February 16, 2026 • 30 mins
(February 16, 2026)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Kalanis book goes through and before you leave you have
to effectively let them know that the CO two has
left your body. And so there's a lot of that. Yeah,
there's a lot, I mean across the board. And I've
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told you that story where they have twenty people all
lined up in these little bays with just they I'll
stop it, all right, I got it. Don't reduce this
to a cheap sound effect. Okay, this is serious medical news.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Here's Bill Handle. Good morning everybody. It's February sixteenth, a Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
As we start the week with when all the A
team is here, and a quick good morning, and I've
got some questions some Olympic news I thought i'd share
with you, and a question or two.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Good morning, good morning, good morning. We have been talking.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We've been talking about the event that we are throwing
actually Katarina's Club in my house, a barbecue and this
is for people who donated pretty good money to say
the least.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
To join us.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
So we have three couples who are guests of honor
who are joining us for this grilling event where Neil
and Chef work together, and it's going to be pretty
neat so and it's going to be broadcast also on.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And it's going to be great. I've been passing out flyers.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
There's this overpass with a lot of homeless encampments and
I've been passing out flyers with your address, letting them
know where good com in March.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's going to be great. It is going to be
so excited. I'll bet they are. I'll bet they are.
And we haven't put the outdoor shower in yet, but
we're going to amy.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Good morning, good morning, Okay, that's what sir says.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Howdy, howdy, howdy, Okay, it's excellent.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Good morning to you. And Will Cole Schreiber. What is
that's what you're saying? He's musical music theater, Wes Why okay, nice?
I like musical theater. Fair enough, it's good stuf.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Okay, got it, got it? And uh and good morning
to you. Good morning. As you're munching on something. I
don't know if you've been watching the Olympics. I certainly have.
There is a new event called Monobob. I don't know
if you knew that it is a women's only event.
(02:39):
And I'm serious now, and so I'm going to go
around the room and ask what is mono Bob? Neil,
what do you think monobob is? I'm having a hard
time getting out of the gutter, sir, Okay, excellent, I
not Amy, What do you think monobob is?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
One person Bob's letting?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Okay, not bad? Will mono bob what you catch in
the Olympic village? Okay? Very strong and mono Bob.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm going with what Amy said.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Okay, so we have two one woman's bob sledding or
a single woman's bob sledding. Mono bob. It is actually
and it's brand new. It's bobbing for apples, which is
oh well. First of all, Cono, I don't see you.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Where are you? Cono?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Is?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I see his iPad but I don't see him. There
you are? Good morning. It is bobbing for apples.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
It is also practice for a certain genre of film
that we that I'm not going to talk about because
I don't want to go there.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Thoughneil and I were pretty close.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's one guy named Bob who just stands there.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay, did I win? It is both and and Amy
were right.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It is a single women's sled and it is What's
fun is brand new events come into Olympics, like double moguls,
like heads of two film studios and they go slipping
down the slippery slope of the snow. So this is new,
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as is the double moguls, and they pull stuff back
there was there used to be. I don't know if
basketball is still there. I don't know if baseball is
still there. I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Not at the Winter Olympics, for sure, Yeah, of course, but.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I'm talking about in general. That's true.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But I'm wondering if those if those stay, and I
don't know the answer in any case.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
If you're watching the Olympics, I am. The Olympics really
controversial this year. Of course the ice skating, ice dancing,
which is absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The French team.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Won the gold, even though the American team was better,
there's no question about it, and everybody else all the
judges gave about a five. Even with the United States
incrementally ahead and was about to get the gold. The
French judge gave the French team eight points.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Which put them over the top. Do you remember the
Korean judge?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Which event was where the Korean judge gave the Korean
team astronomical points. And so there's the controversy there and
the fact that it's a debacle in which Lindsey Vaughan,
of course we know what happened to her and the
rest of the teams are. There was a controversy in
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curling where you can't touch the curling stone after it
goes past the line. Canadians accuse the Americans of doing
that and there was a screaming match between the two.
That's when it's fun. That's when it's a lot of fun. Okay,
we should make.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Any sort of controversy have to be solved with pugilism.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I agree they have some little.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Problem and it's like, okay, then we're gonna go.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Fisticuffs, right, especially the Bulgarian weightlifters against the skill. Yes,
there's there's pugilism wrestling matches.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I just like the thought of controversy on the curling floor. Yes,
you're pushing a stone. You are pushing a stone, sir,
And do we know where the stone came from?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Any idea the stone is a specific stone made out
of a specific rock from Ireland or something. I think
it's Scotland. If I'm not it is, I think it
is Scotland. It's a Scottish stone. It's a Scottish stone.
I'll only be beat by a Scottish stone. Which are
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you can't chew on the stone. You can't you on
a scone. How's that for depth of knowledge?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I like it? All right?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Did you watch the skeleton competition you're talking about it
on Friday?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, we were.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It was fun. They're head.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh yeah, you're ninety miles an hour two inches above
the ice. So it's not like you're going ninety miles
an hour on a ski slope, which is dangerous enough
and fast enough.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I mean, you're flying, but your.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Head is what five feet above the ice, which is
very different. I say, five hundred miles an hour. Five
hundred miles an hour. When you're an airplane, it barely moves, you.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Just crawling along.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
When you look down, this is right on top of
the ice at ninety miles an hour. That is really
scary stuff. Okay, let's do it. We've got some news
I want to share with you. Oh today Michael Monks
and Chris Merrill join us at eight thirty and they're
going to talk about their new show, which starts tomorrow.
