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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
- 0:04Speaker 1: am six forty.
- 0:11Speaker 2: You live in an African American area, and you are
- 0:14Speaker 2: African American, and statistically, as a minority, you get into
- 0:19Speaker 2: more accidents. Nicely done, Neil, he's blowing his nose. Oh no,
- 0:26Speaker 2: that is a promo. Yeah, Kono, that is a promo.
- 0:30Speaker 2: All right, Neil blowing is not listening, which is why
- 0:32Speaker 2: my might. Oh no, it's still Oh trust me, that's
- 0:35Speaker 2: going to be a promo.
- 0:39Speaker 1: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
- 0:44Speaker 1: Bill Handle.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Nicely done.
- 0:48Speaker 4: It sounded even louder in my head.
- 0:51Speaker 2: I h nicely done. Good warning everybody.
- 0:55Speaker 3: It is a Hooday Wednesday, Autust fifth. By the way, that.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Introduction promo, that drop, I want to clear up right now,
- 1:03Speaker 2: it was not me.
- 1:05Speaker 3: Well, it was me saying that if you live in
- 1:06Speaker 3: an African.
- 1:07Speaker 2: American minority or area, statistically you create you are more
- 1:14Speaker 2: likely to be a criminal or there's more crime committed
- 1:19Speaker 2: in the African American communities. That was in reference to
- 1:24Speaker 2: discrimination cases on insure by insurance companies, where I said,
- 1:31Speaker 2: let me give you a hypothetical. That was it was
- 1:34Speaker 2: reference to ISA statistics.
- 1:38Speaker 3: No, I don't know if it is, but I just
- 1:39Speaker 3: made an example. I said I don't know.
- 1:41Speaker 2: I specifically said I don't know, and I threw that
- 1:44Speaker 2: out as a hypothetical.
- 1:46Speaker 3: Then charging more money.
- 1:49Speaker 2: For insurance policies based on that is illegal. That's discriminatory
- 1:55Speaker 2: relative or versus living in a given area or being
- 1:58Speaker 2: a certain age, or having driver's license. That is a
- 2:02Speaker 2: discrimination allowed because that is you live in here, you
- 2:06Speaker 2: live there. I mean, yeah, you're discriminating against the person
- 2:08Speaker 2: that lives in an area there's more of a fire area,
- 2:11Speaker 2: for example. So that was what that was about. It
- 2:14Speaker 2: was not me saying statistically, African Americans commit more crime. Frankly,
- 2:20Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true or not. At least
- 2:26Speaker 2: I don't have the proof. That's what we ought to
- 2:30Speaker 2: discuss this entire three hours today. No, let's not okay,
- 2:35Speaker 2: don't accuse me of thank you, by the way, kno
- 2:39Speaker 2: for putting that drop in where on its face it
- 2:42Speaker 2: looks like, oh man, you know all. I once got
- 2:48Speaker 2: into it with a Jewish organization where I was talking
- 2:52Speaker 2: about the Holocaust and they were just for some reason,
- 2:56Speaker 2: they had it in for me. And what they did
- 3:00Speaker 2: is They ran a tape at a couple of events
- 3:04Speaker 2: in which.
- 3:05Speaker 3: You heard me saying.
- 3:07Speaker 2: It was a radio recording of so the Holocaust didn't happen, right,
- 3:13Speaker 2: And they argued, here, I am a Holocaust denier, and
- 3:18Speaker 2: it was me referring to someone who said that along
- 3:23Speaker 2: various lines of the Holocaust didn't happen. And then I
- 3:26Speaker 2: mentioned the court cases, I mentioned the evidence, I mentioned
- 3:29Speaker 2: personal experience, I mentioned all of the evidence, and then
- 3:33Speaker 2: I ended with so the Holocaust didn't happen, right. They
- 3:38Speaker 2: left that part out. It was just me saying the
- 3:42Speaker 2: Holocaust didn't happen, Thank you. I just want to mention that,
- 3:47Speaker 2: for example, putting in the word not or removing the
- 3:50Speaker 2: word not can really change things around, right. For example,
- 3:56Speaker 2: Neil Savedra is not an idiot, but that's adding the
- 4:01Speaker 2: word not. Okay, Moving on, good morning analogies suck, No,
- 4:06Speaker 2: they didn't. That was solid, okay, Neil, good morning, good morning. Yeah,
- 4:10Speaker 2: it was very strong analogy. Cono good morning, good morning.
