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Speaker 4: on wake Up Call. The new Pope has a hometown
Speaker 4: connection with LA Archbishop Jose Gomez. He is celebrating the
Speaker 4: historic rise of Pope Leo the fourteenth, and we're going
Speaker 4: to tell you why. He says, this American pontiff brings
Speaker 4: hope to immigrant communities, and tough choices are ahead at
Speaker 4: LA City Hall. Job cuts are coming and not everyone
Speaker 4: will be spared what some on the council are saying
Speaker 4: about the city's billion dollar budget shortfall. Newport Beach Police
Speaker 4: have released dash cam video of a deadly shooting evolving.
Speaker 4: Forty five year old Jeffrey Sterling, the brother of former
Speaker 4: Real Housewives star Polise Sterling, grabbed an officer's taser during
Speaker 4: a struggle before he was shot and then later died
Speaker 4: at the hospital. Ahead on wake up Call at five
Speaker 4: oh five, we're going to get the latest news on
Speaker 4: Pope Leo's first day as pontiff. We'll have more details
Speaker 4: on the two hundred and sixty seventh Pope and tell
Speaker 4: you what significance this pope has for Americans. At five
Speaker 4: point twenty, a new housing development promises to be wildfire proof.
Speaker 4: We're going to get a closer look at how they
Speaker 4: created this neighborhood and how it could change the landscape
Speaker 4: of housing in Califul, Wornia. Then at five point thirty five,
Speaker 4: Dean Sharp, the House Whisper, joins us we are going
Speaker 4: to be talking about one of the trickiest parts of
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Speaker 4: right white Dean is going to explain the science and
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Speaker 4: politics and a familiar face from primetime TV. President Trump
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Speaker 4: the interim US attorney for DC, replacing a Trump loyalist
Speaker 4: linked to January six. We're going to break it all
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Speaker 4: with ABC as Shannon Kingston. Then at six 'zh five,
Speaker 4: it's handle on the news. The US has agreed to
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Speaker 4: what it means for consumers. But let's get started with
Speaker 4: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 4: four hour newsroom. The election of Pope Leo has been
Speaker 4: well received at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: Archbishop Jose Gomez says it's a great day for America
Speaker 5: and the world. He says he looks forward to Pope
Speaker 5: Leo leading the Catholic Church. Gomez talked yesterday at the
Speaker 5: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown LA
Speaker 5: shortly after the announcement.
Speaker 6: I'm delighted to welcome Leo, the fourteenth an honor to placementphilia, love,
Speaker 6: and obedience to our new Holy Father.
Speaker 5: The archbishop says, the new Pope's experience as an American
Speaker 5: who served in Latin America gives him keen insight into
Speaker 5: issues facing immigrants. A Mass of Thanksgiving has been scheduled
Speaker 5: for noon at the cathedral downtown. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 4: A judge, we'll hear a motion today to remove the
Speaker 4: La County DA's office from the Menendez brother's case. The
Speaker 4: defense wants new prosecutors, but DA Nathan Hoffman and Attorney
Speaker 4: General Rob Bonta pose the move. Eric and Lyle Menendez
Speaker 4: are serving life or killing their parents in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 4: Yesterday we spoke with ABC's Brian Clark as the world
Speaker 4: watched and waited for that white smoke from the Vatican,
Speaker 4: and then just a few hours later, history was made
Speaker 4: as American Cardinal Robert Prevost has elected as the two
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty seventh Pope of the Catholic Church. Brian
Speaker 4: joins us again now with a recap of this extraordinary
Speaker 4: moment in church history and a look at what's next.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian, good morning, thanks for having me again.
Speaker 4: All right, So walk us through those moments after the
Speaker 4: pope was elected and we got this new pope leadership.
Speaker 2: Well, we were all watching the chimney.
Speaker 5: We saw the seagulls flopping around, and then all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, we saw the white smoke.
Speaker 2: So there's the excitement.
Speaker 5: Okay, there's a pope, but there's a more than an
Speaker 5: hour wait from the time we see the white smoke,
Speaker 5: knowing that the cardinals have made their selection to seeing
Speaker 5: the pope for the first time. So the drama, the pageantry,
Speaker 5: the suspense, it all builds. And then on the low
Speaker 5: show overlooking Saint Peter Square, the hobbais popham announcement and
Speaker 5: everybody is straining to try to understand the Latin that's
Speaker 5: being read, and you have to go back and watch
Speaker 5: it a few times. But nobody realized at first, at
Speaker 5: least immediately, that he was saying, you know, Cardinal Prevost,
Speaker 5: who was going to take the name Pope Leo. And
Speaker 5: then we became aware that it was Robert Prevost of
Speaker 5: the United States was going to be Pope Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 5: And then we saw him for the first time, and
Speaker 5: I think we could just see on his face the
Speaker 5: emotion and the magnitude of that moment, it was really extraordinary.
Speaker 4: All right. So the conclave wrapped up kind of quickly.
Speaker 4: I think some people thought it might go a little
Speaker 4: bit longer. So what do we know about how the
Speaker 4: cardinals came to this decision so fast.
