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iHeartRadio app. Tomorrow is July fourth. Look at that three to four.
I gotta tell you this is why I get paid the big bucks for this
deep analysis. So with that is yes, Shannon Shannon Farren's birthdays today.
Oh I didn't know that. Yeah, I did not know that. My
mother's birthday is tomorrow. She was born on July fourth, Not that it
mattered, you know, in the eastern Poland where she came from. But
still, you know, July fourth. So that's kind of neat. And
I'll tell you what you're going to see a whole lot of Unfortunately, even
though we celebrate our Independence Day and it's all about barbecues, not enough people
take pay attention to Independence Day. Fireworks are all over the place now.
Fireworks that are professionally done, I mean those are licensed and they're inspected and
all of that. I Professional fireworks are just the neatest thing. But a
lot of people have illegal fireworks at home. If you're in La County,
for you to have even a sparkler is illegal. And what we used to
do is go across county line to Ventura County where you can sell fireworks,
and they have the big pop up booths and you can see on the sign
it's safe and insane is how they sell it. And so then you go
home with all these fireworks and you set them off, and you do homemade
fireworks or home fireworks, and the cities go nuts because there's a lot of
damage. I mean people get hurt, I mean kids lose their hands.
By the way, Cono, I forgot to ask you to play the song
Let's give the Boy a Hand, which would have been absolutely appropriate for a
promo for this particular segment. So cities have a very hard time for a
couple of reasons. First of all, when you put everybody on the street,
for example, your's day, every cop is on the street. Everybody
same thing with Fourth of July. Every cop, for example, the city
of Hunting and Beach has every police officer they have on the street. And
here is the problem. Every time there is a notification of fireworks, they
send out three or four cops, and it's very hard to catch people with
illegal fireworks. The cop has to actually see it in front of him.
So you set off these fireworks and then you go back home and the cop
hasn't seen it, even though the city is apprized of it. Because they
have websites now and the phone calls. I mean, they know when fireworks
are being set off, and not only are they dangerous for fires. And
I didn't think this through until I picked up this article in the Orange County
Register, and that is the illegal fireworks cause the physical damage. You know,
kids getting their hands blown off. Okay, cono, let's give the
boy a hand. No, couldn't do it. Not enough time was my
fault, by the way, But also the risk of fire at the house
and setting off brush fires, et cetera, which happens all the time.
But the it's post traumatic stress syndrome. A lot of veterans hearing this stuff
go off have a very tough time when they're hearing this massive explosion. Now,
those of us who haven't been around guns, I mean, I kind
of like the I kind of like the the sound of fireworks. By the
way, that's one of the reasons you were talking yesterday, Neil. Fireworks
are coming back. Even though drone shows are spectacular, and you saw one,
and what they can do with a drone show is incredible. But you
can't have the explosion, you can't have the sound, you don't have the
smell of the cordite that just overcomes everybody. It's just fireworks are absolutely great
in my neighborhood. It's like downtown Bay Route around this time a year,
so I smell all that I hear. I could sit in my backyard and
watch them pop over the fence. I mean they're everywhere. Yeah, one
of the best places to see fireworks, of course Disneyland. You guys are
Disneyland, you know, complete freaks on July fourth. Are the fireworks particularly
impressive or it's just their normal fireworks show, which are incredibly impressive. That's
a good question. I don't know if they do something special for the fourth
of July, but they have such an amazing show now because not only are
you getting the fireworks at Disneyland, you're getting the They have this projection mapping
that goes over all the castle and the building and buildings and main Street.
It's pretty impressive. Yeah, you know, I've been trying to reach Disneyland
because they could combine the two and that is real fireworks as well as a
drone show. For example, you have the big drone outline of Mickey,
which is, of course drones can do. And you set off fireworks and
you blow Mickey up up so his head actually explodes. That is a fireworks
demonstration. Did your parents announce that they weren't going to hug you or did
they just not hug you? Did they like go, hey, I'm not
gonna hug you. You got admit that's a visual. Best place. One
of the best places to see fireworks at Disneyland is at the Anaheim White House
because you go upstairs to the bar and they have that They have that outdoor
area and you can actually it's the deck they have and you right there,
you're seeing the fireworks over Disneyland. It's very impressive. It's kind of neat
every night at nine o'clock, right yeah, ok, thereabout unless the inclement
weather or something like that. They used to have tinker Bell that used to
come down from the matterhorn right well for the Pixar Fest. It's a little
different, but it's pretty pretty cool. Yeah. And you know the woman
who was tinker Bell that came down, I mean she did that for like
fifty years or so. She ended up being a little old lady and came
down and she stopped doing it because you know, one day if she came
down and she was dead, and then they realized that, sure, that's
not it. I thought you were going to do an incontinent joke. I'm
sort of proud of you in one way and then on the other not so
much. Hey, okay, so too, let's go to Anaheim White House
together and we'll get well, we are going to be at Anaheim White House.