- 4:13Speaker 2: I think I'm a little sensitive to that. Will good morning, Oh,
- 4:17Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. And then there is oh Amy,
- 4:21Speaker 2: and and I always confuse it too. Let's start with
- 4:24Speaker 2: Amy Ann good morning, bill. Okay, there you go. All good, everybody,
- 4:31Speaker 2: all good. It's a Hume day, August fifth, God already
- 4:36Speaker 2: into August. Wowie Zalie, it's my birthday month. Oh I
- 4:41Speaker 2: that should be like Amy taking off my birthday month.
- 4:45Speaker 5: I don't take off the whole month.
- 4:46Speaker 3: Oh okay, I'm sorry. Do you take off the week?
- 4:49Speaker 5: Sometimes? Usually I just take off the day.
- 4:52Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 4:52Speaker 2: I've never taken off a birthday day or week in
- 4:55Speaker 2: my life. You know why, because I don't view being
- 4:58Speaker 2: born as a particularly I would say it's not a
- 5:04Speaker 2: real accomplishment being born. Now, the day you win the
- 5:07Speaker 2: Nobel Prize, you can take that off. The day that
- 5:10Speaker 2: you graduate college a PhD in celestial navigation, okay, you
- 5:16Speaker 2: can take that off.
- 5:17Speaker 4: But your birthday, yourthday. You know, I was here on
- 5:21Speaker 4: my birthday last week. Nobody said one thing.
- 5:23Speaker 3: It was I didn't even know that day.
- 5:24Speaker 2: I didn't even know that, Neil, you should share that, yeah,
- 5:27Speaker 2: And so I called, yeah, and I was here, happy birthday.
- 5:30Speaker 4: Happy, I was fifty seven. Yeah, every year and thank
- 5:36Speaker 4: her for making me. And she always rates back or
- 5:39Speaker 4: says back my pleasure.
- 5:42Speaker 6: Oh you know what, you guys, we can blame Michelle
- 5:45Speaker 6: for not knowing this. Michelle Cube puts up happy birthday
- 5:48Speaker 6: signs around the office, and she was working remotely last
- 5:50Speaker 6: week so she didn't put it up.
- 5:51Speaker 5: So we didn't know Michelle.
- 5:53Speaker 4: But I wasn't in the studio.
- 5:54Speaker 3: So yeah, Usually Michelle used to put up balloons.
- 5:58Speaker 7: My birthday was in June and nothing happened.
- 6:00Speaker 2: All right, No, well, definitely happen anymore. Michelle used to
- 6:03Speaker 2: put a balloons. And what I would do is, since
- 6:05Speaker 2: this is radio, I say, hey, listen to this, and
- 6:08Speaker 2: then I would pop every balloon in the room. It's
- 6:13Speaker 2: a birthday. Yeah, it's your birthday. Thank you very much.
- 6:15Speaker 2: Anything my parents did, that's correct. Okay, guys, let's do it.
- 6:19Speaker 2: We've got plenty of news to cover this morning. It
- 6:22Speaker 2: is time for Handle on the News with Amy Neil
- 6:26Speaker 2: and Me lead story. You suit, well, that purchase paramount
- 6:33Speaker 2: of Warner Brothers Discovery has been put on hold. There
- 6:37Speaker 2: were anti trust challenges, lawsuits were filed, and the federal
- 6:41Speaker 2: judges said, yep, we'll here right March of twenty twenty seven,
- 6:46Speaker 2: and right now the purchase is on hold and it's
- 6:50Speaker 2: costing a paramount just a couple of dollars because the
- 6:54Speaker 2: deal they signed with Warner Brothers has a ticking fee,
- 7:01Speaker 2: and that meant that after September thirtieth, if the deal
- 7:05Speaker 2: does not close, Warner Brothers shareholders the company has to pay.
