February 11, 2026 • 26 mins
(February 11, 2026)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Nancy Guthrie live updates: Man detained for questioning is released. House Dem identifies ‘wealthy, powerful men’ DOJ redacted in Epstein files. L.A County officials push new sales tax to offset Trump administration cuts.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
am six fortys.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Adam Schiff is endorsing Representative Eric Swallwell.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Who the hell is Swallowell?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
And even weirder, he's a Democrat from Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I didn't even know if someone from Dublin, Ireland can run.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
That would be Dublin, California.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Oh okay, got it, And now handle on the news.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
And a good morning everybody, hand all morning group.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Already starting with the haunty.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It is a hookday, Wednesday, the eleventh day of February.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, hello to the crowd. Will Coleschriver, good morning, Good
morning Bill.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Oh wow, the clothing or wearing today makes you look
particularly thin.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
No horse on a straight There's very little you can
do to make yourself looks in by the way, I
just want to point that out. Oh okay, also with
the nicely said also with the same I would say
provenance affliction if you will, Good morning provenance.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh I'm like, what that's going back to prove?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
That's that's to prove the case we can go back
in time because I have I can certify all the
way back in terms of how you look. We've been
around together for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I will tell you this though, no one that you've
ever called fat has been as heavy as you were.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
That is correct.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But now now that I've lost the weight it is,
I now can throw it at back at you.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I'm gonna puttied up soon. And then what are you
gonna do? I'm sorry, I'm gonna have my my guts
tied up. I know. Then I'm gonna have to figure
out some other way to make fun of you. I'll
figure it out. I'm good at this conor good morning
in the morning.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Oh, and there is and with her I Heart hoodie
the sweater. Yep, that's Amy. I'm sorry, I'm looking at Amy.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I always.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Almost three years.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It's going to go on forever. I swear it's going
to go on forever. And by the way, that's not stick.
That's what I do. I just conflate everybody anyway. Uh.
The iHeart sweater which they handed out for free, strangely
enough a couple of three years.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Ago, because they don't do that anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, but you can buy.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
You can buy stuff on the iHeart merch store.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Oh, yeah. Great.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Now they don't tell you that you can't actually wash
it or dry clean it or sweating it because all
the colors run.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know that.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Actually with this one, normally I would they agree, But
this one is actually a good quality sweatshirt.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Some money happened that I don't know where. Yeah, I
have no idea. The swag is nice.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
We cannot get a box of pencils here much less
than that kind of story.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I refuse to pay for one. Yeah, and they're not cheap.
What are they charging for those?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But I have one but the wrong size, and so
I gave it to Lindsay. Lindsay loves it. I mean
Lindsay absolutely loves him.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
And it's perfect for today's rainy weather.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
And she does, however, take duct tape and cover the
logo up and refuses to admit that she has anything
to do with iHeart, mainly because she's married to me.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I have tons of really cute hoodies and stuff from
my last radio station that I can wear. You're in
a real radio station that actually bought you stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
We used to have swag at one time, and Neil
would do all kinds of logos and he would put
statements and fun sayings on the swag actely.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Remember my original office had an entire back wall that
was nothing but swag. You could come in and grab
stuff during the day if you had guests walking through
or whatever, an entire wall. Now you do have ones
with pencils with no never mind, it just says number two.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Confused.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Okay, I didn't get that. By the way, Will's laughing,
But I did not.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Get that number two pencil.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
No. I got number two pencil, and you're number two. Okay, okay,
I got it, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I turn for poop being so some of the keys,
they say number one for the pippies, ain't number two.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
For the Oh all the emails?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Who gets the email? I think Michelle does, doesn't she?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They got rid of email keep cost out, that's true.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I used to have rid of our phones.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
They did when we uh it was a bunch of
years ago when it used to be emails, uh and
mainly postcards and letters. I had a wall of hate
that I kept for years. Remember those remember remember that?
And there were just I mean, it was death threats, uh,
it was anti semitic tropes, it was Hitler was right,
(05:04):
anything to get my eye up, and so I put
him up on the wall. It was my wall of
hate that I went on for a while. It was
very entertaining. All right, what else before we jump into
the mood news. Oh, here it is. On Monday, I
went to workout and I tried to do a sit up,
(05:25):
which I can't do.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
By the way, I don't have enough core.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I can't. I literally cannot do a sit up. So
as I'm attempting to do a sit up, this guy
walks past me and he said, don't do sit ups.
And I said, don't worry, I can't and he said,
sit ups are going to really hurt you. I have
two friends, he is saying that have done sit ups
for years. One is in a wheelchair, the other one
(05:48):
uses a walker. So here he is, I guess late seventies,
early eighties, spry, bouncing around, just wrecked, sharp as attack.
