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Speaker 1: start the last show of twenty twenty four. This is
Speaker 1: your wake up call for Tuesday, December thirty first, the
Speaker 1: last day of the year. It's already New Year's in Sydney, Australia.
Speaker 1: They just rang it in, just arrived. So if you're
Speaker 1: worried about oh no, what's gonna happen when New Year's hits.
Speaker 1: You don't need to because it's already twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: in parts of the world. Here's what's ahead on wake
Speaker 1: up Call. Pasadena is getting ready for thousands of visitors
Speaker 1: ahead of the Rose Parade. Crowds are expected to begin
Speaker 1: gathering today at noon to stake out spots along the
Speaker 1: five and a half mile route on Colorado Boulevard. Camping
Speaker 1: is permitted along the parade route. Tonight, Tennis legend Billy
Speaker 1: Jean King will serve as the parade's grand marshal. The
Speaker 1: state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter's been scheduled for
Speaker 1: January ninth. President Biden is going to deliver the eulogy
Speaker 1: Before the state funeral in DC. Carter will lie in
Speaker 1: repose at Georgia's state capitol. They're also hold a funeral
Speaker 1: in Georgia. Carter's body will then be taken to the
Speaker 1: US capital, where he will lie in state until the
Speaker 1: funeral next time Thursday. The world population is increased by
Speaker 1: more than seventy one million people in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: It will be eight point zero nine billion people on
Speaker 1: New Year's Day. The US Census Bureau estimates the population
Speaker 1: in the US is up two point six million for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. The US population on New Year's Day
Speaker 1: will be three hundred and forty one million. Speaking of millions,
Speaker 1: more than a million are expected to be at Times
Speaker 1: Square to ring in the new year. We'll check in
Speaker 1: with ABC's Josh Margolan to find out how the Big
Speaker 1: Apple is getting ready for the big ball drop that's
Speaker 1: coming up at five twenty. Also, Amy's on it, the
Speaker 1: last one of twenty twenty four. I'm on the stream.
Speaker 1: We'll see what what I'm watching and whether I think
Speaker 1: it's worth your time. Also Joel Larsgard. He's going to
Speaker 1: be talking about New Year's financial resolutions, how to make
Speaker 1: them and how to stick with them. And then a
Speaker 1: dangerous new trend in shopping binge shopping, Oh goodie. At
Speaker 1: six oh five, it's Handle on the New of course
Speaker 1: Handled not here. He's off for the holiday, but we
Speaker 1: have Wayne Resnick in and Wayne's going to tell us
Speaker 1: about some Chinese hackers that have gotten into the US
Speaker 1: Treasury what that means. Let's get started with some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Funeral plans are in place for former President Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 1: who died over the weekend. NBC's Chris Polone reports Carter
Speaker 1: will make a final trip to Washington, d C. Before
Speaker 1: being buried alongside his wife Rosalind in Georgia.
Speaker 4: The official memorials begin Saturday, when a procession we'll take
Speaker 4: the former president's body passed his childhood home and then
Speaker 4: to Atlanta to lie in repose. January seventh, the late
Speaker 4: president will return to the Capitol Rotunda in Washington to
Speaker 4: lie in state until the state funeral January ninth.
Speaker 1: President Biden has declared January ninth a National Day of mourning.
Speaker 1: Two security guards have been hurt, one of them critically,
Speaker 1: in a shooting outside a Target store at the fig
Speaker 1: at Seventh Shopping Mall in downtown LA. Investigators described the
Speaker 1: shooter last night as a white man with af row
Speaker 1: styled hair, last seen wearing a black shirt, pants, and scarf.
Speaker 1: Two others were wounded at a shooting at Seventh and Maple,
Speaker 1: about a mile away from the shooting at the Target store.
Speaker 1: Police say it's not clear if the shootings are connected.
Speaker 1: Santa Ana winds are forecasts to linger in the Southland
Speaker 1: this week, increasing the risk of wildfires. The National Weather
Speaker 1: Services winds should peak today into tomorrow, with gus thirty
Speaker 1: to forty five miles per hour over the mountains and hills.
Speaker 1: The valley should also be breezy, with peak gus between
Speaker 1: twenty and thirty five miles per hour. Humidity is expected
Speaker 1: to be low, adding to the fire danger. A red
Speaker 1: flag warning will be in effect through tomorrow evening for
Speaker 1: the western San Gabriel Valley, the Antelope Valley Freeway Corridor,
Speaker 1: the Santa Clarita Valley, the Santa Monica Mountains, and the
Speaker 1: western San Fernando Valley. At least four people have been
Speaker 1: killed in severe storms in the South. Staphne Brown describes
Speaker 1: what it felt like when a tornado in Texas destroyed
Speaker 1: her family's home on Saturday and killed her wife.
Speaker 3: Been on a roller coaster with no seabolts.
Speaker 7: It just throws you up.
Speaker 3: You go up with it, you go down, you fly,
Speaker 3: you fly.
Speaker 1: Up everything you can do. Where was your wife and.
Speaker 3: The house that belonged right here in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: The National Weather Service confirms it was an EF two
Speaker 1: that ripped through the area south of Houston. More than
Speaker 1: thirty tornadoes who are reported over the weekend in Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, and Texas. Can you believe twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: is over already? It's just so weird. Do you have
Speaker 1: a big party planned? Do you have anything planned? Well,
Speaker 1: we were doing a little checking to find out what
Speaker 1: people are planning to do. We know that a lot
Speaker 1: of people are going to be staking out their spots
Speaker 1: going to the Rose Parade. Michelle, have you ever gone
Speaker 1: to the Rose Parade? Aside from watching it? Oh, she
Speaker 1: doesn't even have her headphones on. Hey, Cono, have you
Speaker 1: ever gone to.
Speaker 6: The Rose Paray?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I have not, but my mother loves it.
Speaker 1: I went one year. It was very cool.
Speaker 3: I've watched it on television when I was younger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, lots of people are doing that. Of course.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are for New Year's Eve, are
Speaker 1: going to be in New York City, more than a million.
Speaker 1: We're going to check in with Josh Morgolan coming up
Speaker 1: at five twenty to find out what the preps are
Speaker 1: for there. But a new study shows that a majority
Speaker 1: of people in the US, at least adults, intend to
Speaker 1: celebrate New Year's Eve at home. Two in ten say
Speaker 1: they're going to celebrate it at a family or friend's house.
