September 24, 2025 • 27 mins
(Sept 24, 2025)
Neil Saavedra fills in for Bill while he is out on vacation. The return to office rush is stalling. Fabulous 5-day Las Vegas sale aims to boost visitation and foot traffic. Bizarre twist revealed for ex-astronomer CEO, HR exec caught on Coldplay Kisscam.
Neil Saavedra fills in for Bill while he is out on vacation. The return to office rush is stalling. Fabulous 5-day Las Vegas sale aims to boost visitation and foot traffic. Bizarre twist revealed for ex-astronomer CEO, HR exec caught on Coldplay Kisscam.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty, KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Good Wednesday Morning to you, Neil's Vader and
the Morning Crew here for you. Handles on vacation. He
is in Greece or something right now, and then I
(00:22):
think he's going to or maybe he's moved to Italy already,
but he will be back with us next week. Looking
forward to that. It's always nice when the gang's all here.
Coming up a little bit later in the eight o'clock hour,
we are going to have Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez back on
the show. She is with the seventh District. Couple of things.
(00:43):
Once she's got she's showing Jaws up at the dam
on I think October third or fourth, a very cool
event that they're doing partnering with Universal Studios for the
fiftieth anniversary of Jaws, and they're gonna show it over
watch it in boats well, you know what. I think
They're doing a lot of really cool things with the
water right there the damn. Yeah. She does a lot
(01:05):
of really neat stuff in her district. Her Fourth of
July stuff is spectacular with the drones and all that stuff.
She'll tell us about that, but also I want to
throw some things out, some questions out at her again.
I find her to be incredibly honest and forthright when
it comes to stuff going on in the city. So
I'm looking forward to talking to her coming up in
(01:28):
the eight o'clock hour. So stick around, all right, we
all saw it if you work for a corporation and
you went through COVID and all of that, the comeback
to work stuff. Now I remember, and those of you
who have been listeners to KFI for a long time
might know this. But in December of twenty nineteen, I
got a kidney transplant. I have a genetic disease, polycystic
(01:51):
renal disease. There's seven kids. My dad had it, and
there's seven kids in my family. Five of us have it.
It's a fifty to fifty chance for every kid. I
have nephews and nieces that have it. My grandfather, who
worked here in the States for a while, went back
to Mexico, and we believe he died in Mexico due
(02:13):
to it because they didn't have dialysis back then. Now
you can have dialysis. So December twenty nineteen. This is
before COVID was really known about or anything. I had
the transplant. I came home for three months. You basically quarantine.
(02:34):
You just keep yourself away because they're moderating your mets,
going back and forth up and down to give you
the most protection they can from infections and things, but
also suppressing your immune system because you don't want to
kick the new kidney out. I had a wonderful donor
live donor named Julie. She and I are friends, Her
(02:58):
husband and I are friends. Came close afterwards, and five
years going right. So three months later, do the math.
Now it's March of twenty twenty and I come back.
I was back for one or two days and they
came in and they said, hey, something's going on with
(03:19):
this COVID stuff. Go home until we know. And so
from that time on I was at home, and so
it was really strange. I don't think i've been back
five days a week since, and I know a lot
of us went through that. So now your company's any
(03:43):
big company, Microsoft, NBC, Universal, Paramount, Amazon, if you work
for a company, there was a hard push and it
comes and then it goes, and it's to get you
back into the office. They want you to return more
frequently to the office. Strangely enough, despite all these mandates,
(04:05):
they did a study and the average office attendance in
the US has hardly budged. And if you've looked for
a job, or you've looked at LinkedIn, or you've checked anything,
you can see that the jobs say, you know, remote
or hybrid or on site, whatever it is. But many
remote slash hybrid workers simply aren't complying. They're just not
(04:28):
doing it. Now, some firms are offering buyouts or what
they call exit packages to those who refuse to return.
Many top performers kind of they look the other way.
And I've seen that here too. They had problems. I
think it was salespeople. They originally wanted all the salespeople back.
(04:48):
But you know what happened is some of the high
earners are like, you know, I'm making my nut. You
know this is happening while I'm doing great, maybe even better,
why do I have to come back? And you kind
of have to make it for everyone right, and it
gets difficult. So logistical issues are at the top of
(05:11):
mind for people. So whether it's lack of desks, parking,
meeting rooms. You know, full time return isn't always as
feasible or or as good. The reality is, I work
very well at my home desk. I have everything I want.
