December 31, 2025 • 32 mins
(December 31, 2025)
Heather Brooker joins Neil Saavedra for Handel on the News while Bill is out on vacation. Emergency crews mobilized as storm bears down on California. Alleged fraud in Minnesota daycares: What we know about the investigation. Bodies of three hikers recovered from Mt. Baldy amid harsh weather. Disney to integrate Hulu and Disney+ in 2026.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's not Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Wow. Would you look at us KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning. It is Wednesday,
the thirty first of December, which means dantada de la.
It is New Year's eBay Happy, let's make some pots
(00:41):
and pans, oly snockers. It is uh the end of
twenty twenty five, and you believe it. I cannot, which
is why I asked. So this is Neil Svader in
the morning crew with you handles out this week. He'll
be back next week and I'll be off. Oh my gosh,
(01:01):
it's like, uh, it's like three card monte with me
and Bill. You know, hey, diddle diddle, got the chick
in the middle to keep your eye on the whatever.
I haven't done it in a long time. Got me
through college, all right. Didn't go to college, so it
was mostly just taking people's money. But happy to be here.
(01:22):
We have Cono, Stephen Cono is government name. I got
me yesterday. We got will in the toilet this morning,
which is great in the camp we're all going to
come in there and do the show from the toilet. Hello, welcome,
all right, Uh, Matthew is in for Anne and of
(01:49):
course the lovely, effervescent Heather Brooker.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh my gosh, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yes you are. You're lovely in every way. You were
filled with energy and positivity. Except she's a mean drunk.
I probably shouldn't say this on the air.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Just start swinging by the end of handle, just be.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Like, get out a filthy and like a sailor. I
love saying that about people who are kind to people.
They're so nice. Then you lean over and you go, yeah,
is drunk.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
There's some accuracy.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
If I get a little tequila, I start swearing I
dated this girl. Well everyone does. That's what tequila does.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
It's a truth teller.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
If it didn't happen, I'd be worried about you. I
dated this love she was just lovely, this lovely woman.
One time and she'd get a couple pops in her
and yeah, she she was angry.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
It makes me very like honest with like way too
honest with people, but not like in the in a
good way, like it's it's not good.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Tequila is not my friend.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah. It it tends to make men fight and women
take off their clothes, all right, which is probably why
the guys are fighting. Yeah, but first, yeah, yeah, there's not.
One of the best compliments I ever received was from
the genius himself, mister Phil Hendry. We were in Vegas
(03:07):
and we were thrown back tequila and he's like, you
are one of the only guys I will drink tequila
with because I'm actually more fun. But I'm not like
a jerk, and guys can be jerks with tequila. Yeah,
So I thought that was nice. And he's a Don
Julio guy, if I remember correctly.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
People think that news people are just serious all the time,
and it catches them off guard whenever they see a
newsperson out in the wild, like just being normal. And some,
to be fair, some news people are very stuffy and
can't let loose.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm gonna tell you something, lay on, man, I've been
to those award shows for news reading. Newspeople are not
that way. Some of the old school guys maybe that
were bow ties, but newspeople can party.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
They've got to let it out. I have not been
to one of those in a very, very long I.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Can drink, and they can party and let loose like
nobody's business. So that's true.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I do know news people can can let her rip
because I mean, you know, you have to have an outlet.
You're literally sometimes telling horrible stories all day long. And
just like the bearer of bad news. One time, Handle
called me ey Or. He's like, here's e Or with
the news, and I was like, oh my god, that's
not you. I was like, oh my god. And he's like,
he goes, you bomb everybody out with your news, and
(04:30):
I was like, oh, all right, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I can make the news.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's like you're not out, you know, robbing and stealing
and cutting fatton, which is what I do for New
Year's as a matter of fact. Actually if I go
out and do strong arm rubbery.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Well, I've been asking everybody today. Our wake up call
question was what's the one thing you have to do
on New Year's And what's your thing?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
What does you do?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You have a certain food or drink? You know, normally
we're I'm with the family and Big Bear. Normally we
bring in the New Year and Big Bear and and
uh sometimes there's snow. Sometimes there's not, and then we
get pots and pans because my son, he's just he's
nine now, but you know, going out and making noise
at midnight, and he thinks it's a real treat because
(05:13):
he doesn't get to stay up till midnight, so you.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Do it earlier.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No, but I'm saying that he doesn't get to stay
up to midnight normally, so it's kind of a treat
for him. And you know, watch the movies and then
we count in and then I sweeched my wife and
and we bang some. Yeah, we have snack night, just
like buried snacks.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Are you going to do a version of that at
home tonight?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I don't know. I'm maybe I should broadcast from home
tomorrow because I'm like, uh, I know, I like coming
in thanks. It's it's always more fun when we're all together.
But uh yeah, I don't know how I'm gonna work yet.
I'm already tired thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I know it is a grind, but we do it
for the people. We do it for the KF.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's you know, I like being here, and I like
being here on the holidays because I know we have
you know, these great listeners that are very dedicated and
listen to the station and I don't want to be
live and connect with them.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, we love it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, so it's all good. Let's let's start some of that,
shall we? With the handle on the news lead story.
All right, it's a gab news. He's mobilizing, well, checking
his hair and then he's mobilizing that look good. Okay,
(06:32):
my voice sounds too smooth. Give me those rocks. Let
me gargle with him. Then I gargle with him.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Arat he's getting a little bit of the RFK voice.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, Oh, they got RFK is dying in front of us.
His eyes I have a theory. His eyes are like,
you know, like U two celestial lorbs that are coming
together and when they meet, because they get closer every
time I see him. His eyes are closer together. They're
gonna meet and he's gonna implode in a ball of
fire and become one with the universe and it's just
(07:04):
going to be like his abs and he's going to
be like no more vaccine. So anyways, Newsome is preparing
because nobody prepared last January for possible problems. So Southern
California and beyond is prepared for the rain. Rains coming
(07:27):
in about ten am today, I think is when we're
going to start seeing a little bit of that throughout
the Southland. And the flood risks are what are horrible.
As much as I love the rain and the weather,
that's what we're going to be looking out for today.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Alrighty. So we've been talking about this quite a bit
this week.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
So the alleged fraud that's happening in Minnesota with the Daycares.
