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Speaker 3: Everyone, jo it's time for your morning wake up call,
Speaker 3: and good morning.
Speaker 4: This is your wake up call for January first, twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: I am Michael Monks, sitting in for Amy King on
Speaker 4: this first day of the year. I hope you didn't
Speaker 4: party too hard last night that you're waking up with
Speaker 4: a headache this morning. Although if you are just now
Speaker 4: only on your way home, good for you. Be careful
Speaker 4: out there. Happy New Year, La. Lots of fireworks last
Speaker 4: night downtown, very difficult to sleep to prepare for tonight's show,
Speaker 4: this morning show, I should say, But that's all right.
Speaker 4: We're excited a fresh start for all of us. It
Speaker 4: was a foggy drive from downtown to Burbank today, but
Speaker 4: that fog is gonna break up a little bit, some
Speaker 4: of the clouds will go away. We should have a
Speaker 4: pretty nice day to day with just partly cloudy skies.
Speaker 4: Here's what's up ahead on your very first wake up
Speaker 4: call of the year. LA starts the new year with
Speaker 4: financial problems just like it ended it. It looks like
Speaker 4: one of the city's resolutions for twenty twenty five is
Speaker 4: to borrow more money in order to finance debt so
Speaker 4: it can continue to pay out large legal settlements. It's
Speaker 4: also got a stockpile of money designated for homeless programs
Speaker 4: that hasn't been spent. It's all caught the attention of
Speaker 4: the city controller and we'll talk with him. Try January,
Speaker 4: Are you participating? This is when people give up alcohol
Speaker 4: for the month. A pollback in twenty twenty one found
Speaker 4: thirteen percent of adults in the US we're going to
Speaker 4: try it, But by the next year, a different poll
Speaker 4: saw that number go up to thirty five percent. Researchers
Speaker 4: have said there are benefits to scaling back on your
Speaker 4: alcohol consumption for a month. Well, now there's a new
Speaker 4: store just in time for this occasion. It's in South Pasadena.
Speaker 4: It's a non alcoholic bottle shop. We'll hear from one
Speaker 4: of the owners. And did your shopping habits change in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four? Did you go back to Walmart after
Speaker 4: having graduated to fancier stores. Well, lots of people did,
Speaker 4: and that made the retail chain one of the big
Speaker 4: winners for the year. Now the company thinks it can
Speaker 4: keep its new wealthier customers. We'll review the winners and
Speaker 4: the losers in retail and restaurants from the past year,
Speaker 4: and then, as always, coming up at six oh five,
Speaker 4: it's Handle on the news. Still without handle this week, right,
Speaker 4: Wayne Resnick, our friend is in for Bill Handel, and
Speaker 4: I'll join him for that six o'clock hour as well.
Speaker 3: Hope you will join us too.
Speaker 4: But let's start with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 4: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Some tragic news
Speaker 4: out of New Orleans. Ten people have been killed thirty
Speaker 4: injured after a vehicle was driven into a crowd in
Speaker 4: that city's Canal and Bourbon streets this morning. New Orleans
Speaker 4: police earlier said they were responding to a mass casualty
Speaker 4: incident and including fatalities. The mayor just spoke and called
Speaker 4: it a terrorist attack. The city's emergency alert system has
Speaker 4: advised people to stay away from that very busy and
Speaker 4: popular area. A brush fire in Pacific Palace Set excuse
Speaker 4: me in Pacific Palisades grew to about nine acres this morning,
Speaker 4: but firefighters seem to have it under as of this hour.
Speaker 4: The first fire crew showed up just after midnight on
Speaker 4: Via Las Palmas near Via La Costa. The La County
Speaker 4: Fire Department and the La City Fire Department both attack
Speaker 4: those flames from the air. The Tournament of Roses parade
Speaker 4: marches through Pasadena this morning starting at eight o'clock. People
Speaker 4: have camped out overnight for prime real estate to catch
Speaker 4: a good view of the five and a half mile route.
Speaker 4: If you're thinking of heading that way this morning and
Speaker 4: you have not left yet, Public Transit is offering some deals.
Speaker 4: La Metro has added early morning trains on the A
Speaker 4: line that's the Long Beach to Azusa train. It can
Speaker 4: be picked up at Union Station. Metrolink has also added
Speaker 4: early morning trains on the Ventura County, Orange County and
Speaker 4: the ninety one Paris Valley lines today, as well as
Speaker 4: adjusting service on the Antelope Valley and San Bernardino line
Speaker 4: so that those trains can arrive at Union Station between
Speaker 4: seven and seven thirty am. After this parade floats are
Speaker 4: displayed near Victory Park in Pasadena, and La Metro will
Speaker 4: offer shuttle service from Sierra Monde Station to the post
Speaker 4: parade viewing area. The Rose Bowl, part of this year's
Speaker 4: college football playoff, kicks off at one o'clock with the
Speaker 4: Ohio State Buckeyes and Oregon Ducks looking to advance to
Speaker 4: the semi finals.
Speaker 3: So if you're not.
Speaker 4: Taking metro and you're gonna be driving on the roads,
Speaker 4: maybe we should take a look at them and see
Speaker 4: what's going on. Right now, We've got to crash on
Speaker 4: the one ten through downtown LA.
Speaker 5: That's on the northbound side of the one ten, actually
Speaker 5: on the connector to the eastbound ten. Gotta crash partially
Speaker 5: blocking the connector road. It's keeping things so slow through there.
Speaker 5: And this is also on the one ten north found
Speaker 5: through Downtown LA right before the one ten connector. Got
Speaker 5: a disabled vehicle. It's blocking the center lane. It's pretty
Speaker 5: foggy through that area, so be sure to be sure
Speaker 5: to slow down if you're making your way through there
Speaker 5: in case that vehicle is still out in lanes and
Speaker 5: now heading over to the ninety one eastbound through Bellflower.
Speaker 3: Taking a look at the connector to the six oh five.
Speaker 5: Looks like the connector to the southbound six oh five
Speaker 5: is currently closed from the ninety one eastbound. This is
Speaker 5: due to an accident that's currently blocking lanes on the
Speaker 5: Connect Road.
Speaker 3: C HP is on this there.