Speaker 5: Well, it maybe seemed a little bit quicker than we
Speaker 5: might have thought, but it was in line with what
Speaker 5: we've seen over the last few conclaves. It only lasted
Speaker 5: two days, so that's a little bit shorter. But in
Speaker 5: terms of the number of votes they took, remember, three
Speaker 5: votes came and went with no pope before they convened
Speaker 5: for that afternoon session yesterday, So that was about in
Speaker 5: line with what's been averaged for really about one hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty years or so for the most part. So
Speaker 5: it seems like there was a pretty quick decision from
Speaker 5: these cardinals. One of our correspondents was in Saint Peters
Speaker 5: Square actually able to speak with Cardinal Bow and archbishop
Speaker 5: from Asia. The cardinals obviously can't talk about their actual
Speaker 5: decisions or their actual votes, but he said that he
Speaker 5: kept saying very happy, and he said trump and put
Speaker 5: his hands together to signal a bridge and saying dialogue
Speaker 5: just about what perhaps a new pope can do in
Speaker 5: terms of relations with the United States government and relations
Speaker 5: with the global sphere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that will definitely be something to watch.
Speaker 4: And one thing we thought was really interesting too is
Speaker 4: in his first message, Pope Leo emphasized peace and unity
Speaker 4: and continuity with Pope Francis. Now, how is that being
Speaker 4: received both inside the Vatican and around the world.
Speaker 2: That's going to be the big question.
Speaker 5: Is this a continuation of what Pope Francis was doing,
Speaker 5: Is this a sharp departure from what Pope Francis was doing,
Speaker 5: or is it somewhere in the middle, which is probably
Speaker 5: the most likely answer. We were looking for clues from
Speaker 5: everything to what he was wearing this morning. Is he
Speaker 5: celebrated Mass for the first time. He was wearing the
Speaker 5: plain black shoes, the same kind that Pope Francis wore,
Speaker 5: not those flashy red slippers made by Gucci that we
Speaker 5: saw Pope Benedict wear, the more traditional footwear for a pope.
Speaker 5: So from those little clues he could try to get
Speaker 5: some crumbs, but it's really going to be in terms
Speaker 5: of deeds and what he does, what kind of priorities
Speaker 5: he sets. This is somebody who has done a you know,
Speaker 5: he's experienced living in Peru.
Speaker 2: He's actually a dual citizen.
Speaker 5: So that missionary work and that service work that Pope
Speaker 5: France has made such a high priority for the church,
Speaker 5: you would think that continues under Pope Leo.
Speaker 4: And quickly, before we let you go, what has the
Speaker 4: response been like in the US Catholic community to the
Speaker 4: first American Pope.
Speaker 5: Incredible excitement, especially you look in the Chicago area where
Speaker 5: the pope grew up. We're hearing from his brothers and
Speaker 5: they were saying that he was always interested. You know,
Speaker 5: when they were little, they would play the average child
Speaker 5: will play cops and robbers, but he would always be
Speaker 5: giving out Neco wafers'.
Speaker 2: Communion as the Eucharist.
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of excitement that it's an American
Speaker 5: and now I think everybody just wants to wait and see.
Speaker 5: People were hearing people who maybe went to school with him,
Speaker 5: studied with him. They're excited for him, and they're saying
Speaker 5: that the world will be excited as.
Speaker 2: They get to know this new pope more and more.
Speaker 4: I think even non Catholics at this point are just
Speaker 4: feeling a little bit of American pride in this situation, like,
Speaker 4: yay an American.
Speaker 5: That's absolutely right. You heard it from President Trump yesterday.
Speaker 5: I think he spoke for everybody. He said, we were
Speaker 5: a little surprised, but what an honor and how exciting
Speaker 5: this is for the United States.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is. Well, Brian, thank you so much
Speaker 4: for your time.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 4: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 4: chair of the La City Council Budget Committee has said
Speaker 4: that there is no way to save all the city
Speaker 4: jobs slated for layoffs. Councilwoman Katie or Aslovsky says, the
Speaker 4: council has to adopt a budget and there will be cuts.
Speaker 7: We will put together a balanced budget, one that restores
Speaker 7: key services to the extent possible and minimizes our structural
Speaker 7: deficit heading into next year, which will almost certainly be
Speaker 7: a tough one as well.
Speaker 4: The committee has worked to protect some of the sixteen
Speaker 4: hundred positions proposed for layoffs by Mayor bas It'll finish
Speaker 4: its work next week and then the full council will
Speaker 4: weigh in on the one billion dollar budget shortfall. Officials
Speaker 4: with the Eli County Public Health departments say new soil
Speaker 4: testing has found high levels of lead and other toxic
Speaker 4: materials at homes burned down in the wildfires and cleared
Speaker 4: by federal cleanup crews. The company doing the test say
Speaker 4: in areas of the Eaton Fire burn scar, about twenty
Speaker 4: seven percent of soil samples still have lead levels above
Speaker 4: California's safety standards. In the Palisades fire zone, it's not
Speaker 4: as bad, with three percent of samples from scraped areas
Speaker 4: and twelve percent of areas not yet scraped having elevated levels.
Speaker 4: A proposal by the Trump administration to cut federal rental
Speaker 4: assistance programs could affect thousands of people in californiakfi's Deanna
Speaker 4: Kodiak says the proposal would push for a forty three
Speaker 4: percent reduction for programs like public housing and Section eight.
Speaker 8: The plan aims to give states more control and proposes
Speaker 8: limiting rental assistance to two years for able bodied adults,
Speaker 8: focusing support on the elderly and disabled. Advocates argue this
Speaker 8: could worsen the housing crisis and increase homelessness, especially for
Speaker 8: minimum wage workers.
