Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty. The Bill handles
Speaker 1: show on demand on the iheartradiop Laws regarding looting aren't
Speaker 1: nearly stringent enough. There have been many times and there
Speaker 1: are jurisdictions around the world where looters are shot on site.
Speaker 1: That's how serious looting is. And of course we don't
Speaker 1: do that. It should be looting should be a felony
Speaker 1: of at least ten or fifteen years, maybe twenty years
Speaker 1: mandatory ten years. It's that bad looting because that is
Speaker 1: the complete falling apart of society as we know it.
Speaker 1: And now handle on the news, Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Speaker 1: Bill Handle. Okay, just listening to my own promo, Cono.
Speaker 1: Do we normally run promos before the show? Either? I
Speaker 1: don't pay attention to.
Speaker 2: The every Day do we really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: She goes to show you how much I pay attention
Speaker 1: to this stuff. Just before I go in the air.
Speaker 3: The show starts always with a clip from previous show
Speaker 3: every Day.
Speaker 1: Wow, do you know I've never paid attention?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Maybe you're welcome, Cono. No, because I'm busy looking at
Speaker 1: the first stories and.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you comment. Sometimes I see you smiling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I'm not smiling at that. I'm smiling about
Speaker 1: what I'm going to say. I'm smiling about some completely
Speaker 1: insane racist from Mark that I can't make, and so
Speaker 1: I have to smile at my own stuff.
Speaker 4: Are you not?
Speaker 3: Are you not attracted to them? Maybe you're not a promosexual?
Speaker 1: Oh? Not bad?
Speaker 4: Now it's horrible. Are you kidding me? That's all horrible.
Speaker 1: That's horrible, not bad, all right. Anyway, it is a
Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, everybody, Humpday, January fifteenth. We start the show,
Speaker 1: and we obviously have a lot going on modified fires.
Speaker 1: We're still in the middle of the fires and fire news.
Speaker 1: Hopefully fleet today the worst case scenario does not come out.
Speaker 1: So let me say a quick hello, Amy morning.
Speaker 2: Good morning Bill.
Speaker 1: Now, you may be wearing a sweatshirt that I have
Speaker 1: never noticed that has no writing on it. There's no
Speaker 1: Disney reference. Oh no, there is something written on it.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Oh it's the iHeart Media hoodie that they
Speaker 1: handed out. Yes, Now do you know that you can't
Speaker 1: actually either wash it or sweating it? You're aware of
Speaker 1: that because the color of the ink runs, because it's
Speaker 1: made in Pakistan by kids making four cents an hour
Speaker 1: and with the cheapest cotton that exists. You're aware of that, Okay.
Speaker 5: All right, I will just point out Bill that there
Speaker 5: are more days that I don't wear Disney stuff, and
Speaker 5: I think it's throwing you. I think I need to
Speaker 5: be on a roll because I think you get thrown
Speaker 5: when I don't have Disney out.
Speaker 1: You know, you're absolutely right, You're absolutely right. Oh, I've
Speaker 1: got to get Oh, you know what, I need another
Speaker 1: one of those that does I have one that doesn't fit,
Speaker 1: had one that I sweat in and to completely collapse.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to Chris about that. Oh, he has to
Speaker 1: get me another one.
Speaker 3: Oh, you can get discounts for iHeart stuff as an employee.
Speaker 1: They do that now. You know, there used to be
Speaker 1: a time when and Neil was in charge of this
Speaker 1: where we actually actually had swag radio stations hanging out
Speaker 1: bugs and T shirts and all kinds of fun stuff.
Speaker 3: When I oversaw the promotions department, do you remember in
Speaker 3: my office the whole back wall was shelves of stuff
Speaker 3: that I had to hand out.
Speaker 1: We used to come up with stuff. I don't know, Amy,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you were around, but there was
Speaker 1: an annual radio get together where all the radio stations
Speaker 1: would have sort of an annual thing where everybody would
Speaker 1: have booths and food was offered, and it was just
Speaker 1: great fun.
Speaker 4: They were fun like carnivals.
