January 19, 2026 • 31 mins
(January 19,2025)
Heather Brooker and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. European leaders stand united against Trump tariff threats on Greenland. Trum’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza to require $1BIL payment for permanent membership. Iran’s Supreme Leader acknowledges thousands killed during recent protests.
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Speaker 4 (00:38):
And good morning everybody, Bill Handle her warning crew. On
a Monday morning, January nineteenth, Martin Luther King Day, as
we celebrate one of the greatest heroes in the history
of the United States. I mean, he is way way
up there. Not easy to get a national holiday, although
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there are certain people out there they're pushing for a
national holiday. And I won't go into that discussion, uh
until a little bit later on.
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By the way, that promo say that I'm human.
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Or we are human as we as we started right, Okay, okay, well,
thank you for that. There are a lot of people
who disagree with that. Guaranteed human, by the way, guaranteed human. Yeah,
by whom.
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Okay, what that's iHeart and I've saw I've seen it
in print, has an asterisk.
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And says handle, so maybe yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
All right, Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You look good and chipper today.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I am a chipper today.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
That got some decent sleep last night, which is sometimes
not easy to get.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
As we go to bed.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Am.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I right, yeah, yeah, let me tell you about a
newly wed.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Okay, uh, you know, Lindsey goes.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I can't wait for tonight, Bill and I hand her
a couple hundred bucks and go here. You take care
of yourself, just you know, yeah, I have a headache tonight. Okay, Cono,
good morning, Good morning, Bill. And there's a will Hey
wearing a baseball cap this morning.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Good morning. Yeah. I didn't. I didn't feel like taking
the two hours to do my hair, so.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh yeah, I could see that. What is that? Is
that a T shirt you have? But what a T
shirt from Kansas City?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh, okay, excellently.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I would be wearing forty nine ers GARB but that
didn't go so well.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Okay, yeah, I'm not gonna talk football today.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
That was a snowy game yesterday between one team and
the other, and I have no.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Idea who won. It looked miserable, Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It's really miserable playing in the snow.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Cheez lituise.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
It should be that every single city that is snowbound,
like Buffalo in New York, should have an indoor stadium.
You would think that was Chicago. That was Chicago last night. Yeah,
oh okay, oh right, yeah, whatever city, that was fair enough.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And uh there's Ann Good morning, Anne, good morning, Bill,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
And Amy is not here today, but the brookemeister is hello.
Uh so it's Heather who is joining us today and
you're here all week? Is Anne gone for the week?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
No, just today. Amy will be back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I mean Amy.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I always conflate the two because they both start with
a slender one.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, she is.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
We've I've said, okay, that an on her? Uh No,
not really really.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh Heather isn't in on this? What? Uh so?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Handle was was going through and was saying something about.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Uh Amy and about Anne.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And he he kept referring to Amy as tall and
slender and didn't say that.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Was also slender.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
She's not slender and is not She is not fat.
She is not fat at all. But she is not
slender is a body slender?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm not slender?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You are?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Are you? Three times slender?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And Land has Amy has very long long legs and
am i uh to loose.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
A petite? She's tiny and she is slim and slender.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
She got that one. Yeah, everybody else missed it.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
We're missing all of the mean stuff today.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I am not just pointing out that. And for example,
let's say Anne had long walks.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay she does, which she does.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
And uh, let's say Anne did not she had short hair,
So to point out long hair versus short hair. All
I'm pointing out is that Anne.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Anne has a good body. She's just not slender.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You wouldn't know slender if it bit you in the ass.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You know that?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Are you saying slenders long? Yes? Okay, so that's totally different.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
So like Amy is a tall drink of water and
Anne is a short shot of liquor.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well said, wow, Well said, yeah, that is not. That
is not in any way something wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It isn't. And I'm a buzzball. Oh you're far bored.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You need to google that, Neil. You make the michelin
Man an extra in a Holocaust.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Michel michelin Man came to me and said he you
could lose a few pounds.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Oh yeah, I'm glad I brought in donuts for today.
You guys would be enjoying the donuts that I had
brought in if you were here, speaking of all of
the uh, everybody not needing to eat anymore. It sounds
wonderful Colorado donuts.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
It it's okay, guys, as we start. Uh, by the way,
was that body shaming? And was that quit not?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Oh I'm a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Uh, there's two hundred and eighty pounds of will talking
about body shaming.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
This is the definition of slender, all right, someone who
is attractively thin, graceful, and narrow and build, with a
delicate frame and often little body fat.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It doesn't say tall.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Okay, okay, you can be slender.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Okay, why do people I don't hate, I don't, I don't,
I don't like, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You don't understand.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
No, No, it's it's don't jump in the ring.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
It's projecting because I was heavy my entire life heavy.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I was gravitational.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Oh I'm sorry, I wasn't. I was over three.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I stopped in that same class, none of you're you're.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Moving very quickly in that direct three hundred and ten pounds,
and I stopped weighing myself, okay. And then I had
the bariatric surgery okay, because I couldn't do it on
my own. So there, all right, fair enough, fair enough,
fair enough, Okay, time for handle on the news, Heather
neil Me lead story. Yeah, European Union ambassadors met and
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Brussels yesterday and they're trying to figure out do we
retaliate against Washington after the president, our president said that
he was going to impose tariffs on eight country unless
they agreed to Trump's push to acquire Greenland. Either I
get Greenland or you're going to get tariffs up. The
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ying Yang tariffs are already a ten percent. He said
he would add I believe another fifteen percent and that
would go up to twenty five percent unless they cut
a deal.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Isn't that special? How is this different than putin? I mean,
there's no war, I get it. Yeah, yeah, that's that's
the difference. Is putin you know lobs these drones and
starting Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no question.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, it's crazy, it's crazy and it's not appropriate.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And we're going to talk when are we gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Do that story?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
And about the craziest stuff our president has done, the
ten craziest.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You did it last Friday. I think you did it Thursday. Wednesday,
I think you did it Tuesday. You did it a
little bit in a Monday.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You know, the man keeps his employee, that's for sure,
you guys, and you know, and people get rail.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
You know, Trump supporters get really pissed off at me,
at least the few that are still listening.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
And all I say is refute it. Just refute it.
