Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to kf I am six forty
wake Up Call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Well, hello everybody.
I kind of don't even know how to begin this, to be perfectly Honestum,
first off, if you are on Instagram this morning, we are ooh
there we go. Oh it's gonna have to go over here. Okay,
it's gonna be the best day of my life. And yet I think it's
gonna be a freaking mess. Something's messed up with the board. You know
what, I almost need something to be messed up with the board because it'll
keep me from crying again. It's k if I. This is your wake
up call. I'm Jennifer Jones Lee, and yes it's my final wake up
call. It's my final on air broadcast after thirty years. Guys, this
is creeping me out. I just randomly cry, and I was full in
it together. I actually tucked away in the entire drive in so all like
fifty minutes this morning. And then I get here to the studio and I'm
walking down the hall and I can see these two things of cupcakes right,
and I'm like, oh my gosh, and Michelle had like taken pictures of
me and put them on things saying, you know, congratulations, we miss
you, blah blah blah. And then I turn and walk into the studio.
The studio is decorated with banners that say cheers and these little silver curly
cues all over the place that's super feminine, with like pink and peach balloons.
There are flowers everywhere in the studio for me. All right. If
you just hear random tears, it's me or random bits of silence, that's
what it is. I say thank you to each and every one of you
who have let me into your homes for the last seven years. And I
don't know what we're I don't know what. Yeah, it's just weird,
but I thank you guys for all of your well wishes on social media and
all I've had someone write me a song, somebody wrote me a poem.
I think it's taken me thirty years to understand literally what my position means and
how we've all become friends and the way that you guys think of me is
I don't know how to say thank you. And I'm more humbled than I
think I've ever been in my life. I'm gonna shut up for a minute
and talk about some news, because, after all, I want my last
broadcast to be, you know, somewhat informative, right. The governor set
aside two hundred and eighty eight million dollars for drought and flood projects in the
state. The lap D says it's these thirty eight thousand pounds of illegal firework
stocked in a warehouse in South La and La Pride is ready to take over
the city this weekend. We've got events that start today, so let's start
with some of these stories coming out of the KOI twenty four hour newsroom.
Governor Newsom has set aside two hundred and eighty eight million. This is for
flood projects and drought throughout the state. The governor says forty nine and a
half million of that will go to conservation and supply projects in the Southland.
Newsom announced yesterday has planned to support drought resilience and prepare for future dry conditions.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which serves twenty six public water
agencies throughout six counties, will distribute the money. Ela County Waterworks will receive
fifteen million to reinforce the Santa Anita Dam and remove sediment, and also upgrade
the Dominga's Gap seawater intrusion barrier. Steve Gregory Kofinance. Truckers in LA have
protested a bill saying it will put thousands of independent contractors out of work.
The bill took effect in January of twenty twenty, with the intention of cracking
down on workers being classified as independent contractors as opposed to employees. The California
Trucking Associations Eric Sauer says, want to remain owner operators. They get to
choose the kind of loads that they want to haul, the motor carriers that
they want to transport freight for and it's worked out for them and their families.
The city yesterday said its hands are tied because of state laws and we'll
have to end its contract with the truckers at the end of the month.