Speaker 1: Yeah they were. Yeah, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 1: And then everybody went out of their way. Every station
Speaker 1: went out of their way to produce some kind of crazy,
Speaker 1: clever swag to give away the year we won. I
Speaker 1: think it was you when it was knee pads with
Speaker 1: the KFI logo on them. Oh, it was very strong.
Speaker 4: I don't know that that was my work.
Speaker 1: Anyway. Hello to Amy Neil, Good morning, codo, good morning,
Speaker 1: good morning, and running around someplace going or there you are,
Speaker 1: you're behind you, good morning, all right, all right, but
Speaker 1: it's coughed. That's all right. You know I'm allowed to
Speaker 1: do this.
Speaker 4: There is literally a button that says cough on it.
Speaker 1: You know. Here's the problem with a button that says cough.
Speaker 1: I have always I'll take you. I've never used it
Speaker 1: because I've always assumed that two metal fingers or a
Speaker 1: metal hand would come out from underneath the encounter, underneath
Speaker 1: the desk and and grab me and say turn left
Speaker 1: and cough. Now, that, by the way, is a joke
Speaker 1: that not too many young people do, because that's how
Speaker 1: they the doctors would test for hernia. Is at one
Speaker 1: point with guys, you grab them by the nuts and
Speaker 1: turn around and cough.
Speaker 4: What was that ever? Medically?
Speaker 1: I think it was. I think it was. I think
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 4: I think it was real.
Speaker 1: I think it was a real medical thing. I really, how.
Speaker 4: Are you checking? What do they do? Are they raised?
Speaker 4: Do they drop?
Speaker 1: They don't know, I don't know. I've never had a hernia.
Speaker 1: I have no idea for sports physicals.
Speaker 4: That's still a thing.
Speaker 1: No, really, I did. I mean, but okay, see it's real.
Speaker 1: That's the real thing. Yeah, okay, So therefore the joke
Speaker 1: works with the cough button.
Speaker 4: Was it everybody or did they just do it to you?
Speaker 1: And did you pay? And cono, did you pay for
Speaker 1: it extra for the physical Okay, okay, we're done. Uh
Speaker 1: that's it. Onwards and upwards, And we're trying to make
Speaker 1: light of the mornings because there's so much crap news
Speaker 1: with these fires. So let's go ahead and start the
Speaker 1: news on this Wednesday morning, January fifteenth, with Amy Neil
Speaker 1: and Me lead story league. As Amy pointed out in
Speaker 1: the news this morning, We're looking at some very high
Speaker 1: winds coming down up to what seventy sixty seventy miles
Speaker 1: an hour, which is severe red flag insane fire warnings.
Speaker 1: And if a fire picks up, fire is ignited, it's
Speaker 1: not going to be fun at all. So, you know what,
Speaker 1: we'll do that throughout the news. Let's just move on
Speaker 1: because we've talked about it and this will be on
Speaker 1: a regular basis as we do the morning.
Speaker 5: Well, and this is related to those winds and the fires.
Speaker 5: Billions and billions of dollars is what the fires are
Speaker 5: expected to cost. New analysis from ACU Weather estimates the
Speaker 5: fires will cost California between two hundred and fifty and
Speaker 5: two hundred and seventy five billion, not million billion dollars
Speaker 5: a change that would mean that they would cost more
Speaker 5: than the entire twenty twenty wildfire season of the state,
Speaker 5: and more than last falls Hurricane Helene, which is estimated
Speaker 5: to cost between two twenty five and two hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty billion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy, crazy numbers. These natural disasters are well,
Speaker 1: I mean a good good portion of the budget, the
Speaker 1: federal budget is going to be wild natural disasters like this,
Speaker 1: and interest that it's going to be paid on the
Speaker 1: national debt, which is going to be a third or
Speaker 1: forty percent of the entire income, the entire revenue of
Speaker 1: the US government. It's a mess, it really is. I'll
Speaker 1: be happy that I'm dead and my kids and grandkids
Speaker 1: can deal with this. You known great here inherit the world.
Speaker 1: Leave me alone.
Speaker 3: The new president will make sure the money comes our way,
Speaker 3: as long as we call it from Pifornia. He once
Speaker 3: it branded well Well said sign Well said, it's going
Speaker 3: to be the Yugas State. Yeah, educators, this is horrible.