That's all I want you to say. Say it's not true.
Tell me the threat of imposing tariffs is not true.
After Trump writes the letter or says it or posts
it on true social All.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Right, if you want to be a part of Trump's
Board of Peace, the committee that will oversee the reconstruction
of Gaza, you can just for a mere.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
One billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
President Trump says all funds raised will go towards rebuilding Gaza.
He's not going to pay people exorbit salaries or massive
administration blowed the plagues many international organizations.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
So you know that's actually, and I would think about
that's not a bad idea because who's going to control that?
And that billion dollars is only for the permanent members.
He's taken a page out of the Security Council and
he says not that these are countries that are willing
to pay a billion dollars and or are these people? Yes,
people and countries.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I think it's just people people.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You have to that will be.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
It, says Mark Karney. Kenny Prime Minister. Mark Karney is
in their secretary.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
S a billionaire, not a billionaire.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
So I'm wondering did they have to pay the billion?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
No one has to know. No one has to pay.
Is just those that are going to be permanent members.
The rest at the rest are are are given only
a three year term.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So that's not a bad idea. Someone's got to do it.
Someone's got to make it happen.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
And one of the things about Trump, I mean, he
is a successful builder.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
There's no way around that. So that ain't a bad idea.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
He certainly goes at it in different ways and tell
you this give me a.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Seat to gain a seat on the board a piece.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Okay, But if it's for the rebuilding of guys. I
think that's sort of universal. No one's going to say
no to that. Maybe the israel leis, but no one
else is going to say no.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
No one's concerned that board of piece is spelled b
O r E D or.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Is spelled t r U n P.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
There's that too, all right, So I ran supremely. I
always liked that terment. Reminds me of Star Wars. Supreme
lta it is speech on Saturday, I tolda Ali KOMENI
said that thousands have been killed, and this is really
one of the first times that that. Yeah, he's a
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minimountains said that, so some in an inhumane, savage manner
and blamed the.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
US for the deaths. Of course, of course our fault. Yeah,
he said all of the.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Protesters, the protesters.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Out there were billy merely people from Israel and the
United States or were under the influence of Israel United States.
They're the ones that did this. This is a regime
that's probably in the biggest problem or positioned to lose
the country, control of the country since nineteen seventy nine
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when it was created. And so I mean they even
they shut down the internet and phone lines completely and
the only way we're getting video is through starlink connections.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
He went on to say that he considers the US
president criminal for the casualties, damages, and slander he inflicted
on the Iranian nation.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yeah, so it's I think he is alleging that President
Trump is sitting on the rooftop of some building and
mowing down protesters with machine guns.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
That's President who does this.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Just a little bit of a back and forth here
between the La County DA's office and DHS. That's because
La County distric Attorney Nathan Hoffman says an employee of
his office was wrongfully detained by US Immigration and Customs enforcement,
so he sent a letter. Excuse me, he sent a
letter to them telling that the incident was unacceptable. The employees,
(12:52):
a dedicated public servant, called the situation troubling and said
that it caused distress to their colleague. And in response,
the DHS says, neither ICE nor CBP have any record
of any employee the La County d's office being detained.
Any allegations our law enforcement are engaging in racially is
(13:12):
in racial profiling, are false and disgusting and false is
in all caps.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, I didn't know that the federal government keep track
of who works for the DA's office. I thought that
looking through files, yes, And they said, oh, we haven't
found anybody. I mean, come on, really, And they went
forward and said, any allegations our law enforcements are engaging
in racial profiling or false and disgusting. Sure looks like
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everybody picked up his hispanic just saying.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
And I don't think the letter that Hawkman sent said
anything about that when you read through it, I mean,
unless we're only getting a portion of what he wrote,
it doesn't say anything about racially no, no.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
But that DHS says that we're not engaging in that.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, well, white folks don't complain until their people start
getting arrested.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Then it's kind of an.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's like, hey, bad, what you're doing. Knock it off,
all right? So about fifteen hundred soldiers active duty have
been placed on alert. Of course, this is for potential
deployment in Minnesota. Widespread protests over immigration enforcement in the state.
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We've heard, you know, shootings and all kinds of things
going on there. And Trump keeps threatening that he's going
to send troops in for insurrection, but then he pulls back,
and then he kind of goes back and forth on
that stuff, with the threats and the like.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Yeah, the Insurrection Insurrection Act, which gives him the power
to go in and use military force, which you're not
allowed to under the Siko Matatis law. The military cannot
be used to enforce American law unless the President declares insurrection.