(08:07):
Do we know if it's Monks and Merrill or Merrill
and Monks.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Do we know?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, Monks and Merrill.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It is Monks and Merrill.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Monks and Merrill starting tomorrow at noon. Monk, that's true, Meryrill.
I've always wondered how do they choose that it was
like John and Ken? And do they flip a coin
or is it more what rolls off the tongue. You've
been involved in this sort of stuff, Neil, Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But I will tell you something.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
It doesn't matter because you know how many calls we
get a people upset of Ken in the afternoon blathering
on about something or other, or people calling in calling
in show, or it does matter. When I was on
with Tim the Tim and Neil show, Yeah, you know what,
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we'd get emails and letters for the Tim O'Neill show.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's people that.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Was Mo Mo as Morris. I want to say was,
But is Morris o Kelly a nice Irish name and
Mo looks about as Irish as well.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He doesn't look Irish. Let me put it that way.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well, MO will tell you he's black Irish. Yes, know
what they call it is black Irish dark.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
There is such a thing, Yes, there is such a
thing as black Irish.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I just exchanged some texts with Mo the other day.
I was thinking about him.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Okay, are you guys right? Okay, guys ready to do it?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Time for handle on the news with Amy Neil and
me late story. No clear path to ending the partial
government shutdown. And this is ironic because the government shutdown
is about the TSA, FEMA, US Coast Guard, the Secret Service,
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and it's all about what ICE is doing in enforcing
immigration law. And ICE is funded. ICE has its money
and got enormous amounts of money because it was part
of the Big Beautiful Bill where I specifically was given
money under that bill as opposed to a general amount
of money that was given to Homeland Security. So it's
(10:18):
Congress is on recess until February twenty third, and we're
into our third shutdown in the Trump administration second term.
Great fun, isn't it. We'll see what happens. People are working,
We went through this and we will again. Certain classes
of people are not getting paid and don't show up
to work. Certain classes have to show up to work
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and don't get paid.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And others do get paid and show up to work.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Possible breakthrough. A black glove found near Nancy Guthrie's home
near Tucson, Arizona, appears to match the gloves worn by
the guy in the scene in doorbell camera footage. It
has DNA evidence on it, and the glove has been
sent off for final testing. It was found February twelfth,
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about two miles away from the gu three residence in
a field near the side of the road. I thought
this was interesting. They found sixteen.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Gloves, yes, but they said they found they think the glove.
Have you noticed that all talk of ransom is now
off the table. All we're hearing is we're trying to
find the guy who did this, and we're now approaching
well into week three and this does not bode well
at all. This is going to turn out to be
(11:37):
a heart wrencher, even though all the authorities said we
have hope, and certainly the guth three family is saying
we have hope, as you would expect them as they're
reaching out and praying and hoping and going. Savannah Guthrie
doing her videos reaching out. But after that initial I
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think it was an initial email talking about the ransom,
that's all gone away. Yeah, it's I don't think it's
going to turn out to be horrible. I turn out
to be a good story. You know, it comes out good.
I'm hoping, I am going I'm I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, but as time goes by, it's kind of hard
to keep up that hope.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I get it all right, l a USD board is
considering sending thirty two hundred notices of possible layoffs. Now
this is more than they think they're going to have
to do, but this all is a proposed action, part
of a plan that's close to what officials describe as
an ongoing structural deficit, which is kind of under understating it.
(12:43):
In a December budget filing, the district projected deficits of
eight one hundred and seventy seven million with an AM,
which is only fourteen percent of the twenty eight twenty
seven that's a lot of That is a big percentage.
That's a huge, chunky sou unk. They're wrestling with this
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and they're looking at the possibility of layoff, so they
send these out to let people know prior that Hey,
this may go down, but they they're shooting higher thirty
two hundred. It is higher than they think they're going
to need to lay off.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, a lot higher. As a matter of fact, there's
a decimal point issue. It's actually three point two, which
is three teachers and one dwarf. Uh, it's three point
two people that I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Know that you are you supposed to use? Hey, kno,
is that offensive to you? When he uses dwarf? You're
offensive to your people?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Thank you very much?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That dwarf is Oh you can't you wait? Can you
not use midget? Although midgets is a technical.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Term for what is midget? What is midget from?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Where is that word? Why is that offensive?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I don't know where the word fidget came from. Who
the hell knows where the word dwarf comes from?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Snow white comes snow white? Yeah, dwarf?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
No, was that hold on him?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And that was the word dwarf was invented by Disney?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
No, not at all anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I just say something which I think has some credence,
three teachers and a dwarf, and.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Then you know, we go through a whole discussion.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It is It is fun when conal comes in and
he's like, Hi, Hope, Hope. It's nice. That puts everybody
in a good mood.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yeah, Jeffrey Epstein has a lot of prominent pals. We
all knew this. The Department of Justice has sent Congress
a list of what it calls politically exposed persons that
are included in all of those files that have been released.