Speaker 1: Just five percent plan to go out to celebrate at
Speaker 1: a bar, restaurant, or an organized event. That's very low.
Speaker 1: There's a downtown celebration in Los Angeles. I've not been
Speaker 1: to that at Grand Park. A majority of a US
Speaker 1: adults not only planned to stay at home, but maybe
Speaker 1: they're going to do a little thinking what they're going
Speaker 1: to do in twenty twenty five. I know we mentioned
Speaker 1: yesterday about not making resolutions. I try to make a resolution,
Speaker 1: but it's like you're setting yourself up for failure because
Speaker 1: I never keep them. But a majority of adults in
Speaker 1: the usay they do intend to make a new Year's
Speaker 1: resolution of some type. Millennials and gen zers are especially
Speaker 1: likely to be on board. About two thirds expect to
Speaker 1: make resolutions. About half of older adults say they're going
Speaker 1: to make resolutions. Also, women are more likely than men
Speaker 1: to say that they're going to set a new goal
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five. So what kind of resolutions are
Speaker 1: we going to be setting for ourselves? Well, last year
Speaker 1: I was going to well for this year, I was
Speaker 1: going to purge and organize, and I finally cleaned out
Speaker 1: my closet like three weeks ago, so it took me
Speaker 1: a little while, but I guess I finally did get
Speaker 1: to it. But here's what they're here's what we're resolving
Speaker 1: to do. Three and ten adults choose resolutions involving exercise
Speaker 1: or eating healthier. About twenty five percent say they're going
Speaker 1: to make a resolution involving losing weight. You know, Jim's
Speaker 1: get really crowded in January, tapers back off in February
Speaker 1: when we all stop following throughun our resolutions, And then
Speaker 1: about twenty five percent say they are going to resolve
Speaker 1: to make changes about priorities on money or mental health.
Speaker 1: How do you make a resolution about your mental health?
Speaker 1: Like you resolve, just say you're going to focus on
Speaker 1: yourself more. You resolved to relax or maybe meditate. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: did you ask me a question earlier? Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: totally blew me off, So I'm not talking to you anymore.
Speaker 1: I was on the phone. Sorry, emergency situation. It's okay,
Speaker 1: no worries at all. And I know that Michelle already
Speaker 1: told us yesterday that she is not making resolutions. You know,
Speaker 1: I resolutions are kind of like my old fitbit, because
Speaker 1: you'd wear your fitbit and then I'd check in at
Speaker 1: the end of the day and I would say, you
Speaker 1: missed this goal, you missed this goal, you missed this goal,
Speaker 1: and I just felt bad about myself, so I stopped
Speaker 1: wearing the fit bit. So I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be kind of like that with the resolutions. Like the
Speaker 1: I do, I have had those mental thoughts, not for
Speaker 1: better mental health, but those thoughts that I'm like, you
Speaker 1: know what, after New Year's Day, I'm going to get
Speaker 1: back on track. I'm going to start eating right. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens after New Year's Day. I don't know
Speaker 1: if my resolve is strong enough, but don't whatever you do,
Speaker 1: I would just say, don't set yourself up for failure,
Speaker 1: because you know what, there's enough people out there and
Speaker 1: enough things out there making you feel bad about yourself.
Speaker 1: You don't have to feel bad about failing a New
Speaker 1: Year's resolution. But if you do do it, good luck
Speaker 1: to you. Let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Renters
Speaker 1: in California. We'll have more protections against evictions starting in
Speaker 1: the new year, a new law gives tenants ten days
Speaker 1: to respond if they receive an eviction notice. That's an
Speaker 1: increase from the current five days.
Speaker 8: Give all those people of fighting chance to weigh in
Speaker 8: on an eviction and let the judge consider both sides
Speaker 8: of the case rather than just the loords. So I
Speaker 8: think it'll make a huge difference.
Speaker 1: Lawyer and director of Affordable Housing Advocates Katherine Rodman says
Speaker 1: the new timeframe does not count weekends or holidays, giving
Speaker 1: renters more time to address the situation. People in California
Speaker 1: should have an easier time canceling subscriptions in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: The new law requires companies to get permission from customers
Speaker 1: before they automatically renew any subscription after July first. This
Speaker 1: woman says that's a good idea.
Speaker 3: But makes sense.
Speaker 9: If it's easy to sign up for something, it should
Speaker 9: be easy to cancel it too.
Speaker 1: Customers will also get a reminder about their subscriptions, along
Speaker 1: with clear instructions on how to cancel those subscriptions if
Speaker 1: they want to. Have you ever done that where you go,
Speaker 1: I don't want this anymore, And then you go on
Speaker 1: the website and you can't find out how, And of
Speaker 1: course nobody has customer service like actual people anymore, so
Speaker 1: it's just really hard to navigate that. That's I think
Speaker 1: this is a welcome new law. But Lisa are looking
Speaker 1: for any possible victims of a doctor accused of drugging
Speaker 1: and assaulting a woman at his home in West LA.
Speaker 1: The LAPD says forty two year old Bebeck Hajosini is
Speaker 1: a visiting specialist at Wound and Burn Centers of America
Speaker 1: in LA and Catalina Island Health Plisei Haijosianne tried to
Speaker 1: lure people in by offering high paying jobs on recruitment websites,
Speaker 1: then invited women to work overtime at his home, where
Speaker 1: he served them, spiked drinks, and assaulted them. Ajsha Hoseini
Speaker 1: has pleaded not guilty and is out on bail. Multiple
Speaker 1: lawsuits have been filed against a cannabis brand in LA.
Speaker 10: The two separate suits accused Stizzy and its products of
Speaker 10: causing cannabis induced psychosis. In one suit, a young man
Speaker 10: claims he locked his mom in a bedroom, hallucinated a
Speaker 10: girl that he introduced to his parents, and believed a
Speaker 10: witch had placed a curse on him. The other suit,
Speaker 10: found by twin sisters says the product led to a
Speaker 10: suicide attempt in dropping out of school. The man's suit
Speaker 10: accuses the company of negligence and fraud, seeing it creates
Speaker 10: an acute psychological event that could require years of treatment
Speaker 10: in antipsychotic medication. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1: News, Angelina Joe Lee and Brad Pitt have reached a
Speaker 1: divorce settlement after eight years. The couple signed off on
Speaker 1: a default declaration filed in La Superior Court yesterday saying
Speaker 1: they have entered into a written agreement on their marital
Speaker 1: and property rights. The filing says they give up the
Speaker 1: right to any future spousal financial support, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: give any other details. A judge, we'll still need to
Speaker 1: sign off on the agreement. A popular supermarket is adding
Speaker 1: three more stores in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 7: No specific target date has been determined, however, In a
Speaker 7: recent episode of the Inside Trader Joe's podcast, Trader Joe's
Speaker 7: marketing team Tara Miller and Matthew Sloan say that locations
Speaker 7: that have high population density, are easy to access, have
Speaker 7: sufficient parking available, and are near higher traffic areas. They're
Speaker 7: all high indicators as so where a store goes.
