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Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Friday, April eleventh.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with
Speaker 1: us today. We've got lots on the agenda for today
Speaker 1: and I'm excited because it's a diet coke Friday. What
Speaker 1: is a diet coke Friday, you might ask, Well, it's
Speaker 1: the day that I celebrate and I have die coke.
Speaker 4: I used to drink diet coke all the time.
Speaker 1: I was very bill hand the list, and then when
Speaker 1: I started doing wake up Call, I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what this this caffeine's gonna mess with my schedule
Speaker 1: and so I need to cut back. And so I
Speaker 1: just kind of stopped drinking diet coke during the week.
Speaker 1: So Friday it's like a treat for me, okay, So
Speaker 1: not I don't have to get up early on Saturday.
Speaker 3: So you don't like coke zero.
Speaker 4: No, I can't stand coke zero. I hate it.
Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, I don't like coke. I don't like coke zero.
Speaker 1: I don't like coke with splenda. I like regular old
Speaker 1: diet coke. And have you watched The Big Bear Eglitz yesterday?
Speaker 1: I know we haven't talked about him for a little while,
Speaker 1: but I tuned into the YouTube channel. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: they're getting ginormous Sonny and Gizmo. I'm still calling the
Speaker 1: little one rocky, Oh my gosh. And they're they're kind
Speaker 1: of weird looking now, you know. They go from cute
Speaker 1: fluffy and then they start sprouting things. And it reminded
Speaker 1: me of that movie. Is it called Black Swan?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Oh, she's the ballerina.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and who is Gosh, I can't even remember her name.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at her face in my brain right now.
Speaker 3: The girl from Star Wars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, from Star Wars. And she starts sprouting feathers. Well
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing. No, no, no, no, nope.
Speaker 4: Nope, we'll get it. We'll get it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, if you haven't looked at him, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's still thousands of people watch him. It's hard to
Speaker 1: watch him at night because they're they're infrared cameras busted.
Speaker 1: But they're so cute and it's so cool to see
Speaker 1: him growing and getting bigger and getting their little personalities.
Speaker 4: Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
Speaker 1: China has responded to President Trump increasing tariffs to one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five percent by upping its tariff rates
Speaker 1: on US imports from eighty four to one hundred twenty
Speaker 1: five percent. The Chinese Commerce Ministry says China is ready
Speaker 1: to fight to the end and the tariffs war against
Speaker 1: the US. A hearing is being held today in the
Speaker 1: case of Lyle and Eric Menendez, who have been asked
Speaker 1: or have asked to be re sentenced for the murder
Speaker 1: of their parents. They're serving life sentences. Five deputies and
Speaker 1: a dispatcher have been honored for saving a drowning child
Speaker 1: in Cerritos.
Speaker 4: I love this story.
Speaker 1: A ceremony was held for the guys yesterday at Cerrito
Speaker 1: City Hall. Deputies pulled the little boy out of the
Speaker 1: lake at Don Canambi Park on the night of March
Speaker 1: twenty ninth. He wasn't breathing, so they did CPR and
Speaker 1: revived him. He's made a full recovery. There's a growing
Speaker 1: trend in the US. It's called prepared citizens. Who are they?
Speaker 1: What are they doing? ABC's Crime and Terror analyst Will
Speaker 1: arm us with the information. It's a DIY weekend with
Speaker 1: the house Whisper and we'll be talking to the host
Speaker 1: of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp. Love a good DIY
Speaker 1: and if you're going to head to the theater or
Speaker 1: hunker down on the couch, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: tales to tell. ABC's Will Gans is gonna tell us
Speaker 1: all about him. Let's get started with some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: La County DA Nathan Hakman has requested a judge to
Speaker 1: withdraw his office's motion to re sentence the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 6: The request was made by Hawkman's predecessor, George Gascon. Hawkman
Speaker 6: will present his arguments to drop the motion to a
Speaker 6: judge this morning. He's also come out against a new
Speaker 6: trial for the brothers, who were convicted of murdering their
Speaker 6: parents in Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine. Family members
Speaker 6: of Eric and Lahmanendez have been pushing for their release.
Speaker 6: Hackman says the brothers haven't changed and they haven't taken
Speaker 6: full responsibility for their crime. State prole boards will conduct
Speaker 6: hearings to determine whether Governor Newsom should grant the brothers
Speaker 6: clemency in June. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1: Some local VIPs have teamed up to rebuild the Pacific
Speaker 1: Palisades Recreation Center, even.
Speaker 7: Though their political rivals, LA Mayor Karen Bass and developer
Speaker 7: Rick Caruso say they plan to help rebuild the center
Speaker 7: damaged in January's wildfire. Lakers head coach JJ Reddicks as
Speaker 7: his new organization, LA Strong Sports, will help lead the work.
Speaker 8: We have already engaged with local groups and people who
Speaker 8: were instrumental in making the rec center so special in
Speaker 8: the first place.
Speaker 7: LA Strong Sports has plans to rejuvenate parks across the city,
Speaker 7: but will start with the one in the Palisades, which
Speaker 7: is where Reddick lives with his family.
Speaker 3: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: California has been struggling to find enough teachers and aids
Speaker 1: for its growing transitional kindergarten programs. A lot of qualified
Speaker 1: early childhood educators are discouraged by the state's strict credentialing requirements,
Speaker 1: which include a degree, coursework assessments, and up to six
Speaker 1: hundred hours of unpaid training. The overall teacher shortage makes
Speaker 1: it even harder for districts to hire and retain staff,
Speaker 1: with nearly twelve thousand teachers and over sixteen thousand aids
Speaker 1: still needed with.
Speaker 4: Easter just over a week away.