Speaker 5: Be sure to look out for some stomp and go
Speaker 5: traffic from right around Clark Avenue if you're making your
Speaker 5: way through there. Now we're taking a look at the
Speaker 5: tenees Pound through mid City. Right in Normandy Avenue, who
Speaker 5: got a two car smashups over on the right shoulder.
Speaker 5: This just occurred, so be sure to look out for
Speaker 5: a little bit of accident debris that may still be
Speaker 5: in lanes. And over on the sixties Pound through Chino
Speaker 5: right after Mountain Avenue, got a report of a disabled vehicle.
Speaker 5: It's taken up the right lane. It'll keep you slow
Speaker 5: if you're making your way through there. With Southern California's
Speaker 5: most accurate traffic reports, I'm Seth Blackman.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Seth. The City of la has a serious
Speaker 4: budget problem. It's already basically frozen hiring in most departments.
Speaker 4: It's cut back on funding for essential city services like
Speaker 4: street light repairs and animal shelters, and now it may
Speaker 4: have to pull out the credit card to cover its
Speaker 4: rising bills related to legal settlements. City Controller Kenneth Mahea
Speaker 4: has said the city is going broke. I spoke with
Speaker 4: him about the situation in November. Controller Mahea, I noticed
Speaker 4: that on your social media explanations about the city's finances,
Speaker 4: you were using the word broke a lot going broke.
Speaker 3: La is going broke.
Speaker 4: You know, those of us who are individuals with money,
Speaker 4: we might have an understanding of what it means to
Speaker 4: be broke, But man, what does it mean for the
Speaker 4: City of La to be going broke?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 7: So, what it means is that we are depleting our
Speaker 7: general fund, specifically our reserve fund. Our reserve fund is
Speaker 7: at a record level, low below our five percent, and
Speaker 7: essentially we have the city has overestimated how much revenue
Speaker 7: we were collected, and we actually ended up collecting two
Speaker 7: hundred and twenty two million dollars short of that revenue budget.
Speaker 8: So that's that's one big shortfall.
Speaker 7: The second thing is that we are overspending a lot, right,
Speaker 7: We overspent a lot last fiscal year. The top overspender
Speaker 7: was police. And thirdly, we are spending a lot on
Speaker 7: liability payouts. We are paying out record level liabilities. And
Speaker 7: so when you combine the revenue shortfall for spending and
Speaker 7: all the liability payouts, that is just not a good
Speaker 7: recipe for being fiscally sound.
Speaker 4: To help our listeners understand the reserve fund is I
Speaker 4: guess it's something that somebody like Dave Ramsey might tell
Speaker 4: you should have some money put aside that you're not
Speaker 4: messing with just in case you need to tap into it.
Speaker 4: But statutorily, LA prefers at least to keep a certain
Speaker 4: percentage of the overall general budget in what is called
Speaker 4: the reserve fund, and they have already depleted that to
Speaker 4: a point that the words fiscal emergency have been tossed around.
Speaker 3: Is that right, right?
Speaker 8: Exactly?
Speaker 7: So you know, if we get down to two point
Speaker 7: seventy five percent of general fund revenues, then we will
Speaker 7: have to basically take any vote that takes money from
Speaker 7: the reserve front from city council every time we pull
Speaker 7: from it. So, you know, we were at record level
Speaker 7: highs and now we're below, you know, four percent, and
Speaker 7: if we keep paying out all these liabilities and overspending,
Speaker 7: it'll just keep going lower and lower. And the city's
Speaker 7: actually looking to borrow money now about eighty million dollars,
Speaker 7: and you know the cost of that debt is an
Speaker 7: additional up to twenty million dollars an interest.
Speaker 4: And you're talking about borrowing money because of the liabilities.
Speaker 4: And another way to frame that is lawsuits against the city.
Speaker 4: And I've sat through a lot of city council meetings
Speaker 4: since the spring, a lot of the budget process and
Speaker 4: a lot of the budget committee meetings. So before the
Speaker 4: new budget was adopted and now after, we are seeing
Speaker 4: some pretty significant settlements with people who have sued the
Speaker 4: city for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it involves misconduct
Speaker 4: and the police department. Sometimes people are falling and hurting
Speaker 4: themselves because of poor infrastructure, and we'll get to the
Speaker 4: irony of that momentarily. But the city puts aside a
Speaker 4: certain amount of money every budget cycle to deal with lawsuits.
Speaker 4: Governments get sued. They are only a few months into
Speaker 4: this new fiscal year and all ready that money is gone.
Speaker 4: How significant is that this year compared to other years.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you know, this year we budgeted eighty seven
Speaker 7: million dollars. We've already spent one hundred and forty one
Speaker 7: million dollars in the first four months of the fiscal year,
Speaker 7: about close.
Speaker 8: To ninety million dollars.
Speaker 7: Of that, one forty one is police and then the
Speaker 7: rest is about related to infrastructure related you know, accidents,
Speaker 7: trip and fall, a light falling on someone's head. So
Speaker 7: you know, these liability payouts are very, very significant. And
Speaker 7: even last fist figure too, we spent about a quarter
Speaker 7: billion on these liability payouts as well. So you know,
Speaker 7: when we went into this new fiscal year, that reserve
Speaker 7: one is just getting depleted, and it's still getting depleted
Speaker 7: now we're looking to borrow money in order to replenish it.
Speaker 4: Okay, And so when the city is creating its budget,
Speaker 4: there's obviously a lot of different departments and they all
Speaker 4: get a certain amount of money. And for example, one
Speaker 4: of those departments might be Public Works that helps improve
Speaker 4: sidewalks that are in bad shape, roads that are in
Speaker 4: need of repair. You said trip and fall. As it
Speaker 4: relates to lawsuits, they are generically classified that way. But
Speaker 4: it's not that simple for a lot of the people
Speaker 4: who have been hurt, suffering serious injuries because of bad infrastructure.
