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Speaker 3: Good morning, Bill Handle's show. He's still on his holiday vacation.
Speaker 4: Are we down a man?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: No, he is here. I think he just ran to
Speaker 5: the restroom real quick.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 4: So is there a rule?
Speaker 3: Is there an FCC regulation or an iHeart policy that
Speaker 3: on the morning show there must always be one person
Speaker 3: who doesn't come back from breaks on time?
Speaker 5: To be fair, this is early and early comeback into.
Speaker 4: Show, so we should welcome back. Michael Monks.
Speaker 6: Good morning Wayne. Nice to hear your voice today.
Speaker 3: You too, and to see your face. You see my face?
Speaker 3: Oh that's interesting. So you think I'm ugly? No, no,
Speaker 3: you see my face. But you only said it's nice
Speaker 3: to hear my voice.
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't want to create an HR issue,
Speaker 6: but I think you're a very handsome man.
Speaker 3: Ah me, you too, take an HR issue. Gotta be safe,
Speaker 3: all right, So let's start over, Cono, Let's start over
Speaker 3: and be more professional this time. We're going for an
Speaker 3: extremely professional approach to Handle on the News today in
Speaker 3: honor of Michael Monks last day for now filling in
Speaker 3: for Amy King, We're going to be extremely high level
Speaker 3: levels of professionalism.
Speaker 6: I don't know that we want to set the standards
Speaker 6: too high for when the regular.
Speaker 3: We're setting them, we're setting them impossibly high, and we're
Speaker 3: going to achieve it. And that's the point to achieve.
Speaker 3: We're going today to achieve. Not right now, we're not.
Speaker 3: We're not achieving anything right now. I should have probably
Speaker 3: what probably what we're doing is killing the two minutes
Speaker 3: or whatever that we normally would have had for Michael
Speaker 3: Monks to get back into the booth for me, by
Speaker 3: the way, to get a beverage, which I have no
Speaker 3: beverage because we started early.
Speaker 4: Is now killing?
Speaker 6: Did I end the previous hour too soon?
Speaker 4: No? I don't know. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I got a smidgeon. I got a
Speaker 6: signal of a smidgeon from con On.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Here's Wayne Resnick.
Speaker 4: Hey, KFI. Bill Handle's on vacation.
Speaker 3: Wayne Resnick here, and it is time, as we do
Speaker 3: every first hour of the Bill Handle Show for Handle
Speaker 3: on the News. Let me set the crew for you
Speaker 3: Michelle Cube is producing today in.
Speaker 4: For Ann Marcono is here. Good morning. Kono is here
Speaker 4: running the board.
Speaker 3: Nice it didn't that didn't flow right?
Speaker 6: Start over Back to one, everybody, Back to one.
Speaker 3: Back to one, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Here's Wayne Resnick KFI.
Speaker 3: Handle gone, Wayne Resnick in And we always start the
Speaker 3: show with some hand along the news. I will tell
Speaker 3: you who is here today. No need to respond anybody.
Speaker 3: Michelle Cube is producing for Anne. Kono is running the board.
Speaker 3: The only original member of the Morning crew who is
Speaker 3: here today, Michael Monks is in for Amy King. And
Speaker 3: that brings us to handle on the news and today's
Speaker 3: lead story. The plane, an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed yesterday,
Speaker 3: Christmas Day after an unusual and several hundred mile long
Speaker 3: detour in the wrong direction.
Speaker 4: There are apparently holes in.
Speaker 3: The fuselage, which is causing Russian military bloggers and some
Speaker 3: aviation experts to opine that it may have been accidentally
Speaker 3: shot down by Russia. For you see, it went into
Speaker 3: an area that Russia has heavily militarized and at the
Speaker 3: airport where it was trying to land in an emergency landing.
Speaker 3: At the same time that airport was under a drone
Speaker 3: attack from Ukraine, and so the theory is Russia was
Speaker 3: trying to get rid of these Ukrainian drones. Here was
Speaker 3: this other aircraft that really wasn't even supposed to be there,
Speaker 3: and down it went. Thirty eight people killed, another twenty
Speaker 3: nine injured. And why did it make such a detour?
