January 7, 2026 • 33 mins
(January 07, 2025)
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. Gov. Newsom declared day of remembrance for Los Angeles fires. LAFD chief admits Palisades fire report was watered down, says it won’t happen again. US military is ‘always an option’ for Trump to acquire Greenland, White House official says. Shooter who killed Brown students and MIT professor planned attack for years, DOJ says.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handled on demand from KF I
am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Dogs or not cheap either.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
No, but if someone is that advanced in Alzheimer's, you
just buy a fluffy slipper and I just say here,
this is your dog, and that will run you two
dollars and nine nine cents at Walmart.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle, and.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Good good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Ever, but a Wednesday Hodayday, January seventh, yesterday we remembered,
didn't celebrate, but commemorated.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
No, I remember January sixth.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And five years ago and today's January seventh. And this
is the anniversary of the Palisades and eating fire.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Which we're going to talk about a little bit later on.
So let's start with Neil. Good morning Neil.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
That's Neil doing his impression of Helen Keller. And by
the way, he does an excellent, excellent job. Neil will
be joining us next week. He's out all of this
week on vacation.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Amy, Good morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh there's your disney Land sweater.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Oh it's brand new, of course it is now.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh okay, now we're talking about end of the world.
This is fun on the back that says Disneyland. That's
the six inch letters.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
It's called a spirit jersey and it's my Crouella de
Ville for one hundred and one Dalmatius looks black white.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Did you buy it?
Speaker 6 (01:48):
So?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I see? Did you buy it at Disneyland? Of course?
Can I ask how much it was? So you're real.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's not horrible, but but you know you want Disneyland.
You're you know, your torso really isn't big enough to
really work on it. What we need is a very
broad shouldered lesbian to really have the letters.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Go across by Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah. Yeah, in terms of letters.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
By the way, Dalmatian spots on the Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh, you're right, it does. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
By the way, the lesbian quote, as I'm parroting Chief
Daryl Gates when he was asked about women joining the
l A Police Department, and he said, mostly we want
women with big upper body strength, and those are lesbians.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay, all yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well he didn't say the word lesbians, but he did
say because no, he actually inferred really strong upper body strength, okay.
And the implication and he went on and the let
me tell you this, and the implication was exactly what
he said. And oh god, there's have been some public statements.
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They got people in so much trouble. Who is that
baseball cono? You know that? I mean we're talking about
going back coas Karinas who said that African Americans don't
have the necessities to be coaches and oh it was
on a night line and Ted Copple said, excuse me,
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do you want to take that back? And he goes, no,
not at all. He got bounced. So there's a little
bit of racism out there, to say the least.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Less.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
So, by the way, I'm quoting stuff that's years and
years old. Okay, so much for that, Cono. Good morning,
good morning, good morning. And by the way, I have
a dear friend of mine and Britain talks about well,
let me put it this way, gay women as wearing
flannel shirts and having stout shoes.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Or you're shaking your head, Will, You're shaking your head
and it's comfortable shoes. Comfortable shoes. Okay, well that works too,
that works too.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Okay, So anyway, good morning Will, good morning Bill, and
good morning Anne. Hid And now you're gonna have to
deal with the emails, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yes, yes you are.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
That's why she's smiling. She just knows she's gonna have
a fun day ahead.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, I've once got you know.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I've been sued five times in my entire history, mainly
for handle on the law when I gave such rotten
legal advice that lawyers actually file the complaint, and over
the course of my years, and this has to do
with my surrogacy stuff when it didn't go quite right
and the couple ended up suing me. And so in
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one case, the surrogate sued me because she didn't get
the money she was promised under the contract, the couple
didn't put in the money, on and on and on.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But it was one of the lawyers who ended.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Up settling the case because I sued his ass off
said you have to settle the case because I'm going
to allege that you are a racist and that will
destroy your career. And my attorney just responded with, get
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in line.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
That was the one line you want to allege that,
Just get in line. And so just that allegation cost
him a ton of money. You can't do that, I mean,
that's extortion big time. So I think that's enough of that.
What do you think Are you trying to say you're
not racist? That's correct, and I'm not or I or
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I am anti everybody? How can you be a racist
if you hate everybody across the board, including yourself? So
where is the racism? I am not pointing out a
specific religion, ethnicity, background, the place of birth.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Across the board.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So therefore, well, wait, that's how really quickly, that's how
Handle on the Law became a national show. I shared
this story with you. I Handle On the Law was
picked up by Premier Radio as a national show, and
I got a call from one of the corporate corporate
suits at that time. It was a Cox Radio that
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owned KFI, and he said, Bill, you're opening up in
what twelve thirteen states?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And your license only in California. I said yeah, and
he isn't there do you see a problem with you
giving advice to people in another state in which you
are only licensed in California? And I said, see, you're
presupposing that I actually know California law. If I don't
know law in every state across the board, then I
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have no problem giving a legal advice.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And he thought about it.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, that works, and that's how I handle on the
law became a national show. Okay, guys, all right, will
like they say good morning to you, didn't I?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yes, good morning?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Of course I always forget saying good morning. Will That
goes to show you how high on the food chain
you are awesome in my life. Okay, let's do it, guys,
It's time for handle.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
On the news.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Amy and Neil is not here and me and lead story. Well,
yesterday the governor issued a proclamation that says today January
seventh is a day of remembrance for the La Fires,
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the Eaton fires, Alta Dina, and the Palisades fires. And
he ordered flags at all state buildings to be flown
at half staff. And the two fires were I mean
just they were covered internationally. In Palisades, the Santa Ana
wins reached ninety miles per hour, scorching twenty three thousand,
almost twenty four thousand acres, twelve lives lost, sixty eight
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hundred structures. Same afternoon, the Eating fire just above Altadena
that consumes fourteen thousand acres, kills nineteen people and levels
ninety four hundred homes and buildings. You put all that
together and you have about sixteen thousand homes and businesses
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that were destroyed. I don't know in the history of
the United States we've ever had that. I do not
know that. And today we're going to talk about at
seven o'clock Palisades fire report because there's a lot of
controversy as to how it started and how it was
dealt with, and did the fire department do the right
thing and was there lying.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Or covering up in the report that came out afterwards.
