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Speaker 1: six forty, Ladies and gentlemen, Here's Wayne Resnick.
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Speaker 2: app Good Morning Bill Handles show. He is on holiday vacation.
Speaker 2: That guy told you who I am. I should probably
Speaker 2: tell you who he is. But is that Frost?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: That is is That is that mister Frost? What's his
Speaker 2: first name?
Speaker 3: John?
Speaker 2: That's John Frost too when you hear that voice on KFI.
Speaker 2: So now we have each identified each other, and that's
Speaker 2: equity and parody, which is very important. Good morning, Michelle Cube.
Speaker 2: You were the first to speak. You were the first
Speaker 2: to be greeted. Good morning Wayne, greetings from me. Are
Speaker 2: on a first speak, first greeted basis that should have
Speaker 2: been a cute to somebody else.
Speaker 3: You're saying that one of us should have chimed in. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Hi Wayne.
Speaker 2: Hey, good morning Amy. You were the second to speak,
Speaker 2: second to be greeted. It's been a long time since
Speaker 2: I've been able to work with you.
Speaker 3: Always pleasure for me.
Speaker 2: Very happy that you're gonna be here three days this week. Wait,
Speaker 2: weren't you gone five days last week?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: And you're gonna be gone, and you're gonna be gone
Speaker 2: two days this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna take New Year's Day off because last
Speaker 4: year I got to go to thirty on New Year's
Speaker 4: Eve and I said, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: So you're you're right there. There will be some glug
Speaker 3: glug glug.
Speaker 2: Wait. Wait, so you're gonna take New Year's Day off
Speaker 2: and then the day after.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, for the hangover. There's not really going to
Speaker 3: be a hangar.
Speaker 4: What's the other day that you're taking off the day
Speaker 4: after New Year's Day? So I'm here today and tomorrow
Speaker 4: and then gone Wednesday, Thursday and then back. All right,
Speaker 4: all right, everybody's on vacation now, so it's it's not disruptive,
Speaker 4: and you get to hang out with Michael Monks again.
Speaker 2: That is all true.
Speaker 3: Who is wonderful?
Speaker 2: Well, I guess Kno was not interested in a morning greeting,
Speaker 2: so we will start. Hey, con Man didn't try it.
Speaker 2: I wasn't trying to guilt trip you to being greeted.
Speaker 2: All right, That was all Now. That was the kind
Speaker 2: of loose, conversational hangout radio that has become very popular
Speaker 2: among the youngsters, the kind of the kind of vibe
Speaker 2: that you get in many podcasts. That was an example
Speaker 2: of that. But see, we're very versatile here at KFI.
Speaker 2: We can do it all. We can do the loose,
Speaker 2: hangout thing, and we can also do right in your face.
Speaker 2: You can't even believe how professional it is, he says,
Speaker 2: as he tabs over to the correct material, like when
Speaker 2: we do handle on the news with Amy King and
Speaker 2: me and our lead story, when you own a hundred
Speaker 2: yees to live. James Earle Carter Jimmy, the thirty ninth
Speaker 2: President of the United States, passed away yesterday at the
Speaker 2: age of one hundred. A one term president, he was
Speaker 2: probably more had more of an impact on the world
Speaker 2: after he was president because he had a second life
Speaker 2: as a huge humanitarian doing lots of work for organizations
Speaker 2: like Habitat for Humanity. And he he was not I
Speaker 2: sit in an office and I make fundraising phone calls
Speaker 2: for Habitat. I mean he probably did some of that.
Speaker 2: This guy would get up, strap on a tool belt,
Speaker 2: get up on top of a ladder and bam blam
Speaker 2: blam blam blam a roof, which is and he did
Speaker 2: that into his seventies. He was black black blappin on roofs,
Speaker 2: and I mean he was a real like down to
Speaker 2: earth guy. Notwithstanding he was also a president of the
Speaker 2: United States. He was also in the Navy. Do you
Speaker 2: know he went to the Naval Academy and he graduated
Speaker 2: with distinction they call it. And he studied nuclear science,
Speaker 2: which you know, he was a peanut farmer.
Speaker 3: He didn't scientist.
