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Speaker 2: And ballistic missiles are not just missiles.
Speaker 1: They go up into space and then they come down
Speaker 1: right where they're supposed to, and there's no defense to them, virtually.
Speaker 1: And it's an ICBM, which stands for I think inter
Speaker 1: Chinese Bowel movement.
Speaker 2: Do I have that right? I've always wondered what that
Speaker 2: stood for?
Speaker 3: Intercontinental missile.
Speaker 1: I see, yeah, intercontinental ballistic missile. I like the first definition.
Speaker 1: It's just better.
Speaker 2: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Speaker 2: Bill handle, and good morning everybody.
Speaker 1: It is a footy Friday, September twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, Friday is always kind of fun.
Speaker 1: So let's start with a good well, first of all,
Speaker 1: Now let's start with a good morning for everybody.
Speaker 2: All right, Cono, you're up again, morning, Cono, Yes I am,
Speaker 2: Yes you are.
Speaker 1: Amy, Good morning, Hi Bill, Hi there, and good morning,
Speaker 1: good morning, and last and certainly least, Neil, good morning
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Willie Woolf.
Speaker 2: Okay, So a couple of things.
Speaker 1: First of all, Fridays are always fun because Neil joins
Speaker 1: me he's always there, but it's our segment's Foody Friday,
Speaker 1: which is always ONLAN to eight thirty.
Speaker 2: A Handle on the Law calls.
Speaker 1: We're going back into the archives of calls tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: is Handle on the Law for me tow eleven, right
Speaker 1: after Dean Sharp with the house Whisper. And these are
Speaker 1: just fun calls. I mean it's almost any call I
Speaker 1: can get. You know how many calls I have? You
Speaker 1: have any of what my what my library is? Nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five is when I started doing that. So I
Speaker 1: got a lot of calls all the way from big
Speaker 1: real reel the real, to cassettes to dats, to floppy
Speaker 1: discs and originally floppy discs I thought was sort of
Speaker 1: an ed issue. It's floppy discs. I got that now
Speaker 1: and all the way to thumb drives, all kinds of things. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're going to do our another session at eight fifty.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, at eight thirty, okay, really quickly.
Speaker 1: Before we get into it, I have to share with
Speaker 1: you the nightmare I had last night.
Speaker 2: I don't get nightmares very often. I don't.
Speaker 1: I was at but two thirty for me, it's very
Speaker 1: early because usually I'm up an hour later, and I
Speaker 1: know you guys are at that point, certainly Kno and
Speaker 1: Amy and yeah, well food chain issue. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: jump out a bit, literally jump out a bit at
Speaker 1: two thirty and I had this nightmare you don't often
Speaker 1: remember vividly nightmares.
Speaker 2: I'm in the car and I'm parked.
Speaker 1: I go into a parking space in front of some
Speaker 1: businesses with my entire family there, and I see in
Speaker 1: the side view mirror a guy walking towards us pulling
Speaker 1: out a gun, a handgun, and I scream.
Speaker 2: He has a gun.
Speaker 1: I open the door I'm driving, and I just bail out,
Speaker 1: looking back to see what's going on, and he reaches
Speaker 1: in and shoots everybody.
Speaker 2: And it was absolutely horrible, and I was the only survivor.
Speaker 2: And then I realized, you know what, that's not so bad.
Speaker 3: I've had work sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was. I'm the only one that walked away. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: It was horrible.
Speaker 1: I mean, god, I hate those nightmares, okay. Uh And
Speaker 1: sometimes and you guys wake up to a nightmare because
Speaker 1: you worked with me, uh so your nightmares every single morning,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 4: I love how you're the only one that would say
Speaker 4: take the woman leave me alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, please take her.
Speaker 1: I'm the one that God forbid someone ever attacks my
Speaker 1: kids and I'm there.
Speaker 2: That's there, boy.
Speaker 1: I just grab them and put them right in front
Speaker 1: of me so quickly your headspins.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Shield one and shield two pretty.
Speaker 1: Much, Shield three too. I've got anybody in my car. Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: we've God do we have a lot to talk about
Speaker 1: this morning, So let's go for it. It's time for
Speaker 1: Handle on the news with Amy King. Needle me lead story.
Speaker 1: Stop all right, Well, Hurricane Helene went ahead and made
Speaker 1: landfall in the Panhandle of Florida.
