WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.919 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:15.039 demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. 3 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:26.519 It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. Good 4 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:30.960 Tuesday morning to you. It is five o'clock. This is your wake up 5 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:36.240 call for Tuesday, January ninth. I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your 6 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:40.200 day started with us today. I've got my coffee. I had a double 7 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:45.520 dose today. I see Kno has his two Good boy. What would we 8 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:50.079 do without coffee? Have you ever tried to quit coffee? I actually just 9 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:54.520 recently started coffee. Oh, you just recently started coffee? Actually I started 10 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:58.920 here. I tried to quit it once, well, probably more than once. 11 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:03.759 But you get used to the caffeine and you get these nasty caffeine headaches 12 00:01:03.319 --> 00:01:07.760 as you go through withdraws. Not hurt them, not worth it. Just 13 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.680 give me more coffee. Good to go. Here's what's ahead on wake up 14 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:15.760 call. Oh, I want to mention I had a good night's sleep last 15 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:19.200 night, did you, Because guess it wasn't windy last night, at least 16 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:23.319 not by my house. It was the first night and so many nights, 17 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.799 and I was just like, ah, you know that calm app that has 18 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:30.879 has the background noise, it's supposed to be very soothing. When the winds 19 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:36.560 are blowing like they have been. That's not soothing. It's almost panicky for 20 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:38.319 me because, like I said, I feel like the roof is going to 21 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.000 come off, or the doors are going to come swinging open, something like 22 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.840 that. Anyway, hope you had a good night rest too. Here is 23 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:49.359 what is ahead on wake up call. Huntington Beach taxpayers could be on the 24 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:53.519 hook for millions of dollars in fines if the city loses its fight with Sacramento 25 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:59.120 over its refusal to build thousands of new housing units. Huntington Beach calls the 26 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:05.359 mandate unrealistic and government overreach. Huntington Beach could face one hundred thousand dollars in 27 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:10.000 fines every month if it is not in compliance. Secretary of State Antony Blincoln 28 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:14.520 is meeting with Israeli officials in Tel Aviv. It's part of the US effort 29 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:19.639 to prevent the Israel Hamas War from spreading further in the region. It's Blinken's 30 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:23.639 fourth trip to the Middle East since Hamas massacred and kidnapped Israelis On October seventh, 31 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:30.039 California State Controller says most of Shoheo Tani's seven hundred million dollars salary with 32 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:34.479 the Dodgers is going to be referred at least or deferred at least ten years. 33 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:38.840 We know that, but the controller says that could mean that shohe could 34 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:42.639 go back to Japan and not have to pay California income taxes on that money. 35 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.840 Malia Cohen says the current tax system allows for these kinds of deferrals primarily 36 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:52.680 to the wealthy, and is asking Congress to change the laws so everyone has 37 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:54.639 to pay. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Former 38 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:59.639 President Trump has headed to court to argue that he is immune from prosecution because 39 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.199 he was president. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of 40 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:07.240 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Alaska and United Airlines have reported finding loose 41 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:14.000 parts in panels or door plugs on some other Boeing seven thirty seven to nine 42 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:17.039 Max jets. The fuselage portions are all made in the same factory and then 43 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:22.000 ship by rail to Seattle, and then the final assembly of the airplanes is 44 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:25.240 there, so there are a number of different places and points in the assembly 45 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:30.240 process where this should have been caught if there was a defect. ABC's News 46 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:36.199 aviation analyst John Nance this Federal investigators are looking into whether four bolts that were 47 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:38.960 supposed to help hold a panel in place on a flight from Portland, Ontario, 48 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:43.120 last week, might have been missing. When the plane took off, 49 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.039 the door plug ripped a hole in the fuselage about sixteen thousand feet up. 50 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:52.319 Boeing has called an online meeting for all employees today to talk about safety. 51 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:58.240 The LAPD says a group of pro Palestinian protesters have defaced the entrance to a 52 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:03.680 national cemetery in West la. Police say the group spray painted the words free 53 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:08.719 Gaza on the concrete walls, along with an upside down red triangle on Saturday 54 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:11.919 afternoon. The group also blocked a portion of Wiltshore Boulevard from the four h 55 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.360 five to Glendon Avenue. The group chanted long Live Palestine from the River to 56 00:04:15.399 --> 00:04:18.680 the Sea, Palestine will be free, and Biden, Biden, You're a 57 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:23.639 liar. The LAPED says there were no reports of injuries and no arrests made, 58 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:27.279 though it is a violation of state and federal law to deface a memorial, 59 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:31.079 tomb, monument or marker in a national cemetery. Steve Gregor KFI News. 60 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:36.240 An explosion at an historic hotel in Texas is injured at least twenty one 61 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:44.079 people. Fort Worthfire Department spokesman Craig Trojicek says the Sandman Signature hotel had been 62 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:49.160 under construction but was fully operational. He says the explosion yesterday was caused by 63 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:53.639 a gathlek, but they're still looking into what happened based on our characteristics of 64 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.720 the explosion. At this time, we had been working in collaboration with the 65 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:01.040 ATF, the FBI, with r R and Bomb Division as well. He 66 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:05.399 says. Some people got trapped in the basement. When found by rescue crews, 67 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:11.839 one person was in critical condition. A driver who crashed into an exterior 68 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:14.959 gate of the White House has been taken to custody the Secret Services. It's 69 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.560 investigating the cause of last night's crash. Right now, let's say good morning 70 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:23.839 too, Mike Dubuski, who must be like a kid in the candy store 71 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:28.560 today as CES kicks off in Las Vegas. Yeah, that's right. So 72 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.720 CES obviously the big tech conference that kicks off every year for the tech community. 