The US Department of Health and Human Services now says
it has frozen all childcare payments to the state of
Minnesota as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigate
the allegations of fraud, including in some childcare centers.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And that is there.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I should say that this area, this particular area is
home to the country's largest Somali population, and Deputy Secretary
of HHS Jim O'Neil, announce the funding freeze on social
media this week. This comes weeks after ICE launched operations
in the Minneapolis Saint Paul area to target undocumented Somali immigrants.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I think, I think I know what I'm going to
have tonight because I heard the largest Tamali population. When
you said that, and I'm like, I'm like, wow, that
sounds great. The largest population. Why we have a problem
with that? Oh my lordy, alrighty, this is a sad story.
And boy man, this mountain continues to take lives. Mount
(08:53):
Baldy beautiful, beautiful area and you know the foothills just
right off foot Hills and just gorgeous, but harsh weather there.
A hiker fell near devil's backbone, anything with devil or
death or any of those things.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Bones, just I'm out, don't try to mount it, no climate.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Don't so Two other unidentified people were also found dead
on the mountain. It's one of the nation's deadliest peaks.
I mean you're talking experienced hikers have been lost there
and some have died. The three men were found dead
there on Mountain Baldy on Monday. Winter storm up there
(09:38):
blanketed the peak because if you remember, the snow level
I think was above seven thousand on this last storm.
And you know that's a pretty high peak there. But
beautiful area, lovely to hike. I just hiked lower, like
a hike lower as you're going up to the mountain.
(10:00):
But it's a gorgeous area. They got a great little
eatery up there. The lodge is great fun area to
hike around. And the little creeks down below. See some
of the are they rams or mountain goats up there,
but they have them the Yeah they've got the curly
(10:21):
little horns. But beautiful up there. But be careful. I
every time I read those stories, I just think, man,
that's what a horrible way to go.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Hikers are like bicyclists to me.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
They're just so dedicated and so intense about their desire
to get up in the mountains and walk. I just
it's not for me. So Rosebery is tomorrow. We've been
talking a lot about this. It could rain. It's almost
one hundred percent likely now that it is going to
(10:54):
rain for tomorrow, and so there's going to be a
lot of people out there on Colorado Boulevard. And yeah,
they're expecting still people to be out there with barbecues,
folding chairs, and coolers ahead of the one hundred and
thirty seventh Tournament of Roses parade. That means there's going
to be some street closures and other things you need
to know about. So the parade route begins at Orange
(11:16):
Grove Boulevard and then we'll turn east onto Colorado before
ending at Sierra Madre Boulevard. Street closures are going to
begin tonight at ten o'clock and roadways will not reopen
until two o'clock on New Year's Day, so they're going
to be blocking traffic along that whole way. Just avoid
the area. If you're not planning to go to the
Rose Parade, just avoid it. There's also apparently a five
(11:39):
k race at midnight. I didn't know they did that.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Do five k?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah that sounds horrible.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, where do.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So wait to say? You said barbecues. People are allowed
to bring their head botchies. I thought that's a no no,
it's well the La Times says this, people do it. Yeah,
so they may not be allowed to, but maybe they
do it anyway. I love the strange hypocrisy in this
town where it's like, uh, no camping on the sidewalks,
but here's the tips and it's like, well, wait a second,
(12:12):
what if I just tell them I'm homeless? Yeah, because
it's you know, they're cooking and peeing and wiring up.
You see homeless folks taking the plates, the safety plates
off of lamp poles and using the wiring to hot
wire electrical gear. You see them taking off parts of
(12:37):
the fire hydrants and piping in their own water from
and it's like, but so help me, God, you bring
an umbrella, you're or you set up a tent and
you're not filthy or steeped in your own filth, You're out.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You're out.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So you've got to prove.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I was doing a deep dive on some rose great
history and I read that now marshmallows are no longer
like allowed, because apparently several years ago it became like
it was a tradition when people were barbecuing and grilling
out the night before, they were making s'mores and stuff,
and they would start like throwing marshmallows like like confetti
during the parade. And now people are no longer allowed
(13:20):
to throw marshmallows.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
So everybody ruins it way to ruin it. It's the
eighty twenty rule. Ten percent of the population ruins it
for the eighty percent. Always did they say, I know
you talked to someone this morning levens yes. And do
they say what expectations they have for diminished crowds? Do
(13:44):
they think that, like, oh, when it rains, we expect
ten percent less.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I don't think they are.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I think that they're fully expecting people because people plan
for this for months, maybe a year, almost the whole year,
because they've got people coming in from all over the country.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So I mean, they might.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
See slightly less of a crowd, but I think they're
still expecting quite a few people to be out there,
parents wanting to watch their kids, because all the marching
bands will be there from all over the country, the
equestrian units, all the floats, you know, the thousands of
people that work on the floats.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I think they're all expected to be there.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
So that's why they're still sending out all the preparation
information for people they're expecting it to be. I mean,
there might be a few less locals that will go,
but there's still going to be quite a few people
from out of town that'll be there.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Fun story, I was broadcasting out there during the Tim and'
neil show days here on KFI. Out there in the evening.
We were in a secured ish area with fencing, and
I got rushed by somebody, I think a gang member
if I remember what, Yeah, well, I was live, I
was live on the air and I kind of walked
(14:48):
away from everybody and I think they're trying to rob.
You can't remember how it went down, but I remember security.
It took security a little bit to get to me,
and I think I dropped them Mike and had to
tackle the guy. If I remember correctly, I had to
drop on the guy and security was like, I think
I was on the air and I'm like, hey, there's
(15:09):
some guy running at me. For I'm gonna have to
ask Michelle c because I bet you she was there.
But I I have a vague memory of being rushed
on the air.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You just hear Neil yelling I just want to watch
the Rose.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
No it's on. If somebody's rushing at me, I'm like, okay,
there's this isn't my choice, but it's gonna happen not me.
