WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.080 You're listen Saints KPI AM six forty The Bill Handles 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:07.200 show on demand on the iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:16.879 App and now Handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, 4 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:18.480 here's not Bill Handle. 5 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:25.320 Indeed not Bill Handle. Chris Maryland for Bill Today. Thanks 6 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:28.519 for hanging out with me yet another day. The long 7 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:31.960 national nightmare is nearly over. We'll be gone the next 8 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.000 couple of days, but then back again next week. It's 9 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:36.600 like waking up from an ap and going back and 10 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:39.039 resuming that nightmare right where we left off. So that's 11 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:42.399 what's happening. That's your programming note. Join me normally on 12 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:44.439 Sunday afternoons. There's always a pleasure being with you, and 13 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:47.479 I thoroughly enjoy every opportunity we have to hang out together. 14 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:54.159 Although I'm loving Amy King's shirt because the greatest thing 15 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:57.560 we got out of the pandemic was an excuse not 16 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.200 to hang out with people. I don't want it. I'm 17 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.679 a bit of a missing throat that way, not really 18 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:06.000 a gorphobic, but I really if I if I just 19 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:09.159 hang out at home, I'm fine with that. I realized 20 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:12.079 the older I get, the more hermit like I become, 21 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:16.239 and I'm totally okay with it. I'm fine with just 22 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:18.280 I'm just gonna go home and I'm just not gonna 23 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:25.159 spend time with people because generally speaking, people suck. Individual people, okay, 24 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:28.239 but people in a group. She's just I got no reason. 25 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:32.040 There's just no reason. A few years back, you know, 26 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:38.200 I've never been to Disneyland. What never. I don't do it. No, 27 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:38.640 I can't. 28 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:40.879 The crowd. 29 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:46.680 Like it. My wife is working at a big lab 30 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.760 that was in San Diego years ago, and I realized 31 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.560 I started to develop this sort of social anxiety. It's 32 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.599 not it's not bad, but I'll have these moments and 33 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:59.599 we're at this we were at the museums there in 34 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:03.680 Bilbo Park, and I have these moments where if there's 35 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:06.799 too many people and there's too much chaos going on 36 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:08.919 and it's a confined space, and we were doing this 37 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:11.560 big Christmas party. They planned it at the museums at 38 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:13.919 Balboa Park, so there were like a thousand people packed 39 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:17.319 into this place, and there were kids running everywhere, and 40 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:19.639 there were people going in all different directions and there 41 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:22.159 was no real order to it, and my mind couldn't 42 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:25.439 process it, and I started having this panic attack and 43 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:28.919 I just got this whole the you hear people talking 44 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:32.199 about it. If you haven't experienced before, it's terrible. Everything 45 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:35.280 started to get really narrow, right, everything got really tunneled, 46 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.520 and I just said, I need to I need to 47 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:39.280 just find a corner and stand in it for a while. 48 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:41.680 And he just had my back against the wall where 49 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:44.759 I feel safe. And my wife said, why are you 50 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:48.520 ruining my Christmas party? You're doing this to me? Why 51 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:49.199 would you do this? 52 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:49.719 Ah? 53 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:52.840 The empathy, she well, she had never experienced it, she 54 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:54.400 didn't know anything. And I said, I said, I don't 55 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.560 know what's happening right now, but I'm freaking out. I'm 56 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.599 completely freaking out. And it's only happened to me a 57 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:03.000 few times. That was the first time. It was only 58 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:04.800 a couple of years later that my wife had a 59 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:06.560 genuine panic attack. You know the ones where all of 60 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.240 a sudden you think you're having a heart attack, which 61 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:09.439 is horrible feeling. 62 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:13.520 I had one of those during the pandemic, did you Yeah. 63 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:15.639 How horrible is that? Is it? The worst feeling or what? 64 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:18.800 It was awful and we had to I called paramedics 65 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:19.199 and everything. 