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Speaker 3: It's the Bill Handles Show. He's back from vacation on Monday,
Speaker 3: and I'll be here until nine, two more days of
Speaker 3: my well technically technically five more days, but two more
Speaker 3: shows and my tenure here at KFI as I head
Speaker 3: off into a long deserved retirement. Don't frown, Michelle.
Speaker 2: It makes me sad, but I'm very happy for me.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I worked six days a week for
Speaker 3: thirty years. Yeah, you deserve No how about now no
Speaker 3: days a week? That sounds nice, seems like let's let's,
Speaker 3: in other words, let's not make minor adjustments. Let's have
Speaker 3: the pendulum swing all the way in the other direction.
Speaker 2: That's my idea of a good time.
Speaker 3: All right, So I think we'll let you know. Michelle
Speaker 3: is here in for and producing. Michael Monks is here
Speaker 3: in the KFI news booth in for Amy King.
Speaker 2: Amy's back tomorrow. Is that correct? She is right? Good morning,
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 3: And of course Kono the only the only true member
Speaker 3: of the morning crew here today. You carry the mantle
Speaker 3: heavy upon your head of morning show excellence this morning.
Speaker 3: Thank you your enthusiasm is I love working indetectable not working?
Speaker 2: Huh So I love to work when the rest of the.
Speaker 3: Oh you like to work when none of the other
Speaker 3: people you're used to are here. It's the best, are you?
Speaker 3: But you sound like you're being completely sarcastic when you
Speaker 3: say that. I mean, I like working with you and
Speaker 3: Michael and and shall.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding the best, all right.
Speaker 3: I guess there's a lot of drama behind the scenes
Speaker 3: that I won't be hearing about.
Speaker 2: Am I will.
Speaker 3: Miss the hot goss. I won't lie about that. So
Speaker 3: I say, let's start today's handle on the news. And
Speaker 3: you know, I honestly I wanted to have fun my
Speaker 3: last run here, and evilness is making that more challenging
Speaker 3: than it otherwise would be. So let's get into handle
Speaker 3: on the news, Michael Monks and me and what continue
Speaker 3: used to be the lead story. A picture is emerging
Speaker 3: of the man believed to have we always have to
Speaker 3: say that still believed to have perpetrated the terrorist attack
Speaker 3: in New Orleans on New Year's Eve plowing his car
Speaker 3: into a group of people.
Speaker 2: The death toll is up to at least fifteen.
Speaker 3: And this guy, Shamsuding Jabbar, we know some things about
Speaker 3: him now. I don't even like doing this part of
Speaker 3: the job, Michelle, because the part of the job where
Speaker 3: you talk about the guy.
Speaker 2: Is the part of the job where you're forced to.
Speaker 3: Indistinguishably talk about somebody, whether they're a celebrity, whether they're
Speaker 3: a hero who accomplished something amazing, or whether they're a
Speaker 3: bastard who I'm.
Speaker 2: Glad is dead.
Speaker 3: However, the informational part of it is event from a
Speaker 3: news standpoint, what I do not cotton too and will
Speaker 3: never be a part of is posting photos of these people.
Speaker 3: Particularly well, we'll get to the little thing I saw this.
Speaker 2: Morning that really made my blood boil.
Speaker 3: In that regard, but for right now, we'll just tell
Speaker 3: you because knowing a little about him is tracing the
Speaker 3: path to how this happened. And we know born in Beaumont, Texas,
Speaker 3: raised in Beaumont, Texas. Served in the military for over
Speaker 3: ten years, did serve a tour in Afghanistan, came out,
Speaker 3: started a real estate business, also worked for a couple
Speaker 3: of big accounting firms, and appeared to be a normal
Speaker 3: guy at that point, based on videos that he put up,
Speaker 3: for example, introducing himself to the to the community as
Speaker 3: a real estate agent, et cetera. But then it turns
Speaker 3: out he had a lot of marriage problems, or maybe
Speaker 3: I should say the women who married him ended up
Speaker 3: having a lot of marriage problems with him. If I'm
Speaker 3: reading everything correctly, he's been married three times and divorced
Speaker 3: three times. There's Nakedra, there's Tierra, and there's shanin every
Speaker 3: marriage ending in divorce, at least the most recent one,
Speaker 3: somewhat acrimoniously, with claims filed against each one, filing claims
Speaker 3: against the other. And significant financial problems for this guy,
Speaker 3: including a lot of credit card debt, losing a home
Speaker 3: because he said in court filings he couldn't afford to,
Speaker 3: you know, pay the mortgage and stuff anymore. And it
Speaker 3: is in that state of a life that he rented
Speaker 3: a car and in a in a in a way
Speaker 3: that that I did not know.
