WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.120 Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M six 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:10.320 forty wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. She likes to call 3 00:00:10.359 --> 00:00:17.039 it Friday. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your Thursday morning wake up call. 4 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:26.480 Maybe I'll change it. What do you know, mister announcer guy, Maybe 5 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:30.839 I'm going to change it to I don't have to get up in the middle 6 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:40.479 of the night eve, or I take a five hour nap on Friday's Eve. 7 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:46.759 That's true, by the way, I don't know if you know anybody 8 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:51.479 else who in the middle of the day on a Friday takes the sleeping pill. 9 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:56.600 This guy does. You can't call that a nap though? Why five 10 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:00.799 hour nap? Why nap? If I'm napping, there's I think there's a 11 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:06.159 breaking point to when a nap becomes a sleep, and I'm pretty sure it 12 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:10.760 happens right around like the two hour mark. So every day I sleep, 13 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:12.640 because I sleep for like three to four hours during the day, is a 14 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:19.560 full on sleep. Jin I think we're going to debate this. Oh no, 15 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:23.000 I'm going to Miriam Webster's dictionary this, you know what, lay it 16 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:27.400 on thick. Then we might have to urban dictionary. Oh what a nap 17 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:33.840 is? That's dangerous territory, that's fun territory. Come on now, hello 18 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:38.959 everybody. It is a Thursday, Friday eve. Still cloudy out there, 19 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.599 But did you notice, just like I said yesterday, much less drizzle out 20 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:47.000 there. I think one time my windshield wipers whoop and that was it. 21 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:49.040 So it looks like that's going to be the pattern though as we go into 22 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:55.000 the weekend. This may gray gonna stay with us through Memorial Day, but 23 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:59.439 the mist and drizzle will be gone. However, the National Weather Service says, 24 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:02.680 don't get too cozy, people, because heat waves are coming this summer. 25 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.280 More issues on Metro this time. Police in la are trying to find 26 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:13.719 a guy who stabbed a metrobus driver in Woodland Hills. And there's a school 27 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:17.280 that has come up with a three year program in southern California at three of 28 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:23.400 its middle schools to tackle what it's seeing in a spike of mental health issues 29 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:28.800 following COVID nineteen. Also coming up, we've got the debt ceiling talk, 30 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:32.120 but we're gonna look at it from a couple of different angles that actually matter 31 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:37.159 to you. I'm like you, my eyes glaze over sometimes when we talk 32 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:38.439 about the debt ceiling, I'm like, Oh, I don't know what that 33 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:44.919 means or how it pertains to me. It does, though, and it 34 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:50.319 could impact your personal finances, and at twenty Brad Garrett's going to explain how 35 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.840 it might impact your security. That's all coming up, So let's start with 36 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:58.439 some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA 37 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:01.159 police are trying to find a guy who's stabbed a metro bus driver in Woodland 38 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:07.319 Hills. This suspect may be anywhere in either the San Fernando Valley are nearby 39 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:14.240 areas, and that suspect may also still be writing either MTA buses are on 40 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:19.680 public transportation. It's comforting. LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton says the bus was 41 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:23.520 on Too Panca Canyon at Irwin last night when the guy got into a fight 42 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:27.759 with the driver. The altercation started on the bus and then went onto the 43 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:31.439 street here on the sidewalk now. The stabbed bus driver was taken to the 44 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:37.080 hospital. He's in critical condition. Police say the stabber is about twenty one 45 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:39.759 years old, six feet tall, has blonde, curly hair. You can 46 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:44.759 see a photo of the guy on our website at KFI AM six forty dot 47 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:49.840 com. Slash Suspect and Blake Trolley is following the story this morning, so 48 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:53.280 as new developments come, you'll hear them live here on KFI. A judges 49 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:58.319 denied a request by the City of la for the return of photos of LAPD 50 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:02.639 officers released to an active The city claims the LAPD inadvertently handed over some pictures 51 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:05.840 of undercover officers, but a judge ruled yesterday the city didn't make a good 52 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:11.080 argument for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition to return the photos. This is the 53 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:13.479 second time in a month the judges ruled against the city in the case. 54 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:15.639 The judge also told attorneys for the city that they did not clearly define an 55 00:04:15.720 --> 00:04:19.600 officer in an undercover capacity. In March, more than nine thousand photos of 56 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:23.720 officers were handed over to the coalition as part of a public record's lawsuit. 57 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.920 At least three hundred officers have filed to claim against the city, alleging their 58 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:32.079 identities and safety were compromised. Steve Gregory Kofine News Cash bail has been banned 59 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:36.360 for many arrests made by the La County Sheriff's Department and the LAPD. A 60 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:42.360 judge issued a sixty day injunction barring the departments from using bail on lower level 61 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:46.920 offenses. Adriana Molina, who owns a clothing store in Altadena, says she 62 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:50.560 thinks criminals will become even more emboldened by the ruling. She says she had 63 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:55.480 to move a clothing rack inside her store when she was in Pasadena because of 64 00:04:55.560 --> 00:05:00.600 theft. Something that's good for us for marketing. We we had to switch. 65 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:04.079 A judge ordered the LAPD and Sheriff's Department to come up with a what 66 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:10.040 they call pre court system. The ruling was in a lawsuit claiming cash bail 67 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:15.560 is unfair to lower income people. Caleb Silver, editor in chief of investopedia 68 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:18.800 dot com, ABC News contributor, Good morning, good morning, Good to 69 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:20.959 be with you, Nice to be with you two. And I know what 70 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:25.240 I'm going to just be honest with you, Caleb. I know that this 71 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.319 is your thing. And I actually went to school to be an accountant. 