Speaker 1: You're listening to KPI AM six forty the Bill Handles
Speaker 1: show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. How do you
Speaker 1: get a shark to snort cocaine?
Speaker 2: Actually, the cocaine gets into the sharks system from the
Speaker 2: sewage discharges from humans who use the drug.
Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you, any sharks that were around
Speaker 1: southern California back in the eighties were swimming around and
Speaker 1: pretty excited every time I went to the bathroom.
Speaker 3: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
Speaker 3: Bill Handle, And.
Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. It is a Thursday morning, July twenty five,
Speaker 1: and last night was the big one. A little froggy,
Speaker 1: little flemy. Okay, should I do that again? Sure? Okay,
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Thursday morning, July twenty five, and welcome.
Speaker 1: Last night was the big speech by Joe Biden. Going
Speaker 1: to talk a lot more about that at seven am.
Speaker 1: Some thoughts and commenting on the analysis, analyzing the analysis,
Speaker 1: which I've got all kinds of comments on, all kinds
Speaker 1: of opinions on, and the bottom line was Joe Biden
Speaker 1: did pretty much what was expected. And for those Republicans,
Speaker 1: they say he didn't talk about his cognitive abilities. And
Speaker 1: you know what, what's he going to say? I'm old,
Speaker 1: I'm decrepit, I'm falling apart, thank you very much. And
Speaker 1: that was my question. Was he going to say I'm old, decrepit,
Speaker 1: falling enough, falling apart. Was he going to say? Where
Speaker 1: is the oval office? Huh? Look around and go where
Speaker 1: am I?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Go figure? All right, Hello to one and all. Con O,
Speaker 1: good morning, Hey Bill. You know what I like about Cono?
Speaker 1: He actually laughs at this stuff. Amy for the most part,
Speaker 1: ignores me completely, and occasionally I'll get a chuckle out
Speaker 1: of a and Neil just looks at me with utter
Speaker 1: contempt and disdain. Cono, I like you a lot more
Speaker 1: than anybody else on this show. I'll tell you that
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: That's huge. That's big for me.
Speaker 1: That is well you deserve it. It's well well deserved.
Speaker 1: What did I say on your T shirt?
Speaker 3: Body Snatcher? It's a band. It's oh I thought.
Speaker 1: It was some kind of a description, a legal description.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, just I feel like heavy music
Speaker 3: makes people angry.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, yeah, heavy metal metal rock. Now. Very
Speaker 1: early on, I don't know how many years ago, I
Speaker 1: was going to London and I somehow was upgraded. Occasionally.
Speaker 1: I would get upgrade if I have enough miles. And
Speaker 1: so I'm sitting in business class on a t W
Speaker 1: A plane that's how long ago it was, and there's
Speaker 1: this rungey looking guys. I figure, how did you get
Speaker 1: up here? You know, you barely have bathed? And goes, oh,
Speaker 1: we're a rock group. I go, yeah, do I know
Speaker 1: the name? And they said Metallica? And I said, what's
Speaker 1: a Metallica? And what a dumb name for a group?
Speaker 1: And so we had a conversation and they were trying
Speaker 1: to explain to me what kind of music they do.
Speaker 1: To this day, I don't understand.
Speaker 3: They've done pretty well for themselves.
Speaker 1: They've done okay, oh okay, all right, guys, we've got
Speaker 1: news cycle. You know, that's one of the comments that
Speaker 1: are being made Amy, I'm hearing among newspeople, and you
Speaker 1: are in part of that. Ilk. Have you had a
Speaker 1: three four week period that you can remember that had
Speaker 1: this much news into this magnitude.
Speaker 4: No, it's like standing in front of a fire hose.
Speaker 1: It's just it's astounding and its NonStop. Yeah, it's crazy,
Speaker 1: mate for us, Yeah, I mean it's you know, for us.
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, for news talk radio. It's
Speaker 1: it's great stuff because it gives us a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about, all right, matter of fact, giving us a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about. Grab the pile here, it is
Speaker 1: time for handle on the news, Amy King, Neil back
Speaker 1: next Wednesday. Me late story. Probably it's all all right.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden expected and we knew he was announcing him
Speaker 1: leaving the campaign, dropping his candidacy for president, for as
Speaker 1: the nominee of the Democratic Party, and we sort of
Speaker 1: expected this. It was only eleven minutes, and it was
Speaker 1: considered by many, particularly those papers of Joe Biden, and
Speaker 1: I think even those that are non biased as somber.
