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Speaker 3: What do you want for Christmas?
Speaker 4: Little boy?
Speaker 1: My mind had gone blank.
Speaker 4: Frantically I tried to remember what it was I wanted.
Speaker 5: I was blowing it, blowing it.
Speaker 2: Come on, cat, it all about a nine football nor
Speaker 2: rider comin.
Speaker 3: I should you want to?
Speaker 4: You should your eye out?
Speaker 5: Kid?
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas?
Speaker 5: How?
Speaker 6: How?
Speaker 1: How it's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4: Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1: It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
Speaker 1: up call for Wednesday, December eighteenth. Good morning, I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: December eighteenth, one week till Christmas. Hey, if you get
Speaker 1: a chance and you step outside this morning while it's
Speaker 1: still dark. I don't know if it's because of the winds,
Speaker 1: because we've had that Santa Ana winds blowing event going through,
Speaker 1: but man, this guy's were clear and I could see stars,
Speaker 1: which you don't always see in the city. It was beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's a Christmas miracle. Okay. I already said seven sleep
Speaker 1: still Christmas and then today is a big day. So
Speaker 1: when you pick up the phone today. You have to
Speaker 1: answer a little bit differently. Okay, you don't have to,
Speaker 1: but it'd be fun if you did, because it is
Speaker 1: answer the phone like Buddy the Elf day, Buddy of
Speaker 1: the Elf? What's your favorite color for this time?
Speaker 4: Hello?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm gonna be doing that all day. Buddy
Speaker 1: the Elf? What's your favorite color? I've only watched Elflake
Speaker 1: three or four times this year. Here's what's ahead on
Speaker 1: way cup Call. Evacuation warnings are in place in Harupa
Speaker 1: Valley for a thirty acre fire that is threatening homes
Speaker 1: and other buildings. The fire started just before eight last night.
Speaker 1: It's now twenty percent surrounded. The fire started during windy,
Speaker 1: dry conditions. We've got that red flag warning and effect
Speaker 1: the cause not yet known. Congressional leaders have released a
Speaker 1: stopgap spending bill to keep the government funded through March fourteenth.
Speaker 1: The bill includes more than one hundred billion dollars in
Speaker 1: emergency aid to help recovery efforts for Hurricane Helene and Milton,
Speaker 1: and also other natural disasters. If lawmakers don't pass it,
Speaker 1: a partial government shutdown starts after midnight Friday. The Federal
Speaker 1: Reserve meets for a second day today and by the
Speaker 1: end of the meeting, it's expected to announce it's going
Speaker 1: to cut interest rates by a quarter percent. It would
Speaker 1: be the third and final rate cut of the year,
Speaker 1: in spite of inflation rising for the past four months
Speaker 1: in a row. Also coming up on Wake Up Call,
Speaker 1: Terrible Toys, ABC's Jim Ryan is going to tell us
Speaker 1: the worst ones for this holiday season. Open Ai is
Speaker 1: opening up chat GPT to compete with Google, and I
Speaker 1: no longer have a bone pick with tech guy Richdmiro.
Speaker 1: We'll be talking at five twenty. Also, we're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from Iheart's aviation analyst Jay Ratliffe about a new tool
Speaker 1: to help find your lost luggage. That's coming up at
Speaker 1: five point fifty, and Amy's on it. You know, I
Speaker 1: like to be on the stream, see a lot of movies,
Speaker 1: and with just a week until Christmas, I've got a
Speaker 1: wild ride and a movie that takes a look at
Speaker 1: the dark side of Christmas. At six oh five, it's
Speaker 1: handle on the news. The DA in New York says
Speaker 1: Luigi Mangioni is a terrorist. Let's get started with some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. Evacuation warnings are in effect in Herupa Valley
Speaker 1: in Riverside County, where a fire has burned thirty acres.
Speaker 1: The fire started just before eight last night in an
Speaker 1: area south of the sixty Freeway and Valley Way. Evacuation
Speaker 1: orders were issued as homes were threatened, but now they've
Speaker 1: been downgraded. The fires twenty percent surrounded. Firefighters in Malibu
Speaker 1: have been fighting flames and monitoring Santa Ana wins.
Speaker 7: The evacuation orders have been lifted. Residents have returned home
Speaker 7: and students are mostly back in school, but with wins
Speaker 7: threatening the firefighting effort, Mayor Doug Stewart says residents should
Speaker 7: still have access to the temporary mobile lines.
Speaker 3: This should help you stay connected, receive updates or power
Speaker 3: is disrupted, but I want to emphasize this is not
Speaker 3: a guarantee.
Speaker 7: The mayor says residents should be aware of the threat
Speaker 7: and keep emergency supplies and a radio nearby in case
Speaker 7: the fire takes a turn. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The fires now seventy eight percent surrounded. The man accused
Speaker 1: of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been charged
Speaker 1: in New York with murder as an act of terrorism.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors released the indictment yesterday as they were to get
Speaker 1: Luigi Mangioni to New York from Pennsylvania, where he was
Speaker 1: arrested at an A. McDonald's. New York City Police Commissioner
Speaker 1: Jessica Tish also fired back at people who are supporting Mangioni.
