December 11, 2025 • 30 mins
(December 11, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Takeaways: Powell says the Fed has delivered enough rate ducts for now. Judge blocks President Trump’s National Guard deployment in Los Angeles. Senate poised to reject extension of healthcare subsidies as costs rise. UC Berkeley, Pomona College settle with Jewish groups over antisemitism allegations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
A M six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Don't don't judge me that much, or go ahead and
judge me because you do anyway, bastards.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle. Hey, good morning everybody, Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Here it is a Thursday morning.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Here we go. The week is almost over, and good
morning to all of you out there.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Amy, you're wearing a Christmas sweater a reindeer.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Oh, I can't know. I can't. Oh, they're Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's one of those whatever the hell you call those
Christmas Yeah, it's really it's really good.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, it is excellent. Wait, you should post that. Have
you already posted?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
We post because you know, we.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Have our Christmas party and they have an ugly sweater
contest and look it even has a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh wow, you know, tell me a little bit about
this Christmas party?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is it a kfi iHeart thing? Because I never get.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Invited because you don't read your email.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I actually I don't think. I don't have an email address.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Could explain it.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I do not have an email.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
That's where the invitations were sent out. Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Oh, okay, I'm sure you're invited, Bill handle.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, I don't know when.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
When is it today?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I get eleven, which is why I'm wearing the ugly
sweater as in eleven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yes, I didn't know that. And so what kind of
food are they going to have that they traded for?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Because they'll actually spend any money, so it's all trade for.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well this way, what kind of commercials?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What commercial products are we now hustling?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, let's see, it's Prania. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It's his fun activities, delicious food, open bar and raffle prices.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Okay, open bar, Shasta Cola. Okay, you won't.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
See any name brand open bar. Well, they can't.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
They can't have anybody drink because that's out of the question.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
No, they've had people drink at it those things before,
haven't they.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No, No, they don't do alcohol.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
You've got to sign a waiver.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I don't even think signing waivers though.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I don't think here's a problem with soft drink station.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, so I think it's open soft drinks because here's
the problem with alcohol, and this is a legal issue,
is that the station is responsible for under the Drama Act.
If someone gets drunk and goes out and kills someone.
It gets legally a little bit sticky. So no, when
I have a party, there's no alcohol. But that's more
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a question of spending money on alcohol than anything else.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And we cut a deal. Oh, my little one, is.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Your budget is pretty much drank up by your wife.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
No, my budget is calling up everybody I've ever known
and seeing if I can get it for free. And
someone's on someone have to mute by the way over there.
That's great, all right, So there's Amy, there's Neil con O,
good morning, Good morning Bill, and Will the coleschreiber Man.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
How are you? Good morning, Bill, don't feel bad. I
was not invited either.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Good that makes me and you have an email address
which is even better.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And good morning Anne.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Okay you say that was that was my next question?
All right?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
And is not an open bar?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's correct? Neil, are you going it? No? You and I?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
At noon?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Okay? Cono? Are you going no chance? See this is a.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
H Yes, I'll be representing the morning.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You'll be representing everybody with your ugly sweater.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, you know, yesterday we were talking about Africa. I'm
trying to put together African African trips like a bucket
list trip, you know, once in a lifetime, and I
have gone, but Linz is not.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
So we're thinking of going to Africa.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And we talked about a balloon ride over the Massai
Mara or the Serengetti which you took, which is a
magic ride, and I said, I don't want to be
with twenty people in balloon. So I got quoted yesterday
a private balloon ride for two people. And when the
(04:31):
quote came in, I called them back and said, no, no,
you don't understand. I just want to ride in the balloon.
I'd rather I'm not buying the balloon. And okay, and
the people that weren't there get like two dollars a month,
you know, the folks that work at these camps.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
So anyway, well, basically, wouldn't you be paying like they're
supposed to be twenty people on it, wouldn't you be?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
No, No, they have have smaller balloons.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It depends on the size of the basket and the
size of the balloon itself.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, how much was the envelope? Come on, you know what?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I dollars ten though?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh no, no, no, no, it.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Was no, no, no, no, no, it's I think it
was between two and three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But that is still a fortune.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That's why you go with ten or twenty people.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Because yeah, because then Acosta then a costa four five
hundred dollars each.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It's worth it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No, I'm going, There's no question I'm going.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I just don't want to be with a bunch of
unwashed people that are getting airsick and puking all over me.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Nobody got sick and puked. Well. When I went on
my brow.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And the last one that I did go on with
twenty people on it, there was a Korean pilot who
thought he was a comedian and he was doing nothing
but bad jokes in a Korean accent. He was a
Korean who immigrated to Africa. Very strange anyway. So I'm
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trying to figure out. I'm trying to put together and
I don't know. It's getting it's getting a little pricey,
but it is a it is a once in a lifetime,
it's a bucket list thing.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So I'll report more later on.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
I think funny the way you spend money or where
you don't spend money, it's weird to me.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
How is that? How is that not?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
I mean you will never remember that cost versus the memory?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh yes I will. Oh I can tell you exactly
how much.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I can tell you what a meal costs me when
I went out twenty two years ago to a restaurant
in Italy or in France.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I once paid fifteen hundred dollars to have real snow,
well man made snow put in my front yard for
Christmas Eve for my nephews and nieces.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Very cool. Wow, that is cool.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I want this Christmas of the year now.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I once spend fifteen high dollars on snow, but not
quite the same snow as you're described me during law school.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Matter of fact, we went out in the front yard.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I put that in a mirror, took my razor blade
and cut it up. All right, enough, guys, will I
did say good I did say good morning to you,
didn't I good morning?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I have to tell you you're.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
The memory is you are etched in my memory?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
You really are? Okay, guys, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's time for handle on the news on this Thursday morning,
Amy Neil and me and lead story.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well, I no surprise. Yesterday the Fed.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Did cut interest rates, although again it's usually it's a
not unanimous.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It wasn't.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
There definitely is dissension in the FED and the chair
said that he is looking at rate cuts because, uh,
the economy needs some help.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And I'm going to do a story later on.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That really talks about what the job rate is and
it's it's sobering, it really is, and it has to.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Do with or I think maybe later on in the news,
it has to do with.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Under stating the unemployed, the unemployment numbers, and there are
a lot of politics there.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
All right, get out, that's the order from a judge.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
They said any remaining National Guard troops in Los Angeles
need to leave, and also the control of the National
Guard needs to go back to the state. This was
from District Court Judge Charles Bryer in San Francisco, granting
a preliminary injunction against the use of the National Guard
(08:43):
troops by the Trump administration to secure federal buildings and
protect federal officers following the immigration raid protests.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Back in mind, I will tell you what's going to
happen on this one. Of course, the Feds are instantly
appealing it. It's going to go up to Supreme Court
this many other issues, and if you look at this
court has done, this Court has viewed the presidency, not
necessarily the Trump's presidency, the presidency of having virtually unbridled power.
