WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.639 Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to kf I am six forty 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:10.400 wake Up Call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. She likes to call it 3 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:19.160 Friday. There's Jennifer Jones Lee with your Thursday morning wake up call. I 4 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:26.760 tell him, week after week after week, I call it Friday Eve because 5 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:32.799 that's what it is. Uh just feel like every time he's wasting his breath 6 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:39.840 pointing out the obvious hattie. Everybody, Welcome to a Thursday, the eighth 7 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:47.119 of June. I want to start the show by saying how sorry I was 8 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:51.479 yesterday. I think the whole crew was. And Tyler, I actually want 9 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:56.600 you to jump in here. When we heard that Jeff Ba had passed away, 10 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:02.600 it was I don't know if it was a shock for me. Tyler. 11 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:04.319 I know you and I were texting back and forth yesterday. I mean, 12 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:10.480 the news was devastating. It was he I think too, you guys, 13 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:14.239 so Jeff Ba the KFI in the sky and actually KNA if you could 14 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:19.680 bring Nick up here too. The one thing that Jeff Ba was a consummate 15 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:25.439 professional, But the thing that I think I always loved about him his kindness. 16 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:29.400 He was truly one of the kindest men I had ever met in my 17 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:34.719 life. And Nick, I know you got to work with him more closely 18 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:38.400 than we did, but I just feel like I need to start the show 19 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.840 with a tribute to him. No, I agree with you, and I 20 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:46.799 think that he is if you think of one of those classic gentlemen as you 21 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:51.799 would see on I don't know, a classic movie like a Carry Grant kind 22 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:55.799 of character. Granted, let's be real, behind the scenes he would he 23 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:59.280 could keep up with the best of them for some fun activities, but for 24 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:02.040 on air, he was that classic. You know, if there were such 25 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:06.239 a thing as like you know, fred as Stair with his amazing dancing, 26 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:10.240 that would be Jeff Ball with his you know, coverage of the fires and 27 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:15.759 of traffic here in southern California, being an airborne not just with us here 28 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:20.000 at iHeart, but with other stations throughout his career without other companies throughout his 29 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.039 career. So yeah, he is one of those people that really covered a 30 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:28.960 lot of basses and made a lot of friends. He was highly respected in 31 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:35.400 the you know, airborne community across the board with news reporting as well being 32 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:38.360 a former well being a marine. I guess you're never you're not a former 33 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.080 marine, but being a marine, as he would say, Hurrah. He 34 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:46.159 would just you know, that was a like he you know, Veteran's Day 35 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:49.719 was a big thing for him. Doing all the air shows here in southern 36 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.479 California was also a big thing for him. So yeah, he definitely will 37 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.719 be missed. He was a very very much so a class act. Absolutely. 38 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:00.960 He would text me a lot in the mornings when I'd be giving him, 39 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:04.639 you know, I don't know the weather forecast or something like that, 40 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:07.319 and you know, I'd say low clouds and he'd send me a picture of 41 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:09.599 the clouds. Or I'd say, you know, something over Dodger Stadium and 42 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:13.800 he'd send me a picture of what it looked like over Dodger Stadium. And 43 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.919 you're right, Nick, if there was breaking news or a story that we 44 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:21.560 were following up on, you could text Jeff and he would be over that 45 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:24.319 by the next report. I mean, he was just such an integral part 46 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:29.199 of our team. And we found out a few months ago that Jeff had 47 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:34.639 been diagnosed with cancer, and you know what the thing was he I would 48 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:37.280 ask him, you know, how are you doing today or whatever, and 49 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:40.000 he always would be like I'm doing fine. You know, I've got another 50 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.120 treatment, but I'm going well. I'm tired, but other than that, 51 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:47.039 I'm doing great. So I think when we found out this week a lot 52 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:51.199 of us were like, wow, things must have been worse than he let 53 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:54.159 on. But that's the kind of guy he was. He was gonna just 54 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:58.680 keep it all inside, keep it positive, and move on. So, 55 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:01.199 Jeff Ba, I just want you to, if you're listening to us from 56 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:04.479 the heavens this morning, as I'm sure you are, just know how much 57 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:10.520 we love you and miss you. And yeah, you rest in peace, 58 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:14.680 my friend. That's all I think. He is the ultimate airborne now truly. 59 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:17.720 Yes, you know you can't get you can't get a better ride than 60 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.839 that. So that's right, He's got the wings now his very own. 61 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:26.079 This is your wake up call again for Thursday, June eighth, and some 62 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:29.879 of the stories we're watching in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A worker 63 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:32.399 has been killed by a cinder block wall that collapsed at a construction site in 64 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:36.920 Pacoima. A former USC football players have been arrested on charges of raping two 65 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:42.680 university students, and the Nuggets are back in the lead. You talk about 66 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:46.439 it back and forth on this one in the NBA Finals after beating the Heat 67 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:48.720 in Game three in Miami last night. Let's start with some of these stories 68 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:53.720 coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. The Sisters of Perpetual 69 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:59.319 Indulgence have celebrated Pride Month with the Angels Now. Conservative and Catholic groups who 70 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:02.079 oppose the group dressing as nuns also showed up at the game to protest. 71 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:08.959 Anaheimayer Ashley Atkins tells KTLA it's important for the nuns to feel included and invited 72 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:13.199 them to yesterday's games. Some people don't like the way they deliver their message, 73 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:16.000 but I believe that they spend a lot of time in the community ministering 74 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.079 to the sick, the elderly, the poor, and that's really what our 75 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:25.199 faith is about. The Dodgers uninvited the group to Pride Night celebrations. When 76 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:30.199 it got backlash, The Sisters say they used humor to address bigotry and complacency. 77 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.439 A car has driven onto a sidewalk and into a chase bank in Pico 78 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:38.879 Robertson, hitting a family. LA City Fire says one family member was killed. 