January 16, 2026 • 29 mins
(January 16, 2025)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit demanding California voter rolls. US warns Iran that ‘all options are on the table.’ Trump threatens the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis. Tiny earthquakes reveal hidden faults under Northern California.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to kf I AM six forty the Bill
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
So witnesses be nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
You know, if you have three witnesses to a crime,
you have four stories. Witnesses are the least reliable evidence
that you can get.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle AM six forty Bill Handle, Here morning crew.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
On a Friday morning, January sixteenth, we were talking here
Ann and Neil and me, and as the music bumper,
the music intro goes on, we're still talking and ConA says,
come on, guys, you have a show to do.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And Neil says, hey, we're talking. We're talking.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
We're talking here.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, we'll turn on your mics and keep talking.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Uh yeah, Well guess what they couldn't do that. They
couldn't do that. Guess what this show is about.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Okay, A couple of things is I'm in the studio today,
which is always a lot of fun. And the reason
I broadcasts from my house a fair amount is because
it is an hour and a half driving in Kono,
and I burn hour and a half driving in and
I have a car.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Just wanted to point that out.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
And this is great because you know people listening right
now are driving an hour and a half to make
much less than you. Well, that's really so, I got
great idea to start with it. I go from an
hour and a half to a thirty foot commute. That's better.
That's better.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And during the summer, you know, because this is the
way you only see me waste up. I quite often
I'll come in there and naked and my bell ringers showing.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Nobody would know it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Quite often.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
That's the whole point is you can't see because so
when I reached down and you think it's to pick
up a pen or something, I drop.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No, it's a scratch factor.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Six six everybody scratch factor.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, okay, crack a window. Uh hey, a couple of
things before we go on. Just a quick hello to
uh one in all Amy, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Good morning Bill.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
She brought my She asked for my Kamala Harris book,
which Lindsey bought me, and I actually read it. Not
that I don't think Kamala Harris is, you know, a
Dodo head interesting book.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I wanted to read it. I just didn't want to
pay for it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, No, it's an interesting book.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
First of all, of course it's completely self aggrandizing, all right,
of course she's so impressed with herself.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
But she talks Is it just like she circles?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
No, she writes, okay, because of course, then I'm sure
it was very heavily edited. But at the same time,
she gives us a lot of what's fun about the book,
a lot of inside baseball about what the Biden administration
did the Biden people did to her, didn't they didn't?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
She just crap all over them in the book.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, because according to her, they crapped all over her
in terms of her run, her candidacy, And it's all
there in the book, naming names. And I thought that
part was interesting. The inside baseball.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Did she get along with the first Lady? I don't.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
They did, I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, but she doesn't talk about that. There wasn't a
lot of that First Lady.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Seemed like she really wanted her husband back in there.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Did you notice the back cover?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I never looked at the back cover.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
So the back cover has Kamala Harris on top, you know,
up on the podium with the American flag, Beyer, and
then the other one is the little black girl who
had to ride the bus that Joe Biden didn't want
her to be on. That's immediately what I thought of.
Remember when she called him out during the debates and
that kind of started. Yeah, that's what that made me
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think of immediately. I have no idea if that's what
that reference is to.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't either.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
That's funny. Yeah, that was her. That was the one
shot she got during the debates. That's the only shot
that she took. His response was terrific. Eh, he said,
I like ice cream. I like ice cream, and I
like the smell young girl's hair. All right, uh Will,
(04:15):
good morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Hey Will brought in real jew bagels and locks, and
thank you very much. What a surprise.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And you know you you have you turned me onto locks.
I thought the idea of it was disgusting until I
ate it and I was like, oh my god, smoked.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Salmon and cream cheese on a bagel and wheeled jew bagels,
and thank you. Because locks are not inexpensive, you have
a choice. You either snort cocaine or you eat locks.
I mean it's snort smoked. Yeah, yeah it is, so
I'll take locks. At some point I didn't as you know. Okay, Neil,
(04:52):
I'll give me a lot of grief. And good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That was it?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, that I gave you grief.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Dude.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Their eyes are at half mass, they are I'm very
tired today. And anyways, all right, and Conou and Cono.
We are raising money to help Cono with a car
his pard, Yeah, his car blue. His car blew up
and he was looking at some real issues in getting
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another car. And we're on our way to pay him
or give him through a go fund Me page, a
good chunk of the purchase of another car. So we
aren't about what what's the exact number?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
And fifteen thousand and seventy five?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That does that? Does that include my ten dollars? No? Okay,
eighty five?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah, handle's the only one that gives money and takes
out his own taxes. True it goes is one hundred dollars,
but it's true forty goes to the bank.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Neil actually beat me in terms of the money you did.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
I was.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I was stunned and hugely embarrassed.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You should be, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And U a present. I'm going to open it on
the air that oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Because you said it was December so much. Yesterday I
thought I'd bring the gifts for every Merry.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Christmas to handle in Lindsay. And that's from Neil, and
I'm going to open it up.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Hey, Neil, is mine the same as his?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Well, yes and no, they're all custom that everybody like them.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh my god, here we go.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It is a cutting board and it's beautiful and it's
just like the one I have at home.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Except what does it say on it?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It says this is where Bill and Lindsay cut the
cheese's and the one.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Uh really say that? Yeah it does? And the one the.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
One I have at home is a little bit I
first say, yeah, well it's it's a little bit more
down to earth.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Mine is this is where Bill and Lindsay fart.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
But it's pretty much the same, Hey, Neil, Yes, mine,
says Cono, the pride of the ie.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Oh wait a second, the tags came off con No
open wills.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So anyway, thank you. It's and it's beautiful. One in
here it is a It is a beautiful.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I put it by your workstation.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
By the way, I've been looking. I've been looking at
cutting boards and they are not good. Ones are not in.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It these are made.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
The guy who makes the cutting boards is in uh
there in the US. He's a woodworker. And then I
do all the designing and etching of the They're absolutely beautiful, stunning.
