January 15, 2026 • 29 mins
(January 15, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Federal court upholds California’s new congressional districts. The U.S has officially started selling Venezuelan oil. Trump administration halts immigrant visa processing from 75 countries. Ailing astronaut returns to Earth early in NASA’s first medical evacuation.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
I know we're gonna tell you all the gizmos that
we hand out that we used to hand out, you know,
the pens and the cheek hanes, they were all made
by you know, kids in Pakistan who are under eight
years old in the factories.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Like your pots and pans.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, well they're made in China by kids under twelve.
Yeah no, I think kid's under ten.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
But you have morals and now handle on the news
ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Here's Bill Handle. Yeah, good morning, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Handle here.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It is a Thursday and the steep boy, what.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
A momentous sleepertin.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
But I don't even know why I bother that every
single morning, saying oh what a momentous sweepish fin. I mean,
it's uh, you know, it's the news cycle. So let
me say to one and all will start with you.
Will good morning, Good morning Bill. You know, oh you're
wearing uh black, and usually black is slimming.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh wow, not so much this time around.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You first comment out of out of his mouth it's no,
I'm not swimming.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, you know, usually it works, Will I agree, thank you. Yeah,
not in your case. Okay, Neil's shaking his head. Good morning, Neal.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
No, don't be a jerk to Will. He's a good man.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'm not arguing.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
He's not fat.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Me excuse me. He is not fat.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I'm big bone.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
He's not fat, but he is fat.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
For those of you that for those of you don't
want this thing and it's fat. Except me, you can
Will's pretty, Will's pretty chunky, Will, Will's everybody is.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Totally normal except for Kno, he's a little on.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
The is thin.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Is not fat, but she is not thin. What are
you talk to me about. I'm telling I'm body shaming everybody.
I said, not fat?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But also not she's not slender where Amy, for example,
is slender.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Amy is ten feet tall.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, but that does She's still slender.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Four hundred pounds and it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And she's not Yeah she's a bitty thing.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh my god, bitty.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
What do you mean she's not that bitty? Have you
seen her lately?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, she's bitty.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Er.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You told me that I could be in an extra
in a concentration camp movie. No, I said, you were moving.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
It was the sweetest thing.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Ever I said you were moving in that direction.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Oh, but ways to go?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
H yeah, a lot of us have ways to go.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, okay, anything else going on, we're going to talk
more that or our Cono gofund me page is doing well.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
How much do we have in there? And a lot?
This is great. We are at thirteen thousand, one hundred
and seven.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Okay, so our goal is twenty five thousand dollars because
Cono's car blew up and Cono works here, so that's
a bad commodation. So ConA wants to get another car
and we're helping him do that, and so far our
goals twenty five.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We're halfway there. Over halfway there, and this time.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Around we're helping Kno buy a car with four wheels,
which should help out on his drive in seventy two
miles each way, so it goal is slow.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
If you could help us, and we've all kicked in,
this is not an Iheard or KFI event. This is
strictly us on the Morning show as individuals. Please help
us help Kono. Go to k F I a M
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and it's a direct link to the go fundme, Paige,
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and please do it through our website because there's a
lot of craziness out there, and that way it's guaranteed
to go to where it's supposed to go.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And that's what's done with this. And we raised the
money for Kno, we're going to start the GoFundMe for
billboards and marketing for the show.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, exactly what Wait, first we have to do it
for Amy's cat though.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's right, cat is sick? Well, I mean, how how
how sick is is the cat? Well?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
We don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I mean she's she's doing okay because she's on steroids,
but we don't still know what's wrong with her. And
now they want to do a cat scan of her
little head.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
A cat scan.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, you know how much those cost? It's going to
be like four or five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I got Come on, no, cat, it is worth four
five thousand dollars for god, say, come on, James.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Would you spend it on your dog?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
No, that was a dumb question.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No. As a matter of fact, I had I had
a dog and I went on the air.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It was she needed surgery.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
She had a bile duct that was blocked and was
in really bad shape, and I asked, I asked listeners,
this was when I had the weekend show, I mean
a million years ago. And I asked the listeners, do
I and that was eighteen hundred dollars But that was
a lot of.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Years ago, A lot more now.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, it's a lot more now. But also you have
to adjust for inflation. And I asked, listeners, do I
spend eighteen maybe it was twenty eight hundred dollars, Do
I spend this money on the dog to save its life?
Or no? Overwhelmingly, like ninety five ninety eight percent said,
(05:56):
of course you have to spend the money.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
How can you not? And then the next week I.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Came back and reported, yeah, we put the dog down
and it did very well as it was being put down.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
One of his twin daughters was six needed a fifteen
hundred dollars surgery, and Bill walked back into her and said, sorry,
doctor says you're not gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, there's a couple of jokes about that that are.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Very very funny.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That's sad. I'm so sorry, Amy, that sucks.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I'm the best.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Are you I mean, are you going this? We're going
to are you going to spend four five thousand dollars
on the cat.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Well, I've already spent almost four thousand on her and
we still don't know what's wrong with her.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's like two visits.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
There is there a limit.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Well, at some point I'm going to run out of money.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
That's what I keep telling them that do we have
any vets listening?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
There was you know my dog that was eaten by
a coyote. You know, she became a coyote food and
she was not eating. She was severely injured with a
coyote try and eat her. So she went into surgery
and it was like four thousand dollars. And then the
following week she took a turn for the worse and
(07:11):
needed another surgery and needed a very complex surgery, and
they wanted seventeen thousand dollars. I said, you're dreaming. It
used to be You're just done. So we put the
dog down. I mean, I won't just spend that much weight.
