WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.200 Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M six 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:09.960 forty wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. You are halfway to 3 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:16.199 the weekend already. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your Wednesday morning wake up call. 4 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:28.399 I've decided the music for Wednesday's show open is my favorite. It's got 5 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:37.240 a like a Luke Briany feel to it, or maybe a Dirk's Bentley kind 6 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:43.039 of thing going on. I clearly need to go to a country concert. 7 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:47.679 I don't know what the summer, for whatever reason for me, I know 8 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:55.520 it's Coachella time, but for whatever reason, the summer says sunburns, flaid 9 00:00:55.560 --> 00:01:02.520 shirts, jean shorts, which I'm some kind of halfway there, and a 10 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:07.480 hat teller. Do you own a cowboy hat? I do not own a 11 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:14.879 cowboy hat or cowboy boots. Really, have you ever been to a country 12 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:18.640 concert? Yeah? I went to a Rascal Flats concert. Oh, I'm 13 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:21.680 not way back in the day, maybe like ten years ago the best rights 14 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.359 shoot, it should have been like fifteen at this point. Those guys are 15 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:27.000 performers. Yeah, it was like a there was a hillside that we kind 16 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.719 of just sat on night chairs just like a grassy hillside. Yeah yeah, 17 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:36.040 full picnic action. Yes yeah. I mean Rascal Flats is just, you 18 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:38.959 know, one of the all time greatest. So it was it was cool 19 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:42.799 to see them. I was listening to Bless the Broken Road last night. 20 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:47.439 Yeah that's a sad one. Oh no, it's gets me in the fields, 21 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:49.799 makes me all lovey dovey good stuff. I don't know, but this 22 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.200 just makes me think of summer. Hi, everybody, well good. This 23 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:59.239 is technically your wake up call, although this morning it's nostalgia Wednesday. Apparently 24 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:07.519 we're get down and kick some dirt around Wednesday. Welcome to it either way. 25 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:10.360 It's the twenty sixth of April. I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. Some of 26 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:14.680 the stories were watching in the KFI twenty four hour news room. The mother 27 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:20.360 and her boyfriend who murdered and tortured Anthony Oblos in Lancaster have been sentenced in 28 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.800 LA to life in prison without parole. Tell you about this tool that El 29 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:30.080 Monte has approved that's aimed at reducing gun violence. See what they did. 30 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:35.080 They're aimed at reducing five five We're going to talk with ABC's Karen Travers all 31 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:39.800 about the South Korean president and his state visit to Washington and what he had 32 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:46.879 to say about the relationship South Korea has with the US after some leaked documents 33 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:53.439 came out. And today is a holiday with a twist. That's my tease. 34 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:58.240 Can you guess what today, what national day it is if I tell 35 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.960 you it's a holiday with a twist. So that's all coming up. Let's 36 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.280 start with some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 37 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:09.319 The woman and her former boyfriend convicted of torturing and killing Anthony Avelous had 38 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:15.000 been sentenced in LA to life in prison without parole. Anthony's sister Destiny, 39 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:17.759 read her victim impact statement to the court, blaming her mother and her mother's 40 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:24.240 former boyfriend for taking Anthony away and sadly, because these two monsters, he 41 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:29.080 is not here anymore. Destiny then says she wishes she could turn back time 42 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:31.400 to speak up for her brother, but she can't get through the statement. 43 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:39.919 That's when Deputy da John Hatammi reads Destiny's statement for her, where she writes, 44 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:43.960 if I would have known that this would end with me losing a brother, 45 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:46.759 I would do it all again with just one difference that it would be 46 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:58.400 mean, not dempty. Heather Baron and Kareem Leva were convicted in March of 47 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:02.240 murdering and torturing the ten year old in twenty eighteen. Attorneys for the defendants 48 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:06.879 set in court yesterday they will try to appeal the case. In Downtown La 49 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:15.120 Chris Adler KFI News. These are the times when it's hard for me to 50 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:20.079 understand how somebody can be a defense attorney. I know that's your job, 51 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:29.879 and I know that you're not supposed to look at your client and decide whether 52 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.279 they committed the crime or not. You're just supposed to defend them, and 53 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:40.879 everybody has that right. But in a case like this, I don't understand 54 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:51.439 how somebody can defend two people who killed a child. A man who climbed 55 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:56.680 the KTLA tower in Hollywood and stayed up there for about three hours has been 56 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:00.839 arrested. The guy was sitting up there for thirty feet the tower. He 57 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:05.920 was straddling the marquee and he was holding his sign that read free Billie Eilish. 58 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:11.839 Now, last I checked, she's free. I didn't. Did I 59 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.879 miss something. I even went online yesterday and like searched Billie Eilish News. 60 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.879 She's fine, right, we have no idea what the issue is. No, 61 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:26.480 I mean, good for him if he was maybe he's on Billie Eilish's 62 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.360 PR team and they thought, hey, this is a great way to get 63 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.199 people to look her up, just like Tyler did. But I and the 64 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:40.519 message on the back made reference true to mk Ultra. The guy even started 65 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:43.120 playing a guitar at one point. You know, come on, he brought 66 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.160 his own music. He climbed down just before ten last night. It was 67 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:50.240 quite a spectacle. Kicking it to the curb is the number one reason people 68 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:55.360 complained to the City of La Bendon. Couches and furniture account for one hundred 69 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:58.839 forty three thousand calls. That's forty seven percent of the more than three hundred 70 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:01.279 thousand calls made to the city's three one one system during the first quarter of 71 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:05.199 this year. The other top complaints include illegal dumping, graffiti, potholes, 72 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:09.519 and homeless camps. May Or Bass even mentioned the problems in her recent State 73 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:13.519 of the City address and had a suggestion please call three one one our download 74 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:16.399 the three one one out. Yes, I am asking Angelinos to put us 75 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:19.800 tour. Most all of the complaints so far this year have originated in the 76 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:24.720 San Fernando Valley. Steve Gregory King if I knew, Let's say good morning 77 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:29.639 now to ABC's Karen Traverse. So, Karen, how is the US and 78 