Speaker 4: Some studies have suggested minimum wage workers can't afford a
Speaker 4: one bedroom apartment in just six percent of counties in
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Speaker 4: Jimmy Carwile faces felony charges, but proceedings are pause pending
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Speaker 4: Sheriff's department. A Sacramento man has been sent to twelve
Speaker 4: years in federal prison for leading a catalytic converter theft
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Speaker 4: A federal lawsuit alleges UCLA Medical School is using race
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Speaker 4: Savadra and we'll explain all about it coming up right now,
Speaker 4: we're going to learn more about Dixon Trail in Escondido.
Speaker 4: It is the first neighborhood in the US purpose built
Speaker 4: to resist wildfire, from ember resistant vents to noncombustible fences.
Speaker 4: KB Homes says they've constructed houses designed to survive the
Speaker 4: next big blaze. But with millions of Californians living in
Speaker 4: high risk zones, can this model be scaled up up?
Speaker 4: And who will pay for it? Joining me now is
Speaker 4: Steve Ruffner, SVP of KB Homes. Hi, Steve, let's just
Speaker 4: jump right in. Given that the homes in the Dixon
Speaker 4: Trail started over at about a million dollars, what strategies
Speaker 4: is KB Homes considering to make wildfire resistant housing more
Speaker 4: accessible and affordable for more Californians, especially those in high
Speaker 4: risk fire zones.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so that's the reason we did this project was
Speaker 9: a kind of a research and development project to understand
Speaker 9: the costs associated with doing the IBHS program in a
Speaker 9: high fire zone. These homes are actually even though they're
Speaker 9: in the like a million to a million one fifty,
Speaker 9: they're actually at the medium price for a home in
Speaker 9: San Diego County.
Speaker 4: And then does KB Homes have any plan to replicate
Speaker 4: the wildfire resilient design there in Dixon Trail into other
Speaker 4: developments in California.
Speaker 9: That's what we're using this project to figure out how
Speaker 9: we can do it. Obviously, we would only do this
Speaker 9: in a high fire zone, and when you look at
Speaker 9: the high fire zones in the state of California, those
Speaker 9: have grown with a new map.
Speaker 4: Are there any insurance benefits to living in a community
Speaker 4: like Dixon Trail.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So we're sharing this information with all the insurance
Speaker 9: companies IBHS and ourselves have been meeting with them to
Speaker 9: go over what the benefits of this program are.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure it.
Speaker 9: Will benefit the customers in the long term. Currently, all
Speaker 9: of our customers that have closed are in s grow
Speaker 9: do you have insurance? And that's a big plus a
Speaker 9: high fire zone, so they are able to get insurance
Speaker 9: at a reasonable price.
Speaker 4: Only about half of the sixty four homes in this
Speaker 4: Escondido neighborhood have been built, but they've already had their
Speaker 4: grand opening. This is also the first time that the
Speaker 4: Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety has given their
Speaker 4: stamp of approval to an entire neighborhood. Joining me now
Speaker 4: to talk about why they give their seal of approval
Speaker 4: on an entire neighborhood is Ian Giamonco from IBHS.
Speaker 3: Yes, so the Dixon's Trail development from KB home is
Speaker 3: the first that meets our newest construction standard, which is
Speaker 3: our Wildfire Prepared Neighborhood standard. They have what's called the
Speaker 3: provisional designation in that space as the neighborhood is still
Speaker 3: being constructed, but the homes in that neighborhood have put
Speaker 3: together the best system that science can offer to make
Speaker 3: those homes more resistant to an approaching wildfire. So we
Speaker 3: can start really at the roof system. They all have
Speaker 3: what's called the Class A roof, which is the most
Speaker 3: fire resistant material. They have non combustible wall covers, they
Speaker 3: have double pain tempered glass, and then all the way
Speaker 3: down to perhaps the kind of the piece that ties
Speaker 3: a lot of this system of fire resistance together. In
Speaker 3: the first five feet from their wall outward, they have
Speaker 3: a non combustible area, which is that last chain of
Speaker 3: where fire can get to our homes. So that not
Speaker 3: only includes non combustible landscaping, but it also includes things
Speaker 3: like metal fences, so there's no bustable material that can
Speaker 3: ignite that directly touches the home in that five foot zone.
Speaker 4: Would something like this make it easier for homeowners to
Speaker 4: get fire insurance.
Speaker 3: So this is absolutely you know, with the insurance pressures
Speaker 3: we see in the California market, this is the path
Speaker 3: toward making sure you have the best chance for not
Speaker 3: only insurance accessibility, that you can get coverage. All the
Speaker 3: features of these homes also fall under the state of
Speaker 3: California is a Safer for Wildfire discount program, so there's
Speaker 3: avid incentives out there for homeowners.
Speaker 4: Do these homes come with sort of a seal of approval,
Speaker 4: some kind of certification showing that their homes are made
Speaker 4: safer against wildfires.
Speaker 3: So IBHS issues each homeowner, as their homes are constructed
Speaker 3: and inspected, will get a Wildfire Prepared Home designation. All
Speaker 3: these homes have our Plus level, which is the highest
Speaker 3: level of protection, so each homeowner will get that designation.
Speaker 3: All of those features that are associated with those homes
Speaker 3: do fall under the state's program that has incentives built in,
Speaker 3: and the neighborhood itself, once it is fully completed and inspected,
Speaker 3: will get their full Wildfire Prepared Neighborhood designation. As I
Speaker 3: mentioned right now, it's provisional. We've looked at the designs
Speaker 3: with Katie Holmes and made sure all those provisions were met,
Speaker 3: and so once that neighborhood's completed, each home owner not
Speaker 3: only will have their own designation for their home through
Speaker 3: the Wildfire Prepared Home Program, the entire community the Wildfire
Speaker 3: Prepared Neighborhood designation will exist there for everybody.
