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Speaker 2: Yes, I just wanted to clear no. No, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: No, I appreciate when I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: By the way, ladies and gentlemen, Neil will not be.
Speaker 2: With us anymore on this show. It was good. I
Speaker 2: It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 1: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Speaker 1: Bill handle.
Speaker 4: All right, everybody building up here on a Monday morning
Speaker 4: for twenty four My voice scenes a little bit raggedy.
Speaker 4: I am beep, sound like Mark Thompson. Don't I accept horrible.
Speaker 4: I'm a little under the weather.
Speaker 3: So here I am, and.
Speaker 4: I'll be sounding like I'm a little bit under the weather.
Speaker 4: Which is an interesting phrase in and of itself, because
Speaker 4: I have and ask this.
Speaker 3: Since we are all under the weather, every one.
Speaker 4: Of this on this planet, why when we are ill
Speaker 4: or not feeling well, we are particularly under the weather.
Speaker 2: It's a maritime term.
Speaker 5: It's you would go under the if you were ill,
Speaker 5: you'd go down into the ship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's down under the ships.
Speaker 2: Well, it's referred to under the weather.
Speaker 4: But it makes no sense. I mean the only thing
Speaker 4: that makes a lot of sense. If you're under the weather.
Speaker 4: If you're on let's say the sixth level, deep into
Speaker 4: a parking lot, you know, P six. There you are
Speaker 4: under the weather. But for the most part, we are
Speaker 4: all under the weather. It's very deep, very metaphysical matter
Speaker 4: of fact. And let's do that. Let's dump one of
Speaker 4: the one of our topics and talk about under the weather. No,
Speaker 4: let's not.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was gonna say, I'm no, y, what have
Speaker 2: you won? Mister Handle, you'll get it right away, mister Handle,
Speaker 2: here at your service, mister Handle.
Speaker 3: The good for you.
Speaker 4: Good morning, uh, Neil, you certainly have it right, uh,
Speaker 4: good morning, good morning, and good morning. You are very welcome.
Speaker 4: And then Michael Monks and for Amy this morning.
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, that's mellow and soft, and you know, just
Speaker 4: it's not gonna help you.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks the only one in radio with style.
Speaker 4: Michael Monks may be the only one in radio, right,
Speaker 4: the last the last man's Oh, it's.
Speaker 2: Very quite stylish, that guy.
Speaker 4: All right, So weekends, So what a beautiful weekend it
Speaker 4: was too, as you know, looking at the news, which
Speaker 4: I do on a religious basis, across the Eastern Seaboard,
Speaker 4: the snow, this storm, the number of people dying, people
Speaker 4: in New Orleans under twelve feet of snow or whatever.
Speaker 3: So crazy, crazy weather out there.
Speaker 4: And here we are zipping along at seventy seventy one
Speaker 4: seventy four shorts weather, just having a great time.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, beautiful indeed, Yeah, the earlier it's going to be,
Speaker 5: it's going to be continuing to be beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's beautiful today.
Speaker 4: When do we have another storm coming in or any
Speaker 4: kind of a front coming in that's going to disrupt
Speaker 4: our lovely weather.
Speaker 6: No, there's no weather to be under. I don't know
Speaker 6: how you got sick. It's so beautiful out there.
Speaker 4: YA don't either.
Speaker 2: I like rain.
Speaker 4: It's not so much sun. It's not over X. You
Speaker 4: get an st February, it's rain.
Speaker 2: You talking about STD.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there were a couple of conversations taking place there.
Speaker 4: And yeah, it's immediately I go to the bottom. What
Speaker 4: you're talking about? How wonderful the weather is I'm talking
Speaker 4: about I'm why I under the weather? No his TDS.
Speaker 4: No sex okay, what else? At least no sex with
Speaker 4: anybody else. So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know anyway, good morning, good morning, good.
Speaker 4: Morning one, Good morning all. On this lovely Monday morning.
Speaker 4: What do we have? We have some news year number three,
Speaker 4: if there were in Ukraine starts a kind of interesting
Speaker 4: anti Elon Musk stories from Trump loyalists, must says everybody,
Speaker 4: every federal worker by tonight midnight has to send to
Speaker 4: management what five things did he or she do during
Speaker 4: the week? What did you accomplish during the week? And
Speaker 4: Trump's backing that up. But Cash Patel, who would take
Speaker 4: a swan dive off of a parking structure if Trump
Speaker 4: told him to, is telling FBI do not fill the
Speaker 4: And you have other departments senior management. Trump appointees are
Speaker 4: telling the department don't fill those out.