So the list is of people regardless of context. Doesn't
(14:54):
specify the degree to which people were linked to or
in contact with Epstein, but there's a lot of them,
including Princess Diana, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, of course, President Trump,
former President Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, Prince Andrew, Elon Musk,
Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Woody Allen.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, a lot of these are just people that showed
up in articles that were part of the Epstein trial,
and just a mention of you know, Elvis Presley probably
didn't connect to Epstein unless they did it on the
George Norri Show, and it could be Abraham Lincoln for
all we know. So not abe, yeah, abe yeah, Abe,
(15:37):
Also honest, Abe, all right, this is this is crazy, Bill.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
So you've got Israel beginning, you know, Obviously there's a
lot of contention here to begin with, but this is
a super contentious land regulation process and this is in
the occupied West Bay, so it could result in Israel
gaining control over these massive swaths of land and area
for future development. And some are just saying this is
(16:06):
a meg land grab. You would take it back. Yeah,
it's it's nuts weird. They haven't had this has been
frozen since the Mid East War in nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Here is what's going on.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Israel annexing the West Back Bank straight out would cause
international uproar. That's Israel simply claiming the West Bank is
now part of Israel, which is the right wing, the
cabinet in the right wing, the ultra right wing in
Israel wants to do so. They're doing it not by
bits and pieces, this is a massive one. This is
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registering that land as part of Israel and saying if
you own the land or you this is to a Palestinian,
if you own, if you claim you own the land,
we want proof that you own the land. Well, some
of this land has been generations in the hands of
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Palestinians and Israel this well, bottom line is it real
is going to annex, basically going to annex and West
Bank becomes part of Israel. There'll never be a two
state solution, which is a shame because that's the only answer,
I believe.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Continuing on with what we already knew, France, Germany, the Netherlands,
Sweden and the UK said on Saturday that Russia poisoned
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalni with poison, and they are saying
in their report that it was from a poisoned dart frog,
which led to his death in a pedal colony two
(17:41):
years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I'm doing that story at eight am because that is
a story that has some depth to it. But the
bottom line is the TikTok frog licking contest. I'm going
to tell you, don't do it, guys.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
That's the new craze. That's the new TikTok.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well it is, by the way, it's a thing, you know,
it is is.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
We are expecting tons and tons of rain.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Amy is that?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Three storms back to back is what I've heard from
the news.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yep. Oh, so what are we looking at a week?
Ten days of this stuff?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
No, No, it's it's just through this week and we'll
be back to sunny skies by Friday. But we're expecting
kind of just a series of storms to hit, and
the first one a little bit later this morning. We
thought it was going to hit overnight, but they kind
of pushed that back.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Right, So, who or what region is going to get
the brunt of this, Northern Ventura County, northern Los Angeles,
La Orange County, where.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
We're all getting it. It's from northern California all the
way down. They're expecting like five feet of snow up
in Lake Tahoe, and they're expecting snow about a foot
of snow like in Big Bear and and more at
higher elevations.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Hey, let's return to I handle on the news, Neil
and Amy and.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Me, Uh, look out for the brothels.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You got this look out for them?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Wait a segue, big.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Sign on the front of.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
These briels where brothels?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, well, screw for food?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
What only the only thing that came to my mind.
I couldn't say, so I pivoted. So you got this
southern California brothel ring coming down, massive ring busted by authorities.
It is from Ventura to La both counties being focused
on leading to and then you talk about all this
and they go leading to two arrests.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, and one of them is the unfortunately named Kevin Dong.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Kevin I think we had been Dong, Yes, And then
we and I are the two and they are the
owners and operators of a sex services website. According to
this release, so more than thirty residential and hotel brothels
throughout California. More than sixty female sex workers were also
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found on the website.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
There what we don't hear about these busts, although certainly legitimate,
is this is a year long investigation, probably hundreds of
people involved in the investigative part.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
So I mean you got to do it, no question.
Don was really really pivotal in this. Without Dong, this
might not have even gone down.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That is correct.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
But he, I guess, scheduled the appointments for the brothels.
So the law enforcement said Don was the Don was
the peak of this, and yes, penetrating, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Okay, you can keep on going with that, and it's
getting worse and worse.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
He said he was going to come forth.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
But god, now now we're moving into that part of investigation.
That is what this show is all about.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
See for this stuff. I'm the one that is yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, he must have done a boner to get caught.
But what are you going to do? Hello?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Yeah, oh yeah, Bad Bunny Old Bueno extentally Spanish Congressman
Randy Fine called for the FCC to look into and
ultimately punish Bad Bunny for a Super Bowl sixty halftime show.
He said, had he said these lyrics and all the
other disgusting and explative filth in English on live TV,
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the broadcast would have been pulled down. The fines would
have been enormous. Puerto Ricans and Americans we all live
by the same rules, he wrote. So the CEC apparently
did look into it and found nothing wrong and said
he committed no violations and.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Did not use the words as Randy Fine decided that
were used.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I guess he's the only one to heard him, and
he is said.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Let me tell you, the President, looking down from Mount
Rushmore was not happy with this at all.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
His nine hundred and sixty five days straight of due
Lingo says he was he was saying naughty words.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Casey Wasserman obviously one of the names that came out
during the Epstein file dump, and now this huge mogul
who said he was going to leave his talent agency.
He's going to be selling it off, but he's going
to stay on the LA Olympic committee. So this guy
is on the Los Angeles twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
He's headed it.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah, and he so he's overseeing this. But he says, basically,
he goes in a memo, I'm heartbroken that my brief
contact with them twenty three years ago, speaking of Maxwell
and Epstein, caused you this company and its clients so
much hardship in the past days and weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
So he bailed as one of the premier talent agencies
in town. He goes, I got to get out of
here because you've got these artists that are bailing out
like crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And this is not.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Just he had that basically social intercourse or just a
minimal contact. He was sexting with Julainne Maxwell. That is
that's about as far as those are two consenting adults. Absolutely,
I'm not arguing that. I'm not arguing that, of course
(23:50):
it is. But the point is, this is as close
to wrongdoing as I think anybody has come up with,
short of Jeffrey Epstein and Jelainne Maxwell. So this this
was more egregious. Also, it was twenty three years ago.
