December 18, 2025 • 22 mins
(December 18, 2025)
House GOP passes narrow healthcare package, with key Obamacare subsidies set to expire. Tesla faces a 30-day car sale ban for misleading use of ‘Autopilot’ branding, California DMV warns. What Americans think about giving cash as holiday gifts, according to new poll. How a speeding ticket can be worse than killing someone with your car in California.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Obama Obama Obama.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Kfi AM six forty Bill Handle. It is a Thursday morning,
December eighteenth. Just you play the clip of President Trump
is arguing and saying he took on big pharma much
like more So, which is true, by the way, and
the only president to ever take on big pharma.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Not true.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
And he brought down prices four hundred, five hundred, six
hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Let's do the math the moment.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Okay, if you bring down prices one hundred percent, that
becomes zero. You're getting pharmaceutical for free. But I don't
even know what five hundred percent decrease is. But you
know it's this is a Trump and I don't blame
him for I don't give him any really bad press
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on that because that's just the way he operates.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And I find that just kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So let's talk about what's going on with this healthcare package.
As you know, come January first, twenty thousand Americans are
going to be nailed on. Twenty million Americans are going
to be nailed on their premiums. They're going to go
up so dramatically and the Republicans at a last effort.
(01:23):
This is this last chance because they've been talking about
better healthcare and they have a plan for eight years
and they've never had a plan.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, push comes to shove.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's time because those health care subsidies that were given
during COVID have now will now disappear on December thirty one.
So what is Johnson going to do? Mike Johnson, Well,
the Republicans have put together a plan which does not
work because it doesn't do anything about those subsidies. Those
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still will go away, and they've come up with just
well what they did is throw this against the wall, hoping.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That it sticks.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It won't, hoping that it passes, it won't, hoping that
somehow it's going to assuage the American people.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It won't.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And the entire plan of the Republicans has been let's
kill Obamacare. I think sixty somewhat introductions or bills have
been proposed to kill Obamacare, which at this point is
like Social Security.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's become the third rail.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So you're not going to see this go Mike Johnson,
by the way, is will not put the Democrats plan
or the continuation on the floor of the House.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That's not going to work either. He has the power
to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
But there's a continuing resolution and that is going to pass. Well,
it's not continuing resolution, it's a procedural move in which
Johnson's ability to take that off the floor disappears.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It will be voted on, there is no question.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And even if the House does pass this Republican plan,
it's going to fail in the Senate. This is going
to affect the Republicans deeply. Now. They've come up with
a plan basically saying that people, if you're self employed
or you work in different industries, everybody can come together
(03:23):
and negotiate new insurance plans. Okay, can they Yes? Is
it going to stop the subsidies? Is it going to
help with the subsidies? No, it's not. Well, it will
stop the subsidies. They didn't even touch it. I'm going
to tell you Americans want this. You've got twenty million people,
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of which a whole lot of them voted for Donald Trump.
My opinion, I'm just guessing, but I wouldn't be wrong.
And they're all going to lose their insurance either they
lose it outright or prices for the most part are
going to double triple and people can't afford it, and
they're going to be out of insurance. And the Republicans
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are fighting tooth and nail and will not let those
subsidies continue on. Hey, you know what, this is election
time coming up with the midterms, and you've got some
big issues. Two things I keep on saying are going
to really kill the Republicans.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think one, prices.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
As much as President Trump says prices are lower, prices
are better than they were than when he came into office,
he has the economy is better than it ever was.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Well, the stock market is true.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Unemployment though, is up, consumer confidence is down. It's it's
gonna be a tough It's gonna be a tough way
over the next year.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
If the economy truly does get better, which it's not,
and you've got prices going down, which are not, and
insurance kicks in where subsidies continue on, which it won't,
then you're going to see Republicans. I'll tell you what
you're going to see is Republicans bailing out. They are
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not going to ask the President to endorse them and
publicly either show up at events and or do a video,
and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The Democrats are going to do.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
If I was a Democrat and I'm running against a
Republican and that Republican senator won't be the Senate for
the most part, maybe and Congress people, I would simply
show that Republican saying President Trump is the greatest president
that ever lived, look what he has done for America,
and then followed while by you lost your job, your
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insurance has exploded, and prices have gone up, not down.
