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Speaker 2: AM six forty bill Handle Here it is a footy Friday,
Speaker 2: November fourteenth, Ask Candle anything at eight thirty this morning.
Speaker 2: And some of the stories we're looking at, well, a
Speaker 2: big one here in southern California is the rain. We're
Speaker 2: going to get rain, unfortunately, probably too much rain and
Speaker 2: too short a period of time, and Amy will be
Speaker 2: talking about it and.
Speaker 3: You'll be step outside.
Speaker 2: You know, well, I have no problem realizing that we've
Speaker 2: got a lot of rain coming down now. AT and
Speaker 2: T is in California is the telephone company of last resort.
Speaker 2: Now what does that mean? Well, that means it has landlines,
Speaker 2: copper landlines, and when everything goes.
Speaker 3: Down, it's the last resort.
Speaker 2: And it's expensive to keep copper landlines going because the
Speaker 2: other companies don't have it Mobile, T Mobile doesn't have it, Hoverizon,
Speaker 2: they don't have copper landlines. Of course, all internet based
Speaker 2: voiceover internet based phone calls. AT and T, which of
Speaker 2: course does that too, wants to get rid of their
Speaker 2: copper landlines. Now, let me tell you why I think
Speaker 2: copper landlines are so great. And I have always had
Speaker 2: a landline because when everything goes down, when the internet
Speaker 2: goes down, when your power goes out.
Speaker 3: Guess what you have left? Your landline.
Speaker 2: Your landline, you can reach people, they can reach you
Speaker 2: if they have one. It's the last resort. And of
Speaker 2: course guess what AT and T wants to do. It
Speaker 2: wants to get rid of those landlines. And it is
Speaker 2: spending big money lobbying uh for that to happen. And
Speaker 2: so far, uh, they have not been able to kill
Speaker 2: the land lines, and they're they're pushing to retire the
Speaker 2: landlines across the country.
Speaker 3: It's so important to have those. I have always. Uh.
Speaker 2: Obviously I have internet phones, we all do, or we
Speaker 2: have all cell phones. But when your cell phone goes down,
Speaker 2: and towers do go down, when your internet goes down,
Speaker 2: when you don't have power in your house anymore, any
Speaker 2: one of those, you're done.
Speaker 3: You're done.
Speaker 2: Except if you have a landline. You don't need power
Speaker 2: for your landline because the phone company provides the power.
Speaker 2: The technology is such and they're saying the only reason
Speaker 2: is that we're pulling out. Well, certainly it's cost effective
Speaker 2: to pull out, because it is really expensive to maintain
Speaker 2: the copper lines.
Speaker 3: What they're saying is we only what we want.
Speaker 2: To do is pull out of those areas where you
Speaker 2: really don't need us. For example, in communities where three
Speaker 2: or more providers also provide phone service. The problem is
Speaker 2: those three or four providers are all Internet based. And
Speaker 2: if you ever notice that whenever you go into an
Speaker 2: elevator the telephone that you do that you press the
Speaker 2: button and it dials nine to one one or these
Speaker 2: days it dials the it dials the elevator company.
Speaker 3: Those are all an lines.
Speaker 2: Because you have to have if you're an on elevator
Speaker 2: and the power goes out in the building, I mean,
Speaker 2: you've got to be able to reach someone. And so
Speaker 2: it ends up being, uh, that's the only one that
Speaker 2: the only syste that works. And there's a huge fight
Speaker 2: going on, and AT and T is spending enormous dollars
Speaker 2: and somehow they're spinning it that it's good not to
Speaker 2: have landlines, somehow it's better for you. And I've never
Speaker 2: understood that kind of philosophy. This is the corporations do this.