73 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:36.959 You know, tech firms from around the world congregating in Las Vegas to 74 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.800 show off like consumer facing products, but also like more flights of fancy, 75 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:47.360 more concepts and prototypes and kind of the ideas about where each of these particular 76 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:51.920 companies think that their sliver of the industry is going. So a lot to 77 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:58.399 get into. There's been a bunch of keynotes already from TV manufacturers and car 78 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:02.480 makers and gad enthusiasts and what have you. So, yeah, stuff from 79 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:08.000 all across the tech space today, So let's get into some of them. 80 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.120 Let's start with the car makers. What are we going to get to see 81 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:15.360 this year? Yeah, so a couple different car announcements. Yesterday, Volkswagen 82 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:19.879 made a pretty interesting AI announcement with relation to its upcoming cars. You might 83 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:27.279 not think about artificial intelligence and cars immediately, but Volkswagen says that starting later 84 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:32.279 this year, Chat GPT is going to be integrated into its cars virtual assistant. 85 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:36.759 So you might be familiar amy with like Siri or Google Assistant or those 86 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:44.319 those systems are often pretty hard to talk to. They interesting, I have 87 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:48.240 no communication with that thing. Yes, So interestingly enough, the idea behind 88 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:53.600 art some you know in the artificial intelligence space have is that, like, 89 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:57.560 artificial intelligence can make those systems a lot easier to talk to. Right, 90 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:00.319 You're not going to be limited to saying certain words and phrases and then the 91 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:03.519 thing doesn't hear you and you got to repeat yourself. Like. These are 92 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:09.560 designed to be very natural sounding language, right, They're trained on human language 93 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:14.759 and they're meant to mimic human language. So Volkswagen says that it's virtual assistant, 94 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:17.120 which comes baked into some of its cars. It's called IDA, is 95 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:21.519 going to be using chat GPT going forward, which means that you'll be able 96 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:26.480 to have a pretty natural, float, free flowing conversation with your car. 97 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.759 You can say hey, I'm cold, and it will turn on the heat 98 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:31.879 for you. You can say hey, take me home and it will put 99 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:36.319 your home address into the GPS for you. And VW says you can even 100 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.240 ask it non car related questions. So if you want to ask your passat 101 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:44.839 what the capital of France's you can probably do that with this. But amy, 102 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:48.079 the thing that's hanging over all of this with relation to Volkswagen is whether 103 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:54.240 these systems are fully baked, right, We've seen these systems get things wrong 104 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:59.639 before they've hallucinated, They've given incorrect answers or just weird answers in some cases. 105 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:01.399 If I'm asking my car to take me home, I wanted to take 106 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:05.160 me to my home, not somebody else's home, I know, So think 107 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:07.399 about that, like, because I'm still scared of AI. I know I'm 108 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:11.519 not supposed to be, but I am. And like when the machines take 109 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:13.120 over, what if you tell it to take you home and then you try 110 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:16.560 to turn the wheel and it's like, nope, we're going this way. 111 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.680 So I think it's important to draw a line between the sort of mechanics of 112 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.439 these vehicles and the chat GPT side of this vehicle because this seems to be 113 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:30.360 baked into the infotainment screen. Right, your voice assistant isn't in control of 114 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.480 the car really in any substantive way, not at least not at this stage, 115 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:37.600 right, Like, this is Volkswagen's kind of just experimenting with this again. 116 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:39.720 This is what CES is for. It's to sort of try out new 117 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.240 things and see how people react to it. So, yeah, it's not 118 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.840 like, you know, the robots are necessarily gonna you know, have any 119 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:52.000 control of your vehicle necessarily just kind of you your GPS, your infotainment screens 120 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.639 and that sort of thing. Okay, so I want to talk TVs because 121 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.960 you told us that they're unveiling a transparent TV. What the heck is that? 122 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:03.120 So sees always a big TV show. It's where TV manufacturers really go 123 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:09.000 wild. We've seen some crazy concepts in the past. LG is really capturing 124 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:13.639 a lot of attention this year with what they're calling the O led signature T 125 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:18.000 and no extra points for what the T stands for. It's for transparent. 126 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:22.919 This thing is seventy seven inches and it is a glass panel. You can 127 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.559 see the wall behind it, You can see anything you put kind of behind 128 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:31.200 your TV stand, and it will play you movies and TV shows with a 129 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:35.519 certain amount of transparency to them. Of course, now LG does have a 130 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:41.200 special film that will rise behind that transparent panel that gives you extra contrast. 131 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:46.360 It behaves more like a normal TV in that scenario, but with that film 132 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.200 down, this is meant to kind of just be an ambient piece of furniture 133 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.120 in your room. LG showed off a couple of demos with like an aquarium 134 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:58.799 and fireplace, these sort of like ambient kind of things that are displayed on 135 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.960 this screen. There's like a three dimensional quality to them that was kind of 136 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.039 interesting and interestingly enough, amy this is like a trend that we're seeing in 137 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:11.080 the TV space in general. Samsung will sell you a TV called the Frame, 138 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:16.759 which has a matt finish when it's off and will display paintings. You 139 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.240 can even option it with the wood frame. It is very cool. People 140 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:22.759 like it. It is expensive. It's on the high end of the market, 141 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.799 as we expect this that's high end. What's that mean, Well, 142 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:31.440 several thousands of dollars, right, I mean I will put the caveat on 143 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.320 here that like, you know, non fancy TVs like this, the sort 144 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:39.960 of you know, mainstream TVs have actually broadly gotten very good and very cheap, 145 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:43.399 so it's a pretty good time to just buy a normal TV. But 146 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.840 again, the CEES is kind of where we see the outer edges of the 147 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:50.080 market, these sort of things that are not necessarily meant for broad consumer use, 148 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:54.159 but like where these companies see the future of their industry going. And 149 00:10:54.200 --> 00:11:00.480 these sort of more ambient, natural looking pieces of technology that blend into your 150 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.879 room that don't look like tech. That is something that we're seeing happen in 151 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:07.080 the TV market. I think it's really interesting and something worth paying attention to. 152 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:11.240 Yeah, I want to I totally want to transparent TV. Don't know 153 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:13.240 where I would put it, but so you and these are concept things, 154 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:18.399 so like if we're looking at today and then how far out are they from 155 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.120 actually you know, being available. So with regard to the transparent TV, 156 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.120 