I think there are a few Republicans that are going
to be in trouble, especially in those swing districts.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We'll see, and I may be wrong. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
By the way, just as a fact, when the President
said that he is the only president to ever hit
big pharma, that's not true. Joe Biden actually did remember
the thirty five dollars max on insulin.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That was Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Now is the president doing more than any other president
to attack big pharma?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
There has been no president who has come to this
level of attacking big pharma on behalf of the American consumer. Okay,
this one is interesting because have you ever heard of California?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
The DMV.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Warning a car company and saying, you know what, if
you don't change your advertising, you're going to lose the
right to sell your car in this state for thirty days.
It'll be a thirty day suspension. Much like a football
player after he kills someone and sells ten pounds of cocaine,
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it's a thirty day suspension. In any case, this has
to do with Tesla.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's that simple.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
What Tesla is doing, according to the DMV, and according
to everybody can who can read, it's mislead, misleading the
use of autopilot, the branding, because what does autopilot mean?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
To most of us?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
It means sort of, how do I describe autopilot? How
about this autopilot? Does that work for you? Because it
certainly works for me? Automatic driving much like Waimo, where
there's no one in the front seat, it is truly
auto pilot piloting. Nope, this doesn't work because what Tesla
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is saying the terms autopilot full self driving capability. That's
another one. What does full self driving capability mean? If
you had to translate it into Layman's terms, it means
full self driving capability. It drives itself and it doesn't
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the Tesla, well, it drives a lot of itself. It's
certainly computer you can program it. It will change lanes
for you, it has sensors, it will speed up. But
you've got to be behind the wheel, and you've got
to be able to grab that wheel slam on the
brakes at any time. That's not autopilot. That means you've
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got to be there. An autopilot means self driving. Well, certainly,
full self driving means that it's drive itself.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And so the issue.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Becomes and by the way, it is an issue because
Tesla is saying, well, wait, wait a minute, just because
you have to have someone sit in the car and
make sure that the steering and the brakes, et cetera work,
doesn't mean it's not full self driving. But it seems
that it is not because there's the definition.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I mean, you can parse it.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
And you can say that maybe that it is not
the same level as a Waymo vehicle is, which is true.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And so what Musk has said, too bad.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
He has brushed off that decision as regulatory overkill.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And he says, nope, not going to change it.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And they say, not going to change the labeling and
the DMV says, you get to change the labeling and
if not, you're not selling cars for thirty days. Now,
on a personal note, in terms of my view and
my love of Tesla's, if they can't sell cars for
thirty days, that gives the consumer the ability to not
buy the car or not be bamboosled by Tesla, which
(09:48):
I think it is. Not buying the car. I'm doing
a favor for you. I have bought a Tesla. It
lasted two weeks in my life. I bought but brand new.
I sold it two weeks later. It wasn't the car
that I thought. Just to manufacture of the car. I
thought it was titty in a sense, it wasn't solid.
(10:12):
I just didn't like the car very much. Now, the
week after I bought the car, must declared a twenty
percent reduction in the value of the car. That's one
of those things that it's not planned. You find out
there are people that bought the car the day before
the twenty percent hit and they just got a car
that's worth twenty percent less than it was even with depreciation.
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For me, I had to take my car and I
ended up taking a sixteen thousand dollars hit on the car.
So I look at renting the car at eight thousand
dollars a week before I got rid of it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Not bad.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Now I've done better on rental of cars because rarely
have I paid eight thousand dollars a week for a
car rental. But that's what ended up with me. But
the bottom line is, I don't know where much is
gonna go with that because it is until until someone
can sit in the backseat of that car and not
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have a driver up front self driving capability, It's well,
the argument is, just because someone is there, is it
self driving. I don't think do any of you have Teslas?
By the way, no, none of the people here have Teslass. Well,
I have an EV and it certainly is and it's
a Beamer and it certainly isn't self driving. The one
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thing it does do, and many cars do this is park.
Parallel park that it does, and I gotta tell you
I've had some rough patches with parallel parking. I do
my own parallel parking. You know. When I took my
driver's test, you had to parallel park, Yeah, and no
one could pass it. That was what stopped everybody cold
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on a parallel park Ono, what what did you say?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Never mind? Amy, thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Amy.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Do you know how to parallel park?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I do?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And I'm darn good at it.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I'm so good at it. Good for you?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Okay, okay, okay, ex Canary took away my point here.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Good enough, you're supposed to.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Say, no, okay, really interesting poll by a A P
nork and it Well, I'm gonna throw some figures at you.
