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Speaker 3: Oh no, JFK, JFK.
Speaker 4: There's a picture of him in Santa Monica Beach and
Speaker 4: he was a hard body. JFK had a great figure
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 3: Good morning, everybody. Bill Handle here and the morning crew.
Speaker 4: It is a Tuesday morning, April fifteenth tax day except
Speaker 4: for the people in Orange County, excuse me, in La County.
Speaker 3: And you want to war now I know La County.
Speaker 4: It is not tax day because of the fires, and
Speaker 4: the IRS has said that you if you owe taxes
Speaker 4: April fifteenth, that can be extended to October fifteenth dealing
Speaker 4: with the fires.
Speaker 3: And it's not just where you live.
Speaker 4: It may be where your accountant lives. It could be
Speaker 4: where your business is. They're being pretty broad in their
Speaker 4: interpretation of being in and around La County.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 4: But for everybody else Orange County, Ventura County, Inland Empire,
Speaker 4: it's you gotta have to pay taxes today. I think
Speaker 4: it's La County or is at La City? I think
Speaker 4: it's La County, La County.
Speaker 3: Okay, So are you do? You usually filed by April fifteenth,
Speaker 3: by the way, Amy.
Speaker 5: I usually do, and I got my taxes done on Sunday,
Speaker 5: but I didn't file them yet.
Speaker 4: I'm assuming you're paying virtually no tax is because you
Speaker 4: work here at iHeart and you just don't pay enough
Speaker 4: make enough money to pay taxes.
Speaker 5: You would think. But I've been talking to people around
Speaker 5: the office, and you know what you just said is
Speaker 5: probably true.
Speaker 6: A lot of people owe taxes.
Speaker 4: Because it adds up. It gets cumulative. So let's say
Speaker 4: you start ten years ago or five years ago. Let's
Speaker 4: say and you owe five dollars in taxes. Between penalties
Speaker 4: and interest, five dollars becomes two and a half million
Speaker 4: dollars in three years.
Speaker 3: The irs is very very tough.
Speaker 4: Okay, good morning, Amy, Hi Neil.
Speaker 2: Taxes, Oh we've done them long time ago.
Speaker 3: Oh you're done.
Speaker 2: People have businesses.
Speaker 1: My wife's got corporation and stuff, so we pay all
Speaker 1: the time. Okay, but yeah, you've got to eat. The
Speaker 1: best way to do your taxes is so you're even
Speaker 1: you don't know, they don't true. That's the best. If
Speaker 1: you can hit that sweet spot.
Speaker 4: That's a little Yeah, it's a little complicated because you
Speaker 4: have to guess exemptions. If you're a W two employee,
Speaker 4: you have to guess you know, how many exemptions you
Speaker 4: put in there.
Speaker 3: You're right.
Speaker 4: The best way is to not owe anything to the
Speaker 4: IRS and not get a refund from the IRS. Although
Speaker 4: everybody loves refunds. It is forced savings for a lot
Speaker 4: of people. But you get no interest on the money.
Speaker 4: Although if you owe the IRS, you get you pay interest.
Speaker 3: Will taxes? Are you done?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, So you're going to extend and you're LA County right,
Speaker 3: I'll be using that extension, yes, okay, and and all done?
Speaker 3: All done? Okay, fair enough, and cone.
Speaker 2: The type that's up and off that and cono.
Speaker 4: Do you know what, people that live under the poverty
Speaker 4: line don't even file taxes. So when was the last
Speaker 4: time you actually filed an income tax?
Speaker 2: Income Tax Form twenty sixteen, excellent, And.
Speaker 3: That's when you were hired by iHeart. I got it.
Speaker 4: Okay, guys, a lot going on today as always, so
Speaker 4: let's just jump in and do it. Starting with Handle
Speaker 4: on the news, Neil and Amy and me lead story.
Speaker 6: Now I'm never coming back.
Speaker 4: El Salvadorian President Naib. Now Amy helped me with this,
Speaker 4: is it bukle boukel?
Speaker 3: How do you pronounce his name?
Speaker 2: Old?
Speaker 6: Please?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 5: I had that in a story this morning and we
Speaker 5: didn't have a pronouncer, and I went, I'm not even
Speaker 5: trying that one, but I can find it for you because.
