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Speaker 3: I just heard that she was feeling sick too. Yes,
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Speaker 3: She started the whole thing. No, she was sick before me.
Speaker 3: She was sick before me. My friend Debbie had this
Speaker 3: a few weeks ago, same thing, she like walked me
Speaker 3: through and I went, oh my god, that's exactly what
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Speaker 3: long pauses, it's because I've turned off my MIC and I'm.
Speaker 4: Hacking have a long They're used to it now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, the good news is I am caught up
Speaker 3: on everything. I spent five days on the couch because
Speaker 3: they started to feel really bad last Friday and then
Speaker 3: spent the whole weekend, uh, just at home hold up,
Speaker 3: and then of course most of this week, so I'm
Speaker 3: caught up on all of my shows. All right, let's
Speaker 3: get caught up on what's going on in the world.
Speaker 3: Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The House has
Speaker 3: passed President Trump's so called Big Beautiful Bill. The vote
Speaker 3: this morning came in after an all night session. The
Speaker 3: President went to Capitol Hill yesterday to try to get
Speaker 3: holdouts to vote in favor of the massive bill. To
Speaker 3: vote two fifteen to two fourteen. A stretch of PCH
Speaker 3: that's been closed since the Palisades fire in january's about
Speaker 3: to reopen. The highway has been restricted to businesses and
Speaker 3: residents in the burn zone and repair cruise for the
Speaker 3: past four months. It's supposed to reopen to the public tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Two hundred and sixty five people have been arrested. Twenty
Speaker 3: seven young children have been rescued in a two week
Speaker 3: crackdown on internet crimes against children. The LAPD says operations
Speaker 3: Spring cleaning last month targeted predators using social media to
Speaker 3: exploit miners across five counties in southern California. Always fascinated
Speaker 3: by jail breaks, aren't you. Yeah, How they do it,
Speaker 3: how they get away with it. We're going to take
Speaker 3: a deeper look into how that group pulled it off
Speaker 3: in Louisiana with ABC's Brad Garrett. That's coming up in
Speaker 3: just a couple of minutes. The happiest place on Earth
Speaker 3: for me Disneyland, of course, but in the real world,
Speaker 3: where are the happiest places on earth? Can't if I's
Speaker 3: Rory or O'Neill is going to tell us, he says,
Speaker 3: you're going to be surprised by some of them. We're
Speaker 3: going to check in with him at five twenty. Here's
Speaker 3: something to make you happy. Strawberries the Garden Grove Strawberry
Speaker 3: Festival celebrating at sixty fifth anniversary this year getting underway.
Speaker 3: We'll be talking about all the deliciousness that's coming up
Speaker 3: th five, and if you're in for a good laugh,
Speaker 3: we're going to be talking with longtime TV weatherman Fritz Coleman.
Speaker 3: He's such a delight. He's stepped out from behind the
Speaker 3: TV camera and stepped onto the stage for his stand
Speaker 3: up comedy show called Unassisted Residency. That's coming up before
Speaker 3: the top of the hour, and we've got some tickets
Speaker 3: for you to go see the show too, so stick
Speaker 3: around for that. See I told you lots coming up
Speaker 3: on Wake Up Call. Let's get started with some of
Speaker 3: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 3: A small plane has crashed in a neighborhood in San Diego.
Speaker 3: The plane went down just before four this morning in
Speaker 3: the area of Murphy Canyon near the fifteen and the
Speaker 3: eight freeways. There's no word yet on injuries or how
Speaker 3: many people were on board. A stretch of PCH that's
Speaker 3: been closed since the start of the fires in Pacific
Speaker 3: Palisades set to reopen tomorrow.
Speaker 5: For the past four months, the highway has only been
Speaker 5: open to repair crews, essential businesses, and residents who live
Speaker 5: in the burn areas in Pacific Palisades and Malibu. Governor
Speaker 5: Gavin Newsom has previously mentioned reopening pieced one lane of
Speaker 5: traffic in each direction in May. Hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 5: people use the highway, Mark Mayfield KFI News.
Speaker 3: Thela City Council's heard its final round of public comment
Speaker 3: on the proposed budget for the new fiscal year.
Speaker 6: With the city facing around a billion dollar budget shortfall.
Speaker 6: The original proposal from Mayor Bass was to cut around
Speaker 6: sixteen hundred jobs, but that's been modified. The Budget Committee
Speaker 6: says it's made other cuts, move some money around and
Speaker 6: reduce that number closer to five hundred. Firefighter John Harper
Speaker 6: says some of the cuts, though, would have put more
Speaker 6: EMTs on the street.
Speaker 7: Without funding and the constant supply of new firefighters and paramedics,
Speaker 7: our current crisis will only get worse and this will
Speaker 7: have deadly consequences.
Speaker 6: The full Council is expected to vote on the budget today.
Speaker 6: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 3: State Senator Brian Jones says gas prices could go up
Speaker 3: by about sixty five cents a gallon this summer because
Speaker 3: of Governor Newsom's policies. The minority leader in Sacramento says
Speaker 3: he has filed two public records requests for information on
Speaker 3: the new low carbon fuel standards that kick in July first.
Speaker 3: He says, overregulation is the problem what.
Speaker 8: The Governor's been using it for lately as a hammer
Speaker 8: to continuously drive up prices of fuel in California by
Speaker 8: overregulating the refineries, overregulating the retailers, overregulating the oil drillers
Speaker 8: and extractors.