LG has not announced a specific release date, but they do say they plan 157 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:30.039 to put something like this on sale before the end of the year. The 158 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.039 big question mark is price on this thing. LG last year, speaking of 159 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:39.120 crazy TV concepts, they showed off a rollable TV where the screen literally rolled 160 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:43.480 up into sort of a scroll, and that was one hundred thousand dollars, 161 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:48.440 so really out there. Yeah, now this might not be quite one hundred 162 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:50.159 thousand dollars, but it will be you know, somewhere south of that. 163 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.279 We think, we don't know a specific price, we can expect it to 164 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:58.240 be pretty expensive because again, it is this sort of like high end like 165 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.279 you know, it's designed to get people in the showroom, into the LG 166 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.919 store and then you walk out with something maybe a little bit more reasonably priced 167 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:09.559 With regard to the Volkswagens that we were talking about there, that chat GPT 168 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:13.159 integration is going to start rolling out in Q two of this year on the 169 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.000 Golf, the Pasad, the Tigue, and as well as its range of 170 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:20.919 electric vehicles. Okay, and is there anything in particular that you've got your 171 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:24.159 eye on that you're hoping to see at CEES this year? Oh man, 172 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.919 there's there's a lot. You know, it is, as we said, 173 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.960 a car show. So Honda has some electric vehicle announcements plan. That's going 174 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.720 to be the first time we really get a glimpse into what that company's you 175 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:39.360 know, future for electric vehicles is. They really don't have many evs on 176 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.399 the market right now. They had a partnership with General Motors, but that 177 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:46.600 fell apart. So we're kind of seeing like Honda's vision of evs probably at 178 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:54.000 this at this show as well. The Maddic robot vacuum and mop weirdly, 179 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:56.919 I think is actually kind of an interesting piece of tech. It's a robotic 180 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:00.679 vacuum cleaner similar to a rumba, but of course made by a company. 181 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:05.120 This thing's really advanced. It you know, can clean up like spilled you 182 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:07.759 know, liquid like milk and water and juice and what have you, which 183 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.600 is not really what roombas are good for. Like they've they've actually figured out 184 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:16.960 a way to do this in a robotic vacuum cleaner. It is able to 185 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:22.159 sort of navigate its way around you and furniture, which is also an improvement 186 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.320 over traditional robotic vacuum cleaners that are known for just bumping into things and then 187 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:28.320 turning around and moving somewhere else. This thing kind of knows where it is 188 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.759 a little bit more, okay, So if you want to impress me, 189 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:37.759 get something that cleans up para balls. I can't unclear. I did not 190 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:41.279 see that in the demo, but you know, I'll report back. But 191 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:45.720 something that you might be interested to know about this robotic vacuum cleaner is that 192 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:48.080 it's not connected to the Internet, which means that it's not sending any information 193 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:52.360 about the layout of your home back to some company somewhere. This is kind 194 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:56.600 of just its own little, you know, standalone robot that runs around your 195 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:58.960 house. But you're going to pay for it. It is eighteen hundred dollars, 196 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:03.840 which is feel expensive for a robotic vacuum cleaner. And then One more 197 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:09.399 kind of crazy thing that I'll say is Victrola. As a technology reporter, 198 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:13.120 I don't get an opportunity to talk about Victrola very often. It is a 199 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:18.440 one hundred and twenty year old company, almost but of course they make turntables, 200 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:22.159 they make vinyl record players, and they are at CES showing off a 201 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:26.399 new kind of high end turntable. It is wireless. It will connect to 202 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:30.799 speakers around your home without the need for any cables or wires or anything like 203 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.879 that, and it plays vinyl records. It is expensive, it's fifteen hundred 204 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.279 dollars. It's called the stream Sapphire. But I just thought that was an 205 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:41.240 interesting little oddity of CES. Kind of what makes cees fun is that you 206 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:45.440 see these companies that don't often get time in the sun, that we don't 207 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:48.000 often get time to talk about, get there, you know, time in 208 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.399 the limelight. And Victrola is one of them. So, yeah, who 209 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.159 knew we would be talking about Victrolla in twenty twenty four, but here we 210 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:58.600 are, no kidding, Well, lots of fun techy things can't wait to 211 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:01.759 see. I want that transparency, but not for one hundred thousand dollars. 212 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:05.039 Mike Tbuski, Thank you so much. Of course you have fun perusing the 213 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:09.759 tech. I will again the kid in the candy Star thing right. Vandals 214 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:16.200 have smashed dozens of headstones at an historic cemetery in Compton, apparently to get 215 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:20.639 the bronze from the headstones to sell. They also stole plaques and lawn equipment 216 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:24.639 from the woodlawn celestial gardens sometime last week. The cemetery is the final resting 217 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.200 place for more than nine hundred veterans from as far back as the War of 218 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:35.759 eighteen twelve. Republican Congressman Matt Rosendale of Montana plans to introduce one or more 219 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:41.440 articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Austin's 220 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:43.759 under fire for not telling anyone he was in the hospital until days later. 221 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.919 A great celestial lineup is in the sky. The Moon, Venus, Mercury, 222 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.799 and Mars are all aligned. The pad On planets will be out just 223 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:56.480 before sunrise. Best way to see him is to get away from city lights, 224 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:58.039 so good luck with that. At six oh five, it's handled on 225 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:03.320 the news of calls to fire. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin because it went dark 226 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:06.279 for days. Bill's going to be talking about that. But right now, 227 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:08.960 let's say good morning to the host of How to Money on KFI. It's 228 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:15.000 Joel large Scard. Joel, we've got WROTH workplace accounts available, tell us 229 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.440 about him and are they a good choice? Okay, So that's a really 230 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:22.000 good question, and sometimes it's complex, right. It just depends kind of 231 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:26.159 on your specific situation, how much money you earn, how much money you 232 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:30.480 expect to earn in the future. I really like WROTH accounts for a lot 233 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:36.080 of reasons. I specifically like ROTH iras for everybody who can contribute to one. 234 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:37.879 But when it comes to WROTH four oh one K options, these days, 235 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:41.159 we're seeing more and more employers offer them. So let's say you're like, 236 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.879 you've been working, you might have gotten to notice just at the beginning 237 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.639 of the year that your employer says, hey, now you can invest in 238 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:49.879 a four to one K instead of just a traditional four one K, and 239 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.120 you're like, huh, what's the difference. Yeah, So the WROTH is 240 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:59.000 basically when you say, listen, I don't want the tax break right now 241 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:03.279 on the money that's going into my retirement account. I would prefer to get 242 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:06.880 the tax break later. It's a deferral of the tax break, and that 243 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:11.319 makes sense for some people, especially especially if you're the kind of person who 244 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:15.960 thinks my higher earning years are ahead of me. So let's say you're early 245 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.920 in your career, you're not making ridiculous sums of money, but you want 246 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:23.319 to contribute to your retirement account. I love the WROTH for one K as 247 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:26.880 an ability for you to get some of that money in pay the tax now 248 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.640 while you're in a lower tax bracket, and then you'll never pay tax on 249 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:34.440 the earnings or the withdraws of those funds in the future. And there's one 250 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:40.000 interesting new little thing that happened because of the Secure Act two point zero is 251 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:44.480 that matching dollars that your employer tosses in well. For the longest time, 252 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:47.880 even though you were contributing to your wroth WORO one K, your employer was 253 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:51.880 sticking in pre tax dollars. So you're still getting kind of two buckets of 254 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.440 money inside of your retirement account. But now your employer is allowed to stick 255 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:00.519 that money inside of your wroth as well. Whether or not your employer is 256 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:04.240 going to do that, that depends, but it's worth reaching out and asking 257 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.279 and saying, hey, I know this is a thing. Now, can 258 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:11.000 you guys stick that money inside of my wrath instead of inside of my traditional 259 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.759 because that's just beefing up more tax and pervious dollars for your future. My 260 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:18.720 financial advisor was talking to me about this about six months ago, and I 261 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:22.400 didn't understand what she was saying. Now I get it, okay. So 262 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:26.759 here's a question though, so can you if you're stocking away the money in 263 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:30.480 your wroth for a one case, so you're paying the taxes and all that 264 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:33.720 stuff, and you said probably for lower earners, and then can you flip 265 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.720 it later or once it's in a wroth? It's in the wroth four A 266 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:41.200 one K and you have to stay with it. See, that's the thing 267 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:45.359 is is it does prevent some tax planning, but you're planning pretty well if 268 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:49.000 you have if you're in one of those lower income brackets and you're taking the 269 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:53.000 you're taking the tax punch on the chin right now. But it does prevent 270 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:57.240 tax future tax planning. So that's one of like some people love the traditional 271 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:02.880 always because it means, yes, you take the tax break now, and 272 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:07.039 you can decide later, at a later date, to convert your traditional dollars 273 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:10.920 to Roth dollars, and you can find maybe the most opportune time, maybe 274 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:14.279 a down year, maybe a year where you're taking you're taking six months off 275 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:18.000 or something like that to take a sabbatical and your income's drastically reduced. Maybe 276 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:21.640 that's a year then that you can do a conversion of traditional dollars to Roth 277 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:25.640 dollars. And so that is true that if you stick money into a wrath, 278 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:29.319 it's wroth money for basically the rest of its days, which isn't necessarily 279 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:33.519 a bad thing. It's just all about planning and trying to minimize the overall 280 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:37.599 amount of tax that you pay. Okay, So, speaking of four to 281 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:41.880 one k's iras that kind of stuff, Robinhood has started offering a match for 282 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:47.480 IRA contributions, not for one k's but iras. Yeah. So this is 283 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:49.279 a brand new thing and no one has ever done this before. Yeah, 284 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:55.720 and so Robinhood, of course, being the semi gimmicky startup that they are 285 00:19:56.039 --> 00:20:00.319 trying to pull in dollars from anybody in their mind, they said, listen, 286 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:04.240 we're going to offer a one percent match for folks who contribute to an 287 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:08.279 IRA or wroth IRA and that's I think it's kind of cool. I get 288 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:12.319 why they're doing it. It's a lost leader for them essentially to give you 289 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:18.720 money to stick money in a retirement account. And even though it's a gimmick, 290 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:22.880 it is free money for you in an incentive to stick money into the 291 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.039 retirement account you should be sticking money into. And then so Fi, which 292 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:29.720 is another kind of fintech app, did something really similar and they actually doubled 293 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:32.519 down and they said, we're actually gonna do two percent this year. So 294 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:36.839 if you contribute money to your roth or your traditional IRA through Sofi, you 295 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:40.000 are going to get a two percent match. And there are all sorts of 296 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:41.960 hurdles or that you need to be aware of, like, oh, hey, 297 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:45.319 the money doesn't settle for a couple of years, so you can't just 298 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:48.079 get the match and then move that money out. There are all sorts of 299 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:51.079 things that that you need to be aware of. And the other thing you 300 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:53.039 need to be aware of with companies like this, and with Robinhood in particular, 301 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:56.240 is if you stick money in a Robinhood account, well, the thing 302 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:02.000 that Robinhood is best at is getting people to trade and so even if there's 303 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:07.079 a free one percent, that is enticing. But if it gets you to 304 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.920 be more involved in your investments in a negative way, which means trading more 305 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.240 often, then it's a bad deal and it's not worth it. Okay, 306 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:18.640 So look at that closely. Okay. We ran out of time, as 307 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:21.319 we always do, Joel. But so next week I want to talk to 308 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:25.920 you about streaming because breaking the bank on my accounts probably on yours too, 309 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:29.200 I want to talk about, you know, maybe how we can be a 310 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:33.400 little more responsible when it comes to our streaming bills. Yeah, sounds good, 311 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:37.519 Okay. And you can find out more about all kinds of financial things 312 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:40.920 and how to save money and how to be smarter with your money at How 313 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:45.160 to Money Joel. And you can also hear Joel every Sunday on KFI from 314 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:48.079 noon to two. Thanks so much, Joel. Thanks Amy. Let's get 315 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:49.599 back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. 