Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M six
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call. My name is Jason Middleton. Today is Friday, May the twelfth.
I am not Jennifer Jones Lee. Jennifer and I go back about ten
years. She's doing something this week, this weekend and next week that she
looks forward to every year, and that is a rodeo. She's up with
family and friends in northern California enjoying some rodeo, probably some brisket. I'm
gonna guess lots of events as well this weekend. A reminder, Today is
Friday. It's a business day. Sunday is a mother's day in case you
needed to pick up anything or augment what you've already gotten, no doubt because
you planned for it. Of course. Come on later this hour we're gonna
talk with Jason Nathanson from ABC the Entertainment Report. This weekend, there's a
new Jane fond A movie out this weekend, and other people are starting,
but she's kind of the headliner. She's the one we know identify with a
little bit. Jane Fonda movie filmed in Italy, so that seems to be
top of mind, at least for my parents, probably for some others too.
So we have Jim Ryan this hour as well. We're going to talk
about the border situation. Caleb Silver is going to be in. He's from
Investopedia, he's an ABC contributor. We're going to talk about business economics a
little bit. I get the nerd out with him about the Elon Musk and
Twitter CEO announcement as well. And of course Dean Sharp is here and he's
got some stuff that it's gonna It could transform your kitchen and the way you
do efficiency if you will in your kitchen. Let's get some headlines first.
The immigration policy known as Title forty two has officially expired. The COVID era
restrictions ended last night just before midnight Eastern time. The policy allowed for migrants
to be turned away at the US border to slow the spread of COVID nineteen.
More on that soon. The US veteran who allegedly killed a homeless man
in a New York subway will turn himself into day. Daniel Penny is being
charged with second degree manslaughter for the death of Jordan neely On May first to
board a Manhattan subway train, and Twitter owner Clon Musk. Elon Musk says
he has found a new CEO for Twitter and that she will start in a
matter of weeks. It's most likely going to be Linda Yaccarino, that's what's
being reported. She's currently the head of Advertising and Partnerships at NBC Universal.
Like I mentioned, in just a few minutes, we're going to talk with
ABC's Jim Ryan. The immigration policy known as Title forty two did end at
midnight, and Jim is on the border at El Paso, Texas. So
let's start with some other stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news
room. Because we do lead. Local border and customs agents have been training
for a potential rush of people through the San ye Cedro Port of Venture near
San Diego. Agents practice shooting tear gas in the event they are overrun by
migrants who try to push their way through the world's busiest port of entry.
The training began Wednesday night. Officials say since the Medical Order Title forty two
was implemented three years ago, more than three million migrants have been turned away
along the US Mexico border. In twenty eighteen, hundreds of migrants in a
caravan from Central America tried to rush through the vehicle lanes at the Sandy Sidral
port of entry, while others tore through concertina wire and climbed fences. They
were all pushed back into Mexico. Steve Gregory ca if I knows. A
federal judge in Florida has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from releasing migrants more quickly
when border patrol holding stations are full. The government's policy would release some migrants
into the US without court dates or the ability to track them. Florida's Attorney
general filed an emergency motion to keep the policy from being implemented. The restraining
order will expire within fourteen days. The Orange County DA's office says more girls
may have been molested by a cheer leading coach charged with multiple felonies. Pedophiles
they never ever stop stalking and grooming their prey unless they are stopped. Orange
County Das kimberly Ed says Eric Christen Sends charged with molesting six girls between eleven
and sixteen years old, taking some of the girls to off campus events and
even to his home where he would molest them. He says. The guy
coach for Magic All Stars Club and Tribuco Hills High School between two thousand and
two and two thousand and seven. He's also facing child molestation and child exhibition
charges in Florida relating to four of his competitive cheer athletes that he coached in
Daytona Beach. Christiansen's due back in court in two weeks. In Orange County,
Corbin Carson ka if I News, Northern California has been shaken by a
magnitude five point five earthquake. This man says he had just finished work and
was in his truck near the epicenter when the quake hit yesterday afternoon. I
thought somebody was growing around with me, and I thought I got hit by
another truck, and then I felt like my truck was going to flip over.
It was pretty great. The quake hit near the community of East Shore
that's in Plumas County and was reportedly felt in Sacramento, more than one hundred
and sixty miles away in just a couple of minutes. We're gonna check on
the situation at the Texas border this morning. With ABC's Jim Ryan, but
first from the Southern California Toyota Dealers Traffic Center. Let's go places, Let's
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Center. That's got you backed up to about Getty Center. KFI and the
sky helps get you there faster. I'm Robert Dubucky. It is five almost
almost seven minutes after five o'clock on your wake up call, and on the
KFI live line, we have ABC's Jim Ryan. He's joining us from El
Paso, Texas. Good more, gym, Good morning, fairly quiet here.
