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Speaker 5: Five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Tuesday, March twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. YEP.
Speaker 1: Got baseball in the air two days till opening day.
Speaker 5: The weather even feels like baseball, well.
Speaker 1: It does today, but it's going to cool down by
Speaker 1: like fifteen degrees by Thursday. But that's okay, that'll be
Speaker 1: a beautiful afternoon at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5: Can't wait.
Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. LA bases her
Speaker 1: meetings with state lawmakers were productive. She and other leaders
Speaker 1: went to Sacramento yesterday to ask for money to help
Speaker 1: bill LA's estimated one billion dollars shortfall. After the meeting,
Speaker 1: LA area lawmakers requested nearly two billion dollars for the city.
Speaker 1: Four hundred and forty thousand acres have been added to
Speaker 1: the highest fire hazard zones on new fire maps just
Speaker 1: released by cal Fire. The maps divide California into three
Speaker 1: fire hazard zones the LA and city and county areas
Speaker 1: now have full four months to make adjustments and start
Speaker 1: enforcing heightened safety regular zones. Warplanes are actually war plans
Speaker 1: for military strikes and Yemen have inadvertently been shared with
Speaker 1: the editor in chief of The Atlantic newspaper. Top national
Speaker 1: security officials for President Trump, including his Defense secretary, were
Speaker 1: on the group texts that somehow included editor Jeffrey Goldberg.
Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Travers is going to join us in just
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes to help flush this out.
Speaker 5: See what happened?
Speaker 1: What is section two thirty? Why do lawmakers want to
Speaker 1: change it? Also a Looney Tunes look at Tesla. ABC's
Speaker 1: Mike Debuski is going to join us at five thirty
Speaker 1: five and tell us all about both of those things.
Speaker 1: And then before the hour is up, we've got Joel Larsgard.
Speaker 1: He's going to tell us what to do about student
Speaker 1: loans in the face of the gutting of the Department
Speaker 1: of Education, and why you may soon be paying more
Speaker 1: if you own a Tesla and it's not the car itself.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four Hour newsroom. Twelve acres of
Speaker 1: a golf course in Altadena are now being used as
Speaker 1: a temporary recycling site for debris from the Eton fire.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Mark Mayfield says locals are not happy about it.
Speaker 2: A group of residents reacted by staging a protest. The
Speaker 2: US Army Corps of Engineers insists the process is safe,
Speaker 2: saying vegetative debris, scrap metal, and clean concrete will be
Speaker 2: broken down at the golf course.
Speaker 1: He says, ash, toxic debris, and other hazardous materials will
Speaker 1: be put into a sealed truck and taken directly to
Speaker 1: a permitted landfill. The deadline for free fire debris removal
Speaker 1: in La County is coming up quick.
Speaker 6: It's less than a week now before the March thirty
Speaker 6: first deadline for homeowners to opt into a free federal
Speaker 6: program for debris removal. Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsay Horrivath
Speaker 6: is urging residents to sign up now to help speed
Speaker 6: up recovery. The US Army Corps of Engineers is leading
Speaker 6: the government sponsored debris removal program.
Speaker 1: Kafi's Tammy Trujillo says residents who opt out of the
Speaker 1: government program can hire their own private contractors, with costs
Speaker 1: paid out of pocket or by insurance. New fire zone
Speaker 1: maps for southern California have been released by CalFire.
Speaker 4: Fire zone maps are updated nearly every decade, and now
Speaker 4: they show three different tiers for all areas of the state,
Speaker 4: Moderate high and very high as it relates to risk
Speaker 4: of fire. LA County Supervisor Catherine Barger says the maps
Speaker 4: could help homeowners figure out what defenses they may need.
Speaker 1: There are things you can do to harden your home,
Speaker 1: Clarence brush clearance and things like that that will help,
Speaker 1: and I know insurance companies do take that into consideration.
Speaker 4: The map is now live on Calfire's website, and official
Speaker 4: say it's important to review because it could affect how
Speaker 4: people are able to build in the future. Michael Monks
Speaker 4: KFI News.
Speaker 1: The former interpreter for Dodgers player Shohei Otani gets to
Speaker 1: remain free a little while longer. Daniel Martindale says Ibe
Speaker 1: Mitzuhara was supposed to start his nearly five year prison
Speaker 1: sentence yesterday.
Speaker 7: He pleaded guilty to stealing millions of dollars from Otani's
Speaker 7: bank account to feed his addiction to a legal gambling.
Speaker 7: The US Department of Justice has granted Misahara a postponement,
Speaker 7: allowing him to surrender to federal agents at an unspecified
Speaker 7: later date.
Speaker 1: The Feds didn't say why they delayed it, and the
Speaker 1: court order is sealed. Let's say good morning to ABC's
Speaker 1: White House, not ABC's I'm used to ABC kfi's White
Speaker 1: House correspondent. We get him for our very own. It's
Speaker 1: John Dicker. Good morning, John.
Speaker 8: Hey, good morning to you. Hope you're doing well today, Amy,
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 1: So we got some people in the Trump administration headed
Speaker 1: to Greenland last this week.
Speaker 5: Tell us what's going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: The delegations being led by Usha Vance, Vice President jd
Speaker 8: Vance's wife. Also traveling in that delegation will be Mike Walt,
Speaker 8: a national security advisor to President Trump, President Trump's Energy secretary,
Speaker 8: as well President Trump. Yesterday at his Cabinet meeting, I
Speaker 8: was there when the President said that this delegation has
Speaker 8: been invited by the government of Greenland during the course
Speaker 8: of this visit. But Greenland's Prime Minister immediately put out
Speaker 8: a statement saying no official or unofficial or informal invitation
Speaker 8: was ever extended to this group that will travel to
Speaker 8: Greenland later this week.
Speaker 1: So what I amma is that some of the things
Speaker 1: that come out of our president's mouth when they can
Speaker 1: be clearly refuted immediately.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this was an example of the President just speaking
Speaker 8: and responding to a question posed to him about Greenland.
