February 4, 2026 • 31 mins
(February 04, 2026)
Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. President Trump signs to end government shutdown and fund DHS for two weeks. Arizona sheriff ‘aware’ of possible Nancy Guthrie ‘ransom note.’ L.A. County cuts nearly $200MIL in homeless services. Bitcoin hits lowest level since 2024 and stocks tumble as AI and geopolitical nerves fray.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Knows. And this is the part that I love. This
is political speak at its best. The main theme of
her speech is we Angelino's must come together ahead of
the twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
We all have to get along.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
She was a big fan of Rodney King clearly, and
was thinking about him as she discussed what we have
to do in the city.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We've got to get along, all of us. And now
Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Good morning everybody, Wednesday morning, February the fourth.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Just a quick one, guys, and well, first of hello.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Amy morning, Well hello Bill, Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Hello, it's too happy for me? All right, Cono you're up?
Oh hello?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh okay, too happy. Cole Schreiber, Hello, Bill Way way
too happy. And finally, and and please save this.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Good morning, Bad Billy.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Bad that's my news to got it. So I'm gonna
be the third tier traction at the Super Bowl halftime show, right.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh yeah, okay, next to bad Bunny.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Y Hey, that promo that we're running, you know, we'll
get along. You're referring to Karen bass in or State
of the city speech, right, you know, and obviously a
reference to Rodney King when he was asked.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
About what happened with the LA riots.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You know, I did I share this with you that
I actually interviewed Rodney King on the show somewhat after
some time after that. I have never had an interview
like Rodney Kings and all the decades I've been doing radio,
he grunted through the entire interview. He had his attorney
with him who did some speaking, and I would turn
(02:08):
to King and I would ask a question, what does
that mean? And then the attorney would answer some throw
some answer in there, and then a minute or two later,
I would turn to Rodney King and go, so, let
me ask you, what did you think at this point
or at this time whatever? And he would answer with, Okay,
(02:31):
what does that mean. I've never had anybody grunt through
an entire interview. It was one of the best. We
should actually have that somewhere in the archives, because that's
something that's always great fun to listen to.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, I've had some real doozies interviews.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Hung up on Arnold Schwarzenegger and wouldn't interview him anymore
after the second or third time when his PR person
called up, the governor would like to be on the show, okay,
And so I would ask him a question. He would
have instantly answered well Bill, and then go into his
talking points like any politician.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I said, that's great, Governor. Now the question is and
I'd ask the.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Question, well Bill, and then repeat the talking point Governor,
you're not answering the question, please, well Bill, and the
talking points again, gotta go, thank you so much. And
the next time the PR person or the communications guy
calls and we really can't do that.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
You know who?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Historically and not giving you a little bit of a
history of this show, you know who. The greatest politician
who I had on the show, who I absolutely admired
beyond admiration, was John McCain when he was running for office.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
John McCain not only was a genuine hero.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Trump's out of his mind saying that he wasn't a
hero because he was captured by the.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
North Vietnam North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War, but.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Also he was then the least bs politician I've ever
heard in my life. I'd ask him a question and
he'd answer it straight out. I go, so, Senator, do
you think that was a mistake, goes you bet, I did.
I mean, just straight on, just a great interview.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And then of course my fun escapade with Donald Trump,
way way way before he ran for president. Okay, guys,
let me see what do we have going? You know,
the Savannah Guthries mom case. Man, that is so strange.
And you know you cover this amy, you know, because
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you're a newsperson. How strange do you find both the
reporting and the information that's coming out.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
On this case?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Everything is so bizarre about it, like why would you
kidnap an eighty four year old woman? Like what what's
the motivation behind that? And now there's talking talk of
possible ransom notes, but we don't know are those real
ransom notes or were those maybe done by copycats because
they said, well, we were not saying if there's any ransom,
and all of a sudden, ransom notes pop up.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
TMZ reported that there was a ransom note, but also
reported that it was not corroborated. TMZ is is I
rely on TMZ far more than I do any other
news outlet, if you want to call it a news outlet.
I believe it that they're almost never wrong, right, So.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But they're saying that they demand they're demanding millions in bitcoin,
which then there's all this speculation, Well, who would call
for bitcoin? It would be a younger person who's looking
for bitcoin and.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Or someone who has really looked into it and realizes
that I cannot be traced. And it's not a bunch
of one hundred dollars bills in a duffel bag you
drop off at the foot of a bridge either where
everybody can see where you are.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You're right, it's just too strange.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And is there any connection to the fact that this
is Savannah got three mom?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And that was the reason and.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The kind of attention that it's getting it is and
we're hearing nothing from the authorities.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
We do know that it was determined to be a
crime scene and an abduction that was made pretty clear,
and the fact that she needed medication that was life
threatening if she.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Didn't have it right, And they said that they did
find a thing of pills at the house. And then
there was also I was watching something and they were
talking about how she had a ring camera, but people
when authorities got there that looks like the camera had
been taken off of its mount that sat outside her house.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't recorded and
kept somewhere in the cloud. I just put in an
alarm system at my house with cameras and they're immediately recorded.
And you can tear the cameras drown all you want,
but you know the images are still recorded. All right, Uh,
let's do it. Time for handle on the news. Notice
(07:07):
I didn't say good morning to Neil because Neil is
under the weather, which really we all are, because weather
is around us all the time and it's above us.
And I've under I've always wondered about that phrase. He
is under the weather. Okay, yeah, he certainly is. Okay,
(07:28):
why don't we do it. Time for handle on the news?