Speaker 3: We're excited when people are excited about us, but that's
Speaker 3: really not what's driving the decisions about what brings a
Speaker 3: Trader Joe's Andrew Caravella chaos.
Speaker 1: One store's going to be opening in Northridge offer Seeda Boulevard,
Speaker 1: another in Tarzana off the Ventura Boulevard, and in Sherman
Speaker 1: Oaks off Riverside Drive. Always good to have more Trader jos. Hey,
Speaker 1: here's something we otter do more often. Instead of turning
Speaker 1: to fishermen or other unnatural solutions, maybe just turn to
Speaker 1: mother nature and let nature take care of itself. Here's
Speaker 1: what I mean. So along the California Coast, green crabs,
Speaker 1: which are an invasive species. They're not from here, but
Speaker 1: they got here somehow have been wreaking havoc in the
Speaker 1: waters in Monterey County. So they come in and they
Speaker 1: eat up everything, They damage seagrass beds, they eat small
Speaker 1: prey that is crucial to other species survival, and they're
Speaker 1: getting worse and worse in spite of efforts to remove them.
Speaker 1: So once these crabs are taking hold, they're like, how
Speaker 1: are we going to get them out so we can
Speaker 1: have the regular ecosystem back in place. Well, in one area,
Speaker 1: they're not having problems anymore. Really, they still have a
Speaker 1: little bit of green crabs, but they don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of problem because the sea otters have come to
Speaker 1: the rescue. The seaoutter population near Monterey County has gone up.
Speaker 1: They were almost like extinct a while ago, but they're
Speaker 1: back and their numbers are getting a little bit bigger.
Speaker 1: And sea otters love green crabs, so the little apex
Speaker 1: predators that are adorable have led to the green crabs demise.
Speaker 1: They've eaten up to one hundred and twenty thousand of
Speaker 1: the green crabs as a group. This group of otters
Speaker 1: that are off of Monterey County, there is somebody who's
Speaker 1: been watching these people, and her name is ecologist Rique Jeffison.
Speaker 1: She says that sea otters are the assistant managers of
Speaker 1: the sleugh in helping keep invaders in check. Green crabs
Speaker 1: became a major threat to coastal ecosystems on the West
Speaker 1: Coast in the late nineteen eighties when they were unintentionally
Speaker 1: introduced to the San Francisco Bay. They might have come
Speaker 1: over on trade ships. Washington State said in September it
Speaker 1: plans to spend twelve million dollars to manage its green
Speaker 1: crab population. Maybe they just need to get some otters.
Speaker 1: So the otters are like helping out the ecosystem. They're
Speaker 1: putting things back in balance. The snails that the crabs
Speaker 1: eat are now thriving. The snails eat algae that blocks
Speaker 1: sunlight from reaching the sea grass. So it's a whole
Speaker 1: circle of life thing, and the sea otters are bringing
Speaker 1: things back in balance. It's sort of like bringing the
Speaker 1: wolves back to Yellowstone. Remember when they brought the wolf
Speaker 1: population back and they did what wolves do, and like,
Speaker 1: the whole ecosystem got better. It's a really fascinating store.
Speaker 1: If you want to read about it, just google it.
Speaker 1: So restoring otters in the water is saving the seas
Speaker 1: of California. I love it. And that's why I said
Speaker 1: at the beginning, we otter do this more. Santa Ana
Speaker 1: wins are going to blow into southern California today, increasing
Speaker 1: fire danger in the mountains. National Weather Service forecasters say
Speaker 1: week to moderate Santa Anna's are expected today through tomorrow. Evening.
Speaker 1: Humidity levels are expected to remain low, and that means
Speaker 1: fire danger will be increased. Four people have been hurt
Speaker 1: in two separate shootings in downtown LA. Police say two
Speaker 1: security guards were shot last night outside a target at
Speaker 1: FIGAROA and seventh. One of them is in critical condition.
Speaker 1: A man and a woman were then shot about a
Speaker 1: mile away. Police say they're not sure if the shootings
Speaker 1: are connected. It's going to be easier to cancel online
Speaker 1: subscriptions in California. New law requires companies to get permission
Speaker 1: from customers before they automatically renew any subscriptions. After July
Speaker 1: one of twenty twenty five, customers will also get reminders
Speaker 1: about subscriptions, along with instructions on how to cancel them
Speaker 1: if they want to. At six oh five, it's Handle
Speaker 1: on the News with Wayne in four Bill Handled Today.
Speaker 1: The Rose Parade just a day away. People are already
Speaker 1: getting ready to stake out their spots along the parade route.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's chief investigative reporter
Speaker 1: Josh Margolin.
Speaker 11: Good morning, Josh, Hey, good morning, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year. A lot of people planning to stay
Speaker 1: home this New Year's according to a new AP poll.
Speaker 1: But in New York City about a million are expected
Speaker 1: to turn out to Times Square, So what's in store.
Speaker 11: It's going to be wet. Oh gonsk that it's well,
Speaker 11: so we're just coming off of a cold snap in
Speaker 11: New York, so it's not going to be bitter cold,
Speaker 11: which is fortunate, but it is going to be a
Speaker 11: little bit soggy. And it's compounded by no umbrellas at
Speaker 11: Times Cure. Yeah, but people that are going that could
Speaker 11: be ready for it.
Speaker 1: So no umbrellas, but you can wear like rain slickers
Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 11: Oh sure, Shore show umbrellas. Umbrellas are a security issue
Speaker 11: for police. First of all, they're security issue for you
Speaker 11: and the safety kind of thing. You know, you have
Speaker 11: gone to a concert or even when you're when you're
Speaker 11: stuck in a congested you know area and there are
Speaker 11: a bunch of umbrellas around, Its dangerous, right, you don't
Speaker 11: get your eye poked out a lot. So that's actually
Speaker 11: a big concern.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 11: Then they also it blocks people's view, so cops, no umbrellas,
Speaker 11: no big backpacks, no booze on the flip side. You
Speaker 11: can go in and you can stand there for nine
Speaker 11: hours waiting for the ball to drum.