79 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:43.240 Two others were treated at a Hospital officials say Cruz responded to West Pico 80 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.800 Boulevard near La Sienega yesterday. They say they found at least two of the 81 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:51.360 people pinned under a black HOUNDAI Sedan. Please say the drivers stayed at the 82 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:57.160 scene and cooperated with investigators. A worker has been killed by a cinder block 83 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.959 wall that collapsed at a construction site and Pecuoimap. More than a dozen La 84 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.079 City firefighters were sent to the site near the one eighteen yesterday. La City 85 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:08.720 says. Fire says two people were taken to the hospital, but that third 86 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:13.399 worker died at the scene. The local daughter of a woman kidnapped in Mexico 87 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:16.319 says the US and Mexico aren't doing enough to get her mom back. Zoey 88 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:19.319 Lopez says on February ninth, her mother, who's a dual citizen, was 89 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:23.319 taken by men in a van from her home in Pedlo Nuevo, and hours 90 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:28.160 later they got arrangement demand. Then communication suddenly stopped. President Biden. President 91 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:33.079 Lopez, the world is watching. The legacy of your leadership will be defined 92 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:36.240 by the actions you take in this critical moment. Lopez says her mother retired 93 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:40.480 to Mexico ten years ago. And believes her mother was targeted because she's an 94 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:45.240 American in downtown La Steve Gregory King if I knew Karen Travers, Good morning 95 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:48.639 to you. So the President was briefed on the wildfires in Canada. He's 96 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:56.120 been regularly updated. But what did he kind of show yesterday that these wildfires 97 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:59.279 are an example of that might help him to sort of further one of his 98 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:02.079 causes. Yeah, I mean, he talked to the Canadian Prime Minister, 99 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:06.839 Justin Trudeau yesterday and offered additional US support. So far, the US has 100 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:13.560 sent more than six hundred firefighters and support personnel and the other assets to Canada 101 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:15.600 to help them battle these blazes, which are a lot of them. Use 102 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:19.240 the three hundred right now are still out of control. They've sent water, 103 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:24.759 bomber, aircraft and other things that Canada has needed, and the White House 104 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:28.839 says that they'll continue to send assets that Canada has said that they might need 105 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:32.680 from the United States and anything else of federal firefighting assets to help them suppress 106 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:36.560 these fires. The President in Trudou also talks about the health impacts that these 107 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:40.879 fires are having, because that's what really the focus is on here in the 108 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:45.519 northeast about how bad this smoke is that people are inhaling, how bad it 109 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:47.279 is for your eyes. Right now, I have to say I was outside 110 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.879 for like fifteen minutes here at the White House, and I came inside and 111 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:54.279 like you can hear it a little bit in my throat. My eyes are 112 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:58.240 burning quite a bit. And they're really telling people like don't go outside. 113 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:03.240 The air quality of code read. School activities are canceled outside. They don't 114 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.360 want the elderly, anybody with health conditions, children, they want everybody to 115 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:09.680 stay inside. There's an event at the White House tonight, a big Pride 116 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:13.639 concert. About two thousand people were invited, and it's on the schedule still. 117 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.959 It was officially put on the daily guidance, but they're kind of taking 118 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.680 it hour by hour to see if they're actually going to have it. And 119 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:22.560 interestingly, yesterday we heard from the White House. But this is like a 120 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:26.759 clear line to climate change, Kareem said, it's an alarming example of the 121 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:33.399 ways in which the climate crisis is disturbing our lives and our communities. All 122 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.960 Right, Karen, thank you so much for your time this morning. Man, 123 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.519 And I mean California is you know, no stranger to the wildfires. 124 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.519 But the smoke that you guys have is just choking there. The pictures are 125 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:52.799 unbelievable. Yeah, it's bright orange skies right now and very very smoky haze. 126 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.320 And I tweeted a photo of the White House with the sunrise coming up 127 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:58.399 and kind of regret not being out there with the mask on to take that 128 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.440 picture. Yeah. Absolutely, all right, stay safe, talk to you 129 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:05.960 soon. Have a great day. Thanks you too. That's ABC's Karen Travers. 130 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:13.480 Okay, you guys, I've been dreading doing this, but it's important 131 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.279 that I do it. I want to. Everybody's been alluding to it. 132 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:22.320 Handle actually mentioned it yesterday, but today is my opportunity to tell you I 133 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.519 am leaving KFI. So tomorrow will actually be my last day on the air 134 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:33.960 after thirty years. Tomorrow is my last broadcast. Last year when I told 135 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.200 you guys that I almost lost my dad, he's got a heart issue, 136 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:43.039 my grandma died, Scott and I got a divorce. I mean, you 137 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.519 talk about a year where you're like, wow, there's been a lot of 138 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:50.120 change, sold a house, bought a house, crashed a car, bought 139 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:56.000 a car, all of a sudden. There was a time right after the 140 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:01.480 holidays where I was sitting on my bed with all three dogs, and I 141 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:05.279 started thinking to myself, Mom and Dad left, they'd come down to visit 142 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:13.200 me. Mama, dad left yesterday, and I need to be home with 143 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:18.440 my family. After my dad got sick, it definitely changed my priorities. 144 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:28.039 And even though my heart has given me this incredible opportunity for the last seven 145 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:35.480 years to not only do this show, but also to become friends with all 146 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:41.600 of you. And I know that probably sounds strange, but every time that 147 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:43.440 I go to an event or something like that and you guys are there and 148 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.279 you come up and you tell me about how you listen to the show and 149 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:50.879 what the show means to you, I hope. I hope that I've been 150 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:54.840 able to convey to you how much I appreciate you and how much I have 151 00:10:56.039 --> 00:11:03.519 loved my time here at iHeart. And there's nothing that went wrong at the 152 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.679 station. There's nothing, There's nothing. It just is all about my family. 153 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:15.320 And so it was kind of the first part of the year that I 154 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.679 threw out there, you know, kind of into the universe, like, 155 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:24.480 hey, you know, I need to go home. And I actually got 156 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:31.440 a job in radio up north and I'm not going to be on the air 157 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:33.759 anymore, which is wild. Thirty years in my career and now I'm pivoting 158 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:39.759 into management, which is crazy. But now I get to live less than 159 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:45.799 ten minutes away from my mom and dad. And yes, you have seen 160 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:50.720 pictures of a new boyfriend on there. His name is Jason, and he's 161 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:54.000 not really a new boyfriend. He's my old boyfriend from college actually, and 162 00:11:54.080 --> 00:12:01.240 we reconnected after I started kind of throwing this out into the universe. And 163 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:07.080 so you see, you know when I say this all the time, when 164 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:13.679 you get those godwinks over and over and over and over and somebody is telling 165 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:18.039 you you're sad, you miss your family, you have a job opportunity. 