Speaker 3: Joan says the governor and the California Air Resources Board,
Speaker 3: or driving oil companies out of the state. Californians with
Speaker 3: student loan debt are among those most responsible at paying
Speaker 3: it back. A new analysis by the San Jose Mercury
Speaker 3: News finds eighteen percent of borrowers in the state were
Speaker 3: laid on loan payments. That's lower than the twenty three
Speaker 3: percent national rate. California ranked tenth for the percentage of
Speaker 3: borrowers paying back responsibly. Student loan accounts for about five
Speaker 3: percent of all debt in California, averaging about forty six
Speaker 3: hundred dollars per person. Let's say good morning to ABC's
Speaker 3: Brad Garrett.
Speaker 9: Hey, Brad, good morning, Amy, Good morning.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about this escape because I'm absolutely
Speaker 3: fascinated by jail breaks. I know you and I have
Speaker 3: talked about him before. But before that, I do want
Speaker 3: to get a quick update on that awful shooting in Washington,
Speaker 3: d C. Last night outside the Jewish Museum. Can you
Speaker 3: give us the latest information that you have.
Speaker 9: Yes, it's called the Capitol Jewish Museum, not to be
Speaker 9: confused with the Holocaust Museum. They're both here in d C.
Speaker 9: But there are two separate entities. So the museum had
Speaker 9: some event last night and a couple walk out and
Speaker 9: literally are gunned down or right by the entrance to
Speaker 9: the museum, and the shooter was immediately taken into custody.
Speaker 9: He didn't run. In fact, some reporting is he actually
Speaker 9: walked into the museum, but either way, he was immediately
Speaker 9: handcuffed by DC police and identified as a thirty year
Speaker 9: old from Chicago. But the last day I believe in Rodriguez. Now,
Speaker 9: you know, there's always second guessing amy at these like,
Speaker 9: you know, should he have been able to be there
Speaker 9: with security adequate? I mean, I don't know, how do
Speaker 9: you defense against, you know, picking a busy street in
Speaker 9: Los Angeles and people walking around and people coming out
Speaker 9: of movie theaters, restaurants whatever.
Speaker 3: Right, because the shooting happened out on the street, right,
Speaker 3: it wasn't inside.
Speaker 9: The building exactly, So you know, gunning people down unless
Speaker 9: you know about it, it's pretty difficult to defends against,
Speaker 9: no matter what your security might be.
Speaker 10: So to be.
Speaker 9: That what it may, you know, it just sadly maybe
Speaker 9: sheds additional light on what's going on in Gaza, And
Speaker 9: I think as it gets more and more, particularly humanitarian
Speaker 9: side of it gets more and more depleted, you're going
Speaker 9: to get people more and more angry, and usually when
Speaker 9: that happens, granted, a small percentage of them will act
Speaker 9: out violently.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And this guy apparently had said that he did
Speaker 3: it for Gaza when he was taken into custody and
Speaker 3: then was yelling free, free Palestine. So he's not making
Speaker 3: any bones about it. It basically like you said, he
Speaker 3: waited around for police to get there, wasn't trying to
Speaker 3: get away.
Speaker 9: Exactly right, Yeah, exactly right, able to make a statement, yeah,
Speaker 9: you know, and so we're fortunate that we don't have
Speaker 9: more of versions of this, just based on what's going
Speaker 9: on over there.
Speaker 11: And so you know, it's.
Speaker 9: Even in a tight security I suspect up even more
Speaker 9: at anything that involves Jewish communities, synagogue, you name it.
Speaker 9: I mean, this stuff just tightens everybody up and rightly.
Speaker 12: So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what's scary to me, Brad is that this
Speaker 3: is happening half a world away. This is a young
Speaker 3: couple that had nothing to do with what's going on
Speaker 3: in Gaza, I mean except that they're Jewish and Israel's
Speaker 3: a Jewish state, so they are the innocence in it,
Speaker 3: and that somebody in their warped minds is this is
Speaker 3: going to help fix it.
Speaker 9: So you have to look at it this way that
Speaker 9: this couple is probably symbolic. I'd be shocked if he
Speaker 9: knows anything about them, but you know, and maybe just
Speaker 9: guess because he's standing in front of a Jewish museum
Speaker 9: that the people coming out would be Jewish. My guess
Speaker 9: is it's just that simple and sad, of course, but
Speaker 9: it's you know, you are right. I mean, they're just
Speaker 9: here trying to do their job and apparently we're going
Speaker 9: to get married. Yeah, and very.
Speaker 3: Sad, very sad. Okay, and now we're almost out of time,
Speaker 3: but okay, can we talk about this the jail break
Speaker 3: really quick, because they sure they got out. There's ten
Speaker 3: of them, and I'm fascinated with jail breaks. What where
Speaker 3: are we now with the group that got away, Like
Speaker 3: ten of them got away and they've got half of
Speaker 3: them back, and let's sten give them back how they
Speaker 3: got away and the system failures that enabled them to
Speaker 3: get away, because this was not a, like you said,
Speaker 3: a Shawshank redemption moment, which, by the way, mister Dufrain
Speaker 3: was innocent. This disgust didn't take years and years to do.
Speaker 3: They basically had to break out a wall and off
Speaker 3: they went.
Speaker 9: Well, yes, but to remove the toilet Saint combo would
Speaker 9: not be an easy thing to do, so they had
Speaker 9: to have somebody smuggle tools into them. They had to
Speaker 9: create the hole that they went through, they had to
Speaker 9: have inside help, which they did. And you also have
Speaker 9: to have a prison that's understand by almost forty percent,
Speaker 9: and maintenance apparently, according to sheriff, is in really bad
Speaker 9: shape of doors that you can break open, they can
Speaker 9: slide them off the hinges, whatever it might be. That
Speaker 9: so you've got all of the elements in my view,
Speaker 9: that lead to escapes, and they'll probably get the other five.