(09:13):
If the president calls an emergency, it is an emergency.
During one of the previous ones where the president was
arguing he is immune from prosecution, and the Supreme Court
said he is completely immune from prosecution. And Kagan asks
the Solicitor General, who is arguing complete immunity, does that
(09:36):
mean that the president can order the assassination of a
rival based on his declaration that it's national security? And
he said, yes, the president has absolute immunity power as
long as he's arguing that it's some kind of national
emergency and he decides what it is. You know, this
(09:57):
is reminiscent during Watergate John Mitchell, who was the Attorney
General of the United States who was grabbing money in
cash for creepe the committee to re elect the president,
and he said straight out when he was asked.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You are the attorney general of this country.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Do you believe that the laws are subservient to the
president getting elected?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
He said absolutely.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Richard Nixon getting re elected is more important than any
law in this country. He did four years, by the
way for that one. All right, he's going to have
the ability to call to bring out the troops simply
because he says, I think this is an emergency. There's
a demonstration. I think it's an emergency because it's his call.
(10:49):
Is the way it's being interpreted.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
This is where we could really use some compromise. You've
got the Senate poised to reject legislation to extend the
Affordable Care Act, the tax credits there for millions.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Of Americans, and they've been going back and forth.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Even you know, you have Senator Tom Tills till Us
rather of North Carolina. He was trying to push Republicans
fellow Republicans to extend the tax credits for a short time.
He says, it's too complicated, too difficult to get done
in the limited time we have left. And the hope
was to kind of push it so they could get
(11:28):
some sort of compromise.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
But alas it's dead.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Nope, nope, nope, And yes, if the Republicans don't come
to the table, this is a deal breaker because people
are going to start getting their bills for insurance after
January first, it's going to smash them right in the head,
and the Republicans will get the blame for it.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
There's no questions about it.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
To Amy this morning on wake up call, I think
she nailed. She said it's political suicide. For that, I
think it is, you.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Know, I think it doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Okay, it's settled.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Two colleges, UC Berkeley and Pomona College have reached settlement
agreements with Jewish groups or individuals who filed complaints about
alleged anti Semitism that stemmed from the pro Palestinian protests
in twenty twenty three and twenty four. One of them
is Yayil Native. Don't even know if I'm saying that correctly.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
She yay you.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
She was a visiting professor. She sued the state court,
alleging that she got rejected because of her Israeli nationality.
She wasn't invited to come back and teach again, even
though she said her class was very successful. Formal campus
investigation found that she did, in fact face discrimination. So
they settled, and then they also settled with some Pomona College.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I don't know even why they settled, because I think
they had a perfect.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Defense because they didn't want to deal with No.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
The perfect defense.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Everybody hates the Jews, so why should we be any different?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well, a little self conscious here.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
It's probably more accurate to say everybody hates this Jew.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh look at you, okay, all of them. No, they're good,
most of them.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
They're good people, except one guy who you know, was
a cabinet maker. You know, didn't make cabinets, you see,
it was cabinet maker, the pife. He probably built houses
with his foster father, Joseph, the same way his father,
his foster father.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Did well, not as I mean Joseph, his non father father.
But I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
The cabinets that he did build were immaculately built. I
mean they were absolutely perfect.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Okay, moving on, Yes, indeed, so President Donald Trump said
just yesterday that US officials seized a very large, huge
oil tanker. This was off the coast of Venezuela. This
keeps escalating, and oh yeah, give me insight Bill as
to where this is.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
No, this is it's just this sheer punishment for the.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
President is right.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Maduro is as sleazy as the President says he is.
The guy is corrupt beyond corrupt, is in bed with
all of the drug.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Card the cartel people. The problem is what do you
do with it?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And he's going after Venezuela where Colombia is the problem.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Where it really is China. The issue is fentanyl.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
There's no huge death rate from cocaine that is Colombia
and Venezuela. It's Venezuela also is cocaine. So yeah, he's
as splitting and they just grabbed it. You saw the
video of the attack. I mean, you know, the helicopters,
the Navy helicopters and the Navy personnel, the seals repelling down.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It was it was really interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And then when he and when he was asked, he said,
it's uh, it was a big tanker.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
No, it is the biggest tanker.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Is said, it's the biggest tanker ever.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That's right, the biggest tanker ever in the whole wide world.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Bill.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Where do we manufacture meaning in America, do we manufacture
crack cocaine?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Here?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Do we get the cocaine out?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, I know, I think crack is there's labs that
do it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
But cocaine usually is in powder form when it comes
over and then it's cut and recut and recut cocaine.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Bigger problem than even cocaine, is right, you.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Know, if you smoke crack cocaine. I don't know. I
don't know, but it is.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
There's all these politics and racial overtones to crack cocaine,
and it is now. I don't think it's done overseas.
