Attack on Knowledge | $500-A-Night Airport Hotel

(June 04, 2025)
The attack on knowledge. A 355-year-old company that owned one-third of Canada is shutting down. Want to pass on all those frequent-flier miles to heirs? It’s tricky. The rise of the $500-a-night airport hotel.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings kf I AM six forty the Bill Handles
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
App upday June fourth.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Now, I'm gonna have a little fun before I get
into something that is not fun, that is pretty serious,
that scares me to death, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hoping it scares you.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
But first, let's have some fun for a moment. As
you know, I've been telling you that Saturday night there
is going to be a dinner at the Anaheim White
House where we're inviting five people to join us and
their guests, where the entire Morning team is hosting this dinner.
And the way you enter its contest, you go, and

(00:45):
today's the last day. By the way, you go on
to the iHeart Radio app during the course of the show,
and then you click on the bill Handle show. Then
you click on the microphone in the upright hand corner,
and then we record you record why you should go
and why we want to go one of the two.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
And it's here's what we do. We take some of
the fun ones, throw their.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Their answers they're recording into a hat, and then we
pull out five winners, and we don't know how many
are going into the hat.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
So let's do this.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Let's take a couple that Neil already has chosen to
give you an example of some pretty good ones that well,
this is just fun for people that want to or
should go to our dinner Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
All right, Cono.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Back in two thousand, my now ex husband used to
force me to listen to Bill Handle every week and
on our way to dirtbike races, and I hated it.
Even his best friend would say, Bill sounds like a
big stat guy eating doughnuts well, yelling at people. Somewhere
between pitch stuffs, dust clouds and divorce papers, Bill's voyce
started being comforting. Now I suffered genuine withdrawals on weekends.
It cannot wait for Monday mornings. Annoying that somewhere out

(01:51):
there my ex may still be listening to So pick
me because I survived it and can't imagine my mornings
without it.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
See, that's sucking up to me.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
You know, I'm just telling you, you know, I just
I can't take any kind of a compliment.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
That's a suck up. All right, Cono, another one. I
don't give a crap about Bill or anyone on the show.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
All I care about is the food, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
See that resonates, See that one works? What short but sweet? Yes,
yes it's so luck he was eating, saying it does,
it does.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
So anyway we were, we've gotten I don't know where
you've gotten dozens and dozens. I don't know how many
we've gotten.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
And so we'll play a lot. Yeah, okay, the five
that have