And it's Amy and me lead story. It's shut down,
as I had said. And by the way, this was
no prescient move, and you know, there's no genius. The
thinking here is that the government shut down did end
after a couple of days, and the President of course
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signed the bill because he was very anxious to keep
the government going, and the Democrats basically prevailed on this one.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
For the most part.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
The bill itself funds the entire government until next September,
the entire fiscal year except for Department of Homeland Security,
which the ICE and Border Patrol is under the Department
of Homeland Yes, Amy.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Except that the ICE funding is separate we were.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Talking to from, separate from the entire entire department.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, So DHS, TSA, those FEMA, those things are under
that two week But the ICE funding is already in place,
and it's separate from this pack the spending.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Pat now that I didn't know, so that has been funded.
Ice the most controversial of all of the agencies or
departments that has been funded well, while the rest of
it has not.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Right, But the fight is over ICE and the way
that they're carrying out the immigration. But it's not for
the funding of ICE.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, And that's the only thing Congress can do is
fund Congress has no authority to tell ICE how it
runs its operations or how Homeland Security oversees the border
patrol and the way immigrants are dealt with deported, detained.
That's fascinating, but fascinating. But in any case, the Democrats
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got their wish that there was no funding except for ICE,
as Amy said, which I just I think it's kind
of intuitive to everything the Democrats wanted, and there's a
two week push.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
On this one to negotiate it separately. And so that's
good news. Governments really is running it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That really didn't affect much of anybody because the Republicans
weren't going to take a chance again. The Democrats weren't
going to take a chance again because this time the
Democrats could have been blamed for a lengthy shutdown, right, Amy, Yes,
we did this already.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yes, we already talked about Savannah.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Nancy got three in the ransom note. And you know
my question this is I'd be interested. I mean, what
kind of medication she was on, Not that that has
anything to do with the case, but it's the question
of the transparency of the authorities. We talk a lot
about transparency, and it's it's something that we all want
(10:24):
to know, right, But.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It falls I'm guessing that it would fall under HIPPA,
so they can't tell us.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I don't know if it does fall under.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
HIPPA because it's not health officials.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, no, I understand.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I don't think because it's when you talk about the
sheriff's department that's not a provider of medical services.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And would you look that up.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Does information released by a police authority fall under the
HIPPA rules, which, of course says Amy just said, keeps
all medical information private.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
For example, you would you.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Cannot know how many times I, if ever, for example,
had an STD three times.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Just before, Amy has some breaking news, pretty important news.
We were discussing Anne Guthrie, who is the mother of
Savannah Guthrie, and her disappearance slash possible kidnapping.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
We don't know at this point.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And I had mentioned that the authorities are not letting
us so, for example, in the medication in which the
sheriff said she needs every day that's life threatening. And
Amy said, well, maybe the sheriff can't because of HIPPO
laws which keep medical information private. And I said, I
don't think HIPPO applies to authorities releasing information.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And Ann looked it up and Amy, you.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Are wrong, wrong, wrong, ron gue wrong.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I didn't claim to know for sure. I was surmising.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Okay, now, good word, Okay, Now back to the news.
We have some pretty important stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Amy.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah. President Trump's borders are Tom Holman is holding a
press conference and it's just announced that seven hundred immigration
officers are going to immediately be leaving Minnesota. He also
said several counties are now cooperating with ICE agents. Holman
went on to say that people who are violent and
attack ICE agents will be prosecuted. He says he wants
(12:44):
to see peace in the streets and implored people to
stop resisting and to just peacefully protest.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Now, have you noticed that the administration did not back
down on their position.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
They never do. This administration will never admit that it's wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
It's as simply not restating and stating and restating that
the two victims were terrorists, Domestic terrorists were there to
kill as many of ICE agents as possible, and it's
not the agent's fault. Any shooting that occurred is of
course the fault of the protesters who are still agitators.
(13:22):
But he's seven hundred of the troops are going down.
I guess three thousand that have been put there. And
the reason that they're going that they're leaving is because
the local authorities are cooperating now and therefore we don't
need as many ICE agents. Nothing about we're leaving because
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there is a lot of political backlash and the people
who have been Innesota we've got some contention. We're trying
to make it as good as we possibly can. It's
are you ever going to hear this administration agree or
admit that it was wrong on any level, on any subject. No,
the answer is absolutely not moving on.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Two hundred million dollars slashed. The Yellow County Board of
Supervisors has approved sweeping cuts to homeless services in the county.
Some advocates say that's going to mean more people on
the streets. County voters approved a sales tax increase in
twenty twenty four to help fight the homelessness crisis, but
(14:30):
city officials say they face more than two hundred and
seventy million dollars in a budget shortfall in trying to
just maintain current homeless services operations, So they're going to
be cutting outreach and navigation programs that help people who
are homeless get into housing. Some forms of rental assistance
are being cut, as well as a program that funds
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the acquisition of apartment buildings and to convert them into
former homeless housing.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
How many units of housing have action been built or
approved out of the what sixty thousand homeless people in
the county? And I don't want to It's just I
had said this. Any I helped for the homeless population
is going to be incremental. It's just not going to hell. Also,
(15:20):
you'll never get a number of how many homeless there are.
I mean, they don't number one, admit it. How about
the people that are homeless half the time and they're
CouchSurfing or in homeless shelters for a few days. So
it's a snapshot and the next day it may change.
