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Speaker 5: And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Speaker 5: Bill Handle.
Speaker 2: And Jack. Good morning everybody. Bill Handle here. It is
Speaker 2: a momentous Monday, October thirteen.
Speaker 3: All living hostages in Gaza, Israel hostages have been returned
Speaker 3: and now they're awaiting.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the remains.
Speaker 3: Of I think twenty eight who died or were killed,
Speaker 3: probably were killed. And of course Hamas decides not only
Speaker 3: is it hold living hostages, it also holds dead hostages,
Speaker 3: knowing that the family members need closure and it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter anyway. Celebrations breaking out both in Gaza and Israel.
Speaker 2: And I think, I guess in.
Speaker 3: A positive sense that no one Hamas is not screaming
Speaker 3: we've won the war. We've won the war, which they
Speaker 3: always do. And Israel, for the most part, there is
Speaker 3: some talk about winning the war in Netanyahu said a
Speaker 3: couple of things, but for the most part, the celebration
Speaker 3: is the return of the hostages on the Israeli side
Speaker 3: and the return of the Palestinian prisoners.
Speaker 2: That is real as holding over to Gaza.
Speaker 3: Okay, quick, healoa one and all because we were.
Speaker 2: Talking a little bit about that.
Speaker 3: And of course our president in a speech to the
Speaker 3: Knesset out did himself with about forty minutes of an
Speaker 3: I great, Aren't I terrific? Couldn't have a better president.
Speaker 3: Joe Biden was the worst president in the world. Obama
Speaker 3: was almost as bad.
Speaker 2: I mean, just.
Speaker 3: You know, you got a victory lap going here, you know,
Speaker 3: just take it, just take it.
Speaker 2: Thank you. You know we're done. Uh you're giving.
Speaker 3: All the credit for it, as you should. But come on,
Speaker 3: give me a break, all right. Uh let's let me
Speaker 3: let me say here, we're there. Let me see on
Speaker 3: this Will will coach river Will is back. Good morning, Bill,
Speaker 3: Good morning it. Oh my god, it was awesome, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Where'd you go?
Speaker 3: It's the best place? Where'd you go? Uh? Sienna bronh
Speaker 3: and ah, that yeah, wonderful place. Tuscany is magic. Venice
Speaker 3: is crowded beyond belief. Although it wasn't too bad.
Speaker 5: It wasn't bad Rome of course was off the chart
Speaker 5: with you, and Rome was and the graffiti and Rome
Speaker 5: and the crime is just yeah, it's they've taken an
Speaker 5: interest and wonderful city and has gone yet not didn't
Speaker 5: go well anyway, So welcome.
Speaker 3: Back, thank you, and it was it was all good.
Speaker 3: It was all good good. I love Italian's. I really
Speaker 3: you notice that how few of them actually have pimples
Speaker 3: and zits?
Speaker 2: You know that you look?
Speaker 3: Do you notice that they right now? You know? You know,
Speaker 3: because they tend to slide off? Okay, I'm not no,
Speaker 3: good morning, Neil.
Speaker 4: I am fascinated how that tiny little braining yours works,
Speaker 4: like I have no idea what's going to come out
Speaker 4: of it?
Speaker 1: None?
Speaker 3: Huh yep, yeah, that was. That was an Italian joke
Speaker 3: for sure. You can look it up. You're looking at
Speaker 3: me seeing how it connects. I know. I not get it.
Speaker 2: No, oh, okay, I get your humor. Okay, if you
Speaker 2: want to call it humor.
Speaker 1: That's not a plus. Kno, all right, No.
Speaker 2: We've started in the morning, anyway, will welcome back? Kno?
Speaker 2: Is there, Neil?
Speaker 3: Of course?
Speaker 2: Is there Amy wearing the Dodgers jersey.
Speaker 6: It's just a sweatshirt today.
Speaker 3: I'm always a sweatshirt. Yes.
Speaker 7: All these playoffs are making me realize how many different
Speaker 7: Dodgers outfits I have.
Speaker 3: Uh, I didn't pay attention if the Dodgers already started. Uh.