So we'll cover that at seven Mistakes. That's exactly what
story two is, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Mistakes were made.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, yeah, Ellie were watered down. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Ellie's fire chief Jamie Moore talked to the Fireboard Commission
yesterday and said that there were mistakes made in that
after action report on the Palisades fire. As Bill just mentioned,
they watered some things down to keep people from looking
too bad. He says, it's now clear multiple drafts were
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edited to soften language and reduce explicit criticism of department
leadership in the final report.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Interesting choice of words. The report was watered down. Okay,
one more before we take a break.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Doing nothing turned deadly.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
A former police officer school police officer is facing criminal
charges in Uvalde, Texas, because they're saying he didn't do
anything at rob Elementary School in the minutes before a
shooter showed up and started firing inside an elementary school.
Police officer now accused of failing to protect the children,
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stood by without making a move to prevent the carnage.
That's according to prosecutors the school officers Adrian Gonzalez. Prosecutors
say the officer only went inside rob Elementary after the
damage had been done.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, he's the only cop who has been charged and
is being criminally charged. He's being prosecuted and tried. And
it was seventy seven minutes from the first call until
the police they went into the room and were able
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to shoot the killer. And he was killing people throughout
the entire time, over two rooms, just shooting them point blank,
and the cops didn't go in. They were gutless wonders
and could have saved lives. And I don't know what
his defense is. Well, I think his defense is nobody
told him to go in, which I think is why
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today there's such a push to where if there's an
active shooter, if there is even an accusation of the
possibility the police rush, it goes straight in and they
can't be concerned with their lives. They have to go
after the shooter because don't be a cop otherwise.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
All right, Will the US take Greenland?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
White House Press Secretary Caroline love It says President Trump
and his advisors are talking about a range of options
to acquire Greenland, and utilizing the US military is always
an option.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
And now I Anne and I agree that we can't
do every topic Donald Trump in the administration, even though
every day you can.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Easily do a topic. Today we have to.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So coming up at seven thirty, we will do another
episode of Crazy and it has to do with Donald Trump,
and it's you know, you know, sometimes you shake your
head and sometimes you shake your head off your shoulders,
and that's this one.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
And we'll tell on the Greenland.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, yeah, the Greenland story, Like why didn't.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
They start with saying, you know what, Greenland's very important important.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
We're going to work with them.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
To come up because as they said, no, we're going
to take it, we need it.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah, well, because you got Donald Trump and just really
quickly and I'll talk more about that at seven thirty.
Greenland is not only a member of NATO. Second of all,
it is one of the strongest allies the US has.
The US had thirty one bases on Greenland, US basis
of which Greenland Denmark actually controls. Greenland gladly accepted US troops.
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The US closed thirty of them. There's one base remaining
and the President said, we want it. And Steven Miller
is completely nuts in terms of revisionist history.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I'll talk and he is a senior advisor to the President.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I'll talk more about that coming up at seven thirty,
because this one is just you gotta shake your head
on this one.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
This one you go come on, guys, really come on.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And there's some scary stuff to this story too, and
I'll share that with you at seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
As I said, you don't want to miss that. I
don't want to miss that.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Mickey's mad about the money. Actor Mickey Rourke says he
is not asking his fans for financial help on gofund
me to avoid eviction. Remember we told you that he's
like sixty thousand dollars behind in rent payments apparently, and
got an eviction letter last month. So his manager apparently
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set up a GoFundMe page and asked people to help.
They had a goal of raising one hundred thousand dollars
and they did. They hit it yesterday. But Mickey Work says, hey,
that is not me. If I needed money, I would
I wouldn't ask for no EF and charity.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You know, you would think, And I'm fine with that
because there's all kinds of GoFundMe fraud out there where
people pretend to have all kinds of ailments and real problems.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
And so you have Rourke saying nope, not me, which
I buy.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Well, it's his manager that puts that is exactly, and
that's exactly the next sentence.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It was his manager that set it up.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
So but why did she? I mean, is he sixty
thousand dollars? Is he sixty thousand dollars behind and not paying?
Is there something going on mentally well?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
And keeping more seventy three? If he is paying five
thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
A month which was raised to seven thousand.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, but let's let's go back to five thousand dollars
a month that he hasn't paid, because I think that's
the figure, five thousand dollars a month, and at sixty
thousand dollars, that's a year before he receives an eviction
letter that he hasn't paid the rent. Let me tell
you if I own, if I own, if I'm an
apartment or I own a building or an apartment building,
I do not wait a year before sending a letter
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saying you owe me money. This story is really weird,
and he's a great actor. I love Mickey Rourke. He's
done some great stuff.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Tragedy years in the making.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Apparently the guy who has been identified as the shooter
at Brown University he killed two students and then also
killed an mit professor a couple of days later, apparently
planned the attack for years and left behind videos in
which he confessed to the murders.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
But never gave a motive.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
The guy's name was Claudio Valente, forty eight, went to
Brown at one time, like twenty years ago. He was
also a Portuguese national. He killed himself and was found
in a storage facility in New Hampshire a few days
after the shootings.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's a weird story, is it, And no motive, and
he leaves his video and says I'm not going to apologize.
