Handel on the News

Amy King joins Bill for Handel on the News. From Oval Office, Biden’s first speech on leaving presidential race. Netanyahu labels critics of war in Gaza ‘Iran’s useful idiots’ in speech to Congress. Largest active wildfire in the US burns in Oregon, forcing evacuations and creating its own weather. Prosecutors file Boeing’s plea deal to resolve felony fraud charge tied to 737 Max crashes. Crowdstrike outage: We finally know what caused it and how much it cost. NORAD intercepts Russian TU-95 Bear, Chinese H-6 bombers operating together near Alaska in first such flight.

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to KPI AM six fortythe Bill Handles show on demand on the
iHeartRadio app. How do you geta shark to snort cocaine? Actually,
the cocaine gets into the sharks systemfrom the sewage discharges from humans who use

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the drug. Well, let metell you, any sharks that were around
southern California back in the eighties wereswimming around and pretty excited every time I
went to the bathroom. And nowhandle on the news, ladies and gentlemen,
here's Bill Handle, And good morningeverybody. It is a Thursday morning,

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July twenty five, and last nightwas the big one. A little
froggy, little flemy. Okay,should I do that again? Sure?
Okay, Hey everybody, It's Thursdaymorning, July twenty five, and welcome.

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Last night was the big speech byJoe Biden. Going to talk a
lot more about that at seven am. Some thoughts and commenting on the analysis,
analyzing the analysis, which I've gotall kinds of comments on, all
kinds of opinions on, and thebottom line was Joe Biden did pretty much

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what was expected. And for thoseRepublicans, they say he didn't talk about
his cognitive abilities. And you knowwhat, what's he going to say?
I'm old, I'm decrepit, I'mfalling apart, thank you very much.
And that was my question. Washe going to say I'm old, decrepit,
falling enough, falling apart. Washe going to say? Where is
the oval office? Huh? Lookaround and go where am I? Yeah?

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Go figure? All right, Helloto one and all. Con O,
good morning, Hey Bill. Youknow what I like about Cono?
He actually laughs at this stuff.Amy for the most part, ignores me
completely, and occasionally I'll get achuckle out of a and Neil just looks
at me with utter contempt and disdain. Cono, I like you a lot

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more than anybody else on this show. I'll tell you that right now.
That's huge. That's big for me. That is well you deserve it.
It's well well deserved. What didI say on your T shirt? Body
Snatcher? It's a band. It'soh I thought it was some kind of
a description, a legal description.No, no, no, no,

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just I feel like heavy music makespeople angry. Yeah it is, yeah,
heavy metal metal rock. Now.Very early on, I don't know
how many years ago, I wasgoing to London and I somehow was upgraded.
Occasionally. I would get upgrade ifI have enough miles. And so
I'm sitting in business class on at W A plane that's how long ago

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it was, and there's this rungeylooking guys. I figure, how did
you get up here? You know, you barely have bathed? And goes,
oh, we're a rock group.I go, yeah, do I
know the name? And they saidMetallica? And I said, what's a
Metallica? And what a dumb namefor a group? And so we had

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a conversation and they were trying toexplain to me what kind of music they
do. To this day, Idon't understand. They've done pretty well for
themselves. They've done okay, ohokay, all right, guys, we've
got news cycle. You know,that's one of the comments that are being
made Amy, I'm hearing among newspeople, and you are in part of that.

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Ilk. Have you had a threefour week period that you can remember
that had this much news into thismagnitude. No, it's like standing in
front of a fire hose. It'sjust it's astounding and its NonStop. Yeah,
it's crazy, mate for us,Yeah, I mean it's you know,
for us. I mean that's youknow, for news talk radio.

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It's it's great stuff because it givesus a lot to talk about, all
right, matter of fact, givingus a lot to talk about. Grab
the pile here, it is timefor handle on the news, Amy King,
Neil back next Wednesday. Me latestory. Probably it's all all right.

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Joe Biden expected and we knew hewas announcing him leaving the campaign,
dropping his candidacy for president, foras the nominee of the Democratic Party,
and we sort of expected this.It was only eleven minutes, and it
was considered by many, particularly thosepapers of Joe Biden, and I think

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even those that are non biased assomber. He talked about his accomplishments,
which you'd figure he would, becauseeverybody else who has left the White House
certainly have no one of the threepresidents that I can remember, two of
them actually in office leaving the WhiteHouse, well, actually all three of

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them in office leaving the White Housein the last before the term was over.
We're not being the candidate again.It was not about why Nixon,
who was about to be indicted andthrown out of office, impeached and convicted
by the Senate, he lost hispolitical base. That's it. Lyndon Johnson