And I asked, I asked the tech what do people
do they can't afford this, what do they do?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
They put the dog down?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Now, they used to be that it was like really inexpensive,
like you'd take all three of your animals. I used
to have two cats and a dog and take all
three of them, get a discount, and get all three
of them in for like fifty bucks. But the vets
have changed and they want to test for absolutely everything
before because.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Of the malpractice, because of the malpractice suits.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's like anything else. You have to test up the
Yang yang matter of fact, they do test.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Up the they do. They are yes, they.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Have Okay, I know, okay, guys, done with a frivolity
in the morning, morning dead.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Catch get it now.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Okay, let's go, guys, it's time for handle on the news.
Amy Neil and me lead story. Well, federal panel consisting
of I think a district court judge as well as
a couple of appeals court judges were ruling where they
were listening to a case about California and can't use
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the newly configured congressional boundaries for the mid term election
to basically make five districts more likely to flip to Democrat.
And this has to do with Congress. That was Prop
fifty that we did, and the court said it's legit.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It is legit.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The Republicans who the same thing happened in Texas. Who
fought for it to happen in Texas, filed a lawsuit
to make it sure it didn't happen in California, and
that jud just said no. And it had to do
with why were these congressional districts flipping because of political reasons?
The argument is, it can't do it for racial reasons,
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but you can for political reasons.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And that's what the court said. This is clearly political.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
California is going to be red now.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
No, no, no, no, no. It has to do with
these districts.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No, these districts which lean read there happened to be
a few congressional districts that are red.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Wait, so we're gonna be blue.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Now, we're gonna be bluer.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
We're gonna be bluer in these five This is California
gonna look like liberal it. Yeah, it's gonna look but
you see Texas, Texas did the same thing. It did
the same thing for Republican diss.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
This is going to be conservative.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Neil Neil, Neil Neil, what's that trying. I'm trying to
be serious here, I'm trying to be serious.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You can't tell when you're trying to be funny.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I'm sorry that was not funny, but you know what,
I want to come back and I do want to
make it funny. You we're gonna when we come back
when you're talking aimy about dead cats.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Okay, Oh my turn to mask or not to mask?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
A judge heard arguments from a Trump administration lawyer who
pressed the judge to block the newly enacted California law
that bans most law enforcement officers in the state from
wearing masks. Another law then also requires them to show ID.
It's a first of its kind ban on police face coverings,
(10:49):
and the lawyer says it could unleash chaos across the
country and potentially land ice agents on the wrong side
of the law if it were to take effect. The
judge appeared skeptical and said, why can't they perform their
duties without a mask? They did it until twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, how in the world do those who don't have
masks manage to operate? Now there's an exemption for California
peace officers, which I don't understand. But anyway, there's a
lot of a lot of dissension, a lot of controversy
regarding the masks that I say.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's all because of what's going on with ICE.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Although you know, police officers has been a problem over
the last few years because with facial recognition and you know,
looking at police officers taking pictures and they find out.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Who they are and they dock them. Yeah, and they
dock them.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But there has to be something. As much as I
am for law and order, there has to be something,
a number, something, identification, something to be Otherwise anybody and
everybody can just throw that.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, I say that there are and say there are
I station and come in.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Some of them don't even have ID that tells people
there are ICE agents and they're breaking into a story
of breaking into the house and pulling people out.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Okay, moving on, all right, we're selling oil.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Everybody, get your oil American slash Venezuelan oil. The United
States completed its first sale of Venezuelan oil, valued at
five hundred million bucks. We're going to expect more of this, obviously.
So Trump said that Friday the oil industry would invest
(12:38):
at least one hundred billion to rebuild the infrastructure there.
He says that it's battered. Their energy sector is battered.
Of course, fortunately not everybody feels like it's worth investing in.
Exxon Mobile CEO said, I don't know. There's a lot
(12:59):
going up there, and there's legal and commercial frameworks that
have to be established, so not everybody is as gung
ho on that as an investment.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Well, this was at a.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Policy meeting where Trump had with the CEOs of oil companies,
and it was Exon Mobile CEO Darren Woods who said
that Venezuela is uninvestible. Remember Trump wants one hundred billion dollars,
one hundred billion dollars invested. He goes no, and then
he points out that Venezuela twice nationalized the oil industry
(13:34):
and took twice their infrastructure from Exon Mobil, and he goes,
you know, a third time uninvestable.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Well, so Trump.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Got really pissed off, and he said, Okay, all of
you can invest, but not you Exon Mobil, you can't.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Welfare recipients not welcome. Trump administration has suspended immigrant visa
processing for people in seventy five countries, including Afghanistan and
Iran and Somalia. The freeze will take effect next week
and targets people that officials say are likely to become
(14:14):
a public charge. They describe those people as people who
may rely on government benefits for basic needs.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, except you know, where's the evidence.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And already it's not easy to immigrate to the United States,
and part of the visa application to live here.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Is proving you got the money. And so it's look
at the countries involved.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What do you mean proving you got the money? Is
there some I'm genuinely ignorant of this. You have to
when you come here, you have to show that you
have a certain amount of money.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, and or you have the skill that is necessary,
a skill set that is necessary. It is not easy
to get a visa to come in. I say, now,
visitors visa are easy.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
And this does not affect visitor visas by.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The way, No, it does not affect visitor visas or
work visas that the requirements are met by the companies.