316 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:55.480 Gang members have started receiving prison sentences in connection with a racketeering indictment for 317 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:59.599 OC Mexican mafia members. When you're a convicted fellon, you're not supposed to 318 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:03.279 possess a firearm or m o US Attorney spokesman Kieren McAvoy says Andras Alba got 319 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:07.319 five years for the possession. The Mexican Mafia or also known as LAMA, 320 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:11.759 controls a certain area, also controls a sale of drugs, collection of quote 321 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:15.839 unquote taxes, and oversees the maintenance of discipline over gangs and gang members in 322 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:19.160 that area. Alba was sentenced yesterday. He's the twelfth to plead guilty. 323 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:23.640 Thirteen others are awaiting trial. Three have pleaded guilty to murder for rocketeering purposes. 324 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:27.519 Their sentencing is set for March at the federal courthouse in Santa Anna. 325 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:33.119 Corbin Carson KFI News, a convicted killer considered a walking crime spree by prosecutors, 326 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:37.440 has been sentenced to twenty seven years in federal prison for robbing or trying 327 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:41.599 to rob ten businesses across South LA and the South Bay. The robberies happened 328 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:45.599 over five days in late twenty twenty, while Justin Washington was on parole from 329 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:51.559 state prison where he served ten years for armed robbery. Investigators in Illinois this 330 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:53.119 is a weird winner trying to figure out how a seventy three year old man 331 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:57.759 got boarded up inside his low income apartment. Rudolph Williams says he was home 332 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:02.680 in Harvey, Illinois, in front when he realized the doors and windows to 333 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:07.519 his courtyard style apartment had been covered with plywood and he was trapped inside. 334 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:11.400 City officials and residents have conflicting accounts about what happened at the thirty unit development. 335 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.759 Huntington Beach taxpayers could be on the hook for millions of dollars in fines 336 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:22.200 if the city loses its legal battle with Sacramento over its refusal to build thousands 337 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:26.440 of new housing units. Huntington Beach calls the mandate unrealistic and a government overreach. 338 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.480 Huntington Beach could face one hundred thousand dollars in fines every month if it's 339 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:34.880 not in compliance. Secretary of State Antony Blincoln is meeting with Israeli officials in 340 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:38.400 Tel Aviv. It's part of the US effort to prevent the Israel Hamas war 341 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:42.599 from spreading further in the region. It's Blincoln's fourth trip to the Middle East 342 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:48.079 since Hamas massacred and kidnapped Israelis on October seventh. Bars and nightclubs in California 343 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:52.880 will soon be required to provide so called roofye tests to customers. The new 344 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:57.920 law kicks in in July. The test kits typically will detect common date rape 345 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:03.680 drugs like ketamine or GHB. It's up to the bar owners to decide whether 346 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:07.200 to charge customers for the tests. Long Beach started an anti date rape drug 347 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:11.519 testing service last year at six oh five. It's handle on the news. 348 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:15.640 Lawmakers are looking to crack down on retail theft, like flash mobs and smash 349 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.039 and grab robbers. Nothing like waiting until an epidemic to do something. At 350 00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:22.759 I point fifty, we're going to find out what's going on with that moonlander 351 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:26.640 that's having technical difficulties that have jeopardized the moon mission. But right now, 352 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:32.200 let's say good morning to best selling author Brad Meltzer, who is celebrating the 353 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:36.960 tenth anniversary of a series of children's books, Ordinary People Change the World. 354 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.559 He's written thirty two books, including his latest that is being released today. 355 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:45.160 So Brad, please tell us about your brand new book. It's a big 356 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:52.680 anniversary for author Brad Meltzer. He is celebrating the tenth anniversary of his series 357 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:57.960 of children's books called Ordinary People Change the World. And good morning, Brad. 358 00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:00.960 Thank you so much for taking some time out of your busy schedule today 359 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:06.400 because it's your big anniversary. I know I feel like you know, as 360 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:11.640 someone who loves to pretend how young they are, saying I'm ten feels terrific. 361 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:17.440 Okay, So you are not only a best selling fiction author and a 362 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:22.160 best selling non fiction author, you are also a children's best selling author. 363 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.359 And in honor of your tenth anniversary, you have a new book out, 364 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:29.640 So tell us about it, and then I want to talk about some of 365 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:33.279 the other books that you've also released over the last ten years. Yeah. 366 00:25:33.319 --> 00:25:36.359 So the new book is it's a kid's book. It's I Am Ruth Beta 367 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:41.400 Ginsburg and honors of course the famous Supreme Court justice. And we started the 368 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:44.200 series because I wanted to give my kids better heroes to look up to. 369 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:48.880 If you look around today, you know, being a famous and wealthy business 370 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:51.960 person doesn't make you a hero. What you have to do is think about 371 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:55.960 someone beside yourself. So we started writing kids books for my kids. You 372 00:25:55.960 --> 00:26:00.640 know, ages about four to twelve years old is who they'refore the book series, 373 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:03.799 their cartoons, and Ruth Bata Ginsburg is someone that I love because we 374 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:08.319 all think of her as this serious Supreme Court justice. But when she was 375 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:12.440 a little girl, and that's what the book focuses on, is she leves 376 00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:17.279 to go on adventures. She loved to play tag and ride her bicycle. 