eighth
in a desert area. Search site is about an hour
south of the Las Vegas Valley, and then in late October,
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representatives from palm mortuaries and cemeteries removed approximately three hundred
and fifteen piles from the desert. A second area containing
more piles was found near the original dump site. There's
no law in Nevada saying that you can't scatter ashes
in public land, but you're not supposed to commercially distribute
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cremated remains, so a mass dumping site like this would
be illegal.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, where do they go? You have these mortuaries that
have a contract with the for example, the coroner's office,
where you have unidentified people sitting there and you know
they've got to go someplace. They cremate those people, and
then you have these ashes. By the way, cremains. I
love this. This is remains that have been a burnt up.
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It's like crazins, which are actually cranberries that are dried
out and those are yeah, Neil, tell me that's not true.
No food.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
You know what's funny is you drive around LA and
you can always see the the immigrant owned businesses because
they're always like a combination of the two streets they're on.
It's like up the front in the back. It's always
some combination of the of the two streets or something.
All right, thirty five year old geez, this is a
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lot of alcohol on a Royal Caribbean cruise last year.
Was served at least thirty three alcoholic drinks at the
ship's bar, you know, a couple hours during a couple
of hours.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Time or something like that.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And he he died.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It seems that there was some.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Situation though with the team there on the ship as well,
so he was intoxicated, He attempted to find his cabin room,
got lost, became agitated, apparently was confronted by some Royal
Caribbean security members who allegedly tackle them into the ground,
subdued him with their full body weight, so says the plaintiff,
And he apparently died. And now they're suing thirty three
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alcoholic drinks.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
That's a lot and security getting involved. They're looking at
a big law lawsuit and probably a settlement and then
in the normal corporate reply or hacks because some pr
person wrote this on behalf of Royal Caribbean, this is
what a spokesperson said. We were saddened by the passing
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of one of our guests, worked with authorities on their
investigation and will refrain from commenting any further unpending litigation. However, well,
we will be offering a twenty percent discount to the
family on the next Royal Caribbean cruise. They actually they
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didn't say the last part too soon.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
I know they didn't use at least the line about
their safety is the most is true.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's true. Yeap.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Doesn't this guy bear some responsibility for downing thirty three?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Of course he does, sure, but that's not what do
you think he's suing? What do you think he's going
to admit that he's dead. Yeah, I understand family is suing,
sorry about that for wrongful death. That is a defense
that Royal Caribbean is going to bring to the table,
is that he is Well. Here's what happens in California
is what we have is comparative negligence. We don't have
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absolute negligence certain states, if you are fifty one percent negligent,
then you are completely negligent. In California, it's comparative negligent.
If you are fifty one percent negligent, then let's say
there's an award of one hundred thousand dollars. Caribbean only
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has to pay fifty one percent of that. So that's
going to be a defense saying twenty percent of it
is his fault, thirty percent of it is his fault
if it goes to trial. Let's go ahead and finish
up with Amy.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
The cost to see the doc probably going up. Americans
say they expect medical cost to skyrocket. Consumers' median expectations
for the annual growth in medical costs hit more than
ten percent in November. Those fears of bigger medical bills
come as the Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies they're set
to expire at the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, if the Republicans don't come to the table on
this one and at least negotiate most of the Enhanced
Obamacare subsidies, you're going to see this thing blow up
like crazy. It's going to kill the Republicans especially since
the Congress voted and the Senate voted to keep or
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to reopen the government with the promise that we'll negotiate
before the end of January. We'll will negotiate a deal.
Problem is they end all those subsidies end at the
end of this month. So there's it's going to be
a tough one. It really is politically, and you know
you're going to see what's happening more and more. The
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Democrats are getting more and more ammunition on their side
to deal with what's going on politically. Okay, well we're done, guys.
