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Speaker 1: six forty and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: here's Bill Handle.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, here we are and good morning everybody.
Speaker 3: Do we start another year? We do.
Speaker 2: By the way, if you have your calendars out, we
Speaker 2: only have three hundred and fifty three more days till
Speaker 2: Christmas for shopping, so make sure you take advantage of that.
Speaker 2: And we have a bunch of changes coming up which
Speaker 2: I'm going to share with you. First, let me say
Speaker 2: hello to one and all the entire time. The entire
Speaker 2: team is.
Speaker 3: Here except for Amy.
Speaker 2: Amy.
Speaker 3: No big change, Amy.
Speaker 2: I understand Amy's under the weather today. So Michael Monks,
Speaker 2: who is now? I guess our permanent sort of fill
Speaker 2: in when Amy is gone.
Speaker 3: Michael, good morning, Good morning, glad to be with you. Bill,
Speaker 3: Yes you are. Hey.
Speaker 2: Uh? I noticed that you are wearing sort of an outdoorsy.
Speaker 3: Vest, this puffy vest that you wear when mountaineering. Are
Speaker 3: you aware that you're inside?
Speaker 4: I occasionally, especially to get the week started, I'm wearing
Speaker 4: a turtleneck under a puffy vest. I like to dress
Speaker 4: like a suburban soccer mom who drives like Alex's suv.
Speaker 4: It really gets me going on a Monday, I feel
Speaker 4: like I have the energy to get through the week.
Speaker 3: Wow, I was trying to go more.
Speaker 4: With the with you know something almost kind of thing,
Speaker 4: you know, except his was red.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean only the only good news here for
Speaker 2: the this We don't do television here and for those
Speaker 2: of us that are watching monitors, everything is above the
Speaker 2: waist because we're sitting under desks, and uh do I
Speaker 2: tell people you really do go commando under all of those.
Speaker 5: What's the matter with you?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 2: Uh? And let me tell you during the summer, it's
Speaker 2: as SNL would say, it's the sweaty balls that really
Speaker 2: do some horrible things to the seat or their upholstered
Speaker 2: seats is horrible anyway. All right, So we started the
Speaker 2: year in typical handle in the morning fashion Neil, good morning.
Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah. Is Amy gonna be sad she missed that exchange? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And is first of all the morning and good morning.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about what you're wearing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I am wearing a shirt Hawaiian shirt, Hawaiian
Speaker 2: shirt and uh something you know, one of the Christmas
Speaker 2: gifts that we receive. Both Lynn Lindsay and I received
Speaker 2: was matching pajamas from.
Speaker 3: Ann and he's wearing the bottoms.
Speaker 2: I wear the bottom bottoms. And in the morning it
Speaker 2: gets really cold in the morning here.
Speaker 3: At my place, Yellowian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, yeah, it's sort of like it almost clashes.
Speaker 3: I think we'll take a picture later on. I'll take
Speaker 3: a picture later on. And awesome, Well here let me
Speaker 3: show you guys. Oh what's happening?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, those are cute.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, those are plaid plaid pajamas. And we have
Speaker 2: matching pajamas. You know how cheesy and stupid it looks
Speaker 2: when couples have matching pajamas and families that we're there,
Speaker 2: and we're there, but very comfortable, Thank you many.
Speaker 3: Very nice.
Speaker 5: It was nice.
Speaker 2: It was really and then socks and all kinds of
Speaker 2: fun stuff. It was very very thoughtful. Appreciate it and
Speaker 2: going to be well used and not washed.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and cono, good morning. All right, Well we
Speaker 3: start another year.
Speaker 2: All right, we have some changes coming up on the
Speaker 2: show this year as we start January, the first Monday
Speaker 2: of January, January sixth, So let.
Speaker 3: Me tell you a few the changes.