Speaker 3: The working theory is there was some GPS jamming going
Speaker 3: on in the airwaves that screwed up its ability to
Speaker 3: navigate properly.
Speaker 6: This is one of those rare occasions where you have
Speaker 6: some survivors of a plane crash in which a lot
Speaker 6: of people died. So perhaps we'll get some answers to that.
Speaker 6: Later on, we got a story out of La County.
Speaker 6: At least eight La County sheriff's deputies basically fired federal
Speaker 6: investigation into one deputies beating of a transgender man last year.
Speaker 6: The Only Times reports this happened in a seven to
Speaker 6: eleven parking lot, and this was two years ago. Deputy
Speaker 6: Joseph Benza finally agreed to plead guilty to one felony
Speaker 6: civil rights violation in federal court, but in this plea agreement,
Speaker 6: he admitted that he lied to the FBI about it,
Speaker 6: and he said there were other deputies and sergeants who
Speaker 6: helped obstruct the investigation and cover up the misconduct, and
Speaker 6: that's what's led to these further dismissals of other folks. Apparently,
Speaker 6: this transgender man Wayne flipped off the deputy and sent
Speaker 6: the deputy into a rage. The deputy was on a
Speaker 6: call for another reason, left that call to chase down
Speaker 6: this transgender man because he got flipped off and rough
Speaker 6: them up.
Speaker 3: And the whole The only relevance of the that it's
Speaker 3: a transperson. The only it's in the headline of the story,
Speaker 3: which is kind of despicable, because at some point we're
Speaker 3: going to have to recognize that people are people, regardless
Speaker 3: of any of these categories that we have created. The
Speaker 3: only relevance would be that after they beat this guy
Speaker 3: up and arrested him and took him to jail, they
Speaker 3: required him to show his genitals in order to decide
Speaker 3: whether to put him in men's custody or women's custody,
Speaker 3: So that would be the only relevant thread here. It
Speaker 3: could have been any person of any type flipping off
Speaker 3: a cop and the cop chasing them down and then
Speaker 3: beating the holy hell out of them, and it all
Speaker 3: would have been every bit is wrong not to mention
Speaker 3: all the lying and the covering up and the creating
Speaker 3: of stories and saying that the guy bit the cop
Speaker 3: was biting the cop, which is apparently not true. And
Speaker 3: I mean I saw cases like this from time to
Speaker 3: time when I was with the FEDS, where some cop
Speaker 3: would go over the line, and then instead of just
Speaker 3: owning up to it, there's a big conspiracy afoot to
Speaker 3: cover it up. But a lot of times you can't
Speaker 3: sustain it. And if you're gonna lie, here's my advice
Speaker 3: to anyone who wants to lie, not just cops. If
Speaker 3: you're gonna lie, you better make damn sure that your
Speaker 3: lie is consistent with any objectively knowable facts. Because if
Speaker 3: you're gonna say that guy was biting me and biting
Speaker 3: me and then none of the reports about it mentioned
Speaker 3: that you have any bite marks on you, because you don't,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be tripped up. And that's what happened here.
Speaker 3: Oh the high surf is back.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: Didn't we get a tiny little break from the high surf?
Speaker 5: We did, but now it's back.
Speaker 4: The surf sobered up and then it got high again and.
Speaker 3: So we're looking at now they're saying, in this case,
Speaker 3: there will be strong rip currents, so be careful if
Speaker 3: you're going in the water, or don't go in Coastal flooding, Yes, possibly,
Speaker 3: but minor. The National Weather Service is describing the flooding,
Speaker 3: the potential flooding as minor. And this continues through tomorrow
Speaker 3: for Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles counties. And I
Speaker 3: love this quote from the National Weather Service about safety
Speaker 3: because it makes me think of a long lost TLC
Speaker 3: song or something like that. Use caution in or near
Speaker 3: the water, stay back from the water's edge, and never
Speaker 3: turn your back on the ocean. Never turn your back
Speaker 3: on the ocean or your heart is gonna get ripped
Speaker 3: aided out?