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:34.720 South Korean relationship? Ironclad? Is the word? The White House Press Secretary 79 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:40.480 Korean Jean Pierre used yesterday a lot of emphasis on the strong ties between the 80 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:45.279 two countries, and they are certainly rolling out the red carpet today for the 81 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:47.319 South Korean president. I mean, actually it's been several days now. The 82 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:51.600 flags have gone up at the White House and all around the complex days ago 83 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:55.959 for what's been really a multi day visit. But today's the highlight, a 84 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:59.800 rival ceremony on the South Lawn, one on one meeting in the Oval Office, 85 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.560 press conference in the Road Garden after that Oval Office meeting, and then 86 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:09.000 of course always the highlight of a state visit is the state dinner tonight in 87 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:12.759 the White House East Room, which is the big hot ticket in Washington right 88 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.920 now. But you know, there's nothing booming over this the big policy issues 89 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:21.800 from the meetings, or of course North Korea's nuclear program and China's military and 90 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:27.639 economic assertiveness in the Pacific region, but also around the world. But then 91 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.279 you've got this issue of the leak documents from a couple of weeks ago and 92 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:35.279 the fallout over that, because there was a leak document that reportedly suggested the 93 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:41.000 US was spying on South Korea's leaders talking about how to handle a request from 94 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:45.639 the United States to sell ammunition to Poland that then could ultimately be sent to 95 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:47.879 Ukraine, and that really put the South Koreans or seemed to put the South 96 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:55.639 Koreans an uncomfortable tense position at South Korean policy bars it from providing lethal aid 97 00:07:55.639 --> 00:08:00.240 to Ukraine. There a lot of questions yesterday about this and what that might 98 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:03.639 mean ahead of the summit, and that's when Koreem said the relationship is iron 99 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:09.000 clad. But she didn't say that the administration engaged at high levels with allies 100 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:13.399 on the subject of those unauthorized disclosures. As she put it, so kind 101 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:16.600 of diplomatic speak to say, they had to make a lot of phone calls, 102 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:20.600 they had to do a lot of smoothing over of things, because that 103 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.519 was a very big embarrassment for the administration. But South Korea, though, 104 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.920 has been very restrained in its response, even given the White House a little 105 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.919 bit of cover by saying that perhaps the documents were altered. Okay, embarrassing 106 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:37.399 on one hand, Yet every government spies on every other government, So I 107 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.519 don't think that it should be all that like shocking to the South Korean. 108 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:46.679 You don't want to get caught though, right right, Yeah, you don't 109 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:50.639 want it weeked out. So when it comes to now where we go from 110 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.759 here, what happens after we had this big ticket night. Yeah, so 111 00:08:54.840 --> 00:09:01.480 today, the big announcement from this morning is something called the Washington Declaration, 112 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:05.639 steps designed to deter a North Korean nuclear attack on North Korea, and White 113 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:11.399 House officials say that this is all about making US deterrence more visible through regular 114 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:16.440 deployment of strategic assets, kind of big fancy way of saying, you know, 115 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:18.960 they're going to be a little bit more of a show of strength, 116 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:24.799 and that includes a visit by a US nuclear ballistic submarine to South Korea for 117 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.720 the first time in four decades, and they're going to also strength and joint 118 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:33.240 US Korean military training and simulations. South Korea is going to pledge to not 119 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:39.440 have nuclear weapons, despite a stuth Korean public that's increasingly calling for that. 120 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:41.840 So these are going to need the things that we'll hear from the presidents today 121 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:46.440 after their meeting. A lot of the you know, this is really aimed 122 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.240 at kind of showing strength toward North Korea, and they're continued testing and saber 123 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.519 rattling. All right, Karen, thank you so much. Do you get 124 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.000 to go tonight? Do you get to cover this? I did not get 125 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:05.320 an invitation. They canceled exactly. You could be on the waiting list, 126 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.200 ready to go. Okay, that's awesome, Karen, thank you so much. 127 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:15.440 We'll talk to you soon. By you too. ABC's Karen Travers. 128 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:20.080 How cool is that in a way that you're always like, I'm always ready 129 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:24.159 just in case somebody says, hey, you know what, Karen Travers has 130 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:26.879 done a hell of a job covering the White House. Let's get her in 131 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.360 here. It's kind of fun. Let's get back to some of these stories 132 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.039 coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. A judge in la 133 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:39.879 has rejected a request for a temporary restraining arner that would have forced a journalist 134 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:45.720 in a watchdog group to return the photos and info of more than nine thousand 135 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:50.200 LAPD officers. The photos were released as part of the freedom of information request, 136 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:56.120 and the judge said the case was essentially about prior restraint and that the 137 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:00.720 city would need to address it before any decisions are actually made in that case. 138 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:07.039 The city of Santa Monica has adopted an ordinance requiring gender neutral restrooms in 139 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:11.720 new buildings. The city says it's committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. 140 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:16.440 The all gender restrooms would be private with enclosed stalls from Florida ceiling. If 141 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:22.559 the urinals are installed, they have to be separated into a designated area or 142 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:30.159 in individual compartments. Specialized teams have been created in San Bernardino County to get 143 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:33.159 people who are going through mental health crisis into treatment. The teams consist of 144 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:39.080 firefighters, cops, and behavioral health workers, all wearing plainclothes. Sabredardino County 145 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.120 Fire Captain Paul Kramer says, once people get into treatment, the teams continue 146 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.200 to follow up with them for two months, making sure that if they have 147 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.639 an ongoing concern, we're able to suit those needs and we're able to get 148 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.679 to a point if somebody's hiccup is getting a driver's license, we're able to 149 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:56.559 get that driver's license for them. The program, which began last month, 150 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.600 has responded to more than two hundred calls and gotten more than twenty people into 151 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:05.559 treatment. Blake Trolley k if I News. Eight bodies have been found dumped 152 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:11.200 at