Speaker 2: You could do.
Speaker 3: And we'll talk about this at seven, because there's a
Speaker 3: connection between this incident and the cyber truck blowing up
Speaker 3: in Las Vegas. That has to do with how those
Speaker 3: vehicles were rented. And we've got I've got some more
Speaker 3: information that seven will be able to unpack this a
Speaker 3: little with a little more time. But in any event,
Speaker 3: and then he did what he did. Now the state
Speaker 3: of the investigation is they are calling it a terrorist stack.
Speaker 3: All the law enforcement officials now are calling this a
Speaker 3: terrorist attack, I'm sure largely because he had a little
Speaker 3: isis flag on the vehicle that he had rented and
Speaker 3: with which he perpetrated this. And they there were three
Speaker 3: guys and one woman who were seen on surveillance video
Speaker 3: supposedly planting explosive devices, and there were at least two
Speaker 3: pipe bombs found that had been placed in coolers and
Speaker 3: were wired to explode. However, apparently those four people have
Speaker 3: been cleared as suspects. Yet still the FBI believes he
Speaker 3: did not do this alone, but we don't have the
Speaker 3: details about what they mean by that. Did he have
Speaker 3: help actually executing it that day, or did he have
Speaker 3: help planning it, or did he have help making the
Speaker 3: explosive devices, which they believe were made in a rented
Speaker 3: airbnb in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: After he got there. So this is what we know
Speaker 2: at this time.
Speaker 3: More information does seem to be coming out at a
Speaker 3: pretty frequent clip, and we will bring it to you
Speaker 3: as soon as we have it.
Speaker 2: But this is in some ways the story of.
Speaker 3: An American who serves in the military who comes out
Speaker 3: and has a nice career going. At one point he
Speaker 3: was making one hundred and twenty five grand a year,
Speaker 3: but because of three failed marriages, child support from two
Speaker 3: of them, and running up his credit card apparently to
Speaker 3: pay his rent at some point, he encountered serious financial difficulty.
Speaker 3: There's obviously some emotional and relationship instability going on because
Speaker 3: these three marriages and divorces happened in a relatively brief
Speaker 3: period of time. I mean, we're talking of a period
Speaker 3: about ten eleven years, three different marriages and divorces.
Speaker 2: And it culminates in this act.
Speaker 3: And we're doing handle on the news for you, Michael Monks,
Speaker 3: and for Amy King and me. And I mentioned this
Speaker 3: briefly yesterday when I saw it, But a little more
Speaker 3: on the guy in Virginia who was caught with a
Speaker 3: I almost said a bad word that you say sometimes
Speaker 3: when you mean a lot of things, a certain kind
Speaker 3: of ton I almost said of explosives. Now, they originally
Speaker 3: went after him because he had a short barreled rifle,
Speaker 3: which is no good. But they found out he was
Speaker 3: stockpiling weapons and homemade ammunition, and they go and they
Speaker 3: raid the house and there they find over one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty homemade explosives. Also a material called HMTD, which
Speaker 3: is extremely unstable. I mean, it is more unstable than
Speaker 3: the most unstable host on KFI.
Speaker 2: That's how unstable it is. That is unstable.
Speaker 3: And he had it kept in the freezer because one
Speaker 3: of the ways that if you've got some HMTD laying around,
Speaker 3: one of the ways it might ex blowed is that
Speaker 3: the temperature in the room changes three or four degrees.
Speaker 3: So he had it in the freezer, the family freezer,
Speaker 3: right next to the food.
Speaker 2: And so they arrest.
Speaker 3: Him and they put him in jail, and now he's
Speaker 3: trying to get out on bail pending his trial. And
Speaker 3: the judge said, yeah, I think I'm gonna let him
Speaker 3: out on bail, and the government said, whoa Nelly. I
Speaker 3: don't know if the judge's name is Nelly, but they said, whoe, Nelly. No,
Speaker 3: let us tell you some other things about this guy.