Speaker 1: Animal rescue groups in LA are asking people not to
Speaker 1: buy rabbits and baby chicks as Easter gifts for kids.
Speaker 1: They say buying or adopting a live animal on a
Speaker 1: whim often leads to abandonment when the novelty wears off
Speaker 1: and families realize they can't properly take care of those pets.
Speaker 1: Instead of a live animal, rescue groups recommend buying a
Speaker 1: stuffed toy bunny or chocolate candy rabbit for kids Easter baskets.
Speaker 1: I'm all for the chocolate candy rabbit for sure. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to best selling finances writer Jared Dylan.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Jared, good morning.
Speaker 8: How are you.
Speaker 4: We're doing great.
Speaker 1: We wanted to talk to you because you are not
Speaker 1: only a financial writer, you are also an active investor.
Speaker 1: You spent part of your career on Wall Street, so
Speaker 1: we needed to talk to somebody in the know about
Speaker 1: what the heck is going on. The wild ride continues
Speaker 1: on Wall Street, probably going to continue today. Do we
Speaker 1: have any idea what's in store for this today's trading session?
Speaker 8: You know, looking at my screen right now, stocks are
Speaker 8: up a little bit, bonds are down a little bit.
Speaker 8: The dollar is down big.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 8: One of the stories that hasn't really been told about
Speaker 8: this crisis is that it's not just a stock market
Speaker 8: that that's a mess. The bond market is a complete disaster.
Speaker 8: The dollar has lost about three or four percent of
Speaker 8: its value just in the last two days. The bond
Speaker 8: market in particular. You know, usually when stocks are crashing,
Speaker 8: bonds go up and interest rates come down. Bonds have
Speaker 8: been getting killed. There's a lot of speculation, and I
Speaker 8: believe this that China is actually selling some of their
Speaker 8: eight hundred billion worth of treasury bonds as retaliation for
Speaker 8: the tariffs. And like I said, I one hundred percent
Speaker 8: believe this is true because the price action makes no sense.
Speaker 1: Is there a way to your saying that there's some
Speaker 1: speculation and you think that there's probably right, But is
Speaker 1: there a way to tell if China's.
Speaker 8: Doing that no, there really there really isn't a way
Speaker 8: to tell, you know. You can you can just kind
Speaker 8: of see how it's trading on the screen, and you
Speaker 8: can watch the price action, but there's no like audit
Speaker 8: trail that tells you where the cell orders are coming from.
Speaker 1: Okay, and are all these ups and downs that we're seeing?
Speaker 4: Did we end up down yesterday?
Speaker 1: Or I know that stock futures are up a little
Speaker 1: bit today, like you just mentioned, But did we end
Speaker 1: up down yesterday?
Speaker 8: We were down? We were down about three percent yesterday.
Speaker 8: It was yesterday was actually a pretty ugly day. Today's
Speaker 8: looking be a little bit better, you know. I actually
Speaker 8: I tend to be a little bit negative and pessimistic
Speaker 8: all the time. But in spite of that, I do
Speaker 8: believe that this crisis is going to be temporary. I
Speaker 8: think there is going to be an off ramp uh
Speaker 8: to the tariffs. I think somebody, whether it's Trump or Bessent,
Speaker 8: is going to make a comment, and I think stocks
Speaker 8: will recover most of the losses sometime in the next
Speaker 8: couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Well, certainly hope so.
Speaker 1: And China responded again by saying, Okay, well, we're going
Speaker 1: to increase our eighty four percent tariffs to one five
Speaker 1: percent to match the US ones. So are are all
Speaker 1: of these swings on Wall Street? Is everything really tied
Speaker 1: to the tariffs? I mean it appears to be, but
Speaker 1: are there other factors in play?
Speaker 8: No, it's it's uh, it's it's really just the tariffs.
Speaker 8: I mean, first of all, you know China. You know,
Speaker 8: China is playing poker, and China is a good poker player.
Speaker 8: But the United States has the upper hand here. We
Speaker 8: import much much more goods from China than they import
Speaker 8: from US. They're tariffs on the US. They already had tariffs.
Speaker 8: Their tariffs are pretty much meaningless. What we're trying to
Speaker 8: do is drive China into an economic depression so that
Speaker 8: it weakens their ability to spend on their military. There's
Speaker 8: geopolitical objective here, and Trump has not communicated that. I
Speaker 8: think if he got in front of a podium and
Speaker 8: he said, look like, we're going to have to endure
Speaker 8: some volatility, We're going to have to pay higher prices
Speaker 8: for goods. But there's there's a purpose behind this, and
Speaker 8: I think people could get behind it. But he has
Speaker 8: not communicated the vision.
Speaker 1: Okay, but I hadn't I hadn't heard that one yet,
Speaker 1: so really it's that's the goal of this.
Speaker 4: I thought it was still like even the playing field.
Speaker 8: So it's many things, it's even the playing field. And
Speaker 8: and the government does want to raise revenue off of
Speaker 8: the tariffs. They want to raise about six hundred billion
Speaker 8: dollars a year, which by the way, is about the
Speaker 8: exact amount which they're cutting taxes, So it's really just
Speaker 8: collecting taxes in a different sort of way. So that
Speaker 8: is part of the goal. But no, really, the strategic
Speaker 8: goal here is to put China out of business, much
Speaker 8: like what Reagan did with the Soviets back in the eighties.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's interesting, Okay, So as we navigate this wild
Speaker 1: ride on Wall Street, Jared, what kind of things should
Speaker 1: people be thinking about as they look at their investments
Speaker 1: and what should they be doing, if.
Speaker 8: Anything, Probably the best thing to do pretty much ninety
Speaker 8: nine percent of the time is to do nothing. And
Speaker 8: there is a time to panic, but that time has passed.