Speaker 3: At a Pacific Palisades school, it's the Palisades Charter High School.
Speaker 3: They're desperately seeking a large space where students can gather
Speaker 3: for lessons, and you know they're going to obviously have
Speaker 3: to rebuild the school and the severely damaged their campus.
Speaker 3: You've got a lot of students that are devastated.
Speaker 1: Now it's a charter school, three thousand students. I went
Speaker 1: to a high school that had thirty three hundred students
Speaker 1: and that campus was not small at all.
Speaker 3: I went to a school about twenty five hundred students
Speaker 3: and got kicked out and went to a school with
Speaker 3: about I don't know, maybe one hundred students.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The cool thing about the felons what yeah, we
Speaker 1: had bars.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was going to say.
Speaker 5: The cool thing about what they're doing is they're looking
Speaker 5: for that space so they can keep everyone together as
Speaker 5: opposed to you know, break splitting up all the kids,
Speaker 5: which I know Neil and Chris were talking about this
Speaker 5: before wakeup call this morning, about how a lot of
Speaker 5: these students are going to be you know, moved and
Speaker 5: might never see their friends again. Palisades is trying to
Speaker 5: keep the student body and the teachers all in one place.
Speaker 2: That's why they want that temporary space.
Speaker 1: Where are they going to find any place in or
Speaker 1: around Pacific Palisades they can hold three thousand people.
Speaker 3: They're looking at some place called the Persian Palace.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. And they're looking at some other place
Speaker 1: called the Mohave Desert. Maybe that'll work. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take a break. By the way, the
Speaker 1: Persian Palace is no more. You know that it is gone.
Speaker 1: It has gone by the way of history.
Speaker 2: But it got torn down.
Speaker 1: No I sold it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it still exists.
Speaker 2: Still a tourist attraction. O.
Speaker 4: Thank you guy that built the tas from Mahal dead.
Speaker 1: You know what, but stop that, stop it, Okay. Everybody
Speaker 1: makes fun of the Persian Palace, how big it was.
Speaker 1: It is not anywhere near the size that you think
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 3: Not even well, let's see you carry one. You could
Speaker 3: fit probably ten of my houses in there.
Speaker 1: Let's take that's not true, unless you call your ant
Speaker 1: farm one of your houses. We'll be back and let's
Speaker 1: continue on with handle on the news, all right.
Speaker 5: Providing protection for the most vulnerable. La City officials are
Speaker 5: looking to protect some tenants from being evicted because of
Speaker 5: the wildfires.
Speaker 2: There was a vote yesterday.
Speaker 5: It was unanimous that the city Attorney will draft an
Speaker 5: ordinance that for one year would prevent evictions if a
Speaker 5: renter has extra occupants or unauthorized pets that were necessitated
Speaker 5: by the fires. A lot of people are staying in
Speaker 5: temporary housing, staying with friends, that kind of thing. Under
Speaker 5: the rules, the tenants would need to notify their landlord
Speaker 5: within thirty days after the ordinance kicks in about any
Speaker 5: unauthorized pet or people staying with them because of the fires,
Speaker 5: which makes.
Speaker 1: Us sense, makes all the sense in the world, you know. So,
Speaker 1: I don't know who would be opposed to that.
Speaker 4: You opening up your house.
Speaker 1: No, okay, no chance.
Speaker 3: Group of residents impacted by the Palisades fire. They are
Speaker 3: suing the Los Angeles Department of Water Power LADWP leedging
Speaker 3: that the city and its agency was unprepared. This all
Speaker 3: focuses around much of the information that's coming out now
Speaker 3: about the Santa a Ynez Reservoir, that one hundred and
Speaker 3: seventeen million gallons water storage there, that complex part of
Speaker 3: the LA water supply system had been empty for nearly
Speaker 3: a year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now this one gets interesting because they're going to
Speaker 1: have to prove that there would have been a substantial
Speaker 1: change had that reservoir been operating. It was right in
Speaker 1: the middle of the Palace Saves by the way, would
Speaker 1: have there been a change. If there is no change,
Speaker 1: there's no suit there.
