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Speaker 2: I was just told that's Michael Monks. Yes, was he
Speaker 2: wearing plaid pants? Did I see that? Correctly? Come on,
Speaker 2: he's actually quite fashion with yeh plaid pan. Now listen,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what's fashionable.
Speaker 1: Okay, you will, you most certainly will not, sir, And
Speaker 1: now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2: He's good morning everybody. Bill Handle here on Monday morning,
Speaker 2: December twenty three. It is the day before the day
Speaker 2: before Christmas, and the day before the day before of
Speaker 2: the evening of Hanukkah. So morning to one and all.
Speaker 2: All right, Amy is not here today or for the
Speaker 2: rest of the week, and filling in for Amy is
Speaker 2: Michael Monks. Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 3: Good morning to you. Bill.
Speaker 2: I only can see you from the waist up because
Speaker 2: you're behind the desk. Would you stand up? Please?
Speaker 3: Is this permitted talk in the workplace?
Speaker 2: It is absolutely I assume Number one, I assume you
Speaker 2: have pants on, and number two, I feel like Eminem.
Speaker 2: Where the will the real Michael Monks? Please stand up?
Speaker 2: Please stand up? Oh regular pants, Michael, They're a little plaid. No,
Speaker 2: I can't see them plaid, but I can see them.
Speaker 2: By the way, the quite the fruit packete you have
Speaker 2: very impressive.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that. Get that message out across the Yes,
Speaker 4: I will.
Speaker 2: So, Michael is in here this entire week. Neil is
Speaker 2: not here, but Cono is uh and Cono you are
Speaker 2: not working in the rest of the week because it's
Speaker 2: this is the weird week. It's between Christmas and New
Speaker 2: Year's always the weirdest week of the year in terms
Speaker 2: of who's here and who's not. What's your schedule?
Speaker 5: I just don't work Christmas Day in New Year's Day?
Speaker 2: Okay, do we know who's filling in? What? What intern
Speaker 2: that is willing to work for five dollars under minimum wage?
Speaker 2: They were able to talk into working.
Speaker 5: Sam is here one day and then Robin is here
Speaker 5: another day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know Sam's working on his PhD. If you haven't,
Speaker 2: he hasn't gotten it yet, which is kind of impressive.
Speaker 2: By the way, And you're off what tomorrow and the
Speaker 2: rest of the week.
Speaker 3: I'm off the same time you are.
Speaker 2: Sorry tomorrow, Oh, okay, back come a sixth and then
Speaker 2: filling in for me because I'm off tomorrow, and I'm
Speaker 2: not back to the first Monday in January, and I
Speaker 2: don't know what day that is January six, six Monday. Okay,
Speaker 2: So I saw it's a long stretch. And who is well,
Speaker 2: who's filling in for me for starters? Is it Wayne? Wayne? Wayne? Okay?
Speaker 2: And who's filling in for you?
Speaker 5: Michelle?
Speaker 2: Michelle? Okay. I'm just out listen, I'm bringing it out.
Speaker 2: I'm asking the question. These are rhetorical sort of questions
Speaker 2: or questions I already know, but I want to get
Speaker 2: everybody involved.
Speaker 5: Right, You do not know any of the answers to
Speaker 5: these questions.
Speaker 2: That's absolutely correct, Kono. And that's because I don't pay
Speaker 2: attention to much. And if you were to ask me
Speaker 2: that question, if you were to ask me that question
Speaker 2: five minutes, ten minutes from now, it I wouldn't know
Speaker 2: the answer. Although there's a story I don't know. We're
Speaker 2: covering it on handle on the news about President to
Speaker 2: be Donald Trump wanting to take back the Panama Canal.
Speaker 2: And here's one Okay, Michael, this is the Gerbil going
Speaker 2: crazy in my head. Remember, I don't remember what I
Speaker 2: had this morning ten minutes ago. How wide is the
Speaker 2: old before they put the new Panama Canal in. How
Speaker 2: wide is the original? How big? How wide can ships be?
Speaker 4: How wide could the ships be in the original Panama
Speaker 4: Canal from the early nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fifty three feet?
Speaker 2: I think it's a ten feet. Would you look that up?
Speaker 2: See if I'm right or not?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Sure if I'm wrong, or the width of the canal
Speaker 2: was one hundred and ten feet. We have to look
Speaker 2: that up. And I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 3: It was one hundred and ten feet, sir, Thank you
Speaker 3: very much. Well done.
