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Speaker 1: But is it going to change? You got the ultra wealthy.
Speaker 1: You bet they're going to do better. It's a different philosophy.
Speaker 1: We elect Democrats who are super liberal, and now we
Speaker 1: elected a Republican who's not you know, Welcome to America
Speaker 1: and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Speaker 1: Bill Handle. All right, good morning everybody. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: January seventeenth, is a foody Friday without the foodie part.
Speaker 1: Neil is still under the weather and he is not
Speaker 1: joining us today and he will be here on Monday.
Speaker 1: So Neil has a couple of choices. He can come
Speaker 1: or he can die, and we'll see which one. It
Speaker 1: is a matter of fact, you know, we ought to do.
Speaker 1: We ought to do like a football pool. Alive or
Speaker 1: not alive. Let's not that is the question. And what
Speaker 1: odds ooh odds that Neil comes in or Neil survives
Speaker 1: the weekend. You know, God, can you imagine, God forbid
Speaker 1: if NEO actually did.
Speaker 2: Tank, you might actually feel bad for a few minutes a.
Speaker 1: Few yeah, during when nine to eleven hit and it
Speaker 1: was six o'clock in the morning. When the first was
Speaker 1: it six o'clock or five o'clock I remember because we
Speaker 1: started at five o'clock in the morning. But anyway, I
Speaker 1: was broadcasting live as we do. And when the airplanes
Speaker 1: hit the first tour we were watching it a few
Speaker 1: minutes that was we didn't see it live, but people
Speaker 1: were recording it and we got it a few minutes
Speaker 1: later as major news outlets. We're releasing that. And then
Speaker 1: forty five minutes later when the second plane hit Tower
Speaker 1: number two, we were watching and it was live, and man,
Speaker 1: what a day that was. Now, Rich Murata was our
Speaker 1: Wayne Resnik, and he was our at Neil Savadra and
Speaker 1: Rich Murad a very interesting guy and he was a
Speaker 1: sports guy, so we we'd do sports, which we gave
Speaker 1: up when Rich left. Rich that morning before the planes hit.
Speaker 1: Based on what he said, we were talking about Kama
Speaker 1: Kazi pilots during World War Two. I mean, you talk
Speaker 1: about if you listen to the tape, which we play
Speaker 1: every year two years. At the nine to eleven we
Speaker 1: edited down, so it's about I don't know, ten minutes,
Speaker 1: eleven minutes, you'll hear the conversation about Kamakazi pilots and
Speaker 1: then you know, half an hour later, really strange. So
Speaker 1: I don't know where I went with that. By the way,
Speaker 1: it was a complete digression. Where were we before I
Speaker 1: lost track? Which I do on the Dying Neil Dying
Speaker 1: nine to eleven. Yeah, and we're taking odds horrible if
Speaker 1: okay got it anyway, Good morning everybody. Let's start with
Speaker 1: Kno Good morning, Cono, good morning, Bill, and and good morning,
Speaker 1: good morning, and Neil those I'm dying and Neil okay
Speaker 1: excellent and Amy, Hi, Bill, good morning. We started off
Speaker 1: on a wonderful note this morning, and it will be
Speaker 1: just Amy and Moua this morning like we did yesterday,
Speaker 1: the two of us handling the show, with Cono throwing
Speaker 1: in the music and and telling him you what to
Speaker 1: do because she's the produce, and throwing my name up
Speaker 1: on the board. This is your name, Bill because otherwise
Speaker 1: I get confused, and tell and tells me what the
Speaker 1: next segment is and I blow that one too. Basically, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how we do it. Okay. It is a Friday,
Speaker 1: January seventeen, and we go right into handle on the
Speaker 1: news with Amy, the hopefully alive Neil and me late
Speaker 1: story cease fire. Well, got it. Ceasefire came into being.