Speaker 3: And so the judge is now reviewing additional evidence in
Speaker 3: the government's attempt to keep this guy in custody. And
Speaker 3: one of the things that they point out now is listen,
Speaker 3: he cannot be trusted not to keep screwing around with explosives.
Speaker 3: Why do we say that, Well, because he currently.
Speaker 2: Has two fingers.
Speaker 3: He has had his fingers blown off messing around with explosives,
Speaker 3: and they didn't stop him from messing around with explosives,
Speaker 3: so maybe he should not be out and about in
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 4: Does it specify if two fingers are two fingers on
Speaker 4: one hand or is it one finger on each hand?
Speaker 2: Not sure how they're configured. I'm curious about it.
Speaker 3: And when they say two fingers, I don't want to
Speaker 3: get into the debate about whether a thumb is a finger.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to assume he doesn't have any thumbs,
Speaker 3: so at least he won't be able to hitchhike to
Speaker 3: try to get away from the jurisdiction if they do
Speaker 3: let him out.
Speaker 2: But man, oh man, that's good stuff. That guy. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to South Korea? How about that? No, thanks,
Speaker 2: we're all aware. Excuse me, I'm not ready either. We've
Speaker 2: all been aware of this terrible plane crash that happened there.
Speaker 2: One hundred and seventy nine people died on this flight
Speaker 2: that went down. Only two crew members lived well. Police
Speaker 2: are trying to figure out what happened. Investigators from the
Speaker 2: aviation organizations even stateside here are trying to figure out
Speaker 2: what happened. They raided an airport after this fatal crash,
Speaker 2: the airport of Muan in South Korea. They've also stopped
Speaker 2: the boss of Jiju Air from leaving South Korea. They
Speaker 2: consider him to be a key witness in this case.
Speaker 2: They really want to know what happened here. A lot
Speaker 2: of questions have emerged. They've got Korean investigators looking at
Speaker 2: the calls, They've got US investigators looking at the calls.
Speaker 2: They've got Boeing, who made the plane, involved in this investigation.
Speaker 2: And there are all kinds of questions about why this
Speaker 2: plane went down and what the circumstances were on the
Speaker 2: ground in the air that led to all of this carnage.
Speaker 3: Because the pilot said, oh, we had a bird strike
Speaker 3: exactly the strike and the plane went down with no
Speaker 3: landing gear. And what they're saying is, well, a bird
Speaker 3: strike wouldn't affect the landing gear, So what aren't you
Speaker 3: telling us?
Speaker 2: And that's what we hope to find out from all
Speaker 2: of these investigations. But they clearly mean business in that one.
Speaker 3: Well, one thing that's interesting about South Korea as compared
Speaker 3: to the United States is that when stuff goes wrong,
Speaker 3: they they go right after companies and executives from companies
Speaker 3: to see if there's any accountability at all, whereas here
Speaker 3: we don't really mess We don't mess with those at
Speaker 3: the top of the corporate hierarchy too much unless they
Speaker 3: start messing around with money.
Speaker 2: That's the only time.
Speaker 3: Okay, look, first of all, just so you know, nothing
Speaker 3: bad happened, but the sheriff's departments computerized dispatch system crashed
Speaker 3: right before midnight on New Year's Eve. So guess what
Speaker 3: they had to do. They had to be cops from
Speaker 3: old episodes of Adam twelve and drag Met, where someone
Speaker 3: would call nine one one and the nine to one
Speaker 3: to one person would have to write the information down
Speaker 3: on a piece of paper and then give that to
Speaker 3: the radio team who would literally the.
Speaker 2: Old fashioned carved eight.
Speaker 3: We got some kids blasting their music over there at wherever,
Speaker 3: and then that's how they that's how they were handling calls.
Speaker 3: For a while, the BODYCM system worked, I think all
Speaker 3: the other systems worked. But when the dispatch went down,
Speaker 3: somebody made a joke about it being their own little
Speaker 3: Y two K, and then the systems came back up
Speaker 3: and everything was fine. But I suspect at this point
Speaker 3: the I'm gonna guess the majority, if not the entirety,
Speaker 3: of the Patrol Division people who were out had never
Speaker 3: dealt with this kind of a thing before.
