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Speaker 3: and good morning, Welcome to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 2: Wayne Resnick sitting in for Bill.
Speaker 3: He is off on his holiday vacation, which is only
Speaker 3: it's only a half a vacation.
Speaker 2: As you know.
Speaker 3: He starts the holiday season by following Santa Claus around
Speaker 3: on his rounds, criticizing how Santa is doing his job
Speaker 3: and making ethnic jokes in every that Santa goes to.
Speaker 3: I don't know what he's come up this year for
Speaker 3: a Lithuanian joke, but I'm sure he's got something. Good
Speaker 3: Morning to Michelle cbe but producing this week and next
Speaker 3: week as Ann takes a well deserved holiday vacation, and
Speaker 3: good morning again at the beginning and the end of
Speaker 3: talking about you, I wish you a good.
Speaker 4: Morning, good morning, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 4: It is Christmas Eve, and honey, it is what it's?
Speaker 3: Oh Christmas Eve, Yes, it's Christmas Eve. It's Hanikah Eve.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. I have been REMISSI checking what
Speaker 3: it is relative to Kwanza. Oh, but Kwanza is around, right,
Speaker 3: I mean Kwansa is around. And I'm bringing it up
Speaker 3: because sometime later in the show, I don't know when exactly.
Speaker 4: It starts on the twenty sixth.
Speaker 3: Okay, good, so uh, sometime later in the show, I've
Speaker 3: prepared for you a very special Christmas poem. It's it's
Speaker 3: based on a poem that you know. It's based on
Speaker 3: the poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas, which is also
Speaker 3: often known as twas the Night before Christmas, but this
Speaker 3: one is not as long, and it's called a visit
Speaker 3: from one of the other ones. I love it that
Speaker 3: will be happening all right, on to Kono. Let's get
Speaker 3: you in and out of the way. That sounded bad.
Speaker 3: I didn't mean it that way. Kudos to your festive
Speaker 3: red sweater. How are you thank you had a green hat? Oh,
Speaker 3: duck down a little bit. Yes, it is very much green.
Speaker 3: It's all Christmas.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: You are the only actual morning crew person who is here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Every everyone else is a substitute transplants. And then we
Speaker 3: bring it to oh the faceless Michael Monks. You know
Speaker 3: that you're the microphone placement blocks your face entirely.
Speaker 5: I'm for a reason Wayne, Okay, you don't have to
Speaker 5: worry about the face.
Speaker 2: It's wonderful to meet you and see your face.
Speaker 3: We have spoken a few times when I filled in
Speaker 3: for John Coblt some time ago.
Speaker 2: I don't remember what it was. Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: You were nice enough to come on with the different
Speaker 3: stories that you were covering. And Michelle, yes, true or false?
Speaker 3: What have I said about Michael Monks?
Speaker 6: Say you were very excited to work with him, that
Speaker 6: you like him very much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is true. Well that's mutual, my friend, so
Speaker 2: grateful to be with you. What I do is I
Speaker 2: put thank you.
Speaker 3: I put her as a buffer between my fanboydom and
Speaker 3: you so that it is less uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Do you have issues expressing your feelings towards other men? No,
Speaker 2: I actually don't.
Speaker 3: Emotional emotional discomfort is a hallmark of this show. So
Speaker 3: whenever possible, you throw some of that in because apparently
Speaker 3: people like that. All right, Michelle, anything that you want
Speaker 3: to attend to tell the people about or no, there's
Speaker 3: nothing before we begin the show proper?
Speaker 2: What about the Are we gonna wait on the thing?
Speaker 4: What thing?
Speaker 6: A thing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll wait on the thing.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, then I would advise people, if you can,
Speaker 3: to listen as much as you can over the next
Speaker 3: two weeks because at some point there'll be a thing
Speaker 3: I don't like that. Well, all right, here we go
Speaker 3: then professional radio in three two one, it's time for
Speaker 3: this morning's Handle on the News with Michael Monks and
Speaker 3: me and your lead lead story is American Airlines called
Speaker 3: a complete ground stop for all of their flights earlier today,
Speaker 3: which on a I don't know, a random April five
Speaker 3: would be big news, but on December twenty four is
Speaker 3: an even bigger deal. Saying there were technical problems. Did
Speaker 3: they tell us what kind of technical problems?