Speaker 9: But because it's very hard to stay on the run
Speaker 9: and most of these people don't have the means to
Speaker 9: do that in a way that they won't get caught.
Speaker 3: And then they also made a couple of arrests of
Speaker 3: people who have helped them since they broke out.
Speaker 9: Right right, there's at least one guy apparently has admitted
Speaker 9: that he was told by i think, for lack of
Speaker 9: better terms, the leader of these ten that he was
Speaker 9: going to get shanked if he didn't shut the water
Speaker 9: off because once they yank the toilet and to think
Speaker 9: there would just be a flood, And so he shuts
Speaker 9: the water off for them. And now we'll see where
Speaker 9: that is. I think they've suspended some other employees, but
Speaker 9: we'll see how far this goes. Corruption can be a
Speaker 9: real big issue, and particularly in prisons that are so
Speaker 9: understaffed and and the other it's going to be probably underpaid.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and hey, I watched the mayor of Kingstown.
Speaker 3: Prisons are nothing to be rifled with. It's amazing to
Speaker 3: me that that kind of violence and corruption goes on
Speaker 3: inside that. Like you said, the guy inside said they
Speaker 3: told me that they would kill me if I didn't
Speaker 3: turn the water off, and he took that as a
Speaker 3: credible threat instead of like cracking down on the guys
Speaker 3: who made the threat.
Speaker 9: Well, other than he may not have felt comfortable in
Speaker 9: going to anybody. We'll have to see. I mean, on
Speaker 9: this level, if you have a prison that this has
Speaker 9: this number of issues, there may be all sorts of
Speaker 9: other corruption involved here. So so we'll have to see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And then I'm going to be watching for
Speaker 3: the movie because it's it's a fascinating story. How it
Speaker 3: all comes together.
Speaker 9: Yeah, right, Like I said, it's it's not Escape from Alcatraz,
Speaker 9: but it does. It does have its elements.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Brad Garrett, ABC's crime and Terror analysts. We appreciate
Speaker 3: the information as always. Have a great rest of your day.
Speaker 9: You shaidn't take care of Amy.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's get back to some of the stories coming
Speaker 3: out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The Republican
Speaker 3: led houses approved President Trump's Big Beautiful Budget bill after
Speaker 3: a second all night session.
Speaker 9: On this vote, the Yaser two hundred and fifteen the
Speaker 9: Naser two hundred and fourteen, with one answering present.
Speaker 3: The bill is passed, and more than one thousand page
Speaker 3: package includes tax cuts, trims the government's social safety net,
Speaker 3: and adds new Washington spending. Democrats were unanimously against it.
Speaker 3: The legislation now heads to the Senate, which is expected
Speaker 3: to take it up after Memorial Day. House Democratic Leader
Speaker 3: Jakim Jeffrey says the bill is anything but beautiful.
Speaker 7: It's reckless, regressive, and reprehensible GOP tax scam.
Speaker 12: This is one big, ugly bill.
Speaker 3: Jeffrey says, it's a broken promise from Republicans that will
Speaker 3: close hospitals and nursing homes. The bill includes changes to
Speaker 3: Medicaid and the food stamp program, largely by imposing work
Speaker 3: requirements on many of those who receive benefits. There's also
Speaker 3: a rollback of green energy tax breaks. Security has been
Speaker 3: increased at sensitive locations connected to New York City's Jewish
Speaker 3: community following the murders of two Israeli staff embassy members
Speaker 3: in Washington, d C.
Speaker 13: Suspect's in custody and shout at Free Palestine while being
Speaker 13: arrested after the shooting outside the Capitol Jewish Museum Wednesday night.
Speaker 13: Authority say two embassy staffers were shot and killed during
Speaker 13: a night out and they were about to get engaged.
Speaker 13: New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he's directing the
Speaker 13: NYPD to step up security at sensitive places. New York
Speaker 13: has the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel.
Speaker 13: Adam says anti Semitic violence is no place in our country. Skeppringle,
Speaker 13: NBC NewsRadio New York.
Speaker 3: The US militaries accepted a luxury jet from kat to
Speaker 3: be used as Air Force One. Eventually, The Defense Department
Speaker 3: says the acquisition of the Katari seven forty seven is
Speaker 3: in accordance with all federal laws.
Speaker 6: The Air Force now says it's preparing to award a
Speaker 6: contract to modify the jet to serve as a presidential aircraft.
Speaker 9: The details of that agreement, a spokesperson says, are classified.
Speaker 3: ABC Stephen Portnoy says the DoD says it will work
Speaker 3: to ensure proper security measures are considered. Hey, angel City
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Speaker 3: hundred thousand pounds of illegal fireworks have been seized in commerce.
Speaker 3: CalFire in the Office of State Marshall or the State
Speaker 3: Fire Marshal say the fireworks found yesterday were loaded onto
Speaker 3: about a dozen trucks that have been taken to a
Speaker 3: secure storage facility. Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy
Speaker 3: in Washington, a young couple on the verge of becoming engaged,
Speaker 3: have been shot and killed while leaving an event at
Speaker 3: a Jewish museum Polissa. The shooter apparently said he did
Speaker 3: it for Gaza and yelled free, Free Palestine after he
Speaker 3: was arrested. Southern California continues to bake under a late
Speaker 3: spring high pressure system. The heat advisory that was in
Speaker 3: effect has expired, but higher than normal temperatures they're still
Speaker 3: expected today. Parts of the San Fernando Valley, Calabasas, se
Speaker 3: Gore Hills, and the Santa Monica Recreational Area still expected
Speaker 3: to see tempts in the mid nineties. It's going to
Speaker 3: cool down from Memorial Day weekend. Let's say good morning
Speaker 3: now to kfi's Rory O'Neil So, Rory, the happiest place
Speaker 3: on Earth is in my humble opinion, Disneyland. But outside that,
Speaker 3: there's a new study showing where the actual happiest places
Speaker 3: on Earth are.
