December 18, 2025 • 29 mins
(December 18, 2025)
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. President Trump gives a partisan address speaking on how strong he believes the economy is. House GOP passes narrow healthcare package, with key Obamacare subsidies set to expire. Rob Reiner’s son Nick appears in Los Angeles court to face murder charges.
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Which has been linked to at least fifty one cases
of suspected or confirmed infant botulism in nineteen States.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, really, really tough.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
It was a lot of hard issues with those kids,
which is why they changed the name of the company
from buy Heart to No Heart Whole Nutrition Instant Formula.
I know, I know, kids, I know, infants getting batulism
is not that funny.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle. So actually it is that funny. Good morning everybody,
Bill Handle here.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It is a wow.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Thursday already, Thursday, December eighteenth day, I honica, if I'm
not mistaken, I'm lighting the menora every night and we're
gonna wait until. Oh I got a great manora and
it was a gift from you know who.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
And it's a little docksund manora which I'm lighting. The
Campbell's on.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I'm kind of neat and Michelle gave me a minora.
I've told you about that before. My the Minorasaurus Rex.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
The Campbell's down the back.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Of by the techs, the Sabrannosaurus Rex.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Anyway, good morning. I handle here. It is a Thursday.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
As we move on, no Neil today, no Neil tomorrow
or Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, and then Neil is in.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
All right, good morning Will. I thought i'd start with you,
which I never do. Wow, thank you, yeah, so wow?
What is that on it is?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well said? What is that on your tea?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Shows?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Do hot sauce? Wood? Hot sauce? Good stuff? Who do
hot sauce? I like that? I like that.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I want to make some kind of a joke and
I can't think of anything clean, so it's just not
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Cono, good morning, Good morning Bill, happy national roast, suckling pig.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Day, oh Coen and coinciding with Hanika. That's very strong
when you think about it.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Very strong. And there is Amy. Good morning, Amy, good morning. Okay,
what is that on your sweater today?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Not it's Mary Farm?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh, not's Mary Farm. That's sacrilegious. You know you're you're
a betrayer. You're a Benedic Arnold, You're a quizzling.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
It's just like when you go to Trader Joe's. It's
not a complete betrayal of No, that's.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
True because I do shop a trader, Joe's I do.
And then of course the ever lovely ann good morning,
Oh good hey. You know, you know when you're talking
about the Benedict Arnold, the betrayers, those that are duplicit
as stab in the backers. You've heard the Quizzling, haven't you.
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I'm not quizzling, okay. Quizzling was the puppet leader of
Norway during World War Two, put in by the Nazis,
and he was hanged after the war. He established basically
a pro Nazi government by force, and.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
He was considered he was considered a trader, of course to.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
The Norwegian people because he was a Nazi and he
was That's where the word quizzling came from, like Benedicte Arnold, right,
it's it's become a description. And so this is quizzling
now a quick story that I want to share with you.
So I was in Norway, and I was part of
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the time I was in Norway, I was broadcasting because
part of my vacation and I still needed a couple
of days to broadcast. So I was allowed to broadcast
from Norway the Morning Show, and I.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Went to Radio House and most.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Europe a lot of Europe, especially the ones that were
involved in broadcasting and somehow involved with Stalin or Germany.
What they had are these huge blocks in Norway. It
was radio radio building, this backy staliness building, and then
they built the television building right next to it, which
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looks like the radio building, just these two concrete boxes.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So anyway, I go into the radio building and I go.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Into this huge studio and there was this very competent engineer.
She spoke perfect English, because everybody in the Scannadavian country
speak perfect English. So I'm sitting at this desk and
microphone's in front of me, headsets and she said, do
you know where you're sitting?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And I said, no, You're sitting.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
At the exact spot that Quizzling sated to when he
declared the puppet government of Nazi Germany.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
The chills when up and down my spine. Quizzling was
right here. Wow. And by the way, I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I mean, you know, whenever I you know history and
when I can touch it, when I can feel it.
Yesterday I talked about the right Flyer, the first airplane
powered airplane to fly there. It is in the Smithsonian. Okay, enough,
of that. We should do some news. Oh I've got
one other story. No, we don't have time.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Is it a good one?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's not bad, Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
It's something that all of us can do, okay, And
that is if you ever have a chance to go
to Egypt. It's a bucket list thing for many, many people.
And actually once you get there is fairly inexpensive. You
go to the Cairo Museum where all of Tuton Common's
gold accoutremong is there in the Pharaohs, and it's obviously
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the best Egyptian ancient Egyptian museum in the world. Then
you go into the mummy room, and they have a
mummy room and they've unwrapped these mummies and you are
there and it's a glass and closed is the mummy
of Ramsey's, the second Ramsey's the Great, considered the greatest,
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greatest pharaoh in the history of Egypt. And you're looking
down on him. He's not a little bit worse for wear.
I mean, the guy is three thousand and somewhat years old.