I was a pretty scrappy back then. I had I
had would often tell people they'll help people in the air. Well,
you know when I get off and you know where
I work, so.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, you just try to fight people. You're like, let's go.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah. I would a different person. I would be like nope,
thanks no, the same person every day. I'd be like nope,
thank you. No. I am stupid and fat and bald
and ugly. Thank you, I'm out.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
But Beck, in the back of the day, you were like,
it's on like donkeys.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh, I have jumped during broadcast. The security used to
laugh about you know. They they come in after I
get there because I'm like, let's do this, not me.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I am running away in slow motion like Baymax. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
All right, the Warner Brothers Discovery deal, it looks like
they are kind of in the stance to reject the
amended takeover offered by Paramount sky Dance last week, as
David Ellison keeps up his pursuit there and seeking those assets.
We'll see what happens. But Bloomberg News reported just yesterday
(16:42):
that the board there at WBD was expected to reject
the amended offer.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
So they're really trying.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, it's it's an interesting battle, and Heather and I
talked about it yesterday. But man, there's a lot of
st and there's a lot of unknown and fear behind
what could be should Netflix get a hold of that
deal or anybody, I guess, but we shall see, all right.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
A lawsuits in says that the La City ignored fire
safety as it allowed for other developments. So this is
a really complex issue, and we'll try to break it
down as much as we can here. But a new
lawsuit says the City of La repeatedly ignored state wildfire
(17:37):
safety regulations as it permitted new development in areas with
severe fire hazards. So this lawsuit was brought about by
the State Alliance for Fire Safe Road Regulations and the
Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations. These are two advocacy
groups for building regulations and.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Things like that.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
So they provided seventy five examples of building permits and
other plans approved by the city that alleges violate excuse
me that alleged that these requirements were violated, and they
violated the minimum firesafe regulation. So basically, they're saying that
(18:21):
the city is ignoring these rules that are in place
and allowing homes and buildings to be built in dangerous
areas that are high highly prone to fire development. What
I did, very inarticulately, was trying to explain that stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I got it. I got it. I sifted through all that.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
My coffee is still processing through my body this morning.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
One time things happen, stuff city, stuff come out there
city and bad, bad things back to you people mad
back to you and studio.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I think people got the gist of that.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
There's a lawsuit against the La City of La.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Nice summation people, mad lawsuit happening back to you and
studio the end. All right, So Disney, we heard Disney
going back and forth about integrating Hulu into Disney Plus.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Why do I get the lawsuit? Store? You get Disney
and Hulu? Come on, Matt, Matt Toppler, wtf.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Matt hates you. Here's a legal briefing. Please.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Uh the summer sixteen.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Paid story, Let's see, it was the best of times.
It was the worst of times. So this is gonna
be a lot better sit down. So yeah, So Walt
Disney Company on track to integrate that streaming platform, Hulu
with Disney Plus. They're looking to do this in twenty
twenty six, but there's no real date. They kind of
have been shying away from any specifics here on what's
(19:51):
going to go down. I think we're going to have,
if not in twenty twenty six, maybe the year to
follows going to be an explosion here somewhere about streaming.
It's just we're now paying more than we did for cable,
which was a paid and many of them now have
commercials in addition to page Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Like we're you know, everybody cut the cord from cable
years ago to save money because it was like five
ninety nine for such and such streaming service. Or I
signed up for Disney plus years ago when they first
launched it, and I got in at two ninety nine
a year and I signed for three years.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
That is a steal. You cannot find that with any
of the streaming services.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I think we were in very beginning. Yeah, and now
what is it like? Is it twenty bucks for no
it's got maybe twenty or hovering around twenty maybe.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Let's see Disney, ok I have so many subscriptions everyone,
so so many? All right, So Disney Basic with ads
is twelve dollars a month with ads with ads, Disney
Premium no Disney Plus Premium with no ads eighteen.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Ninety nine a month.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That's what we're paying. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
So and then if you get Disney with Hulu with
no ads, twenty bucks a month.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Okay, So that's it because we we got we had
had Hulu and we cambine them and all of that.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, but it just just gonna keep going up.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, it's getting to the point where it's gonna be
ridiculous and you're gonna have to pick one. I mean,
Disney's gonna be a big one for us. But we're
gonna start doing that thing that if there's a show
on there that you like, then you're just gonna not
watch it, yeah, or just watch it for that show
when the season ends, canceled those.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Well, do you think that we might see a swing
back to cable? Do you think people are gonna get
so fed up with all of the minuscule like bumps
and increases and how much we're paying that eventually it's
gonna come full circle and people are gonna go, you
know what, I'm just gonna pay my one hundred bucks
seventy five bucks for two hundred channels of cable.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
It may be, oh, because cable doesn't really own the
stations anymore. I mean, as far as they're they're not
the content. They don't have the content anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It's these Cable does like.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
But the individual companies are saying, we're are streaming, so
they're not they're going.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
To pull like TLC.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, they'll just say, hey, we won't put them on
anywhere else, I think we are going to get fed
up because we already are and I'm already looking at
getting rid of subscriptions.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yes we are too, because and.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I find stuff like I'll go, what am I paying
twenty five bucks a month on it? And I'll look
and it's like, you know, designs like apps and stuff
that I use to design stuff, And I'm like, but
I use that maybe twice a year. So I'm looking
at those things, and I think when it comes to entertainment,
(22:41):
it's just gotten to the point where you can't have
twenty big name twenty dollars items a month for TV.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Well, I think maybe they're thinking, with all this consolidation,
then you've only you only have like two or three
like because if you have Disney and you have ESPN,
who on there live TV? And then you know who
has live TV with it?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
If you have all of.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
That in the one app, So maybe they're thinking, oh, well,
people will just need our app.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That's exactly what they're trying to do. That's what is
always going to happen. However, to your first question, I
think somebody won't be cable as we know it. Things
never come back pure ever, they always go through cycle
fashions the same way. If it comes back new, it's
going to be with something old. So years ago, you'd
get new cuts with eighties colors, or you'll get seventies
(23:36):
cuts with a different You know, they come back. They
never come back pure again, but there might be a
new type of cable where they're going, hey, we're going
to compete, and this is what it is. Yeah, you know,
Netflix wasn't on the horizon at all. That reminds me.
I got to return a couple of DVDs. Oh dear,
I'll get them in the mayor.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Remember that it was they used to give those away.