a resort in Cancoon. Investigators in the Mexican state of Quintana Rous say 153 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:16.039 that they are trying to ide these people. The bodies were found in searches 154 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:20.159 over the weekend that looked in these wooded lots and sinkhole ponds. More than 155 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:26.919 one hundred twelve thousand people are listed as missing in Mexico. A hundred twelve 156 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:33.039 thousands. Don't you just wonder how many of those are related to drug cartels, 157 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:41.879 because as we all saw on Narcos Man, they can dispose of you 158 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:48.559 and make you disappear with the quickness. It's very scared. And brothers in 159 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:52.960 Agora Hills have been turning billboards into bags. Two brothers get a bunch of 160 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.200 billboards at their office in Agora Hills, ten thousand billboards a month. Rareform 161 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:03.840 CEO Eric Abdizian says, with a little cleaning, cutting and designing, Eric 162 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.600 and his brother, along with a team of forty employees here in SoCal and 163 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:11.519 Nashville have been turning pieces of old vinyl billboards into duffel bags, totes, 164 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:16.000 and even surfboard bags. Alec Avedisian says he got the idea for the business 165 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:20.960 while living in El Salvador. All my friends using the billboards as roofing, 166 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:26.399 and I was just amazed at the ingenuity that my friends had to use something 167 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:30.440 that would otherwise go to the landfill. Rare Form partners with billboard companies like 168 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:35.200 Outfront. Outfront says it gives rare Form about two million pounds of billboard vinyl 169 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:39.200 every year. So far, rare Form has transformed more than two hundred and 170 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.240 eighty four thousand billboards into products Alex says are durable, waterproof, it's fun, 171 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.960 it's colorful, it's vibrant. For more, you can go to Spectrum 172 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.440 news one dot com. Joe Kuan kof I knew. A judge in LA 173 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.399 has given life sentences without parole to the mom and her boyfriend who tortured and 174 00:13:54.519 --> 00:14:01.679 killed ten year old Anthony Abelos in Lancaster. Over twenty pack statements were tearfully 175 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.759 read yesterday by Anthony's family members, condemning the couple. Heather Baron and her 176 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:09.759 boyfriend, Kareem Leva, were convicted last month of first degree murder and torture 177 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.720 for the boy's death in twenty eighteen. The judge said Anthony died from blunt 178 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:20.480 force trauma and dehydration. Attorneys for the defendants say they will appeal the sentences 179 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:26.240 and the Queen Mary could get a twelve million dollar facelift all these repairs through 180 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:31.480 a partnership that boost tourism while reducing the oil footprint in Long Beach. Long 181 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:35.759 Beach will use an advance from the city's half of the lease profits to help 182 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:39.080 speed up the Queen Mary's return to profitability. The city council will vote on 183 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:45.879 the partnership next week. Hey, there is talk about AM radio being removed 184 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.919 from new cars and shrucks. Now, some people say you don't need the 185 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.840 radio because you can get alert on your phone, but that is hardly the 186 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:58.919 same. A text alert on your phone is no substitute for what broadcast radio 187 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:03.759 provides in time of need. A one line text cannot take the place of 188 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:07.000 a voice on the radio telling you twenty four to seven about what's going on 189 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:11.519 until the emergency passes. And that's assuming your cell phone network even works. 190 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:15.879 And is up and running, which they often are not in an emergency. 191 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.000 So when emergencies occurs, you need your local broadcast radio and that's we provide 192 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:26.000 wall to wall coverage, life saving information and a live connection in the crisis. 193 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:28.639 So how can you do this? How can you stop this from happening? 194 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.679 You can make your voice heard on this issue. Text the letters AM 195 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:39.279 to five to eight eight six and tell Congress to keep AM Radio in all 196 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:45.159 cars and trucks. That's the letters AM just texted to five to eight eight 197 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:50.799 six and tell Congress to keep radio in your cars and trucks. Telling you 198 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:56.360 AM radio is your lifeline in an emergency, Well, he knows all about 199 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:00.120 it. He's now part of the radio family here at KFI. Not like 200 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.799 you haven't been sort of a before. I feel like you were kind of 201 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.559 like a cousin who lived across the coast, who came and visited every now 202 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.559 and then. And now you're sitting at the big kids table. Yeah. 203 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:17.320 I like that and sharing in the adult food. Yes, exactly, Rich 204 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:21.559 to Maaro, exactly, good morning to you. Saturdays, you can hear 205 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:25.320 Rich on Tech eleven to two here on KFI, and of course you can 206 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:29.639 follow him on social media, Rich on tech on all platforms and watch him 207 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:33.440 on KTLA. Good morning Rich, Good morning to you. Jennifer. Hey, 208 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.279 so let's start with Can we start with what's app and why? This 209 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:40.960 is kind of a minor thing, but it's actually kind of a big deal 210 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.360 if you are a WhatsApp user. Yeah, and this is a feature that 211 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:49.080 when I was researching group chat messages are messaging apps to use with my family 212 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:53.120 members. This is the reason I didn't go with WhatsApp, and mainly because 213 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:59.360 you can only use WhatsApp on one phone at a time because what'sapp is highly 214 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:03.240 secured. It's end to end encrypted. That's the way it worked for many 215 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.880 many years until now WhatsApp has announced you can use the same account on multiple 216 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:12.359 phones, so up to four additional devices. So you were always able to 217 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:18.319 use WhatsApp on like a phone and maybe like a computer or an Android tablet. 