Speaker 1: That just sounds crazy and the like, can you take
Speaker 1: food in with you?
Speaker 11: You could take food in, you could take you can
Speaker 11: take stuff that you can fit into a small purse.
Speaker 11: You just can't take a big backpack. And and I've
Speaker 11: never done it myself. I have to confess. I'm a reporter,
Speaker 11: so I've had the benefit of being able to go
Speaker 11: in as a reporter, and so you can bring certain
Speaker 11: stuff in as a reporter. But I'm sure the cops
Speaker 11: are pretty easy. If you're bring in a ham sandwich,
Speaker 11: They're not going to think it's a security risk. It's
Speaker 11: not one of those things where they want to make
Speaker 11: sure that you buy their stuff, like at a concert venue.
Speaker 11: They just want to protect everybody. So the cups are
Speaker 11: focused on things that could be weapons. Your ham sandwich
Speaker 11: isn't a weapon, certainly not once it gets wet, exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay. Now I've heard too, Josh that there are no bathrooms.
Speaker 11: Yes, that is that is a fact. It is New
Speaker 11: York City. There are no public bathrooms. On a good day,
Speaker 11: when you're penned in in the middle of Times Square,
Speaker 11: there's no bathrooms. It's another reason why if I were
Speaker 11: not a reporter, I probably wouldn't do it myself, not
Speaker 11: to not to say that people shouldn't do it. They
Speaker 11: should all have a great time. It's just not something
Speaker 11: that I would do.
Speaker 1: Okay. So then we got to talk to about the
Speaker 1: practicality of this, because that's a million people and no bathroom.
Speaker 1: So is everybody wearing diapers?
Speaker 11: I don't know. I'm sure there are people that do
Speaker 11: do that. That What helps is that there's no booze allowed,
Speaker 11: so you don't have that problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, And so you're not and everybody's not worried
Speaker 1: about staying hydrated because it's not one hundred degrees like
Speaker 1: when we go to Coachella or something like that, so
Speaker 1: you're not drinking.
Speaker 11: It does get to be a real it does get
Speaker 11: to be a real issue. A few years ago, I
Speaker 11: remember specifically, we had a brutal one of these polar
Speaker 11: vortex kind of cold snaps where they actually were worried
Speaker 11: that people were going to have to be carted away
Speaker 11: by ambulance because it was so brutally cold outside. Because
Speaker 11: it gets to be a certain point where no matter
Speaker 11: how much gear you have, nine hours and the bitter
Speaker 11: cold is terrible. But that's not it's what it's going
Speaker 11: to be today, it's going to be in the mid
Speaker 11: to upper forties, a little bit rainy, So they're not
Speaker 11: worried about that. What they are talking about is the
Speaker 11: things in the world that could have an impact on
Speaker 11: New York. So this ongoing thing where isis is advocating
Speaker 11: for people to do vehicle rammings. We saw the thing
Speaker 11: in Germany a couple of weeks ago at the Christmas Market.
Speaker 11: Two years ago, we saw somebody who decided to take
Speaker 11: out a large knife and go after police at a
Speaker 11: barricade out of metal detector. And so they're worried about
Speaker 11: things like that. Also, everything has gotten really heightened with
Speaker 11: the political environment the election. Obviously we saw two attempts
Speaker 11: on Donald Trump's life throughout the course of the campaign,
Speaker 11: and then also since October seventh of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 11: with the Israel Hamas War, they have expanded in New
Speaker 11: York the Secure Perimeter, the frozen zone where no cars,
Speaker 11: no people are allowed, because they want to keep the
Speaker 11: they want to make sure that Times Square is even
Speaker 11: more protected from the possibility of vehicles getting anywhere near
Speaker 11: the people who are outside in the plaza.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I want to talk about that frozen zone
Speaker 1: for a second. So you've got a million people coming
Speaker 1: in to Times Square, do they literally set up barricades
Speaker 1: on every I don't know, on every street, on every sidewalk,
Speaker 1: and then people have to go through security.
Speaker 11: Right, So if you look overhead like a map view
Speaker 11: or a helicopter view, you know the roads a crisscross network.
Speaker 11: So this Times Square basically look at that as the
Speaker 11: middle of the island of Manhattan, and then you have
Speaker 11: all the roads and sidewalks going in and coming out.
Speaker 11: It's all done in a staggered, phased, in layered approach.
Speaker 11: So at three o'clock this morning, the first road closures
Speaker 11: went into effect, and that was the core of Times
Speaker 11: Square where the people will gather, no cars at all.
Speaker 11: People are restricted even as to where they're allowed to
Speaker 11: walk or move. Then as the day progresses, those road
Speaker 11: closures will expand outward like an amieba sort of growing,
Speaker 11: and ultimately by three o'clock this afternoon, they're going to
Speaker 11: start letting people go in. What's going to happen is
Speaker 11: by three o'clock you'll have an entire square basically from
Speaker 11: the southern border Central Park down to thirty eighth Street,
Speaker 11: so that's about twenty blocks. That's twenty of the shortlock,
Speaker 11: and then east to west the long Avenue blocks from
Speaker 11: sixth Avenue to eighth Avenue, that's no cars at all,
Speaker 11: and that's where they will put these large garbage trucks
Speaker 11: or dump trucks full of sand blocker trucks, and that's
Speaker 11: going to block off access. Then certain streets will have
Speaker 11: pedestrian only access. And the way they do is they
Speaker 11: set up like going to a rock concert where you're
Speaker 11: able like Coachella, where you're able to then go if
Speaker 11: you are at the right place and you know where
Speaker 11: you're going, you want to get in, you will then
Speaker 11: be able to wait on a line to go through
Speaker 11: metal detectors and be searched like you're going into a
Speaker 11: closed venue and the cops are the ones manning those
Speaker 11: metal detectors, and you go through, and once you're allowed in,
Speaker 11: then you're going to be directed to the area where
Speaker 11: you basically are assigned to hang out with your group,
Speaker 11: and that's where you are until midnight.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a I'd rather stay home. It just
Speaker 1: sounds like a lot.