Speaker 6: Are okay, I'll get.
Speaker 4: It, Thank you, El Salvadorian President Naib. Whatever the hell
Speaker 4: you pronounce his name? We'll find out in a minute.
Speaker 4: Was in a meeting at at the White House, the
Speaker 4: Oval Office meeting, you know, where the president sits with
Speaker 4: whoever head of stayed or whoever visiting him. And they're
Speaker 4: in front of the fireplace in those two chairs, and
Speaker 4: they bring in the reporters and their reporters are always
Speaker 4: crammed in there. It's a small room and they have
Speaker 4: like two dozen reporters jowl to jowl, cheek to jowl
Speaker 4: or whatever they call it. And of course the question
Speaker 4: came up instantly about that El Salvadorian migrant who was
Speaker 4: here and was he was under asylum. He was waiting
Speaker 4: for asylum hearing, and so he was here legally he
Speaker 4: was deported. The government said we made a mistake. We
Speaker 4: shouldn't have deported him. And the Supreme Court said the
Speaker 4: government has to facilitate. Our government has to facilitate bringing
Speaker 4: him back. Well, the government isn't doing much even though.
Speaker 3: The court ordered it. He said. When he was asked
Speaker 3: about returning him, he goes, I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 3: I can't do it. What I'm going to bring a
Speaker 3: terrorist and shipping back? What am I to do? And
Speaker 3: so and he said it was preposterous.
Speaker 4: The question, so this is getting to be a lot
Speaker 4: of funds, much bigger than one guy going to this
Speaker 4: President El Salvador.
Speaker 6: It's President naib Bal.
Speaker 1: Bucalay okay Bube. So why is the guy so controversial
Speaker 1: if he's innocent.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't understand why he's controversial.
Speaker 1: What the whture question is like is if he's a
Speaker 1: bad guy, why is everybody concerned?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, first of all, the government is saying he's
Speaker 4: a bad guy. The court said there was no evidence
Speaker 4: that was produced that he is a member of the
Speaker 4: MS thirteen gang.
Speaker 6: No, the court did.
Speaker 5: Say that they thought he was, but that there was
Speaker 5: threat back in l Salvador, so they allowed him to stay.
Speaker 5: Remember that was like in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but in this case under the deportation when it
Speaker 4: came up this order that the government was ordering to facilitate.
Speaker 4: My understanding amy is that the government argued he's a
Speaker 4: member of MS thirteen. The court said, you don't have
Speaker 4: any evidence, and you did illegally deport him. He was
Speaker 4: here legally, you deported him, and you even admitted you
Speaker 4: were wrong.
Speaker 6: He's here illegally though.
Speaker 3: No, No, yeah, I think he was under an asylum order.
Speaker 3: You're going to look that up. Let's get our watch
Speaker 3: trade on this right now.
Speaker 1: You may be right not to be wrong, But why
Speaker 1: is it asylum if you're seeking asylum from you being
Speaker 1: a criminal in another country?
Speaker 3: No, you're not. He has no he is not being
Speaker 3: charged in another country.
Speaker 4: There is no criminal There are no criminal charges against him,
Speaker 4: either in El Salvador or the United States, and he
Speaker 4: has no criminal record.
Speaker 2: And he was just holm a terrorist.
Speaker 3: I'd like to know that.
Speaker 5: Okay, this is what Wikipedia says about this guy. Aburygo
Speaker 5: Garcia illegally immigrated to the US in twenty eleven when
Speaker 5: he was sixteen. Ed lived and worked in the country
Speaker 5: legally since twenty nineteen, when an immigration judge granted him
Speaker 5: withholding of removal status because it said, even though he
Speaker 5: may have been part of MS thirteen, there was a
Speaker 5: risk if he went back, right, and that was.
Speaker 3: The risk persecution if you go back.
Speaker 4: The government United States will allow you to stay if
Speaker 4: you argue that if you go back persecuted for being
Speaker 4: gay or having political views, or it's so dangerous, by
Speaker 4: the way, that's an asylum, a form of asylum that
Speaker 4: you can stay here.