Speaker 2: Yes, and the study goes global, right And by the way,
Speaker 2: as a person who's based in Orlando alf like you
Speaker 2: on that Disney's.
Speaker 3: Land, that's fighting words, Rory.
Speaker 4: And we're getting a new Universal theme park today.
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, so, the happiest place is on Earth
Speaker 2: according to this study. Copenhagen Denmark comes in always do well,
Speaker 2: all we do it's the bicycles. I think that it's
Speaker 2: all on bicycles and they're all very tall. Zurich, Switzerland
Speaker 2: is number two. Singapore comes in number three on the
Speaker 2: global list. Now, when you want to look at just
Speaker 2: the happiest cities in the US, New York City comes
Speaker 2: in at number one, because who doesn't think every New
Speaker 2: York City resident is a happy person?
Speaker 3: That's really Okay, we're gonna have to we're gonna have
Speaker 3: to discuss methodology in a second. What else you got
Speaker 3: in the US?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Minneapolis. San Diego comes in at number thirty four
Speaker 2: on the list, LA seventy out of the top two hundred.
Speaker 2: By the way, Orlando wons seventy six.
Speaker 3: See, so we got you beat there.
Speaker 2: Because we're all working hard at the better theme parks
Speaker 2: that are oh my god.
Speaker 3: Okay, course you and me, we're getting in to it. Rory. Okay.
Speaker 3: So who determines who's happy?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: This list is actually from a group that looks at
Speaker 2: They do this Happiest Person's list every year, and it
Speaker 2: is from a group called the Institute for Quality of Life,
Speaker 2: and they have a bunch of different metrics including economy, health,
Speaker 2: mobility meaning transportation, governance, and citizens are their efforts to
Speaker 2: promote equality, get education to every person, inclusivity, things like that.
Speaker 3: So does it actually take into effect? How do I
Speaker 3: put this? I mean, like whether people are happy. It
Speaker 3: says it takes all these factors and says, oh, you know,
Speaker 3: there's equality, Oh, transportations easy. But does that actually make
Speaker 3: people feel happy or they just should be?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 2: I guess you're right. I guess it is more of
Speaker 2: a should be since they're taking off all the boxes.
Speaker 2: But you know, Copenhagen is also one of the greatest, cloudiest,
Speaker 2: gloomiest cities in the world.
Speaker 4: Right, but they still ride their bike everywhere.
Speaker 2: You know, Zurich is just splendid but terribly expensive for
Speaker 2: anyone who's living there. And Singapore, yes, well yeah, and
Speaker 2: Singapore Nita is a pin You won't find a piece
Speaker 2: of litter anywhere.
Speaker 4: It's like being in Epcot, but.
Speaker 2: Again, hot hot, hot, being essentially right on the equator.
Speaker 3: And then like Minneapolis, I think it's beautiful for like
Speaker 3: two or three months of the year, but otherwise it's
Speaker 3: fricking freezing there.
Speaker 2: It is, uh yeah, but yeah, let's see it was
Speaker 2: it Columbus, Ohio beat out LA on this survey.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure LA residents are all that happy, are they.
Speaker 3: I don't know. We're a mostly happy bunch. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be sunny in eighty five here today.
Speaker 2: Well, Baltimore comes in at number eighty four on the list,
Speaker 2: Boston one point thirty one.
Speaker 4: We know how lovely and happy.
Speaker 2: Bostonians are all the time, just with showing the love country.
Speaker 3: What are the unhappiest places?
Speaker 2: Well, all they did was ranked the two hundred top happiest,
Speaker 2: so they didn't necessarily say these locations are unhappy. So
Speaker 2: they actually break it down into gold, silver, and bronze category.
Speaker 2: So even the bottom of the barrel is still a
Speaker 2: place that most would consider to be relatively happy. This
Speaker 2: is me talking as I scrolled down to Pula, Croatia
Speaker 2: number two hundred.
Speaker 3: Oh, Croatia's beautiful.
Speaker 2: In Pula though in particular Houston, Texas one ninety eight.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, y for Ankara Turkey. All right, I think
Speaker 2: that this I think you're right. I think this is
Speaker 2: checking boxes. It's not actually people feeling happy. I want
Speaker 2: to know where people feel happy. Oh that's okay, I
Speaker 2: can go day to day as well, right, okay.
Speaker 3: If i's Rory O'Neil, thanks so much for the information.
Speaker 4: Thanks Art you soon all right, by bye.
Speaker 3: Two story apartment's been evacuated and one person was seriously
Speaker 3: injured in an explosion in the Westlake district. ELI Fire
Speaker 3: says the explosion happened yesterday afternoon and there is structural
Speaker 3: damage to the apartment building. LA Fire says it may
Speaker 3: have been gas related. Sheriff Robert Luna has pushed back
Speaker 3: against efforts by the County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission to
Speaker 3: turn over confidential deputy personnel files. The commission says a
Speaker 3: sheriff isn't being transparent about investigations into what it calls
Speaker 3: systemic problems in the department. Lunas is turning over those
Speaker 3: confidential files is prohibited by law. President Trump has met
Speaker 3: with the President of South Africa at the White House.
Speaker 3: During the meeting yesterday, with reporters in the room, Trump
Speaker 3: confronted the South African leader about his government allowing the
Speaker 3: killing of white South African farmers.
Speaker 14: We have documentaries, we have news stores, and that is
Speaker 14: Natalie here, somebody here to turn that I could show
Speaker 14: you a couple of things, and I would I have to.