Speaker 4: Ian and Steve, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 4: I think it's fair to say that these types of
Speaker 4: requirements may become standard in the future of home building
Speaker 4: in California. All right, let's get back to some of
Speaker 4: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 4: California and more than a dozen other states are suing
Speaker 4: the Trump administration over blocking offshore wind leases.
Speaker 8: Governor Gavin Newsome estimates offshore wind could produce up to
Speaker 8: twenty five gigawatts by twenty forty five, significantly more than
Speaker 8: the Diablo Kenyon nuclear plants output. In December twenty twenty two,
Speaker 8: five companies were granted rights to develop wind farms over
Speaker 8: more Obey and Humboldt Bay in northern California, at least
Speaker 8: twenty miles from shore. Attorney General Rob Bonta criticized the
Speaker 8: order for harming clean energy, progress and local economies. Dina
Speaker 8: Kodiak KFI News.
Speaker 4: The La City Council is scheduled to vote today on
Speaker 4: two resolutions intended to demonstrate support for state legislation that,
Speaker 4: if approved, would modernize California's film and TV tax credit program.
Speaker 4: It's part of state and local efforts to support the
Speaker 4: declining film industry as production has been affected by several challenges,
Speaker 4: including the COVID pandemic and actors and writers' strikes, as
Speaker 4: well as the recent wildfires. A new study on cracking
Speaker 4: eggs may surprise some people.
Speaker 10: Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the first American pope.
Speaker 10: He has taken the name Pope Leo the fourteenth. So
Speaker 10: Cal Edison has removed an electrical transmission tower thought to
Speaker 10: be connected with the ignition of the Eton fire. The
Speaker 10: twenty twenty eight Olympic opening ceremonies have been scheduled for
Speaker 10: the Colisseum and Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 4: All Right, well, that was a fun little recap of
Speaker 4: news stories from Deborah Mark. Thanks dev all Right, let's
Speaker 4: move along. Los Angeles is experience A brief heat wave,
Speaker 4: with the Inland Empire temperature soaring into the nineties and
Speaker 4: even reaching triple digits in some areas. On Friday and Saturday,
Speaker 4: the beaches will see highs in the upper seventies and eighties,
Speaker 4: and while the heat is expected to ease up by
Speaker 4: Mother's Day, temperatures will still remain above normal. Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 4: leads the twenty twenty five BET Awards with ten nominations,
Speaker 4: including Album of the Year for gn X and Video
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Speaker 4: Like Us. Ceremony is going to air in LA on
Speaker 4: June ninth. NBA Hall of Famer Paul Pierce made good
Speaker 4: on a bet after the Boston Celtic lost Game two
Speaker 4: to the New York Knicks. Pierce had vowed to walk
Speaker 4: fifteen miles to work barefoot in a bathrobe if the
Speaker 4: Celtics lost to get at home after their ninety one
Speaker 4: ninety defeat. He started walking on a twenty mile eight
Speaker 4: hour track across Los Angeles, documenting the entire journey on
Speaker 4: social media, and though he wore shoes instead of going barefoot,
Speaker 4: he honored his promise, stating I'm a man of my word.
Speaker 4: Then in six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Speaker 4: United Airlines CEO says, well, he's glad that there's plans
Speaker 4: for a new air traffic controller system that was announced
Speaker 4: by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, but he's warning more problems
Speaker 4: will be inevitable if we don't modernize the system soon.
Speaker 4: All right, let's dive into a topic that surrounds us
Speaker 4: every second of every day, but most of us still
Speaker 4: struggle to get it right. We're talking about color, what
Speaker 4: it is, how it works, and why your kitchen might
Speaker 4: look like a toothpaste ad gone wrong. Joining us now
Speaker 4: is our favorite design and Bill Despert, the house whisper
Speaker 4: Dean Sharp, Good morning.
Speaker 1: Dean, Good morning, Heather. Good to talk to you.
Speaker 4: You too.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you heard, just really quickly the
Speaker 4: last segment. I don't want to put you on the
Speaker 4: spot here, but about wildfire home safety. Did you happen
Speaker 4: to catch that at all?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 2: That's okay.
Speaker 4: I just want to know. The segment was about this
Speaker 4: neighborhood in Escondido that is entirely wildfire proof, and it's
Speaker 4: been certified, and people who move there will get certifications
Speaker 4: for that. I was just wondering. And you know, I
Speaker 4: know you do a lot of building. You're helping people
Speaker 4: all the time with their homes. Are you getting more
Speaker 4: requests for wildfire safety and safety proof homes?
Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh, all the time, all the time. I
Speaker 1: believe it. Yeah, And there's a lot of misunderstanding about it, Betty,
Speaker 1: if you want to take a second, I'll be happy
Speaker 1: to tell you.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 1: Some of it is more overblown than what people think.
Speaker 1: And I'm very familiar with the neighborhood. You're referring to
Speaker 1: that certification, and that's great. I'm glad that they've done that.
Speaker 1: But I got to tell you that most homes only
Speaker 1: have a couple of things that need to be added
Speaker 1: in order to have that level of fire hardening. For instance,
Speaker 1: if you own a home in southern California and it's
Speaker 1: had a new roof on it anytime in the last
Speaker 1: thirty to forty years, then that's a fire safe roof.