Speaker 2: Yes, peanut farmer slash nuclear scientist. Man, I'm I'm What
Speaker 2: I'm about to say is not true because I don't
Speaker 2: wish that Jimmy Carter ever went on the dating apps.
Speaker 2: You know, he met his lovely wife. They got married
Speaker 2: pretty young in life. They stayed together the whole time,
Speaker 2: and that's what I endorse. However, if he had ever
Speaker 2: had to go on the dating apps, that would have
Speaker 2: been a hell of a little profile thing. Peanut farmer
Speaker 2: slash nuclear science expert. I think he. I think he
Speaker 2: would have gotten a lot of messages from women wanting
Speaker 2: to know more, don't you do?
Speaker 3: I believe that.
Speaker 2: If you saw a guy who said peanut farmer, nuclear scientist,
Speaker 2: wouldn't you be like, Hello, would I need to know
Speaker 2: more about you? Yes? Yeah? Amy, Sure? Yeah, Kno, if
Speaker 2: it was a lady. No, no, just uh just look good.
Speaker 2: I just I just want to see the boobs, all right,
Speaker 2: I get it. Anyway, throughout the show, as we come
Speaker 2: into each segment, I have different little fun facts and
Speaker 2: things about Jimmy Carter and his legacy. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: I don't want to do a whole segment that sounds
Speaker 2: like a guy giving a lecture reading a Wikipedia page.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna intersperse tidbits from the life of Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 2: The only president. Oh, this sounds like one of those
Speaker 2: fun facts. I love fun facts. The only president to
Speaker 2: be inaugurated under a nickname, because of course his legal
Speaker 2: name James, but he was inaugurated as Jimmy. Pretty good.
Speaker 3: Okay to go, yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, I wasn't sure if you were going, I know,
Speaker 4: but go.
Speaker 2: Ready to move on to another story?
Speaker 4: Okay, So here's one that's way, way too close for comfort.
Speaker 4: A little private jet actually wasn't too tiny. It had
Speaker 4: the Gunzaga men's basketball team on. It was at LAX
Speaker 4: and it had just landed from Spokane, Washington, and it
Speaker 4: was taxing, and it just about crashed.
Speaker 3: Into a delta flight that was taking off.
Speaker 4: So What happened was it was taxing and then all
Speaker 4: of a sudden you hear the air traffic control going
Speaker 4: stop stop stop. So it didn't actually cross the path
Speaker 4: of the delta flight that was taking off, but came
Speaker 4: really close.
Speaker 2: Scary it was the it was the smaller plane with
Speaker 2: the team on it that was out of place.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was.
Speaker 2: The delta flight was where it was supposed to be
Speaker 2: and it was on the right. Was like, obviously somebody
Speaker 2: not paying full attention.
Speaker 4: I take it there were reports that they were not
Speaker 4: listening to the tower. But you know, the FA is
Speaker 4: investigating on what actually happened.
Speaker 2: Oh man, all right, somebody probably needs to be fined
Speaker 2: or something over that. Everybody, Okay, I'm not I don't
Speaker 2: believe in spanking children to sue, you know, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think parents should spank their children. It doesn't
Speaker 2: really help. I'm not trying to say it will for
Speaker 2: sure traumatize a child, but it's not going to help.
Speaker 2: So that being said, I have no problem grown men
Speaker 2: who need a spanking. And I'm talking about Elon Musk,
Speaker 2: probably Steve Bannon. And if this sounds political to you,
Speaker 2: it's not. It's not about politics. It's about this, you
Speaker 2: know that on the right. Now there is a big bruhaha,
Speaker 2: cause some people on the right are extremely tough on immigration.
Speaker 2: They do not want anybody coming here illegally, legally, something
Speaker 2: in between. They don't want it. And then you have
Speaker 2: people like Elon Musk and Vivic Ramaswami who say, well, sure,
Speaker 2: illegal people we don't want, but we want those h
Speaker 2: one b highly skilled tech workers. We want them big time.
Speaker 2: So that makes the other people are saying, hey, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, no, we don't want anybody. So they've been
Speaker 2: bickering and back and forth and all of this stuff.