Speaker 12: It has to be responded to.
Speaker 3: Trump showed video during the meeting that included far left
Speaker 3: politicians playing an anti apartheid song that includes the lyrics
Speaker 3: about killing farmers. The South African government and other observers
Speaker 3: say no such genocide exists. He's for accused Idaho college
Speaker 3: student killer Brian Koberger have been asked or have asked
Speaker 3: the judge to delay the trial. The lawyers say a
Speaker 3: story on NBC's Dateline promoted a narrative of guilt, and
Speaker 3: that information leaked about the case to Dateline where a
Speaker 3: violation of a gag order. They also say a book
Speaker 3: by James Patterson about the subject could prejudice the jury.
Speaker 3: The trial is set for August. Prosecutors in the Shawn
Speaker 3: Combs trial in New York have presented evidence gathered from
Speaker 3: a raid on the music Moguls mansion in Miami. ABC's
Speaker 3: Aaron Katterski says investigators testified about guns, drugs, and sex
Speaker 3: supplies found in the home last year that I.
Speaker 15: Think helps federal prosecutors with a visual representation putting the
Speaker 15: guns in the same proximity as the freak off materials.
Speaker 3: Katersky says the display helps prosecutors arguments that Combs used
Speaker 3: violence and the threat of violence to coerce women into
Speaker 3: sexual performances with male escorts, which Combs has denied. Spain
Speaker 3: is fighting against Airbnb.
Speaker 15: Spain's consumer rights ministry has ordered Airbnb to remove more
Speaker 15: than sixty five thousand listings in the country. Spaniards have
Speaker 15: been complaining about over tourism and a growing housing crisis.
Speaker 15: Spain says Airbnb was violating short term rental rules, like
Speaker 15: using fake license numbers or not saying if a property
Speaker 15: was owned by a person or a company. Airbnb says
Speaker 15: it's appealing the decision and a shortage of housing is
Speaker 15: not its fault. Many European countries have been dealing with
Speaker 15: rising rents, housing shortages, and increasing anti tourism protests as
Speaker 15: holiday rental licenses have increased. Michael Krozer KFI News, I.
Speaker 3: Love a good Airbnb house. Republicans stayed up all night
Speaker 3: and it paid off for them, as lawmakers passed a
Speaker 3: multi trillion dollar tax and spending package that President Trump
Speaker 3: has called his Big Beautiful Bill. To vote was two
Speaker 3: fifteen to two fourteen. It heads to the Senate next
Speaker 3: A house that made it through the Palisades fire in
Speaker 3: January has been destroyed in a fire. LA Fire says
Speaker 3: the house burned early yesterday afternoon. The cause hasn't been determined,
Speaker 3: but LA Fire says the fire started near an electrical panel.
Speaker 3: Home prices in California have reached record highs California Association
Speaker 3: of Realtors data shows the median price for a single
Speaker 3: family home across the state was more than nine hundred
Speaker 3: ten thousand dollars for April. San Francisco at the highest
Speaker 3: median prices at nearly one point five million dollars. In
Speaker 3: Southern California, the median price is eight hundred eighty seven
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. Let's say good morning now to Wendy Ellis
Speaker 3: with the sixty fifth annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. Morning Wendy,
Speaker 3: good morning. Okay, So I have to tell you I
Speaker 3: was I'm so bummed because I was planning to do
Speaker 3: my out and About segment for this week at the
Speaker 3: Strawberry Festival, and so you and I were going to
Speaker 3: meet up yesterday and we were going to show off
Speaker 3: all the cool treats that you're gonna have this weekend,
Speaker 3: and then this stupid cold came along, so forget that,
Speaker 3: but we still get to talk to you and you
Speaker 3: can tell us what is going on this weekend and
Speaker 3: why people need to include the Strawberry Festival in their
Speaker 3: Memorial Day plants.
Speaker 10: Ah, well, thank you for having me on, and of
Speaker 10: course we totally missed miss Nut seeing you yesterday. So
Speaker 10: but let's get people to come on down. Joy Strawberries
Speaker 10: have a fabulous Memorial Day weekend. It's the sixty fifth
Speaker 10: annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival, doing it for sixty five years,
Speaker 10: raising money for nonprofits all over the region, and we
Speaker 10: wanted people to have people come on down enjoy the rides,
Speaker 10: the games, the contests, lots of live music at the
Speaker 10: Garden Groves Amphitheater and it's just a really fun time,
Speaker 10: a real great family time and a great way to
Speaker 10: spend your Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3: Okay, so it sounds like it's a full on festival.
Speaker 3: You're not just going down to eat strawberries, which of
Speaker 3: course is a key element of that. So there's a
Speaker 3: full on carnival, it was, right, okay. And then there's
Speaker 3: music on sound stages and stuff that going on throughout
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 10: Definitely lots of bands performing.
Speaker 3: Okay, and then let's talk about the treats, because I mean,
Speaker 3: it's the Strawberry Festival, and fresh strawberries just picked are
Speaker 3: like the best thing in the whole wide world. So
Speaker 3: what are some of the things that some of the
Speaker 3: concoctions people are going to find.
Speaker 10: Well, we've got a lot of new ones this year.
Speaker 10: We really wanted to amp up the strawberries. You can't
Speaker 10: get enough strawberry. So we have food vendors and they're
Speaker 10: all nonprofits and so we have some really great companies
Speaker 10: come in and work with these nonprofits to help to
Speaker 10: help create and showcase a fabulous strawberry item. And some
Speaker 10: of the new items we have this year is we
Speaker 10: have a strawberry watermelon aquafresca that actually Wahoos came in
Speaker 10: and it's their Aqua Festa. It's fabulously amazing and you
Speaker 10: can get that at the Garden Grove Lions Club food booths.