And he said that when you get older, you can't
do this. And I said, yeah, I'm old. How old
are you and he said ninety seven? And I went, oh,
(06:10):
come on, he goes no, ninety seven. I was born
in nineteen twenty eight. And he had a sweatshirt shirt
that was printed nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So it turned out he really was. I said, you
are ninety seven. He goes yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I go, my god, you are old. And he goes, yeah,
my dad's age if you yeah? And then and I said,
and so your Shawn's doesn't work? He goes for years. Now,
I went, so we talking. We the conversation was about
shawns is working or not working?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It must be so productive now that it was good? No,
it was very good. It was very good. Okay, we're done,
guys with that. You're ready to do it? Sure?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Why not handle on the news with Amy Neil and
me and lead story the Nancy three disappearance or I
think it's fair to say kidnapping. The last update was
there was a man who was detained for questioning. He
(07:09):
was released after investigators figure he had done nothing to
do with the kidnapping. There is videotape, and there was
a whole story about the technology behind finding or even
finding this video when the camera had been taken disabled,
(07:31):
and yet they were able to track it down with
the extraordinary cooperation from Google because it was a ring
camera which virtually everybody has.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
It's actually it's a nest camera. It's the same thing.
It's just a different brand.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, okay, fine, ring nests. You know they're all the same.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Rich Jumiro did a great breakdown on his social media
if you go check that out of how they got
the information from Google.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah, now that means they have more information. But still
you see him in a mass where only his eyes
and his mouth show. H he has gloves, very heavy
gloves on. Yeah, but big ones, very puffy ones. Not
the kind you use the doctors used to make me
feel terrible when the doctors shows to say handle assume
(08:21):
the position, which they don't do anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
By the way, well because you do it in front
of your dentist. Yeah, no, they don't do that. Very
funny if they don't do that anymore.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Because there was a Kaiser talk about Digress, a Kaiser
Foundation study that says mortality rates things absolutely the same,
it doesn't change. I said, so you're not going to
do it, and he said, no, we don't do it anymore.
And I started arguing with him and sorta sorta yes, sort.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Of address war to payt gifts.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
In any case, hopefully there's enough information they find this
guy they're getting, oh, sir. And the problem is with this,
and this is a very tough one, is that the
gut Thrie family has offered to pay and we're talking
six million dollars as being demanded in bitcoin for Nancy
Guthrie's release, and the purported kidnappers have not responded to that,
(09:20):
and that does not bode well. Unfortunately. I have my
doubts whether Nancy Got three is going to be returned.
Not only am I a pessimist, but I think if
you look at statistics, it's not particularly good news.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That's my take on it. I literally hope I'm very
wrong on this one.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
What we only saw the one guy in the video.
We don't know if there was another one.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
We don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
All we saw is the one guy going up to
the porch and then leaving and going up to.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
The porch, unmasking Jeffrey's friends. Representative Rocanna was on the
house floor and read aloud the names of six wealthy
powerful men whose names were originally redacted in the Epstein files.
He was He and Representative Massey have been in the
in the skiff looking at the files that were supposed
(10:11):
to be unredacted. They say they found that they found
the six men that had been hidden in the files,
and said, imagine how many men they are covering up
in those three million documents If they found six in
two hours, Kinna identified Leslie Wexler or Wexner, he's the
(10:35):
billionaire and former owner of Victoria's Secret and the other
retail companies. And then also Sultan Ahmed bin Solomon as
the chief executive officer of DP World.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Do you know either are those names? I don't. I
had no idea who these people were, just the names.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I know, the name Leslie Wexler, the other names he
read off. I had no clue, no idea.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
So what he's arguing, what he's saying is these are
the names they found in a couple of hours. Now
we have millions of pages to go through and we'll
see whose names were were redacted.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Why would they redact anything that was anyone's name that
was not a victim.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Oh, because of the connection to Jeffrey Epstein. If that's
why did they hang out after his conviction. Turns out
that Howard Lutnick did he straight out lied about that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
No, No, I think they should be we should see that.
But I'm saying Why would you redact someone who wasn't
a victim.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I don't understand such yet you're going to redact their names?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, someone who is not a victim, redact their names,
just their names being put out.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I think publicly, I wasn't a victim.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
How I wouldn't want my name out there simply because
of the potential of a connection. So I just don't
want to be connected in any way, and then to
be and then said and then a handle has nothing
to do with what happened was going on. I can
see the reason why you don't want that to happen.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well, the people.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But I'm saying legally, why does the government have to
redact their name?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Oh they don't. They don't.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
The government doesn't ever redact anything. Even the victims of
the government doesn't have to redact. All right, La County,
you've got us, the voters. We're going to be asked
to vote.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
For less money in our pockets again, because that's what
we do here in Los Angeles. So coming up in June,
they want to hike the sales tax right by a
half a cent. This is to soften the blow of
federal funding cuts, you know, the big one, big Beautiful
Bill Act is expected to slash around two billion or
(12:44):
more of the county's budget for healthcare services over the
next three years. So they're trying to recoup about one
billion back in via these taxes.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah, and a part of that bill is known as
the lsc Act. Let's screw California and LA County And
we're going to talk more about this coming up at
eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
We're going to make a new road for billionaires to leave.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
There's a whorld to this and it's getting crazy. And
then I'm gonna do a story about crazy. It's really
crazy in terms of home ownership, and you're not going
to be surprised.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Moving on Mount Baldy, banned trails on Mount Baldy, the
towering peak that looms over southern California's gorgeous lowered a
lot of inexperienced and under equipped hikers to their deaths.
