Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M six
forty wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. This Friday Eve is
particularly happy. Why is this Friday Eve particularly happy? Because starting tomorrow morning,
my alarm will not go off at two forty five in the morning.
What Tony is in for Tyler this morning? And I just got a double
one finger salute? Whoa. I know it sucks when somebody's like, I'm
going on vacation and you're like, oh, yeah, I can tell you
where to stick that vacation sunshine. Anyway, I am going on vacation.
I'm heading up to Redding. It is. I know, this is like
the perfect opportunity for a handle to, you know, do something some redneck
comment. But I think so. This weekend, We've got Jones family get
together at Burrito Bandido. You can't make this up. There were twenty six
Joneses on a text message thread. Everybody's gonna get a burrito bowl. We're
all gonna chill out because that's what Joneses due. We've got a steak feed,
We've got a rodeo in Cottonwood tomorrow. Mother's Day Sunday, followed by
next week much much time at the lake, which is going to be great
with my cousins, and then next weekend it gets real pancake breakfast Friday morning,
Friday night rodeo, Saturday night rodeo. And the best part about this
is I've not been to Rodeo week up there since I was seventeen and set
the national anthem on a horse three nights in a row at white jeans,
red boots, blue shirt, red hat. It's all gonna be on Instagram
because I feel like a lot of times I need to document my life.
Otherwise you're you guys are gonna be like, she makes that up. Nope,
Nope, nope nope. JJLKFI on Instagram, Jennifer Jones Lee on Facebook,
And yeah, you'll get to see what my life really is like the
Jones Best this weekend and I am so here for it. It'll be fun.
It's just cool because I haven't done it in thirty years, so that's
why I'm looking forward to it. Some of the stories we're watching in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County Probation officials have implemented emergency security measures
at the county's juvenile halls after the overdose death of an eighteen year old.
Now talking about emergency measures, Tattle forty two will officially expire tonight at eleven
fifty nine. So unless a court intervenes, it looks like the pandemic era
immigration policy is out of here and we've got all kinds of migrants lined up
at the border. We're gonna talk about that with ABC's Jim Ryan. He's
in El Paso, Texas. Also, you had the town hall last night
with former President Trump and CNN's Caitlin Collins. How did it go well?
At least in one case? Former President Trump says that you know how he
was found liable for sexual abuse. He still says he does not know a
Gene Carroll and that the whole thing was fake. So let's start with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. A
twelve year old boy has been killed in the shooting in Long Beach. A
fourteen year old girl was hurt. Please say the two were walking along Lewis
Avenue late last night between Martin Luther King Junior and Orange Avenues when they were
approached by at least two guys in a car someone inside started shooting. Emergency
security measures have been put in in La County's juvenile halls. A list of
new procedures were sent out in a memo following the fatal overdose of an eighteen
year old at the Nidor facility in Silmar. KFI News obtained the internal memo
yesterday, which says new search protocols would begin for visitors and staff only,
see through bags will be allowed in facilities, and metal detector wands will be
issued to dormitories. Sources in the Probation department say these measures used to be
in place, but were removed by the Board of Supervisors in favor of a
more family friendly environment. The memo also outlines more aggressive rules to deal with
drones that drop contraband into the facilities and the purchase of vapor tracer machines to
check for drug residue on anyone who enters a facility. Steve Gregory, King
of Fine, hundreds of troops are heading to the US Mexico border, along
with more US marshals, immigration officials, and National Guard troops as Title forty
two expires. The COVID nineteen policy allowed the US to expel migrants who cross
the border. Arizona Sheriff's Association President Sheriff Don Rhodes has vowed to support all
law enforcement stationed at the border. We know what you're doing. We appreciate
it, we support you. We're behind you one hundred percent. We're fighting
to get your resources. And we'll talk more about this with ABC's Jim Ryan,
who is in El Paso, Texas. In just a second. Former
President Trump says the case in New York where he was found liable for sexual
abuse was fake. During a CNN town hall meeting last night, told potential
voters the case was made up and politically motivated. The crowd laughed and applauded.
Republican Senator Mitt Romney says he hopes the civil trials outcomes shed some light
on Trump's character. The jury of President Trump's appears found him responsible for a
sexual assault. I hope the jury of the American people reached the same conclusion,
which is he is not fit to become president of the United States.
When asked if the jury's decision would prevent women from voting for him, Trump
said no, I don't think so. When we come back more on what's
happening at the border with the expiration of Title forty two at eleven fifty nine
tonight or right now. Let's get a look at your drive. Good morning,
Robert Dubucky. Where we hadn't We're heading to lake View terrors on the
west und side of the two ten where all lanes are shut down between Osbourne
and the one eighteen. This is Caltrans work scheduled until around six o'clock this
morning, so you are seeing heavy delays through the area there. We also
had a full closure in Upland on the eastbound side of the ten freeway.