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just said I'm leaving. And JoeBiden last night didn't talk about his political
base. All he said was it'stime for me to go. That's it.
That was his reasoning for doing thistime to pass the torch to a
new generation. And a lot ofRepublicans really pissed off that he didn't connected

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to I'm old, I'm decrepit,I can't function, my cognitive abilities decreased.
And even Joe Biden fans, Imean, I like to watch CNN.
I'm going to talk more about thisCNN. Could I really like the
analysis of CNN. Forget about thepolitics of it, just the analysis.
Van Jones, who is worked inthe Obama White House, who reveres Joe

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Biden, I mean revers the man. He's a genuine hero. To Van
Jones, he said, you couldsee how old Biden has become, even
the last two months. You couldsee the deterioration. And he was really
struck, I mean crying and reallyupset. Okay, I'll do more about
that at seven o'clock. And Tanyawho had us lawmakers in the palm of

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his hand, what kind of IsraeliPrime Minister Benjamin and Nyahoo gave his speech
to lawmakers at Capitol Hill yesterday,lashing out against the protests of Israel's war
against Hamas. He said that theprotests that are happening outside and around the

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country in the US are backed byIran, which effectively makes the protesters useful
idiots. It was a speech thattook a lot of people by surprise,
because we were told that it wasgoing to be conciliatory. We were told
that there would be at least areach out for peace in some way to

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talk about ending the war, noteven close, just ripping into Hamas and
anybody who was against the war,and then just outright line, we are
sending unlimited aid to the Palestinians.Really we are not. We are not
targeting civilians, which is true,I believe for the most part. But

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I mean the rest of it.We hand out or we hand out millions
of flyers and phone calls and textsto tell people to get out of the
way. Do they do that?They do do that. But what he
left out was get out of theway. There's the safe sone over there
until we vomit, and then theflyers go out and say oh no,

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no, there's a safe son oversafe zone over there, and they vomit.
And the argument is that those areHamas strongholds or that's where Hamas starts
its fight again, which I believe, by the way, just don't say
that we are there, just saywe're fighting him and if this is where
they are, and effectively he didsay this, and this is where we

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go as far as Hamas is concerned, and he talked about in those are
detractors of Israeli position. On theother side, they the humanitarian workers,
and there are thousands of them.Not one has said, yes, Hamas
is fighting from the hospitals or theschools. I have not heard one of

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those. So clearly Kamas is notfighting from the schools and the hospitals and
the mosques. It's just not true. It's not happening. Israel I guess
isn't fighting at all. It's justattacking civilians. Although there are Hamas fighters
that Hamas has said, but notin the civilian areas. The reality on

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both sides, I don't get what'sgoing on. I think both sides are
lying to some extent, to agreat extent, well there and they're they're
challenged with the reality that people cansee now and people can get the information
out. I mean, you thinkabout a war fifty years ago, nobody
knew what was going on. Imean you had reporters there, but they

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had the delays. And now withthe instantanean or instantaneous information coming out,
it's a different It's a different war. Yeah, I would like to see
if an attack is made on acivilian target because com is there, because
the fighters are there, and let'ssay they're rocket launchers coming from a school
and Israel, Israel attacks it,I'd like to see a few dead Hamas

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fighters in there. I really would, you know, what where are they?
And then when you talk about theweapons they found, like one cash
of weapons is all I've seen onvideo. They should be loaded with weapons
as Israel attacks and takes out astronghold. So man, I just I

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don't get it. Well, Ido get it, but unfortunately I'm not
having a good time understanding it.All right, Thousands protested outside the capitol
as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gavehis speech to Congress. They marched toward
the capitol before police sprayed pepper sprayon some of them. They chanted free,

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Free Palestine. Some of the removedAmerican flags from Washington's Union Station,
their train station, and then hoistedPalestinian flags. And they also spray painted
monuments and wrote Hamas is coming inred spray paint. Yeah, well,
I mean it's America. Well youcan't deface property, of course, under

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any circumstances. But you can putup a Palestinian flag. I mean it's
welcome to America. Can burn theflag? They did? Did they did
that Supreme Court. There was acase decades and decades ago they said,
hey, that's that is a politicalspeech. Taking the American flag down off
a flagpole on a public building andthen putting up the Palestinian flag is ill.