Speaker 10: We also have Crema Cafe coming in with a strawberry
Speaker 10: hand strawberry and cream handpie, like a glorified pop tart.
Speaker 10: You can find that at the Rancho awl Amidos High
Speaker 10: School band food booths, and we also have strawberry frozen
Speaker 10: yogurt from yogurt Land and they're coming in with their toppings.
Speaker 10: That's a build at the Santiago High School band booths.
Speaker 10: So all these food booths are located around the carnival.
Speaker 10: Bribes are really convenient, fabulous strawberry items. And we also
Speaker 10: have a great partner at the Higatt Regency, Orange County
Speaker 10: and they're featuring strawberry items in their Tusca restaurant all
Speaker 10: month long, celebrating and supporting the Garden Grows Strawberry Festival.
Speaker 3: So they'll be out at the Strawberry Festival and then
Speaker 3: also at their restaurant they're featuring it.
Speaker 10: Yes, and they have a strawberry briushetta and a strawberry
Speaker 10: doughnut cheesecake that's just out of the world.
Speaker 3: Okay, I love this strawberry broshetta. Whendy, I'm reading what
Speaker 3: it is, Grilled ficasha with whipped barata cheese, strawberry brushetta,
Speaker 3: and then it's drizzled with aged balsamaic. I bet that
Speaker 3: that is a fabulous sweet and savory treat.
Speaker 10: It is amazing. I went and I tried it two
Speaker 10: days ago. I needed more.
Speaker 9: I'm already think love how much I need to go
Speaker 9: get that.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 10: Okay, it's fantastic.
Speaker 3: And those are just a few of the things that
Speaker 3: you're going to get. And the weather this weekend, I
Speaker 3: know it's been a little bit hot at the weather
Speaker 3: this weekend is going to be absolutely fabulous. It's going
Speaker 3: to be perfect to go hang out and listen to
Speaker 3: some music and ride some rides and try some yummy
Speaker 3: strawberry treats. And I love too that, Like you just
Speaker 3: mentioned it, it's all for nonprofits, so it's raising money
Speaker 3: for organizations in our community. What are the the What
Speaker 3: are the hours and times?
Speaker 10: Well, the hours are We kick off on Friday at
Speaker 10: one o'clock and it goes until eleven o'clock. But the
Speaker 10: rest of the weekend, Saturday, Sunday and Monday it kicks
Speaker 10: off at ten in the morning. But we do have
Speaker 10: a special ceremony tomorrow night at six pm on Main Street.
Speaker 10: It's the opening ceremony and all we have a huge
Speaker 10: strawberry chocolate, a strawberry cheesecake, and strawberry cake and we'll
Speaker 10: be cutting that short cake and two thousand free pieces
Speaker 10: of cake for everybody who comes down.
Speaker 3: Gotta love it, okay. And then for more information tickets
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. Where do they find that information?
Speaker 10: I go to Strawberry Festival dot org. Real easy.
Speaker 3: I love that. Wendy Ellis good luck with this sixty
Speaker 3: fifth annual Garden Groves Strawberry Festival. It's deliciousness all the
Speaker 3: way around.
Speaker 10: Thank you. I love you so much, love listening to
Speaker 10: every morning.
Speaker 3: Oh thanks for all right, thanks so much. Time to
Speaker 3: get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad you're backing. Okay, we missed you well,
Speaker 3: thank you. I just when things go quiet, I just
Speaker 3: have to warn people that I have a relentless cough.
Speaker 3: So if it gets quiet for a couple of seconds,
Speaker 3: that's why that turned off on my microphone. Okay, So
Speaker 3: let's get right in your business. Big retailer is doing
Speaker 3: big cuts. Yeah, pink slips are going out of Walmart. Oh,
Speaker 3: Walmart really.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: The retail giant is said to be eliminating some of
Speaker 11: its corporate staff. We're talking about fifteen hundred workers are affected.
Speaker 11: So they're specifically targeting it's global technology team, the group
Speaker 11: that handles digital orders. They say it could be a
Speaker 11: a lot more efficient and also its advertising business. Now,
Speaker 11: Walmart was pretty clear about this because President Trump was
Speaker 11: kind of angry at them last week, especially when they
Speaker 11: said the price hikes are due to tariffs. They say
Speaker 11: the changes reflect the company's future strategy and they are
Speaker 11: not related to tariffs. So they were very clear on
Speaker 11: making sure that they noted the reason.
Speaker 3: Okay, gotcha, I'm surprised that Walmart. That's you know, restructuring
Speaker 3: is part of what businesses do, right.
Speaker 11: So yeah, what they say is there was just too
Speaker 11: many layers of management and too many people going in
Speaker 11: the wrong direction for things. So that's why they said,
Speaker 11: you know what, let's make it more efficient and this
Speaker 11: is a way that we're going to do It makes sense. Okay, Nike,
Speaker 11: you have not been able to purchase them for years
Speaker 11: on Amazon, but that's changing. Yeah, since twenty nineteen, you
Speaker 11: couldn't purchase any Nike items. But Nike is now running
Speaker 11: back into the arms of Amazon. They've been working to revive.
Speaker 11: It's really Nike pretty much has been working to revive
Speaker 11: its relationship with its retail partners, so they abandon a
Speaker 11: lot of them in a bid to boost their own
Speaker 11: sales channel with their old management. Now they have new
Speaker 11: management that came in because then they realized that when
Speaker 11: they got away from retail partners, it completely backfired and
Speaker 11: it contributed to a sales slump. So independent merchants have
Speaker 11: sole Nike products on Amazon in recent years, but those
Speaker 11: goods didn't come directly from Nike. So now they say,
Speaker 11: all right, we're going to hook up with Amazon. Hopefully
Speaker 11: this is going to boost our sales, you know.
