WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:04.839 You're listening to Bill handle on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:12.480 six forty. 3 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:15.880 There's enough there, Neil, to make the oceans rise. 4 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:20.800 I put more water, eight ounces of water, add two 5 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:24.440 ounces of ice. Yeah, not gonna make more than six 6 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:26.199 ounces of water, and it does. 7 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:30.519 It rises. The water rises. 8 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:31.440 Are the dumbest man. 9 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:37.320 And now handle on the news, Ladies and gentlemen. Here's 10 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:38.520 Bill handle. 11 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:45.399 KFI A M sixty six forty handle here. It is 12 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:50.719 a homday, Wednesday, December eighteenth? Is it eighteenth of the 13 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:51.719 seventeenth today? 14 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:52.759 Eighteenth today? 15 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:56.119 Okay, good, we got it right. I love that promo. 16 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.479 By the way, the water rises, which turned out to 17 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:02.359 be with icees. That's the case. Uh, And Neil was 18 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:04.239 wrong and I was right. Not that I want to 19 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:05.799 push it very very hard. No. 20 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:12.760 Actually, Ann came in with an answer about how fresh 21 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.000 water and salt water are different. 22 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.560 Yeah, different displacements. What I should have done. What I 23 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:22.519 should have done is reference the fact that Christmas is 24 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:27.040 coming and say the water has risen with the ice cubes. 25 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:29.319 Confusing Christmas with Easter. 26 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:36.319 Wait a second, all right, I always get confused. Uh, Christmas, 27 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:39.879 Christmas is when when he was born? And what's today? 28 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:42.840 When three day when he died. Uh, and then three 29 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:45.640 days later he went up or sideways or which way 30 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:53.400 did he go? I hope you burn you hope? Good 31 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:54.159 morning everybody? 32 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:57.079 All right before Christmas? 33 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:00.560 Let's uh, let's do it, guys. We have a morning 34 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:03.000 show another Wednesday. Hey, I want to share something to 35 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:05.319 go first of all, good morning, Neil, and I wish 36 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:10.400 this is visual. You could see what Neil does because 37 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:14.280 behind them is always some reference of what we're doing 38 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:18.520 during the day. That day, the Taco Tuesday, for example, 39 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:24.080 there's references to tacos or little cartoon figures. Humpday Wednesday 40 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:27.479 is some reference to a camel. Well, he has the 41 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:29.000 Christmas camel. 42 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.199 Today, beautiful Christmas camel. 43 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:35.879 Beautiful Christmas candle, and camel had her breath taken away. 44 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:37.840 It's stunning, it really is. 45 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:39.240 It's beautiful. 46 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.039 It looks like a Christmas card. 47 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:42.800 Is there any way we cant Is there any way 48 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:44.919 we can put those up on Instagram? Does it exist? Oh? 49 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:47.360 We don't know those images occasionally, that's. 50 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:49.680 Right, that's right. Otherwise, yeah, no, I get it. 51 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:54.479 Wo'd be sued really big on images on radio. I 52 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:55.520 think they're powerful. 53 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:56.639 Let me tell you it. 54 00:02:56.680 --> 00:02:57.840 Would bribing them. 55 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.280 You know what, do you think it would help us? Right? 56 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:04.560 It would, it would, all right? So good morning Neil, Amy, 57 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:08.080 Good morning, Hi Bill? You cold? You have that crew neck? 58 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:10.439 You know I'm not cold now. I've got a heavy 59 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:11.120 winter sweater. 60 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:15.560 Yeah you do. Oh and Ann also has a wintry 61 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:20.280 jackety thing on good morning. Oh is it really all right? 62 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:25.039 And kono? Oh wow, you you're dressed differently today. Sweatshirt 63 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:29.039 and hat. It's a jacket. Oh, okay, can't see it? 64 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:30.960 Plat on the inside, black on the outside. 65 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:31.840 Beautiful. 66 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:35.680 You know there's some line plaid on the inside, black 67 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.360 on the outside. You know. It's either a song or 68 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:41.800 some reference. I don't know what it is. H in 69 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:45.879 any case, Okay, let me let me see what we're 70 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:48.680 gonna do. All right, let's get right into it. News 71 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:52.360 that's fit to print, even though we don't print. You 72 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.680 probably knew that. And here we go, guys, it's time 73 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:59.719 for Handle on the News with Amy and Neil and 74 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:06.599 the lead story. What a shocker, right, Luigi Mangioni has 75 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:10.520 been indicted in New York for murder of the CEO 76 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.360 Brian Thompson of United Healthcare. But here is a difference. 