Speaker 6: Is that TLC?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 6: Ye, that wasn't bad. That was not bad at all.
Speaker 6: But let's emphasize though, the danger here because we have
Speaker 6: basically called off the search for a couple of guys
Speaker 6: who were fishing around here. They're serious when they say
Speaker 6: don't go in the water when it looks like that.
Speaker 6: We saw what happened in Santa Cruz with the pier
Speaker 6: being ripped to shreds and now this search being called
Speaker 6: off for these two guys who went out fishing in it.
Speaker 6: It's serious when they say it.
Speaker 3: I'm noting a trend and I want to see. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna say anything about it yet because I want
Speaker 3: to see if it is actually a trend before I
Speaker 3: say anything, because I don't want to be wrong. But
Speaker 3: just put a pin and I think I'm noticing a trend.
Speaker 3: We'll see maybe later in the show, if I'm right.
Speaker 6: A dolphins stampede off data point was quote off the charts.
Speaker 6: Yo See Register reports some estimated five thousand long beaked
Speaker 6: common dolphins recently raced through the churning waves off data
Speaker 6: point captured not only in the memories of a handful
Speaker 6: of folks on a rigid inflatable known as the All's Well,
Speaker 6: but also footage since shared online. So, according to GIZL Anderson,
Speaker 6: who operates Captain Dave's Dolphin and whale watching Safari, data
Speaker 6: point has made the dolphins stampede famous. So what causes
Speaker 6: dolphins to display stampeding behavior. It's unknown. The burst of
Speaker 6: activity as reported here appears to happen spontaneously. What makes
Speaker 6: you stampede, Wayne.
Speaker 3: Pass Well, I mean I think because I don't have
Speaker 3: an answer, okay, because the answer cannot be broadcast, understood, understood.
Speaker 3: Isn't this this could just be the equivalent of Zuomi's
Speaker 3: for dolphins.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: Group some think that it's that the dolphins are meeting
Speaker 3: up with another dolphin pod, so they're very excited to
Speaker 3: see another group, or there's some food somewhere and they
Speaker 3: all want to get to it first. Now that if
Speaker 3: you want to see a stampede, that is for sure.
Speaker 3: People trying to get to food fast come into KFI
Speaker 3: or anywhere in the iHeart building when there's free food
Speaker 3: up in the red room, and when the email goes out,
Speaker 3: Hey there's free food in the red room. And then
Speaker 3: go take a gander at the stairwells.
Speaker 6: It's like Golden Corral on a Sunday up there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Also that they might be trying to get away from predators,
Speaker 3: but I prefer to think it's just some once in
Speaker 3: a while, you all get the Zuomies and zoomies are contagious.
Speaker 4: Now you have multiple.
Speaker 3: Animals, Michelle, well, I had you had you had multiple animals,
Speaker 3: which I never have had multiple animals.
Speaker 4: Are the zuomies contagious.
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, one hundred percent.
Speaker 7: Once one gets it, the rest of them, well, at
Speaker 7: first the other two, like when we had three, one
Speaker 7: would get the zoomies, the other two would kind of
Speaker 7: look for a moment and just kind of watch them
Speaker 7: zoom back and forth, and then they join it.
Speaker 6: I have caught the zuomies from my cat.
Speaker 4: Oh there you go.
Speaker 3: Cross species transmission of the zoomes, just like cross species
Speaker 3: transmission of the bird flu, which has now been detected
Speaker 3: by the Los Angeles County Health Department in some raw
Speaker 3: pet food, specifically Northwest Naturals brand two pound packs of
Speaker 3: Feline Turkey recipe raw and frozen pet food H five
Speaker 3: bird flu virus detected in products samples, So that's been recalled,
Speaker 3: and the county is advising both humans and pets to
Speaker 3: not eat raw milk or raw meat products.
Speaker 4: Don't feed them to your pet.
Speaker 3: I don't give a rip if you, as a human,
Speaker 3: choose to drink raw milk and then get bird flu,
Speaker 3: no tears for you, But your pet doesn't get to decide,
Speaker 3: So can we please cut it out for now with
Speaker 3: the raw food to the pets.