All we know is La County doesn't have any money
(15:40):
and the homeless are getting nailed, which I find surprising
because usually the homeless population or the homeless issue has
been front burner literally for years and years. Gavin Newsom
ran the last time on homelessness, as did Karen Bass,
as did Paul Caruso.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, good news if you have bitcoin.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Maybe not not maybe just not. It's a big bummer
for bitcoin. It hit its lowest level since November of
twenty twenty four. Bitcoin slumped like seven percent yesterday, fell
below seventy three thousand dollars. It's down roughly forty percent
(16:27):
since hitting a record high above one hundred and twenty
six thousand in October.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I've never understood bitcoin when it first came out, and
how many years did it come out?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Twenty years ago?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Twenty you know, two thousand and eight, so that's not
even twenty years ago. And you could buy you could
have bought bitcoin for several for a penny, So if
you had five cents, for example, you would own let's
say at least ten bitcoin or twelve bitcoin. And it
(17:01):
hit over one hundred thousand dollars. That ain't bad for
a penny investment, is it. I don't get bitcoin, never have,
never will. How it all works anyway, and a corrollarily
to that the other side of the coin, if you will, Hey,
that's good is the fact that gold, which of course
(17:22):
uncertainty hits gold blows up almost hit five thousand dollars
an ounce.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
What does that tell you? It tells you.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'm going to keep on doing commercials for leer capital,
is what it tells you. The people that buy, sell,
and hold gold for you and kno, make sure that
they get a bill for this plug.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Final moments of freedom. A man charged and convicted of
trying to assassinate Donald Trump when he was running for
president in twenty twenty four is sentenced or scheduled to
be sentenced in Florida to He was convicted last fall
for his attempt on Trump's life when then presidential candidate
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Trump was golfing at his club in West Palm Beach.
Prosecutors are asking for a life sentence. His lawyer says
he deserved to taste freedom.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Again, that's interesting, interesting defense argument. I haven't heard that
one very much. This is the guy who was at
the golf course, at the fence, and we had a
clear shot of the t but the FBI saw him,
and he left his backpack, not very sophisticated, and was
picked up.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And he's going to get a lot of years, to
say the least.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
So here's my question, legal question, Bill. Of course, he
didn't actually pull a trigger, No attempt was actually made.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Right, Well, pulling a trigger does not change the attempt,
I don't think. Well, I mean shooting at and setting up.
I don't think there's much of a difference. But here
is the basis of my legal reasoning. Here, I have
absolutely no idea which is typical of what happens on
Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But don't mishandle on the law.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Eight to eleven o'clock every Saturday morning Marginal Legal Advice.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Human trafficking targeted authorities in LA have announced the arrests
of more than six hundred suspects and have rescued more
than one hundred seventy suspected drug trafficking victims, sex trafficking
victims lad La County DA Nathan Hoffman says this is
(19:41):
nothing less than modern slavery, and this whole human trafficking
thing is a multi billion dollar industry.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's also the investigation also is multime multi million dollars.
We don't hear how expensive, how extensive. Not that it's
not worth it, by the way, I want to make
that really clear. But part of the news of these
things is the enormous effort and the expense in the
time and the number of agents that go into this.
It is really expensive stuff. But clearly we have to
(20:11):
do it. We just have to report that part of
the story.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Also, an alternative to Bad Bunny turning point, USA is
holding its own Super Bowl halftime show. Bad Bunny was
announced last fall as the headliner for Super Bowl sixty
and conservatives not happy about it, so they said, we're
going to do one of our own that's more family friendly.
(20:37):
So it was announced on Monday that the lineup would
be kid rock country singers Brentlee Gilbert, and Lee Brice
and then Gabby Barrett, who came in third on season
sixteen of American Idol.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
By the way, does anybody have any idea who she
was prior to this announcement? Came in third on American Idol.
Here's a question I want to ask. You have the
super Bowl, then you have this Turning Point us a
concert which is going to get more viewers the this concert,
the Turning Point concert or the Puppy Bowl.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh I love the Puppy bul There you are, I'm lineup.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah, line and Brandley Gilbert and Lee Brice. Yeah, it's bad,
but you don't like country music. It's bad. Is so
over come on.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And the reaction has been I mean, it's not even
an outrage or the progressives or liberals or the anti
trumpets and or anti USA or anti USA Turning Point
or is just no one's paying attention, which.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Is probably driving them even more nuts.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, we'll have to wait and see, but I don't
think it's going to be a huge response.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
No, No, I don't think so. Puppy Bowl do well,
But Puppy bowls before. Oh I thought it was during.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
No, I think they don't. They do the Puppy Bowl
before the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I think they do it right during the Puppy Bowl,
I mean during the Super Bowl. And you're a dog lover, yes, sir, okay,
Puppy Bowl during or before?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
U before?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, look it up and we'll see. I'm saying during
and Ann says that it's before, and we'll see that's
before Super Bowl. Okay, then I am well r O
N g U U E yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Moving on, uh.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Demolishing Marilyn Monroe. A Brentwood couple you you've heard about
this bought Marilyn Monroe's old house and they wanted to
tear it down and then build their house next door
on make it bigger. And then they got all the permits,
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they did everything they were supposed to do, and then
somebody got wind of it and said, hold on, that's
Marilyn Monroe's old home. And so there was a big
outcry and the house has been declared National culturee where
is it? The LA Cultural Heritage Commission made it a landmark.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, LA landmark.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, And that just stopped it cold, right, and now
there's argument, yeah, and the argument from the people that
now own it. There isn't an ioda of anything inside
the house that is connected to Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It has bought and sold.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Eight times and there isn't even a piece of wallpaper,
a small piece that is related to Marilyn Monroe. However,
they're missing out at that facade is what is important.