77 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:17.560 What he has been indicted for is not only the murder, 78 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:21.439 of course that's a given, but in furtherance of an 79 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:26.600 act of terrorism. They're connecting terrorism with this murder, which 80 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:28.360 you look at it and you got this a little 81 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:32.360 bit strange and the da Alvin Bragg said here it 82 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:38.519 was midtown Manhattan, tourists and business people walking around, and 83 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:41.560 he shoots point blank for a political reason. That is, 84 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.360 he feels against the insurance company. Whether we know it 85 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:50.879 was specific against against Brian Thompson or not, probably, but 86 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:54.079 he said it was to Also, this is Alvin Bragg 87 00:04:54.439 --> 00:05:00.000 to create an aura of terrorism, a climate of terror, 88 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:04.800 and that's almost never used unless you have a terrorist, 89 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:08.639 you know, blowing up buildings, plowing into people where clearly 90 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:12.120 there was an issue. So that's the only new bit 91 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.040 bit of news. And he's probably gonna wave extradition because 92 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:17.879 well he was going to lose an extradition hearing anyway, 93 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:20.680 so you know, wave it and let's move on kind 94 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.639 of thing. So he is coming to New York, will 95 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.120 probably be New York but the end of the week, 96 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.759 and then you're going to see the trial going forward. 97 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.639 His attorney, who was on CNN prior to her being 98 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:40.360 hired as an analyst, said that the evidence is overwhelming 99 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.800 and his only defense really is insanity. That's going to 100 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.319 be it. He's got nothing else to do, nothing else 101 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.160 to say. 102 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:53.680 Okay, Congress has a plan in hand, but can it pass. 103 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:58.480 Congressional leaders have put out their stop gap spending bill 104 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.639 that we'll keep the government through March fourteenth. If it 105 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.480 passes before midnight Friday, it would provide more than one 106 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:07.600 hundred billion dollars in emergency aid to help states and 107 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:12.360 communities affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton and other natural disasters, 108 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.519 and as I mentioned, would prevent a partial government shutdown 109 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:19.240 that would start if it's not passed after midnight on Friday. 110 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:24.680 Yeah, this is the Republicans. These are the Republicans under 111 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:29.079 Mike Johnson, who are no longer saying we refuse to 112 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:33.000 pass a budget unless Congress puts in controls for the border. 113 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:37.920 Remember that where they just said nope, they'll a border 114 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:39.560 and then there was going to be a budget fight 115 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:43.319 again and Johnson was the lead of it. Well, guess what, 116 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:48.360 no border. This all had to do the same. The 117 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.000 bill stays the same, the spenditure stays the same, except 118 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.279 the difference is you've got one hundred billion dollars going 119 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:58.319 for relief for wildfires and hurricanes, and the government, of 120 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:03.199 course is vers is kicking this everything down the you know, 121 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:05.240 kicking the can down the road, which they always do. 122 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:08.319 So this is until March fourteenth. 123 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.240 So some things that remind us of that Jimmy Carter 124 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:17.120 administration are solar panels on the top of the White House, 125 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:24.279 gas lines, and blue chips in the red back in 126 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:27.120 February of nineteen seventy eight. Well, we have nine days 127 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:27.720 in a row. 128 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:29.800 Nine days in a row, that's the story. 