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Speaker 1: Bill Handle.
Speaker 2: It's already a Thursday, August fifteenth.
Speaker 3: Hello, one and all.
Speaker 2: As we move into the show, and.
Speaker 3: As always, politics are really ramping up.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna spend a couple of minutes talking about
Speaker 2: that lawsuit against Disney. Oh man, do I have Disney stories?
Speaker 2: You know, I work for Disney for a period of time.
Speaker 2: And believe me, there's a reason that call it Mausovich
Speaker 2: there it is.
Speaker 4: Why Why?
Speaker 3: Why? Because they do well?
Speaker 5: Why do you start the morning with that, with references
Speaker 5: like that? And why do you disparage one of the
Speaker 5: last bastions of wonderful entertainment.
Speaker 3: I'm not arguing that it's not wonderful entertainment, Neil.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying is that it is a well,
Speaker 2: first of all, it's a company that's probably more litigous
Speaker 2: than any other company out there, that's for starters, and
Speaker 2: that is the truth. And it's in some ways it's
Speaker 2: very good. In some ways it's very bad.
Speaker 3: They are.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, I'll we'll do a story for you
Speaker 2: later on a wrongful death suit that has been filed
Speaker 2: against Disney. And the response that Disney has is, well,
Speaker 2: it's more lawyer's fault than Disney's fault. So anyway, as
Speaker 2: I disparage Disney, keep in mind I disparage everything and
Speaker 2: everybody notice to Magic Mountain, that's Gangland.
Speaker 3: It's good. What else can I say? Huh? I just.
Speaker 2: All right, that's fine, Hampy Capper. Everything is wonderful, Everything
Speaker 2: is great.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: I've changed the show completely. Now it's all kumbaya. Let's
Speaker 2: eat bushes. You know.
Speaker 3: That's uh you know? Okay? Quick?
Speaker 2: Hello Neil, Hello, Hi Bill, Hi oh. I have to
Speaker 2: share with you, by the way, all of you. Neil,
Speaker 2: who broadcasts from the house many times and he's at
Speaker 2: home today. Behind him, yeah, I guess you have a
Speaker 2: green screen. Is that what you have behind you?
Speaker 4: Neil, for lack of a better explanation, Yes.
Speaker 3: Sir, okay.
Speaker 2: So he puts stuff up behind him, like what day
Speaker 2: is it hump day? And he puts the camel up
Speaker 2: there and today and I have not seen this. And
Speaker 2: it's a sign that says, sure happy it's Thursday. Okay, now,
Speaker 2: sure happy it's Thursday.
Speaker 3: It's a line for.
Speaker 2: Each word and the first letter is in red.
Speaker 3: Now is that an acronym for that phrase? I don't know.
Speaker 5: Oh, sure happy it's Thursday? Okay, Mars Friday. I mean
Speaker 5: that's nothing but you and I okay, Saturday.
Speaker 3: That's fair, all right, that's fair a right. By the way,
Speaker 3: does Disney advertise on here on the station?
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 4: We do giveaways and the like.
Speaker 3: Sure, well, I know I understand that.
Speaker 2: So we do have a relationship with Disney absolutely, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: For the record, whatever I say disparaging about Disney, I
Speaker 2: take back.
Speaker 3: I sincerely apologize.
Speaker 2: I am so sorry that I said it. It is satire.
Speaker 2: It is me being over the top. You can tell
Speaker 2: me when I'm done sucking up, or do I just
Speaker 2: keep on going?
Speaker 6: What are you doing?
Speaker 3: Keep going?
Speaker 2: I'd say, Amy, Amy, who is of course a Disney freak.
Speaker 2: We have two Disney fanatics here on the show, Amy
Speaker 2: and and.
Speaker 6: What I even have a Disney shirt on today?
Speaker 2: You do.
Speaker 3: Have a Disney shirt.
Speaker 6: You have two things, D and D Disney's and Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, fair enough, she's wearing a D.
Speaker 4: It could be their first.
Speaker 3: Do they give you?
Speaker 2: For example, when you buy an annual pass, is there
Speaker 2: a number on it? Do you have some kind of number?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, I was looking at a tattoo on your arm.
Speaker 6: I do not have any tattoos.
Speaker 2: Okay, cono. Good morning Bill, and uh, I know it's
Speaker 2: and good morning, Hi Bill. I know it's We've already started.
Speaker 2: It's only uh six.