Speaker 3: And it makes sense because when I go to go
Speaker 3: to buy something online, my go to really is Amazon.
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily go to the company website because I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: maybe I'll get a better deal. Whether you do or not,
Speaker 3: that's just sort of my mentality. Because a lot of
Speaker 3: it is just so easy. You already have it set
Speaker 3: up in your phone. You don't have to enter in
Speaker 3: your own information or enter in so a lot of
Speaker 3: people are doing exactly the way that you're doing just
Speaker 3: because of the efficiency and knowing that they could get
Speaker 3: it maybe within two days. Yeah, So okay, let's move
Speaker 3: on to the really important stuff. People who make toilet
Speaker 3: paper and toothpaste, are saying that they need to figure
Speaker 3: out a new way to sell their products.
Speaker 11: Yes, they have to innovate, innovate, innovate, because in past
Speaker 11: economic downturns, these companies, these consumer product companies, either lower
Speaker 11: their prices to get folks to buy more, or they
Speaker 11: raise their prices to make up for the lower volume.
Speaker 11: This time around, it's a completely different story because consumer
Speaker 11: goods companies who're talking the Procters and Gambles of the
Speaker 11: world Chlorox, they've been squeezed by a double whammy of
Speaker 11: the weak consumer demand, plus they have the high cost
Speaker 11: of tariffs.
Speaker 3: So the sector is trying new things.
Speaker 11: First of all, they're trying new packaging sizes to appeal
Speaker 11: to shoppers. So this is likely going to mean smaller
Speaker 11: packs that lower the upfront cost or expanded bundles that
Speaker 11: decrease the cost for each item. But this is interesting.
Speaker 11: Mentions of innovation by top consumer goods companies on their
Speaker 11: earnings calls so far this year that has more than
Speaker 11: doubled compared to a year ago.
Speaker 3: Saying they know to make some changes, and they exactly
Speaker 3: because it's not the old playbook anymore, all right, Getting
Speaker 3: in your business every day with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks Courtney,
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you tomorrow, See you later. A small
Speaker 3: plane is crashed into a neighborhood in San Diego. Authority
Speaker 3: say the plane made a direct hit to multiple homes.
Speaker 3: There is a fire. It's in the Murphy Canyon area
Speaker 3: near the fifteen and eight freeways. A miner has been
Speaker 3: arrested in connection with hundreds of fireworks explosions in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 3: Residents say fireworks have been going off at a house
Speaker 3: during all hours of the night for the last five years.
Speaker 3: The La Zoo's two Asian elephants are settling into their
Speaker 3: new home at the Tulsa Zou Zoo. Officials say the
Speaker 3: zoo in Tulsa has more space, more staff, and more
Speaker 3: elephants for Billy and Tina to interact with. Let's say
Speaker 3: good morning too, Fritz Coleman. Good morning, mister Coleman, doing fabulous.
Speaker 3: Thanks for getting up early with us today.
Speaker 2: Hard here.
Speaker 3: So, Fritz, you did TV weather for years and now
Speaker 3: you make people laugh while I'm.
Speaker 12: Trying to That's true.
Speaker 16: I started my career in stand up and I got
Speaker 16: my job doing the weather from doing stand up at
Speaker 16: the Comedy Store.
Speaker 12: So it's full circle for me.
Speaker 3: Wait, that's how you got discovered.
Speaker 16: Yes, I was working at the Comedy Store in nineteen
Speaker 16: eighty two and the news director from NBC was in them.
Speaker 3: Was in the audience.
Speaker 16: And then I had mentioned during my show that I
Speaker 16: had done the weather when I worked for Armed Forces
Speaker 16: Radio and Television in the Navy, but I didn't know
Speaker 16: anything about it, and I had some many notes to
Speaker 16: tell about not knowing.
Speaker 12: Anything about the weather and doing it, and this is
Speaker 12: an absolutely true story. When my show was over, I went.
Speaker 16: Backstage to meet these people, and this man, Steve Antonetti,
Speaker 16: god rest his soul, said to me, this is a
Speaker 16: weird question, but do you have any desire to come
Speaker 16: to Channel four and do some vacation relief fill in
Speaker 16: weather for me? And I said, you did hear me
Speaker 16: say on stage that I don't know anything about the weather.
Speaker 16: He's perfect, there's no weather in California. This will work
Speaker 16: out great. So I auditioned. I got the job doing
Speaker 16: fill in for a couple of years. Then my predecessor
Speaker 16: left and I got bumped up to the main job
Speaker 16: and I was there for forty years.
Speaker 12: It's an honest to god miracle.
Speaker 3: Isn't that fun? So now did the You said that
Speaker 3: the stand up gig gave you some fodder for the
Speaker 3: weather gig? Did it work in reverse? Two?
Speaker 12: Yes, it is. It was. They were mutually beneficial experiences.
Speaker 16: From playing to drunks at one o'clock in the morning
Speaker 16: and comedy clubs. There was no emergency situation on TV
Speaker 16: that I couldn't react well and not lose my cool.
Speaker 16: And the reverse of that was true. Being on television
Speaker 16: doing the weather helped me to get booked around in
Speaker 16: shows in southern California.
Speaker 12: So it was, it was. It was a mutually beneficial experience.
Speaker 3: And now you're just doing this. This is your job.
Speaker 3: Now you've left my job. The weather is gone. And
Speaker 3: I know we've talked before and you said you don't
Speaker 3: miss it at or lick.