Speaker 6: So he came here illegally and.
Speaker 4: Then he granted legal status. Then he was granted legal
Speaker 4: status to stay here, and they deported him, and the
Speaker 4: government said we deported him wrongly, and he went to
Speaker 4: court or his people went to court and argued that
Speaker 4: it was illegal and mandated that he'd be brought back.
Speaker 4: The government said, no, thank you, we're not going to
Speaker 4: do it. The court then ordered the government at the
Speaker 4: Supreme Court, now we went up there very quickly to
Speaker 4: facilitate him coming back. And the US government said no,
Speaker 4: ignoring the court order and the government of El Salvador,
Speaker 4: with the president Naib Bucalay saying.
Speaker 3: It's a Propostero's question. I'm not going to bring him back.
Speaker 3: He's in this prison. That's insane. Have you seen the
Speaker 3: videos of guys in prison there, how brutal they're treated anyway,
Speaker 3: all right, so much for that. I think we got
Speaker 3: it trained out. Maybe not. I have no idea.
Speaker 4: There's a lot to this story, there is, yeah, And
Speaker 4: we try to stay away from stories that there is
Speaker 4: a lot too.
Speaker 3: We like really simple up down sideways.
Speaker 4: No, yes, Amy, making a run, go ahead, No, no,
Speaker 4: this one should have been cut off.
Speaker 6: Making a run for the border.
Speaker 5: There's a long sliver of federal land along the US
Speaker 5: Mexico border that President Trump has turned over to the
Speaker 5: Department of Defense to be controlled by the US Army
Speaker 5: that would and could allow troops to detain anyone crossing
Speaker 5: the border illegally. The transfer of the border zone to
Speaker 5: military control is apparently an attempt by the administration to
Speaker 5: get around that federal law that prohibits US troops from
Speaker 5: being used in domestic law enforcement on American soil.
Speaker 4: But if it's a if it's an army base, and
Speaker 4: you can do along the border, and it's a real
Speaker 4: thin one just along the border of a couple of
Speaker 4: miles there goes all the way across. Hey, they can
Speaker 4: do whatever they la want on an army base. Detain,
Speaker 4: not detain, ar rescue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so okay, very clever.
Speaker 1: Mostly because he couldn't put up the wall, he put
Speaker 1: up defense.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, team all right Israel.
Speaker 1: Israeli troops have taken over about a third of the
Speaker 1: Gaza Strip in renewed military action. They've declared these security
Speaker 1: zone swaths of the north and the south, and obviously
Speaker 1: while doing this, they're pushing out their populations as part
Speaker 1: of a new strategy to wretchet up pressure on Hamas.
Speaker 1: So they relied early on in airstrikes, tactical raids we
Speaker 1: saw the first year and a half of war. That
Speaker 1: was their focus. Now they're just taking up land. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're just taking definitely and.
Speaker 3: As bad yeah, as bad as what Israel is doing.
Speaker 3: And it is horrific. I mean, there's no question about it.
Speaker 4: Civilians are being killed left and right, and the homes
Speaker 4: and businesses and buildings destroyed. At what point does Hamas
Speaker 4: give up the hostages. Does Hamas wait until every single
Speaker 4: building in Gaza is destroyed and will not give up
Speaker 4: the hostages? And Israel and they're negotiating with Netanyahu. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is not an Israeli government that is willing to
Speaker 4: release two thousand prisoners for just a couple They're saying
Speaker 4: we Israel saying we want our hostages, and if you don't,
Speaker 4: We're going to go balls to the wall. Israel's going
Speaker 4: to be a Paria nation because it's going to wipe
Speaker 4: out the Ga, Gazanians, Palestinians and Gaza. And Hamas doesn't care,
Speaker 4: doesn't care. They're going to hold on. They're going to
Speaker 4: hold on to those hostages, come hell or high water.
Speaker 4: And then when there's nothing left of Gaza and only
Speaker 4: Habbas exists.
Speaker 3: And they're living in tunnels.
Speaker 4: What was that great film where the not the Ewoks
Speaker 4: lived in tunnels? But it was the Orson Wells, not
Speaker 4: Orson Wells. The No, it wasn't Orson Wells.