Speaker 8: There is no heroism in what Mangioni did. This was
Speaker 8: a senseless act of violence. It was a cold and
Speaker 8: calculated crime that stole a life and put New Yorkers
Speaker 8: at risk.
Speaker 1: Camangioni had already been charged with murder earlier this month,
Speaker 1: but the terror allegation is new. Members of the House
Speaker 1: Intelligence Committee been briefed on the recent drone activity over
Speaker 1: New Jersey and New York representatives from the FBI, CIA,
Speaker 1: and National Intelligence Agency. We're at the hearing yesterday. ABC's
Speaker 1: j O'Brien says some lawmakers reported learning nothing new.
Speaker 2: Federal officials have said that these drone sightings can be
Speaker 2: chalked up to either civilian planes or helicopters, or law
Speaker 2: enforcement or military aircraft, or law enforcement drones or civilian drones,
Speaker 2: or in some cases, FBI and dhssay that people are
Speaker 2: mistaking stars and saying that they're drones.
Speaker 1: Say they were reassured that nothing nefarious was going on
Speaker 1: in the skies. It's five oh seven on your Wednesday
Speaker 1: morning wake up call. Let's say good morning to ABC's
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan. Okay, Jim. There are good toys and there
Speaker 1: are bad toys, and now we know what the worst
Speaker 1: toys are for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at least according to this group called WATCH, which
Speaker 4: stands for a World Against Toys Causing Harm A really
Speaker 4: terrible acronym, but sort of a useful list if you're
Speaker 4: a parent or a grandparent, a care give out looking
Speaker 4: for the perfect toy to give to a child. It's
Speaker 4: been compiling this list amy for the last fifty two years. Then,
Speaker 4: many of these toys on this list, whether they look
Speaker 4: completely different from their prototypes or their counterparts from fifty
Speaker 4: years ago, but they have the same kinds of potential risks,
Speaker 4: choking hazards, eye injuries. But there are newer ones as well,
Speaker 4: newer potential threats. At the very top of the list,
Speaker 4: the PENO VK toy cult, forty five pistol Gee.
Speaker 1: What could be bad about that one?
Speaker 4: A couple of things projectiles first of all, but also
Speaker 4: it has the potential for tragedy. Essentially if some kid
Speaker 4: is holding this thing. You've heard about these cases amy
Speaker 4: of some a police officer mistaking a toy gun for
Speaker 4: the real thing and acting appropriately or acting according to training. Horrible,
Speaker 4: you know. And in fact, there was one gun that
Speaker 4: was taken off the list altogether earlier this year. That
Speaker 4: was it was it pulled off the market because it
Speaker 4: did not have the required little red plug or blaze
Speaker 4: orange plug on the end, and it looked very realistic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so that's and that's that is a common
Speaker 1: sense one that a gun that looks like a real
Speaker 1: gun might be a bad idea. But yeah, then there's
Speaker 1: some other ones. Okay, what is going on was the
Speaker 1: Bristle hedgehog, because hedgehogs are adorable.
Speaker 4: They are well, there's a potential for ingestion, injuries, there's
Speaker 4: something can be swallowed with this thing. So parents who
Speaker 4: are looking at this thing but possibly buying it need
Speaker 4: to feel it, look at it, no matter what the
Speaker 4: toy is.
Speaker 1: Oh if it does horrible looking at it right now?
Speaker 4: I know, I know, But can you see the possibility
Speaker 4: that some part of that could get swallowed, and especially
Speaker 4: if it's for infants or toddlers. The other one unless
Speaker 4: there the kinetic sand sense ice cream treats.
Speaker 1: Oh what's that?
Speaker 4: Well, it's the little ice cream set you make ice
Speaker 4: cream cones bit out of sand.
Speaker 1: Oh like that that sand that binds and you can
Speaker 1: shave it. Oh, okay, that stuff is cool. I see
Speaker 1: it like a holiday bazaars and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but for kids three and under it and it
Speaker 4: smells like vanilla and chocolate and strawberry, They're going to
Speaker 4: put that in their mouths no matter what. Right, the
Speaker 4: big warning on the front choking hazard, small parts.
Speaker 1: H Remember play Doo used to taste like salt, and
Speaker 1: I would know because I used to lick it, but
Speaker 1: I never ate it.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: What are a couple of other ones?
Speaker 4: Some of the other and then a lot of these
Speaker 4: again carry some of the same risks. The click and
Speaker 4: play toy remote set potential for choking, the wabble rumblers,
Speaker 4: inflatable furious fists, which is something like those hull cans
Speaker 4: that you used to get for your kids, big foam
Speaker 4: hands that you're supposed to punch each other with. Well,
Speaker 4: there's the potential for blunt force and impact injuries from.
Speaker 1: That, of course, what could go wrong when you punch somebody?
Speaker 4: Yeah, come on now. And then finally the play don't
Speaker 4: fit try flyer the again and a potential for impact
Speaker 4: injuries kid getting hit with this thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, so just because they look cool doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: they are cool. And if you want to look at
Speaker 1: the whole list, it's called watch the World against Toys
Speaker 1: Causing Harm. And if you google.