Youclid towards Fort Street. They've started picking up those cones. Want for some
minor delays heading through the area as they continue that process. And then Loma
Linda on the westbound side of the ten. Just passed Mountain View. It's
a crashed in the carpool lane backed up. They're heavy to Alabama Street.
KFI in the sky helps get you there faster. I'm Robert to Bucky five
or six on your wake up. Called Jim Ryan, good morning to you.
Has the situation at the border changed at all? With now literally the
countdown now going to just a few more hours. At the expiration of Title
forty two, thanks are pretty much where they were yesterday in the day before
that, although this migrant camp that was set up outside of church here in
El Paso has kind of been clear to have. People have been taken to
other shelters, are taken to different locations. As you know, the Customs
and Border Protection processing facilities here in El Paso and down in Laredo, different
parts of the state are essentially overburdened at this point, but there are locations
that are not, and some people are being shuttled to those other places,
those other customs locations to make applications. So what happens to night at eleven
fifty nine pm Eastern time. Title forty two is replaced by Title eight.
Title eight was the immigration policy before Title forty two was imposed during the pandemic.
Then it goes back into effect. It has its own rules and regulations,
its own stipulations that they imposed requirements on people trying to apply for asylum
or apply for immigration status here in this country. And it also allows for
the immediate expulsion of people who are not here legally and they can turn around
and be sent back either in Mexico or to their home countries without hearing whatsoever.
So some things will change, some things really won't change. The one
thing I tell you is that a lot more people will be applying starting tomorrow
four asylum. That's what I assumed, And so that's in probably the influx
there, because they're like great, starting at eleven fifty nine, you know,
boom, the minute the clock strikes midnight, I can go in for
my asylum or apply for it. Going back to now the title eight,
that one with the restrictions where you can be turned around if you try and
come illegally, you can be flipped around. I know that some of the
border patrol people were talking about people who are trying to get in illegally through
those border checkpoints, and that they had seen an influx of people coming through
there. So those would be the people, right who they would turn around
immediately if caught. Yes, right, the folks who are coming here illegally.
So I mean you're dealing with two different groups of people, those who
are trying to sneak into the country illegally between the border checkpoints and those who
are coming through legally or trying to come through legally, making application, surrendering
to border patrol, filling out paperwork and then being admitted into the country or
being turned around immediately because you don't qualify. So yeah, these are those
are kind of the two groups. And the administration, the Biden administration,
has sent active duty military personnel here to back up the customs agents in processing
all this paperwork. Governor Greg Abbott has sent another can tinggent of National Guard
troops who will be monitoring and between the border checkpoints to see that people aren't
coming to the country illegally, all right. And for these border towns that
have all these people in them, and I realized that you're saying, you
know, the church that you were looking at where they had migrants there looks
like has been cleared out. That kind of thing, the stress and the
strain on these border towns, and I realized that's why a lot of the
National Guard troops were brought there in the first place. But the strain on
resources even in those cities, and I'm talking you know, bottled water,
food, that kind of thing. I would almost think that it's sort of
like you guys had just been through some sort of natural disaster or you were
prepping for a natural disaster. It just seems like if you're going to have
an influx of all these people, you would have to kind of plan like
that exactly. That's what's happening here in El Paso. The city has been
working on this for several weeks, well, I think, planning for it
for months. The city declared made a disaster declaration a couple of weeks ago,
and has been setting up temporary shelters. For example, two schools,
disused schools have been set up with cots inside and with the emergency feeding,
and that's sort of thing. You're right, it's very much like a natural
disaster. Those are being prepared for people coming in if they're needed. They
might not be needed, but I think the expectation is that they certainly will
be put into put into use. So now that you're right, there is
this preparation in border communities all up and down, not just here in Texas,
but in Arizona, New Mexico and over where you are in California.
All right, thank you so much, Jim, I appreciate it. So
jan all right, see later. ABC is Jim Ryan, And obviously we'll
be keeping up to date on this if there's any I don't know anymore.
It's it's it's interesting to me because the plan is for there to be chaos.
