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Speaker 1: six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2: Good morning everybody.
Speaker 3: Bill Handle here on a Thursday morning, June twenty sixth,
Speaker 3: and as usual, we have a fair amount to talk about.
Speaker 3: By the way, Amy, it was very interesting the quickest
Speaker 3: hour in radio you referred to. Yeah, now is that
Speaker 3: for the listener?
Speaker 2: Is that for you?
Speaker 4: I don't know, it just it's for me for sure.
Speaker 5: It feels like we start, you know, wake up call
Speaker 5: right at five o'clock and then.
Speaker 4: Like two seconds later, it seems like the hour is up.
Speaker 5: And it's that way every day because there's so much
Speaker 5: going on, you know, because it's headlines and entertainment. It's
Speaker 5: just like quick recap of everything that you've done, happened
Speaker 5: while you were sleeping.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the analogy is Einstein's theory of relativity, and
Speaker 3: it goes something like this that when you're having sex,
Speaker 3: an hour.
Speaker 2: Seems like a minute, and when you're.
Speaker 3: Sitting bear asked on a hot stove, a minute seems
Speaker 3: like an hour.
Speaker 6: Well, in your case, I'm not going is a minute?
Speaker 6: So yes?
Speaker 2: All right? Anyway, good morning, Amy, morning to you. Morning morning,
Speaker 2: Good morning, Neil, good morning, good morning, Cono.
Speaker 3: There you are, good morning, and and there you are, yeah,
Speaker 3: and I still can't see Will are you there?
Speaker 2: Will?
Speaker 4: Oh, he's running around somewhere.
Speaker 2: He's here, Okay, he's having.
Speaker 5: Some technical issues. So he's hanging out with me in
Speaker 5: the news booth, okay, because you know.
Speaker 3: Usually we get him during you know, our morning zoom
Speaker 3: meeting that we have every morning when we do this. Okay,
Speaker 3: before we get started. Yesterday, we did one of the stories.
Speaker 3: A couple days ago. We did a story on how
Speaker 3: Californians want the ballot to be in one hundred and
Speaker 3: ninety languages or whatever the.
Speaker 2: Hell it was.
Speaker 3: And I said it should also be in the clicking
Speaker 3: language of Africa, you know, and and give me gave
Speaker 3: me the weird look, and I said, it's a real language.
Speaker 2: You're right. I looked it up. I know, crazy, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean they did.
Speaker 3: So I thought for those who didn't know, i'd give
Speaker 3: you a quick lesson because I found this on the nets.
Speaker 2: So let me play that. The three clicks a.
Speaker 3: X which is you know, or the C which is pronounced.
Speaker 2: And that you wish is pronounced all right.
Speaker 3: See, I mean it's it's a language. So you didn't
Speaker 3: think it was a language, did you? Add?
Speaker 5: Here's what I really love is that you just held
Speaker 5: up your cell phone to the microphone exactly.
Speaker 4: Instead of transparent kono so he could play it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't care. Yeah, I know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to throw that up there because I
Speaker 3: just love the clicking.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the gods, what was that movie?
Speaker 2: The Gods?
Speaker 3: That was?
Speaker 2: I loved it?
Speaker 4: Must be crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a terrific movie.
Speaker 5: Remember the premises bottle at the end that somebody throws
Speaker 5: a coke bottle out of the airplane and it screws
Speaker 5: up this indigenous tribe that has no contact with the
Speaker 5: outside world.
Speaker 2: I know, Fana.
Speaker 3: It was really a good movie. Loved it, loved it
Speaker 3: all right. Let me see what else is going on today?
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, not much I can think of. So
Speaker 2: you know what I think. I I'm gonna go for
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 3: While, maybe take a nap because I didn't sleep Mitch
Speaker 3: last night. So Amy, Neil, why don't you take it
Speaker 3: from here?
Speaker 4: Okay, don't you dare meet you today? Bill?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, you don't. You rarely need me. All right, guys,
Speaker 2: are you ready to do it?