Speaker 11: You're not the only person that feels that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, And then and then at the end, like
Speaker 1: the ball drops and they play the music and everybody
Speaker 1: kisses and they do all old lang sign and stuff.
Speaker 1: Does the crowd just then quietly disperse or does it
Speaker 1: turn into sort of a crap you know, a crazy
Speaker 1: mass x migration.
Speaker 11: I've actually been there. It's actually not a crazy scene. Afterwards,
Speaker 11: it's a fun scene at midnight. And then basically between
Speaker 11: midnight and twelve fifteen they start breaking things down. And
Speaker 11: think about it. If you've been outside, even in good weather,
Speaker 11: but had no facilities, and you haven't had anything to
Speaker 11: drink or eating, what, you're just hanging out for.
Speaker 3: Nine hours, you're ready to go out?
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, So so people start going and remember the
Speaker 11: sub so the subways the streets are open. People can
Speaker 11: then walk. The subways keep running, so people head for
Speaker 11: the subways. They walk out. But Manhattan on New Year's
Speaker 11: Eve is generally very very busy, even outside of Times Square,
Speaker 11: So you have a lot of other stuff going on.
Speaker 11: You have a midnight run at Central Park, which is
Speaker 11: only twenty blocks away. You have other kinds of parties.
Speaker 11: Time Square is right in the center of the action,
Speaker 11: and people have gathered at various points so people start
Speaker 11: this bursting. But in my limited experience for the few
Speaker 11: years that I've actually been there as a reporter, it
Speaker 11: seems that everything is pretty chill. People just sort of
Speaker 11: take off.
Speaker 1: Cool. Well, we're going to hope for a safe and
Speaker 1: happy New Year in Times Square. It's always fun to
Speaker 1: watch from home. Exactly, all right, Josh Margoland, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Appreciate your time. If you want to follow
Speaker 1: Josh on Instagram, it's just at Josh Mark Golan. Easy.
Speaker 1: Have a happy New Year, Josh.
Speaker 11: We'll talk to you here. Good bye.
Speaker 1: Hey, here's a fun fact. Our very own producer, Michelle
Speaker 1: has been in Times Square for New Year's Eve.
Speaker 6: Yes, last time I was when we lived in New York.
Speaker 5: I didn't move out of New York until with my
Speaker 5: parents until I was fifteen, so I was fourteen, So
Speaker 5: it was eighty six.
Speaker 6: Was the last time I did it?
Speaker 1: And did they have all the same Uh? Well, eighty
Speaker 1: six I was way before like nine eleven was all
Speaker 1: that stuff.
Speaker 6: So it wasn't at I mean, they do they do.
Speaker 5: Block they from what I remember, they block a lot
Speaker 5: of stuff off because they want to limit you know,
Speaker 5: who's there, and once you're there, you had to stay
Speaker 5: until midnight.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's just I mean, it was so interesting listening
Speaker 1: to Josh explain what they do and how they you know,
Speaker 1: start restricting traffic and then you're stuck there for like
Speaker 1: nine hours. So did you have to stand there for
Speaker 1: nine hours?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we had to stand there for nine hours.
Speaker 5: But back then I remember like having to go to
Speaker 5: the bathroom and just walking into a store and they're like.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I use the bathroom.
Speaker 5: Like it was back then, it was much looser. I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't I can't remember. I'm assuming there was probably
Speaker 5: close to a million people even back then, but it
Speaker 5: was it was a little bit different of a time.
Speaker 11: It was.
Speaker 5: You know, it was fun though, but I can't imagine
Speaker 5: doing it again.
Speaker 1: I just sit there and I used to think when
Speaker 1: I was younger, I'd go, oh, I want to do
Speaker 1: that one year, And now I'd go, oh, hell no, if.
Speaker 6: You do it once, you wouldn't do it again.
Speaker 5: It's like me at the Rose Parade, like camping overnight
Speaker 5: for the Roast Parade, Like you'll do it once and
Speaker 5: then that's it.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, thank you, Michelle. I know somebody who's
Speaker 1: been in Times Square for New Year's Eve. I think
Speaker 1: you're the only person I've ever met. Here's what we're
Speaker 1: following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. California has
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Speaker 1: a big bird has made an incredible journey. A giant
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Speaker 1: sounds fun making money resolutions and how to stick with them.
Speaker 1: And then also there's binge watching, but there's also binge
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Speaker 1: to check in and find out more about that with
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Speaker 1: be joining us in less than fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: Amis on it, Dami's on this, AM's on it, Dami's
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 1: I'm on the stream. There's so much out there. There's movies,
Speaker 1: there's TV series, there's documentaries. There's so much stuff, and
Speaker 1: how do you know what to watch? Well, hopefully I
Speaker 1: can help you with that. I also take recommendations from
Speaker 1: you and from my friends, and then I'll check them
Speaker 1: out and pass it along and let you know if
Speaker 1: it's a great idea for you to watch this or
Speaker 1: maybe save your time. So something that is and has
Speaker 1: been highly anticipated is the return of Squid Game. So
Speaker 1: it's on Netflix, season two. Three years in the making.
Speaker 1: So the remember it was a forever ago that the
Speaker 1: first Squid Game came along, and so now they just
Speaker 1: dropped the second season. I highly recommend that you go
Speaker 1: and watch at least the last two episodes of season one,
Speaker 1: because it's been three years after Alcono and I were
Speaker 1: talking about it. He's like, I think I need to
Speaker 1: go back and watch the last EPISOD. So I will say, yes,
Speaker 1: you do, and then I'm going to also say you
Speaker 1: might want to go back even further because I started
Speaker 1: at the very beginning to see how season one started,
Speaker 1: because again it was three years ago, and personally I
Speaker 1: have the memory of a nat so I needed to
Speaker 1: go revisit it. I had forgotten so much of it,
Speaker 1: like how he even got involved. The guy, the main character, Geehoon.
Speaker 1: He he was just basically kind of a low life
Speaker 1: and now it's in season two and he's a changed person.
Speaker 1: But also when I watched it, I thought season two
Speaker 1: was only half released because it was seven episodes like
Speaker 1: Netflix does with like Cobra Kai and Bridgerton and that.