That's the word that the President even used, that he predicted there would
be chaos at the border. And I think that even for all the planning
that you do, if you're one of these border towns or border states and
all the prep that you can make, you can't predict all of the you
know, facets of chaos, right. I mean, that's that's it in
its definition. It's well, this is my definition of chaos. You don't
know what's coming because everything's kind of out of control and scorely, and so
I don't I don't know how even as much as these border towns prepare,
how prepared can they be for what they don't know? Right, let's get
back to some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news
room. Now. Florida Governor De Santis has signed an immigration bill as his
state is preparing for the end of Title forty two. He says the state
is bracing for some turbulent times and things can get a lot worse. People
are gonna come if they get benefits, and so what you want to do
is say there's not benefits for coming legally now. The bill signed yesterday in
Florida requires hospitals accepting Medicaid to include a question on the forums about a patient
citizenship status. The legislation also includes banning undocumented law school graduates from being admitted
to the Florida Bar and strengthens the required use of e verify. That's that
database that employers used to check and employees employment eligibility. New York Republican Congressman
George Santos has pleaded not guilty to unemployment and campaign finance fraud charges. He
was released on bail and said outside of court yesterday he's gonna fight. The
reality is because it makes no sense that in four months, four months,
five months I'm indicted, mister Santos. There have been a lot of questionable
things surrounding you, some of which we have even cought to So I'm just
saying which unt Santos is facing a thirteen count federal indictment. How Speaker McCarthy
says he will not support Santos for reelection, but for now he's not calling
on him to resign. And remember, Republicans need every vote that they can
get so I feel like even the fact that McCarthy is like, I'm not
touching you, buddy, is kind of a big deal because he knows that
there is the potential for a Democrat to come in there. Should Santos be
booted out of his seat, and so for even the House Speaker not to
get behind you kind of says something because his position sort of puts or could
potentially put the number of votes in the party at risk. The La County
Sheriff's Department says money is driving the continuance of street takeovers in Compton. Police
say drivers are paying off some workers at tire shops to stay open during the
street shows, and some people are getting kickbacks for posting the driver's videos online.
Former street takeover driver Ismael Tamar says he stopped participating when he saw it
was creating danger, a danger to people and a danger to the public as
well as the people attending the events. The Sheriff's Department says it impounded several
cars and handed out citations during street takeovers Monday night. The department says it
has zero tolerance for anyone earning money from street shows in Compton. Chris Adler,
KF I News. All right. You guys know how much I love
shows like Snapped or you know, anything that's on ID or whatever. I
love true crime stuff. This story about the mom from Utah charged with murdering
her husband then writing that children's book to help them with grief. Yeah,
we're going to talk more about her. She's been charged with murder and I
just want to know how she thought a sort of preemptive strike. Oh honey,
I want you to read this book just in case anything ever happens to
your dad, suspicious anyone. We'll get into that with Brad in just a
few minutes. You're listening to wake Up Call with Jennifer Jones Lee on demand
from KFI Am six forty. Welcome to your wake Up Call for a Thursday
Friday Eve. As I like to say, some of the stories were watching
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A twelve year old boy's been killed
in a shooting in Long Beach. A fourteen year old girl was hurt.
Police say the two were walking along Lewis Avenue late last night between Martin Luther,
King Junior and Orange Avenues when they were approached by at least two guys
in a car someone started shooting. A couple in a Bentley have been shot
at in Valley Village and what police say may have been an attempted follow home
robbery. The people in the car say they were waiting for a friend yesterday
when a guy walked up with a gun demanded cash and jewelry. The driver
of the Bentley backed up to try and get away, but hit a passing
car. A woman in that car was hurt and that's when the shooter ran
off. And remember the guy who was suspected of killing Natalie Holloway, the
American teenager in Aruba in two thousand and five. He's expected to be extradited
to the US to face federal fraud charges. Now, Natalie Holloway's body was
never found and charges were never filed against your in Vander Salute, but he's
charged with trying to extort money from Natalie Holloway's family. Hey, I know
that you've heard the rumors as we have. There is talk about AM radio
being removed from new cars and trucks. But if you remove that, you're
taken away the access to the very AM radio stations that millions of Americans count
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AM radio's unmatched reach, resiliency and because it's free. And this hits home.
I mean, do you think it's okay for you to lose access to
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and tell Congress to keep AM radio in all our cars and trucks. Standard
message and data rates apply. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Crime and
Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, this story is fascinating to me because I
think that any person who does almost a preemptive strike for a murder that they
are about to commit to me feels really dumb, and it kind of in
this case. I want to the woman who is involved in this, mother
from Utah, who wrote a book on grief to help her kids. I
guess, should their dad ever die and then the dad dies, it seems
like, come on, lady, you didn't think you were gonna get caught.
