February 12, 2026 • 28 mins
(February 12, 2026)
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. AG Pam Bondi speaks out as lawmakers press her on Epstein files. House votes to cancel President Trump’s Canada tariffs. FBI finds glove near Tucson home as search for Nancy Guthrie continues. House passes bill that could create voting barriers for married women.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KP I AM six forty. The Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Ski Jumpers with
the Large Penises. Now, this originally started with the medical
experimenters with pole jumpers and pole vaulters, and it tended
to work out very well, so now they moved it
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over to the ski jump crowd.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Wow, and now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle, Good.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Morning, everybody. Handle here. On a Thursday morning, February twelfth, feet,
I got to learn how to put that button press
sat on switch. You know, I was talking to everybody.
I was talking to my trainer yesterday and I said
that I've been on the air it'll be what thirty
three thirty four years in the morning, and I said,
(01:04):
I haven't quite gotten all the technology on, but I
just learned to do a couple of things, for example,
put the on button on. Not always but sometimes.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
My favorite part this morning was you asking Cono as
your opening music is starting, Hey, ConA, how much time
I have?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, I didn't hear the opening music because that's true
because I've I'm I'm going to cook something in the
air fryer, so I have to figure out. I was
going to time it a little bit and I got
a little screwed up. Okay, now let me say hello
to the entire crowd here cono, good morning, Good morning, William. Oh,
how's car doing? By the way, Car's great? Is it?
(01:44):
Car's running? Have you figured out? Well? Thank you? Have
you figured out the mileage yet? Miles parra miles per gallon?
Didn't you go over this? No? No, you said we didn't.
And if we did, I forgot And if we did
half an hour ago, that's a fair point. It's twenty
nine highway. Okay, it's not terrible. No. Yeah, you could
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have gotten a Prius, which is fifty five. Could have
gotten a Prius. But if you wanted but you wanted
an SUV, I'm assuming.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Right, No, I just had better financing because I have
a cousin that works in the car dealership.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Oh okay, all right, fair enough? All right? And then Amy,
good morning, Hi Bill?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Horrible will coach Rider, Good morning, Good morning Bill. And
there's the infamous Neil. Hello, good morning, the one.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And the only, uh and the Millennium Falcon.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah he's in the Millennium Falcon. Yeah, background is the
Millennium falcon. Yeah, good morning, Bill, Good morning everybody. Oh yeah,
we've got the big story yesterday was Pam BONDI I
had the time my life watching her. You know, as
I said during the course of her testimony in front
of the House Judiciary Committee, which actually has nothing to
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do with any investigative policy. It's supposed to be investigative
as crap. It's just a political dogged pony show. I
had said before we started listening to her, I had
said that you're not going to hear much other than
the Republicans saying how great she is and the great
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leadership of President Trump. Here's what we've done. And on
the Democratic side, just rip into her. Why don't you resign,
apologize to those people behind you, accept responsibility for everything
you did wrong. I mean, it's just I have some
ideas of what should have happened. If I were king
of the world, if I were head of the Democratic Party,
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if I were hot King, Jeffries, I would tell you
what exactly to do, and I think it would answer
all the questions. And that's coming up at seven o'clock.
I'm going to do that. So we'll do that by
the way if you miss any part of the show.
For example, Joel Larsgard is coming award at eight o'clock
and we're going to talk some financial stuff as we do.
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If you're not listening, you can listen to it on
a podcast. Feel free. I just go to the iHeartRadio
app and podcast this show or any segment of this show,
and you'll get any segment of this show or all
of this show, segment by segment, every segment. Yeah, okay,
(04:28):
I actually hit a paycheck for this. You know that.
I know that's hard to believe, but I do. All right?
What else is going on? Ask handle anything we do
every Friday? We need your phone calls for that. And
it's all about embarrassing me. We started that several months
ago and it's hugely successful. And the way it works
is you have to ask the questions. So you go
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to the iHeartRadio app during the show, which means this
show is being broadcast or streamed or whatever they do
with it. Highly technical ability to understand this stuff. I
am Sam, I am, and then you simply record a
question microphone in the uper right hand corner after you
start listening to the show on the device, and then
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you asked the question. We record it ten or fifteen
seconds and you get to record the questions that I
get to answer them, and Neil chooses the question that
was absolutely brilliant my discussion and how I present that again.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I was going through some calls and teetering on a few.
It happens every week. There's a couple that I go so,
I don't know if they're gonna make it. We got
to start putting those on the podcast, the ones that.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You know you're right. We've talked about that and we
should add to the podcast. We're going to make that happen.
One questions, the questions that you cannot put on the air.
That we can do whatever we want because the FCC
has no control over podcasts zero. So we can use
all manner of descriptions and talk about clinical issues and
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talk about clinical issues with our bodies. And let's go
right to the news. Is that okay, everybody, It's time
for handle on the news with Amy, Neil and me.
Lead story. Ah, yeah, it's the Pam Bondi story. She
was what five hours in front of the House Judiciary
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Committee and was railed into by the Democrats and was
held up to the highest standards of professionality and ethics,
and the greatest human being that ever lived, according to
the Republicans, And I'm going to do plenty more of
that at seven am this morning.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
There was a slight difference in the questions because you'd
go from her just being put over the barrel and beat,
and then it would get to the Republicans. They like
Attorney General Pam BONDI, you look great, have you lost weight?