There were people waiting on the other side of the fences last night to
come into the country once Title for forty two was transferred or transformed into Title
eight a Title forty two, of course, being the health policy related to
COVID, Title eight being the longstanding immigration policy that now will govern how people
are allowed to come into the country. Are you seeing the crush of migrants
there that we were reported were expected earlier this week? Well, yeah,
I guess you could call it a crush. There are a lot of people,
but it's being done in an orderly way. Last night, it was
that one of the gates. There is a giant fence that separates Huaras,
Mexico from El Paso, Texas, steel tall, thirty forty foot tall fence
that you can see through, and there are gates in this fence. I
was at Gate number forty two last night. It was open. Customs officials
were there Texas Department of Public Safety. People were being put onto buses from
the other side of the fence, taken to a Immigrations and Customs Enforcement ICE
processing facility and either allowed to stay in this country to continue the immigration the
asylum application process, or we're sent back down into Mexico. So yeah,
there were you know, those buses were running last night, and you know,
so it was it a crush of people. It was several hundred and
there are undoubtedly many more than that waiting to come into the country and make
application. Veteran reporter Jim Ryan is at Gate forty two for title forty two.
Well done, sir. I had to say, helps we keep it
all together in my head as we move forward? What you mentioned it was
very orderly local authorities there. What the reaction the prep that you saw this
week. Is everything going as smoothly as hoped? Well? I think it
is. Yeah. I mean in a place here like El Paso, which
has been you know, it has been you know, facilitating the immigration process
for decades really and dealing with the with the illegal immigration as well, so
it has a pretty good handle on how to handle these things. And so
a couple of weeks ago, the Urgency Declaration went into effect for El Paso
that allowed for funds to be used to set up shelters for people to stay
in for twenty four to seventy two hours as they await their next step.
You know, people come into the country are supposed to have either a financial
sponsor a family member, a place to go, you know the words.
Once they're here, they can't just be put out on the streets and told
to fend for themselves. So people are staying in these shelters that were established
here in El Paso, so that in that way it is an orderly process
and the city was prepared for it. Where they prepared for thousands of people?
Probably not, but you know that there are other mechanisms in place to
try to facilitate this surge in people. So when you say they have to
have someplace to go, I understand that the sponsorship. But if they don't,
are there temporary situations set up? Are they like are they using like
vacant buildings or retrofitting industry? Okay, yeah, that's exactly what happened with
these these two vacant schools here in El Paso. And there's all so setting
aside part of the convention center, which often happens in the event of flooding
or you know, if if there's a hurricane somewhere, people are going to
be moved into convention centers. That's what's happening here. So's it's almost like
a natural disaster response in that shelters have been set up using FEMA funds where
people are gonna be housed and fed and clothed and where they can wait.
You know, there is a Wi Fi access there. How is everybody coming
up from Latin America. You think of people who have just about nothing,
but most of them do have smartphones. And that's why Customs and Border Protection
has this phone app that people must use to make initial application where before they
even make it to the United States. It's a glitchy app. People say
it's not reliable. I actually downloaded last night's my phone to see if it
did work, and and it seems to at least it seems they've worked out
some of the bugs. Well that was my follow up too. But when
you have to have a phone app in order to help you ease your process
through, you have to be able to charge that phone as well. Are
those kind situations there too, Yes, Yeah, these these facilities are pretty
well equipped, these short term housing facilities, the shelters, at least here
in El Paso. There may be a different story in about a Morris,
may be a different story in Laredo or in Santa Cedro or somewhere else,
but at least here in El Paso, they have a pretty streamlined process for
facilitating this process. Any nootally speaking, is it looked like today is typical
of what you expect over the weekend, At least in El Paso it seems
to be. And some customs officials though, said yesterday that based on what
they're hearing from migrants who are coming up, the big surge probably has happened
already. Yeah, we're going to have big numbers today and tomorrow and probably
into next week. The expectation is that they may start to drop off.
A lot of these folks have been told by custom by smugglers and coyotes that
once Title forty two goes away, all bets are off. You just walk
into the country and not be or for any means. Obviously, those people
have a vested interest of financial interest in making sure that that that lie is
believed, because once you do make it here, you could be arrested for
coming through between the border checkpoints or if you don't have proper road dentification.