Speaker 8: The first rule about panicking is if you're going to panic,
Speaker 8: you have to panic before everybody else does. So now
Speaker 8: it's too late. It is too late to panic. I
Speaker 8: would not sell your stocks down here okay, so.
Speaker 1: All right, and as an investor, are you buying now?
Speaker 8: I mean I'm doing I'm doing a lot of things.
Speaker 8: I do have. I do have some exposure to the
Speaker 8: stock market. It's kind of complicated. I've been like selling
Speaker 8: put options on the index, and you know, I am
Speaker 8: betting that stocks are going up.
Speaker 1: So yes, okay, all right, Well there you have it,
Speaker 1: all right. Jared Dillon, best selling financial writer Wall Street alumni,
Speaker 1: I guess you would call him and also active investor.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time and insight. I
Speaker 1: learned something new today.
Speaker 4: Cool when that happens. Thank you, Jared. My trying to
Speaker 4: kill their economy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Speaking
Speaker 1: of tariffs, Joina said it will allow fewer US films
Speaker 1: to be imported.
Speaker 4: In response to tariffs.
Speaker 10: The Chinese Film Administration has announced it will moderately reduce
Speaker 10: the number of American films imported. Thirty four foreign films
Speaker 10: are permitted to be released in China each year. The
Speaker 10: Chinese Film Administration said tariff's imposed by President Trump will
Speaker 10: inevitably further reduce the domestic audience's favorability towards American films.
Speaker 10: The Marvel film Thunderbolts had reportedly just been approved to
Speaker 10: be released on April thirtieth, but it's not clear whether
Speaker 10: or not it will go forward. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1: Financial analysts are watching what happens on Wall Street with
Speaker 1: China stepping up. It's part of the trade war with
Speaker 1: the US. The Chinese course of race tariffs on American
Speaker 1: goods to one hundred and twenty five percent. Tucker Perkins,
Speaker 1: President and CEO of the Propane Education and Research Council,
Speaker 1: says there are serious concerns when it comes to the
Speaker 1: energy market.
Speaker 3: The real issue for the energy community is what happens
Speaker 3: to the economies. Do the economies reset and maybe we
Speaker 3: go into a worldwide recession.
Speaker 1: China's move follows the Trump administration bumping up traffs on
Speaker 1: Chinese products to one hundred and forty five percent. Secretary
Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior, says
Speaker 1: he has initiated a research effort to uncover the cause
Speaker 1: of what he calls the autism epidemic by this fall.
Speaker 1: But Stanford Pediatrician pediatrician doctor Alec Patel says he thinks
Speaker 1: that's not really doable.
Speaker 9: To come together and say that we're just seeing to
Speaker 9: get a bunch of scientists together and get an answer
Speaker 9: byt September, that seems a little far fetched.
Speaker 1: In the past, Kennedy has talked about a connection between
Speaker 1: vaccines and autism, despite several studies refuting that, the Senate
Speaker 1: Commerce Committees hearing yesterday on changing the twice a year
Speaker 1: clock switch didn't make any decisions. Those for ditching the
Speaker 1: time change say it's outdated, but President of the Insurance
Speaker 1: Institute for Highway Safety David Harkey says switching the clocks
Speaker 1: can actually make driving safer.
Speaker 2: Changing the clocks twice a year is relevant to road
Speaker 2: safety first and foremost because it affects the amount of
Speaker 2: ambient light during peak times for travel.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, the Senate passed a measure that
Speaker 1: would lock clocks to daylight saving time, but the House
Speaker 1: never took it up. Okay, I told you in my rings,
Speaker 1: driving me crazy. I just got another alert. Now what
Speaker 1: anybody here a big boom?
Speaker 10: Really you can have to adjust that.
Speaker 4: There's a way, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Hey, the Dodgers take on the Rockies tonight at Dodgers Stadium. Nope,
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Speaker 4: Friday.
Speaker 1: Oh it's Freddy Freeman Bobblehead night. I got some stuck
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Speaker 1: take on the Cubs. First pitch goes out tonight at
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Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports. The Supreme Court says the Trump administration
Speaker 1: must facilitate the release of a man from Maryland swept
Speaker 1: up in an ice rate and accidentally sent to a
Speaker 1: present prison in El Salvador. In the ruling yesterday, the
Speaker 1: High Court didn't say that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has to
Speaker 1: immediately be returned, but that the administration must work and
Speaker 1: show what they're doing to get him back to the US.
Speaker 1: The California Assembly has voted down proposed budget amendments to
Speaker 1: terminate medical funding for illegal immigrants in California's high speed
Speaker 1: rail project. The healthcare program will cost a state nine
Speaker 1: and a half billion dollars this year. The high speed
Speaker 1: rail projects costs a balloon from an initial eight billion
Speaker 1: dollars in two thousand and eight to over one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty billion. GLP one drugs are pushing weight Watchers
Speaker 1: into bankruptcy. The weight Loss Company is working with lenders
Speaker 1: and is expected to file bankruptcy in the next few months.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's crime and Terror
Speaker 1: analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, there's a growing trend in the
Speaker 1: US called prepared citizens.
Speaker 3: What are they?
Speaker 9: So?
Speaker 11: If you take amy the everyday gun owner, folks that
Speaker 11: aren't part of the militia, left right type group, just
Speaker 11: everyday folks, pilots, nurses, you name it, who like to
Speaker 11: shoot weapons. Some of them want to take a step
Speaker 11: further and learn how to shoot from a to combat positions.