Speaker 2: All right, So Elon Musk liked this is what we've
Speaker 2: come to, ladies and gentlemen. It is the end of
Speaker 2: culture as we know it. Somebody posted that Americans, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say the word here because it's part of the
Speaker 2: story that Americans are too retarded to fill our tech jobs.
Speaker 2: And that's why Elon Musk is right, and we need
Speaker 2: to bring these people from overseas. And Elon Musk liked
Speaker 2: the post, and then other people started ragging on Elon
Speaker 2: Musk for liking the post, and then he told some
Speaker 2: guy to f himself in the face, and then Steve
Speaker 2: Bannon put his big hair into a behind in a
Speaker 2: man bun so he could see what he was typing,
Speaker 2: and called Elon Musk a toddler. I've never heard a
Speaker 2: toddler tell somebody to f themselves in the face though.
Speaker 2: So anyway, now this particular story, what why why are
Speaker 2: we even telling it to you? Because it's funny. That's
Speaker 2: why these are Elon Musk is a billionaire. Steve Bannon
Speaker 2: is he billionaire? He's super super rich. I don't know
Speaker 2: if he's a billionaire. I admit that he is unbelievably rich.
Speaker 2: They're both fully grown adults, and this is what they're
Speaker 2: doing with their time. They're on social media calling people names.
Speaker 2: One of them's a little more polite about the names
Speaker 2: he's using than the other one, but still that's happening. Okay,
Speaker 2: I thought you were like I thought you invented rockets
Speaker 2: and things. Elon Musk. That doesn't sound like a guy
Speaker 2: who knows how to invent a rocket. I don't feel
Speaker 2: like a guy who really knows how to invent a
Speaker 2: rocket would ever ever bother to even engage in an
Speaker 2: internet troll. It's like I'm inventing rockets. I don't care
Speaker 2: what some raindo says. Maybe he's not really inventing those rockets.
Speaker 4: Second thoughts regrets delusions. President by apparently regrets dropping out
Speaker 4: of the presidential election race and reportedly insists that he
Speaker 4: could have beaten President elect Trump if he hadn't been
Speaker 4: pushed out of the race by his own party. Apparently,
Speaker 4: Biden and some of his aides have boasted to confidants
Speaker 4: in recent days. This is reported by The Washington Post
Speaker 4: that the president should have stayed in the race and
Speaker 4: could have won a second term.
Speaker 3: Hm.
Speaker 2: I mean, we'll never know. Things were looking pretty grim
Speaker 2: for him, But I will say this, I do think
Speaker 2: this country is still misogynist enough, unfortunately, that we might
Speaker 2: prefer a doddering old man to any woman.
Speaker 3: I disagree.
Speaker 2: Well, your theory was not certainly did not prove itself
Speaker 2: in the election anyway, right.
Speaker 3: I don't think it had to do with her being
Speaker 3: a woman. I think.
Speaker 2: The other are you are you saying America? You would
Speaker 2: say what? America is still so racist that we would
Speaker 2: You can't say that, really because we had a Barack Obama.
Speaker 4: I'm not being racist. I'm saying that I don't think
Speaker 4: she was a good candidate. Oh had nothing to do
Speaker 4: race and had nothing to do with her being a woman.
Speaker 2: All Right, we can agree to Disagreeay.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, That's what I love about this.
Speaker 2: Hey, President elect Donald Trump would like to handle a
Speaker 2: certain situation himself, the situation being to ban or not
Speaker 2: to ban TikTok. As you know, there was a law
Speaker 2: that was passed that said TikTok has to be sold
Speaker 2: or shut down by January nineteenth, one day before the inauguration.
