Speaker 1: You're listening to kf I AM six forty the bill
Speaker 1: handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: What's going on this morning? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Oh we just got new pastathon totals.
Speaker 1: Oh oh oh yeah, okay, new pastathon totals. Elmer, do
Speaker 1: we have a drum roll hanging around there? Hang on,
Speaker 1: he's looking, he's looking.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I just threw that at him. Elmer's panic. Now, oh
Speaker 1: my god, where do I get it? It's somewhere. Let's
Speaker 1: pull a recording.
Speaker 2: Oh good, gosh, Okay, I'll do it. You got it.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 3: As of six o'clock this morning, we are it. Do
Speaker 3: you have the total bill?
Speaker 2: No? I don't.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll do it. Then I was gonna let you
Speaker 3: do it. One million, two thousand and sixty nine dollars,
Speaker 3: also seventy nine and fifty five pounds of pasta and sauce.
Speaker 3: And guess what you can still donate? Yep, we can
Speaker 3: get that total up there even more. We're taking donations
Speaker 3: at KFIM six to forty, dot com, sash Pastathon, at
Speaker 3: all Smarten finals. Do you make your donation at checkout
Speaker 3: and at all Wendys in southern California. Just make a
Speaker 3: five dollars donation. You're going to get one of those
Speaker 3: cool Wendy's coupon books worth a lot more than five
Speaker 3: dollars with a lot more. Oh and you can donate
Speaker 3: more than five.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that would be nice to donate more than five.
Speaker 1: A quick question and you can go at smart and final.
Speaker 1: You can also pick up some pasta and sauce and
Speaker 1: take it to the counter and pay for it and
Speaker 1: then say this is for Pastathon now and they'll take it.
Speaker 1: And that's part of the pastafon campaign. Do you know
Speaker 1: and you may not know this, but until about three
Speaker 1: years ago we KFI listeners and us saw all of
Speaker 1: us involved in Pastathon. We brought enough pasta and sauce
Speaker 1: to the table where Katerina's Club, the charity that we
Speaker 1: support that feeds the kids. Now twenty five thousand meals
Speaker 1: a week, had enough pasta and sauce to last for
Speaker 1: the year. Wow, we did it all. Now it runs
Speaker 1: out in July. They have they are feeding so many
Speaker 1: kids that by July they have to start buying pasta
Speaker 1: and sauce. I mean, it is that successful. And that's
Speaker 1: how much they need our help. So we're at a
Speaker 1: million dollars. Now does that include Wendy's and Smart and
Speaker 1: Final yet?
Speaker 2: Have we gotten those figures? Do you know?
Speaker 3: I don't think you know what.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna have Michelle come in at
Speaker 1: seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: Michelle's going to come in at seven.
Speaker 1: O'clock and explain a little bit about Pastathon, but sort
Speaker 1: of inside baseball of Pastathon. She's the one that puts
Speaker 1: it all together. I mean, it happens because of Michelle.
Speaker 1: If it weren't for Michelle, there would be no Pastathon. Also,
Speaker 1: I think we have a video of my purchase at
Speaker 1: Smart and Final of pasta and sauce that I donated,
Speaker 1: which is it's a pretty impressive amount, even though afterwards
Speaker 1: I had him put it back on the shelf because
Speaker 1: I just did it for the video. Also, yesterday at Pastafon,
Speaker 1: we always has have per my contract, real jew bagels.
Speaker 1: It used to be they go to the store and
Speaker 1: just get toasts and stuff. So I changed my contract. Legitimately.
Speaker 1: I think we have that up on Instagram too, So
Speaker 1: we had real jew bagels. And as I was leaving Pastafon,
Speaker 1: I pointed out the bagels. I gave you a tour
Speaker 1: through our bagels and that's up at at bill Handle
Speaker 1: show on Instagram. So very excited am Michelle here. I
Speaker 1: got to I have to give her some big kudos
Speaker 1: on this. Usually since since she has left the show
Speaker 1: after twenty six years, she was a producer of this show,
Speaker 1: and then we had a couple of others and then
Speaker 1: and came aboard, I have ignored Michelle. No, she's not
Speaker 1: producing the show anymore, So I'm pretending I'm amish and
Speaker 1: I just shun her.