At what point you know, I did stuff fifty years
ago that if it came out there be it would
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be really questionable.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Look what you said, Look what you said when you
were a teenager.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
What you've done things fifty minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's also true.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yes, that's also true that I should be nails for Okay,
moving on.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Made in China stickers could soon be on cars in
the US. Right now, Chinese cars are not sold in
the US, but that could change. Chinese automobiles could hit
US showrooms in the next five to ten years, according
to experts. He says a lot of Chinese automakers have
shown readiness to come to the US to build in
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the US right now, they're facing one hundred percent tariffs
if they do.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And have been for a long time.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
By the way, this is not just Trump under Biden,
and I think Obama also one hundred percent teriffs to
keep Chinese cars out because they are better and they
are cheaper.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Right and Trump has said recently that he's kind of like,
I'm okay with it if they build plants in.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
The US, right if they build them, they will come.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Now the question is the cost of building a plant
and having American workers work those plants, because American workers
will not work for two dollars an hour like they
do in China, and the building of plants does not
cost a third as much in China as it does here.
(25:38):
So I'd like to know how is that going to work?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
You know, alther a podcast Bill, it was fascinating breaking
down why those cars would not be as cheap if
they came to America at all, even not for what
you think, but because their safety standards are different, their
drive cycle is different, they drive less mileage than we
do in the United States, and that there's a lot
of things they cut from them that if they brought
(26:04):
him here it would it would put the expense and
make them very comparable to Americans.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And that could be, but.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
They're going to have to meet American standards, there's no
question about that, unless the President removes all standards.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
But I don't think he's going to do that for
the Chinese. He's not that pro Chinese.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And the point is, though, and he made the President
may be right on this, and the authorities may be right.
Even with all that the Chinese cars, which are miles
ahead of what the United States and the rest of
the world is producing. We'll still be cheaper than American
made electric vehicles, okay, or German made electric vehicles like
(26:43):
I have one, which I'm not going to keep for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
All right, three unlikely amigos you've got the White House
borders are Tom Homan giving praise just yesterday for Minnesota
Governor Tim Wallas and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob fray So. He
says that the three have been able to talk and
work together. They're cracking down on illegal immigration in the state,
(27:09):
but they're doing it differently, not the heavy handed way.
They've got agreements apparently, so says Homan. In Minnesota, he
said they are. He never thought he'd be able to
get these agreements. He gives credit to the governor. He
said they had good conversations and this all comes down
to basically letting them know the criminal immigrants that are
(27:34):
getting let out of the prisons.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Right Well, that's what.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
The shutdown is all about, how I says, handling the enforcement,
and Holman is saying, it's not the backlash, it's because
we are now cooperating.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That's what's doing it. We finally have cooperation and they do.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
It in the first place and just say, hey, we
want to do these we want to get the bad guys.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Give us permission and we'll come in quietly.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Because because they're saying story cities, they don't do that.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, I know, and it's and it's this result and
the reason this is happening is simply a result of
the backlash, the political backlash, and the government will never
admit they've done anything wrong ever.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Okay, well, what side of the government are you talking about.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Why didn't they the administration, why don't they step down
as sanctuary cities then and just say we will give
these people over. We do not want you on our
We do not want your ice agents coming in here
in Billy.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
And do we know if these quote sanctuary cities, of
which Minneapolis is one of them, will now turn over
people in.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Pers think so?
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Colman said that they are, that they're cooperating with almost
all of the counties in Minnesota, which is one of
the reasons they're agreeing to the draw it out.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I would love to hear Waltz and Fray say the
same thing, because I'm hoping that they do agree with that,
and I'm hoping they do go after the bad, the
worst of the worst. As Gnome said, don't know it
point okay, a story about byte dance.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
No, not yet, No, Oh is.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Around ready to do a deal? And Iranian diplomat says yes.
They say we would like to pursue a nuclear agreement
with US that delivers economic benefits for both sides. Common
interests in the oil and gas fields, joint fields, mining investments,
and even aircraft purchases are included in the negotiations. Yeah,
(29:31):
says around.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, they're running scared because they know that this president
does not screw around. They have said, oh, if we
are attacked, we will retort, we will reply with the
strongest force possible. And they pretend that there's something there.
I mean, they do have an army. They do have
probably the most sophisticated army in the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Maybe Saudi Arabia is equivalent to that, but.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Iran is saying, oh, okay, okay, I guess this president
is very serious about this.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Because Trump will unleash.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
It's not simple.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
He's not a kind of guy who uh you know,
doesn't say what he means or means what he says, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay with that.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Israeli, you notice, is not pushing this, letting the United
States do this. Israel has said it will not let
Iran have a nuclear device.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
It will not.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's just that simple because Netanyahu and he's right. If
Iran has some kind of a nuclear device, it's an
accidential threat to the existence of Israel. Okay, we're done.
