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Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Oh god, the thought of a stuffed dead dog that
Speaker 1: you loved walking around via a remote control is beyond,
Speaker 1: I mean beyond delicious. And now handle on the news,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle. Good morning everybody, Friday,
Speaker 1: December thirteenth, Friday the thirteenth, and we're going to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about that throughout the show. Yes, and
Speaker 1: Neil behind him, of course, puts all these graphics. I
Speaker 1: wish we could share these because this is what Jason
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken with the mask right, the the
Speaker 1: hockey mask and dressed in a in Santa Claus outfit.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Mary, Yes, exactly so. But Friday is
Speaker 1: four Friday at thirteenth. I've always loved Friday at thirteenth.
Speaker 1: I'm not super sistous at all, but I have to
Speaker 1: tell you, every year I go out and I get
Speaker 1: a black cat, I put it under a ladder and
Speaker 1: I kill it with broken mirror shards. What what is
Speaker 1: wrong with you? Plenty?
Speaker 2: He was not loved or hugged as a child.
Speaker 1: I was of glass I was. No, it has to
Speaker 1: be mirror sharks. I was. I was hugged too hard
Speaker 1: as a child. My father was arrested for that because
Speaker 1: it went beyond hugging.
Speaker 2: In any case, you know, someone left a message, some
Speaker 2: young lady left a message on the talk back yesterday
Speaker 2: that she hated me because I was mean to you.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, uh yeah. I asked Anne yesterday in
Speaker 1: her travails and her meeting people, how many people actually
Speaker 1: think I'm as big a dick as I as I
Speaker 1: come off? Yeah? Pretty much everyone.
Speaker 2: You're actually very generous and kind. Now filtered, you just
Speaker 2: are unfiltered. You kind of says, old, it's it's all.
Speaker 1: No, it's not just unfiltered. I mean there's a deep
Speaker 1: seated hatred of you and the world around me and me.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a basically your self loathing jew. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just that simple.
Speaker 2: You are the seven year old boy with the big
Speaker 2: forehead that walks up to people and go you're fat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And can I describe this morning what we talked
Speaker 1: about the Christmas tree? Is that inappropriate?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 4: How we?
Speaker 1: Anne asked me, Uh, do I have a Christmas tree
Speaker 1: coming up? And now that yeah, I did. Yeah. Now
Speaker 1: I'm with a shiksa goddess of love here. Well not particularly,
Speaker 1: but it's visually very strong. So yeah, I got a
Speaker 1: Christmas tree and we're doing a honka thing also, so
Speaker 1: uh sort of hit both. And what I want to
Speaker 1: do is, instead of a little angel on top of
Speaker 1: the tree, is to uh put a crucifix uh of
Speaker 1: you know, doing the you know, Jesus being crucified, and
Speaker 1: then a little model of the juice selling nails right
Speaker 1: next to it. And she said that was a little tough.
Speaker 1: I think that's uh neil, of all that you could
Speaker 1: do that you could do that for me, I mean,
Speaker 1: because you're so good at this. I think that'd be
Speaker 1: a great little figuring above the Christmas tree.
Speaker 2: I can't hear you over the popping crackling of the fire.
Speaker 1: That's what I said.
Speaker 2: He's going to burn. He's going to n.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, anyway, enough of me, Enough of me
Speaker 1: to talking about how great I am. All Right, this
Speaker 1: self aggrandizing.
Speaker 2: You are going to be burning, and it's going to
Speaker 2: be so loud in hell that Jesus is going to
Speaker 2: stomp on the floor and go keep it down down there. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's allowed you will be all right?
Speaker 1: Fair enough, all right, let me say good morning to everybody,
Speaker 1: because it's a Friday, the thirteenth. We're going to have
Speaker 1: great fun we do on Friday first Cono. Good morning.
Speaker 1: Hey God, everybody's wearing like shirts that have written things
Speaker 1: on them. I can't see what that says.
Speaker 2: Just an astros and give to me an astros.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Amy, you're that's so funny? Amy you're wearing
Speaker 1: is right? What go ahead?
Speaker 2: Amy? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I'm wearing a Disney hoodie that Anne gave me for
Speaker 5: Christmas last year.
Speaker 2: So the both one of my Christmas gifts. Why are
Speaker 2: there trying to remind me? This is what I got
Speaker 2: last year?
