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Speaker 1: Today's Earth Day, April twenty second. I think I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: Also, I told you guys last week that I tripped
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Speaker 3: Here's what's the head on wake up call. Hundreds of City.
Speaker 1: Of la employees could be out of a job under
Speaker 1: Mayor's Bass's budget proposal. During her State of the City
Speaker 1: address yesterday, Mayor Bass said the city could lay off
Speaker 1: about sixteen hundred workers to help deal with a nearly
Speaker 1: one billion dollar budget deficit in the upcoming fiscal year.
Speaker 1: Harvard has sued the Trump administration to get back more
Speaker 1: than two billion dollars in federal funding frozen by the administration. Meantime,
Speaker 1: the administration is looking at blocking another billion dollars in funding.
Speaker 1: The IRS is moving to remove the Ivy League University's
Speaker 1: tax exempt status as well. The Vatican says Pope Francis
Speaker 1: died of a stroke. The stroke left him in a
Speaker 1: coma and he suffered what doctors say was an irreversible
Speaker 1: cardio circulatory collapse. He made his final appearance before thousands
Speaker 1: of faithful on the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica on
Speaker 1: Easter Sunday. The Pope's body will lie in state at
Speaker 1: the Basilica starting tomorrow. ABC's Karen Travers is going to
Speaker 1: join us to talk about travel plans, who's going to
Speaker 1: the funeral and when it is, and.
Speaker 3: Then what's next.
Speaker 1: Doctor Michael Gregor says he's got more than one hundred
Speaker 1: recipes that are going to help you get healthier and
Speaker 1: live longer, and.
Speaker 3: Who doesn't want that?
Speaker 1: Right, We're going to be talking to him about his
Speaker 1: How Not To Age cookbook Coming up at five twenty
Speaker 1: I Deserved. As I mentioned, one young woman wants change
Speaker 1: and canfi's Andrew Caravell is going to tell us how
Speaker 1: she plans to do it, one song at a time. Also,
Speaker 1: the host of How To Money, coming up before the
Speaker 1: top of the hour, will be talking about eight K
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Speaker 3: Well, so price.
Speaker 1: Locks sound like a good thing, but are they? And
Speaker 1: Joel's going to talk about the return of Overdraft fees.
Speaker 1: It's all coming up. Let's get started with some of
Speaker 1: the story coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: The mayor's budget proposal includes laying off more than sixteen
Speaker 1: hundred city workers.
Speaker 8: Basays she hopes to avoid these layoffs and plans to
Speaker 8: go to Sacramento this week to talk to lawmakers about
Speaker 8: a state bailout. But she's also proposing consolidating multiple departments
Speaker 8: to help close an estimated billion dollar budget deficit.
Speaker 9: Because we must have fundamental change starting now and moving.
Speaker 8: Forward, Bass has recommended an increase to the fire department's
Speaker 8: budget and an additional two hundred and seventy seven positions.
Speaker 8: She expects the police department to shrink even more over
Speaker 8: the coming year. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: LA County Supervisor Catherine Barger says she plans to make
Speaker 1: sure that repermitting in the Altadena fire burn zones doesn't
Speaker 1: take any longer than thirty days. Barger tells KFI the
Speaker 1: fragmentation of different departments to review the same permit application
Speaker 1: for two weeks each is now history.
Speaker 4: There's no reason it should take any longer, none, especially
Speaker 4: when a lot of people are doing life for Life
Speaker 4: mean they're building to the same ware footage as prior.
Speaker 1: Barger says she'll be keeping close tabs on the permitting
Speaker 1: process to make sure people's applications don't get dragged out unnecessarily.
Speaker 1: Secondhand stores could win big because of tariffs.
Speaker 10: President Trump's stairs are expected to drive up new clothing costsins.
Speaker 10: Nearly all shoes and apparels sold in the US are imports.
Speaker 10: Higher prices may send shoppers to online resale sites and
Speaker 10: consignment stores in search of deals or to turn wardrobes
Speaker 10: into cash. Popular resale platforms Rebag and Poshmark are preparing
Speaker 10: for more business with expansion and marketing plans. Debor Mark
Speaker 10: koff I News.
Speaker 1: Homeboy Industries has gone to the dogs, opening Homeboy Puppy Fades,
Speaker 1: its first dog grooming business. Homeboy Industries has been rehabilitating
Speaker 1: and putting former gang members to work since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 3: They do such good work.
Speaker 1: They now have bakeries, cafes, They have the Pepito coffee
Speaker 1: shop that opened up in Pasadena that we've told you about,
Speaker 1: k Tering farmers' markets, and of course Homeboys famous chips
Speaker 1: and salsa. Father Boyle, who founded Homeboys industry says plans
Speaker 1: are to open more dog grooming businesses around LA by
Speaker 1: the end of this year. Let's say good morning now
Speaker 1: to ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen, Plans are being put
Speaker 1: in place for the funeral of Pope Francis. They just
Speaker 1: announced the date and President Trump and First Lady Milania
Speaker 1: will attend.
Speaker 11: Yes The President said yesterday that he and the First
Speaker 11: Lady will be going to Pope Francis's funeral in Rome
Speaker 11: that the Vatican had announced will take place now it
Speaker 11: Saturday morning, ten o'clock Rome time. The President said in
Speaker 11: a social media post yesterday, we look forward to being there.