Speaker 3: Saying one hundred and seventeen million gallons up against the
Speaker 3: three million gallons that they had would not have made
Speaker 3: a difference.
Speaker 1: Where did they have hold on? Where do they have
Speaker 1: I'm not looking at the story where they had only
Speaker 1: three million gallons of age.
Speaker 3: Three million gallons is what was made available to them,
Speaker 3: which is.
Speaker 1: Out of the one hundred and seventeen million were totally.
Speaker 2: The reservoirs mostly empty.
Speaker 1: Well this, no, this reservoir was empty. The other ones
Speaker 1: were not. So what you're saying is the all the
Speaker 1: reservoirs only produced three million and this reservoir had one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen million.
Speaker 3: No, that the water that was brought to the fires, right,
Speaker 3: it is my understanding. There was three million gallons that
Speaker 3: were supplied.
Speaker 1: Okay, that I don't understand because if you're saying that
Speaker 1: that only less than three percent of this reservoir was
Speaker 1: brought to the fire, that they only had.
Speaker 4: That was the complaint. Is that the woman what's her name?
Speaker 1: I don't by the way, and I don't know the.
Speaker 3: Woman that makes seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a
Speaker 3: year that oversees the I can't remember her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's news to me. I would love to see that,
Speaker 1: because if you have one reservoir out of all of
Speaker 1: them that were used or the.
Speaker 3: Water supproximity of this reservoir would have made it the understood.
Speaker 1: But again they have to prove that that would have
Speaker 1: had a substantial use because you now have a fire
Speaker 1: that was such a megafire that was moving at such
Speaker 1: a rapid speed that they didn't have enough fire equipment
Speaker 1: that they couldn't pump it. Because even if they had
Speaker 1: the equipment, or even if there was equipment there, which
Speaker 1: there wasn't, it would have made a difference. You can't
Speaker 1: just say this would have done it, or this would
Speaker 1: have helped substantially. You need a lot more than that
Speaker 1: in an allegation, a lot more than that. All I'm
Speaker 1: saying is possibly, it could be. I don't know the answer.
Speaker 1: For example, the ignition of that power line where you
Speaker 1: saw the video of the power line. Uh huh, powerlane went,
Speaker 1: power line went down to Pacific PALISAZ. Theer's a video
Speaker 1: of it, of just the fire igniting at the base
Speaker 1: of the power line. Therefore, the power company is at fault. Well,
Speaker 1: the power company is saying, well, we don't know yet.
Speaker 1: What if the fire came to there. What if it
Speaker 1: wasn't anything they did and I just ignited near there.
Speaker 1: We don't know yet. But the assumption already is the
Speaker 1: lawsuits have been filed. I mean, without even looking it
Speaker 1: was kind of three days into it.
Speaker 3: If I was fighting a fire, a massive fire, the
Speaker 3: largest urban fire in California's history, and someone said, would
Speaker 3: you like another one hundred and seventeen million gaps.
Speaker 1: I understand that. By the way, Okay, incidentally, it was
Speaker 1: shut down, not because it was shut down. There saying
Speaker 1: it was shut down because the requirements for drinking water
Speaker 1: which they used out of this reservoir and they couldn't
Speaker 1: produce it.
Speaker 3: So there's because it had a hole in the cover
Speaker 3: that they didn't get fixed.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm not arguing. I'm not arguing, but they have
Speaker 1: to prove that if they had.
Speaker 3: That outsourced and for one hundred and some one thousand
Speaker 3: dollars and they didn't have it fixed in eleven months.
Speaker 1: So you're sitting okay, so you're on the jury. You
Speaker 1: don't even want to hear anything about whether it would
Speaker 1: have worked, whether or not. We don't want an investigation.
Speaker 1: We've made up our minds.
Speaker 3: Okay, one hundred and seventeen million gallons.
Speaker 1: Now here is my question. You are saying only three
Speaker 1: million less than of that. You're saying that less than
Speaker 1: three percent of this reservoir was the water that was
Speaker 1: brought to the Palisades fire, all those hundreds of via
Speaker 1: three percent of that reservoir.
Speaker 3: No, it didn't even come from that reservoir. They provided
Speaker 3: three trucks.