Speaker 7: The championship game, one of the championship series is this
Speaker 7: afternoon in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: All right, so you're not going there and you don't
Speaker 3: have tickets, but you do have tickets to some of
Speaker 3: the championship games.
Speaker 6: Correct, Yes, we have tickets to Thursday's game.
Speaker 3: So you're definitely gonna see a game, come hell or
Speaker 3: high water.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and we got to see we got to
Speaker 7: see the clincher on on front Thursday.
Speaker 3: The giveaway to take away the win. Okay, fair enough,
Speaker 3: and good morning, Good morning. I noticed you are not
Speaker 3: wearing any Dodger garb.
Speaker 6: By the way, Amy, nice flax.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. There's just so many playoff games.
Speaker 6: I just have to hear, so many Dodger things I
Speaker 6: have to find to wear.
Speaker 7: So I'm like, oh god, and you have joined as
Speaker 7: many you know, but I don't get as two games.
Speaker 3: I'm done. Yeah, if Padres actually played a decent don't
Speaker 3: think I'm wearing We'll be talking a lot about actually
Speaker 3: real quickly before we go on and start the news,
Speaker 3: which needs to say, we have tons of it. Quick
Speaker 3: word about Saturday night where we had that Zelman's Taste
Speaker 3: test at the Anaheim White House that we were giving Zelman's.
Speaker 2: A test does it really work?
Speaker 3: And the meal that was curated by Chef Bruno and
Speaker 3: Silvano was so garlic laden. It was garlic everything garlic.
Speaker 1: The assignment and it was.
Speaker 4: It's actually one of the best meals of It was
Speaker 4: so wonderfully thought out and executed down to the caramelized
Speaker 4: onions in the dessert, so there was onions and garlic
Speaker 4: in everything, and it was And the garlic bread is
Speaker 4: the best I've ever had yet. It almost burned your
Speaker 4: mouth that had it did it.
Speaker 2: Was a lot of it.
Speaker 3: And the shrimp scampy which is one of their so
Speaker 3: much tradiisunt beyond belief. Anyway, thank you to Anaheim White House.
Speaker 2: And we ran.
Speaker 3: Across a lot of people that were there just to
Speaker 3: say hello, knew that we were there, that were not
Speaker 3: part of our group.
Speaker 1: They didn't win, so they just showed up.
Speaker 3: They just showed up at eight. I love it, which, yeah,
Speaker 3: that was so nice. The Bruno loved that one too,
Speaker 3: So anyway, it's thank you Zelman's. Thank you for Anaheim
Speaker 3: White House, both phenomenal produce and restaurant. And we're gonna
Speaker 3: do that again at some point, only because the food
Speaker 3: is so spectacular and I don't have to pay for it,
Speaker 3: and that's the important thing.
Speaker 1: You're weird.
Speaker 2: I am not.
Speaker 3: I am cheap.
Speaker 4: We had these giveaways for them, these little garlic presses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like, where'd I put mine? Where'd I put it?
Speaker 1: It's a give Why did you have to have one?
Speaker 3: Because it's free.
Speaker 1: Seotypes?
Speaker 2: But yeah, why of course it is.
Speaker 3: And Neil had these these and of course Zelman's gave
Speaker 3: aways a lot, a fair amount of product and it
Speaker 3: was all good. Okay, enough of that. There's Neil again
Speaker 3: making fun of me, and yeah, but it's just weird.
Speaker 1: And I made them.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, you could just ask me for one.
Speaker 4: I'll get you. I'll make a custom one just for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'll have two of them. I'll take it. Okay.
Speaker 3: It is time for handle on the news on this
Speaker 3: Monday morning, October thirteen. Lead Storry.
Speaker 8: All right, well, right this moment the president is our
Speaker 8: president is about to leave Tel Aviv and fly to Cairo,
Speaker 8: or the peace summit, of which twenty world leaders are
Speaker 8: going to.
Speaker 3: Come celebrating the ceasefire and the breakout of peace between
Speaker 3: Israel and Camas, of which the president, President Trump is
Speaker 3: rightly being given a tremendous amount of credit. There's no
Speaker 3: question that without President Trump this would not have happened.