66 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was doing work. I was working 67 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.240 in Arizona. She was still living in San Diego, and 68 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:26.159 then I was driving back and forth on the weekend, 69 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:28.599 so she was there alone and I get this phone 70 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.560 call that says I'm waiting for the ambulance, and I went, 71 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:33.360 you're waiting for what are you? What's going on? She said, 72 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.240 I think I'm having a heart attack. So of course 73 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:37.680 I'm freaking out, and I'm grabbing everything I can to 74 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:39.439 throw it in a bag and get ready to take off, 75 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:41.199 and I'm calling my boss and I'm saying, my wife's 76 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.560 having a heart attack. I have to go. And then 77 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:45.360 she called back later and she said, it's not a 78 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:47.520 heart attack. They think it was a panic attack. And 79 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:49.560 it was my first experience with people that have experienced 80 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.800 panic attacks. What a horrible, horrible thing to go through. 81 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:54.599 And she's had a few sins. But of course, you 82 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:56.680 once you experience it once, you have kind of an 83 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:58.919 idea when it starts coming, and you know what that 84 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:02.240 feeling is, and that in itself feels like a little 85 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:03.879 bit of control, not a lot, but at least you 86 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:06.240 kind of know what's happening to your body. What a 87 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:09.639 terrible feeling. So when when the pandemic hit, how great 88 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:12.400 was that? Oh? I didn't have to spend time with people. 89 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:15.199 I didn't have to go into crowded spaces. 90 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:17.360 There was no crowded spaces. 91 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:21.360 Nine. Oh, I felt me during the pandemic. I was 92 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:23.439 like the only guy. I loved it. 93 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:24.639 Oh, yeah, that's what one. 94 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:26.839 Remember when they had the you know, you had empty 95 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:27.800 seats next to you. 96 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:31.439 Yes, I had empty planes next to me. I think 97 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:36.360 I was on a flight and I think there were 98 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:39.040 six people on my flight. You remember the old days 99 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:40.480 when you could take a red eye and there'd only 100 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:42.600 be just a handful of people in the flight. Now 101 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:44.279 they do a much better job of booking them and 102 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:46.920 getting them all full and making sure every seat is taken. 103 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:49.319 But it took me back to those days, you know, 104 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:52.600 twenty plus years prior, when you could get onto a 105 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:54.240 late night flight and there was nobody else on there. 106 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:57.839 But yeah, oh boy, was that something. And then we'll 107 00:04:57.879 --> 00:04:59.680 not have any beverage service because we don't. 108 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:01.519 Want you to kill Oh that's right, they didn't know. 109 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:03.240 You didn't get anything on the planes. 110 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:08.240 No, it's great. Why we're talking about this, go ahead. 111 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:10.800 Do you know why we're talking pandemic stuff today? Well, 112 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:12.279 I know why I'm wearing the sweatshirt. 113 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.040 Yeah, we're at kind of an anniversary, aren't we. 114 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.399 Yeah, it's the five year anniversary of the lockdown. 115 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:19.439 Okay, yeah. 116 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:21.680 Governor Newsom announced it on March nineteenth. 117 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:25.399 Or what I told the good old days. Oh so great, 118 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:27.480 so so great. 119 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:32.360 And as I started lifting the restrictions, you were like, no, no, 120 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:32.759 that's what. 121 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:36.319 I Yeah, that's that's how I was. And then it 122 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:38.720 just so happened. It coincided. My wife and I had 123 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:43.839 just I was I lost my full time gig and 124 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:45.639 I was doing fill in work all over the place, 125 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.279 and we decided, let's get let's strip everything down and 126 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.399 pay off all of our debt. So we moved into 127 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:57.040 a fifth wheel camper and parked it at my parents' place, 128 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:00.120 which is deep in the woods in northern Michigan. And 129 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:02.959 we lived in that for two years. Michigan winters on 130 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:05.399 propane in a camper. It was terrible. It was the 131 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.800 most miserable thing. We paid off all of our credit 132 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:09.519 card debt, we paid off all of the cars, we 133 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:11.519 paid off all of the student loans, we paid off. 134 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:16.240 Everything got back to zero. And since then we've you know, 135 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:20.000 obviously I do a little more work, and her her 136 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.519 business is going pretty well, so we've built things up. 137 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:24.160 We got ourselves in a nice little cottage on the 138 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.839 lake there, and now she spent summers there and I 139 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:33.279 spent summer here. So but it got us ahead of things. 