- 7:14Speaker 2: We're talking about Paramount has to pay Warner Brothers seven
- 7:17Speaker 2: million dollars per day that the deal does not close.
- 7:22Speaker 2: So we're looking at about a billion dollars for the
- 7:25Speaker 2: deal not closing. I would hold off on truly, I
- 7:27Speaker 2: would hold off on any deal if I could get
- 7:29Speaker 2: seven million dollars a day penalty.
- 7:33Speaker 5: Yeah, who gets the money?
- 7:35Speaker 3: Warner Brothers.
- 7:36Speaker 6: Oh, Warner Brothers, even if at the court it's due
- 7:39Speaker 6: to the court action.
- 7:41Speaker 3: Yep.
- 7:41Speaker 2: There were no exceptions. It was straight out because they
- 7:46Speaker 2: thought the deal was going to close. And it does
- 7:49Speaker 2: happen quite often these deals. But per your inquisitive question, yeah,
- 7:56Speaker 2: usually there are some exceptions, you know, like earthquake hitting
- 8:01Speaker 2: you know, meteor taking the head off the CEO and
- 8:05Speaker 2: so there's a headless company.
- 8:09Speaker 7: Okay, moving on the high cost of rotting food.
- 8:13Speaker 6: How about eighty to one hundred million dollars that's how
- 8:16Speaker 6: much Lineage Logistics says it's going to pay to clean
- 8:21Speaker 6: up the burned out warehouse where there were eighty eight
- 8:25Speaker 6: million pounds of food that was frozen and is now
- 8:29Speaker 6: rotting and is attracting rats and flies and other vermin.
- 8:34Speaker 5: It's still stinky.
- 8:35Speaker 6: They've got eighty percent of the food out of there,
- 8:38Speaker 6: but still stinky, and they got a lot of cleanup
- 8:41Speaker 6: to do.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Well.
- 8:43Speaker 3: It says eighty five, but it could be eighty eight.
- 8:45Speaker 2: But what does and I'm going to ask Neil this,
- 8:48Speaker 2: what does eighty five million pounds of food look like.
- 8:52Speaker 4: Lunch just for you to your average person? Yeah?
- 8:55Speaker 3: Still the average person.
- 8:57Speaker 4: I couldn't even fathom. I mean, you're talking about a
- 9:00Speaker 4: half a million square footage.
- 9:02Speaker 2: I think of all refrigeration right a freezer space places
- 9:06Speaker 2: refrigeration Costco.
- 9:08Speaker 5: And multiply it. It's all those.
- 9:11Speaker 6: Tall shelves, they're all stacked up with frozen food, and
- 9:14Speaker 6: it's just lines and lie like six hundred feet long
- 9:17Speaker 6: of frozen food.
- 9:18Speaker 4: So how big is your average Costco square footage?
- 9:21Speaker 2: One hundred thousand square feet? Okay, so is that right now?
- 9:25Speaker 2: Not even oh, not not even close. You can look
- 9:28Speaker 2: that up average Costco. I would guess fifty sixty thousand
- 9:32Speaker 2: square feet.
- 9:33Speaker 6: No, they say one hundred and fifty thousand, okay, roughly
- 9:36Speaker 6: a little bit less. So it's four times as big
- 9:39Speaker 6: as a costco. And it's all those huge rows and
- 9:43Speaker 6: rows of just shelves, and it's only food, and it's
- 9:46Speaker 6: only frozen food.
- 9:48Speaker 4: It's not mattresses, not chairs, not.
- 9:51Speaker 5: Those fun little electronics clothes.
- 9:55Speaker 2: That Michigan primary we do not have a winner yet.
- 10:00Speaker 2: It is the very left wing. Uh I have to
- 10:06Speaker 2: be a little careful when I say this. I want
- 10:10Speaker 2: to be fair.
- 10:11Speaker 3: The left wing.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Sleezeball duplicitous Santai israel por Palestinian who believes that Israel
- 10:19Speaker 2: should not exist against the moderate for the democratic nomination.
- 10:25Speaker 4: Times have changed. Yes, indeed, abdu l Sayed held a
- 10:30Speaker 4: slim lead, about three percentage points.