Speaker 11: He signed an executive order yesterday to have the flags
Speaker 11: flown across the nation at half staff to mark the
Speaker 11: death of Pope Francis, a sign of respect.
Speaker 4: He gave brief remarks.
Speaker 11: Yesterday at the Easter egg Rolls, standing on a balcony there,
Speaker 11: saying that Pope Francis was a good man, he worked hard,
Speaker 11: he loved world, and he later told reporters that he,
Speaker 11: especially the Pope especially love people who are having a
Speaker 11: hard time. And as the President said, that's good with me.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: You mentioned that he signed an executive order.
Speaker 1: I didn't know they had to have an executive order
Speaker 1: to have flags fly at half staff.
Speaker 11: It's like a formality thing a president has to do it.
Speaker 11: They put out the official release like that exactly.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting to me because I think until the
Speaker 1: last few administrations, they used to do lots of executive orders,
Speaker 1: but they were all small, more like that's more of
Speaker 1: a housekeeping thing, you know, than these big, broad things
Speaker 1: that we're seeing now.
Speaker 3: I think it's kind of interesting that.
Speaker 11: You know, he's doing this because Congress isn't doing legislation.
Speaker 11: I mean, this is because the president wants to show action,
Speaker 11: you know, showing that he is signing things, whether or
Speaker 11: not it's big things tariffs or modest things that maybe
Speaker 11: are going to immediately get challenged in court. You know,
Speaker 11: there isn't legislation that versus sending him that, you know,
Speaker 11: especially on his big agenda. So this is his way
Speaker 11: to say, look what we're doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So back to the pope. Sorry, got side fright.
Speaker 1: So for his funeral, which they just announced is going
Speaker 1: to be Saturday, are is kind of everybody from around
Speaker 1: the world coming to this?
Speaker 3: Is everybody invited?
Speaker 11: I don't know, that's something that the Vatican handles. We
Speaker 11: haven't seen yet who else would be going. It was
Speaker 11: just a president saying yesterday he would be attending. You know,
Speaker 11: I would think they extend the invitations to world leaders dignitaries,
Speaker 11: as we've seen in previous passings of popes. I think
Speaker 11: it'd be notable to see if former President Biden goes.
Speaker 11: He had a very close relationship with Pope Francis. President
Speaker 11: Obama knew him as well, not the same way that
Speaker 11: President Biden did, but you know, it's a chance for
Speaker 11: those presidents to pay their respects to somebody that they
Speaker 11: met with in Washington.
Speaker 1: Absolutely someone who worked to change the world. ABC's Karen Travers,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the info today. Have a
Speaker 1: great day, all right, you two, Let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. Former Fox News host Steve Hilton says
Speaker 1: he's going to run for governor of California. He says
Speaker 1: he's been thinking about it for a while now.
Speaker 4: I think this is the best shot we have in
Speaker 4: twenty years the really turning things around in California and
Speaker 4: getting the change that we so desperately need.
Speaker 1: Hilton served as an advisor to former British Prime Minister
Speaker 1: David Cameron. His campaign will kick off officially today. He
Speaker 1: is running as a Republican. Harvard University is suing the
Speaker 1: Trump administration over its move to freeze more than two
Speaker 1: billion dollars in federal funding. ABC's Peter Haralambus says the
Speaker 1: lawsuit is the latest salvo in the administration's efforts to
Speaker 1: force policy changes at some of the biggest universities.
Speaker 4: Harvard argues that by freezing more than two billion dollars
Speaker 4: in funding, the Trump administration violated the First Amendment, broke
Speaker 4: federal law, and imperiled life saving medical research.
Speaker 1: Harvard's president and says the lawsuit is necessary to push
Speaker 1: back against what he describes as unprecedented and illegal government overreach.
Speaker 1: The wife of former New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez
Speaker 1: has been convicted of teaming up with her husband to
Speaker 1: accept bribes of cash, gold bars, and a luxury car
Speaker 1: from three New jerseymen looking for help with their business
Speaker 1: dealings or legal troubles. Nadine Menendez was found guilty yesterday
Speaker 1: on all fifteen charges against her. Bob Mendez is supposed
Speaker 1: to start serving his eleven year prison term in June.
Speaker 1: Delta flight has caught fire just before takeoff in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: The fire started in an engine tail pipe as the
Speaker 1: Atlanta bound plane pushed back from the gate. This passenger
Speaker 1: says people were yelling fire.
Speaker 8: Kids are having panic attacks, you know, moms and dads
Speaker 8: are worried about the kids, grabbing over the kids.
Speaker 1: As firefighters hose down the wing, the plane was emptied out,
Speaker 1: with passengers going down slides and stairs. Gartment of Education
Speaker 1: is going to start collections next month on student loans
Speaker 1: in defaults.
Speaker 7: Roughly five point three million borrowers are in default on
Speaker 7: their federal student loans, and starting May fifth, the Education
Speaker 7: Department will begin involuntary collection through the Treasury Department's Offset program,
Speaker 7: which withholds payments from the government, including tax refunds, federal salaries,
Speaker 7: and other benefits from people with past due debts to
Speaker 7: the government after a thirty day notice. The department will
Speaker 7: also begin garnishing wages for borrowers in default. Mark ronor
Speaker 7: KFI News.