Speaker 2: No, they did not.
Speaker 3: Did they say that we have a problem because all
Speaker 3: the pilots they all brought lightning connectors and the cockpits
Speaker 3: are USBC. No, But an hour later, whatever the problem
Speaker 3: was was fixed. The ground stop has been called off.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like when a car blocks a lane
Speaker 3: on the four h five during rush.
Speaker 2: Hour for thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: Though the ripple effect of all those delayed flights will
Speaker 3: be felt probably through New Year's will be my guess.
Speaker 3: So that brings us to the official Handle on the
Speaker 3: News lead story, how would everybody's head about the bed
Speaker 3: human case of age five bird flu has been confirmed
Speaker 3: right here in La County. This according to the La
Speaker 3: County Department of Public Health.
Speaker 2: They say it's.
Speaker 3: The first human case detected in the county, not in
Speaker 3: the world, not even in the United States of America.
Speaker 3: They say that the person who has it purportedly got
Speaker 3: it from infected livestock at a work site. They have
Speaker 3: mild symptoms, they're getting anti virals, they're recovering at home,
Speaker 3: so it's not they're not in the hospital, and it's
Speaker 3: highly unlikely they're gonna succumb or anything like that, but
Speaker 3: it is starting to bridge the species this bird flew.
Speaker 5: Yeah, That's what I want to know is what do
Speaker 5: they mean by the encounter with livestock that were impacted?
Speaker 2: You know, how did this person get it exactly? Was
Speaker 2: it like.
Speaker 5: COVID transmitted through the air or were they kissing or
Speaker 5: you know, did he drink the raw milk? What was
Speaker 5: going on between this person and this cow's I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: I from Kentucky. You know some of this arises.
Speaker 3: The feel of a hard beak against my lips and
Speaker 3: you salled you with romance.
Speaker 2: I knew you were.
Speaker 5: Telling the truth when you said you had no qualms
Speaker 5: with expressing your feelings.
Speaker 2: No, not at all. Yeah, I'd kiss a chicken. I'd
Speaker 2: absolutely kiss a chicken.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, No, I mean, I mean, if you're pick
Speaker 5: from the animal kingdom just for a kiss, you'd go
Speaker 5: for a beak.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I prefer a chicken. Give me a pig.
Speaker 2: I'm kissing, said.
Speaker 3: Michael Monks. You're already starting. You're trying to start a fight.
Speaker 3: I didn't say, of all the animals on the earth,
Speaker 3: my preferred kissing animal would be a chicken. That's not
Speaker 3: what I said. What was it You said, chicken? It
Speaker 3: was something you had thought about. Well, it just came
Speaker 3: to mind now because you brought it. Listen, now you're first,
Speaker 3: you're starting. I've got to reevaluate my inter of you,
Speaker 3: because first you come in, you come in hot, trying
Speaker 3: to start an argument. Then then you turn the tables
Speaker 3: and shift the blame like I'm the one who started
Speaker 3: chicken kissing thoughts.
Speaker 5: Well, I grew up in a very manipulative family, and
Speaker 5: I bring that type of energy into the show.
Speaker 2: So and I have an hour head start on you right,
Speaker 2: I had to do.
Speaker 5: The five o'clock hour, So I'm warmed up and stretched
Speaker 5: and ready to go.
Speaker 2: Man, I've already got my cardio in. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well then you if you came from a manipulative family
Speaker 3: and you have all kinds of issues, you will fit
Speaker 3: right in here at k I absolutely we'll talk about
Speaker 3: the water and how high it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was crazy.