Speaker 2: But this is what's interesting.
Speaker 5: You keep saying how these loyalists are going to be
Speaker 5: in lockstep, and then we keep doing stories about how
Speaker 5: they're not.
Speaker 4: This is the only story I can think of.
Speaker 2: No, there was another one where you had, gosh, what
Speaker 2: was it last week? Look at us.
Speaker 5: If we got a note saying that we got to
Speaker 5: remember five things from last week, I don't know that
Speaker 5: we could do it. Please name five meals you had
Speaker 5: last week.
Speaker 4: I can't, but I was watching with lindsay, I was
Speaker 4: watching something last night and it's casually up on the
Speaker 4: screen something happened since the Norman invasion.
Speaker 3: And I turned to her.
Speaker 4: I said ten sixty six Battle of Hastings, William the
Speaker 4: Conqueror versus Alfred the King.
Speaker 3: And she looked at me and said, of course, and
Speaker 3: then we went back to watching.
Speaker 2: Alfred the King just doesn't sound right. Alfred was king,
Speaker 2: just like like cone. It doesn't roll off the mouth.
Speaker 3: Alfred.
Speaker 4: He also got an He also got an arrow through
Speaker 4: his eyeballs, both of them. No, just one.
Speaker 3: Okay, you ready to do it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll do it.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Eastern Europe.
Speaker 6: It's the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and
Speaker 6: it comes at a time that US policy appears to
Speaker 6: be shifting on that war quite dramatically. In fact, President
Speaker 6: Trump has been highly critical of Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelensky,
Speaker 6: who now says he'd be willing to step down as
Speaker 6: president if Ukraine were granted membership to NATO. And so
Speaker 6: this seems like a significant announcement from that president in
Speaker 6: that country's quest to join that European alliance and that
Speaker 6: includes America.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to point something out. If you noticed
Speaker 4: that we bypassed now the news with Michael Monks, Neil
Speaker 4: and me lead story. Michael blew right past that, and
Speaker 4: Michael you went right into story number I think story
Speaker 4: number two.
Speaker 5: Sort of kind of Michael's defense though now we kind
Speaker 5: of chatted about the Musk gives.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no. We may have chatted.
Speaker 4: Chatting does not count like now lead story.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the forty eight hours would have been we would
Speaker 4: have put that all together. So Michael, who used to
Speaker 4: be the only man left in radio.
Speaker 2: Now I'm gone too.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah, okay, dancers that came out to
Speaker 5: that song, it's just all of.
Speaker 3: It and all that.
Speaker 4: Okay. So here we are, Muscu is federal workers forty
Speaker 4: eight hours.
Speaker 3: Did you say Zelensky is willing to step down?
Speaker 2: Michael, Yes, I did. That's that's where I am joined Natos.
Speaker 4: Okay. Later on, I'm going to talk about Putin in
Speaker 4: three years and what's going on in Ukraine and what
Speaker 4: Putin's biggest ally now is Trump. I mean, he is
Speaker 4: relying on Trump to win this war and continue on
Speaker 4: with his policies and maybe we are at real, real crossroads.
Speaker 4: A matter of fact, we are at crossroads. So two
Speaker 4: stories ago, it was lead story.
Speaker 3: And then Michael and now Neil.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put this back. I'm gonna put us back
Speaker 4: on track. Neil story numbers.
Speaker 5: Wow, Bill's gonna put us on tas correct.
Speaker 2: That's the scariest damn thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5: All Right, Germany election, Mertz claims victory for his Conservatives,
Speaker 5: and you have Chancellor Schultz, Shultz conceding defeat for his
Speaker 5: center left Social Democrats after what he called a bitter
Speaker 5: election result.
Speaker 4: She knows that Chancellor Schultz is very fat. And where's
Speaker 4: a World War two helmet?
Speaker 3: I saw nothing that's very dated. By the way, it's
Speaker 3: all Volcono, who is very.
Speaker 4: Young, still got it. Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he loves his Nazi television references.
Speaker 3: Don't we all know.
Speaker 2: That the San Burdu thing, the i E. They love.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Bottom line is right wing across Europe. Right wing
Speaker 4: is sweeping the elections. Man. Not only are we not
Speaker 4: only have we turned much more right wing, so is Europe.