Speaker 1: If you've got a stucco home in California, which well
Speaker 1: over eighty percent of the homes are, then that's a
Speaker 1: fire safe exterior. And it's just the nature of those materials. Now,
Speaker 1: if you live up against an open space, and you've
Speaker 1: got standard windows instead of tempered glass windows, then that's
Speaker 1: something that you can do. But I talk about this
Speaker 1: all the time. The most important thing that every homeowner
Speaker 1: in southern California could do to fire harden their home
Speaker 1: is to get ember proof vents. Because in a wildfire situation,
Speaker 1: eight out of ten homes that burn ignite not be
Speaker 1: because the flames have approached their house, but because embers
Speaker 1: have arrived from a fire that still may be like
Speaker 1: two miles away. So ember proofing your home, big, big way,
Speaker 1: goes a long way towards plugging those holes.
Speaker 4: I think that is so fascinating, and I think it
Speaker 4: is an area of home building in Los Angeles and
Speaker 4: especially Southern California that is going to continue to grow
Speaker 4: and develop, and I think, you know, it'll be it'll
Speaker 4: be interesting to see if we're going to see more
Speaker 4: neighborhoods like this pop up, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: And I hope so, I hope, I hope more builders
Speaker 1: take it very seriously. From day one and more homeowners
Speaker 1: asked the question, well, what more do I need to
Speaker 1: do to my house in order to get it up
Speaker 1: to speak?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely, And one of the things that people love
Speaker 4: to do when they're building a new home is pick
Speaker 4: out colors. Yeah, I am so excited. I love this topic.
Speaker 4: It seems so simple, but it is so important. So
Speaker 4: let's talk about just the basics. What what is color?
Speaker 1: Well, color is a mess, that's what it is. Everybody
Speaker 1: gets wrong.
Speaker 2: I know I do.
Speaker 4: I feel like I do.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I feel you. You know, I know your nightmares.
Speaker 1: I've stood in your All you wanted to do is
Speaker 1: freshen up the living room. So you know, you hopped
Speaker 1: in the car and headed down to the paint store
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, you're standing paralyzed in front
Speaker 1: of a twenty foot long wall of color samples, and
Speaker 1: behind you is a kid who pushes the buttons to
Speaker 1: mix your paint. And last week she was working at
Speaker 1: Forever twenty one. And although she knows how to operate
Speaker 1: the paint machine, she's probably received zero hours of color
Speaker 1: theory training, and so she's really in no help. And
Speaker 1: you know, you're completely overwhelmed. And even if you have
Speaker 1: a decorator who suggested a triad of colors for your home,
Speaker 1: you know, how do you know they're right? Do you
Speaker 1: even know what a color triad is do you have one?
Speaker 1: Do you want one? Is there a way to check?
Speaker 1: And then you know, you start feeling nauseous and you're
Speaker 1: tempted to bolt out of there, but you press on.
Speaker 1: You grab a few samples which seem, you know, know,
Speaker 1: kind of good. You head home, only to discover that
Speaker 1: when you walk them into the room itself, oh, they
Speaker 1: look awful. And so this is such a common experience
Speaker 1: with people, and there are reasons why, and that's what
Speaker 1: we're going to break down for everybody this weekend, starting
Speaker 1: with the fact that one of the biggest problems with
Speaker 1: color is that it's an illusion. Color isn't actually a
Speaker 1: real physical thing in the world. Color is in our heads.
Speaker 1: It's the way a human brain interprets different wavelengths and
Speaker 1: frequencies of light. And because of that, when you get
Speaker 1: one frequency next to another, the color changes and people
Speaker 1: swear they're like, I don't know if it's me or
Speaker 1: I'm crazy, but this color was different at the store
Speaker 1: than it is in my living room.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's absolutely true. Yeah, And so there are
Speaker 1: a series of steps that we've got to go through
Speaker 1: in order to make sure we end up with the
Speaker 1: color that we want because color is tricky, it really is.
Speaker 4: It is, And I want to share with you quickly
Speaker 4: my nightmare story. When my husband and I first got
Speaker 4: married in our house, this was a very long time ago.
Speaker 4: I'm very old, and we thought it would be so
Speaker 4: fun to have a bright kitchen. So we were like,
Speaker 4: you know what, let's paint it yellow. And we picked
Speaker 4: up this beautiful yellow color and I was like, you know,
Speaker 4: we'll accent it with like a darker contrasting color. And
Speaker 4: so we picked black and we painted our whole kitchen
Speaker 4: and we realized, oh my gosh, it looks like a bee.
Speaker 4: It was black and yellow, and we had major regrets
Speaker 4: and had to completely repaint it. So there is something
Speaker 4: to that where you pick out a color in the
Speaker 4: store and you think this will be great, and then
Speaker 4: you get it home and you see your actual homelighting
Speaker 4: and how it looks in your house. What I love
Speaker 4: this color? Here, this color? This question. If you're picking
Speaker 4: a color to keep the inmates calm in a prison,
Speaker 4: what would it be?
Speaker 1: You know, it's weird. Their studies have been done about that.
Speaker 1: It's pink Baker Miller pink akap six eighteen or drunk tank.
Speaker 1: Pink clinically proven to reduce hostile, violent or aggressive behavior.
Speaker 1: And if you think about it, like some of the
Speaker 1: shows that you've seen, if you've ever seen the inside
Speaker 1: of a prison on the news show, there's this weird
Speaker 1: kind of pinkish background in a lot of prison cells,
Speaker 1: and it is it's the ultimate feminine color. But it
Speaker 1: lowers blood pressure, heart rate, even affects muscle strength in males.