Speaker 2: Smoking is good for you. Big Pharma says, you know,
Speaker 2: reducing prices for drugs is bad for you. Keeping prices
Speaker 2: high are good for you or is good for you,
Speaker 2: And that's what's going on. And they're just saying it's
Speaker 2: way too expensive. Okay, So as AT and T says
Speaker 2: this is way too expensive, there was this October a
Speaker 2: month ago filing with the US Securities Exchange Commission that
Speaker 2: it's at this point nine point seven billion dollar profit
Speaker 2: this year. Up to this point nine point seven seven
Speaker 2: billion dollars profit. Fiber is a huge profit center that's
Speaker 2: bringing in two point two billion, up nearly seventeen percent.
Speaker 3: And that's what AT and T is saying. Tell you what,
Speaker 3: we will replace copper with fiber. It's better.
Speaker 2: The delivery system is clear, yes, but again you lose power.
Speaker 2: Fiber doesn't work, you lose cell phones doesn't.
Speaker 3: Work, landlines work.
Speaker 2: They are truly a lifesaver a land line, There's no
Speaker 2: question about it. And I've always had one. And you
Speaker 2: know what I think can get them anymore? I don't
Speaker 2: know if they're I mean they're doing everything they can
Speaker 2: to say no.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: If you go to England, for example, the Naval Museum,
Speaker 2: and I think it's the one in London, you'll see
Speaker 2: a lock of Horatio Nelson's hair, of which you can
Speaker 2: actually get DNA from hair.
Speaker 3: If you go to Munich.
Speaker 2: Or Berlin, you will not see a lock of Adolf
Speaker 2: Hitler's mustache. So how do you get DNA from Adolf
Speaker 2: Hitler to study Adolf Hitler. Well, let me tell you
Speaker 2: what happened in nineteen forty five Hitler's bunker. Hitler commits
Speaker 2: suicide and he blows his brains out in his bunker
Speaker 2: in this little room, the ante room that he has
Speaker 2: is private area where he and Eva Braun lived in
Speaker 2: their apartment kind of thing. And he blows his brain out.
Speaker 2: That blows his brains out, and the blood, of course,
Speaker 2: pours all over the couch. Now you've got a guy
Speaker 2: who worked for Dwight D. Eisenhower who was there, and
Speaker 2: the Russians who were in control of the bunker allowed him.
Speaker 2: That's Army Colonel Roswell Rosengren and allowed him to go
Speaker 2: into the bunker where Hitler committed suicide. Now, Hitler's body
Speaker 2: in need or Brown's body was burnt outside. Had some
Speaker 2: of his underlings, poor Gasoline Oliver and just burned his body.
Speaker 3: So we don't know. And that's basically gone parts and pieces.
Speaker 2: Baby, But that's under a parking lot someplace in Berlin.
Speaker 2: So he took a swatch of the couch that was
Speaker 2: soaked in blood, and it stayed in the family and
Speaker 2: it was sold at auction and ended up going to
Speaker 2: the Gettysburg.
Speaker 3: Museum of History in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: And a researcher in England, try King, a professor at
Speaker 2: the University of Bath who identifies folks like King Richard
Speaker 2: the third he did. He got the DNA and started
Speaker 2: studying Hitler's DNA. It looks like the analysis is that
Speaker 2: Hitler had a mutation on a gene called pro K
Speaker 2: two and variants.
Speaker 3: This cause Calman syndrome.
Speaker 2: And something called congeneral congenital hibognaotrophic.
Speaker 3: Forget about it.
Speaker 2: Basically, it delays puberty and causes undescended text testicles. It
Speaker 2: looks like Hitler may very well have had a scrote
Speaker 2: in which the testicles never left the scrot. King said,
Speaker 2: basically they're characterized. These are characterized by low testosterone levels.
Speaker 2: People that have this you either don't go through puberty
Speaker 2: or you go through a partial puberty, and five percent
Speaker 2: are associated.
Speaker 3: With micro penis.