Speaker 6: I've always suspected that cats are libertarians and that maybe
Speaker 6: they have chosen this on their own. Could you see
Speaker 6: the cats of the political leanings of animals, the cats,
Speaker 6: out of all the species, would be the one like,
Speaker 6: give me my raw meat, give me my raw milk.
Speaker 6: You don't tell me what to do?
Speaker 3: Uh? I mean, I can see it in the sense
Speaker 3: of cats being the ones saying, you are the government,
Speaker 3: leave me.
Speaker 4: Alone, but cats cannot.
Speaker 3: But just like human libertarians, by the way, cats are
Speaker 3: stupid as well about their political philosophies. Because let's say
Speaker 3: you're a cat and you're a libertarian, and you're.
Speaker 4: Saying, leave stay out of my life.
Speaker 3: Human who is the stand in for the government in
Speaker 3: this analogy? You stay out of my business? Yeah, how
Speaker 3: are you getting your food?
Speaker 2: Dumb ass?
Speaker 3: Mister cat? Now what does this have to do with
Speaker 3: human liberty?
Speaker 4: Tarians?
Speaker 3: The government should only do a national defense. Okay, then
Speaker 3: who's paving your road? Dumbass? Who's coming to put the
Speaker 3: fire out at your house? Your neighborhood's gonna get together
Speaker 3: and hire a private fire department and a and a
Speaker 3: private paving company.
Speaker 6: I wonder what the political leanings are of those dolphins
Speaker 6: that were stampeding nearby here. Do you think they're like,
Speaker 6: I bet there's socially liberal common Democrats.
Speaker 3: But are upper middle class suburban voters. Oh they're they're
Speaker 3: all They're like from Finland. Whatever the political system in
Speaker 3: Finland did get it?
Speaker 6: Cute?
Speaker 4: Cute Michelle, How dare you not last?
Speaker 2: Dare you not last?
Speaker 5: Laughing?
Speaker 3: I just we're talking about dolphins, and I said Finland
Speaker 3: and you just sacked there.
Speaker 6: Oh and I only just now got it perfect. Oh well,
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. I was six grat geography champ, but I
Speaker 6: didn't that I didn't get that reference. I apologize for that.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's all right, let's do this dog story. But
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask you, I never mind, I'm not asking
Speaker 3: you anything.
Speaker 6: Do the dog for okay, okay, okay, I'm very nervous
Speaker 6: with you today. All right. A man reunited with a
Speaker 6: dog for the holidays after eleven years apart. These stories
Speaker 6: never get old when you see pets reunited after a
Speaker 6: long time away. This is reported by Fox eleven. As
Speaker 6: he watches his dog being brought down the hallway of
Speaker 6: the Seaaca Animal Care and Control Center, Tito Barossio says,
Speaker 6: I never thought I'd see this day. The day he
Speaker 6: and Goyle were reunited a dog Tito's wife gave him
Speaker 6: for a birthday present when the dog was just a
Speaker 6: pop just eight weeks old. Barosio says, the dog has
Speaker 6: been gone eleven years and two months, and he's missed
Speaker 6: him a lot. Now, this dog is fourteen limps, may
Speaker 6: have arthritis and doesn't yet seem to recognize Tito and
Speaker 6: actually snaps at him or anyone who gets close. Until
Speaker 6: Tito can get him to a vet, he won't know
Speaker 6: what his health might be like. All right, what's poor
Speaker 6: little guy? This dog is clearly a Republican.
Speaker 7: The saddest part of this story is he just got
Speaker 7: this dog, and he was sitting out at a pub
Speaker 7: on a patio and two girls were like looking at
Speaker 7: the dog and playing with the dog, and then he
Speaker 7: turned around, he turned away, and then he turned around
Speaker 7: and they had taken off with the dog.
Speaker 5: And it took eleven years to get them out.
Speaker 6: Man, that's so crazy. So yeah, but there's always a bond.
