Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to KFI a M six forty
wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. You are in the home
stretch. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your Friday morning wake up call. I'd
like to say you're welcome or day nada on the Cinco dam Mio, because
this is the home stretch and every time I hear the announcer guys say that
on a Friday morning, I'm like, whoa, I know, at eight
all surround sleep. So Monday you're still kind of refreshed from the weekend.
Right Tuesday is when the lack of sleep suck fest starts. Tyler feels it's
Wednesday. Now Thursday. You're like, Hey, I'm crest in that hill
and Friday home stretch. Tomorrow morning we get to sleep in, which is
why I say you're welcome. Happy Sinko to Mayo. Do you have anything
fun planned? It's a Friday. I mean it's you know, usually it
always falls during the week somehow, but man, on a Friday night.
But can you imagine if you try and go to a restaurant, a Mexican
restaurant tonight to celebrate how long those weights are gonna be. I may celebrate
by driving through Miguel's Junior, or oh, there's a taco bell right next
to it, and I think there's a Del Taco across the street. Yeah,
it might be my Sinco de Mayo. But you know what, at
least I'm in the spirit right And isn't it true that they don't celebrate Sinco
de Mayo in Mexico. I've always found that hilarious. Welcome to your wake
up call. I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. This is your Sinko to Mayo.
We have a huge commercial building that has been burning in Commerce, LA.
Police have fatally shot one of three guys involved in a high speed chase downtown,
and the Riverside County Sheriff's Department says it's stepping up patrols to catch people
who drive drunk or drugged over this Cinco de Mayo. We're going to talk
about what they're calling political brinksmanship. ABC's Karen Travers will join us and see
if there's any movement at all on this debt limit extension. Who blinks first,
that's essentially this political brinksmanship. So we'll get into that with her in
just a few minutes. Let me tell you more about this huge commercial building
that's on fire in Commerce. Big flames and heavy smoke could be seen coming
from the building. This is on Flotilla Street this morning. It's not clear
what type of material has been fueling this fire. Firefighters are working to protect
buildings nearby. People in Carson and Compton are cleaning up from two small tornadoes
again that came with this recent rain. Both were rated and e F zero.
However, that's still a rating and they were strong enough to damage cars
and buildings. Yesterday. They brought down some power lines, knocked over at
least one big old tree. Winds were estimated up to seventy five miles an
hour. LA police have fatally shot one of three guys involved in a high
speed chase Downtown. Officers started chasing three people in a car just after midnight
near Manchester in the one ten freeway. The LAPD says officers noticed one of
them had a gun. The driver eventually got on the ten, got off
at Maple, and all three bailed. At some point two officers opened fire.
The injured man died at the hospital. Well the closure of those two
hotels we were talking about in Laguna Beach is indefinite. This was after those
fights between nearly two dozen people. And don't forget it was also between security
guards. Fights broke out between two separate security teams, where police say one
of the twenty people involved was arrested for battery. City manager Charade Dupuis says
fight started in the lobby of the Hotel Laguna and later moved into the fourteen
West Hotel. Among the security guards, se role were armed and they were
each trying to take over the properties and the possession of the properties. Dupuis
says she had to shut down the hotels a day after the fights on Wednesday
for public safety. The city says there's no date set for when the hotels
will reopen. Chris Adler Kafie News. Attorneys for Eric and Lyle Menendez say
new evidence is grounds to have their convictions for killing their parents in Beverly Hills
overturn. Karen Travers, good morning to you political brinksmanship. Who's playing it
or is everyone playing it? I mean, I think it depends on who
you ask. But yesterday we were asking the President Budget Director so along the
young questions about this whole debt ceiling standoff, and she made the most strong
case yet we've heard from the White House about what she says is made up
drama and political brinksmanship, and she was saying that this is a problem of
the people's own making, the people being Congress. She said she could write
a bill in five minutes, put it on the floor, and get lawmakers
today to avoid a government default. She knows her way around Capitol Hill.
She was a budget and appropriations a person up there before she's taking to the
White House. The lawmakers up there know her very well, and she was,
you know, kind of explaining all of this and clean plain english of
what they need to do and why the White House insists that it's Congress that
needs to just pass this clean debt feeling increase and then the President will have
the conversation about spending cuts. But you know, one thing that she did
wiggle a little bit on, or suggests the wiggle room, is that there
could be a conversation about a short term debt limit increase. So you know,
again that incomplete comparison of like your credit card, give yourself another increase
for just a couple months so you can figure out how to pay the bill
and then work on the bigger problem. That's kind of what she suggested yesterday
might be on the table, or at least it's not off the table.