Wearing today? All right back to you. It was you
could see a little bit of different.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, just a little bit. And there weren't too many
questions that were asked. Who was the congress person that
went through a whole litany? Isn't it true that under
Joe Biden the will fell apart? Yes? Isn't it true
that under Joe and the Biden Harris both sides are
so stupid.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I know they're trying to rail into her about things,
I know, like an angry dog.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I thought it was interesting though, like Jamie Raskin was
just going off and scolding her and saying, don't try
to pull this, don't you don't you talk back to us,
and then she just tore into him and he goes,
I told you not to do that, and she's like,
you don't tell me what to do. I mean, it
wasn't all out battle. This was entertaining.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What happened now you started all that, you know, really
started that big time was Marjorie Taylor Green who just
any time. I mean, when you go to the State
of the Union and you start screaming liar as the
president is speaking, you know, you're on a whole new
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level of politics. And I think from that came a
lot of it came what happened yesterday with Pam BONDI
I tell you, coming in at seven o'clock, I'm going
to do this and I have an answer. I definitely
have an answer for this problem, and we'll move on
seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Breaking ranks, six Republicans join nearly all the Democrats in
backing a resolution to rescind tariffs that President Trump imposed
on our neighbors to the North Canada. The vote was
two nineteen to two eleven. It did pass the House,
but it's got a rather uncertain future in the Senate
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because it would have to pass the Senate and then
President Trump would have to sign it, and since he
opposed the tariffs, probably.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Not great deal, and you need a two thirds vote
to override the veto, and two nineteen to eleven does
not quite make two thirds, so its symbolic. Yeah, but
any pushbacks good pushbacks At this point, I don't think
any pushback matters. At this point. The only pushback is
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going to happen with Trump is going to be the
courts and or time time heals everything, especially three years
as far as the Democrats are concerned, there's the time limit.
This one takes me back to the OJ days. So
the FBI.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Obviously looking for Nancy Guthrie, still doing some searching around
the roadway. I think it's within a couple of miles
or so near Nancy Guthrie's home, and they found a
black glove. And you remember, Bill, you were talking about
the videotape and how yeah the guy had or the
video from videotape, the video from the nest camera and
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that he was wearing these black gloves and so nothing
else has really come out of that yet at this point.
But it don't remind you have all the evidence that
came out after Oh yeah, do you remember.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
The OJ trial. If the glove doesn't fit, you must
have quit. And this one is the glove was found
there just a few days so it has not started
decomposed yet, and we're going to hear. If the glove
don't rot, then you've got something nice. You remember the
other one, OJ's black, So take it back? Yeah, yeah
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it was?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I don't remember that one.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, I don't remember it. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It's like he's black, even though evidence points to him.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Take it back. Ok yeah, I mean, is there any
issue that he did it? We can go into another's
there's a poll for you. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Okay, before we move on, just quick new information that
now they Pima County Sheriff this morning is asking people
to check their their doorbell cameras for January thirty first,
which was the night that she was supposedly dropped off
at her house before being taken early the next morning,
and also from back on January eleventh, which is almost
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three weeks before. Interesting, I know, right, So.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
There is some information. They're not releasing a lot of information.
They're keeping it very close to the vest what they have,
and TMZ.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Has received a couple of this information to the interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Harvey Levin has been on CNN twenty hours a day.
He has gotten a lot of a lot of exposure,
to say the least. Not that he needs it, but
he has gotten it because he's the one that's getting
I think he received a missive from someone that and
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he's the only one who received it tmz oh yeah,
someone not that who has is not the perpetrator or
the abductor saying this is the way I want to
get paid. But someone who says knows the abductor or
knows about them, All right.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You're safe. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the
Save America Act, has passed in the House. It would
require voters to show a government issued ID to cast
ballots in federal elections. Now, according to independent experts in
voting rights groups, the measure could potentially prevent millions of
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Americans from voting.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well, of course it can, and so can Not having
transportation would stop you from voting. Why do they even
have laws that say you have to be a citizen
to vote? If you never have to prove that you're
a citizen, why even bother Now, it turns out that
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the number of people who are not citizens that vote
are minuscule, But that just so happens. Also, the process
is going on right now. The argument the administration is
is arguing that massive numbers of illegal migrants are voting.
I mean huge numbers. What illegal migrant in his or
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her right mind would ever go to a polling place
and vote?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Who the hell would ever do that? And we don't
think anybody has that idea.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh, I think that there is. There are a few,
but very rare voting. Yeah, very few. I mean, it's
it's not a big problem. Although I completely agree with
ID for voting Americans do. Yeah, you're a citizen and
you have to be a citizen to vote. Okay, here
you go.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
That's one of those weird things that became political that
shouldn't be political.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And you go, what's just I know? The courts, the
courts have come down and the argument is people who
don't have ID should be able to vote. The disenfranchised
who have no way of having ID.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Who doesn't have some form of ID.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
There are plenty of homeless people who don't have ID.