Speaker 1: He talked about his accomplishments, which you'd figure he would,
Speaker 1: because everybody else who has left the White House certainly
Speaker 1: have no one of the three presidents that I can remember,
Speaker 1: two of them actually in office leaving the White House, well,
Speaker 1: actually all three of them in office leaving the White
Speaker 1: House in the last before the term was over. We're
Speaker 1: not being the candidate again. It was not about why Nixon,
Speaker 1: who was about to be indicted and thrown out of office,
Speaker 1: impeached and convicted by the Senate, he lost his political base.
Speaker 1: That's it. Lyndon Johnson just said I'm leaving. And Joe
Speaker 1: Biden last night didn't talk about his political base. All
Speaker 1: he said was it's time for me to go. That's it.
Speaker 1: That was his reasoning for doing this time to pass
Speaker 1: the torch to a new generation. And a lot of
Speaker 1: Republicans really pissed off that he didn't connected to I'm old,
Speaker 1: I'm decrepit, I can't function, my cognitive abilities decreased. And
Speaker 1: even Joe Biden fans, I mean, I like to watch CNN.
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk more about this CNN. Could I
Speaker 1: really like the analysis of CNN. Forget about the politics
Speaker 1: of it, just the analysis. Van Jones, who is worked
Speaker 1: in the Obama White House, who reveres Joe Biden, I
Speaker 1: mean revers the man. He's a genuine hero. To Van Jones,
Speaker 1: he said, you could see how old Biden has become,
Speaker 1: even the last two months. You could see the deterioration.
Speaker 1: And he was really struck, I mean crying and really upset. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll do more about that at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: And Tanya who had us lawmakers in the palm of
Speaker 2: his hand, what kind of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and
Speaker 2: Nyahoo gave his speech to lawmakers at Capitol Hill yesterday,
Speaker 2: lashing out against the protests of Israel's war against Hamas.
Speaker 2: He said that the protests that are happening outside and
Speaker 2: around the country in the US are backed by Iran,
Speaker 2: which effectively makes the protesters useful idiots.
Speaker 1: It was a speech that took a lot of people
Speaker 1: by surprise, because we were told that it was going
Speaker 1: to be conciliatory. We were told that there would be
Speaker 1: at least a reach out for peace in some way
Speaker 1: to talk about ending the war, not even close, just
Speaker 1: ripping into Hamas and anybody who was against the war,
Speaker 1: and then just outright line, we are sending unlimited aid
Speaker 1: to the Palestinians. Really we are not. We are not
Speaker 1: targeting civilians, which is true, I believe for the most part.
Speaker 1: But I mean the rest of it. We hand out
Speaker 1: or we hand out millions of flyers and phone calls
Speaker 1: and texts to tell people to get out of the way.
Speaker 3: Do they do that?
Speaker 1: They do do that. But what he left out was
Speaker 1: get out of the way. There's the safe sone over
Speaker 1: there until we vomit, and then the flyers go out
Speaker 1: and say oh no, no, there's a safe son over safe
Speaker 1: zone over there, and they vomit. And the argument is
Speaker 1: that those are Hamas strongholds or that's where Hamas starts
Speaker 1: its fight again, which I believe, by the way, just
Speaker 1: don't say that we are there, just say we're fighting
Speaker 1: him and if this is where they are, and effectively
Speaker 1: he did say this, and this is where we go
Speaker 1: as far as Hamas is concerned, and he talked about
Speaker 1: in those are detractors of Israeli position. On the other side,
Speaker 1: they the humanitarian workers, and there are thousands of them.
Speaker 1: Not one has said, yes, Hamas is fighting from the
Speaker 1: hospitals or the schools. I have not heard one of those.