Speaker 8: The President has territorial ambitions as it relates to Greenland
Speaker 8: being a part of US territory, but Greenland's Prime minister
Speaker 8: says that's not going to happen. The citizens of Greenland
Speaker 8: recently had an election in which they indicated they have
Speaker 8: no desire to be a part of the United States,
Speaker 8: and Denmark's prime minister, Greenland is a territory of Denmark,
Speaker 8: also has said Greenland is not for sale. So obviously
Speaker 8: this is going to be difficult in terms of what
Speaker 8: the President desires. And as you may know, the United
Speaker 8: States has a military base on Greenland right now. At
Speaker 8: one point during World War Two, the United States has
Speaker 8: thirty seven military bases on Greenland. That number has diminished
Speaker 8: significantly over the course of the past few decades. And
Speaker 8: you know, there's nothing to stop the United States from
Speaker 8: asking Greenland, can we put another base somewhere else on
Speaker 8: Greenland's territory. I'm sure they would be amenable to that,
Speaker 8: but the President is more interested in having Greenland as
Speaker 8: part of US territory.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I want to ask you about whether that
Speaker 1: is even doable. I mean, what do we do just
Speaker 1: go in and say we're taking over? I mean, how
Speaker 1: do they have the authority to do that? Do we invade?
Speaker 1: How would we get Greenland?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Very good question. I don't know the answers to that.
Speaker 4: Why is that?
Speaker 8: Because Denmark is a part of NATO, and I cannot
Speaker 8: think of any instance in which one NATO country essentially
Speaker 8: acquiring through any means, the territory of another NATO territory.
Speaker 8: So I don't know how this all works its way out.
Speaker 8: I think it's one of those things that the president
Speaker 8: is fixated upon, and when he's fixated upon something, he
Speaker 8: talks about it often, and in the case of what's
Speaker 8: happening later this week, he actually assigns members of his
Speaker 8: administration to go about trying to achieve his goal. I
Speaker 8: think it's going to be difficult, if not impossible, to
Speaker 8: achieve that goal, just like it's going to be difficult,
Speaker 8: if not impossible, to achieve one of the president's other goals.
Speaker 3: That he speaks about.
Speaker 8: Making Canada the fifty first state or re acquiring the
Speaker 8: Panama Canal after it was conveyed to Panama in nineteen
Speaker 8: seventy nine through a treaty. So this is something the president,
Speaker 8: I think he to a certain extent amy wants to
Speaker 8: emulate a former president, and that's President McKinley, who acquired
Speaker 8: quite a bit of territory during his four years in
Speaker 8: the White House.
Speaker 1: So I'm wondering, just spitballing here, John, I wonder if
Speaker 1: this is just it's part of a negotiation tactic with Trump.
Speaker 1: He goes in, says give me the moon, and then
Speaker 1: you know, comes back and says, Okay, let's go back
Speaker 1: and forth and figure something out. Maybe he just wants
Speaker 1: more bases on Greenland and this is his starting.
Speaker 8: Maybe, but you know that's something that it can certainly
Speaker 8: be negotiated. Doesn't have to go about this in this matter.
Speaker 8: And you know, this is not the first time the
Speaker 8: President has spoken about desiring Greenland as a territory of
Speaker 8: the United States. He also did that during his first
Speaker 8: term in the White House and then moved on to
Speaker 8: something else. But you know, this is something that he
Speaker 8: appears to be dictated on. He was asked a question
Speaker 8: about it yesterday at that Cabinet meeting that took place
Speaker 8: at the White House, did not bring it up himself.
Speaker 8: Yet we do know that this delegation, I believe it's
Speaker 8: on Thursday, we'll travel to Greenland for I guess you
Speaker 8: can call it sort of a surveying visit, a sight
Speaker 8: seeing visit. I don't know what you actually would call it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So before I let you go, John, then we
Speaker 1: know who's going, and you say it maybe sort of
Speaker 1: a surveying visit. Are they meeting with leaders? Are they
Speaker 1: just showing up and wandering around? What's going on there?
Speaker 8: Yeah? There are. There's an itinerary that they have. They
Speaker 8: will not be meeting with the Prime Minister, for instance,
Speaker 8: of Greenland. I don't know if they'll be meeting with
Speaker 8: any officials of Greenland during the course of their visit.
Speaker 8: You may recall just a few months ago that Donald
Speaker 8: Trump Junior also paid a visit to Greenland. So he's
Speaker 8: a trailblazer of sorts. Because here we are several months
Speaker 8: later and this official US delegation being led by Usha
Speaker 8: Vance is doing a lot of the same things in
Speaker 8: terms of the visit and in terms of the itinerary
Speaker 8: that Donald Trump Junior did several months ago.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we'll have to wait and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Kfi's White House correspondent, John Decker, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: the info.
Speaker 8: Thanks Amy, I'm a great day.
Speaker 3: Bye bye.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The White House
Speaker 1: has acknowledged senior administration officials made an extraordinary mistake. ABC's
Speaker 1: Martha Raddicks says a group discussing airstrikes in Yemen mistakenly
Speaker 1: included a reporter from the Atlanta.
Speaker 9: Instead of using highly classified secure channels. Vice President JD
Speaker 9: Vance and members of President Trump's national security team sharing
Speaker 9: detailed active war plans on a commercial messaging app.
Speaker 1: Reporter Jeffrey Goldberg, who's the editor in chief at The Atlantic,
Speaker 1: says at first he was skeptical the group was real.
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking more about this with ABC's
Speaker 1: Karen Travers. That's coming up in about eight minutes. Federal
Speaker 1: appeals judge says the US treated alleged Nazis better than
Speaker 1: World War Or during World War Two. Then the Trump
Speaker 1: administration treated illegal immigrants from Venezuela. Last week, Judge patrisam
Speaker 1: Alette noted the accused Nazis were given hearings, while the
Speaker 1: alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Trende Aragua received no
Speaker 1: such rights. The White House borders are Tom Holman called
Speaker 1: the judges comments ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Well, we did on those plans, removed terrorists.
Speaker 10: MS thirteen and TDA our dozen eight terrorist organization.