Speaker 2: Just as it was, just as it was it had.
Speaker 1: Threatened to be, and the whether people called it right
Speaker 1: category four when it hit. I think the good news here.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the property damage was insane. So
Speaker 1: two things, Amy, you're following up on this. Number one,
Speaker 1: did it do as much damage as was anticipated? And
Speaker 1: how many people died from this storm? Up to this point.
Speaker 5: So far, we know of six people who've been killed.
Speaker 5: About three million people are without power, there's flooding everywhere,
Speaker 5: and one of the concerns is that this all happened overnight.
Speaker 5: So now we're getting a look at it, and the
Speaker 5: people are getting a look at the damage that's been done.
Speaker 5: But you can see, I mean, it's just flooding everywhere.
Speaker 5: There's been some tornadoes, and it's moving across the Carolinas,
Speaker 5: in Georgia and into southern Virginia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where it's still huge.
Speaker 1: It'll be a I don't know where it stops being
Speaker 1: a hurricane and becomes a tropical storm or tropical depression.
Speaker 5: It is a tropical storm now it's been downgraded. So
Speaker 5: it had like one hundred and forty mile an hour
Speaker 5: winds and now it's down to about sixty.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, so we have six deaths now a hurricane of
Speaker 1: that magnitude, and we go back to the year nineteen
Speaker 1: hundred when they didn't have weather forecasting, They had no
Speaker 1: idea hit Galveston, Texas anywhere from six to twelve thousand
Speaker 1: people die.
Speaker 2: They figure about eight thousand people were killed in that hurricane.
Speaker 1: And can you imagine not anticipating it, And there you
Speaker 1: are in Galveston, which is right on the water on
Speaker 1: the Gulf, and all of a sudden, a hurricane of
Speaker 1: this magnitude comes in and a storm surge of fifteen
Speaker 1: twenty feet just horrific.
Speaker 2: So that's going to take a long time fixing this one.
Speaker 1: More hurricanes, they're going to be more of them, They're
Speaker 1: going to be stronger. It's tough. Oh oh, here's finally
Speaker 1: some good news for Boeing.
Speaker 5: Oh I was just going to say Boeing just can't
Speaker 5: catch a break.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's the other way. Then I misread that. Then okay,
Speaker 2: I'll see. Yeah.
Speaker 5: The NTSB has issued urgent safety recommendations for some Boeing
Speaker 5: seven thirty sevens, including the Max, which has already had
Speaker 5: some of its own issues, warning that a critical flight
Speaker 5: control could jam. It has to do with the rudder
Speaker 5: on some of the seven thirty sevens. The NTSB investigated
Speaker 5: an incident in February. The pilots of a United Airlines
Speaker 5: Max eight landing in Newark reported that their rudder pedals stuck.
Speaker 5: So that's just the latest for Boeing. Of course, they
Speaker 5: had the mid air blowout in January.
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't stop.
Speaker 5: Have you got a strike? And now, yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 5: I was going to say. And of course, then there's
Speaker 5: the Boeing Starliner, which has stranded a couple of astronauts
Speaker 5: in space for like eight months.
Speaker 1: Are they sending to a press confer or press conferences,
Speaker 1: the guy with the black outfit and sickle.
Speaker 2: Has it reached that point yet? I? Yeah, it's a
Speaker 2: rough company.
Speaker 4: Now is it a good tall invest What can you
Speaker 4: recall a fall from grace now?
Speaker 2: Not like this, not with a major inorporation like.
Speaker 4: This, not that had I mean, Rudy Giuliani is an individual,
Speaker 4: but that's another one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to talk about Rudy Giuliani. And I've
Speaker 1: got something to say about this which is kind of
Speaker 1: interesting about that, but it's it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: Let's do one more before I break.
Speaker 4: Neil Okay Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netta, who set to
Speaker 4: address the UN General Assembly this morning. Highly anticipated speech
Speaker 4: comes as Israeli officials say they're preparing for potential ground
Speaker 4: incursions into Lebanon, and Yahoo seems to be distancing himself
Speaker 4: from the US back twenty one day ceasefire proposal, So
Speaker 4: he's kind of backing off from that. Things might be
Speaker 4: heating up.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and he's just saying, no, they're no proposal.