But we're talking about people that are coming here permanently.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
You know why this is an issue right now.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Because what's going on in Minnesota with the Somalian people
who were on the temporary right issue.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, because the fraud that's going on, the.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Fraud, and in congressional hearings they're saying, like three quarters
of the Somalis in that area are on public assistance.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, there's a lot of things, but you know, so
you have one group of people, which President Trump called garbage,
the Somalis, nicely said, and it's been extrapolated to other countries,
mainly poor countries and a lot of the Muslim countries.
And I mean, there is some method to the madness here,
but there also is a way of giving Greek cars
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to people who not only deserve green cards because they're
coming from places that meet the requirements of the persecution
in their place.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
But also what the United States needs. I mean, even
when my.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Parents became they got their green card, and it took
my dad eleven years because there was a quota system,
stood in line eleven years. I mean, that was a
very uncomfortable standing in line for eleven years. But yeah,
I mean literally it was eleven years before he came up.
And so my mom and dad went to the American
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consulate and had applied and my dad had an engineering
degree and had those skills. My mother was a dentist
and had those skills, and the counselor office said to them,
as issuing a green card, you're exactly the kind of
people that America needs.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
He called me sappy, But that's what that's what I
think when I hear that, I want to hear immigrants
coming and taking advantage of the true American having opportunity.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, and giving and giving your country. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Hey, if you were an open book, would you have
your appendix removed? What I have?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
When I didn't need an open book.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I said, if you were an open book, would you
have your appendix removed?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's a book joke. Appendix in the.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
God that's a little bit of a stretch that took
someone with some brains to figure out, which means nobody
on this show.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Okay, moving on, Oh man, So ice agent shot a man,
this time in the leg for everybody gets crazy. This
was in the leg of Venezuelan. Man got shot in
the leg after being ambushed and attacked by two other people.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
And the agent was ambushed in the attack.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, but Venezuela, and they were trying to arrest an
immigrant at the time, and so this is another shoe
happening happening in Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, but this I don't think there's a lot of
controversy to if, in fact, According to the DHS, he
resisted arrest and violently.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It's a quote assaulted the officer.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
With a shovel and a brooms.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, if that is true, then it was totally justified.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I mean, I have no issue with that. The guy's
lucky to be alive.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Frankly, are Greenland's days numbered. Denmark's foreign minister said there
was a frank but also constructive conversation with the Trump
administration at the White House yesterday, but no deal. He says,
we still have fundamental disagreement. That's from Lars Rosmussen, the
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top Danish diplomat. He said, we didn't manage to change
the American position, and the American position is from Trump,
we want Greenland.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Now, this is getting more interesting by the second. Denmark
is sending troops over to Greenland because that's who defends
Screenland doesn't have its own army and the two hundred
of them. France is sending troops. Now that gets really
interesting because Denmark is part of NATO, France is part
(19:14):
of NATO, and the United States is part of NATO.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
So does one NATO.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Country invade and do is there a military conflict with
another NATO country? They never figured that was going to happen. Ever,
is that supposed to be intimidating? We have two hundred people,
but now we have diffren You know, it's it's going
to be really interesting because an attack on one NATO
country is an attack on all. That's Article five. But
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that's just an attack. It doesn't say from whom, It
just says an attack. And it was created to deter
Soviet a Soviet attack. So, man, this is going well,
we're hearing that NATO is going to disappear. If that happens,
NATO collapses, Okay, moving on, and then we're not going
to sell. They're saying, we're not selling NATO, thank you.
(20:03):
Although they're negotiating do we want more bases? But they
can have all the ones they want. You know, it's
not like anything's going to change.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I think it's negotiation. Stop. What are they going to do?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I would think they're negotiating the price they want to discount.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
No, I think it's like if Trump wants bases or
he wants some.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Of them, but they already can get I mean, there's
no issue.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Moving Oh by the way, I'm going to do a
story about this at eight point fifty.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Welcome to Greenland.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
The money part of it, which in and of itself
interesting stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I do one more story before we take our.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Break, all right. I love this. Sometimes it seems our
president gets information from the Internet or something and says sources.
He said. He made this vague statement yesterday that he's
been told on good authority that plans for executions in
Iran have stopped, even as Tehran has indicated fast try
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and executions ahead of its crackdown on protesters. So Trump
didn't specify where he received the information, but only described
it as very important sources on the other side.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Now what I believe he does get that information, all
of this classified information, and there is intelligence out there.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
So it always ends with this phrase, Listen, I hope
it's true. Knows.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, I know, and he every time. I hope that's
what's going on. But now the executions. So the executions
have been stopped at least for the immediate future. Not
the attacks on the citizenry. Those massacres are still going on.