Jim, thank you soo much for your time this morning. Thanks a lot.
We've been speaking with ABC's Jim Ryan, like I said, veteran reporter.
They send him out for the big stuff, and he's down to El
Paso, Texas at the end of Title forty two, the restart of Title
eight when it comes to immigration into the United States, and he's monitoring the
border. The administration was ready for what they called a chaotic crush at the
border. Turns out that didn't really happen. It seems like much of the
sturge they did expect happened earlier this week. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI HAD twenty four hour newsroom. A pedestrian
has been killed by a hit and run driver in Palmdale. It happened around
eleven thirty last night at twentieth Street and West Avenue N thehpiece as the car
is a two thousand and nine four door dark gray Honda Civic with California play
at least one because that ends in zero four seven. The car lost its
front plate and its front bumper and a windshield wiper in the collision. Transportation
Secretary Pete Bodhaja says Tesla should not call it's partially automated driving system autopilot because
the cars cannot drive themselves. He says he's concerned about Tesla's marketing as a
system is under investigation for crashes that have caused at least fourteen deaths since twenty
sixteen. Also from Tesla this morning, the company is recalling virtually every car
it has sold in China due to a breaking and acceleration defect. It may
increase crash and safety risks. When we come back, we're gonna talk economics
and business. We're gonna get a fly over this week's headlines with ABC's Caleb
Silver. He's going to be on the line with us as well. We're
gonna catch up on jobs, inflation, and possibly that new leader at Twitter.
You're listening to Wake Up Call with Jennifer Jones Lee on demand from KF
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Friday May twelve for Jennifer. She is at the rodeo this week. And
also don't forget Mother's Days coming up in a couple of days, So I
just want to just keep that top of mind as you get your day going
this morning. Here's some of the stories we're watching in the KFI twenty four
hour Newsroom, The immigration policy known as Title forty two has officially expired.
The COVID Arab restrictions ended last night just before midnight Eastern time. The policy
did allow for migrants to be turned away at the US southern border to slow
the spread of COVID nineteen. We just spoke with ABC's Jim Ryan. He
is in El Paso, Texas. Seems like there's not so much chaos as
there is, just people getting used to the new normal. Going back to
Title eight, the US veteran who allegedly killed a homeless man in a New
York subway will turn himself in today. Daniel Penny is being charged with second
degree manslaughter for the death of Jordan Neely on May first, aboard a Manhattan
subway train. San Jose police are revealing how they stopped a potential tragedy.
Officers say they found more than one hundred pounds of bomb making materials inside a
man's home and business. It happened Monday while they were checking out a burglary
report at a building near the one on one right there in the South Bay
at thirty five. We're going to have Dean sharp. Of course, the
house whisperer. Today's topics for Dean include not one two kitchen transforming appliances,
and we're going to wander out onto the patio a little bit as well.
With Dean. Right now, let's welcome ABC News contributor Caleb Silver. He's
also the editor in chief at investopedia dot com. Good morning, Caleb,
Thanks for joining us. Good to be with you. I'm going to come
back to Investopedia. I have a rap for that real quick for you.
But first let's have a let's say, have a job's report. Well,
we have jobs and inflation. Where do you want to start which one?
Well, we could start with both. But the most recent numbers are those
weekly jobless claims that we got yesterday. That was two hundred and sixty four
thousand people filing for weekly unemployment claims. That is a number we haven't seen
in quite a while. That's been rising every month pretty steadily. That said,
we're still adding more jobs than those that are coming out of the workforce.
If you see that unemployment rate, that's around three point four percent.
That's but there have been mounting layoffs in tech, there have been mounting layoffs
in the financial industry, in retail, so we got to keep an eye
on that. Still, the unemployment rate very low and a lot of jobs
out there for folks looking for jobs. It's it's kind of iffy math when
it comes to a possible recession. When you have a labor market that's so
strong, strong as it's been in fifty years. What are you specifically pulling
out? I'm personally I'm watching you wage increase in percentage as opposed to inflation
to keep pace. What is something you like to pull out? Yeah,
well, I think wage inflation is a pretty important one to watch because we've
seen it climb pretty steadily month after month. Now it is slowing. It's
around four point four percent year over year. But the Federal Reserve, our
central bank, wants to slow that down even more. Why because if companies
have to pay higher wages, then companies are going to pass the higher costs
onto the consumer, and that could cause a pause in consumer we're spending,
or a pullback, and that could really set the economy into a tailspen.