Insurrection is rebellion against the government in the United States
(15:11):
against I guess to to overthrow the government, And it
can be argued. His argument says, by these protesters are
doing exactly that.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, but January sixth was the only in our lifetime,
the only absolutely legitimate case of that.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
No, you're wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
These were those were patriots. No, they were who were
upholding the constitution. All side you're on. If any priase,
I don't care what side you're on, No, I don't
care if you're.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
A Republican, I don't care if you're a Democrat. If
you tell me that that was okay in any way,
shape or form.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Okay, I'm telling you, Okay, I'm telling you. I'm going
to put on the hat of a MAGA supporter. That
was Those were patriots that we're trying to uphold the constitution.
Because it was an illegal election and it was rigged. Now,
one of the things that I really enjoy is the
argument that MAGA supporters and pro President Trump is using.
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Their saying that the Insurrection Act, a nineteenth century law
in the eighteen hundreds, all right, should be upheld. They're
those that are arguing the other way. How do you
uphold an eighteenth century law? I mean, tell me that
that is appropriate today? Well, you know, we have a
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little document that was passed in seventeen seventy six that.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Is still used, that is still used.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
All of our main laws and the construction of this
country are old.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Period, and now there.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Are laws that have changed the construction constitution itself. What
you can argue, I mean that is we can go
on forever the interpretation of the Constitution becau.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
We have a Supreme Court for that. And so it's.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Complicated that those drafts. Remember when we were in Philly
together and we looked at the different drafts of historical
works and we stood inside these places that were historic
to the birth of our country and we just got
hills there.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, it does, it does give you chills, all right.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Well, we were talking about a little bit before the
break what's going on in Minneapolis. Well, the Minneapolis mayor,
Jacob I think it's free, but it might also be fry.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I'm not sure. He told me the.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Press that it would be a shocking step if President
Trump were to deploy the military to Minnesota under the
Insurrection Act. As we talked about before the break. The
Pentagon has placed about fifteen hundred active duty troops on
prepared to deploy orders.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
And he's being investigated by the Department of Justice, Yes,
for instigating a riot for I mean, why not, went
in doubt. Anybody who speaks against the administration gets investigated.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, And he says we're not being intimidated and we're
not backing down.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
All right, So, people still not satisfied with the Epstein files.
This is a month after the so called deadline, and folks,
it keeps growing. How they're upset. You've got six percent
of Americans. I know, it doesn't seem like that much
that said that they're satisfied with the federal government has
(18:30):
reliefed so far, but that's actually up from three percent
in July. This CNN survey. I'm going to pause for
people to get all upset that it's CNN but the
thing is, you've got nine and ten Democrats, seventy two
percent of Independence say that the government is intentionally withholding
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information as to forty two percent of Republicans, but.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Which is a high figure for republic plans.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, to vote against the administration independence.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Did you mention seventy two percent? Yeah, I think you did.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Ninety percent of Democrats seventy two percent of Independence. Yeah,
people are not happy with the administration with holding parts
of that file.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Considering Riles out too.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, Well, considering that one of the campaign issues that
President Trump ran on was the release of those files
by the Biden administration. And I don't know why they
didn't release those files, but that's another Yeah, are using them. Yeah,
may feel that in the meantime, all of a sudden,
it went from let's release those files, release those files
(19:42):
to oh, we don't want to release those files, and
no reason given, by the.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Way, other than we want.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Well, we want to protect the victims, and the victims
are saying release those files or release a portion of
the victims.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
So in any case, and some non Trump news, Green
Day will be kicking off the Super Bowl in the
opening ceremony on February eight at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara.
That is, I believe their hometown, the Bay Area Trio
is made up a Billy Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and
(20:18):
Trey Cool. It's going to be a fun little start
to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Right, Oh, that's kay it is. And you know why
they call it.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Why they're doing it on Green Day because the prices
of Super Bowl tickets have exploded and they're the highest
in the history of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Get it Green, Get it green money? Get it?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Okay, yeah, exactly?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Green Day?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Is that an official I get I don't know if
that's official? And is that celebrated all over the world?
I have absolutely no idea. Here is another fun one.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
President Donald Trump, yes the Trump Story, plans to sign
an executive order aimed at preventing any football games from
competing on TV with the annual Army Navy matchup. So
he described it as one of the country's most cherished
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sporting traditions. And he doesn't want to see college playoff
games and what he refers to his big TV money
goes not anymore on truth social in caps. You know what,
don't people have the choice to watch it if they
want to and if it's a super big tradition, people
will watch it.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Well, the issue is number one, does he have the
power to do that? And no he does not. However,
does he have the ability to do that? Well, here's
how he can do it. He can say that those
stations that carry games other than the Army Navy matchup
are no longer broadcasting for the public good, and he
(21:59):
can take away their license, their FCC license to broadcast.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I like the way you said that. Does he have
the power to do it? No, but does he have
the ability to do it?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
That's different question.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Well, it is when I say power, Does he have
the legal power to do that?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Does he have the ability to do that?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Well, I mean he would clearly lose in court, and
I think the networks would tell him to go pound
sand and you know he starts it.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I don't you know there's there, listen.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I I don't want to be an apologist for Trump,
and I end up being a lot of times because
people are so unreasonable about Trump in a lot of ways.
I'm not a fan of his, didn't vote for him.
But I will tell you two things that are so
that stand out. And this is now one of them
is he was anti DEI right, going after it everywhere.
