Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles
Speaker 1: show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We are at
Speaker 1: the Anaheim White House for Pastathon. Stop clapping, well that's
Speaker 1: what okay. We have one person left to plotting.
Speaker 2: Stop it.
Speaker 1: And we are broadcasting here the entire day right through mo.
Speaker 2: Tonight at ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: If you come this morning, please grab a bagel, grab
Speaker 1: some pastry, some coffee, and real jew bagels and my
Speaker 1: real jew amendment dendum to my contract, which is here.
Speaker 2: And this is real, by the way, that's not stick.
Speaker 2: This is real. And come on by anybody that donates
Speaker 2: one thousand.
Speaker 1: Dollars or more online or hear any company, any individual.
Speaker 2: You get a plug, I'll hore you. I have no
Speaker 2: problem doing that because we have to raise money.
Speaker 1: For Pastathon, A couple of other things, a little bits
Speaker 1: of business. If you're here, you will notice, well he's
Speaker 1: gone right right now. Thank you for your security. Dana
Speaker 1: is here our security guy, and he is Yes, he
Speaker 1: is armed. And if you're gonna come up take pictures
Speaker 1: or ask Neil for an autograph, do it slowly, okay,
Speaker 1: and have both your hands visible.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: You do not want to make fast, furtive moves because
Speaker 1: he'll shoot you in the heart.
Speaker 2: That's his job. Okay, Bruno, who is I'll put you on. Bruno.
Speaker 1: We have you for a couple of segments, so this
Speaker 1: is good news. A couple of things that I want
Speaker 1: to talk about. Chef Bruno created Caterina's Club. When we
Speaker 1: came aboard fourteen years ago, it was two hundred meals
Speaker 1: a night. Today it's five thousand meals a night. It's
Speaker 1: extraordinary and it's because of you.
Speaker 2: It's because of your help. You know, there couldn't happen
Speaker 2: at all. Bruno. I've known you for fifteen years. You
Speaker 2: know what, I have no idea what your last name is.
Speaker 3: Let me think about that. Think is a Serato?
Speaker 2: Serato? Actually I knew that, what Neil?
Speaker 4: How could you not?
Speaker 1: Because it's I want to start that way, So Bruno,
Speaker 1: we know how it started.
Speaker 2: We've talked about that story. I want to talk about you.
Speaker 1: And the great literally the great American immigrant story.
Speaker 2: When did you come here? How did you get started?
Speaker 1: And now you own literally one of the high end
Speaker 1: best restaurants in southern California, and the food here is spectacular.
Speaker 2: I eat here probably every couple of months. Well now more.
Speaker 1: And I used to drive an hour and a half
Speaker 1: to come here. Bruno, tell me your story nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: I came to America to learn English. They don't come
Speaker 1: here to stay. I just want to learn English because
Speaker 1: speak French, speak Italian. If I learn English or go
Speaker 1: walk in the resort area, I'm not.
Speaker 4: Going so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how's your English doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, doughnuts be mine. But that's that's what happened.
Speaker 5: But I been working since the age of fourteen in
Speaker 5: the w restaurant business, and I was bored. After two weeks.
Speaker 5: I was in California. The mask of my sister said,
Speaker 5: is an idiot?
Speaker 3: Can't do? He said, well, you don't speak English.
Speaker 5: But they just opened a French restaurant right here in
Speaker 5: bre like fifteen minutes from here. I went to apply
Speaker 5: and they say, yeah, you'll be working at wrestling for
Speaker 5: seven years, but you don't.
Speaker 3: Speak the language. First job you can give us the dishwasher.
Speaker 5: And I say, oh yeah, I was happy wash dishes,
Speaker 5: buzzboy waiter. Captain Metrod in a five years time and
Speaker 5: the year's number seven.
Speaker 3: The wrestlan was for sales.
Speaker 5: From an amazing man named Jim Stovo, you own a
Speaker 5: lot of Stovolin motel in the area which diesel on
Speaker 5: that but turing the years for California Venture, et cetera.
Speaker 5: And when he came to well, when I finally he
Speaker 5: was for sales, I came to have a meeting with him. Said, okay, well, bro,
Speaker 5: I'm standing the restaurant. I said how much? He said
Speaker 5: million dollar and he asked me how much you have.