Speaker 11: In others you'd need somebody obviously to teach you to
Speaker 11: do that. Adding things like learning how to fly drones
Speaker 11: for reconnaissance, doing things like homesteady. You know, the list
Speaker 11: goes on and on, but it's basically people. I think
Speaker 11: if you look amy across the country, there's a lot
Speaker 11: of masurety for people in their own minds and in
Speaker 11: reality too, that things aren't like they used to be,
Speaker 11: and I think they feel vulnerable and as a result,
Speaker 11: they feel like they need to better protect themselves and
Speaker 11: their loved ones. So these things are cropping up across
Speaker 11: a number of states. It tends to be private companies.
Speaker 11: Former military tend to run them to teach people these
Speaker 11: skill sets, and I think it's another example of that.
Speaker 11: You know, people believe that the government can't protect them
Speaker 11: like they believe the government could in the past. And
Speaker 11: it's very complex. I'm sure there are other reasons why
Speaker 11: people are doing this.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you hear the rumblings and the rhetoric
Speaker 1: and stuff, and people are like, I think we're getting
Speaker 1: ready for a civil war, So some people are taking
Speaker 1: that to heart.
Speaker 11: I think that is some of it, that it's civil
Speaker 11: UNRESK gets to a point where it's you against them.
Speaker 11: Those that are trained, pre pare aired, you know, have
Speaker 11: probably a higher survival rate. So you know, it turns
Speaker 11: this can turn into sort of a really dark statement.
Speaker 11: But I do think that there is a there's a
Speaker 11: mood of that in the country at this point.
Speaker 1: Okay, And is this Brad people who already are like
Speaker 1: gun owners not going to think or are more people saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I need to do that and then beyond that, need
Speaker 1: to get trained.
Speaker 11: I think it tends to be gun owners. I mean,
Speaker 11: think about it this way, Amy that in any given month,
Speaker 11: they're about a million and a half guns sold in
Speaker 11: this country each month. Some months are higher, some of
Speaker 11: the lower. It went up quite a bit higher during
Speaker 11: the pandemic. But the point being, that's a lot of weapons,
Speaker 11: and I think it tends to be people that either
Speaker 11: have recently purchased or just have firearms and they're only
Speaker 11: sort of routine outlet was to go to a range. Obviously,
Speaker 11: this is a whole different dimension. And obviously it's a
Speaker 11: it's a big investment of time to learn all these
Speaker 11: other skill sets. I mean, combat shooting. I've done a
Speaker 11: lot of that, and it's, you know, a certain skill
Speaker 11: set you have to practice. Can you shoot while you're running?
Speaker 11: Can you go behind things? Can you lay on the
Speaker 11: ground and shoot? And apparently that's what they're teaching folks.
Speaker 4: Okay, and you you mentioned too that again, we've.
Speaker 1: Heard of like these little places people go off the
Speaker 1: grid and go out into the woods and do all
Speaker 1: their military or paramilitary training and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But this isn't This isn't that. This isn't fringe groups
Speaker 1: or left and right extremist groups.
Speaker 4: This is more mainstream.
Speaker 11: This is more mainstream, and that's and that's how it's presented.
Speaker 11: You know, that's not going the gate of the crowd
Speaker 11: you just talked about, continuing to do their training for
Speaker 11: a whole different sort of philosophy or or maybe some
Speaker 11: of us to say, Amy, I mean those those folks
Speaker 11: fall into a number of categories, but one is that
Speaker 11: they believe that the world's falling apart and they're going
Speaker 11: to have to find a remote place to survive.
Speaker 4: And if it does, they're going to be ready.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to be hoping that I have gas
Speaker 1: in my tank to get out of town.
Speaker 11: We're just waiting for Starbucks though.
Speaker 4: That's fun.
Speaker 1: Brad Garrett, thank you so much. This is a very information,
Speaker 1: very interesting information. I appreciate you coming on with us
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 11: You're welcome to Amy.
Speaker 4: I know that there is a.
Speaker 1: There is an area of California that I know of
Speaker 1: that is not a fringe group, and they I swear
Speaker 1: the whole area is like yep, we're ready in case,
Speaker 1: in case the stuff hits the fan, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: that's where I'm going if I've got a full tank
Speaker 1: of guess A helicopters crashed into the Hudson River, killing
Speaker 1: all six people on board. This woman's as she saw
Speaker 1: the whole thing yesterday, I was a shock.
Speaker 10: I tried to call nine one launch, I couldn't reach anyone.
Speaker 4: I just ran towards it.
Speaker 11: It was very fuss.
Speaker 1: Video posted online appears to show the helicopter breaking apart
Speaker 1: before landing in the water. Please say the helicopter was
Speaker 1: carrying a pilot, two adults, and three kids. They were
Speaker 1: all tourists from Spain. It's not clear yet what caused
Speaker 1: the crash. Two former police officers in Torrents had pleaded
Speaker 1: guilty to spray painting a swastika inside a car in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. That led to an investigation into vandalism that
Speaker 1: turned up text messages between officers which used racist and
Speaker 1: homophobic slurs. The texts also joked about beating up and
Speaker 1: racially profiling people. The two officers will be on probation
Speaker 1: for two years. A reusable tote bag is causing a
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Speaker 12: Rater Joe's has brought back its popular canvas mini toats
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Speaker 12: but some resellers are charging big bucks. The eBay four
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Speaker 12: including taxes. One Pink Mini tote is currently listed at
Speaker 12: just under one thousand dollars. Some people have been spending
Speaker 12: hours lined up outside their local trader Joe's in hopes
Speaker 12: of getting a bag. Depor mark Ka a fine news.
Speaker 1: People are silly and the toads are cute. They look
Speaker 1: like Easter, but not for one thousand bucks.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: The iconic, Speaking of Pink, the iconic Pink's Hot Dogs
Speaker 1: will open a spot at the La Zoo today, bringing
Speaker 1: its world famous winners to more than one and a
Speaker 1: half million annual visitors to the Zoo. The new location
Speaker 1: will open inside the Zoo next to the Cape Vulture Plaza,
Speaker 1: offering staple menu items like Pink's famous chili Dog.
