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 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:10.759 wake Up Call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. She likes to call it 3 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:20.800 Friday And here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your Thursday morning wake up call. So 4 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:28.719 wasn't the game that we wanted it to be. However, we had an 5 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:34.679 amazing time at the Dodger game yesterday. I mean, when you talk about 6 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:39.759 picture perfect weather, it was one of those where it was sunny and just 7 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:43.280 a little bit warm where you were just kind of sweating in the seats. 8 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:47.799 Totally worth it. What with Tyler had a great time, right, Oh 9 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.799 yeah, great time. It was so fun. We saw a streaker although 10 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:56.520 he didn't streak, do we still call him a streaker? It was it 11 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:00.000 was my first experience of actually being there when somebody runs across the field. 12 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:07.159 Ninth inning, Metzer in the outfield, dude bails over the kind of the 13 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.560 wall, I guess in left field. I think he jumped a short portion 14 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:14.000 left, okay, and I think we should call him a disruptor. Oh 15 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:18.280 I like that. It just wasn't naked, yeah to be a streaker, 16 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:23.480 but this guy just tools across the field. He's in all black kind of 17 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:29.239 it looked like maybe like black dyed hair, and he's filming himself so you 18 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:36.319 know, he was instagramming live or something. And that team of security mode 19 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:40.799 that guy down like it was a full on football hit when they got him. 20 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:42.319 But he made it to second base. Like I was kind of impressed 21 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:47.159 how far he made it. I shouldn't say that, but anyway, but 22 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.040 these this security team, like we were talking about it this morning. These 23 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:57.920 guys clearly train and they mowed down this kid and then got him up. 24 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.519 And the best part was when they were taking him off the field. So 25 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:02.879 they've got him. You know, it looks like zip tied or something behind 26 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:07.120 his back and they're taking him off the field. They are running with the 27 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.199 kid, but they have him in front and they're sort of just like push 28 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:17.159 running him. It was great, Dodgers lost the garlic fries. Amazing, 29 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:22.000 just had a good time. You can see all the pictures. You can 30 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.000 see us even doing the take me out to the ballgame because that's the part 31 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:30.759 I decided to video, So that's up on Instagram. Jjlk F I almost 32 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:32.719 the weekend, you guys, here's what's going on. The mayor of LA 33 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:38.520 who helped the city rebound from the riots in nineteen ninety two. Richard Reardon 34 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:43.639 has died. An LAPD officer has been suspended for his actions during a fireworks 35 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:47.879 explosion that it play. It displaced dozens of people in South LA and we 36 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.520 had at least fifteen tornadoes. I think so far we're up to two people 37 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:58.759 killed in these tornadoes that were reported across Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa just 38 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:00.800 in the last twenty four hours. Also, we're going to talk to Aaron 39 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:07.960 Katurski about the Alvin Bragg versus Jim Jordan case. Oh my gosh, it 40 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:13.199 just got juicier in some ways yesterday. So the drama continues. We'll get 41 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.520 into that in a little bit, but let's start with some of these stories 42 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.319 coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. We start with a crime 43 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:23.120 spree through LA and Orange Counties, and now a guy's been arrested. The 44 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:25.719 fan sat Namir Green robbed. You're trying to rob thirty one gas stations in 45 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:30.759 convenience stores over a three and a half week period. Booking documents show from 46 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:34.360 March twenty first to April fifteenth. Green also carjacked at least two vehicles. 47 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:38.639 Prosecutors say Green would demand cash from employees at gunpoint and threatened to kill them 48 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:40.240 if they didn't hand over the money. He was able to steal a little 49 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:44.800 more than fifteen thousand dollars during the robberies. Green could get twenty years in 50 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:47.560 prison. He was charged under the federal Hobbs Act, which is interference with 51 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:53.000 commerce by robbery. Steve Gregory KFI News an LAPD officer has been suspended for 52 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:59.240 his actions during a fireworks explosion that displays dozens of people in South LA. 53 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.520 These records say the officer was suspended for ten days without pay for being deficient 54 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:09.199 in their duties. A report found a lack of training and supervision directly led 55 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:14.159 to the catastrophic explosion in June of twenty twenty one. Now, the total 56 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:18.759 number of training hours completed by bomb Squad members dropped from ten thousand hours in 57 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:25.360 twenty sixteen to six thousand, eight hundred seventy three hours in twenty twenty. 58 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:30.279 In six months leading up to the explosion, the report says only three thousand, 59 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:34.480 forty two hours of training were completed. A road rage incident in Santa 60 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:40.279 Anna has uncovered a gun making operation in Coasta Mesa. Detectives were tracking down 61 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:43.720 a guy who'd pulled a gun on a driver, but Santa Ana Police Sergeant 62 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:46.920 Maria Lopez says when search warrants were executed at the guy's home in Business and 63 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:50.959 Coasta Mesa, the Major Enforcement Team detectives as well as the ABY one or 64 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:57.120 nine Task Force, were able to locate fourteen firearms, thirteen ghost gun frames, 65 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:00.199 firearms manufacturing equipment, three D prin tours, and the drill press. 