Speaker 2: Now, this is when I got very depressed, and I
Speaker 2: said let's stop looking at this article right now. It's
Speaker 2: getting a little bit too personal. But I went forward
Speaker 2: because this is important historical news. We have to know
Speaker 2: what happened to Hitler. By the way, the whole sofa
Speaker 2: is in Russia. Now it's at some museum in Russia,
Speaker 2: because it was the Russians that in fact controlled Berlin. Also,
Speaker 2: he noted there was a medical document that had been
Speaker 2: produced Hitler was in prison in nineteen twenty three, where
Speaker 2: after the what's called the beer Hall Putsch or Pooch,
Speaker 2: in which a push in which he tried to overcome
Speaker 2: over tried to have this revolution that was going to
Speaker 2: overthrow the government in the Weimar Republic, and it didn't work.
Speaker 2: It didn't work, so he ended up in prison, and
Speaker 2: he wrote mind komf in prison, and that medical condition
Speaker 2: said that Hitler had right side crypto chiddhism crypto chitism.
Speaker 2: I don't know how that's pronounced either, And that's a
Speaker 2: condition in which the testicle fails to descend into the scrotum.
Speaker 3: So now we have pretty good evidence that.
Speaker 2: Hitler's balls were balls, and his penis wasn't a penis.
Speaker 3: It was a penis.
Speaker 2: It was a little bitty penis, and maybe that's why
Speaker 2: he got so upset.
Speaker 1: He was about a half adosterone make you like violent
Speaker 1: and like toxic masculinity only for women. I see when
Speaker 1: they load up testosterone with them.
Speaker 2: Yes, anyway, so it looks like that he probably did,
Speaker 2: and it's a big news.
Speaker 3: What do you do with that? I have absolutely no idea.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of fun knowing that Hitler may very
Speaker 2: well have had a micro penis. By the way, what
Speaker 2: is the difference between a small penis and a micro penis.
Speaker 2: I don't know the difference unless a micro penis is
Speaker 2: a small, small, small penis. That's probably it. Okay, I
Speaker 2: just wanted to share that with you. No Hitler news
Speaker 2: can't beat that. Moving on, Oh, the President loves pardons.
Speaker 2: I mean, he just thinks they're the greatest thing in
Speaker 2: the world. And anybody who is an ally or a
Speaker 2: friend gets pardoned. Fifteen hundred or twelve hundred of those
Speaker 2: lovely people who attacked the capital and overran the capitol
Speaker 2: all pardoned because they are all heroes. Just a bunch
Speaker 2: of Giuliani just got pardon. Sidney Powell got pardoned. I mean,
Speaker 2: the President's issue hundreds of pardoners already, and so it's
Speaker 2: not just him pardoning. When we talk about him pardoning allies.
Speaker 2: Who is a big ally of the president, well, it
Speaker 2: happens to be with it happens to be Natanyahu and
Speaker 2: Netta Yahoo is looking at some big problems. Netta Yahu
Speaker 2: is on trial right now for corruption. Now he's been
Speaker 2: on trial for corruptions since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: But much like our president is, you can't do much.
Speaker 2: Authorities can't do much while there is a sitting president
Speaker 2: or sitting prime minister.
Speaker 3: And a lot of people in.
Speaker 2: Israel argue that the reason that that Jen Yahoo kept
Speaker 2: the war going is so he wouldn't lose the premiership
Speaker 2: and there therefore he's right in the middle of the
Speaker 2: trial as a non premier, which means he's looking at
Speaker 2: a world of hurt.
Speaker 3: So what does the president want to do. Well, he
Speaker 3: wants to.
Speaker 2: Pardon Nitsa Yahu, but he can't because Nisan Yaho is Israeli.
Speaker 2: So he writes a letter to Isaac Hersog, the president
Speaker 2: of Israel. Now Israel has a president. You never hear
Speaker 2: about that because the president is effectively just a front
Speaker 2: for Israel.
Speaker 3: But he's head of state. The power is with the premiership.
Speaker 2: The the what am I looking for?
Speaker 3: The non power?
