Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
Speaker 1: am six forty. I always have fun as Neil does,
Speaker 1: as and does as. Amy doesn't know how to have fun.
Speaker 1: She's so Morday fun day though. Yeah it is.
Speaker 2: I'm morose, can get morose.
Speaker 1: Amen, when you're moros I'm very happy. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that you're not morose.
Speaker 3: Oh she's less right.
Speaker 1: Actually, it does mean you're not morose, but you think
Speaker 1: and now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
Speaker 1: Bill Handle. Hey, good morning everybody. Bill Handle here. Yeah
Speaker 1: it's Monday. Oh yeah, another Monday, another December ninth. We
Speaker 1: are fast approaching those magical holidays, just between Christmas and
Speaker 1: New Year. There's that week of you do absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1: And you know why I'm working on I think I'm
Speaker 1: working the twenty fourth of them, Dimond until the sixth, Neil,
Speaker 1: are you working that week?
Speaker 4: I will be producing the Jesus Christ Show, filling in
Speaker 4: for John Cobelt on Christmas Eve from one to four,
Speaker 4: but other than that, I am.
Speaker 1: Rot for the week.
Speaker 2: All right, Amy, how about you taking Christmas week off?
Speaker 1: Well, good for you.
Speaker 5: And in fact, Michael Michael Monks is going to be
Speaker 5: filling in for me, and so he's here with us
Speaker 5: this morning.
Speaker 1: Oh that's sweet, because I think, you know, considering new
Speaker 1: stuff going on in the station, I thought you would say,
Speaker 1: I'm taking a week off and filling in for me.
Speaker 1: Is nobody? Okay?
Speaker 3: News five thousand, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just.
Speaker 1: And Cono, good morning, Good morning, Bill and the lovely Ann.
Speaker 1: Hello Anne, good morning and Billy. You are off on
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth. I thought, Oh, I'm on the I
Speaker 1: thought I was. I'm off on twenty third. I worked
Speaker 1: the twenty third, Right.
Speaker 2: You work the twenty third.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're off off the twenty fourth, and then I'm
Speaker 1: back January sixth. I think that first Monday, which I
Speaker 1: normally start first Monday.
Speaker 2: Of the year, there will be an insurrection when you return.
Speaker 1: Oh god, yes, okay.
Speaker 2: On January sixth. Get it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's very strong, very strong. No, I didn't
Speaker 1: get it strong all right.
Speaker 4: If you have an insurrection for more than four hours,
Speaker 4: you should call your doctor.
Speaker 1: Also very strong. I hate it. Let me tell you,
Speaker 1: I want to get give you some insight baseball here.
Speaker 1: You have no idea how much I totally despise it
Speaker 1: when any one of you say something that I wish
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 3: Said you must be in paint a lot.
Speaker 1: I just it drives me completely crazy because not only
Speaker 1: do I point my finger at you and go, that's strong,
Speaker 1: that's funny, because I never actually, but damn, I wish
Speaker 1: I had said that. Okay, a couple of bits of news.
Speaker 1: First of all, on the really good front. As of
Speaker 1: Saturday night, we have raised in terms of money for Pastathon,
Speaker 1: one million, one d and forty two thousand dollars. That
Speaker 1: is before we get final numbers from Smart and Final
Speaker 1: and Wendy's. So we are going to blow pass to
Speaker 1: one point three million dollars that we raised last year.
Speaker 1: And as far as pasta and sauce, we're at eighty
Speaker 1: nine thousand pounds. So let me put it in other terms,
Speaker 1: it's forty five tons of pasta and sauce we have raised.
Speaker 1: By the way, you can still donate. It's still up there,
Speaker 1: even though officially it's over. If you can go to
Speaker 1: kfiam six forty dot com slash Pastathon, we'd be more
Speaker 1: than happy to take or the kids will be more
Speaker 1: than happy to take donations. And I just heard from
Speaker 1: one of our premiere donators that anybody who donates one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars or more. He has no intention of matching
Speaker 1: it because, as he said, I've given enough damn money
Speaker 1: to you guys. Okay, Now, the other bit of news
Speaker 1: that I want to share with you is, as you
Speaker 1: know by now, I had to put my dog down.