66 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.600 Drugs were also found. The guy was booked Friday for criminal threats as well 67 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:09.959 as multiple weapons and drug violations in Santa Anna, Corbin Carson k if I 68 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.480 knew and the mayor of LA, who helped the city rebound from the riots 69 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:16.399 in nineteen ninety two and led the city as it recovered from the north Ridge 70 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:21.519 earthquake, has died. Businessman Rick Reordon served as mayor from nineteen ninety three 71 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:26.079 to two thousand and one. During that time, the last Republican to hold 72 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:30.560 the office of Mayor of LA, streamlined the city's permitting process, work to 73 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:32.879 make it easier for film and TV makers to shoot in the city, and 74 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:39.079 expanded the Lapd. His family says he died yesterday at the age of ninety 75 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:45.519 two. The battle between Bragg and Jordan continues this morning. ABC's Aaron Katurski 76 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:49.439 is here with more on testimony now that is going to be allowed, and 77 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:53.519 it's kind of a win for Jim Jordan in the case of him versus the 78 00:05:53.879 --> 00:06:02.040 New York attorney Alvin Bragg. Except I just scout word like as we were 79 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:05.680 coming on the air here Jen that the Second Circuit may have just issued a 80 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:11.920 stay. So I don't know that that the testimony has kind of had It's 81 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.399 supposed to be in two hours, but now there's a there's a stay by 82 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.519 by a federal appeals court. So I'm still I got to sort it out. 83 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:24.360 But but but but for the moment, it seems like this this testimony 84 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:29.639 is in question. But up until thirty seconds ago, it looked like a 85 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:34.560 former prosecutor in the Manhattan DA's office named Mark Pomerantz was going to be sitting 86 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:40.519 for a deposition before the House Judiciary Committee. He was subpoenaed, and a 87 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:45.079 federal judge here in New York ruled that that subpoena was properly predicated. It 88 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:48.439 had a legitimate legislative purpose. She said, Congress, you know, makes 89 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:53.600 laws, can investigate how they get at those laws anyway they want, and 90 00:06:53.680 --> 00:07:00.519 it wasn't for the judiciary to step in and interfere. Bragg's office the Dagg 91 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:04.600 his office said, this is just a political attempt to interfere in the prosecution 92 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:10.240 of former President Trump, and so they asked the judge to block the subpoena, 93 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:14.120 which she declined to do, but which a federal appeals court now well 94 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.560 might well. Alvin Bragg is calling it, you know, harassment and intimidation 95 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:24.120 on Jim Jordan's part to ask Palmer Rants to testify. What is it exactly 96 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:28.399 that Jim Jordan is trying to get Mark Palmer Rance, the former prosecutor, 97 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:35.399 to say, well, ostensibly he's looking at the use of federal funds that 98 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:40.800 may have been part of the investigation of former President Trump. Now Bragg's office 99 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:44.920 say said, yes, they use some federal corfeiture funds over the last three 100 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:46.879 years, mainly to fight Trump in the US Supreme Court. If they were 101 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.879 trying to get access to his tax returns at amounted to five thousand dollars. 102 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:56.480 Now, the attorney for the House Judiciary Committee says, whether it's five dollars 103 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:01.000 five thousand or five million, Congress has the power of the purse and should 104 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:05.160 be allowed to investigate whether that was a proper use of federal funds. I 105 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.160 mean, Jen, nobody believes that Jim Jordan, the staunchist ally Trump has 106 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:16.079 in Congress, is you know, really interested in federal forfeiture funds and their 107 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:20.040 use they're in. This is all an attempt to just needle brag and to 108 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:26.120 try to perhaps undermine his investigation of Trump. But for the purposes of judicial 109 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:30.639 review, that doesn't matter. The judge said she wasn't going to step into 110 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.240 a political dog fight. All right, Aaron, thank you so much for 111 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:35.879 this, and I look forward to finding out. Will you shoot me a 112 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:39.759 text and tell me if it is delayed or not once you get through this. 113 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:45.320 Yeah, I mean well, I mean either at ten o'clock Eastern time, 114 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:48.000 he'll show up or he won't so, or he'll show up and be 115 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.360 like, well, I guess I'm not going to talk today. But you 116 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.399 know, got all dressed up for this and now I can't even perform. 117 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.799 All right, Aaron, thank you so much. Yeah, maybe sees eron 118 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:05.039 Kast that you guys, we were on it. I love when stuff like 119 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:09.879 that happens. So we'll see. Now a lower court stay of this that's 120 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.840 just temporary, so then we would have to get the ruling on what the 121 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:18.679 lower court then why it made the stay go through. I know, you 122 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:24.720 guys, it's really wonky. And yeah, absolutely, you know. It's 123 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:31.559 not a It is not partisan to say that this is Jim Jordan trying to 124 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:33.559 get at Alvin Bragg. Of course it is. This is how you play 125 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:39.840 the game when you're in politics, and so he of course is doing this. 126 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:45.120 It's the same as if it was a democratic president and he had a 127 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:50.559 staunch ally in Congress, like it Jim Jordan, who went to bat for 128 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.600 him. That's what you do. But he did it, and in this 129 00:09:54.639 --> 00:10:01.679 case it worked because it does not When you look at it judicially, there's 130 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.279 nothing wrong with it, and that's really all that matters. So we'll see 131 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:09.360 what this lower court why their stay came through. So that'll be interesting. 132 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:13.759 Let's get back to some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four 133 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:18.200 hour newsroom. An LAPD officer is suing police Chief Michael Moore and the department, 134 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:24.440 claiming retaliation for posting videos of her shooting competitions. Tony McBride claims chief 135 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:30.480 More threatened to destroy her career she continued posting videos showcasing her sharpshooting skills. 136 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:33.639 The officer says the chief told her he didn't like the images the videos presented 137 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:39.519 and she needed to choose between social media and being an LAPD officer. In 138 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.039 the lawsuit file Tuesday, the officer claims her videos were identical to other mail 139 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.799 officers videos, but she was still blocked from being promoted. McBride is the 140 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:52.120 daughter of Jamie McBride, a director of the LA Police Protective League. The 141 00:10:52.279 --> 00:11:01.440 LAPD declined to comment on the pending litigation. Chris Adler KFI News that is 142 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:09.320 hale that sounds like that damaging hail. At least fifteen tornadoes have been reported 143 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:13.919 across Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa in the last twenty four hours. Rescue 144 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:20.919 crews and cole Oklahoma are assessing the damage from a large and extremely dangerous tornado 145 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.960 that killed at least two people. The National Weather Service says that tornado hit 146 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.639 the west central part of the state. Large balls of hail that you were 147 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:31.799 just hearing were seen hitting the state. All Over Cole has a population of 148 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:37.120 about six hundred people. Forecasters issued a tornado watch last night for parts of 149 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:43.159 Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. Police in North Carolina are trying 150 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.399 to find a man who allegedly shot a young girl, her parents, and 151 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:54.120 another neighbor because a basketball rolled into his yard. Will be damn sure to 152 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.360 be loud and clear when this case comes to court. That's da Travis Page. 153 