Why don't we get out of here. This is KFI
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Kalanis book goes through and before you leave you have
to effectively let them know that the CO two has
left your body. And so there's a lot of that. Yeah,
there's a lot, I mean across the board. And I've
(00:24):
told you that story where they have twenty people all
lined up in these little bays with just they I'll
stop it, all right, I got it. Don't reduce this
to a cheap sound effect. Okay, this is serious medical news.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Here's Bill Handle. Good morning everybody. It's February sixteenth, a Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
As we start the week with when all the A
team is here, and a quick good morning, and I've
got some questions some Olympic news I thought i'd share
with you, and a question or two.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Good morning, good morning, good morning. We have been talking.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We've been talking about the event that we are throwing
actually Katarina's Club in my house, a barbecue and this
is for people who donated pretty good money to say
the least.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
To join us.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
So we have three couples who are guests of honor
who are joining us for this grilling event where Neil
and Chef work together, and it's going to be pretty
neat so and it's going to be broadcast also on.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And it's going to be great. I've been passing out flyers.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
There's this overpass with a lot of homeless encampments and
I've been passing out flyers with your address, letting them
know where good com in March.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's going to be great. It is going to be
so excited. I'll bet they are. I'll bet they are.
And we haven't put the outdoor shower in yet, but
we're going to amy.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Good morning, good morning, Okay, that's what sir says.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Howdy, howdy, howdy, Okay, it's excellent.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Good morning to you. And Will Cole Schreiber. What is
that's what you're saying? He's musical music theater, Wes Why okay, nice?
I like musical theater. Fair enough, it's good stuf.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Okay, got it, got it? And uh and good morning
to you. Good morning. As you're munching on something. I
don't know if you've been watching the Olympics. I certainly have.
There is a new event called Monobob. I don't know
if you knew that it is a women's only event.
(02:39):
And I'm serious now, and so I'm going to go
around the room and ask what is mono Bob? Neil,
what do you think monobob is? I'm having a hard
time getting out of the gutter, sir, Okay, excellent, I
not Amy, What do you think monobob is?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
One person Bob's letting?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Okay, not bad? Will mono bob what you catch in
the Olympic village? Okay? Very strong and mono Bob.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm going with what Amy said.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Okay, so we have two one woman's bob sledding or
a single woman's bob sledding. Mono bob. It is actually
and it's brand new. It's bobbing for apples, which is
oh well. First of all, Cono, I don't see you.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Where are you? Cono?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Is?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I see his iPad but I don't see him. There
you are? Good morning. It is bobbing for apples.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
It is also practice for a certain genre of film
that we that I'm not going to talk about because
I don't want to go there.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Thoughneil and I were pretty close.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's one guy named Bob who just stands there.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay, did I win? It is both and and Amy
were right.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It is a single women's sled and it is What's
fun is brand new events come into Olympics, like double moguls,
like heads of two film studios and they go slipping
down the slippery slope of the snow. So this is new,
(04:21):
as is the double moguls, and they pull stuff back
there was there used to be. I don't know if
basketball is still there. I don't know if baseball is
still there. I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Not at the Winter Olympics, for sure, Yeah, of course, but.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I'm talking about in general. That's true.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But I'm wondering if those if those stay, and I
don't know the answer in any case.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
If you're watching the Olympics, I am. The Olympics really
controversial this year. Of course the ice skating, ice dancing,
which is absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The French team.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Won the gold, even though the American team was better,
there's no question about it, and everybody else all the
judges gave about a five. Even with the United States
incrementally ahead and was about to get the gold. The
French judge gave the French team eight points.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Which put them over the top. Do you remember the
Korean judge?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Which event was where the Korean judge gave the Korean
team astronomical points. And so there's the controversy there and
the fact that it's a debacle in which Lindsey Vaughan,
of course we know what happened to her and the
rest of the teams are. There was a controversy in
(05:45):
curling where you can't touch the curling stone after it
goes past the line. Canadians accuse the Americans of doing
that and there was a screaming match between the two.
That's when it's fun. That's when it's a lot of fun. Okay,
we should make.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Any sort of controversy have to be solved with pugilism.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I agree they have some little.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Problem and it's like, okay, then we're gonna go.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Fisticuffs, right, especially the Bulgarian weightlifters against the skill. Yes,
there's there's pugilism wrestling matches.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I just like the thought of controversy on the curling floor. Yes,
you're pushing a stone. You are pushing a stone, sir,
And do we know where the stone came from?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Any idea the stone is a specific stone made out
of a specific rock from Ireland or something. I think
it's Scotland. If I'm not it is, I think it
is Scotland. It's a Scottish stone. It's a Scottish stone.
I'll only be beat by a Scottish stone. Which are
(06:57):
you can't chew on the stone. You can't you on
a scone. How's that for depth of knowledge?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I like it? All right?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Did you watch the skeleton competition you're talking about it
on Friday?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, we were.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It was fun. They're head.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh yeah, you're ninety miles an hour two inches above
the ice. So it's not like you're going ninety miles
an hour on a ski slope, which is dangerous enough
and fast enough.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I mean, you're flying, but your.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Head is what five feet above the ice, which is
very different. I say, five hundred miles an hour. Five
hundred miles an hour. When you're an airplane, it barely moves, you.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Just crawling along.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
When you look down, this is right on top of
the ice at ninety miles an hour. That is really
scary stuff. Okay, let's do it. We've got some news
I want to share with you. Oh today Michael Monks
and Chris Merrill join us at eight thirty and they're
going to talk about their new show, which starts tomorrow.