Speaker 4: That's probably why they put it in baby's rooms too
Speaker 4: right for little babies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. But you know, ladies, here's a tip. If
Speaker 1: you want to intimidate a man in a business environment,
Speaker 1: don't dress gray like him. Go pink because it literally
Speaker 1: makes him physically weaker. It does.
Speaker 4: It's our superpower we know about colors. There you go.
Speaker 4: I love this topic and I wish we could continue
Speaker 4: to talk about it more. But everybody is super lucky
Speaker 4: because they can hear you talk about it even more
Speaker 4: and all of your other expertise on the house whisper
Speaker 4: on Home with Dean Sharp every Saturday from six to
Speaker 4: eight am and on Sundays from nine to noon on kfive. Dean,
Speaker 4: you're the best. I always enjoy talking with you.
Speaker 1: Thanks Heather. We're going to be talking about color all
Speaker 1: Sunday long, so join us.
Speaker 4: We'll do. Thank you. All right, it's time to get
Speaker 4: up in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahue. Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 11: I love it and I'm sorry. I'm sick today, so
Speaker 11: I have a head cold, so we'll see how I
Speaker 11: get through it. I sound brutal today.
Speaker 4: That is the worst feeling. I totally understand. No, and
Speaker 4: then especially when you're on a radio, then everyone's like, hey,
Speaker 4: are you okay? Yeah, all right, well we'll jump right
Speaker 4: in then for today. I love this. Pop Tarts are
Speaker 4: going to be going from your toaster to your freezer.
Speaker 4: I have mixed feelings about this. I love my pop tarts.
Speaker 11: Well, there's this new snack obsession that we're going to
Speaker 11: be seeing coming soon. Pop Tarts is expanding into ice
Speaker 11: cream pints and sandwiches. So the pints will blend ice
Speaker 11: cream with the little pastry pieces.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 11: I like that anything that has like a little bit
Speaker 11: of a crunch to it. And the flavors include frosted
Speaker 11: brown sugar, cinnamon, frosted strawberry, and frosted s'mores. Meantime, the
Speaker 11: ice cream sandwiches will be available in three flavors, the
Speaker 11: frosted brown sugar, cinnamon, frosted strawberry, and frosted chocolate fudge.
Speaker 11: So you can get them now at Walmart, and I'll
Speaker 11: be at other retailers down the line. I am sure
Speaker 11: I am going to be heading over to it, especially
Speaker 11: that I'm sick.
Speaker 4: It'd be so nice to have an ice cream sandwich.
Speaker 11: There you go, Do you feel better?
Speaker 4: I love this. Next topic, you know, we're gonna talk
Speaker 4: about Costco. Bill Handle isn't here today, so we'll have
Speaker 4: to fill him in next week. But Costco shoppers will
Speaker 4: soon have a monthly payment option. Yeah.
Speaker 11: So the warehouse store tapping a firm to let its
Speaker 11: online choppers pay for pay overtime for a transaction. So
Speaker 11: this has been helping a lot of retailers lately sell
Speaker 11: those bigger ticket items that a lot of people are
Speaker 11: having trouble affording right now with the economy. But Affirm
Speaker 11: is one of the dominant buy now, pay later companies
Speaker 11: in the US, and many people have been turning to
Speaker 11: pay overtime options instead of credit cards, especially as interest
Speaker 11: rates have increased so much so much recently, So this
Speaker 11: is a better way for people to be able to
Speaker 11: pay for those big ticket items.
Speaker 4: All right, pink slips coming to Panasonic.
Speaker 11: Yeah, the big electronics company the clients make are slashing
Speaker 11: ten thousand jobs globally. That's about four percent of its workforce.
Speaker 11: So it just shows you how big the company is.
Speaker 11: Panasonic says the layoffs are necessary to prepare the company
Speaker 11: for the next decade or two, so it plans to
Speaker 11: pivot to areas such as energy efficient power generation and
Speaker 11: data center power sources. Of course, this is what we've
Speaker 11: been hearing a lot lately from the tech industry. This
Speaker 11: is a great way for them to be able to move.
Speaker 11: But they're also building on its electric vehicle battery business
Speaker 11: and its home appliance arms too.
Speaker 4: All Right, Courtney, thank you so much. We're going to
Speaker 4: check in with you again on Monday. I hope you
Speaker 4: feel better over the weekend.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll talk to you Monday.
Speaker 11: Have a great weeknd Happy day, everybody.
Speaker 4: Thank you, saining to you. All right, let's get back
Speaker 4: to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 4: twenty four hour newsroom. A man convicted over a series
Speaker 4: of violent road rage incidents in southern California is back
Speaker 4: in jail on suspicion of doing the same thing in Hawaii.
Speaker 13: Nathaniel Radamac was released from prison last August after serving
Speaker 13: less than a year of a five year prison sentence
Speaker 13: for his crimes in southern California. The Honolulu Police Department
Speaker 13: arrested Radamac on Thursday, one day after the thirty nine
Speaker 13: year old allegedly assaulted an eighteen year old driver and
Speaker 13: her mother. Honolulu police say Radamac sped past the young woman,
Speaker 13: who was parking her vehicle at the time. He then
Speaker 13: allegedly exchanged words with her and violently attacked her before
Speaker 13: getting back in his tesla and driving off. Daniel Martindale
Speaker 13: KFI News.