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:03.559 Six year old Kinsley White, who was recovering from her injuries, has 154 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:09.799 a question for the shooter. Why did she shoot my daddy and me kid? 155 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:16.919 Dad? Oh nope, that's the kind of stuff that gets me. 156 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:22.360 The girl's mom says her husband tried to draw the gunfire towards himself to protect 157 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:28.879 his family, and he was shot in the back because the basketball rolled into 158 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:35.159 this guy's yard. Are you freaking kidding me? It's It's one thing when 159 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:41.320 we're talking about somebody went to the wrong doorbell and somebody says that he was 160 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:46.240 scared and shot. That was bad enough. Then we have people drive down 161 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:50.799 the wrong driveway, turn around, no interaction with the homeowner at all. 162 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:56.720 One girl shot and killed in the car, and then in this case, 163 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.879 you shoot a young girl her parents in an another neighbor because a freaking basketball 164 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:09.279 rolled into your yard. It's disgusting. It's disgusting when we do these stories 165 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:13.799 over and over and over again, and people ask me a lot. They're 166 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.519 like, why do you stay in news? Or how do you get through 167 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.279 some of these stories? And it's thirty years this year, and I often 168 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.759 say, I just say the words, right, I just read the words. 169 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.840 I can't think about what the story is, just read the words. 170 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.960 But then when you have a cut like that of a six year old girl 171 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:35.320 asking why did you shoot me and my dad? You know, every now 172 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:41.919 and then those get through, and that one gets through. SpaceX is launching 173 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:46.080 the biggest and most powerful rocket after the test flight that was supposed to be 174 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.480 on Monday was scrapped and there was something that had to do. I can't 175 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:54.320 remember exactly what it was, but they said that there was something right on 176 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.799 the countdown Monday that made them stop. And it was roughly two months ago 177 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:03.639 that SpaceX completed its first fire of the fully integrated starship, which has those 178 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.399 two components. So it's got this massive first stage booster that's the super heavy 179 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.159 one. They call it and then they have the upper stage known as the 180 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:16.320 Starship. So we've got the super heavy Starship going up, and in a 181 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.519 typical fashion, both components of the craft are designed to be fully reusable. 182 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:26.159 Which is what is so cool about Elon Musk's vision in this is that we 183 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.000 haven't had this kind of thing, really, this reusability, and now that 184 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:33.559 you've got it, think about how much they are saving, how much money 185 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:37.799 they are saving with reusable rockets. So anyway, we'll see an hour from 186 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:43.360 now is when it's expected. Also, there's a former vipach war guide at 187 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:50.120 Magic Mountain who says she suffered emotional and mental distress after enduring a rumor that 188 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:54.360 she kissed a coworker at a party. She's a part time employee. She 189 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.559 sued the park for five hundred thousand dollars in damages. She says her supervisors 190 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:03.559 made up up the rumor, and when she confronted them, they retaliated by 191 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:07.440 removing her from preferred shifts. The employee was hired in twenty seventeen and claims 192 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.879 she was forced to work fourteen hour days. Magic Mountain did not reply to 193 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:18.960 our request for comment. All right, the old school blue check mark is 194 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:22.399 it gone. Maybe ABC's Mike Debuskie is here for us. Hey Mike, 195 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:26.720 good morning, Good morning Jen. Yeah, it's kind of like his rocket. 196 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:28.279 We don't really know if it's going to go off today. We don't 197 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:33.440 really know if legacy verified accounts are going to lose their blue check marks today. 198 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:35.679 So yeah, like a lot of things with Elon Musk, it's kind 199 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:37.320 of just a question mark at this stage, and he has said that, 200 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:39.919 so you know, if you don't pay for it, you're going to lose 201 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:45.000 that legacy checkmark. And then people started paying for it, but people who 202 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:48.679 had the legacy check mark and didn't pay for it still had it there. 203 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:52.000 So there was a lot of confusion, right right, And if you go 204 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:56.360 back to the original conceit of the blue check mark, you would think that 205 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:58.759 that is a problem, right, a misinformation problem, because the whole point 206 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:03.000 of a blue check market it's founding, was to cut down on misinformation. 207 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:07.399 If you're a famous account, you don't want people impersonating you, maybe running 208 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:11.440 scams or saying something off color. Twitter gave you a little blue check mark. 209 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:15.039 So now if you're tying that to monthly payment, anyone with eight dollars 210 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.960 can look like a quote unquote legitimate account, and that has raised a lot 211 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:25.519 of eyebrows in sort of the social media space about you know, is this 212 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:29.759 really just a ploy, is this status symbol or is it really a symbol 213 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:33.759 of verification and that supposedly we're going to lose that symbol of like you know, 214 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:38.559 Twitter ordained verification today. But again, it is the sort of the 215 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:41.879 conversation hanging over all of this is that it is four twenty today, Jennet 216 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.480 is the weed day. It is a number that Elon Musk has a history 217 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.799 with. He was sued over a tweet and twenty eighteen saying that he was 218 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:53.440 going to take Tesla private at four twenty a share. He snuck a four 219 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:57.679 twenty reference into his original bid to buy Twitter. So it's a number he 220 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:00.200 has a history with. He seems to find it very amusing. So that's 221 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.200 also part of this what this could all just be a big joke. Well 222 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.799 that's what I was thinking. So the minute that I saw your story last 223 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.799 night, I was like, it's another Elon Musk for twenty, you know, 224 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:14.960 trick on us or something like that. At the same time, I 225 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.640 think that if he is trying to trick us. He is though, raising 226 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.880 the argument of why in the world would I pay an eight dollar monthly fee 227 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:29.519 for a blue check mark that is not necessarily going to verify or, you 228 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:33.440 know, show credibility that I really am who I am. If somebody else 229 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:38.160 wants to be whatever, you know, Jennifer Jones Lee Kfi on Twitter and 230 