Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M six
forty wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. She likes to call
it Friday. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your Thursday morning wake up call.
Maybe I'll change it. What do you know, mister announcer guy, Maybe
I'm going to change it to I don't have to get up in the middle
of the night eve, or I take a five hour nap on Friday's Eve.
That's true, by the way, I don't know if you know anybody
else who in the middle of the day on a Friday takes the sleeping pill.
This guy does. You can't call that a nap though? Why five
hour nap? Why nap? If I'm napping, there's I think there's a
breaking point to when a nap becomes a sleep, and I'm pretty sure it
happens right around like the two hour mark. So every day I sleep,
because I sleep for like three to four hours during the day, is a
full on sleep. Jin I think we're going to debate this. Oh no,
I'm going to Miriam Webster's dictionary this, you know what, lay it
on thick. Then we might have to urban dictionary. Oh what a nap
is? That's dangerous territory, that's fun territory. Come on now, hello
everybody. It is a Thursday, Friday eve. Still cloudy out there,
But did you notice, just like I said yesterday, much less drizzle out
there. I think one time my windshield wipers whoop and that was it.
So it looks like that's going to be the pattern though as we go into
the weekend. This may gray gonna stay with us through Memorial Day, but
the mist and drizzle will be gone. However, the National Weather Service says,
don't get too cozy, people, because heat waves are coming this summer.
More issues on Metro this time. Police in la are trying to find
a guy who stabbed a metrobus driver in Woodland Hills. And there's a school
that has come up with a three year program in southern California at three of
its middle schools to tackle what it's seeing in a spike of mental health issues
following COVID nineteen. Also coming up, we've got the debt ceiling talk,
but we're gonna look at it from a couple of different angles that actually matter
to you. I'm like you, my eyes glaze over sometimes when we talk
about the debt ceiling, I'm like, Oh, I don't know what that
means or how it pertains to me. It does, though, and it
could impact your personal finances, and at twenty Brad Garrett's going to explain how
it might impact your security. That's all coming up, So let's start with
some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA
police are trying to find a guy who's stabbed a metro bus driver in Woodland
Hills. This suspect may be anywhere in either the San Fernando Valley are nearby
areas, and that suspect may also still be writing either MTA buses are on
public transportation. It's comforting. LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton says the bus was
on Too Panca Canyon at Irwin last night when the guy got into a fight
with the driver. The altercation started on the bus and then went onto the
street here on the sidewalk now. The stabbed bus driver was taken to the
hospital. He's in critical condition. Police say the stabber is about twenty one
years old, six feet tall, has blonde, curly hair. You can
see a photo of the guy on our website at KFI AM six forty dot
com. Slash Suspect and Blake Trolley is following the story this morning, so
as new developments come, you'll hear them live here on KFI. A judges
denied a request by the City of la for the return of photos of LAPD
officers released to an active The city claims the LAPD inadvertently handed over some pictures
of undercover officers, but a judge ruled yesterday the city didn't make a good
argument for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition to return the photos. This is the
second time in a month the judges ruled against the city in the case.
The judge also told attorneys for the city that they did not clearly define an
officer in an undercover capacity. In March, more than nine thousand photos of
officers were handed over to the coalition as part of a public record's lawsuit.
At least three hundred officers have filed to claim against the city, alleging their
identities and safety were compromised. Steve Gregory Kofine News Cash bail has been banned
for many arrests made by the La County Sheriff's Department and the LAPD. A
judge issued a sixty day injunction barring the departments from using bail on lower level
offenses. Adriana Molina, who owns a clothing store in Altadena, says she
thinks criminals will become even more emboldened by the ruling. She says she had
to move a clothing rack inside her store when she was in Pasadena because of
theft. Something that's good for us for marketing. We we had to switch.
A judge ordered the LAPD and Sheriff's Department to come up with a what
they call pre court system. The ruling was in a lawsuit claiming cash bail
is unfair to lower income people. Caleb Silver, editor in chief of investopedia
dot com, ABC News contributor, Good morning, good morning, Good to
be with you, Nice to be with you two. And I know what
I'm going to just be honest with you, Caleb. I know that this
is your thing. And I actually went to school to be an accountant.