Speaker 1: We're not we are not paying attention to what We're
Speaker 1: going to go balls to the wall with Lebanon and
Speaker 1: the guy who does sign language. You know that everybody
Speaker 1: has his speeches. You can see part of the sign languages.
Speaker 1: He's pounding on.
Speaker 2: The table with his fist. Go pound. Okay, never mind,
Speaker 2: that almost worked.
Speaker 3: It brought some sand.
Speaker 2: I don't you know how to say that in Hebrew? Okay, okay.
Speaker 5: It's not just the little phone batteries that can explode,
Speaker 5: you know, the lithium ion batteries that you can't take
Speaker 5: on blanes and stuff because they can explode well, as
Speaker 5: semitruck carrying six large lithium ion batteries overturned in sam
Speaker 5: Pedro yesterday that sparked a fire and an explosion and
Speaker 5: a hazmat situation. The forty seven Freeway is closed, the
Speaker 5: Vincent Thomas Bridge is closed, the Port of Los Angeles
Speaker 5: is closed because it's basically blocked by this overturned big
Speaker 5: rig and the lim the lithium batteries caught fire and
Speaker 5: you can't put them out, so they just basically have
Speaker 5: to let them burn and they could burn for two days.
Speaker 2: And they're pretty dangerous. I mean, the small ones are
Speaker 2: dangerous enough, but these are the big guys.
Speaker 3: And apparently it's better to let them burn.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think they don't have much of a choice.
Speaker 5: Well, they said for the environment too, because if they
Speaker 5: you have to pump so much water into them to
Speaker 5: put them out that they're worried about the runoff, and
Speaker 5: especially because it's right there in the port and getting
Speaker 5: into the water and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like Greek fire, where that's the ancient use of fire.
Speaker 1: This was a fire that burnt, and the more water
Speaker 1: you put on and the more it burnt. They use
Speaker 1: those in ancient days or fighting wars. It's just yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes water just doesn't work.
Speaker 4: Alrighty, California will formal formally apologize for slavery. And why
Speaker 4: is California apologized? We didn't have slavery in California, did we?
Speaker 2: Actually we didn't have slavery per se.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we allowed it, and we had a fugitive slave
Speaker 1: law that if if a slave went up north, it
Speaker 1: was he was he or she was free. Basically, that's it.
Speaker 1: California upheld ownership of slavery. So a bounty hunter would
Speaker 1: come in on behalf of a slave owner, California law
Speaker 1: would allow that and that slave to be taken back.
Speaker 1: Even though California was not a slave state. I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk a lot more about that at seven o'clock
Speaker 1: because there's a whole world to this.
Speaker 4: Well, this new law from Governor Gavin Newsom, he signed
Speaker 4: it yesterday and he's gonna apologize for the lingering effects
Speaker 4: on black Americans. This is part of a package of
Speaker 4: reparation bills introduced here. He, as we talked about yesterday,
Speaker 4: vetoed a bill that he's getting some pushback on as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's some reasons and reparations go all the
Speaker 1: way from apologizing right into paying black progeny of slaves.
Speaker 1: As you could prove that your great great great grandfather
Speaker 1: was a slave. Then the reparations people say, we're entitled
Speaker 1: to money. And I'll explain all of that coming up
Speaker 1: seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: And my great.
Speaker 1: Uncle had received reparations, by the way, and my dad
Speaker 1: should have received reparations for what happened during World War
Speaker 1: two and he didn't. And I'll explain why the whole
Speaker 1: world of reparations that's seven o'clock.
Speaker 5: The Vice President has basically went the way of Harry Potter.
Speaker 5: He slammed a certain somebody, the he who must not
Speaker 5: be named, during a meeting with Ukraine's Zelensky. She made
Speaker 5: comments saying that Kiev should see territory for the sake
Speaker 5: of peace with Moscow is as dangerous and is unacceptable.
Speaker 5: And she, of course was speaking after the two met
Speaker 5: and unleashed the veiled criticism of former President Trump's push
Speaker 5: for Ukraine to cut a deal to end the war.
Speaker 2: Right, that's what foreign President Trump wants to do.
Speaker 1: If, by the way, cutting a deal is seeding territory
Speaker 1: of Russia, is giving Russia part of eastern Ukraine. She
Speaker 1: is saying no chance, Zelensky is saying no chance. And
Speaker 1: Trump is saying, day one, he'll make a phone call
Speaker 1: and he'll simply tell Zelensky and Putin you cut the deal.