Speaker 4: Shipping company DHL says it's planning to close a facility
Speaker 4: in the Inland Empire and layoff hundreds of workers. Its
Speaker 4: package handling center in Ontario will be closing in early July.
Speaker 4: Most of the three hundred plus jobs on the chopping
Speaker 4: block are for order filler pickers. A Los Angeles judge
Speaker 4: will hold a hearing today to consider removing d. A.
Speaker 4: Nathan Hawkman from the Menendez brother's resentencing case. The brother's
Speaker 4: attorneys argue Hawkman's actions demonstrate bias, including replacing prosecutors who
Speaker 4: supported resentencing and rehiring one who opposed it. The judge
Speaker 4: will also decide whether to admit new risk assessment reports
Speaker 4: ordered by Governor Newsom. Eric and Lyow Menendez are seeking
Speaker 4: reduced sentences after serving over thirty years for the nineteen
Speaker 4: eighty nine murders of their parents. The Pentagon has begun
Speaker 4: removing one thousand transgender troops under a new policy tied
Speaker 4: to a Supreme Court ruling and President Trump's executive order.
Speaker 4: Those diagnosed with gender dyswarphia dysmorphia must leave the military
Speaker 4: by early June or a face involuntary discharge. The move
Speaker 4: has sparked backlash from advocacy groups and renewed legal challenges.
Speaker 4: Apple has agreed to a ninety five million dollar settlement
Speaker 4: overclaims Serri accidentally recorded Prime to conversations. US users with
Speaker 4: Syria enable devices from September of twenty fourteen to December
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty four can file claims for up to
Speaker 4: twenty dollars per device up to five devices total. The
Speaker 4: deadline to submit is July second. We are just minutes
Speaker 4: away from handle on the news this morning, and things
Speaker 4: are heating up in Oregon, where a massive volcano is
Speaker 4: showing signs of eruption. We'll tell you where it's happening
Speaker 4: and what areas will be affected. President Trump has announced
Speaker 4: that Janine Piro, best known as a Fox News personality
Speaker 4: and former New York prosecutor, will serve as interim US
Speaker 4: Attorney for the District of Columbia. We're joined right now
Speaker 4: by ABC's Shannon Kingston for insight into what this appointment
Speaker 4: signals and the reaction is getting across the political spectrum.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Shannon, Good morning. All right, So let's talk
Speaker 4: about with you know, we'll start with the basics. How
Speaker 4: unusual is it for a sitting president to appoint a
Speaker 4: media personality like this to such a high profile prosecutorial position.
Speaker 14: Well, look, at least in this term with this president,
Speaker 14: it's not all that unusual. By our count, there are
Speaker 14: at least twenty former Fox News personalities who and other
Speaker 14: top employees at the company who left to come over
Speaker 14: to government to work for the president. We know that
Speaker 14: appearing on TV is something that he values, and having
Speaker 14: that charisma, that personality is something that he looks for
Speaker 14: when he's making some top appointments here.
Speaker 4: All right, So what does this move signal about Trump's
Speaker 4: priorities when it comes to the Justice Department, especially in
Speaker 4: a critical area like DC.
Speaker 14: Well, look, this is interesting because Judge Deenine does have
Speaker 14: a considerable level of experience. She was elected as a
Speaker 14: judge in New York's Westchester County in nineteen ninety and
Speaker 14: that's before she went on to serve three terms as
Speaker 14: the county's elected district attorney. But look, she wasn't the
Speaker 14: president's top pick for this spot. He previously had announced
Speaker 14: that Edwin Martin would be taking on the role, but
Speaker 14: he had to withdraw that selection after Martin failed to
Speaker 14: attract enough support from Republicans to clear the confirmation process.
Speaker 14: So that writing was on the wall, and that's what
Speaker 14: led to the President doing the shuffle here.
Speaker 4: So if we're looking ahead, what kind of influence do
Speaker 4: you think she'll have on any major cases in Washington
Speaker 4: and how will it set the stage in a way
Speaker 4: for the twenty twenty five election cycle.
Speaker 14: Well, her close relationship with the president, they've been closed
Speaker 14: for many decades. That's clear. That's something that's going to
Speaker 14: give him a lot of insight and perhaps a lot
Speaker 14: of control into the cases, what's on the doctor, et cetera.
Speaker 14: But there is a big question here on whether the
Speaker 14: White House will pursue the confirmation process when it comes
Speaker 14: to Jeanine Piro or if she is in fact just
Speaker 14: going to be an interim in this position, because that's
Speaker 14: what they're saying right now, just interim. And if that's
Speaker 14: the case, she has as only one hundred and twenty
Speaker 14: days really in the position before the White House will
Speaker 14: then have to appoint someone else or you know, they
Speaker 14: have to pursue the confirmation process, which is not at
Speaker 14: all clear that they're going to do at this point.
Speaker 14: And the President has really taken on a broad interpretation
Speaker 14: of his appointment powers. So this is something that could
Speaker 14: definitely be challenged in the court because the Senate has
Speaker 14: been really cut out of this process.
Speaker 4: And how are legal experts and lawmakers reacting to the announcement?
Speaker 4: Are they concerned at all about the politicization of US
Speaker 4: Attorney the US Attorney's Office?
Speaker 14: Well, right now still we're hearing, of course, there's concern
Speaker 14: on the left side of the aisle, but from Republicans
Speaker 14: the reactions still trickling in. Of course, not that many
Speaker 14: are anxious to go against the president. So really, we're
Speaker 14: eager to go against the president, I should say.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 14: Really, this is something that I think officials White House
Speaker 14: are still feeling out because it was a surprised that
Speaker 14: Martin wasn't aple to get the support from the right here,
Speaker 14: and it's something that caught the White House off guard.
