Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty.
Speaker 2: KFI Handle here on a home day, Wednesday, February the twelfth.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, another story, yet another story of La Unified
Speaker 2: School District or I went to school, and this story
Speaker 2: is about the school district is being accused of misusing
Speaker 2: millions meant for arts instruction. Now arts instruction has fallen apart,
Speaker 2: like many other programs in the past several years, in
Speaker 2: the past many years, simply because the school district has
Speaker 2: no money. I remember, and this goes way back. This
Speaker 2: is me hallucinating and having a flashback. I remember as
Speaker 2: a kid when I was in elementary school, Missus Brelli
Speaker 2: second grade, Wow, I just remember that, and then fifth
Speaker 2: was it? Sixth grade Missus jamtav four hundred pounds give
Speaker 2: or take, very big woman. In any case, back we
Speaker 2: go off of by Tangent and we were given by
Speaker 2: the school little box of crayons, twelve crayons. The rich
Speaker 2: kids would go out and buy sixty four bucks and
Speaker 2: we all got very upset with a ruler and pencils
Speaker 2: and all kinds of supplies and art classes for every
Speaker 2: class and music class not just banned, but out and
Speaker 2: out music classes, So of course those days are gone,
Speaker 2: and so because there's no money. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: we voted California with a two thirds majority that requires
Speaker 2: a portion of California's general fund equal to one percent
Speaker 2: of the minimum state funding levels for K twelve schools.
Speaker 2: A lawsuit filed by the former superintendent and a bunch
Speaker 2: of students said that ain't happening. Either they're not spending
Speaker 2: the money at all, or they're spending the money to
Speaker 2: pay for existing programs of which there is no more money.
Speaker 2: And the lawsuit says what LA Unified is doing is
Speaker 2: in violation of the proposition prop. Twenty eight and therefore
Speaker 2: has defrauded the students, defrauded the school district or the
Speaker 2: school district is defrauded students because they're not spending the money.
Speaker 2: And the school district says, we're not getting the money,
Speaker 2: but these students lawsuits says, you are getting the money
Speaker 2: and you're diverting the money. And so just an allegation
Speaker 2: of the misuse in this case, the allegation of fraud.
Speaker 2: Now it also used to be as part of the
Speaker 2: arts program that we used to go on these trips.
Speaker 2: I mean, we pile into buses and go to the zoo.
Speaker 2: We would go to, for example, the Shrine Auditorium, which
Speaker 2: was around then it maybe still be, and we'd see musicals.
Speaker 2: I remember as a kid seeing which one did I see?
Speaker 2: I saw an opera that they had. Now, when's the
Speaker 2: last time you heard of an entire school district, or
Speaker 2: an entire fifth grade piling onto buses, those big yellow
Speaker 2: buses and going to see an opera that was written
Speaker 2: for or at least modified for students. It doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: Matter of fact. The only thing that and I went
Speaker 2: was it a couple of years ago where they did
Speaker 2: exactly that. This was after Lynn Miranda Manuel, who's the
Speaker 2: guy I always get his name confused who wrote Hamilton,
Speaker 2: and everybody was entranced with him, and they put together
Speaker 2: a field trip from schools all over the place, and
Speaker 2: I went one of the few people that were invited
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, and I went to see it. And
Speaker 2: heeded well, not to see Hamilton, but to see him
Speaker 2: and do a question and answer. That is the only
Speaker 2: outing that I've ever seen the school do, the school
Speaker 2: district do. After I left the school in after sixth
Speaker 2: grade of elementary school. Hey, I don't know the answer,
Speaker 2: but does if someone takes music class today, does a
Speaker 2: school provide musical instruments? And I don't know the answer
Speaker 2: to that in public schools because they did when I
Speaker 2: was going to school.
Speaker 3: I do know that my son's school has a music
Speaker 3: room and there are instruments in them, but I don't
Speaker 3: know if all of them are provided.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would be provided. When I went to school
Speaker 2: with your violin with a trumpet, I remember, I took
Speaker 2: class and I took trumpet, and the school gave them out.
Speaker 2: Most students spot their own.