There are people who don't have ideas. Cell phones doesn't
mean they I mean they have cell phones.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I had to show idea to buy a cell phone.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's so bizarre. Well you did, and that's okay, but
not for voting. You don't have to show ID. You
don't need a cell phone. That's not a basic franchise
of the United States constitutional. Friends, we know how many
homeless people vote? No, we don't know, but we know
there is. When they have investigated the accusation of the
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number of people who vote who do not have ID.
Who are the illegal aliens, for example, the number seems
to be minuscule. No widespread vote homeless people or illegal immigrants.
You know I do. That's a good point. How about
neither one vote very much?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
And how accurate would the polls be? First, you said
people would have to be crazy to be an illegal
immag and try to vote. You tell me an illegal
immigrant who say, yeah, I voted.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
That's another one. I will. Here's you find out. It's
real easy because they just check. Let's say they do
a random check on X always Hispanic voters, of course,
because those are quote the only illegal aliens or the
vast majority of illegal aliens. And you do a random check,
that's all, and to say are they citizens? And you
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could find out and you extrapolate from there and you
get a number you get a statistically accurate number, and
you're going to find out which they did that the
number of people who were not citizens that voted were minuscule.
There's no widespread vote, because that's the argument that Trump
administration made. That was one of the arguments that it
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was widespread vote. And so the votes were looked at,
the votes were tabulated, they were audited. So by the way,
that doesn't change that. I think you have to show ID.
I mean, there's no question in my mind, or don't
even have that law that says Americans said, since are
the only ones that can vote? All right?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Gov gab News approves ninety million in emergency funds. This
is going to go to Planned Parenthood. Of course, the
federal funds were stripped away from clinics. As a matter
of fact, there has been some words. The Planned Parenthood
said that at least twenty three of its health clinics
have been forced to close in different different locations. And
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so this would go ninety million bucks one time of
emergency funds for Planned Parenthood and other women's health providers.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
It's tough. I mean, the administration is going after healthcare
is one of the things that is going to be
hit badly and has PBS. Just reading an article in
the La Times about KCRW, the PBS station in pr station,
and it has fired DJs and its staff, and so,
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you know, I mean, social program are on the wayne
and we have immigration of courses that that is exploded
in terms of expenditure.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Also at least the public the public radio stations you
could donate to you know.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, that's true, but they're not making it up. I mean,
they're at this point. They're not making it up because
they rely on federal money for a great part of
their income. So now they have to scramble, and one
of the ways they scramble is to fire people, cut expenses.
We don't do that here, of course. Not Okay, moving on,
(17:35):
it's just.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Fun, not addictive. Okay, that might be a simplification. But
Adam Mussey, who's the head of Instagram, took the stand
in that landmark social media trial that's happening in La
that and says he disagrees with the idea that people
can be clinically addicted to social media platforms. Of course,
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the plaintiffs, nineteen year old from northern California, is trying
to hold the social media companies responsible for harms to
children who use their platforms. Maseri says it's important to
differentiate between clinical addiction and what he called problematic use.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Do you think his credibility was questioned when he said
nicotine was not addictive, nor opiates. None of that is
addictive either.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
He also said, I'm invisible. You can't see me. You
can't see me. You can't see me.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, it's I thought we'll see where that one goes.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Oh, this is sucky, but I guess rules are rules.
You had this Ukrainian what they call those skeleton sliders
in the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You missed one.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You missed one. Pass forward revocations. Oh is that really Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, see the big A next to that one.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, but I just figured that's me.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Oh, I thought it meant ass So I okay, excellent, Okay,
So I'm sorry, I saw I read that wrong. All
righty us. The passport, this has actually been on the
books for a long time since the nineties, as a
matter of fact, and that is that they could revoke
your passport if you owe child support. And I think
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the break point there is about twenty five hundred bucks.
If you own twenty five hundred bucks or more back
since nineteen ninety six, federal legislation said they could go
ahead and take your passport away so that you couldn't
flee or go anywhere else. Well, that usually meant if
you went to renew it. And now they're saying no,
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they're going to go in and if you owe money,
they're going to go in and just start taking them away.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, and not only I completely agree with this. First
of all, it's the law which has not been enforced heretofore,
and this is the Department of State department saying hey,
and this is, by the way, the law. In terms
of the policy. The policy of the law is we
like to keep families together, and we like parents to
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pay for their kids. That's a basic policy issue. And
if one of the tools paying for kids is taking
away passports when you haven't paid for the kids, makes
sense to me. I'm just fine with that. And now
they're starting actually to be affected. Only people are one
hundred thousand dollars in past due money and you have
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to pay or set up a payment plan. So I
think this is a great move by the Trump administration
and it should be. I think they're following what public
policy should be and that is taking care of kids
is paramount, and then your ability to get a passport
is secondary to that. No issue with that one, okay.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Disqualified Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladislav Harskevitch has been disqualified from
the Winter Olympics because he refused to adhere to the
IOCs Athletic Expression guidelines. And what he is doing or
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has been doing, is wearing a helmet that has the
pictures of twenty two athletes who've been killed in the
war between Ukraine and Russia. They said, you can't wear that.