166 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:26.240 The thing that was the worst part for me was leaving my family at I 167 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:31.440 Heeart and leaving all of you. So I want to make sure you know 168 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:33.919 how people say, oh, let's stay in touch. You hit me up 169 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:39.120 on social media all day long. I don't care. I'm gonna try and 170 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:41.279 respond to you. I've had I don't even know. I think I'm close 171 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:46.080 to a thousand comments right now from people saying goodbye who have seen it online. 172 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:48.240 I'm gonna try and respond honest to God, to every single one of 173 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.759 you, because that's how much you guys mean to me. So thank you 174 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:56.200 to my heart family, thank you to my wake up call family. I 175 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:00.399 even think handle because for God's sakes, that man and I have been a 176 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:05.919 team for seven years now, and Wayne and Tyler and Michelle and now Anne, 177 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:07.399 who I wish I had more of a chance to work with, to 178 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:13.120 Kevin, Lagrette and Robin and Chris. I will never be able to thank 179 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:16.120 you for the opportunity to come down here. And when people say, oh, 180 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:20.360 aren't you happy to leave LA, I say absolutely not. LA has 181 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:24.600 been incredible to me. But I need to go home and be with my 182 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:30.960 family. So that's it tomorrow, hanging up the headphones. It's wild look 183 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:35.399 at goosebumps telling you guys that, But I love you all and I'll never 184 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:41.320 be able to repay you for being a wake up call listener, but more 185 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:46.879 importantly letting me come into your homes and be your friend. All Right, 186 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:52.799 I have to stop, the tears are coming, all right. When we 187 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:56.919 come back, I've got more news for you. We've got a person with 188 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:01.240 a knife who stabbed at least four kids in the Alps and Ai is fixing 189 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.600 a ducking problem. Oh Crozier, I know you're trying to get me in 190 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.759 trouble with this one. That's all coming up in just a second. Nick 191 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:11.200 pally O'KENI, let's get back to you now. Find out what it's slow 192 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:18.000 on the fifteen and to you. You have made me laugh on this show 193 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:22.240 between you and Tyler. I don't know how I would have had I don't 194 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:24.360 know why I get up at two forty five in the morning, but Nick 195 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.240 PALLYO'KENI, I can't say I love you enough because you are one of my 196 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.399 best season. I'm gonna miss you like crazy. Well, it just save 197 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:37.480 a reason to come up and enjoy the reading rodeo. And also Reading has 198 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:41.399 a pride event, so I will definitely be up there, and then I'll 199 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:45.360 take you out on the lake shaft as full. We'll go Instagram live and 200 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:48.000 have some silly goofy fun, and it'll be away from a microphone, so 201 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.159 you all can hear the actual things that we've been. You can all hear 202 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:56.720 my potty mouth exactly. My dad says he's putting a cuss bank at his 203 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:00.559 house because he said, wow, when you left thirty years ag you didn't 204 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:03.240 sound like this. I said, Dad, this is thirty years in radio. 205 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:05.120 Please kidding, Now I sound like this. And I do have to 206 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:09.120 say real quick, you are maybe hanging up the headphones, but I know 207 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:11.399 you will not be far away from a mic no matter where you are. 208 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:15.279 Oh, I've got a lot to learn on the other side of the business. 209 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.519 But you know that's it. Hey, you never know, right, 210 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:20.399 maybe I'll do a commercial here and that you never know. We'll see what 211 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:26.320 happens. Absolutely, wildfire smoke from Canada has consumed New York City skyline. 212 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:33.159 Health officials are encouraging everyone across the state to consider wearing masks. Let's see 213 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:37.279 if it plays. Oh, apparently it's not going to play. Acting State 214 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:43.679 health director doctor James McDonald says people should put on those N ninety five masks 215 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.240 if they go outside. If you've seen the pictures, I swear it looks 216 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:50.480 like you could cut that like cut the air with a knife. It is 217 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:56.360 so thick. And they say that the fine particulate matter, as we well 218 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:00.000 know in wildfire country, is that that's the scary part. It can be 219 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:04.600 smaller than hair and it gets right into your respiratory system. As Karen Travers 220 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:10.759 was talking about officials expect the conditions to continue over the next few days. 221 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:14.879 Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Oh, Jim, I'm 222 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:19.200 telling you, I hate these freaking spam text messages, and I feel like 223 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:25.000 I'm getting them more more often, and it'll be something like just random, 224 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:27.320 Hey, sorry, I can't make it today. Can we do it tomorrow? 225 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.200 Yes? And it makes me go, well, first off, what 226 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:33.720 I'm getting old obviously, so what did I forget? But then secondly, 227 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:37.360 I'm like, wait a minute, is this spam right? Well? And 228 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:42.440 it probably is. Yeah, you know why because the overwhelming number of messages 229 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:48.000 out there that you're receiving, random messages, if you're getting in your text 230 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:52.399 to inbox, probably are the robo killer, which is a spam blocking amp 231 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:57.480 said that there were four hundred and seventy five million robotext sent not in a 232 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:00.639 month, not in a week, in a day, four hundred seventy five 233 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.160 million robotexts. That's why you're getting so many of them. That's data from 234 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:08.519 just last month. And some people do it, they buy it, they 235 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:14.039 click the link that's in there. Yeah, here's a pretty typical example. 236 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:17.799 They came from Netflix, or purports at least to come from Netflix. It 237 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:22.200 says, hey, there's a problem with the billing on your account. If 238 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:25.440 you want to recovery your account, you need to click here on This's like, 239 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:26.519 okay, first, there's a problem with the grammar, right, or 240 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:30.319 with the usage there. There's this sense of urgency click it now. You 241 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.200 got to click it now, ye, because your Netflix account is in danger. 