It's just the executions because of the world reaction to
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this and Iran is if the execution is kept on going.
The President said, We're going for it. You know, you
got to stop those executions. And Iran. See now, when
the president says something like that or else, people believe
the or else. That line in the sand, I mean
Obama drew the line in the sand with you know,
(22:11):
Saddam It. It was ridiculous. He never crossed it. I
mean they crossed it, but he never did anything about it.
One of the bushes, was it?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
The bush?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And the line in the sand I think was an
Obama issue. I think it was. But anyway, the line
in the sand doesn't mean much to the United States
except for Donald Trump when he said there's a line,
there is a line, and Iran is saying, Okay, we're
not going to cross it.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Just before we went to break, Amy reported as part
of her news broadcast that there is a California senator
has introduced a bill in the California legislature that limits
the president's term to two years. Cannot go for third
year or third term. Okay, he's a lawyer, so clearly
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when he took his constitutional law class, they only went up.
The class only went to the twenty first Amendment because
the twenty second Amendment says that a president can only
serve two terms.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I'd vote for this guy, for the lawyer that wastes
more money in the legislature than almost anybody else. Okay,
back we go more Handle on the News with Amy,
Neil and.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Me Grock's getting investigated.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
California has announced an investigation into Elon Musk's x AI.
Governor Newsom accuses the artificial intelligence company of becoming a
what he calls a breeding ground for predators to spread
non consensual, sexually explicit AI deep fakes, and that has
been a problem. X Ai has just announced, though, that
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it is doing it itself. It's blocking GROC from making
these images anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, that's scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, and it's you know, with this AI business, no
one has any idea you know, where it's going to
go or what kind of controls they are.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
It's suck Like.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
The dancing cats are cool, but you know, the naked
children not so much.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, but the dancing cans storking each other maybe not
so cool, especially for eight year olds.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, all right, if you saw the images of President
Trump walking through where was he?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
He said, an auto planted autoplant?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You the Ford motor autoplant? Thanks Amy, he walked by,
and I guess someone said something and he flipped them off. Well,
the guy who said something got suspended, and so people
did a GoFundMe page. What the hell's would go fundme pages? Yeah,
eight thousand dollars, eight hundred thousand dollars. But listen to
this screen was TJ Sabula. What a what a guy?
(24:49):
He said, Hey, thanks for all your support, but he
shut them down and said there's other charity out there
that needs your money, not me. I thought that was
class move.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What this guy did was scream something about Epstein to
the President as the President is walking on the catwalk,
about protecting pedal and yeah, he called him, you protect pedophiles,
and Trump screamed, I we didn't know what he said,
but flipped him the bird, flipped him the finger, which
of course got insane coverage, and of course MAGA and
(25:21):
the White House saying that that's just the President being president,
he's real and et cetera. Now I have a question, Uh,
the union members of these ford plants actually put the
President in the White House, that was a big, big
part of his vote. I don't know how they're going
to feel about the President flipping off a union member,
(25:44):
and no idea if he's going to piss off the
And I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Not everybody in the union supported Trump. He had union backing.
He did this guy obviously didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, but usually usually the union's go Democrat, almost always yes,
And in this case they flipped and supported Trump, and
he flips off the union member. So I have no
idea whether it means nothing to me. It means nothing.
I mean, that's okay, so what. But everything he does
is political, Everything anybody does is political.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
One is the loneliest highway that we've ever seen. It's
been shut down through a big surf for the last
three years, but guess what it is finally reopen. Highway
one was first closed in twenty twenty three. We had
a bunch of atmospheric rivers go through that sparked a
landslide or triggered a landslide, and then a second winner
(26:43):
of drenching storms triggered more landslides, and a big chunk
of the highway has been buried under three hundred thousand
cubic yards of dirt, rock and debris. But that has
been cleared and the two lane highway is completely open
again for the drive between one hundred miles between Carmel
and Gas.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
That's good news.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
And drivers have to when they do, they have to
get Boulder and Boulder to make that drive.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You know that. Okay, I think we can do another one.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Hey, did you do your book? Remove its appendix?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
All right? Moving forward?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
So could you imagine being on a flight, a long flight,
and then they have to turn the flight around because
you're sick. Now, imagine if you're in the space station
and you have to turn everything around. You've got an
ailing astronaut. God speeds that they are okay, return to
Earth with three others yesterday or actually this morning, I
(27:43):
guess it would have been at what last I gotcha.
So they're coming back from their space station mission about
a month or so early.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
They splashed down in San Diego. Was there a boom
last night?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Some were saying that southern California might be able to
hear the sonic boom when they re entry or the
boom when they re entry re enter rather and you
could see it. It was like a slow a slow media
you're right, or something coming to Earth.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And when they had to remove first time the ISS
ever had an emergency removal of asters, and they don't.
They won't tell us how sick the astronaut was or
what the what the ailment was. Now, I don't know
if you've ever read or heard astronauts talking about those capsules.