Speaker 3: It is time for Handle on the news on a
Speaker 3: Thursday morning, June twenty six, with Amy Neil and me
Speaker 3: lead story be it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: This is an interesting one because initially after the bombing
Speaker 3: of Tehran's nuclear facility took place, after the B.
Speaker 2: Two bombers, and later on I want to talk about.
Speaker 3: What it's like to be sitting in a B two bomber,
Speaker 3: What do B two bombers go through. It's really fascinating stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be doing that at seven twenty. In any case,
Speaker 3: immediately upon the bombing, within I think hours, President Trump said,
Speaker 3: we've that the bombing obliterated the nuclear facilities. Now the
Speaker 3: Pentagon came and said not really. Their assessment was not really,
Speaker 3: it was only partial, and the program was only back
Speaker 3: was delayed. They're delayed to Tehran's program was only delayed
Speaker 3: six months. Now the Israelis are coming back and said no,
Speaker 3: it's much closer to the obliteration story.
Speaker 2: And it's going back and forth. Now. Frankly, of all
Speaker 2: of that, I'm going to believe.
Speaker 3: The Israeli the Israeli intelligence report, and the problem is
Speaker 3: it takes a lot longer than the reporting time that
Speaker 3: they've given it at this point, and the Iranians are
Speaker 3: going to underplay it completely.
Speaker 5: Oh, the Comania came out this morning and said that
Speaker 5: Iran was victorious over Israel. Oh, they slept the US
Speaker 5: in the face.
Speaker 3: Right exactly. I mean, so anything the Iranians do are nuts.
Speaker 3: But the Iranians have admitted the damage, and you have
Speaker 3: to multiply that by ten times whatever Iran admits. So
Speaker 3: it's leaning towards what President Trump has said, that it
Speaker 3: is much closer to obliteration, and that Israel says that
Speaker 3: their program has been delayed by years instead of just
Speaker 3: a few months. And Iran is still going balls to
Speaker 3: the wall ahead with their program for quote peaceful purposes,
Speaker 3: even though there's enough uranium out there to manufacture nuclear
Speaker 3: power just until the cows come home. But processing uranium
Speaker 3: to weapons grade is for peaceful purposes?
Speaker 2: Sure, why not? You know, Trump thought that this would
Speaker 2: make them come to the table. It's not.
Speaker 3: And Humani, these guys are nuts, just out.
Speaker 2: Of their minds.
Speaker 3: So far more important than feeding their people, than having
Speaker 3: an economy, than having a decent and just a decent
Speaker 3: way of going about as a country, just living and existing.
Speaker 3: You know, you go to the Scandinavian countries. Hey, everybody
Speaker 3: lives great now. They don't care about the bombs. They
Speaker 3: don't care much about the defense other than NATO. You know,
Speaker 3: they just live their life and do great. Boy, certainly
Speaker 3: not in the Mideast.
Speaker 2: All right, moving on. I have a quick question though. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: you said that you believe Israel, but yeah, they saying
Speaker 2: whatever Trump wants them to say. No, I don't think not.
Speaker 3: I think I think their intelligence is so good and
Speaker 3: I don't believe.
Speaker 2: I do not believe that.
Speaker 3: They would put the reputation of their intelligence at risk.
Speaker 3: That's what I think at this point. That's what I believe.
Speaker 3: I may be wrong. By the way, it's a very
Speaker 3: good point you bring up, because N'tagnahu is sucking up
Speaker 3: big two Trump big time.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, he has to, That's what I'm saying. Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: I have a very good point. I don't think you
Speaker 2: can tell you know what.
Speaker 3: It's easy to tell see how many knee pads are
Speaker 3: being sold in Israel right now, and.
Speaker 2: That'll give you a very good idea.
Speaker 5: Moving on, Member nations are getting on the Trump train.