Speaker 2: Now that case, that law is tied up in court,
Speaker 2: and the Supreme Court is going to hear whether that
Speaker 2: law can stand or not. And now, as an elect,
Speaker 2: Trump has filed a brief with the Supreme Court saying
Speaker 2: block this law for now because I'm going to be
Speaker 2: the president on January twentieth, and I want to take
Speaker 2: care of it. Because I'm going to paraphrase this, but
Speaker 2: I promise you and Michelle, you are always the like
Speaker 2: as the producer of the show, You're the you gotta
Speaker 2: jump in if I'm getting something wrong. Okay, Okay, some
Speaker 2: people don't like it when the producer chimes in and
Speaker 2: says they're getting something wrong, but I demand it The
Speaker 2: gist of it is, I'm super smart. I know how
Speaker 2: to make great deals. I have a mandate from the
Speaker 2: people visa VI my election results, and so instead of
Speaker 2: letting this law ban TikTok or force them to sell,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be able to use my superior skills
Speaker 2: to negotiate an end to the problem and take care
Speaker 2: of any national security concerns that the government has. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have the perfect result with regard to TikTok. Is
Speaker 2: that about right?
Speaker 3: That is about right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Hey, and I don't know. I mean, maybe he's
Speaker 2: got some ideas for how to let TikTok continue to
Speaker 2: be owned by a Chinese company and yet not have
Speaker 2: national security concerns. You know, he's very tight with g
Speaker 2: so he can probably Jedi mind meld. No, that's not right,
Speaker 2: Jedi mind. What is it you mind? Spock mind melds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's a star treks mind melds.
Speaker 2: Jedi Jedi, thank you. He can Jedi mind trick a
Speaker 2: gee into I'm not sure what, but something, and then
Speaker 2: Russia will get video of it happening and use it
Speaker 2: to blackmail Trump. Okay, maymy this may be.
Speaker 4: Like the Beverly hill Billies In real life. There's a
Speaker 4: little town in northern California called Cottonwood. Actually, I don't
Speaker 4: know anything about it except that it's small and there's
Speaker 4: only six thousand people. And one of those six thousand
Speaker 4: people or somebody traveling through bought the one point two
Speaker 4: billion dollar Mega Million's winning ticket that was the drawing
Speaker 4: was done Friday night. One point two two billion dollars
Speaker 4: sold in Cottonwood, California.
Speaker 2: You know how you know without even saying the population
Speaker 2: that Cottonwood is a small town. The name of the
Speaker 2: place where the winner bought the.
Speaker 3: Ticket Sunshine Food and Gas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a small town name for a place. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying big city gas stations don't have food. I'm
Speaker 2: saying they don't call themselves food and gas.
Speaker 3: That's true. Okay.
Speaker 4: So it's between it's in Shasta County, it's near Redding.
Speaker 4: It's between red Bluff and Redding's so Jennifer Jones might
Speaker 4: have bought it.
Speaker 5: I already asked her if she didn't buy it, Oh yeah, unfortunately, Okay.
Speaker 5: And the Campi Lautlepool, by the way, one ninety seven dollars.
Speaker 2: Dang, very nice.
Speaker 3: We're getting there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a relatively recent law in Texas that bans
Speaker 2: books from school libraries that are sexually explicit. And sexually
Speaker 2: explicit material means, I'll pare down all the statutory blah
Speaker 2: blah blah, but in this case, any written description that
Speaker 2: depicts or portrays sexual conduct. And so obviously there are
Speaker 2: books that have been taken out of the libraries. And
Speaker 2: in the Canyon Independent School District, the superintendent confirmed that
Speaker 2: one of the books they had to remove because of
Speaker 2: sexually explicit material the Bible by the Bible, which just
Speaker 2: didn't as soon as the book banning started, you know,
Speaker 2: all the progressives all started with the like, well, you're
Speaker 2: gonna have to take the Bible out because it's super
Speaker 2: violent and also there's horny parts of it. And in
Speaker 2: this case they did. They removed the Bible, but you
Speaker 2: can't get the entire Bible. Now. They have smaller books
Speaker 2: that are certain stories from the Bible, you know, the
Speaker 2: stuff that's I guess safe for your children to read,
Speaker 2: that you can get in the school library. But a
Speaker 2: full version of the Bible you can't get in that school.
Speaker 4: I want the hottest new handbag, it's a Walmart. Oh, Okay,
Speaker 4: so it's called the Working. It's a fake Burkin.
Speaker 3: I love it. I know, right A.
Speaker 4: Fashionistas are clamoring to get their hands on a Walmart Burkin.