It's going to be closed for the next two weeks.
Three hikers have died in the storms in December because
(13:43):
they were up hiking in the icy narrow Devil's Backbone
trail area and fell to their death.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I have a question in terms of who goes there.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Did someone wake up and say, gee, I think I'll
go hiking today at Devil's Backbone yea, and possibly die.
Same thing with Mount Everest, where people are They actually
walk over bodies that are sitting there at the various trails.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I just don't understand this. Mount Everest isn't called Mount Death. Oh,
it's even Benman's curve, the Devil's backbone, like somebody named
him that for a reason.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
All right?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
That, yeah, I'll buy that, but it could because it's
the in the shape of a backbone. I don't know
where I came from. It doesn't matter. I think you're right.
You know why why do you would you even go
there in the middle of the winter. I don't understand
that gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Area, but yeah, not good, all right, strange flip flop
on a story.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
We don't know why. But the FAA came out and.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Halted all flights at El Paso Airport in Texas for
ten days. It's now flipped uh and they have reopened it.
But it's weird. They use this term. I don't know
if you've heard this before, built notem n otam. It
stands for notice to airmen, And they said no pilots
may operate in aircraft in the areas, and they said
(15:09):
it was for security reasons. But it turned over very quickly,
obviously not going to tea.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
They turned it around in twenty four hours. Yeah, so
whatever risk was ascertained is no longer. And I don't
I didn't, I didn't know NOTEM. I know that there's
grounding of all airplanes. I know they're shutting down a
what is it a ground stop where the airplanes are
are not allowed to fly in or out?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But I know, I didn't know. Noteem is the official phrase.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
No trust turned around. They turned around twenty four hours.
No one understands why.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I'm sure we'll be getting details soon. No trespassing. Mayor
Bass has signed a new executive directive that restricts federal
immigration enforcement operations on city owned property. Basically, she said,
you can't stage on city owned property, stalking to ice
enforcement agents, and it also requires LAPD officers who respond
(16:07):
to an immigration enforcement scene to turn on their body
camps when they get there.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, that there's not a problem with I kind of question.
You can't stage on city grounds a federal operation. I
don't quite understand how this works because obviously federal law
supersedes any state, county, city law or city directives. So
(16:34):
I don't understand that. But certainly you can't cooperate and
you have to wear body cams. And I think Pam
Bondi had already said that ICE agents who are involved
in executing these deportations and rest warrants must wear body cams.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
So right, but this is for LAPD officers, right, respond,
that's right, and that is not a problem.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yeah, that and I said it could be moved because
the ICE agents are going to be wearing bodycam which
is critical because in the shooting of Alex pretty bodycam proved.
Bodycam footage proved that the administration was straight out lying
about what happened, not an issue, straight out lying, And
(17:20):
of course they're deflecting and just oh no, no, no,
that's not true. He was still he's a No I
haven't they stopped saying he was a terrorist domestic terrorists.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
But they've never walked that back. Never.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
No.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
As a matter of fact, there's a story coming up,
jeef wack. We need to take a break now, but
about that not walking it back.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Oh blackjack. Federal agents can't play oh no, no, no,
no later.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
More handle on the news with Amy and Neil and
Me and a really weird story about ice agents can't
play blackjack anymore at California Card Route.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
No, no, no, did I read that wrong? You shuffle
the headlines.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
This This is a strange story, and I'm as a
blackjack fan, I'm trying to parse all the weird details
and why they would be such. But there's a new
regulation coming down that's gonna bar card rooms from offering
blackjack and any other player dealer games. And you know,
(18:25):
people rightly so are saying this is going to devastate
the industry in California.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
So there's these new rules.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
One of the two new rules says that card rooms
cannot offer blackjack. And keep in mind, this is the
most popular casino game in the world. Right, players would
no longer bust but by exceeding twenty one points, and
the card rooms can't use the name blackjack or include
the number twenty one.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And I'm not sure it's so weird.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I've have to do with that. It has to do
with the treaty that was signed. The agreement was signed
nineteen ninety nine. Prop one A California's Native Americans the
exclusive right the tribes get the exclusive right to offer
blackjack and other table games. And again, as you explain,
play against the casino or the house. So it's gonna
(19:18):
it's gonna put those city casinos basically out of business
as far as blackjack. And you can't use the word blackshack.