Speaker 2: First of all, today is Wayne Resnick's last day. Wayne
Speaker 2: is retiring as of today, and so we have the
Speaker 2: eight thirty to nine o'clock, the last two segments of
Speaker 2: the show open and what we're going to do and
Speaker 2: I'll explain this a little bit later. I'm going to
Speaker 2: reintroduce success from Scratch. We're going to bring that back
Speaker 2: to the show, which was great fun and it disappeared
Speaker 2: because frankly, it was hard to find good stories. But
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you out there in radio land,
Speaker 2: our listeners who love us beyond anything, our fans, our
Speaker 2: fanboys and girls.
Speaker 3: Right, I don't know what the hell you call it.
Speaker 3: You know people who.
Speaker 2: Tune in all right, people who are going through the
Speaker 2: dial and they just happen to have a cramp in
Speaker 2: their hands when they hit KFI and are listening.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm going to ask and I'll explain it later.
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you guys to help us out
Speaker 2: out uh in terms of bringing some stories to the table.
Speaker 3: And that should be kind of fun. Uh.
Speaker 2: So that is a change we're going to continue on
Speaker 2: this year with uh the ask bill anything we may
Speaker 2: actually and Ann I just thought of this, do we
Speaker 2: expand it to ask Neil anything?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: And I don't know the answer to that, and we
Speaker 2: just uh oh, because you're fun too.
Speaker 3: I mean you've got some it comes up on occasion, but.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, you've got some really interest stories.
Speaker 2: For example, the night that you married Melissa, your previous wife,
Speaker 2: and that entire story, Michael, it is so believe me,
Speaker 2: it's it's a book.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a sick call. What and not in
Speaker 3: a good way either. Okay, are you talking.
Speaker 5: About the fact that my first wife had an affair?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And the night that you got married.
Speaker 5: I don't know what. You know what though, I can't
Speaker 5: say that it was.
Speaker 2: She went off and said, excuse me, I'll be back
Speaker 2: in a moment, went off and stooped her boyfriend.
Speaker 5: You know what's strange.
Speaker 6: I have this because the holidays, I've been getting like
Speaker 6: really into old photos and I got like a.
Speaker 5: And stuff.
Speaker 6: So I've been going through old photos and I have
Speaker 6: pictures of you at my first wedding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think I remember that, didn't I didn't
Speaker 2: I tell out that. Then I point out that she
Speaker 2: was coming back to the reception pulling up her panties.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know what were so?
Speaker 6: I think you were there with Marjorie, your second wife.
Speaker 3: Let me keep playing.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you how many spouses do we have on
Speaker 4: this morning show?
Speaker 3: This old hero them here? Well?
Speaker 2: Uh I uh, you know, statue of libertary limitations is up,
Speaker 2: so I can tell you about my first one, which
Speaker 2: I was buried for two minutes and I was explain
Speaker 2: why and then uh Marjorie, and uh now I'm going
Speaker 2: to be on my third one. Nice, yeah, but really
Speaker 2: only two, I mean really only one.
Speaker 3: The first one.
Speaker 2: There's a story, there's a handle. Tell us the story story,
Speaker 2: you know, So we'll.
Speaker 3: Do that probably. See, I already put it in people's minds.
Speaker 5: Did you did your wife break up with you yet?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: Man, we're happy.
Speaker 3: How long have you together?
Speaker 5: People give up their resolutions so early. How long?
Speaker 3: How long have you been together?
Speaker 5: Two years? Been together eight years, but.
Speaker 3: It's a long time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're I've been married two years to Kno,
Speaker 4: so like we're in the same boat here to a woman.
Speaker 3: No, no, sir, I didn't think.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could tell about the turtleneck. I could tell
Speaker 4: by they gave me away.
Speaker 3: All right, God, what.
Speaker 2: A way to start the year, right, is anybody listening
Speaker 2: by the Oh there's the other thing that I've never hear.
Speaker 3: Something else is never happened.
Speaker 2: I've been on this show thirty one and a half years,
Speaker 2: sitting behind the mic in the morning.
Speaker 3: All right, the morning show.
Speaker 2: Something has happened today that has never happened in.
Speaker 3: The history of this show.
Speaker 2: I have one scheduled live read for commercial one.