Speaker 1: You know, my little one was eaten by a coyote
Speaker 1: or half eaten by a coyote, and had a couple
Speaker 1: of three surgeries, got an infection and was put down.
Speaker 1: What a horrible way to go. It was a horrible
Speaker 1: way to go. Yeah, it was not plenty. She was
Speaker 1: in a lot of pain. So finally, I mean three surgeries,
Speaker 1: it was god awful. Try to save her. So the
Speaker 1: other little one that we have, we're getting another one
Speaker 1: on on Friday. We're picking up Isabella Izzy. It's a
Speaker 1: little doxy and we're picking her up. Now I have
Speaker 1: this one, Tommy, is as what happens when you have
Speaker 1: two dogs and one goes is the surviving dog goes
Speaker 1: around the house looking for her buddy or his buddy.
Speaker 1: In that case, it was a bonded pair and they
Speaker 1: were inseparable. And it's as I walk around, it literally
Speaker 1: breaks my heart. I am I think helping the matter
Speaker 1: because I have a recording of Gucci on my phone,
Speaker 1: so I'm putting under pillows and putting it in the corner.
Speaker 3: Just you're rude.
Speaker 2: What how is How is the other dog ever going
Speaker 2: to heal? If you keep doing that?
Speaker 1: It never is? That's the whole point.
Speaker 3: Okay, horrible human being.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: All right, guys, that's a compliment. You're wonderful Bill. Everyone
Speaker 4: loves you, oh partle.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely. And and you worked over the weekend. That's
Speaker 1: so fine.
Speaker 5: Yes, I worked a Rams game and the Rams on
Speaker 5: the Bills.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Bills are very strong this year. I'm
Speaker 1: playing football, you know, I went through a huge upswing
Speaker 1: in football. Interest is starting to weighe now, and so
Speaker 1: I'm not really paying much attention.
Speaker 3: I saw that coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The only thing I'd interest me is everybody is
Speaker 1: interested in Kansas City because of Patrick Mahomes. I'm interested
Speaker 1: in Kansas City because of Bruckner the kicker. When he
Speaker 1: said women should stay in the kitchen, they should be pregnant,
Speaker 1: they should cook, and they shouldn't but insert themselves in
Speaker 1: anything like politics or working or anything barefoot and pregnant.
Speaker 1: He hasn't gotten too many people pissed off that that
Speaker 1: one has he Okay, that's it. I can't think of
Speaker 1: anything else. Anything. Guys want to add to the mix,
Speaker 1: any news that's fit to print? Or do we go
Speaker 1: to the news that's fit to print? Yeah, okay, let's
Speaker 1: do that. Guys, It's time for Handle on the news
Speaker 1: with Amy and Neil and me lead story. In a
Speaker 1: lightning move that took the world by surprise, the rebels
Speaker 1: in Syria have topper toppled Bashar al Asad and this
Speaker 1: is almost reminiscent of the Taliban in Afghanistan. How quickly
Speaker 1: they were able to get back into power, of course,
Speaker 1: causing Joe Biden all kinds of issues about removing the troops.
Speaker 1: And this happened so quickly that everybody was taken for
Speaker 1: a loop. Now Bashar al Asad still got out. He
Speaker 1: was able to get on an airplane and fly to Russia,
Speaker 1: which granted him asylum immediately because Russia was an ally.
Speaker 1: And as you can imagine, he squirreled away billions of
Speaker 1: dollars by making that assumption. So he's going to live
Speaker 1: just fine. But it is his family, I mean brutal.
Speaker 1: It reminds you of the family dynasty of North Korea,
Speaker 1: where you had son then ill or yeah, son got
Speaker 1: ill and ill got on the U three.
Speaker 3: Hope they're feeling better.
Speaker 1: I hope so too. And now you have Bashar's dad
Speaker 1: who took over nineteen seventy in a coup. Bashar al Asad,
Speaker 1: the son. By the way, did you know he was
Speaker 1: an ophthalmologist.