Speaker 1: I'm not arguing that. I'm saying that three million gallons
Speaker 1: were used in the Palisades. That's the water supply they had.
Speaker 1: Kind of hard to believe that the water supply they
Speaker 1: had in the Palisades would have been what, one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty times more had they used this reservoir.
Speaker 3: No, I've got it have been about thirty five times.
Speaker 3: But I will tell you it's even harder to believe
Speaker 3: that a hole in a cover, well, that it took
Speaker 3: eleven months.
Speaker 1: That I am not, by the way, I'm not even
Speaker 1: if there is negligence, I don't understand. I understand. But
Speaker 1: even as there is negligence involved, let's say that they
Speaker 1: should have had that there. Do you even want to
Speaker 1: hear that it would or would not have made any difference?
Speaker 1: Or you've already decided that it would make all the
Speaker 1: difference in the world.
Speaker 4: Mister Jerry, I don't know how.
Speaker 3: I don't know how one hundred and seventy, your honor,
Speaker 3: one hundred and seventeen million gallons, you're right, would not
Speaker 3: have helped a fire.
Speaker 1: Neil, You're absolutely right. So, ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
Speaker 1: you are not to consider whether that would have made
Speaker 1: a difference or not. That is off the table. All
Speaker 1: you do is listen to what Neil said and listen
Speaker 1: to no investigation.
Speaker 3: Now and now they will prove how one hundred and
Speaker 3: seventeen million extra gallons of anti fire liquid.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't have helped.
Speaker 1: Well, you have a fire that's moving at one hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour.
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: We've had it doesn't matter, Okay, Neil lay By the way,
Speaker 1: I want to point out something that Neil understands the
Speaker 1: law far more than I do, which, of course he
Speaker 1: actually does, so do most of you. We've heard the
Speaker 1: show what we've Yeah, yeah, so anyway, seven, we should
Speaker 1: not do any I understand there should be no investigation.
Speaker 1: It should be done matter of fact.
Speaker 4: That is three of your MIC's side.
Speaker 1: Let me okay, before we take a break, let me
Speaker 1: ask you a question. Uh, DWP is being sued. Do
Speaker 1: you even give them thirty days to respond to the
Speaker 1: suit or do you just say not even a response.
Speaker 4: I'd say not even a response.
Speaker 1: That's true, Gallant, I understand that's the argument. All Right,
Speaker 1: We're done, thank you. The show is over. Neil will
Speaker 1: take over from now. It's it's uh Savedra on the news,
Speaker 1: coming right up. Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 5: California priorities have changed just a little bit, maybe not permanently,
Speaker 5: but for now. For a second day, lawmakers canceled a
Speaker 5: special session hearing on the Democratic led efforts to Trump
Speaker 5: proof the state of California. They also lightly delayed plans
Speaker 5: to provide funding in response to the wildfires in La County.
Speaker 5: Democrats originally wanted the Trump related legislation in effect by
Speaker 5: the time he takes office on January twentieth, which of
Speaker 5: course is like four days wing.
Speaker 1: Not that it matters whether they file a lawsuit January twentieth,
Speaker 1: January fourth, or February sixth, It doesn't matter. So I
Speaker 1: don't even know why this is a big thing for
Speaker 1: the California legislature. They just want to jump on filing
Speaker 1: lawsuits against Trump.
Speaker 3: Like right now, Newsom is actually closing down every tanning
Speaker 3: spa in California so that Trump doesn't even have a
Speaker 3: reason to come here.
Speaker 4: That's how bad it's getting.
Speaker 3: Takeaways from Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing, Boy was that good TV?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's getting it. He's going to be confisted.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's basically had the votes he needed. But four
Speaker 3: hour hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday,
Speaker 3: very contentious back and forth. Democrats delighted him as blatantly
Speaker 3: unqualified to oversee the defense departments three million employees and
Speaker 3: eight and forty nine billion dollar budget, because.
Speaker 1: It was just it was typical stuff. Democrats screaming no,
Speaker 1: Republicans screaming, Yes, everybody has a political statement to make.
Speaker 1: I forgot which senator he.