Speaker 4: And there are a few reasons for that which certainly
Speaker 4: will cover.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're mess right now.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's all a mess, it's all you know, the world.
Speaker 3: The world is.
Speaker 4: A god awful mess.
Speaker 2: It's been a crazy year for air travel.
Speaker 6: We've had some pretty significant disasters, some other close calls,
Speaker 6: and now we've got American Airlines flight that was supposed
Speaker 6: to go from New York to New Delhi that ended
Speaker 6: up having to stop in Rome because of a bomb threat.
Speaker 6: Now nothing came of that, fortunately, But Bill, what does
Speaker 6: this do to people's feelings when a lot of folks
Speaker 6: are already scared to fly anyway?
Speaker 2: This can't be helping.
Speaker 3: I mean the good news.
Speaker 4: This threat really was a misinterpretation of a film critic
Speaker 4: talking about a recent movie.
Speaker 3: So you got to be very very careful these days.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: You know what's weird, though, most of the flight versions
Speaker 5: that we've heard have all been like somebody's drunk, or
Speaker 5: somebody's trying to open the door, or somebody's screaming there's
Speaker 5: someone in the back.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard a bomb threat in a long time.
Speaker 4: Now. This is scary, And I'll tell you why it's scary,
Speaker 4: not so much that it is a bomb threat, because
Speaker 4: it's not easy to put a bomb on an airplane. Anymore.
Speaker 4: Terroristly have a much more difficult time doing that when
Speaker 4: you could just rent a car or a truck and
Speaker 4: then plow into a group revelers at an event or
Speaker 4: downtown for example, during Marti Gras. It's we don't know
Speaker 4: where it came from. It was not off the airplane.
Speaker 4: We unspecified bomb threat that came through, was in an
Speaker 4: email that came through. So all now someone has to
Speaker 4: do coming in from a URL that cannot be traced
Speaker 4: through various countries, which can be done coming in from
Speaker 4: the dark web, And all of a sudden, here's your
Speaker 4: bomb threat, Flight ninety seven five coming into Charles at
Speaker 4: all to take it seriously, all yeah, which means that
Speaker 4: every plane up in the sky will be or half
Speaker 4: of them will be diverted. Scary stuff. Anyway, I landed
Speaker 4: at Rome. Landed at Rome. And by the way, the
Speaker 4: food is much better in Rome than it is in
Speaker 4: New Delhi.
Speaker 2: It's are you joking?
Speaker 4: I am joking?
Speaker 3: Indian food. I love Indian food.
Speaker 4: It's probably the most sophisticated cuisine on.
Speaker 2: The planet, absolutely absolutely layered.
Speaker 5: All right, cash Betel, Hey, everybody guess what not only
Speaker 5: was he sworn in his director of FBI. He's also
Speaker 5: been or some are saying that he's expected to be
Speaker 5: named as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
Speaker 5: and Explosives. So, you know, he was confirmed by the
Speaker 5: Senate Thursday as FBI Director, very slim margin, fifty one
Speaker 5: to forty nine, two Republican senators joining all Democrats and dissent,
Speaker 5: even though Handle keeps saying they're all in lockstep. But
Speaker 5: the ATF like the FBI, is an agency with the
Speaker 5: you know, within the Justice Department, more than fifty two
Speaker 5: hundred employees, a budget of approximately one point six billion dollars.
Speaker 4: Which is small. I mean that is small for a
Speaker 4: budget because you got it as the FBI, not very much.
Speaker 4: I mean it's big, but now certainly not what for example,
Speaker 4: the Healthy Human Services headed by Robert Kennedy, that's over
Speaker 4: one hundred billion dollars defense his budget is I think
Speaker 4: almost eight hundred billion dollars. I mean it is absolutely enormous.
Speaker 4: And Cash Patel is head of the FBI, is under
Speaker 4: Pam Bondi.
Speaker 3: He reports to her.
Speaker 4: And it's not unusual to have one person head of
Speaker 4: several departments. For example, Henry Kissinger was both Secretary of
Speaker 4: State and head of National Security. He also was headed
Speaker 4: Security Council, so it has happened before.
Speaker 5: Oh and our new program director not only oversees KFI
Speaker 5: but also the sports property.
Speaker 2: And I saw him washing cars, yeah downstairs.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, they're really moving downsizing.