I'm not joking me an accountant that would have gone far. I love numbers,
actually love math, but when it comes to looking at the debt ceiling
talks and a possible default I admit there's some glazing over that happens. However
I shouldn't because I guess this could be personal to all of us. Yeah.
Absolutely. Let's start with the very practical things that could happen if the
debt ceiling isn't raised or extended, or there's some negotiation to do it later.
That could mean the missing or delaying of Social Security payments and Medicare payments.
A lot of Americans depend on those. If the government runs out of
money, it may have to push those up. It eventually makes good on
those, but for folks living on a fixed income depending on that Social Security
check every month, it may get delayed. You may miss a month,
so you have to prepare for that. Then there's the further tightening of lending
that's already happening in the banking system. Because of all those bank failures,
banks are going to be more reluctant to lend, and so a tightening of
lending is going to hurt folks that are counting on borrowing money from the bank
to buy a house, start a small business, pay their payroll, etc.
And then the worst case scenario is a potential credit down grade of US
government debt the US government treasury bond. The tenure is the most widely held
asset on the planet. We lend a lot of those out, a lot
of countries, a lot of big institutional investors buy those. If we get
a credit downgrade like we almost had back in twenty eleven, that is going
to cause mayhem in the stock market and in the bond market, and everyone's
going to feel that, Okay, And I think that it's obvious in this
study. I know that you're citing by morning, consoled about Yeah. I
mean, very few of us actually think about the debt ceiling as impactful as
you just pointed out it was. And in fact, I think that when
we hear default, we think, well, that's their problem. We don't
consider it our problem. Right, But it's one of those things that everyone's
going to feel. It has the reverberations through the financial system, and it
really starts again with those delaying of payments. You know, the government is
taking what Janet Yelling, the Treasury Secretary says, extraordinary measures, moving money
from account to account to try to make sure we can pay the minimum of
our bills. But once we get to that June first or now, she's
saying potentially June fifteenth deadline. That means a lot of Again, those government
offices may shut down. You may get the delaying of some of these payments
to millions of Americans that depend on them. You may get the closing of
national parks, the furloughing of government employees. None of that is very good,
and it causes us psychological cloud over the markets and over US households because
we can't pay our bills and it starts to bleed through the financial system.
Everyone's going to feel it all the way down the line. Absolutely. And
retirement account I never even thought about those being impacted. Yeah, absolutely,
And the government does fund a lot of government employee retirement accounts, and so
far that might they have been able to make those payments, but that could
be the first step the Treasury Secretary has to do is not fund the government
retirement accounts or delay the funding of those retirement accounts. Again, not going
to impact folks right away, but it will eventually. Now, usually when
this happens, and it's happened seventy eight times, we come up against the
debt ceiling and it's raised every single time. The government makes good on those
back payments. But it's not fun for people who are depending on a monthly
payment, who are on a fixed income to not get their check because politicians
in Washington, DC can't sort this out, you know. And that I
think is the thing that frustrates most people, is this political fighting, this
partisan fighting. Sometimes it feels like they care a whole lot more about making
sure their side wins than they actually do about their constituents and what this kicking
the can down the road sort of does to all of us. Caleb,
I I wish you were in the talks with McCarthy and Biden. I do
too, but they took off for the weekend, so they started their vacation
earlier. The rest of us are going to keep working because that's what we
gotta do. Isn't that nice vacationing when we have a debt ceiling and a
default lingering out there, possible credit downgrade. Perfect time to go to the
beach. Yeah, thanks so much, but you all have a good holiday
and the rest of us are going to sit here and worry about what happens
if we can't pare about exactly. Caleb, thank you, as always.
I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, that's investorpda dot COM's editor in
chief, Caleb silver Am, I the only one who gets peeved. Oh,
I'm must have a slip there when you hear holy canoli. People might
not get paid, People might not get their Social Security checks. And the
reason that the Social Security checks and the Medicaid checks Medicare check checks particularly are
make me nervous is because usually people who are getting those are on a fixed
income. Not to say that any employee who doesn't get paid is not going
to feel the impact of that. I remember when you know, the government
would come close to a shutdown or did shut down a couple of times.