My setup's great. I keep all of my computer, I
(05:33):
keep all my stuff, the maintenance on it fine tuned,
and for the most part, it's it's comfortable to me.
It's like where I like working. But I miss the
you know, connecting with people, joking or even being creative
with people, which is the that's what compels me to
(05:55):
be around. But businesses on the flip side, like I said,
they've got rid of desks in some areas parking. When
I first when we first came to this building here
in Burbank, I had my own parking spot. I gave
it up pretty quickly because I'm like, there's plenty of parking,
you know. They you don't need to pay for me
(06:17):
to have a parking space. And so I gave that
up pretty early because it didn't matter to me. I
just wanted a place where I could park and get
into work and all of that. But that does bother
some people because some people have to park on the street,
and some places downsized. So now analysis analysis. What word
(06:40):
am I looking for? An analo? The people that do
the analyzing, analysts, geez, don't laugh at me, Kno, dude, analysts,
thank you say the stricter office requirements requirements may be
a subtle way for companies to cut counts. Now that
(07:00):
may be the truth. So attrition and then rather than
doing direct layoffs, they're just kind of waiting for people
to sort of die off, I guess, or when you
have decisions that were never done before. I remember arguing
with Robin Bertolucci are fearless leader back in the day,
(07:24):
saying there's no way you can't just close America. And
you know what, sure enough they did. It was Newsome
closing California. And I hate the way they did it.
I hate that they did it to schools. I hate
that that companies, especially the hospitality industry, got screwed. And
we're still feeling it and we'll feel it for decades
(07:46):
to come. But people get in there new they're saying, hey, now,
I enjoyed my life. I like seeing my kids, I
like being around my significant other, I like being around
my family. I like having that drive time back, and
I don't know that it's ever going to come back
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not like that. People know that their life is more
important than just their work, and then there's some people
that just take advantage of it. Las Vegas having issues.
We talked about this a little bit yesterday, how the
big summer slump, but it's kind of been tapering out now.
Last time I was in Vegas, not that long ago,
(08:31):
I was at the Wind And if you've never been
to the Wind or the Encore there, holy smoked, what
a beautiful, beautiful location. And I will tell you to date,
the best, the best room service, just insane, absolutely insane.
(08:52):
They do it right, lovely place. They have a studio
there to broadcast from, really really nice. But I didn't
go out and about. I didn't go down the you know,
I just don't have the taste for those things the
way I used to go explore. I did go to
the Punk Rock Museum, which I encourage you to do.
It's off the strip there, but if you're a fan
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of the old punk rock scene or any of the
new stuff, it's a great tribute and walk through memories
of the punk rock movement. And it was just really
really neat. But Vegas is having a problem, and what
do you do when you have problems. If you're a store,
you have a sale. So Las Vegas is launching their
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first ever Fabulous five day sale to counterfalling tourism, so citywide,
you know, because it's not just a store, it's not
just one location, it's everywhere citywide, discounts across hotels, dining, entertainment.
More than one hundred deals are featured in this, including
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up to fifty percent off rooms. That's nice food, drink credits,
attraction specials. And they're calling this the Welcome to Fabulous
Las Vegas campaign. And really they just want foot traffic back,
they want humans back in there. Big slump, as I said,
(10:17):
in summer, they saw less visitors. Now that could be
a lot of things. I mean, Canada is pissed at us.
America's hat. They're mad at us because of Trump, so
we take the brunt. So they're not coming to America.
They don't want to be a part of us. So
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that's one thing. But also, you know, it's just expensive
to go to Vegas. Officials will kind of monitor this
whole thing, look for the results to determine whether the
sale becomes a reoccurring or annual event. Maybe it'll become
like a prime day where it started out like once
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a year and it was twice a year. Now I
think it's three times a year, and then it's going
to keep growing and growing and growing. But this is
the first time they've done this. It's the Las Vegas
Convention and Visitors Authority that are looking towards you know.
I think they're concerned genuinely that there has been such
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a downgrade in visitation that something has to be done.
So they're going to go over all this eventually to
compare it to this time last year. They're going to
do that year over year analysis and see if it
moves the needle at all. If it does, I mean,
if they get enough. I didn't hear a whole lot
(11:41):
about it. Have you seen. I don't watch network television
really or anything like that. Anybody see any spots Kno,
anybody Matthew know television spots or hear any Las Vegas sale,
Come one, come all, where cutting prices. I don't think
I heard anything. I saw I saw it on KLA.
(12:01):
Oh you did, yeah, okay, So but if they got
enough of the word out, I'd be curious to see
if it works. If it works, then we know that's
a big kind of Hey, Las Vegas, bring your prices down.