Speaker 5: I was so embarrassed, and I said, I don't have
Speaker 5: any money.
Speaker 1: See, I thought you came in with a really healthy
Speaker 1: down payment and you were the highest paid dishwasher on
Speaker 1: the planet.
Speaker 5: I ways should have happened that way and then, but
Speaker 5: you know what I don't know. I always try for
Speaker 5: walk and never get scared of any tea. And when
Speaker 5: he told me the amount of money he wanted, I said, okay, well,
Speaker 5: it's good to.
Speaker 3: Kick r ass and I were to work out of the.
Speaker 5: Office, but instead you give me a handshake, and he said,
Speaker 5: I like your honesty, I will help you. Aided loan
Speaker 5: me money to beginning. Was able to get ab a
Speaker 5: loan et cetera, et cetera, refinanced five time by now
Speaker 5: because between five coh blah blah blah. But it was
Speaker 5: always say America is a dream come true to me
Speaker 5: because a line of opportunity was to me. In no
Speaker 5: way I would own a restaurant like this in Italy
Speaker 5: if I didn't have rich family. And then I on
Speaker 5: a wrestaurant like this with two hundred dollars in my
Speaker 5: pocket thanks to a gentleman named Jimstovo, which I will
Speaker 5: never forget, unfortunately past a year ago, but a good
Speaker 5: friend to the family. Matter of fact, his wife Bobby,
Speaker 5: she's on my body director of Katerina's Club, because I
Speaker 5: asked us that you need to be with me and
Speaker 5: Katerina's Club because we thought your help a boy won't
Speaker 5: be here. And that's why my store of America a
Speaker 5: lot of work. I was talked to a friend of
Speaker 5: yesterday two days ago at the front desk. We used
Speaker 5: to be a little sofa when I come to work
Speaker 5: at seven o'clock in the morning. I was here at
Speaker 5: two am. That I mean tike them in the hours,
Speaker 5: but I could not go home. I was so tired.
Speaker 5: I slept on the sofa in a restaurant and upstairs.
Speaker 5: The battom upstairs was my shower when on the sink,
Speaker 5: and that's my first year there. Two years will get
Speaker 5: the restaurant. It was a lots of hot walk but
Speaker 5: it pay off.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean this place is absolutely gorgeous. And it
Speaker 1: burnt down when a year ago, two.
Speaker 2: Years ago was seven years ago, burnt down?
Speaker 1: My god, I mean, jez and I remember Bruno was
Speaker 1: outside and cry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was crying. He was sobbing.
Speaker 1: And so Bruno, when you came over in nineteen eighty,
Speaker 1: how do you say cayote in French?
Speaker 2: Coyot cout. Okay, fair enough, we're coming back.
Speaker 1: Coyote is what he came in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna come back. Oh and I'm gonna give.
Speaker 1: You some totals by the way of where we are
Speaker 1: right now, and we just started, of course, and I'll
Speaker 1: give you totals.
Speaker 2: We'll come back.
Speaker 1: I want to continue on with Bruno and his story
Speaker 1: and talk a little bit about Katerina's club and how
Speaker 1: it got from two hundred a night to five thousand
Speaker 1: meals a night. That's an amazing story in and of itself.
Speaker 1: So Bruno's story is tremendous. It is the true great immigrant.
Speaker 2: Story here in the United States.
Speaker 1: This is who you look at when you talk about
Speaker 1: America being a land of opportunity, because it really is.
Speaker 2: We'll be back.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 6: six forty.
Speaker 2: We are at the Anaheim White House pastafon.
Speaker 1: We do it every year raising money for Katarina's Club,
Speaker 1: founded by Chef Bruno, and we invite you to come
Speaker 1: down or go online at KFI AM sixty dot com
Speaker 1: slash pastathon. Please donate, and anybody that donates a thousand
Speaker 1: dollars or more, I will plug whatever you want.
Speaker 2: I couldn't care less. You get a plug and you
Speaker 2: can do it online. You can come here.
Speaker 1: We have big ols and we have pastries and donuts
Speaker 1: and coffee, so please come buy on your way to work,
Speaker 1: and we'd love to see you. By the way, we
Speaker 1: just got an anonymous donation of five thousand dollars five
Speaker 1: that you can applaud.
Speaker 2: That one you can applaud.
Speaker 1: So I want to do a plug for mister anonymous.