So it has to be the big game, which is
really confusing.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Super Bowl, super Bowl, Yes, but this doesn't hit casinos,
Indian casinos.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
No, No, it was in favor of Indian Indian casinos.
He said, only Indian casinos can play blackjack, you know.
And I'm always in favor of whatever we sign with
Native Americans because based on the number of treaties the
United States signed with Native Americans throughout the years prior
to the modern era, the US broke every single treaty
(20:00):
and move tribes from one reservation to another, and we
treated the Native Americans horribly and they came back saying, Okay,
what we want is the ability to fleece people. Uh
do it with the gambling.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, So you take that out of the hands of
the of the state and give it to the Indian tribes.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, the tribe. I'm all for this because I play
a wrongo. So I'm okay.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
So basically what this does, though, it just keeps you
from saying the word blackjack or twenty one. But they're
going to work around it. But they can still play cards, and.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
They except that there. You can't the house, can't do
the house anymore.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
But they've done that in Oregon for years. We're like,
you have to have people shuffle in and be there.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yes, yes, exactly, people play people or of the house.
And it's no longer the twenty one or bust. It's
whatever the card player. Uh, whoever comes closest to the
number twenty one in fact wins that hand.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
We are and this is California real Estate. It's an organ.
Oh yeah, organ is weird.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah, well there's no Morgan.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
The only casinos in Oregon are around bushes. Okay, they're
not even in buildings all that.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
But Tullly Oil yeah, Northwest, Yeah, grilled on the Hill.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Representative Eric Swalwell. Oh remember yesterday, Bill, you were asking
who Swalwell is. Well, he's he's a representative from California.
He pressed Ice Chief todd Lyons to apologize to the
families of Renee Good and Alex Pretty. They were the
two people shot and killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis
last month.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
He said, will you apologize to Renee Good for being
called a domestic terrorist by the president and his leadership?
And Lyons said no, sir, And then Swalwell said is
she a domestic terrorist? And Lions declined to answer.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah. A quick word here in terms of apologizing.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
If I'm a council to ICE, and of course everybody
has council attorneys that are assigned to various agencies, I
wouldn't let the agency head apologize because an apology is
going to be used in court in the civil suit.
And didn't the government apologize for this? Ladies and gentlemen
(22:21):
of the jury. What does that mean? So I can
see that now As far as the rest of it,
I mean, I loved it when the Lions was asked
about showing papers and he deflected, deflected, deflective.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Also is well he wouldn't even admit that the two
were shot.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I mean, the guy is he deflected like you couldn't deflect,
or like you could deflect anyway. Part of it is
it's not one sided on the apology. All right, let's
finish up by handle on the news, Amy and me.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
All right, the shootings at a school and a home
in Canada, sad story.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Ten dead.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It was at this school. There were seven people dead
while two more were found dead in nearby home. So
it took place at a home at the school. You know,
pretty rare in Canada to have that, very.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Rare because guns are not allowed in Canada. No, then
after a twenty twenty shooting, the gun laws became more
restrictive in Canada.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
There was a little.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Different after a shooting. The gun laws are ease eased up.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
In the United States, bigger guns now we have about
one hundred and twenty guns per one hundred thousand, and
in Canada it's about thirty five guns per one hundred thousands.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yeah, probably, yeah, and so this is really unusual. Story
We did yesterday about Waimo assistance.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Please did we do this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
With Rich Deborough He mentioned this.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Oh yeah, okay, uh so Weimo has its robotaxis. But
sometimes those autonomous those autonomous driving vehicles need a little help,
and that is when they run into unusual situations, they
have remote human operators step into help. They're not driving
(24:27):
the cars, but they're assisting if there's an unusual situation
Weimo says. The operators are then able to provide real,
real time, contextual guidance and a lot of them are
from overseas.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
So yeah, they call centers that I help with the
call with the car the technology.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Hello, my name is Bob, can I help you? Well, Bob?