Speaker 2: It's like the Queen Elizabeth, or excuse me, it's like
Speaker 2: the king in England. It's just someone who's head of
Speaker 2: state and is someone who represents the country. Well, the
Speaker 2: same thing with Isaac Hersog. He is the president and
Speaker 2: he's the only one that can pardon. And what does
Speaker 2: our president do, writes a letter, I hereby call on
Speaker 2: you to fully part but Benjamin Natanyahu, who has been
Speaker 2: a formidable and decisive wartime prime minister. While I absolutely
Speaker 2: respect the independence of the Israeli justice system and its requirements,
Speaker 2: I believe that this case against Bbe, who has fought
Speaker 2: alongside me for a long time, including against the very
Speaker 2: tough adversary of Israel Iran, is a political unjustified persecution
Speaker 2: or prosecution. Yeah, and nata Yah who follows that course
Speaker 2: of thinking when it is a political prosecution, it's well,
Speaker 2: basically a witch hunt, isn't it. The prosecution against him
Speaker 2: is a witch hunt.
Speaker 3: It is a hoax. It's not real.
Speaker 2: And so what the president is doing is saying, hey,
Speaker 2: let's let's let this.
Speaker 3: Guy out, get him off the hook. This trial is
Speaker 3: basically a sham.
Speaker 2: It's his political opponents who are going after him. Sound familiar, yep,
Speaker 2: it sure does. So what does the president of Israel
Speaker 2: do well? He writes back and says that, first of all,
Speaker 2: he holds Trump in the highest regard, But anyone seeking
Speaker 2: a presidential pardon must submit a formal request through the
Speaker 2: proper procedures. And that's the case here in the United States. Also,
Speaker 2: for the most part, is anybody requesting a pardon goes
Speaker 2: through the Department of Justice.
Speaker 3: They have a pardon department.
Speaker 2: There are people who actually there are attorneys that sit
Speaker 2: on this pardon board, if you will, and then the
Speaker 2: recommendation goes up because as you can imagine, how many
Speaker 2: people who have been convicted of federal and are sitting
Speaker 2: in prison are asking the president for a pardon. You
Speaker 2: betcha lots and lots of them. So Nettigna, who has
Speaker 2: three cases against him, they're all going to be the same.
Speaker 2: He has provided benefits, including regulatory ones, to wealthy businessmen
Speaker 2: in exchange for favorable media coverage. There is corruption. He
Speaker 2: has accepted money and gifts. And that's Natanya who you
Speaker 2: know he's going down. I think he's going down. Remember
Speaker 2: Mosha Diane, Does that name sound familiar? Convicted of corruption,
Speaker 2: a lot of corruption in Israel. All Right, something really
Speaker 2: weird is going on with the luxury electric vehicle market.
Speaker 2: They ain't selling the luxury vehicles. Now you'd think that
Speaker 2: the lower priced electric cars are doing okay, and they are.
Speaker 2: Problem is, companies don't make much money on lower price vehicles.
Speaker 2: It's the high end stuff that didn't make all the money.
Speaker 2: But let me give you an example. A few years ago,
Speaker 2: Ford thought it had a big hit with the F
Speaker 2: one fifty Lightning electric pickup truck as the most sold
Speaker 2: vehicle in America and has been for a zillion years.
Speaker 3: And the Lightning came in and it.
Speaker 2: Started pretty good, started pretty well, and then it just
Speaker 2: collapsed wide because the end of September, federal tax credits disappeared.
Speaker 2: Also the HOV lanes. You can't drive your electric car
Speaker 2: on the HOV lanes anymore, and frankly, that had a
Speaker 2: lot to do with it. So the expensive cars, the
Speaker 2: evs have now stopped selling, and I mean have stopped selling.
Speaker 2: For example, and I have this written here and this
Speaker 2: is a real interesting one.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: US electric vehicle sales fell thirty three percent this year
Speaker 2: from a year before. Sixty four thousand, five hundred. That's it,
Speaker 2: sixty four thousand evs sold across the board in the US,
Speaker 2: the F one fifty Lightning went down twelve percent. Fifteen
Speaker 2: hundred cars, that's it, fifteen hundred trucks. My favorite one
Speaker 2: is Accura. They're ZDX. Have you ever seen a ZDX?