The guy does beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
It's like it's two different kinds of wood, and the
amazing beautiful.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
What you're saying, oh my gosh, AND's kitchen and teams
and then Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Flip it over, Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
My gosh, and the podres your team who's playing?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Can you flip it over?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Amazing? And mine only has a fart reference?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Yes, thank you, And then Cono says the Ika me,
I want to I want to go back to Combe
before we take a break, because we're obviously a modified
program today as opposed to actually getting into our real
star Christmas is I.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Know because I brought gifts.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
For yousident are going here something okay for Kno, we are.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
We're going to go for another few days.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And I think our goal is twenty five thousand dollars
if we can reach it, and we're at fifteen almost
sixteen thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Are you going to cover what others don't? So if
it doesn't eight will you cover the nine.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
No, nine five?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
No, I'm I'm done with the ten dollars. I'm done
now if you like to pay, if you like to
donate a couple of more dollars than ten.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
By the way, you can match what we have.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
More generous before you got remarried.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Actually yeah, true, you've always been generous, sweep bus.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So anyway, we go fund me page that we are
sending you to and requesting you go to to help
Kono with the car.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You have to go through our website because there is
so much craziness going out there where people just open
up websites, they open up go fundme pages, uh, and
just follow what other people do.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Fraudulent basic like the one that says bill handle Kono. Yeah,
it's just for you.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yes, that one.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Anyway, you go to KFI A M six forty dot
com slash con o, k O n O. That's kf
I A M six forty dot com slash shot cono
and please you know, and you know, I'm one of
those people that say, you know, all all donations are appreciated,
even a dollar or two. That is a crock. When
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people put in two dollars, you know, come on. You
can't be that cheap. It's the bill hander Christmas shown.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
No, no, it doesn't. It goes all they have. But
I don't care people. Have them go out on the
street talking from your high horse. Have them go out
on you know.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
There was there was a gal who I saw on
the freeway off ramp who said three dollars please, and
someone came up with two.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Sheff feed that's not enough money. Okay, here we go
handle on the news, Amy Neil and me lead. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, the Trump administration tried it again and federal judge
shut it down. And this has to do with a
directive that the President signed ordering California to turn over
its voter rolls.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
To the Feds. And the judge said, nope, not going
to happen.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Judge David o'carter, he's involved in the homeless, all the
homeless situation for years, and he said the Justice Department's
motivation and its lawsuit demanding the voter data from California
not just an overreach into state run elections, but a
threat to American democracy.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
And usually judges don't go that far.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And it's true, I don't know, I haven't the opinion,
but I'm sure somewhere in the opinion the judgment mentions
that pesky thing we call the constitution.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So what would be the benefit of turning them most.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Just the information that goes to the government.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
The DOJ maybe fraud looking Trump ledges massive fraud, particularly
in California, and they're going to straighten all that out.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Problem.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Article one of the Constitution says the states will.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Run the election. It's controlled by the states.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
The rules are set by the states, not the federal government.
And as I said, that pesky constitution is just getting
in the way if Trump wants to do and the
DOJ hasn't even said it's going to appeal or not.
Trump is losing a fair amount in the courts. That's
not to say because the judges are on are now
turning against him. It's just he is making these decisions
(11:52):
that are so out there that even judges are going
But isn't.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
That what you want to see? What checks balance? Of course, but.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
We're not seeing checks and balances on a level that
normally happens in our normal course of running the.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
God if anything does normal.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, we're seeing checks and balances on the absolute crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Okay, moving on, because we really you have to move on, not.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Ruling anything out. After weeks of escalating tensions between US
and Iran, an emergency meeting was held at the UN
Security Council. The US called for it. The US Ambassador
to the UN, Mike Waltz, says, colleagues, let me be clear.
President Trump is a man of action, not endless talk
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like we see at the United Nations. He has made
it clear that all options are on the table to
stop the slaughter. Of course, referring to the killing of
at least twenty five hundred protesters in Iran, some of
those accounts are that it's over ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm sort of in favor of that.
But also, here's the problem politically, is that President Trump
ran on not getting involved in foreign affairs. That was
one of his main campaign promises, and now he is
getting involved in foreign affairs big time.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
That's a huge thing with the Mega group, Right, We're
tired of spending money and everywhere except the United States.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And well we're only getting little bits and pieces because
his Maga, his MAGA followers.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I mean, the guy could do almost anything.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Yeah, but once you start going against what their principles are,
what their principles?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Okay, well how many let me ask you how many
Marjorie Taylor Greens I have come out of the Republicans.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
I don't know, because you're not going to run. I'm
not talking about those that are in the House or anything.
I'm talking about those that are. Yeah, a lot of
them were upset and still upset about the Epstein files things.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Like that, But nothing's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
When you look at the approval of Trump his supporters,
Republicans have not dropped.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
And I'm going on the record say he won't be reelected.
All right.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Speaking of Trump, someone has introduced, you know, a Republican
and and to put his face on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That has been introduced.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
He has not.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It has by who.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
One of the congress people Trump one of the crazy
ass congress people. And you can look that up. Now
it's only one person you know who did that. But
I called it because he has some insane followers.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
That's not just nuts. All right. So President Donald Trump
yesterday said that.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
He was gonna I hate when they do this. Invoke
eighteen oh seven law. I hate when they do that
eighteen oh seven. What's the Constitution, it's older than that.