Speaker 2: Wow, Well, have no idea who's here tomorrow? But hey,
Speaker 2: what can I tell you? Life? It just continues on
Speaker 2: on the morning show, doesn't it?
Speaker 3: It does for some of us.
Speaker 4: I'm not all week. I can tell you that it
Speaker 4: just gets through. And you have Jesus Christ himself filling
Speaker 4: in for you on Wednesday. So that's not bad, that's true.
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, every Christmas Day Jesus fills in for me.
Speaker 2: I have quite often asked if I could fill in
Speaker 2: for Jesus on the Sunday Show and give marginal spiritual advice,
Speaker 2: and the answer has been a very hard, hard no.
Speaker 2: They because people who have called up and are very depressed,
Speaker 2: very and actually are contemplating hurting themselves. And Jesus works
Speaker 2: it out very well, very calm, very measured. You'd hear
Speaker 2: me scream, jump do it right now. Jump. That's why
Speaker 2: they won't let me fill in. Okay, are you guys
Speaker 2: ready to do it? Let's do it. Handle on the
Speaker 2: news with Michael Munks, O'Neil and me lead story. Well,
Speaker 2: here's a shocker. The Matt Gates Ethics Report has come
Speaker 2: out by the Congressional Ethics Investigators, and yep, they said
Speaker 2: that everything he's accused of has, in fact i happened.
Speaker 2: He did pay a bunch of women, including a seventeen
Speaker 2: year old girl for sex, purchased, use illegal drugs including ecstasy,
Speaker 2: dealing with sex from from his Capitol Hill office. And
Speaker 2: this was a long running investigation Gates by the House
Speaker 2: Ethics Committee. And so of course he has denied any
Speaker 2: of that. Now here was a question that since he
Speaker 2: is no longer a congress person and no longer has
Speaker 2: any connection with government in any way, there was talk
Speaker 2: of you know, why release it because in the past
Speaker 2: it hasn't been released, saying hey, the guy is out. Ah,
Speaker 2: is this simply political retribution? Well, yeah, probably. And the
Speaker 2: good news for Gates is I don't think there is
Speaker 2: one person in Congress that likes him, not one. I
Speaker 2: think it ranges all the way from dislike to active
Speaker 2: dislike to absolute hatred and beyond that.
Speaker 4: He has the vibe of every jerk from the eighties
Speaker 4: comedy involving college students. You know, he's got the right hair,
Speaker 4: he's got the right shiny looking face, and cut suits
Speaker 4: and all of that, so I can see why he's
Speaker 4: just naturally dislike.
Speaker 3: He's also kind of not a nice person.
Speaker 2: No, No, he's known as a real dick. He really is,
Speaker 2: and it is that's who he is. Sorry, let's do
Speaker 2: one more and we take a break.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, let's did you hear about this terrible story on
Speaker 4: the subway in New York? A suspect, a Guatemalan migrant,
Speaker 4: he's been reported as a woman was killed on a
Speaker 4: New York subway train Sunday morning after a man set
Speaker 4: her clothes on fire with a lighter and what authorities
Speaker 4: are calling a brutal murder and an example of depraved behavior.
Speaker 2: Bill, Yeah, now, I mean it's horrific. And then does
Speaker 2: it go into politics. We don't know what kind of
Speaker 2: an immigrant he is, if he is illegal, much more
Speaker 2: fodder for the upcoming administration of President Musk.
Speaker 3: What I did see was the President Musk.
Speaker 4: Of course, what I did see was that this this
Speaker 4: migrant did cross the border in twenty eighteen, so it
Speaker 4: would have been under the first Trump administration.
Speaker 2: So I'm guessing that was Well, we'll find out whether
Speaker 2: he was illegal or not. And this I hope this
Speaker 2: doesn't go into a political statement as opposed to just
Speaker 2: a horrible, horrific crime. It starts and stops right there.
Speaker 4: Well, it certainly involves a couple of political elements. One,
Speaker 4: you've got immigration, but then you've also got the general
Speaker 4: public safety component in New York in places like la
Speaker 4: as well on mass transit. And what was particularly striking
Speaker 4: outside of just this brutal murder was Governor Kathy Hokeel
Speaker 4: of New York taking a selfie on the subway system
Speaker 4: that day, talking about how much safer it had become
Speaker 4: because of some work that she had put in, and
Speaker 4: then this brutal murder happened.