When they're there for days or hours at a time,
about half the astronauts get motion sickness, uh in weightless
(28:37):
and I have read there are yeah, and there is
nothing like vomit in a weightless atmosphere, flying around the capsule.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, it's it's a pleasant it's a very pleasant way
to go. I thought they were looking for people who
don't have the like it happens, It happens. They it's
you really don't know until you're weightless and up this
guy and we're up in space. Okay, we're done, guys.
KF I am sixty.
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years old in the factories.
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Like your pots and pans.
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Yeah, well they're made in China by kids under twelve.
Yeah no, I think kid's under ten.
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It is a Thursday and the steep boy, what.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
A momentous sleepertin.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
But I don't even know why I bother that every
single morning, saying oh what a momentous sweepish fin. I mean,
it's uh, you know, it's the news cycle. So let
me say to one and all will start with you.
Will good morning, Good morning Bill. You know, oh you're
wearing uh black, and usually black is slimming.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh wow, not so much this time around.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You first comment out of out of his mouth it's no,
I'm not swimming.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, you know, usually it works, Will I agree, thank you. Yeah,
not in your case. Okay, Neil's shaking his head. Good morning, Neal.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
No, don't be a jerk to Will. He's a good man.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'm not arguing.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
He's not fat.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Me excuse me. He is not fat.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I'm big bone.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
He's not fat, but he is fat.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
For those of you that for those of you don't
want this thing and it's fat. Except me, you can
Will's pretty, Will's pretty chunky, Will, Will's everybody is.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Totally normal except for Kno, he's a little on.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
The is thin.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Is not fat, but she is not thin. What are
you talk to me about. I'm telling I'm body shaming everybody.
I said, not fat?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But also not she's not slender where Amy, for example,
is slender.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Amy is ten feet tall.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, but that does She's still slender.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Four hundred pounds and it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And she's not Yeah she's a bitty thing.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh my god, bitty.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
What do you mean she's not that bitty? Have you
seen her lately?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, she's bitty.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Er.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You told me that I could be in an extra
in a concentration camp movie. No, I said, you were moving.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
It was the sweetest thing.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Ever I said you were moving in that direction.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Oh, but ways to go?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
H yeah, a lot of us have ways to go.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, okay, anything else going on, we're going to talk
more that or our Cono gofund me page is doing well.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
How much do we have in there? And a lot?
This is great. We are at thirteen thousand, one hundred
and seven.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Okay, so our goal is twenty five thousand dollars because
Cono's car blew up and Cono works here, so that's
a bad commodation. So ConA wants to get another car
and we're helping him do that, and so far our
goals twenty five.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We're halfway there. Over halfway there, and this time.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Around we're helping Kno buy a car with four wheels,
which should help out on his drive in seventy two
miles each way, so it goal is slow.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
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Speaker 1 (04:20):
And that's what's done with this. And we raised the
money for Kno, we're going to start the GoFundMe for
billboards and marketing for the show.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, exactly what Wait, first we have to do it
for Amy's cat though.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's right, cat is sick? Well, I mean, how how
how sick is is the cat? Well?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
We don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I mean she's she's doing okay because she's on steroids,
but we don't still know what's wrong with her. And
now they want to do a cat scan of her
little head.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
A cat scan.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, you know how much those cost? It's going to
be like four or five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I got Come on, no, cat, it is worth four
five thousand dollars for god, say, come on, James.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Would you spend it on your dog?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
No, that was a dumb question.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
No. As a matter of fact, I had I had
a dog and I went on the air.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It was she needed surgery.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
She had a bile duct that was blocked and was
in really bad shape, and I asked, I asked listeners,
this was when I had the weekend show, I mean
a million years ago. And I asked the listeners, do
I and that was eighteen hundred dollars But that was
a lot of.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Years ago, A lot more now.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, it's a lot more now. But also you have
to adjust for inflation. And I asked, listeners, do I
spend eighteen maybe it was twenty eight hundred dollars, Do
I spend this money on the dog to save its life?
Or no? Overwhelmingly, like ninety five ninety eight percent said,
(05:56):
of course you have to spend the money.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
How can you not? And then the next week I.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Came back and reported, yeah, we put the dog down
and it did very well as it was being put down.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
One of his twin daughters was six needed a fifteen
hundred dollars surgery, and Bill walked back into her and said, sorry,
doctor says you're not gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, there's a couple of jokes about that that are.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Very very funny.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That's sad. I'm so sorry, Amy, that sucks.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I'm the best.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Are you I mean, are you going this? We're going
to are you going to spend four five thousand dollars
on the cat.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Well, I've already spent almost four thousand on her and
we still don't know what's wrong with her.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's like two visits.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
There is there a limit.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Well, at some point I'm going to run out of money.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
That's what I keep telling them that do we have
any vets listening?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
There was you know my dog that was eaten by
a coyote. You know, she became a coyote food and
she was not eating. She was severely injured with a
coyote try and eat her. So she went into surgery
and it was like four thousand dollars. And then the
following week she took a turn for the worse and
(07:11):
needed another surgery and needed a very complex surgery, and
they wanted seventeen thousand dollars. I said, you're dreaming. It
used to be You're just done. So we put the
dog down. I mean, I won't just spend that much weight.