They go here, take them.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah, and you're like, that's not a problem, all right.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
So we mentioned a couple of times umbrellas are not
permitted along the Rose Parade Route.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Marshmallows or covers that hellos. Yep.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
So if you're planning to head out to the Rose
Parried Route, the city officials say, do not bring yo umbrella.
Grab a poncho a rain jacket. They don't want you
blocking the view for all of the millions of people
they're expecting.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Ponchos. I gotta tell you. Go on Amazon. You could
buy them in bulk best thing ever if you have.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
A kid who needs I'm like, who would need bulk ponchos.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I'm telling you. It was my son's birthday in November
and it rained on his birthday, and we're going back
and forth. We looked into having it indoors a couple places,
but he likes to do like outdoorsy things, and last
year we did a he wanted to have a melee
that was his wish, like a forty person melee, so.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Like shaving cream and like silly string and.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Water fight swords and shields. Oh swords and that is
their foam but they're you know, swords and shields. And
the parents loved it. Everybody got into it was a
lot of fun. Well, he wanted to do it again
this year, but it rained, so we got ponchos so
it was swords, shields, big I brought out big strobe
lights and did it in the front yard in the rain. Fabulous.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
That sounds so fun and perfect for like nine ten
year old.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Oh man, they were everybody, it's so And then it
started raining at Disneyland the other day and somebody's like
our family members were out and there like, oh my gosh,
it's going to be raining. We're like, don't worry, bulk
Podchos to the rest of Pancho. Yeah. So I'm just
saying we need to have.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
A kfi melee.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Just have everybody I'm in, Just have everybody meet down
on the plaza and let's just get our swords in
and our shields.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Are just so many melee weapons I've been wanting to
bring out.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Have everybody let out their aggression, Like could you imagine
Cobalt like ah with his sword.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
This is gonna be an interesting year leading into twenty
twenty six. Times square ball will drop twice this year.
That's two times more than Codo.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I knew that was good. I knew there were gonna
do something.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So this is gonna be interesting because it will drop
for the New Year today and then in January or
July rather, it's going to for America's two hundred and
fiftieth birthday. It's gonna and I love this a non
partisan commemoration. Listen, it's all of our flag, man. We
own it. That flag, that red, white and blue, that's
(26:43):
a pow flag, that is a gay rights flag, a
pride flag, that is the American flag. That covers blacks, whites, yellow, red, purple.
That's everybody's flag. Can't stand when people give it to
one particular party and think it's there. No, it's all
(27:05):
of our flag and it has to represent all those things, pride, everything,
because we're all Americans. Salute.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
But they are going to be doing that. On the
fourth of July. The ball is going to drop in red,
white and blue.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
What is that word there? Can you try saying that
word America?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Two fifty we'll kick off the Wait where are you
in the middle under the consolation ball semi Quins Centennial.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, you nailed it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Woh yeah, I had to say it real slow though.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, but you nailed it. That's I remember. Seventy six
was a big deal. Seventy six was huge. I think
we went I think we went to uh, Magic Mountain.
We went to Magic Mountain, and that's when I first
got into magic. I think because Blackstone Junior did a
magic show.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
There.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Huh, there you go. Think you just learned a little
something about me. Someone likes that. Speaking of that, if
you'd like to ask any of us a question for Friday,
you can go. If you're listening to us on Theheart
radio app. You'll see a red button with the icon
of a Mikey at thirty seconds to ask a question
(28:19):
of Kono or Will or Matthew or Heather or me
and we'll answer them. On Friday, it'll be a good time.
Head by all.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
It will be a good time, all right, you know
it's not having a good time. Was the lapd a
while back. Apparently some copper wire thieves stole copper wire.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
That's what copper wire thieves do.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
That it is what they do and end of story.
Back to you, No they still.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
We're giving you the simple ones now, thank you. Copper
wire thieves steal copper back to you, bye bye.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
All right.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
The copper wire thieves, the why are that they stole
had an impact on the communications tower in Alesion Park
and it left several departments with inoperable radios. So the
police were unable to call for assistance through their radios
because these copper wire thieves had taken the copper wire
(29:20):
from that in fact, then pacted the tower.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
See at this point that just becalled it becomes domestic
terrorism when you start taking down communication systems or things
like that. It's I have very little sympathy for this,
and you have to nail the people that are processing
this stuff, that are taking it in, melting it down.
And because these are recycling centers, what they are.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Someone is now, where are they taking their take?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I mean, do they take to the same metal place the.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Place people go with the cans?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I don't know if it would be some it will
do certain medals in some won't. So it's maybe not
your neighborhood one. But and I'm not saying that recycling
places are shady, but if you've ever gone to recycle anything.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, I mean we've actually caught people digging in our
personal trash cans before. My husband's had to go out
there and be like, hey, can you not dig in
our I mean, and we don't. We just live in
on like an average street. But there's people that push
their shopping carts. I've seen them.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah, that's a normal thing in my bood.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
No, what we do is we put all the recyclables
that are not cardboard and things like that, the cans
and stuff. We put them separately in a bag and
I put them on the top.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
So you just make it easy for them to dig
through your trash.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Because to me, that's somebody. There's somebody working. No, to me,
I'd rather have that than you know, some homeless person
strung out on the corner. If this is somebody who's
going around and collecting that, I make it as easy
as possible for them so they don't have to dig
through it. This is not a joke. My wife and
I do that. We separate it. We put all the
cardboard on the bottom, and then I put all the
(31:00):
recyclables on top for anybody that wants to come by
and grab them. They don't have to dig through everything,
because to me, those people look like they're I don't know,
busting their hump trying. Yeah I do, but it's in
a bag on top. It's separated already for them to
take and grab if they wanted, without having to go
(31:21):
through the trash. I don't know. I see it as
a form of work. It's not like I see strung
out guys grabbing one or two, you know, now if
they go up. We have a long driveway, not a
fancy home by any stretch, but no, it's a it's
it's just old school LA where they had these long
driving You have a long driveway and if somebody goes
(31:43):
up to the house, I'm like, no, Yeah, when you
start triggering security, I'm like, nah, you gotta you gotta book.