Speaker 5: We saw some videos out of Santa Cruz that took
Speaker 5: down a pier with a few people on it. Mercifully
Speaker 5: they were all rescued. Wasn't the same thing for a
Speaker 5: man who got covered in debris? Though on a beach.
Speaker 5: One person has died. High surf warnings, advisories and effect
Speaker 5: along the coast from Ventura County to La County. Here
Speaker 5: locally and so ABC seven reports if your holiday involved
Speaker 5: going to the beach, you may want to wait. I
Speaker 5: surf warnings and advisories are in effect up and down
Speaker 5: the coast through Christmas.
Speaker 2: Peak.
Speaker 5: Wave heights could reach twelve feet at beaches in La
Speaker 5: and Orange County, and up to eighteen feet at Ventura
Speaker 5: County beaches. They expect the highest turf through today, but
Speaker 5: some advisories will last through tomorrow. You've seen that footage,
Speaker 5: I'm sure, Wayne.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you're saying eighteen foot waves are high.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know how to gauge them, right.
Speaker 5: I'm not from southern California. I love looking at the ocean.
Speaker 5: I love seeing a busy body of water when it's
Speaker 5: got a little bit of life to it. It's exciting,
Speaker 5: it can be romantic. But when they tell me it's dangerous,
Speaker 5: I believe them. So I don't know, but I do
Speaker 5: know there are folks who are taking in the water anyway.
Speaker 5: And again, all we can do is say these are
Speaker 5: what the warnings are. Use your best judgment.
Speaker 3: Speaking of warnings, Michelle kindly attached this looks like it
Speaker 3: would be a poster or something you would see posted
Speaker 3: at the beach, and it's about rip currents and how
Speaker 3: to protect yourself from rip currents and what they are
Speaker 3: and how they're dangerous.
Speaker 2: Which I guess there are these under the surface.
Speaker 3: Currents that run away from the shore and they will
Speaker 3: suck you right out into the middle of nowhere. Then
Speaker 3: you get one of those you know that movie Open Water,
Speaker 3: You get one of those scenarios going on.
Speaker 2: But here's what I like about it.
Speaker 3: So it says what to do if you're caught in
Speaker 3: a rip current, don't fight the current whatever. But then
Speaker 3: it says safety there are three safety tips, and the
Speaker 3: first safety tip for avoiding rip currents in the ocean
Speaker 3: is know how to swim, which is very helpful as
Speaker 3: a safety tip. I mean, I would agree that is
Speaker 3: probably safety tip number one if you're going to go
Speaker 3: into the ocean, know how to swim.
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Hold on, who is this from? Oh, the National Oceanic
Speaker 3: and Atmospheric Association dot gov.
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
Speaker 5: Focus on the regular weather please, and never swim alone,
Speaker 5: of course, they say. And I can't imagine. I'm pretty
Speaker 5: terrified of open bodies of water. Like I said, I
Speaker 5: love looking at them, but being in them is a
Speaker 5: different story for me personally. I can't imagine just jumping
Speaker 5: into the ocean, you know, the Earth's sweat pits, and
Speaker 5: just being left alone in there.
Speaker 2: Do you have a fear of deep water big time?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a common it's a common fear, hey quickly,
Speaker 3: because it's related. Just tell us what happened at the
Speaker 3: Santa Cruz wharf please?
Speaker 2: So this thing collapsed?
Speaker 5: I mean, they've got some high surf in Santa Cruz
Speaker 5: as well, and that's why the warnings here are resonating,
Speaker 5: I think more because we've seen how dangerous it can get.
Speaker 2: And so it's the end of a wharf that.
Speaker 5: Visitors know well. In Santa Cruz. This is something that
Speaker 5: people can go stand on and take in the water.
Speaker 5: But the water decided to take it in and so
Speaker 5: the big half of it collapsed into the water. Three
Speaker 5: people were standing on it. Apparently two were rescued rather quickly.
Speaker 5: Another one was rescued shortly after. So that thing collapsed.