He looks like a parchment, like just a rough brown
being in the sunway too long kind of thing, a
little wrinkled, has an aged very well but as you
look down, you go, this is the guy who said
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no to Moses. This is Ramsey's the Great, and I
mean it's not someone that's made to look like him.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It's not a wax effigy. It's the guy. And that
is That's another one where chills went up and down
my spine.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I mean, this is touching history and it's I got wood.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It was. It was pretty impressive. It really was.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Where was that.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Halfway halfway between the upper body and oh, I'm sorry,
I thought you were asking. Okay, it's at the Cairo Museum. Uh,
it was at the National Yeah, National Museum.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I don't remember seeing you didn't go.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Into the mummy room.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Common.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, that's tout in Common. Yes they have that.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, Ramsey's yeah, No, it's all there. And Tuton Common
is there. There's Tuton Common there. He is the real guy.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
There's the kid.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah. Yeah, it's Uh, it's really tremendous. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I love that when you can actually touch history as
opposed to just read about it or see fac similes
of it. Oh and Madam Tussau's wax models. This is
the real thing, guys, let's do it. Time for handle
on the news Amy and me and no Neil lead.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Sorry.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Well, last night the President delivered his third speech from
the Oval Office, and it was basically a campaign speech.
I'm the bestest, I'm the mostest, i am the greatest
president that has ever lived. I've done more for the economy.
We are now the greatest country in the world. When
I took office, we were the worst country in the world.
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And then there were all kinds of course statements about
numbers that didn't make any sense. But the bottom line
is he looked right at the camera and effectively said,
your prices have gone down.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Under me, prices have gone down.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I've made the best well, I've created the best economy
in the history of the universe. In the meantime, affordability
has gone from it's a democratic hoax to it has
become real. But it is the fault of Joe Biden
and Obama. And you're going to hear that more and more.
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I guarantee you Biden's fault, Biden's fault, Biden's fault, because
the economy, in reality, unemployment is up, the economy is
actually inflation has actually done better.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
This last month.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Was reported at two point seven, which.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Was yeah, yeah, and that was right.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That was lower what you expense. So inflation is on
is good news, but it bounces up and down. Unemployment
not so good. But consumer confidence is in the toilet.
That's a real problem. Eggs are down, eggs are down.
And except for that's correct. And here's the accusation you have.
By the way, English muffins are up a dollar fifty
at Costco.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah, yeah, for a four pack of English muffins.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
The point is is that you can cherry pick a
couple of areas and then when you look overall, milk
is not down. Meat his way up, but bread is up.
So you know, in general our prices up. Yeah they are, Yeah,
they are. And we're gonna see it's he's going to
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be on the defensive.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I mean he is.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
He's still keeping the offensive right now, but I think
he's soon going to be on the defensive.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And of course blaming Biden for that.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
But can't he blame Biden for that because inflation was
at nine percent.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, except when the day Biden left office, it was
at three.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Percent, right, and that's where that's where it is now.
Right During that two point prices went up.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Oh absolute, yeah, And it was the greatest period, the
worst inflation in the history of the United States except
for nineteen ten, except for nineteen seventy, except for nineteen eighties.
Certainly nineteen seventies, it was far worse. But that's true.
But he didn't inherit the worst mess in the history
of the world. I mean, it just didn't. It didn't happen.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
So you're saying that things had gotten back on track.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
They had gotten back on track. Now they were already
baked in.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
To argue, now that prices are down and are going down,
they're baked in. If no inflation hits over the next
two years, we're still paying prices that are too high,
and that's a zero inflation.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So it's baked in. There's no way around it.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Once prices don't drop unless there is a depression, recession,
or stagflation.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
A healthcare plan that probably can't pass. House Republicans have
approved healthcare plan that they say is designed to lower
healthcare costs for some Americans in coming years. The House
GOP package would allow small businesses and self employed people
to ban together across industries to buy coverage through association
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health plans to try to lower premiums.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I used to be in one of these pool things.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
When you did that, it is basically, yeah, a pulling.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
The larger the group, the better negotiation, better ammunition you have. Yeah,
but that doesn't mean, you know, it doesn't touch the
problem that we have.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Right And in terms of healthcare, what they passed yesterday
did not address the possibility of extending those subsidies which
were put in place.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
During pandemic COVID.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, right, and are supposed to run out at the
end of the year.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
And that's what's shut down the government for thirty eight days.
And that is what I think is going to kill
the Republicans, one of the two issues that are going
to be very difficult for the Republicans to overcome, especially
if this keeps on going about through the mid terms.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, and even they had the lawmakers signed the discharge petition,
they had four Republicans join in, which is going to
force a House vote on extending the subsidies for three
more years. But then Johnson says, okay, fine, but we're
not doing it till after the end of the till
after the end.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Of the year, and the subsidies run out at the
end of the year.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I don't understand it. I don't get it either. I
don't get it. But you know who understands politics?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Today?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
No plea. Nick Reiner made his first appearance in court.
He was wearing.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
A suicide prevention smock. He was flanked by his attorney,
Alan Jackson and two other lawyers. And apparently it was
hard to see him because he was behind plexiglass and
he was kind of partially covered by his lawyers and
you couldn't see because of the plexiglass. But anyways, he's
been charged with two counts of murder. He could face
life in prison, possibly the death penalty if Da Hawkman
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goes for it. He did not make a plea yesterday.
His lawyer, Alan Jackson got the judge to push that
the arraignment back until January seventh, so he remains in
jail without bail.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Isn't a the what is it? The what he.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Was wearing, the anti suicide smock. Yes, isn't that just
a straight jacket? This dyed blue?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I don't think it is because I heard that it
doesn't have sleeves. He had handcuffs on, but it doesn't
have sleeves or something.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, it's interesting, Yeah, by the way, I've never seen
an anti suicide outfit warning court before.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You might not be able to buy a new Tesla
in California. California might ban the sale of Tesla's and
here's why. The Department of Motor Vehicles said to Tesla,
you better change the way you're advertising, or we're going
to pull your right to sell cars in the state.