We know it's seventy percent of our US GDP, so it's this very weird
thing where we continue to spend. Credit card debt is rising it's at a
record level, credit card aprs are at record levels just because of those high
interest rates, and there's still a high labor market. But other signs are
showing us such a potential recession of very peculiar time in the economy. Indeed,
and you mentioned the sticky inflation going on, there is there a reason
that stands out to you as to why it's being so sticky. Is it
because the wage increases are keeping everything kind of elevated, or is it that
we have cleared the supply chain issues we were so used to after COVID,
and maybe retailers and other people who set prices are getting used to the idea
that those prices have to come down. Finally, Yeah, I think it's
a little bit of both of those things, because we definitely cleared it.
But don't forget we've changed the way we behave as consumers as well. Over
the last three years, we've been through a lot. We went for not
spending anything and saving a lot of money. The savings rate was at an
all time high, to all of a sudden being able to spend and revenge
spend on travel and going out and eating out a lot more, while prices
were rising for consumers the whole time. We got used to the sort of
steady state of high prices and dealing with it. But because of that,
we are pushing our credit to the limits here because we're borrowing a lot of
money. Now, we're not in extreme levels like we were back in two
thousand and eight. Consumers in a little bit better shape. Banks are in
better shape, despite the fact that we've lost a few lately. That said,
you know, we are maybe on this unsustainable pattern, just like the
United States government, which is coming up against the debt ceiling. Yeah,
let's stay right there then, because I like nerding out with you on this
stuff, and the debt ceiling is definitely top of mind for economics and business
coverage. What's the latest the ec Yeah, I mean, we're in a
standoff here, and the Treasury Secretary Jenniellinis says, June first is the deadline
where the United States government will not be able to pay its bills. Look,
raving being able to pay our bills for quite a while. We just
keep borrowing and extending the deadline. Thirty one point four trillion dollars in debt.
Don't worry about that. But that's the day that some government services are
going to have to get suspended. That's the day that maybe we don't have
to suspend Social Security checks and medicare at tracks going out. Also, national
parks might have to close. But even worse than all of that is the
threat of a debt downgrade, a credit down grade. So the United States
finances all this money we borrow through selling our government bonds, and they have
a widely held, widely trusted asset held by governments around the world. If
we default on our debt and we get a credit downrating, the yields on
those bonds is going to go, but it's going to make the prices fall
for those people who are holding our bonds. That's also going to help drive
interest rates even higher for the things we borrow against as consumers in this country.
So it is a bad scenario and they have to find a way to
either kick the can down the road or find another solution. Yeah, we're
speaking with ABC News contributor Caleb Silver, he's also editor in chief at investopedia
dot com. We talked about right there the debt ceiling. Now the X
day, the day of default kind of floats a little bit, but the
predictions of the repercussions of actually defaulting range a little bit. Do you have
a take on what you think the range would be. What are some initial
responses financially speaking? Yeah, well, I mentioned that the suspension of government
services that's no fun, and potential furloughing of government employees. There are a
lot of government employees in this country. Usually they get paid back, you
know, they get their back pay, but it's no fund for families that
are counting on those paychecks. That's on the ground level there, But on
the debt level of having our credit rating downgraded, that has very serious implications.
And that's why you're hearing not just politicians make noise about it, but
the biggest CEOs are the biggest banks in the world, because they know how
important it is to have a stable credit rating on US government bonds. That
is everything, right, that is the bedrock of how we finance our governments.
Ince Alexander Hamilton was around back in the day. So if that rate,
if we get a downgrade there, and that yields on those bond spike,
it is going to be tumultuous for the economy and for capital markets and
for whoever's holding our debt. I use the bedrock term as well in my
coverage because it's a twenty four trillion dollar market. A lot of other governments
are pegged too that those tea bills. So thank for using I just I
like the reinforcement of hearing that it is a bedrock thing. So this is
not just something that causes us some federal employee layoffs. That could be something
bigger. Let's get a tech Let's get a tech headline this morning. You
know when I went to bed last night, Oliver Bloomberg was all about Elon
Musk. I get up this morning and I have to do a search to
find it. What's going on with Elon Musk and the CEO news. Yeah,
Elon Musk tweeting last night that he has found a replacement for him as
CEO of Twitter, and she, he says in the tweet, we'll be
starting within the next six weeks. Now, this morning, the Wall Street
Journals reporting that person could be Linda Yaccarino. I hope I'm saying that right.