Speaker 1: What am I getting this year?
Speaker 5: Maybe that's it?
Speaker 1: And Neil has got all of you and got Neil
Speaker 1: that too. Jeez.
Speaker 2: This is a shirt that Ann had nothing to do
Speaker 2: with because I wasn't on the show last year. This
Speaker 2: spirit Halloween shirt.
Speaker 1: Oh okay. And Anne, you're just wearing your normal green
Speaker 1: thing that you wear.
Speaker 2: Oh no, she's wearing the bra I got her.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, excellent.
Speaker 2: A it's a a sweater?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: Why is it a thing you ever seen? You know
Speaker 1: they do. I'm thinking of doing bras for conjoined Jews
Speaker 1: so they can wear to you know, to a synagogue
Speaker 1: and they're together with the brass yamaka. It's never mind,
Speaker 1: it's a visual too. I have no idea where you're going.
Speaker 2: I totally visualized that. I'm sorry, but I understand Bill.
Speaker 2: After thirty years conjoined Jews wearing a bra as yamakas.
Speaker 2: That's actually funny. Oh thank you. I think that's what
Speaker 2: threw the curveball.
Speaker 1: Okay, one other thing I have to before we start
Speaker 1: the news, and I sent this to ConA. I'm going
Speaker 1: to play it for you. Justin Wersham, who was our kono.
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago or three years ago, is
Speaker 1: there was a news story about one of those stools
Speaker 1: that you sit on in the shower, and it was well,
Speaker 1: it had to do with a man who was sitting
Speaker 1: on one of those and had some real physical problems
Speaker 1: because there were holes in the stools too, I guess
Speaker 1: for air to circulate. And the stool was made. It
Speaker 1: was a Swedish stool, and so let's just play that.
Speaker 1: Because I go through my old stuff and this I
Speaker 1: happened to go ahead and I listened to this and
Speaker 1: it was one of the funniest things that ever occurred
Speaker 1: on this show. And this was justin doing it. So
Speaker 1: this was during the news. Okay, Cono play it please.
Speaker 4: Jordi Sad Norway bought one of these stools that you
Speaker 4: put in the shower. These plans take stools from Ikia
Speaker 4: and if you look at a picture of the stools,
Speaker 4: it has fairly large holes around the stool on top. Well,
Speaker 4: what ended up happening is one of his testicular parts
Speaker 4: got stuck in one of the holes when the hot
Speaker 4: water caused the ball to expand.
Speaker 6: Yeah, to address that, they released a PSA.
Speaker 3: I found it on the internet.
Speaker 2: If you guys want to hear it.
Speaker 3: Sure would like to encourage caution and using the Marias
Speaker 3: stool aka meatball calendar. If used in the shower, it
Speaker 3: is possible for one or more of your meatballs to
Speaker 3: descend through the hole.
Speaker 6: Extra caution if you have an extra sad sack of
Speaker 6: meatballs like Bill handle you Aikia caring for your meatballs
Speaker 6: since nineteen forty three.
Speaker 2: I lost Oh my god, I al Calander.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I absolutely lost it. This was We've done some
Speaker 1: fun stuff on this show.
Speaker 2: He's a very funny man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Justin is a very funny guy. Okay, so you
Speaker 1: know what, we have a fair amount of news to
Speaker 1: pick up on this Friday, and.
Speaker 5: You would such the last.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we wouldn't know that for ten minutes. What the hell,
Speaker 1: It's Friday. So let's have a rip roaring good time.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. Time for Handle on the
Speaker 1: News with Amy Neil and me. Lead story. Well, the
Speaker 1: Franklin fire is still going on, but it's all relatively
Speaker 1: good news. Containment now reaches thirty thirty percent, only four
Speaker 1: thousand acres, but it's Malibu and Malibu has a history
Speaker 1: of fires and the homes are all a trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: So and then you have major stars, public personalities. Big
Speaker 1: star about Dick van Dyck who thought he lost his
Speaker 1: cat and turned out the cat is safe and became
Speaker 1: international news. Go figure that one out, by the way,
Speaker 1: last year with Dick Van Dyke, I do I amc
Speaker 1: the Lawyer's Philharmonic Orchestra, as you know, I do it
Speaker 1: every year. Last year was it last year or the
Speaker 1: year before? Dick Van Dyke, at ninety eight was performing
Speaker 1: and he did a terrific job. I mean, it looks
Speaker 1: really good for ninety nine. You think he still sings,
Speaker 1: he still dances, I mean, obviously not the old Dick
Speaker 1: van Dyke, but you go, wow. So anyway, incredibly talented,
Speaker 1: very very talented.