Much like I remember when the White House burnt down
in Anaheim and Bruno had to rebuild. Well, because it
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was a landmark building. He had to keep the front
of it exactly as it was because it is also
a protect home. It was built in nineteen ten. Also
a quick side story about Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You know she was buried.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
She's buried in a crypt at Hollywood Cemetery, and there
was a man who owned the crypt right above her.
I think he bought it and insisted that he get
buried face down because he wanted to be face down
with Maryland below him face up. And he paid millions
for it, and he died, and that happened. His wife
(24:30):
realized she could get three point eight or four billion dollars,
immediately took him out of there, put him in another
crypt and sold it to someone else.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Maybe it was a someone.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Else who wanted to I guess have death sex with
Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I've had death sex before I was married.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And okayful, careful, big boy, you're married now.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, that's true. All death sex continues on. Okay, not
a lot of movement, if you know what I mean. Okay, yeah,
you know you got it all right.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Calling on Casey to quit, LA twenty eight Olympics committee
chair Casey Wasserman is facing more and more calls from
officials around LA to resign after that last batch of
Epstein emails was released and he showed up in it.
There were some racy emails exchanged with the convicted sex offender,
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Gillaine Maxwell. Supervisor Janice Hahn says having Casey Wasserman represent
us on the world stage distracts focus from our athletes
and the enormous effort needed to prepare for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
M Are you disappointed that we haven't actually seen those
techs and you can redact you know, the actual words used,
but still, you know, just because we're newspeople and it's
important that we get that news out, especially these kind
of comments on tech.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And by the way, is he going to survive this?
I don't know. That's pretty rough.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
You know, any connection to Jeffrey Epstein is toxic by anybody.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Well, the emails were from twenty years ago. Yeah, that
that doesn't make it any better.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And you know you and the argument is, for example,
someone comes up with, you know, you made a racist
comment that happens a lot in with politicians, and you
say I was in grade school at the time. It
doesn't matter. It shows the way you're thinking. Nothing in context.
There's no such thing as context anymore. And so what
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can I tell you? You know, if all the texts
in the world were released, I think a lot of people,
a lot of us, would be hugely embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
How China is handling handles. China is banning hidden door
handles on cars, all of them sold in China. That
makes them the first country in the world it's going
to do this. The hidden door handles are pretty much
a signature feature on Tesla's The band comes as Elon
Musk's company reports declining world worldwide sales and struggles with
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competition in China, which has evs of its own. The
Ministry of Information and Technology cited the inconvenience with operating
the exterior door handles. We just experienced this over the weekend,
and also their inability to open after an accident as
a reason for the band.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
That is a big safety issue because if there isn't
power and it's all cut off.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Now there's a manual way of.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Doing it, but still it can be very dangerous. Also
it's very entertaining as you see people taking their finger
and poking the entire door looking for the handle.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh yeah, we drove last weekend and Amy could not
get into Luis's tesla. She was like, how do you
open this door? It was kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's particularly funny when there's a fire inside
you're trying to get someone out. Yeah, that's when it's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
A real life superhero, as Dori would say, just keep swimming,
keep on swimming. Off the Australian coast, a thirteen year
old boy swam for like four hours and two and
a half miles back to shore. The family was from Perth.
They were on vacation and out paddling around using kayaks
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and paddle boards that they got from their hotel and
then the oceans got rough and the winds came along
and swept them out to sea. So the thirteen year
old swam back to the shore and basically saved his
mom Joanne, who's forty seven, his brother Bo who's twelve,
and his eight year old sister Grace. He got back
(28:51):
and alerted authorities. They went out and got him.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Factoid. What is Perth famous for?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
This relatively small city on the northeast side of northwest
side of Australia. When John Glenn was doing the first
orbitable flight of an American the people in Perth they
was going to go right over Perth. The people in
Perth turned all their lights on and he could see it,
and he mentioned, thank you very much to the people
(29:20):
of Perth. That's in case you already asked that on
Jeopardy you'll know, very cool. Yeah, it is cool. You
can look that up.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Jill's murderous X. This is a weird story. The ex
husband a former First Lady Jill Biden, has been arrested
and charged with first degree murder in the killing of
his wife. This happened in Delaware. William Stevenson is seventy seven.
(29:47):
His wife, Linda was sixty four. She was actually found
dead on December twenty eighth. They did a bunch of
investigations and then he was indicted earlier this week. Stevenson
was married to Jill Biden in the seventies. They were
married for about five years.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Weird story, isn't it And the first actual Donald Trump
story of the news and probably the last one in.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
The news hour.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Donald Trump has doubled down. He's still attacking Harvard and
demanding the Ivy League school pay a billion dollar settlement
to restore federal funding after months have failed negotiations. Some
of the schools have negotiated and Trump said, okay, you
can have your funding, but Harvard is not one of them.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, they're standing firm on all the demands that the
President is making of them.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
And by the way, he used.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
To be five hundred million dollars and now he upped it.