But at the same time, there are aspects of this
that I think are kind of huh wow.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I didn't know that, all right.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Starting with, most adults are just fine with cash as gifts,
and uh I that's the kind of gift I give.
I'm not interested in shopping. What I do is I
just hand out check as gifts. Not very big, mind you,
but it's a it's a nice, nice check so. And
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then at the bottom that's where I put my holiday greetings,
usually happy Holidays on the memo and that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Occasionally, depending on who Cono for example, or Neil, I
will put this is for hookers, and those are very
special ones.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You see what the cards look like? All right?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I know you do, I know you do. Well, let
me quickly ask Cono, would you rather have cash than
any other gift.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
No, it's currently no. Okay, well wait yeah, wait till
wait till next year. And cash, well, I do love cash,
but okay, I'll spend it on I'll like pay bills
off or something.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Okay, amy cash as gifts for the holiday or gifts
as gifts.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
It depends on who it's from, Okay, true, All right, Well,
I mean they're both lovely.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, with cash being lovelier.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But a heartfelt gift is I love that too.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I don't even know what a heartfelt gift is you're
getting one from me? Oh god, or what it looks like. Actually, actually,
you give great gifts. You give great gift.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You really do. When are you coming in to get
your gifts? I think I'm coming in.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Not this week, but I think I'm coming in next week.
Maybe I'll do it this week. You know it's already Thursday,
you know, Monday. No, No, I'm going to come in
next week because then I can drive back New Year
Christmas Day because traffic is always horrific.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So probably be next week.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes, oh yeah, And I have I have a Saturday
night dinner with my contractor, just to go over everything
that he's overcharged me for and how he's ruined my house.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And we do that at dinner at the Anaheim White House.
I might have.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's really pleasant.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It's yeah, it's gonna be really good. I just love
the Anaheim White House.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Okay. Six and ten Americans.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Say cash is very acceptable and the other thing. Okay,
so that's not a surprise. Forty are not going to
stay up New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Okay. Survey says, are you up New Year's Eve? Amy?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yes, But here's the deal we go to do.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
We do our New Year's Eve celebration at nine o'clock
and then we come home and then we can be
in our jammies and watch the ball drop and go
to sleep at midnight.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So you stay up till midnight.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Most years.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah. Well, let me put it this way.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
There's a stat about the older you get, the less
you stay up. Now, this is a poll that I'm
talking about ap North Pole that just came out. Six
and ten Americans say cash or gift cards very accessible acceptable.
I like to give cash because actually people can use cash. Also,
what I love about cash is there's nothing personal about it.
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It's not a gift that I have to go out
and find and I don't have to write anything other
than side my name.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
It works out well.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Forty four percent of Americans won't stay up to greet
the new year.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I never do. And that's broken down by age.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Half of people over forty five or older don't make
it to midnight.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
About a third of adults under forty five.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Okay, it makes sense. The older you get, the less
you're going to give. Also, cash much say for gift
for younger adults. Now here's one that's kind of interesting.
About six and ten say that secondhand gifts, so regifted
gifts are okay? Sixty percent say used stuff is okay?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Now, come on, used. I mean I don't get it.
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I was just talking to and and let me ask you,
when we talk about to talk about cash or gifts,
what would you rather have cash or a turkey leg?
She's not an answering fair enough. Here is one we
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talk about this what you asked me?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, I did, but I wanted to throw in that
funny turkey leg line.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
That's all, okay.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
No, I just came up with something stupid. I just
came up with something dumb, that's all. Now, people leave
their decorations up after the holiday season right into New Year's.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
That's guilty. Yeah, but doesn't that it you have to have.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You can't do it with a real tree because that
tree starts to rot.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I left mine up until February one year.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh god, I'll bet you your place. That's dangerous.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
It was in the fire department because I worked at
a radio station. The fire department called and said, Amy,
you need to get that out of your house.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Most people, by the way, put their keep their holiday
decorations after New Year's. Only two to ten put them
up before Thanksgiving. Now, sports washing, Okay, About a quarter
of US adults say they plan on watching sports on
Christmas Day.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Only five percent will go to a movie theater. Oh
here's a shocker.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Men are much likelier than women to watch sports on Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Kno football on Christmas? Is that you? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That's too Yep, Well Christmas sports probably Yeah? Yeah, me too,
I'm a sports guy. How about the women? Amy, sports?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
No, we watch a Christmas story on Christmas Day. It's
on a loop on TBS and T and TC. You
can kind of drop in and out of it all
day long.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
That nice.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Vomitus Okay, and yeah, it's on, but nobody's really focused
on right.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Fair enough.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Now here's one that actually stunned me that uh and
I shouldn't be surprised. Thirty three percent of adults say, well,
they will give a gift to their pet this year,
to their pet. Now, come on, really, this is the
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same group of people that dress up their dogs for Halloween.
