January 9, 2026 • 34 mins
(January 09, 2025)
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. House passes bill extending ACA subsidies, bucking GOP leaders. Jonathan Ross identified as deferral agent who shot Minnesota woman. California completely drought-free for 1st time in 25 years after winter storms. Denmark, Greenland envoys met with White House officials over ‘takeover.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I know.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm a trader when I say the speed limit is
sixty five miles an hour, because what you're saying is, uh, well,
it's a.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Stupid analogy that went no place.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Okay, let's just you know, sometimes I even impress myself
with the stupidity.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Okay, and now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Good morning everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It is a Friday morning, January the ninth, as we're
well into the new year, and today is foody Friday
without the food and ask handle anything without the handle,
and so we're well, anything without the anything you can
ask handle. In other words, we're not doing the eight
(01:02):
thirty segment today. Neil is gone and he is involved
in putting that together. And Neil usually has a foody
Friday segment with Neil Savedra. And that's how to do
without Neil Savedra. Okay, there's our lineup. I guess's back.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Ko Oh, car broke down yesterday on Surday. Sure, yeah,
it's great.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So it's great.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Are you gonna replace a repair of the car? Replace
the car?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
They didn't call me back yesterday, so I don't know
the damage, which I'm guessing that's not good.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
What do you mean you don't know the damage? Did
you hit something?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
No, but I don't know what's wrong with it. And
they didn't call me to tell me, Hey, this is
how much? So I'm guessing it's gonna be a pretty penny.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So we'll see.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
It depends if it's over three. If it's over three,
I'll probably think about the over three?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What thousand?
Speaker 7 (01:52):
Who?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And that is a minor repair to cars these days?
So how'd you get in?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I have my wife's, I have my other the I
have the good car, right, and.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, your wife drives a good car, so how is
she going to get to work?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
She doesn't work today?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh okay, yeah, so thats good.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And by the way, if you do get a reasonable
under three thousand dollars repair estimate ninety nine dollars for example,
it's still going to take you days to get that fix,
if not.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Longer, Yeah, not too long ago, like two weeks ago,
I got breaks and a belt.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It was eleven, so that was that was a small repair. Breaks?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And what year is your car?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The one I drive is at twenty sixteen?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well that's not bad. That's not bad.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So but I drive six hundred miles a week, so.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah, that's that's bad. Yeah. And what car is that?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That's the model. It's a Volkswagen.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Oh, they're still making that. I had.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
My aunt is a Jeta, not a Jedi, a Jedi
actually pronounced Jeta. That's good, you know. I just wanted
to point that out, not that it matters. All right, Amy,
good morning?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I am?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Will is not here because Will is up in the
sky someplace. He was at the Fiesta Bowl and now
he's at some other event.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
He's doing one of the wild card playoff games this weekend.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Oh okay. And then there's Anne last and certainly least.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, you are cold that you're wearing this like winter park,
I thing freezing.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I have to be layered in here. It's like look
at this. I'm like, it's freezing.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I don't know so far the jacket has just come off,
the shirt underneath is about to come off, and there
we go.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And what color? Okay? Black? Fair enough?
Speaker 7 (03:40):
I need music to this, conto, Yeah you do. Actually
I don't have that type of music. Oh, here come
the tassels. Okay, very exciting stuff. All right, And are
you working this weekend playoff games going?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
No, we don't have a home game, no home playoffs.
Rams are not in, Chargers are not in. Both are
in the playoffs. They're both in playoffs, but they're both
playing somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You know, as I said, wouldn't it be absolutely terrific
if the Rams and the Chargers played against each other?
The trifeca would trifecta would be the Rams the Chargers
at home.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Well, you do realize that the Super Bowl is coming
so far, so that could happen.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
If when is it? Oh well I'm talking about this
time around. What was it coming to so far?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Next year?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And you're gonna be working uh huh Oh that's exciting. Oh,
it be so awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Super Bowl Week the players hate it, you know, because
it's a week of talking to thousands of reporters and
going to meetings and you know, under contract, the ballplayers
have to deal with all that. Who was that one
player a few years ago who hated it to the
point where whenever he was interviewed, and he went to
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all the interviews, he was forced to under contract and
all he did was grunt.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
There will be Marshall Lynch.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, oh hey, so what do you think it's gonna
happen at Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
So what do you think defense offense is going to prevail? Hm?
And how much does he make or did he make
a lot? Yeah? And he met and he met the
terms of the contrast. He was there and he responded.
That was interview. I did that interview with Rodney King.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I think it was his first interview that he had
after his incident. And this was subsequent to him taking
a crowbar to the or beating up that that transvestite hooker,
if you remember. And I had him on the interviewed,
and he brought his attorney and that there was a
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lot of grunting on that one too, every question.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
It was a grunt. Not not one of.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
My better interviews, I must add, Okay, fair enough with that,
all right, the job, interview, the story, what we're going
to do later on. In the meantime, we've got a
fair amount of news. At the forefront, of course, is
what's happening in Minneapolis. But at the same time there's
a lot going on. Well, first of all, we're waiting
for the Supreme Court today may come down with a
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decision as to the power the president has in regards
to tariffs. Does the president have unbridled, uncontrolled tariff powers.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
We'll see what the Supreme Court has to say.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
In the meantime, let's go through some more news and
there's a lot of it today. Handle on the news
with Amy Neils not here and me lead story.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Let's make a deal. Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So now the bill that was put onto the floor
by Congress, and this had to do with doing an
end around Mike Johnson, who normally decides the speaker decides
what bill is going to even hit the floor for
a vote, and he tried as hard as he could
(07:03):
to make sure that the bill was objections. What do
they call that? I keep on always forgetting that the
name of the procedure. In any case, a bunch of Democrat,
bunch over a dozen House Republicans joined every Democrat to
pass the bill extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies for
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three years, exactly what the Democrats wanted. Well, it's passed
in the House, contrary to the leadership and certainly contrary
to what the President wants. It's going to stall in
the Senate probably, and even if it passes the Senate
and the House, it'll be vetoed by the President.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Do you think you to veto it? Yeah, I just
think that's political suicide.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, whatever Trump does that, nothing is political suicide for
Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Nothing, nothing, nothing, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
He said, what was that New York Times interview where
he was asked yesterday? Is there any to what you
can do in foreign affairs? Any limit whatsoever? And he said,
only my morality. I can do whatever I want. And
I've made this point before, and Amy, I know you
and I maybe have disagreed, But give me a number
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that you had to guess. The President calls for the
dissolution of Congress because Congress is getting in the way
of his agenda. How many Republicans would vote in favor
of the dissolution of Congress.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
They're not going to vote. They wouldn't even be asked
to vote. You're playing the what if game?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Of course, I'm playing the what if game. What do
you think we do? You think I rely on facts
on reality? I mean, the life is a what if game. No,
I am known as the straw man host. The point
I'm making is the point obviously that is a little hyperbolic.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Although there maybe a couple of them.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Is that no matter what the President says, MAGA supporters
and the super concervve members of Congress, which there are plenty,
will back him up, absolutely, back him up, no question.
