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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, here's not Bill Handle. Good Monday morning, Chris
Speaker 1: Marylyn for Bill. Pleasure, Pleasure, pleasure being with you.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you. Busy weekend for me and
Speaker 2: just codo. You're on high alert today, Amy, you're on
Speaker 2: high alert today. So I had this vacation planned well
Speaker 2: before Bill decided to throw a wrench in that and
Speaker 2: take his own vacation. And so here's the deal. When
Speaker 2: you do a Sunday afternoon show and they say do
Speaker 2: you want to do mornings during the week, you don't
Speaker 2: say no. But I had this vacation plan, so I said, well,
Speaker 2: I'd be happy to do it. I have to take
Speaker 2: some dio equipment with me. So, Amy, you were talking
Speaker 2: about the weather. Valley is supposed to be ninety degrees today.
Speaker 3: Something, Yeah, mid nineties.
Speaker 2: So I actually am broadcasting this morning from northern Michigan.
Speaker 3: Oh what's the weather like there?
Speaker 2: Well, I've got a camera here and you can't see
Speaker 2: this on the rad I owe, but here you go, Amy,
Speaker 2: I will show you outside my window.
Speaker 4: Oh, ice and snow icen snow. Yeah, so it is
Speaker 4: still March, so.
Speaker 2: You know it is still March.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I was supposed to put some buckets on trees
Speaker 2: so I could make some maple syrup, but I didn't
Speaker 2: do that because it was too cold and windy. I
Speaker 2: woke up early, early, early this morning, which was still
Speaker 2: last night in California, and the wind was blowing, and
Speaker 2: I thought, I'm gonna lose power and I'm going to
Speaker 2: screw this up and I'm not gonna be able to
Speaker 2: do the show and I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: Everybody's gonna be so angry with me. But fortunately power
Speaker 2: held on, and so that's really great. Lots of snow,
Speaker 2: lots of ice on the trees, and I'm super excited
Speaker 2: to be here the rest of the weekend. And I
Speaker 2: spent watching basketball. I know Cono did too. How much
Speaker 2: money did you have ride no one things, Conel. Of
Speaker 2: course that's totally illegal and I would never out you
Speaker 2: for that. How much How many brackets did you have?
Speaker 6: So I had twenty two?
Speaker 2: Come on, dude, you need rehab.
Speaker 5: No I don't. I had four different apps. If you
Speaker 5: divide that, that's around seven brackets. No, it's around six brackets,
Speaker 5: you know, an app okay, and I ask him how
Speaker 5: he's doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how you doing on that? Oh?
Speaker 5: And I'm in the top five hundred thousand out of
Speaker 5: twenty four million for real?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought you.
Speaker 3: I thought all of them got busted.
Speaker 5: They did, And yesterday was the final bracket got busted.
Speaker 5: Zero perfect brackets out of twenty five.
Speaker 2: Nobody made it through the first weekend at a single person.
Speaker 5: So that's Warren Buffett did give a million dollars to
Speaker 5: any employee who got thirty out of the first thirty two?
Speaker 2: Right? Oh, is that right?
Speaker 6: It's correct.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 6: He's pretty sweet.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. I was feeling people were asking me
Speaker 2: about my bracket and mine was busted after the first game.
Speaker 2: So I had I had Creighton losing the first game.
Speaker 2: They won, and so that was it for my perfect
Speaker 2: Bracket challenge. But I'm I'm eight point seven millionth h
Speaker 2: So you're at the top five hundred thousand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, My Elite eight is there, My Final four is there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's what I got going for me too,
Speaker 2: is my Elite eight is still there. And Amy's looking
Speaker 2: at us like we're speaking French.
Speaker 3: No, I get it. I just I just don't care
Speaker 3: about basketball at all.
Speaker 2: I know some beautiful he's beautiful thing about this. You
Speaker 2: don't have to because you're just you're just picking names
Speaker 2: off of a sheet.
Speaker 6: Give you because look at your heads up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at people like kno who's a total fan
Speaker 3: and follows it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's got one decent bracket. He's not telling
Speaker 2: you about the other twenty one that are total crap.
Speaker 2: He's telling you about the one that's doing really well,
Speaker 2: which was probably his least favorite bracket that he filled out.
Speaker 2: When he filled that one out, Yeah, he filled that
Speaker 2: out thinking I'm just gonna take some of the top
Speaker 2: seeds here, I'm not gonna worry about anything. So all
Speaker 2: the other ones he was picking upsets and was but
Speaker 2: this has been such a slow tournament that people like
Speaker 2: me who were what they call going chalk on a
Speaker 2: lot of these different.
Speaker 6: You know, matchups, actually doing Okay.