(22:52):
Yet he stopped giving money to NPR Y because it
didn't have diversity of thought. He said, there was no
Republican It's a good point.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's a good pright. So there's that one. And now
there's this.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
If it's such a big game, so important to America,
why would you have to make everybody stand down for it?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
They would just choose to go to.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
It, force everyone to watch it.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, that's just that to me is contradictory.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well, oh that never happened before, And.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He was you know what I'm saying that, how is that? Not?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Of course it didn't I but like forcing of course
to stand out it just yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Do you think there's an alternative, you know, motive here too,
to rally the base, to get people to be like, yeah, army.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Maybe you know, there may be that because you're talking
about the Armed Services, and he is a big fan
of the Armed Services. Also through twenty thirty eight guests,
who has the exclusive rights paramount sky dance and there
was all that.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Seriously yep, yep, David Ellison.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yep, remember that situation.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
So there's a multi there are some potentially multiple reasonings
why he's doing this. It's not quite always so random,
I find now.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
You know, there's I've said many times, there is a
method to his madness at times where how he gets
from A to B you can really question it. However,
what the end result is, okay, I mean, look what
happened in Gaza with Hamas basically losing the war, and
(24:29):
it was Trump who actually put together that peace program,
that peace deal. As fragile as it is and as
flaky as it is, there's no war going on right now.
I mean there are skirmish skirmishes. There is a quote
a war of attrition. But and you got to give
you got to give the president credit for that because
he had a lot to do with it.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I mean a lot, if not all, to do with it.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
All right, there was a really tragic train crash that
happened in Spain. Thirty nine people were killed, dozens more
in when two high speed trains glided. They were traveling
from Malaga to Madrid with three hundred and seventy one
people on board. When it's rear three carriages derailed. Officials
say eleven adults and one child are still in intensive
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care or critical condition and twenty four others were seriously hurt.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, and they issued a press release the train in Spain.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Falls mainly on the tracks.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Too soon, too soon?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Isn't it a little too soon?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Too soon for that?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
And I've got to get some more words that rhyme
with Maine Spain.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Train out insane insane works? Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yes? Or pain?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Yeah, oh, the train in Spain, cause for those people
that haven't died a lot of pain.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It is too soon. And by the.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Way, Spain's for some reason, has a history of this stuff,
if you noticed.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Yeah, this is uh, it's happened quite a few times.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, it does, and it's Spain a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Well, China's had some gain. I want to rhyme things. Yeah,
lookive me, I'm rhyming any who. China clocked its lowest
birth rate on record in twenty twenty five. Population shrinking
all that, but they still say that they are growing.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
In other ways.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They are growing financially even despite the target or the
US trade war and all these things going on. But
they are still focusing on growing their population. China's economy
itself grew five five.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, it's the that was their goal.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Roughly Yeah, they met their going.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
What the president is doing is what you did with
the tariffs was to punish China and it didn't work.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Away market punished China is not let any Chinese national
go to school in the state right see, or shut
down every parent they've they've bobbed and weaved in.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
They're fine, yea, every Panda Express restaurant must be shut
down by executive order.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Okay. Moving on.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
After weeks of clashes on again off in clashes, this
hearing government and Kurdish led militia have made an agreement
to have an immediate cease fire and merge the militia
fully into the national military forces.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, this is not something we pay attention to, particularly
Syria the civil war over there. It's certainly an international story.
But does anybody do you guys even know about this,
and more importantly, do you care?
Speaker 6 (27:46):
I mean, this is something that when it crosses with
all the other stuff and news that's happening, this is
unfortunately one.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Of those stories that just doesn't get a lot of attention.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Right now, there's a story about that's really great, the
brain infecting raccoon roundworm.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
That's a fun one.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I just love the fact that it's like crap news,
crap news. But here's another weird crap news, and that
is that there's a brain infecting raccoon roundworm parasite that's
found in a dog in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Hold on that old parasite.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I thought there was an earthquake, but I think it
was just Cono running down the hall.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
More trucks, trucks rolling by the studio.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I feel like I just ran down.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
The hole and it shook the whole newsroom. And I
looked at Am. I thought we were having an earthquake.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
So anyway, well he carries his pay check in nickels,
so it weighs him down.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Is the raccoon story.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
It's a huge story, and it's this raccoon roundworm. They
found exactly ten of them in California since nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Something to be afraid of.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Zutopia two is the highest grossing US animated movie of
all time.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
That's huge.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It said, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
I love that two thousands.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
It's a sequel to twenty sixteen Zutopia, and it made
one point seven billion dollars worldwide as of yesterday, and
it edged out the previous record holder, which is also
a Disney film, Inside Out too. Wow, that's great, and
it's getting amazing reviews. It's supposed to be just a
wonderful film, which is rare for a sequel.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah, and anybody sees you Zutopia one?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah, my daughter loved it.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Did you? I didn't say it. I have to go on.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I've got to see both of them. Just a quick
word before we bail.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Do you remember when Bob Iger, I think it was
ziker Iiger, who ran Disney for many many years, he
bought Pixar for like three billion dollars. Everybody thought it was,
oh god, how can you pay that much? How horrific?