Speaker 5: NATO summit has ended, and before they wrap things up,
Speaker 5: the European allies approved the spending plan that Trump has
Speaker 5: been pushing for, and that is that they would use
Speaker 5: five percent of each member nation's GDP for defense. It's
Speaker 5: like three and a half percent on traditional military and
Speaker 5: then one a half percent on military adjacent product projects.
Speaker 5: Pretty Much everybody's on board except Spain is still resisting.
Speaker 5: They said, now we don't want to do that. Doesn't
Speaker 5: have Trump very happy, but that was the outcome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, Trump won on this one, and I couldn't
Speaker 3: agree more.
Speaker 2: He's right from day one.
Speaker 3: He said, NATO countries have to live up to what
Speaker 3: NATO countries agreed to, and they haven't.
Speaker 2: Been in the United States has and he said, I'm
Speaker 2: tired of it. They don't come to the table. We're
Speaker 2: out the door.
Speaker 3: And so he goes there and guess what, everybody came
Speaker 3: to the table, realizing that Europe needs the US in
Speaker 3: terms of security a lot more than the US needs
Speaker 3: the European countries. So he got what he wanted. And
Speaker 3: in this one, I couldn't I could not agree more.
Speaker 3: Obama couldn't do this, Clinton couldn't do this.
Speaker 2: George w. Bush couldn't do this, and certainly Biden couldn't
Speaker 2: do this.
Speaker 7: In another act of utter stupidity, a you have a
Speaker 7: vice mayor of Cuta Hey, Cynthia Gonzalez putting up a
Speaker 7: controversial social media post.
Speaker 6: She's also set a bunch of stupid things as well.
Speaker 7: So now the Los Angeles Police Protective League is calling
Speaker 7: for her resignation. She was making headlines if you remember,
Speaker 7: calling for chilo's slang term for gang members. She wanted
Speaker 7: to know where they were at in Los Angeles eighteenth Street, putoinancia,
Speaker 7: and where are their leadership at?
Speaker 6: And how come they're not coming out? Well, what implied violence?
Speaker 7: She says, No, she was just saying that the community
Speaker 7: needed to come together. But the FBI is not saying
Speaker 7: confirming or not confirming whether they're investigating her or not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now they call her doctor Gonzalez in this story.
Speaker 3: I don't know she is a doctor of but the post,
Speaker 3: I want to know where all the cholos are now
Speaker 3: that your hood is being invaded by the biggest game
Speaker 3: there is. Yeah, exactly, that's what police saw the ice.
Speaker 7: When you're naming gangs, gang members to come out, and
Speaker 7: this is here's the thing. It's no better than the
Speaker 7: you know calling out on you know, white premise, white
Speaker 7: supremacists to come out and stand for thing. It just
Speaker 7: it muddies the waters on a very important issue and
Speaker 7: makes it worse. And you've got videos that have come
Speaker 7: out in the past couple of days of cops being
Speaker 7: attacked in Long Beach in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: No, it's bad. Times are bad.
Speaker 3: By the way, was there a problem when she stood
Speaker 3: up and started throwing gang signs when she was talking, No,
Speaker 3: not at all.
Speaker 6: It's just stupid.
Speaker 7: And then it makes it not even about immigration and
Speaker 7: the problem with immigration, it makes it about Latinos.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if she actually did that or.
Speaker 5: Not, but she actually got an attorney yesterday. She had
Speaker 5: said that the FBI had visited her, which they haven't confirmed,
Speaker 5: and then she said, oh, I need a lawyer. Well
Speaker 5: apparently she's got one. And the lawyer said that at
Speaker 5: the message that she was sending out was meant to
Speaker 5: encourage peaceful demonstrations, not violence. He said, any suggestion that
Speaker 5: she advocated for violence is categorically false and without merit,
Speaker 5: except for the menu.
Speaker 3: If you think about it, you know now that your
Speaker 3: hood is being invaded by the biggest gang there is.