Speaker 6: I hope they can rekindle that bond. It's always interesting
Speaker 6: to see when animals who are separated from their owners,
Speaker 6: or you know a lot of those. I mean, you
Speaker 6: can't help but cry every time you see a soldier
Speaker 6: coming home after so many months or maybe even years abroad,
Speaker 6: and the dog just it takes a moment and then
Speaker 6: they sniff you and then it's your You're back in
Speaker 6: love all over again. It's always I'm tearing up a
Speaker 6: little bit just thinking about those videos they get. I'm
Speaker 6: a sucker for them every time they come across the algorithm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me, let me put in something that's one
Speaker 3: hundred percent positive and heartwarming.
Speaker 4: Video going around.
Speaker 3: It's been going around for a while. It's some guy
Speaker 3: who I don't know how long he was away from
Speaker 3: his dog. I don't know that it was a like years,
Speaker 3: but he used to be he was very heavy and
Speaker 3: he lost a ton of weight and now he's not heavy.
Speaker 4: He's not heavy at all.
Speaker 3: So here comes the dog and the dog's looking at him,
Speaker 3: does not recognize him by looking at him, barking at him,
Speaker 3: is barking. But finally the dog catches the whiff of
Speaker 3: his smell, and then it's like.
Speaker 4: Boom, you're my guy.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened to half your body, but
Speaker 3: you're my guy. That was And that's the thing is
Speaker 3: apparently the smell. Kids should learn this I know, I'm
Speaker 3: going along. I don't care. And Michelle knows why kids
Speaker 3: should learn this because there are all the videos of
Speaker 3: the dog reunions, which are very nice. Then you have
Speaker 3: this other thing that's a very common video, and it's
Speaker 3: when dad shaves his beard and then the kid are
Speaker 3: horrified and terrified and crying. But if kids were smart
Speaker 3: like dogs, they would still know it smells like dad
Speaker 3: and they wouldn't have to be so upset. So what
Speaker 3: have we learned? Dogs are smarter than kids. That's two
Speaker 3: important things you've learned from me today. A mystery. After
Speaker 3: a flight from Chicago landed in Maui, the United Airlines
Speaker 3: crew found a body in the wheel well of one
Speaker 3: of the landing gears. Needless to say, the Airlines working
Speaker 3: with law enforcement to investigate the situation. The only thing
Speaker 3: we know for sure is that this wheel well is
Speaker 3: only accessible from outside of the aircraft, So nobody who
Speaker 3: was inside the plane somehow ended up in the wheel well.
Speaker 3: That's all they know. We don't have any information on
Speaker 3: who it is. Was it an employee of the airport,
Speaker 3: was it some rando? And what condition put on your
Speaker 3: true crime hats? You true crime lovers? What condition was.
Speaker 7: The body in Now, there have been people who have
Speaker 7: survived that, right, because I can't imagine how cold it
Speaker 7: must get.
Speaker 6: We reported yesterday that it had been done before, a
Speaker 6: guy from California survived that very route, apparently across the
Speaker 6: ocean to Hawaii. But the other thing that was included
Speaker 6: in the reports when this story broke yesterday was exactly
Speaker 6: what you just noted, Michelle, that it gets pretty cold,
Speaker 6: a cold that we probably can't describe because we've never felt,
Speaker 6: especially here in California. But I read that when you
Speaker 6: get up to the heights that this plane would have been,
Speaker 6: it can be minus fifty degrees in the area of
Speaker 6: the plane where that body was found, So pretty pretty cold.
Speaker 6: But I imagine that would preserve the condition of the body,
Speaker 6: to answer your questions, so probably not too decomposed, but still,
Speaker 6: what a terrible thing. All right, So yesterday was Christmas,
Speaker 6: and yesterday was the start of Hanka, but today begins Kwansa.
Speaker 6: And I think a lot of people may have an
Speaker 6: image in their mind of what it is, but we're
Speaker 6: gonna spell it out for you just in case you
Speaker 6: don't know. It is a non religious seven day long
Speaker 6: holiday that celebrates African and African American history and culture.
