August 15, 2024 • 30 mins
Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Annual inflation falls below 3% for the first time since March 2021. Medicare negotiated discounts on 10 widely used prescribed drugs. Columbia President Minouche Shafik steps down months after protests over Israel-Hamas war gripped campus. Walz agrees to October 1 vice presidential debate. White House pushes new rules to simplify cancelling subscriptions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
It's already a Thursday, August fifteenth.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hello, one and all.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
As we move into the show, and.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
As always, politics are really ramping up.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So I'm gonna spend a couple of minutes talking about
that lawsuit against Disney. Oh man, do I have Disney stories?
You know, I work for Disney for a period of time.
And believe me, there's a reason that call it Mausovich
there it is.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Why Why?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Why? Because they do well?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Why do you start the morning with that, with references
like that? And why do you disparage one of the
last bastions of wonderful entertainment.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm not arguing that it's not wonderful entertainment, Neil.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
You know what I'm saying is that it is a well,
first of all, it's a company that's probably more litigous
than any other company out there, that's for starters, and
that is the truth. And it's in some ways it's
very good. In some ways it's very bad.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
They are.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I mean, well, I'll we'll do a story for you
later on a wrongful death suit that has been filed
against Disney. And the response that Disney has is, well,
it's more lawyer's fault than Disney's fault. So anyway, as
I disparage Disney, keep in mind I disparage everything and
everybody notice to Magic Mountain, that's Gangland.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It's good. What else can I say? Huh? I just.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
All right, that's fine, Hampy Capper. Everything is wonderful, Everything
is great.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I've changed the show completely. Now it's all kumbaya. Let's
eat bushes. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
That's uh you know? Okay? Quick?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Hello Neil, Hello, Hi Bill, Hi oh. I have to
share with you, by the way, all of you. Neil,
who broadcasts from the house many times and he's at
home today. Behind him, yeah, I guess you have a
green screen. Is that what you have behind you?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Neil, for lack of a better explanation, Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Sir, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So he puts stuff up behind him, like what day
is it hump day? And he puts the camel up
there and today and I have not seen this. And
it's a sign that says, sure happy it's Thursday. Okay, now,
sure happy it's Thursday.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It's a line for.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Each word and the first letter is in red.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Now is that an acronym for that phrase? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Oh, sure happy it's Thursday? Okay, Mars Friday. I mean
that's nothing but you and I okay, Saturday.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
That's fair, all right, that's fair a right. By the way,
does Disney advertise on here on the station?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
We do.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
We do giveaways and the like.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Sure, well, I know I understand that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So we do have a relationship with Disney absolutely, okay, okay.
For the record, whatever I say disparaging about Disney, I
take back.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I sincerely apologize.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I am so sorry that I said it. It is satire.
It is me being over the top. You can tell
me when I'm done sucking up, or do I just
keep on going?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Keep going?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'd say, Amy, Amy, who is of course a Disney freak.
We have two Disney fanatics here on the show, Amy
and and.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
What I even have a Disney shirt on today?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You do.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Have a Disney shirt.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
You have two things, D and D Disney's and Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yeah, okay, fair enough, she's wearing a D.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
It could be their first.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Do they give you?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
For example, when you buy an annual pass, is there
a number on it? Do you have some kind of number?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Okay, I was looking at a tattoo on your arm.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I do not have any tattoos.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Okay, cono. Good morning Bill, and uh, I know it's
and good morning, Hi Bill. I know it's We've already started.
It's only uh six.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
O nine and we're on our way. I'm sorry works there,
I know ye.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Hey. By the way, I think in many ways, I
think Disney is one of the most extraordinary companies.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
In the world. And I mean that, uh, they.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Are world leaders and several different categories. For example, do
you know that companies, companies that have lines where people
line up cues at the theme park?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Companies all over the world come.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
To Disney to study how what Disney does with crowd control.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They do it like nobody else. On the planet.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Oh, a buddy of mine is the festival director for Coachella,
and when they were starting, he went. He's also a
big Disney fan. He went and sat and watched how
they clean Disneyland and used that as a model.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, it's crazy clean, by the way.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And that's a podcast that I want to put together,
and that is lawsuits against Disney, because that is fascinating stuff.
Going back seriously, having looked at Disney lawsuits for a
very long time, they are a world apart in good
ways and bad ways. Are pioneers and the other side too.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You should know.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
This because IP intellectual property. If you have trademarks in
the light, if you don't defend them, even the smallest one, I.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Know they yes, no, I know that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
For example, the little childcare centers, the gual who has
six kids at her home and painted Mickey on the.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Wall, ceasing desist lawsuit.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
They have to.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Okay, oh, then they can't enforce the big one.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Okay, well that's not true, but uh okay, it was.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
We used to.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I used to manage all of our trademarks here at
the station. Okay, you're just a Meani yeah Miami.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
So anyway, I lost it.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I lost it against Disney is just and that's coming
up at seven to twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You don't want to miss that.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Let's do it handle on the news, everybody, and we're
gonna get a little bit more optimistic possibly on the show.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
UT's Amy, Neil and me lead.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Sorry, what goes up must come okay, life the cyclical inflation?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Did he hit nine percent under Joe Biden's watch?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It is now under three percent, which now we're talking
about reasonable inflation, exactly where the Fed wants it to be.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
But the politics of it is that inflation.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well, Trump is blaming the Biden administration, saying yesterday inflation
is out of control, which is not true.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
However, taking.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Taking not so much the blame, which of course no
president ever does, but taking the credit for inflation going
down also doesn't work either. Actually, a president has very
little to do with inflation and certainly nothing to do
with the Fed.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Dealing with inflation. So good news on the inflation front,
very good news.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Let's bring those prices down. Spinking of good news. The
Biden administration has announced that it has negotiated Medicare discounts
on the top ten drugs, the most expensive drugs that
are used to treat blood clots, cancer, heart disease, diabetes.