Speaker 5: And so the collapse came as the National Weather Service
Speaker 5: issued a high surf warning cautioning the dangerously large breaking
Speaker 5: waves of thirty to forty feet, with the largest wave
Speaker 5: sets up to sixty feet where possible. The warning area
Speaker 5: included San Francisco, the coastal North Bay and Point Reyes
Speaker 5: National Seashore, the San Francisco Peninsula, Coast, Monterey Bay, and
Speaker 5: the Big sur Coast.
Speaker 2: Matt Gates too little, too late.
Speaker 3: The House Ethics report about his behavior has been released,
Speaker 3: but he tried to stop it by filing a lawsuit
Speaker 3: yesterday saying that, oh, the decision to publish it was
Speaker 3: procedurally defective, that it was something that had never been
Speaker 3: done before, and whatever else his reasons were. And so
Speaker 3: he files the lawsuit asking a judge to block the
Speaker 3: relation lease of the report, but unfortunately for him, they
Speaker 3: released it before anything could happen.
Speaker 2: And in the law that's called moot.
Speaker 5: Now do you suspect why he might not have woned
Speaker 5: this released?
Speaker 2: Are you? Are you serious? Right now?
Speaker 3: Of course, because of the the allegations and it seems
Speaker 3: like he likely paid an underage girl for sex, for example,
Speaker 3: and all that.
Speaker 5: Stuff, and engage in a lot of drug use, traveled
Speaker 5: a lot to have sex with these girls and these women.
Speaker 5: And you know, I wonder, Wayne, do you think Hunter
Speaker 5: Biden is somewhere blushing reading this?
Speaker 3: Oh boy, Oh, here we go. You have to recall blushing, blushing,
Speaker 3: blushing at the flattery of being copied.
Speaker 2: What are you? Why is Hunter Biden? I'll go here
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 3: I don't know who's paying you to trash these fine
Speaker 3: people right now over fifty thousand watts, but I'll go
Speaker 3: there with you. On this Christmas Eve as we await
Speaker 3: the commemoration of the birth of the sweet baby Savior
Speaker 3: of mankind. Sure, I'll talk about drugs and sex with
Speaker 3: underage kids with.
Speaker 5: You, Well, I think it's appropriate, and you know this
Speaker 5: is not appropriate. This this is a family show for
Speaker 5: about twelve minutes and then the rest of it is
Speaker 5: unabashed debauchery. See.
Speaker 3: I'm not here to get into the bill. Talked about
Speaker 3: what's in the report yesterday. Yeah, anybody can read the report.
Speaker 3: It's literally everywhere. If you want to read the salacious
Speaker 3: details of Matt Gates, you can do that. I'm not
Speaker 3: here to smear anybody Hunter Biden, Matt Gates, whoever, over
Speaker 3: certain personal behaviors, even if some of those behaviors may
Speaker 3: have also been crimes. I'm here specifically to say that
Speaker 3: Matt g is a moron. I'm here specifically to say
Speaker 3: that his head is full of cheap quality Guatemalan imported concrete.
Speaker 3: Because it was known that the secret vote to release
Speaker 3: the report. That was known at least as early as
Speaker 3: December eighteenth, and he didn't file anything. And I've me
Speaker 3: known everywhere because the AP published a story that they
Speaker 3: had voted to release the thing. And he didn't file
Speaker 3: this lawsuit until December twenty three, and that's why he
Speaker 3: got mooted. Right at Keister if he had filed immediately
Speaker 3: after that story came out, I believe he could have
Speaker 3: gotten a judge to issue an injunction against releasing the
Speaker 3: report until his arguments could be heard and evaluated.
Speaker 5: Mooted in Las, mooted in the Keys. I thought you
Speaker 5: were going to leave out the salacious details. Anyway, that happened.