Speaker 1: So clearly Kamas is not fighting from the schools and
Speaker 1: the hospitals and the mosques. It's just not true. It's
Speaker 1: not happening. Israel I guess isn't fighting at all. It's
Speaker 1: just attacking civilians. Although there are Hamas fighters that Hamas
Speaker 1: has said, but not in the civilian areas. The reality
Speaker 1: on both sides, I don't get what's going on. I
Speaker 1: think both sides are lying to some extent, to a
Speaker 1: great extent, well.
Speaker 2: There and they're they're challenged with the reality that people
Speaker 2: can see now and people can get the information out.
Speaker 2: I mean, you think about a war fifty years ago,
Speaker 2: nobody knew what was going on. I mean you had
Speaker 2: reporters there, but they had the delays. And now with
Speaker 2: the instantanean or instantaneous information coming out, it's a different
Speaker 2: It's a different war.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would like to see if an attack is
Speaker 1: made on a civilian target because com is there, because
Speaker 1: the fighters are there, and let's say they're rocket launchers
Speaker 1: coming from a school and Israel, Israel attacks it, I'd
Speaker 1: like to see a few dead Hamas fighters in there.
Speaker 1: I really would, you know, what where are they? And
Speaker 1: then when you talk about the weapons they found, like
Speaker 1: one cash of weapons is all I've seen on video.
Speaker 1: They should be loaded with weapons as Israel attacks and
Speaker 1: takes out a stronghold. So man, I just I don't
Speaker 1: get it. Well, I do get it, but unfortunately I'm
Speaker 1: not having a good time understanding it.
Speaker 2: All right, Thousands protested outside the capitol as Israeli Prime
Speaker 2: Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his speech to Congress. They marched
Speaker 2: toward the capitol before police sprayed pepper spray on some
Speaker 2: of them. They chanted free, Free Palestine. Some of the
Speaker 2: removed American flags from Washington's Union Station, their train station,
Speaker 2: and then hoisted Palestinian flags. And they also spray painted
Speaker 2: monuments and wrote Hamas is coming in red spray paint.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean it's America. Well you can't deface property,
Speaker 1: of course, under any circumstances. But you can put up
Speaker 1: a Palestinian flag. I mean it's welcome to America. Can
Speaker 1: burn the flag? They did? Did they did that Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: There was a case decades and decades ago they said, hey,
Speaker 1: that's that is a political speech.
Speaker 2: Taking the American flag down off a flagpole on a
Speaker 2: public building and then putting up the Palestinian flag is ill.
Speaker 1: That is illegal because you're you're you're trespassing for one thing.
Speaker 1: But the act of doing that, being charged with taking
Speaker 1: down the American flag per se and putting up the
Speaker 1: Palestinian flag in terms of any kind of treason, in terms,
Speaker 1: you can absolutely do that. The crime here is doing
Speaker 1: it on public land. For example, if I am a
Speaker 1: protester and I can I burn an American flag on
Speaker 1: my flagpole at home, you bet I can? You bet
Speaker 1: I can? Now if I were. If I were there,
Speaker 1: and thank god goodness, I'm not there, and if I
Speaker 1: had a machine gun, these people would be just wiped out.
Speaker 1: That is also a crime, by the way, taking a
Speaker 1: machine gunning a whole group of people until they explode. Ok. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to point that out.
Speaker 4: Thank you for that clarification, yuy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also political speech, I might dad.
Speaker 2: Our big fires pale in comparison, thankfully. You know, we've
Speaker 2: got some fires. In fact, there's a there's a fire
Speaker 2: that we're watching that's burning about fifteen miles outside of Paradise,
Speaker 2: Remember the town that was destroyed by wildfire six years ago.
Speaker 2: There's one that's grown to forty five thousand acres. But
Speaker 2: up in Oregon, there's a lightning sparked wildfire. It's in
Speaker 2: eastern Oregon and it's torn through two hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: thousand acres. So it's the largest wildfire in the US
Speaker 2: right now. And in eastern Oregon there's nothing to stop
Speaker 2: the fires. It's grassland, it's like high planes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so it just goes. This is a very
Speaker 1: bad combination and that is a lot of dry vegetation,
Speaker 1: strong winds, and truly hot weather. You put those three together,
Speaker 1: it's like STDs and unprotected sex. That is a bad combination.
Speaker 2: Break into the Mayor's office, no problem, Okay, there's a
Speaker 2: little bit of a problem.