The warning follows years of criticism and also a court
ruling last month that found that the way Tesla advertises
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its autopilot feature breaks state law because it's misleading. California
regulators say autopilot and full self driving capability mislead consumers
into thinking that Tesla's really are self driving, but they're
not because you have to be behind the wheel, right audible.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I'm going to talk more about that coming up at
seven twenty because there's a lot of there's a lot
of parts to that one. Also, there is a Musk
story that's coming up at eight thirty and how a
Musk is on his way to becoming the world's first trillionaire.
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I mean, we joke about being a gazillionaire. That's his
next step after that, All right, moving on.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Still growing no winner. Last night for Powerball.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That means the jackpot goes up again and for Saturday
night will be worth one point five billion dollars if
you want the cash lump sum six hundred and eighty
six million dollars. Haven't had a winner for forty four
straight drawings. That's a new record for power Ball.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yeah, and the cash prize of six hundred and seventing
million dollars, you can cut that in half because of taxes,
so you're down to a measly measly three hundred million dollars,
which it's pretty easy to live on.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Got a bit of a Mexican mafia meltdown.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
More than a dozen people have been arrested in a
gang sweep in the San Gabriel Valley. Police arrested, local
law enforcement and federal agents teamed up, arresting sixteen members
and associates of a local gang that has been linked
to the Mexican Mafia. Investigators say the gang, based in
La Puente, controls drug dealing in the area and uses
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violence to maintain control.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Are they calling the gang twenty thirteen or is just
yeah thirteen?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Yeah, it's a twenty thirteen gang.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh, interesting new name, all right? And then what happens.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
And when these sweeps happen, it's generally state, local, federal
investigators come in and they are insanely expensive.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
But you have to do it, you know, I have
no choice.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Well, they see seventy six weapons, a machine gun conversion kit,
body armor, thousands of rounds of a ten pounds of math.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, the ten pounds of meth are kind of interesting.
I mean, that is a massive amount of myth.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
The rest of it, you know, I mean, obviously is
dangerous stuff, but it doesn't seem like a huge amount
relative to a major sweep.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Oh, here is a story.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh, careful who you criticize, No kidding. The Department of
Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions
of dollars, to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including for
initiatives to reduce sudden infant death, improve adolescent health, prevent
fetal alcohol syndrome, and identify autism early. The Professional Pediatric
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Association has been one of the harshest critics of Health
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior's changes to federal vaccine policy.
The chief executive and executive vice president of the group
says the sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact
and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and the families across
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the US.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, and if you look at some of the reasons,
the group's use of identity based language, references to racial
disparities and pregnant people. I mean, I don't even know
what that.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Means, pregnant people.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
They say that there's only pregnant women, and so people
are saying, oh, there's pregnant.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
People, got it?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Okay, So yeah, that's enough to cut funding.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I get it. Several millions of dollars enough.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
One of the factors I'll tell you who's kicking himself
in the ass Bill Cassidy, Senator from Louisiana, who vote
He was the vote that took Robert Kennedy over the top.
And he is a physician who was actually head of
several pro vaccine organizations. I mean that he was a
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vaccine believer. And he's the one that had the tie.
He broke the tie with RFK Junior becoming the secretary
and man, and he's looking at himself and saying this
was not a good idea. Yeah, So RFK Junior, it's
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going to come to the point where anybody, any doctor,
who provides vaccines will be guilty of a felony, federal felony.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
You watch.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
You know, maybe I'm exaggerating my hyperbole here, but I
got to tell you, tell me, we're not moving in
that direction with RFK Junior. I mean, the guy is nuts,
just absolutely nuts.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Let's throw some more money at the problem. The Los
Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency, known as LASA has
approved nearly eleven and a half million dollars in homeless
prevention funds. That's the biggest allocation yet for the agency.
In a unanimous vote, the loss of board of directors
signed off on more than seven and a half million
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in direct rental subsidies and flexible financial assistance to people
at risk of homelessness, and then another almost four million
dollars in administrative funds to run the programs question.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
The ultimate goal here is to remove people from public
housing homelessness.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Remove people from homelessness.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Now you can give them subsidies and pay rent you
also have to pay for services to get them out
of that situation. And without unbelievable amounts of money. I
don't know how you do this. Here, you're throwing a
little piece of spaghetti against the wall and hoping that
it sticks. And in order to make real inroads, it
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would almost be to the point where no other budget
consideration would be on the table. It would take all
of our money. I mean, it is a real problem.
And is it fixable? Not in our not the way
we run our society.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
It's not. There's always going to be homeless.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
You know, you go to Scandinavian countries, there is no
homelessness because of their safety net.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Well, we don't have that. I don't think we're ever
going to have that.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
What do they do They make sure that, well there's
no homeless everybody effectively has a job. The safety net
is incredible. We have virtually no safety net for industrialized nations.
There they do put homeless and people in subsidized housing,
but the housing you can't tell the difference. There aren't
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inner city ghetto housing. It's just it's a different model.
It is a what's a socialist model? Is what it is.