It goes against guidelines. He said, I'm I get it,
but I'm wearing it. This is important for me and
my countryman. The head of these met with the skeleton
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slider and they couldn't come to an agreement. She said, Nobody,
especially me, is disagreeing with the messaging. It's a powerful message,
but it violates regulations.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, they're right, they're right. Then you are open to
all kinds of political statements on the helmet side. They're
absolutely right, and you've got to give him some credit
saying I am I'm holding firm. And so there were
no other outcamp have you seen skeleton. By the way,
how skeleton works, It's a little sled. This basically looks
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like a yea, you know, your flyer's sled and you're
going down this shoot like the Bob sled, shoot at
ninety miles an hour with your head three inches off
the ground.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So the difference between skeleton and loge is that skeleton
you go face first.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
That's right, that's it. Yeah, face first, isn't that special.
Let me tell you what ninety miles an hour looks like.
Three inches off the ground. That zips by pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I'm not sure which one's better, because if you're doing
it feet first, all you get to do is see
your feet shatter into you.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You're true or your head explode. Now, yeah, you take
your chances either way. Okay, So the FDA, I guess, is.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Starting to do what they said they were going to
do under the new RFK look at things. So you
got the Food and Drug Administration refusing to review Moderna's
application for its seasonal flu vaccine, so.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
That this all has to go. This goes back to
the m r an A on r RNA. Yeah. Yeah,
there's a whole world to this and I'm gonna I'm
gonna cut you short on this one because I'm doing
this at seven fifty and diving in and I want
to get some stories in there. So Neil, if you
don't mind, we're gonna move ahead, because frankly, you have
nothing to add no your show, sir, well, no, what's yeah?
(23:28):
But also you know we bring you in to explain
and give your view, no matter how to elselessuse. Okay,
fair enough.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Sad news and an opportunity to provide an important reminder.
Seems like we've been talking about this a lot this week.
James van Derbeek, the star of Dawson's Creek, has died.
He was just forty eight years old. He had colorectal cancer,
and he announced that. He announced it in November of
twenty twenty four. Apparently he was diagnosed in August of
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twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, so he was four five at that point when
it was diagnosed as cancerous. Had he gotten a colonoscopy
sometime before that? But you know, look at the age
issues the baseline exactly. That's the point. So is the
baseline in order to make sure this doesn't happen, because
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it's easily correctable or easily averted simply by a colonoscopy,
where the which I just had and Amy she's had twice.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I was doing a little snip snip yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Oh okay, yeah, well they cut paulops off and it's
easily averted. So you know, is the new baseline thirty five?
Is it thirty or.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Just recently lowered it to forty five?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Right? And it could be that this is so uniquely,
such a unique affliction at that point. As for example,
let's say someone gets coorectal cancer at age two, does
that mean that at fifteen you get at kolonoscopy? They
could numbers they get. Yeah, it could be so unique.
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That's when I'm mentioning that it really statistically it doesn't
make sense to have a kolonoscopy at forty well at
forty five, yeah, should have happened.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, but when he was diagnosed in twenty twenty three,
I'm trying to figure out, I remember when they changed
that standard to oh just live. I mean it's been
within the last year or two.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So yeah, yeah, absolutely, and because of issues like this.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Sad, Yeah, it's very sad.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Go get your kolonoscopy, Okay, police are identifying that suspect
in that crazy Canadian mass shooting. They identified the subject.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
They're eighteen year old.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
This eighteen year old killed her mother, her stepbrother before
fatally shooting several others at that local school children between
the ages of twelve and thirteen. And and I guess
there was eight people they originally said nine. But the
interesting thing here, obviously that's going to get attention is
this individual, Jesse Van root Cellar, was biologically born a male,
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began transitioning to females six years ago. The house, the
home was not unfamiliar with law enforcement. I guess they
had some mental health issues, self harm stuff where law
enforcement was called to the home throughout the years.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
But and look, look how weird the story is. First
of all, it's a girl who did the shooting. It's
almost never a girl.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
But it was a biological boy.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I'll grant you that. And people in Canada don't have guns.
There's very strict gun controls. So you put all of
that together and what he and mental illness, you know,
you get situations like that aberrational. I mean shootings and
schools for us happen every day. You know, it's just
it happens like going to Starbucks. I mean, it's of course,
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just of course of doing business here. But this is
a very unusual story. Okay, we are dead dead dead
with the hour. I don't know why I'm saying dead
dead dead. I don't know the next story I was
we're gonna do say, you know, I tell you why.
Sandy Steers had died and she was in charge, as
Amy had pointed out, Yeah, I know, well she had
(27:30):
died because well she was the head of executive director
of friends Big Bear Valley, and this is the people
with the what the eagle cam that Amy follows.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Yes, she was actually one of the people who spearheaded
getting the camera up in the nest back in like
twenty fifteen, and it's a reason we have an opportunity
to watch Jackie in Shadow.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
She died of bird flu, which is really.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Okay, but obviously Lee, she's a big hero to cat
ladies everywhere.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, there you go, there you go. Okay, we're done.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Guys, She's like hundreds of thousands of people who catch ladies.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I get it, Yeah, I get it, you know, right, Okay, Yeah,
she's great and beloved it Big Bear And there's you know.
Ironically enough, right down the hill there's Kentucky Fried Eagle.
Did you know that? What's with you now? That's come
on question? Neil. Okay, we're done. We are so done.