Speaker 1: Is that where you learned to blow hard?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Very strong. I played a great story too. I
Speaker 2: played trumpet and I was horrible. And in high school
Speaker 2: I played baritone horn and I was so bad they
Speaker 2: wouldn't let me play in band. I was just they
Speaker 2: needed people on the field to move around, and the
Speaker 2: teacher said, Bill, don't play. Don't seriously, don't play. And
Speaker 2: I will now tell you. You take a baritone horn and
Speaker 2: the mouthpiece makes a perfect bong. It is. You take
Speaker 2: a little screen in the mouthpiece and you put the
Speaker 2: tube into water, so you have a water a water bong.
Speaker 2: And it was the perfect size and guess how many
Speaker 2: people used a lot of people a baritone horn they did. Okay,
Speaker 2: I digress, and if you think I'm kidding, for those
Speaker 2: of you that smoke, just put together one of these
Speaker 2: with a baritone horn mouthpiece. All right, We're done with that.
Speaker 2: That was kind of interesting. That tangent. How shocking. Okay,
Speaker 2: the ad that Kanye West that known as easy on
Speaker 2: It in the Super Bowl was kind of interesting because
Speaker 2: he tells people to or he told people to go
Speaker 2: to his website. He's sitting in a dentists chair and
Speaker 2: talked about the great teeth he has, which looked ridiculous. Now,
Speaker 2: just before that, on the on X, he launches into
Speaker 2: a sexist and anti Semitic rant, telling people to whip
Speaker 2: your Jews, that's the problem. And he talks about going
Speaker 2: to his website where he sells merch, and it turned
Speaker 2: out he sold one piece of merch a T shirt
Speaker 2: that had a swastik on the front and he also
Speaker 2: had posted I love Hitler. Kind of interesting. That's how
Speaker 2: to get people on your side. So how did that
Speaker 2: go on? How did that happen on the internet. Well,
Speaker 2: there is an end around where you can literally post
Speaker 2: crap like that. Even though the NFL has all the
Speaker 2: control of the world and has to do with not
Speaker 2: buying a national ad, you don't buy the national show.
Speaker 2: What advertisers do is buy local shows, and each one
Speaker 2: of those is controlled by the local either the regional affiliate,
Speaker 2: which in this case was regional, and the NFL really
Speaker 2: doesn't pay attention much of those. They What they do
Speaker 2: is rely on the local station, well the local stations.
Speaker 2: Keep in mind, the NFL has X number of commercials
Speaker 2: to run in a Super Bowl. Local stations have hundreds
Speaker 2: to run every week, and so the oversight is, let's say,
Speaker 2: less stringent. And this is well, we're talking about Channel
Speaker 2: eleven now, is what this story is about in Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal? How did that get through? Well, the ad
Speaker 2: agency said that these rants happened before, just before, and
Speaker 2: we didn't see him and we didn't know what he
Speaker 2: was selling, and trying to separate themselves from doing it.
Speaker 2: But that this is what does happen, is the these
Speaker 2: advertisers do the end around. For example, kt TV, right, folks,
Speaker 2: Fox eleven ran an ad ran his ad about a
Speaker 2: million bucks. The national ad buy was eight million dollars,
Speaker 2: and so why would they only buy a local TV spot.
Speaker 2: Well in the major markets, well, you don't have to
Speaker 2: buy spots, for example in South Dakota, because everybody has
Speaker 2: a T shirt that has a swastik on it. They've
Speaker 2: already bought it, and you're trying to get a major market.
Speaker 2: And that was the end around. And the argument is
Speaker 2: that that was added after the buy was in fact bought,
Speaker 2: so he got around it. Now the ad agency that
Speaker 2: created his ad and had nothing to do with the
Speaker 2: swastik on the T shirt because that was his merch
Speaker 2: that the ad agency said, we didn't know about it
Speaker 2: and it wasn't available even until after we booked the ad.