Speaker 1: I thought it wasn't gonna happen. I thought it was
Speaker 1: gonna be delayed. But the deal has been closed. Now
Speaker 1: was this going to Basically, is this the death knell
Speaker 1: for the Natanyahu government? Maybe maybe we'll talk about more.
Speaker 1: Is what's happening over the next week two weeks. But
Speaker 1: here's how it works. And Amy and I were talking
Speaker 1: about it. In Israel, it's very strange as to how
Speaker 1: the government works. The prime minister is not the commander
Speaker 1: in chief. He is not. He cannot make the decisions
Speaker 1: like our president, who can send troops, who can send
Speaker 1: troops and begin conflicts or respond to conflicts. The Prime
Speaker 1: Minister of Israel has to go to, in this case,
Speaker 1: a war cabinet, which is comprised of people who are
Speaker 1: insanely in favor of war and some who are not,
Speaker 1: some who don't believe in a Palestinian state at all,
Speaker 1: some who are basically strong beliefs in the Palace, a
Speaker 1: two state solution, and this is how the government is
Speaker 1: put together. It's hard to get a government in Israel.
Speaker 1: And so instead of the prime minister in Natagnana who's saying, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: I'm signing the peace treaty, I can do it just
Speaker 1: simply by declaration. It goes to the war cabinet, and
Speaker 1: then it goes to the fold cabinet that has to vote.
Speaker 1: It's a really weird way of doing it. And then
Speaker 1: the cabinet does not work for Netanyahu. It's really not
Speaker 1: his people. It's not like our presidency where the president
Speaker 1: chooses a cabinet. The cabinet members are heads of parties
Speaker 1: that are elected by their own constituents, and some are
Speaker 1: completely diametric, diametrically opposed to the government being but they
Speaker 1: join the government and they'll ask things like okay, will
Speaker 1: join and allow you to be the prime minister, but
Speaker 1: I want defense, will take defence, or will take housing
Speaker 1: dealing with the Palestinians. So they cobble together these governments,
Speaker 1: you know, for example, the supernationalistic there's some very nationalistic
Speaker 1: super kosher parties. Some are political and some are just
Speaker 1: straight we don't care about any politics. We want the
Speaker 1: world to be kosher. That's all we care about Jewish laws,
Speaker 1: which is why, as I said yesterday, there are It
Speaker 1: used to be you couldn't go to a hotel that
Speaker 1: wasn't kosher in Israel, couldn't do it strict. It's looser now. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's another story I'll tell you about all airlines. I'm digressing,
Speaker 1: but I'm just having too good a time and explaining this.
Speaker 1: And I had one of my best friends who flew
Speaker 1: for the IDF. You flew fighter planes and then you
Speaker 1: retire and went to l All airlines as a pilot,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them do that. And the law
Speaker 1: is you can't work or fly on Friday night. Friday
Speaker 1: night Shabbat, the Sabbath, everything stops. So every airplane in
Speaker 1: the el Al fleet had to be on the ground
Speaker 1: by sunset anywhere in the world they had the land
Speaker 1: and could not fly again until the fall the next
Speaker 1: evening Saturday night. So okay, what did they do. They
Speaker 1: created another airline that leased the airplanes from el All
Speaker 1: had their own pilots, which happened to be l Al
Speaker 1: pilots and had different uniforms and flew for this other
Speaker 1: airline that could fly on Friday. This is how crazy
Speaker 1: those laws were because of the super religious parties. And
Speaker 1: then it got to the point they got so tired
Speaker 1: of changing uniforms that it's only it was only the
Speaker 1: name tag in the name of the airline. So on
Speaker 1: Friday night they just tamed the airline. You have the
Speaker 1: least airplane that they're flying, and then on Saturday night
Speaker 1: they go back to La crazy crazy making. Okay, I
Speaker 1: know I digressed on that one, but that I purposely digressed.
Speaker 1: That was not me losing my placeholder. Here. We are
Speaker 1: going to come back and we'll continue on. Amy. You're
Speaker 1: giving me a look, Yeah, it's sort of this. I'm
Speaker 1: doing a lot more than just news on that one.