It's and he was there twenty years ago, and we're
told that he actually was a student there with the
MIT professor. They both were in school there about the
same time. So if it's a grudge, it's a grudge
he's held for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You know. They try to study motives all the time.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
After something crazy like this happens, the police come in
and say, we're looking at motives. I mean, there's no
investigation as to how the murder took place.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I mean that's easy, but we want to know why.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
It's all different. Every single time it's different. And so
let me ask you this. He has a motive. He
doesn't say I'm going to kill people. I just hate people.
How many of those do you think the police have?
And then when someone does kill people? And oh, let's
look at his social media's okay, so the guy's mentally
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mentally ill. How many mentally o people will go on
the internet every day?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Cono? Okay, moving on.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
He doesn't have a number for you.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Can you google it? ConA, how many mental.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Actually that I will? Actually I wasn't asking for a number, but.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I was trying to suffer.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I know you were fifty million barrel gift. President Trump says,
Venezuela is going to turn over between thirty and fifty
million barrels of oil.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
To the US.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
He says, this oil will be sold at its market price,
and that money will be controlled by me, says Trump.
And he says he's doing it that way to ensure
it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and
the United States.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Now question here, I don't know how it benefits the
people of Venezuela when the Trump administration or the United
States says you're going to give us thirty to fifty
million gallons of oil. Also, keep in mind that the
US uses twenty million barrels I'm sorry, twenty million barrels
of oil every day, so that's two days worth. So
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I don't know what that actually means. By the way,
that's part of crazy at seven thirty. You know what,
we only have one segment at seven thirty, I got
to say, and we have to do the rest of
the show and all day tomorrow on this stuff because
it's that nuts. Yeah, which we won't but we should.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Well it's another case of what have you done for me? Lately?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
The Baltimore Ravens one often and one Big over the
last eighteen seasons with John Harbaugh as the head coach,
but The Ravens fired Harbor yesterday after a disappointing season.
They didn't get into the Super Bowl, and obviously and
they missed the playoffs. Steve Biscotti, the Raven's owner, said,
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following a comprehensive evaluation of the season and the overall
direction of our organization, I decided to make a change
at head coach. Today I informed John that he has
been relieved of his duties.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
One of the reasons is the loss you were talking about,
and Harbaugh hates Italian food. Okay, Biscotti the owner, Okay,
let me put that together for you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
President Reagan's oldest son has died. Michael Reagan died. The
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation announced his death on x calling
him a steadfast guardian of his father's legacy. He was
a contributor to NEWSMAC and also was known for his
talk radio program, The Michael Reagan Show.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
He was eighty.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, let me give you a personal story about Michael Reagan.
He did a radio talk show for a few years,
and he was in the Premiere building when I was
doing a broadcasting handle on the Law out of the
same building. So he was down the hall, and we
used to hang together. We would have coffee, and I
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loved him, just a great guy, and he would do
me tell me story after a story about growing up
with Ronald Reagan, and just terrific stories.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
So I asked him one day.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And keep in mind that Michael Reagan and maure and
Reagan were adopted and the other two children of the
Reagan's were talking about Nancy Reagan, and I was Patty
and ron I believe were biological kids of the Reagans
of Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan. And so I asked Michael.
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I said, hey, Mike, let me ask you a question.
You know, Nancy Reagan has quite a reputation for not
being a nice person, as a matter of fact, being
a psycho bitch.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Did she show any deference?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Did she show any you know, did she give any
favors or have a favorite, showed favoritism to her biological
children versus you and Maureen, who she was basically a
step mom to. And he goes, no, absolutely not. She
treated all four of us the same. She hated all
four of us and treated all of us like crap.
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Oh okay, anyway, great stories, He came up with and
moving on, okay.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Kid funding cut off.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
The Trump administration is halting billions of dollars in federal
funding for social services programs in five states that are
led by Democrats because of allegations of The decision by
the administration comes after Health and Human Services announced last
week that it had frozen federal childcare funding for Minnesota
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because of blatant fraud in public assistance programs.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
That adds up to the billions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, that seems to be the case that there was
that much fraud, at least what we're hearing. But have
you noticed that the only states and cities in which
fraud is alleged by the Feds are Democrat led states
and cities. There is no fraud that exists in Republican
led states, those are well led, those do not have protests,
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for example, that are deemed an invasion an insurrection against
the government of the United States. I find this fascinating
and it's just straight out it just it floors me
with this kind of both favoritism and this kind of discrimination,
and the Republican legislator say nothing. They just let it
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all happen. Quick question, let's say Trump does invade Greenland, right,
which is it's just going to change the world completely.
Do you think the Republicans are going to back him up?
Do you think the Republicans in Congress will say yep?
Jim Jordan, who is one of his stanchest supporters, who said,
(23:25):
I think ahead of the Foreign Relations Committee, I trust
this president no matter what, no matter what the president does,
I trust this president.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't know what you do with that anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I think Jim Keeney is going to talk a little
bit about some federal health programs that have just been nailed,
and we'll do.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
That at our normal eight thirty time.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Okay, here's another story I'm going to do, I believe,
and that is a story about you Haul.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Californians are becoming ex Californians in big numbers. You Hall
puts out an annual growth index. They track migration trends
by seeing where the U haul trucks are coming from
and going to and going back to or not, and
California ranked last. It's recorded its largest exodus of do
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it yourself movers of any state in the US for
twenty twenty five, although fewer people left in twenty twenty
five than left in twenty twenty four, So I guess
it's slowing down a little.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
A little bit.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
But this is a really interesting statistic which I'm going
to talk about, and that is, you have the massive
amounts of people leaving California based on what U haul says,
and the U haul has looked at sort of the
definitive source for this sort of stuff, and the population
of California remains the same and huge numbers of people
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are leaving.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
How is that possible.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I'm going to dive into that at what time we're
going to be doing that at eight o'clock this morning.