- 10:33Speaker 6: It's down to like one's some. But then CNN is
- 10:39Speaker 6: holding off on it, saying it's too close to call.
- 10:42Speaker 2: New York Times has has called it, and so we
- 10:46Speaker 2: don't know at this point.
- 10:47Speaker 4: Did their mayor tell them that they have to call it.
- 10:51Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's good points there.
- 10:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that's a good point.
- 10:58Speaker 4: Uh so he yeah. Representative Hailey Stevens hours after polls
- 11:03Speaker 4: closed there in Michigan so Democrats are you know, looking
- 11:10Speaker 4: at this, you have a former Stevens, a former Obama
- 11:13Speaker 4: administration official who's kind of embraced and beloved by the
- 11:17Speaker 4: party establishment, and you've got abdu El Sayed. I'm holding
- 11:25Speaker 4: that thin margin in a huge battleground state and it's
- 11:30Speaker 4: determined who controls the Senate.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is I have a difficult time talking
- 11:36Speaker 2: to the electorate or understanding because al Sayed is about
- 11:40Speaker 2: as left wing as a come, and certainly anti Israel
- 11:43Speaker 2: for sure. And so you got a pack, the Jewish pack,
- 11:48Speaker 2: which is an immensely strong there's no question that you know,
- 11:53Speaker 2: when they say Jews control America completely, they control the banking,
- 11:57Speaker 2: insurance companies, it's absolutely true. Use do control everything. So
- 12:02Speaker 2: you know, there you go. The point is that the
- 12:07Speaker 2: sie it is so left wing that it's going to
- 12:10Speaker 2: be difficult, where if the moderate whatever her name was,
- 12:12Speaker 2: I forget at this point, would have a much better
- 12:15Speaker 2: chance against the Republicans. So politically, I don't think this
- 12:19Speaker 2: is a good move. But right now the emotion of
- 12:23Speaker 2: the progressive part of the Democratic Party is sweeping in
- 12:28Speaker 2: and I think politically that is just not a good choice.
- 12:32Speaker 2: No matter what I believe I'm a moderate at least
- 12:35Speaker 2: I consider myself a moderate, and I would like some
- 12:39Speaker 2: tempering it's going. We've gone way too much right wing
- 12:42Speaker 2: in this country. I don't think anybody disagrees with that.
- 12:45Speaker 2: And now there's a move to swing way too much
- 12:48Speaker 2: left wing. And none of this helps. You know, the
- 12:51Speaker 2: Independents are at this point, the independence which Trump got
- 12:55Speaker 2: to win the presidential Which way do they go on this?
- 13:00Speaker 7: That's the question, Neil, No surprise here.
- 13:10Speaker 6: The out of service equipment managed by Southern California Edison,
- 13:14Speaker 6: is responsible for starting the deadly Eaten fire that destroyed
- 13:19Speaker 6: ninety four hundred homes and killed nineteen people in January
- 13:23Speaker 6: of twenty twenty five. The report was released by the
- 13:26Speaker 6: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and La County
- 13:29Speaker 6: Fire yesterday, confirming long held suspicions about the origin of
- 13:33Speaker 6: the fire. They reviewed it for eighteen months and found
- 13:38Speaker 6: that arcing from the down or.
- 13:40Speaker 5: The out of service power line is what sparked it.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why it took eighteen months, because
- 13:45Speaker 2: you're looking at you look at the videotape and there
- 13:48Speaker 2: it is at the base of that tower. You can
- 13:50Speaker 2: see the arking, and you can see the fire start.
- 13:56Speaker 3: And there was a.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Power line there which is not powered. I hadn't what
- 14:02Speaker 2: was one hundred years old and it had not been
- 14:04Speaker 2: powered since the seventies. And the argument is they should
- 14:08Speaker 2: have taken it down, which sure sure seems that way.
- 14:12Speaker 4: On that very note, top executives of California's two biggest
- 14:16Speaker 4: utilities warned that they would take action, although they didn't
- 14:19Speaker 4: fully describe what that action would be, to protect their
- 14:22Speaker 4: shareholders if Sacramento lawmakers failed to pass legislation legislation rather
- 14:28Speaker 4: limiting their company's liabilities for wildfires sparked by their equipment.