Speaker 1: I was doing. I was doing a lot of splain
Speaker 1: in Lucy. No.
Speaker 3: I think it's it's actually fascinating one that you know
Speaker 3: all of that and that things, you know, to see
Speaker 3: how other governments run and don't run, and that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just I think it's interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, well, I find I find it fascinating.
Speaker 1: I mean that's me, you know, that's my wheelhouse. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead. And take a break, and we're going
Speaker 1: to come back and actually go through the news. By
Speaker 1: the way, ceasefires in place. That was the headline, and
Speaker 1: the hostages are going to start being returned probably next week.
Speaker 3: They're saying it could happen as soon as Sunday, okay,
Speaker 3: at least the start of it.
Speaker 1: And it's thirty six I believe, thirty three or thirty
Speaker 1: six hostages to exchange for fifteen hundred Palestinian prisoners. And
Speaker 1: that's another thing that a lot of Israelis are bitching at. Legitimately,
Speaker 1: these a lot of these prisoners are terrorists. They have
Speaker 1: killed Jews, they have killed Israelis, and they're being released
Speaker 1: sin war. You know, the guy who was killed the
Speaker 1: head of the guysa government to get Hamas was in
Speaker 1: prison for twenty years in Israel and was released in
Speaker 1: imprison prisoner exchange and then came back to excuse me,
Speaker 1: had the government and was the mastermind of the October
Speaker 1: seventh attack.
Speaker 2: All right, Amy, the TikTok deathwatch is on.
Speaker 3: The White House is looking into options they say might
Speaker 3: keep TikTok accessible to you know, one hundred and seventy
Speaker 3: million people in the US who use it, but if
Speaker 3: they can't find an option, the ban is set to
Speaker 3: go into effect Sunday. But White House officials say the
Speaker 3: problem is even though Biden doesn't want to enforce the ban,
Speaker 3: they don't think he has the authority to defer enforcement
Speaker 3: of the law he signed in April that hired the
Speaker 3: parent company of TikTok, Byte Dance, to sell it before
Speaker 3: the January nineteenth dead or.
Speaker 1: Shut it down, which they haven't done. And the politics
Speaker 1: of this one is so weird because you have major
Speaker 1: political figures as well as President Trump, who hated TikTok,
Speaker 1: wanted it gone, pushed for it to be either sold
Speaker 1: or shut down in the United States, and now it's
Speaker 1: changed his mind, as have both And by the way,
Speaker 1: both sides, both Republicans and Democrats in Congress have turned
Speaker 1: around and said no, no, we like byte Dance, We
Speaker 1: like TikTok, even though it's owned by byt Dance, a
Speaker 1: Chinese company that has connections with the Chinese government, which
Speaker 1: means that they can get information from us because any
Speaker 1: of these apps know everything about us and what interesting
Speaker 1: sidelights story here The reason that Trump and he said
Speaker 1: I have a warm place for TikTok. TikTok was a
Speaker 1: fairly big fan in him getting elected because he got
Speaker 1: so many utes, he got so many young people in
Speaker 1: a major way. And you know who made him who
Speaker 1: made that happen, his son Baron, who said to him,
Speaker 1: you have to use social media to go after people
Speaker 1: like me. An eighteen year old kid, gave him better
Speaker 1: advice than all of his advisors. So it's really this
Speaker 1: TikTok story is just weird.
Speaker 3: Don't mess with California. That's the word from California Attorney
Speaker 3: General Rob Bonta. He says the hammer will come down
Speaker 3: on those who try to take advantage of the victims
Speaker 3: of the wildfires in La County. He was on KTLA
Speaker 3: yesterday morning and he announced a task force being created
Speaker 3: by his office, which will put more resources toward investigating
Speaker 3: things from looting to arson, to theft, to scams, to
Speaker 3: flying drones illegally in the wildfire areas.