He literally doubled down on this and he's and a
lot of this, I mean a lot of these schools
have gone to court and have won because this is
money that Congress has already appropriated for the most part
of federal funding that's going on that's not being given.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
To the schools.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
So hey, can I tell you get on the wrong
side of Donald Trump. You're kind of screwed in the
story about Pexico pledging to cut price on snacks, which
Amy already did. Okay, guys, we're done with the news.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Knows. And this is the part that I love. This
is political speak at its best. The main theme of
her speech is we Angelino's must come together ahead of
the twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
We all have to get along.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
She was a big fan of Rodney King clearly, and
was thinking about him as she discussed what we have
to do in the city.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We've got to get along, all of us. And now
Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Good morning everybody, Wednesday morning, February the fourth.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Just a quick one, guys, and well, first of hello.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Amy morning, Well hello Bill, Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Hello, it's too happy for me? All right, Cono you're up?
Oh hello?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh okay, too happy. Cole Schreiber, Hello, Bill Way way
too happy. And finally, and and please save this.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Good morning, Bad Billy.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Bad that's my news to got it. So I'm gonna
be the third tier traction at the Super Bowl halftime show, right.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh yeah, okay, next to bad Bunny.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Y Hey, that promo that we're running, you know, we'll
get along. You're referring to Karen bass in or State
of the city speech, right, you know, and obviously a
reference to Rodney King when he was asked.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
About what happened with the LA riots.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You know, I did I share this with you that
I actually interviewed Rodney King on the show somewhat after
some time after that. I have never had an interview
like Rodney Kings and all the decades I've been doing radio,
he grunted through the entire interview. He had his attorney
with him who did some speaking, and I would turn
(02:08):
to King and I would ask a question, what does
that mean? And then the attorney would answer some throw
some answer in there, and then a minute or two later,
I would turn to Rodney King and go, so, let
me ask you, what did you think at this point
or at this time whatever? And he would answer with, Okay,
(02:31):
what does that mean. I've never had anybody grunt through
an entire interview. It was one of the best. We
should actually have that somewhere in the archives, because that's
something that's always great fun to listen to.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, I've had some real doozies interviews.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Hung up on Arnold Schwarzenegger and wouldn't interview him anymore
after the second or third time when his PR person
called up, the governor would like to be on the show, okay,
And so I would ask him a question. He would
have instantly answered well Bill, and then go into his
talking points like any politician.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I said, that's great, Governor. Now the question is and
I'd ask the.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Question, well Bill, and then repeat the talking point Governor,
you're not answering the question, please, well Bill, and the
talking points again, gotta go, thank you so much. And
the next time the PR person or the communications guy
calls and we really can't do that.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
You know who?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Historically and not giving you a little bit of a
history of this show, you know who. The greatest politician
who I had on the show, who I absolutely admired
beyond admiration, was John McCain when he was running for office.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
John McCain not only was a genuine hero.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Trump's out of his mind saying that he wasn't a
hero because he was captured by the.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
North Vietnam North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War, but.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Also he was then the least bs politician I've ever
heard in my life. I'd ask him a question and
he'd answer it straight out. I go, so, Senator, do
you think that was a mistake, goes you bet, I did.
I mean, just straight on, just a great interview.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And then of course my fun escapade with Donald Trump,
way way way before he ran for president. Okay, guys,
let me see what do we have going? You know,
the Savannah Guthries mom case. Man, that is so strange.
And you know you cover this amy, you know, because
(04:43):
you're a newsperson. How strange do you find both the
reporting and the information that's coming out.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
On this case?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Everything is so bizarre about it, like why would you
kidnap an eighty four year old woman? Like what what's
the motivation behind that? And now there's talking talk of
possible ransom notes, but we don't know are those real
ransom notes or were those maybe done by copycats because
they said, well, we were not saying if there's any ransom,
and all of a sudden, ransom notes pop up.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
TMZ reported that there was a ransom note, but also
reported that it was not corroborated. TMZ is is I
rely on TMZ far more than I do any other
news outlet, if you want to call it a news outlet.
I believe it that they're almost never wrong, right, So.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But they're saying that they demand they're demanding millions in bitcoin,
which then there's all this speculation, Well, who would call
for bitcoin? It would be a younger person who's looking
for bitcoin and.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Or someone who has really looked into it and realizes
that I cannot be traced. And it's not a bunch
of one hundred dollars bills in a duffel bag you
drop off at the foot of a bridge either where
everybody can see where you are.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You're right, it's just too strange.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And is there any connection to the fact that this
is Savannah got three mom?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And that was the reason and.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The kind of attention that it's getting it is and
we're hearing nothing from the authorities.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
We do know that it was determined to be a
crime scene and an abduction that was made pretty clear,
and the fact that she needed medication that was life
threatening if she.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Didn't have it right, And they said that they did
find a thing of pills at the house. And then
there was also I was watching something and they were
talking about how she had a ring camera, but people
when authorities got there that looks like the camera had
been taken off of its mount that sat outside her house.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't recorded and
kept somewhere in the cloud. I just put in an
alarm system at my house with cameras and they're immediately recorded.
And you can tear the cameras drown all you want,
but you know the images are still recorded. All right, Uh,
let's do it. Time for handle on the news. Notice
(07:07):
I didn't say good morning to Neil because Neil is
under the weather, which really we all are, because weather
is around us all the time and it's above us.
And I've under I've always wondered about that phrase. He
is under the weather. Okay, yeah, he certainly is. Okay,
(07:28):
why don't we do it. Time for handle on the news?