Speaker 2: It is fair to say, all right, let's go back
Speaker 2: to Ukraine.
Speaker 6: And if you're wondering if we took a few steps
Speaker 6: closer to peace, it doesn't look like it, not yet.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 6: Here we are on the third anniversary of this all
Speaker 6: out invasion of Ukraine by Russia and talks of finding
Speaker 6: a piece finally, but Russia has just launched the largest
Speaker 6: drone attack against Ukraine since the entire war started. So
Speaker 6: nothing's slowing down their bill.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact.
Speaker 4: Later on, I'm going to do a story about Putin
Speaker 4: and the reality of what's going on, and none.
Speaker 3: Of it is very good at all.
Speaker 4: But some interesting stats I'm gonna throw up.
Speaker 5: At you, all right, more than nine hundred Californians, including
Speaker 5: fifteen children. Unfortunately, I have succumbed to the flu this season.
Speaker 5: It's turned out to be one hell of a flu season.
Speaker 5: Worst surges of the respiratory illness in years according to
Speaker 5: a report released just this last Friday by the California
Speaker 5: Department of Public Health. So about seven hundred and one
Speaker 5: of the those flu victims were over sixty four years
Speaker 5: of old of age. But you know, sixty four is
Speaker 5: nothing these days, and that tracks with, you know, what
Speaker 5: our conventional thought is with the illness disproportionately affecting older people.
Speaker 2: But this is a pretty hardcore flu season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it is.
Speaker 4: And now this is case in point about how the
Speaker 4: state of California is fighting the federal government because you
Speaker 4: have the State of California talking about how what the
Speaker 4: percentage is of those people who got the flu were
Speaker 4: vaccinated and were not, and as you would guess, the
Speaker 4: majority of people that.
Speaker 3: Got the flu were vaccinated.
Speaker 4: The Health and Human Services departments coming back and saying
Speaker 4: that every single one of those flu cases is caused
Speaker 4: by the flu vaccine. That's the only way you can
Speaker 4: get the flu is to get the vaccine.
Speaker 2: It's strange times living in Bill.
Speaker 3: Yes, thanks RFK.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and know also, if you take the flu vaccine,
Speaker 4: your head will explode. You remember the movie Scanners, one
Speaker 4: of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 5: One of the best special effects moments in all of
Speaker 5: film history.
Speaker 2: I just did they ever show that in three D?
Speaker 4: Always great, and they should and what they should do
Speaker 4: is throw some slime out at the audience from the
Speaker 4: stage the screen.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I was at I was chaperoning my son's third grade class,
Speaker 5: second grade class rather at the Imax theater at the
Speaker 5: Science Center, and we watched about Wales. It was really beautiful,
Speaker 5: but it was in three D. And nothing funnier than
Speaker 5: seeing a massive Imax theater filled with the second graders
Speaker 5: reach out to grab the stuff that's coming out of
Speaker 5: the screen at the same time. Pretty impressive, Pretty impressive.
Speaker 5: I highly recommend the experience.
Speaker 6: Well, we know that Evil has been tasked with finding
Speaker 6: government efficiency, and there have been a number of federal
Speaker 6: jobs that have been slashed across various departments, including the IRS,
Speaker 6: but also National Parks, and now folks are starting to
Speaker 6: feel these cuts directly because they like the parks. And
Speaker 6: it looks like there's a little bit of tiny bit
Speaker 6: of backtracking on some of these firing. So the National
Speaker 6: Park Service says that it plans to bring back about
Speaker 6: fifty of the folks who were fired, and they're going
Speaker 6: to hire thousands more seasonal workers than they typically do,
Speaker 6: about seventy seven hundred seasonal workers for the season.
Speaker 4: That's the stat that I find so interesting because in
Speaker 4: this era of firing everybody, they're actually bringing in twenty
Speaker 4: five hundred giver take more workers seasonal workers than they
Speaker 4: had over the last three years on average. So that's
Speaker 4: part timers, yeah, part timers seasonal because people go to
Speaker 4: the park in during the summertime, spring and summer. It's
Speaker 4: the only time I've ever gone to a national park,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 5: But we've done that too, and I've seen that with
Speaker 5: this company throughout the years that every once in a
Speaker 5: while there's layoffs and then some people will start to
Speaker 5: come back because they go up. We cut a little
Speaker 5: too tight. We'll see how that goes, all right. Anti
Speaker 5: ice activists they're patrolling. They've got like their own group.