Speaker 2: It's how you end up in the top eight point
Speaker 2: seven million of the twenty four on ESPN, is what
Speaker 2: I did. All right, handle on the news. Let's start
Speaker 2: in Venezuela. Off we go, the first flight carrying Venezuelan immigrants.
Speaker 2: This from CNN dot com deported from the United States
Speaker 2: landing in Venezuela early this morning, the two governments reaching
Speaker 2: an agreement to resume repatriation flights. Nearly two hundred deportees
Speaker 2: on the plane, specifically one hundred and ninety nine. I
Speaker 2: don't know why we couldn't get that other one on there,
Speaker 2: Not exactly sure. They landed just north of Caracas. And
Speaker 2: everyone's so happy, and Venezuela is so happy, and we've
Speaker 2: got to peace and love and goodwill toward all people.
Speaker 2: It looks like world peace has finally been achieved. Done.
Speaker 2: Problems are all solved. America is now all safer, and
Speaker 2: everyone is happy. No one is disappointed, and there will
Speaker 2: be no more gnashing of the teeth.
Speaker 6: So off we go.
Speaker 2: The economy should be cooking now. We got rid of
Speaker 2: the the ninety nine Venezuelan undocumented immigrants that are here,
Speaker 2: So problems are all solved.
Speaker 6: Feeling good about that. Take care of America, have a
Speaker 6: good one.
Speaker 4: America, Okay. Staying put. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says,
Speaker 4: I'm not going anywhere. There have been more and more
Speaker 4: calls for him to resign his position. Because of his
Speaker 4: support for the funding bill that prevented a government shutdown.
Speaker 4: He was on the Sunday shows yesterday and said, you
Speaker 4: know what, I'm sticking by my decision. He said, I
Speaker 4: know that there was going to be controversy, but that
Speaker 4: while the Republican's funding bill was bad, a shutdown of
Speaker 4: the government would be a lot worse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where Schumer is screwed here is that Schumer came
Speaker 2: out to start with and said he was not going
Speaker 2: to vote for the bill, and he was telling everybody
Speaker 2: about how terrible it was and what a bad, bad,
Speaker 2: bad idea was. And two days later he flipped. And
Speaker 2: what happened is Schumer got ahead of himself. He didn't
Speaker 2: count the votes first, and so what he didn't realize
Speaker 2: is that he was not going to have enough people
Speaker 2: to stop the bill from being passed. He didn't have
Speaker 2: enough people to oppose it in order to make the
Speaker 2: filibuster stand. And so then he was suddenly looking like
Speaker 2: he was going to be in the minority, and he
Speaker 2: wanted to come out looking like a leader. So well,
Speaker 2: it passed because I said it was okay, So he
Speaker 2: was really he put himself in a bad position, pitied
Speaker 2: himself into a corner, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: he says, well, look, we had to do it. This
Speaker 2: is what leaders do. They picked the Sometimes you have
Speaker 2: to pick the lesser of two evils, and off we go.
Speaker 2: The problem is he had just told us two days
Speaker 2: prior that it was so bad that you couldn't possibly
Speaker 2: vote for it because all of the children would go hungry,
Speaker 2: and the buses would stop running, and grandma was going
Speaker 2: to be put to sleep because her medicaid would no
Speaker 2: longer be accepted, and if you're on Social Security, you
Speaker 2: might as well start begging for money. Now, go paint
Speaker 2: yourself a nice sign so you can sit by the
Speaker 2: freeway exits. And then two days later he was but
Speaker 2: I voted for it, So he did this to himself
Speaker 2: and the Democrats right now we are in total disarray. And
Speaker 2: that's because they don't have leadership, and even the leaders
Speaker 2: don't know what they're doing. They are not doing a
Speaker 2: very good job of communicating. There's just no conversation going on,
Speaker 2: and they're putting themselves in a bad spot and it's
Speaker 2: gonna be tough to recoup from this. What the Democrats,
Speaker 2: some of the Democrats are saying, well, why don't we
Speaker 2: just keep giving Trump enough rope and he'll hang himself,
Speaker 2: which could be the case. You know, he likes to
Speaker 2: make bold, He does things that are unpopular. He does
Speaker 2: things that in a vacuum people like to talk about.
Speaker 2: People like to scream about things like shutting down the
Speaker 2: Department of Education when they're in the primaries. But when
Speaker 2: the rubber meets the road, to use a cliche, suddenly
Speaker 2: people go, wait a minute. I didn't think that people
Speaker 2: were gonna lose their jobs. Oh wait a minute. I
Speaker 2: didn't think we'd be canning one hundred thousand people. I
Speaker 2: didn't think this would affect the unemployment. I didn't think
Speaker 2: he was going to cut the stuff that I cared about.