(08:07):
Do we know if it's Monks and Merrill or Merrill
and Monks.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Do we know?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, Monks and Merrill.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It is Monks and Merrill.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Monks and Merrill starting tomorrow at noon. Monk, that's true, Meryrill.
I've always wondered how do they choose that it was
like John and Ken? And do they flip a coin
or is it more what rolls off the tongue. You've
been involved in this sort of stuff, Neil, Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But I will tell you something.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
It doesn't matter because you know how many calls we
get a people upset of Ken in the afternoon blathering
on about something or other, or people calling in calling
in show, or it does matter. When I was on
with Tim the Tim and Neil show, Yeah, you know what,
(08:54):
we'd get emails and letters for the Tim O'Neill show.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's people that.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Was Mo Mo as Morris. I want to say was,
But is Morris o Kelly a nice Irish name and
Mo looks about as Irish as well.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He doesn't look Irish. Let me put it that way.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well, MO will tell you he's black Irish. Yes, know
what they call it is black Irish dark.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
There is such a thing, Yes, there is such a
thing as black Irish.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I just exchanged some texts with Mo the other day.
I was thinking about him.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Okay, are you guys right? Okay, guys ready to do it?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Time for handle on the news with Amy Neil and
me late story. No clear path to ending the partial
government shutdown. And this is ironic because the government shutdown
is about the TSA, FEMA, US Coast Guard, the Secret Service,
(09:55):
and it's all about what ICE is doing in enforcing
immigration law. And ICE is funded. ICE has its money
and got enormous amounts of money because it was part
of the Big Beautiful Bill where I specifically was given
money under that bill as opposed to a general amount
of money that was given to Homeland Security. So it's
(10:18):
Congress is on recess until February twenty third, and we're
into our third shutdown in the Trump administration second term.
Great fun, isn't it. We'll see what happens. People are working,
We went through this and we will again. Certain classes
of people are not getting paid and don't show up
to work. Certain classes have to show up to work
(10:40):
and don't get paid.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And others do get paid and show up to work.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Possible breakthrough. A black glove found near Nancy Guthrie's home
near Tucson, Arizona, appears to match the gloves worn by
the guy in the scene in doorbell camera footage. It
has DNA evidence on it, and the glove has been
sent off for final testing. It was found February twelfth,
(11:08):
about two miles away from the gu three residence in
a field near the side of the road. I thought
this was interesting. They found sixteen.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Gloves, yes, but they said they found they think the glove.
Have you noticed that all talk of ransom is now
off the table. All we're hearing is we're trying to
find the guy who did this, and we're now approaching
well into week three and this does not bode well
at all. This is going to turn out to be
(11:37):
a heart wrencher, even though all the authorities said we
have hope, and certainly the guth three family is saying
we have hope, as you would expect them as they're
reaching out and praying and hoping and going. Savannah Guthrie
doing her videos reaching out. But after that initial I
(11:57):
think it was an initial email talking about the ransom,
that's all gone away. Yeah, it's I don't think it's
going to turn out to be horrible. I turn out
to be a good story. You know, it comes out good.
I'm hoping, I am going I'm I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, but as time goes by, it's kind of hard
to keep up that hope.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I get it all right, l a USD board is
considering sending thirty two hundred notices of possible layoffs. Now
this is more than they think they're going to have
to do, but this all is a proposed action, part
of a plan that's close to what officials describe as
an ongoing structural deficit, which is kind of under understating it.
(12:43):
In a December budget filing, the district projected deficits of
eight one hundred and seventy seven million with an AM,
which is only fourteen percent of the twenty eight twenty
seven that's a lot of That is a big percentage.
That's a huge, chunky sou unk. They're wrestling with this
(13:04):
and they're looking at the possibility of layoff, so they
send these out to let people know prior that Hey,
this may go down, but they they're shooting higher thirty
two hundred. It is higher than they think they're going
to need to lay off.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, a lot higher. As a matter of fact, there's
a decimal point issue. It's actually three point two, which
is three teachers and one dwarf. Uh, it's three point
two people that I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Know that you are you supposed to use? Hey, kno,
is that offensive to you? When he uses dwarf? You're
offensive to your people?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Thank you very much?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That dwarf is Oh you can't you wait? Can you
not use midget? Although midgets is a technical.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Term for what is midget? What is midget from?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Where is that word? Why is that offensive?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I don't know where the word fidget came from. Who
the hell knows where the word dwarf comes from?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Snow white comes snow white? Yeah, dwarf?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
No, was that hold on him?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And that was the word dwarf was invented by Disney?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
No, not at all anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I just say something which I think has some credence,
three teachers and a dwarf, and.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Then you know, we go through a whole discussion.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
It is It is fun when conal comes in and
he's like, Hi, Hope, Hope. It's nice. That puts everybody
in a good mood.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yeah, Jeffrey Epstein has a lot of prominent pals. We
all knew this. The Department of Justice has sent Congress
a list of what it calls politically exposed persons that
are included in all of those files that have been released.