Speaker 4: The Guadalajara Dog and of course the Betty White Dog.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, if you were with us on wake Up Call,
Speaker 1: we got to talk to NASA astronaut and Space Force
Speaker 1: Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, who recently returned from the International
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Speaker 2: People of Earth sets your alarm clock for wake Up
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Speaker 1: Say good morning to NASA astronaut and Space Force Guardian
Speaker 1: Colonel Nick Haig, who just returned from the International Space Station.
Speaker 2: Here Amy King asked the tough questions.
Speaker 4: I've heard that some astronauts come back taller.
Speaker 13: He came back taller, and then I locked it all.
Speaker 11: Gravity took it away.
Speaker 4: You got a haircut in space? How does that work?
Speaker 13: Essentially you're hooking a vacuum cleaner to the hair tremmer,
Speaker 13: but we received no training on how to give a haircut.
Speaker 13: The first one is a little you know, dicey wake
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Speaker 2: With Amy kadi Am a tripping time on KFI AM
Speaker 2: six forty more stimulating talk from space.
Speaker 4: So much fun again.
Speaker 1: You can listen to the full interview on our website
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Speaker 4: Just go to the wake up Call page.
Speaker 1: When we come back, it's a DIY weekend with the
Speaker 1: house Whisper and the host of Home on KFI Dean Sharp.
Speaker 1: Some projects you can tackle on your own and when
Speaker 1: you should call in the professionals. A Russian born woman
Speaker 1: from Los Angeles in prison for treason in Russia is
Speaker 1: back on American soil Cassinia, Carolina, touchdown at Joint Bass
Speaker 1: Andrews in Maryland yesterday after she was freed in a
Speaker 1: prisoner swap with Russia. She thanked President Trump and the
Speaker 1: American government for helping her get home. Police are looking
Speaker 1: for four men in dark hoodies who pulled off a
Speaker 1: smash and grab robbery in Sherman Oaks. Pullyse say the
Speaker 1: guys shattered glass counters and stole a bunch of jewelry
Speaker 1: from a store in the Westfield Fashion Square shortly after
Speaker 1: noon yesterday. Got away in a silver gray Oudi A
Speaker 1: six with a yellow covering over its license plates. Hikers beware,
Speaker 1: there's snakes in them our hills. A hiker got bit
Speaker 1: yesterday around five pm on a remote section of toy
Speaker 1: On Trail in Griffith Park. LA Fire says the hiker
Speaker 1: was airlifted out of the park and take to the
Speaker 1: hospital and is in fair condition. LA Fire says most
Speaker 1: snake bites happen in the springtime, when snakes come out
Speaker 1: of their hibernation like state. At six oh five, its
Speaker 1: handle on the news, we got a tit for tat
Speaker 1: thing going because the US put tariffs on China. Then
Speaker 1: China put tariffs on the US, and then we did
Speaker 1: it back to them, and now they're doing it back
Speaker 1: to us.
Speaker 4: When will it end?
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning too. The host of home on
Speaker 1: KFI our house whisper Dean Sharp.
Speaker 3: Morning, Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a dy weekend. I love a good DIY.
Speaker 1: It's so fun. Yeah, it makes you feel like you
Speaker 1: really kind of can accomplish things. And we've got some
Speaker 1: big projects, some small projects. But you're going to be
Speaker 1: talking about diys on your show this weekend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we're going to be focusing on sometimes very
Speaker 5: little things make the big difference when di wires get
Speaker 5: active on a project and they get frustrated because they're like, well, wait,
Speaker 5: the instructions never said how much of this or how
Speaker 5: little of that, or how to do this. And so
Speaker 5: I'm going to be taking and tackling some of those
Speaker 5: those little techniques that make all the difference. And we'll
Speaker 5: be taking calls on Saturday and spending most of Sunday
Speaker 5: talking about these fix it tips.
Speaker 1: Okay, so there's so many here. I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: need to do that, need to do that. I've tried that,
Speaker 1: can't do that. Here's an easy one, hopefully. What if
Speaker 1: your toilet runs in the middle of the night. That's
Speaker 1: still a problem sometimes.
Speaker 3: Yes, the haunted toilet.
Speaker 5: Why are we laying in bed and all of a
Speaker 5: sudden we hear the toilet running. It's usually something super
Speaker 5: super simple. It's just usually nine times out of ten,
Speaker 5: it's the flapper inside the tank. It's that little flap
Speaker 5: that opens up that the chain is connected to from
Speaker 5: the handle of the toilet. That flapper sits in water
Speaker 5: constantly in its entire life, and eventually the rubber of
Speaker 5: the flapper starts to fail, and so it starts leaking
Speaker 5: water a little bit into the tank, a little bit,
Speaker 5: a little bit more, and then the tank drops its
Speaker 5: water level and the valve wants to refill it, and
Speaker 5: that's what we hear in the middle of the night. Fortunately,
Speaker 5: a flapper.
Speaker 14: Costs like four dollars five dollars at the hardware core
Speaker 14: and takes all of you know, thirty seconds to change out,
Speaker 14: and suddenly we will not have our haunted toilet being
Speaker 14: used by no one in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's a great quick fix. Okay, here's another one.
Speaker 1: I've run into this. I bet you have to what
Speaker 1: do you do when you bust a light bulb and
Speaker 1: you need to get it out and there's all that
Speaker 1: sharp glass.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know what I've I always mentioned two
Speaker 5: things here, because there's the right way to do it,
Speaker 5: and then there is this.
Speaker 3: Kind of mythological story of how to do it.