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:42.480 they pay the eight bucks, how would people know whether it's really me or 231 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:45.839 whether it's the guy that paid eight bucks. So kind of what Elon Musk 232 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:49.440 has done is put a spotlight, I think, on what's going on on 233 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:52.279 Twitter, even if he is trying to just make a joke, right, 234 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.200 And part of this goes back to again that original conceit of the blue check 235 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:00.279 Part of it was to verify that you're an authentic account, but what it 236 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.599 came to convey was this sense of legitimacy, right that Twitter had deemed you 237 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:07.759 important enough to be impersonated, which is kind of strange, but it did 238 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:12.880 carry this sort of status symbol aura to it, and he's hoping that that 239 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:17.759 aura is something that people will pay eight bucks a month for. And jen 240 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:19.799 he kind of needs people to pay eight bucks a month for it too, 241 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:25.279 because so he says he said in his first email to Twitter staff when he 242 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:29.319 took over. He hopes that half of Twitter's user base signs up for Twitter 243 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:32.119 Blue. They're going to need to if the company is going to make it 244 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:36.759 through what he sees as a coming economic storm. The number as it stands 245 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:40.359 right now is about point one or point two percent of Twitter's user base signs 246 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:42.880 up for Twitter Blue. So there's a lot of road left to be driven 247 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:48.119 down here, Jen, Why does he think that we would be okay with 248 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.960 paying eight bucks a month for a blue verification mark that may or may not 249 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:56.240 show validity in who we are? Why? I mean, he's a smart 250 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:00.680 guy. He's had to think this through. You know, one would hope. 251 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:04.200 But there's also the question of you know, Elon Musk is a prominent 252 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:08.160 figure in social in the social media space now, but he was a prominent 253 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:11.599 figure in tech. He's a powerful man. He's, you know, for 254 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:15.200 a time, the richest man in the world. I'm sure he surrounds himself 255 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:18.359 with people who you know, are are you know, good advisors? But 256 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.079 I you know, I guess that is the open question in a strange way, 257 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.319 Uh, Jen, I think that the blue check now that they have 258 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:30.039 tied it to payment. Has become almost the inverse of a status symbol, 259 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:33.960 right, the opposite. Yeah, because it's like, hey, look at 260 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:37.119 this guy who pays for social media, that thing we all get for free. 261 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:38.640 You know, why would you do that? You know he must be 262 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:42.079 you know, some sort of Elon Musk super fan. Right, Um, 263 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:45.599 which which is it's other? Which is this whole other part of the discussion. 264 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.359 So yeah, it's again sort of a question, and again like we 265 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:53.319 don't know if this is going to happen today. So as of right now, 266 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:56.839 you know, Karen Travers, Aaron Katersky, I know they don't pay 267 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.480 for Twitter. They still have their blue check marks. Interesting, all right, 268 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:02.920 we'll keep an eye Okay, those two accounts, then we'll keep an 269 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:06.559 eye on it. Mike, thank you, you're great. Talk to you 270 00:20:06.599 --> 00:20:08.599 soon. Take care of Mike. Bye. That's ABC's Mike to Busky. 271 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:17.279 Cool little story about Mike. Mike actually was ABC's So at night two times 272 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:21.640 a day. Actually, I should say, uh, there's a an email 273 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:26.480 that comes out that talks about what Aaron Katurski and Karen Travers and Mike and 274 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:32.200 you know whomever are talking about. And you have the opportunity to book them. 275 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:34.000 Right, It'll say they have a window of you know, five in 276 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:38.880 the morning to whatever nine or something like that. So every night I looked 277 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:42.000 down this list and I see, oh, you know, do I want 278 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:48.039 that? Do I want that? And Mike was the guy for a long 279 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:52.000 long time who sent that list out, So he was like their their booker. 280 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:57.480 Right. But Mike is very into tech, and so Mike, as 281 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:00.160 often you know a lot of us had done. You start out in one 282 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:06.480 job in media, and you go from that job into whatever maybe you're passionate 283 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:10.319 about. And he got that opportunity. And so now Mike is doing tech 284 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:17.119 for ABC, not booking anymore. However, do you remember the name Dana 285 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:26.279 Schaeffer. Dana Schaeffer worked here at KFI. She worked usually she would fill 286 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:30.720 in for Alex when Alex was producing the Handle Show, and then Dana would 287 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:37.160 fill in. Now Dana just took Mike's job in New York. I tell 288 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:38.359 you you, guys, once you get in this business, you can't get 289 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:42.680 out. It's a rule. Two teen brothers and a twenty year old man 290 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:47.519 in Alabama have been charged with murder in connection with that mass shooting at a 291 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:52.039 Sweet sixteen party that killed four people. So yesterday when we left, there 292 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:55.400 were two people who had been arrested. Last night they got a third person. 293 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:59.240 More than thirty people were hurt in the shooting on Saturday. The three 294 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:03.440 were arrested on Tuesday. Long Beach is getting five point two million dollars in 295 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:08.039 federal funding over the next three years to help put homeless people into permanent homes. 296 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:14.559 Homeless Services Bureau Manager Paul Duncan says the funding will create housing opportunities for 297 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:17.960 forty five families and one hundred forty individuals. There are a number of things 298 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:22.079 that we are matching to that, so there'll be some additional vout truths I 299 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:26.079 get matched to that, as well as some case management funding through the county. 300 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:30.599 Duncan says the city is also opening a temporary emergency shelter at the end 301 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:34.680 of the month to compensate for the closure of the winter shelter. We have 302 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:40.960 a man that's been arrested for an alleged crime spree throughout La and Orange Counties. 303 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:47.079 Also member the LAPD officer. There was one in particular who was really 304 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:52.200 in trouble for his actions during that fireworks explosion back in twenty ten or twenty 305 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:56.119 twenty one that displaced dozens of people in South la. That guy now has 306 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:00.559 been suspended. Also this morning, police Laguna beacher trying to find a man 307 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:06.319 suspected of attacking his girlfriend, leaving her with serious injuries that landed her in 308 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:11.319 the hospital. Please say Charles Kelly the fourth broke into his ex's home yesterday 309 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:15.240 and took off after the violent attack. He's wanted for attempted murder and is 310 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:21.319 considered violent and dangerous. Let's say good morning now to Kafis Jason Middleton, 311 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:26.920 who also has a show on Sunday's Macro two to four Sunday's at two o'clock. 