And it's Amy and me lead story. It's shut down,
as I had said. And by the way, this was
no prescient move, and you know, there's no genius. The
thinking here is that the government shut down did end
after a couple of days, and the President of course
(07:49):
signed the bill because he was very anxious to keep
the government going, and the Democrats basically prevailed on this one.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
For the most part.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
The bill itself funds the entire government until next September,
the entire fiscal year except for Department of Homeland Security,
which the ICE and Border Patrol is under the Department
of Homeland Yes, Amy.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Except that the ICE funding is separate we were.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Talking to from, separate from the entire entire department.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, So DHS, TSA, those FEMA, those things are under
that two week But the ICE funding is already in place,
and it's separate from this pack the spending.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Pat now that I didn't know, so that has been funded.
Ice the most controversial of all of the agencies or
departments that has been funded well, while the rest of
it has not.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Right, But the fight is over ICE and the way
that they're carrying out the immigration. But it's not for
the funding of ICE.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, And that's the only thing Congress can do is
fund Congress has no authority to tell ICE how it
runs its operations or how Homeland Security oversees the border
patrol and the way immigrants are dealt with deported, detained.
That's fascinating, but fascinating. But in any case, the Democrats
(09:23):
got their wish that there was no funding except for ICE,
as Amy said, which I just I think it's kind
of intuitive to everything the Democrats wanted, and there's a
two week push.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
On this one to negotiate it separately. And so that's
good news. Governments really is running it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That really didn't affect much of anybody because the Republicans
weren't going to take a chance again. The Democrats weren't
going to take a chance again because this time the
Democrats could have been blamed for a lengthy shutdown, right, Amy, Yes,
we did this already.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yes, we already talked about Savannah.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Nancy got three in the ransom note. And you know
my question this is I'd be interested. I mean, what
kind of medication she was on, Not that that has
anything to do with the case, but it's the question
of the transparency of the authorities. We talk a lot
about transparency, and it's it's something that we all want
(10:24):
to know, right, But.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
It falls I'm guessing that it would fall under HIPPA,
so they can't tell us.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I don't know if it does fall under.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
HIPPA because it's not health officials.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, no, I understand.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I don't think because it's when you talk about the
sheriff's department that's not a provider of medical services.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And would you look that up.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Does information released by a police authority fall under the
HIPPA rules, which, of course says Amy just said, keeps
all medical information private.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
For example, you would you.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Cannot know how many times I, if ever, for example,
had an STD three times.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Just before, Amy has some breaking news, pretty important news.
We were discussing Anne Guthrie, who is the mother of
Savannah Guthrie, and her disappearance slash possible kidnapping.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
We don't know at this point.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And I had mentioned that the authorities are not letting
us so, for example, in the medication in which the
sheriff said she needs every day that's life threatening. And
Amy said, well, maybe the sheriff can't because of HIPPO
laws which keep medical information private. And I said, I
don't think HIPPO applies to authorities releasing information.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And Ann looked it up and Amy, you.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Are wrong, wrong, wrong, ron gue wrong.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I didn't claim to know for sure. I was surmising.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Okay, now, good word, Okay, Now back to the news.
We have some pretty important stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Amy.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah. President Trump's borders are Tom Holman is holding a
press conference and it's just announced that seven hundred immigration
officers are going to immediately be leaving Minnesota. He also
said several counties are now cooperating with ICE agents. Holman
went on to say that people who are violent and
attack ICE agents will be prosecuted. He says he wants
(12:44):
to see peace in the streets and implored people to
stop resisting and to just peacefully protest.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Now, have you noticed that the administration did not back
down on their position.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
They never do. This administration will never admit that it's wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
It's as simply not restating and stating and restating that
the two victims were terrorists, Domestic terrorists were there to
kill as many of ICE agents as possible, and it's
not the agent's fault. Any shooting that occurred is of
course the fault of the protesters who are still agitators.
(13:22):
But he's seven hundred of the troops are going down.
I guess three thousand that have been put there. And
the reason that they're going that they're leaving is because
the local authorities are cooperating now and therefore we don't
need as many ICE agents. Nothing about we're leaving because
(13:43):
there is a lot of political backlash and the people
who have been Innesota we've got some contention. We're trying
to make it as good as we possibly can. It's
are you ever going to hear this administration agree or
admit that it was wrong on any level, on any subject. No,
the answer is absolutely not moving on.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Two hundred million dollars slashed. The Yellow County Board of
Supervisors has approved sweeping cuts to homeless services in the county.
Some advocates say that's going to mean more people on
the streets. County voters approved a sales tax increase in
twenty twenty four to help fight the homelessness crisis, but
(14:30):
city officials say they face more than two hundred and
seventy million dollars in a budget shortfall in trying to
just maintain current homeless services operations, So they're going to
be cutting outreach and navigation programs that help people who
are homeless get into housing. Some forms of rental assistance
are being cut, as well as a program that funds
(14:50):
the acquisition of apartment buildings and to convert them into
former homeless housing.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
How many units of housing have action been built or
approved out of the what sixty thousand homeless people in
the county? And I don't want to It's just I
had said this. Any I helped for the homeless population
is going to be incremental. It's just not going to hell. Also,
(15:20):
you'll never get a number of how many homeless there are.
I mean, they don't number one, admit it. How about
the people that are homeless half the time and they're
CouchSurfing or in homeless shelters for a few days. So
it's a snapshot and the next day it may change.