Even when Constitution clearly calls for Congress to act, they
what they will do is say the President can overrun
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or interpret the Constitution as to give himself full power.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
That's what he said.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
The only thing that stops me from doing anything is
my feelings about it.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Can you imagine any other president saying that, I mean,
it would blow up? And this is oh okay, here's
another one.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
All right.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
So the AACA subsidies American the Affordable Care Act, which Obamacare,
which the Republicans have been fighting since the day it
was passed, bill after bill after bill to kill the pill,
to kill the bill, and so now it was adopted
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on the floor for the extension.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Blocked by the Feds Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
She'll say the FBI has blocked them from investigating the
shooting of a woman by a.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
US ICE agent.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
The Vice President Vance said the investigation is a federal issue,
and DHS Secretary Christinman basically said the same thing. She
said this is a federal issue, and so they don't
have jurisdiction. Officials have offered differing accounts of what happened.
The Trump administration says the ICE agent was acting in
self defense, but local officials say the woman did not
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pose a danger to them.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
All right, Coming up at seven twenty, I'm going to
dive into that because life is a lot more complicated
than simple statements.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Jd.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Vance talking about absolute immunity. It's a little more complicated
than that. That's coming up at seven twenty.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Ice agent ided. So the ICE agent who shot the
woman in Minneapolis has been identified, and it turns out
that this guy had been dragged and injured by a
driver during another ICE operation last year. He is an
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experienced officer with more than ten years at ICE.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
All right, So you have an officer who is being
described as this rogue, renegade cop or ICE agent who
shoots this woman good sort of not out of the blue,
but in self defense according to the government and the
state's according to the Fed, State is saying no, it
(11:41):
was a shooting that was unjustified. Now does that take
into account and think about this, do you think of
it differently than six months ago he was dragged by
a car for one hundred yards, needing dozens of stitches. Yeah,
I think you take that into account. Why, because the
determination of whether or not the killing is justified unless
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it is crazy. Of course, shooting someone in the back
that're running away is the put your you put yourself
into the cops position. And whether or not that is
going to be determinative, it's not because it's never going
to go to state court. It's going to go to
federal court. And I'll explain why later on. But yeah, yeah,
(12:26):
I think that would change things. Maybe he's a little
bit more sensitive than other police officers under the circumstances.
And if you were to convict it, now this is
a what if amy. If you were to be convicted
and he was looking at jail time, which he would
be if he was found to have shot unreasonably, is
that a mitigating factor?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Another shooting, another one from Minnesota over to Oregon. There
was there were two people who were shot by Federal
Border Patrol AI in Portland yesterday afternoon. Apparently Home On
Securitiesa's Border Patrol agents were doing a vehicle stop in Portland.
(13:10):
The Stevens said the driver who is a suspected member
of Trenda Arragua, that's the Venezuelan really nasty gang. Attempted
to weaponize his vehicle and run over the agents.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
That's when they were shot.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
They then took off and then called on one one
on their own and now they're in the hospital recovery.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Okay, not much to say about that.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I haven't said this for a while. California is drought free.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Not a single square mile of the state is categorized
as dry for the first time in twenty twenty five years.
According to the latest US Drought Monitor, zero percent of
the state's total area is experiencing drought conditions.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
See I called it.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I said that the drought was going to end or
going to be well, actually I didn't call it.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I won.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I thought you said it was in a forever drought.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, that's exactly what I said. I was just about
to say, except that I went the other way. And
this does not mean that global warming and does that
mean that drought long term is not going to be here,
But it does come in waves that we know so
drought rainy season. Because the other argument is hurricanes are
more powerful, they're more of them. Floods are bigger, greater,
(14:25):
more water, more dangerous.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
That is happening.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
We know that, and so just rack one up to
handle being wrong. Now, Am I wrong more than I
am right?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
You know what? I really don't want to say, yep,
I certainly am.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Okay, Moving on, Donations are pouring in a GoFundMe campaign
for the family of Renee Good. She's the woman who
was shot and killed by the ice agent in Minneapolis.
The GoFundMe is now up to more than seven hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It's a big one, and and I want to talk
about that.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
We and do we have that for the eight to
fifty segment the gofund me campaign, that would be a
thirty Okay, we have that at Okay, trying to figure
out that we do this on the fly as topics
go in and out and news items come in. So
I mean, this show is.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Clearly the prodcast the latest. We broadcast the latest. Yeah. Yeah,
that's another way of saying we did this on the fly.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
We want to see what's coming in, so we'd and
you see my in depth analysis which people rely on
come up virtually every day.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Okay, Okay, let me write that down. Did you send
me that a thirty segment thing? You already had it
sent yesterday. You got to send it to me again. No,
I have the story, I think, Oh, the updated rundown,
got it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, just give me an updated rundown. Okay, Inside baseball,
Inside baseball.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Moving on an.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Act of s escalation, the Russian Defense Ministry says it
has hit western Ukraine with a nuclear capable intermediate range
ballistic missile. The attack only the second time in the
war that Moscow had fired that type of missile. It's
known as the Orshnik. The choice of western Ukraine as
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a target near the border with Poland, which is an
EU and a NATO member, seems to be intended to
send a message to Europe as it strongly backs Kiev
in talks to end the war.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, while the talks are going on, Russia is attacking
more and more with weaponry that is more and more,
both in terms of numbers and the lethal abilities. I mean,
I didn't launch a nuclear missile, nuclear tit missile, but
they launched the delivery system with this Rishnik Arishnik missile,
(17:00):
and I think it's a ballistic missile. I think anyway.