Chris Adler KFI News. The LAPD says it sees thirty eight thousand pounds of
illegal fireworks stopped in a warehouse in South La. LA City Fire Department Captain
Eric Scott says with the fourth of July approaching, he wants the public to
remember how terrifying. Illegal fireworks can be our neighbors are often annoyed. The
combat veterans feel like they're back in a war zone, and the pets they
don't understand what's going on. What's happening. Oh my gosh, it's so
true. Cases of fireworks were found earlier this year by fire inspectors during a
routine building screening. The LAPD says two men connected to the stash have been
arrested and the investigation is ongoing. All right, Rick Klein, good warning
to you. So look at this. You're my last political hit of my
career, and I'm glad it's with you. You are the man. Oh
that's nice for you to say. Gratulations and welcome to a connect. Oh
my gosh, thank you very much. Yeah. I don't know why I
thought it was going to be a bright idea. Oop I did I do
it again? Almost to leave here and then go into management. Tell me
I'm not dumb. So let's you know, whatever whatever works, go go,
go be successful. I like that. All right. Well thanks,
Well it's with my family, so you know, I'm just blessed to get
a job in radio still and get to go see them. So former President
Trump says, you know, he's been telling us for a couple of weeks
that he's going to be indicted, and then now we learned that he has
been. What does this mean though, for how or if he can run,
Well, it doesn't actually mean anything for his ability to run, believe
it or not. There's nothing you law, the constitution says you can't run
even while under indictment. I think, practically speaking, though, he's going
to have court dates in Florida as well as New York, maybe in Georgia
too, that he's gonna have to keep a massive distraction and a bunch of
candidates who at least subtly are going to be making a case against him,
pointing out that maybe it's not a great idea for the Republican Party to ominate
someone who might be going into prison when he will. Okay, two things
on this. If people think he's going to prison, I bet there is
a camp of Trump's supporters who are like this just furthers our belief that this
has been a witch hunt all along, and might even support him more because
of it. Oh, totally agree. I mean, you know, I
think that that's almost almost inevitable. We've already seen people ralligating the defense like
that, Now, is that enough to win a Republican nomination? Is enough
to win your presidency? Those are other questions. I think there's a there's
a group of sup orders that definitely are taking exactly that tack, But I
don't know that it's going to be a sufficient mass to empower him to the
nomination by itself. There's going to be a lot of people saying, wait
a second, maybe he did some of these things, or maybe his nomination
would just be too much of a distraction at this time, maybe we shouldn't
be going down this route. But I think to your point, there's no
question in my mind that there's going to be people saying exactly that that this
shows you why we need them, not why we shouldn't have them. And
when it comes to those who look at this as a negative, how do
his opponents spin this? Well, some of them are saying basically, this
is a which hunt or this is politicization of the Justice Department. Asa Hutchinson's
the only candidate so far for saying he's got an outright drop out. Only
major candidate others like Chris Christie, Mike Penn's holding their fire a little bit.
Christie's been saying, Look, I'm a forrmal prosecutor and if these are
legit charges, they should be brought against anybody. But it's going to be
tough for them. I mean the normal times, you think they'd be making
lots of hay out of this, but for the zillions time, these are
not normal times. All right, Thank you so much, Rick, and
I won't talk to you again, but best of luck and the rest of
your career too. Same to you, all right, Thanks you too,
see you later. That is ABC's Rick Klein. All right. So people
have been telling me that the connection was poor on Instagram Live and I know
I'm getting some like weird blinking. I don't know, Tyler, and maybe
one of you can come in and fix this. We'll see. So this
is my last wake up call if you had missed the opening of the show.
But we still have more names for you. Over the objections of prosecutors,
two men involved in illegal street racing and Irvine have been granted requests to
go through a court ordered misdemeanor diversion program that could allow them to have their
charges dismissed. Prosecutors saved the twenty three year old from Laverne had a YouTube
channel that featured illegal street races. In oc, a thirty eight year old
from Irvine was charged with actually racing. A teacher in Placentia has been placed
on leave because of a leaked video of a class discussion about prostate sex vibrators
and finding pleasure spots. Sex is still le because that's enough. The Eldorado
High School teacher also talked about where to find certain sex spots and which storre
sell sex objects. Many parents didn't like that to satisfy needs that they had
no idea of learning from an educator. Teachers have an obligation to draw the
line at questions in which students ask, but many parents this week also supported
the teacher. She was answering the question in as good a faith as you
can to keep them from having to google its. Let's enter your Belinda school
districts as teachers must keep classroom discussions appropriate. In Placentia. Corbin Carson k
if I News, I'd like to go back to the target comment that she
made. Is anybody target sells that? Now? I mean, maybe I'm
usually in the clothing department or something, but very weird, very very weird,
had no idea. At least fourteen people have been killed and thousands of
people are believed to be trapped by floodwaters in Ukraine after that catastrophic dam collapse,
residents say relief efforts have been slow. Officials say more than six thousand
people have left dozens of cities, towns, and villages on both sides of
the river. Tens of thousands are without drinking water, and two giant inflatable
ducks have landed in Hong Kong's been Victoria Harbor. This is all for the
return of a pop art project that was halted during the pandemic. It's two
eighteen meter tall yellow ducks that were created to resemble, right, like the
bath ducks that you know for kids, the rubber duckies. Yeah, rubber
duckies, and that was the Undies, right. The artist says he hopes
his art will bring joy to the city. Local residents say that they are
happy the ducks are coming back following a long winter. My last wake up
call we're gonna talk about I want it to be about me. I want
it to be about this show because this show has been my baby and I'm
very proud of it, and I kind of wish I could take it with
me because I don't want to turn the baby over to somebody. But what
am I gonna do? It would just go put it wet in mothballs.
