WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.240 Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M six 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:10.359 forty wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. She likes to call 3 00:00:10.359 --> 00:00:17.079 it Friday. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your Thursday morning wake up call. 4 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:26.519 So I keep checking the forecast because if you thought last weekend was gorgeous, 5 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:34.320 this weekend maybe even a little hot. If you're inland as will be in 6 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:41.479 the mid eighties to maybe the low nineties. But that also means that those 7 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:47.520 beach temperatures are in the seventies. So again my advice to you, if 8 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:52.640 you are going to Huntington Dog Beach, what happens is there are three parking 9 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:59.640 lots and if you get you everybody gets in a line on the shoulder. 10 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:06.000 So they've got all these cars and then you whoever the first car in the 11 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:08.400 parking lot is they're waiting for somebody to pull out and take their spot. 12 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:15.959 Right. But I was talking with Oscar Ramrez yesterday. Are is Oscar Operations 13 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:22.159 manager? I never know everybody's title anyway, And he said brilliant idea that 14 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:25.680 he and his wife Kat, when they go to Huntington Nog Beach, they 15 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:30.000 go ahead of time and get sandwiches somewhere and then they sit in the car 16 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.760 while they're waiting in line and eat lunch. Then by the time lunch is 17 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:38.280 over, they found a parking space. Anyway, my point is, if 18 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:44.000 you are headed to Huntington this weekend, just give yourself like an extra half 19 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:49.000 hour because you have to sit there in the line. It's crazy, but 20 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:52.840 it's I guess it's a thing. And normally I guess I don't go on 21 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:56.680 days that are super crowded, or I haven't gone on weekends necessarily, but 22 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.799 yeah, I just have a feeling. That's my public service announcement for you 23 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:07.439 this morning. You're welcomes Kofi Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 24 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:12.199 This is your wake up call for a Friday Eve. April twenty seventh, 25 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.719 the La Kenny Sheriff's Department says a woman seen on video being assaulted and 26 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:21.039 forced into the car and commerce this is the story that Blake was doing all 27 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:24.759 yesterday morning has been found. The woman has been found, and the guy 28 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:30.400 has been arrested. Also a judge. Now Lay says journalists can continue to 29 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:37.439 distribute photos of LAPD officers, including those on undercover assignments. Five oh five, 30 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:39.680 we're going to talk with ABC's Karen Travers. We've got a couple of 31 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:44.840 things that we will talk to her about. First of all, the President 32 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:52.280 talking about his run for reelection and his age. He says he respects people 33 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:54.759 taking a hard look at his age and that he's done the same thing. 34 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:59.599 And also, we'll get the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations. And Mitch 35 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:05.759 McCall has essentially wiped his hands of being part of this debate over the debt 36 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:07.800 ceiling. So we'll get into all of that in just a few minutes, 37 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.680 but let's start with some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four 38 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:15.680 hour newsroom. The Lakenny Sheriff's Department says that woman's seen on video being assaulted 39 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:20.599 and forced into a car, and commerce has been found and the guy who 40 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:24.400 allegedly took her has been arrested. Security video showed the woman on a sidewalk 41 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:28.479 just talking on her cell phone. All of a sudden, guy drives up, 42 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.759 gets out of the car, hits her with a gun pistol, whips 43 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:37.000 her, and then takes her. The man was arrested yesterday afternoon I'm dying 44 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:43.439 to know if this was random, did they know each other? Was there 45 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:47.960 some motive in this? How old was she? How old is the guy? 46 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:53.479 So much like to this one? The backstory on this one's big, 47 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:58.560 I think or maybe. A judge in La says a journalist can continue to 48 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:03.360 distribute photos of APD officers, including those on undercover assignments. The city had 49 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.800 filed for an injunction to stop the photos from being further downloaded, but a 50 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:12.000 judge ruled Tuesday night the city cannot unring the bell by trying to reclaim thousands 51 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:15.599 of photos that are already out there. The journalists obtained the photos through a 52 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:18.839 public records lawsuit. The more than nine thousand images were posted in March on 53 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:23.839 an anti police website, including those undercover. The city said it was trying 54 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:28.160 to protect the undercover officers, but the journalist says the injunction is nothing more 55 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:32.439 than retaliation for posting the photos. Steve Gregory Campine News I Wanted fell In 56 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:38.199 has been fatally shot by Riverside County Sheriff's deputies during a pursuit in Paris. 57 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:42.439 Deputies were serving a warrant yesterday when they saw a guy driving away. They 58 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.800 tried to stop him, but he took off. Officials say the guy lost 59 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:48.040 control of the car, ditched it, and then shot at deputies. They 60 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:53.360 fired back. Santa Monica has agreed to pay more than one hundred twenty two 61 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:59.279 million dollars to settle claims against a former youth program volunteer accused of sexually abusing 62 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:02.040 hundreds of kids. The payment will go to one hundred twenty four people who 63 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:06.160 say Eric Ohler sexually assaulted them as kids from the late eighties to early two 64 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:11.079 thousands. Attorney Brian Claypole says the city has now paid out about two hundred 65 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:14.800 and thirty million dollars to more than two hundred and twenty accusers. How can 66 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:20.040 we have such a colossal failure from top to bottom? Claypole says reports made 67 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:24.959 at the time of the attacks were not taken seriously. Uhler committed suicide in 68 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:29.480 twenty eighteen after being charged with molesting four boys in La Blake trolley. K 69 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:31.959 if I News and after we've talked with Karen Travers, we've got the story 70 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:36.839 of the former gynecologist at UCLA who was once the highest paid doctor there, 71 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:42.639 who's been sentenced to prison. For sexually abusing his patients. So that's coming 72 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:46.199 up. Karen Travers, Good morning to you. So let's talk about the 73 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:49.720 president's age and what he has to say about the fact that a lot of 74 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:55.439 Americans