Speaker 2: I have no idea what a ZDX even looks like.
Speaker 2: It's the high end Accura. They sold a whopping twenty
Speaker 2: five cars this year so far. This is a major
Speaker 2: car manufacturer. Twenty five cars. And it's not your three
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars maybeck either, it's a well, it's pretty
Speaker 2: high up there. So the seventy five hundred dollars tax credit,
Speaker 2: which has disappeared, actually is a pretty small amount of
Speaker 2: money for someone who's buying an eighty thousand dollars car.
Speaker 3: But what ended up happening.
Speaker 2: You buy an expensive car and you get a tax credit,
Speaker 2: then what you do is you lease it, and that's
Speaker 2: what I did. And so people who bought high end
Speaker 2: cars and I bought a relatively high end car.
Speaker 3: I have a.
Speaker 2: All EV Beamer, which I am not going to have
Speaker 2: an EV anymore because for me, it's the HIV lane.
Speaker 2: I used to love the HOV lane. Done, just finished.
Speaker 2: I still like the idea of plugging in my car.
Speaker 3: But do you know what? You know what this they
Speaker 3: never talk about.
Speaker 2: You hear the car dealers, and you hear commercials, and
Speaker 2: you hear people that talk about and companies that talk
Speaker 2: about the benefit of evs, and that is you're not
Speaker 2: using electricity. I mean, you're not using gasoline. And if
Speaker 2: you happen to have a solar system at home, which
Speaker 2: I do, then.
Speaker 3: My power for my car is free. I pay nothing.
Speaker 2: So I have eighteen thousand miles on my car, and
Speaker 2: the tires went south on me after eighteen thousand miles,
Speaker 2: so I had to buy new tires north of two
Speaker 2: thousand dollars for tires. And I go into the Beamer
Speaker 2: dealership and I say, how do you how do tires
Speaker 2: wear out at eighteen thousand miles?
Speaker 3: He goes, really, you.
Speaker 2: Got eighteen thousand miles out of your tires, congratulations, Because
Speaker 2: what's not told to us is those cars weigh a
Speaker 2: ton and they are they wear out the tires.
Speaker 3: Tire just don't laugh.
Speaker 2: So when they talk about how much money you save
Speaker 2: on gasoline, you've got to add the cost of tires
Speaker 2: that go south very very quickly. Evs are not that
Speaker 2: great a bargain, and it's I thought they were the panacea.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go to a hybrid, a plug in hybrid.
Speaker 2: Next time out, and for the first time in probably
Speaker 2: twenty five years, I'm not going to buy a foreign car.
Speaker 3: Just not going to do it.
Speaker 2: It looks like I'm going to buy a GM. Go
Speaker 2: figure huh and buy a used GM already being used.
Speaker 2: And we talked about that with Joel Larsgard and how
Speaker 2: it makes sense to buy a used car, and it
Speaker 2: does because the second you drive off the lot, I
Speaker 2: mean literally, as you leave the lot, if you're buying
Speaker 2: a new car and you pull out of the driveway,
Speaker 2: it has been reduced in value ten thousand dollars. You
Speaker 2: get into a car accident, and you know, I get
Speaker 2: questions like that I left that I I was plowed into.
Speaker 2: Therefore I should get all my money. Yeah, you are
Speaker 2: going to get all your money at ten ten thousand
Speaker 2: dollars less because that's the value of the car.
Speaker 3: But but but but what do I do? We get?
Speaker 2: Gap insurance is what you do and no one, no
Speaker 2: one does that. All right, we're done with that. I
Speaker 2: just want to report to you the big mistake I bade.
Speaker 2: Foody Friday, coming right up with Neil Savedra. You'll also
Speaker 2: hear Neil tomorrow afternoon two to five pm. Let's have fun,
Speaker 2: Let's rumble. Kf I am six forty.
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