It just got to where it was so insane to
do anything, and the cost was so high that you know,
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who wants to pay thirty bucks for a cocktail? Especially?
I mean, don't doesn't it behoove Vegas to make that
money go into slot machines and table games. They're bound
to work and make more there than they are off
of entertainment or cocktails or food, even though I think
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they have a spectacular food in Las Vegas. Still it
gets so you know, costly, that nobody wants to be
a part of it. All right, It used to be
you remember back in the day when the only the
biggest embarrassment about being at a cold Play concert was
being at a cold Play concert. And then came the
(13:06):
kiss cam and all that craziness. You had the astronomer
CEO now former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his HR exact,
Kristin Cabot. They were seen embracing each other during that
Coldplay kiss cam at the concert. Big time scandal, viral backlash,
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and I love when we get on our high horse
about those backlashes. We like, oh my god, I can't
believe they're doing this, and I know it's like I'm
I'm like, if if, if you're not in love anymore,
that happens, I get it, you know, move on, sit down,
have an adult conversation, and move on. When you're doing
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these things, yeah, it's it's very easy to judge and
go look at them. But the act is we're all
individuals and we all make stupid decisions at times. And
I will say that I did laugh quite a bit
at the memes though. I think the most brilliant memes
came out about this one pop culture moment. Sadly both
(14:20):
were placed on leave later resigned, but man, it was
I mean, everybody was talking about it. I think at
one point. At one point Shannon farreh And from the
Gary and Shennon Show was like, why are we talking
about this? Which is a legitimate thing. However, the fact
(14:43):
that it made everybody, I don't know, maybe we just
that's like soap operas when you just want to be
taken away from reality and look at someone else's life
and go, wow, your life sucks. That makes me feel
better about my life, I think is what it is.
You know, they say that about traffic on on radio
and stuff. We're not changing the traffic. We're kind of
(15:06):
just being miserable alongside you. Right, it's like, oh my gosh,
there's another traffic jam. We're just we can't, you know,
get rid of it. But we'll all be miserable together.
And I think that's why we get this way. They
are massive speculations about an affair. Both were married at
the time. A source close to Cabot now claims there
(15:27):
was no affair, that she and Byron were friends. I
don't I have female friends. I mean, there was times
where I had very very close female friends that you know,
I would hug or things like that. I don't know
that I embraced them like that at a concert or
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vice versa. Some saying that she had already separated from
her husband. Both attended the concert with other friends. That's
the craziness. Cabot's husband was reportedly at the same concert
the same night with his own date. And because we're
(16:13):
madly in love with other people's misery, now this which
we thought went away is coming back. Now. Public intrigue
is deepening because everybody's going, oh, oh wow, so what
were there? Now? There were motives maybe you know what,
(16:34):
maybe they knew that. I don't think people should get
fired for stuff like that. I don't know why people
on the internet care about that. You know, we've had
presidents who had affairs that we cared less about. Cabot
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says the fallout, including threats, public sha shaming, job loss,
was unfair and devastating in their families. And I find
it very hard to disagree with that, right, How can
you disagree that it was it wasn't a massive hubbub
and that people went nuts over it. Me. I love
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the creativity of the memes, so sometimes I don't we
should not we stop calling them memes and start calling
them memes like meaning, like a mean because they really
are just being mean, and I sometimes that humor makes
me laugh. I grew up with mostly boys, and we
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are mean to each other. That's how we show love, right,
dummy talking to you, Connell, That's how I show love.
No hurts, easy Kimmel with the tears, just uh, come on?
So that I get that. I enjoy some of the
(18:00):
misery too, because I enjoyed the creativity of the memes.
They were just funny and with AI you can really
turn around some crazy things, but ultimately it was none
of our business. It just became public there. And we
love misery because it makes us feel better about our
own lives. Right, just enjoy ourselves, and we don't have
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to enjoy life because other people may not be in
the moment, losing your livelihood and all that stuff because
you were with somebody we don't know the background. I
once heard of a talk show host who left his
family for a new bride. You don't believe me, Neil
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Savadra in for Bill Handle. I'll be with you through
this week and then we're all together next week. Yet
to gain all right before Jimmy Kimmel and everything going
on in the conversation about censorship and using the ability
of free speech, let's parse this. I want to get
(19:06):
into the news that came out yesterday about Google censorship
to bring you up. If you're playing the home game,
bring you up to speed. I stood with Jimmy Kimmel,
and I'll tell you why, because car from the FCC
and Trump himself had made comments about curbing and censoring
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essentially in my view, and I thought the appearance of
it was enough for me. I don't even want those
things being said or getting close to me. A president
saying those things or the head of the FCC saying
those things in any context is the same thing as
a citizen making assassination comments. It's like to me, it
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just you got to investigate those It's too close to
home and there's too much wickedness that can take place.