They are like eloquists and Jaradians that you see zerelto
(08:23):
a lot of the names you're familiar with. They didn't
say how much the individual drugs are going to cost
when the discounts kick in, but say the negotiations would
save Medicare itself six billion dollars when the price cuts
are implemented, and they're expected to take effect not until
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, it gives a chance.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I don't know why it takes so long to just
change the price of these drugs. I mean, you're not
changing manufacturing, you're not changing distribution.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
They got to change all the little stickers on all
the little bottles they have the price on them.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well how about some news. So you sell those out
and they put new ones on. Notice in that list
is not Sialis or viagra.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
You know is that?
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Well can't you get viagra for like really cheap already anymore?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well, yeah you can.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And then people figured out that, you know, it's very
hard to stoop in two bathtubs sitting outside in an
open field.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Commercial, I know, we just avoid they're sex for you.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You ever had sex in a bathtub where the other
person is in another bathtub right next to you?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I haven't. I tried. I negotiated it, but it was
just too expensive.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Manush thought it was Manusha, but it wasn't. Columbia President
Manus Chafinque steps down months after protests over Israel Hamas
war gripped the campus. She said in a letter, this
period has taken a considerable toll on my family, as
it has for others in our community. And she said
over the summer, I've been able to reflect and have
(09:56):
decided that my moving on at this point would be best,
would best enable Columbia to traverse the challenges.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So here is the question. She is over the summer,
she's been able to reflect. Now I don't know exactly
what she said. I don't know. She's part of the
group that wouldn't condemn the statement that the Israelis are
committing genocide.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Absolutely, I believe.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, I think she did.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And therefore, and when she was asked, she goes, it
depends on the context. You can in some cases you
can say genocide is okay.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Huh. So now that's coming down.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
One of the things about about what's going on with
the protests, and the protests are overwhelming, and they are
the country, and there's a lot of anti Semitism out there.
But you know, the entire concept that Jews are ever
powerful and they control a lot of the media, and
they are a group of people that have a lot
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more power than their population.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
You know that myth.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Bring it on.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Minnesota Governor Tim Waalds said yesterday he has agreed to
participate in a vice presidential debate on CBS News.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
On October first.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
CBS News posted its invitation to Wals and jd Vance yesterday.
Walls responded and said see October first, JD jd Vance
hasn't committed to it yet. He actually said he thinks
that they should do more than one debate. He wants
to look them over, make sure that everything's good to go,
and he fully expects to accept the invitation.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I mean, they have to negotiate the terms.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think much like you know Trump, but I didn't
want a debate unless he was in front of a
Fox audience and only on Fox.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And then he.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Backed down on that, as he should have, because you
don't want audiences at all anymore in these debates because
they're too biased and the moderators can't control them and
they burst in applause, and the moderators won't turn around,
say the next person that interferes, interrupts, you get tossed
from the auditorium. They would never do that, And so
I kind of like the idea. I think he has
(12:13):
to come to the table. But there's a legitimate for
him to say, I got to look at the rules first.
Here's what Mikell's the problem with that?
Speaker 7 (12:18):
About the both debates, the Democrats are saying, oh, well,
if they show up.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
They keep saying that, of course they're going to show.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Up, Yes they are, especially when one has agreed to
the rule.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Oh a little bit of politicking, Just a little bit
of politicking that both sides are just coming up with
stuff that is number one, ridiculous or slanted or just
straight out lies.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'll tell you, I think Waltz is going to clean
Vance's clock on this.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Forget about the issues. Okay, I mean everybody's baked into
the issues. Here is the reason. Walts is folksy. He
is he can next with people.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
He's just likable.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
People just like this guy, and likability is a very
big deal. I think Vance is super smart. I think
he's gonna be able to produce his positions. Is he
gonna lie? Of course he's gonna lie. Is Walt's gonna lie? Yeah,
probably too, or at least spin.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Vance was incredibly likable until he went on the ticket
with Trumph.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, really he was.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
He was anti Trump before he went on the ticket
with Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Well it's not true. He became a Trump is earlier
than that, but it was.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, and now the problem is he And the other
issue is is that the way it's going to come
off is that he is going to have to pair
it everything.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That Trump says, and it's going to be obvious.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Waltz is going to pair it everything that that Kamala
Harris says, but he's gonna do it in a way
that it doesn't sound like it's parroting.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I think that's going to be the issue.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I think Wallace is going to come off the winner
on this, just guessing the way.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Sarah Palin was pretty folksy.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Uh yeah, but then she went right into completely came
off as illiterate, came off, and when when she signed
her name with an X, that was very, very troubling
for a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
When she was trading pelts.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yes, oh man, all right, you know, I hate that
this is getting varied. I heard Amy talk about this,
and the Biden administration should be applauded for this. The
White House on Monday outlined this new initiative that intends
to make it easier for customers, you and me to
cancel subscriptions, to get refunds, to resolve customer service complaints.
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And this is all part of the Biden administration's earlier
crackdown on so called junk fees and the like and
these doom loop phone services and all of this garbage
and this. I think this is huge. I don't know
why this doesn't get more play. I think this is
for the people. Yeah, and we all just sucks that
it gets over shadowed.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We all suffer from this.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yesterday, I was trying to cancel a phone bill because
you know, I moved out of the Persian Palace and
there was still a phone line that I was paying for,
and so.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I'm trying to get phone lines in there.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
No, no, I think we had three, but that's it
for different purposes. In any case, and we had lines.