Speaker 3: As you confirm that, because I know I was stunned.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, people bitch and mode moan about
Speaker 2: Oh Bill, you do so many commercials. We're up to
Speaker 2: here with it. You know, I understand that. You know,
Speaker 2: I get it. I mean this is commercial radio. I
Speaker 2: mean someone's got to pay the bills, and.
Speaker 3: So I got one one.
Speaker 5: I am seventeen.
Speaker 2: It's never it's never happened before. All right, it's the
Speaker 2: start of a brand new year.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, it's just are they not paying to
Speaker 6: put a sponsorship on this? When schweaty balls was the
Speaker 6: first thing out of your mouth for the new year,
Speaker 6: that's when you need them. We had to watch the
Speaker 6: whatdy balls come down into Times Square.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just had an unusual crowd show marks when
Speaker 2: he did his show, and then we'd come to the
Speaker 2: little note would come down on a duck.
Speaker 3: All right, how about we get into a handle on
Speaker 3: the news on this Wednday morning, January sixth, with Michael
Speaker 3: Monkson for Amy. We don't know if she's.
Speaker 2: Coming back tomorrow or not, but Michael's here, Neil's here,
Speaker 2: and me lead story. Well, today, four years to the
Speaker 2: day of the January sixth insurrection, President Trump is going
Speaker 2: to be well. President elect Trump is going to be
Speaker 2: certified by Congress as the next incoming president.
Speaker 3: And it has I'm gonna do a story later on.
Speaker 3: It has changed.
Speaker 2: January sixth, four years ago, was considered insurrection, was considered
Speaker 2: an attack on democracy by many of us, which has
Speaker 2: now turned into a celebration of peaceful demonstrators who were
Speaker 2: there simply to uphold the constitution and they are heroes
Speaker 2: and they will all be pardoned. And is now, let
Speaker 2: me ask you, is the next president going to call
Speaker 2: January sixth a national holiday?
Speaker 3: And I don't know, and I'm just throwing that out.
Speaker 3: You can tell where I go.
Speaker 2: But anyway, today's certification is going to happen exactly the
Speaker 2: way it's supposed to. There is no talk of the
Speaker 2: election being stolen. Trump won both the electoral College and
Speaker 2: the popular vote, so there's no argument whatsoever.
Speaker 3: This is the way America voted.
Speaker 2: Welcome to democracy, and it's just ironic, to say the least.
Speaker 2: And who's going to make the announcement the Vice president,
Speaker 2: So Kamala Harris will be announcing her loss and the
Speaker 2: win of her opponent, which is the way it works.
Speaker 5: With her hand firmly gripping a chardonnay.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and she's gonna do it, and she's gonna do
Speaker 2: it through gritted teeth.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's gonna be wild. It's not going to
Speaker 3: be wild.
Speaker 2: It's going to be exactly the way this country was
Speaker 2: established and how it should go.
Speaker 4: Before he takes office, President Elect Trump is getting to
Speaker 4: work on his legislative agenda, and he'd like it all
Speaker 4: done fast.
Speaker 3: He'd like it in one bell swoop.
Speaker 4: He's asked all of his fellow Republicans in Congress to
Speaker 4: take all of the Trump priorities and combine them into
Speaker 4: one massive bill that he says would cut taxes, bolster
Speaker 4: border security, and increase energy production right here in the
Speaker 4: United States. He says, don't worry about the cost of
Speaker 4: all of these proposals. We'll take care of these trillions
Speaker 4: of dollars and expenses by raising tariffs on imported goods.
Speaker 3: So he made this announcement.
Speaker 4: He wants to see one single bill and he wants
Speaker 4: to get all of this done as fast as he can.
Speaker 2: Okay, So with that, and I'm going to do a
Speaker 2: segment at seven thirty about his power. Mike Johnson squeaked
Speaker 2: in as the speaker, and it was a question of
Speaker 2: whether he was going to stay. It was Trump who
Speaker 2: picked up the phone and called Republicans, says you'll vote
Speaker 2: for Mike.
Speaker 3: Johnson, and they did.
Speaker 2: He is going to push for this bill and call
Speaker 2: recalcitrate Republicans and say you will vote for this bill.
Speaker 3: Here's the problem he's.