Speaker 3: We removed terrorists.
Speaker 10: And to compare that anyway whatsoever with Nazis is disgusting
Speaker 10: on every level.
Speaker 1: The judge's comments were made during an appeals hearing yesterday
Speaker 1: on a judge's ruling that blocked deportations under the Alien
Speaker 1: Enemies Act. The FBI is putting together a task force
Speaker 1: to investigate the targeting of Tesla dealerships.
Speaker 5: Cars, and charging stations.
Speaker 1: ABC's Mariah Viareal says it has to do with Elon
Speaker 1: Musk's roll at the White House the FBI.
Speaker 6: Saying there's been at least forty eight instances in more
Speaker 6: than nine states since January, including arson, gunfire, and graffiti.
Speaker 1: She says the FBI is suggesting people should be vigilant
Speaker 1: around Tesla locations. The UN says it is pulling some
Speaker 1: of its workers out of the Gaza Strip after it
Speaker 1: says an Israeli tank strike killed a staffer and wounded
Speaker 1: five others. Israel says it was not responsible for the
Speaker 1: explosion March nineteenth at the UN guesthouse in central Gaza.
Speaker 1: The UN says it has made the difficult decision to
Speaker 1: reduce its foot print in Gaza, even as humanitarian needs soar.
Speaker 1: Japan's Meteorological agency has announced the official beginning of cherry
Speaker 1: blossom season. The opening is five days earlier than last year.
Speaker 1: Majali Pollin was visiting Tokyo from France just in time
Speaker 1: to admire the blossoms.
Speaker 11: The pores are not quite there yet, like there's only
Speaker 11: a few trees that has a few flowers.
Speaker 1: In the last few years, Japan's cherry blossom season has
Speaker 1: been arriving earlier than usual. So does Japan's cherry blossom
Speaker 1: season happen at the same time as the cherries blossom in.
Speaker 5: Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Really, I don't know, We're gonna have to go google it.
Speaker 12: Undas, I'm stumbling out of bass follow you through the dark.
Speaker 12: You get enough.
Speaker 1: The Jonas brothers will soon be heard all over Disneyland.
Speaker 1: The Brothers, who are celebrating their twentieth nas For anniversary
Speaker 1: as a group, will record a new song titled Celebrate
Speaker 1: Happy for the resort's upcoming seventieth anniversary. The birthday celebration
Speaker 1: starts May sixteenth and runs through summer at Disneyland. You
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Speaker 1: We are doing the Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run for
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Speaker 1: costumes last year. The one that I remember the most
Speaker 1: out of all of them is the lady who dressed
Speaker 1: her dog and herself up as.
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Speaker 3: Oh I missed that.
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Speaker 1: April sixth.
Speaker 13: By the way, cherry blossom season both the same in
Speaker 13: Japan and I mean that's the same tree, so same time, I.
Speaker 1: Know, but it's different parts of the world. Thank you,
Speaker 1: will Cole sharper On. Several firefighters have been exposed to
Speaker 1: high levels of lead and mercury battling the La fires.
Speaker 1: Harvard researcher doctor Kerry Nato says blood samples from twenty
Speaker 1: firefighters had lead levels five times greater than normal and
Speaker 1: three times higher levels of mercury in the days after
Speaker 1: fighting the Palisades and eating fires. La City Council is
Speaker 1: going to be looking into whether it can buy pass
Speaker 1: it's La Homeless Service Authority and work directly with homeless
Speaker 1: service providers, and the San Diego City Councils passed a
Speaker 1: first in the nation ordinance banning grocery stores from offering
Speaker 1: digital only deals in the city. At six o five,
Speaker 1: It's handle on the news. Houses are in short supply
Speaker 1: in the Southland, which means rents are going up even more.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen the
Speaker 1: dangers of texting.
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 14: Yeah, The White House is now taking a lot of
Speaker 14: questions about how a journalist and editor of The Atlantic
Speaker 14: magazine was added to a group chat on the Signal
Speaker 14: public available messaging app that included what he says were
Speaker 14: details about the strikes and the war plan against hoofy
Speaker 14: rebels in Yemen. Jeffrey Goldberg said he thought this was
Speaker 14: a spoof, that it was somebody running a hoax, but
Speaker 14: he for days was on a group text that included
Speaker 14: the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Defense Secretary,
Speaker 14: the CIA director, the Director of National Intelligence, and others.
Speaker 5: And this went on for days.
Speaker 12: Days days.
Speaker 14: He was included earlier in the week and then removed
Speaker 14: himself after the strikes when he realized that this was
Speaker 14: legitimate and he was actually on a real text chain
Speaker 14: with all of these senior national officials.
Speaker 5: Karen, do we know who initiated the group text?
Speaker 14: Yeah, Mike Waltz, he says, well, at least somebody saying
Speaker 14: he was Mike Waltz in his text. Was who gave
Speaker 14: him the invitation? It received the connection request in signal
Speaker 14: from the National Security Advisor.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then in this is going on for days
Speaker 1: and nobody looks at that phone number goes who is that?
Speaker 14: Yeah, he was identified in signal by his initials JG.
Speaker 12: But he said that's how.
Speaker 14: He is in the app, and that's how he was added,
Speaker 14: and that nobody on the app others were identified by
Speaker 14: their initials as well, but nobody there questioned who he
Speaker 14: was or asked him for any further identification.
Speaker 5: Okay, did he.
Speaker 1: See classified information? I mean you said you saw, you know,
Speaker 1: their planning and comments and that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 1: was that classified information? Sounds like it would be.
Speaker 12: Did he did he see it or seek it?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: Did he see it?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 14: I mean he says that Pete Hegsets detailed the minute
Speaker 14: by minute accounting of what was going to happen for
Speaker 14: the WHUSI strikes, and it was so sensitive in his
Speaker 14: view that he didn't even report it in his piece
Speaker 14: yesterday because it would have put potentially people in the region,
Speaker 14: military and intelligence people at risk. And so you know,
Speaker 14: yesterday hag Sets said nobody was texting war plans. Jeffrey
Speaker 14: Goldberg said after that he can say it wasn't a
Speaker 14: war plan, but it was a minute by minute accounting
Speaker 14: of what was going to happen, essentially saying he has
Speaker 14: the receipt but chose not to publish it because he
Speaker 14: recognized how potentially problematic it would be.