129 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.600 Yeah, so this is happening again. The world's most famous 130 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:37.480 market indicator just suffered its longest losing streak since Jimmy 131 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:39.959 Carter was in the White House. Dal Jones and Dutch 132 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:43.560 Industrial Average Average closed lower than two hundred and sixty 133 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:48.079 seven points on Tuesday, or zero point six percent down 134 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.759 for its ninth straight day. 135 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:55.720 There's a caveat here, there's a butt here. When you 136 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.519 look at all of the losses combined, it's still under 137 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.560 three percent of the market during Carter years. When it 138 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:08.120 went down, the market just went over the cliff and 139 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:11.040 virtually collapsed. This is that there have been days where 140 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.959 almost three percent have gone down in one day. So 141 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:16.639 you know, I don't know what kind of significance that 142 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:19.279 is that it's gone down nine days in a row, 143 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:23.240 because the actual number is still way up. The market 144 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:25.360 is the Blue Chips are up by sixteen percent so 145 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:29.480 far this year, and the Dow is up three and 146 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:31.600 a half percent higher than it was on election Day. 147 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:34.200 So you know what that was saying. The indication is 148 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.080 don't know, is trending. It doesn't indicate much of anything. 149 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.960 I don't think so. And you know what that when 150 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.000 I was getting my PhD in economics that day, I 151 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:46.120 wasn't in class. 152 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:47.799 Piled higher and deeper. 153 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:50.759 Yes, all right, Oh it's my turn. 154 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:55.279 A juvenile emergency in La County. The La County Board 155 00:08:55.320 --> 00:09:00.600 of Supervisors had an hour's long meeting yesterday. They proclaimed 156 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:06.039 a local emergency because of Los Padrino's juvenile hauland downy. 157 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:10.279 They told attorneys and staff to pursue all remedies to 158 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:13.879 keep the facility open, even though the state has ordered 159 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:15.879 it to be closed. One of the issues is there's 160 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:18.440 nowhere to put these two hundred and fifty juveniles who 161 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:23.519 are being detained there. But the proclamation also calls for 162 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:27.240 a series of actions to try to increase staffing at 163 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.919 the facility, which is low, and they say that personnel 164 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:33.120 shortages are at the root of the problems at Bigness. 165 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.480 They have no place to put these kids. They just 166 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:41.480 don't have any place to put these kids. And La 167 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:45.480 County is going to declare a Los Paderno's Juvenile Halliday 168 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:47.519 as an official county holiday. 169 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:51.960 Now, any empty offices there at city, Yeah. 170 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:54.519 Yeah, and you no, It'll be a parade and pickpockets 171 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.639 will be allowed to come in. Actually they'll be invited. Okay, 172 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.279 none of that worked. I had just had a visual 173 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.080 there I wanted to share with you, and that just 174 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:03.679 was not good. 175 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:09.600 Nice, all right. So the police chief says motive for 176 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:13.720 the Abundant Life Christian school shooting was a combination of factors. 177 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:18.639 They said, this is top priority right now identifiing that motive. 178 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.720 But it appears that it's a couple of things. They 179 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:27.320 say that whenever there's a school shooting, there's always signs beforehand, 180 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:32.679 so they're looking at at our online activity. There's also 181 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:37.360 talk about the possibility, the real possibility of bullying being 182 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:39.679 a factor, which has been a factor in the past, 183 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:44.320 but obviously this is a little different because now you 184 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:45.840 have a young girl. 185 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.919 Woman, Yeah, young women. Amy, when's the last time you 186 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:54.000 reported that it was a young girl who went into 187 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:54.919 and shot up a school. 188 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.759 This is the only one, Well, the only other one 189 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:00.759 was the one in Tennessee, but that was a twenty 190 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:05.039 eight year old who there was a transgender I can't 191 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:09.240 remember if it was which correction, a boy who transitioned 192 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:11.879 to a girl. I'm not I think that's that's what 193 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:12.360 the case was. 194 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:15.039 Well, so you have a fifteen year old student at 195 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:18.840 the high school who comes in and they won't tell 196 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:21.519 us what the motive is, and the police chief said 197 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:25.080 in his press conference that they are looking at the 198 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:28.480 possibility of bullying. I can't imagine that bullying would not 199 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:32.799 be part of it. I just can't imagine that it 200 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:34.960 would be and would not be in response to bullying. 