Speaker 2: Yes, he just I was watching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was going what he was an ophthalmologist. His
Speaker 1: brother was set to take over his older brother, and
Speaker 1: he was just going to continue on practicing medicine. That's
Speaker 1: all he wanted. And he there he is, and I
Speaker 1: mean the University of Damascus, I mean, you know, a
Speaker 1: real a real medical school, and like the law school
Speaker 1: I went to. And it was and his older brother
Speaker 1: killed in a car accident. He got Syria, and he
Speaker 1: was even more brutal than his father. The hope was
Speaker 1: there because he was an ophthalmologist, because he was trained,
Speaker 1: because all of that. He wasn't a street thug. That
Speaker 1: he would rule the country with a light or touched
Speaker 1: didn't happen. The guy's brutal, absolutely brutal. So off he
Speaker 1: goes and he would have been killed instantly. I mean
Speaker 1: he would have been hanged in two sets.
Speaker 3: So what does this mean for Syria? Does it get
Speaker 3: better or worse?
Speaker 1: Well, the problem is the insurgents are a radical group,
Speaker 1: sort of a linked, sort of peripherally to al Qaeda
Speaker 1: at one point. Don't know. It's whether they want to
Speaker 1: join the World community and they want these people want
Speaker 1: a country, or they want to stay rebels and want
Speaker 1: to stay outside of the world of the Community of Nations.
Speaker 1: Don't know at this point.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, Diddy's buddy denies it.
Speaker 5: Jay Z and Shawn Combs are now both accused of
Speaker 5: raping a thirteen year old girl at an after party
Speaker 5: from the two thousand Video Music Awards. So a lawsuit
Speaker 5: was filed back in October, and then it was just
Speaker 5: amended to add jay Z onto it. It was originally
Speaker 5: just against Sean Combs. Several lawsuits have been filed like this.
Speaker 5: A lot of them didn't make it because the plaintiffs
Speaker 5: wouldn't be named. But the judge in this case said
Speaker 5: the person who was thirteen at the time back in
Speaker 5: two thousand had enough cause to continue the case anonymously.
Speaker 1: I wonder how that works because you're allowed to confront
Speaker 1: witnesses against you. You know, that's part of our legal system. Now.
Speaker 1: Witnesses can in fact be hidden for security purposes. You
Speaker 1: know in mafia cases. You know, they will put witnesses
Speaker 1: on the stand and you can't see them. They'll be
Speaker 1: behind a barrier, or they'll put a paper bag over
Speaker 1: their head and have them tell jokes. Remember the unknown comic,
Speaker 1: Yes you don't. That was invented in the courtroom, by
Speaker 1: the way, I just want to point that out. But
Speaker 1: her name is if she continues a lawsuit, I don't
Speaker 1: think it can be anonymous. It can be sealed. The
Speaker 1: court can't seal the proceedings. But that's about it. So
Speaker 1: we'll see how much of that is. You know, these
Speaker 1: things all of a sudden explode and they get more
Speaker 1: and more. Now I believe is this a single accusation
Speaker 1: against jay Z. I think so, because if it's part
Speaker 1: of a group of anonymous accusations, I don't know how
Speaker 1: much that means.
Speaker 4: All right, Volorius, nobody probably remembers I do any who
Speaker 4: passenger attempted to hijack a domestic Mexican flight Sunday on
Speaker 4: Valeris and forcibly divert it to the United States. And
Speaker 4: this was a thirty one year old Mexican national named
Speaker 4: Mario but you don't know his last name, assaulted a
Speaker 4: flight attendant, tried to enter the cockpit to divert the
Speaker 4: flight to the United States, and they had to reroute
Speaker 4: the plane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, weird that he had his family with him too.
Speaker 3: It's got to be some sort of mental breakdown.
Speaker 1: I mean it has to be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the killer apparently grabbed a Police in New York
Speaker 5: have released a couple more pictures of the guy who
Speaker 5: shot and killed the CEO of United Healthcare out in
Speaker 5: front of that to Hilton hotel last week in Midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 5: One of them is him looking into the front seat
Speaker 5: from the back seat, and then the other one is
Speaker 5: him with a puffer jacket once he got out of
Speaker 5: the cab. He's got that face mask on in both cases.
Speaker 5: And officials are saying that they think he's probably left
Speaker 5: the city. They're not expecting him to be there anymore.
Speaker 5: And I heard that they may have id'ed him, but
Speaker 5: they're not releasing his name yet.