We're gonna be there on July fourteenth for Bastiele Day, their celebration of
the French surrendering during World War Two. They lasted six French lasted six weeks
when the Nazis marched in. What let's eat up top on the balcony and
we'll do like that lady in the tramp with the Spaghettian meatballs and watch the
fireworks together. Oh you and me? Oh that's a visual. In any
case, cities, if you're going to use fireworks in the city Orange County,
City of la I hope you get nailed because of the potential danger.
And right now most cities is one thousand dollars. Fine, you have cities
well, like I think Corona is raising it to a five thousand dollars fine
when you get nailed first time out. Oh and you're a kid, all
right. Let's say you're seventeen, eighteen years old. Ah, big deal.
So you get tagged and you get a fine. I'm not going to
pay it. I can't afford it. That stays with you work forever,
and by the time you're old enough to realize that this is real money,
it's like a billion dollars because the fine adds onto a fine, adds to
onto a fine when you don't pay it. All right, So the important
thing is bill. Even if you don't get caught, it might cost you
an arm or a leg. Oh yeah, remember kids, fires bad and
explosions kill Oh there you are. No explosions don't kill people. People kill
people. People with explosives kill people. They certainly do. Now, great
story, and this is entitled the Jiggle is Up. And what is jiggling?
Well, you've probably done it. You've certainly seen co workers do it.
You see this in the movies all the time. The boss comes around
or someone comes around, and you're on a website you shouldn't be, and
all of a sudden you move them mouth so boom, it goes back,
or you're playing a game and it goes back to whatever website you should be
on to work. And that's called jiggling. And there's all kinds of technology
and really stupid stuff. They're for twenty bucks. There's a company that sells
a jiggling device and it's almost like its own Wiji board. They just move
randomly around so you look like you're doing some work and you're not. And
the companies know that, and they're getting more and more into catching you do
that. Now. The pandemic, of course, caused everybody to or a
lot of people to work at home. So how do you tell who's actually
working and even at the computer because people jiggle and peers that they are working
when they are not. It's really weird, Bill. So they we use
teams. Other people use the team zoom, whatever you're using. There's that
little check mark by your name, and they can even see if you go
to send an email to somebody, you can see that check mark, whether
it's green or it's red, or it's yellow, whether somebody's active or not.
And to think that somebody went out of their way to get a device
that jiggles their mouth to make it look like so if their boss looks they
can see they got a green check. That means they're on their computer and
they're working. That people would go out of their way to do this instead
of well, just working. And not a small number of people either.
They're finding out and major companies are going to get and they're buying software they
are. The algorithms can tell people think. And I don't know why that.
When you're on a company server, you can jiggle all you want.
They know what you're looking at. I mean when you in management, for
example, Neil and I remember you calling me into the office and you said,
Bill, you are spending a lot of time on the website Barnyard Love
dot com. And you said you can't do that. And at least I
got away with it because that was for for purposes of figuring out what I
was going to do on the show. It was I got away with it
because it's research for the show a lot. You're spending a lot of time
on German porn and working yeah, Glasstable dot com. Yeah. So anyway,
the point is is that they know everything that's happening, and I gotta
tell you their companies are coming down Wells Fargo, for example, just picked
up a new website or picked up a new software company, and it's called
I think it's called terror Mind, and they it really literally reads what people
are doing in the world of jiggling. And so, now what is Wells
Fargo saying if a lot of people do the jiggling, does that mean they're
firing a lot of people. They're only looking for the most egregious acts.
They're not going after everybody. But if you are a jiggler and jiggle a
lot, and you're working for a major corporation, I've got news this is
not particularly good for you, Although some companies are saying it really doesn't have
to do with finding out who's jiggling and who's not jiggling. Specifically, is
to figure out how workloads work. Are we giving people too much work?
And where are they going and what is going on that people do jiggle and
they want to pretend they're working. If you get inundated with the amount of
work and you're just done and the company is fanatic about it, oh yeah,
so you jiggle. So let them think you're doing some work that you're
going on websites that appear to be work websites, and of course you're going
on barnyard love dot com or incidentally, if one of the wonderful things about
the Internet is you can put any act of any kind and put a dot
com on it and there is a world back there. I just want to
say, and they know it, they know it, and people haven't be
caught here that, Neil, Were people fired for that going on websites because
you were in management and I couldn't talk about it if they did. No,
I'm even general were people you can't even say that. I couldn't and
wouldn't. But because I think you know what happens because people is too specific?