218 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:22.119 For some reason, they still have no iPad app. I don't know 219 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.519 why, but now you can link up to four additional phones, and this 220 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.920 is handy for people that may travel and have a different phone for international or 221 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.720 have a family member they want to share the account with, or more importantly, 222 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:37.359 a business owner. If you've got a couple of employees and you all 223 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:40.680 want to be able to respond to the messages you get on WhatsApp, you 224 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:44.279 can now have a couple of phones logged in, so features rolling out will 225 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:47.440 be available to everyone in the coming weeks. Okay, I'm so glad you 226 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:51.319 said that about the iPad because I thought that I was just layman couldn't find 227 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:55.119 it. No, It's like when I was on this quest for like a 228 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:57.480 message in the Perfect Messaging App, I'm like, wait, what what's going 229 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:00.240 on here? I don't know why. I mean, this is owned by 230 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:03.160 Meta, maybe they have something against Apple, I don't know. I mean, 231 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:07.480 seems odd. But what I like about WhatsApp is that everything is end 232 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:11.039 to end encrypted by default that does not change even when you're using it on 233 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:15.079 multiple phones. What that means is nobody can read these messages, not even 234 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:18.960 Meta themselves if they wanted to, right. Okay, speaking of Meta, 235 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:23.200 this just came out this morning. Did you hear about all these advertisers asking 236 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:29.119 for refunds because there was this platform wide ad glitch? I guess at Facebook, 237 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:33.200 and I guess it caused these whoever had a campaign on there to spend 238 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:37.480 most or all of their daily budget before nine in the morning. Yeah, 239 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:40.519 I was like me on a weekend. Now, I don't know, I 240 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:41.920 don't even know what that means, but I don't know, but all of 241 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:47.680 a sudden, you sound like a party rich. Look the good news on 242 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:49.880 all these well, if you've ever put and I've helped some small businesses put 243 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:55.759 ads on these platforms, yes, budgets go faster than you could ever imagine. 244 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:57.519 You're like, wait, where's my return on this? So if you're 245 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.960 spending big, big bucks, like whoever these companies are that we're spending in 246 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:03.880 this glitch, Yeah, I'm sure they were like, oh, hold on, 247 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:06.839 we need to see that again. Let's see the metrics on what happened 248 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:08.319 here. Well, yeah, I would think that you probably have a daily 249 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:12.039 budget and that you it's kind of allocated then for morning, noon, and 250 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:15.359 night kind of you know, I'm simplifying here, but you know that you 251 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:19.759 have X amount of money that goes out per time frame, and to think 252 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:22.720 that all of it went out just in the morning and then there was nothing 253 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:27.160 later in the day that would be really frustrating. Yeah, I could totally 254 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:30.799 understand that. And the good news is we've got a lot of data on 255 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:33.039 these things, so the companies are affected are probably like, uh no, 256 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:37.319 let's let's just come on give me that money back. Well hope, yeah, 257 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:40.240 And I don't blame them for wanting that back. All right. Can 258 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:42.640 you tell me more about how yelp is going to help us connect with local 259 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:47.519 businesses. Yeah. So Yelp is doing a couple of new things. First 260 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:52.039 off, they've got this new twenty five hundred money back guarantee, So if 261 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:56.599 you try like a plumbing service, a moving service, a contractor, home 262 00:19:56.599 --> 00:20:00.720 cleaner, landscaper, if it doesn't work out, they'll guaranteed up to twenty 263 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:06.000 five hundred dollars. I think that's huge because a lot of times you're hesitant 264 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:07.400 to use someone on Yelp because you're like, I don't know, are they 265 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:11.240 gonna be good? Are they gonna be bad? That guarantee program is rolling 266 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:15.640 out first to people in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, 267 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.960 and DC. I'm surprised to us not in LA. Hopefully it'll come here 268 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:22.680 soon. The other thing I thought was interesting, Jennifer, is they have 269 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:25.599 this new surprise me. I don't know about you, but I have this 270 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:29.559 decision paralysis sometimes, especially when it comes to where to eat. Yes, 271 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:33.559 and so now yelp must know that because they probably see people like me searching 272 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.880 like the same thing a thousand times. And so now there's gonna be a 273 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:38.559 surprise me button and you could just say, look, I want ramen. 274 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:42.160 Just give me a good place and you can go try it. And finally 275 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:47.880 you can now share videos in reviews. So I thought that was kind of 276 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:49.759 cool. I always liked the idea of a video inside of restaurants you can 277 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:53.160 see kind of like the vibe. The problem is someone has to record that 278 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:56.279 video and everyone thinks you're a weirdo because you're recording a video of inside the 279 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:00.559 restaurants, exactly calling the cops on you. You're like, I swear, 280 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.640 I'm just doing this for you. So I'm just yelping. Okay, I'm 281 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:08.359 finally let's talk about this the ring car cam. I'm very interested in this. 282 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:12.599 I like this idea, especially because I'm not gonna lie every now and 283 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:15.319 then I forget to lock my car. I'm getting out, I'm talking to 284 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:18.960 somebody, I'm not paying attention, and I get back to it and I'm 285 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:22.039 like, oh gosh, I forgot to lock the darn thing that happens to 286 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:25.839 me too, Jennifer, believe me. So Ring this is their car cam. 287 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:29.240 It's a dashcam. Basically, it's got front and back cameras. It 288 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:33.519 records twenty four to seven while you're driving, or I should say, yeah, 289 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:37.279 the entire time while you're driving, it will it will notice motion twenty 290 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:40.440 four to seven. So if someone kind of bumps into your car or gets 291 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:42.000 really close to it, it will record a clip of that as well. 292 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:47.119 Camera quality is just fine. It's not the best out there. This is 293 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:49.960 kind of like having the video doorbell, but for your car, so it 294 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:55.079 works really well. Installation was very easy. I actually put the installation of 295 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:56.759 this thing off for like six weeks because I was like, oh, I 296 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:00.160 don't feel like doing that. Running the wire, sticking it to the dashboard. 297 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:03.599 It was all very easy. But it does plug into what's called the 298 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:07.759 OBED two port, which not every car will support that setup, so you 299 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:11.920 do have to go on the website to see if your car will. Let's 300 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:14.839 say, you can trigger a manual recording, so if you're stopped, let's 301 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:18.279 say for a traffic stop, you can say ALEXA record and it will start 302 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:22.000 recording. It'll also record, like I said, anytime you're moving in the 303 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:25.559 car, anytime someone kind of hits your car or bumps into it or walks 304 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:30.200 near it, depending on the level of motion you have set. And you 305 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:32.759 can also talk to people in your car, so you if you have a 306 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:36.480 teenager, you can actually kind of, you know, just look in on 307 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:38.519 what they're doing. But Jennifer, I tell you all of this stuff with 308 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:44.839 the one caveat that most of these features only really work well if you subscribe 309 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:49.039 to the cellular service. That is, how much is that six bucks a 310 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:53.000 month or sixty dollars a year, so not a ton. But that's the 311 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:56.480 only way you can download videos off of this device. Otherwise they're locked to 312 00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:59.720 your phone. You can watch them on your phone, but you can't share 313 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:03.200 them out or download them. Also, you're not gonna get any notifications. 