Speaker 3: There ain't a peep out of you. Don't be trying
Speaker 3: to claim no block, no nothing if you're not showing
Speaker 3: up right now trying to help and organize.
Speaker 6: She used it like a rap song, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: But she used the word organized, and I think that
Speaker 3: is going to be the determinative word on this one.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry, go.
Speaker 4: Ahead, oh nothing, I was just going to go to
Speaker 4: the next story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: Trump's borders ours gearing up for a fight, not not
Speaker 5: with the vice mayor of Cutahey, but with the possible
Speaker 5: mayor of New York City. Zorn mom Danni won the
Speaker 5: Democratic nomination for New York City's mayor and border Tom
Speaker 5: Holman says that he's going to fight back because Mom
Speaker 5: Donnie wants to kick the fascist Ice out of New
Speaker 5: York City. He said he's going to Trump proof the
Speaker 5: Big Apple if he's elected, and says the President has
Speaker 5: deployed Ice agents to pluck New Yorkers from their families.
Speaker 4: Holman said, yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the go ahead and try to quote Trump
Speaker 3: proof the Big Apple. Good luck with that, because federal law,
Speaker 3: Trump's him Mom Donnie every day, every hour, every minute.
Speaker 2: That is true.
Speaker 3: By the way, Mom Donnie is probably gonna win, and
Speaker 3: he is an out and out socialist.
Speaker 2: Story.
Speaker 3: I read yesterday that the financial world is based in
Speaker 3: New York, as you know, you know, all the major
Speaker 3: hedge funds, the major banks. They are sweating bullets in
Speaker 3: New York figuring out what's going to happen with a
Speaker 3: socialist mayor in the city.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 7: Dubai United Arab Emirates Iran Supreme leader Ayatola Ali Komanie
Speaker 7: warned Thursday that the US will definitely pay a heavy
Speaker 7: price should it attack Iran again. He said such an
Speaker 7: action can be repeated in the future too. Responding to
Speaker 7: their response, speaking about their response, and he says that
Speaker 7: Iran has access to key US centers in the region
Speaker 7: and could take action whenever it deems necessary. Trump went
Speaker 7: right out, bought some boots and started shaking them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, if you attack us again. By the way,
Speaker 3: American forces just kick the crap out of Iran, taking out,
Speaker 3: if not the nuclear programs underneath the ground, certainly above
Speaker 3: the ground, their power stations, the roads leading to their facility.
Speaker 2: I mean, really did some damage Iran.
Speaker 3: Responded by sending out a couple of missiles.
Speaker 2: And saints the United States.
Speaker 3: Hey, we're gonna send out some missiles tomorrow at ten
Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning, and here's where they're going to land.
Speaker 3: And naturally, everybody there was evacuated and it did zero
Speaker 3: damage and it caused zero, zero injuries. But that's Iran responding,
Speaker 3: and now a big bluff, bluff, bluff, and of course
Speaker 3: declared victory.
Speaker 2: Naturally, you know.
Speaker 3: Like in all the previous wars, they declare victory no
Speaker 3: matter what happens, victory.
Speaker 2: It's just they can't control themselves. They lie. I think
Speaker 2: it's in the genes.
Speaker 3: I really think it's genetic for these countries, leaders of
Speaker 3: these countries to just lie about this sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: They did that in Iraq, The Egyptians did that.
Speaker 2: With their war in Israel.
Speaker 3: Just lie, I mean blatant lies. We wiped out the
Speaker 3: Israeli air force and then you point to the sky
Speaker 3: and it's only Israeli airplanes up in the sky and
Speaker 3: we have the biggest air force in the region. There
Speaker 3: they are every plane blown up. I just you know, okay, sure,
Speaker 3: why not.
Speaker 7: They haven't adapted to the fact that everybody has cameras
Speaker 7: on their phones and.
Speaker 6: The Internet and everything else, like there's tons of.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter. But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: But Iran they don't.