It comes to censorship. I also said that Trump saying
comments about you know, too many bad ninety seven percent
of things that are said on mainstream television about him
in the news and the like are bad. It could
(20:16):
be true, but maybe they should look into licenses not okay.
So the equivalent of him saying, hey, we've looked and
it seems like the last couple of shootings dealt with
democratic belief system. We're going to take guns away from democrats. Misorry.
It's just when you start messing with the constitution like that,
it's not okay. Now, do I believe that Jimmy Kimmel
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was being censored. I don't. I think that it was
all it was. It comes down to, is that a
large amount of those that take the syndication of his
show that were ABC affiliates, some two hundred stations, were
saying we have a problem with this, and we're not
(20:57):
going to air this show. And that's a big problem.
You don't air the show, you're not making money. Disney
probably handled it poorly and should have sat down and
talked about it and saying this is where we're at,
and I bet you there's more to it. Jimmy probably
could have come on and apologized or done something or
found something and go from there. So there is a
(21:20):
difference to me between cancel culture, which I hate, but
that is culture coming together and saying we don't like
this person because of what they said, and basically pushing
them out with pressure. I can't stand it. I think
it's lame. I'm not into boycotts or anything like that either.
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But censorship is different than cancel culture. Censorship involves the government,
and that's when I have a problem with it. So
here you had the appearance of you know, censorship with
Jimmy Kimmel, and I stood by him because I stood
(22:03):
by Gina Carano as well. Gino Carano from Disney Fame.
She was on Mandalorian Carradoon. I loved the character, loved
her in it, and they booted her for something she
said outside of the show. Not even on the show,
and yet Pedro Pascal, her counterpart, the star of the show,
(22:31):
said something very similar. There was evidence that she was
picked primarily because she was conservative. That's not okay, but
they have the right to do it because it's a
business decision. However, the Google censorship story that is all
over the place today, but you probably won't hear a
ton of it from this perspective, is actual censorship from
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the government. You had the Biden administration pressuring Google, a
company that gets information in the hands of people, probably
more than anything else, to remove COVID nineteen content, even
(23:14):
when it didn't technically violate YouTube's policies. So YouTube, Google
all of these things. That is actual censorship from the government,
and you can couch it in it was they were,
you know, pushing away misinformation, you know, trying to subdue
(23:37):
or squelch misinformation. Okay. Well, you could say the same
thing about Jimmy Kimmel because the comment, although I did
not find it offensive, the comment that he did make
was about how it was possibly a maga person that
shot and killed Charlie Kirk. Here's what frustrates me about
(24:03):
partisanship and why I no longer am a Republican or
a Democrat and will not be. I think the only
people that should be are politicians because they need the money.
They have to have someone back them, so you have
to do that. But we the people, Nah, The problem
is you hear the left saying things like, oh, they
(24:25):
care about women's rights and that we should care about
women's rights. They care about trans people, But when they
butt heads and you talk about the rights of women
athletes to be able to play about uh not against
somebody with the biological male figure, then they don't care
(24:49):
about women's rights. They care about women, they care about
trans rights, unless that trans person is named Caitlin and
is conservative, then they don't care about her rights anymore.
So really, it's not about caring, it's caring about your side,
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and don't be fooled Otherwise, all of Hollywood came out
and it said how they are supporting Jimmy Kimmel and
this is horrible. They didn't come out for Gina Carano,
and they didn't come out when Google and YouTube was
censoring because ultimately they don't care about censorship. Do you
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know why the left doesn't come out and try and
sensor television because the vast majority of TV has a
very left focus. Now when you go to radio, a
lot of it's the right. Talk radio is on the right.
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It's just the way it is. So don't be fooled
by either side telling you that they care about the principle.
They don't. What they cares about how the outcome when
that principle is messed with messes with them. Otherwise you
would have people like our own governor standing on principle
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saying it's wrong to jerrymander. And even though they did
it in Texas, and we believe that it's problematic, we're
not going to stoop to that here, but you don't.
If it's jerrymandering and it's problematic in Texas, then it
should be problematic in California. And you shouldn't play that game.