314 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:06.279 Let's say you drive your car to a parking lot, you know you park 315 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:07.759 there, and so on bumps into your car. You're not going to get 316 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:11.680 a notification because there's no cellular. So unless you're paying for that cellular, 317 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:15.079 nothing's going to happen unless you get home, and then all of a sudden 318 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:18.279 you'll get all these notifications like oh, your car was bumped boom boom boom. 319 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.440 Right, then you don't really have any recourse because you're not there anymore. 320 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:23.519 Right, I mean, yeah, you might be the person, but 321 00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:26.519 what are you gonna you know, I mean so, I mean not like 322 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:29.039 you're gonna go up. Don't. Yeah, don't. Don't take the law 323 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:30.000 into your own hands here, But you know what I mean, it's like 324 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:33.440 you're not getting those a media alerts that you know. You kind of imagine 325 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:37.960 if your doorbell only informed you of stuff, like, you know, from 326 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:40.880 one hour a day now when you happen to be a Wi Fi zone. 327 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:44.240 So that's my big caveat. You have to be prepared to pay the two 328 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:47.119 hundred and fifty dollars for this thing and pay the six dollars a month to 329 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:49.119 really get the best use. And if you do that, I actually think 330 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:52.759 it's really cool. All right, Rich, I'm sure are you gonna if 331 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:56.799 people call in on Saturday from eleven to two, you could tell them more 332 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:00.400 about this, I guess if they had questions. Yeah, absolutely, I'll 333 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:04.000 definitely be talking about this because this is a popular device. I think people 334 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:08.519 that are in that ring ecosystem at home with the doorbell and some other things. 335 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:11.200 You are wondering, do I spend the money on this thing? Yeah, 336 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:15.160 that's me all right, Rich thank you so much. I appreciate it. 337 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:18.759 Eleven to two Rich on Tech here on KFI. Have a good one, 338 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:22.559 Jennifer, Jim Ryan, good morning to you. So I know a 339 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:25.640 lot of people. I know a lot of people on the show who take 340 00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:29.119 melotone in gummies. They want them to work as a sleep aid. But 341 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:32.680 that isn't always what happens. Well, no, and in fact, if 342 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:36.400 you've ever used this stuff, Jen you you've probably noticed that one night worked 343 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:38.480 great. I got to sleep, just had a wonderful night's sleep. Next 344 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:41.720 night maybe not so much. Next night you might have been up all night. 345 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.200 You know. Well, here's part of the reason, at least according 346 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.440 to researchers who are published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 347 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:53.079 A lot of times it's just not what is build that this team of 348 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:57.480 researchers looked at twenty five different melotonein gummy products, and they're a lot more 349 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:02.039 than that out there on the market. They found that of the twenty five 350 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:07.480 bottles that they bought, twenty two of those bottles contained different amounts of melatonin 351 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:11.880 from what was listed on the label, and within those brands, some had 352 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:17.839 different amounts within individual bottles. You might have found different amounts of melatonin in 353 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:21.920 individual gummies. It's not a whole lot of regulation. One of them contained 354 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:26.240 about three quarters of what was advertised, another had three and a half times 355 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:30.279 the advertised amount of melatonin. Another one, in jend had no detectable melatonin 356 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:33.960 at all. And I know there's even a difference in whether you get the 357 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:38.960 melatonin that is just straight melatonin or the one that is like the time release 358 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:42.359 one. So and a lot of people don't know the difference between that or 359 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:45.759 that. There is a big difference in that. So now you've got what 360 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:49.519 is in it, whether or not it's time released. I mean, this 361 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:53.640 is making me think him melatonin may not be the answer. Well, it 362 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:56.640 would be easier, I think if you knew that the stuff had been through 363 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:03.119 FDA vetting, right, they had been tested, and that some government agency 364 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:06.000 had given It's okay, a lot of folks, you know, to say 365 00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:10.240 that might not matter, but still you would know that somebody, some specialists 366 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:12.559 had looked at it. The same kind of thing with I think medical and 367 00:26:12.599 --> 00:26:17.720 recreational marijuana. Go into a shop and you think you know what you're getting, 368 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:21.640 but you may or may not get what is being advertised. There are 369 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:26.119 organizations even though the FDA doesn't look at the stuff. There's a third party 370 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:33.000 organization called us Pharmacopeia, which vets different supplements, including dietarist supplements like melatonin 371 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:37.559 and melatonin gummies. Takes a look at these things and certifies them as either 372 00:26:38.119 --> 00:26:42.559 accurate in terms of labeling or inaccurate in terms of So that's one way to 373 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:45.839 go. Talk to your pharmacist. If you want to use these things, 374 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:48.680 talk to your doctor. Maybe you don't need the stuff at all, And 375 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:52.759 for Heaven's sake, keep them away from your kids, because you know a 376 00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:56.319 lot of parents give these melatonin gummies to their kids. It's an easy way 377 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.440 to give them this stuff if they want them to help them sleep. But 378 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.359 at the same time, a lot of kids are finding these bottles and eating 379 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:07.039 them like candy. Oh yeah, And in thousands of cases since two twelve, 380 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:11.240 kids have ended up in the emergency room. You've had some that ended 381 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:15.039 up in intensive care, and at least two kids have died from overdose of 382 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.240 melatonin, and that is what is so scary about it is they are like 383 00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:22.160 gummies. I know, I had. I tried some CBD gummies, which 384 