What is is that like a Southern accent?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
No, that was like a at Indian accent. Thank you
and making fun of us.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Are in the Philippines?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yes, they are here, we go and I did that
yesterday too with the karaoke.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Okay, we're not going to go on or we are
all right?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Major League Baseball making streaming options available for fans to
watch in market games of twenty teams. That includes the Dodgers,
the Los Angeles Angels, San Francisco Giants, San Diego. What's
this name man, San Diego? What's the team there? San
Diego Padres. So this is a huge shift obviously respond
(25:40):
to fast changing TV landscape. Things are going nuts all
the way. But because of you've got to have subscriptions
to everything. So the Angels on Tuesday announced the arrangement.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yeah, another avenue for in this case, sports seems to
make money. It looks like every business who can possibly
use a platform under any circumstances is trying to and
successfully monetizing it. So the technology today, as you pointed out,
can be used for virtually anything. All Right, we are
(26:13):
done with the news. We'll be back with more kf
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Adam Schiff is endorsing Representative Eric Swallwell.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Who the hell is Swallowell?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
And even weirder, he's a Democrat from Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I didn't even know if someone from Dublin, Ireland can run.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
That would be Dublin, California.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Oh okay, got it, And now handle on the news.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
And a good morning everybody, hand all morning group.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Already starting with the haunty.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It is a hookday, Wednesday, the eleventh day of February.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, hello to the crowd. Will Coleschriver, good morning, Good
morning Bill.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Oh wow, the clothing or wearing today makes you look
particularly thin.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
No horse on a straight There's very little you can
do to make yourself looks in by the way, I
just want to point that out. Oh okay, also with
the nicely said also with the same I would say
provenance affliction if you will, Good morning provenance.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh I'm like, what that's going back to prove?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
That's that's to prove the case we can go back
in time because I have I can certify all the
way back in terms of how you look. We've been
around together for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I will tell you this though, no one that you've
ever called fat has been as heavy as you were.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
That is correct.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But now now that I've lost the weight it is,
I now can throw it at back at you.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I'm gonna puttied up soon. And then what are you
gonna do? I'm sorry, I'm gonna have my my guts
tied up. I know. Then I'm gonna have to figure
out some other way to make fun of you. I'll
figure it out. I'm good at this conor good morning
in the morning.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Oh, and there is and with her I Heart hoodie
the sweater. Yep, that's Amy. I'm sorry, I'm looking at Amy.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I always.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Almost three years.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It's going to go on forever. I swear it's going
to go on forever. And by the way, that's not stick.
That's what I do. I just conflate everybody anyway. Uh.
The iHeart sweater which they handed out for free, strangely
enough a couple of three years.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Ago, because they don't do that anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, but you can buy.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
You can buy stuff on the iHeart merch store.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Oh, yeah. Great.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Now they don't tell you that you can't actually wash
it or dry clean it or sweating it because all
the colors run.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know that.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Actually with this one, normally I would they agree, But
this one is actually a good quality sweatshirt.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Some money happened that I don't know where. Yeah, I
have no idea. The swag is nice.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
We cannot get a box of pencils here much less
than that kind of story.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I refuse to pay for one. Yeah, and they're not cheap.
What are they charging for those?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But I have one but the wrong size, and so
I gave it to Lindsay. Lindsay loves it. I mean
Lindsay absolutely loves him.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
And it's perfect for today's rainy weather.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
And she does, however, take duct tape and cover the
logo up and refuses to admit that she has anything
to do with iHeart, mainly because she's married to me.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I have tons of really cute hoodies and stuff from
my last radio station that I can wear. You're in
a real radio station that actually bought you stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
We used to have swag at one time, and Neil
would do all kinds of logos and he would put
statements and fun sayings on the swag actely.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Remember my original office had an entire back wall that
was nothing but swag. You could come in and grab
stuff during the day if you had guests walking through
or whatever, an entire wall. Now you do have ones
with pencils with no never mind, it just says number two.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Confused.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Okay, I didn't get that. By the way, Will's laughing,
But I did not.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Get that number two pencil.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
No. I got number two pencil, and you're number two. Okay, okay,
I got it, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I turn for poop being so some of the keys,
they say number one for the pippies, ain't number two.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
For the Oh all the emails?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Who gets the email? I think Michelle does, doesn't she?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They got rid of email keep cost out, that's true.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I used to have rid of our phones.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
They did when we uh it was a bunch of
years ago when it used to be emails, uh and
mainly postcards and letters. I had a wall of hate
that I kept for years. Remember those remember remember that?
And there were just I mean, it was death threats, uh,
it was anti semitic tropes, it was Hitler was right,
(05:04):
anything to get my eye up, and so I put
him up on the wall. It was my wall of
hate that I went on for a while. It was
very entertaining. All right, what else before we jump into
the mood news. Oh, here it is. On Monday, I
went to workout and I tried to do a sit up,
(05:25):
which I can't do.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
By the way, I don't have enough core.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I can't. I literally cannot do a sit up. So
as I'm attempting to do a sit up, this guy
walks past me and he said, don't do sit ups.
And I said, don't worry, I can't and he said,
sit ups are going to really hurt you. I have
two friends, he is saying that have done sit ups
for years. One is in a wheelchair, the other one
(05:48):
uses a walker. So here he is, I guess late seventies,
early eighties, spry, bouncing around, just wrecked, sharp as attack.