And I asked, I asked the tech what do people
do they can't afford this, what do they do?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
They put the dog down?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Now, they used to be that it was like really inexpensive,
like you'd take all three of your animals. I used
to have two cats and a dog and take all
three of them, get a discount, and get all three
of them in for like fifty bucks. But the vets
have changed and they want to test for absolutely everything
before because.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Of the malpractice, because of the malpractice suits.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's like anything else. You have to test up the
Yang yang matter of fact, they do test.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Up the they do. They are yes, they.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Have Okay, I know, okay, guys, done with a frivolity
in the morning, morning dead.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Catch get it now.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Okay, let's go, guys, it's time for handle on the news.
Amy Neil and me lead story. Well, federal panel consisting
of I think a district court judge as well as
a couple of appeals court judges were ruling where they
were listening to a case about California and can't use
(08:41):
the newly configured congressional boundaries for the mid term election
to basically make five districts more likely to flip to Democrat.
And this has to do with Congress. That was Prop
fifty that we did, and the court said it's legit.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It is legit.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The Republicans who the same thing happened in Texas. Who
fought for it to happen in Texas, filed a lawsuit
to make it sure it didn't happen in California, and
that jud just said no. And it had to do
with why were these congressional districts flipping because of political reasons?
The argument is, it can't do it for racial reasons,
(09:24):
but you can for political reasons.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And that's what the court said. This is clearly political.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
California is going to be red now.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
No, no, no, no, no. It has to do with
these districts.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No, these districts which lean read there happened to be
a few congressional districts that are red.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Wait, so we're gonna be blue.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Now, we're gonna be bluer.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
We're gonna be bluer in these five This is California
gonna look like liberal it. Yeah, it's gonna look but
you see Texas, Texas did the same thing. It did
the same thing for Republican diss.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
This is going to be conservative.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Neil Neil, Neil Neil, what's that trying. I'm trying to
be serious here, I'm trying to be serious.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You can't tell when you're trying to be funny.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I'm sorry that was not funny, but you know what,
I want to come back and I do want to
make it funny. You we're gonna when we come back
when you're talking aimy about dead cats.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Okay, Oh my turn to mask or not to mask?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
A judge heard arguments from a Trump administration lawyer who
pressed the judge to block the newly enacted California law
that bans most law enforcement officers in the state from
wearing masks. Another law then also requires them to show ID.
It's a first of its kind ban on police face coverings,
(10:49):
and the lawyer says it could unleash chaos across the
country and potentially land ice agents on the wrong side
of the law if it were to take effect. The
judge appeared skeptical and said, why can't they perform their
duties without a mask? They did it until twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, how in the world do those who don't have
masks manage to operate? Now there's an exemption for California
peace officers, which I don't understand. But anyway, there's a
lot of a lot of dissension, a lot of controversy
regarding the masks that I say.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's all because of what's going on with ICE.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Although you know, police officers has been a problem over
the last few years because with facial recognition and you know,
looking at police officers taking pictures and they find out.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Who they are and they dock them. Yeah, and they
dock them.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But there has to be something. As much as I
am for law and order, there has to be something,
a number, something, identification, something to be Otherwise anybody and
everybody can just throw that.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, I say that there are and say there are
I station and come in.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Some of them don't even have ID that tells people
there are ICE agents and they're breaking into a story
of breaking into the house and pulling people out.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Okay, moving on, all right, we're selling oil.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Everybody, get your oil American slash Venezuelan oil. The United
States completed its first sale of Venezuelan oil, valued at
five hundred million bucks. We're going to expect more of this, obviously.
So Trump said that Friday the oil industry would invest
(12:38):
at least one hundred billion to rebuild the infrastructure there.
He says that it's battered. Their energy sector is battered.
Of course, fortunately not everybody feels like it's worth investing in.
Exxon Mobile CEO said, I don't know. There's a lot
(12:59):
going up there, and there's legal and commercial frameworks that
have to be established, so not everybody is as gung
ho on that as an investment.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Well, this was at a.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Policy meeting where Trump had with the CEOs of oil companies,
and it was Exon Mobile CEO Darren Woods who said
that Venezuela is uninvestible. Remember Trump wants one hundred billion dollars,
one hundred billion dollars invested. He goes no, and then
he points out that Venezuela twice nationalized the oil industry
(13:34):
and took twice their infrastructure from Exon Mobil, and he goes,
you know, a third time uninvestable.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Well, so Trump.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Got really pissed off, and he said, Okay, all of
you can invest, but not you Exon Mobil, you can't.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Welfare recipients not welcome. Trump administration has suspended immigrant visa
processing for people in seventy five countries, including Afghanistan and
Iran and Somalia. The freeze will take effect next week
and targets people that officials say are likely to become
(14:14):
a public charge. They describe those people as people who
may rely on government benefits for basic needs.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, except you know, where's the evidence.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And already it's not easy to immigrate to the United States,
and part of the visa application to live here.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Is proving you got the money. And so it's look
at the countries involved.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What do you mean proving you got the money? Is
there some I'm genuinely ignorant of this. You have to
when you come here, you have to show that you
have a certain amount of money.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, and or you have the skill that is necessary,
a skill set that is necessary. It is not easy
to get a visa to come in. I say, now,
visitors visa are easy.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
And this does not affect visitor visas by.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The way, No, it does not affect visitor visas or
work visas that the requirements are met by the companies.
