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Speaker 1: Here's Bill Handle. It is the Thursday.
Speaker 4: Now Bill Handle here and the morning crew right up
Speaker 4: until nine o'clock.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the Morning show.
Speaker 4: If you're up, welcome, and if you're asleep, doesn't matter
Speaker 4: what I say.
Speaker 3: Let me say a quick hello to one and all.
Speaker 2: Neil, good morning, good morning. You know that clip that
Speaker 2: Cono just played from the yesterday ed gare Goes from
Speaker 2: Wendy said, you know what's funny is conservatives say fake news,
Speaker 2: Liberals say misinformation.
Speaker 4: And Wendy says, we have square burgers and they're delicious
Speaker 4: and they are good, and they are good. Wendy's yeah,
Speaker 4: and Neil, one of the best lines. They don't cut corners.
Speaker 2: It's not mine, that's what they say.
Speaker 3: It's very strong, all right, and you're wearing a Disneyland
Speaker 3: T shirt.
Speaker 2: Neil, Yeah, I was at Disneyland yesterday. Of course you
Speaker 2: were visiting the park again today. Of course you were
Speaker 2: beautiful right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure how crowded is the park?
Speaker 2: It was great yesterday. They were Okay, that means it.
Speaker 3: Was very proud.
Speaker 5: Okay, you just don't like people, That's true.
Speaker 4: I love Disneyland. When I used to go February March midweek,
Speaker 4: you know, thirty forty years ago, there was five there
Speaker 4: were five thousand people in the park.
Speaker 3: You did not wait one minut it.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't let you actually stay on a ride at
Speaker 4: the end, so you had to walk around and go
Speaker 4: back right onto the ride.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine? The place was.
Speaker 2: Such a fan? Am I? That they have a new
Speaker 2: Q new line set up for the Haunted Mansion, and
Speaker 2: I was excited to stand in that. I was excited
Speaker 2: to be in the new line, not just the ride. Okay,
Speaker 2: the park looks great, No.
Speaker 3: They do.
Speaker 4: I've been there a few holiday times. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: it's incredible.
Speaker 3: All right, and good morning, good.
Speaker 4: Morning, Kno, there you are? Yes, I am and Amy. Hello,
Speaker 4: you're on your phone.
Speaker 5: Amy, I'm doing a post to Instagram for a week.
Speaker 3: You don't let me tell you something.
Speaker 4: You don't broadcast and text at the same times, like
Speaker 4: texting and driving.
Speaker 3: You're going to get a ticket for that.
Speaker 2: You show crashes on its own.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, a little bit of news. Very excited tomorrow.
Speaker 4: You know that my Dogcci we had to put down
Speaker 4: last week. Uh, Gucci is completely dead and so, uh
Speaker 4: Gucci replacement is coming in tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And is that the dogs replacement?
Speaker 4: That's dogs, Yeah, that's a Gucci replacement.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a strange name for a dog.
Speaker 4: But so anyway, Lindsay was so devastated, uh, that she
Speaker 4: couldn't deal with it.
Speaker 3: So I'm the one that had to handle uh.
Speaker 4: As she said, You've got to take care of the
Speaker 4: cremation and get the ashes back, and I said absolutely.
Speaker 3: I took guc to a taxidermist.
Speaker 4: Uh just wait, it's gonna be very tough, Uhgerie replacement.
Speaker 3: No, im talking about the Gucci replacement.
Speaker 4: Sorry, yeah, it's gonna be the stocking stuffer. You're going
Speaker 4: to see you just a stiff leg sticking out from
Speaker 4: the stocking. Uh. It's gonna be a tough Chris for her.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you that, right, now, all right.
Speaker 2: If you want me to do any animatronics on it,
Speaker 2: I'm happy to that's right.
Speaker 4: You could do that, yeah, just moving around a little stiff.
Speaker 3: But the remote they need a remote, the remote control. Right.
Speaker 4: Oh god, the thought of a stuffed dead dog that
Speaker 4: you loved walking around via a remote control is.
Speaker 3: Beyond I mean beyond delicious.
Speaker 2: People do have their their former pets.
Speaker 4: Oh I know, Oh I we know someone who does.