Speaker 2: And it does look right past her. You know, you're
Speaker 2: not on the show anymore. What do I care?
Speaker 1: But today at seven o'clock, Michelle is joining us and
Speaker 1: explaining a little bit, a little bit about Postapon. Okay,
Speaker 1: Neil is not here today, but Amy is good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Elmer is Fillian Frakono, Good morning, Elmer, good morning,
Speaker 1: all right, and Neil, who is not here. Neil is
Speaker 1: a little bit under the weather, which to this day,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, because aren't we all
Speaker 1: under the weather? So that nope, you get it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we step outside and we're under the weather. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what that means. But Neil his medication that
Speaker 1: he takes and a lot of it because as you know,
Speaker 1: no I'm seriously, he talks about it all the time.
Speaker 1: He takes my handfuls of pills because of his kidney.
Speaker 1: You know, he had a kidney donation. And so he's
Speaker 1: out today. Unfortunately, hopefully he's here tomorrow. We'll see, because
Speaker 1: I want to do foody Friday tomorrow. All right, I
Speaker 1: think that we're done with all the business that's fit
Speaker 1: to print.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. It's handle on the.
Speaker 1: News with Amy and me O'Neil lead story. Another one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here was a weird one.
Speaker 1: You got this guy, Brian Thompson, who's CEO of United.
Speaker 2: Healthcare, I mean big time.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, he's walking into a hotel room in New York
Speaker 1: and Manhattan. He's at the annual conference, the annual investor conference.
Speaker 1: Some guy comes up to him behind him, gun with
Speaker 1: a silencer and just unloads, shooting in the head, and
Speaker 1: down he went.
Speaker 2: He was killed instantly.
Speaker 1: Now, usually there's enough crime out there, but this one,
Speaker 1: and murders happen every day. But the CEO United Healthcare,
Speaker 1: I have a question. You think he was covered insurance wise?
Speaker 2: Okay? My guess is yes, although I think that's a
Speaker 2: good bet.
Speaker 3: Okay, the razor thin edge just got even thinner. Democrats
Speaker 3: have flipped the final seat in California in which the
Speaker 3: race was still undecided. Democrat Adam Gray has beat Republican
Speaker 3: Representative John Dwarte in a rematch for California's thirteen district
Speaker 3: seat in the Central Valley. That means that Republicans will
Speaker 3: have two hundred and twenty seats in the next House
Speaker 3: and the Democrats will have two hundred and fifteen. Oh
Speaker 3: and by the way, Gray beat Dwarty by less than
Speaker 3: two hundred votes out of like hundreds of thousands cast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that becomes a little problematic.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to show you when they say every vote
Speaker 1: counts in certain races.
Speaker 2: That's true. The two twenty to two fifteen.
Speaker 1: The difference between the two the majority the publics and
Speaker 1: half five is ties for the smallest margin in the
Speaker 1: history of the United States by any Congress. And it's
Speaker 1: going to be really interesting for Mike Johnson, the Speaker,
Speaker 1: to navigate that one as a majority as Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House. I can't wait. He cannot have what he
Speaker 1: can't have. I think three Republicans go to the other
Speaker 1: side or vote no, and he's lost the bill.
Speaker 3: And does that count the ones who are leaving the House.
Speaker 1: Well, they're still leaving. Yes, well, they're leaving the House.
Speaker 1: I think it's no, it will be too twenty to
Speaker 1: two fifteen.
Speaker 2: OK.
Speaker 1: Right now it's a little bit bigger. Right now there's
Speaker 1: only there's a six or seven.
Speaker 3: Congress majority as Stephonic is leaving in walls is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's how that certainly doesn't help these guys.
Speaker 1: And this is a question some Republicans are not very
Speaker 1: happy with, is that President Elect Trump has chosen two
Speaker 1: Republican Congress people to be cabinet or high end level
Speaker 1: officials in the US government, which means they're not Congress people.
Speaker 2: For example, Matt Gates, who was supposed.