He drives you nuts. Now, I have to admit one year,
one year, I gave a Rubik's Cube to my dog
and I never would do that again because the dog
figured it out quicker than I could.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I don't give pets gifts. I think if you ask
lindsay your.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Dogs are getting gifts, they get No, the dogs are
not getting gift.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yes they are. No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
You know what, They're gonna have a very special dinner
on Christmas Eve. And you know what a very special
dinner is their normal dog food that they eat every day.
That's their special dinner. Geez, I love pets.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I love it. No, you have no, you don't have pets, right,
or you do I have kids? Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, well they're pets, okay, but you have to give them.
There's no question you have to give them. Yeah, and
I know, Amy, you have a cat. Wait, do you
give your cat a gift?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I do not, but my predecessor on wake up call
most certainly would have our old friend Jennifer Jones Lee.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I bet she, Oh yeah, Jennifery.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
She would give her cows that she had around the
house a gift, because that was Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
And then the goats and the raccoons or whatever.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
They don't know what day it is.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I know they really don't. And gifts for pets.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Of course, we have a list. We have lift the dog,
make the land.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
They have to be equal, so it's fair too. Seriously,
what are you getting your dogs for Christmas? There are
special balls, treats, there's all outfits, there's all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Good God, will no do you have a pet at all?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I don't have a pet, and be there's no way
no Amy dresses up her cat though.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
It's the cutest little Christmas treet Amy.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
All I can say is and I you know, I
generally don't question you because your lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I appreciate it. Your normal. Uh yeah, get a life.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Okay, I'm bringing you a picture.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Uh yeah, oh I can't wait, just can't wait.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Here's what you can do. Do you dress up your
cat as a dog?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Oh, okay, try that sometime. Okay. K f I A M.
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Speaker 3 (21:53):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Obama Obama Obama.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Kfi AM six forty Bill Handle. It is a Thursday morning,
December eighteenth. Just you play the clip of President Trump
is arguing and saying he took on big pharma much
like more So, which is true, by the way, and
the only president to ever take on big pharma.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Not true.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
And he brought down prices four hundred, five hundred, six
hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Let's do the math the moment.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Okay, if you bring down prices one hundred percent, that
becomes zero. You're getting pharmaceutical for free. But I don't
even know what five hundred percent decrease is. But you
know it's this is a Trump and I don't blame
him for I don't give him any really bad press
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on that because that's just the way he operates.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And I find that just kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So let's talk about what's going on with this healthcare package.
As you know, come January first, twenty thousand Americans are
going to be nailed on. Twenty million Americans are going
to be nailed on their premiums. They're going to go
up so dramatically and the Republicans at a last effort.
(01:23):
This is this last chance because they've been talking about
better healthcare and they have a plan for eight years
and they've never had a plan.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, push comes to shove.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's time because those health care subsidies that were given
during COVID have now will now disappear on December thirty one.
So what is Johnson going to do? Mike Johnson, Well,
the Republicans have put together a plan which does not
work because it doesn't do anything about those subsidies. Those
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still will go away, and they've come up with just
well what they did is throw this against the wall, hoping.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That it sticks.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It won't, hoping that it passes, it won't, hoping that
somehow it's going to assuage the American people.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It won't.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And the entire plan of the Republicans has been let's
kill Obamacare. I think sixty somewhat introductions or bills have
been proposed to kill Obamacare, which at this point is
like Social Security.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's become the third rail.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So you're not going to see this go Mike Johnson,
by the way, is will not put the Democrats plan
or the continuation on the floor of the House.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That's not going to work either. He has the power
to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
But there's a continuing resolution and that is going to pass. Well,
it's not continuing resolution, it's a procedural move in which
Johnson's ability to take that off the floor disappears.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It will be voted on, there is no question.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And even if the House does pass this Republican plan,
it's going to fail in the Senate. This is going
to affect the Republicans deeply. Now. They've come up with
a plan basically saying that people, if you're self employed
or you work in different industries, everybody can come together
(03:23):
and negotiate new insurance plans. Okay, can they Yes? Is
it going to stop the subsidies? Is it going to
help with the subsidies? No, it's not. Well, it will
stop the subsidies. They didn't even touch it. I'm going
to tell you Americans want this. You've got twenty million people,
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of which a whole lot of them voted for Donald Trump.