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That is illegal because you're you're you'retrespassing for one thing. But the
act of doing that, being chargedwith taking down the American flag per se
and putting up the Palestinian flag interms of any kind of treason, in
terms, you can absolutely do that. The crime here is doing it on
public land. For example, ifI am a protester and I can I

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burn an American flag on my flagpoleat home, you bet I can?
You bet I can? Now ifI were. If I were there,
and thank god goodness, I'm notthere, and if I had a machine
gun, these people would be justwiped out. That is also a crime,
by the way, taking a machinegunning a whole group of people until

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they explode. Ok. Yeah,yeah, I just wanted to point that
out. Thank you for that clarification, yuy. Yeah. Also political speech,
I might dad our big fires palein comparison, thankfully. You know,
we've got some fires. In fact, there's a there's a fire that
we're watching that's burning about fifteen milesoutside of Paradise, Remember the town that

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was destroyed by wildfire six years ago. There's one that's grown to forty five
thousand acres. But up in Oregon, there's a lightning sparked wildfire. It's
in eastern Oregon and it's torn throughtwo hundred and seventy thousand acres. So
it's the largest wildfire in the USright now. And in eastern Oregon there's
nothing to stop the fires. It'sgrassland, it's like high planes. Yeah,

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and so it just goes. Thisis a very bad combination and that
is a lot of dry vegetation,strong winds, and truly hot weather.
You put those three together, it'slike STDs and unprotected sex. That is
a bad combination. Break into theMayor's office, no problem, Okay,

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there's a little bit of a problem. The mayor's home. Oh did I
say office, Yes, I'm athome. Okay. So back in April,
somebody broke into La Mayor Bass's homein Hancock Park, the Getty House.
Twenty nine year old accused of breakingin has pleaded no contest to felony
vandalism. Apparently they dropped the burglarycharges as part of his plea deal.

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He was given two years probation,has to stay away from the Mayor's work
and home addresses, and has tohave drugging out drug abuse and mental health
treatments, and has to pay somerestitution. Yeah, the Getty House is
kind of interesting. Six in Revine, you know, one of the mansions
in Hancock Park, the Getty Househas spent. The reason it's called the

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Getty House. It was given tothe city of Los Angeles by J.
Paul Getty, who was a residentof LA and the Getty museums that he
set up. Stiffed his kids completelyset up the art foundation. They have
more money than they know what todo with, because they have to spend
five percent of the assets of thefoundation every year or five percent of the

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income, and has wiped out theworld the world art market because they can
pay anything for anything. Do youknow that if you're a scholar and you're
doing let's say some study, aPhD study on a piece of art that
Getty has, you can apply fora scholarship or they will fly you over

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or put you up for a year, pay all of your expenses. And
they have dozens and dozens of thosegoing every year. I should get into
art, no kidding. Boeing hastaken responsibility. There's an agreement between Boeing
and the Justice Department where the airplanemaker will plead guilty to a fraud charge

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for misleading US regulators who approved theseven thirty seven Max jetliners. So apparently
Boeing is going to say that,through its employees, it made an agreement
by dishonest means to defraud the FAAthe members that evaluated the seven thirty seven,
and because of that, the FAAhad incomplete and inaccurate information about the

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plane's flight control software and how muchtraining the pilots would need. To be
able to fly it. Yeah,that was the mcass debacle, that little
software business that would automatically put theplane into a dive if it was going
to go up. Install and pilotshave not been trained on that. Pilots
didn't even know that existed when theyput it in. And the reason one

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of the ways that Boeing sells somuch Boeing is, here's a shortcut pilots.
Whenever there's a new system installed,pilots have to go into the simulator
and they have to study it.This was just done on an iPad and
that was it. That was yourtraining if you did it. Is that
real? Yeah? Absolutely, yep. Yeah, that's how That's what Boeing

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has done. Boeing is and thereason the fraud because let me tell you
how crazy the FAA is with itsenormous oversight because there are so few FAA
auditors and inspectors. When it isout there to certify a part, it
will ask Boeing to say does itmeet our requirements? And a Boeing inspector

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says yes it does, and theFAA signs off on it. Well,
those days have changed. Yeah,that's bowing. And it used to be
where you could trust Boweing to dothat. Well, it never used to
happen because you know, the budgetsof the FA were cut like crazy under
Trump because that was just you know, governmental regulations are not are not a

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big thing for Republicans across the board, and so you used to be able
to trust Boeing. I mean thatwas in the days when Boeing was Boeing.
As a matter of fact, that'sthe podcast. And when is that
podcast already dropped? The Boeing story. When's it coming on? We haven't
said a day yet. It willprobably come next week on the podcast that

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I drop every Tuesday and Thursday.And one of the stories that have already
recorded is what happened to Boeing,the history of Boeing and how corporate,
how corporation that is most one ofthe most revered companies in the world,
How it went to the toilet?And that's coming up. Okay, well,
we now know what caused it,and for the important part, how

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much is the crowd strike failure goingto cost. It's being described as the
largest IT outage in history and willcost fortune five hundred companies alone more than
five billion dollars in direct losses.That's in a preliminary report that also came
out on the same day as howCrowdStrike actually inadvertently calls the widespread it meltdown.