No, So it's gonna be fine. And whoever takes it over, I've
heard the list of people that are being considered, and I'm like, who
cares. They're all amazing. So you guys will like who comes in after
me? I promise. Some of the stories we're watching in the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom, Former President Trump has said he's innocent in the wake of
saying he's received an indictment from the Justice Department. An exposition in Orange County
is expected to be sentenced for scheming to illegally prescribe more than one hundred twenty
thousand opioid peel pills to nearly twenty people over the past six years, and
La Pride is all ready to take over the city this weekend. The events
actually start today, so there's a Pride in the Park festival. It'll feature
exhibits, food, concerts, all headlined by Making the Stallion and Mariah Carey,
who headlines the concert tomorrow. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Dean Sharp, our house whisper is coming up. We're gonna talk. I
think we're talking this morning about in home theaters, so we'll get into that
in a second. But Michelle, all right, hello, hello, So
you have been literally my partner in crime since the beginning, from the start,
run the start. When we went to the Bruno Mars concert and Michelle
was in there, I told this off on Instagram Live. We are Instagram
Live this morning, by the way, and I was telling everybody how Michelle,
when I first got here, took me to a Bruno Mars concert where
there were just a few hundred of us and we got to like pack this
ballroom at San Manuel Surf and Turf dinner. It was freaking amazing. And
then just like you felt one on one with Brute. It was so good.
It was awesome. So you from the start have been the producer of
Wake Up Call. I have been here from the start. And tell me
what your favorite parts over the last seven years? Had I have two?
I have two favorite parts. Okay, one the first day you did Wake
Up Call solo because it was kind of a giant mess before that I have
always appreciated the positivity that you've been able to start the day with. I
think that's such an important thing. And the brightness of your voice in the
morning as soon as we hear it. I mean, it's just it's unlike
anything I've ever worked with before, because I'm used to working with pretty negative
people. See who did you work with? So that was first and foremost
is the thing that I'm gonna miss the most. I Mean, I know
people knew people will bring new things into wake Up Call, but that's the
one thing. It was day one when you did Wake Up Call alone,
I kind of knew what was going to be a different era and I was
so proud of that. And the biggest thing that I'm proud of, you
know, of the show and you is the spotlight you've been able to put
on animal issues, which I think is such a huge thing and a lot
of our hosts don't like to cover that stuff because it's sometimes really hard to
talk about. And the work that we have done, and especially you have
done for the Wiggle Waggle Walk, which I think has just become some huge
thing for us, and I'm gonna miss that, and I'm hoping to keep
it in as in a different way. Yeah. Um, And of course
have you come down and be like our star. I would love it,
Michelle. I could have done that without you. Oh, thank you and
I are a team on that from the beginning. Honestly, your positivity and
your voice in the morning. I'm gonna miss it the most. I'm gonna
miss you the MOUs I know I'm gonna cry, my girlfriend, I know
me too, all right, I'm not crying. It's not about me,
It's about the show. Yes, Now, I got to go back to
work. I love you back. I love you too, all right.
