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It's the news. Germany stood up to Europe. I, Russia, Vladimir Putin will stand up to NATO. And NATO's probably got a cave. That's the way I view it. A bunch of wusses. Europeans, the French. A bunch of surrender monkeys. Okay, and Cono's the only one that laughs at my stuff. So, Cono, you're going to be here next week. See, there you go. Cono's here. Conno stays. And now, Handel on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handel. And good morning, everybody. It's Taco Tuesday, February 10th as we start the morning show. By the way, Cono, just to let you know in reference to the statement. the surrender monkeys. Actually, it is borrowed from a phrase of a Congress person who referred to the French as cheese-eating surrender monkeys. And I thought that was the perfect description of the French. I don't know if you've seen the French flag. Originally, it was just white. That was right during the war. And then some French government decided, oh, no, we don't want it to be white. Also, when their army marches, it's the only army in the world that marches backwards. Okay, enough of that with the French. Oh, right. I told you the first time I went to France, I did it with my ex-girlfriend, ex-ex-girlfriend, who's French-Canadian, and I had her teach me several phrases like, your mother was a collaborator during the war, wasn't she? And when Hitler marched down the Schaumsteadies, your family had this little Nazi flags, didn't they? I don't know. If you look at several of the French people actually waving a little Nazi flags, you know, the way you see people doing that. Anyway, good morning, everybody. It's Tuesday. We got a fair amount of news to cover the latest on the Nancy. Guthrie. Did I just forget? Guthrie. story we'll talk about that my mind is already going way ahead how unusual you know i was talking to uh other members uh particularly kono yesterday uh and i think and and unfortunately i speak before my brain processes a lot of stuff What? No. I just tend on blurting it out that when my partner, Saville, my friend and my one of my best friends, because I pretend that Neil is also a best friend. Anyway, rich best friend. That's fine. Yeah. That'll exclude. Saville, he has a horrible disease called scleroderma. And scleroderma is a terminal disease in which the organs harden. And you die from it. I mean, the prognosis is it's death.

And the basically survival rate after diagnosed with scleroderma is five years and then you die. Well, he's into his ninth year and he has beat the odds and he's doing just fine. But when he finally told me that he had scleroderma, and I'm aware of the disease with the hardening of the organs, the first thing I blurted out. So we get to play hockey with your kidneys, right? And then I realized that wasn't a really good thing to say. Wow. And on top of that, because the skin tightens and if he doesn't exercise constantly, his fingers sort of curl up and can't extend. You see that with very severe arthritic people when it becomes claw-like. And I also immediately invited him to play a game of rock, paper, scissors, because you cannot lose with someone who cannot move their fingers. You know that, don't you? All right. Good morning, Kono. Good morning. It's a lot. Good morning, Neil. Your short stint at Hallmark writing for cards. Yeah, good morning. Yeah, good morning. And Will, Cole Shriver, good morning. Good morning, Bill. Ann. So if it tightens the skin, he probably has no wrinkles. Certainly not in his hands. Physically, it's affected his hands more than anything else. The rest of him is, he's just doing fine. No, he looks great. He's a handsome guy and he looks great. He has the best head of hair of anybody I've ever seen, mail-wise. And Amy, good morning. And thanks for sharing your story, by the way, of what's medically going on with you. And it's really important, which is one of the reasons that we put up the results of my colonoscopy. And the pictures of yours. Yeah, there are photos of mine, keeping in mind that the inside of everybody's colon looks like a Japanese paper lantern. It just works that way. That's actually a pretty good explanation. It actually is true. Just in time for the Lunar New Year. Yeah. In any case, I thank you for sharing that because people. They don't normally get colonoscopies at an age where they should. And the medical world is bringing down the age for a baseline very quickly as they should. Yep. And so I went into, I did my third colonoscopy. I'm almost out of my coupon book. But it's, I assume your last one, you were clear, correct? There's no, there's no bad stuff, but I still, there were still polyps. So I'm on the three-year plan. If there's anything going on, then you have to come back more than once every 10 years. Yeah, I had, I had tiny little polyps, two of them that were removed. So you're on the five-year plan. I'm on the 10-year plan now. Oh, you're on the 10-year plan. Yeah, yeah, I'm on the 10-year plan. Look at you. Also, the doctor found graffiti inside my colon. You were wondering how that happened. Like a subway.