Speaker 5: I think if you look online, everybody says, oh, just
Speaker 5: get a potato, Get a rusted potato and shove it
Speaker 5: up in there and start to turn it. And you
Speaker 5: know what, we've tried it before and every once in
Speaker 5: a while it works. But don't waste your time with
Speaker 5: the potato. There's no reason to get a potato anywhere
Speaker 5: near a broken light bulb. You just make sure that
Speaker 5: the power is off and that there is no energy
Speaker 5: running to that fixture. And this is where the use
Speaker 5: of a pair of needle nosed pliers comes in handy.
Speaker 5: You either grab the very center of that broken bulb fixture,
Speaker 5: or with needlenose plyers, you can grab the edge of
Speaker 5: the of the brass cup that's still stuck up there
Speaker 5: in the fixture, bend it in a little bit and
Speaker 5: rotate it clockwise and you'll see that you'll get all
Speaker 5: of that out quickly. Don't worry about using a rusted potato.
Speaker 4: But I have used the potato and it did work
Speaker 4: one time.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 5: And you know the funny thing is because potatoes are
Speaker 5: just firm enough and just moist enough that they form
Speaker 5: kind of a vacuum seal around what's left and they
Speaker 5: become essentially a wrench for taking it out. It's just
Speaker 5: will frustrate somebody if you go all the way to
Speaker 5: the store and hit a potato, bring it home, get
Speaker 5: up there on your ladder and find out that the
Speaker 5: fixture is stuck in there a little bit too much,
Speaker 5: and that the potato just turns and turns, and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 5: why did I waste a trip to the store when
Speaker 5: I could have just used a pair of plyers?
Speaker 3: Exactly, so to just use the plyer.
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp is going to be saving you unnecessary trips
Speaker 1: to the store all weekend long. I would love to
Speaker 1: talk about more of this. Unfortunately we don't have the
Speaker 1: time to do it, but you're going to talk about
Speaker 1: it this weekend. What to do with mushy light recept
Speaker 1: I've got that problem. How do you repair a damaged
Speaker 1: window screen, I've got that problem. How do you fix
Speaker 1: a jiggling doorknob, I've got that problem. And how do
Speaker 1: you reattach loose carpet. I've got all these problems. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to be listening to your show this weekend.
Speaker 1: Dean sounds great, Okay, great Saturday from six to eight
Speaker 1: right here on KFI, and then Sundays nine to noon.
Speaker 1: It's a home with Dean Sharp. You can also follow
Speaker 1: him at home with Dean. Thank you, Dean Sharp.
Speaker 3: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Speaker 1: Courtney Donaho. Wow, Courtney, what a week on Wall Street Friday.
Speaker 1: You're probably going, oh my god, I get a weekend,
Speaker 1: not to deal.
Speaker 4: With it at A'm on vacation next week. So I'm
Speaker 4: really looking forward to this.
Speaker 3: I bet you never said that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you earned it. You earned it.
Speaker 1: So after all, yesterday we were down like two thousand points,
Speaker 1: and then what did we end the day on?
Speaker 15: Well, when we look at the markets, there was like
Speaker 15: this huge stampede out of stocks yesterday after that big,
Speaker 15: big buying wave, one of the biggest that we've seen
Speaker 15: in years, right, so why they're all bay Well still
Speaker 15: underneath it all, there is concern growing that the escalation
Speaker 15: of the trade war is going to bring lasting damage
Speaker 15: to economic growth. The recession word every pro I'm talking to, recession, recession, recession,
Speaker 15: that's all what we're hearing. So yesterday the dutfell oney
Speaker 15: fifteen points, the S and P five hundred tumbled three
Speaker 15: and a half percent, giving back some of the huge gains.
Speaker 15: I mean, we were close to three thousand points higher
Speaker 15: on Wednesday when it came to the Doubt. But see
Speaker 15: what's happening is so many people on Wall Street are
Speaker 15: really struggling to figure out what the next move is
Speaker 15: in this constantly evolving trade policy. Like this morning, China
Speaker 15: coming out raising duties on goods to one hundred and
Speaker 15: twenty five percent starting tomorrow. But despite that, stocks are
Speaker 15: moving higher. And by the way, this report is sponsored
Speaker 15: by Total Wine and more Doubt futures right now they're up.
Speaker 15: We're getting a bit of a recovery today, up one
Speaker 15: hundred and ninety five points, SESS and P futures gaining
Speaker 15: half a percent.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you mentioned the possibility of recession Courtney, and
Speaker 1: you said, we're seeing we're starting to see the return
Speaker 1: of recession.
Speaker 4: Hair at salons.
Speaker 10: What is that?
Speaker 15: Yes, Well, in two thousand and eight, everybody was trying
Speaker 15: to go a little on the cheap. Some people were
Speaker 15: trying to do their own haircuts because of course it
Speaker 15: was it was really rough out there during the financial crisis.
Speaker 15: But hairstylists that we've been talking to also massage therapists,
Speaker 15: to colorists, nail folks, they're witnessing firsthand some of the
Speaker 15: earliest possible signs that we may be headed for an
Speaker 15: economic downturn. They say that customers are choosing cheaper, more
Speaker 15: low maintenance looks so they don't have to go back.
Speaker 4: All that often.
Speaker 15: And clients who previously got color every two to three weeks,
Speaker 15: they're now stretching it to about four and five.
Speaker 4: There were seeing more roots people.
Speaker 15: But some of the hair pros they say that they're
Speaker 15: seeing lesson tips and that's tough for them.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, all right, Well that's getting in your
Speaker 1: business with Bloomberg Courtney donaho We apparently won't be talking
Speaker 1: to you next week where you go on vacation.