And he said that when you get older, you can't
do this. And I said, yeah, I'm old. How old
are you and he said ninety seven? And I went, oh,
(06:10):
come on, he goes no, ninety seven. I was born
in nineteen twenty eight. And he had a sweatshirt shirt
that was printed nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So it turned out he really was. I said, you
are ninety seven. He goes yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I go, my god, you are old. And he goes, yeah,
my dad's age if you yeah? And then and I said,
and so your Shawn's doesn't work? He goes for years. Now,
I went, so we talking. We the conversation was about
shawns is working or not working?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It must be so productive now that it was good? No,
it was very good. It was very good. Okay, we're done,
guys with that. You're ready to do it? Sure?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Why not handle on the news with Amy Neil and
me and lead story the Nancy three disappearance or I
think it's fair to say kidnapping. The last update was
there was a man who was detained for questioning. He
(07:09):
was released after investigators figure he had done nothing to
do with the kidnapping. There is videotape, and there was
a whole story about the technology behind finding or even
finding this video when the camera had been taken disabled,
(07:31):
and yet they were able to track it down with
the extraordinary cooperation from Google because it was a ring
camera which virtually everybody has.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
It's actually it's a nest camera. It's the same thing.
It's just a different brand.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, okay, fine, ring nests. You know they're all the same.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Rich Jumiro did a great breakdown on his social media
if you go check that out of how they got
the information from Google.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah, now that means they have more information. But still
you see him in a mass where only his eyes
and his mouth show. H he has gloves, very heavy
gloves on. Yeah, but big ones, very puffy ones. Not
the kind you use the doctors used to make me
feel terrible when the doctors shows to say handle assume
(08:21):
the position, which they don't do anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
By the way, well because you do it in front
of your dentist. Yeah, no, they don't do that. Very
funny if they don't do that anymore.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Because there was a Kaiser talk about Digress, a Kaiser
Foundation study that says mortality rates things absolutely the same,
it doesn't change. I said, so you're not going to
do it, and he said, no, we don't do it anymore.
And I started arguing with him and sorta sorta yes, sort.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Of address war to payt gifts.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
In any case, hopefully there's enough information they find this
guy they're getting, oh, sir. And the problem is with this,
and this is a very tough one, is that the
gut Thrie family has offered to pay and we're talking
six million dollars as being demanded in bitcoin for Nancy
Guthrie's release, and the purported kidnappers have not responded to that,
(09:20):
and that does not bode well. Unfortunately. I have my
doubts whether Nancy Got three is going to be returned.
Not only am I a pessimist, but I think if
you look at statistics, it's not particularly good news.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That's my take on it. I literally hope I'm very
wrong on this one.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
What we only saw the one guy in the video.
We don't know if there was another one.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
We don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
All we saw is the one guy going up to
the porch and then leaving and going up to.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
The porch, unmasking Jeffrey's friends. Representative Rocanna was on the
house floor and read aloud the names of six wealthy
powerful men whose names were originally redacted in the Epstein files.
He was He and Representative Massey have been in the
in the skiff looking at the files that were supposed
(10:11):
to be unredacted. They say they found that they found
the six men that had been hidden in the files,
and said, imagine how many men they are covering up
in those three million documents If they found six in
two hours, Kinna identified Leslie Wexler or Wexner, he's the
(10:35):
billionaire and former owner of Victoria's Secret and the other
retail companies. And then also Sultan Ahmed bin Solomon as
the chief executive officer of DP World.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Do you know either are those names? I don't. I
had no idea who these people were, just the names.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I know, the name Leslie Wexler, the other names he
read off. I had no clue, no idea.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
So what he's arguing, what he's saying is these are
the names they found in a couple of hours. Now
we have millions of pages to go through and we'll
see whose names were were redacted.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Why would they redact anything that was anyone's name that
was not a victim.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Oh, because of the connection to Jeffrey Epstein. If that's
why did they hang out after his conviction. Turns out
that Howard Lutnick did he straight out lied about that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
No, No, I think they should be we should see that.
But I'm saying Why would you redact someone who wasn't
a victim.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I don't understand such yet you're going to redact their names?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, someone who is not a victim, redact their names,
just their names being put out.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I think publicly, I wasn't a victim.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
How I wouldn't want my name out there simply because
of the potential of a connection. So I just don't
want to be connected in any way, and then to
be and then said and then a handle has nothing
to do with what happened was going on. I can
see the reason why you don't want that to happen.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well, the people.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But I'm saying legally, why does the government have to
redact their name?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Oh they don't. They don't.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
The government doesn't ever redact anything. Even the victims of
the government doesn't have to redact. All right, La County,
you've got us, the voters. We're going to be asked
to vote.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
For less money in our pockets again, because that's what
we do here in Los Angeles. So coming up in June,
they want to hike the sales tax right by a
half a cent. This is to soften the blow of
federal funding cuts, you know, the big one, big Beautiful
Bill Act is expected to slash around two billion or
(12:44):
more of the county's budget for healthcare services over the
next three years. So they're trying to recoup about one
billion back in via these taxes.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah, and a part of that bill is known as
the lsc Act. Let's screw California and LA County And
we're going to talk more about this coming up at
eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
We're going to make a new road for billionaires to leave.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
There's a whorld to this and it's getting crazy. And
then I'm gonna do a story about crazy. It's really
crazy in terms of home ownership, and you're not going
to be surprised.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Moving on Mount Baldy, banned trails on Mount Baldy, the
towering peak that looms over southern California's gorgeous lowered a
lot of inexperienced and under equipped hikers to their deaths.