are taking a hard look at his age and how old he will be 75 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:59.319 if he runs for press or when he runs for president again and at the 76 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:02.040 end of his turn. Yeah, so you know, there was a poll 77 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:06.639 out this week that said seventy percent of Americans don't believe he should run again, 78 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:12.160 and that included fifty one percent of Democrats. So my colleague Mary Bruce 79 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:16.480 asked him yesterday about that poll and what he says to those people who hear 80 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:20.639 him say, watch me when they question his age and they're watching him and 81 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:25.360 still aren't convinced and don't think he should do it. And he first started 82 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:28.480 out by joking, he said, I can't even say how old I am. 83 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:30.079 I can't say the number. It doesn't register with me. But then 84 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:34.959 he acknowledged that he respects people taking a long hard look at it, his 85 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:40.240 age, him jumping back in for a reelection race, because he said he 86 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.639 took a long hard look at it before he decided to run. He said 87 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:47.160 he feels good, he feels excited, and he respects that people are going 88 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:51.319 to judge whether or not he says, I have it or I don't have 89 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:55.639 it. Now on his polling, he says, you know, people get 90 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.240 caught up in the job approval ratings, but when you drilled down into what 91 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:01.959 he has done, he says, Paul show the people like what he has 92 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.959 accomplished and that he has a strong record to run on. I think the 93 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:11.879 most interesting thing was how reflective he was on the Donald Trump factor. He 94 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:15.279 was asked by Mary if he believes he's the only candidate who can beat Trump, 95 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:17.920 because he had previously said, you know, that was a big driver 96 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:20.920 of why he ran in twenty twenty, and he said he may not be 97 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:25.600 the only one, but he knows him well. And she said, you 98 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:29.079 know, you say you know him well. Would you be doing this if 99 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.000 he weren't running? And the President said he thinks he still would be running 100 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:36.439 even if Donald Trump were not running again for the White House. But he 101 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:40.560 says he basically is doing it because he wants to finish the job. But 102 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:43.879 all that was really interesting, right right, well, And I did think 103 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.000 that that was interesting. I think I want to finish the job. Part 104 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:49.439 is what you hear every president say when they want to run for a second 105 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:54.079 term. But in the case of the Donald Trump portion of it, that's 106 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:58.079 what I thought he would be more like, hey, I beat him once, 107 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:01.399 I got to beat him again, kind of go on that mantra. 108 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:05.040 So I too was kind of surprised by that. And when it comes to 109 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:09.199 the debt ceiling, I feel like Mitch McConnell yesterday sort of just wiped his 110 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:11.759 hands clean of it and said, hey, guys, this is on you 111 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:16.720 McCarthy and President Biden, you to figure it out. And that's going to 112 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.879 be a common refrain over the next year and a half of like, you 113 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:22.399 know, hey, I'm in the Senate, this is up to you guys. 114 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:26.480 You're in charge over there, and you're the president. And McConnell had 115 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.240 limited power, he's a minority leader, but saying you know, you guys 116 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:33.519 have to work this out, and saying the president has to negotiate with Kevin 117 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:39.159 McCarthy. The President made it very clear yesterday again, and he hasn't been 118 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:43.879 this explicit because he hasn't addressed this in sometime, even though his presecretary has. 119 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.600 He said he's happened to meet with McCarthy, but not on the depth 120 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:50.519 ceiling that has to be raised. Then they can talk about budget cuts and 121 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.639 overall the deficit and things like that, but he is not budging on those 122 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:56.360 other things on the depth ceiling. Yeah, not even a little. All 123 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:01.360 right, Karen, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Kay, 124 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:05.919 high five Mary Bruce when you see her. She asked great questions. I 125 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:13.279 love that anytime that you get well started to say, your guy, your 126 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:20.600 lady, your person, your reporter. I don't know. I I get 127 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.840 so caught up, and am I supposed to call them that they how PC? 128 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:26.000 Am I supposed to be? Who cares? It's wake up call? 129 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:31.519 I can be me. But you get your reporter to ask the questions. 130 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.440 Or if you're watching a news conference or something like that and it's your reporter 131 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:39.240 that you can hear or that you see or the hand gets raised, it's 132 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:43.879 like, heck, yeah, we're the ones who get the scoop? Do 133 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.879 you hear about this? Wildfire in the San Bernardino County Mountains kind of felt 134 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:52.840 like our first one of the fire season. It started just after ten yesterday 135 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:56.759 morning in a remote area and your lytle Creek south of right Wood. Fire 136 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:00.879 crews had to fight it from the air because the terin was so steep and 137 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:05.279 the brush was so thick. Some roads were closed, but no evacuations were 138 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:11.039 ordered. A former gynecologist who was once the highest paid doctor a UCLA, 139 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:15.840 has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for sexually abusing patients. Ex gynecological 140 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:20.279 oncologist James Heaps was convicted of abusing two patients. Lawyer Jennifer McGrath represented almost 141 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.399 one hundred former patients of Heaps, who she says are pleased with the prison 142 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.159 sentence imposed. Thus far, we look forward to when Heaps is held to 143 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:33.080 account for the nine charges that hung. At least now with the sentence imposed, 144 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.840 our clients can finally find some closure. Hundreds of lawsuits against Heaps and 145 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:41.799 UCLA were settled for almost seven hundred million dollars. Prosecutors yesterday said they could 146 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.039 decide in August to retrive the charges involving two other patients. In La, 147 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:50.600 Corbin Carson k if I knew LA has commemorated Denim Day to raise awareness for 148 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:56.399 sexual violence. Denim Day is the longest running sexual violence prevention and education campaign. 