And that's interesting because remember the presidents and saying he's not negotiating on the debt
ceiling. That kind of indicates there might be a little bit of negotiation that
could take place next week in that meeting with the House Speaker. And that's
what Republicans have said, right that they would be willing one more time to
give this sort of extension. And I think what Kevin McCarthy say, like
one percent, but then that would be it. He wouldn't want anymore after
that. If they can at least come to like, all right, I'll
give a little, you give a little. I mean, that's how negotiations
go. So if we're in that that spot right now, I think that
does give us hope. Yeah, except you know, it's still just you
know, depends on how long it goes. If they're just trying to avoid
the default in early June and they raise the debt limit through a number that
only gets you through the summer, they still to deal with all these same
issues before the end of tea. Yeah, it's just yeah, yeah,
it's like it's to avoid the credit downratings, to send a message to Wall
Street that they're trying to solve the problem. Because this is another thing that
came up. You probably remember this from a decade ago when this was all
happening back then or in the Obama administration, there was the credit downgrade even
though there wasn't a default, because you know, this doesn't look good.
It's really troubling. And that's a concern right now that even if they figure
out the way to avoid this and they solve this crisis right now, it
still could have severe ramifications for the economy. And that question came up yesterday
about how concerned they are about this, what planning are they doing for that
potential? And Young said, you know, she's an optimist, then she
hopes to find the fast to avoid it. But you know, you do
get a sense that they are very concerned that that still is a potential.
Well sure, and I think too if we do remember what happened before.
It's also the optics of it, based on which party decides to blink first.
Do they look like the weaker party or does the other party look like
the bad guy because they refuse to blink, right, and I think you
know, whoever blinks, of course, spins it in a way that they
don't look like they blinked. And everybody tries, you know, to put
their own political messaging on this, but somebody has to and that's the questions
that have been framed of like who is the one that blinks here? How
do you what are the off ramps to all of this? You know,
big meeting next Tuesday at the White House with the President and Kevin McCarthy.
I think you can expect we will not have cameras in that meeting, but
because of the style of this White House, but hopefully we get to hear
from the lawmakers after the meeting they come out and give us a sense of
what went on during those discussions. All right, Karen, thank you so
much. Happy sinco de mayo. Are you guys doing anything fun? You?
Well, we've got jobs report today at the White House and now the
President has a meeting with his Investing in America cabinet, so very exciting,
all right, cool. In fact, I'm going to talk about the jobs
report coming up at five twenty, so thank you. That'll be my celebration
as well. Have a goodbye dot you next week. Thanks ABC's Karen Traverse.
All right, let's get back to some of these stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortes,
this is the weirdest thing. Is teaming up with who've all people? Would
you think? Or another lawmaker? Okay, Alexandria Ocasio Cortes is teaming up
with Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gates. I'm sorry, Wait what I had to
reread that this morning went away? Wait, they are teaming up. They're
trying to ban Congress from trading stocks. These two are actually part of a
group of lawmakers who say the ability to individually trade stocks stop the public's trust
in government. Ocasio Cortez says, when Congress has access to classified information,
it should not be trading on it on the stock market. Kind of agree
with that because that feels like insider trading or something. There was bipartisan support
for the issue last year, but nothing was introduced. Then they put this
updated bill on the floor. I think it was Tuesday. The owner of
a dance studio in Anaheim has been charged with sexually assaulting six girls. Mark
Chariva, sorry, that's Schabarria was arrested earlier this week. He's charged with
fifteen counts of ludas on a child younger than fourteen, and other charges.
All of them are felonies. He has pleaded not guilty. Well, a
guy who missed his flight from Las Vegas to lax is facing felony charges for
allegedly telling officials there might be a bomb in his luggage. Was this so
that the plane wouldn't go? I'm so confused. Oh why the Jetboulue plane
was evacuated yesterday when it arrived in La Nothing explosive was found in the search,
all right, So, these attorneys for Eric and law Menendez say new
evidence is grounds to have their convictions for killing their parents in Beverly Hills overturned.
The brothers legal team says the evidence supports the brothers claims the boys were
sexually assaulted by their father and feared for their lives. Attorney's point to two
key pieces of evidence versus and apparent letters sent from one of the brothers to
his cousin a few months before the boys shot and killed their parents. The
letter reads, I never know when it's going to happen, and it's driving
me crazy. The other piece of evidence's recent sexual assault allegations a member of
the boy band Manudo has made against the brother's father. The Menendez brothers were
found guilty of murdering their parents in nineteen eighty nine. They were sentenced to
life without parole. Blake Trolley ka if I News the OC Sheriff's Department.