Speaker 2: Got is that among the far right, and we're talking
Speaker 2: about conspiracy folks, we're talking about Trump supporters who are
Speaker 2: just will follow him off a cliff, their lemmings. Some
Speaker 2: of them are deficit hawks who believe, to their heart
Speaker 2: of hearts, our government is spending is out of control
Speaker 2: and Trump is calling for a two trillion dollar deficit.
Speaker 3: And you've got a few of these that.
Speaker 2: Are saying, wait a minute, we can't keep on doing this.
Speaker 2: When Barack Obama during his second term, our deficit, our
Speaker 2: national debt hit twenty trillion dollars, and Donald Trump, right,
Speaker 2: he said, this is out of control. We cannot have
Speaker 2: a national debt that has hit this level.
Speaker 3: It's completely out of control.
Speaker 2: Here we are eight years later, we're almost double that,
Speaker 2: and President Trump is going to add two trillion dollars
Speaker 2: a year. Defenitus spending is no longer a problem. Well,
Speaker 2: you've got a few Republicans that are saying, hang on
Speaker 2: a minute, hang on a minute, and.
Speaker 3: So that may at least slow it down or even.
Speaker 2: Stop it because he needs every single vote.
Speaker 5: Okay, crazy to do it all in one bill to.
Speaker 3: One bill too.
Speaker 5: He wants it all done insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah well yeah.
Speaker 6: Oh and the speaker was a miss misunderstanding. I'm told
Speaker 6: he called the Republicans and said say nice things about
Speaker 6: my Johnson.
Speaker 7: Ah, yes, they misheard him. Man, that's very good, very strong.
Speaker 7: That's what ime this morning. Welcome back twenty five everywhere, now, Michael,
Speaker 7: this is how we roll.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be a big year.
Speaker 5: Yeah all right.
Speaker 6: The first major storm of twenty twenty five, slamming millions
Speaker 6: of Americans across the country. You got central planes, you
Speaker 6: got the East Coast breaking snowfall records in the Midwest
Speaker 6: as it's movie east there.
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, so you have.
Speaker 2: This is one thing I hate about the Rose Parade
Speaker 2: is that you've got people in Buffalo, New York, for example,
Speaker 2: the Eastern Seaboard can't actually open their front door because
Speaker 2: snow is up to the eaves and they have to
Speaker 2: wait to be rescued. And on television they're watching the
Speaker 2: Rose Parade where it's seventy two degrees and not a
Speaker 2: cloud in the sky, which typically happens, and then they
Speaker 2: all pack up and want to move to southern California
Speaker 2: because they love the four h five.
Speaker 5: Ye it was a beautiful day yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yesterday was seventy two degrees.
Speaker 2: Ye. It's look at the storms that are going on,
Speaker 2: record setting storms in the east.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seventy two degrees yesterday, it's perfect. I talked to
Speaker 3: my family yesterday.
Speaker 4: They live in Kentucky, and you know, there's like eight
Speaker 4: inches of snow on the ground in some parts of
Speaker 4: that and it's just I can't help but not miss
Speaker 4: them so much sometimes, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: All Right, Why you're wearing a puffy vest. Well, that's
Speaker 3: why they asked me to leave.
Speaker 4: So some folks in the country are going to have
Speaker 4: higher checks coming their way through Social Security and they
Speaker 4: can think one President Joe Biden for that. He signed
Speaker 4: into law just yesterday this measure that apparently will boost
Speaker 4: those Social Security payments for both current and former employees
Speaker 4: of public entities like teachers, firefighters, cops, other people in
Speaker 4: public service jobs. It's called the Social Security Fairness Act,
Speaker 4: and Biden's team says it addresses a decade's old disparity,
Speaker 4: though it will also put a strain on Social Security
Speaker 4: trust funds.
Speaker 3: So, well, the rest of us get social Security down
Speaker 3: the road.
Speaker 2: Okay, nothing to be said other than you're going to
Speaker 2: get a little bit more money, and the Social Security
Speaker 2: fund is going to go out of It's going to
Speaker 2: go out of business, and you'll help them deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So for those of you that are working and are
Speaker 2: paying in more than you've ever paid in before, you.