Of course, now no one has a phone line. But
matter of fact, Neil, you're the first person I know
that gave up a landline for your cell phone and said.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I only have a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
First person I know did that In any case, I
was on the I was I was trying to get
to AT and T yesterday on the phone. I went
through so many menus it just completely killed me.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I just hung up. I couldn't take it. I mean,
after my fifth level of menus.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
It's called the doom loop.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, it's horrible.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Yes, so they haven't they haven't passed the rule that
will end the doom yet they.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Have to.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
In any corporate any corporate head that doesn't do this
ought to do five to ten.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know, let's get serious about this.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Listening to Amy talk about this and wake up call
this morning, you can't help but say, if it's this
easy to sign up, it should be that easy to unsubscribe.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh yeah, that's the other thing. Try to call the
cancelation department. Once you you're in that, you're in that
doom loop. And you go and finally, what do you
want to do you know for sales? Do you know
dial one for repair, two for cancelations?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Three?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Okay, just press three. I did that twenty minutes later. Okay,
I'm still and I still haven't talked to anybody yet.
I finally got through a representative. Now press one for
sales and see how quickly you get through.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Oh yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Right there, Hi at, thank you for calling. What can
I do for you? Oh you want to add a service?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
We love you.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And then the other side, Are you sure what you
want to leave? I'm not exaggerating. Are you sure you
want to leave? Why do you want to leave? What
can we do to keep you?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
My family was just hacked to death and we don't
need a phone anymore.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Oh say I'm dying?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
That works too, all right?
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Well, illegal immigrants may be retiring in the US with
a little help from their home country. Many older undocumented
immigrants may soon get retirement help from Mexico for the
first time. The government of Mexico says it might expand
retirement assistance to all its citizens living in the US.
(17:46):
Could happen as soon as next year.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah's and that's a double edged sword. Number one. Most
of the money that people earn.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Here the illegal immigrants, goes back to Mexico. The majority
the money goes back to help family members, so the
money goes back to the economy of Mexico. However, the
money that they earn in Mexico goes into whatever federal
plan they have, pension plans, so it's their version of
Social Security, and that money is not going in because
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the money is earned here.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So I would argue on both sides that each side has.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
As a point here, Amy, you have a coin, no, okay,
then we don't have to decide.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I really don't have a coin.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Well, we know where you work.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I don't have a coin on me. I don't even
have pants on me.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Authority is investigating the Brazilian plane crash, you remember that
killed sixty two all the sixty two on board last week?
Have the black box have the full transcription of the
black box, but it didn't immediately explain what caused the accident.
They just know that about a minute before, the pilot
and co pilot noticed a steep loss in altitude and
(19:07):
at one point the co pilot said to the pilot, Hey,
we need more power to be stabilized Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Now that just is the voice recorder that they heard,
as far as the data recorder that has not been
released yet. What happened, you know, when was the power
cut off, whether they do with the alerons, what were
the sensors doing.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
So, I think we're gonna get a lot more information
they over the next few days, a few weeks.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
What that thing just dropped.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah, just dropped in and just started spiraling in. It
was in a tall spiral.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
It did look like a toy.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, it did star Yeah, it really did. It's very
was very sort.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
By the way, the black boxes, you know, are not black.
They are screaming almost a neon.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Orange probably smart.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Also, whenever you get on an airplane and they put
you at a front at the front, keep in mind
that the black boxes that they want to survive are
always at.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
The back of the airplane. Okay, pointing that.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Out here is some spending that is not flying with
a lot of people. The twenty twenty eight Summer Olympic Games,
as you know, coming to Los Angeles, and Los Angeles
is preparing. They're spending five hundred thousand dollars from the
General Funds Capital Improvement Fund for Olympic flags?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
All right, So I have a question. Olympic flag at
city hall? Okay, I'll buy that Olympic flag at the venues,
the swim stadiums, the coliseum.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
So far.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Okay, maybe that's another dozen, right, maybe another twenty. Let's say,
so that's twenty one flags. Twenty one flags at thirty
bucks apiece? What is that figure? It's got five hundred thousand,
I'll tell you that. So where do you spend five
hundred thousand dollars for flags? Amy has a very good question.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Wow, you know I have a little promotional company that
I make items.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Maybe I can make those flags.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Well, and the city controller went on x and said,
we're suffering from a budget crisis. Why are we spending
this on this? And then of course social media lit
up with it. People aren't very happy about it.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
I don't know where they do the math unless they're
literally doing one hundred thousand flags.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yeah. Well it's not one hundred thousand, you know.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
So you get a bulk discount.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
You get yeah, especially if you buy him from China.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Chine at the bottom. Neil can't hear you.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Your mic is off, Sorry, Buddy Mars, makers of M
and M's, Snickers, Bars and of course bars. They've agreed
to buy Kelenova in a deal that values the maker
of cheese It and Pringles at almost twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Billion with a B dollars. That's a lot of snacks.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Did you even know that Kelenova owned all of these brands?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
No?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I know what.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I can't place Kelenova, like the logo or anything. The
name is vaguely familiar, but no, I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Because when they buy, they buy brand names and they
keep the brand names. So Kelenova probably got clearly a
holding company of some kind, and the names are not
going You're not going to see Mars bars be Kelenova Bars, or.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Pringles become Kelenova Ingles.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
But Kelenova.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Kelenova also makes pop tarts okay at morning Stars kell
a tarts.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
I'm thinking there's going to be a new kind of
checks mix like that sweet and savory.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Oh I do you like that? I do like that.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I'm Cheese Farms.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
If you've ever had their vegan breakfast sausages are actually
quite good.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
The cheese it's cheese its.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah. I don't like those pringles. You know how many flavors.