Speaker 1: But it's not. It's just Season two is seven episodes
Speaker 1: and it drops off right in the middle. It's a
Speaker 1: heck of a cliffhanger because it definitely doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: there's kind of any closure at all. It just it
Speaker 1: leaves you hanging for season two. Read the first season
Speaker 1: felt more raw to me, a little more real. I mean,
Speaker 1: like the violence when it first starts is just shocking.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh my god, they're just shooting and killing
Speaker 1: all these people. As you know, I'm not giving away
Speaker 1: any secrets, even if you haven't seen Squid Game yet.
Speaker 1: And it was very compelling, So I think it's because
Speaker 1: we didn't expect it, so it sort of it was
Speaker 1: a shock to our system. But now three years later,
Speaker 1: there's season two and we're expecting it. So do we
Speaker 1: get the same old, same old, Well, yes and no.
Speaker 1: As you find out at the end of season one,
Speaker 1: or at least it's intimated, Geehun, the main character goes
Speaker 1: back for more. It's going back into the games. So
Speaker 1: how do they keep it new? Well, they do more
Speaker 1: character development, and with that they bring in more social
Speaker 1: issues and insight into why these people sign up for
Speaker 1: Squid Game in the first place. And then there's also
Speaker 1: a kind of a sinister turn to the storyline. I mean,
Speaker 1: after all, what he what do you do with all
Speaker 1: those dead bodies? That's a question Squid Game tries to
Speaker 1: answer that the show takes a kind of an interesting
Speaker 1: and unlikely turn. It is a stretch, but it almost
Speaker 1: makes sense in the grand scheme of things. On what
Speaker 1: are they going to do with squid Game this year
Speaker 1: that'll be different from last? And again, there is no
Speaker 1: second half of the season. But season three has already
Speaker 1: been filmed. It's in post production. The guy who wrote
Speaker 1: it said he wrote seasons two and three together and
Speaker 1: having it be like fourteen episodes was too long, So
Speaker 1: that's why it's a seven. Season three is expected to
Speaker 1: drop in the summer or fall of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: So I kind of feel like they could have just
Speaker 1: ended it like after season one, call it a day.
Speaker 1: To me, it kind of feels like too much. It
Speaker 1: was the same old still intriguing. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: I still watched it, and I'm going to watch season three,
Speaker 1: but I don't like it as much as I did
Speaker 1: the first season. Oh and by the way, when he
Speaker 1: wins the money, they put all the money up for
Speaker 1: grabs for the person who wins squid Games. It's forty
Speaker 1: five billion one, which is about thirty one million US dollars.
Speaker 1: That's not even a Mega million surprize. It's not even
Speaker 1: as much as the Powerball prize that's up for grabs
Speaker 1: because no winner was drawn last night. So season two
Speaker 1: Squid Game on Netflix again. It's good, it's not great.
Speaker 1: It's getting kind of mixed reviews. People are either loving
Speaker 1: it or hating it. Like I said, I watched it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to watch the next season, but I didn't
Speaker 1: like it as much as the first season. There you go.
Speaker 1: The last Amy's on it of twenty twenty four. Normally
Speaker 1: I do it on Wednesdays. I'm not going to be
Speaker 1: here tomorrow, so we did it to ring in the
Speaker 1: new year. Oh and if you're sitting at home on
Speaker 1: the couch and you don't feel like watching the ball drop,
Speaker 1: maybe you want to watch Squid Game. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. The Riverside Chapter of Habitat for
Speaker 1: Humanity is announced it will erect am memorial in honor
Speaker 1: of President Jimmy Carter. The thirty ninth President, spent a
Speaker 1: great deal of his life after losing reelection in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty building homes with Habitat for Humanity. The local chapter
Speaker 1: of the organization says it's going to pay tribute to
Speaker 1: Carter near one of its buildings in the East end
Speaker 1: of Riverside, with a framed wall and door celebrating the
Speaker 1: late president's contributions. The New York Stock Exchange has announced
Speaker 1: it will be closed on January ninth in honor of
Speaker 1: President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday. Kfis Kristen Marks reports.
Speaker 1: President Biden has declared the day a national day of mourning.
Speaker 12: It's normal for the Stock Exchange to close trading to
Speaker 12: honor the death of a president. Trading was closed in
Speaker 12: December of twenty eighteen for the death of former President
Speaker 12: George H. W.
Speaker 3: Bush.
Speaker 12: Meanwhile, the normally hectic Stock Exchange paused for one minute
Speaker 12: of silence Monday morning in Carter's memory as photos of
Speaker 12: the thirty ninth president were shown on monitors.
Speaker 1: Carter was one hundred years old. He was the oldest
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Speaker 1: but when Trump takes office again next month, President Biden
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Speaker 1: Orange County has died two days after being booked on
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Speaker 1: of Cerritos was found unresponsive at the THEO. Lacy Jail
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Speaker 10: Little League in San Pedro Girls Softball say it would
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Speaker 10: secured language in the National Defense Authorization Act, signed last
Speaker 10: week by the President to transfer ownership of the land
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Speaker 1: Some Republicans in Washington dcsay Americans will cheer President elect
Speaker 1: Trump's Government Efficiency Task Force. Texas Congressmanship Roy says a
Speaker 1: makeover of the food stamp program would include removing sugary
Speaker 1: sodas from the list of items available. He says such
Speaker 1: restrictions on food stamps would save hundreds of billions of
Speaker 1: dollars put.
Speaker 11: In restraint on the use of food stamps.
Speaker 1: Roy is also pushing for a repeal of President Biden's
Speaker 1: Inflation Reduction Act. Roy was among the thirty four Republican
Speaker 1: members of the House who voted against the spending bill,
Speaker 1: which avoided a government shutdown before Christmas. A new scholarship
Speaker 1: has been created in the Inland Empire. The nonprofit Brothers
Speaker 1: of the Desert has collaborated with the Inland Empire Community
Speaker 1: Foundation to support black, gay male students in the Coachella Valley.
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Speaker 1: college program or secondary education in the IE and been
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Speaker 1: six pm. The warning is for the Santa Clarita, Western
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Speaker 1: southeast Ventura County Valleys. We're just minutes away from Handle
Speaker 1: on the news this morning, of course, Handle on vacation.
Speaker 1: So we have Wayne Resnick sitting in and if you
Speaker 1: see a drone buzzing around, Wayne's going to tell you
Speaker 1: why you should not shoot it down. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning now to the host of How to Money right
Speaker 1: here on KFI. It's Joel Larsgard. Good morning, Joel.
Speaker 3: Morning Amy.