- 14:33Speaker 4: So on that same note, they're saying, hey, we we
- 14:36Speaker 4: will protect our shareholders. Some are saying that they will
- 14:42Speaker 4: use money to buy back the company's shares. According to
- 14:45Speaker 4: some reports, that would raise the stock price.
- 14:51Speaker 2: Yeah, because the company becomes wealthier. There are fewer stocks
- 14:55Speaker 2: out there, fewer shareholders. And put all that together, and
- 14:59Speaker 2: you have a company that is spending more money buying
- 15:02Speaker 2: its own stockback than for example, paying dividends or spending
- 15:08Speaker 2: money to build more infrastructure and or.
- 15:12Speaker 6: Repair Another attempt, a heavily armed individual was seen wandering
- 15:21Speaker 6: near the Trump International Golf Course or National Golf Club
- 15:26Speaker 6: on Sunday. He apparently was taking some pictures, appeared to
- 15:30Speaker 6: be casing the area. LA County Sheriff's deputies went to
- 15:34Speaker 6: check it out and found a loaded magazine in his
- 15:38Speaker 6: pants pocket, a loaded pistol and additional ammo in his
- 15:41Speaker 6: car in the parking lot at Trump National Golf Club.
- 15:44Speaker 6: Then they searched his house found a modified AR style
- 15:47Speaker 6: rifle of forty five caliber pistol, body armor, high capacity magazines,
- 15:53Speaker 6: and bulk pistol ammunition. Of course, he was spotted on Sunday,
- 15:57Speaker 6: a couple of days before President Trump made his visit
- 16:00Speaker 6: there yesterday.
- 16:01Speaker 2: Yeah, because of the controversy of President Trump, and it's
- 16:05Speaker 2: sort of you love him, you hate him. The number
- 16:08Speaker 2: of death threats that that have been made against President
- 16:13Speaker 2: Trump is far far higher than any president in recent history.
- 16:19Speaker 2: Secret Service has reported thousands of death threats or thousands, well, yes, yeah,
- 16:25Speaker 2: thousands of death threats. And I know people who absolutely
- 16:27Speaker 2: hate Trump, absolutely can't stand him, and wish him dead.
- 16:32Speaker 2: And I tell these folks, you can wish him dead,
- 16:35Speaker 2: but be really careful how you say that, because even
- 16:40Speaker 2: if it smells like a threat. I wish him dead
- 16:45Speaker 2: versus you should go out and assassinate him. Is that
- 16:50Speaker 2: First Amendment? Maybe if it's a general statement, because the
- 16:55Speaker 2: First Amendment is a really interesting amendment to deal with
- 16:59Speaker 2: in terms of the law. But I got to tell
- 17:01Speaker 2: you it's you've got to get a visit from the
- 17:04Speaker 2: Secret Service and have a nice sit down.
- 17:06Speaker 4: You just handed your ass to Kono. By the way,
- 17:10Speaker 4: two seconds of editing, and he sends that off, and
- 17:14Speaker 4: he's got you saying he should be assassinated. You should
- 17:17Speaker 4: go assassinate him. I think he should be assassinated.
- 17:21Speaker 2: So tomorrow I'll tell you we're going to carry live
- 17:24Speaker 2: my interview with the Secret Service tomorrow.
- 17:28Speaker 4: It'll go poorly, yeah it will.
- 17:31Speaker 2: But you have to be very carerius, especially since the
- 17:35Speaker 2: president has been the victim of several assassination attempts, and
- 17:39Speaker 2: I mean serious one Butler Pennsylvania, for example, this one,
- 17:43Speaker 2: the one at the golf course in New Jersey. And
- 17:47Speaker 2: so there are more of those statements against the president,
- 17:53Speaker 2: threats against the president, so they take it.
- 17:58Speaker 3: Seriously as they should. As they should.
- 18:01Speaker 2: I mean, you can hate Donald Trump, and many people
- 18:04Speaker 2: do talk of assassination we assassinate our presidents in this
- 18:08Speaker 2: country historically, way too many times.