Speaker 5: One group, Community Self Defense Coalition told KTLA that they've
Speaker 5: busted two raids so far, one in Alhambra and the
Speaker 5: other in San Fernando. And basically what they do is
Speaker 5: they keep an eye out for ice coming and then
Speaker 5: they let everybody know.
Speaker 4: And what happens do they all scatter? Well, it doesn't say,
Speaker 4: the story doesn't say what actually happens.
Speaker 3: Once people have been apprised, Hey here comes ice.
Speaker 5: Well they don't answer doors, they don't you know, there's
Speaker 5: a lot of things they suppose they could.
Speaker 3: Do, and people have been passed out. We talked about
Speaker 3: this the information cards.
Speaker 4: So those who are about to be picked up or
Speaker 4: are thinking they're going to be picked up, know their
Speaker 4: rights because it's for someone who is undocumented. Nothing is
Speaker 4: scarier than the authorities coming down.
Speaker 2: Oh, I couldn't imagine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, imagine this. They come from countries that are so corrupt.
Speaker 4: Not only you have the criminal element, you've got the banks,
Speaker 4: but the police are corrupt, and they're part and parcel
Speaker 4: of killing you, extorting you. I mean, it's just really
Speaker 4: brutal stuff, all right.
Speaker 6: All right, So, of course we know that eggs are
Speaker 6: very expensive right now, primarily because of bird flu, and
Speaker 6: it's only getting worse apparently, and it's so bad that
Speaker 6: the Border Patrol is seeing an increase in the amount
Speaker 6: of eggs being smuggled across the United States border from Mexico.
Speaker 6: So I guess Americans are trying to get their hands
Speaker 6: on those delay Mexican eggs in order to save a
Speaker 6: few bucks, but you're really not supposed to be bringing
Speaker 6: that type of product across either. So since they don't
Speaker 6: have as many illegal immigrants to stop, they are finding
Speaker 6: something else to crack down on.
Speaker 4: Uh huh, very good. Here's a question I have. This
Speaker 4: is not and this is Neil's wheelhouse. We're not talking
Speaker 4: about a dozen or five dozen eggs. We are talking about.
Speaker 3: Eighteen wheeler size egg cartons.
Speaker 4: I mean, Honda, there was what a hundred thousand pounds
Speaker 4: or one hundred thousand egg heist a couple of weeks ago. Heist.
Speaker 5: You know, it used to be when you walk down
Speaker 5: on Alvarado Street here in La you'd hear.
Speaker 2: Mota, Mota, how are you here, wes ls I usus.
Speaker 2: It's a different time, Bill, It's a different time.
Speaker 3: And we talked a little bit about it.
Speaker 4: When is when our egg is going to come back
Speaker 4: down to a reasonable.
Speaker 5: I don't think we're gonna see it anytime real soon.
Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of things that still need
Speaker 5: to happen. And as we talked about last week, you're
Speaker 5: talking about one hen egg laying hen per person in
Speaker 5: the United States to be at stable normal, And we
Speaker 5: were probably less than half that now, Okay, so we
Speaker 5: got a ways to go, all right. Israel's military deployment
Speaker 5: tanks deployed tanks Sunday into the occupied West Bank. That's
Speaker 5: the first time in more than two decades that you've
Speaker 5: had tanks roll through the West Bank. And this is
Speaker 5: all part of Operation Iron Wall military campaign focused on
Speaker 5: the northern West Bank, which launched last month, so just
Speaker 5: two days after the Gaza ceasefire began. Of course, you've
Speaker 5: got you know, Ghausians saying that this is an active
Speaker 5: aggression as well.
Speaker 3: As well is an active aggression.
Speaker 4: Israel's moving the other On the other hand, Israel is
Speaker 4: not taking any of this anymore. For example, the reason
Speaker 4: the war may come into being again, one of the
Speaker 4: reasons Israel is saying there's violations of course that Hamas
Speaker 4: has done, and Hamas is accusing Israel. But also they said,
Speaker 4: you stop what you're doing and releasing those prisoners, putting
Speaker 4: them up on stage, surrounding them by Hamas fighters. In
Speaker 4: one case, everybody waves and they're happy. In one of
Speaker 4: the cases, she actually kissed the fighter next to her.
Speaker 4: One of the hasages being released, kissed them on the forehead.
