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Speaker 2: AM six forty Bill Handle Here it is a Tuesday
Speaker 2: Morning Taco Tuesday, June seventeen, and again it's going to
Speaker 2: be hot, hot, hot supposed to be today a quick
Speaker 2: reminder that I'm going to be m seeing the La
Speaker 2: Lawyers phil Harmonic and Legal Voices performance on Saturday, June
Speaker 2: twenty eighth, eight o'clock at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Speaker 2: And the Lawyers Philharmonic is a group of judges, lawyers,
Speaker 2: paramedic paramedics, para legals who actually our world class musicians,
Speaker 2: wanted to make a living and so they got into
Speaker 2: their the legal profession.
Speaker 3: And it's going to be really a great show.
Speaker 2: So go to and tickets are on sale from twenty
Speaker 2: bucks to one hundred and twenty five and every seat
Speaker 2: is because it's music, you know. And so go to
Speaker 2: La Lawyers Filled and that's La Lawyers phil isn't Philharmonic
Speaker 2: dot org and get some more information and I am
Speaker 2: see it and I'm in a tuxedo. I'm picking up
Speaker 2: my tuxedo today. As a matter of fact, it's being
Speaker 2: uh being tailored.
Speaker 3: What no, not let out.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, come, they have to tailor
Speaker 2: it so it's actually smaller. All right, big changes are
Speaker 2: coming to Disney, big ones. And they we've got monsters.
Speaker 2: Uh is out the monster right right? Monstropolis is gone
Speaker 2: and hello to Pandora. Very boxlike structure they have.
Speaker 1: No no, no, it's Avatar. It's based on the Avatar movies.
Speaker 2: Ah. So you know how long do these last? Usually
Speaker 2: you don't see you We never saw rides disappearing and
Speaker 2: being rebuilt early days.
Speaker 3: You did.
Speaker 2: Now go into a little bit of history. So let
Speaker 2: me bring Amy's talking, So let me here. Okay, so,
Speaker 2: uh you guys looking forward to it, and it's and
Speaker 2: they're now big on on part on entire lands.
Speaker 3: New Lands is supposed to rise.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, you had the uh you know Star Wars
Speaker 1: what they call Star Wars Galaxy the Galaxy's Edge and
Speaker 1: about two.
Speaker 4: And you've been right, oh yeah we're going, we're going Friday.
Speaker 2: Well me, yeah, we go all the time. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: know you do, I know you do. So are you
Speaker 2: looking forward to this? I mean, is this is this something?
Speaker 4: I A?
Speaker 3: Is it more for kids? Is it more for the youngsters?
Speaker 4: Which one any of the new ones, the Pandora I'm
Speaker 4: looking forward to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited, And maybe you're the same way, Amy,
Speaker 1: But I I don't have obviously as much attachment to
Speaker 1: California's edge in the way of change that I do
Speaker 1: with Disneyland proper.
Speaker 5: So I love California Adventure.
Speaker 1: They've done a great job really making it a destination location.
Speaker 1: But the you know, to me, it's when they change
Speaker 1: things at Disneyland, then I go oh.
Speaker 4: Because Disneyland is so classic and the stuff that was
Speaker 4: here like again on opening day fifty five years ago
Speaker 4: or seventy actually seventy years ago. I don't know where
Speaker 4: I got fifty five, but because they opened in fifty five, Oh,
Speaker 4: that's what it is. But I mean, like those are
Speaker 4: still fun to me. I still enjoy Pirates at the Caribbean.
Speaker 4: I still enjoy It's a small world. I still like
Speaker 4: going on the Storybook Canal and you can't pay me
Speaker 4: to go on the Teacups, but like, I love those
Speaker 4: rides still attraction.
Speaker 3: Pirates came in.
Speaker 2: Pirates was the first big ride that we know as
Speaker 2: modern rides, and that is hugely expensive to build all immersive.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and when you think about rides like the
Speaker 1: Haunted Mansion. That was a big deal and very important
Speaker 1: to Walt Disney. He never saw right now, you never know.