377 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:19.839 But back then, girls weren't supposed to do that. In fact, in 378 00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:22.680 the books, in the books she read, there, you know, girls 379 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:26.200 would sit in pretty pink dresses and boys will go on the adventures. And 380 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:30.440 it was her mother who broke that stereotype. She took her to the library 381 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.799 every Friday afternoon, and every Friday, Ruth Betaginsberg's mother would say, you 382 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:37.759 can pick out five books. And young Ruth her favorite books that she always 383 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:41.559 pick out were about real heroes that she loved most of the time. They 384 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:47.799 were about Amelia Earharts, about Harriet Tubman. And in those books, young 385 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:51.960 Ruth realized, there's absolutely nothing that a little girl can't do. And that's 386 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.079 the lesson I want for my daughter, that's the lesson I want for my 387 00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:56.680 own sons. And that's what as a book, I Am, Ruth bae 388 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:00.880 Aginsberg is about. Yeah, And I love the lesson of serving others and 389 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:07.200 giving to others because we are so incredibly self centered and everything is me, 390 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:11.799 me, me, instant gratification. How can I get in the spotlight more? 391 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.519 And I think this turns that away to where it needs to be. 392 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:17.960 I mean, that's it. I mean, your kids are going to pick 393 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:19.920 heroes, whether you like it or not, you might as well have some 394 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:23.359 say in it. So what our book series is designed to do is we 395 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:27.200 show them real people when they're little kids. I mean, my kids don't 396 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:30.359 care about a Supreme Court justice, they don't care about a case. There's 397 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:34.480 no politics in this book. But what it shows you is it Ruth Betiginsburg 398 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:37.160 didn't just fight for women. You know, she's called this great feminist, 399 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:41.559 but she fought for men also. Her big belief was if you're saying men 400 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.880 do it this way and girls do it this way, then you're being unfair 401 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:48.440 to both of them. And that's what justice is. I love that. 402 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:52.119 And so this is the brand new book that's just hitting bookstores now. But 403 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:56.839 you also just recently came out with I Am mister Rogers, who is one 404 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:00.400 of my absolute heroes. Let's talk about him best. He's my favorite, 405 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:04.200 mister Rogers. You know, when I was five years old mister Rogers taught 406 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:08.160 me on TV that you can use your creativity to put good into the world. 407 00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:11.279 For me, the story about him as a kid that you'll love, 408 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:15.559 and I didn't know this story is when mister Rogers was a little boy, 409 00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:18.960 he was bullied. The boys would make fun of him. He was chasing 410 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:22.720 him home from school, and we all think of mister Rogers as this perfect 411 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.680 person. But on those days, mister Rogers was mad. He was angry, 412 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:30.920 he hated, I mean, just did not like those boys. And 413 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:36.039 he got so mad that he mailed away for you know, those those mail 414 00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:38.759 order catalogs that used to have when when in kind of a generation before, 415 00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:41.480 where you know, if you kick sand in my face, order away right 416 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:45.039 now and we'll send you muscles in this mail, you know. And he 417 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:48.799 got. He ordered away for the system, did all the pull ups, 418 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.640 didn't get any muscles. And what he realized from his mother is it's the 419 00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:56.960 things you can see in life that are the strongest things, the kindness and 420 00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:02.319 again empathy. And his mother taught him that he saw this his mother at 421 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:06.480 school, the nurse that is at his local elementary school in junior high school, 422 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:11.240 would see that there were kids who couldn't afford sneakers, So the mother, 423 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:14.920 because they had money back then, would send in a pair of sneakers 424 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:17.759 for the person who didn't have them. And then the nurse would say, 425 00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:21.279 we have someone who can't afford sweaters, we have someone who can't afford furniture. 426 00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:25.039 And the mom would keep buying all these things donated to these kids, 427 00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:29.960 but never take any credit for it. Never, And what did mister Rogers 428 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:33.720 learn in that lesson? How to be a good neighbor? And it's his 429 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:40.240 mother who teaches him that when life is scary, when the bullies are around, 430 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:42.759 when you see something in the news that scares you, look for the 431 00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:45.359 helpers. We've all heard that quote, right, look at the helper. 432 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:51.440 I love it. And it's his who his mother teaches it to him. 433 00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:55.400 It's not a mister Rogers quote, it's his mother's quote. And look where 434 00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:57.279 the world is right now. Look what's happening in Israel, Look what's happening 435 00:29:57.279 --> 00:30:02.640 here in America. Again, how do we teach our kids' empathy unless you 436 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:04.599 take a role in it. So I am mister Rogers, and I am 437 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:08.440 Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Or how we're celebrating ten years of these kids books, 438 00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:14.119 seven million books in print, all these parents who have come along with us 439 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:17.519 on this adventure that we're on to bring a little bit more kindness into the 440 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:19.720 universe. Yeah, and you know what I love about looking over the list 441 00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:23.920 of all of the different books and then having read Mister Rogers and Ruth Bader 442 00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:26.759 Ginsburg and also the Dolly Parton book, which, first of all, the 443 00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:33.240 animation is just charming, and the writing is wonderful and engaging, and obviously 444 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:36.359 it's an easy rate for an adult because it's for a kid. But I 445 00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:38.039 mean, I just I love the way that it's written. But I love 446 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:41.680 that all of the people that you talk to, Brad are people that you 447 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:45.599 know, when somebody goes, hey, if you could pick somebody from history 448 00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:48.680 who you'd like to sit down and have dinner with. All of the people 449 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.440 that you wrote about are those people. Yeah, No, listen, you 450 00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:56.039 know we've done my heroes, so and you know what, I know, 451 00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:59.920 I'm not that special. So all of us wish we could have a night 452 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:03.000 we could talk to doctor King, or talk to Rosa Parks, or talk 453 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.519 to Jing Goodall or Dolly Parton, Billy Jing King. You know, we 454 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:11.440 did Jim Henson because he's on my list of all time. And I'm telling 455 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:14.880 you we sell it. I think we sell as many books to the parents 456 00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:17.880 buy for themselves and the adult spy that we do with kids. Like you 457 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:21.119 know, everyone tells me that our Lucial Ball and Dolly Parton books are like 458 00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:23.200 forget the kids. I bought that for myself because they love the stories in 459 00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:26.160 them and they love the inspiration in them. And boy, right now, 460 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:30.039 when you look around at the world, we all need some inspiration right now. 461 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:32.599 Ooh, Brad is so right about that. So moms and dads, 462 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:36.359 grandma's, grandpa's. These books are not only beautiful, but show what a 463 00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:41.119 real hero looks like and how ordinary people change the world. They're really nice 464 00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:45.200 little books. You can find them at Brad Meltz Brad Meltzer like Seltzer, 465 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:48.599 but with an m brad Meltzer dot Com, also at Amazon, Barnes and 466 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:52.160 Noble, and Brad said they're also available at local bookstores and reminds people that 467 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:57.240 buying local is always a good way to go and giving away is always a 468 00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:00.599 good way to go. And we have three sets of these books. We 469 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:06.160 have the im Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the IM Mister Rogers, and the IM 470 00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:08.799 Dolly Parton books to give away to you right now. So if you have 471 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:12.799 kids or grandkids, or maybe maybe as Brad said, you want it for 472 00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:15.960 yourself, we have some books for you. So give us a call right 473 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:21.599 now. We'll take callers number eight, nine and ten at one eight hundred 474 00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:25.400 five to two zero one KFI. That's one eight hundred five to two zero 475 00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:30.400 one five three four. It's for your chance to win three of the books 476 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:35.799 Ordinary People Change the World, including the new IM Ruth Bader Ginsburg that is 477 00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:38.200 out today and it's, like I said, it's a really sweet story. 