Bye, Tyler. So you've been on the show for two years, almost
a full two years. Yep. When you and I started working together,
where you like, what in the hell is this show? Or who is
this? Check? Look, I'd be lying if I said that wasn't my
instant reaction, but not a feeling. It didn't take me very long to
warm up to it, though. I think the hardest part still remains that,
you know, I gotta wake up at the time I gotta wake up
at to be here. But it's been great. It's been great with you.
Great. What you guys might not know is Tyler might have the most
wicked sense of humor of anybody I have ever met. And I've told everybody
in my family, my friend's up north where I'm heading to Redding, that
Tyler is my work husband. And because I think we fight like a married
couple, and yet when we like get at each other, then we also
know how to like recover from it. And it's snarky and usually it's an
f you know, fu, and then we love each other again. Yeah,
we typically only have about two to three minutes to fight, and then
we gotta you know, lock it back in and pretend like we like each
other exactly. So I love you, Thank you for everything, Thank you
for everything. You know, when I first started here, I had no
experience in this line of work, so I don't want to spoil too much
of what I put in your card, but a lot of who I am
is thanks to you. Oh my gosh, all right, you stop now,
Okay, I'm stopping you stop. Yeah, husband's don't get that much
time. And so everybody watching Instagram Live, I am taking the camera and
sort of pushing it all around my zoom screen so you can see everybody.
And I am so sorry that you and I are not going to get more
of a chance to work together. Side about this because I just got here
right, I'm about my fourth month in and I remember the first time I
met you. I thought we were sitting in a conference room and I'm like,
this girl's cool. I like her. And as the days went on
and we're here at you know, four in the morning. Are you come
bopping in every morning with your cute little outfits on, with all your energy,
And we just started talking about a lot of things, a personal stuff,
and I'm like, I want to hang out with this girl, like
we're kind of cut from the same cloth. Yeah, and we're going to
have a really awesome friendship. Yes we are. And now you're leaving me
though, now I'm leaving you. But now I'm also heading to reading and
I have plenty of room. I have a whole like guest room bathroom area
with Anne's name written on it. Oh my god, I'm totally coming and
I'm bringing the horse. My name was written on it. Can you guys
share the room? No? I thought that room was for me. Wait
being sharp? Good morning, What an awesome surprise. Thank you for checking
in early. How could I not have been listening from the very first second.
You know, when you and I first started, we were very close
in space, because how long have you been here? Just? Yeah,
almost seven years. That's the same amount of time, man. Yeah,
we were just a few months apart. And what I loved about working with
you was that, seriously, I had no idea how much fun you could
make. Literally, like, let's talk about a wall today, and I'd
be like, all right, I don't know what we're going to talk about.
You have You have inspired me in a lot of ways to things that
I thought might not be like the most fun topic or whatever. Oh my
gosh, you make it fun, you make it informative, and I just
deans as a person. You and Tina were two of the brightest spots at
this station and still are. Oh well, can I tell you this?
Can I take a second to tell you this? Yeah. There are people
who I think try to dazzle us in this industry, and there are people
who intimidate us in the world. There are people who project themselves like they're
on a whole different level. And you would think that those people are like
the most important people. But I think the most important people in places of
attention and influence are warm, real relatable people who make us feel like we're
home, and you are those kind of people. That's the kindest thing you
could say. Seriously, thank you so much for saying that. Well,
it's been it's such a pleasure to just, you know, start the day
with you every Friday morning. Eddy, I remember too. I'm Tiary by
the way, and yes, that was a big old sigh of like,
suck it in, kid, pull it together. I remember you would listen
early in the mornings and you would text me or instagram me like, hey,
I'm listening, and I just remember being like, I don't know if
anybody else is listening out there, but Dean is. So I'm talking to
you Dean when I do the show this morning. And Tina would text me
like, you know, good luck and whatever. I adore you to Dean
and I are going to talk in home theaters in just a second, and
so we'll get into that. But you're leaving though on a topic that oh
I love. I love watching TV at home. There you go, so
you can set up my new place. How's that sounds great? And Aaron
and Nate, I have you both in here, and Aaron and Nate are
newer, and I haven't been able to work with both of you much,
but Michelle was talking about positivity a few minutes ago, and the smiles on
both of your faces are the things that I've loved the best about the two
of you. Ah, that's so nice. And Aaron, you are a
kick ass writer. Oh thank you. And seriously, it's hard in the
news business when an anchor has to trust. So Aaron writes it, I
read it, and there's there's a trust factor that has to happen there.