Speaker 1: The facade stood there for a long yeah years, yeah, years.
Speaker 3: Because they were busy. Well, what happened was they were
Speaker 3: looking at.
Speaker 2: It, and then then the World's Fair came out where
Speaker 2: they spent all their money in nineteen sixty four, and
Speaker 2: then of course Disney.
Speaker 5: World came out, started Disney.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it doll got lost in the shuffle and
Speaker 2: the Avatar ride, I know, and I'm reading this what
Speaker 2: you travel aboard a boat through a bioluminescent lagoon and
Speaker 2: you encounter this massive whale like creature That's how they're
Speaker 2: describing it, called a toolcun that comes up from the
Speaker 2: ocean and then I think eats some of the riders.
Speaker 3: Cool, I'm not great. Yeah, doesn't that sound like fun?
Speaker 5: And once the screaming stops.
Speaker 1: No, Well, they already have a version of this ride
Speaker 1: or an Avatar ride it their location in Florida.
Speaker 5: I believe, don't they it?
Speaker 3: You got me, You got me.
Speaker 5: I've never been to to Disney World. Strangely enough, I have.
Speaker 3: It's kind of neat.
Speaker 2: I would love to go. I just it's just a
Speaker 2: much bigger Disneyland. The castle is massive and it's just
Speaker 2: spread out. It's not crammed the way Disneyland is relative
Speaker 2: to other parks.
Speaker 4: So that's what I love about Disneyland. I love that
Speaker 4: it's crammed together and there's nooks and crannies and yeah,
Speaker 4: they take it's much more intimate funto me and.
Speaker 3: Used every bit of space.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like a sailing boat of theme parks.
Speaker 3: Everything is very well organized.
Speaker 5: Well, they're all having that.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they Florida parks have a
Speaker 1: different setup because they went into it with that. But
Speaker 1: like Universal Studios, here is landlocked. There's nothing they can do.
Speaker 1: There's they're looking at having to grow that and Disneyland
Speaker 1: here is similar. But out there in Florida they still
Speaker 1: they have.
Speaker 2: But they're still land In Disneyland, I think, well, they
Speaker 2: cannibalize parts of the land.
Speaker 4: Well, they're taking like parking lots and converting them and
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: All right, a little bit of Handle history And I'm
Speaker 2: not a I'm not a modern day Handle guy. I've
Speaker 2: told you I happen to be a Disney fan.
Speaker 3: I really do.
Speaker 2: As much as I make fun of the cost of
Speaker 2: going to Disneyland, but for me, I haven't gone in
Speaker 2: a very very long time because the place is just
Speaker 2: too crowded now. Early days at Disneyland was a different story. Disneyland,
Speaker 2: as we know, opened up nineteen fifty five, and there
Speaker 2: are still rides there from nineteen fifty five, one of
Speaker 2: them being Utopia day one it opened. Now, the cars
Speaker 2: are very different now, they look better. They drive much
Speaker 2: to the market now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they've got seven different iterations.
Speaker 3: When we first drive started riding on the car.
Speaker 2: They were gas powered and they still grew horrible emissions.
Speaker 3: They still do.
Speaker 5: Really, I think they're switching them though, Amy right.
Speaker 3: Now they are.
Speaker 4: They're they're converting to electricity finally, which I've been saying
Speaker 4: they should do, like Conda should have stepped in twenty
Speaker 4: years ago.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you a car Land. Uh it's
Speaker 2: which having never been to, is that pretty?
Speaker 3: Neat?
Speaker 4: Carsland is spectacular.
Speaker 1: Gorgeous and the Key Ride, I mean they have some
Speaker 1: fun rides there, but the Key Ride, the race is
Speaker 1: very fun, OKAYU.
Speaker 2: The Disneyland Railroad opened up and it's kind of a
Speaker 2: neat thing.