You pay very high taxes, although taxes here in this
country are quickly approaching that you pay very high taxes
or very few, very wealthy people. It's just a system
where a whole lot of people pay a whole lot
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of taxes and they're fine with it. You go to Finland,
for example, one of the most revered jobs you can
have is being a teacher. They are super paid and
they're put on so high a pedestal.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Here that doesn't happen, so you know, everybody has seen.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Of course, the medical care is phenomenal and no one
pays for it except everybody pays for it. So it's
you know, it's just a whole different world. And is
immigration going to Finland? Now, it's pretty hard to go
to Finland. They don't like immigration. It's not a real
problem over there.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
The fires did more than destroy homes. Researchers have been
studying direct health effects from the fires in January in
Altadena and Pacific Palisades, so the residents, according to their
new study, didn't really even have to be that close
to the fires to have long term health effects. Visits
to the er for respiratory illnesses where of twenty four
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percent after the wildfire starter.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Ninety days after.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
The fires, researchers say there was a one hundred and
eighteen percent increase in visits for general illness. Heart attacks
rose forty six percent during that period. And then scientists
say that they also on something that was even more unusual,
and that was that abnormal blood test results related to
general illness more than doubled in the ninety day period
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after the fires.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
No surprise, not with all the toxins flowing through the air,
a no.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Surprise at all.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
The FCC chief got a grilling Trump supporters.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Wait, lawmakers grilled the sorry, the chair of the FCC
yesterday over his criticism of ABC and Jimmy Kimmel after
what Jimmy Kimmel said about Charlie Kirk's assassination, and what
he basically said was that Trump supporters were desperately trying
to characterize Tyler Robinson, the twenty two year old charged
in Kirk's killing, as anything other than one of them.
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So then Brendan Carr, the FCC chair, responded and saying
that this is a very very serious issue right now
for Disney, and Carr said we can do this the
easy way or the hard way, and people saw that
as a threat.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
No, no, he said, the SEC might pull the license
of ABC. Have you noticed that now members the Trump
administration who are in front of Congress are just. I mean,
they do not care. Pam BONDI was in front of
Congress and just started railing against the Congressional Committee. Asked
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about any one of her positions, she goes, it's your fault,
it's Biden's fault. She parrots what the president says, and
there is no decorum anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
That's gone. That's gone.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Used to be people who took Congressional hearings and Senate
hearings pretty seriously, not anymore, not anymore. Now it's just
screaming right back, deflecting, saying it's your fault. You're the
bunch of liars. I mean, this is the witness saying this.
I mean, it's well, life has changed, obviously very much.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Can't play the game if you don't get to the game.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
MS scheduled flight to Seattle ahead of the Week sixteen
matchup with the Seahawks was significantly delayed just minutes before takeoff.
Apparently there was an issue with the planes equipment, so
they were just stuck there for a couple hours, and
then ESPN's Adam Schefter said they did find a new
flight to Seattle, but they got there a couple hours late.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
A couple of hours that's a significant delay. I guess
in the world of sports, that's a significant delay when
you charter your own plane.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Now Santa's got the team back together again. There were
two reindeer seen running loose on the five Freeway in
the San Fernando area. They're named Cookie and Noel. They
escaped from their transport trailer on Saturday, and then we're
spotted walking along the southbound lanes of the freeway near
the one eighteen. They did a traffic break to try
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to slow down cars so they wouldn't get hit, and
then they were finally able to corral them. The West
Valley Animal Services Center in Chatsworth says they examined the
reindeer and cared for them before releasing them to their owner,
and then said in a statement Cookie and Nowell are
doing well and ready for their important Christmas Eve duties.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
You love that story, don't.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Just's so sweet?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Okay, you're gonna love this one. I Trump cannot help himself.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So in the Presidential Walk of Fame, which is where
all the presidents are, pictures are displayed around the White
House as part of the President's ongoing effort to customize
the White House to his liking. He set his opinions
of each former president in stone by adding plaques underneath
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the portraits, and they have long, detailed descriptions. And here's
a couple of things. They said, Former President Biden the
worst president in American history, Former President Obama one of
the most divisive political figures. And under President Ronald Reagan's portrait,
he was a fan.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
He was a fan of Trump. Very brilliant.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You know, it has not been reported what the plaque
says under Trump's photograph. We have not yet heard of
what the description of Trump is by Trump. Notice that
that wasn't carried for some reason, because I'm sure either
it's benign and he didn't say much, or it's just okay,
that's just another one and it's and it's said that
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he wrote.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
You know, Carolyn Levitt.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Levitt, who is a press secretary of course, said that
the president wrote some of his own language in those plaques.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
It's just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I wonder if he wanders down the halls and just
reads them and check out, what's the point. I sound
like they're going to stay there after he's gone.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Yeah, and he's just i mean, completely redoing the White
House as you know, which I find stunning that the
president and it just wakes up one morning and goes, okay,
let's tear down the east wing of the White House
and we'll put him this great, big, beautiful ballroom. Now,
presidents do, in fact remodel the residents. They actually redecorate
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the residence, but they don't tear out walls and redo everything.
It's just great story. Okay, here is a story, a
little factoid.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
All right.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Johnson when he was president loved taking showers that were
like powerful, powerful showers, and he had shower heads from
all the walls of his shower hitting it was like
fire hoses. And Nixon comes in and the first shower
he took, he said that it literally threw him against
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the wall, and he immediately ordered, we need new showers.
That of course, they tore apart the shower and redid it.
But that's the kind of redecorating that is done. I mean, yeah,
is there any way to find out what Trump said
about him? Say, helf in the plaque underneath his photo.