140 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:36.519 So it just so happened to coincide with the pandemic 141 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:38.319 that we moved into this thing. So we were already 142 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.279 sort of social distancing. But what was crazy is in 143 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:46.079 this really remote rural area, short lots fewer people on 144 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.480 the roads. But then you started to see more and 145 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:50.199 more people. And I noticed this because I did do, 146 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:51.720 like I said, a little bit of travel. So I'd 147 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:54.160 travel from this remote area into some cities where I 148 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:57.879 was doing some work, and the cities streets are still 149 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.839 empty freeways, you know how, we got to eight lanes 150 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:04.560 wide on a freeway and there's hardly anybody on it. 151 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:06.720 And yet if you went back to my tiny little town, 152 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:08.720 you'd have a two lane road and there'd be traffic. 153 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.800 So the rural areas really disregarded a lot of the 154 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:15.920 advice that the more urban areas definitely leaned into. And 155 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:17.680 I think part of that has to do with when 156 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:19.639 you live in a rural area. First of all, there's 157 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:23.079 an inherent distrust of government, I think in rural areas. 158 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:28.399 But also you are You're just naturally socially distanced. If 159 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:30.079 you walk out of your front door, it's not like 160 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.319 you're walking into an apartment hallway. You're walking out into acreage, 161 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:36.959 you know. So it was just an interesting dichotomy between 162 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:42.160 those two perspectives. Okay, speaking of social distancing, imagine if 163 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:44.519 you could be two hundred and fifty miles away from 164 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:51.959 all of humanity. Oh, dear Lord, please does that sound glorious? 165 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:52.920 Stuck in space? 166 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:53.639 No more? 167 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:56.839 The astronauts are back. I just heard you talking with 168 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:59.240 Jim Ryan about this in the wake up call. Amy King, 169 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:01.199 and you guys pointed out what I thought was the 170 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.600 coolest aspect of the whole thing. One. I loved watching 171 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:06.079 the capsule come down. I love that they were able 172 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:08.040 to get a camera on it from I think it 173 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.759 was still eight miles high or something like that, so 174 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:13.399 you could actually see some of the heat coming off 175 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:15.240 the shields as it was re entering the atmosphere. It 176 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:20.279 was an amazing shot. And finally the the parachutes deployed, 177 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.480 it splashed down in the Atlantic and then was surrounded 178 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:24.120 by dolphins. 179 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.920 Was that just the most like weird, amazing thing ever? 180 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.480 And I think it's because we love dolphins. Now we go, 181 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.320 that's cool. The wildlife came to check them out. They 182 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:36.679 were greeted by dolphins. Had it been great white sharks, 183 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:38.919 we probably have a different take on the whole thing. 184 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:40.720 We go, oh, look, the wildlife came. But if it 185 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:42.879 had been great white sharks, we go, oh, they're going 186 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.600 to be eaten. They survived the re entry and now 187 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:47.279 they're chumped. 188 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:50.279 That would have been end. 189 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.759 No. No, Who do you think was the most relieved 190 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.919 when that capsule came back and splashed down and everybody 191 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.360 was safe. Had to have been Elon Musk. This guy 192 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:04.720 must have been sweating bullets because he's had a couple 193 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:08.639 of couple of rockets exploded last week. Right, He's had 194 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:11.120 let's say, a not great couple of weeks on the market. 195 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:15.519 Tesla's dropping like a rock. People are attacking his cars 196 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:19.080 at showrooms across the country, including what they're calling a 197 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:20.879 terrorist attack, and if we want to go that far, 198 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:24.879 but it was a certain degree of vandalism in Las Vegas. 199 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:26.000 I don't know if you saw those cars that were 200 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:28.759 lit on fire. It was terrible. He's not. 201 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.720 That's a certain degree of vandalism. 202 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.279 Certain degree certain I don't know if I'm going to 203 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:36.279 go so far to say terrorism, but it's certainly vandalism. 