Pringles are there. You know, I'm looking for smoked mackerel
pringles and that may be the only one that's not
out there.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
You know what, if you travel, trust me, you'll come
across the smoked mackerel pringles somewhere. I always check out
when we travel. Yeah, pringles worldly all the different flavors.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
I know, foods here.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Pringles is so ubiquitous, and I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Here. You can go into and I've done.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
This many many years ago, go into the depths of
the Amazon jungle where you see these little villages of
three hundred indigenous people where they have one little like
a badega where they have a counter and they sell
I don't know, like rat carcasses or whatever they sell
to each other.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
There. Pringles are for sale.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Oh there's like Coca cola.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I can't remember where we were, if it was Nika, Nicaaua,
or if we were in Peru or something, but there
was one time there was this little merchant outside and
I pointed to a bottle. I was thirsty and I said, hey,
can I can I get some gatorade? And the guy
looked at me and I'm like pointing to it gatorade,
(24:25):
And then he paused and he goes, are.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
They And I'm like, God, are they?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
I guess that, Oh yeah, sure, gatorade?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Are they? Okay? You got it?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Okay, MOOKI don't like spooky ooh.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
Mookie Bets, very good star baseball player with the Dodgers,
is with the team in Milwaukee.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
They're playing the Brewers.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
In fact, they're playing at eleven ten this morning, and
he is not staying with the team because the state
the team is staying at the Fister Hotel. It was
built in the eighteen nineties. It's long been rumored to
be haunted. So Mookie saying yeah, not so much, thinks
I'm staying at an airbnb.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yeah, And he's not completely crazy because a bunch of
other Dodgers and ball players that done the same thing,
and stories of clothes being left and tables.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Being moved and wo yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
And they just come from the haunted mansion and it's
all PTSD from that ride, that's all.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
There's no windows or doors.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Isn't this just a way for them to get their
own Airbnb?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I think they pay I would guess they'd have to
pay for it their own I don't know, I have
no idea.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yesterday the World Health Organization declared the ongoing mpox outbreak
in Africa is now a global health emergency.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, we're going to talk to Jim. Talk to Jim
about that.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
What he thinks of the Who, one of the greatest
bands ever, and we are going to talk about Impos
or Monkey Pocks. Does he respect the WHO, I mean
the World Health Organization or the.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Band the World Health Organization?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I think he does. It's a good question.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Implied like maybe he didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
No, No, it's a good question. I think he does.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, Jim is very much a traditionalist when it comes
to medicine. He's uh, I mean he's into FDA guidelines.
I mean he does do that. So that's we'll do
that at seven thirty with Jim.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
As mister Rourke would say, Welcome to North Korea.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
North Korea tells everybody.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
North Korea is set to reopen limited international tourism by
the end of this year. A couple of tour groups,
one based in Beijing and another one based in Chinyang,
say that they will allow visitors into the mountainous city
of Samajeon.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Which is supposed to be the birthplace of North Korean
leader Kim Jong un No ill grandfather. Oh yeah, Kim
Jong ils sorry, and then they're going to open that
up first, yes.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
His dad, I think, yeah, okay, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
No, I'm sorry I said it wrong in the first place.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
And they said they're probably going to open Pyongyang and
other places up after that. And just a note, most
US passports are not valid. You have to get special
permission to travel there, and the US government has designated
North Korea as a Level four do not travel risk.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I have a question.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
There's two places on this planet right now that I
would question anybody going to.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
One is North Korea. The other one is Russia, because
we am in the Russia story. Of course, some American getting.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Arrested South Sudan, maybe South Yemen may be in the
hands of ISIS terrorists, But I think you're better off
there than you are in Russia or North Korea.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
The cool thing is Dennis Rodman is going to be
giving the tours.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, he loves it. King Gim Chongwan loves Dennis Rodman.
I mean they are great friends.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
All right. So Jenna Rolands is dead. What a weird story.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Award winning actress Jenna Rolands, who's you know, we know
her from A Woman under Influence, Gloria and of course
The Notebook where.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
She's ugly cry movie of all time.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, you know I get mocked because I cry in
that too. I think my wife looked at me, like,
what the hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
But anyway, yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
It is ironic.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
She played one of her she dies of it.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, and she she and she plays someone who dies
or has dementia.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's very ironic. By the way, you guys cried at
the movie. I laughed. But that's the size the point.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Oh, it's a very it's very sweet.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It actually is. It actually is James Gardner, right, isn't
he the lead? Also?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:51):
And and the other thing is that she played the
movie or she played the role and said it was
one of the toughest that she ever played because her
mother had all time. So going through that and then
to find out that she also did it, got it
and then has been suffering from it for like five years.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah, and her son wore years young statement.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Her son says, And we rarely see this for the
last five years she's had Alzheimer's, all right, I mean
that we hear but then he adds, she's in full dementia.
And I don't know if you've ever seen anybody in
full dementia, it is It is tough to see. My
mom had full dementia by the time she was gone,
(29:32):
but then she as I showed up, she wanted to
have full dementia because she didn't want to be reminded
that I'm her son.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
We refer to.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
You as a functioning dementia patient. Work. You can still work.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
One day, Amy and Ann and Cono and I are
going to be reading to you out of the transcripts
of your show, and we're going to be it. And
then you told the sweetest fart joke here, and we
just all laughed, and you'll laugh and then you'll go,
who are you?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
It'll be it'll be like the notebook, It'll coming up.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
It's a nice way to end the news hour. Very
very I like that, you know, sweet to the point.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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is terrible? You know I do a lot of those,
don't I. There's just something about your life is horrible.