Speaker 3: To be Attorney General.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's gone, and he's resigned a seat.
Speaker 1: He's out of politics, although he'll probably get some senior
Speaker 1: level position in the Trump administration that doesn't need confirmation,
Speaker 1: and there are plenty of those. Or he's going to
Speaker 1: join the Republican media crowd and he'll be on the
Speaker 1: speaker circuit and he'll do just fine.
Speaker 3: The Speaker of the House has spoken, and the word
Speaker 3: is no. House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected requests from
Speaker 3: the White House to pass twenty four billion dollars in
Speaker 3: additional aid for Ukraine by the end of the year.
Speaker 3: Johnson says that any further assistant for Kiev will be
Speaker 3: decided by President elect Trump when he takes office in January.
Speaker 2: Which makes sense.
Speaker 1: You've got a new president coming in in less than
Speaker 1: two months, and this is a Mazier presidential choice, major
Speaker 1: policy issue, and it just makes a lot of sense. Now,
Speaker 1: what's already been okayed and voted, and there's still several
Speaker 1: billion dollars left to distribute to Ukraine go ahead. That
Speaker 1: can't be stopped or shouldn't be stopped because Congress voted
Speaker 1: that in.
Speaker 2: But new funding, uh huh. I completely agree with Johnson.
Speaker 1: We have a new president and it's going to be
Speaker 1: up to that new president to decide whether cuts are
Speaker 1: are going to be made. I think there are Whether
Speaker 1: the United States is going to leave Ukraine completely helping Ukraine,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to happen, and I think
Speaker 1: it's just going to be a low level of support.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 4: six forty.
Speaker 2: Handle here.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, on a Thursday morning, December fifth. You know,
Speaker 1: I always complain, and I'll tell you about this. I'm
Speaker 1: always complaining that I lose the stories.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I get these stories, I mark them up, I look
Speaker 1: and then I talk about them. And so I have
Speaker 1: these stacks of stories and they're lined up, you know,
Speaker 1: seven am story, seven thirty eight, twenty story, that sort
Speaker 1: of thing, and I mark them and I make notes
Speaker 1: on them. And so I'm looking at them and they've disappeared.
Speaker 1: And I always complain about that they've disappeared, and just
Speaker 1: witnessed it. I have not gotten up from my chair,
Speaker 1: I have. They have disappeared.
Speaker 2: You literally haven't moved from that seat, that is correct.
Speaker 1: I have to do a stack of papers, and I
Speaker 1: have short sleeves on, so it's not nothing up my
Speaker 1: sleeve kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've just disappeared. I always thought you were crazy. Okay,
Speaker 2: you saw it, I did.
Speaker 1: You just saw it happened, Okay, okay, so I have
Speaker 1: to do them again.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just so bizarre.
Speaker 3: Did you look in the garbage I did?
Speaker 1: Here? It is, here's the trash right here. What do
Speaker 1: I have in the trash, all right. I have my
Speaker 1: Zelman's commercial. I have my Life Source Water commercial. I
Speaker 1: have a baggie that I brought a sandwich in. I
Speaker 1: have a rundown that we've changed. And that's it, all right.
Speaker 1: I know it's just weird. And I don't believe in
Speaker 1: ghosts or poltergeist or any of that, or mediums or
Speaker 1: even well done.
Speaker 2: I just don't buy that.
Speaker 3: Are they on that stand right there.
Speaker 2: These stands in front of me.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, I've got a handle on the news. I've got
Speaker 1: the rundown, Thursday's Rundown hour one hour two and that's it.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's it, just crazy, Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 1: More handle on the news. Wow, and scrambling to find my.
Speaker 3: She's running around.
Speaker 1: I know she just understand it, completely perplexed, you know,
Speaker 1: like Scooby Doo.
Speaker 2: She does get it. All right, Let's move on. More
Speaker 2: handle on the news. Amy and Me.