Speaker 4: And I suppose the irony that I referenced earlier is
Speaker 4: that with the budget crunch the city is facing, they
Speaker 4: don't have the money to fund those departments in a
Speaker 4: way that can help prevent these lawsuits. And so without
Speaker 4: the money to fund the departments to fix the bad infrastructure,
Speaker 4: more lawsuits are likely. Is that a correct understanding?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say there are two buckets of what
Speaker 7: we're seeing on what makes up the majority of liabilities, right,
Speaker 7: it's departments who give rise to liabilities, whether it's excessive
Speaker 7: or a lawful use of force which would get sued
Speaker 7: a lot on, or it's related to dangerous conditions you know,
Speaker 7: such as trip and fall, you know, potholes, and those
Speaker 7: are from departments who are underfunded. And the way the
Speaker 7: city gets held accountable to fix thing is, as sadly is,
Speaker 7: through lawsuits.
Speaker 4: And so now the city is in a position where
Speaker 4: it might have to issue some sort of debt and
Speaker 4: finance and pay more than they already are to settle
Speaker 4: some of these lawsuits because the budget is already depleted
Speaker 4: and with conditions as they are, leading to the potential
Speaker 4: for more lawsuits. From your perspective, do you see a
Speaker 4: cycle that's currently endless?
Speaker 7: Yes, And city council and the mayor they need to
Speaker 7: know that we need to tackle these things at their
Speaker 7: root cause because you know, we're taking money from a
Speaker 7: reserve fund. But what's also not being talked about is
Speaker 7: We basically cut most departments budgets this fiscal year. Even
Speaker 7: my office got our budget cut to cover all this
Speaker 7: overspending and all these liability payouts, and so you know,
Speaker 7: there's no more money to take away from department. So
Speaker 7: now we have to just look to borrow money. But
Speaker 7: if we don't stop the bleeding at the sourus, then
Speaker 7: this is just a never ending cycle.
Speaker 4: The City of La also has a pile of money
Speaker 4: for homeless services, but it hasn't spent it all. That's
Speaker 4: also gotten the attention of the City Controller's office. We'll
Speaker 4: have more with Kenneth Mahea coming up, but we'll continue
Speaker 4: to check the roads as we all either wake up
Speaker 4: on this first day of January twenty twenty five, or
Speaker 4: maybe we're heading home from our parties this morning.
Speaker 3: Be careful out there.
Speaker 4: If you are driving on the ten, be aware there's
Speaker 4: a crash going through downtown La. Good morning, it's five
Speaker 4: nineteen on your wake up call. Here on KFI. I'm
Speaker 4: Michael Monks in for Amy King on this first day
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty five. Here's what we're following in the
Speaker 4: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Ten people have been killed,
Speaker 4: thirty others injured after a vehicle was driven into a
Speaker 4: crowd on New orleans Famed Canal and Bourbon Streets in
Speaker 4: the first hours of New Year's Day. New Orleans Mayor
Speaker 4: LaToya Cantrell has called it a terrorist attack. The FBI
Speaker 4: has taken over the investigation. An agent says at least
Speaker 4: one suspected improvised explosive device has been found at the scene.
Speaker 4: Actor and director Justin Baldoni has filed a defamation lawsuit
Speaker 4: here in LA against The New York Times after actress
Speaker 4: Blake Lively filed a complaint with the state alleging a
Speaker 4: difficult work environment on the set of the film It
Speaker 4: Ends with Us. Baldoni and nine others filed the suit,
Speaker 4: arguing The Times to communications out of context in order
Speaker 4: to mislead readers with the December twenty one story with
Speaker 4: the headline we can bury anyone inside a Hollywood smear machine.
Speaker 4: Hundreds of bills signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom
Speaker 4: are set to take effect in California today. The list
Speaker 4: of new laws, most of which are now in effect,
Speaker 4: include cracking down on retail theft, barring parking near crosswalks,
Speaker 4: a ban on book bands and a new designation for
Speaker 4: official statem as. I'll have a few of those for
Speaker 4: you coming up a little later at the top of
Speaker 4: the hour six ZH five Handle on the news. Bill
Speaker 4: Handles still off on his holiday. Wayne Resnick is in
Speaker 4: for Bill Handle. I'll be there with him. Hope you'll
Speaker 4: join us as well. Now, let's finish our conversation with
Speaker 4: La City Controller Kenneth Mahea and why he thinks the
Speaker 4: City of La is going broke. You talked about the
Speaker 4: role of the police and the expenses related to the
Speaker 4: lawsuits that the city have been spending, and yes, it
Speaker 4: does look like the balk are related to some sort
Speaker 4: of police misconduct. And also it's been noted during the
Speaker 4: budget process that the police department does take up a
Speaker 4: significant amount of the budget. But we also know that
Speaker 4: the police department has struggled to reach its hiring goals,
Speaker 4: and so I'm wondering from your perspective, whether you see
Speaker 4: any adjustment in attitude towards how the police.
Speaker 3: Department researchers use written.
Speaker 4: You talked about the role of the police and the
Speaker 4: expences related to the lawsuits that the city have been spending,
Speaker 4: and yes, it does look like the bulk are related
Speaker 4: to some sort of police misconduct. And also it's been
Speaker 4: noted during the budget process that the police department does
Speaker 4: take up a significant amount of the budget. But we
Speaker 4: also know that the police department has struggled to reach
Speaker 4: its hiring goals. And so I'm wondering from your perspective,
Speaker 4: whether you see any adjustment in attitude towards how the
Speaker 4: police department is funded and what type of internal changes
Speaker 4: need to be made so that you think the city
Speaker 4: is being a little more fiscally responsible in that area.
Speaker 7: Yes, I think, you know, city council and the man
Speaker 7: they need to have a hard reality check on our
Speaker 7: fiscal health and they need to see what are the
Speaker 7: top line items that are contributing to you know, our
Speaker 7: budget deficit and our fiscal crisis. And you know, these
Speaker 7: are just the numbers, and they could see it at
Speaker 7: the very top, who are the number one contributor to
Speaker 7: our liabilities which is police? And also who's the number
Speaker 7: one contributed to overspending and that is also the police.
Speaker 7: And so they need to have a hard look given
Speaker 7: the context that you know they are trying to hire
Speaker 7: more and more police officers.
Speaker 8: How do we be fiscally responsible, but.
Speaker 7: Also you know, in the eyes of government, keep people safe,
Speaker 7: and they need to have that tough conversation.
Speaker 8: And I think, what's that's not happening?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 8: I think a lot of like that officials.
