Speaker 1: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: You know this is my one year anniversary on the show,
Speaker 2: huh is it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Oh, that's right. You started at the beginning of
Speaker 3: last year.
Speaker 4: I've known you for so long, we've been friends for
Speaker 4: so long.
Speaker 3: I didn't even.
Speaker 4: Notice it, and we're like old shoes. It even occurred
Speaker 4: to me that this was one year.
Speaker 5: So what can the two of you take from the
Speaker 5: relationship you share and apply to your marriages so that
Speaker 5: they're more successful in the future.
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: No, sex you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here, good morning. It
Speaker 4: is a Tuesday morning, January the seventh, and I guess
Speaker 4: now it's not well into the new year yet, but
Speaker 4: we're getting there. Michael Monks still filling in. I assume
Speaker 4: for the ailing Amy King.
Speaker 3: Do we know what's wrong with Amy at any point?
Speaker 5: I think for hippo reasons, I'm not allowed to say
Speaker 5: I have nothing to.
Speaker 3: Do with hip. It's just a pure gossip.
Speaker 5: Okay, then you know what. I can't make the jokes
Speaker 5: you make, although they do come to me. Wow, she's
Speaker 5: got a nasty cold. Wow, And that's the truth.
Speaker 4: Is it one of those things where she needs antibiotics,
Speaker 4: if you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: But I dare say that she she had some you know,
Speaker 5: something that hit her, not hit her physically, but like
Speaker 5: she caught whatever was going around, and it's impacted her voice.
Speaker 5: So she's I don't think she feels too bad, but
Speaker 5: she doesn't sound too good.
Speaker 4: So my life has always been an open book on
Speaker 4: this show. It always has, you know, for example, you
Speaker 4: know when I was ill, For example, when I caught
Speaker 4: the crabs and I was negotiating with you know, the
Speaker 4: lobster house down the.
Speaker 3: Street, it was I shared it. I told everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it sounds like you shared it too much.
Speaker 4: Ub All right, and good morning, Hello, Michael, Good morning, Neil,
Speaker 4: Good morning there, Wolf, Hey, bub boy, did you strike
Speaker 4: a chord yesterday?
Speaker 6: A lot of congratulations going out to you, Barrett Media
Speaker 6: putting you number one in the top twenty morning news
Speaker 6: talk radio shows in the country, and all kinds of
Speaker 6: the brass was sending out all kinds of emails and everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to point something out about that, because
Speaker 4: I I've received a fair share of awards, and I'm
Speaker 4: not going to do the Oh shucks, you know fingers.
Speaker 2: Are on the Hollywood Walk of Fairs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, self, But let me give you a reality
Speaker 4: check on this stuff.
Speaker 3: And don't misunderstand I. I think I'm good.
Speaker 4: I've been doing this for you know, so many years.
Speaker 4: Oh hi, Cono, finally got you. We just got you
Speaker 4: on the on the monitor. So I've been doing this
Speaker 4: for so many years. I hope I'm pretty good at
Speaker 4: it thirty one years in the morning. So I'll give
Speaker 4: myself some credit for being competent, being good. But let
Speaker 4: me tell you about these awards. The awards that are
Speaker 4: not about how good I am. It's how bad everybody
Speaker 4: else is. Oh right, That's what this industry is about. It's,
Speaker 4: for example, rich is not how much money you have.
Speaker 4: Rich is how little money your your friends and family have,
Speaker 4: which is why I hang around with poor people because
Speaker 4: it makes me feel better.
Speaker 2: Is he talking about us, Neil?
Speaker 3: Yes, I know you work for iHeartMedia. How long you've
Speaker 3: been working for iHeart? Michael.
Speaker 5: I rejoined iHeart in February after previously working for them
Speaker 5: as my first job twenty years ago in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed your pay didn't go up.
Speaker 2: Well, I've had recent conversations about that.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, and they agreed that your pay hadn't gone up.
Speaker 2: I think, as my attorney, can you help me out here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he hasn't gone up. Bustled off, it's illegal.
Speaker 3: Congratulations a few extra hours. Anyways, thank you. That was
Speaker 3: kind of a nice accolade. Uh it was.
Speaker 4: It was kind of neat, you know, so I I
Speaker 4: will you accept that with undo with actually no humiliating,
Speaker 4: no humility, humility.
Speaker 2: Humility, humility, humiliation.