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
I know, and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle. Good morning, everybody handle here. All right,
it is a humpdo Wednesday, December tenth, fifteen more days
till that magical day. Four more days until that kind
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of magical day. And we're talking about Christmas and of
course Honika respectively. By the way, Hankkah is a really
minor ceremony. You know that. It's a really minor just
you know, it's just it's it doesn't mean much. And
the only reason that it's given its import as a
holiday is because it's right next to Christmas, because Jews
(00:57):
have no self esteem and it had to do with
all right, it's a sop, all right, Yeah, Christians have Christmas. Okay,
we'll give you Honkkah. We have one song, one song
Rade Old, raid Old, Raid Old, and then you have
the song oh that, but that's Adam Sandler. That doesn't
count as a traditional song, which, by the way, on Honkkah,
(01:19):
we have to play the Adam Sandler Honikah song. All right,
cono uh put that in the calendar, all right, that
is going to be our bump on the fourteenth. When
is the fourteenth? Oh my god, it's is it over
the weekend? That's cramps. It doesn't matter because we have
eight days. We have eight days. We have eight days
to have a good time. And we're just hitting eight
(01:41):
crazy nights, so you get christ that's true, eight days
and eight nights. And I'm getting my honka bush together
and I'll post that. So we have a Honka bush
and we have a Christmas tree, all right. And then
I was going to get a third Christmas tree, but
instead I looked on the internet at and we're looking
at some Satanists. So we're gonna get We're going to
(02:03):
get a doll uh that looks like a baby, and
we're gonna, you know, put it where never mind, I'm
not going to go into the satan jokes. All right,
let me say hello to one and all morning.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Neil, Good morning, Willie wolf Esquire.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, sir, and Amy, Hi Bill. Oh how unusual you're
now wearing a I don't know, is that a hoodie
or of course Disney Lean.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Of course, and candy cane spirit jersey.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes, yeah, but that's kind of neat. It's a sort
of a relief of of Mickey there done. Yeah, it's nice.
I like it. Yeah, no, it's it's it's different. Uh
and then no, it is, well not for you, I
mean anything, Disney. I'm surprised. I can't wait for you
to come in in Mickey Mouse ears, which I'm sure
(02:55):
you have dozens of them. Uh. And we'll take a
picture of it and post it. Okay, there's Will, good morning,
Good morning Bill, and Ann is there? Good morning Bill,
Good morning. It looks like you're wearing a bathrobe. What
did I say to you guys earlier?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You just said that, doesn't it look like I'm wearing
a rope?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, it's a spider. Yeah, I didn't hear that. It
is past delly, Cono. I can't see you at all.
I don't know what's going on with the with the zoom.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It's not different from yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh there you are, okay, got no, no, no, no,
that was that was Cono's fault. What we are going
to do is today, as always, we try as hard
as we can not to do a Trump story. I
think today there's only one. But I think we're going
to add a segment either weekly or twice weekly. And
(03:48):
it's going to be this episode of Crazy. And we
have one of those coming up at where uh it's
oh at eight o'clock, this eppisode of Crazy and it
has to do with the State Department and it is
absolutely delicious. Also this episode of Crazy, another one a
(04:08):
medical episode of Crazy. We're going to do with doctor
Jim Keeney today. All right, we've all said, hello, anything
new in the world, let me see, not really, not really.
I'm preparing for Chaunka and Christmas and have you got
ye christmakud? That's true, that's part of it too. And
(04:30):
I've gotten my gifts if you were out of the way,
and I believe me it for me, it's real easy.
I just what I give is a little bit of
money to everybody. And here here's your five bucks. And
this year, because of Lin's there's actually a card with
a nice state a nice card with some writing saying, yeah,
(04:53):
I know I got disgusting.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
All right, so you called me fat mine? Uh she
was very nice.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Uh yeah, Well okay, it's you're a big, big, big,
big part of the show.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I did that I actually did to be honest with you,
and so it was it's really easy and then at
the memo, i'd go happy holidays, I'm done. You know.
Sometimes not even an envelope. Hey, I also for birthdays
or not that I do it very often, but it's
(05:26):
you know, it's gift cards, but not gift cards to
a particular store or restaurant. It's just here, here's a
visa card, leave me alone. And I think those are
by far the best gifts. Wedding gifts. Yeah, you're better
off giving just uh, you know, cash. They do that
at at weddings, when you have ethnic weddings, that's what
they tend to do is here's some here's some cash.
(05:48):
Enjoy yourself. All right, guys, are you ready to do it? Yes?