Speaker 1: And it's going to happen day one, as if Putin's
Speaker 1: going to listen to him, and certainly Zelensky, who's already
Speaker 1: said no, I'm not going to do it now.
Speaker 2: Can Zelensky be forced to do it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can simply by the United States saying you're done, we
Speaker 1: will not ship any arms to you at all.
Speaker 2: You're finished. Uh, And then they can't defend themselves, so
Speaker 2: can they be Can Ukraine be extorted into some kind
Speaker 2: of a deal probably, So it's you know, which way
Speaker 2: do you go on that.
Speaker 3: No one else is putting money into arms for.
Speaker 2: Nothing like we are, nothing like we are.
Speaker 1: Maybe Europe, maybe Europe will fulfill NATO takes up the
Speaker 1: former space that we have.
Speaker 2: With arms and I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, on that note, you had Zelensky visit the White
Speaker 4: House yesterday and they're saying this may be his final
Speaker 4: chance to convince you know, this particular president, American president
Speaker 4: who happens to be receptive to his cause of his
Speaker 4: countries aimed with this particular war, and to say, you know, hey,
Speaker 4: we need help because everything that Trump has said that
Speaker 4: if he gets in office, is going to put an
Speaker 4: end to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna I mean Kamala Harris said we're going
Speaker 1: to continue on in back Ukraine to the very end,
Speaker 1: and Trump said it's not going to happen. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be a very different presidency depending on who
Speaker 1: gets elected.
Speaker 2: Boy is wow.
Speaker 1: The world's going to either not change very much if
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris gets elected, or change dramatically if Trump gets elected.
Speaker 5: Well, I guess it's good that they're talking about this
Speaker 5: A day after a man hijacked a metro bus and
Speaker 5: killed a passenger. The board of directors has met and
Speaker 5: they're trying to reassure writers. The Inglewood mayor, James Buds said,
Speaker 5: no one should ever get on a bus or train
Speaker 5: and wonder if someone has a knife or a firearm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, how do you deal with it? Explain to me?
Speaker 2: All right, I buy that no one should. Now what.
Speaker 1: Metal detectors? Okay, well where are the metal detectors going
Speaker 1: to be?
Speaker 5: And who's going to enforce it? If it sets off
Speaker 5: an alarm?
Speaker 2: What happens?
Speaker 4: Listen, you guys are missing the point. They said that
Speaker 4: your safety is their utmost concern.
Speaker 3: And past that as if that's not important.
Speaker 2: Now there is.
Speaker 1: Now there is a way to ensure or at least
Speaker 1: make it safer for for bus riders.
Speaker 2: And if you look at the city of Kuritiba in Brazil,
Speaker 2: they matter of fact, this became world famous. There were
Speaker 2: municipalage all over the world. They created a.
Speaker 1: Bus system where it basically becomes a line, much like
Speaker 1: at Disneyland.
Speaker 2: There is a queue.
Speaker 1: In other words, you go through the turnstile, you pay
Speaker 1: your money, and it's a walkway that happens to be
Speaker 1: covered and everybody that's gone through there, they just get
Speaker 1: on the bus.
Speaker 2: It's basically a line that is controlled there. You can
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: You can have metal detectors at the entry, because that's
Speaker 1: not the entry to the bus, that's the entry to
Speaker 1: the queue.
Speaker 3: How could you do that on the street.
Speaker 2: They do it on the street. That's the whole point.
Speaker 1: They do it on the street, and the bus goes
Speaker 1: right up to the bus stop and instead of people
Speaker 1: just getting right off the sidewalk, they have come from
Speaker 1: a walkway. Much like the Raiders of the Lost Arc
Speaker 1: of the Right at Disneyland, where you go through and
Speaker 1: then you wait in the tunnels and then you get
Speaker 1: on board those little cars or those big cars. That's
Speaker 1: the same thing with the imagine a bus going up
Speaker 1: to that and every bus stop.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 4: We got to take a little nod from India. You
Speaker 4: go to Rajasthan or wherever, and everybody's riding on the
Speaker 4: outside of the bus.
Speaker 2: On top of the bus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all the seats should be on the outside or.
Speaker 1: They are on the out side. They are no on
Speaker 1: the out that's not fair. You're not being fair to them.