Speaker 3: But it's not humility. It's not humiliation.
Speaker 4: You do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not humiliation. Okay, it's and I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: It's great. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And so as soon as I got congratulations, I mean
Speaker 4: up and down the corporate structure, you know, Corvino and uh,
Speaker 4: I mean people I don't have, don't have no idea
Speaker 4: who they are, and so big congratulations number one in
Speaker 4: the country talk and no, and I immediately I immediately called, uh,
Speaker 4: the management and said, hey, uh, this is a big deal.
Speaker 4: They go, yes, it is. Does that mean I get
Speaker 4: more money? And they said to Michael, and see what
Speaker 4: goes on on that level. So there's the answer.
Speaker 2: No Handle.
Speaker 6: Once came to me and said, I at a party,
Speaker 6: I had the most fascinating and probably the longest conversation
Speaker 6: I've ever had with somebody. I said, Bill, that was
Speaker 6: a mirror you were talking to You were talking about yourself.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I look at the mirror and go, they really
Speaker 3: like me? Yeah, don't they?
Speaker 2: All Right, it's nice, and I can't wait.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: It is nice, and I do appreciate it. It's it
Speaker 3: is kind of neat.
Speaker 4: Okay, enough of how great Handle is. Let me I'll
Speaker 4: let's you talk about how great I am.
Speaker 3: You guys ready to do it? Not that, but the
Speaker 3: news on.
Speaker 4: Oh one other question, real quick, I'm still saying Happy
Speaker 4: New Year to people.
Speaker 3: When does that end legally when it's no longer Happy
Speaker 3: New Year? I don't know when that date is.
Speaker 5: I think today is the seventh, right, So we have
Speaker 5: now had seven days into the new year. I think
Speaker 5: this is also the last day to get your resolutions
Speaker 5: going if you haven't started yet. So if you say
Speaker 5: it tomorrow, it's a misdemeanor. You say it next week,
Speaker 5: it's a felony.
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: So today is the last day, according to Michael, last
Speaker 4: day of Happy New Year.
Speaker 6: I used to try and push it, and I've gotten
Speaker 6: it into March before somebody said something, no joke. I
Speaker 6: used to just see, I let you the world is
Speaker 6: my playground, and I would just see how long I
Speaker 6: could do it. And I've gotten into March before someone
Speaker 6: said he you know what.
Speaker 2: Stop.
Speaker 3: All right, let's do it guys.
Speaker 4: We have tons of news to talk about today, so
Speaker 4: it's time for handle on the news.
Speaker 3: Michael Monks, Neil Savedra and me lead story all right.
Speaker 4: Yesterday January sixth, in a really interesting ironic bit of history,
Speaker 4: exactly four days to the day that the attack on
Speaker 4: the capital happened, having to do with a certification of
Speaker 4: Joe Biden as president and the non certification of Donald Trump. Yesterday,
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris certified our newly elected president number forty seven.
Speaker 4: Donald Jay Trump announced the electoral vote, announced that he
Speaker 4: has won, shook hands with Mike Johnson, who was up
Speaker 4: on the podium. It was in front of Congress, and
Speaker 4: she may it's the last formal bit of business that has.
Speaker 3: To be done before the inauguration, and she had.
Speaker 4: Said walking in trans peaceful transfer of power.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of mention at.
Speaker 4: Least alluded to January six, four years ago, and it's
Speaker 4: like it didn't happen in the Republican Party.
Speaker 3: It's like fours years ago didn't happen at all. It's gone.
Speaker 3: Now we were back to a peaceful transfer of power.
Speaker 4: Biden said that, Kamala Harris said that, the various commentators
Speaker 4: said that the pundits.
Speaker 3: And now we move on to a very interesting four years.
Speaker 4: I mean, outside of policy differences, outside of what you
Speaker 4: think of Donald Trump or you don't think of Donald Trump,
Speaker 4: just the entertainment value of the next four years is
Speaker 4: going to be tremendous.
Speaker 5: I can tell you Donald Trump would love to be
Speaker 5: honored by Barrett Media. He does love those litt accolades,
Speaker 5: no matter how big, no matter how small. And there
Speaker 5: is somebody else who would like to have the job
Speaker 5: after President Trump, and that would be our Governor Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 5: And so he's announced this new budget, three hundred and
Speaker 5: twenty two billion dollar proposal that has no deficit. This
Speaker 5: is after a couple of years of significant budget shortfalls
Speaker 5: here in California. But the one that Newsom announced yesterday
Speaker 5: is basically one that says we're fiscally responsible here in California.