Or yes? On that? Thank you? Okay, easy, peasy, here
we go. It's handle on the news with Amy Neil
and Me lead story.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Everything is.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All right, approaching crazy. The President is doing an interview
and he is asked he's on Fox and Friends and
he is asked, how is the economy. Give the economy
a grade? And he said a plus plus plus plus
(06:25):
plus I think, followed with five pluses. A with five pluses.
Now this is and of course during the conversation, prices
are down and that gets kind of interesting when you
go to the grocery store. It takes a real Maga
supporter to walk in and pay three dollars more a
pound for meat or a steak and say prices are down.
(06:49):
When I paid three dollars down from today than it was,
then I guess that's true. And so I'll tell you
where we're going to go with this. Ok we've gone
from prices. We're going to be cutting half day one
that no one believed. And that's puffery, by the way.
I mean I didn't take that seriously. That's just Donald Trump,
(07:10):
you know, Okay, and only the super Maga believers. Oh yeah,
oh yeah, yeah. The price is going to be cut
in half day one. Now more, I think logical is
I'm going to bring prices down, which never happened. And
since voters vote with their wallets, I mean that is
number one by a long shot. It's now getting to
(07:35):
it's Joe Biden who's causing all of these problems, and
that's that's going thin. That is that's getting a little
thin because we're a year in and the election is
going to be two years in, and you can only
blame Biden so much for the problems are going on.
By the way, that's not to say that Biden didn't.
(07:57):
I don't know if he caused the the prices to
go up. And I don't think the president is responsible
for prices going up. I think there's a lot more
to that. It's much much more complicated than just the
policy of any given president. But you're going to see
Biden being blamed more and more, and you're going to
(08:18):
see and the president is really it's a mixed message,
which I really don't get. Prices are down yet Joe
Biden was responsible for prices being up and prices are
down because I'm causing prices to go down and you
look and you go, wait a minute, I'm paying more.
So it's I think it's going to hurt the Republican Party.
(08:41):
This one is going to sting. I really believe that. Okay,
moving on, Oh it's my.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Turn, I know, yeah, it is, I know, Okay, The
head of LOSSA says so long. The chief executive of
the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency LASA as
A resigned from a government oversight board during a federal
investigation into some real estate dealings several weeks ago. The
(09:11):
Wine Guard Center CEO Kevin Murray was placed on leave
and his director of real estate development, Ben Rosen, was
also put on leave while the nonprofit conducted an internal
review into its housing projects. Just the latest in a
string of problems with LUST.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Because it's horrible, Yeah, because it is horrible, because it
is corrupt as hell. And I think the analogy here
is when COVID hit and when remember the deep Water Horizon,
when it blew up in the Gulf of Mexico. What
VP that owned it had to do was just start
writing checks like crazy and the fraud was unbelievable. Same
(09:50):
thing with a housing crisis. Karen Bass goes in sees
a legitimate problem with a high housing crisis, and now
the checks just start getting written, very little oversight, and
of course there is corruption up and down. This one
is a little bit tougher because the accusation is people
within the organization are making lots of money and they
(10:14):
are corrupt. So no surprise, by the way, no surprise.
And the other side of it, though, is do you
you set up governmental authorities to oversee the money that's
being spent. Well, that takes time to do, that is
not easy. You have to establish bureaucracies, you have to
train people, you have to have accountants coming in, and
(10:34):
therefore money is not being spent while you're setting up
the oversight. And again COVID, how you don't have time
to set up oversight useless.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Sorry, then the money's useless because in the pockets of
people that don't deserve it, not.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
All of it, not all of it, but the amount
of fraud, I mean during a COVID it was just
astronomical the amount of fraud thating on. And so there's
you know, which way do you go on that. Do
you accept corruption or do you accept people not getting
the benefits.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
They're not getting the benefits.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Either way they are getting the benefits, they are not
getting the benefits.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
So every dime, neil, every dime that's in this program
doesn't go to the homeless.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Monica Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez sounded this alarm over a year ago,
not arguing that there it is not going to where
it needs to go, okay at all?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All Right, so the story that these thousands of homeless
shelters and beds have been built is false because every
dime has gone to corruption.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
How come the actual number of people that they keep
saying in City Hall are off the streets is almost
to the number of the amount of people that die each.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Day on the streets. Okay, so you know where are
they going?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I understand. So your point is not a dime goes
to housing. It is all stolen people in them. It's
they're not in there. Okay, how many people? Okay, how
many people? So it is I'm not arguing that, but
you have taken it to an extreme. You are taking
it to an neil. You're taking it to an extreme.