Speaker 5: He got mooted from his own tardiness. And I brought
Speaker 5: up Hunter Biden because you might recall a hearing where
Speaker 5: Matt Gates was really trashing Hunter Biden and Matt Gates
Speaker 5: and that section of the Republican Party had a lot
Speaker 5: of fun at Hunter Biden's expense, meanwhile engaging in either
Speaker 5: comparable maybe worse behavior, And that is the state of
Speaker 5: politics today, I suppose. And I do just want to
Speaker 5: add that I think I once had some Guatemalans, but
Speaker 5: a patio in the backyard, and the concrete was fine.
Speaker 5: So I don't understand the reference to the Guatemalan concrete.
Speaker 3: Just that was off the top of my head, without
Speaker 3: having researched the quality of concrete from different countries of origin,
Speaker 3: and I was not it was hyperbolic, and it was
Speaker 3: not meant as an assertion of fact, and I will
Speaker 3: in fact retract it. And I will just say, let
Speaker 3: us strike your honors, strike from the record the word
Speaker 3: guatemal and just a cheap concrete.
Speaker 5: Well done, And let's talk about Luigi Manjoni.
Speaker 2: How about that? Finally this?
Speaker 5: You know, look, this is a good looking man, right,
Speaker 5: but he is suspected of a pretty heinous crime. I
Speaker 5: have not seen a reaction in real time like this
Speaker 5: to an accused killer. I saw the movie about Ted Kaczynski. Oh,
Speaker 5: not Ted, who was the Ted Bundy? I'm sorry Bundy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the movie about Ted Bundy, and you know, obviously got
Speaker 5: some attention from the ladies, I suppose contemporaneously. I don't
Speaker 5: know that I've ever witnessed something like this in real time.
Speaker 5: I mean, do you recall anything like this, This, this
Speaker 5: weird outpouring of.
Speaker 2: What women women, women getting all a guy over bad men? Well,
Speaker 2: I mean, is that what you're asking me? Have I
Speaker 2: ever have I ever?
Speaker 5: Have you ever seen them? Have you ever seen them
Speaker 5: be so thirsty? On Maine Tho it happens all the time.
Speaker 3: The Menendez brothers got it, Charles Manson got it, does it?
Speaker 2: Zinsky got some of it?
Speaker 6: It?
Speaker 3: Actually it happens every single time. They don't even need
Speaker 3: to be Abercrombie and Fitch hot to get it. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't, but men don't do it for women so much.
Speaker 3: You didn't have it, You didn't have tons of dudes
Speaker 3: wanting to marry squeaky from.
Speaker 5: Well, I guess that's a valid point. So we've done
Speaker 5: a little international racism and now a little women are
Speaker 5: worse than men. We have established that with science.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Hey, let's get some news.
Speaker 4: I'm going to disagree.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm clearly.
Speaker 3: Screwing around because it's Christmas eve Day, and also for
Speaker 3: another reason, which apparently we can find out about later
Speaker 3: another day. So you know, I remember, I just remember all.
Speaker 6: The guys going crazy for Jody Arius, who's that she
Speaker 6: was the one who killed her boyfriend in the shower.
Speaker 2: You know that's true.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And even though men would say she's crazy, but
Speaker 6: she's really good looking.
Speaker 2: I just always felt like a fringe element to me that.
Speaker 5: Of course there were people who works at but this
Speaker 5: widespread acclaim.
Speaker 4: Well, you are right, when women do it more than men,
Speaker 4: it is true.
Speaker 3: Maybe Listen, women women get crushes on bad men more
Speaker 3: than men.
Speaker 2: Men rape way more than women.
Speaker 3: So I think if you really want the scales of justice,
Speaker 3: men are losers on that comparison.
Speaker 2: Well, a promising young woman got a bit of an.
Speaker 3: Education after being arrested by the Seal Beach PD for
Speaker 3: shoplifting her my grammar's way off. I know she and
Speaker 3: two of her friends were or maybe just partners in crime.
Speaker 3: We're seen walking into an alta beauty store and stealing
Speaker 3: some stuff, and also going into a coals and stealing
Speaker 3: some stuff, and the PD track them down throw them
Speaker 3: in the back of the car, and that is when
Speaker 3: one of them learned, apparently for the first time, that
Speaker 3: the penalties for shoplifting have been increased. Here's a little
Speaker 3: here's a little classroom instruction from one person to another.