242 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:37.039 Okay, Well, first of all, is it really that big at 243 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:41.240 crisis? If your Netflix account is in ten there's a problem, Well, 244 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:45.160 go to your Netflix account, go to your you log on to your account 245 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:48.400 and see if there is a problem. You'll find out there before you're going 246 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:52.839 to find out from some random text message. I've got that Netflix text message, 247 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.519 and I literally I just thought, oh, well, it's you know, 248 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:59.480 my ex husband. He's I think he's still paying for that specific service. 249 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:00.519 And I thought, well, he didn't pay it this month. I 250 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.480 didn't think twice about it, but I love how Yeah, I just automatically 251 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:07.559 assumed he was a deadbeat and didn't go straight too. I bet this is 252 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:11.480 spam. Yeah, Well that should be your assumption, not that he's a 253 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:12.960 deadbeat. Maybe he is. Maybe he isn't. I don't know, but 254 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.079 you can pretty much assume that that message is going to be a fake, 255 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:18.599 and so don't click on it. I mean, you've got a couple of 256 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:22.720 alternatives here. You can either click on it, you know, delete it, 257 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.880 block it. Certainly, you can also forward it onto the FCC by 258 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:34.640 texting it to spam spam and that may put the FCC onto whoever is responsible 259 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:37.079 for them, and probably not, but I mean, they get so many 260 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:41.400 of these, yeah, and they're they're luckily now at least the FCC has 261 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:47.680 decided to take on some uh, some legislation related to this, some rules. 262 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:51.920 First rules focused on scam texting. It will require mobile service providers to 263 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:56.680 block illegal robottext great problem is, Jena, it doesn't take effect until twenty 264 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:00.440 twenty four. Oh see. And here's the thing. I always figured that 265 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:04.640 Congress might act more quickly if it's happening to them. It can't just be 266 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:07.720 us. So I assumed, like, oh, hey, if they're getting 267 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:10.440 screwed by this, so are we, and maybe they'll do something a little 268 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:12.920 quicker. I guess I was wrong in this assumption. Seems like it sure, 269 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:15.400 I mean, and the FCC is the one coming up with the rules 270 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:19.359 now, and you know it wasn't necessarily Congress, but I suspect they're getting 271 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:23.680 plenty of text messages too. But you're right, and less constituents start, 272 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:29.920 you know, flooding their email in boxes or or flooding their text messages with 273 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.839 complaints, not much as likely to get done. All right, Well, 274 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.440 at least at least in this report. I feel like you're telling me it's 275 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.599 not just me. So at least misery loves company, and somebody's doing something 276 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.480 about it. Maybe not as quickly as I would like, but still, 277 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.640 Hey, I appreciate that somebody's trying to do something right. You know who 278 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:53.799 just died, Jeff ba our traffic guy, Pat Robertson. Ah, you're 279 00:19:53.880 --> 00:20:00.480 kidding me, just now, oh, first to find out? Wow, 280 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:03.519 Oh my gosh. All right, well, man, I'm telling you, 281 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:07.200 this is a this is a tough morning. So um, Jeff Bob passed 282 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:11.960 away. We just heard Pat Robinson passed. Pat Robertson passed away. And 283 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:15.200 I would like to say to you, Jim, because I don't know if 284 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.079 I'm going to talk to you tomorrow. I'm leaving KFI. Tomorrow is my 285 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:21.759 last day. No you're not. I am. I'm going home. I'm 286 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:25.799 going to Redding to be with my family. All right, Well, good 287 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:30.200 luck. I loved you all these years. Seen caf I come upon my 288 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:32.640 list in the morning, it's like, all right, I get chat today. 289 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:34.000 Oh my gosh. If I could give you a giant hug, I 290 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:40.200 would you are. Don't tell your colleagues you are my favorite interview. Really, 291 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:42.400 I love you. I'll talk to you on Facebook. All right, 292 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:48.079 sounds good. Jim Ryan A basis, Jim Ryan, This is hard, 293 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:52.400 you guys. It's harder than I thought we were talking about Netflix. Netflix 294 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.279 has asked to judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a family claiming an image likely 295 00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:00.359 take another home in the Hollywood Hills for an ad is a safety can certain 296 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:03.759 so. The family says the ad for the series Buying Beverly Hills violates the 297 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:10.720 state's false advertising and privacy laws. Netflix lawyers said Tuesday that the case should 298 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:15.799 be tossed because it violates the company's right to free speech. Amazon Prime could 299 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:19.599 be adding on ads. The Wall Street Journal says Amazon is considering an ad 300 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:23.599 supported tier for its streaming platform, like several others, including Netflix and Hulu. 301 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:29.359 Already have Prime videos currently included in an Amazon Prime membership, or people 302 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:32.200 can pay a ninety nine a month. One option would be to add the 303 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:36.119 advertising to existing subscribers and give them an option to pay more for an ad 304 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:38.799 free alternative. The journal says ad buyers are all for it because they want 305 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:44.200 more access to premium movies and programs that have remained largely ad free. Amazon 306 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:45.759 has said if it does add the ads, the ad breaks would be short. 307 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:51.200 Amy King kf I knew crazy story. Out of Sudan. They rescued 308 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:56.160 three hundred infants, toddlers, and older kids from an orphanage in Sudan's capital. 309 00:21:56.200 --> 00:22:00.559 Officials say they were trapped when the fighting started in Sudan. Seventy one 310 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:07.440 kids died from hunger and illness inside the facility because they were basically locked in 311 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:11.079 there since mid April for their own safety, but they couldn't get food and 312 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:14.480 things in there. Uni SEF says it's been taken to all the kids have 313 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:18.799 been taken to a safer location and they've received medical checks. Thinking of medical 314 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.279 doctor say. Pope Francis is doing fine after undergoing surgery at surgery yesterday on 315 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:27.359 his abdomen the Vatican says the procedure was planned by the Pope's medical team and 316 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:32.319 they were I guess he had hernia and it was giving him all these recurring 317 00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:34.519 pains, so they went in to fix that for sure. Coming up at 318 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:38.759 five fifty this morning, we've got a special tribute to kfis Jeff Ba, 319 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:42.799 who we lost this week, and he just you know what, he was 320 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:48.480 just a bright spot we all. I don't know one person who didn't love 321 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:53.680 Jeff Bah. Anyway, Neil Savedra did an interview with