Speaker 4: Toysafety dot org, toy safety dot safety dot what's.
Speaker 1: It all right? Thank you so much, Jim Ryan, see
Speaker 1: you talk to you soon. Let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. With Christmas just a week away, workers at
Speaker 1: Amazon warehouses in Palmdale industry Sam Bernardino and Victorville have
Speaker 1: threatened to go on strike.
Speaker 6: They say Amazon is refusing to recognize them as members
Speaker 6: of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and won't engage in
Speaker 6: contract negotiation. The vote to authorize a strike came after
Speaker 6: Amazon reportedly ignored a deadline last Sunday to open negotiations.
Speaker 1: Okay, if it's Tammy Truchios's workers are looking for higher wages,
Speaker 1: better benefits and better working conditions. A man in Victorville
Speaker 1: says he's thankful he's alive after he was knocked unconscious
Speaker 1: in a road rage incident. He says he was on
Speaker 1: his way to work yesterday morning when a guy in
Speaker 1: a pickup truck started cutting him off, slamming on his
Speaker 1: brakes and nearly running him off the road. Brian Syke
Speaker 1: tells KTLA he then pulled over. He got out of
Speaker 1: my truck and I asked him, you know what's going on?
Speaker 1: Why you cutting me off? And he gets out of
Speaker 1: his truck with the pipe and his been the head
Speaker 1: and next ding I knew, I woke up and he
Speaker 1: was gone. He says. He then called his wife, who
Speaker 1: took him to the hospital. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's
Speaker 1: Department is looking for the pickup truck driver. Pollisa, Wisconsin
Speaker 1: had been talking to students at Abundant Life Christian School
Speaker 1: in Madison to try to figure out why a fifteen
Speaker 1: year old girl took a gun to school and shot
Speaker 1: several people, killing a teacher and a student. Police chief
Speaker 1: Sean Barnes says the motive for the shooting on Monday
Speaker 1: appears to be a combination of factors, and police are
Speaker 1: trying to find out if bullying was one of them.
Speaker 1: The fifteen year old shot and killed herself on campus.
Speaker 1: The Pentagon says it was not involved in the killing
Speaker 1: of a senior Russian general by Ukraine's intelligence agency. The
Speaker 1: Russian general and his assistant were killed yesterday in a
Speaker 1: bomb attack in Moscow. Pentagon spokesman Major General Patrick Ryder
Speaker 1: says US military leaders don't know anything about it beforehand.
Speaker 4: We were not aware of this operation in dvance. We
Speaker 4: do not support or enable those kinds of activities.
Speaker 1: The US and Ukraine have accused the general of using
Speaker 1: chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops. A Ukrainian official said yesterday
Speaker 1: Ukraine's intelligence services carried out the attack. Russia says an
Speaker 1: Uzbek citizen recruited by the services has been taken into custody.
Speaker 1: A volunteer advocate for homeless people in Orange County says
Speaker 1: her pleas to authorities for a temporary winter homeless Shell
Speaker 1: and Fullerton haven't gone anywhere. Leoh White tells KFI she's
Speaker 1: been in touch with officials in the city police department
Speaker 1: and case management organizations, and while she gets positive responses,
Speaker 1: nothing happens because.
Speaker 5: Of the increment weather. You know, when it gets below
Speaker 5: fifty degrees, that increases the likelihood of people freezing to death.
Speaker 5: The homeless population is at risk.
Speaker 1: White says she has been advocating for the homeless for
Speaker 1: eleven years. Megan the Stallion has asked for a restraining
Speaker 1: order against rapper Tory Lanes, whom she says has been
Speaker 1: harassing her from prison. The petition, filed by the hip
Speaker 1: hop singer asks the judge in LA to stop the
Speaker 1: Canadian rapper from using other people to harass her on
Speaker 1: social media. The filing says bloggers acting on Lane's behalf
Speaker 1: are trying to cast doubt on her allegations. Lane's was
Speaker 1: convicted in twenty twenty two of shooting at the singer's
Speaker 1: feet in twenty twenty Okay, you did not wake up
Speaker 1: Mega Rich this morning because no one won the Mega
Speaker 1: Million's jackpot last night. So the next drawing Friday is
Speaker 1: worth an estimated eight hundred twenty five million dollars. I'll
Speaker 1: be buying my tickets because of a report from Go
Speaker 1: Banking Rates that says that people in California need to
Speaker 1: have two point three million dollars saved if they want
Speaker 1: to retire comfortably for twenty years, I'm screwed. So the
Speaker 1: annual amount for your nest egg would break out to
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two thousand dollars, which they said,
Speaker 1: that's what you need to live comfortably in California. And
Speaker 1: to get to this place, you would need to save
Speaker 1: four three hundred and thirty four dollars every month starting
Speaker 1: starting at the age of twenty.
Speaker 3: So next year.
Speaker 1: So yeah, in twenty three states, you need more than
Speaker 1: a million dollars in savings to retire comfortably. The best
Speaker 1: place to retire money wise is West Virginia, where you
Speaker 1: would just need four hundred thirty four, five hundred and
Speaker 1: one dollars to live comfortably in retirement for twenty years.