149 00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:01.600 Director of peace over violence and founder of Denim Day, Patty Giggins says, 150 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:05.000 sexual abuse can happen to anyone, and it can happen to children, 151 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.039 to cappen to boys, it could happen to girls. It we know that 152 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:13.480 it can happen to trans people. Giggins says Denim Day was founded after Italian 153 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:18.159 judges overturned to man's rape conviction in the nineties, saying his accusers jeans were 154 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:22.480 so tight she had to have helped him take them off. Advocates and survivors 155 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:28.879 gathered yesterday in jeans outside of city Hall. Chris ADLERKFI News and remember the 156 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:33.159 story of the murder of a fifteen year old boy in Rancho Cucamonga at a 157 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:37.159 Halloween party last year. Well, a nineteen year old now has been arrested. 158 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:41.960 Investigators say it guy and a girl started fighting and video shows Robert Pliley 159 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:46.639 stepping in to stop it, but that's when he was shot. Detectives worked 160 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.519 with the US Marshals and Homeland Security to find the alleged shooter in Mexico Israel. 161 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:54.600 Diaz was arrested Tuesday, and he tried to cross the border coming back 162 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.080 into the US. Jim Ryan, Good Morning, to you. I've actually 163 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.240 got a couple of stories about the military. This morning, coming up at 164 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:07.080 five fifty, we're gonna talk with a major about the armies. Be all 165 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.679 you can be bringing that back. But what this whole new strategy is for 166 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:16.559 bringing that back now. I know that that will probably coincide with the story 167 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.080 that you've got for us right now. But tattoos, facial hair. I 168 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:22.200 mean, you know, you used to see just these kind of squeaky clean 169 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.840 men and women in the military, and now things are changing and it's not 170 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:31.919 necessarily just because we're changing with the times. It sounds like it's necessity. 171 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:35.600 Well, it is because so many people, for example, have tattoos now, 172 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:41.480 Jen, I mean, if you walk around the mall or whatever, 173 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:45.159 you're going to find people who have tattoos, yeah, on their arms, 174 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:46.799 on their hands, on their necks, some of them have them on their 175 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:54.039 faces. The military is longhead prohibitions against the tattoos that showed beyond the uniform. 176 00:12:54.039 --> 00:13:00.879 If you're wearing your uniform, your army combat uniform for example ECU, 177 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.720 the tattoos you had could not show. Well, they started relaxing those rules 178 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.360 somewhat in the various branches the air Force, for example, now is allowing 179 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:13.240 neck tattoos. That tattoo can only be one inch by one inch, and 180 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:16.840 it must be behind the ear. Draw a line straight down from your ear. 181 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.600 It can only be behind that line on your neck. Air Force recruiters, 182 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:24.320 in fact, are keeping a list of places. If a recruit comes 183 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.120 in and has a neck tattoo that doesn't meet standards, the recruiter will say, 184 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.360 you still want to join up. You know you have this neck tattoo. 185 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:33.840 It's going to disqualify you. But if you go to this place, 186 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:35.679 they will remove it for you. Their force won't pay for it, but 187 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:43.559 at least you'll know where to go. Interestingly, tattoos previously were the third 188 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:48.440 highest disqualifying factor for Air Force recruits. Yeah so, I mean a bad 189 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:52.600 bum, leg, bad heart that was number one. You know, a 190 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.919 medical history, well, the felony violations in the past that that was going 191 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.840 to disqualify you, and in third place tattoos. Interesting. I know, 192 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:03.279 it's it's funny. After I booked you for last night, or after I 193 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:07.759 booked you last night for this morning, I happen to go run some errands 194 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:11.080 and I saw it was I was at the gas station and there was a 195 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:13.840 guy standing there that you know how you'll just chat up the person next to 196 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:16.799 you at the pump, and so we were talking and he had a tattoo 197 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:18.679 on the back of his neck and I thought, oh, look at that, 198 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:24.360 he'd qualify. But then I went in to the convenience store and the 199 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:28.759 woman at the counter had a giant butterfly like under her chin down her neck. 200 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:31.159 Yeah, And I thought, oh, right there, she couldn't do 201 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.200 it unless she went and got that removed. But I've I've heard that the 202 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:39.799 removal is a expensive but also that it hurts, right, and it's only 203 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:43.399 partially effective to right take away all signs of the tattoo. And you know, 204 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.559 they were going to go back to the recruiter and say, okay, 205 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:50.480 there's this qualify now that this big blotch on yeah, where it's going to 206 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:54.720 be just sort of faded, yeah, right right, So yeah, it's 207 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.720 you know, I think that a lot of folks in the in the military, 208 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.159 they're they're recognized that they have to be a little more flexible. The 209 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:07.000 Marine Corps is even more relaxed than that. You can have tattoo sleeves in 210 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:11.320 the Marine Corps. Interesting, Yeah, when it comes to recruitment, though, 211 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:16.000 I feel like that because we know that recruitment is down, they're forced 212 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:20.679 to change these policies, right, if they want to keep numbers up, 213 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:24.039 they want to, they have to do that. They have to be a 214 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.759 little more flexible. And what's more, they've kind of changed policy somewhat. 215 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:31.519 The army is saying, and it's the same as the be all that you 216 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.519 can be. They want people to come in and feel comfortable expressing themselves. 217 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.320 And if that means having a small tattoo on the neck, okay, fine, 218 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.799 or a small tattoo on the back of the hand, that's going to 219 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.000 be okay too. But yet they need to maintain what's called good order, 220 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.960 a military order and discipline. But at the same time, let these folks 221 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:54.960 express themselves at least in a small way. Well that's and that's what I 222 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.120 think is so interesting is that I think before the whole idea of it was, 223 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:00.519 hey, we are going to be one unit, We're going to be 224 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:03.799 all the same. And then now to see it like, okay, you 225 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.679 be you, but you be you and be a part of this unit is 226 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:11.799 just an interesting change in it just it shows the sign of the times. 