Jeff a few years 322 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:57.759 ago, I believe, and Jeff wrote a book and he was interviewing about 323 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:00.839 this book, and I want to bring it to you in its entirety just 324 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:07.880 so you can get one last glimpse into the kindness and the depth and the 325 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.279 intellect that Jeff Ba had. So that's coming up at five fifty. Hi, 326 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:15.359 Jason Middleton, good morning to you. Good morning Jennifer. All right, 327 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:19.680 can we start with Lulu Lemon? Sure? Why not? Because I 328 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:29.319 feel like Lulu Lemon is what you seem KG on this idea for you said 329 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:33.400 sure, yeah, no, I mean there's this We're going to talk about 330 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:37.359 a zero tolerance policy and those always kind of like raise flags for me, 331 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:41.319 because the whole point of human existence is nuance, right, So zero tolerance 332 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:47.440 seems really silly. But they fired two people because people broke into the lu 333 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:49.279 Lemon store, grabbed a bunch of stuff by the front door, and left, 334 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:52.200 and then two employees chased him out, and then those employees got fired, 335 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:57.200 and Lulu Lemon is is standing by their They don't want they don't want 336 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:02.680 their employees to engage in theft because of safety issues. Totally understandable, right, 337 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:04.559 right, totally get that. I mean, just in San Francisco last 338 00:24:04.599 --> 00:24:08.160 month at a Walgreens on Market Street, you know, somebody tried you know, 339 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:11.240 there was a shooting involving something like that, and that's being looked at 340 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:15.680 too, So I understand that they're standing by it. They don't want to 341 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:19.079 encourage this behavior. At the same time, I mean, zero tolerance just 342 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:22.480 kind of bugs me. I guess I agree with this because here's the thing. 343 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:26.160 We're all human beings, and to me, what that stresses is that 344 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:32.599 they love their jobs and that their knee jerk reaction was to be loyal and 345 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:34.839 protect the company they were working for, Right, Yeah, I mean, 346 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:41.119 it's it was probably a visceral muscle memory kind of reaction, like that person 347 00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:42.960 is doing something I'm not supposed to do. They're taking our stuff, our 348 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:47.400 merch I'm gonna go get it now. Maybe there needs to be more training, 349 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:48.680 Maybe that needs to be more of a culture thing. If this is 350 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:53.079 a new, new ish policy, and it seems to be rather new ish, 351 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:56.680 then maybe that needs to be reinforced from the corporate level down. And 352 00:24:56.759 --> 00:25:00.839 just like their first muscle memory should be to just let that happened, because 353 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:04.119 the CEO says, look, that's just merchandise, it's not people totally understandable 354 00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:07.960 there too. There's no wrong side to this necessarily, but firing two people 355 00:25:08.119 --> 00:25:12.359 for trying to do something like this might might I think maybe a probation or 356 00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:15.519 some retraining. Maybe that's what I was going to say. Why not just 357 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:18.799 tell them like, hey, that's not what you're supposed to do. Here's 358 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:22.079 what you do. But high five thanks for thinking about the company? Yeah, 359 00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:23.880 yeah, I mean that that would have made a better headline. I 360 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:26.759 think I think so too. It would have made the company look like it 361 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.279 really valued its employees. In fact, this one just kind of makes it 362 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:33.440 look like, well, we have a corporate policy. We checked the box, 363 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:36.759 you did it wrong, see you later. So anyway, it's a 364 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:40.839 high profile example for other you know, employees, obviously, but at what 365 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:45.559 cost, right exactly? Okay, speaking of costs, all the crime that's 366 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:49.240 going on in San Francisco, you and I were there for a bazillion years, 367 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:52.359 and I think when both of us left, I don't know, seven 368 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:57.720 years ago. I guess that when we left the city was getting bad, 369 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:02.599 but not to the point point that it is now, Like people will not 370 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:06.279 go downtown or they go downtown thinking like, oh I'm going to get this 371 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:08.480 experience. And I've talked to people who have said, we left our kitten, 372 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:11.599 you know, like we found needles on the street. There was you 373 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:14.920 know, human worst on the street. I mean, it's bad down there. 374 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:18.200 And now, speaking of leaving, you have this major hotel company who 375 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:22.440 says, nope, we are not going to make payments on this loan for 376 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:26.880 our San Francisco Union Square location. That's huge. So it's huge, and 377 00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:30.720 it's it's such an iconic building. So we're talking about the Hilton Hotel. 378 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:33.599 We're talking about two hotels. The big one is the one right next to 379 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:36.480 Union Square, right at the foot of Market Street, right across the street 380 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:40.599 from the Ferry Building, yep. And it's a huge icon quasi brutalist kind 381 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:44.599 of look, and it's it's no small shakes. It's got like, what's 382 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:48.680 got almost two thousand rooms right and then and then if you go Upmarket Street 383 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:52.480 about six blocks or so, up close to the Westfield Shopping Center, that 384 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:56.279 one up there called the Park fifty five, that's got a thousand rooms. 385 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:57.720 They're not going to pay the debt on that one either. This is a 386 00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:03.759 large publicly trade real estate investment company. It's the biggest one in the country. 387 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:07.519 This goes towards I'm doing some notes for my show this weekend about commercial 388 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:11.559 real estate because if we do tip into a recession, commercial real estate maybe 389 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.440 the tipping point. We've been dealing with this stubborn inflation for a long time. 390 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.000 We've been dealing with a really hot labor market, and then nobody wants 391 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.640 to go back to work, and so corporate real estate is cratering, especially 392 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:25.799 in Los Angeles. And now we're seeing in San Francisco. Yeah, exactly. 393 00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:29.720 And I think the reason is you see it more, I think in 394 00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:33.160 San Francisco because in the city. I mean, for everybody who doesn't know 395 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:37.039 it's seven miles by seven miles, it's dinky when you look at it that 396 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:41.240 way. And when you have this much crime and the homelessness issue packed into 397 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:47.759 this tiny little city footprint, you really see things on the street that maybe, 398 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:51.480 where La is way more spread out, our issues might be just here 399 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:55.680 and there. In San Francisco, it is consolidated. Yeah, everything is 400 00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:59.680 kind of boiled down. It's San Francisco as an urban region. Because you 401 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:02.880 said seven by seven, right, so everything is a tip of the peninsula 402 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:06.079 and getting across the gate, that's a different thing. Oakland, different thing. 