Speaker 4: Held his own pretty well, he did a good job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, avoid did he practice, Oh he practiced with those
Speaker 1: senators in these mock hearings, some of those the Republican senators.
Speaker 1: And it was but it was just a political statement
Speaker 1: everybody one of their fifteen minutes of fame. I forgot
Speaker 1: which of the Republican senators started with you are you
Speaker 1: are qualified to be our defense secretary? Boom? And now
Speaker 1: a diatribe about how the Department of Defense is woke
Speaker 1: and what Biden did to it, and just I mean,
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 3: Guys, did you see the story He's got this tattoo
Speaker 3: And there was all these stories about how the tattoo
Speaker 3: was was gosh, it was anti something or other. It
Speaker 3: was racist, or whatever. It's a it's a it's a
Speaker 3: Jerusalem cross. Yeah, it's a Jerusalem cross. And it was
Speaker 3: the same one that was on Jimmy Carter's the little
Speaker 3: pamphlet that they handed out at his memorial, and it
Speaker 3: was there was all kinds of stuff on social media
Speaker 3: on how it was Nazi, it was tied to the Knights.
Speaker 1: So we all know that Jimmy Carter was a secret Nazi.
Speaker 1: I mean that is going to be publicized like crazy.
Speaker 4: Well, was never a fan of Israel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, Pam Bondi is the one in the hot
Speaker 5: seat today. President Elect Trump's pick for Attorney General, Secretary
Speaker 5: of State, and several other key cabinets posts will be
Speaker 5: appearing in front of the Senate Committee today for those
Speaker 5: confirmation hearings. Senator Marco Rubio, who is Trump's choice to
Speaker 5: lead the State Department, and then, of course former State
Speaker 5: Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is his choice to be
Speaker 5: Attorney General, are among six names sent to get hearings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and all of them, as we know, are Loyalty
Speaker 1: is first as far as the Trump administration goes.
Speaker 2: Isn't make that way with everybody though.
Speaker 1: No, no, it is not No, sometimes it is not.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have presidents who put up people they don't
Speaker 1: even know. In Robert Reich, for example, Bill Clinton didn't
Speaker 1: even know who he was, but knew he was an
Speaker 1: author and knew he was a labor expert and put
Speaker 1: him up as Secretary of Labor. Madeline Albright secretary of
Speaker 1: the Secretary of State. So no, Now there's some that
Speaker 1: do and some that don't. My favorite one is Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 1: In his cabinet. He put up his enemies into the
Speaker 1: cabinet and loved when they were fighting with each other
Speaker 1: and came to a census, and by the time his
Speaker 1: presidency was over, they all absolutely loved him. Particularly Edwin Stanton,
Speaker 1: who's Secretary of War is considered one of the great
Speaker 1: secretary's cabinet members in the history of the United States.
Speaker 1: Hated Lincoln's guts. I mean, he couldn't stand him, and
Speaker 1: they were enemies, and then when he was named Secretary
Speaker 1: of War, he came to love this man and idolize him.
Speaker 1: So historically, no, they made I made that all, by
Speaker 1: the way, just to make my point.
Speaker 4: That's all right.
Speaker 1: None of that was true, Okay, if it sound good,
Speaker 1: didn't it?
Speaker 4: Yes, this is a weird one, and I'm curious your thoughts. Bill.
Speaker 3: So, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that he's going to
Speaker 3: order the flags the Capitol, which you're standing half staff
Speaker 3: right now, due to the death of former President Jimmy Carter. Uh,
Speaker 3: he's gonna call for them to be raised for President
Speaker 3: elect Donald Trump's inauguration, which defies a White House proclamation,
Speaker 3: and then they'll go back after that day.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, he certainly has the right to say what flags,
Speaker 1: what flies on the Capitol and what doesn't fly, because
Speaker 1: he's the speaker, and it's more important for him to
Speaker 1: celebrate Trump's inauguration than it is to memorialize Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 1: Is just that simple. And so it's again it's politicizing.
Speaker 1: Everything is political. Why would you you know you were
Speaker 1: in the middle of national congressional mourning for a president
Speaker 1: who has just died. And this is the first time
Speaker 1: this has ever happened. But I think this may be
Speaker 1: the first time in modern history where you had a
Speaker 1: president dying within the thirty days of the national morning period.