All we know is La County doesn't have any money
(15:40):
and the homeless are getting nailed, which I find surprising
because usually the homeless population or the homeless issue has
been front burner literally for years and years. Gavin Newsom
ran the last time on homelessness, as did Karen Bass,
as did Paul Caruso.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, good news if you have bitcoin.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Maybe not not maybe just not. It's a big bummer
for bitcoin. It hit its lowest level since November of
twenty twenty four. Bitcoin slumped like seven percent yesterday, fell
below seventy three thousand dollars. It's down roughly forty percent
(16:27):
since hitting a record high above one hundred and twenty
six thousand in October.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I've never understood bitcoin when it first came out, and
how many years did it come out?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Twenty years ago?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Twenty you know, two thousand and eight, so that's not
even twenty years ago. And you could buy you could
have bought bitcoin for several for a penny, So if
you had five cents, for example, you would own let's
say at least ten bitcoin or twelve bitcoin. And it
(17:01):
hit over one hundred thousand dollars. That ain't bad for
a penny investment, is it. I don't get bitcoin, never have,
never will. How it all works anyway, and a corrollarily
to that the other side of the coin, if you will, Hey,
that's good is the fact that gold, which of course
(17:22):
uncertainty hits gold blows up almost hit five thousand dollars
an ounce.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
What does that tell you? It tells you.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'm going to keep on doing commercials for leer capital,
is what it tells you. The people that buy, sell,
and hold gold for you and kno, make sure that
they get a bill for this plug.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Final moments of freedom. A man charged and convicted of
trying to assassinate Donald Trump when he was running for
president in twenty twenty four is sentenced or scheduled to
be sentenced in Florida to He was convicted last fall
for his attempt on Trump's life when then presidential candidate
(18:08):
Trump was golfing at his club in West Palm Beach.
Prosecutors are asking for a life sentence. His lawyer says
he deserved to taste freedom.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Again, that's interesting, interesting defense argument. I haven't heard that
one very much. This is the guy who was at
the golf course, at the fence, and we had a
clear shot of the t but the FBI saw him,
and he left his backpack, not very sophisticated, and was
picked up.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
And he's going to get a lot of years, to
say the least.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
So here's my question, legal question, Bill. Of course, he
didn't actually pull a trigger, No attempt was actually made.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Right, Well, pulling a trigger does not change the attempt,
I don't think. Well, I mean shooting at and setting up.
I don't think there's much of a difference. But here
is the basis of my legal reasoning. Here, I have
absolutely no idea which is typical of what happens on
Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But don't mishandle on the law.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Eight to eleven o'clock every Saturday morning Marginal Legal Advice.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Human trafficking targeted authorities in LA have announced the arrests
of more than six hundred suspects and have rescued more
than one hundred seventy suspected drug trafficking victims, sex trafficking
victims lad La County DA Nathan Hoffman says this is
(19:41):
nothing less than modern slavery, and this whole human trafficking
thing is a multi billion dollar industry.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's also the investigation also is multime multi million dollars.
We don't hear how expensive, how extensive. Not that it's
not worth it, by the way, I want to make
that really clear. But part of the news of these
things is the enormous effort and the expense in the
time and the number of agents that go into this.
It is really expensive stuff. But clearly we have to
(20:11):
do it. We just have to report that part of
the story.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Also, an alternative to Bad Bunny turning point, USA is
holding its own Super Bowl halftime show. Bad Bunny was
announced last fall as the headliner for Super Bowl sixty
and conservatives not happy about it, so they said, we're
going to do one of our own that's more family friendly.
(20:37):
So it was announced on Monday that the lineup would
be kid rock country singers Brentlee Gilbert, and Lee Brice
and then Gabby Barrett, who came in third on season
sixteen of American Idol.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
By the way, does anybody have any idea who she
was prior to this announcement? Came in third on American Idol.
Here's a question I want to ask. You have the
super Bowl, then you have this Turning Point us a
concert which is going to get more viewers the this concert,
the Turning Point concert or the Puppy Bowl.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh I love the Puppy bul There you are, I'm lineup.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah, line and Brandley Gilbert and Lee Brice. Yeah, it's bad,
but you don't like country music. It's bad. Is so
over come on.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And the reaction has been I mean, it's not even
an outrage or the progressives or liberals or the anti
trumpets and or anti USA or anti USA Turning Point
or is just no one's paying attention, which.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Is probably driving them even more nuts.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, we'll have to wait and see, but I don't
think it's going to be a huge response.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
No, No, I don't think so. Puppy Bowl do well,
But Puppy bowls before. Oh I thought it was during.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
No, I think they don't. They do the Puppy Bowl
before the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I think they do it right during the Puppy Bowl,
I mean during the Super Bowl. And you're a dog lover, yes, sir, okay,
Puppy Bowl during or before?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
U before?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Okay, look it up and we'll see. I'm saying during
and Ann says that it's before, and we'll see that's
before Super Bowl. Okay, then I am well r O
N g U U E yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Moving on, uh.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Demolishing Marilyn Monroe. A Brentwood couple you you've heard about
this bought Marilyn Monroe's old house and they wanted to
tear it down and then build their house next door
on make it bigger. And then they got all the permits,
(22:58):
they did everything they were supposed to do, and then
somebody got wind of it and said, hold on, that's
Marilyn Monroe's old home. And so there was a big
outcry and the house has been declared National culturee where
is it? The LA Cultural Heritage Commission made it a landmark.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, LA landmark.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, And that just stopped it cold, right, and now
there's argument, yeah, and the argument from the people that
now own it. There isn't an ioda of anything inside
the house that is connected to Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It has bought and sold.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Eight times and there isn't even a piece of wallpaper,
a small piece that is related to Marilyn Monroe. However,
they're missing out at that facade is what is important.