- 18:11Speaker 4: All right, another chapter in the January sixth cases comes
- 18:18Speaker 4: to a close. Yesterday US judge granted the US Justice
- 18:23Speaker 4: Department's request to dismiss the case against members of the
- 18:27Speaker 4: right wing Oathkeepers militia who took part in the January sixth,
- 18:31Speaker 4: twenty twenty one attack on the US Capitol. So these
- 18:35Speaker 4: court filings, basically, the judge had no other course for action.
- 18:41Speaker 4: It's the DOJ said they were dropping it. The judge looked,
- 18:46Speaker 4: was over the two conspiracy trials there in twenty twenty
- 18:51Speaker 4: two and twenty twenty three, and presided over those two
- 18:56Speaker 4: seditious conspiracy trials, but said, there's nothing I can do.
- 19:00Speaker 4: They have the choice to drop the case. The dog.
- 19:04Speaker 2: He went further, I mean he ripped into the administration
- 19:10Speaker 2: in doing this, Department of Justice and the President for
- 19:13Speaker 2: his pardon, but for your comments. It's true, he said,
- 19:17Speaker 2: the Justice Department has the right to do this and
- 19:20Speaker 2: there's no way around it.
- 19:22Speaker 4: And now, which is a damn shame. It is such
- 19:25Speaker 4: a horrible mark.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Well, not only that the president has the absolute right
- 19:30Speaker 2: to pardon anybody in anything that is absolute, and people
- 19:34Speaker 2: were very upset.
- 19:35Speaker 4: I was that all of these.
- 19:40Speaker 2: Seditionists, and I have no problem calling them that tried
- 19:44Speaker 2: to overrun the government of the United States and undo
- 19:47Speaker 2: our democracy. Absolutely, and the president in fact pardoned all
- 19:52Speaker 2: of them because they like him. And if you like
- 19:57Speaker 2: the President, you're in good shape.
- 20:02Speaker 3: Amy.
- 20:03Speaker 6: The Moon has a new crater, apparently part of a
- 20:06Speaker 6: SpaceX rocket that weighs an estimated four tons and was
- 20:11Speaker 6: traveling more than five thousand miles per hour apparently crashed
- 20:15Speaker 6: into the Moon early this morning. They don't have independent verification,
- 20:18Speaker 6: but they said it's going to happen Wednesday morning. The
- 20:22Speaker 6: rocket is part of the second stage of a SpaceX
- 20:25Speaker 6: Falcon rocket that's been floating around in space since last year.
- 20:30Speaker 6: It lifted off January fifteenth of twenty twenty five, one
- 20:35Speaker 6: of those pre lunar missions. Scientists say the collision poses
- 20:39Speaker 6: no danger to Earth, but will create a crater with
- 20:43Speaker 6: a diameter of sixty five to ninety feet on the
- 20:45Speaker 6: Moon's surface. The impact will not be visible with the
- 20:49Speaker 6: naked eye from Earth, but they're sand it's going to
- 20:51Speaker 6: send up a huge dust plume or did do it?
- 20:55Speaker 4: Kind of cool?
- 20:56Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Typically, what happens if you don't have these
- 21:00Speaker 2: thrusters on the spacecraft that can move the craft up
- 21:05Speaker 2: down sideways, their gravity sort of takes place the ISS.
- 21:09Speaker 3: Same thing.
- 21:10Speaker 2: If the ISS didn't have these thrusters to keep it
- 21:14Speaker 2: up in space, it would enter, it would re enter Earth,
- 21:18Speaker 2: and you would have cooked spacemen. You would have crispy critters.
- 21:23Speaker 2: You would preteople that that didn't need warm weather parka
- 21:29Speaker 2: all right, die of heat, yep, and burn up. They
- 21:33Speaker 2: sure would, they sure would, all right, Neil, I think.
- 21:36Speaker 4: Okay, that war SpaceX news in its first quarterly earnings release,
- 21:42Speaker 4: since it's eighty six billion dollars initial public offering back
- 21:46Speaker 4: in June, Elon Musk's SpaceX grew its revenue, sharply cut
- 21:52Speaker 4: its losses, and beat Wall Street's expectations. So you know,
- 21:57Speaker 4: it's a rocket internet AI company founded in run by
- 22:00Speaker 4: Elon Musk. It reported the second quarter loss of five
- 22:03Speaker 4: hundred and forty one million, compared to one billion loss
- 22:07Speaker 4: for the same period a year ago. Revenue rose ninety
- 22:10Speaker 4: two percent to seven point eighty one billion.