Speaker 5: So whether this is an accurate or honest policy proposal
Speaker 5: or just one that positions Newsome for the national stage.
Speaker 2: Further, I we'll have.
Speaker 4: To see by law, California has to have a balanced budget.
Speaker 4: By law constitution, you can't go into the next.
Speaker 3: Year without a balanced budget.
Speaker 4: Now, a balanced budget can be obtained by borrowing money,
Speaker 4: but that is money that is coming in on the book.
Speaker 4: So there is no deficit where there is an official balance.
Speaker 4: By jet, I mean, you know, we borrow, borrowborrow like crazy,
Speaker 4: although we've been paying it back strangely enough, Well, California
Speaker 4: is a weird state in terms of its revenues. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just an aberrational state. And then before we take
Speaker 4: a break, I think one of the campaign promises that
Speaker 4: are going to be made one of the platforms is
Speaker 4: Newsom is going to say you think Donald Trump uses hairspray. Well, hey,
Speaker 4: you've got a new president on your hands. I know
Speaker 4: how to use hairspray.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, President elect Donald Trump. Maybe you've heard
Speaker 2: of him. Kind of a big deal.
Speaker 6: I guess his former co defendants in the Florida Classified
Speaker 6: Documents case launched an effort just yesterday to block the
Speaker 6: at least the final report. Of course, this report was
Speaker 6: by special counsel Jack Smith. Also addressed the election interference case.
Speaker 6: Both cases against Trump have been dismissed, but his Trump
Speaker 6: his lawyers coming out said the final report promises to
Speaker 6: be one side. It's lanted, blah blah blah, that type
Speaker 6: of thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is he gonna believe it?
Speaker 4: Well, if you get the judge to block it, and
Speaker 4: then he becomes president, then he orders the report never
Speaker 4: to be released. We'll see what happens. Last few days.
Speaker 4: You have the sentencing of him for the document case.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a lot. No, not the document case,
Speaker 4: the sentencing for paying off Stormy Daniels to have her
Speaker 4: shut up about the stoop stoop shut up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but that's not what it's about. That's not illegal
Speaker 6: to pay someone off. It's oh, it is.
Speaker 4: If you're talking about an election, if you're talking about
Speaker 4: to influent influence an election, you bet it's illegal. That's
Speaker 4: under influence on an election. You can't pay that doesn't
Speaker 4: work that way. And it was and it was, by
Speaker 4: the way, and it was also basically lying on business forms.
Speaker 4: Is wait, you're right, it's not illegal technically. The actual crime,
Speaker 4: the actual crime was lying on his business forms as
Speaker 4: Michael Cohen's uh a, Michael Cohen's fees, as legal fees,
Speaker 4: as legal business fees, business costs. And his defense was
Speaker 4: and I thought it was a good defense. I thought
Speaker 4: he was going to win on this one. In my case,
Speaker 4: when I pay off pornos stars to shut up, that
Speaker 4: is a legitimate business expense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, don't they normally normally don't they normally pay you
Speaker 6: to not talk about having touched them?
Speaker 3: Okay, let's move on. I was a little complicated, but
Speaker 3: you're right, Neil.
Speaker 4: It is not illegal to pay off somebody to shut up.
Speaker 4: That's that's done all the time. It's called the NDAs.
Speaker 4: But you can't lie about defensives.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, speaking of unpleasant burning sensations, we've got
Speaker 5: a serious situation folding here in the Southland today and
Speaker 5: the National Weather Service here in la is not mincing words.
Speaker 5: They're saying the words like destructive, life threatening and widespread.
Speaker 5: They're saying that the threat from these Santa Ana winds,
Speaker 5: the dry conditions and the fire potential is not just
Speaker 5: in the areas where there are typical prone you know,
Speaker 5: prone to fires. Areas typically prone to fires, is what
Speaker 5: I'm trying to say. There, it might be other areas.
Speaker 5: So everyone in the Southland is basically being asked to
Speaker 5: pay close attention today because this is a situation that
Speaker 5: is very volatile and could get out of control very
Speaker 5: quickly with one little ember.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a gusts of eighty to one hundred miles per hour.