Twenty percent of new car loans at the end of
last year, which is, of course just a few days ago.
We're over one thousand dollars per month. Now usually I
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mean I remember three four hundred dollars a month, and
that wasn't too many years ago, you know. Then I
jumped to seven hundred dollars a month, and all of
a sudden, now it's getting expensive.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Now you're really feeling it.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
And at one thousand dollars a month, And is that
for a three year loan?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Probably not no, because now more people are doing those
eighty four month loans.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I know, that's insane.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Now cars do last much longer. You know, there's this
myth about cars aren't as well built as they were before. Well,
you know what, before you had to change oil every
three thousand miles, and cars did not last one hundred
thousand miles. Today are the last one hundred and fifty
thousand miles if you take care of it. So when
you talk about the cost of a car, you know,
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I bought my girls when they were eighteen years old.
They bought each of them a car, and which is,
by the way, their birthday, and there are holiday gifts
for the next ten years every time.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
You know, I'm talking twelve years ago.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I bought them the car and they still ask g Dad,
what's our birthday present? And I go, hey, walk outside
and tell me what's on the driveway. Okay, that's your
birthday present. And that was twelve years ago. The point
is the cars are going to last, and so you know,
are they worth it day?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
But can anybody afford it? No, because they're so damn expensive. Also,
repairing cars today, Wow, it's anyway, it's pretty depressing.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
My mechanic quit because like retired, and I said, why
are you retiring? And he said, I'm so tired of
having customers come in and then going, well, that's going
to be seven thousand dollars to fix. Says the cost
of repairing cars is skyrocketed.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Okay, survey says, Let's go around the room and Kno,
are you making car payments?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I am? And how much are they? Six hundred? Can
you imagine what a piece of crap your car is?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Alas man?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Okay, No, I'm just obviously, but over how many? Over
how long a period of time?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Don't worry about it?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Okay, he's doing it for twelve years. Amy, Are you
paying car payments? No?
Speaker 5 (27:36):
But I have a really old car.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Okay, and that's really the way to do it. Will
car payments Nope? Same as Amy, okay. And car payments yes, okay?
How much per month?
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Like three fifty?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What did you? What did you? What are you buying?
Like a model T? What?
Speaker 5 (27:53):
What?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I got?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
A Pacade twenty twenty one? Oh? Okay, fair enough?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And I LEAs my cars, by the way, for business purposes.
I used to buy them, but now I lease them.
And you know the cost of leasing a car, I
mean I paid per months.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Wait, we all had to say, what are you paying
for month?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I just told you per months.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Are you paying over a thousand a month?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Actually I am for one car. Yeah yeah, I think
it's eleven dollars a month. But I you know, I've
got you know, the Blasto five thousand Beamer, which I'll
never do again, ever do it again. My next car
is going to be a five year old SUV as
soon as my lease is up, because this is crazy.
I mean even I just go come on, guys, really
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all right?
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Moving on, AI strip shows are sparking some outrage.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
So Elon Musk has his chatbot Grock and.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Apparently there is a spicy mode that can generate adult
content and it's generating naked people like you know, or
it's making you know, it's taking you bill and making
you naked and then putting it out there for the
world to see.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well I did that with Will and I'm still in
therapy over that.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Anyway, social media they're taking a lot of heat for it,
and even some countries are talking about regulating it.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
To well, yeah, when an eight year old can go
on and bring up porno straight porno, yeah, you'd think.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Some stuff not worth selling.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
China has banned some exports to Japan if those exports
can be used as military things like maybe navigation systems
or drones. Of course, this happens during heightened tensions between
China and Japan over Taiwan.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, it's getting really tough. Taiwan is getting closer. I mean,
China is getting closer and closer to attacking Taiwan, saying
that Taiwan is the province of China and has literally
since the Chinese Revolution. So here's a question. China is
not sailing to not selling to Japan. How does Japan
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tell the difference between Chinese goods and theirs? Okay, let's
move on.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
What's in a name?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Well, the US Patent and Trademark Office says that the
Las Vegas Athletics or the Vegas Athletics cannot be a
trademarked name. The a's requested it, the Patent and Trademark
Office said, Nope, the nickname athletics is too generic and
could be confused with other activities, even if associated with
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Las Vegas.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Apparently.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, and keep in mind that the Philadelphia Athletics, where
athletics were used in the name and athletics are still
going on that started in nineteen oh one, So it's
kind of hard to argue. Although athletics is a pretty
generic it's a pretty generic phrase.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
So why are they trying to trademarket just for sales
of stuff?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I think they're trying to number one sales. Yeah, because
people could. You could turn around and put a T
shirt out that says athletics. Now you can't do it
in the same font. You can't do it in the
same size, because you would want to be able to
argue that there is no confusion. But you know, the
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argument is that the patent office says, yeah, yeah, it
can be confusing. And my only point is, really, this
has been around since nineteen oh one.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Give me a break. That's the point here.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
The new Caltech president is out of this world because
he's an astrophysicist. His name is ray Ja Wardona. He
also was the provost of Johns Hopkins University. He's next
president at cal Tech, which is one of the nation's wealthiest,
most elite universities. The campus board of trustees announced the
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appointment yesterday after a month long search to replace president
Thomas Rosenbauma said in April he would be resigning.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
An interesting factoid which we should know is that the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL is run by cal Tech. A
partner of mine. Her husband is a works for JPL
and also teaches a cal Tech because they go back
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and forth. So we're done with the news, all right.