Speaker 2: And now all of a sudden, we go, oh, well,
Speaker 2: that's what it looks like. And so the Democrats are going, well,
Speaker 2: hopefully he screws things up fast so we can win
Speaker 2: an election during the mid terms. They better figure out
Speaker 2: a message quick, because either you're going to oppose him
Speaker 2: or you're gonna let him have enough rope. And I
Speaker 2: think what some of the Democrats are fearing is if
Speaker 2: we keep giving him rope, he might become popular. There
Speaker 2: might be some people that really like him. And some
Speaker 2: of the numbers coming out right now are showing that
Speaker 2: he is gaining support in certain demographics that the Democrats
Speaker 2: have traditionally held, like the Hispanic demographic. He's doing very
Speaker 2: well in Hispanic demographic right now. And they're terrified of that.
Speaker 2: They're terrified. They're pooping themselves. There's poop, got democratic poop
Speaker 2: all over the place. To Canada and the Great White North,
Speaker 2: we go the Prime Minister there, the new guy.
Speaker 6: You know his name, No, you haven't learned it yet.
Speaker 6: Mark Carney is his name.
Speaker 2: And he used to be a banker, not like a
Speaker 2: bank teller, but an actual banker, which means that he
Speaker 2: was taking your money, I guess. And he has now
Speaker 2: called for the dissolution of parliament, he said, and I'm quoting.
Speaker 2: I've just requested that the Governor General dissolve Parliament and
Speaker 2: call an election for April twenty eighth. She has agreed. Now,
Speaker 2: the Governor General is a representative of King Charles the Third,
Speaker 2: which evidently Canada still has to ask King Charles if
Speaker 2: it's okay since they're part of the British Commonwealth. It's messy.
Speaker 2: Right after asking permission from Britain if it was okay.
Speaker 2: Carney said, we are facing the most significant crisis of
Speaker 2: our lifetimes because President Trump's unjustified trade actions and his
Speaker 2: threats to our sovereignty. Again, threats to our sovereignty, and
Speaker 2: he's able to say that after he gets permission from
Speaker 2: King Charles to be able to say that. So that's
Speaker 2: really nice, that's sovereign. I'm asking Canadians for a strong,
Speaker 2: positive mandate to deal with President Trump, adding that the
Speaker 2: Republican wants to break us, so America can own us.
Speaker 2: We will not let that happen.
Speaker 6: What do you suppose the odds are that?
Speaker 2: I mean, he says he's not gonna meet Trump until
Speaker 2: Trump recognizes Canadian sovereignty, which got me thinking his Trump
Speaker 2: not recognized that Canada is its own nation. And a point,
Speaker 2: does Trump just start referring to Canada as the fifty
Speaker 2: first state. He keeps saying it should be the fifty
Speaker 2: first state. At what point does he just say Canada
Speaker 2: is the fifty first state. Say it enough times people
Speaker 2: will start to believe you. Right. So maybe at some
Speaker 2: point we just absorb Canada without even asking the rest
Speaker 2: of the world just starts acknowledging that, yeah, you're part
Speaker 2: of the United States. I could see it happening. I
Speaker 2: got nothing else, Amy King, It's off to you.
Speaker 4: The two sides are talking, but the two sides aren't talking.
Speaker 6: Here's what I need both of them.
Speaker 4: A US delegation led by Steve Whitkoff is talking with
Speaker 4: Kremlin negotiators in Riod, Saudi Arabia today. The meeting today
Speaker 4: comes after talks between a US team and Ukraine's defense minister.
Speaker 4: They had meetings yesterday. But while everybody's talking, Russia and
Speaker 4: Ukraine aren't actually talking. And while that all goes on,
Speaker 4: the war rages on. Lots and lots of drone strikes
Speaker 4: over the weekend.
Speaker 2: I saw that, yeah, lots of drone strikes. If we
Speaker 2: can break this down, So what you have here is
Speaker 2: you've got the United States is talking with Ukrainians, and
Speaker 2: then the United States is talking with Russians, but those
Speaker 2: two are not talking with one another. This is if
Speaker 2: you've ever been through a divorce and you're trying to
Speaker 2: figure out custody matters, This is not uncommon. She's in
Speaker 2: one room, he's in the other room, and then you've
Speaker 2: got this mediator that goes back and forth between them
Speaker 2: because the two can't stand to look at each other anymore.
Speaker 2: They just if they see each other then they're gonna
Speaker 2: But so they after the negotiating in separate rooms, and
Speaker 2: then eventually the mediator will say, well, she says you
Speaker 2: can have this, and then he'll go back and say,
Speaker 2: well he says you can have this, and then hopefully
Speaker 2: they sign an agreement and off they go. That's kind
Speaker 2: of what's happening here. I know my example is a
Speaker 2: bit reductive, but it's the best I got.