I think crack cocaine is manufacturing in the United States.
The powder comes, powder comes over the border. I don't
know if that helped or not, but it sure sounded,
didn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It sounded great a win for the mountain lions. Well maybe.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has recommended granting
threatened species status to about fourteen hundred mountain lions who
are roaming around the Central Coast and in southern California.
They say that they want that designation because of the
threats posed by freeways, rat poison.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And of course wildfires.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
It's not a final say, but it does a signal
possibility that several clans of the iconic cougars could be
listed under California's Endangered Species Act.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I'm jumping into that at seven twenty because there are
a lot of moving pieces on that one.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Not everybody's happy about it.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No, not everybody's happy.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And then that wildlife across over the one O one
Freeway near a gir Man.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Open pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, and it is the largest in the world and
that's kind of neat.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Yeah, it's kind of pretty too, Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It did a nice job with a wooden infrastructure on it.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
It was lovely. Yep, all right, this story's about as
horrible as gets.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
You got eight members of the him High School running
team and they are between the ages of six seeing
seventeen years old. Eight of them were hurt. Three people
required immediate transports, including a twenty seven year old driver
that hit them. And it looks like it's a possible DUI.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Hopped the plowing into plowing into a group that were
just well running going across you know the high schools
they have the running They were at an intersection, They
were at an intersection and he plowed right into them.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Wasn't there another case that was considered duy But then
it was kind of controversial a couple of years back
amy where someone maybe in in Los Angeles, did that
hit a group of runners from maybe the police department.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It was the police department they were training. Yeah, that
was just last year.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
I think, wow, whoop.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
There goes my phone. Amy neil Me thought we lost you. No, no, no, it.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Must be nice to have this money much money to donate.
Jeff Bezos's ex wife, philanthropist Mackenzie Scott, has donated sixty
three million dollars to c.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
SU Northrich All State northridch Yep.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
She donated forty million dollars to the university in twenty
twenty one.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
So do the math.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
That's one hundred and four million dollars, the largest donation
in its sixty seven year history.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
She's worth a ton of money.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Thinky three million, a billion when she treks billion.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
When she divorced Bezos, she basically got half of the
stock that he had, or they got half of what
they both had, So it is it's obviously grown from there.
I think she she took a chunk and took it out,
and she gave him all the voting rights too.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
She doesn't vote, Yeah sixteen, she's she committed to give
away most of her wealth.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, unlike Bezos didn't, Ellison's didn't. You've got Warren Buffet
who has You have Gates who has Bill and.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Melinda Gates Mark, she's beautiful, She's caring and giving and rich. Yeah,
and I don't understand that. I never understood that divorces.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
A big deal season in the hopes that turns into
a school of good reputation.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
They're trying to get the stink of the sixties out
of there. Are you in there in the sixties?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I was, Yeah, I was there in the sixties. Yeah,
lay trying to clean it up.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, I was there, sixties, early seventies, I was there.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
This sad story. Jeff Garcia, he's a voice actor. Fifty
years old, died. He had complications of pneumonia and he
was taken off life support by his family. But he
was known for shows like Jimmy Neutron, which is great.
The voice character he plays is Sheen Estevez.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Does he pick up on that handel Sheen Martin, Sheen Martin,
Sheen Mark she and Charlietz No and his son and right,
yeah but they but they no, not Charlie.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Sheen, which we didn't want to use. His dad.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
The character's name is Sheen Estevez.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
But he played on many different shows, Happy Feet, Barnyard, Rio,
Bunch of other the Proud Family, but Unfortunately he passed away.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Right. This is a good story.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
It's a new take on driverless delivery. A woman has
delivered her child in a Waimo robot robotaxi while she
was on the way to U SEE San Francisco Medical
Center to have the baby. Waimo says that it's writers
support team detected unusual activity in the car.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's kind of screaming at the top of her lungs,
and and she delivered it herself.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
There was no one else in the car, just her, right.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Nope, she was alone in the car. And then when
she got to the hospital, she was with her baby.