227 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:17.679 Yeah, absolutely more women now in the army they can if they have medium 228 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:19.559 lenked hair, they don't have to wear it in a bond. Now if 229 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:25.080 you picture of a military woman in HERR B tous or her a cull walking 230 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:26.840 in her grocery store with a bun, they can now wear them in a 231 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:30.159 ponytail, or they can wear their hair as short as a quarter inch. 232 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:36.360 So yeah, they're they've started modifying some of these regulations, but trying to 233 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:41.080 maintain that sense of a uniformity and be good order. Right, all right, 234 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.879 thank you so much, Jim, I appreciate it. Wait, have 235 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.440 a question. Do you have any tattoos? No, me, neither, 236 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:51.120 really, No, you would have had a bunch of them. I don't 237 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:53.480 want. You know. What's funny is I've had more people say that. 238 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:56.559 I think because I'm a wild child and so people just assume that I would. 239 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:02.039 But yeah, I think it's a fear of ammitment. I can't commit 240 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.240 to anything. I'll get an idea and I'll be like, I'm gonna get 241 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:07.000 a tattoo of you know, you would think dogs or something, right, 242 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:11.000 that I'd get a paw or something. No, No, I just I 243 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.519 can't imagine it. I changed my hair up all the time. I can't 244 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:17.599 immagine it would be a commitment thing. And my daughter has somebody, you 245 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:19.359 know. I talked to my son. I thought he would be more inclined 246 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:22.160 to get a tattoo. He was. He came to me one time and 247 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:23.440 he said, you know what he was about eighteen nineteen. You said, 248 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:26.119 I'm thinking about getting a tattoo. And mine must say, really, I 249 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:29.440 wish you wouldn't do that. I mean, it's gonna look bad. And 250 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:32.200 if you were, I said, what what? What would be so important 251 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:33.960 that you'd want to get a tattooed on your arm? And he says, 252 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:37.279 I was going to get our family crest. Oh what do you say to 253 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:41.480 that? Punch exactly like, well, oh man, all right, so 254 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.799 did he No, he did it? Oh okay, hey, I like 255 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.559 it though, Way to go, and you know, high five to your 256 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:53.160 son. Yeah, all right, thanks Jim ce Later that's ABC's Jim Ryan 257 00:17:53.720 --> 00:18:00.440 Tyler Anny tattoos. Two. What do you have on my right arm? 258 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.480 Like upper arm? I have Fenway Park Oh okay, that's cool. And 259 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:08.160 then on my back I have a guardenia flower and some Hebrew. What's what's 260 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:15.519 the significance I get fenway quickly. My grandfather used to give my grandmother guardenia 261 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:22.000 flowers on their anniversary, and on birthday he proposed to her. He gave 262 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:26.039 her the usual guardinia in a box, but he put the engagement ring in 263 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:29.319 the box, and she had gotten so used to taking the flower out of 264 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:33.240 the box and throwing the box away that she chucked the box away with the 265 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:37.319 engagement ring in it. But anyway, past that, my mom would always 266 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:42.559 have guardenia bushes in our gardens somewhere in our home and they would always bloom 267 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:48.240 when she wishes her parents were around. So like my way of taking that 268 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.799 and carrying it with me. Okay, I like that. That's very cool. 269 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.880 I don't know. I mean I thought about getting So we have a 270 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:02.200 family, I know, so redneck. We have a family brand. So 271 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:07.000 I actually have our family's branding irons from when we had cattle, and so 272 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:11.119 it's a it's called Roland and J. Nate Jones was like the family patriarch 273 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:15.240 back in the day, the Roland J Ranch, And I thought, oh, 274 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:18.720 I could get the NJ Ranch on me, and then somebody said I 275 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.799 should do it Yellowstone style, where they brand the guys on the chest. 276 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:29.079 No, you know what, all ride a bowl all day long? That 277 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:36.119 sounds fine, but getting branded, No, Nope. Stats showed the snowstorms 278 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:40.519 of the last few months around so Cal did not break a record, which 279 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:45.559 I was shocked. State water officials have said this year's snowpack tied with that 280 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.680 in nineteen fifty two, but there's a new analysis by the Bay Area News 281 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:56.240 Group that shows the largest snowpack actually happened in nineteen eighty three. I don't, 282 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:00.200 well, great night, I was what eight, so I guess I 283 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:03.920 wasn't paying attention, but I don't remember that. Research from the last seventy 284 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:07.240 four years shows that nineteen sixty nine and nineteen fifty two tied for the second 285 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:12.559 highest snowfall, and this year's snowpack comes in fourth place, which is a 286 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:18.119 shock to me. The research also shows the way the information is gathered and 287 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.240 analyze has evolved. Now. The big concern is this heat wave that we've 288 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:26.799 got moving over California. It's expected to bring some of the state's warmest days 289 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.839 so far this year, and concerns about runoff from melting snow. Highs this 290 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:34.519 week and much of the Central Valley our forecast to hit the nineties and one 291 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:41.519 hundreds by Saturday, but it is expected to cool down on Sunday. Of 292 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:45.599 a friend who works for the Bureau of Reclamation up in Redding, and he 293 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:48.680 was talking about Shasta Dam. I know, they let open one of the 294 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:52.279 doors for like about a half an hour or so yesterday, which is a 295 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:55.839 big deal. Not one of the big, big drums, but one of 296 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:59.960 the smaller doors. And that's huge. That just shows you how much. 297 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:04.480 And he said he thought that the lake Lake Shasta was five feet from full 298 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:07.640 and so Tyler, I know you and I were both up there last year 299 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:11.079 where the trees were sticking out of the water, and I mean you could 300 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:17.000 see the ring around the basin. Now it's five feet from the top. 301 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:21.759 Oh, man, I cannot wait for no switchbacks. Yes, it's been 302 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:25.160 years of switchbacks. Yep, it can't wait. Yes, Oh it's gonna 303 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:30.000 it's gonna be great. So but then also in Yosemite they've had to evacuate 304 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:33.640 parts of it because what they're worried about is not just the heat wave. 305 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:37.000 