Speaker 1: This is fascinating. In the level of the man hunt
Speaker 1: here is extraordinary. I'm going to do a story about
Speaker 1: this at seven o'clock. And there's a spin to this
Speaker 1: story that I want to share with you, which.
Speaker 3: Is absolutely right fascinating who he.
Speaker 1: Is probably by now, but I want you to look
Speaker 1: at the extent this story has been going on for
Speaker 1: almost a week right front page news, and it has
Speaker 1: not stopped, and you don't usually see that under these circumstances. Also,
Speaker 1: I'd like to talk to the family members whose family
Speaker 1: member was gunned down the day before and the day
Speaker 1: after that Brian Thompson was killed. Do you think they're
Speaker 1: happy about this because their story has been completely ignored,
Speaker 1: just you know, because it's not as exciting of the
Speaker 1: United Healthcare CEO. And I'm going to talk more about
Speaker 1: this at seven and I'm going to give you one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why this thing has become so big
Speaker 1: and will not go away, all right.
Speaker 4: President elect Donald Trump said he still plans to and
Speaker 4: birthright citizenship in the United States on day one, a
Speaker 4: little bit of a stickler with the fourteenth Amendment. That's
Speaker 4: going to be the hurdle he needs to jump over.
Speaker 4: And he went on to say, we're going to have
Speaker 4: to get it changed. Well, maybe you have to go
Speaker 4: back to the people find out.
Speaker 1: But we have easier said than done. Two thirds of Congress,
Speaker 1: both the House and the Senate, two thirds of the
Speaker 1: legislatures around the United States, and there you have a
Speaker 1: constitutional amendment that's going to happen in this lifetime. Now,
Speaker 1: there's an argument for the birthright because most countries do
Speaker 1: not have birthrights, some do, he says, all which he said, no,
Speaker 1: that's not true. But you know, I mean, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: that's exaggeration of what a shocker that one is. But
Speaker 1: there is a legitimate argument saying that if someone is
Speaker 1: born here parents are illegal, they're able to make it
Speaker 1: over the border. I mean there used to be and
Speaker 1: how many parents far more in the past, because there
Speaker 1: were anchor babies where the mothers would come over the
Speaker 1: border just to have the children and then apply for
Speaker 1: residency based on the fact their children were American citizens.
Speaker 1: That went away several years ago. The government can't take
Speaker 1: away the citizenship of the child fourteenth Amendment, but sure
Speaker 1: as hell can say mom and dad are being deported,
Speaker 1: but we have a little baby here. How can we
Speaker 1: leave the baby? And the government says, here's your choice,
Speaker 1: take the baby with you or we'll make an award
Speaker 1: of the state, can't kick the child out, but you're gone.
Speaker 1: So that came down. But the birthright, you know, for example,
Speaker 1: you go to Arab countries, Saudi Arabia, you go to
Speaker 1: the Emirates, and people go there for years and years
Speaker 1: and years, stay for decades, they have kids, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Those kids are never citizens. So the argument, and I
Speaker 1: don't know which side of that argument I'm with, don't
Speaker 1: I would ask you, I don't know on this one.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's take a break. Oh, which side
Speaker 1: do you land on?
Speaker 4: I'm very torn, but I see the logic and the
Speaker 4: reason behind exactly if your parents are not from here,
Speaker 4: but so.
Speaker 3: Would you have to be naturalized just like.
Speaker 1: No, if you're born here. No, if you're born here,
Speaker 1: you're US citizen. So hey, what side that you can't
Speaker 1: talk about? Are you on that? You can't mention at all? Exactly?
Speaker 2: Comment?
Speaker 1: Thank you for your input, all right?
Speaker 5: The president elect is promising pardons. Trump says he intends
Speaker 5: to pardon a lot of the January sixth defendants. On
Speaker 5: day one in office, he did an interview. He's been
Speaker 5: kind of laying low since he was elected, but now
Speaker 5: he's out and did an interview on Meet the Press yesterday.
Speaker 5: So the people who pleaded guilty in the January sixth
Speaker 5: riots did so because they really just didn't have any
Speaker 5: other choice, he said, they are going to go back
Speaker 5: and look at individual cases.