I would love to know what how he has described.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Which has been linked to at least fifty one cases
of suspected or confirmed infant botulism in nineteen States.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, really, really tough.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
It was a lot of hard issues with those kids,
which is why they changed the name of the company
from buy Heart to No Heart Whole Nutrition Instant Formula.
I know, I know, kids, I know, infants getting batulism
is not that funny.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle. So actually it is that funny. Good morning everybody,
Bill Handle here.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It is a wow.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Thursday already, Thursday, December eighteenth day, I honica, if I'm
not mistaken, I'm lighting the menora every night and we're
gonna wait until. Oh I got a great manora and
it was a gift from you know who.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
And it's a little docksund manora which I'm lighting. The
Campbell's on.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I'm kind of neat and Michelle gave me a minora.
I've told you about that before. My the Minorasaurus Rex.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
The Campbell's down the back.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Of by the techs, the Sabrannosaurus Rex.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Anyway, good morning. I handle here. It is a Thursday.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
As we move on, no Neil today, no Neil tomorrow
or Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, and then Neil is in.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
All right, good morning Will. I thought i'd start with you,
which I never do. Wow, thank you, yeah, so wow?
What is that on it is?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well said? What is that on your tea?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Shows?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Do hot sauce? Wood? Hot sauce? Good stuff? Who do
hot sauce? I like that? I like that.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I want to make some kind of a joke and
I can't think of anything clean, so it's just not
going to happen.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Cono, good morning, Good morning Bill, happy national roast, suckling pig.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Day, oh Coen and coinciding with Hanika. That's very strong
when you think about it.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Very strong. And there is Amy. Good morning, Amy, good morning. Okay,
what is that on your sweater today?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Not it's Mary Farm?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh, not's Mary Farm. That's sacrilegious. You know you're you're
a betrayer. You're a Benedic Arnold, You're a quizzling.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
It's just like when you go to Trader Joe's. It's
not a complete betrayal of No, that's.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
True because I do shop a trader, Joe's I do.
And then of course the ever lovely ann good morning,
Oh good hey. You know, you know when you're talking
about the Benedict Arnold, the betrayers, those that are duplicit
as stab in the backers. You've heard the Quizzling, haven't you.
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I'm not quizzling, okay. Quizzling was the puppet leader of
Norway during World War Two, put in by the Nazis,
and he was hanged after the war. He established basically
a pro Nazi government by force, and.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
He was considered he was considered a trader, of course to.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
The Norwegian people because he was a Nazi and he
was That's where the word quizzling came from, like Benedicte Arnold, right,
it's it's become a description. And so this is quizzling
now a quick story that I want to share with you.
So I was in Norway, and I was part of
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the time I was in Norway, I was broadcasting because
part of my vacation and I still needed a couple
of days to broadcast. So I was allowed to broadcast
from Norway the Morning Show, and I.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Went to Radio House and most.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Europe a lot of Europe, especially the ones that were
involved in broadcasting and somehow involved with Stalin or Germany.
What they had are these huge blocks in Norway. It
was radio radio building, this backy staliness building, and then
they built the television building right next to it, which
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looks like the radio building, just these two concrete boxes.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So anyway, I go into the radio building and I go.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Into this huge studio and there was this very competent engineer.
She spoke perfect English, because everybody in the Scannadavian country
speak perfect English. So I'm sitting at this desk and
microphone's in front of me, headsets and she said, do
you know where you're sitting?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And I said, no, You're sitting.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
At the exact spot that Quizzling sated to when he
declared the puppet government of Nazi Germany.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
The chills when up and down my spine. Quizzling was
right here. Wow. And by the way, I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I mean, you know, whenever I you know history and
when I can touch it, when I can feel it.
Yesterday I talked about the right Flyer, the first airplane
powered airplane to fly there. It is in the Smithsonian. Okay, enough,
of that. We should do some news. Oh I've got
one other story. No, we don't have time.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Is it a good one?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's not bad, Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
It's something that all of us can do, okay, And
that is if you ever have a chance to go
to Egypt. It's a bucket list thing for many, many people.
And actually once you get there is fairly inexpensive. You
go to the Cairo Museum where all of Tuton Common's
gold accoutremong is there in the Pharaohs, and it's obviously
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the best Egyptian ancient Egyptian museum in the world. Then
you go into the mummy room, and they have a
mummy room and they've unwrapped these mummies and you are
there and it's a glass and closed is the mummy
of Ramsey's, the second Ramsey's the Great, considered the greatest,
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greatest pharaoh in the history of Egypt. And you're looking
down on him. He's not a little bit worse for wear.
I mean, the guy is three thousand and somewhat years old.
He looks like a parchment, like just a rough brown
being in the sunway too long kind of thing, a
little wrinkled, has an aged very well but as you
look down, you go, this is the guy who said
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no to Moses. This is Ramsey's the Great, and I
mean it's not someone that's made to look like him.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It's not a wax effigy. It's the guy. And that
is That's another one where chills went up and down
my spine.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I mean, this is touching history and it's I got wood.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It was. It was pretty impressive. It really was.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Where was that.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Halfway halfway between the upper body and oh, I'm sorry,
I thought you were asking. Okay, it's at the Cairo Museum. Uh,
it was at the National Yeah, National Museum.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I don't remember seeing you didn't go.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Into the mummy room.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Common.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, that's tout in Common. Yes they have that.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, Ramsey's yeah, No, it's all there. And Tuton Common
is there. There's Tuton Common there. He is the real guy.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
There's the kid.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah. Yeah, it's Uh, it's really tremendous. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I love that when you can actually touch history as
opposed to just read about it or see fac similes
of it. Oh and Madam Tussau's wax models. This is
the real thing, guys, let's do it. Time for handle
on the news Amy and me and no Neil lead.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Sorry.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Well, last night the President delivered his third speech from
the Oval Office, and it was basically a campaign speech.