72 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.120 I'm not joking me an accountant that would have gone far. I love numbers, 73 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:35.319 actually love math, but when it comes to looking at the debt ceiling 74 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:41.519 talks and a possible default I admit there's some glazing over that happens. However 75 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:46.120 I shouldn't because I guess this could be personal to all of us. Yeah. 76 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.839 Absolutely. Let's start with the very practical things that could happen if the 77 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:55.040 debt ceiling isn't raised or extended, or there's some negotiation to do it later. 78 00:05:55.360 --> 00:06:00.000 That could mean the missing or delaying of Social Security payments and Medicare payments. 79 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:01.959 A lot of Americans depend on those. If the government runs out of 80 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.720 money, it may have to push those up. It eventually makes good on 81 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:09.439 those, but for folks living on a fixed income depending on that Social Security 82 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.879 check every month, it may get delayed. You may miss a month, 83 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.199 so you have to prepare for that. Then there's the further tightening of lending 84 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.240 that's already happening in the banking system. Because of all those bank failures, 85 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:23.199 banks are going to be more reluctant to lend, and so a tightening of 86 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:26.040 lending is going to hurt folks that are counting on borrowing money from the bank 87 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:29.759 to buy a house, start a small business, pay their payroll, etc. 88 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.920 And then the worst case scenario is a potential credit down grade of US 89 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:38.040 government debt the US government treasury bond. The tenure is the most widely held 90 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:40.639 asset on the planet. We lend a lot of those out, a lot 91 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.800 of countries, a lot of big institutional investors buy those. If we get 92 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:46.800 a credit downgrade like we almost had back in twenty eleven, that is going 93 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:50.319 to cause mayhem in the stock market and in the bond market, and everyone's 94 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:54.720 going to feel that, Okay, And I think that it's obvious in this 95 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.920 study. I know that you're citing by morning, consoled about Yeah. I 96 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:03.639 mean, very few of us actually think about the debt ceiling as impactful as 97 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.959 you just pointed out it was. And in fact, I think that when 98 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:11.040 we hear default, we think, well, that's their problem. We don't 99 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:15.600 consider it our problem. Right, But it's one of those things that everyone's 100 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.000 going to feel. It has the reverberations through the financial system, and it 101 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.199 really starts again with those delaying of payments. You know, the government is 102 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:26.800 taking what Janet Yelling, the Treasury Secretary says, extraordinary measures, moving money 103 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:29.959 from account to account to try to make sure we can pay the minimum of 104 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:31.480 our bills. But once we get to that June first or now, she's 105 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:36.040 saying potentially June fifteenth deadline. That means a lot of Again, those government 106 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:40.639 offices may shut down. You may get the delaying of some of these payments 107 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:43.759 to millions of Americans that depend on them. You may get the closing of 108 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.399 national parks, the furloughing of government employees. None of that is very good, 109 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:51.079 and it causes us psychological cloud over the markets and over US households because 110 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:55.519 we can't pay our bills and it starts to bleed through the financial system. 111 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:58.519 Everyone's going to feel it all the way down the line. Absolutely. And 112 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:03.240 retirement account I never even thought about those being impacted. Yeah, absolutely, 113 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.199 And the government does fund a lot of government employee retirement accounts, and so 114 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:11.600 far that might they have been able to make those payments, but that could 115 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.959 be the first step the Treasury Secretary has to do is not fund the government 116 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:18.600 retirement accounts or delay the funding of those retirement accounts. Again, not going 117 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:20.959 to impact folks right away, but it will eventually. Now, usually when 118 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.920 this happens, and it's happened seventy eight times, we come up against the 119 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.639 debt ceiling and it's raised every single time. The government makes good on those 120 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.759 back payments. But it's not fun for people who are depending on a monthly 121 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:35.799 payment, who are on a fixed income to not get their check because politicians 122 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:37.720 in Washington, DC can't sort this out, you know. And that I 123 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:43.039 think is the thing that frustrates most people, is this political fighting, this 124 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:48.759 partisan fighting. Sometimes it feels like they care a whole lot more about making 125 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.519 sure their side wins than they actually do about their constituents and what this kicking 126 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:56.759 the can down the road sort of does to all of us. Caleb, 127 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:00.519 I I wish you were in the talks with McCarthy and Biden. I do 128 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.240 too, but they took off for the weekend, so they started their vacation 129 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:05.559 earlier. The rest of us are going to keep working because that's what we 130 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:09.559 gotta do. Isn't that nice vacationing when we have a debt ceiling and a 131 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:13.120 default lingering out there, possible credit downgrade. Perfect time to go to the 132 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:18.320 beach. Yeah, thanks so much, but you all have a good holiday 133 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:20.399 and the rest of us are going to sit here and worry about what happens 134 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:22.480 if we can't pare about exactly. Caleb, thank you, as always. 135 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:28.519 I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, that's investorpda dot COM's editor in 136 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:37.919 chief, Caleb silver Am, I the only one who gets peeved. Oh, 137 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:43.039 I'm must have a slip there when you hear holy canoli. People might 138 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:50.120 not get paid, People might not get their Social Security checks. And the 139 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:56.000 reason that the Social Security checks and the Medicaid checks Medicare check checks particularly are 140 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:03.279 make me nervous is because usually people who are getting those are on a fixed 141 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.240 income. Not to say that any employee who doesn't get paid is not going 142 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:09.679 to feel the impact of that. I remember when you know, the government 143 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.679 would come close to a shutdown or did shut down a couple of times. 