Speaker 4: And it's and it's up on the mantle. That's pretty
Speaker 4: strange you're talking about, Michelle.
Speaker 2: It is. It is synthetic. It's not the actual dog.
Speaker 2: It's incredibly realistic looking. Okay, it's a kid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like when you go to a sushi restaurant
Speaker 4: and they have the plastic sushi in the window and
Speaker 4: it looks incredibly realistic.
Speaker 3: But it's not.
Speaker 2: Her husband Tim passes away. You think she's gonna have
Speaker 2: a replica of him made.
Speaker 4: Now I think she's gonna actually stuff him. Have you
Speaker 4: ever been to the Roy Rogers Museum in the Antelope Valley?
Speaker 3: You know he.
Speaker 4: Stuffed Roy Rogers stuffed Trigger, his dog, I mean taxidermist.
Speaker 4: I mean that's Trigger. When his wife, Dale Evans died
Speaker 4: that happened too. So she's next to Trigger, all right,
Speaker 4: and I think that when he dies or he did
Speaker 4: die already, he goes up there next to Trigger and
Speaker 4: Dale Evans. You've got a stuffed trio there Horse Dale Roy.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think we've done enough.
Speaker 2: I think we just had Friday's show already.
Speaker 4: All right, guys, what a way to start the show,
Speaker 4: huh uplifting Just yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Guys. Ready, handle on the news, Amy Neil and me
Speaker 3: lead story.
Speaker 2: Take this job and shoving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what a shocker.
Speaker 4: FBI director Chris Ray says he is going to leave
Speaker 4: the FBI as a director at the end of Joe
Speaker 4: Biden's term January twentieth. He hadn't decided whether he was
Speaker 4: going to be fired, which Donald Trump was going to
Speaker 4: do thirty seconds after being sworn in, because Trump had
Speaker 4: already nominated that Cash Patel as a new FBI director.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about that certainly as they that hearing goes on.
Speaker 4: So what's kind of interesting about this is that Trump
Speaker 4: nominated Chris Ray. He was Trump's nominee the first time out,
Speaker 4: so because of the raid on mar A Lago, because
Speaker 4: of the FBI being involved in all of what is
Speaker 4: perceived by MAGA people, the anti Trump movement. Chris Ray
Speaker 4: is gone. He was thinking of actually being fired. I'm
Speaker 4: not quitting. You're fired. No no, I quit first. No no, no, no,
Speaker 4: you're fired. You're fired right now. I've just quit.
Speaker 3: It's one of those lovely situations.
Speaker 5: The evidence is piling up. The three D printed gun
Speaker 5: that Healthcare CEO killing suspect Luigi Mangioni had when he
Speaker 5: was arrested this week at McDonald's in Pennsylvania matches three
Speaker 5: shell casings found at the scene of the crime in
Speaker 5: Midtown Manhattan, and then also his fingerprints apparently match those
Speaker 5: that investigators found on items near the scene of the
Speaker 5: assassination on December fourth, his fingerprints on the Starbucks cup
Speaker 5: and on the kind bar that he bought at Starbucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so for the first time they now have direct
Speaker 4: evidence where up to this point it was a circumstantial evidence,
Speaker 4: that is, he was in the area. He looked like
Speaker 4: the guy, he had a hoodie much the same as
Speaker 4: the other guy the backpack, and the lawyer could argue,
Speaker 4: does that mean he was there? Is it possible he
Speaker 4: wasn't there? Is it possible that the police mistakenly thought
Speaker 4: he was someone else. I mean, just throw a lot
Speaker 4: out there. You've heard circumstantial evidence. Now, circumstantial evidence you
Speaker 4: can be convicted of that if it's overwhelming.
Speaker 3: Now we have.
Speaker 4: Direct evidence, fingerprints on the weapon weapon connected to the killing.
Speaker 3: That's direct evidence. And it's going three D printed gun.
Speaker 2: And they're saying it was nine milimeters. I thought originally
Speaker 2: they were saying it was twenty two.