Speaker 1: META says it's cracking down on teenagers who lie about
Speaker 1: their age. ABC's Mike Debuski says Meta rolled out teen
Speaker 1: accounts last year that limit who can see and message
Speaker 1: teenagers on its platform.
Speaker 12: Using artificial intelligence. Meta now says it's going to automatically
Speaker 12: place users suspected of being under age into a more
Speaker 12: restrictive form of account on Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 1: Meta also says it's giving people the option to change
Speaker 1: their settings in case it makes a mistake. Generation X,
Speaker 1: often dubbed the Forgotten Generation, could be getting a rebrand.
Speaker 13: And it's all thanks to the hit nineteen eighty five
Speaker 13: film The Goonies. Reports say the Generation Gooney trend on
Speaker 13: TikTok has gone viral. Users feel like Generation Gooney captures
Speaker 13: the adventurous and independent spirit of people born from nineteen
Speaker 13: seventy to nineteen eighty five better than Gen X. Those
Speaker 13: are the kids that grew up biking with friends, playing
Speaker 13: outside all day, and living life without phones or social media.
Speaker 13: Many are embracing the new label, while others aren't quite ready.
Speaker 2: To give up the X.
Speaker 3: Heather Brooker KFI.
Speaker 1: News, the Goonies generation seriously come on, people, LA Archbishop
Speaker 1: Jose Gomez has remembered Pope Francis at Easter Monday Mass
Speaker 1: at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in
Speaker 1: downtown LA. He said Francis had impact in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and around the world, and all Catholics should continue Francis's
Speaker 1: work by helping those in need around the world. The
Speaker 1: Pope's funeral has been set for Saturday. Long Beach police
Speaker 1: are looking for a men caught on video picking up
Speaker 1: a dog off the ground by its leash, then slamming
Speaker 1: it into the ground several times. He's then seen kicking
Speaker 1: the animal. Pete is offering a five thousand dollars reward
Speaker 1: for information leading to his arrest and conviction.
Speaker 3: Ah. Doesn't that just make your blood boil.
Speaker 1: Some of the best and some of the least desirable
Speaker 1: places to move to are in California. Consumer affairs is Roseville,
Speaker 1: outside Sacramento is the top city for people to move
Speaker 1: to because of its quality of life, low poverty levels,
Speaker 1: and unemployment rates. Oakland, Berkeley, Lancaster, Almonte, and Los Angeles
Speaker 1: rank among the least desirable cities to move to. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to the author of How Not
Speaker 1: To Age Cookbook. It's doctor Michael Gregor. Good morning, doctor.
Speaker 4: Gregor, Good morning to you.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's just dive right in doctor Gregor, because
Speaker 1: you got some stuff that's gonna well, it's not gonna
Speaker 1: stop us from dying, but it'll keep us healthier and
Speaker 1: help us live longer. So and this sounds like something
Speaker 1: I can totally sink my teeth into. Tell us about
Speaker 1: your book, please.
Speaker 4: Yes, see How Not to Age cookbook based on my
Speaker 4: book How Not to Age, which came out recently. My
Speaker 4: aim with an otage. This creat the most comprehensive anti
Speaker 4: aging book ever written, covering every possible strategy for slowing
Speaker 4: the aging process. It's the longest healthiest life based on
Speaker 4: the best available balance of scientific evidence. And the good
Speaker 4: news is we have tremendous power over our health, death,
Speaker 4: and longevity, and that's the vast majority of premature death
Speaker 4: and disability is preventable with a healthy enough guy. In lifestyle,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of talk recently about how this how
Speaker 1: we're eating all these overprocessed foods and that's causing all
Speaker 1: kinds of problems for us. So does your book basically
Speaker 1: cut that out and get back to basics.
Speaker 4: Yes, we really do need to decrease our take a
Speaker 4: ultra process foods. Based on studies of identical twins only
Speaker 4: about twenty five percent of the difference and lifespan between
Speaker 4: people is determined by genetics. So for what we can
Speaker 4: do over the majority of which we have some control,
Speaker 4: we can look to the blue zones, these areas of
Speaker 4: exceptional longevity around the world where dietary surveys suggest we
Speaker 4: should center our diets around whole plant foods, So we're
Speaker 4: minimizing those processed foods meat, dairy, sugar, eggs, salt, while
Speaker 4: maximizing fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes like beans, flot beans,
Speaker 4: chick bes and lentils, not and theds, mush observes, and spices,
Speaker 4: basically real food that grows out of the ground. Those
Speaker 4: are our healthiest choices.
Speaker 3: Okay, So, like when you're shopping, stick to that center
Speaker 3: section where all the fruits and vegetables are as opposed
Speaker 3: to the aisles where there's all the process stuff.
Speaker 4: We love the producetyle. But then there's also like the
Speaker 4: bulk section where you also get bulkhole grains and holy
Speaker 4: pasta and legums and things. There's lots of healthy food
Speaker 4: if you cannot get distracted by you know, the glaring,
Speaker 4: you know, fluorescent marshmallow cereal staring at you.
Speaker 1: Well, and that doctor Gregor, that's something that I mean, like,
Speaker 1: everybody's really busy today.
Speaker 3: I know that. And this is just me talking that.
Speaker 3: My schedule is really screwy.