Much like I remember when the White House burnt down
in Anaheim and Bruno had to rebuild. Well, because it
(23:53):
was a landmark building. He had to keep the front
of it exactly as it was because it is also
a protect home. It was built in nineteen ten. Also
a quick side story about Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You know she was buried.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
She's buried in a crypt at Hollywood Cemetery, and there
was a man who owned the crypt right above her.
I think he bought it and insisted that he get
buried face down because he wanted to be face down
with Maryland below him face up. And he paid millions
for it, and he died, and that happened. His wife
(24:30):
realized she could get three point eight or four billion dollars,
immediately took him out of there, put him in another
crypt and sold it to someone else.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Maybe it was a someone.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Else who wanted to I guess have death sex with
Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I've had death sex before I was married.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And okayful, careful, big boy, you're married now.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, that's true. All death sex continues on. Okay, not
a lot of movement, if you know what I mean. Okay, yeah,
you know you got it all right.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Calling on Casey to quit, LA twenty eight Olympics committee
chair Casey Wasserman is facing more and more calls from
officials around LA to resign after that last batch of
Epstein emails was released and he showed up in it.
There were some racy emails exchanged with the convicted sex offender,
(25:24):
Gillaine Maxwell. Supervisor Janice Hahn says having Casey Wasserman represent
us on the world stage distracts focus from our athletes
and the enormous effort needed to prepare for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
M Are you disappointed that we haven't actually seen those
techs and you can redact you know, the actual words used,
but still, you know, just because we're newspeople and it's
important that we get that news out, especially these kind
of comments on tech.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And by the way, is he going to survive this?
I don't know. That's pretty rough.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
You know, any connection to Jeffrey Epstein is toxic by anybody.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Well, the emails were from twenty years ago. Yeah, that
that doesn't make it any better.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And you know you and the argument is, for example,
someone comes up with, you know, you made a racist
comment that happens a lot in with politicians, and you
say I was in grade school at the time. It
doesn't matter. It shows the way you're thinking. Nothing in context.
There's no such thing as context anymore. And so what
(26:40):
can I tell you? You know, if all the texts
in the world were released, I think a lot of people,
a lot of us, would be hugely embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
How China is handling handles. China is banning hidden door
handles on cars, all of them sold in China. That
makes them the first country in the world it's going
to do this. The hidden door handles are pretty much
a signature feature on Tesla's The band comes as Elon
Musk's company reports declining world worldwide sales and struggles with
(27:15):
competition in China, which has evs of its own. The
Ministry of Information and Technology cited the inconvenience with operating
the exterior door handles. We just experienced this over the weekend,
and also their inability to open after an accident as
a reason for the band.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
That is a big safety issue because if there isn't
power and it's all cut off.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Now there's a manual way of.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Doing it, but still it can be very dangerous. Also
it's very entertaining as you see people taking their finger
and poking the entire door looking for the handle.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh yeah, we drove last weekend and Amy could not
get into Luis's tesla. She was like, how do you
open this door? It was kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's particularly funny when there's a fire inside
you're trying to get someone out. Yeah, that's when it's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
A real life superhero, as Dori would say, just keep swimming,
keep on swimming. Off the Australian coast, a thirteen year
old boy swam for like four hours and two and
a half miles back to shore. The family was from Perth.
They were on vacation and out paddling around using kayaks
(28:29):
and paddle boards that they got from their hotel and
then the oceans got rough and the winds came along
and swept them out to sea. So the thirteen year
old swam back to the shore and basically saved his
mom Joanne, who's forty seven, his brother Bo who's twelve,
and his eight year old sister Grace. He got back
(28:51):
and alerted authorities. They went out and got him.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Factoid. What is Perth famous for?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
This relatively small city on the northeast side of northwest
side of Australia. When John Glenn was doing the first
orbitable flight of an American the people in Perth they
was going to go right over Perth. The people in
Perth turned all their lights on and he could see it,
and he mentioned, thank you very much to the people
(29:20):
of Perth. That's in case you already asked that on
Jeopardy you'll know, very cool. Yeah, it is cool. You
can look that up.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Jill's murderous X. This is a weird story. The ex
husband a former First Lady Jill Biden, has been arrested
and charged with first degree murder in the killing of
his wife. This happened in Delaware. William Stevenson is seventy seven.
(29:47):
His wife, Linda was sixty four. She was actually found
dead on December twenty eighth. They did a bunch of
investigations and then he was indicted earlier this week. Stevenson
was married to Jill Biden in the seventies. They were
married for about five years.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Weird story, isn't it And the first actual Donald Trump
story of the news and probably the last one in.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
The news hour.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Donald Trump has doubled down. He's still attacking Harvard and
demanding the Ivy League school pay a billion dollar settlement
to restore federal funding after months have failed negotiations. Some
of the schools have negotiated and Trump said, okay, you
can have your funding, but Harvard is not one of them.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, they're standing firm on all the demands that the
President is making of them.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
And by the way, he used.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
To be five hundred million dollars and now he upped it.
He literally doubled down on this and he's and a
lot of this, I mean a lot of these schools
have gone to court and have won because this is
money that Congress has already appropriated for the most part
of federal funding that's going on that's not being given.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
To the schools.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
So hey, can I tell you get on the wrong
side of Donald Trump. You're kind of screwed in the
story about Pexico pledging to cut price on snacks, which
Amy already did. Okay, guys, we're done with the news.
This is KFI Am six.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
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