And Aaron you like you got my trust from day one. Oh thank you.
That means so much. I love writing for you. Well, it's
been great. And Nate, I'm only sorry that I'm leaving before I get
a chance to work with you as a producer of wake Up Call. Yeah
that's a okay. I've gotten to get to know you around the new station,
and I just want to say you're incredibly warm and kind, and I'm
sure the listeners that have listened to you for a long time they have the
impression that you're a very nice and sweet and warm person. But let me
just tell you, guys, she's even nicer off air in person. If
you can believe that. Yes, agreed, you guys are amazing. What
can I share? Can I share a memory? Yeah? Please? We
don't get to work with each other a lot. A lot of the time.
I'm writing new Like I'm writing stuff at night that I'm hoping you read
in the morning. And so I love and hate that the week I get
to do this shift with you is your last home. You know what I
mean too. But I'm glad you're here. And Aaron and I are going
to take a picture because she wore her over alls this morning in my honor
I did for you. I love it. I love it. I love
your energy, and I love it You're you're like, why do people hate
on overall? Leave all alone? Right? The best? It's the thing
that, yes, we have that in common, you guys all. I
I adore you. We're gonna keep Instagram live the rest of the morning and
for people, I literally am seeing people on Instagram like, wait, where
are you going? I am moving to reading on Saturday next week. That's
where my family is. And I've told you before that my dad got sick
about a year ago and he's doing okay now. But somebody asked me because
they saw that I have a new boyfriend online and they said, are you
you must be moving home for that guy, and I said, it's true.
I am moving home for a man. But his name is Bob Jones.
And me and dad have a and my mom of course, but you
know, I'm Daddy's girl, and I just got to spend as much time
with my dad as I can. And I got a job in radio up
there, so I'm going home thirty years after I left. I get to
go back to the place where I started, and I just feel incredibly blessed
and I'm gonna cry. So we're gonna go to break and then Dean Sharpe's
coming up in just a second to talk home theaters. Nick Paliachini, let's
get to you. And also, I want to thank you for being the
I think by positive partner in crime on the air. I love that everybody's
keeping it together because I'm a flipping mess over here to be totally honest with
you, and I'm very impressed. I mean, this shows the pre eminent
professional that you are. Jen. But no, I mean it's been a
rough week for us. We I mean we lost somebody in the traffic center,
lost trap Ba this week, which he won't be coming back. But
I'm so glad that you're moving on to this new adventure in northern California and
going to be back with your dad and going to be doing management, which
God knows they are going to have the best manager out of you, because
no, no, no, because you know what it's like to be in
the trenches, and you know what it's like to be there, so as
being an option manager, you're gonna really shine there. I think it's going
to be a huge thing because you've already been there where a lot of the
folks have been. So I give you the biggest prompts to that. You
know, this has been a genuine, true pleasure. I appreciate every moment
that I get to spend with you. As Michelle said, you've got the
right sound that gets us going in the morning. Your brightness really wakes us
up, and you know, I look forward to coming up, like I
already said, for the reading rodeo and private in reading. Absolutely. But
yeah, so anyway, thank you for everything that you've done and contributed to
the show. You really have helped to make the mornings and ever so much
more bright here on a Cafi. All right, well, I'm not as
far as listening to you guys. Go. I'm a nine to five or
now, so I can still get up and like like a normal person,
put my earbuds in, listen to the radio, go for a run with
the dog. So you guys keep it all of you. I'm going to
keep in my ears the whole time. So just no, I love you,
and we'll all be together again soon, even if it just means it's
when you're coming up to visit. Today is the last date. Jennifer Jones
Lee will great the KFI airwaves with their sparkling personality. JJL has been the
anchor in more ways than one of KFI mornings for forty nine dog years or
seven human years, whatever it seems like, more but still not enough.