Speaker 3: O nine and we're on our way. I'm sorry works there,
Speaker 3: I know ye.
Speaker 2: Hey. By the way, I think in many ways, I
Speaker 2: think Disney is one of the most extraordinary companies.
Speaker 3: In the world. And I mean that, uh, they.
Speaker 2: Are world leaders and several different categories. For example, do
Speaker 2: you know that companies, companies that have lines where people
Speaker 2: line up cues at the theme park?
Speaker 3: Companies all over the world come.
Speaker 2: To Disney to study how what Disney does with crowd control.
Speaker 3: They do it like nobody else. On the planet.
Speaker 5: Oh, a buddy of mine is the festival director for Coachella,
Speaker 5: and when they were starting, he went. He's also a
Speaker 5: big Disney fan. He went and sat and watched how
Speaker 5: they clean Disneyland and used that as a model.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy clean, by the way.
Speaker 2: And that's a podcast that I want to put together,
Speaker 2: and that is lawsuits against Disney, because that is fascinating stuff.
Speaker 2: Going back seriously, having looked at Disney lawsuits for a
Speaker 2: very long time, they are a world apart in good
Speaker 2: ways and bad ways. Are pioneers and the other side too.
Speaker 3: You should know.
Speaker 5: This because IP intellectual property. If you have trademarks in
Speaker 5: the light, if you don't defend them, even the smallest one, I.
Speaker 3: Know they yes, no, I know that.
Speaker 2: For example, the little childcare centers, the gual who has
Speaker 2: six kids at her home and painted Mickey on the.
Speaker 3: Wall, ceasing desist lawsuit.
Speaker 4: They have to.
Speaker 5: Okay, oh, then they can't enforce the big one.
Speaker 3: Okay, well that's not true, but uh okay, it was.
Speaker 4: We used to.
Speaker 5: I used to manage all of our trademarks here at
Speaker 5: the station. Okay, you're just a Meani yeah Miami.
Speaker 3: So anyway, I lost it.
Speaker 2: I lost it against Disney is just and that's coming
Speaker 2: up at seven to twenty.
Speaker 3: You don't want to miss that.
Speaker 2: Let's do it handle on the news, everybody, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna get a little bit more optimistic possibly on the show.
Speaker 3: UT's Amy, Neil and me lead.
Speaker 2: Sorry, what goes up must come okay, life the cyclical inflation?
Speaker 3: Did he hit nine percent under Joe Biden's watch?
Speaker 2: It is now under three percent, which now we're talking
Speaker 2: about reasonable inflation, exactly where the Fed wants it to be.
Speaker 3: But the politics of it is that inflation.
Speaker 2: Well, Trump is blaming the Biden administration, saying yesterday inflation
Speaker 2: is out of control, which is not true.
Speaker 3: However, taking.
Speaker 2: Taking not so much the blame, which of course no
Speaker 2: president ever does, but taking the credit for inflation going
Speaker 2: down also doesn't work either. Actually, a president has very
Speaker 2: little to do with inflation and certainly nothing to do
Speaker 2: with the Fed.
Speaker 3: Dealing with inflation. So good news on the inflation front,
Speaker 3: very good news.
Speaker 7: Let's bring those prices down. Spinking of good news. The
Speaker 7: Biden administration has announced that it has negotiated Medicare discounts
Speaker 7: on the top ten drugs, the most expensive drugs that
Speaker 7: are used to treat blood clots, cancer, heart disease, diabetes.
Speaker 7: They are like eloquists and Jaradians that you see zerelto
Speaker 7: a lot of the names you're familiar with. They didn't
Speaker 7: say how much the individual drugs are going to cost
Speaker 7: when the discounts kick in, but say the negotiations would
Speaker 7: save Medicare itself six billion dollars when the price cuts
Speaker 7: are implemented, and they're expected to take effect not until
Speaker 7: twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it gives a chance.
Speaker 2: I don't know why it takes so long to just
Speaker 2: change the price of these drugs. I mean, you're not
Speaker 2: changing manufacturing, you're not changing distribution.
Speaker 7: They got to change all the little stickers on all
Speaker 7: the little bottles they have the price on them.
Speaker 2: Well how about some news. So you sell those out
Speaker 2: and they put new ones on. Notice in that list
Speaker 2: is not Sialis or viagra.
Speaker 7: You know is that?
Speaker 6: Well can't you get viagra for like really cheap already anymore?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah you can.