Uh So, screw them thieves. All right, it's Neil Savadra
in the Morning Crew. Happy New Year's Eve to you.
You'll have us all week as handles out. All right,
(32:04):
go nowhere. This is KFI heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
You've been listening to the Bill Handles Show.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Catch my Show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
here's not Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Wow. Would you look at us KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning. It is Wednesday,
the thirty first of December, which means dantada de la.
It is New Year's eBay Happy, let's make some pots
(00:41):
and pans, oly snockers. It is uh the end of
twenty twenty five, and you believe it. I cannot, which
is why I asked. So this is Neil Svader in
the morning crew with you handles out this week. He'll
be back next week and I'll be off. Oh my gosh,
(01:01):
it's like, uh, it's like three card monte with me
and Bill. You know, hey, diddle diddle, got the chick
in the middle to keep your eye on the whatever.
I haven't done it in a long time. Got me
through college, all right. Didn't go to college, so it
was mostly just taking people's money. But happy to be here.
(01:22):
We have Cono, Stephen Cono is government name. I got
me yesterday. We got will in the toilet this morning,
which is great in the camp we're all going to
come in there and do the show from the toilet. Hello, welcome,
all right, Uh, Matthew is in for Anne and of
(01:49):
course the lovely, effervescent Heather Brooker.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh my gosh, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yes you are. You're lovely in every way. You were
filled with energy and positivity. Except she's a mean drunk.
I probably shouldn't say this on the air.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Just start swinging by the end of handle, just be.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Like, get out a filthy and like a sailor. I
love saying that about people who are kind to people.
They're so nice. Then you lean over and you go, yeah,
is drunk.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
There's some accuracy.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
If I get a little tequila, I start swearing I
dated this girl. Well everyone does. That's what tequila does.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
It's a truth teller.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
If it didn't happen, I'd be worried about you. I
dated this love she was just lovely, this lovely woman.
One time and she'd get a couple pops in her
and yeah, she she was angry.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
It makes me very like honest with like way too
honest with people, but not like in the in a
good way, like it's it's not good.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Tequila is not my friend.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah. It it tends to make men fight and women
take off their clothes, all right, which is probably why
the guys are fighting. Yeah, but first, yeah, yeah, there's not.
One of the best compliments I ever received was from
the genius himself, mister Phil Hendry. We were in Vegas
(03:07):
and we were thrown back tequila and he's like, you
are one of the only guys I will drink tequila
with because I'm actually more fun. But I'm not like
a jerk, and guys can be jerks with tequila. Yeah,
So I thought that was nice. And he's a Don
Julio guy, if I remember correctly.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
People think that news people are just serious all the time,
and it catches them off guard whenever they see a
newsperson out in the wild, like just being normal. And some,
to be fair, some news people are very stuffy and
can't let loose.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm gonna tell you something, lay on, man, I've been
to those award shows for news reading. Newspeople are not
that way. Some of the old school guys maybe that
were bow ties, but newspeople can party.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
They've got to let it out. I have not been
to one of those in a very, very long I.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Can drink, and they can party and let loose like
nobody's business. So that's true.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I do know news people can can let her rip
because I mean, you know, you have to have an outlet.
You're literally sometimes telling horrible stories all day long. And
just like the bearer of bad news. One time, Handle
called me ey Or. He's like, here's e Or with
the news, and I was like, oh my god, that's
not you. I was like, oh my god. And he's like,
he goes, you bomb everybody out with your news, and
(04:30):
I was like, oh, all right, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I can make the news.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's like you're not out, you know, robbing and stealing
and cutting fatton, which is what I do for New
Year's as a matter of fact. Actually if I go
out and do strong arm rubbery.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Well, I've been asking everybody today. Our wake up call
question was what's the one thing you have to do
on New Year's And what's your thing?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
What does you do?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You have a certain food or drink? You know, normally
we're I'm with the family and Big Bear. Normally we
bring in the New Year and Big Bear and and
uh sometimes there's snow. Sometimes there's not, and then we
get pots and pans because my son, he's just he's
nine now, but you know, going out and making noise
at midnight, and he thinks it's a real treat because
(05:13):
he doesn't get to stay up till midnight, so you.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Do it earlier.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No, but I'm saying that he doesn't get to stay
up to midnight normally, so it's kind of a treat
for him. And you know, watch the movies and then
we count in and then I sweeched my wife and
and we bang some. Yeah, we have snack night, just
like buried snacks.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Are you going to do a version of that at
home tonight?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I don't know. I'm maybe I should broadcast from home
tomorrow because I'm like, uh, I know, I like coming
in thanks. It's it's always more fun when we're all together.
But uh yeah, I don't know how I'm gonna work yet.
I'm already tired thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I know it is a grind, but we do it
for the people. We do it for the KF.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's you know, I like being here, and I like
being here on the holidays because I know we have
you know, these great listeners that are very dedicated and
listen to the station and I don't want to be
live and connect with them.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, we love it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, so it's all good. Let's let's start some of that,
shall we? With the handle on the news lead story.
All right, it's a gab news. He's mobilizing, well, checking
his hair and then he's mobilizing that look good. Okay,
(06:32):
my voice sounds too smooth. Give me those rocks. Let
me gargle with him. Then I gargle with him.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Arat he's getting a little bit of the RFK voice.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, Oh, they got RFK is dying in front of us.
His eyes I have a theory. His eyes are like,
you know, like U two celestial lorbs that are coming
together and when they meet, because they get closer every
time I see him. His eyes are closer together. They're
gonna meet and he's gonna implode in a ball of
fire and become one with the universe and it's just
(07:04):
going to be like his abs and he's going to
be like no more vaccine. So anyways, Newsome is preparing
because nobody prepared last January for possible problems. So Southern
California and beyond is prepared for the rain. Rains coming
(07:27):
in about ten am today, I think is when we're
going to start seeing a little bit of that throughout
the Southland. And the flood risks are what are horrible.
As much as I love the rain and the weather,
that's what we're going to be looking out for today.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Alrighty. So we've been talking about this quite a bit
this week.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
So the alleged fraud that's happening in Minnesota with the Daycares.