So the list is of people regardless of context. Doesn't
(14:54):
specify the degree to which people were linked to or
in contact with Epstein, but there's a lot of them,
including Princess Diana, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, of course, President Trump,
former President Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, Prince Andrew, Elon Musk,
Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Woody Allen.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, a lot of these are just people that showed
up in articles that were part of the Epstein trial,
and just a mention of you know, Elvis Presley probably
didn't connect to Epstein unless they did it on the
George Norri Show, and it could be Abraham Lincoln for
all we know. So not abe, yeah, abe yeah, Abe,
(15:37):
Also honest, Abe, all right, this is this is crazy, Bill.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
So you've got Israel beginning, you know, Obviously there's a
lot of contention here to begin with, but this is
a super contentious land regulation process and this is in
the occupied West Bay, so it could result in Israel
gaining control over these massive swaths of land and area
for future development. And some are just saying this is
(16:06):
a meg land grab. You would take it back. Yeah,
it's it's nuts weird. They haven't had this has been
frozen since the Mid East War in nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Here is what's going on.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Israel annexing the West Back Bank straight out would cause
international uproar. That's Israel simply claiming the West Bank is
now part of Israel, which is the right wing, the
cabinet in the right wing, the ultra right wing in
Israel wants to do so. They're doing it not by
bits and pieces, this is a massive one. This is
(16:40):
registering that land as part of Israel and saying if
you own the land or you this is to a Palestinian,
if you own, if you claim you own the land,
we want proof that you own the land. Well, some
of this land has been generations in the hands of
(17:00):
Palestinians and Israel this well, bottom line is it real
is going to annex, basically going to annex and West
Bank becomes part of Israel. There'll never be a two
state solution, which is a shame because that's the only answer,
I believe.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Continuing on with what we already knew, France, Germany, the Netherlands,
Sweden and the UK said on Saturday that Russia poisoned
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalni with poison, and they are saying
in their report that it was from a poisoned dart frog,
which led to his death in a pedal colony two
(17:41):
years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I'm doing that story at eight am because that is
a story that has some depth to it. But the
bottom line is the TikTok frog licking contest. I'm going
to tell you, don't do it, guys.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
That's the new craze. That's the new TikTok.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well it is, by the way, it's a thing, you know,
it is is.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
We are expecting tons and tons of rain.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Amy is that?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Three storms back to back is what I've heard from
the news.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yep. Oh, so what are we looking at a week?
Ten days of this stuff?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
No, No, it's it's just through this week and we'll
be back to sunny skies by Friday. But we're expecting
kind of just a series of storms to hit, and
the first one a little bit later this morning. We
thought it was going to hit overnight, but they kind
of pushed that back.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Right, So, who or what region is going to get
the brunt of this, Northern Ventura County, northern Los Angeles,
La Orange County, where.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
We're all getting it. It's from northern California all the
way down. They're expecting like five feet of snow up
in Lake Tahoe, and they're expecting snow about a foot
of snow like in Big Bear and and more at
higher elevations.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Hey, let's return to I handle on the news, Neil
and Amy and.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Me, Uh, look out for the brothels.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You got this look out for them?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Wait a segue, big.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Sign on the front of.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
These briels where brothels?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, well, screw for food?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
What only the only thing that came to my mind.
I couldn't say, so I pivoted. So you got this
southern California brothel ring coming down, massive ring busted by authorities.
It is from Ventura to La both counties being focused
on leading to and then you talk about all this
and they go leading to two arrests.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, and one of them is the unfortunately named Kevin Dong.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Kevin I think we had been Dong, Yes, And then
we and I are the two and they are the
owners and operators of a sex services website. According to
this release, so more than thirty residential and hotel brothels
throughout California. More than sixty female sex workers were also
(20:10):
found on the website.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
There what we don't hear about these busts, although certainly legitimate,
is this is a year long investigation, probably hundreds of
people involved in the investigative part.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
So I mean you got to do it, no question.
Don was really really pivotal in this. Without Dong, this
might not have even gone down.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That is correct.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
But he, I guess, scheduled the appointments for the brothels.
So the law enforcement said Don was the Don was
the peak of this, and yes, penetrating, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Okay, you can keep on going with that, and it's
getting worse and worse.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
He said he was going to come forth.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
But god, now now we're moving into that part of investigation.
That is what this show is all about.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
See for this stuff. I'm the one that is yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, he must have done a boner to get caught.
But what are you going to do? Hello?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Yeah, oh yeah, Bad Bunny Old Bueno extentally Spanish Congressman
Randy Fine called for the FCC to look into and
ultimately punish Bad Bunny for a Super Bowl sixty halftime show.
He said, had he said these lyrics and all the
other disgusting and explative filth in English on live TV,
(21:52):
the broadcast would have been pulled down. The fines would
have been enormous. Puerto Ricans and Americans we all live
by the same rules, he wrote. So the CEC apparently
did look into it and found nothing wrong and said
he committed no violations and.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Did not use the words as Randy Fine decided that
were used.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I guess he's the only one to heard him, and
he is said.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Let me tell you, the President, looking down from Mount
Rushmore was not happy with this at all.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
His nine hundred and sixty five days straight of due
Lingo says he was he was saying naughty words.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Casey Wasserman obviously one of the names that came out
during the Epstein file dump, and now this huge mogul
who said he was going to leave his talent agency.