201 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:37.759 But you know, who knows and where's she get the gun? 202 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:44.759 It was a handgun And according to the police reports, 203 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:48.039 the parents are fully cooperating with the police on this one. 204 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:51.200 And doesn't that make sense after that last set of 205 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:54.200 parents up in I believe it was Minnesota. They both 206 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:57.039 are spending time in jail because they didn't cooperate. 207 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.320 Well, there was a difference because they gave the kid 208 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:05.279 a gun and as a Christmas gift after knowing and 209 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.080 his writings saying I'm going to kill people, and they 210 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.320 had known he had written that, So I mean, that 211 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:16.720 is really egregious this one. They may also be charged 212 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:20.679 criminally if the gun was left unattended or unsafe. We 213 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:24.759 don't know at this point, you know, and gun safes 214 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:28.200 should be involved. Although people keep guns out Neil, I 215 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:32.120 know you have a weapon, do you what do you 216 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:34.159 do to secure it because you've got, you know, a 217 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:36.159 seven eight year old kid running around. 218 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:40.600 I don't go into details about these things normally, but yes, 219 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:44.200 my wife and I both shoot and and have for 220 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:49.480 many years. But everything is safety checked and of course, 221 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.799 going through the adoption process that was all checked out. 222 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.879 They're very thorough on those things when you have firearms 223 00:12:55.879 --> 00:13:00.000 in the home. But yeah, we have levels of secure 224 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:05.840 that keep them very very safe, yet still can be 225 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:07.039 used as protection for them. 226 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:11.080 Yeah, at one point I had a weapon for maybe 227 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.799 a year and use gun safes, and that there was 228 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:17.320 those little safes that fit in the top drawer of 229 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:21.559 your side table and your hand goes in. Today it's 230 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:26.440 fingerprints that read that, fingerprints that pop open the door 231 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:28.240 where you can reach in and just grab the gun 232 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:32.000 fully loaded, ready to go. But it's a gun safe, 233 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:35.480 and in my case, it was long enough ago where 234 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:37.639 you had to actually put in a combination. You had 235 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:40.399 four numbers and you would just go whatever the numbers 236 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:42.600 they were, and I was very clever. I went one, two, three, 237 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:45.799 four because I know anybody breaking in would never use that. 238 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:49.240 And then I forgot the code and I could never 239 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:49.840 get it open. 240 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:51.440 You should not own a god. 241 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:53.759 Yeah, well, and well you know it was pretty safe. 242 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:56.440 The only thing I could possibly do if someone breaks 243 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:58.559 in is take the safe and throw it at them 244 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:00.759 because I couldn't get access to the safe and to 245 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:01.759 the gun inside. 246 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:06.039 Just remember you, like the saying is, you don't have 247 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:09.120 to outrun the bear. You only have to outrun the 248 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:13.519 other person that you're with, and they have to outrun 249 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.279 the bear. So I if someone breaks into the house, 250 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:20.840 you can always shove someone else in the house towards 251 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:21.840 them as you run out. 252 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:24.600 Yeah, I do that. I would throw my kids, my 253 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:26.399 spouse in front of me. I've said they know it, 254 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:27.240 and they know it too. 255 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:31.759 You'll be fine. We'll be fine, bear. 256 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.679 And by the way, you know, is there really a 257 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:37.759 doubt I would do that? That is a legitimate concern 258 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.720 because I would default to that. You know, take one 259 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:43.360 of my kids and just put right in front of me. 260 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:47.840 Okay, medical debt's going to disappear for a bunch of 261 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:51.360 people in La County. About one hundred and fifty thousand 262 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:55.120 residents across La County are going to have their medical 263 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:58.080 debt wiped out. The La County Department of Public Health 264 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:02.480 launched its medical Debt Relief program. County officials say the 265 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:05.840 program is going to eliminate five hundred million dollars in 266 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:10.679 debt by using a five million dollar investment to purchase 267 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:12.440 debt for pennies on the dollar. 