Speaker 1: Inside buses and everybody stands up and outside the buses, it's.
Speaker 2: Standing room only. They don't actually have seats inside the bus.
Speaker 4: Then it's kind of like mad Max and you're on
Speaker 4: your own on the outside. But the inside at least
Speaker 4: the drivers who need to be safe or safe yes, okay.
Speaker 4: Meryl Street speaking on the sidelines of the United Nations
Speaker 4: General Assembly, she was talked about cat, squirrels, and birds,
Speaker 4: not that Haitians.
Speaker 3: Were eating them or anything like that.
Speaker 4: She basically came out and said that all three of
Speaker 4: those animals are treated better than women in Afghanistan. And
Speaker 4: she said a cat may feel the sun on her face,
Speaker 4: she may chase a squirrel into the park, a bird
Speaker 4: may sing in Kabul, but a girl may not.
Speaker 3: And women may not in public.
Speaker 4: And this is extraordinary, she said, this is a suppression
Speaker 4: of the natural law.
Speaker 2: Yeah, four more standards. The toughest place in the world
Speaker 2: to be a woman. It's it's insane.
Speaker 1: And Afghanistan did sign the Convention on the Elimination of
Speaker 1: All Forms of Discrimination against Women, but the Taliban then
Speaker 1: came in. That was before the Taliban. Yeah, and in
Speaker 1: they came. And women have to wear that burkas. They
Speaker 1: cannot be seen, they can't go in public by themselves.
Speaker 1: They can't look at a man, and if they're caught
Speaker 1: looking at a man, the penalties are severe. And I
Speaker 1: think they have the vice police running around there. You know,
Speaker 1: these move laws that beat up women.
Speaker 2: It's crazy to be a woman.
Speaker 5: Got a win for a single cat, ladies. The governor
Speaker 5: has signed a bill that aims to reform pet insurance
Speaker 5: and better protect pet owners. Yay, I've tried to get
Speaker 5: pet insurance for my cats. It's not an easy thing
Speaker 5: to do, but this bill will require more transparency from
Speaker 5: the people who ensure pet owners regarding their coverages or
Speaker 5: changes in premiums, because as the the animals get older,
Speaker 5: the premiums go up. It also requires more clarity and
Speaker 5: policies that exclude pre existing conditions.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, insurance has never been a decent deal.
Speaker 1: I don't have pet insurance on my dogs, and because
Speaker 1: it's just you know, I don't have dental insurance either,
Speaker 1: because you just don't.
Speaker 2: Get very much for it.
Speaker 1: It's not like medical insurance that you get Okay, quickly,
Speaker 1: we're going to go around because we're running way ahead.
Speaker 1: We've got more time than we have stories.
Speaker 2: So and you have a dog pet insurance, I do No,
Speaker 2: I do not. Okay, fair enough, Amy. Do you have
Speaker 2: a pet?
Speaker 5: I do? I have two cats?
Speaker 2: Two cats? Pet insurance?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: I tried to get it once for my other cats
Speaker 5: that have since crossed the Rainbow bridge.
Speaker 3: Because you didn't pay for their insurance.
Speaker 5: Okay, the last one lived to be twenty and a
Speaker 5: half years old. That's leave me alone.
Speaker 2: But it was no pet insurance.
Speaker 5: It was stupid expensive and it didn't cover stuff.
Speaker 2: Do you have a pet No?
Speaker 3: I got kids?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's it. Any See, I have kids too.
Speaker 1: It's no insurance there either.
Speaker 2: And Neil, I know you have Max. Do you have
Speaker 2: pet insurance for Max?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So the point I'm making is I'd love to know
Speaker 1: and what percentage of pet owners actually have pet insurance
Speaker 1: and what this bill is about. And it's exactly the
Speaker 1: problem is, you have to be more they have to
Speaker 1: be more transparent the insurance company about coverage, about premiums, deductibles,
Speaker 1: because it's and by the way, veterinary bills are far
Speaker 1: far more than human being bills. Now, there aren't many
Speaker 1: heart transplants in the cat world that'll give you.
Speaker 2: But there was a survey inducted in the US and
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, I found that only twenty four percent
Speaker 2: of pet owners have insurance. Okay, okay, let's move on.
Speaker 3: Wait did you say whether you had pet insurance?