Speaker 4: It's also known as the Working, So it's the more
Speaker 4: budget friendly version of the authentic Burkin bag, which is
Speaker 4: beloved by a listers and very hard to come by
Speaker 4: and costs somewhere between nine and twenty thousand dollars at
Speaker 4: Ermez boutique and could go for hundreds of thousands dollars
Speaker 4: on resale and at auction.
Speaker 3: But at Walmart, the Workin is under one hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like eighty bucks.
Speaker 3: And it's cute.
Speaker 2: It's a cute bag.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I stand spending one hundred I don't understand spending
Speaker 4: that much money on a bag.
Speaker 3: I know you have a really nice one, Michelle.
Speaker 5: Well, but I never pay full price for any of
Speaker 5: my bags, like I am very particular. Like I like
Speaker 5: coach bags. It's always been my thing. But I will
Speaker 5: never pay full price for one. I will pay I
Speaker 5: will not buy one unless it's eighty to ninety percent off.
Speaker 5: I CA I can't bring myself to spend that much
Speaker 5: money on a purse.
Speaker 2: Now, I like a Burkin.
Speaker 5: I think it looks really I would never spend like that,
Speaker 5: and so I like the idea of this, and I
Speaker 5: just love even better the idea that it's pissing off
Speaker 5: all the people who pay ten twenty thirty forty thousand
Speaker 5: dollars for birds.
Speaker 3: It's so popular that it's sold out online.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really cute.
Speaker 5: It looks just like it.
Speaker 2: It looks did they have to did they have to license?
Speaker 2: That's well, I think there's a dull look. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think I think they're having a big fight over
Speaker 5: them using the word work in because Burkin doesn't like that.
Speaker 5: It sounds just, you know, it sounds like their name.
Speaker 2: So there may be a big fight over that.
Speaker 5: But you know, I mean, come on, it's just it's
Speaker 5: hilarious and I think it's it's funny, and it's it's
Speaker 5: a cute little bag.
Speaker 2: It's cute since you since you both seem to be
Speaker 2: sewing to handbags, and we're talking about a knockoff of
Speaker 2: an expensive designer bag. And the easiest way for me
Speaker 2: to do this is to turn my camera around and
Speaker 2: show you something. There's a to the orange one.
Speaker 3: You showing us a bag that's ugly.
Speaker 2: I will just look at it, though I will describe,
Speaker 2: so you see that, Yeah, it's ugly. Yeah, okay, I
Speaker 2: will now describe what that is because it's kind of
Speaker 2: in the same world as what Walmart's doing. There's this
Speaker 2: I don't even know what to call them. It's like
Speaker 2: a public relations art collective thing called Mischief, and they
Speaker 2: put out periodically crazy things that are in very limited supply.
Speaker 2: So they have something called the global supply chain bag.
Speaker 2: And here's what they did. They went to a factory
Speaker 2: in Peru and they said, make us a fake, a
Speaker 2: knockoff of a Burken bag, and then they sent it
Speaker 2: to a factory in Portugal and they said, make a
Speaker 2: mashup of this with a Selene bag. And they took that,
Speaker 2: and they sent it to a factory in India and
Speaker 2: they said, take this thing and mash it up with
Speaker 2: a door bag. And they then took that and send
Speaker 2: it to a factory in China and they said, take
Speaker 2: this monstrosity and mash it up with a Balenciaga bag.
Speaker 2: And it's the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2: If you would like, you know, I never like to
Speaker 2: talk about a visual thing without giving people a way
Speaker 2: to do it. So I could I could tell them
Speaker 2: where to go to look at it, or I could
Speaker 2: send you a photo of it if you wanted to
Speaker 2: put it somewhere. What do you prefer?
Speaker 5: I can, I'll figure it out, send it to me
Speaker 5: and I'll put it up.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Amo posted on her Instagram.
Speaker 2: Perfect. I will get a photo of this to Michelle,
Speaker 2: and when it is up and available, somebody's tell me
Speaker 2: and I will let you know and you can go
Speaker 2: see what they did. It's a combo of four different
Speaker 2: expensive designer bags. How much they start out for it,
Speaker 2: how much they they charge as six hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3: Still too much?