I didn't even think about this part, but apparently it's going to be windy 306 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:40.319 this weekend. So you've got then the wind on top of it, which 307 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:42.400 is just gonna blow that heat right over it and melt it kind of. 308 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:47.880 You know, I don't know hair dryer style. So that's what we're looking 309 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:52.559 for this weekend. Let's say good morning now to kfi's business reporter and news 310 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:56.720 anchor. He's also the host of macro Here on Sundays two to four on 311 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:00.880 KFI. Hi, Jason Middleton, Oh my goodness, on me. I 312 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.480 always forget to put you up. That's okay, I turn you on. 313 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.720 That's all right, you'll find your stride eventually. I knew. Hey, 314 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:11.480 I want to start. Can we start with Elizabeth Holmes? Sure, just 315 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:14.960 because I think this is the weirdest thing. How in the world do you 316 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.039 get an eleven year prison sentence, so you're sentenced, and then you still 317 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:23.000 get a delay with a last minute appeal, and when your boyfriend gets a 318 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:26.640 thirteen year sentence and went to jail last week. Yeah, she doesn't have 319 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:32.039 to go now because the judge is going to review an appeals request from her 320 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:34.319 lawyers. I think a large part of it has to do with she does 321 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:38.160 have a relatively young new baby. That's what I was going to ask if 322 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:41.279 that's playing into this at all, or it has to, right. But 323 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:44.640 I do think that, yes, there is a conviction on the books. 324 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:47.200 There's a sentence in the books, and sure she's beene through everything. This 325 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:51.839 might just be a momentary, momentary lapse before she has to go back and 326 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:55.519 start start that thing. Because she's very hard to read, you don't get 327 00:22:55.559 --> 00:22:57.400 anything. I've only interviewed her twice. Once was for radio, once was 328 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:02.440 for television, and she's really hard to read. She seems like she was 329 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:04.519 kind of a stamped out of I wish I was Steve Jobs kind of thing. 330 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:08.400 Ah, but she's very it's very veiled. She's she's very good. 331 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:11.160 I'm sure that's why investors really, you know, trusted her and liked her 332 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:15.200 and everything, because she seemed very stable and looking forward looking. And it 333 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:18.680 turns out that she was really really good at fraud. Elizabeth Holmes the one 334 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:21.920 who ran therapies where they said, you know, just give us one drop 335 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:25.039 of blood and we can test for eight million things. And the reason this 336 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:30.440 sentence I think is so high is because she was able to hoodwink Walgreens, 337 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:36.279 uh testing that remember that. Now it never came to fruition and Uh. 338 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:41.039 You take a multinational corporation like that on uh and then you defraud them. 339 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:44.759 I'm sure that that that has a high profile to it, which adds to 340 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:47.640 the sentencing. All right, let's talk about the good news for Meta. 341 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:52.640 The stock jumped yesterday after you had the revenue growth. But this is following 342 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:56.440 news that I've been keeping up on obviously about layoffs in the company. H 343 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:00.160 you have you know I do that's I do my job a little bit some 344 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:03.279 research. Yeah. Look, this is a weird time for tech because usually 345 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.880 tech is expected to lean into innovation, right, which means costs you have 346 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:11.480 to put the billions up in order to innovate, the infrastructure, the talent 347 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:15.880 you have to hire. But so instead right now, everybody's doing an AI 348 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:18.920 flex. So Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta all did earnings this week, 349 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:23.200 and earnings calls last about an hour, okay, and about ten minutes of 350 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:27.359 that it's just crap. And then the rest of it is like where where 351 00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:32.960 where actual earning stuff comes out? More than two hundred times? Was AI 352 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:37.279 used in those three earnings calls this week? No way, so that's counted. 353 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:40.000 Well, I didn't. I only watched one, but then I looked 354 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:44.920 at some transcripts of the others. So and then but it shows that like 355 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:49.000 they're trimming workforce a talent because usually tech companies higher talent that they don't need, 356 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:52.839 so other their competitors can't have that talent. Yeah, that doesn't seem 357 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:56.640 to be the case anymore. So the whole industry seems to be maturing in 358 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.559 that way. So when they cut those costs and then they add a little 359 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:04.400 less spending on AI than everything like, looks good. Look Meta failed, 360 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:08.359 it's earnings last three times by three quarters. Yea, so this one's very 361 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:12.920 positive. They're flexing. Zuckerberg says, it's the year of efficiency that seems 362 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:18.319 to be working for investors. After market after the earnings call, stocks stocks, 363 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:19.960 share prices for Meta, we're up twenty percent. Now they're up ten 364 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:22.880 percent. Yeah, still, I mean still good. Still in uphill climb 365 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:26.240 for Meta. But hey, in the right direction. He's going to focus 366 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:30.200 a little less on the metaverse and more on AI, and the revenues are 367 00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:36.160 up. Look, his two billion daily active users, three billion monthly active 368 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:38.279 users. A lot of that, some of that is a little bit of 369 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:41.799 a spillover from the Twitter dumpster fire. That's happenings where people are going to 370 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:45.160 face back to Facebook. But it's usually Gen X and older that uses Facebook. 371 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:48.839 But they also had the discretionary income to buy stuff they see on ads. 372 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:53.559 Absolutely, okay, can we I want to pull the car over for 373 00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:57.640 half a second year? What the hell is your fascination with Chipotle? Because 374 00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:03.599 it's real food? Oh wow, Chipotle is delicious. It's headquartered in Newport 375 00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:06.759 Beach, and I'm a fan of the locals. I don't care too much 376 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:10.799 about that, but Chipotle's delicious. Tyler bringing the heat. Okay, So 377 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:15.119 it has clearly gone past all of the like crazy equal I crap that we 378 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:19.079 went I didn't mean that, but it worked well. But that we went 379 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:22.799 through, I mean, it's still in my mind, and yet I do 380 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:26.400 love Chipotle. Hey, as an investor, you up the prices and you 381 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:30.920 up your in store sales at the same time. Yeah, that's a win 382 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:33.119 win. Yeah the business. I hate to use such a jargon as win 383 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:37.759 win. Right there you go. All right, So their profits were up, 384 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:41.759 and I guess that the traffic has been growing visitors in the story. 