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And that doesn't count the families thathave loved ones who have died because
they couldn't get into surgery. Andthey now that's not to say they're going
to win because it's elective surgery.But still, it's either a good time
to buy CrowdStrike or it's a verybad time to buy CrowdStrike because at this
point, if it comes back,you're going to make some money, and

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if it doesn't come back, you'regoing to lose your shirt. Gotta bet
either way. Well, it's peoplewho bet when things are down. People
buy Apple. When Apple was inthe toilet, when Steve Jobs came back,
I mean the company was moribund,it was almost it was close to
death. And if you believe inSteve Jobs, you made a fortune.

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Another attempted murder on Metro. Whydo they even report these anymore because they're
happening every week and they said thatthe ridership is up for the nineteenth month
in a row. No, thankyou. Well, there are people that
i'd like to pay Russian roulette.Talked about that a couple of days ago.
What Russian roulette is? Or arewilling to take their chances? Well,

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and here's the thing. It's notonly happening. I mean, you
hear about the fights and stuff.So this is what happened to the guy
getting off at the Metro Redline stationin North Hollywood. Apparently he was on
the steps that lead over to theMetro buses when somebody comes up to him
and stabs him in the ribs.That's lovely. You know, this going
on the Metro is a lot liketorriadors, you know, is it worth

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the risk? Or people who skydive, Why would you do that? You
jump out of a perfectly good airplaneand why so why would you ride the
Metro? I don't know, butI bet skydiving is a lot more fun
than riding the Metro. Yes,well, at least until you hit the
ground. That's true. That's true, all right? Uh, too close

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for comfort. Norad has intercepted toRussian and two Russian jets and two Chinese
bombers that were flying near Alaska yesterdaykind of right around the time that President
Biden was about to give his ovaloffice address. A Defense officials said it
was the first time Russia and Chinesehave been intercepted while operating together. That

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is the big issue because these interdictions, or at least you're noting that these
uh these internet flying near coasts andwe do that over there, and they
do that over here, but China, as you pointed out, China and
Russia doing it together as some kindof military exercise. By the way,
Nora had cost so much money.You know, it's all Cold war stuff.

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You know that The only time they'rereally worth the money is when they
track Santa Claus going across the world. You ever see you know, you
see that every Christmas. Yes,it's very important. That's Norad that's doing
that tracking Santa Claus. Until wefind out that it really is a Russian
missile that's disguised as Santa Claus,then we're going to be in a lot

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of trouble. That makes sense becauseto get to all of the houses of
all of the children all around theworld, Santa is probably have to go
that fast. Yeah, I gopretty quickly. Yeah, and he's trying.
I don't know, because you cansee Santa you know where Santa is
he's now over Bolivia and he's nowover Now here's my question. If he's
over Bolivia, what are people doin Brazil because he just transports right over

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or he goes right over one countrynot the other. So I've always wondered
about that. This is deep deepfis this is deep thinking? All right,
Well, it's a little supposed tobe all fun and games, but
then politics comes into play. Atuh tens of thousands of fans were at
the park, the Prince Stadium inParis, booed and hissed and whistled their

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way through the Israeli national anthem leadingup to the Olympics. Come on now,
and even though it's illegal for ohwell, athletes to show their political
views, that's not allowed. Buthow do you stop an audience from doing
that? That's you can't. Andthere's anti semitim. Anti Semitism is rife

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now through the world. You're gonnasee that. Isn't that special? God
help an Israeli athlete that wins themedal? Can you imagine what's going to
happen in the stadium. And bythe way, if that's the case,
if I were the coach, Iwould go here's what you do. If
they hiss at you, you moonthem. And that would be a view

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from the state from you know,the stand where you stand up and take
metal. Yeah, special delivery andnot in a good way. Representative Norman
Torres and the Inland Empire says heroffice received two letters containing a white powdery

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substance. So Torres, who isthe representative of thirty fifth Congressional District in
California for Ontario, says no onewas hurt, but her staffers had to
shelter in place while has Maat teamschecked it out. Yeah, you really
went to screw with a political officeand an envelope with sweet and low in
it. That'll disrupt things. Andby the way, is that illegal.