Speaker 1: I said I don't. I started with I don't have
Speaker 1: pet insurance. Huh, I don't. It's just because it doesn't
Speaker 1: cover enough. There's too many deductibles, there are too many exclusions.
Speaker 1: For example, I was looking at it and one of
Speaker 1: the exclusions, if.
Speaker 2: Your dog has four legs, we don't cover.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that could be rough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so one off. Yeah, then that works. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just I'm not an make fan of pet insurance.
Speaker 4: Okay, noh right, everything old is new again. DirecTV and
Speaker 4: Dish are in advanced talks. They want to merge in
Speaker 4: this deal that would create the largest US ATV provider
Speaker 4: with almost twenty million subscribers.
Speaker 3: But if you remember, they're.
Speaker 4: Past discussions of the Direct TV Dish combination or combining forces.
Speaker 4: There they faced antitrust concerns. But now because the shift
Speaker 4: from pay TV to streaming and all that, the competitive
Speaker 4: landscape is different and they think that this path might
Speaker 4: be the right time, right place.
Speaker 2: I'm still getting calls from Direct TV.
Speaker 1: I have not had a Direct TV account for probably
Speaker 1: fifteen years, if not longer, and they're still calling me unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribed, unsubscribed.
Speaker 1: Direct TV and Dish are probably the most Direct TV
Speaker 1: the most aggressive people out there.
Speaker 2: Once you sign up, you can't get out.
Speaker 1: They just keep you forever and when you try to
Speaker 1: get out, And I'll remember this phone call last time
Speaker 1: when I did get out. I tried to get out. No, no,
Speaker 1: why are you leaving? I go because I want to leave.
Speaker 1: Oh no, tell me why you're canceling because I don't
Speaker 1: want DirecTV anymore? Well, no, no, no, tell us why
Speaker 1: you know what can we do? I don't want the
Speaker 1: service anymore? And it got to the point where I
Speaker 1: literally had to say, Okay, since you're recording this call,
Speaker 1: let me put it on the record. Are you stopping
Speaker 1: me from leaving? Is that what you are doing? You
Speaker 1: will not let me cancel my subscription? Is that correct?
Speaker 2: And at that.
Speaker 1: Point, you know they gave up the ghost. So now
Speaker 1: you just and Direct TV are going to do that
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 4: Well, is you should have just said, hey, what now
Speaker 4: that you're out of it for ten years or whatever,
Speaker 4: just say can my box isn't working. Then they'll come
Speaker 4: out send a tech. The tech will go, you don't
Speaker 4: have direct TV and your goal.
Speaker 3: I've been trying to tell you.
Speaker 1: That, you know what, that's actually a very good idea.
Speaker 1: But then what they do is they check to see
Speaker 1: if I have an account, and I don't, so they're
Speaker 1: just trying to hustle me. But anyway, that's just I
Speaker 1: mean the same thing. It's like a timeshare place. Those
Speaker 1: places are fantastic to not let you out the door
Speaker 1: once you go in, Uh, they lock the doors.
Speaker 2: It's like haunted mansion. There's no way out at no
Speaker 2: windows and doors.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, it's a real life succession. The fate
Speaker 5: of Robert Murdoch's vast media empire, including Fox News, is
Speaker 5: in the hands of a probate commissioner in Reno. The
Speaker 5: family has been attending evidentiary hearings. It's a secret trial
Speaker 5: to determine whether the ninety two year old can alter
Speaker 5: his family trust that was set up decades ago. It
Speaker 5: gives his four oldest children equal votes over the future
Speaker 5: of his media empire after he dies, but Murdoch wants
Speaker 5: to change it so that his eldest son and chosen
Speaker 5: successor Lachlan will remain in charge for decades, and the
Speaker 5: other three Murdoch kids are challenging that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now here is let me throw it a little deeper.
Speaker 1: Here. It's an irrevocable trust. And you may want to
Speaker 1: look up the word irrevocable. I get these questions all
Speaker 1: the time on handle on the law. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the dictionary, all right. So what he wants to do
Speaker 1: is break it for the benefit of the shareholders of
Speaker 1: the company. And he's saying that supersedes the irrevocability of
Speaker 1: the trust because if you've got four kids and they're
Speaker 1: all have completely different visions of where the company is going,
Speaker 1: then that's going to effectively destroy or diminish to value
Speaker 1: the company. So that's what he's asking the Probate commissioner
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: He effectually wants.