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You're listenings KP I AM six forty. The Bill Handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Ski Jumpers with
the Large Penises. Now, this originally started with the medical
experimenters with pole jumpers and pole vaulters, and it tended
to work out very well, so now they moved it
(00:22):
over to the ski jump crowd.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Wow, and now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle, Good.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Morning, everybody. Handle here. On a Thursday morning, February twelfth, feet,
I got to learn how to put that button press
sat on switch. You know, I was talking to everybody.
I was talking to my trainer yesterday and I said
that I've been on the air it'll be what thirty
three thirty four years in the morning, and I said,
(01:04):
I haven't quite gotten all the technology on, but I
just learned to do a couple of things, for example,
put the on button on. Not always but sometimes.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
My favorite part this morning was you asking Cono as
your opening music is starting, Hey, ConA, how much time
I have?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, I didn't hear the opening music because that's true
because I've I'm I'm going to cook something in the
air fryer, so I have to figure out. I was
going to time it a little bit and I got
a little screwed up. Okay, now let me say hello
to the entire crowd here cono, good morning, Good morning, William. Oh,
how's car doing? By the way, Car's great? Is it?
(01:44):
Car's running? Have you figured out? Well? Thank you? Have
you figured out the mileage yet? Miles parra miles per gallon?
Didn't you go over this? No? No, you said we didn't.
And if we did, I forgot And if we did
half an hour ago, that's a fair point. It's twenty
nine highway. Okay, it's not terrible. No. Yeah, you could
(02:07):
have gotten a Prius, which is fifty five. Could have
gotten a Prius. But if you wanted but you wanted
an SUV, I'm assuming.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Right, No, I just had better financing because I have
a cousin that works in the car dealership.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Oh okay, all right, fair enough? All right? And then Amy,
good morning, Hi Bill?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Horrible will coach Rider, Good morning, Good morning Bill. And
there's the infamous Neil. Hello, good morning, the one.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And the only, uh and the Millennium Falcon.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah he's in the Millennium Falcon. Yeah, background is the
Millennium falcon. Yeah, good morning, Bill, Good morning everybody. Oh yeah,
we've got the big story yesterday was Pam BONDI I
had the time my life watching her. You know, as
I said during the course of her testimony in front
of the House Judiciary Committee, which actually has nothing to
(03:01):
do with any investigative policy. It's supposed to be investigative
as crap. It's just a political dogged pony show. I
had said before we started listening to her, I had
said that you're not going to hear much other than
the Republicans saying how great she is and the great
(03:22):
leadership of President Trump. Here's what we've done. And on
the Democratic side, just rip into her. Why don't you resign,
apologize to those people behind you, accept responsibility for everything
you did wrong. I mean, it's just I have some
ideas of what should have happened. If I were king
of the world, if I were head of the Democratic Party,
(03:43):
if I were hot King, Jeffries, I would tell you
what exactly to do, and I think it would answer
all the questions. And that's coming up at seven o'clock.
I'm going to do that. So we'll do that by
the way if you miss any part of the show.
For example, Joel Larsgard is coming award at eight o'clock
and we're going to talk some financial stuff as we do.
(04:04):
If you're not listening, you can listen to it on
a podcast. Feel free. I just go to the iHeartRadio
app and podcast this show or any segment of this show,
and you'll get any segment of this show or all
of this show, segment by segment, every segment. Yeah, okay,
(04:28):
I actually hit a paycheck for this. You know that.
I know that's hard to believe, but I do. All right?
What else is going on? Ask handle anything we do
every Friday? We need your phone calls for that. And
it's all about embarrassing me. We started that several months
ago and it's hugely successful. And the way it works
is you have to ask the questions. So you go
(04:48):
to the iHeartRadio app during the show, which means this
show is being broadcast or streamed or whatever they do
with it. Highly technical ability to understand this stuff. I
am Sam, I am, and then you simply record a
question microphone in the uper right hand corner after you
start listening to the show on the device, and then
(05:14):
you asked the question. We record it ten or fifteen
seconds and you get to record the questions that I
get to answer them, and Neil chooses the question that
was absolutely brilliant my discussion and how I present that again.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I was going through some calls and teetering on a few.
It happens every week. There's a couple that I go so,
I don't know if they're gonna make it. We got
to start putting those on the podcast, the ones that.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You know you're right. We've talked about that and we
should add to the podcast. We're going to make that happen.
One questions, the questions that you cannot put on the air.
That we can do whatever we want because the FCC
has no control over podcasts zero. So we can use
all manner of descriptions and talk about clinical issues and
(06:04):
talk about clinical issues with our bodies. And let's go
right to the news. Is that okay, everybody, It's time
for handle on the news with Amy, Neil and me.
Lead story. Ah, yeah, it's the Pam Bondi story. She
was what five hours in front of the House Judiciary
(06:26):
Committee and was railed into by the Democrats and was
held up to the highest standards of professionality and ethics,
and the greatest human being that ever lived, according to
the Republicans, And I'm going to do plenty more of
that at seven am this morning.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
There was a slight difference in the questions because you'd
go from her just being put over the barrel and beat,
and then it would get to the Republicans. They like
Attorney General Pam BONDI, you look great, have you lost weight?