385 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:47.519 Yep, there there cheese. Yeah, the cheese dip with the chips. 386 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:49.039 I what if it's real. It's real. Oh my god, it's so 387 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:53.039 good. Finally, Newport Beach Headquarters. Good for you, Newport Beach. 388 00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:56.359 This is one. Okay, I have to ask you before we start this 389 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:03.000 one. Um, do you remember going to Wendy's probably in like the eighties, 390 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:07.480 and they had that bar like the salad bar, but you could get 391 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:11.599 chili and potatoes and at pudding. Those terrible lights, yeah, I made 392 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:15.400 everything look kind of blue. Yes. And then also you would sit in 393 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:21.759 like the sunroom. Every Wendy's had sort of that like sunroom area and you 394 00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:23.920 would sit there and sort of sweat because that was back in the day when 395 00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:26.720 I was up in reading and it was one hundred and fifty degrees outside, 396 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:30.160 and yet we were like, we're going to the megabar at Wendy's and we're 397 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:33.759 gonna get some chili on our I mean, it was the stupidest thing. 398 00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:41.720 Looking back, however, Wendy's chili has always been amazing. And in fact, 399 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:45.160 when we were doing Katerina's Club, the guys at Wendy's down here in 400 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:51.559 Southern California, which are huge helpers of Katerina's Club, brought Conway. I 401 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:56.279 swear it was like a It reminded me of like a witch's cauldron full of 402 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.599 chili. Now Wendy's is going to start selling its chili in grow Shree stores. 403 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:03.519 I think it's a brilliant move. Why not, right, expand that 404 00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:07.079 customer base, maybe get some people back into the you know, sitting under 405 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:10.200 the pergolas and the hot lights. One hundred and fifty in Redding, And 406 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:11.519 the first thing you think of is I need some chili and sit in the 407 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:15.759 sun. Yes, perfect idea. And we would go like once a week. 408 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.720 It was a thing with my family. That's awesome, and look and 409 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:22.799 it'll it'll work. It will definitely help. But they did. They put 410 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:25.319 out all of the ingredients except for a few. And I think there's a 411 00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:27.720 secret ingredient that must be in there somewhere. I think I think it's I 412 00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:32.119 think it's turmeric. No, I'm just kidding it. Salt. It's got 413 00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:34.440 to be salt. It's lots of salt, you know what. And I 414 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:38.079 think, what is it? Wiener Schnitzel sells it's chili. But I think 415 00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:41.680 you have to go to Wiener Schnitzel. I don't think that that's on store 416 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:45.240 shot When I didn't know. I don't know about that. Yeah, I 417 00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:48.559 know about it only because I put it in everybody's stockings for Christmas, which 418 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:52.640 was stupid because it weighed down the stocking and then the stockings fell down. 419 00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:56.279 So you used a container though you just didn't put No, I just dumped 420 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:00.440 the whole I can. Well, that's good because that Christmas as may have 421 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.640 been unpleasant. Well you know, and it smelled really good. I love 422 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:07.480 you too, all right. Jason Middleton host a Macro two to four on 423 00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:11.359 Sundays here on KFI. He'll be on with Handel at eight o'clock and he 424 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.839 anchors. I don't know what Jason doesn't do. Still figuring that out, 425 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:18.519 Well, they haven't asked me. If they asked me, so I'll figure 426 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:21.920 out a way to do it. Can you be an engineer? Can you? 427 00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:23.160 Oh? No? No? Non? Fill in for me? No? 428 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:26.759 No, no. Tyler has ten screens going at once in there if 429 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:30.799 you count his phone ten screens. Think you true? All right? Jason 430 00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.680 tuc two Sir Santa Monica has approved to pay out to settle more than one 431 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:40.240 hundred twenty sexual abuse claims against a former youth program volunteer. They say that 432 00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:44.000 the city is now paid about two hundred thirty million to more than two hundred 433 00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:48.480 twenty accusers. This settlement is more than one hundred twenty two million dollars total. 434 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:53.480 The alleged attacks started in the nineteen eighties and went on into the early 435 00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:59.480 two thousands. The youth volunteer was charged back in twenty eighteen with molesting four 436 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:04.640 boys. He killed himself that same year, and Vice President Pence is closer 437 00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:10.319 to testifying before a grand jury investigating the efforts to undo the results of the 438 00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:15.880 twenty twenty presidential election. An appeals court yesterday rejected a bid by former President 439 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:19.240 Trump to Blockpence's testimony. The order from the three judge panel of the US 440 00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:25.119 Circuit Court of Appeals was filed days after a lower court judge directed Pence to 441 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:29.720 testify over objections from Trump's team. All right, let's say good morning now 442 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:33.160 to Major General Alex Fink Major, Good morning to you. Should I call 443 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:36.799 you major? Should I call you general? I honestly, I'm not one 444 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:41.720 hundred percent sure you can call me Alex my first Alex. Okay, You're 445 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:45.960 awesome, whatever you like. All Right, Well, I don't know what 446 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.480 part of me wants to call you General Fink, just because I don't think 447 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:51.880 I've ever spoken with a general before. Oh well, if that makes your 448 00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:56.160 day, then HI have very little going on. General, thank you. 449 00:30:56.359 --> 00:30:59.839 All right, So let's talk about be all you can be. So I 450 00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.240 must say, actually I am a soon to be former army wife, but 451 00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:08.519 it was being part of the military community there for all the years that I 452 00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:14.920 was married. I loved it. I was so into it. There was 453 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:19.039 such a camaraderie about it. There was such a feeling of we're all on 454 00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:22.160 the same team, you know, we're just all spokes in a wheel kind 455 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:26.319 of thing. It was wonderful and the be all you can be. I 456 00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:29.559 think when I saw that go away, I was like, wait, that 457 00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:30.680 was the thing, that was the thing that got you, you know, 