Not the same as a default like this one. But I remember when you
know, my ex when he would he worked for FEMA or does and we
wouldn't get paid. And that was okay because we had two incomes and you
know, we were budgeting and that kind of thing. But what if you
didn't. What if you were a family where dad worked and mom stayed home
and you literally have one income and right now, with interest rates the way
they are, that a ton of people are living paycheck to paycheck, and
so because of that, that's where you see this trickle down so hey,
guys, maybe don't go on vacation. Maybe work something out so that you
don't put the rest of the country in a pick. That's just thinking out
loud. What evigil has been held in Texas to mark one year since the
mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvaldi. Nineteen kids and two teachers were
killed in that shooting at rob Elementary School. President Biden used the anniversary to
push Congress to pass an assault weapons ban. They've been used time and again
and mass killings of innocent children of people. We need to ban high capacity
magazines, ability to shoot twenty thirty, forty fifty sixty were bullets without reloading.
Biden also wants universal background checks. Long Beach is pushing for a twenty
five thousand dollar reward for information on the fatal shooting of a twelve year old
boy. Eric Brown, was shot and killed on May ninth while walking with
friends, but no arrests have been made. Long Beach City councilwoman Suey sorrow
says the reward is a way of asking the public for help. It's something
our community has advocated for with the family and as a council, as a
city. We wholeheartedly support making sure that we catch this person, sorrow says.
The council unanimously voted in favor of the reward Tuesday, but it still
needs to be approved by the La County Board of Supervisors. Chris Adler KAFIE
News. Cash bail has been banned for many arrests made by the La County
Sheriff's Department, and LAPD judge issued a sixty day injunction barring the departments from
using bail on lower level offenses. Also, we're going to be following the
story this morning of police in LA trying to find a guy who stabbed a
metro bus driver in Woodland Hills. That driver is now in critical condition.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Brad,
good morning, And I've kind of been focusing on the impact a debt
ceiling default could have. First, we talked with Caleb Silver about how personally
it impacts us, because I know a lot of us are like, uh,
whatever that's on, that we don't think about the trickle down and when
it actually comes to our wallets. And I had not even thought about the
impact on public safety that a default might have So think about it this way.
The House fast To bill that I don't think would ever have a chance
of passing into the Senate, but that bill cuts seventeen billion dollars at a
federal law enforcement, the federal court system, and the prison system. If
you think about that, that get trickled down where the FBI would have to
potentially lay off eleven thousand people. I goes through ATFDA, every agency you
can think of, tsa twelve thousand potential of folks they might have to lay
off, and the day to day function even at the local city and county
law enforcement level, Jennifer, because the federal government through grants provides them with
a lot of money for training for higher additional police officers. All of that
under some of these budget reviews and perhaps our bills, and perhaps even what
could happen if we do default where the money is not there, You know,
some of these programs and people may start to disappear, and the law
enforcement doesn't function on While I can have ten people today and three tomorrow,
it just doesn't work that way. And so I see some significant problems when
it comes obviously to morale, but maintaining a level of folks that you need
in various departments and agencies, and long term will people even want to come
work for them anymore if the government becomes a place that people don't see as
stable. Right, I was thinking that exact same thing. Why would you
want to work for one of these if you know that you know every year
or whatever, you might get hamstrung by partisan politics going through the one thing
to two of the agencies that you talked about, so TSA and CBP at
a time when border protection is in every headline that you see in every newspaper
across the country, and then also TSA. If you start pulling people out
of the TSA for somebody who's like I don't really care about any of those
other agencies, you might want to travel this summer, and if there aren't
enough TSA agents, that is going to impact your life. I mean,
I get why Congress and the American people want to reduce the amount of debt
we have, but you have to be careful how you do it. I'm
not suggesting that agencies don't need to trim their budgets in certain places, but
you can't use a blant force approach to it to deal with that, and
that's apparently what I see in Congress, or at least in the House attempting
to do at this point. And relationships when it comes to Billy the case
where you've got informants overseas, you've got analysts here that are experts at a
certain part of the world that you're dealing with some really bad people. If
those people aren't there or there aren't people as qualified to be in those positions,
you start losing intelligence, you start losing timely events of potentially stopping somebody.