144 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:16.720 Not the same as a default like this one. But I remember when you 145 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:22.399 know, my ex when he would he worked for FEMA or does and we 146 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:26.519 wouldn't get paid. And that was okay because we had two incomes and you 147 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.600 know, we were budgeting and that kind of thing. But what if you 148 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.679 didn't. What if you were a family where dad worked and mom stayed home 149 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.080 and you literally have one income and right now, with interest rates the way 150 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:43.960 they are, that a ton of people are living paycheck to paycheck, and 151 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:50.919 so because of that, that's where you see this trickle down so hey, 152 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:54.960 guys, maybe don't go on vacation. Maybe work something out so that you 153 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:03.000 don't put the rest of the country in a pick. That's just thinking out 154 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:13.960 loud. What evigil has been held in Texas to mark one year since the 155 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.480 mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvaldi. Nineteen kids and two teachers were 156 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:24.039 killed in that shooting at rob Elementary School. President Biden used the anniversary to 157 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.840 push Congress to pass an assault weapons ban. They've been used time and again 158 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:33.559 and mass killings of innocent children of people. We need to ban high capacity 159 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:37.720 magazines, ability to shoot twenty thirty, forty fifty sixty were bullets without reloading. 160 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.080 Biden also wants universal background checks. Long Beach is pushing for a twenty 161 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.879 five thousand dollar reward for information on the fatal shooting of a twelve year old 162 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.360 boy. Eric Brown, was shot and killed on May ninth while walking with 163 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:56.120 friends, but no arrests have been made. Long Beach City councilwoman Suey sorrow 164 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:58.919 says the reward is a way of asking the public for help. It's something 165 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:05.120 our community has advocated for with the family and as a council, as a 166 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:11.759 city. We wholeheartedly support making sure that we catch this person, sorrow says. 167 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.879 The council unanimously voted in favor of the reward Tuesday, but it still 168 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:20.480 needs to be approved by the La County Board of Supervisors. Chris Adler KAFIE 169 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.159 News. Cash bail has been banned for many arrests made by the La County 170 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:30.000 Sheriff's Department, and LAPD judge issued a sixty day injunction barring the departments from 171 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:33.720 using bail on lower level offenses. Also, we're going to be following the 172 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:37.600 story this morning of police in LA trying to find a guy who stabbed a 173 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.080 metro bus driver in Woodland Hills. That driver is now in critical condition. 174 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:46.799 Let's say good morning now to ABC's crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, 175 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.120 good morning, And I've kind of been focusing on the impact a debt 176 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:56.080 ceiling default could have. First, we talked with Caleb Silver about how personally 177 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.480 it impacts us, because I know a lot of us are like, uh, 178 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:01.600 whatever that's on, that we don't think about the trickle down and when 179 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:07.240 it actually comes to our wallets. And I had not even thought about the 180 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:13.120 impact on public safety that a default might have So think about it this way. 181 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:18.279 The House fast To bill that I don't think would ever have a chance 182 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:24.679 of passing into the Senate, but that bill cuts seventeen billion dollars at a 183 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:28.679 federal law enforcement, the federal court system, and the prison system. If 184 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:33.879 you think about that, that get trickled down where the FBI would have to 185 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:39.279 potentially lay off eleven thousand people. I goes through ATFDA, every agency you 186 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:45.639 can think of, tsa twelve thousand potential of folks they might have to lay 187 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:52.559 off, and the day to day function even at the local city and county 188 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:58.840 law enforcement level, Jennifer, because the federal government through grants provides them with 189 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:03.519 a lot of money for training for higher additional police officers. All of that 190 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:11.000 under some of these budget reviews and perhaps our bills, and perhaps even what 191 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:16.559 could happen if we do default where the money is not there, You know, 192 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.879 some of these programs and people may start to disappear, and the law 193 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.639 enforcement doesn't function on While I can have ten people today and three tomorrow, 194 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:30.919 it just doesn't work that way. And so I see some significant problems when 195 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:37.159 it comes obviously to morale, but maintaining a level of folks that you need 196 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:43.159 in various departments and agencies, and long term will people even want to come 197 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:46.879 work for them anymore if the government becomes a place that people don't see as 198 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:50.440 stable. Right, I was thinking that exact same thing. Why would you 199 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:54.240 want to work for one of these if you know that you know every year 200 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:58.720 or whatever, you might get hamstrung by partisan politics going through the one thing 201 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:03.480 to two of the agencies that you talked about, so TSA and CBP at 202 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:09.480 a time when border protection is in every headline that you see in every newspaper 203 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.840 across the country, and then also TSA. If you start pulling people out 204 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:18.559 of the TSA for somebody who's like I don't really care about any of those 205 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.360 other agencies, you might want to travel this summer, and if there aren't 206 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:26.480 enough TSA agents, that is going to impact your life. I mean, 207 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:35.279 I get why Congress and the American people want to reduce the amount of debt 208 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:39.200 we have, but you have to be careful how you do it. I'm 209 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.519 not suggesting that agencies don't need to trim their budgets in certain places, but 210 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:48.559 you can't use a blant force approach to it to deal with that, and 211 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:54.159 that's apparently what I see in Congress, or at least in the House attempting 212 00:15:54.200 --> 00:16:00.480 to do at this point. And relationships when it comes to Billy the case 213 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:04.879 where you've got informants overseas, you've got analysts here that are experts at a 214 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:10.720 certain part of the world that you're dealing with some really bad people. If 215 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:15.240 those people aren't there or there aren't people as qualified to be in those positions, 216 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:21.799 you start losing intelligence, you start losing timely events of potentially stopping somebody. 