Speaker 4: That's category two hurricane they say, over one hundred in
Speaker 4: the foothills in the mountain. That is category two maybe three,
Speaker 4: category three hurricane level winds. And as you can imagine,
Speaker 4: if there is a fire that starts, there is no
Speaker 4: fighting a fire.
Speaker 3: Like that at all.
Speaker 4: You can't even you can't even outrun that fire, much
Speaker 4: less attempt to put it out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we'll have a we'll just be burning for
Speaker 5: a while if something breaks out, because they won't be
Speaker 5: able to attack it from the air.
Speaker 2: You won't have those hand crews down on the ground.
Speaker 2: What they do, none of it.
Speaker 3: It's just gonna they're gonna have to be straight right.
Speaker 4: The Malibu fire, the only reason the Malibu fire stopped
Speaker 4: is the ocean.
Speaker 3: That was dead.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a it's a pretty insane map, and I
Speaker 6: heard Michael talking about it on wake Up Call this morning.
Speaker 2: But that map was like, if.
Speaker 6: You're in this area, start screaming for Antiam. All right,
Speaker 6: Rudy Giuliani back in the news, God bless him. Federal
Speaker 6: judge just yesterday held Rudy Giuliani in contempt for failing
Speaker 6: to turn over information to two former Georgia election workers.
Speaker 6: You remember he was it was said that he defamed
Speaker 6: them after the twenty twenty presidential election. They're still trying
Speaker 6: to collect that one hundred and fifty million dollars in damages,
Speaker 6: which is insane. But these things he's not turning. He's
Speaker 6: not turning over.
Speaker 4: He turned over some of his assets and not a
Speaker 4: lot of them and coming up with crazy ass excuses.
Speaker 3: I forgot.
Speaker 4: At one point there was when he was talking about
Speaker 4: how the election I had been stolen and he was
Speaker 4: arguing that fraud happens, and there was a hearing. You know,
Speaker 4: there were sixty three hearings over the election, of which
Speaker 4: the Trump forces lost every single one, and Juliani was
Speaker 4: testifying because he was the attorney record on one of
Speaker 4: these cases. And he stood up in front of the
Speaker 4: court and said, I your honor. I have proof that
Speaker 4: this that fraud happened in this election, and it was
Speaker 4: I think it was Georgia or some other state. And
Speaker 4: the judge said, okay, mister Giuliani, would you please present
Speaker 4: the proof. I'm willing to listen to it. I haven't
Speaker 4: my hotel room. I forgot to bring it. Honest to God,
Speaker 4: this is what happened. So the judge calls a recess. Okay,
Speaker 4: well wait, why don't you go to your hotel, mister
Speaker 4: Giuliani and bring back the proof? Comes back, I misplaced it.
Speaker 4: The judge laid into him. Here he's saying the same thing.
Speaker 4: For example, the Mercedes that he owned, this really very
Speaker 4: valuable vintage Mercedes, he turned it over, but he didn't
Speaker 4: turn over title. Why is that, mister Giuliani, I misplaced
Speaker 4: the title. I mean it is crazy. I mean the
Speaker 4: judge helped him in contempt. I mean he's gonna spend
Speaker 4: a few days in jail for this. And a word
Speaker 4: about Giuliani before I leave, before we take a break.
Speaker 4: And that is, as I've said before, I know someone
Speaker 4: who knows someone is very close to someone who is
Speaker 4: insanely close to Juliani. So this is secondhand, but it's
Speaker 4: my source. I will swear is absolute. There's no issue
Speaker 4: with that. And I asked, is Juliani really this crazy?
Speaker 4: And he told me he is crazier than that. Here
Speaker 4: is a guy who has lost everything. He's lost his
Speaker 4: license to practice, he has lost every ability to pay
Speaker 4: off practice law. His career in broadcasting has disappeared. The
Speaker 4: guy is going to be destitute. And he's still a
Speaker 4: true believer.
Speaker 3: Do you have pre is still a true believer?
Speaker 4: And was asked, is this worthwhile? And he said, yes,
Speaker 4: yes it was. I how does someone that bright guy
Speaker 4: was on the cover of Time magazine for God's sake.
Speaker 2: After nine to eleven America's mayor.
Speaker 4: He was America's mayor. He was one of the most
Speaker 4: respected people in the United States.
Speaker 3: I go, how is that? You don't explain to me
Speaker 3: how that happened? Because he drank the kool aid.
Speaker 2: Now he's America's mar mar like a mar on something like.