Speaker 1: And what he's so gracious about him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he certainly is spent forty minutes in front of
Speaker 3: the Canasset talking about how great he is, how horrible
Speaker 3: Obama and Joe Biden were the worst president in the
Speaker 3: history of the United States.
Speaker 1: How I would I have to do with any of it?
Speaker 3: I have no idea, And how he has made all
Speaker 3: the decisions, and he decides which weapons go where, and
Speaker 3: he gave him Israel, which Israel knew what to do
Speaker 3: with him, and just you know, at some point, at
Speaker 3: what point do you snap victory out of the jaws,
Speaker 3: the feet out of the jaws of victory. I just
Speaker 3: he just goes on and on, and I mean, come on, guy,
Speaker 3: you got the win.
Speaker 4: You got the win, and deservedly so there's probably nothing
Speaker 4: more that you could do as a president of the
Speaker 4: United States or a head of state that makes that.
Speaker 4: You could go, wow, this was life changing for people.
Speaker 4: And then he kind of poops on it.
Speaker 2: It's like why just.
Speaker 4: Takes take the w it is so it's huge, It
Speaker 4: really is huge.
Speaker 1: Just came home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's incredible and it is. I mean
Speaker 3: it is an amazing feat of which. Does he deserve
Speaker 3: the Nobel Peace Price for this one?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think he does actually for putting the together.
Speaker 3: So now you've got Nittanyahu a few minutes up on
Speaker 3: in front of the Knesset talking about how great the
Speaker 3: president is. You have to because Trump loves to hear
Speaker 3: that and has to hear it, and all the all
Speaker 3: President Trump to do is stand up and just say
Speaker 3: thank you very much and then sit down.
Speaker 2: That would have been the greatest speech.
Speaker 1: Give the glory to the families that are reuniting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh he did.
Speaker 3: He talked about that, and he talked about Jared Kushner
Speaker 3: and Ivonka, his daughter converting to Judaism, and do all
Speaker 3: kinds of stories about Steve Witkoff, personal stories and just
Speaker 3: humorous anecdotes and.
Speaker 4: Basically talking about all the Jews he knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of my best friends are Jews.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh crazy, Aaron Trump Aviv.
Speaker 2: Yeah nice.
Speaker 3: In any case, all right, quick timeline hostages have been released.
Speaker 3: President as of right this moment is boarding Air Force
Speaker 3: one after speaking to the Knesse, and he is on
Speaker 3: his way to Cairo. And it's an hour flight by
Speaker 3: the way, Cairo to Tel Aviv or Tel Aviv to Cairo.
Speaker 3: It's almost exactly an hour. It's La San Francisco. And
Speaker 3: then he arrives. Netting Yahu will not be there, and
Speaker 3: we're hearing all kinds of reasons Jewish holiday.
Speaker 2: Eh.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I buy that he Mahmud Abbass
Speaker 3: will be there. And Netiahu does not want to be
Speaker 3: seen in the same room on the same by a
Speaker 3: dayas as Machunda Bass because he has said Nata Yahu
Speaker 3: is official position of Israel. The Palestinian authority is going
Speaker 3: to disappear. It will not be part of governing the
Speaker 3: new Palestine. And so there's a lot to be said
Speaker 3: on that, and of course I'll talk more about that
Speaker 3: coming up seven o'clock.
Speaker 7: Two weeks in and tempers are flaring. What started as
Speaker 7: a standoff over spending priorities is around enhanced in affordable
Speaker 7: care subsidies has turned into full blown political stress test.
Speaker 7: Over the weekend, both sides were on the TV shows
Speaker 7: and both pointing fingers at the other. Virtually no appetite
Speaker 7: for anyone on either side to talk to the other side.
Speaker 7: They're pretty much dug in. The House, passed continuing resolution
Speaker 7: would extend curtain current Biden era spending levels, but House
Speaker 7: Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries said that the legislation is unacceptable
Speaker 7: to Democrats because it also includes massive cuts codified by
Speaker 7: President Trump's domestic policy package. And then on the other side,
Speaker 7: Speaker Johnson says that the Democrats have chosen a partisan
Speaker 7: fight to prove their Marxist rising base in the Democratic
Speaker 7: Party that they're willing to fight Trump and the Republicans.