She beat police there.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Right, and she called an ambulance instead of a way
mom because.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It was already on its way and someone was probably
talking to her and saying we're gonna you know, we're
changing the direction of the car. And then she went
into the doctor less obstruct obsetrix department of the hospital.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
You love that and the cars, Like, if you're going
to have a second writer, you will have to pay more,
I know.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And it's actually it's actually a terrific story. I love
the technology.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
When it works.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You're going to find that driverless cars are not only
the future, it's also going to be and that's generational.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I mean it's going to take twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But this cars and that's not only the technology, just
the time it'll take to switch over. But it'll be
far far safer, and it will you won't see gridlock.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
It just will be neat.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Have you taken one yet? I have not, have you, No,
But there wasn't all over my neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Yeah, everywhere in our hood. Amy. I see them three
times a day easy. I've taken them a bunch of times.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I did it in San Francisco bunch in July, and
then I do it here too.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
They take a little longer.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
They were taking a little longer to get to hail one,
uh than an uber or a lyft.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
But they're great. I love it.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You can even watch how on the screen how it
scans the area.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
I've taken my family and them too.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And they speak and they speak English with nobody speaking
as opposed to.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Uber and no body od or nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yes, yeah, none of that.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
An uber with a body odor No, But he's thinking
of old taxi jokes from me.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I am old taxi jokes. And of course one of
the best Seinfeld episodes ever. H with the bo from
the parking.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Oh, they couldn't get it up and they try to.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
They tried to get it stolen.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Okay, story Bill handle it going to remark that this
is vindictive, and he's going to be exactly right.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Holy's smokes.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
So you've got President Donald Trump inserting himself directly, by
the way, into this control battle for Warner Brothers, Discovery
and all this. And the first thing he says is
it's imperative that CNN be sold.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
After he'd be rated all of.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Their you know, their horrible news and the Earlier in
the week, The Wall Street Journal reported that David Ellison
recently offered assurances to Trump and had his administration that
if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Can that be legal?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
It can It's nothing can be legal. I mean, you
know you'd throw it all up. How about this one
for a conflict of interest?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Part of Paramount's purchase, their hostile bid for Warner involves
a fund that Kushner is up to his eyeballs in sons.
Trump's son in law is involved in the purchase of
where the hostile takeover.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I mean, it's all of it is crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Just you know, originally Trump was against crypto until a
family company was created to deal with crypto. Uh, and
Kushner was involved in that. Now crypto is great. Uh.
And he is pardoning people in the crypto world that
have been committed, that had been convicted of massive fraud.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
It's just it's so blatant. It's just ridiculous. It is
so blatant.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
This is comical though, because essentially he's going to have
to bless some or his administration and some of the
alphabet soup organizations are gonna have to bless this merger.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Right, Yeah, it's hit, but it's.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
See, yeah, we'll get rid of people at the CNN
h that.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You know. It's just it's it's it's it's it's so insane.
And the part, you know, who I do blame, I
don't even blame particularly Trump, because I think he's just nuts.
I really think that he's a self agrid, self aggrandizing
who thinks he controls the world and should and he's
king of the world. It's the Republicans who back him up,
(25:16):
who say yes. Wall Street Journal ran an op ed Peace.
The Journal ran an op ed piece saying, all you
have to do is talk about his magnificence to him.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
That's the word.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You talk your magnificence, mister president, and you get what
you want. I don't understand it. I know, I keep
on harping on this. I do not understand it. For
the life of me. Someone's got to explain this to
me because I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So, uh, we'll say.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Your weakness in the Republican Party.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I yeah, there's that, but I'm talking about the backbone. Yeah,
there's that.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
But the whole well that people actually follow him.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I mean I think that there is a percentage of
people who are believers.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah, like the people.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Who go against him, like you're saying, they're there, they
have no spine. Well, it's because that's where the attention
is and the people, No, it's who is.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Marjorie Taylor Green.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
She just had a sixty minute interview and she's gone
somewhat against him, not some basic uh that's political views,
but certainly on the Epstein business and on women in
the Republican Republican Party being marginalized. And she was asked,
you know, the Republicans all line up in logstep what
(26:37):
goes on behind closed doors, and she goes, you can't
believe it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
They're just so frightened.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
And number one, they're frightened, and there are tons of
Republicans saying, my god, are we really moving in this direction?
But publicly, he the president has to be backed backed up. Now,
wait till the midterms, and you're going to see much
of what happened with Joe Biden. Anybody who associated himself
for herself with Joe Biden politically in the Democratic Party
(27:05):
got nailed.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And this I believe the same thing is going to
happen to Trump.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And the longer the president says prices are down, prices
are down a plus plus plus economy, you guys don't
know what you're talking about. If you think you're paying
too much for meat, you're not. It's just not true
because prices are down. He didn't say that about the meat,
but he has said prices are down, and people just
don't don't buy it because they're not buying. So we'll
(27:33):
stand and then this story I'm going to do later
on about what happened with Fed chair jer Own Powell.
All right, lits, we have to do some more real
quickly because I've been going off on my soapbox.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Here.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Can we skip to Neil's next story?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah? Absolutely, Neil, all right, Star Wars.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
The original painting that we all fell in love with
became the iconic movie poster fifty years ago, sold at
auction for three point eight seven five million, almost four
million bucks. It's acrylic and airbrush painting. The movie poster designer,
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it just brilliant. Tom Young first appeared in newspaper advertisements
back in May thirteenth of nineteen seventy seven, two weeks
before the movie opened.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
But this is one of a kind. Doesn't exist. This
should be in the Smithsonian. Yeah, but when you can
get four million dollars for it, screw the Smithsonian.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
It belongs in a museum.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
There's some that do.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
An AI ad is backfiring on McDonald's. McDonald's had to
take down an AI generated Christmas commercial from YouTube after
some customers said the AI slop filled, tongue in cheek
take on the holidays holidays was just distasteful. The ad
was titled it the Most Terrible Time of the Year.