The US Department of Health and Human Services now says
it has frozen all childcare payments to the state of
Minnesota as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigate
the allegations of fraud, including in some childcare centers.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And that is there.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I should say that this area, this particular area is
home to the country's largest Somali population, and Deputy Secretary
of HHS Jim O'Neil, announce the funding freeze on social
media this week. This comes weeks after ICE launched operations
in the Minneapolis Saint Paul area to target undocumented Somali immigrants.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I think, I think I know what I'm going to
have tonight because I heard the largest Tamali population. When
you said that, and I'm like, I'm like, wow, that
sounds great. The largest population. Why we have a problem
with that? Oh my lordy, alrighty, this is a sad story.
And boy man, this mountain continues to take lives. Mount
(08:53):
Baldy beautiful, beautiful area and you know the foothills just
right off foot Hills and just gorgeous, but harsh weather there.
A hiker fell near devil's backbone, anything with devil or
death or any of those things.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Bones, just I'm out, don't try to mount it, no climate.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Don't so Two other unidentified people were also found dead
on the mountain. It's one of the nation's deadliest peaks.
I mean you're talking experienced hikers have been lost there
and some have died. The three men were found dead
there on Mountain Baldy on Monday. Winter storm up there
(09:38):
blanketed the peak because if you remember, the snow level
I think was above seven thousand on this last storm.
And you know that's a pretty high peak there. But
beautiful area, lovely to hike. I just hiked lower, like
a hike lower as you're going up to the mountain.
(10:00):
But it's a gorgeous area. They got a great little
eatery up there. The lodge is great fun area to
hike around. And the little creeks down below. See some
of the are they rams or mountain goats up there,
but they have them the Yeah they've got the curly
(10:21):
little horns. But beautiful up there. But be careful. I
every time I read those stories, I just think, man,
that's what a horrible way to go.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Hikers are like bicyclists to me.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
They're just so dedicated and so intense about their desire
to get up in the mountains and walk. I just
it's not for me. So Rosebery is tomorrow. We've been
talking a lot about this. It could rain. It's almost
one hundred percent likely now that it is going to
(10:54):
rain for tomorrow, and so there's going to be a
lot of people out there on Colorado Boulevard. And yeah,
they're expecting still people to be out there with barbecues,
folding chairs, and coolers ahead of the one hundred and
thirty seventh Tournament of Roses parade. That means there's going
to be some street closures and other things you need
to know about. So the parade route begins at Orange
(11:16):
Grove Boulevard and then we'll turn east onto Colorado before
ending at Sierra Madre Boulevard. Street closures are going to
begin tonight at ten o'clock and roadways will not reopen
until two o'clock on New Year's Day, so they're going
to be blocking traffic along that whole way. Just avoid
the area. If you're not planning to go to the
Rose Parade, just avoid it. There's also apparently a five
(11:39):
k race at midnight. I didn't know they did that.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Do five k?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah that sounds horrible.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, where do.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So wait to say? You said barbecues. People are allowed
to bring their head botchies. I thought that's a no no,
it's well the La Times says this, people do it. Yeah,
so they may not be allowed to, but maybe they
do it anyway. I love the strange hypocrisy in this
town where it's like, uh, no camping on the sidewalks,
but here's the tips and it's like, well, wait a second,
(12:12):
what if I just tell them I'm homeless? Yeah, because
it's you know, they're cooking and peeing and wiring up.
You see homeless folks taking the plates, the safety plates
off of lamp poles and using the wiring to hot
wire electrical gear. You see them taking off parts of
(12:37):
the fire hydrants and piping in their own water from
and it's like, but so help me, God, you bring
an umbrella, you're or you set up a tent and
you're not filthy or steeped in your own filth, You're out.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You're out.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
So you've got to prove.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I was doing a deep dive on some rose great
history and I read that now marshmallows are no longer
like allowed, because apparently several years ago it became like
it was a tradition when people were barbecuing and grilling
out the night before, they were making s'mores and stuff,
and they would start like throwing marshmallows like like confetti
during the parade. And now people are no longer allowed
(13:20):
to throw marshmallows.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
So everybody ruins it way to ruin it. It's the
eighty twenty rule. Ten percent of the population ruins it
for the eighty percent. Always did they say, I know
you talked to someone this morning levens yes. And do
they say what expectations they have for diminished crowds? Do
(13:44):
they think that, like, oh, when it rains, we expect
ten percent less.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I don't think they are.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I think that they're fully expecting people because people plan
for this for months, maybe a year, almost the whole year,
because they've got people coming in from all over the country.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So I mean, they might.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
See slightly less of a crowd, but I think they're
still expecting quite a few people to be out there,
parents wanting to watch their kids, because all the marching
bands will be there from all over the country, the
equestrian units, all the floats, you know, the thousands of
people that work on the floats.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I think they're all expected to be there.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
So that's why they're still sending out all the preparation
information for people they're expecting it to be. I mean,
there might be a few less locals that will go,
but there's still going to be quite a few people
from out of town that'll be there.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Fun story, I was broadcasting out there during the Tim and'
neil show days here on KFI. Out there in the evening.
We were in a secured ish area with fencing, and
I got rushed by somebody, I think a gang member
if I remember what, Yeah, well, I was live, I
was live on the air and I kind of walked
(14:48):
away from everybody and I think they're trying to rob.
You can't remember how it went down, but I remember security.
It took security a little bit to get to me,
and I think I dropped them Mike and had to
tackle the guy. If I remember correctly, I had to
drop on the guy and security was like, I think
I was on the air and I'm like, hey, there's
(15:09):
some guy running at me. For I'm gonna have to
ask Michelle c because I bet you she was there.
But I I have a vague memory of being rushed
on the air.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You just hear Neil yelling I just want to watch
the Rose.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
No it's on. If somebody's rushing at me, I'm like, okay,
there's this isn't my choice, but it's gonna happen not me.