We're sorry to see you go. Chin On behalf of all of us at
KFI, behind the scenes and on the air, production and support staff,
management, and especially all the listeners. You woke up way too early every
day morning. You will be missed. Thank you from all of us at
KFI, and pull away there and cry for a second. Dean Sharp,
good morning to you. Dean's On on Saturdays and Sundays six to eight on
Saturdays, and nine to noon on Sundays. Love Love, Love Me some
you and I don't want to take away from the information that you have on
home theaters. Handel has this like fancy freaking home theater at his house.
My home theater is my couch in a big screen TV and a soundbar.
Yeah, yeah, you know what. We can talk home theaters anytime.
Let's talk about what's really important. What got you girl? You it is
crazy? I uh so, just the backstory here. This all started,
like I said about it was Christmas of twenty twenty one. Yeah, so
it was two days after Christmas. Scott and I were in Florida and I
got a call from my brother who was bawling, and he said, Dad's
defibrillator. So we have a genetic heart condition in our family. Dad's defibrillator
went off twenty seven times, so to be honest, he should not have
survived that. And thanks to light a cane, which is what they ended
up injecting in him, then his heart like went back into rhythm and it
stopped shocking him, which was amazing. But it was that moment where I
remember thinking to myself, like what am I doing? I you know,
I said it before. I mean, yes, I love my mom,
but I admit I'm a daddy's girl, you know, take me fishing and
all kinds of stuff. And so when that when that happened in December,
my grandmother passed away in April, Scott and I decided to divorce in May,
and all of a sudden, it's like, holy hell, what am
I doing with my life? And I remember after Christmas this year we celebrated
Dad's I like to think that it's like Dad's first birthday, right where he
came back from the brink of death and everything is good. And they left,
they left, and I was like, you know what, I gotta
go home. And I started kind of putting it into the universe. And
I feel so blessed that I got a gig. My uncle had a house
available for me to rent. I've I've now told you guys, I have
a boyfriend who actually somebody just asked me who he is, and Dean he
is my old college boyfriend. That's what I heard. Yeah, he's amazing
and I can't wait for you to meet him. He's so we worked at
Coleman Fish Hatchery for twenty seven years, which was his Joel dream. I
mean, he really like he's a fish farmer. It's so cool. I
never even like thought of it that way. But you know, just like
we talked about crops of wine or whatever, that's what Jason does. So
his name is Jason Folks. We had a like lecture hall class together.
He sent his friend John over to like introduce himself to me and was like,
hey, why you meet my buddy. And so we were together probably
eight months or so there, and then recently reconnected on Facebook, found out
we were both single. Dipped our too in that water and look at that.
So now I have a job, I go home to my family,
a house, and a boyfriend. You know, it's just it's one of
those counterintuitive things in one sense, you know, career wise, when you
think about, come on, you're in LA you made it to the show.
Yes, But the fact of the matter is, it's just it's so
you. It's so brilliant. It's so wonderful to know somebody who can look
at their lives and say, hey, you know what, these are the
priorities, These are the things that are most important to me. And I
have no doubt I have no doubt that there's just nothing but goodness and success
as the day's roll. For the only reason I'm holding it together, Jen
is because I know that this is not the last that you and I are
hanging out. Okay, no chance. So so, because I love northern
California, You've already invited us up. We are totally coming up there.
We spent a lot of time up there. I've got two of my dearest
friends on the planet live in Chico. We're up in Chico all the time.