312 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:30.480 How's that going. It's going great. Actually, yeah, we're starting 313 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:33.119 great. We've been workshopping a little bit of a couple of things, but 314 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.880 we have we have so much good news that we can follow up on every 315 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:41.200 week, like AI of course, you know what's how's that impacting jobs and 316 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:44.960 things like that, white collar and blue collar. We have other we keep 317 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:48.119 our eye on the Fat of course, which is news this week as well. 318 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:51.759 So yeah, it's been It's been a lot of fun and Victor is 319 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:55.480 a great producer, so we are we're finding the stride awesome. All right, 320 00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:57.960 So let's talk about AI that you just mentioned. We were talking about 321 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:03.160 Elon Musk with Mike Debuski a second ago in Twitter and the whole blue verified 322 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:06.920 check mark thing. Is that going away today? So he's got that happening. 323 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:11.160 But yesterday he went after Microsoft. Ye idea is interesting? Well he 324 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:15.160 did because Microsoft decided to go after Twitter. So Microsoft says, yeah, 325 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:18.359 we're not gonna We're not gonna be using Twitter anymore. I guess they can't 326 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:22.240 afford that eight bucks a month, so they needed that verification thing, so 327 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:26.759 they pulled back. So then Musk, of course, being the petulant person 328 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:30.000 that he seems to be, decided that, oh yeah, well we're gonna 329 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:33.400 sue you for using stuff our data and things like that. But I will 330 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:37.839 say that like Microsoft of course, has made a huge play in artificial intelligence 331 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:41.880 with chet, GPT and and incorporating it into being, it means when you 332 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:45.200 can force Google to move off of its toadstool long enough. I saw Super 333 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:51.480 Mario Brothers yesterday. Everything's a toadstool today. But when you can move Google, 334 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:53.400 then you have moved something, right, So all the focuses on AI, 335 00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:56.720 and Musk is saying, okay, well, if you're going to do 336 00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:59.759 that to Twitter, then you can't have access to our data so that you 337 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:03.079 can help train your AI to make it smarter and better. Right, Musk 338 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:04.720 is not alone in this, I should admit. This week, read It 339 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:07.759 came out and said that they're going to start charging other companies for their data 340 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:11.359 too. That might be a deeper well of information because people use Twitter in 341 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:15.759 a little i mean read it in a different way than Twitter. Yea deeper 342 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:18.799 information, a little more thoughtful, if you will, also a little crazier 343 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:22.400 at times, of course, but you when you're limited on a character account. 344 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.759 Now Twitter's upping its character account too. As long as you have one 345 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:29.079 of those verified accounts, you can go to ten thousand characters soon. So 346 00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:32.519 we'll see how all this is playing out. But AI is a hype cycle 347 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:36.440 right now, and everybody's has a card to play. I'm surprised that this 348 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:38.720 time, and I think I'm surprised that both you and I are kind of 349 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:42.400 on Elon Musk's side. Like, in other words, Microsoft goes after you, 350 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:47.160 you gotta hit back, yea be like yeah, sure, Microsoft to 351 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:48.680 have at it, well, Twitter is fighting for its life in a lot 352 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:52.960 of ways, and a lot of people don't see how, how or why 353 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:57.640 Elon is doing certain things in order to create revenue streams in order to make 354 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:03.279 his nut on that his month is yearly is what one point two one point 355 00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:07.200 three billion. That's just the viig on what he had to take out in 356 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:08.400 order to buy it. And remember he didn't want to buy it after a 357 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:11.519 while, you remember it was a joke, and then he sued and then 358 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:15.680 he lost, and he so he kind of got backed into the deal of 359 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:17.720 owning Twitter, and now he's like what do I do with this thing? 360 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:21.319 And and has said as much as like, yeah, somebody came along with 361 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:23.440 the right price to have at it. But you know, he's admitted that 362 00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:27.480 it's a way bigger task than he thought it would be running Twitter, which 363 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:32.640 cracks me up. Handling his pr and communications must be like they must have 364 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:37.000 the burnout rate of I can't even imagine. I mean, he's going to 365 00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:41.519 need AI just to take over his comms, he told BBC like you referenced, 366 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:44.799 he told the BBC reporter last week. The BBRAC reporter asked him, 367 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:47.039 hey, would you take forty four billion dollars for Twitter. He said, 368 00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:49.519 absolutely not, and then he paused for fifteen seconds of dead air, and 369 00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:52.559 then he said, well, you know, I mean I'd have to consider 370 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:55.920 it, wouldn't I Right, Well, the guy is all over the place. 371 00:26:55.960 --> 00:26:59.480 I mean, for anybody who's ever seen or thought to themselves like, 372 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.079 dang, that PR person for the president is good. They know how to 373 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:07.319 spin, they know how to twist and turn. Even those PR people like 374 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:11.759 the Karen Jean Pierre's and the Sarah how can be standers. They're probably like, 375 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.240 hell, no, I would not go president all day long. Trump, 376 00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:18.079 Biden, Shore, Elon Musk, No way. Not easy to manage. 