You know, for a phone number and that somehow it referred to Amy for a good time. Yeah, right. Who's little puppet? Yeah. All right, guys, it is time for a handle on the news with Amy. Good news that she's here. Unlike Catherine, Kathy O'Hara. No, no, I'm saying unlike Kathy O'Hara, who unfortunately died of colorectal cancer. It is hugely unfortunate. That was not a joke. That was... She died of an embolism, but the... Yeah, that resulted from her colorectal cancer. I think Farah Fawcett also died of colorectal cancer, as did... Who else? Newsperson, Katie... Katie Couric's husband. And she even had her... Her colonoscopy done live on the Today Show. I mean, that's how serious she viewed it. And good for her. Her husband died in his 40s, early 40s of colorectal cancer. You have a lot of cold and it's easy to prevent. It is so easy to prevent. You grab it early and it's done. Okay, let's move out and move on and start hitting the news. It's time for Handel on the News with Amy, Neil and me. Lead Story. Well, the issue about the public release materials relating to Jeffrey Epstein that the Justice Department had and released pursuant to a bill that was passed by Congress almost unanimously. And President Trump was forced to sign it because he wanted to hold on to those files or at least names. Well, two representatives, one Democrat, no surprise, but Thomas Massie, a leading Republican, is saying we want more revealed. And more importantly, we want revealed the names of six men because they are high-profile men and there's more to this story than meets the eye. Now, Prince Andrew was caught red-handed. I mean, there is no issue. He's probably the most blatant portrayer or an advocate, not advocate, his acts of misappropriation, yeah, of misappropriate behavior. I mean, that's there. And, you know, Charles III had to basically disown him and remove all honors. The current... The current Prime Minister of England Keir Starmer is also in deep trouble. And there's a call for his removal. This is affecting people all over the world. So we'll pick that story up later, I'm sure, as this thing pans out. Okay, one more story and we'll take a break. Got a quid pro quo on the table. Ghislaine Maxwell appeared virtually before a...

House committee yesterday and took the fifth, but then said, hey, if President Trump ends my prison sentence, I'd be willing to testify that he and former President Clinton didn't do anything wrong. She already said that. That's for starters. So I don't know how much she can bring to the table. On top of that, even if she could, can you imagine the pushback that would happen? Can you imagine the blowback that would happen if the president either pardoned her or gave her a clemency where the screaming of you are supporting a child molester would just explode. So I don't think this is going to happen, not any time soon, not ever. I don't think they need hit her testimony. I'm sorry? I don't think they need her. That's exactly the point. That's for starters. But even if they did. But even if they did, can you imagine what would happen? All right. You're blocked. You got a judge now, federal judge just yesterday, blocked that California law from going into effect that would ban federal immigration agents from the, you know, face coverings that have become all too familiar to us on television and in print and everything else. They'll still be required, which makes sense to wear clear identifications showing their agency and badge number. That's a no-brainer. But the judge here, Christina Snyder, she said that the issue really about the ruling is because it's discriminating because it's just federal officers. It's not state law enforcement and so on and so forth. So it's either all or none. Okay. I got nothing. Okay. All right. Like it never happened. A motion signed by U.S. attorney, Janine Piro. The Justice Department is asking U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols to dismiss a two-count indictment against Steve Bannon that the DOJ brought against Steve Bannon more than four years ago following January 6th. The charges from November of 2021 were filed after the Democratic-led House voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt for... for defying congressional subpoena to testify about January 6th. So this would wipe that out. Yeah, he went to prison for four months. And the Justice Department, as you said, that has filed this lawsuit. And I don't know why President Trump just doesn't straight out pardon him, done, finished. I find that kind of surprising because that could wipe out any conviction. I just wonder how a homeless guy got so close to a president.

If I'm not mistaken. There's a 50-50 chance if he's from Canada. Yeah. That's correct. And he's the one. He was one of the last ones that didn't wear a helmet or didn't wear a face mask either. So he had no teeth. Because he was grandfathered in. Those old school hockey players. His grandfather had no teeth either. So Kono was looking that up. Was Gordy's hockey? It was. Played 26 seasons. Yeah. So they're naming it after Gordy Howell. Interesting. When's the last time a bridge was named after a hockey player? Well, they're heroes in Canada. Yeah. I mean, I'm starting a new spot for lasting smiles. They do implants and they're trying to get Gordy Howe or AI to be a spokesperson for lasting smiles. All right, moving on. Oh, let's take a break, okay? Please. Wow. Okay. I know. It's, we have, I haven't mentioned that to them yet. No, I'm sure I will. You got kids playing hockey? Forever smile. Yeah. Oh, yeah, forever smile. Yeah, today, obviously, everybody wears the helmet and wears the face mask. That's sort of, you got to do that in the NHL. Back to Canada, famous Canadian. And one of my TV and movie crushes, Catherine O'Hara, we all learned about her death. And the cause has been released, pulmonary embolism. It's blockage in this case in lung. artery and this is you know it comes from a blood clot but this was in response or part of the rectal cancer that was listed on our certificate as the underlying cause of death but man you i go back to watching her on sctv as a kid and just Brilliant. That whole group, Eugene Levy and John Candy and all of them together. She just absolutely brilliant. Yeah, she died at 71, which is way, way too young. And she was still working on a show. She's working on the studio. And it's one of those, it's a message. I mean, I think it tells people that you have to, have to get a colonoscopy. And there are all kinds of other tests that don't do anything. They don't go to the same level of colonoscopy. That is the gold standard. And it's, if there are no symptoms. That's bleeding, I'm assuming, stomach issues, then normally people don't get them. Well, I think I got my first one when I was in my mid-50s, second one 10 years later, and I got mine because I had some symptoms, and they actually found a couple of polyps in my colon.

