January 1, 2026 • 37 mins
(January 01, 2026)
Heather Brooker joins Neil Saavedra for Handel on the News while Bill is out. Los Angeles rain: New Year storm brings risk of major flooding. Around 40 killed, 100 injured in explosion in Swiss ski resort bar, police say. President Trump says he will be removing the National Guard from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland. LAFD leaders tried to cover up Palisades fire mistakes.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm not bill handled, and you're not bill handled. And
you're not bill handling, and you're not bill handled. Hey,
we're all not bill handled. And thank the baby Jesus
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(00:45):
The firstess is of January. We are now in twenty
twenty six. And if for some ungodly reason you write checks,
it's twenty twenty six. Okay, gonna make that five into
a six.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Easy.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Remember when we had to worry about such things? Oh
so far in the past. Neil Savada in the Morning
Crew with you on this fine New Year's morn.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
How's everybody doing. I just heard Heather.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Was listening to her this morning on wake up call.
You got some sleep, You did it right?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I tried to go to bed around eight. I was
worried that their mighty fireworks and you know, stuff like that.
But I think the rain kind of held a lot
of the fireworks in your.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Neighborhood, in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Maybe in your neighborhood, yeah, in your neighborhood, yes, And
there was I could hear them while I lied it
laid lied down in bed. Yeah, it was horrendous. I
brought some audio. Maybe we'll play it later. But it
was beay route. It always is. We're not usually there,
(01:58):
but security care and everything else go off and the
audio is always and they don't go off just by
the audio, they go off by the light in the
sky from the booms.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
There were a couple that I'm confident we're gunfire And
it was an interesting evening.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But what can you do?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I mean, it is La after all, you know, we
like to party no matter.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
What, indeed we do, and nobody, nobody wants to follow
the laws, and there's no reason to follow the laws
because there is no enforcement of laws.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I wonder if people were like, it's raining, there's not
going to be any fires because of my fireworks.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Always intense in our area.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And I looked at my wife at some point and said,
you think it's going to be a little less.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Tonight because it's raining. And it started.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Later than normal, like normally before the sun goes down,
you're hearing him. But so it stated. It started a
little later, but holy hell, I mean comical.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It was really that bad.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Comical. Yeah, it was absolutely comical. And some of them
will light up the front yard and then some are
just big booms. And then there was some like I said,
the cadence and the the you know, the clip and
(03:33):
the sound of it. I'm like, that's gunfire. That's gunfire,
Like that's an aka, that's gunfire.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Maybe people were like, you know what, it's the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America. Let's recreate those almost
rolling along.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, they're stuffing cotton in the cannon's.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I mean literally the.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Boom that some of these makes do sound like cannon fodder.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It is just.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's just boom. And yeah, it was an interesting evening,
but I did it. Was a good Dad stayed up
till about twelve thirty. My son kept looking at me
like are you gonna make it? But he was very
excited and he put out the spread and it was
(04:35):
quite sweet. Oh, it was so funny because my wife
has been dealing with some planter fasci itis or.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Something, and it's so painful. Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, she's she does not make a peep about anything,
the strongest person I know.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And she's like wow.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So he put together the spread and it was just beautiful.
It looked like a nine year old boy put together
what he thought we should be eating.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Was it like cheetos?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I went, yes, some peanut m and m's Yes, one
Hawaiian roll. It was just it was very sweet. But
we had had for dinner.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
We had had typhood and it was very very nice.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
But I did stay up and then got up and
I'm here and everybody's here, and we got Heather Brooker
in for Amy King, Kono's here. I never know what
Kno does at night anyways, or if he gets sleep.
Do you ever sleep rarely?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I get a solid three hours a night for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Jeez, it's not bad.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Three hours. Yeah, yeah, I did about four last night.
And I can do that once, maybe twice. If I
do that a third day, nobody will want to talk
to me because I will.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Be a bear.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Maybe, like one time you can do it, but then
it wipes me out, like I can't. I wanted to
have a glass of wine at dinner last night, and
I was like it'll no, you'll go'll wreck my world
because I know I have to be here in the morning,
so I don't know how you do it. Conna, three
hours would kill me.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, well last night I got four.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So he's freaking bouncing off the walls. It was yeah,
it was one of the I used to do it
all the time. I was known for it here, like
when we did events and stuff like that. When I
oversaw marketing and promotions and stuff. I'm like three, uh
three in the morning, four in the morning. Staying here
not a problem. You just get things done. You do
(06:33):
what you have to do. And now I'm like, I've
you know, I gave you over half my life has
been in this place. Like I'm gonna nap now. Good
for you. It's time to have a night.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You've earned it.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, or so they say.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
We also have Trey Alexander here. He's in for Will.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I heard that. Good morning, Trey, Good morning. How are you?
I am great? Thank you excellent? You get some sleep
I did. I worked a bed around nine o'clock, so
I got a followers. Good. Yeah, wow, we are going
to start a show here.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
We got Matthew who is mute, but hello guy, it
just is here to work.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Matt, are you there?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I like being mute now better, but I'm here. I'm here.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
He just he's got he's got a job to do.
Matt's the best. Matt the blur we call him because
you can't see him.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
He's moving, he's running around, he's printing stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, getting things done for the shoe. Oh, that's what
we do.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
All right. Well, let's get started.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Although I'm going I'm in a super playful mood, so
there's no rules today.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
We can do whatever we want.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Don't don't touch that rules, okay, and let's get some
thirty seconds of news party poop. I would have thought
the smallest one is going to be the adult, all right,
So uh, let's do handle on the news lead stars.
Oh gosh, if you have windows or any hole in
(08:10):
the side of your house that you can look out,
you're gonna see some wet stuff coming from the sky.
It's called rain, and it's beautiful. It's all over the
place right now. You know, the stuff that scares me
the most is not those big dumps that it does
every now and again and then it goes.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
It's this consistent. Yesterday was consistent.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And that's what we're looking at, this big southern California storm,
heavy rain, potential thunderstorms, high risks of flooding, and of
course we'll probably mention more than once today about the
big parade and the issues that will you know, come
with that today. In response, Governor gave Newsoen he directed.