Speaker 3: Got a big bitcoin bump. Bitcoin hit one hundred thousand
Speaker 3: dollars for the first time yesterday. It comes after President
Speaker 3: elect Trump unveiled his administration picks that are seen as
Speaker 3: holding keys to ushering in more crypto friendly policies. Once
Speaker 3: he gets into office. Mainly, the big pick yesterday was
Speaker 3: Paul Atkins. Trump intends to nominate him to lead the
Speaker 3: Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates cryptocurrency. And Atkins is
Speaker 3: a crypto advocate, a former SEC commissioner. He's expected to
Speaker 3: regulate cryptocurrency with a lighter touch than the former gentleman
Speaker 3: Gary Gensler.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Trump has become a fan of crypto on
Speaker 1: a political level. Why because his son Baron, who happens
Speaker 1: to be really smart, gave him. That gave Trump some
Speaker 1: very good political advice. And that is go after the
Speaker 1: young males. And that's a democratic that yeah, young white males,
Speaker 1: I might add, And part of it is crypto. They
Speaker 1: buy a lot of crypto. So he came out switch
Speaker 1: gears in favor of crypto in a big way. And
Speaker 1: anything that Trump says is a go with a lot
Speaker 1: of members of society in a big way. Trump supporters,
Speaker 1: that I said, are far more engaged than I've ever
Speaker 1: seen any political group of people get. So, you know
Speaker 1: that old saying that when the president sneezes, the.
Speaker 2: Whole world gets a cold.
Speaker 1: When President elect Trump sneezes, the whole world dies.
Speaker 2: Because he has that kind of influence.
Speaker 3: I hope that that's not true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I believe that certainly as a president elect.
Speaker 1: I have never seen any president elect have this much power.
Speaker 1: He has more power than Joe Biden does now and
Speaker 1: he has not been sworn in. I mean there is
Speaker 1: Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: Is he still an Angola?
Speaker 2: I don't even you know, I don't even know where
Speaker 2: he is.
Speaker 3: Well, he's been in Africa this week and all.
Speaker 2: I mean, here's the here's the point.
Speaker 1: I keep up with the news more than most because
Speaker 1: I have to, and I keep up with what's happening
Speaker 1: with President elect Trump every day because I now, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at what the future is going to bring
Speaker 1: for the next four years. I don't know where Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is. I have no ideaah uh go figure, this.
Speaker 3: Is just awful. Two kids are clinging for life. There's
Speaker 3: been a school shooting in Oroville, which is about an
Speaker 3: hour north of Sacramento. The two kids are boys, ages
Speaker 3: five and six. Someone showed up and started firing at
Speaker 3: the Feather River Adventist School in Oroville yesterday and then
Speaker 3: the guy killed himself. The kids are in extremely critical condition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great. He don't you wish he had killed himself first? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's another school shooter. Wait, we haven't had one of
Speaker 1: those stories in a while, have we.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's okay, Yeah, no kidding, that's okay, that's
Speaker 2: great news.
Speaker 3: Tennessee's ban may stand. The Supreme Court has listened to
Speaker 3: arguments about whether Tennessee's ban on miners using hormones and
Speaker 3: puberty blockers to do gender transitions will stand. And we're
Speaker 3: not going to get the official ruling for months, but
Speaker 3: court watchers are saying it appears that the Supreme Court
Speaker 3: will uphold the band. A majority of the conservative justices
Speaker 3: yesterday expressed concern about intervening in a national debate over
Speaker 3: whether transgender young people should have access to surgeries and treatments.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, not much as say, other than it's going
Speaker 1: to happen conservative court, you know, welcome to the world.
Speaker 1: We've a half thirty five years of a conservative court. Okay.
Speaker 3: So this story just keeps getting weirder. Hannah's family is
Speaker 3: speaking out. So, Hannah Kobayashi is the woman from Hawaii
Speaker 3: who was supposed to be going to New York. She
Speaker 3: had a layover or a stopover at lax back on
Speaker 3: November eighth. She never caught her connecting flight. She hasn't
Speaker 3: been seen since like the eleventh, except that LAPD is saying, oh,
Speaker 3: we saw her. She took her luggage and went across
Speaker 3: the border to Mexico. And now there are reports that
Speaker 3: she may have disappeared because she may have been in
Speaker 3: a secret marriage, and.