204 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:39.360 So all of these he's not had a great couple 205 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:42.080 of weeks, so he must have been pretty relieved. A 206 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:45.639 couple of notes, quick notes on this. When the astronauts 207 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.879 went into space last June, it was the Gulf of 208 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.679 Mexico when they splashed down. It was the Gulf of 209 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:56.200 America when they went into space in June of last year. 210 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:00.519 Elon Musk had thirteen kids. When they splashed down. Musk 211 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:06.639 added another one. So the world changes, the world changes, 212 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:10.840 see you, Amy. 213 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:12.720 There may be a peace deal in the works, but 214 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:17.519 it hasn't stopped the fighting. Ukraine and Russia exchanged aerial 215 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:20.399 assaults overnight. That's a nice way of saying they're bombing 216 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:24.480 each other hours after the Kremlin agreed to temporarily halt 217 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:29.679 attacks on energy infrastructure targets. It stops short of signing 218 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:33.039 off on the broader cease fire that Ukraine has agreed 219 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:36.679 to that was broker by the US residents. Putin and 220 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:39.759 Trump talked on the phone for a couple hours yesterday, 221 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:42.919 Putin did not agree to that thirty day truce that 222 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:48.559 Trump is endorsing. Zelenski says, while they support a pause 223 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:51.720 on attacks on the energy targets, he wants to know 224 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:54.480 the details of the proposal before he signs off on it. 225 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:56.879 Yeah, I think that's understandable. A lot of people are 226 00:10:56.879 --> 00:11:01.320 hearkening this to the Yalta diferences. You remember this. This 227 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.120 is when the United States we had Churchill was there, 228 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:09.000 Roosevelt was there, and Stalin was there, and they all 229 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:12.039 got together world War two and they decided who got what? 230 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:18.039 In in Germany, who's what's communist, what's going to be capitalist? 231 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:20.120 Who gets what? And they just went through and they 232 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:24.480 decided what the other country would do. It's a similar 233 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:27.200 situation here where it sounds like we're getting together with 234 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:30.720 Putin and were saying, Pitton, what do you want? You 235 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.440 want access? You want those ports? That's cool, I'm gonna 236 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:35.919 need some minerals. Looks like we're gonna get everything we 237 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:38.600 want out of this and who gets left out start 238 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:41.159 looked like Zelensky might be the guy that gets hosed 239 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:42.879 on some of this stuff, which is why Zelensky doesn't 240 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:44.399 want to sign off on anything because he says, wait 241 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:48.000 a minute, you guys are negotiating a peace deal without 242 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:52.480 one of the participants in the war. Uh, and your 243 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:57.120 negotiations are what of my stuff are you taking? It's 244 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:01.240 not at all unlike I have three kids. The two 245 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:04.840 oldest would sometimes pick on their youngest brother, and the 246 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:08.240 youngest brother would start crying, and then the two oldest 247 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:10.080 would then go into his room and they would start 248 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.679 taking his toys and they would decide who got what toy, 249 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:15.320 and the youngest kept saying, why am I losing out 250 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.120 on all my toys? I didn't do anything, and the 251 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:20.559 youngest would say, those are my toys. You can't take them, 252 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:23.080 and the two oldest would say, shut up, there are 253 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:27.320 toys now. That's basically what we're seeing going on in Ukraine. 254 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:32.200 We're just divving up the little brother's toys. So sorry, Zelensky. 255 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:39.000 Zelensky is supposed to speak with Trump today and he says, 256 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.360 I will contact President Trump. We will discuss the details 257 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.240 the next step. He says, I believe everything was going 258 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:46.120 in the right direction, although not for Russia, which is 259 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:49.200 unhappy when something goes right. So it does sound like 260 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.000 he is a bit more optimistic. Of course, he wants 261 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:53.360 a ceasefire. He doesn't want to give up any territory 262 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:55.879 at all. They lost a lot of leverage because they 263 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:59.919 had they had a slight incursion in the north of 264 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.399 Ukraine into Russian territory, but then the Russians just recently 265 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.080 beat them back, and so they lost some of their leverage. 266 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:12.320 I don't Zelenski's fighting for his life. The people of 267 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.399 Ukraine are fighting for their lives for and I don't 268 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:20.320 mean that. I mean that patriotically. They're not. Of course, 269 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:22.240 when you fight in war, you're fighting for your life, 270 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:24.639 but in this case they're fighting for their entire identity. 