Speaker 7: Are are are really rightfully so putting the blames on
Speaker 7: you know, liabilities related to crumbling infrastructure, which is right,
Speaker 7: but you need to also then fund those departments right
Speaker 7: who handle the infrastructure. But you know what you're seeing
Speaker 7: is they're actually cutting those departments and they're funding.
Speaker 8: The police.
Speaker 7: They got over one hundred million dollar increase and they're
Speaker 7: operating budget this fiscal year while everyone else got their
Speaker 7: budget cut. Right, So there needs to just be that hard,
Speaker 7: truthful discussion to be right and just be honest, like,
Speaker 7: you know, if we are going to fund the police
Speaker 7: more than we just have to be honest that we
Speaker 7: won't be able to you know, trim those trees, we
Speaker 7: won't be able to provide child care centers for low
Speaker 7: income founders, we won't be able to fix those sidewalks,
Speaker 7: we won't be able to help our overcrowded animal shelters,
Speaker 7: and they just need to be upfront about it. But
Speaker 7: of course being transparent and honest about that is not
Speaker 7: politically you know, looks good for them. So but that's
Speaker 7: what needs to happen, and that's that's my job as
Speaker 7: a city controller is to provide that transparency and that sunlight.
Speaker 4: Kenneth Mahia is the La City Controller, and we're talking
Speaker 4: about overspending, but you came out with some analysis this
Speaker 4: week that points to a rare case of underspending in
Speaker 4: the city government and it's related to homelessness. You say,
Speaker 4: in the last fiscal year, which would have run from
Speaker 4: July one of twenty twenty three to June thirtieth of
Speaker 4: this year, that the city budgeted one point three billion
Speaker 4: dollars for homelessness, but it spent under six hundred million
Speaker 4: of that. So what does that mean exactly? You know,
Speaker 4: we think about government saving money, we might pad it
Speaker 4: on the back a bit, but that this seems to
Speaker 4: be an area of concern, right.
Speaker 7: And just to explain to listeners, because you know, while
Speaker 7: the City of La is broke, it's important to understand
Speaker 7: how the city is funded. So the City of La
Speaker 7: is funded by the general fund and by hundreds.
Speaker 8: Of special funds.
Speaker 7: The city going broke is more related to the general fund.
Speaker 7: That's where the reserve fund is. That's where you know,
Speaker 7: the funds of the department pays all the liabilities. That's
Speaker 7: the one that's in trouble, which you know we were
Speaker 7: just talking about the last ten minutes.
Speaker 8: These hundreds of special funds.
Speaker 7: These are special funds that come from you know, restricted
Speaker 7: sources like state grants for example, or the federal government,
Speaker 7: and they can only be used for that specific purpose,
Speaker 7: so like homelessness for example. Right, So majority of that
Speaker 7: underspending of half a billion dollars, majority of that is
Speaker 7: coming from special funds, like one hundred and eighty five
Speaker 7: million dollars from state grants that went left on the
Speaker 7: table which could have helped with homeless housing assistance and prevention,
Speaker 7: or eighty million dollars which wasn't spent from funds from
Speaker 7: measure or ULA, right, And so these are restricted funds.
Speaker 8: These can roll over to this current fiscal year.
Speaker 7: And so what we're seeing is there is an underspending
Speaker 7: of that amount of money and the money that was
Speaker 7: generally funded like insights safe, that money got reverted back
Speaker 7: to the general fund, but then got reappropriated again to
Speaker 7: spend this fiscal year. So what you're seeing is is
Speaker 7: that for the number one crisis, we're not spending the
Speaker 7: money fast enough, especially dealing with you know this, this
Speaker 7: this homelessness crisis. And so you know, if you connect
Speaker 7: the dots on what the city is overspending on and
Speaker 7: what the city's underspending on, and how the city's finance,
Speaker 7: you get a better picture on how the finances work
Speaker 7: and the city's priorities.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot technicalities and understanding the way a
Speaker 4: municipality is funded, especially one as large as LA.
Speaker 3: And yes, there are a lot of different pools, but.
Speaker 4: Do you have any way to explain to us what
Speaker 4: the homelessness picture might look like in LA had all
Speaker 4: of these funds been expended. Might there be fewer people
Speaker 4: living outside? Might there be fewer areas of town that
Speaker 4: are disrupted by the presence of camps?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I mean you know this this year almost this
Speaker 7: went down by a thousand people. It went down to
Speaker 7: forty five thousand from forty six thousand, and you know,
Speaker 7: that was the first time in a long time that
Speaker 7: we had a decrease, And so, you know, it's just
Speaker 7: important to make sure that we are spending this money,
Speaker 7: especially since voters just approved the measure. A. We need
Speaker 7: to have more accountability and transparency on how those dollars
Speaker 7: are spent, and that's what you know we're here to
Speaker 7: do is try to provide that so people know how
Speaker 7: their money is being spent, especially for the number one
Speaker 7: crisis right now.
Speaker 4: And I know you have to run a controller, but
Speaker 4: before you do, I just want to ask about the
Speaker 4: future relationship between the City of La and the incoming
Speaker 4: President Trump administration. It does look like the La City
Speaker 4: Council is trying to rush a vote on establishing a
Speaker 4: sanctuary city status. We've already seen Governor Newsom call a
Speaker 4: special session to prepare for what he expects to be
Speaker 4: some legal battles against the incoming Trump administration. What impact
Speaker 4: could a hostile relationship with the federal government have on
Speaker 4: the way LA operates financially.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's there's always a risk, right if you know,
Speaker 7: we get we get some funds, some grants from the
Speaker 7: federal government. So depending on you know, how the federal
Speaker 7: government reacts or as a relationship with the city, that
Speaker 7: could definitely be a risk and a concern financially.
Speaker 4: Here, Kendeth Mahia is the La City Controller mister Mihia,
Speaker 4: I know you've got your hands full with the financial
Speaker 4: situation of this, and I do appreciate you taking some
Speaker 4: time to explain it to us.
Speaker 8: Of course, Thank you.
Speaker 4: And when wake Up Call continues here on AM six
Speaker 4: forty KFI a new bottle shop in South Pasadena, maybe
Speaker 4: the first of its kind in the area. All of
Speaker 4: its products are non alcoholic. We're joined by the owner
Speaker 4: to talk about the strategy and dry weather. Southland weather
Speaker 4: from KFI. A foggy and cloudy start to the day
Speaker 4: before the sun comes out a little bit with partly
Speaker 4: cloudy skies. Will be warmer today too, highs in the
Speaker 4: upper sixties to mid seventies for Metro La and the valleys.