Speaker 5: So for the people of Iran, they may not know
Speaker 5: because their Internet was down or.
Speaker 2: It was but there's enough.
Speaker 3: But there's enough out there, there's enough Iran's I mean,
Speaker 3: the people are pretty sophisticated people.
Speaker 2: They do have a way of knowing what's going on.
Speaker 3: But to your point, you're right, Ran shut down the
Speaker 3: Internet for a period of time.
Speaker 2: Don't know if it's open yet or not.
Speaker 4: All right, scare for Schumer.
Speaker 5: Then, a minority leader, Chuck Schumer had to be taken
Speaker 5: to the hospital. He was working out apparently and started
Speaker 5: feeling light headed, so they, out of an abundance of caution,
Speaker 5: took him to the hospital. He was treated for dehydration.
Speaker 5: Not really surprising. It's been one hundred degrees in DC.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, crazy temperatures over on the eastern seaboard.
Speaker 2: I mean insane.
Speaker 4: He put out a statement afterward, and he said, I
Speaker 4: want to remind everyone to drink water and stay out
Speaker 4: of the heat.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 6: He's okay, yeah, all right. Drones in the Police Department.
Speaker 7: We do have drones here in Los Angeles with the LAPD,
Speaker 7: but they have very or have had very specific uses.
Speaker 7: Those nine drones were restricted to narrow set of dangerous situations,
Speaker 7: you know, barricades, barricaded suspects, explosives, that type of thing.
Speaker 7: But citing success that other police departments across the country
Speaker 7: have had using drones, the Los Angeles Police Commissions said
Speaker 7: that it would allow LAPD deploy unmanned aircraft to routine
Speaker 7: emergency calls. So it's going to be you know, calls
Speaker 7: for service and the like. But these guidelines may other
Speaker 7: may open up other scenarios in the future, like high
Speaker 7: risk incidents, investigative purposes, large scale events, natural disasters, that type.
Speaker 3: Of thing, and putting on miniature machine guns on these drones.
Speaker 2: I'll show you you you damn right, they buzz around.
Speaker 4: Drones are great until they start shooting, until.
Speaker 3: They oh well, I mean they're great when they're shooting.
Speaker 3: It's just they're except when they're shooting at you.
Speaker 2: Then they're not so great.
Speaker 5: You get a lawsuit, and you get a lawsuit, and
Speaker 5: you get a lawsuit. The Trump administration has filed a
Speaker 5: lawsuit against fifteen federal judges in Maryland over the judges
Speaker 5: orders blocking the immediate deportation of migrants challenging their removals.
Speaker 5: It's ratchet up a fight with the federal judiciary. Lorie
Speaker 5: Levinson is a professor at Loyola Law School, and she
Speaker 5: says it's escalating the Department of Justice's efforts to challenge
Speaker 5: federal judges and is quite extraordinary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Instead of appealing or they're appealing anyway, the way you
Speaker 3: deal with the decision you don't agree with in the
Speaker 3: lower courts, you file a lawsuit against the judges. I've
Speaker 3: never heard of this. And what do you think the
Speaker 3: appeals court is going to say? All they're going to
Speaker 3: do is overturn a decision that they disagree with by
Speaker 3: a lower court, because that's the answer. So and by
Speaker 3: the way, I don't think that the appeals courts or
Speaker 3: the other courts are going to rule against all fifteen
Speaker 3: federal judges. And the way you file in federal court,
Speaker 3: you're filing, you first file to a a district court judge.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be at the same level as this.
Speaker 3: So you got fifteen judges who rule one way, You're
Speaker 3: not happy with it, so you filed the lawsuit to
Speaker 3: another judge at the same level. No one's ever heard
Speaker 3: of this, but then again, you know, it's the Trump
Speaker 3: administration stretching the boundaries of what presidential power should be
Speaker 3: or what they want it to be.
Speaker 7: All right, I can speak for all of us who
Speaker 7: have hung out with astronauts, this is a pretty cool story.