Speaker 1: The mayor's home.
Speaker 4: Oh did I say office, Yes, I'm at home.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So back in April, somebody broke into La Mayor Bass's
Speaker 2: home in Hancock Park, the Getty House. Twenty nine year
Speaker 2: old accused of breaking in has pleaded no contest to
Speaker 2: felony vandalism. Apparently they dropped the burglary charges as part
Speaker 2: of his plea deal. He was given two years probation,
Speaker 2: has to stay away from the Mayor's work and home addresses,
Speaker 2: and has to have drugging out drug abuse and mental
Speaker 2: health treatments, and has to pay some restitution.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Getty House is kind of interesting. Six in Revine,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the mansions in Hancock Park, the
Speaker 1: Getty House has spent. The reason it's called the Getty House.
Speaker 1: It was given to the city of Los Angeles by J.
Speaker 1: Paul Getty, who was a resident of LA and the
Speaker 1: Getty museums that he set up. Stiffed his kids completely
Speaker 1: set up the art foundation. They have more money than
Speaker 1: they know what to do with, because they have to
Speaker 1: spend five percent of the assets of the foundation every
Speaker 1: year or five percent of the income, and has wiped
Speaker 1: out the world the world art market because they can
Speaker 1: pay anything for anything. Do you know that if you're
Speaker 1: a scholar and you're doing let's say some study, a
Speaker 1: PhD study on a piece of art that Getty has,
Speaker 1: you can apply for a scholarship or they will fly
Speaker 1: you over or put you up for a year, pay
Speaker 1: all of your expenses. And they have dozens and dozens
Speaker 1: of those going every year. I should get into art,
Speaker 1: no kidding.
Speaker 2: Boeing has taken responsibility. There's an agreement between Boeing and
Speaker 2: the Justice Department where the airplane maker will plead guilty
Speaker 2: to a fraud charge for misleading US regulators who approved
Speaker 2: the seven thirty seven Max jetliners. So apparently Boeing is
Speaker 2: going to say that, through its employees, it made an
Speaker 2: agreement by dishonest means to defraud the FAA the members
Speaker 2: that evaluated the seven thirty seven, and because of that,
Speaker 2: the FAA had incomplete and inaccurate information about the plane's
Speaker 2: flight control software and how much training the pilots would need.
Speaker 4: To be able to fly it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the mcass debacle, that little software business
Speaker 1: that would automatically put the plane into a dive if
Speaker 1: it was going to go up. Install and pilots have
Speaker 1: not been trained on that. Pilots didn't even know that
Speaker 1: existed when they.
Speaker 3: Put it in.
Speaker 1: And the reason one of the ways that Boeing sells
Speaker 1: so much Boeing is, here's a shortcut pilots. Whenever there's
Speaker 1: a new system installed, pilots have to go into the
Speaker 1: simulator and they have to study it. This was just
Speaker 1: done on an iPad and that was it. That was
Speaker 1: your training if you did it.
Speaker 2: Is that real?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yep. Yeah, that's how That's what Boeing has done.
Speaker 1: Boeing is and the reason the fraud because let me
Speaker 1: tell you how crazy the FAA is with its enormous
Speaker 1: oversight because there are so few FAA auditors and inspectors.
Speaker 1: When it is out there to certify a part, it
Speaker 1: will ask Boeing to say does it meet our requirements?
Speaker 1: And a Boeing inspector says yes it does, and the
Speaker 1: FAA signs off on it. Well, those days have changed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's bowing. And it used to be where you could
Speaker 1: trust Boweing to do that. Well, it never used to
Speaker 1: happen because you know, the budgets of the FA were
Speaker 1: cut like crazy under Trump because that was just you know,
Speaker 1: governmental regulations are not are not a big thing for
Speaker 1: Republicans across the board, and so you used to be
Speaker 1: able to trust Boeing. I mean that was in the
Speaker 1: days when Boeing was Boeing. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: that's the podcast. And when is that podcast already dropped?