Speaker 1: Well that's good at least, Well, thank you for the information. Karen,
Speaker 1: sounds like I wonder if heads are roll. I guess
Speaker 1: we'll find out about that all.
Speaker 5: Take care.
Speaker 1: La Mayor Bass and a group of city officials have
Speaker 1: returned to La after a trip to Sacramento to ask
Speaker 1: state lawmakers for more money. Bass says the meetings yesterday
Speaker 1: were productive. Nearly two dozen lawmakers have asked a budget
Speaker 1: committee for nearly two billion dollars in wildfire recovery aid
Speaker 1: for La. Bass says the city is facing a nearly
Speaker 1: one billion dollar budget shortfall because of lower revenues, rising costs,
Speaker 1: liability payouts and the wildfires.
Speaker 15: Just the devastation and the palisades in one neighborhood is
Speaker 15: a thirty eight million dollar hit to our budget, and
Speaker 15: we are concerned that FEMA will take a long time
Speaker 15: to reimburse the money.
Speaker 5: That we have to be using right now. She says.
Speaker 1: Next year's World Cup soccer is something else that needs
Speaker 1: to be taken into account. LA's Chief fire recovery Officer,
Speaker 1: Steve Soberoff, may not continue past his initial ninety day contract.
Speaker 1: LA Times says a head hunting agency has said to
Speaker 1: be putting out feelers for a replacement for Soberoff. The
Speaker 1: paper says a spokesperson from Airbas would not confirm whether
Speaker 1: Soberoff will be replaced when his contract ends.
Speaker 5: The La City.
Speaker 1: Council may enact new rules banning the use of the
Speaker 1: N word or the C word during public comment periods.
Speaker 1: Frequent city hall commenters like this guy did not take
Speaker 1: kindly to the motion when it was announced on Friday.
Speaker 11: Yes, sir, yes sir, we will use proper language, sir.
Speaker 11: No N words, huh, no C words, sir, you'd tell
Speaker 11: me what to say.
Speaker 1: City Council meetings, including committee meetings, frequently feature speakers using racist, sexist,
Speaker 1: and other offensive language. Seven council members have signed onto
Speaker 1: the motion, saying they believe there is a legal precedent
Speaker 1: that would allow the banning of certain words, just asks
Speaker 1: George Carlin. The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: to block a lower court order to rehire thousands of
Speaker 1: aid off probationary workers. The administration's emergency appeal, filed yesterday,
Speaker 1: claims the ruling should be put on hold because the
Speaker 1: judge didn't have the authority to order some sixteen thousand
Speaker 1: employees to be hired back. A former NFL and University
Speaker 1: of Michigan football coach accused of hacking into college databases
Speaker 1: and accessing the accounts of more than one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand students, has made an appearance in federal court.
Speaker 1: ABC Stephanie Ramo says former coach Matthew Weiss is facing
Speaker 1: federal hacking charges.
Speaker 6: Weiss is accused of targeting female athletes, downloading their intimate photos,
Speaker 6: and of taking notes commenting on their bodies and their
Speaker 6: sexual preferences, according to prosecutors.
Speaker 1: She says the judge entered a not guilty plea for Weiss.
Speaker 1: International students are being advised to stay in the US
Speaker 1: for spring break, even if they have proper immigration paperwork.
Speaker 1: San Francisco attorney Jeff Wosnyak says stricter immigration rules under
Speaker 1: the Trump administration could complicate students returning to the US Green.
Speaker 13: Card holders like mom with Khalil being arrested, people being denied.
Speaker 1: Entry UC Berkeley and you see San Francisco among schools
Speaker 1: in California warning that leaving the country now could jeopardize
Speaker 1: student's ability to return. New research shows the end of
Speaker 1: a relationship is as predictable as the phases of the moon.
Speaker 1: Researchers in Germany say failing relationships don't just deteriorate randomly,
Speaker 1: they follow a specific, two phase decline that can be
Speaker 1: tracked and even predicted. They analyze data from studies in
Speaker 1: four countries and found couples who break up go through
Speaker 1: a mild decline in happiness for years before a dramatic
Speaker 1: drop in the final months or years before separation.
Speaker 5: I could have told you that, hey, it's almost time.
Speaker 5: Just two days away from opening day. The world champion.
Speaker 1: Dodgers are back This Thursday, the Dodgers take on the
Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers in Opening Day action at Dodger Stadium. First
Speaker 1: pitch go out at four ten. Is going to be
Speaker 1: a beautiful day for Dodger Baseball. You can listen to
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Speaker 1: come back, what is section two thirty? And why do
Speaker 1: lawmakers want to change it? If he sees Mike Dubusky,
Speaker 1: he's going to tell us about that. And also a
Speaker 1: Looney Tunes look at Tesla getting several reports of a
Speaker 1: bright light streaking across the northern California nights. Sky sightings
Speaker 1: were even reported last night by some people in Nevada.