Speaker 1: So by four thirty or five o'clock at night, when
Speaker 1: it's time for dinner, because I, you know, eat dinner
Speaker 1: at the same time as a ninety year old, I
Speaker 1: don't want to cook.
Speaker 3: I don't want to do that. So how do you.
Speaker 1: Make it easier for people not to just do the
Speaker 1: grab and go and actually put a meal together?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's why I like batch cooking so much.
Speaker 4: So on a week when you have a little time,
Speaker 4: you can batch cook you know, the whole grains or
Speaker 4: the beans or whatever. So you have things kind of
Speaker 4: ready to eat or ready to just kind of throw together.
Speaker 4: And you know, anyone who thinks, you know, they you know,
Speaker 4: can't eat healthy without being convenient. It has never met
Speaker 4: an apple. Some of they eat. There's the most convenient
Speaker 4: foods you can. You can even eat the wrapper like
Speaker 4: it's like just right there, or you know, microwave a
Speaker 4: sweet potato, or it's like there's simple things that are
Speaker 4: really quick, really easy. And so yeah, we really don't
Speaker 4: need to go to some of those package things which
Speaker 4: have way too much salt sugar out of sects.
Speaker 3: Love the apple analogy.
Speaker 1: That's so perfect, dude, doctor Gregor, Like, why did you
Speaker 1: decide you wanted to do this?
Speaker 3: Like what's the motivation for making this cookbook?
Speaker 4: Oh? Well, you know, you know, I didn't want to
Speaker 4: just be a reference book to the time of days
Speaker 4: is worth thirteen thousand citations, So I really wanted to
Speaker 4: be kind of a day to day grocery stores dial guide.
Speaker 4: I'm making a practice on how to include some of
Speaker 4: the healthiest of healthy foods into one's daily diet. And
Speaker 4: not only is every recipe healthy, including all the desserts,
Speaker 4: every single ingredient of every recipe is healthy. So you know,
Speaker 4: how do you make thing salty without saltur sweet without sugar?
Speaker 4: Those are some of the kind of challenges we face.
Speaker 4: I'm really proud what we're.
Speaker 1: Able to comp Okay, I want to know how do
Speaker 1: you make things salty without salt and sweet without sugar?
Speaker 4: Ah, you use Well, there's lots of ways, but potassium
Speaker 4: based salt substitutes. So using potassium chlorid instead of sodium
Speaker 4: chlorid have been shown me randomized control trial to significantly
Speaker 4: decreased cardiovascular disease risk. And even just a half and
Speaker 4: half blend of regular salt sodium chlorid with that potassium salt,
Speaker 4: which you can buy at any grocery store such that
Speaker 4: you wouldn't even be able to taste the difference can
Speaker 4: significantly improve one's health by helping rower in one's cholesterol,
Speaker 4: I excuse me, one's blood pressure. And so that's one
Speaker 4: of the tricks. Another is in baking and cooking, you
Speaker 4: can use me So, which is kind of a fermented
Speaker 4: soy paste from Asia. It's the only food with with
Speaker 4: substantial mulcile certium that isn't associated with semi cancer risk
Speaker 4: or high blood pressure, the two things we worry about
Speaker 4: when we're getting that too much salt in our diet.
Speaker 1: So there there's other ways to use me So, aside
Speaker 1: from miso soup, which I love.
Speaker 4: Oh right, No, So you can take me so and
Speaker 4: you can use them stir it in to make savory sauces.
Speaker 4: So it has that nice and mommy flavor and has
Speaker 4: that saltiness which can help in a variety of dishes. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: we use me So a lot in the cookbook because
Speaker 4: we really want to find ways to decrease their consumption
Speaker 4: of regular salt.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then doctor Gregor, we're talking to doctor Gregor,
Speaker 1: the author of How Not to Age Cookbook. You've got
Speaker 1: one hundred recipes for getting healthier, living longer. Are they
Speaker 1: hard to make? Or are they quick? Or are they
Speaker 1: user friendly?
Speaker 4: It really spans the gambit. So there are some you know,
Speaker 4: fancy recipes you know for holidays that take some time,
Speaker 4: but there's also a lot of really quick and easy options,
Speaker 4: some things you can prep beforehand. So we shouldn't I mean,
Speaker 4: we shouldn't be faced with that the you know, the
Speaker 4: the choice that you have that you you know, talked
Speaker 4: about before of a you know, am I gonna eat convenient?
Speaker 4: Am I gonna eat healthy? Am I going to you know,
Speaker 4: eat something inexpensive? Or am I gonna eat something healthy?
Speaker 4: You really can have it all, and it may take
Speaker 4: a few weeks for your taste buds to change to
Speaker 4: really appreciate the taste of whole mass of foods. But
Speaker 4: you'd be surprised once we stop you know, you know,
Speaker 4: numbing our palate with hyper salty, hyper sweet, hyper fatty foods.
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, normal natural healthy foods start tasting good,
Speaker 4: like you know, corner of the cob without salt, without butter.
Speaker 4: I mean it's just absolutely unthinkable now, but unbelievably after
Speaker 4: Once your taste buds start to shift, that can be
Speaker 4: incredibly delicious. But you know, the rightest peach in the
Speaker 4: world's gonna taste sour after a bulletfrour loops. But once
Speaker 4: your palate starts to adapt to healthy foods, then you're
Speaker 4: in the best of both worlds taste great and you
Speaker 4: get to live longer. That's what plant based dealing is
Speaker 4: all about.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you say plant based is the way to go,
Speaker 1: What about us meat eaters? I mean, like, can we
Speaker 1: do is it cutting back on it good or do
Speaker 1: we have to go completely plant based?