It's a sends an message, as you said, and Putin
is playing this game.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Oh yes, oh yes, I absolutely want a piece deal.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Have you noticed that the president, our president is no
longer saying how much he believes of Vladimir Putin, what
a great guy Putin is, that he believes Putin over
the intelligence community here in the United States. That's all gone,
and the president realizes what an sob Putin really is
and hopefully does something about it.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Okay, time to talk takeover. Denmark and Greenland's envoys are
in Washington, d C. Denmark's ambassador and Greenland's chief representative
to Washington have met with White House national security officials
to discuss a renewed push by President Trump to acquire Greenland.
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They've also held a series of meetings with American lawmakers
there of trying to get lawmaker's help in persuading Trump
to back off his threat to take over the little island.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to meet next
week with Danish officials.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, this is a fun one. And let me tell
you why it's fun.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
The President wants Greenland, and he wants it under any circumstances.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
There is talk of buying Greenland.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
There is no chance in hell that Denmark is going
to sell Greenland to the United States. I think that's
off the table, which means that the President is intimating
more and more that we will invade Greenland to take
it over. Now I'm going to ask for a figure.
I guess Greenland does not have its own defense forces.
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These are Danish forces that in fact guard.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Greenland.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
There's some other stuff going on, but we're talking about
defensive Danish army personnel who are on Greenland who would
fight any Okay, numbers, Amy, how many do you think
there are there?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
You mean total people or militaries.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Oh, not people, fifty six thousand people, but I'm talking
about Danish. Don't even look at this up because I
want you to really guess the number of Danish army
personnel that are on Greenland for defensive purposes, in other words,
of Greenland gets invaded.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Two hundred, right, it's one hundred to two hundred people.
Oh really, Yeah, you're absolutely right on.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's one hundred to two hundred, depending on how many
they send over any given time. So the might of
the US Armed services are going to be put to
are going to be invading a country that has one
to two hundred military personnel guarding it. Who do you
think is gonna win on that one?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I would love for Greenland to win, to just obliterate them.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, it's probably an My guess is is probably not
going to happen. No, yeah, not going to happen anyway.
I found that fascinating when I look that up, and
I do not put it past the president. Prior to
the invasion of Venezuela, if you want to call it that,
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or the special forces going in and grabbing Maduro, I
thought that was all bluster by the President when he
said boots on the ground, We're going to go in militarily.
I thought it was all bluster. Well, clearly not, and
certainly the rest of the world acknowledges and understands that's
not bluster. The president will do it.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Now Greenland, that is.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
On a whole different level because it's part of NATO
and it gets crazy and if that happens or comes
close to happening, you think I'm going to talk about
that or what? All right, and Amy, I'm going to
just start this one because this has to do with
evictions and We talk a lot about evictions here, especially
on a handle on the law. If you're a landlord,
(20:58):
I want you to pay attention to this eviction story.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
This may work for you.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
A five hundred and fifty pound bear that had been
camped out or living under a home in Alta, Dina
for more than a month has finally been removed.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Poor guy, the.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Homeowner says he's relieved, no more banging under the house
and smelling him and wondering what's going on under there.
That's Ken Johnson, who's the homeowner. The bear was camping
out there. Wildlife officials tried to scare him out. They
used paintball guns, airhorns, but no luck. And then the
Bear League, a nonprofit based in Lake Tahoe, came in
(21:36):
to help and apparently they one of the guys even
crawled into the crawl spot space and shoot him out
and out came the bear.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
So he's been evicted.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, so those people who are looking at evictions and
you have a a tenant who's in pay, it doesn't pay.
And this is handling the log giving me this. Used
paintball guns, use horns. Also, they electrified when the bear
was out electrified the opening, so you may want to
do that. I'll elect try the front door. I mean
(22:09):
this good stuff. This is how you get a ten
and out.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I feel bad for the bear. Bear's fine, Well, you
know you had found a place to hang out for
the winter. Now he asked to go find a new place.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
What does that do to them?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, exactly, Okay, all right, Iran does.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Not want you to see what's going on. There's an
internet blackout in Iran. Authorities cut internet access and also
telephone lines immediately after protests in the capital city of
Tehran yesterday and other cities also got underway. The blackout
did not immediately prevent the posting of videos of protests,
(22:47):
which are now into their second week. And they're protesting
because the economy is collapsing and inflations like at forty
percent and people are angry.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, that's how you can control a population, or try
to as you cut off internet.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
North Korea does this all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It just cuts off internet, where you've got the North
Korean citizens simply not able to use the internet.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
China does this.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It can cut off internet because they control the pipeline
coming in.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
This is not good for.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The regime and I think it's fair to say of
Iran the Mulahs, they quickly are realizing that they're in trouble,
and so they're allowing women to walk around without a
hey job, for example. They're loosening some of the social mores,
but still want to hang on to as much power
as possible.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah, you may see.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Iran just going the other way. I remember the revolution
brought into theocracy in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
It may go the other way.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Amy Harvey Weinstein might plead guilty.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Apparently he's weighing a potential guilty plea to resolve a
rape charge and to avoid going to trial for a
third time in New York. That's according to his lawyer
and a judge. But the disgraced movie mogul still insists
he never assaulted anyone.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yeah, there goes the guilty plea.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Because the only way the court accepts a guilty plea
is you say I did it.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
So if you plead guilty, can the court not accept
the plea?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
If you plead guilty and then say I did it, yeah,
the court is going to say no, thank you, that's
not a guilty plea. So we'll see what happens. I
think for public consumption, he never assaulted anyone. Well, he's
going to trial. It doesn't really matter. He's seventy three
and has gotten a bunch of prison time for charges
all over the country. So he's dying in prison. It's
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that simple, no matter what he does.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
The trip short.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
NASA is going to bring a crew of four astronauts
home from the International Space Station early. They're supposed to
come back in late February. They've been up there since August,
but somebody's got a medical condition, and so they're going
to bring them home probably in the next few days.