268 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:16.200 Okay, it's a little more complicated than that. How do 269 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:19.639 you eliminate debt for pennies on a dollar? Why would 270 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:24.559 a provider allow would take five cents for a dollar's 271 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:27.440 worth of debt Because there is no chance that the 272 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:31.120 debtor will ever pay. That's why it's so cheap. So 273 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:33.440 money is going to be raised for people who can't 274 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:37.279 pay the money anyway. So that's one issue. The other 275 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:42.080 issue is the credit. The horrors of credit are still 276 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:48.639 there credit reporting, although spinning on that one, the people 277 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:52.240 who offer credit look at medical debt very differently than 278 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:55.240 they do credit card debt or car debt or being 279 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:58.559 laid on mortgage payments. So there's a whole raft of 280 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:01.799 complications here. But the bottom line, again, this is our 281 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.200 tax money. And here's the argument. This is our tax 282 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:07.600 money helping to eliminate debt for people that really can't 283 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.320 pay the debt anyway. But it does help an enormous 284 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:13.879 number of people, if that makes sense. 285 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:15.600 But wait a second, how does it help if they 286 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:17.720 still get dinged on their credit. 287 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.519 Because they don't owe the money anymore. It's a charge off, 288 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:22.840 But it's a charge off, I know, but they're not 289 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:25.799 going to pay it. They're never gonna pay it. So 290 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:29.440 the bill is outstanding for all of those years, or 291 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.600 at least four years, and then the statute of limitation 292 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:35.840 kicks in and a charge off is horrible. It's actually 293 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:38.679 probably worse than a bankruptcy. So the point I'm making 294 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:42.919 is does this really help? Yeah? But sort of kind 295 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:47.799 of not the way it seems at first glance. Does 296 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:48.360 that make sense? 297 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:51.840 Thing off medical debt seems better than paying off people's 298 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:53.240 college loans. 299 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.000 Well, college loans are different than medical debt. Medical debt 300 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:00.639 you can't you can't control. Medical debt is almost possible 301 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:01.279 to pay off. 302 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:04.400 But that's my point is, like you did you don't 303 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:07.599 you go into college knowing that you owe that money? 304 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:09.480 Right? You don't go into a Yeah, you don't go 305 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:13.000 into a surgery thinking you owe that money on emergency surgery. 306 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:16.000 All right? The Menendez do they come as a pair? 307 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:16.519 No? 308 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:19.599 Something you know because they always say the Menendez brothers, 309 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:24.240 and so they seem entwined. But Los Angeles County District 310 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:28.319 Attorney Nathan Hackman says that he won't consider the pair 311 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.880 as a package deal when it comes to making decision 312 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:35.559 about possible resentencing. He's going to look at each case 313 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:39.880 separately because they are Yeah. 314 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:41.599 And then it makes sense one of them I think 315 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:46.279 it was who pulled the trigger, Lyle or Eric. I 316 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:50.559 think Lyle pulled the trigger. And that's different than someone 317 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:54.359 who was there. Even though you're saying yes, go ahead, 318 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.240 the law does separate those who actually commit versus people 319 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.960 that were there. I mean, that's certainly the case, and 320 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:05.000 so effectively, what our new DA says is we are 321 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.200 not going to deal. We are not going to consider 322 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:11.799 them the Menenda. We're going to consider them to Menendez 323 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:18.200 as opposed to I as Yeah. 324 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.839 Moving on, Will it be Nanda or maybe Heisan? 325 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:24.440 Oh not bad. 326 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:27.799 Sanda and Nissan are discussing a possible merger. They haven't 327 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:31.359 talked about details or timeframe or anything, but they have 328 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:35.799 collaborated before. They have announced that they would be partnering 329 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:39.160 on electric vehicles. In August, say, they said that they 330 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:43.640 would collaborate on battery technology. But then these merger talks 331 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:48.960 are apparently emerging because both companies have recently fallen on 332 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:49.799 hard times. 