Speaker 1: I'd like to plug his business, which you'll never know about,
Speaker 1: and his family which you'll never know their names.
Speaker 2: And just thank you for that.
Speaker 1: So come on by a couple of ways you can
Speaker 1: donate until the eighth. I can go to any Smart
Speaker 1: and Final store donated the counter.
Speaker 2: I did that, It's up on Instagram. Also, go to
Speaker 2: any Wendy's.
Speaker 1: And you will be able to if you donate five
Speaker 1: dollars or more get a coupon for a lot more
Speaker 1: than five dollars Wendy's.
Speaker 2: And you want to do real quickly before we get.
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Speaker 7: are doing a give back event today only until eight pm.
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Speaker 1: When we talk about exotic foods, they bring in, they
Speaker 1: even bring in and no other story has this water
Speaker 1: buffalo penis.
Speaker 2: It is one of the most delicate.
Speaker 7: All right, Chef Bruno, I'm trying to think of what
Speaker 7: that would look like.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what it looks like. But it's it's
Speaker 2: a big steak there, you know. Okay, let's talk about
Speaker 2: the past, all right, So.
Speaker 1: Bruno, who started Katerina's Club And it's really a hell
Speaker 1: of a story. We've done this before, but it's worth
Speaker 1: repeating every single year. So Bruno Bruno very quickly talk
Speaker 1: about how your mom's involvement and you got started, and
Speaker 1: then where it's gone and how you started cooking for
Speaker 1: these kids.
Speaker 3: Two thousand and five.
Speaker 5: Mom here in vacation from Italy, Verona, beautiful City, we
Speaker 5: went to an online boys girls club in an afternoon.
Speaker 5: Young kid Bill seven years old, eating potato chips. The
Speaker 5: item Mike Baker said that probably is the only dinner,
Speaker 5: because that kid probably live.
Speaker 3: In a motel room.
Speaker 5: At that point, I no idea what motel room mean
Speaker 5: and said what that means? They said people family lived there,
Speaker 5: and not just a nightstand. It's just like family lived
Speaker 5: there for years. Translated to mom. First thing she said,
Speaker 5: but why don't you feed in pasta if it's only
Speaker 5: eat potato chips? Because in the motel is no kitchen.
Speaker 5: His mom cannot even cook if you want to the
Speaker 5: mid of a vending machine fifteen cents gets or something else.
Speaker 5: And that's the first time, and that was not the
Speaker 5: last time, because every day say that, every single.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you started, how many kids did you feed?
Speaker 2: Day one? How many meals?
Speaker 5: There was the first kid, but I remember bringing extra
Speaker 5: because I knew it was more kids. I mean maybe ten, fifteen,
Speaker 5: twenty thirty, And they went very fast to three hundred.
Speaker 1: We got we got a board fourteen years ago when
Speaker 1: it was two hundred yeahs.
Speaker 5: And from that point on I was just doing Anaheim
Speaker 5: because you know, you don't think about the rest. So yeah,
Speaker 5: and Anaheim Boys Girls Club. Although doing only the Boys
Speaker 5: Girls Club in Anaheim. But people start to talk about
Speaker 5: Gina's club feeding children, and people start to call me,
Speaker 5: can we get some pasta?
Speaker 3: Can we get some past them?
Speaker 5: Every time a boys girls club would call us, we
Speaker 5: will say yes. You know, every time we have a
Speaker 5: school with low income kids, we will say yes. And
Speaker 5: from one location one city, today we are in one
Speaker 5: another and twenty one another in thirty one location in
Speaker 5: Turi City in oscant I mean they went like you said,
Speaker 5: two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred. But I
Speaker 5: was not even counting because I'm not their count me
Speaker 5: in here sol. But the girls in the office for
Speaker 5: the accounting in the are too. And when we start
Speaker 5: to get from a thousands a day, I was like, wow,
Speaker 5: it was easy to double also because before we're just
Speaker 5: playing pasta with tomato sauce. But when we start to
Speaker 5: add a chicken, the plit double because there's two meal.