458 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:34.279 excited about being in the military. Why are you Why did it go away? 459 00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:38.559 First off? And why is it being brought back? Sure? Well, 460 00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:41.720 first of all, I couldn't help but think when I when I when 461 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:47.160 you had the opening the song from Hall and Oates man Eater of the eighties, 462 00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:49.599 you know, the h and I was I was thinking, how appropriate 463 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:56.799 for this for this conversation exactly? Um, And so when you think about 464 00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:01.720 the All you Can Be of the eighties and nineties. Uh, and you 465 00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:05.680 know, and that's and you know, we're talking about the time I decided 466 00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:07.720 to join the Army as well. It was a very different time, you 467 00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:13.160 know America and where we were, where youth were, Uh, there was 468 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:16.599 the shining light you know on the hill. The country was full of optimism, 469 00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:21.759 and Bell you Can Be was really more of a reflection of what people 470 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:28.559 thought today. It's not like that. In fact, today, youth when 471 00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:31.279 we pull youth, they're the first generation in our history that actually thinks that 472 00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:36.240 they are they are not going to do better than their parents. Uh. 473 00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:40.240 And so this is this is a different The Bell you Can Be of twenty 474 00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:45.599 twenty three is more of more of a way to inspire people to to do 475 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:50.200 something. You know, what I thought was something different and so okay, 476 00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:52.440 go ahead, Sorry I was I was going to say. I was on 477 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:57.359 the go Army dot com website and looking at the Bell you Can Be section, 478 00:32:57.480 --> 00:33:01.400 which is sort of the spotlight portion of the website. What's interesting is 479 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:07.880 the way that things are laid out. You got a section on enlistment bonuses, 480 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:12.119 education, money and pay, skills and training, healthcare. It is 481 00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:17.720 so transparent. I love that about this. And so what you're seeing is 482 00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:22.559 really how we bring the positioning of bil you can be to life. So 483 00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:27.160 we didn't start off saying, Hey, we're going to bring back bl you 484 00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:30.880 can be. What we started off saying is what is the army uniquely deliver? 485 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:35.839 That is that it can own. And when we think about great brands 486 00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:39.319 like Disney, it's magic, Volvo, it's safety. The Army can deliver 487 00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:46.200 possibilities. And so the way that we've laid this impossibilities is multidimensional. Possibilities 488 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:51.720 can be expressed in the types of jobs you can do. It can be 489 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:55.759 expressed in the types of places you can go travel, It can be expressed 490 00:33:55.799 --> 00:34:00.720 in the types of things that motivates you, whether that's leadership, whether that's 491 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:05.960 adventure, whether that's UH finding finding out what you want to do. I 492 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:07.599 mean a lot of you don't exactly know what they want to do, and 493 00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:12.079 so the you know, the Army offers possibilities to help you discover that. 494 00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:15.119 And so the way we try to lay this out is UH is kind of 495 00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:20.039 multidimensional. Uh you you know, and how and how do you think about 496 00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:24.320 what possibilities means to them. We're not necessarily trying to define it. We 497 00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:30.280 just have We've just used this positioning as a way to to show youth, 498 00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:35.559 you know, the multifaceted possibilities that the Army offers across the whole weather dimensions 499 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:38.440 and the the um I guess the website itself, the go Army dot com 500 00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:44.400 website is so sexy. I mean, it makes you want to be a 501 00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:47.599 part of that team and maybe maybe while you're trying to figure out what you 502 00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:51.800 want to do and that sort of thing, this gives you a chance to 503 00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:53.920 I mean, it makes you feel when you go to the website, there's 504 00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:58.239 a power about it. You know, there's a there's a kind of a 505 00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:01.119 pull I guess that makes you want to be part of this. And then 506 00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:05.960 when you kind of dig start digging deeper into it about one of the things 507 00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:09.079 that was so interesting was this new two year enlistment option, and I thought, 508 00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:14.800 when did that change? I thought it had always been four years right 509 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:19.760 now, And again, back to possibilities, There are all kinds of different 510 00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.639 things, you know, and part of this is about the challenges that we 511 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:29.519 have with recruiting these days, and it's trying to broaden that you know, 512 00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:34.760 maybe that that twentieth century approach about what things should be and try to make 513 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:38.280 sure we're seeing a touch with what youth are looking for today. And so 514 00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:43.719 that to your enlistment is an option for certain types, and you know there's 515 00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:47.360 also there's a variety. There's also first duty station of choice, which has 516 00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:52.840 been a very popular option as well among you. But back to the website, 517 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:57.960 I will make sure I pass on your comments to my website team. 518 00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:01.199 And when you said sex, that may go to his head, so to 519 00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:06.559 make sure I positioned that correctly. Thank you. Curbed that a little bit 520 00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:09.480 for me, all right, thank you. So when you when some of 521 00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:15.239 the bonuses, these enlistment bonuses, holy cow. I know that there's some 522 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:19.119 that are get up to fifty thousand dollars, get up to forty thousand dollars. 