Speaker 3: You got it? Got it?
Speaker 4: Okay, fair enough, Well I'm bad, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I just I'm usually I'm used to audience. But that's
Speaker 2: that was good. I'll dumb it down.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're coming back. Hey, this just in by the.
Speaker 6: Way, I got my buddy Greg just hit me up
Speaker 6: and I'm looking at live footage. Uh, it wasn't even
Speaker 6: on the radar that I saw. It is dumping snow
Speaker 6: and Big Bear right now dumping. I didn't see that.
Speaker 6: I didn't see that.
Speaker 3: And Big Bear is where you have your place, right.
Speaker 6: I'm looking from the cameras of my place right now,
Speaker 6: it is dumping.
Speaker 2: Okay, now, okay.
Speaker 5: We had this pretty terrible earthquake that hit parts of
Speaker 5: western China to Bet and Nepal. Was a seven point
Speaker 5: one magnitude. It's killed more than one hundred people there
Speaker 5: and injured nearly two hundred. About three thousand houses damaged,
Speaker 5: and they felt tremors all over that part of the world.
Speaker 5: What struck me was that this was a seven point
Speaker 5: one magnitude, which is not that much different than the
Speaker 5: one that was in northern California off the coast, which
Speaker 5: gives an indication of that they can have been a
Speaker 5: little closer to the shore even on land.
Speaker 4: No, we have it's because we have building codes. If
Speaker 4: you go to Tibet, if you look at their houses.
Speaker 4: You ever been to the beach where the kids make
Speaker 4: sand castles in Tibet.
Speaker 3: No here, southern California.
Speaker 4: You go to Santa Monica and they're those kids making
Speaker 4: sand castles.
Speaker 3: That's how they make the homes in Tibet.
Speaker 2: Oh I hadn't realized.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's why it goes down.
Speaker 4: So when you have the you know, in the outskirts
Speaker 4: in Turkey someplace, and down goes the entire village.
Speaker 3: And everybody dies.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for the lesson.
Speaker 4: Okay, By the way, an earthquake over there here, you
Speaker 4: know when trucks rumble past the studio and you get
Speaker 4: that little shaking, Yeah, that will destroy entire villages and
Speaker 4: that part of the world.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry to hear that, especially for them. Their
Speaker 2: sensitivity is amazing.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: No, you want to move on to Neil, Yeah I
Speaker 2: think so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, yeah, let's let's move on to American babies
Speaker 4: are dying.
Speaker 3: Okay, what do you think of that?
Speaker 6: This one blew me away that there's even do you
Speaker 6: know this is about toxic lead in baby food? And
Speaker 6: I will tell you my understanding is zero is the
Speaker 6: only safe amount of lead that you should have in
Speaker 6: your body? Yes, food and vestry still safe levels, yep.
Speaker 6: But well I guess set the maximum levels for lead
Speaker 6: in baby food like jarred fruits, vegetables, you know, yogurt,
Speaker 6: dry cereal, all that they want to cut young kids
Speaker 6: exposure to toxic metals in this one, in this case
Speaker 6: lead specifically. So they're dropping it in baby food by
Speaker 6: twenty to thirty percent, which floors me that they're there's
Speaker 6: enough in there that they still want to drop it
Speaker 6: by twenty or thirty percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now we're talking.
Speaker 6: About microscopic levels here, I get it, but there is
Speaker 6: there is literally no I know, it was crazy.
Speaker 3: A certain amount of well, a certain amount of everything
Speaker 3: is in everything.
Speaker 4: Well, yes, you buy a coke a coke can, there's
Speaker 4: x percentage of rat crap in the can, which, by
Speaker 4: the way, is why it tastes better than diet PEPSI
Speaker 4: diet coke.
Speaker 3: I just want to point that out.
Speaker 2: It's the rat crap.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so the amount of diet coke you consume, that
Speaker 6: means you're probably at least sixty percent rat crap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 4: Anyway, you're right any any amount, And it's really it
Speaker 4: is troubling when you say it's there's too much in
Speaker 4: there when there should be zero in there.
Speaker 2: I mean there's there's arsenic in everything.
Speaker 5: I mean, we've gotten weak, right, I mean didn't they
Speaker 5: used to eat like a best Doze for breakfast. That
Speaker 5: was a popular cereal back in the thirties. Yeah, they
Speaker 5: were actually called asbestos. Very good, Very good, all right,
Speaker 5: more tragedy here on handle on the news.