Speaker 1: The streak of light did not appear to be a
Speaker 1: Starlink satellite. The timing and location of the most recent
Speaker 1: launch rules out it being a SpaceX rocket. Well, the
Speaker 1: man known as the Pillowcase rapist is now allowed to
Speaker 1: live in the Antelope Valley. On Monday, LA County DA
Speaker 1: Nathan Hoffman announced that chrisfer Hubbert is living in Juniper Hills,
Speaker 1: where he was placed last Friday in spite of strong
Speaker 1: backlash from residents and community leaders. The USC women's basketball
Speaker 1: team is advanced to the Sweet sixteen, but they lost
Speaker 1: their star player in the process. Juju Watkins tore her
Speaker 1: acl early in the game. The Trojans went on to
Speaker 1: beat Mississippi State ninety six sixty nine last night at
Speaker 1: Galen Center. The team says Watkins out for the rest
Speaker 1: of the tournament. At six oh five Tandle on the News,
Speaker 1: the head of the US Postal Service, appointed by President
Speaker 1: Trump in his first term is up and quit. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to ABC's Mike Debuski. Okay, Mike,
Speaker 1: we've been asking all morning, what the heck is Section
Speaker 1: two thirty and why do we care?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 13: Section two thirty is often referred to as the twenty
Speaker 13: six words that created the Internet. It's a provision of
Speaker 13: this old law, the nineteen ninety six Communications Decency Act,
Speaker 13: that essentially stipulates that tech companies cannot be held liable
Speaker 13: for the content that gets posted on their platform. So,
Speaker 13: for example, if you were to post a recipe for
Speaker 13: a chocolate cake on Facebook, and I commented incorrectly that
Speaker 13: this chocolate cake made my whole family sick. Well, you
Speaker 13: could sue me for defamation, but you couldn't sue Facebook, right,
Speaker 13: that's the idea behind Section two thirty, and tech companies
Speaker 13: have argued that this is what has allowed the modern
Speaker 13: Internet to flourish, right that people have been allowed to
Speaker 13: have conversations freely and quickly, and yes, occasionally get into arguments,
Speaker 13: but ultimately it has been good for communication, for people
Speaker 13: to be connected in this way without having these tech
Speaker 13: companies having to deal with a slew of lawsuits, you know,
Speaker 13: related to the content that gets posted on their platform,
Speaker 13: some of them legitimate, many of them likely frivolous. Right
Speaker 13: without this law, So that is what is being argued
Speaker 13: right now, and it's largely been sort of the law
Speaker 13: of the land for the last thirty years or so.
Speaker 13: Now on both sides of the aisle, lawmakers have issues
Speaker 13: with Sexection two thirty, which is why we're talking about
Speaker 13: it this week. The Information, which is a tech publication,
Speaker 13: was the first to report that a bipartisan group of
Speaker 13: lawmakers is working on a law that could reform or
Speaker 13: potentially repeal Section two thirty. Conservatives in Congress have argued
Speaker 13: that these tech companies are over policing content, over moderating,
Speaker 13: taking too many things down. Democrats have argued pretty much
Speaker 13: the opposite, that they're not taking down enough potentially harmful
Speaker 13: content related to things like the election or the pandemic
Speaker 13: or stuff like that. So they want to change it, right,
Speaker 13: They want to do something about the way that these
Speaker 13: tech companies are allowed to behave on the Internet, and
Speaker 13: they think that Section two thirty is the way to
Speaker 13: do that. But the information reports is that this would
Speaker 13: essentially give Section two thirty an expiration date of twenty
Speaker 13: twenty seven, by which point it would vanish out of existence.
Speaker 13: They say that that is a way to get tech
Speaker 13: companies to come to the table and negotiate with the
Speaker 13: government a way to reform Section two thirty, which again
Speaker 13: is this hugely important piece of legislation.
Speaker 1: Okay, and if it goes away, if I'm understanding, you're right, Mike,
Speaker 1: that would just open up Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and all
Speaker 1: those guys to being sued, yes, hundreds and millions of times, probably.
Speaker 13: Right at incredible volume, right to the point where like
Speaker 13: the gears of the Internet would grind to a halt, right,
Speaker 13: and experts say that that would create basically one of
Speaker 13: two realities. The first is where these tech companies now
Speaker 13: take a much larger role in what they allow to
Speaker 13: be shown on their platforms. Right, imagine a world where
Speaker 13: every Facebook comment that you make, and every post on
Speaker 13: Reddit that you make, every picture that you upload to
Speaker 13: Instagram has to go through a rigorous screening process to
Speaker 13: make sure that you know, Facebook and Reddit and Instagram
Speaker 13: can't be held legally liable.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 13: There are lawyers involved, and the processes involved. Nothing exactly,
Speaker 13: nothing would be posted, or it would take an incredibly
Speaker 13: long time to do so, and it would reshape how
Speaker 13: we think about talking to each other publicly on the Internet.
Speaker 13: The other reality is essentially that these tech companies take
Speaker 13: a full step back, right and they say, hey, we
Speaker 13: have a comments section, we don't look at it. You're
Speaker 13: on your own, And that would essentially create a much
Speaker 13: cedier version of the Internet where anything is allowed to
Speaker 13: be posted something you know, more akin to like four Chan,
Speaker 13: where cd elicit and illegal content is allowed to flourish
Speaker 13: and thrive. And that's also a bad outcome. So it
Speaker 13: seems like nobody tech companies, individuals, or the government want
Speaker 13: either of those two things to happen, and that's why
Speaker 13: they're kind of talking about this idea of bringing these
Speaker 13: tech companies into the fold to negotiate reforms to Section
Speaker 13: two thirty. One thing is for sure, though, and that
Speaker 13: is that there is pressure to do something. Both President
Speaker 13: Trump and his FTC Commissioner Brendan Carr have said that
Speaker 13: they're interested in changing or repealing Section two thirty And
Speaker 13: as I mentioned, the information is reporting that this legislation
Speaker 13: from this bipartisan group of lawmakers could be introduced as
Speaker 13: soon as this week.
Speaker 1: Okay, and I know you got to run, but before
Speaker 1: we let you run, we got to ask you about
Speaker 1: looney tunes.
Speaker 5: Look at Tesla? What's going on with that?
Speaker 13: Yes, so you remember the old Wiley E. Coyote Roadrunner cartoons.
Speaker 13: The Roadrunner would paint a tunnel on the side of
Speaker 13: a cliff face and Wiley Coyote would run right into
Speaker 13: it thinking that it was real. Well, people are doing
Speaker 13: that with their Tesla's. They're basically creating these big styrofoam
Speaker 13: walls and painting roads on them or basically blowing up
Speaker 13: big digital images of roads to see if they can
Speaker 13: fool the car's autopilot system right. This is their semi
Speaker 13: autonomous driving system. One of these videos is viewed more
Speaker 13: than seventeen million times. It's by an engineer and YouTuber
Speaker 13: named Mark Rober and the autopilot system drove right through
Speaker 13: the wall.