I mean, it has a tremendous ripple effect that the public would never
see until an event actually happened. All right, Brad, thank you for
bringing up that side of it as well. It just we you know,
I think sometimes that we see things in Congress happen and we feel like,
oh, we're not going to pay attention to that because we don't have skin
in the game. Unfortunately, in all aspects of our lives, we do
have skin in the game when it comes to a potential default. Brad,
Thank you so much, so welcome to take care of See you later.
ABC's Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett see Freaking Summer Travel which is supposed to
be bigger than you know, the size of Texas or something. And now
we could possibly have TSA layoffs if we default. We are living in strange
times, my friends. Speaking of travel By the way, at five fifty,
we're going to talk with ABC's Jim Ryan and wait till you hear the
numbers COVID what wait? Oh, we had a pandemic? When did that
happen? That's kind of the mindset that it seems travelers are in right now.
But we'll get into it in a minute. I just saw this story
came across from ABC seven this morning. There is a Starbucks store in Studio
City that has removed customers seating. So you can waltz on into this Starbucks
store and you can still get your coffee. However, the seating is gone
because of what it calls safe concerns. I guess. There's a sign on
the door of the store. This is the one on Ventura and Vineland,
and it says that the removal of the seating is temporary. And it isn't
clear what actually prompted them to do this. I don't know if there was
a specific incident or whatever. But remember six other Starbucks locations across Southern across
across southern California closed last year because of crime, vandalism, and vagrancy.
So you have to wonder, might they say, Okay, we're not going
to close our stores, but it's gonna be a grab and go kind of
thing you come in. Remember they closed that Starbucks right near the Pantageous Theater.
Is that Let's see, it was on the corner right near right.
But there's a Yes, there's like a good Will right there, I think
too across the street maybe, I think, yeah, But they closed it
because there was just it was too congested. They were they were having a
lot of transience kind of linger there and there was a lot of violence.
So yeah, it seems to be a trend for people to congregate around Starbucks
areas, which obviously the more people that are there, the likelihood of violence
and problems just go up. So well, So I Jason Middleton is in
here by the way, jump on into this little conversation if you wants.
So, I M let's see you. What was it nineteen No, it
was two thousand and two ish. I worked at Starbucks, so it was
after I got my first job in the Bay area, and I was working
mornings in San Jose for a San Francisco state for a KGO where Jason and
I worked together. And I was in our South Bay office and I knew
no one, I didn't like. Oh, I was bored whatever. And
I was sitting in a Starbucks one day and they put a help wanted sign
in the window and I looked at the woman who put it up there,
and I go, oh my gosh, I'll totally work. Here was down
the street from the cop shop. It was down the street from the ward
house, the whole nine yards, and I thought, yeah, this is
great. I'm gonna see every coup and attorney and judge and whatever that comes
in, and maybe they'll give the little barista a little tip here and there.
S from NBC when I was working at NBC. Yes, that's right,
okay, so that when I was working at That's the reason I bring
it up. One of the things that I always found bizarre that was the
Starbucks in the downtown portion of San Jose, which at that time had the
highest population of homeless people. That Starbucks let anybody into the bathroom. The
homeless would go in there and wash They would literally take baths in the sink
and walk out wet, and they could bring a cup, so they would
go to the trash can outside the Starbucks, get a cup that somebody else
had used, come in and get a coffee refo. I think was like
ten cents. Yeah, yeah, I'm not I'm not judging. That's just
actual fact. However, it made a giant impact on the clientele in that
at that Starbucks. People were saying they didn't feel safe. People were just
saying the amenities there, you can't use the bathroom. Yeah, it was
gross. I mean, you know, and as an employee, I would
have to go in there, and I remember washing a wall one time and
thinking to myself, we have a problem here. So I feel like Starbucks,
Yes, maybe all of this is coming to a head, but I
feel I think I've been watching this for two decades. It seems that Starbucks
let something happen in their stores. Maybe they could have just put a keypad
on the door or something like that. They did add one at that one,
for sure. I know that they did good. Yeah, I know.