- 22:15Speaker 2: No, nine point four percent, not ninety two percent, nine
- 22:19Speaker 2: point four percent, almost ten percent.
- 22:21Speaker 4: Why do I have it in my LA times. Revenue
- 22:25Speaker 4: rose ninety percent, because that's wrong. Okay, the loss amounted
- 22:29Speaker 4: to nine.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Revenue rose, Okay, I'm sorry. Revenue rose, Okay, it almost doubled.
- 22:34Speaker 3: Got it?
- 22:35Speaker 2: Yeah, the loss shared to ninety shares. Yeah, nine percent.
- 22:41Speaker 2: It's one hundred and twenty five dollars. And that's after
- 22:43Speaker 2: a ten percent increase. Remember the IPO went out at
- 22:47Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty five dollars and it went up dramatically,
- 22:53Speaker 2: and then it went down dramatically. And so whoever invested
- 22:58Speaker 2: that first day at one hundred thirty five dollars has
- 23:01Speaker 2: lost ten dollars a share. But a company typically burned
- 23:05Speaker 2: through money through its initial stages, and that's what's happening here.
- 23:11Speaker 3: So Elon Musk.
- 23:14Speaker 2: A visionary, no question, crazy like out of his mind,
- 23:18Speaker 2: but a visionary, okay.
- 23:21Speaker 6: Liar, liar, pants on fire. Democratic lawmakers are asking the
- 23:25Speaker 6: Justice Department to consider criminal charges against US Energy Secretary
- 23:29Speaker 6: Chris Wright. Representative Zoe Lofgren of San Jose, and Representative
- 23:34Speaker 6: Gabe Amo say that Wright testified falsely during hearing on
- 23:40Speaker 6: June tenth before the House Committee on Science, Space and
- 23:43Speaker 6: Technology when he said that the Energy Department did not
- 23:46Speaker 6: target states for funding cuts based on their politics. But
- 23:51Speaker 6: then court documents recently unveiled as part of a California
- 23:54Speaker 6: based lawsuit says the Energy Department accepted that the grant
- 23:59Speaker 6: cuts announced in October were based solely on the political
- 24:02Speaker 6: identity of the grant recipient's state.
- 24:07Speaker 3: Yep, what a shocker.
- 24:10Speaker 2: Did anybody not believe that California particularly has been nailed
- 24:15Speaker 2: by the Trump administration in withholding federal funds of which
- 24:19Speaker 2: the state relies on the money that the state spends education,
- 24:26Speaker 2: alternative energy, etc. Most of the money that the states
- 24:30Speaker 2: spend come from the FETs. I mean, that's just simply
- 24:33Speaker 2: the way we work, which means that the Executive Department
- 24:37Speaker 2: has a tremendous amount of control.
- 24:40Speaker 4: Oh exactly next door, which, Yeah, California Attorney General Rob
- 24:44Speaker 4: Bonta was going off yesterday that his office has protected
- 24:49Speaker 4: more than two hundred billion in federal funding for the state,
- 24:54Speaker 4: he said. He went on to say they defended core
- 24:57Speaker 4: civil rights and removed military forces from the Los Angeles streets,
- 25:01Speaker 4: all by suing the President of the United States about
- 25:06Speaker 4: once a week.
- 25:08Speaker 2: Yeah, proudly, he said that he has filed eighty two
- 25:11Speaker 2: lawsuits since the president started his second term, one hundred
- 25:17Speaker 2: and twenty two amicus briefs. If you don't know what
- 25:20Speaker 2: an amicus brief is, that is when a party who
- 25:23Speaker 2: is not a party, someone or some organization who is
- 25:27Speaker 2: not a party to the lawsuit files a brief with
- 25:31Speaker 2: the court saying and it's a friend of the court.