You're going to die next week, You've gotten some strange
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's just part of it. That's what the show is about.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
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Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
It's already a Thursday, August fifteenth.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hello, one and all.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
As we move into the show, and.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
As always, politics are really ramping up.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So I'm gonna spend a couple of minutes talking about
that lawsuit against Disney. Oh man, do I have Disney stories?
You know, I work for Disney for a period of time.
And believe me, there's a reason that call it Mausovich
there it is.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Why Why?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Why? Because they do well?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Why do you start the morning with that, with references
like that? And why do you disparage one of the
last bastions of wonderful entertainment.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm not arguing that it's not wonderful entertainment, Neil.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
You know what I'm saying is that it is a well,
first of all, it's a company that's probably more litigous
than any other company out there, that's for starters, and
that is the truth. And it's in some ways it's
very good. In some ways it's very bad.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
They are.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I mean, well, I'll we'll do a story for you
later on a wrongful death suit that has been filed
against Disney. And the response that Disney has is, well,
it's more lawyer's fault than Disney's fault. So anyway, as
I disparage Disney, keep in mind I disparage everything and
everybody notice to Magic Mountain, that's Gangland.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
It's good. What else can I say? Huh? I just.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
All right, that's fine, Hampy Capper. Everything is wonderful, Everything
is great.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I've changed the show completely. Now it's all kumbaya. Let's
eat bushes. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
That's uh you know? Okay? Quick?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Hello Neil, Hello, Hi Bill, Hi oh. I have to
share with you, by the way, all of you. Neil,
who broadcasts from the house many times and he's at
home today. Behind him, yeah, I guess you have a
green screen. Is that what you have behind you?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Neil, for lack of a better explanation, Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Sir, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So he puts stuff up behind him, like what day
is it hump day? And he puts the camel up
there and today and I have not seen this. And
it's a sign that says, sure happy it's Thursday. Okay, now,
sure happy it's Thursday.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It's a line for.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Each word and the first letter is in red.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Now is that an acronym for that phrase? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Oh, sure happy it's Thursday? Okay, Mars Friday. I mean
that's nothing but you and I okay, Saturday.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
That's fair, all right, that's fair a right. By the way,
does Disney advertise on here on the station?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
We do.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
We do giveaways and the like.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Sure, well, I know I understand that.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So we do have a relationship with Disney absolutely, okay, okay.
For the record, whatever I say disparaging about Disney, I
take back.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I sincerely apologize.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I am so sorry that I said it. It is satire.
It is me being over the top. You can tell
me when I'm done sucking up, or do I just
keep on going?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Keep going?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'd say, Amy, Amy, who is of course a Disney freak.
We have two Disney fanatics here on the show, Amy
and and.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
What I even have a Disney shirt on today?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You do.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Have a Disney shirt.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
You have two things, D and D Disney's and Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yeah, okay, fair enough, she's wearing a D.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
It could be their first.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Do they give you?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
For example, when you buy an annual pass, is there
a number on it? Do you have some kind of number?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Okay, I was looking at a tattoo on your arm.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I do not have any tattoos.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Okay, cono. Good morning Bill, and uh, I know it's
and good morning, Hi Bill. I know it's We've already started.
It's only uh six.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
O nine and we're on our way. I'm sorry works there,
I know ye.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Hey. By the way, I think in many ways, I
think Disney is one of the most extraordinary companies.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
In the world. And I mean that, uh, they.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Are world leaders and several different categories. For example, do
you know that companies, companies that have lines where people
line up cues at the theme park?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Companies all over the world come.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
To Disney to study how what Disney does with crowd control.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They do it like nobody else. On the planet.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Oh, a buddy of mine is the festival director for Coachella,
and when they were starting, he went. He's also a
big Disney fan. He went and sat and watched how
they clean Disneyland and used that as a model.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, it's crazy clean, by the way.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And that's a podcast that I want to put together,
and that is lawsuits against Disney, because that is fascinating stuff.
Going back seriously, having looked at Disney lawsuits for a
very long time, they are a world apart in good
ways and bad ways. Are pioneers and the other side too.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You should know.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
This because IP intellectual property. If you have trademarks in
the light, if you don't defend them, even the smallest one, I.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Know they yes, no, I know that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
For example, the little childcare centers, the gual who has
six kids at her home and painted Mickey on the.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Wall, ceasing desist lawsuit.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
They have to.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Okay, oh, then they can't enforce the big one.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Okay, well that's not true, but uh okay, it was.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
We used to.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I used to manage all of our trademarks here at
the station. Okay, you're just a Meani yeah Miami.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
So anyway, I lost it.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I lost it against Disney is just and that's coming
up at seven to twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You don't want to miss that.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Let's do it handle on the news, everybody, and we're
gonna get a little bit more optimistic possibly on the show.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
UT's Amy, Neil and me lead.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Sorry, what goes up must come okay, life the cyclical inflation?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Did he hit nine percent under Joe Biden's watch?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It is now under three percent, which now we're talking
about reasonable inflation, exactly where the Fed wants it to be.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
But the politics of it is that inflation.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well, Trump is blaming the Biden administration, saying yesterday inflation
is out of control, which is not true.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
However, taking.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Taking not so much the blame, which of course no
president ever does, but taking the credit for inflation going
down also doesn't work either. Actually, a president has very
little to do with inflation and certainly nothing to do
with the Fed.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Dealing with inflation. So good news on the inflation front,
very good news.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Let's bring those prices down. Spinking of good news. The
Biden administration has announced that it has negotiated Medicare discounts
on the top ten drugs, the most expensive drugs that
are used to treat blood clots, cancer, heart disease, diabetes.