The Medal of Valor award recipient this year include a deputy who saved a baby,
a swat team that saved a motorcyclist, and a doctor who saved a
church. The incident that day was horrific. Ocy Sheriff Don Barne says doctor
John Chang was killed when he stopped an active shooter last year at a church
in Laguna Woods. Without the actions of doctor Chang, who was a hero,
undoubtedly many more lives would have been lost. Sergeant Jackie Gray's team was
recognized for dozens of human trafficking arrests. The people who work for the victims
and to you recognized for it is. It's one of those experiences in lawnforce
that makes you happy that you do your job. Other awards yesterday include a
deputy who was hit and dragged by a drunk driver and an investigator who helped
prevent a mass violence attack in Anaheim. Corbin Carson, ka if I News
and just a reminder. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department says it's stepping up patrols
to catch people who drive drunk or drugged. Over this and go. De
Mayo. Officials say people planning on having a couple of drinks should have a
designated driver or call an uber or a lift. It doesn't matter. A
misdemeanor d Y conviction in California can result in finds up to ten grand gael
time probation. Intoxicator drivers are also looking at state prison time if someone is
killed. So you know what, how easy is it set aside in your
budget tonight? An extra I don't know, twenty thirty bucks to pay for
your uber or lift and then you're home free. I don't know if you
have seen this huge fire at this commercial building in commerce. This is what
we've been talking about in traffic. Robert was saying, it's not really super
visible, doesn't seem to be making any impact, but wholely cow. These
intense flames and heavy smoke can be seen from at least Flotilla Street, which
is kind of around it. But we're trying to figure out what kind of
material is in this building and it's you know, it's a commercial building,
so who that knows what's in there, but that's fueling this fire. Firefighters
have been working to protect buildings nearby. It's just it's huge. And LA
police have fatally shot one of three guys involved in this high speed chase downtown.
They were doing this chase, then they see a guy with a gun.
Things go squorely after that, and the Riverside County Sheriff's Department says it's
stepping up patrols to catch those people who go to those aforementioned bars and start
spilling drinks and then think it's a great idea to drive drunk or drugged over
Sinco de Mayo probably call an uber or lyft. Caleb Silver, investopedia dot
COM's editor in chief, Good morning to you. We are waiting for a
jobless report about to drop any moment now right, Well, you said jobless,
Hopefully it's a job gains report that's string around nine minutes. That is
the April jobs report. We're expecting around one hundred and eighty thousand jobs to
have been added last month, a little bit of a slowdown from March,
which is two hundred and thirty six thousand, and we've been averaging three hundred
and forty five thousand jobs a month in the through the first quarter. But
job growth is slowing a little bit. Unemployment ratemate tick up. It's a
bit too as more folks are now looking for work. May be concerned that
the job market is going to get much weaker towards the back half of the
year. Okay, watch the Feds raise the interest rate another quarter percent.
Now you're saying that there's a bit of a softening when it comes to the
jobs numbers. Does this mean that we're starting to come to some sort of
balance. Yeah, Balance would be the gains of about one hundred thousand jobs
a month. That shows sort of a healthy economy. That's how many workers
sort of enter the workforce on average every month. We've been way over that.
And we've been way over that. Why because employers, especially in the
services part of the economy restaurants, bars, hotels, etc. They've been
trying to add workers back because that's where the demand is right now. Also
a little bit in government and healthcare. But you've also been hearing, especially
out in California about layoffs and tech companies about layoffs and some retail jobs.
So you're seeing some softness in parts of the economy, but there's still a
lot of demand for workers in the services part of the economy. Okay,
when it comes to how the stock market is reacting, I know, I
think it was Tuesday before we had the interest rate hike that they, you
know, the stock market analysts knew that it was going to happen. The
next day, a man, that stock market went down fast. Now where
are we what can we expect now and what can we expect it to look
like based on the report that comes out this morning. Yeah, So the
jobs report is a rear view mere indicator, and that we're looking at last
month's job gains. But what it does tell us is whether or not the
Fed's interest rate hikes. And they've been hiking rates steadily ten times in a
row. Now we've got interest rates as high as they've ever been since two
thousand and seven. Has that slow job growth and has slowed more importantly wage
growth, because believe it or not, the FED wants to slow job growth
and wage growth. Why because as wages keep rising, employers have to pay
their employees more and they pass those extra costs onto consumers. Consumers at some
point are going to pull back on spending. It really hasn't happened yet,
but consumer spending is seventy percent of our GDP, so this is all connected.