Speaker 2: Marxist, Yeah, yeah, why not.
Speaker 3: Now it's you communists and patriots, you fighting, looking at
Speaker 3: everybody and describing themselves. So I will talk more about this,
Speaker 3: but the people are going to really really suffer. This
Speaker 3: is the week that paychecks don't come to a lot
Speaker 3: of federal employees, and it's really going to hurt most.
Speaker 2: See how this pans out.
Speaker 3: I have some ideas and we'll talk about that. At
Speaker 3: seven point thirty and see if you agree or disagree,
Speaker 3: or tell me I'm out of my mind. Sure, why not?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: As we moved to real communists China, Donald Trump threatening
Speaker 4: again to impose additional one hundred percent tariffs on China
Speaker 4: made everything go crazy with the stock market. But China
Speaker 4: says it's a typical example of US doing a double standard,
Speaker 4: which is funny for a communist country filled with rich
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well they're not particularly communists. They only call
Speaker 3: themselves communists. Anytime a country calls itself the people's republic,
Speaker 3: you've got some real issues as to how free the
Speaker 3: people's Republic is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're right on this one.
Speaker 1: They did say they have countermeasures coming.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, they're now in a pissing match.
Speaker 3: Ping and President Trump are really at it. And here's
Speaker 3: what really got Here's what got Trump so upset is
Speaker 3: that China is limiting its rare earths that now they're
Speaker 3: playing with that China controls the rare earth's market, rare
Speaker 3: earth minerals. They basically have it about eighty percent of
Speaker 3: the world market. And without rare earth, you don't make
Speaker 3: cell phones, evs, you don't make electronics. You just need
Speaker 3: those what I thought you might have nothing we were
Speaker 3: working with We are, but it's years in the making.
Speaker 2: Minds have to be dug.
Speaker 3: China has a full blown mature industry with this and
Speaker 3: controls the world market. So Trump now attached another one
Speaker 3: hundred percent. That's on top of the thirty percent. That's
Speaker 3: all aready in place, one hundred and thirty percent. I
Speaker 3: told you that my business with savil or cookwar business
Speaker 3: which we import from China, a loom Staines steel cookwaar,
Speaker 3: what was it? A couple of weeks ago, we got
Speaker 3: a shipment of We had seventy thousand dollars, a reasonably
Speaker 3: small shipment. We needed some back order stuff, so it
Speaker 3: costs seventy thousand dollars. The tariff was eighty seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: That we had to write the federal government on a
Speaker 3: seventy thousand dollars order. It was eighty seven thousand dollars
Speaker 3: in tariffs. How sustainable do you think that is?
Speaker 4: Gosh, it's almost not worth using the Chinese slave labor.
Speaker 4: Huh pretty close? Yeah, man, you just can't get good
Speaker 4: slave labor anymore.
Speaker 1: I guess we're back to the us of A.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not going to help very much because still
Speaker 3: it gets crazy cookie.
Speaker 2: Well the aluminum.
Speaker 3: We also get aluminum from overseas too, don't forget the
Speaker 3: try to produces aluminum. So it's the whole thing is
Speaker 3: completely nuts. And the other thing I think I'm talking
Speaker 3: about this a little bit later on. One thing about
Speaker 3: this president, and it's both good and bad. I'll tell
Speaker 3: you one thing. For a US president to bounce back
Speaker 3: and forth and to wake up in the morning and
Speaker 3: establish one policy and in the afternoon change it.
Speaker 2: With the kind of.
Speaker 3: Influence the United States has is just astronomical, and he's
Speaker 3: just taking everybody for a loop.
Speaker 7: Okay, moving on Butner Butner, Mayor Bass is getting some competition,
Speaker 7: and don't look at me that way.
Speaker 1: I got it.