But I hate when they do appeal to antiquity that
it's that it's like, oh, because it's eighteen oh seven.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Well he can do he can invoke the Insurrection Act.
I don't think.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
I just think when you start dating a law, it's like, well,
the Constitution outdates eighteen o se where you're doing so
eighteen oh seven law that deploys troops to quell persistent
protests against federal officers there in Minneapolis. So he's just
saying the Trump troops are going to go out to Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
They are, and that's what he's saying.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
But the Insurrection Act is to deal with the insurrection,
the overthrow of the government.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
In the article, what are they trying to do when
they put that date? They looked at this law is
so old, Well all of our laws are.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
That just is a weird thing to put it in. Yeah,
but I just say the law the law.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Well, and several presidents have used it. Reagan used it,
Bush used it, Johnson used it, Kennedy used at eisenhowerd Roosevelt.
I mean, so it's been used before.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I don't know what the I don't know what the
circumstances were either, because there's been martial law declared by
a couple of presidents, and that is a huge deal
because that's when Habeas corpus is suspended, and that is
no small deal.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Okay, teeny tiny earthquakes revealed big problem spots. By tracking
swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists say they're getting a
new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas
Fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, which is an area
that could give rise to devastating major exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, yeh okay, fine, when the big one comes, we'll talk.
In the meantime, who cares, We probably won't talk. That's
probably true. You'll hear me screaming. But yeah, it's getting
more and more complicated by the minute.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
What earthquakes? The earthquake the seismologists, Yeah, hey, yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Let's hear from them when they know how to predict them.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, exactly, And they don't. It's going to be a
long way if they're ever going to be able to.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
All Right, Trump, he loves the word great and big
and everything, and he has revealed his healthcare proposal guess
what it is, The Great Healthcare Plan. Yeah, this is
looking at outlining the obviously the cost cutting ideas, but
it stops short of offering any real detail replacement for
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the Affordable Care Act aka obamacarero.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Although he has some good ideas.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
One of them is cutting the cost of pharmaceuticals, which
needs to be done right, getting rid of the middleman,
those managers, those pharmaceutical managers that between the hospitals and
they just add costs. Oh yeah, yeah, no, there's no
question about it. He's got some good ideas, but.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Without in without allowing.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
The extension of the Affordable Care Plan Affordable Care Act.
It's a lot of people are uninsured. It's already started.
Several million have been lost already no insurance.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It's going to get bigger.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Great Healthcare dot gov is the website they launched for this.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Boy. This was a heck of a present. Venezuela's opposition
leader Maria Karina Machado went to the White House yesterday
to meet with President Trump and gave him her Nobel
Peace Prize. He later wrote on social media, such a
wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you, Maria. The Nobel
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Committee does say that the prize is not transferable.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And you'll notice that the name Maria Machado has been
scratched off and the name Donald Trump has been put in.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Marking pen with a sharpie.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Yes, I hope he gets one of those small country
outfits that are all festooned with like buttons and hats
and stuff. All right, this is fabulous news. The first
time ever, seven to ten or seventy percent now live
five years after their cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
So this is now.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
The American Cancer Society is coming out with their annual
report was released this week and they said that this
is a great news.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, and no silver bullet, Yeah but no, but incrementally
it's getting better and better.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
I'm one of those people who just hit five years.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Oh wow, look at that.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
See here you are, and then it says, let's see
and then after the five years they.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Kick it, stop it.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
No, I'm reading the article now.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That seems to.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Be that five year survival rate seems to be the
threshold of which five years is huge when you're dealing
with any sickness like that.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
My oncologists started saying right before the five year anniversary,
he said, you know, Amy, you can say it now
you're cured.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Oh wow, that's exciting. Yeah ah, the congratulations. That is
very cool, kind of a cool milestone.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, of saying alive. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Sucks yeah, okay,
then it's okay. I'll buy that.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Rich people suck there. The United Nations Secretary General Antonio
Guterres lashed out at the countries yesterday at the Special
Meeting of the United Nations, saying that countries violate international law,
and he also called the concentration of power and wealth
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by the world's richest one percent morally indefensible.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Okay, now what yeah, what do you do with that?
All right?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You know, if you're one of those rich people, you're
just going I have fie, okay, thank you, and go
back to living under a bridge with your tent and
we'll talk later.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
They're just going to get these massive yachts and go
out in the middle of international waters and just live there.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Wikipedia, which is one of those last bastions of the
early Internet, right of the original vision of that free
online space where you can get information and didn't cost
you anything. Well it has and we all know Wikipedia,
But they unveiled a new business deal with tons of
artificial intelligence companies. So this marked their twenty fifth anniversary,
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and this crowd sourced encyclopedia is talking to companies like
Amazon and Microsoft and all of this to get these
aggressive data collection methods.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
That is used by AI.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You know, if you go to Wikipedia, every once in
a while, they'll ask for money. They'll ask for a donation.
Oh yeah, and they say, because this is how we
stay alive, which and that's how they live. I didn't
know how they were monetized and how they stayed in business.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
There is a board.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
It's a nonprofit, but there is a board, and I
guess the board cut a deal and Wikipedia is going to,
I guess, make a ton of money on this stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
So does that mean they won't ask us for money anymore?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I would guess no. I would guess no. And some
of the stuff is dead wrong on Wikipedia. You know,
I look at my page and I go no, no, no,
and people correct it all the time. And that's even
more of a no no matter of fact. You know,
what I want to do is ask about Neil Sabaiedra.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Let me do that.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Hey Siri, this this gig takes me to Wikipedia, Hey Siri,
take me to Wikipedia.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I don't know that. I've looked at my Wikipedia page.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I know that would didn't work.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
All I can say is I should have got a snickers,
you know, for when it's going to be a while.