And that if where job gains are too strong, the Fed's going to
have to keep raising rates. And if the FED keeps raising rates, that
puts pressure on the stock market. That's the balance we're in right now.
That said, even though it's been chopping lately, the stock market, the
SMP five hundred up six percent this year, the NASDAC up around eighteen percent
this year. So while we're kind of worrying about everything, stock market's kind
of quietly grounded a little bit higher, except for the Dow Jones industrials,
which is flat for the year. And when it comes to going back to
consumer spending, is that does the fact that a lot of times when it
comes to consumer spending, we are putting it on our credit cards with these
you know, just light upticks every time that the Fed increases the interest rates,
at what point do you think that consumers will start to go, hey,
wait a minute, these even minimum payments are getting a little bit too
high for me. I gotta pull back. Yeah, we've been, but
we don't break. And credit card debt is at an all time high right
now. The average debt per bar or somewhere around five thousand bucks. So
we haven't broken yet. Even though aprs on credit cards are north of twenty
percent, you would think that would cause a pullback, but we're still doing
a lot of revenge spending, especially in travel right especially in eating out.
And we have inflation the deal with, so we're having to spend more at
the grocery store every time we go shopping right now, So we haven't broken
yet. What will happen is if we see more layouts and a recession or
it's very personally, if you lose your job, you're going to start spending
less. If you see your neighbors or family members facing economic difficulties, you
pull back on spending. We haven't had that broadly yet. If that happens,
that's going to send us into a recession. The question is how long
will that last? All right, Caleb, thank you so much. Have
a great weekend. You two all right, thanks, see you later.
That is investopedia dot COM's editor in chief, Caleb Silver. All Right.
I don't know if I remember watching Prince Charles, and at that time it
was Diana. I remember laying on the floor when I was a little kid.
I must have been like, I don't know, three or four.
I don't know why I remember this so vividly. Maybe because I've never seen
a queen before, or it could have been the fact that I was wiggling
a loose tooth. And I remember laying on the floor wiggling a loose tooth
with my mom on the couch, and we were watching, you know,
as the horse drawn carry took, you know, the prince and princess at
that time, Diana and Charles down the road, and she was waving so
beautifully, and I thought, man, I could be a toothless princess someday.
No, I don't know if I actually thought that, but it is
true I was wiggling a tooth. And now this weekend we have the coronation
of King Charles the Third and Queen Camilla, and I've been looking at some
of the things that you know go along with the coronation, So we're gonna
have all the pomp and circumstance that you can possibly imagine for tomorrow. And
then I was looking up some of the I don't know history on it.
So if you go to I got this off of Royal dot UK, which
is the official Royal's website, and so there's a part on it that is
the history of this and one hundred things that you may or may not know
about it. About him specifically, did you know that he's an author?
Yeah? I didn't even know that. He wrote a book based on stories
he told his younger brothers when he was growing up. He's also written books
on the natural world and the environment. He's a painter, did you know
that? And that his watercolors have been displayed in the Royal Academy's nineteen eighty
seven Summer exhibition after it was submitted anonymously, which I think that's important because
when I first read that, oh it was in the summer exhibition, well
does he's the king? So if somebody calls and says, hey, Charles
stick figure is here, somebody's going to put it up. But it was
submitted anonymously and it still made it in all right, let's see I did
not know this, and why we did not have this footage, I don't
know, because it should be somewhere and I'm gonna have to try and find
it. His majesty has presented the weather forecast on the BBC and apparently this
took place during a visit to the BBC's Scotland studios in twenty twelve. Now
who sets that up? And if you are the news director of the BBC
and you get a call, they're like, hey, yeah, I'm the
spokesperson for at that time, Prince Charles, wouldn't you say to yourself?
Yeah right. It's like one time I remember former President Clayton called in the
newsroom and I remember sitting there getting the call and he was like, Hi,
this is Bill Clinton calling for the host that was on after me,
and I literally said yeah right, and he goes, no, I'm I'm
I'm scheduled to be on with him, and I all of a sudden,
you know that voice, right, And I went, oh, I just
said yeah right to the president. But I have a feeling that probably was
what happened when he do we have I've got to find that forecast. If
I do, I will on social media jjl KFI on Twitter and Instagram.