Speaker 15: I am going to Florida to visit my brother. My
Speaker 15: brother is actually moving back home to New York and
Speaker 15: so I have to transport a cat.
Speaker 4: It It should be funny. So we'll see.
Speaker 15: We're taking oscar back to New York.
Speaker 1: Well, good luck with that, and we will still get
Speaker 1: in your business on Monday morning. It will just be
Speaker 1: with someone else. Thank you, Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe, See you later.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Two laped officers have been hurt in a fight with
Speaker 1: a person in the Florence neighborhood of South la. It
Speaker 1: happened about two forty five yesterday afternoon. The officers were
Speaker 1: taken to the hospital with minor injuries. One person was arrested.
Speaker 1: Not clear what started the fight. Twelve pro Palestinian protesters
Speaker 1: are facing felony charges for allegedly breaking into and vandalizing
Speaker 1: and building at Stanford. Prosecutors say the group then barricaded
Speaker 1: themselves inside the president's office last June and demanded the
Speaker 1: university divest from investments with Israel.
Speaker 4: They were arrested to the next day.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors say the group did between three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand and a million dollars in damage. San Francisco Mayor
Speaker 1: Daniel Lurie says WEIMO driverless vehicles can enter car free
Speaker 1: zones in the city, not pedestrian zones. The zones were
Speaker 1: previously restricted for public transit, emergency vehicles, and commercial delivery trucks.
Speaker 1: Now opening up to WEMO, WEIMO is starting to map
Speaker 1: out the area, hopes to be operating in the city
Speaker 1: by this summer. Let's say good morning to ABC's Will
Speaker 1: Gans Will if you're going to theaters, is Robbie Malick
Speaker 1: the guy to watch.
Speaker 9: He is the guy to watch, and he has the
Speaker 9: oscar to prove it. You know. After Bohemian Rhapsody and
Speaker 9: his turn as Spready Mercury, he's now changing genres and
Speaker 9: he stars in a spy thriller. It's called The Amateur,
Speaker 9: and he plays a character who is sort of like
Speaker 9: a computer geek who works for the government, but his
Speaker 9: wife is killed by a small group of terrorists and
Speaker 9: he decides that he personally is going to get revenge
Speaker 9: on all of them, so he sort of goes rogue
Speaker 9: when his bosses aren't doing enough in his opinion, and
Speaker 9: he's trained by Lawrence Fishburne, and he goes on a
Speaker 9: personal mission to hunt these people down one by one,
Speaker 9: and it's kind of a fun take.
Speaker 8: On the genre.
Speaker 9: You know. He's an unlikely hero, a little bit of
Speaker 9: a geek, but he uses his tech savvy to do
Speaker 9: some cool stuff in the movie. So it's a good
Speaker 9: one that's in theaters this weekend.
Speaker 4: Spies going rogue.
Speaker 3: Never heard of that before, imagine yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But Robbie Mallock, he's fun because, like you said, even
Speaker 1: though he kind of plays like a geek guy, he
Speaker 1: kind of looks that I mean and you're I'm just surprised.
Speaker 4: He's such a great actor. I love watching him.
Speaker 9: He's so good. And you know, there are some like
Speaker 9: really touching moments, you know, where he's exploring his grief.
Speaker 9: And Katrina balf who was in Belfast a couple of
Speaker 9: years ago, is in this too, and yeah, so it
Speaker 9: is like, of course it's a good action packed spy thriller,
Speaker 9: but it also has some really great acting moments in
Speaker 9: it as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, speak of movies in theaters, I still haven't seen
Speaker 1: the Penguin Lessons, have you no?
Speaker 9: And I'm glad to hear you say you haven't either.
Speaker 9: That means I'm in good company because I told you
Speaker 9: I would, and I haven't kept my end of the bargain.
Speaker 9: But I said I was too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I haven't heard anything about it from
Speaker 1: anybody same.
Speaker 9: But maybe the world is waiting on us, Amy. Maybe
Speaker 9: we're the ones that are going to really turn the
Speaker 9: page for these penguins.
Speaker 1: All right, well it I mean, it looks like it's
Speaker 1: just like this lovely thing that you need to bring
Speaker 1: tissues to. And it's Steve Coogan, who I think he's
Speaker 1: just a fun actor. So I'm going to check it
Speaker 1: out eventually, but let's go back to the stream.
Speaker 9: So Hacks is back, Oh and thank god. I just
Speaker 9: it is like one of my all time favorite shows.
Speaker 9: And if you'll believe it, everyone is saying that season
Speaker 9: four is somehow their best yet and that they're really
Speaker 9: hitting their stride in season four, and I'm like, what
Speaker 9: do you mean they're hitting their stride? Like the stride
Speaker 9: has been going strong since season one. But yeah, episodes
Speaker 9: one and two of the brand new season dropped last
Speaker 9: night on and of course, Jeane Smart is back as
Speaker 9: Deborah Vance, and Hannah Einbinder is back as her sort
Speaker 9: of frenemy best frenemy writer, you know, extraordinary. So it's
Speaker 9: they're picking up right where season three left off, which is,
Speaker 9: you know, her character just was named the host of
Speaker 9: a late night show and that's sort of the direction
Speaker 9: that we're headed in this season. But it's just it's
Speaker 9: so great.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 9: The episodes are about half an hour each and they're
Speaker 9: hilarious and they're brilliantly acted, and yeah, I'm just so
Speaker 9: glad Hacks is back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you mentioned front of Me.
Speaker 1: I'm like that that even that is going to be
Speaker 1: tested this season after what Little Hannah pulled in the
Speaker 1: last episode of last year.