They are like eloquists and Jaradians that you see zerelto
(08:23):
a lot of the names you're familiar with. They didn't
say how much the individual drugs are going to cost
when the discounts kick in, but say the negotiations would
save Medicare itself six billion dollars when the price cuts
are implemented, and they're expected to take effect not until
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, it gives a chance.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I don't know why it takes so long to just
change the price of these drugs. I mean, you're not
changing manufacturing, you're not changing distribution.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
They got to change all the little stickers on all
the little bottles they have the price on them.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well how about some news. So you sell those out
and they put new ones on. Notice in that list
is not Sialis or viagra.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
You know is that?
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Well can't you get viagra for like really cheap already anymore?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well, yeah you can.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And then people figured out that, you know, it's very
hard to stoop in two bathtubs sitting outside in an
open field.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Commercial, I know, we just avoid they're sex for you.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You ever had sex in a bathtub where the other
person is in another bathtub right next to you?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I haven't. I tried. I negotiated it, but it was
just too expensive.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Manush thought it was Manusha, but it wasn't. Columbia President
Manus Chafinque steps down months after protests over Israel Hamas
war gripped the campus. She said in a letter, this
period has taken a considerable toll on my family, as
it has for others in our community. And she said
over the summer, I've been able to reflect and have
(09:56):
decided that my moving on at this point would be best,
would best enable Columbia to traverse the challenges.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So here is the question. She is over the summer,
she's been able to reflect. Now I don't know exactly
what she said. I don't know. She's part of the
group that wouldn't condemn the statement that the Israelis are
committing genocide.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Absolutely, I believe.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, I think she did.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And therefore, and when she was asked, she goes, it
depends on the context. You can in some cases you
can say genocide is okay.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Huh. So now that's coming down.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
One of the things about about what's going on with
the protests, and the protests are overwhelming, and they are
the country, and there's a lot of anti Semitism out there.
But you know, the entire concept that Jews are ever
powerful and they control a lot of the media, and
they are a group of people that have a lot
(10:54):
more power than their population.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
You know that myth.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Bring it on.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Minnesota Governor Tim Waalds said yesterday he has agreed to
participate in a vice presidential debate on CBS News.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
On October first.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
CBS News posted its invitation to Wals and jd Vance yesterday.
Walls responded and said see October first, JD jd Vance
hasn't committed to it yet. He actually said he thinks
that they should do more than one debate. He wants
to look them over, make sure that everything's good to go,
and he fully expects to accept the invitation.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I mean, they have to negotiate the terms.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think much like you know Trump, but I didn't
want a debate unless he was in front of a
Fox audience and only on Fox.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And then he.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Backed down on that, as he should have, because you
don't want audiences at all anymore in these debates because
they're too biased and the moderators can't control them and
they burst in applause, and the moderators won't turn around,
say the next person that interferes, interrupts, you get tossed
from the auditorium. They would never do that, And so
I kind of like the idea. I think he has
(12:13):
to come to the table. But there's a legitimate for
him to say, I got to look at the rules first.
Here's what Mikell's the problem with that?
Speaker 7 (12:18):
About the both debates, the Democrats are saying, oh, well,
if they show up.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
They keep saying that, of course they're going to show.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Up, Yes they are, especially when one has agreed to
the rule.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Oh a little bit of politicking, Just a little bit
of politicking that both sides are just coming up with
stuff that is number one, ridiculous or slanted or just
straight out lies.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'll tell you, I think Waltz is going to clean
Vance's clock on this.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Forget about the issues. Okay, I mean everybody's baked into
the issues. Here is the reason. Walts is folksy. He
is he can next with people.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
He's just likable.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
People just like this guy, and likability is a very
big deal. I think Vance is super smart. I think
he's gonna be able to produce his positions. Is he
gonna lie? Of course he's gonna lie. Is Walt's gonna lie? Yeah,
probably too, or at least spin.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Vance was incredibly likable until he went on the ticket
with Trumph.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, really he was.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
He was anti Trump before he went on the ticket
with Trump.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Well it's not true. He became a Trump is earlier
than that, but it was.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, and now the problem is he And the other
issue is is that the way it's going to come
off is that he is going to have to pair
it everything.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That Trump says, and it's going to be obvious.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Waltz is going to pair it everything that that Kamala
Harris says, but he's gonna do it in a way
that it doesn't sound like it's parroting.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I think that's going to be the issue.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I think Wallace is going to come off the winner
on this, just guessing the way.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Sarah Palin was pretty folksy.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Uh yeah, but then she went right into completely came
off as illiterate, came off, and when when she signed
her name with an X, that was very, very troubling
for a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
When she was trading pelts.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yes, oh man, all right, you know, I hate that
this is getting varied. I heard Amy talk about this,
and the Biden administration should be applauded for this. The
White House on Monday outlined this new initiative that intends
to make it easier for customers, you and me to
cancel subscriptions, to get refunds, to resolve customer service complaints.
(14:48):
And this is all part of the Biden administration's earlier
crackdown on so called junk fees and the like and
these doom loop phone services and all of this garbage
and this. I think this is huge. I don't know
why this doesn't get more play. I think this is
for the people. Yeah, and we all just sucks that
it gets over shadowed.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We all suffer from this.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yesterday, I was trying to cancel a phone bill because
you know, I moved out of the Persian Palace and
there was still a phone line that I was paying for,
and so.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I'm trying to get phone lines in there.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
No, no, I think we had three, but that's it
for different purposes. In any case, and we had lines.