Speaker 2: It was Oh god, it wasn't Snoopy.
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't Snoopy.
Speaker 4: It was that film they went the time machine, went
Speaker 4: into the future and it was based in Victorian years.
Speaker 2: And H. G.
Speaker 3: Wells. Yeah, time machine, time machine, yeah that one. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Where they lived in tunnels?
Speaker 4: Yeah, where the e walkies or whatever thell they called
Speaker 4: them live in tunnels, Okay, or lived underground.
Speaker 3: Okay, We're gonna move on because that made no sense.
Speaker 3: Well it did in kind of a weird way, but
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 5: About to be made in the US A Honda it
Speaker 5: says it's looking to switch some of its car production
Speaker 5: from Mexico and from Canada to the US. They say
Speaker 5: that the goal would be ninety percent of cars sold
Speaker 5: in the US would be made locally. Of course, in
Speaker 5: response to Trump's new tariffs, the twenty five percent levy
Speaker 5: on imported vehicles plans to increase US vehicle production by
Speaker 5: as much as thirty percent over the next two to
Speaker 5: three years.
Speaker 4: I have a question, and this is exactly what Trump wants,
Speaker 4: and this is well, if it happens within the next
Speaker 4: couple of years, it's a win. Now, the question becomes,
Speaker 4: are they going to build new factories? Are they going
Speaker 4: to use factories that are no longer being used? And
Speaker 4: there it becomes much easier, of course.
Speaker 2: To we have factories in Detroit and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh, there are factories that are no longer
Speaker 4: in use. Yeah, Yeah, they're empty shells. Yeah, because production
Speaker 4: has gone overseas so much. And so that's what Honda's saying.
Speaker 2: And we'll see.
Speaker 4: Now, I don't know how many people work in those plants.
Speaker 4: I mean, he used to be thousands of people would
Speaker 4: work three shifts, and I don't know. Typically what's something
Speaker 4: to look up typically in a car manufacturing Honda, Typically
Speaker 4: how many people work at a Honda assembly plant?
Speaker 3: And I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 4: It's probably what a couple of thousand, two, three thousand,
Speaker 4: I don't know, but as how.
Speaker 5: Much as sometimes as much as four thousand people, Okay, and.
Speaker 3: That's one of the big ones. So you know, four
Speaker 3: thousand people is pretty good.
Speaker 4: But his automation and technology becomes war and more advanced,
Speaker 4: fewer and fewer people, and so it's a double hit.
Speaker 4: I mean, Trump is right, we wants to bring he
Speaker 4: wants to bring manufacturing here, and that's the whole point
Speaker 4: of his tariffs.
Speaker 3: And we'll see if he's right. He's playing the long game,
Speaker 3: and it may not be such a long game. We'll see.
Speaker 5: But here's the question for you build when you play
Speaker 5: the long game. Knowing that he's only in office for
Speaker 5: three and a half more years. Can they wait him
Speaker 5: out and like say, Okay, we're moving our production and
Speaker 5: then once he's out of office, go, never mind, we're
Speaker 5: going back to Mexico.
Speaker 4: Yes, except that, are there going to be moves to
Speaker 4: actually build or refurbish those plants.
Speaker 3: They can't just say we're going to, We're going to,
Speaker 3: We're going to. Right now, the.
Speaker 4: Trump administration is saying, these people are trillions of dollars.
Speaker 3: Have been committed to bringing manufacturing back.
Speaker 4: There's a big difference between the administration saying they said
Speaker 4: versus there they are building the plant. And if they're
Speaker 4: going aggressively to build the plant, I think that's one thing.
Speaker 4: If it's just babbel babbel babel, I think is something
Speaker 4: else saying me to your point? You know, for example,
Speaker 4: stopping the war in Ukraine, right, the Ukrainian War. I mean,
Speaker 4: you can say all you want, oh, I'm going to
Speaker 4: stop it. I'm going to stop it. I'm going to
Speaker 4: stop it. Ain't happening. Same thing with Hamas Israel ain't happening.
Speaker 4: So talk is cheap, and that's for any administration, all right,
Speaker 4: Starbucks updating their dress code. They should focus on making
Speaker 4: their coffee not taste burnt. But they're doing this to
Speaker 4: limit the amount of colors that the staff can wear
Speaker 4: as part of the effort to enhance its signature.