(08:53):
Newsom said that the California covers Office of Emergency Services
to pre position, rescue personnel and high risk areas, and
he's encouraged Californians.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
To wear more hair product. The winds and everything get outrageous,
mess with your qualth.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We don't want that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
No, we want to look good, yeah, handsome. All right,
Let's bust one more? Shall we more?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Bust one more? In a course, all right, This is
a really devastating story over in Switzerland. Forty people were
killed and one hundred hurt after an explosion at a
upscale ski resort in the area of Crans, Montana.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
How does that happen?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well, they're still looking into it. They say it was
not They do not believe it was related to any
sort of terrorism or anything like that. The investigation is
ongoing there, but they say it was an explosion that
started a fire, and it was people partying for New Years,
you know, people getting together at the ski resort for
New Year's so very so story over there.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, horrible. You've got the Rose Parade. I told you
it's going to be coming up throughout the show. Obviously,
there is a lot of rain in the area and
will be. It looks like it's stopped. It's going to
stop between ten and noon. Ten am and noon. It
seems like it's going to slow down, but not for
that long because we have more rain coming this week.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Isn't that true?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Heather, Yeah, there's it's good. The rain overall is supposed
to last through Saturday, with little intermittent breaks in the rain,
but the full storm was supposed to last through Saturday.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, so we're going to have off and on rain
and this kind of consistent rain it gets it, you know,
that's what ends up making you know, mud slides and
things like that, so kind of crazy. Also going to
be very soggy for the twenty twenty six Rose Parade,
starting at I believe eight am this morning, that's right,
(10:57):
is the kickoff. So a chance of light Do they
put lightning rods on those things?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I mean, I think so now it's.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Gonna be interesting. If we know there's like some I
don't know the some wild, well we'll be Yeah. The
he man float with the sword in the air and
maybe not a good idea, but we'll see.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I've been watching on KTLA and it doesn't look too
bad out there. I see a bunch of people in
ponchos kind of running around. But there's definitely still there's
people there. There's a lot of activity, so it's happening.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's not so much that there's people there. I was
surprised by they look happy. Yeah, to be there is
what Well, I love it too. I think it's great.
I'm thrilled that we get such a gem here locally.
But holy hell, love a parade. It's four in the
morning and it's raining, and I'm happy to be here.
(11:52):
And this is my shirt from two thousand and six,
and I'm like, good for you.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Get out there, enjoy that rainy day parade. And it's history.
We're making history of the Rose Paraye there.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, fifty years, it's been since the last reign.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
All right. So in Chicago, President Trump says he's removing
National Guard troops. He's already done that here in Los Angeles.
He's also doing it in Chicago and Portland. He made
the post on truth socials, saying his decision is due
to crime being reduced in those cities, but he says
that troops could return if crime begins. To Oregon. He says,
(12:28):
if it weren't for the federal government stepping in, you know,
there would still be major problems there.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Did you expect anything else?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
No, he's going to take credit for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I'd just like to apologize for the last year. And
I've been rough. I've said some things that were hurtful.
Y'all look at each other, going, what is going on?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Who is this?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I've been downright mean, and I feel bad about it.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Well, you know, you said the year has gone by fast.
A lot of it is because of the never ending
news cycle. Baby feels fast for us here, because it
seems like every day there's something huge news story, just
never ending.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, and I think that's feeding the machine a lot
of times. Listen, there's always been big news. You know,
you mind your local business, you mind your local you know, home,
and you take care of stuff. And the fact is,
we get a lot of news that really doesn't pertain
much to us. I'm a big local fan of local news.
(13:34):
What's going on here? Fix our damn roads.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
LAFD.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
The leadership is still under the microscope, along of course
with Mayor Bass. For the fires specific Palisades has been
when it started, had been burning for like less than
two hours or something, when people were already starting to
pick apart how it was being dealt with. So, you know,
(14:03):
la FD was not the you know, boots on the grounds,
the men and women that are out there fighting the fires,
but higher up as to some of the decisions that
were made. And so as we look at the first
anniversary again the Los Angeles Wildfires one year later is
a special to our special that we'll be doing hosted
by Michael Monks coming up on January seventh at seven pm,
(14:25):
and he'll no doubt dive into this. But first anniversary
a week away, people are still questioning those missteps in
the firefight choices and still a year later unanswered by
the LAFD and.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Mayor Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And she's up for she's running again one in June
or something or.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah, she announced a few weeks ago that she will
be running again, you.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Know, and I don't I'm not saying she's a bad
person or anything. I don't think she's an effective mayor
and she has not done and so and I know, La,
we're just dumb enough to just go, well, what we.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Have's just kind of.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You know, and potholes, do the basics, get the easy ones, right,
you know, fill the potholes, have a good police department,
those types of things.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
All right, History was made in New York zoron mom
Donnie became the mayor early this morning. In a small ceremony,
the thirty four year old Democratic Socialist took the oath
of office administered by Attorney General New York Attorney General
Letitia James. He says it was truly the honor and
privilege of a lifetime to be the mayor. He is
(15:42):
New York's youngest mayor in more than one hundred years
and had a lot of ambitious promises to his constituents.
So we will see he.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Delivers free pizza for everybody, Yeah, no one.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
It was free bus service, free buses, which will cost
the City of New York eight hundred million dollars a year. Also,
he's going to try to freeze rent increases and on
rent regulated apartments, so a few things he's hoping to
do there in New York.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
We'll see, Yes, we will, and he's gonna do it
with your dollars. Good for you, not my dollars. I
will all of our dollars. Dollars, it takes all of
our dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Have you seen the video on this and I heard
Heather talking about this earlier Disney cast member jumps in
the way of what is said to be a four
hundred pound prop boulder. Here as someone who loves and
has made some props for some film and for a
(16:44):
pleasure like making prompts. Once a prop is four hundred pounds,
it's no longer a prop.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That's a boulder.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That's a weapon.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, that's just a bulk.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
If it's a four hundred pound real boulder or a
four hundred pound fake boulder, it's a four hundred pound boulder.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yeah, that's wild. The video is, it's crazy. If people
have not seen he yet, go and watch it, because
this man literally steps in front of this boulder that
goes off the tracks and is hurtling towards the audience crowd,
and there's nothing between the audience and the boulder except
this man who steps in his cast member and physically
puts his arm up like he's just gonna, like, you know,
(17:18):
knock it over, and it ends up just taking him out.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
So this isn't out here.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
This is Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida. They have this
thing called I've Never seen I've only seen videos of
the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular and it's a live
stunt show, right, But the physics of this watching it,
and apparently this was a cast member who is a
(17:44):
stunt performer themselves. Yeah, so probably had some idea and
put himself in that position anyways, because you can't tell
the physics of what's going on until they meet. So
you go, okay, it's roll at a pretty healthy speed.
He jumps up, puts his body in the way of it,
(18:05):
and then when it meets his body and head, you
can calculate roughly how much this thing went because you're like,
oh wow, yeah, and it supposedly is is blown up too.
It's like a it's filled with air as well as whatever.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And it's still four hundred pounds.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well it's very large, but you know, I don't know
what's going to come of this. But this is not
the first time I've seen that boulder be a problem
on this stage, because there's other videos before too. But anyways,
kind of crazy. All right, we got one, we got one.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
So President Trump has delayed new tariff increases on a
polstered furniture, kitchen cabinets, and vanities for another year. Back
in September, he ordered twenty five percent tariffs on the
kitchen cabinets and a polstered furniture. Those two effect in October.