So it's actually the other way around. She actually didn't write the book
after she killed her or allegedly killed her husband, and the book was written
so her children, you know, it talks about grief and solace and all
these things. And to even add another bizarre aspect to it, Jennifer,
is that apparently there's a picture of her deceased husband with wings on and halo
in the book, you know, like so her children will never forget the
father. You know, I'm going to guess, you know, she's sort
of a classic anti social personality. In other words, anybody that could do
what's been alleged she did is beyond cold and calculating. But then to write
this book on top of it, and then go on local television to promote
the book, you know, of the very crisis and trauma that she actually
caused. It gives you a lot of insight into sort of her emptiness when
it comes to feelings about other people emptiness. And also I've noticed sometimes that
when you have somebody who has they murdered a spouse or something like that,
the ego or the hubris behind with which they think they're smarter than everybody else
or you know, nobody's going to catch them. It's amazing to me how
they, not all, but a majority of them sort of fit into that
profile. And one thing that goes with antisocial personalities is arrogance and you know,
I'm better than you, sort of that type of thinking. So,
I mean, if you think about the steps that she took, that would
be you know, from an investigator standpoint as at how I look at cases
to start with, you know, I mean, she leaves, it's almost
like Hansel and Gretel dropping crumbs along the way thinking with this crime. And
I mean she goes through a local apparently a local drug dealer to buy Fenton
all she changes the life insurance policy so that she's the sole beneficiary of which
he figured out before she died. He died, and he switched it to
his sister, and apparently she didn't know it got switched till after she killed
him. So you know, there's those little twists that are you know,
in this case, they apparently argued about some house she wanted to buy.
She was a real estate agent for two million dollars. He didn't think it
was a good investment. That day after he dies, she buys that house.
Oh see, I mean even that, even that, even that,
I mean, it's kind of like she's just sort of slapping it in people's
faces that I'm going to get by with this. You're not going to catch
me, and I will say, and I don't understand why that took them
so long. It took them a lot of months to charge her. I
mean, she wrote this book, she went on television promoting this book,
and then recently actually they arrested her. So I don't I don't know what's
going on, because this case strikes me as pretty being pretty straightforward, but
it's it's bizarre. Were they possibly just I mean, making this an airtight
case against her, and because she had dropped so many breadcrumbs, like you
were saying, maybe they assumed that she would drop, you know, I
don't know, a whole loaf of bread along the way, Well maybe maybe.
And if they believed that she was not a public safety risk to leave
her in a community, then you know, that's one of the reasons you
go ahead and arrest people because you're concerned about them harming other people. I
guess they didn't feel that that was the case, and I don't think there's
any indication that she did. But yeah, so she has a detention hearing
I think in the next few days to see if they're going to keep her
in jail. Oh my gosh, Brad, in a case like this,
would you keep her in jail now that all of this is out, now
that all of these evidence is against her, would you keep her? Would
you look at somebody like her as a flight risk? Well? Maybe,
and we'll see what the prosecutor argues, because you know, his family was
apparently or is a super well known family in Summit County, which is where
what Park City is, Utah, And so you know, I assume she
had a passport. They'd have to take her, they'd have to seize her
passport. If if you were going to let her out, I would put
an ankle monitor on her so you can keep track of everyplace she goes.
Yeah, but we'll see if if she a threat to other people that we
don't know, that certainly will be discussed if it's relevant in this hearing.
All right, Thank you so much, Brad. I appreciate your analysis.
You're welcome set. All right, you two talk to you later. That's
ABC's Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. I didn't she's watched If I should
say, the accused woman see you look at me being the good news girl.
I feel that if she is the actual killer in this case, she's
watched way too many Lifetime movies and not right till the end because you always
get caught. You know, you killed the husband, the life insurance policy
has changed. You write a book about grief and you put a picture of
your husband with wings and a halo in the book. Nobody's gonna suspect you.
Lord, Where's Valerie Burton Elly when we need her? LA has voted
to ban a crime ridden homeless camp and a two block area of Woodland Hills.
Officials say the camp has been home to a rape, stabbing, and
an attempted murder. Him made and who manages Pickwick's Pub, says her restaurant
is now closing at ten instead of midnight to keep staff members safe. She
says that means a loss of business, probably a good thousand a night that
you could probably bring in, but it's just not worth it. Staff safety
is everything. Councilman Bob Bloominfield says his office has worked for months to house
people living at the camp. The city Council voted nine to five yesterday to
approve the band Lake trolley. Kaf I News, we're gonna talk with Kavised,
host of Macro Tuesday Tuesdays. How about Sundays two to four. Jason
Middleton is here and we've got our bis by this morning. I want to
ask him if inflation is cooling, which it appears to be, why aren't
things any cheaper? And what percentage do you think of gen zers say they're
having to work a one regular job and they also have to have a side
hustle. I'll tell you what the percentage is in just a moment. So
Catwhether from KFI. We've got more sunshine on the way. We're going to
start to warm it up. And it looks like by Saturday, Heiselby in
the eighties to the very low nineties, you're listening to Wake Up Call with
Jennifer Jones Lee on demand from KFI AM six forty. Tyler's on a Disney
cruise, of course he is. He's going to Vancouver. I was like,
look at you crossing country lines there boy, So anyway, it should
be fun for him. He'll be back next week. But Tony, thank
you. In the meantime, I enjoy your musical selections. Skaf I am
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. La County health officials say people
at high risk for monkey pox should get fully vaccinated before the upcoming Gay Pride
events. And there's an experimental skin patch that has helped toddlers who are highly
allergic to peanuts. Jason Middleton joins me now. He is the host of
Macro two to four here on Sundays he anchors. He's our business guy.