Speaker 4: Cooler on the coasts with highs in the load to
Speaker 4: mid sixties. Mostly sunny today in the Inland Empire with
Speaker 4: highs in the mid to upper seventies. Right now, it's
Speaker 4: forty seven in Villa Park, it's fifty three and our
Speaker 4: Mossa Beach forty nine in La Pama and forty four
Speaker 4: in Diamond Bar.
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Speaker 4: Good morning and happy New Year. It's five thirty three
Speaker 4: on your wake up call. I'm Michael sitting in for
Speaker 4: Amy King on this New Year's Day, the first day
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty five, and here's what we're following in
Speaker 4: the KFI twenty four hour news room. Ten people killed,
Speaker 4: thirty others injured in New Orleans, where a vehicle was
Speaker 4: driven into a crowd at the famous Canal and Bourbon
Speaker 4: Streets in the French Quarter. It happened in the early
Speaker 4: morning hours of this New Year's Day. The city is
Speaker 4: also playing host to the All State Bowl. That's one
Speaker 4: of the college football quarterfinals being held there in that
Speaker 4: city Caesar super Dome, with thousands expected to be in attendance.
Speaker 4: City officials have urged crowds to stay away from the
Speaker 4: French Quarter for now. Firefighters have stopped the forward progress
Speaker 4: of a brush fire in Pacific Palisades. It burned around
Speaker 4: nine acres this morning, starting just after midnight near Via
Speaker 4: Las Pomis and Via La Costa, where the flames and
Speaker 4: wind gus teamed up. LAFD air operations were joined by
Speaker 4: helicopters from the La County Fire Department and making water
Speaker 4: drops on the fire from the air. Tens of thousands
Speaker 4: of people are expected to line the streets of Pasadena
Speaker 4: this morning for the one hundred thirty sixth Rose Parade.
Speaker 4: Its theme is Best Day Ever. The parade starts at
Speaker 4: the corner of Green Street and Orange Grove Boulevard and
Speaker 4: then makes its traditional five and a half mile posession
Speaker 4: along Colorado Boulevard. Billy Jean King, a tennis legend and
Speaker 4: lifelong advocate of gender equality in sports, is the Grand Marshal.
Speaker 4: Coming up at the top of the hour six oh five.
Speaker 4: As always, we've got Handle on the news right now.
Speaker 4: Handle still on vacation. He'll be back soon. Wayne Resnick,
Speaker 4: our good buddy, is in for Bill this morning. I'll
Speaker 4: be with them. You can join us as well. Coming
Speaker 4: up at five point fifty. There's a trend that emerged
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four. I'm wondering if you were a
Speaker 4: part of it. Maybe people with a little more money,
Speaker 4: higher earners, wealthier customers turning to Walmart, and why the
Speaker 4: company thinks it can keep them. But first, there's a
Speaker 4: new bottle shop in South Pasadena. You're not gonna find
Speaker 4: your favorite booze there. It's a non alcoholic bottle shop
Speaker 4: called Burden of Proof. It's owned by Dean Peterson and
Speaker 4: Obriona McReynolds. Obriona mc reynolds, thank you so much for
Speaker 4: taking the time to talk to us today.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: My understanding is that Burden of Proof is the first
Speaker 4: non alcoholic bottle shop in South Pasadena. I guess if
Speaker 4: I'm opening a business, I'm doing some research on demand
Speaker 4: before I do that.
Speaker 3: So if you're the first, have you identified that there
Speaker 3: is demand for.
Speaker 9: This, well, I you know, when you're starting a business,
Speaker 9: it's sort of one of a kind, you're going on
Speaker 9: hunch a lot. But there is an incredible growing demand
Speaker 9: just across basically all demographics for non alcoholics. The non
Speaker 9: alcoholic beer Athletic Brewing is the top seller at Whole
Speaker 9: Foods compared to all other beers. So this category is
Speaker 9: definitely on the rise. As far as choosing South Pasadena,
Speaker 9: my partner and I we started the business together. We're
Speaker 9: both in our late thirties. We're starting to slow down.
Speaker 9: We're starting to sort of reconsider our relationships with alcohol
Speaker 9: and what you know, maybe operating in a low level
Speaker 9: hangover for a couple of years. Pulds us back from
Speaker 9: doing and Our hypothesis was that South Pasadena is such
Speaker 9: a community and family focused place where you know, folks
Speaker 9: are maybe moving a little bit east, slowing down a
Speaker 9: little bit, and anywhere there are people sort of entering
Speaker 9: that next phase of life, especially parents. I think this
Speaker 9: demand is extra high because you just want to like
Speaker 9: be present, you know.
Speaker 4: So we hear about dry January every time the new
Speaker 4: year rolls around, a time where people maybe take a
Speaker 4: break from drinking alcohol. What are your recommendations for folks
Speaker 4: who are thinking about exploring that?
Speaker 9: M Well, I would say entry level non alcoholics. Stick
Speaker 9: with what you know you like, so think about Okay,
Speaker 9: maybe I'm a costail person or maybe I'm a red
Speaker 9: wine person. I would say those are the places to start,
Speaker 9: just because those are familiar flavors that you can sort
Speaker 9: of track down. At burden of Proof, we always have
Speaker 9: some bottles open to sample too, so I know it
Speaker 9: can be very intimidating to get to this space and
Speaker 9: have no idea what something's going to taste like. So
Speaker 9: I think that education and getting to taste piece is
Speaker 9: really important. So start with what you know, and then
Speaker 9: I would invite people who are feeling a little more
Speaker 9: courageous to perhaps level up to something new and unfamiliar.