In nineteen eighty, the King rode in the steeple chase and finished second.
I mean, we knew the guy was in equestrian and had played polo all
throughout his life. I think up until like the early two thousands he was
still very very active in it. Andy likes the trees. The King often
carries out tree planting ceremonies, that's his thing apparently, and after planting each
tree, his Majesty gives a branch a friendly shake to wish them well.
Mike, it's interesting. Now. The other thing that we have that is
Michelle's putting up on the website for us KFI AM six forty dot com is
the Coronation Keiche, which I looked at the recipe for and I was talking
with our actually a producer A and Robin Berto Lucci, our program director yesterday.
I think it sounds fine except where it's a kiche that has heavy cream,
all the cheese, all the eggs, all that kind of stuff.
But then the two things that threw me. It has beans in it.
Broad beans which are kind of like soya beans, butterbeans like the big old
white beans, beans and a kiche and tarragon. Anyway, I'm kind of
thinking about making it this weekend and bringing it in Monday for the show.
So guys, get your taste buds ready, but we will have hopefully some
Coronation flavor when we talk about it on Monday morning. Tyler scrambled and I
now have the link to Prince Charles giving the weather forecast. It's just just
it just throws you for a curve, like wow, all right. Anyway,
it's up from May eleventh, twenty twelve, so almost exactly what eleven
years ago, so you can see how well he delivers a weather forecast.
He shakes the limbs of trees to say good luck and he gives the weather
forecast. He also plays piano. You're welcome, Dean Sharp, good morning
to you. Did you know all those coronation little tidbits. I did not,
but none of them surprised me. Actually, in fact, I would
think, you know, keishe is a French food and so leave it to
the British to thumb their noses at the at French cuisine by filling a kiche
with like the heaviest food possible. Yeah, let's just put maybe we should
put beans in it? Yeah, who'd idea was that? Fill it with
beans? I agree, that's the part where I went anyway, Yes,
and you're right, and the French are probably like, oh please, it's
supposed to be light and fluffy and you know, with a few little bits
of I don't know, cheese and broccoli or you know, the what are
they the ham and cheese or something like that, but beans please, Dean,
welcome back. How was your trip to Italy? Oh? It was
terrible, just you know, you know Italy. It was just awful.
Every minute was a torture. I've only seen a couple of pictures of your
trip, and it looks like you guys had an amazing time. What an
experience. It was great. Yeah, we had a lot of fun.
You have you been there before? And I ask you this from like a
literally, I bet you look at when you go to different places like that,
you're looking at the architecture and the design. I mean, that's just
who you are. And when you go there and you see this sort of
thing, and in so much history is in the way that things are designed.
I bet it's almost a little bit of like an overload for you,
sensory overlap it is, so it's such an overload. I was telling Conway
last night. At some point about five minutes in, I had to start
like shutting down parts of my brain just because because you know, I mean
when when you're walking through a country a town where every building is, you
know, like six hundred years old. That means everything has a story,
everything as a timeline and a trajectory from some architectural era of the past,
and you just can't. You can't. It's it's like architectural history with a
fire hose. You just can't. You can yeah, And so so you
gotta get really like meant, I have to, I have to get really
mentally selective about what it is that I'm thinking about, because anybody and you
just walk up to some door, you just knock on a door, and
this old woman answers, and you're like, Hey, does this place have
a story? She's like, are you kidding me? Right? Right?
Well, I'm glad that you got that opportunity. But I was thinking about
you when you were gone, because that's your thing. You like to look
at the bones of the house, you know, and then kind of go
from there, and I thought, oh my gosh, I can't imagine somebody
like you with that eye or that mindset going to a place like Italy,
you know, somewhere like that that just has this incredible history and what that
must have been like. So I'm so glad you had that opportunity. But
welcome back. We're glad you're home, and I'm glad to be home too.