Speaker 1: To keep out Fox News and Fox Corporation very right wing.
Speaker 1: He's got some children there who go the other way.
Speaker 1: His daughter, for example, is basically a liberal, and if
Speaker 1: she is any any way controlling or has a say
Speaker 1: in which Fox is going to go, it's not going
Speaker 1: to be quite as conservative.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: I don't you know what it's it's a reno judge,
Speaker 1: it's Nevada. So don't I not from thear with how
Speaker 1: Nevada works. A matter of fact, I'm not familiar with
Speaker 1: much of anything legally, but anyway, that's my take on it.
Speaker 3: So I thought, I HONESD is refreshing.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right.
Speaker 4: The cable news channel, speaking of right wing the cable
Speaker 4: news channel Newsmax reached a settlement with the voting machine
Speaker 4: company Smartmatic stupid name, bringing an end to the defamation
Speaker 4: lawsuit that accused the network of spreading multiple false claims
Speaker 4: surrounding the twenty twenty election. More of the same stuff
Speaker 4: that was stolen and the machines were bad and all
Speaker 4: those things.
Speaker 1: And they claimed they had proof and I never did.
Speaker 1: They just made that up, and so they sued. So
Speaker 1: smart Maatic I sue them.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting that, first of all, the jury
Speaker 1: selection was already underway. Second of all, the judge earlier
Speaker 1: said that the ability to seek punitive damages, we want
Speaker 1: punies on top of compensateory, on top of the actual
Speaker 1: money we lost. Judge said, no, it's a big win
Speaker 1: for a huge win for Newsmax. On that one, but
Speaker 1: they agreed to settle would have been much much higher
Speaker 1: if the judge had allowed punitive damages.
Speaker 2: By the way dominion voting systems.
Speaker 1: Fox News paid seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars
Speaker 1: in his settlement, saying the same kind of crap about dominion.
Speaker 5: Well, Rudy's descent into the abyss continues. Former New York
Speaker 5: City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred months after he
Speaker 5: lost his law license in New York over the claims
Speaker 5: that then President Trump lost the election and or actually
Speaker 5: didn't lose the election. The ruling from the appeals Court
Speaker 5: in DC said Giuliani didn't respond to an order to
Speaker 5: explain why he shouldn't be disbarred in the district after
Speaker 5: losing his law license.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's a guy.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, he was one of the most revered
Speaker 1: and I will use that word US attorney's Southern District
Speaker 1: of New York.
Speaker 2: Shut down the mafia, and he's shut down.
Speaker 1: Big corporations, predatory practices, became America's mayor. And now because
Speaker 1: he got on the Trump bandwagon, he's nailed. I mean,
Speaker 1: he has lost lawsuit after lawsuit. He won what he
Speaker 1: got a several hundred million dollars judgment against him by
Speaker 1: those two Georgia workers.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Now here's the interesting part, because I know people who
Speaker 1: know people, that is that.
Speaker 2: He has lost his licenses.
Speaker 1: He is still looking at criminal charges and owes his
Speaker 1: lawyers in the millions of dollars and will continue to
Speaker 1: do so. He has this radio program in New York,
Speaker 1: lost his main one, main advertiser. He's going to declare bankruptcy.
Speaker 1: He's done, He's finished, done. He is still a true believer.
Speaker 1: He is still a true believer. It was all worth it.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, what do you say with that Trump?
Speaker 4: He's a bomb shelter of one. Yeah, like he nothing
Speaker 4: hurts him, but everybody around him seems to fall by
Speaker 4: the wayside.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about former President Trump?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's like he nothing seems to hurt him,
Speaker 4: but everybody around him keeps.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I mean, he is the true
Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't get it, you know, because
Speaker 1: I'd asked this person who you know, to go through
Speaker 1: channels they go. Does he ever wake up in the
Speaker 1: morning and go, hey, maybe this didn't work out so well.
Speaker 1: I'm losing everything I have and I can't practice law anymore.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: Still a true believer. That part I don't understand. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: we are done. Wow, only one.
Speaker 2: Story left and it was a good one. But we
Speaker 2: don't have time. So there you go, right coming.
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Speaker 2: You see you, snassy right there?
Speaker 3: You almost woke Cono up.
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