Speaker 1: The Boeing story. When's it coming on? We haven't said
Speaker 1: a day yet. It will probably come next week on
Speaker 1: the podcast that I drop every Tuesday and Thursday. And
Speaker 1: one of the stories that have already recorded is what
Speaker 1: happened to Boeing, the history of Boeing and how corporate,
Speaker 1: how corporation that is most one of the most revered
Speaker 1: companies in the world, How it went to the toilet?
Speaker 1: And that's coming up.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, we now know what caused it, and for
Speaker 2: the important part, how much is the crowd strike failure
Speaker 2: going to cost.
Speaker 4: It's being described as the largest IT outage in.
Speaker 2: History and will cost fortune five hundred companies alone more
Speaker 2: than five billion dollars in direct losses. That's in a
Speaker 2: preliminary report that also came out on the same day
Speaker 2: as how CrowdStrike actually inadvertently calls the widespread it meltdown.
Speaker 1: And that doesn't count the families that have loved ones
Speaker 1: who have died because they couldn't get into surgery. And
Speaker 1: they now that's not to say they're going to win
Speaker 1: because it's elective surgery. But still, it's either a good
Speaker 1: time to buy CrowdStrike or it's a very bad time
Speaker 1: to buy CrowdStrike because at this point, if it comes back,
Speaker 1: you're going to make some money, and if it doesn't
Speaker 1: come back, you're going to lose your shirt.
Speaker 4: Gotta bet either way.
Speaker 1: Well, it's people who bet when things are down. People
Speaker 1: buy Apple. When Apple was in the toilet, when Steve
Speaker 1: Jobs came back, I mean the company was moribund, it
Speaker 1: was almost it was close to death. And if you
Speaker 1: believe in Steve Jobs, you made a fortune.
Speaker 4: Another attempted murder on Metro.
Speaker 1: Why do they even report these anymore.
Speaker 2: Because they're happening every week and they said that the
Speaker 2: ridership is up for the nineteenth month in a row.
Speaker 1: No, thank you. Well, there are people that i'd like
Speaker 1: to pay Russian roulette. Talked about that a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago. What Russian roulette is? Or are willing to
Speaker 1: take their chances?
Speaker 4: Well, and here's the thing. It's not only happening. I mean,
Speaker 4: you hear about the fights and stuff.
Speaker 2: So this is what happened to the guy getting off
Speaker 2: at the Metro Redline station in North Hollywood. Apparently he
Speaker 2: was on the steps that lead over to the Metro
Speaker 2: buses when somebody comes up to him and stabs him
Speaker 2: in the ribs.
Speaker 1: That's lovely. You know, this going on the Metro is
Speaker 1: a lot like torriadors, you know, is it worth the risk?
Speaker 1: Or people who skydive, Why would you do that? You
Speaker 1: jump out of a perfectly good airplane and why so
Speaker 1: why would you ride the Metro?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I bet skydiving is a lot
Speaker 4: more fun than riding the Metro.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, at least until you hit the ground. That's true.
Speaker 4: That's true, all right? Uh, too close for comfort.
Speaker 2: Norad has intercepted to Russian and two Russian jets and
Speaker 2: two Chinese bombers that were flying near Alaska yesterday kind
Speaker 2: of right around the time that President Biden was about
Speaker 2: to give his oval office address. A Defense officials said
Speaker 2: it was the first time Russia and Chinese have been
Speaker 2: intercepted while operating together.
Speaker 1: That is the big issue because these interdictions, or at
Speaker 1: least you're noting that these uh these internet flying near
Speaker 1: coasts and we do that over there, and they do
Speaker 1: that over here, but China, as you pointed out, China
Speaker 1: and Russia doing it together as some kind of military exercise.
Speaker 1: By the way, Nora had cost so much money. You know,
Speaker 1: it's all Cold war stuff. You know that The only
Speaker 1: time they're really worth the money is when they track
Speaker 1: Santa Claus going across the world. You ever see you know,
Speaker 1: you see that every Christmas.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's very important.
Speaker 1: That's Norad that's doing that tracking Santa Claus. Until we
Speaker 1: find out that it really is a Russian missile that's
Speaker 1: disguised as Santa Claus, then we're going to be in
Speaker 1: a lot of trouble.