Speaker 7: Former La School Superintendent Austin Buttner is planning to announce
Speaker 7: today that he is going to run against Mayor Bass
Speaker 7: for the twenty twenty six mayor's election. He lives in
Speaker 7: Pacific Palisades. His home was damaged during the fires. His
Speaker 7: mother in law's house was destroyed, and he has criticized
Speaker 7: on several fronts, but very critical of the way that
Speaker 7: she handled the wildfires, saying that officials at all levels
Speaker 7: showed a failure of leadership on the fire.
Speaker 3: I don't know how much name recognition he has, because
Speaker 3: did you know his name LA Unified School superintendent who
Speaker 3: it was?
Speaker 2: I don't think many people did.
Speaker 1: I did. But this is what we do for a living.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, thank you. It makes me feel good.
Speaker 7: Hey, when only like less than twenty percent of the
Speaker 7: population of LA votes for the mayor, are they in
Speaker 7: the election?
Speaker 6: I mean nobody knows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good point, And Neil says, of course he knows.
Speaker 2: I have my doubts.
Speaker 4: So the ball keeps bouncing from court to court, and
Speaker 4: the Federal Court of Appeals just Saturday temporary temporarily lifted
Speaker 4: a judge's order blocking the White House efforts to federalize
Speaker 4: National Guard troops for the use in Chicago, but left
Speaker 4: her block on their deployment in the city, so the
Speaker 4: troops can remain at their base, the US Army Reserve
Speaker 4: Center there in Elwood, Illinois, just about an hour outside
Speaker 4: of Chicago. But they don't need to return home. But
Speaker 4: they're still not moving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just now their chapter And how far does
Speaker 3: presidential power go? Where the president is testing pushing the
Speaker 3: envelope across the board. So we'll see what the courts
Speaker 3: have to say on this one. These are all, as
Speaker 3: you pointed out, temporary measures until the merits the underlying
Speaker 3: case is actually heard as to does the president have
Speaker 3: the power?
Speaker 2: Yes or no?
Speaker 7: Under these circumstances, inventory not required, So for the families
Speaker 7: who lose everything in future wildfires, you'll be able to
Speaker 7: collect most of your insurance pay out without itemizing everything.
Speaker 7: Governor Newsom signed new law that on Friday, and starting
Speaker 7: next year, insurers will be required to pay at least
Speaker 7: sixty percent of a homeowner's personal property coverage up to
Speaker 7: three hundred and fifty thousand dollars without requiring that detailed
Speaker 7: inventory list. It's good, but not as good as the
Speaker 7: original of the original version of the bill, which would
Speaker 7: have required insurers to pay one hundred.
Speaker 6: Percent of the contents without an itemized list.
Speaker 3: That's a two aage sword. First of all, the insurers
Speaker 3: have a legitimate interest saying, hey, you know what, We're
Speaker 3: not going to just write you a check saying that
Speaker 3: based on what you tell us, you know, here's your
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollars gold coin collection. Oh no, I
Speaker 3: had it.
Speaker 2: Now it's gone melted.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess you can melt into a gold bar,
Speaker 3: but you know the coin that's worth twenty thousand dollars. No.
Speaker 3: On the other side, it's who the hell keeps inventory
Speaker 3: of everything you have in the house. I mean, what
Speaker 3: you should do is with homeowners insurance is video everything
Speaker 3: you have, just do a walk through and that helps enormously.
Speaker 3: Who the hell does that? So this helps homeowners a
Speaker 3: lot and we'll just see how much our insurance rates
Speaker 3: go up on that one. And it is fair to
Speaker 3: have people be paid for what they lose without having
Speaker 3: to do an entire inventory list, because no one does that.
Speaker 1: I do, yeah, do you? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Actually I go through every now and again, both in
Speaker 4: my shop in the house and do a video.
Speaker 1: And it's actually it's actually.
Speaker 4: Came in handy when we had a film crew used
Speaker 4: the house. I was able to prove that things were broken. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm weird, No, all right, hundreds. You remember back at
Speaker 4: the earlier part of the year with the whole doze
Speaker 4: stuff where people were being fired and then they were like, oh, whoops,
Speaker 4: you weren't supposed to be fired. We're kind of going
Speaker 4: through that again. These are the CDC staffers recently fired
Speaker 4: by the Trump administration. There's about thirteen hundred workers at
Speaker 4: the CDC so and they come from all different walks
Speaker 4: and areas. But out of that thirteen hundred, seven hundred
Speaker 4: were reinstated on Saturday, so you've got about six hundred
Speaker 4: remaining laid off. And apparently they received incorrect notifications.