Speaker 3: It was completely failed. It was completely fooled. The sort
Speaker 3: of logic here.
Speaker 13: Is that Tesla's autopilot system relies on cameras, which are
Speaker 13: essentially less sophisticated versions of our eyes. It sees what
Speaker 13: we see, and given that it's slightly less sophisticated, it
Speaker 13: didn't recognize the difference between a picture of a road
Speaker 13: and an actual road. Whereas an actual car equipped with
Speaker 13: a light ar system, which uses light rays basically sending
Speaker 13: them out and seeing what they bounce off of and
Speaker 13: then measuring the time it takes for them to come
Speaker 13: back to the ultimate system. It's largely considered to be
Speaker 13: a better system. It's kind of like a more sophisticated
Speaker 13: version of radar, where that car in this video was
Speaker 13: able to stop in time it recognized the difference. However,
Speaker 13: other YouTubers have come in and tested more modern versions
Speaker 13: and more sophisticated versions of Tesla's semi autonomous driving technology,
Speaker 13: and it was able to figure out the difference between
Speaker 13: a picture of a wall and an actual wall, and
Speaker 13: that indicates that some engineers at Tesla are making some
Speaker 13: progress here.
Speaker 1: Okay, ABC's Mike Tubuski, and a word to the wise.
Speaker 1: If you're driving a Tesla, don't drive into.
Speaker 13: A wall that looks like even if it looks like
Speaker 13: a rope.
Speaker 5: Okay, thanks so much, Mike.
Speaker 3: Take care guys.
Speaker 5: Bye, all right, time to get in your business with
Speaker 5: Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Courtney, good morning, good Tuesday morning. Yes, so
Speaker 1: we know that when it comes to business, weddings are
Speaker 1: big business.
Speaker 5: So how much is it going to cost if you
Speaker 5: want to get married this year?
Speaker 12: Well, love might be priceless, but weddings just got a
Speaker 12: bit cheaper. So that's good news. I'll play a little
Speaker 12: music to get us in the mood. Oh, I'm forgetting
Speaker 12: I'm not on my regular computer anymore that I'm on
Speaker 12: the phone with you. But according to the not, the
Speaker 12: average wedding costs thirty three thousand dollars lest year. That's
Speaker 12: two thousand dollars less than twenty twenty three. But of course,
Speaker 12: during wedding in California that costs a lot more thirty nine,
Speaker 12: one hundred and seventy dollars. Now specifically in LA it's
Speaker 12: forty four, seven hundred and forty dollars. And by the way,
Speaker 12: a good old New Jersey wedding is the north of
Speaker 12: fifty four thousand dollars. I guess Teresa from the Real
Speaker 12: Housewives through the number off and make it the most
Speaker 12: expensive in the nation.
Speaker 1: Aally, Okay, so that's an average. So obviously a lot
Speaker 1: of people are going the least less expensive route, but
Speaker 1: that also means that there's a lot of people spending
Speaker 1: more than that on a wedding.
Speaker 12: Oh of course, of course. And if you go to
Speaker 12: I mean I went to one wedding recently and it
Speaker 12: was so you could help, from the food, from the appetizers,
Speaker 12: from everything that they did, the bands they had two
Speaker 12: bands there. It's just some people are spending a tremendous
Speaker 12: amount of money. A lot of cases, it's the food
Speaker 12: and the venue are going to be the most expensive.
Speaker 12: But of course there's lots of rising costs when it
Speaker 12: comes to photography, for example. And now we have to
Speaker 12: remember that even when tariffs come into play, like, for example,
Speaker 12: favors that are on the tables. You're going to see
Speaker 12: that getting a little more expensive. So it's terrify you
Speaker 12: are even going to play into our weddings.
Speaker 5: I'll just take my Jordan Hollmans and be happy.
Speaker 12: Oh I love those Okay, Oh yeah, it's expensive out there,
Speaker 12: Yes it is.
Speaker 1: Okay. So we were mentioning yesterday that twenty three and
Speaker 1: meters is not closing but declaring bankruptcy and what does
Speaker 1: that leave.
Speaker 5: Up for sale?
Speaker 12: Okay, so keep in mind their genetic information that they
Speaker 12: have is going to be fold to the highest bidder
Speaker 12: as part of this bankruptcy process. So they filed for
Speaker 12: Chapter eleven yesterday, but they proposed a May fourteenth auction
Speaker 12: of the sale of its assets, which includes the genetic
Speaker 12: data of more than fifteen million customers. So they say,
Speaker 12: now this is the important point. If you are a customer,
Speaker 12: you can delete the data within your account. You don't
Speaker 12: need to contact Customer Care to do so. They also
Speaker 12: say that any buyer will be required to comply with
Speaker 12: applicable laws in regard to personal data state and nationally.
Speaker 12: They did say the filing doesn't change how they store
Speaker 12: and protect personal data. But if you are deleting your data,
Speaker 12: keep in mind most people should or actually you all
Speaker 12: should be getting an email from the company saying that
Speaker 12: it is being deleted. A California actually issued some consumer
Speaker 12: alerts yesterday providing instructions on how people can delete the
Speaker 12: aero genetic information or you.
Speaker 1: Can just leave it there and then you can use
Speaker 1: it again with the new owner if you're cool.
Speaker 12: Yeah, true, but if you're cool with that. But a
Speaker 12: lot of people, if you looked at social media yesterday,
Speaker 12: they said, how are we supposed to be able to
Speaker 12: do this? And the company's website and applications were running
Speaker 12: much flower than usual because people were popping in to
Speaker 12: try to delete their data. But all of this sets
Speaker 12: up a big test of all the legal safeguards around
Speaker 12: privacy and safety, something that we talk about all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, let's talk stocks real quick before we let
Speaker 1: you go. Big rally yesterday. Are we looking for another
Speaker 1: one today?