It's going to be closed for the next two weeks.
Three hikers have died in the storms in December because
(13:43):
they were up hiking in the icy narrow Devil's Backbone
trail area and fell to their death.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I have a question in terms of who goes there.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Did someone wake up and say, gee, I think I'll
go hiking today at Devil's Backbone yea, and possibly die.
Same thing with Mount Everest, where people are They actually
walk over bodies that are sitting there at the various trails.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I just don't understand this. Mount Everest isn't called Mount Death. Oh,
it's even Benman's curve, the Devil's backbone, like somebody named
him that for a reason.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
All right?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
That, yeah, I'll buy that, but it could because it's
the in the shape of a backbone. I don't know
where I came from. It doesn't matter. I think you're right.
You know why why do you would you even go
there in the middle of the winter. I don't understand
that gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Area, but yeah, not good, all right, strange flip flop
on a story.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
We don't know why. But the FAA came out and.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Halted all flights at El Paso Airport in Texas for
ten days. It's now flipped uh and they have reopened it.
But it's weird. They use this term. I don't know
if you've heard this before, built notem n otam. It
stands for notice to airmen, And they said no pilots
may operate in aircraft in the areas, and they said
(15:09):
it was for security reasons. But it turned over very quickly,
obviously not going to tea.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
They turned it around in twenty four hours. Yeah, so
whatever risk was ascertained is no longer. And I don't
I didn't, I didn't know NOTEM. I know that there's
grounding of all airplanes. I know they're shutting down a
what is it a ground stop where the airplanes are
are not allowed to fly in or out?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But I know, I didn't know. Noteem is the official phrase.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
No trust turned around. They turned around twenty four hours.
No one understands why.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I'm sure we'll be getting details soon. No trespassing. Mayor
Bass has signed a new executive directive that restricts federal
immigration enforcement operations on city owned property. Basically, she said,
you can't stage on city owned property, stalking to ice
enforcement agents, and it also requires LAPD officers who respond
(16:07):
to an immigration enforcement scene to turn on their body
camps when they get there.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, that there's not a problem with I kind of question.
You can't stage on city grounds a federal operation. I
don't quite understand how this works because obviously federal law
supersedes any state, county, city law or city directives. So
(16:34):
I don't understand that. But certainly you can't cooperate and
you have to wear body cams. And I think Pam
Bondi had already said that ICE agents who are involved
in executing these deportations and rest warrants must wear body cams.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
So right, but this is for LAPD officers, right, respond,
that's right, and that is not a problem.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yeah, that and I said it could be moved because
the ICE agents are going to be wearing bodycam which
is critical because in the shooting of Alex pretty bodycam proved.
Bodycam footage proved that the administration was straight out lying
about what happened, not an issue, straight out lying, And
(17:20):
of course they're deflecting and just oh no, no, no,
that's not true. He was still he's a No I
haven't they stopped saying he was a terrorist domestic terrorists.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
But they've never walked that back. Never.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
No.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
As a matter of fact, there's a story coming up,
jeef wack. We need to take a break now, but
about that not walking it back.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Oh blackjack. Federal agents can't play oh no, no, no,
no later.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
More handle on the news with Amy and Neil and
Me and a really weird story about ice agents can't
play blackjack anymore at California Card Route.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
No, no, no, did I read that wrong? You shuffle
the headlines.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
This This is a strange story, and I'm as a
blackjack fan, I'm trying to parse all the weird details
and why they would be such. But there's a new
regulation coming down that's gonna bar card rooms from offering
blackjack and any other player dealer games. And you know,
(18:25):
people rightly so are saying this is going to devastate
the industry in California.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
So there's these new rules.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
One of the two new rules says that card rooms
cannot offer blackjack. And keep in mind, this is the
most popular casino game in the world. Right, players would
no longer bust but by exceeding twenty one points, and
the card rooms can't use the name blackjack or include
the number twenty one.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And I'm not sure it's so weird.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I've have to do with that. It has to do
with the treaty that was signed. The agreement was signed
nineteen ninety nine. Prop one A California's Native Americans the
exclusive right the tribes get the exclusive right to offer
blackjack and other table games. And again, as you explain,
play against the casino or the house. So it's gonna
(19:18):
it's gonna put those city casinos basically out of business
as far as blackjack. And you can't use the word blackshack.