Speaker 3: Goes around the park.
Speaker 1: Used to have two trains, do you remember that, I do.
Speaker 1: And one of them, one of them had an issue
Speaker 1: and almost fell off the top of them overpass.
Speaker 2: And one of them was a Pullman car that was
Speaker 2: a private car that was a replica of the old
Speaker 2: Pullman car. Really modern, not really modern, comfortable, big couches,
Speaker 2: et cetera that you couldn't go on. It was used
Speaker 2: for Disney when he would guessed when you have important
Speaker 2: guests come, they would do it. It's got a very
Speaker 2: long trip obviously around the park. But he was a
Speaker 2: nut for railroads. He had a model He had a
Speaker 2: model railroad and his house and he had it built
Speaker 2: the small ones that you can sit on.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of neat.
Speaker 2: The Jungle Cruise is original that is still around and
Speaker 2: it's hugely successful. And I remember that as a kid.
Speaker 2: And then the story I shared with you before is
Speaker 2: Park opens nineteen fifty five, about fifty seven, fifty six
Speaker 2: fifty seven, they were doing commercials for the television show
Speaker 2: Disney and there's a little girl who is scared to
Speaker 2: death grabbing onto her brother's leg as she's on the
Speaker 2: Jungle Cruise, and the hippos come up out of the water,
Speaker 2: and that was Marjorie. That was kind of really Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was Marjorie's funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they's been looking for that commercial. We've been
Speaker 3: looking for it for years.
Speaker 5: You know, you used to be able to fish that
Speaker 5: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they originally you could fish and it didn't last
Speaker 1: very long, but it was a huge thing with Walt Disney.
Speaker 1: He really wanted you to be able to fish. The
Speaker 1: problem was, and you could take them somewhere and they
Speaker 1: would cook them for you, or they'd wrap them and
Speaker 1: then you could take them at the end of the
Speaker 1: day something like that. But people were throwing them. They
Speaker 1: didn't want to walk around with them all day or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they'd throw them. They had such a problem that
Speaker 1: I don't think it lasted longer than a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: But you used to be able to fish that I
Speaker 2: didn't know. That's kind of crazy. King Arthur Carousel that's
Speaker 2: still around, still around. Do you remember Phil Henry when
Speaker 2: he did the remote. We used to have a guy,
Speaker 2: Phil Henry, who's completely nuts, by the way, and he
Speaker 2: did a quote remote at Disneyland. This is where Disney
Speaker 2: canceled everything it had to do with KFI And I
Speaker 2: don't know Amy, if you've heard that story. Phil Henry
Speaker 2: does voices, and he did a remote quote that's in
Speaker 2: quotes because of course he didn't go to a character
Speaker 2: name RC. Yeah, and he did a he did a story.
Speaker 2: He's at Disneyland. He's doing a story about the carousel
Speaker 2: people that are on it, and one of the kids
Speaker 2: got very sick and started vomiting. And as the carousel
Speaker 2: goes around and round, this explosive vomit is hitting people
Speaker 2: who are.
Speaker 3: Disney was so upset with that.
Speaker 1: Actually I was the one who met with them very
Speaker 1: close after in my position there, and they were very
Speaker 1: kind of under the circumstance.
Speaker 5: Well that was pretty rough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well I think the next one on Big Thunder
Speaker 2: Mountain is where Disney canceled everything because what Phil did
Speaker 2: you remember that Phil had he was talking to an expert,
Speaker 2: He was talking to an engineer and talking about what
Speaker 2: had just happened to one of the riders that as
Speaker 2: it goes past the mountain pass and you know those
Speaker 2: fake mountains, if you look a certain way and you're
Speaker 2: a certain height, and it's very very rare.
Speaker 3: But it will take your head off.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the head rolled down the little hill and
Speaker 2: ended up in the waiting line where people yes, oh
Speaker 2: those were.