Speaker 4: I don't know, and that was what twenty two If
Speaker 4: you look at it, it sure doesn't look like a
Speaker 4: twenty two, but then I can't tell. But whatever it is,
Speaker 4: they're saying that was the one that was used. Originally,
Speaker 4: the report came out that they thought that was a
Speaker 4: stun gun kind of thing that was used in the.
Speaker 3: Killing of cattle at slaughterhouses.
Speaker 4: So it's and so the evidence is mounting mounting, mounting, mounting.
Speaker 3: He's fighting extradition.
Speaker 4: I have no idea how he's well, he's not going
Speaker 4: to win that because the bar is so low to
Speaker 4: move to extradise someone. It's it's overwhelming. I mean, there's
Speaker 4: going to be a mountain of evidence. They may not
Speaker 4: even you know, I mean they just say, you know,
Speaker 4: too bad. Sometimes the prosecution doesn't plead no, not interested
Speaker 4: in the plea bargain. Let's go to trial where the
Speaker 4: evidence is so overwhelming.
Speaker 2: Okay, what a difference a day makes. So the world
Speaker 2: continues to change. The US US IS key anti ISIS
Speaker 2: partner in Syria said just yesterday that the ISIS detention
Speaker 2: facility there that they guard it's coming under attack and
Speaker 2: they've been forced to halt Anti ISIS operations. This complicates
Speaker 2: the US military's efforts, obviously to prevent the terror group
Speaker 2: from reconstituting following the ouster of the Syrian president. So
Speaker 2: US officials are scrambling right now. We obviously don't want
Speaker 2: them to regroup in Syria, but I'm not sure how
Speaker 2: we prevent that at this point.
Speaker 3: We don't.
Speaker 4: We just keep on moving and hopefully the insurgents, well,
Speaker 4: who's worse a sod or the those that basically are
Speaker 4: connected to ISIS. Take your choice, right, which poison?
Speaker 2: Did you take? Everything old is new again?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, that's a whole lot of money for a
Speaker 5: bunch of empty beds. Over a five year period from
Speaker 5: twenty nineteen to twenty three, city Controller Kenneth Mahea announced
Speaker 5: that one in four city funded shelter beds went unused
Speaker 5: that cost LA taxpayers about two hundred and eighteen million dollars.
Speaker 5: Mahia's office released the findings of an audit that evaluate
Speaker 5: the LA Homeless Services Authority, or LASA. The whole idea
Speaker 5: is to transition people from interim to permanent housing, but
Speaker 5: it also shows that in that five years, only one
Speaker 5: in five interim shelter residents were placed into permanent housing.
Speaker 5: More than half of the people who were given beds
Speaker 5: then went back out onto the streets or they don't
Speaker 5: know where they went.
Speaker 4: Let's spend more money and see if that helps. Because
Speaker 4: we don't have enough beds. You know that we have
Speaker 4: to move towards more empty beds that we're paying for.
Speaker 3: How do you fix this? I don't even know.
Speaker 4: It's not that these people don't try, because they do.
Speaker 4: And it's not that they're not good people. I'm talking
Speaker 4: about those who are helping the homeless. They are good people.
Speaker 4: It's just the the problem is so insanely complicated, almost insurmountable.
Speaker 2: Well, they work so hard for the money rather than
Speaker 2: working hard to find a solution.
Speaker 4: Not necessarily, not necessarily, there are people that are really
Speaker 4: involved in helping the homeless people.
Speaker 3: They're really there, they really are. I don't know any
Speaker 3: but I.
Speaker 2: Know that are that's coming from a liberal Jews into
Speaker 2: this next story.
Speaker 3: A liberal Jew.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, just as just ask a couple of liberals
Speaker 4: out there and they'll describe me as that.
Speaker 2: Right. No, that's that's my way of segueing into this story.
Speaker 3: Oh got it, Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 2: Gosh, hate crimes are up usually for bill Handle here
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles County. They rose to their highest level
Speaker 2: in forty three years. That's as as of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: jumping forty five percent over the previous year. And this
Speaker 2: is you know, you're talking since the annual analysis began
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty and there's thirteen hundred and fifty reported
Speaker 2: I hate crimes in the county last year. That's up
Speaker 2: from nine hundred and thirty the prior year. But you're
Speaker 2: talking about Blacks, Asians, Jews, Latinos, Latinas, LGBT, transgender people. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's that covers a lot of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 4: How can you imagine one person who's all of those
Speaker 4: trying to walk down the street.