Speaker 2: They've dropped him. They said, you are done. And the
Speaker 2: NFL of course went half berserk, saying that it had
Speaker 2: no awareness of the ad buy or the spot until
Speaker 2: after it ran, and strongly condemns any form of anti Semitism, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I tend to well, I know that
Speaker 2: that's their position, but in the end, they really don't
Speaker 2: have much control. And while the NFL has very stringent
Speaker 2: controls over the ads that run in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: they give the local affiliate. I don't know how many
Speaker 2: one to two ads to run during the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: for carrying it. So, therefore, if you want to run
Speaker 2: an ad that is let's say, questionable, the trick is
Speaker 2: to do it in two ways. Well, actually, you want
Speaker 2: to do it locally for a couple of reasons. Number one,
Speaker 2: it's a lot cheaper than a national buy and number two,
Speaker 2: getting it through is going to be a lot easier. Now,
Speaker 2: the other argument is during the Super Bowl, would you
Speaker 2: think that a local affiliate would be a little bit
Speaker 2: more careful about running any kind of ad, especially from
Speaker 2: Kanye West. You think he's a little bit controversial. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So that was the switcheroo. And as soon as as
Speaker 2: soon as the ad ran, of course, the whole country
Speaker 2: went berserk. And by the way, it didn't run and
Speaker 2: most of the country people hadn't seen it. Neil, you
Speaker 2: remember when we did on the Morning Show and we
Speaker 2: did a takeoff and made fun of and rightly we
Speaker 2: were attacked about making fun of the gridlock and the
Speaker 2: a number of people that had died in Saudi Arabia
Speaker 2: going to Mecca and there was a bridge that went
Speaker 2: to the Kaba, which is where millions of Saudis go,
Speaker 2: and there was this gridlock and one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: some odd people died, and our board operator at that
Speaker 2: time made fun of it, just made fun of it,
Speaker 2: pretended that there was a reporter, a KFI reporter and
Speaker 2: a helicopter overhead reporting on what was happening, and people
Speaker 2: went nuts. Ago oh years and years ago. That must
Speaker 2: have been twenty years ago when we did that. But
Speaker 2: the point I'm making, and by the way, it was
Speaker 2: probably inappropriate, although would we do it again today, I
Speaker 2: have no idea. But the point I'm making is the
Speaker 2: response we got was astronomical. We were getting response from
Speaker 2: responses from Jordan and from Egypt, absolutely slamming us. And
Speaker 2: how many people in Jordan and Egypt listened to the
Speaker 2: morning show.
Speaker 1: So got a great following there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of Jordanians, I'm on, we do. Great
Speaker 2: point is is that people went nuts who never even
Speaker 2: saw the spot. That's how controversial it was. Okay, ouvas
Speaker 2: no remember that?
Speaker 1: No grapes, Yeah, no grapes.
Speaker 2: And that was when the great boycott was happening. Caesar
Speaker 2: Chavez and finally got the union recognized among the pickers
Speaker 2: of grapes here in California. Went on for years. By
Speaker 2: the way, the boycott and it did work. Canadians are
Speaker 2: going in.
Speaker 1: My dad made shirts and stuff like that. That's where
Speaker 1: the first time I ever heard of US.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now in Canada. Now in Canada, it's going
Speaker 2: across the country. They are they're going crazy with this,
Speaker 2: and they're saying no American products, you know, even they're
Speaker 2: not going to the United States anymore for visiting ear nose
Speaker 2: and throat specialists. It's vas No, that didn't work. We tried. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's let's move on. Well it turned out and it's
Speaker 2: legit here that you know. Trump has gone against Canada
Speaker 2: big time with the tariffs twenty five percent tariffs against
Speaker 2: Canada and Mexico. And the reason is, and he gives
Speaker 2: a bunch of reasons, but primarily the fentanyl and the immigration,
Speaker 2: and Canada is saying, wait a minute, we're less than
Speaker 2: one percent of the fentanyl, We're less than one percent
Speaker 2: of the immigration problem. What are you doing? And now
Speaker 2: he's talking about the balance of trade. I think that
Speaker 2: kicked in a little bit later to justify what he's doing.
Speaker 2: So what are And by the way, he also said
Speaker 2: I love this. He wants to annex Canada. Is the
Speaker 2: fifty first state, saying it would be much better off.
Speaker 2: Canada is not a viable country without US trade. And
Speaker 2: so you have Canadians from Prime Minister Trudeau all the
Speaker 2: way down and they are boycotting everything they can, Canceling
Speaker 2: Netflix for example, not buying American products of any kind,
Speaker 2: booing at at NHL games and so what's going on.