How about species? Are species fired? What about species love dot com?
Well, now we go back to uh, barnyard love dot com.
You know what I will tell you though, and I have a theory and
you can try this in your your own time, maybe not on your work
computer. But if you type anything in the Internet, anything in the Internet,
as innocent as it will be two pages in on Google, there will
be a naked person somewhere, doesn't matter, sure it is. For example,
just if you google the white House dot com right, well, it's
a cornosite. It is a porno site. It's what dot gov, which
is the actual governmental whites the governmental website. And if you google bill handle
billhandle dot com, barnyard love comes up immediately. So it would appear that
I have this thing for cows, and in fact I don't because I'm a
It's only for research purposes. Now, as much fun as I make fun
of that, this is real issue and people do lose their jobs. And
companies are doing this more and more and more because they're finding more and more
people. And one of these major companies tear a mind that actually goes through
and is hired. They have five thousand corporate clients and they look for what's
going on in terms of the computer use, and they are saying that they
found seven percent of all employees are in fact jiggling, except they went,
okay, our algorithm wasn't that specific. It wasn't specific and not enough,
let's go deeper into it, and that became eight percent. Now it seems
pretty low, except if you've got an employment of one hundred thousand people,
and a lot of companies do you know Boeing, for example, has more
than one hundred thousand people, most of them unscrewing doors on fuselages. That
they have a lot of people eight percent. Now, of course Boeing has
manufacturing, but there are companies that I have one hundred thousand people working on
computers. It's a lot of people, a lot of people. Let me
ask you this, Neil, once again, management was jiggling ever an issue
here at iHeart. Can you share that as far as I know, I
really don't know that they what they have at corporate for that, I don't
but and I've never heard anything personally about that. But I imagine any corporation
is concerned about that. But you know, and they have access to anything.
If they pay your phone bill, they have access to your phone,
okay, they you know, if you're using their computers, their servers,
they're any of that, they have access to all of that. As far
as the campus protests that are going around the country, now we're not hearing
too much right now, but they continue. And this of course has to
do with the pro Palestinian protests around the US, because students are looking at
this as genocide. A lot of Palestinians are being killed, no question about
it. They really don't want to hear the other side the initial terrorist acts
sort of disappeared. And the fact that Hamas is embedding itself in civilians,
that's not particularly important. It's the number of civilians that are killed. And
by the way, that is absolutely true. Boy, you've got and Israel
is not letting humanitarian aid in. So what you have is this group of
students all over the country and they're showing up on websites. What does that
mean the students, the Palestinian or the pro Palestinian students. The demonstrators are
showing up, particularly on one website it's the Canary Mission. And what is
the Canary Mission. Well, it effectively says that if you are a protester
on the Palestinian side, you are anti Semitic. There it is direct connection.
You go, wait a minute, do you think people can just be
having nothing to do with being against Jews just being against Israel. Believe me,
Israel is a political state, it is a sovereign country. It happens
to be a Jewish state. But that's really almost incidental to the point where
these demonstrators are not screaming about Jews, They're screaming about what's happening to the
Palestinians now. Are there some you bet, there are some, you bet
you And there are all kinds of anti Semitic moves on the campus, but
you know, they're pretty few and far between, nothing like what happens at
these demonstrations, the number of students and professors that are out there. And
so they show up on this website, the Canary Mission, and as you
can imagine, guess what happens. Then everybody who argues that these protesters are
anti Semitic, we now have their names and we can go after them.
And they're showing up and they're being accused of anti Semitism. Now that doesn't
just go away, because let's say they're out working looking for work. The
first thing that pops up when their name is googled is the fact that they're
on the Canary Mission or it's one of the four or five things, and
they're anti Semitic. That doesn't help trying to get a job. No employer
wants that accusation out there among new employees, particularly, And so they're saying,
wait a minute, we're not anti Semitic. Why can't we be against
the state of Israel and still be okay with Jews? And they're conflating it.
They are conflating it when I see a protester out there who has assigned
free Palestine and then some crap, you know, palate free Palestine from the
what the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. I mean,
I don't even know if they know what they're talking about. Because if you're
talking about a Palestine between the river Jordan River and the Sea Mediterranean, right
in the middle of that is Israel. That's the problem. If you're arguing
that Palestine is the Jordan River all the way to the Mediterranean, yeah that's
a problem. But a lot don't even know what the hell they're talking about.