Jason has like eighteen hats out there. There's a whole locker of different hats
for you. I sure know it every time. Wait a second, I
have a locker. Cool you didn't know. I just found my mailbox not
too too long ago. There's a study, Jason, that was published in
the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday that says this patch called Biaskin helped toddlers
who couldn't even tolerate a small peanut to eventually safely eat. I mean I
would think that this is huge for this company. Yeah, absolutely, I
mean isn't this a persistent worry for anybody? I mean, and I mean
kids of course, but other people have peanut allergies too, and but this
one specifically addresses, you know, youngsters and whatnot. I have a family
member who is a doctor who specializes in infantcare and infant surgery, specifically neurosurgery.
Even still, he covers a lot of this, and so with his
with his patient Coterie, and I find that his uh, his reports back
about peanut allergies are always like they're they're terrifying. And he's himself allergic to
tree nuts, so it does Oh yeah, I think, yeah. But
so so that's top of my medical professionals. They'd be great. I mean,
I mean, to be able to reduce the worry on the medical side
and for the printing parenting side. Yeah, there was I had a neighbor
once, and there was a neighbor down the street who used to feed the
birds peanuts in our neighborhood. Huh, And it was maybe two houses down
from us. Anyway, the birds would fly and drop the peanuts shells in
our backyards. But his daughter was allergic to peanuts, and so he had
to go down the street and be like, hey, you know, it's
great you're feeding the birds, but can I can we feed him something else?
Because if my daughter steps on them or something like that, the peanuts,
right, I had neither. So anyway, I loved this line.
I do too, because it's all so rapid response to I don't know how
it works. I mean I just recently of patch. Yeah, so anything
that would mitigate the impact for sure, because their unintended consequences. Your person
wasn't trying to that neighbor wasn't trying to hurt anybody. Everything obviously trying to
trying to feed the birds, right, Yeah. So it was just that
was kind of crazy, very cool. I'm surprised artificial intelligence didn't come up
with that for us. First. Well, I'm glad that humans are still
coming up with stuff. Well, but I feel like increasingly fewer and fewer
things we are coming up with. I want to know, though, with
inflation cooling this week, Jason, why in the world don't we see,
Hey, look, inflation's cooling, prices come down, right, fantastic point,
and I mean the price of peanuts remains up, unfortunately, because it
goes back to food prices. Right, So we got a four point nine
percent increase a year every year, so it's a little bit better than the
five percent we were expecting. Okay, okay, So the FED stuff,
the interest rate hikes, the ten hikes over the last fourteen months started to
take effect, but not as quickly as we had hoped, and not as
quickly and time wise as well, is like number wise, right, So
things aren't coming down, and one of the reasons is inflation. So sticky
is food costs, right, So there we go, Steven. Airfares are
coming down, but it's food costs seven okay, four point nine percent,
that's across the board. That's like if you put the price of everything together.
Think about it's called the consumer price index, right, that's the very
core index. It's it's it's a blunt tool, it's not very surgical,
but it does give us an indication. Seven point seven percent is food cost
inflation. So that gives you the idea of the gap between like what we
feel and what they're telling us. And have you noticed? And I was
shocked. I went to the grocery store, went to Trader Joe's and I
don't remember what it was. My bill would say, like a hundred bucks
or something like that. But the next week then I was super busy eating
out all the time. I spent less money eating out than I did buying
food at the grocery store for a week. They can buy bulk, they
can get things through the supply chain a little bit faster. The relief is
coming. I know. I've been saying that for months and it's true.