Speaker 2: That makes sense because to get to all of the
Speaker 2: houses of all of the children all around the world,
Speaker 2: Santa is probably have to go that fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I go pretty quickly. Yeah, and he's trying. I
Speaker 1: don't know, because you can see Santa you know where
Speaker 1: Santa is he's now over Bolivia and he's now over
Speaker 1: Now here's my question. If he's over Bolivia, what are
Speaker 1: people do in Brazil because he just transports right over
Speaker 1: or he goes right over one country not the other.
Speaker 1: So I've always wondered about that. This is deep deep
Speaker 1: fis this.
Speaker 4: Is deep thinking? All right, Well, it's a little supposed
Speaker 4: to be all.
Speaker 2: Fun and games, but then politics comes into play. At
Speaker 2: uh tens of thousands of fans were at the park,
Speaker 2: the Prince Stadium in Paris, booed and hissed and whistled
Speaker 2: their way through the Israeli national anthem leading up to
Speaker 2: the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Come on now, and even though it's illegal for oh well,
Speaker 1: athletes to show their political views, that's not allowed. But
Speaker 1: how do you stop an audience from doing that? That's
Speaker 1: you can't. And there's anti semitim. Anti Semitism is rife
Speaker 1: now through the world. You're gonna see that. Isn't that special?
Speaker 1: God help an Israeli athlete that wins the medal? Can
Speaker 1: you imagine what's going to happen in the stadium. And
Speaker 1: by the way, if that's the case, if I were
Speaker 1: the coach, I would go here's what you do. If
Speaker 1: they hiss at you, you moon them. And that would
Speaker 1: be a view from the state from you know, the
Speaker 1: stand where you stand up and take metal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, special delivery and not in a good way.
Speaker 2: Representative Norman Torres and the Inland Empire says her office
Speaker 2: received two letters containing a white powdery substance. So Torres,
Speaker 2: who is the representative of thirty fifth Congressional District in
Speaker 2: California for Ontario, says no one was hurt, but her
Speaker 2: staffers had to shelter in place while has Maat teams
Speaker 2: checked it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you really went to screw with a political office
Speaker 1: and an envelope with sweet and low in it. That'll
Speaker 1: disrupt things. And by the way, is that illegal. I
Speaker 1: don't think that is. It's just a political statement there.
Speaker 2: How speedy is your broadband? There's a new app for that.
Speaker 2: The FCC has revealed the launch of a new app
Speaker 2: that will allow consumers to test their mobile broadband speed
Speaker 2: in order to gauge the accuracy of a provider's mobile
Speaker 2: coverage range. So I guess if they say we have
Speaker 2: the best broadband coverage, you can check your app and
Speaker 2: say no, you don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, now was it the other day? I wanted
Speaker 1: to know, am I getting my three hundred MPs that
Speaker 1: I'm paying for at home? And you're going into a program.
Speaker 1: But it's not that easy, you know, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: exactly what's happening in real time and what the FCC
Speaker 1: is doing. Just you do this on your cell phone,
Speaker 1: go right to the app. This is great, by the way,
Speaker 1: to find out exactly what you're paying for.
Speaker 2: Well, but then do you have any recourse if they're saying, hey,
Speaker 2: you're supposed to get whatever that number you said and
Speaker 2: then it's like half that, then you go back and say, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm not getting that, give me a refund.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know if they've gone that far yet,
Speaker 1: because at this point it's simply the launch itself of
Speaker 1: the app, and it allows consumers to test the broadband speed.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there is a consequence if it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen, because right now it's only enabling users to
Speaker 1: get free, open and transparent information about the performance of
Speaker 1: the network. So I think that's the next step. You
Speaker 1: think there's going to be a political fight on that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, Disney's made a deal.
Speaker 2: Speaking of fights, they're playing nice now with the union
Speaker 2: and Disney and fourteen thousand workers are not going to
Speaker 2: go on strike if they approve this deal. But they've
Speaker 2: reached a tentative contract for three years that will have
Speaker 2: wage increases apparently, some benefits to people who have seniority,
Speaker 2: security increases, and additional premiums whatever that means. So, and
Speaker 2: the deal came like four days after the union with
Speaker 2: ninety nine percent in support, said yep, we're going to
Speaker 2: authorize a strike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Disney tell me this isn't PR corporate speak.