Speaker 1: So if you decide to loot and you take less
Speaker 1: than nine hundred and fifty dollars, it's a misdemeanor. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think looting is in the new I don't
Speaker 1: think the new laws that make it tougher for smashing grabs,
Speaker 1: but I think under is still correct. Me if I'm
Speaker 1: wrong on that, Amy Under nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: Didn't the new law that passed revise that.
Speaker 1: I don't think in terms of money. It's just the
Speaker 1: second conviction is or the third conviction that ends up
Speaker 1: being a felony. I'm good and ends looking that up
Speaker 1: and you're looking that up. I think I have that right.
Speaker 3: Okay, like a good neighbor, State Farm won't be there.
Speaker 3: State Farm has decided to pull its Super Bowl commercial.
Speaker 3: They say they want to focus firmly on support to
Speaker 3: the people of Los Angeles. Last Super Bowl they ran
Speaker 3: the commercials that started Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 2: I can't say it.
Speaker 3: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito and it was USA Today's
Speaker 3: Annual Popularity Contest number one spot.
Speaker 1: And that makes sense on a pr level that you
Speaker 1: have State Farm that is bounced back and forth. Let's
Speaker 1: see if I'm right on that. Califer proposed making looting
Speaker 1: during emergency of felony. It is not a felony, and
Speaker 1: they should make it. If they should make it, twenty
Speaker 1: five years to life on looting. So in any case,
Speaker 1: State Farm saying we're not going to do a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl commercial. And it makes all it makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense.
Speaker 3: I like the State Farm guy. Do you know who
Speaker 3: that is? Is that familiar with you?
Speaker 1: The State Farm? No, he's yeah, the guy E. J. Rowlings.
Speaker 1: Is that who it is? Or is it the other guy? You?
Speaker 2: No, it's the younger guy. He's really cute.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can't remember. Yeah, he's an actor and
Speaker 1: woit what a gig he has?
Speaker 3: I know, right, Okay, A lot of convicts now love
Speaker 3: Joe Biden. Biden has pardoned nearly twenty five hundred non
Speaker 3: violent drug offenders, and with these latest commutations, he has
Speaker 3: now pardoned more people than anybody in presidential history. He
Speaker 3: says that these twenty five hundred were serving disproportionately long
Speaker 3: sentences compared to the sentences they would get today under
Speaker 3: current law, policy and practice.
Speaker 1: Which is absolutely true.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Remember the laws crack cocaine, for example, I got you
Speaker 1: ten years, where power cocaine you would get three years.
Speaker 1: And it made no sense, no sense at all. And
Speaker 1: Blacks were disproportionately nailed because for some reason, African Americans
Speaker 1: liked crack cocaine more than powder cocaine. I've never been
Speaker 1: able to figure that out. And the laws were crazy Texas.
Speaker 1: At one time. You got caught with one joint and
Speaker 1: you would do years in prison. And Texas governors do
Speaker 1: not tend to pardon criminals. So Biden said, it's just
Speaker 1: not fair. These are non violent drug offenses, personal use.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to keep them in jail. That makes sense.
Speaker 3: Keeping cops in line La County, New DA. Nathan Hockman
Speaker 3: has hired a special prosecutor for cases of police misconduct.
Speaker 3: He had fired George Gascone's special prosecutor, who was appointed
Speaker 3: shortly after he took office last month.
Speaker 2: The new guy is Michael Jenaco. He will be the
Speaker 2: man tasked with prosecuting law enforcement officers who are accused
Speaker 2: of misconduct, including police shootings.
Speaker 1: And that's right. I think that's appropriate because as soon
Speaker 1: as there is a police shooting and the authorities get involved,
Speaker 1: I think there's a conflict of interest that minute, and
Speaker 1: you go to special prosecutor that is completely independent and
Speaker 1: that doesn't have any skin in the game at all.