Wearing today? All right back to you. It was you
could see a little bit of different.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, just a little bit. And there weren't too many
questions that were asked. Who was the congress person that
went through a whole litany? Isn't it true that under
Joe Biden the will fell apart? Yes? Isn't it true
that under Joe and the Biden Harris both sides are
so stupid.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I know they're trying to rail into her about things,
I know, like an angry dog.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I thought it was interesting though, like Jamie Raskin was
just going off and scolding her and saying, don't try
to pull this, don't you don't you talk back to us,
and then she just tore into him and he goes,
I told you not to do that, and she's like,
you don't tell me what to do. I mean, it
wasn't all out battle. This was entertaining.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What happened now you started all that, you know, really
started that big time was Marjorie Taylor Green who just
any time. I mean, when you go to the State
of the Union and you start screaming liar as the
president is speaking, you know, you're on a whole new
(08:03):
level of politics. And I think from that came a
lot of it came what happened yesterday with Pam BONDI
I tell you, coming in at seven o'clock, I'm going
to do this and I have an answer. I definitely
have an answer for this problem, and we'll move on
seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Breaking ranks, six Republicans join nearly all the Democrats in
backing a resolution to rescind tariffs that President Trump imposed
on our neighbors to the North Canada. The vote was
two nineteen to two eleven. It did pass the House,
but it's got a rather uncertain future in the Senate
(08:44):
because it would have to pass the Senate and then
President Trump would have to sign it, and since he
opposed the tariffs, probably.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Not great deal, and you need a two thirds vote
to override the veto, and two nineteen to eleven does
not quite make two thirds, so its symbolic. Yeah, but
any pushbacks good pushbacks At this point, I don't think
any pushback matters. At this point. The only pushback is
(09:10):
going to happen with Trump is going to be the
courts and or time time heals everything, especially three years
as far as the Democrats are concerned, there's the time limit.
This one takes me back to the OJ days. So
the FBI.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Obviously looking for Nancy Guthrie, still doing some searching around
the roadway. I think it's within a couple of miles
or so near Nancy Guthrie's home, and they found a
black glove. And you remember, Bill, you were talking about
the videotape and how yeah the guy had or the
video from videotape, the video from the nest camera and
(09:51):
that he was wearing these black gloves and so nothing
else has really come out of that yet at this point.
But it don't remind you have all the evidence that
came out after Oh yeah, do you remember.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
The OJ trial. If the glove doesn't fit, you must
have quit. And this one is the glove was found
there just a few days so it has not started
decomposed yet, and we're going to hear. If the glove
don't rot, then you've got something nice. You remember the
other one, OJ's black, So take it back? Yeah, yeah
(10:27):
it was?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I don't remember that one.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, I don't remember it. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It's like he's black, even though evidence points to him.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Take it back. Ok yeah, I mean, is there any
issue that he did it? We can go into another's
there's a poll for you. Okay, moving on.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Okay, before we move on, just quick new information that
now they Pima County Sheriff this morning is asking people
to check their their doorbell cameras for January thirty first,
which was the night that she was supposedly dropped off
at her house before being taken early the next morning,
and also from back on January eleventh, which is almost
(11:07):
three weeks before. Interesting, I know, right, So.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
There is some information. They're not releasing a lot of information.
They're keeping it very close to the vest what they have,
and TMZ.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Has received a couple of this information to the interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Harvey Levin has been on CNN twenty hours a day.
He has gotten a lot of a lot of exposure,
to say the least. Not that he needs it, but
he has gotten it because he's the one that's getting
I think he received a missive from someone that and
(11:43):
he's the only one who received it tmz oh yeah,
someone not that who has is not the perpetrator or
the abductor saying this is the way I want to
get paid. But someone who says knows the abductor or
knows about them, All right.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You're safe. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the
Save America Act, has passed in the House. It would
require voters to show a government issued ID to cast
ballots in federal elections. Now, according to independent experts in
voting rights groups, the measure could potentially prevent millions of
(12:23):
Americans from voting.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well, of course it can, and so can Not having
transportation would stop you from voting. Why do they even
have laws that say you have to be a citizen
to vote? If you never have to prove that you're
a citizen, why even bother Now, it turns out that
(12:48):
the number of people who are not citizens that vote
are minuscule, But that just so happens. Also, the process
is going on right now. The argument the administration is
is arguing that massive numbers of illegal migrants are voting.
I mean huge numbers. What illegal migrant in his or
(13:11):
her right mind would ever go to a polling place
and vote?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Who the hell would ever do that? And we don't
think anybody has that idea.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh, I think that there is. There are a few,
but very rare voting. Yeah, very few. I mean, it's
it's not a big problem. Although I completely agree with
ID for voting Americans do. Yeah, you're a citizen and
you have to be a citizen to vote. Okay, here
you go.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
That's one of those weird things that became political that
shouldn't be political.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And you go, what's just I know? The courts, the
courts have come down and the argument is people who
don't have ID should be able to vote. The disenfranchised
who have no way of having ID.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Who doesn't have some form of ID.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
There are plenty of homeless people who don't have ID.
There are people who don't have ideas. Cell phones doesn't
mean they I mean they have cell phones.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I had to show idea to buy a cell phone.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's so bizarre. Well you did, and that's okay, but
not for voting. You don't have to show ID. You
don't need a cell phone. That's not a basic franchise
of the United States constitutional. Friends, we know how many
homeless people vote? No, we don't know, but we know
there is. When they have investigated the accusation of the
(14:30):
number of people who vote who do not have ID.