Is that the biggest success in terms of buying a
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business that certainly Disney ever had. I mean it was
he effectively paid pennies on the dollar for the value
that Pixar has become.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You know who created the tech that later became Pixar,
George Lucas.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yes, that's true. Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs also was big
part of that. I think Jobs invested ten million dollars
in that thing, and that was probably I think his
greatest wealth was the owner of that as.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Discostch tech and innovation for filmmaking and creativity came out
of ILM alone.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Okay, and then really quickly a woman dies after Universal
Studios Florida roller coaster ride, and it is it is
not true that Disney arranged that. Okay, we are absolutely
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Speaker 4 (00:38):
And good morning everybody, Bill Handle her warning crew. On
a Monday morning, January nineteenth, Martin Luther King Day, as
we celebrate one of the greatest heroes in the history
of the United States. I mean, he is way way
up there. Not easy to get a national holiday, although
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there are certain people out there they're pushing for a
national holiday. And I won't go into that discussion, uh
until a little bit later on.
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By the way, that promo say that I'm human.
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Or we are human as we as we started right, Okay, okay, well,
thank you for that. There are a lot of people
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by whom.
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Okay, what that's iHeart and I've saw I've seen it
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And says handle, so maybe yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
All right, Neil, good morning, Good morning, Willie Wolf.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You look good and chipper today.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I am a chipper today.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
That got some decent sleep last night, which is sometimes
not easy to get.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
As we go to bed.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Am.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I right, yeah, yeah, let me tell you about a
newly wed.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Okay, uh, you know, Lindsey goes.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I can't wait for tonight, Bill and I hand her
a couple hundred bucks and go here. You take care
of yourself, just you know, yeah, I have a headache tonight. Okay, Cono,
good morning, Good morning, Bill. And there's a will Hey
wearing a baseball cap this morning.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Good morning. Yeah. I didn't. I didn't feel like taking
the two hours to do my hair, so.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh yeah, I could see that. What is that? Is
that a T shirt you have? But what a T
shirt from Kansas City?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh, okay, excellently.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I would be wearing forty nine ers GARB but that
didn't go so well.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Okay, yeah, I'm not gonna talk football today.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
That was a snowy game yesterday between one team and
the other, and I have no.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Idea who won. It looked miserable, Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It's really miserable playing in the snow.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Cheez lituise.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
It should be that every single city that is snowbound,
like Buffalo in New York, should have an indoor stadium.
You would think that was Chicago. That was Chicago last night. Yeah,
oh okay, oh right, yeah, whatever city, that was fair enough.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And uh there's Ann Good morning, Anne, good morning, Bill,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
And Amy is not here today, but the brookemeister is hello.
Uh so it's Heather who is joining us today and
you're here all week? Is Anne gone for the week?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
No, just today. Amy will be back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I mean Amy.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I always conflate the two because they both start with
a slender one.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, she is.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
We've I've said, okay, that an on her? Uh No,
not really really.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh Heather isn't in on this? What? Uh so?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Handle was was going through and was saying something about.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Uh Amy and about Anne.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And he he kept referring to Amy as tall and
slender and didn't say that.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Was also slender.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
She's not slender and is not She is not fat.
She is not fat at all. But she is not
slender is a body slender?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm not slender?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You are?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Are you? Three times slender?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And Land has Amy has very long long legs and
am i uh to loose.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
A petite? She's tiny and she is slim and slender.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
She got that one. Yeah, everybody else missed it.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
We're missing all of the mean stuff today.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I am not just pointing out that. And for example,
let's say Anne had long walks.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay she does, which she does.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
And uh, let's say Anne did not she had short hair,
So to point out long hair versus short hair. All
I'm pointing out is that Anne.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Anne has a good body. She's just not slender.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You wouldn't know slender if it bit you in the ass.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You know that?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Are you saying slenders long? Yes? Okay, so that's totally different.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
So like Amy is a tall drink of water and
Anne is a short shot of liquor.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well said, wow, Well said, yeah, that is not. That
is not in any way something wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It isn't. And I'm a buzzball. Oh you're far bored.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You need to google that, Neil. You make the michelin
Man an extra in a Holocaust.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Michel michelin Man came to me and said he you
could lose a few pounds.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Oh yeah, I'm glad I brought in donuts for today.
You guys would be enjoying the donuts that I had
brought in if you were here, speaking of all of
the uh, everybody not needing to eat anymore. It sounds
wonderful Colorado donuts.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
It it's okay, guys, as we start. Uh, by the way,
was that body shaming? And was that quit not?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Oh I'm a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Uh, there's two hundred and eighty pounds of will talking
about body shaming.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
This is the definition of slender, all right, someone who
is attractively thin, graceful, and narrow and build, with a
delicate frame and often little body fat.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It doesn't say tall.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Okay, okay, you can be slender.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Okay, why do people I don't hate, I don't, I don't,
I don't like, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You don't understand.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
No, No, it's it's don't jump in the ring.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
It's projecting because I was heavy my entire life heavy.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I was gravitational.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Oh I'm sorry, I wasn't. I was over three.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I stopped in that same class, none of you're you're.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Moving very quickly in that direct three hundred and ten pounds,
and I stopped weighing myself, okay. And then I had
the bariatric surgery okay, because I couldn't do it on
my own. So there, all right, fair enough, fair enough,
fair enough, Okay, time for handle on the news, Heather
neil Me lead story. Yeah, European Union ambassadors met and
(07:23):
Brussels yesterday and they're trying to figure out do we
retaliate against Washington after the president, our president said that
he was going to impose tariffs on eight country unless
they agreed to Trump's push to acquire Greenland. Either I
get Greenland or you're going to get tariffs up. The
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ying Yang tariffs are already a ten percent. He said
he would add I believe another fifteen percent and that
would go up to twenty five percent unless they cut
a deal.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Isn't that special? How is this different than putin? I mean,
there's no war, I get it. Yeah, yeah, that's that's
the difference. Is putin you know lobs these drones and
starting Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no question.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, it's crazy, it's crazy and it's not appropriate.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And we're going to talk when are we gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Do that story?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
And about the craziest stuff our president has done, the
ten craziest.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You did it last Friday. I think you did it Thursday. Wednesday,
I think you did it Tuesday. You did it a
little bit in a Monday.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You know, the man keeps his employee, that's for sure,
you guys, and you know, and people get rail.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
You know, Trump supporters get really pissed off at me,
at least the few that are still listening.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
And all I say is refute it. Just refute it.