With the rates they were supposed to rise to fifty
percent and thirty percent by twenty twenty six. However, in
(19:07):
the last few moments last night yesterday, he signed a
proclamation delaying those or postponing those tariff hikes to twenty
twenty seven. He's coming under criticism for failing to stabilize prices,
partly due to tariffs imposed on a variety of goods.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
All Right, California is delaying that cancelation. We had heard
about of thousands of commercial drivers' licenses held by migrants,
So this is going to cause, of course, another stir
with Washington. You got seventeen thousand migrant truck drivers whose
licenses had been revoked and now they can keep them
(19:49):
for another sixty days. This is going to enable them
supposedly to retake tests, do whatever's necessary to remain legal.
But now you have US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy reacting
by threatening to cut one hundred and sixty million in
federal funding to California if the state doesn't mean meet
(20:09):
the January fifth deadline to revoke those unvetted foreign tricker licenses.
So we had a couple of those crashes and things
like that that were just absolutely heinous that put this
on the front page.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I hope this isn't one of those things Trump wants
us to do it, So we're just not going to
do it, rather than looking at it saying what's best
not only for the drivers, but the public and everything else.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
All Right, Matt Locke, which films in Nashville, it was well,
the live broadcast from Music City has been restored. CBS
face a technical snafu that not the live broadcast of
the New Year's Eve Live Nashville Big Bash off the
air for about twelve minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So they ran an episode.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So they ran an episode of Matt lock. TBS really
knows its audience to be to be fair.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, let's let's do Let's put on Matt Lock and
everybody's like, oh my god, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Second back and.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
This is the one where he solves a crime. When's
a case o? This is a her now Kathy baits.
So anyway, sorry to all the people washing the Nashville
Big Bash live. But if everything's restored.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I passed right past that.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Last night about a quarter two we want we turned
on we were watching Wild Robot and I don't know
if you've seen it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yes, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Brilliant, gorgeous to look at.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And we're watching that, and then you know, we turned
on Ryan Seacrest for a little bit at the end
there to guys the andy uh hay to do that
with my nine year old son?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
You don't think so? I mean not to are they
wildly inappropriate?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Once they get a couple of pops and then I
think it's a little.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Well the clips I saw was of oh god, I
just oh my god, I just bought his name. Help,
thank you, Anderson Cooper reading the uh lyrics to the
Taylor Swift song would, which was about Travis Kelsey. So
you're right, maybe maybe that would have been inappropriate, Yeah,
for a nine year old, because he was he was
a little tipsy and he was laughing so hard he
(22:28):
could not contain himself.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
My boy, we were in Palm Springs, staying at a
place out in Palm Springs, as we are wont to
do on occasion, and there was a drunk Latino. And
I say that because even though I'm a halfy, I'm
a proud Latino, and sometimes Latinos they're not always sure
(22:55):
if I am. They see me with my wife, my boy,
they assume I am, and they start talking to me
in certain ways about anyways, about certain things in the
Latino community. But he was, you know, asking me where
I was from and things. And I had to explain
(23:17):
to my sons the first time I ever saw anybody drunk.
He's like, what was wrong with that guy?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Daddy?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
And I'm like, that's mister Kono and he.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
But I so my son reacts to people that are
acting weird, like are they drunk?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
He doesn't see mommy and daddy, you know, plastered or drinking.
Really he doesn't. So anyway, so I try and stay
away from any of that that I'm going to have
to explain to him. Yeah, that's somebody who can't hold
their liquor. Son, there you go, called Anderson.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Cooper or both of them got a little I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I can't tell them apart, I'll be honest. One's the
slightly louder. That's me. Yeah, like the gray white hair.
They both good looking.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
They both have similar vibes, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Type shirts.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I like Anderson Cooper. I just like them both. Like,
it's just I don't like and I mean, hey, that's
my opinion. I'm throwing it out there. I know I
said I wouldn't, but I'm not a fan of Andy Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Hot takes sixty one.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
U Justice Department is reviewing five point two million pages
of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Uh what are we doing so many files?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I mean I trust me.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
If you put them out in a digital form where
the public can get at them, they will be sifted through.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You're never You're not going to get a better sifting.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Than the America.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, they will sift the them.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
And they will find every little nook and cranny, h
and any insights that need to be found. But much
the number is way higher than was previously known.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So they're seeking to enlist roughly four hundred employees just
an effort to go through this stuff. And uh, this
is expected to run from you know, starting on Monday
to January twentieth, and it's just going to be, you know, massive.
But I think that the public, American public, has been.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Very clear that we want these out.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
We want to see them, we want to know, especially
if there's very important people in there, people that are
making decisions for the American people.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
We want to know who these folks are.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And uh, if they were just rich people that have
been invited there, or if they were you know, because
whether Trump did any petaph phelya or not, I don't know.
I know everybody wants to jump on it in hopes
of but I will tell you this, he had to
have known. He had to have known. And the one
(26:13):
thing that raises an eyebrow to me is, and I've
said this to handle, if I was the Biden administration
and I had those documents he did and they knew
Trump was in there and they didn't put it out,
that's weird to me. That would have been easy pasy
to put that stuff out when he was running and
(26:36):
just squashed it if they had that kind of evidence.
So this is all logic. I'm sorry. I would jump
on the emotion train with everybody, but I'm just not
who I am.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And then the other thing is.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
There is there was something that Epstein said, I think
in an email or something that said something along the
lines of this dog still still won't bark or something. Yeah,
And that impression to me was like he was gathering
information on anybody who did in power to have that,
and that he still wasn't able to get it on Trump.
(27:14):
That's the way I read it. That could be hopeful
or wishful thinking. Not that I'm trying to protect the man,
but it would be a whole hell of a mess. Now,
if you told me Clinton I wouldn't bet on go Yeah,
that's I bet you he would.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That's just me. I guess I have no evidence of that,
but he You know.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
So Sprinkles, you guys remember Sprinkles cupcakes. They were so popular, yes,
super trendy. Everyone's taking pictures of it. There was a
Sprinkle's vending machine in the Americana and well apparently they
suddenly are closed and shutting down. Candice Nelson. She was
the founder of Sprinkle's Cupcake, but years ago sold the
(28:05):
company to a private equity confirm who I guess just
told employees yesterday that the stores and everything would be
shutting down suddenly. And she made the post on I
saw her video on TikTok where she was talking about it,
and it was really hard for her to see something
she had built to be closed suddenly. And I guess
she thought it would her cupcakes would live on forever.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Well, you know, not when you sell them to Yeah,
you know it just something like that is built upon
the passion, and that's why you know, Ben and Jerry
had stayed until more recently, had stayed very connected to
the product.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
And once you sell it, you just never know.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, nobody will care about your business and your creativity
and your ideas more than you do, because once you
pass it off to somebody else, their goal is money.