You know what, we work really hard, Tina and I at having
a home and having a life that it's fun to vake kate from, but
it's not a necessity, and we're always happy. When we start to,
you know, feel the fatigue of a long vacation, it's like, you
know, well we're ready, Yeah, I'm home, yep. It makes
you appreciate it more, all right. So a lot of people, especially
kind of as we get out of the crummy weather and it starts to become
springtime, you start to think like, han, you need to do a
little spring cleaning. And then also you've been cooped up in your house all
winter and you've had the opportunity to go, Man, I really need to
change that, or I really let's knock down that wall. Something like that,
but when it comes to remodeling, sometimes our ideas don't necessarily go along
with our budget, and then sometimes you don't feel like you and your partner
are on the same page. There's a lot that goes into it. But
you've got some tips for us to make a remodel go right. Yeah,
you know, it's remodeling season, and I don't know exactly why it gets
titled that. I think though, it's because the average person kind of wakes
up here in midspring and says, wait a second, now it's time to
change something about our house. And that's completely the legit, and it's great,
But unfortunately then everybody starts looking at the clock and they're like, wait,
well, we gotta get going right now because springs about to end,
summer's going to be here, and then fall. Have this all done by
the holidays, And let me tell you, unless it's just a quick little
design overlay or just a quick refresher, that's just not going to be realistic.
That's why we're going to spend this weekend, Tomorrow's show and Sunday handing
out the kind of kind of remodeling advice that people just don't normally get to
hear a lot of wisdom coming forward from experience. The main thing I would
say, I don't know, we could start anywhere, but I'll just put
it this way. What's the biggest lesson you can learn if you're getting ready
to remodel a house, slow your role. Just slow it down for a
number of reasons. Number one, if you were to start planning today,
and again, the chances of you getting it all wrapped up and done at
this point by the holidays a major remodel virtually non existent. Okay, I
don't want to, you know, rain on anybody's parade, but just the
idea. If you've got to submit plans, if you've got to pull permits,
if you've got to pull contractors together. Again, unless it's a very
small job, it's likely going to roll right into the holidays. Now you
know. If you're ready for that, great, But just understand the best
way to remodel a house is to spend the most important resource you have to
do it, and that is not money. It's time. Time when your
most important resource. And when you talk about this, I know I have
zero patience. I want everything done yesterday, and so this is one that
I think I would have to like constantly tell myself when I go to bed
at night, like it's okay, it's okay, you know, don't worry
about the fact that this isn't going as quickly as you had planned. You
talk about the iron triangle, and that's one of the things that I loved
about that and I'll let you expand on it, but time being one of
those sides of this triangle. And it's so important to keep that in mind
because we do all expect magic to happen in our house, to magically transform
overnight. That is not the case. Yeah, it's not the case,
nor do you want it to be. And you know, we have this
kind of fast food mentality. Americans don't realize this, but we we overlay
it onto everything and it doesn't work well. It doesn't mesh up well with
something that you're trying to do to your home that you want to last for
years and years and years. And I always tell people this, slow it
down. The extra few weeks that you take right now, even though it's
driving you crazy, But the extra time that you take right now, two
or three years from now, when you are living in the perfect remodel,
you won't care anymore. Okay, But if you rush it, as so
many people do, you'll care every day because you'll be staring at the rushes,
the mistakes, the oversights, all of those kinds of things. And
you know what you brought up my trip to Italy And if you want to
learn one lesson from a place that has some of the most beautiful architecture in
the world, Like you know, here's a cathedral, Oh my god,
just stunning, jaw dropping. How long did it take to build that?
About two hundred and fifty years right now, I'm not suggesting that you take
that amount of time to read, but that's the point. So you mentioned
the iron triangle. There is an iron triangle in the world of construction and
design. Imagine a triangle in your mind. Those three sides. We're gonna
name those three sides. One side is cost, the next is time,
and the third quality. Now here is the rule. You will choose two
sides of that triangle that you want for your project, and you're gonna pay
for those two sides with the third side. So as an example, if
you want it done really awesome and really fast, okay, if you want
the quality and the time, then you're gonna pay for it in cost.
In other words, get ready to write a big, big check to have
it done. Okay, if you want it done fast and cheap, then
all you have to do is sacrifice quality. Yeah, okay. Most people
fall for the third option, which is, hey, I would like the
best possible value and the best possible quality into my house. Well guess what
that means. That means you pay for that with taking your time. And
it's really that simple. See. And when I read that, I was
like, oh, I see what you mean by this. So the triangle
with cost, time and quality, pick two and you sacrifice the third.
That is the most brilliant thing. I like. I always get tips from
you, but you know, my brain it's kind of mushy in there,
and some things don't stick. This one stuck. I was thinking about that
all last night. So Dean, thank you very much for that one.
You're very very welcome, all right, have welcome back home, by the
way, and chow, I'll see you next week, see you later.