478 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:43.000 Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four 479 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:46.720 hour newsroom. A lunar Lander mission is being scrapped after suffering a critical malfunction 480 00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:52.400 about seven hours after launching. Astrobotic Technology was trying to become the first private 481 00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:57.559 company to land on the Moon, but the Peregrine spacecraft was hit with propulsion 482 00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:01.960 issues shortly after launch, keeping the vehicle from charging its batteries and causing a 483 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:05.960 fuel leak. We're going to be talking more about this with ABC's Jim Ryan 484 00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:09.640 in just about five minutes. A Navy sailor from Monterey Park who sold military 485 00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:14.519 secrets to China has been sentenced in La to two years in prison. US 486 00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:20.920 attorney Martine Strada says yesterday's sentencing should send a message to anyone in the military 487 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:24.680 who's considering leaking information. I will say the vast majority of those in the 488 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:30.119 military would never dream of doing such a thing. Thomas Chao sold information about 489 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:37.079 radar systems, naval exercises, and operational security. He pocketed nearly fifteen thousand 490 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:42.359 dollars in bribes from a Chinese intelligence offer officer from twenty twenty one to twenty 491 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:47.279 twenty three. He pleaded guilty in October, and LA based financial advisor has 492 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:52.799 been arrested for allegedly stealing two and a half million dollars from elderly and special 493 00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:58.960 needs clients. LAPED investigator say Donna Bodanovich was arrested Friday following a fourteen month 494 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:02.799 investigation into how she allegedly preyed on people she was supposed to be helping. 495 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:08.840 She is a licensed fiduciary, please say, there are likely more victims who 496 00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:13.599 have not yet come forward. The Big three automakers are taken a pass on 497 00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:17.599 the Super Bowl. Stalantas says it is readjusting its spending on marketing. General 498 00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:22.239 Motors will not run commercials after focusing on evs during last year's game. Ford 499 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:25.639 has not run an ad during the Super Bowl for several years. A thirty 500 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:31.599 second commercial during the Super Bowl this year reportedly will run seven million dollars. 501 00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:37.000 There's a new push to increase California's punishment of retail theft. A new bill 502 00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:42.800 would crack down on robbers and burglars with two or more convictions and would guarantee 503 00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:46.440 the crime would no longer be prosecuted as a misdemeanor, with jail time ranging 504 00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:52.239 from six months to three years. Republican Congressman Matt Rosendale of Montana plans to 505 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:57.719 introduce one or more articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors against Defense Secretary 506 00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.719 Lloyd Austin, Austin's under firefirm, not telling anyone he was in the hospital 507 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:07.400 until days later. A great celestial event is lining up in the morning sky. 508 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:10.800 The moon, Venus, Mercury, and Mars are aligning. The planets 509 00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:15.199 will be out before sunrise, so you have a little bit of time still 510 00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:20.039 to see him best scene from actually away from city lights. We're just minutes 511 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:22.119 away from handle On the news this morning, people must have wanted to find 512 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:25.880 out who the winners and losers were because the Golden Globes audience was up fifty 513 00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:30.840 percent from last year. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim 514 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:35.519 Ryan. Jim, good morning, but not such a good morning for the 515 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:37.440 people who were trying to get someone to the moon or something to the moon. 516 00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:40.679 Well, you're right, you know, and eventually to get some people 517 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:44.679 back out of the Moon. This was an important step in that Amy thought 518 00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:52.159 it called astrobatic. Astrobotic had engineered this whole process, had contracts with NASA 519 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:57.840 and several private companies to send this lunar lander out to the Moon's surface opposed 520 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:00.920 to land on February twenty third, but launched yesterday and launch was perfect. 521 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:06.960 It was absolutely flawless. But at some point the experts, the engineers at 522 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:13.360 Astrobotic, realized that there was a propulsion problem. Initially, the lander wouldn't 523 00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:16.159 rotate itself to face the Sun. It has to do that because it has 524 00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:21.599 solar panels that power the thing, and without the power to charge the batteries, 525 00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:24.960 you're dead in the water. But the engineers did manage to use their 526 00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:29.920 finase here on Earth to rotate the thing toward the Sun. But they wondered, 527 00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:32.320 why didn't it do it by itself. It turns out there is a 528 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:37.519 propulsion problem, and that could be a fatal propulsion problem that dooms this mission 529 00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:42.679 before it even makes it out of Earth's orbit. It's still orbiting the Earth 530 00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:47.440 the Peregrine Lander, and unless something could be worked out today, that's where 531 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:53.519 it's going to stay. So I don't understand propulsion problem. Yeah, Well, 532 00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:59.480 the fuel the thing that pushes this thing along. By the way, 533 00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:01.719 the propulsion in this case, these thruster rockets are the things that are used 534 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:07.440 everything that happens in space. You can't just steer the rocket or use fins 535 00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:12.960 because you're in the vacuum of space. So they use little thruster rockets to 536 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:15.440 move the thing in the direction that they needed to go. And so without 537 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:21.880 that ability, the rocket is essentially a rock flying through space. Okay, 538 00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:25.800 So the solar panels weren't aligned to the Sun, so they couldn't suck the 539 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:32.880 energy in and in turn then cannot be used to do the propulsion. Well, 540 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:36.440 yeah, no, no, it's kind of the other way around. 