I was a pretty scrappy back then. I had I
had would often tell people they'll help people in the air. Well,
you know when I get off and you know where
I work, so.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, you just try to fight people. You're like, let's go.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah. I would a different person. I would be like nope,
thanks no, the same person every day. I'd be like nope,
thank you. No. I am stupid and fat and bald
and ugly. Thank you, I'm out.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
But Beck, in the back of the day, you were like,
it's on like donkeys.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh, I have jumped during broadcast. The security used to
laugh about you know. They they come in after I
get there because I'm like, let's do this, not me.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I am running away in slow motion like Baymax. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
All right, the Warner Brothers Discovery deal, it looks like
they are kind of in the stance to reject the
amended takeover offered by Paramount sky Dance last week, as
David Ellison keeps up his pursuit there and seeking those assets.
We'll see what happens. But Bloomberg News reported just yesterday
(16:42):
that the board there at WBD was expected to reject
the amended offer.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
So they're really trying.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, it's it's an interesting battle, and Heather and I
talked about it yesterday. But man, there's a lot of
st and there's a lot of unknown and fear behind
what could be should Netflix get a hold of that
deal or anybody, I guess, but we shall see, all right.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
A lawsuits in says that the La City ignored fire
safety as it allowed for other developments. So this is
a really complex issue, and we'll try to break it
down as much as we can here. But a new
lawsuit says the City of La repeatedly ignored state wildfire
(17:37):
safety regulations as it permitted new development in areas with
severe fire hazards. So this lawsuit was brought about by
the State Alliance for Fire Safe Road Regulations and the
Federation of Hillside and Canyon Associations. These are two advocacy
groups for building regulations and.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Things like that.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
So they provided seventy five examples of building permits and
other plans approved by the city that alleges violate excuse
me that alleged that these requirements were violated, and they
violated the minimum firesafe regulation. So basically, they're saying that
(18:21):
the city is ignoring these rules that are in place
and allowing homes and buildings to be built in dangerous
areas that are high highly prone to fire development. What
I did, very inarticulately, was trying to explain that stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I got it. I got it. I sifted through all that.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
My coffee is still processing through my body this morning.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
One time things happen, stuff city, stuff come out there
city and bad, bad things back to you people mad
back to you and studio.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I think people got the gist of that.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
There's a lawsuit against the La City of La.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Nice summation people, mad lawsuit happening back to you and
studio the end. All right, So Disney, we heard Disney
going back and forth about integrating Hulu into Disney Plus.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Why do I get the lawsuit? Store? You get Disney
and Hulu? Come on, Matt, Matt Toppler, wtf.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Matt hates you. Here's a legal briefing. Please.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Uh the summer sixteen.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Paid story, Let's see, it was the best of times.
It was the worst of times. So this is gonna
be a lot better sit down. So yeah, So Walt
Disney Company on track to integrate that streaming platform, Hulu
with Disney Plus. They're looking to do this in twenty
twenty six, but there's no real date. They kind of
have been shying away from any specifics here on what's
(19:51):
going to go down. I think we're going to have,
if not in twenty twenty six, maybe the year to
follows going to be an explosion here somewhere about streaming.
It's just we're now paying more than we did for cable,
which was a paid and many of them now have
commercials in addition to page Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Like we're you know, everybody cut the cord from cable
years ago to save money because it was like five
ninety nine for such and such streaming service. Or I
signed up for Disney plus years ago when they first
launched it, and I got in at two ninety nine
a year and I signed for three years.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
That is a steal. You cannot find that with any
of the streaming services.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I think we were in very beginning. Yeah, and now
what is it like? Is it twenty bucks for no
it's got maybe twenty or hovering around twenty maybe.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Let's see Disney, ok I have so many subscriptions everyone,
so so many? All right, So Disney Basic with ads
is twelve dollars a month with ads with ads, Disney
Premium no Disney Plus Premium with no ads eighteen.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Ninety nine a month.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That's what we're paying. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
So and then if you get Disney with Hulu with
no ads, twenty bucks a month.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Okay, So that's it because we we got we had
had Hulu and we cambine them and all of that.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, but it just just gonna keep going up.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, it's getting to the point where it's gonna be
ridiculous and you're gonna have to pick one. I mean,
Disney's gonna be a big one for us. But we're
gonna start doing that thing that if there's a show
on there that you like, then you're just gonna not
watch it, yeah, or just watch it for that show
when the season ends, canceled those.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Well, do you think that we might see a swing
back to cable? Do you think people are gonna get
so fed up with all of the minuscule like bumps
and increases and how much we're paying that eventually it's
gonna come full circle and people are gonna go, you
know what, I'm just gonna pay my one hundred bucks
seventy five bucks for two hundred channels of cable.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
It may be, oh, because cable doesn't really own the
stations anymore. I mean, as far as they're they're not
the content. They don't have the content anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It's these Cable does like.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
But the individual companies are saying, we're are streaming, so
they're not they're going.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
To pull like TLC.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, they'll just say, hey, we won't put them on
anywhere else, I think we are going to get fed
up because we already are and I'm already looking at
getting rid of subscriptions.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yes we are too, because and.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I find stuff like I'll go, what am I paying
twenty five bucks a month on it? And I'll look
and it's like, you know, designs like apps and stuff
that I use to design stuff, And I'm like, but
I use that maybe twice a year. So I'm looking
at those things, and I think when it comes to entertainment,
(22:41):
it's just gotten to the point where you can't have
twenty big name twenty dollars items a month for TV.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Well, I think maybe they're thinking, with all this consolidation,
then you've only you only have like two or three
like because if you have Disney and you have ESPN,
who on there live TV? And then you know who
has live TV with it?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
If you have all of.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
That in the one app, So maybe they're thinking, oh, well,
people will just need our app.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That's exactly what they're trying to do. That's what is
always going to happen. However, to your first question, I
think somebody won't be cable as we know it. Things
never come back pure ever, they always go through cycle
fashions the same way. If it comes back new, it's
going to be with something old. So years ago, you'd
get new cuts with eighties colors, or you'll get seventies
(23:36):
cuts with a different You know, they come back. They
never come back pure again, but there might be a
new type of cable where they're going, hey, we're going
to compete, and this is what it is. Yeah, you know,
Netflix wasn't on the horizon at all. That reminds me.
I got to return a couple of DVDs. Oh dear,
I'll get them in the mayor.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Remember that it was they used to give those away.