- 25:33Speaker 2: Amicus brief a term that you learn in law school,
- 25:37Speaker 2: which is a complete waste of time, and it is
- 25:41Speaker 2: here's what we think, here's the way we think it
- 25:44Speaker 2: should go.
- 25:44Speaker 3: But you're not a party.
- 25:45Speaker 2: That's the amicus and so you know, just it's California
- 25:51Speaker 2: versus the president. The president versus California, very blue state,
- 25:56Speaker 2: which California, Yeah.
- 25:58Speaker 3: Which he hates. Oh did you see this video? Amy,
- 26:02Speaker 3: I have.
- 26:02Speaker 6: Not seen this video, but it sounds terrifying. We're talking
- 26:06Speaker 6: about when drones attack. Ukraine's President Zelensky has shared a
- 26:11Speaker 6: video on social media of a drone basically hunting down
- 26:14Speaker 6: a man in southern Ukraine. He says it's an incidance
- 26:17Speaker 6: of Russian Safari attacks against civilians. So the video shows
- 26:23Speaker 6: a drone going after a street vendor. The guy moves
- 26:27Speaker 6: away from the drone as it hovers above, and then
- 26:30Speaker 6: it chases him as he runs around a white van. Eventually,
- 26:34Speaker 6: the drone swoops down and explodes on impact.
- 26:38Speaker 3: Yeah, and it looks like he was right there. How
- 26:41Speaker 3: does he survive that?
- 26:42Speaker 2: I have no idea he did survive, though, Yeah, I
- 26:45Speaker 2: know how he did. I have no idea because it
- 26:48Speaker 2: looked like the drone directly attacked him. But you see
- 26:52Speaker 2: the video of him running around the van and the
- 26:55Speaker 2: drone following him around the van and then making a
- 26:59Speaker 2: beeline for where he was.
- 27:01Speaker 3: I mean, that's pretty scary stuff. You're right, it was.
- 27:04Speaker 3: It was terrifying.
- 27:06Speaker 4: That's straight up war crime type stuff.
- 27:08Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely ends going after civilian, no question about it.
- 27:12Speaker 4: All right, X LAPD officer gets a life sentence. This
- 27:16Speaker 4: all deals with a home invasion robbery of a teen
- 27:21Speaker 4: A teen's crypto fortune about three hundred and fifty thousand
- 27:25Speaker 4: dollars worth of cryptocurrency that was stold in Koreatown from
- 27:30Speaker 4: a teenager back in twenty twenty four. And it looks
- 27:34Speaker 4: like this ex officer Eric Halim, made a last ditch
- 27:41Speaker 4: request for a new trial, was rejected by Los Angeles
- 27:45Speaker 4: County Supervisor Court judge and kept with a decision. It
- 27:50Speaker 4: looks like he's got concurrent life terms for kidnapping and robbery.
- 27:55Speaker 2: How does a teenager have three hundred and fifty thousand
- 27:59Speaker 2: dollars in crypt though, and we're not talking about accusation
- 28:02Speaker 2: of any kind against the team, it's how does he
- 28:05Speaker 2: have three hundred and fifty thousand dollars?
- 28:08Speaker 4: Some of these kids were smart and very savvy and
- 28:11Speaker 4: got on it very early.
- 28:13Speaker 2: Oh these kids are I mean, look at the how
- 28:17Speaker 2: many billionaires invite their friends to their thirteenth birthday. It's
- 28:24Speaker 2: nothing short of astounding. And we work half of a lifetime,
- 28:28Speaker 2: all of a lifetime to get our pittance of our retirement.
- 28:34Speaker 4: You need a couple bucks, but yeah, I do. Actually,
- 28:36Speaker 4: I'll patch that around.
- 28:37Speaker 3: I absolutely will.
- 28:38Speaker 2: Okay, we are done with the news coming up, no
- 28:43Speaker 2: surprise here, but I want to dive into this a
- 28:45Speaker 2: little deeply.
- 28:46Speaker 3: Energy company profits.
- 28:47Speaker 2: Are through the roof, particularly through because of the war,
- 28:53Speaker 2: and California wants to do something about it.
- 28:56Speaker 3: And I'll come back with that. KF I am. You've
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