She is the chair of Global Advertising and Partnerships at NBC Universal. That's
what the Wall Street Journals reporting. No comment from her or her team or
the NBC team yet, but that's what's out there at the moment. We'll
see if that remains true. Interesting that he has found the replacement. Interesting
that it is if it is this woman, indeed somebody from the advertising business,
because don't forget Twitter is an advertiseis delivery mechanism? Yes, exactly.
You didn't forget that. I didn't forget that. Elon forgot that apparently when
he first came on, I think. But that's that goes back to my
other show. He also, don't forget tweeted that his new CEO was going
to be his dog. So until I see it for sure, we're gonna
have to wait. But you you did say her name right. I was
at NBC for a while and it is Yacarino, So you nailed that.
Investopedia dot com is to me a bedrock source. How long have you been
working with investopedia dot com and there any features you want to pull out in
the last thirty seconds, I have you. Yeah, thank you so much.
I've been the editor in chief for seven and a half years. I
have one of the coolest jobs in the world, learning and teaching people about
money and exploring that. I have a podcast, The Investopedia Express podcast comes
out every Monday, sets you up for the week as the educated investor.
And also, we just launched our financial Literacy Resource Center for kids and teachers
and families, so we got we're going into financial literacy curriculum for public school.
So it's on our website right on the homepage investipedia dot com, look
for the Financial Resource Center. Great lessons are free lessons for teachers and for
families and for kids to take home and learn about money this summer. That
is very cool. I did not know about that feature, so that's great.
I'm glad you mentioned it. I have been using your other feature and
other feature with your simulator. I started on January two of this year with
a with a fake hundred thousand dollars. It's where you can you have a
small account and you can you can do it. You can invest fake money
if you will. You're gamifying everything. I'm up eighteen percent on the year
so far this year. Thanks for enabling me, Caleb. You're welcome and
can I sign up with your advisory service? Sounds like you know what you're
doing. Well yeah, yeah, Well, what I love about your simulator
is if you get into the game, and you want to try out some
different stocks. You can't have too many blue chips. You have to take
some risks here and there, which is kind of fun. So anyway,
it's always a pleasure to speak with you to learn on that similar and we
have one for crypto as well, so play without it. Oh yeah,
it's definitely a blind spot. Thanks a lot, Caleb, I'll talk to
you next time. Thank you. ABC News contributor Caleb Silver, also of
course with investopedia dot com. Let's get back to the newsroom for a couple
of quick stories. Some fire departments in La County have been honored for their
help after the fatal mass shooting of eleven people at a dance hall in Monterey
Park. At one point, Monterey Park Fire Chief Matt Halleck choked up reliving
the night of January twenty first. This was and is a day none of
us will ever forget. That tragic evening. The city of Monterrey Park was
put on the map for all the wrong reasons. It is the collaboration and
support from the fire departments within this area that put the region on the map
for all the right reasons. Alex has many more lives were saved because of
the mutual aid set up among the area's twenty nine fire departments. Yesterday,
Halleck recognized South Pasadena, Glendale, LA City County, San Gabriel, Alhambran
Arcadia in downtown LA Steve Gregory KAI News get our first look at weather right
now. Southern California weather from KFI sunny today after these morning clouds move out
and the fog burns off, as from the mid to upper sixties at the
beaches to the lower to mid seventies inland and on the eastern end of the
San Fernando Valley, highs are going to hit eighty and Santa Clarita Valley of
or Inland Valleys about eighty five today could be the high Tonight, mostly clear
across the south Land, lows in the low to mid fifties. Tomorrow is
a sunshine rinse repeat with only slightly warmer temperatures. And when we come back,
we are going to talk with house whisperer Dean Sharp, some household appliance
stuff, some patio talk, and I'm going to quiz him on how to
spell something. You're listening to Wake Up Call with Jennifer Jones Lee on Demand
from KFI AM six forty. I am Jason Middleton. This is wake up
call. Today is Friday, May the twelfth. Sunday May fourteenth is Mother's
Day. You're almost caught up. A YouTuber is now facing up to twenty
years in federal prison after admitting to intentionally crashing his plane into a hillside in
Santa Barbara County to get views online. On Wednesday, twenty nine year old
Trevor Jacob pleaded guilty to a felony account of obstructing a federal investigation. The
twenty twenty one video called I Crashed My Airplane shows Jacob parachuting out of a
small plane before it crashed into the lost Los Padres National Force near Santa Maria.
Migrants who are seeking asylum in the US are getting immigration court dates more
than a dozen years out. Some migrants who arrived at Brownsville, Texas yesterday
were given immigration court dates as late as twenty thirty two and twenty thirty five.