Speaker 1: Her family is not confirming denying. They're just saying we're
Speaker 1: not confirming, denying, and all the information we have we've
Speaker 1: turned over to the authorities. This story is getting really bizarre.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Amnesty internationals is Israel is committing genocide. They came
Speaker 3: out and said that they had gathered sufficient evidence to
Speaker 3: believe Israel's conduct during the war in Gaza amounts to
Speaker 3: genocide against the Palestinian people. They filed a nearly three
Speaker 3: hundred page report detailing evidence they've been gathering over the
Speaker 3: last nine months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a big report.
Speaker 1: A lot of people interviewed Amnesty International. It might be
Speaker 1: pro Palestinian, but I don't think it makes up facts.
Speaker 1: And they're accusing the initial Israel of straight out genocide
Speaker 1: and violations and the View and Genocide Convention. Mass killings
Speaker 1: civilians bodily or mental harm is given deliberately inflicting conditions
Speaker 1: of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction and
Speaker 1: whole or in part. Now, I don't believe that they
Speaker 1: are trying to do that. I don't believe they're targeting
Speaker 1: Palestinian civilians. I think they're going after Hamas and if
Speaker 1: Palestinian civilians get in the way, too bad, that is
Speaker 1: what I believe. That they're not going out of their way.
Speaker 1: They are stopping aid from coming in.
Speaker 2: That I believe.
Speaker 1: I believe that is a war crime, specifically stopping humanitarian
Speaker 1: aid and causing or allowing starvation to happen. That I believe.
Speaker 1: But the word genocide I think is overused because genocide
Speaker 1: is what the Nazis did, Genocide is what the Turks
Speaker 1: did in Armenia. And as for the purpose of wiping
Speaker 1: out a people, that is not happening.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're done at least the segment.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2: Six forty elmer.
Speaker 1: How does that song connect to the story. I don't
Speaker 1: quite get it. Maybe I'm missing something, Oh it didn't, Okay,
Speaker 1: just usually the music coming in connects to the story.
Speaker 1: This one is just Billy Joel singing piano. Man rich
Speaker 1: Is you know, it's a great story about Billy Joel.
Speaker 1: He wrote about the time he was a one of
Speaker 1: those lounge lizard pianists and I think in a bar
Speaker 1: here in North Hollywood, if I'm not mistaken, and he
Speaker 1: started he was one of those guys and he would
Speaker 1: write music and in the song said he's one of
Speaker 1: the customers, go what are you doing here?
Speaker 4: Was he too good?
Speaker 2: Yeah? That was it? Yeah, and he became Billy Joel.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be the coolest thing if you walked into
Speaker 3: just a little lounge and all of a sudden you
Speaker 3: hear somebody like that playing. I mean, there's good pianists
Speaker 3: at those little bars and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are, but Billy Joel. But before you knew
Speaker 2: who Billy Joel was at the true door.
Speaker 1: When Elton John first came out at the Troubadoor, you know,
Speaker 1: you could just walk in in his first concert, came
Speaker 1: from England and he blew everybody away. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of buzz about him. John Lennon was in the audience,
Speaker 1: I mean there was It was kind of interesting.
Speaker 3: I think those days are kind of gone, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: no kidding, too bad.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on more handle in the news
Speaker 1: with Amy and me. Neil is not here today.
Speaker 3: Well, Conan has a new leash on life. A judge
Speaker 3: in Burbank has ruled that a dog who bit a
Speaker 3: neighbor will not be euthanized and will be returned to
Speaker 3: its owners with some conditions. So back in July, Conan,
Speaker 3: who's an eight year old pitbull lab mix, apparently bit
Speaker 3: a neighbor. The owners had said that the neighbor was
Speaker 3: provoking him. The judge said now that what happened, the
Speaker 3: city ordered him euthanized. The owners challenged it, and the
Speaker 3: judge ruled yesterday that Conan is vicious, but says the
Speaker 3: city has not established a preponderance of evidence showing that
Speaker 3: Conan is a significant threat to public health. So he
Speaker 3: can go back to his owners, but there are conditions,
Speaker 3: like he has to wear a muzzle and a leash
Speaker 3: when he's out on walks.