Speaker 2: We've heard a lot about bird flu recently.
Speaker 5: We've seen the price of eggs skyrocket here in California
Speaker 5: because of it, and it has killed a lot of animals, housecats. Well,
Speaker 5: now it's killed a person, and it happened in Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Bill.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you feel the same way about
Speaker 5: people from the South as you do about people from Tibet,
Speaker 5: but this is a pretty serious development in the bird
Speaker 5: flu situation. This was confirmed by that state's Department of
Speaker 5: Public Health this week. The first in the US to
Speaker 5: die from bird flu. He was over sixty five and
Speaker 5: was said to have underlying medical conditions. A.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I was talking to a friend of mine who
Speaker 4: happens to be in visiting from Toronto, Canada, and she
Speaker 4: was mentioning, does this mean we're looking at another pandemic?
Speaker 3: No, No, it's still very hard.
Speaker 4: One person died at this point and it was over
Speaker 4: six he I think it was a he over sixty
Speaker 4: five underlying conditions, probably respiratory conditions and ended up dying.
Speaker 3: That was the first.
Speaker 4: Also, oh, bird flocks, he had like pet chickens in
Speaker 4: the backyard that he would do tricks with.
Speaker 3: Or he was blind and had a seeing eye chicken.
Speaker 3: I have no idea what that's about. But anyway, you
Speaker 3: have to have a combination all of that. Uh, you're
Speaker 3: not going to get it.
Speaker 4: And if you do get bird flu, there's it's probably
Speaker 4: not even symptomatic.
Speaker 3: So relax.
Speaker 4: I would not eat chicken at Kentucky Fried Chicken for
Speaker 4: a while.
Speaker 3: That I wouldn't say.
Speaker 2: That has nothing to do with it. Oh that that's
Speaker 2: not how it's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I misread it. Then, all right, phar enough.
Speaker 6: Read anything you're writing. You're reading things that you wrote
Speaker 6: on your hand.
Speaker 3: Why do we take a break?
Speaker 6: Could I tell you though, how how we all found
Speaker 6: out about that story and the guy dying?
Speaker 2: His family tweeted it? Really that's is that a bird joke?
Speaker 2: That's good?
Speaker 3: You're you're very strong.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but he's seeing he's no, here's the problem.
Speaker 3: His family exed it. Okay, that's the problem. That's the
Speaker 3: proper verb.
Speaker 4: Now see that's the problem.
Speaker 6: Ok yeah, Okay, it didn't crow key good to be
Speaker 6: Disney get in a fight. It's like, you know what,
Speaker 6: We're just gonna buy you sports streaming service Fubu Fubo
Speaker 6: rather tv Inc. It was set to be merged with
Speaker 6: Walt Disney Co. Uh and their Hulu Live TV service.
Speaker 6: They've been going back and forth. This agreement ends the
Speaker 6: New York based Fubo's legal action against Venue Sports. They
Speaker 6: had this I guess they were going back and forth
Speaker 6: and saying that Disney was going to create a streaming
Speaker 6: company originally with some other partners that you know. I
Speaker 6: think it was Fox Corp, Warner Brothers, Discovery that will
Speaker 6: put together another sports channel of sorts, and they were
Speaker 6: pushback as it would become a sports cartel. The anti
Speaker 6: trust US anti trust laws of course would have been involved.
Speaker 6: And this looks like a deal that makes everybody happy.
Speaker 4: Do you know what KFI was once owned by Disney
Speaker 4: was it was ABC owned the radio group, and Disney
Speaker 4: bought ABC and they sold it off because Disney and
Speaker 4: our version of radio didn't meld it so well together.
Speaker 2: Hey, when was that? Oh, by the way, Cap Cities,
Speaker 2: it was Cap Cities.
Speaker 6: What I could see the winds coming in right now,
Speaker 6: by the way outside my window, coming in right now.
Speaker 2: We usually don't get them this strum. But when was that, Oh.
Speaker 4: I don't know how many years ago when Capital Cities
Speaker 4: owned the Radio Group and then it sold Disney. But
Speaker 4: the point and Disney unloaded a lot of it because
Speaker 4: it just didn't the two formats didn't work. Someone pointed out,
Speaker 4: for example, let's say Disney buys a company that buys
Speaker 4: a company that owns company that does.
Speaker 3: Let's say, porno distribution, and it's hugely successful.