The one near me where I live now has a keypad as well,
and they rotated out and a lot of people come in expecting to be able
to go to do their ablutions in the morning, and they can't because they
don't know the code because they changed the code, yes, or they don't
remember it. Yes, Yeah, that's right. They kind of pulled this
house of cards on themselves. And yes, that's how I feel. I
feel like you should have seen this coming Starbucks. I was complaining about it
twenty years ago. Okay, I'll get off my soapbox. Let's talk about
now this outlook on retirement. I think a lot of us are nervous right
now because we're watching interest rates go up. Sure, things are more expensive
all of a sudden, we're having to dip into maybe our eras or our
you know whatever, sure to help us get money. Right now, banks
are tightening who they're lending to. So our look at retirement maybe not even
as bad right now, but we have our head in the sand. Well
it's down ten percent from ten years ago. And so it was fifty three
percent of people thought they would be able to retire relatively comfortably, not like
living high or anything like that, but just like living comfortably, not having
to worry every month to pay the bills and meet to meet what they need
as far as their budget goes, right, So that's down ten percent.
What stuck it out to me was this forty three percent that right now say
that they might be able to retire. Is this is before the debt ceiling
and default debate started politically, so you could understand how those head wins would
probably if this poll had been taken in May, then I can see how
that would be an impact and people's thinking and doing the math and the calculus
for moving forward. But since it came in April and earlier April, before
this all started, that stood out a lot. And the ten percent drop
is equal to what it was under George W. Bush as well as under
President Biden. And that goes to stewardship of the economy. The only one
third of Americans think that both of those presidents then and now have the capacity
to guide the economy through regulation and other policies. So if it's ten percent,
and this was taken in April, and I know it was talking with
Caleb Silver from Investopedia earlier, he started talking about the impact on retirement accounts.
I'm gonna venture to save in that, I bet it's higher than ten
percent. Now if people were asked about their retirement. Acco have to agree,
because look, inflation at the level that it is right now is basically
a pay cut, right, triving to pay more for everything else. And
you your wages didn't go up quite as much as as you would have hoped,
let's say. But then then you have the Fed doing the interest rate
thing too, and that's a credit squeeze that's happening. But the banks that
you mentioned, so all those things coming together really is going to slow down
the pace of retirement or the planning out a little bit farther. Luckily,
the eighteen to twenty nine's right now say that they are more confident than usual
when it comes to their retirement accounts, but they haven't been through these kind
of situations whereas older Americans have, right exactly. Oh, speaking of things
that have already happened and are happening again, meta with another round of layoffs,
I feel like this number that we keep getting from Zuckerberg gets a little
bit higher and a little bit higher. And oh, that was the last
round of layoffs. Here's a new one. Twenty one thousand people since November
have been laid off. This is good and bad in a way. It's
never good lose a job because you could lose a work visa, you might
have benefits, concerns and things like that. So this is it. So
this round was announced as the beginning of the year, the Year of Efficiency
from Zuck and ten ten thousand people in November, and then he realized,
hey, things are moving, Okay, maybe I can cut more, and
so he has. So. But remember during the pandemic, the tech companies,
specifically, a lot of empty calories were taken on. Okay, they're
they're a little bit, a little bit big around the middle, and so
this is this is a trim down. So if business wise this makes sense,
people wise, not necessarily. And also he's having to pivot away from
his metaverse focus so much because that is a money suck, and he's had
to move some other to some other projects that may have been lower down on
a priority list and raising them up. He said in his earnings call that
he's finding more efficiencies than he anticipated and in retrospect, he probably should have
made this move earlier. Okay, but then does that mean if he's finding
efficiencies, then we won't see any more layoff? That's what they say.