Of course, now no one has a phone line. But
matter of fact, Neil, you're the first person I know
that gave up a landline for your cell phone and said.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I only have a cell phone.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
First person I know did that In any case, I
was on the I was I was trying to get
to AT and T yesterday on the phone. I went
through so many menus it just completely killed me.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I just hung up. I couldn't take it. I mean,
after my fifth level of menus.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
It's called the doom loop.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, it's horrible.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Yes, so they haven't they haven't passed the rule that
will end the doom yet they.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Have to.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
In any corporate any corporate head that doesn't do this
ought to do five to ten.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know, let's get serious about this.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Listening to Amy talk about this and wake up call
this morning, you can't help but say, if it's this
easy to sign up, it should be that easy to unsubscribe.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh yeah, that's the other thing. Try to call the
cancelation department. Once you you're in that, you're in that
doom loop. And you go and finally, what do you
want to do you know for sales? Do you know
dial one for repair, two for cancelations?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Three?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Okay, just press three. I did that twenty minutes later. Okay,
I'm still and I still haven't talked to anybody yet.
I finally got through a representative. Now press one for
sales and see how quickly you get through.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Oh yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Right there, Hi at, thank you for calling. What can
I do for you? Oh you want to add a service?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
We love you.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And then the other side, Are you sure what you
want to leave? I'm not exaggerating. Are you sure you
want to leave? Why do you want to leave? What
can we do to keep you?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
My family was just hacked to death and we don't
need a phone anymore.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Oh say I'm dying?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
That works too, all right?
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Well, illegal immigrants may be retiring in the US with
a little help from their home country. Many older undocumented
immigrants may soon get retirement help from Mexico for the
first time. The government of Mexico says it might expand
retirement assistance to all its citizens living in the US.
(17:46):
Could happen as soon as next year.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah's and that's a double edged sword. Number one. Most
of the money that people earn.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Here the illegal immigrants, goes back to Mexico. The majority
the money goes back to help family members, so the
money goes back to the economy of Mexico. However, the
money that they earn in Mexico goes into whatever federal
plan they have, pension plans, so it's their version of
Social Security, and that money is not going in because
(18:16):
the money is earned here.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So I would argue on both sides that each side has.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
As a point here, Amy, you have a coin, no, okay,
then we don't have to decide.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I really don't have a coin.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Well, we know where you work.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I don't have a coin on me. I don't even
have pants on me.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Authority is investigating the Brazilian plane crash, you remember that
killed sixty two all the sixty two on board last week?
Have the black box have the full transcription of the
black box, but it didn't immediately explain what caused the accident.
They just know that about a minute before, the pilot
and co pilot noticed a steep loss in altitude and
(19:07):
at one point the co pilot said to the pilot, Hey,
we need more power to be stabilized Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Now that just is the voice recorder that they heard,
as far as the data recorder that has not been
released yet. What happened, you know, when was the power
cut off, whether they do with the alerons, what were
the sensors doing.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
So, I think we're gonna get a lot more information
they over the next few days, a few weeks.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
What that thing just dropped.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah, just dropped in and just started spiraling in. It
was in a tall spiral.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
It did look like a toy.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, it did star Yeah, it really did. It's very
was very sort.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
By the way, the black boxes, you know, are not black.
They are screaming almost a neon.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Orange probably smart.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Also, whenever you get on an airplane and they put
you at a front at the front, keep in mind
that the black boxes that they want to survive are
always at.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
The back of the airplane. Okay, pointing that.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Out here is some spending that is not flying with
a lot of people. The twenty twenty eight Summer Olympic Games,
as you know, coming to Los Angeles, and Los Angeles
is preparing. They're spending five hundred thousand dollars from the
General Funds Capital Improvement Fund for Olympic flags?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
All right, So I have a question. Olympic flag at
city hall? Okay, I'll buy that Olympic flag at the venues,
the swim stadiums, the coliseum.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
So far.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Okay, maybe that's another dozen, right, maybe another twenty. Let's say,
so that's twenty one flags. Twenty one flags at thirty
bucks apiece? What is that figure? It's got five hundred thousand,
I'll tell you that. So where do you spend five
hundred thousand dollars for flags? Amy has a very good question.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Wow, you know I have a little promotional company that
I make items.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Maybe I can make those flags.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Well, and the city controller went on x and said,
we're suffering from a budget crisis. Why are we spending
this on this? And then of course social media lit
up with it. People aren't very happy about it.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
I don't know where they do the math unless they're
literally doing one hundred thousand flags.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yeah. Well it's not one hundred thousand, you know.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
So you get a bulk discount.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
You get yeah, especially if you buy him from China.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Chine at the bottom. Neil can't hear you.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Your mic is off, Sorry, Buddy Mars, makers of M
and M's, Snickers, Bars and of course bars. They've agreed
to buy Kelenova in a deal that values the maker
of cheese It and Pringles at almost twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Billion with a B dollars. That's a lot of snacks.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Did you even know that Kelenova owned all of these brands?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
No?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I know what.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
I can't place Kelenova, like the logo or anything. The
name is vaguely familiar, but no, I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Because when they buy, they buy brand names and they
keep the brand names. So Kelenova probably got clearly a
holding company of some kind, and the names are not
going You're not going to see Mars bars be Kelenova Bars, or.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Pringles become Kelenova Ingles.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
But Kelenova.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Kelenova also makes pop tarts okay at morning Stars kell
a tarts.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
I'm thinking there's going to be a new kind of
checks mix like that sweet and savory.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Oh I do you like that? I do like that.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I'm Cheese Farms.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
If you've ever had their vegan breakfast sausages are actually
quite good.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
The cheese it's cheese its.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah. I don't like those pringles. You know how many flavors.