Speaker 2: Oh and they're stopping to drink Florida Orange jues. Not
Speaker 2: that there's a lot of that, Canceling trips to summer
Speaker 2: vacation trips to for example, Disney World, canceled across the board,
Speaker 2: I mean all over the country. And the reality is
Speaker 2: in many cases, you know, when they talk about a
Speaker 2: line in the sand, Vincente Fox, when he was president
Speaker 2: of Mexico said there was no border between the United
Speaker 2: States and Mexico. There's tons of borders between that. Canada
Speaker 2: not so much. For example, Craft American cheese made by
Speaker 2: Craft here, right, you know what is in Canada. It's
Speaker 2: Craft Canadian cheese, same manufacture. So much trade going back
Speaker 2: and forth that it is going to be very problematic
Speaker 2: for American manufacturers and American consumers. Because our biggest trading
Speaker 2: partner is Canada. We get lumber from Canada. We get
Speaker 2: parts for cars from Canada, we get bad jokes from Canada.
Speaker 2: Canadians also don't get very excited. They really don't, because
Speaker 2: I remember I went to school in Canada for a
Speaker 2: year and a half. Now I don't remember much of
Speaker 2: it because I was stoned for the entire eighteen months.
Speaker 2: Boy was all hire and the kite. Matter of fact,
Speaker 2: oh here's a fun story. A few years ago I
Speaker 2: went back. I went to Simon Fraser University. I couldn't
Speaker 2: find it. I had no idea where it was because
Speaker 2: I was so ripped during the time I was there.
Speaker 2: But it was. It was American products, back and forth.
Speaker 2: We just there was no difference at all. Their idea
Speaker 2: of terrorism was kind of fun though. Our idea of
Speaker 2: terrorism buildings being blown up. Their idea, and this is
Speaker 2: when I went to school, is the quote terrorists which
Speaker 2: were actually separat as the party was the fl que.
Speaker 2: Their idea was to blow up post office boxes. That
Speaker 2: was it. That was their terrorism. And usually after the
Speaker 2: post man or postwoman cleaned out the box right the
Speaker 2: mail was taken out, then they blew it up. That
Speaker 2: was a big difference. The rest not so much so.
Speaker 2: We are seeing some big boycotts. Is it going to
Speaker 2: affect us? Well, it's going to affect the lumber industry,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. That was tariffs. And is disney World
Speaker 2: going to be affected? I don't know how many Canadians go.
Speaker 2: We don't have to worry about craft Canadian cheese. The
Speaker 2: other thing, Canadian bacon is not Canadian bacon in Canada.
Speaker 2: It's called beck bacon. Just in case you get asked
Speaker 2: on on Jeopardy, you'll know the answer. Uvas No Americans. No. Oh,
Speaker 2: do we have a story. It's a Disneyland story. The
Speaker 2: Disability Access Service DAS, the DAS pass was and is
Speaker 2: for people who have physical disabilities. It used to be
Speaker 2: that it wasn't that hard to get. And my advice
Speaker 2: to people that were going to Disneyland's Disneyland, something that
Speaker 2: I have followed always is there's a Walmart right around
Speaker 2: the corner from Disneyland, very close. Go in there, buy
Speaker 2: one of those collapsible canes. They cost twelve bucks, and
Speaker 2: you walk into Disneyland with a cane and you get
Speaker 2: to the front of the line. And not only have
Speaker 2: I done that, I've told people to do that. And
Speaker 2: of course it worked brilliantly. Now not so much. They've
Speaker 2: made it much harder and to the point where there's
Speaker 2: a lawsuit. There is a San Diego resident, Trisha applied
Speaker 2: for a DAS pass, had to meet with a representative
Speaker 2: of Disney and a DAS application interview, and they solicited
Speaker 2: medical information. What the hell is that? Well, it turned
Speaker 2: out too many people were listening to my advice and
Speaker 2: we're showing up with those collapsible canes and pretending that
Speaker 2: they were disabled. So she sued. It's a class action lawsuit.
Speaker 2: First of all, it's because it's so much more difficult.
Speaker 2: Part of the lawsuit is she wants Disney to revert
Speaker 2: to a previous, less restrictive version of DAS. Back we
Speaker 2: go to the cane. Yeah, baby. She's also looking for damages, restitution,
Speaker 2: the cost of attorney's fees. It's your typical class action suit. Now,
Speaker 2: of course, Disney comes back with Disney offers a broad
Speaker 2: range of effective disabil obility accommodations. Has worked extensively with
Speaker 2: experts to ensure our guests individual needs are properly matched
Speaker 2: with the accommodation they require. Hey, this is about the line.