Perfect. I fish Shasta every chance I get, and so so we're
there, We're so there. And so I'm just gonna keep telling myself,
yeah, donut, no, no, no, right, see, now
you're going to fish Shasta with like mister fishing. I want a complete tour
the hatchery. Oh my god, the hatchery is amazing, and I literally
he has loved it. He was volunteering. I think even when we were
in college together. He took so much pride in that. So he retired
from the hatchery only to go to Shasta dam So I talked to him last
night. I'm like, what were you doing? He goes pressure washing the
damn who gets to do that? You know, like Shasta. Is it
like a ninety nine percent capacity? Yes, yeah, it is full to
the bull room. Yeah. My cousins have houseboats, so we can grab
that anytime. You're coming, Dean, You and Tina, I need your
itinerary asap. Yeah. No, it's happening. It's happening, so that's
that's that's fine. Everybody else has a tiery goodbye. I'm just gonna say
see you soon and we're good to go. All right, sounds good.
Dean is going to talk home theaters, I promise this weekend, Saturday and
Sunday. Yep, all weekend long we had home theaters, a little Pope
Perrie, a little Father's Day gift advice, you know it's and a few
extra calls this weekend. So it's a mishmash of things, but right at
the tip of the spear, some updates on what's going on with home theaters
in twenty twenty three. All right, sounds great. I love you,
I love Tina and will see you soon. I love you, buddy.
All right, see you later. That's Cafi's house, whispered Dean Sharp.
Follow him on social media at Dean Sharp No at Home with Dean. This
is why I should be pulled off the air because I can't even do this
cracking me up this morning singer, song about the hard lend the Only place
I Fell, sing about the way Man to do the Last King, Jorge
s No wrong from right, singing a song about the hard Land, singing
a song about nine live and heck, yeah, I want to get back
into singing. That's where I started. I was a wedding singer, you
guys. I'd get paid fifty bucks the song. And actually, Julie,
if you're listening, um, so, Julie Adams is a friend of mine
from high school and she had a friend Ricky, and Ricky also my friend
asked me if I could sing at her wedding, and I was like yeah.
Then she asked me if I could sing the Lord's Prayer and Havnagila asked
me to sing. Tyler even laughed it out to it. Oh did you
do it? There was there was the yeah, yeah, okay. Was
anybody recording? Oh not back in the day, find it. I mean
that's what thirties some years they had what were they high eights probably like probably
somebody had like the campcorder on their shoulder. You know, all right,
that's your homework, all right, you have, you know the rest of
your life to find it. Steve Clayton of the Upland Lemon Festival, I
have to tell you, Steve when so this is my last day on the
air if you obviously haven't figured that out by now. Um, but my
favorite festival since I've lived here in southern California for the last seven years was
the Upland Lemon Festival. And I want to go out highlighting one of the
things that I think is a hidden gem of the Inland Empire. Is this
festival. Well, thank you for having me, and congratulations on your continued
career as a wedding singer. Oh, thank you. I can't wait to
get back into it. You know, anybody, I'll fly, I don't
care whatever, But tell me about the festival. What's going on this weekend,
And for anybody who goes, don't think it's cliche. Get the freaking
lemonade. I don't know what you guys do to it, but it's the
best lemonade I've ever had. Well, it is fantastic. Yes, this
is a festival that's been going on since nineteen ninety seven. We have taken
notes and expanded the carnival. Last year lines were so long for some people,
so we've added about thirty percent more space for the carnival, all these
different ride eighty foot drop tower, all sorts of things, some more entertainment,
third stage, a country zone stage for you for your George straight than
Hey there we go. Um yeah, so acts throwing, I mean,
all sorts of different activities for a variety of different ages, you know,
young and olds. Can we talk about lemon Idol. What is lemon Idol?