Pringles are there. You know, I'm looking for smoked mackerel
pringles and that may be the only one that's not
out there.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
You know what, if you travel, trust me, you'll come
across the smoked mackerel pringles somewhere. I always check out
when we travel. Yeah, pringles worldly all the different flavors.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
I know, foods here.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Pringles is so ubiquitous, and I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Here. You can go into and I've done.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
This many many years ago, go into the depths of
the Amazon jungle where you see these little villages of
three hundred indigenous people where they have one little like
a badega where they have a counter and they sell
I don't know, like rat carcasses or whatever they sell
to each other.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
There. Pringles are for sale.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Oh there's like Coca cola.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I can't remember where we were, if it was Nika, Nicaaua,
or if we were in Peru or something, but there
was one time there was this little merchant outside and
I pointed to a bottle. I was thirsty and I said, hey,
can I can I get some gatorade? And the guy
looked at me and I'm like pointing to it gatorade,
(24:25):
And then he paused and he goes, are.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
They And I'm like, God, are they?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
I guess that, Oh yeah, sure, gatorade?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Are they? Okay? You got it?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Okay, MOOKI don't like spooky ooh.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
Mookie Bets, very good star baseball player with the Dodgers,
is with the team in Milwaukee.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
They're playing the Brewers.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
In fact, they're playing at eleven ten this morning, and
he is not staying with the team because the state
the team is staying at the Fister Hotel. It was
built in the eighteen nineties. It's long been rumored to
be haunted. So Mookie saying yeah, not so much, thinks
I'm staying at an airbnb.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yeah, And he's not completely crazy because a bunch of
other Dodgers and ball players that done the same thing,
and stories of clothes being left and tables.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Being moved and wo yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
And they just come from the haunted mansion and it's
all PTSD from that ride, that's all.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
There's no windows or doors.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Isn't this just a way for them to get their
own Airbnb?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I think they pay I would guess they'd have to
pay for it their own I don't know, I have
no idea.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yesterday the World Health Organization declared the ongoing mpox outbreak
in Africa is now a global health emergency.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, we're going to talk to Jim. Talk to Jim
about that.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
What he thinks of the Who, one of the greatest
bands ever, and we are going to talk about Impos
or Monkey Pocks. Does he respect the WHO, I mean
the World Health Organization or the.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Band the World Health Organization?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I think he does. It's a good question.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Implied like maybe he didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
No, No, it's a good question. I think he does.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, Jim is very much a traditionalist when it comes
to medicine. He's uh, I mean he's into FDA guidelines.
I mean he does do that. So that's we'll do
that at seven thirty with Jim.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
As mister Rourke would say, Welcome to North Korea.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
North Korea tells everybody.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
North Korea is set to reopen limited international tourism by
the end of this year. A couple of tour groups,
one based in Beijing and another one based in Chinyang,
say that they will allow visitors into the mountainous city
of Samajeon.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Which is supposed to be the birthplace of North Korean
leader Kim Jong un No ill grandfather. Oh yeah, Kim
Jong ils sorry, and then they're going to open that
up first, yes.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
His dad, I think, yeah, okay, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
No, I'm sorry I said it wrong in the first place.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
And they said they're probably going to open Pyongyang and
other places up after that. And just a note, most
US passports are not valid. You have to get special
permission to travel there, and the US government has designated
North Korea as a Level four do not travel risk.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I have a question.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
There's two places on this planet right now that I
would question anybody going to.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
One is North Korea. The other one is Russia, because
we am in the Russia story. Of course, some American getting.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Arrested South Sudan, maybe South Yemen may be in the
hands of ISIS terrorists, But I think you're better off
there than you are in Russia or North Korea.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
The cool thing is Dennis Rodman is going to be
giving the tours.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, he loves it. King Gim Chongwan loves Dennis Rodman.
I mean they are great friends.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
All right. So Jenna Rolands is dead. What a weird story.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Award winning actress Jenna Rolands, who's you know, we know
her from A Woman under Influence, Gloria and of course
The Notebook where.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
She's ugly cry movie of all time.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, you know I get mocked because I cry in
that too. I think my wife looked at me, like,
what the hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
But anyway, yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
It is ironic.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
She played one of her she dies of it.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, and she she and she plays someone who dies
or has dementia.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's very ironic. By the way, you guys cried at
the movie. I laughed. But that's the size the point.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Oh, it's a very it's very sweet.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It actually is. It actually is James Gardner, right, isn't
he the lead? Also?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:51):
And and the other thing is that she played the
movie or she played the role and said it was
one of the toughest that she ever played because her
mother had all time. So going through that and then
to find out that she also did it, got it
and then has been suffering from it for like five years.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah, and her son wore years young statement.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Her son says, And we rarely see this for the
last five years she's had Alzheimer's, all right, I mean
that we hear but then he adds, she's in full dementia.
And I don't know if you've ever seen anybody in
full dementia, it is It is tough to see. My
mom had full dementia by the time she was gone,
(29:32):
but then she as I showed up, she wanted to
have full dementia because she didn't want to be reminded
that I'm her son.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
We refer to.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
You as a functioning dementia patient. Work. You can still work.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
One day, Amy and Ann and Cono and I are
going to be reading to you out of the transcripts
of your show, and we're going to be it. And
then you told the sweetest fart joke here, and we
just all laughed, and you'll laugh and then you'll go,
who are you?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
It'll be it'll be like the notebook, It'll coming up.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
It's a nice way to end the news hour. Very
very I like that, you know, sweet to the point.
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