Singing polyps, very strange. Hey, Catherine O'Hara had not publicly revealed any health struggles, too. I know that's it, you know, I don't know if a woman wants to come out and broadcast. You don't, I will tell you. You don't want to. I know, but you did? You know why I did? Because Chadwick Bozeman died of it. And it was right after that. I was like, we didn't know he was fighting it either. And, like, think of the difference that the Black Panther could have made. So. But that's okay. I totally also respect her desire for privacy because you don't have a lot of that celebrity. Taking more control. Israel's government has taken unilateral steps to give itself greater control over the occupied West Bank. So apparently that's going to make it easier for Jewish settlers to buy land and undercut the Palestinian Authority in parts of the West Bank. appears that appears to get in the way of agreements that Israel signed under the Jon Ossoff peace process decades ago and is also in opposition to President Trump, who's saying, you know, any annexation of that territory could be a violation of international law. And is in a violation of the entire international community as they view it. I mean, there is no question. If one views believes in a two-state solution, which I do, and many people do, this guarantees it'll never happen because it turns out. For example, arguing that one state, there should be a, well, no, that's a bad analogy because we've done that. But what it does is virtually guarantee that these are... basically towns and villages, Israeli towns and villages that have been created in the West Bank and Israel can't give them up. How do you give up 50,000 people in a town? And that's their argument. And it's going farther and farther east to the point where there is going to be no land for Palestinians. The two state solution is done, which means this will go on forever with insurgency. It will go on forever with, terrorism, terrorism, if you want to call it that. I mean, who is, if you're on the side of it, you're a freedom fighter, if you're on the other side is terrorism. So, unfortunately, that's what's going on there. All right, into the Olympics. Not since Bill Handel's last emceeing gig has a podium caused so much damage. But un-bum. Olympics, the organizing committee there for the Milan Cortina Olympics, they're apologizing for the surface of the podium used in the Milano ice skating arena. It's caused all kinds of little damage to the blades of figure skaters. And you have several athletes complaining.

about nicks, scrapes, and things like that in their skates. So they're taking steps right now to replace the surface to prevent this from causing any more damage. Yeah, I didn't know that freshly sharpened blades were a last resort. I thought they would sharpen the blades just before going on the ice. And that's not the case. Yeah, one would think, huh? Yeah, one would think, but it's not the case at all. Dad says Lindsay's done if he has anything to say about it. Lindsay Vaughn's dad said that Lindsay will no longer race if he has any influence over her decision. Of course, she fell and broke her leg during the downhill run on Sunday. He said she's 41 years old and this is the end of her career. Yeah, it makes sense. As she said, she needs a bunch of surgery. Also, it's difficult to find clothing that you can wear when the bone sticks through the clothing. It just doesn't work. It doesn't bode well. She made it clear, though, that it was not a result. Yes. Of her. Yeah. Right. She said it had nothing to do with the ACL. And no one's refuting that. I mean, you could argue that psychologically it did, but I don't know, not with Lindsey Vaughn. I think she just clipped it. Yeah, it was just bad, bad luck. It was just bad luck. It would have happened anyway, ACL or not, or the ACL didn't get in the way, as you pointed out. All right. You know, best buddy to President Trump, Senator Adam Schiff of California and, of course, Burbank, our beloved Burbank. is endorsing Representative Eric Swalwell, Eric Swalwell for California. No one's heard of. Who the hell is Eric Swalwell? And even weirder, he's a Democrat from Dublin, Ireland. I didn't even know someone from Dublin, Ireland can run. That would be Dublin, California in the area. Oh, okay. Got it. All right. Fair enough. But obviously, Schiff is one of the states. prominent Democrats. Oh, yeah, for sure. He's got enormous, well, I don't know how much power he has in the Senate because he's a new senator. I mean, when he was a congressperson, he had enormous power. Also, he led the fight against Donald Trump on the first impeachment trial. Silwell was the manager of the fight against the second impeachment trial. Swallow. So I don't know how big the endorsements work. You know, I get a Christmas card from Adam Schiff every year. Huh. Met him a bazillion years ago. Wasn't he, he think, he wasn't, he didn't he represent Burbank? Yeah, he did. Yeah, he represented us right here. Okay. How about a new trial? Rebecca Grossman's attorney. is asking for a new trial. Of course, Rebecca Grossman is serving prison time for running down and killing two young brothers in Westlake Village in 2020. The attorney is arguing that her murder conviction should be overturned because of faulty jury instructions. The jurors who convicted Grossman, according to the lawyer, were not given the legally correct definition of implied malice.