Went through all the stories. Anne, good for you.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Look at Anne applauding you.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah. No, it's you have to guess as to how quickly.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
The story timing too perfect. Yeah, timing was good. Timing
was good. This is kf I am sixty. You've been
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Speaker 3 (33:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Dogs or not cheap either.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
No, but if someone is that advanced in Alzheimer's, you
just buy a fluffy slipper and I just say here,
this is your dog, and that will run you two
dollars and nine nine cents at Walmart.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Bill Handle, and.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Good good morning.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Ever, but a Wednesday Hodayday, January seventh, yesterday we remembered,
didn't celebrate, but commemorated.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
No, I remember January sixth.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And five years ago and today's January seventh. And this
is the anniversary of the Palisades and eating fire.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Which we're going to talk about a little bit later on.
So let's start with Neil. Good morning Neil.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
That's Neil doing his impression of Helen Keller. And by
the way, he does an excellent, excellent job. Neil will
be joining us next week. He's out all of this
week on vacation.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Amy, Good morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh there's your disney Land sweater.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Oh it's brand new, of course it is now.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh okay, now we're talking about end of the world.
This is fun on the back that says Disneyland. That's
the six inch letters.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
It's called a spirit jersey and it's my Crouella de
Ville for one hundred and one Dalmatius looks black white.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Did you buy it?
Speaker 6 (01:48):
So?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I see? Did you buy it at Disneyland? Of course?
Can I ask how much it was? So you're real.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's not horrible, but but you know you want Disneyland.
You're you know, your torso really isn't big enough to
really work on it. What we need is a very
broad shouldered lesbian to really have the letters.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Go across by Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah. Yeah, in terms of letters.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
By the way, Dalmatian spots on the Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh, you're right, it does. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
By the way, the lesbian quote, as I'm parroting Chief
Daryl Gates when he was asked about women joining the
l A Police Department, and he said, mostly we want
women with big upper body strength, and those are lesbians.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay, all yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well he didn't say the word lesbians, but he did
say because no, he actually inferred really strong upper body strength, okay.
And the implication and he went on and the let
me tell you this, and the implication was exactly what
he said. And oh god, there's have been some public statements.
(03:08):
They got people in so much trouble. Who is that
baseball cono? You know that? I mean we're talking about
going back coas Karinas who said that African Americans don't
have the necessities to be coaches and oh it was
on a night line and Ted Copple said, excuse me,
(03:30):
do you want to take that back? And he goes, no,
not at all. He got bounced. So there's a little
bit of racism out there, to say the least.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Less.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
So, by the way, I'm quoting stuff that's years and
years old. Okay, so much for that, Cono. Good morning,
good morning, good morning. And by the way, I have
a dear friend of mine and Britain talks about well,
let me put it this way, gay women as wearing
flannel shirts and having stout shoes.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Or you're shaking your head, Will, You're shaking your head
and it's comfortable shoes. Comfortable shoes. Okay, well that works too,
that works too.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Okay, So anyway, good morning Will, good morning Bill, and
good morning Anne. Hid And now you're gonna have to
deal with the emails, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yes, yes you are.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
That's why she's smiling. She just knows she's gonna have
a fun day ahead.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, I've once got you know.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I've been sued five times in my entire history, mainly
for handle on the law when I gave such rotten
legal advice that lawyers actually file the complaint, and over
the course of my years, and this has to do
with my surrogacy stuff when it didn't go quite right
and the couple ended up suing me. And so in
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one case, the surrogate sued me because she didn't get
the money she was promised under the contract, the couple
didn't put in the money, on and on and on.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But it was one of the lawyers who ended.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Up settling the case because I sued his ass off
said you have to settle the case because I'm going
to allege that you are a racist and that will
destroy your career. And my attorney just responded with, get
(05:22):
in line.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
That was the one line you want to allege that,
Just get in line. And so just that allegation cost
him a ton of money. You can't do that, I mean,
that's extortion big time. So I think that's enough of that.
What do you think Are you trying to say you're
not racist? That's correct, and I'm not or I or
(05:45):
I am anti everybody? How can you be a racist
if you hate everybody across the board, including yourself? So
where is the racism? I am not pointing out a
specific religion, ethnicity, background, the place of birth.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Across the board.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So therefore, well, wait, that's how really quickly, that's how
Handle on the Law became a national show. I shared
this story with you. I Handle On the Law was
picked up by Premier Radio as a national show, and
I got a call from one of the corporate corporate
suits at that time. It was a Cox Radio that
(06:32):
owned KFI, and he said, Bill, you're opening up in
what twelve thirteen states?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And your license only in California. I said yeah, and
he isn't there do you see a problem with you
giving advice to people in another state in which you
are only licensed in California? And I said, see, you're
presupposing that I actually know California law. If I don't
know law in every state across the board, then I
(07:05):
have no problem giving a legal advice.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And he thought about it.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, that works, and that's how I handle on the
law became a national show. Okay, guys, all right, will
like they say good morning to you, didn't I?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yes, good morning?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Of course I always forget saying good morning. Will That
goes to show you how high on the food chain
you are awesome in my life. Okay, let's do it, guys,
It's time for handle.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
On the news.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Amy and Neil is not here and me and lead story. Well,
yesterday the governor issued a proclamation that says today January
seventh is a day of remembrance for the La Fires,
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the Eaton fires, Alta Dina, and the Palisades fires. And
he ordered flags at all state buildings to be flown
at half staff. And the two fires were I mean
just they were covered internationally. In Palisades, the Santa Ana
wins reached ninety miles per hour, scorching twenty three thousand,
almost twenty four thousand acres, twelve lives lost, sixty eight
(08:13):
hundred structures. Same afternoon, the Eating fire just above Altadena
that consumes fourteen thousand acres, kills nineteen people and levels
ninety four hundred homes and buildings. You put all that
together and you have about sixteen thousand homes and businesses
(08:35):
that were destroyed. I don't know in the history of
the United States we've ever had that. I do not
know that. And today we're going to talk about at
seven o'clock Palisades fire report because there's a lot of
controversy as to how it started and how it was
dealt with, and did the fire department do the right
thing and was there lying.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Or covering up in the report that came out afterwards.