Speaker 6: Right now, it's Monday.
Speaker 2: You know. I mentioned earlier that the Democratic Party is confused.
Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi privately offering some advice for Hakim Jeffries as
Speaker 2: the Democrats are devolving into bitter infighting over a government
Speaker 2: funding bill. She told Jeffries, use your power. They had
Speaker 2: an hour long sit down at his office earlier this month,
Speaker 2: says the Jeffery's needs to flex his muscle with Chuck
Speaker 2: Schumer and sharpen the party's strategy with a shutdown looming.
Speaker 2: That according to a person briefed on their conversation, obviously
Speaker 2: they did not sharpen anything. They dulled after a week
Speaker 2: back home, where the Democrats took an earful from their voters.
Speaker 2: They demanded that the Democrats hold a tougher line with
Speaker 2: President Trump. Jeffries is facing new pressure to forego his
Speaker 2: cautious demeanor and then lead a charge against the White
Speaker 2: House and then take the reins of his party strategy
Speaker 2: from Schumer. I don't know how much strategy Schumer has
Speaker 2: right now. Schumer doesn't seem to have much of a strategy.
Speaker 2: Suber can't even agree with himself day to day, So
Speaker 2: I don't know what Jefferys is going to be able
Speaker 2: to do. I think right now the Democrats are just
Speaker 2: generally looking for somebody that wants to step up and
Speaker 2: be the leader. And right now they're all kind of
Speaker 2: pointing at each other. Not it, not it? Not it? Hey?
Speaker 2: Are we going to see gas prices drop? Amy King?
Speaker 6: No, Oh, we thought maybe the price of the pump
Speaker 6: might come down a little bit.
Speaker 4: Well, so lawmakers are going to look for new funding
Speaker 4: for road repairs, but I don't think it's gonna be
Speaker 4: because of a decrease in the gas tax, or well
Speaker 4: they won't, so you know what, you you may be correct,
Speaker 4: because here's the deal.
Speaker 6: The broken clock is right twice.
Speaker 3: A day, gas Tech. No, you're you're more right than me.
Speaker 4: Gas tax revenues are expected to drop by like five
Speaker 4: billion dollars a year by twenty thirty five because more
Speaker 4: people are buying electric vehicles.
Speaker 2: That's so they're not initiative, right.
Speaker 4: Right, So they're not going to be paying the gas taxes,
Speaker 4: which is fifty nine cents a gallon, highest in the US.
Speaker 4: So they're like, oh, oh, we're going to have to
Speaker 4: fix this reduction in revenue.
Speaker 3: So if you still it's up in the air.
Speaker 4: Are they going to eliminate the gas tax or are
Speaker 4: they going to add something new because the gas tax
Speaker 4: isn't going to pay for the road repairs, that's the
Speaker 4: big question, all right, Okay, so yeah, so go ahead,
Speaker 4: they're going to They're going to do a road use
Speaker 4: tax instead, at least that's what they're looking at.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of like a mileage tax, right, So
Speaker 2: if you drive X amount of miles and then you'd
Speaker 2: have to report that at the end of the year
Speaker 2: and say I drove this far and they would say, okay,
Speaker 2: well you owe it's this much money. And right now,
Speaker 2: I think there's some registration fees that are going with
Speaker 2: your electric vehicles because you're not paying gas tax, and
Speaker 2: so they're trying to figure out how to offset this.
Speaker 2: So in effect, what happens is everybody ends up paying
Speaker 2: the taxes, whether you drive an electric vehicle or a
Speaker 2: gas powered vehicle. So my guess, just because I've seen
Speaker 2: how government works, my guess is that they will institute
Speaker 2: the mileage tax without doing much in the way of
Speaker 2: reducing the gas tax. That would That would be.
Speaker 4: My guess too, is because once you have a tax,
Speaker 4: it's hard to get rid of it.
Speaker 2: And they might say, oh, we're gonna we're gonna eliminate
Speaker 2: some of the gas tax. Like you said, fifty nine
Speaker 2: cents a gallon, So I mean, maybe they drop it
Speaker 2: by a quarter, and you know, we're still paying I
Speaker 2: don't know whatever fifty nine minus twenty five is, and
Speaker 2: I think it's still thirty four and so everybody's still
Speaker 2: paying thirty four cents. Might see the price of the
Speaker 2: pump coming down fifteen cents, but then everybody's gonna start
Speaker 2: paying this mileage tax as well. And then if you
Speaker 2: are if you are in the transportation business, you are
Speaker 2: really going to be pissed because then you're paying your
Speaker 2: mileage tax, and you're paying a gas tax, and you're
Speaker 2: looking at all the other cars out there, especially the evs,
Speaker 2: and you're saying, they're still not paying their fair share,
Speaker 2: and we're all getting hosed on this. So while the
Speaker 2: price of the p may come down a little, your
Speaker 2: Uber Eats cost is going to go up. Great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, here, why don't they put a tax on the
Speaker 4: charging stations?