Speaker 3: Because that's a big ask.
Speaker 4: Oh, we should eat primarily plants, not necessarily exclusively plants.
Speaker 4: So plant based I is really more about just maximizing
Speaker 4: the intake of the healthiest foods. You know, as a
Speaker 4: as a physician, labels like vegetarian and or vegan, I
Speaker 4: mean that just tells me what you don't eat. I
Speaker 4: mean you actually eat vegetables, yes, And look, it doesn't
Speaker 4: matter what you within your birth days, holiday, special occasions.
Speaker 4: But on a day to day basis, we really should
Speaker 4: try to center our diets around you know, natural foods
Speaker 4: from fields, not Factor. It's these unprocessed plant foods.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I can't wait to check out the recipes
Speaker 1: for myself. I know we're waiting for our copies, so
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to look through everything just yet.
Speaker 3: But we will.
Speaker 1: And for people who are interested in How Not To
Speaker 1: Age Cookbook, where can we get more information?
Speaker 3: And of course where can we get the book?
Speaker 4: I mean get the book anywhere. The best place to
Speaker 4: get all books your local public library and you go
Speaker 4: Nutrition Factor or where all my work is available free.
Speaker 1: Okay, Doctor Michael Gregor, author of How Not to Age
Speaker 1: Cookbook one hundred recipes, actually one hundred plus recipes for
Speaker 1: getting healthier and living longer. Always a great idea. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for your time in Info this morning.
Speaker 3: Thank you, all right, take care.
Speaker 1: The LAPD says it's looking for a man who was
Speaker 1: riding a bike and cut down several large trees in
Speaker 1: downtown La. LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman says surveillance video shows
Speaker 1: the guy wearing all dark clothing, riding up to a
Speaker 1: tree on Grand Avenue and cutting it down with a chainsaw,
Speaker 1: and then he cut down several more trees. La Marebath
Speaker 1: says those shade trees will be replaced. The Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Innocence Project is finled a nearly four hundred page petition
Speaker 1: that it says has new information proving convicted killer Scott
Speaker 1: Peterson is innocent and should have his conviction overturned. His wife,
Speaker 1: Lacy Peterson, disappeared from their home in Modesto Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: two thousand and two. Peterson was found guilty of her
Speaker 1: murder in two thousand and four. Prime Video is making
Speaker 1: the Oscar winning movie Conclave available to streams starting today.
Speaker 1: The film centers around the death of a pope and
Speaker 1: the process of electing a new one. Could be of
Speaker 1: particular interest as cardinals from around the world head to
Speaker 1: the Vatican to choose a new pope in the wake
Speaker 1: of Pope Francis's death. Yesterday, at six oh five, it's
Speaker 1: handle on the news. How do you deal with a
Speaker 1: billion dollar deficit? Lots of job cuts. Bill's going to
Speaker 1: be talking about that. It is Earth Day today, and
Speaker 1: there's one young woman in Los Angeles who wants Change.
Speaker 1: In fact, that's the name of her song. Kfi's Andrew
Speaker 1: Caravella tells us how she plans to do it one
Speaker 1: song at a time.
Speaker 2: This Earth Day, and eleven year old musical prodigy is
Speaker 2: turning up the volume on climate action. Nova, a gifted
Speaker 2: young singer songwriter in southern California, has just released Change,
Speaker 2: an original anthem calling on p of all ages to
Speaker 2: protect the planet a law Today.
Speaker 5: Every wait all will come.
Speaker 11: To the West.
Speaker 2: The visually stunning music video was filmed across the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles area and directed by award winning filmmakers by You
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Speaker 2: Ella Hadid, and Mark Ruffalo. The video blends environmental activism
Speaker 2: with upcycled fashion, both visuals and a message of hope,
Speaker 2: all backed by production from music industry heavyweights like Chris Garcia,
Speaker 2: whose resume includes Adel and Lana del Rey.
Speaker 9: The Dream Team directors really helped me to bring my
Speaker 9: vision to life. They planned all of the scenes and
Speaker 9: with others.
Speaker 2: Nova says the song Change is more than just a song,
Speaker 2: It's a movement to wake people up to the everyday
Speaker 2: choices that are impacting our planet.
Speaker 13: I made this.
Speaker 9: Music video because I noticed how we were hurting our
Speaker 9: world left, growing plastic into the ocean and cutting down
Speaker 9: trees without planning new ones. And this is It's really
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Speaker 3: now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe, fresh off an extended vacation.
Speaker 3: Welcome back, Courtney.
Speaker 6: Oh you know, I was thinking the markets would change.
Speaker 6: That wouldn't be so crazy because I took a little
Speaker 6: bit of a break.
Speaker 3: But not the case. Not the case missed it. It
Speaker 3: was missed a whopper yesterday.
Speaker 6: I know, I know, and especially it made me think
Speaker 6: about this morning eight degrees in South Florida. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 6: maybe I should go back there. But President Trump, he
Speaker 6: rattled Wall Street yesterday. He suggested that he has the
Speaker 6: ability to remove FED share J.
Speaker 3: Powell.