Speaker 2: You mean, like using a pen.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, like having to go back and forth to
Speaker 3: get the information on the on the little and you know,
Speaker 3: and rather than just being able to get all the stuff.
Speaker 2: On yeah, I know. I mean, you see some police
Speaker 2: these days. You realize when you've aged, when you see
Speaker 2: a police officer and you think, man, you're so I mean,
Speaker 2: are you fifteen years old? You're so young? And these
Speaker 2: deputies certainly look like that to me. So I bet
Speaker 2: they never lived in an age where they were exclusively
Speaker 2: writing things down. Welcome back to the dark ages of
Speaker 2: the nineteen nineties. All right, let's let's move on, because
Speaker 2: there are some renters here in LA who might see
Speaker 2: a little sticker shock when their bill comes due this week.
Speaker 2: More than sixty three percent of LA residents are renters.
Speaker 2: I'm a renter here in LA, and a lot of
Speaker 2: them who live in previously or currently rent controlled units
Speaker 2: are finding that their rent is going up by about
Speaker 2: four percent. You think, well, big deal, four percent, but
Speaker 2: if your rent is two thousand, three thousand, thirty five hundred,
Speaker 2: four percent can add up and that can impact your
Speaker 2: monthly budgeting. And that's what folks are feeling because landlords
Speaker 2: who own properties that they rent out in rent controlled
Speaker 2: circumstances have a cap on how much they're allowed to
Speaker 2: increase in this year, they've been allowed to do four percent,
Speaker 2: So a lot of renters getting a little bit of
Speaker 2: sticker shock coming up. If you're non rent controlled, could
Speaker 2: be almost nine percent increase for you, exactly. It can
Speaker 2: be chaos. I got really lucky my landlord out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: It was time for me to renew my lease this month,
Speaker 2: and they just took fifty dollars off, no questions asked.
Speaker 2: They took fifty dollars off your monthly. My rent is
Speaker 2: going down fifty dollars. Something's up. I think they like me,
Speaker 2: or they found out I work at KFI, and they
Speaker 2: don't want me topping my mouth off. They want to
Speaker 2: get me silence. And let me tell you, if you
Speaker 2: can buy my silence for fifty dollars, fifty dollars will
Speaker 2: buy my silence in this economy, all right.
Speaker 3: I guess this is still an issue that there's enough
Speaker 3: rancor in the Republican Party that they're worried they might
Speaker 3: not be able to elect a speaker when the new
Speaker 3: Congress convenes, and that would mean they can't delay. They
Speaker 3: can't excuse me, they would have to delay and can't
Speaker 3: at the right time certify the election, and there'd be
Speaker 3: no inauguration, or well it would be delayed. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's look, first of all, this is the first thing.
Speaker 3: We're not going to have a situation where six months
Speaker 3: from now they've not certified the election and Chuck Grassley
Speaker 3: is the president, the acting president of the United States.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be if it happens, it will be for
Speaker 3: a short period of time. But the problem is because
Speaker 3: and we already saw this last time, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of infighting in the Republican Party with a relatively small
Speaker 3: group of people coming up the works, and the same
Speaker 3: thing is happening again, and they have such a slim
Speaker 3: majority that I think they can only afford to lose
Speaker 3: one Republican vote. And that's assuming every other Republican shows
Speaker 3: up to vote and votes for Mike Johnson. And there's
Speaker 3: at least fourteen people on record that say they're undecided.
Speaker 3: And you know what's happening now is all the deal
Speaker 3: making behind the scenes of what will you give me
Speaker 3: if I vote for Mike Johnson as speaker. They're lining
Speaker 3: up the pork barrels, because that's how it works, if
Speaker 3: you what I'm surprised is that every Republican in the
Speaker 3: House is not saying, I don't know, what can.
Speaker 2: You do for me? It's only maybe fourteen of them.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you about a volcano that is apparently
Speaker 2: scheduled to erupt in twenty twenty five. People who watch
Speaker 2: these things say that there are telltale signs of swelling
Speaker 2: within this volcano. It's called the Axial Seamount. Wish it's
Speaker 2: pretty good Twitter handle if that's not taken. And it's
Speaker 2: a volcano located about four hundred and seventy kilometers off
Speaker 2: the coast of Oregon showing signs of impending activity. What
Speaker 2: does it mean to be an undersea volcano that would erupt?