Speaker 5: And when you added the bread and the vegetable and
Speaker 5: the salad, sometimes that mean you triple the pasta. I
Speaker 5: mean we went to from one to three four five
Speaker 5: thousand a day, very easy by adding item and a
Speaker 5: plate for the kids. And this year and none of
Speaker 5: the people remember we had the big celebration was out
Speaker 5: ten million meals so already that I mean when the
Speaker 5: replies thank you, it was like wow, you know, like
Speaker 5: so many years, ten million already. That's a huge compliments
Speaker 5: for Katerina's club. Mama Katerina, because I keep saying, and
Speaker 5: she didn't tell me, won't just fitting pasta the day?
Speaker 3: And now I don't want to. I just I didn't
Speaker 3: even think about us.
Speaker 5: It's because mom loved children, and it's even we're very poor,
Speaker 5: we have friends come in the house.
Speaker 3: There always was something.
Speaker 1: I want to point something out about Bruno that he
Speaker 1: does not talk about very often. I mean, the awards
Speaker 1: that he has gotten are just astronomical. And he is
Speaker 1: actually Sir Bruno because he was knighted by either the
Speaker 1: government or the royal family of both of them, both
Speaker 1: of them. And I was here when the uniting ceremony
Speaker 1: took place, and he came in in medieval like sixteenth
Speaker 1: century Italian garb. You've seen those Renaissance pictures, those paintings.
Speaker 1: He came in on the biggest horse you have ever
Speaker 1: seen in your life, and he had never been on
Speaker 1: a horse in his life.
Speaker 2: And you saw someone so frightened, so scared. It was, Oh,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 5: I don't know by way, though it helped me out
Speaker 5: to come down, I.
Speaker 2: Know, and so I mean here of the year from CNN,
Speaker 2: and I mean just it's it's astounding.
Speaker 1: Some of the awards are here at the rest a
Speaker 1: small portion of the awards, and when you come in
Speaker 1: you see that. And I strongly recommend coming here to
Speaker 1: the Anaheim White House. By the way, if this was
Speaker 1: crap food, I wouldn't say come in. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: it's crap food because Bruno's a friend. But it's some
Speaker 1: of the best food you will ever ever have it.
Speaker 2: It's that good. It is that good. The Anaheim White House.
Speaker 1: Here in Anaheim, Bruno always a pleasure. Okay, so on,
Speaker 1: behalf of Bruno, on, behalf of the kids. Please come down,
Speaker 1: donate some money, bring pasta and sauce, real quickly before
Speaker 1: we bail. We're doing this at the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: But we didn't do this when we at the top
Speaker 1: of the hour. And this is just the start. The
Speaker 1: total was twenty six thousand dollars and five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: of pasta and sauce, and that is literally the smallest
Speaker 1: this We start early, early, and this just builds and builds, builds,
Speaker 1: And just to show how proud we are at caf I,
Speaker 1: we are fully fifty percent of the budget of Katarina's club.
Speaker 7: And so we're that's all of you folks giving and
Speaker 7: donating and it's huge.
Speaker 1: And by the way, all of you that are here,
Speaker 1: not only do you get bagels, et cetera, Bruno is
Speaker 1: going to give you all of you a dinner for ten.
Speaker 4: As long as you live in a motel.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And as I said, my friend said, Zelman's mintyam Mint,
Speaker 1: mint mouths, Mint team min many min Yeah, mintiam.
Speaker 2: Men're the spokesperson. I know, I'm their spokesperson.
Speaker 1: Best money they never spent, as I said, And this
Speaker 1: is in Anthony and Lauren, my friends who own it,
Speaker 1: this morning on your behalf. And you don't know this,
Speaker 1: I have said. You're donating five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of mints.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of mints. By the way, they're going.
Speaker 1: About bankrupt, but talk about this, yeah, talk about bankrupt.
Speaker 6: All right, guys, you're listening to Bill Handle on demand
Speaker 6: from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 7: Stop it no wait, you know give him love didn't Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's like the wicked Witch of the West. He starts
Speaker 7: to burn elty. Yeah, I hate applause, I really do.
Speaker 1: I just want to let you know that's uh. I've
Speaker 1: always hated applause and because it's I have no self
Speaker 1: esteem and I know you're faking it.
Speaker 8: Wow, Lindsay, thanks for coming out, everybody that no and
Speaker 8: we are here at pastafon Anaheim White House raising money
Speaker 8: pasta and sauce for the kids, the motel kids.
Speaker 2: Now it expanded to twenty five.