I'm the bestest, I'm the mostest, i am the greatest
president that has ever lived. I've done more for the economy.
We are now the greatest country in the world. When
I took office, we were the worst country in the world.
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And then there were all kinds of course statements about
numbers that didn't make any sense. But the bottom line
is he looked right at the camera and effectively said,
your prices have gone down.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Under me, prices have gone down.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I've made the best well, I've created the best economy
in the history of the universe. In the meantime, affordability
has gone from it's a democratic hoax to it has
become real. But it is the fault of Joe Biden
and Obama. And you're going to hear that more and more.
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I guarantee you Biden's fault, Biden's fault, Biden's fault, because
the economy, in reality, unemployment is up, the economy is
actually inflation has actually done better.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
This last month.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Was reported at two point seven, which.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Was yeah, yeah, and that was right.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That was lower what you expense. So inflation is on
is good news, but it bounces up and down. Unemployment
not so good. But consumer confidence is in the toilet.
That's a real problem. Eggs are down, eggs are down.
And except for that's correct. And here's the accusation you have.
By the way, English muffins are up a dollar fifty
at Costco.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah, yeah, for a four pack of English muffins.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
The point is is that you can cherry pick a
couple of areas and then when you look overall, milk
is not down. Meat his way up, but bread is up.
So you know, in general our prices up. Yeah they are, Yeah,
they are. And we're gonna see it's he's going to
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be on the defensive.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I mean he is.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
He's still keeping the offensive right now, but I think
he's soon going to be on the defensive.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And of course blaming Biden for that.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
But can't he blame Biden for that because inflation was
at nine percent.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, except when the day Biden left office, it was
at three.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Percent, right, and that's where that's where it is now.
Right During that two point prices went up.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Oh absolute, yeah, And it was the greatest period, the
worst inflation in the history of the United States except
for nineteen ten, except for nineteen seventy, except for nineteen eighties.
Certainly nineteen seventies, it was far worse. But that's true.
But he didn't inherit the worst mess in the history
of the world. I mean, it just didn't. It didn't happen.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
So you're saying that things had gotten back on track.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
They had gotten back on track. Now they were already
baked in.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
To argue, now that prices are down and are going down,
they're baked in. If no inflation hits over the next
two years, we're still paying prices that are too high,
and that's a zero inflation.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So it's baked in. There's no way around it.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Once prices don't drop unless there is a depression, recession,
or stagflation.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
A healthcare plan that probably can't pass. House Republicans have
approved healthcare plan that they say is designed to lower
healthcare costs for some Americans in coming years. The House
GOP package would allow small businesses and self employed people
to ban together across industries to buy coverage through association
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health plans to try to lower premiums.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I used to be in one of these pool things.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
When you did that, it is basically, yeah, a pulling.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
The larger the group, the better negotiation, better ammunition you have. Yeah,
but that doesn't mean, you know, it doesn't touch the
problem that we have.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Right And in terms of healthcare, what they passed yesterday
did not address the possibility of extending those subsidies which
were put in place.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
During pandemic COVID.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, right, and are supposed to run out at the
end of the year.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
And that's what's shut down the government for thirty eight days.
And that is what I think is going to kill
the Republicans, one of the two issues that are going
to be very difficult for the Republicans to overcome, especially
if this keeps on going about through the mid terms.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, and even they had the lawmakers signed the discharge petition,
they had four Republicans join in, which is going to
force a House vote on extending the subsidies for three
more years. But then Johnson says, okay, fine, but we're
not doing it till after the end of the till
after the end.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Of the year, and the subsidies run out at the
end of the year.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I don't understand it. I don't get it either. I
don't get it. But you know who understands politics?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Today?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
No plea. Nick Reiner made his first appearance in court.
He was wearing.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
A suicide prevention smock. He was flanked by his attorney,
Alan Jackson and two other lawyers. And apparently it was
hard to see him because he was behind plexiglass and
he was kind of partially covered by his lawyers and
you couldn't see because of the plexiglass. But anyways, he's
been charged with two counts of murder. He could face
life in prison, possibly the death penalty if Da Hawkman
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goes for it. He did not make a plea yesterday.
His lawyer, Alan Jackson got the judge to push that
the arraignment back until January seventh, so he remains in
jail without bail.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Isn't a the what is it? The what he.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Was wearing, the anti suicide smock. Yes, isn't that just
a straight jacket? This dyed blue?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I don't think it is because I heard that it
doesn't have sleeves. He had handcuffs on, but it doesn't
have sleeves or something.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, it's interesting, Yeah, by the way, I've never seen
an anti suicide outfit warning court before.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You might not be able to buy a new Tesla
in California. California might ban the sale of Tesla's and
here's why. The Department of Motor Vehicles said to Tesla,
you better change the way you're advertising, or we're going
to pull your right to sell cars in the state.