Well, lemon Idol is really supposed to be a community based competen singing
competition, so um, you know, it gets uh solo acts and and
uh you know, musicians and things like that from the community and has a
multi week competition and it has a finale m over the weekend. So we'll
we'll crown the lemon Idol winner over this weekend. Okay, So the event
starts tonight and then runs through Sunday. It starts today actually three o'clock today,
runs three to eleven today, and then eleven am to eleven pm Saturday
and Sunday. So we're looking or to bringing all the crowds out there,
um and uh, celebrating with with all these families. It's it's the start
of summers. School is out, yes when okay, what can you it's
just me and you pretend like nobody else is listening. Do you guys do
something special to that lemonade? Because normally I'm like, I'm going to be
super calorie conscience and I will just get a small I don't want to have
that big large. Oh heck, I had two big larges last year.
Well, it's funny you say that the lemonade is is uh, I mean
it's it's really taste. It's it's sugar lemons probably probably sugar and lemons.
I mean that's there's not really much. There's not much too lemonade. I
mean good quality ice always helps. Honestly funny enough, but uh, and
and good quality lemons. But it's it's really it's really sugar as well.
Okay, who started when you're in nineteen ninety seven? Do you know who
was like, I know what we should do have a lemon festival. I
honestly don't know that history. Maybe I should I apologize on that, but
it's not like I know exactly the history of this place either, so don't
worry. Yeah, but okay, what is the one thing, Steve,
that you look forward to most about the Upland Lemon Festival every year. I
like seeing the crowds. I like seeing the happy families. I like seeing
people having a great time. I liked seeing the businesses all participate and deck
out there. You know, they're the front windows of their stores and lemon
theme and have certain kind of lemon specials and things like that. And it's
just get the whole community together, and you know, I think it supports
the local downtown business and growth there and really just show cases what Upland has
to offer. And it's it's really cool to see, all right. If
people want the information, if they're listening right now and they can't jot it
down, where can they go later? Upland Lemon Festival dot com and it
has all sorts of information on how to get there. I would like to
say that Omni Ride has given a discount for Upland residents to get there,
and Metrolink has given us fifty percent off all weekend for Metrolink riders to get
to Upland Lemon festivals. Oh, I love that. That's perfect so anybody,
you have no excuse now, and the weather's going to be great this
weekend, no excuse whatsoever. Yeah, it's it's going to be great weather.
Last year was very hot, upper nineties and such, and this year's
beautiful seventy five seventy degrees. You are awesome, Steve. I'm jealous.
I'm jealous of your gig. You get to be the guy who gets to
talk about the upland Lemon Festival. Have a wonderful time this weekend. In
between packing, I've already told myself I'm gonna sneak out. I'm gonna go
there for a couple hours. I live in Fontana right now, so you're
not that far. So I'll sneak over there. Maybe go to Chuck's Tacos
on my way home. The puffy taco there is my favorite. And yeah,
and I'll have my lemonade that I'll take with me to wash it down.
That's perfect. Well, I look forward to seeing you there. Give
me a holler I will, okay, Well, now be careful what you
wish for it. Well, and we'll have to take a photo. There's
a vintage Volkswagen photo bus that's doing free photos for everyone all weekend long there,
so that'll be cool. It'll be in the country zone state, so
come on out, perfect country music. Thanks. I'm George Straight and we'll
see you. All right. You're gonna get a four one five number.
And if you're like, hey, that spam. No, I kept my
four one five number from the Bay Area because I thought anybody who gets this
is going to be like, oh, I know who that is. So
when you see this, no, it's me and I'll come find you.
No, please do all right? Sound good, Steve, have a great
one. Thanks for your time. All right, bye, Steve Clayton from
the upland Lemon Festival. All right, so here's the deal you guys.
I will lose my iHeart email obviously at the end of the day. That's
just what you know any company does. But you ready, I have created
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So it's Jennifer Jones Lee at iicloud dot com. Okay, literally,
I'm putting my I know there are hundreds of thousands of you out there,
and I know my family was like, what are you doing. I don't
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I had been part of a massive layoff in San Francisco. And Robin and
Chris So, Robin Bertolucci and Chris Little basically we're like, hey, you're
free, no more excuses come down. And so to Kevin Lagrette and to
Robin Bertolucci and Chris Little, I want to tell you guys that I am
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