That is Kay's house, whispered Dean Sharp. Follow him on social media at
Home with Dean and of course listen to him tomorrow morning six to eight and
Sunday's nine to noon right here on K five. So there's the yay,
let's go out on party side of it, and then there's the you better
to have a play inside of it. From the Riverside County Sheriff's Department,
they're reminding everybody just off way I, guys, we're stepping up patrols to
catch people who drive drunk or drugged over Sinco de Mayo. And this is
just the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, but every law enforcement entity in southern California
is going to be stepping things up. Officials say people who plan on having
a couple of drinks should have a designated driver or a call an uber or
a lift. A misdemeanor DUI conviction in California can result in finds up to
ten thousand dollars and also don't forget that includes some jail time and some improbation.
Intoxicated drivers are also looking at state prison time if someone is killed.
Force is strong with the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center, a Yoda impressionist,
has marked the unofficial Star Wars Holiday May the fourth, thanking the cancer center
in Ohio for its innovative treatment. Paul Ditchell says he learned he had neck
cancer in twenty twenty when he started not being able to speak in his Yoda
voice. So he said, he was told his vocal cords had to be
removed, but doctors were able to save them by regrowing vocal cords. Check
this out using ear cartilage. I don't even know that was a thing,
Ditchell told his medical team. Now he's cancer free and he can keep living
life and continue doing his Yoda impression. Jim Ryan, good morning to you.
So I can't decide if this is super creepy or convenience, but when
it comes to the uber predictive technology, it is here. But I just
don't know if I want technology second guessing me because I know how terribly arise
sometimes the autocorrect on like your phone can go. And so then when I
was thinking about the two where I was kind of comparing them and I thought,
holy cow, this could go really wrong, really fast. Well it
could, sure bet who's to say that it might be super convenient for you
to step out your door in the morning you were going to call an uber.
You're gonna jump on the app and order an uber anyway, But here's
this Uber sitting there in front of the house waiting for you. Guy opens
the window and says, s are you Jennifer, And you say, yeah,
I'm generally well hop in, let's go. Because you've made that trip
so many times before, Uber is able to predict that you're probably going to
make that trip again. Or let's say every time the Rams play, you
order a pizza and you have it delivered through Uber app, through Uber eats
brother, and so uber Eats figures out and say, okay, it's the
game time, she's probably gonna order a pizza. Let's go ahead and send
one out there. So it's that kind of predictive technology, and it's not
something that isn't in use already. Jane. If you open your Netflix account,
you'll see the recommendations there that Netflix makes based on your previous viewing.
This is kind of the same sort of technology over Its just trying to get
a jump on its competitors by filing for the applant and the patent. Now,
all right, so if here's I guess, here's the part that I
don't understand. What if I have a pattern, but all of a sudden,
I think to myself, you know what, I don't need an Uber
and I walk outside and there's you know, Sam, the Uber driver sitting
there with his window down, and I'm like, wait, what are you
doing here? What happens that? Couldn't the Uber driver then have sort of
a I don't know, a false ride or you know what I mean,
how does that person get paid if I don't do the normal thing that the
algorithm says I do. You're right, and Uber is still working on that,
trying to figure out how to handle those situations in which we break patterns
or we don't do the predicted thing, order the predicted food. You guys,
it's something that Uber would have to make up to that driver maybe,
But I think the expectation is that this would so streamline things that would be
so efficient that the one off when you don't take that ride to work would
be worth all the other times that you do take the ride, and that
profits would overcome the losses that come from that one time that you didn't.
So, yeah, it's a it's a there's a long way to go.
And by the way, this might never be deployed at all. Uber is
simply filing the patent application to hold it. You know they don't want anybody
else to get a hold of that, all right, and I do always.
I always appreciate it when it's kind of a hey, this is what
we're working on, you know what I mean, And they're showing their math
and they're saying, hey, if APLSB doesn't equals see, then don't worry.
We're not going to use it. But you know, here's if it
does equal see, here are the things that you can get out of it.
And those pitfalls that we were talking about, like the driver and you
know, breaking your pattern. We know how to fix all of those.