So we'll cover that at seven Mistakes. That's exactly what
story two is, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Mistakes were made.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, yeah, Ellie were watered down. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Ellie's fire chief Jamie Moore talked to the Fireboard Commission
yesterday and said that there were mistakes made in that
after action report on the Palisades fire. As Bill just mentioned,
they watered some things down to keep people from looking
too bad. He says, it's now clear multiple drafts were
(09:36):
edited to soften language and reduce explicit criticism of department
leadership in the final report.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Interesting choice of words. The report was watered down. Okay,
one more before we take a break.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Doing nothing turned deadly.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
A former police officer school police officer is facing criminal
charges in Uvalde, Texas, because they're saying he didn't do
anything at rob Elementary School in the minutes before a
shooter showed up and started firing inside an elementary school.
Police officer now accused of failing to protect the children,
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stood by without making a move to prevent the carnage.
That's according to prosecutors the school officers Adrian Gonzalez. Prosecutors
say the officer only went inside rob Elementary after the
damage had been done.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, he's the only cop who has been charged and
is being criminally charged. He's being prosecuted and tried. And
it was seventy seven minutes from the first call until
the police they went into the room and were able
(10:54):
to shoot the killer. And he was killing people throughout
the entire time, over two rooms, just shooting them point blank,
and the cops didn't go in. They were gutless wonders
and could have saved lives. And I don't know what
his defense is. Well, I think his defense is nobody
told him to go in, which I think is why
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today there's such a push to where if there's an
active shooter, if there is even an accusation of the
possibility the police rush, it goes straight in and they
can't be concerned with their lives. They have to go
after the shooter because don't be a cop otherwise.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
All right, Will the US take Greenland?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
White House Press Secretary Caroline love It says President Trump
and his advisors are talking about a range of options
to acquire Greenland, and utilizing the US military is always
an option.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
And now I Anne and I agree that we can't
do every topic Donald Trump in the administration, even though
every day you can.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Easily do a topic. Today we have to.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So coming up at seven thirty, we will do another
episode of Crazy and it has to do with Donald Trump,
and it's you know, you know, sometimes you shake your
head and sometimes you shake your head off your shoulders,
and that's this one.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
And we'll tell on the Greenland.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, yeah, the Greenland story, Like why didn't.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
They start with saying, you know what, Greenland's very important important.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
We're going to work with them.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
To come up because as they said, no, we're going
to take it, we need it.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah, well, because you got Donald Trump and just really
quickly and I'll talk more about that at seven thirty.
Greenland is not only a member of NATO. Second of all,
it is one of the strongest allies the US has.
The US had thirty one bases on Greenland, US basis
of which Greenland Denmark actually controls. Greenland gladly accepted US troops.
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The US closed thirty of them. There's one base remaining
and the President said, we want it. And Steven Miller
is completely nuts in terms of revisionist history.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I'll talk and he is a senior advisor to the President.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I'll talk more about that coming up at seven thirty,
because this one is just you gotta shake your head
on this one.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
This one you go come on, guys, really come on.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And there's some scary stuff to this story too, and
I'll share that with you at seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
As I said, you don't want to miss that. I
don't want to miss that.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Mickey's mad about the money. Actor Mickey Rourke says he
is not asking his fans for financial help on gofund
me to avoid eviction. Remember we told you that he's
like sixty thousand dollars behind in rent payments apparently, and
got an eviction letter last month. So his manager apparently
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set up a GoFundMe page and asked people to help.
They had a goal of raising one hundred thousand dollars
and they did. They hit it yesterday. But Mickey Work says, hey,
that is not me. If I needed money, I would
I wouldn't ask for no EF and charity.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You know, you would think, And I'm fine with that
because there's all kinds of GoFundMe fraud out there where
people pretend to have all kinds of ailments and real problems.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
And so you have Rourke saying nope, not me, which
I buy.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Well, it's his manager that puts that is exactly, and
that's exactly the next sentence.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It was his manager that set it up.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
So but why did she? I mean, is he sixty
thousand dollars? Is he sixty thousand dollars behind and not paying?
Is there something going on mentally well?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
And keeping more seventy three? If he is paying five
thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
A month which was raised to seven thousand.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, but let's let's go back to five thousand dollars
a month that he hasn't paid, because I think that's
the figure, five thousand dollars a month, and at sixty
thousand dollars, that's a year before he receives an eviction
letter that he hasn't paid the rent. Let me tell
you if I own, if I own, if I'm an
apartment or I own a building or an apartment building,
I do not wait a year before sending a letter
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saying you owe me money. This story is really weird,
and he's a great actor. I love Mickey Rourke. He's
done some great stuff.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Tragedy years in the making.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Apparently the guy who has been identified as the shooter
at Brown University he killed two students and then also
killed an mit professor a couple of days later, apparently
planned the attack for years and left behind videos in
which he confessed to the murders.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
But never gave a motive.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
The guy's name was Claudio Valente, forty eight, went to
Brown at one time, like twenty years ago. He was
also a Portuguese national. He killed himself and was found
in a storage facility in New Hampshire a few days
after the shootings.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's a weird story, is it, And no motive, and
he leaves his video and says I'm not going to apologize.
It's and he was there twenty years ago, and we're
told that he actually was a student there with the
MIT professor. They both were in school there about the
same time. So if it's a grudge, it's a grudge
he's held for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You know. They try to study motives all the time.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
After something crazy like this happens, the police come in
and say, we're looking at motives. I mean, there's no
investigation as to how the murder took place.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I mean that's easy, but we want to know why.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
It's all different. Every single time it's different. And so
let me ask you this. He has a motive. He
doesn't say I'm going to kill people. I just hate people.