Speaker 6: Now, anytime there is any sort of uncertainty, that always
Speaker 6: rattles Wall Street. And the President also warned that the
Speaker 6: economy may slow if the FED doesn't move to cut
Speaker 6: interest rates immediately.
Speaker 3: But see here's the problem.
Speaker 6: Traders are now questioning whether the Federal Reserve can maintain
Speaker 6: its long standing independence because Federal Reserve is always independent
Speaker 6: from the politics. So there's a lot of issues out
Speaker 6: there when we look at what's going on with the
Speaker 6: Federal Reserve. That since stocks lower yesterday, the Dow drop
Speaker 6: nine hundred and seventy two points, but usually when things
Speaker 6: go down, they bounce back again. We are seeing a
Speaker 6: little bit of a rebound this morning, not as big
Speaker 6: as the drop yesterday, so we're not recovering all of
Speaker 6: the losses that we had yesterday, but it's looking pretty
Speaker 6: solid right now. Dow futures are up three hundred and
Speaker 6: twenty points, SMP futures again gaining eight tens of a
Speaker 6: percent in trading.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So something else that's coming out today is Tesla earnings,
Speaker 1: and I from everything I've heard, they're not expecting it
Speaker 1: to be very positive report.
Speaker 9: Hoy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's coming after the closing belt today, so a
Speaker 6: lot of focuses on that. So the results may pressure
Speaker 6: Elon Musk to address all the criticism not only from
Speaker 6: folks on Main Street but folks on Wall Street that
Speaker 6: his political involvement has been hurting his businesses.
Speaker 3: So, for example, last.
Speaker 6: Week Reuter's reported that the EV maker is going to
Speaker 6: delay the launch of its longwaighted lower cost model by
Speaker 6: several months. So investors they were hoping that the stripped
Speaker 6: down version of the model why could revive demand, But
Speaker 6: some people are saying, well, did Elon Musk have his
Speaker 6: eye on the prize there? And also when you look
Speaker 6: at it, Tesla sales are right now at a three
Speaker 6: year low in the first three months of the year,
Speaker 6: and Wall Street analysts all across the board they've been
Speaker 6: slashing all their growth expectations for what they see ahead
Speaker 6: for Tesla, and right now when you look at it,
Speaker 6: Tesla shares have plunged forty four percent this year, So
Speaker 6: a big drop for those shares.
Speaker 3: But a lot of people are going to be focused
Speaker 3: after the bell today.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have a quick question for you. I don't
Speaker 1: know that that's a quick answer, but I know that
Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff that i'd heard before Elon
Speaker 1: started the doge thing, that you know, EV sales had
Speaker 1: kind of leveled off. Is that so maybe there would
Speaker 1: maybe there would have been a little bit of a drop,
Speaker 1: just not this massive one that we're seeing.
Speaker 6: Exactly exactly, No, So it is a generally simple answer
Speaker 6: in a way that a lot of people who wanted
Speaker 6: to get on the board of evs and go out
Speaker 6: and buy them, a lot of people already did. And
Speaker 6: you know, when you buy a car, it's not something
Speaker 6: that you buy every It's kind of like an appliance.
Speaker 6: You buy something, you run it in most cases for
Speaker 6: a couple of years. So that's why we were seeing
Speaker 6: electric vehicles kind of leveling off a bit before, and
Speaker 6: then now this hit where some people are saying, no,
Speaker 6: I don't want to get an EV to be associated
Speaker 6: with Elon Musk and the moves that he has made politically,
Speaker 6: not just in the United States, but all across the
Speaker 6: board too. He's gotten involved in European politics too, and
Speaker 6: that has turned off some buyers in Europe.
Speaker 3: All right, getting in your business, just like we do
Speaker 3: every morning with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks so much, Courtney.
Speaker 3: I'll see you later. All right, take care.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LAPD is
Speaker 1: trying to find a suspected kidnapper who got away during
Speaker 1: a chase in the mid city area of La Police
Speaker 1: got a report of a kidnapping early this morning in
Speaker 1: the area of Seventh Street and Western Avenue. Officers spotted
Speaker 1: a blue Toyota Prius that was described and the driver
Speaker 1: took off The person then ditched the car after dropping
Speaker 1: off the kidnap person near Washington and Howser Boulevards. Police
Speaker 1: have been searching the neighborhood. The La City Council set
Speaker 1: to vote on a motion calling for an analysis of
Speaker 1: homelessness spending and the creation of a public database for
Speaker 1: related programs. If approved, departments would have to report within
Speaker 1: sixty days and quarterly, also on a comprehensive breakdown of
Speaker 1: the city's homelessness budget. Los Padrino's Juvenile Hall and Downy's
Speaker 1: a step closer to closing.
Speaker 10: Los Padrinas was ordered closed in December by the California
Speaker 10: Bord of State and Community Corrections because there are not
Speaker 10: enough staff members to operate safely.
Speaker 3: That order was ignored.
Speaker 10: Now a judge is issued a ruling stay in the
Speaker 10: La County Probation Department is violating the law by continuing
Speaker 10: to operate. The judge did not order Los Padrinos to
Speaker 10: immediately close, but is given the department until early May
Speaker 10: to detail how it will move two hundred and seventy
Speaker 10: juvenile inmates to safer facilities.
Speaker 3: Deborah mark Koffi News.