Speaker 1: A couple things about this. First of all, people that
Speaker 1: plead guilty, a lot of them feel they have no
Speaker 1: choice because part of the plea is we're going to
Speaker 1: give you this so you don't go to trial. And
Speaker 1: if you go to trial and you're convicted, you get
Speaker 1: a lot more jail time. So here's the deal, and
Speaker 1: that's virtually everybody when they plead guilty, they feel the pressure.
Speaker 1: Second of all, you know, I'm more upset about the
Speaker 1: pardons than almost anything else. You know, I understand that
Speaker 1: he has the right to, you know, put whoever he
Speaker 1: wants cabinet positions, and you know, I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: going to be as bad as a lot of people think.
Speaker 1: But pardoning those January sixth rioters and calling them heroes
Speaker 1: when they overran the capital of the United States and
Speaker 1: tried to undo an election, that to me is that's
Speaker 1: over the top. It's never happened in the history of
Speaker 1: this country.
Speaker 3: Ever.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've had buffoon cabinet members before, we've lived
Speaker 1: through it. But a pardon is absolute, and it's it's
Speaker 1: it's really tough, it is accepting this. This one is
Speaker 1: very tough.
Speaker 4: I don't know what kind of criteria he's going to use,
Speaker 4: and I won't speak to that, but I absolutely agree
Speaker 4: with you that that was one of the biggest black
Speaker 4: eyes I think on the United States January sixth and.
Speaker 1: And is back. I can't president, and we'll be backed up.
Speaker 1: You call them heroes, he's called them patriots. Now is
Speaker 1: he going to I think he said pardon some of them.
Speaker 1: I don't believe he's going to pardon those that were
Speaker 1: convicted of beating up police officers and causing entrada to
Speaker 1: the police. I can't imagine. I can't imagine it would
Speaker 1: go that far. But I think virtually the rest of
Speaker 1: them would be pardoned. And it's where it's a heart break.
Speaker 4: If they breached where's your life? If they actually breached
Speaker 4: the capital?
Speaker 1: No, if they know, I think, well, I think he's
Speaker 1: going to start if they're outside. But if they hadn't
Speaker 1: breached the capitol, I don't think anybody was convicted. I
Speaker 1: think that the authorities drew the line at that it's
Speaker 1: only people that have breached the capital, and then the
Speaker 1: people that have caused damage and the people in the
Speaker 1: capital that were screaming, hang Mike Pence, and they can
Speaker 1: those if they can identify, because there's still a bunch
Speaker 1: of hundreds out there that are awaiting trials. So this
Speaker 1: is the part that really really affects me deeply, where
Speaker 1: you have a president that is okay with the overrunning
Speaker 1: of the Capitol to try to undo an election. I mean,
Speaker 1: at that point.
Speaker 3: They'll in them to the White House.
Speaker 1: Yes I do. I think it'll be like football, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. They'll all be given medals. He'll strike medals
Speaker 1: patriots you watch. Obviously we're being a little bit hyperbolic here,
Speaker 1: but this is for some reason. I think that's it
Speaker 1: that bothers me the most. I mean, that is such
Speaker 1: a sin. Yea.
Speaker 4: As much as the hyperbole I hear about Trump, I
Speaker 4: believe that's a legitimate, legitimate one.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: So, speaking of Trump and those that don't like him,
Speaker 4: Adam Schiff has been very vocal about that he is
Speaker 4: going to be sworn into the Senate and or he
Speaker 4: wasn sworn into the Senate and said that listen, is
Speaker 4: he still gonna oppose Trump when he feels it's necessary. Yes,
Speaker 4: but he also is hoping to be known for bipartisanship
Speaker 4: as well, which means holy hell, he's back in the
Speaker 4: office and now I'm here even closer.
Speaker 3: So we'll see how this plays out.
Speaker 1: Now. Do you know why he was handcuffed outside the
Speaker 1: actual capital because he can't be handcuffed by the FBI
Speaker 1: inside the Capitol building. Who, Adam Schiff. That's that's a
Speaker 1: little Oh, it's a joke. Yeah, that's coming. Uh No,
Speaker 1: I don't, but I just thought i'd mentioned that. Am
Speaker 1: I bringing my bias to the table again?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I've got it.
Speaker 1: I have to. I have to calm down on this,
Speaker 1: I really do, because.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be taken away in handcuffs.
Speaker 1: Deal. You know what I did? Yeah, you take me away?