Speaker 1: Thousand meals a week that Chef Bruno serves through boys
Speaker 1: and girls clubs, and it's all over the country. Actually
Speaker 1: that he started, I mean this, the ball is really
Speaker 1: rolling and so please come out. We have Big OL's pastries, donuts,
Speaker 1: all of it, and we will feed you. Anybody comes
Speaker 1: in or online donates one thousand dollars or more. You
Speaker 1: get a plug, a serious plug, and so your business yourself.
Speaker 2: I don't care. Three go ahead. Three ways to do it, okay.
Speaker 2: One is you.
Speaker 1: Come on out and donate here. We got credit cards
Speaker 1: also if you want to write a check. Also you
Speaker 1: can go to any smart and final through the eighth
Speaker 1: of December donate right there on the counter, which I did,
Speaker 1: and you'll see my donation.
Speaker 2: And you can go to.
Speaker 1: Any Wendy's and donate there five dollars or more and
Speaker 1: you get a coupon worth a lot more than five dollars.
Speaker 7: The coupon book is about fourteen dollars worth of stuff
Speaker 7: or so for five bucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. And also well else it was one
Speaker 2: more I was going to.
Speaker 1: Bring yep, yeah, those are the three a while for it,
Speaker 1: which he's going to talk about in a minute.
Speaker 2: That's Neil. I'm pointed in him, but this is radio,
Speaker 2: so he didn't see it. And I just go to
Speaker 2: Pastathon and it's our website. Hold on, kay, if I
Speaker 2: got it, I'm reading it.
Speaker 1: KFI that's the station KFIAM six forty dot com slash Pastathon.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: That's Michelle by the way, who has put all of
Speaker 1: this together. And Michelle is the executive producer of the
Speaker 1: station now and was my producer for twenty five years,
Speaker 1: twenty six years.
Speaker 8: Count it every day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And incidentally, if I don't read it, I blow it.
Speaker 1: And Neil will tell you there have been times when
Speaker 1: I have mispronounced my name on the air.
Speaker 2: So they write it down for me, just like I have.
Speaker 2: If you come here, you'll see that.
Speaker 1: I have my commercials here, I have what's coming up next,
Speaker 1: I have the stories. My name, yeah, your name, yes,
Speaker 1: yes name, yes, there it is chef Bruno and the
Speaker 1: story we're doing right now.
Speaker 7: For fifteen years. You just had your daughter's wedding here
Speaker 7: and you're like, what's your last name again?
Speaker 1: Yeah, my daughter got married here because well she's been
Speaker 1: coming here since she's been a small one. I've been
Speaker 1: coming here for what fifteen years now? And it is
Speaker 1: The restaurant is absolutely superb.
Speaker 2: I mean this is.
Speaker 1: Really high end, high end stuff and not that expensive.
Speaker 1: I mean it's moderately priced. Unless you're a homeless person,
Speaker 1: then it's really expensive. But if you're a motel kid,
Speaker 1: you get it for free. See how that works?
Speaker 4: Wow, your compassion?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what we're we're not gonna be able
Speaker 2: to do this story of the top.
Speaker 1: Democrats say they won't just trump proof California. They're gonna
Speaker 1: make it affordable again. This is a state legislature that why.
Speaker 4: Didn't they make it affordable before he ran?
Speaker 1: That's a good point news, because well, tell me it's
Speaker 1: not political news and the top Democratic leaders in the
Speaker 1: state legislatures say they are going to make California affordable.
Speaker 2: They're going to.
Speaker 1: Bring down housing prices. How the hell do you do that.
Speaker 1: They are going to deal with homelessness. Oh, yeah, that
Speaker 1: works out. They are going to help gas prices, energy
Speaker 1: prices being brought under control. How do you do that
Speaker 1: without spending just a billion dollars.
Speaker 7: Well, they're looking in alternative fuel like his hair. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's right, and all the oil in it.
Speaker 1: And then alternative fuels, which that's actually flattened out. EV sales,
Speaker 1: for example, have flattened out. And so in order for example,
Speaker 1: to promote evs which President Biden has really been promoting,
Speaker 1: which will not happen under President Trump's tenure because he's
Speaker 1: not a big fan of alternative energy, I mean the
Speaker 1: oil and gas. I mean that's his world. It's you know,
Speaker 1: I have an EV, and I tell you we don't
Speaker 1: have enough charging stations, not even close.