Speaker 6: According to NBC four Kwansa is celebrated between December twenty
Speaker 6: six and January one every year. It was created by
Speaker 6: activist and author Malmana ron Kurenga in nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 6: He hoped to introduce a nationally celebrated holiday that would
Speaker 6: bring Black Americans together and reaffirm and restore African heritage
Speaker 6: and culture. So how are you supposed to celebrate? Do
Speaker 6: you know the answer to this?
Speaker 3: Waned, Well, there's a big feast, I think is one
Speaker 3: of the main things. Yeah, and wherever you are when
Speaker 3: you're having this feast, you want it to be foods
Speaker 3: that represent African cultures, the African diaspora.
Speaker 4: I suppose.
Speaker 3: I know there's a there's a there's a lighting of
Speaker 3: candles which are different colors. I forget the exact configuration.
Speaker 6: I say three red, three green, three red, three green,
Speaker 6: and and then there are colors that are.
Speaker 3: We're missing one though, because it's seven candles one arm
Speaker 3: one candle, one black, three red, three green. Yeah, So
Speaker 3: that would be the main things that you would do,
Speaker 3: like those candles, make sure they're the correct colors, and
Speaker 3: eat those foods.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, so Happy Kwanza to everyone celebrating today.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: President elect Trump has reiterated his desire for the United
Speaker 3: States to take over supervision and control of Greenland, which
Speaker 3: is currently a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Speaker 4: And also the Panama Canal.
Speaker 3: So Greenland, he says, is very strategically important for national
Speaker 3: security purposes, and the Panama Canal, which is very important
Speaker 3: to commerce. He is tired of the United States putting
Speaker 3: in lots of money to repair it, maintain it, but
Speaker 3: not really have any say so in how it's run.
Speaker 4: He would like to change that.
Speaker 3: He also, on his Christmas Day message, had a different message,
Speaker 3: which is urging Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky to
Speaker 3: run for the Prime Minister of Canada.
Speaker 2: Why not.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he'd get a lot of support from LA I think.
Speaker 5: He would totally win. I think he would totally win.
Speaker 4: It depends on what his policies are.
Speaker 5: I don't think that matters. I think you would just
Speaker 5: I think he would win.
Speaker 6: What would what would a fight between the US and
Speaker 6: Denmark look like. I mean it couldn't be military, of course,
Speaker 6: I don't think would amount to that. But who wins
Speaker 6: the pr game. There you know the Danes Hamlet, Hamlet
Speaker 6: spoke well? Did Hamlet speak better than Trump?
Speaker 4: That worked out? Good example, that worked out really well
Speaker 4: for Hamlet. That whole situation.
Speaker 6: Ahu las poor yorick. We shall move on. Incoming Borders
Speaker 6: Are Tom Holman says Trump admin will need eighty six
Speaker 6: billion dollars to start these mass deportations. According to the
Speaker 6: New York Post, Incoming Borders Are, Homan says that much
Speaker 6: money is needed from Congress just to kickstart the incoming
Speaker 6: Trump administration's mass deportation plan. It's only just the beginning.
Speaker 6: He says, it will be expensive, but assured taxpayers it
Speaker 6: will save them money in the long run. The former
Speaker 6: acting ICE director recently said he wants to increase the
Speaker 6: number of detention beds from the current capacity of several
Speaker 6: tens of thousands to one hundred thousands. So again, the
Speaker 6: question that was raised over the campaign back in November,
Speaker 6: Wayne was how do these mass deportations look? How much
Speaker 6: will they cost? The pictures starting to get a little clearer,
Speaker 6: it looks.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, I mean, if you're talking about completing the
Speaker 3: it's really hard to tell how extensive they're planning to
Speaker 3: go And what I mean is, do they plan on
Speaker 3: deporting every single person who is here without authorization? Every
Speaker 3: single one, or like all the criminals, which that's a
Speaker 3: very by should be a bipartisan part of it, people
Speaker 3: who are here illegally and also have been committing crimes.
Speaker 3: I mean, who's going to say no, no, no, we
Speaker 3: could use resources to deport them, but I mean the Dreamers.