Speaker 2: Ads predicted here in twenty twenty five. It's a pretty
Speaker 2: unique situation apparently with the being able to predict that
Speaker 2: this thing is going to erupt. But I'm not exactly
Speaker 2: sure if this is something we need to be scared
Speaker 2: of here in La Wayne. Can you help me out
Speaker 2: here whether we be scared of this? Well, I'm scared
Speaker 2: of everything right now. The year is off to such
Speaker 2: a crazy start, and now we've got a volcano under
Speaker 2: the ocean.
Speaker 3: Well, it's under the ocean, so if it erupts out
Speaker 3: the top of it, the magma, the magma will have
Speaker 3: to come up through the water. So does that blunt
Speaker 3: how far the magma goes? Or is the problem that
Speaker 3: the ocean will be filled with hot magma? Or does
Speaker 3: it cause a tsunami or that as well, I will
Speaker 3: disrupt I'm just gonna say this.
Speaker 2: University professor, a volcanologist called this a very promising volcano,
Speaker 2: So I don't know if that means yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is a high achieving volcano. This is a high achiever.
Speaker 2: This is a volcano that you want to take home
Speaker 2: to mom. But is it a threat. I don't need this.
Speaker 2: I don't need this volcano you might not want to
Speaker 2: bring home to mom.
Speaker 3: Ladies your next sex partner, because, according to a futurist,
Speaker 3: women will be having more sex with robots next year
Speaker 3: than men will. I don't know how you make such
Speaker 3: a prediction, but that's the prediction that has been made
Speaker 3: by data futurist doctor Ian Pearson's.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 3: Now there have been first of all, I will say this,
Speaker 3: I think you have to go back. You go all
Speaker 3: the way back to the mid seventies and there was
Speaker 3: say can I can I I don't really want to
Speaker 3: say that word, but it is the correct word for
Speaker 3: the thing I'm saying it never But what do I care?
Speaker 3: So in nineteen it's not that bad, but it's not
Speaker 3: the best. So just if you're sensitive, plug your ears
Speaker 3: for like ten seconds. Back in the mid seventies, this
Speaker 3: idea called teledildonics, which was the idea that sex toys
Speaker 3: could be operated remotely somehow, and I think originally it
Speaker 3: was through a direct like a wired connection because nobody
Speaker 3: had WiFi or anything. And then later on, as we know,
Speaker 3: you can control things over the Internet from anywhere in
Speaker 3: the world. I can adjust my thermostat for me anywhere
Speaker 3: in the world. I can turn my alarm system on
Speaker 3: and off from anywhere in the world. So that was
Speaker 3: the beginning of the idea of robotic if you will
Speaker 3: sex and now fast forward.
Speaker 2: They're these amazingly.
Speaker 3: Life like sex robot things that you could buy. But
Speaker 3: aren't they aren't they ten fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: They're extremely expensive, you know, according to this articles.
Speaker 2: But apparently Michelle included an image for you to see,
Speaker 2: and it's quite I'm not comfortable is the image?
Speaker 3: But is the damn it is the image posted somewhere
Speaker 3: where people can't see it.
Speaker 2: I'll put it on the camp I Instagram at camp
Speaker 2: is of no help to anybody if only we can
Speaker 2: see it. It's a man who's he looks very eighties.
Speaker 2: You don't try to describe it. I want to describe it.
Speaker 2: Can you put some music on? I want to describe
Speaker 2: this sexy rob looks like Richard Marx. Am I not
Speaker 2: being heard right now? Yes, we're not going to describe
Speaker 2: anything other than that. We won't describe it.
Speaker 3: I'm getting I'm getting mad right now because nobody.
Speaker 2: Ever put it on the Instagram.
Speaker 5: It's quite Sexactic's like saying to someone who has been
Speaker 5: kind enough to give us their time and attention, we're
Speaker 5: all doing a thing and you can't really be part
Speaker 5: of it.
Speaker 2: I'll post it.
Speaker 4: My favorite part of this article is this this Harvard
Speaker 4: doctor who writes that it's the men that need to
Speaker 4: be worried because it's quite possible that these uh, these
Speaker 4: robots will outperform them for their women.