Speaker 3: Can kiss social Security goodbye.
Speaker 6: I'll be faring that for years, and I just know
Speaker 6: it's going to happen the day I retire.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know you've been hearing it for years
Speaker 2: and it has been happening for years. And the way
Speaker 2: they fix it is they just keep increasing your Social
Speaker 2: Security tax, both for you and businesses.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you keep on just paying.
Speaker 2: More and more and more, and then there's a whole
Speaker 2: world to it because there's a limit on Social Security.
Speaker 2: There isn't a limit, for example, on medical taxes. You
Speaker 2: just pay and pay and pay and pay. I'll talk
Speaker 2: about that later on.
Speaker 6: At some point, they say there's no coincidences. So this
Speaker 6: is a weird one. You have Army records showing that
Speaker 6: there's just this brief less than a year career overlap
Speaker 6: between the New Orleans and Las Vegas suspects. So you've
Speaker 6: got one that the Army veteran driving a truck through
Speaker 6: a crowd in New Orleans. Horrific attack there. And then
Speaker 6: you have Special Force as a master sergeant who exploded
Speaker 6: a Tesla and left a note Tesla cybertruck there in
Speaker 6: Las Vegas.
Speaker 5: They briefly overlapped, but like I said, less than a year.
Speaker 6: Law enforcement analysts investigating the attack the attack say that
Speaker 6: there's no connection.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it's coincidence.
Speaker 2: One radicalized completely Shamsudin Jabbar, who of course was accused
Speaker 2: of being an illegal alien, even though he was born
Speaker 2: in Texas.
Speaker 3: I guess if you're born in Texas, somehow you're illegal.
Speaker 5: Got some people from Texas that, yeah.
Speaker 3: I know that's true, probably would say that.
Speaker 2: And he was completely radicalizer finding that out and Libbelsburger
Speaker 2: who have received medals. He was considered among many people
Speaker 2: legitimately and he just mental health issues PTSD, some infidelity issues.
Speaker 2: The country has gone south, although he didn't explain how,
Speaker 2: so we don't even know on which side he decided
Speaker 2: the country was going to hell in a handbasket.
Speaker 3: So there isn't much of a connection, all right.
Speaker 4: So Russia is fighting back, excuse me, Ukraine is fighting
Speaker 4: back and talking smack. The country launched a counter attack
Speaker 4: on that border region called Kursk. Apparently these were surprise
Speaker 4: attacks against Russian forces, and in a post on telegram,
Speaker 4: the head of the Ukrainian Presidential office says, kurse region
Speaker 4: good news. Russia is getting what it deserves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is going to be one of those
Speaker 2: where we don't know where it's going.
Speaker 3: I think Ukraine is and this.
Speaker 2: Is what I've heard and reported been reported that it
Speaker 2: is going balls to the wall. To get as much
Speaker 2: Russia territory as it possibly can and until cipation of
Speaker 2: President Trump saying he's stopping the war basically day one,
Speaker 2: and he can. All he has to do is tell
Speaker 2: Ukraine no more arms. That's it, You're done. And so
Speaker 2: it's going to be some kind of a negotiated piece,
Speaker 2: is what Trump wants, and I think he's going.
Speaker 3: To get it.
Speaker 2: And so this attack is basically a bargaining chip. We'll
Speaker 2: give you this part of Russia back if you give
Speaker 2: us this. So we'll see what happens. Is going to
Speaker 2: be just fascinating starting January twentieth, I mean, just incredible.
Speaker 5: Isn't it coming up? Is it it's third or fourth year?
Speaker 5: I think it's.
Speaker 2: It's the third year has already started. When did it
Speaker 2: go in where it's into its third year already?
Speaker 5: Wow, that's insane already.
Speaker 6: Los Angeles man said he recently missed his flight, not
Speaker 6: for the reasons we normally.
Speaker 5: Do, like traffic. He was in a car.