Speaker 2: And then people figured out that, you know, it's very
Speaker 2: hard to stoop in two bathtubs sitting outside in an
Speaker 2: open field.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 3: Commercial, I know, we just avoid they're sex for you.
Speaker 2: You ever had sex in a bathtub where the other
Speaker 2: person is in another bathtub right next to you?
Speaker 3: I haven't. I tried. I negotiated it, but it was
Speaker 3: just too expensive.
Speaker 5: Manush thought it was Manusha, but it wasn't. Columbia President
Speaker 5: Manus Chafinque steps down months after protests over Israel Hamas
Speaker 5: war gripped the campus. She said in a letter, this
Speaker 5: period has taken a considerable toll on my family, as
Speaker 5: it has for others in our community. And she said
Speaker 5: over the summer, I've been able to reflect and have
Speaker 5: decided that my moving on at this point would be best,
Speaker 5: would best enable Columbia to traverse the challenges.
Speaker 2: So here is the question. She is over the summer,
Speaker 2: she's been able to reflect. Now I don't know exactly
Speaker 2: what she said. I don't know. She's part of the
Speaker 2: group that wouldn't condemn the statement that the Israelis are
Speaker 2: committing genocide.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I believe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think she did.
Speaker 2: And therefore, and when she was asked, she goes, it
Speaker 2: depends on the context. You can in some cases you
Speaker 2: can say genocide is okay.
Speaker 3: Huh. So now that's coming down.
Speaker 2: One of the things about about what's going on with
Speaker 2: the protests, and the protests are overwhelming, and they are
Speaker 2: the country, and there's a lot of anti Semitism out there.
Speaker 2: But you know, the entire concept that Jews are ever
Speaker 2: powerful and they control a lot of the media, and
Speaker 2: they are a group of people that have a lot
Speaker 2: more power than their population.
Speaker 3: You know that myth.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely true.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 6: Bring it on.
Speaker 7: Minnesota Governor Tim Waalds said yesterday he has agreed to
Speaker 7: participate in a vice presidential debate on CBS News.
Speaker 6: On October first.
Speaker 7: CBS News posted its invitation to Wals and jd Vance yesterday.
Speaker 7: Walls responded and said see October first, JD jd Vance
Speaker 7: hasn't committed to it yet. He actually said he thinks
Speaker 7: that they should do more than one debate. He wants
Speaker 7: to look them over, make sure that everything's good to go,
Speaker 7: and he fully expects to accept the invitation.
Speaker 3: I mean, they have to negotiate the terms.
Speaker 2: I think much like you know Trump, but I didn't
Speaker 2: want a debate unless he was in front of a
Speaker 2: Fox audience and only on Fox.
Speaker 3: And then he.
Speaker 2: Backed down on that, as he should have, because you
Speaker 2: don't want audiences at all anymore in these debates because
Speaker 2: they're too biased and the moderators can't control them and
Speaker 2: they burst in applause, and the moderators won't turn around,
Speaker 2: say the next person that interferes, interrupts, you get tossed
Speaker 2: from the auditorium. They would never do that, And so
Speaker 2: I kind of like the idea. I think he has
Speaker 2: to come to the table. But there's a legitimate for
Speaker 2: him to say, I got to look at the rules first.
Speaker 2: Here's what Mikell's the problem with that?
Speaker 7: About the both debates, the Democrats are saying, oh, well,
Speaker 7: if they show up.
Speaker 6: They keep saying that, of course they're going to show.
Speaker 3: Up, Yes they are, especially when one has agreed to
Speaker 3: the rule.
Speaker 2: Oh a little bit of politicking, Just a little bit
Speaker 2: of politicking that both sides are just coming up with
Speaker 2: stuff that is number one, ridiculous or slanted or just
Speaker 2: straight out lies.
Speaker 3: That's not true.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you, I think Waltz is going to clean
Speaker 2: Vance's clock on this.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: Forget about the issues. Okay, I mean everybody's baked into
Speaker 2: the issues. Here is the reason. Walts is folksy. He
Speaker 2: is he can next with people.
Speaker 3: He's just likable.
Speaker 2: People just like this guy, and likability is a very
Speaker 2: big deal. I think Vance is super smart. I think
Speaker 2: he's gonna be able to produce his positions. Is he
Speaker 2: gonna lie? Of course he's gonna lie. Is Walt's gonna lie? Yeah,
Speaker 2: probably too, or at least spin.