Speaker 3: Oh, almost certainly, however, Michelle posting photo. Now, let let's
Speaker 3: see how much of a threat the advanced male sex
Speaker 3: robots are. I'm gonna play for you a little audio, okay,
Speaker 3: and for everybody so here.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it'll work. Let's listen to this guy.
Speaker 6: I can be programmed to understand all about your business.
Speaker 6: Imagine I'm at a conference wearing your company T shirt
Speaker 6: and informing the audience about all of your company's products
Speaker 6: and services.
Speaker 2: No, there you go. Is that a sexy Is that
Speaker 2: a sexy robot? No, it's not. He just described an image.
Speaker 2: Are you mad at him?
Speaker 7: No? This is nuts. Okay, I just posted there. You
Speaker 7: go go check it out on where. It's a very
Speaker 7: suggestive image. She's going to get her account band.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I posted it with no it's it's it's a
Speaker 4: I'm gonna post it.
Speaker 2: With a poll of that's what. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: That's the problem that all right, let's uh, let's move
Speaker 2: on to. Have you ever been driving and you get
Speaker 2: swept up in the music? A song comes on and
Speaker 2: you're just vibing and it's like, oh my gosh, I'm
Speaker 2: going twenty miles over the speed limit. A great song
Speaker 2: has come on, the breeze is picked up, and I'm
Speaker 2: a maniac. Well, there's a guy in Missouri got clocked
Speaker 2: going one hundred and seven miles an hour, not because
Speaker 2: he got swept up by a song, but he got
Speaker 2: swept up because he was playing a video game while driving.
Speaker 2: This twenty five year old driver north of Kansas City
Speaker 2: pulled over on I thirty five driving his twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three Nissan CenTra, driving about forty miles over the sixty
Speaker 2: five mile per hour posted speed limit. Police say he
Speaker 2: admitted to playing a video game while driving. So now
Speaker 2: he's facing speeding and other vehicular charges. He's got to
Speaker 2: go to court April fifteenth. He's got a scheduled court appearance,
Speaker 2: and there are no details on what game he was playing,
Speaker 2: but apparently some reporters in Kansas City took a look
Speaker 2: at his TikTok page and they have found that he
Speaker 2: is a devotee of My Hero Ultra Rumble. That's a
Speaker 2: twenty four player battle royale. So this is a guy
Speaker 2: who was playing with more than one person, probably allegedly
Speaker 2: while driving his Nissan CenTra over one hundred miles per
Speaker 2: hour down the freeway. So let that be a lesson
Speaker 2: as we start this new year. Resolve not to play
Speaker 2: your PlayStation while driving.
Speaker 3: And Rudy Giuliani, who is having to liquidate all of
Speaker 3: his property to pay that one hundred and forty eight
Speaker 3: million dollar defamation verdict because he defamed those election workers
Speaker 3: in Georgia, he really doesn't want to have to give
Speaker 3: up his four World Series rings that were gifted to
Speaker 3: him by then owner George Steinbrenner, he says, and this
Speaker 3: whole thing doesn't If I am the judge who is
Speaker 3: going to have a hearing on this, If I'm the judge,
Speaker 3: I might actually fat him in court because he is saying,
Speaker 3: please don't take the rings. Why because he says they're
Speaker 3: not his rings. They're his son, Andrew CMO's rings, but.
Speaker 2: They were given to him. How they were given to
Speaker 2: Rudy Giliani.
Speaker 3: And he says that sometime after he was gifted these rings,
Speaker 3: although I think he also said he insisted on paying
Speaker 3: for them, so maybe it's not fair to say he
Speaker 3: was gifted, but he was allowed to obtain them. He
Speaker 3: says he gave them to Andrew, he said, here, these
Speaker 3: are for you. Now, is there a document did Andrew?
Speaker 3: Did he do a nominal sale for one dollar that's
Speaker 3: in a contract that now I own these rings?
Speaker 2: No? No, he's just saying, well, they're really not my rings.
Speaker 3: And he also doesn't want to give up his three
Speaker 3: million dollar condo in Florida because he said it's his
Speaker 3: primary residence and should be exempt. Might have a point there,
Speaker 3: He might have a point there, particularly in Florida.
Speaker 2: But the ring thing is very smarmy.
Speaker 3: It's very goalm I'm sorry, it's it's very I misused smarmy.