Speaker 6: He just happened to be on his way to the
Speaker 6: airport in a way MO that wouldn't start. Uh what
Speaker 6: do they call that?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Doing whippets? What is that?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Just making circle?
Speaker 5: What is that when they do donuts?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Flipping wickets? What are you do?
Speaker 3: You know the terms of the street racing people?
Speaker 5: Yeah, come on, cono, you wear a hat?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Can you imagine?
Speaker 6: Just and he's calling them, going, I'm getting dizzy. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm in a parking lot and it keeps going in circles.
Speaker 3: I have a flight to catch.
Speaker 2: Is it fair to say that he got way mo
Speaker 2: than he bargained for.
Speaker 6: Well, they were slipping willies, they were slinging.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, let's not talk about me
Speaker 2: and my personal wife.
Speaker 3: All right, we're done with that.
Speaker 5: Wait in Massachusetts, we're just starting.
Speaker 3: Is it Monday?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: What the hell? It's welcome to the show. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 3: serious stuff.
Speaker 5: Let's move on.
Speaker 4: Let's transition into something much more serious. Awkwardly, into another
Speaker 4: region that's still at war. Hamas Israel. Apparently Hamas has
Speaker 4: approved a list of Israeli hostages that they will potentially exchange.
Speaker 4: This is according to Reuter's, which reports Hamas has approved
Speaker 4: an Israeli list of thirty four hostages to be exchanged
Speaker 4: and a possible cease fire deal, and the Israeli government
Speaker 4: so far has denied receiving a list of hostages from Hamas,
Speaker 4: but it also did not directly respond to the substance
Speaker 4: of the Reuters reports.
Speaker 5: So maybe progress over there. Maybe not.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the problem.
Speaker 2: Hamas's position is permanent cease fire, permanent withdrawal of Israeli.
Speaker 3: Forces from Gaza, and we'll give you some hostages. Israel.
Speaker 3: No chance are we leaving Gaza.
Speaker 2: We are never going to let what happened happened October
Speaker 2: seventh ever happen again. And Hamas still is charter is
Speaker 2: the destruction of Israel. We ain't gonna this happen or
Speaker 2: you have an ability. So they're still at odds. While
Speaker 2: that is going on, the Israeli air strikes continue and
Speaker 2: people are dying by the dozens a week in Gaza,
Speaker 2: and they're bombing.
Speaker 5: At this point, they're.
Speaker 3: Bombing anything that's left. They wiped out all the hospitals.
Speaker 2: There was one existing hospital they took out, saying that
Speaker 2: there were it was Kamas operatives that were operating out
Speaker 2: of there.
Speaker 3: It was some infrastructure. And now they're at odds.
Speaker 2: Hamas says, no that Israelis wake up in the morning
Speaker 2: and say, let's see if we can bomb a hospital,
Speaker 2: and we don't have any fighters there. According to Hamas,
Speaker 2: there are no fighters in Israel. Israel just as bombing
Speaker 2: the whole country for no reason, and Israel says, hey,
Speaker 2: we're just going after these bad guys who happened to
Speaker 2: be in the civilian population. And if well, we had
Speaker 2: to pay attention to everybody was civilian, we would never
Speaker 2: be able to go after anybody.
Speaker 3: So it's insurmountable, it really is. At this point. Is
Speaker 3: there going to be a piece of course there is
Speaker 3: at some point, but.
Speaker 2: Ninety or ninety five percent of Gaza has been displaced,
Speaker 2: Palestinians displaced, probably a third forty percent if not more,
Speaker 2: has been wiped out. In terms of infrastructure, there's never
Speaker 2: going to be peace now. And imagine how long it's
Speaker 2: going to take to rebuild a country. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: sewer systems, electricity, pipe pipes, oil and gas.
Speaker 5: This is not a joke, by the way, that what
Speaker 5: I'm going to ask.
Speaker 6: But how how secure, how intense was the infrastructure?
Speaker 5: How robust I think is the word.
Speaker 3: Of it was? It was never robust. It was never robust.
Speaker 2: Because Hamasa's position has always been gearing up for war
Speaker 2: is more important than infrastructure. In God, people are at
Speaker 2: a much lower level than the fight against Israel. Gold
Speaker 2: In my ear said something fascinating when she was Prime Minister.