Speaker 1: Something to think about and maybe think about when you
Speaker 1: go buy your lottery ticket that is worth eight hundred
Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars, but your odds of winning that
Speaker 1: one are one in three hundred million. A fire at
Speaker 1: an apartment complex in Sherman Oaks has damaged several cars
Speaker 1: in a car port and windows to two apartments. The
Speaker 1: fire on Cast Avenue was reported around ten thirty last night.
Speaker 1: Firefighters were also called out last night about a rubbish
Speaker 1: fire in Sherman Oaks, that one happened on Burbank Boulevard
Speaker 1: near the four or five firefighters in Malibu been watching
Speaker 1: the four thousand acre fire extra close as another Santa
Speaker 1: Ana wind event blows through. All evacuation orders and warnings
Speaker 1: have been lifted, but officials are urging residents to remain vigilant.
Speaker 1: Utility officials say power shutoffs are possible if the winds
Speaker 1: get too strong. Red flag warnings are in effect until
Speaker 1: six o'clock this evening. Tom Cruise has been given the
Speaker 1: highest civilian in honor by the US Navy. The Navy
Speaker 1: presented the top gun Star with the Distinguished Public Service
Speaker 1: Award yesterday in London. The Navy says his portrayal of
Speaker 1: Maverick helped increase military recruiting and that crews helped raise
Speaker 1: awareness and appreciation of fire pilot fighter pilots, their training
Speaker 1: and also their sacrifices. Let's say good morning now to
Speaker 1: the host of rich on Tech here on KFI and KTLA,
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro hey Bridge. Is it true they changed the
Speaker 1: name of your segment on KTLA because of KFI.
Speaker 3: Well, it was because of the larger. Yes, probably, I think,
Speaker 3: so let's just leave it there.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so it's called.
Speaker 9: Great to me.
Speaker 3: Came to what They came to me and said, hey,
Speaker 3: do you want to rename everything here rich on Tech?
Speaker 3: And I said, yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Because of the wild success of your weekend show right
Speaker 1: here on KFI.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I think, so we'll.
Speaker 1: Go with that. Okay. So if you're a little stressed
Speaker 1: over the holidays, maybe you need a little massage and
Speaker 1: you can't get in at Burke Williams, you can.
Speaker 3: Go to a robot Yeah, and I assume this would
Speaker 3: be cheaper than Burke Williams. So I don't think you
Speaker 3: can get in there for less than like a couple
Speaker 3: hundred bucks. But I don't know because I've never been.
Speaker 3: But I will tell you this. I can tell you
Speaker 3: what's that.
Speaker 1: It's lovely. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I've heard from my wife. I just yeah,
Speaker 3: I just think it's expensive.
Speaker 1: But yes, anyway, okay, so you went high tech for your.
Speaker 3: Massage, So I went high tech. There's a new robot massage.
Speaker 3: It's a company called Escape. They're putting these high tech
Speaker 3: robots all over the country. They just opened up one
Speaker 3: here in Studio City. That's the one I went to,
Speaker 3: a place called Pause Wellness, and then they also opened
Speaker 3: one this week at the Rich Carlton in Santa Barbara,
Speaker 3: which I'm trying to make it too because that sounds
Speaker 3: really fancy. Anyway, you lay on this bed, the robot
Speaker 3: takes a scan of your body with AI and goes
Speaker 3: to work. And it reminds me a lot of what
Speaker 3: Peloton did for the cycling world, where it's all very
Speaker 3: computer centric and you know, there's a screen in front
Speaker 3: of you. You can choose your music, you can choose
Speaker 3: what you watch while you're getting massaged. And the thing
Speaker 3: that's a little bit different is that, because the machine
Speaker 3: doesn't use any sort of oil, you have to put
Speaker 3: on these like really tight spandexy clothes so that you
Speaker 3: can get the massage because it, you know, needs to
Speaker 3: like move its arms over your body.
Speaker 1: Hmmm. And does that feel weird? Because that's one of
Speaker 1: the things that I love about massage is that like
Speaker 1: is somebody's warm hands and then you have the lotion
Speaker 1: or the oil or whatever is they're you know, giving
Speaker 1: you a good rubdown.
Speaker 3: Yep, well, this does this does have warm arms. The
Speaker 3: robot hands are somehow warmed up, so I would say this, look,
Speaker 3: I think this is this is not going to replace humans.
Speaker 3: I think it's another option, and it's kind of a
Speaker 3: cool option, especially as we get into this world of
Speaker 3: everything is on demand, everything is self service. It kind
Speaker 3: of reminds me of like an uber of massage. You
Speaker 3: literally just book this thing for half an hour or
Speaker 3: an hour. You go there, you don't have to really
Speaker 3: talk to anyone, You lay down, your relax and you're
Speaker 3: on your way.
Speaker 1: And it looks like something out of a sci fi movie,
Speaker 1: you know, like Total Recall or something something from the future.