Speaker 3: Ha ha.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: Well, Sho Hay's record didn't stand very long, not on
Speaker 5: the field, but his record deal that was worth seven
Speaker 5: hundred million dollars with the Dodgers. Now, superstar outfielder Juan Soto,
Speaker 5: who the Dodgers just beat in the World Series, is
Speaker 5: going across town to the New York Mets. He is
Speaker 5: doing a fifteen year, seven hundred and sixty five million
Speaker 5: dollar contract that will increase to over eight hundred million
Speaker 5: by twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a fifteen year deal, assuming he's not injured
Speaker 1: or whatever. I mean, part of it is a payer play.
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter whether he's hurt or not. Fifteen years,
Speaker 1: what is that a year? That is you know what?
Speaker 1: That's only about five hundred million dollars a year, not
Speaker 1: even four hundred and something million dollars a year or
Speaker 1: forty million dollars a year.
Speaker 5: Well, it's a little bit less than that because he
Speaker 5: does get a seventy five million dollars signing bonus.
Speaker 1: But I'm assuming that's taken away from the contract. Maybe not.
Speaker 1: I don't know. How does how do ball play ball teams?
Speaker 1: How do ball team stay solvent paying salaries like this?
Speaker 2: Tickets goes five hundred bucks apiece.
Speaker 1: Enough, I don't know. Maybe his television rights, which are
Speaker 1: now going for a billion dollars a game, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But man, and how do you play next to a
Speaker 1: guy when you're sort of a you know, a good
Speaker 1: player and you're making five six eight million dollars a year,
Speaker 1: and you're playing next to a guy who's making forty
Speaker 1: million dollars a year. Isn't that a little disconcerting?
Speaker 4: I think you should appreciate the forty million dollars a
Speaker 4: year for playing baseball.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 1: Oh, he appreciates it. But how about it?
Speaker 4: You're just saying, I think if you're you're both making
Speaker 4: you're both making forty million.
Speaker 1: No, you're both not making forty They don't have to
Speaker 1: forty million dollars a year players, Well yeah, do they?
Speaker 1: At this point?
Speaker 4: Well, if you have someone making forty million dollars a
Speaker 4: year and you have somebody that has deferred over fifteen years,
Speaker 4: they you're talking about the length of the contract as well.
Speaker 4: So back in mid November, the paparazzi came up to
Speaker 4: her Majesty Oprah Winfrey and asked her whether she was
Speaker 4: paid for an endorsement for Kamala Harris. And he said,
Speaker 4: not true. I wasn't. I was paid nothing. Ever, well
Speaker 4: that's not true.
Speaker 1: No, she wasn't. She wasn't personally paid. Her company was paid.
Speaker 1: No kidding. And then she had to backtrack. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe a million dollars.
Speaker 4: We got so to say that they have finance campaign
Speaker 4: finance records at show Harris's one million dollar payment to
Speaker 4: Oprah's production company.
Speaker 1: So for those of you that donated to Harris's campaign,
Speaker 1: I just want to point out you helped Oprah get
Speaker 1: even more money because she doesn't have enough.
Speaker 3: When is that going to explode?
Speaker 4: When is Oprah with all of her friendships with these
Speaker 4: horrible humans, when is that gonna.
Speaker 3: Bust open?
Speaker 1: Well? Just dead, didn't it? No one cares. That's the problem.
Speaker 2: Pumping more money into Ukraine.
Speaker 5: The US will nearly a billion dollars more in longer
Speaker 5: term weapons support to Ukraine. The Biden administration is trying
Speaker 5: to spend all the money that's been approved by Congress
Speaker 5: that it has left before President elect Trump takes office
Speaker 5: next month.
Speaker 1: Yep. And we'll see how much the president stops funding
Speaker 1: for Ukraine. We have no idea. We do know he's
Speaker 1: at this international conference and he met with Zolensky and
Speaker 1: you couldn't really see Zelensky's face because Olenski's face during
Speaker 1: the photo shoot was firmly implanted on Trump's ass. So
Speaker 1: we don't know quite what's going to happen. Same thing
Speaker 1: with Trudeau, by the way, same thing with President Shinebaum
Speaker 1: of Mexico. And he's not even been elected. He's not
Speaker 1: even been sworn in as president yet.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: We don't know. He won't tell us, and he may
Speaker 1: not even made up his mind yet as to how
Speaker 1: far eight is going to go to Ukraine. I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be put. I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be pulled back to some extent because Biden its balls
Speaker 1: to the wall helping Ukraine. The President elect not so much.