My opinion, I'm just guessing, but I wouldn't be wrong.
And they're all going to lose their insurance either they
lose it outright or prices for the most part are
going to double triple and people can't afford it, and
they're going to be out of insurance. And the Republicans
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are fighting tooth and nail and will not let those
subsidies continue on. Hey, you know what, this is election
time coming up with the midterms, and you've got some
big issues. Two things I keep on saying are going
to really kill the Republicans.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think one, prices.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
As much as President Trump says prices are lower, prices
are better than they were than when he came into office,
he has the economy is better than it ever was.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Well, the stock market is true.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Unemployment though, is up, consumer confidence is down. It's it's
gonna be a tough It's gonna be a tough way
over the next year.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
If the economy truly does get better, which it's not,
and you've got prices going down, which are not, and
insurance kicks in where subsidies continue on, which it won't,
then you're going to see Republicans. I'll tell you what
you're going to see is Republicans bailing out. They are
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not going to ask the President to endorse them and
publicly either show up at events and or do a video,
and I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The Democrats are going to do.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
If I was a Democrat and I'm running against a
Republican and that Republican senator won't be the Senate for
the most part, maybe and Congress people, I would simply
show that Republican saying President Trump is the greatest president
that ever lived, look what he has done for America,
and then followed while by you lost your job, your
(05:49):
insurance has exploded, and prices have gone up, not down.
I think there are a few Republicans that are going
to be in trouble, especially in those swing districts.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We'll see, and I may be wrong. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
By the way, just as a fact, when the President
said that he is the only president to ever hit
big pharma, that's not true. Joe Biden actually did remember
the thirty five dollars max on insulin.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That was Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Now is the president doing more than any other president
to attack big pharma?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
There has been no president who has come to this
level of attacking big pharma on behalf of the American consumer. Okay,
this one is interesting because have you ever heard of California?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
The DMV.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Warning a car company and saying, you know what, if
you don't change your advertising, you're going to lose the
right to sell your car in this state for thirty days.
It'll be a thirty day suspension. Much like a football
player after he kills someone and sells ten pounds of cocaine,
(07:00):
it's a thirty day suspension. In any case, this has
to do with Tesla.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's that simple.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
What Tesla is doing, according to the DMV, and according
to everybody can who can read, it's mislead, misleading the
use of autopilot, the branding, because what does autopilot mean?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
To most of us?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
It means sort of, how do I describe autopilot? How
about this autopilot? Does that work for you? Because it
certainly works for me? Automatic driving much like Waimo, where
there's no one in the front seat, it is truly
auto pilot piloting. Nope, this doesn't work because what Tesla
(07:44):
is saying the terms autopilot full self driving capability. That's
another one. What does full self driving capability mean? If
you had to translate it into Layman's terms, it means
full self driving capability. It drives itself and it doesn't
(08:06):
the Tesla, well, it drives a lot of itself. It's
certainly computer you can program it. It will change lanes
for you, it has sensors, it will speed up. But
you've got to be behind the wheel, and you've got
to be able to grab that wheel slam on the
brakes at any time. That's not autopilot. That means you've
(08:31):
got to be there. An autopilot means self driving. Well, certainly,
full self driving means that it's drive itself.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And so the issue.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Becomes and by the way, it is an issue because
Tesla is saying, well, wait, wait a minute, just because
you have to have someone sit in the car and
make sure that the steering and the brakes, et cetera work,
doesn't mean it's not full self driving. But it seems
that it is not because there's the definition.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I mean, you can parse it.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
And you can say that maybe that it is not
the same level as a Waymo vehicle is, which is true.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And so what Musk has said, too bad.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
He has brushed off that decision as regulatory overkill.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And he says, nope, not going to change it.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And they say, not going to change the labeling and
the DMV says, you get to change the labeling and
if not, you're not selling cars for thirty days. Now,
on a personal note, in terms of my view and
my love of Tesla's, if they can't sell cars for
thirty days, that gives the consumer the ability to not
buy the car or not be bamboosled by Tesla, which
(09:48):
I think it is. Not buying the car. I'm doing
a favor for you. I have bought a Tesla. It
lasted two weeks in my life. I bought but brand new.