Speaker 7: In addition to PRIA, you know, providing all kinds of
Speaker 7: information thinking about the early universe, and like the James
Speaker 7: Webb's Base telescope since twenty twenty one and it's launched
Speaker 7: there obtained all kinds of great data right already known
Speaker 7: planets beyond our Solar system, things like that. But for
Speaker 7: the first time, they actually discovered an exoplanet outside of
Speaker 7: our Solar system that wasn't previously known about.
Speaker 2: Almost seen. They've seen the actual planet here it is
Speaker 2: that they do.
Speaker 6: It's a young gas giant, just like yes, Bill.
Speaker 2: No, you've been regarded as a young gas giant. That's you.
Speaker 6: You're I'm rubber and you're glue.
Speaker 3: This is exciting because before the way they determine their planets,
Speaker 3: you'd be looking at a star and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: the light diminished, tiny little bit and that's a planet
Speaker 3: going in front of it. Sure, yeah, it's reactive, right,
Speaker 3: this is they're actually seeing this puppy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna call it, uh, the Savedra like we
Speaker 3: have Mercury and uh we have uh, you know, Pluto,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna have the Savedra young gas giant.
Speaker 2: I want to go back to that because that's just
Speaker 2: great fun.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: A plan to build Baby Build has been blocked.
Speaker 5: A plan to sell more than thirty two hundred square
Speaker 5: miles of federal land has been ruled out of the
Speaker 5: so called Big Beautiful Bill after the Senate Parliamentarian determined
Speaker 5: that the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would
Speaker 5: violate chamber rules. Lee has proposed selling millions of acres
Speaker 5: of public lands in the West to states or other
Speaker 5: entities to be used for housing or infrastructure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Two, this is legitimate on both sides.
Speaker 3: And which way do you go? Do you flip a
Speaker 3: coin or which political side are you on? First of all,
Speaker 3: the environmentalists and a lot of people are in an
Speaker 3: uproar over the selling of public lands like park lands,
Speaker 3: like national lands.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, how can you do that?
Speaker 3: And on the other side of the coin said, hey,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, we don't have enough land for housing.
Speaker 3: We have such a shortage of housing that we have
Speaker 3: to build more, and let's build it on these public lands.
Speaker 3: Although you know, who the hell is going to drive
Speaker 3: two and a half hours to the nearest town that
Speaker 3: I don't understand.
Speaker 6: I've been in a plane. There's plenty of land, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the bad lands of Yeah, the bad lands
Speaker 3: of Wyoming, if they're out there, a.
Speaker 6: Lot of there's plenty of land. Move somewhere else.
Speaker 3: Okay, there by water we are. And this was a
Speaker 3: technical decision. This did not do. This had nothing to
Speaker 3: do with the merits of the case itself. This had
Speaker 3: to do with a technical issue that the uh, that
Speaker 3: part of the bill just violates the Chambers rules.
Speaker 7: All right, So about twenty percent of the food that
Speaker 7: you're eating has the synthetic dies in it, apparently, so fruit, snacks, cereals,
Speaker 7: these types of things that are on the grocery store
Speaker 7: shelfs we walk by at least weekly, and they're in
Speaker 7: places that a lot of people don't even you know,
Speaker 7: think they would be. Some of the are petroleum products,
Speaker 7: and all kinds of stuff. You got your red dye
Speaker 7: yellow five, these things that they're starting to get rid
Speaker 7: of and it's becoming a massive issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've talked about it. It's starting years ago. You
Speaker 2: talked about this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't listen. We're past the esthetic point. If
Speaker 7: it's just if it's for esthetics, and we should look
Speaker 7: at these things because if they don't add any nutritional
Speaker 7: value to the food, get rid of them.