How many of those do you think the police have?
And then when someone does kill people? And oh, let's
look at his social media's okay, so the guy's mentally
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mentally ill. How many mentally o people will go on
the internet every day?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Cono? Okay, moving on.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
He doesn't have a number for you.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Can you google it? ConA, how many mental.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Actually that I will? Actually I wasn't asking for a number, but.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I was trying to suffer.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I know you were fifty million barrel gift. President Trump says,
Venezuela is going to turn over between thirty and fifty
million barrels of oil.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
To the US.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
He says, this oil will be sold at its market price,
and that money will be controlled by me, says Trump.
And he says he's doing it that way to ensure
it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and
the United States.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Now question here, I don't know how it benefits the
people of Venezuela when the Trump administration or the United
States says you're going to give us thirty to fifty
million gallons of oil. Also, keep in mind that the
US uses twenty million barrels I'm sorry, twenty million barrels
of oil every day, so that's two days worth. So
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I don't know what that actually means. By the way,
that's part of crazy at seven thirty. You know what,
we only have one segment at seven thirty, I got
to say, and we have to do the rest of
the show and all day tomorrow on this stuff because
it's that nuts. Yeah, which we won't but we should.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Well it's another case of what have you done for me? Lately?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
The Baltimore Ravens one often and one Big over the
last eighteen seasons with John Harbaugh as the head coach,
but The Ravens fired Harbor yesterday after a disappointing season.
They didn't get into the Super Bowl, and obviously and
they missed the playoffs. Steve Biscotti, the Raven's owner, said,
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following a comprehensive evaluation of the season and the overall
direction of our organization, I decided to make a change
at head coach. Today I informed John that he has
been relieved of his duties.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
One of the reasons is the loss you were talking about,
and Harbaugh hates Italian food. Okay, Biscotti the owner, Okay,
let me put that together for you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
President Reagan's oldest son has died. Michael Reagan died. The
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation announced his death on x calling
him a steadfast guardian of his father's legacy. He was
a contributor to NEWSMAC and also was known for his
talk radio program, The Michael Reagan Show.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
He was eighty.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, let me give you a personal story about Michael Reagan.
He did a radio talk show for a few years,
and he was in the Premiere building when I was
doing a broadcasting handle on the Law out of the
same building. So he was down the hall, and we
used to hang together. We would have coffee, and I
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loved him, just a great guy, and he would do
me tell me story after a story about growing up
with Ronald Reagan, and just terrific stories.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
So I asked him one day.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And keep in mind that Michael Reagan and maure and
Reagan were adopted and the other two children of the
Reagan's were talking about Nancy Reagan, and I was Patty
and ron I believe were biological kids of the Reagans
of Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan. And so I asked Michael.
(21:00):
I said, hey, Mike, let me ask you a question.
You know, Nancy Reagan has quite a reputation for not
being a nice person, as a matter of fact, being
a psycho bitch.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Did she show any deference?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Did she show any you know, did she give any
favors or have a favorite, showed favoritism to her biological
children versus you and Maureen, who she was basically a
step mom to. And he goes, no, absolutely not. She
treated all four of us the same. She hated all
four of us and treated all of us like crap.
(21:36):
Oh okay, anyway, great stories, He came up with and
moving on, okay.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Kid funding cut off.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
The Trump administration is halting billions of dollars in federal
funding for social services programs in five states that are
led by Democrats because of allegations of The decision by
the administration comes after Health and Human Services announced last
week that it had frozen federal childcare funding for Minnesota
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because of blatant fraud in public assistance programs.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
That adds up to the billions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, that seems to be the case that there was
that much fraud, at least what we're hearing. But have
you noticed that the only states and cities in which
fraud is alleged by the Feds are Democrat led states
and cities. There is no fraud that exists in Republican
led states, those are well led, those do not have protests,
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for example, that are deemed an invasion an insurrection against
the government of the United States. I find this fascinating
and it's just straight out it just it floors me
with this kind of both favoritism and this kind of discrimination,
and the Republican legislator say nothing. They just let it
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all happen. Quick question, let's say Trump does invade Greenland, right,
which is it's just going to change the world completely.
Do you think the Republicans are going to back him up?
Do you think the Republicans in Congress will say yep?
Jim Jordan, who is one of his stanchest supporters, who said,
(23:25):
I think ahead of the Foreign Relations Committee, I trust
this president no matter what, no matter what the president does,
I trust this president.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't know what you do with that anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I think Jim Keeney is going to talk a little
bit about some federal health programs that have just been nailed,
and we'll do.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
That at our normal eight thirty time.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Okay, here's another story I'm going to do, I believe,
and that is a story about you Haul.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Californians are becoming ex Californians in big numbers. You Hall
puts out an annual growth index. They track migration trends
by seeing where the U haul trucks are coming from
and going to and going back to or not, and
California ranked last. It's recorded its largest exodus of do
(24:15):
it yourself movers of any state in the US for
twenty twenty five, although fewer people left in twenty twenty
five than left in twenty twenty four, So I guess
it's slowing down a little.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
A little bit.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
But this is a really interesting statistic which I'm going
to talk about, and that is, you have the massive
amounts of people leaving California based on what U haul says,
and the U haul has looked at sort of the
definitive source for this sort of stuff, and the population
of California remains the same and huge numbers of people
(24:50):
are leaving.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
How is that possible.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I'm going to dive into that at what time we're
going to be doing that at eight o'clock this morning.
Twenty percent of new car loans at the end of
last year, which is, of course just a few days ago.