The warning follows years of criticism and also a court
ruling last month that found that the way Tesla advertises
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its autopilot feature breaks state law because it's misleading. California
regulators say autopilot and full self driving capability mislead consumers
into thinking that Tesla's really are self driving, but they're
not because you have to be behind the wheel, right audible.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I'm going to talk more about that coming up at
seven twenty because there's a lot of there's a lot
of parts to that one. Also, there is a Musk
story that's coming up at eight thirty and how a
Musk is on his way to becoming the world's first trillionaire.
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I mean, we joke about being a gazillionaire. That's his
next step after that, All right, moving on.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Still growing no winner. Last night for Powerball.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That means the jackpot goes up again and for Saturday
night will be worth one point five billion dollars if
you want the cash lump sum six hundred and eighty
six million dollars. Haven't had a winner for forty four
straight drawings. That's a new record for power Ball.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yeah, and the cash prize of six hundred and seventing
million dollars, you can cut that in half because of taxes,
so you're down to a measly measly three hundred million dollars,
which it's pretty easy to live on.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Got a bit of a Mexican mafia meltdown.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
More than a dozen people have been arrested in a
gang sweep in the San Gabriel Valley. Police arrested, local
law enforcement and federal agents teamed up, arresting sixteen members
and associates of a local gang that has been linked
to the Mexican Mafia. Investigators say the gang, based in
La Puente, controls drug dealing in the area and uses
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violence to maintain control.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Are they calling the gang twenty thirteen or is just
yeah thirteen?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Yeah, it's a twenty thirteen gang.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh, interesting new name, all right? And then what happens.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
And when these sweeps happen, it's generally state, local, federal
investigators come in and they are insanely expensive.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
But you have to do it, you know, I have
no choice.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Well, they see seventy six weapons, a machine gun conversion kit,
body armor, thousands of rounds of a ten pounds of math.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, the ten pounds of meth are kind of interesting.
I mean, that is a massive amount of myth.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
The rest of it, you know, I mean, obviously is
dangerous stuff, but it doesn't seem like a huge amount
relative to a major sweep.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Oh, here is a story.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh, careful who you criticize, No kidding. The Department of
Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions
of dollars, to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including for
initiatives to reduce sudden infant death, improve adolescent health, prevent
fetal alcohol syndrome, and identify autism early. The Professional Pediatric
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Association has been one of the harshest critics of Health
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior's changes to federal vaccine policy.
The chief executive and executive vice president of the group
says the sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact
and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and the families across
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the US.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, and if you look at some of the reasons,
the group's use of identity based language, references to racial
disparities and pregnant people. I mean, I don't even know
what that.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Means, pregnant people.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
They say that there's only pregnant women, and so people
are saying, oh, there's pregnant.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
People, got it?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Okay, So yeah, that's enough to cut funding.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I get it. Several millions of dollars enough.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
One of the factors I'll tell you who's kicking himself
in the ass Bill Cassidy, Senator from Louisiana, who vote
He was the vote that took Robert Kennedy over the top.
And he is a physician who was actually head of
several pro vaccine organizations. I mean that he was a
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vaccine believer. And he's the one that had the tie.
He broke the tie with RFK Junior becoming the secretary
and man, and he's looking at himself and saying this
was not a good idea. Yeah, So RFK Junior, it's
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going to come to the point where anybody, any doctor,
who provides vaccines will be guilty of a felony, federal felony.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
You watch.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
You know, maybe I'm exaggerating my hyperbole here, but I
got to tell you, tell me, we're not moving in
that direction with RFK Junior. I mean, the guy is nuts,
just absolutely nuts.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Let's throw some more money at the problem. The Los
Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency, known as LASA has
approved nearly eleven and a half million dollars in homeless
prevention funds. That's the biggest allocation yet for the agency.
In a unanimous vote, the loss of board of directors
signed off on more than seven and a half million
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in direct rental subsidies and flexible financial assistance to people
at risk of homelessness, and then another almost four million
dollars in administrative funds to run the programs question.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
The ultimate goal here is to remove people from public
housing homelessness.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Remove people from homelessness.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Now you can give them subsidies and pay rent you
also have to pay for services to get them out
of that situation. And without unbelievable amounts of money. I
don't know how you do this. Here, you're throwing a
little piece of spaghetti against the wall and hoping that
it sticks. And in order to make real inroads, it
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would almost be to the point where no other budget
consideration would be on the table. It would take all
of our money. I mean, it is a real problem.
And is it fixable? Not in our not the way
we run our society.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
It's not. There's always going to be homeless.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
You know, you go to Scandinavian countries, there is no
homelessness because of their safety net.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Well, we don't have that. I don't think we're ever
going to have that.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
What do they do They make sure that, well there's
no homeless everybody effectively has a job. The safety net
is incredible. We have virtually no safety net for industrialized nations.
There they do put homeless and people in subsidized housing,
but the housing you can't tell the difference. There aren't
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inner city ghetto housing. It's just it's a different model.
It is a what's a socialist model? Is what it is.