271 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:28.200 And Russia doesn't seem to care. And Putin is willing 272 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.559 to put people into the meat grinder. He says, was 273 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:32.559 just grab some more people, throw them into the meat grinder. 274 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:34.960 That's fine, North Korea. You want to bring some people over, 275 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.600 We'll throw them in our meat grinder too. He doesn't care. 276 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:40.720 And this is Russia's history when it comes to war too. 277 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:46.159 It's simply to outman and overpower other countries. They have 278 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:50.480 in the past taken significant losses, but that's sort of 279 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:55.000 their whole strategy. We're just going to outlast them. Even 280 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:59.039 if they take out one and a half. People want 281 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:00.879 to have soldiers for each one that we take out. 282 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:04.600 We have so many. That's how they do it. They 283 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:06.879 grind other countries down. That's what they've done throughout the 284 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:10.200 throughout history. So that is it's nothing new. And now 285 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:11.960 Putin looks like he's gonna get what he wants because 286 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:14.080 he's got he's got an ally in the White House. Now, 287 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:16.639 Amy King, that's all I gotta say about that. 288 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:20.279 Okay, fine, then let's move on. You got nothing else, 289 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:25.480 Scotis speaks out. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts did something 290 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:28.159 that the justices don't normally do, and that was that 291 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:32.480 he had something to say about Trump's call to impeach 292 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:37.919 the judge who ruled against his deportation plans. Trump posted 293 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:40.360 on social media that the judge who ordered that plane 294 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:44.919 to turn around and bring the Trende or Ragua guys 295 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:49.679 back should be impeached, and Justice Roberts said, for more 296 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.480 than two centuries, it's been established that impeachment is not 297 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:57.720 an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. He 298 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:01.600 said the normal appellate review process exists for that purpose. 299 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.279 So really interesting that Roberts is taking a stand here 300 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:08.120 because he didn't have to. Roberts is the head of 301 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:10.320 the judiciary, not just the chief of the Supreme Court, 302 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:12.879 Supreme Court being on top of the entire branch, and 303 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:17.519 he's the Chief Justice. He's basically if you think of Congress, 304 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:19.960 and you've got the Speaker of the House, and you've 305 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:22.320 got the Senate Majority leader as sort of the leaders 306 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:25.080 of the legislative branch. Of course, the President the leader 307 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:27.799 of the executive branch. The Supreme Court sits atop the 308 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:32.639 judicial branch, with Roberts being the Chief Justice, whose voices, 309 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:36.159 of course amplified louder than anyone else's. He didn't have 310 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:39.440 to say anything, so for him to stand up and 311 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:42.840 speak out is a little bit peculiar. We're going to 312 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:44.240 dive more into this a little bit later on of 313 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:46.799 the show. It's a bit peculiar, but it's not unheard of. 314 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:50.159 Roberts has had he said things in the past, and 315 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:55.679 he has even you remember they ruled for Citizens United 316 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.399 when Obama was still in office, and Obama brought that up, 317 00:15:58.440 --> 00:15:59.639 I believe it was at a State of the Union 318 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:03.600 address and he made some swipe in the joint session 319 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:07.039 at the Supreme Court. And you'll recall that Robert's sort 320 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:11.039 of mouthed not true, not true. So he's not exactly 321 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.200 a wallflower when it comes to what's going on outside 322 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:19.120 of the Supreme Court, especially if it impacts the judiciary. 323 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:22.279 And what I think is going to be very interesting 324 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.799 about Roberts speaking out is does that embolden any other 325 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:33.759 Republicans who may have some reservations about President Trump sort 326 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:38.720 of ignoring much of the judges orders when it comes 327 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:44.159 to the the deportation orders. Again, we'll talk more about this. Oh, 328 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:45.759 I think we've got this plan in the seven o'clock 329 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:48.720 hours sometimes, so we'll tackle it in there a little 330 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:54.679 more in depth as well. Is it back to me now, Amy? Oh? 331 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:59.240 Another good reason not to ride public transit? Yeah. Ian 332 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:01.639 police departments are for a man who allegedly stabbed someone 333 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:04.599 at the Metro train station near Universal Studios last night 334 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:07.359 a little after eight o'clock in the B Line. I 335 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.400 