Speaker 4: Uh, they're not going to keep it. You know, I
Speaker 4: don't care how successful it is. That's exactly what happened,
Speaker 4: not to that extent obviously with us, but uh, it's
Speaker 4: it looks like, well, ESPN is.
Speaker 3: Owned by Disney. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think that was during that weird juggling time where
Speaker 6: we were purchased and sold.
Speaker 3: That was over a weekend, by the way, that was
Speaker 3: over eight weekend.
Speaker 4: We were bought and sold that closed on a Friday
Speaker 4: and sold on a Sunday to someone else.
Speaker 3: Let's move on that's that's inside baseball.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: So we've talked a bit about what President Biden has
Speaker 5: done in recent days. He's here in California doing another
Speaker 5: last minute addition to executive orders or different public policy
Speaker 5: that he can maneuver now in his final days, related
Speaker 5: to the Chuckwalla National Monument. But he's also just recently
Speaker 5: banned the offshore oil drilling. He's done some other things,
Speaker 5: and it's upset President elect Trump, who says that President
Speaker 5: Biden is doing everything possible to make the transition difficult.
Speaker 5: So I'm wondering, Bill, do you think that this is
Speaker 5: a more difficult transition than what Trump did to Biden
Speaker 5: last time?
Speaker 4: I know, I think overrunning the Capitol, attacking it, undoing
Speaker 4: an election.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a little bit more of a problem.
Speaker 4: But it's really interesting the transition because the actual transition,
Speaker 4: even the new chief of staff of Trump says it's
Speaker 4: a smooth transition transition.
Speaker 3: Everything the Biden.
Speaker 4: Administration is making it easy for the new Trump administration
Speaker 4: to actually start working the White House. Here are the
Speaker 4: phones here, the computers here, where's the bathroom down the hall?
Speaker 3: That sort of thing. But policy Biden is doing.
Speaker 4: Everything to screw up the transition of the new president,
Speaker 4: passing bills establishing various programs that are going to be
Speaker 4: fairly difficult to undo. And the first thing that President
Speaker 4: Trump is going to do, an addition to pardoning everybody
Speaker 4: in January sixth and a few other things, deporting everybody
Speaker 4: in the United States.
Speaker 3: It's illegal.
Speaker 4: Is undo what Biden is doing or try to undo.
Speaker 4: So it's both true and not true in terms of
Speaker 4: the transition.
Speaker 2: All right, let's you.
Speaker 4: Know when, oh, when George Bush left the White House
Speaker 4: and Obama took over, a lot of Bush's staff removed
Speaker 4: the w's from the computer keyboards.
Speaker 2: Oh, is that true?
Speaker 3: I think it is. I think it is.
Speaker 4: I think I know it's an urban myth, but I
Speaker 4: think that is true. I think that did happen. Obviously,
Speaker 4: it was just there. You know, it wasn't to screw
Speaker 4: them up, but it was a it was an f
Speaker 4: You sure.
Speaker 2: Which do you think is worse?
Speaker 6: Conservatives is saying that it was a peaceful protest on
Speaker 6: January sixth, or liberals, Oh, it was.
Speaker 4: Bill when Bill kilt I'm sorry, when Bill Clinton took
Speaker 4: the White House go ahead?
Speaker 6: Which is what are when liberals say that, you know,
Speaker 6: looting and start fires is a peaceful protest.
Speaker 3: Both terrible, it's terrible.
Speaker 4: But you see, usually you don't see presidents saying that
Speaker 4: looting is you don't think.
Speaker 6: You don't think that the White House came out and
Speaker 6: said it was a peaceful protest when there was looting
Speaker 6: in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: This is how you get to be number one in
Speaker 5: Barrett media. I don't remember that endemic era debates.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will and Derek Way pretty panda, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I will see this, and I want to make it
Speaker 6: clear I think January sixth was horrific and one of
Speaker 6: the biggest scars on Yeah.
Speaker 4: I know, it's okay. Let's you know, you're right, we're
Speaker 4: talking old history.
Speaker 3: You know. When we come back, I want to.
Speaker 4: Talk about the uh, the various aspects of the Lindbergh
Speaker 4: baby kidnapping and murder.
Speaker 3: Not that we're that's by the way, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to do that. I just thought i'd bring that up.
Speaker 2: Current headlines, Yes, current headlines.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what, the baby is dead.
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