Speaker 3: You know, it'd very tough, be very tough. Oh, by
Speaker 3: the way, the number of crimes. These were reported crimes,
Speaker 3: not incidents either, not just calling someone you philthyed you
Speaker 3: or you black or I mean whatever.
Speaker 4: You know, this the uh, the normal horrific statements that
Speaker 4: are made, which they don't even count those because by.
Speaker 3: The what thousands, hundreds of thousands. So it's it's tough
Speaker 3: right now. I mean, we are in a world where
Speaker 3: there's a lot of period.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry you think hate is up, period.
Speaker 4: I think yes. I don't think hate is up. I
Speaker 4: think the allowance of hate is up. That means allowance
Speaker 4: in the sense of it's being allowed where you don't
Speaker 4: have to hide hate anymore because now it's just considered
Speaker 4: part of society. I can hate you, I can make
Speaker 4: fun of your race, I can make fun of your religion. Wow,
Speaker 4: I just described the show, didn't I I'm allowed to
Speaker 4: do that and society doesn't put that down anymore.
Speaker 3: It's accepted. And that's the part that is so horrible.
Speaker 3: It just is.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's but it's only accepted with some
Speaker 2: You don't hear a whole lot of no, no.
Speaker 4: But enough people where it used to be before, you know,
Speaker 4: the analogy. I always make the crazy conspiracy theories. Uh,
Speaker 4: the only way you.
Speaker 3: Could ever hear them, they were on the screen street
Speaker 3: corner with a bullhorn.
Speaker 4: Now they affect millions of people on the Internet, and
Speaker 4: look at the number of followers there are with the crazies.
Speaker 2: But that's just a bigger bullhorn. It's the reality.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you have a big enough fullhorn, you're
Speaker 4: talking to a lot of people.
Speaker 3: All right, let's do one more and then we'll take
Speaker 3: a break.
Speaker 5: Look up in the sky. Yeah, it's a drone. In fact,
Speaker 5: it's a lot of drones. There have been drone sightings
Speaker 5: across the state of New Jersey for weeks now. Officials
Speaker 5: are saying something's up, Residents are freaking out. The military
Speaker 5: is saying, we don't know what's going on.
Speaker 4: I'm going to do this story at seven twenty and
Speaker 4: there is one basic question that is not being answered,
Speaker 4: that is so obvious. And you'll hear about that at
Speaker 4: seven twenty and you'll go, yep, yep, that's exactly true.
Speaker 2: All right, what a story. Hanna Kobyashi has been found safe,
Speaker 2: her family said yesterday, more than a week after police
Speaker 2: already declared her voluntary missing the midfears she had been
Speaker 2: abducted or put into some sort of sexual crime or
Speaker 2: something like that. So the family comes out and says,
Speaker 2: we are incredibly relieved and grateful that Hannah has been
Speaker 2: found safe. The strange thing is there's there's nothing said
Speaker 2: on this ex post about whether indicating whether kobyashi where
Speaker 2: she was, or if she's with family, or how they
Speaker 2: determined she was safe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the cops were looking.
Speaker 4: I mean, there was a huge search, and they decided,
Speaker 4: you know, what she did by herself. There's no crime here.
Speaker 4: You can disappear. It just turns out that she just
Speaker 4: hates people, which is why she's filling in for me,
Speaker 4: by the way, when I'm on vacation.
Speaker 3: That's it, bottom line, allowed to do that.
Speaker 2: There by Lax as well, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: She just left, all right, flies into Lax, doesn't border
Speaker 4: play in New York and says I'm out of here.
Speaker 5: But there's probably more to this story. I wonder if
Speaker 5: we're ever going to hear you're again, as you said,
Speaker 5: like the dad committed suicide, Well, why because he thought
Speaker 5: his daughter was dead or because he did something and
Speaker 5: felt guilty about it? The hell knows, I know, right, interesting,
Speaker 5: like he needs more money. Elon Musk has become the
Speaker 5: first person to reach four hundred billion dollars in net worth.