403 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:10.559 But in San Francisco itself, when you have the tech company diaspora and 404 00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:14.079 then you have hybrid work and people not wanting to come into the office downtown, 405 00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:17.599 this is a compounding problem. They're in a doom cycle when it comes 406 00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:19.559 to the downtown San Francisco, which is sad to see. And I think 407 00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:23.400 that that's a valid argument for people who were like, hey, when the 408 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:27.559 pandemic started a few years ago, maybe things weren't quite as bad, but 409 00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:33.079 it has been such a snowball downtown. I'm not coming back to work. 410 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.359 I don't want to put myself in that situation, and I don't blame them 411 00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:37.440 for it. I think I want to let it go. Right. San 412 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.799 Francisco started advertising another city saying, hey, come visit us. Yes, 413 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:45.799 yes, And I mean that's just proof right there. Can we talk about 414 00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:48.920 Genesis? So this is Undai's luxury brand. And for anybody who says, 415 00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:52.079 I don't really know what that looks like, it was the car that Tiger 416 00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:56.519 Woods was driving when he went too fast and lost control and almost, I 417 00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:00.880 mean almost lost the use of a leg. So is this luxury brand now 418 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:07.319 that seems to really be pushing itself And I mean this is a sexy look 419 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:11.960 in suv. It is, indeed, and it has really sexy standard safety 420 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.400 equipment that actually saved Tiger woods life. Apparently they have these cool airbags in 421 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:18.720 between the front driver's seats, so the driver's seat and then the passenger's seat 422 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:22.200 in the front, so their air bags on either side of that, and 423 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.920 that was specifically called out by the transportation authority to say that is probably the 424 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:32.240 reason Tiger was able to well survive that wreck. And it was a it 425 00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:33.119 was a massive wreck. I don't know if you've seen the video, it 426 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:37.160 happened like in February twenty twenty one. But the video of it, I 427 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:40.839 mean that was that was no tumble. That was a big, big deal. 428 00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:42.680 Oh my god. Yes, And so the so the seventy and the 429 00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:47.680 eighty both have these have these eight standard air bakes, and so the the 430 00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:52.960 seventy and the eighty now will be the Genesis is shifting its production now to 431 00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:56.720 the US, and I guess they're going to put in this plant in Alabama. 432 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.680 Yeah, but Alabama for now. And then then they're also well that's 433 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.119 that's the first part of it, and then the electric part of it, 434 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.759 the electric model. In order to qualify for the federal tax credit, they 435 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:10.079 have to have the batteries made in the US, and so they're going to 436 00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:14.240 move a factory for battery making to Georgia. Okay, makes sense. I 437 00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:17.160 mean you put them right there together. Sure, that absolutely makes sense. 438 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:22.119 All right. What also makes sense is since tomorrow is my last day at 439 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:25.359 kfive, for anybody who missed my announcement at the start of the show, 440 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.559 I'm I'm moving back to Redding to be with my family, and Jason Middleton 441 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:34.559 is stepping in at least for a couple of weeks and I you know what, 442 00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:37.359 Jason, I was telling Robin yesterday, I said this, the hardest 443 00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.400 part of this is like this show has been my baby. You know. 444 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:44.680 They when I got brought in, they were like, hey, can you 445 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.319 fix the show and see what you can do with it? And so when 446 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.240 you get to create something kind of from the ground up and you get carte 447 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:53.400 blanche and they're like, we just trust you figure something out. You take 448 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:56.400 so much pride in it, and I, honestly, it's like I kind 449 00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.519 of feel like I pe on my territory, like this is my show. 450 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:04.000 But you guys need to know. I have loved Jason since we what are 451 00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:08.119 we on, like twelve or thirteen years at least? Yeah, yeah, 452 00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:11.680 yeah, And when we were together in the Bay Area and we both were 453 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.400 part of this massive layoff, And when I got the job at KFI, 454 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:19.519 I immediately had Jason on the show. If you guys remember early on, 455 00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:23.519 because this is one of the smartest men I've ever met in my life, 456 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:29.880 and you are a freaking amazing broadcaster. People love you. I love your 457 00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:33.480 sense of humor. I love your sense of humor off the air even more 458 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:37.200 because it's just as crazy as mine is. And so yeah, so I'm 459 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.160 going to hand you the baby for a while and please take care of it. 460 00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:42.359 I know you will, and you're going to do an amazing job. 461 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:45.359 Well, thank you. We will take care of it. We will keep 462 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:48.160 it on the rails. I've got Kono, I've got Tyler, Rob got 463 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:52.519 and I've got Michelle will we will keep things moving down here, but we 464 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:55.720 will. We're just going to miss you terribly. I know why you're moving 465 00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:56.880 back, and I can't wait to meet the parents. I can't believe it's 466 00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:00.440 been thirteen years. I haven't met the parents yet, but that's going to 467 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:02.319 have to happen soon too. So well, they're coming down next week to 468 00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:05.680 help me pack. So why don't you come over. Yeah, that sounds 469 00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:07.079 perfect. That sounds perfect. And by the way, you're a goodbye bag 470 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:10.640 that my daughter and wife and I gave you is here in the office too. 471 00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:14.839 Oh man, I will get that tomorrow for anybody who doesn't. I 472 00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:16.799 don't think I told you guys. This morning, I was halfway to work, 473 00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:21.240 so I made it from Fontana to Glendora, and all of a sudden, 474 00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:23.720 I went, I forgot my phone, and we have that stupid two 475 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:28.079 factor authentication, and I'm like, I can't get into my email. I 476 00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:30.440 won't be able to pull up OURCS where all my news is. So I 477 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:34.799 had to call Once I got home, I had to call Tyler and Michelle 478 00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:37.519 and be like, Hi, guys, so, hey, guess who's broadcasting 479 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:42.319 from home today? Thank god I still have the emergency studio pop Quiz hot 480 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:46.599 Shots. I'm doing it from home. Jason, You're amazing. Thank Katie 481 00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:51.000 and Margo for me and love you, love you more than you know. 482 00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:53.279 