They go here, take them.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah, and you're like, that's not a problem, all right.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
So we mentioned a couple of times umbrellas are not
permitted along the Rose Parade Route.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Marshmallows or covers that hellos. Yep.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
So if you're planning to head out to the Rose
Parried Route, the city officials say, do not bring yo umbrella.
Grab a poncho a rain jacket. They don't want you
blocking the view for all of the millions of people
they're expecting.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Ponchos. I gotta tell you. Go on Amazon. You could
buy them in bulk best thing ever if you have.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
A kid who needs I'm like, who would need bulk ponchos.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I'm telling you. It was my son's birthday in November
and it rained on his birthday, and we're going back
and forth. We looked into having it indoors a couple places,
but he likes to do like outdoorsy things, and last
year we did a he wanted to have a melee
that was his wish, like a forty person melee, so.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Like shaving cream and like silly string and.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Water fight swords and shields. Oh swords and that is
their foam but they're you know, swords and shields. And
the parents loved it. Everybody got into it was a
lot of fun. Well, he wanted to do it again
this year, but it rained, so we got ponchos so
it was swords, shields, big I brought out big strobe
lights and did it in the front yard in the rain. Fabulous.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
That sounds so fun and perfect for like nine ten
year old.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Oh man, they were everybody, it's so And then it
started raining at Disneyland the other day and somebody's like
our family members were out and there like, oh my gosh,
it's going to be raining. We're like, don't worry, bulk
Podchos to the rest of Pancho. Yeah. So I'm just
saying we need to have.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
A kfi melee.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Just have everybody I'm in, Just have everybody meet down
on the plaza and let's just get our swords in
and our shields.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Are just so many melee weapons I've been wanting to
bring out.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Have everybody let out their aggression, Like could you imagine
Cobalt like ah with his sword.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
This is gonna be an interesting year leading into twenty
twenty six. Times square ball will drop twice this year.
That's two times more than Codo.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I knew that was good. I knew there were gonna
do something.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So this is gonna be interesting because it will drop
for the New Year today and then in January or
July rather, it's going to for America's two hundred and
fiftieth birthday. It's gonna and I love this a non
partisan commemoration. Listen, it's all of our flag, man. We
own it. That flag, that red, white and blue, that's
(26:43):
a pow flag, that is a gay rights flag, a
pride flag, that is the American flag. That covers blacks, whites, yellow, red, purple.
That's everybody's flag. Can't stand when people give it to
one particular party and think it's there. No, it's all
(27:05):
of our flag and it has to represent all those things, pride, everything,
because we're all Americans. Salute.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
But they are going to be doing that. On the
fourth of July. The ball is going to drop in red,
white and blue.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
What is that word there? Can you try saying that
word America?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Two fifty we'll kick off the Wait where are you
in the middle under the consolation ball semi Quins Centennial.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, you nailed it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Woh yeah, I had to say it real slow though.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah, but you nailed it. That's I remember. Seventy six
was a big deal. Seventy six was huge. I think
we went I think we went to uh, Magic Mountain.
We went to Magic Mountain, and that's when I first
got into magic. I think because Blackstone Junior did a
magic show.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
There.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Huh, there you go. Think you just learned a little
something about me. Someone likes that. Speaking of that, if
you'd like to ask any of us a question for Friday,
you can go. If you're listening to us on Theheart
radio app. You'll see a red button with the icon
of a Mikey at thirty seconds to ask a question
(28:19):
of Kono or Will or Matthew or Heather or me
and we'll answer them. On Friday, it'll be a good time.
Head by all.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
It will be a good time, all right, you know
it's not having a good time. Was the lapd a
while back. Apparently some copper wire thieves stole copper wire.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
That's what copper wire thieves do.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
That it is what they do and end of story.
Back to you, No they still.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
We're giving you the simple ones now, thank you. Copper
wire thieves steal copper back to you, bye bye.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
All right.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
The copper wire thieves, the why are that they stole
had an impact on the communications tower in Alesion Park
and it left several departments with inoperable radios. So the
police were unable to call for assistance through their radios
because these copper wire thieves had taken the copper wire
(29:20):
from that in fact, then pacted the tower.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
See at this point that just becalled it becomes domestic
terrorism when you start taking down communication systems or things
like that. It's I have very little sympathy for this,
and you have to nail the people that are processing
this stuff, that are taking it in, melting it down.
And because these are recycling centers, what they are.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Someone is now, where are they taking their take?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I mean, do they take to the same metal place the.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Place people go with the cans?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I don't know if it would be some it will
do certain medals in some won't. So it's maybe not
your neighborhood one. But and I'm not saying that recycling
places are shady, but if you've ever gone to recycle anything.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, I mean we've actually caught people digging in our
personal trash cans before. My husband's had to go out
there and be like, hey, can you not dig in
our I mean, and we don't. We just live in
on like an average street. But there's people that push
their shopping carts. I've seen them.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah, that's a normal thing in my bood.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
No, what we do is we put all the recyclables
that are not cardboard and things like that, the cans
and stuff. We put them separately in a bag and
I put them on the top.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
So you just make it easy for them to dig
through your trash.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Because to me, that's somebody. There's somebody working. No, to me,
I'd rather have that than you know, some homeless person
strung out on the corner. If this is somebody who's
going around and collecting that, I make it as easy
as possible for them so they don't have to dig
through it. This is not a joke. My wife and
I do that. We separate it. We put all the
cardboard on the bottom, and then I put all the
(31:00):
recyclables on top for anybody that wants to come by
and grab them. They don't have to dig through everything,
because to me, those people look like they're I don't know,
busting their hump trying. Yeah I do, but it's in
a bag on top. It's separated already for them to
take and grab if they wanted, without having to go
(31:21):
through the trash. I don't know. I see it as
a form of work. It's not like I see strung
out guys grabbing one or two, you know, now if
they go up. We have a long driveway, not a
fancy home by any stretch, but no, it's a it's
it's just old school LA where they had these long
driving You have a long driveway and if somebody goes
(31:43):
up to the house, I'm like, no, Yeah, when you
start triggering security, I'm like, nah, you gotta you gotta book.
Uh So, screw them thieves. All right, it's Neil Savadra
in the Morning Crew. Happy New Year's Eve to you.
You'll have us all week as handles out. All right,
(32:04):
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