541 00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:39.480 Once once the engineers here on Earth, working with their computers, said okay, 542 00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:44.320 we're gonna do this manually. If the rocket is not if the lander 543 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:46.079 is not going to rotate itself toward the Sun, we'll do it from down 544 00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:50.280 here on Earth. They click a few keys, and the thing rotates toward 545 00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:52.320 the Sun. The batteries get fully charged, and they are fully charged. 546 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.519 But these same engineers were saying, so why didn't it do it by itself, 547 00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:59.480 Why didn't it make that change on its own? And then that's when 548 00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:05.440 they found this deeper propulsion issue, that this anomaly they'd like to call it, 549 00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:07.840 that could doom the whole mission. I mean, oh okay, now 550 00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:10.920 it makes sense. So they were able to fix the issue from yesterday, 551 00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:15.760 but then in fixing and finding that, they found something else that's gone wrong 552 00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:19.840 exactly thinking that, could you know, scrap this whole thing, one hundred 553 00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:23.679 eight million dollars worth of NASA equipment that's supposed to land on the Moon and 554 00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:30.480 figure out the radiation, the water source, potentially figure out the gravitation. 555 00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:32.360 You know, it was all aimed at getting people to the Moon. By 556 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:37.320 the end of this decade, so this may slow that process down again. 557 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:43.039 I mean, luckily nobody is on board this lander. It's just a piece 558 00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:46.079 of equipment at this point. Okay, so what happens to it? Do 559 00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:51.119 we just leave it up there? Does it burn up on re entry or 560 00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:53.400 what? Do we know? Well, yeah, that may be the most 561 00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:58.000 likely scenario. I know, it was coming around the Earth to pick up 562 00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:01.760 some energy, some gravitational pulled to then slingshot towards the Moon. But for 563 00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:07.400 now it's just rotating around the Earth or orbiting around the Earth until the engineers 564 00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:10.639 can figure out something to do. I mean, in tweets that Astrobotic was 565 00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:14.599 putting out yesterday, the hope was that they'd be able to figure out the 566 00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:19.039 problem and then send the thing off toward the Moon for it's February twenty third 567 00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:22.599 scheduled landing there. But we'll just have to see what happens at this point. 568 00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:27.920 But your scenario the one of an eventual degradation of the orbit and then 569 00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:30.079 this thing coming back down to Earth burning up. That may be the most 570 00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:34.599 likely scenario. Okay, but here's my big concern. What happens to Lieutenant 571 00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:39.320 Ohora, Because remember we told you yesterday that there are either DNA or parts 572 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:45.239 of ashes or something of Michelle Nichols, several other Star Trek people. I 573 00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:49.719 think Geene Roddenberry, or maybe he's already up there, but that was on 574 00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:52.400 board. Yeah. You know, we heard a couple of years ago that 575 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:55.880 Roddenberry's ashes had gone to space. I think that they separated them, so 576 00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:00.679 Roddenberry could be on a bunch of different rockets, you know, his ashes 577 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:05.239 or his DNA and all over the universe. Yeah, the Forest, Kelly, 578 00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:08.880 Geane, Roddenberry, James Douhan who played Scottie, and yes, Michelle 579 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:15.840 Nichols, Lieutenant O'Hora. They all had some DNA evidence or DNA on board 580 00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:19.880 this rocket. So we just lose that. Yeah, well, you know 581 00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:22.960 what, it's probably anyway. It was such a minuscule amount. Anyway, 582 00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:25.400 I bet they have more if they were to send them up again. All 583 00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:28.719 right, well we'll be watching. Thank you so much, Jim Ryan. 584 00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:31.679 That's super disappointing. Yeah, it's kind of a bummer, but you know, 585 00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:35.840 you learn from stuff. Absolutely, That's what like Elon Musk, when 586 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:37.199 a rocket blows up, he goes that's okay. It was a successful test 587 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:40.400 and we'll get it next time. All right, thanks Jim. All right, 588 00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:43.480 take care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of 589 00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:45.519 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The President of Mexico says he is willing 590 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:51.000 to help slow the flow of illegal immigrants across the US Mexico border for a 591 00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:54.079 price. Wondrous man Well Lopez Overdoor recently met with US officials to discuss the 592 00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:59.519 surgeon illegal migration through Mexico and into the US. On Friday, President Lopez 593 00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:01.760 Overdoor announced at a press conference he's willing to work with the US to slow 594 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:07.360 the flow, but he has some requests for the Biden administration deploy twenty billion 595 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:10.719 to Latin American and Caribbean countries, suspend the US blockade of Cuba, remove 596 00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:15.960 all sanctions against Venezuela, and grant at least ten million Hispanics living in the 597 00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:20.159 US the right to remain and work legally. No response yet from the US. 598 00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:22.960 Steve Gregory King of I News. The California Mountain Lion Project says the 599 00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:28.280 big cat population is a lot smaller than previously thought. Researchers found there are 600 00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:31.480 between thirty two hundred and forty five hundred in the state that is below the 601 00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:37.679 longtime estimate of about six thousand mountain lions. They say the most dense populations 602 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:40.159 are in coastal forests up north, while the least dense are in the high 603 00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:45.039 desert east of the Sierras. The California Fish and Game Commission is considering declaring 604 00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:50.639 the animals a threatened species. A ruling is expected this year, and SpaceX 605 00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:53.840 is getting ready for another rocket launch from northwestern Santa Barbara County. This one 606 00:41:53.880 --> 00:42:00.320 should be visible across the West coast. Lift Off from Vandenberg Space Force Space 607 00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:04.960 is scheduled for nine oh six tonight. The launch window is open until eleven 608 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:09.199 twenty eight. The payload is twenty two more Starlink Internet satellites destined for low 609 00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:15.199 Earth orbit. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, 610 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:19.320 live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This 611 00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:21.960 has been your wake up call, and if you missed any wake up call, 612 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:25.000 you can listen any old time on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening 613 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.320 to wake Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always hear wake 614 00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:32.800 Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty and 615 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.119 anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.