Neither side. This is who This is why you're the
(26:41):
stooge if you stand with either side, because they don't
care about big principles. They only care about it how
it plays into their views and getting their views across
and staying in power. That's it. And you and I
we the people that actually matter, not those in their
political roles, but you and I who actually matter, get
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tied into it, and they're the ones that are shaking
the box to make us fight one another and believe
that there's a right side and a wrong side and
there's not. This is KFI heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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iHeartRadio app. Good Wednesday Morning to you, Neil's Vader and
the Morning Crew here for you. Handles on vacation. He
is in Greece or something right now, and then I
(00:22):
think he's going to or maybe he's moved to Italy already,
but he will be back with us next week. Looking
forward to that. It's always nice when the gang's all here.
Coming up a little bit later in the eight o'clock hour,
we are going to have Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez back on
the show. She is with the seventh District. Couple of things.
(00:43):
Once she's got she's showing Jaws up at the dam
on I think October third or fourth, a very cool
event that they're doing partnering with Universal Studios for the
fiftieth anniversary of Jaws, and they're gonna show it over
watch it in boats well, you know what. I think
They're doing a lot of really cool things with the
water right there the damn. Yeah. She does a lot
(01:05):
of really neat stuff in her district. Her Fourth of
July stuff is spectacular with the drones and all that stuff.
She'll tell us about that, but also I want to
throw some things out, some questions out at her again.
I find her to be incredibly honest and forthright when
it comes to stuff going on in the city. So
I'm looking forward to talking to her coming up in
(01:28):
the eight o'clock hour. So stick around, all right, we
all saw it if you work for a corporation and
you went through COVID and all of that, the comeback
to work stuff. Now I remember, and those of you
who have been listeners to KFI for a long time
might know this. But in December of twenty nineteen, I
got a kidney transplant. I have a genetic disease, polycystic
(01:51):
renal disease. There's seven kids. My dad had it, and
there's seven kids in my family. Five of us have it.
It's a fifty to fifty chance for every kid. I
have nephews and nieces that have it. My grandfather, who
worked here in the States for a while, went back
to Mexico, and we believe he died in Mexico due
(02:13):
to it because they didn't have dialysis back then. Now
you can have dialysis. So December twenty nineteen. This is
before COVID was really known about or anything. I had
the transplant. I came home for three months. You basically quarantine.
(02:34):
You just keep yourself away because they're moderating your mets,
going back and forth up and down to give you
the most protection they can from infections and things, but
also suppressing your immune system because you don't want to
kick the new kidney out. I had a wonderful donor
live donor named Julie. She and I are friends, Her
(02:58):
husband and I are friends. Came close afterwards, and five
years going right. So three months later, do the math.
Now it's March of twenty twenty and I come back.
I was back for one or two days and they
came in and they said, hey, something's going on with
(03:19):
this COVID stuff. Go home until we know. And so
from that time on I was at home, and so
it was really strange. I don't think i've been back
five days a week since, and I know a lot
of us went through that. So now your company's any
(03:43):
big company, Microsoft, NBC, Universal, Paramount, Amazon, if you work
for a company, there was a hard push and it
comes and then it goes, and it's to get you
back into the office. They want you to return more
frequently to the office. Strangely enough, despite all these mandates,
(04:05):
they did a study and the average office attendance in
the US has hardly budged. And if you've looked for
a job, or you've looked at LinkedIn, or you've checked anything,
you can see that the jobs say, you know, remote
or hybrid or on site, whatever it is. But many
remote slash hybrid workers simply aren't complying. They're just not
(04:28):
doing it. Now, some firms are offering buyouts or what
they call exit packages to those who refuse to return.
Many top performers kind of they look the other way.
And I've seen that here too. They had problems. I
think it was salespeople. They originally wanted all the salespeople back.
(04:48):
But you know what happened is some of the high
earners are like, you know, I'm making my nut. You
know this is happening while I'm doing great, maybe even better,
why do I have to come back? And you kind
of have to make it for everyone right, and it
gets difficult. So logistical issues are at the top of
(05:11):
mind for people. So whether it's lack of desks, parking,
meeting rooms. You know, full time return isn't always as
feasible or or as good. The reality is, I work
very well at my home desk. I have everything I want.
My setup's great. I keep all of my computer, I
(05:33):
keep all my stuff, the maintenance on it fine tuned,
and for the most part, it's it's comfortable to me.