During the twenty five year history of the International Space Station,
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this is the first time astronauts have returned early because
of a medical issue.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Now there are the other way has happened where astronauts
stay longer than anticipated. We just talked about a group
of astronauts that we're supposed to return to Earth I
think it was two thousand and nine, and have stayed
a little bit longer than anticipated before they're bringing them
down to Earth.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You know what, I always start to take you seriously,
then more stuff comes out of your mouth.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
I'm like, wait, oh, he's joking.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
And that's why the show works as far as we're concerned.
I don't know about listeners, but we serve have a
rip roaring good time.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Political prisoners are free.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Venezuela has released a number of imprisoned high profile opposition figures,
activist journalists. It's been called a gesture to seek peace
and basically do what Trump wants them to do. President
Trump said the releases came at the request of the
United States, and he says that Venezuela has been great.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Everything we've wanted. They've given us.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Okay, a lot of pieces here, all right, So Maduro's
taken out, leaving the vice president. Legally, if you accept
the Maduro regime as having been legitimately elected, which very
few countries do. This last election, and the president who
had been in touch with Mashado, Maria Maschado, who actually
won the election last time out, or at least her
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proxy did, because she was in exile, because they would
have arrested her and probably lost her in jail for
thirty years. Okay, why is the president at not going
to the opposition the legitimately elected new government, which our
government said it was. Here's why, because when you bring
in a new government, keep in mind, what does that mean.
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That means you're gonna have new cabinet members, That means
you're gonna have new technocrats. That means you're gonna have
new heads of nationalized companies. And the infrastructure is already
there now it is corrupt, but you've got a vice
president says, oh, oh, we better do what the United
States does. And it's just easier, much easier for the
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US to take this ridiculous regime, this corrupt regime, and
turn it around and say, Okay, you're going to do
what we.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Tell you to do.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
And effectively, there's a new government in town, and that
is the American government unnationalize the oil industry, for example,
the infrastructure is going to belong to the United States,
or at least controlled by the United States. The oil
is going to be come to the United States. You've
got various other major geopolitical issues because Venezuela is selling
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oil to China, to Russia. And now what the president
is stopping that one too, saying you're gonna do what
we want you to do. It's a practical way of
going about it. It is a practical way of going
about it.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
And why are they caving?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, because when the president says, you don't do it,
we're invading you. And there's no government on the planet
that would do that except the US government. He is
fully prepared to do that and they know it. So
on a practical level, I think it makes a lot.
I think it makes sense to do what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Okay, big Bucks earned in Burbank best place to watch
a movie in Los Angeles in twenty twenty five. Apparently
the AMC sixteen in Burbank Deadline since Deadline says that
that is the number one theater at the bottom of
the country, in the country.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, I haven't been to that one AMC Bourbank, have you.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You know?
Speaker 6 (29:05):
I think I have, but I'm I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I don't know for sure. I mean, they're all kind
of the same to me. Yeah, it's in the movie
theaters in Burbank. I think it's probably that one.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, isn't that the one with the lie down seats,
the reclining seats and then you have food brought to
your to the chair.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
I don't think so, but I do like those ones best.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Those are great.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
And then you have the servers all have to hunch
down and serve the plates up because you can't. They
can't block the view, which is why so many hunchback
dwarfs work at those theaters, because it just works physiologically
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to serve people sitting down.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Okay, Okay, you.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Know, Bill, you've complained a lot that the rides at
Disneyland are just too darn short, don't last long enough.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Well, not this one.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
A group of people riding the monorail yesterday. They were
near the park entrance and the Montoreil came to a
dead stop and it didn't start again. Apparently the beam
that the monorail travels along lost power, according to Disneyland.
They didn't say why, but it did, and so about
sixty people were stuck on the monorail for four hours
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and then Anaheim fire finally came in and they used
ladders to get them down.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Okay, being a Disneyland a ficionado like you are, I
would use the word fanatic.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Do you think people would.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Be excited now if you had over the speaker system
as they were waiting in line for the Montoreil be
prepared for the next forty five minute monorail ride, how
many people would get aboard?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I know you would. No.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Okay, this was four hours.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Oh that's what I meant, four hour monorail ride.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And it wasn't really ride because they were stuck, but
they did get a unique experience because they got to
climb down ladders and you don't get to do that
every day at Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Did I ever tell you?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I think I shared that story that I got stuck
on It's a Small World for forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Right in the middle of the damn thing.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
And did they keep the music going?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I was in therapy for years and because every time
I heard that song, I immediately went into PTSD.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
You want to get me going, It's a Small World.
This is a true story.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Every year, not that the other ones aren't true, but
every year I host IMC the Lawyer's Philharmonic, as you know,
and I talk about it. And last year it was
last year, or the year before, I think it was
last year, it was a Disney tribute where Disney songs
were played Disney music and it was terrific. And the
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last we're up on stage saying goodbye to everybody who
were taking our last bows, and the orchestra breaks into
It's a Small World. People who were on the stage
with me said, I started sweating, literally just pouring a sweat,
and you could see my face turn red, and I
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had to get I had to get out of there.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I would have had a nervous breakdown.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
You would have seen me on the floor of that stage,
curled up in a fetal position and moaning if I
had stayed a second longer listening to It's a Small World,
Oh Cono. God, I wish I hadn't said that, because
we know what's going to happen next time we do
a Disney story, don't we. I should not have said that.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
You're saying that Cono would use that music against you
to create trauma in your life. Oh yes, looks at
me just sitting there all dead pamp reacting like you.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
All right, let's do one moren and I think we'll
finish it up.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
You are terminated.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
The Los Angeles Angels and eight other Major League teams
have terminated their broadcast deals with fan Dual Sports Network
and it's parent company, Main Street Sports Group. According to
the AP Commissioner Rob manfreds to, the league is ready
to produce and distribute the broadcast of all nine teams
if it needs to, said, no matter what happens, whether
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it's Main Street, a third party, or MLB media, fans
will have the games.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
So and why did they stop broadcasting? Why did they
cut their ties with main Street? Because they didn't pay
their they didn't make their payments. Because this is a
licensing agreement between Major League Baseball and fan duel.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
And or is that dual fan? Or is that two fans,
multiple duals, multiple fans?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Ye, yes, exactly, thank you, And you don't pay. Guess
what your contract basically disappears. Boy, there's a there's a
shocker for you. We live in a capitalist society. You
cut a deal, you're supposed to pay, you don't pee,
you don't pay. That's it, it's over. This is kf
I Am six forty.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
I know.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm a trader when I say the speed limit is
sixty five miles an hour, because what you're saying is, uh, well,
it's a.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Stupid analogy that went no place.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Okay, let's just you know, sometimes I even impress myself
with the stupidity.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Okay, and now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Good morning everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It is a Friday morning, January the ninth, as we're
well into the new year, and today is foody Friday
without the food and ask handle anything without the handle,
and so we're well, anything without the anything you can
ask handle. In other words, we're not doing the eight
(01:02):
thirty segment today. Neil is gone and he is involved
in putting that together. And Neil usually has a foody
Friday segment with Neil Savedra. And that's how to do
without Neil Savedra. Okay, there's our lineup. I guess's back.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Ko Oh, car broke down yesterday on Surday. Sure, yeah,
it's great.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So it's great.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Are you gonna replace a repair of the car? Replace
the car?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
They didn't call me back yesterday, so I don't know
the damage, which I'm guessing that's not good.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
What do you mean you don't know the damage? Did
you hit something?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
No, but I don't know what's wrong with it. And
they didn't call me to tell me, Hey, this is
how much? So I'm guessing it's gonna be a pretty penny.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So we'll see.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
It depends if it's over three. If it's over three,
I'll probably think about the over three?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What thousand?