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I don't think that is. It'sjust a political statement there. How speedy
is your broadband? There's a newapp for that. The FCC has revealed
the launch of a new app thatwill allow consumers to test their mobile broadband
speed in order to gauge the accuracyof a provider's mobile coverage range. So

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I guess if they say we havethe best broadband coverage, you can check
your app and say no, youdon't. Yeah, right, now was
it the other day? I wantedto know, am I getting my three
hundred MPs that I'm paying for athome? And you're going into a program.
But it's not that easy, youknow, I'll tell you exactly what's
happening in real time and what theFCC is doing. Just you do this

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on your cell phone, go rightto the app. This is great,
by the way, to find outexactly what you're paying for. Well,
but then do you have any recourseif they're saying, hey, you're supposed
to get whatever that number you saidand then it's like half that, then
you go back and say, hey, I'm not getting that, give me

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a refund. Yeah. I don'tknow if they've gone that far yet,
because at this point it's simply thelaunch itself of the app, and it
allows consumers to test the broadband speed. I don't know if there is a
consequence if it doesn't happen, becauseright now it's only enabling users to get

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free, open and transparent information aboutthe performance of the network. So I
think that's the next step. Youthink there's going to be a political fight
on that one. Yeah, Yeah, Disney's made a deal. Speaking of
fights, they're playing nice now withthe union and Disney and fourteen thousand workers
are not going to go on strikeif they approve this deal. But they've

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reached a tentative contract for three yearsthat will have wage increases apparently, some
benefits to people who have seniority,security increases, and additional premiums whatever that
means. So, and the dealcame like four days after the union with
ninety nine percent in support, saidyep, we're going to authorize a strike.

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Yeah, and Disney tell me thisisn't PR corporate speak. Here's their
statement. We care deeply about thewell being of our cast members and are
pleased to have reached a tentative agreementwith Master Service Counsel the union that addresses
what matters most to our cast whilepositioning Disneyland Resort for future growth and job

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creation. That's PR speak. Wefought so hard to screw them over that
we basically averted a strike by thirtyseconds. Now the other side will argue
the other way. So it's justwhy don't they just admit, Yeah,
we had a battle, and youknow this is where we came to,
and we agreed to thirty cents anhour, and they dropped their fifty cents

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an hour as opposed to the PRbabble that goes on and you have and
that's what they hand you, don'tthey amy? In terms of the releases,
the news releases, Yeah, nope, we don't get the real stuff.
No, of course not. Butemotions are real and apparently they're good.
Inside Out two as surpassed one pointfour to six billion in global ticket

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sales, making it the highest grossinganimated feature of all time. It just
passed Disney's Frozen two and it's goingto get another shot at the box office
because it hasn't even opened yet inJapan. I don't we talk to Mo
about this? Moe is coming toboard at eight fifty when we do earlier
with Mo Kelly, and he's ourentertainment guy, and I thought that no

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one's going to the movies anymore.And look at these numbers, I mean
they are astronomical. So I meanthat I'm going to have a conversation with
Mo about right. Thet's two onemore before we end the segment. Okay,
so it's the end of an erafor Southwest Airlines, which might make
you very happy or maybe not,depending on the consequences, but no more
first come, first served. Southwestis shifting to assigned seating for the first

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time in its fifty year history.But here's the downside of that. It's
going to allow Southwest to charge premiumsfor some of the seats on the plane,
like all the other carriers who arealready doing. Yeah, and that
is charging for seating is insane howmuch money they make. For example,
I'm traveling to Europe, as Ido every year, I take a trip.

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So I bought my ticket and thereare two of us going. So
I just bought two tickets and theysaid, do you want to sit together?
What do you mean, do way? I want to sit together?
Of course, Oh, that'll bean extra charge to confirm the two of
you going to sit together and gowhat are you talking about? H that
was one hundred and sixty two dollars. That's crazy. That's what's going on.

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That is literally what's going on.And what ends up happening is one
of you is paying for a middleseat. Oh that's another charge. If
you don't want a middle seat,oh yeah, I forget about that,
and then you have well it makessense for the ultra ultra low cost carriers
like Spirit in Frontier. They makeall of their money on the junk fees.

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You pay extra for everything, includingcarry on bags. If you're wearing
pants, they charge you more money. It's have you ever flown? I
won't. I won't fly those incrediblylow cost fares because it turns out to
be pretty close to that unless youliterally are taking your clothes in your pocket.
Yeah. I just flew a Vellowwhich goes to some of the smaller

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airports, and they charged for seats, but I didn't buy it, so
I just waited until I got tothe airport and I ended up getting great
seats both times. Oh all right, but I lucked out. Yeah,
yeah, you can't catch I thinkthat happens every time, not at all.
All right, We're done, guys. KFI AM six forty live everywhere
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