That's all I want you to say. Say it's not true.
Tell me the threat of imposing tariffs is not true.
After Trump writes the letter or says it or posts
it on true social All.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Right, if you want to be a part of Trump's
Board of Peace, the committee that will oversee the reconstruction
of Gaza, you can just for a mere.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
One billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
President Trump says all funds raised will go towards rebuilding Gaza.
He's not going to pay people exorbit salaries or massive
administration blowed the plagues many international organizations.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
So you know that's actually, and I would think about
that's not a bad idea because who's going to control that?
And that billion dollars is only for the permanent members.
He's taken a page out of the Security Council and
he says not that these are countries that are willing
to pay a billion dollars and or are these people? Yes,
people and countries.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I think it's just people people.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You have to that will be.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
It, says Mark Karney. Kenny Prime Minister. Mark Karney is
in their secretary.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
S a billionaire, not a billionaire.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
So I'm wondering did they have to pay the billion?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
No one has to know. No one has to pay.
Is just those that are going to be permanent members.
The rest at the rest are are are given only
a three year term.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So that's not a bad idea. Someone's got to do it.
Someone's got to make it happen.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
And one of the things about Trump, I mean, he
is a successful builder.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
There's no way around that. So that ain't a bad idea.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
He certainly goes at it in different ways and tell
you this give me a.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Seat to gain a seat on the board a piece.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Okay, But if it's for the rebuilding of guys. I
think that's sort of universal. No one's going to say
no to that. Maybe the israel leis, but no one
else is going to say no.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
No one's concerned that board of piece is spelled b
O r E D or.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Is spelled t r U n P.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
There's that too, all right, So I ran supremely. I
always liked that terment. Reminds me of Star Wars. Supreme
lta it is speech on Saturday, I tolda Ali KOMENI
said that thousands have been killed, and this is really
one of the first times that that. Yeah, he's a
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minimountains said that, so some in an inhumane, savage manner
and blamed the.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
US for the deaths. Of course, of course our fault. Yeah,
he said all of the.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Protesters, the protesters.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Out there were billy merely people from Israel and the
United States or were under the influence of Israel United States.
They're the ones that did this. This is a regime
that's probably in the biggest problem or positioned to lose
the country, control of the country since nineteen seventy nine
(11:53):
when it was created. And so I mean they even
they shut down the internet and phone lines completely and
the only way we're getting video is through starlink connections.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
He went on to say that he considers the US
president criminal for the casualties, damages, and slander he inflicted
on the Iranian nation.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yeah, so it's I think he is alleging that President
Trump is sitting on the rooftop of some building and
mowing down protesters with machine guns.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
That's President who does this.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Just a little bit of a back and forth here
between the La County DA's office and DHS. That's because
La County distric Attorney Nathan Hoffman says an employee of
his office was wrongfully detained by US Immigration and Customs enforcement,
so he sent a letter. Excuse me, he sent a
letter to them telling that the incident was unacceptable. The employees,
(12:52):
a dedicated public servant, called the situation troubling and said
that it caused distress to their colleague. And in response,
the DHS says, neither ICE nor CBP have any record
of any employee the La County d's office being detained.
Any allegations our law enforcement are engaging in racially is
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in racial profiling, are false and disgusting and false is
in all caps.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, I didn't know that the federal government keep track
of who works for the DA's office. I thought that
looking through files, yes, And they said, oh, we haven't
found anybody. I mean, come on, really, And they went
forward and said, any allegations our law enforcements are engaging
in racial profiling or false and disgusting. Sure looks like
(13:39):
everybody picked up his hispanic just saying.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
And I don't think the letter that Hawkman sent said
anything about that when you read through it, I mean,
unless we're only getting a portion of what he wrote,
it doesn't say anything about racially no, no.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
But that DHS says that we're not engaging in that.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, well, white folks don't complain until their people start
getting arrested.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Then it's kind of an.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's like, hey, bad, what you're doing. Knock it off,
all right? So about fifteen hundred soldiers active duty have
been placed on alert. Of course, this is for potential
deployment in Minnesota. Widespread protests over immigration enforcement in the state.
(14:29):
We've heard, you know, shootings and all kinds of things
going on there. And Trump keeps threatening that he's going
to send troops in for insurrection, but then he pulls back,
and then he kind of goes back and forth on
that stuff, with the threats and the like.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Yeah, the Insurrection Insurrection Act, which gives him the power
to go in and use military force, which you're not
allowed to under the Siko Matatis law. The military cannot
be used to enforce American law unless the President declares insurrection.
Insurrection is rebellion against the government in the United States
(15:11):
against I guess to to overthrow the government, And it
can be argued. His argument says, by these protesters are
doing exactly that.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, but January sixth was the only in our lifetime,
the only absolutely legitimate case of that.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
No, you're wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
These were those were patriots. No, they were who were
upholding the constitution. All side you're on. If any priase,
I don't care what side you're on, No, I don't
care if you're.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
A Republican, I don't care if you're a Democrat. If
you tell me that that was okay in any way,
shape or form.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Okay, I'm telling you, Okay, I'm telling you. I'm going
to put on the hat of a MAGA supporter. That
was Those were patriots that we're trying to uphold the constitution.