But everybody's been saying it, and it is coming. It's just not coming
quick enough, right. I will say that when doing Neil Savadra's show,
The Fork Report on Saturdays, we've been talking about egg prices. Oh gosh,
yeah, we've been watching those as well. So good news to report
there is that we're coming off an all time high in December of twenty twenty
with egg price or twenty twenty one with egg prices. So the wholesale price
is coming down faster than the retail price. Okay, okay, So the
retail price is the tail that wags the dog for us because we're the consumers,
right, But in the middle where the wholesale prices, the wholesale markup,
that's coming down to a point where we're going to get back to about
two fifty for a dozen at most next month. Okay, so that this
month really how the restaurants are going to buy, so their costs they're going
to come down there, they're coming down. So eventually it will hit us
too at the grocery source for sure, and not just eggs, but as
an example, I use eggs. Okay, got it all right? So
I thought this is a brilliant one. Brides and grooms going to Etsy to
register and I was thinking back, I got a crap ton of stuff what
I don't know thirteen years ago, I guess on Etsy for my wedding.
I mean everything from the napkins to the favors too. I remember I had
a guard that was you know how everybody in the bride takes the garter off
and throsday, but it was an Atlanta Braves garter because bride is supposed to
wear the garter. Oh did you? I guess I messed that up.
That's on me. I think it's a great alternative. It's like it's your
own boutique. Yeah. I dig it. Being able to buy niche products
online of something we're all used to. But having having protected and verified sellers
I think is really important. And Etsy has an established organization there, and
so yeah, I mean, and plus you can find you can find fun,
novelty things, or you can find everything everyday things that you might need
as well. Yeah. Absolutely, I didn't realize how much actual shopping shopping
you can do on Etsy, right, Like you can go find you know,
I don't know, Dodger stuff or whatever. And it's not even stuff
that somebody has made. It's like an actual old, you know, starter
jacket or something like that on it. So you can find briding groom supplies
if you're planning the wedding or if you're attending the wedding, you could do
it that way too, maybe, I mean, I think it's I think
it's fun. I think it's a way to put your personal stamp on something
as as personal as a wedding, okay, briding groom. And of course
this isn't because Bed Bath and Beyond is, let's say, less less than
wedding ready, Okay, so other other retailers are going to honor those coupons
that Bed Bath and Beyond was really good about sending too many of out apparently,
and then then when you push it past that, other stores are going
to honor those for a while. I think most of that stuff expires by
the end of this month. The reason that I'm grabbing my phone is not
because I'm being rude, but I just got a bed bath and Beyond coupon.
Oh yeah, in my email there it is. It says bed Bathroom
Beyond store closing sale new reductions added ten to forty percent off lowest prices.
Find your store here, great, so you can go there and if you
have an old one sitting around that says ten percent off anything you buy over
thirty bucks or whatever, you can take it to one of their competitors right
now in most cases and find some kind of deals. So they're doing they're
doing horse trading when it comes to these coupons as well at their competitors,
just trying to get some customer loyalty coming in their doors. As bed Net
and be honest, is shedding theirs all right and really quickly before I let
you go. I was fascinated that forty percent of gen zers say they have
to work multiple jobs because of the cost of living. So they've got a
full time job and then they have a side hustle as an uber driver or
something like that. Yeah, I think there's a lot of reasons for this.
Obviously, it's it's unfortunate in a way. I mean, it's cool
if you want that freedom of doing that, but without a national health insurance
program like other countries have, we don't have that here, right, so
we have to adapt for that. So you have to have a core your
net for your medical insurances to come somewhere, and then you're augmenting it.
And it seems like the younger you are, the more likely you are to
have to do that. I think older work are staying in the workforce longer,
taking up a lot of the top end of salaries, and so a
lot of the company's labor costs go towards an odor and aging workforce, and
so it's unable to really hire either hire new talent, more talent, or
pay the talent that they have more. You rock, I doubt that you
explain things. Yeah, the guarter thing maybe if I know confident if I'd
done that, I mean, if he had worn the Dodgers garter, that's
true, but I mean you're a Dodgers fander, you're not. It's true,
And any kind of Dodgers attire, yeah, is appropriate at any time
that's true, and I'm sure you can get some on Etsy somewhere. Absolutely
not not legally authorized by the Major League Baseball or it is. You'd never
know some of them are registered on there. I'm sure. Oh yeah,
absolutely, all right. Jason Middleton macro two to four on Sundays. You'll
hear him later with handle eight o'clock and yeah, Jason's everywhere. Yeah,
and for me all next week. That's right, tomorrow morning, I believe
too. Yeah, that's right. I heard you mentioned you're headed up for
some kind of outdoor event. Yes, that will be some bull riding.
I will not be riding the bulldog. Are you doing the national anthem again?
I am not. I am not doing the national anthem. I think
my national anthem on a horse days are over pictures exist somewhere right, Oh,
absolutely, I'll find some when I come back. I'd like Matt,
I'd like to see it. Oh yeah, oh you guys get ready Instagram.