Speaker 2: I don't know, that's a really good question. You would
Speaker 2: think that they would be able to do that, probably
Speaker 2: because we work so hard to protect the power companies
Speaker 2: and the last thing we want to do is make
Speaker 2: the power companies sad. Hate to do that. We've got
Speaker 2: to protect those power companies. They've got houses to burn down.
Speaker 2: Last thing we want to do is putting more onus
Speaker 2: on them. All right, twenty three and meters. It's filed
Speaker 2: for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. So sounds like they are
Speaker 2: dun they say, after a thorough evaluation of strategic alternatives, Well,
Speaker 2: that is just a corporate bingo, there isn't it. After
Speaker 2: a thorough evaluation of strategic initiatives, we have determined that
Speaker 2: a court supervised sale process is the best path forward.
Speaker 2: To maximize the value of the business. Of course, the
Speaker 2: value of the business is nothing. That's why they're going bankrupt.
Speaker 2: The company said last year they were cutting about forty
Speaker 2: percent of the workforce and they were discontinuing further development
Speaker 2: of all their therapies as part of their restructuring, and
Speaker 2: that did not do the trick. So the company went
Speaker 2: public in twenty twenty one. Never made a profit. Stock
Speaker 2: shot up following the listing, briefly developing the company about
Speaker 2: six billion dollars, and the primary shareholder became a billionaire
Speaker 2: in a hurry. But now he's not a billionaire. The
Speaker 2: core product is an at home DNA testing kit that
Speaker 2: offers quote personalized genetic insights end quote that the company
Speaker 2: says can flag potential health risks like one's likelihood of
Speaker 2: developing Alzheimer's or certain cancers.
Speaker 3: I thought it was defined long lost relatives.
Speaker 2: So you've got that too. So there are a number
Speaker 2: of different DNA testing organizations. There's I'm trying to think
Speaker 2: family Tree my Heritage twenty three. There's another one. I
Speaker 2: can't remember. I only know this. My father in retirement
Speaker 2: has become sort of a genealogical sleuth and he was
Speaker 2: able to explain to me in far more detail than
Speaker 2: I ever asked for how some of this works. Now
Speaker 2: they're able to track down and triangulate potential suspects. Remember
Speaker 2: the the was it the Golden State killer? Was that
Speaker 2: the guy in Bay Area? And they got that guy
Speaker 2: by triangulating all of his other relatives, and you got
Speaker 2: this one. You've got this relative matches, and that relative matches,
Speaker 2: and when you do all the different maths on how
Speaker 2: close the matches are, they were able to narrow it
Speaker 2: down to two people. And then they surreptitiously got some
Speaker 2: DNA samples from the guy after he discarded like a
Speaker 2: paper cup or something and tested it and then they said, yep,
Speaker 2: that's our guy. It matches the DNA that was preserved
Speaker 2: from a crime scene from years and years.
Speaker 6: And years ago.
Speaker 2: So the most interesting thing to me, and it's not
Speaker 2: being reported in the CNN article, is what happens to
Speaker 2: all of the data, the data and or the DNA.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if twenty three and MES saves
Speaker 2: your spittle in a giant spit safe or if they
Speaker 2: simply save your genetic results and then discard your TOUA.
Speaker 2: So what We don't know, though, is what happens to
Speaker 2: that data. So if you're somebody that took a twenty
Speaker 2: three and me test, and twenty three and me is
Speaker 2: going out of business and they're trying to sell off
Speaker 2: the value of the company, and I'm guessing they're probably
Speaker 2: their computers and office chairs and such, what happens to
Speaker 2: the data and what happens to your personal information that
Speaker 2: is of concern for anyone that took one of these
Speaker 2: twenty three and me tests. So in many cases, I'm
Speaker 2: going to guess that they're going to try to work
Speaker 2: with some of the other companies so that you could
Speaker 2: potentially migrate your information over, hopefully for no cost. But
Speaker 2: I don't know what they do with that with that,
Speaker 2: I don't know what they do with the genetic material,
Speaker 2: and I don't know what they do with your DNA data,
Speaker 2: because I would assume that they can't simply discard it.