Speaker 12: Well, we are hired not as strong as yesterday's rally,
Speaker 12: so Stock's all one of its best sessions of the
Speaker 12: year yesterday. There are some signs that some countries are
Speaker 12: going to get a break when it comes to President
Speaker 12: Trump's tarff. So we did see the Dow rids five
Speaker 12: hundred and ninety eight points. Now this morning, looking at
Speaker 12: Dow futures higher but not as big as yesterday, they're
Speaker 12: a nine to five points.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll continue the wild ride Bloomberg's Courtney Donahos, thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 5: We'll get in your business again tomorrow.
Speaker 12: Let's see you later.
Speaker 5: All right, take care.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Road rage has
Speaker 1: led to a man being choked and another being stabbed
Speaker 1: at a Starbucks drive through in Riverside. At least say
Speaker 1: one driver cut off another on Sunday afternoon. The second
Speaker 1: driver then followed the first one to the Starbucks, got
Speaker 1: out and started choking him. The man being choked stabbed
Speaker 1: the first man in the arm with a knife. Both
Speaker 1: men were taken to the hospital. Only the man who
Speaker 1: choked the other driver was arrested. A second man from
Speaker 1: South America, believed to be part of a crime tourism group,
Speaker 1: is pleaded guilty to for his role in the armed
Speaker 1: robbery of a one million dollar watch in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1: Hey Zeus Rojas is from Venezuela. He admitted to account
Speaker 1: of interference with commerce by robbery. It'll be sentenced in August.
Speaker 1: A second man from Columbia pleated guilty to the same
Speaker 1: charge last week. The pair was found with a gun
Speaker 1: below longing to notorious killer and former LAPD cop Christopher
Speaker 1: Dorner remember that whole thing. Chinese car maker Byd has
Speaker 1: reported sales of more than one hundred billion dollars for
Speaker 1: last year that surpassed Tesla in revenue earnings as consumers
Speaker 1: opted for its range of electric and hybrid vehicles packed
Speaker 1: with high tech features. Tesla earned ninety seven point seven billion.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, Calfires released an updated map showing
Speaker 1: fire hazard severity zones across the state. The maps assign
Speaker 1: a hazard score based on vegetation, terrain, history of fires, weather,
Speaker 1: and other factors. On the new maps, an additional four
Speaker 1: hundred and forty thousand acres are designated as severe risk
Speaker 1: of wildfire in La County. Dodgers star sho Hee Otani's
Speaker 1: former interpreter, was supposed to surrender to start serving out
Speaker 1: a nearly five year prison sentence, but his surrender date
Speaker 1: yesterday was delayed. The reason for the delay was not released.
Speaker 5: If you eat a.
Speaker 1: Meal in twenty minutes or less, signentists say you should
Speaker 1: slow down. Studies show that if you eat too fast,
Speaker 1: you could have a higher risk of obesity, suffer from bloating,
Speaker 1: or get unchewed pieces of food lodged in your esophagus.
Speaker 1: To slow down, experts say put down your phone, turn
Speaker 1: off the TV, and just focus on your meal.
Speaker 5: Fat chance, we're just been at away from Handle on
Speaker 5: the news this morning.
Speaker 1: With not handle, Trump administration officials appear to have really
Speaker 1: stepped in it, adding a journalist to a group text
Speaker 1: about plans to hit the hoo thies. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning now to ABC's I'm getting back and forth with
Speaker 1: ABC's and k KFI is Joel Larsgard, the host of
Speaker 1: How to Money on KFI every Sunday from noon to
Speaker 1: two morning.
Speaker 10: Joel, morning, I'm from wherever you want me to be, Amy, Okay.
Speaker 1: Well you're from New York City, right right? Okay, So
Speaker 1: let's first talk since we're talking about money, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people and their kids and their grandkids have
Speaker 1: student loans, and how is that all going to shake
Speaker 1: out with everything that's happening with the gutting of the
Speaker 1: Department of Education.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 10: The Wall Street Journal just published an article early this
Speaker 10: morning basically talking about the Trump administration's intent to get
Speaker 10: rid of the Department of Education, whether or not they
Speaker 10: have Congress's help.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing is typically to eliminate.
Speaker 10: A federal knows, something like the Department of Education a department,
Speaker 10: a federal department, it takes an act of Congress, and Congress,
Speaker 10: as we know, doesn't do much these days, and so
Speaker 10: the Trump administration is saying, we're going to try to
Speaker 10: do it on our own. There are lawsuits flying back
Speaker 10: and forth. How this shakes out, as anybody's guests, But
Speaker 10: at least the intent of the executive order that the
Speaker 10: President announced was to severely reduce the scope of the
Speaker 10: Department of Education. That's already happening, and then to have
Speaker 10: other federal agencies take over some of those duties. So
Speaker 10: it looks like the Small Business Administration might take over
Speaker 10: student loans. How that's going to shake out, I mean,
Speaker 10: there's already been Anybody with student loans knows that working
Speaker 10: with their servicer is a massive pain. We've had just
Speaker 10: severe issues from the companies that the government partners with,
Speaker 10: the contracts with to service student loans, and it just
Speaker 10: feels like everybody with student loans right now is just
Speaker 10: in this massive limbo. They were told right that they
Speaker 10: you know, don't pay your loans for three and a
Speaker 10: half years. Forgiveness is on the way. Forgiveness then didn't
Speaker 10: pan out. I just feel like, man, I feel that
Speaker 10: my heart goes out to anybody with student loans right
Speaker 10: now because where things go from here, we'll keep an
Speaker 10: eye on it. But it's just it's hard to it's
Speaker 10: hard to spell out, and it's hard to say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well here's a question or a thought, Joel, like
Speaker 1: one of the things that does he's doing and making
Speaker 1: these cuts and all that stuff that they said they're
Speaker 1: discovering like super old antiquated systems where you have departments
Speaker 1: that don't talk to each other.
Speaker 5: So maybe the hope is, whether it happens or not.
Speaker 1: Is that they can sort of figure it out, because
Speaker 1: you said, getting the student loans is a pain in
Speaker 1: the butt, so maybe they can figure out how to
Speaker 1: fix the system too well.