Speaker 2: Now, when she was taking a selfie, was she actually
Speaker 2: being attacked at that time or that one was deleted.
Speaker 3: I think that Kathy Hokle had taken this before, okay.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the fact that she was surrounded
Speaker 2: by fourteen security officers hey with guns with their uzzies drawn,
Speaker 2: that probably had a lot to do with it's the
Speaker 2: safest place in the world.
Speaker 4: We are familiar with those types of photo ops here
Speaker 4: in La and Mentor for sure. All Right, So these
Speaker 4: drones are still up in the sky, man, I mean,
Speaker 4: people still don't know exactly what they are. Maybe the
Speaker 4: government does, maybe they don't. The military says they're not
Speaker 4: sure why or how to stop them. So this series
Speaker 4: of drone sightings over military bases across the country has
Speaker 4: renewed concerns that the US doesn't have clear government wide
Speaker 4: policy for how to deal with unauthorized incursions that could
Speaker 4: potentially pose a national security threat. Bill, I'm sure you're
Speaker 4: comforted comforted by the fact that President elect Trump will
Speaker 4: be in office to deal with these UFOs.
Speaker 2: Well, it's you know, the law is the law on this.
Speaker 2: First of all, it's perfectly legal to fly UFOs. Now,
Speaker 2: you can't do it in restricted airspace. And I think
Speaker 2: that the government and the military can deal with it
Speaker 2: if it is deemed to be a national security issue.
Speaker 2: So if this continues on a another week, two weeks,
Speaker 2: three weeks, I can see they are shot down with
Speaker 2: four million dollar missiles. So you take out a thirty
Speaker 2: nine dollars Walmart drone and spend four million bucks to
Speaker 2: take it down. And there are hundreds of them. But
Speaker 2: I'll tell you they're going down.
Speaker 3: That you think that they are coming down these drugs.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean they're gonna do something, you know, it's yeah,
Speaker 2: they're gonna have to declare this national emergency. There's so
Speaker 2: many out there, but how many of them? And now
Speaker 2: they're investigating a lot of people are looking at these
Speaker 2: drones and they're seeing aircraft and reporting them as drones
Speaker 2: and so, but there are drones out there. I think
Speaker 2: only two guys have been arrested for flying over was
Speaker 2: it Logan Airport in Boston. I don't know the answer,
Speaker 2: but I'd like to see why not at death rate?
Speaker 2: Don't they have death rays that can you know, just
Speaker 2: zip out, you know, zap the electronics. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's just get this thing over with, you know,
Speaker 4: to go ahead and zap us all. Meanwhile, in Washington,
Speaker 4: President Biden he's still president. Biden commutes most federal death
Speaker 4: rose sentences to life in prison before Trump takes office.
Speaker 4: What were your thoughts on this today, Bill.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, no surprise. He can't just pardon his
Speaker 2: son and not pardon everybody else. And he's now limited
Speaker 2: to the death penalty only being used against terrorists. That's it.
Speaker 2: The guy who was and one of the brothers was
Speaker 2: involved in the Boston bombing, Dylan Roof the attack killing
Speaker 2: nine people with the Black Church and Charleston Robert Bowers
Speaker 2: eleven worshipers at the Pittsburgh's Tree of Life and twenty
Speaker 2: eighteen Other than that, everybody gets commuted. Communities these are
Speaker 2: they're eligible and they have been convicted and the death
Speaker 2: penalty is rendered. But you know, I mean death penalty
Speaker 2: is you know, it's just not being used. I never
Speaker 2: tell you, Michael, I saw an execution? You did, Yeah,
Speaker 2: eye witness an execution? Fabulous? One of the best days
Speaker 2: that man. You if you ever get to witness and execution,
Speaker 2: that's entertainment with a capital E.
Speaker 4: You know, they used to invite reporters to basic witnesses.
Speaker 4: I know they still do it, and they still do
Speaker 4: by law. Yeah, we would occasionally get those invitations at
Speaker 4: other news organizations.
Speaker 3: I've been.
Speaker 4: I never I never got to do it. Not sure
Speaker 4: if I would have enjoyed it the way you see, if.
Speaker 2: You would have enjoyed it. It's a lottery one. The
Speaker 2: only thing is they don't cater it. They don't give
Speaker 2: you snacks.