got to the Universal Studio City Metro platform. The victim 336 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:14.880 they say was in stable conditions and Metro this is 337 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:18.119 my favorite Metro extents. It's wishes for a quick recovery 338 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:20.480 to the victim. Thanks the LA Police Department of Fire 339 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:24.759 Departments for their prompt response thoughts and prayers. Sorry you 340 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:27.880 got stabbed suspect right away before officers arrive, Please say 341 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:29.680 you the man was wearing a black jacket and black 342 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:33.599 Adidas joggers. All right, So two things. Stay away from 343 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:35.839 public transit and also stay away from people who wear 344 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:42.519 jogging suits in public. Fair Fair just never been a 345 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:45.640 fan of mass transit. I know, I know it's essential 346 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:49.839 to a city like ours, I get it. But if 347 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:52.400 it's so essential, then why are there's so many cars there? 348 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:54.519 Why does will have a job telling us where all 349 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:59.880 the traffic is backed up? If we're all using mass transit, right, 350 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:03.599 we're not. The number of people that use mass transit 351 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:07.359 percentage wise, is so minuscule that all you're doing is 352 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:09.240 just risking your life. When you go there, you're going 353 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:12.240 to take mass transit and you're going to be stabbed, 354 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:14.240 and then you're going to be urinated on, and you're 355 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:16.559 going to sit in somebody else's poop. That's what happens. 356 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:20.279 That's the only thing that happens. Better off to just 357 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:21.960 sit in traffic in your own poop. 358 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.079 Well, this guy has something and it's not trunk derangement syndrome. 359 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:31.799 There's a state senator in Minnesota. It's Republican Justin Icorn. 360 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:35.960 He was one of the authors of a bill seeking 361 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:39.880 to define Trump derangement syndrome as a mental as a 362 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:44.400 mental illness. Well, he's been arrested for soliciting a minor 363 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:50.119 for prostitution. Detectives say they communicated with the senator over 364 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:53.599 the phone and say Icorn believed he was talking to 365 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:56.119 a sixteen year old girl, but no, it was police 366 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:57.839 and they busted him. 367 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:01.880 Oh now we've got pedophile deranged syndrome. Amy King just 368 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:06.119 feeding into the nonsense. Can't believe you and your prejudices 369 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:11.640 against kitty diddlers. How dare you define that as a 370 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:14.799 mental illness? This person was leaning so far into MAGA 371 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:17.200 that they wanted to say that anyone who didn't love 372 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:22.680 the president was mentally ill. Of course, this has met 373 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:24.480 with all kinds of cheers from a number of people 374 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:27.039 who have continued to push that liberalism is a mental 375 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:33.759 illness narrative for a long time. Of Course, political affiliation 376 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:38.920 is not a mental illness. We know that, except some 377 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:46.640 people are so deranged by their own tribalism that they 378 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:49.680 believe anyone who doesn't see it their way. There's no 379 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:53.359 other explanation than to say their brains don't work properly. 380 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:56.279 I've seen this play out. Let's take this out of 381 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:58.720 the world of politics. I've seen this play out elsewhere 382 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:01.039 behind the scenes. A lot of people don't realize this. 383 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:06.079 But behind the scenes, Amy King and producer Ann don't 384 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:08.920 share a studio together. And part of the reason is 385 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:12.079 Ann is a Podres fan, and of course Amy is 386 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:16.559 a Dodgers fan. And I've I've spoken with it's spoken 387 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:20.839 with Amy many times about this, and I say, Hey, 388 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:23.079 what's going on with Anne? And she says an stick 389 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:29.039 in the head, And of course I'm actually I'm I'm 390 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:31.960 a Padres leaning kind of guy. But I don't really 391 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:34.319 say that to Amy because I don't want her to 392 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:36.519 think ill of me. So I'm sort of a closet 393 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:37.920 Podres fan. 394 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:40.440 Yeah, there's no escaping it here. I'm in her face. 395 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:46.599 But then they always. 396 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:49.599 Arrangement, so it is I do. Fun fact, I crossed 397 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:53.759 off a bucket list item at Petco Park. I got 398 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:55.480 to throw out the first pitch at a game. 399 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:59.039 Really, Yeah, that was amazing. 400 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:02.319 And the funny thing is the radio station. You know, 401 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:04.440