523 00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:22.719 I know that recruitment has been an issue. I was actually talking with 524 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:27.000 one of my ABC reporters earlier this hour about you know, changes to the 525 00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:31.519 tattoo and facial hair policies, those kinds of things that have changed. And 526 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:36.880 I know that with these bonuses, you put that kind of money out there, 527 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:40.280 you're gonna be drawing more people in especially if they're just getting out of 528 00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:44.159 high school, you know, before they go to college, that sort of 529 00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:46.960 thing. Now they've got an option to not only make money, but also 530 00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:51.840 then get their education paid for it. I mean that's a huge win win, 531 00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:58.039 yes, And the bonuses are a tool. There's lots of other thank 532 00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:00.400 you. As I mentioned, you brought up the two year end listen of 533 00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:07.719 bonus, first duty station of choice. Um depends on what types of mos 534 00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:10.760 is that youth are looking for as well, kind of fits into that. 535 00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:16.199 And so it's really about trying to ensure that our recruiters who are out, 536 00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:21.400 you know, out with you know, in in with the public every day, 537 00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:24.559 have a variety of different tools that they can use. Because a bonus 538 00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:30.400 may appeal to one youth that may be something that really is a difference maker, 539 00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:34.519 but for someone else it might be it might not be as big a 540 00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:37.800 deal. But having that opportunity to say the first duty duty stations of choice 541 00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:40.360 or say, you know, I'm not one hundred percent sure I want to 542 00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:44.599 do this for four years, but two years it feels just kind of like 543 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:45.920 a gap year for me, you know, it's sort of like a gap 544 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:51.360 year, which is popular amongst youth these days. Um, then that kind 545 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:52.719 of feels like this and this is kind of like my gap year. So 546 00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:59.320 there's um, you know, the bonuses are good that that appeals to a 547 00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:02.480 certain type of youth and who's willing to do the thing you have to do 548 00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:06.559 to get the bonus. The bonus isn't just a you know, there's certain 549 00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:10.599 moss that applies to and if they're interested in that the bonus, certainly, 550 00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:15.840 I'm sure no one will turn it away. But there's a variety of different 551 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.280 reasons people serve. It's not just because of money. Okay, when it 552 00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:25.440 comes to the recruitment, I noticed that my soon to be x you know, 553 00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:29.639 he was in the military from Georgia, and it seemed like when we 554 00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:32.239 would go back there, you know, whatever the bases were that we would 555 00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:36.360 go to or anything like that, it was it seemed like being in the 556 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:40.039 military was just kind of what you did. I mean it was his uncle 557 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:44.519 was Claire Chenult. I mean, it was just like you have that in 558 00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:49.000 your family, that's what you did. And then in California, though I 559 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:54.440 know that it just seems less prevalent, and do the recruiters have a harder 560 00:38:54.480 --> 00:39:01.079 time in certain areas versus others. So I think, Jennifer, what you've 561 00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:07.960 just done is nailed the challenge that we have, which is can be sort 562 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:13.199 of encapsulated in sort of the civilian military divide that we have in this country. 563 00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:17.320 And so you know, back in the eighties and nineties, we closed 564 00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:22.440 a bunch of bases, to include some in California for all good, sort 565 00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:29.280 of logical efficient type of reasons, and we consolidated a lot of activities into 566 00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:34.079 sort of these mega bases, and many of those are in the southeast United 567 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:40.880 States. So and and what that did over a period of years is somewhat 568 00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:46.000 disconnect us from from the American public. And so you know, what you 569 00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:51.639 what you experience, What you just indicated is the challenge that we have. 570 00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:54.559 And so do recruiters have a harder time in California, of course, and 571 00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:58.840 they have a harder time in Chicago, and they have a harder time in 572 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:02.519 New York City in places where we just don't have the presence. So the 573 00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:07.239 campaign bl you can be is a piece. It's a part. It's a 574 00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:15.719 way that we can help reintroduce America to its army um. But it's it's 575 00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:20.360 not going to solve every challenge, right, we simply cannot replace the presence 576 00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:24.280 of having soldiers walking walk in the streets, you know, in uniforms and 577 00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:30.119 things like that. And so it's going to be this is a multifasceted problem 578 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:34.840 that we have to that we have to work through in order to do that. 579 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:39.159 And we really do need our army to come from America, not just 580 00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:45.159 from a particular you know, few states, and so we we we uh, 581 00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:50.320 we want America's army to reflect America and and that diversity across a variety 582 00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:53.960 of different dimensions, to include where where people are coming from. So these 583 00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:58.400 are the challenges that we have to work through, um and um. And 584 00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:00.320 you've you've sort of nailed probably one of the biggest ones. All right, 585 00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:04.639 General, I appreciate your time this morning. And the fact that you just 586 00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:07.199 said I nailed it. It's like, Okay, look at that a general 587 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.119 said, I'm I'm on point on this one. This makes me feel good. 588 00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:14.800 Thank you so much, Alex fair time. All right, see you 589 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:19.079 later, be all you can be. Go. Army dot com is where 590 00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:21.880 you can see some of the new stuff. It Honestly, this website, 591 00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:25.920 even if you're not thinking about going into the military. The website is amazing. 592 00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:29.719 You can just see all the time and effort that they put into it. 593 00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:35.119 This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles. There is talk about 594 00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:38.119 AM radio being removed from new cars and trucks, and some people say you 595 00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:42.679 don't need radio because you can get alerts on your phone. Aliz, a 596 00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:46.960 text alert on your phone is no substitute for what broadcast radio provides in time 597 00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:52.239 of need. There's a one line text alert cannot take the place the voice 598 00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:55.360 on the radio talking to you twenty four seven until the emergency passes. And 599 00:41:55.440 --> 00:42:00.159 that's assuming the cell networks are even up and running, which they often or 600 00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:04.719 not. When emergencies occur, your local broadcast radio station as they're providing wall 601 00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:08.320 to wall coverage, life saving information and a live connection in crisis, and 602 00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:14.199 then radio stays in the aftermath. So you need to make your voice heard. 603 00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:16.719 Don't let them take AM radio out of the cars. Text the letters 604 00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:21.320 AM to five to eight, eight to six, and tell Congress to keep 605 00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:24.360 AM radio in all of our cars and trucks. On Jennifer Jones Lee, 606 00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:29.119 this has been your wake up call. You've been listening to your wakeup call. 607 00:42:29.159 --> 00:42:31.519 With me Jennifer Jones Lee, and you can always hear Wake Up Call 608 00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:37.840 five to six am Monday through Friday at KFI AM six forty and anytime on 609 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:38.960 demand on the iHeartRadio app