Who are the illegal aliens, for example, the number seems
to be minuscule. No widespread vote homeless people or illegal immigrants.
You know I do. That's a good point. How about
neither one vote very much?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
And how accurate would the polls be? First, you said
people would have to be crazy to be an illegal
immag and try to vote. You tell me an illegal
immigrant who say, yeah, I voted.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
That's another one. I will. Here's you find out. It's
real easy because they just check. Let's say they do
a random check on X always Hispanic voters, of course,
because those are quote the only illegal aliens or the
vast majority of illegal aliens. And you do a random check,
that's all, and to say are they citizens? And you
(15:22):
could find out and you extrapolate from there and you
get a number you get a statistically accurate number, and
you're going to find out which they did that the
number of people who were not citizens that voted were minuscule.
There's no widespread vote, because that's the argument that Trump
administration made. That was one of the arguments that it
(15:43):
was widespread vote. And so the votes were looked at,
the votes were tabulated, they were audited. So by the way,
that doesn't change that. I think you have to show ID.
I mean, there's no question in my mind, or don't
even have that law that says Americans said, since are
the only ones that can vote? All right?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Gov gab News approves ninety million in emergency funds. This
is going to go to Planned Parenthood. Of course, the
federal funds were stripped away from clinics. As a matter
of fact, there has been some words. The Planned Parenthood
said that at least twenty three of its health clinics
have been forced to close in different different locations. And
(16:26):
so this would go ninety million bucks one time of
emergency funds for Planned Parenthood and other women's health providers.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
It's tough. I mean, the administration is going after healthcare
is one of the things that is going to be
hit badly and has PBS. Just reading an article in
the La Times about KCRW, the PBS station in pr station,
and it has fired DJs and its staff, and so,
(16:58):
you know, I mean, social program are on the wayne
and we have immigration of courses that that is exploded
in terms of expenditure.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Also at least the public the public radio stations you
could donate to you know.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, that's true, but they're not making it up. I mean,
they're at this point. They're not making it up because
they rely on federal money for a great part of
their income. So now they have to scramble, and one
of the ways they scramble is to fire people, cut expenses.
We don't do that here, of course. Not Okay, moving on,
(17:35):
it's just.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Fun, not addictive. Okay, that might be a simplification. But
Adam Mussey, who's the head of Instagram, took the stand
in that landmark social media trial that's happening in La
that and says he disagrees with the idea that people
can be clinically addicted to social media platforms. Of course,
(17:58):
the plaintiffs, nineteen year old from northern California, is trying
to hold the social media companies responsible for harms to
children who use their platforms. Maseri says it's important to
differentiate between clinical addiction and what he called problematic use.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Do you think his credibility was questioned when he said
nicotine was not addictive, nor opiates. None of that is
addictive either.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
He also said, I'm invisible. You can't see me. You
can't see me. You can't see me.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, it's I thought we'll see where that one goes.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Oh, this is sucky, but I guess rules are rules.
You had this Ukrainian what they call those skeleton sliders
in the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You missed one.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You missed one. Pass forward revocations. Oh is that really Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, see the big A next to that one.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, but I just figured that's me.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Oh, I thought it meant ass So I okay, excellent, Okay,
So I'm sorry, I saw I read that wrong. All
righty us. The passport, this has actually been on the
books for a long time since the nineties, as a
matter of fact, and that is that they could revoke
your passport if you owe child support. And I think
(19:13):
the break point there is about twenty five hundred bucks.
If you own twenty five hundred bucks or more back
since nineteen ninety six, federal legislation said they could go
ahead and take your passport away so that you couldn't
flee or go anywhere else. Well, that usually meant if
you went to renew it. And now they're saying no,
(19:36):
they're going to go in and if you owe money,
they're going to go in and just start taking them away.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, and not only I completely agree with this. First
of all, it's the law which has not been enforced heretofore,
and this is the Department of State department saying hey,
and this is, by the way, the law. In terms
of the policy. The policy of the law is we
like to keep families together, and we like parents to
(20:03):
pay for their kids. That's a basic policy issue. And
if one of the tools paying for kids is taking
away passports when you haven't paid for the kids, makes
sense to me. I'm just fine with that. And now
they're starting actually to be affected. Only people are one
hundred thousand dollars in past due money and you have
(20:26):
to pay or set up a payment plan. So I
think this is a great move by the Trump administration
and it should be. I think they're following what public
policy should be and that is taking care of kids
is paramount, and then your ability to get a passport
is secondary to that. No issue with that one, okay.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Disqualified Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladislav Harskevitch has been disqualified from
the Winter Olympics because he refused to adhere to the
IOCs Athletic Expression guidelines. And what he is doing or
(21:04):
has been doing, is wearing a helmet that has the
pictures of twenty two athletes who've been killed in the
war between Ukraine and Russia. They said, you can't wear that.