It's like where I like working. But I miss the
you know, connecting with people, joking or even being creative
with people, which is the that's what compels me to
(05:55):
be around. But businesses on the flip side, like I said,
they've got rid of desks in some areas parking. When
I first when we first came to this building here
in Burbank, I had my own parking spot. I gave
it up pretty quickly because I'm like, there's plenty of parking,
you know. They you don't need to pay for me
(06:17):
to have a parking space. And so I gave that
up pretty early because it didn't matter to me. I
just wanted a place where I could park and get
into work and all of that. But that does bother
some people because some people have to park on the street,
and some places downsized. So now analysis analysis. What word
(06:40):
am I looking for? An analo? The people that do
the analyzing, analysts, geez, don't laugh at me, Kno, dude, analysts,
thank you say the stricter office requirements requirements may be
a subtle way for companies to cut counts. Now that
(07:00):
may be the truth. So attrition and then rather than
doing direct layoffs, they're just kind of waiting for people
to sort of die off, I guess, or when you
have decisions that were never done before. I remember arguing
with Robin Bertolucci are fearless leader back in the day,
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saying there's no way you can't just close America. And
you know what, sure enough they did. It was Newsome
closing California. And I hate the way they did it.
I hate that they did it to schools. I hate
that that companies, especially the hospitality industry, got screwed. And
we're still feeling it and we'll feel it for decades
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to come. But people get in there new they're saying, hey, now,
I enjoyed my life. I like seeing my kids, I
like being around my significant other, I like being around
my family. I like having that drive time back, and
I don't know that it's ever going to come back
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not like that. People know that their life is more
important than just their work, and then there's some people
that just take advantage of it. Las Vegas having issues.
We talked about this a little bit yesterday, how the
big summer slump, but it's kind of been tapering out now.
Last time I was in Vegas, not that long ago,
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I was at the Wind And if you've never been
to the Wind or the Encore there, holy smoked, what
a beautiful, beautiful location. And I will tell you to date,
the best, the best room service, just insane, absolutely insane.
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They do it right, lovely place. They have a studio
there to broadcast from, really really nice. But I didn't
go out and about. I didn't go down the you know,
I just don't have the taste for those things the
way I used to go explore. I did go to
the Punk Rock Museum, which I encourage you to do.
It's off the strip there, but if you're a fan
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of the old punk rock scene or any of the
new stuff, it's a great tribute and walk through memories
of the punk rock movement. And it was just really
really neat. But Vegas is having a problem, and what
do you do when you have problems. If you're a store,
you have a sale. So Las Vegas is launching their
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first ever Fabulous five day sale to counterfalling tourism, so citywide,
you know, because it's not just a store, it's not
just one location, it's everywhere citywide, discounts across hotels, dining, entertainment.
More than one hundred deals are featured in this, including
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up to fifty percent off rooms. That's nice food, drink credits,
attraction specials. And they're calling this the Welcome to Fabulous
Las Vegas campaign. And really they just want foot traffic back,
they want humans back in there. Big slump, as I said,
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in summer, they saw less visitors. Now that could be
a lot of things. I mean, Canada is pissed at us.
America's hat. They're mad at us because of Trump, so
we take the brunt. So they're not coming to America.
They don't want to be a part of us. So
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that's one thing. But also, you know, it's just expensive
to go to Vegas. Officials will kind of monitor this
whole thing, look for the results to determine whether the
sale becomes a reoccurring or annual event. Maybe it'll become
like a prime day where it started out like once
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a year and it was twice a year. Now I
think it's three times a year, and then it's going
to keep growing and growing and growing. But this is
the first time they've done this. It's the Las Vegas
Convention and Visitors Authority that are looking towards you know.
I think they're concerned genuinely that there has been such
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a downgrade in visitation that something has to be done.
So they're going to go over all this eventually to
compare it to this time last year. They're going to
do that year over year analysis and see if it
moves the needle at all. If it does, I mean,
if they get enough. I didn't hear a whole lot
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about it. Have you seen. I don't watch network television
really or anything like that. Anybody see any spots Kno,
anybody Matthew know television spots or hear any Las Vegas sale,
Come one, come all, where cutting prices. I don't think
I heard anything. I saw I saw it on KLA.
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Oh you did, yeah, okay, So but if they got
enough of the word out, I'd be curious to see
if it works. If it works, then we know that's
a big kind of Hey, Las Vegas, bring your prices down.
It just got to where it was so insane to
do anything, and the cost was so high that you know,
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who wants to pay thirty bucks for a cocktail? Especially?