Speaker 1: Cochella twenty twenty five is barely in the rearview mirror,
Speaker 1: and it's already time to look ahead to the next Coachella.
Speaker 1: Organizers say the twenty twenty six music an Arts festival
Speaker 1: is going to return to the Empire Polo Club April
Speaker 1: tenth through twelfth and seventeenth through nineteenth next year. Remember
Speaker 1: it's two weekends. Advanced ticket sales start next Friday, May second.
Speaker 1: Hotel packages are also already available. Ticket prices will be announced,
Speaker 1: organizers say soon.
Speaker 3: We don't know what the.
Speaker 1: Lineup is going to be, and probably won't know until
Speaker 1: at least October, but you can still get your tickets now.
Speaker 1: Pope Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma
Speaker 1: and his death. The Vatican hasn't announced, actually just announced
Speaker 1: details of the funeral. It'll be held on Saturday. He'll
Speaker 1: lie in state in a pine coffin at Saint Peter's
Speaker 1: Basilica starting tomorrow.
Speaker 3: That was at his request.
Speaker 1: Most popes lie in state on a platform and are
Speaker 1: buried in interlocking Cyprus lead and oak caskets, but he
Speaker 1: wanted a more simple casket. Lawmakers and Sacramento are considering
Speaker 1: a bill that would permanently cap how much your rent
Speaker 1: can be raised each year. Current law has a ten
Speaker 1: percent cap on rent increases. That bill expires, though in
Speaker 1: twenty thirty. The new bill, called the Affordable Rent Act,
Speaker 1: would lower the maximum increase to five percent per year
Speaker 1: and doesn't expire. Metro and other transit operators are offering
Speaker 1: a free rides for Earth Day. Metro's bike share is
Speaker 1: also going to be free for a thirty minute ride.
Speaker 1: Earth Day events are being held around the Southland, including
Speaker 1: an earth Day festival at cal State Domingus Hills. Several
Speaker 1: earth Day events and cleanups were already held.
Speaker 3: They did it last weekend. Let's say good Morning Now too.
Speaker 1: The host of How to Money on KFI Joel Larsgard Morning.
Speaker 14: Joel Morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I think I finally got a four KTV
Speaker 1: and now I'm supposed to double it.
Speaker 12: I know, I was shocked.
Speaker 14: I didn't realize that this was This technology had hit already,
Speaker 14: but apparently eight KTVs are a thing. So yes, four
Speaker 14: K is this brilliant resolution, the likes of which my
Speaker 14: childhood self cannot even imagine, you know, watching playing his
Speaker 14: eight bit Nintendo on a crummy television. And then you
Speaker 14: had the tube TVs that were better, but like you
Speaker 14: remember how heavy those things were. I still remember trying
Speaker 14: to move out of an apartment with one of those
Speaker 14: things and it was like four hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: Oh, I threw out my back moving when I had
Speaker 1: a trolley on it. I was moving it and it
Speaker 1: was it was like a thirty two inch TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It weighed like four hundred pounds and I my back
Speaker 1: was damaged for like six months.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they weren't even like that large from a screen size,
Speaker 14: but the heft of those things was insane. And so
Speaker 14: then now we have these like light TVs that are
Speaker 14: easy to mount on the wall and they're in you know,
Speaker 14: the picture on them is incredibly good, and now we're
Speaker 14: being asked to upgrade again. This is like a new
Speaker 14: Samsung product that's supposedly gives you eight K programming, although
Speaker 14: let's say how much of the programming is actually being
Speaker 14: shot in that higher resolution is another question you should
Speaker 14: be asking whether you're going to get the biggest bang
Speaker 14: for your buck out of this TV. But even seeing
Speaker 14: that basically said, hey, we don't think it makes sense.
Speaker 14: We don't think these things are worth the money. People
Speaker 14: should not upgrade to these fancier new TVs. And I
Speaker 14: tend to agree, not because I know a whole lot
Speaker 14: about resolution on big screen sizes, but they basically say, hey,
Speaker 14: the picture quality is pretty similar to like the OLED
Speaker 14: TVs that are four K. And I think it's one
Speaker 14: of those things too, where the price tag is going
Speaker 14: to come down significantly in the coming years. When you
Speaker 14: look at TV technology, that is one of those mainstays
Speaker 14: or has been for for many many years, is that
Speaker 14: prices just keep going down, so don't buy. It's kind
Speaker 14: of that pioneers get slaughtered sort of thing, where if
Speaker 14: you buy the expensive eight K TV, well, you might
Speaker 14: not have the programming that's going to match the resolution,
Speaker 14: and then on top of that, you spent way too
Speaker 14: much because if you just waited a couple of years,
Speaker 14: you're going to get it for a whole lot less.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of coming down, I was in Costco the
Speaker 1: other day and they had a fifty five inch TV
Speaker 1: for three three hundred and twenty nine dollars.
Speaker 14: I mean, I believe it and think about like on
Speaker 14: Black Friday. I don't remember exactly what they came down to,
Speaker 14: but pretty sure you could get fifty five ers for
Speaker 14: like one hundred and eighty bucks or something like that.