Speaker 7 (01:52):
Who?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And that is a minor repair to cars these days?
So how'd you get in?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I have my wife's, I have my other the I
have the good car, right, and.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, your wife drives a good car, so how is
she going to get to work?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
She doesn't work today?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh okay, yeah, so thats good.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And by the way, if you do get a reasonable
under three thousand dollars repair estimate ninety nine dollars for example,
it's still going to take you days to get that fix,
if not.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Longer, Yeah, not too long ago, like two weeks ago,
I got breaks and a belt.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It was eleven, so that was that was a small repair. Breaks?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And what year is your car?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The one I drive is at twenty sixteen?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well that's not bad. That's not bad.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So but I drive six hundred miles a week, so.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah, that's that's bad. Yeah. And what car is that?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That's the model. It's a Volkswagen.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Oh, they're still making that. I had.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
My aunt is a Jeta, not a Jedi, a Jedi
actually pronounced Jeta. That's good, you know. I just wanted
to point that out, not that it matters. All right, Amy,
good morning?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I am?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Will is not here because Will is up in the
sky someplace. He was at the Fiesta Bowl and now
he's at some other event.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
He's doing one of the wild card playoff games this weekend.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Oh okay. And then there's Anne last and certainly least.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, you are cold that you're wearing this like winter park,
I thing freezing.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I have to be layered in here. It's like look
at this. I'm like, it's freezing.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I don't know so far the jacket has just come off,
the shirt underneath is about to come off, and there
we go.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And what color? Okay? Black? Fair enough?
Speaker 7 (03:40):
I need music to this, conto, Yeah you do. Actually
I don't have that type of music. Oh, here come
the tassels. Okay, very exciting stuff. All right, And are
you working this weekend playoff games going?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
No, we don't have a home game, no home playoffs.
Rams are not in, Chargers are not in. Both are
in the playoffs. They're both in playoffs, but they're both
playing somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You know, as I said, wouldn't it be absolutely terrific
if the Rams and the Chargers played against each other?
The trifeca would trifecta would be the Rams the Chargers
at home.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Well, you do realize that the Super Bowl is coming
so far, so that could happen.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
If when is it? Oh well I'm talking about this
time around. What was it coming to so far?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Next year?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And you're gonna be working uh huh Oh that's exciting. Oh,
it be so awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Super Bowl Week the players hate it, you know, because
it's a week of talking to thousands of reporters and
going to meetings and you know, under contract, the ballplayers
have to deal with all that. Who was that one
player a few years ago who hated it to the
point where whenever he was interviewed, and he went to
(04:56):
all the interviews, he was forced to under contract and
all he did was grunt.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
There will be Marshall Lynch.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, oh hey, so what do you think it's gonna
happen at Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
So what do you think defense offense is going to prevail? Hm?
And how much does he make or did he make
a lot? Yeah? And he met and he met the
terms of the contrast. He was there and he responded.
That was interview. I did that interview with Rodney King.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I think it was his first interview that he had
after his incident. And this was subsequent to him taking
a crowbar to the or beating up that that transvestite hooker,
if you remember. And I had him on the interviewed,
and he brought his attorney and that there was a
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lot of grunting on that one too, every question.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
It was a grunt. Not not one of.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
My better interviews, I must add, Okay, fair enough with that,
all right, the job, interview, the story, what we're going
to do later on. In the meantime, we've got a
fair amount of news. At the forefront, of course, is
what's happening in Minneapolis. But at the same time there's
a lot going on. Well, first of all, we're waiting
for the Supreme Court today may come down with a
(06:18):
decision as to the power the president has in regards
to tariffs. Does the president have unbridled, uncontrolled tariff powers.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
We'll see what the Supreme Court has to say.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
In the meantime, let's go through some more news and
there's a lot of it today. Handle on the news
with Amy Neils not here and me lead story.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Let's make a deal. Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So now the bill that was put onto the floor
by Congress, and this had to do with doing an
end around Mike Johnson, who normally decides the speaker decides
what bill is going to even hit the floor for
a vote, and he tried as hard as he could
(07:03):
to make sure that the bill was objections. What do
they call that? I keep on always forgetting that the
name of the procedure. In any case, a bunch of Democrat,
bunch over a dozen House Republicans joined every Democrat to
pass the bill extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies for
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three years, exactly what the Democrats wanted. Well, it's passed
in the House, contrary to the leadership and certainly contrary
to what the President wants. It's going to stall in
the Senate probably, and even if it passes the Senate
and the House, it'll be vetoed by the President.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Do you think you to veto it? Yeah, I just
think that's political suicide.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, whatever Trump does that, nothing is political suicide for
Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Nothing, nothing, nothing, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
He said, what was that New York Times interview where
he was asked yesterday? Is there any to what you
can do in foreign affairs? Any limit whatsoever? And he said,
only my morality. I can do whatever I want. And
I've made this point before, and Amy, I know you
and I maybe have disagreed, But give me a number
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that you had to guess. The President calls for the
dissolution of Congress because Congress is getting in the way
of his agenda. How many Republicans would vote in favor
of the dissolution of Congress.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
They're not going to vote. They wouldn't even be asked
to vote. You're playing the what if game?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Of course, I'm playing the what if game. What do
you think we do? You think I rely on facts
on reality? I mean, the life is a what if game. No,
I am known as the straw man host. The point
I'm making is the point obviously that is a little hyperbolic.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Although there maybe a couple of them.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Is that no matter what the President says, MAGA supporters
and the super concervve members of Congress, which there are plenty,
will back him up, absolutely, back him up, no question.