Speaker 2: She said, we will never have peace until the Palestinians
Speaker 2: love their children more than they hate us, which I
Speaker 2: thought was an astounding statement. If you look at what's
Speaker 2: going on in Gaza, I think that's the case. And
Speaker 2: at the same time, I want to point out there
Speaker 2: is a humanitarian crisis of unbelievable proportions at Israel, simply
Speaker 2: ignoring Nope, nope, there is no starvation. Nope, we're letting
Speaker 2: all the aid come through a complete lie.
Speaker 3: So none of this looks very good.
Speaker 6: And Bill handled the motivational speaker twenty twenty five, Yes,
Speaker 6: all right, Pulitser Prize winning cartoonists, and someone helped me
Speaker 6: with the last name is it Telnaus. She announced a
Speaker 6: Friday that she had to resign from The Washington Post
Speaker 6: after the newspaper refused to publish a satirical cartoon depicting
Speaker 6: billionaire and Post owner Jeff Bezos on bed and knee
Speaker 6: in front of President elect Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: So it's a it's a weird cartoon sort of.
Speaker 6: I get I got out of it that because you
Speaker 6: have Mickey Mouse dead looks like it's you know. And
Speaker 6: then Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon sheung, uh, and
Speaker 6: you had and he was holding lipstick or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but here's the point.
Speaker 2: Then the Washington Post is owned by Bezos.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 2: And so why why wouldn't he be able to say,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'd rather not have a cartoon that
Speaker 2: makes fun of me or humiliates me in a paper.
Speaker 3: That I own.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, it's a newspaper and it should be I
Speaker 6: understand that they You should have editorial. If you're the
Speaker 6: editorial uh, satire cartoonist, you should be able to fight
Speaker 6: for things you believe in. But is this a commentary
Speaker 6: on the fact that that those papers or those didn't
Speaker 6: want to pick a side or endorse some No.
Speaker 2: No, it's a it's a firewall usually between the editorial
Speaker 2: side and the ownership and management, and those that firewalls.
Speaker 6: I didn't understand the cartoon. Is it because they because
Speaker 6: they're holding money bags? It's because they donated money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of them is because they donated money to
Speaker 3: the Trump campaign.
Speaker 2: That's one, And I think the other one is that
Speaker 2: they're now cow towing to Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Was going to control everything.
Speaker 2: They used to be sort of anti Donald Trump, The
Speaker 2: New York Times or the Post, the LA Times sort
Speaker 2: of anti Trump in many ways. And this cartoon says, uh,
Speaker 2: now Trump controls everything, and we're going to suck up.
Speaker 2: The owners of this paper are going to suck up, uh,
Speaker 2: And the owner of the La Times going to suck
Speaker 2: up in front of the president. And they're on bended knee.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's a political statement, but it's you know,
Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos loans of paper, you know, like it's it's
Speaker 2: like me or you posting something completely derogatory about, for example,
Speaker 2: management of this station.
Speaker 3: Oh I do that every day, don't I? Yeah, And
Speaker 3: they never say don't.
Speaker 2: By the way, there is a firewall between I have
Speaker 2: to give I hard a lot of credit for this.
Speaker 2: There is a firewall between what they tell us to
Speaker 2: say and what we can't say.
Speaker 5: Maybe they have no idea that you're on the air.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't listen, But that's besides the point. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's move.
Speaker 6: On to Elvis on the FM station. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4: Everybody has paid a toll before while driving on some
Speaker 4: freeways or into certain parts of certain cities, maybe certain bridges.
Speaker 3: But have you ever paid congestion pricing. It's new in
Speaker 3: New York.
Speaker 4: It's a little controversial, but some people seem to like it.
Speaker 4: And it's called congestion pricing because that means during peak hours,
Speaker 4: when the Big Apple is most congested, people have to
Speaker 4: pay nine bucks just to get in there. It's part
Speaker 4: of an effort to reduce gridlock. If you think LA
Speaker 4: traffic is bad, you should just look at New York.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the lower side of New York. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is sort of.