(29:02):
It showed a series of short, chaotic clips of people
braving the winter, tripping while carrying overloaded gift bags, getting
stuck in tangled lights, burning homemade cookies, and starting an
unexpected cooking fire during a family gathering.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
That sounds so why, I.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Mean, that's yeah, and that's cute, you know, and yeah,
but I so people were upset that it was Ai.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
No I saw no actors were harmed in the making
of that commercial.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Very well said, very well said no fingers were actually burnt,
right right, all right, we are done. By the way, Neil,
did it look perfect? It was Ai, but.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
It looked excellent. Yeah, Okay, here's the thing. Somebody knew
what they were doing. You have to prompt It's like
a director. You're just not using actors. There are there's
actual humans interacting.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
With it to get it.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
To do that.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Because it was very well done, it just you know,
turns people off.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle. Hey, good morning everybody, Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Here it is a Thursday morning.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Here we go. The week is almost over, and good
morning to all of you out there.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Amy, you're wearing a Christmas sweater a reindeer.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Oh, I can't know. I can't. Oh, they're Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's one of those whatever the hell you call those
Christmas Yeah, it's really it's really good.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, it is excellent. Wait, you should post that. Have
you already posted?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
We post because you know, we.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Have our Christmas party and they have an ugly sweater
contest and look it even has a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh wow, you know, tell me a little bit about
this Christmas party?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is it a kfi iHeart thing? Because I never get.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Invited because you don't read your email.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I actually I don't think. I don't have an email address.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Could explain it.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I do not have an email.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
That's where the invitations were sent out. Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Oh, okay, I'm sure you're invited, Bill handle.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, I don't know when.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
When is it today?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I get eleven, which is why I'm wearing the ugly
sweater as in eleven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yes, I didn't know that. And so what kind of
food are they going to have that they traded for?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Because they'll actually spend any money, so it's all trade for.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well this way, what kind of commercials?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What commercial products are we now hustling?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, let's see, it's Prania. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It's his fun activities, delicious food, open bar and raffle prices.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Okay, open bar, Shasta Cola. Okay, you won't.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
See any name brand open bar. Well, they can't.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
They can't have anybody drink because that's out of the question.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
No, they've had people drink at it those things before,
haven't they.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No, No, they don't do alcohol.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
You've got to sign a waiver.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I don't even think signing waivers though.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I don't think here's a problem with soft drink station.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, so I think it's open soft drinks because here's
the problem with alcohol, and this is a legal issue,
is that the station is responsible for under the Drama Act.
If someone gets drunk and goes out and kills someone.
It gets legally a little bit sticky. So no, when
I have a party, there's no alcohol. But that's more
(02:53):
a question of spending money on alcohol than anything else.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And we cut a deal. Oh, my little one, is.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Your budget is pretty much drank up by your wife.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
No, my budget is calling up everybody I've ever known
and seeing if I can get it for free. And
someone's on someone have to mute by the way over there.
That's great, all right, So there's Amy, there's Neil con O,
good morning, Good morning Bill, and Will the coleschreiber Man.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
How are you? Good morning, Bill, don't feel bad. I
was not invited either.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Good that makes me and you have an email address
which is even better.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And good morning Anne.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Okay you say that was that was my next question?
All right?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
And is not an open bar?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's correct? Neil, are you going it? No? You and I?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
At noon?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Okay? Cono? Are you going no chance? See this is a.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
H Yes, I'll be representing the morning.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You'll be representing everybody with your ugly sweater.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, you know, yesterday we were talking about Africa. I'm
trying to put together African African trips like a bucket
list trip, you know, once in a lifetime, and I
have gone, but Linz is not.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
So we're thinking of going to Africa.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And we talked about a balloon ride over the Massai
Mara or the Serengetti which you took, which is a
magic ride, and I said, I don't want to be
with twenty people in balloon. So I got quoted yesterday
a private balloon ride for two people. And when the
(04:31):
quote came in, I called them back and said, no, no,
you don't understand. I just want to ride in the balloon.
I'd rather I'm not buying the balloon. And okay, and
the people that weren't there get like two dollars a month,
you know, the folks that work at these camps.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
So anyway, well, basically, wouldn't you be paying like they're
supposed to be twenty people on it, wouldn't you be?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
No, No, they have have smaller balloons.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It depends on the size of the basket and the
size of the balloon itself.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, how much was the envelope? Come on, you know what?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I dollars ten though?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh no, no, no, no, it.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Was no, no, no, no, no, it's I think it
was between two and three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But that is still a fortune.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That's why you go with ten or twenty people.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Because yeah, because then Acosta then a costa four five
hundred dollars each.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It's worth it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No, I'm going, There's no question I'm going.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I just don't want to be with a bunch of
unwashed people that are getting airsick and puking all over me.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Nobody got sick and puked. Well. When I went on
my brow.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And the last one that I did go on with
twenty people on it, there was a Korean pilot who
thought he was a comedian and he was doing nothing
but bad jokes in a Korean accent. He was a
Korean who immigrated to Africa. Very strange anyway. So I'm
(05:58):
trying to figure out. I'm trying to put together and
I don't know. It's getting it's getting a little pricey,
but it is a it is a once in a lifetime,
it's a bucket list thing.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So I'll report more later on.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
I think funny the way you spend money or where
you don't spend money, it's weird to me.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
How is that? How is that not?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
I mean you will never remember that cost versus the memory?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh yes I will. Oh I can tell you exactly
how much.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I can tell you what a meal costs me when
I went out twenty two years ago to a restaurant
in Italy or in France.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I once paid fifteen hundred dollars to have real snow,
well man made snow put in my front yard for
Christmas Eve for my nephews and nieces.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Very cool. Wow, that is cool.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I want this Christmas of the year now.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I once spend fifteen high dollars on snow, but not
quite the same snow as you're described me during law school.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Matter of fact, we went out in the front yard.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I put that in a mirror, took my razor blade
and cut it up. All right, enough, guys, will I
did say good I did say good morning to you,
didn't I good morning?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I have to tell you you're.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
The memory is you are etched in my memory?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
You really are? Okay, guys, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's time for handle on the news on this Thursday morning,
Amy Neil and me and lead story.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well, I no surprise. Yesterday the Fed.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Did cut interest rates, although again it's usually it's a
not unanimous.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It wasn't.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
There definitely is dissension in the FED and the chair
said that he is looking at rate cuts because, uh,
the economy needs some help.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And I'm going to do a story later on.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That really talks about what the job rate is and
it's it's sobering, it really is, and it has to.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Do with or I think maybe later on in the news,
it has to do with.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Under stating the unemployed, the unemployment numbers, and there are
a lot of politics there.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
All right, get out, that's the order from a judge.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
They said any remaining National Guard troops in Los Angeles
need to leave, and also the control of the National
Guard needs to go back to the state. This was
from District Court Judge Charles Bryer in San Francisco, granting
a preliminary injunction against the use of the National Guard
(08:43):
troops by the Trump administration to secure federal buildings and
protect federal officers following the immigration raid protests.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Back in mind, I will tell you what's going to
happen on this one. Of course, the Feds are instantly
appealing it. It's going to go up to Supreme Court
this many other issues, and if you look at this
court has done, this Court has viewed the presidency, not
necessarily the Trump's presidency, the presidency of having virtually unbridled power.