I sold it two weeks later. It wasn't the car
that I thought. Just to manufacture of the car. I
thought it was titty in a sense, it wasn't solid.
(10:12):
I just didn't like the car very much. Now, the
week after I bought the car, must declared a twenty
percent reduction in the value of the car. That's one
of those things that it's not planned. You find out
there are people that bought the car the day before
the twenty percent hit and they just got a car
that's worth twenty percent less than it was even with depreciation.
(10:36):
For me, I had to take my car and I
ended up taking a sixteen thousand dollars hit on the car.
So I look at renting the car at eight thousand
dollars a week before I got rid of it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Not bad.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Now I've done better on rental of cars because rarely
have I paid eight thousand dollars a week for a
car rental. But that's what ended up with me. But
the bottom line is, I don't know where much is
gonna go with that because it is until until someone
can sit in the backseat of that car and not
(11:14):
have a driver up front self driving capability, It's well,
the argument is, just because someone is there, is it
self driving. I don't think do any of you have Teslas?
By the way, no, none of the people here have Teslass. Well,
I have an EV and it certainly is and it's
a Beamer and it certainly isn't self driving. The one
(11:36):
thing it does do, and many cars do this is park.
Parallel park that it does, and I gotta tell you
I've had some rough patches with parallel parking. I do
my own parallel parking. You know. When I took my
driver's test, you had to parallel park, Yeah, and no
one could pass it. That was what stopped everybody cold
(12:00):
on a parallel park Ono, what what did you say?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Never mind? Amy, thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Amy.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Do you know how to parallel park?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I do?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And I'm darn good at it.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I'm so good at it. Good for you?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Okay, okay, okay, ex Canary took away my point here.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Good enough, you're supposed to.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Say, no, okay, really interesting poll by a A P
nork and it Well, I'm gonna throw some figures at you.
But at the same time, there are aspects of this
that I think are kind of huh wow.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I didn't know that, all right.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Starting with, most adults are just fine with cash as gifts,
and uh I that's the kind of gift I give.
I'm not interested in shopping. What I do is I
just hand out check as gifts. Not very big, mind you,
but it's a it's a nice, nice check so. And
(13:05):
then at the bottom that's where I put my holiday greetings,
usually happy Holidays on the memo and that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Occasionally, depending on who Cono for example, or Neil, I
will put this is for hookers, and those are very
special ones.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You see what the cards look like? All right?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I know you do, I know you do. Well, let
me quickly ask Cono, would you rather have cash than
any other gift.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
No, it's currently no. Okay, well wait yeah, wait till
wait till next year. And cash, well, I do love cash,
but okay, I'll spend it on I'll like pay bills
off or something.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Okay, amy cash as gifts for the holiday or gifts
as gifts.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
It depends on who it's from, Okay, true, All right, Well,
I mean they're both lovely.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, with cash being lovelier.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
But a heartfelt gift is I love that too.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I don't even know what a heartfelt gift is you're
getting one from me? Oh god, or what it looks like. Actually, actually,
you give great gifts. You give great gift.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You really do. When are you coming in to get
your gifts? I think I'm coming in.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Not this week, but I think I'm coming in next week.
Maybe I'll do it this week. You know it's already Thursday,
you know, Monday. No, No, I'm going to come in
next week because then I can drive back New Year
Christmas Day because traffic is always horrific.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So probably be next week.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes, oh yeah, And I have I have a Saturday
night dinner with my contractor, just to go over everything
that he's overcharged me for and how he's ruined my house.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And we do that at dinner at the Anaheim White House.
I might have.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's really pleasant.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It's yeah, it's gonna be really good. I just love
the Anaheim White House.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Okay. Six and ten Americans.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Say cash is very acceptable and the other thing. Okay,
so that's not a surprise. Forty are not going to
stay up New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Okay. Survey says, are you up New Year's Eve? Amy?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yes, But here's the deal we go to do.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
We do our New Year's Eve celebration at nine o'clock
and then we come home and then we can be
in our jammies and watch the ball drop and go
to sleep at midnight.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So you stay up till midnight.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Most years.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah. Well, let me put it this way.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
There's a stat about the older you get, the less
you stay up. Now, this is a poll that I'm
talking about ap North Pole that just came out. Six
and ten Americans say cash or gift cards very accessible acceptable.