Speaker 5: Vance was incredibly likable until he went on the ticket
Speaker 5: with Trumph.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really he was.
Speaker 2: He was anti Trump before he went on the ticket
Speaker 2: with Trump.
Speaker 3: Well it's not true. He became a Trump is earlier
Speaker 3: than that, but it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now the problem is he And the other
Speaker 2: issue is is that the way it's going to come
Speaker 2: off is that he is going to have to pair
Speaker 2: it everything.
Speaker 3: That Trump says, and it's going to be obvious.
Speaker 2: Waltz is going to pair it everything that that Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris says, but he's gonna do it in a way
Speaker 2: that it doesn't sound like it's parroting.
Speaker 3: I think that's going to be the issue.
Speaker 2: I think Wallace is going to come off the winner
Speaker 2: on this, just guessing the way.
Speaker 4: Sarah Palin was pretty folksy.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, but then she went right into completely came
Speaker 2: off as illiterate, came off, and when when she signed
Speaker 2: her name with an X, that was very, very troubling
Speaker 2: for a lot of people.
Speaker 4: When she was trading pelts.
Speaker 5: Yes, oh man, all right, you know, I hate that
Speaker 5: this is getting varied. I heard Amy talk about this,
Speaker 5: and the Biden administration should be applauded for this. The
Speaker 5: White House on Monday outlined this new initiative that intends
Speaker 5: to make it easier for customers, you and me to
Speaker 5: cancel subscriptions, to get refunds, to resolve customer service complaints.
Speaker 5: And this is all part of the Biden administration's earlier
Speaker 5: crackdown on so called junk fees and the like and
Speaker 5: these doom loop phone services and all of this garbage
Speaker 5: and this. I think this is huge. I don't know
Speaker 5: why this doesn't get more play. I think this is
Speaker 5: for the people. Yeah, and we all just sucks that
Speaker 5: it gets over shadowed.
Speaker 3: We all suffer from this.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, I was trying to cancel a phone bill because
Speaker 2: you know, I moved out of the Persian Palace and
Speaker 2: there was still a phone line that I was paying for,
Speaker 2: and so.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to get phone lines in there.
Speaker 2: No, no, I think we had three, but that's it
Speaker 2: for different purposes. In any case, and we had lines.
Speaker 2: Of course, now no one has a phone line. But
Speaker 2: matter of fact, Neil, you're the first person I know
Speaker 2: that gave up a landline for your cell phone and said.
Speaker 3: I only have a cell phone.
Speaker 2: First person I know did that In any case, I
Speaker 2: was on the I was I was trying to get
Speaker 2: to AT and T yesterday on the phone. I went
Speaker 2: through so many menus it just completely killed me.
Speaker 3: I just hung up. I couldn't take it. I mean,
Speaker 3: after my fifth level of menus.
Speaker 6: It's called the doom loop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's horrible.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 7: Yes, so they haven't they haven't passed the rule that
Speaker 7: will end the doom yet they.
Speaker 3: Have to.
Speaker 2: In any corporate any corporate head that doesn't do this
Speaker 2: ought to do five to ten.
Speaker 3: You know, let's get serious about this.
Speaker 5: Listening to Amy talk about this and wake up call
Speaker 5: this morning, you can't help but say, if it's this
Speaker 5: easy to sign up, it should be that easy to unsubscribe.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's the other thing. Try to call the
Speaker 2: cancelation department. Once you you're in that, you're in that
Speaker 2: doom loop. And you go and finally, what do you
Speaker 2: want to do you know for sales? Do you know
Speaker 2: dial one for repair, two for cancelations?
Speaker 3: Three?
Speaker 2: Okay, just press three. I did that twenty minutes later. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm still and I still haven't talked to anybody yet.
Speaker 2: I finally got through a representative. Now press one for
Speaker 2: sales and see how quickly you get through.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: Right there, Hi at, thank you for calling. What can
Speaker 3: I do for you? Oh you want to add a service?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 3: We love you.
Speaker 2: And then the other side, Are you sure what you
Speaker 2: want to leave? I'm not exaggerating. Are you sure you
Speaker 2: want to leave? Why do you want to leave? What
Speaker 2: can we do to keep you?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: My family was just hacked to death and we don't
Speaker 2: need a phone anymore.
Speaker 4: Oh say I'm dying?
Speaker 3: That works too, all right?