Speaker 3: Millions will be chilling in the US. Bone chilling temperatures
Speaker 3: are developing across much of the United States forecasters say
Speaker 3: basically anywhere from the Rockies east will see below normal
Speaker 3: temperatures over the next several days, some of them minus
Speaker 3: thirty to as low as minus forty or minus fifty
Speaker 3: by this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the index. I mean, it's not the actual temperature.
Speaker 2: It feels like, right, it's the wind chills.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you hit minus thirty wind chill factor,
Speaker 1: it is still really cold. What is it? Ten degrees
Speaker 1: a difference between actual temperature and the wind shill.
Speaker 2: Well, it depends on how fast the winds are blown.
Speaker 1: And all that stuff. But I mean it is crazy.
Speaker 3: I used to live in Colorado. It gets cold when
Speaker 3: those wind shills dipped out on that low.
Speaker 1: I mean it's I mean, this is scary stuff. This
Speaker 1: is dangerous. You go outside for ten minutes exposed skin,
Speaker 1: frostbite hits.
Speaker 3: Well, they're saying the inauguration on Monday in Washington, DC
Speaker 3: is going to be the coldest in years and years.
Speaker 1: I think twenty degrees actual temperature. I read that, don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it is. I think it's twenty degrees so
Speaker 1: and this polar vortex, I mean, you tell me about
Speaker 1: climate change. I mean it is hitting us so hard,
Speaker 1: and scientists are still saying climatologists are still saying, we
Speaker 1: haven't hit critical mass yet, where we can't. We are
Speaker 1: only trying to slow down the climate change, slow down
Speaker 1: the temperature of the Earth, which last year was the
Speaker 1: hottest ever, and this year is going to be the
Speaker 1: hottest ever if the last three four years it has
Speaker 1: been the hottest ever. This is crazy stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've hit critical mass. I mean it's over now. Just
Speaker 1: get really warm clothes or buy a lot of sunscreen
Speaker 1: and bathing suits, depending on where you are in this country.
Speaker 3: Time to make Hollywood great again. President elect Trump is
Speaker 3: named John Voight, Sylvester Stallone, and Mel Gibson as Special
Speaker 3: Ambassadors to Hollywood. He said that they're going to be
Speaker 3: a special envoys and we'll report back to him with
Speaker 3: the on the ground knowledge of the industry to bring
Speaker 3: Hollywood back bigger, better and stronger than ever before.
Speaker 1: Amy, would you please explain to me what a special
Speaker 1: ambassador to Hollywood is?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't either.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, Well, there was farm aid and now unfortunately
Speaker 3: there is fire Aid. There's going to be a huge conference, conference, conference, concert.
Speaker 3: In fact, so big that it's going to be at
Speaker 3: both the Into It Dome and the Key of Forum,
Speaker 3: happening on January thirtieth. We knew it was coming, and
Speaker 3: now they've announced some of the performers. So there are
Speaker 3: Billy Eilish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go, let's go through the list. You know, we
Speaker 1: still have about twenty minutes left on handle on the news,
Speaker 1: so let's spend some time talking about this list.
Speaker 2: Well, we're just going to name a few of them.
Speaker 3: But Billy Eilish, she's a native of La Red Hot
Speaker 3: Chilli Peppers and Gracie Adams Abrams Rather along with Lady Gaga,
Speaker 3: Katy Perry, Pink, Gwen Stefani, Earthwind and Fire, Jelly Roll,
Speaker 3: my personal favorite, Joni Mitchell, Little Baby, Rod Stewart, Stings,
Speaker 3: Stephen Stills and Stevie Nicks, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Everybody's
Speaker 3: going to be there day and this is just some
Speaker 3: of them. Yeah, and they're said, oh, we're going to
Speaker 3: announce more later. So it's happening on January thirtieth. Tickets
Speaker 3: go on sale on the twenty second. If you're not going,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be able to watch it kind of everywhere
Speaker 3: because They are going to be streaming it on Apple TV,
Speaker 3: on Max KTLA's going to erit Netflix, Paramount Plus Prime Video,
Speaker 3: and it's also going to be broadcast on eight hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty iHeartRadio stations across the United States.