Speaker 3: Fun mad tea party yep, still there.
Speaker 2: The Main Street Cinema has gone through so many reation,
Speaker 2: reiterations of originally it was old Disney cartoons.
Speaker 5: Yeah it was Steamboat.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, they showed that. The Martin Mark Twain Riverboat
Speaker 2: is one of the original rides. Peter Pan is still
Speaker 2: a hugely popular Yeah, it's really good. And the Storybook
Speaker 2: Land canal boats Storybook Land through that.
Speaker 3: Was cute with all the little miniature villages.
Speaker 5: Go in the mouth of God. What was the name
Speaker 5: of the whale?
Speaker 3: Fred? No? Oh yeah, Fred?
Speaker 5: The will Yeah, no, I can't remember. Monstro Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it was Monstro. Yeah. All right, guys, we
Speaker 3: are done.
Speaker 5: I want to go to Disneyland.
Speaker 3: I think I'll go Friday.
Speaker 5: You stink, of.
Speaker 3: Course you will, all right. Uh.
Speaker 2: The lawsuits against Trump administration, as you know, have been
Speaker 2: hot and heavy, and there was a lawsuit against the
Speaker 2: Trump administration because the federal government had cut funding to
Speaker 2: the NIH National Institute of Health for research grants, and
Speaker 2: this was related to minorities and LGBTQ people research grants,
Speaker 2: and the President said no, because that's woke.
Speaker 3: That's the EI, and it had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 2: It was the study of minorities, the study of LGPTQ people. Now,
Speaker 2: the NIH has also been cut in terms of sheer
Speaker 2: medical research because of DEI and because medical researches are
Speaker 2: less important to the administration is than defense, for example,
Speaker 2: and immigration reform. So the judge so upset that he
Speaker 2: ripped into the administration. And this had to do with
Speaker 2: two lawsuits that were filed to rescind funding for research
Speaker 2: related to minorities.
Speaker 3: And the judge declared those cuts to be.
Speaker 2: Illegal and void and order the NIH to restore the funds.
Speaker 3: And of course appeal is going to happen. But it's
Speaker 3: what he wrote.
Speaker 2: He said that this lawsuit represented racial discrimination and discrimination
Speaker 2: against America's LGBTQ community. On its face, that's what this is.
Speaker 2: I would be blind not to call it out. My
Speaker 2: duty is to call it out, which is pretty This
Speaker 2: preaty unusual for a federal judge. Now, if you remember
Speaker 2: Trump swept into office, I'm part of this promise to
Speaker 2: withdraw government support for programs that are diversity, equity and
Speaker 2: inclusion those in IT initiatives, as well as any law
Speaker 2: that supports gender ideologically extremism. Here's the problem with what
Speaker 2: the judges said, What exactly is a diversity program? Explain
Speaker 2: to me what diversity is relation to funding. Well, clearly,
Speaker 2: the study of minorities in this country, I guess, is
Speaker 2: obviously part of the DEI and wokeism here, and therefore
Speaker 2: we don't want it, I guess, even recognizing that there
Speaker 2: is an LGBTQ society, part of community. And this was
Speaker 2: the first, it's not the first Reagan important judge. There
Speaker 2: is a judge in Washington who blocked the administration efforts
Speaker 2: to relocate transgender women into men's prisons. Can you imagine
Speaker 2: that you have a woman who used to be a
Speaker 2: man is now in a men's prison, and that's a woman,
Speaker 2: I mean with women nether parts? What it's your another regions? Yep, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just kind of hard to believe. And
Speaker 2: the judges across the board, judges routinely and repeatedly found
Speaker 2: the administration's it's a race to terminate contracts, dismantled agencies
Speaker 2: to port immigrants is all illegal. It's illegal as far
Speaker 2: as these judges are concerned. Now, the Justice Department. Justice
Speaker 2: Department Sends says, these research grant cuts and other programs
Speaker 2: and agencies are simply a reflection of the new administration's
Speaker 2: policy priorities. That Trump's executive orders is un reviewable by
Speaker 2: the courts, and the president should have broad latitude. And
Speaker 2: of course, this is the part that I love, because
Speaker 2: we get a lot of this is that taking away
Speaker 2: the study of insert name here increases our ability to
Speaker 2: understand right, like big Pharma, Wait a minute, how is
Speaker 2: taking away well, taking away money for research medical research
Speaker 2: grant helps us understand the research much better if you
Speaker 2: take away the money.