217 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:26.000 I mean, it has a tremendous ripple effect that the public would never 218 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:30.759 see until an event actually happened. All right, Brad, thank you for 219 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:33.039 bringing up that side of it as well. It just we you know, 220 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:37.120 I think sometimes that we see things in Congress happen and we feel like, 221 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:41.080 oh, we're not going to pay attention to that because we don't have skin 222 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:45.639 in the game. Unfortunately, in all aspects of our lives, we do 223 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:48.159 have skin in the game when it comes to a potential default. Brad, 224 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:52.480 Thank you so much, so welcome to take care of See you later. 225 00:16:52.639 --> 00:17:00.960 ABC's Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett see Freaking Summer Travel which is supposed to 226 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:06.559 be bigger than you know, the size of Texas or something. And now 227 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:15.839 we could possibly have TSA layoffs if we default. We are living in strange 228 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:21.480 times, my friends. Speaking of travel By the way, at five fifty, 229 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.960 we're going to talk with ABC's Jim Ryan and wait till you hear the 230 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:30.039 numbers COVID what wait? Oh, we had a pandemic? When did that 231 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:34.680 happen? That's kind of the mindset that it seems travelers are in right now. 232 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:38.000 But we'll get into it in a minute. I just saw this story 233 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:44.279 came across from ABC seven this morning. There is a Starbucks store in Studio 234 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:51.359 City that has removed customers seating. So you can waltz on into this Starbucks 235 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:56.480 store and you can still get your coffee. However, the seating is gone 236 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:00.960 because of what it calls safe concerns. I guess. There's a sign on 237 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.440 the door of the store. This is the one on Ventura and Vineland, 238 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:11.359 and it says that the removal of the seating is temporary. And it isn't 239 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.359 clear what actually prompted them to do this. I don't know if there was 240 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:23.200 a specific incident or whatever. But remember six other Starbucks locations across Southern across 241 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:33.559 across southern California closed last year because of crime, vandalism, and vagrancy. 242 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.960 So you have to wonder, might they say, Okay, we're not going 243 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.640 to close our stores, but it's gonna be a grab and go kind of 244 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:47.039 thing you come in. Remember they closed that Starbucks right near the Pantageous Theater. 245 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:51.599 Is that Let's see, it was on the corner right near right. 246 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:53.519 But there's a Yes, there's like a good Will right there, I think 247 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:59.160 too across the street maybe, I think, yeah, But they closed it 248 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:02.519 because there was just it was too congested. They were they were having a 249 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:06.119 lot of transience kind of linger there and there was a lot of violence. 250 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:11.359 So yeah, it seems to be a trend for people to congregate around Starbucks 251 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:15.519 areas, which obviously the more people that are there, the likelihood of violence 252 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:21.920 and problems just go up. So well, So I Jason Middleton is in 253 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:25.039 here by the way, jump on into this little conversation if you wants. 254 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:30.720 So, I M let's see you. What was it nineteen No, it 255 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:34.079 was two thousand and two ish. I worked at Starbucks, so it was 256 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:37.160 after I got my first job in the Bay area, and I was working 257 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:41.960 mornings in San Jose for a San Francisco state for a KGO where Jason and 258 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.559 I worked together. And I was in our South Bay office and I knew 259 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.359 no one, I didn't like. Oh, I was bored whatever. And 260 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:51.559 I was sitting in a Starbucks one day and they put a help wanted sign 261 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:53.759 in the window and I looked at the woman who put it up there, 262 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:56.559 and I go, oh my gosh, I'll totally work. Here was down 263 00:19:56.599 --> 00:20:00.200 the street from the cop shop. It was down the street from the ward 264 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:02.359 house, the whole nine yards, and I thought, yeah, this is 265 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:06.519 great. I'm gonna see every coup and attorney and judge and whatever that comes 266 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:10.480 in, and maybe they'll give the little barista a little tip here and there. 267 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:14.279 S from NBC when I was working at NBC. Yes, that's right, 268 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:17.200 okay, so that when I was working at That's the reason I bring 269 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:22.119 it up. One of the things that I always found bizarre that was the 270 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:27.079 Starbucks in the downtown portion of San Jose, which at that time had the 271 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:33.880 highest population of homeless people. That Starbucks let anybody into the bathroom. The 272 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:41.240 homeless would go in there and wash They would literally take baths in the sink 273 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.640 and walk out wet, and they could bring a cup, so they would 274 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:49.599 go to the trash can outside the Starbucks, get a cup that somebody else 275 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:52.680 had used, come in and get a coffee refo. I think was like 276 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:57.599 ten cents. Yeah, yeah, I'm not I'm not judging. That's just 277 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:03.720 actual fact. However, it made a giant impact on the clientele in that 278 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.400 at that Starbucks. People were saying they didn't feel safe. People were just 279 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:11.440 saying the amenities there, you can't use the bathroom. Yeah, it was 280 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:15.359 gross. I mean, you know, and as an employee, I would 281 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:21.000 have to go in there, and I remember washing a wall one time and 282 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:25.880 thinking to myself, we have a problem here. So I feel like