Their goal is not to up hold your vision and
your values that you created with your company and your ideas.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I remember being a young kid trying to buy my
first drum set and looking at you stuff, and some
guy's gonna sell me a drum set, and he's like,
is this much money. I go, that seems how he goes,
it's got a lot of sentimental value. I go, not
to me, Yeah for who? Yeah, So it all depends
on your perspective. These people come in, they buy it,
(29:26):
they see it different. And that's sad because that is
a huge American success story that grew and grew and
grew in.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Southern California too, which is really special and.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Completely out the door now and nobody knows what's going on.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That happens a lot with private equity though, just what
they do.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, they're just squeezing it for everything they can, and
it sucks.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
It always is a bummer.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
So we all celebrated Christmas, well not all of us,
but many of us celebrated Christmas. If you went the
route of a natural tree, which I used to love.
My son has never known one because we have the
artificial one now. But if you've got that, you've got
that live tree sitting at home, you can drag it
(30:14):
down the stairs and all of that, but there's a
deadline coming up if you want to get rid of
that Christmas tree the responsible way. So most cities and
counties offer some form of free curb side pickup or
drop off or any of that stuff. But it's only
for a limited times, so keep that in mind. Cut
your tree into pieces, place them inside your green compost
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bin is one way. If it's too big or you
can't cut it your place it the curb next to
your green big bin on trash day if it's larger
than six feet tall, schedule a bulky item pick up
through my LA three to one one.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
That's a great service.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
By the way, this is one of the things I
will tell you when I love something, and this is
a great service. When you have palettes or big things
that you need to get rid of, go my LA
three one one. They'll come grab it for you, set
a time for you to bring it out. And if
you're in an apartment or condo or something like that,
you just place your tree on the curb on your
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neighbor's trash day.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Well that seems odd.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
On your neighborhood's trash day.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Oh that makes way more sense. I'm like, what, and
then just kind of run out.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
But also, wouldn't your neighbor's trash day be the same
as your trash day?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, but I thought it was implying like, hey, put
it in front of their house.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You've got a condo, you don't got this kind of
you don't have a front yard.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Whenever we have a lot of like extra trash, my
husband and I we make a run for it to
the near This is terrible. I shouldn't have amit this,
but the nearby apartment complexes because they have big dumpsters
and we'll put some extra stuff in there. Because our
trash can sometimes don't hold all of.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Our trash, so order another one.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
You can order another trash can, yeah, and they'll pick
up both. Because our trash guy, I feel like doesn't
like us. Sometimes he skips our house.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, yeah, because you guys are untrustworthy because we're so
those are the.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Ones who go over to go over to the other
trash can.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, and my cousin he does their trash and now
he's got to take all that stuff. Now it's I
don't know, you could get too trash ben Yeah, you
have to rent them or what you pay whatever you
pay for the trail extra we have uh yeah, we
have two of trash bends and then we have the
recycle and the Yeah. Because I have a shop and
I have debris.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I'm gonna do that because we have, we end up
having so much trash. Is I'm not a I don't
keep a lot of stuff, Like if I'm done with something,
I throw it away where you know, I don't. I
don't do that, and so we end up just having
like a lot of trash every week. Hot tips here
on handle on the news.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's what we're trying to do, all right.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Uh So, some interesting things happening over in Saudi Arabia.
They are quietly permitting some residents to buy alcohol, and
this breaks with a long standing taboo. As the Islamic
kingdom looks to expand its tourism sector. They're hoping to
attract high earning expats and modernize their conservative image. They
(33:11):
also this is a follows a few steps that Crown
Prince Mohammed ben Salmon has done. He is lifted, he
has lifted the band on women driving, allowed cinema and
music festivals, and he's hoping to rain he's trying to
rein in the country's morality police. So they're really trying
to modernize it. In one of the steps, we're doing that.
(33:33):
And now listen, it's not going to be for everybody.
It is just going to be for people with premium
residency status, they're going to be allowed to buy beer,
wine and spirits in the stores. And this is where
they recently had that comedy festival as well that was
still controversial, where all the comedians went over there and
took huge paychecks to perform.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Have you ever been to a dry state?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, Oklahoma was a dry when I was growing up.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, it's interesting, not the whole, but on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
On Sundays, yeah, you can't get anything.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I wonder what I've been to Muslim countries. I've stayed
in Muslim countries before. It's funny. I was driving with
a tour guide in Jordan and I'm like, what is
that building down there? And he goes, it's like a
club for men. And I said, what kind of club
(34:29):
for men? Because that looks like a like a strip joint. Yes, yes,
And I said, why do you it's a Muslim country,
why do you have a strip goes, well, you know,
we have tourism and and I said, so that's twenty
four to seven for tourists.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
He goes, no, come on, Bobby in a.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, you guys are going right, So it's not just
for the tourists anyways, all right, California is expanding its
low cost divorce to more couples, particularly those with kids.
Simple divorces aren't that expensive. It must be when you
(35:15):
get into complicated parts of it. But this will allow
to you know, more couples who choose to amicably call
it quit success this low cost of force option. But
if you if it's amicable, it shouldn't be expensive at all.
(35:36):
I mean literally, didn't they have like we the people
or these these places legal Zoom or whatever used to
be around that you could just go and get the
paperwork done and you sign it and.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Off the paper and fill it out and then get
it notarized kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah, there's no reason to make it, drag it out
or make it expensive.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Now it's just four hundred bucks for a divorce. So
we even kind of hellowing this over the past few
months the Kennedy Center, a lot of people dropping out
of performing in the Kennedy Center. Well, now they were
getting a look at the ratings for the twenty twenty
five Honors, which were hosted by President Trump. They showed
the all time low in viewership. And the White House
(36:21):
is defending the Kennedy Center rather is defending that, saying
comparing this year's broadcast writings to prior years is a
classic apples to oranges comparison and an evidence of far
left bias.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Wouldn't that be like literally apples to apples?
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Literally, you give more apples to apples than Hey, this event,
how to do last year?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
All right?