It goes against guidelines. He said, I'm I get it,
but I'm wearing it. This is important for me and
my countryman. The head of these met with the skeleton
(21:27):
slider and they couldn't come to an agreement. She said, Nobody,
especially me, is disagreeing with the messaging. It's a powerful message,
but it violates regulations.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, they're right, they're right. Then you are open to
all kinds of political statements on the helmet side. They're
absolutely right, and you've got to give him some credit
saying I am I'm holding firm. And so there were
no other outcamp have you seen skeleton. By the way,
how skeleton works, It's a little sled. This basically looks
(21:59):
like a yea, you know, your flyer's sled and you're
going down this shoot like the Bob sled, shoot at
ninety miles an hour with your head three inches off
the ground.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So the difference between skeleton and loge is that skeleton
you go face first.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
That's right, that's it. Yeah, face first, isn't that special.
Let me tell you what ninety miles an hour looks like.
Three inches off the ground. That zips by pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I'm not sure which one's better, because if you're doing
it feet first, all you get to do is see
your feet shatter into you.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You're true or your head explode. Now, yeah, you take
your chances either way. Okay, So the FDA, I guess, is.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Starting to do what they said they were going to
do under the new RFK look at things. So you
got the Food and Drug Administration refusing to review Moderna's
application for its seasonal flu vaccine, so.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
That this all has to go. This goes back to
the m r an A on r RNA. Yeah. Yeah,
there's a whole world to this and I'm gonna I'm
gonna cut you short on this one because I'm doing
this at seven fifty and diving in and I want
to get some stories in there. So Neil, if you
don't mind, we're gonna move ahead, because frankly, you have
nothing to add no your show, sir, well, no, what's yeah?
(23:28):
But also you know we bring you in to explain
and give your view, no matter how to elselessuse. Okay,
fair enough.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Sad news and an opportunity to provide an important reminder.
Seems like we've been talking about this a lot this week.
James van Derbeek, the star of Dawson's Creek, has died.
He was just forty eight years old. He had colorectal cancer,
and he announced that. He announced it in November of
twenty twenty four. Apparently he was diagnosed in August of
(23:56):
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, so he was four five at that point when
it was diagnosed as cancerous. Had he gotten a colonoscopy
sometime before that? But you know, look at the age
issues the baseline exactly. That's the point. So is the
baseline in order to make sure this doesn't happen, because
(24:19):
it's easily correctable or easily averted simply by a colonoscopy,
where the which I just had and Amy she's had twice.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I was doing a little snip snip yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Oh okay, yeah, well they cut paulops off and it's
easily averted. So you know, is the new baseline thirty five?
Is it thirty or.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Just recently lowered it to forty five?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Right? And it could be that this is so uniquely,
such a unique affliction at that point. As for example,
let's say someone gets coorectal cancer at age two, does
that mean that at fifteen you get at kolonoscopy? They
could numbers they get. Yeah, it could be so unique.
(25:06):
That's when I'm mentioning that it really statistically it doesn't
make sense to have a kolonoscopy at forty well at
forty five, yeah, should have happened.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, but when he was diagnosed in twenty twenty three,
I'm trying to figure out, I remember when they changed
that standard to oh just live. I mean it's been
within the last year or two.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So yeah, yeah, absolutely, and because of issues like this.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Sad, Yeah, it's very sad.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Go get your kolonoscopy, Okay, police are identifying that suspect
in that crazy Canadian mass shooting. They identified the subject.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
They're eighteen year old.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
This eighteen year old killed her mother, her stepbrother before
fatally shooting several others at that local school children between
the ages of twelve and thirteen. And and I guess
there was eight people they originally said nine. But the
interesting thing here, obviously that's going to get attention is
this individual, Jesse Van root Cellar, was biologically born a male,
(26:18):
began transitioning to females six years ago. The house, the
home was not unfamiliar with law enforcement. I guess they
had some mental health issues, self harm stuff where law
enforcement was called to the home throughout the years.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
But and look, look how weird the story is. First
of all, it's a girl who did the shooting. It's
almost never a girl.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
But it was a biological boy.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I'll grant you that. And people in Canada don't have guns.
There's very strict gun controls. So you put all of
that together and what he and mental illness, you know,
you get situations like that aberrational. I mean shootings and
schools for us happen every day. You know, it's just
it happens like going to Starbucks. I mean, it's of course,
(27:06):
just of course of doing business here. But this is
a very unusual story. Okay, we are dead dead dead
with the hour. I don't know why I'm saying dead
dead dead. I don't know the next story I was
we're gonna do say, you know, I tell you why.
Sandy Steers had died and she was in charge, as
Amy had pointed out, Yeah, I know, well she had
(27:30):
died because well she was the head of executive director
of friends Big Bear Valley, and this is the people
with the what the eagle cam that Amy follows.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Yes, she was actually one of the people who spearheaded
getting the camera up in the nest back in like
twenty fifteen, and it's a reason we have an opportunity
to watch Jackie in Shadow.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
She died of bird flu, which is really.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Okay, but obviously Lee, she's a big hero to cat
ladies everywhere.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, there you go, there you go. Okay, we're done.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Guys, She's like hundreds of thousands of people who catch ladies.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I get it, Yeah, I get it, you know, right, Okay, Yeah,
she's great and beloved it Big Bear And there's you know.
Ironically enough, right down the hill there's Kentucky Fried Eagle.
Did you know that? What's with you now? That's come
on question? Neil. Okay, we're done. We are so done.
(28:30):
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