Speaker 3: So I guess the thing is, if the plan is
Speaker 3: to deport every single person who's in this country right
Speaker 3: now without authorization, it's going to cost somewhere in the
Speaker 3: neighborhood of three to four hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 6: Trump says, on my first day back in the Oval office,
Speaker 6: I will sign a historic slate of executive orders to
Speaker 6: close our border to illegal aliens and stop the invasion
Speaker 6: of our country. And on that same we will begin
Speaker 6: the largest deportation operation in American history, larger even than
Speaker 6: that of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Speaker 4: And Denmark will pay for it.
Speaker 7: How are they going to do that if they need
Speaker 7: eighty six million or billion to even start.
Speaker 6: It, Well, we shall see. You know, it seems like
Speaker 6: one of those things that was really important to voters,
Speaker 6: you know, between the economy and illegal immigration, those seem
Speaker 6: to be the big issues that drove Republicans and a
Speaker 6: surge and support for Trump this past year. So I
Speaker 6: don't know if we can even see if people care
Speaker 6: how it's done, just as long as they see it
Speaker 6: being done.
Speaker 3: Nobody right now should be loving cost cost Kirk Gland
Speaker 3: signature brand twenty four count organic pasture raised eggs that
Speaker 3: come from Handsome Brook Farms because they have been recalled
Speaker 3: for possible salmonella. Now, none of these eggs were sold
Speaker 3: in California, so there is no direct relevance if you're
Speaker 3: in California, there's no direct relevance of this story to you.
Speaker 4: You don't even have to think about whether you have
Speaker 4: any of these eggs or not.
Speaker 3: But the interesting part of this, and it's not interesting
Speaker 3: that some eggs maybe got contaminated with salmonella, because that's
Speaker 3: egg's favorite thing to do. But what's interesting is how
Speaker 3: the FDA can make something as simple as a consumer
Speaker 3: safety issue into a bureaucratic thicket. Because what happened is
Speaker 3: the FDA announced that they were recalling these eggs, but
Speaker 3: then later a few days later, they came back and
Speaker 3: said we are updating the recall to a class one recall.
Speaker 4: Oh what's that?
Speaker 3: Well, that's when there's a reasonable listen to this wormy language,
Speaker 3: a reason probability that the use of or exposure to
Speaker 3: a product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
Speaker 3: So their recalls for things, I mean, I understand this.
Speaker 3: Sometimes things are recalled. Is anything of a recall that's
Speaker 3: not a safety issue?
Speaker 4: Have you ever heard of a recall that was not
Speaker 4: that they didn't have a safety related reason for it.
Speaker 3: Why would a company recall something because eh, it just
Speaker 3: falls apart really quickly. We're recalling these socks because we
Speaker 3: found out they don't last as long as we said
Speaker 3: they did. No, So I will ask you, Michelle Cube, yes,
Speaker 3: from one to one hundred, what is the correct number
Speaker 3: that describes a reasonable probability?
Speaker 5: I would say, or.
Speaker 3: So, if there's a forty percent chance that eating these
Speaker 3: eggs will hurt you, back to class one recall. But
Speaker 3: if there's only a thirty nine percent chance, it's not
Speaker 3: a class one recall if you were running the FD
Speaker 3: all right, See this is what I'm saying. This is stupid,
Speaker 3: This isn't there don't need to be various classes of recall,
Speaker 3: and if you're gonna have various classes of recall, define
Speaker 3: them more precisely please.
Speaker 5: And just a heads up.
Speaker 7: I know you said that this wasn't in any of
Speaker 7: the Costco stores in California, but my husband, who works
Speaker 7: for Costco, says, if you are at all nervous about
Speaker 7: eating the eggs you bought at any California Costco.
Speaker 5: You can return them. It's not a problem.
Speaker 3: You can return them even if you're not nervous for
Speaker 3: a month after you've had it. My understanding is with
Speaker 3: Costco there might be a way to return those eggs
Speaker 3: after you've eaten them.
Speaker 5: Yes, pretty much.
Speaker 4: What speaking of eggs, what lays eggs? Birds?