Those have been happening at Chicago and Florida as well. President Biden's national
security adviser and Channa's China's top diplomat agree on the need for two superpowers to
move past the alleged spy balloon incident. Earlier this year. Jake Sullivan and
Chinese diplomat Wang Yee met for eight hours over the past two days in Vienna.
At five fifty, we're gonna end wake Up Call with ABC's Jason Nathanson
and get an entertainment report as we head into the weekend. I mentioned that
Jane Fonda movie at the top of the hour, The Air movie about the
Air. Jordan's that's going to migrate to Prime video. I believe that's Tuesday,
and we're gonna have some other entertainee kind of stuff right now. Let's
dig into the great indoors and outdoors with Dean Sharp. He's the house whisperer.
He's also the man with the plan. Okay, let me let me
tie this up. Twenty first century technology, a quantum leap ahead for consumers,
new industry standard, and I'm not talking about AI. I don't mean
a new iPhone. I want to talk to Dean Sharp about the ge all
in one washer dryer. Dean, welcome back. Okay, Jason, how
are you doing? But it's good to hear your voice. I was compelled
by this. I've been doing my own research. I hate to do that
first person's thing, but I think we all kind of this time of year
looked to upgrade certain things. Kitchens are definitely part of it. What do
you have with this all in one? I'm dubious. Yeah, well you
should be dubious, absolutely, because all in one washers and dryers have been
around forever and this reviewer's opinion is they all pretty much suck. But but
Ge released this. We saw this at the Builder Show this year, and
we heard rumors that it was coming. It is now out there. You
can actually get your hands on one, and I gotta tell you if it
does everything that we expected to do. And the reviews, the early reviews
are looking very promising. Jason, this actually may not just be an all
in one washer dryer that doesn't suck. It may actually turn the industry.
It may it literally may be a sea change for the industry. And the
main reason is the dryer side of this is they have abandoned the idea and
this is brilliant on Gee's part. They've abandoned the idea of baking clothes.
Okay, that's basically what a dryer is. You know, you get to
a gas dryer, or you pull a lot of waddage through an electric dryer
and you get a lot of heat inside the dryer and not so much airflow.
And you know, I was talking to Conway about this the other day.
None of us probably have much experience hanging clothes out on a clothesline.
But if we were to ask, like great Grandma what that was all about,
she would tell us that, you know, it could be one hundred
degrees outside and if there's no wind, those clothes are staying wet for a
long time. But even on a cold day, if the breeze is blowing,
boom, they get dry fast. So what GE has done is they
it's warm air. It's definitely warm air. They're using a heat pump technology,
and heat pump is basically how your air conditioner works to extract moisture from
the air. But a big fan, a big fan to create a lot
of airflow in there, and it would appear as if it makes this dryer
actually work. It's all the difference. So we're talking about a two hour
cycle from beginning to end for most loads, a little longer for the heavy
duty stuff. And the other thing is too, this is a full size
washer dryer combo. Now it's not the extra large, but it's full size,
so it'll take ten pounds of laundry in it per load. And the
fact of the matter is one of these is the equivalent of two, you
know, a standard washer and dryer. You get two of these side by
side, you've doubled the size of your laundry room without changing the space.
Well, that depends on the price point, Dudan. The price point point
from ge is twenty eight hundred dollars, which is the price that you're going
to pay for a decent set a washer and dryer set. Okay, so
you know it would be a splurge to get two of them, But the
fact of the matter is you'll come in just a little bit under on this
machine then you would buying a brand new washer and dryer set. And you
know you'll use half the space. No vent, no dryer vent, no
gas hookup. It will plug into a standard fifteen amp outlet anywhere in the
house. All you need is the drain and the water supply to it.
Wow. Okay, so yeah, you're right. This could stand everything on
its head. Because I just assumed all those are Coudremont were necessary to get
this thing to run. So wow, what about finesse cycles? Can I
do? Like some delicates in there, you can do. You can do
all the finesse cycles. You can even add laundry sheets if you want.