Speaker 4: If you haven't watched it, I don't want to ruin it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, a taste of her own medicine though, but
Speaker 9: it's fun to see that sort of power dynamic shift
Speaker 9: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Absolutely okay, and what will happen to June Osborne the
Speaker 1: final season of Handmaid's Tale?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 9: The first three episodes of the last season of Handmaid's
Speaker 9: Tailor out on Hulu now, and then from here it'll
Speaker 9: be a brand new episode every Tuesday till the end
Speaker 9: of May, and then we're we're saying goodbye to that
Speaker 9: series for good. So this is of course based on
Speaker 9: the Margaret Atwood novel and then some and it is
Speaker 9: you know, right from the jump, action packed Serena and
Speaker 9: June bump into each other on a train and yeah,
Speaker 9: it's we're off to the races already. And you know,
Speaker 9: this is a little bit of a heavier watch, longer episodes,
Speaker 9: but you know, Elizabeth Moss has won an Emmy for
Speaker 9: playing this as well, so really well acted and the
Speaker 9: final chapter, so I think a lot of folks will
Speaker 9: be tuning in to see how all of this wraps up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and well, I'm going to tell you I did
Speaker 1: watch it the first three episodes, and I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: little hesitant because, like you were saying, it's based on
Speaker 1: the book, and then some it's kind of like they've
Speaker 1: got to find some story and it's makes sense what
Speaker 1: they're trying to do, but I'm like, it's feeling a
Speaker 1: little drawn out to me in.
Speaker 4: Some of the situations. I'm like, yeah, how did that happen?
Speaker 1: Like it's just I don't know, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: it's getting close to jumping the sharp.
Speaker 4: So it's probably good that this is the last season.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm with you. Like some sometimes it's like this
Speaker 9: character can't survive this long, Like we can't, you know
Speaker 9: what I mean, Like how many times is it going
Speaker 9: to be a narrow myths or you know, a quick
Speaker 9: escape at the last moment. I'm with you there, but
Speaker 9: I do think that, you know, hopefully they'll land the
Speaker 9: plane and you know, there are only a few more
Speaker 9: episodes left to go, so.
Speaker 1: I'm still watching it, still watching it, all right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ABC's well, Gans, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Have a great weekend, you too, Amy, Take care all right.
Speaker 1: Rising tariffs are weighing on local businesses. Michelle Lomaline owns
Speaker 1: Sweet Petite Confections in San Diego. She says her costs
Speaker 1: have been going up for a while with rising prices
Speaker 1: for chocolate, and now she says prices for things like
Speaker 1: her packaging, which comes from China, are headed up.
Speaker 15: I have bond on ons that are three dollars of online,
Speaker 15: and my competitors are all for four four fifty five
Speaker 15: dollars of online.
Speaker 4: I'm going to go up to maybe three seventy five.
Speaker 1: Some business owners say, as well as costs going up,
Speaker 1: they've seen a significant drop in sales. Recently, news brought
Speaker 1: to you by Simper Solaris the California Assemblies voted down
Speaker 1: proposed budget amendments to terminate medical funding or for illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants and also California's high speed rail project. State Assembly
Speaker 1: Wman Carl Demyo says the bill would have done a
Speaker 1: lot to help California.
Speaker 16: Eliminate funding for illegal immigrant free healthcare at taxpayer expense,
Speaker 16: as well as direct the elimination the suspension the cancelation
Speaker 16: of the high speed rail project, which has become a
Speaker 16: multi billion dollar boon.
Speaker 1: Doggle Demio says The vote prioritizes illegal immigrants and a
Speaker 1: train over taxpayers to keep taxpayer funded healthcare for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: Healthcare for illegal immigrants is going to cost US state
Speaker 1: nine and a half billion dollars this year. The high
Speaker 1: speed rail project's costs a balloon from an initial eight
Speaker 1: billion dollars in two thousand and eight to over one
Speaker 1: hundred thirty billion dollars. LA Kenny fire Station one sixty
Speaker 1: four and Huntington Beach is reopening today. It's been closed
Speaker 1: for the last month eleven months because it was heavily
Speaker 1: damaged by an early morning fire. The fire tore through
Speaker 1: the two story fire station around four a m.
Speaker 4: Last May.
Speaker 1: Fire crew has been working out of a temporary facility
Speaker 1: for almost a year. Probably going to be good to
Speaker 1: go home and the fiftieth Long Beach Grand Prix opens
Speaker 1: today with qualifying for all races. There will also be
Speaker 1: the start of the drifting competition and a concert tonight
Speaker 1: by the Canadian DJ Dubs DJ Duo Dubs. You can
Speaker 1: tell I'm familiar with who they are, Okay. The Long
Speaker 1: Beach Grand Prix was first run in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 4: Is a Formula five thousand race. Is that right? A
Speaker 4: Formula five thousand, a Formula five hundred.
Speaker 3: I would think five hundred, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, Editor Brian, Let's check that it was a race
Speaker 1: for open wheel cars with maximum five point leader engine capacity.
Speaker 1: It was a Formula one race from nineteen seventy six
Speaker 1: to eighty three before it became an indie car event.
Speaker 1: This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
Speaker 1: County Southland weather from kffive got some areas of low
Speaker 1: clouds in fog. Otherwise mostly sunny with some clouds rolling through.
Speaker 1: Highs in the low seventies at the beaches, seventies and
Speaker 1: eighties for Metro La Inlando, c and the Anlope Valley,
Speaker 1: uprating to low nineties for the valleys and Inland Empire
Speaker 1: fifty seven and Fuller ten, fifty one in San Clemente,
Speaker 1: sixty in Pasadena, and fifty eight in Santa Monica. Live
Speaker 1: from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and
Speaker 1: and technical producer Cono along with traffic specialist Will I'm
Speaker 1: Amy King. This has been your wake up call. If
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