But we're talking about people that are coming here permanently.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
You know why this is an issue right now.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Because what's going on in Minnesota with the Somalian people
who were on the temporary right issue.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, because the fraud that's going on, the.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Fraud, and in congressional hearings they're saying, like three quarters
of the Somalis in that area are on public assistance.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, there's a lot of things, but you know, so
you have one group of people, which President Trump called garbage,
the Somalis, nicely said, and it's been extrapolated to other countries,
mainly poor countries and a lot of the Muslim countries.
And I mean, there is some method to the madness here,
but there also is a way of giving Greek cars
(15:56):
to people who not only deserve green cards because they're
coming from places that meet the requirements of the persecution
in their place.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
But also what the United States needs. I mean, even
when my.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Parents became they got their green card, and it took
my dad eleven years because there was a quota system,
stood in line eleven years. I mean, that was a
very uncomfortable standing in line for eleven years. But yeah,
I mean literally it was eleven years before he came up.
And so my mom and dad went to the American
(16:32):
consulate and had applied and my dad had an engineering
degree and had those skills. My mother was a dentist
and had those skills, and the counselor office said to them,
as issuing a green card, you're exactly the kind of
people that America needs.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
He called me sappy, But that's what that's what I
think when I hear that, I want to hear immigrants
coming and taking advantage of the true American having opportunity.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, and giving and giving your country. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Hey, if you were an open book, would you have
your appendix removed? What I have?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
When I didn't need an open book.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I said, if you were an open book, would you
have your appendix removed?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It's a book joke. Appendix in the.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
God that's a little bit of a stretch that took
someone with some brains to figure out, which means nobody
on this show.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Okay, moving on, Oh man, So ice agent shot a man,
this time in the leg for everybody gets crazy. This
was in the leg of Venezuelan. Man got shot in
the leg after being ambushed and attacked by two other people.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
And the agent was ambushed in the attack.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, but Venezuela, and they were trying to arrest an
immigrant at the time, and so this is another shoe
happening happening in Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, but this I don't think there's a lot of
controversy to if, in fact, According to the DHS, he
resisted arrest and violently.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It's a quote assaulted the officer.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
With a shovel and a brooms.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, if that is true, then it was totally justified.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I mean, I have no issue with that. The guy's
lucky to be alive.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Frankly, are Greenland's days numbered. Denmark's foreign minister said there
was a frank but also constructive conversation with the Trump
administration at the White House yesterday, but no deal. He says,
we still have fundamental disagreement. That's from Lars Rosmussen, the
(18:44):
top Danish diplomat. He said, we didn't manage to change
the American position, and the American position is from Trump,
we want Greenland.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Now, this is getting more interesting by the second. Denmark
is sending troops over to Greenland because that's who defends
Screenland doesn't have its own army and the two hundred
of them. France is sending troops. Now that gets really
interesting because Denmark is part of NATO, France is part
(19:14):
of NATO, and the United States is part of NATO.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
So does one NATO.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Country invade and do is there a military conflict with
another NATO country? They never figured that was going to happen. Ever,
is that supposed to be intimidating? We have two hundred people,
but now we have diffren You know, it's it's going
to be really interesting because an attack on one NATO
country is an attack on all. That's Article five. But
(19:41):
that's just an attack. It doesn't say from whom, It
just says an attack. And it was created to deter
Soviet a Soviet attack. So, man, this is going well,
we're hearing that NATO is going to disappear. If that happens,
NATO collapses, Okay, moving on, and then we're not going
to sell. They're saying, we're not selling NATO, thank you.
(20:03):
Although they're negotiating do we want more bases? But they
can have all the ones they want. You know, it's
not like anything's going to change.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I think it's negotiation. Stop. What are they going to do?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I would think they're negotiating the price they want to discount.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
No, I think it's like if Trump wants bases or
he wants some.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Of them, but they already can get I mean, there's
no issue.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Moving Oh by the way, I'm going to do a
story about this at eight point fifty.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Welcome to Greenland.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
The money part of it, which in and of itself
interesting stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I do one more story before we take our.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Break, all right. I love this. Sometimes it seems our
president gets information from the Internet or something and says sources.
He said. He made this vague statement yesterday that he's
been told on good authority that plans for executions in
Iran have stopped, even as Tehran has indicated fast try
(21:00):
and executions ahead of its crackdown on protesters. So Trump
didn't specify where he received the information, but only described
it as very important sources on the other side.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Now what I believe he does get that information, all
of this classified information, and there is intelligence out there.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
So it always ends with this phrase, Listen, I hope
it's true. Knows.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, I know, and he every time. I hope that's
what's going on. But now the executions. So the executions
have been stopped at least for the immediate future. Not
the attacks on the citizenry. Those massacres are still going on.
It's just the executions because of the world reaction to
(21:48):
this and Iran is if the execution is kept on going.
The President said, We're going for it. You know, you
got to stop those executions. And Iran. See now, when
the president says something like that or else, people believe
the or else. That line in the sand, I mean
Obama drew the line in the sand with you know,
(22:11):
Saddam It. It was ridiculous. He never crossed it. I
mean they crossed it, but he never did anything about it.