Even when Constitution clearly calls for Congress to act, they
what they will do is say the President can overrun
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or interpret the Constitution as to give himself full power.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
That's what he said.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
The only thing that stops me from doing anything is
my feelings about it.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Can you imagine any other president saying that, I mean,
it would blow up? And this is oh okay, here's
another one.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
All right.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
So the AACA subsidies American the Affordable Care Act, which Obamacare,
which the Republicans have been fighting since the day it
was passed, bill after bill after bill to kill the pill,
to kill the bill, and so now it was adopted
(09:54):
on the floor for the extension.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Blocked by the Feds Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
She'll say the FBI has blocked them from investigating the
shooting of a woman by a.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
US ICE agent.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
The Vice President Vance said the investigation is a federal issue,
and DHS Secretary Christinman basically said the same thing. She
said this is a federal issue, and so they don't
have jurisdiction. Officials have offered differing accounts of what happened.
The Trump administration says the ICE agent was acting in
self defense, but local officials say the woman did not
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pose a danger to them.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
All right, Coming up at seven twenty, I'm going to
dive into that because life is a lot more complicated
than simple statements.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Jd.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Vance talking about absolute immunity. It's a little more complicated
than that. That's coming up at seven twenty.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Ice agent ided. So the ICE agent who shot the
woman in Minneapolis has been identified, and it turns out
that this guy had been dragged and injured by a
driver during another ICE operation last year. He is an
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experienced officer with more than ten years at ICE.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
All right, So you have an officer who is being
described as this rogue, renegade cop or ICE agent who
shoots this woman good sort of not out of the blue,
but in self defense according to the government and the
state's according to the Fed, State is saying no, it
(11:41):
was a shooting that was unjustified. Now does that take
into account and think about this, do you think of
it differently than six months ago he was dragged by
a car for one hundred yards, needing dozens of stitches. Yeah,
I think you take that into account. Why, because the
determination of whether or not the killing is justified unless
(12:05):
it is crazy. Of course, shooting someone in the back
that're running away is the put your you put yourself
into the cops position. And whether or not that is
going to be determinative, it's not because it's never going
to go to state court. It's going to go to
federal court. And I'll explain why later on. But yeah, yeah,
(12:26):
I think that would change things. Maybe he's a little
bit more sensitive than other police officers under the circumstances.
And if you were to convict it, now this is
a what if amy. If you were to be convicted
and he was looking at jail time, which he would
be if he was found to have shot unreasonably, is
that a mitigating factor?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Another shooting, another one from Minnesota over to Oregon. There
was there were two people who were shot by Federal
Border Patrol AI in Portland yesterday afternoon. Apparently Home On
Securitiesa's Border Patrol agents were doing a vehicle stop in Portland.
(13:10):
The Stevens said the driver who is a suspected member
of Trenda Arragua, that's the Venezuelan really nasty gang. Attempted
to weaponize his vehicle and run over the agents.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
That's when they were shot.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
They then took off and then called on one one
on their own and now they're in the hospital recovery.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Okay, not much to say about that.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I haven't said this for a while. California is drought free.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Not a single square mile of the state is categorized
as dry for the first time in twenty twenty five years.
According to the latest US Drought Monitor, zero percent of
the state's total area is experiencing drought conditions.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
See I called it.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I said that the drought was going to end or
going to be well, actually I didn't call it.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I won.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I thought you said it was in a forever drought.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, that's exactly what I said. I was just about
to say, except that I went the other way. And
this does not mean that global warming and does that
mean that drought long term is not going to be here,
But it does come in waves that we know so
drought rainy season. Because the other argument is hurricanes are
more powerful, they're more of them. Floods are bigger, greater,
(14:25):
more water, more dangerous.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
That is happening.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
We know that, and so just rack one up to
handle being wrong. Now, Am I wrong more than I
am right?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
You know what? I really don't want to say, yep,
I certainly am.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Okay, Moving on, Donations are pouring in a GoFundMe campaign
for the family of Renee Good. She's the woman who
was shot and killed by the ice agent in Minneapolis.
The GoFundMe is now up to more than seven hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
It's a big one, and and I want to talk
about that.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
We and do we have that for the eight to
fifty segment the gofund me campaign, that would be a
thirty Okay, we have that at Okay, trying to figure
out that we do this on the fly as topics
go in and out and news items come in. So
I mean, this show is.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Clearly the prodcast the latest. We broadcast the latest. Yeah. Yeah,
that's another way of saying we did this on the fly.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
We want to see what's coming in, so we'd and
you see my in depth analysis which people rely on
come up virtually every day.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Okay, Okay, let me write that down. Did you send
me that a thirty segment thing? You already had it
sent yesterday. You got to send it to me again. No,
I have the story, I think, Oh, the updated rundown,
got it? Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, just give me an updated rundown. Okay, Inside baseball,
Inside baseball.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Moving on an.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Act of s escalation, the Russian Defense Ministry says it
has hit western Ukraine with a nuclear capable intermediate range
ballistic missile. The attack only the second time in the
war that Moscow had fired that type of missile. It's
known as the Orshnik. The choice of western Ukraine as
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a target near the border with Poland, which is an
EU and a NATO member, seems to be intended to
send a message to Europe as it strongly backs Kiev
in talks to end the war.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, while the talks are going on, Russia is attacking
more and more with weaponry that is more and more,
both in terms of numbers and the lethal abilities. I mean,
I didn't launch a nuclear missile, nuclear tit missile, but
they launched the delivery system with this Rishnik Arishnik missile,
(17:00):
and I think it's a ballistic missile. I think anyway.