Speaker 3: So they fire everybody. This is Friday, Friday. They all
Speaker 3: received notices and they say you're done, and then the
Speaker 3: next day, seven hundred ago, oh we made a mistake,
Speaker 3: you're not fired. And this seems to be the way
Speaker 3: that the government is being run right now. You'd think
Speaker 3: someone would think this through, but it's, uh, let's do
Speaker 3: this with a shotgun and then we'll pick up the pieces.
Speaker 6: Where businesses do it.
Speaker 3: Businesses I think are more selective. They don't reinstate people
Speaker 3: the next day you get furloughed, and it's not like, oh,
Speaker 3: we made a mistake, come on back the next day
Speaker 3: by the hundreds or the thousands.
Speaker 2: Not they don't do.
Speaker 6: The next day.
Speaker 7: But I mean it's happened around here where they do
Speaker 7: layoffs and then they bring people back.
Speaker 3: And how how in terms of the numbers of layoffs.
Speaker 3: How many, it's a tiny, tiny number.
Speaker 4: Government should be the best run business in the United States.
Speaker 2: Well it can't be.
Speaker 3: It can't be because the government doesn't have any accountability.
Speaker 3: You know. It's when you think that, for example, iHeart
Speaker 3: it has a it's a public corporation. It has accountability
Speaker 3: to with shareholders. People have accountability to their bosses, the government.
Speaker 3: It's nobody's money, that's all. It's not your money, So
Speaker 3: what do you care it's my money?
Speaker 7: Yeah, this guy picked the wrong place to be in public.
Speaker 7: So apparently somebody went into Saint Peter's Peter's Basilica, went
Speaker 7: up to the altar and started curinating.
Speaker 6: He was quickly escorted out of the church. Pope Leo
Speaker 6: was informed and was, as he put it, shocked to
Speaker 6: learn of the news.
Speaker 3: Okay, that leads right into the joke that I must
Speaker 3: repeat if you haven't heard it yet, and that is
Speaker 3: Will's already shaking his head, and that is this is
Speaker 3: not the first time that an attack has been made
Speaker 3: at an altar statue in Saint Peter's the Pieta, which
Speaker 3: is in Saint Peter's in the Basilica. There was that
Speaker 3: crazy ass Hungarian out of his mind mentally Opensus, who
Speaker 3: took a hammer and started hammering on the piata and
Speaker 3: as a matter of fact, I think took out three
Speaker 3: or four of the toes of either Jesus or Mary
Speaker 3: on the piata. Now it's completely you can't get in
Speaker 3: his bulletproof plexiglass in front of it. And as they
Speaker 3: were dragging him out, and I quote now, he was
Speaker 3: screaming Pieta. I thought it said pinata. Okay, no, I
Speaker 3: love that.
Speaker 1: I'm not putting another notch.
Speaker 2: Write that down. I'm telling you that's.
Speaker 1: On my belt. How many times I've heard that?
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Can whenever time there's an attack in the Basilica,
Speaker 3: I have to I have to say it can't contron wrong, Peter, Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, oh very good. I guess there's nobody watching Yusemite.
Speaker 3: So Jozamite is going to hell in a handbasket. The
Speaker 3: government shut down.
Speaker 4: You've got increase reports of illegal base jumping from El Capitan.
Speaker 4: Also squatters filling up campgrounds. There's climbers using the cables
Speaker 4: that you see on the side of half dome, but
Speaker 4: they're doing it without permits.
Speaker 1: Because there's nobody around. It's unclear.
Speaker 4: We don't know exactly how many federal employees are working,
Speaker 4: how many are not. But one employee who spoke with
Speaker 4: sf Gate just you know, anonymously, said that they were
Speaker 4: only they were only aware of a single volunteer patrolling
Speaker 4: the entire park.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't doubt.