Thanks. All right, sounds good? All right. When we come back, 483 00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:57.480 I want to do a special tribute to Jeff Baugh, who, as 484 00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:00.559 you know, we lost this week at the age of eighty one. He 485 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:07.480 had been battling cancer and unfortunately it looks like this week was really the week 486 00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:10.440 that things took a turn. And he will be missed so much. His 487 00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:15.079 warmth, his aggressiveness, like when it came to like, hey we've got 488 00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:17.720 a breaking news story, boom, it was right over the top of it. 489 00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.920 He will be missed so much. And Neil Savedra had him on his 490 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:28.119 show a few years ago. Jeff wrote a book and Neil still had the 491 00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:31.279 interview that he did with Jeff and um, you know, we as a 492 00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:36.319 team really want to highlight how much we loved him, and so we want 493 00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:42.599 to play this next segment the entirety of the interview that Neil did with Jeff, 494 00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:45.759 just because we want you to remember him just like we did. So 495 00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:49.000 that's coming up in just a second, Nick Palio, Kenia, No, 496 00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:52.519 you're gonna take care of Jason Middleton two and boy between the two of you 497 00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:54.519 and both of your wicked sons of humor along with Kono and Tyler. Good 498 00:33:54.559 --> 00:34:00.920 luck, Anna Michelle. Yeah, but we to cover taken care of. 499 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:06.359 That's a great way to I will listen because you guys are going to be 500 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.119 a rack up team. We can't wait. We will miss you terribly. 501 00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:13.119 But yeah, there'll be a definite new chapter here for wake Up Call on 502 00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:16.679 Camp five. Absolutely, we got sad news this morning about Pat Robertson, 503 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:22.639 the televangelist, died at the age of ninety three this morning and so we 504 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:27.920 want to pass that along to you. And also it's I guess they say 505 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:31.119 it was half a century. I did not know that he was on that 506 00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:36.519 long on the seven hundred Club. Remember that's where you'd share stories about the 507 00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:40.000 Bible. You'd talk about God's judgment on everything you know, from homosexuality to 508 00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:45.679 the teaching of evolution, like there was no topic that that man would not 509 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:50.800 weigh in on. Again. Pat Robertson, the televangelist who created the Christian 510 00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:54.440 Broadcast Network, has died at the age of ninety three. All Right, 511 00:34:54.719 --> 00:35:00.760 I want us to in your mind. I don't want you to be sad 512 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:06.519 when we play this next clip. I want you to be happy for Jeff 513 00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:08.400 ba. I want you to celebrate his life if you would with me, 514 00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:13.159 please, Jeff Bob passed away this week at the age of eighty one. 515 00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:15.360 First of all, that man looked amazing. When I found out he was 516 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:17.679 eighty one, I was like, wait, what, it's gotta be a 517 00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:23.280 type of But Jeff battled cancer. He lost his battle. And the thing 518 00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:28.679 about Jeff that we all loved was his optimism and his positivity. And you 519 00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:30.360 would ask him how you feeling, Jeff, and he'd I feel good. 520 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:34.639 I'm tired, but I'm good. Let's go, and he would just move 521 00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:37.760 on. And when we found out that he lost his battle with cancer this 522 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:45.360 week, it devastated all of us. Yesterday, Neil savedra interviewed Jeff back 523 00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:49.599 in December on the twenty third. He happened to be filling in in four 524 00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:55.079 Conway and Jeff wrote a book recently and Neil was able to interview him about 525 00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:59.800 this book. It's a little tribute to Jeff this morning, So hit it 526 00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:02.159 please if you would. Jeff ba is with us. Of course, you 527 00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:07.159 know his voice from being the Kyfi in the sky here on Kyafi and when 528 00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:10.280 you hear mornings, you know, okay, I'm in good hands. Well, 529 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:14.800 it's it's fun for me. It's it's an unusual position, that's for 530 00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:16.639 sure. You can count on one hand how many people make a living being 531 00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:21.039 an airborne reporter in the country, that's for sure. But it's been it's 532 00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:25.400 been very been fun and very satisfying personally to be able to actually speak, 533 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:31.000 not just traffic report format yet yeah, but actually speak to someone that's driving 534 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:34.920 a car and help them. That's what it's told about. I used to 535 00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.440 get a kick before I got into this. I was actually I was a 536 00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:40.519 DJ at El Provado there in Hollywood for a long time before I got into 537 00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:44.599 this. That's a whole other story. But when I was getting ready for 538 00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:46.599 this, I can actually remember being on the Hollywood Freeway and the traffic reporter 539 00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:51.079 came on the air and said, yeah, South Hollywood had Vermont bad crash 540 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:53.719 back to Vermont, backed up to Sunset, and that's exactly where I was, 541 00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:57.440 and I went, G you no kidding, Why don't you tell me 542 00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:00.519 something that can help me? So that's what kind of set it all off. 543 00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:04.840 And then after that I can remember flying up and down the Harbor Freeway. 544 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.360 This is the early nineties, mind you, and looking down at the 545 00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:12.280 Harbor Freeway, which is just a straight shot, you know, into downtown 546 00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:15.239 from South la and packed with cars, nothing but break lets, all the 547 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:21.039 whip and on either side of the freeway you had Figure Oa, you had 548 00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:23.719 from Watch had and I'd always say, why don't you take Frodway Main Figure 549 00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:28.840 instead of sitting on the freeway. It wasn't long after that, maybe a 550 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:32.480 few months, one of the city council members grabbed me at a meeting and 551 00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:37.000 said, Jeff, I really like your traffic reports, but would you please 552 00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:42.320 stop telling people about Figure. Oh that was his way to downtown? Were 553 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:45.559 given my secrets? Yeah exactly, So, I mean la Is it does 554 00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:49.719 have horrible Harbor traffic, and the freeways can't handle it, and YadA, 555 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:53.119 YadA YadA. You have to just allow a lot of extra time for a 556 00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:57.199 normal drive. And then when we have these horrible crashes, I mean, 557 00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:01.000 all bets are off and things really, really really get bad. Yeah, 558 00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:05.159 that's when you say, hey, call the office. Yeah. Well, 559 00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:08.239 I frequently will say, and also put on some of the Twitter things that 560 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:12.639 that Chris has had me doing, and then Robin of late, I would 561 00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:14.920 say, look, make the call. You're going to be late. Yeah, 562 00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:17.039 there's no question about it. Yeah. And so you have the bird's 563 00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:20.840 