Yeah, and that's really minor stuff, although, as the attorney says, in a close case, I don't know how close this was, the phrasing matters. And so I'm looking at it, and it seems pretty close to me, but the language has to be specific. And what the defense is saying, it wasn't specific enough. We need a new trial. Don't know which way the court's going to go. She killed two kids with her car. Yeah, oh, yeah, was drunk driving in a crosswalk. Yeah, just going 70 and a 45 mile per hour zone. Yeah. Take your L lady. And yeah. Jesus. All right. One day before the hearing to explore whether the city of Los Angeles misled federal courts, a lot of garbage going down with his plan to clear thousands of homeless encampments, promises were made. So now the city's outside counsel asked an appeals court to remove the judge from the case. So what's all this mean legally? Is this just deployed a... delay everything? Yeah, well, here's the issue with the city trying to get rid of this judge. This judge, David O'Carter, is fanatic about wiping out the homeless problem. To the extent that defendants say he doesn't matter, it's he can, he orders cities, counties to do some insane stuff. Matter of fact, we talked to Todd Spitzer. And when Spitzer was a on the, he was a county supervisor in Orange County, he said Carter would walk up and down the Santa Ana River. And count the encampments. When does the federal judge walk up and down the Santa Ana River of the encampments there when it was dry? I mean, he is fanatic about dealing with homelessness and the city said, this guy is way too far. And he made errors in overseeing the settlement that happened. Kaiser News. More peeps on the picket line. Pharmacists and lab techs have joined more than 30,000 nurses and health care workers. They are striking for what they claim are unfair labor practices by Kaiser. And some of the stories that are coming out are pretty crazy, like when they're saying that they're understaffed. One guy says he works pediatric ER and a lot of times has six patients for himself. Another says they're asking for CT scan, and the nurse says, I don't have time to do a CT scan for you. I've got to cover breaks. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's, no, it is bad. The shortage is bad. There's not only at Kaiser either. And Kaiser, which is supposed to be a great place to work. And every time I talk to people that work at Kaiser, and I talk a lot to those folks, Kaiser says, we're offering 30% over the length of the contract. I don't know how long the new contract is, but.

They're saying we're, and that's not including benefit enhancements. So why the shortage? You're saying that's not enough. But it's such a tough job. Being a nurse is, it's a tough job. It really is. All right. This is a horrible story. Christopher Ramstad, Ramstad. 47 years old. He is or was a Pasadena Fire Department captain. He's facing child sex abuse charges. He was re-arrested. I guess he was arrested on Wednesday of last week and then released from jail after posting bail. Then he was re-arrested on Friday and held with no bail. His bail hearing is scheduled in like three days on the 13th. Lives in Thousand Oaks, but it was hired by the Pasadena Fire Department in 2005, promoted to captain in 2016. Yeah, it's a horrible story, as you said. And if he ends up going to prison, they have to keep him in a secluded area. Child molesters do not do well in prison. Cops and child molesters have to be protected. Otherwise, they die. The general population, they're not going to survive. All right, that's it. We're done, guys. This is KFI AM 640. You've been listening to the Bill Handel Show, catch my show Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and anytime on demand on the IHeart Radio app. You know what? It sucks to be bored. But when I get on my phone and play real casino games on SpinQuest.com, the time flies by. That two-hour wait at the DMV seems like 10 minutes. Play your favorite slots. Live blackjack, live craps with a live dealer. New players, $30 coin packs are on sale for $10.00. Play SpinQuest.com and you'll never be bored again. SpenQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spendquest.com for more details. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile. Now, I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of Unlimited Premium Wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills. But it turns out that's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Up front payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for 12-month plan required. $15 per month equivalent. Taxes and fees extra. Initial term only greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. See terms. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our war fighters, advances life-saving healthcare, combat cyber threats, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage.

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