(09:13):
If the president calls an emergency, it is an emergency.
During one of the previous ones where the president was
arguing he is immune from prosecution, and the Supreme Court
said he is completely immune from prosecution. And Kagan asks
the Solicitor General, who is arguing complete immunity, does that
(09:36):
mean that the president can order the assassination of a
rival based on his declaration that it's national security? And
he said, yes, the president has absolute immunity power as
long as he's arguing that it's some kind of national
emergency and he decides what it is. You know, this
(09:57):
is reminiscent during Watergate John Mitchell, who was the Attorney
General of the United States who was grabbing money in
cash for creepe the committee to re elect the president,
and he said straight out when he was asked.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You are the attorney general of this country.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Do you believe that the laws are subservient to the
president getting elected?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
He said absolutely.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Richard Nixon getting re elected is more important than any
law in this country. He did four years, by the
way for that one. All right, he's going to have
the ability to call to bring out the troops simply
because he says, I think this is an emergency. There's
a demonstration. I think it's an emergency because it's his call.
(10:49):
Is the way it's being interpreted.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
This is where we could really use some compromise. You've
got the Senate poised to reject legislation to extend the
Affordable Care Act, the tax credits there for millions.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Of Americans, and they've been going back and forth.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Even you know, you have Senator Tom Tills till Us
rather of North Carolina. He was trying to push Republicans
fellow Republicans to extend the tax credits for a short time.
He says, it's too complicated, too difficult to get done
in the limited time we have left. And the hope
was to kind of push it so they could get
(11:28):
some sort of compromise.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
But alas it's dead.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Nope, nope, nope, And yes, if the Republicans don't come
to the table, this is a deal breaker because people
are going to start getting their bills for insurance after
January first, it's going to smash them right in the head,
and the Republicans will get the blame for it.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
There's no questions about it.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
To Amy this morning on wake up call, I think
she nailed. She said it's political suicide. For that, I
think it is, you.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Know, I think it doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Okay, it's settled.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Two colleges, UC Berkeley and Pomona College have reached settlement
agreements with Jewish groups or individuals who filed complaints about
alleged anti Semitism that stemmed from the pro Palestinian protests
in twenty twenty three and twenty four. One of them
is Yayil Native. Don't even know if I'm saying that correctly.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
She yay you.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
She was a visiting professor. She sued the state court,
alleging that she got rejected because of her Israeli nationality.
She wasn't invited to come back and teach again, even
though she said her class was very successful. Formal campus
investigation found that she did, in fact face discrimination. So
they settled, and then they also settled with some Pomona College.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I don't know even why they settled, because I think
they had a perfect.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Defense because they didn't want to deal with No.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
The perfect defense.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Everybody hates the Jews, so why should we be any different?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well, a little self conscious here.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
It's probably more accurate to say everybody hates this Jew.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh look at you, okay, all of them. No, they're good,
most of them.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
They're good people, except one guy who you know, was
a cabinet maker. You know, didn't make cabinets, you see,
it was cabinet maker, the pife. He probably built houses
with his foster father, Joseph, the same way his father,
his foster father.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Did well, not as I mean Joseph, his non father father.
But I'll tell you one thing.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
The cabinets that he did build were immaculately built. I
mean they were absolutely perfect.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Okay, moving on, Yes, indeed, so President Donald Trump said
just yesterday that US officials seized a very large, huge
oil tanker. This was off the coast of Venezuela. This
keeps escalating, and oh yeah, give me insight Bill as
to where this is.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
No, this is it's just this sheer punishment for the.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
President is right.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Maduro is as sleazy as the President says he is.
The guy is corrupt beyond corrupt, is in bed with
all of the drug.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Card the cartel people. The problem is what do you
do with it?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And he's going after Venezuela where Colombia is the problem.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Where it really is China. The issue is fentanyl.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
There's no huge death rate from cocaine that is Colombia
and Venezuela. It's Venezuela also is cocaine. So yeah, he's
as splitting and they just grabbed it. You saw the
video of the attack. I mean, you know, the helicopters,
the Navy helicopters and the Navy personnel, the seals repelling down.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It was it was really interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And then when he and when he was asked, he said,
it's uh, it was a big tanker.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
No, it is the biggest tanker.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Is said, it's the biggest tanker ever.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That's right, the biggest tanker ever in the whole wide world.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Bill.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Where do we manufacture meaning in America, do we manufacture
crack cocaine?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Here?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Do we get the cocaine out?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, I know, I think crack is there's labs that
do it.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
But cocaine usually is in powder form when it comes
over and then it's cut and recut and recut cocaine.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Bigger problem than even cocaine, is right, you.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Know, if you smoke crack cocaine. I don't know. I
don't know, but it is.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
There's all these politics and racial overtones to crack cocaine,
and it is now. I don't think it's done overseas.