Speaker 5: It's the latest mild stone for the world's richest person.
Speaker 5: The most recent catalyst was sale of his privately held SpaceX,
Speaker 5: an insider share sale that boosted his net worth by
Speaker 5: about fifty billion, and then Tesla's shares also rallied to
Speaker 5: an all time high yesterday, pushing his fortune to four
Speaker 5: hundred and forty seven billion dollars.
Speaker 4: Now this stat stunned me. Okay, this story out of Yahoo.
Speaker 4: And if you put together the fortunes of the world's
Speaker 4: richest five hundred people, we're talking five hundred people.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: That's ten trillion dollars, which is more than the combined
Speaker 4: gross domestic products Germany, Japan and Australia. And that's combined.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is insane. Remember when someone hit a
Speaker 4: billion dollars in net worth, it was just in just
Speaker 4: it was an incredible figure. Now there's a good chance
Speaker 4: your neighbor has more than a billion dollars in net.
Speaker 3: Worth, four hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 2: One guy, They would look at you as poor.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm dirt poor. Compared to it.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean yeah, I mean it's not even that.
Speaker 4: I mean there are people that are obviously far, far
Speaker 4: richer than I am. I know.
Speaker 3: You you pretend that I have all.
Speaker 4: This money, well in this group of five, Well, yes,
Speaker 4: because I have secondary jobs.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, you guys, don't I have? I have other jobs.
Speaker 2: Study Look at everybody here has other jobs.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know it's like you go to seven eleven and
Speaker 4: you realize a guy behind the counter on weekends is
Speaker 4: a cardiologist because he's Indian.
Speaker 2: He eats the money. Yeah, really, yeah, they are.
Speaker 3: You know that's right.
Speaker 4: You know, you can't be a cardiologist in southern California
Speaker 4: unless you're Indian.
Speaker 3: You know that. That's you have to put that down
Speaker 3: on the application.
Speaker 2: You know what when I visited India, Tracy and I
Speaker 2: went on our honeymoon. Actually yeah, the.
Speaker 3: Entire country was cardiology schools.
Speaker 2: And medical schools. There really are medical schools and business
Speaker 2: schools everywhere in India.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, it's world class medicine.
Speaker 4: That doesn't stop people from being cardiologists and working at
Speaker 4: seven to eleven on weekends.
Speaker 2: I suppose not.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right?
Speaker 2: US President elect Donald Trump is having a party and
Speaker 2: inviting his friends, even those from China. So US President
Speaker 2: elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese president Jijimping Jijimping rather,
Speaker 2: and he wants him to attend his inaugural inauguration next
Speaker 2: month on January twenty. If come one, come a hang out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I mean, there's no Chinese president that has
Speaker 4: ever come to.
Speaker 3: An inn, to an inauguration.
Speaker 4: He wants him to come. He's even saying pandax threats
Speaker 4: is going to cater this thing.
Speaker 5: He did not say that.
Speaker 2: Ooh, we just start booing Bill.
Speaker 3: Booh, did I read that wrong? Oooh, okay, Aby pardon me? Ooh,
Speaker 3: good job.
Speaker 5: President Joey Biden, I know, right, has commuted sentences of
Speaker 5: about fifteen hundred people and also pardon thirty nine people
Speaker 5: who were convicted of non violent crimes. Most of the
Speaker 5: people who we commuted the sentences they were released from
Speaker 5: prison and on home confinement because of the pandemic. But
Speaker 5: it was the single biggest day act of clemency in
Speaker 5: modern history. Former President Obama had the next highest tality.
Speaker 5: It was like three hundred and thirty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know Trump's going to beat that because
Speaker 4: you know, he's got twenty five hundred individuals that were
Speaker 4: just at the capital of overrunning the capital. But if
Speaker 4: now gotten to the point with Presidents Biden fifteen hundred
Speaker 4: individuals in one day, I guess now President's pardon people
Speaker 4: that they've met once at parties. Hey, Hi, I'm President
Speaker 4: President Biden. Would you like a pardon? And President and
Speaker 4: President Trump, president elect Trump is going to do the
Speaker 4: same thing.