Speaker 1: Here's their statement. We care deeply about the well being
Speaker 1: of our cast members and are pleased to have reached
Speaker 1: a tentative agreement with Master Service Counsel the union that
Speaker 1: addresses what matters most to our cast while positioning Disneyland
Speaker 1: Resort for future growth and job creation. That's PR speak.
Speaker 1: We fought so hard to screw them over that we
Speaker 1: basically averted a strike by thirty seconds. Now the other
Speaker 1: side will argue the other way. So it's just why
Speaker 1: don't they just admit, Yeah, we had a battle, and
Speaker 1: you know this is where we came to, and we
Speaker 1: agreed to thirty cents an hour, and they dropped their
Speaker 1: fifty cents an hour as opposed to the PR babble
Speaker 1: that goes on and you have and that's what they
Speaker 1: hand you, don't they amy? In terms of the releases,
Speaker 1: the news.
Speaker 4: Releases, Yeah, nope, we don't get the real stuff.
Speaker 1: No, of course not.
Speaker 2: But emotions are real and apparently they're good. Inside Out
Speaker 2: two as surpassed one point four to six billion in
Speaker 2: global ticket sales, making it the highest grossing animated feature
Speaker 2: of all time. It just passed Disney's Frozen two and
Speaker 2: it's going to get another shot at the box office
Speaker 2: because it hasn't even opened yet in Japan.
Speaker 1: I don't we talk to Mo about this? Moe is
Speaker 1: coming to board at eight fifty when we do earlier
Speaker 1: with Mo Kelly, and he's our entertainment guy, and I
Speaker 1: thought that no one's going to the movies anymore. And
Speaker 1: look at these numbers, I mean they are astronomical. So
Speaker 1: I mean that I'm going to have a conversation with
Speaker 1: Mo about right. Thet's two one more before we end
Speaker 1: the segment.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's the end of an era for Southwest Airlines,
Speaker 2: which might make you very happy or maybe not, depending
Speaker 2: on the consequences.
Speaker 4: But no more first come, first served.
Speaker 2: Southwest is shifting to assigned seating for the first time
Speaker 2: in its fifty year history. But here's the downside of that.
Speaker 2: It's going to allow Southwest to charge premiums for some
Speaker 2: of the seats on the plane, like all the other
Speaker 2: carriers who are already doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that is charging for seating is insane how
Speaker 1: much money they make. For example, I'm traveling to Europe,
Speaker 1: as I do every year, I take a trip. So
Speaker 1: I bought my ticket and there are two of us going.
Speaker 1: So I just bought two tickets and they said, do
Speaker 1: you want to sit together? What do you mean, do way?
Speaker 1: I want to sit together? Of course, Oh, that'll be
Speaker 1: an extra charge to confirm the two of you going
Speaker 1: to sit together and go what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: H that was one hundred and sixty two dollars.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: That's what's going on. That is literally what's going on.
Speaker 4: And what ends up happening is one of you is
Speaker 4: paying for a middle seat.
Speaker 1: Oh that's another charge. If you don't want a middle seat,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I forget about that, and then you have
Speaker 1: well it makes sense for the ultra ultra low cost
Speaker 1: carriers like Spirit in Frontier. They make all of their
Speaker 1: money on the junk fees. You pay extra for everything,
Speaker 1: including carry on bags. If you're wearing pants, they charge
Speaker 1: you more money. It's have you ever flown? I won't.
Speaker 1: I won't fly those incredibly low cost fares because it
Speaker 1: turns out to be pretty close to that unless you
Speaker 1: literally are taking your clothes in your pocket.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just flew a Vellow which goes to some of
Speaker 2: the smaller airports, and they charged for seats, but I
Speaker 2: didn't buy it, so I just waited until I got
Speaker 2: to the airport and I ended up getting great seats
Speaker 2: both times.
Speaker 4: Oh all right, but I lucked out. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 4: can't catch I think that happens every time.
Speaker 1: Not at all. All right, We're done, guys. KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Well, at
Speaker 1: least you've decided to listen to you. You've been listening
Speaker 1: to the Bill Handle Show. Catch My Show Monday through Friday,
Speaker 1: six am to nine am, and anytime on demand on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app.