I think crack cocaine is manufacturing in the United States.
The powder comes, powder comes over the border. I don't
know if that helped or not, but it sure sounded,
didn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It sounded great a win for the mountain lions. Well maybe.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has recommended granting
threatened species status to about fourteen hundred mountain lions who
are roaming around the Central Coast and in southern California.
They say that they want that designation because of the
threats posed by freeways, rat poison.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And of course wildfires.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
It's not a final say, but it does a signal
possibility that several clans of the iconic cougars could be
listed under California's Endangered Species Act.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I'm jumping into that at seven twenty because there are
a lot of moving pieces on that one.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Not everybody's happy about it.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No, not everybody's happy.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And then that wildlife across over the one O one
Freeway near a gir Man.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Open pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, and it is the largest in the world and
that's kind of neat.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Yeah, it's kind of pretty too, Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It did a nice job with a wooden infrastructure on it.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
It was lovely. Yep, all right, this story's about as
horrible as gets.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
You got eight members of the him High School running
team and they are between the ages of six seeing
seventeen years old. Eight of them were hurt. Three people
required immediate transports, including a twenty seven year old driver
that hit them. And it looks like it's a possible DUI.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Hopped the plowing into plowing into a group that were
just well running going across you know the high schools
they have the running They were at an intersection, They
were at an intersection and he plowed right into them.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Wasn't there another case that was considered duy But then
it was kind of controversial a couple of years back
amy where someone maybe in in Los Angeles, did that
hit a group of runners from maybe the police department.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It was the police department they were training. Yeah, that
was just last year.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
I think, wow, whoop.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
There goes my phone. Amy neil Me thought we lost you. No, no, no, it.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Must be nice to have this money much money to donate.
Jeff Bezos's ex wife, philanthropist Mackenzie Scott, has donated sixty
three million dollars to c.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
SU Northrich All State northridch Yep.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
She donated forty million dollars to the university in twenty
twenty one.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
So do the math.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
That's one hundred and four million dollars, the largest donation
in its sixty seven year history.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
She's worth a ton of money.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Thinky three million, a billion when she treks billion.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
When she divorced Bezos, she basically got half of the
stock that he had, or they got half of what
they both had, So it is it's obviously grown from there.
I think she she took a chunk and took it out,
and she gave him all the voting rights too.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
She doesn't vote, Yeah sixteen, she's she committed to give
away most of her wealth.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, unlike Bezos didn't, Ellison's didn't. You've got Warren Buffet
who has You have Gates who has Bill and.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Melinda Gates Mark, she's beautiful, She's caring and giving and rich. Yeah,
and I don't understand that. I never understood that divorces.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
A big deal season in the hopes that turns into
a school of good reputation.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
They're trying to get the stink of the sixties out
of there. Are you in there in the sixties?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I was, Yeah, I was there in the sixties. Yeah,
lay trying to clean it up.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, I was there, sixties, early seventies, I was there.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
This sad story. Jeff Garcia, he's a voice actor. Fifty
years old, died. He had complications of pneumonia and he
was taken off life support by his family. But he
was known for shows like Jimmy Neutron, which is great.
The voice character he plays is Sheen Estevez.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Does he pick up on that handel Sheen Martin, Sheen Martin,
Sheen Mark she and Charlietz No and his son and right,
yeah but they but they no, not Charlie.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Sheen, which we didn't want to use. His dad.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
The character's name is Sheen Estevez.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
But he played on many different shows, Happy Feet, Barnyard, Rio,
Bunch of other the Proud Family, but Unfortunately he passed away.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Right. This is a good story.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
It's a new take on driverless delivery. A woman has
delivered her child in a Waimo robot robotaxi while she
was on the way to U SEE San Francisco Medical
Center to have the baby. Waimo says that it's writers
support team detected unusual activity in the car.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's kind of screaming at the top of her lungs,
and and she delivered it herself.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
There was no one else in the car, just her, right.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Nope, she was alone in the car. And then when
she got to the hospital, she was with her baby.
She beat police there.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Right, and she called an ambulance instead of a way
mom because.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It was already on its way and someone was probably
talking to her and saying we're gonna you know, we're
changing the direction of the car. And then she went
into the doctor less obstruct obsetrix department of the hospital.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
You love that and the cars, Like, if you're going
to have a second writer, you will have to pay more,
I know.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And it's actually it's actually a terrific story. I love
the technology.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
When it works.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You're going to find that driverless cars are not only
the future, it's also going to be and that's generational.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I mean it's going to take twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But this cars and that's not only the technology, just
the time it'll take to switch over. But it'll be
far far safer, and it will you won't see gridlock.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
It just will be neat.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Have you taken one yet? I have not, have you, No,
But there wasn't all over my neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Yeah, everywhere in our hood. Amy. I see them three
times a day easy. I've taken them a bunch of times.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I did it in San Francisco bunch in July, and
then I do it here too.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
They take a little longer.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
They were taking a little longer to get to hail one,
uh than an uber or a lyft.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
But they're great. I love it.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You can even watch how on the screen how it
scans the area.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
I've taken my family and them too.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And they speak and they speak English with nobody speaking
as opposed to.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Uber and no body od or nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yes, yeah, none of that.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
An uber with a body odor No, But he's thinking
of old taxi jokes from me.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I am old taxi jokes. And of course one of
the best Seinfeld episodes ever. H with the bo from
the parking.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Oh, they couldn't get it up and they try to.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
They tried to get it stolen.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Okay, story Bill handle it going to remark that this
is vindictive, and he's going to be exactly right.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Holy's smokes.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
So you've got President Donald Trump inserting himself directly, by
the way, into this control battle for Warner Brothers, Discovery
and all this. And the first thing he says is
it's imperative that CNN be sold.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
After he'd be rated all of.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Their you know, their horrible news and the Earlier in
the week, The Wall Street Journal reported that David Ellison
recently offered assurances to Trump and had his administration that
if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Can that be legal?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
It can It's nothing can be legal. I mean, you
know you'd throw it all up. How about this one
for a conflict of interest?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Part of Paramount's purchase, their hostile bid for Warner involves
a fund that Kushner is up to his eyeballs in sons.