Speaker 3: Was it a clean killing or was there somebody for it?
Speaker 2: Was? Actually k if? I won twice in a row
Speaker 2: on the lottery. The first one was the last execution
Speaker 2: by the gas Chambert Robert Alton Harris, and then the
Speaker 2: next one, which I went to see, was the first
Speaker 2: lethal injection execution. William Bonnen. I tell you the first
Speaker 2: go around that gas chamber business. That is really strong.
Speaker 2: I mean that is kind of neat. Uh the one
Speaker 2: by lethal injection, Eh, you know, so yeah, not as
Speaker 2: much action. No, no, let me see a little bit
Speaker 2: and just the cheek go out and you know, the
Speaker 2: face turns purple and you see the last breath and
Speaker 2: it's I mean, it's not bad. It really isn't. Well.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry that President Biden rained on your parade with.
Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I wouldn't be invited. I don't think the
Speaker 2: same rules apply for federal executions.
Speaker 4: I know you've moved out to the hinterlands of Greater
Speaker 4: Los Angeles, and I'm wondering if you're a big Starbucks guy,
Speaker 4: because it might get a little bit trickier out there.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: I oh you do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate it. I can't stand in the coffee.
Speaker 4: Well, the good news is you won't have to drink it. Apparently,
Speaker 4: because a lot of the workers are on strike, the
Speaker 4: union has expanded its strike to nine states, including here, Bill,
Speaker 4: right here in Burbank, we had we had a store
Speaker 4: shut down by the barisas just a couple of days ago,
Speaker 4: So they mean business. The Starbucks Workers United Union said
Speaker 4: workers in Missouri, New Jersey, and New York began their
Speaker 4: strike Sunday, after locations in Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania joined
Speaker 4: the strike that had already started right here in California
Speaker 4: and in Washington and Illinois. So do you think the
Speaker 4: Starbucks needs to start bargaining better with its baristas?
Speaker 3: No, not at all.
Speaker 2: In December, no wage increases at all, and a guarantee
Speaker 2: in the future and no cap on that of one
Speaker 2: point five percent. So it kind of pisses people off.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine if iHeart offered you no increase. As
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, that's exactly what they're doing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and one point five percent increase. No, it's a one
Speaker 2: point five percent decrease if you look at their latest offer.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think you're going to see this spread
Speaker 2: because unionism is spreading.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we've seen it here in LA in the fast
Speaker 4: food industry in particular. Are you seeing or sensing that
Speaker 4: workers are feeling more empowered in some of these service Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, what's motivating that's it's very cyclical. The unions were
Speaker 2: incredibly strong in the creation of unions back at the
Speaker 2: turn of the Last Entry, actually before that with the
Speaker 2: Women's Garment Workers. That was the first big union in
Speaker 2: the a c l O acl CIO and the eight
Speaker 2: America Federal AFL, and that came into being. That's when
Speaker 2: workers were really really deprived of any rights and the
Speaker 2: employer is just completely controlled and abused workers. And then
Speaker 2: it started coming around and the heyday United Autoworkers in
Speaker 2: the thirties with Walter Ruther and then my dad was
Speaker 2: a union employee. He was a member of IBW, the
Speaker 2: Electrical Workers Union in the fifties and sixties and unions
Speaker 2: were at the top of the heat. He was making
Speaker 2: tons of money with great benefits, and then it went
Speaker 2: the other way. You had deregulation, you had pro business,
Speaker 2: you didn't have the same sort of left wing philosophy.
Speaker 2: And now the unions have come back. So it's cyclical
Speaker 2: and it's tough. The only people that get away with,
Speaker 2: you know, doing way and really abusing any possible unionism
Speaker 2: is strangely enough, iHeart okay, let's go ahead. And by
Speaker 2: the way, if you think I get in trouble by
Speaker 2: railing into iHeart okay, let's come back.
Speaker 4: Michael Monks does not endorse any of the comments made.
Speaker 4: He's proudly, happily employed by iHeartMedia.
Speaker 2: Well there you go.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you.
Speaker 4: Bill is a relative newcomer to California about two years now.
Speaker 4: The sticker shock at the pump never ceases. But it
Speaker 4: is the cheapest Christmas gas since COVID in southern California.