Speaker 3: Oh totally. And as this thing started, I sat there
Speaker 3: and I was like, okay, this could be it, Like
Speaker 3: this thing could malfunction and literally crush my lungs with
Speaker 3: its push and it's like you're you're laying there and
Speaker 3: that crosses your mind. And there is a big emergency
Speaker 3: stop button as well. So clearly, clearly it's not out
Speaker 3: of the realm of possibilities.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what does it cost?
Speaker 3: This was sixty dollars for half an hour, which I
Speaker 3: don't think is much cheaper than a typical massage.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not. Okay, another option, another option, but
Speaker 1: it might be fun to try. Okay, open ai is
Speaker 1: trying to make a run for Google.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, this is wild because you know, Google
Speaker 3: would not we would not be on this entire AI
Speaker 3: spiral or whatever you want to call it, upward trajectory
Speaker 3: if it was not for chatch ebt, because that launched
Speaker 3: two years ago now and everything has changed. Everything has
Speaker 3: changed since then, and of course Google has been really
Speaker 3: hard hit because a lot of people are using chat
Speaker 3: GBT and until now there was no real time search results.
Speaker 3: But now that this week, that has all changed. Now
Speaker 3: you can search the web through chat GBT and it's
Speaker 3: open to anyone. So this has been available for a
Speaker 3: few weeks, but it was only available to people that
Speaker 3: pay twenty dollars a month, and now they said, you
Speaker 3: know what, let's get rid of that as well. So
Speaker 3: now you can just literally search chat gibt. And it's
Speaker 3: really handy, by the way, amy for up to date
Speaker 3: information on a lot of topics or restaurants, or if
Speaker 3: you're visiting a city, you can say, hey, give me
Speaker 3: the notable restaurants that open this year. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: really really good.
Speaker 1: I love that idea. But now I have one question
Speaker 1: for you about the AI generated stuff, because like when
Speaker 1: I do a Google search, sometimes it'll say operated by
Speaker 1: AI or whatever, yeah, up at the top. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I've noticed that a few times it's been wrong. Yep, yeah,
Speaker 1: Like should you can you get a second opinion? You
Speaker 1: know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: How do you do that? You can't just assume that
Speaker 1: it's right, because it's no, you cannot.
Speaker 3: And in fact, if you know the topic and you
Speaker 3: know what's happening, you can tell that it's wrong. And
Speaker 3: so you have to be really careful with this stuff
Speaker 3: and the thing they're all tackling it in a different way.
Speaker 3: There's one called Perplexity that does it the way that
Speaker 3: chat GBT does it is they put sources almost next
Speaker 3: to each sentence that they're writing when you do a
Speaker 3: web search, so you can click that source and verify.
Speaker 3: But I will tell you I've been using this and
Speaker 3: it is definitely wrong in a lot of little ways.
Speaker 3: So I think it gets the main stuff right, but
Speaker 3: a lot of little details they can get wrong, so
Speaker 3: you have to be very careful. Google has a feature
Speaker 3: on their Gemini, which is their pure AI where it
Speaker 3: says fact check this, and you can tap it and
Speaker 3: it will literally run the entire AI generation through Google
Speaker 3: Search and highlight what's right and what's wrong.
Speaker 1: That's funny that it's policing itself.
Speaker 3: Right, I know, Well it doesn't. It kind of only
Speaker 3: does if you ask it to otherwise, you know, the
Speaker 3: let's just put it this way. There's probably a lot
Speaker 3: of reports and different papers floating around out there with
Speaker 3: a lot of misinformation at this point from people who
Speaker 3: didn't fact check.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta be careful. And the kind of catch
Speaker 1: twenty two in that is, like you said, if you
Speaker 1: know the subject, then you can see what's wrong. But
Speaker 1: a lot of times you're asking the question because you
Speaker 1: don't know anything about.
Speaker 3: It, right, And so if you just say, hey, how
Speaker 3: many seats are in the Staples Center Crypto dot com like,
Speaker 3: and it comes up with a number, okay, Well, unless
Speaker 3: you double checked out like ten different sources, you're just
Speaker 3: going to say, okay, cool, I guess that's the number.
Speaker 1: Okay. Before we go, Rich, I have to say that
Speaker 1: I no longer have a bone to pick with you.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: Last week we talked because you had recommended some really cool,
Speaker 1: fun stuff on your Holiday gift Giving Guide, which you
Speaker 1: can found find on Rich's website. It's Rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot TV. And one of the things we talked about
Speaker 1: sounded so cool, and it was wall crawling gecko that
Speaker 1: has like little suction cups and it'll crawl up your walls.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 1: You can't get them anywhere.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they're tough.
Speaker 1: I'm bound and determined. So over the weekend I did searches.
Speaker 1: And actually I've been searching like every day for like
Speaker 1: a week. It's not on Amazon, can't get it, and
Speaker 1: he'll say view buying options, and then it says, sorry,
Speaker 1: nothing here, and it wasn't at Walmart. And I finally
Speaker 1: looked and I found one at Target.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I bought it. And when I bought it, they
Speaker 1: had seven, it said, and then like all the stores
Speaker 1: they listed, all the stores sold out, sold out, sold out,
Speaker 1: sold out, but this one in Eagle Rock had seven
Speaker 1: of them, so I would go there. Well, I bought
Speaker 1: it online, which was a whole other issue because I
Speaker 1: had to create a Target account, which took an hour.