Speaker 2: It's about how long you wait and line. That's what
Speaker 2: this is about. The rest of it doesn't matter. They
Speaker 2: have interpreters, they have ramps, they have all of this,
Speaker 2: which is I understand. This is great. Disney is great
Speaker 2: in that regard. How about the lines.
Speaker 3: It was so abused, man, you could tell it was
Speaker 3: so abused, and they would bring everyone with them so
Speaker 3: you'd have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I know, you could bring one person, one
Speaker 2: person out you I remember that. I remember I was
Speaker 2: questioned all the time. I was even when I limped,
Speaker 2: I was questioned all the time. Hey, are you really disabled?
Speaker 2: Hit them with a cane. Hit them with a cane
Speaker 2: and say you can't you can't question my disability.
Speaker 3: But think of it this way. If you're in a wheelchair,
Speaker 3: hear me out. If you're in a wheelchair, you're sitting down.
Speaker 3: That's easier in line.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: There's other disabilities, like if you couldn't stand and you
Speaker 3: had a can.
Speaker 2: No. I understand, But it worked out because there is
Speaker 2: a philosophy that people in wheelchairs just go to the
Speaker 2: front of the line. It's just the way it works.
Speaker 2: It's people who are disabled. You want to help them.
Speaker 2: I mean it used to be you ignored them. They
Speaker 2: you know, they were sort of in the closet. Not anymore.
Speaker 2: I mean, the people with disabilities are front and center,
Speaker 2: and disability has become a big issue, and people with
Speaker 2: disabilities should be and have been successful in changing the
Speaker 2: way society views folks with these disabilities. It's just this
Speaker 2: Disney wants people who are really disabled to get that
Speaker 2: dash pass. Bastards. Why would they listen? Stop it. I
Speaker 2: have my cane, I am limping, I am disabled. And
Speaker 2: here's the problem. They want medical information. Disney wants medical information.
Speaker 1: While you're being you're asking for medical exceptions accommodations.
Speaker 3: But wouldn't you worry more about somebody who maybe was
Speaker 3: on the spectrum, a young kid who couldn't stand in line.
Speaker 2: That is, by the way, one of the other ones.
Speaker 2: That is exactly one of the other ones that is allowed.
Speaker 2: But you have you come in with a note from
Speaker 2: your shrink as your kid is screaming, dancing around, punching
Speaker 2: other people in line. The kid has autism and that
Speaker 2: is an issue. I mean now and being serious for
Speaker 2: a moment, the kid has truly autism. Now you know
Speaker 2: that's where on the other where on the spectrum is it?
Speaker 2: My kid has autism. How do you know the kid
Speaker 2: is being quiet right there? Does a kid have to
Speaker 2: start kicking people in line? Or if you're really sophisticated,
Speaker 2: you tell your kid who doesn't have autism to start
Speaker 2: kicking people in line, and we're gonna go to the
Speaker 2: front of the line. This is the reason that Disney
Speaker 2: has implemented this das policy bill.
Speaker 1: It's because of you. Yeah, it used to work, I know,
Speaker 1: but you're taking advantage.
Speaker 2: That's correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that is absolutely correct and wrecking it
Speaker 1: for everybody else.
Speaker 2: That is fine with me.
Speaker 1: You Bill are a dass hole.
Speaker 2: Oh, very strong. All right, we're done with that. Oh,
Speaker 2: we have a lot coming up, all right. Democrats think
Speaker 2: they are a lot smarter than Republicans. Democrats and I
Speaker 2: am not one, nor am i Republican. I am an
Speaker 2: affiliated have been my entire life as a voter. It's
Speaker 2: absolutely true the elitism of Democrats worse smarter than you.
Speaker 2: You guys are all idiots. You don't go to the dentists,
Speaker 2: You go to NASCAR races. Yep, yep, yep. Oh let
Speaker 2: me tell you how wrong, how wrong you are. And
Speaker 2: by the way, this costs elections big time and I'll
Speaker 2: come back with that, let's check in with now, let's
Speaker 2: just bail out for a moment, and we'll come back.
Speaker 2: KFI so slick. That was how I corrected myself, and
Speaker 2: it sounded like a sort of planned Oh damn, I'm good. No,
Speaker 2: this is why I got paid to do KFI. Am
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