Speaker 2: And I don't know how safe you would feel if
Speaker 2: if they told you we're just going to trash everything
Speaker 2: that you've got. I don't think you'd feel real safe
Speaker 2: about that potentially being out there in the ether. When
Speaker 2: can talk about id THA, there's nothing more, nothing more
Speaker 2: personal than your DNA. So that's a concern, says I,
Speaker 2: and I should know because I have to listen to
Speaker 2: my father drone out about this for way too long.
Speaker 3: Here's the concern.
Speaker 4: If you're in the Defense Department, somebody's leaking and the
Speaker 4: Defense Department is not happy about it. So they have
Speaker 4: decided that they are going to use light detectors. They're
Speaker 4: going to have their workers submit to light detector polygraph
Speaker 4: tests as part of their investigation into who is releasing information.
Speaker 4: The DoD Chief of Staff Joe Casper said, the use
Speaker 4: of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will be
Speaker 4: in accordance with applicable law and policy. They will commence
Speaker 4: immediately and culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2: We are going to track them down. If you leaked,
Speaker 2: we are going to ask you about it, and if
Speaker 2: you lie to us, then you're gonna be busted. And
Speaker 2: it's all hell is going to break loose, because as
Speaker 2: we all know, these light detector tests are infallible. If
Speaker 2: you take a lie detector test and it says that
Speaker 2: you were lying, then you definitely lied. And if you
Speaker 2: take a lie detector test and it shows that you
Speaker 2: are telling the truth, then you most certainly are telling
Speaker 2: the truth. So infallible investigation going on at the Department
Speaker 2: of Defense, we're gonna track down those horrible people that
Speaker 2: are talking to media. What I would love to see
Speaker 2: is an expansion of the polygraph. I'd like to see
Speaker 2: this everywhere, and I mean everywhere. And I know what
Speaker 2: you're thinking, Oh, it'd be nice if the president would
Speaker 2: have to take a polygraph. Yeah, sure it would. But
Speaker 2: let's go one step further and start using this in
Speaker 2: all different circumstances. So suppose that you have Medicare and
Speaker 2: you're trying to get your bill paid and you call
Speaker 2: Medicare and they say you're not covered. I would like
Speaker 2: for that person to take a polygraph test to find
Speaker 2: out if I'm actually not covered or if they're just
Speaker 2: lying because they don't want to have to deal with
Speaker 2: your claim or deal with you.
Speaker 6: In fact, we should use this everywhere.
Speaker 2: I mean every aspect of government should have an ongoing
Speaker 2: polygraph test.
Speaker 6: Imagine.
Speaker 2: Remember we put body cams on cops so that we
Speaker 2: could monitor what they were doing and make sure that
Speaker 2: if somebody filed a complain against a police officer that
Speaker 2: they weren't making it up. Or if somebody filed a
Speaker 2: complain against police officer, then we had evidence that said, yeah,
Speaker 2: sure enough, this officer was behaving badly. What if we
Speaker 2: just equipped police officers with polygraphs everywhere they go? So
Speaker 2: you say do you have any do you have any
Speaker 2: weapon in the vehicle? And they go no, officer, and
Speaker 2: then a big red light would flashing. Yes they do everywhere.
Speaker 2: I mean, we should put it everywhere. I'm all for
Speaker 2: the polygraphs. These are great more polygraphs. They are infallible.
Speaker 2: As we all know, you're probably I got bad news
Speaker 2: for you. You're probably going to die soon in a
Speaker 2: manner that you didn't see coming. And I know for
Speaker 2: a lot of you you probably spend a good deal
Speaker 2: of time sitting around wondering what will be my devius. Well,
Speaker 2: as we find out it's probably going to be fungus,
Speaker 2: And that's a real downer because you did not think
Speaker 2: you were going to die of a fungus. For those
Speaker 2: of you just joining us, we are all going to die.
Speaker 2: New cases of a drug resistant dangerous fungus identified in
Speaker 2: two state hospital systems the Canada, Not Canada, Candida, orris
Speaker 2: Or see or us. Thank goodness, we shortened that identified
Speaker 2: almost ten years ago. Now we're finding it in Georgia
Speaker 2: and in Florida. So the CDC has called this Candida
Speaker 2: orius and urgent anti microbial resistant threat. It is resistant
Speaker 2: to anti fungal drugs, making it hard to treat an
Speaker 2: infection once it occurs. And if you get infected with
Speaker 2: this passage pathogen, excuse me, there is no treatment that
Speaker 2: we can give to help you combat it. You're on
Speaker 2: your own. According to a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics
Speaker 2: at the University of South Carolina. So if you get this,
Speaker 2: it is going to be a bad deal. How do
Speaker 2: you get it? They say you can get it with
Speaker 2: a catheter, and that is the last place that you
Speaker 2: want a fungus to infect you. You can get it
Speaker 2: through breathing tubes, feeding tubes, and pick lines. Those are
Speaker 2: at the highest risk levels because the pathogen can enter
Speaker 2: the body through those types of devices. And once you
Speaker 2: get it, it is hard to figure out what's going
Speaker 2: on because the symptoms that are like any other infection.