Speaker 4: All right, well, we will be watching to see how
Speaker 4: things play out over the next few months. Thank you
Speaker 4: so much, ABC's Shannon Kingston. Let's get back to some
Speaker 4: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 4: hour newsroom. Governor Newsom is announcing a jump in compliance
Speaker 4: from businesses towards removing toxic hemp products.
Speaker 15: The state's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control says nearly ninety
Speaker 15: eight percent of all California licensed businesses are following emergency
Speaker 15: state regulations. Newsome proposed restrictions last September to increase constraints
Speaker 15: on selling hemp products to children. The new regulations require
Speaker 15: consumers to be at least twenty one years old to
Speaker 15: purchase the products. Tammy Trihello k FI news.
Speaker 4: Los Angeles is experiencing a brief heat wave with inland
Speaker 4: Empire temperatures expected to store into the nineties and even
Speaker 4: reaching triple digits in some areas. On Friday and Saturday,
Speaker 4: the beaches will see high in the upper seventies and eighties.
Speaker 4: While the heat is expected to ease up by Mother's Day,
Speaker 4: it's still going to remain above normals and be very,
Speaker 4: very warm. LA Archbishop Jose Gomez has welcomed the news
Speaker 4: of Pope Leo the fourteenth. Gomez says the new Pope's
Speaker 4: experience as an American who served in Latin America gives
Speaker 4: him strong insights on issues facing immigrants.
Speaker 6: Peter really understands well what is the reality of the
Speaker 6: movement of peoples and the needs for immigration all over
Speaker 6: the continent.
Speaker 4: The Archbishop has called for a Mass of Thanksgiving today
Speaker 4: at noon at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the
Speaker 4: Angels in downtown La. The World Video Game Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame has inducted its class of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 16: The Hall of Fame recognizes arcade, console, computer, handheld and
Speaker 16: mobile games that have had staying power and influenced the
Speaker 16: video game industry or pop culture. This year's group defender
Speaker 16: the nineteen eighty one arcade game that raised the bar
Speaker 16: on difficulty, the digital pets that bridge toys and video games,
Speaker 16: Golden Eye Double O seven, who's four person mode influenced
Speaker 16: multiplayer games that followed, and Quake, which debuted in nineteen
Speaker 16: ninety six with a three D engine that became the
Speaker 16: new industry standard. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 4: Ah, what was that ConA. I think Kona likes that
Speaker 4: game approve. Yeah, you got that. We have the Golden
Speaker 4: Eight Double O seven is the greatest?
Speaker 1: Is the best? Is the best?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, it's good to know. Maybe I need to
Speaker 4: check that one out. I don't know what Mark did
Speaker 4: there at the end. That was hilarious. I'm gonna have
Speaker 4: to ask you if he lost his name. LA rapper
Speaker 4: Kendrick Lamar is leading the twenty twenty five be Et Awards.
Speaker 2: They not like Us, They not like us, They not
Speaker 2: like Us.
Speaker 4: He has ten nominations, including Album of the Year for
Speaker 4: gn X and Video of the Year for his Grammy
Speaker 4: winning disc track not Like Us. The ceremony marking its
Speaker 4: twenty fifth anniversary will air live from LA on g Night. Well,
Speaker 4: I for one enjoy Kendrick Lamar moment, and I'm also
Speaker 4: very excited because Sunday is Mother's Day, Cono. You have
Speaker 4: any big plans for Mother's Day?
Speaker 12: Yeah, well for my wife, Oh, happy Mother's Day Mom,
Speaker 12: because she's probably listening. So I'll probably try to hang
Speaker 12: out with her on Saturday. And then my wife, I'm
Speaker 12: taking her with all the kids. There's a Pixar Putt
Speaker 12: golf in Anaheim, all fun, so we're gonna go do that.
Speaker 4: Well, that sounds nice. Will you have any Mother's Day plans?
Speaker 2: I'm going to the desert.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Palm Springs.
Speaker 4: Get there, you go, all right? No better way to
Speaker 4: celebrate Mother's Day, I guess than with a sunburn.
Speaker 1: You know there's a big Wango Tango thing on Saturday.
Speaker 4: That's right, beach lit little Wango Tango action. Well, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna be celebrating with my mom and my family on
Speaker 4: Mother's Day as well. And I also want to buy
Speaker 4: everybody to come see me at the Ice House in
Speaker 4: Pasadena Saturday night at seven o'clock. I'm gonna be doing
Speaker 4: a stand up show there. Would love to see some
Speaker 4: KFI listeners there and also abody from the KFI News team. Well,
Speaker 4: not anybody, only a few. Let me let me revise
Speaker 4: that Heather's funny. By the way, if you don't know
Speaker 4: Heather's funny, oh thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 4: That is the perfect way to end the show with
Speaker 4: a compliment for me. This is KFI and KOSDHD two
Speaker 4: Los Angeles, Orange County live from the KFI twenty four
Speaker 4: hour newsroom for producer and technical producer CODO and traffic
Speaker 4: specialists Will I'm Heather Brooker, and we made it work today,
Speaker 4: you guys. I'm very proud of all of us. I
Speaker 4: will be back on Monday with your wake up Call,
Speaker 4: and then Amy will be back for the rest of
Speaker 4: next week. This has been your wake up call. If
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Speaker 11: You've been listening to wake Up Call with me Amy King.
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