(12:22):
It's corruption. Yes, their beds empty, but there is money
that's actually being spent appropriately. There is now is the
corruption too much? Oh? You bet? You bet. You and
I don't disagree on that one, but I don't think
it's it's as bad as you portrayed it. That there
nobody's moving in. There is no housing. It's all a myth.
(12:45):
So anyway, let's move on. You and I can disagree,
and just because you're wrong, you know, I understand you're
part of the show.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
All right, jubulant skies. I believe that's what we were
just listening to. Famous opera singer was found with critical
injuries consistent with a stabbing and then pronounced dead at
the scene. Mica Sky's the victim's son, was found inside
(13:12):
the home was later taken into custody. So the suspect
there the sun will be booked for homicide and the
case will be presented to a Los Angeles county.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And he has a mental illness. We're hearing that that
the son has all kinds of mental problems and they
knew there was a big problem when the police recalled
because he was singing for help in a bass voice.
That is too soon for that, isn't no, of course not,
that's a little bit too soon, Okay, moving on?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Could this be a harbinger of things to come? Eileen
Higgins has won an election and become Miami's first Democratic
mayor in thirty years. She's also the first woman to
be mayor and first non Hispanic candidate since the nineties.
She was elected. She's a former county commissioner. This adds
(14:08):
to a string of Democratic wins across the US that
have served to highlight the growing level of resistance to
President Trump in his second term. Significant to note that
Miami Dade has a big immigrant population and it voted
for Trump in historic numbers in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, bigarearely not anymore a big Hispanic population huge. As
a matter of fact, the entire population of Miami Dade
consists of two groups. That's it, one Cuban Hispanics and
the other one full of my mother old Jewish yentas
that won't shut up.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Men in black sox sandals and Bermuda shortz.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, pretty much screaming Mimi. Ver's the pool, Veter's the pool. Okay,
just a quick word about this. This is not voting
well for Republicans because if you look at what's going
on in local elections, governor's elections that just happened. The
Democrats are sweeping so far. So we'll see what the
(15:12):
midterms are like. That's going to be the litmus test.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
The midterms not the midterms usually go it gives to
the party.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, generally they do. Yeah, generally they do. And it's
just a question of numbers. Obama got killed in the
midterms in his first midterms, so he did all of
his work during the first two years. Actually, that's when
a president has powers. The first two years. After that,
he's actually considered a lame duck. And so we'll see
(15:40):
what happens in these midterms. Trump has just changed the
formula completely, so we'll see. I think he's going to
have As long as he has Congress behind him right
to the very last day of his presidency, he will
have enormous power, unlike other presidents.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Anna Heiser Bush, you know, you're driving off the four
or five there and you see it. It's actually pretty
lit up at night, investing millions of bucks in its
brewery there in Van Eys, and that is good. That
means job security, high quality products coming out of southern California,
which is great money back into the local economy. And
(16:18):
this is all preparing to host the twenty twenty six
World Cup at twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics. You got
to love when when local government and companies start spit
shining things not for us.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You know, it used to be Bush Bush Gardens before
they right off, remember that, Yeah, years and years ago,
and then they converted it to manufacturing the brewery, and
now they're expanding the brewery.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
So you ever looked at some of the rides that
they had there that would no longer be legal. It's
like a broken glass pit for the kids.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It was. Don't forget the parrots flying around attacking people's heads.
Its yeah, people's eyeballs. I think, okay, a story that
Neil Wood is loving Amy, but you're taking it.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Affordability is all the buzz for the La City Council.
The council has voted unanimously to adopt the Affordable Housing
Streamlining Ordinance. Under the ordinance, developers will get fast tracked
city approval for projects that include affordable housing. Reviews for
these products projects rather typically take six to nine months,
but under this new directive, they will be required to
(17:36):
be approved within sixty days.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Keep you seeing, oversight will either disappear or be seriously limited.