Speaker 2 (36:48):
And finally us finds Ukraine did not try to kill
Putin in this alleged drone strike. You remember we heard
we talked about this earlier in the week that Putin
was saying one hundred drones were.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Sent to his house.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
And this was when they were coming to or starting
at least, to look down the possibilities of peace. And
I joked about it. Then, why does this always happen
right before peace? You know, some sort of big thing's
going to happen. The bad guys are always going to say, look,
they did it, we got seat. Now we got to
(37:26):
keep it going. Sorry, we totally wanted peace, but they
tried to bomb me at home. Yeah, so that's going
bye bye. We'll see. But it seems that Putin, strangely enough,
might have been lying. Yeah, all right, Neil s Vader
in the morning crew. Here this KFI heard everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
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Speaker 1 (37:47):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm not bill handled, and you're not bill handled. And
you're not bill handling, and you're not bill handled. Hey,
we're all not bill handled. And thank the baby Jesus
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(00:45):
The firstess is of January. We are now in twenty
twenty six. And if for some ungodly reason you write checks,
it's twenty twenty six. Okay, gonna make that five into
a six.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Easy.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Remember when we had to worry about such things? Oh
so far in the past. Neil Savada in the Morning
Crew with you on this fine New Year's morn.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
How's everybody doing. I just heard Heather.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Was listening to her this morning on wake up call.
You got some sleep, You did it right?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I tried to go to bed around eight. I was
worried that their mighty fireworks and you know, stuff like that.
But I think the rain kind of held a lot
of the fireworks in your.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Neighborhood, in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Maybe in your neighborhood, yeah, in your neighborhood, yes, And
there was I could hear them while I lied it
laid lied down in bed. Yeah, it was horrendous. I
brought some audio. Maybe we'll play it later. But it
was beay route. It always is. We're not usually there,
(01:58):
but security care and everything else go off and the
audio is always and they don't go off just by
the audio, they go off by the light in the
sky from the booms.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
There were a couple that I'm confident we're gunfire And
it was an interesting evening.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But what can you do?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I mean, it is La after all, you know, we
like to party no matter.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
What, indeed we do, and nobody, nobody wants to follow
the laws, and there's no reason to follow the laws
because there is no enforcement of laws.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I wonder if people were like, it's raining, there's not
going to be any fires because of my fireworks.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Always intense in our area.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And I looked at my wife at some point and said,
you think it's going to be a little less.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Tonight because it's raining. And it started.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Later than normal, like normally before the sun goes down,
you're hearing him. But so it stated. It started a
little later, but holy hell, I mean comical.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It was really that bad.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Comical. Yeah, it was absolutely comical. And some of them
will light up the front yard and then some are
just big booms. And then there was some like I said,
the cadence and the the you know, the clip and
(03:33):
the sound of it. I'm like, that's gunfire. That's gunfire,
Like that's an aka, that's gunfire.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Maybe people were like, you know what, it's the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America. Let's recreate those almost
rolling along.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, they're stuffing cotton in the cannon's.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I mean literally the.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Boom that some of these makes do sound like cannon fodder.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It is just.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's just boom. And yeah, it was an interesting evening,
but I did it. Was a good Dad stayed up
till about twelve thirty. My son kept looking at me
like are you gonna make it? But he was very
excited and he put out the spread and it was
(04:35):
quite sweet. Oh, it was so funny because my wife
has been dealing with some planter fasci itis or.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Something, and it's so painful. Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, she's she does not make a peep about anything,
the strongest person I know.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And she's like wow.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So he put together the spread and it was just beautiful.
It looked like a nine year old boy put together
what he thought we should be eating.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Was it like cheetos?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I went, yes, some peanut m and m's Yes, one
Hawaiian roll. It was just it was very sweet. But
we had had for dinner.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
We had had typhood and it was very very nice.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
But I did stay up and then got up and
I'm here and everybody's here, and we got Heather Brooker
in for Amy King, Kono's here. I never know what
Kno does at night anyways, or if he gets sleep.
Do you ever sleep rarely?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I get a solid three hours a night for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Jeez, it's not bad.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Three hours. Yeah, yeah, I did about four last night.
And I can do that once, maybe twice. If I
do that a third day, nobody will want to talk
to me because I will.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Be a bear.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Maybe, like one time you can do it, but then
it wipes me out, like I can't. I wanted to
have a glass of wine at dinner last night, and
I was like it'll no, you'll go'll wreck my world
because I know I have to be here in the morning,
so I don't know how you do it. Conna, three
hours would kill me.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, well last night I got four.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So he's freaking bouncing off the walls. It was yeah,
it was one of the I used to do it
all the time. I was known for it here, like
when we did events and stuff like that. When I
oversaw marketing and promotions and stuff. I'm like three, uh
three in the morning, four in the morning. Staying here
not a problem. You just get things done. You do
(06:33):
what you have to do. And now I'm like, I've
you know, I gave you over half my life has
been in this place. Like I'm gonna nap now. Good
for you. It's time to have a night.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You've earned it.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, or so they say.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
We also have Trey Alexander here. He's in for Will.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I heard that. Good morning, Trey, Good morning. How are you?
I am great? Thank you excellent? You get some sleep
I did. I worked a bed around nine o'clock, so
I got a followers. Good. Yeah, wow, we are going
to start a show here.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
We got Matthew who is mute, but hello guy, it
just is here to work.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Matt, are you there?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I like being mute now better, but I'm here. I'm here.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
He just he's got he's got a job to do.
Matt's the best. Matt the blur we call him because
you can't see him.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
He's moving, he's running around, he's printing stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, getting things done for the shoe. Oh, that's what
we do.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
All right. Well, let's get started.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Although I'm going I'm in a super playful mood, so
there's no rules today.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
We can do whatever we want.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Don't don't touch that rules, okay, and let's get some
thirty seconds of news party poop. I would have thought
the smallest one is going to be the adult, all right,
So uh, let's do handle on the news lead stars.
Oh gosh, if you have windows or any hole in
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the side of your house that you can look out,
you're gonna see some wet stuff coming from the sky.
It's called rain, and it's beautiful. It's all over the
place right now. You know, the stuff that scares me
the most is not those big dumps that it does
every now and again and then it goes.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
It's this consistent. Yesterday was consistent.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And that's what we're looking at, this big southern California storm,
heavy rain, potential thunderstorms, high risks of flooding, and of
course we'll probably mention more than once today about the
big parade and the issues that will you know, come
with that today. In response, Governor gave Newsoen he directed.