Starbucks, 283 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:29.039 Yes, maybe all of this is coming to a head, but I 284 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.359 feel I think I've been watching this for two decades. It seems that Starbucks 285 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:37.359 let something happen in their stores. Maybe they could have just put a keypad 286 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:41.599 on the door or something like that. They did add one at that one, 287 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:42.720 for sure. I know that they did good. Yeah, I know. 288 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:45.960 The one near me where I live now has a keypad as well, 289 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:49.559 and they rotated out and a lot of people come in expecting to be able 290 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:53.160 to go to do their ablutions in the morning, and they can't because they 291 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:56.039 don't know the code because they changed the code, yes, or they don't 292 00:21:56.039 --> 00:22:00.079 remember it. Yes, Yeah, that's right. They kind of pulled this 293 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:03.640 house of cards on themselves. And yes, that's how I feel. I 294 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:07.000 feel like you should have seen this coming Starbucks. I was complaining about it 295 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:11.559 twenty years ago. Okay, I'll get off my soapbox. Let's talk about 296 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:18.160 now this outlook on retirement. I think a lot of us are nervous right 297 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:21.640 now because we're watching interest rates go up. Sure, things are more expensive 298 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:25.400 all of a sudden, we're having to dip into maybe our eras or our 299 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:27.559 you know whatever, sure to help us get money. Right now, banks 300 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:33.079 are tightening who they're lending to. So our look at retirement maybe not even 301 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:36.680 as bad right now, but we have our head in the sand. Well 302 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:40.640 it's down ten percent from ten years ago. And so it was fifty three 303 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:44.359 percent of people thought they would be able to retire relatively comfortably, not like 304 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:47.920 living high or anything like that, but just like living comfortably, not having 305 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:51.759 to worry every month to pay the bills and meet to meet what they need 306 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:53.400 as far as their budget goes, right, So that's down ten percent. 307 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:57.799 What stuck it out to me was this forty three percent that right now say 308 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:03.160 that they might be able to retire. Is this is before the debt ceiling 309 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:07.400 and default debate started politically, so you could understand how those head wins would 310 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:11.079 probably if this poll had been taken in May, then I can see how 311 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:15.319 that would be an impact and people's thinking and doing the math and the calculus 312 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:18.440 for moving forward. But since it came in April and earlier April, before 313 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.480 this all started, that stood out a lot. And the ten percent drop 314 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:29.759 is equal to what it was under George W. Bush as well as under 315 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:33.799 President Biden. And that goes to stewardship of the economy. The only one 316 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:37.559 third of Americans think that both of those presidents then and now have the capacity 317 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:42.119 to guide the economy through regulation and other policies. So if it's ten percent, 318 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:45.880 and this was taken in April, and I know it was talking with 319 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:52.880 Caleb Silver from Investopedia earlier, he started talking about the impact on retirement accounts. 320 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:57.119 I'm gonna venture to save in that, I bet it's higher than ten 321 00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:02.240 percent. Now if people were asked about their retirement. Acco have to agree, 322 00:24:02.279 --> 00:24:06.000 because look, inflation at the level that it is right now is basically 323 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:07.640 a pay cut, right, triving to pay more for everything else. And 324 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:11.319 you your wages didn't go up quite as much as as you would have hoped, 325 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:15.920 let's say. But then then you have the Fed doing the interest rate 326 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:18.440 thing too, and that's a credit squeeze that's happening. But the banks that 327 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:22.119 you mentioned, so all those things coming together really is going to slow down 328 00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:26.759 the pace of retirement or the planning out a little bit farther. Luckily, 329 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:30.640 the eighteen to twenty nine's right now say that they are more confident than usual 330 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:33.960 when it comes to their retirement accounts, but they haven't been through these kind 331 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:38.559 of situations whereas older Americans have, right exactly. Oh, speaking of things 332 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:45.079 that have already happened and are happening again, meta with another round of layoffs, 333 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:48.079 I feel like this number that we keep getting from Zuckerberg gets a little 334 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:51.880 bit higher and a little bit higher. And oh, that was the last 335 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:55.839 round of layoffs. Here's a new one. Twenty one thousand people since November 336 00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:59.519 have been laid off. This is good and bad in a way. It's 337 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:02.160 never good lose a job because you could lose a work visa, you might 338 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:03.799 have benefits, concerns and things like that. So this is it. So 339 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:07.680 this round was announced as the beginning of the year, the Year of Efficiency 340 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:12.359 from Zuck and ten ten thousand people in November, and then he realized, 341 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:15.519 hey, things are moving, Okay, maybe I can cut more, and 342 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:18.920 so he has. So. But remember during the pandemic, the tech companies, 343 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:23.279 specifically, a lot of empty calories were taken on. Okay, they're 344 00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:26.880 they're a little bit, a little bit big around the middle, and so 345 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.160 this is this is a trim down. So if business wise this makes sense, 346 00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:33.079 people wise, not necessarily. And also he's having to pivot away from 347 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:37.160 his metaverse focus so much because that is a money suck, and he's had 348 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:41.599 to move some other to some other projects that may have been lower down on 349 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:45.000 a priority list and raising them up. He said in his earnings call that 350 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:48.160 he's finding more efficiencies than he anticipated and in retrospect, he probably should have 351 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:52.960 made this move earlier. Okay, but then does that mean if he's finding 352 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.319 efficiencies, then we won't see any more layoff? That's what they say. 353 00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:00.680 They say that they're steady and for the rest of this