Speaker 4: I mean just really crazy stuff. They're making it a
Speaker 4: huge propaganda campaign that they're doing and Israel and says
Speaker 4: you stop that, You're not going to do that anymore.
Speaker 3: Now the question do they continue to do that? And
Speaker 3: we don't know.
Speaker 4: Also the hostages, those bodies that are released, every one
Speaker 4: of those bodies were killed by Israeli bombs in air attacks. Everyone,
Speaker 4: Israel says everyone of those bodies, the autopsy, the forensics
Speaker 4: have shown they were murdered. Have not seen evidence from
Speaker 4: either side. The Israeli authorities are not releasing those autopsy results,
Speaker 4: which immediately say, come on, guys, when you're making the accusation,
Speaker 4: if you have the evidence, you would think it would
Speaker 4: be provided.
Speaker 3: Not necessarily pictures.
Speaker 4: I get it of children of the baby, for example,
Speaker 4: a nine month old being killed. But if there's evidence there,
Speaker 4: you would think it would be released. By the way,
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm just speculating here. Certainly, I'm not
Speaker 4: a coroner, although I do play one on radio.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, look, if you're a government employee who just
Speaker 6: lost your job, there might be a new opportunity coming.
Speaker 2: At Apple at some point.
Speaker 6: Also related to decisions, possibly by President Trump, his tariffs
Speaker 6: on Chinese imports, and certainly those threats of more tariffs
Speaker 6: have motivated Apple, as in Apple Computers to invest half
Speaker 6: e well no, five hundred billion dollars in facilities here
Speaker 6: in the US, and the company says it will create
Speaker 6: twenty thousand jobs. So Bill, is that Trump's economic policy
Speaker 6: working well?
Speaker 3: Certainly in this case it is now.
Speaker 4: The argument was long term they were going to do
Speaker 4: this anyway, because even Biden had programs to bring jobs back,
Speaker 4: not to this extent, of course. And this story out
Speaker 4: of CNN says that while this is happening, foreign production,
Speaker 4: that is, investment in countries.
Speaker 3: Like Cambodia Vietnam are.
Speaker 4: Increasing dramatically because the price of labor is so much cheaper.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, Pope Francis, this is a rough story because
Speaker 5: it keeps going back and forth.
Speaker 2: His condition is not great.
Speaker 5: According to the Vatican, blood tests showing mild signs of
Speaker 5: kidney failure. I'm assuming that's what creatnin or whatever. I
Speaker 5: should know this, considering my kidneys suck. They say it's
Speaker 5: currently under control. But he's eighty eight years old and
Speaker 5: he battle he's battling pneumonia in both his lungs.
Speaker 2: I thought he only had one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he has pneumonia and the lung that he
Speaker 4: no longer has. I don't know where that Where is
Speaker 4: that lung by the way that you can cat that
Speaker 4: has pneumonia?
Speaker 2: What do you mean where is it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Because it's the lung he doesn't have.
Speaker 4: He has pneumonia.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe it's just he has too long.
Speaker 4: He actually has one lobe that is gone, much like
Speaker 4: one of your lobes that is simply not there.
Speaker 2: Okay, he named it, Lisa, He's a lobe. Can I
Speaker 2: get a what?
Speaker 4: What? No?
Speaker 2: One? Okay, all right, I get the reference. I get
Speaker 2: the reference. Okay.
Speaker 5: So he's been hospitalized for over a week, not shown
Speaker 5: further respiratory crisis since yesterday evening, and I hope him
Speaker 5: quick recovery.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think I shared with you on Friday.
Speaker 4: I was out to dinner with a bunch of friends
Speaker 4: and there was a fire that broke off in the distance,
Speaker 4: and it was black smoke that was billowing from the fire,
Speaker 4: and I turned to them, I went, no new pope,
Speaker 4: which was appreciated for those that appreciate the enclave and
Speaker 4: how they elect popes and every day they count the
Speaker 4: votes the conclave. Yeah, conclave.
Speaker 2: He saidclave.
Speaker 4: Oh, then it's an enclave also of the conclave and
Speaker 4: the conclave together. I think it's a verb and and
Speaker 4: aun and it's an the Sistine Champel it and there
Speaker 4: they go.
Speaker 5: You know, the only thing I think about when I
Speaker 5: think about the Sistine Chapel is Silencio.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: There's some great stories about popees that.