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:26.119 we're supposed to be kind of like this. Although what's interesting is that a 385 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.839 lot of these melatonin ones aren't build as CBD, but that they have CBD 386 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:34.000 in them. But I tried. I tried the melatona arming the CBD ones, 387 00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:37.960 and you know, it's funny. I did not find that they helped 388 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:40.839 me sleep at all. That it did not help, But they were really 389 00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:44.599 yummy. And I remember when like you were only supposed to take two I 390 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:45.720 think, or something like that, but I was like, dang, these 391 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.720 are good. I kind of want a third. I didn't, But at 392 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:52.440 the same time, I thought, if somebody got there, if you put 393 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:55.839 these in a little candy dish and stuck them out on the table, I'd 394 00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.039 be eating those just like a would regular gummy bears. Well, it seems 395 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:02.640 like some of the companies are more into the flavoring, into the texture of 396 00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:07.759 the gummy and the coloring than into the supplement that's supposed to go into it, 397 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.039 the melatonin. So yeah, just be very careful out there. I 398 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:14.480 ask a specialist definitely. All right, Jim, thank you so much. 399 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:19.799 I appreciate it. That's ABC's Jim Ryan and the ones that I had. 400 00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:26.319 I don't remember what the company was set my body on Amazon really smart of 401 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:30.640 me, but I just remember that they were like gummy bear that had like 402 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:37.240 sugar on it. Oh my god. They were great. But it wasn't 403 00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:41.480 candy supposed to help me sleep, which again it did not, oh ed 404 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:53.000 well to seventeen singer Ed Shearon has testified in New York in the copyright lawsuit 405 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:57.599 against him over his song thinking Out Loud Now. He's denied allegations that he 406 00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:07.680 ripped off Marvin gay songs Let's get it on, try trying to hold back? 407 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:15.240 Okay. Airs of Ed Townsend, who co wrote Marvin Gay's song, 408 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:21.359 claimed that Sharon's performance of the two songs on stage was tantamount to a confession. 409 00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:26.119 Now. Shearon says it was quite simple to weave in and out of 410 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:30.839 the songs that are in the same key. He said he'd be an idiot 411 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:33.440 to do it if he copied Gay song. All right, hold on, 412 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:38.279 we're gonna do something here. We're doing a test. Are these in the 413 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:52.759 same key? Well? Be loving you too, baby, I guess they 414 00:29:52.759 --> 00:30:00.200 are in the same key Hard twenty three. I don't know. I mean, 415 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:04.359 I don't know. I didn't hear how he wove them. Sounds like 416 00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:11.799 kind of a stretch, But anyway, I don't know. I don't feel 417 00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:17.440 like I think I'm pro ed Shearon on this one. It feels like a 418 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:22.799 stretch to me. Oh, but then there's Janet. So fans of Janet 419 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:27.599 Jackson in Atlanta will have to wait to see her in concert because the Atlanta 420 00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:32.720 Hawks are still alive in the playoffs. Game six is set forward tomorrow night, 421 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:36.200 but that's when Jackson's concert was supposed to happen at the same arena. 422 00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:40.920 And so I want to know who just assumed that the Hawks would be out 423 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:48.920 and scheduled the Janet Jackson concert win game six was supposed to happen. Favorite, 424 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:52.000 like, our team will never make it that far. We totally scheduled 425 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:56.759 the Janet Jackson concert for then. Her show now has been pushed back to 426 00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:03.000 Friday. Anne Tyler ready with a little blank one eighty two music for me. 427 00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:11.640 Oh, nice, nice choice. So Travis Barker, also known as 428 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:18.319 mister Courtney Kardashian Um, He's the drummer for Blank one eighty two. His 429 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:26.720 neck tattoos fascinate me for some reason. He seems like an umm, a 430 00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:34.920 unique gentleman. How's that now? This might be the weirdest intersection of pop 431 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:42.279 culture and a healthcare company, But Travis Barker is teaming up with Liquid Death 432 00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:52.759 Mountain Water Hey for a You're ready hard rocking Enema kit. I love in 433 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:55.839 this story. It says, I'm not making this up. I'm not making 434 00:31:55.839 --> 00:32:01.240 this up, you guys. The Liquid Death of Enema of the State collectible 435 00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:07.359 Enema kit pays homage to Blink one eighty two's album from nineteen ninety nine, 436 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:13.319 Enema of the State. Remember that? But this is you, guys. 437 00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:19.200 This is no joke. It's one hundred eighty two dollars. And I guess 438 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:22.359 if you go on the Liquid Death website, which I didn't, there's a 439 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:30.240 limited edition collectible adult art piece not intended for use as a real medical device. 440 00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:36.920 I feel like it sucks that we have to put warnings like that on 441 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:42.880 our websites, because people who go to those websites are also people who vote 442 00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:52.519 just saying I don't know what your ages, but you cost one hundred eighty 443 00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:57.599 two dollars and the kid apparently includes a can of Liquid Death water that has 444 00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:00.160 been hand signed by Travis Barker, or so they say, and there is 445 00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:06.599 an enema bulb in I guess. A video on the Liquid Death site, 446 00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:10.200 Barker says, thanks to my new Enema of the State collectible Enema kit, 447 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:16.079 I've been able to turn my dreams into reality. He had dreamt of an 448 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:22.839 enema kit. Anyway, you can go to the Liquid Death website if you 449 00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:28.200 really want to. That's the weirdest freaking story I've ever heard. A judge 450 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:32.039 in LA has given life sentences without parole to the mother and boyfriend who tortured 451 00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:37.680 and killed ten year old Anthony Avelos in Lancaster. There were over twenty impact 452 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:44.119 statements that were read by Anthony's family yesterday. They were heartbreaking. Heather Baron 453 00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:47.359 and her boyfriend Kareem Lava were convicted last month of first degree murder and torture 454 00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:52.559 in Avelos's death in twenty eighteen. The judge said Anthony died from blunt force 455 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:58.039 trauma in dehydration. That's the I don't know why that part sickens me. 456 00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:01.599 Attorneys for the defendants say that they will appeal the sentence, and if you 457 00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:05.799 want to get back on the Queen Mary, you'll get to do that soon 458 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:08.360 and it'll be a spruced up Queen Mary. To the tune of twelve million 459 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:12.480 dollars. That's how much the repairs are going to be to the ship. 460 00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:15.360 That will boost tourism, and the City of Long Beach says it will also 461 00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:20.679 reduce the oil footprint in the city. All right, Well, speaking of 462 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:24.199 an oil footprint, one thing that is supposed to be better for the environment 463 00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:29.960 is saying goodbye, period to the world, and that is the Chevy Bolt. 464 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:34.159 Mike Debuski is ABC News Technology reporter. Hey, Mike, welcome back. 465 00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:37.599 So why is the Chevy Bolt going away? Good to be here, 466 00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:39.440 Jen, So there's a couple different schools of thought when we're talking about the 467 00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:43.840 death of the Chevy Bolt. The Chevy Bolt, just to recap, is 468 00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:47.559 the cheapest electric car that you can buy new in the United States about twenty 469 00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:52.239 six twenty seven thousand dollars before you factor in federal and state tax incentives. 