We're over one thousand dollars per month. Now usually I
(25:17):
mean I remember three four hundred dollars a month, and
that wasn't too many years ago, you know. Then I
jumped to seven hundred dollars a month, and all of
a sudden, now it's getting expensive.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Now you're really feeling it.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
And at one thousand dollars a month, And is that
for a three year loan?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Probably not no, because now more people are doing those
eighty four month loans.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I know, that's insane.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Now cars do last much longer. You know, there's this
myth about cars aren't as well built as they were before. Well,
you know what, before you had to change oil every
three thousand miles, and cars did not last one hundred
thousand miles. Today are the last one hundred and fifty
thousand miles if you take care of it. So when
you talk about the cost of a car, you know,
(26:08):
I bought my girls when they were eighteen years old.
They bought each of them a car, and which is,
by the way, their birthday, and there are holiday gifts
for the next ten years every time.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
You know, I'm talking twelve years ago.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I bought them the car and they still ask g Dad,
what's our birthday present? And I go, hey, walk outside
and tell me what's on the driveway. Okay, that's your
birthday present. And that was twelve years ago. The point
is the cars are going to last, and so you know,
are they worth it day?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
But can anybody afford it? No, because they're so damn expensive. Also,
repairing cars today, Wow, it's anyway, it's pretty depressing.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
My mechanic quit because like retired, and I said, why
are you retiring? And he said, I'm so tired of
having customers come in and then going, well, that's going
to be seven thousand dollars to fix. Says the cost
of repairing cars is skyrocketed.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Okay, survey says, Let's go around the room and Kno,
are you making car payments?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I am? And how much are they? Six hundred? Can
you imagine what a piece of crap your car is?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Alas man?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Okay, No, I'm just obviously, but over how many? Over
how long a period of time?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Don't worry about it?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Okay, he's doing it for twelve years. Amy, Are you
paying car payments? No?
Speaker 5 (27:36):
But I have a really old car.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Okay, and that's really the way to do it. Will
car payments Nope? Same as Amy, okay. And car payments yes, okay?
How much per month?
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Like three fifty?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What did you? What did you? What are you buying?
Like a model T? What?
Speaker 5 (27:53):
What?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I got?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
A Pacade twenty twenty one? Oh? Okay, fair enough?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And I LEAs my cars, by the way, for business purposes.
I used to buy them, but now I lease them.
And you know the cost of leasing a car, I
mean I paid per months.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Wait, we all had to say, what are you paying
for month?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I just told you per months.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Are you paying over a thousand a month?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Actually I am for one car. Yeah yeah, I think
it's eleven dollars a month. But I you know, I've
got you know, the Blasto five thousand Beamer, which I'll
never do again, ever do it again. My next car
is going to be a five year old SUV as
soon as my lease is up, because this is crazy.
I mean even I just go come on, guys, really
(28:44):
all right?
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Moving on, AI strip shows are sparking some outrage.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
So Elon Musk has his chatbot Grock and.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Apparently there is a spicy mode that can generate adult
content and it's generating naked people like you know, or
it's making you know, it's taking you bill and making
you naked and then putting it out there for the
world to see.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well I did that with Will and I'm still in
therapy over that.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Anyway, social media they're taking a lot of heat for it,
and even some countries are talking about regulating it.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
To well, yeah, when an eight year old can go
on and bring up porno straight porno, yeah, you'd think.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Some stuff not worth selling.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
China has banned some exports to Japan if those exports
can be used as military things like maybe navigation systems
or drones. Of course, this happens during heightened tensions between
China and Japan over Taiwan.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, it's getting really tough. Taiwan is getting closer. I mean,
China is getting closer and closer to attacking Taiwan, saying
that Taiwan is the province of China and has literally
since the Chinese Revolution. So here's a question. China is
not sailing to not selling to Japan. How does Japan
(30:20):
tell the difference between Chinese goods and theirs? Okay, let's
move on.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
What's in a name?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Well, the US Patent and Trademark Office says that the
Las Vegas Athletics or the Vegas Athletics cannot be a
trademarked name. The a's requested it, the Patent and Trademark
Office said, Nope, the nickname athletics is too generic and
could be confused with other activities, even if associated with
(30:50):
Las Vegas.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Apparently.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, and keep in mind that the Philadelphia Athletics, where
athletics were used in the name and athletics are still
going on that started in nineteen oh one, So it's
kind of hard to argue. Although athletics is a pretty
generic it's a pretty generic phrase.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
So why are they trying to trademarket just for sales
of stuff?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I think they're trying to number one sales. Yeah, because
people could. You could turn around and put a T
shirt out that says athletics. Now you can't do it
in the same font. You can't do it in the
same size, because you would want to be able to
argue that there is no confusion. But you know, the
(31:40):
argument is that the patent office says, yeah, yeah, it
can be confusing. And my only point is, really, this
has been around since nineteen oh one.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Give me a break. That's the point here.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
The new Caltech president is out of this world because
he's an astrophysicist. His name is ray Ja Wardona. He
also was the provost of Johns Hopkins University. He's next
president at cal Tech, which is one of the nation's wealthiest,
most elite universities. The campus board of trustees announced the
(32:18):
appointment yesterday after a month long search to replace president
Thomas Rosenbauma said in April he would be resigning.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
An interesting factoid which we should know is that the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL is run by cal Tech. A
partner of mine. Her husband is a works for JPL
and also teaches a cal Tech because they go back
(32:47):
and forth. So we're done with the news, all right.
Went through all the stories. Anne, good for you.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Look at Anne applauding you.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah. No, it's you have to guess as to how quickly.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
The story timing too perfect. Yeah, timing was good. Timing
was good. This is kf I am sixty. You've been
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Speaker 3 (33:10):
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