If you're a if you're a laundry sheet person, what it's going to do
if you to notify you, you can notify you. It will either buzz
or chime or notify you on your smart device. After the wash is done
and before the dryer starts, you get a ten minute gap where you can
run over there, grab the door, open it up and throw in dryer
sheets. Otherwise it'll just keep on rolling forward. It takes liquid fabric softener
and liquid detergent reservoir inside up to thirty two loads worth, so not a
lot of fiddling around with it, you know. And it's it's a brilliant,
brilliant setup for a machine. Like I said, it stands a little
taller than your standard washer and dryer, about forty seven inches tall, and
there's a pedestal that brings it up even a little higher if you want to
just get you know, direct access without bending over. Ge has estimated and
I think this is this has got to be fairly accurate. GEE has done
their own internal studies and they said, you know, the average time in
North America that a load of laundry sits in the washing machine after it's done
and before it gets put in the dryer is about a hundred and thirty minutes,
like two hours. And I would say around my house that's probably conservative,
because you know, we'll pop a load in, we're like, oh
yeah, oh yeah, we're gonna flip that over, right. So the
idea of something that just takes you all the way to the end in two
two and a half hours, it's a pretty efficient concept done. So,
like I said, we're still waiting for the mass reviews to come in,
but I'll tell you right now, already most places are back ordered on this
machine. And if it does even half of what it's promising, I think
it's going to turn the industry on edge. Okay, I appreciate that,
and I want to nerd out a little bit harder on this. But I've
got another appliance I want to ask about, because if that's transformational, I'm
going to ask about one more indoor thing. In an outdoor thing, are
garbage disposals also due for an upgrade. Right, Yeah, garbage disposals or
something in my opinion as a builder and a designer, that we shouldn't even
be messing with. In the United States, we have more garbage disposals than
anybody in the world. They've been outlawed throughout most of Europe. Canada only
about five percent of the population has a garbage disposal. And here's the problem
with garbage disposal. It's lazy and it hurts our infrastructure. Macerating food down
the garbage disposal and then putting that slime and that sledge down into our own
drain pipes and the city sewer lines. It's not a good thing. It
prematurely ages causes all sorts of issues and problems that let alone biological issues when
the drains, you know, flush out to the ocean. So that's one
thing. Also in southern California, most municipalities now have you divided up with
your garbage, you know, Now we're we got a compost bin, we
got the regular garbage bin, all of this kind of stuff. So yeah,
instead of the garbage disposal, this is a pre order appliance. We
saw this at the Builder Show again from Suppora. It is a. I
don't even know exactly what to call it, but essentially it takes the place
of the garbage disposal. You can still practice your old habits of scraping food
down the drain. The difference is this doesn't masserate them. You hit the
button and a large auger bit or what some people might call an Archimedes screw,
basically takes all that food, moves it to the side in the drain,
and dumps it into a compost canister under the sink. Wow. Okay,
visualizing the Archimedes screw in my kitchen, and I'm kind of liking the
idea. I have to say, it's very it's actually very cool. Everything
else drains straight through, but once you've got solid foods in there, you
just hit the button. It just takes it and pushes it aside. And
it's this way. You don't have a compost bin on your countertop, you
don't have to have an extra bin next to your waste basket. You're still
going to be taking it out to the trash because that's the way things are
done these days. But this does it automatically for you, stores it in
large quantities, filtered underneath the sink and when it's full. Lets you know,
and you know, you just walk it out to the trash game.
Very cool and that company is supera by the way, sep U r A.
If you go to Spora, you're going to have a different retail experience,
very very different. Quick outdoor question for you, if we want to
update outside patios and patio risers. Now, this also seems like something that
we may not think about every day, but maybe do for an updateing.
Yeah, this is not something people think about all the time. You know,
you're looking to build an awning or some kind of patio cover off the
side of the house. Strangely enough, they're super common, and yet they
are so problematic when it comes to the actual construction of a house. Where
are you going to mount this thing? If you mount your patio cover at
the level of your facial boarder where your roof rafters or eves come down,
it's too low. It's gonna be too low. You're gonna feel like you're
walking under this low ceiling. If you mount it further up on the roof,
now you are interrupting the water flow the rainshed off your roof. You're
kind of potentially be causing leaks a plus, you're exposing that wood to direct
moisture that is running down. I mean, it's just it has always been
a hassle. So this for most people may not feel like the game changer
that it is. But there's a little company called Patio Roofreiser. You can
find them at patio roofreiser dot com. They have spent their lives kind of
perfecting this hardware. It is a tiny piece of very very structural hardware attractive
also that mounts into the eve of your roof and allows you to build as
big of a patio cover off the side of your house as you want with
virtually zero chance of it leaking. It holds all of the wood above the
roofline very attractively, so none of it gets exposed, none of it collects
leaves or water or rot. It's really again another game changer, outstanding.