Trump's son in law is involved in the purchase of
where the hostile takeover.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I mean, it's all of it is crazy.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Just you know, originally Trump was against crypto until a
family company was created to deal with crypto. Uh, and
Kushner was involved in that. Now crypto is great. Uh.
And he is pardoning people in the crypto world that
have been committed, that had been convicted of massive fraud.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
It's just it's so blatant. It's just ridiculous. It is
so blatant.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
This is comical though, because essentially he's going to have
to bless some or his administration and some of the
alphabet soup organizations are gonna have to bless this merger.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Right, Yeah, it's hit, but it's.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
See, yeah, we'll get rid of people at the CNN
h that.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You know. It's just it's it's it's it's it's so insane.
And the part, you know, who I do blame, I
don't even blame particularly Trump, because I think he's just nuts.
I really think that he's a self agrid, self aggrandizing
who thinks he controls the world and should and he's
king of the world. It's the Republicans who back him up,
(25:16):
who say yes. Wall Street Journal ran an op ed Peace.
The Journal ran an op ed piece saying, all you
have to do is talk about his magnificence to him.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
That's the word.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You talk your magnificence, mister president, and you get what
you want. I don't understand it. I know, I keep
on harping on this. I do not understand it. For
the life of me. Someone's got to explain this to
me because I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So, uh, we'll say.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Your weakness in the Republican Party.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I yeah, there's that, but I'm talking about the backbone. Yeah,
there's that.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
But the whole well that people actually follow him.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I mean I think that there is a percentage of
people who are believers.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah, like the people.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Who go against him, like you're saying, they're there, they
have no spine. Well, it's because that's where the attention
is and the people, No, it's who is.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Marjorie Taylor Green.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
She just had a sixty minute interview and she's gone
somewhat against him, not some basic uh that's political views,
but certainly on the Epstein business and on women in
the Republican Republican Party being marginalized. And she was asked,
you know, the Republicans all line up in logstep what
(26:37):
goes on behind closed doors, and she goes, you can't
believe it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
They're just so frightened.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
And number one, they're frightened, and there are tons of
Republicans saying, my god, are we really moving in this direction?
But publicly, he the president has to be backed backed up. Now,
wait till the midterms, and you're going to see much
of what happened with Joe Biden. Anybody who associated himself
for herself with Joe Biden politically in the Democratic Party
(27:05):
got nailed.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And this I believe the same thing is going to
happen to Trump.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And the longer the president says prices are down, prices
are down a plus plus plus economy, you guys don't
know what you're talking about. If you think you're paying
too much for meat, you're not. It's just not true
because prices are down. He didn't say that about the meat,
but he has said prices are down, and people just
don't don't buy it because they're not buying. So we'll
(27:33):
stand and then this story I'm going to do later
on about what happened with Fed chair jer Own Powell.
All right, lits, we have to do some more real
quickly because I've been going off on my soapbox.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Here.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Can we skip to Neil's next story?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah? Absolutely, Neil, all right, Star Wars.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
The original painting that we all fell in love with
became the iconic movie poster fifty years ago, sold at
auction for three point eight seven five million, almost four
million bucks. It's acrylic and airbrush painting. The movie poster designer,
(28:14):
it just brilliant. Tom Young first appeared in newspaper advertisements
back in May thirteenth of nineteen seventy seven, two weeks
before the movie opened.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
But this is one of a kind. Doesn't exist. This
should be in the Smithsonian. Yeah, but when you can
get four million dollars for it, screw the Smithsonian.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
It belongs in a museum.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
There's some that do.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
An AI ad is backfiring on McDonald's. McDonald's had to
take down an AI generated Christmas commercial from YouTube after
some customers said the AI slop filled, tongue in cheek
take on the holidays holidays was just distasteful. The ad
was titled it the Most Terrible Time of the Year.
(29:02):
It showed a series of short, chaotic clips of people
braving the winter, tripping while carrying overloaded gift bags, getting
stuck in tangled lights, burning homemade cookies, and starting an
unexpected cooking fire during a family gathering.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
That sounds so why, I.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Mean, that's yeah, and that's cute, you know, and yeah,
but I so people were upset that it was Ai.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
No I saw no actors were harmed in the making
of that commercial.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Very well said, very well said no fingers were actually burnt,
right right, all right, we are done. By the way, Neil,
did it look perfect? It was Ai, but.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
It looked excellent. Yeah, Okay, here's the thing. Somebody knew
what they were doing. You have to prompt It's like
a director. You're just not using actors. There are there's
actual humans interacting.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
With it to get it.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
To do that.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Because it was very well done, it just you know,
turns people off.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Right now, fair enough? This is KFI A M six.
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