Speaker 3: I think the difference though, is these.
Speaker 4: Are non violent criminals that Biden is is pardoning, and
Speaker 4: you're going to see Trump pardon people that were on inside.
Speaker 3: And that's it.
Speaker 2: What thirty nine of them were convicted of non violent crime,
Speaker 2: but the.
Speaker 4: Rest they were commuted. They weren't pardoned, the sentences were commuted, they.
Speaker 2: Were were actually related to Biden.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my point. That's my point. Okay, we'll take
Speaker 4: a break and come back. Yeah, we're coming back. Don't
Speaker 4: be funny, Neil, that's my job. Okay, God, I resent that.
Speaker 4: And here's what Neil, your job fun that's correct. I
Speaker 4: Here's what really pisses me off is when Neil says
Speaker 4: something that I wish I had said, and that is
Speaker 4: something that Neil, you shouldn't be able to do. Man,
Speaker 4: you must hate every day, every day, every hour of
Speaker 4: every day, every waking hour, and sometimes even in my dreams.
Speaker 3: Amy, You guys are making a very.
Speaker 4: Big deal and it's a reasonable deal of this little
Speaker 4: kitten on the ninety one.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, little tiny kitten.
Speaker 4: Now, next report is going to be as cars are
Speaker 4: swerving around to miss the kitten, there'll be a crash
Speaker 4: with fourteen people dead. And that doesn't count the bust
Speaker 4: full of kindergarteners that they're on their way to school.
Speaker 5: Well, hopefully not. The kitten's on the median, sitting there
Speaker 5: because some jerko dropped it off there.
Speaker 4: Probably, Okay, I'm not arguing that, not arguing that, just saying,
Speaker 4: would you swerve around a kitten, yes, on the freeway,
Speaker 4: knowing you're gonna die in a crash?
Speaker 5: Okay you wouldn't.
Speaker 2: No, No, that cat is getting Destroyed's got kids, man, Daddy,
Speaker 2: you got to come home.
Speaker 3: See there you go.
Speaker 5: Hopefully they'll get a well, they'll run a police a break.
Speaker 4: If they did that, I would. It's like I was
Speaker 4: once on a train where on the way to San Diego,
Speaker 4: and some jerk decided that he didn't want to live anymore.
Speaker 4: He stepped in front of a moving train. You know,
Speaker 4: obviously didn't survive very long. They stopped the train for
Speaker 4: four hours. We were stuck on that train. The corner
Speaker 4: took an hour to show up, and they're scraping pieces.
Speaker 4: They could have taken a garden hose and just cleaned
Speaker 4: the tracks, and thank you.
Speaker 3: We're on our way.
Speaker 2: No, you wish you a merry Christmas. We wish you.
Speaker 6: I have actually stopped on the freeway for a kitten, and.
Speaker 2: Do it safely.
Speaker 6: Absolutely on the five freeway. It was there was traffic.
Speaker 6: We're going about twenty and I just started. I slowed down.
Speaker 6: I stopped my car. I got out, and so did
Speaker 6: all the people behind me trying to get the kitten.
Speaker 3: And that kitten probably had Rabi's No here, let's move on.
Speaker 4: Let's finish handle on a line now with Amy, Neil
Speaker 4: and me.
Speaker 2: This has been It's a wonderful life with Bill Handle
Speaker 2: all right. Uh, I don't know if I like these
Speaker 2: things or not. Next week, California will launch a new
Speaker 2: statewide incentive program offering up to two thousand dollars towards
Speaker 2: the purchase of a new electric bike for income eligible residents.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing with these e bikes. They're beautiful
Speaker 2: and they're really neat, but because they have pedals, they're
Speaker 2: treated like bikes and not motor vehicles, which.
Speaker 3: They are forty miles an hour.
Speaker 2: But you know what, there is a technicality because that's
Speaker 2: why they have pedals. That's why they have pedals so
Speaker 2: they can get around the you know, heavy you can
Speaker 2: also use the pedals.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can use it, but no one does.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't see anybody on any bike, and
Speaker 4: you see them all over the place. California is offering
Speaker 4: two thousand dollars towards the purchase. Welcome to California.