Speaker 2: Green apron and the look that it brings.
Speaker 1: So starting May twelfth, Baristas there is no masculine form
Speaker 1: of that name. By the way, it's not Baristas, it's
Speaker 1: Baristas for male and female folks will be required to
Speaker 1: wear a solid black top, whether it's you know, crew neck, collared,
Speaker 1: button up, whatever it is, and bottoms must be a
Speaker 1: shade of black, khaki or blue denim. They'll also provide
Speaker 1: at least two free black T shirts.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll change Starbucks sales. That'll just change the company completely.
Speaker 4: I don't know, see making big changes here is black
Speaker 4: t shirts.
Speaker 3: Everybody. Oh oh, you saw the video and talked about
Speaker 3: the video on this one. Amy, I'm sure you saw
Speaker 3: it with the elephants.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yes, Oh, is that what we're moving on
Speaker 5: to now? Yeah, well, I didn't know you were ready
Speaker 5: to move past star.
Speaker 6: This is the coolest thing.
Speaker 5: So the five point two earthquake hits yesterday at ten
Speaker 5: o eight and San Diego Zoo has cameras trained on
Speaker 5: all of their enclosures, and the elephants kind of start
Speaker 5: running around like what the heck is going on while
Speaker 5: the shaking is going on. And then immediately after the shaking,
Speaker 5: they formed this protective circle. It's called a circle alert,
Speaker 5: and they literally, you know, circle the wagons and protect
Speaker 5: the young ones. And so they got the seven year old.
Speaker 5: There were two seven year olds that were kind of
Speaker 5: put into the middle and they are they form a
Speaker 5: circle and they look around to make sure that everybody's safe,
Speaker 5: and they did that so cool.
Speaker 6: It's so cool to see it.
Speaker 3: So they jerked into a circle.
Speaker 5: Okay, well they jerk, but anyway, San Diego Zoo put
Speaker 5: out the video of it. If you want to go
Speaker 5: see it. It's it's kind of everywhere. It's gone viral,
Speaker 5: but yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: On everybody's yesterday. It was the first time.
Speaker 1: We're going straight into this story California Early Warning System
Speaker 1: about five point two about the five point two earthquake.
Speaker 1: It was the first time I received that alert before
Speaker 1: the earthquake. Did anybody else get it and then feel it?
Speaker 5: We got it here because I was still in the
Speaker 5: air with Gary and Shannon, and she started screaming and went,
Speaker 5: what an earthquake? And it said shake alert five point eight,
Speaker 5: and then about thirty seconds later, not sure because I
Speaker 5: wasn't counting the time, then we started feeling it here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't it was enough time to actually alert me.
Speaker 1: And I was with I was with my boy and
Speaker 1: he's like, what's that And you know, my watch and
Speaker 1: my phone are going off, and I said, come here,
Speaker 1: and he came.
Speaker 2: He came over and right then then we felt it.
Speaker 2: So it's the first time that ever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's it is cool.
Speaker 4: I didn't feel the earthquake, and my phone gave me
Speaker 4: an alert after the fact, which is really weird.
Speaker 6: And you're a lot closer to it.
Speaker 3: I was a lot closer.
Speaker 4: I'm in South Orange County and it was much closer.
Speaker 4: So Lazy got the alert and I didn't feel it.
Speaker 4: But you know, it's it was so slight. You know,
Speaker 4: when a truck rumbles past the studio, you get more
Speaker 4: of the shaking of the building.
Speaker 1: But here's the point, the further out from the earthquake,
Speaker 1: you are probably more accurate the working is going to
Speaker 1: be because it's going right now and.
Speaker 4: It gives you.
Speaker 3: I mean, it doesn't give you much time.
Speaker 4: I mean it does give you time if you're Jehovah's
Speaker 4: Witnesses witness to get under a doorway in front of
Speaker 4: someone's house and pitch the watch Tower magazine to them.
Speaker 4: I get that, But it's just a second or two
Speaker 4: that you get. Some sometimes you get five or six seconds.