I like to give cash because actually people can use cash. Also,
what I love about cash is there's nothing personal about it.
(16:11):
It's not a gift that I have to go out
and find and I don't have to write anything other
than side my name.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
It works out well.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Forty four percent of Americans won't stay up to greet
the new year.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I never do. And that's broken down by age.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Half of people over forty five or older don't make
it to midnight.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
About a third of adults under forty five.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Okay, it makes sense. The older you get, the less
you're going to give. Also, cash much say for gift
for younger adults. Now here's one that's kind of interesting.
About six and ten say that secondhand gifts, so regifted
gifts are okay? Sixty percent say used stuff is okay?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Now, come on, used. I mean I don't get it.
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I was just talking to and and let me ask you,
when we talk about to talk about cash or gifts,
what would you rather have cash or a turkey leg?
She's not an answering fair enough. Here is one we
(17:31):
talk about this what you asked me?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, I did, but I wanted to throw in that
funny turkey leg line.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
That's all, okay.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
No, I just came up with something stupid. I just
came up with something dumb, that's all. Now, people leave
their decorations up after the holiday season right into New Year's.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
That's guilty. Yeah, but doesn't that it you have to have.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You can't do it with a real tree because that
tree starts to rot.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I left mine up until February one year.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh god, I'll bet you your place. That's dangerous.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
It was in the fire department because I worked at
a radio station. The fire department called and said, Amy,
you need to get that out of your house.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Most people, by the way, put their keep their holiday
decorations after New Year's. Only two to ten put them
up before Thanksgiving. Now, sports washing, Okay, About a quarter
of US adults say they plan on watching sports on
Christmas Day.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Only five percent will go to a movie theater. Oh
here's a shocker.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Men are much likelier than women to watch sports on Christmas.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Kno football on Christmas? Is that you? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That's too Yep, Well Christmas sports probably Yeah? Yeah, me too,
I'm a sports guy. How about the women? Amy, sports?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
No, we watch a Christmas story on Christmas Day. It's
on a loop on TBS and T and TC. You
can kind of drop in and out of it all
day long.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
That nice.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Vomitus Okay, and yeah, it's on, but nobody's really focused
on right.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Fair enough.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Now here's one that actually stunned me that uh and
I shouldn't be surprised. Thirty three percent of adults say, well,
they will give a gift to their pet this year,
to their pet. Now, come on, really, this is the
(19:32):
same group of people that dress up their dogs for Halloween.
He drives you nuts. Now, I have to admit one year,
one year, I gave a Rubik's Cube to my dog
and I never would do that again because the dog
figured it out quicker than I could.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I don't give pets gifts. I think if you ask
lindsay your.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Dogs are getting gifts, they get No, the dogs are
not getting gift.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yes they are. No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
You know what, They're gonna have a very special dinner
on Christmas Eve. And you know what a very special
dinner is their normal dog food that they eat every day.
That's their special dinner. Geez, I love pets.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I love it. No, you have no, you don't have pets, right,
or you do I have kids? Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, well they're pets, okay, but you have to give them.
There's no question you have to give them. Yeah, and
I know, Amy, you have a cat. Wait, do you
give your cat a gift?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I do not, but my predecessor on wake up call
most certainly would have our old friend Jennifer Jones Lee.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I bet she, Oh yeah, Jennifery.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
She would give her cows that she had around the
house a gift, because that was Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
And then the goats and the raccoons or whatever.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
They don't know what day it is.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I know they really don't. And gifts for pets.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Of course, we have a list. We have lift the dog,
make the land.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
They have to be equal, so it's fair too. Seriously,
what are you getting your dogs for Christmas? There are
special balls, treats, there's all outfits, there's all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Good God, will no do you have a pet at all?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I don't have a pet, and be there's no way
no Amy dresses up her cat though.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
It's the cutest little Christmas treet Amy.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
All I can say is and I you know, I
generally don't question you because your lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I appreciate it. Your normal. Uh yeah, get a life.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Okay, I'm bringing you a picture.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Uh yeah, oh I can't wait, just can't wait.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Here's what you can do. Do you dress up your
cat as a dog?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Oh, okay, try that sometime. Okay. K f I A M.
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