377 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:22.119 All right, So let's talk about now another round of layoffs. We 378 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:23.680 keep hearing these tech companies saying, Okay, I'm gonna laugh a little more, 379 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:27.400 a little more this time. Meta again. Yeah. So this is 380 00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:32.400 a continuation of their first announcement, but these are the first layoffs to hit 381 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:34.319 where the rubber hits the road. And so what they're doing is they're basically 382 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:38.960 pulling out of part of its whole Meta team in London, which was actually 383 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:42.759 a growth area for them in the EU, interests coming back to the United 384 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:47.359 States along with layoffs too, so they're closing the office as well. So 385 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:49.599 that kind of shows you a little bit. Next month in May, they're 386 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:52.720 going to do another round, and nobody knows for sure where that's going to 387 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.359 come from. A lot of it think a lot of it's What's app and 388 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.960 Instagram probably is what's coming up next. So this is a tinuation of Mark 389 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:06.640 Zuckerberg's calling twenty twenty three the Year of efficiency, and so he's going to 390 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:10.240 but you know what, he's being rewarded as far as shareholder price goes, 391 00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:14.319 because they're up eighty five percent since he made this announcement per share price, 392 00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:18.960 so that's about twenty They lost about sixty six percent last year and now they're 393 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:21.559 up eighty five percent. So you can do the math. And so it 394 00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:23.559 seems to be that people are confident that he knows what he's doing moving forward. 395 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:26.839 He thinks that advertising money is going to go to meta. We're back 396 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.359 to AI again. See how this is touching everything. It is a hype 397 00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:34.319 cycle. It's just like when the iPhone launched and everybody was chasing tail in 398 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:40.119 order to find get into that market. That Steve Jobs basically established and which 399 00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:42.279 makes Apple the most valuable company in the world. All right, I just 400 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:48.079 saw too that Snapchat is getting serious about chat. It announced that it's customizable 401 00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:52.920 Chat bought My AI is now accessible to all users until now, I guess 402 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:59.000 you could only get that if you were a subscriber to Snapchat Plus. And 403 00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:02.279 now they're saying, how about it again? In the race for AI it 404 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:04.000 is again I hate to keep saying this, but it's true. It's a 405 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:07.960 hype cycle and people are trying to get in there. And it all started 406 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.119 when Microsoft felt that first domino back in January saying hey, Chat GBT is 407 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:15.039 going to be part of our bang and our search results. The thing that's 408 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:19.319 insidious about AI is it's not being managed at all. There's this race to 409 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:22.960 the marketplace. Does not necessarily come with ethical standards, Yes, and so 410 00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.799 that's going to be an issue moving forward to the other thing about Snapchat. 411 00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:29.519 Of course, snap is here in La down here on Silicon Beach, which 412 00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:33.759 is another area of coverage I'm expanding into for macro. But at the same 413 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:37.279 time they're also rolling out Mirror, which you may let you use AI to 414 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.039 try and close when you're at the store. Okay, So so all about 415 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:44.880 that, see there's a functionality there, but then you're in control because you 416 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:47.839 can you control mirror, you activate it, you you press the button. 417 00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:49.720 Then you get to do all these things when you do search results. Though, 418 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:52.799 if you search for the cheapest Honda, let's say I'm just using that 419 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:56.799 way, the AI result is going to bring you like, oh, here 420 00:29:56.880 --> 00:29:59.960 is the physical this is the cheapest Honda model you can buy, but there's 421 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:02.440 also this one it's really close in price too, that you might want to 422 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:06.240 consider. That sounds human, right, That's like that's like one of your 423 00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:08.240 parents or your friend telling you, hey, you know, yeah, maybe 424 00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:11.640 that's maybe that's a cool car, but maybe this one is just a couple 425 00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:15.240 thousand more and you get this extra stuff. It just sounds more personable and 426 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:18.839 and and personified. And uh, that's that's going to get into an iffy 427 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.039 area when it comes to advertising, all right, and really quickly, um 428 00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:26.079 McDonald's came out said it's going to have it, which it made me laugh. 429 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.119 It says it's going to cook our burgers at a hotter temperature. Yes, 430 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:34.559 that cheese is gonna be meltier. And I'm that Big Mac. We're 431 00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:38.319 gonna put more Big Max sauce, and now apparently it says not only are 432 00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:42.599 we gonna put more Big Max sauce, we are going to let you buy 433 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:48.319 just that Big Max sauce, which I thought is brilliant because I don't know 434 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.160 anybody right now, well I should ask you. Do you have Chick fil 435 00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:52.799 a sauce in your fridge? I do not, but I have what's what's 436 00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:56.359 called qp K e W pie, which is very similar. Okay, so 437 00:30:56.680 --> 00:31:00.599 when the Chick fil A sauce came out, m oh yeah, I literally 438 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.519 was like, I don't even really eat the Polynesian sauce, but what the 439 00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:07.039 hells? So I got both of those. I think this is brilliant marketing 440 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:12.000 on McDonald's part. You can have now that Big Max sauce at home. 441 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:15.960 You have it at home, I don't know, you're dipping your French fries 442 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:17.599 in it, and all of a sudden, where am I going to go? 443 00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:19.279 I'm gonna be like, damn, that Big Max sounds great. It's 444 00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:22.599 a dipping sauce and it works. I mean, this is this is part 445 00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:26.240 of a larger plan. You mentioned the hotter temperatures yea, for they're cooking 446 00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:27.559 there. You're going to add grilled onions that are actually done right there. 447 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:30.839 I'm calling this the Chipotle effect. Remember a couple of weeks ago we talked 448 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.240 about how I would eat a bowl of e coal life. It came from 449 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.000 Chippotle. I stand by that, and I think that McDonald's just noticing that 450 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:41.319 too. So they're going back to basics. They're using softer buns, are 451 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:45.400 using better meat. They're going to have a better experience without increasing their load 452 00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.519 time. How long it takes to assemble your meal. Yeah, without adding 453 00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:52.119 complications to the assembly line. That is fast food. All right. You 454 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:56.519 know what. I have not eaten at McDonald's in eons, but the last 455 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.880 couple of weeks, we've talked about them so much. I'm so in Really, 456 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:02.960 maybe we could on the way back from Chipotle. Okay, all right, 457 00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:07.240 sounds good, dude, you're great. It's Eason. He just high 458 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:10.160 fived. Did you guys hear that? See that high five? Sad news 459 00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:15.200 yesterday, Richard Reardon died. The mayor of la who helped the city rebound 460 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:19.319 from the riots in nineteen ninety two led the city as it recovered from the 461 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:22.880 Northbridge earthquake, passed away at the age of ninety two. He was mayor 462 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:28.720 from nineteen ninety three to two thousand and one, and during that time he 463 00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:32.240 was the last Republican to hold the office of mayor in La. He's streamlined 464 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:36.559 in the city's permitting process, work to make it easier for film and TV 465 00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:40.200 makers to shoot in the city, and expanded the LAPD. His family says 466 00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:45.680 he died yesterday. Let's say good morning now to Jesse Bossell, who is 467 00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:51.279 the manager at Armstrong Garden Centers. Jesse, good morning. I'm telling you 468 00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:54.920 I have to say shout out to KTLA. They were talking with you guys 469 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.480 yesterday or day before, and I thought to myself, I need to talk 470 00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:02.519 with them because of all this rain and weird weather that we've been having. 