Speaker 14: I mean, when the deals hit in November and January,
Speaker 14: that's typically the best time to buy a TV. The
Speaker 14: prices are insane and sixty five inches remember how those
Speaker 14: used to cost so much? Of those are kind of
Speaker 14: the new fifty five inch. You can get a sixty
Speaker 14: five inch four K TV for very little money these
Speaker 14: days if you're shopping sales. So yeah, I'm also partial
Speaker 14: to just owning fewer TVs and watching less TV in general.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, and what is the price tag on these
Speaker 1: eight K TV splittings?
Speaker 14: So it depends on the size, but we're talking like
Speaker 14: three thousand dollars I think for the sixty five inches
Speaker 14: probably what you're gonna pay. Whereas when you think about
Speaker 14: the four K equivalent, you're you're talking about a fraction
Speaker 14: of that.
Speaker 1: And like you said, how many? How many are shooting
Speaker 1: in eight K? So even if you get the eight K,
Speaker 1: do you really get the benefit of it unless it's
Speaker 1: specifically shot in that resolution.
Speaker 14: Right, yep, at some point we'll start to see the
Speaker 14: movie studios, the television shows being sought in even higher definition,
Speaker 14: and these TVs might make sense like years down the road,
Speaker 14: but just not yet.
Speaker 3: All right, So let's talk price locks.
Speaker 1: I know, are you talking about on mortgages or what
Speaker 1: are you talking about?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 14: So this it's interesting. More companies are saying, especially with
Speaker 14: all the tariff uncertainty, hey, why don't we do you
Speaker 14: a solid and give you a guaranteed price lock on
Speaker 14: our service for a few years. And so this is
Speaker 14: kind of one of those things that's seen as like
Speaker 14: an olive branch to consumers to make them feel a
Speaker 14: little bit better and realize, okay, cool, well I can
Speaker 14: just the price is the price for the next three years.
Speaker 14: I don't have to worry about them raising it on me.
Speaker 14: And I think maybe in some cases, in particular, if
Speaker 14: you're working with like a local service company, that might
Speaker 14: give you some peace of mind. But it's interestingly enough,
Speaker 14: I actually think this is a bad thing in many ways.
Speaker 14: So this is like Verizon and T Mobile are the
Speaker 14: ones who kind of launched this thing, saying, hey, for
Speaker 14: the next three years, we're going to guarantee pricing, join
Speaker 14: us and just we'll ensure that you don't have any
Speaker 14: sort of increase in your monthly bill. And that sounds
Speaker 14: super nice, and you're like, oh man, these benevolent, big
Speaker 14: companies are trying to do right by me at a
Speaker 14: time of price uncertainty. But I think, actually, interesting enough,
Speaker 14: similar to TVs, the price of cell phone service has
Speaker 14: gone down over the past few years, and so a
Speaker 14: price lock, actually, while it sounds benevolent, isn't. And probably
Speaker 14: what it'll do is prevent people from shopping around like
Speaker 14: they should with some of those NB and O carriers,
Speaker 14: the mobile virtual network operator carriers like Mint and US Mobile,
Speaker 14: who are two of the best. If you shop around,
Speaker 14: you're gonna save a bunch versus going with the biggest companies.
Speaker 14: And so I think a lot of people are gonna
Speaker 14: see this price lock and they're gonna say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 14: inflation tariffs, I should be worried about costs going up,
Speaker 14: Let me sign up for this, And ultimately it's actually
Speaker 14: going to cost them more by opting for the price lock.
Speaker 3: Okay, so be careful of price locks.
Speaker 1: And then real quick, we had talked about overdraft fees
Speaker 1: that were you know, they're like thirty five forty bucks,
Speaker 1: and the Biden administration said, nope, we're going to cut
Speaker 1: them to five dollars.
Speaker 3: So what's happening with that now?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 14: So, I mean, as as the writing's been on the wall,
Speaker 14: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is has been gutted, and
Speaker 14: a lot of the lawsuits that were taking place against
Speaker 14: some big companies in the United States against some financial
Speaker 14: companies are kind of going by the wayside. And this
Speaker 14: is one of those things where hey, overdraft fees, that
Speaker 14: that proposal will bring them down to five bucks. Across
Speaker 14: the board, it's gone too And interestingly enough, I don't
Speaker 14: necessarily think this is a big deal because if you're
Speaker 14: with the banks that I talked about regularly, there are
Speaker 14: no overdraft fees with those banks.
Speaker 3: So if you are with Well Fargo, for.
Speaker 14: Instance, thirty five bucks a pop, Chase, they're a little nicer,
Speaker 14: thirty four bucks a pop. Bank of America, nice, are
Speaker 14: still ten dollars a pop for those overdraft fees. But
Speaker 14: if you're with Capital One, Discover ally ciit, the banks
Speaker 14: I mentioned regularly on How to Money, you're paying zero
Speaker 14: dollars like they don't charge over draft fees. So this
Speaker 14: is kind of a question of the open market and
Speaker 14: the competition in the banking sector. There are a lot
Speaker 14: of great banks out there who don't charge any overdraft
Speaker 14: fees at all already. So yeah, I get that some
Speaker 14: people might be bummed that these overdraft protection rules aren't
Speaker 14: coming into being, but I also think there are a
Speaker 14: whole lot of great choices already out there for folks.
Speaker 3: Okay, so shop around.
Speaker 1: So for more great tips on how to money, you
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Speaker 3: Thanks Joelargeguard, Thanks Amy. All right, take care.
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