Speaker 7: Well, illegal immigrants may be retiring in the US with
Speaker 7: a little help from their home country. Many older undocumented
Speaker 7: immigrants may soon get retirement help from Mexico for the
Speaker 7: first time. The government of Mexico says it might expand
Speaker 7: retirement assistance to all its citizens living in the US.
Speaker 7: Could happen as soon as next year.
Speaker 3: Yeah's and that's a double edged sword. Number one. Most
Speaker 3: of the money that people earn.
Speaker 2: Here the illegal immigrants, goes back to Mexico. The majority
Speaker 2: the money goes back to help family members, so the
Speaker 2: money goes back to the economy of Mexico. However, the
Speaker 2: money that they earn in Mexico goes into whatever federal
Speaker 2: plan they have, pension plans, so it's their version of
Speaker 2: Social Security, and that money is not going in because
Speaker 2: the money is earned here.
Speaker 3: So I would argue on both sides that each side has.
Speaker 2: As a point here, Amy, you have a coin, no, okay,
Speaker 2: then we don't have to decide.
Speaker 6: I really don't have a coin.
Speaker 4: Well, we know where you work.
Speaker 3: I don't have a coin on me. I don't even
Speaker 3: have pants on me.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: Authority is investigating the Brazilian plane crash, you remember that
Speaker 5: killed sixty two all the sixty two on board last week?
Speaker 5: Have the black box have the full transcription of the
Speaker 5: black box, but it didn't immediately explain what caused the accident.
Speaker 5: They just know that about a minute before, the pilot
Speaker 5: and co pilot noticed a steep loss in altitude and
Speaker 5: at one point the co pilot said to the pilot, Hey,
Speaker 5: we need more power to be stabilized Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now that just is the voice recorder that they heard,
Speaker 2: as far as the data recorder that has not been
Speaker 2: released yet. What happened, you know, when was the power
Speaker 2: cut off, whether they do with the alerons, what were
Speaker 2: the sensors doing.
Speaker 3: So, I think we're gonna get a lot more information
Speaker 3: they over the next few days, a few weeks.
Speaker 4: What that thing just dropped.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just dropped in and just started spiraling in. It
Speaker 3: was in a tall spiral.
Speaker 6: It did look like a toy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it did star Yeah, it really did. It's very
Speaker 3: was very sort.
Speaker 2: By the way, the black boxes, you know, are not black.
Speaker 2: They are screaming almost a neon.
Speaker 6: Orange probably smart.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah.
Speaker 2: Also, whenever you get on an airplane and they put
Speaker 2: you at a front at the front, keep in mind
Speaker 2: that the black boxes that they want to survive are
Speaker 2: always at.
Speaker 3: The back of the airplane. Okay, pointing that.
Speaker 7: Out here is some spending that is not flying with
Speaker 7: a lot of people. The twenty twenty eight Summer Olympic Games,
Speaker 7: as you know, coming to Los Angeles, and Los Angeles
Speaker 7: is preparing. They're spending five hundred thousand dollars from the
Speaker 7: General Funds Capital Improvement Fund for Olympic flags?
Speaker 2: All right, So I have a question. Olympic flag at
Speaker 2: city hall? Okay, I'll buy that Olympic flag at the venues,
Speaker 2: the swim stadiums, the coliseum.
Speaker 3: So far.
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe that's another dozen, right, maybe another twenty. Let's say,
Speaker 2: so that's twenty one flags. Twenty one flags at thirty
Speaker 2: bucks apiece? What is that figure? It's got five hundred thousand,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that. So where do you spend five
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars for flags? Amy has a very good question.
Speaker 5: Wow, you know I have a little promotional company that
Speaker 5: I make items.
Speaker 4: Maybe I can make those flags.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, and the city controller went on x and said,
Speaker 7: we're suffering from a budget crisis. Why are we spending
Speaker 7: this on this? And then of course social media lit
Speaker 7: up with it. People aren't very happy about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I don't know where they do the math unless they're
Speaker 7: literally doing one hundred thousand flags.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well it's not one hundred thousand, you know.
Speaker 6: So you get a bulk discount.
Speaker 2: You get yeah, especially if you buy him from China.
Speaker 3: Chine at the bottom. Neil can't hear you.