It's a sends an message, as you said, and Putin
is playing this game.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Oh yes, oh yes, I absolutely want a piece deal.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Have you noticed that the president, our president is no
longer saying how much he believes of Vladimir Putin, what
a great guy Putin is, that he believes Putin over
the intelligence community here in the United States. That's all gone,
and the president realizes what an sob Putin really is
and hopefully does something about it.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Okay, time to talk takeover. Denmark and Greenland's envoys are
in Washington, d C. Denmark's ambassador and Greenland's chief representative
to Washington have met with White House national security officials
to discuss a renewed push by President Trump to acquire Greenland.
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They've also held a series of meetings with American lawmakers
there of trying to get lawmaker's help in persuading Trump
to back off his threat to take over the little island.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to meet next
week with Danish officials.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, this is a fun one. And let me tell
you why it's fun.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
The President wants Greenland, and he wants it under any circumstances.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
There is talk of buying Greenland.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
There is no chance in hell that Denmark is going
to sell Greenland to the United States. I think that's
off the table, which means that the President is intimating
more and more that we will invade Greenland to take
it over. Now I'm going to ask for a figure.
I guess Greenland does not have its own defense forces.
(18:45):
These are Danish forces that in fact guard.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Greenland.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
There's some other stuff going on, but we're talking about
defensive Danish army personnel who are on Greenland who would
fight any Okay, numbers, Amy, how many do you think
there are there?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
You mean total people or militaries.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Oh, not people, fifty six thousand people, but I'm talking
about Danish. Don't even look at this up because I
want you to really guess the number of Danish army
personnel that are on Greenland for defensive purposes, in other words,
of Greenland gets invaded.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Two hundred, right, it's one hundred to two hundred people.
Oh really, Yeah, you're absolutely right on.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's one hundred to two hundred, depending on how many
they send over any given time. So the might of
the US Armed services are going to be put to
are going to be invading a country that has one
to two hundred military personnel guarding it. Who do you
think is gonna win on that one?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I would love for Greenland to win, to just obliterate them.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, it's probably an My guess is is probably not
going to happen. No, yeah, not going to happen anyway.
I found that fascinating when I look that up, and
I do not put it past the president. Prior to
the invasion of Venezuela, if you want to call it that,
(20:15):
or the special forces going in and grabbing Maduro, I
thought that was all bluster by the President when he
said boots on the ground, We're going to go in militarily.
I thought it was all bluster. Well, clearly not, and
certainly the rest of the world acknowledges and understands that's
not bluster. The president will do it.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Now Greenland, that is.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
On a whole different level because it's part of NATO
and it gets crazy and if that happens or comes
close to happening, you think I'm going to talk about
that or what? All right, and Amy, I'm going to
just start this one because this has to do with
evictions and We talk a lot about evictions here, especially
on a handle on the law. If you're a landlord,
(20:58):
I want you to pay attention to this eviction story.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
This may work for you.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
A five hundred and fifty pound bear that had been
camped out or living under a home in Alta, Dina
for more than a month has finally been removed.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Poor guy, the.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Homeowner says he's relieved, no more banging under the house
and smelling him and wondering what's going on under there.
That's Ken Johnson, who's the homeowner. The bear was camping
out there. Wildlife officials tried to scare him out. They
used paintball guns, airhorns, but no luck. And then the
Bear League, a nonprofit based in Lake Tahoe, came in
(21:36):
to help and apparently they one of the guys even
crawled into the crawl spot space and shoot him out
and out came the bear.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
So he's been evicted.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, so those people who are looking at evictions and
you have a a tenant who's in pay, it doesn't pay.
And this is handling the log giving me this. Used
paintball guns, use horns. Also, they electrified when the bear
was out electrified the opening, so you may want to
do that. I'll elect try the front door. I mean
(22:09):
this good stuff. This is how you get a ten
and out.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I feel bad for the bear. Bear's fine, Well, you
know you had found a place to hang out for
the winter. Now he asked to go find a new place.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
What does that do to them?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, exactly, Okay, all right, Iran does.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Not want you to see what's going on. There's an
internet blackout in Iran. Authorities cut internet access and also
telephone lines immediately after protests in the capital city of
Tehran yesterday and other cities also got underway. The blackout
did not immediately prevent the posting of videos of protests,
(22:47):
which are now into their second week. And they're protesting
because the economy is collapsing and inflations like at forty
percent and people are angry.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, that's how you can control a population, or try
to as you cut off internet.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
North Korea does this all the time.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It just cuts off internet, where you've got the North
Korean citizens simply not able to use the internet.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
China does this.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It can cut off internet because they control the pipeline
coming in.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
This is not good for.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The regime and I think it's fair to say of
Iran the Mulahs, they quickly are realizing that they're in trouble,
and so they're allowing women to walk around without a
hey job, for example. They're loosening some of the social mores,
but still want to hang on to as much power
as possible.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah, you may see.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Iran just going the other way. I remember the revolution
brought into theocracy in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
It may go the other way.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Amy Harvey Weinstein might plead guilty.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Apparently he's weighing a potential guilty plea to resolve a
rape charge and to avoid going to trial for a
third time in New York. That's according to his lawyer
and a judge. But the disgraced movie mogul still insists
he never assaulted anyone.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yeah, there goes the guilty plea.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Because the only way the court accepts a guilty plea
is you say I did it.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
So if you plead guilty, can the court not accept
the plea?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
If you plead guilty and then say I did it, yeah,
the court is going to say no, thank you, that's
not a guilty plea. So we'll see what happens. I
think for public consumption, he never assaulted anyone. Well, he's
going to trial. It doesn't really matter. He's seventy three
and has gotten a bunch of prison time for charges
all over the country. So he's dying in prison. It's
(24:55):
that simple, no matter what he does.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
The trip short.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
NASA is going to bring a crew of four astronauts
home from the International Space Station early. They're supposed to
come back in late February. They've been up there since August,
but somebody's got a medical condition, and so they're going
to bring them home probably in the next few days.
During the twenty five year history of the International Space Station,
(25:21):
this is the first time astronauts have returned early because
of a medical issue.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Now there are the other way has happened where astronauts
stay longer than anticipated. We just talked about a group
of astronauts that we're supposed to return to Earth I
think it was two thousand and nine, and have stayed
a little bit longer than anticipated before they're bringing them
down to Earth.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You know what, I always start to take you seriously,
then more stuff comes out of your mouth.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
I'm like, wait, oh, he's joking.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
And that's why the show works as far as we're concerned.