Because it was an illegal election and it was rigged. Now,
one of the things that I really enjoy is the
argument that MAGA supporters and pro President Trump is using.
(16:13):
Their saying that the Insurrection Act, a nineteenth century law
in the eighteen hundreds, all right, should be upheld. They're
those that are arguing the other way. How do you
uphold an eighteenth century law? I mean, tell me that
that is appropriate today? Well, you know, we have a
(16:34):
little document that was passed in seventeen seventy six that.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Is still used, that is still used.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
All of our main laws and the construction of this
country are old.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Period, and now there.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Are laws that have changed the construction constitution itself. What
you can argue, I mean that is we can go
on forever the interpretation of the Constitution becau.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
We have a Supreme Court for that. And so it's.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Complicated that those drafts. Remember when we were in Philly
together and we looked at the different drafts of historical
works and we stood inside these places that were historic
to the birth of our country and we just got
hills there.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, it does, it does give you chills, all right.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Well, we were talking about a little bit before the
break what's going on in Minneapolis. Well, the Minneapolis mayor,
Jacob I think it's free, but it might also be fry.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I'm not sure. He told me the.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Press that it would be a shocking step if President
Trump were to deploy the military to Minnesota under the
Insurrection Act. As we talked about before the break. The
Pentagon has placed about fifteen hundred active duty troops on
prepared to deploy orders.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
And he's being investigated by the Department of Justice, Yes,
for instigating a riot for I mean, why not, went
in doubt. Anybody who speaks against the administration gets investigated.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, And he says we're not being intimidated and we're
not backing down.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
All right, So, people still not satisfied with the Epstein files.
This is a month after the so called deadline, and folks,
it keeps growing. How they're upset. You've got six percent
of Americans. I know, it doesn't seem like that much
that said that they're satisfied with the federal government has
(18:30):
reliefed so far, but that's actually up from three percent
in July. This CNN survey. I'm going to pause for
people to get all upset that it's CNN but the
thing is, you've got nine and ten Democrats, seventy two
percent of Independence say that the government is intentionally withholding
(18:53):
information as to forty two percent of Republicans, but.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Which is a high figure for republic plans.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, to vote against the administration independence.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Did you mention seventy two percent? Yeah, I think you did.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Ninety percent of Democrats seventy two percent of Independence. Yeah,
people are not happy with the administration with holding parts
of that file.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Considering Riles out too.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, Well, considering that one of the campaign issues that
President Trump ran on was the release of those files
by the Biden administration. And I don't know why they
didn't release those files, but that's another Yeah, are using them. Yeah,
may feel that in the meantime, all of a sudden,
it went from let's release those files, release those files
(19:42):
to oh, we don't want to release those files, and
no reason given, by the.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Way, other than we want.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Well, we want to protect the victims, and the victims
are saying release those files or release a portion of
the victims.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
So in any case, and some non Trump news, Green
Day will be kicking off the Super Bowl in the
opening ceremony on February eight at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara.
That is, I believe their hometown, the Bay Area Trio
is made up a Billy Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and
(20:18):
Trey Cool. It's going to be a fun little start
to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Right, Oh, that's kay it is. And you know why
they call it.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Why they're doing it on Green Day because the prices
of Super Bowl tickets have exploded and they're the highest
in the history of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Get it Green, Get it green money? Get it?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Okay, yeah, exactly?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Green Day?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Is that an official I get I don't know if
that's official? And is that celebrated all over the world?
I have absolutely no idea. Here is another fun one.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
President Donald Trump, yes the Trump Story, plans to sign
an executive order aimed at preventing any football games from
competing on TV with the annual Army Navy matchup. So
he described it as one of the country's most cherished
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sporting traditions. And he doesn't want to see college playoff
games and what he refers to his big TV money
goes not anymore on truth social in caps. You know what,
don't people have the choice to watch it if they
want to and if it's a super big tradition, people
will watch it.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Well, the issue is number one, does he have the
power to do that? And no he does not. However,
does he have the ability to do that? Well, here's
how he can do it. He can say that those
stations that carry games other than the Army Navy matchup
are no longer broadcasting for the public good, and he
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can take away their license, their FCC license to broadcast.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I like the way you said that. Does he have
the power to do it? No, but does he have
the ability to do it?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
That's different question.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Well, it is when I say power, Does he have
the legal power to do that?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Does he have the ability to do that?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Well, I mean he would clearly lose in court, and
I think the networks would tell him to go pound
sand and you know he starts it.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I don't you know there's there, listen.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I I don't want to be an apologist for Trump,
and I end up being a lot of times because
people are so unreasonable about Trump in a lot of ways.
I'm not a fan of his, didn't vote for him.
But I will tell you two things that are so
that stand out. And this is now one of them
is he was anti DEI right, going after it everywhere.