Speaker 1: And are you going to see a crawl across the
Speaker 1: bottom of the screen. Please donate, Please donate absolutely, And
Speaker 1: this is going on. It's for two days, and I
Speaker 1: mean two days, like a straight forty eight hours with
Speaker 1: no bathroom breaks. Enjoy yourself. I mean this lineup is insane.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: They'll have shorter sets, but I think it's amazing and
Speaker 3: I hope they raise a ton.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good, I mean good for them, Good for them.
Speaker 3: If you have crypto, you're going to have to report
Speaker 3: it to the IRS. Most Americans are going to be
Speaker 3: focusing on getting tax documents together in the next few months,
Speaker 3: But if you buy or sell digital assets like bitcoin,
Speaker 3: twenty five will mark the first texture that your crypto
Speaker 3: transactions will be subject to third party reporting requirements. That
Speaker 3: means information on them will be sent to the IRS.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is you not going directly with crypto. If
Speaker 1: you're still buying crypto directly or selling crypto, directly. No
Speaker 1: one knows. But these are basically brokerage firms that deal
Speaker 1: with crypto, and there are entire you know, it's like
Speaker 1: Schwab is a brokerage firm, or Fidelity is a brokerage
Speaker 1: firm that handles stocks assets. This is another one of
Speaker 1: those companies, but it deals in crypto and there if
Speaker 1: you go through them, then any gains are going to
Speaker 1: be reported to the IRS.
Speaker 4: I don't get it though, I've had a report the
Speaker 4: last three years.
Speaker 1: All your crypto sales. Yeah, how does the government know?
Speaker 4: So Coinbase has like a not a W two, but
Speaker 4: they do the same thing as like a brokerage firm.
Speaker 4: They give you a print out of your gain their losses,
Speaker 4: and it may be just that one company that does it.
Speaker 4: And Turbo tax is what I go through and they
Speaker 4: always ask them.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you. So you go through when
Speaker 1: you buy crypto. You can't just do it directly. You
Speaker 1: have to go through a third party. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't do crypt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say, like a person like me, that's
Speaker 4: not millions and billions of dollars. Yeah, you have to
Speaker 4: go through Coinbase, which is just the fidelity of.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, but what if you did it directly? Because
Speaker 1: you can do it directly, right, there is a way
Speaker 1: to do it directly, and that you there's the way
Speaker 1: the government's ever going to know that you did or
Speaker 1: didn't do because it's all totally secret private. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Have you made money with crypto?
Speaker 4: By the way, my brother always told me, you're not
Speaker 4: making money unless you pulled the money out, So I'm.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me put it this way, or I have
Speaker 1: you seen your investment go north? Yes? On crypto? Correct?
Speaker 4: And I mean substantially over double Okay, over what period
Speaker 4: of time. I've been in it for five years and
Speaker 4: you've done your money? Yeah, that's impressive. That is impressive.
Speaker 4: I have to tell you.
Speaker 3: Okay, A twenty let's see not twenty three two hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty million dollars slap on the wrist. American Expresses
Speaker 3: agreed to pay two hundred and thirty million dollars to
Speaker 3: settle a federal investigation into deceptive marketing practices and civil
Speaker 3: fraud allegations. Apparently, they engaged in sales practices that provided
Speaker 3: consumers with incorrect tax advice and also deceptively marketed credit
Speaker 3: cards and wire transfer products.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like what Wells Fargo did a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, manufacture accounts and make sure they get money
Speaker 1: if I have this correctly, among other things.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because remember Wells Fargo, they were just adding
Speaker 3: accounts that you didn't try to add yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lovely, because the CODA system was so harsh at
Speaker 1: those banks that tellers and people that work there. You
Speaker 1: have to open new accounts X number of accounts per month,
Speaker 1: and if you can't do it legitimately, let's make some up.