Speaker 5: Well, here's the thing that was weird about it was
Speaker 5: that I saw it and I've said, Okay, they say
Speaker 5: it's a five point eight and it's coming.
Speaker 6: So I was calmer about it.
Speaker 3: Oh, because you knew it wasn't going to be huge.
Speaker 6: Well, but five point eight that's a big one.
Speaker 3: I mean it's not you got to see damage.
Speaker 4: At six six and a half is where you start
Speaker 4: getting and then at seven, of course you start really
Speaker 4: getting the shakes.
Speaker 6: That's true, But it was sort of calming to me.
Speaker 3: I don't. Yeah, that's a lot of people that story
Speaker 3: talked about that.
Speaker 4: A lot of people are actually felt better about it
Speaker 4: knowing it was coming and knowing that it was not
Speaker 4: going to be huge.
Speaker 3: Other people are scared of death, Oh my god, earthquake.
Speaker 3: At earthquake, you dive under a desk.
Speaker 6: Remember that guy on KTLA that went under the desk
Speaker 6: a few years ago.
Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, Kent Shocknick on Channel four.
Speaker 4: Kent Shocknick was known for literally it was Katla, but
Speaker 4: Ken Shocknick, who terrific news guy, and we used to
Speaker 4: actually hang together. We I did some socializing with him
Speaker 4: for a period of time. He will never be able
Speaker 4: to live that down. And when they said, what a
Speaker 4: gutlass wonder, you know, and he made fun of him,
Speaker 4: he said, those lights that weigh four hundred pounds that
Speaker 4: are above a studio, we're all shaking like leaves in
Speaker 4: a wind. And if any one of them fell and
Speaker 4: hit anybody, it's instant death. And no one really took
Speaker 4: that into consideration.
Speaker 6: I just goggled it and it came up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what came up?
Speaker 2: Days There are yees yeah stuff. But those were massive lights.
Speaker 3: He got, oh there were huge lights.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, So Washington's out of luck.
Speaker 5: The FEMA has denied Washington State's request for emergency relief
Speaker 5: funds to help repair an estimated thirty four million dollars
Speaker 5: in damage from that bomb cyclone that hit in November.
Speaker 5: The governor said that the state's January application for assistance
Speaker 5: was denied In a letter he received last week, he
Speaker 5: says the state's application met all the criteria necessary to
Speaker 5: qualify for the funding.
Speaker 4: I have a question if Washington, the state of washing
Speaker 4: were to ask for a grant to paint every single
Speaker 4: state building red, do you think that would be the
Speaker 4: money would be giving.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's move on, all right.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration, or mister Freeze as he's known around
Speaker 1: these parts, said just yesterday, Yeah, I'll get by you
Speaker 1: like chew. So it's going to freeze two point two
Speaker 1: billion dollars in the multi year grants or a handful
Speaker 1: of multi year grants and sixty million in multi year
Speaker 1: contracts valued at Harvard University after the school said that
Speaker 1: it would not follow policy demands from the administration.
Speaker 2: Basically that's all focused on the DEI stuff.
Speaker 1: And they said, you know, we're not gonna we're not
Speaker 1: going to follow these demands from this administration.
Speaker 2: And so Trump says, then you don't get my money.
Speaker 3: Yep, they're playing chicken.
Speaker 4: I'm going to do that at the top of the
Speaker 4: hour because that's worth to get into the fight Harvard
Speaker 4: versus Trump, Trump versus Harvard.
Speaker 3: And this is really interesting.
Speaker 2: Is Harvard even seen as a good school anymore.
Speaker 3: Not anymore. No, it's it's not even cal State Northrich anymore.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 5: That's what I thought, Okay, slashing state Trump administration officials
Speaker 5: say they want to cut the State Department funding in
Speaker 5: half or the budget rather. That would mean the elimination
Speaker 5: of thirty billion dollars, and as part of the plan
Speaker 5: it's not final yet, the administration is considering a recommendation
Speaker 5: to shut down at least twenty seven missions in.
Speaker 3: That sorry about that, geez, and foreign.
Speaker 6: Aid could be slashed by nearly seventy five percent.