Speaker 2: Did you mention it was his birthday? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't. I asked him how much, you know, I
Speaker 1: asked him how much he got when he was doing
Speaker 1: the Dick Van Dyke show, what he was being paid?
Speaker 1: She did, of course, I did seven hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: bucks a week. He just told you, flat out, flat out.
Speaker 1: I always asked that was probably a lot of money
Speaker 1: back then, Well it was. I sent a million dollars
Speaker 1: an episode.
Speaker 5: Like the Friends stars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but in those days, the stars of shows had
Speaker 1: no power whatsoever. They were straight out employees. I wonder
Speaker 1: what had no say in anything?
Speaker 2: What was a season back then? Now it's like twenty.
Speaker 1: A season back then was twenty. But this was only
Speaker 1: his first year, and then of course it went out
Speaker 1: blah blah because it was just a brand new show,
Speaker 1: and people got nothing for brand new shows. It was
Speaker 1: I think twenty two, twenty four. No, I think it
Speaker 1: was thirty something episodes per season.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was crazy. Amy.
Speaker 5: Amazon is, as Bill would say, taking a knee for
Speaker 5: Trump or kissing the ring.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 5: Amazon's planning to donate a million dollars to President elect
Speaker 5: Trump's inauguration. Jeff Bezos, the founder, is expected to visit
Speaker 5: with Trump in person in the next few days. Meta
Speaker 5: confirmed on Wednesday that it had donated a million dollars
Speaker 5: to the inaugural fund, just two weeks after CEO Mark
Speaker 5: Zuckerberg met with Trump privately at mar A Lago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you're businessmen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have to. And by the way, it's not
Speaker 1: just kissing the ring and bending the knee. It's also
Speaker 1: getting it where the sun don't shine.
Speaker 2: Listen, it's business. It is business.
Speaker 5: Remember when Trump was first running and everybody was like,
Speaker 5: you donated to the Democrats, and he goes, I'm a businessman,
Speaker 5: right right, It's true because I donated to everybody, and
Speaker 5: the people that.
Speaker 1: He hated he ripped into. As long as they say
Speaker 1: I now believe in Trump, he believes in them.
Speaker 2: You know, the minute someone is a Republican and then
Speaker 2: becomes an independent, the news always refers to them as
Speaker 2: former Republican. No one ever refers to Trump as former Democrat,
Speaker 2: and he was a Democrat for a long time.
Speaker 1: That's right, he was a registered Democrat in the seventies.
Speaker 1: That's correct.
Speaker 2: It's I don't know, yeah, it just is what it is,
Speaker 2: all right. Over draft fees, we all hate them, and
Speaker 2: this is one of the things that I like that
Speaker 2: the Biden administration is doing. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Speaker 2: has finalized this rule. It's going to curb excessive overdraft fees.
Speaker 2: So they're going to make it like five bucks, cap
Speaker 2: it at five bucks rather than the thirty five dollars
Speaker 2: that is typical. And they say this is a potential
Speaker 2: saving savings to customers as much as five billion dollars.
Speaker 1: YEP. I find it kind of interesting interesting that it's
Speaker 1: happening right now at the end of a Biden administration
Speaker 1: and through an Obama administration of eight years that Biden
Speaker 1: was Vice president, and you go really the last month
Speaker 1: of the Biden administration, you've got the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
Speaker 1: which by the way, is controlled by the Federal by
Speaker 1: the Feds the executive Branch, but it has been it
Speaker 1: is absolutely a shanda, a shame to the biggest level
Speaker 1: that banks are allowed to charge thirty five dollars over
Speaker 1: Ja'll take it if you take you if you get
Speaker 1: overcharged by two dollars, if you go over by two bucks,
Speaker 1: and they cover it as a thirty five dollar fee.