333 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:54.279 Yeah, and principally because of their EV vehicles. And what's 334 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:57.839 happening is China, which is a huge market I think 335 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:02.039 now China's largest car market in the world. They have 336 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:08.519 developed their own cars which are superb quality and less money, 337 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:12.000 far less money than competitors. Now you won't see Chinese 338 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:16.000 cars sold here because of the tariffs that have been 339 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:20.400 thrown in, so that effectively means no no Chinese cars. 340 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:22.519 But to go to the rest of the world, there 341 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:26.000 are tons of Chinese evs because it's just that good. 342 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:30.440 They are that good and very reasonably, very reasonably propriced. 343 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:34.680 Remember when Kia first came out, it was a fraction 344 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:39.160 of the cost, and they were tremendous cars. And they 345 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:42.440 are good cars. They are considered very good cars. They're 346 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:47.160 not They are not yugos kias are Chinese. No Kean's 347 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:50.960 are Korean. Oh okay, yeah, I'm just giving. It's just 348 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:55.440 the analogy. When Kia's first came out, they were much 349 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:58.839 less expensive than competitors and Japanese cars, for example, and 350 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:00.279 they were superb quality. 351 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:03.960 Still a crazy when you when you first get in 352 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.279 a Kia and you find out how much they are 353 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:11.680 the value for you know, their cars are pretty insane. 354 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:15.880 Yeah, and they were the first out to use those 355 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:20.400 starters that you push the button and they advertise there 356 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:24.519 is no Kia in Akia. That's not true. I should 357 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:28.000 have done that for them, you know, I should be 358 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:33.119 believed you not bad, not bad? All right? 359 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:36.079 He lies so well that we believe him. 360 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:39.799 Yeah, he's been doing it on his show for over 361 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:41.119 thirty years. 362 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:41.880 So true. 363 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:47.680 Well, Kono isn't the only one with blackout risks this 364 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:51.039 holiday season. They're looking at the possibility of blackout risks 365 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:56.720 rising for North American grids because of power problems, not 366 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:00.039 drinking problems. The risk of blackouts will increase for mo 367 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:03.119 of North America over the coming decades due to surging 368 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:08.880 in electricity demand. But we're still forcing everybody to get 369 00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:14.440 in evs. So you know why we we're having problems 370 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:17.279 in North America with reliability. 371 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:19.319 I do. I know the answer. I'll tell you why. 372 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:22.440 I know the answer because I just read it. What 373 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.680 is it? It is because we are shutting down coal fired 374 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:31.799 and fossil plants faster than we are building alternative energy plants. 375 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:32.599 Wow. 376 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:37.079 Yeah, and that's why. And so that's a problem for EVS, 377 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:41.920 which I have that problem range anxiety, cheese. We need 378 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.200 more charging, which means we need more electricity, which means 379 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:48.799 all of it. And the other thing is alternative energy. 380 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:53.839 You know those big windmills, as there's nothing like a 381 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:56.960 view where you look up and you've got hundreds of 382 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:58.880 these things you're looking at on the mountain tops do 383 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:02.680 very little. Now they actually do a lot. The percentage 384 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:08.480 of wind power in California is pretty high, pretty high. Hey, Siri, 385 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:15.359 what is the percent of electricity? Okay, that was easy. 386 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:22.640 Oh got the show, Siri. Listens, Hey, sirih Hey, Siri. 387 00:22:24.279 --> 00:22:27.160 When power recounts for six point eighty six percent. 388 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:29.759 Okay, that's either very little or a lot relative to 389 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:34.319 six percent. Yeah, well six point eight percent. Let's uh, 390 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:38.240 you know not let's not pick knits here. Wow, Solar 391 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:41.359 is very big. Solar is about a third if I'm 392 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:43.720 not mistaken. You want to look that up? Kno, I 393 00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:44.960 think Solar is very strong. 394 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:48.000 Since Siri's not talking to you, it's there. 395 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:50.640 You go almost a third. Let's do it. We still 396 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:51.759 have a couple more stories. 397 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:56.880 Uh, junk fees aren't exactly going away, but now you'll 398 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.960 at least know about them. The Federal Trade Commission and 399 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:02.720 to final rule banning ticketing and short term rental companies 400 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:05.319 from including those hidden junk fees. 401 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:06.319