So it has to be the big game, which is
really confusing.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Super Bowl, super Bowl, Yes, but this doesn't hit casinos,
Indian casinos.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
No, No, it was in favor of Indian Indian casinos.
He said, only Indian casinos can play blackjack, you know.
And I'm always in favor of whatever we sign with
Native Americans because based on the number of treaties the
United States signed with Native Americans throughout the years prior
to the modern era, the US broke every single treaty
(20:00):
and move tribes from one reservation to another, and we
treated the Native Americans horribly and they came back saying, Okay,
what we want is the ability to fleece people. Uh
do it with the gambling.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, So you take that out of the hands of
the of the state and give it to the Indian tribes.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, the tribe. I'm all for this because I play
a wrongo. So I'm okay.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
So basically what this does, though, it just keeps you
from saying the word blackjack or twenty one. But they're
going to work around it. But they can still play cards, and.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
They except that there. You can't the house, can't do
the house anymore.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
But they've done that in Oregon for years. We're like,
you have to have people shuffle in and be there.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yes, yes, exactly, people play people or of the house.
And it's no longer the twenty one or bust. It's
whatever the card player. Uh, whoever comes closest to the
number twenty one in fact wins that hand.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
We are and this is California real Estate. It's an organ.
Oh yeah, organ is weird.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah, well there's no Morgan.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
The only casinos in Oregon are around bushes. Okay, they're
not even in buildings all that.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
But Tullly Oil yeah, Northwest, Yeah, grilled on the Hill.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Representative Eric Swalwell. Oh remember yesterday, Bill, you were asking
who Swalwell is. Well, he's he's a representative from California.
He pressed Ice Chief todd Lyons to apologize to the
families of Renee Good and Alex Pretty. They were the
two people shot and killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis
last month.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
He said, will you apologize to Renee Good for being
called a domestic terrorist by the president and his leadership?
And Lyons said no, sir, And then Swalwell said is
she a domestic terrorist? And Lions declined to answer.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah. A quick word here in terms of apologizing.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
If I'm a council to ICE, and of course everybody
has council attorneys that are assigned to various agencies, I
wouldn't let the agency head apologize because an apology is
going to be used in court in the civil suit.
And didn't the government apologize for this? Ladies and gentlemen
(22:21):
of the jury. What does that mean? So I can
see that now As far as the rest of it,
I mean, I loved it when the Lions was asked
about showing papers and he deflected, deflected, deflective.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Also is well he wouldn't even admit that the two
were shot.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I mean, the guy is he deflected like you couldn't deflect,
or like you could deflect anyway. Part of it is
it's not one sided on the apology. All right, let's
finish up by handle on the news, Amy and me.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
All right, the shootings at a school and a home
in Canada, sad story.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Ten dead.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It was at this school. There were seven people dead
while two more were found dead in nearby home. So
it took place at a home at the school. You know,
pretty rare in Canada to have that, very.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Rare because guns are not allowed in Canada. No, then
after a twenty twenty shooting, the gun laws became more
restrictive in Canada.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
There was a little.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Different after a shooting. The gun laws are ease eased up.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
In the United States, bigger guns now we have about
one hundred and twenty guns per one hundred thousand, and
in Canada it's about thirty five guns per one hundred thousands.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yeah, probably, yeah, and so this is really unusual. Story
We did yesterday about Waimo assistance.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Please did we do this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
With Rich Deborough He mentioned this.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Oh yeah, okay, uh so Weimo has its robotaxis. But
sometimes those autonomous those autonomous driving vehicles need a little help,
and that is when they run into unusual situations, they
have remote human operators step into help. They're not driving
(24:27):
the cars, but they're assisting if there's an unusual situation
Weimo says. The operators are then able to provide real,
real time, contextual guidance and a lot of them are
from overseas.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
So yeah, they call centers that I help with the
call with the car the technology.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Hello, my name is Bob, can I help you? Well, Bob?
What is is that like a Southern accent?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
No, that was like a at Indian accent. Thank you
and making fun of us.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Are in the Philippines?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yes, they are here, we go and I did that
yesterday too with the karaoke.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Okay, we're not going to go on or we are
all right?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Major League Baseball making streaming options available for fans to
watch in market games of twenty teams. That includes the Dodgers,
the Los Angeles Angels, San Francisco Giants, San Diego. What's
this name man, San Diego? What's the team there? San
Diego Padres. So this is a huge shift obviously respond
(25:40):
to fast changing TV landscape. Things are going nuts all
the way. But because of you've got to have subscriptions
to everything. So the Angels on Tuesday announced the arrangement.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yeah, another avenue for in this case, sports seems to
make money. It looks like every business who can possibly
use a platform under any circumstances is trying to and
successfully monetizing it. So the technology today, as you pointed out,
can be used for virtually anything. All Right, we are
(26:13):
done with the news. We'll be back with more kf
I Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
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