Speaker 3: I'm surpriser was even one, because they shut down the
Speaker 3: national parks. Hey, quick question, is there such thing as
Speaker 3: legal base jumping for MeTL Capitan?
Speaker 2: Do they allow that?
Speaker 6: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think so either.
Speaker 6: So they're taking advantage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you go and maybe I'm not saying
Speaker 4: with real bullets, but maybe paint guns and then you
Speaker 4: can go and pluck them off as they fly down.
Speaker 6: Maybe that's not even a good idea to suggest.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just saying, if they can.
Speaker 3: Squatting and base jumping, you're better off just letting him
Speaker 3: fall and just you know, pick up the pieces.
Speaker 1: Okay, I wouldn't do that, Okay, for the record.
Speaker 7: Yeah, massive merger hanging in the balance. Paramount has officially
Speaker 7: opened the bidding for rival Warner Brothers Discovery. The board
Speaker 7: of Warner Brothers Discovery rejected the initial bit of about
Speaker 7: twenty dollars chair share, but talks are continuing. A Warner
Speaker 7: brother This Discovery owns HBO, CNN, TBS, Food Network, HGTV,
Speaker 7: and the Warner Brothers movie and TV studios in uh Burbank.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll just.
Speaker 3: See how far what they're what their will, how far
Speaker 3: they're willing to go in terms of, uh, what they're
Speaker 3: going to pay per share. Usually when you're buying or
Speaker 3: a company is buying another company, uh, the price of
Speaker 3: the stock starts going way way up, and they end
Speaker 3: up paying a premium over what the market value is.
Speaker 3: And sometimes it can be pretty astronomical to the point
Speaker 3: where the shareholders just say we're done, we're selling, thank
Speaker 3: you very much, and we'll see what happened.
Speaker 2: They may happen here.
Speaker 7: And Larry Ellison, uh, you know he's the world's richest man,
Speaker 7: right and he wants to the top five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's up there.
Speaker 6: When daddy's money is there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who knows how it'll go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got my son at Cheruro.
Speaker 3: You're good day, Okay.
Speaker 1: About the whole thing for him?
Speaker 3: Excellent? All right, So.
Speaker 4: It looks like it's one small step for China possibly
Speaker 4: if they get their way. They're trying to get back
Speaker 4: to the They're trying to get to the moon. We're
Speaker 4: trying to get back to the Moon. And there is
Speaker 4: more and more chorus of voices saying that the United
Speaker 4: States needs to return astronauts to the Moon before the
Speaker 4: end of.
Speaker 1: This decad This, that, and the other.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 4: They people are just saying, hey, we need to get
Speaker 4: back up. Their NASA plans to use a SpaceX starship,
Speaker 4: which is the largest rocket system ever constructed, as part
Speaker 4: of this lunar journey. But Bill Nye, we all know,
Speaker 4: the science guy, said that the that China's National Space
Speaker 4: Administration will almost certainly walk on the Moon in the
Speaker 4: next five years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's the difference between the United States and China.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 3: We have a fair number of legislators who go, we
Speaker 3: don't want to spend this kind of money, or we
Speaker 3: have administration that's going to cut NASA budgets in China,
Speaker 3: whatever Jijingping wants, and the politbureau says absolutely, once policy
Speaker 3: is established, they go for it. Nothing gets in the way.
Speaker 3: And that's so it's.
Speaker 4: Only money because you know, we did this fifty six
Speaker 4: years ago.
Speaker 1: Why is it. Why is it so difficult to do now?
Speaker 3: Because it is not just reaching the moon just for
Speaker 3: the hell of reaching the moon. I believe it is
Speaker 3: reaching the Moon for the purposes of then being able
Speaker 3: to go to Mars. So it's and also reaching the
Speaker 3: Moon to set up some kind of habitat there, which
Speaker 3: is not it's just not flying in and flying back.
Speaker 2: Sort of been there, done.
Speaker 4: That was because we're not going back to the moon
Speaker 4: because Stanley Kubrick is dead.
Speaker 3: Okay, well said to the moon, Alice, to the moon,
Speaker 3: all right, we are done.
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