Speaker 4: This is gonna be tough cutting half this department. You'll
Speaker 4: be waiting two and a half years or five years
Speaker 4: for a passport. It will be made out of tissue
Speaker 4: because they can't afford the paper. It's going to be crazy.
Speaker 4: And then there are some countries. Doesn't say which countries,
Speaker 4: at least, the story doesn't tell us in Africa and Europe,
Speaker 4: where there won't even be an embassy, much less consulates.
Speaker 4: I mean big countries have not only embassies. For example,
Speaker 4: France has an embassy in Washington, but has consulate office
Speaker 4: offices La and New York and you know the major cities.
Speaker 4: So you're going to see some of those closed down there.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to reuse some of those photo
Speaker 2: maps from back in the day. Those will be the
Speaker 2: new embassies.
Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein, piece of crap, once a prolific film producer,
Speaker 1: massive downfall, you know, hashtag.
Speaker 2: Me too, all that stuff, and he's faced to facing.
Speaker 1: A retrial in Manhattan this week after New York's Court
Speaker 1: of Appeals overturned his landmark first conviction. So jury selection
Speaker 1: starts today in this case against Weinstein, who's seventy three
Speaker 1: but looks about a hunter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't matter. He's going to die in prison,
Speaker 3: but they're going to retry him.
Speaker 4: And they've added another another charge too, So I mean
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter because he was tagged in LA and given.
Speaker 3: Sixteen years and he is not going to last very long.
Speaker 3: I mean, this guy is.
Speaker 4: Sick, sick, He's had operations. He's in the hospital more
Speaker 4: than he's in prison. They move him over to the hospital.
Speaker 6: Worried about losing your job, Well you're not alone.
Speaker 5: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York did a survey
Speaker 5: and found that people are getting increasingly insecure about their
Speaker 5: job security, The probability of losing one's job or people
Speaker 5: who are worried about it in the next year is
Speaker 5: up to fifteen point seven percent, which is a twelve
Speaker 5: percent high, or I'm sorry, not twelve percent, a twelve
Speaker 5: month high. The Federal Reserve Bank also put a forty
Speaker 5: four percent probability of the nation's jobless rate being higher.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all those next year.
Speaker 4: It's pretty good now high tech. There are certain jobs
Speaker 4: that are very difficult to get right now. But you know,
Speaker 4: employments still in pretty good shape.
Speaker 1: You go to the when watching people come into the
Speaker 1: building in the morning when they're key card works, they
Speaker 1: go yes, and then they.
Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely, absolutely, yeah, you keep your job, and that's
Speaker 4: considered a raise.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: Vice President jd. Vance maybe you heard about him. He
Speaker 1: dropped the College Football Playoff National Champion trophy during an
Speaker 1: event at the White House on the South Lawn yesterday.
Speaker 1: It was a fumble kind of a situation, but he
Speaker 1: was honoring the champion Ohio State Buckeyes, and he's former
Speaker 1: senator from Olah.
Speaker 2: He graduated from Ohio State. And then he joked on
Speaker 2: social media.
Speaker 1: I didn't want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy,
Speaker 1: so I decided to break it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and of course a huge event. He
Speaker 4: dropped it, and let's make a big deal as if
Speaker 4: people don't drop it. Now, if he threw it at somebody,
Speaker 4: that would make that would be news. But come on, guys,
Speaker 4: it's like Lenna McMahon, she said a one because you know,
Speaker 4: come on, please, you know it's there's plenty to attack
Speaker 4: people on policy wise and personality not stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So he dropped it. You've never dropped anything before.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 6: You know what it tells me? That trophy was made
Speaker 6: very cheaply.
Speaker 3: Fifty pounds and it broke.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just dropped a trophy, an award and it was
Speaker 4: it was really nice, very nice because the award it
Speaker 4: was for, uh, the La Lawyer's Philharmonic. I was made
Speaker 4: an honorary member and it's just absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 3: And it it broke, And I just thought i'd mentioned that.
Speaker 2: Okaying with it?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. It broke during the move.
Speaker 4: I guess we're just unpacking stuff. All right, we're done.
Speaker 4: Notice I had to bring me into the picture. Notice
Speaker 4: that it's all about me. Okay, that's what this show
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