LA twenty eight opened up registration for you to get
into a pool for a chance to be drawn to
buy tickets to the LA Olympic Games. In twenty twenty eight,
one and a half million people from one hundred and
fifty countries signed up for tickets in the first twenty
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four hours of registration. For the rest of us, like me,
you got bumped out of the queue. You didn't get
a verification email for six hours when that link had
already expired.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Jumping through a lot Do.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
They not let you resign?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You could go to another website and probably resign, use
a friend's email address because it's good until March.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Oh yeah, you have plenty of time to do it
if you wanted to get in right at the beginning.
There was a lot of glitchy stuff going on there.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
But the lottery is everybody is in the same yeah,
right at the march. And I love what Casey Wasserman,
LA twenty eight president said. The Olympic Games returning to
Los Angeles in twenty twenty eight is a once in
a generation opportunity to witness history until the thirty two
Olympics and until the twenty thirty six Olympics. Then they
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become a once in a generation. Hey, it's every four years. Okay,
it's not once in a generation, but this.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
One not always here though, And we're very excited that
they're finally going to give a rats ass about LA
and clean things.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Well the third we are the third coming. I don't
know anyus. A couple of cities have done it three times.
But a wonderful stat is there's only two Olympics in
the history of the Olympics, modern Olympic Olympics that have
made money and who Los Angeles both times.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I don't know why you had problems, Amy, My wife
and I did it and it took us two minutes.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Oh really, So I tried it right when it started,
like right when it opened at seven am on Wednesday.
Then I was in the queue for about an hour
and a half and then I couldn't get a verification,
and then I got the verification emailed to me six
hours later. And then when you type it in it goes, Oh, sorry,
that's expired and you have to start over again.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I can't wait for the for the game or the event.
You can get a ticket four because opening closing ceremonies.
I don't even know how much that's going to be.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I want archery, okay, once marcher.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I want gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Okay, that is probably a ticket you've.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Had, probably can't get it.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, it's gonna be very difficult.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
And during the winter, I like curling, you know, and
sown Yeah, where the guys used the brooms.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
But I would watch curling.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, now I love curling.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
And during the side game like whoa, like it was
a regular, like it'll be bought you balled.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, summer I want to see the obscure stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah it is. But curling is great. And they, yeah,
were the brooms.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
You know who was I don't know what they call him,
a master curler, Bill Carroll's wife.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Yeah, she's was.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
A janitor for years and years, because that's how you.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Put I think she threw the stone or whatever they
call it.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
All right, So Trump's got so many troops he doesn't
know what to do with them. And actually I like
this idea he's pressing Mexico to allow US forces to
fight cartels.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yeah, and I don't know why we haven't done that
in the past.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Because Mexico is a sovereign country that can't handle themsel
doesn't matter, it's still a sovereign So what do you do?
So we're involved with Mexico and Canada of course, and
Iran and Columbia is on the list, Cuba is on
the list.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
But isn't it like shareholders, don't we hold a share
of Mexico now because so many live here. It's like, hey,
we're fifty one percent shareholders with Mexico.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Don't because the documents are all illegal, they're fraudulent.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Why don't know they're undocumented? We just need to give
them documents now. Can't we just annex Mexico?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Sure we can? And they're gonna say, hey, why not?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Sure, possibly building a defense. According to a report published
by The New York Times, the thirty two year old
son of Robin Michelle Reiner, who were murdered in their home,
was in a mental health conservatorship that started in twenty twenty.
(26:31):
The conservatorship ended in twenty twenty one. According to the Times,
and at some point Stephen Behar, who's a licensed feduciary
he was in charge of the conservatorship, said mental illness
is an epidemic that is widely misunderstood.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
But he was only in charge of the money part
making financial decisions. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Well, wait, is a mental health conservativeship the same?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
No, it's different.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
So he was in a mental health conservatorship.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
He was in a mental health conservatorship and endedn't But
if it was a fiduciary.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Okay, that's he was in charge of the money.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, that's fiduciary. So it's uh, it's isn't that what
Britney had. Yes, Brittany had her father, the uh who
was the fiduciary was the conservator for the financial We.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Have massive mental health issues that are totally especially on
this shot stover all. Right, So Verizon, Verizon had that
massive seven hour outage that we all heard about, and
then you know, you impacted more than one point five
million customers and they are gonna, you know, give you
(27:39):
a credit after the outage of twenty macarones, twenty dollars,
twenty big ones, but.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
You have to go sign up for it. So I
wonder how many people are going to do it because
it was seven hundred thousand people affected here in the
LA area. It was millions across the country.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Why even do that? Twenty bucks? What's that? A gallant
gas California?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
But they're out for how many hours? Were they out?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Ten hours?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Ten hours? They were out?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
They what does it cost? Eighty dollars a month or
seventy dollars a month?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
So it's a lot more than technically what it should
have been.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, when you look at the actual number of hours,
that's never that.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
It's how it's the inconvenience, that's what that's correct.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I need to punitive damages.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I couldn't play Solitaire.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, or I was about to go into emergency surgery
and one of the devices.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
That keep me alive broke down because it was Internet connected.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Wait a second, I am not going to let that slide.
Amy lives alone and has cats. How sad is it
that she couldn't play Solitaire? The cat, the weird cat
lady couldn't.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I couldn't even play my game by myself.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
All right, we're first of all, I am not of
a rising customer, so stop.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
So there you are? And how many cats? How many
cats do you have?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
That doesn't make you a cat lady, That makes you no.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
But she dresses up with a tail and ears, and
she puts whiskers on and then she lays it.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Did that once.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, it's just but she's a survivalist. So the cats
are the cats whiskers. Okay, we're done.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
That's it, We're done, guys, All right, coming up, this
is kf.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
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So witnesses be nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
You know, if you have three witnesses to a crime,
you have four stories. Witnesses are the least reliable evidence
that you can get.