I mean, don't doesn't it behoove Vegas to make that
money go into slot machines and table games. They're bound
to work and make more there than they are off
of entertainment or cocktails or food, even though I think
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they have a spectacular food in Las Vegas. Still it
gets so you know, costly, that nobody wants to be
a part of it. All right, It used to be
you remember back in the day when the only the
biggest embarrassment about being at a cold Play concert was
being at a cold Play concert. And then came the
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kiss cam and all that craziness. You had the astronomer
CEO now former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his HR exact,
Kristin Cabot. They were seen embracing each other during that
Coldplay kiss cam at the concert. Big time scandal, viral backlash,
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and I love when we get on our high horse
about those backlashes. We like, oh my god, I can't
believe they're doing this, and I know it's like I'm
I'm like, if if, if you're not in love anymore,
that happens, I get it, you know, move on, sit down,
have an adult conversation, and move on. When you're doing
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these things, yeah, it's it's very easy to judge and
go look at them. But the act is we're all
individuals and we all make stupid decisions at times. And
I will say that I did laugh quite a bit
at the memes though. I think the most brilliant memes
came out about this one pop culture moment. Sadly both
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were placed on leave later resigned, but man, it was
I mean, everybody was talking about it. I think at
one point. At one point Shannon farreh And from the
Gary and Shennon Show was like, why are we talking
about this? Which is a legitimate thing. However, the fact
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that it made everybody, I don't know, maybe we just
that's like soap operas when you just want to be
taken away from reality and look at someone else's life
and go, wow, your life sucks. That makes me feel
better about my life, I think is what it is.
You know, they say that about traffic on on radio
and stuff. We're not changing the traffic. We're kind of
(15:06):
just being miserable alongside you. Right, it's like, oh my gosh,
there's another traffic jam. We're just we can't, you know,
get rid of it. But we'll all be miserable together.
And I think that's why we get this way. They
are massive speculations about an affair. Both were married at
the time. A source close to Cabot now claims there
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was no affair, that she and Byron were friends. I
don't I have female friends. I mean, there was times
where I had very very close female friends that you know,
I would hug or things like that. I don't know
that I embraced them like that at a concert or
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vice versa. Some saying that she had already separated from
her husband. Both attended the concert with other friends. That's
the craziness. Cabot's husband was reportedly at the same concert
the same night with his own date. And because we're
(16:13):
madly in love with other people's misery, now this which
we thought went away is coming back. Now. Public intrigue
is deepening because everybody's going, oh, oh wow, so what
were there? Now? There were motives maybe you know what,
(16:34):
maybe they knew that. I don't think people should get
fired for stuff like that. I don't know why people
on the internet care about that. You know, we've had
presidents who had affairs that we cared less about. Cabot
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says the fallout, including threats, public sha shaming, job loss,
was unfair and devastating in their families. And I find
it very hard to disagree with that, right, How can
you disagree that it was it wasn't a massive hubbub
and that people went nuts over it. Me. I love
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the creativity of the memes, so sometimes I don't we
should not we stop calling them memes and start calling
them memes like meaning, like a mean because they really
are just being mean, and I sometimes that humor makes
me laugh. I grew up with mostly boys, and we
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are mean to each other. That's how we show love, right,
dummy talking to you, Connell, That's how I show love.
No hurts, easy Kimmel with the tears, just uh, come on?
So that I get that. I enjoy some of the
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misery too, because I enjoyed the creativity of the memes.
They were just funny and with AI you can really
turn around some crazy things, but ultimately it was none
of our business. It just became public there. And we
love misery because it makes us feel better about our
own lives. Right, just enjoy ourselves, and we don't have
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to enjoy life because other people may not be in
the moment, losing your livelihood and all that stuff because
you were with somebody we don't know the background. I
once heard of a talk show host who left his
family for a new bride. You don't believe me, Neil
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Savadra in for Bill Handle. I'll be with you through
this week and then we're all together next week. Yet
to gain all right before Jimmy Kimmel and everything going
on in the conversation about censorship and using the ability
of free speech, let's parse this. I want to get
(19:06):
into the news that came out yesterday about Google censorship
to bring you up. If you're playing the home game,
bring you up to speed. I stood with Jimmy Kimmel,
and I'll tell you why, because car from the FCC
and Trump himself had made comments about curbing and censoring
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essentially in my view, and I thought the appearance of
it was enough for me. I don't even want those
things being said or getting close to me. A president
saying those things or the head of the FCC saying
those things in any context is the same thing as
a citizen making assassination comments. It's like to me, it
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just you got to investigate those It's too close to
home and there's too much wickedness that can take place.