Speaker 2: My well, just that it's more idiots that Now you've
Speaker 2: got those those scooters. They're all over the place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're all over the place.
Speaker 2: Get off my lawn.
Speaker 5: The NFL still riding with jay Z. NFL Commissioner Roger
Speaker 5: Goodell says he's standing by jay Z, even though he
Speaker 5: has been accused of raping a thirteen year old with
Speaker 5: Sean Combs back in twenty thirteen somewhere around there. Jay Z,
Speaker 5: of course, is denied. He calls them heinous accusations.
Speaker 3: This is one accusation.
Speaker 4: From an unnamed person who has filed a lawsuit. That's
Speaker 4: very different than what happens to P. Diddy in terms
Speaker 4: of the number of people, or Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby.
Speaker 4: And if I were Roger Goodell, I would do the
Speaker 4: same thing. This is an accusation. Now, if it comes
Speaker 4: to fruition, different story. But people jump on these pretty quickly,
Speaker 4: and you know, the accusations come now.
Speaker 3: Do I believe it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it sort of resonates, but you know, because they
Speaker 4: hang out together and get rap stars and all of that.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: It Wasn't there a time where senators were stepping down
Speaker 2: because there were pictures of them holding their hands in
Speaker 2: front of a sleeping woman's breasts.
Speaker 3: No, that was Al Franken.
Speaker 4: That's that one. That was and he was an idiot
Speaker 4: to step down. It's just see how right things changed.
Speaker 2: Dog also had as made against him and he was
Speaker 2: able to participate in I think a halftime show or something.
Speaker 4: Yes, And when you talk about changing times, I'm a
Speaker 4: baby boomer, which meant a lot of my colleagues fought
Speaker 4: a lot of people I knew fought in Vietnam and
Speaker 4: when they came back, they couldn't wear their uniforms because
Speaker 4: they were spit on. Today, it's thank you for your service,
Speaker 4: as it should be, as.
Speaker 2: It should be.
Speaker 4: But can you imagine coming back in uniform in the
Speaker 4: seventies and you'd be spit on because you were in uniform.
Speaker 2: Actually, can't imagine that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that was then.
Speaker 2: But you know what the good thing is now they're
Speaker 2: seeing for the work they did and you're spit on.
Speaker 3: So just right, Yeah, but that's a given. One more story.
Speaker 4: And this is where I was wrong because I said
Speaker 4: that you needed a million dollars in savings to retire comfortably.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bump that up. A new analysis suggests that Californians
Speaker 2: would need two point three million dollars saved up if
Speaker 2: they want to retire comfortably for twenty years. Now, if
Speaker 2: you want to put that into like relatable numbers to
Speaker 2: achise achieve that retirement threshold, that would mean saving over
Speaker 2: forty three one hundred dollars a month starting at the
Speaker 2: age of twenty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, how can anybody do that?
Speaker 3: And this is for twenty years.
Speaker 4: So let's say you retire sixty five, you hit eighty five,
Speaker 4: which is a very good chance, especially if you're sixty five.
Speaker 4: Now you're going to hit eighty five. So what do
Speaker 4: you do at the end of twenty years. You move
Speaker 4: into a dumpster. Because it becomes so insanely expensive to
Speaker 4: live in California. I don't know how people do it.
Speaker 4: I don't know how people do it. My daughter wants
Speaker 4: to buy a house.
Speaker 3: I just start laughing. How does she do that? She can't.
Speaker 3: It's impossible, and she and her husband both work impossible.
Speaker 3: You go to Carroll Street downtown La. You ever been there.
Speaker 4: Carroll Street has the houses that were put on this
Speaker 4: street the turn of the last century, late eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 4: There are houses there that were bought by milk men
Speaker 4: and were able to afford housing. You know, the guys
Speaker 4: who delivered used to deliver milk door to door.
Speaker 3: It's it's a different world.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, but those houses are gorgeous. If you've never
Speaker 2: seen them, day, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Know, they're beautiful. You know.
Speaker 4: The two by fours are actually two by fours and
Speaker 4: named and they were made out of redwood, and it
Speaker 4: was it was artisans who built the house.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it is a different world. All right,
Speaker 3: we're done.
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