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And now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle AM six forty Bill Handle, Here morning crew.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
On a Friday morning, January sixteenth, we were talking here
Ann and Neil and me, and as the music bumper,
the music intro goes on, we're still talking and ConA says,
come on, guys, you have a show to do.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And Neil says, hey, we're talking. We're talking.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
We're talking here.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, we'll turn on your mics and keep talking.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Uh yeah, Well guess what they couldn't do that. They
couldn't do that. Guess what this show is about.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Okay, A couple of things is I'm in the studio today,
which is always a lot of fun. And the reason
I broadcasts from my house a fair amount is because
it is an hour and a half driving in Kono,
and I burn hour and a half driving in and
I have a car.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Just wanted to point that out.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
And this is great because you know people listening right
now are driving an hour and a half to make
much less than you. Well, that's really so, I got
great idea to start with it. I go from an
hour and a half to a thirty foot commute. That's better.
That's better.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And during the summer, you know, because this is the
way you only see me waste up. I quite often
I'll come in there and naked and my bell ringers showing.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Nobody would know it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Quite often.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
That's the whole point is you can't see because so
when I reached down and you think it's to pick
up a pen or something, I drop.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No, it's a scratch factor.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Six six everybody scratch factor.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, okay, crack a window. Uh hey, a couple of
things before we go on. Just a quick hello to
uh one in all Amy, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Good morning Bill.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
She brought my She asked for my Kamala Harris book,
which Lindsey bought me, and I actually read it. Not
that I don't think Kamala Harris is, you know, a
Dodo head interesting book.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I wanted to read it. I just didn't want to
pay for it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, No, it's an interesting book.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
First of all, of course it's completely self aggrandizing, all right,
of course she's so impressed with herself.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
But she talks Is it just like she circles?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
No, she writes, okay, because of course, then I'm sure
it was very heavily edited. But at the same time,
she gives us a lot of what's fun about the book,
a lot of inside baseball about what the Biden administration
did the Biden people did to her, didn't they didn't?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
She just crap all over them in the book.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, because according to her, they crapped all over her
in terms of her run, her candidacy, And it's all
there in the book, naming names. And I thought that
part was interesting. The inside baseball.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Did she get along with the first Lady? I don't.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
They did, I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, but she doesn't talk about that. There wasn't a
lot of that First Lady.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Seemed like she really wanted her husband back in there.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Did you notice the back cover?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I never looked at the back cover.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
So the back cover has Kamala Harris on top, you know,
up on the podium with the American flag, Beyer, and
then the other one is the little black girl who
had to ride the bus that Joe Biden didn't want
her to be on. That's immediately what I thought of.
Remember when she called him out during the debates and
that kind of started. Yeah, that's what that made me
(03:51):
think of immediately. I have no idea if that's what
that reference is to.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't either.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
That's funny. Yeah, that was her. That was the one
shot she got during the debates. That's the only shot
that she took. His response was terrific. Eh, he said,
I like ice cream. I like ice cream, and I
like the smell young girl's hair. All right, uh Will,
(04:15):
good morning, Good morning Bill.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Hey Will brought in real jew bagels and locks, and
thank you very much. What a surprise.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And you know you you have you turned me onto locks.
I thought the idea of it was disgusting until I
ate it and I was like, oh my god, smoked.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Salmon and cream cheese on a bagel and wheeled jew bagels,
and thank you. Because locks are not inexpensive, you have
a choice. You either snort cocaine or you eat locks.
I mean it's snort smoked. Yeah, yeah it is, so
I'll take locks. At some point I didn't as you know. Okay, Neil,
(04:52):
I'll give me a lot of grief. And good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That was it?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, that I gave you grief.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Dude.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Their eyes are at half mass, they are I'm very
tired today. And anyways, all right, and Conou and Cono.
We are raising money to help Cono with a car
his pard, Yeah, his car blue. His car blew up
and he was looking at some real issues in getting
(05:21):
another car. And we're on our way to pay him
or give him through a go fund Me page, a
good chunk of the purchase of another car. So we
aren't about what what's the exact number?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
And fifteen thousand and seventy five?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That does that? Does that include my ten dollars? No? Okay,
eighty five?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah, handle's the only one that gives money and takes
out his own taxes. True it goes is one hundred dollars,
but it's true forty goes to the bank.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Neil actually beat me in terms of the money you did.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
I was.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I was stunned and hugely embarrassed.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You should be, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And U a present. I'm going to open it on
the air that oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Because you said it was December so much. Yesterday I
thought I'd bring the gifts for every Merry.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Christmas to handle in Lindsay. And that's from Neil, and
I'm going to open it up.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Hey, Neil, is mine the same as his?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Well, yes and no, they're all custom that everybody like them.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh my god, here we go.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It is a cutting board and it's beautiful and it's
just like the one I have at home.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Except what does it say on it?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It says this is where Bill and Lindsay cut the
cheese's and the one.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Uh really say that? Yeah it does? And the one the.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
One I have at home is a little bit I
first say, yeah, well it's it's a little bit more
down to earth.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Mine is this is where Bill and Lindsay fart.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
But it's pretty much the same, Hey, Neil, Yes, mine,
says Cono, the pride of the ie.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Oh wait a second, the tags came off con No
open wills.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So anyway, thank you. It's and it's beautiful. One in
here it is a It is a beautiful.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I put it by your workstation.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
By the way, I've been looking. I've been looking at
cutting boards and they are not good. Ones are not in.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It these are made.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
The guy who makes the cutting boards is in uh
there in the US. He's a woodworker. And then I
do all the designing and etching of the They're absolutely beautiful, stunning.