Speaker 2: You get fever and chills, and and it also stays
Speaker 2: on surfaces, countertops, bedrails, door knobs, and it sticks around
Speaker 2: for ever.
Speaker 6: So uh, it's no fundsies.
Speaker 4: And the last of us comes to real Life's.
Speaker 2: Not about that?
Speaker 6: Yes, I love that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Season two is coming up, and that's the one.
Speaker 2: With Pedro Pascal, right, yeah, that's I'd watch him.
Speaker 4: The Fungus invites invades everybody in the altar onto zombies.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, great, I could see that.
Speaker 6: We're already at zombie stage there.
Speaker 4: All right, what's in a name a lot? If you're
Speaker 4: an eaglet in a nest overlooking Big Bear Lake, As
Speaker 4: you've heard us talking about Jackie and Shadowed, the Bald
Speaker 4: Eagles had three eaglets. Two of them have survived so
Speaker 4: far to the point where the Friends of Big Bear
Speaker 4: Valley say it's time to name them. So they open
Speaker 4: their naming contest and they're just asking that if you
Speaker 4: would like to suggest a name, you make a small donation.
Speaker 4: So for five bucks you can suggest one name, for
Speaker 4: ten you can suggest three, and for twenty five dollars
Speaker 4: you can suggest ten names. Friends of Big Bear Valley
Speaker 4: is nonprofit and they're the ones who have that camera
Speaker 4: up one hundred and forty feet up in a tree
Speaker 4: so we can watch the little Eglitz as they grow
Speaker 4: and watch Jackie in Shadow, and then after they get
Speaker 4: all the suggestions, then they randomly pick the finalists, and
Speaker 4: elementary school kids in Big Bear get to make the
Speaker 4: final decision.
Speaker 2: Well that's fun.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that it's random. I don't believe that
Speaker 2: they're randomly choosing the finalists.
Speaker 6: Okay, I mean, you're gonna pick it out of a hat.
Speaker 2: What if you end up with the C word MACF
Speaker 2: word face, Right, they're not going to hand that to
Speaker 2: a bunch of elementary kids like.
Speaker 3: They're going to suggest Seaward McGuff word face.
Speaker 6: It would only cost me five dollars, I might all right.
Speaker 4: We're rooting for Rocky, at least for the little one.
Speaker 2: Why why do you like Rocky?
Speaker 4: Well, because there were three eggs. Two hatched right kind
Speaker 4: of back to back, and then the third one didn't
Speaker 4: hatch for almost a week because it was late almost
Speaker 4: a week later, so it was right on schedule.
Speaker 3: But he was a lot smaller than the other ones.
Speaker 4: And we said he's going to have to be a
Speaker 4: fighter if he's going to make it, and and editor
Speaker 4: Carla said we should name him Rocky.
Speaker 2: I think that's I think that's great. Yeah, the one
Speaker 2: that died though, I guess they did name that one.
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 4: They they named it Misty after former friends of Big
Speaker 4: Bear Valley Kathy mister Lee, who passed away from cancer,
Speaker 4: so they commemoratively named the one that didn't make it.
Speaker 2: I don't want to sound insensitive. In fact, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to do exactly the opposite.
Speaker 3: Okay, go for it.
Speaker 2: Why would you named the dead bird after her? I mean,
Speaker 2: wouldn't you want to do one of the living birds
Speaker 2: after heard so that her memory lives on symbolically?
Speaker 3: Got a point.
Speaker 2: It was weird to me. It feels strange, one of
Speaker 2: the odds we end up with Birdie mcbird face.
Speaker 4: Then zero to none. But if you want to do
Speaker 4: it it spriends of Big Bear Valley. He it's their
Speaker 4: website and it's through Friday.
Speaker 2: Eagle Mick pecker Face. It's a bird's You don't have
Speaker 2: to dump that cono. That's fine. You can leave that.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 6: I was talking about the beak.
Speaker 2: It's fine. What do we do it? Oh, let's go
Speaker 2: to the Bay Area. Ah, it's a nice place to visit,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 6: Golden Gate safety nets are reducing suicide deaths.
Speaker 2: Well, that's good. Newly installed safety nets on the Golden
Speaker 2: Gate Bridge reducing suicides there by seventy three percent. So
Speaker 2: if you try to jump off the bridge, you landed
Speaker 2: a net.