He's going to be selling it off, but he's going
to stay on the LA Olympic committee. So this guy
is on the Los Angeles twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
He's headed it.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah, and he so he's overseeing this. But he says, basically,
he goes in a memo, I'm heartbroken that my brief
contact with them twenty three years ago, speaking of Maxwell
and Epstein, caused you this company and its clients so
much hardship in the past days and weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
So he bailed as one of the premier talent agencies
in town. He goes, I got to get out of
here because you've got these artists that are bailing out
like crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And this is not.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Just he had that basically social intercourse or just a
minimal contact. He was sexting with Julainne Maxwell. That is
that's about as far as those are two consenting adults. Absolutely,
I'm not arguing that. I'm not arguing that, of course
(23:50):
it is. But the point is, this is as close
to wrongdoing as I think anybody has come up with,
short of Jeffrey Epstein and Jelainne Maxwell. So this this
was more egregious. Also, it was twenty three years ago.
At what point you know, I did stuff fifty years
ago that if it came out there be it would
(24:12):
be really questionable.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Look what you said, Look what you said when you
were a teenager.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
What you've done things fifty minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's also true.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yes, that's also true that I should be nails for Okay,
moving on.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Made in China stickers could soon be on cars in
the US. Right now, Chinese cars are not sold in
the US, but that could change. Chinese automobiles could hit
US showrooms in the next five to ten years, according
to experts. He says a lot of Chinese automakers have
shown readiness to come to the US to build in
(24:49):
the US right now, they're facing one hundred percent tariffs
if they do.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And have been for a long time.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
By the way, this is not just Trump under Biden,
and I think Obama also one hundred percent teriffs to
keep Chinese cars out because they are better and they
are cheaper.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Right and Trump has said recently that he's kind of like,
I'm okay with it if they build plants in.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
The US, right if they build them, they will come.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Now the question is the cost of building a plant
and having American workers work those plants, because American workers
will not work for two dollars an hour like they
do in China, and the building of plants does not
cost a third as much in China as it does here.
(25:38):
So I'd like to know how is that going to work?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
You know, alther a podcast Bill, it was fascinating breaking
down why those cars would not be as cheap if
they came to America at all, even not for what
you think, but because their safety standards are different, their
drive cycle is different, they drive less mileage than we
do in the United States, and that there's a lot
of things they cut from them that if they brought
(26:04):
him here it would it would put the expense and
make them very comparable to Americans.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And that could be, but.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
They're going to have to meet American standards, there's no
question about that, unless the President removes all standards.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
But I don't think he's going to do that for
the Chinese. He's not that pro Chinese.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And the point is, though, and he made the President
may be right on this, and the authorities may be right.
Even with all that the Chinese cars, which are miles
ahead of what the United States and the rest of
the world is producing. We'll still be cheaper than American
made electric vehicles, okay, or German made electric vehicles like
(26:43):
I have one, which I'm not going to keep for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
All right, three unlikely amigos you've got the White House
borders are Tom Homan giving praise just yesterday for Minnesota
Governor Tim Wallas and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob fray So. He
says that the three have been able to talk and
work together. They're cracking down on illegal immigration in the state,
(27:09):
but they're doing it differently, not the heavy handed way.
They've got agreements apparently, so says Homan. In Minnesota, he
said they are. He never thought he'd be able to
get these agreements. He gives credit to the governor. He
said they had good conversations and this all comes down
to basically letting them know the criminal immigrants that are
(27:34):
getting let out of the prisons.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Right Well, that's what.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
The shutdown is all about, how I says, handling the enforcement,
and Holman is saying, it's not the backlash, it's because
we are now cooperating.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That's what's doing it. We finally have cooperation and they do.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
It in the first place and just say, hey, we
want to do these we want to get the bad guys.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Give us permission and we'll come in quietly.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Because because they're saying story cities, they don't do that.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, I know, and it's and it's this result and
the reason this is happening is simply a result of
the backlash, the political backlash, and the government will never
admit they've done anything wrong ever.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Okay, well, what side of the government are you talking about.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Why didn't they the administration, why don't they step down
as sanctuary cities then and just say we will give
these people over. We do not want you on our
We do not want your ice agents coming in here
in Billy.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
And do we know if these quote sanctuary cities, of
which Minneapolis is one of them, will now turn over
people in.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Pers think so?
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Colman said that they are, that they're cooperating with almost
all of the counties in Minnesota, which is one of
the reasons they're agreeing to the draw it out.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I would love to hear Waltz and Fray say the
same thing, because I'm hoping that they do agree with that,
and I'm hoping they do go after the bad, the
worst of the worst. As Gnome said, don't know it
point okay, a story about byte dance.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
No, not yet, No, Oh is.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Around ready to do a deal? And Iranian diplomat says yes.
They say we would like to pursue a nuclear agreement
with US that delivers economic benefits for both sides. Common
interests in the oil and gas fields, joint fields, mining investments,
and even aircraft purchases are included in the negotiations. Yeah,
(29:31):
says around.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, they're running scared because they know that this president
does not screw around. They have said, oh, if we
are attacked, we will retort, we will reply with the
strongest force possible. And they pretend that there's something there.
I mean, they do have an army. They do have
probably the most sophisticated army in the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Maybe Saudi Arabia is equivalent to that, but.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Iran is saying, oh, okay, okay, I guess this president
is very serious about this.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Because Trump will unleash.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
It's not simple.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
He's not a kind of guy who uh you know,
doesn't say what he means or means what he says, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay with that.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Israeli, you notice, is not pushing this, letting the United
States do this. Israel has said it will not let
Iran have a nuclear device.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
It will not.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's just that simple because Netanyahu and he's right. If
Iran has some kind of a nuclear device, it's an
accidential threat to the existence of Israel. Okay, we're done.
Why don't we get out of here. This is KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
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