Speaker 4: And right now, what we're being told is that across
Speaker 4: the country that's true. It's also true here in southern California.
Speaker 4: Gas Buddy told CNN it expects gas prices will average
Speaker 4: about three dollars and one cent a gallon nationally on
Speaker 4: Christmas Day?
Speaker 2: Now, why do we even bother reporting on national gas prices?
Speaker 2: So nationally the average is three bucks? All right, when's
Speaker 2: the last time you bought read all our gas?
Speaker 3: I think it's to make us envious.
Speaker 2: I know it's because California law is weird, because it's
Speaker 2: just crazy, the way the summer blended all out of
Speaker 2: their crap. But it's you're right, you get sticker shock. Now.
Speaker 2: What's reasonable, though, is housing. I'm sure that when you
Speaker 2: came into southern California. Where do you come from?
Speaker 4: By the way, I'm from a place called Kentucky. Oh
Speaker 4: you came from Kentucky? Yes, sir?
Speaker 2: Did you have to take your car off the cinder
Speaker 2: blocks and put wheels on it when you drove out? No?
Speaker 3: I wrote a mule to work.
Speaker 2: I believe that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we were all good, and bad things happen
Speaker 4: when you try to pump out.
Speaker 2: You know, I've actually had pretty good tasting squirrel soup
Speaker 2: in my time, and I know that's the sort of
Speaker 2: the national the state dish of Kentucky.
Speaker 3: It's a little party. It's a little tough to chew
Speaker 3: with no teeth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what well, said, see, you're you can't do that.
Speaker 2: I'm the one that says stuff like that. Michael. Okay,
Speaker 2: you are not allowed to be funny. If that's funny
Speaker 2: at all. What part of Kentucky did you I'm from.
Speaker 4: I am from a Covington, Kentucky, which is connected by
Speaker 4: river by bridge to Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so it's more of a.
Speaker 4: White I mean, honestly, I'll play into your Kentucky tropes
Speaker 4: if you like. But like, I'm from the city. I've
Speaker 4: never been on a horse. I have all my teeth,
Speaker 4: they're lovely. Okay, Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what your sofa is on the porch and the
Speaker 2: springs have sprung.
Speaker 4: Indeed, indeed, our state vegetable is coal. Oh okay, not bad,
Speaker 4: We're good.
Speaker 2: Bad. Okay, let's move on. Good okay.
Speaker 4: JP Morgan Wells Fargo Bank of America facing federal lawsuit
Speaker 4: over Zell payment network frauds. So this is a federal
Speaker 4: civil complaint that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the
Speaker 4: banks rush to get the peer to peer payment platform
Speaker 4: to market without effective safeguards and bill.
Speaker 3: This is something a lot of people use Zell.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you ever hang out in the fashion
Speaker 4: district or some of these shops around town. They won't
Speaker 4: let you pay with a card, but they'll gladly take
Speaker 4: your Zell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and by the way, what a stunner. A major
Speaker 2: financial institution once again accused of defrauding and nailing consumers. Boy,
Speaker 2: I hadn't heard that one before.
Speaker 3: Do you use Zell?
Speaker 2: Uh? I don't, but no, it's mainly what do I use.
Speaker 3: A Palvenmo.
Speaker 2: Checks?
Speaker 3: You write checks still with a quill? I imagine?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am so no, it's now I've used PayPal
Speaker 2: and it was a Venmo. H Venmo? I use uh?
Speaker 2: But uh, for some reason, not Zell.
Speaker 4: Two US Navy pilots eject safely over the Red Sea
Speaker 4: after a fighter jets shot down and apparent friendly fire incident.
Speaker 4: So a lot of fun stuff happening over in the
Speaker 4: Red Sea. Bill, this looks like a couple of our
Speaker 4: own guys shot down by a couple of our own guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and whuties of course are taking the credit for it,
Speaker 2: although I don't think that the military would lie about
Speaker 2: that that. Have a question, do you find it kind
Speaker 2: of strange that when one of our guys shoots down
Speaker 2: one of our guys they call that friendly.
Speaker 4: You know, it's an interesting point you read. You raise
Speaker 4: about semantics. Frankly, I mean, I guess technically they're friends,
Speaker 4: but we don't know what kind of drama was going
Speaker 4: on between these folks.
Speaker 2: All right, because when I shoot someone, I know they
Speaker 2: don't call that friendly. Okay, let's move on. Now.