Speaker 2: Times square at North and then all the way down
Speaker 2: and it's it is so congested.
Speaker 3: You know, first responders can't respond. It's crowded.
Speaker 2: I mean fire people can't respond when fires break out.
Speaker 2: It's completely crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it works.
Speaker 2: And so is congestion going to be controlled? Well, London
Speaker 2: has had it for a long time. I didn't know
Speaker 2: this until I looked at the story. Singapore has had
Speaker 2: congested pricing since the seventies.
Speaker 5: That's why the taxis are motorcycles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just too crowded. They also cane people in Singapore.
Speaker 5: Is that right? Is that the right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you spit and you get caane. Yeah, And if
Speaker 2: you bring in a joint you get hanged.
Speaker 5: Wow. Yeah, you do love when people compare us to
Speaker 5: other places like that.
Speaker 6: They do it there and then yeah, women can't are
Speaker 6: allowed to drive either.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's besides the point.
Speaker 6: All right, Canada, the Prime minister there justin Trudeau increasingly
Speaker 6: looking like he's going to announce stepping down. There was
Speaker 6: some rumbles yesterday and now a source that spoke to
Speaker 6: Ruters says that it might happen as early as today.
Speaker 2: He has no absolutely no power anymore. He has no
Speaker 2: confidence or the legislature has no confidence in him, the Parliament.
Speaker 3: And it's basically over for him. Where he came in.
Speaker 2: Was it ten years ago, no more than that, twenty
Speaker 2: thirteen and he took over as a Liberal leader and
Speaker 2: swept everything and he was going to be the answer
Speaker 2: to their problems.
Speaker 3: Ain't happening.
Speaker 2: And now the Liberals are number three party wise, So yeah,
Speaker 2: he's gone.
Speaker 4: There is something that President Biden and President Trump seem
Speaker 4: to have agreed on it, and it's that Nippon Steel
Speaker 4: and US Steel should not be together. And so Biden
Speaker 4: did block that recently with some executive action. But now
Speaker 4: the courts are going to get involved. It looks like
Speaker 4: Nippon Steele may sue the US government over the president's
Speaker 4: decision to block that acquisition. Biden said that he wanted
Speaker 4: to block it because he wanted to protect national security
Speaker 4: and supply chains here in America. Was a fourteen point
Speaker 4: three billion dollar acquisition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there are two sides of this.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 2: Is it a legitimate national security concern where you have
Speaker 2: a Japanese company buying one of the biggest, if not
Speaker 2: the biggest steel manufacturer in the United States. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, steel is pretty important to not only the
Speaker 2: economy but to our security when someone else controls the market,
Speaker 2: Nippon and US Steel says this is the only way
Speaker 2: we're going to stay competitive. And Trump is going to
Speaker 2: do everything because remember Trump is we want to keep
Speaker 2: American workers here. That's not to say that these aren't
Speaker 2: American workers, but because it's still going to be manufactured.
Speaker 2: US steel is not moving as steel plants. But it's
Speaker 2: the question of who owns it, American ownership, and it's
Speaker 2: very important to Donald Trump as important as it is
Speaker 2: the Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: I think it's more important to President Trump. So do
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be blocked. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: I think the course are going to buy into its
Speaker 2: national security issue.
Speaker 6: All right, DN, What if, though, Bill, let's say wartime
Speaker 6: or something, when steel is of its most important important right,
Speaker 6: couldn't regardless of who owns it, if it's American workers
Speaker 6: on American soil, can't we say we're you know, commandeering this.
Speaker 2: Oh, it happened in the Korean War. Harry Truman is
Speaker 2: exactly that.
Speaker 3: Harry.
Speaker 2: There was a strike going on among steel workers, and
Speaker 2: Harry Truman shut down the strike. He nationalized the steel
Speaker 2: industry literally on a temporary basis, brought in guards, forced
Speaker 2: in in National Guard, and the steel workers went back
Speaker 2: to work. That strike disappeared for national security issues. So
Speaker 2: if it has happened, and it will happen, Okay, we're done, guys.
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