Speaker 1: So a lot of people making resolutions. We were talking
Speaker 1: about that a little earlier, and one of the things
Speaker 1: that thing that one of the things that people are
Speaker 1: making resolutions about is money. So let's talk about that
Speaker 1: because you're our money guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 9: And the thing is, even if it's not directly money related,
Speaker 9: like I want to increase my net worth by forty
Speaker 9: two percent or something like that, money is often involved.
Speaker 3: In so many of the goals that we set for ourselves.
Speaker 9: Let's say you're setting this goal like I'm going to
Speaker 9: take two international vacations this year, whatever it is, like,
Speaker 9: all of those things involve money. So money is tangentially
Speaker 9: involved in so many of the things that we want
Speaker 9: from our lives in twenty twenty five. So it's really
Speaker 9: important to kind of have different money goals, or I
Speaker 9: would say, actually different money systems in place to kind
Speaker 9: of help you achieve some of those other grander goals
Speaker 9: that you have for your life.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty five.
Speaker 9: And when I say systems, there's this guy, James Clear
Speaker 9: who writes about goals. He's one of the foremost experts
Speaker 9: on goal setting, and he talks about how systems are
Speaker 9: so much better than a goal because which one of
Speaker 9: us has not set a goal and then to half
Speaker 9: weeks into the new year said, well, that didn't work
Speaker 9: out so well and you abandoned it completely. And so
Speaker 9: it's important to have these smaller micro things that you
Speaker 9: can implement to help you along the way instead of
Speaker 9: this one big, audacious goal. Well, you've got to break
Speaker 9: it down into a bunch of smaller steps. What is
Speaker 9: it going to take to get there? And let's say
Speaker 9: it is money specific, like I do want to become
Speaker 9: an investor for the first time, Well, what is it
Speaker 9: going to take to get there? Break it down into
Speaker 9: small steps so that you're not floundering just two weeks in.
Speaker 1: Okay, So say you want to become an investor, like,
Speaker 1: for example, what would be some of those baby steps
Speaker 1: that you would take.
Speaker 9: Sure you got to see. I think the baby step
Speaker 9: there is well what is available to me from a
Speaker 9: retirement account perspective? And it would also be smart to
Speaker 9: look in to say, well, hm, I need to find
Speaker 9: out what the best things to invest in for me
Speaker 9: are for the time being. So there's some legwork that
Speaker 9: needs to be done, some readings, some homework that needs
Speaker 9: to be done. You might need to call your HR
Speaker 9: department and say, what is the match inside of the
Speaker 9: four to oh one k at my work because a
Speaker 9: savvy investor hopefully is going to take advantage of the
Speaker 9: full company match. That's the goal you're going to get to.
Speaker 9: But you got to figure out, well, what does it
Speaker 9: look like? And then okay, what company is it that
Speaker 9: I should be investing with? What brokerage firm should I
Speaker 9: open up an account with? And you know, there's by
Speaker 9: the way, tons of information up on howtomoney dot com
Speaker 9: about funds that we like, about companies that we like
Speaker 9: working with, about the importance of low cost and investing.
Speaker 9: But there's probably some homework you want to do so
Speaker 9: that you could be confident when you start investing. And
Speaker 9: the cool thing is, I think too, once you learn
Speaker 9: the stuff, learn a few of those ropes, and by
Speaker 9: the way, it's far less complicated than a lot of
Speaker 9: the people on Wall Street.
Speaker 3: Would want to lead you to believe.
Speaker 9: Once you learn some of those ropes and then you
Speaker 9: have the confidence and you actually start doing the thing,
Speaker 9: the cool thing is you start to view yourself a
Speaker 9: little differently. You're like, look at me, I'm an investor
Speaker 9: over here, and that then perpetuates this glorious cycle of
Speaker 9: continuing to add to you know, your what you what
Speaker 9: you've learned, continuing to add to your knowledge, and then
Speaker 9: continuing to do the right thing.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Yes, I just we're having headphone issues this morning.
Speaker 3: Seek Okay, last second.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I didn't mean to like leavang out and I
Speaker 1: thought it was.
Speaker 3: So profound that I left you speechless, But you did.
Speaker 1: You did, Okay, I can hear you again. So then
Speaker 1: here's another question. Becoming an investor is one thing. Here's
Speaker 1: another thing that I think that I've been thinking about
Speaker 1: is really raining in my spending. So I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: that and thinking, like like you said, instead of just
Speaker 1: saying I'm cutting back twenty five percent or something. What
Speaker 1: are a couple of like mini goals that we can
Speaker 1: set as we go to make it a more realistic.
Speaker 9: Thing, that is that's a great question, I think something
Speaker 9: that probably a lot of people are trying to figure
Speaker 9: out right now in the aftermath of Christmas. Hopefully it
Speaker 9: was a wonderful Christmas for everyone out there. But the man,
Speaker 9: it's so easy right into. Something you and I talked
Speaker 9: about a lot on the front end was the ability
Speaker 9: to overspend. And there was an article in Baron's the
Speaker 9: other day talking specifically about how easy it is to
Speaker 9: become a bin shopper these days, and how we talk
Speaker 9: about sports gambling that man that worries me. But apparently
Speaker 9: there's a much higher percentage of the population, according to
Speaker 9: a new study, who struggle with bin shopping. So they're
Speaker 9: essentially addicted to shopping, and it's easier than ever to
Speaker 9: get addicted to And because we're on our phones all
Speaker 9: the time, we're on screens all the time, and shopping
Speaker 9: is just one click away, and now it's inside other
Speaker 9: apps like TikTok, and so people are spending in ways
Speaker 9: that never would have even been a thought in the
Speaker 9: minds of our parents, right, And so you're having to
Speaker 9: deal with new ways of technology trying to get into
Speaker 9: your life to try to call your money away. And
Speaker 9: so I do think that that one of the things,
Speaker 9: one of the small steps that needs to be taken,
Speaker 9: if spending less money is one of your goals, is
Speaker 9: to maybe eradicate an app or two from your life.
Speaker 9: Maybe you only go on Instagram. This is something I
Speaker 9: do on the browser on your computer. It's a far
Speaker 9: less enjoyable experience. But you're doing that on purpose. You're
Speaker 9: doing that for a reason to say, one, I'm going
Speaker 9: to limit my exposure to certain things that are going
Speaker 9: to prompt me to spend and two, because it's a
Speaker 9: less enjoyable experience, I'm going to just spend less time
Speaker 9: there so I'm more productive in other areas of my life.