It comes to censorship. I also said that Trump saying
comments about you know, too many bad ninety seven percent
of things that are said on mainstream television about him
in the news and the like are bad. It could
(20:16):
be true, but maybe they should look into licenses not okay.
So the equivalent of him saying, hey, we've looked and
it seems like the last couple of shootings dealt with
democratic belief system. We're going to take guns away from democrats. Misorry.
It's just when you start messing with the constitution like that,
it's not okay. Now, do I believe that Jimmy Kimmel
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was being censored. I don't. I think that it was
all it was. It comes down to, is that a
large amount of those that take the syndication of his
show that were ABC affiliates, some two hundred stations, were
saying we have a problem with this, and we're not
(20:57):
going to air this show. And that's a big problem.
You don't air the show, you're not making money. Disney
probably handled it poorly and should have sat down and
talked about it and saying this is where we're at,
and I bet you there's more to it. Jimmy probably
could have come on and apologized or done something or
found something and go from there. So there is a
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difference to me between cancel culture, which I hate, but
that is culture coming together and saying we don't like
this person because of what they said, and basically pushing
them out with pressure. I can't stand it. I think
it's lame. I'm not into boycotts or anything like that either.
(21:43):
But censorship is different than cancel culture. Censorship involves the government,
and that's when I have a problem with it. So
here you had the appearance of you know, censorship with
Jimmy Kimmel, and I stood by him because I stood
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by Gina Carano as well. Gino Carano from Disney Fame.
She was on Mandalorian Carradoon. I loved the character, loved
her in it, and they booted her for something she
said outside of the show. Not even on the show,
and yet Pedro Pascal, her counterpart, the star of the show,
(22:31):
said something very similar. There was evidence that she was
picked primarily because she was conservative. That's not okay, but
they have the right to do it because it's a
business decision. However, the Google censorship story that is all
over the place today, but you probably won't hear a
ton of it from this perspective, is actual censorship from
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the government. You had the Biden administration pressuring Google, a
company that gets information in the hands of people, probably
more than anything else, to remove COVID nineteen content, even
(23:14):
when it didn't technically violate YouTube's policies. So YouTube, Google
all of these things. That is actual censorship from the government,
and you can couch it in it was they were,
you know, pushing away misinformation, you know, trying to subdue
(23:37):
or squelch misinformation. Okay. Well, you could say the same
thing about Jimmy Kimmel because the comment, although I did
not find it offensive, the comment that he did make
was about how it was possibly a maga person that
shot and killed Charlie Kirk. Here's what frustrates me about
(24:03):
partisanship and why I no longer am a Republican or
a Democrat and will not be. I think the only
people that should be are politicians because they need the money.
They have to have someone back them, so you have
to do that. But we the people, Nah, The problem
is you hear the left saying things like, oh, they
(24:25):
care about women's rights and that we should care about
women's rights. They care about trans people, But when they
butt heads and you talk about the rights of women
athletes to be able to play about uh not against
somebody with the biological male figure, then they don't care
(24:49):
about women's rights. They care about women, they care about
trans rights, unless that trans person is named Caitlin and
is conservative, then they don't care about her rights anymore.
So really, it's not about caring, it's caring about your side,
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and don't be fooled Otherwise, all of Hollywood came out
and it said how they are supporting Jimmy Kimmel and
this is horrible. They didn't come out for Gina Carano,
and they didn't come out when Google and YouTube was
censoring because ultimately they don't care about censorship. Do you
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know why the left doesn't come out and try and
sensor television because the vast majority of TV has a
very left focus. Now when you go to radio, a
lot of it's the right. Talk radio is on the right.
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It's just the way it is. So don't be fooled
by either side telling you that they care about the principle.
They don't. What they cares about how the outcome when
that principle is messed with messes with them. Otherwise you
would have people like our own governor standing on principle
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saying it's wrong to jerrymander. And even though they did
it in Texas, and we believe that it's problematic, we're
not going to stoop to that here, but you don't.
If it's jerrymandering and it's problematic in Texas, then it
should be problematic in California. And you shouldn't play that game.
Neither side. This is who This is why you're the
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stooge if you stand with either side, because they don't
care about big principles. They only care about it how
it plays into their views and getting their views across
and staying in power. That's it. And you and I
we the people that actually matter, not those in their
political roles, but you and I who actually matter, get
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tied into it, and they're the ones that are shaking
the box to make us fight one another and believe
that there's a right side and a wrong side and
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