Speaker 5: Let the resignations begin the first. First of all, we
Speaker 5: had the FBI director announced that he is going to
Speaker 5: step down, and now the head of the FAA has
Speaker 5: also announced he is going to resign before President elect
Speaker 5: Trump takes office. The head of the FAA has been
Speaker 5: under a lot of taking a lot of heat since
Speaker 5: Boeing blew a panel off. And then also they are
Speaker 5: working with antiquated equipment. They have a shortage of air
Speaker 5: traffic controllers, while you know, consumer demand is very high.
Speaker 5: But he says he's going to step down next month,
Speaker 5: which clears the way for President elect Trump to name
Speaker 5: his choice for fa Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know how political is this going to be.
Speaker 1: Is this one of those positions where it's going to
Speaker 1: go to a loyalist And I don't know because usually
Speaker 1: in this case, for example, Whittaker has a long history
Speaker 1: of aviation and administration, has been the field most of
Speaker 1: his life. So I don't know. Are we going to
Speaker 1: get a loyalist who's an entire credentials are that he
Speaker 1: was once on an airplane and therefore he's head of
Speaker 1: the FAA.
Speaker 2: Now he likes making paper airplanes.
Speaker 1: I'm not no accusations here, mind you, but this is
Speaker 1: one of those things where you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: that in many cases, President Trump really cares. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to leave it up to the experts on
Speaker 1: this one. If he does name someone, I'm just guessing here.
Speaker 5: Have we heard any rumblings like we had heard he
Speaker 5: wanted to replace the FBI director?
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, this came out of the blue.
Speaker 1: So maybe the guy just doesn't like that came out
Speaker 1: of the wild, blue yonder.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, there's some people. If they were going to
Speaker 2: come and be my boss, I'd probably tap out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gone, all.
Speaker 1: Right, I can yeah, I can agree that. Okay, shut up,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: The family of Hannah Kobayashi, a strange story, recently found
Speaker 2: safe after being reported missing in Los Angeles last month.
Speaker 2: The family is doing the right thing. They're offering a
Speaker 2: refund of those who donated to an online fundraiser during
Speaker 2: the search. They got up to so over eight hundred
Speaker 2: donors raised more than forty seven.
Speaker 1: Hey, and I have a question. You are that's true?
Speaker 1: How much does go fundme take percentage wise? Good?
Speaker 2: Quick?
Speaker 1: Any idea and I'll tell you why I asked that.
Speaker 2: Because you might be able to pay the fees too.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Do they refund the fees
Speaker 1: that go fundme takes when money goes in?
Speaker 5: It's a two point nine percent? How much two point
Speaker 5: nine percent plus thirty cents per donation?
Speaker 1: Okay? So are they thirty cents? Okay? So three percent?
Speaker 1: That's that's not the end of the world. That's fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: But and then thirty cents times two.
Speaker 1: Hundred and forty bucks, right, Yeah, I mean it's not
Speaker 1: the end of the world. But you know, good for
Speaker 1: them for coming to the table on that one.
Speaker 2: As you say, a weird story.
Speaker 1: Hey, and now that.
Speaker 5: We know she's okay, we can say that. Every time
Speaker 5: I hear this story, I think of Star Trek. Why
Speaker 5: why the Kobayashi marud the test that nobody could fit,
Speaker 5: that nobody could beat and Kirk beat it. Oh, it
Speaker 5: was at all of the Star Trek movies.
Speaker 1: Wow, I had no idea you were that much of
Speaker 1: a Star Trek nerd. That's great.
Speaker 2: Beat me on that one. Yeah, I already think of
Speaker 2: hot dog eating contests.
Speaker 1: Also very strong. Yeah, and hot dog eating contest won
Speaker 1: by a guy who weighs one hundred and thirty pounds
Speaker 1: soaking wet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I guess that overshadowed. But that's a good pull, Amy, Well,
Speaker 2: good for you. All right, this is depressing.
Speaker 5: More than two hundred and thirty three thousand bottles of
Speaker 5: an antidepressant have been recalled by public health officials. The
Speaker 5: US Food and Drug Administration classified capsules of deloxetine, sold
Speaker 5: by Rising Pharmaceuticals is a Class two risk, the risk
Speaker 5: level in the FBA FDA's second most severe level, as
Speaker 5: they say it could temporarily or medically reversible adverse health consequences.
Speaker 1: Yeah, risk of cancer with an antidepressants. First time I
Speaker 1: heard that. So if you take this and you get cancer,
Speaker 1: you really don't care.