eye view though. That's still a powerful thing, and I think that a 564 00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:25.079 lot of stations television or otherwise, radio or otherwise don't have. Yeah, 565 00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:29.280 airborne support is what it's all about. That's what I learned, mind you. 566 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:31.119 When I first started, I was the building we were working out of. 567 00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:35.679 It was and now those days it was metro traffic going way back. 568 00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:39.320 You might remember that name. And we worked in the Motown building and I 569 00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:44.320 don't even know how we got our information, but I realized that I, 570 00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:47.119 you know, people would call me and say, Jeff, that overturned rig 571 00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:51.480 that you just talked about, it went away about an hour ago. You 572 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:53.519 know, so I kind of realized that, you know, it wasn't quite 573 00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:58.159 set up right, and once I got the shout to do airborne report, 574 00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:00.360 and I went, oh, here we are. Yeah, there is something 575 00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:06.400 even with the tech and there's so much more now with cameras and everything else, 576 00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:09.599 meters, magnetic readers in certain areas, whatever it might be. That 577 00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:16.079 still there's something about eyes on that's powerful. Yea. And and also lets 578 00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:21.320 you see the flow of the day different you know, because I've heard you 579 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:25.199 say it today is moving differently than most Thursdays, most Fridays, most whatever. 580 00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:29.320 Oh yeah, there's there's no substitute for actually looking at this stuff. 581 00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:31.639 A lot of those studios, of course, where we depend on the California 582 00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:36.239 Highway Patrol, they have you know, media units that will tell us about 583 00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:38.880 things and stuff, but you just can't be looking at it. The big 584 00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:42.800 thing for me, I mean, and it really rings true with listeners to 585 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:45.159 be over something a horrible problem. Say all lanes are shut down, and 586 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:50.239 during the report lanes was starting to open, and you can actually say that, 587 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.760 look right now, lanes are opening, So why don't you just do 588 00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.480 this or do that? You know, But here's what's actually going on right 589 00:39:55.519 --> 00:40:00.800 now. So there's nothing better than actually seeing what you're talking I got a 590 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:06.239 question, yeah, you you know, everybody has kind of that same opinion 591 00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:07.840 of oh my god, it's it's just getting worse, and no matter what 592 00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:10.320 time of the day it is, it doesn't matter what day it is anymore, 593 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:15.000 and you've got that unique perspective of seeing it all from above. Can 594 00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:17.400 you talk about that sort of difference between earlier, a few years ago or 595 00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:22.039 even when you started in now, Well, the volume of traffic just keeps 596 00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:24.880 going up every year, they're telling them because more people come to live here. 597 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:28.320 Why not, you know, it's warm and sonny and what have you. 598 00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:31.320 The way that freeways have been designed in the get go, they just 599 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:36.920 weren't designed to handle the volume that we have. There's no question about the 600 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:40.199 fact that we've got to go pre COVID, because COVID really kind of screwed 601 00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:45.639 things up as far as patterns and stuff. But pre COVID, Thursday was 602 00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:47.280 always you'd always hear us talking about the busiest day of the week, and 603 00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:53.039 it was really mainly because we believe that Hollywood is kind of a kind of 604 00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:58.840 let's wrap up the week on Thursday. Town. No, it's very true. 605 00:40:58.840 --> 00:41:02.320 With a lot of board meeting and studios especially, they wanted to wrap 606 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:05.639 things up on a Thursday, and that's what it was all about. And 607 00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:07.719 sure enough, Friday morning was a whole lot lighter. We talk about Friday 608 00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:10.800 light and what have you. But to answer your question, I think that 609 00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:15.440 the volume just keeps going up every year, and now with people getting back 610 00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:20.880 into their workplace and studios and what have you, the volume of traffic is 611 00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:22.440 going right back up again. I know it's going to change here in the 612 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:27.159 new year. With sales folks and our marketing teams and things like that, 613 00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:30.800 they're going to be coming in probably more. Yep. So you expecting to 614 00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:34.239 see another layer of traffic come the new year, Oh, no question. 615 00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:37.960 It's not back to a let's call it a pre COVID. It's not there 616 00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:42.159 yet. It's getting very close, and sometimes really some mornings really surprised me. 617 00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:45.519 We'll get flying around and you'll go the first thing I see in the 618 00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:47.920 morning is the four or five coming out of across the San Fernando Valley. 619 00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:52.880 And there are someone I even put that on Twitter the other day. We're 620 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:54.440 up at six o'clock, our first report of six to thirty, so we 621 00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:57.840 get up early and get a look at stuff. I'll look at the four 622 00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:00.239 or five. It's six am, it's still dark. It's jammed from the 623 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:04.360 one eighteen down to the one oh one. Wow, and that's all people 624 00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:07.480 coming out of the new Hall Pass and a carrido showing up in Palm Delancaster 625 00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:13.079 and all that. So it's really bizarre to see that there are some interchanges 626 00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:15.519 are my favorite things in the freeway system. There are some interchanges that are 627 00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:20.159 just beyond belief is why did they do it this way? And the thing 628 00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:22.840 that they've They've added carpool lanes and what have you. Some of that is 629 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:25.039 wonderful stuff. But the big problem as far as and I'm no engineer, 630 00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:29.440 that's for sure, and there's a lot of smart people that are doing this 631 00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:32.599 stuff. But the main problem in LA I believe anyways, you cannot change 632 00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:38.000 the interchange itself. That is a huge piece of work there, you know 633 00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:43.000 what I mean. And that's where we have all these bottlenecks is around interchanges. 634 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.119 Now, people that drive the West one on one in the morning, 635 00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:50.199 West one on one to the south four or five into West LA you've got 636 00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:52.800 six lanes of traffic approaching the four or five, and most people believe it. 637 00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:55.920 And I go to the south four or five and it's one lane. 638 00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:01.480 Rest in peace, my friend Jeff Boh passed away at the age of eighty 639 00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:15.400 one. You've been listening to your wake Up Call with me, Jennifer Jones 640 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:20.239 Lee, and you can always hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday 641 00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:24.920 through Friday at kf I Am six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.