Speaker 1: But and then I went there and picked it up
Speaker 1: and it was there, and then I said, can I
Speaker 1: get another one and he said, nope, sold out, sold outs,
Speaker 1: sold out.
Speaker 5: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if they're going to get any
Speaker 1: restocking before, but I think this is this is one
Speaker 1: of the little hot must have gifts this season apparently.
Speaker 3: And I will tell you I mine actually got delivered
Speaker 3: at my house and I didn't even notice because we're
Speaker 3: getting so many packages right now, and I'm kind of like,
Speaker 3: not really, Actually, I have a little hack because we're
Speaker 3: getting so many gift packages. I actually changed my name
Speaker 3: on my Amazon deliveries and I said to my wife,
Speaker 3: if you see a different name on there, don't open it,
Speaker 3: because I was going to put gift. But then I
Speaker 3: was like, wait a second. Then anyone who sees this
Speaker 3: package on my doorstep is going to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: that's a gift. Let me open it because it's probably
Speaker 3: something great.
Speaker 1: Good safety tip as a porch pirates are out probably
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Speaker 1: He's the host of Rich on Tech right here on
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Speaker 3: Probably not. I'll be with my kids. So Merry Christmas,
Speaker 3: have a great, happy holiday season.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, and we'll talk to you next year.
Speaker 3: Sounds good.
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Speaker 1: this evening. A bill introduced in the California legislature would
Speaker 1: require an armed guard at every public school in the state.
Speaker 1: Corona Republican Assemblyman Bill Esseilee says this is the best
Speaker 1: way to protect children from an active shooter. A similar
Speaker 1: bill introduced by Asseilee during a previous session with killed
Speaker 1: by the Democrats. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who's traveling
Speaker 1: to Cairo for ceasefire talks. The visit comes on word
Speaker 1: that a ceasefire deal could be signed between Israel and
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Speaker 1: That would be good news. We're just minutes away from
Speaker 1: handle on the news this morning. The now has done
Speaker 1: something that hasn't happened since Jimmy Carter was president. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to a Iheart's aviation analyst, Jay Ratliff.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Jay, to.
Speaker 9: Hey pleasing, good morning.
Speaker 1: So we wanted to talk to you because we heard
Speaker 1: that United is now using Apple AirTag technology to find
Speaker 1: lost luggage. So how does that work?
Speaker 9: Well, it combines their system with the Apple AirTags, which
Speaker 9: allows United to know what passengers know and that is
Speaker 9: the location of the bags. Now, this is something that
Speaker 9: the airlines have really kind of been slow in coming
Speaker 9: around to because passengers for quite a while, they've been
Speaker 9: dropping those air tags into their check bags so that
Speaker 9: they can keep an eye out where they go. And
Speaker 9: when bags do get delayed, they don't arrive at the
Speaker 9: airport when the passenger does, and the agents saying, well,
Speaker 9: you know, we'll begin a search to see where the
Speaker 9: bag is. A lot of these passengers are saying, I
Speaker 9: can tell you where the bag is. It's in Denver,
Speaker 9: or it's in you know, Boise, Idaho or something, because
Speaker 9: they've got the ability to track it. And I can
Speaker 9: tell you. Some airline agents have been a little bit
Speaker 9: i shall I say, not very cooperative when the passenger
Speaker 9: knows more than they do. So finally there's been some
Speaker 9: you know, airlines that come around saying, okay, we're going
Speaker 9: to embrace this technology where we can all work together
Speaker 9: because now we can track our bags better than ever before,
Speaker 9: and especially during the holidays. It's a great idea. They're
Speaker 9: not that expensive and if you can use them for
Speaker 9: both your carrying and check luggage, I think it's a
Speaker 9: great idea.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, Jay, how does it work? Take the air
Speaker 1: tag out of the out of the equation when you
Speaker 1: have your luggage. And I've had this happen. You probably
Speaker 1: have had it happen too, that you get to your
Speaker 1: destination and your luggage isn't there, and then they go,
Speaker 1: like you just said, we'll put a trace on it.
Speaker 1: But they've got those the tags with the bar codes
Speaker 1: on everyone, so when they arrive at a destination, they
Speaker 1: get scanned in.
Speaker 5: They're supposed to be yes.
Speaker 1: So that's how they know where they are.
Speaker 9: Kind of exactly yea, as long as everything goes the
Speaker 9: way it needs to it. But and the problem is
Speaker 9: a lot of times we'll get to an airport, the
Speaker 9: bag's not there, and they say, oh, it didn't make
Speaker 9: the flight. We'll put it on the next flight. It'll
Speaker 9: be here at such and such a time, and they
Speaker 9: will actually discourage you from filing a report. Do not
Speaker 9: walk away without filing a report for your delayed luggage
Speaker 9: because many times if the bag never shows up or
Speaker 9: there's some claim that later has to be issued, there's
Speaker 9: normally a timeframe that you have to initiate the report
Speaker 9: within so many hours of your arrival time at your destination.