Speaker 4: And I've talked at least two out there in the
Speaker 4: parking lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can come by. That's the other thing. Anaheim
Speaker 2: White House right out there.
Speaker 1: If you have an EV, come on out and charge
Speaker 1: and charge yourself.
Speaker 2: With bagels and coffee. I'm so clever.
Speaker 7: Hey, why don't you do the well, I'm going to
Speaker 7: segue off of your cleverness. Yeah, to remind people that
Speaker 7: our friends at the beautiful Hilton Anaheim took care of
Speaker 7: our crew. The accommodations for our KFI Pasa Fon crew
Speaker 7: have been provided by Hilton Anaheim four star hotel, featuring
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Speaker 7: So you're coming out to visit Disneyland, you're good to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be talking a lot Abouton and our
Speaker 1: sponsors today because takes out those those kids have to
Speaker 1: eat coming up, and we're gonna do this, uh, this
Speaker 1: topic why Walt Disney or the Disney Company's cruise line
Speaker 1: is a bright spot for the company. And I took
Speaker 1: and you guys didn't know this. I took a Disney cruise.
Speaker 1: I did when when my kids were seven or eight
Speaker 1: years old, we took a Disney cruise.
Speaker 2: It was fabulous.
Speaker 1: Right, we took a Disney cruise, and I will share
Speaker 1: with you what happened. Some of the stuff they do brilliantly,
Speaker 1: and then there's a real problem they have, I mean
Speaker 1: a real fundamental.
Speaker 4: Problem because people are happy on the boat.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 7: I thought you were gonna say you took the cruise
Speaker 7: when you were a kid, and well there's a great
Speaker 7: and there's a great story, a birthday story I want
Speaker 7: to share with you.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF. I
Speaker 6: am six forty.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for well, for those of you
Speaker 1: that are here at the Anaheim White House. We are
Speaker 1: broadcasting all day here KFI, raising money, raising pasta and sauce,
Speaker 1: or collecting pasta and sauce.
Speaker 2: You donating pasta and sauce.
Speaker 1: For the kids Bruno with through Catarina's Club, the charity
Speaker 1: he founded now feeds five thousand kids every night.
Speaker 2: And so it's it asks please extraordinary. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can hear everything that's going
Speaker 1: on in the audience where they're all talking to each
Speaker 1: other and completely ignoring the show. It's actually it's inspiring, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 7: They're connecting with each other, they're bonding over their collective
Speaker 7: KFI experience. Thank you for joining us for this coffee
Speaker 7: clatch and not giving a rodent's home.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true. Okay.
Speaker 1: Now at the top of the hour, when we come
Speaker 1: into the hour, I'm gonna do total of pasta and sauce.
Speaker 1: And this is just the start. By this afternoon, Well,
Speaker 1: last year we raised what.
Speaker 2: One point three to one point four million dollars were
Speaker 2: that you can applaud for.
Speaker 1: Well, we raised, you donated, and it feeds a lot
Speaker 1: of kids, feeds a lot of kids.
Speaker 7: Okay, and you know you we just had a celebrity sighting.
Speaker 7: Josh Freeze, the drummer for the Foo Fighters, just walked
Speaker 7: up the buddy of mine and a fan of the
Speaker 7: Bill Handle show.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's impressive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is not a grunge you know, Garage bay On,
Speaker 1: not the Foo Fighters.
Speaker 2: In any case, here's what I want to do, Amy
Speaker 2: and Neil and I are here and I want I'm
Speaker 2: going to do a topic.
Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa this morning we're doing not done. This is
Speaker 1: a It's about Disney's cruise line and they are doubling
Speaker 1: the number of cruise ships to thirteen by twenty thirty.
Speaker 1: It takes three years to build a cruise ship, so
Speaker 1: right there, and they're doubling it. And as I said,
Speaker 1: and Amy was kind of shocked. When my kids were little,
Speaker 1: eight nine years old, we did a Disney cruise and
Speaker 1: I have to tell you it's pretty good. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. The kids enjoyed it. But there
Speaker 1: is one fundamental problem.
Speaker 2: With the Disney cruise. And I'm assuming it still happens.
Speaker 4: There's mice on the ship.
Speaker 2: No, that's very funny. No.