One of the bushes, was it?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
The bush?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And the line in the sand I think was an
Obama issue. I think it was. But anyway, the line
in the sand doesn't mean much to the United States
except for Donald Trump when he said there's a line,
there is a line, and Iran is saying, Okay, we're
not going to cross it.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Just before we went to break, Amy reported as part
of her news broadcast that there is a California senator
has introduced a bill in the California legislature that limits
the president's term to two years. Cannot go for third
year or third term. Okay, he's a lawyer, so clearly
(22:57):
when he took his constitutional law class, they only went up.
The class only went to the twenty first Amendment because
the twenty second Amendment says that a president can only
serve two terms.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I'd vote for this guy, for the lawyer that wastes
more money in the legislature than almost anybody else. Okay,
back we go more Handle on the News with Amy,
Neil and.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Me Grock's getting investigated.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
California has announced an investigation into Elon Musk's x AI.
Governor Newsom accuses the artificial intelligence company of becoming a
what he calls a breeding ground for predators to spread
non consensual, sexually explicit AI deep fakes, and that has
been a problem. X Ai has just announced, though, that
(23:48):
it is doing it itself. It's blocking GROC from making
these images anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, that's scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, and it's you know, with this AI business, no
one has any idea you know, where it's going to
go or what kind of controls they are.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
It's suck Like.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
The dancing cats are cool, but you know, the naked
children not so much.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, but the dancing cans storking each other maybe not
so cool, especially for eight year olds.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, all right, if you saw the images of President
Trump walking through where was he?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
He said, an auto planted autoplant?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You the Ford motor autoplant? Thanks Amy, he walked by,
and I guess someone said something and he flipped them off. Well,
the guy who said something got suspended, and so people
did a GoFundMe page. What the hell's would go fundme pages? Yeah,
eight thousand dollars, eight hundred thousand dollars. But listen to
this screen was TJ Sabula. What a what a guy?
(24:49):
He said, Hey, thanks for all your support, but he
shut them down and said there's other charity out there
that needs your money, not me. I thought that was
class move.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What this guy did was scream something about Epstein to
the President as the President is walking on the catwalk,
about protecting pedal and yeah, he called him, you protect pedophiles,
and Trump screamed, I we didn't know what he said,
but flipped him the bird, flipped him the finger, which
of course got insane coverage, and of course MAGA and
(25:21):
the White House saying that that's just the President being president,
he's real and et cetera. Now I have a question, Uh,
the union members of these ford plants actually put the
President in the White House, that was a big, big
part of his vote. I don't know how they're going
to feel about the President flipping off a union member,
(25:44):
and no idea if he's going to piss off the
And I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Not everybody in the union supported Trump. He had union backing.
He did this guy obviously didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, but usually usually the union's go Democrat, almost always yes,
And in this case they flipped and supported Trump, and
he flips off the union member. So I have no
idea whether it means nothing to me. It means nothing.
I mean, that's okay, so what. But everything he does
is political, Everything anybody does is political.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
One is the loneliest highway that we've ever seen. It's
been shut down through a big surf for the last
three years, but guess what it is finally reopen. Highway
one was first closed in twenty twenty three. We had
a bunch of atmospheric rivers go through that sparked a
landslide or triggered a landslide, and then a second winner
(26:43):
of drenching storms triggered more landslides, and a big chunk
of the highway has been buried under three hundred thousand
cubic yards of dirt, rock and debris. But that has
been cleared and the two lane highway is completely open
again for the drive between one hundred miles between Carmel
and Gas.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
That's good news.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
And drivers have to when they do, they have to
get Boulder and Boulder to make that drive.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You know that. Okay, I think we can do another one.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Hey, did you do your book? Remove its appendix?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
All right? Moving forward?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
So could you imagine being on a flight, a long flight,
and then they have to turn the flight around because
you're sick. Now, imagine if you're in the space station
and you have to turn everything around. You've got an
ailing astronaut. God speeds that they are okay, return to
Earth with three others yesterday or actually this morning, I
(27:43):
guess it would have been at what last I gotcha.
So they're coming back from their space station mission about
a month or so early.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
They splashed down in San Diego. Was there a boom
last night?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Some were saying that southern California might be able to
hear the sonic boom when they re entry or the
boom when they re entry re enter rather and you
could see it. It was like a slow a slow media
you're right, or something coming to Earth.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
And when they had to remove first time the ISS
ever had an emergency removal of asters, and they don't.
They won't tell us how sick the astronaut was or
what the what the ailment was. Now, I don't know
if you've ever read or heard astronauts talking about those capsules.
When they're there for days or hours at a time,
about half the astronauts get motion sickness, uh in weightless
(28:37):
and I have read there are yeah, and there is
nothing like vomit in a weightless atmosphere, flying around the capsule.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, it's it's a pleasant it's a very pleasant way
to go. I thought they were looking for people who
don't have the like it happens, It happens. They it's
you really don't know until you're weightless and up this
guy and we're up in space. Okay, we're done, guys.
KF I am sixty.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
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Speaker 2 (29:09):
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