Speaker 9: So if you walk away without filing a delayed luggage
Speaker 9: report or it could in some instances prevent you from
Speaker 9: getting what you should be getting from the airlines. So
Speaker 9: don't let some agent who's in a hurry to try
Speaker 9: to discourage you from filing that report say that you
Speaker 9: need to have something before you leave because you don't
Speaker 9: want to be giving things away. And right now, airlines,
Speaker 9: even though it is the holiday season, they're not in
Speaker 9: the giving mood. So they're not going to give us
Speaker 9: anything more than they should. And far too often they
Speaker 9: try to give us far less than we're entitled to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've done that, I won't do it again.
Speaker 1: But they've said, hey, we'll call you when we find
Speaker 1: it or you know, when it's headed your direction. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that you should make sure that you
Speaker 1: do file that report every time because they have to. Like,
Speaker 1: if they never find it, they give you a certain
Speaker 1: amount of money.
Speaker 9: They do, and it depends on, you know, what the
Speaker 9: value of the bag, if it's international, if it's domestic.
Speaker 9: And one of the things that I've always told people
Speaker 9: is right before you close your bag, put a copy
Speaker 9: of your tenor in it. That way, if all the
Speaker 9: tags come off and they're forced to look in it
Speaker 9: for identify, they can not only see who the bag
Speaker 9: belongs to they can see where you're at so they
Speaker 9: can try to get the bag to you faster. And
Speaker 9: it's also always this time you are the reminders of
Speaker 9: please don't put the car keys, electronics, anything of value,
Speaker 9: anything with a lithium battery, anything like that into check luggage,
Speaker 9: because far too often people will put medicine in cash
Speaker 9: and different things in there, or car keys. That's the
Speaker 9: big one, and the bag doesn't arrive and wops can't
Speaker 9: get home because you know, Dad puts the car keys
Speaker 9: in the luggage. It's always Dad's fall. As a dad loucky,
Speaker 9: we're the ones that take it. But you know, the
Speaker 9: holidays are a very stressful time when we're traveling and
Speaker 9: for a lot of people, you just when you're in
Speaker 9: a hurry, you make mistakes or you overlook things. And
Speaker 9: that's one of the reasons sometimes slowing down to take
Speaker 9: some of those precautions, like if you've not traveled in
Speaker 9: a while, go to TSA dot gov. Check out the website.
Speaker 9: If you're headed to the airport, even though you've got
Speaker 9: a great airport there, the TSA does a great job.
Speaker 9: Still get there two hours before departure, walking in the
Speaker 9: front door because sometimes the parking is taken and you've
Speaker 9: got to do the Nascar thing for thirty minutes to
Speaker 9: find a spot. And then by the time you get
Speaker 9: to inside the airport, you're now running to get to
Speaker 9: the gate on time. And you know this is not
Speaker 9: the time of year you want to play. Let's see
Speaker 9: how close we can cut it getting to the gate.
Speaker 1: No, because you talk about holiday stress. It's running towards
Speaker 1: your gate hoping they don't close the door before you
Speaker 1: get there. Done.
Speaker 9: That doesn't have been there for that. Yeah, and just
Speaker 9: because the flight says seven am, doesn't mean you have
Speaker 9: until seven am to get there. They can clear standbys
Speaker 9: at six forty five. They can let that plane go early.
Speaker 9: So part of our responsibilities a passengers that we present
Speaker 9: ourselves at the gate of departure normally about twenty minutes
Speaker 9: or so before schedule departure time. So again, get through
Speaker 9: the security checkpoint, get to the gate as quickly as
Speaker 9: you can. That way, there's no problem when you get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. And then for the luggage, I think that
Speaker 1: was a great idea to put the copy of the
Speaker 1: itinerary in the bag, because maybe your ID gets ripped
Speaker 1: off the bag or something happens too. What are some
Speaker 1: other things that you can do to try to ensure
Speaker 1: that your luggage doesn't get lost.
Speaker 9: Well, checking in on time has got to be the
Speaker 9: biggest thing. And making sure that your identification is on
Speaker 9: the bag on the outside is also a big key,
Speaker 9: and those are really the big ones. And also make
Speaker 9: sure that they're checking it to the right destination. Far
Speaker 9: too often we just know if they slap the wrong
Speaker 9: tag on there, most of us aren't going to notice it.
Speaker 9: Just take a moment from the conversation or whatever you're
Speaker 9: doing and just glance down to make sure that the
Speaker 9: right tag is going on there. Many times I've seen
Speaker 9: where they'll print off a bunch of different tags for
Speaker 9: a bunch of different luggage, and just in the course
Speaker 9: of trying to get everybody accommodated quickly, it's not intentional,
Speaker 9: they will inavertently put the wrong tag on the bag. Now,
Speaker 9: you may have the right baggage claim number for you,
Speaker 9: but that tag may have gone to another bag. And
Speaker 9: a lot of times, if you're standing right there, you
Speaker 9: know what the city code is, you can read what's there,
Speaker 9: your name's even on the tag. Just double check and
Speaker 9: make sure it's tagged as it should, because you don't
Speaker 9: want to spend half your vacation waiting for your luggage
Speaker 9: you' arrive.