Speaker 4: There's new laws stealing the phone, and it's just a
Speaker 4: launch counted beast. They don't But that's the best study.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry now to be to be fair to the
Speaker 3: dumb one who didn't know.
Speaker 2: Shoplifting.
Speaker 3: Remember what happened when we had Prop forty seven in
Speaker 3: Criminal History reform, and one of the things we said is, look,
Speaker 3: if you're shoplifting, but it's under a nine hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty dollars or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's a misdemeanor, don't it's not a big deal. It's
Speaker 2: that we're not going to make a big deal.
Speaker 3: And then we just voted to increase some of the
Speaker 3: undo some of Prop forty seven's nonsense.
Speaker 2: And so it's this though.
Speaker 3: Shoplifting under nine hundred and fifty dollars now could be
Speaker 3: a felony if you have priors.
Speaker 2: So if your records.
Speaker 3: Clean, everybody's still as much as you can.
Speaker 2: But if you've been popped before.
Speaker 3: You you better know the retail value of what you're
Speaker 3: shoving down your pants. Those sounds there, all those all
Speaker 3: those beaps are what you put in because of the
Speaker 3: of the allegedly bad language.
Speaker 4: No, that was the They were in the back of
Speaker 4: the patrol car.
Speaker 2: Oh, that was patrol car beaps.
Speaker 3: You know, I thought maybe I thought maybe the two
Speaker 3: women and R two D two had been arrested for shoplifting.
Speaker 2: Wow, speaking of crime, here's a scam.
Speaker 5: Another scam. I mean, you really can't even leave the
Speaker 5: house anymore. A parking scam targeting Festival of Lights visitors
Speaker 5: in downtown Riverside. The city officials there warned the public
Speaker 5: about folks going down to the Mission INDs Festival of Lights,
Speaker 5: and there's apparently fake QR codes placed that pay stations
Speaker 5: around the parking areas in downtown and so you would
Speaker 5: scan this QR code thinking you were going to pay
Speaker 5: for parking, and the fraudulent version of the QR code
Speaker 5: would start asking for your credit card information, or another
Speaker 5: version of it would offer users a dollar parking if
Speaker 5: they pay with their Bank of America card.
Speaker 2: So we've seen the growth of QR codes.
Speaker 5: They've come back, especially during the pandemic, and now they're
Speaker 5: very commonplace. But my goodness, you have to really trust
Speaker 5: the ones you're scanning.
Speaker 3: Or charging people to park their cars parking parking should
Speaker 3: be considered a free service that comes with patronizing any place.
Speaker 3: Social media companies in parts of the world now are
Speaker 3: going to have to use facial recognition age checks to
Speaker 3: prevent underage kids from getting accounts on their sites.
Speaker 2: This sounds like the.
Speaker 3: Same thing that's been that's happening across the United States
Speaker 3: where the porn sites are now in certain states are
Speaker 3: requiring that porn sites verify your age, and a lot
Speaker 3: of the systems are using a facial recognition FINGU where
Speaker 3: it's like, look at your camera and artificial intelligence will tell.
Speaker 2: You how old we think you are.
Speaker 3: And they say this is better than showing us your ID,
Speaker 3: isn't it.
Speaker 6: Well, what about the people who look really young or
Speaker 6: people who look older than they are.
Speaker 3: Well, this is part of the problem with using facial
Speaker 3: recognition in this case.
Speaker 2: This is in Britain right now.
Speaker 3: They have an agency called Offcom that makes up laws
Speaker 3: and regulations about the use of social media and other
Speaker 3: related things. And they're the ones saying you're gonna have
Speaker 3: facial life Facebook. Someone wants to make an account's got
Speaker 3: to be facial recognition to make sure that they're old enough.