470 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:57.079 People have gotten these things out the door for under twenty thousand dollars, which 471 00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:00.599 is a really good price. Especially when you consider that this is two hundred 472 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:05.360 and fifty six two hundred and fifty nine in some cases mile range electric vehicle, 473 00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:08.559 and when we're talking about axing it, the Bolt is not a new 474 00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:14.079 car, so it's about time that GM freshens the lineup. But it's also 475 00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:16.360 a car that has a bit of a pockmarked history. There was a pretty 476 00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:22.400 significant recall in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one where they had to recall it 477 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:25.239 over issues having to do with the battery. In some cases that battery could 478 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:29.960 catch fire. It was such a concern for General Motors that they said for 479 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:34.360 a time you shouldn't park these things inside lest your house catch fire, or 480 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:37.320 you shouldn't park it near other vehicles in case the fire jumps to them. 481 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:42.519 So not ideal, but the Bolt was very popular. In fact, it 482 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.159 was the best selling non Tesla EV in the country. Yeah, and I 483 00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:52.760 think that it's that profitability versus the what people have the ability to. I 484 00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:55.119 don't know, maybe now you're going to look at the Chevy Bolt and be 485 00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:59.039 like, if I spent a little bit more money, I could get me 486 00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:01.239 a Tesla. And you're thinking to yourself, maybe you want to if you're 487 00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:06.159 going to delve into the world of ev why not go ahead and go all 488 00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:08.400 the way. Why go with the one that, like you said, has 489 00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:13.719 had kind of a troubled history. Sure, but I mean I do think 490 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.679 that when we're talking about like affordable Tesla's. You know, Elon Musk did 491 00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:21.039 promise that he was going to sell a thirty five thousand dollars Model three, 492 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.840 and I think the company did, but very briefly. There are like a 493 00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:29.599 couple dozen seats Model threes running around out there. But for the most part, 494 00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:32.360 you really aren't getting into a Tesla for for less than forty thousand dollars, 495 00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:37.360 not factoring in incentives. So you know, the Bolt was really in 496 00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:42.440 a class of its own. The next cheapest electric car that's going to be 497 00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:45.920 on sale after the Bolt goes out of production is the Bass Nissan Leaf, 498 00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:49.079 most popular electric vehicle in the world. A fun fact, but that thing, 499 00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:52.079 the Bass version at least, only gets one hundred and forty nine miles 500 00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:54.280 of range. So there's just sort of like a different calculation that you have 501 00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:58.440 to do when we're talking about EV's. Yeah, I mean I had so 502 00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:00.880 I'd tell the story all the time. I had a feat that I was 503 00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:06.119 doing an endorsement for back when they very very very first came out. That 504 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:09.960 thing only had a range of ninety miles, and my commute was forty five 505 00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:14.840 miles. So if I turned on the heater, turn on the radio, 506 00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:17.800 turn I mean, I was like down to like twenty miles by the time 507 00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:22.320 that I got to the station. And I remember thinking to myself that until 508 00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.800 these things really have something like the two hundred and fifty mile range or something 509 00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:30.360 for me on the daily, that was not a car that really worked for 510 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:35.519 me. And unfortunately, probably if you get one of these, you're somebody 511 00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:38.360 who does have a longer commute, and that's where the gas mileage is really 512 00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:44.320 going to factor in. And unless you have some range that's really huge, 513 00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:47.199 that's dependable maybe for a day or two, maybe you don't have the chance 514 00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:52.079 to charge every night unless you have that big range. I would be very 515 00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:54.679 nervous to buy an EV that didn't have a long range to it. I 516 00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:58.519 guess sure, I think you're not alone, Jen, But I was talking 517 00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:01.920 to some analysts yesterday who say that, you know, the average American actually 518 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:07.800 drives less than forty miles a day. You're a supercommuter genet the answer there 519 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:12.239 so and the you know, when we go back to the affordability question here, 520 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.119 you know, the Bolt was a long range EV that was cheap, 521 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:20.000 and the Nissan does have like one hundred fewer miles of EPA rated range here, 522 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:22.800 but it is also pretty cheap. It's about twenty eight thousand dollars or 523 00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:27.079 so not you know, it's not chump changed by any stretch of the imagination, 524 00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:30.360 but it's a Tesla sure. And what these analysts were saying that I 525 00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:35.360 thought was very interesting was that we are spending a lot of money and R 526 00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:39.480 and D and time and effort making evs that will one for one replace our 527 00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:44.079 gas cars. Right like the industry is moving towards electric power. You know, 528 00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:47.039 there's there's federal legislation that is sort of mandating that that be the change 529 00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:52.880 that's going to happen, and that is forcing evs to be very expensive. 