The guy does beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
It's like it's two different kinds of wood, and the
amazing beautiful.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
What you're saying, oh my gosh, AND's kitchen and teams
and then Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Flip it over, Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
My gosh, and the podres your team who's playing?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Can you flip it over?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Amazing? And mine only has a fart reference?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Yes, thank you, And then Cono says the Ika me,
I want to I want to go back to Combe
before we take a break, because we're obviously a modified
program today as opposed to actually getting into our real
star Christmas is I.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Know because I brought gifts.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
For yousident are going here something okay for Kno, we are.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
We're going to go for another few days.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And I think our goal is twenty five thousand dollars
if we can reach it, and we're at fifteen almost
sixteen thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Are you going to cover what others don't? So if
it doesn't eight will you cover the nine.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
No, nine five?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
No, I'm I'm done with the ten dollars. I'm done
now if you like to pay, if you like to
donate a couple of more dollars than ten.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
By the way, you can match what we have.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
More generous before you got remarried.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Actually yeah, true, you've always been generous, sweep bus.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So anyway, we go fund me page that we are
sending you to and requesting you go to to help
Kono with the car.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You have to go through our website because there is
so much craziness going out there where people just open
up websites, they open up go fundme pages, uh, and
just follow what other people do.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Fraudulent basic like the one that says bill handle Kono. Yeah,
it's just for you.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yes, that one.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Anyway, you go to KFI A M six forty dot
com slash con o, k O n O. That's kf
I A M six forty dot com slash shot cono
and please you know, and you know, I'm one of
those people that say, you know, all all donations are appreciated,
even a dollar or two. That is a crock. When
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people put in two dollars, you know, come on. You
can't be that cheap. It's the bill hander Christmas shown.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
No, no, it doesn't. It goes all they have. But
I don't care people. Have them go out on the
street talking from your high horse. Have them go out
on you know.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
There was there was a gal who I saw on
the freeway off ramp who said three dollars please, and
someone came up with two.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Sheff feed that's not enough money. Okay, here we go
handle on the news, Amy Neil and me lead. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, the Trump administration tried it again and federal judge
shut it down. And this has to do with a
directive that the President signed ordering California to turn over
its voter rolls.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
To the Feds. And the judge said, nope, not going
to happen.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Judge David o'carter, he's involved in the homeless, all the
homeless situation for years, and he said the Justice Department's
motivation and its lawsuit demanding the voter data from California
not just an overreach into state run elections, but a
threat to American democracy.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
And usually judges don't go that far.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And it's true, I don't know, I haven't the opinion,
but I'm sure somewhere in the opinion the judgment mentions
that pesky thing we call the constitution.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
So what would be the benefit of turning them most.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Just the information that goes to the government.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
The DOJ maybe fraud looking Trump ledges massive fraud, particularly
in California, and they're going to straighten all that out.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Problem.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Article one of the Constitution says the states will.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Run the election. It's controlled by the states.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
The rules are set by the states, not the federal government.
And as I said, that pesky constitution is just getting
in the way if Trump wants to do and the
DOJ hasn't even said it's going to appeal or not.
Trump is losing a fair amount in the courts. That's
not to say because the judges are on are now
turning against him. It's just he is making these decisions
(11:52):
that are so out there that even judges are going
But isn't.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
That what you want to see? What checks balance? Of course, but.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
We're not seeing checks and balances on a level that
normally happens in our normal course of running the.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
God if anything does normal.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, we're seeing checks and balances on the absolute crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Okay, moving on, because we really you have to move on, not.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Ruling anything out. After weeks of escalating tensions between US
and Iran, an emergency meeting was held at the UN
Security Council. The US called for it. The US Ambassador
to the UN, Mike Waltz, says, colleagues, let me be clear.
President Trump is a man of action, not endless talk
(12:41):
like we see at the United Nations. He has made
it clear that all options are on the table to
stop the slaughter. Of course, referring to the killing of
at least twenty five hundred protesters in Iran, some of
those accounts are that it's over ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm sort of in favor of that.
But also, here's the problem politically, is that President Trump
ran on not getting involved in foreign affairs. That was
one of his main campaign promises, and now he is
getting involved in foreign affairs big time.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
That's a huge thing with the Mega group, Right, We're
tired of spending money and everywhere except the United States.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And well we're only getting little bits and pieces because
his Maga, his MAGA followers.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I mean, the guy could do almost anything.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Yeah, but once you start going against what their principles are,
what their principles?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Okay, well how many let me ask you how many
Marjorie Taylor Greens I have come out of the Republicans.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
I don't know, because you're not going to run. I'm
not talking about those that are in the House or anything.
I'm talking about those that are. Yeah, a lot of
them were upset and still upset about the Epstein files things.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Like that, But nothing's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
When you look at the approval of Trump his supporters,
Republicans have not dropped.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
And I'm going on the record say he won't be reelected.
All right.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Speaking of Trump, someone has introduced, you know, a Republican
and and to put his face on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That has been introduced.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
He has not.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It has by who.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
One of the congress people Trump one of the crazy
ass congress people. And you can look that up. Now
it's only one person you know who did that. But
I called it because he has some insane followers.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
That's not just nuts. All right. So President Donald Trump
yesterday said that.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
He was gonna I hate when they do this. Invoke
eighteen oh seven law. I hate when they do that
eighteen oh seven. What's the Constitution, it's older than that.
But I hate when they do appeal to antiquity that
it's that it's like, oh, because it's eighteen oh seven.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Well he can do he can invoke the Insurrection Act.