Speaker 1: No, the one fundamental problem which I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're ever going to be able to fix. Kids kids
Speaker 1: are on that damn cruise. And I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how many times I've said to parents, get your little
Speaker 1: rug rats out of here. I do not want to
Speaker 1: hear them see them crying when I've spent all these
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars. The food was great, by the way,
Speaker 1: the ambiance was terrific. I mean, they know it's Disney,
Speaker 1: and Disney does stuff like this very well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a very brilliant who.
Speaker 1: These guys put it together, because what it does is
Speaker 1: increase the brand they have, the characters they have, Pixar
Speaker 1: and Marvel and they put it all together, and it
Speaker 1: is again the problem kids.
Speaker 2: And you have to.
Speaker 1: Really love kids a lot. And I don't even love
Speaker 1: my kids. Matter of fact, I don't even like them
Speaker 1: very much, and so it's real problematic.
Speaker 2: But it is.
Speaker 1: I'm going to throw you a figure about this, and
Speaker 1: this is kind of stunning. It is at this point
Speaker 1: the most successful part of Disney.
Speaker 2: The theme park has gone down.
Speaker 1: It's or flat the number of people that are going
Speaker 1: because wow, people think it's too expensive. There's a shocker
Speaker 1: here is what's going on. It brings in about three
Speaker 1: billion dollars a year, the cruise line, and you would
Speaker 1: think that's an insane business. Look how successful, Look how
Speaker 1: big it is. That's three percent of Disney's revenue.
Speaker 2: Wow, at three billion dollars. So have you guys? Would
Speaker 2: you go?
Speaker 1: And by the way, three it's two to three times
Speaker 1: more expensive, of course because it's Disney, and people.
Speaker 2: Don't think it is it really? I don't think, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's pretty, it's pretty pricey.
Speaker 7: I know people who have gone who love it and
Speaker 7: say it is the value is amazing and we're planning
Speaker 7: on going on one.
Speaker 4: Well, and you have Max.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't have kids, so I would be less
Speaker 8: inclined to go on a Disney cruise because of that.
Speaker 8: Because of that, like I want to I want to
Speaker 8: be around adults.
Speaker 2: They actually do a pretty good job.
Speaker 1: There's an adult section where adults can go who love Disney.
Speaker 2: And they actually do segregate it. I love love cruises.
Speaker 2: I've been. I've been on thirty five cruises. You have,
Speaker 2: I have Oh my gosh, used to go on two
Speaker 2: cruises a year.
Speaker 1: Not so much anymore because I am connected to someone
Speaker 1: who hates.
Speaker 7: Cruises and so she's under seventy yeah, because she's like,
Speaker 7: you know what.
Speaker 1: When I started cruising, I was in my early thirties
Speaker 1: and I was an eighty five year old Jewish man
Speaker 1: that that would walk around mem Ven's the pool and
Speaker 1: it was the food is fabulous, the value is great.
Speaker 7: And well, you're spilkas you constantly have to move and
Speaker 7: on a ship you don't have to unpack and pack.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's really I cruising is it's growing by
Speaker 1: leaps and bounds and it is one of the best
Speaker 1: values that are out there for a vacation because it's
Speaker 1: all included.
Speaker 2: The oh, it's just terrific. Okay, we're done with that.
Speaker 2: Coming up, I'm going to give you the totals top.
Speaker 1: Of the hour of what we have raised so far
Speaker 1: in terms of money for Catterina's Club than the amount
Speaker 1: of pasta and sauce. Last year we were able to
Speaker 1: get fifty tons of costa and sauce donated to Katerina's Club.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is serious time.
Speaker 1: That's like one hundred thousand pounds.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what it is. One hundred thousand pounds. Look
Speaker 2: at me with the map. Yeah wow. True.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna come back, give you some totals and
Speaker 1: also talk.
Speaker 2: Oh, Silano is going to be with us.
Speaker 1: He is the general manager here and we're going to
Speaker 1: hour out the restaurant here because.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's also the VP of the of Katerine's Club.
Speaker 2: Yeah he is.
Speaker 1: And the fact that he is Bruno's nephew has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with it.
Speaker 2: Will come back.
Speaker 4: He's a smart guy. He runs a tight shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah he do. Incidental with a smile, Yeah he does.
Speaker 2: He's a good guy.
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