Speaker 3: But I think it is really easy. It's more think
Speaker 3: about another thing.
Speaker 9: Emails from some of your favorite companies and maybe they've
Speaker 9: got a twenty percent discount today. Only they send you
Speaker 9: the email and you're like, oh, click over there and
Speaker 9: take a look, and you end up spending money that
Speaker 9: you weren't planning on spending. And so unsubscribe from those emails.
Speaker 9: And then something else I like for people to do
Speaker 9: is to create a twenty four or a forty.
Speaker 3: Eight hour rule.
Speaker 9: Oh so you are where you're like prompted to spend
Speaker 9: money on something, and you say, oh, man, I really
Speaker 9: want to follow through. I really want this thing in
Speaker 9: my life. Well, if you wait twenty four hours typically,
Speaker 9: and then you go back to the cart, right, and
Speaker 9: you say, is this something I want kind of in
Speaker 9: the light of day. Right, let's say you're scrolling at
Speaker 9: night and you I want this thing so bad, I'm
Speaker 9: going to get it right now. Well, if you wait
Speaker 9: until the next day, the next afternoon, maybe you're less
Speaker 9: inclined to buy that thing. Maybe you're like, well, I
Speaker 9: got why I was interested in it, but I don't
Speaker 9: actually need this. And so if you follow through on
Speaker 9: the purchase immediately, you're more likely to make an impulse buy.
Speaker 9: And if you give yourself a little bit of time,
Speaker 9: you have a chance for that the smarter part of
Speaker 9: your brain to kick in and say, hey, I don't
Speaker 9: think I actually need that thing.
Speaker 1: It's sort of like writing a nasty email. Don't hit
Speaker 1: send right, hold on to it, and then go and
Speaker 1: revisit it, like in a day or two and say,
Speaker 1: do I still really want to send that? It's kind
Speaker 1: of the same idea.
Speaker 3: Neither of us would ever do that, amy, but it's
Speaker 3: a good hypothetical.
Speaker 1: Not that I have ever written a nasty email in
Speaker 1: my life, but okay, so we're going to do baby
Speaker 1: steps as we head into the new year. I love
Speaker 1: that idea, and maybe even become investor.
Speaker 9: But do your homework right, Yeah, And you know, whatever
Speaker 9: your money goal is, it's going to be dependent on
Speaker 9: where you are in the process. And so if you
Speaker 9: go to how to money dot com and you click
Speaker 9: start here, there is there's something that we call the
Speaker 9: money gears, and it'll tell you you can quickly find, well,
Speaker 9: where am I at in my money progress and what's
Speaker 9: the thing I should be doing right now? Because the
Speaker 9: thing that you should be doing and the thing that
Speaker 9: CONO should be doing or different depending on how far
Speaker 9: along you are in your financial progress. So make sure
Speaker 9: you know where you are because financial advice isn't one
Speaker 9: size fits all. It's not rocket science. You can figure
Speaker 9: it out. That's the other thing too. If you want
Speaker 9: help and encouragement, which I think is so crucial to
Speaker 9: be able to stick to our goals and to make progress.
Speaker 9: Find a group of like minded people who will kind
Speaker 9: of ride with you along the way. And that could
Speaker 9: be a friend, accountability buddy, It could be a partner
Speaker 9: or a spouse, but it could also be that. The
Speaker 9: good thing about the Internet is that there are groups
Speaker 9: of people who are doing awesome things to help each
Speaker 9: other and answer each other's questions. And the how to
Speaker 9: Money Facebook group just a brief plug for that, is
Speaker 9: a great place of people who really do want to
Speaker 9: help each other out.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 9: It's a group I started, but I love being in
Speaker 9: there because it's so full of great advice, great questions,
Speaker 9: and people literally trying their best to spur each other
Speaker 9: on towards better financial habits. So find a group like that,
Speaker 9: whatever it is in your life, of people who are
Speaker 9: trying to push you in the right direction. I found
Speaker 9: this year becoming friends with somebody who was really into
Speaker 9: a goal that I was interested in. He just kept
Speaker 9: prompting me and pushing me, and I got so much
Speaker 9: better along the way just because I had a friend
Speaker 9: kind of sharing his successes, sharing some insights, and I
Speaker 9: was like amazed at how much it impacted my ability
Speaker 9: to reach my goals.
Speaker 1: I love that the buddy system, yeah, all right, it
Speaker 1: makes a difference. And Joel Larsgard, he's our buddy. He's
Speaker 1: our money buddy. Sorry, I'm getting punchy. In the end
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, Joel Larscard, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You can listen to more great money advice with Joel
Speaker 1: on how to Money right here on KFI. It's on
Speaker 1: Sundays from noon to two and you can follow Joel
Speaker 1: at how to Money. Joel. Thank you so much, Joel.
Speaker 1: We love your advice as always. Can't wait for more
Speaker 1: of it in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me Amy, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to you next year.
Speaker 3: Sounds good.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 11: Hey.
Speaker 1: One fun fact shared by producer Michelle that confetti that's
Speaker 1: dropped in Times Square has secret messages in it, so
Speaker 1: it's got thousands of people's wishes written on the confetti.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty fifteen, wish fetti became a thing and
Speaker 1: they started doing it, and now they do it every year.
Speaker 1: People write their wishes for the new year and then
Speaker 1: submit them to the wish wall in Times Square. They
Speaker 1: also submit them online and then those wishes are turned
Speaker 1: into the confetti that falls over the crowd at midnight.
Speaker 1: Kind of cool. This is KFI and KOST HD two
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Speaker 1: and parts of Ella and Ventra Counties in the IE.
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Speaker 1: upper sixties for Metro La and in Lando c around
Speaker 1: seventy in the valleys, and IE low sixties in the
Speaker 1: Antelope Valley. Clear skies tonight as we ring in the
Speaker 1: New year, overnight lows in the thirties and forties. Sunny
Speaker 1: and warmer for New Year's Day, with highs in the
Speaker 1: low to mid seventies at the beaches and Metro areas,
Speaker 1: mid seventies to upper seventies in the valleys, and IE
Speaker 1: sixty for the High Desert. It's fifty three in Fountain Valley,
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Speaker 1: Santa Clarita. We lead local live from the KFI twenty
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Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. This has been your final wake Up
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