So we'll see, they just won't have the time.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
And I think I just saw a bunch of people
on Sunset Boulevard living in these ordinances, beautiful these ordinances
or lavish and really.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Helping them all, right, Pope Leo news and then we'll
take a break. The Pope.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Pope Leo, he insisted Tuesday, talking about everything going on
with Ukraine and Russia. He says that Europe must have
a role in any Ukraine peace deal. Of course, this
comes at the criticism of Trump and his administration for
what he says is efforts to break apart the longstanding
(18:26):
US European alliance.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, as he is American. His favorite drink Pepsi because
he is known as Pope Sicola. Okay, I've used that
one before, by the way, and I didn't think it
was funny the first six times, and so Amasa.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Was the first two times.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Okay, fair enough. You know, sometimes I actually say something original,
you know that, not kono shaking his head. Not very often,
but occasionally I do.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
No foul play. The death of former Senator Mitt Romney's
sister in law has been ruled a suicide. You may
remember that Carrie Romney from Valencia died from blunt traumatic
injuries after falling from the rooftop of a parking structure
in Valencia. That happened last fall. In October, the medical
(19:20):
examiner ruled that it was a suicide.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah. Originally a story came out that she jumped took
a swan dive off the parking structure at Disneyland, singing
It's a small world all the way down.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Then this did not happen at Disneyland too soon?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
All right, more news you're in a grizzly mood today
and smiling.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I'm actually in a great move today. That Voulder.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
The more death stories, the happier he gets. Well, if
you're a richie rich in Russia with a Porsche, that
Porsche is not working, could you imagine having a portion
It just gets bricked. So apparently they have this system
it's satellite based that's supposed to protect cars against theft.
(20:12):
But all of a sudden, all the Porsches in Russia
stopped working. So it's under investigation. But it doesn't matter
what the cause is. It's compounded by the invasion of
Ukraine because Porsche stopped supporting its vehicles in Russian twenty
twenty two. No statements whether it's ties into that or not,
(20:35):
but ultimately they have been cut off from the satellite connection.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Does this sound like a hack?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, it could be sure.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, well, coming out in Crane, some of the greatest
hackers are out of Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's not a bad skill to have on your side.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I mean it used to be that. Oh yeah. As
a matter of fact, before hacking became the big thing,
The beginning of hack came out of Ukraine. Still you
can hire hackers like crazy and they're cheap relative to hackers.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Here, college students are going to have to pay back
their student loans. Former President Biden's signature student loan repayment
program is known as Saving on a Valuable Education or
Save is Dead. If approved by the courts, the settlement
will require no new borrowers are enrolled in the program,
(21:31):
which based monthly bills on borrowers' incomes and was hailed
by the Biden administration as the most affordable student loan
repayment option in history.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, A couple of things about that one. One, I
think it was a directive that Biden did this. So
the argument is that the Congress had to approve it,
and so we don't know that. And I think if
this one goes to court, the courts will say that
it is the president has the right to do this.
The other side of this is those of us who
(22:04):
paid back our student loans. I borrow it and I
paid back every penny with interest. Huh, How these people
get away with it. The other side of that one,
this is four sides, is when I went to school,
it wasn't two hundred thousand dollars in debt. It was
(22:24):
actually affordable. So put all that together, and you've got
a clustered truck on your hands.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
This just in when people cause debt in their lives,
they all have to pay it back. I have to
pay for my house, all right. So the Pope's favorite drink,
Pepsi Co. They planned to cut prices. They're also going
to be eliminating some of their products. This has to
do that with an investor that they have that they
(22:52):
refer to as an activist investor. They're making changes after
prodding from Elliott Investment Management, which took a four billion
dollars stake in the company back in September. So now
being on the board pushing back, they're going to get
rid of some things. They expect their organic revenue to
(23:14):
grow between two and four percent and six We'll see
how that goes. Because when I think fresh snacks, I
think Pepsi.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Okay, And you're going to see no cheese Cheetos coming
out the Cheeto food product that's artificially tastes like cheese.
It's going to be good. Doritos. Don't they also make oreos?