(08:53):
Newsom said that the California covers Office of Emergency Services
to pre position, rescue personnel and high risk areas, and
he's encouraged Californians.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
To wear more hair product. The winds and everything get outrageous,
mess with your qualth.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We don't want that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
No, we want to look good, yeah, handsome. All right,
Let's bust one more? Shall we more?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Bust one more? In a course, all right, This is
a really devastating story over in Switzerland. Forty people were
killed and one hundred hurt after an explosion at a
upscale ski resort in the area of Crans, Montana.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
How does that happen?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well, they're still looking into it. They say it was
not They do not believe it was related to any
sort of terrorism or anything like that. The investigation is
ongoing there, but they say it was an explosion that
started a fire, and it was people partying for New Years,
you know, people getting together at the ski resort for
New Year's so very so story over there.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, horrible. You've got the Rose Parade. I told you
it's going to be coming up throughout the show. Obviously,
there is a lot of rain in the area and
will be. It looks like it's stopped. It's going to
stop between ten and noon. Ten am and noon. It
seems like it's going to slow down, but not for
that long because we have more rain coming this week.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Isn't that true?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Heather, Yeah, there's it's good. The rain overall is supposed
to last through Saturday, with little intermittent breaks in the rain,
but the full storm was supposed to last through Saturday.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, so we're going to have off and on rain
and this kind of consistent rain it gets it, you know,
that's what ends up making you know, mud slides and
things like that, so kind of crazy. Also going to
be very soggy for the twenty twenty six Rose Parade,
starting at I believe eight am this morning, that's right,
(10:57):
is the kickoff. So a chance of light Do they
put lightning rods on those things?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I mean, I think so now it's.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Gonna be interesting. If we know there's like some I
don't know the some wild, well we'll be Yeah. The
he man float with the sword in the air and
maybe not a good idea, but we'll see.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I've been watching on KTLA and it doesn't look too
bad out there. I see a bunch of people in
ponchos kind of running around. But there's definitely still there's
people there. There's a lot of activity, so it's happening.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's not so much that there's people there. I was
surprised by they look happy. Yeah, to be there is
what Well, I love it too. I think it's great.
I'm thrilled that we get such a gem here locally.
But holy hell, love a parade. It's four in the
morning and it's raining, and I'm happy to be here.
(11:52):
And this is my shirt from two thousand and six,
and I'm like, good for you.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Get out there, enjoy that rainy day parade. And it's history.
We're making history of the Rose Paraye there.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, fifty years, it's been since the last reign.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
All right. So in Chicago, President Trump says he's removing
National Guard troops. He's already done that here in Los Angeles.
He's also doing it in Chicago and Portland. He made
the post on truth socials, saying his decision is due
to crime being reduced in those cities, but he says
that troops could return if crime begins. To Oregon. He says,
(12:28):
if it weren't for the federal government stepping in, you know,
there would still be major problems there.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Did you expect anything else?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
No, he's going to take credit for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I'd just like to apologize for the last year. And
I've been rough. I've said some things that were hurtful.
Y'all look at each other, going, what is going on?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Who is this?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I've been downright mean, and I feel bad about it.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Well, you know, you said the year has gone by fast.
A lot of it is because of the never ending
news cycle. Baby feels fast for us here, because it
seems like every day there's something huge news story, just
never ending.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, and I think that's feeding the machine a lot
of times. Listen, there's always been big news. You know,
you mind your local business, you mind your local you know, home,
and you take care of stuff. And the fact is,
we get a lot of news that really doesn't pertain
much to us. I'm a big local fan of local news.
(13:34):
What's going on here? Fix our damn roads.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
LAFD.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
The leadership is still under the microscope, along of course
with Mayor Bass. For the fires specific Palisades has been
when it started, had been burning for like less than
two hours or something, when people were already starting to
pick apart how it was being dealt with. So, you know,
(14:03):
la FD was not the you know, boots on the grounds,
the men and women that are out there fighting the fires,
but higher up as to some of the decisions that
were made. And so as we look at the first
anniversary again the Los Angeles Wildfires one year later is
a special to our special that we'll be doing hosted
by Michael Monks coming up on January seventh at seven pm,
(14:25):
and he'll no doubt dive into this. But first anniversary
a week away, people are still questioning those missteps in
the firefight choices and still a year later unanswered by
the LAFD and.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Mayor Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
And she's up for she's running again one in June
or something or.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah, she announced a few weeks ago that she will
be running again, you.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Know, and I don't I'm not saying she's a bad
person or anything. I don't think she's an effective mayor
and she has not done and so and I know, La,
we're just dumb enough to just go, well, what we.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Have's just kind of.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You know, and potholes, do the basics, get the easy ones, right,
you know, fill the potholes, have a good police department,
those types of things.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
All right, History was made in New York zoron mom
Donnie became the mayor early this morning. In a small ceremony,
the thirty four year old Democratic Socialist took the oath
of office administered by Attorney General New York Attorney General
Letitia James. He says it was truly the honor and
privilege of a lifetime to be the mayor. He is
(15:42):
New York's youngest mayor in more than one hundred years
and had a lot of ambitious promises to his constituents.
So we will see he.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Delivers free pizza for everybody, Yeah, no one.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
It was free bus service, free buses, which will cost
the City of New York eight hundred million dollars a year. Also,
he's going to try to freeze rent increases and on
rent regulated apartments, so a few things he's hoping to
do there in New York.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
We'll see, Yes, we will, and he's gonna do it
with your dollars. Good for you, not my dollars. I
will all of our dollars. Dollars, it takes all of
our dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Have you seen the video on this and I heard
Heather talking about this earlier Disney cast member jumps in
the way of what is said to be a four
hundred pound prop boulder. Here as someone who loves and
has made some props for some film and for a
(16:44):
pleasure like making prompts. Once a prop is four hundred pounds,
it's no longer a prop.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That's a boulder.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That's a weapon.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, that's just a bulk.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
If it's a four hundred pound real boulder or a
four hundred pound fake boulder, it's a four hundred pound boulder.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Yeah, that's wild. The video is, it's crazy. If people
have not seen he yet, go and watch it, because
this man literally steps in front of this boulder that
goes off the tracks and is hurtling towards the audience crowd,
and there's nothing between the audience and the boulder except
this man who steps in his cast member and physically
puts his arm up like he's just gonna, like, you know,
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knock it over, and it ends up just taking him out.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
So this isn't out here.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
This is Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida. They have this
thing called I've Never seen I've only seen videos of
the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular and it's a live
stunt show, right, But the physics of this watching it,
and apparently this was a cast member who is a
(17:44):
stunt performer themselves. Yeah, so probably had some idea and
put himself in that position anyways, because you can't tell
the physics of what's going on until they meet. So
you go, okay, it's roll at a pretty healthy speed.
He jumps up, puts his body in the way of it,
(18:05):
and then when it meets his body and head, you
can calculate roughly how much this thing went because you're like,
oh wow, yeah, and it supposedly is is blown up too.
It's like a it's filled with air as well as whatever.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And it's still four hundred pounds.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well it's very large, but you know, I don't know
what's going to come of this. But this is not
the first time I've seen that boulder be a problem
on this stage, because there's other videos before too. But anyways,
kind of crazy. All right, we got one, we got one.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
So President Trump has delayed new tariff increases on a
polstered furniture, kitchen cabinets, and vanities for another year. Back
in September, he ordered twenty five percent tariffs on the
kitchen cabinets and a polstered furniture. Those two effect in October.