Speaker 2: First, well, it's very Yeah, they're trying to make a
Speaker 2: statement about something. I think Walmart's just trying to make money.
Speaker 5: Well, I think I think Walmart is making a statement
Speaker 5: as well. I mean, there are just a lot of
Speaker 5: people who, you know, decry the cost of a burken bag, saying, oh,
Speaker 5: the normal people would never be able to afford it.
Speaker 5: So I think Walmart just went, well, we'll make one
Speaker 5: that looks like it, and then you can afford it.
Speaker 2: And you can afford it, but it's not But it
Speaker 2: isn't it. That's the thing. But this is another thing,
Speaker 2: is that people are very happy to be impostors and
Speaker 2: to delude themselves. Not this guy, though, Magnus Carlson, top
Speaker 2: ranked chess player. He knows who he is and what
Speaker 2: he is, and that is why when he came to
Speaker 2: the rapid World champ this is part of a bigger
Speaker 2: I think they call it a World blitz Championship. This
Speaker 2: is chess but played at a fast pace. He was
Speaker 2: wearing jeans and that is a violation of the dress
Speaker 2: code for you. See, chess is a stuffy game to
Speaker 2: be played only by people wearing tweed. And he said no.
Speaker 2: They said you have to go change and he said no,
Speaker 2: and so they did not match him in the ninth
Speaker 2: round of the tournament with anybody and then he quit. Well,
Speaker 2: let's say that Lebron James had some kind of a
Speaker 2: beef with a minor NBA regulation not directly related to
Speaker 2: the fairness of the play, and he said, oh, I'm
Speaker 2: just not going to play. Then they would say, oh,
Speaker 2: we'll change the rule. Right, That's what they did for
Speaker 2: this guy. He must be the lebron James of chess,
Speaker 2: because guess what, they made an exception so that he
Speaker 2: could wear jeans. But they had to save face somehow,
Speaker 2: and so they said, if you'll wear a jacket with
Speaker 2: your jeans, we'll let you wear the jeans. And he said, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm not really that big of a jerk. He was
Speaker 2: fined two hundred dollars, by the way, originally for showing
Speaker 2: up to a match in jeans. Ha ha.
Speaker 3: I don't understand what's wrong with a dress code.
Speaker 4: I just for chess, I know, but I mean, like
Speaker 4: the you know, it's sort of like the whole Fetterman
Speaker 4: thing in Congress.
Speaker 3: So dress up a little bit. What's the big deal?
Speaker 3: Just if there's a dress code.
Speaker 2: Follow it. Or on the other hand, rules that have
Speaker 2: no actual value to the quality of your efforts are
Speaker 2: maybe should be eliminated. Hey, this is why Amy King
Speaker 2: and I never got married, right here? Yah, anyway, good
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 4: Well, it is a boy in a bubble, but it's
Speaker 4: not John Travolta. It's an eight year old kid floating
Speaker 4: around in the ocean. So this happened off the coast
Speaker 4: of Salpaulo, Brazil on Christmas Eve and Raphael Gratsa da
Speaker 4: Prado was on a boat trip with his kids and
Speaker 4: he saw a boy literally in a bubble, floating out
Speaker 4: in the ocean. Apparently people rent these bubbles. I've never
Speaker 4: seen them in the US, but you rent bubbles and
Speaker 4: you play in them, and there's a rope that tethers
Speaker 4: it so it doesn't blow away. But the rope snapped
Speaker 4: and the boy just drifted out to sea. But luckily
Speaker 4: he was spotted and rescued by Raphael.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank goodness.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty bizarre thing.
Speaker 4: I mean, it looks like it's about a probably a
Speaker 4: six foot tall bubble and it was just floating in
Speaker 4: the ocean.
Speaker 2: This is I assume this is so a child, for example,
Speaker 2: could go on the water without being in the wall apparently,
Speaker 2: and like kind of float on the surface of the
Speaker 2: water tethered to the shore by a rope. But if
Speaker 2: your rope is in bad condition, this is what happens.