Speaker 5: Your mic is off, Sorry, Buddy Mars, makers of M
Speaker 5: and M's, Snickers, Bars and of course bars. They've agreed
Speaker 5: to buy Kelenova in a deal that values the maker
Speaker 5: of cheese It and Pringles at almost twenty nine.
Speaker 4: Billion with a B dollars. That's a lot of snacks.
Speaker 2: Did you even know that Kelenova owned all of these brands?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: I know what.
Speaker 5: I can't place Kelenova, like the logo or anything. The
Speaker 5: name is vaguely familiar, but no, I had no idea.
Speaker 2: Because when they buy, they buy brand names and they
Speaker 2: keep the brand names. So Kelenova probably got clearly a
Speaker 2: holding company of some kind, and the names are not
Speaker 2: going You're not going to see Mars bars be Kelenova Bars, or.
Speaker 3: Pringles become Kelenova Ingles.
Speaker 4: But Kelenova.
Speaker 5: Kelenova also makes pop tarts okay at morning Stars kell
Speaker 5: a tarts.
Speaker 7: I'm thinking there's going to be a new kind of
Speaker 7: checks mix like that sweet and savory.
Speaker 3: Oh I do you like that? I do like that.
Speaker 4: I'm Cheese Farms.
Speaker 5: If you've ever had their vegan breakfast sausages are actually
Speaker 5: quite good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The cheese it's cheese its.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't like those pringles. You know how many flavors.
Speaker 2: Pringles are there. You know, I'm looking for smoked mackerel
Speaker 2: pringles and that may be the only one that's not
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 5: You know what, if you travel, trust me, you'll come
Speaker 5: across the smoked mackerel pringles somewhere. I always check out
Speaker 5: when we travel. Yeah, pringles worldly all the different flavors.
Speaker 4: I know, foods here.
Speaker 2: Pringles is so ubiquitous, and I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 3: Here. You can go into and I've done.
Speaker 2: This many many years ago, go into the depths of
Speaker 2: the Amazon jungle where you see these little villages of
Speaker 2: three hundred indigenous people where they have one little like
Speaker 2: a badega where they have a counter and they sell
Speaker 2: I don't know, like rat carcasses or whatever they sell
Speaker 2: to each other.
Speaker 3: There. Pringles are for sale.
Speaker 4: Oh there's like Coca cola.
Speaker 5: I can't remember where we were, if it was Nika, Nicaaua,
Speaker 5: or if we were in Peru or something, but there
Speaker 5: was one time there was this little merchant outside and
Speaker 5: I pointed to a bottle. I was thirsty and I said, hey,
Speaker 5: can I can I get some gatorade? And the guy
Speaker 5: looked at me and I'm like pointing to it gatorade,
Speaker 5: And then he paused and he goes, are.
Speaker 3: They And I'm like, God, are they?
Speaker 5: I guess that, Oh yeah, sure, gatorade?
Speaker 4: Are they? Okay? You got it?
Speaker 6: Okay, MOOKI don't like spooky ooh.
Speaker 7: Mookie Bets, very good star baseball player with the Dodgers,
Speaker 7: is with the team in Milwaukee.
Speaker 6: They're playing the Brewers.
Speaker 7: In fact, they're playing at eleven ten this morning, and
Speaker 7: he is not staying with the team because the state
Speaker 7: the team is staying at the Fister Hotel. It was
Speaker 7: built in the eighteen nineties. It's long been rumored to
Speaker 7: be haunted. So Mookie saying yeah, not so much, thinks
Speaker 7: I'm staying at an airbnb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's not completely crazy because a bunch of
Speaker 2: other Dodgers and ball players that done the same thing,
Speaker 2: and stories of clothes being left and tables.
Speaker 3: Being moved and wo yeah.
Speaker 2: And they just come from the haunted mansion and it's
Speaker 2: all PTSD from that ride, that's all.
Speaker 4: There's no windows or doors.
Speaker 5: Isn't this just a way for them to get their
Speaker 5: own Airbnb?
Speaker 2: I think they pay I would guess they'd have to
Speaker 2: pay for it their own I don't know, I have
Speaker 2: no idea.
Speaker 5: Yesterday the World Health Organization declared the ongoing mpox outbreak
Speaker 5: in Africa is now a global health emergency.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to talk to Jim. Talk to Jim
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 2: What he thinks of the Who, one of the greatest
Speaker 2: bands ever, and we are going to talk about Impos
Speaker 2: or Monkey Pocks. Does he respect the WHO, I mean
Speaker 2: the World Health Organization or the.