Speaker 3: Now have people jumping gone down?
Speaker 6: I think so because there's a net in the way.
Speaker 2: Officials say there have been an average of thirty confirmed
Speaker 2: suicide deaths per year for the last twenty years, and
Speaker 2: they put they put in this stainless steel barrier on
Speaker 2: both sides of the bridge. They did have a pushback
Speaker 2: from people who were opposing modifying the bridge's Art deco style.
Speaker 2: It was doing some work in San Francisco when they
Speaker 2: were arguing about this, and this was one of those
Speaker 2: deals where I get that it's iconic, I get that
Speaker 2: it's really nice, but you got people jumping off of
Speaker 2: it all the time. There's an easy way to fix it.
Speaker 2: You put in this net and they go, yeah, but
Speaker 2: it's gonna be ugly. Yeah, but thirty people a year
Speaker 2: jumping off of it, and they go, yeah, but we
Speaker 2: really like the way it looks, which just seemed really
Speaker 2: bizarre to me. So anyway, they took a look and
Speaker 2: everything's better. Now, before the installation, there were two and
Speaker 2: a half suicide deaths per month at the bridge. Now
Speaker 2: it has dropped to one point eight three sides per
Speaker 2: month during the installation period and points sixty seven suicides
Speaker 2: per month after installation. I'm guessing that's an average and
Speaker 2: not necessarily that just two thirds of one's body died.
Speaker 2: So researchers finding this big reduction after they put the
Speaker 2: nets in. So that's great. And if you have ever
Speaker 2: talked with someone that has tried to take their own lives,
Speaker 2: once they are saved, they they oftentimes they don't do
Speaker 2: it again.
Speaker 6: The people that really want to.
Speaker 2: So if they are landing in this and by the way,
Speaker 2: it's not like it's a big cushy circus net, You're
Speaker 2: not bouncing in and out of this thing. It's a
Speaker 2: big steel, you know, barrier that is not comfortable. So
Speaker 2: if you jump off of it and you land on
Speaker 2: this barrier, it's it's gonna hurt. So the other thing
Speaker 2: with people who are trying to take their own lives,
Speaker 2: they don't really want to suffer. The whole point is
Speaker 2: to end suffering. They want to they want to just
Speaker 2: go quickly. So that's yeah. If you can't go quickly,
Speaker 2: then you find somewhere else to do it. And if
Speaker 2: if the bridge isn't available, it's it's deterring people. So
Speaker 2: I'm I'm a big fan of this. I always thought
Speaker 2: the argument because it's a nice bridge, it looks so nice.
Speaker 6: It's I thought that.
Speaker 2: Was a silly argument. When we take a look at
Speaker 2: what matters, Amy, you want to you want to do
Speaker 2: one more and we want to get you to news.
Speaker 4: A shift is in the works. FBI Director Cash Btel
Speaker 4: also serves as the acting director of the ATF, the
Speaker 4: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Yeah, he has a
Speaker 4: plan to move as many as one thousand ATF agents
Speaker 4: over to the FBI, cutting the current ATF agents by
Speaker 4: more than a third. So apparently they're not losing their jobs,
Speaker 4: they're shifting their jobs.
Speaker 2: Okay, have we overstaffed the ATF? Is that the thinking here?
Speaker 2: We just there's too many people investigating alcohol and tobaccos
Speaker 2: and firearms and explosives, so we'll just send them over
Speaker 2: the FBI. Do they have to be retrained? We don't
Speaker 2: know what their jobs are. We just know that they're
Speaker 2: shifting from one department over to the other one.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, the ATF is going to temporarily assign about
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty agents from field offices to other
Speaker 4: ATF field offices. It does not really clear, but they
Speaker 4: there's some of them would be moved over to help
Speaker 4: with border patrol.
Speaker 6: Oh there you go. All right.
Speaker 2: I wondered where we were going with it. So that
Speaker 2: makes sense now, okay, so it's serving the larger goal
Speaker 2: then the border patrolling. I'm telling you we're not gonna
Speaker 2: have anybody here without documents in the not so distant future.
Speaker 6: And then what are we gonna complain about?
Speaker 2: Because if the economy isn't fixed, if jobs are still
Speaker 2: not available, and you don't have migrants to blame, who
Speaker 2: are you gonna blame? Throughout history, we've been able to
Speaker 2: blame ferners for anything that's gone wrong. But if we
Speaker 2: don't have ferners, who are we going to blame? God?
Speaker 2: I have to do the unthinkable and take responsibility for ourselves,
Speaker 2: not my America, not anytime soon. Chris Maryland for Bill
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