Speaker 2: All right, So here's a takeaway.
Speaker 1: If you happen to own a pit bull and you
Speaker 1: happen to be here in Burbank and it eats a neighbor,
Speaker 1: and you asked the city to euthanize the dog.
Speaker 2: Nope, nope, no, ig're not going to do it.
Speaker 1: That's kind of interesting. You ever euthanized the dog or
Speaker 1: sent one to like, Yeah, they're just dangerous you call
Speaker 1: you know dogs or you know they're dangerous or they
Speaker 1: can be.
Speaker 3: There seems to be more to this story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I just told you I just put
Speaker 1: a dog down, you know, my little Gucci a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago, and it was it was tough.
Speaker 3: It's awful. I don't think it's you had somebody come
Speaker 3: out to.
Speaker 2: The house and yeah, I had a vet come out
Speaker 2: to the house. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's this nice one. They get used
Speaker 3: the nice by the city.
Speaker 2: No, no, it's not the same.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Heads are rolling. In South Korea, President Yun suck
Speaker 3: yule announced that he has accepted the resignation of his
Speaker 3: defense minister, which is the first member of his cabinet
Speaker 3: to lose his job since the president declared martial law
Speaker 3: that lasted I don't know about four hours. The defense
Speaker 3: minister said he considered himself to be responsible for the
Speaker 3: crisis that the martial law decree had created for mister
Speaker 3: Yun's government.
Speaker 2: Well we talked about that.
Speaker 1: That martial law lasted what six hours, and he's going
Speaker 1: to be impeached and he is going to lose his job.
Speaker 2: By the way, Yun suck Yule. Is that two people?
Speaker 3: No, that's one.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's go ahead and take a break. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, welcome back.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 4: six forty.
Speaker 1: All right, handle here and we finish shop Handle on
Speaker 1: the news on this Thursday morning, December the fifth, Amy O'Neil,
Speaker 1: he's out today, a little under the weather and me.
Speaker 3: Hot Santa has the ladies swooning' So Target has new
Speaker 3: ads out in which they have what they're calling a
Speaker 3: weirdly hot Santa Claus. His name is Chris K. He's
Speaker 3: Target's newest team member. He's in the holiday ads. Apparently
Speaker 3: he loves the holidays way more than the next guy.
Speaker 3: There's a few different ads, and of course they're going viral.
Speaker 3: They're saying that Chris K looks vaguely like the jolly
Speaker 3: old Elf, but in a more rugged, more muscular way.
Speaker 2: All have you seen I have not.
Speaker 3: I've just seen pictures of him because they just googled.
Speaker 3: I hadn't seen him until we were going to talk
Speaker 3: about this. But there's a fifteen second ad that's been
Speaker 3: it's gone viral, it'sewed more than seven million times.
Speaker 2: I've seen them. What do you think, big big fruit package.
Speaker 3: I don't think they should have been package.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's a little chunky. Okay, he looks like
Speaker 2: like a man's man. Well, there you are.
Speaker 3: France's epic fail. The French government has collapsed after Prime
Speaker 3: Minister Michel Barnier was ousted in a no confidence vote
Speaker 3: that came just three months after he was appointed by
Speaker 3: President Emanuel Macron and marks the first time the country's
Speaker 3: government has collapsed in a no confidence vote since nineteen
Speaker 3: sixty two.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, I mean in France, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty eight, for example, the students overturned the
Speaker 1: entire government.
Speaker 3: How does that happen?
Speaker 1: Because you get it's a parliamentary system and you can
Speaker 1: call for no infinite vote, they can call for snap
Speaker 1: elections where a prime minister. The term is four years
Speaker 1: for a PM, I think four or five years. But
Speaker 1: let's say the prime minister has a particularly good rating
Speaker 1: in a falling. Let's say the demographics are changing and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you have the prime minister, which
Speaker 1: is the one with real power. In France certainly not well,
Speaker 1: the president has the real power in France, and they're
Speaker 1: in parliamentary systems.
Speaker 2: You have the head of state.
Speaker 1: I can if the voting, they know that the votes
Speaker 1: in their favorite call a snap election.