Speaker 2: It's it's very suss is what I meant to say.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of Gollum the Precious and you're gonna
Speaker 2: He kind of looks like, come.
Speaker 3: On, I know he's you're gonna pile on his appearance
Speaker 3: when he's got all this other problem going on.
Speaker 2: Wow, you are that's cold.
Speaker 3: The Biden administration, through the Pentagon, made a lot of
Speaker 3: agreements with uh I'll tell you who they are, some
Speaker 3: famous people to try to help recruit people to go
Speaker 3: into the military because I don't know if you know it,
Speaker 3: but they're having a hard time getting people to join
Speaker 3: this volunteer military. So one thing that the government will
Speaker 3: do is enter into what they call a production assistant agreement.
Speaker 3: This is most famously known to have happened with the
Speaker 3: movie Top Gun. They were making Top Gun, and everybody
Speaker 3: knew it was going to be very complimentary and it
Speaker 3: was going to be a big booster for the military,
Speaker 3: and so the government said, hey, what do you need
Speaker 3: will help you make this movie? What do you need
Speaker 3: from us? And they enter into an agreement to provide
Speaker 3: help making in this case Top Gun. Well, they've also
Speaker 3: under the Biden administration made similar deals to Kelly Clarkson
Speaker 3: and her talk show, Jennifer Hudson and her talk show,
Speaker 3: Guy Fieri and his flavored town life that he lives,
Speaker 3: and even What's his Face YouTube star Mister Beast here's
Speaker 3: the thing though apparently none of it really worked, meaning
Speaker 3: it didn't boost their recruitment numbers, or recruitment numbers.
Speaker 2: Are still way down.
Speaker 3: They the Army had said we intend to recruit sixty
Speaker 3: five thousand people, and they got a little over fifty
Speaker 3: thousand people. So it's a nice idea, but it's not
Speaker 3: working because I don't think there's any way anymore to
Speaker 3: like subconsciously influence people to want to be in the military.
Speaker 3: So if you're like, hey, Kelly Clarkson will help you
Speaker 3: with something for your show. If you want to have
Speaker 3: something with that, I don't know, we bring a jet
Speaker 3: fighter onto your show or something like that.
Speaker 2: We'll do that for you.
Speaker 3: And I don't think anybody sitting there goes wow. Three
Speaker 3: minutes ago, I had no intention of wanting to be
Speaker 3: in the military, but Kelly Clarkson just had a jet
Speaker 3: fighter on her show. Let me go down to the
Speaker 3: mall right now, to the recruiting office. There's one thing
Speaker 3: I do want to say the Daily Mail, you blew
Speaker 3: it no offense. The headline Biden's Pentagon poured money into
Speaker 3: these shows and everything. It's not how it works. The
Speaker 3: production has to reimburse the pen to gone for any
Speaker 3: expenses incurred in helping them. So I don't know if
Speaker 3: that's the Daily Mail trying to ding Biden again, or
Speaker 3: they're just dumb, or they don't know how these agreements work.
Speaker 3: But when it's all over, no taxpayer money is spent.
Speaker 2: All right, let's draft a scenario where people in southern
Speaker 2: California are very familiar. You're sitting in traffic and suddenly
Speaker 2: some idiot does something stupid and you just can't even
Speaker 2: believe it because you would never drive like that. And
Speaker 2: that's because we're mister know it all, right, We're always
Speaker 2: mister know it all in the moment. But apparently, according
Speaker 2: to a new study, that situation or similar situations, these
Speaker 2: researchers have found in general, quote, people don't stop to
Speaker 2: think whether there might be more information that would help
Speaker 2: them make more informed decisions. So, whether you're lashing out
Speaker 2: in a moment like that where you don't have all
Speaker 2: the facts about what's going on with the other person,
Speaker 2: or whether there's a terrorist attack happening in New Orleans
Speaker 2: and events are unfolding and you're taking to social media
Speaker 2: and spreading a lot of stuff. The research has shown
Speaker 2: that people don't like the pause and get their facts
Speaker 2: straight before they react. And I know in the media
Speaker 2: business Wayane, that's not a surprise to you.