Speaker 2: Like, oh me, oh my, what about who else? Let's
Speaker 2: see handle your on antidepressants?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, heavy ones, any heavy else? Lamictol? I take it?
Speaker 1: Oh cono on antidepressants.
Speaker 2: Wow, all the guys. Oh yeah, and don't to us.
Speaker 1: I remember my kids were in school and Barbara needed
Speaker 1: she was she needed some help in that regard, and
Speaker 1: we're going to go to school and tell her. And
Speaker 1: Marjorie said, we can't tell the school. I oh, you
Speaker 1: have to tell the school. Yeah, but it'll be in
Speaker 1: the file that you know. It's horrible. She has antidepressants.
Speaker 1: We can't let them know. I go, you have to
Speaker 1: let them know. So she goes there and we go
Speaker 1: to the school and really embarrassingly, we say she is
Speaker 1: on antidepressants, and the nurse said, yeah, sixty percent of
Speaker 1: our students are. Okay, we're done.
Speaker 2: She went to the doctor. The doctor said, well, maybe
Speaker 2: a new dad might help.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well even the doctor was on antidepressants. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: move on.
Speaker 2: Take some of mine, all right, Stanley the Big Cup Craze,
Speaker 2: their mugs are everywhere. Now this is a particular one
Speaker 2: of their particular styles. D only issue a recall a
Speaker 2: two point six million of these popular drink wears switchback
Speaker 2: and trigger action stainless steel travel mugs. So they've got
Speaker 2: a defect and they're worried about burns. So what happens
Speaker 2: is the lid and the threads on the lid they
Speaker 2: shrink when exposed to heat and torque and that means
Speaker 2: the lid can pop off, posing a burn hazard if
Speaker 2: you have something, you know, one hundred and forty degrees
Speaker 2: or above, so.
Speaker 1: You gets don't play hockey if you have a Stanley
Speaker 1: Is that not Stanley cup?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Come on, it was a stretch, A stretch I'm allowed.
Speaker 1: They can't all work. Matter of fact, very few of
Speaker 1: them work.
Speaker 2: Some of them work, very few, occasionally.
Speaker 5: Beefing up the bennies. The Senate is pushing to vote
Speaker 5: on legislation that would provide full social security benefits to
Speaker 5: millions of people, setting up potential passage in the final
Speaker 5: days of the lame Duck Congress. So it's called the
Speaker 5: Social Security Fairness Act, and it would eliminate policies that
Speaker 5: limit social Security payouts to about two point eight million people.
Speaker 5: And those people are people who receive a pension from
Speaker 5: a job that is not covered by Social Security and
Speaker 5: surviving spouses of social security recipients who receive a government
Speaker 5: pension of their own.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are certain parts of social Security that sort
Speaker 1: of miss. It's really complicated stuff. And so this one
Speaker 1: they're going ahead and I just I guess plugging the hole.
Speaker 1: And they've been asked about this a lot of people
Speaker 1: in the millions that have been pushing for this for
Speaker 1: a very long time because they're screwed. You asked them
Speaker 1: out of Social Security benefits. By the way, that of
Speaker 1: course adds to the trillions of dollars of deficit that
Speaker 1: we're going to have.
Speaker 2: All Right, Canada says, you're a boot to feel my wrath.
Speaker 2: Canada could retaliate against President elect Donald Trump, who is
Speaker 2: threatening tariffs, and they say we're going to shut down
Speaker 2: energy flows to the United States. So now you're looking
Speaker 2: at what's that New York State, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: The whole Northeast gets most of his power from Canada.
Speaker 1: If this thing, if these tariffs tariffs go through, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be retaliatory tariffs and we're going to be in
Speaker 1: a full scale trade war. And if you don't think
Speaker 1: that's going to affect our prices.
Speaker 2: Are we just going to annex them? I'm just going
Speaker 2: to say, Okay, there's a lot of people that would
Speaker 2: love to be members of the big states of the
Speaker 2: United States.