Oh you guys my performing days woo. Not a costume I didn't have
back in the day, red boots and red cowboy hat. It was a
full on red stetson. Wow, well done, thank you. I know
I went big on it. All right, Jason Middleton, thank you.
We'll talk with kfies. So Jason does Macro from two to four. Right
before him, you have Joel lars Guard with how to Money, and we're
going to get in with Joel in just a second, talking about new cars
maybe no longer part of the American dreams, so we'll find out just how
much those are costing right now when we talk with him in just a few
minutes. You're listening to Wait Call with Jennifer Jones Lee on demand from KFI
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This is your wake up call. I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. Some of the
stories were watching in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A couple in a
Bentley were shot at in Valley Village in what cops they may have been an
attempted follow home robbery. The people in the car say they were waiting for
a friend yesterday when a guy with a gun walked up demanded cash and jewelry.
But the driver of the Bentley then hit it, put it in reverse,
tried to get away, but then he hit a passing car. Then
a woman in that car was hurt and the shooter took off. A twelve
year old boy has been killed in the shooting in Long Beach and a fourteen
year old girl was hurt. Police say the two were walking along Lewis Avenue
late last night between Martin Luther, King Junior and Orange Avenues when they were
approached by at least two guys in the car and someone inside those cars started
shooting. Also, the man suspected of killing American teenager Natalie Holloway and Ruba
in two thousand and five is being extradited to the US to face federal fraud
charges. Here's the deal. So, Natalie Halloway's body was never found and
charges were never filed against your in Vander Salute. However, he is charged
with trying to extort money from Natalie Holloway's family. Yeah, Joel lars Guard,
good morning to you. Joel is the host of How To Money Sunday's
twelve to two here on KFI. And I'm telling you, if you're in
the new in the market for a new car, holy cow, just stay
in the market for a little while longer. Yes, I think I think
you're right. Hold off as long as you possibly can, because new car
prices are through the roof, and we're talking the average new car price hit
forty eight thousand dollars in March, which is just unfathomable owne factor in higher
interest rates combined with that, we're talking about monthly payments, you know,
getting closer to a thousand dollars like in the in the upper seven hundred Graine.
So it's it's a bad time to be out there trying to find a
new car, you know. And some people are thinking, like, wow,
that's close to a rent payment anymore. Well, yeah, rents have
gone up uite a bit too, right, So maybe that's rent payments from
like two thousand and six or something like that. Yes, But but it
is funny, like the older I get, the more I'm like, oh,
I remember that a car payment used to cost a rent cost. But
it's yeah, so but it is true. I mean, that's how expensive
cars are getting. And I do worry. It's just one of these places
where it just feels normal to buy a new car. But it's it just
it can't be normal if you want to make progress with your money in other
ways. For most people, like I am, I feel the pain by
the way, because I am in the market to buy a used car.
Mine was just rear ended total, and so I'm trying to find something new,
and it's tough out there to find even a reasonably priced used car.
So but so I just I want people to really think long and hard if
they if they don't have to find a new car right now, it's just
a great time to be holding off as long as you can, babing the
car that you currently have, making the fixes and kind of making it a
car that you're happy to drive for at least a couple more years, because
we don't know how long it's going to take for the car market to return
to normalcy, but it's still way out of whack right now. All right,
Well, now, if you have to buy a new car right now,
and you are spending nearly a thousand bucks a month this next story,
you're probably thinking, well, that might be me. A quarter of Americans
say that they have never saved money for retirement. But I guess if you're
somebody who's living paycheck to paycheck, maybe you do have a lot of debt
and now you're seeing those prices go up, it makes absolute sense. You're
just working to keep a roof over your head and food on the table at
this point. Yeah, And I mean there are a lot of people who
because of just the circumstances of what they earn and with rising costs of costs
of so many things, that it is difficult to kind of keep up with
inflation, and maybe their salary hasn't kept up with it, and so they
are living paycheck to paycheck. But there's a whole slow of folks, and
these are the folks I'm really trying to reach more than a name thing who
have the ability to really change their own circumstances. And we're talking about buying
that new car, Well, if you buy a forty eight thousand dollars vehicle,
yeah, it's going to be a whole lot harder to save anything for
your retirement. And so I think a big portion of that twenty five percent
who have never contributed anything to a retirement account, like they could find a
way to put a couple of percentage points away into a workplace retirement encounter,
into a roth IRA if they don't have access to one of those. And
one thing I like, Jennifer for people to do to kind of to kind
of identify with their future cells so that they feel more compelled to invest for
their future. Now is to use something called the face app. Download the
face app, take a picture of yourself, and it'll generate like a visual
image of what you're going to look like thirty years from now. I've done
it for myself. I'm going to age gracefully, I think, which is
which is wonderful. Yeah, but I think seeing what you're going to look
like decades down the road can help you understand. Wait a second, I
am going to get older and I am going to I'm gonna need money for
future me. And I think there's like an empathetic sort of response that we
intuibibly have when we see an age diversion of ourselves that makes us more compelled
to invest for that future person that we now like realize is actually coming to
It's easy to put it off and be like, I'm never getting old,
but the truth is we're all going to get old, and it's important to
start saving money for the future. And I think that's one tangible way that
we were more likely to do it. I have done the face tapp,
and just for anybody out there listening, I don't care how much you bleach
your hair that would be me to make it not gray, or how much
botox and filler you get also me, it doesn't matter. It's going to
still show you. Yeah, I mean it's it's we're all going there right.