471 00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:06.759 How in the world do you know what to plant and when to plant this 472 00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:09.720 year? So, Jesse, thank you so much for joining me. Good 473 00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:14.240 morning, Thank you so much for having us. Yes, spring is in 474 00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:17.640 Bloom and Armstrong right now and we're just having a lot of fun over there. 475 00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:20.960 Everything's in Bloom. The rain did us some good this year, for 476 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:22.720 sure. Okay, So that's what I wanted to ask you. I wondered 477 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:27.240 if there would be any issues with you know, with rotting or anything like 478 00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:30.240 that, mildew on any plants in particular that you guys have had to say, 479 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:32.920 all right, everybody, you've got to either change up the time you're 480 00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:37.240 planting or change up what you're planting. You know, not so much. 481 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:40.200 I mean, honestly, even with all the rains, this was a good 482 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:43.960 thing. We were coming out of a drought. We of course, we're 483 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:47.039 going to see some issues with some of your natives or some some cactus or 484 00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:51.160 cucula that maybe got a little bit too much water. But honestly, this 485 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:55.599 was a fantastic thing for kind of reviving and juvenating some of the things in 486 00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:59.880 the garden that have been kind of beat up and tired. And we are 487 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:04.359 really seeing a show at the garden Center right now. There's just a tremendous 488 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:07.559 amount in bloom right now, and it is just so showy, abauseful. 489 00:34:07.719 --> 00:34:12.599 Okay, I have to tell you that yours at the one in Glendora is 490 00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:15.800 the one that I would go to, and I love that one in particular, 491 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:22.480 you guys have the best heirloom tomatoes. However, I don't know what 492 00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:24.480 it is about me. I don't know if I overwater underwater. I kill 493 00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:29.440 the darn things every time I get them. So what should we be planting 494 00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:31.599 now? And can you tell me any tips on airloom tomatoes because I suck 495 00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:37.360 at them absolutely so summer vegetables or this this is our prime time. This 496 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:38.719 is when do you want to get them in. We're talking about your airloom 497 00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:44.280 tomatoes. Really any tomato. We carry seventy some on different variety to tomatoes, 498 00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:49.719 arrong. We have peppers, eggplants, splash, zucchini, melons. 499 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.519 If you're into fruit and vegetables, please come see us. We will set 500 00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:58.719 you up for sure. We give classes on gardening, small space gardening, 501 00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:00.360 tomato gardening, stuff like that, so we can definitely help you out. 502 00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:06.400 But yeah, tips of the trade on tomatoes, really good fertile organic soil. 503 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:08.960 We want to fertilize their heavy feeders. Most of them will need a 504 00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:14.719 tomato cage and they're a regular water. They're gonna they grow almost like a 505 00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:17.800 weed sometimes if you're doing it right, and you'll just see rapid growth and 506 00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.320 tremendous amount of bud and bloom production and fruit production on these plants. Okay, 507 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:27.000 go back to the fertilization. That is something that I am. I 508 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:29.280 don't really do and I know I need to do it. You know, 509 00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:31.039 once I stick come in the ground, I'm good about watering them. But 510 00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:35.880 the fertilization, I don't really know how to feed plants. I guess sure 511 00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:39.079 it's super easy, honestly, at time of planning. We sell a couple 512 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:43.639 of different brands of organic fertilizers that you can work into the soil when you're 513 00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:47.519 planning the tomato. Typically these fertilizers last for about two months when when you 514 00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:52.239 put it in there, and literally if you can come back every couple of 515 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:54.920 months and hit your plants with some fertilizer, you will reap the rewards. 516 00:35:55.320 --> 00:36:00.840 It really is a food for them. It's almost like, you know, 517 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:02.239 a bidem And for us, we'll do all right, but you know, 518 00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:06.679 it's like if you really give them what they need, they will show you 519 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:10.920 that they like it. Really, So fertilizer is key one thing that I 520 00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:15.039 kill. Also, well, I'm a crappy gardener. I'm like clearly made 521 00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:21.400 that, you know, apparently, But is cucumbers. What's the deal with 522 00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:27.519 growing cucumbers? Cucumbers are kind of a summer vegetable, much like a tomato. 523 00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:30.599 I kind of like to put a cucumber on a small little cage. 524 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:34.480 They're a little binding plant, and I think it's you know, it's much 525 00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:37.320 easier for me to harvest the fruit if I can kind of work them up 526 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:39.280 onto a small little cage. Otherwise, if you wanted to grow them in 527 00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:43.320 a container race bed, they're going to kind of be a little bit of 528 00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:46.840 a ground cover. Again, full sun, pretty regular watering. And again, 529 00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:51.880 fertilizer is really key. I think people will really be surprised if they 530 00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:57.360 were to not fertilize and start fertilizing their plants, how much better they do 531 00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.159 and produce much more fruit honestly, if you're in the fruit game there. 532 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:06.800 But yeah, cute cumbers, tomatoes, squashed czucchini, peppers, they all 533 00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:10.719 really can co exist together, you know, in small spaces in containers and 534 00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:15.239 raised beds for sure. Okay, so you could put a tomato in with 535 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.320 a pepper in the same raised bed, Oh yeah, yeah, I could. 