Speaker 3: What huh? Where did that go?
Speaker 2: But that's what's happening, all right, Okay, let me finish
Speaker 2: it up with the story about laa school board has
Speaker 2: just to prove the sale of up to five hundred
Speaker 2: million dollars in bonds. Okay, I mean usually my bonds
Speaker 2: when it build classrooms or maintenance or putting up new schools.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, that's what they issue bonds for. This one
Speaker 2: is simply to settle lawsuits.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: It's all about suddenly, lawsuits. Back in twenty nineteen, Assembly
Speaker 2: built two eighteen passed, and what it did is open
Speaker 2: up a three year window which ended at twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: allowing adults to file lawsuits over childhood sexual abuse going
Speaker 2: back to the nineteen forties.
Speaker 3: And it was a three year window.
Speaker 2: And guess how many suits have been filed, how many claims.
Speaker 2: Thousands have been filed and claims made. And it's going
Speaker 2: to cost so much money that the school board has
Speaker 2: issuing a five hundred million dollars bond to cover we're
Speaker 2: talking about covering these lawsuits. And the bond is going
Speaker 2: to be paid over fifteen years with interest, and that
Speaker 2: comes out of the general fund.
Speaker 3: So as tough as it is.
Speaker 2: In terms of money for schools, for any educational program,
Speaker 2: guess what it's going to be even tougher. And it's
Speaker 2: a shame that so many settlements have been paid. Now
Speaker 2: not the shame they've been paid, that so many settlements
Speaker 2: or so many complaints have been made, so many claims
Speaker 2: have been made. The La County Board of Supervisors in
Speaker 2: April approved what is thought to be the largest sex
Speaker 2: of you settlement in US history, for billion dollars to
Speaker 2: victims abused as kids in the country county run juvenile
Speaker 2: facilities and foster homes, and the Boy Scouts of America
Speaker 2: huge settlement in the billions or hundreds of millions, the
Speaker 2: Catholic Church in the billions. And now we have la
Speaker 2: Board of Education that is going to pay so much
Speaker 2: money out for these kinds of cases. They have to
Speaker 2: go out and borrow five hundred million or sell bonds
Speaker 2: to the tune of five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3: It is just crazy.
Speaker 2: And we're coming up to the concept that institutions that
Speaker 2: we revered school the Church. Boy Scouts. Colonel Haig came
Speaker 2: in this morning with an interview. He's an astronaut and
Speaker 2: gave us some patches and whoa the patches that he
Speaker 2: wears on his uniform. And I'm saying, hey, these look
Speaker 2: like my Marrit badges that I had that I received
Speaker 2: when I was in Boy Scouts. And I said, by
Speaker 2: the way, I'm the only Scout that I've ever met
Speaker 2: that was not abused by a Scout master. And he said, wow,
Speaker 2: really well, he really didn't say that.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 5: They are many, not We're not abused.
Speaker 3: Not many, not many.
Speaker 2: There are a few that were not abused. A handful
Speaker 2: that we're not abused. All right, we're done, guys, Gary
Speaker 2: and Shannon up next Tomorrow morning wake up call with
Speaker 2: Will and Amy, Neil and I jump aboard at six
Speaker 2: o'clock right up until now, and of course and Kono
Speaker 2: make the show run and we'll see you tomorrow. Gary
Speaker 2: and Shannon up next, KFI Am sixty.
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