With the rates they were supposed to rise to fifty
percent and thirty percent by twenty twenty six. However, in
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the last few moments last night yesterday, he signed a
proclamation delaying those or postponing those tariff hikes to twenty
twenty seven. He's coming under criticism for failing to stabilize prices,
partly due to tariffs imposed on a variety of goods.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
All Right, California is delaying that cancelation. We had heard
about of thousands of commercial drivers' licenses held by migrants,
So this is going to cause, of course, another stir
with Washington. You got seventeen thousand migrant truck drivers whose
licenses had been revoked and now they can keep them
(19:49):
for another sixty days. This is going to enable them
supposedly to retake tests, do whatever's necessary to remain legal.
But now you have US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy reacting
by threatening to cut one hundred and sixty million in
federal funding to California if the state doesn't mean meet
(20:09):
the January fifth deadline to revoke those unvetted foreign tricker licenses.
So we had a couple of those crashes and things
like that that were just absolutely heinous that put this
on the front page.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I hope this isn't one of those things Trump wants
us to do it, So we're just not going to
do it, rather than looking at it saying what's best
not only for the drivers, but the public and everything else.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
All Right, Matt Locke, which films in Nashville, it was well,
the live broadcast from Music City has been restored. CBS
face a technical snafu that not the live broadcast of
the New Year's Eve Live Nashville Big Bash off the
air for about twelve minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So they ran an episode.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So they ran an episode of Matt lock. TBS really
knows its audience to be to be fair.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, let's let's do Let's put on Matt Lock and
everybody's like, oh my god, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Second back and.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
This is the one where he solves a crime. When's
a case o? This is a her now Kathy baits.
So anyway, sorry to all the people washing the Nashville
Big Bash live. But if everything's restored.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I passed right past that.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Last night about a quarter two we want we turned
on we were watching Wild Robot and I don't know
if you've seen it.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yes, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Brilliant, gorgeous to look at.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And we're watching that, and then you know, we turned
on Ryan Seacrest for a little bit at the end
there to guys the andy uh hay to do that
with my nine year old son?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
You don't think so? I mean not to are they
wildly inappropriate?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Once they get a couple of pops and then I
think it's a little.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Well the clips I saw was of oh god, I
just oh my god, I just bought his name. Help,
thank you, Anderson Cooper reading the uh lyrics to the
Taylor Swift song would, which was about Travis Kelsey. So
you're right, maybe maybe that would have been inappropriate, Yeah,
for a nine year old, because he was he was
a little tipsy and he was laughing so hard he
(22:28):
could not contain himself.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
My boy, we were in Palm Springs, staying at a
place out in Palm Springs, as we are wont to
do on occasion, and there was a drunk Latino. And
I say that because even though I'm a halfy, I'm
a proud Latino, and sometimes Latinos they're not always sure
(22:55):
if I am. They see me with my wife, my boy,
they assume I am, and they start talking to me
in certain ways about anyways, about certain things in the
Latino community. But he was, you know, asking me where
I was from and things. And I had to explain
(23:17):
to my sons the first time I ever saw anybody drunk.
He's like, what was wrong with that guy?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Daddy?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
And I'm like, that's mister Kono and he.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
But I so my son reacts to people that are
acting weird, like are they drunk?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
He doesn't see mommy and daddy, you know, plastered or drinking.
Really he doesn't. So anyway, so I try and stay
away from any of that that I'm going to have
to explain to him. Yeah, that's somebody who can't hold
their liquor. Son, there you go, called Anderson.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Cooper or both of them got a little I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I can't tell them apart, I'll be honest. One's the
slightly louder. That's me. Yeah, like the gray white hair.
They both good looking.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
They both have similar vibes, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Type shirts.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I like Anderson Cooper. I just like them both. Like,
it's just I don't like and I mean, hey, that's
my opinion. I'm throwing it out there. I know I
said I wouldn't, but I'm not a fan of Andy Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Hot takes sixty one.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
U Justice Department is reviewing five point two million pages
of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Uh what are we doing so many files?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I mean I trust me.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
If you put them out in a digital form where
the public can get at them, they will be sifted through.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You're never You're not going to get a better sifting.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Than the America.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, they will sift the them.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
And they will find every little nook and cranny, h
and any insights that need to be found. But much
the number is way higher than was previously known.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So they're seeking to enlist roughly four hundred employees just
an effort to go through this stuff. And uh, this
is expected to run from you know, starting on Monday
to January twentieth, and it's just going to be, you know, massive.
But I think that the public, American public, has been.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Very clear that we want these out.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
We want to see them, we want to know, especially
if there's very important people in there, people that are
making decisions for the American people.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
We want to know who these folks are.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And uh, if they were just rich people that have
been invited there, or if they were you know, because
whether Trump did any petaph phelya or not, I don't know.
I know everybody wants to jump on it in hopes
of but I will tell you this, he had to
have known. He had to have known. And the one
(26:13):
thing that raises an eyebrow to me is, and I've
said this to handle, if I was the Biden administration
and I had those documents he did and they knew
Trump was in there and they didn't put it out,
that's weird to me. That would have been easy pasy
to put that stuff out when he was running and
(26:36):
just squashed it if they had that kind of evidence.
So this is all logic. I'm sorry. I would jump
on the emotion train with everybody, but I'm just not
who I am.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And then the other thing is.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
There is there was something that Epstein said, I think
in an email or something that said something along the
lines of this dog still still won't bark or something. Yeah,
And that impression to me was like he was gathering
information on anybody who did in power to have that,
and that he still wasn't able to get it on Trump.
(27:14):
That's the way I read it. That could be hopeful
or wishful thinking. Not that I'm trying to protect the man,
but it would be a whole hell of a mess. Now,
if you told me Clinton I wouldn't bet on go Yeah,
that's I bet you he would.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That's just me. I guess I have no evidence of that,
but he You know.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
So Sprinkles, you guys remember Sprinkles cupcakes. They were so popular, yes,
super trendy. Everyone's taking pictures of it. There was a
Sprinkle's vending machine in the Americana and well apparently they
suddenly are closed and shutting down. Candice Nelson. She was
the founder of Sprinkle's Cupcake, but years ago sold the
(28:05):
company to a private equity confirm who I guess just
told employees yesterday that the stores and everything would be
shutting down suddenly. And she made the post on I
saw her video on TikTok where she was talking about it,
and it was really hard for her to see something
she had built to be closed suddenly. And I guess
she thought it would her cupcakes would live on forever.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Well, you know, not when you sell them to Yeah,
you know it just something like that is built upon
the passion, and that's why you know, Ben and Jerry
had stayed until more recently, had stayed very connected to
the product.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
And once you sell it, you just never know.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, nobody will care about your business and your creativity
and your ideas more than you do, because once you
pass it off to somebody else, their goal is money.