You pay very high taxes, although taxes here in this
country are quickly approaching that you pay very high taxes
or very few, very wealthy people. It's just a system
where a whole lot of people pay a whole lot
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of taxes and they're fine with it. You go to Finland,
for example, one of the most revered jobs you can
have is being a teacher. They are super paid and
they're put on so high a pedestal.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Here that doesn't happen, so you know, everybody has seen.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Of course, the medical care is phenomenal and no one
pays for it except everybody pays for it. So it's
you know, it's just a whole different world. And is
immigration going to Finland? Now, it's pretty hard to go
to Finland. They don't like immigration. It's not a real
problem over there.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
The fires did more than destroy homes. Researchers have been
studying direct health effects from the fires in January in
Altadena and Pacific Palisades, so the residents, according to their
new study, didn't really even have to be that close
to the fires to have long term health effects. Visits
to the er for respiratory illnesses where of twenty four
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percent after the wildfire starter.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Ninety days after.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
The fires, researchers say there was a one hundred and
eighteen percent increase in visits for general illness. Heart attacks
rose forty six percent during that period. And then scientists
say that they also on something that was even more unusual,
and that was that abnormal blood test results related to
general illness more than doubled in the ninety day period
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after the fires.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
No surprise, not with all the toxins flowing through the air,
a no.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Surprise at all.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
The FCC chief got a grilling Trump supporters.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Wait, lawmakers grilled the sorry, the chair of the FCC
yesterday over his criticism of ABC and Jimmy Kimmel after
what Jimmy Kimmel said about Charlie Kirk's assassination, and what
he basically said was that Trump supporters were desperately trying
to characterize Tyler Robinson, the twenty two year old charged
in Kirk's killing, as anything other than one of them.
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So then Brendan Carr, the FCC chair, responded and saying
that this is a very very serious issue right now
for Disney, and Carr said we can do this the
easy way or the hard way, and people saw that
as a threat.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
No, no, he said, the SEC might pull the license
of ABC. Have you noticed that now members the Trump
administration who are in front of Congress are just. I mean,
they do not care. Pam BONDI was in front of
Congress and just started railing against the Congressional Committee. Asked
(24:24):
about any one of her positions, she goes, it's your fault,
it's Biden's fault. She parrots what the president says, and
there is no decorum anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
That's gone. That's gone.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Used to be people who took Congressional hearings and Senate
hearings pretty seriously, not anymore, not anymore. Now it's just
screaming right back, deflecting, saying it's your fault. You're the
bunch of liars. I mean, this is the witness saying this.
I mean, it's well, life has changed, obviously very much.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Can't play the game if you don't get to the game.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
MS scheduled flight to Seattle ahead of the Week sixteen
matchup with the Seahawks was significantly delayed just minutes before takeoff.
Apparently there was an issue with the planes equipment, so
they were just stuck there for a couple hours, and
then ESPN's Adam Schefter said they did find a new
flight to Seattle, but they got there a couple hours late.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
A couple of hours that's a significant delay. I guess
in the world of sports, that's a significant delay when
you charter your own plane.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Now Santa's got the team back together again. There were
two reindeer seen running loose on the five Freeway in
the San Fernando area. They're named Cookie and Noel. They
escaped from their transport trailer on Saturday, and then we're
spotted walking along the southbound lanes of the freeway near
the one eighteen. They did a traffic break to try
(25:53):
to slow down cars so they wouldn't get hit, and
then they were finally able to corral them. The West
Valley Animal Services Center in Chatsworth says they examined the
reindeer and cared for them before releasing them to their owner,
and then said in a statement Cookie and Nowell are
doing well and ready for their important Christmas Eve duties.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
You love that story, don't.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Just's so sweet?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Okay, you're gonna love this one. I Trump cannot help himself.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So in the Presidential Walk of Fame, which is where
all the presidents are, pictures are displayed around the White
House as part of the President's ongoing effort to customize
the White House to his liking. He set his opinions
of each former president in stone by adding plaques underneath
(26:43):
the portraits, and they have long, detailed descriptions. And here's
a couple of things. They said, Former President Biden the
worst president in American history, Former President Obama one of
the most divisive political figures. And under President Ronald Reagan's portrait,
he was a fan.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
He was a fan of Trump. Very brilliant.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You know, it has not been reported what the plaque
says under Trump's photograph. We have not yet heard of
what the description of Trump is by Trump. Notice that
that wasn't carried for some reason, because I'm sure either
it's benign and he didn't say much, or it's just okay,
that's just another one and it's and it's said that
(27:34):
he wrote.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
You know, Carolyn Levitt.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Levitt, who is a press secretary of course, said that
the president wrote some of his own language in those plaques.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
It's just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I wonder if he wanders down the halls and just
reads them and check out, what's the point. I sound
like they're going to stay there after he's gone.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Yeah, and he's just i mean, completely redoing the White
House as you know, which I find stunning that the
president and it just wakes up one morning and goes, okay,
let's tear down the east wing of the White House
and we'll put him this great, big, beautiful ballroom. Now,
presidents do, in fact remodel the residents. They actually redecorate
(28:15):
the residence, but they don't tear out walls and redo everything.
It's just great story. Okay, here is a story, a
little factoid.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
All right.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Johnson when he was president loved taking showers that were
like powerful, powerful showers, and he had shower heads from
all the walls of his shower hitting it was like
fire hoses. And Nixon comes in and the first shower
he took, he said that it literally threw him against
(28:46):
the wall, and he immediately ordered, we need new showers.
That of course, they tore apart the shower and redid it.
But that's the kind of redecorating that is done. I mean, yeah,
is there any way to find out what Trump said
about him? Say, helf in the plaque underneath his photo.
I would love to know what how he has described.
(29:06):
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