Speaker 5: Amy lightning didn't need to strike twice. A single lightning
Speaker 5: bolt along a beach in South Carolina hit nearly two
Speaker 5: dozen people, including twelve kids. The bolt of lightning hit
Speaker 5: the water energized a metal cable that has booys on
Speaker 5: it that surrounds a swimming area. So a spokesperson says
Speaker 5: that several people had swam out to the buoys they
Speaker 5: were holding onto the cable when the lightning struck. Others
Speaker 5: were swimming nearby. They said, everybody got quite a jolt,
Speaker 5: so we're fortunate injuries were not worse than they were.
Speaker 5: Twelve people did go to the hospital. Six others were
Speaker 5: kind of traded at the scene, but nobody was killed,
Speaker 5: which just.
Speaker 3: Get really unique because lightning can certainly kill it. So
Speaker 3: everybody got quite a jolt, as the authority.
Speaker 7: Said, number of gray whales migrating along the California coast
Speaker 7: is dipping yet again this year, dropping to levels that
Speaker 7: we haven't seen since the nineteen seventies. There are now
Speaker 7: likely fewer than thirteen thousand gray whales migrating along the
Speaker 7: North American Pacific coast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're neat animals.
Speaker 3: You know how you can tell a gray whale it's gray, Yeah,
Speaker 3: pretty much. And they're big, and they're big, and they're gray,
Speaker 3: and there's no synthetic dye on them, so they're still
Speaker 3: say gray, great, And they don't know why. They think
Speaker 3: it's climate change that's affecting the supply and the plankton
Speaker 3: that they eat. Do gray whales eat plankton or they
Speaker 3: eat krill? No?
Speaker 2: Krill?
Speaker 7: No, But every time, this is the lowest it's been
Speaker 7: since the seventies. What was the problem in the seventies then.
Speaker 2: Well, you know it was high in the seventies. This
Speaker 2: is the lowest since the seventies.
Speaker 5: Gray whales primarily are bottom feeders. Their diet consists of
Speaker 5: small shrimp like crustaceans called amphipods.
Speaker 2: Amphipods are also known as krill.
Speaker 5: They also consume other bottom dwelling organisms like tube worms,
Speaker 5: small uscs, and small fish.
Speaker 3: M m.
Speaker 4: That doesn't sound very.
Speaker 2: Appetizing, no, is it? A? Are they baleen whales?
Speaker 4: What's a baileen whale?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 3: A baileen whale has basically in its mouth has this
Speaker 3: giant filter and it filters out They huge gulps of
Speaker 3: water and it filters out the krill.
Speaker 5: It looks like it because they do the skim feeding thing.
Speaker 5: They can skim the surface for playing.
Speaker 2: In ye es feeding like that will clearly every time. Okay,
Speaker 2: moving on.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: McDonald says it's misunderstood.
Speaker 5: McDonald's is issuing a response to a call by an
Speaker 5: activist group for an economic blackout of McDonald's. The People's
Speaker 5: Union USA is asking customers to boycott the restaurant because
Speaker 5: it has apparently rolled back some of its DEI initiatives.
Speaker 5: The People's Union says, h in part, it's because of
Speaker 5: false DEI promises and also because McDonald's exploits tax loopholes
Speaker 5: and supports politicians who threaten democracy.
Speaker 2: Stop it.
Speaker 3: Oh good god, now there was a problem. They did
Speaker 3: give up the mcquoke one of their hottest selling burgers.
Speaker 5: Gosh, gosh, gall he I think I think, I think
Speaker 5: we're done.
Speaker 2: Okay, what do you think? Guys?
Speaker 6: You want to hear about trump nomination for the NOBIL.
Speaker 2: All right, yeah, the Trump Yeah, the Trump Peace Prize.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So the chairman and you Graine for its Fairs committee,
Speaker 7: says that he has lost any kind of faith in
Speaker 7: mister Trump's ability to end the war, and so they
Speaker 7: took it back.
Speaker 3: Anybody can nominate anybody. I mean that is that this
Speaker 3: is merely a PR stunt for real. Okay, KF I
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