I don't think.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
I just think when you start dating a law, it's like, well,
the Constitution outdates eighteen o se where you're doing so
eighteen oh seven law that deploys troops to quell persistent
protests against federal officers there in Minneapolis. So he's just
saying the Trump troops are going to go out to Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
They are, and that's what he's saying.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
But the Insurrection Act is to deal with the insurrection,
the overthrow of the government.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
In the article, what are they trying to do when
they put that date? They looked at this law is
so old, Well all of our laws are.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
That just is a weird thing to put it in. Yeah,
but I just say the law the law.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Well, and several presidents have used it. Reagan used it,
Bush used it, Johnson used it, Kennedy used at eisenhowerd Roosevelt.
I mean, so it's been used before.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I don't know what the I don't know what the
circumstances were either, because there's been martial law declared by
a couple of presidents, and that is a huge deal
because that's when Habeas corpus is suspended, and that is
no small deal.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Okay, teeny tiny earthquakes revealed big problem spots. By tracking
swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists say they're getting a
new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas
Fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, which is an area
that could give rise to devastating major exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, yeh okay, fine, when the big one comes, we'll talk.
In the meantime, who cares, We probably won't talk. That's
probably true. You'll hear me screaming. But yeah, it's getting
more and more complicated by the minute.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
What earthquakes? The earthquake the seismologists, Yeah, hey, yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Let's hear from them when they know how to predict them.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, exactly, And they don't. It's going to be a
long way if they're ever going to be able to.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
All Right, Trump, he loves the word great and big
and everything, and he has revealed his healthcare proposal guess
what it is, The Great Healthcare Plan. Yeah, this is
looking at outlining the obviously the cost cutting ideas, but
it stops short of offering any real detail replacement for
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the Affordable Care Act aka obamacarero.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Although he has some good ideas.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
One of them is cutting the cost of pharmaceuticals, which
needs to be done right, getting rid of the middleman,
those managers, those pharmaceutical managers that between the hospitals and
they just add costs. Oh yeah, yeah, no, there's no
question about it. He's got some good ideas, but.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Without in without allowing.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
The extension of the Affordable Care Plan Affordable Care Act.
It's a lot of people are uninsured. It's already started.
Several million have been lost already no insurance.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It's going to get bigger.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Great Healthcare dot gov is the website they launched for this.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Boy. This was a heck of a present. Venezuela's opposition
leader Maria Karina Machado went to the White House yesterday
to meet with President Trump and gave him her Nobel
Peace Prize. He later wrote on social media, such a
wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you, Maria. The Nobel
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Committee does say that the prize is not transferable.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And you'll notice that the name Maria Machado has been
scratched off and the name Donald Trump has been put in.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Marking pen with a sharpie.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Yes, I hope he gets one of those small country
outfits that are all festooned with like buttons and hats
and stuff. All right, this is fabulous news. The first
time ever, seven to ten or seventy percent now live
five years after their cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
So this is now.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
The American Cancer Society is coming out with their annual
report was released this week and they said that this
is a great news.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, and no silver bullet, Yeah but no, but incrementally
it's getting better and better.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
I'm one of those people who just hit five years.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Oh wow, look at that.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
See here you are, and then it says, let's see
and then after the five years they.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Kick it, stop it.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
No, I'm reading the article now.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That seems to.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Be that five year survival rate seems to be the
threshold of which five years is huge when you're dealing
with any sickness like that.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
My oncologists started saying right before the five year anniversary,
he said, you know, Amy, you can say it now
you're cured.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Oh wow, that's exciting. Yeah ah, the congratulations. That is
very cool, kind of a cool milestone.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, of saying alive. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Sucks yeah, okay,
then it's okay. I'll buy that.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Rich people suck there. The United Nations Secretary General Antonio
Guterres lashed out at the countries yesterday at the Special
Meeting of the United Nations, saying that countries violate international law,
and he also called the concentration of power and wealth
(20:10):
by the world's richest one percent morally indefensible.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Okay, now what yeah, what do you do with that?
All right?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You know, if you're one of those rich people, you're
just going I have fie, okay, thank you, and go
back to living under a bridge with your tent and
we'll talk later.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
They're just going to get these massive yachts and go
out in the middle of international waters and just live there.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Wikipedia, which is one of those last bastions of the
early Internet, right of the original vision of that free
online space where you can get information and didn't cost
you anything. Well it has and we all know Wikipedia,
But they unveiled a new business deal with tons of
artificial intelligence companies. So this marked their twenty fifth anniversary,
(21:01):
and this crowd sourced encyclopedia is talking to companies like
Amazon and Microsoft and all of this to get these
aggressive data collection methods.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
That is used by AI.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You know, if you go to Wikipedia, every once in
a while, they'll ask for money. They'll ask for a donation.
Oh yeah, and they say, because this is how we
stay alive, which and that's how they live. I didn't
know how they were monetized and how they stayed in business.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
There is a board.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
It's a nonprofit, but there is a board, and I
guess the board cut a deal and Wikipedia is going to,
I guess, make a ton of money on this stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
So does that mean they won't ask us for money anymore?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I would guess no. I would guess no. And some
of the stuff is dead wrong on Wikipedia. You know,
I look at my page and I go no, no, no,
and people correct it all the time. And that's even
more of a no no matter of fact. You know,
what I want to do is ask about Neil Sabaiedra.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Let me do that.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Hey Siri, this this gig takes me to Wikipedia, Hey Siri,
take me to Wikipedia.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I don't know that. I've looked at my Wikipedia page.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I know that would didn't work.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
All I can say is I should have got a snickers,
you know, for when it's going to be a while.