Speaker 1: They didn't say that, but everybody sort of knew that
Speaker 1: was happening. Yeah, Wells Farg got d nail pretty good.
Speaker 1: Now it's American Express.
Speaker 2: How much is two hundred and thirty million dollars to
Speaker 2: American Express?
Speaker 1: I think not much. It depends on how much American Express,
Speaker 1: how big a company is it? And it's in the billions.
Speaker 1: Hey Siri, go, hey siri. What's the revenue of American
Speaker 1: Express forty two billion dollars?
Speaker 2: So two hundred and thirty million is not a lot.
Speaker 1: No, not a lot.
Speaker 3: So here's what they were doing too. One of the
Speaker 3: things employees allegedly told consumers their wire transfer fees were
Speaker 3: tax deductible, but they weren't, so they got.
Speaker 1: Busted for that. Lovely Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: Rudy has made a deal.
Speaker 3: Rudy Julian, he has reached an agreement with those two
Speaker 3: election workers from Georgia that he defamed to settle the
Speaker 3: nearly one hundred and fifty million dollar judgment against him.
Speaker 3: In the deal, he's going to get to keep his
Speaker 3: properties and his most valuable possessions, like several New York
Speaker 3: Yankees World Series rings.
Speaker 2: He was going to have to forfeit.
Speaker 1: All of them. Yeah. I don't get this at all.
Speaker 2: Like, why there's a settlement now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, why he settled And because they already have the judgment,
Speaker 1: they are entitled to everything he has minus a few exemptions,
Speaker 1: and World Series rings are not part of exemptions. The
Speaker 1: only thing that was an issue is his place in
Speaker 1: Florida because under federal law or under law Florida year,
Speaker 1: where you live Florida residence is exempt from either bankruptcy
Speaker 1: laws or picking this up in lawsuits. And they just
Speaker 1: I think they just got tired of it. I think
Speaker 1: these two workers just got tired.
Speaker 2: Of it, like, oh, and we're never going to see
Speaker 2: this as yeah.
Speaker 1: And just let it go. And I love this because
Speaker 1: he posts on X this resolution does not involve an
Speaker 1: admission of liability or wrongdoing by any of the parties.
Speaker 1: You've already been convicted of wrongdoing. You've been held that
Speaker 1: you've done wrong, that you defame these women. So he
Speaker 1: says he kept the rings. He says he keeps both
Speaker 1: his properties both in New York and in Florida, and
Speaker 1: his other stuff. So I don't get it why they
Speaker 1: didn't keep on going. But they did say we had
Speaker 1: death threats, we couldn't use our names. One of the
Speaker 1: ladies that I can't even go to the supermarket because
Speaker 1: of the threats. Because there are supporters of certain political
Speaker 1: people out there, Donald Trump who are nuts. That's not
Speaker 1: to say he is, by the way, I've never said
Speaker 1: Trump has asked people to do that. But his followers,
Speaker 1: his crazy, crazy followers, are threatening. Very few people who
Speaker 1: believe who are on Joe Biden inside made threats, just
Speaker 1: the different way of thinking.
Speaker 3: China is shrinking, not in size, but in the number
Speaker 3: of people. The population of China fell last year for
Speaker 3: the third straight year. Officials are panic panicking a bit,
Speaker 3: saying that the country is now faced facing both an
Speaker 3: aging population and an emerging shortage of working age people.
Speaker 3: But still they have one point four zero eight billion people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're down one point thirty nine million. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what tiny percentage going down. But the issue in
Speaker 1: Japan has this problem big time.
Speaker 2: Japan or China.
Speaker 1: Japan, Oh also has this problem, and it's even more
Speaker 1: serious in Japan.
Speaker 2: Isn't Japan too crowded?