Speaker 4: Band the World Health Organization?
Speaker 3: I think he does. It's a good question.
Speaker 4: Implied like maybe he didn't.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's a good question. I think he does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jim is very much a traditionalist when it comes
Speaker 2: to medicine. He's uh, I mean he's into FDA guidelines.
Speaker 2: I mean he does do that. So that's we'll do
Speaker 2: that at seven thirty with Jim.
Speaker 6: As mister Rourke would say, Welcome to North Korea.
Speaker 4: North Korea tells everybody.
Speaker 7: North Korea is set to reopen limited international tourism by
Speaker 7: the end of this year. A couple of tour groups,
Speaker 7: one based in Beijing and another one based in Chinyang,
Speaker 7: say that they will allow visitors into the mountainous city
Speaker 7: of Samajeon.
Speaker 6: Which is supposed to be the birthplace of North Korean
Speaker 6: leader Kim Jong un No ill grandfather. Oh yeah, Kim
Speaker 6: Jong ils sorry, and then they're going to open that
Speaker 6: up first, yes.
Speaker 3: His dad, I think, yeah, okay, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 6: No, I'm sorry I said it wrong in the first place.
Speaker 7: And they said they're probably going to open Pyongyang and
Speaker 7: other places up after that. And just a note, most
Speaker 7: US passports are not valid. You have to get special
Speaker 7: permission to travel there, and the US government has designated
Speaker 7: North Korea as a Level four do not travel risk.
Speaker 3: I have a question.
Speaker 2: There's two places on this planet right now that I
Speaker 2: would question anybody going to.
Speaker 3: One is North Korea. The other one is Russia, because
Speaker 3: we am in the Russia story. Of course, some American getting.
Speaker 2: Arrested South Sudan, maybe South Yemen may be in the
Speaker 2: hands of ISIS terrorists, But I think you're better off
Speaker 2: there than you are in Russia or North Korea.
Speaker 5: The cool thing is Dennis Rodman is going to be
Speaker 5: giving the tours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he loves it. King Gim Chongwan loves Dennis Rodman.
Speaker 3: I mean they are great friends.
Speaker 4: All right. So Jenna Rolands is dead. What a weird story.
Speaker 5: Award winning actress Jenna Rolands, who's you know, we know
Speaker 5: her from A Woman under Influence, Gloria and of course
Speaker 5: The Notebook where.
Speaker 6: She's ugly cry movie of all time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know I get mocked because I cry in
Speaker 5: that too. I think my wife looked at me, like,
Speaker 5: what the hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 4: But anyway, yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: It is ironic.
Speaker 4: She played one of her she dies of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she she and she plays someone who dies
Speaker 2: or has dementia.
Speaker 3: It's very ironic. By the way, you guys cried at
Speaker 3: the movie. I laughed. But that's the size the point.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's a very it's very sweet.
Speaker 3: It actually is. It actually is James Gardner, right, isn't
Speaker 3: he the lead? Also?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: And and the other thing is that she played the
Speaker 7: movie or she played the role and said it was
Speaker 7: one of the toughest that she ever played because her
Speaker 7: mother had all time. So going through that and then
Speaker 7: to find out that she also did it, got it
Speaker 7: and then has been suffering from it for like five years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and her son wore years young statement.
Speaker 2: Her son says, And we rarely see this for the
Speaker 2: last five years she's had Alzheimer's, all right, I mean
Speaker 2: that we hear but then he adds, she's in full dementia.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you've ever seen anybody in
Speaker 2: full dementia, it is It is tough to see. My
Speaker 2: mom had full dementia by the time she was gone,
Speaker 2: but then she as I showed up, she wanted to
Speaker 2: have full dementia because she didn't want to be reminded
Speaker 2: that I'm her son.
Speaker 3: We refer to.
Speaker 4: You as a functioning dementia patient. Work. You can still work.
Speaker 5: One day, Amy and Ann and Cono and I are
Speaker 5: going to be reading to you out of the transcripts
Speaker 5: of your show, and we're going to be it. And
Speaker 5: then you told the sweetest fart joke here, and we
Speaker 5: just all laughed, and you'll laugh and then you'll go,
Speaker 5: who are you?
Speaker 4: It'll be it'll be like the notebook, It'll coming up.
Speaker 2: It's a nice way to end the news hour. Very
Speaker 2: very I like that, you know, sweet to the point.
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