(22:52):
Yet he stopped giving money to NPR Y because it
didn't have diversity of thought. He said, there was no
Republican It's a good point.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's a good pright. So there's that one. And now
there's this.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
If it's such a big game, so important to America,
why would you have to make everybody stand down for it?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
They would just choose to go to.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
It, force everyone to watch it.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, that's just that to me is contradictory.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well, oh that never happened before, And.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He was you know what I'm saying that, how is that? Not?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Of course it didn't I but like forcing of course
to stand out it just yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Do you think there's an alternative, you know, motive here too,
to rally the base, to get people to be like, yeah, army.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Maybe you know, there may be that because you're talking
about the Armed Services, and he is a big fan
of the Armed Services. Also through twenty thirty eight guests,
who has the exclusive rights paramount sky dance and there
was all that.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Seriously yep, yep, David Ellison.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yep, remember that situation.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
So there's a multi there are some potentially multiple reasonings
why he's doing this. It's not quite always so random,
I find now.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
You know, there's I've said many times, there is a
method to his madness at times where how he gets
from A to B you can really question it. However,
what the end result is, okay, I mean, look what
happened in Gaza with Hamas basically losing the war, and
(24:29):
it was Trump who actually put together that peace program,
that peace deal. As fragile as it is and as
flaky as it is, there's no war going on right now.
I mean there are skirmish skirmishes. There is a quote
a war of attrition. But and you got to give
you got to give the president credit for that because
he had a lot to do with it.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I mean a lot, if not all, to do with it.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
All right, there was a really tragic train crash that
happened in Spain. Thirty nine people were killed, dozens more
in when two high speed trains glided. They were traveling
from Malaga to Madrid with three hundred and seventy one
people on board. When it's rear three carriages derailed. Officials
say eleven adults and one child are still in intensive
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care or critical condition and twenty four others were seriously hurt.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, and they issued a press release the train in Spain.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Falls mainly on the tracks.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Too soon, too soon?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Isn't it a little too soon?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Too soon for that?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
And I've got to get some more words that rhyme
with Maine Spain.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Train out insane insane works? Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yes? Or pain?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Yeah, oh, the train in Spain, cause for those people
that haven't died a lot of pain.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It is too soon. And by the.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Way, Spain's for some reason, has a history of this stuff,
if you noticed.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Yeah, this is uh, it's happened quite a few times.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, it does, and it's Spain a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Well, China's had some gain. I want to rhyme things. Yeah,
lookive me, I'm rhyming any who. China clocked its lowest
birth rate on record in twenty twenty five. Population shrinking
all that, but they still say that they are growing.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
In other ways.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They are growing financially even despite the target or the
US trade war and all these things going on. But
they are still focusing on growing their population. China's economy
itself grew five five.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, it's the that was their goal.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Roughly Yeah, they met their going.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
What the president is doing is what you did with
the tariffs was to punish China and it didn't work.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Away market punished China is not let any Chinese national
go to school in the state right see, or shut
down every parent they've they've bobbed and weaved in.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
They're fine, yea, every Panda Express restaurant must be shut
down by executive order.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Okay. Moving on.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
After weeks of clashes on again off in clashes, this
hearing government and Kurdish led militia have made an agreement
to have an immediate cease fire and merge the militia
fully into the national military forces.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, this is not something we pay attention to, particularly
Syria the civil war over there. It's certainly an international story.
But does anybody do you guys even know about this,
and more importantly, do you care?
Speaker 6 (27:46):
I mean, this is something that when it crosses with
all the other stuff and news that's happening, this is
unfortunately one.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Of those stories that just doesn't get a lot of attention.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Right now, there's a story about that's really great, the
brain infecting raccoon roundworm.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
That's a fun one.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I just love the fact that it's like crap news,
crap news. But here's another weird crap news, and that
is that there's a brain infecting raccoon roundworm parasite that's
found in a dog in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Hold on that old parasite.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I thought there was an earthquake, but I think it
was just Cono running down the hall.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
More trucks, trucks rolling by the studio.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I feel like I just ran down.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
The hole and it shook the whole newsroom. And I
looked at Am. I thought we were having an earthquake.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
So anyway, well he carries his pay check in nickels,
so it weighs him down.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Is the raccoon story.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
It's a huge story, and it's this raccoon roundworm. They
found exactly ten of them in California since nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Something to be afraid of.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Zutopia two is the highest grossing US animated movie of
all time.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
That's huge.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It said, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
I love that two thousands.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
It's a sequel to twenty sixteen Zutopia, and it made
one point seven billion dollars worldwide as of yesterday, and
it edged out the previous record holder, which is also
a Disney film, Inside Out too. Wow, that's great, and
it's getting amazing reviews. It's supposed to be just a
wonderful film, which is rare for a sequel.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah, and anybody sees you Zutopia one?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah, my daughter loved it.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Did you? I didn't say it. I have to go on.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I've got to see both of them. Just a quick
word before we bail.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Do you remember when Bob Iger, I think it was
ziker Iiger, who ran Disney for many many years, he
bought Pixar for like three billion dollars. Everybody thought it was,
oh god, how can you pay that much? How horrific?
Is that the biggest success in terms of buying a
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business that certainly Disney ever had. I mean it was
he effectively paid pennies on the dollar for the value
that Pixar has become.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You know who created the tech that later became Pixar,
George Lucas.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yes, that's true. Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs also was big
part of that. I think Jobs invested ten million dollars
in that thing, and that was probably I think his
greatest wealth was the owner of that as.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Discostch tech and innovation for filmmaking and creativity came out
of ILM alone.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Okay, and then really quickly a woman dies after Universal
Studios Florida roller coaster ride, and it is it is
not true that Disney arranged that. Okay, we are absolutely
done with Handle on the news. You've been listening to
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