Speaker 1: It depends. Yeah, it's very dense, very dense. But you
Speaker 1: go to Shanghai, you go to Beijing, I mean it's
Speaker 1: just as those cities are jammed with people, what twenty
Speaker 1: five million people in Beijing alone, And what happens is
Speaker 1: an aging population. You live longer, Fewer people are being born,
Speaker 1: and it takes people to support those old people. And
Speaker 1: if you don't have enough, that's what happens to our
Speaker 1: social security why our social security taxes, and it go
Speaker 1: up like crazy, and it's not going to be solvent
Speaker 1: in ten years. We're living longer, not enough people out
Speaker 1: there because we have a declining younger population. I can
Speaker 1: see that. You know what they call you know what
Speaker 1: they call Chinese food in China food, Yes, precisely it's
Speaker 1: food and they don't believe in refrigeration in a lot
Speaker 1: of those places.
Speaker 3: Okay, Elon's epic fail was a spectacular show, at least
Speaker 3: if you ask Elon. SpaceX launched its super heavy Starship
Speaker 3: Mega rocket. It was its seventh test flight, launched Texas
Speaker 3: last night, but.
Speaker 2: About nine minutes in it froze.
Speaker 3: The engines shut down, and then it broke up and
Speaker 3: fell back to Earth.
Speaker 2: There was falling debris.
Speaker 3: They had to divert some flights in Miami and Turks
Speaker 3: and Caicos for a little bit. And then Elon Musk
Speaker 3: tweeted and said success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know he is on this issue and with SpaceX,
Speaker 1: guy's a visionary. I mean, forget about the craziness. First
Speaker 1: of all, did you see the video of the pieces
Speaker 1: of that rocket coming down in broad daylight. It looked
Speaker 1: like meteors that were coming down, meteorites that were falling
Speaker 1: from the sky, you know those. It actually looks like asteroids,
Speaker 1: little asteroids coming in. And that's exactly his philosophy from
Speaker 1: day one is you send a spacecraft up, it falls apart,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work. You look next one collapses, you'll learn
Speaker 1: and eventually we have a good one. The first, the
Speaker 1: Falcon Rocket, I think it finally made it on its
Speaker 1: fourth go. Elon Musk had no money for that fourth test.
Speaker 1: No money he put the he put everything he had
Speaker 1: into that last test. And he's absolutely right. This company
Speaker 1: that believes in failure to learn, and then they make
Speaker 1: it work, and then he goes crazy on.
Speaker 2: Us all aboard.
Speaker 3: The Biden administration has ordered twenty seven million dollars in
Speaker 3: federal grants to add more Surfliner service between LA and
Speaker 3: San Diego. The federal funds will allow the Rail Corridor
Speaker 3: Agency to add three new daily round trips between LA
Speaker 3: and San Diego, so now there will be thirteen trips
Speaker 3: available each day.
Speaker 1: Have you ever taken that train trip.
Speaker 3: Not the one, not the Surfliner from LA to San Diego,
Speaker 3: but I have taken it from here up to San
Speaker 3: Luis Obispo.
Speaker 1: And I occasionally take it to Orange County because the
Speaker 1: drive can be a couple of hours in traffic, or
Speaker 1: you take the train. It stops at every single station.
Speaker 1: Everyone and what should take you? I don't know. Forty minutes,
Speaker 1: takes two.
Speaker 2: Hours and it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Well, that's true. However, from LA to San Francisco, if
Speaker 1: they put in the train, you will be able. It
Speaker 1: takes more time to take a train ride between those
Speaker 1: two cities than it does to fly to New York twice.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're talking about the high speed ram. Yeah, well
Speaker 3: were not so high speed?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, we're never gonna do that. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the train as it is right now, because that's all
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, is you take a train from LA
Speaker 1: to San Francisco after spending twenty billion or thirty billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Talk about boondoggle. A matter of fact, I think that's
Speaker 1: the name of the train itself, is the boondoggle.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be fun to see that.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be great? Al Right, guys, we're done. This
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