530 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.719 By demanding longer range three hundred four hundred miles of range, you're gonna be 531 00:38:55.760 --> 00:39:00.480 spending you know, sixty seventy if not more, thousand dollars. The average 532 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:05.800 new EV in the United States cost sixty six thousand dollars. Maybe a different 533 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.239 way of thinking about it, given how we drive in this country. Again, 534 00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:14.559 fewer than forty miles a day for most people is spending less money on 535 00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:17.199 a short range EV And then the one or two times a year that you 536 00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:21.119 drive more than one hundred miles at a time, maybe you rent a car, 537 00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:24.159 or maybe you have a used hybrid or a plug in hybrid or something 538 00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:28.559 like that, or you know, you have a scooter for around town or 539 00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:30.039 something like that. I bike to work, I drive. I live seven 540 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:32.800 miles away from the office. So you wait, wait, wait, wait, 541 00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:37.000 wait, Mike, you bike fourteen miles a day, not every day. 542 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:43.920 How it's not so bad. It's it's it's a mostly bike lanes here 543 00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.719 in New York City where it's a very bike friendly environment. I will say, 544 00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:50.760 but yeah, much so, but also good for you and great for 545 00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:54.360 your thighs. That's amazing. I appreciate it. Yeah, but I mean 546 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:57.920 they get it gets back to that sort of mobility question, right, The 547 00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:01.800 idea that you know, the transition over to electric power is the most fundamental 548 00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:06.760 rethinking of car technology that we really had in the history of the car. 549 00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:09.079 The internal combustion engine has been around for more than one hundred years, why 550 00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:13.480 shouldn't we also rethink our relationship to the car? And I thought that was 551 00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:15.920 just sort of an interesting, you know, point that they make. It 552 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:19.000 is. I mean, it's a pivot that a lot of people are making, 553 00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:22.280 and it's just kind of a new way of thinking and of living every 554 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:24.840 day. Mike, thank you so much. You're fun and I again, 555 00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:30.559 geez Louise fourteen miles. I'm impressed it. It's not so bad. It's 556 00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:32.559 it sounds more impressed than it is. Okay, well, for me, 557 00:40:32.679 --> 00:40:36.079 it would be bad. Let me let me tell you that there'd be a 558 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.000 lot of huffin in poffin. Thanks Hike, I appreciate it. Sea, 559 00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:45.199 take care, Jena bye. ABC's very fit. Mike Debusky. I've never 560 00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.280 seen it. Now I gotta go look him up. There better be a 561 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:51.960 picture on social media of him on the bike, photos of his quads. 562 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:55.440 Jen, Well, it's not that I was specifically Tyler. Who do you 563 00:40:55.480 --> 00:41:00.599 think I am? No comment. The mass mind behind the suicide bombing at 564 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:05.960 an airport in Afghanistan that killed thirteen US service members and more than one hundred 565 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:12.719 civilians in twenty twenty one has been killed by the Taliban ABC's Ian Panel says 566 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:16.320 it happened weeks ago without US involvement. We believe that the terrorist was killed 567 00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:20.000 in and on the ground. Rage at the Taliban, A calls facing an 568 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:23.480 insurgency of their own. Bloody campaign against ISIS now the US making it clear 569 00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:28.320 it's not working together with the Taliban. The Taliban has been in control of 570 00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:32.320 Afghanistan's government since the US withdrawal in twenty twenty one. I heard an interview 571 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:37.960 with the father of one of the thirteen US service members who had been killed 572 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:40.480 in that attack, and the reporter asked him, you know, doesn't make 573 00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:46.239 a difference to you that this terrorist, this mastermind, was killed by the 574 00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:53.199 Taliban versus the US, And the dad's comment was paraphrasing here, I don't 575 00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:57.800 care who killed him. Just as long as he's dead, that's one less 576 00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:04.119 terrorist. Still so sad. And the dad also said there is never going 577 00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:10.079 to be justice. I mean his son was gone. Republican leaders in Montana 578 00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:15.159 are said to vote on censuring or expelling a transgender state lawmaker who's been silenced 579 00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:19.760 in the House for comments against to build a band gender affirming medical care for 580 00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:23.400 kids. Democratic representatives Zoe Zephyr will be given the chance to speak today. 581 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:29.000 A protest disrupted the House floor session Monday, but the gallery will be closed 582 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:34.199 today. This next story is not okay. There's a woman in Florida who 583 00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:39.920 admitted to dressing up as a clown and fatally shooting her husband's first wife more 584 00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:45.400 than thirty years ago. The woman pleaded guilty yesterday to second degree murder as 585 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:47.760 part of the plea deal. The woman's been in jail since she was arresting 586 00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:52.559 in twenty seventeen, and the plea deal calls for a twelve year sentence. 587 00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:57.880 If she was convicted, she would have faced a life sentence. Disneyland is 588 00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:02.320 temporarily closing several rides for scheduled refurbishments now. The closures start June fifth, 589 00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:07.840 so it's going to be Peter Pan's Flight, Mister Toad's Wild Ride, Alice 590 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:13.039 in Wonderland, and those are all in Fantasyland, all kind of the Little 591 00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:17.159 Kid rides. Also, the Little Mermaid Ride at California Adventure and Splash Mountain 592 00:43:17.239 --> 00:43:22.079 will be closed starting May thirty first, so that attraction can be transformed into 593 00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:30.280 The Bayou Adventure and Today's Holiday. I've teased you all morning with it. 594 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:36.760 It's a holiday with a twist. It's National Pretzel Day, all right. 595 00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:40.159 But there are at least a couple of pretzel origin stories. But they both 596 00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:45.239 have to do with religion. So according to one, pretzels were invented in 597 00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:52.039 six D ten a d by an Italian monk as a reward for kids who 598 00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:58.559 learned their prayers. I don't know exactly how he made the pretzel. Another 599 00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:02.920 version has pretzels in in a monastery in southern France, so either way they 600 00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:10.199 have a they have monkey roots monk esque roots. They were introduced to North 601 00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:15.960 America in the nineteenth century by Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants. The observance of April twenty 602 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:21.960 sixth National Pretzel Day started back in two thousand and three, so it's twenty 603 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:27.079 years old. This is KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles, Orange County. 604 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:31.360 Beautiful forecast for your National Pretzel Day. Temperatures will just be in the upper 605 00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:36.480 sixties, low seventies at the beaches, low to mid seventies for Metro La 606 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:39.000 and o se upper seventies, low eighties, maybe even a couple of mid 607 00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:43.760 eighties for the valleys in thee and again we could see the nineties by the 608 00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:46.800 weekend. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour news Room. 609 00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:51.880 I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. This has been your wake up call. You've been 610 00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:54.360 listening to your wakeup call with me, Jennifer Jones Lee, and you can 611 00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:59.719 always hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday at KFI A 612 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:04.039 six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.