year at least and 354 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:04.519 probably into next year as well. But they're also making their own chips like 355 00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:10.240 Apple was doing, and making their own supercomputers like like Microsoft, and that 356 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:14.000 might be able to give them a moat and some kind of insurance that they'll 357 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:15.680 be able to keep their revenue streams going because they have their own computers, 358 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:19.000 not relying on a vendor. Okay, that's pretty awesome. I went to 359 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:22.160 Florida for the first time. I'll know, I guess second. Anyway, 360 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:29.839 it doesn't matter. We're Starbucks at the time, not that smartassum so I 361 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:33.559 promise you I've never had I know, this is dumb. A better orange 362 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:38.759 in my life than I was on in Treasure Island, Florida. And there 363 00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:42.480 was some little like dinky stand you know that. It was like, yeah, 364 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:45.720 we're in Florida, we better get an orange. Yeah, I'll be 365 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:49.039 damned, best freaking orange I've ever had. I'm glad you had that memory 366 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.440 because we're not going to have those for a while. Thank you for that 367 00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:56.640 worst orange production crop since the thirties. That's not okay, No, A 368 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:00.359 couple of hurricanes happened to twenty twenty two, which does help infrastructure for sure. 369 00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:07.039 But then they have this citrus greening disease that basically doesn't let an orange 370 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:10.720 mature, it stay, it stays green and bitter. And some of the 371 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:14.359 losses are ninety percent from some of these farms. The one that I read 372 00:27:14.359 --> 00:27:18.440 about was he's sixty percent down, so the prices are going to go up 373 00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:22.359 for availability. He's not going to be there too. Um, I didn't. 374 00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:25.200 I didn't have the chance to look into California production of oranges, but 375 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:30.960 obviously Florida is by far the biggest producer statewise, So our orange juice, 376 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:33.799 Yeah, everything that's going to go up. Yeah, there's no there's no 377 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:38.200 raw materials. Then are we going to have enough enough money left over to 378 00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:44.119 buy a new BMW Sedan that I can just look at me right now? 379 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:45.920 See him looking to the left? Yep, okay, look wait, I'm 380 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:49.599 looking at the right right. You know it's change length twice without turning a 381 00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:52.039 blinker on. Nope, all you had to do was look at your passenger 382 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:56.960 side or driver's side mirror, and it's automatically going to take you into the 383 00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:00.680 lane that you're looking at. Your your tendens are terrifying. See Okay, 384 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:03.240 Tyler, I'm glad you said that because I thought to myself, what happens 385 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:07.200 if I don't know I'm just looking right because somebody's passing me on the ride 386 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.319 or something. Am I going to crash into them? There are some safeguards 387 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:14.400 in there as well, but this is this is one of those auto driving 388 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:18.559 things where it establishes the algorithm when you're on an open road and it's obvious 389 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:19.920 that the data coming in is you're on an open road, you're traveling at 390 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:23.440 a certain rate of speed, traffic is so light, then these will these 391 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:26.440 options will happen for you. There are some safety guards, but you know 392 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:30.359 what we said that about Tesla to remember ten when we did this. So 393 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.960 yeah, but it is it's a super sexy looking car. Yeah, and 394 00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:37.240 now it's a five series Sedan. By the way, if you're looking for 395 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:40.839 one, and if you're selling your old five series Edan, call me. 396 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:45.720 But this looks really cool. So I think I think it's it's it's where 397 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.119 we're headed. I just don't know if we're headed there as quickly as people 398 00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:52.039 want it to be safe right exactly? And I know that all the safeguards 399 00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:56.200 are built in now with if you know, any car pass up, I 400 00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:59.559 don't even know you're twenty twelve, you get that little warning when you want 401 00:28:59.559 --> 00:29:02.519 to change lanes or whatever. So it's not like the car wouldn't already be 402 00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:06.119 equipped with that probably wouldn't let you if you looked right and it had the 403 00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:08.440 little you know, dope, yeah, change lanes thing, a little symbol, 404 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:11.480 the red triangle, yes, yeah. And also what if you just 405 00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:15.880 looked at it a little bit longer than you anticipated too, Like maybe you 406 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:18.160 really you were checking a blind spot, Yeah, you didn't see it, 407 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.559 and maybe that lingers a little bit too long. Until I drive one, 408 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.319 I can't really uh sponsors. Yeah, I was just gonna say, I 409 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:30.720 feel like we should drive one. I feel like this is a road test 410 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:34.200 study research. Yeah, oh totally, yeah, data gathering right absolutely. 411 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:38.359 Hi Jim Ryan, good morning. Are you traveling. I'm running, I 412 00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:41.640 know that much, not necessarily traveling. No, I'm I'm gonna sit right 413 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:45.039 here in Dallas four Worth over the weekend, be ready to go on one 414 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:48.400 day morning, just like everybody else. Nice. Oh, I hear that 415 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.559 we don't yes in radio. It's so funny if people ask me like oh, 416 00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:53.759 do you get Christmas off? Do you get the holidays off? I'm 417 00:29:53.799 --> 00:29:56.559 like, what do you know what? The news must go on kind of 418 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:02.079 thing, must Chris? What is right exactly? I heard that there's this 419 00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:04.319 jolly guy that comes down and delivers present. I don't know what the hell 420 00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:08.319 it is, Jim, So I feel like these numbers are I know that 421 00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:12.160 every time we go, oh, look we're nearing pre pandemic levels, and 422 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:15.599 now we said pandemic. What pandemic? More or less? Yeah, it 423 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:19.319 seems to be in the review mirror for a lot of folks who travel this 424 00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:22.000 Memorial Day weekend, it looks like it's going to be one of the busiest 425 00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:26.359 in the last twenty years or so, one of the top three busiest, 426 00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.319 