Speaker 16: Well, no, I mean I tell people, even if you
Speaker 16: love what you do, forty years is long enough.
Speaker 12: And I'm glad to be retired.
Speaker 16: I get to do this show at the elports Ole Theater,
Speaker 16: which has been going on for a year and a half.
Speaker 16: It's called Unassisted Living. It's a show for people of
Speaker 16: a certain age. So I get to go on stage
Speaker 16: and wine for an hour and twenty minutes about the
Speaker 16: joys the euphoria of being old and people who are
Speaker 16: in that similar circumstance have a good time. I say,
Speaker 16: if you have a Medicare card and you appreciate being
Speaker 16: home by dark, you need to come and see this
Speaker 16: show because it was.
Speaker 12: Built for you.
Speaker 3: Okay, So then let me ask you this, Fris because
Speaker 3: I remember I used to have a friend who was
Speaker 3: several years older than me, and I'd go, oh, I
Speaker 3: don't feel that way yet, or and she kept saying,
Speaker 3: just you wait, just you wait, you'll get there soon enough.
Speaker 3: Is there some of that in your show? Because there
Speaker 3: are certain things.
Speaker 16: That's the whole thing. That's the whole thing. It's the
Speaker 16: common experience. Some of the topics we talk about are
Speaker 16: having grandchildren during the pandemic, what happens to your body,
Speaker 16: men and women, how you perceive the world, your lack
Speaker 16: of energy, how you assess how you were as a parent,
Speaker 16: all the common experiences of being old, and not all
Speaker 16: of it is bad. I closed the show out with
Speaker 16: a whole block on being grateful. The one thing that's
Speaker 16: happened to me since I got older is I find
Speaker 16: myself being more grateful for everything I have and everything
Speaker 16: I've experienced, and I sort of close out on a
Speaker 16: positive note, and it's fun. I have found that a
Speaker 16: comedy these days, with the darkness and the division in
Speaker 16: the world, is really very therapeutic. I don't do any politics.
Speaker 16: It's a relatively clean show. So my job is to
Speaker 16: just take people's heads out of the rest of the
Speaker 16: weirdness in the world and allow them to understand what's
Speaker 16: common among us instead of what divides us.
Speaker 12: It's what's common among us.
Speaker 16: And if you're given the gift of being able to
Speaker 16: get to a certain age, then these are all the
Speaker 16: typical experiences. And there are people who have been back
Speaker 16: two and three times to see this show, and so
Speaker 16: I think it's working okay.
Speaker 3: And then, Fritz, all of your shows at the El
Speaker 3: Portal Theater are matinees.
Speaker 16: How come well because people in my particular demographic, which
Speaker 16: is old people and their parents, like to be home
Speaker 16: by dark. So we start the show at three in
Speaker 16: the afternoon on a Sunday. It's usually the last Sunday
Speaker 16: of every month, and we just find that that's a
Speaker 16: good fit for the people that come to see this show.
Speaker 3: I love it. And then there's a special for the
Speaker 3: summer to two for one.
Speaker 16: That's true, and we're really excited to announce this. If
Speaker 16: you buy a ticket at Elportthaltheater dot com anytime between
Speaker 16: June first and June fifteenth, it's two for one. You'll
Speaker 16: buy one ticket, you'll get one free, and those tickets
Speaker 16: are good for any show in the summer all the
Speaker 16: way through September. So we'd love to see you. It's
Speaker 16: the Marilyn Monroe Farm is part of the Elportal Theater
Speaker 16: and it's just small enough for me to come and
Speaker 16: hug everybody after the show.
Speaker 12: I would love to meet you. Come on out and
Speaker 12: see us.
Speaker 3: I love that, And so we've got when's your next?
Speaker 3: Is the next one?
Speaker 12: This Sunday? Were this Sunday?
Speaker 16: If you want to come to Sunday, I'm not sure
Speaker 16: where there are any tickets left, but you can try
Speaker 16: Sunday the twenty fifth at three o'clock Elportsoaltheater dot com.
Speaker 16: And it's a Memorial Day weekend, so you may or
Speaker 16: may not be able to fit us into your schedule,
Speaker 16: but if not, come and get a two for one
Speaker 16: deal and come and see you sometime this summer.
Speaker 3: I love that Fritz Coleman Unassisted Living. It's such a
Speaker 3: fun show. I actually I got to watch the special
Speaker 3: that you recorded. It's a lot of fun. And in fact, Fritz,
Speaker 3: we're going to make it fun for a couple of
Speaker 3: week up call listeners because we have two pair of
Speaker 3: tickets to give away, so we're going to do that
Speaker 3: right now. Fritz Coleman, thank you so much, and we
Speaker 3: look forward to seeing the show. It sounds like a
Speaker 3: lot of a great time.
Speaker 12: Thank you enough, Amy, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: All right, take care, all right. As I mentioned, we
Speaker 3: have two pair of tickets to give away to go
Speaker 3: see Unassisted Living. It's Fritz Coleman, a lot of fun
Speaker 3: and I love no politics, not a nasty one, just
Speaker 3: a feel good comedy show. I love it before dark
Speaker 3: and you and you're home before dark. It's lovely. Okay.
Speaker 3: Here are the numbers to call. One eight hundred five
Speaker 3: to zero one k F. I again, one eight hundred
Speaker 3: five to two zero one k FI. And we'll take
Speaker 3: callers number eight and nine because you're going to be
Speaker 3: home before eight or nine when you go see this show.
Speaker 3: One eight hundred five to zero one KFI again callers
Speaker 3: number eight and nine to see Fritz Coleman's unassisted living
Speaker 3: Such a delight, loves that. Okay, this is KFI and
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