Speaker 4: I bet you it's a conspiracy. I bet you.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter, who would not die, died knowing just that
Speaker 3: it was coming close enough so that the flag would
Speaker 3: be half mass during the inauguration.
Speaker 1: Well, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died just to screw with the Democrats,
Speaker 1: you know that. But secretly, secretly she hates the Democrats.
Speaker 1: And so therefore instead of resigning and making sure that
Speaker 1: Biden put in uh someone, it was no, it was
Speaker 1: why Obama, that Obama put in someone, it was going
Speaker 1: to be a liberal. She died. Uh No, it was
Speaker 1: during Trump's first and administration. I have to get the dates.
Speaker 1: I'm conflating the dates, but the bottom line is, had
Speaker 1: she not died, there would have been a liberal. The
Speaker 1: fact that she did die at the wrong time made sure.
Speaker 1: I think it was either Gorsich was she was a
Speaker 1: Amy call Mey Barrett.
Speaker 2: I think not Amymy Barrett.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, Yes, that's true. Of all the
Speaker 1: people that are not Commy Barrett's, she's one that's true.
Speaker 5: Okay, how about a little tit for tat from the
Speaker 5: former First Lady. As you know, President elect Trump did
Speaker 5: not go to President Biden's inauguration. Well, now former First
Speaker 5: Lady Michelle Obama says she is not attending the inauguration
Speaker 5: next week. They didn't give a decision for or an
Speaker 5: explanation for that decision.
Speaker 1: But I think Obama's going to be there, George Bush
Speaker 1: and Laura Bush are going to be there, Bill and
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton will be there. So I think a lot
Speaker 1: of it. I think I don't know personally, would I
Speaker 1: be there? Would you be there? After? Trump scorned the
Speaker 1: Biden in inauguration, but then again, trumpet claimed that Biden
Speaker 1: wasn't legitimately elected. So if I had thought that Biden
Speaker 1: wasn't legitimately elected, I probably wouldn't have gone either.
Speaker 4: Miss First Lady. It's her prerogative.
Speaker 1: Of course, it is everybody's prerogative.
Speaker 3: Chinese officials, obviously dealing with the looming TikTok band here
Speaker 3: in the US have internally discussed, apparently options including the
Speaker 3: possibility of allowing a trusted non Chinese parties such as
Speaker 3: Elon Musk come on down to invest or take control
Speaker 3: of TikTok's US operations. Who knows if it'll happen, but
Speaker 3: interesting like he needs another social media platform.
Speaker 1: UH.
Speaker 5: Banning biological boys from girls sports. The House voted yesterday
Speaker 5: to pass a bill that would ban transgender athletes from
Speaker 5: women's and girls' sports at federally funded schools and educational institutions.
Speaker 5: During the last session, House Republicans also passed a bill
Speaker 5: same basic bill, but it wasn't taken it by the Senate,
Speaker 5: which was led by the Democrats. Now it's led by
Speaker 5: the Republicans, so it's expected to be taken up by
Speaker 5: the Senate this session.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's a lot of LGBTQ animosity in
Speaker 1: the world today. But I tell you those people that
Speaker 1: are arguing this position, I think there's some legs there
Speaker 1: because someone who was born a man and then becomes
Speaker 1: a woman and wants to play in women's sports, there
Speaker 1: are physiological advantages to that now woman sports figure.
Speaker 4: So you're saying there's legs.
Speaker 1: I'm saying Delgates would say women of that ilk have
Speaker 1: extraordinary upper body strength.
Speaker 3: Oh interesting times we live in. Are they sponsors of
Speaker 3: terrorism or not? President Joe Biden is to remove the
Speaker 3: US designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism
Speaker 3: as part of a prisoner release deal, the White House
Speaker 3: said yesterday. So Cuba announced it would release five hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty three prisoners detained for diverse crimes.
Speaker 1: Incidentally, they're going to be removed as a sponsor of
Speaker 1: terrorism January twenty one, Cube was going to be brought
Speaker 1: back on the list and I'm not kidding either. Okay,
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