I think they do? Don't they? No, that's that's Mendads
(23:47):
or whatever the hell that company is.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
A whole lot of dust in the wind. More than
one hundred piles of cremated remains were discovered in search
like Nevada back in August. The person who found the
ashes stumbled on the piles back on July twenty eighth
in a desert area. Search site is about an hour
south of the Las Vegas Valley, and then in late October,
(24:13):
representatives from palm mortuaries and cemeteries removed approximately three hundred
and fifteen piles from the desert. A second area containing
more piles was found near the original dump site. There's
no law in Nevada saying that you can't scatter ashes
in public land, but you're not supposed to commercially distribute
(24:34):
cremated remains, so a mass dumping site like this would
be illegal.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yeah, where do they go? You have these mortuaries that
have a contract with the for example, the coroner's office,
where you have unidentified people sitting there and you know
they've got to go someplace. They cremate those people, and
then you have these ashes. By the way, cremains. I
love this. This is remains that have been a burnt up.
(25:01):
It's like crazins, which are actually cranberries that are dried
out and those are yeah, Neil, tell me that's not true.
No food.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
You know what's funny is you drive around LA and
you can always see the the immigrant owned businesses because
they're always like a combination of the two streets they're on.
It's like up the front in the back. It's always
some combination of the of the two streets or something.
All right, thirty five year old geez, this is a
(25:34):
lot of alcohol on a Royal Caribbean cruise last year.
Was served at least thirty three alcoholic drinks at the
ship's bar, you know, a couple hours during a couple
of hours.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Time or something like that.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And he he died.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It seems that there was some.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Situation though with the team there on the ship as well,
so he was intoxicated, He attempted to find his cabin room,
got lost, became agitated, apparently was confronted by some Royal
Caribbean security members who allegedly tackle them into the ground,
subdued him with their full body weight, so says the plaintiff,
And he apparently died. And now they're suing thirty three
(26:22):
alcoholic drinks.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
That's a lot and security getting involved. They're looking at
a big law lawsuit and probably a settlement and then
in the normal corporate reply or hacks because some pr
person wrote this on behalf of Royal Caribbean, this is
what a spokesperson said. We were saddened by the passing
(26:46):
of one of our guests, worked with authorities on their
investigation and will refrain from commenting any further unpending litigation. However, well,
we will be offering a twenty percent discount to the
family on the next Royal Caribbean cruise. They actually they
(27:06):
didn't say the last part too soon.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
I know they didn't use at least the line about
their safety is the most is true.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's true. Yeap.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Doesn't this guy bear some responsibility for downing thirty three?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Of course he does, sure, but that's not what do
you think he's suing? What do you think he's going
to admit that he's dead. Yeah, I understand family is suing,
sorry about that for wrongful death. That is a defense
that Royal Caribbean is going to bring to the table,
is that he is Well. Here's what happens in California
is what we have is comparative negligence. We don't have
(27:40):
absolute negligence certain states, if you are fifty one percent negligent,
then you are completely negligent. In California, it's comparative negligent.
If you are fifty one percent negligent, then let's say
there's an award of one hundred thousand dollars. Caribbean only
(28:01):
has to pay fifty one percent of that. So that's
going to be a defense saying twenty percent of it
is his fault, thirty percent of it is his fault
if it goes to trial. Let's go ahead and finish
up with Amy.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
The cost to see the doc probably going up. Americans
say they expect medical cost to skyrocket. Consumers' median expectations
for the annual growth in medical costs hit more than
ten percent in November. Those fears of bigger medical bills
come as the Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies they're set
to expire at the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, if the Republicans don't come to the table on
this one and at least negotiate most of the Enhanced
Obamacare subsidies, you're going to see this thing blow up
like crazy. It's going to kill the Republicans especially since
the Congress voted and the Senate voted to keep or
(29:00):
to reopen the government with the promise that we'll negotiate
before the end of January. We'll will negotiate a deal.
Problem is they end all those subsidies end at the
end of this month. So there's it's going to be
a tough one. It really is politically, and you know
you're going to see what's happening more and more. The
(29:23):
Democrats are getting more and more ammunition on their side
to deal with what's going on politically. Okay, well we're done, guys.
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