Speaker 2: We want a new election right now. England does that
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 3: How do they get an election together? So quickly they do?
Speaker 2: They get an election very quickly. That's what they do.
Speaker 2: They're used to it, you.
Speaker 1: Know, campaigning in England, campaigning in England in six weeks.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be nice if that was here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's what they That's what they do,
Speaker 1: and it's really weird. Even the Prime minister is simply
Speaker 1: a member of Parliament in England, for example, and every term,
Speaker 1: a couple of year terms, the prime Minister has to
Speaker 1: be elected to its members like a councilperson has to
Speaker 1: be elected and goes up on stage. I remember pictures
Speaker 1: of Margaret Thatcher going up on stage running again for
Speaker 1: her position as a member of parliament.
Speaker 2: Straight out member of Parliament and.
Speaker 1: Then the leader is voted by the members of parliament
Speaker 1: and she's up there arguing why she should be elected.
Speaker 2: And anybody can run.
Speaker 1: You'll see one picture where someone dresses Abraham Lincoln was
Speaker 1: up there. There was someone in a tin hat that
Speaker 1: was running, you know, like crazy people that run. But
Speaker 1: the difference is they're up there on stage running against
Speaker 1: the real candidates.
Speaker 2: It's wild. The system anyway, France has fallen apart.
Speaker 3: Well, what happens when the French government They say it collapses,
Speaker 3: but I mean, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: Means that there has to be a new vote taken
Speaker 1: the government. The current government becomes a caretaker government and
Speaker 1: elections have to once again be organized yet and the
Speaker 1: same people will not be voted in because they were
Speaker 1: just voted out.
Speaker 2: It be fun to watch, Oh yeah, no, it's great fun.
Speaker 3: Right. It's toxic and it's everywhere. It's formaldehyde. A new
Speaker 3: analysis by pro Publica found that formaldehyde exposes everyone to
Speaker 3: elevated risk of developing cancer no matter where you live,
Speaker 3: including in your home. So formaldehyde, of course, it is
Speaker 3: used to preserve bodies and funeral homes.
Speaker 1: We all know that, yeah, and it causes a lot
Speaker 1: of damage to those bodies. You know that that's very
Speaker 1: dangerous to those bodies. It doesn't really matter, it's a
Speaker 1: health issue. Yeah, But it also binds particle boards and furniture.
Speaker 1: It's a building block in plastic.
Speaker 3: It's virtually everywhere, and nobody seems to be doing anything
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: Do you really it's crazy because it's so important to building.
Speaker 1: Do you remember Hurricane Katrina. FEMA bought thousands of these trailers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the little white trailers right.
Speaker 1: That were manufactured with plywood brought in from China, and
Speaker 1: it turned out that that plywood exceeded by a long
Speaker 1: shot the federal guidelines for formaldehyde, which is very high,
Speaker 1: very high, and the trailers couldn't be used. Thousands of
Speaker 1: them were empty formaldehyde. It's good, it's.
Speaker 3: Just not good for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct. Okay.
Speaker 3: Zep Bound is way better than wagovy. Eli Lilly, the
Speaker 3: maker of zep Bound, did a study did a head
Speaker 3: to head comparison of the two GLP one drugs, and
Speaker 3: it says its study shows that zep bound people lost
Speaker 3: forty seven percent more weight on average than those taking wagov,
Speaker 3: which is made by Novo Nordisk. So if you want
Speaker 3: to lose weight. According to the maker of zep bond,
Speaker 3: their product is the one to take.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now you have to take this with a little
Speaker 2: bit of grain of salt. Here. It's the company that
Speaker 2: produces it.
Speaker 1: They produced the data and these are clinical trial data.
Speaker 2: Clinical trials, not out there, and so.
Speaker 1: Okay, there may be some validity, but you have to
Speaker 1: know where it comes from for sure.
Speaker 2: We're done, guys. That's it for the news.
Speaker 1: Coming up, California bans the sell buy date on food.
Speaker 1: Neil and I have talked about this very often, but
Speaker 1: there is a change of coming and it is really helpful.
Speaker 1: This is where government comes in and I think does
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