Speaker 4: Keep in mind, this is also the same military that
Speaker 4: you're going to task with shooting down those drones.
Speaker 3: So how do you think that's going to go?
Speaker 2: Well? The drones. I don't think that when you go
Speaker 2: and spend thirty nine dollars at Walmart for a drone,
Speaker 2: it has the ability to shoot down a US fighters.
Speaker 3: Yet my yes, though probably true. Okay.
Speaker 4: Questions are mounting in Germany over the deadly Christmas market
Speaker 4: attack as the suspect appears in court. Now, this is
Speaker 4: another example of how polarized our country is, because you're
Speaker 4: always looking to, you know, put this guy into one
Speaker 4: bracket of ideology.
Speaker 3: Was this guy right wing? Was he left wing?
Speaker 4: How do we put him into American politics? Authorities in
Speaker 4: Germany these growing accusations they could have done more to
Speaker 4: prevent a deadly Christmas market attack. As a judge ordered
Speaker 4: the suspect to be held in pre trialed attention following
Speaker 4: a late night court apparance on Saturday. Talib Al abdu
Speaker 4: Mulshin is accused of ramming a car into a busy
Speaker 4: market in the city of Madgeburg, killing five people and
Speaker 4: injuring more than two hundred bill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple things. It reported that he is a psychiatrist.
Speaker 2: When do you get that kind of news about someone
Speaker 2: who does this. Also, as I was looking at this, thinking,
Speaker 2: come on, you know, you're gonna blame the authorities because
Speaker 2: usually they have these concrete posts or metal posts around
Speaker 2: these Christmas markets. I've been to him in Germany and
Speaker 2: the security is pretty good. You can't get any vehicle
Speaker 2: through them except this one. It's reported that he was
Speaker 2: able to take a back entrance with which was not
Speaker 2: in fact guarded or was not hardened. And that's there.
Speaker 2: And then this situation is horrific. I mean he hit
Speaker 2: two hundred people, you know, killed already five some are
Speaker 2: still life threatening. You remember it was first reported there
Speaker 2: were two, but there were dozens other that were life threatening. Well,
Speaker 2: three of those have already died and there's still others
Speaker 2: with life threatening injuries.
Speaker 4: The dead included a nine year old boy. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: then four women forty five, fifty two, sixty seven, and
Speaker 4: seventy five years old.
Speaker 3: Just a terrible thing to happen at the holidays.
Speaker 4: And then it's raising questions in Germany like we have
Speaker 4: here in America over immigration. This guy was someone who
Speaker 4: was from somewhere else, and then there are questions about
Speaker 4: whose side was he on. Wish political ideology to subscribe
Speaker 4: to a pretty terrible thing all around, And that case
Speaker 4: is not over.
Speaker 3: Do you want to do another or do you want now,
Speaker 3: let's do one more and then we'll take a break.
Speaker 3: You got it.
Speaker 4: Joe Manchin, who's also from a West Virginia, you can
Speaker 4: make fun of West Virginia the same as Kentucky. Interchangeable,
Speaker 4: so you can get your jokes in here too as well,
Speaker 4: Bill West jokes none, just statements of statements of fact. Observations, Yeah,
Speaker 4: observations work, yeah. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin torches the
Speaker 4: Democrats on his way out the door. Joe Manchin preparing
Speaker 4: to leave Congress after nearly fifteen years. He registered as
Speaker 4: an independent earlier this year, leaving the Democratic Party. He's
Speaker 4: further distancing himself from his former party, calling the Democratic
Speaker 4: brand toxic bill.
Speaker 3: Is it toxic?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you're a Republican, certainly toxic, and if
Speaker 2: you're a Democrat, the Republican party is certainly toxic. Toxic.
Speaker 2: I think it's fair to say both are toxic, certainly
Speaker 2: to each other and the rest of us. Mansion was
Speaker 2: always the most conservative of the Democrats. He was only
Speaker 2: Democrat in name, and then he became an independent really
Speaker 2: in name only, and then he is a pretty right
Speaker 2: wing I mean, the guy is conservative anyway you put it.
Speaker 4: It's a dell get dance to be elected as a
Speaker 4: Democrat in West Virginia, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense to you. I don't know when
Speaker 2: the last time one was, because West Virginia is a
Speaker 2: pretty red state, all right.