Speaker 4: Very well now little known. You know, there's a woman
Speaker 4: pope that was elected. You know that there was a
Speaker 4: woman pope at one time. The it was in the
Speaker 4: fourteenth centuries, fifteenth centuries, and they didn't know it.
Speaker 3: They didn't know it, which is why.
Speaker 4: And here's another factoid, which is why when a new
Speaker 4: pope is elected, they actually checked to see if he
Speaker 4: has balls or not.
Speaker 3: That is true, by the way.
Speaker 4: You know, look it up under balls conclave on the
Speaker 4: work computer to google pope's balls. I'm going to look
Speaker 4: at this, right, you'll find out what you do why, well,
Speaker 4: you do.
Speaker 3: Will vote more votes.
Speaker 4: I'm going to do this.
Speaker 3: Pope's balls.
Speaker 2: They have to check the goods.
Speaker 4: I just want. Yeah, they do pope's balls.
Speaker 2: Wow. Can you not say that over and over again?
Speaker 6: Scking, I think there was a pope balls in the
Speaker 6: sixteenth century.
Speaker 2: Up balls the second.
Speaker 3: That's very fun.
Speaker 4: Come on, upon election, let's check this out. Uh yeah, legends,
Speaker 4: but we're the metaful posts examin on you.
Speaker 3: Is that's true, Pope Joan?
Speaker 4: Uh the use of a marble chair with a large
Speaker 4: toilet like, yeah, yeah, there it is. Does does the
Speaker 4: pope the testicles before he takes office?
Speaker 3: Yes, Pope Joan?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, none of them knew.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, and there it is pontificus testiculum one dex
Speaker 4: or are you decks?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's there?
Speaker 4: Is that a weird one?
Speaker 2: Well, you want a weird one? Look up?
Speaker 5: Look up the origins to testify? No, what's that?
Speaker 2: That's I've a he googled one terrible thing.
Speaker 4: Here do you swear to tell the truth? Well, and
Speaker 4: then you grab your guy, you grab your yards.
Speaker 5: Well, yes, yes, that's what you used to do when
Speaker 5: you testified in Roman. I think the Romans did that.
Speaker 5: And then yeah, so when you testify your teste phi Yeah,
Speaker 5: oh boy, not bad. We're talking about balls so much
Speaker 5: we might as well be the Gary and Shannon show.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's talk about baseballs.
Speaker 4: And uh.
Speaker 2: Are for kids? So we used to be a proper.
Speaker 6: Country but now the Yankees are dropping their ban on
Speaker 6: beards forty nine years after owner George Steinbrenner said no
Speaker 6: facial hair on the pin stripes. So what does that
Speaker 6: say about America's decadence and declining standards?
Speaker 2: Still, Oh, beard's like his face? I thought it was
Speaker 2: like a gay thing.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, no style.
Speaker 4: On the field.
Speaker 3: Who are not really ballplayers?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 3: I actually I think we we we have one more
Speaker 3: and we're gonna do it right on time.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: So, if you're in another country and you're taking an Uber,
Speaker 5: there's a feature called preferred currency pricing. It allows you
Speaker 5: to see the cost in your home country's money, and
Speaker 5: some are saying be careful about this because there's a
Speaker 5: little bit of a catch. There will be a fixed
Speaker 5: one point five conversion conversion fee applied automatically if you
Speaker 5: use that service. What you want to do is, if
Speaker 5: you're using a credit card, is check if your credit
Speaker 5: card charges you, because they will make the conversion as well.
Speaker 5: Sometimes they don't charge at all. Sometimes they have a
Speaker 5: three percent fee in which in which be cheaper to
Speaker 5: use the Uber. But if you have a way to
Speaker 5: convert it, you can save yourself that one point five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, on a thirty five dollars fare. Its fifty cents
Speaker 4: all look at you money bags. Yeah, well yeah, the
Speaker 4: old fifty cents going up. Now Here is a little
Speaker 4: piece of advice when you travel and you buy something overseas,
Speaker 4: and they always give you a choice whenever you're buying
Speaker 4: something in retail or a hotel, that is, do you
Speaker 4: want to pay in dollars, you want to pay in
Speaker 4: local currency?
Speaker 3: You always go for dollars.
Speaker 4: Because with the currency there's another charge for a currency
Speaker 4: transaction when it goes from currency to foreign currency to dollars.
Speaker 3: And they and they give you the choice. Okay, we
Speaker 3: are done. KF I am sixty.
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