Speaker 1: No, you don't, especially if you have Christmas presents in
Speaker 1: your luggage.
Speaker 9: Well yeah, and of course if you wrap them going
Speaker 9: through TSA, they you know, that's part of the TSA fund.
Speaker 9: They like to unwrap some of those things, So you
Speaker 9: might want to wait until on the other side of
Speaker 9: TSA to wrap those things unless you like watching people
Speaker 9: open presence.
Speaker 1: Well, even with your check luggage, you're not supposed to wrap.
Speaker 9: It, right, you're not proposed to. If there's anything in
Speaker 9: there that they need to look at, they're going to
Speaker 9: look at. And far too often, you know, people get
Speaker 9: upset if things are moved around or whatever might happen
Speaker 9: to be. But look, they're doing their job. They're making
Speaker 9: sure that things aren't in bags that are not supposed
Speaker 9: to be there. And there was a time prior to
Speaker 9: nine to eleven none of those check bags were screened domestically.
Speaker 9: So I'm glad that we're doing it now for a
Speaker 9: lot of different reasons. And you know, for the holidays,
Speaker 9: it's going to be a crazy time with a lot
Speaker 9: of people traveling, and the last bit of advice I
Speaker 9: would give people is to make sure that you have
Speaker 9: a seat assignment before you get to the airport. Now,
Speaker 9: a lot of times you'll make your reservation in June
Speaker 9: for Christmas. Okay, you've got your seat assignment. But the
Speaker 9: problem is sometimes we do an aircraft swap. Maybe that
Speaker 9: was supposed to be a seven thirty seven that was
Speaker 9: going to operate that segment, but now we've got to
Speaker 9: put in a seven fifty seven or an airbus, and
Speaker 9: the seating configurations don't mash. Now, technically the computer's supposed
Speaker 9: to transfer those seat assignments, sometimes it does not. So
Speaker 9: when I'm looking at my reservation, I want to make
Speaker 9: sure that when I'm confirming it online, my seat assignments
Speaker 9: are still there, because if they're not, I need to
Speaker 9: make them quickly. You don't want to show up at
Speaker 9: the airport on the holidays without a seat assignment because
Speaker 9: if the flight's over sold, technically you're on standby until
Speaker 9: they clear a flight. So it's just one of those
Speaker 9: things you just want to double check before you go.
Speaker 9: Probably not going to be a problem, but it's just
Speaker 9: one of those little things you can make sure that
Speaker 9: box is checked to alleviate any possible issues once you
Speaker 9: get to the airport. Because look, this is forty years
Speaker 9: of working in the industry and being around that I
Speaker 9: can tell you the horror stories and then some of
Speaker 9: those we can avoid absolutely.
Speaker 1: And then one last question, because you mentioned seat assignment,
Speaker 1: some of the low cost airlines don't give you a
Speaker 1: seat unless you pay for it, Yes, and so like
Speaker 1: Avello has great low fares, but you have to pay
Speaker 1: for absolutely everything. So I am actually flying a Vello
Speaker 1: in the near future and don't have a seat assign
Speaker 1: So should I go back and pay for it?
Speaker 9: Well, it's up to you. I mean me, Look, I
Speaker 9: like extra legroom, so yes, I'm going to pay for
Speaker 9: the bulkhead seat or a premium seat of some other kind.
Speaker 9: It depends on whatever your preference is. If you're like,
Speaker 9: look the money i'm gonna save, I'll spend when I
Speaker 9: get there. That's my drink of when I get there,
Speaker 9: or a present for when I get there, are a
Speaker 9: meal when I get there, And you can do that,
Speaker 9: And I think you're really going to enjoy that experience,
Speaker 9: by the way, and I'll be anxious to hear your
Speaker 9: post a flight to you know, recap on that with
Speaker 9: your review. But the low cost carrier say, look, we
Speaker 9: don't want you paying any more than what you want to.
Speaker 9: If you want basic transportation, we're going to give you
Speaker 9: a great cost to get from point A to point
Speaker 9: B safely. But we're seeing a lot of these low
Speaker 9: cost carriers give us the premium seats like Southwest and
Speaker 9: Frontier going with first class and making it available so
Speaker 9: that if people do want to spend that a little
Speaker 9: bit of extra money, more and more people are willing
Speaker 9: to do.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 9: It's an additional revenue stream for these airlines that are
Speaker 9: going to make them help them to make a lot
Speaker 9: more money, giving us as consumers what we really want.
Speaker 1: All right, iHeart aviation specialist Jay Ratliffe. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for the great information and the tips. Now, if you
Speaker 1: have any airline related issues, Jay can help you. He
Speaker 1: helps people all over the country as they try to
Speaker 1: resolve issues when the airlines treat us poorly. You can
Speaker 1: find out more at j Ratliffe dot com. Jay r
Speaker 1: at l I f F dot com.
Speaker 9: Thanks so much, Jay, always my pleasure. Thank you.
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