Speaker 4: The FDA approves weight loss drug zep bound for obstructive
Speaker 4: sleep apnea. US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved
Speaker 4: the first prescription medicine for obstructive sleep apnea. It's a
Speaker 4: weight loss drug, zep bound. This medicine is part of
Speaker 4: the class known as g LP one receptor agonist that
Speaker 4: also includes o zimpic. So we're finding a bill that
Speaker 4: these drugs can do wonders.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this may very well be this class of drugs.
Speaker 2: A wonder drug originally dealt with just for diabetes. They
Speaker 2: expanded it and now in big enough doses. I mean
Speaker 2: it's weight loss. It helps not only diabetes but heart disease.
Speaker 2: I mean when you go through I talked to doctor
Speaker 2: Jim Keiney a couple weeks ago and he said, this
Speaker 2: really may be the widest drug in of its use
Speaker 2: and its efficacy and its ability to do what it is.
Speaker 2: It's basically, you know, it's snake oil, except that it's real.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's made from a real snake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. You know how snake oil can deal with
Speaker 2: everything and can cure everything. This looks like it not
Speaker 2: only diabetes and heart and stroke, but now sleep app
Speaker 2: and weight and ed and baldness and oily stools. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're going to see this across the board.
Speaker 3: What is this going to do for the dating market
Speaker 3: when we are all sexy?
Speaker 2: Well, you know a lot of I mean.
Speaker 4: You have to worry about I've never I've never had
Speaker 4: to say you're used to having the field cleared anyway,
Speaker 4: But you know what, what are we supposed to do.
Speaker 2: You know you're not a bad looking guy. You know that.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I I saw you the first time I
Speaker 2: got some wood.
Speaker 3: I hope it was oak.
Speaker 2: Why don't we move on?
Speaker 4: Colorado's skilift rescue. A crack in the ski lift forces
Speaker 4: a winter park gondola evacuation. Hundred and seventy four skiers
Speaker 4: in Colorado and snowboarders rescued.
Speaker 3: Okay, this this sounds I've never been skiing, Bill, so
Speaker 3: I don't know what it's like.
Speaker 4: Obviously, I've seen images and videos and all of that
Speaker 4: of these types of things.
Speaker 3: I imagine you've been skiing. What would it be like?
Speaker 2: Saying twice in my life and it didn't It didn't
Speaker 2: pan out very well for me as bad as this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's cold, it's well. Yeah, you always think you're gonna
Speaker 2: get stuck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure you.
Speaker 2: I always think that if I'm on some kind of
Speaker 2: a gondola or a ski lift and and you're okay
Speaker 2: when you're low and you're right near the snow line,
Speaker 2: and then you go up two hundred feet part of it,
Speaker 2: and that's scary because you know you're it's scary. It's
Speaker 2: when this happens, and they have to go up and
Speaker 2: they have to rescue you, and it's hours up there,
Speaker 2: and you freeze your you yeah, how do I put this?
Speaker 2: You know, so we're okay with the FCC. You freeze your.
Speaker 4: Balls off, but then you just take a zep bound
Speaker 4: and your balls grow back?
Speaker 3: Is that what? I?
Speaker 2: No, you're wrong? Or well here's a contradiction. What do
Speaker 2: you do? Do you take zep bound so your testicular
Speaker 2: activity increases, and do you counter that with steroids so
Speaker 2: your balls look like there's a size of raisins. It
Speaker 2: is all very complicated, But why don't we move on?
Speaker 4: Let's indeed, because I think we're hitting some very sensitive
Speaker 4: places for some of our listeners. Passenger attempts to bring
Speaker 4: extremely concerning items through TSA through TSA at no place
Speaker 4: other than lax itself. TSA officers shocked by what they
Speaker 4: found a gamut of banned items in a woman's carry
Speaker 4: on last week. Dozens of fireworks, replica guns and knives.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, you can't even get through there with
Speaker 4: your laptop with being questioned.
Speaker 3: So eighty goodness, eighty.
Speaker 2: Two fireworks consumers. I mean it's just in one carry
Speaker 2: on bag. Yeah. Yeah, this one's a genius, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: This is probably someone who doesn't fly a lot. I mean,
Speaker 4: how do you not know the rules? After all of
Speaker 4: this time? She was flying to Philadelphia? Now do you
Speaker 4: think that's a connection to anything here? Any comments about
Speaker 4: East Coast?