There's there's no way around it. So but the more we push it
off and assume that we won't, the more we can justify the spending in
the here and now and avoid kind of it's gonna be paying one way or
another, either now or later. And I want people to institute on purpose,
a little bit of painting their lives at removing some of their current spending
so they can set aside some money for their future. Okay, Jason Middleton
was just talking about AI when he was in here, and I know that's
been a thing that I feel like I can't do a business report anymore,
or even sometimes just a regular old everyday report, you know, news report
without AI somehow making its way into the newscast and in this case banking in
the metaverse. I'm not sure if this makes me nervous. I mean,
it feels like I could go to chat GPT and be like, hey,
make me a millionaire and then boom, all of a sudden, it'll be
in my bank account. But I guess that's not the case. Yeah,
I mean, I think AI and the metaverse are two different things in my
mind, and it seems like the metaverse, at least from my vantage point,
has failed catastrophically, and nobody, especially after COVID and lockdowns and time
alone, nobody wants to spend time in the metaverse. Sorry, And I
would rather be out in the real world, going on hikes, hanging out
with friends. Right, So I'm the metaverse is what it is, and
I think it's going to just kind of go away at some point. AI
not so much, and so I'm curious to see the impact that AI is
going to have about our personal finances. I think at some point it really
is going to make a big deal. And I think Turbo tax announced that
they had some sort of back end AI thing to help you do your taxes.
I don't know how much that was actual marketing or how much that was
actually accurate. It was just kind of helping people with really really basic tax
circumstances file their taxes quickly, which they can already do. But so it's
yeah, it's interesting. I don't know how far or how big the impact
is going to be of AI. It certainly seems like, based on the
prognostications of a lot of smart tech folks, that it could be bigger than
the Internet. But for right now, a lot of people I've seen people
ask chat GPD questions about their personal finances. Sometimes it gives great information back,
sometimes it spits out inaccurate information, and it doesn't know kind of the
latest news on what's happening with student loans or something like that. So you
do have to be careful before you're starting to use kind of these these AI
generated answers to you know, inform exactly how you handle your money day to
day. Right now, Joel, we love you. We are so glad
you're on KFI twelve to two on Sundays, How to Money with Joel lars
Guard. His podcast is how to Money as well. Have a great weekend.
I'll be listening, all right, sounds good. Thanks for having me,
Jennifer, thanks absolutely anytime. Kfi's Joel lars Guard. I love that
guy. He's just between him with Jason with kind of the macro like,
here's how all these things you hear in the news are going to impact you.
Then down to Joel where he does the more lifestylee like, Hey,
if you need a car, if you're banking or whatever. That Sunday like
chunk, I guess of on airtime is so freaking educational and fun because the
two of those guys are super fun and crazy and but anyway, I just
if you, yeah, if you want to, if you want to know
about money, but not be preached to while it's you know, while you're
getting your information. Those are the two guys to listen to. And apparently
Amy King says every day could soon be hump day outside schools in La.
The La City Council has approved a motion that calls for speed humps to be
installed outside every public school in La. The motion comes just weeks after crashes
outside district schools left a woman dead and two children injured. The motion would
be similar to a speed hump installation program at public elementary schools in Council President
Paul Krikorian's district in North Hollywood and surrounding areas that will be completed by the
time school starts this fall. No timetable and no cost estimate has been given
for the citywide speed hump plan. There are almost eight hundred public schools in
the LA School District. Amy King KFI News and Finally over and Wiser,
Young at heart, only a big wiser. That's General Hospital actress Jackie Zeeman,
known for her role as Nurse Bobby Spencer. I remember sitting in the
living room with my mom watching General Hospital when I was a kid. She's
died. The executive producer of the show says he's heartbroken to announce Seman died
last night. He says she was a bright light and a true professional.
Jackie Zeman was seventy years old. This is KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles,
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