Speaker 1: You got people in Newfoundland which are called New Fees Labrador,
Speaker 1: which that's those guys are all well, you can say
Speaker 1: they're never mind. I was going to do another one
Speaker 1: of those that you were going to ask A bad joke. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: another bad joke. But the point is it's going to
Speaker 1: be a full scale trade war if President elect Trump
Speaker 1: goes ahead and pops in those those terrorists, which you
Speaker 1: can't I mean, he can wake up in the morning,
Speaker 1: goes I think we're gonna throw thirty percent tariff on
Speaker 1: China or whatever country. It's gonna it's gonna be nuts
Speaker 1: because certain things they can't do because we buy so much,
Speaker 1: they buy so much from us, it's pretty nuts. It's
Speaker 1: gonna go crazy. And I don't and by the way,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't think Trump
Speaker 1: is going to I don't think Trump is going to
Speaker 1: institute those terrorists. I think this is a lot of
Speaker 1: uh not even so much bluster and negotiating tactic is
Speaker 1: what I think.
Speaker 2: It's a negotiating tast Yeah.
Speaker 1: And we'll see, we'll see. I certainly Biden doesn't do this.
Speaker 2: Like your tariffed. You you're tariffed, all right, let's go ahead.
Speaker 1: And you know, I can't even say Biden anymore as
Speaker 1: any kind of relevancy when it comes to US policy
Speaker 1: because there's just not a lot of relevancy at all.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much. There has been very status.
Speaker 2: Uck what there has never been a lamer duck, well said,
Speaker 2: Well said till the.
Speaker 5: Evil Empires stepping up its attacks. Russia launched a new
Speaker 5: widespread attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight. The country has
Speaker 5: implemented emergency power outages. They don't know exactly how much
Speaker 5: damage has been done yesterday, but they're asking people to
Speaker 5: stay in shelters. Streets in the capital city of Kiev
Speaker 5: remained largely empty this morning, as Ukraine's air force warned
Speaker 5: of the threat of ballistic and cruise missiles that could
Speaker 5: be targeting parts of the country any day now.
Speaker 1: If Russia wins the war, it'll be because of this
Speaker 1: taking out the power infrastructure of Ukraine, because they'll basically
Speaker 1: be lighting all of Ukraine with either torches or campfires.
Speaker 1: It's just battery.
Speaker 2: What's the reality bill of Russia taking over Ukraine as
Speaker 2: it pertains to the US Russia.
Speaker 1: If Russia wins, it won't be Ukraine, all of Ukraine.
Speaker 1: It'll simply be the eastern part of Ukraine, which Putin
Speaker 1: said has always been part of Russia. And it was
Speaker 1: for many years back and forth. It's the don Bass
Speaker 1: area of Ukraine, and that's the way it's going to go.
Speaker 5: Why is that strategic for them?
Speaker 1: Because it's not a question so much a strategic First
Speaker 1: of all, it's another buffer against NATO if that part
Speaker 1: becomes Russia. But more importantly, Putin thinks and believes in
Speaker 1: his heart and soul, and we're going back to the
Speaker 1: time when he was a KGB officer, right, and he
Speaker 1: went into the KGB and he entered politics or entered
Speaker 1: service that he truly believes Ukraine is part of Russia.
Speaker 1: It's the heart of Russia actually where Russia actually started
Speaker 1: back in the Middle Ages.
Speaker 2: Why didnt care about it?
Speaker 1: Why do we care about it? Because again, the buffer
Speaker 1: and the philosophy, if he's willing to take that, does
Speaker 1: he then take poland does he then take uh other?
Speaker 2: Get it?
Speaker 1: That's it, that's the fear. That's the fear. And Ukraine
Speaker 1: is a democracy and Russia is not, and it's just
Speaker 1: another superpower coming in and just grabbing land. It's akin
Speaker 1: to what happened in World War Two nineteen thirty eight
Speaker 1: with Hitler taking over Czechoslovakia, where the Western power. Just
Speaker 1: let him take it here, just go ahead and take it.
Speaker 1: And look what happened. And they're comparing their comparing Putin
Speaker 1: to to Hitler, and it's and Putin wants a greater Russia.
Speaker 1: He doesn't care about the Soviet Union. He just wants
Speaker 1: Russia to be this huge dominant power in the lands
Speaker 1: that it had. It's a whole philosophy thing. It's scary,
Speaker 1: and it scares the crap out of everybody.
Speaker 2: No, I get I get it, and that's what I thought.