Three game changers in one morning with Dean Sharp on the House Whisper on a
Friday morning. Thanks so much, Dean. Always a pleasure, always always
a pleasure to speak with you. Good talking to you, Jason. See
it Dean Sharp house Whisper. You can hear him here on the Eric KFI
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is Jason Middleton. A couple of quick headlines, and then we're talking to
Jason Nathanson about the weekend entertainment. No major damage so far from a five
point five earthquake in northern California struck Plumas County yesterday at the bottom of Lake
Almanor. Forty two is over. Title eight is back as an immigration policy.
We're gonna have more on that change over in just a few minutes.
A California zoo Zoo is sharing the first look at its new Jaguar. The
eleven year old cat has made its way across the state. He was born
in San Diego, raised in Sacramento, now lives in San Francisco. Five
fifty five On your wake Up Call, ABC's Jason Nathanson is on the line.
Good morny, Jason, Hey, good morning. Let's start with book
club because it's Mother's Day weekend. Is this a good one? Yeah?
I think it's a good one for Mother's Day weekend. I think they know
what they're doing when they scheduled it for this weekend. It's the sequel to
this is book Club, the next chapter. It's a sequel two book Club,
which came out a couple of years ago, starring Diane Keaton, Jane
Fonda, Marystein Bergin, and Candice Bergen. That one made one hundred and
four million dollars worldwide, so it did pretty decently on something that you know,
wasn't very expensive to make. This time around, I think they decided,
Hey, if we're gonna do this again, let's go to Italy.
So that's why they go to Italy. In the movie, there's a bachelorette
party and you kind of follow them around Rome and Venice, which is you
know, if you're a fan of those cities, you get to see them.
You know, they're very beautifully shot, and there's actually some really funny
jokes in this. I you know, wasn't expecting to really laugh because we've
seen you know, the original one was was fine, and then a couple
months ago we saw eighty for Brady Right, which is kind of the same
ish thing that start Jane Fonda and three others. This is a different cast,
of course, but Jane Fonda is included, but it's you know,
kind of similar issues and stuff. Eighty for Brady was not I think,
you know, overall, very good film. This is I think much better,
but also much funnier. Surprisingly some of the jokes that are really racy,
which I really appreciated. So you got it's got that going for.
It's got the beautiful scenery of Italy. Italy a very popular place to film
during the pandemic because things were a little bit more open there, uh during
that time. And while they were filming this there also the next Fast and
Furious movie was filming at the same time in Rome. They were both filming
on the streets of Rome at the same time, very two very different movies,
far fewer car chases and book say, I kind of smell a mashup.
I'm sorry, but you know I would I would love to see a
mashup. I think that would be fantastic. My producer brain likes the production
line and costs on that one. But but you don't get that here.
You just you just have the four of them. There's no Vin Diesel.
But you know, I think for a Mother's Day weekend, I think it's
gonna be, you know, decently successful. It's not going to be Guardians
of the Galaxy the Second Guardian that was a two and a half hour grief
fast. Okay, uh must see for gen xers this weekend. Muppets Mayhem.
I gotta go quick because I want to get to this Muppets Mayhem,
which what's your take? Muppets Mayhem is on Disney Plus. It's a new
show. It's about the the Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, which is
the house band for the Muppets, which some people I think I think you
know, but you don't maybe don't really know. I think most people know.
The Animal plays the drums, right, yeah, and that's where he's
playing the drums, is in that band. This is all about this band
making a new their first album. They've never made an album before. This
is also surprisingly really funny. Some of the Muppets shows and stuff that they've
done in the past recent years has been hit or miss, but I really
like the humor here. A ton of amazing guest stars, from Morgan Freeman
to Paula Abduel to weird al Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins shows up in
the first episode, which was surprising to me. I didn't expect him to
be in that world, but you know, everybody loves the Muppets, and
I had a lot of fun with the series. Jason. I wish we
had more time. It was my fault. I went a bit long a
little bit earlier. But I'd love to talk with you next week. I'm
going to be on next Friday, so let's try to do it and get
caught up on air and some other things too. Okay, all right,
sounds good, Thank you, sir. ABC's Jason Nathanson right there. He'll
join us next week as well, and whenever he once. Really, let's
do some Southern California weather from KFI. Sunny today after the morning clouds move
out and the fog burns off. Highs from the mid to upper sixties at
the beaches to the lower to mid seventies inland. On the eastern end of
the San Fernando Valley could hit eighty farther Inland could up to eighty five.
Tonight, mostly clear across the Southland lows in the mid fifties, and tomorrow
is a sunshine, rinse repeat, slightly warmer. Seal Beach right now is
at fifty five degrees Orange is at fifty six, Torrance is at fifty two,
Altadena is at forty eight. You're listening to KFI and ko SThD two
Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from the KFI twenty far
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