Speaker 3: No, they call it the illusion of information adequacy. You
Speaker 3: think you know enough to have your opinion, but you don't. Now,
Speaker 3: first of all, I don't think this is true. But
Speaker 3: let me float this idea though, as to the example
Speaker 3: that you used, which is a very common example. So
Speaker 3: somebody is driving too slowly in front of you. Now,
Speaker 3: it may be absolutely that there's a reason that if
Speaker 3: you knew why it was happening, that you would have
Speaker 3: some sympathy for the situation that the person's in. However,
Speaker 3: is it not still true that they're driving too slowly?
Speaker 2: Does the why?
Speaker 8: Does the why of why they're doing the thing really
Speaker 8: change your entitlement to be pissed off about it and
Speaker 8: call it out? They're doing the thing this is now
Speaker 8: about well you may not know why.
Speaker 2: Well, now I think you're steering into a sociopathy, steering
Speaker 2: into steering into means I wasn't in there. I mean, yes,
Speaker 2: you're right on the factual basis, of course, but it's
Speaker 2: difficult when you have any human emotions not to have
Speaker 2: a little bit of empathy.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the problem with it. I am serious about
Speaker 3: this that because there's this whole thing about what is
Speaker 3: it Be kind to everyone you meet, because everybody's going
Speaker 3: through a struggle. You don't know what someone's struggle is
Speaker 3: and what that means. But here's the problem. It's not
Speaker 3: good or healthy to be mad at everybody who violates
Speaker 3: any tiny bit of whatever you consider to be the
Speaker 3: proper behavior. I understand that you can't live your life
Speaker 3: like that, but you can't live your life no matter
Speaker 3: what somebody does, going like, oh, I wonder what tragedy
Speaker 3: hath to befallen my fellow man. I'm filled with empathy
Speaker 3: and sympathy because guess what, when they're doing something bad
Speaker 3: and you assume it's because they're dumb, that's because you
Speaker 3: don't have enough information. But when you go, oh, my
Speaker 3: poor fellow man must be going through some things, you
Speaker 3: also don't know enough to feel that way about it.
Speaker 2: That's true, And they don't know the difference.
Speaker 3: They don't know whether you're raging at them or crying
Speaker 3: tears on their behalf. So why not just be who
Speaker 3: you are and get if you get mad at people.
Speaker 3: You get mad at people, and if it turns out
Speaker 3: that there was a reason they were driving slowly, that
Speaker 3: makes some sense to you.
Speaker 2: You'll never know anyway, Uh, I guess. I mean, you're
Speaker 2: you're absolutely correct, you're absolutely low right. But I have
Speaker 2: found when I have snapped and it's happened to me,
Speaker 2: my goodness, driving in southern California, I've lost my cool.
Speaker 2: And then moments later, the altar boy in me comes
Speaker 2: crawling back to the top of my head and immediate guilt,
Speaker 2: like why did I yell at that that person? I mean,
Speaker 2: why did I feel the way I Why did I
Speaker 2: feel so intensely about a stranger for this thing that
Speaker 2: happened in a split second and is over and we're
Speaker 2: all moving on with our lives. But the rage that
Speaker 2: you can feel in those those circumstances, it's immense.
Speaker 3: Well, we're wired, but we're wired that way because if
Speaker 3: we weren't wired that way, this wouldn't be a research
Speaker 3: study and we wouldn't be talking about it because it
Speaker 3: would be some small handful of freaks that explode on
Speaker 3: the road because somebody drives. Everybody does it, because that's
Speaker 3: how we are. And a study like this and this
Speaker 3: narrative of be kind to everybody, because this struggle or whatever,
Speaker 3: this is all trying to get us to deny who
Speaker 3: we are and how we are, our basic biological essence.
Speaker 3: And sorry, not gonna do.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm not a moth. I'm a human being.
Speaker 3: And you can try to make me a moth that
Speaker 3: loves everybody and never gets mad, but I'm not.
Speaker 2: You just said a small group of freaks, and I
Speaker 2: like that for the name of this crew that's been
Speaker 2: filling in during the holidays. So thank you, and thank you.
Speaker 2: It's been such a pleasure to get to work with
Speaker 2: you here at the end of everything. For you, and
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy your retirement. I love your voice
Speaker 2: so much and you have the best vocabulary in radio.
Speaker 2: Oh you are a very nice man. I like you.
Speaker 2: I may love you a little bit. I'm not a robot.
Speaker 2: In case you're wondering if you should, No, you're not.
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