Speaker 9: So there's a lot of what we call analogs in
Speaker 9: the NA space. So that's like the one to one
Speaker 9: non alcoholic whiskey, beer wine, But then there's also this
Speaker 9: whole category of drinks that aren't necessarily trying to replicate
Speaker 9: as the like alcoholics version, but just kind of be
Speaker 9: their own thing. Maybe scratch the itch that, you know,
Speaker 9: if you're craving a whiskey, maybe you want something you're
Speaker 9: slowly sipping, you know, in front of the fireplace. There
Speaker 9: are a whole category of brigs that will kind of
Speaker 9: help you scratch whatever itch it is, but without you know,
Speaker 9: being imitating something else. So I think start with what
Speaker 9: you know and then experiment, you know, with some unfamiliar things,
Speaker 9: because I think that's the most exciting category in this
Speaker 9: space because there's so much room for creativity and if
Speaker 9: you're not like aiming for a specific target, you're just
Speaker 9: building something that's going to taste really good.
Speaker 4: So is this anything like people who maybe dip their
Speaker 4: toes in vegetarianism, but they really want to eat something
Speaker 4: that looks like a sausage.
Speaker 9: Yeah, totally. So people have absolutely compared it. It's sort
Speaker 9: of like, Okay, if you're dipping your toe and vegetarian,
Speaker 9: do you want the veggie burger that's got all that
Speaker 9: you know, meat, feel and flavor. And some people say yes,
Speaker 9: And so I would say, okay, go for an in
Speaker 9: a analog and non alcoholic beer, a non alcoholic whiskey.
Speaker 9: Some people are like, no, I'm dipping a toe in
Speaker 9: vegetarianism because I don't want to eat meat. I don't
Speaker 9: want that flavor. So in that case, like okay, have
Speaker 9: a delicious grain bowl or something. And that's sort of
Speaker 9: where I would steer people to try one of these
Speaker 9: just standalone spirits. A big part of them is functional beverages.
Speaker 9: So those are ones with adaptogens, new topics that kind
Speaker 9: of make you feel a little something, which is what
Speaker 9: people miss. Yeah, So I mean that's a good way
Speaker 9: to think about it. Like meatless Monday, maybe we could
Speaker 9: try Dry January.
Speaker 4: Our guest is Obriona mcreynold's co owner of the new
Speaker 4: non alcoholic bottle shop called Burden of Proof. It can
Speaker 4: be found in South Pasadena, especially as we head into
Speaker 4: Dry January, where people maybe take a break from drinking
Speaker 4: alcohol for about a month. You hinted at this moment
Speaker 4: ago Obrianna. Your husband, Dean Peterson, who owns this shop
Speaker 4: with you, you'll met during the pandemic, and drinking was
Speaker 4: a big part of the pandemic as people were staying home.
Speaker 4: It was a lot of what people were posting on
Speaker 4: social and how they were getting through and coping with
Speaker 4: this very weird time in our lives. What impact did
Speaker 4: that have on you and your relationship with alcohol today.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a great question. I mean, we were well
Speaker 9: stocked during the pandemic. Dean and I had our first
Speaker 9: date on Zoom summer twenty twenty, and then our relationship
Speaker 9: kind of developed from there. And like you said, there
Speaker 9: was nothing to do but drink, So every time we
Speaker 9: would spend time together, it was, you know, just the
Speaker 9: natural thing to have a six packet cider or a
Speaker 9: bottle of wine. And so when coming out of the pandemic,
Speaker 9: Dean had a medical diagnosis and had to stop drinking
Speaker 9: kind of overnight, and then I, you know, cut back
Speaker 9: out of solidarity, and I think we had both expected
Speaker 9: to feel really deprived or like, ah, the world's opening up,
Speaker 9: but I guess we can't participate you know, not going
Speaker 9: to go to a party again, not going to go
Speaker 9: to a bar again. But it was actually kind of
Speaker 9: the opposite. I was surprised by just how good I felt,
Speaker 9: and I think I realized during the pandemic I had
Speaker 9: been lightly hung over for years and years, so it
Speaker 9: wasn't necessarily like a giving up of something, but kind
Speaker 9: of opened our eyes to this space. And then we
Speaker 9: got really into actually discovering and exploring and tasting all
Speaker 9: the products that were coming out around that time. And yeah,
Speaker 9: now I'm just so happy to never be hungover again.
Speaker 9: Like that's just the best thing. I feel like a craft.
Speaker 3: Code for sure. What has the response been. How's business been?
Speaker 9: It's been really busy. Like I alluded to, starting a
Speaker 9: business is just positing a number of hypotheses and then
Speaker 9: being like, well, okay, we made an educated guest. Let's
Speaker 9: see if that's correct. And so far, one month into business,
Speaker 9: it definitely feels like we made the right choice. South
Speaker 9: Pasadena is really responding. I mean, it's such a community
Speaker 9: that loves small business. But we've had so many families
Speaker 9: come in, people bring their kids, people bring their parents
Speaker 9: and grandparents and really spread the word. And my most
Speaker 9: exciting piece is like seeing repeat customers come in, so
Speaker 9: we have regulars and people are just so excited. There
Speaker 9: are multiple people who walk in and just sort of
Speaker 9: say something along the lines of, oh my god, I
Speaker 9: didn't know this could exist. And that's exactly what we
Speaker 9: were hoping to create, just a place where people who
Speaker 9: maybe don't drink for whatever reason can walk in and think,
Speaker 9: oh my god, I can have everything here instead of Okay,
Speaker 9: where's my little tiny shelf in the grocery store. I
Speaker 9: can choose from these three options. Yeah, and it seems
Speaker 9: like it's really resonated. So we're excited for dry January
Speaker 9: and also revamping the back of the store really quickly
Speaker 9: so we can have more storage space and be sure
Speaker 9: to keep everything in stock.
Speaker 4: Obrionna McReynolds is co owner of Burden of Proof along
Speaker 4: with her husband Dean Peterson, that can be found in
Speaker 4: South Pasadena, where it is hailed as the city's first
Speaker 4: non alcoholic bottle shop. Obrianna cheers to you and Dean,
Speaker 4: best of luck and best wishes in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 9: Thank you you, Happy New Year, and good morning.
Speaker 3: It is five forty eight on your wake up call.
Speaker 4: I'm Michael Monk, sitting in for Amy King here on
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty and live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4: We are following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom
Speaker 4: this situation out of New Orleans where police say at
Speaker 4: least ten people have been killed thirty others injured in
Speaker 4: a mass casualty incident. They say a car was driven
Speaker 4: into a crowd on the city's canal in Bourbon Streets
Speaker 4: at the French.