if that is, if the weather cooperates. And right now there is a 427 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.319 chance of some pretty strong storms right up the middle of the country, from 428 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:37.359 the Mexican border up to the Canadian border, through Texas and Oklahoma up in 429 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:41.359 dark you know, all over this part of the country. So that could 430 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:45.279 throw a wrench into things. But assuming that everything is stable, that the 431 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:49.359 weather cooperates for the most part, at least, we should see something like 432 00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:56.160 what forty three million Americans traveling somewhere this holiday. Okay, Now, I 433 00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:00.599 was just talking with your colleague Brad Garrett about the security concerns should we have 434 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:06.240 a default. One of the agencies that would be impacted is TSA, which 435 00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:10.880 makes me nervous because I don't know that I necessarily always feel like, oh, 436 00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:12.640 yeah, the TSA's got it when it comes to these giant crowds. 437 00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:17.359 Now, let's reduce the number of TSA agents. I realized it wouldn't happen 438 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:22.319 during this particular holiday weekend, but I think that if there are any glitches 439 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:25.440 that they should just be put in the back of people's minds, like, 440 00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:29.119 hey, if it sucked this bad over a Memorial Day, now, let's 441 00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:32.839 imagine the workforce has been cut. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, And 442 00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:36.400 that could happen after June first, if the US can't reach an agreement, 443 00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:40.559 if congressional and White House negotiators can't come up with a plan to raise the 444 00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:44.279 dead ceiling. You're right, that could cut into the number of those blue 445 00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:47.839 shirted TSA agents. I noticed a few weeks ago, and I'm trying to 446 00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:52.799 remember where it was, which airport, but there was a huge staff of 447 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:56.559 TSA agents both at the security checkpoints and then sitting at the desks watching the 448 00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:02.480 whole security operation going on. So they seem to be up to staffing at 449 00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:07.160 least. The airlines likewise, have worked on getting more people in the cockpits 450 00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:12.519 and the passenger cabins. The FAA has tried to staff up. We're seeing 451 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.319 that the on time averages for the airlines are running better than they were a 452 00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:20.480 few months ago. So things are shaping up to be fairly smooth anyway, 453 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:23.400 And you know, we'll see what happens. And obviously Memorial Days a harbinger 454 00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:28.000 for what's going to happen over the summer. The summer then tells us what 455 00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:31.920 might happen next Christmas. One thing that I was wondering too was about the 456 00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:37.240 shortage of pilots. We've read a lot about that recently. Is that making 457 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:42.759 any impact on the travel this Memorial Day weekend? Well? Yeah, well, 458 00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:45.799 maybe not in terms of scheduling, but possibly in terms of air Farris 459 00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:51.279 I was talking with a pilot the day. He said that the starting pilot 460 00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:53.680 or pilots who have been in the cockpit for maybe ten years, are making 461 00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:59.599 about six hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year starting pilots are making you know, 462 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:04.799 over six figures just getting into the cockpit to start. So yeah, 463 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:07.880 a staffing up. It's an expensive proposition in any industry, and especially when 464 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:10.960 it comes to aviation. Suddenly, I want to be a pilot me too. 465 00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:14.559 Oh my gosh, for that money. Yes, please, Jim, 466 00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:16.680 thank you so much. I appreciate it. And I might talk to you 467 00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:20.799 Monday. We'll see, but have a wonderful weekend. Talked later, all 468 00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:23.200 right, see you later. ABC's Jim Ryan, Jason Middleton. Are you 469 00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:25.839 going anywhere? No, no, no, not this week. No no, 470 00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:29.559 no, no, no no. But air traffic controllers. If you're 471 00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:32.000 looking for work in aviation, they need three thousand new hires for air traffic 472 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.160 controllers. I heard that yesterday. Oh that's good to know too. I 473 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:40.039 know that that's a good gig. Oh yeah, but the stress level, 474 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:45.200 I don't know if I would want to be an air traffic controller right because 475 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:47.240 I think it's long hours. In the focus has to be incredible. It 476 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:51.279 is long hours, but there's lots of space in between each shift as well, 477 00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:52.960 so you can reboot yourself and get ready for the next one. That's 478 00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:55.960 a good point. Unlike the show where you get up in the middle of 479 00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:59.759 the night sleep deprived. If it's more than two hours, it's not an 480 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:02.720 ap Oh yeah, we're gonna end the show with that. By the way, 481 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:07.000 don't you know, ganging up on the girl, just saying put yourself 482 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:10.960 in this position? Whatever. Okay, can we talk about this is a 483 00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.280 Handle segment, but I want to do it without Handle because I want to 484 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:17.119 talk about him, and so I don't want him here so he can defend 485 00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:22.760 himself. Fair enough, Okay, so let's talk about now this sudden obsession 486 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:28.119 that people have that kind of makes Handle a fashionista, which grosses me out. 487 00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:32.280 However, he goes to freaking Costco and he buys his new Balance shoes, 488 00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:37.760 and now everybody wants new Balance shoes. It's the hip thing. I 489 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:40.199 saw it a lot on the sidelines at NBA games, people with the expensive 490 00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:44.039 seats right on the first row. There weren't some new Balances. Okay, 491 00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:47.360 I'm not saying that it's a bad shoe. No new Balance or Brooks or 492 00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:51.480 you know, any of those. If you go into like a Dick's Sporting 493 00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:53.440 Goods or whatever, those seem to be like the big brands. And you 494 00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:57.880 know what I thought was interesting, I went into Dick's. The reason I 495 00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:00.480 saw this was I went into a Dick's to buy some new running shoes and 496 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:04.559 I got some Brooks, and the Brooks and the New Balance were right up 497 00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:07.280 front. Nike was buried in the back. Oh. And so when I 498 00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:10.760 saw this story last night, I went, oh, so people are back 499 00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:14.840 on the New Balance. Was it a hot like a decade ago? Yeah, 500 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:16.679 I guess it was. But five point three billion dollars in revenue for 501 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:20.719 New Balance is nothing to sneeze at. No, And it's a kind of 502 00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:22.159 a meteoric rise. And now I don't know if they're paying for those end 503 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:27.599 caps to have their retail break, But I don't know because it could just 504 00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:30.159 be demanded. Dix wants to look cool. Hey, these are in demand, 505 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:35.159 we have them come on in. Yeah, exactly, and freaking handle 506 00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:37.119 a needle. I thought you were going to go to the cargo short story. 