536 00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:24.719 I could have a tomato that I grow on a tomato cage. Peppers 537 00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:29.840 are not really going to take up a huge amount of space. Peppers are 538 00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:32.960 really kind of tidy vegetable to me. And then yeah, I could underplant 539 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:37.920 with. If I like herds, I could do basil lacho partially I wouldn't 540 00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:42.679 do necessarily in the race bed, but pretty much everything else, okay, 541 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:47.119 And yeah, they really co exist beautiful. If somebody is listening this morning 542 00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:50.320 and they're like, all right, look, I don't have a green thumb, 543 00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:52.400 but I just need something easy because I really just want to have some 544 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:57.760 sort of garden. What's the one thing that the worst gardener you would say 545 00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:00.559 like, try this, start with this. Okay, So if you want 546 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.519 um, I could really know. If you say you wanted to have a 547 00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:07.199 plant inside of your house, you could do a sansavaria or pathos. It's 548 00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:13.079 extremely easy if you want to be outside. We have an a tremendous arrangement 549 00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:17.320 of incredible succulents, not only blooming succulents, but you know, foliage succulents, 550 00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:22.159 vibrant colors on these things. They are they are really bulletproof. Not 551 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:28.800 only that, we're really seeing a huge burst in the pollination realm of things 552 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:31.320 right now with everything in bloom like it is, a lot of these pollinators 553 00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:37.280 are very very hardy shrubs. When you're talking about your lantanas and your lavenders. 554 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.760 I think we did a thing on y'all row on KTLA. Those are 555 00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:45.119 all very very hardy shrubs that give you a lot of blooms and they're very 556 00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:50.280 versatile. I'm a renter. I have seventy five containers that I'm looking at 557 00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:53.320 right here, every sort of different thing um I have out you know, 558 00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:57.920 butterfly garden out there, so it really you can do a lot of things. 559 00:38:57.960 --> 00:38:59.880 Please come see this. We'd love to coach you. If you're intra 560 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:02.000 sit in it. Anybody that I'm strong would love to help you. Okay, 561 00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:05.559 And one last thing. I know you guys in the past, and 562 00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:08.239 I don't know if you're still doing it, do ladybugs. You'll give away 563 00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:13.519 ladybugs where you know you had a certain promotion years ago and I remember coming 564 00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:16.119 and getting the ladybugs. What do ladybugs do for the garden other than they're 565 00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:21.599 just really fun? Thank you so much for mun We're actually having the Ladybugs 566 00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:25.159 for you giveaway week weekend. This weekend Friday, Sunday Sunday, We're giving 567 00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:31.039 away free ladybugs for every purchase. Ladybugs are a tremendous introduction to your garden. 568 00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:36.079 They're a beneficial insect. Not only are there cute and whimsical and you 569 00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:38.760 see the flow realm, they eat bad bugs that are are bad for your 570 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:44.960 gardens, such as aasives and scale and soft bodied insects. They're really so 571 00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:49.639 I don't have to go out there and spray chemicals or anything on my plants. 572 00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:53.320 Literally, ladybugs are gonna go eat those bugs for me. And they 573 00:39:53.360 --> 00:40:00.039 reconduce pretty quickly, so they stay in your garden pretty regularly. There I 574 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:02.519 introducing my butterfly garden a couple of years ago. They're still out there or 575 00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:07.960 something. That's great. Okay, So I had no idea why. I 576 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:10.280 knew they were beneficial for some reason, but I didn't realize they are bad 577 00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:15.719 bug eaters. I love that, Jesse. Thank you so much Armstrong Garden 578 00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:19.159 Centers. I've always had really good luck you guys when I go in fact, 579 00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:22.039 like the ones that I will say that I've got at the big box 580 00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:25.199 stores, Jesse, years always grow way better. So this is not like 581 00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:30.000 I don't, you know, not doing an endorsement for Armstrong, but I 582 00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:34.320 am personally because I think you guys are awesome. Thank you so much for 583 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.960 having those. Thank you so much, absolutely, Jesse, see you later, 584 00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:44.079 you two, all right? So you guys, we go from vegetables 585 00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:51.280 to not really a vegetable? Is weed a weed? Weed is a weed, 586 00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:55.960 right like marijuana is a weed? I think is it a plant? 587 00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:01.719 Who the hell knows? But eight is four twenty and we now spend more 588 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:06.679 on legal weed, which may or may not be a weed, then we 589 00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:10.679 do on chocolate. There was a story that came out a couple of days 590 00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:14.760 ago, and I saw it a couple days ago. Michelle just sent it 591 00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:15.800 to me too, She said, did you see this from a couple days 592 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:23.440 ago? We spend more in the United States on legal weed then we do 593 00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:30.159 on chocolate and craft beer combined. According to this study from this new report 594 00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:37.800 on Mjbiz Daily, Americans spend about thirty billion dollars on legal marijuana last year. 595 00:41:38.519 --> 00:41:44.559 That compares with the roughly twenty billion that we spent on chocolate an eight 596 00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:49.960 billion that we spent on craft brews. Almost two dozen states now allow the 597 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:54.039 sale of weed for recreational purposes, and you've got nineteen more that sell it 598 00:41:54.239 --> 00:42:01.280 for medicinal use. But still when it comes to legal weed, those sales 599 00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:07.679 are totally dwarfed by the sales of actual tobacco products last year, those total 600 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:15.039 fifty three billion. However, you do see some of those tobacco sales starting 601 00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:20.559 to decline in places where the marijuana sales are going up, and they are. 602 00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:25.440 This Mjbiz Daily report that I saw by twenty twenty eight, it says 603 00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:32.519 sales of legal weed could reach fifty seven billion dollars. So if it's at 604 00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:38.199 thirty billion right now and tobacco products are at fifty seven billion, you could 605 00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:45.480 literally see those numbers flip flop in just a few years. Anyway, Happy 606 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:49.199 four twenty to you. According to my friends who smoke weed, they say 607 00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:53.760 that some of the dispensaries and whatnot gab free giveaways of things. I don't 608 00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:59.960 know how that works exactly, but if you and bibe happy for twenty two 609 00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:05.920 you. SCAFI and KOST HD to Los Angeles, Orange County socowweather from KFI. 610 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.840 We've got a beautiful sunny day ahead with highs in the seventies, maybe 611 00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:13.920 even right at eighty, could see some nineties by the weekend. We lead 612 00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:17.280 local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. 613 00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:21.880 This has been your wake up Call. You've been listening to your wake Up 614 00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:24.480 Call with me Jennifer Jones Lee, and you can always hear wake Up Call 615 00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:30.800 five to six am Monday through Friday at KFI AM six forty and anytime on 616 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:31.920 demand on the iHeartRadio app