Speaker 3: And I'm not sure if they've worked out what happens
Speaker 3: if you're actually twenty and you got a baby face
Speaker 3: and Facebook won't let you make an account. But I
Speaker 3: guess that's a problem. Put it this way, no offense.
Speaker 3: That's not a problem for anybody here on the show
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 5: Ah, Merry Christmas, there you Merry Christmas. Hey, Wayne, We've
Speaker 5: got some new neighbors in California. California has seen a
Speaker 5: big population rebound after years of losses. The Only Times
Speaker 5: reports after several years of decline californ Cornya's population grew
Speaker 5: by almost a quarter of a million residents in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four.
Speaker 2: That's according to stats from the Census Bureau.
Speaker 5: And while we do have more neighbors, they say the
Speaker 5: numbers are not all rosy. California experienced a slower growth
Speaker 5: rate than the country as a whole, and other large states,
Speaker 5: particularly in the South, are growing faster. It also experienced
Speaker 5: the nation's largest domestic migration loss.
Speaker 2: So I moved here in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5: I thought that California was going to fall over itself
Speaker 5: because I was coming in, you know, like they're losing people.
Speaker 5: Here comes a new, fresh faced man ready to live
Speaker 5: in California. They weren't that excited about my arrival at all.
Speaker 5: It's very disappointing, nonplussed. Yeah, there was always in this
Speaker 5: snow welcome.
Speaker 3: You know what's interesting about fun fact for me, it's
Speaker 3: fun for me to think about. So California has had
Speaker 3: periods of great population growth, population decline, slow population growth,
Speaker 3: and right now we're at about what thirty eighty nine
Speaker 3: and a half half million is an estimate. I believe
Speaker 3: never have we cracked forty million. There seems to be
Speaker 3: a limitter in place that we just we can't get.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying I want us to get above forty million.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying it's really weird that, like, we get
Speaker 3: really close to forty million and something happens and we
Speaker 3: lose population.
Speaker 2: Again. Well, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5: It is something that could have electoral consequences. Right, We're
Speaker 5: a pretty big prize on presidential election nights and might
Speaker 5: lose some some electric I think.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I mean, first of all, it's always blue.
Speaker 3: We'll always go blue, and we'll always have a lot
Speaker 3: of electoral votes if we lose one or two somehow,
Speaker 3: I don't it doesn't.
Speaker 2: I don't think changes that much.
Speaker 3: Want to try to say is California will always be
Speaker 3: cool and the best. I agree, no matter what agreed.
Speaker 3: Michael Monks might hate California, I do. I don't know
Speaker 3: why I hate hates California so much. Chicken man, that's
Speaker 3: that's particular. You know what I just said is particularly funny,
Speaker 3: isn't it, Michelle accusing him of hating California anyway. Yes,
Speaker 3: I'm hinting at something, Ladies and gentlemen, And if you
Speaker 3: keep listening, during the holidays. This is called foreshadowing. At
Speaker 3: different points during shows, things will be said that won't
Speaker 3: make sense. You'll wonder why they're being said, But at
Speaker 3: some point there'll be big reveals about what's going on.
Speaker 3: You know how, throughout the sixth sense there are clues
Speaker 3: as to what the big surprise is going to be.
Speaker 3: There are clues, and if you go back and watch
Speaker 3: it again, you start to see, oh, that's what's happening now. Hey,
Speaker 3: Hurtz has a feel for you story. Maybe you're renting
Speaker 3: a Tesla, you fool, and you're driving around in it
Speaker 3: and not realizing what a piece of junk it is,
Speaker 3: and you'll get an email from Hertz that says, hey,
Speaker 3: are you loving your rental right now?
Speaker 2: Well, why don't you consider it a test drive?
Speaker 3: Maybe you'd like to take it home and you'll get
Speaker 3: a nice offer to buy the Tesla that you're driving
Speaker 3: as a rental because they're trying to thin out their
Speaker 3: herd of evs. It is not only Tesla's, to be fair,
Speaker 3: it's other evs as well. It's just the Teslas are
Speaker 3: getting all the attention. And somebody got an amazing offer.