Speaker 2: All is well, though, right, I mean, everything's fine. He
Speaker 2: wasn't hurt, ye, and he's got a nice story to tell.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They were able to get a rope to the bubble
Speaker 4: and tied it and then took it back to shore,
Speaker 4: and the family was very desperate.
Speaker 3: It was crying. But he's okay.
Speaker 4: And apparently you zip yourself into the bubble, yes, And
Speaker 4: they said don't unzip it while he was out in
Speaker 4: the middle.
Speaker 2: Of the water.
Speaker 5: It'll fill with water, right, And then when you're zipped
Speaker 5: into it, you have to worry about how much air
Speaker 5: there isn't it.
Speaker 3: You can't stay in them forever. That's true because it
Speaker 3: can't have air holes exactly. But it's good that he's okay. Yes,
Speaker 3: what a story.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to burst the bubble. I newly
Speaker 2: elected La County DA Nathan Ackman. But the lawyer representing
Speaker 2: twenty four relatives of the Menendez brothers, all of whom
Speaker 2: support their immediate release, have or are going to. I
Speaker 2: guess they haven't necessarily filed it yet, but they are
Speaker 2: going to file a petition to have the case transferred
Speaker 2: out of the LA Superior Court too the Attorney General's
Speaker 2: office up in Sacramento, because they think that Rob Bonta
Speaker 2: will be more supportive of releasing these lads than DA
Speaker 2: Nathan Hawkman. And also, you still have to have a
Speaker 2: reason though. You can't just say please move it because
Speaker 2: we think we'll get a better outcome. So their reason
Speaker 2: is they say there's a conflict of interest because there's
Speaker 2: a woman named Kathleen Katie who was named Hawkman's director
Speaker 2: of the Bureau of Victims' Services, and she was previously
Speaker 2: follow this everybody. She was the attorney for a guy
Speaker 2: named Milton Anderson, who is the brother of Kitty Menendez,
Speaker 2: who was one of the murdered, and Kitty the brother Milton,
Speaker 2: was one who said, never let them out, Never let
Speaker 2: them out. So someone who was the attorney for a
Speaker 2: guy who said never let them out is now part
Speaker 2: of the DA's office. Maybe a little like, hey, hey, Nathan,
Speaker 2: it's Kathleen. Can I just talk to you for a second.
Speaker 2: Never let them out. That's what they're afraid of. So
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. If Bonte gets it, it probably
Speaker 2: will be a different outcome. I don't think Nathan Hockman
Speaker 2: is champion at the bit to let the Menendez brothers
Speaker 2: out the way his predecessor clearly was.
Speaker 4: So in spite of billions being thrown at the massive problem,
Speaker 4: it's just getting more massive. The US homeless population is
Speaker 4: up by more than eighteen percent in just the last year,
Speaker 4: driven by high housing costs, natural disasters, and government officials
Speaker 4: say a spike in migration to large cities. More than
Speaker 4: seven hundred and seventy thousand people are living in shelters,
Speaker 4: temporary housing, or have no shelter, according to a survey
Speaker 4: carried out on one night in January of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: So the information is also a year old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but do you have any do you think it's
Speaker 2: possible that in the last year the situation has improved
Speaker 2: a whole bunch.
Speaker 4: No, Yeah, Well, although speak mayor bass though says that
Speaker 4: she does have the numbers coming down a little bit.
Speaker 2: But is that an action that is that a net
Speaker 2: reduction or is that a slowing of the growth.
Speaker 3: I think it was a net reduction.
Speaker 4: I'd have to go look at it, but I think
Speaker 4: she did say the numbers that would be just a
Speaker 4: little bit. I mean, it's not significant. But any anytime
Speaker 4: it's not growing, that's good, right.
Speaker 2: I feel like any net if it's a true net reduction,
Speaker 2: any if it's a net reduction of five people, it's
Speaker 2: significant given how hard the problem has been to address.
Speaker 2: And speaking of homelessness, at seven twenty, we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about how the city wants to start using AI
Speaker 2: to figure out who can get housing amongst the homeless
Speaker 2: people who they're going to give it to.
Speaker 3: Ooh, here's numbers.