Speaker 4: I will tell you, for those that don't understand, just
Speaker 4: how much one billion dollars is. That is the same
Speaker 4: amount that the Harris Wall's campaign spent on their campaign.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is astronaut. Astronaut gives money over sixty how
Speaker 1: much money? Over sixty billion dollars. Now, for those of
Speaker 1: you that have ever asked for a government grant, Let's
Speaker 1: say you have a program that feeds kids and you
Speaker 1: ask for a government grant and number one, they're almost
Speaker 1: impossible to get, and you ask for fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: and you end up with thirty thousand dollars. Sixty billion
Speaker 1: dollars goes over to Ukraine. I mean, forget about which
Speaker 1: side of the political spectrum you're on. Keep it, don't
Speaker 1: keep it, spend it, don't spend it. Just the an
Speaker 1: astronomical amount of money.
Speaker 4: Totally passed, Neil. Let's finish up, yes, sir, let's do
Speaker 4: it in the wake of NATO. You know, and sketchy
Speaker 4: President elect Donald Trump, he's not a big fan, and
Speaker 4: his victory has made us think, well, what's going to happen.
Speaker 4: Legal experts warned that Trump could try in sidestep Congress's
Speaker 4: NATO guard rail. If you remember, there is a guard
Speaker 4: rail there since what twenty twenty three, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeahs So that was adopted by Congress, and no
Speaker 1: one knows. This is definitely a Supreme Court decision as
Speaker 1: to how far the presidential power is to withdraw from NATO. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give Trump big kudos here because what
Speaker 1: he said when he became president of the first time
Speaker 1: in the United States was just the United States was
Speaker 1: supporting NATO by a long shot, and countries were not
Speaker 1: supporting NATO to the extent that they should have per
Speaker 1: the NATO Treaty. He threatened to walk out the door, saying,
Speaker 1: you guys, don't pay up what you're supposed to pay
Speaker 1: up what we signed the agreement were gone, they started
Speaker 1: paying up. So is he going to use the withdrawal
Speaker 1: of NATO again as some kind of a tactic, right,
Speaker 1: a negotiating tactic? Don't know, don't know. Okay, this one
Speaker 1: real quick one, Amy.
Speaker 5: There's no place like home or these shiny red slippers.
Speaker 5: So the ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland and
Speaker 5: the Wizard of Oz that were stolen from a museum
Speaker 5: nearly two decades ago, of course, had been recovered. They
Speaker 5: were auctioned off, the winning bid twenty eight million dollars.
Speaker 1: I don't know why the museum doesn't get them back.
Speaker 1: They were stolen from the museum.
Speaker 3: But were they on loan to the museum.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter. Whoever owns them should get them back.
Speaker 5: And it is not the only pair because I saw
Speaker 5: a pair of ruby red slippers in the Smithsonian.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, there's I think she wore three of them,
Speaker 1: and I think you can order one another pair if
Speaker 1: you go to Zappo's and you can order a pair
Speaker 1: of nice reference.
Speaker 4: Did they ever find out if if Kona was the
Speaker 4: one who stole the ruby slippers.
Speaker 1: Also the providence of these because you have to track
Speaker 1: them back, who owned them, when they went, where they
Speaker 1: were sold. It's that's not easy to do, and it
Speaker 1: is easy to counterfeit these puppies. And my god, at
Speaker 1: twenty eight million dollars, give me a break.
Speaker 3: Didn't it just sequence red sequence or something?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Pretty much, it's no big deal. Yeah, except they
Speaker 1: were worn by her. How about what's a bullet worth?
Speaker 1: A single bullet?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: If it comes from Abraham Lincoln's brain, it's worth a
Speaker 1: little bit more than going to the gun store. Boy,
Speaker 1: that is a wonderful analogy, isn't it.
Speaker 3: That was one.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't weird. It was just good news on
Speaker 1: a Monday morning. Okay, we're done. Guys, KF I am
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