They say that they're steady and for the rest of this year at least and
probably into next year as well. But they're also making their own chips like
Apple was doing, and making their own supercomputers like like Microsoft, and that
might be able to give them a moat and some kind of insurance that they'll
be able to keep their revenue streams going because they have their own computers,
not relying on a vendor. Okay, that's pretty awesome. I went to
Florida for the first time. I'll know, I guess second. Anyway,
it doesn't matter. We're Starbucks at the time, not that smartassum so I
promise you I've never had I know, this is dumb. A better orange
in my life than I was on in Treasure Island, Florida. And there
was some little like dinky stand you know that. It was like, yeah,
we're in Florida, we better get an orange. Yeah, I'll be
damned, best freaking orange I've ever had. I'm glad you had that memory
because we're not going to have those for a while. Thank you for that
worst orange production crop since the thirties. That's not okay, No, A
couple of hurricanes happened to twenty twenty two, which does help infrastructure for sure.
But then they have this citrus greening disease that basically doesn't let an orange
mature, it stay, it stays green and bitter. And some of the
losses are ninety percent from some of these farms. The one that I read
about was he's sixty percent down, so the prices are going to go up
for availability. He's not going to be there too. Um, I didn't.
I didn't have the chance to look into California production of oranges, but
obviously Florida is by far the biggest producer statewise, So our orange juice,
Yeah, everything that's going to go up. Yeah, there's no there's no
raw materials. Then are we going to have enough enough money left over to
buy a new BMW Sedan that I can just look at me right now?
See him looking to the left? Yep, okay, look wait, I'm
looking at the right right. You know it's change length twice without turning a
blinker on. Nope, all you had to do was look at your passenger
side or driver's side mirror, and it's automatically going to take you into the
lane that you're looking at. Your your tendens are terrifying. See Okay,
Tyler, I'm glad you said that because I thought to myself, what happens
if I don't know I'm just looking right because somebody's passing me on the ride
or something. Am I going to crash into them? There are some safeguards
in there as well, but this is this is one of those auto driving
things where it establishes the algorithm when you're on an open road and it's obvious
that the data coming in is you're on an open road, you're traveling at
a certain rate of speed, traffic is so light, then these will these
options will happen for you. There are some safety guards, but you know
what we said that about Tesla to remember ten when we did this. So
yeah, but it is it's a super sexy looking car. Yeah, and
now it's a five series Sedan. By the way, if you're looking for
one, and if you're selling your old five series Edan, call me.
But this looks really cool. So I think I think it's it's it's where
we're headed. I just don't know if we're headed there as quickly as people
want it to be safe right exactly? And I know that all the safeguards
are built in now with if you know, any car pass up, I
don't even know you're twenty twelve, you get that little warning when you want
to change lanes or whatever. So it's not like the car wouldn't already be
equipped with that probably wouldn't let you if you looked right and it had the
little you know, dope, yeah, change lanes thing, a little symbol,
the red triangle, yes, yeah. And also what if you just
looked at it a little bit longer than you anticipated too, Like maybe you
really you were checking a blind spot, Yeah, you didn't see it,
and maybe that lingers a little bit too long. Until I drive one,
I can't really uh sponsors. Yeah, I was just gonna say, I
feel like we should drive one. I feel like this is a road test
study research. Yeah, oh totally, yeah, data gathering right absolutely.
Hi Jim Ryan, good morning. Are you traveling. I'm running, I
know that much, not necessarily traveling. No, I'm I'm gonna sit right
here in Dallas four Worth over the weekend, be ready to go on one
day morning, just like everybody else. Nice. Oh, I hear that
we don't yes in radio. It's so funny if people ask me like oh,
do you get Christmas off? Do you get the holidays off? I'm
like, what do you know what? The news must go on kind of
thing, must Chris? What is right exactly? I heard that there's this
jolly guy that comes down and delivers present. I don't know what the hell
it is, Jim, So I feel like these numbers are I know that
every time we go, oh, look we're nearing pre pandemic levels, and
now we said pandemic. What pandemic? More or less? Yeah, it
seems to be in the review mirror for a lot of folks who travel this
Memorial Day weekend, it looks like it's going to be one of the busiest
in the last twenty years or so, one of the top three busiest,
if that is, if the weather cooperates. And right now there is a
chance of some pretty strong storms right up the middle of the country, from
the Mexican border up to the Canadian border, through Texas and Oklahoma up in
dark you know, all over this part of the country. So that could
throw a wrench into things. But assuming that everything is stable, that the
weather cooperates for the most part, at least, we should see something like
what forty three million Americans traveling somewhere this holiday. Okay, Now, I
was just talking with your colleague Brad Garrett about the security concerns should we have
a default. One of the agencies that would be impacted is TSA, which
makes me nervous because I don't know that I necessarily always feel like, oh,
yeah, the TSA's got it when it comes to these giant crowds.