Their goal is not to up hold your vision and
your values that you created with your company and your ideas.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I remember being a young kid trying to buy my
first drum set and looking at you stuff, and some
guy's gonna sell me a drum set, and he's like,
is this much money. I go, that seems how he goes,
it's got a lot of sentimental value. I go, not
to me, Yeah for who? Yeah, So it all depends
on your perspective. These people come in, they buy it,
(29:26):
they see it different. And that's sad because that is
a huge American success story that grew and grew and
grew in.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Southern California too, which is really special and.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Completely out the door now and nobody knows what's going on.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That happens a lot with private equity though, just what
they do.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, they're just squeezing it for everything they can, and
it sucks.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
It always is a bummer.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
So we all celebrated Christmas, well not all of us,
but many of us celebrated Christmas. If you went the
route of a natural tree, which I used to love.
My son has never known one because we have the
artificial one now. But if you've got that, you've got
that live tree sitting at home, you can drag it
(30:14):
down the stairs and all of that, but there's a
deadline coming up if you want to get rid of
that Christmas tree the responsible way. So most cities and
counties offer some form of free curb side pickup or
drop off or any of that stuff. But it's only
for a limited times, so keep that in mind. Cut
your tree into pieces, place them inside your green compost
(30:36):
bin is one way. If it's too big or you
can't cut it your place it the curb next to
your green big bin on trash day if it's larger
than six feet tall, schedule a bulky item pick up
through my LA three to one one.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
That's a great service.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
By the way, this is one of the things I
will tell you when I love something, and this is
a great service. When you have palettes or big things
that you need to get rid of, go my LA
three one one. They'll come grab it for you, set
a time for you to bring it out. And if
you're in an apartment or condo or something like that,
you just place your tree on the curb on your
(31:15):
neighbor's trash day.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Well that seems odd.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
On your neighborhood's trash day.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Oh that makes way more sense. I'm like, what, and
then just kind of run out.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
But also, wouldn't your neighbor's trash day be the same
as your trash day?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, but I thought it was implying like, hey, put
it in front of their house.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You've got a condo, you don't got this kind of
you don't have a front yard.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Whenever we have a lot of like extra trash, my
husband and I we make a run for it to
the near This is terrible. I shouldn't have amit this,
but the nearby apartment complexes because they have big dumpsters
and we'll put some extra stuff in there. Because our
trash can sometimes don't hold all of.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Our trash, so order another one.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
You can order another trash can, yeah, and they'll pick
up both. Because our trash guy, I feel like doesn't
like us. Sometimes he skips our house.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, yeah, because you guys are untrustworthy because we're so
those are the.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Ones who go over to go over to the other
trash can.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, and my cousin he does their trash and now
he's got to take all that stuff. Now it's I
don't know, you could get too trash ben Yeah, you
have to rent them or what you pay whatever you
pay for the trail extra we have uh yeah, we
have two of trash bends and then we have the
recycle and the Yeah. Because I have a shop and
I have debris.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I'm gonna do that because we have, we end up
having so much trash. Is I'm not a I don't
keep a lot of stuff, Like if I'm done with something,
I throw it away where you know, I don't. I
don't do that, and so we end up just having
like a lot of trash every week. Hot tips here
on handle on the news.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's what we're trying to do, all right.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Uh So, some interesting things happening over in Saudi Arabia.
They are quietly permitting some residents to buy alcohol, and
this breaks with a long standing taboo. As the Islamic
kingdom looks to expand its tourism sector. They're hoping to
attract high earning expats and modernize their conservative image. They
(33:11):
also this is a follows a few steps that Crown
Prince Mohammed ben Salmon has done. He is lifted, he
has lifted the band on women driving, allowed cinema and
music festivals, and he's hoping to rain he's trying to
rein in the country's morality police. So they're really trying
to modernize it. In one of the steps, we're doing that.
(33:33):
And now listen, it's not going to be for everybody.
It is just going to be for people with premium
residency status, they're going to be allowed to buy beer,
wine and spirits in the stores. And this is where
they recently had that comedy festival as well that was
still controversial, where all the comedians went over there and
took huge paychecks to perform.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Have you ever been to a dry state?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, Oklahoma was a dry when I was growing up.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yeah, it's interesting, not the whole, but on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
On Sundays, yeah, you can't get anything.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I wonder what I've been to Muslim countries. I've stayed
in Muslim countries before. It's funny. I was driving with
a tour guide in Jordan and I'm like, what is
that building down there? And he goes, it's like a
club for men. And I said, what kind of club
(34:29):
for men? Because that looks like a like a strip joint. Yes, yes,
And I said, why do you it's a Muslim country,
why do you have a strip goes, well, you know,
we have tourism and and I said, so that's twenty
four to seven for tourists.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
He goes, no, come on, Bobby in a.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, you guys are going right, So it's not just
for the tourists anyways, all right, California is expanding its
low cost divorce to more couples, particularly those with kids.
Simple divorces aren't that expensive. It must be when you
(35:15):
get into complicated parts of it. But this will allow
to you know, more couples who choose to amicably call
it quit success this low cost of force option. But
if you if it's amicable, it shouldn't be expensive at all.
(35:36):
I mean literally, didn't they have like we the people
or these these places legal Zoom or whatever used to
be around that you could just go and get the
paperwork done and you sign it and.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Off the paper and fill it out and then get
it notarized kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah, there's no reason to make it, drag it out
or make it expensive.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Now it's just four hundred bucks for a divorce. So
we even kind of hellowing this over the past few
months the Kennedy Center, a lot of people dropping out
of performing in the Kennedy Center. Well, now they were
getting a look at the ratings for the twenty twenty
five Honors, which were hosted by President Trump. They showed
the all time low in viewership. And the White House
(36:21):
is defending the Kennedy Center rather is defending that, saying
comparing this year's broadcast writings to prior years is a
classic apples to oranges comparison and an evidence of far
left bias.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Wouldn't that be like literally apples to apples?
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Literally, you give more apples to apples than Hey, this event,
how to do last year?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
All right?
Speaker 2 (36:48):
And finally us finds Ukraine did not try to kill
Putin in this alleged drone strike. You remember we heard
we talked about this earlier in the week that Putin
was saying one hundred drones were.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Sent to his house.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
And this was when they were coming to or starting
at least, to look down the possibilities of peace. And
I joked about it. Then, why does this always happen
right before peace? You know, some sort of big thing's
going to happen. The bad guys are always going to say, look,
they did it, we got seat. Now we got to
(37:26):
keep it going. Sorry, we totally wanted peace, but they
tried to bomb me at home. Yeah, so that's going
bye bye. We'll see. But it seems that Putin, strangely enough,
might have been lying. Yeah, all right, Neil s Vader
in the morning crew. Here this KFI heard everywhere on
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