Speaker 6: Birds do in fact lay eggs? And is there any
Speaker 6: egg grander than that of the bald eagle? Not in
Speaker 6: this country. We made it official President Biden and the
Speaker 6: United States of America a new law in effect on
Speaker 6: Christmas Eve bestowing the honor of official National Bird to
Speaker 6: the white headed and yellow beaked bird of prey known
Speaker 6: as the bald eagle. The bird has been a national
Speaker 6: emblem in the US for years, appearing on the Great Seal.
Speaker 6: It's been used on US documents since seventeen eighty two,
Speaker 6: but it had never been officially designated the national bird
Speaker 6: until Congress passed the bill last week, saying it's to
Speaker 6: Biden's desk.
Speaker 5: How did that not happen for two hundred and fifty years?
Speaker 3: People are busy buy because in the early days of
Speaker 3: this country, a certain guy named maybe you've heard of him,
Speaker 3: Benjamin Franklin. Oh, yeah, him. He did not like the
Speaker 3: bald eagle being a symbol of the United States of America. Now,
Speaker 3: no one will be able to guess why. I would
Speaker 3: never be I would never be able to guess why.
Speaker 3: He was just so wild. There should have been some
Speaker 3: solidarity here.
Speaker 5: It is the most badass looking bird.
Speaker 3: He said that the bald eagle was a and I
Speaker 3: quote now from mister Kiteflyer himself.
Speaker 4: A bird of bad moral character.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, he thought the bald eagle was an air duell,
Speaker 3: a ruffian, you know, with the gambling, with the gambling
Speaker 3: and the hang and the breaking curfew and whatever else
Speaker 3: the bald eagle was doing.
Speaker 4: So you didn't You did not have.
Speaker 3: Unanimity amongst even the founding fathers about the bald eagle.
Speaker 3: Didn't didn't Franklin want the Turkey to be yes, wasn't
Speaker 3: he into the Turkey?
Speaker 5: I believe so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So that's why I guess it took to two
Speaker 4: d and fifty years. It's like, but wait a minute,
Speaker 4: he's been dead for It's not like he just died.
Speaker 3: And then the Congress is like, oh, finally Franklin is dead.
Speaker 3: We can make the bald eagle the official bird. No,
Speaker 3: he died a long time ago, Michael Monks.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir. So we've got that Starbucks strike that had
Speaker 6: been going on since last week. It's over now they're
Speaker 6: back to work. ABC News reports the strike lasted for
Speaker 6: days against Starbucks. It ended on Tuesday, Christmas Eve as
Speaker 6: those United Starbucks workers United Union workers went back. The
Speaker 6: strike involved workers at over three hundred stores and dozens
Speaker 6: of cities nationwide. We saw some stores here in Greater
Speaker 6: LA also impacted by this. Starbucks says, you know, this
Speaker 6: wasn't a big deal. You know, barely impacted our operations.
Speaker 6: And they also claim that the union's demands are ridiculous.
Speaker 6: They say, look, we we pay well enough, we offer benefits,
Speaker 6: we're a good company. But the union workers say, you'd
Speaker 6: like to negotiate on our wages and have better collective marketing.
Speaker 2: Did you hear the.
Speaker 7: Union guy what he said last night. I don't know
Speaker 7: if it was a I can't remember if it was
Speaker 7: a man or a woman, But whoever it was said,
Speaker 7: this is just the beginning. Well, I can only imagine
Speaker 7: what's gonna happen in the next few months.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's something that union and labor efforts here specifically
Speaker 6: in La that I've watched up close in personal over
Speaker 6: the past year covering news for KFI. They can be
Speaker 6: passionate and they can also be successful, but with a
Speaker 6: nationwide effort, I don't know that you have the same
Speaker 6: support for labor induced progress that you see here in
Speaker 6: La County. And I think you're going to talk about
Speaker 6: this in the next hour right way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just so happens that after your news we're
Speaker 3: talking about not just the Starbucks strike, but the Starbucks
Speaker 3: and the Amazon workers strikes, both of them timed for
Speaker 3: the holiday season, and what's going on and what the
Speaker 3: issues are and why it's gonna be a big uphill
Speaker 3: battle I think for both sets of workers. All Right,
Speaker 3: that was Handle on the news. Michael Monks has some
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