Now, let's reduce the number of TSA agents. I realized it wouldn't happen
during this particular holiday weekend, but I think that if there are any glitches
that they should just be put in the back of people's minds, like,
hey, if it sucked this bad over a Memorial Day, now, let's
imagine the workforce has been cut. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, And
that could happen after June first, if the US can't reach an agreement,
if congressional and White House negotiators can't come up with a plan to raise the
dead ceiling. You're right, that could cut into the number of those blue
shirted TSA agents. I noticed a few weeks ago, and I'm trying to
remember where it was, which airport, but there was a huge staff of
TSA agents both at the security checkpoints and then sitting at the desks watching the
whole security operation going on. So they seem to be up to staffing at
least. The airlines likewise, have worked on getting more people in the cockpits
and the passenger cabins. The FAA has tried to staff up. We're seeing
that the on time averages for the airlines are running better than they were a
few months ago. So things are shaping up to be fairly smooth anyway,
And you know, we'll see what happens. And obviously Memorial Days a harbinger
for what's going to happen over the summer. The summer then tells us what
might happen next Christmas. One thing that I was wondering too was about the
shortage of pilots. We've read a lot about that recently. Is that making
any impact on the travel this Memorial Day weekend? Well? Yeah, well,
maybe not in terms of scheduling, but possibly in terms of air Farris
I was talking with a pilot the day. He said that the starting pilot
or pilots who have been in the cockpit for maybe ten years, are making
about six hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year starting pilots are making you know,
over six figures just getting into the cockpit to start. So yeah,
a staffing up. It's an expensive proposition in any industry, and especially when
it comes to aviation. Suddenly, I want to be a pilot me too.
Oh my gosh, for that money. Yes, please, Jim,
thank you so much. I appreciate it. And I might talk to you
Monday. We'll see, but have a wonderful weekend. Talked later, all
right, see you later. ABC's Jim Ryan, Jason Middleton. Are you
going anywhere? No, no, no, not this week. No no,
no, no, no no. But air traffic controllers. If you're
looking for work in aviation, they need three thousand new hires for air traffic
controllers. I heard that yesterday. Oh that's good to know too. I
know that that's a good gig. Oh yeah, but the stress level,
I don't know if I would want to be an air traffic controller right because
I think it's long hours. In the focus has to be incredible. It
is long hours, but there's lots of space in between each shift as well,
so you can reboot yourself and get ready for the next one. That's
a good point. Unlike the show where you get up in the middle of
the night sleep deprived. If it's more than two hours, it's not an
ap Oh yeah, we're gonna end the show with that. By the way,
don't you know, ganging up on the girl, just saying put yourself
in this position? Whatever. Okay, can we talk about this is a
Handle segment, but I want to do it without Handle because I want to
talk about him, and so I don't want him here so he can defend
himself. Fair enough, Okay, so let's talk about now this sudden obsession
that people have that kind of makes Handle a fashionista, which grosses me out.
However, he goes to freaking Costco and he buys his new Balance shoes,
and now everybody wants new Balance shoes. It's the hip thing. I
saw it a lot on the sidelines at NBA games, people with the expensive
seats right on the first row. There weren't some new Balances. Okay,
I'm not saying that it's a bad shoe. No new Balance or Brooks or
you know, any of those. If you go into like a Dick's Sporting
Goods or whatever, those seem to be like the big brands. And you
know what I thought was interesting, I went into Dick's. The reason I
saw this was I went into a Dick's to buy some new running shoes and
I got some Brooks, and the Brooks and the New Balance were right up
front. Nike was buried in the back. Oh. And so when I
saw this story last night, I went, oh, so people are back
on the New Balance. Was it a hot like a decade ago? Yeah,
I guess it was. But five point three billion dollars in revenue for
New Balance is nothing to sneeze at. No, And it's a kind of
a meteoric rise. And now I don't know if they're paying for those end
caps to have their retail break, But I don't know because it could just
be demanded. Dix wants to look cool. Hey, these are in demand,
we have them come on in. Yeah, exactly, and freaking handle
a needle. I thought you were going to go to the cargo short story.