But that doesn't matter. They're not necessarily anti Semitic. And there is
a broad brush that is being used here. And no one knows who's backing
the Canary Project, the Canary Mission, it is very anonymous. No one
knows who's running it, no one knows who's banking out. Now, there
are tons of organizations that are out there and fight anti Semitism. Who would
be there Anti Defamation League, for example, But we know exactly who they
are, We know exactly who runs them, we know exactly what their donors
are and who their donors are a lot of transparency, not with the Canary
Mission. So those people who I'm angry because they're wearing that Palestinian scarf and
cover up their face. By the way, how many Italian restaurants are there
where you can steal those tablecloths that they're making into the kaffiats, I don't
get I know there were that many Italian restaurants out there, But the bad
news is here. And you know where I sit on this. I am
completely pro Israel except for the lack of humanitarian aid that Israel is stopping and
the starvation that's going on. I think Israel is handling it very very badly
and losing and legitimately losing world support for what they're doing. But at the
same time, you can't conflate it. You cannot conflate it are I would
say the fast majority of those protesters are not particularly anti Semitic, and the
ones that are don't understand what's going on. They have absolutely no idea of
what is actually happening. All they know is there's a protest. Palestinians are
dying, true, Palestinian children are dying. True. They're talking about thirty
eight thousand Palestinians who have been killed men, women, and children, completely
ignoring that a third of those are Hamas militants. Is this really allowed to
go after them? Now? Swimming out there? Shark attacks, shark attacks,
and they're on the rise. I mean, it's going crazy, more
and more of them out there. Hey, I got news for you.
They're not on the rise. They're actually decreasing. The point is if anybody
is even nibbled by a shark, that becomes a national story. Oh another
shark attack. Well, here's an interesting little footnote. The vast majority of
shark attacks, if you will, and that's in quotes, and there's very
few of them in twenty twenty three sixty nine unprovoked shark attacks in the world.
The vast majority are test bites, where the shark gives a test byte.
Ah, okay, that's not what I wanted. I made a mistake
here. And that's not the prey I like. It's not a it's not,
for examplely a seal that they like a lot, and they swim in.
The sharks swim away. The problem with these fatal attacks is even one
of the big sharks, you get hit by a great white one, little
bite from a great white could be a very big bite and you die.
The issue is it just makes big, big news. And what state is
the number one state in the country for shark attacks? Here is something you
probably don't know. It's Nebraska has more shark attacks than any other state,
which is really interesting because it's land locked. By the way, I just
made that up. That's ludicrous. It's Florida. Why because Florida has the
longest has the biggest area of coastline than any other state, and it's all
warm and sharks don't like cold water. You go in the northern part of
California and the Pacific Ocean, it's okay, they get a little cold.
They like warm water. Also, they like close to shore, which doesn't
help people because shark will swim up to you in three feet of water and
munch away. So there are some rules about keeping sharks away, and a
lot of them just make sense. For example, don't wear shiny jewelry.
Sharks like swag. Well, I mean, they don't like swag. Per
se like a lure, a fishing lure. It is. I have a
swimming buddy in the water, so both of you get eaten. Don't swim
at dawn or at dusk because you have mosquitoes, the light is low.
And I guess what shark's mistake. Mistake you for prey. You know they're
not the brightest things out there. Don't enter water where there is fishing nearby.
Why well, because that's kind of obvious. And by the way,
the shiny jewelry catches the sunlight and glints and it could look like fish,
as Neil said, allure. And try to avoid splashing because it generates a
sound similar to that of struggling fish or whatever prey, because they struggle like
crazy when there be when they are attacked. And so here's the bottom line.
If a shark is eating you, just stay calm, don't splash around.
What do you mean, don't splash around? Who the hell was not
going to splash around if a shark starts eating you. No, they're saying,
don't splash around to begin with, because that can attract the attention of
a shark. And I'll tell you the number one rule, and I always
follow because I'm very rarely gonna get bitten by a shark. I stay out
of the water. You want water, go swimming in a swimming pool,
Also, the sand at the ocean, you know, goes up your rear
end, and you know the reality is, you know, you might as
well just take some sandpaper and just you know, up and down your rear
end, and then and pour water on your ass. And therefore you can
simulate the ocean and you don't go and you don't get eaten by a shark.
I tell you, those are the rules. I hope they helped.
Coming up doctor Jim Keeney with some medical news and some news just broke by
the way, so we'll talk to Jim. Oh no that we do that
at eight thirty. I'm sorry. I called the how about this? Let's
do this? And I always talk about how much money people need. For
some reason, I am enthralled with money, how it works, how we
spend it, what we need to save. And you know what, that's
me. The fact is I'm enthralled with money, having nothing to do with
my cultural background. Yeah, way to break the stereotype. By the way,
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