Speaker 2: I just don't know why there's so much push pushbacks,
Speaker 2: pushback from people here in the United States.
Speaker 1: Because it is a democracy, and at some point you
Speaker 1: stand up for it. Now a lot of people say
Speaker 1: it's not worth it, But who knows.
Speaker 2: If he's bigger and badder, it would be it'd be
Speaker 2: a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's and that's the fear. There's going to be
Speaker 1: a problem.
Speaker 2: All right. So surprising, this is news. More than one
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars in marijuana weighing ninety thousand pounds was
Speaker 2: seized from San Bernardino County. Con No, you're from the county,
Speaker 2: not the city. You're out there in San burdu.
Speaker 1: This is the county. I don't think it's okay wherever
Speaker 1: the hell that is?
Speaker 2: No, that's not a topic like a home pass. Oh
Speaker 2: is it the first thy right there?
Speaker 1: How did they figure one hundred million dollars worth? Because
Speaker 1: ninety thousand pounds is a wholesale h if they if
Speaker 1: they figured it out, well, this was valued. If they
Speaker 1: valued it at at per joint, at an individual joint price,
Speaker 1: it's probably in the billions and billions of dollars. If
Speaker 1: you have ninety thousand pounds of the stuff and you're
Speaker 1: selling it a joint at a time, you know at
Speaker 1: what level of distribution? I don't know, but anything.
Speaker 2: Watching Kono do the math, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm doing the math.
Speaker 2: A lot of pounds sells it a joint? They don't.
Speaker 5: It's only it's only eleven hundred eleven dollars per pound?
Speaker 5: Then did I do the math backwards?
Speaker 1: That is, so eleven hundred dollars a pound pot goes
Speaker 1: for a lot more than that a pound. It depends
Speaker 1: on that, I guess, depends on the quality. I don't
Speaker 1: even know. It's been so long since I smoke pot.
Speaker 5: That's a bargain basement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it's I guess it's wholesale. I guess
Speaker 1: it's wholesale. Wholesale at the distribution level, cutting out the middleman.
Speaker 5: There were three thousand trash bags filled with weed stack
Speaker 5: twelve feet high in the building.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's a lot. Okay.
Speaker 5: California is cracking down on not only marijuana but also
Speaker 5: people parking. It's called the daylighting Law. It's been in
Speaker 5: effect for a while, but they've been issuing warnings, but
Speaker 5: starting on January first, they're going to stop issuing warnings
Speaker 5: and start issuing tickets to vehicle owners caught breaking the law.
Speaker 5: It's anyone who parks within twenty feet of any crosswalk
Speaker 5: or fifteen feet of a crosswalk that has extended curbs.
Speaker 1: This is it's one of those things where you're pulling
Speaker 1: out and there's a car parked so close to you
Speaker 1: you can't see it, especially if it's a big SUV
Speaker 1: pulling out of a driveway right and you look and
Speaker 1: there's the car blocking the view and you don't see
Speaker 1: cars coming, So the chances of you getting t boned
Speaker 1: are pretty high. You ever noticed that as you pull
Speaker 1: out of a driveway and you can't see I mean,
Speaker 1: you're scared and you go, yeah, that you do it
Speaker 1: inch by inch?
Speaker 2: What that's what this has to do with.
Speaker 1: No, No, this is even worse because this is for
Speaker 1: a crosswalks where people can't see. I mean, frankly, I'm
Speaker 1: not much of a pedestrians. So if someone you know,
Speaker 1: is hit and flies forty feet in the air, but
Speaker 1: if I'm pulling out of a driveway and I can't
Speaker 1: see something, they have to change that. It's the law.
Speaker 1: They have to change that.
Speaker 2: I was actually in your car with you one day
Speaker 2: when you drove over someone. We're at some event. You
Speaker 2: drove over someone's foot.
Speaker 1: Oh I do remember that. Yeah, yeah, and I remember
Speaker 1: I pointed the finger at you, screaming he did it,
Speaker 1: he did it?
Speaker 2: And I said, I'm.
Speaker 1: I think, by the way, that's a true story. I
Speaker 1: did actually run over someone. They weren't hurt or anything,
Speaker 1: but still I don't know if I actually ran over
Speaker 1: that person's foot, but certainly it looked like part of
Speaker 1: the tire built it. Bump thump. Yeah, all right, guys,
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