LA twenty eight opened up registration for you to get
into a pool for a chance to be drawn to
buy tickets to the LA Olympic Games. In twenty twenty eight,
one and a half million people from one hundred and
fifty countries signed up for tickets in the first twenty
(22:38):
four hours of registration. For the rest of us, like me,
you got bumped out of the queue. You didn't get
a verification email for six hours when that link had
already expired.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Jumping through a lot Do.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
They not let you resign?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You could go to another website and probably resign, use
a friend's email address because it's good until March.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Oh yeah, you have plenty of time to do it
if you wanted to get in right at the beginning.
There was a lot of glitchy stuff going on there.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
But the lottery is everybody is in the same yeah,
right at the march. And I love what Casey Wasserman,
LA twenty eight president said. The Olympic Games returning to
Los Angeles in twenty twenty eight is a once in
a generation opportunity to witness history until the thirty two
Olympics and until the twenty thirty six Olympics. Then they
(23:29):
become a once in a generation. Hey, it's every four years. Okay,
it's not once in a generation, but this.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
One not always here though, And we're very excited that
they're finally going to give a rats ass about LA
and clean things.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Well the third we are the third coming. I don't
know anyus. A couple of cities have done it three times.
But a wonderful stat is there's only two Olympics in
the history of the Olympics, modern Olympic Olympics that have
made money and who Los Angeles both times.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I don't know why you had problems, Amy, My wife
and I did it and it took us two minutes.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Oh really, So I tried it right when it started,
like right when it opened at seven am on Wednesday.
Then I was in the queue for about an hour
and a half and then I couldn't get a verification,
and then I got the verification emailed to me six
hours later. And then when you type it in it goes, Oh, sorry,
that's expired and you have to start over again.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I can't wait for the for the game or the event.
You can get a ticket four because opening closing ceremonies.
I don't even know how much that's going to be.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I want archery, okay, once marcher.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I want gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Okay, that is probably a ticket you've.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Had, probably can't get it.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, it's gonna be very difficult.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
And during the winter, I like curling, you know, and
sown Yeah, where the guys used the brooms.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
But I would watch curling.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, now I love curling.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
And during the side game like whoa, like it was
a regular, like it'll be bought you balled.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, summer I want to see the obscure stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah it is. But curling is great. And they, yeah,
were the brooms.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
You know who was I don't know what they call him,
a master curler, Bill Carroll's wife.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Yeah, she's was.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
A janitor for years and years, because that's how you.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Put I think she threw the stone or whatever they
call it.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
All right, So Trump's got so many troops he doesn't
know what to do with them. And actually I like
this idea he's pressing Mexico to allow US forces to
fight cartels.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yeah, and I don't know why we haven't done that
in the past.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Because Mexico is a sovereign country that can't handle themsel
doesn't matter, it's still a sovereign So what do you do?
So we're involved with Mexico and Canada of course, and
Iran and Columbia is on the list, Cuba is on
the list.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
But isn't it like shareholders, don't we hold a share
of Mexico now because so many live here. It's like, hey,
we're fifty one percent shareholders with Mexico.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Don't because the documents are all illegal, they're fraudulent.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Why don't know they're undocumented? We just need to give
them documents now. Can't we just annex Mexico?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Sure we can? And they're gonna say, hey, why not?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Sure, possibly building a defense. According to a report published
by The New York Times, the thirty two year old
son of Robin Michelle Reiner, who were murdered in their home,
was in a mental health conservatorship that started in twenty twenty.
(26:31):
The conservatorship ended in twenty twenty one. According to the Times,
and at some point Stephen Behar, who's a licensed feduciary
he was in charge of the conservatorship, said mental illness
is an epidemic that is widely misunderstood.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
But he was only in charge of the money part
making financial decisions. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Well, wait, is a mental health conservativeship the same?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
No, it's different.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
So he was in a mental health conservatorship.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
He was in a mental health conservatorship and endedn't But
if it was a fiduciary.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Okay, that's he was in charge of the money.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, that's fiduciary. So it's uh, it's isn't that what
Britney had. Yes, Brittany had her father, the uh who
was the fiduciary was the conservator for the financial We.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Have massive mental health issues that are totally especially on
this shot stover all. Right, So Verizon, Verizon had that
massive seven hour outage that we all heard about, and
then you know, you impacted more than one point five
million customers and they are gonna, you know, give you
(27:39):
a credit after the outage of twenty macarones, twenty dollars,
twenty big ones, but.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
You have to go sign up for it. So I
wonder how many people are going to do it because
it was seven hundred thousand people affected here in the
LA area. It was millions across the country.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Why even do that? Twenty bucks? What's that? A gallant
gas California?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
But they're out for how many hours? Were they out?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Ten hours?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Ten hours? They were out?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
They what does it cost? Eighty dollars a month or
seventy dollars a month?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
So it's a lot more than technically what it should
have been.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, when you look at the actual number of hours,
that's never that.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
It's how it's the inconvenience, that's what that's correct.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I need to punitive damages.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
I couldn't play Solitaire.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, or I was about to go into emergency surgery
and one of the devices.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
That keep me alive broke down because it was Internet connected.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Wait a second, I am not going to let that slide.
Amy lives alone and has cats. How sad is it
that she couldn't play Solitaire? The cat, the weird cat
lady couldn't.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I couldn't even play my game by myself.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
All right, we're first of all, I am not of
a rising customer, so stop.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
So there you are? And how many cats? How many
cats do you have?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
That doesn't make you a cat lady, That makes you no.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
But she dresses up with a tail and ears, and
she puts whiskers on and then she lays it.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Did that once.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, it's just but she's a survivalist. So the cats
are the cats whiskers. Okay, we're done.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
That's it, We're done, guys, All right, coming up, this
is kf.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
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