But no, no, no, oh no, you guys. Sometimes
it's cargo shorts and mandles, or when it's not cargo shorts and mandals,
it's a Costco like button down short sleeve shirt. Yeah, yeah, cargo
shorts, white ass legs. Well, I mean that dude is translucent.
Oh well he's in radio. Well let's he's in the studio. Well,
yeah, we can all tan. Well that's true too, okay, and
then bride and appearance. Yes, white socks and sometimes black New Balance shoes.
Bill's not here today, is he? He's a not physically, he's
not listening, I hope, speaking of Bill Costco. Okay, there were
what was it, like a mom and a daughter. I think that our
viral right now sampling this four pound meringuey treat that I guess is all the
rage at Costco. I have not had it, have you? No?
I have not a lemon meringue cheesecake. This is dance. Four pounds of
cheesecake in one sitting. Nope, that's crazy. I did see another TikTok
lemon thing. It's a lemon meringue. It basically like a shake. I
got four as juiced four lemons and put sweet and condensed milk in the blender,
a little bit of ice, and it was like having a shake that
tastes like a lemon meringue. And I saw it on the Tickety Talks.
Oh like, Okay, that one sounds good. That all right. So
here's what we're gonna end this show on this morning, because we started on
on this and I said that on Fridays, I take a five hour nap
at least, I admit, I take a sleeping pill, like middle of
the day. It's like eleven. And then I here's my routine. I'm
gonna kill you. Get off the show, go home. I take a
bath, bubble bath middle of the day while I take the sleeping pill,
and then the dogs and I go in shut all the windows. I think
they know. I think they look forward to Fridays and we take a nap.
Now, I said it's a five hour nap. Come on. Tyler
said that's not the case. Jason agreed with him. Steven agreed with him.
Who's training with Tyler? Here we go. Here is the definition of
sleep from Oxford Dictionary. A condition of body and mind that typically recurs for
several hours every night, in which the eyes are closed, the postural muscles
relaxed, the activity of the brain altered, and the consciousness of the surroundings
practically suspended. I like the definition of that. Postural is a good word.
Yeah, I don't use it often enough. The definition of nap,
sleep lightly or briefly, especially during the day. So you've proven Tyler's point.
Mom Mand, that's what I'm hearing. And I even tweeted this out
Jen not you know I love you and I've got your back, but I
tweeted this out shortly after we talked about it at the top of the hour
for five o'clock. Yeah, what world do you live in where five hours
is brief? The world where you've done mornings for thirty freaking years and got
up in the middle of the night, go on, and this is your
routine. Yeah, I don't say, Hey, everybody, have a great
weekend. I'm gonna go to sleep. I'm gonna go take a sleep.
Yeah, sep, don't if I don't see tomorrow, you can take your
sleep. And oh do you take a sleep or leader taking your sleep?
Wow? By the way, you five hours sleep and get you a five
hour energy gens will be good. There are Oh now I'm just going to
tell all my secrets. There are are times that I'll take a sleeping pill.
Take my name, Michelle, nap or sleep? No naps. I
don't nap. I never nap. Would you consider five hours a nap?
Five hours in nap. Five hours is a sleep. Thank you? What
is this gang up on gen day? Put your partial judge black robe and
everything. It looks good, looks good. This is KAFI and kost HD
too, Los Angeles, Orange County. So cowweather from KFI. We've got
a still gray start to the morning, but we don't have the missed in
drizzle like we had yesterday. But these cooler temperatures and partly cloudy conditions will
last throughout the weekend. Hister Today are just gonna be in the six the
seventies, maybe some very low eighties inland. We lead local live from the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Jennifer jones Lee. You've been listening to
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