Speaker 3: It was a twenty twenty three Model three less than
Speaker 3: thirty thousand miles, and Hurt said, hey, if you like it,
Speaker 3: you can buy it for eighteen thousand dollars, Which is
Speaker 3: that Listen, whatever you think of Tesla's, that's a great
Speaker 3: price for that car. But it also suggests they'd really
Speaker 3: maybe rather not have to take it back.
Speaker 5: There's a related story as well, Wayne, because as you know,
Speaker 5: people were driving some pretty big cars there for a
Speaker 5: long time, the bigger the better, and now people are downsizing.
Speaker 5: According to the Wall Street Journal, stubbornly high car prices
Speaker 5: and elevated interest rates are persuading more Americans that when
Speaker 5: it comes to their next car purchase, bigger isn't always better.
Speaker 2: So we are.
Speaker 5: Turning apparently to smaller sedan models, and that is we're
Speaker 5: seeing that the monthly payments for new cars or maybe
Speaker 5: a little lower when you do that.
Speaker 2: They're not as expensive.
Speaker 5: Some of the smaller models and entry level models as
Speaker 5: they call them, are the Honda Civic, the Nissan CenTra.
Speaker 5: They've taken off this year, rising twenty three percent or
Speaker 5: more through November. So less is more when it comes
Speaker 5: to cars these days.
Speaker 3: It's good for safety on the roads too. If you
Speaker 3: have fewer of these ridiculous outsized behemoth particularly like the
Speaker 3: King Cab pickup truck with the double wide thing in
Speaker 3: the four tires. And I never, ever, I never see
Speaker 3: a guy, like for example, hauling a bed full of
Speaker 3: high quality Guatemalan concrete in these trucks. They're just going
Speaker 3: to the shooting range. Yeah. So I like this trend.
Speaker 3: I like it absolutely. Okay, I have to scroll back up.
Speaker 2: Here we go. Sorry.
Speaker 3: Also, downsizing you're a Christmas tree the newest trend because
Speaker 3: people have less space in their homes apparently, or they
Speaker 3: have more other stuff. That's that's encroaching on where a
Speaker 3: big tree would go. Is a skinny tree. I think
Speaker 3: they're still as tall, but they are skinny and they
Speaker 3: kind of look weird because they are so thin and tall.
Speaker 3: And celebrities have been showing off their new skinny trees.
Speaker 3: Kelly Rippa posted a picture of her tree and she
Speaker 3: said she's skinny. Don't shame her, and she I don't. Oh,
Speaker 3: she coined this herself, but she used this new term.
Speaker 3: They're calling it tre zembic, and the idea was literally,
Speaker 3: for example, people would get a giant tree and it
Speaker 3: would be blocking the TV. No, we can't have that
Speaker 3: in America. So what do you do? Do you just
Speaker 3: not watch TV for a few days? No, you make
Speaker 3: the tree do a boot camp.
Speaker 4: God forbid it. Blocks of TV.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we have our priorities.
Speaker 4: We have to finish on the next story.
Speaker 5: Okay, we'll finish on the next story, and that is
Speaker 5: that Crocodile Dundee star Bert dies, the reptilian star of
Speaker 5: nineteen eighties classic crocodile Dundee, has died at the age
Speaker 5: of at least ninety years old. The crocodile's death was
Speaker 5: announced by Australian Reptile Park Crocosaurus Cove, where Bert lived
Speaker 5: out his final years.
Speaker 4: He was so big. Did you see him?
Speaker 2: Big big? He's a huge Oh my gosh, sure Bert, not.
Speaker 3: That I've ever seen a crocodile and thought, what a
Speaker 3: little cutie.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ninety years old age pretty well. I don't know
Speaker 5: how you would do on that facial recognition we talked
Speaker 5: about earlier though, Well, he.
Speaker 4: Aged better than Paul Holkin.
Speaker 3: Well he was obviously using bow CrOx Oh, well done.
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