Is there any timeline or which it's okay? Nothing, Well, there are
a bunch of geeks who sit around watching patent applications and looking for interesting things
and then publishing them in newsletters like Patent Drop and Expedite. So yeah,
it wasn't Uber the release this. It was the geeks who work at these
different newsletters. All right, Jim, thank you so much. I don't
know that I'm ready for I think I like the okay, anything that can
streamline my life because I am the queen of double booking forgetting, like I
mean literally I am, and I'm the first person to admit it. So
I love the idea of a streamlined life, although I also know I like
to sleep in sometimes things change up and I don't want to. I guess
I would feel really bad if I messed up an uber driver or a delivery
or whatever. Yeah, well leave the driving to us. There you go,
Jim, have a great weekend. See you later. That is ABC's
Jim Ryan. Yeah. I guess. I guess I just worry about how
I would mess up somebody else's life based on the fact I know how squirrely
and scattered I am. Like oftentimes when Handle does something screwy, it makes
me feel better deep down inside because I'm like, nah, see it's somebody
else. Maybe it's this business that you have to have crazy people to work
in this business for you know, thirty years. This is what is this
what the evil genius of us all is. They're like, hey, they
are just crazy enough to work in radio sign them kind of think that might
be the case. There are some snack smugglers from the US that have been
busted halfway around the world. Two couples from the US have been stopped by
Israeli customs officials as they tried to smuggle hundreds of pounds of fruit rollups into
the country. More than six hundred fifty pounds of the flattened fruit stuffed in
suitcases has been confiscated. It's tied to TikTok videos that show ice cream filled
rollups, which has made rollups in Israel very popular, creating a lot of
demand shortages and sky high prices if you can find them. Israel's Health Ministry
has suggested people consider ingredients and additives and fruit rollups before they given to TikTok
temptation. Fruit rollups are kosher, Amy King KFI News. All right,
yesterday morning it was Chris Pratt galore on the Morning Show. So you know,
I sit there in the studio and I've got TV's up, and what
I'll do is, I'll have one national so like one cable network up,
and I'll have one local up usually and depending on what local station I have
on every now and then I realized it's gone from news to Good Morning America.
So see its channel seven something like that, and then I've got to
flip over. I'll go to a channel four or something like that. I'm
not gonna lie. When there was Chris Pratt on TV yesterday morning. I
might have left it on, but he being the main you know, come
on, he's the main draw in Guardians of the Galaxy, right, Guardians
of the Galaxy Volume three. And I went to some of the reviews last
night because Super Mario Brothers has kicked so much mushroom butt over the past few
weeks at the box office, I thought, I just wonder how Guardians of
the Galaxy is going to shape up. See you later, super Mario Brothers.
Here's some of the reviews, and this is people who posted them on
Google. There's something for everyone in this action, heart and soul sci fi,
loaded with fantastic special effects, sentimental, sturdy relationships, and a solid
storyline with plenty of space to laugh and cry. Somebody else wrote, after
six years of waiting, here comes the last film of the GOOTG series.
I dare to say that this is the most intriguing series Marvel has made,
and this one, goog Nope, GOOTG three alone is the best one after
the Endgame. All right. So honestly, as far as the reviews on
Google, and I think there's like six hundred or something people that came to
look at this, and you know, post their reviews four and a half
out of five stars. That's pretty good. So I met a lot of
people are going to head to the movie theaters either tonight or this weekend.
That could be something there you go that you do for your Sinco de Mayo
and then go to a place like I pick in Pasadena, you know the
one, the swanky one where sometimes Amy King and I go when we have
our girls date night. And yes, it's gonna cost you. It's expensive.
I admit. This is why we do it like once every six months,
because we work in radio, so we have to save up. But
it's one of those where you can go and like you have a blanket and
pillow and you're in sort of a pod and you have a table and it's
speakeasy style so you can get drinks and food delivered and it's fancy food and
fancy drinks. Go there, get a margharita and watch Guardians of the Galaxy
three. I'm just planning your weekend for you. And hey, don't forget
California. I know this is an odd segue, but I want to make
sure that I get this in as the last part of wake Up Call.
This morning, California has officially opened up a state hotline for people to report
hate crimes and hate incidents. Subliman al Mirasuchi says this hotline is going to
make diverse communities safer. Unfortunately, most hate crimes and hate incidents are never
reported. Now this hotline is available in two hundred different languages. Officials say
it will help the state better prevent hate crimes by improving its database on hate.
Have a great weekend. Thank you for listening to wake Up Call this
morning. Your weather forecast looks beautiful for this weekend, so if you're watching
the Coronation, Granted it'll be wet tonight so you won't see the sunshine and
warmer temperatures, but you can go party and post celebrate tomorrow. Your socwweather
from KFI is partly cloudy today and still pretty cool. We're going to be
right around sixty, but the weekend ties are going to be up in the
seventies. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm
Jennifer Jones. Lee. This has been your wake up call for a Friday.
You've been listening to your wake up Call with me. Jennifer Jones Lee,
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