Speaker 3: I mean that that would be awesome.
Speaker 10: And it's clear that there are some antiquated government systems
Speaker 10: and that there is like when they talk about waste,
Speaker 10: fraud and abuse and government, the vast majority of Americans,
Speaker 10: when you look at polling, believe that that exists. The
Speaker 10: way dogs goes about it attacking some of that quote
Speaker 10: unquote waste fraud and abuse and whether or not some
Speaker 10: of the things are cutting actually fall under those monikers,
Speaker 10: like that's another question. Yeah, and it's also going to
Speaker 10: be interesting to see when you when you kind of
Speaker 10: look at since the advent of the Department of Education, well,
Speaker 10: has it had the impact that it was supposed to
Speaker 10: have And I don't know that it has. So when
Speaker 10: you look at how much we spend as a country
Speaker 10: per student, and when you look at test scores that
Speaker 10: just have deteriorated year after year after year, and where
Speaker 10: we stand internationally in some of the rankings, in particular
Speaker 10: in science and math. We were much more internationally competitive
Speaker 10: from a student basis in the nineteen seventies. So eliminating
Speaker 10: the Department of VEGUCA people are making it sound like, oh,
Speaker 10: this is gonna this is a this is going to
Speaker 10: torch the education system in the country. The reality is
Speaker 10: the Department of educationally fund something like eight to ten
Speaker 10: percent of state and local schools and so sending it
Speaker 10: back to the schools and having less Department of Education,
Speaker 10: less federal oversight in terms of how states do education.
Speaker 3: I don't know that that's a bad thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's move on to something that everybody
Speaker 1: has come to know and love, and that is door Dash,
Speaker 1: and DoorDash is putting up a new payment option.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So this is something that when I saw it, I
Speaker 10: mean tearstream streamed down my face and easy.
Speaker 5: Here Joel's going crazy.
Speaker 10: Now I'm pulling my hair out like sackcloth and ashes
Speaker 10: because DoorDash is saying, hey, you can split your little
Speaker 10: fast food delivery up into four easy payments via Clarna. Now,
Speaker 10: if you're if you're ordering your food, and to me,
Speaker 10: this is what it feels like, the culmination, but it
Speaker 10: probably isn't of buy now, pay later for literally everything.
Speaker 10: I'm sure it's going to go into more even more places.
Speaker 10: But I don't really use these food delivery apps because
Speaker 10: every meal that you buy, if you get it delivered. Sure,
Speaker 10: it's convenient, but it's gonna cost you more. So, the
Speaker 10: fact that it's that people are gonna even split up
Speaker 10: those payments you're gonna order a twelve or fourteen dollars
Speaker 10: meal or something like that, and then you're gonna split
Speaker 10: it up over the course of four months.
Speaker 3: Makes zero sense to me.
Speaker 1: Four months would Why would anybody in their right mind
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 10: They even have something called klarna pay later, which means
Speaker 10: you kick the can down the road even further, and
Speaker 10: then you can pay a fee to pay even later
Speaker 10: than that, And so I think it's something. It makes
Speaker 10: me think of the frog in the pot of water
Speaker 10: that just like steadily gets warmer. And I don't know
Speaker 10: if this is actually true, if it's just an old
Speaker 10: wives tale, but like the frog boils to death if
Speaker 10: it stays in the water. This is kind of how
Speaker 10: we are as consumers. We're getting used to all of
Speaker 10: these methods of payment just reduce the friction, and I
Speaker 10: think the friction is actually a good thing for us.
Speaker 10: It's like, do I have the money to buy the burger?
Speaker 10: If I don't, then I probably shouldn't. I should cook
Speaker 10: at home. And maybe that sounds like it's not empathetic
Speaker 10: or something like that, but I just I think it's
Speaker 10: really important to think before you use bine now pay
Speaker 10: later on anything, But in particular, when we're talking about
Speaker 10: these smaller purchases using buy now, pay later to break
Speaker 10: up just a meal delivery to your house, it just
Speaker 10: to me, it feels almost dystopian in nature, and it's
Speaker 10: hard for me to stomach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I totally agree with you. Like, again,
Speaker 1: a twenty dollars meal. I've never seen a fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: door dash meal. I've only used a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and it was always like stupid expensive because of all
Speaker 1: the fees. But yeah, spreading it out over four months,
Speaker 1: what are you thinking? And then do you do that
Speaker 1: every week and out all of a sudden you have
Speaker 1: four months later you're like, how do I owe two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 10: And the thing is, the more we kick the can
Speaker 10: down the road on a bill that we have to
Speaker 10: pay right, typically fee ease or interest add up.
Speaker 3: But on top of that, it's it's harder to budget.
Speaker 10: I want people to pay for the things that they're buying,
Speaker 10: Like I'm down with credit cards as a method of payment,
Speaker 10: but I don't want you to buy more than you
Speaker 10: can afford, and I don't want you to overextend yourself
Speaker 10: so you can't pay that credit card bill on time
Speaker 10: and in full, buy now, pay later. It just kind
Speaker 10: of blurs the lines and people start using it and
Speaker 10: then they're like, oh, how much do I owe? What's
Speaker 10: my what's my BNPL you know, payment amount this month,
Speaker 10: and we become payment buyers, just like we have become
Speaker 10: when it comes to buying a car.
Speaker 3: We're payment buyers these days.
Speaker 10: And to me, that's that's the real nefarious part of
Speaker 10: buy now, pay later and splitting up payments like this,
Speaker 10: is that we just kind of become used to the
Speaker 10: monthly payment instead of like deciding whether or not we're
Speaker 10: comfortable with the overall amount of the purchase to begin with.
Speaker 1: Okay, so proceed with caution and if you'd like to
Speaker 1: proceed with getting lots more great advice on how to money.
Speaker 1: You can listen to Joel lars Guard every Sunday, it's
Speaker 1: noon to two. How to Money with Joel Larsguard. You
Speaker 1: can also follow him and add how to money Joel, Thank.
Speaker 5: You, Joel.
Speaker 3: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: Buy a burger and pay for it for four months,
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