I don't know about listeners, but we serve have a
rip roaring good time.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Political prisoners are free.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Venezuela has released a number of imprisoned high profile opposition figures,
activist journalists. It's been called a gesture to seek peace
and basically do what Trump wants them to do. President
Trump said the releases came at the request of the
United States, and he says that Venezuela has been great.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Everything we've wanted. They've given us.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Okay, a lot of pieces here, all right, So Maduro's
taken out, leaving the vice president. Legally, if you accept
the Maduro regime as having been legitimately elected, which very
few countries do. This last election, and the president who
had been in touch with Mashado, Maria Maschado, who actually
won the election last time out, or at least her
(26:52):
proxy did, because she was in exile, because they would
have arrested her and probably lost her in jail for
thirty years. Okay, why is the president at not going
to the opposition the legitimately elected new government, which our
government said it was. Here's why, because when you bring
in a new government, keep in mind, what does that mean.
(27:16):
That means you're gonna have new cabinet members, That means
you're gonna have new technocrats. That means you're gonna have
new heads of nationalized companies. And the infrastructure is already
there now it is corrupt, but you've got a vice
president says, oh, oh, we better do what the United
States does. And it's just easier, much easier for the
(27:36):
US to take this ridiculous regime, this corrupt regime, and
turn it around and say, Okay, you're going to do
what we.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Tell you to do.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
And effectively, there's a new government in town, and that
is the American government unnationalize the oil industry, for example,
the infrastructure is going to belong to the United States,
or at least controlled by the United States. The oil
is going to be come to the United States. You've
got various other major geopolitical issues because Venezuela is selling
(28:05):
oil to China, to Russia. And now what the president
is stopping that one too, saying you're gonna do what
we want you to do. It's a practical way of
going about it. It is a practical way of going
about it.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
And why are they caving?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, because when the president says, you don't do it,
we're invading you. And there's no government on the planet
that would do that except the US government. He is
fully prepared to do that and they know it. So
on a practical level, I think it makes a lot.
I think it makes sense to do what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Okay, big Bucks earned in Burbank best place to watch
a movie in Los Angeles in twenty twenty five. Apparently
the AMC sixteen in Burbank Deadline since Deadline says that
that is the number one theater at the bottom of
the country, in the country.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, I haven't been to that one AMC Bourbank, have you.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You know?
Speaker 6 (29:05):
I think I have, but I'm I don't.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I don't know for sure. I mean, they're all kind
of the same to me. Yeah, it's in the movie
theaters in Burbank. I think it's probably that one.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, isn't that the one with the lie down seats,
the reclining seats and then you have food brought to
your to the chair.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
I don't think so, but I do like those ones best.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Those are great.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
And then you have the servers all have to hunch
down and serve the plates up because you can't. They
can't block the view, which is why so many hunchback
dwarfs work at those theaters, because it just works physiologically
(29:44):
to serve people sitting down.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Okay, Okay, you.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Know, Bill, you've complained a lot that the rides at
Disneyland are just too darn short, don't last long enough.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Well, not this one.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
A group of people riding the monorail yesterday. They were
near the park entrance and the Montoreil came to a
dead stop and it didn't start again. Apparently the beam
that the monorail travels along lost power, according to Disneyland.
They didn't say why, but it did, and so about
sixty people were stuck on the monorail for four hours
(30:18):
and then Anaheim fire finally came in and they used
ladders to get them down.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Okay, being a Disneyland a ficionado like you are, I
would use the word fanatic.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Do you think people would.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Be excited now if you had over the speaker system
as they were waiting in line for the Montoreil be
prepared for the next forty five minute monorail ride, how
many people would get aboard?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I know you would. No.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Okay, this was four hours.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Oh that's what I meant, four hour monorail ride.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And it wasn't really ride because they were stuck, but
they did get a unique experience because they got to
climb down ladders and you don't get to do that
every day at Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Did I ever tell you?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I think I shared that story that I got stuck
on It's a Small World for forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Right in the middle of the damn thing.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
And did they keep the music going?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I was in therapy for years and because every time
I heard that song, I immediately went into PTSD.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
You want to get me going, It's a Small World.
This is a true story.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Every year, not that the other ones aren't true, but
every year I host IMC the Lawyer's Philharmonic, as you know,
and I talk about it. And last year it was
last year, or the year before, I think it was
last year, it was a Disney tribute where Disney songs
were played Disney music and it was terrific. And the
(31:48):
last we're up on stage saying goodbye to everybody who
were taking our last bows, and the orchestra breaks into
It's a Small World. People who were on the stage
with me said, I started sweating, literally just pouring a sweat,
and you could see my face turn red, and I
(32:09):
had to get I had to get out of there.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I would have had a nervous breakdown.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
You would have seen me on the floor of that stage,
curled up in a fetal position and moaning if I
had stayed a second longer listening to It's a Small World,
Oh Cono. God, I wish I hadn't said that, because
we know what's going to happen next time we do
a Disney story, don't we. I should not have said that.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
You're saying that Cono would use that music against you
to create trauma in your life. Oh yes, looks at
me just sitting there all dead pamp reacting like you.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
All right, let's do one moren and I think we'll
finish it up.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
You are terminated.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
The Los Angeles Angels and eight other Major League teams
have terminated their broadcast deals with fan Dual Sports Network
and it's parent company, Main Street Sports Group. According to
the AP Commissioner Rob manfreds to, the league is ready
to produce and distribute the broadcast of all nine teams
if it needs to, said, no matter what happens, whether
(33:13):
it's Main Street, a third party, or MLB media, fans
will have the games.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
So and why did they stop broadcasting? Why did they
cut their ties with main Street? Because they didn't pay
their they didn't make their payments. Because this is a
licensing agreement between Major League Baseball and fan duel.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
And or is that dual fan? Or is that two fans,
multiple duals, multiple fans?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Ye, yes, exactly, thank you, And you don't pay. Guess
what your contract basically disappears. Boy, there's a there's a
shocker for you. We live in a capitalist society. You
cut a deal, you're supposed to pay, you don't pee,
you don't pay. That's it, it's over. This is kf
I Am six forty.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Catch my Show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
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Speaker 4 (34:11):
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