Speaker 4: The Homeless count for twenty twenty four estimated a point
Speaker 4: two seven percent decline in homeless population in Los Angeles
Speaker 4: County and a two point two percent decline in the
Speaker 4: City of Los Angeles. First time it's six years that
Speaker 4: there was that the city saw a decrease in homelessness.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go ahead and say that that is
Speaker 2: notable in a positive way. I know that, like mathematically
Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like much, but it's reversing a trend
Speaker 2: that has been unstoppable for years and years. Oh, here's
Speaker 2: another trend nobody wants. Neuro Virus cases are surging, much
Speaker 2: like the vomit from the throat of the those who
Speaker 2: get it nice. The most recent numbers of the from
Speaker 2: the Center's Disease Control and Prevention About a little more prevention. Please,
Speaker 2: now I said it's surging, You're probably ready to hear
Speaker 2: about thousands and thousands of cases ninety one outbreaks, Oh, outbreaks,
Speaker 2: not individual cases. Ninety one outbreaks of neurovirus reported during
Speaker 2: the week of December fifth. That is up from sixty
Speaker 2: nine outbreaks nice the last week in November. Okay, so
Speaker 2: I mean it's more. It's statistically significantly more neurovirus. Maybe
Speaker 2: more people were on cruise ships. It's the leading cause
Speaker 2: of food borne illness in the United States, fifty eight
Speaker 2: percent of such infections neurovirus.
Speaker 3: And you know that travel on cruise ships was up
Speaker 3: a lot over the holiday.
Speaker 2: Well, there you go. Maybe that has something to do
Speaker 2: with it. Because this spreads by direct means. So if
Speaker 2: you share your food or your utensils, or you're kissing,
Speaker 2: or you're sharing a water bottle, or let's say your
Speaker 2: husband licks the counter and then you lick the counter,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of different ways that you can get neurovirus.
Speaker 5: Can we end with story sixteen?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 2: Wayne? Uh let me take a look? Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: here we go, ladies and gentlemen. And one of these
Speaker 2: stories does start starts a little sad, absolutely does ends fantastic. Athena,
Speaker 2: a four year old German shepherd husky mix. Holy smokes,
Speaker 2: how loud that house must be. Athena somehow like got
Speaker 2: out of her crate and went a wall in West
Speaker 2: Palm Beach, Florida, and the family looked and looked and looked,
Speaker 2: and sometimes people would say, hey, we saw Athena over there.
Speaker 2: And by the time they got over there, Athena wasn't
Speaker 2: there anymore. And about a week went by and they
Speaker 2: were I don't know if they had given up, but
Speaker 2: they had been looking and looking, and they were certainly despondent.
Speaker 2: And then on Christmas Eve, two thirty in the morning,
Speaker 2: the ring doorbell goes how whatever sound it makes, and
Speaker 2: the other dog that they have was the houses barking,
Speaker 2: and they're like, what is going on out there? And
Speaker 2: they look, you know, we have a ring doorbell. You
Speaker 2: can look at the video feed, and out there was
Speaker 2: Athena ringing the doorbell, who had decided she was gonna
Speaker 2: come home. And you know that she had a good
Speaker 2: time and was not in any distress because so they
Speaker 2: opened the door. Athena goes inside, goes to the son
Speaker 2: of the family who was on the couch, licks his face,
Speaker 2: grabs her playball, playing around a little bit, and then
Speaker 2: went crighton went to sleep.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 5: She went on vacation for a week. She probably stick
Speaker 5: with a family. My favorite part of the story is
Speaker 5: that the crate she escaped from was locked and her
Speaker 5: collar was found inside. They have no idea how she
Speaker 5: got out of.
Speaker 2: The crate nude.
Speaker 3: There was no visible way she got out of the crate.
Speaker 2: Well, she did though it. There was a way she found.
Speaker 2: Humans cannot figure it out. She's smarter than any human,
Speaker 2: is what we've learned about, and also does love her
Speaker 2: family and will have come home.
Speaker 3: What if what if the kid let him out?
Speaker 2: Well? Who knows?
Speaker 3: Could be?
Speaker 2: She could be magic, Maybe maybe she's a German shepherd
Speaker 2: husky Houdini mix.
Speaker 3: Could be.
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