Speaker 8: Quarter, a medical street called B Streets.
Speaker 9: On twenty thirty nine.
Speaker 4: Will we say a pickup truck plowed into a group
Speaker 4: of people celebrating New Year's in that French Quarter early
Speaker 4: this morning. They say the driver has been killed. The
Speaker 4: mayor there has referred to this as a terrorist attack,
Speaker 4: although the FBI has not confirmed that it is an
Speaker 4: official terrorist event. The FBI did say it an improvised
Speaker 4: explosive device was found nearby and they are handling the investigation.
Speaker 4: Coming up at the top of the hour around six
Speaker 4: TOZHO five. Handle on the news this morning. Wayne Resnick
Speaker 4: is filling in for Bill Handle. I'll be with him
Speaker 4: throughout the six o'clock hour, and we do hope that
Speaker 4: you can join us two as we discuss all the
Speaker 4: big story shaping the news on this first day of
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: I'm wondering if one of.
Speaker 4: Your resolutions this year is to get in shape and
Speaker 4: lose weight. It is by far the number one New
Speaker 4: Year's resolution. Healthy living expert doctor Matt Chalmers warns us
Speaker 4: not to bite off more than we can chew, and
Speaker 4: says start slow by building up your exercise routine instead
Speaker 4: of jumping into tough workouts.
Speaker 6: Getting started is critical, so if we can just make
Speaker 6: small changes today, they lead to giant changes in the future.
Speaker 4: Chalmers says just getting on a treadmill or walking outside
Speaker 4: for twenty minutes at least three times a week is
Speaker 4: a great place to start. A US News and World
Speaker 4: Reports study shows about eighty percent of New Year's resolutions
Speaker 4: fail by February.
Speaker 3: Chalmers says he has some idea about why.
Speaker 6: Typically because the plan is either too big or too
Speaker 6: aggressive for what they can actually sustain, and so the
Speaker 6: plans aren't put together really well, and so they fall
Speaker 6: apart just from that reson.
Speaker 4: So good luck to you if that's one of your goals.
Speaker 4: Just give yourself some space, give yourself some grace. Today's
Speaker 4: the first day of a new you get on it.
Speaker 4: Good luck. Who were the winners and losers in big
Speaker 4: retail and restaurants last year? Yeah, we called twenty twenty
Speaker 4: four last year. Now the AP has compiled a list.
Speaker 4: I want to see if it matches your spending experience
Speaker 4: last year. The AP says shoppers and diners were especially
Speaker 4: choosy in twenty twenty four about where and how to
Speaker 4: spend their money as Americans dealt with high housing high
Speaker 4: food prices, and that was good news for places like Walmart.
Speaker 4: Places like Aldi, which target economically stringent customers. Fast food
Speaker 4: or cooking at home was more popular than eating it
Speaker 4: sit down restaurants. Department stores like Macy's struggled, while cheaper
Speaker 4: chains like H and M did well. It seems people
Speaker 4: also moved away from buying furniture or investing in expensive renovations. Instead,
Speaker 4: people opted to freshen up their spaces with new frames
Speaker 4: and new candles. Course Site Research tracked forty eight retail
Speaker 4: bankruptcies in the US, nearly double the twenty twenty the
Speaker 4: twenty five it counted in twenty twenty three. At least
Speaker 4: twenty two restaurant chains filed for bankruptcy. That's the highest
Speaker 4: number since twenty twenty. We all know what was happening
Speaker 4: that year. So here's some listed companies as compiled by
Speaker 4: the AP. Among the winners, Walmart. They always do well
Speaker 4: when the economy is tough. Shoppers turned to Walmart for groceries,
Speaker 4: which now account for about sixty percent of Walmart's business.
Speaker 4: And here's the interesting point, people who make more money
Speaker 4: have also turned to Walmart. Just like in the two
Speaker 4: thousand and eight Great Recession, households with income of one
Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars or more started to make up more
Speaker 4: of Walmart shoppers in twenty twenty four. This time, Walmart
Speaker 4: thinks it can keep those customers because they've added more
Speaker 4: online services and more stylish clothes and mannequins.
Speaker 3: That's what it takes.
Speaker 4: Apparently, Amazon was also declared a winner by the AP,
Speaker 4: and November it opened Amazon Hall. This is a place
Speaker 4: for folks looking for bargains, looking for deals. It's a new,
Speaker 4: low cost online storefront featuring electronics, apparel, other products, all
Speaker 4: listed below twenty dollars, and the company said it's Prime
Speaker 4: Day event in July also resulted in record sales. Amazon
Speaker 4: could have some trouble this year, though, with the threats
Speaker 4: from President elect Trump about tariffs on products from China,
Speaker 4: as well as its own labor issues.
Speaker 3: Some fast casual chains also did well.
Speaker 4: These are the types of restaurants that are a step
Speaker 4: up from fast food, but they are still a little
Speaker 4: cheaper than the sit down place, says think. Places like
Speaker 4: Shape Shack, Cava Wish is a Mediterranean food chain. We've
Speaker 4: got some locations here in southern California. It says its
Speaker 4: revenue was up thirty three percent. Chipautle was in trouble
Speaker 4: at one point for skimping on its meat last year,
Speaker 4: but then it retrained its workers to ensure quote consistent
Speaker 4: and generous portions and McDonald's. Rough start for McDonald's in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four inflation kept a lot of people home,
Speaker 4: but then McDonald's brought out its five dollars meal deal
Speaker 4: and lower income customers started to return. The company says
Speaker 4: more value is coming this year. It's also working to
Speaker 4: get customers back after a little E Coli outbreak linked
Speaker 4: to raw onions at its quarter Pounders made at least
Speaker 4: one hundred and four people sick across fourteen States who
Speaker 4: were the big losers last year. Let's start with Target.
Speaker 4: Unlike Walmart, Target is more reliant on what is called
Speaker 4: discretionary items like clothes because less than a quarter of
Speaker 4: its sales come from groceries. Remembers sixty percent of Walmart
Speaker 4: sales are now groceries. Target has a reputation for being
Speaker 4: a little more expensive, and analysts say its merchandise has
Speaker 4: lately been in disarray. Still, Target did draw some crowds
Speaker 4: on Black Friday with exclusive Taylor Swift products.