Speaker 2: No? Not. You know, I'm tired of making fun of everybody.
Speaker 2: Give me, give me a respite for a minute or two.
Speaker 4: All right, well, let's do this. Let's let's celebrate the
Speaker 4: people who are due some money from the government. A
Speaker 4: rare case of the government having to pay the people.
Speaker 4: A million taxpayers will soon receive up to fourteen hundred
Speaker 4: dollars from the IRS. It's not all of us, obviously,
Speaker 4: but they're distributing about two point four billion dollars to
Speaker 4: taxpayers who failed to claim a recovery rebate credit on
Speaker 4: their twenty twenty one tax returns, and also people who
Speaker 4: missed one of the COVID stimulus payments or had received
Speaker 4: less than the full amount they were able to claim
Speaker 4: this credit.
Speaker 3: Are you getting this check? Bill?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't even know whether I whether I
Speaker 2: got one or not, because it's I get auto deposit
Speaker 2: from the IRS. So ideal with them electronic. So frankly,
Speaker 2: it's it's you know, my stuff is. I don't even
Speaker 2: go into it because it's pretty complicated stuff, so I
Speaker 2: don't know if I got it or not. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: how much I pay attention. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Well, you've got people for that.
Speaker 2: I got people who have people who have people for that.
Speaker 4: And I guess these people did not have people. Maybe
Speaker 4: they went to some very quick tax service because this
Speaker 4: was all very common to do during the pandemic on
Speaker 4: how to handle this stuff on your taxes.
Speaker 2: Well, the vast majority of people did get it, the vast,
Speaker 2: vast majority. But you're still talking how much total that
Speaker 2: were that's going to give a million people, But then
Speaker 2: how many taxpayers are there? One million, one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty million. Yeah, so not a very big percentage. I
Speaker 2: think we have time for one more.
Speaker 4: Well, let's let's see. I've got two to choose from here.
Speaker 4: Let's do this one. Let's talk about Vladimir Putin. He's
Speaker 4: holding talks with the Prime Minister of Slovakia and this
Speaker 4: is a rare visit to Moscow by a leader in
Speaker 4: the European Union. So you know that situation in Eastern
Speaker 4: Europe is still going on. And do you think with
Speaker 4: the change in geopolitics that we're going to see other
Speaker 4: people cozying up to Vladimir Putin?
Speaker 2: Yes and no. But look at it this way. Slovakia
Speaker 2: gets Russian gas, gets Russian natural gas, and it's a
Speaker 2: pipeline that goes through Ukraine and it's still flowing because
Speaker 2: Zelenski is honoring a treaty, a deal with Russia and
Speaker 2: Slovakia that ends. What is the end at the end
Speaker 2: of the year, is that it it ends in a
Speaker 2: few days. And what Zelensky is saying, that's gonna We're
Speaker 2: gonna live up to the deal and then we're gonna
Speaker 2: cut it off. We're done. And so now you've got
Speaker 2: the Slovak Prime minister saying we have to get natural gas,
Speaker 2: and he's meeting with Russia because that's one of the
Speaker 2: few things that Russia still exports and still has, I
Speaker 2: mean the rest of it. A lot of sanctions going
Speaker 2: on Russia, but not so much on the gas X
Speaker 2: exportation because Europe relies on Russian natural gas.
Speaker 4: And we don't think of Slovakia as a world power
Speaker 4: that I mean, but these are This is a nation,
Speaker 4: a sovereign states with its own leadership. Is there any
Speaker 4: type of influence that a country like that could have
Speaker 4: on now?
Speaker 2: Really, it's just I think the news is that you
Speaker 2: have a member of the EU that's meeting with Putin,
Speaker 2: and Putin and the EU have become ardent enemies. And
Speaker 2: I've ever seen Slovak women. I don't think one of
Speaker 2: them weighs under three hundred pounds in osh, very you.
Speaker 4: Was that true before or after the split from the
Speaker 4: Czech Republic?
Speaker 2: You know what? I don't remember, because no, it was
Speaker 2: true before because even though Czech women are very heavy
Speaker 2: set in the amen of themselves, the Slovaks taken it
Speaker 2: to another extreme. By the way, we'll get emails from
Speaker 2: Slovakia the people that are of Slovakian descent. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, Okay, fair enough, We're done, guys. All right,
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