507 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:38.519 But no, no, no, oh no, you guys. Sometimes 508 00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:45.199 it's cargo shorts and mandles, or when it's not cargo shorts and mandals, 509 00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:51.000 it's a Costco like button down short sleeve shirt. Yeah, yeah, cargo 510 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:54.960 shorts, white ass legs. Well, I mean that dude is translucent. 511 00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:58.960 Oh well he's in radio. Well let's he's in the studio. Well, 512 00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:01.480 yeah, we can all tan. Well that's true too, okay, and 513 00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:08.239 then bride and appearance. Yes, white socks and sometimes black New Balance shoes. 514 00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:13.960 Bill's not here today, is he? He's a not physically, he's 515 00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:17.599 not listening, I hope, speaking of Bill Costco. Okay, there were 516 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:21.360 what was it, like a mom and a daughter. I think that our 517 00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:28.239 viral right now sampling this four pound meringuey treat that I guess is all the 518 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:30.559 rage at Costco. I have not had it, have you? No? 519 00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:34.719 I have not a lemon meringue cheesecake. This is dance. Four pounds of 520 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:38.320 cheesecake in one sitting. Nope, that's crazy. I did see another TikTok 521 00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:40.880 lemon thing. It's a lemon meringue. It basically like a shake. I 522 00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:45.239 got four as juiced four lemons and put sweet and condensed milk in the blender, 523 00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:47.679 a little bit of ice, and it was like having a shake that 524 00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:51.119 tastes like a lemon meringue. And I saw it on the Tickety Talks. 525 00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:55.320 Oh like, Okay, that one sounds good. That all right. So 526 00:36:55.480 --> 00:37:00.039 here's what we're gonna end this show on this morning, because we started on 527 00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:06.320 on this and I said that on Fridays, I take a five hour nap 528 00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:09.559 at least, I admit, I take a sleeping pill, like middle of 529 00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:15.400 the day. It's like eleven. And then I here's my routine. I'm 530 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:22.800 gonna kill you. Get off the show, go home. I take a 531 00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:27.199 bath, bubble bath middle of the day while I take the sleeping pill, 532 00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:30.599 and then the dogs and I go in shut all the windows. I think 533 00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:35.079 they know. I think they look forward to Fridays and we take a nap. 534 00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:40.159 Now, I said it's a five hour nap. Come on. Tyler 535 00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:46.559 said that's not the case. Jason agreed with him. Steven agreed with him. 536 00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:52.320 Who's training with Tyler? Here we go. Here is the definition of 537 00:37:52.639 --> 00:38:00.400 sleep from Oxford Dictionary. A condition of body and mind that typically recurs for 538 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:07.599 several hours every night, in which the eyes are closed, the postural muscles 539 00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:13.480 relaxed, the activity of the brain altered, and the consciousness of the surroundings 540 00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:20.400 practically suspended. I like the definition of that. Postural is a good word. 541 00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:23.880 Yeah, I don't use it often enough. The definition of nap, 542 00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:32.320 sleep lightly or briefly, especially during the day. So you've proven Tyler's point. 543 00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:36.960 Mom Mand, that's what I'm hearing. And I even tweeted this out 544 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:40.079 Jen not you know I love you and I've got your back, but I 545 00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:44.039 tweeted this out shortly after we talked about it at the top of the hour 546 00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:47.280 for five o'clock. Yeah, what world do you live in where five hours 547 00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:53.360 is brief? The world where you've done mornings for thirty freaking years and got 548 00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:55.920 up in the middle of the night, go on, and this is your 549 00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:00.960 routine. Yeah, I don't say, Hey, everybody, have a great 550 00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:02.840 weekend. I'm gonna go to sleep. I'm gonna go take a sleep. 551 00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:07.639 Yeah, sep, don't if I don't see tomorrow, you can take your 552 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:10.639 sleep. And oh do you take a sleep or leader taking your sleep? 553 00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:14.920 Wow? By the way, you five hours sleep and get you a five 554 00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:20.119 hour energy gens will be good. There are Oh now I'm just going to 555 00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:23.320 tell all my secrets. There are are times that I'll take a sleeping pill. 556 00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:28.199 Take my name, Michelle, nap or sleep? No naps. I 557 00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:30.400 don't nap. I never nap. Would you consider five hours a nap? 558 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:36.039 Five hours in nap. Five hours is a sleep. Thank you? What 559 00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:39.559 is this gang up on gen day? Put your partial judge black robe and 560 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:45.000 everything. It looks good, looks good. This is KAFI and kost HD 561 00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:49.559 too, Los Angeles, Orange County. So cowweather from KFI. We've got 562 00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:52.079 a still gray start to the morning, but we don't have the missed in 563 00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:55.519 drizzle like we had yesterday. But these cooler temperatures and partly cloudy conditions will 564 00:39:55.599 --> 00:40:00.559 last throughout the weekend. Hister Today are just gonna be in the six the 565 00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:05.440 seventies, maybe some very low eighties inland. We lead local live from the 566 00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:09.039 KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Jennifer jones Lee. You've been listening to 567 00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:13.440 your wake Up Call with me, Jennifer jones Lee, and you can always 568 00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:16.880 hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday at KFI AM six 569 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:21.679 forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.