Speaker 3: Starbucks also listed among the losers.
Speaker 4: Orders are getting increasingly complex, leading to long lines and
Speaker 4: incorrect pickup times on the mobile app, and the new
Speaker 4: offerings like olive oil infused coffee didn't attract customers. Wonder why,
Speaker 4: and the customers have also grown tired of starbucks high prices.
Speaker 4: Starbucks has hired a new CEO to help turn things around,
Speaker 4: but it's also got labor issues, as we saw just
Speaker 4: last month right here in southern California, Red Lobster, TGI, Fridays,
Speaker 4: Buka to Beppo all filed for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection
Speaker 4: last year, closing dozens of locations. They are among the
Speaker 4: legacy restaurants listed as losers from last year. Also big
Speaker 4: ticket items on the loser list. You might remember at
Speaker 4: the height of the coronavirus pandemic, a lot of us
Speaker 4: were taking advantage of low interest rates and all that
Speaker 4: stimulus money that we were handed were modeling our homes,
Speaker 4: making other big purchases.
Speaker 3: But last year everybody pulled back.
Speaker 4: That's been a challenge for retailers like Best Buy, and
Speaker 4: that company has noted lower sales of appliances, home theaters,
Speaker 4: gaming equipment, Home Depot and Lows also say their sales
Speaker 4: are low, particularly for discretionary kitchen and bathroom remodeling projects.
Speaker 4: Department stores also struggling, colls eleven consecutive quarters of sales declines.
Speaker 4: Macy's we already know they're in trouble. They're going to
Speaker 4: close one hundred and fifty of its namesake stores over
Speaker 4: three years, including some local ones. The one in downtown
Speaker 4: LA also slated to close. Nordstrom, though, on the other hand,
Speaker 4: had a better than expected fiscal year due to largely
Speaker 4: soaring sales at Nordstrom Rack. There is no trading on
Speaker 4: Wall Street today in observance of New Year's Day. The
Speaker 4: stocks did close slightly lower yesterday, but it was an
Speaker 4: otherwise winning year. Stock slipped as investors took profits in
Speaker 4: the final few trading days of twenty twenty four. The
Speaker 4: S and P five hundred serge more than twenty percent
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four. The Dow and Nasdaq also posted
Speaker 4: solid annual gains. At Tuesday's closing bell yesterday, the Dow
Speaker 4: jo In Industrial average lost twenty nine points, the S
Speaker 4: and P five hundred fell twenty five and the NASDAK
Speaker 4: dropped one hundred seventy six. And wages are about to
Speaker 4: go up for millions. A total of twenty one states
Speaker 4: are raising their wage floors as the new year gets started.
Speaker 4: The payhikes are expected to affect more than nine million workers.
Speaker 4: Once the pay hikes are enacted, Washington will become the
Speaker 4: state with the highest minimum wage at sixteen dollars and
Speaker 4: sixty six cents an hour New York. In California we'll
Speaker 4: share in second place, offering workers sixteen to fifty minimum.
Speaker 4: And there are some new laws in effect today. We've
Speaker 4: discussed a lot of them in the newscast leading up
Speaker 4: to today, but here are some that you really need
Speaker 4: to know about. Assembly Bill seventeen ninety seven makes the
Speaker 4: dungeness crab the official California crustacean. Don't you feel better
Speaker 4: about California right now?
Speaker 3: Abe? Eighteen fifty now?
Speaker 5: Lol?
Speaker 4: That makes the banana slug the state's official slug. And
Speaker 4: here you thought it was your ex And ab two
Speaker 4: five zero four makes the black abalone the state's official seashell.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 4: We have new state crustaceans, slug and seashell as of
Speaker 4: January first, twenty twenty five, which is today New Year's Day.
Speaker 4: So happy New Year to you and yours. Did you
Speaker 4: raise a glass last night at midnight? Did you kiss someone?
Speaker 4: Did you sing ald laying zime? What does that song mean?
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 4: Experts say the eighteenth century Scottish poem can be roughly
Speaker 4: translated to say old long sense or basically, for old
Speaker 4: times sake, I read in Yahoo. Robert Burns, the poet,
Speaker 4: was trying to preserve the Scottish language and culture after
Speaker 4: Scotland and England formed the United Kingdom. So Burns traveled
Speaker 4: the country and collected old Scott's poetry and songs, including
Speaker 4: Old Langsyne. His version was published in seventeen ninety six.
Speaker 4: So who made it popular in America.
Speaker 3: Sit a queen es be fuck Guta, No, not her.
Speaker 4: She's still the Queen of Christmas, not New Year's yet
Speaker 4: here in the US, it was apparently a Canadian bandleader
Speaker 4: who made it popular. Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadian
Speaker 4: Big Band played it on a New Year's Eve broadcast
Speaker 4: back in nineteen twenty nine. In nineteen sixty five Lombardo's
Speaker 4: Old Life magazine. He came from a part of western
Speaker 4: Ontario where there's a large Scottish population, and it was
Speaker 4: traditional for bands to end every dance with ald langzine.
Speaker 4: And now who could imagine a New Year's celebration without
Speaker 4: the song. It's a big part of our culture, including
Speaker 4: our pop culture, as evidenced by this famous scene from
Speaker 4: the movie when Harry met Sally.
Speaker 3: What does the song mean?
Speaker 8: My whole life?
Speaker 3: I don't know what this song means. I mean, should
Speaker 3: old acquaintance be forgotten? Does that mean that we should
Speaker 3: forget old acquaintances?
Speaker 2: And doesn't mean that if we happen to forget them,
Speaker 2: we should remember them, which is not possible because we've
Speaker 2: already forgot.
Speaker 7: Well, maybe it just means that we should remember that
Speaker 7: we forgot them or something.
Speaker 9: Anyways about old friends?
Speaker 4: Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?
Speaker 4: Should old acquaintance be forgot? An old lang zine for
Speaker 4: old lang zine, My dear for old lang zine. Will
Speaker 4: take a cup of kindness yet for old lang zine.
Speaker 4: So here it is Wednesday, January first, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: Good morning to you and happy New Year, Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: I am Michael Monks filling in for Amy King on
Speaker 4: this wake Up Call, and this is KFI and KOST
Speaker 4: HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
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